JULY 17, I left Sweden for Haarlem, Holland. At Hamburg I parted with Bro. Gardner, as, under the circumstances, it was thought best for him to return to Switzerland. The 21st I reached the hospitable home of Bro. Velthuysen with whom I spent the Sabbath. By his assistance as interpreter, I also had the pleasure of speaking to the company who embraced the Sabbath under his labors at that place. As reference was made to the two denominational bodies with whom God has intrusted the Sabbath truth in the present generation, the Lord seemed to come near. Although there are scattered individuals who observe the Sabbath outside of these denominations, their influence is comparatively very small.
In 1664, three years after the martyrdom in England of John James, a Sabbatarian, those observing the seventh day sent Stephen Mumford to America as a missionary. This was forty-four years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth. The next year after the arrival of Mr. Mumford, his first convert in America, a sister, began to keep the Sabbath. Twenty days later a brother took the same step. The following year, in January, 1666, another sister joined the number of Sabbath-keepers; three months later another brother, and two weeks after this still another brother united with them.
On Dec. 23, 1671, the first Sabbatarian Church in America was formed at Newport, R. I. In 1802, a Seventh-day Baptist Conference was organized, consisting of eight churches, nine ministers, and eleven hundred and thirty members. Thus God saw fit to honor this people by intrusting to their care his downtrodden Sabbath, and the work went on. The Seventh-day Adventists received their first light in 1844, from Seventh-day Baptist publications. About forty in Washington, N. H., at first accepted of the light, and from this small beginning another denomination sprang into existence. God has blest the efforts of this people to make known the requirements of his law, so that now their influence is felt in every civilized nation of the globe. And yet we are not accomplishing one tithe of what we should accomplish. As the matter opened up before our mind, and we realized to some extent, how God is blessing the humble efforts of his feeble people with an unpopular truth, all seemed to be affected.
Accompanied by Bro. Velthuysen we visited a company keeping the Sabbath in Friesland. Here we enjoyed some of God's blessing. These brethren are Seventh-day Baptists, but respecting the law of God we were in full sympathy with each other. We felt a special interest for them, and much regret that the paper published by Bro. Velthuysen, in their own tongue, advocating the Sabbath of the Lord, cannot have a circulation similar to that of our French paper at Bâle. Bro. Andrews sends out monthly from that place thirty-five hundred copies. It visits almost every portion of France, and other parts of the world where the French language is spoken. Holland has four million inhabitants, three-fifths of whom are Protestants. While America will ever be the great field of operation, and every nationality can be reached in that country, there are millions in Europe who must in some way have their attention called to the truth.
There are as many different denominations in Holland as elsewhere, and, as in other European countries, in many things the people are superstitious. The priests bear rule, and it is very difficult for the people to get out of the old beaten track. The supporters of every work of reform must realize that they have a special work to do, and that it is of the utmost importance. When this is the case with us, God will bless our efforts, and make them successful. Circumstances would then yield to the message we bear, and the work we have to do. But when we are lost in difficulties, and circumstances mould us and our work, God cannot do great things for us. We trust that the time is not far in the future when God will cause his face to so shine upon the efforts of his people, that the whole earth will be lightened with his glory. When the inhabitants of this world have been warned, the curtain will drop upon the scene, and the faithful who have acted well their part in the work will receive their eternal reward.
S. N. HASKELL
Immense Armies.
The armies of the six great powers which may become embroiled by the disturbance in Egypt, and which they maintain on a peace footing, number in the aggregate 2,400,000. These immense forces may be doubled in case of necessity. The effective strength of the British army is 175,000, of which 50,000 are cavalrymen and 30,000 artillerymen. There are said to be just now 60,000 in Ireland, while 70,000 to 80,000 are abroad in India, South Africa, and other places. The number available to crush Arabi Bey is, therefore, not large. The army which France maintains on a peace footing is 500,000; while her navy, in respect to heavily armed ships carrying immense guns, is more efficient than that of England. Germany has 425,000 men in her armies, prepared for any emergency, and kept ready to withstand the millions of bayonets which Bismarck says point with hostile intent toward the center of Europe. Russia has a standing army of 800,000 men, which can be increased to 2,300,000. The available forces which Italy can at once bring into the field number 285,000; while Turkey, though poor, bankrupt, and crippled, has ready an army of 150,000 men. The navies of the great powers, in respect to strength, stand about in the following order: England, France, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Germany. Should there be a war involving all these immense forces, it would be the most terrible one that Europe has ever seen.—S. F. Chronicle.
