p. 120 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 15. (4/18/1878)

Earlier text: The Order of Events in the Judgment

RELIGIOUS NEWS.

There is only one denomination in New York city, the Friends, who are entirely free from debt.

The Missionary Review calls for $25,000,000 from the Presbyterian church of this country for missions.

A new Methodist church at Moscow, Mich., is just completed. It is one of the finest church buildings in the State.

The Roman Catholics of Ireland are demanding of the British Parliament a system of denominational education.

England has among her clergy millionaires and paupers. The Rev. Francis Swan, lately deceased, left $1,750,000 personalty.

It is stated that the Jesuits are negotiating for the purchase of a palace with the view of removing their headquarters to Rome. The Pope holds aloof from the movement.

Bavaria has seventy-six Roman Catholic papers and periodicals, which have nearly four million subscribers. Switzerland has fifty, with considerable circulation. Austro-Hungary, with thirty times the population, has but ninety. Belgium has but one hundred and seventeen journals and periodicals. In Spain the Roman Catholic press is extremely limited, and in France the same. In Italy scarcely a fourth of the few Roman Catholic daily papers can support themselves without the aid of rich patrons. The majority have a circulation of but a few hundreds. In many offices there is no one who understands French, and the editorial knowledge of the transalpine world is of the most limited order.

SECULAR NEWS.

—Mexico has 3,000 miles of sea and gulf coast.

—A Pera dispatch says: "Twenty thousand refugees have been sent to Asia recently."

—Official returns show that last week the Russians had 53,000 sick in Europe alone.

—All the colliers in the Pennsylvania coal regions are working for the first time this year.

—The beach at Galveston is the largest and broadest in the world, extending twenty-five miles.

—There is an area of forty acres in North Carolina that has yielded over $1,000,000 in gold since the war.

—The last of the Granger laws, so popular in the western States a few years ago, was recently repealed by the Iowa Legislature.

—The bank of England has issued 94,000,000 notes in the last seven years. The notes placed in a pile would be eight miles high. If they were joined end to end, they would extend 15,000 miles.

—It is stated that within eleven years the public debt of Canada has increased from $93,046,051 to $174,675,834, and during the same period the excess of imports over exports has been $235,746,000.

—In the fire that recently occurred on the Lake Shore railroad, eight thousand pounds of mail matter were consumed, principally Chicago mails. There was also a large amount of valuable baggage aboard, and all was destroyed. Wm. M. Scott and daughter, of Erie, lost $5,000 in diamonds and wardrobe.

—Of the quota of twenty young men sent out by the Cherokee nation to be educated, four are at the Park High School, Tuskegee, Alabama. One is a full blooded Indian; the others are of mixed blood. Their expenses are paid by the United States, by warrants drawn directly on the United States Sub-Treasury.

—The body of Pope Pius IX was enclosed in three coffins before being deposited in the sarcophagus in St. Peter's Cathedral. The first was of cypress wood, lined and covered with scarlet velvet. This was enclosed in one of zinc, and this again in another of pine, painted red. The two wooden coffins were each made of a solid piece hollowed out.

—The emigration to Kansas is unprecedented in the history of the west. A Topeka dispatch of March 28 says: "Over 2,500 reached the State to-day. The season is fully a month in advance of previous years. Peach, apple and cherry trees are in full bloom. Winter wheat in the south-west is from eight to ten inches high, and spring wheat is above ground."

—An artesian well now in progress at Pesth, Hungary, has reached a depth of 3,118 feet. The artesian well at Paris, which has hitherto held the first place, is only 2,641 feet. The water at present issuing has a temperature of 161 degrees Fahr., and the operations will be continued till that of 178° Fahr. is obtained. About 175,000 gallons stream out daily, and rise to a hight of twenty-five feet.

—There have been fifty-six Atlantic steamers lost during the last thirty-seven years, in which 4,530 persons perished. Nine vessels were heard from after leaving port, four were burned, thirty wrecked, five lost through collision with other vessels, and two by collision with icebergs, two foundered and two were lost in the fog. Of nationalities, forty-two were British, five American, four French, four German, one Belgian.

