p. 479 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 30. (8/7/1884)

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News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—There are sixty-two Catholic Churches in New York City.

—Isaac August Dorner, the noted German theologian, is dead.

—It is expected that Archbishop Gibbons of Baltimore will be the next cardinal appointed.

—The Old Testament revisers have completed their labors, and the publication is promised early next year.

—During the past year the Protestant churches of Philadelphia, received into church membership 5,400 children from their Sunday-schools.

—The police of Vienna have been ordered to arrest all Mormon missionaries detected in the act of endeavoring to secure converts to their faith.

—The Christian Union contains the following interesting item: "Three colored children were received into Trinity Church, Brooklyn, Conn., July 20. Just fifteen years ago this month Miss Prudence Crandall, of the adjoining town, was put into a murderer's cell because she was found guilty of teaching a class of colored girls in her own house. Trinity Church now stands on the site of the old jail."

—A United Presbyterian Church in Xenia, O., has voted to withhold contributions to the missionary Boards so long as they give aid to "congregations using instruments of music in the worship of God." We would like to know if that church repudiates and refuses to sing the 150th psalm, together with numerous others containing similar passages. It is impossible for some people to be consistent.

—Mr. Moody says of his work in England: "We received a great deal of help and sympathy from the Church of England. A number of the bishops and canons were with us frequently on the platform, and gave us their influence. There has been a great movement in that Church in the last ten years. It has become more aggressive. If John Wesley should rise it would give him a welcome now. It is reaching the hand out to any movement which will help the masses. I think that, without any exception, London is the most religious city that I was ever in."

—That the National Reform Association has for its principal object the strict enforcement of a law compelling all to keep Sunday, may be seen by the following remarks of the Christian Instructor (copied into the Statesman) concerning the Sunday session of the recent Congress: "It is becoming more and more evident that the Christian sentiment of the country is insufficient to protect us from this Sabbath-breaking in high places. The protection will be effectual only when an amendment to the Constitution shall render such desecration impossible by making it a breach of the fundamental law of the land."

—The following item, which we clip from the Statesman, no doubt reveals the true secret of the attraction which the Salvation Army possesses for so many: "A good story is told of a lady in Australia, of exemplary life and much religious conviction, who left her church and went to the Salvation Army. Her minister was perplexed at her desertion, and called upon her for an explanation. No; she got no new gain in doctrine or in practice from new religious surroundings. She had no spiritual consolations she had not previously enjoyed. How, then, was she happier by the change? The old lady burst into an ecstasy of happy recollection, as she exclaimed, 'Oh, sir, the big drum is such a comfort to me?'"

—The Fourth Congregational Church of San Francisco has just been re-dedicated after extensive improvements, including a suite of two parlors, a kitchen, and a library. The dedicatory exercises consisted of a prayer, choruses, and instrumental music, and "addresses adapted to the occasion—some serious, others humorous—on the 'Parlor,' the 'Kitchen,' the 'Library,' 'Art as applied to the Home and the Church,' etc." Two of the new improvements, the parlors and the kitchen, were then tested. The report closes with the statement that "with these new aids, Green-street Church hope[s] for renewed progress in their social and religious life." How a kitchen in a church may be made an aid to religious progress is a problem that we will not attempt to solve. If the apostle Paul should read of it, we think he would say, "What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in?" "What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not."

SECULAR.

—The decrease of the national debt during the month of July amounted to $3,993,289.

—A standard 120 feet high has been erected on Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, for an electric light.

—Apaches are said to have again left the reservation at Fort Sinton, N. M., and gone on the war-path.

—It is said there is no hope of an agreement between England and France on the Egyptian question.

—A son of the British vice-consul at Rodosto, Turkey, has been captured by brigands, who demand $35,000 ransom.

—Stanley, the African explorer, has offended certain classes in England by some remarks relating to General Gordon, and they have refused an intended ovation.

—It is said that there are 40,000 persons in New York City who make their living by gambling. This estimate does not include those who operate exclusively in Wall Street.

—A cyclone visited the vicinity of Hickory Grove, Prince William County, Va., July 28, destroying everything in its path, which was about 200 yards wide. Much property, but no human life, was lost.

—The cow-boys of western Montana are waging war on the horse-thieves. Within a few days seven of the latter were found hanging to trees, and in a week's time a hundred stolen horses were recovered.

