We have now been in this place about a week, and have succeeded in fitting up a space for the representation of our publishing houses, and the International Society. As yet there has not been a very large attendance, considering that it is a world's exposition, but daily there are new arrivals, and the hotels and boarding-houses are becoming well filled. Prices of rooms and board have rapidly advanced, so that any person coming here expecting accommodation at the hotels, must also expect to pay a good price for it.
Judging from appearances, the present month will be the great month of the exposition. We have but a small space, but it is in a good location. The people of the city are kind and sociable. The managers of the exposition are willing to do all in their power to assist us in the work. Already we have formed many pleasant acquaintances with representative men, not only from different parts of this country, but from other portions of the world. We cannot sell in the buildings, but have the privilege of giving away all we please, and of taking orders and subscriptions. H. W. Cottrell, from Ohio, will take charge of the exhibit and call attention to our institutions and the work of the International Society. We regret that the pictures of our institutions have not arrived, that the nature of our work may be more readily comprehended. We already are attracting some attention. We have a large register in which scores of addresses are being daily secured for future use.
We think a better impression can be made with the class of people who are now here than we can make upon that class who may yet come, out of idle curiosity. Those with whom we have formed acquaintance thus far are men of influence and candor, men who have come here to learn something. Our space is surrounded with missionary societies and school123exhibits, which affords us the opportunity of forming an acquaintance with many representative people. This opens avenues to a class which it is very desirable to reach. We cannot expect to see great results from the mission here at the present time, but through it we are becoming acquainted with individuals and institutions which heretofore we have not known. It would be impossible to give a correct idea of the nature of the educational exhibits. The experience and improved methods of instructing the youth, and the effect of missionary labor are vividly illustrated by exhibits from both Europe and America. We think we can truthfully say that acres are covered by illustrations of this kind.
The shipping in New Orleans is very extensive, there being over five miles of docks; and over one hundred vessels arrive and depart each month. There are two brethren who devote their whole time to ship missionary work, and we trust with good results. This will be an important feature of the work this winter. We see no reason why, with proper help, every vessel may not be visited, and all carry with them packages of present truth, not only for the perusal of those on board, but to leave in distant ports. Already vessels are found that have had placed upon them our reading matter, and the officers and crews are acquainted with our views. Such vessels treat our missionaries with the greatest respect.
Another feature of the mission here will be the visiting of hotels and boarding-houses, and securing the addresses, and forming the acquaintance of individuals visiting the Exposition. There are constantly many people coming to and going from the city. As yet we have not begun this work, but we are in hopes that two or three can enter upon it this week, before we leave. We would have been glad to see all the workers here, and to have instructed them, before we left. One of the most important features of the work will be that of placing in the hands of visitors packages of our publications, to read on their way home, and to furnish to their friends. Bible-reading and colporter work in families has not yet been entered upon to any extent, from the fact that we have not the individuals to engage in it. As far as instructing a corps of workers is concerned, our visit to New Orleans is a partial failure, for we have not had them here to instruct, four or five only being present. But in laying out the work, and arranging our exhibit, I trust that we have had some of the blessing of God.
We have received letters of inquiry asking whether names can be readily secured in New Orleans for our publications. Upon this point we cannot intelligently answer; but if individuals have canvassed in the East and West, and have been unsuccessful, they need not think of coming here expecting to find an exceptional field. The Southern people are warm-hearted, and are easily reached when we conform to their customs. We have reason to believe the mission here will be a success, and the Exposition as yet is far from being a failure, although the tardiness in preparation would give the impression that it is not what was to have been expected. The month of February will tell whether it is a success or not. We trust that good will be accomplished, and God's blessing may rest on the efforts put forth for the spread of truth.
S. N. HASKELL.
Report of Labor.
