THE brethren in this section seem to be thoroughly alive to the situation on the Sunday law, and are preparing to do all in their power in soliciting names to the remonstrance.
In view of what is soon to take place, may the Lord help us to drink so deep at the well of salvation that we shall in nowise worship the beast or his image.
There seems to be a much better spirit prevailing among the brethren in this part of the field than I have ever seen manifested before. Nearly all seem to be anxious to get just right with God; and there is a spirit of brotherly kindness among them. I go to Lemoore tonight to meet Brother Cook. My address is Fresno, Cal., Box 839.
Your brother in Christ. L. A. Scott.
January 28, 1889.
CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC CONFERENCE FOR 1888.
THE following amounts are credited to the respective churches:—
THE service of God is reasonable in the highest degree, and is the very end of reason. The truths and motives of religion are strong by the perfection of reason that is in them. And we do a wrong to the Christian faith if we fail to cause it to be seen in this, its real solidity and truthfulness.—Selected.
DOING FOR MOTHER.
"I CAN'T find my glasses, George. Do you see them anywhere?"
"Seems to me you're losing something 'most all the time," said George, rather fretfully.
"So it does. Perhaps they are under the pillow, or perhaps they have fallen on the floor."
With a very bad grace George shook up the pillows and looked on the floor. "No, I don't see them," he said.
"O here they are, under my shawl. Now, dear, hand me your jacket to mend. And see, my work-basket is a little beyond my reach."
"The boys are waiting for me to go berrying with them," growled George.
"Well, I am sorry to keep you, but I'm afraid you'll have to run up to the machine drawer for a bit like this jacket."
The scowl on George's face deepened as he went up stairs, not with a run, but with slow, unwilling feet. "Is there anything else you want?" he asked in an injured tone, as he brought the piece. She did not answer at once, and as he looked at her face he saw that her lips trembled and tears were in her eyes.
"No, dear," she presently said, taking his face between both her hands and giving him a very tender kiss. "I hope you will have a very nice time. It is a beautiful day to be out, isn't it?"
A sudden thought struck sharply to the boy's heart. It had never before occurred to him how hard it must be that his mother never could go out; that for three years she had been lying in that one room. "O mother," he said, "I wish you could go out. I'd be glad to stay in if you could."
"You dear boy," she said, kissing him again, "Hurry away now. I can't go, but it makes it a good deal easier to stay when I know you wish I could."
"Does it really," he said, wistfully.
"Yes, really."
"Hurry, George," called the boys, and he went out.
But he did not join in the frolic with his usual headlong eagerness. His head was so full of thoughts of a kind very unusual to him, that there seemed something lacking in the brightness of the sunshine and the softness of the summer wind. When the boys reached the berrying-ground, they separated more or less, in search of the red, ripe fruit, and George several times found himself alone and able to go on with his thinking.
"I don't believe I've been a very good boy to mother," he said to himself. "I know I haven't. I'm always in a hurry to get out, and I grumble when she wants me to read to her, and make a fuss when she can't find her things. If I had to stay in bed all the time, I guess I'd lose things worse than she does. I mean to help her every day. I'll go every morning and find all her things for her, and put 'em on a chair by her, so they won't get lost again. Goody, though! I know what I'll do that's better than that." He gave such a jump as nearly to upset his pail of berries. His new thought took such hold of him that he had to sit down and give his full attention to it for awhile, and then the boys were astonished at hearing him propose to go home. As none of them were inclined to leave the berries so early, he went by himself. "I'm going to do all I can for mother, truly I am," he said to himself, "but I'm not going to begin all at once, for fear she should guess what's up."
He carried her a saucer of his berries, and the next day and for several days afterward waited on her kindly and carefully in the morning, and then kept a good deal away from her through the day, fearing that she might read in his face that he had a wonderful secret.
"What is George about that I see so little of him?" his mother asked of Susan, the woman who took care of the house. "Is he away from home so much?"
"O no," said Susan, "he's about most of the time, and as busy as a bee, but there's no tellin' what he's up to. It must be some new caper, for he shuts himself up in the tool-house, and won't let nobody go in. Mischief hatchin', like enough."
Susan was a good, faithful woman, but not at all given to putting things pleasantly or cheerfully.
George worked away for several days, at the end of which he came to his mother's room, looking as if he had a great weight on his mind. "Mother," he said at length, in a tone which showed her that he had paid no attention to what she had been saying, "wouldn't you be willing to let me have these little pictures in my room?" He pointed to two which hung close beside her, above her bed.
