The last two or three years has produced a buzzing swarm of sanitary quacks. They are not confined to any one department. Doctors, most of whom have never heard a lecture or read a sound text-book on hygiene, talk very freely about the needs of cleanliness and the methods of its promotion. Yet for accurate learning about the diffusion of gases, the laws of air circulation, the size of tubes, the chemistry of foods, etc., they know not a hundredth part of what they credit to themselves, or a thousandth of what they are credited by others. Engineers and plumbers are eloquent about their special modes of construction and the evils of sewer-gas, and often could not stand a half-hour examination on any of the subjects of which they speak. Disinfectants are spread abroad by the ton and lauded ad nauseam by those who cannot explain their action, but could explain their money interest in the sale.
Now, all this must not lead to any abatement of zeal and earnest inquiry, for all needs to be done that is claimed. The science, the art, the facts, the needs are all known to some and are discernible and certified. The need is that competency be tested. Cities seeking expert aid must bring their employes to the most rigid proof of fitness. Individuals must get written statements of changes proposed and submit them to other experts. It must not be allowed that so critical and real an interest be imperiled by the haphazard experiments of self-confident novices. We credit experience for all it is worth; but no mere skill of workmanship or claim of practical knowledge will substitute that exact knowledge of physical laws on which sanitary art so much depends. The public greatly needs standards of reference. We are glad to see a proposition for a plumbers' school at Cooper Institute, where technical sanitary instruction can be given to mechanics who have gone into their trade without any such training. One is equally needed for doctors who have never heard a lecture on hygiene, but have started practice with the idea that so simple a knowledge can be picked up and peddled out as a kind of perfunctory and patronizing free-gratis advice to their patients, while they are showing their skill in prescribing. Let us for doctors, and architects, and engineers, and plumbers, etc., have a sanitary course and a sanitary diploma, which shall give certified evidence of competency.—Independent.
Cellars.
CELLARS under houses are generally poorly ventilated, for most of them do not have at any time the direct rays of the sun,—the chief of all healthy hygienic influences. There are very few that are not damp enough to accumulate mold.
In our cities many of our cellars have water-closets in them, which are in daily, or what is vastly worse, in occasional use, and from which sewage gas escapes. The cellar, both in town and country, is the depository both of fruit and vegetables, more or less of which are always in process of decay. Rat-holes frequently connect it with cess-pools, or other sources of miasma. Rubbish is apt to accumulate in it, either interfering with its proper cleansing, or directly increasing the impurity of its air.
Now what would be thought if beneath every house, instead of a cellar, there was an open pit that was constantly exhaling poisonous vapors? And yet, practically, a cellar such as we have described, which must generate impure air, is just this.
Its air comes up into the house through the cellarway, or through the cracks in the floor, or through the airpipe of the furnace, not only when the furnace is supplied with air from the cellar, but quite often through cracks and loose joints in the cold-air box.
We may not be able to remedy the evil in full, but we may reduce it to a minimum by such ventilation as is possible; by the use of disinfectants; by frequent cleansing; by keeping vegetables and rubbish out of the cellar; by abolishing the cellar water-closet; by having the floor thoroughly cemented, the walls well painted and whitewashed, and the beams overhead lathed and plastered.
An effectual method of ventilating a cellar is the following: take a small pipe, place the lower end about four inches above the bottom of the cellar; connect the upper end with the flue or stove pipe in the room above. By this means a draft of air will be kept up from the bottom of the cellar where the coldest, dampest air collects, and the circulation insures a constant supply from without.
The Folly of Extra Wisdom
PEOPLE are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves extra wise.
Healthfulness of Fruit.
