A select boarding school, open to students of both sexes who present testimonials of good moral character. No others need to apply.
Four courses of study: Normal, Biblical, Scientific, and Classical, with a Preparatory course for those who are not qualified to enter upon the regular courses.
Careful attention is given to the manners and morals of the students, that they may develop those traits of character which distinguish the Christian gentleman and lady.
The discipline of the school is strict, but parental and reasonable.
It will enter upon its 12th year Wednesday, August 16, 1893. Length of session, 38 weeks.
Terms : For board, tuition, room, etc., $142.50 to $161.50.
" tuition only, from $30.00 to $47.50.
For further particulars, or catalogue, address
W. C. Grainger, M.S., President,
Healdsburg, California.
SECULAR.
—Two of Denver's suspended banks have resumed business, and three more are expected to resume on the 1st of September.
—The Northern Pacific Railroad has passed into the hands of receivers, and wages have been reduced 20 per cent.
—There are twenty ex-Confederate soldiers in the U. S. Senate, while there are but sixteen who served in the Union Army.
—A cyclone in the vicinity of Table Rock and Pawnee City, Neb., on the 15th inst., did serious damage to farm property.
—Congress is discussing the silver question, but when anything definite will be accomplished is yet a matter of mere conjecture.
—Southern Pacific officials are contemplating a round-trip passenger rate of $80 between California common points and Chicago.
—Dr. John W. Bransham, one of the physicians of the U. S. Marine Hospital at Brunswick, Ga., died of yellow fever on the 20th inst.
—Russian official reports indicate an increase in cholera cases. At Moscow 166 new cases and 67 deaths were reported in four days last week.
—Near Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland, on the 16th inst., seventeen excursionists were drowned in the Shannon River by the capsizing of their boat.
—An explosion of fire damp in a coal pit at Dortland, Westphalia, on the 19th inst., caused the death of fifty persons and the injury of many others.
—On the 20th inst., near Leroy, N. Y., a carriage containing five persons, on their way to church, was struck by lightning and the entire party killed.
—An effort is being made by a sensational paper in Washington to induce a pilgrimage of the unemployed to the capital city to importune Congress for help.
—The miners' strike in the coal fields of the southern part of Kansas is said to be at an end, the miners having yielded to the propositions of their employers.
—A storm on the Baltic Sea on the 15th inst. foundered several fishing boats. Seventeen men are known to have been drowned, and several others are missing.
—In Vienna, on the 20th inst., there was a great Socialist demonstration in favor of universal suffrage. Over 30,000 people were assembled, but there was no disorder.
—Tubbs Hotel, one of the landmarks of this city, was entirely destroyed by fire on the night of the 14th inst. It was built in 1870, and cost $110,000. The furnishing cost $100,000.
—The clerks and Trades Unionists, it seems, have to keep a watch on some of the merchants of this city who recently signed the Sunday-closing agreement, lest they violate the compact.
—The Standard Wagon Company, of Cincinnati, the largest establishment of its kind in the United States, has been compelled to assign. Assets are placed at $1,200,000; liabilities, $700,000.
—All the premature jumpers of land in the Cherokee Strip have been compelled by government troops to move off until the land has been formally opened to settlement. Decrease in freight is said to be the cause of trouble.
—A destructive cyclone, accompanied by hail, visited the vicinity of Somerville, N. J., on the 19th inst. It is reported that not a house in that town of 5,000 inhabitants escaped damage, and trees and crops in the path of the storm were utterly destroyed.
—It has been discovered that on the Niutah Indian Reservation, Utah Territory, there are extensive deposits of asphaltum, which the Indians have not sufficient enterprise to utilize, and white speculators are chaffing to get their hands on the treasure.
—At Milton, Va., on the 16th inst., two passenger cars and a sleeper broke through a bridge and fell sixty feet into a creek. There were sixteen persons on the cars, seven of whom were killed; the others were more or less injured, but none of them seriously.
