It was afternoon of the first day of the week, a little after two o'clock. Mrs. Jewett was tired, unusually so, though she was always tired by the time the washings were finished, but to-day more so, owing, no doubt, to the excitement of the evening before, when, for long hours, together with her husband and the two older girls, she had upon her knees, in penitence and tears, sought pardon for past remissnesses, and help for future exigencies at the throne of grace; and together they had all been rewarded by the entering in to each humbled heart the sweet peace that always accompanies the sense of full and free pardon.
With this had come also the spirit of true confession one to another, as well as to God. Ruth and Rachel had been first to confess to their parents many instances of unfaithfulness to them and to their younger brothers and sisters, that much astonished both father and mother, so carefully had the sins been hidden from human eyes, and these confessions made all to understand as never before, that "the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked;" and to ask, "Who can know it?" with an amazement new to each, and only equaled by the desire to have God "search their hearts, and try them," and show them as fast as they could bear, the evil they contained. Then both father and mother remembered wherein they had been guilty of impatience; of instances of almost deception toward not Ruth and Rachel alone, but all of the children; humble confession was made, and their souls drawn into closer communion with each other than ever before.
It was a scene never before witnessed in James Jewett's home. In everything almost, so clearly shone the sunshine of the enlightening Spirit of God, each saw wherein some mistake or failure had been made as the direct result of either conscious or unconscious sin, showing the alarming state of apathy into which all had been betrayed.
Sweeter concourse had never been held by that really amiable family than was held that night, after confessions had been made by which the consciences of each had been cleared as concerned one another; and no note was taken of the flight of time till the clock struck one solemn note.
"One o'clock, can it be!" they exclaimed, with, as it were, one breath.
"To bed we must all go," the father said, "for we have always much to do on the morrow, and I have some special work to do with some of my neighbors."
"And so have I," sighed Mrs. Jewett; "and may the strength of Christ be ours to work with, that if possible we may take up the stumbling-blocks our selfishness has cast in our neighbors' way."
Now to go back to the beginning of my story: Mrs. Jewett was tired; the washing being finished, the usual tidying up of kitchen and wash-room, together with the after-dinner work, remained to be done, but the girls had insisted that their mother should have no share in any of it, but instead, should go away and take the rest they saw she stood in so much need of. In her heart she had purposed going over to Mrs. Adkins in the afternoon, but both on her own account, and the fear she might be gone away to her mother's, where she often did go on Sunday afternoons, she changed her plan.
Baby James was fast asleep, and Mrs. Jewett thankfully took a large shawl and covered herself up on the lounge in the cozy sitting-room, and was lost in a doze that came to the instant relief of the tired nerves and senses, almost the moment she lay down. But not long did she sleep when there came a timid rap on the door, just loud enough to disturb the sense of hearing, and she dreamed she heard her Saviour say to her personally, "Behold I stand at the door and knock." Rap, rap, rap, rap! louder than before, causing the sleeper to start up in momentary alarm. Only twenty-four hours before, under similar circumstances, the thought of our good sister would have been, "Oh dear, why couldn't everybody have stayed away and given me a chance to rest;" but now, who shall say it was not "the Comforter," even the Holy Ghost, performing its office, that brought on the instant this word to her remembrance: "Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my Lord the King shall appoint;" and, calm and composed, and with the sweet Spirit of Christ's gentleness, she opened the door to admit the very neighbor she had had most in mind all day."
"I am very glad to see you, Mrs. Adkins," she said, clasping her hand with unusual warmth.
"Are you truly glad, Mrs. Jewett? I was afraid you would wish in your heart that I had stayed at home with my baby, but I just couldn't, I was so lonesome and discouraged; everything has gone wrong with me for a week, and I almost always get cheered up and righted someway by a good visit with you, so you will forgive me for coming again so soon."