Dr. B. F. Dunkley has made public some interesting facts derived from his own experience in regard to the healthfulness of fruit. When he first went to the West, thirty years ago, no orchards were there, and few vegetables were raised. The diet of the people consisted of corn bread, bacon, and a little black coffee, without sugar or cream. Inflammatory disorders, such as relate to the lungs, brain, bowels, and heart, prevailed in the winter, and were often attended with fatal results. Malignant dysentery, the pest of armies shut off from fruit, afflicted many of the inhabitants in the summer and fall, and in the spring it was not uncommon for whole families to be sick with scurvy, the disease so fatal to sailors on long voyages before canning fruit was discovered. Dr. Dunkley told his scurvy-stricken patients, to their great surprise, that their blood needed no medicine other than vegetable acids, and he ordered them to eat oranges, lemons, and sheep sorrels. Now fruit and garden vegetables are abundant in the locality, and the diseases are not of so malignant a type, and yield much more readily to treatment. When orchards first began to bear, Dr. Dunkley noticed that those children whose fathers had planted apple trees, ate plentifully of the fruit, and enjoyed most excellent health, while children living where no apple trees grew, were dying of flux.
Reserved Power.
It is not wise to work constantly up to the highest rate of which we are capable. If the engineer of the railroad were to keep the speed of his train up to the highest rate he could attain with his engine, it would soon be used up. If a horse is driven at the top of his speed for any length of time, he is ruined. It is well enough to try the power occasionally of a horse or an engine, by putting on all the motion they will bear, but not continuously. All machinists construct their machines so that there shall be a reserve force. If the power required is four-horse, then they make a six-horse power. In this case it works easily and lasts long. A man who has strength enough to do twelve honest hours of labor in twenty-four, and no more, should do but nine or ten hours' work.
The reserve power keeps the body in repair. It rounds out the frame to full proportions. It keeps the mind cheerful, hopeful, happy. The person with no reserve force, is always incapable of taking on any more responsibility than he already has. A little exertion puts him out of breath. He cannot increase his work for an hour without danger of an explosion. Such are generally pale, dyspeptic, bloodless, nervous, irritable, despondent, gloomy. We all pity them. The great source of power in the individual is the blood. It runs the machinery of life, and upon it depends our health and strength.
A mill on a stream where water is scanty, can be worked but a portion of the time. So a man with little good blood can do but little work. The reserve power must be stored up in this fluid. It is an old saying among stock-raisers, that "blood tells." It is equally true that blood tells in the sense in which we use the word. If it is only good blood, then the more of it the better. When the reserve power of an individual runs low, it is an indication that a change is necessary, and that it is best to stop expending and go to accumulating, just as the miller does when water gets low in the pond. Such a course would save many a person from physical bankruptcy. —Herald of Health.
Medical Value of Soap.
THE scientific investigation of Prof. Tyndall on air-dust, spores, fever germs, etc., has been of great value to sanitary science. They demonstrate the value of cleanliness as a preventive of disease. In a recent lecture reported by the Philadelphia Press, Dr. Richardson called attention to this fact, and remarked as follows:—
"It is worth while for common people to learn that 50,000 typhus germs will thrive in the circumference of a pin-head or a visible globule. It is worth while for them to note that these germs may be desiccated and be borne like thistle-seeds, every where, and, like demoniacal possessions, may jump noiselessly down any throat. But there are certain things spores cannot stand, according to the latest ascertained results of science. Soap chemically poisons them. Here sanitary and microscopic science come together. Spores thrive in low ground and under low conditions of life. For redemption, fly to hot water and soap, ye who live in danger of malarial poisoning. Hot water is sanitary. Soap is more sanitary. Fight typhus, small-pox, yellow fever, and ague, with soap. Soap is a board of health.—Good Health.
Religious News and Notes.
By Editor
-After prolonged debates the Great Council at Geneva has postponed the further consideration of a separation of church and State until next May.
-It is said the publishers cannot print Canon Farrer's "Life of St. Paul" fast enough to supply the demand. The first edition was sold before it left the press.
-On Sunday morning Oct. 19, the unusually large number of 280 persons were admitted to membership in St. John's Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
-The Rhode Island Baptist Convention, after a warm discussion, admitted delegates from the Second Baptist church of Newport, which is regarded as "open communion."
-By the intercession of the Pope, Prince Napoleon and his wife, Clotilda, have come together after a separation of seven years. The Pope evidently has no love for the Republic.
-To a young brother complaining that his field was so small, an old preacher replied: "You have as large a congregation, perhaps as you will want to account for at the day of judgment."
-Prof. Christliebe, of Bonn University, Germany, has been invited by the Yale Faculty to deliver next year's annual course of lectures on "Preaching," before the students of the Theological Seminary.
