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Signs of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 11.

Romanism’s Growth in Canada
Earlier text: SYLVESTER, CONSTANTINE, AND THE LORD'S DAY

THE WONDER-BALL.

DORA lay on a bed of pain. This active, frolicsome girl had suddenly been doomed to the shaded light, the tedious quiet, and the physical suffering of the sick-room. A fall on the ice while skating had done the mischief. It was very hard, harder because of her full health and high spirits, for she sorely missed the fresh air, the company of her mates, and the world's bright things generally.
"Poor gay bird," the doctor said, "she has a broken wing, indeed. She will flutter and struggle for her freedom for a while, but by and by she will be patient and make the best of it."
By degrees the extreme pain diminished, and that was relief. To have the curtain lifted a bit and a chink of light let in was another step in advance; then her brother was allowed to see her, then a friend or two for a few minutes at a time. This was encouraging, but very slow.
"Is the skating good yet? and do you have lots of fun?" she asked wistfully of the two little friends who had come in to sit a half hour with her after school.
"Oh, lots of fun! How do you bear it lying here all day?" said Alice. "It must seem fearfully long and dreary."
"It does, sometimes," sighed Dora. Then, brightening, "But mamma has promised me I may invite some of the girls to tea if I keep on gaining. I have always had the promise of a party when I was twelve years old, and that will be in two weeks."
"Can you get up and stand on your feet then?" cried Alice, joyfully.
"Oh, no! but I can see the rest play, and I am to have as many girls as I am years old."
Caryl saw something peeping out from under Dora's pillow.
"What is it?" she asked.
"I've been learning to knit," said Dora, "and there's nothing amuses me so; it's almost better than stories."
They examined the pink and blue strip she spread out before them on the white bedcover, and asked what it was for.
"Nothing," she said, "only just to be busy."
"Why don't you knit an afghan?" asked Caryl, who was an industrious, housewifely girl. "I know a lovely stitch."
"I shouldn't know what colors to choose—or anything," said Dora; "and it would take so long."
"I can show you. I'll bring mine for you to see. I am making it for Aunt Gretchen, who is an invalid."
The thought pleased Dora almost as much as that of the party. It would be something to beguile her many long, lonely, restless moments.
When Caryl and Alice had said good-night, and gone out upon the street, Caryl burst out with great excitement, "Oh, I have such a splendid idea, I could hardly keep it to myself till we got away!"
"What is it? what about?" asked Alice in some amazement.
"A present for Dora—a birthday present. My Aunt Gretchen has told me of a gift the Germans make which they call a wonder-ball. Let's make one for Dora!"
"How can we? I don't know how."
"I'll tell you. You know the German women are great knitters. They get a quantity of bright wool for any purpose they have in mind—say an afghan. Each friend buys a gift—a small one is best—and they get together and begin to wind the yarn. A gift is at the center of the ball. Around this is enough of the yarn to hide it entirely, when another gift is added, and so on, until all the presents are included and the yarn wound."
"How very curious! How are they gotten out?"
"They are knitted out. The one who receives the wonder-ball is requested not to unwind any faster than the actual knitting requires."
"Oh, I see! There is always a present to come as long as the ball lasts."
"Yes. You can see how interesting it makes it. There's no telling how many things are wound up in it, and as soon as you've reached one you are nearly crazy to get at the rest."
"We'll make one! we'll make one!" cried Alice. "Won't poor Dora be delighted?"
An afternoon was set for the winding, and after school a flock of the twelve girls who had received Dora's invitations to her birthday tea-party met at Caryl's house, who, as the most experienced one, had been asked to buy the wool.
Each had a little box with her card tied upon the top with a ribbon. Caryl had chosen wools of the brightest, most attractive colors, and by the time they were all wound, and the gifts inclosed, it made a ball almost as big as a bushel basket.
"How shall we carry it, and where will she keep it?" cried one.
"Mamma has a large scrap-basket she says we may have," said Caryl. "I'll put pretty ribbons on the handles and make it look festive. Bob will take it over for us on his sled."
Dora was gaining fast of late, and though she could not leave her bed, she found great pleasure and diversion in the birthday preparations. When the hour for the party arrived, her little friends came in in a body, bearing the wonder-ball among them. Dora laughed more like her old self than she had before in weeks. She was dazzled and delighted with the thought of having a series of unknown presents ahead.
"I presume I'll get about one a week, if I work hard," she said.
"More than that, if you like to knit as well as I do," said Caryl.
"I surely shall like to now. I can hardly wait to begin."
There was a pair of white ivory needles stuck in the ball, and while the other children played games, Caryl took a seat by Dora's bed, set up the knitting, and showed her how to begin. It was a very pretty stitch, and she forgot about her helplessness while she practiced it. The party was pronounced delightful, but when the guests were gone, they left behind them a wonderful source of pleasure.
"The very name sounds as if it came from fairy land," said Dora.
The bit of knitting Caryl had set up Dora kept for a pattern, and the next day she began upon the afghan in earnest.
"I lay awake in the night and thought what I could do with it when it's done," she said to her mother. "You know poor little Biddy Ryan. She is worse sick than I am, and of course can never walk, since she is paralyzed. If the girls think it right, I shall give it to her."
The first present that was unwound, after many busy stitches, was a beautiful gold thimble. It had Caryl's name on the card.
"She means I shan't be lazy," cried Dora, holding it up, delighted.
According as its little owner was industrious or idle, did the wonder-ball unroll its treasures. Each had a surprise of its own; in one was a loving note; with another was a bit of original verse; with another a painted card. It lasted weeks and weeks, for Dora's mother would not allow her to confine herself too closely to the knitting. By the time the last gift was unwound, she had so gained in strength she could sit by the window and watch for her friends' visits. They came and helped her join the strips and make the fringe, and the day Caryl's brother came to carry it for her to little Biddy Ryan for her birthday present, Dora took her first step since her fall.
"I wish everybody could have as good a time being sick as I have had," she said. "The doctor thinks the wonder-ball cured me, for it made me so contented. And how proud Biddy Ryan will be of her bright coverlet! I wish the wonder-ball might cure her, too."—Selected.