By John Norton Loughborough
My last published report was of labor in Humboldt County, Cal. Dec. 20-25 I was with my family at the Rural Health Retreat, St. Helena. After eight months of almost constant travel and holding meetings, it was good to have a few days for rest and meditation. When it comes to talking of rest, it seems to me that the Retreat is one of the best places on this whole coast to secure that end. Here you have pure water, and wholesome mountain air without ascending lofty summits. The Retreat is almost five hundred feet above Napa Valley. Then the views of nature obtained, in mountain, hill, and valley, with farms and orchards, are indeed refreshing to all the senses. I think our people have done well in selecting so desirable a place for the Health Retreat, and I trust, with the opening of the early spring, we shall see many flocking to this institution to enjoy the privileges it affords. When people ask me for the best climate on this coast for regaining health, I have no hesitation in saying, "The climate at Crystal Springs Rural Health Retreat."
Rest with me does not mean entire inactivity. While resting from the wear of traveling labor, I gave a portion of the time to some important writings which have been neglected during the pressure of other duties. This, with the privilege of a reunion of our family, and a pleasant Christmas gathering with the friends on the "hill-side," was really recuperating to me.
Dec. 26-29 we had an important gathering of our ministers and people in Oakland. At this meeting six discourses were given, and nine persons were baptized by Brother Israel, in Lake Merritt. Several important business meetings were held by our Conference officers and laborers in California. Those enjoying the benefit of this mid-winter council seemed to go from the meeting with good courage to push on in the work.
Sabbath and first day, Jan. 3 and 4, I was with the church in Healdsburg during the church quarterly meeting. The week following, I was engaged in settling my family in Healdsburg for the winter, so that both my son and daughter could have the benefit of the Biblical instructions at the College. At the same time I was enabled to do some important writing in reference to our institutions. While at Healdsburg I had opportunity to notice, more than ever before, the practical working of our College. The professors, teachers, and sisters in charge of North College Hall, who are devoting their energies to the success of this educational enterprise, should have the moral and financial support of all who love the truth. Each student, also, should strive to be the most loyal and true to all the wise and judicious rules and regulations imposed for their observance. It would also be a special source of encouragement if all outstanding pledges to the College could be speedily redeemed. I trust that the Healdsburg church, especially, will consider it an important trust to have such an institution as the College in their midst, and that every member will esteem it a pleasure to promote the welfare of those managing the school. By so doing they will receive the blessing of God upon a labor of love.
Jan. 9-14 I was with the church at Santa Rosa, where I gave two discourses, held one business meeting, and visited eighteen families. I also spoke once in Forestville. It was in Santa Rosa, fifteen years ago, that the first Seventh-day Adventist meeting-house on the Pacific Coast was erected. Many changes have taken place since that time. Some members have apostatized from the faith, some have died, and many have removed from the place. Some of the old members remain, other additions have been made to the church, and there is still a company to meet from Sabbath to Sabbath in Santa Rosa.
Sabbath, Jan. 17, I spoke again to the church in Healdsburg, and on Tuesday, the 20th, I attended the funeral of George Hewitt, whose parents were among the early members of Santa Rosa church. Although George was not a professor of religion, he did not forget the lessons he learned while a Sabbath-school scholar. We trust his afflicted, sorrowing mother will see the importance of being prepared for the coming of the Master, who will soon end all our sorrows and woes.
Since the above meetings, I have prepared for my two months' labor in the Northern Conferences, and have made the sea voyage to Portland, Oregon. I am to-day, Jan. 28, consulting with Brother Boyd relative to the work. After spending a week here, I expect to go to the Upper Columbia Conference.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
North Pacific T. and M. Society.
By Mrs. C. L. Boyd
REPORT FOR QUARTER ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1884.
No. of members.......................... 153
“ reports returned....................... 84
“ members added.......................... 3
“ “ dismissed.......................... 2
“ visits made............................ 348
“ letters written........................ 391
“ pp. tracts and pamphlets loaned......... 12477
“ “ “ “ given away... 15912
“ “ “ “ sold............ 11317
“ SIGNS taken in clubs................... 763
“ periodicals distributed................ 10755
New subscribers obtained: For the SIGNS, 6; Instructor, 8; Good Health, 2; SIGNS on trial, 5.
Received on membership and donations.....$ 8 45
“ “ sales.............................. 475 07
“ “ periodicals........................ 100 17
“ “ $5,000 fund........................ 382 00
Total ................................... $865 69
MRS. C. L. BOYD, Sec.
Pleasant Grove, Sutter County, Cal.
