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Home and Health.

Prepared and edited by a competent committee of home-makers and physicians.

“Home and Health” is a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitary laws, the preservation of health by clean, consistent living, and the home treatment of simpler ailments and diseases by use of natural, rational remedies instead of drugs.

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The Home: Its Location, Suggestions on Building, Sewerage, Healthful Surroundings, Water Supply, etc.

General Housekeeping, including all the general features of the housekeeper’s work, such as care of the rooms, Laundering, House Cleaning, Fruit Canning, Pests, etc.

Diet.

Care of the Body.

Care and Training of Children.

The Home Treatment of Disease.

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No Time for Family Prayers

By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle

By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle

We have fallen upon an age of hurry and rush,—of uneasiness, of bustle, of haste, and of worry.

“There goes the whistle, mother! Harry and I will have to run now all the way to the factory. I’m really sorry, wife, but we must omit family prayers this morning.”

“Too bad, husband,” rejoins the wife and mother, with a sad look in her gentle eyes. “This is the third time already this week that we have begun the work of the day without a word of prayer.”

“Well, my dear, you know how it is yourself,” replies the husband a little impatiently, “the foreman is very particular, and,—well—I don’t see how I can help it.”

That very day young Harry remarked to one of the workmen: “I don’t know whether it pays to be a Christian or not; we don’t have time at our house; I don’t believe father thinks it pays.”

Now it happened, providentially, I am sure, that Brother Grant overheard this expression of his son’s, and it was bitterness to his spirit; for he remembered, with an added pang, that Harry had been thinking seriously of baptism and of uniting with the church. All day long the convicting Spirit of the Lord strove in the heart of Brother Grant, and the command of the Master: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you,” rang in his ears.

It had always been hard for him to acknowledge that he had been in the wrong, but to his credit be it said that that very evening when the family assembled for prayers, he humbly confessed his faults.

“Look here, father,” said Harry a few weeks thereafter, “I told Mr. Brown a while ago that I didn’t believe you thought it paid to be a Christian,—that I supposed you didn’t have time. But I’m going to say to him, to-day, that I was mistaken, and that I’m very sorry I spoke so ill of my father.”

Not long afterward, Harry Grant publicly espoused the cause of Christ, and his mother smiled through her tears of grateful joy as she whispered in her husband’s ear: “It always pays to take time to wait upon the Lord.”

And Sister Grant was right. The Master pays His true servants in the best of coin, and their reward is as sure and as certain as His word. His promises are yea and amen. “They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.” So then, if we as Christians are in real want of anything, either spiritual or temporal blessings,—for surely the promise includes both,—one of two things must be true: either the thing we want is not good for us to have, or else we do not seek the Lord as earnestly as we should.

How strange that we can spare time for almost everything else!

“Well,” protests Mrs. Worldly, “I have a great many callers, and they must be entertained,—surely it will not do to be discourteous; the work of the morning must be attended to, letters must be written, the latest book must be read, the sewing must not be neglected, the daily papers must,—well I don’t see how a whole half hour can be spared for worship every single morning,—to say nothing of Mr. Worldly’s business,” and Mrs. Worldly’s face assumes a weary expression as she awaits my reply.

But I have nothing to say to Mrs. Worldly to dictate to her as to the manner in which she shall spend her time; to her own Master she standeth or falleth. But I am reminded of the words of a certain good old Book which Mrs. Worldly professes to obey as the living word of God: “In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” “Pray without ceasing.” “In everything give thanks.” How can we reconcile these words to prayerless lives?

Still, tho I do not like to be conscience for any one, I may be able to suggest some way by which a little precious time may be saved. In the first place, I do not find it necessary to subscribe for any daily paper at all. I think it quite possible to glean all the local news of importance from a weekly. Then, besides, there is the considerable item of economy to think about. One is able to supply the home with several good books besides a magazine or two, with the price of a single daily; but still more to be considered is the valuable time which is wasted every day in reading the disgusting details of some horrible crime,—time for which we must one day give an account.

