—San Luis Obispo, Cal., has recently had a $150,000 dollar fire.
—Ice floods at Montreal have recently done damage to the amount of $1,750,000.
—The New York Assembly passed the bill to wind up the Broadway Surface Railroad Corporation by a vote of 97 to 9.
—The amount of standard silver dollars in circulation on April 10, out of a total coinage of $226,946,121, was $52,264,396.
—News of wholesale conflagrations comes from several parts of Austria. Several towns have been completely destroyed by fire.
—The value of what is strictly known as hardware in this country last year amounted to nearly $60,000,000, of which nearly half was made in Connecticut.
—Levuka, the capital of the Fiji Islands, was almost destroyed by a hurricane on the night of the 3d and the morning of the 4th of March.
—Cardinal Taschereau, of Canada, has issued a pastoral letter condemning the Knights of Labor as a secret organization, inimical to the interests of religion.
—April 23, a strike of watch-makers at Grammont, Belgium, resulted in a serious riot. Several persons were injured, and a large number of the rioters were arrested.
—April 20, Burmese New Year, fifty followers of Myingzaing, the rebel prince, set fire to the city of Mandalay in several places. About one-third of the walled city was destroyed.
—The American bark Paul Jones, Captain Winn, which sailed from Boston for Australia on September 17, 1884, was burned to the water’s edge on March 19 last, off Lorne, Victoria.
—The Bishop of Madrid was shot and fatally wounded by an ex-priest, April 18, on the steps of the cathedral in that city. The motive for the murder was revenge, the bishop having deposed the priest.
—April 23, an attempt was made to destroy the church of San Luis in the city of Madrid. The explosive was placed in an enormous candle. The building was much damaged, and the two sextons seriously injured.
—At Bradford, Pa., April 24, a small frame building, erected on posts and used as sleeping quarters by thirty-eight Italian railroad laborers, toppled over and immediately took fire. Six of the men were burned to death, and three others were badly injured.
—The Powers of Europe have made a demand that Greece disarm immediately. But that Government declares that the work must be done gradually, and not in eight days as required in the ultimatum. Further action on the part of the Powers may be necessary.
—News received from Mexico confirms the reports of bloody municipal riots at Chihuahua. The riots occurred April 25. A number of Mexicans were killed, together with seven American residents. The Government has sent a large body of troops to the place to keep order.
—Zach. Montgomery, of California, has been confirmed as Assistant Attorney-General for the Interior Department, by a majority of only one vote. The opposition to Mr. Montgomery was on account of his published views on educational matters, he being very much opposed to the public school system.
—Recent advices from Burmah state that the British expedition sent against the Kchyen tribe has been defeated by the rebels. Re-enforcements have been ordered from Mandalay. The rebels captured Pagandet, a police station, bound the garrison with cords, and massacred twenty-three persons.
—Private and trustworthy cable dispatches say that the native malcontents in India are becoming expectant of a break-up of British rule. European officials, civil and military, state that never, since the great mutiny was crushed, were the natives, and especially the Brahmin classes, so insolent and threatening as now.
—In a recent speech before what is known as the Workingmen’s Rifle Corps, in New York, Editor Sewitch, of the Volkes Zeitung, advised his hearers to arm themselves as rapidly as possible, and prepare for future trouble. Rifles, he said, could be had for $6.00 each, and ammunition was cheap. The crowd cheered the sentiments.
—A dangerous state of excitement exists among the peasantry of Galicia, Austro-Hungary, owing to a rumor that the Government intends to restore the forced labor laws, and that the aristocrats are organizing a massacre of Polish peasants in revenge for the atrocities which the peasants committed upon the nobles in 1846. Secret meetings are being held by peasants, a majority of whom are armed. The nobles are taking refuge in the cities.
—April 18, the town of Stry, in Galicia, was almost completely destroyed by fire. The number of houses burned is about 600. Many persons were killed. The inhabitants are destitute. A high wind was blowing, and the fire started in several parts of the town about the same time. One hundred persons were killed in one street by falling walls. Hundreds of persons are missing. The lack of water rendered aid by the military futile.271
—Geronimo and his band are again committing depredations on the frontier between Arizona and Sonora. From April 22-27 inclusive, ten persons are known to have been killed; others have been taken prisoners, and still others are missing. Eyewitnesses to some of the outrages say that the Indians wore the uniform of General Crook's scouts.