—It is said the fish, principally perch, in Fourth Lake, near Madison, Wis., are dying by scores of tons daily, and being washed ashore. A large force of men is employed by the city authorities to bury them, but the quantity does not seem to be lessened.

—Cremation is receiving favorable consideration by the Health and Police Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. A committee has been appointed to decide upon a place for the location of a crematory, on the petition of Dr. G. Holland.

—A new telegraph combination, consisting of the Bennett-Mackay Cable, the Boston Telegraph, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Bankers and Merchants, went into effect on the 1st inst. It embraces about 120,000 miles of land wires. The combination is now considering a press rate for newspapers of the whole country.

—A Salt Lake telegram says that an English woman, one of the latest importation of Mormon converts, became disgusted with affairs in Utah and left for home. Before the railroad days it was next to impossible for a woman to effect an escape from the Territory, however disgusted she may have been; many a man, even, lost his life in the attempt.

—About 500 head of cattle, from southwestern Kansas, were ordered killed by the Chicago Health Commissioner, July 29. They were afflicted with Texas fever. A large number were ordered quarantined for further orders, and it is reported that many were thrown from the cars while en route to the city. The disease is also reported in western Nebraska.

—August 1 was truly a "hangman's day." At New York, a negro was hanged for a double murder. At Cambridge, Md., another negro suffered a like penalty for murdering a woman. At Scotsborough, Ala., three young men, all under 25, were hanged for house-burning. These were all baptized in jail before going to the gallows. And at Trenton, S. C., a mulatto boy was executed for the murder of a peddler.

—It is now positively asserted that the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Co. have secured the ownership of the California Southern Road to San Diego, which will be completed to The Needles, the present terminus of the A. and P., where a new bridge across the Colorado River has been completed. The same company has also purchased the Mohave Division of the Southern Pacific, 240 miles, from The Needles to Mohave, with the right to run on the S. P. track to San Francisco.

—It is said that waste brings want. When we contemplate the fact that Mrs. Langtry, the English actress, secured in the United States $229,663 for a short season's play; that Sara Bernhart, the French profligate, in six months gathered up $390,000; and that Henry Irving, an English actor, received for a very short service $405,094, we are not surprised that financial crises occasionally visit such a prodigal people. And, as intimated by the Christian at Work, when we look at the drink bills and the tobacco bills, we may ask, How long can the nation stand such reckless waste without becoming bankrupt?

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Report of Chicago Branch, International T. and M. Society.

By James Sawyer

THERE are twelve persons now connected with the Chicago Mission, eight or ten of whom are daily visiting from house to house, taking subscriptions and holding Bible-readings.

The effort and principal desire on the part of the Mission is to follow up any interest that appears, and get subscriptions to our periodicals as fast as possible.

The result has been twenty yearly subscriptions for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES; 150 SIGNS subscribers—for three months, and six weeks; eighty-nine yearly for Harold och Tidende; forty trial three months for the same; twenty-five subscribers for Good Health, seven for German paper, and three for Youth's Instructor. Thirty copies of "Thoughts on Daniel and Revelation" delivered. Three copies of this work have also been loaned with good results. Several hundred orders for the Swedish Hand-Books have been taken, and over 200 filled. About 150 orders taken for the "Sunshine at Home."

Of late four have embraced all the truth—three heads of families; two were Americans and two Scandinavians. Two who embraced the truth in an earlier part of our mission are still faithful. This makes six, the result of this mission, who are firm. The families of three of these parties are favorable, as their children have joined our Sabbath-school.

The membership of our last session of Sabbath-school was 45.

The Sunday-school is helping us. Last Sunday's membership was about 35.

The work among the emigrants and seamen keeps one constantly visiting the boats and depots, so as to supply them with reading matter. Many of the publications are now being sold on the vessels. The result of this work is, that one who embraced the truth of late received the light in that way.

The colporters are full of courage. Many families are opening their doors to them and listening to the precious truth as it is presented by these humble servants of God. Good angels are with them, and we expect good results in this city will follow in the near future.

JAMES SAWYER.

The Maine Camp-Ground.