—The Pope was over 80 years old at his death; the king of Holland is 60 years and 10 months; the Emperor of Russia, 59 years and 7 months; Victor Emanuel died comparatively young at 57 years and 9 months. The youngest sovereigns are the Emperor of Austria, 47 years and 4 months; King Humbert of Italy, 34 years; the Sultan, 33 years and three months; the King of Greece, 32 years, and the King of Spain, 20 years and 1 month.

—Political news from Central America is unfavorable. Costa Rica and Guatemala are both preparing for war. The president of Costa Rica has purchased a steamer in San Francisco and had her fitted out as a man-of-war, and has sent to Europe for a large supply of arms. He is determined, at any cost and by any means, to carry out his scheme of Central American Confederation, and the president of Guatemala is equally determined to oppose him.

The N. Y. Biblical Institute.

By Uriah Smith

ERE this paper reaches its readers, this Institute will be past. Up to the date of this writing, April 4, its success has been very gratifying; and what is most important of all, its spiritual interest has more than kept pace with its other departments.

A prayer meeting of thirty minutes' duration precedes the morning lecture, and we have a social meeting of one hour before the evening lecture. The evening after last Sabbath, this social meeting was of so interesting a character that the regular lecture gave way before it, and it continued till half past eight. Nearly every one present was deeply moved. It seemed like a fulfillment of Mal. 4:6, the hearts of the fathers turning to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers. Two have here made a public commencement of the service of God, and some of those without are regular and interested attendants upon the evening meetings. With the help of the young men who will give themselves to the work from this meeting, New York will be able to man seven tents the coming season.— U. S., in Review and Herald.

European Press.

WE, the undersigned, regard it a great privilege to donate to the Lord, for the European press, under the care of our worthy missionary, Elder J. N. Andrews, one hundred dollars each, and invite four others to join us in raising $10,000.

James White....$100 John Morrison... 100 Geo. I. Butler.... 100 Newel Grant..... 100 Aug. Rasmussen. 100 An Iowa Brother. 100 Emily Leighton.. 100 S. A. McPherson. 100 "A Fr'nd in N. E." 100 "W. P. A. M.".. 100 Reuel Stickney... 100 Mrs. A. Stickney. 100 J N Loughborough 100 Chas L. Boyd... 100 C. B. Tower...... 100 Freeman Nichols. 100 D. A. Owen...... 100 Wm. B. Mason.. 100 Jane Rowland... 100 B. N. Berry...... 100 J. S. Wicks....... 100 C. McNeil....... 100 Susie D.......... 100 J. S. Hart........ 100 Jacob Shively... 100 Right hand...... 100 M. J. Bartholf... 100 Mary Crouch.... 100 B. L. Whitney... 100 S. B. D.......... 100 Lucretia Day..... 100 S. H. King....... 100 A. C. Woodbury & wife...... 100 James Harvey... 100 John Ely........ 100 L. McCoy........ 100 S. A. McCoy..... 100 "Thank-offering" 100 Adolph Gomoe... J. W. Lucas.... 100 & wife........ 100 Mrs. S. A. Mc.. Pherson...... 100 A friend......... 100 Geo. Leighton ... 100 Mary C. Bowers.. 100 Eli Glascock.... 100 Henry Shultz and wife..... 100 Wm. Harper...... E. C. and H. M. Hendee..... 100 E. H. Root......$100 Wm. Ings........ 100 Charles Comings.. 100 E. W. Whitney.. 100 R. G. Lockwood.. 100 W. H. Hall....... 100 Betsy Landon.... 100 S. N. Haskell.... 100 C. K. Farnsworth 100 M. Wood........ 100 Friend of Truth... 100 Mrs. J. L. James. 100 A LaRue......... 100 Mrs. Getman (de- ceased)........... 100 A. H. B......... 100 D. M. Canright.. 100 W. A. Pratt..... 100 Wm. Harper..... 100 C. Clark and Wife 100 Miss M. R. Stern 100 E. Green & wife.. 100 A. A. Bradford... 100 C. S. Briggs & wife 100 M. C. Israel...... 100 V. B. J......... 100 A Bro. in Minn.. 100 H. C. Stone...... 100 Thomas Alverson. 100 E. Lobdell....... 100 A Bro. & Sr. in New England.... 300 Elden H. Pullen. 100 G. W. Colcord & wife...... 100 D. Ann Albin.... 100 I. Sanborn...... 100 J. Q. A. Haughey 100 A. S. Hutchins... 100 R. M. Kilgore.... & wife...... 100 A believer in New York........ 100 A friend in Mich. 100 W. Sanborn...... 100 Lavina Haughey. 100 Mrs. H. Craw.... 100 Mrs. Ira Abbey... 100 James E. Rankin 100 D. T. Briggs and wife..... 100 Newell Grant.... 100 Mary B. Cady.... 100

