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Signs of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 40.

General Articles
Earlier text: EARLY FIRST-DAY OBSERVANCE

S. D. A. PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association held its twenty-first annual session according to the call of the Trustees, in Battle Creek, October 7, 1880. The Treasurer's report was as follows:—

H. W. Kellogg in account with the S. D. A. Publishing Association.

RECEIPTS
To cash on hand, November 10, 1879 $11,406 89
" received on Review $9,794 76
" " " Instructor 4,374 62
" " " Good Health 3,680 66
" " " the Tidende 969 99
" " " the Harolden 407 07
" " " the Stimme 841 70
" " accounts and deposits 137,903 27
" " sales, books, etc 27,941 53
" " job work 24,590 10
" " donations and legacies 931 00
" " shares 10 00
" " sale of fuel 554 62
" " from Michigan Conference 7,895 41
" " Gen. Conference 7,357 00
Total receipts $257,171 91
Total $268,578 80
EXPENDITURES
By amount paid for labor $21,790 90
" " " on stock 33,370 41
" " " for fuel 2,097 79
" " " incidentals 6,939 73
" " " Instructor cuts 25 29
" " " Office fixtures and machinery 3,403 11
" " " additions and improvements 1,247 45
" " " manuscript 308 00
" " " type 1,119 87
" " " accounts and deposits 176,184 85
" " " Michigan Conference 7,397 53
" " " Gen. Conference 4,057 41
Cash on hand to balance, September 30, 1880 10,627 86
Total $263,578 80
INVENTORY
Total valuation of the property of the Association $154,160 65
Book accounts 77,308 78
Cash on hand September 30, 1880 10,627 86
Total $242,105 29
INDEBTEDNESS
The Association owes on accounts and deposits $131,716 04
Assets after all debts are paid 110,390 25
Assets as given last year 103,712 40
Increase $6,677 85
H. W. Kellogg, Treasurer.
The following Board of Trustees was elected for the coming year: President, Eld. James White; Vice-president, H. W. Kellogg; Secretary, Mrs. M. J. Chapman; Treasurer, G. W. Amadon; Auditor, Geo. H. Murphy; Committee on Publication, Eld. James White, U. Smith, C. W. Stone.
Elder James White was elected editor-in-chief of the Review for the ensuing year; Elder J. N. Andrews, associate editor; and Elder U. Smith, resident editor. Miss V. A. Merriam was elected editor of the Youth's Instructor. It was voted that the editors of Good Health, and of the German, Danish, and Swedish papers be elected and employed by the Trustees of the Association.

MICHIGAN CONFERENCE.

In connection with the camp-meeting and General Conference at Battle Creek, Sept. 28 to Oct. 11, 1880, the Michigan Conference held its twentieth annual session.
The following-named churches were admitted into the Conference: Clyde, Allegan Co., 20 members; Fentonville, Genesee Co., 25 members; Mason, Ingham Co., 19 members; Westphulia, Clinton Co., 10 members; Fremont Center, Newago Co., 17 members; Allendale, Ottawa Co., 8 members. The partially organized company of 14 members at Blaine, St. Clair Co., was taken under the watchcare of the Conference.
Among other resolutions passed were the following of general interest:—
Resolved, That the local elders and deacons in our churches should be elected annually, such election to occur in each church at the time of the January quarterly meeting, except in churches where dissatisfaction with the incumbent has been expressed by at least a respectable minority of the church. In such cases it shall be the duty of the church clerk to notify the Conference Committee of such fact; and elections in such churches shall be deferred till proper help is provided by the committee.
Resolved, That in the judgment of this body it is inexpedient for our churches to allow ministers of other denominations who are addicted to the use of tobacco, or who are avowedly hostile to important features of our faith, to minister to them in the capacity of preachers of the gospel.
Credentials for the coming year were granted to the following persons: James White, Mrs E. G. White, J. H. Waggoner, J. Byington, R. J. Lawrence, U. Smith, J. Fargo, E. H. Root, W. H. Littlejohn, E. B. Lane, J. O. Corliss, D. H. Lamson, H. M. Kenyon, M. B. Miller, A. O. Burrill, E. R. Jones, E. Van Deusen, J. Sisley, D. A. Wellman, G. K. Owen, and J. L. Edgar.
Licenses to preach were also granted to: W. C. Gage, J. E. White, W. C. White, H. S. Guilford, M. S. Burnam, Frank Starr, L. A. Kellogg, Mrs. E. S. Lane, Mrs. G. K. Owen, A. Weeks, H. N. Rounds, Day Conkling, Geo. A. King, Richard Conradi, R. C. Horton, A. W. Bather, and Alph Wood.
Wm. Ostrander, E. P. Daniels, and G. H. Gilbert were recommended to receive ordination.
The Conference officers for the coming year are as follows: President, Eld. J. Fargo; Secretary, Eld. U. Smith; Treasurer, W. H. Edwards; Executive Committee, J. Fargo, E. H. Root, and H. W. Kellogg. The Camp-meeting Committee is J. F. Carman, Leander Graves, and J. S. Day. Elder E. H. Root was appointed trustee of the Educational fund in place of H. S. King whose term has now expired.

