The North of Europe Visited by a Tremendous Gale—Many Shipwrecks in the North and Baltic Seas—Islands and Towns Swept by the Flood—Great Loss of Life, Etc.
LONDON, Nov. 16.—The Norwegian ship Sesostris, was wrecked in the North Sea during the terrible gale on Wednesday last, and one hundred and forty of her crew perished.
A dispatch from Stralsund, to-day's date, reports that eighty vessels were totally wrecked in the late gale. The town was considerably damaged by the inundation. The fishermen on the islands of Seingst, Dars, and Hiddensoe, lost all their fishing smacks and apparatus. Their houses and contents were greatly damaged by the water. Nearly all the cattle on the islands were drowned. Wells were flooded from the sea, and the inhabitants are suffering for want of fresh water, food, and shelter. The Government has dispatched a steamer laden with supplies for their relief. The island of Rugen also felt the disaster heavily. Many of its fishing boats have been destroyed, and the fields near the coast line are flooded. The loss of life, both on the islands and mainland, is very great.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 16.—During the recent great storm, the small island of Bostoa was entirely submerged, and all its inhabitants were drowned.
The storm which raged in the north of Europe, on Wednesday and Thursday, was very disastrous throughout Denmark, and on the coast. The wind blew a hurricane, and rain and snow fell incessantly. Streams overflowed their banks and inundated the country for miles. Great damage was done to sea-port towns, and numerous marine disasters occurred. Reports of the loss of twenty-four ships have already been received. Half of the town of Prasto, in the island of Seeland, on the Baltic, was laid waste by the force of the wind.
Princeville, Ill., Nov. 17
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand,
PROVIDENCE of God permitting, I will meet, with the Deering church, at Allen's Corner, Dec. 14, 15. The tract and missionary work, and Systematic Benevolence will be taken up at this meeting. We hope, therefore, for a general attendance. Come prepared to spend two entire days and evenings in the service of God. Meeting will commence Friday evening. S. N. HASKELL.
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will attend the next quarterly Tract and Missionary meeting for each district of Vermont, which will be held as follows:
1st district, at Bordoville, Dec. 7 and 8.
2d “ “ East Charleston, “ 14 “ 15.
3d “ “ Wolcott, “ 21 “ 22.
4th “ “ Bristol, “ 28 “ 29.
5th “ “ Jamaica, Jan. 4 “ 5.
The agents of the several churches should be prepared to report the working of the Society in the churches that they represent, at the quarterly meeting for the district to which they respectively belong.
While attending these meetings I will also meet the brethren and sisters at Berkshire, Dec. 10; Richford, Dec. 11; Sutton, Dec. 18; Johnson, Dec. 24; and Andover, Jan. 1. Meetings to commence at 6½ P. M. except Sabbath and Sunday. Shall we not make up our minds to work for God, and to make a clean work in paying our Systematic Benevolence up to Jan. 1, 1873, at these meetings? A. C. BOURDEAU.
QUARTERLY meeting at Princeville, Ill., Dec. 7 and 8. Eld. Andrews and other officials are expected to be at this meeting, and matters pertaining to the T. and M. Society will be attended to. Let all the friends of the cause in this district be present if possible. B. F. MERRITT.
Princeville, Ill., Nov. 17
QUARTERLY meeting for Allegan Co., in Otsego, Sabbath and first-day, Dec. 7 and 8. We hope every church in this T. and M. district will be represented in this meeting. J. S. DAY, Clerk.
QUARTERLY and tract Society meeting in Iowa, for district No. 5, at Sandyville, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
District No. 7, at Peru, Dec. 7, 8.
District No. 6, at Decatur, Dec. 14, 15.
Hope there will be a general attendance at each of these meetings. Bro. Mitchell may be expected. H. NICOLA.
Princeville, Dec. 6–12.
Gridley, “ 13–18.
Iroquois Co., “ 20–26.
(Where Bro. W. C. Price may appoint.) We hope to see all the friends of the cause in Iroquois County at this meeting.
Pontiac, Dec. 27–31.
Otter Creek, Jan. 1–5.
Vermilionville, “ 3–7.
Serena, “ 8–13.
We are anxious for a general attendance of all the friends of the cause within the limits of the above meetings. We expect to give attention to the Tract and Missionary Society, and other important matters. R. F. ANDREWS.
