p. 208 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 26. (6/28/1877)

Earlier text: Blessed are They that Mourn

GOOD HEALTH.

Necessity of Fresh Air.

We have no doubt that a large proportion of the delicate females, with which our cities especially are filled, owe their ill-health to a neglect of exercise and fresh air. Take the daughter of a family in good circumstances. From her infancy she is guarded as if the least breath of air would injure her, never going out without being wrapped up to the chin, and often being sent to school even in a carriage. Her natural instinct to exercise is restrained as a vulgarity; she is called a tomboy, a romp, and a dozen other contemptuous names; and thus, at last, she is drilled into a mere social machine, finally losing even the spirits to wish to take active exercise. Her days are spent in learning enormous lessons, or in practicing crochet work or embroidery, varied with an occasional children's party, where she is allowed whatever she pleases, and to dance herself into a fever. When she leaves school her existence becomes even more monotonous. Perhaps, if it is winter, and the family keeps no carriage, she is weeks without being out of the house; and in the house she does nothing but dawdle over a novel, stitch a bit of fancy work, or sit over the register of the furnace. If her father keeps a carriage, she may ride out occasionally; but she is always furred to the throat; and so things are no better. In a word, she is a hot-house plant, forced, like it, to a premature development; and like it doomed, in consequence, to a premature and unnatural decay.

Surely, if there is a reform in social life needed, in one particular more than in another it is required in the education of our daughters, and in the life we allow them to lead afterward. They are dying, by hundreds, for want of fresh air; and yet we take almost no note of the fact. When the English prisoners perished in the Black Hole in Calcutta, from the foul atmosphere they were compelled to breathe, the whole civilized world cried out with indignation at the perpetrators of the deed; and though nearly a century has since elapsed, the story is still never told without exciting horror. But we permit our daughters, and to a certain extent our wives also, to die by slow degrees, equally for want of pure air. In fact, where the Black Hole of Calcutta stifled its hundreds, the close rooms inhabited by American females slay their thousands.—Health Reformer.

Good Health an Element of Success.

It is no exaggeration to say that health is a large ingredient in what the world calls talent. A man without it may be a giant in intellect, but his deeds will be the deeds of a dwarf. On the contrary, let him have a quick circulation, a good digestion, and sinews of a man, and the alacrity, the unthinking confidence inspired by these, and though having but a thimbleful of brains, he will either blunder upon success or set failure at defiance. It is true, especially in this country, that the number of men possessing heroic intellect allied with powerful bodily constitution is small; that in general, a man has reason to think himself well off in the lottery of life if he draws the prize of a healthy stomach with a mind or a healthy stomach without a mind, or a fine intellect with a crazy stomach.

But of the two, a weak mind in a herculean frame is better than a giant mind in a crazy constitution. A pound of energy with an ounce of talent will achieve greater results than a pound of talent with an ounce of energy. Wit, judgment, imagination, eloquence, all the qualities of mind, attain with a vigorous constitution a force and splendor impossible without it. A mechanic may have tools of the sharpest edge and highest polish; but what are these without a vigorous arm and hand? Of what use is it that your mind has become a vast granary of knowledge, if you have not strength to turn the key?—Home and Health.

Adulteration of Cocoa, Coffee, and Spices

In England they have a law that cocoa, coffee, spice, etc., shall be absolutely pure when sold, unless the names of the articles with which they are adulterated shall be printed on the label.

APPOINTMENTS

By John Norton Loughborough

OAKLAND—Services at the new church, on the corner of Thirteenth and Clay streets, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 10:30 A. M., and Sunday evening at 7:45. Prayer meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:45. Sabbath-school at 9 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 7:45. Prayer-meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:45. The Hayes Valley cars of Market street and the Lone Mountain cars of the Central R. R. cross Laguna street near the church.

I will attend the quarterly meeting at St. Helena, June 30 and July 1. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.

“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully,” (margin, negligently). Jer. 48:10.

Received for the Signs.

$2.00 EACH. Miss M L Harris 4-18, Isaac Rhodes 4-26, A R Swayze 4-26, James Hannan 4-25, J B Montrose 4-15, S B Bresee 3-33, M A Beatty 4-27, Mrs A P James 5-1, E Hambergh 4-1, Alex Underwood 4-1.