Cove, Oregon.

By William L. Raymond

I AM lecturing at present about eight miles from the Cove, on the north side of Grande Ronde valley, in company with Brother Bunch of Milton. We have delivered eight lectures at this place which have been well attended considering the time of the year among farmers.

W. L. RAYMOND.

Pleasant Valley, Cal.

By J. L. Wood

Meetings closed here to-day. Fourteen have signed the Covenant, and will meet together to hold Sabbath meetings.

April 14, 1878. J. L. Wood.

Sacramento, Cal.

By B. A. Stephens

I HAVE been in Sacramento over two weeks and have held fifteen meetings. Two have signed the covenant. I start to-day, April 10, for Red Bluff.

B. A. STEPHENS.

Lone Oak, Cal.

By J. L. Wood, J. D. Rice

We met with the Lone Oak church on their quarterly meeting occasion, Sabbath and Sunday, April 6-7. Nearly all of the brethren and sisters were present, also a good attendance from the outside. A few others took their stand with us to keep "the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." The Lord met with us and we had a good meeting.

J. L. WOOD, J. D. RICE.

Alabama.

By A. O. Burrill

We reached Gadsden, which is about fifteen miles south of Bladen Springs, March 16, expecting to find our tents, which we had ordered a month before; but we were disappointed. After remaining a few days and setting everything in order as far as we could, we came into the country, where we found a church of Baptists, and three ordained ministers, that had been cut off from the Baptist association, because they had embraced the Bible doctrine of the sleep of the dead and the annihilation of the wicked. Here we found warm friends and attentive listeners. Brother Ellett holds meetings at their house of worship, and I am holding meetings five miles from there. One minister and quite a number of the members have begun Sabbath observance. We have never seen so many openings before.

April 1, 1878. A. O. Burrill.

Literal Interpretation.

By John Norton Loughborough

The following was written by William Tyndale, the great English reformer, in 1530. He, though dead, should be allowed to speak :—

“Thou shalt understand, therefore, that the Scripture hath but one sense, which is the literal sense. And that literal sense is the root and ground of all, and the anchor that never faileth, whereunto if thou cleave thou canst never err, or go out of the way. And if thou leave the literal sense, thou canst not but go out of the way. Nevertheless, the Scripture useth proverbs, similitudes, riddles, or allegories, as all other speeches do ; but that which the proverb, simile, riddle, or allegory signifyeth is ever the literal sense which thou must seek out diligently.

“Origen, and the doctors of his time, drew all the Scriptures unto allegories, whose ensample they that come after followed so long, till they at last forgot the order and process of the text, supposing that the Scripture served but to feign allegories upon, insomuch that twenty doctors expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain songs. . . .

Yea, thou shalt find enough that will preach Christ, and prove whatsoever point of faith that thou wilt, as well out of a fable of Ovid, as any other poet, as out of St. John’s gospel or Paul’s epistles. Yea they are come unto such blindness, that they not only say the literal sense profiteth not, but also that it is hurtful and noisome and killeth the soul.”—Works of Tyndale and Fryth, Vol. I, pp. 339, 343, 344.

J. N. L.

European Mission.

WE, the undersigned, agree to pay the sum of one hundred dollars each, to support our missionaries in Europe and to publish papers and tracts for immediate use, to be paid before January 1, 1879.

