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California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 21.

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News and Miscellany.

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"MEN'S hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." Luke 21 : 26.
—Large Washouts, caused by the rapidly melting snows of the Humboldt Mountains, are reported along the railroad near Humboldt Wells and Toana. Trains run slowly over many dangerous places, while men walked ahead to examine the track, and were delayed several hours for the rebuilding of places where the track had been carried away.
—It is reported by missionaries laboring in Russia that the existing demand for Bibles in that country is greater than can be supplied at present. Ten thousand copies of the New Testament have been disposed of within a short time, and another edition is in press. The British and Foreign Bible Society has circulated 27,000 volumes of the Finnish Bible during the past year. The Greek Church, in marked contrast to that of Rome, shows much cordiality toward efforts for the spread of the Scriptures. Monks are frequently engaged in the work, and Bible book shops are connected with many of the monasteries. The last few years have seen a new impetus given to missions in the Russian Church. The Czar is president of the National Missionary Society, the chief fields of which are in Kamtschatka, Siberia, the Caucasus and China.
—The number of Jews in New York is reckoned at 50,000. They have two synagogues valued at $50,000 each, and the ark in one cost $70,000.
—Nearly 1,000 families of Mennonites it is expected will soon arrive in Canada from Russia. They have chosen Manitoba for their future residence, and have commissioned an agent to buy for them several thousand head of cattle in the West. There has been a large immigration of this people to the United States during the past two years, the number being estimated at 6,000 persons, or 1,200 families.
SAD FACTS.—The superintendent of the Liverpool workhouse states, in his recent report, that eighteen out of every twenty-seven persons sent to the workhouse were suffering from delirium tremens.
One of the physicians of Bellvue Hospital recently informed me that at least two-thirds of all the patients treated at that institution, were suffering from the effects of alcohol.
It is well known that at least nine-tenths of all the crimes committed are due to the influence of liquor.
Who will say, in the face of these facts, that the sale of alcohol should not be as stringently prohibited as that of arsenic, strychnia, prussic acid, or any other poison.
FIVE cardinals have lately been created by the Pope; among them Archbishop McCloskey of the United States.