p. 142 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 9. (2/26/1885)

SECULAR.

—A terrific explosion occurred in the powder magazine at Gibraltar, last week, killing seventeen men, besides doing much other damage.

—A very destructive fire on Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, last week, burned nine large business houses, and damaged six others. The loss is very heavy.

—The Government of Mexico is making inquiries relative to the intended settlement of Mormons in Sonora. Public opinion there is said to be very strong against receiving the polygamists.

—The steamship Australia, which sailed from San Francisco Feb. 9, for Australia, took out a thousand tons of freight, including five locomotives for a narrow-gauge railroad in New South Wales.

—A number of planters at Matamoras, Cuba, have determined to use the molasses produced on their estates as manure, the low prices falling short of paying the expenses of freight, storage, etc.

—The sale of real estate in New York week before last amounted to nearly $1,000,000, in fifty parcels. This was about $300,000 in excess of the total sales during the corresponding six days of last year.

—Dynamite threats are being received by authorities in England to the effect that St. Paul's Cathedral and the bank of England will be attacked with dynamite. Leading detectives are threatened with assassination.

—It just comes to light that Kentucky officials have for a long time been stealing public funds. The system adopted by the robbers has been carried on under cover of the law, aided by the State Legislature. The amount filched from the several departments will aggregate $2,000,000.

—A negro lad has just confessed that he set fire to the Blockley Alms House near Philadelphia, wherein eighteen persons were burned to death. He says he was engaged to do the deed by one Peter Schroeder, an attendant. The latter is under arrest.

—The anarchists of New York called a mass meeting, Feb. 18, to commemorate the death of one of the fraternity recently executed in Germany. Many incendious speeches were made, and a resolution was adopted indorsing the use of dynamite to achieve the independence of the Irish people.

—A collision between a passenger train and a freight train on the Virginia Midland Railroad occurred four miles from Alexandria, on the 19th. Both trains were badly wrecked. The cars took fire, and thirty-three of them were burned. Four of the train men were killed, and seven passengers injured.

—Intensely cold weather prevailed last week throughout the East. In some parts heavy snowstorms prevailed, which delayed the mails. On the Atlantic Coast violent rains overflowed the rivers, doing much damage to towns on the river banks. Streets and cellars in some parts of New York were also flooded.

—The residence of John H. Stenger, of Whatcom, W. T., was almost entirely destroyed, the night of the 16th, by an explosion of giant powder. The dastardly deed is supposed to be the outcome of some land troubles between the Stengers and other settlers. Much ill feeling has been manifested between the parties for two years past.

—A protest against permitting the Masonic societies to participate in the dedication of the Washington Monument was received last week by the Congressional Committee of Arrangements. It was, however, received too late for action by the committee, as the dedication ceremonies took place on the Saturday following. The protest had 13,000 signatures.

—Great excitement was occasioned in London last week by the riotous conduct of a large number of unemployed workmen. They paraded the streets with banners bearing mottoes of their grievances. They called at several public buildings and demanded relief, after which they attempted to storm the Admiralty and Home offices, but were finally driven off and dispersed by the police.

—The propeller Michigan left Grand Haven, Feb. 9, in search of another vessel, and became locked in the ice of Lake Michigan twenty-three miles from the eastern shore. Seventeen of the crew walked ashore on the ice and report the lake frozen as far to the west as they could look from the ice-bound steamer. Other reports say that the lake is entirely frozen over, for the first time in its history.

—An unusually large number of accidents were reported last week. Five men were killed the 21st in Wellsburg, West Va., by a natural gas explosion. A railroad accident near Cincinnati the same day injured fifteen persons. A collision on the West Shore Road near Utica, N. Y., resulted in the death of two persons, and another accident near Arrowsmith, Ill., ditched the train, and injured more or less of the passengers.

—A private banking institution was opened in Atlanta, Ga., a year and a half ago, called the National Loan Office. There would have been nothing significant in this fact were it not that some one happened to think that the title used by the firm is in violation of a United States statute, which forbids the use of the word "national" by all banks not organized under the national currency laws. The statute moreover provides that any person violating this prohibition shall be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars for each day during the time he has committed the offense. The proprietor of the Atlanta institution is now called upon to pay over something like $25,000. It is said that more than a hundred other banks are interested in the case.

