Earlier text: Keeping Life’s Ship Sound—Florida expects to raise 3,000,000 boxes of oranges this season. —The reduction in the national debt for October was $8,250,000. —Professor Nordenskjold is organizing an expedition to the South Pole. —Twenty-five men were killed by an explosion in a coal mine near Uniontown, Pa., Oct. 27. —Wilbur F. Storey, proprietor of the Chicago Times, died at his residence in Chicago on the 27th ult. —Four thousand barrels of apples were recently shipped on one steamer from Boston for English markets. —The cholera epidemic has already cost the continent of Europe $25,000,000 by the absence of the ordinary summer tourist. —A factory at Hueta, Spain, was burned Oct. 31. Twenty-seven persons perished in the flames and twelve were seriously injured. —The President has appointed Hugh McCulloch to be Secretary of the Treasury, and Walter Q. Gresham to be Circuit Judge. —The value of the products of the various industries of the United States is seven times the total value of our foreign commerce. —Eleven pupils of the School of Agriculture at Bordeaux have died from the effects of eating mushrooms gathered in a wood near the school. —There are over 407,000 persons employed by railway companies in this country, not including the officers, clerks, or book-keepers. —The number of visitors at the late Electrical Exhibition at Philadelphia was 300,000. The receipts were $100,000, and the profits $10,000. —The Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital reports that yellow fever has again broken out on the west coast of Mexico in a most malignant form. —On the 30th ult., a passenger train on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, was fired into about four miles from Socorro, N. M., by a party of masked men. —A false alarm of fire was raised in a theater in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 1st inst., in which 2,000 persons were assembled. In the panic which ensued sixteen persons were killed, and twelve badly injured. —In the event of the failure of the present active overtures of England in the direction of mediation between France and China, 20,000 French troops will be sent to China, with a view of occupying Canton. —An unusually fatal outbreak of cholera has occurred at Madras, which is aggravated by the difficulty of procuring provisions, as the terror-stricken villagers refuse to bring to the city the customary supplies. —A hurricane swept the eastern part of the Bahamas from the 10th to the 16th of October, doing great damage on land and sea. Many vessels were lost, among them two American schooners and their crews. —On the 29th ult., a passenger train on the Wilmington and Northern Railroad, fell through a bridge into the Schuylkill River, near Reading, Pa. The engineer and fireman and several passengers were killed. —A counterfeit five-dollar piece has been sent to the San Francisco Mint, which is so perfectly executed as to be scarcely distinguishable from the genuine. It is thought to be one of a large number. The weight and ring are perfect. —Over 900 pounds of obscene books and 165,900 pamphlets, circulars, and cards were seized and destroyed last year by the Cincinnati branch of the western society for the suppression of vice. Eleven hundred obscene photographs and 137 negatives were seized, and four lewd newspapers were sup-671pressed. —The Scott liquor law has been declared unconstitutional by three of the five judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio. The effect will be, not only to stop the collection of the tax imposed in consequence of it, but to make it necessary to pay back all that has been collected in the past. —Last week we noticed the case of a young man in San Francisco, who, after pleading guilty to a charge of burglary, was acquitted by the jury. On the second charge, for a similar offense, he pleaded not guilty, no doubt thinking that since he was acquitted after pleading guilty, he would receive a pension if he pleaded not guilty, but the jury convicted him. —The Conelly polygamy case at Salt Lake was dismissed on the 31st ult., because the testimony showed that the marriage occurred so long before the indictment as to be outlawed. The judge told the jury that they must acquit according to the evidence, although there was no doubt but that the evidence was the result of persistent false swearing. Said he: "I am of the opinion and have an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty, that the ends of justice have been defeated in this case by false swearing." —Judge Hoffman, of San Francisco, in sentencing a man last week for false registration, said: "In my opinion, he who falsely votes commits a higher crime than the counterfeiter or forger. I therefore feel called upon in these cases to inflict the highest punishment allowed by law, and were it in my power, I would make the sentence twice as much, not as a vindictive measure, but to put a stop to fraud. The judgment of this Court is that you pay a fine of $500 and the costs of the prosecution, and that you be imprisoned for the term of three years in the State prison." —The representative of a syndicate of European distillers has proposed to the Mexican National Railroad Company to advance sufficient capital to complete and equip the road, under the condition that the syndicate control the management and receive certain freight rates for the transportation of corn over the road to Corpus Christi. The syndicate will contract with the farmers along the railroad who wish to double or triple their production of corn, to purchase annually not less than 1,500,000 or more than 3,000,000 tons, to be shipped to Europe, for use in their distilleries. The object of the syndicate is to procure a sure supply of corn at a fixed price, and to be independent of corn speculators. Great is the power of whisky! Publishers' Department.
