SOME sixty or seventy years ago a kind-hearted man named Baron de Monthyon was living in France. His life was devoted to the good of his fellow-men, and after his death clauses were found in his will bequeathing large sums of money to the French Academy, in trust, the income to be expended in prizes for noble and unselfish deeds.
These prizes are still awarded, and many remarkable cases of self-sacrifice are in this way brought to light.
A fair example is that of Jeanne Parelle, a peasant girl, who went out to service until she was twenty-six. That year her mother was stricken with paralysis, and Jeanne came home to nurse her. Not long afterward her father was seized with convulsions, so severe that his life could only be saved by the strenuous efforts of his daughter. He was unconscious and even dangerous during this illness, so that she was severely hurt while attending him.
These attacks often recurred, with the same results, during the next ten years, yet Jeanne meanwhile "cheerfully went about her work all day, endeavoring to prevent her father from perceiving her injuries."
"The poor old man grew blind, sold his little house, and at last died, leaving his wife deaf, blind, and unable to move from her chair. Jeanne spun, made hay, and tended her with the utmost care and cheerfulness."
The account that is given of the years that followed is touching.
Think of it girls, when life at home sometimes seems dull and hard. Think of it when you are vexed at some task given you to perform; or when mother or father seems unreasonable, or you are weary with watching by the bedside of some one dear to you.
Of Jeanne's patience and sweetness with the poor old childish woman, the following testimony was given: One festival day, Mère Parelle wished to go to church, and Jeanne, now a hard-working woman of forty-five, made no difficulties, but petted and caressed her, promising that she should go; and on a hot August day she was seen with a great arm-chair on one arm, and her mother on the other. She dragged the old woman three steps, then sat her down in the chair to rest; then lifted her up, led her a little further, and put the chair down again. They were three-quarters of an hour in going the distance Jeanne would have walked in five minutes; and after the return was effected, Jeanne was full of delight. "Well, dearest, did you say your prayers well? Are you glad? You are not tired!" And this laborious journey was cheerfully renewed on the old woman's least wish. Sometimes Jeanne was advised to send her to the hospital, the last refuge of poverty in France, analogous to a workhouse.
"It breaks my heart when they say so," she said.
"But Jeanne, your mother would be well cared for."
"I know that; I do not say so from contempt of the hospital. She would be taken care of; but tenderness, who would give her that?" And another time she added, "God leaves us our parents that we may take care of them. If I forsook my poor patient, I should deserve that God should forsake me."
Jeanne and her mother lived on a ground floor, and many persons thus had the opportunity of observing that her tenderness never relaxed. She herself lived on the inferior bread provided by the charity, with a few turnips and potatoes, while she kept her mother on white bread, and if possible, procured butter, cheese, and milk for her. Once when the curate had sent her a pie, which had been scarcely touched, her friends were surprised to see how long it lasted. "Yes, I make the most of it for my mother; I cut off nice little bits for her at her meals, it gives them a relish."
"Do not you eat it, then?"
"It would be a great pity for me to eat it, and nibble away her share, poor thing—it is her treat, and she has so few pleasures, poor sufferer!—neither hearing, nor seeing, and always in pain."
In a great frost, when it was bitterly cold she was found trying to cover her mother with an old worn-out pelisse, and looking quite melancholy, so a good thick woolen wrapper was sent to her. On the next visit the old woman was found tied up in it, with strings over her shoulders, and the daughter beaming with delight. "Bless those who have warmed my mother," she said; "God will warm them in Paradise." A pair of old warm flannel sleeves were given to her for herself, but she was seen again with bare arms in the extreme cold. "Did not the sleeves fit you?"
"Oh, I picked them to pieces. My mother had pains in her knees, so I sewed the flannel onto her under-petticoat; it is warm, you see; she likes it, poor thing." And there the pieces were, laid out neatly so as to thicken the petticoat. Amid all her infirmities the delicate neatness and the fresh cleanliness of the Mère Parelle were a continual wonder.