"Why, Georgie, do you really want my pictures? I'm very fond of them, you know, and like to have them here."
"I'd like to have 'em for awhile, anyway," he said.
"Then you shall have them, of course, dear." But the words were said a little regretfully, and she looked hurt and sorry, as George, without saying anything more, carried away the pictures, for there were not many pretty things in her room.
She was awakened the next morning by a slight noise, and opening her eyes, caught sight of George, bobbing below the foot of the bed, as if anxious to escape her notice.
"Is that you, George?" she asked.
"Yes, mother," he said, coming to kiss her, and looking as if very much puzzled what to do. "I say, mother, you've waked up too early. Won't you please to shut your eyes and make believe you're asleep yet?"
She did as he asked, and for a few moments could hear him making some quiet movements. Then he cried, "Wake up, mother!"
She opened her eyes to see him standing at the foot of the bed, watching her face with a pleased, expectant look.
Something on the wall close beside her drew her attention, and she turned her head that way. "Oh!" she exclaimed, in great surprise and pleasure at sight of a bracket-shelf which hung within easy reach of her hand.
"I made it every bit myself," said George, his face beaming still more brightly. "All except those little bits of fancy doings glued on, and I worked for half a day in Billy Dyer's carpenter-shop to pay for 'em. I gilded 'em myself, and I bought the staining stuff and stained the rest of it. It looks almost as nice as a bought one, doesn't it, mother?"
"Ten times nicer to me, dear—"
"And see, mother, here's the place for your work-basket, and here are your glasses and your books. Plenty of room for everything you want. You won't have to keep hunting for your things any more. Oh! I forgot to tell you about the cord and tassel. Susan helped me to twist it up out of red worsted last night. She promised she would not tell you for anything, and I've promised to make her one to keep her things handy, and she's as pleased as she can be, and says I'm a tip-top boy."
"I think Susan is right," said mother.
But George rushed from the room before waiting to hear more, returning in a moment with hammer and nails.
"Did you really think I meant to take away your pictures, mother?" he said laughing in great glee.
"You see I could not make out how I was to get my bracket hung without driving nails, and letting the whole secret out. So I made believe I wanted the pictures. Now I'm going to hang 'em over here."
"You are the dearest comfort and blessing in the world," said his mother, when at length he came and bent over her. "I shall never look at your bracket without a happy thought of your kind thought of me. And I shall never take a thing from it without being glad, because of your dear hands putting it here for me."
The crowning point of George's surprise came in his going out and gathering flowers to put into a tiny vase to be placed on the bracket. "I'll bring fresh ones to her every morning," he declared to himself. "I never felt so glad about anything in my life. I'm going to keep up doing things for mother—see if I don."—Baptist Examiner.
The Home Circle.
By Margaret E. Sangster
HOMELY COUNSEL.
It isn't worth while to fret, dear,
To walk as behind a hearse,
No matter how vexing things may be,
They easily might be worse;
And the time you spend complaining,
And groaning about the load,
Would better be given to going on,
And pressing along the road.
I've trodden the hill myself, dear,—
'Tis the tripping tongue can preach,
But though silence is sometimes golden, child,
As oft there is grace in speech,—
And I see, from my higher level,
'Tis less the path than the pace
That wearies the back and dims the eye
And writes the lines on the face.
There are vexing cares enough, dear,
And to spare, when all is told;
And love must mourn its losses,
And the cheek's soft bloom grow old;
But the spell of the craven spirit
Turns blessing into curse,
While the bold heart meets the trouble
That easily might be worse.
So smile at each disaster
That will presently pass away,
And believe a bright to-morrow
Will follow the dark to-day.
There's nothing gained by fretting;
Gather your strength anew,
And step by step go onward, dear,
Let the skies be gray or blue.
—Margaret E. Sangster, in Harper's Bazar.
Destiny and Conduct
DESTINY is largely the product of conduct.
Health and Temperance.
By Woman's Work
RICE AS FOOD AND MEDICINE.
Rice is among the most nutritious of all the articles of common diet. Indeed, there are only two others containing more nutriment—peas and beans; and these have only a fraction the advantage of rice. At the same time, rice is more digestible than peas and beans, requiring only one hour for its digestion, while peas and beans require over two hours. Ninety parts in one hundred of rice are nutritive, while oatmeal, peas, and beans, the only foods excelling in this respect, are respectively 93 and 92 per cent. in nutritive elements. Besides its value in nutritiveness and digestibility, rice is an excellent food on account of its heat-generating properties. Hence, though regarded as a very unsubstantial diet, it is really a very sustaining one, affording abundant and digestible elements for nourishment, and at the same time serving as fuel to keep up the heat of the body, which is no less necessary to life than nourishment. It is said that one pound of rice will generate more heat than four pounds of roast beef. But while rice is not a very "cooling diet," it is a good one even in fevers, on account of its nutritiveness and ready digestibility.