$1.50 EACH. John Fishell (2 copies) 4-2, Mrs C H Morrell 4-26, Joel Browning 4-26, D F Bartlett 4-26, H C Blake 4-7, H Vandenberg 4-26, J B Armstrong 4-26, J P Johnson 4-26, Rose Carson 4-26, Rhoda Fulton 4-26, A Alger 4-26, Miss Beninga Kanigan 4-26, Mrs Goldizen 4-26, Mrs John Crone 4-26, Sarah Butler 4-26, G W Grayson 4-26, Mrs W S T Patton 4-26, Mrs R E Creek 4-26, Mrs N F Baker 4-26, John M Grayson 4-26, Wm Schwartz 4-26, Gorham H Harvey 4-26, A Finney 4-26, Naniamo Library 4-26, Mechanic's Inst Library 4-26, Adam Rudd 4-26, Mrs Doty 4-13.

MISCELLANEOUS. W S Daily (8 copies) $1.00 3-24, Mrs H C Mitchell (10 copies) 1.25 3-33, Z Watson 50c 3-41, J Osborn 50c 3-41, Alexander Ross 85c 3-41, S M Ross (7 copies) 6.15 4-6, Thomas Guffy 75c 4-2, Hascal Peebles (4 copies) 1.00 3-31, M J Wood (8 copies) 1.00 3-25, Wm Dail 50c 4-13, C Howard Davis 75c 4-2, Mrs S V Cooper 7.00 5-1, A E Burditt 75c 3-44, John Hastings 75c 4-2, Almy and Milne 75c 3-44, H Wible 75c 4-2, A A Dodge 3.00 4-25, Mrs Wm Fowler 75c 4-2, F F Hamlin 75c 4-2, Calvin C Jordan 75c 4-2, Mrs Betsey L Crouse 75c 4-2, Mrs Chas H Peool 75c 4-2, Mrs A W Lovell 75c 4-2, Mrs Alfred Hamlin 75c 4-2, Mrs Lyman Cole 75c 4-2, Rev Wm Ferguson 75c 4-2, P D Freeman 75c 4-2, Mrs P N Green 50c 3-42, Mrs J N Wilson 1.00 4-10.

Cash Received on Account.

Maine T and M Society $45.00.

Donations to the Signs.

Susannah Harmon $10.00.

California Conference Fund.

Red Bluff church $28.00, Gilroy church 9.00, Santa Rosa church 5.80, Petaluma church 8.00, Bloomfield church 15.35, Gilroy church 4.50.

Cal. T. and M. Society.

Dist No 6 donation $9.50; Dist No 3, 1.25; Dist No 1, 55.45; Dist No 8, 13.60; Dist No 7, 40c.

California Tract Fund.

Santa Rosa church $3.00, Middletown church 1.25, Gilroy church 7.10, San Jose church 1.20, Petaluma church 13.00, Bloomfield church 5.95.

No Paper Next Week.

By Editor

OWING TO the necessary delay of our press, consequent upon the work of placing in position a new engine and boiler, there will be no issue of the SIGNS next week. With a largely increased steam power, we expect to be able to do a much larger amount of work than heretofore.

Eastward Bound.

By W. C. White

As we take the train at Sacramento and are moving slowly on toward the mountains, Mrs. W. and myself feel like saying a few words to our friends in California.

In looking over the two years spent in the work of the Office in Oakland, we are led to thank our Heavenly Father that he has permitted us to have a part in so important and pleasant a work, and that he has protected us from those great mistakes to which we were exposed by our youth and inexperience in the work. We are not weary of the work, nor do we expect to find warmer or more numerous friends in any other place, but we feel the need of a better education and accept the present as a long sought opportunity to become more thoroughly qualified for future work wherever it may be.

Our leading brethren know that we took responsibilities in the Office with one object in view, namely, to do the work with the greatest possible economy, until other persons qualified by better education and thorough experience should devote themselves to the work. With respect to true, devoted talent in the work, the condition of the Office is far in advance of our fondest hopes of six months ago. Not only are there thorough business men in charge, but there is a well organized force of twenty-two, the majority of whom are not only thorough workmen, but are also earnest Christian Sabbath-keepers. The business management of the Office is left with Bro. Glenn, whose thorough experience in business and as a practical printer, if closely united to and guided by the general plans and far seeing judgment of those long in the cause, will prove invaluable to the interests of the Association.

