"In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good." Eccl. 11 : 6.
Be Energetic.
Although we have said considerable on the manner of doing T. and M. business, we do not wish any to be disheartened or to slacken their efforts in tract and Signs distribution, if they do not understand all the minutia of the work. There is so much to be done, and so good materials to do it with, that there is every inducement to diligence in the work, especially when we see so many embracing the truth as the result of reading.
Diligence and promptness are requisite in the prosecution of this work. Every director should consider himself in a great measure responsible for the condition of his district, and should especially keep posted relative to all missionary work laid out before them, seeking to stir up the officers and members of his district to activity and zeal in the work. If the director is prompt and energetic it will tend to encourage the President and State Secretary in their labors, and give tone materially to the whole work. Whereas if they are slack, and fail to give immediate attention to matters committed to them, there is liable to be indifference with the officers and members in their respective districts.
We have published a good supply of Signs extra, with the supposition that our members would make special efforts to scatter single copies as freely as they do tracts. It is true something has been said about using copies of the Signs in obtaining subscribers, but let none think that they have not liberty to circulate these copies wherever they can find readers. Let your orders come in from all the districts, and let these Signs be scattered even to the islands of the sea. A good work has been done in placing copies on the ships in San Francisco harbor, but even this can be done on a still grander scale. Let us be energetic, and not "do the work of the Lord negligently." J. N. L.
Our Readers.
By J. N. Loughborough
WE are cheered from day to day in publishing the SIGNS OF THE TIMES to learn that it is appreciated by its readers, and is doing good. That is the object for which we are laboring. We will here make a few quotations from letters received from subscribers. The first is from San Jose. The writer has been raised a Roman Catholic, but is investigating present truth. He says :—
"The SIGNS always contains an abundance of matter both interesting and instructive; it is good for all Christian readers whatever their religious tenets or predilections may be; but to the reader who has either no inclination, or time, or opportunity, to read the Bible, it is particularly serviceable, in that it imparts a knowledge of the sacred pages in an extended, yet pleasing and satisfactory manner. I would like to see it widely circulated in this community, but fashion and prejudice prevailing in the churches, and worldly-mindedness and indifference outside, are great obstacles in the way of its circulation—obstacles which it would seem impossible to overcome, were it not that there is scarcely anything impossible in this nineteenth century."
The second is from Bro. J. N. Ayers, Kansas. He says :—
"I take the liberty of addressing you this morning in relation to the trial subscribers of the SIGNS in Dist. No. 3 of the Mo. and Kan. T. and M. Society. When I sent in the names I expected to have been able to send you a liberal donation, but immediately after sending the names, the drouth, chintz-bugs, and grasshoppers destroyed our crops so it was impossible, and if it had not been for the liberalities of our brethren we would have been obliged to leave our farms. Again this spring the grasshoppers in some parts of Mo. and Kan. took everything that was green. Where I live some have planted three or four times before getting anything to stand; but thank the Lord the hoppers have left and everything, excepting what is entirely killed, is beginning to grow again."
"Wheat in this section of the country was all killed, but I think if the weather continues favorable we will be able to raise enough of other crops, such as corn, beans, potatoes, turnips, and buckwheat, for our support. Crops look well now, and I never saw a more favorable time for things to grow. Our fruit is a failure on account of the hoppers stripping the trees last fall, and a great many of the peach and apple trees are killed. But to return to the subject. I think the paper is doing considerable good here, and feel very thankful that it has been continued so long. I like it, and hate to do without it, but cannot pay for it until times get better. There are many others who feel the same, but I would not ask for it for myself or any one else in this district any longer than the present volume unless I should receive favorable answers to published notice to trial subscribers."
This notice was inserted last week. I esteem it a pleasure to pay $1.00 on Bro. Ayers' paper, and keep it still going.
Here is another touching letter from Kansas :—
"I write to tell you of the great blessings that we receive in the dear SIGNS OF THE TIMES—you wish all to report to you whether we are reading the paper with interest. I can truly say that it is a well-spring of life to us. We are too poor to send the money for it, but oh! I pray you, do not take it from us. We are reading every word of it with the greatest interest, and I do not think we can possibly do without it. We will make every effort to pay for it as soon as we can. I am a widow, having one child. We are both Adventists and have no preaching, nor anything to help us but the TIMES. My son is but sixteen years of age yet is firmly established in the faith."
We cannot stop such papers. We do not wish to stop any which are read with interest and profit. If any of our brethren and sisters, who have been prospered in their affairs while these Kansas readers have been scourged in the loss of their crops, feel as though they wanted a $10.00 or $5.00 or $1.00 blessing in paying for some of these papers in Kansas, we will not object to receiving it, and the Lord says : "He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord, and that which he hath given will he pay him again."
