THIS meeting was held at Burlington, Vt., Aug. 28 to Sept. 9. The city and country had been quite thoroughly canvassed for the Signs, and a fair number of subscriptions taken. The meeting was well advertised in every respect. The location was all that could be desired, only that it was a little too far from the center of town, since there are no street-cars. Elder Whitney arrived the first day of the meeting and remained until the following Wednesday, when Elder Smith and Sister White reached the ground.
The attendance of our people was quite large, but the outside interest was light; yet those who did come gave the best of attention, and I doubt not but what a good impression was made. By actual count there were 334 campers on the ground besides transients. About fifty tents were pitched.
The preaching was well received. All appreciated the testimony of Sister White, and we believe it will be productive of much good. Quite a number were present who had embraced the Sabbath during the year. The children's meetings, which were conducted by Mrs. Burrell, were interesting.
When the wants of the cause were presented, the hearts of the congregation were stirred. Nearly two thousand dollars were pledged, so that of the $15,000 fund $8,300 have been pledged, and we confidently expect that our people will bring up the remainder.
Three men, H. Peebles, M. E. Kellogg, and H. W. Pierce were ordained on Monday evening, and it was a most precious season. The Spirit of the Lord came in to approve the act. Three received ministerial licenses, and twenty colporteur's licenses. Several of the latter will attend the South Lancaster Academy a portion of the coming year.
Fifteen were baptized in the beautiful waters of Lake Champlain. At times the social meetings were very interesting, there being as many as seventy testimonies given in twenty minutes. The ministers' meetings, which were held nights after the camp had retired, were of a very important nature. We had expected Elder Haskell, and felt that we could not go through the meeting without his counsel, but about the time he was to arrive, a letter came saying he must go to Maine. This caused us all to cry to God for divine wisdom for the occasion, and it did seem that we were not left alone. All who engaged in the night struggles will long remember how near the Lord came.
Bro. J. R. Israel was present the last week and rendered valuable assistance by giving Bible-readings and conducting a canvassers' class. The remarks of Sister White at the last morning meeting were well calculated to bind off the work.
While remaining to store tents and arrange for further labor in this city, I found the influence of the meeting had been excellent. The editor of the Free Press, in whose paper we had had daily reports, gave us a very friendly and urgent invitation to hold our meeting in this city next year, saying, We are acquainted with you now and will give you more space in our columns. I was not aware that the meeting had done so much good until I met some of these leading business men. I am coming to think that Vermont is a good rich field of labor. I am glad it has been my lot to labor here.
A. O. BURRELL.
Men for the Times
By Rev. G. B. Van de Water
THE men for the times must be modest men. Realizing that they are, above all, servants of God, they must work foremost for his glory. Next, they must be moderate men; we must not hasten to be rich, nor great. God never hastens. Next, men for the times must be learned men. Knowledge is our safeguard. No power is greater than the power of knowledge. Then we must be moral men, for goodness is essential to happiness. Lastly, we must be godly men. To purchase freedom for the race, the redemption of the cross was necessary. To achieve the freedom of the individual, the sanctification of the Spirit must be added. It ought to be settled in your minds as the mountains are rooted in the heart of the earth, that man's greatest glory is to live for God, and that the great end of existence is to attain to the perfect stature of manhood in Christ.—Rev. G. B. Van de Water.
Poor and Blind.
By Charles Haddon Spurgeon
IN what an unhappy condition is that person who cannot derive comfort from the salvation of his own child! Yet there are many men and women in such a state. They care nothing for the souls of their offspring. It would bring no joy to them if they saw all their children walking in the truth; nor does it cause them any concern to see them otherwise. To see them sharp in business, or fair in countenance, is their main ambition, but to have them beloved of the Lord is no matter of desire. Poor souls, their own carnality overflows and saturates their family! To some it would even cause anger and wrath to see their children turning to the Lord; they so despise true religion that, if their sons and daughters were converted, they would rather hate them than love them the more. Such persons make curses out of their blessings. They put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, darkness for light and light for darkness; and therefore that which ought to be their comfort and joy becomes a source of disquietude.
