—Small-pox has again made its appearance in Montreal.
—Dio Lewis left instructions that his body should be cremated.
—Forest fires are doing great damage in Clare County, Michigan.
—Boycotting has been declared a criminal act by the Connecticut courts.
—A tornado visited Welsar, Prussia, May 25, doing considerable damage to property.
—The admission of Dakota at this session of Congress, is now regarded as improbable.
—The Greek and Turkish armies are both retiring from the scene of their recent engagements on the frontier.
—May 24 a fire in San Francisco destroyed property to the amount of $75,000. The fire robbed sixty families of shelter and clothing.
—A large bakery at Vallejo, Cal., was destroyed by fire at 2:30 o'clock, A. M., May 27. Two bakers lost their lives in the building. The money loss is $30,000.
—Herr Most and two of his associates have been found guilty of misdemeanor for inciting riot in New York. The maximum penalty is one year's imprisonment.
—A dispatch from Venice, dated May 29, says: "During the last twenty-four hours there have been thirty-three new cases of cholera and thirty-one deaths in this city."
—Says a daily paper: "The steam laundry at Red Bluff has suspended operations owing to the lack of patronage." Chinamen, it seems, have not yet lost their grip on the laundry business in California.
—Professor Leopold Van Ranke, the noted German historian, died at Berlin, May 23. He celebrated his ninety-first birthday some time ago, but continued active literary labor until his death.
—The women of the Salvation Army in Bristol, Conn., have armed themselves with cayenne pepper, to throw into the faces of the ruffians who are accustomed to annoy them in their street parades.
—The Chicago Grand Jury has returned twenty-two indictments, thirteen of which are known to be against Anarchists, seven of them charging murder. The indictments have not yet been made public.
—South Carolina has been visited recently by most disastrous freshets. Thousands of acres of the best lands planted in corn and cotton were flooded, and immense damage was done. The railroads also suffered greatly.
—May 29 a Spanish revenue cutter fired upon and seized three trading boats in English waters near Gibraltar. The cutter was in turn fired upon from the rock, and was finally captured by an English armed launch.
—A dispatch from Catania, Italy, May 25, says: "The eruptions of Mount Etna have greatly increased, and the destruction of the town of Nicolosi now seems inevitable. The entire district is enveloped in darkness, and showers of stones are continually falling."
—Recent investigations in Chicago have revealed the fact that Anarchists and Socialists had formed a plot to fire the city in different places and then to blow up all the police stations and police squads with dynamite bombs. The prompt action of the police in the Haymarket riot disarranged the plans. A great many bombs charged with the most powerful explosives have been found hidden under sidewalks in different parts of the city.335—May 26 seventy-six boiler-makers employed by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, went out on a strike because the company would not discharge some non-union men employed in another department of the works. It is said that the strikers will not be re-employed.
—Two distinct shocks of an earthquake were felt in San Francisco May 25; and on the 26th there were three shocks. The greater part of the people, however, became aware of the fact only by reading the newspapers. Light shocks are also reported at some other points in the State.
—The House Judiciary Committee will report the following proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States: "Article 16—The marriage relation, by contract or in fact, by one person of either sex with more than one person of the other sex, shall be deemed polygamy. Neither polygamy nor any polygamous association or cohabitation between the sexes shall exist or be lawful in any place within the jurisdiction of the United States or any of the States."
—May 25 Toronto, Canada, was under mob rule for over three hours. The Knights of Labor had declared a boycott against a street-car line and had put on a line of stages to accommodate all who did not wish to patronize the cars. On the arrival of the omnibuses a procession was formed in honor of the event, but it soon became a howling mob which attacked and wrecked between thirty and forty street-cars, and injured many of the drivers, conductors, and passengers.
—General Miles has recently inaugurated what promises to be a sufficiently vigorous Apache policy. He has enlisted a company of Mexicans and also one of white men, and started them in pursuit of the hostiles. A report from Wilcox, A. T., says: "In addition to their pay the General has offered a reward of $50 for each Indian, or head of an Indian, brought in here and $2,000 for Geronimo or his head, which has excited great enthusiasm among the volunteers. The hostiles have never been so hard pressed before, not having had a moment's rest for the past three weeks, and are worn out, as is evident by their slow movements, and by the few murders and depredations they have committed during their retreat from Gayco. The outlook for a speedy settlement of the war is most encouraging, and the people have never before felt so hopeful."