—The fire record has been unprecedentedly large during the past week. The burning of a dwelling at Beaver and William Streets, New York, occasioned the death of six persons. At Galveston, Texas, a wholesale grocery house burned, causing a loss of $200,000. The house of a colored woman near Raleigh, N. C., burned, with three small children. In New Britain, Conn., the livery stables of Bailey & Bunting were burned; loss, $200,000. A dwelling-house on Pine Street, Philadelphia, was destroyed with its contents. Four persons lost their lives. Another fire on Market Street destroyed business houses valued at over $60,000. The Chappaqua Mountain Institute (New York), a Quaker school for boys and girls, was destroyed by fire the 21st. The State Penitentiary at Baton Rouge was also burned on Saturday last.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—The Palestine Survey Expedition, it is said, has identified the sepulcher of Joseph of Arimathaea, in which our Lord was laid after his crucifixion. Perhaps.

—A religious exchange says: "The Church of England is now in a state of ceremonial anarchy. Every man does that which is right in his own eyes." That is not very strange. We know of other churches and denominations where the same state of things exists.

—Australia has a Young Women's Christian Association, which is said to be doing a good work in evangelization. At a late anniversary meeting of the Melbourne branch, much attention was given to the temperance cause, with a view to pressing its claims upon the public. The association hopes to soon have a permanent building of its own, with a library and reading-room for the use of the young women of Melbourne.

—Regarding the present status of the Catholic Church, the Catholic Mirror says: "It is our opinion that a vast amount of unmeaning stuff has been talked about the progress of the Catholic Church both in England and America. It is true that there are 2,000,000 Catholics in England, and 8,000,000 in America. Nine-tenths of those in the former country, and three-fourths in the latter, are of Irish blood. There have been a few hundred people of what are there called the 'higher classes' converted to the faith in England; whether from a politic standpoint they have been an acquisition, we greatly doubt, but it is certain that the masses have not been touched. In America, also, there have been a few conversions, but they do not amount to a drop in the bucket in comparison with the immense loss the church has sustained."

—Bitter feelings exist between the Protestants and Catholics of New Foundland. Last year a procession of Orangemen was attacked by 300 armed Catholics, and five Orangemen were killed and fifteen wounded. Upon this the excitement became intense in all parts of the island, and all intercourse, social and commercial, ceased between the two parties, and both sides armed themselves. In the trial that followed the massacre, the murderers were acquitted by a Catholic jury. Trouble has again broken out, and the presence of a British gunboat is required to prevent open hostilities. Another collision is liable to take place any time, and none are able to predict what the end will be. One thing is certain: looking at the case in the light of the Scriptures, missionary work is as much needed just now in New Foundland as in any other part of the world.

Melbourne, Australia, as a Missionary Field.

By Stephen Nelson Haskell

It is a well-known fact that as a country grows older its people become more stereotyped in their ideas and customs. They think just as their grandfathers thought; they follow the same channel as their fathers before them, each generation having the same habits, the same customs, the same thoughts, and the same ideas of morality and religion. Europe, with its teeming millions, long ago settled down into this condition, and to throw them out of the rut which they have followed so many hundred years would require a greater revolution than ever yet passed over a country.

Australia is rapidly growing in population, attracting the adventurous and enterprising from all parts of the world. Although the continent of Australia is so far from the center of the civilized world, yet it ranks with the best in culture and refinement. Melbourne, the principal city of Australia, with a population of over three hundred thousand, is liberally supplied with schools of learning. Fortunes which have been made almost in a day have been expended freely in beautifying the city and establishing educational institutions.

The Workingman's College is free to all, instructions being given therein to all applicants, both day and evening, in practical mechanical work of a wide variety, mechanical drawing, mathematics, and all those branches which will aid an industrious and determined workman to rise in his calling. It is one of those practical institutions everywhere needed, but likely to be especially useful in a new and rapidly growing country.

Melbourne is the largest city in Australia, and Sidney the second. It is said that the streets of Melbourne are over ninety feet wide, and the parks, squares, and gardens, are so numerous that the city occupies a territory half as large as London while its population is only one-thirteenth as many.

The Melbourne University is a picturesque mass of buildings, behind which is the National Museum, freely open to the people, as are all the public places in that city. There are among its numerous State schools, about thirty, whose size and proportion entitle them to rank with the architectural ornaments of the city. It is said there is no city where more has been done for the working classes, or where they have made so good a use of their advantages, about three out of every four mechanics who have reached middle life owning the cottages they occupy.

No better field could be found for presenting the Third Angel's Message than in a country where institutions of learning are free to all, both high and low, where intelligence and enterprise is the rule, and where custom has not yet stereotyped the people. Such a country is Australia, and we believe that the same God who has prospered our efforts in America, also lives there, and that many honest souls from that far-away land will be found in the kingdom of Heaven.