—Judge Zane, of Utah, has given a decision in the contested Territorial election cases, ousting the Mormon incumbents, who hold offices under an old law making them elective. The Judge holds that they are appointive, and that Governor Murray's appointees are entitled to the positions. An appeal will be taken to the Territorial Supreme Court, which meets in June.
—At 6 o'clock on the morning of April 20, the village of East Lee, Mass., was inundated and devastated by the breaking away of the dam at Mud Pond Reservoir, Mountain Lake, about two and a half miles from the village. East Lee, a village where half a dozen paper mills are situated, is on the stream, and received its first news of the accident when the flood came pouring down the streets.
—The past two weeks have been very fruitful of labor difficulties, and strikes of greater or less magnitude are reported from almost all parts of this country, and some in Europe. At midnight, April 21, 6,000 employés of the sugar refineries of the eastern district of Brooklyn went out on a strike. Afterwards, orders were issued to stop work in all the Brooklyn refineries except one, thus throwing 20,000 persons out of employment. Space forbids more than a bare mention of the "tie up" on the New York street-car lines, the continued trouble on the Missouri Pacific Railway, the strike by 950 men in the car foundry, zinc works, and water works at St. Louis, the strike on the Lake Shore Railroad, the tailors' strike in Boston, the street-car "tie up" in Baltimore, the strike of the 35,000 men at Chicago, the strike of the yardmen and plasterers at Houston and San Antonio, Texas, or on the 250,000 men at important centers, who, according to Bradstreet's, are demanding shorter hours. By the time this paper reaches our readers it is probable that at least 105,000 of these will have struck.
—Herr Most addressed a large meeting of Anarchists and Socialists in New York, April 24. He said: "I can furnish you with 10,000 fine breechloaders, with bayonets, at $10 apiece. You waste your money buying gold watches and jewelry. Better buy muskets, revolvers, and cartridges. When you have enough shooting-irons, then rise and take what belongs to us. We have not got artillery as yet, but we will have it in time. You can make bombs out of glass tubes and iron pipe, which you can load with dynamite or gun-powder, and when you see any of the rascals throw them under their feet and kill them. Let your women use bombs also, and learn how to use petroleum. Petroleum is cheap and burns well. Then, when we are all armed, we can rise at a given moment and take possession of all the armories and arsenals in the city. Then we would seize the capitalists by the throat. We will take all the meat, wine, vegetables, and champagne for ourselves. We will make war upon all capitalists, and State, and Church; for they are all our enemies."
The Law from Adam to Moses
(Continued from page 267.)
the people in the time of Abraham had the law?
“Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” Gen. 26:5.
12. By whom did sin enter into the world?
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” Rom. 5:12.
13. Then what did Adam violate?
Since Adam sinned, he must have had and violated the law of God, for “sin is the transgression of the law.”
14. What particular period does the apostle specify, during which death reigned?
“Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.” Rom. 5:14.
15. What alone causes death?
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” Rom. 5:12. “Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” James 1:15.
16. And what is necessary in order that sin may be imputed?
“For until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.” Rom. 5:13.
17. Then what besides sin and death must also have existed from Adam to Moses?
18. What does Paul say of the condition of both Jews and Gentiles.
“What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise; for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin.” Rom. 3:9.
19. If one is charged with sin, of what is he certainly in possession?
“Because the law worketh wrath; for where no law is, there is no transgression.” Rom. 4:15. “For until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.” Rom. 5:13.
20. To whom alone can a law speak?
“Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” Rom. 3:19.
21. As a consequence of what the law says, how do all the world stand?
22. Then who are under obligation to keep the law? The whole world.
23. If the law existed from the beginning, why was it necessary to give the law from Sinai? Rom. 5:20.
“The law entered, that the offense might abound.” Rom. 5:20. An offense is a violation of law; a transgression; a sin. Therefore the text means, “The law entered that the sin might abound.” Then there was sin before the time spoken of when the law “entered.” But as there can be no sin without law, it follows that the law existed before the time when “the law entered,” which was at Sinai. The “entering” of the law was the formal giving of it from Sinai. Before that time people knew the law only as portions of it remained written in their hearts (Rom. 2:15), or as they were taught it by the servants of God, like Enoch and Noah, who had direct communication with Heaven. But after the giving of the law from Sinai, each person could at all times carefully examine the whole law for himself, and consequently sins which before might have seemed trivial, or might have passed unnoticed, were made to stand out in their true character. Thus the offense was made to “abound.” As Paul elsewhere says, sin, by the commandment, became “exceeding sinful.” Rom. 7:13.