Encouragement for the Despondent Christian
HOLD up your head despondent Christian. God is your father; Christ your elder brother; truth is your shield and buckler; the New Jerusalem is your home; and eternal life is your reward.
The Cost of Being Polished.
By Selected
EVERYBODY wants to appear polished. Almost everybody thinks that he is polished. But not everybody takes into account the cost of being polished; nor would everybody submit cheerfully to the polishing process, if its cost were fairly foreseen.
To be polished is to shine; and to shine in one's sphere is a well-nigh universal craving. If men could shine by nature, shine of one's unaided substance as the sun shines, shining would be without cost, and as easy a thing as it was free. But innate luminousness is not a common characteristic of the human race. There are those, it is true, who shine from birth, who from beauty of person attract the eye and dazzle the sight of those about them. But this shining is a rare and an exceptional quality, and its nature is rather that of the glow-worm than of the sun; moreover, such shining is not a polish; for a polish is never natural, but is always acquired by rubbing or friction, as the word itself would indicate. If men could shine by reflection, as the moon shines, shining would still be an easy matter for all who were in the rays of a bright light. There certainly are those who shine from their relation to others, whose brilliancy is made apparent by their reflection of the light of a distinguished parent, or partner, or associate, or friend; of one with whom they are linked by their fortunes or their labors; but even then their shining indicates a personal polish which makes their reflection of light a possibility. Proximity to a brilliant man does not in itself ensure brilliancy. If one has the polish to shine in reflected light, that polish had its cost—as polish always has. The cost of being polished is inevitable to the polished one; and that cost is, in the realm of personality, always—as it is commonly in the field of mechanics—heavy in exact proportion to the hardness and real worth of the thing polished.
Wax is easier polished than leather; leather than wood. Woods take the highest polish of which they are capable, according to their relative hardness of fiber and closeness of grain. Lead is easier polished than silver; pewter than bronze. Marble receives a polish by friction which would make no impression on granite; but when granite is once fairly polished, its luster will show long after the marble has crumbled or tarnished. It is a small matter to give a polish to glass or agate in comparison with the work necessary to bring out the brilliancy of a ruby or a sapphire; and a diamond is hardest of all to polish, as its worth and brilliancy give it, when polished, the pre-eminent place among precious stones.
A similar gradation is found in all personal polish. The polish of the manners is easier secured than the polish of the intellect; of the intellect than of the character. A dancing-master can give his pupils all the polish they are after, or he has to supply, in a hundredth part of the time taken by a college faculty to polish up their students. A table-waiter or a footman can secure his requisite polish in less time than a good salesman. The polish of the sales-room is easier of acquisition than the polish of the parlor. The highest society polish is not so difficult of attainment as the classic polish of an orator or a poet. Yet in the lower spheres as in the higher, all polish has its inevitable cost—a larger cost than most people suppose. If one is a polished dancer, or table-waiter, or salesman, or conversationalist, or entertainer, it has cost him a great deal of friction to become so. And if he speaks or writes with polish it has cost him far more. The polish of manners may be a polish of veneering, of an overlaid surface quite different from the main body; but the polish of the intellect or of the character must be of the main stock—of the polished one's personality.
Polish always comes through friction, and friction rubs off excrescences, and smooths down roughnesses, and wears away protuberances.
Friction, in one's personality, hurts. It requires courage to bear up while being polished. It is never a pleasant thing to have one's surface peculiarities ground down to their base. The polishing process lowers one's pride, cuts one's fancies, and seems for the time to be destroying one's self. And the more there is to one's intellect and character, the greater is the cost of one's polishing, and the more essential is the need of one's full recognition of that cost, and a heroic acquiescence in it. The foremost English biographer of the poet Goethe suggests a felicitous illustration of this truth, although he uses it in a lower sense: "The diamond, it is said, can be polished only by its own dust; is not this symbolical of the truth that only by its own fallings-off can genius properly be taught? And is not our very walk, as Goethe says, a series of falls?"