—Spurgeon.
Give Them a Chance.
By The Christian Union
BEFORE the orchards are stripped of their fruits, set apart a certain portion for the poor. Remember to stop, on your way to the sloop, at the poor-farm and leave a barrel of apples; and remind the folks at home that you have room for a basket of grapes under the seat, and will be glad to leave them at the same time for Granny Dickson. Perhaps you do not pass the poor-farm; it is out of your way; well, you pass the cottage down in the hollow, and the apples will be very acceptable to the little woman there who is struggling to keep the body and soul together. How many times have you noticed, as you passed, that she was growing thinner, and that she was not nearly so straight as she was when John brought her to the cottage five years ago! Now you've thought of it, you'll add a barrel of potatoes. How that little woman worked to plant that patch in the spring! but, for reasons you understand and she does not, the crop is very, very poor. It's all well enough to talk about women being just as good farmers as men, but the knowledge necessary to make a good farmer does not come by inspiration. You can remember crops that failed before you had learned to take advantage of the best conditions in nature. Give her some hints, and she will profit by them.
Now, those Smiths. If there is one annoyance in your life to which you cannot become reconciled, it is that family. They're a nuisance to the whole town. There is not an orchard, a wood-pile, chicken-house, or cow that has not paid toll for the support of that family. Besides being taxed for their support, they are always being "helped by the town." Well, have you ever tried to make them any better? Did you not whistle for the dog last week when you saw Ned Smith coming up the road? You thought he was going to wait round till you were out of sight and go into the orchard. He did not think of it. He was going up in the stone lot after "coons." You would have made a friend of him for life if you had waited by the gate and told him to come up to-morrow morning and get a basket of apples for his mother. You remember the moon was very bright that night, and about ten o'clock Ned, Jim, and a big bag were down in the orchard. When they went away the bag was not empty, and Ned said "he guessed he'd got square with you for calling the dog when he wa'n't doing nothing." Would it not be well to try Ned this year, and tell him he can have a basket of apples if he'll pick them up? It makes him feel ugly to pass and see your pigs eating up the apples that he wants so much. Besides, baked apples add to the taste of the bread; they help to get it down when there is no butter.
There is always a whining baby at the Smiths. You hear it always when you pass; Sunday mornings it cries louder than ever. Why, last Sunday morning you were just thinking of what a beautiful sermon that home missionary preached from the text, "Whatsoever ye do unto the least of these," when that baby actually made the horse start, it gave such a cry. How the thought of the wickedness of that family prevented you thinking of the sermon, or the text, the rest of the way!
Of course they are a nuisance; but have you ever tried to make them anything else? Why do you not try to hire Ned and Jim to help you through the busy season? They will not do as much work in a day as a trained hand, but you will have given them a chance to earn a pair of trousers instead of stealing up to your back door in a shamed-faced way to beg a pair next winter. Hire them for a month, and give them three good meals a day, and in one month you will be able to trust them alone in the orchard. You see, they will not be so hungry.
There is that Miranda Smith. If ever there was a ragged, shiftless girl, she is one. Yes, of course; so would your daughter be if her mother was as poor and ignorant as Miranda's. Has your wife ever attempted to make Miranda, or her mother, any better? Did she ever go down there and talk in a friendly way with Mrs. Smith about the difficulty of caring for children, as mothers should talk to mothers, dropping little hints that would not be lost? When Mrs. Smith was Eliza Jones, you thought her a likely girl; you remember she lived for a time over the hill, and you often saw her when you drove over to see your wife—only she was not your wife then. Yes, there has been a great change in her since then. John Smith was not forehanded, you say. Yes, that was it; he was lazy, and Eliza really could not keep up his end and her own. Now, if you would hint to your wife that it would be a good idea to take Miranda into the kitchen and give her a chance to learn how to do housework, so that she could earn wages, there would be one less to feed at the miserable home, one less to bear the cursings of the drunken father, one less to bear the slaps and scoldings of a discouraged mother, one ignorant child started on the right road. It's in the blood. Yes, but it can be worked out; else what did Christ mean, "And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me." Was he lifted up in vain? Will you not help, so far as is in your power, to lift men unto him? Try to do a little home missionary work yourself, by giving practical help with your prayers.
