That the use of animal food may affect the mental and moral faculties deleteriously is a fact which a thoughtful man will not deny, at least after a moments reflection. There are at least three distinct reasons which render it thus injurious:—
1. As already shown, flesh food is stimulating, and, like every other stimulant, it impairs the nervous powers, and so injures the moral and mental faculties.
2. Numerous instances are recorded illustrative of the wonderful and mysterious influence which the mental faculties exert over the functions and tissues of the body. A fit of anger has been known to so change the lacteal secretions of a mother as to cause convulsions in an unweaned child. Great fear, the sudden reception of sad news, or intense mental excitement, has been known to change a person's hair from raven black to snowy white in a single night. These illustrations show, 1. That mental emotions may induce sudden and characteristic changes in animal tissues; 2. That tissues thus affected may produce most injurious results when used as food by other animals. How these changes are brought about, we will not attempt to explain; nor is it necessary that we should do so, since we know the fact exists. Who can doubt, then, that the flesh of an animal which is killed when infuriated with rage may not transmit a certain degree of the same element to those who dine upon it? With this view, we can see much significance in the remark which Byron once made to a friend whom he saw eating a piece of rarely cooked meat. Said the great poet, "Are you not afraid you will commit a murder?" He himself declared that he "felt himself grow savage" whenever he partook largely of animal food.
3. Flesh-eating implies, necessarily, the slaying of animals, which bloody act ought to be sufficient argument against the practice. Look at the noble oxen as they daily perform their accustomed labor in implicit obedience to the will of their master. See them kindly bending their broad necks beneath the massive yoke as they willingly do for man what he is unable to do for himself, day after day, with unwearied patience, contributing to his comfort and convenience. Look into the great honest eyes of these noble animals. Can you not see benevolence and kindness beaming forth? and do not their expressive features, taken together with their every-day actions, betoken a degree, at least, of intelligence? Education and prejudice may lead you to recoil at the word, but is it not impossible to account for the many every-day manifestations of reason and education on the grounds of mere instinct? Can we refuse to admit the truth?
In claiming for the animal a certain amount of intelligence or reason, we do not in any way detract from man's glory or supremacy, but we merely elevate the beast to its proper sphere. But we will not discuss this question here; in fact, there is little necessity for it, for the ground taken is now quite generally admitted, and the time will probably soon come when it will be universally recognized as fact.
Again, notice the little lamb as it gambols on the lawn, joining the children in their sportive games, and manifesting every token of affectionate regard and interest for its youthful playmates. It can see, hear, feel, taste, and smell just as well as they. It is a living, sentient creature, possessed of the same means of enjoyment with which we are blessed. Now, is not the thought of staining our hands with the blood of such creatures a repulsive one? Does it not seem beastly to roughly seize them and deprive them of their happiness, their life, and then to devour them just as would a rapacious beast of prey, and all for the gratification of a perverted appetite? There can be no justification for such a course on the grounds of necessity, for the vegetable kingdom affords an almost endless variety of substances not only more palatable, but more nutritious, besides being free from impurities. Inability to procure other nourishment is the only circumstance which can justify the use of flesh food.
Viewed in this light, the practice of flesh-eating cannot do otherwise than to harden the heart, destroy the finer sensibilities, excite the lower passions, and create a thirst for blood and a disregard for life, and all as the incidental effect of the necessity for the slaying of animals to supply the unnatural demand for animal food.
Pythagoras, the famous Grecian philosopher, and his followers, religiously abstained from the use of animal food, and considered it sacrilege to take the life of a single living creature.
The Essenes, a Jewish sect, who flourished about two thousand years ago, were equally scrupulous with reference to the slaying of animals and the eating of flesh. They were noted for their sobriety and exemplary piety.
The Brahmíns of India have long held the same views, and adopted the same practice with reference to the use of animal food. And a new sect has recently sprung up among the natives of India who are strict vegetarians, and adopt the Christian religion, aiming to re-establish the apostolic faith.
The poet Ovid graphically pictures the terrible cruelties which are practiced by men in obtaining the flesh of animals for food. In contrast with this barbarous practice he remarks:—
“Not so the golden age, who fed on fruit,
Nor durst with bloody meals their mouths pollute.”