The editing of the SIGNS will be done by Mrs. L. M. Hall and Miss Della Frisbie, who, with the experience which they have had heretofore, are fully prepared for the work, and will without doubt give new life and interest to the paper.

As our names have been mentioned in connection with the establishment of the European Press, we say frankly that we shrink from the task; not from the labor, hardships and deprivations that will necessarily be connected with the work; for we are perhaps as well prepared to endure these as any; but from the fearful responsibility and perplexity necessarily connected with such a work. For an American already conversant with the French or German, it will be an arduous task to become sufficiently acquainted with the wants of the mission, and so conversant with foreign machinery, as to make a wise selection, and if to this be added the work of organizing a force of printers and book-binders, we think it a “very large contract” and urge upon the General Conference Committee the necessity of selecting some man of age and general experience, to at once begin preparation if not to enter immediately upon the work.

We are sad to know that Elder Andrews has been forced to spend his valuable time in supervising the details of printing and book making, to the neglect of the important work of the ministry. We know this cannot be right and shall rejoice to see the proper help go to his assistance.

W. C. WHITE.

San Francisco.

By John Norton Loughborough

The elders of this church report an increasing interest in the missionary work in the city. They are giving their entire time to the work. Last week they met with a learned and devoted Frenchman to whom they gave a copy of Les Signes des Temps. He took it to his room, read it, and was so delighted with it that he loaned it to fifteen others, each of whom read it and expressed a desire for more reading matter upon the subjects treated in this paper. New ones are becoming interested every week. So let the work go on, is our daily prayer. J. N. L.

Change of Address.

By Editor

WHEN ordering papers changed from one address to another, the business cannot be done unless two points are mentioned in the letter. 1st. The post-office address where you have been receiving the paper, and 2nd, the post-office address to which you want the paper changed.

It is not sufficient to say, “Please send my paper to Spencer, Clark Co., Wis.,” and then simply sign your name. All we can tell by this is that you are receiving the SIGNS somewhere, and that you want it changed to Spencer, Wis.

Now there are more than 8000 names on our list. If we were to look all of them over to find this name it would take one hour. We receive as many as a dozen letters of this kind each week. With such letters, just one of these three things can be done: Search the list all through until you find them; write to them and find out all about it; or throw the letters in the waste basket.

J. E. W.

Dixon, Tent No. 1.

By W. M. HEALEY; B. A. STEPHENS

We are about to move tent No. 1 from this place. Ten adults have signed our covenant since we came here. These with our brethren in the country give us a company of thirty, besides children. There are also several others keeping the Sabbath that we expect will soon unite with us. W. M. HEALEY.

June 24, 1877. B. A. STEPHENS.

Tulare Co., Tent No. 2.

Bro. Wood writes that he held the first Sabbath meeting with those who have accepted the doctrines advocated in the tent, June 16. Eight signed the covenant, and six went forward in baptism. In a more recent letter, dated June 20, he states that they have moved the tent two miles south. Interest still good. Eleven have now signed the covenant, and a prospect that others will soon. In this county there is a wide field for labor, and the interest generally is increasing.

Pacheco, Tent No. 3.

By letter from Bro. Rice we learn that there is still good interest in the meetings, and an earnest desire to learn the truth. They speak of one very favorable feature in their meetings, which is that their audiences are composed of regular hearers.

European Press.

We, the undersigned, regard it a great privilege to donate to the Lord, for the European press, under the care of our worthy missionary, Elder J. N. Andrews, One Hundred Dollars each, and invite eight others to join us in raising $10,000.


