Earlier text: Odin, Illinois—Cholera is raging throughout Corea. At Seoul the deaths average over one hundred per day. —The feeling of hostility toward France is increasing in Germany, and both nations seem to be preparing for war. —The total number of paupers in London relieved during the first week of August was 86,549, of whom 51,768 were indoor and 34,781 outdoor paupers. —Excepting Harvard, William and Mary, in Virginia, founded in 1693, is the oldest college in America. It can boast of not a single student, and the last dollar of its endowment will soon have been spent. —September 10, the Universe (Paris) publishes a telegram from the Bishop of Tonquin saying that 700 Christians have been massacred, and forty villages burned in the province of Manhoa, and that 9,000 Christians are perishing of hunger. —It is said that the State of New York has acquired title to 800,000 acres of land in the Adirondack region and 50,000 acres in the Catskill region, to be kept forever in forests. The object is to prevent the further diminution of important streams. —It is stated that notwithstanding the release of Cutting, Secretary Bayard will insist upon the abrogation of the article of the Mexican Penal Code which confers upon Mexican courts jurisdiction over foreigners for certain offenses committed outside of Mexican territory. —Nine hundred persons died of small-pox in Santiago, Chili, in July. —Germany has abandoned her right to establish a naval station at the Caroline Islands. —Vesuvius is again in a state of eruption and people are fleeing from Naples and Bari. —It is said that the late forest fires in Wisconsin destroyed $200,000 worth of cranberry marshes. —A death from yellow fever has occurred in New York. The disease was probably contracted in a West Indian port. —The United States is said to consume one-fourth of all the pig-iron and one-third of all the steel that the world produces. —Mexican bandits, or as these are sometimes called, revolutionists, are still making considerable trouble in Northern Mexico. —At Port Costa, Cal., September 7, an engine and one car ran off the ferry-boat, Solano, and plunged into Carquinez Strait. One life was lost. —The collapse of an old building that was being razed at Indianapolis, Ind., a few days since, seriously, if not fatally, injured several of the workmen. —Snake bites caused the death of 103,000 persons in India between 1875 and 1880. During the same period 1,073,546 poisonous reptiles were killed for the Government reward. —The officers at West Point Military Academy are trying to break up the barbarous practice of hazing, and a few days since thirty-four senior cadets were placed under arrest for violation of the order. —It is said that the present condition of the shipping trade at Glasgow is the worst on record. Thirty-four steamers and twenty-three sailing vessels are rotting at their docks, having been idle some two years. —A late report from Northeastern India says that a number of Indian princes are exhorting the people to throw off the "hated English yoke." The Journal des Débats says that great events are imminent in Central Asia. —Five out of fifty Mormons who were detained at Castle Garden, New York, are to be returned to the place whence they came. The others were released on the 6th inst. and permitted to resume their journey to Salt Lake. —Notwithstanding the announcement by the Christian Statesman some weeks since, that the great Pennsylvania Company would henceforth run no more trains on Sunday, except stock trains, traffic is carried on as usual upon that day. —A boy of fifteen was arrested a few days since at St. Louis for setting fire to a large pork-packing establishment. After his arrest he confessed that himself and two companions had set some half dozen mysterious fires in the past few months. They did it "just for fun." —The September Century argues editorially in favor of securing an amendment to the Constitution, giving to Congress the power to regulate marriage and divorce by general laws throughout the Union, and to the federal courts the power to punish for violation of such laws. —An Eastern paper states that the object glass of the Lick Telescope is now substantially finished, and the few astronomers who as yet have had the privilege of looking through it speak of it in the highest terms. Its defining power is such that it most easily splits the most difficult double stars. —An eight-page paper has been started in Atlanta, Ga., the sole mission of which is to show that prohibition is destroying the business of the city. It has always been claimed by everybody except liquor men that prohibition has a very depressing effect upon some kinds of business; i. e., the business of making drunkards and prostitutes. —Several slight shocks of earthquake have been felt at Charleston and vicinity within the past week, but no additional damage has been done. There have been, however, heavy rains, owing to which some shattered walls have fallen, and of course considerable suffering has been caused to those who were not provided with adequate shelter. —Sunday, September 5, John H. Cannon, son of George Q., was cut off from the Mormon Church on his self-confessed guilt of adultery!! It is thought that this is not the real reason. Very likely not. And now we would like to have some one tell us what constitutes adultery in Mormondom. How polygamists can condemn one of their members for adultery, and not condemn the whole lot, is more than we can understand. —An attempt was made at Chicago, September 10, to blow up the signal tower of the Lake Shore Railroad Company. The plan of the perpetrators evidently was to wreck a passenger train which was due shortly after the explosion took place. Another and more successful attempt at train wrecking was made the same night, and fifteen cars were derailed. —The drought stricken district in Texas comprises about 600 square miles and includes thirty-five counties. This region has some of the richest farming land in the State and until the present dry season never lacked sufficient rain. Copious rains have at last fallen but it will be months before crops can be raised and many of the farmers are without seed. —Dr. T. McLagan, physician to Prince Christian, and in ordinary to the royal family of England, now in San Francisco, was one of the physicians selected by the English Government to report upon Pasteur’s method for the prevention of hydrophobia. He says: “In Europe, we all believe that Pasteur has solved the problem of the prevention of rabies, and that in a few years the disease will be extinct, not only in man, but in the dog.” California State Sabbath-School Association.