—A London dispatch of the 17th inst. says: "In Wales the coal strike is assuming a grave aspect. Thousands of colliers to-day marched to several collieries in the Rhonda Valley and forcibly prevented miners from working. Soldiers have been summoned."
—Political excitement is said to be running high in the State of Coahuila, Mexico. Thousands of men are reported to be under arms in different localities, on a pretext of being determined to secure an honest vote at the elections. A collision with Federal troops at Piedras Negras is reported, with some fatalities and a number of prisoners.
—The results of the arbitration between the United States and Great Britain upon the Bering Sea and sealing questions seem to give satisfaction in a general way to all concerned excepting the seal poachers, whose business, if not destroyed entirely, is certainly rendered more hazardous and less profitable. While it is denied that the United States owns all of the sea, as claimed, we gain more than was expected in the way of seal protection, which was about all the advantage there was in claiming all of the sea. Seal poaching is forbidden within sixty miles of the Pribylov Islands, and that is twenty miles outside of the main feeding grounds where most of the poaching was done. The United States asked for a close season—May, June, and July—for Bering Sea, and it has been applied to the whole Pacific Ocean. The killing of seals by firearms is prohibited, which goes far toward the prohibition of poaching. That which the United States authorities will not be pleased with is the burden of guarding the seals, which will be a heavy expense, and the probability of a large bill of damages for Canadian vessels captured on the theory that Bering Sea was the property of the government. On the whole, however, the verdict of the arbitrators is much better for all concerned than a war.
—It is reported that the crews of two schooners raided the islands of St. Paul and St. George, in Bering Sea, on the night of July 4, overpowered the guards, and carried away a large number of salted sealskins belonging to the North American Commercial Company. The vessels escaped before the government cutters could be informed of the occurrence.
—Minister Blount has returned from the Hawaiian Islands, and his report on the annexation question has been forwarded to Washington. It will probably not be published until formally presented to Congress by the President. Mr. Blount is quite reticent as to its contents. He has confidence that all parties in Hawaii will remain quiet and peaceful until the United States Government decides the annexation question.
—Advices from Aigues-Mortes, Department of Gard, France, report that on the 17th inst. a quarrel between French and Italian workingmen determined the former to drive the latter from the place. The result was a dozen Italians killed and over forty, mostly Italians, wounded. The Italian people are thoroughly aroused, and reparation will be demanded. Of course Germany will stand behind Italy in such demand.
—The expected riots of unemployed men were inaugurated in New York City on the 17th inst. A large crowd wanted to hold a meeting in Walhalla Hall, on Orchard Street, and, being refused, the door and windows were broken. The police arrested three of the leaders as designated by the proprietor of the place, but when they were arraigned in the police court, he was afraid to enter a complaint, and the prisoners were discharged.
—Edison, the famous electrician, has become a manufacturer of precious stones. On this subject he says: "I have always used a great many sapphires in the manufacture of phonographs. They are very expensive and sometimes very hard to procure at all. I analyzed the chemical composition of the sapphire, and, finding out what it was, started to make sapphires. I now make all I use. I can make rubies for $5 a pound that in beauty far exceed the genuine."
—A Vienna dispatch of the 17th inst. says: "Several men have been arrested in Biskupitz, Croatia, for mutilating young children. The men for years have made a trade of crippling children and then sending them to beg or selling them to others for the same purpose. The children were stolen or misled with promises to visit a house kept by the gang on the outskirts of town. When the police forced a way into the house yesterday, they found two girls of twelve or fourteen years with their legs broken. Another girl about the same age was bound on a bed with her right arm broken and both eyes gouged out. Two children, horribly mutilated, were found on cots in the cellar."
RELIGIOUS.
—The Methodist Episcopal publishing house in Lucknow, India, employs 150 hands and runs six steam printing presses.
—A Missionary Conference is being agitated by the London Missionary Society, to be held in that city in May or June of next year.