S. N. HASKELL.

Italy.

By Daniel T. Bourdeau

I HAVE spoken twelve times at Torre Pellice, and the interest is on the increase. Last Sabbath I held two meetings at Sister Revel's. At the close of the last meeting, seven persons arose, promising to obey the truth. It was a season of rejoicing to all.

The late snow-storm has been the hardest known in this country for fifty years. Many persons have been killed by the fall of house-tops under the weight of the snow. D. T. BOURDEAU.

Blessed Are They That Have Not Seen

"Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me thou hast believed; blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."

Works Both Ways.

As a rule, those who pay nothing toward church work have no interest in it. We do not mean merely that they pay nothing because they care nothing. The converse is true also. They care nothing because they pay nothing. One way to get people interested in the congregation's affairs is to get them to contribute. It secures their interest. What costs them something concerns them, and if it were only because it costs them something. The same is true, also, of missions, etc. Those who contribute nothing are not likely to inquire about them. The consciousness that these are our institutions, and that the work done is our work, is awakened adequately only when they have cost something. And when we recognize them as ours, and learn to rejoice in the prosperity of our work, we give more freely and more liberally and more cheerfully.—Lutheran Standard.

Appointments.

OAKLAND.—House of worship, northeast corner of Clay and Thirteenth Streets. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:30 A. M. Preaching at 11 A. M. Prayer and missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:00. Seats free. Preaching every Sunday evening at 7:30.

SAN FRANCISCO.—House of worship, 912 Laguna Street, between McAllister and Tyler Streets. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:45 A. M. Preaching at 11 A. M. Prayer and missionary meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:45. Preaching every Sunday evening at 7:30. Mission Reading-rooms at the church.

Obituary.

By Editor

BAKER.—Justus Baker was born in West Henrietta, near Rochester, New York, Dec. 16, 1813. Died in Oakland, California, Feb. 18, 1885. Age, 71 years, 2 months, and 2 days.

The deceased came to California in 1851. About fourteen years he was afflicted with what was called rheumatism; but it was not. He was crippled by his disease, and moved about with considerable difficulty, and often suffered much pain. Yet the characteristics of rheumatism were lacking, and the exact nature or name of the disease was not known. In his last sickness it went to his stomach, which entirely lost the power of digestion, and he literally wasted away, and died of paralysis of the stomach. He was conscious to the very last; nature made no struggle to retain a hold on life. Like one falling asleep he quietly expired.

Brother Baker never made any profession of religion until the time of the tent meeting in Oakland in 1874. In that meeting he soon became convinced that our faith was true, and the first time the covenant was presented he signed it; his name was the first one placed upon it. He was a member of this church from its organization until his death, and he never doubted the truth which he embraced. He is mourned by a wife and children and a large circle of kindred and friends. The funeral services were held at the Adventist house of worship, on Sabbath, Feb. 21, where a large congregation listened to a discourse from Ps. 39:4. EDITOR.

(Rochester, N. Y., papers please copy.)

Joseph Waters

By W. M. Healey

WATERS.—Died at Windsor, Sonoma County, Cal., February 6, 1885, Joseph Waters, a native of Maryland, and former resident of Pennsylvania and Indiana, aged nearly 84 years.

Deceased was for the most of his life a member of the M. E. Church. But during the last few years he became a convert to the views of Seventh-day Adventists, by reading, being so badly afflicted with deafness that he was unable to hear preaching. He had been addicted to the use of tobacco for about sixty years, but becoming convinced that it was wrong, gave up the habit about six months previous to his death. He leaves two step-daughters at Windsor, with whom he lived at the time of his death, who also believe in the Third Angel's Message, and hope for the soon coming of Christ and the resurrection of the dead. A large number of neighbors and friends attended the funeral. Discourse by the writer, from Acts 26:8. W. M. HEALEY.

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THE SECOND ADVENT

By Editor

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MAN'S NATURE AND DESTINY

OTHER WORKS ON MAN'S NATURE

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MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS.

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Another False Christ.