The poet Thomson also describes the use of herbs in the same period, as follows:—
“But who their virtues can declare? who pierce,
With vision pure, into their secret stores
Of health, of life, and joy? the food of man,
While yet he lived in innocence, and told
A length of golden years; unfleshed in blood,
A stranger to the savage arts of life,
Death, rapine, carnage, surfeit, and disease
The lord, and not the tyrant, of the world.”
But in addition to its indirect moral influence, it has a very important physiological effect in exciting the lower passions, and so leading men to the commission of crimes. In this respect it affects the system just as does alcohol or any other stimulant.
The further evidences against the dietetic use of flesh which might be drawn from physiology are both numerous and conclusive, but we forbear to dwell longer upon this part of the subject. Sufficient testimony has been adduced, however, to show in the most conclusive manner that physiology is decidedly in favor of a purely vegetable diet for man. To be sure, there are the modifying effects of long-continued habit which in a measure affect the question, but these will be considered in their proper place.
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
—There are said to be about 12,000 Jews now in Jerusalem, and about half that many Christians.
—Over $1,000,000 has been subscribed in Massachusetts, during the last few months to pay church debts.
—America spends $700,000,000 annually on strong drinks; England, with 6,000,000 less of population, $765,000,000.
—The Bible has been printed in thirty different languages for the benefit of the Aborigines of this country, and of Greeland, British America, and Mexico.
—The Rev. Dr. Nevin, of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Rome, has had an audience with the Queen of Italy who expressed her warm approval of the work of the foreign churches.
—Nine Protestant denominations have now missions in Mexico. These employ 98 missionaries. There are 137 congregations, 12,000 members and adherents, and 45 Sunday and 36 day schools, with 1,137 scholars.
—The 109th annual session of the English General Baptist Association opened in London on July 24, with an address by Mr. Spurgeon. The report shows 109 pastors, 384 local preachers, 179 separate churches, and 24,943 church members.
—The number in Sunday-schools and Bible classes under the auspices of workers of the American Home Missionary Society, for the year 1877–8, was 91,762—an increase of 5,462 over 1876–7, when the largest previous report was made.
—The New Testament Revision Company recently met at New Haven and completed the first eleven chapters of the Revelations. They expect to finish their entire work in a few more sessions. The Old Testament Company may require two years longer.
—The Southern Churchman says that since 1815 there have been more than one hundred ordained clergymen of the church of England, including two bishops, who were converted Jews, and in one English church chapel from 1815 there have been 780 adult Jews and 615 children converted and baptized.
—Of the Presbyterian ministers in the State of New Jersey, the number employed as evangelists and pastors is 251, in educational work, 36; as agents and secretaries, 8; total, 295. Not actively employed, 66; making an aggregate of 361 for the State. Two hundred and seven of the Presbyterian churches of the State have pastors, stated supplies, 39, and 17 are vacant.
—The Christian at Work says: "There is no longer any mistaking the demands of the Roman hierarchy in Ireland. In the press and in Parliament they put forward a claim for denominational education, and, express their determination to subordinate to it every other demand. This is really the goal for which they were aiming while coquetting with Home Rule. They have now thrown Home Rule overboard, and demanded denominational education. They will be content with nothing less than a grant which will enable them to control the entire education of the country, and, in fact, though not in name, to become the endowed church of Ireland. There should be no compromise, no paltering, religiously, or politically, with this worst enemy to the best interests of Ireland."
Question.
By John Norton Loughborough
The question is asked by J. J. if it is right for Seventh-day Adventists to keep hogs after receiving light on the subject of swine-eating. We would say in reply that there are some sections in Illinois and Iowa where people raise hogs and sell them to factories where they are manufactured directly into lard oil, used for lubricating purposes. While we do not esteem pork or lard wholesome articles of food, it may be used for above purposes. I do not know of any ground on which the hog could be sold to those who desire to use it as food unless on the principle contained in the sanitary regulations of the Jews, which permitted them to sell certain things to aliens which they themselves were forbidden to eat. Of course aliens would not buy such articles of diet unless their appetite craved it. In regard to raising swine we do not wish to be conscience for others, but if any suppose they must raise the animal, we advise them, as they wish to shun fevers and other evil diseases, to keep the pig sty as far as possible from the house.
J. N. L.
OBITUARY.
