"It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep."Psalms 127:2.
He sees when their footsteps falter,
When their hearts grow weak and faint;
He marks when their strength is failing,
And listens to each complaint;
He bids them rest for a season,
For the pathway is grown too steep;
And, folded in fair, green pastures,
He giveth His loved ones sleep.
Like weary and worn-out children,
That sigh for the day-light's close,
He knows that they oft are longing
For home and its sweet repose;
So He calls them in from their labors,
Ere the shadows round them creep,
And silently watching o'er them,
He giveth His loved ones sleep.
He giveth it, oh, so gently!
As a mother will hush to rest
The babe that she softly pillows
So tenderly on her breast;
Forgotten are now the trials
And sorrows that made them weep,
For with many a soothing promise
He giveth His loved ones sleep.
He giveth it! Friends the dearest
Can never this boon bestow;
But He touches the drooping eyelids,
And placid the features grow;
Their foes may gather about them,
And storms may round them sweep,
But, guarding them safe from danger,
He giveth his loved ones sleep.
All dread of the distant future,
All fears that oppress to-day,
Like mists that clear in the sunlight,
Have noiselessly passed away;
No call nor clamor can rouse them
From slumbers so pure and deep,
For only His voice can reach them
Who giveth His loved ones sleep.
Weep not that their toils are over;
Weep not that their race is run;
God grant we may rest as calmly
When our work, like theirs, is done!
Till then we would yield with gladness
Our treasures to Him to keep,
And rejoice in the sweet assurance—
He giveth His loved ones sleep.
—Selected.
Honesty Better Than Policy
HONESTY is better than policy.
Millionaire Estates in Great Britain
By Christian at Work
During the last decade thirteen men have died in Great Britain leaving property worth more than £1,000,000. Of these, by far the richest was Baron L. N. de Rothschild, who left £2,700,000. The next largest sum was £1,900,000, left by John Pemberton, of Liverpool. During the same period fifty-six men died leaving more than £500,000, and 195 leaving more than £250,000. During the preceding decade ten persons left more than £1,000,000, fifty-three more than £500,000, and 161 more than £250,000.—Christian at Work.
An Effectual Punishment.
If practical jokers could suffer a little of the pain they are so fond of giving, it might cure them of their bad habit. Says a gentleman, speaking of the retributive justice which cured him:—
I got one punishment when a boy that I never forgot. When about ten years old, I fancied I had a grudge against a lad of my own age, but much smaller. Catching him alone one morning, I dragged him to the big watering-trough, and gave him a thorough dousing in the icy water. While he was spluttering and trying to escape, my father came upon the scene. A moment's silence—then—"Go into the house, Dan," was all that father said.
I obeyed with a quaking heart. The morning passed, and yet I was not called to account. Afternoon and evening dragged by, bed-time came, and still not a word was said.
It wasn't exactly a pleasant day to me. I had ample time to think it over and realize the meanness of my act. I retired with an uneasy mind; it wasn't like father to pass such a thing unnoticed.
Could he have forgotten it? Could it be possible that for some unknown reasons he was, to use a boy's phrase, "winking at it"? I was puzzled.
The next morning the mystery was solved. As I entered the breakfast-room father met me, and taking my hand silently, led me out to the trough, where I underwent exactly such treatment as I'd given Jim.
The following day another "hair of the dog" was administered. On the third morning I tried to starve it out, and by going without breakfast get rid of the ducking.
All in vain! Though, when the bell rang I kept in my room, I soon heard father calling in a tone I dared not disobey:—
"Dan! Dan!"
For one week I was put through that watering-trough every morning!
Father did not weaken the lesson by "words, idle words." And I guess he was right, for I did some thinking during those days.
That experience stuck by me and altered my course many a time in later life.—Herald and Presbyter.
Religious Notes.
By Editor
—A telegram confirms the report of the murder of the two German missionaries in Zululand.
—It is said that the queen of Madagascar spends half an hour or an hour every morning in reading the Bible and prayer.
—There were twenty-five hundred Sunday-school workers present at the recent Georgia Sunday-school Convention.
—Dr. J. P. Newman, of New York, says that "half the Christian world is worshiping a Jew [Christ], and the other half a Jewess [the Virgin Mary]."
