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Signs of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 30.

The Sermon
Earlier text: A Peculiar People

Religious Miscellany.

FOREIGN.

—Pere Hyacinthe is lecturing at Lausanne, Switzerland, on the Decalogue, and is in feeble health.
ROME, May 15.—The journal La Voce Della Verita has been suspended for publishing the pope's address to the German pilgrims.
—The Russian Government has prohibited all Catholic processions in several provinces of the Empire.
—The investigations preparatory to the canonization of Joan of Arc are being pushed with vigor at Orleans.
—There is an isolated monastery in Turkey inhabited by twenty-three monks, who have not seen a woman since infancy.
—Fifteen years ago the first missionaries began their work in Japan. Now thirteen or fourteen missionary societies are represented at different ports, and about 100 men and women (including upward of forty ordained missionaries) are engaged in gospel labor. But their privileges and liberties are very much circumscribed, and persecution is to be feared any day.
—The Evangelical churches in Jerusalem have about four hundred members, of various nationalities. The native Protestants in Galilee number from five to six hundred.
—The English Presbyterian Church has fifteen missionaries in China, three of whom are medical men.
—A discovery of great interest to Egyptologists and antiquarians generally is reported from Port Said. A learned archaeologist in that place has just found a monumental stone to Thotmes III., under whose reign the exodus of the Israelites is supposed to have taken place. The inscriptions which have already been deciphered contain more than four hundred geographical names, all recognizable, and for the most part belonging to Arabia, Armenia, Nubia, and the coast of the Mediterranean.
—A motion to strike out the so-called "damnatory clauses" from the Athanasian Creed has passed the laity and clergy of the Irish Episcopal Synod, and has been confirmed by the bishops.
—The Roman Catholic bishops of Canada have addressed a letter of congratulation and sympathy to the German prelates, now in conflict with and under the ban of that government.
—A Communistic mob, for what reason does not appear, have burned down a Jesuit College at Buenos Ayres and committed other violent acts. It is likely that public sentiment has been tending, as in Brazil, against the pretensions of the order on account of the avowed supremacy of its authority in matters of religion regardless of the civil power.
—Legal proceedings have been commenced by the Prussian government for the removal of the Prince Bishop of Breslau, for a violation of the ecclesiastical law.
—Moody and Sankey still continue to draw numerous crowds to their revival meetings in London. The aristocrat attend, the feature of one afternoon being the presence of the Princess of Wales.
—Half-way measures, it is evident enough, will not suit Prussia in her fight with the pope. The new bill just introduced into the Lower House of the Diet for the suppression of the religious orders in the Empire is striking deeper than ever. The bill, so far as outlined, makes a clean sweep, though not on the instant. Existing establishments are forbidden to receive new members, and they must be dissolved six months after the bill passes, and of course there is no doubt about its passage.
—In every country and every nation, popery is meeting with adversity and tribulation, except in the United States. This is passing strange.

HOME NEWS.

—There are said to be 400 religious journals in the United States, of which the larger numbers are, Methodist, 47; Catholic, 41; Baptist, 35; Presbyterian, 29; Episcopalian, 21.
—The movement of Bishop Cummins to establish a Reformed Episcopal Church, which is opposed to Ritualism, about holds its own with no apparent increase.
—The Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association at Richmond, Va., is the first one held in the South since the beginning of the war.
—Probably a larger number of the colored people South belong to the Baptist church than to any other. The North and South Baptists are trying to unite in the work there.
—It is stated that twenty thousand Alaska Indians living along the coast, are asking for ministers and teachers; and offer to build churches and school-houses at their own expense.
—Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler has lost only two Sundays, through sickness, in a ministry of twenty-nine years.
—The profits of the Methodist Book Concern go to aid the general work of the denomination, more than a million of dollars having been thus earned by it within the last forty years. At its late anniversary, the agent of the Western Concern said that the latter alone had, within the last six years, sold two and a half million dollars' worth of books.
—Just one hundred years ago the wife and daughters of Daniel Boone came as the first white women in Kentucky, and the first sermon was preached at the Big Spring, in Harrodsburg, Mercer County.
—According to the last official report, there are in Ohio, 650 Baptist churches, 518 Baptist ministers, of whom 464 are ordained, and 54 licentiates. The total membership of the Baptist church is 43,053.
—The Presbyterian Theological College at Princeton, N. J., has five billiard tables in its gymnasium.
—The Chicago Interior suggests that the great revivals now in progress in all parts of the world may be the beginning of the Millennium. If they are all of the class we have witnessed we think the evidence is the other way.
—Hiram Revels, who was the first negro admitted to the United States Senate, is now a doctor of divinity in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Mississippi. He did credit to the State of Mississippi, which he represented in the Senate, by his modesty, ability, and sound judgment.
—Dr. Holland, an Episcopal minister in Missouri, has been preaching against the doctrine of eternal torment. His bishop has mildly rebuked him, and says that the subject seems "purposely to have been left in a certain degree of obscurity."
D. M. C.