By S. J. Bucher
DIED, at Lockwood's Corners, Ohio, July 8, 1878, of inflammation of the bowels, Henry C. Booker, in the twenty-eighth year of his age. He was conscious of the approach of death, and calmly met the king of terrors.
S. J. BUCHER.
The Sea.
By Eliza H. Morton
When God made the heavens and the earth he formed the sea also, and gave it this decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment. At times God has manifested his power by causing the waters of the sea to go back and by stilling its proud waves.
The sea is a symbol of beauty and grandeur. The varied hues of the fleeting clouds are reflected in its bosom; the lofty trees, the blue sky, the twinkling stars and the glories of the natural world are mirrored in its pure waters; but all this loveliness hides a relentless, cruel power. When harrowed by storms it lashes its waves in wild ungovernable fury and man cannot stay its roaring.
The earth can be cultivated; but the sea is a wide, dreary expanse. Man can traverse it, but no human hand can tame it. Its wet arms have opened to receive many of the loved of earth. Low, in that ocean-sepulcher lie many manly forms and beautiful faces. "Lost at sea," are words that have filled thousands of hearts with agony. Nameless graves, destitute of funeral rites, save the sad requiem of the winds, are scattered under the waves of the wide, wide sea.
The same hand that spread the waters from pole to pole, will gather them together again and that voice which is like the "noise of many waters" will call forth the sleeping dead.
The earth shining with glory will become pleasant land, and Abraham's seed, which are as the sands of the sea, will be gathered home. Pure will be the feet that press the "sea of glass" and sweet the voices that sing praises to the Lamb.
ELIZA H. MORTON.
SECULAR NEWS.
—Wisconsin has 20,000,000 acres of land which has never been broken.
—Eleven foreign journals have appeared in Japan, of which ten are English, and one French.
—The number of paupers in England on the 1st of January was 747,811, a decrease of 69,411 from the number in 1875, notwithstanding the "hard times."
—Thirty thousand persons assembled at Gleniffer Braes, near Glasgow, last month to celebrate the 104th, anniversary of a poet called Tannahill, of whom the rest of the world is rather ignorant.
—Asiatic cholera has broken out in Norwich, Conn. Three deaths from it have been reported. The most efficient precautions are being taken against the further spread of the dreaded disease.
—One thousand people witnessed the unveiling of the monument to Stephen A. Douglass at Chicago, July 17. A number of distinguished persons were present. The ceremonies were shortened on account of the heat.
—The amount borrowed by Turkey during the last twenty-five years is estimated at $1,000,000,000. Of this sum about $40,000,000 have been expended in armaments, and the remainder has been virtually wasted.
—The number of flouring mills in the United States is reported as over 25,000, affording employment to 60,000 men, whose annual wages are about $20,000,000, and turning out yearly about 50,000,000 barrels of flour, of which 4,000,000 are exported to foreign countries.
—During the first three months of this year the number of persons killed and injured on railways in Great Britain, in the course of public traffic, as reported to the Board of Trade by the railways, were 232 killed, and 837 injured. In addition, by accidents occurring at stations or on the railway premises, 11 persons were killed and 498 injured.
The Bible from Heaven.
By James White
The Bible from Heaven: A summary of Plain Arguments for the Bible and Christianity, is the title of a book of 300 pages by Elder D. M. Canright.
The subjects upon which the author treats are indicated by the table of contents.
Chapter one is upon the important inquiry, “Are you willing to investigate?”
Chapter two contains the evidences of an Almighty Creator as revealed through the telescope.
Chapter three gives the evidence of an infinite God as revealed by the microscope.
Chapter four sets forth the exact order of nature as proof of a Designer.
Chapter five calls attention to the fact that there has ever been a universal desire to worship a supreme being.
Chapter six presents the right course to be pursued in becoming acquainted with God and the Bible. The first and most important means to be employed is the study of the sacred Scriptures themselves and a life of earnest prayer.
Chapter seven shows that the hope of the infidel is like the spider's web, and that while they labor to tear down Christianity and set aside the God of the Bible, they give us nothing in exchange.
Chapter eight shows that it is reasonable that God should care for the intelligences he has created.
