p. 560 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 35. (9/9/1889)

MAN'S NATURE AND DESTINY.

By Uriah Smith

—OR—

THE STATE OF THE DEAD,

THE REWARD OF THE RIGHTEOUS,

AND THE END OF THE WICKED.

BY ELDER URIAH SMITH.

THIS work is a thorough canvass of the great question of a future life, the nature of man in the present life, and the condition of immortality from a logical and scriptural standpoint.

Every text in the Bible which has any possible bearing upon these points, is taken up and carefully explained, thus giving the most comprehensive view of the subject that has yet been presented.

"Man's Nature and Destiny" contains 444 pages, and is printed from clear, new plates, on heavy paper, and is attractively bound in green muslin, with gilt side and back titles. All orders will be promptly filled by mail or express. Price, $1.50.

Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal.

THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH

By Editor

SUNDAY OBSERVANCE

IN THE

Christian Church.

By J. H. WAGGONER.

The above is the title of an important new pamphlet which we have just issued.

The object of the work is "to defend the faith of Seventh-day Adventists on the single point of the change of the Sabbath, and who is responsible for that change."

All the evidence is from those who favored the observance of Sunday. Here will be found a strong array of testimony against the idea that there is any Scriptural authority for Sunday keeping, and all this evidence is given by those who

Believe in the Observance of Sunday.

In reading this pamphlet one cannot but wonder how any one will persist in keeping Sunday when its own friends give such overwhelming testimony against it.

"The Origin and Growth of Sunday Observance" contains 96 pages, and has a neat cover. Price, POSTPAID, 10 CENTS. Buy it! Read it! Circulate it! Address.

Pacific Press Publishing Company, Oakland, Cal. Or 43 Bond St., New York.

National Sunday Law.

By Editor

BY ALONZO T. JONES.

This pamphlet contains the arguments in behalf of the rights of American citizens, and in opposition to the Blair Sunday-Rest Bill, which Mr. Jones presented before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor Dec. 13, 1888.

Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts has pronounced the report as published

“MIGHTY INTERESTING READING,”

And Mr. Jones' comments will make it more so. His argument is enlarged to what it would have been without Senator Blair's interruptions, objections, and counter-arguments, and will be accompanied with answers to all of his objections and counter-arguments.

As the Sunday question is now a living issue, this treatise will be interesting to all classes, especially legislators, lawyers, judges and other public men. The argument is

Based on Scripture and History, Constitution and Law,

Showing the limits of the civil power, the unconstitutionality of the Sunday Bill, an analysis of the Sunday laws and other religious legislation of the different States, the Sunday-law movement of the fourth century, the Sunday-law movement of the nineteenth century, the methods used in securing indorsements to the petition for the Blair Bill, and the workings of such Sunday laws as are proposed for the United States.

The work contains one hundred and ninety-two pages. Price, 25 cents. Address,

AMERICAN SENTINEL,

1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal.; 43 Bond St., New York.

Civil Government and Religion

By A. T. Jones

By A. T. JONES, One of the Editors of the "American Sentinel."

Scriptural, Logical, Plain, and Forcible.

This important work shows clearly the relation that should exist between Church and State at the present time, as proven by the Bible history of the past twenty-five centuries.

Chapter I outlines vividly the relation that existed between "Christianity and the Roman Empire;" Chap. II distinguishes between "What Is Due to God and What to Cæsar;" Chap. III shows for what purpose "The Powers That Be" are ordained; Chap. IV ably discusses "The Religious Attack upon the United States Constitution, and Those Who Are Making It;" Chap. V unmasks "Religious Legislation," calling special attention to the Blair Sunday Bill, now pending in Congress; Chap. VI is devoted to "The Sunday-law Movement in the Fourth Century, and its parallel in the Nineteenth."

These and other topics of equal interest make this treatise INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY LOVER OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.

"CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION" is a pamphlet of 176 large octavo pages. Price, 25 cents.