O the sweet hour of family prayer! The life in which the precious memory of father’s and mother’s prayers does not form a part, must suffer an irreparable loss. Better one less ruffle on Susie’s frock, and a fewer pies and tarts in the larder; better let the kitchen floor go without its customary scrubbing,—but O, as you value everlasting life, as you value the eternal welfare of your children, neglect not to present them often before the throne of Grace around the family altar. Other things may be—will be—forgotten; but the sound of mother’s voice in earnest prayer for her children, will never be drowned by the seductive voice of sin or the siren song of pleasure.

No time for family prayer?—Plenty of time for business, for recreation, for reading the newspapers, for preparing unhealthful dishes to minister to the appetite; time for everything else, but no time for prayer!

Sad indeed that this should be said of any who have named the name of Christ. Better send the children out into the cold world with less money, less clothing, less schooling, even; but send them not out to wander among the bleak mountains of sin and temptation, with no sweet memory of father’s and mother’s prayers.

Duties Imposed by the Marriage Relation

By Francis Wayland

The marriage relation imposes upon both parties, equally, the duty of chastity.

1. Hence, it forbids adultery, or intercourse with any other person than that one to whom the individual is united in marriage.

2. And, hence, it forbids all conduct in married persons, or with married persons, of which the tendency would be to diminish their affection for those to whom they are united in marriage, or of which the tendency would be to give pain to the other party. This is evident from what we have before said. For if the contract itself proceed upon the principle of entire and exclusive affection, anything must be a violation of it which destroys or lessens that affection; and that which causes this affection to be doubted, produces to the party in which the doubt exists, the same misery that would ensue from actual injury.

The crime of adultery is of an exceedingly aggravated nature. As has been before remarked, aside from being a violation of the law of chastity, it is also a violation of a most solemn contract. The misery which it inflicts upon parents and children, relatives and friends, the total annihilation of domestic happiness, and the total disruption of parental and filial ties which it necessarily produces, mark it for one of the basest forms of human atrocity. Hence, as might be expected, it is spoken of in the Scriptures as one of those crimes on which God has set the seal of His peculiar displeasure. In addition to the passages already quoted on this subject, I barely mention the following:

Matt. 5:28: “Whosoever looketh on a woman to cherish impure desire, hath committed adultery with her already in his

heart.” Heb. 13:4: “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” Rev. 21:8: “Murderers and whoremongers shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” Throughout the writings of the prophets, in numberless instances, this crime is singled out, as one for which God visits with the most awful judgments, both nations and individuals. And, if any one will reflect that the happiness and prosperity of a country must depend on the virtue of the domestic society more than on anything else, he can not fail to perceive that a crime, which, by a single act, sunders the conjugal tie, and leaves children worse than parentless, must be attended with more abundant and remediless evils than almost any other that can be named. The taking of human life can be attended with no consequences more dreadful. In the one case, the parental tie is broken, but the victim is innocent; in the other, the tie is broken, with the additional aggravation of an irretrievable moral stain, and a wide-spreading dishonor that can not be washed away.—Francis Wayland, D.D.

When the Children Are Away

WHEN the children are away we forget the noise they made, We forget the sighs for peace that escaped us while they played; We forget how much we longed to be free to leave it all, And how lonely we become when the night begins to fall!

When the children are away, moved to no more murmurings, We forget the piercing shrieks, and the marred and broken things; And the clock so loudly ticks as the night falls, still and bleak, That it seems as if it tried in its grief to call them back.

When the children are away, ghosts of pleasures that are fled Seem to hover in the rooms and around each little bed; Home is but an empty word, and how distant seems the day That shall bring them shouting home — when the children are away!

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St. Helena Sanitarium Training-School.

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Wanted: Gentleman Nurse and Treatment Hand

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Life and Health

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The Desire of Ages.

By Mrs. E. G. White.

Those who are best acquainted with the works of this gifted author consider “Desire” the masterpiece of all her writings.

Written in simple, yet beautiful language, it presents the life of our Saviour in such a natural, attractive manner that the reader is irresistibly drawn to the source of all spiritual life, “our elder Brother.”

