Earlier text: The Missionary—Three inches of snow fell at Tunbridge, Vt., Sunday, April 26. —Mormons in Utah are admonished to trade only with “the Saints.” —“The Umatilla Indians protest against the sale of their reservation.” —The postal money orders of Portland, Oregon, amount to $10,000 a day. —Riel’s Rebellion is ended, and he is a prisoner in the hands of the Dominion. —Business failures are reported as being on the increase. —There are 10,000 students attending the Mohammedan University at Cairo, Egypt. —In New York City about 450 children have died from measles since the commencement of the year. —The latest accounts seem to indicate a peaceful adjustment of affairs in Afghanistan. —An Underhill, Vt., man has sold 14,000 gallons of maple syrup in Cambridge, Mass., for $10,000. —“All of the public school buildings in New York are to be connected with the city’s fire alarm system.” —At Tallulah Falls, Ga., about 100 persons were poisoned, recently, by eating ice-cream which had undergone a chemical change in the freezers. —The archbishop of Canterbury is said to be the only person who has been allowed to see the Revised Old Testament. —According to the San Francisco Bulletin, eighty-eight cases have been tried in Police Court Number Two of that city, for breaking the lottery laws, most of which resulted in fining the offenders. —“The pack of salmon on the Sacramento River thus far in the year amounts to 2,000 cases, against 30,000 at the same time last year.” —During March last, 88,773 hundred weight of fresh beef were landed in England, of which 87,197 were from the United States. —E. A. Burke, Director-General of the New Orleans Exposition, has resigned, the reasons for which are unknown. —The town of Farwell, British Columbia, was totally destroyed by fire, May 6. The loss is estimated at $40,000. —The negotiations for settlement of demands made by Japan upon China for the Corean Massacre, have resulted amicably. —A son of one of the professors at Columbia University, Washington, died recently from the effects of cigarette smoking. —In Osceola, Mich., 7,000,000 feet of lumber, worth $150,000, was destroyed by fire, May 16, and the fire is still raging. —In boring an artesian well near Portland, Oregon, lately, the drill struck a big fir log, imbedded in soft rock, 725 feet below the surface. —Copies of the Revised Old Testament were given to the London papers at midnight, May 16. It is to be issued in this country to-day, May 21. —A Buffalo surgeon reports cancer cases as remarkably numerous in that section, he having met over 120 cases in a two years’ residence there. —Ireland is said to have decreased in population from 1846, when it had 8,000,000 inhabitants, to the present time, when it has only 5,000,000 inhabitants. —“Bismarck says that although he does not favor a law forbidding work on Sunday, that if the workingmen wished it he would support such a measure.” —Stealing a red-hot stove has been outdone by the thieves who the other night stole the cornerstone of the Simpson Methodist Church at Long Branch. —The ancient name of Afghanistan was Bactria. It was among the conquests of Alexander the Great, and it was there that he married Roxana, his first wife. —The largest sale of cotton goods ever made in this country is said to have taken place in New York City, May 14, at which time $3,000,000 worth of cotton goods was sold—much of it at private prices. —A coroner’s jury has at last been found that holds the proper party, the owner of the property, responsible for the death of an unfortunate man who fell into an unguarded cellar-way in San Francisco. —The prospect for a good crop of grain in California is very poor, especially in the San Joaquin and Stanislaus Valleys; but the reports are more favorable from the southern portions of the State. —The New Orleans Times-Democrat asserts that 170,000 of the people of that city have never visited the Exposition. But they expect people to travel 1,200 or 2,000 miles to do so! —The Entomological Department at Washington has warned the farmers of an expected incursion, this summer, of two big swarms of locusts; but it has failed to give a remedy. —Stanley, the African explorer, has been appointed governor of the Congo Free State. This is but a just tribute to one who has faithfully carried on the work Livingstone laid out. —“The Iowa process of shutting up saloons as nuisances, by injunction, is reported to be working with celerity and efficiency which distance all previous methods of enforcing the law.” —The San Francisco Chronicle gives Sunday, May 10, the title of, “A Day of Horrors.” It says, “Sunday, at police headquarters, is coming to be looked upon as a special day set apart for homicides.” —At Lititz, Pa., May 12, Mrs. Plantz attempted to drown herself and five children, but only succeeded in drowning herself and youngest child. Her oldest son, a boy of only ten years, successfully rescued the others from the water. —In attempting to move the British ship, Earl of Dalhousie, in San Francisco harbor, May 12, it capsized in about seven fathoms of water. The cost of raising it is estimated at about $20,000. No lives were lost. —The