Earlier text: Hope“Just for Fun.”
By D. T. Taylor
SO SAID a gay young lady, who in company with pleasant friends was walking one summer day near the railroad in a Canadian city. The train was coming. Nearer and nearer it thundered along its way toward the depot. The thoughtless girl proposed crossing the track in front of it, “just for fun.” With quick ejaculations of alarm, her friends plead with her to desist from so dangerous an adventure; but paying no heed to their entreaties, in a mere spirit of frolic, she sprang upon the track, her dress caught in the ponderous engine, and in another moment the fair and beloved form lay a mangled, crushed, and lifeless mass under the relentless iron wheels. These gay words were her last—she never spoke again. We have seen the young man leave his country home, and all the hallowed associations of parents and sisters, whose affections were twined about him, to seek employment in the crowded city. A good situation was secured—his prospects were fair. But evil comrades came around, and, lured by their flatteries, he went with them to the haunts of vice. Its mad pleasures were described in smooth words; “I’ll keep myself,” he boastfully said. “I’ll go once, just for the fun of the thing.” He passed on to the chambers that take hold on death and hell, and that night the angels mourned over one who, despite a pious mother’s entreaties and warnings, began a downward career of ruin from which he has never recovered. And so men and women are every day stepping into the path of destruction, “just for fun.” Multitudes of people, young, gay, and proud, are doing evil, or putting themselves in harm’s way, not because they are so desperately wicked or vicious, but because they are careless of consequences, and heedless of their ways, not stopping to seriously consider the end of putting one’s self in the track of temptations. In the case of such, we cry with affection and alarm,—“Take care!” The fun which begins in lightness and vanity ends in death and destruction. Beware of the dangerous path. Shun the approaches to it. There is a safe way; walk ye therein. It is a dreadful thing to perish through the indulgence of a little brief fun, when the gate to happiness and life unending stands open wide. Oh, will you to-day commence to think upon these things and be wise, for— “Time will end our story,
But no time, if we live well,
Will end our glory.” All of Gen. Terry's troops, with the exception of two regiments of infantry, are now en route home. One hundred and twenty-four clerks were, on Saturday last, discharged from service in the War Department. Quite an excitement has been occasioned in New York City by the appearance of two cases of yellow fever. September 15, the deaths from this disease in Savannah were 27. The Centennial International Regatta at Philadelphia resulted in a victory for the Americans. “Britannia rules the waves” no longer; Jonathan beats John Bull in both yachting and rowing. The prevalence of opium smoking in Virginia City, Nevada, is appalling. In one of the fashionable dens 150 whites, of both sexes, held high carnival two weeks ago, the majority of them belonging to the best classes of the town. The Cherokee Nation has 71 public schools employing 74 teachers, and having an aggregate attendance of 2,286. There are 654 pupils speaking Cherokee and 1,631 English. There are 59 native teachers. In Florida, according to the New York Observer, the priests have succeeded in driving from the public schools nearly all the Roman Catholic children by threatening to withhold from them the sacrament, rites of burial, etc. SALT LAKE, September 15.—Last evening about eight o'clock two masked men boarded the Utah Central Railroad train, eight miles to the north of this city, gagged Wells, Fargo & Co.'s messenger, opened the safe and took $15,200, and made their escape. Out of the 20,108 arrests the last year in San Francisco, 7,642 were for drunkenness. In 1862–3 there were fifty policemen. In 1868–9 fifty were added, and in 1873–4 fifty more, making the force 150. During last year property to the amount of $139,013 was reported at the office as having been lost. The police recovered $83,751.75. The Boston Journal remarks: “There was a class-supper not long ago, in this city, which the papers, next morning, characterized as brilliant and successful, but they omitted to mention that some of the young men who attended it were carried away in such a state of intoxication that they made their journey back to college lying prone upon the floor of the car.” The next French Exposition, in 1878, will occupy nearly the same locality as the one in 1867, but will be fully one-half larger. It is intended to occupy ground upon both sides of the Seine, and to have a gallery built over the river, a mile in length, and one hundred and sixty feet wide, with shops on either side of a central passage. This gallery will connect the buildings on the Champ de Mars with those on the Trocadero, or Place du Roi de Rome. Prof. Huxley dogmatically remarks that “Evolution is a matter of fact and history, as much as the monuments of Egypt.” Upon