The Grace of Giving

By James Nelson

I AM learning that I cannot do a Christian a greater good than to induce him to cultivate the grace of giving. Apart from all that his contributions may do for others, his own highest, best interests will be advanced.—James Nelson.

THE PRAYERLESS DAY.

MRS. MASON was tired; the day's busy cares and perplexities had pressed their labor-soiled fingers upon her comely face, leaving traces of their visits in the wrinkled forehead, the closely set mouth, and the deepened lines about the eyes. Mrs. Mason was preparing for her nightly rest; the last little prattler had long ago been tucked away in the cozy bed; the rosy, crowing baby, was sleeping sweetly in the cradle; the work-basket was relieved of its weekly load of patching; and for the first time that busy day, Mrs. Mason was free from the planning and arranging that had all the day long lingered in her active brain.
It had been a long, hard day; this much Mrs. Mason felt both bodily and mentally. Not only had hands and feet been busy, but the burden of housekeeping and child-watching had pressed home upon her with an unusual weight.
"I have too many cares," she said, half aloud; "it is enough to craze any woman; five noisy, restless children to look after, and not a soul to lift a finger towards the work but myself; the only wonder is, that I bear up beneath the burden so well;" and again Mrs. Mason's mental vision reviewed the scenes of the day just dropped into eternity. Alas! now that the hurry, and worry, and bustle, were over, how many acts could she see to deplore; the cross answers to the many questions; the impatient shake given in the ferment of the moment to a restless child; the denial of harmless petitions, and so on to the close.
Mrs. Mason meant to be a faithful, earnest mother; she also meant to be more—a sincere Christian. Her aims were too high, her aspirations too pure, to allow peace and joy to dwell in her breast as she took a retrospect of the last few waking and working hours. This day, she keenly felt, had not been a golden link in the long chain of earthly days that was winding around her mortal life; rather was it a cold, hard, dull link of iron.
"It must not be so to-morrow," was her mental resolve; and as she stepped to the stand to extinguish the light, her eyes fell upon a small copy of Thomas a Kempis' "Imitation of Christ." She took the book up half thoughtfully—it was a gift from her mother; yet, although it had lain for nearly a year upon the little stand, very, very few of the ancient meditations had entered Mrs. Mason's understanding.
How could she ever find time to read—she with so much care? As she lightly turned the leaves, wishing sadly that she were not too tired to read a few pages, her eyes fell upon these words: "As long as thou livest in this world, thou wilt have need of the 'whole armor of God.'"
"The whole armor of God," said Mrs. Mason; "have I worn it to-day?" And quickly her thoughts ran over the inspired words that St. Paul used to describe the panoply that should ever encase the fighting Christian. Mrs. Mason knew them well; she had known them from a child, and as the closing words ran through her mind, her thoughts lingered upon these: "Praying always, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit." "Ah!" said Mrs. Mason, "I see the cause of all this wrong; this has been a day begun without prayer. It's no marvel that I have wandered in a tangled way!"
Ere Mrs. Mason went to her bed, her evening prayer rose to the throne of the Most High, and a new resolve was also taken, that the work of the day should never again be commenced till strength to perform it had been sought from Him who giveth, "upbraiding not."
Mother, do the days bring you weariness? Are they filled with cares, crosses, anxieties? How is it then with you? Do any prayerless days steal upon you with their blackness, their deformity, marring with their hideousness the fair proportions of your Christian life?—Mother's Journal.