By Eliza H. Morton

THE Maine camp-meeting this year will be held in Deering, a pleasant town adjoining Portland. The grounds secured form a part of a tract of land known as "Deering's Oaks," and lie just far enough from the city to be free from its dust, noise, and confusion. The scenery of the surrounding region is noted for its picturesque beauty. The calm, clear waters of Casco Bay partially embrace the land and send cooling sea-breezes over the country. The spires and pinnacles of the Forest City rise from the hill just across the inlet, and when bathed in the golden light of the sun, present a rare scene for the pen of an artist. Far away may be seen dense old forests in all their primeval loveliness, inviting the beholder to "list to Nature's teachings," while the breezes seem to whisper:—

"There Nature's temple open stands; There's none so nobly grand as hers, The sky its roof, its floor all lands, While rocks and trees are worshipers."

The portion of land selected for the encampment proper is surrounded by a high board fence, which will enable the "dwellers in tents" to close their gates against the outside world at night, and reminds one of the ancient sheep-folds and of the "one fold," and the "one door," "by which if any man enter he shall go in and out and find pasture." Within the inclosure are a few of the venerable oaks which have given the place notoriety. Longfellow refers to this grove in the following beautiful words:—

"And Deering's woods are fresh and fair, And with joy that is almost pain My heart goes back to wander there, And among the dreams of the days that were I find my lost youth again."

It is hoped that at the coming camp-meeting many a soul will find in a Saviour's love its lost peace, and with a joy unspeakable catch glimpses of the bloom, glow, and freshness of eternal youth, beauty, and life. ELIZA H. MORTON.

Reno, Nevada.

By G. D. Ballou

Our tent-meetings still continue with a good degree of interest. We have presented the leading points of present truth, and several have decided to obey, but just how many we cannot now tell. The people seem to move slowly, but we believe they will prove faithful and true to God. It is difficult to sell books, because money matters are very close here this season.

This is a central point for our work in this State, and we hope by the blessing of God to see the truth established here so that the light will soon shine to every part of the State. We believe the coming camp-meeting will help the work here greatly, and we hope that all friends of the cause will avail themselves of the privileges of this meeting. There is much to be done for Nevada, and there are many honest souls here. What is needed is earnest, faithful effort to search them out. Brethren and sisters, pray for us. G. D. Ballou.

Appointments.

OAKLAND.—House of worship, northeast corner of Clay and Thirteenth Streets. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:30 A. M. Preaching at 11 A. M. Prayer and missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:45. Seats free. Invitations to all.

SAN FRANCISCO.—House of worship, Laguna Street, between McAllister and Tyler Streets. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:45. Preaching at 11 A. M. Prayer and missionary meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:45. Mission Reading-rooms at 316 Fremont Street.

Obituary.

JESSEN.—Died, at Crystal Springs, Cal., July 23, 1884, Bro. Thomas Jessen, aged 46 years and 2 months. Brother Jessen had been ailing for about four years, but was confined to his bed only four days before his death. The immediate cause of his death was an abscess in the throat. Brother Jessen was a native of Denmark, and, excepting one brother, has no kindred in America. The two brothers embraced present truth in 1874, in Oakland, Cal. The other brother is still faithful. Thomas died in the faith, and, we trust, sleeps in Jesus.

H. A. ST. JOHN.

WADDELL.—Died, in Portland, Oregon, July 29, of consumption, Mrs. Jessie F. Waddell, daughter of Dr. I. F. and S. F. Roberts, aged 22 years and 7 months.

CLEMENTS.—Died, in Merrimack, N. H., July 10, 1884, Addie E., daughter of John H. and Mary A. Clements, aged 13 years, 5 months, and 20 days.

Addie was a faithful and obedient child, and possessed an intelligent mind beyond her years in regard to present truth. She was fond of reading her Bible, and loved family worship. The Sabbath-school was also a delight, and in our social meetings she always bore her testimony. Her influence over her young associates was good, as she was constantly pointing them to the Lamb of God. About the last act before going to Baboosic Pond to bathe, where she met her death by drowning, was to take the Bible and engage in secret prayer. The hope of being saved in the kingdom was exceedingly precious to her young mind. A father, mother, one brother, and three sisters mourn her loss, and miss her from the family circle, but they have a bright hope of meeting her in the resurrection morning. The funeral services were conducted by the elder of the Amherst church, and a few words of comfort were spoken by Sr. M. E. Haskell, of South Lancaster, Mass.

JOHN H. CLEMENTS.

THE SABBATH QUESTION.

By Editor

Assorted Package No. 1. Price, 10c. Which Day Do You Keep, and Why—Who Changed the Sabbath—The Sabbath in the New Testament—Elihu on the Sabbath—God's Memorial—Sunday Not the Sabbath—Why Not Found Out Before—One Hundred Bible Facts about the Sabbath.