Beginning with the birth of Christ, His life is traced, step by step, from the manger to the cross and on to His ascension. In every phase and circumstance His experiences were similar to our own; and the wonderful manner in which Divinity and humanity were combined, the way in which Christ, while dwelling in human body, with only human strength, took hold of divine strength, and thus overcame sin; these things are made wonderfully clear on every page and in every sentence.

“The Desire of Ages” will be especially helpful in the study of the new series of lessons on the life of Christ which begins April 1 and continues for twenty-one months in all departments of the Sabbath-school.

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Articles on Spiritualism.—

By Editor

On account of a pressure of matter in our Resurrection number the series of articles by Professor Rine will be postponed one week. They will begin in the issue of April 14. A splendid time to subscribe for the SIGNS is now. Following these articles will be other series of equal interest and just as worthy of a large circulation. The more formal observance of Easter as set forth in our first-page illustration, and its fashionable observance as shown on page 10, are striking contrasts as to what the remembrancers of Christ’s resurrection from the dead ought to be. Let all true Christians who read this number resolve by His grace to show forth the power of His resurrection-life in their lives. Nothing which humanity can do will bear greater testimony to the power of His resurrection than godly living, and the world needs it as it never needed it before.

Deadly Landslide in Java

The Springfield “Republican” tells us under date of March 18, that three villages and a thousand lives were lost in a landslide in Java just recently.

Worship Through Faithful Service

God’s threefold message of Rev. 14:6-12 presents to the world the positive injunction to “worship Him.” According to our Lord’s words in Matt. 4:10, the truest worship is faithful service: “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.” No child pleases his father more than the one who does as he is told. And so Jesus declares, “If ye love Me, keep My commandments.”

Sunday Legislation.

The New York Legislature has only twenty-five Sunday bills before it now, and it looks as tho about three weeks would be consumed in hearings and discussions of the bills. All sorts and kinds of amendments and more rigid restrictions are urged by the reformers, and yet our Sunday-law friends in California would have us believe that the milder measures which they are now advocating are satisfactory. They are but the entering-wedges to a worse union of church and state than the world ever knew.

John J. Wyatt’s Death

We regret to chronicle the death of Hon. John J. Wyatt, California Assemblyman, who died at Salinas, March 21, at the age of 40. He was considered one of the best constitutional lawyers in the state, and was a devoted champion of religious liberty. One of the strongest speeches made two years ago against the Sunday law was by Mr. Wyatt. Such men as he are needed.

England and the Indian Reforms

England and the Indian Reforms.— There is a measure before the English Parliament looking to reform in India, by which Indian members shall have place on the various executive Councils in the administration of government in that country. One of the difficulties which are met, however, are the different religions. The Mohammedans are to have a separate register, and a number of seats in the Council in excess of their numerical strength. This is resented by the leaders of Hindu opinion, and how much England can do in this way to bring about peace is problematical.

Unclaimed Fortunes in English Banks

There are about $800,000,000, or more, it is said, tied up in the banks of England. Many of these are accumulations from forgotten lawsuits involving big fortunes. The heirs to some of these fortunes can not be found, and most of the rest of it, including cash securities, jewelry, gold and silver plate, has accumulated owing to the death, disappearance, or forgetfulness of depositors. There are prominent men who feel that the government has a better right to this than have the bankers, and a bill is before Parliament to compel the banks to disgorge. The effort to obtain this money shows the straits to which governments are coming under the rule of militarism.

The Whitla Kidnapping

Willie Whitla, whose kidnapping was noticed last week, has been found. He was restored to his father on the payment of ten thousand dollars ransom, under promise not to prosecute until opportunity was given to get away. The father and mother were willing to do anything to have their child restored to them. The boy remembers but little. He was drug-dazed when returned to his father, and probably has been kept so more or less during the time that he has been away. We sympathize with parents who would thus lose their little ones, and yet, after all, how much more important it is that our children should be saved to all eternity, and kept from the awful evils that there are in the world. A whole state is stirred to rescue one boy from temporal captivity, and it is well, but how much more they ought to be stirred to rescue them from the sink-holes of iniquity that are yawning on every side to devour them. The kidnappers were caught March 24.

Raisin Day.

