There is no disputing this fact—it shines in the face of every little child. The coarse, brawling, scolding woman will have coarse, vicious, brawling, fighting children.
She who cries on every occasion, “I’ll box your ears—I’ll slap your jaws—I’ll break your neck,” is known through her children as if her unwomanly manners were openly displayed in the public streets.
These remarks were suggested by a conversation in a street car—that great institution for the students of men and manners—between a friend and a schoolmaster. Our teacher was caustic, mirthful, and sharp. His wit flashed like the polished edge of a diamond and kept the car in a roar.
The entire community of insiders—and whoever is intimate with one of those conveyances, can form a pretty good idea of our number, inclusive of the one more so well known to the fraternity—turned their heads, eyes, and ears one way, and finally our teacher said, “I can always tell the mother by the boy. The urchin who draws back with doubled fist at his playmate, has a very questionable mother. She may feed him and clothe him, cram him with sweetmeats, coax him with promises, but if she gets mad she fights. “She will pull him by the jacket; she will give him a knock in the back; she will drag him by the hair; she will call him all sorts of wicked names, while passion plays over her red face in lambent flames that curl and writhe out at the corners of her eyes.
“And we never see the courteous little fellow with smooth looks and gentle manners—in whom delicacy does not detract from courage or manliness—but we say that boy’s mother is a true lady, her words and ways are soft, loving, and quiet. If she reproves, her language is ‘my son’—not ‘you little wretch—you plague of my life—you torment—you scamp.’”
“She hovers before him as a pillar of light before the wandering Israelites, and her beams are reflected in his face. To him the word mother is synonymous with everything pure, sweet, and beautiful. Is he an artist? In after life that which with holy radiance shines on his canvass, will be the mother’s face. Whoever flits across his path with sunny smiles, and soft, low voice, will bring ‘mother’s image’ freshly to his heart. ‘She is like my mother,’ will be the highest meed of his praise. Not even when the hair turns silver, and the eye grows dim, will the majesty of that life and presence desert him.”
“But the ruffian mother—alas, that there are such—will form the ruffian character of the man. He in turn will become a merciless tyrant, with a tongue sharper than a two-edged sword, and, remembering the brawling and cuffing, seek some meek, gentle victim for the sacrifice, and make her his wife with the condition that he shall be master. And master he is for a few sad years, when he wears a widower’s weeds till he finds victim number two.
“We wonder not that there are so many awkward, ungainly men in society; they have all been trained by women who knew not nor cared for the holy nature of their trust. They had been made bitter to the heart’s core, and that bitterness will find vent and lodgment somewhere. Strike the infant in anger, and he will, if he cannot reach you, vent his passion by beating the door, the chair, or any inanimate thing within reach. Strike him repeatedly, and by the time he wears shoes he will have become a boy whose hands double for fight as naturally as if especial pains had been taken to teach him the art of boxing.
“Mothers, remember that your manners mould the child. Who will not say that mothers ought to be thoroughly educated whether their sons are or not.—Ladies’ Repository.
Standing Up for the Truth
It is much easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth, than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
Behold, I Come Quickly
“BEHOLD, I come quickly, and my reward is with me.”—Jesus.
Prescriptions.
For a fit of Passion.—Walk out in the open air; you speak your mind to the winds without hurting any one, or proclaiming yourself a simpleton.
For a fit of Idleness.—Count the ticking of a clock; do this for an hour and you will be glad to pull off your coat the next and go to work.
For a fit of Extravagance and Folly.—Go to the work-house and speak with the inmates of a jail, and you will be convinced.
Who makes his bed of brier and thorn,
Must be content to lie forlorn.
For a fit of Ambition.—Go into a churchyard and read the grave-stones; they will tell you the end of ambition. The grave will soon be your bed-chamber, the earth your pillow, corruption your father, and the worm your mother and sister.
For a fit of Despondency.—Look on the good things which God has given you in this world, and to those which he has promised his followers in the next. He who goes into his garden to look for cobwebs and spiders no doubt will find them; while he who looks for flowers may return into his house with one blooming in his bosom.