One of the visiting ladies said, "Really your mother looks quite fresh and bright;" and the good daughter smiled, looking like a young mother complimented upon her child's beauty. "You think her so?" she said. "Ah! poor thing! she is fresher than I am, for she does not drudge so much;" and then with a sigh, "Ah! if she could but hear me!"
For the poor sufferer had at last grown so entirely deaf, that she did not hear her daughter at all, and was constantly calling Jeanne without knowing that she was answered. For two months in the winter the daughter had never gone to bed, and though her own health began to suffer, she never complained. For five and twenty years, when the prize was given in 1830, had Jeanne Parelle been the unwearied nurse and bread-winner of first two, then one, parent.
It seems a small thing that man should attempt to reward such exertions, yet on the other hand, there is something touching in this hard-handed, untaught, toiling, elderly woman being chosen out to receive honor due by the first men in intellect and position in her country, and all for the simple, homely virtues of humble life.
TOO SMART BY HALF.
By National Presbyterian
Of all forms of bad breeding, the pert, smart manner affected by boys and girls of a certain age, is the most offensive and impertinent. One of these so-called smart boys was once employed in the office of the treasurer of a western railway. He was usually left alone in the office between the hours of 8 and 9 in the morning, and it was his duty to answer the questions of all callers as politely as possible.
One morning a plainly-dressed old gentleman walked quietly in, and asked for the cashier.
"He's out," said the boy, without looking up from the paper he was reading.
"Do you know where he is?"
"No."
"When will he be in?"
" 'Bout 9 o'clock."
"It's nearly that now, isn't it? I haven't western time."
"There's the clock," said the boy, smartly, pointing to the clock on the wall.
"Oh, yes; thank you," said the old gentleman. "Ten minutes until 9. May I wait here for him?"
"I s'pose so, though this isn't a public hotel."
The boy thought this was smart and he chuckled aloud over it. He did not offer the old gentleman a chair, or lay down the paper he held.
"I would like to write a note while I wait," said the caller; "will you please get me a piece of paper and an envelope?"
The boy did so, and as he handed them to the old gentleman, he coolly said,—541"Anything else?"
"Yes, I would like to know the name of such a smart boy as you are."
The boy felt flattered by the word "smart," and wishing to show the full extent of his smartness, replied,—
"I'm one of John Thompson's kids, William by name, and I answer to the call of 'Billy.' But here comes the boss!"
The "boss" came in, and, seeing the stranger, cried out,—
"Why, Mr. Smith, how do you do? We—"
But John Thompson's "kid" heard no more. He was looking around for his hat. Mr. Smith was president of the road, and Billy heard from him later to his sorrow. Any one needing a boy of Master Billy's peculiar "smartness" might secure him, as he is still out of employment.—National Presbyterian.
The Home Circle.
MAKE YOUR HOME BEAUTIFUL.
Make your home beautiful, bring to it flowers,
Plant them around you to bud and to bloom;
Let them give light to your loneliest hours—
Let them bring light to enliven your gloom;
If you can do so, oh, make it an Eden
Of beauty and gladness almost divine;
'Twill teach you to long for that home you are needing.
The earth robed in beauty beyond this dark time.
Make home a hive, where all beautiful feelings
Cluster like bees, and their honey-dew bring;
Make it a temple of holy revealings,
And love its bright angel with "shadowing wing."
Then shall it be, when afar on life's billows,
Wherever your tempest-tossed children are flung,
They will long for the shades of the home weeping willows,
And sing the sweet song which their mother had sung.
—Selected.
THE DEPTH OF THE OCEAN.
THE greatest known depth of the ocean is midway between the Island of Tristan D'Acunha and the mouth of the Rio de La Plata. The bottom was here reached at the depth of 46,236 feet, or eight and three-fourths miles, exceeding by more than 17,000 feet the height of Mount Everest, the loftiest mountain in the world. In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Newfoundland, soundings have been made to a depth of 4,580 fathoms, or 27,480 feet; while depth equaling 34,000 feet, or six and one-half miles, are reported south of Bermuda Islands. The average depth of the Pacific Ocean, between Japan and California, is a little over 2,000 fathoms; between Chili and the Sandwich Islands, 2,500 fathoms; and between Chili and New Zealand, 1,500 fathoms. The average depth of all the oceans is from 2,000 to 3,000 fathoms.—Selected.
