Earlier text: Sow the SeedA MINE OF INFORMATION.
By John Nevins Andrews
HISTORY OF THE SABBATH AND FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK.
The Bible record of the Sabbath, the secular history concerning it; the successive steps by which the change to the first day was made and the work of restoration, are given in detail. EVERY TEXT OF SCRIPTURE concerning the Sabbath is commented on at length; and the COMPLETE TESTIMONY OF THE FATHERS in regard to the Sabbath and first day is given. The comparative merits of the seventh and the first-day Sabbaths are fully shown. A copious index enables the reader to find any text, or the statement of any historian. Should be read by everybody. 528 pp. Price, $1.25. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. —Snow lies twelve feet deep at Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada. —A fire at Utica, N. Y., on the 2d inst., destroyed property valued at $800,000. —The City of Mexico is now connected with all parts of the United States by railroad. —The fire record in the United States for the past two months shows a loss of $19,000,000. —Extensive mines of tin have been discovered in Harney Peak District, Black Hills, Dakota. —A Nebraska City bar-keeper gives away a sack of flour to every purchaser of one hundred drinks. —A cave in a shaft of the Prietas mines, Sonora, Mexico, two weeks ago, buried twenty miners hopelessly. —The city of Los Angeles is again reported to be suffering from an overflow of the river, with great damage to property. —On the 3d inst., John Glasscock of Delaplane, Va., murdered his wife and three children, and then shot himself through the heart. —Men on snowshoes now carry the mails up to Moore's Flat, Graniteville, and other high mountain post-offices in the Sierra Nevada. —Desire Roudoir has confessed that he killed Edward Grant at Grant's Falls, N. H., for which crime his father is now awaiting sentence. —The Nevada Live-stock Association, recently organized at Winnemucca, is to embrace Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah. —A bill has passed the Senate providing that any West Point cadet who has once been dismissed for hazing shall be ineligible to reappointment. —One hundred and fifty miners have been discharged from the mines at Cole City, Ga., to make room for a large invoice of convicts received. —A recent affray in Roumelia, between railroad laborers and citizens of Presbe, resulted in the killing of eight and the wounding of fourteen persons. —A negro named John Barnes, at Spartanburg, S. C., on the 28th ult., tied up his seven-year-old nephew and whipped him to death, because he did not get up when called. —It is estimated that 369,000 people in the river counties of West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois are more or less dependent upon charity for every necessity of life. —The Senate has passed the bill appropriating $350,000 for a new post-office building in San Francisco. A city daily estimates that this sum will buy a site and lay the foundation. —Governor Stoneman has issued a proclamation convening an extra session of the Legislature on the 24th inst. The subjects to be considered pertain to railroads and the public revenue. —The German newspapers, referring to the dynamite outrages in London, say that England is now reaping the fruits of her hospitality to anarchists and cut-throats from all parts of the world. —Cornwallis West, in a letter to the London Times, says: "The time has come for England to demand of friendly Governments protection from the attempts of O'Donovan Rossa and his bloodthirsty crew."175 —Foote, the editor of the London Freethinker, has completed his year's imprisonment for blasphemy. Mr. Bradlaugh, with 2,000 sympathizers, met him at the gates of the prison as he came forth. —The German Ministerial organs associate the alliance of Russia, Germany, and Austria with a coming league of Continental Powers against the maritime and commercial