News and Notes.
By Editor
RELIGIOUS.
—Chicago has an estimated Lutheran population of about 200,000, of which number 37,000 are communicant members.
—Bishop Foster says: “Unmistakably, the times are tumultuous, and the horizon all round looks lowering and tempestuous.”
—It is estimated that there are now 160,000,000 copies of the Bible in existence. This would allow one Bible to every nine persons.
—The meeting of the American Congress of Churches, for 1886, will be held in Cincinnati, May 25-27. Governor Foraker is to preside.
—A correspondent of the Religio-Philosophical Journal thinks there is no doubt that dogs sometimes not only see spirits but are influenced by them.
—An exchange says that the New York churches have appointed a committee of three, whose duty it shall be to prevent the desecration of Sunday. Those three men will have their hands full.
—In a single day in the city of Hartford, Conn., ten people were divorced. And the cause? Just ponder it, reader,—it was intemperance. And in one case it was the wife who was the drunkard.—Christian at Work.
—The churches have not gained much by Sam Jones’s meetings in Cincinnati. It is said that no more than fifteen members have been received into the Baptist Churches, and fifty is thought to be a large estimate for the Presbyterian Churches. But then Mr. Jones got well advertised.
—Pilgrimage in the Greek Church would seem to be conducted on sound commercial principles. The Very Rev. Archpriest Hatherly, who is about to make his third pilgrimage to Jerusalem, offers to procure water direct from the River Jordan at five shillings per bottle, payable in advance.—Christian Union.
—The Watchman says: “Where in all the deliverances of earth’s proudest philosophers shall you by searching find so much, so compressed, and yet so speaking truth as you can find in the few sentences that make up the sum of the ten commandments?” And then it very truly says of the Jews: “Whenever, and in just so far as, they discarded any part of this code of divine inculcation, they forsook the living Jehovah.” Then since God does not change, it necessarily follows that people who now forsake any part of the ten commandments, just to the same extent forsake God. God has not one standard of righteousness for Jews, and another for Christians.
—The N. Y. Observer says: “Some days ago, Father Deasy presented the pope with the Peter’s Pence from the diocese of Boston. Such offerings from this country are constant. Mr. Parnell is in receipt of thousands weekly from the Irish in America. There is no poverty or depression in business in these United States which prevents hundreds of thousands of dollars from being sent to the pope and Mr. Parnell.” So far as the money sent to Mr. Parnell is concerned, we have nothing to say. It may be profitably expended, which cannot be said of that sent to the pope. But we cannot help thinking what a howl is constantly going up from these same donors to the pope and Ireland, because the thrifty Chinaman sends his little wages to his native country.
Pacific Health Journal.
By Editor
QUITE a large number of subscriptions to the Journal expire with Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1886. Please examine the little yellow label on your Health Journal and if it reads 1-6 then your time is out. Please renew immediately, only 50 cents per year.
If your label reads 2-1 your time expires with the next issue, viz., June, 1886, and if you will kindly renew now it will be quite an accommodation to the clerks who handle the list of subscribers' names, and will prevent the possibility of your missing any number of the Journal or your name being dropped from the list. Please renew immediately. Address, Pacific Health Journal, 1059 Castro Street, Oakland, Cal.
Upper Columbia Camp-Meeting.
By H. W. Decker
THIS meeting will be held at Walla Walla, May 26 to June 1. Tents will be pitched on the ground for all who wish to rent. It is thought best to have no restaurant on the ground. We hope to see a general turn-out at this meeting. Elder Butler, President of the General Conference, will be present to assist in the meeting. Important steps will be taken for the advancement of the cause the coming year. We trust our brethren will make strong efforts to break away from home cares, overcome difficulties that may be in the way, and attend this means of grace.
Since the last camp-meeting, some substantial advancement has been made. Our financial condition is better; and about fifty have accepted the truth. While this is a matter of encouragement, we feel that much more can be done the coming year.
