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Business Department.

“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully.” (margin, negligently). Jer. 48:10.

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MISCELLANEOUS.—Hannah Ferguson $1.00 2-32, Gulf City Hotel $1.00 2-46, John Patterson $1.65 3-20, H A Cushman $1.00 2-38, John Farnworth 75c 2-45, C A Farnworth 75c 2-45, E T Barlow $6.00 4-16, Mrs Emily Holenbeck 25c, Benjamin Sherman $1.00.

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California Publishing Fund.

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Cash Received on Account.

Cal T & M Society per B A Stephens $20.00, J I Tay $3.50.

California Conference Fund.

B A Stephens $20.00, Church at Bloomfield $18.00, Santa Rosa $13.50, Petaluma $11.70, Napa $13.00.

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OAKLAND, CAL.

Brevities.

THE yearly sessions of the Kansas Conference, and the State T. and M. Societies will be held in connection with the camp-meeting, May 25–29, near Melvern, Osage Co., Kansas.

The Iowa Conference and Tract Society will hold their next annual sessions in connection with the camp-meeting at Marshalltown, Marshall Co., Iowa, to be held from June 8–12, 1876.

A CONFERENCE of the S. D. Adventists of Kentucky, will be held at Bro. D. Barrs, five miles from Elizabethtown, Hardin Co., Ky., May 12–14. Eld. Osborn is on the ground with a new tent.

Eld. Canright is making a short trip to the Southern States. He will visit Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, and Virginia.

A Fearful Catastrophe.

Chicago, April 18.—The levee, near Hannibal, Mo., broke yesterday, and over one hundred thousand acres of the finest land in the State are overflowed, and millions of dollars' worth of property destroyed. Thousands and thousands of dollars' worth of logs and cordwood, miles of fences, are now floating down the river, while several hundred head of horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs, that were grazing on the bottoms, cannot be found, and the supposition is that they are all drowned. The water has seriously interfered with the running of the railroads, and at many points the tracks are entirely washed out. The stream near Quincy is twenty miles wide, and the Illinois river is over ten miles wide. When the levee broke, people fled for their lives, and it is not yet certain that all escaped to places of safety.—Ex.

Conference Address.

At the late session of the General Conference it was voted that an address should be prepared by Eld. James White and Eld. U. Smith. This address will appear in a series of articles entitled, Progress and Wants of the Cause, the first of which we copy on another page.

Oakland Meeting-house.

The work on the new house of worship in this place is steadily progressing. The frame is up and is being enclosed with the expectation that one of the rooms in the basement will be partially finished and ready to occupy in a few weeks. The basement will be used for meetings until means can be raised to finish the house.

The Churches.

By J. H. W.

We have a cheering report from Santa Rosa since our labor there. We do not cease to pray that the Lord will help them to keep the light that they may let it shine before the world.

Things in Oakland and San Francisco are assuming a more satisfactory shape. We hope soon to be able to report a more healthy state of all the churches in California. Our future work depends upon this. Unless we have good illustrations of the power of the truth in the lives of its professors it will be vain to appeal to the world in its behalf. J. H. W.

Important Works.

By James White

(From Review and Herald.)

TESTIMONY to the Church, No. 26, the Fast-day Address, and Dangers and Duties of our times are three very important works. A large portion of the editions of these three works was sent out to persons in the different States, with two requests: First, that they be circulated properly; secondly, that churches immediately take up contributions to meet the expense of the books and postage on the same, and that scattered individuals contribute liberally.

The entire expenses of printing and postage has been a little less than $1,500. Only a very few churches and individuals have paid any attention whatever to the duty of paying for these books. We therefore urge that the officers of all our churches who have not already done so, immediately take measures to collect means to meet the expenses of these books, and that scattered brethren help in this matter. Means can be safely forwarded to SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal., or to Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.

And let it be understood that copies of these three books can be obtained at the California Office, post-paid, at the following prices: Testimony, 30 cents; Fast-day Address, 10 cents; Dangers and Duties, 10 cents. Sales and donations make up the sum of cost of printing and postage. Should more be received than to meet expenses, the excess will be put into the General Conference Treasury. Let the books be circulated, and let the means come promptly in to pay for them. J. W.

