p. 368 | Signs of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 46. (9/23/1875)

Earlier text: A Word to the Tract Societies

What Sleep will Cure.

The cry for rest has always been louder than the cry for food. Not that it is more important, but it is often harder to get. The best rest comes from sound sleep. Of two men or women otherwise equal, the one who sleeps the best will be the most moral, healthy and efficient. Sleep will do much to cure irritability of temper, peevishness, uneasiness. It will restore to vigor an over-worked brain. It will build up and make strong a weary body. It will do much to cure dyspepsia, particularly that variety known as nervous dyspepsia. It will relieve the languor and prostration felt by consumptives. It will cure hypochondria. It will cure the blues. It will cure the headache. It will cure neuralgia. It will cure a broken spirit. Indeed, we might make a long list of nervous maladies that sleep will cure.

The cure of sleeplessness, however, is not so easy, especially in those who carry grave responsibilities. The habit of sleeping well is one which, if broken up for any length of time, is not easily regained. Often, a severe illness, treated by powerful drugs so deranges the nervous system that sleep is never sweet after it. Or, perhaps, long continued watchfulness produces the same effect; or hard study, or too little exercise of the muscular system, or tea and whisky drinking and tobacco-using. To break up the habit are required:

A good, clean bed.
Sufficient good exercise to produce weariness and pleasant occupation.
Good air, and not too warm a room.
Freedom from too much care.
A clean stomach.
A clean conscience.
Avoidance of stimulants and narcotics.

For those who are overworked, haggard, nervous, who pass sleepless nights, we commend the adoption of such habits as shall secure sleep, otherwise life will be short, and what there is of it sadly imperfect.— Herald of Health.

Religious Miscellany.

By Editor

—The Baptists have a church in Paris, with an average attendance of 120 members.

—Mr. Muller’s well-known Orphan Asylum at Bristol, England, containing 2,000 children has been visited by an alarming outbreak of typhoid fever, affecting about 500 of the little ones; but out of this number only twelve had died to Aug. 12, and the majority were convalescent.

—A correspondent of the Liberal Christian explains why Western Unitarian societies give so little money for denominational objects. The explanation seems to be that there are so few Unitarians in them:

“The members, some of them, are Spiritualists, some Universalists, rarely a genuine Unitarian. Many call themselves infidels; more are simply dissatisfied with Orthodoxy. Emancipated from the thraldom of Orthodox creeds, they are impatient of Orthodox methods, and rebel against the contribution-box or levies for missionary work. They tell you plainly, when you ask them for funds to be used in propagandism: We have no sympathy with the work, and will not give a cent.”

—The recent examination at the Congregational Theological Seminary in Bangor, Me., took a new departure in ecclesiastical history, as the following questions and answers give full proof:—

“What was the apostolic and primitive mode of baptism?” “By immersion.” “Under what circumstances only was sprinkling allowed?” “In cases of sickness.” “When was the practice of sprinkling or pouring generally introduced?” “Not until the fourteenth century.” “For what reason was the change adopted?” “As Christianity advanced and spread in colder latitudes the severity of the climate made it impracticable to immerse.”

Let us see if this is so: we find that sprinkling first came into common use in warm climates, notably in Africa, while hundreds of the ancient Britons were immersed in the rivers, but seldom if ever sprinkled. To-day, sprinkling is most common in the mild latitude of Italy, and wherever else the pope has sway. And immersion is most common in cold countries—such as Russia, Siberia not excepted. The whole Greek church, reaching farthest of any into the frozen zone, practicing immersion with infants as well as adults, disproves the supposition that the coldness of a climate may have caused the rejection of the Lord’s command for baptism, and the substitution of man’s command for rantism.

—On church music the Examiner and Chronicle says: “The music of our churches is the most difficult of all things to manage. Quartette choirs, chorus choirs, choirs made up of professionals, choirs made up of volunteers, seem to be equally unsatisfactory. It does not strike people pleasantly to know that the man who leads the congregation in the praises of God on Sunday morning with his cornet-bugle, leads a band on Sunday night at a Sabbath-breaking entertainment. ‘Nearer, my God, to Thee’ does not sound well from the lips of a man who sang so late at a theater on Saturday night that he had not time to wash the burnt-cork off of his face.” Why not dismiss the choir, select a good leader from the congregation, and let each worshiper use his own voice, instead of hiring some one to praise God for him.

