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What Is Home?

HOME is not based upon riches. Wealth weighs down the purse, and there is a certain satisfaction in holding it, yet a heavy heart outweighs rubies. Many a mother whispers in the ear of her daughter flattering words for the suitor of wealth, and against the other, honorable but poor. Yet silks and velvets and laces form no part of home—there is many a homeless house.

Home is not based on art or culture. These have their place—yet what charms the intellect may freeze the soul. The old clock of the last century; the tall straight-backed chair; the open fire-place with the old fire utensils; these things which whisper of home, and tell old stories of love and war, are more valuable than the products of art.

Home is not based on friendship. Friendship means sympathy and assistance, but home is more than these.

Love is the distinctive characteristic of home, and the power of home is measured by the power of love. That which is the basis of the divine family is likewise the basis of the human; love in all its forms; the love of husband and wife—conjugal; the love of parents for children—parental; the love of children for parents—filial; the love of children for each other—fraternal; and above all, to make the home what it was designed to be, the love of the family must be centered on God.

Marriage is not a human partnership, it is God's decree. With the birth of children comes a responsibility which no one can throw off. Home, the first institution of God's decree, stands first in the world to-day, as a means of good and evil. Summon to yourselves all sacred recollections of the past; gather up the teachings of the blessed book; and look upon the question—what extenuation can there be in a legal breaking-up of home? Differences of taste and judgment may arise, but they ought not to be made so important as to separate the father and mother, and part the children? The magnitude of this theme is shown by the fact that Christ made it one of his leading truths in his sermon on the mount, and a truths we have no right to reject.—Sel.

SECULAR NEWS.

—Thirty-eight inches of snow fell during the winter at Augusta, Me.

—A weekly paper in Illinois prints in each issue a chapter of the Bible.

—There were 100 deaths in San Francisco last week, 60 of which were of males.

—The Princess of Wales and the Crown Princess of Denmark have gone to Paris.

—There are 72 postmistresses and about 30,000 postmasters in the United States.

—Of 369 members of Congress only 193 are natives of the States which they represent.

—Notice has been given of a reduction in wages in all the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, of from 5 to 15 per cent.

—The British Government is making arrangements for laying a special cable from Greece to the Sea of Marmora.

—The largest park in the world is Epping Forrest in Essex county, England. It is estimated to contain 12,000 acres.

—The members of the San Francisco Police force have been notified that from this time henceforth they will not be permitted to smoke pipes, cigars, or cigarettes while on duty.

—The Matapan paper mills, at Hyde Park, Mass., the oldest in New England, have shut down, owing to dull times and lack of orders, for the first time for a hundred years.

—There is on deposit in the savings banks of San Francisco now the large sum of $61,000,000. During the last twenty years the savings banks of that city have disbursed to the depositors the sum of $41,000,000 in interest.

—Tobacco-smoking is on the increase. In 1848 the quantity of tobacco used in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was less than fourteen ounces a head of population; in 1876 it was one pound seven and one-half ounces a head.

—It is stated that California leads all the States of the Union in the matter of newspapers in proportion to her population; for while she has but 850,000 of the European race, she ranks fourth, New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois beating her in the publication of daily papers, her number being 43, or four more than Ohio, with 3,000,000 of people, 14 more than Massachusetts, where every one is supposed to read, 14 more than Indiana, 17 more than Missouri, 20 more than Iowa, as many as Wisconsin, Virginia and Georgia combined, and eight times more than either Minnesota, Delaware or Oregon.

RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.

—It is stated that the Assyrian inscriptions reveal the fact that under the Babylonian kings it was common to cast men alive into a burning fiery furnace, and also into a den of lions.

—The Duke of Norfolk has erected a house at Sheffield, Eng., at an expense of £10,000, for the Vincentian Fathers. He is also about to lay out an equal sum in erecting other Catholic institutions in the same vicinity.