-The Religious Herald pronounces dram drinking and prohibition as both evil; "but we are not wise enough to decide which is worse!" We readily decide that the religion heralded by such a teacher is the "worse" in its influence.
-The Archbishop of Moscow has publicly taught that the emperor of Russia is the vicar of God, inspired and infallible in his utterances, and to be obeyed as God himself. Thus the Greek church vies with the Latin in self-exaltation against the Most High.
-There is danger in written sermons. Dr. Lorimer read one which was greatly praised, but which was afterwards found in an older author. The Dr. consoles himself with the fact that "they all do it." But is not such deception a sure means to destroy the influence of the pulpit.
-At Andover Theological Seminary no students, except college graduates, are hereafter to be received without a thorough examination. If any enter after the beginning of the junior year, they must pass an examination in the studies passed over by the class into which they wish to enter.
-The Baptist Home Missionary says: "Better than your will. If you have money, the interest of which you may require for yourself during your life, but at your death you wish to devote to the objects of the Society, the Society will receive it, and give you a bond securing your semi-annual interest as long as you live."
-The Bishop of Manchester says there are more than 10,000 clergymen in the Anglican Church who have no benefice. And if they should go out into the "highways and hedges," and preach to the benighted masses, without their canonical robes, they would be silenced and condemned. Such is religion when up-held by the State.
-Warren F. Draper, the Andover publisher, has a book in press entitled "The Logic of Christian evidences," which is described as "an attempt to re-adjust the perspective of the old-time evidences, so as to meet the demands of modern discussions in science." The "demands of modern discussions in science" are frequently very unreasonable and unjust.
-A fiercely contested difference between two Mohammedan sects is whether, in the ablution before prayers, it is right to wash from the elbow to the wrist or from the wrist to the elbow. "We are reminded of the fierce contest in the church of England as to whether the preacher should face the congregation or stand with his back to them, during certain parts of the 'service.'"
-At a recent conference of the Evangelical Alliance, at Edinburgh, Dr. White, of New York, gave au interesting account of what is being done in the Southern States of America, among the freedmen, to prepare them for Christian work. "It is expected," he said, "that in a few years they will be able to provide such a supply of missionaries as would do more to Christianize Africa than could be done by any European agency with white men."
-The Bishop of Oxford, in calling upon the clergy of his diocese to offer prayers for fine weather, writes: "Preachers may do well to point out that our increased ability to prognosticate the weather has not given us the slightest power to control it, and in this time of general depression to ask whether the season of marvelous prosperity which preceded it was thankfully received or profitably spent."—Will America take warning in her present prosperity?
-A colored Presbyterian church in Kentucky wanted a church building; they obtained it as follows: "One of our members, a plain, ordinary man, an old bachelor, purchased the building from the German Methodists paying them $4,880 cash. I saw every dollar counted. This gentleman has been a member of the Presbyterian church nearly thirty years. He never spent five cents for a cigar, a drink of whiskey, or chew of tobacco, in his life. The act, I think, is unparalleled in the history of black men."
Secular News.
By Editor
—A $200,000 fire has occurred at Parker, Pa.
—The tax rate at Virginia City, Nev., is $4.55.
—Yellow fever has not entirely disappeared in Memphis.
—Heavy shipments of bullion continue to be made from London to New York.
—As late as Oct. 30 further floods were reported in Spain, with loss of property and life.
—Jacob Abbott, the well-known author, died at his residence in Farmington, Maine, Oct. 31.
—It is said that Cleopatra’s Needle, lately given to the United States, has been seized by the creditors of Egypt!
—Chief Ouray of the Utes has a well-stocked farm, and cultivates one hundred acres. He lives in civilized style and rides in a carriage.
—Gen. Hooker, who won the title of “fighting Joe Hooker,” in the late war, died very suddenly at his residence in Long Island on the 31st of October.
—A report from Napa says of the Insane Asylum: This institution is overcrowded with 770 inmates at present, and appropriations are not sufficient to have enough attendants.
—Philadelphia’s new city hall, which has been in process of construction for several years, has already cost $7,500,000, and the commissioners ask for $1,250,000 more this year.