N. Y. Herald’s Moscow special, May 11, says: “An extremely sore feeling prevails in military circles because war is postponed. Many Generals openly declare that a magnificent opportunity is now lost. The feeling is so bitter and widespread that the Czar has been advised to visit Moscow for a few weeks to calm the excitement.” —Over 4,700 persons in Madrid have been inoculated with cholera microbes by Dr. Ferran as a preventive of the disease. The new system is said to be entirely successful and the epidemic is disappearing. —The emigrants on a French steamer bound for Buenos Ayres mutinied on account of the bad food furnished. They were overpowered after a desperate fight, in which the captain and crew were badly wounded and several of the passengers were killed. —It was announced to the House of Commons, May 11, that the British Government had decided to withdraw the troops from Korti, abandon Suakin, and indefinitely postpone the march to Kartoum to avenge Gordon’s murder. —The successful grafting of muscle from the thigh of a dog to the arm of a woman is said to have taken place at Bellevue Hospital, New York. The woman’s arm, which was nearly useless before treatment, has become useful. —President Cleveland received the Mormon Delegation with courtesy, assuring them that the Edmunds law should be carried out with entire impartiality, adding, “I wish you out there could be like the rest of us.” —A terrific electric storm passed over Yreka, May 11. In less than an hour “2.05 inches of rain fell, deluging the streets, and pouring through the roofs of houses.” The rain was accompanied by the most vivid flashes of lightning. —A cablegram from London, dated May 14, says: “To-morrow, Gladstone will announce the abandonment of the causes empowering the suppression of meetings, the censorship of the press, the search of domicile, and the trial by judges without jury.” —Wallthurville, a small hamlet thirty-seven miles from Savannah, Ga., was the scene of a small riot last week, in which five were killed and four or five more badly wounded. The cause of the riot was a dispute over a game of poker accompanied by the usual hard drinking. —A large number of persons of riotous character were assembled at Nelson’s Monument, London, making speeches against the Government’s budget proposal to increase the duty on spirits and beer. The police had to charge them several times before they could be dispersed. —The large railway hospital of the Gould system, at Fort Worth, Tex., was burned to the ground on the 26th ult. The inmates, numbering thirty-two patients, were safely removed. The property, valued at $30,000, was the only hospital belonging to the Gould system south of Sedalia. —“The limited express on the Pennsylvania Road, running between New York and Chicago in twenty-five hours, has become famous, but it will soon be replaced by a new ‘flyer,’ which is to run over the Lake Shore and Central and Hudson lines, making the distance in twenty-three hours.” —Reports from Latrobe, El Dorado County, California, say that grasshoppers are doing destructive work there and in the eastern part of Sacramento County. After eating everything clean they get into the streams, cisterns, wells, and ditches, and die, making a stench almost beyond endurance. —As an outgrowth of the movement begun by the late Dr. Muhlenburg, looking to the gradual restoration of a common faith, the assembling of the “First American Congress of Churches” took place at Hartford, May 11. The attendance is reported as large. The churches were nearly all represented. —Among the articles lately received at the Dead-Letter Office was a loaded revolver, so arranged as to fire off when the pasteboard box containing it was opened. As one of the clerks opened the box, the ball went into the side of the building. The box was addressed to a young lady at Springfield, Mass., and is thought to have come from Boston. —At a meeting of the Military Service Institute of the United States, at Governor’s Island, May 14, it was shown that the coasts of this country are almost without defenses. Senator Dolph, of Oregon, chairman of the Senate Committee on Seacoast, was present, and promised to aid in Congress any worthy scheme looking to the strengthening of our seacoast fortifications. —The steamer Germanic was struck on the night of May 4, by a tremendous wave which swept over the deck, crushing the top of the pilot house, hurling the firmly-braced winch to the hold, carrying away the rigging and compasses, and twisting the railing into many fantastic shapes. Captain Kennedy, who commanded the steamer, reports this as the largest wave he has seen in a twenty years’ experience on the Atlantic. —There are fourteen Protestant congregations in the city of St. Petersburg, Russia. —There are, according to latest statistics, in the kingdom of Prussia, 17,659,114 adherents of evangelical churches, 9,220,326 Roman Catholics, and 357,554 Jews. —The prohibition against the Jews settling in Syria has been revoked, and the Holy Land is open to them once more. They are fleeing from the countries in Europe where they are persecuted, and an association in London is helping them to go to