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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. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. THOUGHTS ON DANIEL, CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL.
AN EXPOSITION OF THE BOOK OF DANIEL, VERSE BY VERSE. We are now living in times plainly pointed out in this prophecy, and it is important to understand it; for Daniel himself says that in the time of the end, the wise shall understand; while, if we fail, we are equally guilty with the Jews, who knew not the time of their visitation (Luke 19:42-44), and shall meet a similar fate. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. THOUGHTS ON REVELATION, CRITICAL AND PRACTICAL.
This work presents every verse in the book of Revelation, with such remarks as serve to illustrate or explain the meaning of the text. It is a new and harmonious exposition of that important book and is designed to create an interest in its study. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. THE GREAT ISSUE NOW PENDING IN THIS COUNTRY.
This book contains a complete history of the rise and progress of the National Reform Party, together with an exegesis of the last portion of the thirteenth chapter of the book of Revelation, assigning to the United States its proper place in prophecy. EMPHATICALLY A BOOK FOR THE TIMES. 434 pages, in muslin covers, and will be mailed to any address post-paid, for $1.00. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. HISTORY OF THE WALDENSES.
ILLUSTRATED BY TWENTY FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS. This work describes the conflicts waged by the Waldenses, and the martyrdoms they endured in defense of their faith and their liberty. Recent events have brought the Waldenses to notice, and thrown a new light upon the grandeur of their struggle and the important issues which have flowed from it. To them are we to trace the Constitutional liberties that Italy now enjoys. In their mountain fastnesses they maintained the faith of the early Christians, and by their untiring missionary labors this faith was diffused to all the nations of Europe, thus, preparing the way for the great Reformation. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. THE SEVENTH PART OF TIME.
This is a refutation of the theory that God sanctified simply a seventh part of time as the Sabbath, without fixing that time to any definite day. The necessity or a
## UNIFORM DAY OF REST. is admitted by nearly all, and is advocated in this book. The author also shows that the Creator understood and anticipated this necessity, and proves by five different processes of reasoning that the seventh or last day of the week, and no other, was in the beginning, and is now, the Sabbath of the Lord. 32 pp. Price, 4 cents; liberal discount by the hundred. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. Anger: Servant and Master
ANGER is like fire—a good servant and a terrible master. Without capacity for anger Luther could not have fought the battle of the Reformation; nor our fathers the war of the Revolution; nor our reformers the war of emancipation. Christian Happiness Beyond Earthly Disturbance
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THE happiness of a genuine Christian lies beyond the shock of earthly disturbances, and is not affected by the changes and chances to which mortal things are exposed.—Clarke. The Bible and Its Own Teaching
THERE is but one way of knowing what the Bible is, and what the Bible teaches about itself; and that way is to be found only by seeking for it in the Bible itself. God’s Wisdom in Withholding Our Requests
By Dr. J. A. Broadus
WHEN we shall climb the shining steeps of Heaven, and from the light of the eternal world look back on this enigma of human life, we shall have nothing for which to praise God more than for not having given us everything for which we ask him here on earth.—Dr. J. A. Broadus. ONE or two quotations may help to show how truly this picture of the Pharisee—that given in the parable of the Pharisee and the publican—was taken from life. Thus, the following prayer of a rabbi is recorded: “I thank thee, O Lord, my God, that thou hast put my part with those who sit in the academy, and not with those who sit at the corners [money-changers and traders]. For I rise early and they rise early. I rise early to the words of the law and they to vain things. I labor and they labor; I labor and receive a reward, they labor and receive no reward; I run and they run; I run to the life of the world to come and they to the pit of destruction.” Even more closely parallel is this thanksgiving, which a rabbi put into the mouth of Israel: “Lord of the world judge me not as those who dwell in the big towns [such as Rome], among whom there is robbery, and uncleanness, and vain and false swearing.” Lastly, as regards the boastful spirit of Rabbinism, we recall such painful sayings as those of Rabbi Simeon ben Joachi, notably this, that if there were only two righteous men in the world, he and his son were these; and if only one, it was he.—Dr. Edersheim’s Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah. A “Nebulous” Hypothesis.