By E. A. Briggs
HAVING closed the meetings at Gilroy with the reorganization of the church, the baptism of six persons, and the addition of sixteen names to the covenant, I came to this place Feb. 4. I have held several meetings here, organized a tract society of eleven members, and baptized five candidates. A church of ten members has also been organized, and the ordinances of the Lord's house administered. Several matters of interest have been presented, and two hundred dollars has been pledged for the Australian Mission. This little church seems determined to have a part in spreading present truth. May God grant that they shall not grow weary in well-doing.
E. A. BRIGGS.
February 8, 1885.
Sowing and Reaping
By Alice Cary
We must not hope to be mowers
And gather the ripe gold ears,
Until we have first been sowers,
And watered the furrows with tears.
It is not just as we take it—
This mystical world of ours;
Life's field will yield as we make it,
A harvest of thorns or flowers.
—Alice Cary.
Pointed and Personal Reproof
NATHAN said to David, "Thou art the man." That was very pointed and personal, but David did not take offense at the prophet for his plainness and faithfulness as many persons do at the present day, when their sins are pressed home on their consciences. That kind of reproof that means nobody and suits nobody is worthless. Truths suited to men's condition are the kind of truths they need, and the kind of truths that should be faithfully and pointedly addressed to them. There is too great a disposition to soften down the truth, so as not to hurt any one's feelings or give any one offense. The truth should be spoken fearlessly and faithfully, yet in love, whether the people will hear or forbear.—Methodist Recorder.
Missionary Department
By Editor
[Missionary Department continued on page 127.]
All at It and Always at It
When John Wesley was once asked by what magic he had rendered his followers so efficient, he is said to have replied that the great secret consisted in this, that they were "all at it and always at it." Each new convert was not only set to work, but kept at work. There was something found for every one to do, and such was the system of responsibility which was established that they had to do it. A servant is supposed to be a worker.—Sel.
Some Causes of Failure in the Training of Children.
By Carrie F. Butler Thwing
THE startling number of crimes committed by young men and boys is attracting general attention and exciting general alarm. Two boys under eighteen have been sentenced for murder in Maine within two months. Massachusetts and New Hampshire courts have tried two boy burglars within the year; and two youths are now awaiting trial in Connecticut for murder, the offspring of a crime yet more terrible. More startling still is the number of boys and girls in every community who, without ever appearing before the courts, are adopting dissolute, vicious, or questionable courses. We have grown to expect a certain number of outbreaking crimes each year, the natural outburst of the fiery passions of youth destitute of home training, or boys of vicious parents. But we do not expect to find boys of respectable parentage, and, so far as we can judge, good training, to love the bottle at fifteen, to be taken home intoxicated at sixteen, and to be hopeless inebriates before their majority. We do not expect to find daughters of Christian parents associating with men of dissolute character; making acquaintances on the street and forming alliances the most questionable. Yet such cases cannot have escaped the notice of most of the readers of this paper. Within a month the ruin of four girls came to our knowledge. One was the victim of the New Haven tragedy; one in Philadelphia was the victim of a similar tragedy; one was a Virginia girl who became the eighth or ninth wife of the many times married Marvin; one was a Maine girl who married a stranger after a few weeks' acquaintance, left her father's house as a bride, and has never since been heard from. The husband proved to have one or more wives living. These girls were, we believe, children of respectable parents. So far as outward appearance goes, we might as soon expect any of our daughters to fall a victim to sin or misfortune as they. In most of our cities and large villages it is so common that it hardly excites remark to see groups of young girls in public places calling attention to themselves by their laughter and loud talking; to see them joined by young men and strolling away together,
walking the street after dark with no apparent purpose, or making chance acquaintances in the street or steam cars. Most of the mothers of these young girls would be shocked and heartsick did they know of the conduct of their daughters when away from their sight.