THE HIGHEST STRUCTURE EVER BUILT.

By N. Y. Evangelist

ONE of the principal features of interest at the Paris Exposition next summer will be the Eiffel Tower, which is fast approaching completion. It is being constructed of iron, and will rise to a height of 984 feet. As the greatest height yet reached in any structure is that of the Washington Monument, 555 feet, some idea can be formed of the great distance upward that this tower will go. This tower will weigh, when completed, 7,000 tons, and will cost 4,500,000 francs [about $810,000].
One object of its construction is to light the Exposition grounds. There is talk of supplying it with electric lights of 19,000,000 candle-power. Four such towers, with a capacity of 50,000,000 each, it is thought would light the whole city of Paris. The tower will be supplied with elevators which will land passengers 971 feet from the earth. It is an interesting fact that the great Paris Exposition sends to America for elevators to carry passengers the first 420 feet of its height. Otis Brothers, of New York, have the work in hand, and already have shipped most of the outfit.
Some idea of the magnitude of the machinery may be formed when it is stated that the hydraulic cylinders for the elevators in our largest New York buildings are one foot three or four inches in diameter, while those for the Eiffel Tower are three feet two inches. The remaining height will be reached by some other system of elevator than the hydraulic, not yet determined upon. The Otis cylinders have been tested by a pressure of 400 pounds to the square inch, the required pressure being only half that amount. There will be two elevators, with a capacity for fifty passengers each, and they will run up the incline of the sides.—N. Y. Evangelist.

The Home Circle.

By Marion Manville

RECOMPENSE.