For all fits of Doubt, Perplexity, and Fear.—Whether they respect the body or the mind; whether they are a load to the shoulders, the head or the heart, the following is a radical cure which may be relied on, for I had it from the Great Physicians: “Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he will sustain thee.”
Coming into the Depot.
By Wm. Sheldon
Our train is nearing the depot of glory—the New Jerusalem—with cars containing anxious watchers, as well as sleeping cars filled with passengers to be awakened by the last signal whistle, just as we approach the depot filled with waiting angels. Our head-light shines out so clearly—“the sure word of prophecy”—that we know where we are on the road. And, in spite of all entreaties to put the head-light in the rear, we are determined to keep it where it belongs, to show us our nearness to the celestial depot. We are willing to have side-lamps scattered through the passenger cars—the lamps of faith, hope, charity, and holiness—but none of these can supplant the great prophetic head-light. Other lights are well in their place; but in this dark time, this light has its particular place, and must not be removed. What if we have passed some hills that were mistaken at first sight for the final depot, thus disappointing a few? and what if some of the passengers carry fast watches, and think the train is behind time? We are surely on the right track, and shall surely arrive on Jerusalem-time. Then we shall be serenaded by armies of angels. Then shouts of triumph will come from the sleeping cars, and countenances beaming in the glorious splendor of the New Jerusalem will be recognized by their fellows long separated from them. Happy reunion in the depot of glory!—Wm. Sheldon.
Works of God.
THE works of God everywhere show perfect wisdom in their Author. Take the air for example. If this were a few miles less in height than it is, men would soon be suffocated; if it were a few miles more, it would be unendurably hot wherever the sun’s rays penetrated. Take land and water for another example. If the land were much harder than it is, it could not be cultivated; if softer, nothing could be made firm on the surface. If the water of the sea were heavier, the fishes would rise to the surface and could not swim; if it were lighter, the fish would sink to the bottom and die. Another example is the proportionate size and weight of man and the globe. If a man were conveyed to the moon, he would weigh five times less than on the earth; he might bound up like a grasshopper, and would be easily upset. If the earth were as large as Jupiter, and otherwise as now, our weight would be increased eleven times, and none of us could walk or stand upright.—Gaussen.
HEAD-DOUBTS AND HEART-FAITH.
The personality of God is the most sublime thought which the mind can conceive. Prof. Tholuck, when passing from the Pantheism in which his early years were shrouded into the light of Christianity, was much troubled by the question, Is God a personal being? After hearing an American student, who is now a distinguished professor of theology, pray, he said to him, “I would give worlds if I could say Thou to God as you do. At the heart I think I am still a Christian, but at the head I am still a philosopher.”
News and Miscellany.
—E. D. Winslow, the Boston forger, was arrested in London on the 15th ult.
—The steamer Gaelic, which arrived in San Francisco on Monday last, brought 531 Chinese.
—The Spanish government has purchased six Krupp guns and 6,000 rounds of ammunition to be sent to Cuba.
—An ice house at Rondout, N. Y., containing six thousand tons of ice, was burned Sunday morning, Feb. 6.
—In the House of Commons Mr. Disraeli moved a bill enabling the Queen to take the style and title of Empress of India.
—The Keeley Motor proved that it was something more than a myth by producing an explosion on Friday evening, in the building in Philadelphia put up for conducting experiments with the “new force.”
According to a telegram from Denver, Rt. Rev. J. P. Machebeuf, Catholic Bishop, has threatened that his constituency will oppose the proposed new Constitution for Colorado if it shall contain an article prohibiting a division of the school fund.
—When elected President, Washington was 57; John Adams was 62; Jefferson, 54; Madison, 60; Monroe, 59; John Quincy Adams, 58; Jackson, 61; Van Buren, 54; Harrison, 67; Taylor, 64; Polk, 49; Pierce, 48; Buchanan, 65; Lincoln, 51; Grant, 46.