It will not do to confine your efforts to Thanksgiving and Christmas. You cannot fill their souls with eternal thanksgiving, and gratitude enough to make them let your property alone, by allowing them to almost starve before your eyes all the rest of the year. It will add to your enjoyment of the Sunday morning sermon if you take, under the front seat of the carriage, two baskets filled with potatoes, and a roll of butter in each, and leave one at the little widow's and the other at the Smiths, on your way to church. Baked potatoes and butter are a treat, and the Smiths have been saved from temptation. They were puzzled where that dinner was to come from.
By getting your wife to go there and find out the real condition of things, you might get the neighbors interested; you might get work for all the boys big enough to work; and in the course of five years the Smiths would have a chance to see one "Report of the Town" issued without their name in the list of the "town poor," and there would be that much of a surplus to be voted for the schools.
HOW EASY IT IS.
By The Watchman
How EASY it is to spoil a day!
The thoughtless word of a cherished friend,
The selfish act of a child at play,
The strength of a will that will not bend,
The slight of a comrade, the scorn of a foe,
The smile that is full of bitter things—
They all can tarnish its golden glow,
And take the grace from its airy wings.
How easy it is to spoil a day
By the force of a thought we did not check;
Little by little we mould the clay,
And little flaws may the vessel wreck.
The careless waste of a white-winged hour,
That held the blessings we long had sought,
The sudden failure of wealth or power,
And, lo! the day with ill inwrought.
How easy it is to spoil a life—
And many are spoiled ere well begun—
In home-light darkened by sin and strife,
Or downward course of a cherished one;
By toil that robs the form of its grace
And undermines till health gives way;
By the peevish temper, the frowning face,
The hopes that go and the cares that stay.
A day is too long to be spent in vain;
Some good should come as the hours go by;
Some tangled maze may be made more plain,
Some lowered glance may be raised on high.
And life is too short to spoil like this;
If only a prelude, it may be sweet.
Let us bind together its thread of bliss,
And nourish the flowers around our feet.
—The Watchman
Hailstorm at Washington Monument
The workmen on the top of the Washington Monument, which is now nearing completion, lately experienced a hailstorm, but the frozen pellets all melted before reaching the ground.
Minding.
"Charlie, come in, I want you," said a sweet, womanly voice to a little boy who was playing marbles on the sidewalk in front of a nice brick house. Now Charlie was very busy, and in the midst of a delightful game. He was as happy as could be. To quit his play then was like quitting the table when half through dinner. Would he obey? We looked with interest to see what he would do. What would you have done? Charlie replied, "Yes, mother," and picking up his marbles, started off with a smiling face and a bounding step up the side yard and in at the end door of the house. A fine boy that, I thought, as I looked after him. I wonder who he is? What a beautiful thing it must be to have a little boy or girl that will mind at once, and with a happy, loving heart! I wondered what would become of that boy, and wished to see more of him and learn his history. I used to walk past that house every week, and always thought of that blue-eyed, light-haired boy. The thought of him made me happy. I saw a great many naughty children. Once I spent two or three days in trying to find a naughty boy who ran away from his home, and overwhelmed his parents with grief, and when I found him, some one had stolen his coat and hat and bundle of clothes, and all the money he had. A boy that minds is a jewel.
I had been in business a year or two, and in that time had had several boys; but it was next to impossible to find one that would mind. At last I was quite out of patience, and I determined that I would have no one who could not bring the best recommendation, and stand the closest test. Several applied for the place, but no one suited us. At last came a blue-eyed, flaxen-haired youth of twelve years, with a bright, honest face. There was something engaging in his looks. Had I seen him before? "What is your name?"