—What are professed Christians thinking about when they appoint camp-meetings for the service of God, then advertise croquet and other pleasure-grounds as an attraction of the place, and when assembled, spend a small portion of the time in listening to sermons on entire sinlessness, and the greater portion of it in visiting and feasting. Of the great Eastern sea-side camp-meetings an exchange says: “It has been observed that the number of professed conversions has been very small. Formerly the aim was to convert sinners. Now the aim seems to be to convert saints. The drift of the preaching and the exhortation, with the labor, has been expended to bring professing Christians into a particular state of mind called sanctification. And there seems to have been more joy in these camps over the winning of the ninety-and-nine who needed no repentance, rather than over the sinners who had never professed Christ. Nearly everywhere the persons professing entire holiness have been in the ascendant. In connection with these labors, the inroad of worldliness and the rise of the tide of pleasure, have well-nigh choked the word of grace.”

News and Miscellany.

-Heavy frosts have visited New Hampshire, September 12. Water froze in several places.

-Fifteen thousand animals are affected by the foot and mouth disease in Dorsetshire, England.

-The largest library in the United States is the Library of Congress, which contains 274,000 volumes.

-The Methodist Church has over one hundred and forty Christian women engaged daily in spreading the gospel in India.

-The announcement is made that arrangements will soon be completed whereby the New York mail will reach San Francisco in six days.

-Recently two inkstands and a pen were dug up at Pompeii. The pen is of metal, and made almost similar in shape to our quill pens.

-There lives in Griffin, Ohio, a gentleman one hundred and sixteen years old, who reads the newspapers yet. He has voted for every President except Washington.

PARIS, September 13.—A water-spout, causing terrible loss of life and destruction of property occurred during the storm yesterday, at Montpelier, in the Department of Herault. Over sixty persons were drowned.

-The Church of England Temperance Society propose to erect temperance stalls in the streets of London, for the sale of temperance drinks, cakes, and bread and butter. An exhibition of one of the stalls was recently given in the grounds of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

-The Catholic riot in Montreal still continues. The French Canadians are making systematic preparations to prevent any further attempt at Guibord's burial. The Catholics oppose Guibord's burial in the lot which belonged to him in their cemetery on the ground that he was a member of a society of free-thinkers which had been denounced by the Bishop.

-Judge Gilbert, of the Supreme Court of Brooklyn, (N. Y.) renders a decision unfavorable to the colored people who have tried to force the teachers to admit their children to the (white) public schools. The Court holds that the common schools are a public charity, that the benefits conferred by them are a free gift from the State, and like every other donor, the State may prescribe in what manner and upon what condition the gift may be enjoyed.

-Numerous important public offices in Bohemia are held by Jews. Dr. Bernstein, of Prague, chief physician of the military staff, has been elected almost unanimously as dean of the Academic College of Physicians. Dr. Knight Von Weiner (Vice-President of the Jewish community of Prague) is President of the Bohemian Bar; and Mr. M. Dormitzer, for a long time previous to his removal to Vienna, was President of the Bohemian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

-As evidence of the advancement of the negroes of the South, and that their condition should not be considered a political issue, Mr. Nordhoff, giving the result of his investigations in Georgia, says: "It is not difficult to hear of instances of abuse; but the best and conclusive proof that these are only sporadic cases, and that in general the colored people are safe in their lives and property, is found in an official report of the Comptroller-General of the State for 1874, giving the character and value of property tax-payers for that year. The number of colored polls returned was 83,318. These returned an aggregate value of taxable property amounting to $6,157,798, on which they actually paid $30,788 in taxes. They owned 238,769 acres of agricultural land, and city and town property to the amount of $1,200,115. Now, remember, that these people were slaves only nine years before; that they owned, when they obtained their freedom, in 1865, absolutely nothing."

-Our readers will perhaps smile when we tell them that [a dearth of theologians] is beginning to be the cry in Germany. But it is the truth; and this danger is the now much discussed theme of ecclesiastical and even political organs. To judge from German commentaries, and the great host of theological works published in this land of religious thought, and biblical investigation, one would suppose that it was surfeited with them; and in a sense, perhaps, this is even the case—for the Germans have made so profound a science of biblical exegesis that it is, we fear too frequently confined to the learned letter, to the neglect of the sanctified spirit. The trouble is that German students no longer flock to the theological schools, and these are now so thinly attended that there are fears expressed in some quarters that the theological faculties will find themselves without occupation; and the desire is to avoid, by all possible means, this public calamity. Why this abnormal state of things has increased so greatly of late years it is not so easy to explain. Some attribute it to the scanty pay of the parson—but this is better than it used to be when crowds of young men filled the seats before theological teachers. Others declare the cause to be the wide divergence between the liberal and the orthodox tendency within the church; but this latitude ought to act as an attraction to young men, by giving them a choice among divergent opinions.—N. Y. Advocate.