"WAS IT THE EARLY TRAINING?"

By Mrs. Annie A. Preston

Timothy Burnham was sitting by the center table in his pleasant home parlor, engaged in very slowly and carefully reading a long letter which had just been brought in with the evening mail.
His usually bright, cheery face wore a sad expression as he folded the letter neatly and replaced it in its envelope, saying, with a deep sigh, to an aged relative who had arrived that afternoon to visit his family:
"It is from brother Will, concerning our late father's estate. I was appointed executor, you know, and such a time of it as I am having with Will. You know, dear Aunt Hannah, the poor fellow always had a real genius for being abused. He always would take hold of things by the rough handle. Now I am willing to settle this troublesome business, about which there is not really a perplexing detail, in any way that will be satisfactory to all parties concerned. Time after time I have written to Will stating that fact, and trying with my best endeavor to send him a letter that should be like a plaintain-leaf or a slippery elm poultice to his wounded feelings. Each time I find by his reply that he has perverted my plaintain-leaf into a nettle and my poultice into a fly-blister plaster, and is writing under the effects of their imaginary irritation. Still determined to settle the estate amicably, I say to myself, 'Never mind! Try again!' and I sit down and apply another soothing lotion, and another cooling leaf, but with no better results."
"Those much-abused people with a facility for distorting everything in life are greatly to be pitied," replied silvery-haired great-aunt Hannah, in a sympathetic voice. "It is exactly as if one were obliged to see everything and everybody reflected in a new tin saucepan. It would all be there, but alas! how unlike the reality!
"You, Timothy, are the exact opposite of your brother in temperament and disposition, and I have always had a theory, perfectly satisfactory to myself, which explains this marked difference in your mental character. Will was the first grandchild. When he was born your parents lived in the garden cottage only a few rods from your grandfather's mansion. Will was always called 'grandma's baby,' and the proud grandmother and the half-dozen fond young aunts took most of the care of the bright, forward little fellow, and he was consequently very much spoiled and petted.
"These four loving young women used to amuse themselves by pitying the baby and making him cry. Any one of them would come in at any time and take him up, saying, with a sad face and in a doleful voice, 'Are they abusing grandma's baby?' and go on in a tone of sympathy, until the little fellow, before he was a year old, would make up a lip, and sob, and cry, and the tears would run down his little face, until a great ado was made on all hands to comfort him. As he grew older I have often seen this pastime resorted to for the edification of visitors—but never without a protest on my part.
"When you were a wee baby, your parents moved away to the next town, leaving two-years-old Will to the care of the worshiping grandma and aunts, who thought they could not be separated from him, and he remained with them most of the time until he was six or seven years old. All these years they amused themselves by working upon his sensibilities and throwing him into a passion of tears or anger at some fancied neglect or injury.
"Your baby experience was entirely different. Your mother had many household cares and there was not much time to devote to you. If you cried when sitting upon the floor, or in your cradle or standing stool, she would toss you up and say, cheerily, 'Never mind! Try it again!' and, giving you new playthings, would put you down and hurry away, leaving you to your own devices. You soon caught that spirit of cheerfulness, and I remember of your falling down upon the turf in front of the door when you were just beginning to walk and talk, and of your picking yourself up, saying, with a wise little nod of your flaxen head, 'Never mind! Try it again!' That has always been your watchword. When Will came home and you commenced together to go to the district school, you were always taken for the older, for the reason that you were so much the more self-reliant and always had Will's battles to fight and his burdens to bear, while he was whining somewhere in a safe place, and believing that you were getting the better of him in some way by taking his part. And that has been the order of affairs between you to this day. So you see why it has always been plain to me that the difference in your dispositions is almost entirely owing to your early training.
"There is, of course, a difference in the natural traits of children, but no one can tell how young a child may receive a permanent idea. So great care should be taken in the education of babies even, for habits may be formed then which will be a fruitful source of unhappiness during a lifetime."
-Mrs. Annie A. Preston.