In discussing the causes of the crimes and indiscretions of young people, it is usual to attribute them almost wholly to the neglect of the parents. Doubtless nearly all the fault does belong to them. But when most conscientious parents, trying to do their duty, have failed, and we see their children turning toward evil courses, their failure ought to become the subject for study and analysis. In the training of boys, parents fail, it seems to me, through ignorance of how early in life boys meet temptations to the grosser forms of vice. It is not now as it was forty years ago. The telegraph now brings to us in one minute information that it would then have taken days to reach us. So boys of twelve and fourteen to-day meet temptations which, in the simpler and slower life of a generation ago, they would hardly have felt before their majority. This, parents do not realize. Tendencies to deceit, to disobedience, to rudeness, to carelessness, they are constantly checking. They do not look for tendencies to gross vice in a boy. If a boy of fourteen has been detected in licentious practices, or has been intoxicated, such a boy is regarded as a monster, an abnormal specimen of humanity. In reality that boy has only succumbed to temptations which every boy feels with greater or less force before he has reached that age. Recently, within my knowledge, a boy of fifteen was accused of a serious crime against chastity. When his mother was informed of the charge, she said, with the utmost wonder: "Why, he is my baby! It isn't so; it can't be so. Every night he comes and puts his arms around my neck and kisses me. Why, he is a little boy!" Her surprise could hardly have been greater had he actually have been in the cradle. Parents are slow to see that their children are growing up. That mother's cry, "Why, he is my baby!" is only the echo of that of many a mother's heart when the knowledge of her boy's sin has first come to her. The hardest struggle against appetite and passion in a man's life comes before he is twenty. If he conquers up to this age, the victory is comparatively easy.
Parents fail wofully in allowing their children to learn from servants, older companions, or chance reading, the facts regarding the mysteries of their own being, which they should learn from their mother's lips. It is no difficult thing to impress upon a child these truths as the most holy, the most sacred in nature. It is also easy for them to learn them in darkness and secrecy from foul lips, as subjects for jest and impure thought. A father can, by a few words, strip from the wine cup all the glamour and delight which the imagination of the boy decks it with. The vice which street companions hold out to allure, he can make repel with tenfold force.
Parents give too little heed to their children's outside associates. This is especially true in the case of girls. As a rule, children are better off to have few associates. The mother can then oversee them all, and know them thoroughly. It is also important that associates should be chosen for a child from among his social equals. This may seem undemocratic. Reflection shows its wisdom. Let a girl form an intimate acquaintance with one far her superior in wealth and position in society. Her mother is forbidden by the laws of etiquette to visit the home of her child's friend. It may be a frivolous home. Her daughter may be every day taking in ideas that are wholly unfitting her for the position she must occupy. Her "head is turned" by the young men she meets. Many a daughter of plain and common people grows dissatisfied with her home, discontented with her homely tasks, fired with ambition to
"be somebody," and "have things," at any cost, because of intimate association with girls whom fortune has more highly favored. Equal harm may come in a different way to a girl who finds her intimate friends in a lower social class than her own. A judicious mother should make the mothers of her children's friends, her friends; and this can hardly be when the families are separated by social distinctions.
Idleness, in both boys and girls, is a fruitful source of waywardness. Parents in comfortable circumstances are too much afraid to let their children soil their hands. In every community there are boys of hard-working and honest parents, growing up in idleness, because they are a little above "a trade," and have not the ability to enter a profession. So with many girls just out of school. Unless they have decided literary taste they settle down to a life of idleness which tempts to the excitement of street flirtations and clandestine acquaintance. It is a significant fact that few of the convicts in our prisons have ever been taught a trade; and among women of professionally bad character it is rare to find one who has ever been taught any regular business.
Most of the indiscretions of girls come from a lack of genuine self-respect. Parents cannot impress on girls too strongly a true respect for their womanhood and their dignity. I saw not long ago the daughter of a well-known professional man attempt on a railroad car to attract the brakeman of the train to her side. I was first and most strongly struck by the girl's lack of self-respect. Her inordinate vanity doubtless led her to sue for the attentions of the brakeman in default of better prey. But knowing the respect in which her father was held, and what was expected of her and for her, I felt she must have been wofully deficient in self-respect to have thus lowered herself before a car full of both strangers and acquaintances. When a girl is willing to engage herself to a man of whose antecedents are known nothing; when she is willing to marry a man with a less knowledge of his character than the father would demand on taking him into partnership, it argues a very small amount of true womanly dignity and self-respect. It is deemed a term of reproach to say, "Such a one feels herself too good to associate with her neighbor." Every girl ought to be taught to feel herself too good to associate with the low-minded, the impure, and the frivolous; not taught it in any spirit of vanity or pharisaical pride because of wealth or position; but taught it in the true spirit of a noble self-respect which regards womanhood too grand a possession to be "trailed in the dust."