the land of their fathers. —Dr. William Hayes Ward has finished his work in Chaldea, and is well on his way home. He left Bagdad, March 18, and should reach New York the last of May, or first of June. He has had a successful expedition, and we shall expect some important information when he reaches home. —The Peabody Fund in London now amounts to $4,086,595. Up to the end of last year the fund had provided for the artisan and laboring poor of London 10,144 rooms, beside bath rooms, laundries and wash houses, or homes for 18,453 persons. The expense of the management of the fund for the year was only $5,670. —Statistics for 1884 place the number of evangelical preachers in this country at 76,760, the congregations at 126,109, and the communicants at 10,561,648. Of various miscellaneous churches, the preachers number 38,791, the congregations 10,763, and the adherents 7,169,655. The Roman Catholics report 6,905 priests, 7,663 congregations, and 6,800,000 souls, including their entire population. They are very far from possessing the land, though they love to have people think they possess it. —In the New Jersey Sunday-school Association, a short time ago, an argument, "an hour and a quarter long," was delivered trying to show why the Old Testament Scriptures should not be taught in Sunday-schools. After which, the following resolution was passed with but one dissenting voice: "Resolved: That it is the judgment of this Association that from their graphic and touching narratives, their record of the supernatural dealings of God with man, their constant pointing to the Messiah in biography, type, and prophecy, the reverence shown for them by the Great Teacher himself, who regarded himself as their consummation and fulfillment, the Old Testament Scriptures are especially suitable to be taught in our Sabbath-schools." A very becoming rebuke. North Pacific Conference.
By Editor
A BIBLICAL institute, to be conducted by Elder E. J. Waggoner, will be held on the camp-ground, Portland, Or., commencing Sunday, June 14, and continuing till the 24th. Ministers, tract society officers, colporters, canvassers, and lay members, you cannot afford to lose this opportunity. Come as early as Friday, and have your tents pitched before the Sabbath. Come and learn how to work for the Master. The North Pacific Camp-meeting will be held June 24 to July 1, between B and G Streets, and just west of Twenty-first Street, Portland, Or. This is in close connection with the terminus of the Washington and Third Street car lines, which with their branches, reach nearly all parts of the city. Brethren, bring your neighbors and your children. Get ready now, and come in season. The next annual session of the North Pacific Conference will be held at Portland, Or., in connection with the camp-meeting June 24 to July 1. Let each church elect delegates and furnish them with credentials, and a full report of the church. Will the elders assist the clerk in this matter. Appropriate blanks will be sent to each church clerk. SABBATH-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
The annual session of this association will be held on the camp-ground at Portland, Or., June 24 to July 1. Special instruction will be given to Sabbath-school officers. Appropriate essays will be expected. TRACT AND MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
The ninth annual session of the North Pacific T. and M. Society will be held on the camp-ground at Portland, Or., June 24 to July 1. Matters of vital interest will come before this society. We would be glad to see every lover of present truth at these meetings. We hope to have all business connected with these societies finished up at an early date, that the last of our meetings may be devoted wholly to religious exercises. This will necessitate the presence of every delegate. Every one who loves, and is willing to assist in, the holy work committed to our trust, is particularly urged to be present at the very beginning of this annual convocation. The following brethren are appointed to act as a camp-meeting committee: Wm. Potter, John Cole, H. A. Baxter, Chas. Kline, and Z. T. Warren. CHAS. L. BOYD,
J. E. GRAHAM,
J. C. HALL,
Conference Committee. Publishers' Department.
By Editor
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By Mrs. W. R. Smith
SMITH.—Died in Fresno, Cal., May 6, 1885, Jane A. Smith, aged 72 years. Sister Smith was born in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N. Y. She became a Christian early in life and united with the M. E. Church, of which she was a member over forty years. Seven years ago she embraced the Seventh-day Adventist faith, was baptized by Elder J. H. Waggoner, and joined the Fairview church. Her life for several years has been one of suffering; for the last year she was confined to her bed a great deal of the time; but she bore it all with remarkable fortitude and patience. She felt she had not long to sleep, and looked forward with bright anticipation to the time when the Lord shall descend from Heaven, and the righteous dead shall be raised and caught up to meet the Lord in the air, and so ever to be with the Lord. Upper Columbia Camp-Meeting.