News and Notes.
By Editor
RELIGIOUS.
—The Catholic Church, through the Baltimore Council, has forbidden its priests to attend horse-races or theaters.
—Two Americans in Japan are reported as having been confirmed in the Buddhist faith. They are both graduates of Harvard College.
—According to the Baptist Year Book there are 1,500 students preparing for the ministry in the various schools of the denomination.
—We hasten to note the occurrence of one truth in the Baptist Flag. It is this: "Half of all the doctrines taught in America to-day, even by Protestants, are Roman Catholic doctrines."
—The Turkish Government is closing many of the mission schools in Syria. The interest in education has come to be so great, however, that the people are opening schools of their own.
—The French Government took the pains to employ a corps of short-hand writers to make notes of Lent sermons in France. The Ministry of Public Worship intends to know whether preachers take advantage of their pulpits to undermine the civil authority.
—Pope Leo is said to have an income of $1,500,000 annually, and it is stated on the authority of Monsignor Capel that the Pope's personal expenses are limited to $2.50 a day." If Monsignor Capel tells the truth, then the Pope is amassing a very pretty sum with which to further the arts of diplomacy for the church.
—More is given to destroy than to save. During the last thirty years war has caused Christian nations the loss of 2,000,000 men and of $15,000,000,000; the yearly expenditure of these nations on standing armies is $2,500,000,000. And yet some think too much is given to spread the principles of the gospel of peace throughout the world.—Christian at Work.
—The New York Observer says: "The average Anarchist is made up of about equal parts of atheism and ignorance. He does not hate law and order so much as he hates religion, and his skill in blasphemy is only equaled by his dexterity with a beer-mug. He is down on churches, schools, banks, and 'bloated monopolies' in general, down on the family, society, and government, down on everything except the saloon." He may be found down in the saloon.
—At a meeting of Congregational Churches in Litchfield, Conn., about one hundred and fifty years ago, the following action was taken: "Voted that this consociation judge general neglect of family prayer to be of so scandalous a nature as may fully debar the heads of families from special church privileges, and if continued in, exposes them to the censure of the church where they live, or to which they belong." If such action were taken by many churches at the present time, the membership would be materially diminished.
—The Christian at Work says: "The territory of Russian Siberia, one and a half times as large as the United States, has belonged to Russia for three centuries, yet of the four million inhabitants nearly one-half are still pagans. Paganism is fostered by the home Government. The pagan priests are allowed to collect and burn the copies of the Bible with which the missionaries supply the converts, and no missionary may baptize without the authority of the pagan civil authorities, who are allowed to do almost anything to drive Christianity from the country."
—Dr. Austin Phelps says: "One thing we must confess with downcast eye. It is the tendency of the great Christian sects to lean upon worldly greatness for their prestige. In apostolic times Christian assemblies needed the admonition respecting the man with 'a gold ring and in goodly apparel.' Their successors to-day have not outlived the need. They seek prestige inordinately from wealth and culture. . . . Witnesses have borne testimony before the English Parliament that they had 'never seen a poor man in soiled or tattered garments in a church of the Establishment.' State churches have taken the lead in this corruption, but others have not been ashamed to follow, at varying distances in the rear."
—Rev. C. E. Robinson says in the Old Testament Student: "I fear that too many young ministers, at graduation, know less of the English Bible, and how to use it, than some men otherwise uneducated, who have made it the subject of special, constant, and reverent study. There are seminary students who know all about the great heresies of church history, and the dogmatic and philosophical differences between the great schools of theology, adept in Greek, Hebrew, and patristic lore, who might stand abashed before some plain expounding of the Word, thoroughly familiar with its text and spirit." We are glad that some are waking up to the fact that no amount of "culture" in a minister will make up for ignorance of the Bible.
"Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?"