THE PRACTICAL PHYSICIAN.
At the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, held in Washington last September, Dr. William H. Draper, in his presidential address before the Association of American Physicians, presented in a very graphic and striking manner what should be regarded as the qualifications of the practical physician to-day. He must be a man of broad views, who has all kinds of knowledge; who controls the whole medical situation. He is not a bacteriologist; he is not a pathologist; he is not a chemist or a physicist; he is not merely a therapeutist; he is not a specialist of any sort, nor does he look at clinical medicine from any limited horizon; but he is a man who in some sense is master of all these several branches of medical education by reason of combining as much as is possible of the sciences which these different divisions represent, and thus perfects the most beneficent of all the arts.
"It is he who, in his high position as the servant of humanity, must attain that wisdom which results from combining knowledge with the instinct and the skill for its useful application."—St. Louis Christian Advocate.
WHY IIII REPRESENTED IV.
PEOPLE have often wondered why the hour of four is represented on a watch by IIII instead of IV. The reason is thus given by a Maiden Lane watchmaker. The first clock which approached in accuracy of movement the timekeepers of the present day was constructed by Henry Vick in 1370. He made it for Charles V. of France, who has been called "The Wise."
Charles was wise in a good many ways. He was wise enough to recover from England most of the land which Edward III. had conquered, and he did a good many other things which benefited France. But his early education had been somewhat neglected, and he was queer in many ways. One of his peculiarities was to pretend to knowledge he did not possess. When the clock was brought to him by its maker, the wise king closely observed its movement for a few minutes.
"Yes, the clock works well," said Charles, who was anxious to find some fault with a thing he could not understand, "but you have got the figures on the dial wrong."
"Wherein, your majesty?" asked Vick.
"That four should be four ones," said the king.
"You are wrong, your majesty," said Vick.
"I am never wrong," thundered the king. "Take it away and correct the mistake."
The poor clockmaker did as he had been commanded, and from that day to this 4 o'clock on a watch or clock dial has been IIII instead of IV.—Oregonian, Aug. 11, 1889.
CARE OF UMBRELLAS.
UMBRELLAS will last much longer if, when they are wet, they are placed handle downward to dry. The moisture falls from the edge of the frame, and the fabric dries uniformly. If stood handle upward, as is commonly the case, the top of the umbrella holds the moisture, owing to the lining underneath the ring; it consequently takes a long time to dry, and injures the silk or other fabric with which it is covered. This is the main cause of the umbrella wearing out so soon at the top. Umbrella cases are responsible for the wear of the silk. The constant friction causes tiny holes that appear so provokingly early. When not in use, the umbrella should be left loose, and when wet, left loose to dry.—Selected.
Health and Temperance.
By M. C. W.
THE CURSE OF ALCOHOL.
THAT alcohol is a curse is acknowledged even by its friends. The following is what the leading organ of the whisky trade,—Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular,—of Feb. 10, 1889, says:—
"We are familiar with society's complaints against the liquor traffic. We realize that there is good ground for many of these complaints. We deplore these facts, but stand helpless and without a word of advice to those who would correct them. Herein lies our weakness. We are without a policy. We see young men becoming drunkards, but we offer no remedy. We see old men turn to common sots, but we offer no remedy. We see the scum of society flocking into the retail liquor business, but we offer no remedy. We see these men gain control of city governments, but we offer no remedy. We see the retail business dragged down to the level of the bawdy house, and little hells are operated in public places under liquor licenses, but we offer no remedy. The great mass of our fellow-citizens are not opposed to the manufacture or sale of wine, beer, or whisky, but they are opposed to the abuses referred to above, and demand their correction. They are right, and we should add our protests to theirs. We should define an aggressive reform policy that will attract them to our standard. We should demand the passage of restrictive laws that will prevent any but reputable men retailing wines and spirits."
