p. 136 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 17. (4/26/1877)

Sunshine in Dwellings.

THE time will very likely come when sunshine, or sunlight, will be so utilized as to be the entire remedy used for very many diseases. That it is a wonderful vitalizer, none can doubt who know anything about it.

But how many houses are constructed with a view to getting all the sunshine possible, especially when so much needed as in winter and spring? The living, or sitting room, at these seasons of the year, at least, should have a full southern exposure, with large windows to let in the sunshine. Sleeping rooms, wardrobes, closets, passage ways, should receive the cleansing, vivifying influence of the sun. Sickly persons should court the sunshine as much as possible,—sit in it, lie in it, luxuriate in it. It doesn't cost anything, only appreciation.

A room warmed neither by the sun nor by fire, is unhealthy, and not fit for habitation. It is a poor theory that sends men, women or children off into a cold room to sleep, on health principles, when warmth has been excluded for a day or a week, or perhaps months. The change in the temperature of the room, having both fire and sunshine, after the sun goes down, is exceedingly marked. A perceptible chill is felt.—Ex.

Business Department.

“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully,” (margin, negligently). Jer. 48 :10.

Received for the Signs.

$2.00. EACH. Wm M Moore 4-1, W C Holmes 4-16, D P Davis 4-16 C Stillman 4-8, W H Eggleston 4-1, B H Selleck 4-16. Wm Griffith 4-7. H H Wilcox 4-16, T M Johns 4-15, A H Southwick 4-16, John Judson 4-1, A B Griggs 4-1. Alex Brown 4-13, Charles Weldon 4-16, J T Elliott 4-1, Ira Abbey 4-16, Schiliken & Co 4-15, T J Smith 4-15. R C Brann 4-15, J W Grimkrite 4-1, R Griggs 4-1, B F Spry 4-16. E J Potter 3-20, Sarah Stalker 3-48, Hans Jensen 4-9, A S Perrin 4-16, Alfred Perrin 4-7, S T Crosbie 4-16.

$1.50. EACH. Naomi Barnes 4-16, P Burton 4-16, C N O Reges 4-16, State Public School 4-7, David Bashore 4-16, Miss Eunice Clark 4-16, Ransom P Morse 4-16, Mrs E Dunham 4-16, W L Reddington 4-16, Albert Bucher 4-16. Mrs Geo Collins 4-16, Jackson Baker 4-16, James Ormsley 4-16, Anthony Dinsdale 4-16, Mrs Eli Smith 4-16. Isaac Willard 4-16, M H Van Kirk 4-15, Seth Armstrong 4-13, Edward Vaughn 4-16, Mrs E R Bush 4-16, L M Jones 4-16, Eli R H Burnett 4-16, W J Brandon M D 4-16, Eleanor Glynn 4-16, Theodore Gray 4-16, Wm Laird 4-16, Thomas Williams 4-16, Mrs Sally Harper 4-16, H H Briggs 4-1, Lousia J Clawson 4-16, J E Gaskill 4-16, Wm Starripper 4-17, Maria A Watts 4-16, Mrs Hill 4-16, Mrs Harriet Steward 4-16, Geo C Littlefield 4-15, Mary A Cook 4-16, Mrs Joseph Clarke 4-16, F O Taft 4-16, A E Radcliff 4-16, C W Gould 4-16, F Siles 4-16, B C Crabtree 4-16, V M Society 4-7, W D Johnson 4-7, Mrs M J Bailey 4-16, Wm Van Buren 4-16, Mary Cumming 4-16, Jane Clayson 4-16, Barbara Ganner 4-16, Solomon Winger 4-17, Thomas Howe 4-16, Mrs N McCaslin 4-16, Wm Palmer 4-16, Harrison Pierce 4-16, Lucinda Baker 4-16, N Perry 4-16, George Mulyaux 4-6, A Howe 4-16.

MISCELLANEOUS.

