Earlier text: WM. INGS—The Belgian Christians were refused the right to sell or distribute Bibles or Christian books at the Antwerp Exhibition. —Ninety-three Congregationalist Churches in Connecticut last year received no additions by profession, and lost 185 by death. —It is said that the first camp-meeting in the United States was held by the Presbyterians, in the year 1800, at a place called Cone Ridge, in Kentucky. —The World’s Crisis, in a note concerning a certain minister, says that “he is inaugerating a model church.” That means, we suppose, that he is boring them to death. Too bad. —A devout Catholic in Montreal has just been fined for irreverence, because, having the rheumatism, he kneeled only on one knee instead of both. So says the Congregationalist. —A clergyman has been making calculations, and announces that all the salaries of religious teachers in the country do not amount to so much as the sum spent annually in supporting dogs. —The Protestant denominations have sent to the stations in Asia, during the last fifteen years, forty-four lady physicians, whose medical skill has opened the way for effective preaching of the gospel. —In nearly all the cantons of Switzerland, the meetings of the Salvation Army have been prohibited. It has been decided by the authorities that the Salvation Army is not a religious association, but a wandering troop of performers, and that as such they cannot hold meetings without proper authorization. —It is announced that the pope has made a cardinal of the archbishop of Boston. It has been expected that the cardinal’s hat would be bestowed on Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore, and the Churchman thinks that the slight is due to the resentment which the pope feels because Gibbons was instrumental in securing the appointment of Mr. Kelley, a good Catholic, as minister to the hated court of King Humbert. Leo XIII. is as jealous of his infallible dignity as was Gregory VII. —The vicar of St. James’s church, Stratford-on-Avon, recently held “special services” in honor of the patron saint. The services began with a “choral celebration of the holy communion,” and after a cricket match between the clergy and choir, and the congregation, the distribution of various prizes, among which was one for “the heaviest baby under two years of age, baptized in the church,” closed with a “grinning match,” in which the man who could make the ugliest face received a prize. That vicar has solved the problem of “how to reach the masses.” —The Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, in opening a church bazaar, recently, spoke strongly in recommendation of bazaars, and declared himself in favor of raffles, which he said were not incentives to gambling. He said that he himself had invested in more than 500 raffles, and had never secured a prize. This in itself, he considered a sufficient deterrent from gambling. Uniform losses do not seem to have deterred the archbishop from raffling, but we now have a new definition for gambling. If you win, you are gambling; if you lose, you are not gambling. Church fairs are, after all, conservators of morals, for the victim, whatever the game, is always sure to be fleeced. —There were nineteen deaths from small-pox in Montreal, August 25. —The steamer St. Paul, from Alaska, is said to have 80,000 skins on board. —Ex-Governor Fenton, of New York, dropped dead in his office, August 25. —The wheat crop of France is fair, while Italy’s crop falls behind twenty per cent. —A dryer is being built at Riverside, Cal., to handle 50,000 pounds of grapes daily. —Parnell recently made a speech in Dublin in which he declares for Irish independence. —One hundred persons were drowned, August 25, in the Gulf of Aden, a seaport of Arabia. —Baron de Stael, Russian ambassador to England, is in London, negotiating for a peaceful settlement of Afghan affairs. —A servant girl in New York, recently stole from her employers a box containing money and valuables to the amount of $13,000. —An explosion of 3,000 pounds of nitro-glycerine at Bradford, Pa., August 27, wrecked the building it was in, and shook the earth for miles around. —The dredge Beaufort, which was said to be one of the largest boats of her kind in the world, was lost recently in a hurricane off Bermuda Islands. —The Dominion Government has sent instructions to Victoria to enforce the collection of the fifty dollars head tax on every Chinaman landing there. —Charleston (S. C.) was visited by a cyclone, August 25, and one-fourth of its houses were unroofed. Much damage was done all along the track of the cyclone. —During the night of August 23, a severe chill passed over a considerable portion of the Northwest Territory. The temperature fell five degrees below freezing point. —The fire at the fireworks factory at Civita Vecchia, Italy, which broke out August 26, was still burning August 27, and ten bodies had been recovered from the ruins. —A Los Angeles County, Cal., paper advises the grape-growers to feed their fruit to the hogs rather than accept the low prices which the wine sellers are said to be offering. —The false teeth of an elderly woman living near Logan, Ohio, became dislodged during a severe spell of coughing a few days ago, and, slipping into her throat, choked her to death. —Ludwig, king of Bavaria, is utterly incapable of appreciating the value of money. It has been decided to place his highness under guardianship and publish his bankruptcy. —Up to August 29, the number of deaths in Spain from