—Five hundred years ago a solemn council was held in the popish monastery at Blackfriars, London, to stop the circulation of Protestant Bibles, which John Wycliffe had published. Now, close by the very spot in Blackfriars about 6,000 copies of the Bible go forth every day from the Bible Society Depot. It is now printed in 216 different languages.

—There are about 270,000 Baptists in Great Britain. They contributed last year, according to the "Hand book," £340,000 for religious and benevolent objects, exclusive of home church expenses, domestic missions, and associational work. This is about $1,700,000, or $6.25 for each member. The London Baptist well remarks that "this fact says not a little for the liberality of a people who are for the most part comparatively poor."

—An exchange says: "Pope Leo XIII. has sanctioned a plan for the conversion of Central Africa, which was prepared by Cardinal Franchi, while Prefect of the Propaganda. The work has been intrusted to a congregation established some ten years ago by M. Lavigerie, at Algiers. Twelve missionaries have already left for Zanzibar, and it is expected that they will be able to move into the interior during the present month. The missionaries have been instructed in the use of scientific instruments."

GOOD HEALTH.

What Sleep Will Cure.

THE cry for rest has always been louder than the cry for food. Not that it is more important, but it is often harder to get. The best rest comes from sound sleep. Of two men or women otherwise equal, the one who sleeps the best will be the most moral, healthy and efficient. Sleep will do much to cure irritability of temper, peevishness, uneasiness. It will restore to vigor an overworked brain. It will build up and make strong a weary body. It will do much to cure dyspepsia, particularly that variety known as nervous dyspepsia. It will relieve the languor and prostration felt by consumptives. It will cure hypochondria. It will cure the blues. It will cure the headache. It will cure neuralgia. It will cure a broken spirit. Indeed, we might make a long list of nervous maladies that sleep will cure.

The cure of sleeplessness, however, is not so easy, especially in those who carry grave responsibilities. The habit of sleeping well is one which, if broken up for any length of time, is not easily regained. Often, a severe illness, treated by powerful drugs, so deranges the nervous system that sleep is never sweet after it; or, perhaps long-continued watchfulness produces the same effect; or hard study, or too little exercise of the muscular system, or tea and whisky-drinking, and tobacco-using. To break up the habit are requird:—

A good, clean bed.
Sufficient good exercise to produce weariness, and pleasant occupation.
Good air, and not too warm a room.
Freedom from too much care.
A clean stomach.
A clean conscience.
Avoidance of stimulants and narcotics.

For those who are overworked, haggard, nervous, who pass sleepless nights, we commend the adoption of such habits as shall secure sleep, otherwise life will be short, and what there is of it sadly imperfect.—Herald of Health.

Health and Exercise

Ah! what avail the largest gifts of heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss! How tasteless then whatever can be given! Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise, of health; in proof of this, Behold the wretch who flings his life away, Soon followed in disease's sad abyss; While he who toil has braced, or manly play, Has light as air each limb, each thought as clear as day.

Only Two.

ONLY two ways. One broad, the other narrow; one leads to destruction, the other to life; many go by the one, few by the other. Which is your way?

Only two sorts of people. Many sorts in man's opinion, many societies, classes, sects denominations. Only two in God's sight, the righteous and the wicked, the wheat and the chaff, the living and the dead. Which are you?

Only two deaths; the death of the righteous, and the death of the wicked. Which do you think you will die? Which do you wish to die? Which would it be if you were to die this moment?

Only two sides at the day of judgment, the right hand and the left. Only these two. Those on the right hand will be blessed—"Come ye blessed of my Father." Those on the left hand will be cursed—"Depart ye cursed." All must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, to receive the things done in the body, whether good or bad. What word shall be spoken to you? Reader, on which side will you stand?

Appointment.