The accent on the word "almost" sent a pang of remorse and shame quivering its way through Mrs. Jewett's heart, for she had been painfully conscious of a time, only the Friday before, when Mrs. Adkins came over with some stitching to do on her machine (the poor woman had none, with her family of nine), and she had, as it now seemed to her, needlessly refused her the privilege of coming any more, on the plea that her machine was old, and so hard to keep in good order, and if she loaned it to one she must to another, etc., etc., when she knew no other neighbor who had not a machine of their own.
"If the case is so critical as you represent, and the panacea really lies with me, I would be heartless to refuse forgiveness if there was a bit of room for any, which there is not. How warm you are, carrying that big baby so far; sit down here by the window, and I will bring you a glass of water."
While she was gone, Mrs. Adkins took a good look around the neat sitting-room. She had just finished the survey when Mrs. Jewett returned with Maud, who took the baby by force and carried him off to the kitchen, where he loved best to be, with the children.
"How nice everything is at your house! I don't think it is so much wonder after all that you are always so good-natured. I am sure you can't have half to try you that I do; your floors are all carpeted, unless it is your kitchen, and you have no scrubbing to do only there, and that floor is painted. Then all your folks seem to feel just such an interest in keeping things nice, while I may clean up ever so good every day after the children get off to school, and it will be just as mussy and crazy as ever by bed-time. What did you pay for this carpet? If I may ask."
"I paid only for the weaving and the warp; we sewed the rags, all hands of us; even the boys lent a hand. We had some grand times with the making of this carpet, running races to see who could wind the heaviest ball. The boys sewed them nearly all on the sewing machine; David would run the machine, and John would put the rags together just ready to slip under the needle and hand them to him. Sometimes we would save those that did not do quite so well sewed by machine and do them with our needles, the boys helping at that, too; and at such times Mr. Jewett would read aloud to us from the Review and Herald, something good for us all. Sometimes again we would choose subjects to converse on, and the children would read up for several days so as to be able to talk intelligently upon the topic."
"Who ever heard of such a thing! No wonder your girls are so knowing for their age. I would like to hear Mr. Adkins read aloud once. He eats his supper, lies down on a couple of chairs, and goes to sleep; and if the children talk, or dare to laugh and play, or do anything that disturbs him, he growls at me for not keeping them quiet. I just hate evenings!" And the woman sighed, feeling in her heart that she was a most abused wife.
"Does not your husband like to read?"
"He used to very much, when we were first married, but he says the children make such a clatter of feet and rattle of tongues now, that there is no comfort trying to read or think; but I can't keep them still, and he seldom tries. How do you manage to keep yours so quiet, Mrs. Jewett?"
"They are not always quiet, Mrs. Adkins, I can assure you. They have great romps with their father, occasionally, great play visits with each other, and many a game such as children the world over delight in; but in return for these privileges they understand that they are to render to us implicit237obedience; and that when we wish quiet, they must yield gracefully."
Again the sigh, as Mrs. Adkins said: "Well, we have neither of us the slightest knack with children. They do about as they please, for all of me, and John never minds them much unless they disturb him; but I do not think any of my children, unless it is George, care for reading, or anything but play."
Mrs. Jewett quietly smiled, and, rising, took from the book-case a small book, with pretty green and gold binding, saying: "I want you to try reading this book to them yourself. A few chapters will prove to you whether there is anything in the experiment, and if so, George can read while you work and your husband sleeps. I feel sure that the children will keep quiet to listen."
"I am sure you are kind, but I almost know I shall have to stop every half minute to scold some of them."
Many griefs did the visitor pour into the ears of her patient auditor, who listened quietly, suggesting remedies wherever there was the slightest probability of their ever being tried, praying all the while that God would help her to be of use to the neighbor she loved and respected, in bringing about a more pleasant state of affairs in her home.
