EVERY Jewish child, no matter how rich the parents may be, is taught a trade. A year or two ago a daughter of one of the Rothschilds graduated at the Normal School of Paris. She received a diploma which certified to her fitness to teach in any school in France.
Of course, she will not use it, seeing she will inherit millions of francs, but the principle which led to her gaining that diploma is one that Christian parents should adhere to in educating their children.
One of the blessed legacies of the "hard times" is that many young men and young women were thereby compelled to support themselves.
Some years ago there lived, in New York City, Peter Embury and Philip Hone. Both were rich men and had become so by their own industry. Hone was one of the élite of the city, and lived in magnificent style. He had several sons. They were "good fellows," but their "great expectations," aided by the indulgence of their generous father, indisposed them to active business life.
Mr. Embury was a plain, old-fashioned man, and lived in a wholesome but simple style. His boys were brought up to work and support themselves. One day the two fathers talked over their boys.
"Friend Embury," said Mr. Hone, "why is it that your boys are all smart and hard-working, while mine are good for nothing except to spend money?"
"Well, Philip," replied Mr. Embury, "you are fashionable, and move in fashionable society. You have brought up your children in that school. Like other rich men you had the mistaken idea of educating them to be 'gentlemen.'
"They lived with you. On your table were the choicest wines and around it the choicest company. They remained at the table for hours, drinking healths, instead of attending to business. You taught them to do nothing and to spend money. It is not strange that they are what they are."
"I see it, my friend," replied Mr. Hone; "but how did you train your children? You too are a rich man, and your sons know it."
"I brought up my sons to work," answered Mr. Embury, "and to take care of themselves. They all board at home and they pay their board every week, just as if they were strangers.
"If they need money I lend it to them and take their notes for the amount. When the notes are due they pay them. I don't let the fact that they have a rich father prevent them from supporting themselves.
"I live on good but plain food. Wine or liquor is never seen on my table. My boys have not, therefore, acquired drinking habits. I am not fashionable. I move in good society, but I live in no style. I inculcate honesty and 'goodness and self-reliance in my boys by my own example. I began life without a penny and took care of myself. I intend my boys shall know how to support themselves before they have any of my money to spend.
"Friend Hone, if you would rectify the mistakes you have made in educating your boys, you must begin by teaching them to be industrious, and to take care of themselves."
"I know you are right, my old friend," said Mr. Hone, with much emotion. "But your advice comes too late for me to profit by it. I have made a failure in my family." And the magnificent old gentleman turned sadly away.
It may be humiliating to our national pride, but we fear that no country can show so many "family failures" as ours—especially of late years.—Youth's Companion.
How the Kitchen-Boy Became a Bishop.
By A. Macleod
About two hundred and eighty years ago a clerk was wanted in the parish church of Ugborough, a little village of Devonshire; and one of the candidates was a young lad about sixteen years of age, who came from a neighboring village. But he did not get the place because of his youth. He was very much cast down. He was the son of poor, but worthy parents, and one of a large family of brothers and sisters. He said to his mother with a heavy heart, "I must not be a burden any longer upon father and you; I shall set out and find work of some kind or other elsewhere, and support myself."
So he bade farewell to his father and brothers and sisters, and, with a little bundle in his hand, he left his home. His mother went with him two or three miles of the way. When at length she was obliged to turn back, she knelt down with him at the roadside and asked God to bless him and go with him and keep him from every evil way. Then she took out some money and gave it to him for the journey. Then the two kissed each other, and, weeping, parted.
By-and-by he arrived at the city of Exeter. He went to the cathedral; he wandered about the streets; he called at the shops; but of all, to whom he applied that day, no one had work for him. At last he found himself standing at the window of a book-shop, looking at the rows of books on the shelves within. At that moment, happening to raise his eyes, he caught a glimpse of the cathedral; and the thought suddenly shot into his mind that there was a connection between these books and the cathedral. If he, poor though he was, could become learned in books, he might be worthy of a place some day in the cathedral.