Chapters nine to fourteen show that men need a revelation from God, which is proved by the fact that those who have been without divine revelation and guide, whether ancients or moderns, have held the most absurd views of a supreme being and have run into the grossest immoralities.
Chapter fifteen is devoted to a comparison of the religion of the Bible with the various systems of false religion.
Chapter sixteen is an inquiry, “What has infidelity done?” In this chapter it is shown that while it has accomplished no good, infidelity has led to death and to hell.
Chapter seventeen is an inquiry, “When was the Bible written?” Here the best evidence is given that the sacred writings were made at the very time they purport to have been written.
Chapter eighteen gives the testimony of infidels and the bitterest enemies of Christ confirming the genuineness of the New Testament.
Chapter nineteen gives evidence from profane history that Christianity did arise in the first century.
Chapter twenty inquires, “Who wrote the New Testament?” Evidence is given in this chapter that it was written in the first century, by the disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
Chapter twenty-one inquires, “Has the language of the New Testament been changed since it was first written?” Twelve arguments are given in this chapter showing that the New Testament has not been and could not be changed.
Chapter twenty-two treats of the apocryphal books of the New Testament, showing why these doubtful writings were not included in the sacred canon.
Chapter twenty-three shows that the Old Testament was written by the ancient Hebrews in the land of Palestine. Fifteen arguments are given to establish this fact.
Chapter twenty-four has fourteen arguments showing that the Old Testament has not been corrupted.
Chapter twenty-five treats upon the apocryphal books of the Old Testament showing why these were not included as part of the inspired word of God.
Chapter twenty-six answers the inquiry, “Can we believe the Bible?” In this chapter the credibility of the Bible is shown from the external and internal evidences.
Chapter twenty-seven answers the inquiry, “Did Christ die?” Eight arguments are given in this chapter to prove that such a person as Jesus of Nazareth was put to death as recorded by the evangelists.
Chapter twenty-eight answers the inquiry, “Did Christ rise from the dead?” Abundant evidence is given in this chapter to establish the resurrection of the Son God. This great central truth in the plan of redemption being established, the sacred Scriptures relative to that plan are also established as of divine origin.
Chapter twenty-nine proves the inspiration of the Bible by the fulfillment of prophecy as compared with history.
Chapter thirty is devoted to the consideration of, and answer to, the common objections to the Bible.
The first edition of this important work being nearly sold, it is to be revised and enlarged. The last chapter, answering objections, will be greatly enlarged and improved. This edition will contain 400 pages in large type on fine tint paper, neatly bound. Price one dollar and a quarter; a copy with liberal discount to agents and canvassers.
This valuable work is needed everywhere, and not being denominational, can be and will be, widely circulated. The second edition will be made from new plates, the old ones used only to print an edition in paper covers, to be offered at sixty cents a copy. The new edition will be through the press in a few week, when copies will be sent to our preachers and others for testimonials from them and also from the best authorities of the several denominations in the Protestant Christian world.
No pains will be spared to make this work worthy of its title and of the patronage of all Christian men and women. We bespeak for it the influence of all who love our old-fashioned blessed Bible.
James White.
The Sabbath Question at Placerville
By B. A. Stephens
Placerville, Tent No. 3.
WE are in the midst of the Sabbath question. The people are investigating slowly. Eighteen lectures have been given. To-night eighty-three voted that Saturday is the Sabbath. Some of them being among the most prominent men of the town. Next Sabbath they will have opportunity to obey. We feel that the next few weeks will be of special anxiety and toil, and desire the prayers of all, that God will raise up witnesses to his truth here. Mining for gold is the principal occupation of the people. When the question was presented before them, Which day is the Sabbath? we asked all who had been working on the "Sabbath mine," and had gone down to "bed-rock," and found good "color" there, or plenty of pure gold, to arise. Then we called for all who were working on the "Sunday mine," who had found "color," to arise. A gentleman arose. We asked him where his authority was in the Bible for keeping the first day of the week, when he replied that he would have to search his Bible more. His trouble was that he had been working over on the "papal ledge," and gathering mica for gold. May God help us all to obtain the pure gold that will abide the trial of fire, Rev. 3:21, and will give us an entrance into that city whose very streets are paved with that precious metal.
July 21, 1878. B. A. STEPHENS.
Oakland.