cholera is 81,489, with a death rate at the present time of more than 1,000 daily. In France the scourge is known to be spreading. —A young lady at Whitestown, N. Y., who was of robust constitution and an adept at roller skating, injured her spine, and finally became a raving maniac, as a result of her favorite sport. —In County Killarney, Ireland, August 27, a collision between 100 police, sent to evict some tenements, and 2,000 persons who interfered, resulted in many on both sides being stoned and stabbed. —At Salem, Ind., August 23, Fred Berkey, Jr., in a fit of drunken madness, began firing indiscriminately at persons on the street. He wounded four, one mortally, and then shot himself through the head. —The meeting of the emperors of Russia and Austria, at Kremsier, a town of Moravia, August 25, is believed to have been for the purpose of maturing plans for acting in unison in case there is war with England. —In Rathkeale, County Limerick, boycotting is carried on to such an extent, by the aid of a vigilance committee, that those who do not act in harmony with the National League can scarcely get provisions. —On the night of August 28, in the vicinity of Calhoun, Ga., a gang of outlaws robbed a store and then blew it up with gun powder. The citizens were aroused by the terrific shock, and, at last reports, had captured six of the band. —The Northern Methodists (colored) were recently holding a camp-meeting in Rutherford County, N. C., when they were fired into by a body of Zion Methodists who broke up the meeting and burned the camp. Seven of those fired into were wounded. OAKLAND.—House of worship, northeast corner of Clay and Thirteenth Streets. Sabbath-school every Sabbath at 9:30 A. M. Preaching at 11 A. M. Prayer and missionary meeting every Tuesday evening at 7:30. Seats free. California Tract and Missionary Society.
By WM. INGS
THE fifteenth annual session of the California T. and M. Society will be held in connection with the camp-meeting, in Stockton, September 17–28, 1885. Much important business will require attention at this meeting, and every society in the State should be well represented. Scattered brethren where there are no societies should attend this meeting. The wants of all parts of the field will be considered. WM. INGS, Vice-Pres. THE annual camp-meeting of Seventh-day Adventists of California will be held in Good Water Grove, at the city of Stockton, Cal., September 17-28, 1885. A street-car line runs from the heart of the city to the grove, and special accommodations will be granted to the meeting. Favorable arrangements have also been made for the transportation of baggage to and from the camp-ground. Fares on railroads and steam-boats will be announced in good season. Let timely preparation be made for a large attendance. THE fourteenth annual session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the State camp-meeting, in Stockton, Sept. 17–28, 1885. Delegates should be elected in good season according to the following ratio: Every church is entitled to one delegate without regard to the number of members, and one additional delegate to every ten members. Ministers holding credentials are delegates at large, without election. Companies unorganized are represented by the delegates at large; if such companies have any matters to bring before the Conference, they should place them in the hands of the ministers. Churches are requested to elect as delegates good, reliable persons, who love the cause, and, as far as possible, those who will remain to the close of the meeting. California State Sabbath-School Association.
By C. H. Jones
THE eighth annual session of the California State Sabbath-school Association, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, will be held in connection with the camp-meeting, at Stockton, Sept. 17-28, 1885. The interest in this branch of the work is increasing, and it is necessary that broader plans be laid to carry it forward during the coming year. Special instructions will be given to officers and teachers in regard to their work, and matters of general interest and great importance will come before the association for consideration. We hope that just as far as possible, every school in this Conference will be represented. All the schools are specially requested to send their class record books, together with the secretary's record book, to this meeting, for examination. We wish to become acquainted with the workings of every school in this State, and in no way can this be done as well as by a thorough examination of the record books. We do not wish to examine these books out of idle curiosity, but we want to be able to help you. If no one is coming to the meeting from your locality, you can send the books by mail or express, and we will see that they are returned to you promptly, after the meeting. These books should be sent so as to reach the camp-ground as early as September 17. Address the package to C. H. Jones, Stockton, Cal. Special lessons have been prepared for those studying books Nos. 1-6, and they will be given out on the camp-ground. Those studying the lessons found in the Instructor will recite the regular lessons for September 19 and 26. Let all come with a determination to gain all the instruction possible in the Sabbath-school work, that they may be better able to aid their respective churches in building up this important branch of the work in a thorough and systematic manner. Publishers' Department.
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