By Talbot W. Chambers
PROPERLY understood, the fear of the Lord covers the whole sphere of human life, and takes in every relation that man can hold. But in every age error has been cherished on this point. Among all the ancient heathen, and even among some of the corrupt forms of Christianity, a divorce has been made between religion and morality as if they belonged to different spheres, and one could be cultivated without the other. As if, in foresight of this grievous misconception, and to guard against any possible mistake, there is added to the first statement another of similar character and of equal comprehensiveness.
"And to depart from evil is understanding." Religion is not simply theoretic or emotional. It does not consist in lofty opinions and fine phrases, but is intensely practical. On its human side it moulds the whole man after the original pattern, and thus includes ethics in the broadest sense of the term. The negative form of the statement is owing, doubtless, to the character of man as sinful and fallen. Prone as he is by nature and practice to follow that which is evil, naturally the precept to him takes the prohibitory form found in the decalogue. To depart from evil, is to revolutionize a man's whole course and character. It takes in thought, word, and deed. It comprehends all relations—domestic, social, civil, and ecclesiastical. It extends from the dawn of conscious moral agency to the last expiring breath. Nor is it possible to depart from evil without in the very act following that which is good, and so fulfilling one's whole duty.
Now this is what God says to man. It is not for us to comprehend him whose judgments are unsearchable, and his ways past finding out. There are many things in the divine administration which completely baffle every attempt we make to explain them. Much that occurs seems to us quite at variance with the wisdom which we know to be infinite. Again and again we meet with matters in regard to which we are unable to say why they are, or why God permits them, or how the fact of their existence is to be reconciled with his divine perfections. All we can do is to join with Elihu in his utterance:—
"Behold, God is great, and we know him not." The secret that resolves all mysteries, and harmonizes all seeming contradictions, is hidden in the infinite mind alone. God alone comprehends the ways of God.
But this fact, while it humbles man's pride, by no means reduces him to despair. Because, while it is the glory of God to conceal the order underlying the universe, he has been pleased to reveal in his condescending mercy all that is needed for the conduct of life. We do not, cannot, know how he governs the world; our keenest insight, our profoundest study fails here; but the great truths of religion and ethics we do know. They were written on the heart of man when he was created (Rom. 2 : 15), and they have since been repeated in the volume of his word. Here is man's wisdom; here is his understanding. Ingenious speculations about the mysteries of Providence or the methods of the divine Government are of no practical use. They only darken counsel by words without knowledge. But the devout recognition of God and a studious conformity to his will, are sure guarantees of a happy and useful life. They enable a man to discharge the end of his being, and to secure his own highest welfare.—Talbot W. Chambers, D. D., LL.D., in S. S. Times.
Prayer and Self-Control
A MAN cannot be a prosperous Christian without settled sessions of prayer. Opportunities to pray will be found when the heart is intent on the exercise.—Christian at Work.
"He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city."
Obituary.
By Philip Kent
BATTERSON.—Died of heart disease, after an illness of about seven weeks, near Ferndale, Humboldt County, California, May 21, 1886, Sister Lucy Batterson, aged 44 years. Sister Batterson was baptized last August, and joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Ferndale, since which time she has been an earnest Christian. She leaves a husband and two children and a large circle of friends. The funeral services were held in the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Ferndale. Remarks to a full house by the writer from Rev. 20:6. PHILIP KENT.
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Man, the Masterpiece
THE work of the White Cross Army is calling the attention of parents everywhere to the necessity of instructing their children respecting the dangers of vice and impurity, and giving them such information at a proper age as will be conducive to purity of morals. Doctor Kellogg’s recent work, "Man, the Masterpiece," is intended by the author to give to boys and young men exactly the information they need to make the most of themselves. The work has been out of press less than three months, but several thousand copies have already been sold, and the sale is increasing rapidly. Agents are wanted in all the Western States. Descriptive circulars giving terms to agents may be obtained by addressing Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.
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DIPHTHERIA: ITS CAUSES, PREVENTION, AND PROPER TREATMENT.
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The "Great Controversy."
By Editor
A student from Healdsburg College entered what we believe to be one of the most difficult fields for canvassing in California, with the illustrated "Great Controversy," and he writes us as follows: "The very first day in my life of trying to canvass, I obtained seven subscribers."
