Labor Reports, Meetings, and Notices from Various States
By Editor
We have received, just too late for this number, interesting reports of labor from Bro. C. F. Stevens, Kansas, A. D. Olsen, Wisconsin, E. B. Lane, Virginia, A. O. Burrill, Alabama, L. H. Ellis and E. A. Curtis, Minnesota, C. B. Reynolds, New York, D. A. Robinson, Massachusetts, and the General Quarterly Meeting of the Minn. T. and M. Society. They will appear next week. We learn from the SIGNS OF THE TIMES that Bro. W. M. Healey has been holding a series of meetings in the S. D. A. house of worship at Oakland, Cal. The house has been improved by the addition of a gallery, and has been well filled during the lectures. Bro. and sister White have assisted in the meetings; and the local papers have given lengthy and favorable notices. At last accounts the interest seemed to be permanent, and of a very encouraging nature. The Christian Statesman, of Feb. 14, contains a report of the meeting of the National Reform Association, held in Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 7. The opening remarks of the president, Mr. Brunot, gave a full history of the rise and progress of the National Reform movement to the present time, which will be of interest and value to our readers. We have not room for it this week, but will give it in our next issue. One thing is made quite evident by the rapid moving and shifting of events in the East, and that is that no one knows what posture affairs will assume twenty-four hours in the future, and that it is but little use to speculate. England is the only nation which it has been thought would interfere in behalf of the Turks. Some have strongly predicted that she would thus interfere and still uphold the Turkish power; but lo! suddenly the Czar becomes the guest of the Porte; and the Porte holds the British fleet at a distance as a public enemy. If England now fights at all, it will be with Russia, without even a pretext of helping the Turk. The Christian Union says: “It would be a curious consummation if England and Russia should enter upon a wrestling match over the corpse of European Turkey.”