The Hot Springs of California

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 22, 1870

The Hot Springs of California.

These hot springs, called Geyzers, are certainly very remarkable and significant. We have called attention to the great lake of fire which exists in one of the Sandwich Islands. The Geyzers bear testimony to internal fires existing in their locality, near the surface of the earth. Here is what Hon. Schuyler Colfax says respecting these in The Independent for March 3, 1870:

“THE GEYZERS.

“The Geyzers cannot fail to remind visitors very palpably of the common idea of the dominion of Pluto [the god of the infernal regions, according to the heathen]. Bursting from the sides of the canon [i. e., deep gorge or ravine] at an hundred different points, are jets of scalding steam, bubbling and seething springs, at boiling heat; rills whose waters are literally as black as ink; hot air, puffing as it escapes, with the regularity and roaring noise of a high-pressure engine, while all around, the earth, honey-combed and treacherous to the tread, is incrusted with sulphur, epsom salts, and other similar luxuries. The vapor fills the valley, and your lungs too, while you are there; and an hour suffices to make you feel as if you were indeed very near the laboratory of the infernal regions.”

We this week send a circular to many of our friends concerning a course of lectures to be given at Battle Creek, for the benefit of such of our preaching brethren as may be able to attend, and others who may be interested. As many are now here to whom delay will be inconvenient, they will commence on Sunday, March 27. These lectures will be of the greatest importance to all who preach the present truth, and especially to those who have just entered the ministry, or contemplate doing so. The course will consist of twenty lectures or more, for which a fee of $5.00 (or at that rate), will be charged to defray expenses; females $3.00. Board furnished at $2.00 per week.

For particulars we refer to the circulars.