If you have decided not to come, we entreat you to reconsider the matter and begin to make preparation immediately to attend. Bring your unconverted children and friends as far as possible. Come to stay till the close of the meeting, which will be Tuesday morning, June 1. Leave your home cares, and come with an earnest prayer for the blessing of God on the meeting. H. W. DECKER.
To Missionary Workers.
By Editor
SOME of our missionary workers are mailing SIGNS to addresses in Newfoundland and Mexico at pound rates. These papers are returned by the United States postal authorities to the office of publication. The postage rate on the SIGNS is one cent per copy to said countries. On tracts and other printed matter one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof.
The SIGNS, American Sentinel, Review, etc., can be mailed at pound rates from State Depositories and News Agencies in the United States to points in Canada, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, but not to Newfoundland and old Mexico.
Notice to Canvassers.
By Editor
FOR the next thirty days all American Sentinel subscriptions will begin with the April number unless otherwise ordered by you. We have only a few copies of the March number remaining. The January, February, and March numbers will be reprinted when wanted in lots of 500 and upwards, or to meet any special issue that may arise in the United States.
Addresses, Changes, and Subscriptions
By Editor
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ORDERS FORWARDED.
By Editor
BOOKS SENT BY FREIGHT.—C E Mills, J M McElhany, John Custer, L S Campbell, M May Taylor, Wm Potter, Elder E A Briggs, J D Rice.
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Publishers' Department.
By Editor
RECEIPTS.
NOTICE.—The change of figures on the address labels will be in all cases a sufficient receipt for money sent for the paper. If these changes do not appear in due time, and if books ordered by mail are not received, please notify us. All other business is acknowledged below.
CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE FUND.—Lakeport Church $23.55, St Helena Church $79.45, W T Eddy $5, Santa Rosa $81.30, San Pasqual $20, Mrs Ruoff $3.70, Healdsburg $192.25, Petaluma, $29, Ferndale $7.40, Napa $16.10, J Brannan $4, San Francisco $71.90, Norwalk $41.25, San Jose $11.30.
SHARES IN PACIFIC S D A PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION.—Jane Rowland $20, S Thurston $10, F C Howell $10.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY CAMP-MEETING FUND.—Mrs S A Dilley $5.
CHURCH DEBT FUND.—Alta Waggoner $2.50.
HEALDSBURG COLLEGE.—Mrs C Ruoff $5.
CASH RECEIVED ON ACCOUNT.—Colorado T and M Society $200, Pennsylvania T and M Society $145.18, Illinois T and M Society $100, Upper Columbia, per A T Jones $52.17.
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CALIFORNIA CITY MISSIONS.—A E Wintemute $2.50, Elder William Ings $25, Mrs J A Redden $5.
Something for Everybody.
By Editor
THE PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal., will send the American Sentinel, an 8-page monthly paper, one year, and either of the following books, in cloth binding, post-paid, for $1.25 (to foreign countries, 5s.) viz: "The Atonement: in the Light of Nature and Revelation," by Elder J. H. Waggoner, 368 pp.; "The Marvel of Nations: Our Country, its Past, Present, and Future," by Elder Uriah Smith, 282 pp., over forty illustrations; "The Life and Words of Christ," by Cunningham Geikie, D. D., over 800 pp.
The Temperance Advocate, a 24-page health and temperance bi-monthly, one year, and either of the above-mentioned valuable books, post-paid, for $1.25 (5s.).
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TESTIMONIES FOR THE CHURCH.
By Editor
NUMBERS ONE TO THIRTY.
BOUND IN FOUR VOLUMES OF ABOUT 700 PAGES EACH.
EACH VOLUME CONTAINS
A COMPLETE INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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PACIFIC HEALTH JOURNAL
By Editor
AND TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE.
A 24-page bi-monthly devoted to the dissemination of true temperance principles and instruction in the art of preserving health. It is emphatically a journal for the people, containing what everybody wants to know, and is thoroughly practical. Its range of subjects is unlimited, embracing everything that in any way affects the health. Its articles being short and pointed, it is specially adapted to farmers, mechanics, and housekeepers, who have but little leisure for reading. It is just the journal that every family needs, and may be read with profit by every member. Price, 50 cents per year.
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EXPERIENCE AND VIEWS.
By Mrs. E. G. WHITE.
