p. 343 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 43. (9/2/1875)

Standing Firm in God’s Place

A man who can take the place which God puts him in, and stick to it and fight it through, and stand a man every inch, has waiting an estate of glory such as has not been known in this world.

The True Standard of Dress.

By Harriet Beecher Stowe

WE are always excessive when we sacrifice the higher beauty to obtain the lower one. A woman who will sacrifice domestic affection, conscience, self-respect, and honor, to love of dress, we all agree loves dress too much. She looses the true and higher beauty of womanhood for the lower beauty of gems, and flowers, and colors. A girl who sacrifices to dress all her time, all her strength, all her money, to the neglect of the cultivation of her mind and heart, and to the neglect of the claims of others on her helpfulness, is sacrificing the higher to the lower beauty; her fault is not the love of beauty, but in loving the wrong and inferior kind.

In fine, girls, you may try yourselves by this standard. You love to dress too much, when you care more for your outward adornings than for your inward dispositions; when it afflicts you more to have torn your dress than to have lost your temper—when you are much more troubled by an ill-fitting gown than by a neglected duty—when you are less concerned at having made an unjust comment, or spread a scandalous report, than at having worn a passee bonnet; when you are less troubled at the thought of being found at the last great feast without the wedding garment, than at being found at the party to-night in the fashion of last year.

No Christian woman, as I view it, ought to give such attention to her dress as to allow it to take up all of three important things: viz., all her time, all her strength, all her money. Whoever does this, lives not the Christian, but the pagan, life—worships not at the Christian's altar of our Lord Jesus, but at the shrine of the lower Venus of Corinth and Rome.—Mrs. Stowe.

News and Miscellany.

By Editor

—Three hundred and fifty painters are engaged on inside work on the Palace Hotel, at present, in San Francisco.

—It is estimated that in fourteen counties of Illinois the damage by recent storms will reach the enormous aggregate of $12,000,000.

—California expects to produce during the present year 50,000,000 pounds of wool, 15,000,000 gallons of wine, and 45,000,000 bushels of wheat.

—Since the first of January last the population of this State has increased 46,000 by immigration, 68,800 persons having arrived, and only 21,000 departed.

—Advices from Egypt state that the Abyssinians are making active preparations to attack the Egyptians. The Khedive is greatly alarmed, and is sending reinforcements to the frontier.

—Not the least wonderful of the accidents of the terrible inundation of the Garonne is that the river has been swept out of its course—run off the track, as it were—at Mossac, leaving that river town four miles inland.

—Of 9,900 teachers in the Irish National schools, 6,100 are reported to be totally untrained, while even the trained teachers have had on an average only about five months' training. Their salaries are as small as their capabilities.

—The committee who have in charge the examination into the affairs of J. B. Ford & Co., made a report on Saturday, recommending the acceptance of 35 cents on the dollar, in twelve monthly payments to commence Dec. 15. The liabilities are about $210,000.

—The army worms have made their appearance in great numbers on Long Island, and the fields of oats and corn are being destroyed. The worms eat only the green stems, and drop the kernels to the ground, which is thus frequently covered with oats, while the stalk is left standing upright and naked.

—A school in which girls are taught household work suitable to a farm or rural life has been established at Issy, near Paris, under the direction of Mlle. Maurey. In addition to practical farm work suitable for women, the girls are taught to wash and "do up" linen, to sew, to cut and make clothes and dresses. Should not every farm house be such a school?

—Europe has five millions of soldiers all ready for fighting, with fifteen thousand cannon and a million and a quarter of horses; its united fleets consist of 2,039 vessels, manned by 280,000 sailors, and carrying fifteen thousand guns. The cost of these immense armaments is five hundred and sixty millions of dollars annually, three-fifths of the amount being consecrated to the armies.

—The communists of Chicago are making active preparations for a somewhat warlike campaign. The latest that has been developed is that they have purchased a large number of breech-loading muskets, with considerable amunition, and are drilling regularly under command of experienced Prussian officers. Several hundred men are already enrolled, and picnics are frequently held to raise funds to defray expenses. The leaders are the same discontented spirits who have previously figured in communist mobs. They seem determined to redress the imagined wrongs under which they are laboring. As there is a strong militia force in the city very little apprehension is felt.