—It is understood that parties are now in New York making arrangements to contract for a good many thousand barrels of lager beer, in anticipation that the breweries in and about Philadelphia will not be able to supply all that will be required for consumption.
Mr. John Jacob Astor has announced to the trustees of the Astor Library his intention of personally giving $10,000 for the purchase of additional books. It is estimated by the trustees that the value of the property belonging to the library, after the payment of the late William B. Astor’s bequest, will exceed $1,000,000.
—The last proposed change in the postal law, is to divide third-class matter into two classes, one containing transient newspapers and periodicals and all articles which are not strictly merchandise, to be carried at the present rate, and the other containing proper merchandise, to be carried according to weight and distance.
MARCH 6.—A snow-storm, the heaviest of the season, has again blockaded the eastern bound trains. Slides are frequent, having carried away the snow-sheds at five different places. Between Truckee and the Summit two slides are reported as carrying away the sheds for a distance of five hundred feet. No mail train has arrived for four days.
A Chinese riot occurred in San Francisco at 5 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon, at the Chinese drug-store of See Chy Lung & Co., on Dupont street, resulting in a bloody and exciting fight, in which hatchets, iron bars and knives were freely used. Six were wounded, one fatally. During the fight the street was filled with Chinese, who urged the combatants on with wild yells.
On Monday, the 28th, at half-past four o’clock, news was received from San Quentin that the State Prison in that place was on fire. Immediate assistance was sent from San Francisco, and by eight o’clock the fire was well under control. Among the 1100 prisoners all responded to their names at roll call on the following morning. The loss to the State is estimated at about $75,000.
—The news that came from Washington yesterday of the resignation of General Belknap, the Secretary of War, with the circumstances which led to the act, cannot fail to cause pain and mortification to every honorable American citizen at home or abroad. According to the dispatch the cause of General Belknap’s resignation was the testimony of a witness before one of the Committees of the House of Representatives, to the effect that the Secretary’s wife had accepted a present of $10,000, in consideration of which the witness had obtained the position of a post trader, which he had retained by paying the lady $6,000 a year ever since his appointment.
—Slavery is not by any means extinct. According to statements just published by the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, slaves are now being bought and sold in Egypt, Turkey, Persia, Madagascar, Cuba, and in other countries. To meet the demand for slaves, traders are depopulating whole districts in Central Africa, Abyssinia, etc. The East African slave-trade is now actively carried on both by sea and by land routes. The cooly contract system, as it exists in many countries, is merely a modified form of slavery. It is stated that an attempt was recently made by the British Admiralty to revive the fugitive slave law in the British navy under the national flag.
SIR ANTHONY ROTHSCHILD, Baronet, who died January 3d, at Southampton, England, was one of the chief partners in the great firm of N. M. de Rothschild & Sons. He was the second son of Baron Nathan Meyer de Rothschild, and was born in 1810. He married in 1840, and had two daughters, but no sons, so that the baronetcy descends to his nephew, N. M. de Rothschild, M. P. for Aylesbury. The late baronet was a baron of the Austrian Empire, had been Austrian Consul General in London since 1858, and was a Commissioner of Lieutenancy for London. He will be best remembered for the munificent aid which he rendered to many charities throughout the world, without regard to nationality or creed.
—The St. Louis Dispatch states that the Freemasons of St. Louis came to the United States Marshal and asked him to allow them to bring McDonald, a U. S. official, and a member of the whisky ring, before their order for trial. As this was a novel and unheard-of request, the Marshal informed the committee that he had no authority for the removal of the prisoner, and if they desired to arraign McDonald they would have to hold court in jail. This was not the ultimate design of the lodge-men, and they left the dispensation of justice to the courts which soon landed McDonald in the penitentiary. This is the boldest attempt yet on record to use Masonic influence for the perversion of justice.—Christian Statesman.
A NEW DANGER-SIGNAL BUOY.