Among other trials, was the one that John never would eat salt-rising bread or soda biscuit, if he could help it—would rather live on potatoes and corn-bread, and that he was always telling about the good bread his mother used to make. Mrs. Jewett proposed giving her some fresh hop yeast, and after telling her as carefully and particularly as she could just how to manage it from beginning to end, she offered to write the directions also, which offer was accepted by Mrs. Adkins with many doubts as to her being able to profit thereby, but with a resolve "to try my very best to please John once in his life, if it is a possible thing."
From where the two ladies sat they could hear two of the girls, Maud and Ella, aged respectively nine and eleven years, talking to each other.
"Come, Maud, now you have got the baby to sleep, take him in to his mother; for we won't get the dishes done by the time the girls get done their scrubbing."
"All right, Ella, it's your turn to be mother and wash, and mine to be child and wipe, and I will keep up with you, see if I don't—if you wash them clean. They are all stuck up and dried on, it's been so long since dinner, and I am glad it is your turn to wash them to-day. No, I don't; that would not be 'preferring one another in love,' would it? I'll wash if you want me to. Do you?"
"Do hear that child!" exclaimed Mrs. Adkins, in a low voice, "that beats me."
At that moment Maud came in with Mrs. Adkins's baby soundly sleeping. In a minute he was snugly transferred to the lounge, and Maud was back, saying: "I really will wash, if you will let me, Ella, for I do mean to always prefer you to myself. Is not that what 'esteeming others better than themselves' means?"
"I guess so, Maud, but I am the oldest, and must esteem you first, so I'll wash them if they are stuck on; and now, my dear little daughter," assuming a dignified tone of voice,
"mamma wants you to wipe everything so nice and dry; rub it hard till it shines, every single dish, so grandma's eyes will shine when she sees them, 'cause they'll be so bright. There, that looks right. Oh, but I know you will make just the nicest housekeeper when you get married and keep house! Won't I be proud to visit my daughter then?"
"If I ever get married and keep house, I will have beat-up sugar and eggs (just ready for custard pie, you know), on the table for sauce every single meal, company or not, cause I like it so awful well. O mamma, mamma Ella! I would be so ashamed if I were you! Here's a plate with the potato not all washed off."
"Well, your mamma is ashamed of that, and of having her little daughter say 'awful well.' Don't you remember your grandpa Jewett told you that it was not right to use the word awful as you do?"
"Well, how can I remember it all at once? I think I am doing awful—no, I mean very well. That is the first time to-day that I have forgotten and said it."
"So you are! Mamma is proud of her little girl because she tries, and 'if at first you don't succeed, then try, try again.' Did you ever see anything stick so aw—very hard? I most said it myself;" and here the girls laughed to think that Ella came near being caught in the same old habit.
Thus with childish chat the dishes were washed quickly, and the task enjoyed by them almost as much as a game of play.
"Who ever heard the like of your girls? I never can get mine to wash up the dishes for me without a fuss, and yours seem to enjoy it."
"I think they do of late. Our family is so large, with the hired men, that I am obliged to have the children do a great many things. Especially do I find this young man a great hindrance to his mother's always being around the house (this as James Jr. awoke and cried to be taken from his crib); and since I hit upon the plan of their taking turns playing at mother and child, they seldom object to dish-washing."
This was a new idea to Mrs. Adkins, and she "made a note of it," determining to turn over several new leaves in her own home, beginning as soon as she got there.
Later on Ella and Maud came in and stood by their mother while she was talking, and at the first place for an interruption Maud asked:—
"Mother, may Ella and I get supper all alone to-night? Please let us."
"I shall be glad to have you, but I think there is not bread enough."
"Then shall we make some? But what shall it be? graham gems, whole-wheat flour biscuit? or what?"
"Make biscuit; and warm some potatoes, and get any kind of fruit you like."
Mrs. Adkins was astonished, but said nothing until, when seated at the table, she had opportunity to observe more fully the evidences of the neatness and skill displayed by the two children, whose faces were still rosy as pinks with the warmth of the kitchen and the excitement of "doing it all alone for company."
"You don't mean that those children did all this themselves? made these biscuits too? How in the world did you ever teach them?"