By W. M. Healey
OUR tent meeting, which has been in progress for seven weeks, closed last night. Forty-three have signed the covenant. Thirty have been baptized, two of whom have been converted from the Roman Catholic faith. We rejoice that so many have been brought into the truth as the result of this meeting. This is by no means the extent of the influence that has been exerted. We have made many friends to our cause outside of those who have united with us, who are investigating these things. An extensive field is now open for the tract and missionary workers to follow up the work. God has greatly blessed his people in this city, we hope and pray that they may be faithful to the responsibilities resting upon them.
We ship the tent to-day to Yountville, Napa county, where we expect to commence meetings Friday of this week and continue until camp-meeting. May God's blessing rest upon the work.
W. M. HEALEY.
August 5, 1878.
Reno, Nevada.
By John Norton Loughborough
We have now held fourteen meetings in this place. I have given thirteen discourses on the prophecies and immortality question. To these lectures the people have listened with marked attention. Our congregation has never been less than one hundred, and sometimes as many as five hundred have attended.
On Tuesday evening, July 30, Sister White spoke with freedom to some four hundred hearers, on the words of John, "Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God." Her presence and discourse added much to the interest of the meeting, and left a favorable impression upon the public mind.
We come this week to the question of the Sabbath and law. We shall go over matters as rapidly now as possible, as we have to close on the evening of the 18th to meet other engagements. My time is well occupied in meetings and visiting. God blesses in the work, and we hope for souls as the result of our labors. Pray for us.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
August 4, 1878.
Eugene City, Oregon.
ELDER A. T. JONES began meetings in the tent in Eugene City, July 19. There were about fifty present the first evening, and the third evening their numbers had increased to about three hundred. There seems to be some interest awakened already. Mrs. Jones plays the organ which is a help to the meetings. The attendance will probably be greater after harvest. Eugene city is the county seat of Lane county.
In a later report Elder Jones states: “The interest in this place is excellent. The numbers in attendance have increased from the first, till last night, July 28, there were fully four hundred out to hear on the subject, Who changed the Sabbath? We are now in the midst of the Sabbath and law question. Some are deeply interested, and by next Sabbath we hope for quite a number to attend our first Sabbath meeting. The people are quite friendly. The city papers have given quite favorable notices of our meetings.”
Lone Oak and Pleasant Valley.
ELDER J. L. WOOD reports meetings with the church at Lone Oak, July 13. The business of the tract and missionary society was transacted. Brother Church from Fresno was present, and took a deep interest in setting forth the workings of the society. The people manifest a desire to take hold of the work in earnest.
According to appointment he met with the Pleasant Valley church. Found them still keeping up their Sabbath meetings with interest. Good attention was paid to the word spoken. Two more signed the covenant, and all expressed themselves encouraged. They expect to be at the camp-meeting.
Northern California, Camp-Meeting.
The northern California camp-meeting of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Yountville, Napa county, commencing Thursday morning, August 29, at six A. M., and closing September 5, at six A. M. Let all our brethren and sisters in northern California make especial effort to attend this meeting. Come, bringing your friends and children with you. Come praying the Lord to meet with us in power. Come consecrating yourselves to God as never before. Come so as to be all in readiness to commence with the meeting and to stay to its close. Coming thus, it may be made to us indeed a source of great spiritual profit.
G. D. HAGER,
E. R. GILLETT,
JOHN CUSTER,
Camp-Meeting Com. of Northern Cal.
Southern California Camp-Meeting.
By M. J. Church, W. R. Smith, R. F. Eagle
THE southern California camp-meeting of Seventh-day Adventists will be held near Grangeville, Tulare county, commencing Tuesday morning, September 10, at six A. M., and closing Monday morning, September 16, at six A. M. Let all our brethren and sisters of the southern California field come to this meeting in the same manner as is requested above of those in the northern part of the State. We are one, and if we seek God alike we may share like blessings at both meetings.
M. J. CHURCH,
W. R. SMITH,
R. F. EAGLE,
Camp-Meeting Com. of Southern Cal.
California Conference.