It is an honest and sad confession. Of course they can "offer no remedy." The legitimate result, the sure consequence, of the whole trade is to make young men drunkards, and to make common drinkers sots. To the trade belongs the scum of society and the bawdy house, and the little hells, and great glittering hells; for there is no difference in our mind. Supposing that "reputable men" retail wines and spirits? Will the effect be any different? In fact, would not the effect be more wide-spread? It would serve to make drinking respectable; its results would be two-fold what they are now.
The only true way to deal with the liquor traffic is prohibition pure and simple. Under stringent prohibitory laws, with faithful officers backed up by public sentiment, prohibition will prohibit. It does in Kansas, it does in Oklahoma; it would everywhere under like conditions. We do not mean that no whisky is drunk in Kansas; there is. But it is in secret, and is illegal, just the same as stealing is illegal, though men steal. But because men steal contrary to law it is no reason that laws against stealing should be abolished. Because men sell whisky contrary to law, is no reason why prohibitory laws should not be passed; and the fact that whisky selling wrecks homes, pauperizes widows and children, develops criminals, burdens the country with criminal prosecutions, and in other ways is a peril to the government, is good and sufficient reason why such laws should be passed and enforced.
M. C. W.
HEART FAILURE.
THE American Analyst thinks it would be an excellent idea if physicians of the present day would invent some other reason for about all the deaths which occur nowadays from heart failure. It is difficult for anyone conversant with the organs of the human body to understand how any human being can die without heart failure, while the causes of the failure of the heart at death are numerous. This might not be of serious moment were it not for the fact that hundreds of people are being nearly frightened to death by the constant use of the cause of sudden deaths, and many persons who are sick, and necessarily have some heart symptoms, are kept in constant terror by reading or hearing in other ways of death after death by heart failure. It would be well if physicians who are too indolent or too ignorant to search out the cause of the disease lying back of the heart failure to consider how much harm they are doing the community, and if they cannot correct the habit, the newspapers and the public should avoid giving currency to this unfounded and dangerous phrase. There are probably no more deaths from heart failure in these times than heretofore, but a new cause for death has been coined, and the nervous and timid are being severely injured by it.—Selected.
NIGHT AIR FAR BETTER THAN FOUL AIR.
An extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air. What air can we breathe at night but night air? The choice is between pure night air from without and foul air from within. Most people prefer the latter, an unaccountable choice. What will they say if it is proved to be true that fully one-half of all the diseases we suffer from, are occasioned by people sleeping with their windows shut? An open window, most nights in the year, can never hurt anyone. In great cities night air is often the best and purest to be had in twenty-four hours. I could better understand shutting the windows in town during the day than during the night, for the sake of the sick. The absence of smoke, the quiet, all tend to make night the best time for airing the patient. One of our highest medical authorities on consumption and climate, has told me that the air of London is never so good as after 10 o'clock at night. Always air your room, then, from the outside air, if possible. Windows are made to open, doors are made to shut, a truth which seems extremely difficult of apprehension. Every room must be aired from without, every passage from within.—Sanitary World.
SECULAR.
—An unknown donor has sent a contribution of $50,000 to the Prince of Wales.
—There has been a sharp skirmish between the Turks and the Cretan insurgents.
—Eighteen persons were injured by a railroad accident at Lincoln, Nebraska, August 18.
—A bomb was exploded at a public concert in Rome, August 19, injuring eight persons.
—Helena will remain the capital of Montana until 1892, when another election will be held.
—The constitutional convention of Washington Territory completed its labors the 22d ult.
—Cattle are dying in large numbers of splenic, or Texas, fever in the vicinity of Greensburgh, Pa.
—A man in Richmond, Va., is reported to have written 36,764 words in shorthand on a postal card.
—The death sentence of Mrs. Maybrick, the London poisoner, has been commuted to imprisonment for life.