preponderance of England. —J. G. Kennedy, Superintendent of schools at San Jose, Cal., shot and seriously wounded a noted capitalist named Daniel Bohen. The affair grew out of charges of corruption in the management of school affairs. —American wine merchants and large hotels annually import 5,000,000 gallons of foreign wines, and sell 20,000,000 gallons. The balance is native wine under foreign labels, or manufactured out of something a great deal worse. —The United States Government is pressing its claim against Spain for $493,000, balance of awards due on account of American losses during the rebellion in Cuba, and also for $6,000,000 for estates embargoed at the same period, and not restored to their American owners. —The latest phase of legislation is a bill in the U. S. Senate to relieve the Judge-Advocate and members of the Fitz-John Porter Court-martial from the secrecy imposed by their oath as to the vote of the court. It is some consolation to know that there are yet a few public men whose integrity requires such a law. —The floods continue to devastate the overland railroads. In the Sierra Nevada, and at Blue Creek, near Ogden, there are extensive washouts on the Central Pacific. The Southern Pacific line is in a still worse condition. On Mohave Desert, at Soledad Pass, and various other places along the route, there are disastrous breaches, which will delay regular travel and traffic for some time. —HALIFAX, March 2.—The steamer Juliet from Newcastle, Eng., reports fearful storms and seas, revolving hurricanes, heavy fields of ice and innumerable icebergs. She sighted a two-masted steamer apparently hard and fast between two bergs, but could not make out her name. Later she passed an oil-cake or petroleum ship afire. The crew are believed to have been rescued by a passing ship. —The new wharf of the San Francisco and Alameda ferry, on the Alameda side is a great work. It is two and a half miles from the shore at China Point, with which it is connected by a trestle-work on which is a double railroad track, a wagon road twenty feet wide, and a sidewalk for footmen. In the construction of the whole there were used 10,000 piles and 60,000,000 feet of lumber. The depot buildings are very substantial and commodious. The most wonderful feature is the fresh water supply. The immense tanks (60,000 gallons) are supplied from an artesian well sunk to a depth of 300 feet underneath sixteen feet of salt water, and flows at the rate of 100,000 gallons daily. The entire cost of the improvement was $700,000. —A special to the Star from New London, Conn., of March 3d, says: E. D. Thrall, General Agent of the State Humane Society, has found at East Lynne a family, consisting of a man, wife and five children, the latter ranging from seven to thirteen years of age, the father beastly drunk and all the children in the same condition, one child being in the last stage of delirium tremens. A gray-headed old man of the same neighborhood was found to be forcing his thirteen-year-old boy to do the work of a grown man, denying him school privileges, and brutally beating him for the most trivial neglect of duty. A few days ago, for a trivial offense, the father had handcuffs forged for the boy's wrists and manacled him with a chain to a cow's horn. He then drove the cow and boy to a bleak hillside and left them together all day in the face of a cutting wintry gale. AGENTS AND FOREIGN BRANCH OFFICES.
British Columbia—B. Robb, Victoria, B. C.
Canada—Eld. A. C. Bordeau, South Stukely, P. Q.; Robt. McCormick, Belleville, Ont.; Mary E. Cushing, Dixville, P. Q.
England—Miss Jennie Thayer, Ravenswood, Shirley Road, Southampton, Eng.; Eld. A. A. John, 89 Hainton Street, Great Grimsby, Eng.; George R. Drew, 16 Rodney Street, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Eng.
Norway—Eld. J. G. Matteson, Akersveren, No. 2, Christiana, Norway.
Prussia—Eld. J. Ertzenberger, 10 Rudolph Strasse, Vohinkle, bei Elberfield, Prussia.