News and Miscellany.

—The coal miners' strike seems to be nearly at an end. Messrs. Lintz, Bowman & Co.'s collieries at Mahanoy City (Pa.), resumed operations yesterday. The workmen went in at 20 per cent. reduction on the basis of 1874 for one month, after which a new and permanent arrangement will probably be made. The fact that over one hundred miners applied for work above the force needed shows favorably for an early resumption in the entire anthracite regions.
MAUCH CHUNK, May 25.—A heavy rain during the past eight hours has completely quenched the flames in the lumber region, and in all parts of the country.
—The Upper House of the Prussian Diet has passed bills for the suppression of convents and relative to the administration of church property.
—The Italian Government has ordered a removal of all Bishops who have not received the Royal approval of their appointment. The Archbishop of Palermo has already been warned to leave his see.
LONDON, May 28.—A dispatch just received here this morning reports a disastrous earthquake in the province of Borussa in Asia Minor. Over 348 persons were killed and wounded, and the destruction of property was very great.
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Information has been received at the State Department of the passage by acclamation, on the 22d of March last, of an Act by the Cortes of the Kingdom of Portugal granting unconditional freedom to the remaining Portuguese slaves known as "apprentices" or "freedmen." This act has not as yet been officially printed by the Government in the customary form, but it has been semi-officially promulgated.

THE GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE.

NEW YORK, May 25.—A letter published by William Grosvner, the scientist, claims that the insects ravaging the Western crops are not grasshoppers, but the young of the Rocky Mountain locusts, hatched this spring from eggs deposited last fall. He apprehends no injury of consequence west of Sedalia or Desmoines.
LEXINGTON (Mo.), May 28.—"There are millions of them" is the report from nearly all parts of this county. The grass and dog fennel will not last much longer, and as soon as they are gone the grasshoppers will make an onslaught on the crops. Their wings are developing very fast, and it will not be many days till the largest proportion of them will be able to emigrate.
RICHMOND (Mo.), May 28.—Since the heavy rain of Wednesday the hoppers are traveling in a southeasterly direction, eating everything as they go. There is no garden in this locality that they have not eaten up.
NEW ULM (Minn.), May 28.—Spring wheat is doing well in this vicinity, but it is feared it will be destroyed by grasshoppers, which are very thick in some localities. The probable yield cannot be ascertained yet.
OMAHA, May 28.—Heavy showers have prevailed throughout this State during the past two days, greatly benefiting the crops and proving fatal to the grasshoppers.
ST. JOSEPH (Mo.), May 27.—For the past three days hoppers in this immediate vicinity have been marching in a southwesterly direction. Whenever they strike a field or a garden, they leave scarcely a vestage of vegetation. Whole fields of grain are devastated in a few hours and the sections which they visit are laid waste. However, their ravages are not universal. They seem to collect in armies and all march in one direction, turning aside for nothing. Thus some sections are devastated while others are free from the scourge. In many places plans are being devised for their destruction, and bushels are destroyed daily. The most sucessful plan is digging trenches in front of them, with pit holes every thirty or forty feet, and sweeping the "hoppers" into them. Had this course been pursued from the time they first commenced marching, there would have been very little damage done; as it is we fear most of the small grain will be destroyed, although the farmers will be able to replant a crop of corn and late potatoes.
Persons receiving letters from the grasshopper district in Southwestern Missouri affirm that the prospect is appaling. For two years they have had scarcely any crops and this year there is prospect of none; wheat, oats, and corn are eaten to the ground; and the cattle and horses are dying. Even the wealthy are becoming alarmed, while the poor stand face to face with the grasshoppers and starvation. One family has already died for want of food. Those wishing to sell cannot get one-third of the value of their lands two years ago, and in some places landed security will not obtain money at the banks. That this state of things prevails in a comparatively small district, is the only encouraging feature in the case.

CHAMPION STEALING.

Of late years there have been a number of adroit official thieves, but the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania looms up conspicuously as a champion worthy of dividing the honors with Tweed. It is stated that on assuming office in 1869 he was a bankrupt. He was treasurer for five years, during which time his lawful salary would have amounted to $22,000. In the mean time he paid off all his debts, purchased a re-nomination; loaned to a banker in Philadelphia $100,000; bought $40,000 worth of stock in the Pittsburg Commercial; paid for a brown stone front in one of the fashionable thoroughfares of Philadelphia; sports a $1,800 span of horses on Broad street, and spends money like a prince. It might be thought that so precious a thief would be under arrest for his purloinings; but he is not. On the contrary it is alleged that his influence in political circles is only exceeded by that of Senator Cameron. What a comment on the immorality of the times.