Mr. Edgar M. Mann, of Lawrence, Mass., has received a patent upon his souffleur, or “blower,” an invention for the better protection of life and property on the dangerous portions of our seacoast. It is in the shape of an inverted balloon, and is to sit in the water, secured by an anchorage. The upper and tapering portion comprises a signal-horn. It is intended to hold a certain quantity of liquid in the bottom, and within it is a system of pipes, admitting air from the outside, and conveying the same to the signal-horn above. The vessel filled with water and air, is caused to undulate by the motion of the waves, and as the liquid within the vessel is thrown from side to side, the air is forced up, sounding the horn. This signal is continuous, as the pipes or valves lead from each side of the buoy, and the amount of the sound will depend upon the size of the buoy and the arrangement of reeds or whistles producing the signal. The Government is about constructing a buoy from this patent, eight feet high, and it is believed the signal can be heard for a distance of ten miles.
Sunshine.
By Dio Lewis
Seclusion from sunshine is one of the misfortunes of our civilized life. The same cause which makes potato vines white and sickly, when grown in dark cellars, operates to produce the pale, sickly girls that are reared in our parlors. Expose either to the direct rays of the sun, and they begin to show color, health, and strength.
One of the ablest lawyers in our country,—a victim of long and hard brain-labor, came to me a year ago, suffering with partial paralysis. The right leg and hip were reduced in size, with constant pain in the loins. He was obliged, in coming up stairs, to raise the left foot first, on every stair, dragging the right one after it. Pale, feeble, miserable, he told me he had been failing several years, and closed with, “My work is done. At sixty, I find myself worn out.”
I directed him to lie down under a large window, and allow the sun to fall upon every part of his body; at first, ten minutes a day, increasing the time until he could expose himself to the direct rays of the sun a full hour. His habits were not essentially altered in any other particular. In six months, he came running up stairs like a vigorous man of forty, and declared with sparkling eyes, “I have twenty years more of work in me.”
I have assisted many dyspeptic, neuralgic, rheumatic, and hypochondriacal people into health, by the sun-cure. I have so many facts illustrating the wonderful power of the sun’s direct rays in curing certain classes of invalids, that I have seriously thought of publishing a work, to be denominated the “SUN-CURE.”
I take the liberty of introducing another case, which greatly impressed my mind at the time.
Many years ago, a clergyman who had for years been a victim of dyspepsia, and who had prayed for death, as the only door of escape, came, through the advice of a mutual friend, to consult me. I advised the disuse of all medicines, the generous use of cracked wheat, good beef, and much exposure to sunshine. To secure the last-mentioned influence, I directed him to enclose twenty feet square in his garden with a close fence, and plant the ground within with something, the cultivation of which would occupy his mind. Then, when the weather was warm, shutting himself in, he was to busy himself, quite nude, with the cultivation of his vegetables, from ten to sixty minutes a day, always indulging in a thorough bath and friction before leaving. He was radically cured.
I was practicing my profession in Buffalo, New York, during ’49 and ’51, those memorable cholera seasons. I saw at least five cases of cholera on the shady side of the street and houses, to one on the sunny side. One eminent physician in New Orleans reports from his own practice, eight cases of yellow fever on the shady side of the street, to one on the sunny side.
Who has not read Florence Nightingale’s observations in Crimea, showing the difference between the shady and the sunny sides of the hospitals? In St. Petersburg the shady sides of the hospitals were so notoriously unfavorable to the sick soldier that the Czar decreed them into disuse.
The shade-trees about our dwellings have done much to make our wives and daughters pale, feeble, and neuralgic. Trees ought never to stand near enough to a dwelling to cast their shade upon it; and if the blinds were removed, and nothing but a curtain within, with which to lessen, on the hottest days, the intensity of the heat, it would add greatly to the tone of our nerves and to our general vigor. The piazzas which project over the lower story, always make that less healthy than the upper story, especially for sleeping purposes. I am sure I have cured a great many cases of rheumatism by advising patients to leave bedrooms shaded by trees or piazzas, and sleep in a room and bed which were constantly dried and purified by the direct rays of the sun.—Dio Lewis.