—Of the 1,300 graduates of Middlebury College, 500 became preachers, 18 presidents of colleges or theological schools, 70 college professors, and 40 missionaries.
—A home for needy widows of the Protestant Episcopal Church is to be erected at Nineteenth and E Streets, Washington, by Mrs. Elizabeth Stone, who has given the ground and $25,000 for the purpose.
—A little girl on being asked what was the greatest festival of the church, promptly replied, "Strawberry festival." Thus the little ones are learning to act their part in conducting the affairs of the popular church.
—An agreement has been reached between the British and Foreign Bible Society and the English Baptists, by which a marginal reading is placed in the versions issued by the society, where the words "baptize" and "baptism" occur: "Some translate immerse."
—Dr. Howard Crosby attended the Baptist anniversary meeting at Saratoga, as messenger from the Presbyterian General Assembly. In his address he said: "Two great evils confront us—Romanism, the master-piece of Satan, and infidelity, masquerading under the cloak of learning. Romanism thrives only in the soil of ignorance."
—At the Petaluma District Ministerial Association, of the M. E. Church, last month, the Presiding Elder read an essay upon "Time Limitation in the Itineracy," in which he took strong grounds in favor of removing the limitation, and leaving the length of the pastoral term entirely to the prayerful discretion of the bishops and their counselors.
—The spirit of Catholicism is shown by a priest at Ansonia, Conn., as follows: "A Catholic doctor having established himself in the town, the priest introduced him from the pulpit, told the people they would no longer have to call in 'heretical murderers,' and charged them, further, that unless they did call in the Catholic doctor they could not have the services of the church for the sick or dead."
—The London Christian Commonwealth has this item: "The Birmingham trade in idols is rather brisk. A thousand glass gods have just been imported into Burmah from that town. They only cost 1s. 6d. each, and sell for eight rupees." Doubtless the same ship that bears the idols to the heathen, will also carry a few missionaries to tell them that there is but one God. This is no more inconsistent, however, than to send missionaries and whisky to the heathen on the same vessel.
—Rev. Charles F. Thwing discusses in the Independent the question, "Is Congregationalism going to the Wall?" He states that in point of numbers the Congregationalists are "being distanced by the growth, not only of the population, but also of churches other than their own." He gives various reasons for this, and says: "Yet, perhaps, the most important of these causes lies in the undue emphasis which the Congregational Church places on the intellectual, and the too slight emphasis which it places upon the spiritual means of its propagation."
—The Examiner has this to say of pulpit irreverence: "We enjoy genuine wit as well as the next man, but have no hesitation in saying that sacred things are not a fitting subject for witty speeches in a public assembly. Let us leave the irreverent joking to the pot-house politician and the infidel lecturer. The minister who indulges in this species of jesting may raise a laugh among the thoughtless and gain a reputation for smartness with a few, but the judicious will grieve at the lowering of its dignity, at his loss of influence with the sensible, and at the demoralizing effect of his example on all who hear him."
—A woman in Ohio has applied for a divorce on account of the manner in which her husband conducts family worship. He calls the family to prayers three times a day, and fills his prayers with denunciations of his wife, and quotations from the Scriptures about her sins. It is hard to say what the police court will decide, but the Lord about our neighbors, or lecturing them upon their supposed sins, is weak and hypocritical, and unwise.—Golden Censer. Hypocritical and provoking a man undoubtedly is, but if such conduct is sufficient for divorce, the next step will be a divorce because a husband sits at table in his shirt sleeves, and uses his knife; or because the wife cannot make the bread Saxon." And the S. S. Times adds: "That advice is as timely, in its spirit, to Sunday-school teachers as to preachers. It is all very well for teachers to broaden and perfect their knowledge by outside study; but the only value of that study to their scholars is in the simpler and more direct pressing home of the practical applications of the lesson of the day to those scholars' minds and hearts."
—Samuel J. Wilson, of Alleghany Theological gave the following sound instruction to the ing class: "Young gentlemen, study Hebrew, pore over Greek verbs, read Latin, and if time and desire, translate ancient hieroglyphics; but I charge you, when you go into the to preach the gospel, to use the plain Anglo-Saxon."
News and Notes.
—A $70,000 fire occurred at Salt Lake, on the 21st.
—The cost of the star-route trials to the Government is placed at $261,318.