—It is expected that the International Sunday School Convention, soon to convene in St. Louis, will take decisive measures for the improvement of the method of preparing lessons, the present system being extensively criticised in an adverse manner.
—The yearly meeting of the Free Baptists of Wisconsin, recently in session at Milwaukee, adopted resolutions announcing the liquor license system as a device of the devil, and declaring that no party is worthy the support of Christians which does not advocate prohibition.
—Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, has at last surrendered, and bowed to the authority of Monsignor Satolli, the papal ablegate to the United States. No one knows better than Corrigan the folly of protracted disregard of the papal will by one who expects to hold a prominent place in the church.
—The new device of a Brooklyn, N. Y., pastor of attracting young men to church by having young ladies act as ushers is condemned by both secular and religious journals. A New York daily well says that if there is not sufficient power in the Christian religion to attract and hold the young men, there is no use in attracting them.
—The bishop of Rochester, England, in presenting to the house of bishops the report of a joint committee on the Sunday Opening of Museums, recently, took occasion to modify the opinion he had formerly expressed, that the working classes were against the opening. He said it was now impossible for him to hold this opinion in face of the two-to-one vote of the Trades Union Congress in favor of it, and of a similar expression of the London Trades Council.
—The Omaha correspondent of the New York Voice sends to his paper a considerable list of buildings in that city, owned by wealthy church members, which are occupied as saloons and other dens of infamy. He reports "ten open gambling hells," with no effort on the part of the authorities to enforce the State law against them. But they are not open on Sunday, and it is probably for this reason that certain other classes do not attempt to enforce the law against them.
—According to the doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the baptism of a child has no bearing whatever upon the salvation of the said child dying in infancy.—N. Y. Christian Advocate. Then at what time could the baptism of an infant have any bearing on its salvation? In other words, what possible benefit can baptism be to an infant if the rite has no bearing upon its salvation. This is about the squarest admission of the utter futility of so-called infant baptism that we have ever heard from an advocate of the absurdity.
—The religious war between the Hindus and Mohammedans in the city of Bombay, India, was again renewed last week, and the rioters were for a time beyond control of the authorities. The Hindus retaliated on the Mohammedan attempt to desecrate their temple, and burned several mosques. Many people were injured, and the reports expressed fears that the trouble would spread throughout the province. If the contest should continue, the Mohammedans must necessarily be the greater sufferers, as the Hindus greatly outnumber them. In the city of Bombay the Hindu population is over 500,000, while the Mohammedans number about 160,000.
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Editorial Notes
By Editor
An interesting letter from Dr. M. G. Kellogg, of the Pitcairn, appears this week in “Our Work and Workers” department. We are sure that it will be read with interest.
ACCORDING to the New York Voice, there is already a “trend of certain efforts” in the Prohibition party to make prohibition a secondary issue in that party’s politics. Well, such is politics at best; it is only a race for power; principles are only stepping-stones, and platforms, in the language of a once prominent politician, are “molasses to catch flies.”
Down South philanthropists say, “If the Southern negro were not a voter he would not be murdered by Southern white men.” In California they say: “If the Chinaman were a voter he would be as welcome as any other foreigner. He is despised because he cannot be used at the polls.” Which proposition is correct,—either, neither, or both?
OUR second article in a series which we promised at the beginning of the volume appears in this number, entitled “Christ the King-Priest.” We hope that these articles will receive a wide reading. But one more will appear from the pen of the editor. These were written to meet an emergency. We believe that the consideration of the truth presented in this series of articles will settle the reader on the question of religious legislation. The SIGNS OF THE TIMES during the rest of the year should receive a wide circulation. Will not our brethren and sisters help us?