—A very severe wind storm is reported in New England, Oct. 29, doing damage from Rhode Island to Maine. On Mount Washington the wind attained a velocity of 132 miles an hour.
—Circulars giving teachers practical instructions in regard to the ventilating and lighting of their school rooms have been issued in St. Louis. No certificate should be issued to a teacher who does not understand this subject.
—An official decree has been issued in France annulling the resolution passed by the Council-General of the Seine in favor of plenary amnesty to Communists. Other decrees dismiss twenty-six Mayors for participating in factious manifestations.
—A dispatch from Cabul says: The population of Cabul is quiet, but it is a sudden calm. There can be no doubt that beneath it there is a deep dread of British dominion. The Cabulese are kept down simply by fear, and would rise if they saw a chance of success.
—The complete cost of the Michigan State Capitol, a noble building, was $1,502,298.23. Of the appropriations there is left unexpended $2,731.77. Probably the only case in the country where a public building has been completed for less than the appropriation.
—The fort at Wingate, New Mexico, is reported reduced to ashes by the Navajoe Indians. Another dispatch announces the total destruction by Apaches of Martin’s Ranch, on the Tornado del Muerto, thirteen people being killed, and all the stock stolen, including that of the Mail Company there.
—Two important orders have been issued by the Post Office Department. The post-office and State must be put on all letter addresses. A letter will not be sent to a town, if the name of the post office is not the name of the town. A letter will not be sent to “New York” unless the State is added. And mail matter is not to be carried for or delivered to lottery dealers.
—Advices received at Port Townsend, W. T., state that the weather at Inverness, on the Skeena river, has recently been extremely severe. Early on the morning of the 15th of Oct., a landslide occurred, commencing at the summit of the mountain at the rear of the cannery, and, in its downward course, swept into the sea seven buildings occupied by men employed at the establishment.
—The recent storm was more destructive in New Brunswick than in New England. A St. John’s despatch says: Further particulars of Wednesday’s storm are at hand, showing that the damage was greater than first reported. In addition to the losses before mentioned, many wharves were destroyed, barns and out-buildings blown down, bridges blown away, and vessels wrecked. And a report from Halifax says: Reports of the disasters by the storm continue to reach here. It is computed that seventy vessels are ashore in the Straits of Canso.
—A New York paper, giving statistics of business compared with previous years, says: “It is now just one year since the first symptoms of a revival of business appeared with the extinguishment of the premium on gold. What marvelous improvement has been effected within that year, and what wonderful power of recuperation the country has displayed, comparison of exchanges shows most forcibly. In a single year the country has gained as much as it lost in five years of unparalleled prostration and disaster.” San Francisco is excepted from the favorable report.
Obituary.
DIED, of whooping cough in the town of James, Saginaw Co., Michigan, June 22, 1879, Nellie, daughter of G. and J. Hanks, aged 7 months and 19 days. A discourse was given upon the resurrection, from 1 Corinthians, 15:51, 52, at the funeral, by
REV. MCBRADNIE.
Christiana, Norway.
By John Gottlieb Matteson
OUR tract society in this city sells about six dollars' worth of tracts each week. Brn. Jasperson and Roseqvist are in Skien. They will soon get a hall for meetings. Meanwhile, they have visited people and sold tracts. They had sold about eight dollars' worth of tracts when they last wrote. Our brethren in Denmark have formed a tract society, and are at work. The consequence is that our tracts from America are all gone except two kinds and some pamphlets. Our brethren in Sweden need books and tracts. In Sweden very little can be done without tracts. Preachers who are not of the State church are not permitted to preach there, except in their own meetinghouses. But books can be sold freely, and the people like to read. Bro. Olsen, who has been with us about five months, will soon leave this place and try to labor in Sweden. It seems that the time may not be far distant when there will be a demand for Swedish tracts large enough to get them printed here.
The attendance and interest is increasing in our meetings since the tract society commenced to work. The house was crowded Sunday evening. The people listen with marked attention. The truth is gaining ground. Immediately after the close of the service, two of us hand out tracts for the members of the tract society, and receive the money which each one has received for tracts during the week. This takes about an hour There is always a surplus of money in the treasury of the tract society. Then the tracts go out to different parts of the country as well as in the city.