—Over one hundred persons were seriously poisoned by ice cream at a picnic near St. Paul, Minn., the 18th ult.
—British trade with Africa is said to amount to $125,000,000 annually, and the commerce of France to $100,000,000.
—The Republicans of Virginia nominated General Mahone for governor, at their recent State Convention in Norfolk.
—While a steamboat was making a trial trip at Shanghai, China, August 19, her boiler exploded, killing thirty men.
—Forty thousand dock laborers were on a strike in London, England, at last accounts, and the strike was still spreading.
—Two more British sealers have been seized by the United States revenue cutter Rush for poaching seals in Behring Sea.
—The war in Hayti is over at last, Legitime having completely surrendered to Hippolyte, and departed from the island.
—Severe hailstorms passed over portions of Austria, August 21, doing much damage to property. Several persons were killed.
—The J. H. Mahler Company of St. Paul, Minn., one of the largest carriage and wagon firms in the West, have failed for $500,000.
—There were mailed during the last fiscal year 3,578,000,000 letters, newspapers, and pieces of merchandise in the United States.
—A company has been organized in England to erect a tower for scientific purposes in London which shall have an altitude of 2,000 feet.
—Of the whole number of civil employees one-ninth are women, and fully one-third of those in Washington are of the gentler sex.
—Matthew Gibbs, supposed to be the oldest man in the State, died at his home near Centre, North Carolina, August 11, at the age of 108.
—Two women were struck by lightning and instantly killed at Piper City, Ill., recently, while a babe lying in the lap of one of them was uninjured.
—The yield of corn in the United States for 1888 was 2,000,000,000 bushels, or thirty-two bushels per head for each man, woman, and child in the country.
—The highest office building in the world, is soon to be erected in New York City. It will be sixteen stories high, contain 950 offices, and will cost $2,225,000.
—An offer has been made to the British Government of £20,000 per annum for the privilege of advertising on the backs of post cards and postage stamps.
—Alexander Sullivan, the Irish leader, has practically proved his innocence of any complicity in the Cronin case, and all rumors against him are being rapidly dispelled.
—Two steam yachts collided near Syracuse recently, and sank with all on board, numbering about twenty-five persons. All were rescued, however, with the exception of one young lady.
—A five-story tenement in New York City was destroyed by fire the 19th ult., and nine persons were burned to death. The fire was incendiary, and the perpetrator has been arrested.
—The City of Paris has beaten her own record, having recently made the trip to Queenstown, in five days, twenty-three hours and forty minutes, a gain of forty-nine minutes over any previous eastern trip.
—The corner-stone of the Indiana soldier's and sailor's monument was laid at Indianapolis the 22d ult., with imposing ceremonies. President Harrison made an effective address. The monument will cost $200,000.
—Special dispatches from London state that the earl of Fife refuses to allow his wife, the princess Louise of Wales, to accept any share of the grant recently made to the royal family by the British parliament.
—The newsboys of New York, several hundred in number, went out on a strike recently on account of the evening papers increasing the price which the boys were required to pay. The little strikers carried the day.
—The official trial of the new cruiser Charleston off the California coast has been completed, and is reported as being in every way satisfactory. The development of both speed and power was beyond the specifications of the contract.
—By the explosion of a gasoline still on the morning of August 21, the oil refinery of Miller and Son, at Allegheny City, Pa., was completely consumed at a reported loss of $225,000. The engineer is missing, and is thought to have perished in the flames.
—It is officially announced that the New Zealand and South Seas exhibition, designed to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the colony of New Zealand, will be held at the city of Dunedin, commencing November 26 and continuing until April, 1890.
—The remains of the wealthy and eccentric Dr. Henry Hillier, of Wilmington, Mass., who died last year, are enclosed in a $30,000 coffin; and now his widow proposes to erect to his memory a massive mausoleum of granite, marble, and bronze, which shall cost several times this amount.