It was a mere thought and soon passed away from his mind. He left Exeter and traveled on and on, till he found himself in Oxford. He knew nobody there. But, having passed through Exeter, and knowing that Exeter College was the one to which Devonshire students went, he knocked at the gates of that college and asked if they wanted a lad like him, for any work he could do. They did want such a lad as he. And in a short time he was employed to scour pans, to clean knives, to brush shoes, and in other ways to help in the kitchen.
John was a faithful servant, and soon became a favorite with everybody about the college. And, as he had a good many hours of leisure, he set himself to learn Latin and Greek. And by-and-by the dons going past saw the kitchen boy poring over loose leaves of grammars, and would ask him jokingly if he was reading Homer or the Latin poets.
But after awhile, one and then another gave up joking at the lad and went near him, and saw that by himself alone he had come very near to the reading both of Homer and the Latin poets. And then the dons took him away from the kitchen and made room for him in the classes of their college, and he became one of their foremost scholars, and one in whom they all felt pride.
And by and by John was made a "fellow," and then a professor of divinity, and for twenty-seven years he labored in that college as a professor and writer of books, where he had served as a kitchen boy. And at the end of that time he was made Bishop of Worcester, and therein proved the truth of the thought that shot through his mind, at the window of the book-shop at Exeter, that there was a way through books to a place in a cathedral.
Bishop Prideaux was never ashamed of his early trials. He kept the leathern clothes, in which he set out from his father's house, to his old age. He loved to visit the village in which he was born. He greatly loved his parents. In his kindness he would plan surprise visits. He would bring his doctor's scarlet gown and put it on to please them. He never tired of showing them reverence. Often he would say, "If I had got the clerk's place in Ugborough, I should never have been Bishop in Worcester."
He loved to think that his mother's prayers had been answered in the happiest events of his life. And he did not think differently when the happy years came to an end, and years of disgrace and war came in their stead. Those who triumphed in that war drove him from Worcester, but he still felt and said, that all his life had been planned out for him by God:—A. Macleod, D. D.
The Home Circle.
By Hezekiah Butterworth
ON BROKEN PINION.
By the windy wiers of Weimar
A Child of Nature strayed,
Sweet piped the lark in the sunshine,
Low fluted the thrush in the shade.
But he found in the reedy morasses
A lark with a broken wing,
And he took to his gentle bosom
The weak and helpless thing.
He nursed it long and kindly,
And it sung its old sweet strain,
But the lark with the broken pinion
Never soared as high again.
He walked in the streets of Weimar,
When the winter stars, all cold,
Hung over the Ilm's dark waters,
Their mirrored lamps of gold,
And he found a youth, life broken,
By sin's seductive art,
And he spoke of Heaven's sweet pity,
And took him to his heart.
And the youth, to regain his honor,
Strove hard, and not in vain,
But the soul with a broken pinion
Never soars as high again.
-Hezekiah Butterworth, in Christian at Work.
Kisses on Interest.
A FATHER, talking to his careless daughter, said: "I want to speak to you of your mother. It may be that you have noticed a care-worn look upon her face lately. Of course, it has not been brought there by any act of yours; still, it is your duty to chase it away. I want you to get up to-morrow morning and get breakfast, and when your mother comes and begins to express her surprise, go right up to her and kiss her on the mouth. You can't imagine how it will brighten her dear face. Besides, you owe her a kiss or two. Away back, when you were a little girl, she kissed you when no one else was tempted by your fever-tainted breath and swollen face. You were not as attractive then as you are now. And through those years of childish sunshine and shadows she was always ready to cure by the magic of a mother's kiss the little, dirty, chubby hands whenever they were injured in those first skirmishes with the rough old world. And then the midnight kiss with which she routed so many bad dreams as she leaned over your restless pillow, have all been on interest these long, long years. Of course, she is not so pretty and kissable as you are; but if you had done your share of work during the last ten years, the contrast would not be so marked. Her face has more wrinkles than yours—far more; and yet if you were sick, that face would appear more beautiful than an angel's, as it hovered over you, watching every opportunity to minister to your comfort, and every one of those wrinkles would seem to be bright wavelets of sunshine chasing each other over the dear face. She will leave you one of these days. These burdens, if not lifted from her shoulders, will break her down. Those rough, hard hands that have done so many necessary things for you will be crossed upon her breast. Those neglected lips that gave you your first baby kiss will be forever closed, and those sad, tired eyes will have opened in eternity, and then you will appreciate your mother; but it will be too late."—Sel.