THIS camp-meeting is to be held at Milton, Umatilla County, Oregon, commencing the evening of June 3, and ending on the morning of the 10th. All are invited to attend. Those wishing to do so, can rent tents at the same rate as last year. Let all such write to Wm. Goodwin, Milton, Oregon, so that the tents may be secured and pitched in good season. There will be no restaurant upon the camp-ground this year, but there will be a provision stand, from which fresh bread and other supplies can be obtained at the lowest possible rates. Ample provision will also be made for horses. Brethren and sisters, all come to the meeting, and bring your friends with you. The annual session of the U. C. Conference for the year 1885 will be held on the camp-ground at Milton, in connection with the camp-meeting, June 3-10. Let each church in this Conference immediately elect their delegates, furnishing them with credentials, and also with a report of its standing, losses, and additions during the Conference year. Let all the churches be reported, either by delegates or by letter. Let all letters, from churches or individuals, be directed to J. N. Loughborough, Milton, Umatilla County, Oregon. The Sabbath-school Association of the U. C. Conference will hold its annual session for the year 1885 in connection with the camp-meeting at Milton, June 3-10. THE TRACT AND MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
The annual session of the U. C. Tract and Missionary Society for the year 1885 will be held in connection with the Milton camp-meeting, June 3-10. REDUCTION OF RAILROAD FARE.
All parties coming by the Northern Pacific Railroad to the camp-meeting at Milton, Oregon, June 3-10, will pay full fare to Wallula Junction, and obtain, on the camp-ground, a certificate by which they will be entitled to return tickets from Wallula for one-fifth the regular fare. NOTE.—We hope to get reduced return rates over O. R. and N. lines. The company has the matter under consideration, promising a report soon. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH,
WM. I. GOODWIN,
T. L. RAGSDALE,
Conference Committee. Please Take Notice.
By Editor
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By Editor
COMPRISING “Experience and Views” and “Spiritual Gifts, Volume One,” bound in one volume. This makes a neat and attractive book of nearly 200 pages, and should be read by old and young. The matter and the style in which it is presented are so interesting that no one who has read one chapter will forego the pleasure and profit of reading the remainder. Price, 75 cents. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. Quite Too Pious!
By Editor
Not long since we had occasion to call attention to an abuse of our property, by other parties appropriating to their own use our "distributers" in which our publications are placed. These cost time, money, and in some cases we have to pay for the privilege of putting them up in "advertising space" in public places. In our former notice we exonerated the "holiness people," though the individual at fault was preaching holiness. The reference made to certain parties in this city was to the Mormons, but we believe they have reformed and are no longer abusing our property. Our complaint now is of those who publish the "Day Dawn papers," who are the most cheeky of all people. Our colporters find our distributers emptied of our publications and literally filled with papers and tracts of that people. We have some time been aware that they have progressed in "holiness" until they have got entirely beyond the law of God! But we would admonish them that they are not beyond the reach of the law of the State. And this is to be regarded in two respects: First, the music must be adapted to the words. Secondly, the manner of execution must be adapted to both words and music. In this "Note," we will attend briefly to the first. Many leaders, who are yet fair singers, utterly fail when they come to adaptation. If the hymn and tune agree in metre it seems to be about all for which they look. Not many months since we heard the hymn in our book on page 155 sung to the tune of Holley on the opposite page. Of course the first error was in the make-up of the book; for it is expected, when the tunes are scattered through the book, that there shall be some degree of correspondence between the hymns and the tunes. If there is not, then this scattering or intermixing is a positive detriment to the singing. Now Holley is one of the finest, sweetest plaintive pieces which our book contains. Viewing it in this light, think of singing it to the following words:—
"Break through all the force of ill,
Tread the might of passion down."