Switzerland—B. L. Whitney, Les Signes des Temps, Bale, Suisse; Eld. D. T. Bordeau, Rue de Canal 135, Bienne, Suisse. —Charlotte, S. C., has a colored Salvation Army. —The Toronto Presbytery has denounced secret societies as opposed to religion. —The General Conference of the M. E. Church will meet May 1, at Philadelphia. —The next consistory at Rome is fixed for March. Probably four cardinals will be appointed. —The City of Mexico organ of the Catholic Church, El Cronista, has suspended publication. —"The Religious and Benevolent Association" is the title of a Spiritualist society recently organized in Waco, Texas. —Dr. John Hall wrote: "I would rather have a church of five-and-twenty members than a crowd of twenty times that number." —Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, one of the great Baptist preachers and ex-member of Congress, has gone over to the Congregationalists. —Rev. S. L. Beal, until recently pastor of the Universalist Church in Brockton, Mass., has abandoned that belief and embraced Spiritualism. —Chicago doesn't know what to do for audiences in her 300 churches, but her 4,000 saloons are amply provided for.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. —Mennonites in Nebraska occupy three entire counties, are good farmers and hard workers, and so economical that their prosperity is remarkable. —A prominent clergyman of Lockport, N. Y., positively refuses to marry any young couple unless the bridegroom first signs a temperance pledge. —A misanthrope, named Warren, recently deceased at Barnardstown, Vt., bequeathed all his property "to oppose that horrid old monster of kingcraft called religion." —The Bible Banner is "glad to note" that Rev. Joseph Cook assures the public that Wendell Phillips "was a genuine believer in Christ." Mr. Phillips had a world-wide reputation; and the Christian belief of such a man, that is not known until publicly proclaimed after his death, could not have been of a very emphatic character, in fact hardly worth speaking of. —Dr. Sprecher, of Calvary Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, preached a sermon Sunday before last, on the "New Heavens and New Earth," in which he took the Bible position that Heaven is as real and tangible a place as this earth, and that the future abode of the redeemed will be this earth renewed and purified, and made a fit habitation for holy beings. —W. J. Colville reports to the Banner of Light that Spiritualism is fifty per cent. stronger all over England than when he was last there. Also, that the doctrine is making rapid headway in France. —Rev. Nelson Ayers, rector of the Church of our Saviour, New York, Sunday, Feb. 24, declared his belief in the doctrine of purgatory, for which he was complimented by the Catholic clergy but was compelled by his congregation to resign. —The remains of a young man who was supposed to have committed suicide, at Lafayette, Ind., were denied interment in the cemetery of his church (Catholic). His father sought redress in one of the courts, and defeated the church authorities. The remains were buried in the cemetery, whereupon the father was officially excommunicated and the ground declared desecrated. Publishers' Department.
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By Joseph Harvey Waggoner
Abbott.—Died in Newcastle, Placer Co., Cal., March 2, 1884, of spinal meningitis, Louis, son of A. G. and Martha E. Abbott, a native of Lodi, Wis., aged 16 years and 19 days. Louis signed the covenant when “present truth” was preached in Newcastle; and though circumstances prevented his uniting with the church, he never lost his regard for the truth, and we hope to meet him in the resurrection of the just. We unexpectedly found in Sister Abbott a member of an extensive circle of old friends in Wisconsin, some of whom are in the faith. We pray that this affliction may be sanctified to the good of them all, both here and there. The funeral was largely attended, on Tuesday, March 4. Good Templars’ Hall being filled with sympathizing friends and neighbors, who listened attentively to a sermon from 2 Sam. 14:14. The children of the school which Louis attended when he was taken sick, marched in procession to the grave where they sang the piece, “Shall we gather at the river?” J. H. Waggoner. Deep Ploughing.
By Thomas De Witt Talmage
DEEP ploughing for a crop. Deep ploughing for a soul. He who makes light of sin will never amount to anything in the church or in the world. If a man speaks of sin as though it were an inaccuracy or mistake, instead of the loathsome, abominable, consuming and damning things that God hates, that man will never yield a harvest of usefulness. When I was a boy I ploughed a field with a team of spirited horses. I ploughed it very quickly. Once in a while I passed over some of the sod without turning it, but I did not jerk back the plough with its rattling devices. I thought it made no difference. After a while my father came along and said: “Why, this will never do; this isn’t ploughed deep enough; there, you have missed this and you have missed that.” And he ploughed it over again. The difficulty with a great many people is that they are only scratched with conviction when the subsoil plough of God’s truth ought to be put in up to the beam. My word is to all the Sabbath-school teachers, to all parents, to all Christian workers.—Plough deep! plough deep! And if in your own personal experience you are apt to take a lenient view of the sinful side of your nature, put down into your soul the ten commandments which reveal the holiness of God, and that sharp and glittering coulter will turn up your soul to the deepest depth. If a man preaches to you that you are only a little out of order by reason of sin, and that you need only a little fixing up, he deceives you! You have suffered an appalling injury by reason of sin. There are quick poisons and slow poisons, but the druggist could give you one drop that would kill the body. And sin is like that drug; so virulent, so poisonous, so fatal that one drop is enough to kill the soul. Deep ploughing for a crop. Deep ploughing for a soul. Broken heart or no religion. Broken soil or no harvest. Why was it that David and the jailer and the publican and Paul made such ado about their sins? Had they lost their senses? No. The ploughshare struck them. Conviction turned up a great many things that were forgotten. As a farmer ploughing sometimes turns up the skeleton of a man or the anatomy of a monster long ages buried, so the ploughshare of conviction turns up the ghostly skeletons of sins long ages entombed.—Dr. Talmage. International Tract and Missionary Society.