—Severe damage was done by a tornado at Chatham, Ont., on the 18th inst.
—An Oakland hoodlum, sixteen years old, is under arrest for brutally beating his mother.
—Reports show that 250 persons have been killed by tornadoes in this country since January 1.
—There were fifty-two deaths from yellow fever at Havana, during the week ending June 23.
—Sixteen persons have been drowned in one county in southern Nebraska, by the recent floods.
—A late dispatch from London states that seventy persons were drowned in the floods of Silesia.
—An incendiary fire at Fresno, Cal., on the morning of the 20th inst., destroyed $70,000 worth of property.
—A fire in San Francisco, on the morning of the 22d inst., destroyed property to the extent of half a million dollars.
—It is now declared that Arabi Pasha had absolutely nothing to do with the massacre at Alexandria, or the burning of the city.
—A fire in the royal dockyard at Amsterdam, on the 20th, destroyed two men-of-war, and did other damage. Loss about 4,000,000 florins.
—The Court House, university, Christian college, and several residences, at Columbia, Mo., were partially unroofed by a storm on the 22d inst.
—A large portion of the country in the vicinity of Helena, Ark., is under water, in consequence of a break in the Mississippi. The crops will be ruined.
—It is stated that yellow fever is making fearful ravages among the Europeans and Americans at Vera Cruz. There have been 100 deaths from this cause within two months.
—It is stated that an employment office in Los Angeles had an order the other day for twelve woodchoppers at $3 per day, but no laborers could be found to take the job.
—Serious riots against the Jews have occurred at St. Gall, Switzerland. A number of Jewish shops have been pillaged and the police stoned while endeavoring to stop the excesses.
—Placards have been posted in the different parts of the city of Athens, by anarchists, which contain a threat to destroy the royal palace and the ancient monuments, by explosives.
—A recent examination of the younger children of the Boston schools revealed the curious fact that 18 per cent. of the little ones had no knowledge of a cow further than that gained by pictures.
—It is reported that a battle was fought on the 15th between the Turks and Albanians in the Hatti district. It is said the killed and wounded on the Turkish side number 250 and that the Albanians also suffered heavily.
—The Tribune at Xeres, Spain, has sentenced one member of the Black Hand Society to lifelong servitude, and another member to seventeen years' imprisonment, for having murdered a man who had declined to join the society.
—The passenger vessels Hurunui and Waitara, of the New Zealand Shipping Company, came into collision off Portland, Eng., on the 23d, resulting in the sinking of the latter vessel, and the drowning of twenty-five persons.
—A paper steamboat, 20 ft. in length, has been made in Lansingburg, N. Y., to hold 25 persons and carry 3 tons. Its sheathing is solid paper, ⅜ of an inch thick, on which a bullet fired from a distance of four feet made no impression.
—The Home Secretary has given orders to reduce the guards protecting the public buildings in London, believing that the recent hangings, and the decided expressions of public opinion in America, will prevent any further action by the dynamiters.
—A Berlin dispatch of the 21st says: "The floods in Silesia were attended by water-spouts. A large part of the town of Hirschberg was submerged and houses and adjacent villages flooded." Disastrous floods are also reported in Bohemia and Moravia.
—On the 19th inst., a storm devastated a section of country near Chillicothe, Mo., six miles in length, and from one-half to three-fourths of a mile in width. All farm-houses, crops, and fences were destroyed. Several persons were killed, and many were injured.
—The Hill investigation in Washington explains the great cost of Government buildings. A foreman in a stone-cutting yard in Philadelphia, testified that the orders were for the men to spend as much time as possible on their work. An ambitious or conscientious man was reproved if he finished his work too quickly.
—Ohio has enacted a law making it an offense for any one to sell or give a toy pistol to a child under fourteen years of age. Any person who violates the law is liable for all damages resulting. It would be well if such a law were in force in all the States. We may expect the usual quota of accidents from this toy on the coming Fourth.
—The strife has so culminated between the High and Low church parties in the Episcopal Church of the Evangelist, Philadelphia, that the Low church members are going to bring the matter before the courts on the ground that they have been defrauded of their place of worship by the ritualists. Several policemen were present at a recent service where trouble was expected.