One of the very best combinations of food in all cases of sickness is rice well cooked and taken with milk. The dry or "Carolina mode" of cooking rice is even more digestible than when cooked with milk. The following are the directions for this. Take a clean stew-pan with a close-fitting top. Then take a clean piece of white muslin large enough to cover over the top of the pan and to hang down nearly to, but not quite in contact with, the bottom. Into the sack so formed, put the rice, pour over it two cupfuls of water, and put on the cover so as to hold up the muslin bag inside the vessel. Place the pan over a slow fire and the steam generated by the water will cook the rice. When thus prepared the grains will stand apart whole as when put into the vessel, yet they will be soft and more digestible than the semi-fluid gummy concoction served up in the common mode of cooking rice. The steamers attached to most stoves will answer in place of the muslin bag.
The object of these contrivances is to prevent contact of the rice with the vessel, and thus avoid burning or scorching; but this can be done with care, without anything of the kind. The only objection to rice as a food is its insipidity or tastelessness, but this can be obviated by suitable seasoning with salt, or other ingredients.
As a medicine in looseness of the bowel, nothing is better than rice thus cooked; or if more nourishment is required, it may be cooked with milk or put into the milk, hot, after cooking.
Most cases of diarrhea, when taken in the beginning, can be cured by this simple prescription: Go to bed; keep warm; drink but little fluids of any kind, and eat nothing except rice cooked dry, or with milk. But, if there is fever with thirst, drinks either cold or warm may be taken in moderation. It is a grievous error that all drinks should be forbidden in diarrhea. If fever is present cold drinks are necessary both for the comfort and the restoration of the patient. This thing of withholding drinks in fevers of any kind is a barbarism which has happily passed away among all intelligent physicians and people.
DON'T! DON'T!
By S. S. Evangelist
"DON'T! don't!" a little voice seemed to say, clear and strong, in Harry's ear.
The two cents lay on the window seat; some one had forgotten them. Two cents' worth of candy came right up before Harry's eyes, and in a moment he had put out his hand to take the cents.
But that "Don't! don't!" Who spoke?
He turned and looked. No one was in the room. The door was open, but no one was in the entry.
"Nobody can see," he said to himself.
"Thou God seest me," said the voice.
"Nobody'll know where they've gone," said Harry.
"Thou shalt not steal," the voice said again.
Harry was frightened at himself, and ran away as fast as he could. He was saved from a great sin and trouble. If he had taken those two pennies he would most likely have taken more another time, and not been so scared about it either.
I knew a boy who stole a ten-cent piece once. He felt very badly about it. He was so ashamed that he did not know what to do. Not long after he had a chance to steal again. He did, and that time it wasn't half so hard. So he went on and on, and at sixteen years of age he was in prison.
What voice was that which said, "Don't! don't"? That was conscience—God's voice in the soul. Always listen to the voice that bids you to keep God's commandments.—S. S. Evangelist.
JUST TELL THE TRUTH.
By Fireside Teacher
ANY one who knows he is telling the truth can afford to keep cool—even under the proverbial badgering of a pert lawyer. The boy who learns that lesson at home is fortunate.
A boy twelve years old was the important witness in a lawsuit. One of the lawyers, after cross-questioning him severely, said: "Your father has been talking to you, and telling you how to testify, hasn't he?" "Yes," said the boy. "Now," said the lawyer, "just tell us how your father told you to testify." "Well," said the boy modestly, "Father told me that the lawyers would try to tangle me in my testimony; but, if I would just be careful to tell the truth, I could tell the same thing every time." The lawyer didn't try to tangle up that boy any more.—Fireside Teacher.
ELECTRIC LIGHT CARBONS.
Of 150,000 carbons burned daily in the electric lights used in the United States, 100,000 are manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio. Six years ago all the carbons burned in this country were made in a single room in Boston. Now there are 20 carbon furnaces in Cleveland alone. The carbons are made chiefly of the residuum of oil after it has been refined, and the deposit about natural-gas wells is also coming into use. The material is ground to a powder, a little pitch is added, and the substance is then placed in molds. These are packed in boxes and the latter placed in a furnace where they are subject to the most intense heat. The capacity of an ordinary furnace is 45,000 carbons.
