—The lower House of Congress has passed a resolution to adjourn June 30, for the term.
—The first car-load of apricots and peaches left Vacaville, Cal., for the East on the 11th inst.
—The mayor and four ex-councilmen of Tucson, Arizona, have been indicted for malfeasance in office.
—Railroad roundhouse and repair shops at Des Moines, Iowa, were burned on the 8th inst., causing a loss of $125,000.
—The paying teller of the Cleveland National Bank of Commerce has been arrested on a charge of embezzling $100,000.
—A fishing schooner was wrecked in Trinity Bay, N. F., on the 7th inst., and the whole crew of fourteen men were drowned.
—The late Cardinal Sparetti was the thirty-third of that rank deceased during the present pontificate, and the fourth during 1884.
—A negro boy who shot a white lad while strawberrying near Castlewood, Va., recently was taken from the jail and hanged by citizens.
—James Watson Webb, one of the veteran New York editors, and who has been noted for many years in political circles, died on the 8th inst.383—Bishop Simpson has been seriously ill for some time, and his recovery is considered doubtful.
—In a conflict between Orangemen and Nationalists at Newry, Ireland, on the 7th inst., many persons were injured, and others were arrested.
—A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 9th inst., says that 100 persons have been arrested at Keil on charges of nihilism, including forty army officers.
—A report comes by way of London that a waterspout occurred at Akulsig, Turkestan, on the 2d inst., destroying seventy houses and drowning forty persons.
—The International Convention of Socialists met in London on the 11th inst. The speakers expressed great satisfaction at the spread of Socialism in England.
—The trouble between China and France continues. The Chinese ambassador at Paris has been recalled, and extensive preparations for defense are being made.
—The village of Springfield, Vt., has been flooded the second time within eleven months. Houses and barns were swept down Black River. Losses will aggregate $50,000.
—The National Prohibition Camp-Meeting Association will hold the first of a series of meetings for 1884 on the fair grounds at Decatur, Ill., commencing July 1 and continuing seven days or more.
—At Lille, France, the other day, the car of a captive balloon, containing twenty persons, became detached and fell about 120 feet. Three persons were killed outright and the rest were seriously injured.
—The Utah Democratic Territorial Convention, held last week, literally read the Mormons out of the party, declaring that “Democracy and Mormonism are irreconcilable,” and that “no Mormon can be a Democrat.”
—London, June 12.—General Booth, head of the Salvation Army, is treating for the purchase of Patti’s castle and estate in Wales for a family residence. The General is said to be making large profits as leader of the Army.
—Another quite general rain-storm prevailed in California last week, and there is much complaint of damage to hay and grain. California farmers are hard to reconcile to summer rains—they are not used to them, as Eastern people are.
—A San Francisco scientist, it is claimed by a reporter of a daily paper, has discovered that old coins carry about the country the germs of disease. It is not probable, however, that many people will decline to receive the “filthy lucre” on that account.
—Three Indiana highwaymen, fearing that a boy whom they had robbed might reach a neighboring village to report the crime before they could get to a safe distance in the other direction, deliberately shot a bullet through each of his legs in order to lame him.
—Customs officers have been instructed to be careful to confine the issue of certificates to Chinese laborers who depart directly for foreign ports, and to refrain from issuing them to laborers who intend to proceed to China, or any other foreign port via some other port in the United States.
—The St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railroad Company has been notified by the collector of customs at Winnipeg that no hogs can be imported from the United States into Manitoba for breeding purposes, and that the shipment of hogs is forbidden except for immediate slaughter.
—There is a complaint of overbuilding at Brussels; and the more strange complaint that the country people are getting to spending more in the city than they can afford. City people do not generally make such complaint, but a shrewd business community sees that “waste makes want,” and reaction is dreaded.
—Crops in Los Angeles County, Cal., have suffered heavily by the late rains. At Pasadena, on the 13th, it is reported that hail fell to a depth of six inches. Sacramento County reports are to the effect that the wheat fields are very much damaged. Butte County farmers are also said to be heavy losers; much hay is spoiled, and wheat flattened to the ground.