RULES FOR SPOILING A CHILD.

By Christian Intelligencer

  1. BEGIN by giving him whatever he cries for.
  2. Talk freely before the child about his smartness as incomparable.
  3. Tell him he is too much for you, that you can do nothing with him.
  4. Have divided counsels as between father and mother.
  5. Let him learn to regard his father as a creature of unlimited power, capricious and tyrannical; or as a mere whipping machine.
  6. Let him learn (from his father's example) to despise his mother.
  7. Do not know or care who his companions may be.
  8. Let him read whatever he likes.
  9. Let the child, whether boy or girl, rove the streets in the evenings—a good school for both sexes.
  10. Devote yourself to making money, remembering always that wealth is a better legacy for your child than principles in the heart and habits in the life; and let him have plenty of money to spend.
  11. Be not with him in hours of recreation.
  12. Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; chastise severely for a foible, and laugh at a vice.
  13. Let him run about from church to church. Eclecticism is the order of the day.
  14. Whatever burdens of virtuous requirements you lay on his shoulders, touch not one with one of your fingers.
These rules are not untried. Many parents have proved them, with substantial uniformity of results. If a faithful observance of them does not spoil your child, you will at least have the comfortable reflection that you have done what you could.—Christian Intelligencer.

The Home Circle.

By Eben Rexford

THE KING'S BELL.

"No perfect day has ever come to me," An old man said; "A perfect day for us can never be Till we are dead." The young king heard him, and he turned away In earnest thought. Did men ne'er find, on earth, the happy day For which they sought,
A man so free from care, so running o'er With life's delight, That there seemed room or wish for nothing more From dawn to night? "It must be that such days have come to man," The young king said. "Go search—find one who found them if you can, A wise, gray head!"
"I trust that some time such a day will come To even me," The king said; but the old man's lips were dumb. "Ah, you shall see! That you and those about you, all may know, My perfect day, A bell shall ring out when the sun is low, And men shall say:
"Behold, this day has been unto the king A day replete With happiness! It lacked not anything; A day most sweet!" In a high tower, ere night, the passers saw, A mighty bell, The tidings of a day without a flaw Sometime to tell.
The bell hung silent in its lofty tower: The days came on and went; Each summer brought its sunshine and its flower, Its old content, But not the perfect day he hoped to see, "But soon or late The day of days," he said, "will come to me, I trust and wait."
The years, like leaves upon a restless stream, Were swept away, And in the king's dark hair began to gleam Bright threads of gray. Men, passing by, looked upward to the bell, And, smiling, said: "Delay not of the happy time to tell Till we are dead!"
But they grew old, and died. And silent still The old bell hung. At last the king, bowed down with age, fell ill His cares among. At dusk, one day, with dazed brain, from his room He slowly crept Up rotting tower steps, in the dust and gloom, While watchers slept.
Above the city broke the bell's great voice, Silent so long, "Behold the king's most happy day! Rejoice!" It told the throng. Filled with strange awe, the long night passed away. At morn men said: "At last the king has found his happy day— The king is dead." —Eben Rexford.

ITEMS OF NEWS.