Old-Fashioned Mothers.
THANK God some of us have had old-fashioned mothers. Not a woman of the period, enameled and painted, with her great chignon, her curls and bustle, whose white jeweled hands never felt the clasp of baby fingers; but a dear old-fashioned, sweet-voiced mother, with eyes in whose clear depth the love light shone, and brown hair just threaded with silver, lying smooth upon her faded cheek. Those dear hands, worn with toil, gently guided our tottering steps in childhood, and smoothed our pillow in sickness, ever reaching out to us in yearning tenderness. Blessed is the memory of an old-fashioned mother. It floats to us now, like the beautiful perfume from some wooded blossoms. The music of other voices may be lost, but the entrancing memory of hers will echo in our souls forever. Other faces may fade away, and be forgotten, but hers will shine on. When in the fitful pauses of business life our feet wander back to the old homestead, and, crossing the well-worn threshold, stand once more in the room so hallowed by her presence, how the feeling of childhood, innocence, and dependence, comes over us, and we kneel down in the molten sunshine, streaming through the open window—just where long years ago we knelt by our mother's knee, lisping, "Our Father." How many times, when the tempter lured us on, has the memory of those sacred hours, that mother's words, her faith and prayers, saved us from plunging into the deep abyss of sin. Years have filled great drifts between her and us, but they have not hidden from our sight the glory of her pure, unselfish love.—Sel.
Manhood Through Faithful Work
I LEARNED that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.—
George Macdonald.
THE power to do great things generally arises from the willingness to do small things.
News and Notes.
—The value of American railways is $6,300,000,000.
—In Berlin 124,000 children receive free instruction.
—Last week, 1,042 immigrants arrived in San Francisco by rail.
—A hundred warehouses have been destroyed by fire at Salmica, Roumelia.
—A Socialistic picnic at Chicago, on the 12th inst., was attended by 10,000 people.
—Over $500,000 damage was done by a wind and hail-storm in Iowa last week.
—There was a violent thunder-storm in northern California, on the 6th inst., doing much damage to hay and grain.
—Two Norwegian barks came in collision off Dover, Eng., last week. One of them went down, carrying with her thirteen of the crew.
—It is reported that in a riot in a Russian town, August 3, against the Jews, many houses were destroyed and one hundred persons killed.
—A fire originating in the Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga., on the morning of the 12th, resulted in loss of property to the amount of $1,000,000.
—The Austrian, German, and Turkish Governments are engaged in negotiations for the complete annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria.
—Many telegraph wires have been cut in the East by strikers. Nearly 200 wires between New York and Philadelphia were rendered useless one day last week.
—The railroad telegraph operators have now been ordered to stop work. This will be a more serious affair than the first strike, as it will inconvenience the traveling public.
—It is stated that as some laborers were digging a well on a farm, five miles from Kansas City, they struck a large vein of silver ore, at a depth of twenty feet. Specimens assayed were found to be very rich.
—At a Baptist church festival in Camden, N. C., Friday evening, Aug. 4, sixty persons were poisoned by ice-cream, some of them fatally. Ice-cream is in danger of being abandoned as a means of spreading the gospel.
—The Sacramento (Cal.) city authorities have passed an ordinance licensing gambling, the only restriction placed upon the gamblers being that they must confine their operations to the upper stories of buildings, and not permit minors to play.
—A rain and hail-storm occurred near Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the 8th. It swept through a section two miles in width, beating down all vegetation. It is regarded as one or the most severe storms that ever visited western Iowa. Several lives are reported as having been lost.
