p. 32 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 2. (11/14/1892)

News and Notes.

By Editor

FOR THE WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 7.

RELIGIOUS.

—Evangelist B. Fay Mills has gone to Kansas City to conduct revival services.

—For the first time in America, Pontifical High Mass was celebrated in Chicago, October 30, by the pope's legate, Monsignor Sartolli.

—The Episcopalians are about to build a great church edifice in New York, and Cornelius Vanderbilt is to give $500,000 to the enterprise.

—A London paper says that a tribe in one of the remote districts of Russia recently sacrificed a peasant to appease the gods and avert another famine.

—A commission appointed more than 12 months ago by Bishop Potter to investigate the charges of heresy against Rev. Dr. Heber Newton, rector of All Souls' Church, has reported the charges as "not proved."

—Catherine Booth and Mrs. Gibborn, daughters of General Booth, of the Salvation Army, have been arrested at Geneva, Switzerland, and will be expelled from the Canton.

—Dr. J. M. Buckley, editor of the N. Y. Christian Advocate, says: "The energy of Protestantism has somewhat diminished; not a few Protestant ministers and editors are coqueting with Rome; and unless the great body are vigilant, the fable of the spider and fly will be reënacted."

—Dr. Ellis, of the presbytery of San Francisco, has been deposed from the ministry, for deception and unministerial conduct, "until he give satisfactory evidence of repentance." The charges grew out of his having brought a suit against the presbytery for $100,000 on account of a former conviction. He says he will appeal to the synod.

—A materialized spirit was caught and exposed at a séance in San Francisco, on the night of the 6th inst., and proved to be Professor Miller, who was conducting the entertainment. The entrance money was returned to the audience, but even then some foolish women insisted that the men who broke up the circle were "brutes." Some people enjoy being deceived.

—The mate and crew of the ship Campbell, lost in the Pacific Ocean a few weeks ago, were in a small boat 23 days, on very short allowance of water and food. Of their experience the mate says: "During the 23 days prayers were said by me twice a day. I think I prayed 50 times a day. Strange to say, all were answered except the prayers for rain. It was just punishment for our former sins, and it will turn out 11 good and true Christians." See Ps. 107:23-31.

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Home Life, Music, and Temperance

By Editor

We trust that Sister White's article, "Sacred Duties of Home Life," will receive the careful reading which the importance of the subject and the excellence of the article demand.

It is thought that when quotations are formally introduced and set in different type from the article in which they are quoted, it will not be necessary to use quotation marks. We shall be just as careful, however, to quote as accurately as we have in the past.

It is hoped that our musical readers will peruse and take home the lesson designed to be conveyed by the story in our Home Circle, entitled "A Consecrated Choir." God wishes to use singing for the conversion and upbuilding of souls. It is well for our singers to ask: "For whose glory do I sing? For whose pleasure do I sing? What is the object to be sought?"

FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance worker, has joined interests with Keeley, of bichloride-of-gold-cure fame, the gold in question coming out of the pockets of his patients, and entering into that of the said Keeley. Mr. Murphy is quoted as saying: "I feel stronger in my work than I ever did before; Dr. Keeley is to assist me; I am to assist him." Mr. Murphy has been called the "gospel temperance worker." Now the gospel is glad tidings of a free salvation. The good things in it are freely given by God's grace, but Dr. Keeley's cure seems to be a secret cure for revenue only. It will be interesting to note how gospel temperance work and "temperance" work for revenue only will harmonize. We believe Mr. Murphy's zeal to be better than his judgment.

REV. J. B. DALY, a minister of the Baptist denomination, a former priest of Rome, said recently, in the First Baptist Church in this city, that in Protestant America we can exercise our freedom in religion "with none to interfere." This we presume was once thought to be the case, but that day is past when the words are true as a present fact. Just a little before the words were uttered four Christian men, whom the prosecuting attorney called "good citizens," were working in a chain gang in the streets of Paris, Tenn., for no other offense than obedience to the command of God in Ex. 20:8-11, after the example of prophet, apostle, and our Lord Jesus Christ. They worked in their fields to the disturbance of no one on Sunday. In fact, the conviction of some of them could only be secured by their own testimony and the testimony of their brethren. And now word comes that fourteen others have been indicted for the same "crime." Is this "free" America?

ONE of the prominent religious movements in connection with the World's Fair at Chicago is the erection of an international Sunday-school building. The enterprise was somewhat delayed during discussion of the Sunday-closing question, but that proposition is now deemed to be settled in favor of closing, and the work has received a new impetus. It is now too late to secure a site inside the inclosure, but some of the leaders of the movement claim that an outside location, adjacent to the grounds, would be better. It is proposed to raise $50,000 by contributions from Sunday schools, young people's societies, churches, and individuals, to carry out the project. The principal design is to illustrate methods of teaching, and other features of Sunday school work that may be suggested.

THE RURAL HEALTH RETREAT.

By Editor

How many of our Western readers know where this institution is? Well, we wish to tell them. It nestles about half way up Howell Mountain, on the southerly side, where it luxuriates in the sunlight all the day long, and overlooks three beautiful branches of the celebrated Napa Valley. Howell Mountain is three miles from the valley of St. Helena, the second town of importance in Napa County, one of the richest and most beautiful sections of California. The Retreat is reached by an easy and delightful train ride from San Francisco and Oakland, with a short and safe stage journey at the Retreat end of the road.