Religious Miscellany.
—There are something like fifty thousand Jews in New York city, and most of them are Germans.
—Iowa proposes to restore capital punishment. Eight thousand Quakers in the State have petitioned against the proposition.
—The Rev. Dr. Behrends, who has lately left the Baptist denomination and resigned his pastoral charge in Cleveland, has been called to the Union Church (Congregational) of Providence, Rhode Island. Notification of acceptance has not yet been given by him.
—It is said that the chair in which President Grant sat while listening to Mr. Moody at Philadelphia, brought $25 at auction in that city, on Saturday last. Mr. Moody’s chair brought $55, and Mr. Sankey’s the same. So much for being popular, and in high office!!
—Mr. Godfrey Morse, a member of the Boston School Board, reports that after thorough investigation he finds that the story of a Jewish girl having been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment in the Boston Reformatory because she would not attend school on Saturday morning, was absolutely false.
—While correspondents of the press report great reforms in Russia, private reports from Odessa give proof that the country retains something of its old peculiarities. Mr. A. M. Brodsky, one of the richest Jewish merchants, possessor of large estates in Cherson and Podolia, proprietor of one of the greatest flour businesses in Odessa, and for many years active member of the City Council, was suddenly exiled from his home, and without any ceremony sent off to the government of Peru, for remarks expressed in a session of the City Council disagreeable to the government officers.
—A wonderful movement is reported among the French Roman Catholics of Montreal. Two hundred have renounced Romanism since New Year’s Day, and, under Father Chiniquy’s instructions, have received and professed the faith of the Gospel. This makes over 660 converts in less than two months,—and over a thousand within the past twelve months. Such a movement is unprecedented in this Dominion, if not on this continent. Among recent converts is a French nobleman and his family—Le Metayer Masselin de Guichainvill, whose ancestors were Huguenots, one of them, however, renouncing the Reformed faith at the time when Henry the Fourth of France did so, for political ends.
—Lawyers studying the Bible.—The Rev. Dr. Vaughn, one of the most distinguished clergymen of the Church of England, has commenced a course of public readings in the Greek Testament at the Middle Temple Lecture Room at 8 o’clock in the morning. The course is intended specially for the benefit of the lawyers in whose courts the lectures are delivered, and is to be continued every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday during the law term. “If all lawyers were required to have a knowledge of the Scriptures, it might be a benefit to the profession; and would certainly bring about a better recognition of the Bible “as the supreme rule of the nations’ conduct” than any amendment to the constitution possibly can do.
Is Green Tea a Poison?
By a new law, entitled the Sale-of-Food-and-Drugs Act, the Commissioners of Customs in England are given extraordinary powers in regard to the stoppage of imports of adulterated edible goods. A remarkable correspondence between the Commissioners and a firm of London tea-merchants has recently been published, much to the horror of the devotees of the cup that cheers. The firm inquired whether the Commissioners meant to confiscate all adulterated tea after Jan. 1, and explained that such a course would put a summary stop to the supply of green tea, inasmuch as every particle of that tea is “faced.” “Faced” is a pleasing paraphrase for “adulterated.” Since this rather startling disclosure the London Times has published a number of letters pro and con.
Black tea is the leaf in its natural state. Most of the varieties are, however, too mild to satisfy a palate used to pickles, mustard, pepper sauces, and like condiments. The dealers, therefore, kindly poison the leaf, and produce what they are pleased to advertise as “a superior quality of green tea.” At one time ten pounds of green tea were sold in the American market for every pound imported. The process of adulteration was performed at the seaboard. A long cylinder, turning slowly over a fire, was half-filled with black tea. Then handfuls of turmeric, indigo, and other poisonous matter was thrown in. After the whole had been cooked together the stuff came out as green tea. Each leaf was perhaps coated with copper! Since then “Chinese cheap labor” has supplanted Caucassian cunning. The Mongolian ships the tea already greened, and so saves the importer trouble. The change, however, is a bad one for the consumer. The almond-eyed heathen have surpassed their Christian teachers in the art of adulteration. A member of a Manchester tea firm writes to the London Times that the coloring matter used is a “filthy compound” of silicate of magnesium, Prussian blue, “and other dirt,” and that the leaves colored are faded and old, and mixed with leaves of a plant bearing the suggestive name of “lie tea.” The “lie tea,” we may add, flourishes in New Jersey, and is carefully cultivated there—it is not difficult to surmise why.