—There was a terrible riot at Los Palmas, Mexico, on the 8th inst. The trouble occurred between the American and Mexican laborers employed at the terminus of the San Luis and Tampico Railroad at Los Palmas. Seven men were killed, three others fatally and ten seriously injured.
—The Produce Exchange of New York, at a recent meeting, adopted a resolution directing that a committee should be appointed to see if independent telegraph lines could not be erected throughout the country, for the joint use of the different Exchanges, thus freeing themselves from the telegraph monopoly.
—Several weeks ago the Common Council of Syracuse, N. Y., passed a resolution prohibiting the Salvation Army from parading the streets. One night last week the Army marched through the streets, shouting and singing, and the whole body were arrested. They were saved from jail by a friendly Alderman, who signed their bail bond.
Religious Notes.
—The income of the London Missionary Societies of all denominations amounts to some $7,000,000. The Bible and Tract Societies add over $2,000,000 more to this grand total.
—French Catholics take advantage of race prejudice to hinder the spread of Protestantism. Thus in France they attempt to prevent its success by terming it the “English religion.”
—Rev. Dr. Peabody says of his own denomination, the Unitarian; “I verily believe that were a professed Parsee, or Buddhist, or Mohammedan to ask for a place on our list of preachers, room would at once be made for him, and pulpits be thrown open to him.”
—The San Jose Mercury having spoken of “communication between the living and the so-called dead,” the San Francisco Alta very pertinently inquires: “Does it doubt that the former inhabitants of the earth are really dead? Does it know any of them who have come back to deny it?
—The editor of the Independent, in noticing a sermon, says that there is a feeling of unrest, a spirit of inquiry, everywhere at work. It is well. Thus saith the Lord: “Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old path, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.”
—As indicative of the growing interest in the Sabbath question, we note the fact that the American Sunday-school Union, in pursuance of the conditions of a bequest left it by the late John C. Green, offers a prize of one thousand dollars for the best popular work on the “Obligations and Advantages of the Sabbath.” The manuscripts are to be sent in on or before October 1, 1884.
—Rev. Newman Hall says in the Independent: “It is difficult to imagine a congregation presided over by Paul, Peter, or James, with reserved seats for those who could pay high prices, including certain Jewish scribes or Greek sophists or spies who had secured sittings in order to study the new religion, listen to a fresh style of eloquence, gratify curiosity, or gather material for criminal prosecution; these, along with the wealthier converts, taking front seats, while others, poorer brethren, yet beloved of the Lord, chosen to be saints, stand at the door waiting for vacant places!”
—Mr. Beecher’s latest is that he believes that “man is, as to his physical being, evolved from the animal race below him; but as to his moral and spiritual nature, is a son of God, a new element having come up in the great movement of evolution at the point of man’s appearance.” But no one need be astonished at any vagary that Beecher may adopt, since he says: “I feel that in the advance of science, which will inevitably sweep away much rubbish in the beliefs of men, a place may be found for a higher spirituality—for a belief that shall have its roots in science, and its top in the sunlight of faith and love. For that I am working.” And so is Ingersoll.
—The Christian Statesman says: “Whether we view it in its relation to individual interests or the interests of the nation, the Sabbath question is one of the most important and most pressing issues before this nation at the present time.” Thus far we are perfectly agreed with the Statesman. In another article it says: “All forms of human industry are linked together, and no common day of rest can be secured except by imposing its restraints impartially upon all.” This is also true. We believe, however, that the Almighty has provided for the observance of a common day (not Sunday, but the Sabbath), and we see no reason to interfere with his Government. He will impose all necessary restraints in due time, without man’s assistance.
—The retiring Moderator of the Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, preached a sermon at its late meeting, in which the following excellent words are found: “The church should meet a man at its door with the Bible. Its terms of admission should be Scriptural. It has no divine right to make anything a condition of entrance that Christ has not made a condition of salvation, however much it may lay upon a man after he becomes a member, as it seeks his perfection. The man whom Christ fellowships is in the Church de facto, and he should be publicly received de jure. It is just as unscriptural to require too much as it is to require too little. It is not requiring too much for church-membership to demand what God requires as a condition of salvation. Christ makes the terms upon which men are admitted into the Church. He gives these in his word. We should keep to his word.”