What is Under the House?

One great fault in building houses in both city and country, is to make them too low on the ground. There should be distance enough to allow a free circulation of air, say three feet, between the floor and the earth. All rubbish, shavings, etc., should be cleaned away before siding up, and a good ventilation should be kept open to insure dry, sweet air under the floors. Much sickness is caused to many families from low underpinning, and close, damp, stagnant air, carrying miasma into the lower rooms, through the floors of dwellings. Many houses are built upon flat ground, and the earth thrown around the outside, making a sink under the house to hold water. This is wrong, It is much better to raise the ground under the house, and even gravel and cement before building. At any rate, ventilation under the house should always be attended to. We do not believe in cellars under the house in this climate, but whenever there is a cellar it should be open, and always kept clean of decaying substances. Guard against the enemies to health that lurk under a house.—Ex.

How to give Children an Appetite.

GIVE children an abundance of out-door exercise, fun and frolic. Make them regular in their habits, and feed them upon plain, nourishing food, and they will seldom, if ever, complain of a lack of appetite. But keep them over-tasked in school, confined closely to the house the rest of the time, frowning on every attempt at play; feed them upon rich or high-seasoned food, candies, nuts, etc. Allow them to eat between meals, and in the evening, and you need not expect them to have good appetites. On the contrary, you may expect they will be pale, weak, and sickly.

Don't cram them with food when they don't want or have no appetite for it—such a course is slow murder. If they have no appetite, encourage, and if need be, command them to take exercise in the open air. Don't allow them to study too much, and especially keep them from reading the exciting light literature which so much abounds in our book stores and circulating libraries. In addition to securing exercise for the children, as above, change their diet somewhat, especially if they have been eating fine flour, change to coarse or graham flour.

California Camp-Meeting.

The California Camp-meeting will be held at Fairfax station, Marin Co., from Sept. 23, at 9 A. M., to Sept. 30, 6 A. M. Bro. and sister White are expected to attend. We hope to see all our brethren and sisters in the State at this meeting, and as many of your friends as you can induce to come. Opportunity for pitching tents, or space for rooms in the building, will be granted to any interested parties who wish to enjoy the meeting. Food for man and beast will be furnished upon the ground at reasonable prices. All coming should provide themselves with bedding unless they have made special arrangements with some tent company to provide them beds. We can accommodate men who bring blankets and have no tent, in our large tent.

It is desired by the committee that, as far as consistent, tents, and cloth for rooms in the building, be shipped to the camp-ground, Sept. 15. No tents should arrive later than the morning of Sept. 22. All our tents should be up, and our campers be upon the grounds by Sept. 22, so that the opening of the meeting, on the morning of the 23d, shall not be disturbed by erecting and preparing tents.

The fare for the round trip, from San Francisco to Fairfax and return, from Sept. 22 to Oct. 1 inclusive, is $1.00. In buying your tickets to Fairfax, at S. F., state that you are going to the camp-meeting, and you will get your ticket for Fairfax, and a return ticket to San Francisco for the $1.00. Your return ticket is good until Oct. 1, the day after the meeting closes. Particulars about the time of trains from S. F., and the place of taking trains, will be given hereafter.

G. D. HAGER, D. B. RICKEY, WM. HARMON. } Camp-Meeting Com.

A Scrap of Anti-Masonic History.

By Thurlow Weed

THE FATE OF MORGAN AS TOLD BY THURLOW WEED.

I DID not personally know William Morgan, who was for more than two months writing his book in a house adjoining my residence, at Rochester. When applied to by Mr. Dyer, my next door neighbor, to print the book purporting to disclose the secrets of Masonry I declined to do so, believing that a man who had taken an oath to keep a secret, had no right to disclose it. Although not a Freemason, I had entertained favorable opinions of an institution to which Washington, Franklin and Lafayette belonged. On my refusal to print his book, Morgan removed to Batavia, where he made the acquaintance of David C. Miller, editor of the Advocate, also a Mason, who became his publisher.

I pass briefly over a series of facts which were judicially established, embracing the arrest of Morgan, his conveyance to and confinement in the County Jail at Canandaigua, from which he was released and conveyed by night, in close carriages, through Rochester, Clarkson, and along the Ridge Road to Fort Niagara, in the magazine of which he was confined. While thus confined a Knight Templar encampment was installed at Lewiston. When at supper the zeal and enthusiasm of the Templars having been aroused by speeches and wine, Colonel William King, of Lockport, invited four men, (Whitney, Howard, Chubbuck and Garside) from their seats at the banqueting table into an adjoining apartment, where he informed them that he had an order from the Grand Master (De Witt Clinton), the execution of which required their assistance. This party was then driven to Saratoga, reaching the fort a little before 12 o'clock.

