Our drains! our drains! our foul, leaking drains!
They poison the air of our streets and our lanes,
In city and suburb, in hamlet and town,
'Neath dwellings and workshops, wherever laid down.
Can reason still fail young and old to convince
That sewer-gas slaughters both peasant and prince?
How can we have health if the blood in our veins
Is poisoned by breathing foul air from the drains?
Our drains! our drains! our badly made drains!
That give out their smells ere and after it rains,
Sickening the robust man walking the flags,
Prostrating the half-nourished worker in rags,
Swift-stealing through portals where fashion and rank
Sit proudly on cushions, in drives from the bank.
But headache and faintness and death-loading pains,
Go home in the carriage to tell of the drains.
Our drains! our drains! our death-dealing drains!
Choked up, with no outlet for rotten remains,
Chronic hotbeds of typhoid, full of foul silt,
Reflecting our ignorance, proving our guilt,
And showing that we have been riding rough-shod
O'er Nature, and morals, and maxims of God.
For pure air and water in cities and plains,
Spell health, if we keep right our dwellings and drains.
—London Builder.
Open Your Windows.
There is good sense in this. There are some houses in every town whose windows might as well be sealed in with the walls for any purpose they have but to let in the light. They are never opened, summer or winter. In winter it is cold; in summer the flies stray in, or, if they are netted, the dust sifts through the nets. Now you can tell a person who inhabits such chambers when you pass him in the street, there is such a smell about his clothing. A house that is never aired has every nook and corner filled with stale odors of cooked meats, boiled vegetables, especially cabbage and onions, which, as the weeks go by, literally reek in their hiding-places. Who has not wished sometimes to hang a new servant's clothing out of doors some frosty night until it should be thoroughly aired? Fine ladies come sweeping into church with their velvets and silks, said velvets and silks giving unmistakable evidence of having been housed in just such shut up chambers. The very garments of the children tell the same story of uncleanliness. It is bad to have unwashed clothes, but there may be an excuse for it; but what excuse is there for unaired ones when the air is so cheap and free.
There is death in such close rooms. Better a swarm of flies or a cloud of dust—better frost and snow in a room than those intolerable smells. The first thing in the morning when you are ready to go down stairs, throw open your windows, take apart the clothing of your beds, and let the air blow through the room till it is thoroughly ventilated. There is health and wealth in such a policy. It helps to keep away the doctors with their long bills. It helps to make your eyes sparkle and your cheeks glow, and to make others love your presence.—Hall's Journal of Health.
Bible Tracts.
By W. C. White
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By Editor
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Address, Signs of the Times.
OAKLAND, CAL.
CAMP-MEETINGS
By B. L. Whitney; J. Harvey; J. T. Mitchell
The committee appointed to arrange the camp-meetings for the coming season, having canvassed the matter in conjunction with the delegates to the late General Conference, suggest the following places and dates for camp-meetings the present year:—
KANSAS,—Melvern, Osage Co., May 18-22
MISSOURI,—Holden, Johnson Co., “ 25-29
ILL.,—Waldron, Kankakee Co., June 1-5
IOWA,—Marshalltown, Marshall Co., “ 8-12
WISCONSIN,—Sparta, “ 15-19
MINN.,—Eagle Lake, Blue Earth Co., “ 22-26
MICHIGAN,—Battle Creek, Aug. 3-7
OHIO,—(place not determined) “ 10-14
VERMONT,—Essex Junction, “ 17-21
NEW ENGLAND,—South Lancaster, “ 24-28
MAINE,—Richmond, Aug. 31 to Sept. 4
NEW YORK,—Rome, Sept. 7-11
INDIANA,—Bunker Hill, “ 14-18
WISCONSIN,—Ripon, “ 21-25
SOUTHERN IOWA,— “ Oct. 5-9
If, upon further consultation, any of the State and camp-meeting committees should prefer other places than those named above, the change can be made by giving reasonable notice. And if any two States wish to interchange with each other in reference to dates, that can be done, if the change will not occasion too much travel on the part of ministers who attend the meetings from abroad.
B. L. WHITNEY,
J. HARVEY,
J. T. MITCHELL,
Committee.
Testimony No. 26.
By J. H. W.
This is a very valuable number, the leading articles being beyond all words of praise, and the letters full of wise counsel and timely admonitions. Every one can find here something of benefit to him or her. We fear many are making a great mistake in not sending for this book. We know that quite a large number of our brethren and sisters have not procured it, and it ought to be carefully read by every one. Read in a prayerful, humble, teachable spirit it cannot fail to benefit the reader. J. H. W.