—England has another African war.
—According to the late census, Chicago has 1,714 Chinese.
—The insurgent Kurds continue their depredations in Russia.
—Trains have been blocked in western New York by ice and snow.
—President Hayes is returning East via Southern Pacific Railroad.
—The 24th, a storm passed over Denmark, doing incalculable damage to life and property.
—Reports of wrecks and lives lost during the late storm on Lake Michigan continue to be received.
—Five million salmon eggs from California have arrived in Chicago, for distribution among different Fish Commissions.
—The proportion of paupers is thirty times greater among those who cannot read than among those who can, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois.
—A fire in Christiansand, Norway, has destroyed two-thirds of the houses. Hundreds of families are homeless. The fine Gothic Cathedral was burned.
—A new English colony has been established in Rugby, Tennessee. The sale of liquor is to be absolutely prohibited. All denominations are to use the same building for worship.
—The issuing of $1,200,000 in paper in Chile has been followed by the banks ordering all depositors to withdraw their deposits, otherwise they will only earn one per cent interest per annum.
—The World's London special, of Oct. 25, says: "The post-office at Manchester is in flames, and will be destroyed. Great alarm is felt here, as there are plain indications that the fire was incendiary, and it is believed by many persons that this indicates an intention to organize disturbances in England in aid of the Land League in Ireland."
—The names of forty-two persons are known, besides the crew, who went down on the steamer Alpena, during the recent severe storm on the Northern lakes. Several bodies have already been washed ashore.
—The Indian chief, Victorio, having slain four hundred persons during the past year, has at last himself been slain, and, according to a late dispatch from Galveston, the most of his band have been killed or captured.
—The new method of teaching deaf mutes to speak has made so much progress in this country that the corner-stone of a new building, to be used for the "improved instruction of deaf mutes," has just been laid in New York City.
—The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company has issued a circular to the shippers of California freight, announcing that that road and the Southern Pacific will be completed and connected about January 1, 1881.
—Of sixteen cities in the Union having from 80,000 to 50,000 inhabitants, but two show a lower death-rate than Oakland, and in three of them the mortality is more than twice as great. The average of the cities is 20.08 per cent, while Oakland is only 12 per cent.
—The manufacture of sporting implements has assumed large proportions in this country. It is estimated that from 50,000 to 60,000 sets of croquet, 200,000 base-ball bats, and 250,000 base-balls will be made for this season's trade by a single firm in Chicago.
—A bootblacks' lodging house has been established in New York, by Miss Catharine L. Wolfe, with the object of providing the friendless boys with a comfortable home, and encouraging steady and provident habits. The boys pay five cents a night for all privileges.
—A serious accident occurred on the Shennandoah Valley Railroad at East Liberty, Page county, Penn., on the 16th. An entire trestle-work, 1,260 feet long and ninety-four feet high, went down with a crash in one promiscuous ruin, instantly killing one man, and seriously injuring several others.
—More than two hundred thousand people assembled in the old city of Cologne, the capital of the Prussian Rhenish Provinces, on the 15th, to celebrate the completion of the great Cathedral, which has been six hundred and thirty years in process of construction. The sums applied to the completion of this, the finest Gothic structure in existence, since 1821, amounts to $10,000,000.
—By a boiler explosion in Terre Haute, Indiana, six men were instantly killed, and as many more seriously injured. Three men were killed and fourteen injured by a railroad collision near Raleigh, North Carolina, and fifteen persons were wounded by a collision near Cincinnati, Ohio. Five women also perished in a burning shoddy mill in Cincinnati. This is enough for the record of Oct. 20, 1880.
—The Indian correspondent of an American journal says that the famous car of Juggernaut was not as usual dragged through the streets of Puri on the 9th of July; and it seems that, by religious custom or law, it be not drawn on the ninth day of the car festival, twelve years must elapse before it is again used. The fact of the car not being brought out this time is attributed by the natives to "an act of unpardonable negligence on the part of meddling Government officials."
—Charles Randolph, Secretary of the Board of Trade, has completed the census of labor and capital employed in Chicago manufacturing establishments, and returned the same to the United States Census Bureau. There are 3752 manufactories, employing 113,507 hands, and representing a capital of over $80,000,000. The number of woman employed is 15,718, and boys and girls under 16 years, 4797. The value of the product made per annum is $249,000,000. The value of material used is $178,000,000. The wages paid are $37,000,000.
—A large number of prominent members of the Land League in Ireland are to be arrested for conspiracy. In view of the difficulty of obtaining a verdict from an Irish jury, the accused are to be taken to England, and tried before an English jury. In view of such a contingency, the Land League have named men to fill the offices in the organization, which would be made vacant by the removal to London of the officers charged with conspiracy. England certainly has something to do now other than watching the bedside of dying Turkey.

"A WORD IN SEASON."