P. S. As our Conference is very much embarrassed on account of means, we expect our brethren will make their calculations to settle up all arrearages on their S. B., and, if possible, three months in advance, at these meetings. R. F. A.
Review Trial Trip.
By Editor
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The California Camp-Meeting.
We learn from Bro. M. G. Kellogg, who passed through this place last week, on his way to Dr. Trall's Hygienic College, that Bro. Loughborough sent us, some time since, a full report of the California Camp-meeting. This, with several other articles which Bro. L. has written, has, for some reason, failed to come to hand. The readers of the Review will share equally with us in the great regret we feel at this failure on the part of the mails. From Bro. White's reports in Nos. 18 and 19, a good idea may be gathered of that Camp-meeting. Bro. Kellogg reports that it was an excellent meeting. The presence of Bro. and sister White, who enjoyed unbounded freedom in speaking the word, was cheering to the friends in California, and contributed chiefly to the interest of the meeting. Several were converted, and seven or eight were baptized. The brethren there are encouraged, and the prospect before the cause in that section is good.
Thoughts on Daniel.
By Editor
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The School.
By School Committee
The present term is drawing to a close, the twelve weeks of its continuance reaching to Dec. 9. It is decided to have a vacation of one week only. The winter term will commence Dec. 16, and continue twelve weeks to March 10, 1873. Several scholars have come in to spend a short time in the closing up of this term, to get an idea of the plans and methods of the school, and be prepared to commence understandingly the winter term. The prospect of increase of scholars is such that it is found necessary to procure larger and more suitable rooms than those thus far occupied. This will be done before the winter term commences. SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Facts for the Times.
By C. H. Bliss
RELIGIOUS ZEAL.
Here are some sensible remarks from DeWitt Talmage, written with special reference to the work accomplished by a large tent, conducted by the Methodists, which has been pitched lately in Salt Lake City.
Oh! for more big tents! Four long stakes and a big piece of canvas, and four or five Christians on fire with zeal, have proved themselves able to shake Brigham's Tabernacle, that cost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
There is such a thing as too much deliberation in religion. The game gets away from us while we are loading the gun. The Methodist Church, like the Presbyterian and Baptist and Episcopalian, has of late, felt the tendency to settle on its lees, and build granite churches, and whittle its old-time hallelujahs down to a quartette, and hand the people up to Heaven with delicate kid-gloves which, at the least strain, split in the back. I would not give one of the backwoods Methodist meetings, where I used, in boyhood, occasionally to go and stand at the door, afraid to go in—for they had fifty persons converted there in one night—for a hundred precise churches where they preserve their religion from spoiling by keeping it on ice.
We want a flashing up of the old-time Christian heroics. So afraid is a church of a sensation, that it goes into stagnation. It costs from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to build a church in which to get a few hundred people to Heaven, when those two hundred and fifty thousand dollars rightly applied, would build gospel advantages for ten times the number. In addition to church history and the dead languages, we want a new professorate in our theological seminaries; one that will teach our candidates for the ministry how to shoot on the wing.
Shall we not also cry out for more “big tents,” and more preachers that are on “fire with zeal;” men that have the word of God burning in them as fire in their bones; men that are not so afraid of sensation that they will realize the opposite—“stagnation.”
Oh for more of that holy zeal that was manifested by Paul as he stood before Felix, or of a Peter as he stood up on the day of Pentecost and declared to the Jewish people that they had crucified the Son of God, or of John, the beloved disciple, as he boldly declares, He that saith, I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Says the Lord, “Cry aloud and spare not,—lift up thy voice like a trumpet,—and show my people their transgressions and the house of Jacob their sins.”
C. H. BLISS.
The Disastrous Flood in Italy.