Our quarterly meeting was well attended. Seven persons were baptized on the previous evening. Sabbath morning we felt a good degree of the presence of God. In the afternoon seventy-two brethren and sisters took part in the ordinances. This was the first time the washing of feet was introduced among them. All except two took part in this solemn ordinance. We have now in all seventy-five members in good standing.
Bro. Brorsen has labored some time in the southern part of Jutland, and some souls have embraced the truth. The fields are white for the harvest in Northern Europe. The time is short, and it is a great work to be prepared to meet our God. But this is the great aim of our lives, and we desire to win as many souls with us as possible, before the Lord shall come.
J. G. MATTESON.
Has Dishonored the British Arms.
By Editor
[We hesitated to insert the following, lest it should be considered an American judgment colored by prejudice; but on reading remarks by the Bishop of Manchester, our fears were dispelled.]
THE English have outdone the Zulus in barbarism. A native contingent speared and mutilated the wounded Zulus. The English officers gave the word, "No quarter." The Zulu troops disbanded, the several chiefs submitted, and Cetywayo became a fugitive; yet the British went on burning the kraals. He made a special request that two kraals near Ulindi might be spared, because they contained some elements of sanctity to the Zulu mind, but this was refused. After Isandula he sought peace, but was met by the demand for unconditional surrender. To force the Zulus to capture him, their kraals were burnt if they were suspected of having given him shelter.
The war was unjust, and has dishonored the British arms. For the first time in any modern war the people called savages have shown higher courage than the troops of the civilized. English troops, armed with all the improved guns of modern time, have been afraid to meet an equal number of Africans, with the most primitive weapons, in the open field. And while the savage surpassed the civilized in martial courage, the civilized have shown themselves more savage than the savages.—Cincinnati Gazette.
North Pacific T. & M. Society.
Our Third Quarterly meeting for 1879 was held at Beaverton, Washington Co., Oregon, Oct. 19, 1879. The report of the State Secretary was given as follows:—
Due Signs Office to date $101.67
“ Review “ “ “ 173.93
Total $275.60
Due from Dist. No. 1 $248.82
“ “ “ 2 50.75
“ “ “ 3 55.18
“ “ Individuals 15.38
Total $370.13
Deduct 275.60
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94.53
Books, on hand 150.00
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Balance in favor of society 244.53
$244.53
After the statement by the Secretary that the interest of the members was declining to the extent that the districts were falling deeply in debt by not keeping up the advance pay system for our publications, the following preamble and resolutions were offered and unanimously adopted:—
Whereas, The T. & M. Society in the N. P. Conference has declined in interest, so that debts are accumulating in the districts on subscriptions to our different periodicals, which is a source of great discouragement to the work of the society, Therefore,
Resolved, That we, the officers and members of the society here assembled, do pledge ourselves to work unitedly to bring the society in this conference, between this and the next annual meeting, up to the advance pay system.
2. Resolved, That the Secretary prepare a report of this meeting for publication in SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and insert in it this resolution.
Adjourned.
Death of Hon. Zachary Chandler.
FOLLOWING closely the announcement of the sudden death of Gen. Hooker, comes that of Hon. Z. Chandler. On his way from Wisconsin to Chicago, Oct. 31, he complained of being ill, but spoke in Chicago that night with more than usual vigor and impressiveness. The next morning he was found dead in his room.
Born in Massachusetts, he made his home in Detroit, Mich., where he arose to eminence in the State and in the nation. As a United States Senator he won the gratitude of his own State, and the respect of all. Under Gen. Grant he acted as Secretary of the Interior. He was decided in his convictions, and outspoken in his manner; but his strongest political opponents conceded that he was strictly honest. As a public man, he had few equals in the country.
Appointments.
By Joseph Harvey Waggoner
OAKLAND—Services at the Seventh-day Adventist church, corner of Thirteenth and Clay streets, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11 A. M., and Sunday evening at 7:30. Prayer-meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:30. Sabbath-school at 9:30 o'clock Sabbath morning.