"Charlie Warren, sir. I live in Franklin Street. My father is a carpenter, but is lame now and cannot work, and I have got mother's consent to go into a store, if I can find a place." It was the very Charlie whom I had seen playing at marbles. I remembered the circumstance, and knew that he would mind. I did not need a recommendation for him, but gave him the place.
Charlie came to work on Monday morning. It seemed hard for him the first week of work, but he behaved like a man. The boys in the next store came in and made his acquaintance. One morning I heard two of them trying to coax Charlie to go off with them down on the wharves in the forenoon and see a boat-race that was to come off. "No," said Charlie, "mother told me to mind my business, and I am paid for staying here, and don't think it right to go off without my employer knowing it."
That was a brave word, and I thought more of Charlie than ever. That was ten years ago. He has been with me ever since, and proved to be the best clerk I ever had. Yesterday we put up a new sign, and on it, in large gilt letters, was Charlie's full name. The store is his own. He is now a prosperous, promising young man, and if he lives will be a rich and honored man. And all this because one bright morning he minded his mother when she called him. From such little things do great results come. Always mind, and it will be well with you.—Sel.
The Whale.
SINCE it lives in the water, the whale ought to be a fish, but it is not. It has the general external appearance of a fish, but that is all. The fish is cold-blooded and can breathe under water, while the whale is warm-blooded, and can no more breathe under water than you or I can; it must put its nostrils out of water and let out the used-up air from its lungs and take in good air again precisely the same as a man. Of course it takes in a very large supply of air, because it sometimes remains under water as long as an hour. Sailors speak of the whale as spouting, and in pictures the animal is shown usually with two fountains playing out of the top of its head. That is a mistake, for whales do not spout any water at all. What seems something like water is in reality only the hot breath rising in the frosty air and condensing just as your own breath will in winter. Sometimes, too, the whale begins to breathe before its head is out of water, and then, of course, some water is forced up into the air.
Some whales are no larger than a man, and some are eighty feet long. The head of a big whale is a great deal bigger than an elephant. But large as they are, they are terribly active, as many a hapless whaler knows, and forty-five miles an hour in tow of one of these monsters has sometimes been experienced. The tail is the usual weapon of the whale, and the only one of the whale-bone whale, though the sperm whale has a formidable set of teeth in a very large mouth, and can do a very great deal of damage when disposed to bite a boat in twain. Several times, too, it has happened that a whale has used its head against a ship as a battering-ram. The ship has usually been crushed in and sunk.
The whale oil is obtained by boiling down the immense layer of fat which incases the whole body of the whale, and a good whale has been known to yield from the blubber alone one hundred barrels of oil. And besides this in the sperm whale there are always several barrels of oil in a liquid form which has only to be dipped out by the bucketful. The whale-bone, as it is generally called, is not really the bone of the whale, but is a strange substitute for teeth, which some whales have. It grows from each side of the upper jaw along the gums, and is some six feet or more long. The lower ends are frayed out like fringe, and are used by the whale to strain water through. It swims through the water with its huge mouth wide open, taking in jelly-fish, and anything else that comes in its way. By and by it closes down the whalebone, or baleen, as it is called, and forces the water out of its mouth, leaving the jelly-fish and other objects caught in the fringe. The whale then eats at its leisure.
Dolphins, porpoises, narwals, and grampuses are all members of the whale family. In times past the porpoise used to be eaten, and was considered good food enough for even the royal table. What is known as porpoise leather, however, is really made from the hide of the beluga, or white whale.
Most of the whales are peaceful in disposition, and the large Greenland and sperm whales particularly are not usually disposed to be vicious; but some of the smaller whales are frequently on the war-path, and can be very dangerous even to man. This is strikingly the case with the orca, or killer, as it is sometimes called. It goes in schools like the porpoise and dolphin, but in fewer numbers, and will attack any living thing that comes in its way, being, if possible, more ravenous and blood-thirsty than the shark. Even the great Greenland whale with its eighty feet of length fears the active little killer with its eighteen or twenty feet of length, and with good reason, for when a pack of these sea-hounds start in pursuit of the leviathan, they never cease until they have killed it. They swim around the great whale and under it; they leap far out of water, and, coming head first on the broad back, snatch great mouthfuls of flesh from it; and when the worried monster opens its cavernous mouth in the vain hope of ingulfing some of its tormentors, they absolutely rush in and carry off mouthfuls of the huge tongue. The killer is the terror of the ocean, more feared by the denizens of the water than any other creature.