Assorted Package No. 2. Price, 25c. This package contains all the tracts in package No. 1, and the following in addition:— Seven Reasons for Sunday-keeping Examined—The Ten Commandments Not Abolished—The Seventh Part of Time—The Definite Seventh Day—Perfection of the Ten Commandments—Address to the Baptists—The Sunday Law.

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The Truth Found.—A comprehensive exposition of the nature and obligation of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. 64 pp............................10c

Sunday Seventh-day Examined.—A critical examination of the claim that Sunday is the true seventh day of the fourth commandment. 88 pp............................10c

Brown's Review of Gilfillan on the Sabbath Question. 64 pp....................................................10c

Appeal to the Baptists.—An address from the Seventh-day Baptists to their first-day Baptist brethren, urging a restoration of the Bible Sabbath from the stand-point of Baptist principles of argument and interpretation. 48 pp....................................................10c

Vindication of the True Sabbath.—By a former missionary of the Presbyterian Church............................10c

Morality of the Sabbath.—Showing that the Sabbath commandment, being found in the midst of the nine acknowledged moral precepts, is, like the others, moral in its nature. 96 pp............................15c

Testimony of the Fathers of the first three centuries concerning the Sabbath and First-day. A candid examination of both sides of the question. 112 pp....................................................15c

Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.

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Assorted Package No. 3. Price, 10c. The Coming of the Lord—Is the End Near—Can We Know—The Signs of the Times—The Judgment—The Second Advent.

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OTHER WORKS ON THE SECOND ADVENT. Our Faith and Hope.—A series of ten sermons on the coming and kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. 198 pp................................................25c Second Coming of Christ.—An exposition of Matthew 24th chapter. 64 pp.............................................10c Three Messages of Rev. 14.—Showing the nature and character of the warning messages designed to prepare the world for the last great Judgment. 96 pp................................................10c The Saints' Inheritance, or the Earth Made New. 82 pp....................................................10c The Seven Trumpets. An exposition of the symbols of Rev. 8 and 9. 96 pp...........................................10c Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.

MAN'S NATURE AND DESTINY

By Editor

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Is Man Immortal—Thoughts for the Candid—End of the Wicked—The Rich Man and Lazarus—Departing and Being with Christ—Milton on the State of the Dead.

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The Hope of the Gospel.—What is it, and when will it be consummated? 80 pp.....................10c

Matter and Spirit.—An argument on the relation of matter and spirit, and the dependence of thought upon organization. 66 pp.....................10c

History of the Doctrine of the Soul.—The belief in its immortality traced among all races and peoples to the present time. 186 pp., cloth.....................75c

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MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS.

Assorted Package No. 6. Price, 25c.

The Plan of Redemption—The Sufferings of Christ—The Sanctuary of the Bible—Scripture References—The Spirit of Prophecy—Spiritualism a Satanic Delusion—Samuel and the Witch of Endor—The End of the Wicked—The Two Thrones.

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By Editor

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New England Camp-Meeting.

By Stephen Nelson Haskell

THE camp-meeting for the four New England States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, will be held on the Fair Ground in the city of Worcester, Mass., commencing Aug. 21, and continuing to Sept. 2. This will be as important a camp-meeting as has ever been held by S. D. Adventists in this part of the country. The success of the meeting last year, held at this place, in awakening a general interest not only in the city of Worcester, but in the surrounding country, has led the friends of the cause to make a more extensive preparation for the meeting this year than they have previously made.

Preaching services will be held in the large pavilion, 80x125 feet. Smaller tents will be used for meetings especially designed to instruct our brethren in the different branches of the work. Family tents varying in size from 10x12 to 18x24 feet can be purchased or rented for the occasion. The sum charged for the use of tents during the meeting, will vary from three to seven dollars, according to the size. Persons wishing to rent or purchase, should immediately correspond with Eld. D. A. Robinson, South Lancaster, Massachusetts, stating the size they desire, or how many persons they wish to accommodate in a tent. Worcester is a city of about sixty thousand inhabitants, while, in a radius of ten miles, there are many towns and villages, the most of them connected with Worcester by railroads, over which several trains pass daily. It is the most central location for the four States comprising the New England Conference, being a railroad center for all of the New England States excepting Maine. Those coming from the latter State can come direct to Worcester over the Portland, Rochester and Nashua Railroad, or by boat to Boston. Free returns to Rochester by rail.