Strong Drink and Its Effects
By Christian at Work
THE use of strong drink in France has of late years progressed, according to some statisticians, at a greater ratio than in any other country. The results are made apparent by the fact that from 1870 to 1885 the number of suicides from drunkenness has increased sixfold, while cases of madness, traceable to the same cause, have increased from nine to sixteen per cent., and accidental deaths have increased twenty per cent.—Christian at Work.
DRINK STATISTICS.
By Independent
A GOVERNMENT report by the British consul-general in Germany, points out certain serious facts. The adult male German drinks annually on the average about seventeen gallons of spirituous liquors. In the kingdom of Prussia, the whole expenditure in 1882 on wine, beer, and spirits amounted to £45,400. In Sweden and Norway, the consumption of spirits has been declining for some years past; but in Denmark the evil of spirit drinking has reached a terrible pitch. In Holland, in 1878, there was a drink-shop for every ninety inhabitants, including women and children; but a restrictive law, passed in 1881, has reduced the number about one-quarter. The worst statistics in regard to the consumption of alcoholic liquors are those of Belgium, where, in less than half a century, the drinking of such liquors has far more than doubled for each person. In 1881 there was a public house for every dozen adult males. In France the amount of drunkenness has been reduced by the passing of a salutary law. In Switzerland, between 1870 and 1880, while the increase of population was but 6.5 per cent., the increase of public houses was 22 per cent. In Austria the condition of affairs is similar.
And all this drinking has its effect. There is a horrible array of figures giving the statistics of delirium tremens, suicides, lunacy, and accidental deaths, as the result of drunkenness. In Denmark 74 per cent. of the arrests were for drunkenness, or for crimes committed under the influence of drink. The inspector-general of Belgian prisons reports that four-fifths of the crime and social misery is attributable to intemperance. In Austria the hospitals, lunatic asylums, and prisons all testify to the advance of drinking habits. And continental workmen generally—even those who do not become absolute drunkards—spend a large proportion of their earnings in drink.
The foregoing statements, be it observed, are not the froth of a temperance harangue, but the cold statistics of a Government report. They show that earthquakes and cholera are not the most terrible evils of Europe. They should be studied by those who suggest that spirit drinking can be extirpated by introducing the free use of beer and light wines. In the very countries where the milder drinks are used, the consumption of ardent spirits is increasing at a terrible rate. The temperance question is a growing question, and it demands attention here as in other lands.—Independent.
SECULAR.
—Serious floods are reported on the lower Mississippi River.
—The number of sheep in the world is estimated at 517,000,000.
—It is said there are only forty first-class stenographers in the United States.
—There now seems to be little doubt that Blaine will be President Harrison's Secretary of State.
—Nine towns in Michigan have cases of small-pox. Thirty-one persons are ill from that disease in the State.
—It is reported that thirty days of rain and floods have destroyed the entire sugar crop of San Domingo.
—California's wheat crop for 1888 was about 27,750,000 bushels, as against a yield of nearly 28,000,000 in 1887.
—On the 28th ult., a woman was sentenced to be hanged, at Philadelphia, for the murder of her husband.
—Sixteen men and twenty horses were drowned while crossing the ice on Lake Rideau, Ontario, on the 27th ult.
—January 25, two children in Dakota were lost on their way home from school, and perished in the blinding storm.
—It is said that very few Republicans in Congress doubt that there will be an extra session of the Fifty-first Congress.
—A London dispatch of the 2d inst., says that the steamer Lymington was wrecked off Ilfracombe and ten persons drowned.
—A bill has been introduced into the New Jersey Legislature to abolish the High-license and Local-option law of that State.
—January 28, a memorial was presented to the United States Senate protesting against the admission of New Mexico as a State.
—The Japan Gazette says that the quantity of rice exported from that country is about one million piculs yearly, realizing $3,000,000.
—By a vote of 23 to 1 the School Board of Louisville, Ky., has decided that German shall not be taught in the public schools of that city.
—Germany has made a formal declaration of war against Samoa, and all vessels arriving there are searched for arms and munitions of war.
—Buffalo, N. Y., was the scene of a most disastrous fire on the morning of the 2d inst. Fully $2,000,000 worth of property was destroyed. The same day a fire in Denver, Col., destroyed property valued at $130,000.
—Advices from Alaska say the winter there has so far been a very discouraging one to the people of the Territory, owing to the severe storms.