At one time the large whales were quite plentiful, but years of vigorous pursuit by man have so thinned their numbers that comparatively few were to be found ten years ago. It is probable that if the large production of petroleum had not come to the rescue of the whale, it would by this time have been exhausted. As it is, it has had a respite for ten or twenty years, and now it has increased so greatly in numbers that once more whaling bids fair to become an industry along our north-eastern coast.
Two Travelers.
Of course you have all heard of Castle Garden, in New York. Now, when you say "garden" you think of neatly-made paths, and bright flowers nodding at you as you pass, and bees and butterflies flying from flower to flower. How disappointed you would be when you looked at Castle Garden! It is a shabby building, and such a queer shape—round—built on the Battery. Years ago it was a fort; afterward it was put to various uses. A reception was given to General Lafayette in this building, and it was here the great singer, Jennie Lind, sang when she came to New York. Now the immigrants—that is, the poor people who come in big ships from Europe and other foreign countries—are landed there. You know these people have no homes in this country, and some of them have no friends.
There are people authorized to care for them and send them where they want to go. Sometimes they expect to buy land and build houses out West, and support themselves by working on farms. Sometimes they come here and stay in Castle Garden until they are hired to work by some one. Everything is done to make them comfortable. But the most surprising immigrants who come to this country are the little children who come all alone; that is, without father or mother or big brothers or sisters to look after them.
The parents of these children have not money enough to pay the fare for themselves and for their children, so they leave their children at their old homes with the grandmother or some other relative, and then they come to this country, and earn money enough to make a home and pay the passage of the children.
When the relatives in Europe get the letters telling when and how to send the children, they tie a card on the children's neck, on which is written the address of the new home, take them to the ship, and they sail for the strange country, and when they land sometimes the father or mother meets them at Castle Garden. You can just imagine how the children feel when they meet their father and mother.
But sometimes when they land at New York they have only gone part of the journey to their home. Last week two children, a brother and sister, landed at Castle Garden. The boy was ten years old and the girl was four. Their father and mother had come to this country, and left these children at their old home in Ireland, three years ago, and only now had a place to shelter them, out in Dakota. These children stood side by side in the crowd; their faces were not very clean, and they looked very frightened; such a hurry and such pushing and scolding were enough to frighten big folks. Not one familiar face! It was very warm; the room they were in was not over-clean, and every one was too busy to notice the two little children who huddled together close to the wall.
After a while the crowd was not so great, and a man discovered these two homesick, frightened children. They did not know where they were going, but he looked at the card and put them on the boat that would take them to the cars. Before you read this, no doubt these two little ones have reached the little home out in Dakota. How glad they are to get there you can well imagine. Three years away from their mother! Think of it. While you are reading this, I think that little girl is in her mother's lap, and the boy sits on the door-step beside his father, telling all the things that happened on that long journey from Ireland to Dakota.—Sel.
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SOUTH LANCASTER ACADEMY
This school is located in the village of South Lancaster, Mass., on the Worcester and Nashua Railroad, about sixteen miles from Worcester and thirty from Boston.
It is conducted upon the most approved method of teaching, the aim of the managers being to combine the practical with the theoretical in such a manner that each student in going to the school shall be prepared for some position of usefulness.
Successful preachers, colporters, teachers, and canvassers have already entered the field from this school and, at the present time, are laboring in at least eight of the Eastern States.
Students are instructed in four useful trades, and preparation are making to connect still other industries with the school.
Those wishing to attend this school or to place their children here, can depend upon their physical, mental, and spiritual interests being well cared for.