THERE is no day but has its share of light, And somewhere in the dark there shines a star at night. There is no cloud, however black and grim, That does not touch the sunlight with its outmost rim.
There is no sorrow borne without its gain, No perfect joy that was not ushered in with pain. There is no woe that can outlast the years, No smile so sweet in life as that which follows tears.
We learn to do without our own because There is some recompense in all of nature's laws; No sun can rise until the sun has set; No life be lived that has not somewhere known regret.
This thought, my friend, take with thee for the days; God were not God if man could fathom all his ways. And as thy day goes down its western slope, Know, next to faith, his greatest gift to thee is hope. —Marion Manville.

Health and Temperance.

By M. C. W.

THE DELECTABLE SAUSAGE.

SAUSAGE was formerly, and is now among farmers, made almost exclusively of pork; and among those who use flesh meats indiscriminately, there are few who do not prefer this highly seasoned viand. But many do not eat pork. On the part of some, their condition of health will not permit; on the part of others, it is discarded from their dietary from principle, as being in the nature of the case unfit for food. They judge rightly. For this reason, its use was prohibited in the Jewish theocracy. But in the desires of many who have repudiated the swine, there still lurk earnest longings for the flesh-pots of Egypt. They remember the ham, and the spare-rib, and the sausage, and their souls loathe the vegetables, the fruits, the grains.
But sausage is not easily made; so a resort is had to the butcher shops, which now not only keep fresh meats, but "corned-beef," boiled corned-beef (we have forgotten the technical names), bologna, and hamburg sausages. "Made of good beef?" asks the customer. "Oh, yes; bought from a reliable dealer; and then we never keep only that which is good here," says the bland, ruddy-faced butcher. And the peppered and salted and saged and savory, delectable sausage is purchased, sent home, fried, eaten,—prolific seeds of indigestion and dyspepsia, providing that the ingredients which enter the wonderful composition are normal and healthy. But, O sausage-lover, pause a while to learn and meditate upon what the ingredients of that delicious dish of yours is composed.
For some time past the Examiner, of San Francisco, has been, metaphorically speaking, ventilating the butcher shops and slaughterhouses of that city; and for this we freely commend this enterprising journal. In its issue of February 19, it reveals, what many who have given the matter investigation have known for a long time, the kinds of meat used for sausages. We give a little of the testimony:—
"Inspector Crummey recently said: 'There are not nearly so many of these little calves coming into the city now as there were some months ago, as I have made a number of seizures, and the dealers are becoming a little wary. But while I am watching on the wharves for unhealthy meat, diseased dairy cows are coming in from other quarters. Meat is being sold in the butcher shops of the city which is really unfit for dogs to eat, rotten sausages are being manufactured, and the law against selling unhealthy meat violated in every quarter.'"
"'A great part of the diseased meat sold today is disposed of in the shape of sausages. Of course, after meat is chopped up there is no way of telling whether it is healthy or not without a microscopical examination, and so if condemned at all, it must be before it gets to the factory.'"
"One of the oldest butchers in San Francisco was interviewed by a reporter, and said: "I have been in the meat business in San Francisco since 1849, and therefore know something about it. The Examiner is right when it says that thousands of pounds of diseased meat are sold in San Francisco every day. I know this to be a fact from my own experience, both as a butcher and as a meat inspector. I have seen dozens of cattle in one drove in the corrals of Butchertown with their heads swelled entirely out of shape from "big jaw." I have seen the same kind of cattle, in fact, cattle from the same band, dressed and hung in the slaughter-house for sale. They are sold to whoever will buy them—often to men who think they are perfectly healthy. But an experienced butcher can tell every time whether they are diseased or not from the general appearance of the carcass more than any peculiar manifestation of the disease."
"'Hundreds of cattle, killed during transportation and trampled and bruised by the other cattle, until they are a lacerated and bleeding mass, are taken from the cars, hauled in wagons to Butchertown, where they are dressed and sold. Their destination then depends altogether upon their appearance. If in fair condition, they are bought by retailers and contractors; but if badly bruised or decomposed they are taken to the sausage factories. These places are filled with the worst quality of meat.'"
"'All of the refuse from butcher shops and slaughter-houses, all of the diseased meat which cannot be otherwise disposed of, and, in fact, everything that has the appearance of meat, is bought by the sausage factories. Here it is dragged around upon the dirty floor or in filthy boxes, chopped up in machines which are never cleaned, stuffed into casings which were never cleaned, smoked in the filthiest vapors, polished up with the greasiest and dirtiest kind of rags, and finally sold as something choice.'"
"'This isn't the worst of it, though. It is the class of cattle they kill that is so nefarious. They are the worst old dairy cattle that can be found, and are literally rotten with consumption. They are killed and then peddled around the city to retailers and sausage factories.'"
"'Enough diseased meat comes from Butchertown to poison the whole city, and much of it is sold in the best markets of San Francisco, and you needn't think the butchers are so green they don't know what they are selling. I was passing through one of the best markets in the city the other day, when I saw hanging on the hooks, exposed for sale, what the butchers call a "stiff," that is, the carcass of an animal which was never butchered, but which died a natural death. Any butcher can tell these as far as he can see them. I remarked to the proprietor of the place, "That is a stiff there." He answered, "Yes, but I ain't going to cut it up." But I would be willing to wager all I possess that it was cut up just the same, and, furthermore, sold to some of the best families in the city.'"
Those whose appetite is strong and whose will is weak, whose fastidiousness is only shocked at what they absolutely see and know, will, in spite of this revelation, continue, we suppose, to partake of the bruised, diseased, putrid-meat sausages, bologna or otherwise; but he who regards life and health and the eternal fitness of things will dispense forever in wish or act with the abominable food. After all, who could desire more than nature has provided in this climate in vegetables, grains, fruit, milk, and eggs, without the taking of life.