SAN FRANCISCO—Services at the Seventh-day Adventist church, on Laguna street, between Tyler and McAllister, every Sabbath (Saturday), at 11 A. M., and Sunday evening at 7:30. Prayer-meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:30. The Hayes Valley cars of Market street and the Lone Mountain cars of the Central railroad, cross Laguna street near the church.
OAKLAND—The first and third Sabbath, and the second and fourth Sunday evening of each month.
SAN FRANCISCO—the second and fourth Sabbath and the first and third Sunday evenings of each month. J. H. WAGGONER.
Business Department.
By Editor
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DONATION TO SIGNS.
Mrs A J Hutchings 3.80.
CAL PUBLISHING FUND.
W I Goodwin 150.00, Wm A Noble 100.00.
RECEIVED ON ACCOUNT.
Gen T and M Society 53.65.
CAMP MEETING FUND.
T H Eicholz 6.00.
BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, AND TRACTS.
By Editor
Issued by the S. D. A. Publishing Association and for sale at this Office.
The Sanctuary and the 2300 days of Daniel 8 : 14. By Elder U. Smith. This question has developed the people known as the Seventh-day Adventists, and is the pivotal doctrine upon which their applications of prophecy largely depend. 352 pp. $1.00.
Thoughts on Daniel, critical and practical. By Elder U. Smith. An exposition of the book of Daniel, verse by verse. 384 pp. 1.00.
Thoughts on Revelation. By Elder U. Smith. With notes or remarks on every verse in the book of Revelation. 352 pp. 1.00.
Life of Wm. Miller, with portrait. Interesting sketches of the life and public labors of this pioneer in the Advent movement in this country. 416 pp. 1.00.
The Biblical Institute. A synopsis of the lectures given at the Institute, held at Oakland, Cal., April 1877, covering the main points of our faith. 352 pp. 1.00.
The Nature and Destiny of Man. By Elder U. Smith. This work treats on the condition of man in death, and his final destiny. 356 pp. 1.00.
The Spirit of Prophecy; or the great controversy between Christ and his angels and Satan and his angels, in four volumes. By Mrs. E. G. White. These volumes cover the time from the fall of Satan to the destruction of sin and sinners at the close of the one thousand years of Rev. 20. Each 400 pp.
Vol. I. Old Testament Facts to Christ.
Vol. II. Life and Ministry of Christ.
Vol. III. The Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ, with the Lives of His Apostles.
Vol. IV. (In preparation). Each 1.00.
History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, for the period of 6000 years. By Elder J. N. Andrews. This is a work of unusual interest, prepared with great care, and is full of historical and Scriptural facts. 528 pp. $1.00.
Life of Elder Joseph Bates, with portrait. 352 pp. 1.00.
The Constitutional Amendment. A discussion between Elder W. H. Littlejohn and the editor of the Christian Statesman, on the Sabbath. 1.00.
The Bible from Heaven. By Elder D. M. Canright. An argument to show that the Bible is not the work of men, but is of God. 300 pp. 80 cts.
Revised edition (in preparation). 1.00.
Spiritual Songs. A choice collection of Hymns and Tunes. 416 pp. 1.00.
The United States in the Light of Prophecy. An exposition of Rev. 13 : 11-17. By Elder U. Smith. Applying to our own land and time, this prophecy possesses surpassing interest for every American reader. 200 pp. 40 cts.
Paper covers, 20 cts.
Thoughts on Baptism. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. A careful examination of the subject of Christian Baptism in the light of history and the Bible. It presents strong arguments against the notion of Trine Immersion. 186 pp. Bound in flexible cloth, 35 cts.
Paper covers, 25 cts.
Song Anchor. For Sabbath-schools and praise service. By J. E. White. A new book, with excellent new words and music. 160 pp. 35 cts.
Per hundred, $30.00.
The Atonement. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. An examination of a remedial system in the light of Nature and Revelation. 168 pp. 20 cts.
The Ministration of Angels, and the origin, history, and destiny of Satan. By Elder D. M. Canright. 144 pp. 20 cts.
The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism, By Elder J. H. Waggoner. A thorough exposure of Spiritualism; application of the Scriptures, and copious extracts from a library of Spiritualist publications. 184 pp. 20 cts.