Or to the battle cry of the verse preceding:—
"Up, and take thy shield and sword;
Up, it is the call of Heaven." To sing the tune as it ought to be sung, such words become tame and spiritless. To sing the words as they ought to be sung is impossible to such a tune. The music is ruined; the object of singing is not gained. Boylston is another plaintive tune, almost universally outraged in execution. The words used by the composer are often (generally) a sure index to the style of the composition. Years ago, in works published by Lowell Mason himself, Boylston was used to the following words:—
"Our days are as the grass,
Or like the morning flower;
When blasting winds sweep o'er the plain
It withers in an hour." Every singer ought to perceive that there is a correspondence between these words and the soft flowing style of the music; but the words we usually use present only a contrast. And our heavy tunes are in like manner abused. We have known Old Hundred to be started by a good voice in a social meeting of six or eight persons! In a congregation we have heard it sung in a moderate, subdued style which, we suppose, was expected to indicate reverence. But our well-known "doxology" is not an address to the Deity; it is a call to all in Heaven and earth to praise the Lord. It is grand, majestic; and perhaps there is not another tune in existence which is so well calculated to bring out this grandeur as Old Hundred. But weakness in execution destroys the effect of this as certainly as boldness and vigor destroy the others to which we have referred. The German chorister possessed the inspiration of this tune when he said he could not execute it with less than two hundred good voices. The nearer we approach to this idea, the better justice will we do to this grand old tune. Loughborough and Waggoner Visit Northern Meetings
By Editor
Elders J. N. Loughborough and E. J. Waggoner sailed on Thursday, May 14, on the steamer Oregon for the northern camp-meetings. They expect to return early in July. Give Particulars.
By Editor
THIS office received in a letter, in which full particulars might have been given, the following order: "Please print for our camp-meeting, Supplements. Send to," &c. The dates given in this column are not positive. Please send all particulars with your orders. New Health Journal.
By Editor
In accordance with the resolution of the Board of Directors of the "Rural Health Retreat," the Publishing Association in Oakland will very soon issue the first number of the Pacific Health Journal, and Temperance Advocate. Its date will be June. For the present it will be published every other month. We expect that it will receive a large patronage. Price, fifty cents a year; 24 pages. Send in your subscriptions now. Rural Health Retreat.
By Editor
THIS institution is now open, both for patients and visitors; but we ask the special attention of patients. There are thousands of people who come every year from the East to California for their health. We know of no other place in the State where they can be placed under such favorable conditions to recover health. Pure soft water in abundance; a climate unequaled; lovely scenery of mountain and valley; food generous, good to the taste, and suited to the condition of all classes because got up in hygienic style by persons of long experience; and good bathing facilities; and a practiced physician who will be happy at all times to be consulted, and to render assistance to those who require his services. The friends of the institution and of the cause of reform can do good service by recommending the "Retreat" to all who need to avail themselves of its advantages. Many people resort to the mountains in the summer who do not go as invalids, but to enjoy the pure air, and rest from labor. They will find this part of Napa Valley a most desirable place to visit. THE object of music—church music—is to give expression to the words sung. There are very few who do not feel that there is a power in music. Stirring martial music can rouse the soldier to deeds of bravery. Sweet, plaintive music can soothe and calm the troubled spirits. Even the lower animals acknowledge this power, and the fierce and vicious may be tamed by the aid of music. The Lord has called upon his creatures to use this power to his glory; to sing to his praise, and, if needful, to add to the effectiveness of song by the use of instruments, the tones of which may rise in harmony with the human voice. Paul told the brethren to speak "to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord." And James said: "Is any merry? let him sing psalms." But to serve this purpose, to give expression to the language used in worshiping in song, three things are required, namely, judgment, taste, and devotion. Regard must be had to BROTHER E. P. DANIELS has opened a class in stenography in Oakland of fifty members. He is preparing the cards to which Brother Haskell referred in the last SIGNS. We have been asked our opinion of the different "systems," and whether it is desirable to be "eclectic," and unite all that is good of all systems. 1. Phonography proper belongs to Pitman, and to him alone. There is no system but his. In this there is a separate character for every distinct sound in the language. This constitutes it phonography, that is, writing by sound. When we come to reporting, there are so many abbreviations or modifications, and compensations, that it passes from phonography to stenography. Instead of having a character for each articulate sound, a single character is made to represent a word or even words. Yet it is inductive and therefore legible, the only style of stenography now used being based on Pitman's phonography. In regard to "systems," that of Graham is just what it is termed—"Standard." No other is now used to any great extent as far as we know. 2. It is impossible to unite different systems. In common writing, different systems—if they existed—might be amalgamated, because it is so "long" that a few flourishes, more or less, make no difference in the letter or word. But not so in phonography, where every movement of the pen, every dot, and every extension or contraction of a character, has a distinct signification. In this it is impossible to unite different systems, and retain the legibility. A character at a certain angle or position with a certain meaning in one, would mean something altogether different in the other. An effort to unite them would be to render both useless. They who would be able to read stenography as generally written, will do well to confine themselves to Graham's "Standard."