A specialty is made of the Bible, Language, and missionary work; the instruction in these branches being adapted to men and women of mature years. Eld. S. N. Haskell, President, Eld. D. A. Robinson, Secretary.
Persons desiring to attend the school will please address, Prof. G. H. Bell.
SECULAR.
—There are 119,682 acres of artificial forests in Kansas.
—The wheat crop of the country is estimated at 500,000,000 bushels.
—The coinage of the various mints during September was $4,613,363.
—The corn crop this year is said to be the largest ever known. It is estimated at 1,800,000,000 bushels.
—The penitentiary at Michigan City, Ind., has earned, in the last three months, $5,516 above expenses.
—The decrease in the public debt during September was $12,040,000. The decrease since June 30, is $24,583,000.
—A Pittsburg dealer says that there is enough lumber now stacked up in the country to supply the trade for from three to six years.
—An order has been issued to the students of the Odessa University forbidding them from assembling in groups, upon pain of instant dismissal.
—The royal palace at Copenhagen was destroyed by fire on the 3d inst. Ten soldiers were burned to death while attempting to save property.
—A Chicago firm is to furnish 5,000,000 pounds of compressed beef to the English Government for the expedition sent to relieve General Gordon.
—Twenty-two dishonest milkmen were fined from $10 to $100 each last week in the New York Court of General Sessions for watering their milk.
—A construction train having a crew of twenty-two men, ran through a bridge near Bayfield, Minn., on the 3d inst. Twelve men were killed, and the others badly injured.
—Thirty persons were killed by a cloudburst at Pachuca, Mexico, on the afternoon of the 27th ult. A great deal of property was destroyed, and many cattle were drowned.
—Pulmonary consumption is the cause of one death in twelve in New York State, and the State Board of Health has laid the cause to the bad ventilation of school-rooms.
—As Governor St. John was on his way from Carlisle to Terra Haute, Ind., Oct. 2, some villain fired at him through the car window, the bullet passing just in front of him.
—The village of Alton, sixteen miles south of Bradford, Penn., was visited by a cyclone, on the 29th ult. The storm demolished everything in its path, which was only five rods in width.
—Seventeen car loads of tobacco were shipped last week from Lancaster, Penn., to San Francisco. It is estimated that each car contains over twelve tons, and the whole is valued at $180,000.
—The authorities at Woolwich, England, are displaying much activity in forwarding war material to Hongkong. Six hundred tons of shot, shell, and ordnance were shipped thence on the 1st inst.
—An attempt was made Sept. 29 to blow up the Council-house at Salisbury, England. A number of windows were smashed by the explosion, but otherwise no damage was done. No arrests have been made.
—A man in Victoria, B. C., has on foot a project to build an electric railway from Port Simpson, on the Pacific, to Hudson Bay, on the Atlantic. It is said that the scheme attracts considerable attention, and is considered feasible.
—A Minneapolis street-car was recently stopped by highwaymen, who demanded the cash box. When the driver refused to give it up, they fired two shots, one of which instantly killed the only passenger that the car contained.
—England has 27,050 breweries and brewed 990,000,000 gallons of beer last year. Germany has 25,902 breweries and brewed 900,000,000 gallons of beer during the same period. These two countries lead Europe in the manufacture of this article.
—As a consequence of the numerous attempts at incendiarism in Cleveland, several insurance companies have withdrawn their risks on property in the lumber districts, and others have doubled the premium. Fifty men have been added to the police force.
—Hog cholera has been quite prevalent in Maryland and Virginia, and thousands of dead carcasses have been thrown into the Potomac. The citizens of Washington, whose water supply comes from the Potomac, have naturally become alarmed, and have petitioned the Governors of those States to stop the nuisance.607
—A six-story building in Philadelphia, known as Peacock's storage warehouse, was destroyed by fire on the 5th inst. Every floor was filled with household goods, some 600 families having their effects stored there. The loss is $500,000.