Obituary Notices.

"I will ransom them from the power of the grave: I will redeem them from death." Hosea 13:14.
BROTHER JARIE GATES, aged 56 years and 10 months, departed this life May 11, 1875. He was taken with pneumonia on Sabbath and died on Tuesday.
Bro. Gates embraced the Sabbath with his companion one year ago last February, under the labors of the writer, and has been a consistent Sabbath-keeper to his death. Remarks at the funeral by the writer.
E. B. CARPENTER. Independence, May 17, 1875.

Camp Ground.

A COMPANY from San Francisco and Oakland went to San Rafael, Sunday, May 30, for the purpose of examining grounds recommended for the camp-meeting. We found only one site, having tolerable shade, most of it willow, being about four rods from the Marin Co. Narrow Gage Rail Road, at a point about one mile above the junction of the San Quentin and San Rafael Rail Road with the Narrow Gauge Rail Road. The grove is on the grounds occupied last week by the Second Brigade of Cal., in their State military encampment, and is about two miles above San Rafael.
Persons could get to the ground by San Francisco and San Quentin boats and San Quentin R. R., at 9 A. M. of each day, or by the Saucelito and Marin Co. Narrow Gauge Rail Road each morning. Such are the favorable features of the ground. Now for the unfavorable ones. There is a small stream of water from a mountain spring running through the ground now, but this dries up in July or August, so that by the time we should want the ground in September, we should have to depend on digging wells, and all wells in the vicinity are from sixty to two hundred feet deep. All straw needed we should have to buy by the bale at San Rafael. This latter item, however, we should not mind, if the matter of water could be arranged.
We have learned still further respecting the grounds at Livermore Valley, that in order to get over the mountains between Martinez and the grounds it will require two days' drive with teams, and one of these days over very rough mountain road. So that site looks rather unfavorable. The matter is still undecided where the camp-meeting shall be held. Our attention is called to a location eleven miles east of Oakland, which will be examined and reported upon soon.
J. N. L.

Sermons Must Have Blades

Passing along the road the other day, we thought we had found a very beautiful knife. On picking it up it was found to be only a handle without a blade. So we do hear very beautiful sermons—well-written and well-read—but they are without a blade. They cut out no cancers of sin, and carve out no models of piety. Sermons must have blades.
The head of the Roman Catholic church of England, and the head of the Roman Catholic church in the United States, were once Episcopalians.

Note.

We would call special attention to the article in the Missionary Department of this number, headed “Instructions.” There are several items calling for action before the quarterly meetings.

District No. 3.

As THE director of this district, who also acts as business agent of the St Helena church, is necessarily absent for a few months, I request the vice president of our State T. and M. Society to perform the duties of the director in that district till his return. I would also request Bro. A. B. Atwood to act as business agent for the St Helena church for the same period. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres. Cal. T. and M. Society.

Quarterly Meetings.

It is desirable to have the ordinances at all the quarterly meetings, but in order for this to be accomplished, it will be necessary to have either an ordained elder or a minister at each of them. We have planned the following arrangement, and request the parties named to fill the appointments suggested if agreeable.
Elder D. M. Canright to officiate at San Jose; J. N. Loughborough, at Woodland; J. C Downing, at Healdsburg; Wm. Dennison of Santa Rosa, at St. Helena; T. M. Chapman, at Bloomfield; D. B. Rickey, at San Francisco; and Charles Jones, ordained elder and licentiate from Michigan, to speak, Sabbath at 11 A. M. and officiate in the ordinances at Vallejo.
CAL. CON. COMMITTEE.

The American Cardinal.

THE Christian Union noticing the comments of the papers on the creation of a Cardinal for the United States, says :—
“Dr. McCloskey is no more dangerous as Cardinal than he was as archbishop, nor as archbishop than he was as bishop, nor as bishop than he was as a simple priest. These offices in this great and venerable sect were not invented for the sake of plaguing Americans and Protestants. They have been for ages a part of the machinery of church organization. The Roman Catholic church is to receive Christian courtesy and toleration, not because it has not yet developed all its polity among us, but on the broad ground of the liberty of men to worship God after their own reason and conscience. This church is no more aggressive with an American Cardinal at its head than it was before. It is a matter with which Christians of other sects have nothing to do. It is the domestic business of this great mother sect with which sister sects have no right to meddle.”
This is far from a just and true view of the subject. If the influence of the dogmas of the Catholic church is evil, and if they are anti-republican in their nature, and if, as Mr. Gladstone has recently shown, they are revolutionary, the power of the church for evil is increased among us by strengthening its influence over the minds of its devotees. No one can deny that the Catholic church in America is strengthened by this act. The very life of the church is in its pomps and pageantry, and as these come more directly to the observation of the mass of believers their enthusiasm is increased. The editor of the Union is not ignorant of the fact that to captivate the senses is the object of the vain show of that church, and that a Cardinal, decked in scarlet, clothed with the power of a prince by the direct action of the head of the church, is an object of greater reverence than a bishop, and his word carries greater authority accordingly. It was a grand stroke of policy on the part of the pope to create an American Cardinal, and from the description of his installation we should judge that the event has nearly turned the heads of many American journalists and statesmen. Much more has it affected the minds of the Catholics of this country.
The figure used by the Union is suggestive, but for accuracy it may be improved in application. It speaks of the “mother sect” and the “sister sects.” If the sisters were introduced it were well enough to call them so, but when “the great mother sect” is first introduced the harmony of association would be better preserved by speaking of the others as the daughter sects. And this would be more in conformity to the view given in the book of Revelation. J. H. W.