THIS volume contains the earliest writings of Mrs. White, first printed in 1851. It contains an account of her early religious experience, and a brief account of the wonderful dealings of God with her. Apart from its intrinsic value, it will be of interest as showing the harmony between the earliest writings of the Seventh-day Adventists and those published at a later date. Its publication is very timely. In paper covers, with Supplement, 25 cents.
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Publishing Association.
By C. H. Jones
THE eleventh annual meeting of the Pacific S. D. A. Publishing Association was one of the most interesting and encouraging ever held. The attendance of both stockholders and others was larger than at any previous meeting. We were favored with the presence of Elder S. N. Haskell, president of the Association, who had just returned from Australia, and Elder Geo. I. Butler, president of the General Conference. Both of these brethren made stirring remarks in regard to the progress of the work, and the new fields that are opening up for the spread of the truth.
The past year has been one of marked prosperity for this Association. The balance sheet shows a profit of $7,302.67. Assets over all liabilities $59,165.48.
Our denominational printing has also largely increased. During the past year we have printed 10,000 copies of the illustrated "Great Controversy;" 2,500 copies of "Testimonies," volumes 1 and 2, and 1,500 copies of volumes 3 and 4. Two new papers, the American Sentinel and Pacific Health Journal, have been started. The following table will show something of what has been done:—
Total number of copies of SIGNS printed this year....................1,022,000
Average weekly circulation...............................................21,291
Increase over last year..................................................113,000
The first number of the American Sentinel was issued in January, 1886. This is a monthly, and the total number of copies printed up to April 1 is 41,200. The subscription list of this paper has increased at the rate of 1,000 per month from the date of its first issue.
The Pacific Health Journal is a bi-monthly, and the total number of copies printed during the past year is 14,000.
Pages of books, pamphlets, and tracts printed this year....................13,183,000
A net increase over that of last year of..................................4,763,200
SUMMARY.
Total number of pages of books, pamphlets, and
tracts printed this year...............................................13,183,000
Total number of copies of SIGNS printed...... 1,022,000
" " " " American Sentinel..... 41,200
" " " " Pacific Health Journal 14,000
" " " pages of books, pamphlets,
tracts, SIGNS, and Sentinels printed this year 29,864,600
From the foregoing it can be seen that our work is rapidly increasing, and we look forward to the time not far distant, when all our facilities will be required in publishing present truth. We hope to have the hearty co-operation of the friends of the institution during the coming year as we have had in the past.
C. H. JONES.
Regarding Unordered Papers
By Editor
We send no papers from this office without pay in advance, unless by special arrangement. When persons receive copies without ordering them, they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the SIGNS are not indebted to the office, and will not be called upon for pay. Please read the papers and hand them to your friends to read.
Camp-Meetings for 1886.
NORTH PACIFIC, East Portland,
May 19-25
KANSAS, Topeka,
" 19-25
UPPER COLUMBIA, Walla Walla,
May 26 to June 1
PENNSYLVANIA, Olean, N. Y.
June 2-8
COLORADO, Denver,
" 2-9
IOWA,
" 9-15
WISCONSIN,
" 16-22
MINNESOTA,
" 23-29
MAINE, Houlton,
June 29 to July 6
DAKOTA,
June 30 to July 6
CANADA, P. Q.
July 1-6
TEXAS,
Aug. 6-18
Kansas Tract Society Reading Room
The Kansas branch of the International Tract and Missionary Society has established a Depository and Parlor Reading Room at 165 Lane Street, Topeka. Rooms are open from 3 to 9 P. M. Any reader of the SIGNS who is passing through Topeka is cordially invited to call at the rooms.
The American Sentinel Number Five
By Editor
NUMBER 5 of the American Sentinel is now out, and is said by those who are competent judges, to be better than any preceding number. Send to Pacific Press for a copy of it, and then send fifty cents for a year's subscription.
Healdsburg College Catalogue
By Editor
The third annual catalogue of the Healdsburg College is on our table. It contains fifty pages, and gives all the information concerning the College that anybody could desire. The work was all done by the students, and does credit to the printing department. Send to Professor S. Brownsberger, Healdsburg, Cal., and get one.
Pacific Health Journal to Continue
By Editor
The last number of the first volume of the Pacific Health Journal and Temperance Advocate was delayed until after the annual meetings of the Publishing Association, and Rural Health Retreat, that it might be seen what action would be taken concerning its future. It has been decided to continue its publication, the Health Retreat Association having assumed the responsibility thereof. We bespeak for it a continuance of the patronage which it has heretofore received.