IN SALVADOR.

IN two plazas the market is held every two or three weeks alternately. This change of place allows of their thorough clearing and airing, it being impossible in their crowded condition to do so otherwise. Women alone vend the wares, and in the absence of market house or sheltering roof, they shade their positions by a piece of matting placed on horizontal poles supported by four uprights. All these are cleared away in the general bi-weekly flitting.
When the hundreds of market women have unawares bundled their traps and stolen away to the other market-place, the effect produced in one's mind is comical on seeing not a vestige of yesterday's busy scene in the deserted open space. The baskets they use for marketing are open and round, without handles. The large ones are carried on the head, and the small ones are poised gracefully on the uplifted hand. The weight some of the women can carry on the head is astonishing. I have seen them walk away in this manner with a quantity of corn that would have been no small load for a mule's back, and the cheerful, musically intoned, "Adios, pues," in greeting to a passing acquaintance, indicated a mind unruffled and contented. Many of them are handsome and comely in figure and face, their beautiful eyes not sparkling, but introspective, and like lamps that burn low and clear.
The women of all classes dress neatly, and in a manner suited to the climate and to their means. The mozas appear on Sunday in a plain white dress. A broad, long scarf falls from the head, the ends being passed under and over the arms. The señoras wear shawls placed on the shoulders in the usual way, leaving the head bare. Comparatively few wear hats; they use parasols to shade from the sun, but not always—they do not seem to be afraid of the sunshine. I scarcely recollect seeing a single mantilla, which is supposed to be the regulation part of the Spanish ladies' dress, all the time I was in Central America. It is very animating to see the women thus dressed, and in colors corresponding to the bright sunshine streaming across the broad plaza to the church.—Sel.

Contentment and Neglected Growth

"CONTENTMENT is a good thing until it reaches the point where it sits in the shade and lets the weeds grow."

The Slowness That Ripens or Rots

"THERE is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them."

SECULAR.