this the Interior says: “For our part, we should rather that the Professor should dogmatize in that way than not. There are people credulous enough to believe that the rationalistic scientific cat’s paw was all soft fur, perfectly gentle, ingenuous and harmless. When a representative man of that school states before the American Association in effect that to be ignorant of the truths of evolution is as gross as ignorance of the monuments of Egypt, it is only a scratch of the claws.” Prof. Wm. H. Zimmerman, of Washington College, lately gave a curious exhibition of a device for lighting lamps by electricity. One of his hydro-electric lamps was placed on a counter and connected by wires with the Union telegraph line, when, at a given signal, the operator at the office in Townsend, Del., about 33 miles distant, lighted it instantaneously. The operator at Masseys, Md., also did the same. It was several times repeated by each of them. It was also contemplated to have the lamp lighted by the operator in Philadelphia, but that official was too busy to comply with the request. The lighting of the lamp would have been quite as instantaneous as from the nearest point above named. In fact, as stated by Prof. Zimmerman, with the entire line clear, an operator in San Francisco could as readily have performed the same feat. These lamps are shown at the Centennial Exhibition.—Christian Union. Fifteen Turkish officers implicated in Bulgarian atrocities have been sent to Constantinople under guard. The Porta has informed the Embassadors of the Powers that it is impossible to grant an armistice, but it is prepared to accept peace based upon the following points: 1. Re-occupation of the fortresses held by Turkey previous to 1857. 2. Destruction of fortresses constructed by the Servians since 1857. 3. Investiture of Prince Milan at Constantinople. 4. Reduction of the effective Servian army to 10,000 and three batteries. 5. Construction of a railway across Servia. At a banquet given in Belgrade in honor of the name and day of Emperor Alexander, Prince Milan, in proposing the health of the Emperor of Russia, said that the Emperor was the Servians' greatest friend and protector, and he thanked the Russian people for their sympathy and aid. Counselor Kartzoff, the Russian Consul-General at Belgrade, received delegations previous to the banquet, and in a speech acknowledging their congratulations he said that henceforth Russia and Servia were united. Death In-doors.
By Ellen G. White
Multitudes of persons have a great horror of going out of doors for fear of taking cold; if it is a little damp or a little windy, or a little cold, they wait and wait; meanwhile, weeks and even months may pass away, and they never, during that whole time, breathe a single breath of pure air. The result is, they become so enfeebled that their constitutions have no power of resistance; the least thing in the world gives them a cold, even going from one room to another; and before they know it they have a cold all the time, and this is nothing more or less than consumption, whereas, if an opposite practice had been followed, of going out an hour or two each day regardless of the weather, a very different result would have taken place. The truth is, the more a person is out of doors, the less easily does he take cold. It is a widely known fact that persons who camp out every night, or sleep under a tree for weeks together, seldom take cold at all. The truth is, many of our ailments, and those of most fatal forms, are taken in the house, and not out of doors; taken by removing parts of clothing too soon after coming into the house, by lying down on a bed or sofa, when in a tired or exhausted condition from having engaged too vigorously in domestic employment. Many a pie has cost an industrious man a hundred dollars. A human life has many a time paid for an apple dumpling. When our wives get through work, they find themselves in an utterly exhausted condition; their ambition to complete a thing, to do some good work well, sustains them until it is completed. The mental and physical condition is one of exhaustion, when a breath of air will give a cold, to settle in the joints to wake up next day with inflammatory rheumatism, or with a feeling of stiffness or soreness as if they had been pounded in a bag, or with a sore throat to trouble them for months, or with a lung fever to put them in the grave in less than a week. Our wives should work by the day, if they must work at all, and not by the job; it is more economical in the end to see how little work they can do in an hour, instead of how much. It is slow, steady, and continuous labor which brings health and good digestion. Fitful labor is ruinous to all.—Hall's Journal of Health. As I read the above I involuntarily exclaimed, Good. At camp-meetings we have tented out for weeks in succession, sleeping with the ends of the tent open to the air, and we have not suffered with colds. We have had better health when enjoying tent life than when living in doors. It is close confinement in doors that makes our women pale and feeble, resulting in premature death.