A CURIOUS specimen of injustice is presented by the pretended investigation of the murder of the two Swedish missionaries at Sungpu, China, heretofore mentioned. Li Taotai, of Hankow, investigated the murders. The result was to hold the few natives who rendered any assistance to the missionaries responsible for the whole affair. Li Taotai reasons that if natives had not assisted them they could not have been in Sungpu, and if they had not been in Sungpu they could not have been killed there; therefore the friendly natives are guilty of their death. These few natives, however, have all run away, so that Li has been able to lay hands on only one, a poor coolie who acted occasionally as messenger and water carrier to the missionaries, and who considered himself secure in his insignificance. But Li laid hold of him, and, after giving him 1,200 blows, locked him up for future use. The poor fellow may lose his head for the crime of carrying water to a missionary.
“GEOGRAPHICAL SPICE” is the title of a forthcoming book by Eliza H. Morton, author of the “Potter Geographies.” It contains authentic items of real interest in regard to places and things which serve to make the study of geography more interesting. It will be of especial value to teachers, for it will place at their hand ideas and incidents which will greatly help them in holding the interest of their class. This work will not tell one the oft-repeated anecdotes of geographies, nor the oft-told stories of natural history, but it presents to those who teach and study geography, to the instructor at home and in school, spice which has not lost its flavor. Send for circular giving specimens, or order the book. Tastefully bound and neatly printed. Price, postpaid, 75 cents. Address the author, Eliza H. Morton, North Deering, Me.
RELIGIOUS journals are making much ado over the assumption that Sunday opening of the World's Fair failed because “it didn't pay.” In fact, it was all the time the closing that caused the short attendance on that day. While the gates were opened and full admittance charged, the machinery and three-fourths of the exhibits were closed. Of course people would not attend under such circumstances. Had there been an actual rather than a merely nominal opening of the Exposition, the result would have been far different. The idea that the slim attendance on Sunday was due to a “Christian sentiment” against so-called “Sunday desecration” is sheer nonsense. The current complaint of ministers and religious journals of the popular misuse of the day, even among church members, is a sufficient denial of the Sunday sentiment theory. The sentiment of the masses was against paying their money to look at closed buildings and closed exhibits.
ANTI-CHINESE SENTIMENT.
THE hard times and consequent stress upon the laboring classes in want of employment has been seized upon in some parts of this State as an occasion for unwarranted persecution of the Chinese population. In Fresno, Tulare, and Kern Counties benevolent efforts were made to secure at least temporary employment sufficient to buy bread for all who would work. But certain agitators and marauders took advantage of the situation to arouse the sentiment (always near the surface of the masses) that the “Chinese must go.” This was in some instances carried to such an extent that companies of Chinese workmen were not only driven from their camps on ranches, but were severely beaten and robbed of their money, watches, and other valuable effects. The sheriff took a heroic stand against all unlawful measures, and by his prompt action put a check upon the wholesale depredations which were evidently contemplated throughout the country by leading marauders, some of whom are ex-convicts.
In Tulare City one night all the Chinese population were roused and compelled to pack up their baggage and leave. Only a few remain, and they are real estate owners. In the orchards and vineyards Chinese laborers are giving way to white men. In Selma the proceedings were more deliberate, and five days' notice was given. Fruit-packing companies complied with the demands to discharge their Chinamen and employ white men. As some of the restaurant keepers and laundrymen paid no attention to the notice, they were again visited and compelled to leave. In some instances Chinamen employed in the country gave up their places through fear of being mobbed. In Bakersfield, it became known that a plot was laid to attack the Chinese quarter at night, and the better class of citizens inaugurated a counter move. They urged the enforcement of the Geary Law, but were determined that illegal measures should be prevented, and armed guards were set to preserve order.
In Calistoga, Napa County, a White Labor Union has been organized, and an effort made to supplant the Chinese and Japanese prune pickers by white labor. The hop growers of Sonoma County have agreed to employ only white pickers if enough can be secured in season. Some of the “sand lot” agitators in San Francisco have hinted at displacing the Chinese employed in canneries and factories, but the employment of large numbers of workmen on the Midwinter Fair grounds will in a measure relieve the situation, and the authorities will no doubt be able to quell all riotous tendencies. A temporary free restaurant is being constructed on the new post-office site. The citizens of Vacaville are also moving in the matter of having employers discharge their Chinese help and employ white men; but in doing so they discountenance anything savoring of mob law. In Stockton an attempt to raise an anti-Chinese furor failed after the first street meeting. In Merced a demonstration was prevented by the sheriff.