By Stephen N. Haskell
The International Tract and Missionary Society was organized Aug. 13, 1874. It has furnished health and religious publications to co-operative missions and individuals in every State and Territory in the United States, and to every civilized nation on the globe. During 1883 it placed in free public libraries in this country over 6,000 volumes of standard religious books, at a cost of over $6,000, two-thirds of which was donated by other funds and the publishers. It has also placed valuable books in many libraries in England, and supplied reading-rooms with health and religious periodicals. It has a free reading-room, No. 371 Third Avenue, New York City, where it will keep constantly on hand Health and Temperance publications to furnish co-operating missions and branch offices on the Atlantic Coast and in Europe. William J. Boynton, 200 East 27th Street, manager and city missionary. Free reading and lecture-room, 316 Fremont Street, San Francisco, Cal., from which place all ships are visited which enter that harbor. Andrew Brorsen and H. C. Palmer, city missionaries. Free reading-room on L Street, near corner of Fifth, East Portland, Oregon. Boston, Mass., J. R. Israel, residence Rowley, Mass. New Bedford, Mass., Mrs. Anna H. Bradford, residence, Acushnet, Mass. The ship work at Liverpool, England, is under the charge of Geo. R. Drew, 16 Rodney Street, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Eng. Eld. A. A. John, 151 Willingham Street, Great Grimsby, Eng. Free reading and lecture-rooms at 13 West Huron Street, Buffalo N. Y., open from 2:30 to 9 P. M. Alex. Gleason, Superintendent. Free reading-room at 215 West Madison Street, Chicago; Room 2, second floor. James Sawyer, Superintendent. At the above-mentioned places the public are cordially invited. The society is sustained by the liberalities of friends of missions. Donations by draft or otherwise will be thankfully received and gratefully acknowledged by any of the above-mentioned agents, or Miss M. L. Huntley, Secretary, South Lancaster, Mass., U. S. A. S. N. HASKELL, President. THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR.