It is not the chipping off of the diamond's surface that polishes the diamond; but it is by the wise use of the diamond dust or chippings, in the hands of a skilled lapidary, that the diamond's polish is finally secured. It is not the making of mistakes that makes a man; but it is the wise use of mistakes that enables a man to be made—to become a polished man in his best sphere. "Instruction," says Froude, "does not prevent waste of time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all." Or, as Coleridge says in encouragement of a wise use of the diamond chippings in character polishing,—
"Mother-sage of self dominion,
Firm thy steps, O Melancholy!
The strongest plume in wisdom's pinion
Is the memory of past folly."
That is, the folly being past and not again present; for "a sound discretion is not so indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it."
Whenever we see the light and glow of a beautiful character, we may know that its illuminating power came through its slow polishing by its own diamond dust, at the hands of the Great Lapidary. And we can be sure that the cost of that polishing was long days and longer nights of suffering under the soul-friction that brought the polish. And the means whereby we are polished cannot be appreciated while we are undergoing the process, from the fact that they do produce suffering. A truth sent to work directly toward our soul-sanctifying, according to our Saviour's prayer for all his followers, comes as an unwelcome or unpopular truth; one well calculated to abrade the rough corners of our perverse natures. No one can tell the dark hours through which many sensitive and highly conscientious persons have passed before they came to accept the conclusion recently avowed by Dr. Lyman Abbott, of the everlasting destruction of the finally impenitent. Saul of Tarsus, and Martin Luther, and the Wesleys, had to pass through just such experiences, and we do not appreciate the comparison, because we do not realize that the truths for which these suffered were just as unpopular in their days, as the doctrine of conditional immortality is in our days. And when we wince and groan under our own sensitiveness, in view of our often stumbling over a duty plainly revealed in the Bible, which is rejected by the multitude, and by even our dearest associates, we must remember that our Lord did not "come to send peace on the earth;" that these crosses are inevitable if we would be so polished as to shine gloriously in the reflected light of the Sun of Righteousness. Diamond polishing can be compassed only by diamond-dust friction. And the character that has the closest diamond grain has anything but the diamond brilliancy to begin with.
"In this dull stone, so poor, and bare
Of shape or lustre, patient care
Will find for thee a jewel rare.
"But first must skillful hands essay,
With jewel dust to clear away
The film which hides its fire from day."
The heavy cost of character-polishing by character-friction is unavoidable, and it pays well in the end; but it is none the less grievous at its time, for all that. "Now no chastening [even for one's polishing] for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit [or result] of righteousness unto them which are exercised"—polished—"thereby."
Death in the Pot.
By J. H. Smith
SOME years ago I read a strange and highly wrought story. It told of a man who went to take possession of some property in England which had just been bequeathed to him. He was not very graciously received by the people in charge, and living there for a time he finally became ill, and without any apparent cause, drooped, and grew worse and worse.
If I remember rightly, he escaped with his life, but the discovery was made by his physician that the green with which his room was furnished was in part arsenic green, and that he was slowly and surely being poisoned. Whether it was by intent or by accident was not proved, but the case looked rather dark for the people in possession, who had a snug berth in the house so long as there was no master living in it. At any rate, the story, which was evidently told by way of caution to all householders, made much more impression than a mere statement that it is dangerous to use arsenic colors in furnishing a room.
Within a few weeks one of my brother doctors writes of some young people who had been “decorating” their room, and what with lambrequins and other varieties the bed was pushed into a corner, and one of the sisters slept with her face toward the wall. She always had a headache in the morning, and her doctor suggested that the bed be moved out from the corner, and it being summer, with windows open and plenty of fresh air her headaches ceased. But it then occurred to me that possibly also the paper might have something to do with her symptoms. They talk of legislation, but the best legislation would be for people to take care of themselves. Act intelligently and with care. The whole has lately come to my mind in a new experience.
My practice lies in a small town in the interior of the State, where there is no crowding, and plenty of fresh air. I was called to see two children who were ill, drooping, with all sorts of anomalous symptoms; the eldest, a boy, not as seriously as his little sister. Of course, as was wise, I ordered careful nursing and watching, and waited to see what was the matter. On my second or third visit, the nurse, who slept in the same room, told me she was not well; not really ill, but “weak all over,” and generally miserable. The mother was in an adjoining room, and both she and the other children seemed quite well. I told them my suspicions about the paper, for without the fatal “arsenic green,” the peculiar hue of Paris green, I knew still that there were other tints and hues that also betrayed arsenic. They moved across the hall into another room, and I took a piece of the paper to be analyzed.