There is such a thing as pure green tea, but it is much weaker than the artificial stuff, and has to be prepared by a process that is long and costly. It is rarely exported from China.
Recent reformers have argued that excessive tea-drinking does as much harm to women as excessive consumption of alcohol does to men. The comparison of the two may be an exaggeration, but it is not to be denied that tea has many victims, and that they, one and all, prefer it in its poisoned state.—Chicago Tribune.
Fruit in Prehistoric Times.
Mr. Messikomer has discovered, in making explorations of the cities of ancient European lakes, the fossil remains of many of the primitive inhabitants. Cooking utensils and other articles are found in abundance in the same localities. In many places the food of the ancient inhabitants is found in considerable quantities preserved in a fossil state. It is an interesting fact, which corroborates the statements of history, that the remains found are almost always of a vegetable character, being chiefly fruits. This observation is so general that scientists have decided that the primitive inhabitants of those regions were vegetarians.—Ex.
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By John Norton Loughborough
The cause of “present truth” is making some advancement in San Francisco. Our meetings there last Sabbath, and First-day evening, were well attended, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather. New ones are becoming interested and bear their testimony in the social meetings.
The work of canvassing the cities of San Francisco and Oakland to obtain subscribers for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, is progressing well. Last Sunday evening one brother handed in ten names with $20.00, another five names, at $2.00 and $3.00 a year. These names they had obtained in one-half of a rainy day, by using the “Household Manual” as a premium. A sister also gave us ten new subscribers. In Oakland the same work is being carried on, and the subscribers are coming in.
Brethren and Sisters of California, let us all arouse, now, and take hold of this work of canvassing to extend the circulation of the SIGNS. It is just what the people need to instruct them in the great truths of God’s Word. Now is our favored opportunity to work. Shall we do it and be indeed “fellow-helpers to the truth?” 3 John 8, or, like Meroz, shall we sit still when there is opportunity to do valiantly for the Lord, and receive, instead of a blessing, the curse of the Lord against Meroz? “Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.” Judges 5:23.
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State Quarterly Meeting.
THE second Cal. State Quarterly Meeting of this fiscal year will be held with district No. 9, in San Francisco, Sabbath and First-day, April 1 and 2.
This will be an important meeting, as we now design, immediately after it, to enter upon our summer’s tent campaign. We hope to see a full attendance of the directors at this State quarterly meeting.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres.
LUCIE BUSH, Secretary.
District Quarterly Meetings.
THE district quarterly meetings of Cal., for the second quarter of this fiscal year, will be held as follows:—
DISTRICT No. 1.—At Petaluma, March 18 and 19.
DISTRICT No. 2.—At Santa Rosa, March 11 and 12. The elders elect of Healdsburg church are to be ordained at this meeting.
DISTRICT No. 3.—At Napa, March 25 and 26. The elders elect of the St. Helena church are to be ordained at this meeting.
DISTRICT No. 4.—At Bear Valley, March 18 and 19. As Bro. John Judson, director, shall arrange.
DISTRICT No. 5.—At Woodland, March 18 and 19.
DISTRICT No. 6.—At Healey Ranch, near Red Bluff, Tehama Co., March 18 and 19.
DISTRICT No. 7.—At Oakland, March 25 and 26.
DISTRICT No. 8.—At Gilroy, March 18 and 19.
DISTRICT No. 9.—At San Francisco, in connection with the State quarterly meeting, April 1 and 2.
The librarians in each church should see that blanks for quarterly reports are placed in the hands of all their missionary members, in season to be filled out and returned to the librarian by the Sabbath before your district quarterly meeting.