Millions of Copies should be placed in the hands of thinking people AT ONCE. It clearly defines what position we, as American citizens, should sustain toward the effort now on foot to secure religious legislation. Address, AMERICAN SENTINEL, 1059 Castro St., Oakland, Cal. Or, 43 Bond St., New York.

Religious and Educational Notes

By Editor

As having an important bearing on this Sunday question, we hope our readers will not pass by the article from the pen of our senior editor, entitled, "Making Trouble."

WE call the attention of our readers to an interesting series of articles begun in this number on that most interesting chapter—Matthew 24. They are from the pen of the late Elder J. H. Waggoner, and were first published in the Review and Herald of Battle Creek, Michigan. They are republished by request. We bespeak for them a careful reading.

THE Baptist Sentinel is a bright, aggressive little weekly, published at Tacoma, W. T., and stands guard over the Baptist faith. But in its issue of August 1, forgetting the good old Baptist faith of primitive times in this country, it too, is calling for a Sunday law. That is, the Baptist Sentinel wants an institution of the Church protected by the State. Does our contemporary call this Baptist doctrine? So did not Roger Williams.

WE have had the pleasure of welcoming to our shores four young brethren from New Zealand, Edgar Caro, Frank Lyndon, George Wisner, and Thomas Skinner, by name. The three former are on their way to Battle Creek College, the latter to Healdsburg College, to fit themselves for acceptable labor in the cause of God. The three first-named are fruits of Elder Daniells' labors at Napier about three months ago. Brother Skinner embraced the truth about two years since. May God bestow his Spirit upon these young men.

THE greatest physical blessing is good health, and next to this, I place good facilities for regaining health when it has been lost or impaired. Thus the Rural Health Retreat, at St. Helena, this State, has proved an inestimable blessing to very many, the writer among the number. It was my misfortune some two years since to be sick, and I went to the Retreat for treatment, where I was greatly benefited. Since then I have greatly desired to revisit the institution which had for several weeks been a real home for me. During the next to the last week in August, I enjoyed that privilege, and that under more favorable conditions than before. This time I went more for rest and recuperation, and found the place all that could reasonably be desired in that direction. The water cannot be excelled, the surroundings are pleasant, the climate as nearly perfect as anywhere in the State, the board faultless, and the attendants most kind and attentive. Altogether I feel safe in saying that for either rest or treatment the Retreat has no superiors on this coast, and but few equals anywhere.

WE are glad to welcome back to our office our co-laborer, Bro. C. P. Bollman. He has been on the sick list for the last two weeks. Bro. B. needed rest, but he prefers to take it in some other way.

WHAT in the world does the Daily Examiner mean by the heading of "The Seventh Day" in referring to the organization of the Sabbath Union of California in its issue of August 23. The American Sabbath Union and the California Sabbath Union as well as all other auxiliaries of the American Sabbath Union are Sunday unions. They are not for the "protection" of "the seventh day," but "the first day." "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." America never had a Sabbath.

THE Pope has, it is stated, excommunicated King Humbert of Italy for participation in the dedication of the Bruno monument June 9 last. Thus it appears that in the eyes of the Pope about the greatest crime anyone can commit is to differ from Rome in religious opinion. True, Bruno was an infidel, but doubtless it was Romish error that made him so, and papal intolerance was shown in putting him to death just as much as in burning other heretics. To Rome everything is infidelity except Romanism.

ON the whole the Herald of Truth ought to be satisfied with the amount of free advertising we have given it this week. These sophistries to which we have replied are current ones, and often deceive the unwary. We hope our readers will become wise unto salvation in these matters. We also hope that the Herald will become instructed in the way of truth and justice more perfectly. More reverence for God's law, and more of the power of the gospel of Christ will help our contemporary much in seeing the true animus of Sunday laws. Why should the Herald of "Truth" care to use the weapons that are "carnal?"