New York, November 17.—The London Times of the 5th, in an editorial on the floods in Italy, says: Two-thirds of the Province of Mantua, and one-third of that of Ferrara, have been flooded. More than twenty thousand families are homeless. Vast tracts of the territory of Parma, Reggio and Modena are turned into lakes, on the surface of which may be seen the tops of trees, the roofs of houses and the floating carcasses of drowned cattle. Not only the solid barns and substantial farm houses peculiar to those districts, but even churches, have in many cases been unable to withstand the violence of the floods. Many human beings have perished, both of those who allowed themselves to be caught in the lower buildings, and of those who fled for safety to loftier edifices, but hardly less wretched is the condition of the survivors. The cattle they have rescued from the flood are perishing from want of fodder. They themselves are thrown for sustenance on their neighbors’ charity. The harvests they have lately garnered, the fields they have just sown, are laid waste. What was a month ago the richest of plains is now a chaotic marsh, not unlikely to bear for many years the marks of a few hours’ havoc. Nor are the ravages limited to the lower Islands of the Po, but all around, over the vast level and up to the mountain sides, devastation extends. The rivers are everywhere breaking their bounds, and the waters are out throughout the peninsula. The distress is immense, and threatens to exhaust the ordinary resources of public and private charity. To repair the damages done to their dykes by the Po and the Oglio, in the Province of Mantua alone, during the present inundation, it is reckoned that £120,000 will be required.
Chicken Plague.
New Cause for Alarm—A Terrible Disease Among the Fowls in New York and Pennsylvania—All the Symptoms of the Epizootic.
NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—For the last few days, a very noticeable decrease in the fowls has been observed in the markets of this city, and especially at the poultry stalls in Washington Market. In many instances, chickens which are dressed and sent to market have dark streaks in the neck, and the head is swollen to an unusual size. A terrible disease has broken out in the poultry pens in several places throughout the State, and has caused a considerable amount of commotion among the poultry and game dealers in this city, notwithstanding some of the dealers in fowls in Washington Market yesterday denied all knowledge of the disease. They were disposing of hens and chickens bearing evidence of having died of the disease. One dealer admitted the existence of a disease, and said that a few days ago he was in Pennsylvania, and all along the banks of the Susquehanna the poultry were dying in thousands from the disease, and nothing had been found to arrest it. Fowls are taken with staggering fits, running at the beaks, and, in fact, bearing all the symptoms of the epizootic. These fits renew with decreasing intervals and increasing violence until death, which generally ensues in a few hours after the attack. As soon as chickens are attacked, they hide in holes, or crawl off to some corner.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Along the line of the Hudson River a terrible disease has broken out among poultry, chickens dying by hundreds, and turkeys, geese, and ducks in the market show signs of the malady. The disease appears to be assuming the form of a destructive pestilence among domestic fowls.
DROPSY, the new horse disease, has made its appearance in all the city car stables. Fifty per cent of the horses attacked are said to die, and the horses affected are mainly those worked while suffering from the epidemic. Stablemen are being alarmed, as they thought the disease was disappearing.
THE FLOODS AND HURRICANE IN EUROPE
Europe.
THE FLOODS AND HURRICANE IN EUROPE.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 17.—Advice from the provinces show that the wreck and ruin caused by the hurricane is enormous. At many ports the sea embankments and draining works are demolished. The loss of life is very great. The damage done in the island of Falster, known for its fertility as the orchard of Denmark, will exceed $1,000,000. The King has sent relief to the inhabitants, and the Queen heads the subscription list and presides over aid associations.
The Minister of Marine has ordered commandants of Danish vessels and naval stations to give every succor to shipwrecked crews along the coast.
The Pope of Rome refuses to be comforted. The Italian Parliament some time since voted him a generous annuity, and King Victor Emanuel recently tendered him the money, but “His Holiness,” through Cardinal Antonelli, indignantly refused to accept it. Old Pius, it appears, cannot be reconciled to the loss of Rome and his temporal power, but we don’t see how with the necessarily brief tenure of life left to the old man, he can hope to help himself. Nursing resentment is the sign neither of wisdom in age, nor of “infallibility” in a Pope.
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Tent-Meeting in San Francisco
We learn by letters from California, that the tent-meeting, now being held by Bro. and sister White in San Francisco, is increasing in interest and numbers.
Boston Fire Destroys Publishing Office
From the World's Crisis of Nov. 20, we learn that the great fire in Boston completely destroyed the office of H. L. Hastings, publisher of The Christian. His new printing presses, type, plates, paper, publishing material, books, tracts, pamphlets, and manuscripts, were all swept away by the devouring flames. He resumes the work of publishing at 30 Hanover St.
Waggoner-Vogel Discussion Manuscript Delayed
By Editor
☞ MANUSCRIPT for the continuation of the discussion between Elds. Waggoner and Vogel, expected for this number, is not received.
A. Minto, St. Charles, Mich., would like to employ immediately ten able-bodied men, Sabbath-keepers, to chop and saw in the lumber woods.
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