"By letting them make play of it at first; working with them, and playing they were educating themselves to teach in a cooking-school. I have had to invent many ways to make necessary work seem play to my girls, who otherwise would not have had many play spells some days throughout the past year."
"Well, I feel as if this had been a day worth a good deal to me, and I am going to try your plans a little; but I have no ingenuity myself, and no patience, and little courage to believe that I shall meet with success. However, I cannot but sense the difference in endeavoring to live 'all to the honor and glory of God,' as you do, and teach your children; while we live—I am sure I do not know what for, unless it is, as I sometimes think, just because we do live, and only because we are afraid to die."
On her way home with a supply of yeast, the green-covered book, and a whole bundle of newly-made resolutions, she contrasted over and over the home life of her neighbor with her own. How she succeeded in carrying out the new resolutions may sometime be the subject of another chapter. *
The Home Circle.
By The Presbyterian
SHADE AND SUNSHINE.
Into all lives some rain must fall,
Into all eyes some tear-drops start,
Whether they fall as a gentle shower,
Or fall like fire from an aching heart.
Into all hearts must sorrow creep,
Into all souls some doubting come,
Lashing the waves of life's great deep
From dimpling waters to seething foam.
Over all paths some clouds must lower,
Under all feet some sharp thorns spring,
Tearing the flesh to cruel wounds,
Or pierce the heart with their bitter sting.
Upon all brows rough winds must blow,
Over all shoulders a cross be lain,
Bowing the form in its lofty height
Down to the dust in bitter pain.
Into all hands some duty's thrust,
Unto all arms some burden's given,
Crushing the heart with its dreary weight,
Or lifting the soul from earth to Heaven.
Into all hearts and homes and lives
God's dear sunlight comes streaming down,
Gilding the ruins of life's great plain,—
Weaving for all a golden crown.
—The Presbyterian.
Conduct Must Support Words
A MAN's conduct can easily blast all his good words. Men learn to interpret our utterances by the sincerity and stability of our life.—Selected.
TO MOTHERS.
If you say "No" mean "No." Unless you have a good reason for changing a given command, hold to it.
Take an interest in your children's amusements; mother's share in what pleases them is a great delight. Remember that trifles to you are mountains to them; respect their feelings.
Keep up a standard of principles; your children are judges.
Be honest with them in small things as well as in great. If you cannot tell them what they wish to know, say so, rather than deceive them.
If you have lost a child, remember that for the one who is gone there is no more to do, but for those left, everything.
Make your girls and boys study philosophy; when they are ill try and make them comprehend why and how the complaint arose, and the remedy, so far as you know it.
Impress upon them, from early infancy, that their actions have results, and that they cannot escape consequences even by being sorry when they have done wrong.
Respect their little secrets; if they have concealments, fretting them will never make them tell, and time and patience will.
Allow them, as they grow older, to have opinions of their own; make them individuals and not mere echoes.
Find out all their special tastes and develop them instead of spending time, money, and patience in forcing them into studies that are entirely repugnant to them.
Mothers, whatever else you may teach your girls, do not neglect to instruct them in the mysteries of housekeeping. So shall you put them in the way of making home happy. —Selected.
News and Notes.
By Editor
—Savannah, Ga., had a $1,500,000 fire the 6th inst.
—The U. S. Senate adjourned sine die, on the 2d inst.
—April 1 there was $617,591,090.66 in the public treasury.
—Chicago has one hundred Christian Endeavor Societies.
—Affairs in Hayti are about settled, and peace will soon be declared.
—The decrease in the public debt since June 30, 1888, amounts to $50,900,994.
—Heavy snow-storms prevailed throughout Pennsylvania and the Blue Ridge section, April 5 and 6.
—Secretary of the Treasury Windom has refused to purchase 4 1/2 per cent. bonds at a higher figure than 108.
—It is estimated that 1,000 frogs are consumed in San Francisco daily, at an average cost of fifty cents apiece.