HERE is a beautiful instance of growth from "A word in season." How good, indeed, it is:—
One day a missionary in India was going out into a country village to preach. He did not take the horse-cars, as people in one of our cities would do, but called his native servant to bring the palanquin. This is a kind of carriage, borne by two or more natives on their shoulders by means of a pole passing through the center.
When he reached his journey's end, he said kindly to the men who had brought him:—
"Now, you have carried me so safely over this rough way, I want to tell you of one who will carry all your sins and burdens for you."
They listened eagerly as he told them of Jesus, and his death on the cross. A few weeks afterward, one of the men came to the missionary's house, and begged to be the bearer of his palanquin for life. It was a strange request, and the missionary inquired what it meant.
"Well," said the man, "I want to help you preach."
"Help me! How can you?" was the next question.
"In this way," replied the man: "many will not go to hear you; and, while I am waiting they will gather around me, and I will preach too."
So now he accompanies his master in all his tours, and tells the gospel story to little groups. — Missionary Echoes.

USE GOOD LANGUAGE.

A writer advising youth to abandon slang and acquire the habit of writing and speaking good English, says: "The longer you live the more difficult the acquisition of good language will be; and if the golden age of youth, the proper time for the acquisition of language, be passed in abuse, the unfortunate victim of neglected education is very probably doomed to talk slang for life. Money is not necessary to procure this education. Every person has it in his power. He has to use the language which he reads instead of the slang which he hears; to form taste from the best speakers and poets of the country; to treasure up choice phrases in his memory and habituate himself to their use, avoiding at the same time that pedantic precision and bombast which show rather the weakness of vain ambition than the polish of an educated mind."—Presbyterian Journal.

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SAN FRANCISCO AND ALAMEDA.

By M. C. Israel

At the close of our good camp-meeting, eight members were added to the San Francisco church. Three have since been taken in, and one accepted as a candidate for baptism.
The church quarterly meeting was put off until Sabbath, the 16th, that certain matters which had for some time needed looking after in the church, might first be attended to. From the experience of the church in the past, it has, with few exceptions, come to the unanimous decision that strict discipline is necessary to be carried out, and harmony of action maintained, if it would prosper, and have the favor of God.
The roll of membership was called, and committees appointed to visit where it was considered necessary, until the list of eighty was gone over. Thirty-seven of the members were present, and gave encouraging testimonies. Twenty-one were heard from by letter, or otherwise.
While following the precept and example of our Lord in the ordinance of humility, his precious Spirit rested down upon us, and there was such a feeling of unity and brotherly love manifested, as has not been experienced here for years. After partaking of the Lord's supper, many excellent testimonies were given, confessions made, and ascriptions of praise sent up to Him who died that we might live. This was a precious season for the church, and may the Lord help us to be faithful, and live up to the light he has given, that what we have had as a foretaste here, may be ours to enjoy throughout eternity.
As a part of the result of the late camp-meeting held at Alameda, eight are there keeping the Sabbath, and many others are interested. We have held meetings at the residence of Bro. Mead since the camp-meeting until last Sabbath, when a hall was obtained, where we expect to hold meetings in the future. Elder Rice preached at 3 P. M. from Romans 1:16: "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ," etc. Fifty were present and good attention was given.
Bro. N. C. McClure and myself have spent some time in visiting and distributing reading matter in this place. We find many who are interested to read and learn more of the work we as a people are doing. What the people of San Francisco and the adjacent towns have learned of us through the medium of the camp-meeting has opened the way for us to reach them and present the truth to their minds much easier than we could have done before. Pray that we may have wisdom to follow up the opening providence of God, and be ready to reap the reward. M. C. ISRAEL.

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SANITARIUM,

By John Harvey Kellogg

Battle Creek, Michigan.
This institution, beautifully located in one of the most healthful cities of Michigan, is everywhere recognized as the

⸎ GREAT SANITARIUM OF THE WEST. ⸎

More than 4,000 patients successfully treated. The erection of new buildings and the addition of all the most approved remedial appliances known to the profession, have made it The Most Complete Institution of the Kind in America. All modern hotel conveniences furnished. Terms very reasonable.
J. H. KELLOGG, M. D., Resident Superintendent.
Address, SANITARIUM, Battle Creek, Mich.
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