—A cyclone struck Steubenville, O., on the 18th, doing damage to the amount of $150,000. On the same day a cyclone did great damage in southwestern Pennsylvania. Its track was from 100 to 400 feet wide, and everything was swept before it. It was accompanied by severe rain and hail. Millersburg, O., was also visited, and buildings, and crops in the vicinity were greatly damaged.
—At the coronation festivities, the Mayor of Moscow ventured to express the hope that Russia would soon enjoy the benefits of a constitutional government, and for the utterance of this thought he was doomed by the Czar to permanent exile. Such an act of despotism goes far toward explaining why there is so much nihilism in that country. It will doubtless add nothing to the Czar's popularity.
—There is great excitement in Hungary over the trial of Jews charged with murdering a Christian girl and using her blood to mix with their passover blood. The charge is a most absurd one, but that does not prevent race prejudice boiling over. The audiences in court openly threatened the witnesses for the defense. Witnesses for the prosecution contradicted themselves and each other, and a Catholic priest admitted that he was the author of an anonymous attack on the Jews, accusing them of the murder of the girl.
—On the 18th inst., the central section of the English dam, where water is stored for use in hydraulic mining, gave way flooding the country below. The dam is situated on the head waters of the Yuba River, about forty miles from Nevada City, Cal.; its capacity was 650,000,000 cubic feet, and it was full when it broke. The damage to life and property was considerable. Four days before it was swept away, the dam had been carefully examined and pronounced in safe condition. There is a strong suspicion that the brake was started by the explosion of powder.
—A Chicago dispatch of June 20, says: "The rush for saloon licenses under the new city ordinance, in order to evade the operation of the new State high-license law, continued to-day. When the Clerk's office opened this morning the line of expectant dram-sellers extended through the hall-way and half a block along the street. Preparations for speed had been made, however, and by noon the jam was practically over. The result of two days' work is the issuance of 3,000 licenses. There are about 4,000 saloon-keepers in the city. It is alleged that many notaries winked at glaring irregularities in furnishing sureties."
A MINE OF INFORMATION.
By John Nevins Andrews
HISTORY OF THE SABBATH AND FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.
BY ELD. J. N. ANDREWS.
The Bible record of the Sabbath; the secular history concerning it; the successive steps by which the change to the first day was made, and the work of restoration, are given in detail.
EVERY TEXT OF SCRIPTURE concerning the Sabbath is commented on at length; and the COMPLETE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHERS in regard to the Sabbath and first day is given. The comparative merits of the seventh and the first-day Sabbaths are fully shown. A copious Index enables the reader to find any text, or the statement of any historian.
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EARLY WRITINGS OF MRS. WHITE.
Comprising "Experience and Views" and "Spiritual Gifts Volume One," bound in one volume. This makes a neat and attractive book of nearly 200 pages, and should be read by old and young. The matter and the style in which it is presented are so interesting that no one who has read one chapter will forego the pleasure and profit of reading the remainder. Price, 75 cents.
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THE DEFINITE SEVENTH DAY;
By Eld. J. N. Andrews
OR, GOD'S MEASUREMENT OF TIME ON THE ROUND WORLD.
By ELd. J. N. ANDREWS.
This tract is an answer to the question, "Can a definite day be observed by all the inhabitants of the earth?" It is a complete refutation of the common objection against the Sabbath, that the rotation of the earth on its axis makes it impossible for all men to keep the same day, showing not only that a definite day may be observed in all parts of the earth, but that no real difficulty has ever been experienced in the matter.
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Oakland and San Francisco.
For the last few weeks the meetings in these cities have been very important and encouraging. The preaching of the word has taken deep hold upon the minds of the churches, and several have taken decided and advanced steps in the Christian life. The San Francisco mission has secured a most excellent position on Fremont Street, No. 316. The location is in a quiet and highly respectable neighborhood; terms unexpectedly favorable. The Oakland Missionary Society has resolved to employ a canvasser or canvassers for this city. Voluntary labor is altogether insufficient to accomplish the purpose, as so few have time to spare for the work. All feel that "the Lord's work must be done." Time is short, and we are not doing a tithe of what is needed to be done, and what we must do. The Third Angel will speak "with a loud voice," Rev. 14:9-12. Our prayer is, Lord, speed on the work.
A Catholic Complaint.