—Every Californian is shocked to hear of the failure of the Bank of California, and the death, the following afternoon, of its president, Wm. C. Ralston. Mr. Ralston was connected with many of the greatest and most successful business enterprises of the State, was one of the wealthiest men of San Francisco and for years has had control of the leading Banking-house on this coast. The bank failure and Mr. Ralston's sudden death, add another testimony to the uncertainty of all human affairs.

There are many reports as to the reasons of his death. It seems that soon after a Directors' meeting held last Saturday in which he was refused farther control of the Bank, he drove to North Beach, entered a bath house in a sweating condition, and, notwithstanding the remonstrances of the keeper, went into the water. He swam out strongly for two hundred yards, then stopped and was seen to struggle and go under. Boats were dispatched and he was soon brought a shore, but all attempts at restoration were futile.

California Camp-Meeting.

The California Camp-meeting will be held at Fairfax station, Marin Co., from Sept. 23, at 9 A. M., to Sept. 30, 6 A. M. Bro. and sister White are expected to attend. We hope to see all our brethren and sisters in the State at this meeting, and as many of your friends as you can induce to come. Opportunity for pitching tents, or space for rooms in the building, will be granted to any interested parties who wish to enjoy the meeting. Food for man and beast will be furnished upon the ground at reasonable prices. All coming should provide themselves with bedding unless they have made special arrangements with some tent company to provide them beds. We can accommodate men who bring blankets and have no tent, in our large tent.

It is desired by the committee that, as far as consistent, tents, and cloth for rooms in the building, be shipped to the camp-ground, Sept. 15. No tents should arrive later than the morning of Sept. 22. All our tents should be up, and our campers be upon the grounds by Sept. 22, so that the opening of the meeting, on the morning of the 23d, shall not be disturbed by erecting and preparing tents.

The fare for the round trip, from San Francisco to Fairfax and return, from Sept. 22 to Oct. 1 inclusive, is $1.00. In buying your tickets to Fairfax, at S. F., state that you are going to the camp-meeting, and you will get your ticket for Fairfax, and a return ticket to San Francisco for the $1.00. Your return ticket is good until Oct. 1, the day after the meeting closes. Particulars about the time of trains from S. F., and the place of taking trains, will be given hereafter.

G. D. HAGER, D. B. RICKEY, WM. HARMON. } Camp-Meeting Com.

Eastern Camp-Meetings.

By Editor

NEW YORK, ROME,............ Sept. 9-14, 1875. KANSAS, .................... “ 9-14, “ MICHIGAN, Flint,............ “ 16-21 “ OHIO,....................... Sept. 30-Oct. 5, “ INDIANA,.................... Oct. 7-12, “

Removed.

THE Office of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES is removed to the Association's new building on Castro street bet. Eleventh and Twelfth.

One Day Late.

ON account of the additional work of moving into the new Office, the SIGNS is issued one day late this week. We make it a point to get the paper out on time, always mailing it Wednesday, so that most of the readers on this Coast, at least, may have their paper before the Sabbath.

Tent Rooms and Tents.

TWENTY-THREE of the twenty-eight rooms in the camp-ground building are engaged. We still hold five, subject to further orders. We have also three 10x12, 4 ft. wall, good new drilling tents for sale, at $18.00 each, or to rent at $4.00 each for the meeting, if not sold. J. N. L.

WE are happy to present to the readers of the SIGNS in this number the first of a series of articles with which Eld. R. F. Cottrell proposes to favor us. Having had long experience as a writer and teacher of this truth, his articles will doubtless be both interesting and instructive, and we hope carefully read by all.

Kansas Camp-Meeting.

We have fully decided to attend the California Camp-meeting, Sept. 23-30, and shall stop off at the Kansas Camp-meeting on our way to the Pacific Coast. The Kansas meeting will hold Sept. 9-14.