California Conference.
THE twelfth annual session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at San Jose, Sept. 6-18. This will be as important a session as was ever held in California. Every company of Seventh-day Adventists in the Conference should be well represented. Delegates should be chosen, so that the wants of all parts of the field may be known, and future labor arranged accordingly. Individuals living alone, who cannot attend, should make known their wants and condition by letter addressed to the SIGNS Office. We have reached an important and interesting time in the history of the cause on the Pacific Coast. Advance steps must be taken, and now is the time to move forward in the opening providence of God. The cloud is rising. The judgments of God are already in the earth. There are many indications which show that what is done must be done quickly. We expect to see a general rally of the friends from all parts of the State.
S. N. HASKELL,
I. D. VAN HORN,
M. C. ISRAËL,
California Conference Committee.
Appointments.
By CAMP-MEETING COMMITTEE.
California Camp-Meeting.
IT has now been decided to hold the camp-meeting for northern California at San Jose, Sept. 6–18. It will be held upon the fair-ground, near the depot of the Narrow-Gauge Railroad. The horse-cars which pass the railroad station also pass the camp-ground. The ground is level and covered with shade trees, presenting a beautiful grove in which to pitch family tents. Only one spot is large enough for the tent 60x100 ft. Had the ground been designed on purpose for the camp-meeting, it could scarcely have been improved. The committee will do everything possible to make it comfortable and to accommodate all that come.
We hope this will be the largest camp-meeting ever held in the State of California; and in many respects it certainly will be the most important. Provision will be made for man and beast.
CAMP-MEETING COMMITTEE.
California Tract and Missionary Society.
By S. N. Haskell
The thirteenth annual session of the Tract and Missionary Society will convene on the camp-ground at San Jose, in connection with the camp-meeting, Sept. 6–18, 1883.
Not only the missionary work of this Conference and the Ship Mission, located at San Francisco, but the foreign missions, and what can be done for the islands of the Pacific Ocean, Australia, and New Zealand, will be considered. Many important questions which pertain to the missionary work, that will interest all, will be considered.
S. N. HASKELL, President.
New England Camp-Meeting.
THE camp-meeting of the New England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the fair-ground, in the city of Worcester, Mass., Aug. 23-28. We expect this will be the largest gathering of our people that has ever convened at any one meeting in the New England States. In some respects it will be the most important. Eld. Geo. I. Butler from Iowa, President of the General Conference, Elder I. D. Van Horn, formerly President of the North Pacific Conference, and Mrs. E. G. White, from Oakland, Cal., are among the speakers who will be present. The school interests of this Conference, the foreign missions that will be considered, and the advance steps which are being taken this season in the work of present truth, will make this meeting an important one, and one of unusual interest to all of the friends of the cause. Every company of Seventh-day Adventists in the N. E. Conference should be represented, and all those living alone should attend as far as consistent. All friends of the Christian religion desiring a good spiritual meeting are especially invited. Reduction of fare on all railroads, as heretofore, is expected. Those coming through Boston, and from Boston will come over the Fitchburg and Nashua R. R., leaving the Fitchburg depot in Boston about 6, and 11 A. M., and 4 P. M.
CAMP-MEETING COMMITTEE.
Camp-Meeting in Nebraska.
It has been decided to hold our next annual camp-meeting and State Conference at Crete, Saline Co., twenty miles southwest of Lincoln. We sincerely hope that this choice will meet the minds of our people in this State, as it has been made with reference to the general interests of the cause, and to best accommodate the greatest number of those who shall attend.
The meeting will commence Wednesday, Sept. 19, 1883, and continue six days. Mr. J. C. Vickles has kindly offered us the free use of his pleasant grove, which is conveniently located on the bank of the Big Blue River, one-half mile north west of the depot.