By Editor
A CATHOLIC priest in Wymore, Nebraska, has written a letter to us complaining of Mrs. White's articles on Luther, and advises us to get certain Catholic books, which he names, that we may know what they do believe. We have the books he mentions, a variety of Catholic Catechisms, and other publications of that Church; and the more we read them the more we are convinced that the safety of their system is in the course which they have so persistently pursued, namely, to keep the Bible out of the hands of the people.
We once gave a brief account of a lecture by "Father Gavazzi," and a Mr. O'Connor, writing from Napa, bitterly assailed us for publishing falsehoods about the Catholic Church. He denied most positively that they believed what Mr. Gavazzi ascribed to them. We took the Catholic work—"The Glories of Mary"—and proved a hundred times more than Mr. Gavazzi said, quoting from it the very words used by him. We then called upon Mr. O'Connor to take back his harsh and unjust expressions concerning us, but he failed to respond. We are not striking at a venture when we assail the doctrines of the Catholic Church, or accuse it of shockingly persecuting those who dared to brave its power when it, unfortunately for mankind, had power. And we have its own word, where policy will allow it to speak, that it would do the same to-day as it did five hundred years ago had not the power been taken away. We have no sympathy with that sentimental misnamed Protestantism which is ready to affiliate with Catholicism, as we see it at this day.
Beecher on Evolution.
By Editor
A. WILFORD HALL, author of the “Problem of Human Life,” gives a unique report of Mr. Beecher’s lecture on Evolution. His decision was that Mr. Beecher had read up for his lecture on but one side of the subject, and not very thoroughly on that, and that he was unacquainted with the overwhelming arguments which have been presented against Darwin’s theory. There was none of the fire and energy which the celebrated orator has been accustomed to throw into his lectures, and a sense of humiliation seemed to rest upon the speaker’s friends, and somewhat upon the speaker himself. Mr. Hall says:—
“We wished to see it out, and witness the novel sight of monkeyism gone to seed in the person of the foremost Christian minister of the civilized world; and we saw it. And so painfully humiliating did the solemn farce appear to us that we could not have felt more lugubrious had we been at a funeral. The immense audience seemed to take the same view of the occasion, as not a clap nor a sign of applause greeted the speaker from beginning to end of his puerile and disjointed attempt to prove himself and his audience but a congregation of highly developed and carefully cultivated monkeys. About the only witty thing he said was, ‘I had just as lief [which he pronounced liv] come from the loins of a monkey as to be made of dirt and come from a mud-hole, wouldn’t you?’ One gentleman near us saw the point of the joke on Genesis, and showed his appreciation by curling his lip.”
The conclusion at which Mr. Hall arrived in regard to the teachings of Mr. Beecher is just what we have stated as our belief of the tendency of his “nihilistic theology.” The report says:—
“The direct and necessary tendency of his entire reasoning was to disparage the divine authenticity of the Scriptures and the fundamental doctrines of orthodox theology, while the unavoidable effect, upon all who were not imperviously disgusted with his unparalleled apostacy, was to weaken faith in the Bible as anything but a compilation of poetic and allegorical compositions, conveying but imperfect ideas of the earlier stages of human advancement from that barbarism which succeeded the ape dynasty. We solemnly asseverate our belief that one such lecture, coming from Mr. Beecher, trusted and revered as he has always been by so many, does more for the spread of infidelity, and even atheism, than any course of lectures Ingersoll ever delivered.”
We consider it one of the most striking evidences of the decline of true piety in the American churches that Mr. Beecher has been so long looked upon as a leading Christian teacher. Eloquence, oratorical power, is preferred to reverence for the sacred Scriptures; the man is worshiped, and the word of God degraded; science, falsely so-called, is suffered to usurp the place of inspiration. “The glory is departed.” “Babylon is fallen.”
Our Paper.
By Editor
THERE will be no paper issued from the SIGNS office July 5. No. 26 will be dated July 12.
SEE the brief notice of the meeting in San Jose. Pray for its success.
BY the time our next paper goes into the mail a new time-table will be adopted by the railroads, which will take the SIGNS to the eastern States a full day sooner than at present. We are glad of it, and so will be our friends east of the mountains.