L T Campbell $1.85 4-27, Allen Hardy 1.85 4-27, Mary Hubbard 75c 3-40, L W Green 50c 4-3, Asa Green 50c 4-16, Mrs M A Nourse 6.00 (4 copies) 4-16, L C Hillard 7.50 (5 copies) 4-16, M S Cobb 7.50 (5 copies) 4-16, Loren Barber 16.50 (11 Copies) 4-16, O P Galloway 18.00 (12 copies) 4-16. Mrs M Mullen 12.00 (8 copies) 4-15, E G Rust 12.00 (8 copies) 4-16, W T Edmondson 40c 3-12, Margaret Wonser 4-25, Mary Stratton 16.50 (11 copies) 4-16, Mrs Egbert Wilson 50c 3-28, John Loose 1.00 3-25, Chas F Hills 3-32, Robert Hardy 1.00. 3-25, Joshua Young 75c 3-40, Geo E Risley 1.00 4-1, James M Osborn 12.00 (8 copies) 4-16, A H Wentworth 7.50 (5 copies) 4-16, Mrs Thomas Wilkins 75c 3-40, B Salisbury 18.00 (12 copies) 4-16, Joseph B Foster 3.00 (2 copies) 4-16, W E Landon 3.00 (2 copies) 4-16, C Webster 3.00 (2 copies) 4-16, J C Miller 10.50 (7 copies) 4-16, A W Farnsworth 4.50 (3 copies) 4-16, S E Pierce 2.75 3-21, H D Banks 1.00 3-21, Mrs Anna Ward 37c 3-28, Laura J Pough 37c 3-28, Ed Irving Girton 75c 4-10, Jonas Bickle 75c 3-40, Ava Hayes 1.00 3-40, S D Smith 4.50 (3 copies) 4-16, Mrs E E Pugh 5.00 4-25, Sidney P Hippenny 3-14, 50c H C Winslow $5.00 (10 copies) 3-32, N B Jenks $1.00 3-26, Jane McAlpine 1.00 3-40.

Cash Received on Account.

Cal T & M Society, Dist No 8, $1.70; Dist No 4, 15.50; New Y T & M Society 200.00; Ind T & M Society 7.50; Wis T & M Society 50.00.

California Conference Fund.

San Pasqual church $40.00, Mr M—— 5.00, Sarah Judson 5.00.

Camp-Meetings for 1877.

By James White

Four camp-meetings are located and appointed as follows:—

KANSAS, Ottawa (Forest Park), May 24-29. MISSOURI, Holden, May 31 to June 5. IOWA, Marshalltown, June 7-12. WISCONSIN, Portage, “ 14-19.

For the past three weeks we have been about evenly balanced between a sense of duty to ourself to remain in this State, or to attend some of the Eastern Camp-meetings, and see to important business that seems to demand personal attention there. J. W.

Words to Patrons.

By James White

THE interest in the Biblical Lectures given in Oakland by Elder Smith was such that it seemed necessary to omit one number of the SIGNS in order to accommodate editors and printers who were anxious to attend. For the same reason the press-work of last week's issue was crowded into the night, and executed very badly.

The paper will be printed weekly for the future, and no pains will be spared to have all departments of the work done in a manner worthy of the liberal patronage it receives from its numerous friends. J. W.

Bad Editing.

By James White

We have ever entertained the idea that religious newspapers could, and should be edited with all that care which editors bestow upon first-class secular weeklies and literary and scientific monthlies. Why should they not? There is no truth as important as Bible truth, and no subjects so elevating as the grand themes of duty here, and the reward hereafter.

But there is a drowsiness about Christian workers in our time which leads very many to do the work of the Lord carelessly, with a sort of Sunday-go-to-meeting laziness which stamps almost all our religious efforts and operations with imperfections. If the lawyer should do business in this way, he would find himself out of work. If the teacher should fall into this habit, he would be discharged. And should the clerk become easy, thoughtless and drowsy, he would find a position on the other side of the counter very soon.