Very low excursion rates have been secured on the B. and M. and U. P. railroads, and arrangements have been made for special trains as they may be needed. Round-trip tickets will be sold from any point on the above-named roads, to people going to the meeting, on the following basis of rates: Where ten or more tickets are sold, one and one-fourth fare; twenty-five or more, one fare; fifty or more, three-fourths fare. Therefore at some of the principle points, the following rates will prevail: From Columbus and return, $2.85; from Omaha and return, $2.65; from Hastings and return, $2.30; from Beatrice and return, 90 cts.; from Lincoln and return, 60 cts. Tickets good the entire time of meeting. Parties wishing to take the train at other points than those mentioned above, should write as soon as possible to Eld. A. J. Cudney, Fremont, Neb., stating about how many will attend from their locality, so the agent can be notified, and the lowest rates secured.
As these low rates of fare have been secured, we think it better for all who can, to leave their teams at home and come by rail. The expenses, in most cases, would be lighter—as we will have to pay for all hay used—and then all our time can be given to the meetings, instead of caring for teams.
We are determined, by the help of God, to make this meeting the largest and best meeting ever held in this State, and to this end we solicit your prayers and hearty co-operation. Commence now to prepare to attend. Talk to your neighbors about it, and try to get them to attend. Bring your children, with you. We hope and expect to see an attendance of several thousand persons.
There will be preaching three times each day in the English, German, and Scandinavian languages. The names of the speakers will be announced in the future. Those expecting to attend the meeting would better preserve a copy of this paper for future reference. The Crete Board of Trade makes us a donation of $50 to help defray expenses.
A. J. CUDNEY,
GEO. B. STARR,
H. SHULTZ,
Neb. Conf. Com.
EARLY WRITINGS OF MRS. WHITE.
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Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal
The Number Reached.
By S. N. Haskell
SEVEN years ago when special efforts were made to increase the circulation of the SIGNS by having our brethren take them in clubs, it was stated that with a proper effort there would be 20,000 copies taken. This has been repeated many times since; but with all the efforts made at that time and since, until last spring, the highest number reached was 11,000. It has now reached the golden number. We have issued during the past few weeks as high as 20,200 copies. We thank God for this, and take courage.
We now ask for 30,000 this coming fall, and 50,000 next summer. Why shall we not have them? Is not the world to be warned? Has not God's providence given us a pioneer sheet which should enter tens of thousands of homes that now know nothing of these truths? Why should not all of our presses at Battle Creek, Mich., and Oakland, Cal., be devoted to printing present truth? Were not these offices built for this purpose? Were not our brethren asked to give their money to erect these buildings in which to print present truth? Have they not been dedicated to this work?
We do not say that taking in job work in the past has been altogether wrong. It has accomplished two objects which are indispensable in the work before us. 1. It has brought together presses, and facilities, and educated individuals to do a large amount of work in a first-class manner, and on short notice. What could we have done with the rapid increase of the SIGNS during this summer, and our other denominational work, had we had to wait for facilities and experienced workmen to do this work? 2. It has given this printing-house a standing here among the business men. We are known throughout the Pacific Coast as a reliable, first-class business house, and it is also known as a denominational printing-house. Both of these considerations were essential to the work which is before us. It is all right that we have done this work. But we are now ready to go forward with our denominational work as fast as the friends will give us the work to do by finding market for our publications.
We have the facilities for doing a great amount of denominational work. Our work is onward until the world is lighted with the glory of the mighty angel which is to come down from heaven. Rev. 18. We are thankful to God for present indications. We now want to turn the earnings of this office to the design of the stock-holders when they took shares in this institution and draw no dividends. At present we are paying a large amount of interest, and it requires the best talent and facilities to do outside work and then pay interest to many who have no special interest in the cause. Let there be $25,000 immediately raised, as has been so nobly commenced, and take up these notes where the interest is paid outside of the cause of God, then turn the interest as an annual income to aid in qualifying men and women for the work which is the object of all of our institutions. This may be done in two ways. 1. Pay a teacher for giving special instruction in the Scriptures and missionary work. 2. Help those worthy poor to receive the benefit of this instruction. May the Lord hasten the time when all of the talents God has given us, and the facilities we have for printing, will be devoted to the one grand object of life, the furtherance of the cause of present truth.