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AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY PAPER FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN, DEVOTED TO MORAL, MENTAL, AND RELIGIOUS CULTURE. THIS paper is not devoted to insipid stories and religious fiction, but is filled with a great variety of that kind of reading which tends to the healthful development of the youthful mind. Its pages are made bright by the choicest illustrative pictures, and its columns are always full of useful information. As a Sabbath-school and Lesson paper, it is suited to the wants of scholars and teachers, and is calculated to increase the interest of all who read it, in thorough Bible study. The Sabbath-school Department contains two series of lessons, one for children and one for youth. TERMS, ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.—Single copy, 75 cents a year; Five copies to one address, 60 cents each; Ten or more copies to one address, 50 cents each. SPECIAL PREMIUM OFFER—THE SUNSHINE SERIES. For every new subscription, accompanied with 85 cents, we will give "The Sunshine Series," consisting of a package of ten beautiful pamphlets of 32 pages each. These comprise a choice collection of sketches, stories, poems, etc., adapted to the wants of children, and contain more reading matter than can be found in many dollar books. Remember, the whole series, 320 pages, and the INSTRUCTOR for a year, for 85 cents. Address, YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR, Battle Creek, Mich. Or, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal. Clarke's Commentary, 6 vols. ........................................ $24 00
Barnes' Notes, 14 vols. .................................................... 21 00
Smith's Comp. Dictionary, sheep ....................................... 6 00
“ “ “ cloth ....................................... 5 00
History of Reformation ..................................................... 5 00
“ “ “ (condensed) ........................................ 1 50
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Young's Concordance....................................................... 3 00
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Whiston's Josephus, large................................................. 3 00
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Hand Book of Bible Geography......................................... 2 50
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Dictionary of Bible. ........................................................ 1 75
Smith's New Testament History........................................ 1 75
Geikie's Life of Christ, large.............................................. 1 75
“ “ “ “ small ............................................... 75
Blunt's Coincidences........................................................ 1 50
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.............................................. 1 50
Sketches of Jewish Social Life........................................... 1 25
The Temple and its Services.............................................. 1 25
From Exile to Overthrow.................................................. 1 25
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Address, PACIFIC PRESS, Oakland, Cal. YOUNG'S ANALYTICAL CONCORDANCE TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.
The latest and most complete work of the kind ever published is now offered at a price within the reach of every Bible student. This book places in the hands of everybody knowledge heretofore limited to a very few. It contains one hundred and eighteen thousand more words than Cruden's Unabridged Concordance. It gives every English word, also the Hebrew and Greek original words, with their pronunciation and literal meaning. The Greek and Hebrew words are transliterated so that they are intelligible to any English reader. A complete index of the original words is added, referring them to the English words under which they are found. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. Honor Due to God.
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THIS pamphlet (64 pages) on tithes and offerings will be ready to mail by the time the orders can reach us. Before any steps were taken to print it in this form we received requests that it might be done. And within the last week we have received questions on the subject of tithing, every one of which is fully answered here. Ministers cannot do a better service to the churches than to see that they are well supplied, and that they give it a careful, studious reading. Send in your orders. Price, ten cents per copy. WITH the change of the State T. and M. Secretary for Texas, there is a change in the location of the Repository. The address will now be, Clement Eldridge, Denton, Texas. Various Matters.
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THE camp-meeting in Los Angeles will be held May 15 to 25. IN a note in the Review of Feb. 26, Eld. Loughborough announces that himself and family intend to start for California, April 1. He will receive a hearty welcome. THE difficulty in the telegram noticed last week was occasioned by an error in transmission. Instead of "third" the original copy read "13th." The meeting in Fresno was appointed for March 13. We trust there may be no disappointment, as steps were taken to correct the notice. B. D. A. You can procure a pamphlet at this office, or at the office in Battle Creek, entitled, "Vindication of the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Unjust." Your query, and all others of like intent you will find answered there. To E. A. D., and others: the relation of the seventy weeks of Daniel 9 to the two thousand three hundred days of chapter 8, you will find fully explained in the book entitled, "The Sanctuary and Twenty-three Hundred Days," and "Thoughts on Daniel," and in "Life Sketches," and in the tract on the Sanctuary, and in places "too numerous to mention" in our papers and other works. THE record of creation in Gen. 1 and 2 : 1-3, is complete in itself—a synopsis of the whole work. The division, chapter two, should have been between verses 3 and 4 of the chapter as it now stands. With verse 4 a new and more extended account begins, in which are noted many points, especially relating to man, which were not noticed in the first brief account. Read it in this manner and your difficulties will vanish. T. B. C. Eph. 1:13 and Rev. 7:2 do not refer to the same thing. We can only express our surprise that any one should assume that they do. A little study of the subjects presented in the two texts must convince all that they differ. "The earnest of the Spirit" is the seal of the new covenant, without which no one is recognized as a servant of God. The sealing in Rev. 7:1-4, is a special work, at the very close of the dispensation, the same as in Eze. 9:1-4, and is placed only upon those who have fully proved themselves servants of God by rejecting the worship of the beast and his image and his mark. One is in the forehead; the other in the heart. One is in a prophecy with symbols; the other is not. See "Thoughts on the Revelation," remarks on chapter 7:1-3. CALIFORNIA'S dreaded dry season is greatly disappointing the people. As we close our paper it is still storming, after a long storm of unusual severity. The rain is accompanied with much hard wind. The rainfall in the southern counties is almost without precedent in amount, and the damage to railroad and other property runs up into the millions. Just enough to caution Californians against boasting over the East! Old Testament Ethics Vindicated.