But in matters of religion, the tender brotherhood (?) prevents the exercise of proper reproof and discipline, and the work of the Lord is done carelessly. Jeremiah says: “Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord negligently.” See marginal reading of chapter 48 : 10.

We are grieved to see some inexcusable omissions and blunders in late numbers of the Review and Herald. We commenced that paper in 1850, and for the long period of twenty-seven years have had more interest in it than in all things else beneath the sun, and we cannot bear to see a single line in our blessed old paper that is either senseless, or bears unmistakable marks of want of care. We confess inability to keep up interest in reading of bad weather, muddy roads, when the writer left his home, and one hundred and one such particulars that the general reader can have no interest in. Yet these do appear, more or less, each week.

It is the editor’s duty to keep such things out of the paper, either by condensing reports, or by casting them as a whole to the moles and the bats. If he will do this, he will teach his correspondents to be brief and to the point. But in Review for April 19, is a report from J. Lamont, headed “Kansas,” and neither county nor town is mentioned in it. A church of sixteen was organized. Where? In Kansas. The outside attendance was small. Where? In Kansas. The outside of this large State is Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Indian Territory on the south, and Colorado on the west.

In the same column is a report of a good meeting in Connecticut, but the place is not given. And in the same issue is a grand good report from an able writer respecting the labors of one of our ministers and a church of forty Danes in Dakota; but neither town nor county are given.

We have often repeated the statement during the last ten years that it is a disgrace to Seventh-day Adventists to do a second-class job in anything. While we do stay in this world, we should take heed to the words of Paul, “Let all things be done decently and in order.” 1 Cor. 14 : 40. J. W.

The Old Path.

It is refreshing to read a rich paragraph now and then from a person of high authority who has not left the old path of Law and Gospel combined in one unit system of faith maintained by good works, as necessary to the formation of pure Christian character. The following is clipped from an exchange:—

“It is said that the late Prof. Sheppard, of Bangor Theological Seminary, was accustomed to tell his pupils when they were about to leave the institution, ‘Young men, preach the duties. Often recur to the tables of the law, and dwell upon Thou shalt, and Thou shalt not, lest you fill the churches with converted scoundrels.’ There is occasion for such advice, for the immutable divine law is less preached, and good works are more rarely inculcated from the pulpit than they should be. If there are the hopes of Calvary, there are also the terrors of Sinai; and if faith is a Christian duty, so believers must be ‘careful to maintain good works,’ for ‘faith without works is dead, being alone.’ A living faith produces holy living and holy doing.”

“Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.” Jer. 6 : 16.

For the Million.

By James White

We have for sale at this Office the most remarkable book of the age, upon the subject it treats.

It is entitled, “Plain Facts about Sexual Life.” It is written by J. H. Kellogg, M. D., Editor of the Health Reformer, Professor of Physiology and Hygiene in the Battle Creek College, and author of several health books of importance.

This book should go into the hands of a million of American youth at once. Dr. Kellogg is a graduate of the highest American Medical School, a fine scholar, and an entertaining, able writer. This is an elegant book of 356 pages, printed with new type on the finest tint paper, in rich binding. Send for it. Price, postage paid, $1.25. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. J. W.

An Interesting Item.

Some one writing to the Sabbath Memorial from Naples, Italy, says:—

“Sunday law does not exist here, nor is Sunday treated as a day of rest, but as a feast, to the great horror of Methodists and Protestants of all denominations. Saturday [Sabato in Italian] is a fast day, but there is no half holiday as in England. Thursday is a holiday at all schools and a half feast. It is strange that this Italian word [Sabato] was the first that raised a difficulty in my mind, before receiving some of your tracts. I was speaking to some brethren on the profanation of the ‘Sabbath’ [Sunday] in this country, and referred them to the fourth commandment, saying: ‘Ricordati del giorno Sabato per santificarlo,’ when it struck me at once that I had not said what I intended, I had told them to sanctify Saturday and not Sunday. There it was in plain Italian, and there was no getting out of it. I stopped short; fortunately no one took me up on what I had said, for I would not have known how to reply. Shortly afterward a number of the Sabbath Memorial [No. 3] was sent to me, and I saw the whole thing at once. Armed with these weapons [Sabbath publications] I shall, asking God’s direction, do my best to call the attention of Christians here to the true nature of the fourth commandment, and to the fact of its universal perversion, perhaps the only corruption of the Papacy that the Baptists have overlooked.”