S. N. HASKELL.
Time of Camp-Meetings.
By Editor
MASSACHUSETTS, Worcester, Aug. 22-28
VERMONT, Montpelier, Aug. 30 to Sept. 4
MICHIGAN, Hillsdale, Aug. 22-27
" Manton, Aug. 30 to Sept. 4
" (State Meeting,) Sept. 25 to Oct. 2
IOWA, Algona, Sept. 5-11
MAINE, Waterville, Sept. 6-11
CALIFORNIA, San Jose, " 6-18
NEW YORK, Union Square, " 12-18
ILLINOIS, Sheridan, " 18-25
NEBRASKA, Crete, " 19-25
KENTUCKY, Glasgow, " 19-26
KANSAS, Southeastern, " 20-30
" Eldorado, Butler Co., Oct. 11-21
MISSOURI, Sept. 25 to Oct. 2
TENNESSEE, " 27 " "
INDIANA, (Southern,) Farmersburg, Sept. 12-18
" Bunker Hill, Marion Co., Oct. 1-10
ALABAMA, Choctaw Co. " 4-9
Announcements and Denominational News
By Editor
FOR appointments, see preceding page, 371.
NOTICE dates of camp-meetings; some changes and some additions.
ELD. HASKELL will be in St. Clair, Nevada, Aug. 18 and 19.
WE add a name this week for $5,000 on our $25,000 call. Who’ll be the next?
ARE you all reading the articles in the SIGNS on “The Honor Due to God”? Let all read them carefully before the camp-meeting.
WE are stereotyping tract and book pages, intending to do a larger amount of denominational printing than we have done heretofore. We are glad we have so good facilities to meet every demand that may arise. Scatter the light. The message must and will “run and be glorified.” And it will bring us to glory, also, if we are faithful to it.
Departure of Sister White.
On Sunday afternoon, 12th inst., Sister White took the Overland Express on the Pacific Central Railroad for the East. It is her intention to stop over next Sabbath in Battle Creek, and then proceed to the camp-meeting in Massachusetts. On Sabbath, Aug., 11, she gave a forcible discourse in the church in Oakland, on the first chapter, and the first verses of the second chapter of Zephaniah. This discourse was timely in every thought, and was well appreciated. On Sunday morning she met with us in our Office worship and gave us counsel and instruction which will not be forgotten. We confidently trust it will have its effect on the lives of all who heard.
Although Sister White has been some time in California, she has kept so steadily at writing at her home in Healdsburg that we have seen her very seldom, and the church has not been often favored with her personal labors. Indeed, her writing has so engrossed her time and attention that she has done comparatively little traveling and speaking in this State since the camp-meeting. But we never saw a time when her labor was better appreciated here than the present, and she never started on her eastern journey when more earnest and heart-felt prayers followed her, for both her safety on her journey and the blessing of Heaven to attend her labors.
Camp-Meeting.
By Editor
THE time between this and our camp-meeting will quickly pass away. Do not put off the work of preparation. Eld. Israel wrote us Aug. 6 that he was on his way North to assist in making arrangements. Next week we will give the reduced rates of railroad fare. Some reductions have already been offered; terms will be made with others soon. With cheap fare, and in an excellent fruit country, almost all can afford to go. Our brethren in the various churches would do well to consider if there are not some of their members who would receive benefit from the meeting, and some who might be a benefit to the meeting, who cannot go without a little help. We want all the consecrated workers there. We are expecting an excellent meeting, and we intend to have it. Shall it be a good meeting to all of us? Come at the commencement, and stay until the close.
Market St., S. F., Cable-Road.
The Market Street Cable-road improvement in San Francisco is completed and in working order. It is the most extensive of the kind in the world. The wire cables were manufactured by the Roebling Company's works in Trenton, New Jersey, the total length being twelve and one-half miles. This road starts from the Oakland Ferry and runs up Market, Valencia, and Haight Streets. It is a very desirable improvement to the city.