E. G. W. RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—The popularity, in England, of the doctrinal idea of a personal devil is proved by the fact that the Rev. Flavel Cook, who prosecuted Mr. Jenkins for non-belief in the personality of Satan, has received, in money, presents aggregating $30,000. —The Commentaries of the late Rev. Albert Barnes on the Scriptures have, it is said, reached a circulation of between one and two million copies. They have been republished in Great Britain, and translated and published in Welsh, French, German, Chinese and Malagasy. —A wealthy gentleman called a few weeks ago at the office of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions and handed the Secretary a check for $10,000. He said he had made a legacy of that amount to the Board, but as he knew they were a little short of money, he thought he would pay it in that way instead of waiting till he was dead. —Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman thus closes some remarks upon the inefficiency and well nigh utter helplessness of the chaplains of our army: “There is but one chaplain, and he an old Catholic priest, on our whole frontier. The Chaplaincy in the United States army is a failure, and should be abolished or reformed.” —The Pope has been addressing the foreign ecclesiastical colleges of Rome; and he does not forget to call down maledictions on the Italian Government for making “Rome, which was destined by God to be the capital of the spiritual world, the capital of Italy.” He declares emphatically: “I shall never cease to repeat that the temporal power is necessary to the Holy See in the actual order of providence; and I will protest with ever-increasing vigor against the violations repeatedly made against the church of its liberties, of its rights.” In preparing the ground for the erection of some Government buildings in Rome, it has been found necessary to demolish three church edifices. This act has drawn forth one of Pius Ninth’s characteristic addresses, in which he declares that the aim of the Government “is not only to destroy the spiritual authority of the Church, but also the temples consecrated to God.” —There are now reported to be 114 Protestant missionaries in Japan. In Kobe a Japanese Christian is chaplain of the city prison. The head of the Normal School for women in Tokio is a Wesleyan; a Japanese gentleman of high rank is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. A large store has been opened in Tokio for the sale of Bibles and other Christian books in the language of the Japanese. The first church of the Religion of Humanity, was recently organized in New York. The Evangelical Messenger commenting on this, says: “A great many people have outgrown Christian doctrine, and their religion is so very peculiar that they must invent new names for it to preserve it from evaporation. The name is the only real thing about it.” —According to the “Century of Gospel Work,” the increase of ministers in the leading Protestant denominations in the country since 1776 has been as follows: Methodist, from 20 to 20,453; Baptist, from 370 to 19,517; Presbyterian, from 140 to 7,954; Congregational, from 575 to 3,233; Lutheran, from 25 to 2,662; Reformed German, from 35 to 623; Reformed Dutch, from 25 to 476; Episcopalian, from 250 to 3,140; Moravian, from 12 to 75. —The Michigan State law which suspends the traffic in liquor on the Sabbath has, according to a report made to the Councils in Detroit, worked well in that city. It orders all saloons to shut up at 11 o’clock at night, and to remain closed during Sabbath. From 1871 to 1874 the number of cases of drunkenness and breach of peace brought before the public courts of Detroit increased from 2,009 to 3,141. In 1875 they fell to 2,215, and in the first six months of 1876 to 930. The diminution of the Monday morning cases has reached 70 per cent.—Christian Statesman. —The abuse of religious rites at funerals has reached its climax in Philadelphia. Two brutal fellows there entered the prize-ring, and one of them pounded the other to death. The Ledger announced his funeral with the couplet:—
“None knew him but to love,
None named him but to praise.”
Attached to an anchor of flowers upon his coffin was a card on which was written,
“Safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe on His gentle breast.
There by His love overshadowed
May his soul rest.”