It was full of arsenic, and as soon as they were removed from its baleful influence, they began to recover. This is the most marked case, though I could tell of others; and this is the moral: Never buy papers with arsenic green in them; nor green tarlatan dresses. Have your wall-papers examined, especially if they are cheap; and in any cases of unaccountable illness in the family, look first for such a cause. It is a burning shame that such things should be, and that there is no law to control the manufacturers. The first man who will solemnly and truthfully assure us that he uses no arsenic colors, is the man we should trust, after we are sure that he tells the truth.
Painted walls are better for bedrooms, for they can be dusted, and can be washed when they need it. But in these days, when “decoration”395is so much the order, of course paper bears the palm.
One paper should never be put over another, except it be necessary—as was once said in a poorly built house—to strengthen the walls! Paper is often a lurking place for the seeds of disease—germs they call them now. But at least do not have poison in the paper.—J. H. Smith, M. D., in Christian Union.
The Home Circle.
SHALL I BE READY?
LET me think, if Jesus' coming
Is so very near at hand,
On what hopes I am relying;
Will they in the Judgment stand?
Have I put forth every effort
To obtain the priceless boon,
Which so freely has been offered
That the lowliest may come?
Shall I hear the welcome plaudit,
That from Jesus' lips will fall—
Come ye blessed of my Father
I've prepared a home for all
Who have faithful done my bidding,
Watched and waited night and day,
And though troubles thickened round them,
Still pursued the narrow way?
Or shall I in deepest anguish
To the rocks and mountains call,
Hide, O hide me from his presence,
Lest his wrath on me shall fall.
O my soul, what is thine answer?
Quickly now thou must decide,
For the Saviour soon is coming
To receive the sanctified.
Help me Lord to be prepared,
For I long thy face to see,
When thou comest in thy glory
After those who wait for thee.
O, I plead for thy sweet Spirit
To direct me day by day,
That I may be strengthened ever
All thy precepts to obey.
—Sel.
Religious Notes.
By Editor
-The Banner and Gleaner adds the following comment to an article from a correspondent: "This brother is not a preacher, but he speaks the truth." This is an unconscious compliment for ministers, but we fear that it is not universally merited.
-The San Jose Mercury says: "A leading Democrat of this city assures us that there are fully three hundred Democrats in the county who will vote the Republican ticket on a Sunday-law platform. We haven't the least doubt of it. With a good ticket on a sound platform, this county is good for six hundred Republican majority."
-The Illinois Staats Zeitung says that "all the signs of the times point to making the drink question a national one, which will also be decisive at the next presidential election." And we think that the signs of the times indicate that the Sunday question is also a national one, and in a presidential election will figure as largely as the drink question.
-The Methodist ministers of York, Pa., have declined to countenance the camp-meetings which abound, because they do not close their gates on Sunday. They say that these popular camp-meetings tend to break down the "Sabbath," by making it a play-day. They say further that the final battle on the Sabbath question is to be fought with the railway corporations.
-The editor of the American Baptist Flag, in answer to a correspondent, decides that it is not wrong to sell religious books on Sunday, and to receive pay for them. He says: "We would not regard it as any more harm to receive pay for a copy of the Bible on Sunday, than to receive pay for preaching Bible doctrine on that day." We were not aware that orthodox ministers were in the habit of settling their pecuniary affairs on Sunday. However, the editor of the Flag is quite right; it is not wrong to sell religious books, or anything else that is good, on Sunday.
-The Sunday Law has been on the statute books for many years, and the Republican party has never worried over its enforcement. Now it is very zealous for it. The Oakland Independent scores the following point: "The Sunday Law seems to be the only question discussed by the Republican journals; they are all opposed to the repeal of the law for the better observance of the Sabbath [Sunday], but strange to say, not one of them advocates its enforcement. How forcibly it reminds one of the warning of the Good Book: 'Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.'"