—The closing of all the cotton factories in Petersburg, Va., and vicinity, in consequence of the scarcity of water, throws out of employment over 700 men, women, and children, nearly all of whom are suffering for want of the necessaries of life.
—A London cable special says that the French statesmen are becoming afraid of Germany and are urging the establishment of the old relations between France and England. Also that complications between England and Russia are thought to be imminent.
—Intelligence has just been received of a terrible and disastrous hurricane on the coast of Iceland, on the 11th of September. Accounts thus far received show that nineteen trading vessels and sixty fishing boats were lost and thirty-two vessels disabled. The exact number of those who perished has not been ascertained, but it is known to be very great.
—The alcalde of the little town of Salinas, on the Mexican National Railway, having rendered himself obnoxious to the people by certain arbitrary acts, a mob gathered around the municipal court on the morning of the 2d, overpowered the police, and killed the judge, the chief of police, and twenty others. The principal offense of the alcalde was that he had caused the arrest of a train robber.
—A recent typhoon in the south of Japan has done much damage, and caused great loss of life. Towns on the coast were inundated by the sea. At Tamashima, in Bitchiu, the sea embankments were carried away; 100 persons were drowned and 120 are missing, 430 houses having been swept away. Imabari and Matsuyama, Iyo, met with similar disaster; 30 lives were lost, 170 persons missing, and 151 houses and 112 junks were destroyed.
—A Hongkong dispatch of Sept. 28, says: The French stopped and searched the English regular trading steamers at Frehkien and Hai Loong, in the channel of Formosa. There is great irritation in consequence of this high-handed proceeding, and neutral steamers conveying soldiers and munitions to the various quarters in this section of the world are all alarmed at their prospects if this shall not be resented, and it is regarded as likely to be a source of possible complications with foreign powers.
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CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE FUND.—Bernardo, per J P Bandy $20.65, Vacaville, per J J Bolton $38.50, Santa Rosa, per H Cole $72.15, Isabella Moore $20, Woodland, per G C Martyn $151.95, Grass Valley, per T Angove $28, Healdsburg, per A Morrison $164.95, Lemoore, per J M Hartman $45.40, Petaluma, per E A Chapman $31.10, Santa Rosa, per M A Hollister $68.85, A Lawson $12, J C Phipps $10, San Jose, per E J Waggoner $20.20, Gilroy, per E J Waggoner $10, Mr and Mrs R Stickney $25, Los Angeles, per M R Stern $92.20, Auburn, per Mrs Neirhoff $14.50, Lakeport, per M E Saunders $24, Placerville, per George Vickery $28.25, San Francisco, per H C Palmer $120.75, Maria Myers 70c, Petaluma, per E A Chapman $26, Laytonville, per J F Lameuth $80, Laytonville, per A L Kingsberry $80, Laytonville, per Mrs Kingsbury $5.05, Laytonville, per Mrs Saunders 60c, Ferndale, per E W Hurlbutt $108.15, Burr Valley, per F Thorp $5.30, Napa, per Joseph Eggleston $22, Ukiah, per E Yokom $24.65, Lakeport, per E J Church $13.20, Healdsburg, per J F McCutcheon $30, St Clair, per J J Cushman $21, St Helena, per H W Hackney $62.70, Red Bluff, per J K Bowlsby $65.75, Woodland, per G C Martyn $2.60, John Richardson $7, Mrs C Ruoff $4.15, Lemoore, per P Seazighini $21, A T Jones $5.10, Healdsburg, per A Morrison $65.80, Vacaville, per J N Dennison $12.20, Healdsburg, per S Harmon $5, Wm Banta $11.70, Healdsburg, per E Striplin $1.10, Lemoore, per J M Hartman $1.75, San Francisco, per H C Palmer $24.25, Reno, per C Allen $24.35, B R Sheckler $5, Healdsburg, per A LaRue $10, Mrs A B Manor $20, Healdsburg, per E Baxter $1.50, Ora Peoples $30, San Francisco, per H C Palmer $29, Petaluma, per L J Benton $18.80, Mrs Moser 50c, Napa, per J Eggleston $6.30, F Haub $10, Mr and Mrs Sterritt $13, A W Everts $11.20, S McElhaney $21, Henry Reick $25, E A Briggs $57.55, Henry Scott $17, M M, San Francisco $5, Healdsburg, per Wm Ings $53.68, Barbara C Rice $28.85, J D Rice $78.20, L Metcalf $1.50, Healdsburg, per A Morrison $35.70, G H Heald $10, E R Jones, $2.65, A J Morton $43.50.