Our Faith and Hope. Sermons on the coming and kingdom of Christ. By Elder James White. 182 pp. 20 cts.
The Spirit of God, its gifts and manifestations to the end of the Christian age. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. 144 pp. 15 cts.
The Three Messages of Revelation 14 : 6-12. Particularly the third angel's message and the two-horned beast. By J. N. Andrews. 144 pp. 15 cts.
The Two Laws, as set forth in both Testaments. By Elder D. M. Canright. 104 pp. 15 cts.
Matthew Twenty-Four. A clear and forcible exposition of our Lord's discourse upon the Mount of Olives. By Elder James White. 64 pp. 10 cts.
The Sunday Seventh-Day Examined. A refutation of the teachings of Mede, Jennings, Akers, and Fuller. By Elder J. N. Andrews. 88 pp. 10 cts.
The Seven Trumpets. An exposition of the subject, as set forth in the eighth and ninth chapters of the Revelation. 96 pp. 10 cts.
Refutation of the Age to Come. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. A most decisive refutation of the view that men may find pardon after the Saviour has closed his work in the Sanctuary above. 168 pp. 20 cts.
The Morality of the Sabbath. By Elder D. M. Canright. A complete refutation of a common objection against the Sabbath. 96 pp. 15 cts.
The Resurrection of the Unjust. A vindication of the doctrine. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. 100 pp. 15 cts.
A Word for the Sabbath, or false theories exposed. (POEM.) By Eld. U. Smith. 60 pp. 15 cts.
Vindication of the True Sabbath. By Elder J. W. Morton, formerly missionary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, to Hayti. 68 pp. 10 cts.
Sermon on the Two Covenants. By Elder J. N. Andrews. An able argument on an important subject. 48 pp. 10 cts.
The Truth Found. The nature and obligation of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. 64 pp. 10 cts.
Christ and the Sabbath; or, Christ in the Old Testament and the Sabbath in the New. By Elder James White. 56 pp. 10 cts.
Redeemer and Redeemed. By Elder James White. This work sets forth the plan of Redemption in its three stages. 40 pp. 10 cts.
Systematic Benevolence. Setting forth the Bible plan of giving for the support of the ministry. 64 pp. 10 cts.
Death of Eld. Maxson.
By I. D. Van Horn
OUR much esteemed brother in Christ, Eld. Stephen Maxson, died at his residence in Walla Walla, Washington Territory, of erysipelas, Sept. 28, 1879, aged 62 years, 11 months, and 21 days.
Bro. Maxson was born in Berlin, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. His parents were members of the Seventh-day Baptist church, and at the early age of thirteen he found favor with God, and from this time to the day of his death he lived an active Christian life. He ever kept the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day, and was a firm and zealous advocate of it, both by precept and example. Soon after his marriage he moved to Milton, Wis., and in 1859 to the Walla Walla Valley, being one of the pioneers of this new country. In 1868 he embraced the views of the Seventh-day Adventists by reading, and rejoiced greatly at the prospect of the Lord’s soon coming to give reward to all his saints. He was ever ready at his post of duty, and foremost in every enterprise to advance the cause he loved. When the Seventh-day Adventist Conference was formed here, he was placed in a position of trust as one of its chief officers, which he filled to the satisfaction of all up to his death.
The cause he so much loved, the community in which he lived, and his family, have all met with a great loss. We mourn, but not without hope. He gave the best of evidence to all who were with him during his short sickness of only eight days, that the Saviour in whom he had trusted for fifty years was very near to him in the dying hour. His labors are done. He has gone to his rest. But soon the Life-giver will come and call him forth with all the redeemed of the Lord, and with them he will share in the glory and joy of the eternal world.
Words of comfort were spoken to the mourners, and to all, on the funeral occasion, by the Rev. P. B. Chamberlain, Pastor of the Congregational church of Walla Walla, W. T.
The Advent Review and the Sabbath Recorder are requested to copy. I. D. VAN HORN.
Thanksgiving.
By Editor
THURSDAY, November 27, has been set apart as a day of thanksgiving by President Hayes.