-The Advance (Congregationalist) evidently thinks that H. W. Beecher's recent article on the "Progress of Religious Thought" entitles him to a place outside the ranks of orthodoxy, and intimates it as follows: "We wage no feud with the pastor of Plymouth Church, and we are not crying up a crusade against him. We do not even advise his brethren and his associates to cast him out. But up in the mining camps out West, when a visitor stays after his welcome has departed, they have a dialectic way of giving him a hint: 'I hope you don't think anybody's aholdin' you, do you? Well, they ain't.'"
-A secular paper has the following: "Chess Thomas, a Texas negro, had murdered four men, and when he was on the scaffold he sang, 'There's a light in the valley for me.' Current belief credits a pretty strong light to the valley where Chess has gone. There would be fewer murders, especially by the impressionable colored man, if the belief were discouraged that a murderer steps off the gallows into the gates of Paradise." Why specify "the impressionable colored man"? It is a fault common to all classes of criminals, and is directly traceable to a radical error in the popular theology of the day. The theology of the churches must be reformed if you would reform the sentiment of the gallows.
-The Seventh-day Baptists have of late years been doing evangelistic work, and are beginning to see its efficiency. Eld. Rogers, who has been the most active in this work, advises as follows, in a recent number of the Sabbath Recorder: "This is now the fifth season in tent work, with a winter in Florida additional, and we are more than ever convinced that our ministers, theological students, and other Christian workers, should be encouraged by our churches and benevolent boards to enter into evangelistic work, and especially gospel-tent work, beyond our denominational lines. Young men should be trained for this kind of labor by some weeks in actual tent service, with experienced tent workers; and better still, to this should be added a Bible-school, with a good corps of teachers; an institute, combining gospel-tent work and Bible-school work, and with direct reference to evangelistic labor and Bible study."
-The advocates of the Sunday institution are developing new points continually. Like the Irish lawyer, if one argument is found to have no foundation, they have plenty more that are "equally conclusive." They have now found that the Sunday Law is an absolute necessity, to complete what the Creator neglected to do. Neither the law nor the gospel, say they, specified any day of rest. The command was simply to rest; the day was left indefinite. To remedy this oversight, which causes confusion, the good people of this State are determined to amend the law of God by a "police regulation." Thus it appears (to them) that they are simply filling a "long felt want." It is within the memory of man, however, that the doctrine was preached that it made no difference what day a man kept if he was only honest. But many of our Sunday friends claim that they alone are honest; all others are "of the baser sort," whose opinion is not worth considering.
-The Christian Union prints a private letter from Addison P. Foster, who refers to the position taken by Dr. Abbott on the destruction of the wicked, and dissents from it, but says: "At the same time, the arguments for conditional immortality are so many and so strong, that, while they do not convince me, I must respect the man whom they convince. And I can do this the more easily because I am more and more satisfied that the view is quite compatible with what we consider an evangelical faith." That is a good admission; but the query arises, Why can he not accept a doctrine which he admits has many strong arguments in its support, and is a gospel doctrine? What more is needed? Or does he think that its opposite has also strong arguments in its favor? If this were so the Bible would be testifying against itself. This cannot be. The Bible; as all Christians will agree, is consistent with itself. Then why does not Mr. Foster accept the doctrine of conditional immortality? Who can tell?
-Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of the Christian Union, in answer to a question by a Universalist minister concerning future punishment, after giving arguments to show that the Bible teaches that there are incorrigibly wicked ones who will receive "everlasting punishment," gives his views of that punishment and of the immortality question in the following clear manner: Fire is generally in the Bible an emblem of destruction, not of torment. The chaff, the tares, the fruitless tree, are thrown in to be destroyed. The hell fire of the New Testament is the fire of Gehenna, kept burning outside the walls of Jerusalem to destroy the offal of the city; here was the worm that dieth not and the fire that is not quenched; emblems of destruction, not of torment. Except two, or at most three, passages in the gospels and a few enigmatical symbols in that most enigmatical book, the Revelation of St. John, I find nothing in the New Testament to warrant the terrible opinion that God sustains the life of his creatures throughout eternity, only that they may continue in sin and misery. That immortality is the gift of God through our Lord Jesus Christ, that man is mortal, and must put on immortality, that only that they may put it on who becomes through Christ a partaker of the divine nature, and so an inheritor of him 'who only hath immortality,' that eternal life is life eternal, and everlasting destruction is destruction without remedy or hope of restoration,—this is the most natural, as it is the simplest reading of the New Testament." We have not seen this frank avowal of Dr. Abbott's denounced as heresy by any religious paper, although the teaching of the same doctrine by Seventh-day Adventists is often characterized as "pernicious poison," "false doctrine," "dangerous error," etc.