The Seeds of Slander

ANYBODY can soil the reputation of an individual, however pure and chaste, by uttering a suspicion that his enemies will believe and his friends never hear of. A puff of the idle wind can take a million of the seeds of a thistle and do a work of mischief which the husbandman must labor long to undo, the floating particles being too fine to be seen and too light to be stopped. Such are the seeds of slander, so easily sown, so difficult to be gathered up, and yet so pernicious in their fruits. The slanderer knows that many a mind will catch up the plague and become poisoned by his insinuations, without ever seeking the antidote.

When Sermons Are Too Perfect

SERMONS may be elaborated till they are spoiled. They may be so “perfect” as to be perfectly worthless! They may be “——correctly cold, and correctly dull, Faultily faultless, icily regular, and splendidly null.”

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 seventeen others to join us in raising $10,000.


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John Morrison..... 100	Wm. Ings..... 100
Geo. I. Butler..... 100	Charles Comings..... 100
Newel Grant..... 100	E. W. Whitney..... 100
Aug. Rasmussen..... 100	R. G. Lockwood..... 100
An Iowa Brother..... 100	W. H. Hall..... 100
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Mrs. A. Stickney..... 100	Mrs. J. L. James..... 100
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Jane Rowland..... 100	C. Clark and Wife..... 100
B. N. Berry..... 100	Miss M. R. Stem..... 100
J. S. Wicks..... 100	E. Green & wife..... 100
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J. S. Hart..... 100	M. C. Israel..... 100
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Appointments.

OAKLAND—Services at the new church, on the corner of Clay and Thirteenth 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 o'clock Sabbath morning.

Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, etc., etc.

Prices in Coin.

Cruden’s Complete Concordance. In this any passage in the Scriptures can readily be found. $2.00 per copy, post-paid.

Bible Dictionary of Bible names, customs and countries, and maps of Bible lands. $2.00 per copy, post-paid.

The History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, by J. N. Andrews. 528 pp. $1.25.

Thrilling Life Sketches. Incidents in the life of an Italian of noble birth, who was a prisoner of the inquisition, officer in the army of Garibaldi, and extensive traveler in Africa and Syria. By Francesco Crugos. $1.25 per copy, post-paid.

Thoughts on Daniel. By U. Smith. $1.00. Condensed paper edition, 35 cts.

Thoughts on the Revelation. By U. Smith. $1.00.

Life of Wm. Miller, with likeness. $1.00.

The Nature and Destiny of Man. By U. Smith. 384 pp. $1.00. Paper, 40 cts.

The Constitutional Amendment. A discussion between W. H. Littlejohn and the Editor of the “Christian Statesman.” Bound, $1.00. Paper, 40 cts. First part, 10 cts.

The Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. I. By Ellen G. White; 416 pp. $1.00.

Hygienic Family Physician. $1.00.

The Game of Life (illustrated). Satan playing with man for his soul. In board, 50 cts.; in paper, 30 cts.

The United States in Prophecy. By U. Smith. Bound, 40 cts. Paper, 20 cts.

A Word for the Sabbath : or False Theories Exposed. (Poem.) By Uriah Smith. Muslin, 40 cts.

The Advent Keepsake. Muslin, 25 cts. Gilt, 40 cts.

Sermons on the Sabbath and Law, embracing an outline of the Biblical and Secular History of the Sabbath for 6,000 years. By J. N. Andrews. 30 cts.