The surroundings of the Retreat we will not attempt to describe. There would be sameness and wearisome monotony in an attempt to picture the beautiful valleys, hills, mountains, and fruitful fields which feast the eye in ever-varying beauty of detail. The fresh, clear atmosphere, the pure, soft water, the warm, mellow sunshine, the beautiful scenery, are some of nature's contributions to the place of the Health Retreat.

But this is not all by any means. We have been at the Retreat at different times during the last three years. Since our first visit, in fact, within the last year, the building and grounds have been greatly improved in many respects. The bath and treatment rooms have been refitted, call bells and whistles have been put into every part of the building, a greater supply of water has been brought to the institution, the warming of the building has been improved, and the woods on the hillside are growing into a beautiful park, where one can roam and rest at his own sweet will.

The institution is really a medical and surgical sanitarium. All approved methods of treatment are used for the restoration of health, under the direction of skillful Christian physicians, who are giving their life to relieve the sick and suffering. Never since our acquaintance with the institution has such a good spirit pervaded its atmosphere. All are professing Christians, from manager to bell boy, and we believe that most of them are possessors. A cheerful Christian spirit is manifest throughout among the helpers, with no unseemly levity. We could but notice the change in this respect among the workers in the gentlemen's treatment rooms, and we learn that it is the same throughout. We heard many expressions of praise in this respect while there.

The surgical work alone at the institution for some years past has been good, but especial success has attended it in its many operations for internal difficulties for the past few months. Drs. W. H. and H. S. Maxson, assisted at the present by Dr. A. J. Sanderson, are physicians not only skilled in the treatment of diseases, but, as is the common testimony, they take a real interest in the welfare of their patients. In fact, their labors are unceasing and patient. Mrs. Dr. Maxson, a wife and mother, has given especial study to those diseases which afflict the weaker sex, and Dr. Maxson is, besides his large general practice, a specialist in diseases of the lungs and throat, in which he is aided by one of the finest atmospheres in a fine State.

Another matter most worthy of consideration is the department of Health Foods made at the Retreat, consisting of bread, zwiebach, rolls, biscuits, crackers, wafers, granola, etc., of all kinds nearly, and for every variety of taste and digestive difficulty. Our readers who have been to the Retreat in the past must not compare the present health foods with those manufactured then. Those were like the country boy's butter, good enough what there was of them, and sometimes enough of them such as there were, but not so now. They are now good what there is of them and there is enough and to spare for those who need. We may have more to say of this in the future. The Signs nor its editor does not say this for pay. We stayed at the Retreat four weeks, paid what was charged us, and write this, we are glad to say, without a hint of solicitation or expectation of recompense other than that which comes in the very saying of a good word for an institution which will do good to the many who may avail themselves of its benefits. Its religion and religious services are not obtrusive, its attendants are kind, its rates low, and the surroundings such as to make the place what it truly is, a "Rural Health Retreat." Those desiring rest, recreation, treatment, or medical advice would do well to visit this restful spot or communicate with the Rural Health Retreat, St. Helena, Cal. "We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen."

Sunday Labor Laws in Illinois

WHILE the discussion about closing the World's Fair on Sunday is going on, it may be interesting to our readers to know the provisions of the Illinois statutes in regard to Sunday labor. Here is the provision of the Criminal Code, Division 1, sections 261 and 272:—

Whoever disturbs the peace and good order of society by labor (works of necessity and charity excepted) or by any amusement or diversion on Sunday, shall be fined not exceeding $25. This section should not be construed to prevent water men and railroad companies from landing their passengers, or water men from loading and unloading their cargoes, or ferrymen from carrying over the water travelers, and persons moving their families on the first day of the week, nor to prevent the due exercise of the rights and conscience by whomever it is proper to keep any other day as a Sabbath.

Whoever shall be guilty of any noise, rout, or amusement on the first day of the week, called Sunday, whereby the peace of any private family may be disturbed; shall be fined not exceeding $25.

MILITARY writers of Europe believe that a great clash of arms is inevitable; the only question is that of time. It is said that, in case of war with Russia, Austria could by no means withstand her terrible antagonist, and Germany would find it necessary to give Austria assistance. At the same time Germany would lay herself open to an attack from France, while little help could be expected from Italy. France, as a military power, has made great advance in the last few years. Major Klein declares that Germany would save many millions of debt by increasing taxation now and strengthening the army; it is thought that this would avert war. But how much heavier can the burden of taxation be made before the people themselves rebel? It is said that Germany now can bear no more. Even now mobs are crying for bread in Berlin. The winter in Europe looks threatening.

THE Washington Secular Union has served a notice on the principal and teachers of the public schools of Tacoma notifying them they intend to enforce section 4, article 9, of the State constitution, regarding sectarian teaching and prayer in the public schools. Several teachers who have opened school with a hymn have been ordered to discontinue the practice, and the reading of the Lord's prayer and a passage from the Bible must cease at once under pain of dismissal of the teacher. The stand taken by the union is creating much dissatisfaction among certain classes of citizens.—Industrial World.