—Vienna is a city of 1,300,000 people. —Bloodshed is feared on the Isthmus of Panama. —The French Cabinet has rescinded the decree of exile against the Duc d'Aumale. —Ex-President Cleveland has quietly settled down to the practice of law in New York City. —March 8 the village of Wabash, in Cass County, Neb., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. —An advertisement in the Riverside, Cal., Press offers land "for sale cheap—only $725 an acre." —Louisville, Ky., suffered from a large fire on the 8th inst. The loss aggregates about half a million. —Benjamin Franklin's watch is owned by a gentleman of Lancaster, Penn., who says it still keeps good time. —Four hundred tons of honey were shipped last year from Los Gallos Creek, in the San Joaquin Valley, this State. —Recent advices from Africa state that Henry M. Stanley is safe, and that he has started on his journey to rejoin Emir Pasha. —Edison's incandescent light patents have been declared void in Canada for non-compliance with the Canadian patent laws. —King Milan, of Servia, has abdicated in favor of his son Prince Alexander, a youth of eleven years. A regency has been established. —A professorship of physical culture, with an endowment of $2,000, is to be established at Amherst, in memory of the late Henry Ward Beecher. —It is stated from Panama that it has been discovered that the juice of the maguey plant is a certain remedy for hydrophobia in men and dogs. —Exceedingly rich gold discoveries are reported from Lower California, and hundreds from the southern towns of this State are flocking to the new El Dorado. —March 7 the Minnesota House of Representatives refused by a vote of fifty-nine to thirty-nine to submit to the people an amendment in favor of prohibition. —General Legitime, of Hayti, has sent a telegram to European Governments announcing that the rebellion in Hayti has been crushed and demanding recognition of his Government. —The official returns of the late Presidential election show that the vote cast for the Prohibition party in Maine was one to 47½; in Iowa, one to 113½; in Kansas, one to 43½; in Connecticut, one to 36; in New York, one to 43½; in Indiana, one to 53½. The vote in the Northern States was 213,603; in the Southern States, 34,985; total, 248,588.
—A horse farm of 120,000 acres near Cheyenne, Wy. T., is said to be the largest in the world. It requires 200 miles of wire fencing, with 65 men to look after the horses, which number 5,000. —March 5 the Reading (Pa.) Iron Works, which operate blast furnaces, rolling, sheet, tube and pipe mills, forges, and machine shops, employing over 2,500 hands, failed for over $1,000,000. —Diphtheria of the most virulent type is said to be epidemic in Cranbery Township, Venango County, Pa. In nearly every case where the disease has been allowed to get a start, it has resulted fatally. —A recent Shanghi dispatch says that a marked increase in hostility to foreigners is noticeable throughout China. The native soldiery at Chefoo are suspected of plotting to attack the foreign settlement. —A dispatch from Zanzibar says that a fight took place between Arabs and Germans on March 3, and that the Germans re-occupied Bagamoyo without loss. Bushiri, the Arab leader, was wounded. —The annual report of the Imperial Patent Office shows that Germany performs her part in the present era of inventions. During the last three years 29,764 patents were applied for, and 11,813 actually registered. —Admiral Krantz, the French Minister of Marine, has ordered the immediate commencement of work on the port defenses of Toulon, Cherbourg, and Brest, for which an expenditure of $122,000,000 has been authorized by the French Chamber. —The English bark, Port Gordon, 122 days out from a port in Scotland, laden with fire brick and pig iron, for Tacoma, was totally wrecked on the 27th of February, on the North Pacific coast, forty miles below Cape Flattery, and four lives were lost. —Waterloo, Iowa, has elected a poor cobbler as mayor of that city. The candidacy was regarded as a joke until the Knights of Labor and the railroad-shop men began voting for him. When the votes were counted he was found to have over 100 majority. —Five thousand letters were seized recently in the office of the French Patriotic League. A cursory examination shows that a large number of letters are from subalterns and field officers in the army, and indicate the adherence of the writers to Boulangeism. —What looks like the beginning of an extensive exodus of colored people is reported from Raleigh, N. C. The railroad fare from that place to Kansas has been reduced to $11, and it is thought that thousands of the colored population will emigrate to that State at an early day. —It is stated that the Manitoba Railroad is to be extended to Puget Sound. Its terminus