WE have been asked if the stitching of the SIGNS cannot be improved. Not with our present method. We are not satisfied with it, but cannot better it at present. The trustees have the matter under consideration, and will make changes as soon as consistent. It is intended to employ a folder and paster in due time; but none of our readers can imagine the amount and expense of the changes necessary to effect that.
WE have not said how fast our list is increasing, nor given the number of papers which we have printed for weeks past. But we are highly encouraged, not so much with the prosperity of the office as with the knowledge that the people are willing to read. We have the most convincing evidences that a great change is coming over the minds of the people throughout the country. The Lord is, in his providence, preparing the way for a mighty work to be done in the cause of present truth. And who knows how soon? And who will have a part in the work?
As home is dearest to the weary feet,
So none but workers know that rest is sweet.
ALL individuals who are canvassing for the SIGNS, and securing trial subscriptions for one month, should send the names to their State Secretary. By so doing, two things will be gained: The Eastern subscriber will receive his paper sooner, as the State Secretaries have clubs of SIGNS for this purpose, and much inconvenience will be spared to the office of publication. Persons canvassing in California should send names to Alice Morrison, Pacific Press, Oakland.
We Would See It.
By Editor
WE have no disposition to interfere in any controversy between the Christian Advocate and the Christian Herald, Disciple, of Oregon, but we have a request to make of the Herald. In its indictment of the M. E. Church it says:—
"In this church the Lord’s table is set quarterly, whereas the scriptures require it weekly."
We have no little anxiety to learn where in the Scriptures that requirement may be found. The Herald makes a strong profession of strictly conforming to the Scriptures, and we are certain that we wish to do so. Now we will conform to that particular scripture of which it speaks as soon as we are informed where it is.
Prof. McGarvey is a man highly esteemed among the Disciples as a teacher, a preacher, and an author. In his "Commentary on the Acts" he says:—
"It must, in candor, be admitted that there is no express statement in the N. T. that the disciples broke the loaf every Lord’s day."
Now as there is no commandment that they should do so, and no express statement that they did so, that is, there being neither precept nor precedent, how is it to be known that "the Scriptures require it?" We wait for an answer.
Penmanship and Letter Writing.
By Editor
THE publisher, J. E. White, Battle Creek, Mich., has placed before us a copy of a work recently issued by him, entitled, "Guide to Penmanship and Letter Writing." It contains specimens and copies in writing and flourishing, with complete directions for conducting a class in penmanship. Also instructions in letter writing, which ought to be read by all, and studied by many, who have letters to write and address. The matter was prepared by Profs. W. F. Parsons and C. W. Stone, teachers of penmanship and commercial business, and W. C. Gage, who has excellent qualifications for the part he has supplied. Combining the two departments it is a very desirable book. 132 large pages price $1.00.
Every-Day Life in Palestine
By Editor
THE article in last week's SIGNS from Eld. Jones of the Sabbath Memorial, on “Every-Day Life in Palestine,” was written several years ago, as we intended to say. But the article loses none of its interest and importance by its age.
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EARLY WRITINGS OF MRS. WHITE.
Comprising "Experience and Views" and "Spiritual Gifts Volume One," bound in one volume. This makes a neat and attractive book of nearly 200 pages, and should be read by old and young. The matter and the style in which it is presented are so interesting that no one who has read one chapter will forego the pleasure and profit of reading the remainder. Price, 75 cents.
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NEW MUSIC! THE LAST IS THE BEST!
JUST PUBLISHED,
By Geo. D. Russell, 126 Tremont Street, Boston, a new book of Music, entitled,
PEARLY PORTALS.
By D. S. Hakes.
The music and words of this book are mostly entirely new, and well adapted to the Sabbath-school and social circle. It is receiving the most unqualified praise from all who have examined it. The music is of a high order throughout, and yet not at all difficult.
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By Editor
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Fresno County.
By C. C. Ramsey
I WILL meet with the church at Fresno City, Sabbath, June 30. C. C. RAMSEY.
Time of Camp-Meetings.
TEXAS, Waxahachie, July 13-23
VIRGINIA, New Market, Aug. 2-7
OHIO, Galion, Crawford Co., " 14-21
MASSACHUSETTS, " 23-28
VERMONT, Aug. 30 to Sept. 4
MAINE, Waterville, Sept. 6-11
ILLINOIS, " 11-18
NEBRASKA, " 19-25
ALABAMA, Choctaw Co.,