As I have studied the cases which have come to my notice in which children of good and conscientious parents have been led astray, I believe the parents have failed in one or more of these particulars: They do not realize how early temptations assail their children; they do not fortify them against temptations by discussing with them the causes and results of yielding to them; they do not exercise proper care in selecting companions for their sons and daughters; they fail to ground them in a true self-respect; and they allow them to grow up without suitable occupations.—Carrie F. Butler Thwing.
The Home Circle.
By Margaret Sangster
PATIENT WITH THE LIVING.
SWEET friend, when thou and I art gone
Beyond earth's weary labor,
When small shall be our need of grace
From comrade or from neighbor,
Passed all the strife, the toil, the care,
And done with all the sighing,
What tender truth shall we have gained,
Alas! by simply dying?
Then lips too chary of their praise
Will tell our merits over,
And eyes too swift our faults to see
Shall no defect discover;
Then hands that would not lift a stone,
Where stones were thick to cumber
Our steep hill-path, will scatter flowers
Above our pillowed slumber.
Sweet friend, perchance both thou and I,
Ere love is past forgiving,
Should take the earnest lesson home,—
Be patient with the living.
To-day's repressed rebuke may save
Our blinding tears to-morrow;
Then patience—e'en when keenest edge
May whet a nameless sorrow.
'Tis easy to be gentle when
Death's silence shames our clamor,
And easy to discern the best
Through memory's mystic glamor;
But wise it were for thee and me,
Ere love is past forgiving,
To take the tender lesson home,—
Be patient with the living.
—Margaret Sangster, in Good Cheer.
Turning Toward the Sun
Why is it that, although the sun is nearer to the earth during our northern winters than he is during our summers, our winters are so piercingly cold? Not because the sun is colder, but because the earth has turned away our northern lands from the face of the sun, so that all through the winter the sun rises but low in our heavens, and his rays slant feebly through our atmosphere. What avails it that the Sun of Righteousness is near to every one of us and shines on undimmed, if we have turned away our faces from Him?
The Art of "Taking Care."
THE success of housekeeping, writes a housekeeper to the Boston Herald, does not depend entirely upon one's ability to cook. A knowledge of how to care for things after they are made, is just as essential as to know how to make them. A few minutes each day given to personal supervision and care will make such a difference in expense that you will be able to save out of your housekeeping fund, enough for a new book now and then. Here, for instance, are some bread hints made on the "take care" plan:—
"When you have bread left over, and it becomes stale, do not throw it away. There are many uses to which it may be put, and there need be not even a crumb wasted. Look over the jar carefully every day or two, wipe it out so that no dampness or mold can collect, and gather your stale pieces together. All bread crumbs left upon the bread plates or bread board or in the bread jar, any broken pieces not suitable for toast, and any crust or trimmings from toast, should be carefully collected in a pan by themselves, and dried, but not browned, in the hot closet or in a moderate oven, then pounded in a mortar or rolled on an old bread board, sifted through a coarse sieve, and put away in a dry place. This will be useful in covering anything which is to be dipped in egg and crumbs and then fried. Bread crumbs really brown better and more uniformly than cracker crumbs, besides being cheaper, as they are nearly always made from materials that would otherwise be thrown away. These dried bread crumbs are not to be used for bread pudding or for scalloped dishes, as they will absorb a good deal of moisture. They will keep indefinitely in a dry place. A large, wide-mouthed bottle that can be closely corked, or a pickle or preserve jar is a good receptacle for them. Stale bread crumbs, which are not dried in the oven, but are made from the odds and ends of stale bread, are used for meat or fish stuffing, bread puddings, bread sauce, bread griddle cakes, scalloped fish, and other such dishes. They may be crumbled finely or grated on a coarse grater, and should be used at once, as they will soon become musty. Any whole slices of stale bread may be steamed or made into toast. And do you know what an art there is in doing either of these things well and right? It seems an easy matter, and one that no one can fail in, to make toast, but any of you that have eaten some stuff that is placed before people, and called toast by courtesy, know that failure, even in this simple matter, is easy. You know the kind burned on the outside and doughy in the inside. It is served oftener than it should be, for the very reason that 'it is so easy to do' that no care is given it, and it ought to be well understood by any one who understands cooking that nothing can be done successfully, not even the easiest thing, without both thoughtfulness and care.