We shall expect to see a general rally from all parts of Missouri and Kansas at this meeting. We have turned away from entreaties from New York, Ohio, Indiana, and Northern Michigan, to attend their camp-meetings in order to meet a general gathering from this new Conference; and we hope not to be disappointed in numbers at the Kansas meeting. Let the tents be gathered, big and little, let the people come, saints and sinners. We may not be able to meet with this people again for several years.

We have finally selected the most beautiful season of the year, and, with the will and blessing of God, shall expect to see a great and good meeting.

The Kansas Conf. Committe, please appoint the place immediately. JAMES WHITE.

State Missionary Meeting.

By John Norton Loughborough

THE next yearly gathering of the California State T. and M. Society will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Fairfax, Sept. 23 to 30, at such time as may be announced by the President of the society after the opening of the camp-meeting.

All who have paid one dollar into our State missionary funds for membership, are permanent members of the society, and are entitled to vote in all the meetings of the society. Those who have not yet become members of the society, will do well to come prepared to pay their $1.00 and become members.

We request the directors, district secretaries, business agents, and librarians of our churches, to bring all their account and record books of the society to the meeting.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres. LUCIE BUSH, Sec.

California Conference.

THE next yearly session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Fairfax, Sept. 23-30, at such time as may be announced by the President after the opening of the camp-meeting.

We hope to see a full representation, by delegates from every company of Sabbath-keepers in the State. Each church of twenty members or less is entitled to one delegate, and to one additional delegate for every additional fifteen members over the first twenty. Each company which has organized Systematic Benevolence, and has a leader appointed, is entitled to delegates, and should choose them according to their respective numbers.

Churches that have completed their organization since the last conference was held should come prepared to unite with the conference.

The secretary of the conference will furnish to each church blanks for delegates, credentials, and reports of standing and finances. Let all church books and S. B. books be brought to the conference.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, } Cal. JOHN JUDSON, } Conf. J. W. BOND. } Com.

The Work in Africa.

By Daniel T. Bourdeau

Bro. Joseph Ernhardt, a French ex-soldier, aged 22 years, who served through the Franco-Prussian war, received the Sabbath in St. Louis, Senegal, Africa, about two years ago. He reports that there are six families keeping the Sabbath in that place, and from the account he gives I think this must be the result of Sr. Hannah More's faithful labors. I baptized this young man four weeks ago.

I think the providence of God has brought him among us to stir up our minds on the importance of extending the work in foreign lands. He is a good German scholar, has quite a good knowledge of the French and Spanish languages, and speaks the Italian some. He now wishes to learn the English, and to become more familiar with our views and ways, that he may return to Africa as a missionary. He wishes to find employment as a clock repairer or farmer with a substantial Sabbath-keeping family in a good church in or near Battle Creek, that he may learn the English language, and attend one or more terms of our school and a course of Biblical lectures.

D. T. Bourdeau.

How to Send Money.

By Editor

For a number of weeks the following note has appeared in the columns of the SIGNS : —

ALL money sent by mail to the SIGNS Office should be in drafts or postal orders, payable to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, if the sum exceeds $2.00. Sums less than $2.00 can be in currency or postage stamps.

In California, where business is done upon a coin basis, it is frequently the most convenient and best way to send coin by express, but even here, if sent from a distance, where the express would be high, it is better to send by draft if a bank is accessible. But from the East bills not exceeding $2.00 can be safely sent by letter. But all sums exceeding that should be sent either by money order or draft, never by express.

Strong Men.

Strength of character consists of two things—power of will, and power of self-restraint. It requires two things, therefore, for its existence—strong feelings and strong command over them. We all very often mistake strong feeling for strong character. A man who bears all before him, under whose wild bursts of fury the children of the household quake, because he has his own way in all things, we call him a strong man. The truth is, that he is a weak man; it is his passions that are strong; he, mastered by them, is weak. You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feeling he subdues, and by the power of those that subdue him. And hence composure is often the highest result of strength. Did we ever see a man receive a flagrant injury and then reply calmly? That is a man morally strong. Or did we ever see a man in anguish stand as if carved out of solid rock, mastering himself? Or one bearing a hopeless daily trial remain silent, and never tell the world what cankered his home peace? That is strength. He who, with strong passions, remains chaste; he who, indignation within him, can be provoked and yet restrain himself and forgive, those are strong men, the moral heroes.—Sel.