It is to the credit of the ministers of the city that the friends of the deceased had difficulty in securing the services of a clergyman to officiate at the funeral; but they finally succeeded in suborning two Episcopalians and one Lutheran. So the savage was buried with the forms of the prayer-book, and religion represented to the sodden roughs as a hypocritical farce. Those ministers should be called to account by the authorities under which they labor.—Interior. GLASS windows were used for lights in 1180. Chimneys were first put up to houses in 1236. Tallow candles for lights, 1290. Spectacles invented by an Italian in 1240. Paper made from linen, 1302. Woolen cloth made in England, 1341. Art of printing from movable type, 1440. Watches first made in Germany, 1447. Telescopes invented by Porta and Janson, 1590. Tea first brought from China to Europe, 1501. Circulation of blood discovered by Harvey in 1610. Newspapers first established in 1629. Pendulum clocks first invented 1639. Barometer invented by Toricelli in 1535. Steam engine invented in 1649. Bread made with yeast 1650. Cotton planted in the United States in 1759. Fire engine invented in 1685. Telegraph invented by Morse in 1832. When a man complains of his enemies, it not only shows that his heart is filled with bitterness, and that he would not hesitate to retaliate if opportunity should offer, but also that he lacks wisdom as well as charity, in not considering how useful an enemy could be to him. A wise and faithful friend once spoke to his acquaintance upon this subject as follows:— “You are ever complaining of the wrong and annoyance you suffer from your enemy, but you forget that more than half your trouble and fear comes from your own heart. Guard more against yourself, and you will have less reason to fear other enemies; for open enemies are far less dangerous than secret ones. The man is an enemy to himself who indulges in hatred toward his fellow-man, and meditates revenge against those of whose hostility he complains; for by cherishing such a temper of mind he makes himself an enemy of the God who condemns all implacability and malevolence of disposition. Now consider the matter calmly, and you will soon see how much good you may derive from an enemy, and thank God that so much good can come of evil.”—Baptist Weekly. Rosa Bonheur on Women’s Rights
Rosa Bonheur, the greatest female painter that ever handled a brush, was asked, “Have you given the Woman’s Rights question any attention?” “Woman’s Rights—woman’s nonsense!” she answered. “Women should seek to establish their rights by great and good works, and not by conventions. If I had got up a convention to debate the question of my ability to paint Marche au Chevaux (The Horse Fair), for which England would pay me forty thousand francs, the decision would have been against me. I felt the power within me to paint. I cultivated it, and have produced works that have won the favorable verdicts of the great judges. I have no patience with women who ask permission to think.” TO REGAIN or recover health, persons should be relieved from all anxiety concerning diseases. The mind has power over the body. For a person to think he has a disease will often produce that disease. This we see effected when the mind is intensely concentrated upon the disease of another. It is found in the hospitals that surgeons and physicians who make a specialty of certain diseases are liable to die of them; and the mental power is so great that sometimes people die of diseases which they only have in imagination. We have seen a person seasick in anticipation of a voyage before reaching the vessel. We have known a person to die of cancer in the stomach when he had no cancer or any other mortal disease. A blindfolded man, slightly pricked in the arm, has fainted and died from believing he was bleeding to death. Therefore, well persons, to remain well, should be cheerful and happy; and sick persons should have their attention drawn as much as possible from themselves. OAKLAND—Services at the new church, on the corner of Clay and Thirteenth streets, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11 a. m. Prayer-meetings Wednesday evenings at 7:30. Sabbath-School at 10 o'clock Sabbath morning. SAN FRANCISCO—Services at the house of worship, on Laguna street, between Tyler and McAllister, every Sabbath (Saturday), at 11 a. m. and First-day evening at 7:30. Prayer-meetings Wednesday evenings at 7:30. The Hayes valley cars of Market street and the Lone Mountain cars of the Central R. R. cross Laguna street near the church. Business Department.