Battle Creek, Mich.

Wanted at the Review Office.

By William C. White

A COMPLETE list of the names and the post-office addresses of all the officers of all our churches, and also those of all the Tract and Missionary Societies, is very much needed at the Office of the Review and Herald. Will such officers please forward their names and addresses to that Office without delay?

And it is suggested by Eld. White that these officers call business meetings in all our churches as early as possible to make collections to meet the expenses of the three books mentioned, to secure a wide circulation to the new paper, and to consider the subject of holding stock shares in the Battle Creek College.

Let the churches of California send at once, the names and addresses of all church and T. and M. Society officers to the Signs Office, where a complete list will be made out and forwarded to Battle Creek.

W. C. W.

The Review and Herald.

By Editor

The mail has just brought us the Review of April 27, which is more than usually full of life and encouraging reports from every part of the great harvest field. New enterprises are being proposed, bolder steps are being taken, and the spirit of activity and progress seems to thrill through every nerve, and muscle, and vein and limb of the great Advent cause.

A vigorous movement is being made to raise the $10,000 debt on our school at Battle Creek. A Review supplement of four pages gives the financial standing of the school and a list of all the pledges, showing who have paid and who have not. A monthly paper entitled the Battle Creek College is to be published in the interest of the school. Its subscription price will be but ten cents per year, and should be had by every family interested in education and truth.

Suggestive.

It is reported that the managers of the Centennial have licensed one hotel and fifteen restaurants, for the sum of $182,500, to sell liquors on the grounds; but that the American Tract Society has been denied the opportunity to sell tracts. This causes the Illustrated Christian Weekly to make this statement with which we heartily agree:—

“To set a score or so of bars running in the Exhibition grounds appears to us a needless insult to a large proportion of Christian men, and to involve a needless danger of possible insult and most certainly degrading sights to Christian women and children. The liquor shop has no more right on the grounds than the gambler’s table. The policy that refuses to the Tract Society permission to sell its books, and gives to the grog shop leave to sell its liquors, has no other excuse or defense than the bribe of $182,500, which the liquor shops pay for their peculiar privilege.”

Sunday the Seventh Day, Illustrated.

The best illustration we ever heard of that silly evasion which makes the first day of the week the seventh, by beginning at the second to number them, calling it the first, is the following:—

A father, dying, wills his estate to his seven sons, to be divided equally among them, with the exception of one thousand dollars which is to be given to his seventh son. After the death of the father, the oldest son thinks it would be quite convenient for him to have that thousand dollars, so he says to his brothers, “Father meant me when he willed that odd thousand dollars to his seventh son, and I must have it.”

“That cannot be,” they all at once exclaim, “for you are not the seventh son.”

“Yes I am,” says he, “and I will prove it to you. Stand up and form in a circle.”

He places the second son at his right hand, the third next, and so on till the circle is completed. He then begins with his brother at his right hand, and numbers, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and sure enough he is the seventh!

Any judge or jury would give the thousand dollars to the seventh-born son, and will the Judge of all the earth be robbed of his holy day by any such dextrous management?—Sel.

Camp-Meetings.

KANSAS,—Melvern, Osage Co., May 25–29 MISSOURI,—Holden, Johnson Co., June 1–5 IOWA,—Marshalltown, Marshall Co. “ 8–12 WISCONSIN,—Sparta, “ 15–19 MINN.,—Eagle Lake, Blue Earth Co., “ 22–26 WISCONSIN,—Ripon, June 29 to July 3 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 ILL.,—Waldron, Kankakee Co., “ 21–25 SOUTHERN IOWA,— Oct. 5–9

It will be observed that the time of the Ripon, Wis., Camp-meeting has been changed from September to June and July, the Illinois meeting from June to September, and that the Kansas and Missouri meetings are each put one week later on account of the backwardness of the season.

Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, etc., etc.

By Editor

For Sale at this Office.

OUR Book List.—Any persons on the Pacific Coast wishing any of the publications named in our book list can obtain them by mail or express by writing to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, California, enclosing the published price of the same. When sent by mail, books will be post paid; when by express, at the expense of the one ordering the books; but in this case a liberal discount will be made when ten dollars worth or more are paid for with any one order.