—A bill is before the Pennsylvania Legislature to make the penalty for writing "White Cap" letters three years' imprisonment and $1,000 fine.
—January 30, one thousand Clyde firemen and sailors struck for an increase of 3 shillings per week, which the Allan Company at once conceded.
—England is alarmed by the reports of the strengthening of the French navy; the Admiralty estimates propose the increase of the marine force by 3500 men.
—The rice prospects of the South are not good. Bad service and floods have done great damage, and fear of the reduction of the duty discourages growers.
—On the 1st inst., the Senate, in secret session, repudiated, by a vote of 38 to 15, the extradition treaty with England, which Bayard negotiated two years ago.
—The walls of a burned building in Duluth, Minn., collapsed on the 29th ult., and one man was buried beneath the ruins. His sister has since become insane.
—A Boston inventor claims to be able to produce aluminium for less than seventeen cents per pound. This metal is stronger than iron, and very much lighter.
—Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is dead. It is asserted by some that he was shot by a man whose wife he had seduced. Others say it is a case of suicide.
—The downfall of the present French ministry, is confidently predicted as one result of the election of General Boulanger to a seat in the chamber from the Department of the Seine.
—On the 31st ult., a receiver was appointed by Judge Barrett, of the Supreme Court, for the North River Sugar Refining Company. This is another decision against the sugar trust.
—A prohibition colony is to be founded in Los Angeles County, this State. Every deed will contain a clause "forbidding the manufacture, sale, or storage of intoxicants," upon the lands of the colony.
—The annual expenditures for school purposes in the State of South Carolina amount to about $600,000. This is about one-third the sum which the city of Boston expends annually upon its schools.
—January 31 John O'Connor and Thomas Condon, members of Parliament for Tipperary, were sentenced to imprisonment for four months, without hard labor, for inciting tenants not to pay rent.
—Near the town of Fillmore, Millard County, Utah, is located a clever-sized mountain of salt; it is blocked out similar to limestone in a quarry, and thousands of tons are sent annually to different reduction works.
—The census of children, of school age, between six and eighteen years, in Utah, shows that there are in the Territory 941 boys and 3,841 girls of non-Mormon parents, and 34,082 boys and 23,289 girls of Mormon parentage.
—Captain Zalinski's new dynamite gun was tested again at Fort Lafayette, New York, on the 31st ult., and shells were thrown nearly two miles. The tests were satisfactory to the Examining Board, who will recommend the adoption of the gun to the Government.
—It is asserted that a prominent architect of Kansas City is reported to have discovered a method of producing sterilized air. The value of this air is stated to be that all surgical operations can be performed by its use without danger of subsequent inflammation.
—A millionaire, named Tagliabel, who died recently at Milan, bequeathed the sum of 50,000 francs to the street-sweepers of that town, on condition that they would all go to his funeral in their working clothes. In his youth he had himself been a street-sweeper.
—January 31, the Nebraska Legislature passed a resolution, for the submission to the people of a prohibitory amendment to the Constitution. The same day the Governor of Pennsylvania signed a similar resolution, which had been adopted by the Legislature of that State.
—A late London dispatch says that the naval committee appointed to inquire into the late maneuvers, states that the English ships, with few exceptions, are unsuitable for modern warfare—indeed, deficient—and that the existing fleet is unfit to command the seas against an enemy.
—The Federal Council of Australia has adopted an address to the Crown, viewing with deep anxiety the recent events in Samoa, and favoring treaties guaranteeing independence in those islands, and also expressing the opinion that foreign dominion there endangers the safety of Australia.
—A New York dispatch of the 29th ult., says: "With two exceptions every line of street cars in this city is tied up. When the last night trip was made, each car was run into the stables and at 4 A. M. the great strike commenced." Two days later however, the lines were all running again and at this writing, February 3, the strike is regarded as a failure.
—Since May 5, 1883, the killing of deer on Cape Cod has been forbidden by law, under a heavy penalty, and the result is, that the 500,000 acres of woodland between Sandwich, Falmouth, and Plymouth, are thronged with deer, now quite tame. When the law was not in force, about 200 deer were killed yearly. For over 200 years that region has been a favorite hunting ground.
—A late financial report of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, covers the period of the great strike on that road, and shows a remarkable decrease in the earnings, as compared with those of 1887. The decrease in gross earnings was $1,741,493, and in net earnings, $1,719,225. The company estimates that it lost from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 by the strike, necessitating a quarterly dividend of only one per cent.