—Downs & Co., of New York, leading fancy shirt makers in the United States, failed on the 5th inst., for $400,000.
—The liabilities for the first quarter of 1889 are reported at $42,786,000, as against $38,834,000 for the first quarter of 1888.
—An English syndicate has purchased Catalina Island, off Los Angeles, Cal., for $6,000,000, and will make it a watering-place.
—President Harrison has issued a proclamation appointing an hour of prayer on the Washington Centennial day, April 30.
—The Navy Department has dispatched the Adams, Richmond, and Alert to take the place of the vessels recently lost at Apia.
—An unsuccessful attempt to wreck the Pennsylvania limited express train was made on the night of the 2d inst., near Canton, Ohio.
—The German Government has announced its intention of replacing the vessels lost in the recent Samoan disaster as soon as possible.
—Edwin Booth, the actor, was recently stricken down while in the midst of a play, by nervous prostration caused by excessive smoking.
—An irrigating canal, thirty-nine miles long, is to be constructed by California capitalists in Colusa County, at a cost of half a million dollars.
—An extensive Nihilist printing establishment has been discovered in Warsaw, Russia, and many persons connected with it have been arrested.
—The recent proclamation of President Harrison, respecting the closing of the Behring Sea, has provoked considerable discussion in British circles.
—Southern Hungary has recently been visited by a terrible storm, destroying many houses, and causing disastrous conflagrations in a number of villages.
—A street-car strike at Rochester, N. Y., resulted in a riot April 6. The mob was finally dispersed by the police after twenty-five arrests had been made.
—Gold is reported to be found in large quantities in the sand on the beach at Lompoc, near Santa Barbara, Cal. Four men are said to have taken out $1,500 in four weeks.
—The failures for the first quarter of 1889, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co.'s mercantile agency, number 3,294, as against 2,948 for the corresponding three months of 1888.
—Worn coins are redeemable at their face value at any sub-treasury in the United States, provided they are unmutilated, and are presented in parcels of not less than $5.00.
—A large deposit of telluride, a very scarce and valuable mineral, has just been discovered in the Wood River country, Indian Territory. The ore assays $10,000 to the ton.
—It is stated that Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, widow of the late Confederate general, has been offered the Richmond, Va., post-office, and will accept the position, which is a lucrative one.
—While a terrible famine is prevailing in some districts of North China, and thousands of people are on the verge of starvation, millions of dollars have been spent on the recent marriage festivities of the emperor.
—The old frigate Franklin, Farragut's last flag-ship, will be sent to New York to take part in the Centennial celebration of April 30. She will represent the old navy, in striking contrast to the new steel cruisers, Boston and Chicago, which will also be there.
—The locomotive and fourteen cars of a Baltimore and Ohio freight train went through a burning bridge, sixty miles east of Wheeling, West Virginia, the 1st inst. The crew escaped unhurt.
—President Harrison is said to favor the idea of immediately strengthening the United States navy, until it shall reach the standard of other nations, both in point of excellence and numbers.
—The East-bound passenger train, on the Northern Pacific road, ran into a freight train near Helena, Mont., the 2d inst., killing three persons, and seriously injuring three others. A misplaced switch was the cause.
—August Belmont, the Vanderbilts, and others, have formed a syndicate for the purpose of obtaining a controlling interest in the gas trusts of St. Louis. It is stated that all the properties will be combined in one gigantic organization, with a capital of $12,000,000.
—The American war-ship Nipsic, which was grounded in Apia harbor during the Samoan storm, and was thought to be totally wrecked, has been floated off the reef, and will be saved. The other vessels, however, are too badly damaged to be of further use.
—The Oklahoma boomers threaten that, on or before the 21st inst., they will burn the bridges on all railroads leading into the disputed territory, in order to prevent other settlers from coming in and occupying the claims the boomers have staked out for themselves.