will be Steilacoom, on the sound, twelve miles southwest of Tacoma. The proposed route is almost an air line from Butte City to the sound and will be several hundred miles shorter than the Northern Pacific road. —The French Government has forbidden large deputations to visit General Boulanger's house, and ordered officers not to salute or recognize him in any manner in the Bois Boulogne. The opinion is quite general in this country that the French authorities could scarcely have done a more foolish thing than this. —Isaiah V. Williamson, the venerable millionaire philanthropist, died at Philadelphia on the 7th inst. A short time ago he set apart $12,000,000 of his fortune to establish an industrial school for boys. His entire fortune is upward of $20,000,000. He was never married, but was celebrated for his many charities. —It is stated that Professor Hastings, of the Sheffield Scientific School, after long experimenting, has succeeded in so combining two glasses, the composition of which is a secret, that chromatic aberration in a telescope has been corrected. This will make telescopes from 10 to 20 per cent more powerful, and all new telescopes will probably include Professor Hastings' principle. —The extent of the poverty which prevails in London may be appreciated from the fact that an appeal was recently published from a single society for aid in furnishing 50,000 meals "for poor little starving children" during the winter. The meals to be furnished are not expensive, since it is stated in the appeal that each pound contributed will pay for no less than 250 separate meals. —The Bremen Volks Zeitung, Berlin, has been seized for having published an attack upon Bismarck. The police profited by the occasion to make a general search of the offices of the paper. The directors protested against this action and appealed to the law. The court supported the police. The newspapers of various parties, including the Cologne Gazette, approve the protest of the Volks Zeitung.
—The London Times says that it is reported that the Czar intends to abolish the governor-generalships in the southern provinces of Russia. Since the murder of the late Czar, in 1881, these governors-general have been invested with absolute, dictatorial powers, and the proposed change, which would bring back the provinces to the old system of administration, would be a great relief to the population. —West Virginia has three claimants to the office of governor, namely, General Goff, Governor Wilson, and President Carr, of the State Senate. Goff claims the office by virtue of election; Wilson, being governor, claims that it is his duty to hold over till the Legislature, whose duty it is to declare his successor duly elected, while Carr claims to be governor ex officio in virtue of being president of the Senate. —A report has been published in Germany to the effect that the German corvette Olga bombarded Mataafa's camp. The captain of the American man-of-war protested, but seeing the protest disregarded he opened fire on the Olga. A shell burst between her decks, doing much damage. The Olga then directed a torpedo at the American ship, blowing her up, with all hands. The report is not credited in this country. —In the British Commons, on the 7th inst., Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated that the Government proposed to build eight first-class men-of-war, of 14,000 tons each, and two of 9,000 tons, nine first-class cruisers, twenty-nine smaller cruisers, four of the Pandora type of cruisers, and seventeen sharp-shooter type of torpedo vessels. The total tonnage of all these vessels will be 318,000 and the total cost, £21,500,000. —John Ericsson, the inventor of the Monitor, died in New York on the 7th inst. Mr. Ericsson was born in Central Sweden in 1803. From an early age he betrayed the peculiar bent of his genius, and when 13 years old was put in charge of a section of a ship canal which was being surveyed by the corps of engineers in which he was a cadet. Later in life he became an officer in the Swedish army. In 1826 he went to England, where he remained till 1839, when he came to America. —Benjamin Harrison was inaugurated President of the United States on the 4th inst. The following day he sent to the Senate the names of the members of his cabinet, as follows: James G. Blaine, of Maine, Secretary of State; William Windom, of Minnesota, Secretary of the Treasury; Redfield Proctor, of Vermont, Secretary of War; Benjamin F. Tracy, of New York, Secretary of the Navy; John W. Noble, of Missouri, Secretary of the Interior; John Wanamaker, of Pennsylvania, Postmaster-General; W. H. H. Miller, of Indiana, Attorney-General; Jeremiah Rusk, of Wisconsin, Secretary of Agriculture. Vice-President Levi P. Morton also took the oath of office the same day.