By C. H. Jones
THE ninth annual session of the California State Sabbath-school Association, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, will be held in connection with the camp-meeting, at Woodland, October 6-19, 1886. Aside from the regular routine business, special instruction will be given in the different branches of S. S. work, and we hope that every school in the Conference will be represented. Come prepared to take an active part, and not only to get good but to do good. Advance steps ought to be taken and we trust that at this meeting plans may be devised which will make this branch of the work much more efficient and profitable. If you are in doubt or perplexity in regard to any point in the lessons or in the management of your school, bring your questions and help will be given. Special lessons have been prepared for those studying books Nos. 1 to 7, and they will be given out on the camp-ground. Those studying the lessons found in the Instructor will recite the regular lesson for October 9 and 16. Copies can be obtained on the ground. The State Secretary will be present from the beginning to the close of the meeting, and will be575 pleased to answer questions, or give instruction in regard to keeping the records, and in other branches of the work. All who can should bring their record books with them for examination. We want to become intelligent workers. We hope that all will come up to this important meeting praying for a blessing, and with a desire and determination to gain all the instruction possible, so as to be better qualified to engage in the work in the future. C. H. JONES, President. OAKLAND.—House of worship, northeast corner of Clay and Thirteenth Streets. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:30 A. M. Preaching at 11. Prayer and missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:30. Seats free. SAN FRANCISCO.—House of worship, 914 Laguna Street, between McAllister and Tyler. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:45, and preaching at 11 A. M.; also preaching every Sunday evening at 7:30. Classes in the English, German, and Scandinavian languages. Prayer and missionary meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:45. Mission Reading-rooms at the church. EAST PORTLAND (Or.)—House of worship on G Street, between Tenth and Eleventh. Sabbath-school every Sabbath (Saturday), followed by services. Preaching or Bible-reading Sunday evening. Prayer-meeting Wednesday evening. The public is cordially invited. Free public reading-room, corner of L and Fifth Streets. California Conference.
By Conference Committee
The fifteenth annual session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the State camp-meeting, to be held in Woodland, October 6–19, 1886. Delegates should be elected in good season, according to the following ratio: Every church is entitled to one delegate without regard to the number of members, and one additional delegate for every ten members. Ministers holding credentials are delegates at large without election, and are the proper representatives of unorganized companies. Churches should elect as delegates good, reliable persons, and, as far as possible, those who will be present during the entire meeting. All delegates will please report to the secretary, E. A. Chapman, immediately after their arrival upon the camp-ground. Church clerks are requested to bring their church books with them to the meeting. —Mrs. Goodell, widow of the late Dr. C. L. Goodell, of St. Louis, has been engaged as an assistant in the work of the parish, at a salary of $1,200 per year. —Some two years ago the temperance people of Russia petitioned the emperor for permission to hold meetings and have only recently received his permit. —The trial of Professor Woodrow before the Presbytery of Augusta, Ga., for teaching heretical doctrine in connection with the theory of evolution in the creation of man, has been concluded. On the final vote thirteen members voted “not guilty,” and nine voted “guilty,” on the first count of the indictment. This may doubtless be accepted as the standing of the Augusta Presbytery on the subject of evolution. —The Christian at Work says: “If all missionaries were terribly in earnest over the salvation of souls, there would be very little time for speculation, and less for discoursing over a possible salvation in another world. And with this condition of affairs prevailing, one cause of useless disturbance would be removed from mission work. Strange that missionaries should put obstacles in their own paths. Some do, though.” —A correspondent of the Advance says: “The old-fashioned Methodist camp-meeting has blossomed out into the seaside summer resort; a big hotel, a lot of cottages, a few tents, and a combination of religious services and out-door sports, make a rare opportunity for both pleasure and profit. Some spiritual good is undoubtedly derived, but to most who attend it seems to be a sort of picnic.” We are glad to know that there are camp-meetings that do not follow this pattern. —The New York Independent says: “We know of a prominent trustee in one of the largest churches in New England, who opposed an invitation to an evangelist, and prevented the occupancy of their large church building on the ground that a meeting ‘for everybody and in all weathers,’ would destroy their new carpets; and besides, ‘what do we want with a revival?’ We are out of debt; our pews are all rented; our house is full, and a revival would only disturb the quiet and orderly development of the church.” Comment is unnecessary. —The President of the Wesleyan Conference of England recently gave the following good advice to his brethren in the ministry: “Do not waste your time or degrade your office by attempts to link the pastimes of the world to your religion and church. ‘Music, mirth and mimicry’ is the programme which the world often flaunts on blazing placards to allure the youth of our age into doubtful and corrupting pleasures. You must not expect to allure them from sin and hell into holiness and Heaven by a similar programme. Let your lure be the music of the Saviour’s name and of his saving gospel.” CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE FUND.—Geo O Mead $15, J A Williams $58.—Reed $3.45, E Cole $1, J McElhaney $14.05, W Harper $60. RECEIVED ON ACCOUNT.—New York T & M Society $150. AUSTRALIAN MISSION.—S A Martin $13.50. CALIFORNIA T AND M SOCIETY.—Mrs R E Sheckler $5, G P Sanford $10. CALIFORNIA CITY MISSIONS.—Mrs E M Slocum $10. An Interesting and Instructive Book.
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