—General Boulanger, who has been advocating the re-modeling of the French Constitution, is accused by the Ministry of attempting the destruction of the Republic. The Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 355 to 203, declared him a conspirator, and authorized his prosecution. Boulanger has fled to Brussels.
—A half-breed Canadian adventurer named Le Duc is in Chicago asking for funds to back him in an effort to reach the north pole. He proposes to establish a line of communication by means of three hundred supply stations, and says the trip will be made overland by sleds. It is possible that Government aid may also be asked.
—Dispatches from South Dakota and Minnesota, bearing date of April 4, stated that for two days previous those sections had been visited by severe wind-storms and prairie fires, doing much damage. Several towns and villages have been consumed, and the loss of life is considerable. The pecuniary damage will reach up into the millions.
—Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher, the venerable brother of the late Brooklyn divine, fell under the wheels of a moving train at Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 2d inst., sustaining such injuries that amputation of one of his legs was deemed necessary in order to save his life. Dr. Beecher is one of the oldest clergymen in the United States, being over eighty-five years of age.
—Later news from the South Pacific indicate that the recent hurricane, which wrecked the American and German fleets at Samoa, was much more widespread than had been supposed. On the island of Tonga, 500 miles south of Samoa, thirty persons perished, and at Tahiti, 1,250 miles south-east of Samoa, the waves submerged a part of the island, and over 1,000 persons are reported drowned. Taken altogether, in the damage done to shipping and the loss of life, it is reported as being the most disastrous storm that has visited that part of the world for many years.
—The President has nominated John Hicks, of Wisconsin, as Minister to Peru, and George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, as Minister to Portugal; Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, Minister to Great Britain; Murat Halstead, editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, Minister to Germany; Allen Thorndyke Rice, editor of the North American Review, of New York, Minister to Russia; Patrick Egan, of Nebraska, Minister to Chili, and Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, Minister to Mexico. The above nominations have been confirmed by the Senate, with the exception of Murat Halstead, who was rejected on account of political reasons.
—A letter, dated August 28, 1888, has been received from Stanley, the explorer, giving a full account of his travels since his departure in June, 1887. He narrates how his force of 389 men and officers was decimated by disease, starvation, and hostilities, until only 140 remained. He reports Emin Pasha alive, and able to hold his own against any opposing force likely to be brought against him. Stanley has shown his usual perseverance, courage, and leadership, and has again proved his right to be considered the most intrepid explorer that has ever attempted to penetrate the mysteries of the Dark Continent. Emin Pasha will not leave Africa at present, but Stanley is already on his homeward way, with a large band of natives, bearing 6,000 elephants' tusks.
—A gigantic smuggling scheme has just been unearthed in New York City, by which it is estimated the Government has been cheated out of duties on imported goods to the amount of $250,000.
—The New York weekly bank statement shows a reserve decrease of $4,041,000, and a specie decrease of $3,115,000. The banks now hold $1,410,000 in excess of the twenty-five per cent. rule.
Obituary.
By George W. Rine
CHINNOCK.—Fell asleep in Jesus at the Students' Home, in Healdsburg, Cal., March 27, 1889, Miss Nellie Chinnock, aged 24 years and 12 days.
This is the first time in the history of the Healdsburg College that death has invaded the happy precincts of the Students' Home. Nellie's parents and her sister Alice, whom she had not the privilege of seeing during her illness, still live at North Bloomfield, Ohio, where she was born. Nellie is the only one of a family of twelve members upon whom the hand of death has yet been laid. Her parents, five sisters, and four brothers all survive to mourn their loss.