News and Notes.
By Editor
-The Democrats and Greenbackers "fused" in Michigan.
-There are 1,700 acres of water-melons in the vicinity of Lodi, Cal.
-The Fishery Inspector of Canada has stopped Americans from fishing in Canadian waters.
-There has been heavy washouts on the railroad in Arizona, attended with detention of trains for days.
-The "Ann Arbor School of Music" has been established in connection with the University of Michigan.
-An English steamship has been chartered to load five hundred mules in Philadelphia to be taken to the army in Africa.
-The main mills of the Syracuse Iron Works were burned Tuesday night, Aug. 22. Loss, $200,000. Three hundred men are thrown out of work.
-A recent telegram from Hongkong says that 4,000 natives have died of Asiatic cholera in a single Philippine province. The epidemic is now decreasing.
-Fishermen on the Mediterranean say there were no sharks in that sea before the Suez Canal was opened; but now they are making sad havoc of marketable fish.
-Over one hundred women are on trial at Grossbeckskirk, Hungary, charged with poisoning their husbands. The guilt of thirty-five of these women has been proved.
-San Diego, Cal., now has railroad connection with San Francisco, Sacramento, and intermediate points, the California Southern Railroad having been completed to that city.
-The widow of "Old John Brown" has received a "public reception" in Chicago. Efforts are being made to secure to her the ranch on which she resides in Santa Clara Co., Cal.
-Terrible floods have occurred in Texas. Large loss of property is reported in several places. The town of Ben Ficklin is nearly all washed away, and about forty deaths reported.
-A dispatch from Antwerp, Aug. 26, said: "The extensive wooden wharves here are on fire. Damage to the amount of $200,000 has already been done. The fire is still spreading."
-From Halifax, Aug. 26: "The spool factory, box factory, saw-mill, and forge, owned by Moire Sons & Co. at Bedford, were destroyed by fire. The loss is heavy. A large number of hands are thrown out of employment."
-General Hazen states that the Post-office Department has turned into the treasury a surplus of $1,000,000 for the fiscal year. Some good has resulted from the exposure of the Star Route frauds, if no convictions are had.
-The French generally complain of England taking possession of the Suez Canal, but console themselves with the thought that it may be a precedent for America to take possession of the Panama Canal if occasion calls for it.
-A brutal "prize fight" took place in Saucelito, near San Francisco, Aug. 25. One of the fighters was found dead in the bed next morning. It is said he wished to retire soon after the fight commenced, but was urged on by the spectators.
-It is difficult to tell what is the exact state of things in Egypt, but it appears most probable that not much progress is being made on either side at present. The rise in the Nile is late this year. It is not known what effect the flood, which is now occurring, will have on the war.
-Yellow fever is on the increase at Brownsville, Texas. Mails are not running, and business is suffering. New cases are also reported at Matamoras. The physicians say that many are dying of fright. Port-au-Prince, Hayti, is also suffering severely from the yellow fever scourge.
-The Riverside Press says: "A. B. Clark, postmaster at Orange, will this season gather 1,600 boxes of oranges—about 246,000 oranges—from six acres of orchard planted six years ago last summer, to trees budded to the Wilson's Best. This, as far as we know, is the best yield of fruit ever reported in this State—age of trees considered."
-The government of Victoria, Australia, has been authorized to expend more than $12,000,000 in building new lines of railway. Most of the roads will be for the purpose of opening up the agricultural districts. They will not be costly or intended to carry fast trains. In all there will be fifty-six lines built, and their aggregate length will not exceed 827½ miles.
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The Healdsburgh College.
By William Clarence White
MONDAY morning, August 5, we attended the chapel exercise which opens each day’s work at the College. This was about two weeks after the opening of the term, and there were sixty scholars in attendance. The seating of the commodious chapel with the most approved school seats and desks, had been completed the day before. There is now desk room for one hundred and fifty persons, and seats for fifty more. Some necessary repairs made during vacation, with the addition of new furniture to that which was in the building when we bought it, have added much to the convenience of the building.