The sensation is on, and other places will no doubt be heard from. The adjutant general of the State troops is preparing for any possible emergency.
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER.
By Editor
Editorial.—Notes and Comments—We Cannot Tear It Out—Burdened—The Spirit of Sunday Laws—Sunday Voices—Coming into “Closer Fellowship”—Anti-Chinese Sentiment.......................................................................657, 658, 672
Doctrinal.—It Is the Lord (poetry)—Christ the King-Priest—Sunday to Be Kept at Home—Some More Signs of Christ's Coming—God's Description of Our Generation......................................................................659-662
Miscellaneous.—The Secret of Power (poetry)—The Christian's Attitude in Trial—Privilege and Duty—Temples—What Next?—Our Divine Helper—Together—What the Religion of Jesus Does................................ 662-665
Home and Health.—The Two Words (poetry)—Mary's Disappointment—A Young Swiss Hero—The Orange in California—Cholera and Alcohol—Consumption Contagious—How to Drink Milk........................................665, 666
Mission Fields.—Mission Songs (poetry)—Brazil—Crowning a Black King—The People of Patagonia—The Outrages on Armenian Christians—Superstitions among Christian Indians—An Item from Alaska......................................................................667, 668
Our Work and Workers.—Why Stand Ye Idle? (poetry)—From Our Pitcairn Missionaries—Field Notes......................................................................668, 669
International S. S. Lessons.—Paul at Rome (Lesson 11, Sunday, September 10)—Suffering with Christ (Lesson 11, Sabbath, September 9).......................................................................670
News and Notes.—Religious—Secular......................................................................671
The Deception of the Last Days
The last days are, in the light of prophecy, portrayed as days of deception. Matt. 24: 3-5, 11; 2 Thess. 2: 7-12; 1 Tim. 4: 1, 2; Rev. 13: 11-17. All these scriptures, as well as others, show that this deception will be of a religious character. People are more readily deceived by that which is pleasing to the imagination, so "touching little incidents" are often brought into play and wield a widespread influence upon superficial minds. One of these incidents, referring to the death of Bishop Phillips Brooks, is going the rounds. It is said that on the day of the bishop's death a lady acquaintance at whose house he was a frequent visitor, broke the news to her little five-year-old daughter by saying, "Bishop Brooks has gone to heaven." To which the child replied, "O mamma, how happy the angels will be!" This sad deception of both mother and child is indeed a "touching little incident," as it illustrates a very popular "strong delusion" that has obtained through extensive perversion of the truth. The word of God plainly teaches that Christ went away to prepare a place for his own, and that he will receive them all, both living and dead, at once when he comes again. John 14: 1-3; 1 Thess. 4: 15-17.
Christ, Faith, and the Law
ELDER S. P. WHITNEY, formerly president of the Advent Christian Conference of West Virginia, having united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has published in the Monitor an address to his former denominational brethren, from which we extract the following paragraph:—
How foolish to me now do all my former reasonings concerning Christ ending the law by faith appear! “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.” “A man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.” “Against such there is no law.” How I did ring the changes on these and other passages of Scripture before the truth shone out to me in this explanation of Paul: “Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law.” Setting aside my prejudice, I was helped to see that when Paul says, “Ye are not under the law, but under grace” (Rom. 6:14), he did not mean that the law was abolished, but “being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ” (1 Cor. 9:21), “that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Rom. 8:4). I could see that a man might be under the law in one sense and not under it in another. Don't you see? A righteous man is not under the claims, the penalty, of the law, because Christ has released him by faith. But this same faith justifies him only in obedience to the law; or, as Paul says, “Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.” Rom. 6:1. “For I delight in the law of God after the inward man.” Rom. 7:22. How truth does shine! Praise the Lord!