By Editor
THIS is the title of a book of 288 (large) pages, written by Rev. W. A. Jarrell, of the Baptist church. When we first saw a notice of this book the title attracted our attention, and we had a desire to obtain it. A few days since we were pleased to receive a call from the author, from whom we received a copy. We have not had time to read it; but have examined the plan and contents, and can speak only favorably of it. We have read some portions of it, and feel assured that it is calculated to do much good in this age when many are so greatly undervaluing the Old Testament. We shall speak of it again, and give an outline of its contents, and make some selections from it for our paper. It is receiving strong commendations from prominent men of different denominations. Bishop Hurst recommends it, and Bishop Wilson, of Baltimore, says he shall use its facts and arguments, which is the best evidence of his appreciation. Eld. Jarrell has come to California for his health, and is now in this city. Those who wish to obtain a copy of the book can address him at Oakland, Cal. The price is $1.50. Conscientious Observance of Sunday.
THE Railroad Commissioners of Massachusetts gave a hearing to a discussion of the question of running railroad trains on Sunday, when a Mr. Merriam of Greenfield spoke in opposition to Sunday trains. An exchange quotes him as stating that when he was postmaster he had been many times solicited by citizens to open the office for an hour on Sunday morning, so that they could obtain their letters. He however uniformly refused to do so; but finally an order for the opening came from Washington. He reflected upon it, and almost concluded to resign his position rather than comply with what he deemed a wrong action. Finally he consulted his good friend, Governor Washburn, "a consistent Christian," and the Governor advised him to get his clerk to open the office on that day and attend to the distribution of the letters instead. Mr. Merriam said that he took Governor Washburn's advice, and had thus never been guilty of working on the Sabbath! Now the question arises, If a postmaster may have his business attended to on Sunday by an employe, without violating his conscience, why may not a railroad company be allowed the same elasticity? WE, the undersigned, hereby give the sums set to our names, to raise the sum of $25,000 to be placed under the control of trustees chosen at the annual session of the California Conference. Said sum to be loaned to some of our Institutions at 5 per cent, the proceeds of which shall be used to assist those who are seeking an education at the Healdsburg College, to fill positions in the cause of God. Said individuals must be recommended by the Conference Committee and the College Faculty. William Butcher.......................................$5,000
Joseph Leininger.......................................5,000
John Morrison..........................................1,000
F. H. Adams................................................500
Mrs. Mary Scott............................................500
A Friend to the Cause..................................800
"Who'll be the next?" THOUGHTS ON REVELATION,
By Uriah Smith
THIS work presents every verse in the book of Revelation, with such remarks as serve to illustrate or explain the meaning of the text. It is a new and harmonious exposition of that important book, and is designed to create an interest in its study. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. A CONTRAST OF TRUE AND FALSE THEORIES.
This is a pamphlet of only 84 pages, but its value is not to be judged by its size. It is just what its title indicates: a faithful presentation of Bible truth on this important subject, and an exposure of the false theories prevailing in regard to it. Every believer in Bible truth should read it. Buy it, read it, and lend it to your neighbor. Price, 10 cents. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. MATTER AND SPIRIT;
By Dudley Marvin Canright
THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN THOUGHT.
A PHILOSOPHICAL argument on an important theme, indicated by its title. 66 pp. Price, 10 cents. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.