Bancroft Publishing House Destroyed by Fire
FRIDAY afternoon, April 30, the large printing and publishing establishment of A. L. Bancroft & Co., in San Francisco, was burned to the ground. The entire stock of books, printing material, and machinery, was destroyed, making a loss of about $1,000,000, on which there was $300,000 insurance. Bancroft's was the largest publishing house on the Coast, and its loss may be regarded as a calamity, not only to San Francisco, but to the whole Pacific Coast. Three lives were lost by the fire.
The Mission in Australia and New Zealand
By Editor
SUNDAY afternoon, April 25, Elder Haskell gave a brief history of the mission in Australia and New Zealand. It was truly soul-cheering to hear how the Lord had prospered the work, and to learn of the wonderful progress that the truth has made in less than a year in these distant lands. All were made to feel that the Third Angel's Message will very soon have completed its work of warning the nations of the earth, and that the end of all things is at hand. There is a strong bond uniting the brethren in California to those in Australia and New Zealand, and we pray for their spiritual prosperity.
Healdsburg Meeting.
By Editor
It was not our privilege to attend many of the meetings at Healdsburg. But we had sufficient opportunity to gain assurance that the labors of Elder Butler were very profitable to the work there, and were highly appreciated.
The Sabbath meetings were excellent. That of the afternoon was the best we have attended for a long time. To draw nearer to God seemed to be the strong desire of all, and we believe that the effort was not in vain.
The annual meeting of the College Association was gratifying in its results. Business was transacted with entire unanimity of feeling. All lovers of the cause must rejoice in the prosperity of this institution, for it is doing a truly good work. President Brownsberger is of good courage, and the Lord is blessing him and strengthening him to bear his responsibilities.
The "Students' Home" proves to be just what is wanted; experience is showing that it was a wise calculation which produced a building and surroundings so exactly suited to the wants of the students. God bless the Healdsburg College, and all its workers.
Meetings in Oakland.
By Editor
THE meetings that were held in Oakland in connection with the annual meeting of the Publishing Association, were of unusual interest and profit. The Spirit of God was manifestly present in every meeting, whether it was a business meeting or a distinctly religious service. The preaching seemed to be a message direct from Heaven, and the impression made on hearts will, we believe, be lasting. Since the close of the appointed meetings, the work has been carried forward by the church in Oakland. There is in this church a religious awakening such as we have never seen here before. It takes the form of a quiet, earnest determination to be wholly on the Lord's side, and to henceforth have a living, daily experience in the things of God. Confessions are being made, and souls are learning the meaning of the apostle's words, "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." We understand that the good work is being carried forward in the San Francisco church. May God speed it.
"Life of Christ" in Swedish.
By Editor
WE have received from the publishers, Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich., the "Life of Christ," by Mrs. E. G. White, translated into the Swedish language. It is a neat and well-executed volume of 608 pages, with 26 full-page illustrations, and portrait of the author. There are fifty-five chapters, beginning with "The Plan of Redemption," and "The Birth of Christ," and ending with "The Ascension of Christ," and covering all the intervening history. From the teachings, the parables, the miracles, and the sufferings of our Lord, are drawn practical lessons of comfort, admonition, and instruction in righteousness; and as the great theme of redemption is portrayed in graphic yet simple style, the reader cannot fail to be thrilled with feelings of love to the Author of the plan of salvation. We hope that our Swedish brethren will give this book a wide circulation among their countrymen. Price, $1.50. It may be obtained of the publishers, or from the Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal. The same work in the Danish language may be had for the same price.
Christ, the Law Personified
THERE is one commentary on the ten commandments that is comprehensive, and yet within the reach of everybody, and so plain that the simplest can understand it. It is nothing other than the life of Christ as set forth in the Gospels. Said Christ, through the prophet: "I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart." Ps. 40:8. He was the law personified. In his life we see the performance of just what the law of God requires. The man who keeps the law perfectly will be just like Christ; and the man who does as Christ did is a doer of the law. And such a man is a Christian indeed; for the one who abides in Christ must walk even as he walked. 1 John 2:6. No less service than this will be rewarded with eternal life.
Address of Elder A. A. John
The post-office address of Elder A. A. John is 41 Bridge Street, Aberystwyth, Wales.