—The invention of new engines of destruction still goes on. The latest in our own country is a new electrical torpedo-boat, run by electricity from the shore by means of copper wires. It is said that it never fails to fasten a torpedo to any vessel toward which it may be run; is submerged till nearly under water; is swift, noiseless, and “undoubtedly one of the most horrible engines of warfare ever invented.”
Practical Hints about Canvassing.
By Editor
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Sunshine at Home.
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The Biblical Institute.
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Great Controversy, Vol. 4.
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THE SABBATH QUESTION
Assorted Package No. 1. Price, 10c.
Which Day Do You Keep, and Why—Who Changed the Sabbath—The Sabbath in the New Testament—Elihu on the Sabbath—God's Memorial—Sunday Not the Sabbath—Why Not Found Out Before—One Hundred Bible Facts about the Sabbath.
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This package contains all the tracts in package No. 1, and the following in addition:—
Seven Reasons for Sunday-keeping Examined—The Ten Commandments Not Abolished—The Seventh Part of Time—The Definite Seventh Day—Perfection of the Ten Commandments—Address to the Baptists—The Sunday Law.
OTHER WORKS ON THE SABBATH.
The Truth Found.—A comprehensive exposition of the nature and obligation of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. 64 pp.......................................10c
Sunday Seventh-day Examined.—A critical examination of the claim that Sunday is the true seventh day of the fourth commandment. 88 pp..................10c
Brown's Review of Gilfillan on the Sabbath Question. 64 pp.......................................10c
Appeal to the Baptists.—An address from the Seventh-day Baptists to their first-day Baptist brethren, urging a restoration of the Bible Sabbath from the stand-point of Baptist principles of argument and interpretation. 48 pp............................................................10c
Eleven Sermons on the Sabbath and Law. 228 pp. 25c
Vindication of the True Sabbath.—By a former missionary of the Presbyterian Church. ........................................................................10c
Morality of the Sabbath.—Showing that the Sabbath commandment, being found in the midst of the nine acknowledged moral precepts, is, like the others, moral in its nature. 96 pp.........................................15c
Testimony of the Fathers of the first three centuries concerning the Sabbath and First-day. A candid examination of both sides of the question. 112 pp....................................................15c
THE SECOND ADVENT.
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The Coming of the Lord—Is the End Near—Can We Know—The Signs of the Times—The Judgment—Without Excuse—The Second Advent.
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The Millennium—The Present Truth—The Third Angel’s Message—Exposition of Matthew Twenty-four.
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Our Faith and Hope.—A series of ten sermons on the coming and kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. 198 pp.............................................25c
Second Coming of Christ.—An exposition of Matthew 24th chapter. 64 pp............................10c
Three Messages of Rev. 14.—Showing the nature and character of the warning messages designed to prepare the world for the last great Judgment. 96 pp..............................................................10c
The Saints’ Inheritance, or the Earth Made New. 82 pp....................................................10c
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MAN’S NATURE AND DESTINY
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Is Man Immortal—Thoughts for the Candid—End of the Wicked—The Rich Man and Lazarus—Departing and Being with Christ—Milton on the State of the Dead.
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MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS.
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The Plan of Redemption—The Sufferings of Christ—The Sanctuary of the Bible—Scripture References—The Spirit of Prophecy—Spiritualism a Satanic Delusion—Samuel and the Witch of Endor—The End of the Wicked—The Two Thrones.
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A New Kind of Gun.