By California Conference Committee
The seventh annual session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Yountville, Napa county, in connection with the camp-meeting, from August 29 to September 5, 1878. First session the 29th, at 5 P. M. Let each company choose their delegates immediately, furnishing them with credentials and a statement of the standing of the church, both financially and as to numbers. All ministers and licentiates should have their written reports of labor and expenses prepared to pass in at the first session. Let all church and systematic benevolence books be brought to the Conference.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH,
JOHN MORRISON,
W. N. GLENN,
California Conference Committee.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully,” (margin, negligently.) Jer. 48:10.
$2.00 EACH. J M Sealey 5-30, Mrs Sarah Stalkers 5-30, Stepnen Rider 5-30.
$1.50 EACH. John Elliott 5-30, Mrs Eliza J Connick 5-30, Wm H Criton 5-30, Aaron Mooney 5-30, D R Kiner 5-30, C B Duncan 5-30, Mrs Rebecca Peterson 5-30.
MISCELLANEOUS. Mrs James Harvey $28.50 18-1, Mary Ann Kinnee 1.00 5-14, Mrs S J Grey 75c 5-6, Frank Dunn 1.00 5-8, N P Dixon (3 copies) 4.50 5-30, Mary Hadley 75c 5-6, Isaac Zirkle 1.00 5-16, Margaret Carson 1.00 5-6, A P Lawton (3 copies) 4.50 6-10, A R Fitch (3 copies) 4.50, 5-30, Thomas Hare (14 copies) 21.00 5-24, Mrs T Wilbur 1.00 5-6, Wm Covey 50c 4-42.
Received on Account.
Maine T and M Society $50.00, Illinois T and M Society 73.85, New York T and M Society 140.00, Kentucky T and M Society 85.50, Cal T and M Society 70.33.
California Conference Fund.
Healdsburg $32.00, Santa Rosa 55.25, M Swazey 47.00, Lone Oak 35.75, Locust Grove 35.75, Petaluma 30.00.
European Mission.
Ellen J Stibbins $2.00.
Italian Mission.
Two Sisters who love truth, $19.50.
An Appeal.
ELDER A. T. JONES makes an appeal to district No. 3, of the North Pacific tract and missionary society in behalf of the Dime Tabernacle, urging every Seventh-day Adventist in the district to aid in building this house for the Lord. And he urges that ten cents a month for July and August be immediately paid to the chruch librarians of the district, to be forwarded to the director, Elder A. T. Jones, Eugene City, Oregon.
Postoffice Addresses.
By Editor
Will the writer of the following letter give the postoffice addresses of the individuals named:—
“Enclosed you will find $3. Two dollars for the club of SIGNS for New Liberty church, District No. 1, Kansas ; 50 cents for J. Osborn and 50 cents for Mrs. Louisa Watson.
“Hebron, Neb., June 3, 1878.”
Will some one in Oregon give us the address of John L. Jordan, recently moved to that State from Wisconsin.
The Song Anchor.
By Editor
THIS new Sabbath-school song book is being passed rapidly through the press, and will be ready for orders in a few days. No expense has been spared in procuring the best and most popular of the old favorites, together with a good collection of good new music. 160 pages on fine tinted paper, substantially bound; price 50 cts. Address,
PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal.
Camp-Meeting Posters.
By Camp-Meeting Committee
We mail this week posters, advertising the northern California camp-meeting. Those who receive them will understand that they are requested to post them up in their immediate vicinity, without any further notice.
CAMP-MEETING COMMITTEE.
Tract and Missionary Funds.
By John Norton Loughborough
THERE should be an earnest endeavor in each of our churches and districts to have all pledges made to the $1,000 T. and M. fund, all dues on the Missionary one-third, and all dues to periodical account, settled up by the time of the camp-meeting. J. N. L.
Systematic Benevolence Fund.
By John Norton Loughborough
LET there be an effort on the part of all s. B. treasurers to collect the s. B. funds for the quarter ending October 1, and all arrearages on s. B., before coming to the camp-meeting, so that there may be ample funds to settle all accounts against the Conference.
J. N. L.
California State Missionary Society.
By John Norton Loughborough
THE eighth annual meeting of the California State T. and M. society will be held at Yountville, Napa county, in connection with the camp-meeting, from August 29 to September 5. First session, August 30, at 5 P. M. All directors, secretaries of districts, and church missionary officers are requested to bring their T. and M. account books to the meeting, that all may be audited.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, President.
A. M. LOUGHBOROUGH, Secretary.