By Editor

THIS is a California production, hailing from Los Angeles. He writes a letter to us, signing himself "Lewis the Prophet, the Messiah, the Prince of Peace, the Righteous Judge," and demands that we publish his letter immediately. We would not notice these blasphemous assumptions only to note a principle on the subject of the advent. He claims to fulfill the Scriptures as we hold them—his coming is "personal and visible." The proof is too limited. We see scores of men every day who are here personally and visibly, but that does not prove that they are Messiah. Better credentials than this must be shown. We have not seen the glory as the lightning shine from the east to the west; we have not heard the voice of the archangel and the trump of God; the sleeping saints have not been raised from their graves; we are not redeemed from the pains of mortality; and other accompanying events have not taken place. No, the Messiah has not come, and no impostor can deceive any one who believes all that the Scriptures say about the second advent.

The reason why so many are deceived by false christs is that they have lost faith in what the Bible says about the coming of the only true Christ. And as professors of religion, and ministers, turn away from the truth concerning the advent of Christ, they are preparing themselves to be deceived by false christs and impostors. When they rob the advent of the true Christ of its literality and glory, they make it possible for false christs to meet the requirements of their theories. They are open to gross deceptions, and the enemy will not fail to take advantage of their willing ignorance of the Scriptures. 2 Peter 3:3-7.

Brethren and sisters, "hold fast the form of sound words." While the world and the churches are turning unto fables, and asking, "Where is the promise of his coming?" keep your eyes upon the landmarks. Greater deceptions are before us than we have yet seen; if it were possible the very elect shall be deceived. The word of the Lord is our only safeguard. We have a "present truth" to which we must cling; "a sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed."

Anarchist Organizations in America

THE International Arbiter Association, with its headquarters in New York, is said to be one of the most potent anarchist organizations in the United States. They claim seven branch organizations in Philadelphia alone, which are having daily additions to their memberships. Organizations have also been effected in nearly all the larger cities, as Chicago, Cleveland, and Pittsburg, where the members are regularly drilled, in anticipation of a simultaneous uprising. Their declaration of principles avows their object to be agitation, with a view to rebellion against the present system of law. At least five papers are published in the interest of the society. The expected uprising, which is designed to be universal, they predict will take place within three years at the farthest limit, but may take place much sooner.

The Signs of the Times.

By Editor

OAKLAND, CAL., FIFTH-DAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1885.

THE music on this page we consider a gem. Good for Sabbath-school or missionary meetings. Our people in Oakland often use it, and like it much.

To A. A. C. The sophistry and shallowness of "Seymour's Questions" have been fully exposed. Send to Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.

IN the present volume of the SIGNS we expect to publish some very important papers on historical subjects. Some of these are now in course of preparation. They will be specially interesting to inquirers into the facts of church history, and to those who wish a more thorough understanding of those historical facts which show the fulfillment of prophecy.

FROM Brethren Scott and LaRue, at Honolulu, we this week received six more yearly subscribers for the SIGNS. This makes now forty-two yearly subscribers in Honolulu, besides which fifty copies go there each week to supply the three-months and six-months subscribers, making ninety-two in all. They also report two more persons who have commenced the observance of the Sabbath. We are much pleased to see such success of the truth in the islands of the Pacific.

WE call the attention of our readers to the article on the fourth page of this paper, on "Constantine." It is the first of a series which will run through some eight or more numbers. The subject is an interesting one, and a very large number of historical proofs will be presented on the life and character of this renowned ruler. His right to the title of "Christian Emperor" will be carefully examined in the light of the testimony of well-accredited authors, both ancient and modern. They who let their subscriptions run out while this series is being published will lose much valuable information. This, we think, is the only collation of testimonies on this subject that has ever been made.

Testimony No. 27.

By Editor

At this office there are a number of copies of this valuable book, and if any of our brethren do not possess it we advise them to send for it. Some lose the benefit of these instructions because they take so little interest in the personal testimonies, thinking that they belong only to the individuals to whom they were addressed. That is a great mistake; every one of them is full of wise counsels from which any may be benefited who will seek to understand and to apply them. We have had occasion to read a number of them of late, and we are more and more impressed with a sense of their importance. There are some things in Paul's letter to Timothy which applied to Timothy and do not apply to us, but we cannot afford to lose that letter on that account.

In this number very important lessons are drawn from the Old Testament under the following heads: Willing Obedience; The Twelve Spies; The Taking of Jericho; and Jeremiah. Again we say, if you do not have it, send for it and read it. Price, 25 cents post-paid.

"Students' Workshop."

By Editor

NUMBER three of the Healdsburg College monthly is on our table. It is a creditable paper. The articles are worthy the attention of all, and the printing shows a good degree of proficiency in the "art preservative." If "the boys" keep the paper up to the present standard, it will continue to be an honor to the school.

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