Immediately after the close of each district quarterly meeting the district secretary should forward to the State Secretary, Sister Lucie Bush, Woodland, Cal., a report of the workings of your district for the quarter. The report should state how many missionary members there are in your district, and how many reported.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres.
LUCIE BUSH, Secretary.
Stockholders' Meeting.
By James White; John Norton Loughborough; Wesley Diggins; John I. Tay; C. R. Chittenden
The first annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association will be held at the Office of the Signs of the Times, on Castro street, between Eleventh and Twelfth, Oakland, Tuesday, April 4, 1876, at 10 a. m.; for the purpose of electing a Board of five Directors, and transacting any other business that may come before the meeting, as provided in our By-laws.
James White,
J. N. Loughborough,
Wesley Diggins,
John I. Tay,
C. R. Chittenden,
Board of Directors.
Health Institute.
The Board of Directors of the Health Reform Institute, located at Battle Creek, Michigan, have decided to put up a large main building during the present year. After receiving a letter from us, making plans and offering suggestions, the Board met, Feb. 27, and passed the following resolutions:
“Resolved, That we do heartily endorse the plans and suggestions of Bro. White, in his letter for the erection of a building, and the advancement of the interests of the Health Institute, and that we pledge ourselves to co-operate with him in the carrying out of the same.”
Also
“Resolved, That we invite Elder James White and Bro. O. B. Jones to come to this place at their earliest convenience for the purpose of aiding and directing in the carrying out of said plans.”
Meeting of the Board of Directors.
By A. M. Loughborough
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, held March 7, 1876, the following resolutions were presented by Wesley Diggins, and unanimously passed by the Board :—
Resolved, That Bro. O. B. Jones, in coming to Oakland, Cal., and in putting up the Office Building, has acted as requested and directed by a Committee chosen by the California Conference, and as authorized by the unanimous vote of the Board of Directors; and has shown himself a man of ability, and of sterling integrity, giving us entire satisfaction in his faithful efforts to build well, with the smallest amount of money. Also
Resolved, That, in case he should go to Michigan in answer to the call of the Board of Directors of the Battle Creek Health Institute, to put up buildings for that Institution, we urgently invite him to return, and make his home in this locality.
The following resolution was also introduced by Bro. Diggins, and unanimously passed :—
Resolved, That this Board express their entire satisfaction with the part Elder White has acted in the formation of the Pacific S. D. A. P. Association, in erecting the Publishing Office, and in conducting the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. We cite his untiring labors, and the sacrifice of means he has made in this enterprise, as the best proof of his unselfish desire to advance the work upon this coast. And we express the belief that he has done in establishing and conducting the press on this coast what no other man in our ranks would do, or could have done.
A. M. Loughborough, Sec.
Testimony for the Church.
By R. F. Cottrell
No. 26.
I HAVE read this work with deep interest; and though my recommendation can add nothing to its value and importance, I feel it a privilege to commend it to the prayerful reading and devout consideration of all. If any are not fully established in the faith of the Heavenly origin of these instructions, let them read the first three chapters of this pamphlet, and, closing out prejudice and external things, look awhile alone upon the internal evidence concerning the origin of such communications. Their harmony with all that is good, and their opposition to all that is evil, are clearly manifest; and this is not all, while all that is said is said in the simplicity of truth, and its verity is obvious to all when expressed, there seems to be something superhuman in the force of expression—an evidence of the presence of the Spirit of God. May the church for whom they are designed as a benefit not fail to be benefited.
R. F. COTTRELL.
Quarterly Meeting at Woodland.
By John Norton Loughborough
OWING to the short notice the quarterly meeting at Woodland was not held Feb. 26 and 27 as before appointed. It will now be held March 18 and 19. We will try and furnish preaching for the occasion, as requested by that district.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, President.
J. N. L
By John Norton Loughborough
NOTE.—If any of the missionary districts lack blanks, let their secretary write to J. N. Loughborough, Oakland, Cal., and get a supply.