Upon entering the magazine, Colonel King informed Morgan that his friends had completed their arrangements for his removal to and residence upon a farm in Canada. Morgan walked with them to the wharf, where a boat was held in readiness for them by Elisha Adams, an invalid soldier, into which the party passed and rowed away, Adams remaining to warn the boat off by signal, if, on its return, any alarm had been given. It was nearly 2 o'clock in the morning when the boat came back, having, as Adams expressed it, lost one man, only five of the six being on board when the boat returned. When the boat reached a point where the Niagara river empties into Lake Ontario, a rope being wound around Morgan's body, to either end of which a sinker was attached, he was thrown overboard. It is due to the memory of Governor Clinton to say that Colonel King had no such order, and no authority to make use of his name. It is proper, also, to add that none of these men survive. John Whitney, of Rochester, whom I knew well, related all the circumstances connected with the last act in that tragedy to me at Albany, in 1831, in the presence of Simeon B. Jewett, of Clarkson, and Samuel Barton, of Lewiston.

Camp-Meeting Mail.

By Editor

LETTERS for those attending Fairfax Camp-meeting should be addressed, San Rafael, Marin Co., (Camp-ground).

Conference Funds.

By John Norton Loughborough

We shall expect each church to be ready to square the S. B. and missionary accounts at the Conference. To this end let each individual see that their dues, under either head, are immediately paid to their respective churches.

J. N. L.

Funds.

By Editor

We trust all who pledged to the Publishing Fund and the Tent Fund, are making calculations to meet their pledges at camp-meeting. We have some heavy payments to make immediately after camp-meeting, and we need the means to meet these payments.

No Signs Next Week.

By Editor

NEXT week is our camp-meeting at Fairfax, and that all employed in the Office may attend the meeting, there will be no paper printed next week. Those that are at meeting will need no paper. Those at home will find something of interest in back numbers which will bear a second reading.

Campers, Read This!

By Editor

LET it be understood by all coming to the camp-meeting that the Oakland Ferry-boats have recently moved their landing place in San Francisco from near Broadway wharf to the foot of Market St., and the San Quentin boats for Camp-ground leave at the same wharf near the landing place of Oakland boats.

See time table of trains for the Camp-ground, in this paper.

Camp-Meeting Time Table.

Week Days.—Leave San Francisco, via. San Quentin, foot of Market St., 9:15 A. M., 1:30 P. M., 4:45 P. M.

Returning leave Fairfax 10:28 A. M., 2:45 P. M.

Sundays.—Leave San Francisco, via. Sauceleto Ferry, foot of Davis St., 8 A. M., and via. San Quentin Ferry, foot of Market St., 9:30 A. M., 12. M.

Returning leave Fairfax via. San Quentin 9:45 A. M., 4:15 P. M.

Via. Sauceleto, 4.25 P. M.

Come to the Camp-Meeting.

By John Norton Loughborough

EARNEST efforts will be made on the part of the Committee to have all in readiness for the Camp-meeting in good season, if the churches, on their part, comply with requests published from time to time in the SIGNS relative to the meeting. Bro. and Sister White are to be at this meeting to aid by their testimony and deep experience in the work. This meeting will be a rare opportunity to get good in the Lord's work. We hope none of our people will excuse themselves from coming.

There will be an excellent opportunity for your friends to learn the truth at the camp-meeting. Bring on all your friends you can induce to come. Plead earnestly with the Lord to prepare all our hearts for this great annual gathering of his people, and to work in power for both saints and sinners. Come yourselves to work for God. Come in the name of the Lord. Come. J. N. L.

The Lust of Riches.

The lust of becoming rich is one of the most prevalent evils of the present day. It gives rise to wild and dishonest schemes, to reckless speculation, to a reckless mania for anything which promises extraordinary gain, and ultimately to wide-spread ruin. There underlies this a desire for self-indulgence, an aversion to healthful, plodding industry, and work for our neighbor’s good. We wish not to render uses to others, but only to make them subservient to ourselves. Such a course is replete with anxiety and with danger. We rest not in the Lord but in ourselves. We have no peace, but an over-agitated mind. We walk on hollow ground, and fear every moment it will sink under us. Thus is a painful uncertainty our constant companion, and not unfrequently insanity is the result. Oh, how much better would it be to rest patiently for Him. The gain may be slower, but what of that? All the real necessities and comforts of life are supplied, and what want we with more? “A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”

The prosperity of the wicked is often the only means of making them useful to society. Outward success will often stimulate them to make gigantic efforts for human improvement, and they cannot benefit themselves without benefiting others. Such are the admirable laws of divine order and wisdom, that selfishness is compelled to minister to the public good, and this willingly.—Sel.