Persons at Martha's Vineyard, New Bedford, and all towns south of Boston on the Old Colony Railroad, also those from Newburyport, Haverhill, Danvers, Ipswich, Reading, and from all points on the Eastern and Boston and Maine roads, also all in towns adjoining Boston, should come to Boston, and there take the train at the Fitchburg depot for Worcester. By coming from Boston over this line you can secure, on the camp-ground, a free return check to Boston. Remember that the Boston and Albany road grants us no reduction, therefore, be sure and come over the Fitchburg line.

Those coming from New Ipswich, Greenville, Wilton, Temple, and adjacent towns, should take the cars at Greenville for Ayer Junction, and there change for Worcester.

Those coming from Marlboro and Hudson, should take the cars at South Acton and change for Worcester.

All who come from Zoar, Buckland, Shelbourne, Greenfield, Athol, and all points on the Fitchburg road, west of Fitchburg, should come to Fitchburg, and there change for Worcester.

Accommodations will be provided for all who may come. Expenses will not be heavy. We are anxious to see all of our friends at this meeting, together with those who have been reading our periodicals. We hope that this camp-meeting will be as successful as any that has ever been held in New England. We ask our friends to remember it in their prayers, and to at once make arrangements to attend. A cordial welcome will be extended to all who come upon the ground. S. N. HASKELL.

Our Schools.

By Editor

ATTENTION is called to the article in this number, from Elder Haskell, on the South Lancaster Academy. Facts are proving that we have none too many schools; they are all needed at the present time, and we hope more will be needed not far in the future. There is no agency being called into requisition which does better work for the cause of God than do our schools. Again we say to our people in behalf of our schools: Send them scholars, and they will return you workers.

Great Controversy, Vol. 4.

By Editor

THIS volume will soon be ready for delivery. In preparing some of the last chapters for the press, it was our privilege to read them, and we esteem it a privilege indeed. We are thankful that it is so nearly out, feeling assured that it will be a benefit to its readers. It seems to us that we never esteemed the "present truth" so highly as we have since reading some of the contents of this book. It will be larger than either of the three volumes of the set, which precede it. The amount of matter prepared for it makes this unavoidable. The price is, however, the same, just as it has been advertised.

We believe that the reading of this volume will prove a great blessing to our churches, and to the cause of truth. When we read such thrilling descriptions of the time of trouble, the deliverance of the saints, and the glory to be revealed, we can realize what it is to "rejoice with trembling," and to worship with "gladness and fear." Thank God for "that blessed hope." Titus 2:13.

Maine Camp-Meeting.

By J. B. Goodrich

THOSE coming to the meeting from the East will stop at Woodford's Corner, and take the horse-cars, which stop at the camp-ground. Half-fare is granted by the Maine Central Railroad, and its branches, to those who wish to attend the camp-meeting. Reduced fare can be obtained on the Grand Trunk Railroad by presenting a certificate, signed by the Camp-meeting Committee, stating that the bearer will attend the meeting. Half-fare will probably be granted by the Ogdensburg Railroad. Those coming over the Ogdensburg and Boston, and Maine Railroads will stop at the transfer station and take the Maine Central Railroad to Woodford's Corner, and the horse-cars from there as above directed.

The camp-meeting will be held in Deering, just out of Portland. A very pleasant spot of ground has been secured, as will be seen by a perusal of the article descriptive of the grounds in another column. All are invited to come and hear, and then judge.

J. B. GOODRICH.

Success in Denver Tent Meeting

By Editor

A PRIVATE letter from Eld. E. R. Jones brings tidings of success in the tent-meeting in Denver, Col. He is of good courage, and hopeful for the work there.

THE SPIRIT OF GOD: ITS OFFICES AND MANIFESTATIONS TO THE END OF THE CHRISTIAN AGE.

By Eld. J. H. Waggoner

By Eld. J. H. Waggoner.

This is a brief but comprehensive argument on the solemn and important subject of the Spirit of God. Its chapters embrace the following heads: The Holy Spirit of Promise; The Power from on High; Circumcision of the Heart; The Unity of the Faith; The Law and the Testimony; Try the Spirits; The Great Commission; Gifts in the Reformation; In the Present Century; Spirit of Prophecy Restored. These are subjects of vital importance to all, and especially to those who are looking for the return of their Lord.

144 pp. Price, 15 cents.

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