THERE has been tested recently on our sea-coast a new kind of gun, which it is hoped will be useful in protecting our harbors. It contains a dynamite cartridge which is expelled from the gun by air-pressure. Dynamite would do very great destruction if it should be shot out of an ordinary cannon; but as it explodes by anything in shape of a shock, it would naturally do more damage to the cannon which expelled it than to the object against which it was directed. A gun, however, has been invented to send this dynamite cartridge against a fort, or an approaching iron-clad. The machine is upon exhibition in the Delamater Iron Works in New York. It looks like a forty-foot brass pipe, mounted on a steel girder. This is the barrel and carriage of the four-inch dynamite pneumatic gun. It weighs a ton, and is capable of sustaining a pressure of 1,000 pounds to the square inch. The dynamite cartridge is encased in soft metal, within a shell of brass, and fitted with a wooden tab. It is expelled by compressed air, and when the projectile, flying at speed, strikes head-on against a resisting surface, a hard metal pin embedded in the soft metal is forced into the fulminate at the head of the cartridge and discharges the dynamite. Should the cartridge hit the deck of an iron-clad vessel, it would tear it all to pieces. It is claimed that this cartridge can be thrown three miles with a precision never obtained by gunpowder. Our Government has been experimenting at Fort Hamilton, N. Y., and has done some wonderful execution. Should we have a foreign war, these guns would be our dependence against foreign fleets, as we have no defenses nor any navy. It is said these dynamite guns may be used as field-pieces, which would make war so destructive that it could not be carried on.—Sel.
Ask, and It Shall Be Given
Ask and it shall be given unto you, only let God choose the time and manner of giving.
Tent-Meeting Posters.
By Editor
WE have just printed a lot of posters for announcing special subjects at tent-meetings. With these, the subject of the evening discourse may be announced every day in such a manner that all may know of it. The posters are 18x24 inches, and the lettering is large enough to be read across the street. A half-dozen or a dozen of these would bill a town very well. There are thirty-six different subjects, covering the principal points of our faith, but nothing that would not need to be introduced. Following are the subjects:—
Home of the Saved; The Great Image of Dan. 2; The Four Beasts of Dan. 7; Explanation of Dan. 8; The 2300 Days; The Heavenly Sanctuary; The Judgment; The United States a Subject of Prophecy; Signs of the End; Return of Our Lord; The Resurrection; Man in Death; Nature of Man—Soul, Body, and Spirit; End of the Wicked; Ministration of Angels; Origin and Destiny of Satan; Plan of Salvation; The Law of God; The Law of Moses; The Sabbath of the Lord; Sunday not the Sabbath; Who Changed the Sabbath; The Three Angels' Messages; Seal of God; Mark of the Beast; Justification; The Two Covenants; The Seven Seals; Temperance; Seven Last Plagues; Rome—Pagan and Papal; Character and Work of the Remnant; Conversion; Spiritualism; Sanctification; The Millennium.
These will be sold in assorted lots at the rate of one dollar per hundred posters. That is, if a person wants ten copies of each of the thirty-six subjects, the price will be $3.60. If sent by mail twenty-five cents per hundred posters additional. Any quantity and any number of the above subjects can be had at the same rates.
We believe that our tent laborers will find these posters a great help in advertising their meetings. They will be good at any time and in any locality. Send in your orders.
Various Matters.
By Editor
AN order for 2,628,000 pages of tracts, which the Review office has received from Massachusetts, indicates that the people of New England are awake and at work.
SEVERAL of the State Tract and Missionary Societies are furnishing each tent company within their limits from twenty to one hundred copies of the Signs each week, to be used in missionary work and canvassing. The five tents now in operation in Indiana are thus equipped. We believe other States would find it to their advantage to do likewise.
ELDER HASKELL writes that families came twenty, sixty, and even one hundred miles to attend the Nebraska camp-meeting, having never before met with any Seventh-day Adventists. They had commenced keeping the Sabbath within the last year, through reading the Signs. Their arrival on the ground was the first intimation the brethren had of this result of their Signs campaign last year.
A BOOK and tract depository has been opened at Indianapolis, Ind., W. A. Young in charge; one at Clyde, Ohio, Mrs. Ida S. Gates in charge; another at Fort Scott, Kan., Mrs. Clara Wood Gibbs in charge. Those who have business with depositories and State T. and M. secretaries will please consult our directory on page 382 of Signs for correct P. O. address. Eld. G. D. Ballou, Reno, Nev., is our authorized agent for Nevada.
THE Kansas City Daily Journal had a reporter on the ground during the whole of the camp-meeting at Lawrence, Kansas, who furnished excellent reports for that paper. Some of the sermons and Bible-readings were given almost in full, and the business proceedings were reported in detail. These matters of interest will receive an extensive circulation by means of the Journal, that cannot fail to be a benefit to the cause in that section.