State Missionary Meeting.

THE next yearly gathering of the California State T. and M. Society will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Fairfax, Sept. 23 to 30, at such time as may be announced by the President of the society after the opening of the camp-meeting.

All who have paid one dollar into our State missionary funds for membership, are permanent members of the society, and are entitled to vote in all the meetings of the society. Those who have not yet become members of the society, will do well to come prepared to pay their $1.00 and become members.

We request the directors, district secretaries, business agents, and librarians of our churches, to bring all their account and record books of the society to the meeting.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres. LUCIE BUSH, Sec.

California Conference.

The next yearly session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Fairfax, Sept. 23-30, at such time as may be announced by the President after the opening of the camp-meeting.

We hope to see a full representation, by delegates from every company of Sabbath-keepers in the State. Each church of twenty members or less is entitled to one delegate, and to one additional delegate for every additional fifteen members over the first twenty. Each company which has organized Systematic Benevolence, and has a leader appointed, is entitled to delegates, and should choose them according to their respective numbers.

Churches that have completed their organization since the last conference was held should come prepared to unite with the conference.

The secretary of the conference will furnish to each church blanks for delegates, credentials, and reports of standing and finances. Let all church books and s. b. books be brought to the conference.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, JOHN JUDSON, J. W. BOND. } Cal. Conf. Com.

Appointments.

By Editor

Oakland.—Regular services are conducted by the Seventh-day Adventists in their hall, corner of Twelfth and Broadway, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11:30 A. M., and each Sunday evening.

San Francisco.—Seventh-day Adventist services each Sabbath (Saturday) at the A. P. A. Hall, Mission street near Third, at 11 A. M., and every Sunday evening.

Business Department.

By Editor

"Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully," (margin, negligently). Jer. 48:10.

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MISCELLANEOUS. A A Bradford $4.00 3-46, Augustus Rasmussen $10.00 6-46, Dr. Kimball Favor 50c 2-10, S Kitchens 2-10.

PUBLICATIONS.

By Editor

Prices in Coin.

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Bible Dictionary of Bible names, customs and countries, and maps of Bible lands. $1.50 per copy, post paid.

The History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, by J. N. Andrews. 528 pp. $1.25.

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Life of Wm. Miller, with likeness. $1.00.

The Nature and Destiny of Man. By U. Smith. 384 pp. $1.00. Paper, 40 cts.

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The United States in Prophecy. By U. Smith. Bound, 40 cts. Paper, 20 cts.

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History of the Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul. By D. M. Canright, 25 cts.

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The Ministration of Angels; and the Origin, History, and Destiny of Satan. By D. M. Canright. 20 cts.

The Three Messages of Rev. 14, and the Two-Horned Beast. By J. N. Andrews. 15 cts.

The Resurrection of the Unjust; a Vindication of the Doctrine. By J. H. Waggoner. 15 cts.

Redemption, or the Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness (Life of Christ, No. 2). By Mrs E. G. White. 15 cts.

The Saint's Inheritance, or the Earth made New. By J. N. Loughborough. 10 cts.

The Sanctuary and Twenty-three Hundred Days. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.

Sunday Seventh-day. A Refutation of Mede, Jennings, Akers and Fuller. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts

The Truth Found; The Sabbath. By J. H. Waggoner. 10 cts.

Brown's Review of Gilfillan on the Sabbath. 10 cts.

Vindication of the True Sabbath. Morton. 10 cts.

The Date of the Seventy Weeks of Dan. 9, established. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.

The Seven Trumpets of Rev. 8 and 9. 10 cts.

Matthew Twenty-four. By James White. 10c.

Position and Work of the True People of God under the Third Angel's Message. Littlejohn. 10 cts.

The Hope of the Gospel: What it is, and when it will be consummated. By J. N. Loughborough, 80 pp. 10 cts.

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Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, etc., etc.

By Editor

For Sale at this Office.

OUR BOOK LIST.—Any persons on the Pacific Coast wishing any of the publications named in our book list can obtain them by mail or express by writing to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, California, enclosing the published price of the same. When sent by mail, books will be post paid; when by express, at the expense of the one ordering the books; but in this case a liberal discount will be made when ten dollars worth or more are paid for with any one order.

Eastern Camp-Meetings.

By Editor

OHIO, Bowling Green, Sept. 30–Oct. 5, 1875.

INDIANA, Bunker Hill, Oct. 7–12, 1875.