News and Notes.

By Editor

RELIGIOUS.

—The United States and Canada have about 140,000 Sunday-schools.
—Rev. Sam Jones, the Georgia evangelist, is holding revival meetings in San Francisco.
—John D. Rockefeller has given $100,000 to the American Baptist Educational Society, payable at the rate of $10,000 per month, and subject to the condition that the giver be advised in advance as to the use to be made of his money.
—Prince Bismarck is one of the trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association at Berlin, and the emperor has given 5,000 marks for the new association building, about to be erected on Wilhelm's Strasse. This can, however, scarcely be taken as positive evidence that either the prince or the emperor are Christians.
—The presbytery of Detroit of the United Presbyterian Church has formally decided to withdraw from that denomination and to unite itself with the presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. It is further announced that twenty of the twenty-three United Presbyterian churches of Michigan will take like action. "This action," says the Christian at Work, "has been made probable, indeed almost inevitable, from the repealing by the United Presbyterian General Assembly of the prohibition against the use of the organ; there is now no question of principle separating the two bodies, and it looks as if the United Presbyterian Church were destined to virtually disappear as a distinct denomination, though a number of churches opposed to the organ will undoubtedly adhere to the 'united' name and organization."

Obituary.

FLECK.—Died near Beaverton, Washington County, Oregon, January 31, 1889, of cerebro-meningitis, Freddie C. Fleck, son of J. D. and Sarah E. Fleck, aged 13 years, 4 months, and 19 days.
Freddie suffered much during his illness, and was unconscious the last few days.
Remarks from Heb. 9:27, 28, by the writer. W. C. WARD.
KLASE.—Died at St. Helena, Cal., February 27, 1889, of consumption, Sister Isabell E. Klase, aged 58 years, 1 month, and 13 days. Sister Klase was born in Montville, Ohio, but removed while still young to Wisconsin, where she was married. In 1877 she went to Battle Creek, Michigan, where she resided till 1884, when she came to California, and, being in feeble health, went to the Rural Health Retreat for treatment. In the course of a few months she was so far restored as to be able to assume the management of the culinary department of that institution, a position for which several years' experience in the Sanitarium in Battle Creek had admirably fitted her, and the duties of which she continued to discharge till some five months previous to her death.
Sister Klase was esteemed by all who knew her as a most estimable Christian woman, and those who were with her in her last hours testify that she died firm in the faith of a soon-coming Saviour, and with the blessed assurance that she was accepted of God. She leaves two grown-up children, a son and daughter, besides numerous relatives and friends, whose sorrow because of her death is greatly assuaged by the knowledge that she sleeps in Jesus. The funeral services were conducted by Elders J. Fulton and H. A. St. John, the latter of whom spoke words of comfort to the sorrowing friends from 1 Cor. 15:55-57.
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CENTRAL CALIFORNIA CAMP-MEETING.

By John Norton Loughborough

THE annual camp-meeting for Central California will be held (D. V.) at Fresno, from Tuesday, April 2, to Monday, April 8. This will be preceded by a workers' meeting, to commence March 27. It is desirable that as many of our people as possible come to the camp, so as to have the benefits of the workers' meeting. In addition to the usual features of the workers' meeting, there will be one hour each week-day devoted to practical instruction in hygienic cooking. We wish to state that those who will impart this instruction in cooking have attended a thorough course at the School of Domestic Economy in Battle Creek, Mich.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, for CAL. CONF. COM.

THE SPIRIT OF GOD

By Ellet Joseph Waggoner

ITS OFFICES AND MANIFESTATIONS TO THE END OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA.

BY ELD. J. H. WAGGONER.
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. 144 pp. Price, 15 cents.
Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal.

The Abiding Sabbath and the Lord's Day.

By Editor

THE $500 AND $1,000 PRIZE ESSAYS.

A REVIEW.