—A strange disease is raging in Webster County, Ky. Up to February 1, twenty-four persons, mostly children, have died. The disease is not understood by the physicians, and they are unable to name it. Death usually occurs from six to twelve hours after the attack. Those dying rapidly turn black after death. Three physicians have fled, not being able to be of any service, and not wishing to jeopardise their lives without hope of doing good.
—The Columbian Government, while announcing its ability and determination to preserve order on the isthmus in case of suspension of work on the canal, advises the consuls of foreign countries to take steps for returning discharged laborers to their homes, as the fact is recognized that the howling mob of tough characters who would be turned loose from the cuts would be a difficult element to manage. Troops were being concentrated on the isthmus to be in readiness for any emergency.
—January 29, Stanhope, the British Secretary of War, delivered an address to a meeting in Lincolnshire, England, in which he said that a thundercloud was hanging over Europe, and that sooner or later it would burst, bringing the fiercest and most horrible war ever known. It was impossible, he said, to view the preparations for war now being made throughout Europe, without feeling that war was approaching. He hoped, however, that the wisdom of England's statesmen would prevent that nation from becoming involved.
—A festival and ball given in Chicago, Sunday evening, January 27, for the benefit of the families of the executed and imprisoned Anarchists, was attended by some 3,000 persons. The walls of the hall were covered with caricatures, such as policemen blown up by a dynamite bomb, allegorical figures representing Christianity and Judaism falling dead, and others of a more revolting type. Editor Christensen, of the Arbeiter Zeitung, delivered a eulogy on the "heroes" and "sacred martyrs" who were sleeping their dreamless sleep in Waldheim. The speaker predicted that a cyclone would yet sweep over the land and wipe the capitalistic robbers from the face of the earth.
News and Notes.
By Editor
RELIGIOUS.
—There are 68,973 German Methodist Episcopal members and probationers in the United States, Germany and Switzerland, and 74,696 Sunday-school scholars.
—It is stated that there is not a single colored Roman Catholic priest in the United States; several young men of African blood are preparing to enter the priesthood.
—Marshall Booth, of the Salvation Army, claims that during the last twelve years over one million men and women have been rescued from the slums, and transformed into self-supporting, sober, Christian citizens, by the work of the army.
—The Church of Scotland has got her first deaconess in Lady Grisell Baillie. She was publicly set apart to the office in Bowden Church on a recent Sunday. At the last monthly meeting of the Edinburg Presbytery, it was reported that two other ladies had applied to the Session of St. Cuthbert's, asking to be also set apart to the same office.
—The Catholic Review is authority for the statement that a late decision of the Roman Congregation is to the effect that "to gain the Indulgences attached to the Officium Parvum B. M. Virginis (the little office of Our Lady), it is necessary to say it in Latin as it is found in the Roman Breviary, and it is not advisable, so the Cardinals have decided, to extend the Indulgences to translations." If it were indeed true that any benefit could be derived from this idolatrous mummery it would be a cruel thing to withhold it from those who have no knowledge of Latin, but as it is, probably the unlearned may survive the blow.
Obituary.
BURCH.—Died, August 29, 1888, in Allila, Tulare County, Cal., after an illness of eight days, with typhoid fever and heart troubles, W. T. Burch, aged 35 years. Brother Burch embraced the truth from reading, about one year previous to his death, and was baptized at the next camp-meeting following, which was held at Selma, in this State. His life was consistent and influential for good upon his neighbors. One of the ministers in the community testified to the influence of his life upon his own mind, that it was such as never would be erased. He left a wife and four children to follow his bier to the grave, where he awaits the glad day when death shall give back the dead, the grave its treasure, and the enemy his victim.
E. P. DANIELS.
CHAMBERLIN.—Died, at South Windham, Conn., December 30, 1888, Alice M., wife of Charles Chamberlin, and daughter of W. E. Landon, aged 33 years. Sister Alice united with the Baptist Church in 1878, and has always led a Christian life. On her mother's death, which occured five years ago, she was brought by the affliction to a closer walk with God, and determined to obey him by keeping his Sabbath holy, although isolated from those of like faith. We laid her to rest on New Year's day with sad hearts, yet with the blessed hope that when Jesus comes we shall meet the loved ones around our Father's throne. Remarks by a Methodist minister from John 11:25.
MRS. J. B. SMITH.
Publishers' Department.
By Editor
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NOTICE TO MISSIONARY WORKERS.
By Editor
PLEASE stop sending the SIGNS to any of the following names, as this office has received notice that the papers are refused, unclaimed, or sent to the wrong post-office:—
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