The Chamber of Commerce of Fresno, the center of the raisin district, is making April 30 a raisin day, in which officials throughout the United States, from the President of the United States down, just as far as possible, will receive small cartons of raisins, enclosing recipes showing the best way to use them. Surely this will be a blessing. Raisins are indeed an excellent fruit and some contend a perfect food in themselves if eaten with the seeds. This will be good work for a splendid California product. The raisins are infinitely better than the wine.

California Limits Mine and Bakery Workdays

The Legislature at Sacramento passed a bill which has been signed by the Governor that eight hours shall constitute a day's work in the mines, and ten hours in bakeries, and the mine owners are greatly stirred over it. They did not know that the law was passed until too late to offer effective opposition.

Burbank Refuses to Syndicate His Genius

The Luther Burbank corporation for exploiting Mr. Burbank’s products has fallen through. On fuller consideration Mr. Burbank refused to syndicate his genius.

Man Is Not God

A letter comes to us approving our “noble Christian paper,” but notes a serious mistake which Christians are making, and which had been revealed to the writer of the said note, as the “latest scientific discovery;” namely, “that man is God.” That is hardly late. There was a character which six thousand years ago said practically the same thing. The record of it is found in Gen. 3:4, 5: “Ye shall not surely die, . . . ye shall be as God.” How one could be as God without being God is inconceivable. We really prefer the word of Jehovah, who declares, “I am God and not man.” Surely it would be modesty for man to say, “I am man and not God.”

Lured to Destruction

What a moral lesson there was in the luring to destruction of the big coasting steamer “R. D. Inman” in the murky waters at Bolinas Bay, Saturday night, March 20. The captain, thinking that he was well out to sea, saw a light or fire, and supposing it to be the signal of a steamer in distress, started to the rescue; but when too late he found his own ship on the rocks. Fortunately no lives were lost, altho it is thought that the ship would be a total loss. The light which he saw was a bonfire on the beach. What a lesson it is in life! There are thousands of noble human barks which are lured to destruction by the will-o’-the-wisps of pleasure all along life’s way.

George T. Angell and Animal Kindness

It is sad to record the death of Mr. George T. Angell, of Our Dumb Animals, Boston; and yet one could hardly expect Mr. Angell to live forever in his active life. He was eighty-six years old when he died, March 16. A clear-headed, able lawyer, Mr. Angell dedicated his whole life to inculcating and promoting kindness to animals. His little paper was sent to every newspaper in the United States. The little book “Black Beauty,” practically dead on the market, he gave a circulation of more than a half million. If there were human knowledge, gratitude, and ability among the brutes, we are sure they would raise a monument to his memory.

The South Pole.

—Lieutenant Ernest Shackelton of the British navy has planted the Union Jack within 111 miles of the South Pole. He was unable to push on to the limit on account of lack of ponies and provisions. He located the Southern magnetic pole, Lat. 72° 23′ and Long. 154° East. His object was not to discover the South Pole or the place where it would be if there were such a thing, but in the interests of geological science.

True Nobility

That true nobility is based neither on birth nor wealth was demonstrated in Paris just recently. The Countess De La Pommiere was found in a squalid dwelling recently, besieged by rats and half insane. She needed not to live there, for she seemed to have abundance of money. In fact, the rats themselves had eaten $30,000 in bank notes and securities. True nobility is the nobility of goodness, self-sacrifice, and helpfulness of others.

Last Legal Shipment of Opium

The last legal shipment of opium before the new law prohibiting it goes into effect April 1, was 413 boxes brought into San Francisco March 23. It is valued at $750,000. It is a pity that it reached here. Yet we are glad to see that there are some of the nations who are helping China to destroy the entire traffic.

The Five-Foot Shelf of Books

President Eliot declares that “a five-foot shelf of books,” the reading of which for ten minutes a day, “would give any man a liberal education.” It may be safely said that in this five-foot shelf of books one would not find the cheap, sensational literature of to-day.

Roosevelt’s African Hunt

Ex-President Roosevelt sailed on the steamship “Hamburg,” March 23, for his long-planned African hunt. He thinks he may be away fifteen months.

Petaluma Sunday Saloon Closing Ordinance

Petaluma, Cal., passed a Sunday-closing ordinance of saloons, March 23.