The above is the title of a pamphlet recently issued. In its pages the author reviews the two most recent and without doubt the best contributions to the defense of Sunday, popularly called the "Lord's Day." The first of these essays was written by Rev. George Elliott, and took the $500 "Fletcher Prize," offered by the trustees of Dartmouth College for the best essay on the "Perpetual Obligation of the Lord's Day."
The other essay was written by A. E. Waffle, M. A., and was awarded a $1,000 prize by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-school Union.
We state thus definitely the source of the essays reviewed that all may see their importance. Certainly if there was any argument in favor of Sunday, we should expect to find it in these prize essays. Elder Jones in his Review takes up their arguments and assertions, and shows very plainly how several times the authors have proved what they did not want to prove at all—namely: The Seventh-day Sabbath is still as binding on all as when the law was given.
This Review will be read with interest and profit by all, and those who have friends that are interested in the Sabbath Question should see that one of these pamphlets is placed in their hands.

WORDS OF APPROBATION.

Elder R. A. Underwood, President Ohio Conference, says:—
"The 'Abiding Sabbath' should find its way to every home in the land. It certainly will have a wide circulation. May God bless it on its mission. The quotations from Mr. Elliott's essays set forth the divine origin of the Sabbath, its object, universality, and inseparable relation to the moral law of ten commandments, of which it is a part, and its binding obligation upon all mankind; also the clear distinction between the Sabbath and the ceremonial rites, or laws, in words of sublime, convincing power. Yet he, like all who feel it their duty to prop up the Sunday-sabbath with the fourth commandment, contradicts his own position. Elder Jones has made a clean-cut, sound argument."
Elder J. N. Loughborough, President California Conference, says:—
"I have just completed a careful reading of Elder Jones' Review. In this he attacks the main pillars of their argument for a Sunday-sabbath, and at the same time he gives an epitome of the argument for the true Bible Sabbath. He shows clearly that notwithstanding all the efforts of the $500 and $1,000 essay men to establish Sunday as the Sabbath, it stands, according to their own admissions, without any Scripture command, or any divine warrant. This Review clearly shows what is the true 'Abiding Sabbath,' the day of God's own appointment. This book of Elder Jones' should have a very wide circulation, and be read by all."
176 pages, price, postpaid, 20 Cents. Address orders to PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO., OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

"Fathers of the Catholic Church,"

By Ellet Joseph Waggoner

By Eld. E. J. Waggoner.

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF,

Because human nature is the same in all ages of the world. Hence he who would know how to avoid error in the future must know how errors have developed in the past. The "FATHERS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH" shows the condition of the heathen world at the time of Christ, briefly states the principles of ancient heathen philosophy, which was largely responsible for the immorality of that time, and shows how the adoption of these principles by prominent men in the church, and the incautious lowering of the standard of pure Christianity to accommodate the heathen element, developed the Papacy, which was simply a new phase of Paganism. It shows that by the time of Constantine every phase of the Papacy was fully developed, and was only waiting for supreme power. The chapter on

Sun Worship and Sunday

Is alone worth the price of the book.
The chapter on "The Apostolic Church" consists largely of quotations from Scripture, showing that grave errors both of faith and practice existed in the church even in the days of the apostles, so that the early existence of a practice proves nothing as to its correctness.
Then a chapter is devoted to each of the Fathers, and to his writings. The Sunday argument, so far as it is drawn from the Fathers, is completely demolished by the citation of other testimony from them in favor of some of the grossest evils of the Catholic Church.
Lastly, several chapters are devoted to "The Great Apostasy," in which are traced the logical results of the teachings of the Fathers.

Everybody Should Have this Book

As all are constantly meeting quotations from the Fathers in behalf of Sunday. In these cases it is only necessary to show that the same Fathers believed in purgatory and prayers for the dead, to nullify their testimony.
The book is printed on fine tinted paper, neatly bound in cloth, with gilt side stamp, and contains 392 pages.
Price, Post Paid, $1.00.
Address all orders to Pacific Press Publishing Company, OAKLAND, CAL.
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