THE heavy rain last week was decidedly out of the usual order of things in this State. In the vicinity of Oakland, nearly two inches of rain fell. The storm was general throughout the State, and crops were considerably damaged; but even with this drawback, it is expected that the aggregate yield will be greater this year than last. The storm now seems to be over, the clouds have disappeared, and once more we have "California weather."
WE have received three copies of the Beatrice (Neb.) Daily Express, containing quite full reports of the Seventh-day Adventist camp-meeting held there, and also very favorable editorial comment. From the reports we judge that the meeting was marked by great earnestness on the part of those encamped on the ground, and that much interest was awakened in the surrounding country.
Since writing the above, we have received the report which appears on page 378. In a private note, Elder Haskell says: “In many respects it was a wonderful meeting. It clearly demonstrates the utility of circulating the Signs.”
A PRIVATE letter from the editor of the Signs gives a few brief notes of the beginning of the Walla Walla camp-meeting, which is now closed. The attendance was much better than ever before; there were more than forty tents on the ground. This is very good for that comparatively new country. A very encouraging feature was that the people came early. Although the meeting was appointed for the 5th, there were enough present on the 4th to have a good meeting. We would like to see this feature at all our meetings. Another good thing mentioned is that all were prompt and regular in their attendance at the meetings. This is no more than ought to be done, nor more than would naturally be expected when people come together for such a series of meetings, yet we are sorry to say that it is not always the case. A more full report will be given next week.
A CARD from Minnesota, received too late for our last issue, says:—
“The Minnesota camp-meeting was first appointed to be June 19-26; it is now changed to June 25-July 1. The change has been noticed in the Review, but not in the Signs. As it may mislead some of our brethren, please notice the change at your earliest convenience.”
We are sorry that we did not receive the card before the paper went to press last week. We have no apology, however, to offer for not noticing the change before, because we were not notified of it. We doubt if the Review, although it is several hundred miles nearer than we are, would have noticed the change if it had not been informed of it. When brethren make or change appointments, please don’t forget to send copy.
Let the Children Work.
A LADY in Iowa writes that last year the children of a small company of Sabbath-keepers in the southern part of that State, began to save money for missionary purposes. Two little girls picked up potatoes and earned five cents. Another little girl, four years of age, received a penny as a prize at school. Others raised vegetables and sold them, and earned a few pennies in various ways, until enough was raised to pay for a copy of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. The paper is now sent to a library in the island of New Zealand, where it finds many interested readers.
Eternity alone will reveal the great results that may spring from the labors of those little ones. They did what they could, and all who do that may be sure of receiving a blessing. If all Sabbath-keepers of mature age would labor as faithfully, and with as much zeal, what a mighty impetus would be given to the work. Let no one despise the day of small things.
Progress.
Brother Robinson, writing from the Boston Mission, says:—
“The New England Tract Society furnishes us with fifty copies of the Signs to use in our work. Our Mission is prospering. The providence of God seems to go out before us as we go from house to house and introduce our ‘Able Minister’—the Signs—and other publications. Our Bible-readings here at the mission rooms are quite well attended, and some of us have engagements nearly every evening to hold Bible-readings in families. We are of good courage. The work looks great, but it is the Lord’s work, and will surely triumph in the end.”
THOUGHTS ON DANIEL, CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL
By Uriah Smith
By Eld. U. Smith.
EXPOSITION OF THE BOOK OF DANIEL, VERSE BY VERSE.
We are now living in times plainly pointed out in this prophecy, and it is important to understand it; for Daniel himself says that in the time of the end, the wise shall understand; while, if we fail, we are equally guilty with the Jews, who knew not the time of their visitation (Luke 19 : 42-44), and shall meet a similar fate.
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Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.
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THOUGHTS ON REVELATION, CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL.
By Editor
By Eld. U. Smith.
This work presents every verse in the book of Revelation, with such remarks as serve to illustrate or explain the meaning of the text. It is a new and harmonious exposition of that important book, and is designed to create an interest in its study.
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