Still They Come.

I WISH to mention an item or two for the encouragement of our missionary workers. After the SIGNS OF THE TIMES was started here in Oakland, Bro. Thomas Jessen, a Dane, embraced the truth, and sent some tracts and the SIGNS, commencing with No. 9, to his brother, Hans Jessen, Hayden Hill, Cal. He read; became interested and convinced of the truth. Some four weeks since he came down from the mountains to San Francisco. To-day (May 29) he was baptized and united with the Oakland church.
The second case I will mention is that of a Swedish sister, Hilde Helgeson, who was living in Kansas City. She was an acquaintance of Bro. and sister Neilson who came from Chicago to San Francisco near the first of last February. sister Neilson after receiving the truth commenced to write and send tracts and papers to sister Helgeson in Kansas. The Lord opened her eyes to see the truth. Some three weeks since she came to San Francisco. To-day she was at our meeting in Oakland, rejoicing in the truth and keeping the Lord's Sabbath. So the good seed takes root. Let all the laborers in the vineyard take courage, for humble, faithful labor, followed by our earnest prayers, will bear sure fruit.
J. N. L.

English Bibles.

We will send any of the following English Reference Bibles, by mail, post-paid, at their respective prices:
(1) Min. Ref. after verse, mor., $3.00 (2) Nonp'r'l, Marg. Ref., 2.50 (3) Pearl, “ “ “ Gilt, 2.00 (4) Diamond, “ “ “ circuit, 2.00 (5) “ “ “ “ Brass Rim'd 1.50 (6) “ “ “ “ Plain, 1.25

Appointments.

WOODLAND.—At the quarterly meeting with the Woodland church, June 19 and 20.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH

LAKE Co. I will speak in Lake Co., Cal., as Brn. Poulson and Hicks may arrange, Sabbath and First-day, June 5, 6. Bro. Healy and myself will spend some ten days at least in that County. Arrangements can be made for baptism at our first meetings, and the time fixed upon.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH

Quarterly Meeting at Walla Walla

The next quarterly meeting of the S. D. Adventists of the Walla Walla Valley and vicinity, will be held at Walla Walla City, on Sabbath and first-day, July 3 and 4. Friends from Pendleton, Weston, Milton, Dayton, and Mill Creek, are especially invited to attend. The house of worship will be dedicated at this meeting. We shall hope to organize a Tract and Missionary Society, and it is hoped that all will be prepared to pay their s. B. pledges as far as possible. Come brethren and sisters all make preparations to be at the meeting.
I. D. Van Horn.

Quarterly Meetings.

The Quarterly Meetings for the third quarter will be held as follows:—
The State Quarterly Meeting will be held at Oakland, Cal., July 3 and 4.
District Quarterly Meetings will be held in District No. 1, at Bloomfield, June 19 and 20. District No. 2, at Healdsburg, June 19 and 20. District No. 3, at St. Helena, June 19 and 20. District No. 4, at Vallejo, June 19 and 20. District No. 5, at Woodland, June 19 and 20. District No. 7, in connection with the State Quarterly Meeting at Oakland, July 3 and 4. District No. 8, at San Jose, June 19 and 20. District No. 9, at San Francisco, June 19 and 20.
We will try to furnish ministerial labor for the State Quarterly Meeting at Oakland, and at the San Jose meeting, at Woodland, and at Vallejo. The other Quarterly Meetings will be presided over by the directors of the respective districts, except No. 3, which, as the director is absent, will be presided over by the Vice President of the Cal. T. and M. Society.
The blanks should be passed out by the church librarians June 5, and then filled out and returned to the librarians June 12, so as to give the librarians ample time to make up their reports for their district Quarterly Meeting. The report of each church should be sent, or carried, to the district secretary at the Quarterly Meeting, so that the district secretary can make a report of the workings of the district for the quarter.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres. Cal. State T. and M. Society.

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