By Editor
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THE following from the Christian World shows how rapidly the Catholic Church is increasing in strength in this country: “Eighty-six years have passed since the consecration of Bishop Carroll, and to this period the organized efforts of the church to secure a position in this country are confined. The work then begun has not for a moment been intermitted. In the midst of losses, defeats, persecutions, anxieties, doubts, revilings, calumnies, the struggle has been still carried on.” . . . With the more thorough organization of dioceses and congregations, parochial schools became practicable, and the great progress made in Catholic elementary education is one of the most significant and re-assuring facts connected with the history of the church of the United States. “One hundred years ago there was not a Catholic ecclesiastical student, or theological seminary, or college, or academy, or parochial school, or asylum, or hospital, from Maine to Georgia.” “Father Badin, the first person who ever received Holy Orders in the United States, was ordained in the old cathedral of Baltimore on the 25th of May, 1793, eighty-three years ago. It is now eighty-six years since Bishop Carroll was consecrated, and down to 1808 he remained the only Catholic bishop in the American Church, whose hierarchy is composed at present of one cardinal, ten archbishops, forty-six bishops, and eight vicars apostolic.” Thus have they steadily increased in the past, and the future presents no less flattering prospects for their advancement. Should they gain strength sufficient, the following from a paper published under the immediate supervision of Archbishop Kendrick clearly shows what the result will be: “We confess that the Roman Catholic Church is intolerant; that is to say, that it uses all the means in its power for the extirpation of error and sin; but this intolerance is the logical and necessary consequence of its infallibility. She alone has the right to be intolerant, because she alone has the truth. The Church tolerates heretics, but hates them mortally, and employs all her force to secure their annihilation.” When the Catholics shall here be in possession of a considerable majority—which will certainly be the case by and bye, although the time may be long deferred—then religious liberty will have come to an end in the republic of the United States. Our enemies say this, and we believe with them. Our enemies know that we do not pretend to be better than our Church, and in what concerns this, her history is open to the eyes of all. They know, then, how the Roman Church dealt with heretics in the middle ages, and how she deals with them to-day, wherever she has the power. “We no more think of denying these historical facts, than we do of blaming the saints of God, and the princes of the Church, for what they have done or approved in these matters. Heresy is mortal sin; it kills the soul, and precipitates the whole soul into Hell. It is moreover a most contagious disease, and propagates itself indefinitely wherever it has got foothold, and thus puts in jeopardy the temporal and moral welfare of innumerable generations to come. This is the reason why princes, truly Christian, extirpate heresy, root and branch, in their kingdoms, and that Christian States drive it out of their territories, as far as they are able to do it. If we now abstain from persecuting heretics here, we boldly repeat it, it is because we are too weak, and because we believe that in this condition of things, we should, in attempting it, do the Church we serve more harm than good.” No Paper Next Week
By Editor
☞ No Paper next week, on account of Camp-Meeting. Camp-Meeting Mail.
By John Norton Loughborough
We shall have a Post Office on the Camp-ground, and a daily mail to and from the grounds. All letters, to be sure of reception, should be addressed, San Rafael, Marin Co., Cal., (Camp-Ground.) J. N. L. Cool Irony.
By John H. Waggoner
HON. FELIX R. BRUNOT, President of an Association which does not hesitate to declare its intention to ignore the conscientious convictions and religious rights of the Jews and those Christians who keep the fourth commandment, as Jehovah declared it, without human amendment, was chairman of the meeting to celebrate our independence on July 4, 1876, in Pittsburgh, Pa. On taking the chair he addressed the assembly on the religious principles which have made us to prosper as a nation, using the following words:— “Ask the colonies, and old Roger Williams replies that ‘every man is permitted to worship God according to his own conscience.’” This appears so much like a joke that the reader can scarce refrain from smiling; but to Roger Williams it was more bitter than it yet seems to us, when he fled from the persecutions of his Puritan neighbors, because he claimed a conscience of his own. To this day religious convictions are trifled with and trammelled in the churches, and the rights of conscience will never be considered sacred where “the fear of God is taught by the precepts of men.” We might change the form of Mr. Brunot’s appeal, thus:—“Ask old Roger Williams, and he replies, this youthful, lamb-like people have already learned to speak as a dragon.” And the descendants and panegyrists of the Puritans sound the praise of those who suffered for conscience’ sake, and magnify the worth of religious freedom, while they put forth their utmost energies to build up a system which cannot fail to trample on the rights of the minority and crush out purity of worship by secularizing Christianity. Had we lived in the days of our fathers, said the Jews, we would not have persecuted the prophets; and all the while they were plotting to take the life of the Son of God. Ambitious, selfish human nature has not changed. But this piece of history can be repeated only once more. One more persecution of the just by a worldly popular church and the Lord will forever redeem his waiting people. Railroad Fare to Camp-Meeting.