Sister Chinnock was reared in the Seventh-day Adventist faith, with which body she united at the age of fourteen. She lived at her home in Ohio and in Battle Creek, Mich., until last September, when she came to California, arriving at Oakland just in time to attend the late camp-meeting for 1888 at that place. Happily at that meeting she determined to have a deeper and more thorough work of grace wrought upon her heart. By confession of sins and contrition of heart she experienced in rich measure the saving power of divine love. As the result of this new experience, she became more fully imbued with the spirit of the Third Angel's Message, and expressed her determination to devote the remainder of her life to the service of her Master, in whose love she then so much rejoiced. From Oakland she came to Healdsburg to attend the College the remainder of the school year, and has since been a member of the student family. Her genial, happy, hopeful disposition won for her the esteem and sympathies of all her associates in the school, Home, and church. The good work of seeking a more thorough conversion and consecration of life to God, which she began at the camp-meeting, did not cease with her till death. The series of prayer and revival meetings held in the Healdsburg church during and after the holidays, were to her, as they were to many others, an occasion of great spiritual profit. Thus the last six months of her life, which she spent in California, seem to have been to her a season of preparation for the final and solemn ordeal through which she was destined so soon to pass.
Her illness, which was of a severe and unusual character, was of about four weeks' duration. She frequently acknowledged the blessing of God in effecting temporary relief from suffering, and her recovery was confidently expected until a few days before she died. But our heavenly Father, who doth all things well, decreed that she should sleep, and thus she passed away, fully assured that when He who is "the resurrection and the life" shall appear she would come forth clothed with immortal beauty to constitute a jewel among the blood-bought treasures of the cross. While we mourn our loss and sympathize with the bereaved parents, sisters, and brothers, we are consoled with the assurance that her sufferings are forever ended. The funeral was attended by a large number of sympathizing friends and acquaintances, the members of the College attending in body. Words of comfort and counsel based upon Psalms 116:15 were spoken by Elder R. S. Owen. G. W. RINE.
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Logan
By J. A. Burden
LOGAN.—Died at Beaverton, Oregon, March 4, 1889, of consumption, Miss Sarah J. Logan, daughter of Brother and Sister L. A. Logan, aged 18 years and 21 days; also, the same day, of pneumonia, Nettie Logan, infant daughter of Lincoln and Jessie Logan, aged 6 months and 5 days. They laid their little one away expecting the Life-giver to bring it "from the land of the enemy." Sister Sarah J. Logan was born in Marion Co., Ill., and at the age of fifteen gave her heart to Jesus, from which time she lived a devoted, consistent Christian life. In May, 1888, she, with her parents, moved to Oregon and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Beaverton. Her last illness was brief, but her sufferings often severe. She bore it all, however, with Christian patience, and died in the triumphs of a living faith. Her loved ones feel their loss deeply, but sorrow not as those "who have no hope." A double grave entombed them both. "Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep!"
Words of comfort by the writer, to a crowded church of sympathizing friends, from John 11:25, 26. J. A. BURDEN.
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NOTICE TO MISSIONARY WORKERS.
By Editor
PLEASE stop sending the SIGNS to any of the following names, as this office has received notice that the papers are refused, unclaimed, or sent to the wrong post-office:—
Harvey Woodle, Miss Eva Coolie, Clara Valentine, P. Clevenger, D. H. Cadwalder, Mrs. Mary Stevens, E. M. La Lone, Mrs. M. K. Moran, Adam Shafer.
STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING.
By C. H. Jones
THE fourteenth annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, for the election of officers, and transaction of other business, will be held at the office of the company, in Oakland, Cal., Monday, April 22, 1889, at 9:30 A. M.
C. H. JONES, Pres.
STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING.
By John Norton Loughborough
THE first annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pacific Sabbatarian Association will be held at the office of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, at Oakland, Cal., on Tuesday, April 23, 1889, at 5 P. M., for the election of officers, and the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres.
HEALDSBURG COLLEGE.
THERE will be a meeting of the stockholders of Healdsburg College corporation at the South College building, Monday, April 15, at 9 o'clock A. M., for the purpose of electing seven trustees, to serve one year from that date, and for the transaction of such other business as may be brought before said meeting.