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THIS is a specimen of the way the Christian at Work patches up the Mosaic account of creation:— “On the first day, Moses tells us, God produced light. And science, following the great nebulous hypothesis of La Place, tells us how it was produced, viz., by the action of gravity and chemical affinity, concentrating the diffused gas into one or more nebulæ, so that they shone forth as luminous spots in the dark space of heaven.” “On the third day, according to Moses, the waters were gathered into one place, dry land appeared, and the land brought forth vegetation. And according to science, the nebulous masses began to concentrate at this point into definite stars. Our sun became such a star. Our planet was also a luminous sun, made so by the force of shrinkage and chemical action, until after a while, out of a confusion of solid crust, ocean, and atmosphere, there developed land, ozoic rocks, infusorial plants, and protophytes.” We think the expression “nebulous hypothesis” very aptly describes the above theory, for it is decidedly hazy, so much so that we are unable to see through it, or to see anything in it. We confess to being old fogyish enough to believe that Moses has given, in the first of Genesis, as clear an account as is possible to be given, because it is correct. Compared with this “nebulous” hypothesis, it is like the noonday sun compared with a fog bank. Beginning of the Day.
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"Will you please state in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES where in the Old Testament can be found the verse stating when the day was to begin?
"E. G. D." ANSWER: In Lev. 23:32 we read concerning the day of atonement as follows: "It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls; in the ninth day of the month, at even, from even unto even shall ye celebrate your sabbath." Now by referring to Deut. 16:6; Josh. 10:26, 27; Mark 1:32, etc., we learn that "even" is at the setting of the sun. If one day was to begin at even, at the setting of the sun, then of course every day must likewise begin at sunset. When the earth was created—when God "spake and it was"—there was darkness. Afterward God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," and this formed the latter portion of the first day. "The evening and the morning were the first day." Then, as the earth continued to revolve, succeeding days must, of course, follow the same plan; and so we read in the first chapter of Genesis that "the evening and the morning" were the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth days. THE ATONEMENT: AN EXAMINATION OF A REMEDIAL SYSTEM, IN THE LIGHT OF NATURE AND OF REVELATION.
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The Bible record of the Sabbath, the secular history concerning it; the successive steps by which the change to the first day was made and the work of restoration, are given in detail. EVERY TEXT OF SCRIPTURE concerning the Sabbath is commented on at length; and the COMPLETE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHERS in regard to the Sabbath and first day is given. The comparative merits of the seventh and the first-day Sabbaths are fully shown. A copious index enables the reader to find any text, or the statement of any historian. Should be read by everybody. 528 pp. Price, $1.25. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT OAKLAND, CAL., FOR THE International Tract and Missionary Society.
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The Baptist Flag says: "The law of God to Moses declares, 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.'" Well, what of it? If it was "the law of God to Moses," how does it concern us? Why should we refrain from swearing because the Lord told Moses not to? Or, even if the law was given to the whole Hebrew race, how does it have any binding force on us? Perhaps the Flag will say, on second thought, that it was not given merely to Moses, but that it was spoken with the voice of God, which shook the earth, and that it is binding on all men of every race and age. If so, we will accept its statement, and will grant that whoever swears commits a sin. And then we would like to ask if the fourth commandment was not given at the same time, under the same circumstances, and for the same people. If so, when people work on the Sabbath of the Lord—the seventh day—is it not a sin? Who will venture to say no? The Gradual Change from Sabbath to Sunday
QUESTION.—“Is there any printed record in the world, of the year and month, and day when the seventh day was dropped or skipped over for the first?” ANS.—There is no such record, because the change was not accomplished instantly, but gradually. If there had been any attempt to make the change universal at one time, we should doubtless have a record of determined resistance on the part of many. But heresies never arise in that way; men do not backslide from the faith in a moment of time. The change was gradually introduced, some for a time keeping both the seventh and the first day; but the adherents to the first day increased in number in proportion as merely nominally converted heathen were allowed to come into the church, and exert an influence. An Unsigned Question from South Boston
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"A READER of the SIGNS" writes from South Boston, Mass., asking for information on a certain matter, but incloses no stamp for reply, and signs no name. If he is indeed a reader of the SIGNS, he will know by this why he has received no answer. Perhaps a word of explanation is necessary. Some may think that because the full names of questioners do not appear in the paper, therefore they are not given to us at all. This is a mistake. When we answer questions, we must know whom we are addressing, although we never make the name public. Progress of the Work at Fern Prairie
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IN a private letter from Oregon, to Brother Ings, comes the following cheering item: “Eleven signed the covenant at Fern Prairie, and fourteen are keeping the Sabbath, and the work is only begun there.” May the good work go on unto perfection under the prospering hand of the Lord. The Fourth Commandment and the Sabbath
"REMEMBER the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." Ex. 20:8-11. "Saturday: The seventh or last day of the week; the day following Friday and preceding Sunday."—Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. "Hallow: To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use."—Webster. The seventh day is the day commonly called Saturday. The fourth commandment says that "the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God;" that God set it apart for holy use. Reader, do you keep the fourth commandment? If not, why not?