By James White

We now design to leave for Oakland next sixth-day, and would appoint in compliance with the request of Sister Isabella Moore, to be at her house in San Francisco, Sabbath, in the forenoon at ten o'clock, to celebrate the Lord's supper. Sister Moore has been too feeble to meet with the church for more than a year, and her disease is of such a nature that she regards her sojourn in this mortal state to be very brief. We request that proper preparations be made, and that such be present to join in the ordinance as Sister Moore may suggest. We place this appointment at an early hour that those who may be present can immediately after attend the Sabbath service. J. W.

Battle Creek, Mich.

SABBATH, April 27, was a day of interest to the Battle Creek church. At the general social meeting one hundred and fifty-seven spoke in one hour and ten minutes. At the celebration of the ordinances it was found necessary to separate the church into two divisions. Six of the thirteen classes of which the church is composed, met in the evening at the commencement of the Sabbath, and the seven remaining classes in the evening after the Sabbath. The house was filled on each occasion with as many as could be comfortably accommodated. To suitably provide, on such occasions for the number of Sabbath-keepers already in Battle Creek, a house of worship having double the capacity of the present building is needed.

San Francisco and Oakland.

By John Norton Loughborough

Our tent-meetings in San Francisco still continue with increasing interest. We are now upon the Sabbath question, and shall probably have our first Sabbath meeting next Sabbath. We are forming some interesting acquaintances with the people, and expect some will decide to go with us.

We are not trying with this meeting to reach all San Francisco, but taking our tent as a center, we make a specialty of canvassing thoroughly the square mile around the tent. In this square mile there are five thousand houses. These we have supplied, with either posters or copies of our tent paper (of which we have had two numbers already), four times.

Our missionary workers are canvassing this square mile, street by street, and house by house, ascertaining who are interested, and obtaining three month subscribers for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, of these subscribers about a score have already been obtained since the meetings commenced.

We place occasional notices in the city papers, so that the people at large are not ignorant of what we are doing, and we are frequently favored with hearers from other parts of the city. San Francisco is such a peculiarly situated city that it is something like a cluster of villages, and we decide that a more thorough work can be done here by removing the tent from point to point in different parts of the city.

The time may come to hold a central meeting with a mammoth pavilion, but we do not think it is now. So we use the 60-ft. tent, from point to point.

We meet alternately with the church in Oakland on the Sabbath, and Sunday evening, which serves to help the interested ones there, and those who have newly embraced the truth. Last Sabbath was a good day to this church. Five more were baptized. There are now over one hundred Sabbath-keepers in Oakland. There is perfect unity and harmony in this important church at the center of our work on this coast. The Vigilant Missionary society in Oakland is doing a noble work. God bless the workers. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

Tent No. 2, Lemoore.

By J. L. Wood; J. D. Rice

Up to date have given eight discourses, with a good interest. Average attendance, one hundred and fifty.

J. L. Wood, J. D. Rice. May 4, 1878.

Junction, Lane Co., Oregon.

By Alonzo T. Jones

THIS is a town of nearly five hundred inhabitants, on the O. & C. R. R., fifty-seven miles south of Salem. On the evening of March 30, I began a course of lectures here, and have given twenty-five discourses. The interest and attendance have been quite good. On April 27, we had our first Sabbath meeting; there were twenty-three present, and we hope by judicious and faithful labor to bring some to obedience of the commandments of God and faith of Jesus. The people of the place generally admit that "these things are so;" it now remains to get them to show by their actions that they believe them.

ALONZO T. JONES.

April 29, 1878.

The Work Among the European French.

By Daniel T. Bourdeau

NOTWITHSTANDING the difficulties we have met and the afflictions through which we have passed, to the praise of God we are able to report precious lessons learned, victories gained, and good prospects for the cause among the French in Europe.

In the past two years, God has given us witnesses in Locle, Switzerland, and in four entirely new fields situated at a considerable distance from each other; viz., Alsace (now a part of Germany), Southern France, St. Didiér, near Lyons, France, and Morges, Switzerland. We wish there were more believers in these fields; yet we would not undervalue what God has done. In countries where stubborn difficulties are met at every step, and where the work must move slowly in the start, even a few witnesses are of incalculable value to the cause in removing prejudice and spreading the light in the midst of the dense moral darkness that envelops the people.