—Reports from Hayti state that the harbor pilots and the officials of the San Domingo Government are in collision, and that American vessels landing in certain parts of Hayti are deliberately run ashore by the local pilots and plundered by the officials. The United States Government is investigating the matter.
—Three ladies who accompanied an excursion party to the top of Mt. Hood a short time ago, became separated from their companions and lost themselves in the gorges of the mountain, where they remained the greater part of the following night. When found, they were almost dead from exposure and fright.
—The Congressional committee on reclaiming arid lands are looking over various localities in Utah, Nevada, and other Western States with a view of finding locations where reservoirs for irrigation purposes can be built and maintained. They have already found tracts amounting to 70,000,000 acres which are capable of being brought into cultivation by this means.
—The largest sale of tobacco at auction ever made in one day in the United States, if not in the world, occurred at Louisville, Ky., the 21st ult., when about 1,500,000 pounds were disposed of, at a cost of $100,000 to the purchasers, with the additional accessories of bad breath, poor health, depraved habits, and no telling how much other meanness to the future consumers.
—A horrible wreck occurred on the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville Railroad, twenty-two miles from Knoxville, Tenn., the morning of the 22d ult. The train was the first to go over the new road, and was filled with the business and professional men of Knoxville. Of the fifty-six persons on the train forty-one were more or less injured, three of the number being instantly killed.
—David G. Weems, an inventor of Baltimore, has succeeded in constructing an automatic electric motor which makes the remarkable speed of two miles per minute on a circular track three-fourths of a mile in diameter. This is equivalent to three miles a minute on a straight track. It is proposed to construct a line from New York to Chicago which will carry mail, parcels and all light kinds of freight at a speed of 200 miles per hour, and it is claimed that passenger transportation will speedily follow. The invention is covered by one hundred and fifty patents.
Appointments.
By Frank Brown
MISSIONARY MEETINGS, DISTRICT NO. 4.
No preventing providence, I will fill the following appointments:—
JOLON, September 3-8.
SOLEDAD, Monday night, September 9.
SOQUEL, Tuesday night, September 10.
GILROY, Wednesday night, September 11.
HOLLISTER, Thursday night, September 12.
SAN JOSE, September 13, 14.
Meetings at Jolon will begin on Tuesday night, and end on Sunday night. Hope to have meeting in daytime each day also.
Meetings at San Jose will begin Friday night, and end evening after the Sabbath.
Turn out, brethren, to these our last meetings before the camp-meeting. All business pertaining to the camp-meeting may be attended to. Opportunity for baptism. Pray the Lord to bless.
FRANK BROWN, Director.
Obituary.
By A. L. Anthony
EGGLESTON.—Died May 24, 1889, at the Rural Health Retreat, near St. Helena, Cal., of chronic pneumonia, Amelia A. Eggleston, aged 64 years, 2 months, and 8 days. Sister Eggleston was born in Galena, Ill., where, at the early age of 14 she united with the Methodist Church, in whose fellowship she continued for about thirty-five years. In 1859, she, with her family, removed to California; and when, in 1873, Elds. Loughborough and Cornell, pitched their tent in Napa City (her home), she was among the first to take her stand with those "who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." Since that time she has been a consistent and faithful member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Napa City,—filling acceptably at different times the offices of Sabbath-school secretary and church treasurer.
Her late sickness lasted about four months, the last two weeks of which were spent at the Retreat where every possible means were employed for her recovery, but in vain. Sister Eggleston had previously lost her husband and her two children; and the nearest relatives that survive her are a son-in-law and five grandchildren. The friends of deceased have the consolation that she lived a godly life and died in the "blessed hope" of a resurrection to immortal life at the hastening return of her Saviour. Funeral services were conducted at the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Napa City, by Rev. Richard Wylie (Presbyterian) who made appropriate remarks to a good congregation of sympathizing and sorrowing friends.
"Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep."
A. L. ANTHONY.
News and Notes.
By Editor
RELIGIOUS.
—Three-fourths of the population of Chicago never enter a Christian church of any kind.