Eld. James White $100 S. A. McPherson 100 George Leighton 100 Charles Buck.... 100 C. M. Holly..... 100 B. N. Berry..... 100 W. E. Newcom.. 100 E. Clark........ 100 A. R. Henry.... 100 Mrs. E. G. White $100 Jacob Shiverly... 100 C. W. Neal...... 100 H. E. Stone..... 100 Wm. Gardner... 100 Scott Kilgore ... 100 C. W. Baker..... 100 Daniel Glunt.... 100

San Francisco Tent.

By William Nelson Glenn

MEETINGS in the tent, corner of 23d and Capp streets, were inaugurated Friday evening, 12th inst., by Elders Loughborough and Healey. So far the attendance has been encouraging, and there is every prospect of a successful campaign. San Francisco is a large and very important field, requiring much hard labor to thoroughly cultivate it. Those in charge of the work there need the zealous practical help of the churches in that city and Oakland, and the prayers and encouragement of the brethren abroad. Let all do what they can to assist in this labor of love.

W. N. G.

New Tract.

By Editor

At the earnest request of several brethren and sisters, we have published in tract form an edition of Elder Healey's review of the California Christian Advocate's article of February 28, 1878, entitled "The Sabbath—The day." We are now ready to furnish them at $2 per hundred, with the usual discount to T. and M. Societies. As the reviewed article is supposed to contain the principal arguments of the Methodist denomination on the Sabbath question, a short but complete answer to such arguments becomes quite an important document in the hands of seventh day believers.

We have also issued editions of Elder Canright's "Is the End Near?" and "Can we Know?"

Louisa Mann’s Missing Address

By Editor

Louisa Mann sends $2.25 to pay for Signs and Bible Adventism, but gives no postoffice address. We will attend to the business when we know the address.

Obituary.

By Emma Merickel

FELL asleep in Jesus, February 20, 1878, at Sterling, Blue Earth county, Minn., Ella Rose, daughter of Brother and Sister C. N. Plumb, aged 2 years and 7 months. Her death, which was caused by pneumonia, was very sudden; but she will soon come again from the land of the enemy. Words of comfort were spoken by Elder J. E. Conrad (Presbyterian), from 1 Thess. 4:15. EMMA MERICKEL.

APPOINTMENTS.

By Editor

OAKLAND—Services at the new church, on the corner of Thirteenth and Clay streets, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 10:30 A. M., and Sunday evening at 7:30. Prayer meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:30. Sabbath-school at 9:30 o'clock Sabbath morning.

SAN FRANCISCO—Services at the house of worship, on Laguna street, between Tyler and McAllister, every Sabbath (Saturday), at 11 A. M., and first-day evening at 7:45. Prayer-meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:45. The Hayes Valley cars of Market street and the Lone Mountain cars of the Central R. R. cross Laguna street near the church.

MRS. E. G. WHITE will speak on the subject of Temperance, at the tent in San Francisco, Corner of 23d and Capp streets, Sunday evening, April 21, 1878.

THE New England General Quarterly Meeting will be held at South Lancaster, Massachusetts, May 4 and 5.

THE Kansas Camp-meeting will be held at Neosho Falls, Woodson county, May 22 to 27, 1878. This place is seventy miles south of Topeka, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad. Also the Third Annual Session of the Kansas Conference, and Tract and Missionary Society will be held in connection with the Camp-meeting.

SPECIAL meetings will be held with the churches in Minnesota, as follows:—Ellsworth, May 4, 5; Rock Elm, 8; Eau Galle, 11, 12; Maiden Rock, 18, 19; Lake City, 25, 26.

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By Editor

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Woodland, Cal.

By James White

Mrs. White, accompanied by our daughter, was with the church at Woodland, Sabbath and first-day, April 13, 14. She gave a practical discourse, Sabbath, which was followed by an interesting social meeting, in which nearly all took part. She also spoke in the evening of the same day, and twice on Sunday, giving a lecture on temperance Sunday evening to a large audience.

We have received a lengthy letter from her, in which she speaks of the Woodland church being greatly encouraged, that she has visited several families, and has had precious seasons of prayer with them, comforting the sick and bereaved. She has appointments at Vacaville two evenings the present week, when she will return to Oakland on sixth day, to fill appointments in Oakland and San Francisco. J. W.