New Hymn Book.
By Editor
The editions of both our larger and smaller hymn books are exhausted, and orders are coming in daily which cannot be filled until we have a new hymn book.
We have commenced the work of compiling a book which will possess advantages over any previous one, in a more careful selection of hymns and tunes, better arrangement, nicer and tougher paper, and more durable binding. We earnestly invite all who are interested in this new book to forward to us by mail, immediately, all such hymns and tunes as in their opinion would add to its value.
Address, ELD. JAMES WHITE.
Battle Creek, Mich.
“Worth the Money.”
By G. W. Colcord
I HAVE just read one of the stories in “Sunshine Series,” to Bro. Scott’s little folks, and the decision is: “That story is worth the money paid for all the pamphlets.”
Twenty nice books for children; and cost only 50 cents. Sell well; and not one word of complaint. Parents, send for them. Let all who sell our publications add “Sunshine Series” to their lists. By thus doing we shall benefit the dear children.
G. W. COLCORD.
Jeffersonville, Ill., March 28, 1876.
Fresno, Cal.
By W. M. Healey; J. L. Wood
We have been holding meetings in the tent here for nearly a week. There is some interest to hear. Our congregation is not large, as the place is small and the weather is very cold and blustering. It has rained quite hard twice since our tent was pitched. We have a hope of seeing some honest souls embrace the “Truth” in this place. Our average attendance thus far has been about one hundred and twenty-five.
We ask the prayers of the brethren in behalf of the work here.
W. M. HEALEY,
J. L. WOOD.
April 9, 1876.
European Mission.
UNDER date of March 1st, Eld D. T. Bourdeau writes of his journey through France, and mentions the feeling there toward the Prussians, as follows:—
“As we were crossing France on our way to Switzerland, we fell in with a French soldier who had served his country in her late struggle against Prussia, and who was well qualified to give a true statement of the real feelings of the French toward the Prussians, and the prospects of a coming conflict between these two nations. He said:—
“We all expect that another war will break out between the two nations in less than six years, and we are preparing for it. We did not have a fair trial in the late struggle. We were shamefully sold. In the coming struggle we will count on our valor as French soldiers, and the Prussians will be unable to stand before us.”
“As we see this storm gathering, God grant that we may not be indifferent in our efforts to persuade men to enlist and serve under the banner of the coming King, that they may be the happy subjects of his peaceful kingdom.”
In a letter of a later date, to the Review, Eld B. gives the following relative to The Progress in the Churches and on New Ground:—
“In our first tour among the churches in Switzerland we could scarcely do more than to acquaint ourselves with the situation of the brethren and sisters. We have now closed a second trip among the principal companies of Sabbath-keepers in this country. On this trip we have been encouraged in seeing several of the brethren resolve to take an advance step in the temperance reform, by either deciding to use less wine, or by concluding to entirely abandon the use of this article, except in case of sickness. The work had received quite an impetus at the last meeting that we reported in the Review. Two of the brethren went from this meeting to the church of La Coudre, where seven at once made a solemn pledge to adopt abstinence from wine as the rule. Others have pursued a similar course.”
“We are closing the translation of the matter we need most for the new fields, and are in the midst of a brief course of lectures in Locle, where we have been residing for two months, and where there are sixteen keeping the Sabbath. This is the third effort at presenting the truth in this place, which is a city of 11,000 inhabitants, whose principal business is watch-making.”
“We struck off 2,000 hand-bills of the size of one leaf of the Review, and by means of a city directory, and through the post-office, provided each family with the programme of our “conferences.” The result is that our hall was filled to overflowing. We have reached the subject of the second message, and though we cannot look for so bountiful a harvest as we would in a new field, yet we hope God will give us encouraging additions. Some are deeply affected. Several follow us closely with their Bibles, among whom is the first teacher of the college.”
“I have just received a very interesting letter from a person in this place who is hindered from attending our meetings by bitter opposition, but invokes God’s blessing on our effort, and wishes to be remembered by us in our prayers, that deliverance may come.”
Flood in Wisconsin.
It seems that the floods which have recently visited various parts of our country have not entirely overlooked some of our brethren, as will be seen by the following from Bro. Downer:—
“The late high water visited our home. It carried away the stove room, fifty rods of fence, and ten cords of wood, and tipped over the barn, under which the ground is washed out ten feet deep. Windows were broken in, trunks and bureaus were filled with mud and froze. Water was four or five feet deep in the house, and the parlor furniture was carried away. Mud is now fifteen inches deep on the carpets and frozen. Stones weighing two thousand pounds were swept along like chips.”
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