J. N. L.
Question.
By John Norton Loughborough
We are requested to explain the term "third heaven," 2 Cor. 12:2. The atmosphere surrounding our earth is called heaven, Gen. 1:6-8. The moon and stars are called heaven, Ps. 8:3. The third heaven is the paradise of 2 Cor. 12:4. Paradise is the New Jerusalem of Rev. 21, which is proved from the fact that "the tree of life" is said to be in the paradise of God, Rev. 2:7, and "the tree of life" is in the New Jerusalem, Rev. 22:2. J. N. L.
Right Use of Things.
FROM the absence of health, and the prevalence of sickness and suffering, it is evident that there is a great disregard of the principles that underlie health. It is as true in physical as in spiritual things that every transgression receives a just recompense of reward. If the principle of obedience were recognized, and people would cease to do evil and learn to do well, hearts that now are dreary like the desert would blossom as the rose. Common sense is defined, "good sense in little things."
The manner in which men, women, and children are related to the few, simple, health-giving agents, air, food, light, sleep, clothing, exercise, rest, water, temperature, and the condition of the mind, are chiefly the things that procure to them the blessing of health, or its opposite, disease. Good sense manifested in attention to these things so little considered makes, in a great measure, the joy of life. No person is actually happy when sick; though, through grace, he may be enabled to rejoice in hope. Nor is there actual wretchedness, under ordinary circumstances of life, when in the possession of a sound body and a sound mind. Man, created upright, has sought out many inventions which mar his joy, in the misuse and abuse of things that God pronounced good. — Health Reformer.
News and Miscellany.
—The French residents of New York, have contributed $5,000 in aid of their countrymen in France who have suffered by the recent floods.
MADRID, July 23.—The Constitutional Committee yesterday adopted the article of the proposed Constitution establishing religious toleration.
—A mail was received in San Francisco, July 31, which was but fifteen days in coming from London here, and but fourteen days from Dublin. This is the fastest time on record. All of which goes to show that the Old World is rapidly approaching the western shores of the New.
—Dispatches dated Knoxville, July 31, announce the death of Ex-President Andrew Johnson. The cause was paralysis. He desired that his winding sheet should be the flag of his country. Of his death the New York Post says, ten years ago his death would have agitated the country to its depths; to-day it makes scarcely a ripple on the surface of the political arena.
—The only colored graduate of Harvard College (Richard T. Greener) distinguished himself both as a speaker and as a writer, won more prizes than any classmate or coeval, was an excellent scholar in some departments, was on terms of intimacy with the best persons in his class, and left a record of memory every way honorable. He has now a professorship of logic in the university of South Carolina, and were all our academic chairs as well filled, it would indicate an educational standard very far above the average of our (so called) colleges and universities.—Dr. Peabody.
—A terrible ice storm visited Geneva, Switzerland, on the night of July 7. The hail came in an almost solid sheet of ice, demolishing street lamps, smashing in, not only the glass, but the whole windows, sash and all, filling rooms with fragments of ice which at once compacted themselves into a solid mass. It totally ruined the vegetable gardens, upon which a large portion of the poor people depend for a livelihood. Vast numbers of small birds were killed by the storm, and bodies of several foxes have been found.
—The failure of the delegation to Washington, and the increased incursions of lawless whites, together with the cruel frauds of the agents in issuing rations, have thoroughly aroused the Sioux, who are now beginning to make serious work with the miners in the Black Hills. A letter to the Omaha Herald from the Red Cloud Agency states that on the 9th inst. a well-armed and well-equipped body of Uncapapa Sioux were on the war-path in the Black Hills, with the avowed determination to cover the country with horses' hoof-tracks. From Indian sources we learn that they have had two encounters with white men (miners), and killed seven of one party that they met and three of another.
FAMINE IN ICELAND.
Further accounts of the earthquake in Iceland, and its effects upon the crops and pasturage, state that famine is imminent among a large part of the inhabitants. Two hundred square miles of the island is covered with lava. From a description of the event by the Rev. Dean Sigard Gunnarsson, a resident of the devastated district, we take the following:—
“On Easter Monday, early in the morning, loud rumbling noises were heard to the westward, and apparently traveled toward the northeast. Presently the sounds turned backward. The air was heavy and jet black toward the north and northeast. About 9 o'clock whitish-gray scoriaceous sand began to fall from the sky, the particles averaging the size of a grain, but in shape longer. The dark column moved on nearer and nearer, and the darkness rapidly increased, while the scoriaceous hail thickened at the same rate. A full hour before noon candles had to be lighted in the houses, and at noon the darkness was as dense as that of a windowless house. *
“For four consecutive hours it was necessary to have lighted candles in the house. During that time the ashes and sand were falling thick and fast. Lightning and claps of thunder were at the same time seen and heard in rapid succession, and everything seemed to tremble again. The air was charged with electricity to such an extent that pinnacles and staff-spikes of iron when turned in the air seemed all ablaze.”