"The object of toasting bread is to extract the moisture, and make it more palatable and digestible. The fire should be clear, with red, but not blazing coals. The stale bread should be cut into thin, uniform slices, about a quarter of an inch thick, and the crust may or may not be removed, according to your taste or the purpose for which it is required. Place the slices evenly on one side of a double broiler, with wires about a third of an inch apart, being careful not to put in more than can be equally exposed to the fire; close the broiler and hold it firmly, that the slices may not slip; move it gently over the fire for one or two minutes; then turn it over, that all the moisture may be drawn out; hold it nearer to the coals, and color it a delicate brown. Serve at once in a toast-rack, or piled lightly, that it may not lose its crispness."
Amusements.
IN an article in the last Century, on the relation of Christianity to popular amusements, the Rev. Washington Gladden gives the following general principles, by which each may determine whether a particular form of amusement is or is not suitable in his own case:—
"1. Amusement is not an end, but a means—a means of replenishing the mind and replenishing the strength of the body; when it begins to be the principle thing for which one lives, or when in pursuing it the mental powers are enfeebled and the bodily health impaired, it falls under just condemnation.
"2. Amusements that consume the hours which ought to be sacred to sleep are, therefore, censurable.
"3. Amusements that call away from work which we are bound to do are pernicious just to the extent to which they cause us to be neglectful or unfaithful.
"4. Amusements that arouse or stimulate morbid appetite or unlawful passions, or that cause us to be restless or discontented, are always to be avoided.
"5. Any indulgence in amusements which has a tendency to weaken our respect for the great interests of character, or to loosen our hold on the eternal verities of the spiritual realm, is, so far forth, a damage to us."
Bishops and Bishops.
WHILE waiting at some station in England, says the Philadelphia Record, the Bishop of Connecticut heard two little boys who were pitching pennies disputing over a half-penny that one of them pronounced not good. The bishop, looking at it, saw it was an American cent, and told them it was good in his country.
A Yankee boy would of course have proposed a trade on the spot, but the little Briton contented himself with asking all manner of questions about the far-off land "where bad pennies were good."
While the bishop was patiently answering the questions, an official who knew him came up and asked the boy what he meant by speaking to the lord bishop.
"Why should he not speak to me?" said the bishop. "I like to speak to little boys at home, and I like to speak to little boys here. And what is a bishop for but to be spoken to by every man and woman and child who has anything to ask or say?"
The man stared at him for a moment, and then replied, "Ah, my lord, I wish that were what our bishops were for."
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LIFE SKETCHES.
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MRS. ELLEN G. WHITE.
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Cleaning and Caring for Carpets
If brooms are wet in boiling suds once a week they will become very tough, will not cut the carpet, last much longer, and always sweep like a new broom. A very dusty carpet may be cleaned by setting a pail of cold water out by the door, wet the broom in it, knock it to get out all the drops, sweep a yard or so, then wash the broom again as before, and sweep again, being careful to shake all the drops off the broom, and not sweep far at a time. The water may need to be changed once or twice if the carpet is very dusty. Snow sprinkled over a carpet and swept off before it has time to melt is also nice for renovating a soiled carpet. Moistened Indian meal is used with good effect by some. —Sel.
Tackle Something You Can Handle
By Editor
IN our large New Year's correspondence we notice among those whose consciences are stirred up, a heroic disposition to attempt some great things. This may be well, but it strikes us as wiser to set about reformation where it is most needed,—in the small affairs of every-day life,—the government of the temper and the tongue, the overcoming of selfishness in its mean little forms, the doing of considerate acts of kindness, etc. Tackle something you can handle.—Christian Standard.