A brother in Seattle, W. T., sold over 300 copies in less than six weeks, at $1.75 each, and this too during the time of the Anti-Chinese trouble and the reign of martial law, when, of course, finances and business were in a very unsettled condition.
A farmer in Illinois has taken as high as twenty orders in one day for the "Great Controversy," while an agent in Montana is taking fifteen orders per day and delivering twelve out of fifteen. A canvasser in New York took twenty-eight orders for the book out of thirty-two persons canvassed. We have reports equally encouraging from agents in the Southern and Middle States.
Over ten thousand copies sold by agents in six months. More agents are wanted to handle this work. Liberal commissions paid. Write to the Secretary of your State Tract Society for circulars and terms, or address PACIFIC PRESS, Publishers, Oakland, Cal.
NEW SABBATH-SCHOOL SONG BOOK, JOYFUL GREETING,
Contains 216 pages, or over 40 pages more than the ordinary S. S. song book. It is
THE LARGEST BOOK EVER SOLD FOR THE MONEY,
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The Employed and the Unemployed.
By Editor
THE “Anti-Coolie League,” of Red Bluff, Cal., addressed a resolution to United States Senator Stanford, asking him to discharge the Chinese employed on his Vina ranch. The Senator replied, giving the league some very wholesome doctrine. One point made by Mr. Stanford deserves especial attention. It is this:—
“The unemployed in California are numerous, but I do not think they are unemployed because of the Chinese, or anything other than their own improvident nature. I have fed tramps at a direct expense of over $200 a month, during the past season, on one farm, although there was never a day during that time that we were not short-handed of good men and wanted them.”
In that, Senator Stanford has laid bare the whole secret of the labor problem in California. The cry that “the Chinese tend to degrade white labor,” is always loudest from these unemployed gentry whom Mr. Stanford had to feed for nothing when he was in want of men who would work. And because the Senator employs men who will work he is asked, by these “unemployed” boycotters, to discharge them. This is not the only instance. In Santa Barbara the “unemployed” who tend to dignify labor, arose in their might and drove out all the Chinese. Then a gentleman built a steam laundry, and could not find enough men in the place to start it. And thus capital oppressed labor there. Also in Truckee, where was made the strongest boycott on the coast, all the Chinese were driven away, and a steam laundry was built, which is now for sale at half its cost. And so the Chinese degrade labor.
California is six times as large as the Kingdom of Bavaria, while Bavaria has more than four times as many people as has California. California is fifteen times as large as Belgium, while Belgium has more than five times the population that California has.
California is four times as large as Ohio, while Ohio has more than three times as many people as are in California. California is three times the size of Illinois, whereas Illinois has more than three times the number of inhabitants that California has. California is twenty-two times the size of Massachusetts, while Massachusetts has nearly, if not quite, twice as many inhabitants as has California. France is but one-fifth larger than California, and has more than thirty-six times as many inhabitants. Germany is only about one-fifth larger than California, but it has more than forty-two times as many inhabitants. This simply emphasizes the truth of Senator Stanford’s words, that the unemployed in California are not unemployed because of the Chinese, or any other cause than their own improvident nature.
“Joyful Greeting”
By Editor
Is the name of the newest Sabbath-school song book that has come to our notice. It is published by J. E. White, who is quite well known as the publisher of the “Song Anchor,” “Temperance and Gospel Songs,” and “Songs for Class and School,” with which books the present one will compare favorably. The book is of the popular size for song books, but contains 216 pages, which is largely in excess of the number of pages that books of that class usually contain. Of course it is not to be expected that of 204 songs every one should please everybody, yet in the variety of pieces there is doubtless something to suit every taste, and there are a goodly number in the book which, we venture to say, will suit everybody. Until the public taste is educated back more nearly to the standard of the old hymns, it will doubtless be necessary for publishers to make more or less concession to the present popular demand for a light class of music, and this has been done in the present instance, yet not more, perhaps, than will suit a large number of those for whom it is designed. We are sorry, however, to see a concession to popular and unscriptural theology, on page 166, where the verse writer confounds the coming of Christ with the pagan notion of the wafting of a soul over “death’s dark river” by the mythical boatman. This was, no doubt, an oversight which will be made right in a future edition.