Testimony for the Church, No. 27, by Mrs. Ellen G. White. 30 cts.

Facts for the Times, revised and enlarged, 30c.

History of the Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul. By D. M. Canright, 25 cts.

The State of the Dead. By U. Smith. 224 pp. 25 cts.

Our Faith and Hope. Sermons on the Millennium, Second Advent, the Kingdom, the Judgment, the Time, the Sanctuary and Saving Faith. 20 cts.

Refutation of the Age to Come. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.

The Ministration of Angels : and the Origin, History, and Destiny of Satan. By D. M. Canright. 20 cts.

The Bible from Heaven; a Dissertation. 20 cts.

The Atonement. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.

The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.

Miraculous Powers. Evidences, Scriptural and historical, of the perpetuity of Spiritual Gifts. 20c.

The Complete Testimony of the Fathers concerning the Sabbath and First Day. By J. N. Andrews. 15 cts.

Refutation of Forty-four so called Objections against the Ancient Sabbath, by Eld. D. T. Bourdeau. 88 pp. 15 cts.

The Three Messages of Rev. 14, and the Two-Horned Beast. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.

The Morality of the Sabbath. By D. M. Canright. 15 cts.

The Resurrection of the Unjust; a Vindication of the Doctrine. By J. H. Waggoner. 15 cts.

Redemption, or the Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness (Life of Christ, No. 2). By Mrs E. G. White. 15 cts.

The Destiny of the Wicked. By U. Smith. 15 cts.

The Seven Trumpets of Rev. 8 and 9. 15 cts.

The Two Laws. By Eld. D. M. Canright. 104 pp. 15 cts.

The Saints’ Inheritance, or the Earth made New. By J. N. Loughborough. 10 cts.

Dangers and Duties of Our Times. An Earnest Appeal from the General Conference Com. 10 cts.

The Conference Address. An earnest appeal to Seventh-day Adventists. 10 cts.

The Sanctuary and Twenty-three Hundred Days. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.

Sunday Seventh-day. A Refutation of Mede, Jennings, Akers, and Fuller. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.

The Truth Found ; The Sabbath. By J. H. Waggoner. 10 cts.

Sermon on the Two Covenants. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.

The Hope of the Gospel : What it is, and when it will be consummated. By J. N. Loughborough, 80 pp. 10 cts.

Brown’s Review of Gilfillan on the Sabbath. 10 cts.

Vindication of the True Sabbath. Morton. 10 cts.

The Date of the Seventy Weeks of Dan. 9, established. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.

Matthew Twenty-four. By James White. 10c.

Prophetic Chart in Miniature, with explanations. 5 cts.

Four-cent Tracts : The Second Advent.—The Seventh Part of Time—Celestial Railroad—Samuel and the Witch of Endor—The Ten Commandments not Abolished—Address to the Baptists—The Present Truth—The Sufferings of Christ—The Two Thrones—The Third Message of Rev. 14—Spiritualism a Satanic Delusion.

Three-cent Tracts : Much in Little—The Lost-Time Question—Argument on Sabbath—Infidel Cavils Considered—The End of the Wicked—Scripture References—Who Changed the Sabbath?—The First Message of Rev. 14—The Second Message of Rev. 14.

Two-cent Tracts : Definite Seventh Day—Seven Reasons for Sunday-Keeping Examined—Sabbath by Elihu—The Rich Man and Lazarus—The Sanctuary of the Bible—The Millennium—Departing and Being with Christ—Fundamental Principles of S. D. Adventists—The Judgment; or the Waymarks of Daniel to the Holy City—The Two Laws—The Spirit of Prophecy.

One-cent Tracts : Appeal on Immortality—Thoughts for the Candid—Sign of the Day of God—The Perfection of the Ten Commandments—Coming of the Lord—Without Excuse—Which Day, and God’s Answers.

* Address, Signs of the Times.

OAKLAND, CAL.