—Rev. Archibald McLean of Cincinnati has been elected to the presidency of Bethany College.
—England has over one million dollars invested in the manufacture of idols for heathen countries, and yet churches of that country are continually calling for more money and more missionaries to suppress idolatry.
—It is only eighteen years since the first newspaper was published in Japan, and now, 575 daily and weekly papers are issued from the press; 35 law magazines, 111 scientific periodicals; 35 medical journals, and an equal number of religious periodicals are published.
—Religious jealousy in India between Hindoos and Mohammedans is said to be fit to involve the entire country in war the moment the British authorities should be withdrawn. Lately a Mussulman procession to celebrate a convert was attacked with great fury and some fatalities were the result.
The University Press edition of the English Bible contains a manifest error, which gives an entirely wrong meaning to the text. It is the seventeenth verse of the eleventh chapter of Zechariah, which reads, "Woe to the idol shepherd." The word "idol" should be "worthless." In the Revised Version it is so rendered.
—The African Methodist church, which has not a white man among its members or any organic relation with any white church organization, reports a membership of 460,000. It has 12,000 places of worship, numbers 10,000 ministers, has 15,000 Sabbath-schools, supports its own denominational papers, has missions in the West Indies, Mexico, and Africa, and its reported contributions foot up more than $2,000,000 annually for the support of church work.
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THE
Great Controversy
BETWEEN CHRIST AND SATAN
During the Christian Dispensation.
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE,
Author of "The Life of Christ," "Sketches from the Life of Paul," "Bible Sanctification," and other Popular Works.
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REDUCTION OF FARE TO THE CAMP-MEETING AT OAKLAND.
By Charles H. Jones
ANY person coming to the State Camp-Meeting at Oakland, Cal., over any of the lines of the Southern Pacific Company, will purchase a first-class ticket to Oakland, paying the regular fare, and at the same time presenting a certificate, which must be filled out and signed by the ticket agent. After these certificates have been endorsed by the secretary of the Conference at the camp-ground, they will entitle the holder to a return ticket at one-third the regular rate, at any time up to and including October 9. These certificates can now be obtained, free of charge, by addressing Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal.
We would suggest that where several persons are coming from the same place, it be arranged to have all the certificates needed sent to one person, and then passed around to those who are coming. Be sure to order enough for all.
Special arrangements have been made with the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad this year by which those coming to the camp-meeting can purchase round-trip tickets to San Francisco at the following rates:—
Cloverdale to San Francisco and return, $3.00
Healdsburg " " " " 2.25
Santa Rosa " " " " 1.50
Petaluma " " " " 1.00
Call for camp-meeting tickets, which will be on sale at all of the above named stations from September 14 to October 8. These tickets must be countersigned by the secretary of the Conference on the camp-ground, and will entitle the holder to return at any time up to and including October 14, 1889.
Each person will be allowed to take 150 pounds of baggage free. Arrangements have been made with the Whitney, Standard and Oakland Transfer Co., to take trunks and packages from San Francisco to the camp-ground in Oakland for twenty-five cents each. Checks should be left with the above-named company at their office, No. 3 Commercial Street, San Francisco (just across the street from the ferry landing), or delivered to the baggagemaster on the camp-ground. Pay no money to the transfer company, as arrangements have been made to collect when the baggage is delivered.
Those coming via San Jose and intermediate points on the broad-guage R. R. should check baggage to, and get off at, Market Street Station, Oakland. Those coming by the narrow-gauge R. R. should check baggage to, and get off at, Fourteenth and Webster Streets. Those coming via Benicia should check baggage to, and get off at, Sixteenth Street Station. Teams will be in readiness to transfer baggage; and horse-cars for the transfer of passengers run direct from the depot to the grounds. The San Pablo Avenue cable cars starting at Broadway and Seventh Street also run direct to the camp-ground. The camp will be located between Market Street and San Pablo Avenue, near Twenty-fifth Street, the same grounds that have been occupied for the last two years. C. H. JONES.
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