W. C. WHITE, Pres.
W. C. GRAINGER, Sec.
Rural Health Retreat Annual Meeting
By John Norton Loughborough
THE annual meeting of the stockholders of the Rural Health Retreat Association (a corporation) will be held at Crystal Springs Health Retreat, near St. Helena, Napa Co., Cal., on Thursday, April 25, 1889, at 2 o'clock P. M. At this meeting a board of seven directors will be elected, and such other business transacted as may properly come before the meeting.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres.,
JOHN FULTON, Sec.
GOOD PROPERTY FOR SALE.
A GENTLE FAMILY HORSE, TWO-SEATED BUGGY, A FINE 11-STOP, 5-OCTAVE WALNUT-CASE ORGAN, RESIDENCE LOTS, ETC., FOR SALE CHEAP.
ONE-HALF the entire proceeds of sale will go into the California Conference Fund, Rural Health Retreat, or some branch of the missionary work if the property is sold by May 15, 1889.
THE HORSE is not afraid of railroad trains or cable-cars, can be ridden or driven by a lady; my children use the horse nearly every day. The horse, light two-seated buggy, harness, horse blanket, etc., I consider worth from $115 to $125 to any family that needs such an outfit, and I will sell them for $100 cash.
THE ORGAN is a fine-toned A. B. Chase, style 302 C, 5 octaves, 4 sets of reeds, double octave coupler, 11 stops. List price, $250. Height, 72 inches; length, 53 inches; width, 24 inches; weight, boxed ready for shipment, about 400 pounds. Plain walnut case, heavy mouldings, carved lines, smooth, hard, oil-finish. Has been used very little. Warranted first-class in every respect. Instrument can be examined at my residence, or it will be boxed ready for shipment, and delivered on board the cars here, for $100 cash or $125 on time payments.
REAL ESTATE, a good location for residence. Lot 50x100 feet, on Forty-second Street, near Market, within three blocks of Telegraph Avenue street-cars on the east, and three blocks to San Pablo cable line on the west. These lots in the Alden Tract are selling for $500 on time payments. I will sell the above described lot, 50 feet front, on sunny side of street, for $400 (half cash, balance on $10 monthly installments, with interest on said installment at the rate of 8 per cent per annum), if sold within 30 days from date of this paper. For map, abstract, and free conveyance to the property, call on B. R. Nordyke, at the Pacific Press buildings, corner Twelfth and Castro Streets, Oakland, Cal.
IN THE HEART OF THE SIERRAS.
By J. M. Hutchings
BY J. M. HUTCHINGS.
THIS new work is a complete historical and descriptive summary of the wonderful Yo Semite Valley and Big Tree Groves. The author, Mr. Hutchings, is an old pioneer, and has for more than 20 years resided in the Valley. He took the first sketches of it that were ever taken, and was the first to make its
MARVELOUS GRANDEUR KNOWN TO THE WORLD.
The work is complete in one volume of nearly 600 pages, and is illustrated with over 150 illustrations, 28 of which are
BEAUTIFUL FULL-PAGE ARTOTYPES.
These artotypes are the most charmingly characteristic of any illustrations ever produced, and are perfectly true to life, having been photographed from nature.
Sold only by subscription. Agents wanted everywhere. For prices and terms,
Address,
PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal.
THE SABBATH QUESTION
By John Nevins Andrews
IS THE
LEADING SUBJECT OF THE DAY.
THE GREAT DEMAND OF THE HOUR, FROM THE PULPIT AND THE PRESS, IN SOCIAL CIRCLES AND IN LEGISLATIVE HALLS, IS
That the Sabbath be more strictly observed. To assist the intelligent-minded of our land to have correct views of this important question, a book has been prepared which thoroughly discusses the Sabbathic institution in every conceivable phase. Such is the valuable work entitled
"History of the Sabbath and the First Day of the Week."
BY ELD. J. N. ANDREWS.
This great and exhaustive work is the result of ten years' hard labor and historical research. The book contains 548 12mo pages, and is printed in clear type, on good paper, and is well bound. Price, post-paid, $2.00.
Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal.
43 Bond Street, New York.