As the students assembled in the chapel for the first time, with a cheerful, earnest determination expressed on almost every countenance, and as we conversed with the teachers and surveyed the building, large, convenient, and substantial, we were filled with gratitude to God that his providence had so rapidly forwarded the establishment of our school since our last camp-meeting.
No effort will be spared by the Board and the Faculty to make this a good school. The Faculty is reinforced this week by the arrival of Brother C. C. Ramsey, an experienced and energetic educator, who has been several years connected with the Battle Creek College.
The preparations for building a large, commodious boarding-house, are going steadily forward. Much thought has been bestowed upon the plan of the building, that it may be exactly suited to the purpose for which it is erected, and that when built it may be as home-like as possible. Rooms will be provided for classes in cookery, laundry work, dress-making, and other branches of woman’s work, while the five acres of ground on which the building is to be placed, will afford some opportunity for practical education in gardening and fruit culture.
This structure will be 38x100 ft., three story and basement, and will accommodate a family of seventy persons. The brick foundation is nearly complete, lumber is arriving rapidly, and carpenter work will begin next week.
We shall need funds for the completion of this house, therefore we ask those who have pledged to this school enterprise, and those everywhere who desire to take stock in the College, to send in their pledges and payments as fast as possible.
The legal incorporation of the College, upon the same general plan as our Publishing Association is organized, will be accomplished at the camp-meeting if not before. Prior to that time the Pacific Press will receive and be responsible for all donations or loans.
In this connection we ask all who owe the Office for books or papers to make as early a payment as possible. We also ask those who have pledged to the Oakland and San Francisco Church debt fund to make payments as large and as fast as possible, because a large amount is overdue from the San Francisco Church to Bro. Morrison, who, if he receives it soon, will use it in the school enterprise.
There will be work for a number of first-class carpenters on the boarding-house. For particulars about wages, cost of board, etc., address J. C. S. Whalin, Healdsburgh, Sonoma Co., Cal. W. C. WHITE.
Camp-Meetings.
ILLINOIS, Watseka, Sept. 5-12.
PENNSYLVANIA, Olean, N. Y., 12-18.
MISSOURI, 14-19.
NEW YORK, Union Square, Oswego Co., 20-26.
NEBRASKA, 20-26.
CALIFORNIA, Healdsburgh, Sept. 21-
MICHIGAN, Lansing, Sept. 27 to Oct. 2.
INDIANA, Marion, Oct. 2-9.
KENTUCKY, Custar, 4-10.
TENNESSEE, 12-17.
Camp-Meeting Date and Attendance
By Editor
WE expected to be able this week to give definitely the time for the commencement of the camp-meeting, but have not received all the information from the General Conference Committee which we need. We think the date given will not be changed. Eld. Israel informs us that next week he will report railroad fares to and from the meeting.
We repeat our urgent request to every friend of the cause of the present truth in this State to attend this meeting. "As you see the day approaching."
From the East.
By Editor
PROF. C. C. RAMSEY, formerly of Battle Creek College, arrived in Oakland Friday morning last, and has gone to Healdsburgh to take a position in the College there. We are glad to welcome him to this field of labor. His family came with him.
Brother and Sister Ings, late from Southampton, England, where they labored in connection with Eld. Loughborough in that mission, arrived here at the same time. Sister Ings has formerly acted as traveling companion to Sister White. At present Sister White is much worn and quite prostrated, from much labor and anxiety for the work. We ask the friends to remember her specially in their prayers. Her work is progressing rapidly on Volume Four of “Spirit of Prophecy.” She now needs just such assistance as Sister Ings can render.
Eld. Smith announces his own arrival below. Sunday evening he gave an interesting discourse on the “Eastern Question,” to a full house in Oakland.
The coming of Eld. Smith will enable us to carry out plans which we had formed for a more thorough presentation of the truth in this State this fall. If he had not providentially come, these plans could not have been carried out. We need the co-operation of the friends of the cause in circulating what may be published for special use in the present crisis in California, and we need friends to aid in publishing. It is our intention to issue a Weekly Supplement for a few months. It is much needed, and we hope we may be supported in the effort.