By John Norton Loughborough
The fare from San Francisco to Fairfax and return, during camp-meeting, from Sept. 20 to 28 inclusive, will be $1.00 for the round trip. In buying your ticket at San Francisco, state that you are going to camp-meeting and you will get a ticket for the trip to Fairfax and return. This ticket is good till Sept. 28, the day the meeting closes. A reduction of 75 cents will be made for those making the round trip from Tomales to the camp-meeting. In coming from Tomales, you are required to pay the full fare $1.75, but on application you receive a certificate from our Conf. Secretary. On presenting this certificate and $1.00 to the conductor you will receive a passage to Tomales. J. N. L. Time of Trains.
By John Norton Loughborough
For the benefit of those who are planing to attend the California Camp-meeting we give the time of trains during the meeting. Boats leave San Francisco connecting with trains for Fairfax as follows:— Boats leave San Francisco (via. San Quentin Ferry), foot of Market street, at 7 A. M., arriving at Fairfax at 8:30 A. M. Leave San Francisco (via. Saucelito Ferry), foot of Davis street, 11 A. M., arriving at Fairfax 1:50 P. M. RETURNING.—Leave Fairfax 11:06 A. M., arriving in San Francisco (via. Saucelito Ferry), at 2:30 P. M. Leave Fairfax 5:45 P. M., arriving in San Francisco (via. San Quentin Ferry), at 7:05 P. M. Leave San Francisco (via. Saucelito Ferry), foot of Davis street, 8 A. M., arriving at Fairfax at 9:33 A. M. Leave (via San Quentin Ferry) at 9:30 A. M. arriving at Fairfax at 11 A. M. RETURNING.—Leave Fairfax at 4:25 P. M., arriving in San Francisco (via. Saucelito Ferry), at 6 P. M. Those arriving in San Francisco Sept. 20 too late for either the 7 or 11 A. M. boats for Fairfax, will find a boat leaving at 4:30 P. M. (via San Quentin ferry). The train connecting with this boat runs to the junction, and will run up to the camp-ground if there is a car load; if not, we will meet you with teams at the junction 1½ miles below the ground. One Judicious Step Backward
ONE judicious step backward is better than any number of false steps forward. The Bridge of Forgiveness
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must certainly pass. California Camp-Meeting.
By John Norton Loughborough
The California Camp-meeting will be held at Fairfax station, Marin county, from Sept. 20, at 2 P. M., to Sept. 28, 6 A. M. We hope to see all our brethren and sisters in the State at this meeting. Bring as many of your friends with you as you can induce to come. J. N. L. California Conference.
By John Norton Loughborough; T. M. Chapman
The fifth yearly session of the California State Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Fairfax, Sept. 20–28. First session the 20th at 5 P. M. We hope to see a full representation by delegates, from every company of Sabbath-keepers in the State. Each church of twenty members or less is entitled to one delegate, and to one additional delegate for every additional fifteen members over the first twenty. Each company which has organized Systematic Benevolence, and has a leader appointed, is entitled to delegates and should choose them according to their respective numbers. Any company not sending delegates should be sure to report by letter. All church books and S. B. books should be brought to the Conference. J. N. Loughborough,
T. M. Chapman,
Cal.
Conf.
Com. State Missionary Meeting.
By John Norton Loughborough; A. M. Loughborough
THE next yearly meeting of the Cal. T. and M. Society will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Fairfax, from Sept. 20-28. The first session will be at 5 P. M. of Sept. 21. All who have paid $1.00 into our State Missionary funds for membership are entitled to a vote in all the meetings of the society. We request the directors, district secretaries, business agents, and librarians of our churches, to bring all their account and record books of the Missionary Society to the meeting. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres. A. M. LOUGHBOROUGH, Sec’y. State Quarterly Meeting.
By John Norton Loughborough
The fourth California State Quarterly Meeting of this fiscal year will be held in connection with the yearly meeting on the camp-ground, Sept. 21st. J. N. Loughborough, Pres.