CHURCH DEBT FUND.—A friend $50, J N Loughborough $100, Wm Ings $50, W C White $100, Charles Robbins $10, A L Ingels $5, G D Ballou $100, Alice Morrison $5, J I Tay $5, E J Waggoner and Wife $25, G A Baker $25, Alice Bartlett $10, Lillie Richey $5, V M Donaldson $20, Edith Ayers $5.
HEALDSBURG COLLEGE.—C H Jones and Wife $30, Joseph Fieger $50, J D Rice $125, C A Newbie $8, Sarah McEnterfer $10, Anna Ingels $10, Warren Brown $20, Ella Striplin 50c, Susan Semple $10, Ella Baxter $3, Libbie Saunders $10, Mrs E R Jones $5, Wm Banta $10, Nancy Studebaker $10, Laura A Brown $5, A Friend $20.
BRITISH MISSION.—J J Bolton $25.
FOREIGN MISSION.—Mary A Bolton $10, J D Rice $200, T Roberson $5.
SHARES IN PAC. S. D. A. PUB. ASSO.—J J Bolton $50, Beecher Bolton $10.
CALIFORNIA T AND M SOCIETY.—District No 1 per Mrs C C Ramsey $104.10, Santa Rosa $21.05, Petaluma $21.50, Ferndale $36, Laytonville $16.20, Dist No 2, per W H Ingels $33.12, per J H Anthony $3, Dist No 3, per P M Partridge $27.60, Lakeport $12.10, Napa $7.70, Dist No 5, per Libbie Saunders $61.90, Dist No 7, per A L Ingels $34.30, Dist No 8, per Arthur S Hickox $55, San Jose $20.30, Dist No 9, Norwalk $9.50, Los Angeles $25.95, Dist No 10, per M C Israel $3, Seaman's Mission per Charles Robbins $38.35, M A Johnson 50c, I M Strikrod $1, Adam G Spath $14c, M C Israel $38.80, W E Pearson $26, John McMurphy $2, Mrs F J Skelton $3.60, Mrs E M Neirhoff $10, Peter Scazighini $1, Mrs A C Walden $1, Alice Graham $1.85, Mrs W C Whisby 50c, E J Church $1.50, Joseph Eggleston $1, Frank Bagley 75c, Eld G D Ballou $4.50, Joseph Leininger $10.45, J J Bolton $4.50, Eld J O Corliss $22.50, G P Sanford $2.50, Mrs I E Gable $1, Wm Ings $176.40, Charles Robbins $3.
CITY MISSIONS.—H Smith $10, W A Pratt, $85, P M Partridge $10, Susan Semple $1, M O Beck 50c, L Metcalf $10, Betsey Healey $1, Dr M A Chamberlain $1, Libbie Saunders $1, M Moser $1, Wm Saunders $25, Mrs I L Decker $25, N J Hager $10, C C Ramsey $2, Wm Banta $1, M E Peoples $5, W C Whisby $1, E A Briggs $2.50, A T Stickney $25, E M Neirhoff $5.
TRACT DISTRIBUTER FUND.—James Creamer $1.50, S C Rice $3, P M Partridge $1.50, Wm Butcher $1.50, Mrs E J Wilcox $1.50, Peter Scazighini $1.50, A T Stickney $7.50, Forest Smith $6, N J Hager $3, Mrs Perkins $1.50, E M Neirhoff $1.50, J J Cushman $3, John Morrison $3, C C Ramsey $3, W C Whisby $1.50, J K Bowlsby $1.