We have not space to call attention to all the good pieces in the book, but would mention those on pages, 7, 17, 24, 27, 46, 128, 130, 154, and 172 as being among those which we think will be liked by everybody. Notwithstanding its size, the book is sold at the popular price of 35 cents a copy, $3.60 per dozen, and $30.00 per hundred. We have no doubt that the average Sabbath-school will find in this book a stock sufficiently large to supply all their wants in the way of song. See advertisement in this paper.
Minnesota Camp-Meeting.
THE annual meeting of the Seventh-day Adventists of Minnesota will convene at Lake Harriet, Minneapolis, June 23, and continue until the morning of the 29th. The sessions of the Conference, tract society, and Sabbath-school associations will be held in connection; and the camp-meeting will be preceded by a workers’ meeting, continuing one week.
The grounds selected are within the city limits, but not as near the heart of the city as we desired to have them. Still, by the aid of the Motor Line, which grants us great reduction and an efficient service, the citizens may easily reach the grounds. The location is beautiful and quiet. It is expected that this will be the most important meeting we have ever held in Minnesota. Though not prepared to announce definitely, we confidently expect that the railroads will grant the usual reduction of return for one-fifth fare. We shall have the benefits of the labors of Elders Butler and Haskell, with other laborers of ability and experience. The managers will take every pains to provide for all who come, at prices which are reasonable.
There will be tents for rent, straw for beds, a provision stand and dining hall. Those coming from abroad may receive Motor tickets from the depots to the grounds and return at ten cents, by addressing H. P. Holser, Box 1076, Minneapolis, giving names of those who will attend.
We extend to all readers of the SIGNS a cordial invitation to attend the meetings.
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Camp-Meetings for 1886.
By Editor
PENNSYLVANIA, Olean, N. Y..................June 2-8
COLORADO, Denver,........................“ 2-9
IOWA, Des Moines,........................“ 9-15
NEW YORK, Batavia,.......................“ 9-15
WISCONSIN, Madison,......................“ 16-22
MINNESOTA, Minneapolis,..................“ 23-29
MAINE, Houlton,..........................“ 22-29
DAKOTA,............................June 3 to July 6
CANADA, P. Q.............................July 1-6
TEXAS, Cedar Hill,.......................Aug. 10-17
Napa City Meetings
A CARD from Elder Healey, who is at Napa City, Cal., says:
“Our meetings are getting along nicely, so far; the attendance is quite good, and the interest is increasing.”
Liquor Selling and Crime
By Editor
GENERAL WOODFORD said at a recent meeting of the Massachusetts Law and Order League: "I can truthfully say that, in seven years’ experience as prosecuting officer in New York, I never have known a crime committed by force and violence that was not either conceived or executed under the influence of liquor." This is not the statement of a temperance fanatic, but of a man who declares that he is not a believer in total abstinence. In view of his statement, which is corroborated by the testimony of all jurists, who can deny that liquor selling ought to be treated as a crime? The man who incites others to deeds of violence is treated as a criminal, and the liquor seller’s sole business is to supply people with that which invariably leads to debauchery and crime.
Eternal Life Through Christ
Said a brother: "It doesn't seem possible that any one could ever be worthy of eternal life." Well, no one can be worthy. Even after the victory has been won, and the redeemed have been granted a seat on the throne of Christ, and they are all righteous, it will be true that they are complete only in Christ. If we live a Christian life now, it is only because Christ dwells in us; if we gain eternal life, it will be only through Christ. Thus Christ is "made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption; that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." 1 Cor. 1:30, 31. And so in that redeemed state, no worthiness will be ascribed to any one except Christ. From every tongue will come the song, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain."
Satan’s Snares Set Openly
“SURELY in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.” So said the wise man, and he spoke the truth. This truth, however, simply shows that birds are wiser than human beings. The net is continually being spread in the sight of men, and they walk into it with open eyes. Satan’s snares are nowadays set so openly that none can fail to see them; yet few shun them. Men visit the gin-mill just as regularly as though they were not annually grinding into perdition the souls of a hundred thousand people; and the voice of her whose steps take hold on hell finds a thousand ready listeners to one who heeds the cry of wisdom, saying, “How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.”