James White.....$100	E. H. Root.....$100
John Morrison.....100	Wm. Ings.....100
Geo. I. Butler.....100	Charles Comings.....100
Newel Grant.....100	E. W. Whitney.....100
Aug. Rasmussen.....100	R. G. Lockwood.....100
An Iowa Brother.....100	W. H. Hall.....100
Emily Leighton.....100	Betsy Landon.....100
S. A. McPherson.....100	S. N. Haskell.....100
“A Fr’d in N. E.”.....100	C. K. Farnsworth.....100
“W. P. A. M.”.....100	M. Wood.....100
Reuel Stickney.....100	Friend of Truth.....100
Mrs. A. Stickney.....100	Mrs. J. L. James.....100
J N Loughborough.....100	A LaRue.....100
Chas. L. Boyd.....100	Mrs. Getman (deceased).....100
C. B. Tower.....100	A. H. B.....100
Freeman Nichols.....100	D. M. Canright.....100
D. A. Owen.....100	W. A. Pratt.....100
Wm. B. Mason.....100	W. A. Pratt.....100
Jane Rowland.....100	Wm. Harper.....100
B. N. Berry.....100	C. Clark and Wife.....100
J. S. Wicks.....100	Miss M. R. Stern.....100
C. McNeil.....100	E. Green & wife.....100
Susie D.....100	A. A. Bradford.....100
J. S. Hart.....100	O. S. Briggs & wife.....100
Jacob Shivley.....100	M. C. Israel.....100
Right hand.....100	V. B. J.....100
M. J. Bartholf.....100	A Bro. in Minn.....100
Mary Crouch.....100	H. C. Stone.....100
B. L. Whitney.....100	Thomas A. Alverson.....100
S. B. D.....100	E. Lobdell.....100
Lucretia Day.....100	A Bro. & Sr. in New England.....300
S. H. King.....100
A. C. Woodbury & wife.....100	Elden H. Pullen.....100
James Harvey.....100	A friend.....100
John Ely.....100	G. W. Colcord & wife.....100
L. McCoy.....100	D. Ann Albin.....100
S. A. McCoy.....100	I. Sanborn.....100
“Thank-offering”.....100	J. Q. A. Haughey.....100
Adolph Gomoe.....100	A. S. Hutchins.....100
J. W. Lucas & wife.....100	R. M. Kilgore & wife.....100
Wm. S. A. McPherson.....100	A believer in New York.....100
A friend.....100	A friend in Mich.....100
Geo. Leighton.....100	W. Sanborn.....100
Mary C. Bowers.....100	Lavina Haughey.....100
Eli Glascock.....100	Mrs. H. Craw.....100
Henry Shultz and wife.....100	Mrs. Ira Abbey.....100

Sonoma Co., Cal.

By John Norton Loughborough

At the quarterly meeting in district No. 1, at Santa Rosa, last Sabbath, we met a goodly number of our people of Sonoma Co., who seemed to receive with gladness the word spoken. Two were baptized who unite with the Petaluma church. One of those was a sea captain, who has lately embraced the truth and left the sea. The other was a sister who heard a course of lectures I gave at Hoppers district, near Petaluma, seven years ago. “Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it again after many days.” J. N. L.

New Liberty, Kansas.

By J. N. Ayres

Commenced meetings here June 8, and have spoken twelve times. Eleven have signed the covenant. Tobacco has been given up by many. The Lord is preparing the hearts of the people for the reception of his truth. To his name be all the praise. J. N. AYRES.

Camp-Meetings for 1877.

CAMP-MEETINGS are located and appointed as follows:—

INDIANA, Aug. 9-14. OHIO, Newark, “ 10-20. VERMONT, “ 16-21. ILLINOIS, “ 23-28. CALIFORNIA, Yountville, September 13-19. “ Tulare county, Sept. 26 to Oct. 1.

The Camp-meeting Committee of Southern California are M. J. Church, W. R. Smith and R. F. Eagle. CAL. CONF. COMMITTEE.

State Quarterly Meeting.

By A. M. Loughborough

The third State Quarterly Meeting of the Cal. Tract and Missionary Society, for this fiscal year, will be held with the Oakland church, Sabbath and Sunday, July 7 and 8. We hope to see as many of the directors, officers, and members present as can possibly attend.

By order of the President.

A. M. LOUGHBOROUGH, Secretary.

District Quarterly Meetings.

By John Norton Loughborough

District quarterly meetings for the third quarter will be held as follows:—

DISTRICT No. 3, at St. Helena, June 30 and July 1.

DISTRICT No. 7, at Oakland, July 7 and 8.

J. N. Loughborough, President.

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* Address, Signs of the Times.

OAKLAND, CAL.