Appointments.

OAKLAND.—Regular services are conducted by the Seventh-day Adventists in their hall, corner of Twelfth and Broadway, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11:30 A. M., and each Sunday evening.

SAN FRANCISCO.—Seventh-day Adventist services each Sabbath (Saturday) at the A. P. A. Hall, Mission street near Third, at 11 A. M., and every Sunday evening.

The next quarterly meeting of the Seventh-day Adventists of the Walla Walla Valley, will be held at the City of Walla Walla, on Sabbath and Sunday, Oct. 16 and 17. All our friends are especially invited to be present. First meeting on Friday evening at the beginning of the Sabbath. I. D. VAN HORN.

Quarterly Meetings.

Our next State quarterly meeting will be held during the camp-meeting at Fairfax, in connection with our yearly State missionary meeting, at such time as may be announced by the President of the society after the opening of the camp-meeting.

Our district quarterly meetings will all be held at one time, Sabbath and First-day, September 11 and 12, as follows:—

DISTRICT No. 1, at Petaluma, Bro. T. M. Chapman, director, presiding.

DISTRICT No. 2, at Santa Rosa, Bro. Wm. Harmon, director, presiding.

DISTRICT No. 3, at Napa, the vice president, J. W. Bond, director, presiding.

DISTRICT No. 4, at Vallejo, the director, J. S. Howard, presiding, and Bro. Charles Jones preaching Sabbath, and officiating in the ordinances.

DISTRICT No. 5, at Woodland, Bro. G. C. Martin, presiding.

DISTRICT No. 6, at Red Banks, Tehama Co., Bro. J. H. Disher, director, presiding.

DISTRICT No. 7, at Oakland, Bro. D. B. Rickey, director, presiding.

DISTRICT No. 8, at San Jose, Bro. H. H. Stevenson, director, and J. Waggoner preaching and officiating in the ordinances.

DISTRICT No. 9, at San Francisco, the President of the State Society, and the director in charge.

All dues to the Missionary Society should be paid to the respective directors at these quarterly meetings, furnishing an account of the same, so that they may be prepared to balance all their accounts with the society at the yearly State missionary meeting. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres. LUCIE BUSH, Sec.

Business Department.

By Editor

"Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully," (margin, negligently). Jer. 48:10.

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Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, etc., etc.

By Editor

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PUBLICATIONS.

By Editor

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The History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, by J. N. Andrews. 528 pp. $1 25.

Thoughts on Daniel. By U. Smith. $1.00. Condensed paper edition, 35 cts.

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Life of Wm. Miller, with likeness. $1.00.

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The United States in Prophecy. By U. Smith. Bound, 40 cts. Paper, 20 cts.

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Facts for the Times, revised and enlarged, 25c.

History of the Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul. By D. M. Canright, 25 cts.

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The Atonement. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.

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The Resurrection of the Unjust; a Vindication of the Doctrine. By J. H. Waggoner. 15 cts.

Redemption, or the Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness (Life of Christ, No. 2). By Mrs E. G. White. 15 cts.

The Saint's Inheritance, or the Earth made New. By J. N. Loughborough. 10 cts.

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Sunday Seventh-day. A Refutation of Mede, Jennings, Akers and Fuller. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.

The Truth Found; The Sabbath. By J. H. Waggoner. 10 cts.

Brown's Review of Gilfillan on the Sabbath. 10 cts.

Vindication of the True Sabbath. Morton. 10 cts.

The Date of the Seventy Weeks of Dan. 9, established. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.

The Seven Trumpets of Rev. 8 and 9. 10 cts.

Matthew Twenty-four. By James White. 10c.

Position and Work of the True People of God under the Third Angel's Message. Littlejohn. 10 cts.

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