Death of Miss Dr. Lamson.
THE following we copy from the Review and Herald of Aug. 7:—
“Friday morning, Aug. 3, the sad news was received of the death of Dr. Phebe M. Lamson of the Sanitarium, who had left this city only a few days previous to visit her relatives in Newfane, New York. Her disease was pneumonia, which speedily accomplished its fatal work. Her loss to the institution with which she was connected seems irreparable. Impressive and solemn memorial services were held at the Sanitarium in the evening of Aug. 3.”
Sister Lamson was connected with the “Health Reform Institute” (now Sanitarium) in Battle Creek from the beginning of the work there in 1865. She was a devoted, faithful worker.
We learn also from the Review that the loss of life in the railroad accident in which Prof. Stone was killed was greater than at first reported. There were twenty-two killed, and several others have since died. Sisters Stone and Salisbury are both recovering.
Tents and Camp-Meeting.
By Editor
THOSE wishing to purchase new tents can have them made by writing to Pacific Press. A tent from common stripe, awning cloth, 12x16 ft., three-feet walls, can be made with poles, except pins, delivered upon the camp-ground for thirty dollars. White cloth, same size, cheaper.
Tents will be rented as heretofore. Prices from four to six dollars, or according to size and quality.
Fifty tickets will be sold from Woodland to San Jose and return for five dollars, round trip. They would all leave on the same train in the morning and go to the Oakland pier, and from the pier will take the train at 3 P. M. through Oakland for San Jose. The same number from St. Helena, over the same route from pier to San Jose, $4.30. From Lemoore to San Jose and return, $9.50.
Rates from San Francisco and Oakland to San Jose and return, over the same road, will be $1.75.
$25,000 Wanted.
We, the undersigned, hereby give the sums set to our names, to raise the sum of $25,000 to be placed under the control of trustees chosen at the annual session of the California Conference. Said sum to be loaned to some of our Institutions at 5 per cent., the proceeds of which shall be used to assist those who are seeking an education at the Healdsburg College, to fill positions in the cause of God. Said individuals must be recommended by the Conference Committee and the College Faculty.
William Butcher.....................................$5,000
Joseph Leininger....................................5,000
International Tract and Missionary Society.
The International Tract and Missionary Society was organized Aug. 13, 1874. It has furnished health and religious publications to co-operative missions and individuals in every State and Territory in the United States, and to every civilized nation on the globe. During 1883 it placed in free public libraries in this country over 6,000 volumes of standard religious books at a cost of over $6,000, two-thirds of which was donated by other funds and the publishers. It has also placed valuable books in many libraries in England, and supplied reading-rooms with health and religious periodicals.
It has a free reading-room, No. 371, Third Avenue, New York City, where it will keep constantly on hand Health and Temperance publications to furnish co-operating missions and branch offices on the Atlantic Coast and in Europe. William J. Boynton, 200 East 27th Street, manager and city missionary.
It has also a free reading-room 316 Fremont Street, San Francisco, Cal., from which place all ships are visited which enter that harbor. Andrew Brorsen and H. C. Palmer, city missionaries.
Free reading-room at H Street, between Sixth and Seventh, East Portland, Oregon. Boston, Mass., J. R. Israel, residence Rowly, Mass. New Bedford, Mass., Mrs. Anna H. Bradford, residence Acushnet, Mass. The ship work at Liverpool, England, is under the charge of Geo. R. Drew, 40 Price Street, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Eng. Eld. A. A. John, 161 Willingham Street, Great Grimsby, Eng. At the above-mentioned places the public are cordially invited.
The society is sustained by the liberalities of friends of missions. Donations by draft or otherwise will be thankfully received and gratefully acknowledged by any of the above mentioned agents, or Miss M. L. Huntley, Secretary, South Lancaster, Mass., U. S. A.
THOUGHTS ON DANIEL, CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL.
By Uriah Smith
By Eld. U. Smith.
AN 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. 416 pp. Price, $1.25.