We have received a neatly printed catalogue of the South Lancaster (Mass.) Academy, for the year of 1889-90. This school combines the industrial with the intellectual, and has demonstrated that the combination is a success. It makes a specialty of religious instruction. Many young men and women have been converted by its instruction and influences, and have since done good work in the cause of God. The Academy is located in a quiet country village about thirty-five miles west of Boston and two miles from Clinton, a town of over eleven thousand inhabitants. Care and interest are shown in the physical, moral, and spiritual welfare of the youth, as well as in their intellectual growth. Expenses are very moderate. The school starts in this year with a complete faculty, of which Prof. George W. Caviness is principal. May the institution grow and prosper. It should have the support of our people in the East. For terms, etc., address the principal, South Lancaster, Mass.

"Ho DEUTEROS THANATOS, OR THE SECOND DEATH," is the title of a little poem of fifty pages which we received some time ago from the author, an orthodox minister of "fifty years' standing," published by C. W. Bardeen, Syracuse, N. Y. We meant to have noticed it before, but want of time has prevented as thorough an examination as we desired. The author has felt bound by his convictions of duty to depart from the so-called orthodox teaching that death, the wages of sin, is "eternal life in misery," and has accepted the Bible doctrine of life through Christ. He says: "It is from no vain aspirations of authorship, but it is rather the earnest promptings of religious convictions that urge the writer to add his humble testimonial to a long-dishonored truth." The argument is placed in the form of rhyme, not without poetic merit, in order to more readily attract the reader. The subject is treated under various subheadings, and is both logical and forcible. We do not know as we could agree with the interpretation of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, and with some expressions in the work; but on the whole we heartily wish it God-speed in its noble mission of "justifying the ways of God to men," and in pointing them to Christ our life. Address publisher, as above.

AN Eastern religious paper in commenting upon Bishop Lyman's discovery that "eating peanuts will cure insomnia" says:—

"What is needed just now is a nut that will keep people awake for a half-hour during the delivery of the sermon. Some ministers would be glad to keep their congregations supplied with such nuts the year through."

We would modestly suggest that if the pastors of sleepy congregations would only preach now as Paul preached before Felix their hearers would not fall asleep in the short space of thirty minutes; on the contrary we verily believe that many of them would be really converted and turn to the living God.

THE Rev. P. J. Popoff, in the N. Y. Independent of August 15, says that the report that the Czar "had totally suppressed the Lutheran Church in Russia" is doubtless a falsehood. Russian papers seem to indicate that it is the "parochial societies for assistance to the poor," which are connected with the Lutheran Churches, that have been suppressed by the Russian government. These societies have never been sanctioned by the government, and are really inimical to it; therefore their suppression. We opine, however, that it is difficult to do anything, even to carry on the commonest enterprise, without colliding with the government at some point.

THE current number of the Pacific Health Journal is up to its usual standard of excellence. Practical, sensible, useful are its articles always. Among its forty-five articles, anecdotes and poems, in its seven different departments, we mention: Food for Infants; Diphtheria a Century Ago; The Toilet; A Lesson for the Times; Tuberculosis, Its Contagious Nature; The Opium Habit; What Shall We Eat? Home-Making; Useful Recipes, etc. It is a journal well worth its price, one dollar a year. Address, Pacific Health Journal, Twelfth and Castro Streets, Oakland, Cal.

REMAINING CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1889.

[A star (*) indicates that the meetings thus marked will be preceded by a worker's meeting.]

Nebraska, Fremont, Sept. 17-24
Indiana, Kokomo, " 17-24
Tennessee, Nashville, Sept. 24 to Oct. 1
California (general), Oakland, " 25 to " 7

California, Arroyo Grande, Oct. 22-29

TENTS FOR THE OAKLAND MEETING.

By California Conference Committee

LET those wishing to rent tents for the Oakland camp, or who have tents of their own to pitch, report at once to Elder J. N. Loughborough, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal., stating the size of tents desired. The prices for rent are as usual: 14x19, $7.00 each; 12x16, $6.00 each; 10x12, striped, $5.00 each; 10x12, white, $4.00. Let the orders come in as rapidly as possible, that the plan of camp may be arranged in good time.

CAL. CONF. COM.