A French officer and his wife who took their stand for the truth at St. Didiér, at the time of our recent trip in France, report encouragingly. They say God has given them great confidence in defending the truth against the attacks of different ministers. The brother will be obliged to join the army for a few weeks by the time this report appears in print. He wishes to be remembered in our prayers.

I learn that there is at least a limited influence in favor of the Sabbath in Geneva; and in Lausanne, a city of about 30,000 inhabitants (and the birthplace of the missionary who founded the Grande Ligne Mission Institute, Canada East, in which I studied two and a half years), situated about six miles from this place, is a small independent hall with an adjoining room for preachers to rest in, which I can have for $10 a month. And there are several openings in a canton north of this, that should not be neglected, and places in Alsace and in France must be visited. But this point should be braced up by additions in this section.

It is therefore evident that whether we have a tent or not, at least a helper is needed in the French mission, besides the labors of Brother Andrews when he is not engaged directly in the publishing work. When such cities as Lausanne and Geneva are entered, we shall have to speak to English and Americans as well as to those of other nationalities. There are two churches in each of those cities to accommodate English and American citizens.

Mrs. B. is gradually improving in health, and is adapting herself to the climate here, which, according to the unanimous testimony of physicians and numerous cases of nervous fever, is hard on the nerves, especially in winter. The time has come for me to move out, and the language of my heart is: Let me see this cause, the best of causes, prosper; let the loud notes of victory echo from the new world to the old, and from the old back to the new; and let the message swell louder and louder and spread more and more, till earth's remotest bounds are illumined by its glory, and all the honest are gathered; and let me have a humble part in this glorious work. D. T. BOURDEAU. Morges, Switzerland, April 12, 1878.

Hymns of Praise.

By Editor

WE have just issued a 64-page collection of hymns and tunes adapted to use in religious lectures, camp and tent-meetings, in social meetings and in the home circle. The hymns are all accompanied by music.

The first part of the book is devoted to standard hymns and tunes. The remainder is filled up with new, stirring, sacred songs, some of which appear for the first time in this book, and any one of which is worth more than the price of the book. Price 10 cents.

Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.

APPOINTMENTS.

THE Lord willing, I will be with the San Francisco church, at the tent, Sabbath, May 11, at 10:30 A. M. and at Oakland, Sunday evening, May 12. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

PROVIDENCE permitting, I will speak in the Oakland church, Sabbath, May 11, at 10:30 A. M. and at the tent in San Francisco, Sunday evening, May 12. W. M. HEALEY.

THE camp-meeting of the North Pacific Conference of S. D. Adventists will be held from June 27, to July 2, 1878. The place of meeting will be on the land of Adam Stephens, three miles North of Salem, on the line of the O. & C. railroad.

The second annual session of the North Pacific Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting. The proper number of delegates should be chosen by each organized and partially organized church, to represent them at the meeting. Ministerial help from the California Conference may be expected. I. D. VAN HORN, S. MAXON, THOS. STARBUCK. } Conf. Com.

Camp-Meetings.

CAMP-MEETINGS for 1878 are located and appointed as follows :— KANSAS, Neosho Falls, May 22-27. NEW YORK, East Aurora, May 29 to June 4 WISCONSIN, Madison. May 29 to June 4 MINNESOTA, Hutchinson, June 19-25. OREGON, Salem, June 27 to July 2.

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Address, THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, OAKLAND, CAL.

Camp-Meeting.

By James White

We are now writing at Litton Springs, four miles from the city of Healdsburg. We regard this as the most commodious and beautiful site in California for a camp-meeting. It is four miles from the station. Water is good, scenery delightful, and shade as good as we usually find in the State. Litton Springs is popularly known as a grand resort, and a camp-meeting in this locality would draw a great concourse of people.

We make these suggestions for the consideration of the camp-meeting committee.

J. W.