When the darkness passed away it was discovered that the surface of the island to an extent of nearly 3,000 square miles had been covered with a layer of ashes and scoriæ from one and a half to eight inches deep. In many places pumice boulders as large as the fist had fallen. The ashes came down hot with a sulphurous smell, but both heat and odor were soon dissipated.
Before the fall of the ashes, the fields were snowless and the pasturage, plentiful; but after it not a creature could be let out of doors, and the sheep, if let out, would run as if mad, in all directions.
As the pasturage was destroyed, and as it was upon that that the sheep and cattle lived, famine stared the inhabitants in the face. The result has been that the people, hastily abandoning their homes, have fled into the neighboring districts, which, though untouched by the eruption, are but scantily provisioned, and so the overcrowding threatens starvation to all. It is to save the Icelanders from this impending calamity that the cry goes up from the chief men of Reykjavik for help. In England, subscriptions are received by the Lord Mayor of London.
Religious Miscellany.
By Dudley Marvin Canright
-Two hundred Jesuit priests, driven out of Germany, are expected in Quincy, Ill., shortly.
-There are 721 Young Men's Christian Associations in the United States and the British Provinces.
-The law subjecting priests and divinity students to military service has passed the Italian Senate.
-The total membership of the United Presbyterian church of Scotland is 187,761. Its income last year was $1,730,000.
-There are 21,000 Protestant converts in China, and in India there are more than twelve times that number.
-Six converts to the true Sabbath were baptized, June 27, at Neuchatel. Eld. Andrews is much encouraged in his work.—Sabbath Memorial.
-It is estimated that the pope's income from 1861 to the present time has not been less than $100,000,000, and the humble successor of Peter, lives on this small income!
-It has been decided in England that it is unlawful for a clergyman of the Church of England to take part in any religious service other than that of that church, or in any place licensed for dissenting worship.
-A sum amounting to between £6,000 and £7,000 has been presented to Cardinal Manning on behalf of the leading Roman Catholics in England, as a congratulatory testimonial on his recent elevation to the Sacred College.
GENTILE JEWS.—"Mohal" David Klein, of New York, says he has recently performed the rite of circumcision on 38 Christian adults who have desired to be admitted to membership in the synagogue. But a rich bride was the cause of each of these conversions.
-There are in the cities of Buenos Ayres and Montevideo sixteen Protestant places of worship, in twelve of which the English language is used and Spanish in the remainder. More than fifty thousand copies of the Bible in Spanish have been circulated in South America in late years.
-Popular ministers in our large cities now receive from $5,000 to $15,000 per year. For this they preach one and sometimes two sermons per week, each from fifteen to forty minutes long. Then they have a summer vacation of six weeks or more with all expenses paid. "Verily they have their reward."
-Of church choirs the Examiner and Chronicle says:—
"It looks a little odd to see solo performers who lead the worship of God in fashionable churches Sunday mornings, making the chief attractions of their Sunday night [theatrical] entertainments."
-The amount of church property exempt from taxation in Erie County, N. Y., alone exceeds in valuation the sum of $4,000,000, and in the United States the value of such property so exempt reaches the enormous sum of $650,000,000. The probability is that laws will soon be passed to tax this church property.
-The Old Catholic movement in Germany, though aided by the government does not make much progress. The reason is plain. There is not enough of reform in it to commend it to earnest, progressive men. Those who accept so much of Roman dogmatism can accept more. Those who reject infallibility are inclined to reject the system entire, and find supply for their religious desire in the Protestant denominations.
-Companies of banished German Jesuits arrive at intervals in New York and scatter in various directions. Several Franciscan priests, about fifty students, and a few nuns, landed in New York a few days since, some going to Cleveland, others to Cincinnati and Buffalo, these three cities apparently being the centers of the order. The movement southward proceeds quietly, and no doubt it is the policy of the Catholic Church to gain a hold in that direction, especially among the freedmen, with as little display as possible.
-The attitude of the nations toward the Roman church is thus described by the New York Tablet, a Catholic paper:—
"Again she finds herself in the midst of a hot and almost world-wide persecution. After a long era of her benificent supremacy, men have grown weary of her gentle yoke. They have even turned to hate her to whom they owe civilization, liberty, mental and moral enlightenment—whatever, in short, they possess. And with an ingratitude not less than diabolic, they are bent on crushing out of existence their benefactor."
-The Russian government has appointed a commission to report on the advisability of abolishing many of the church holidays, and other reforms are in contemplation. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Globe says:—
"Plans are being prepared for increasing the pay of the rural priests, and for giving them a better education than they receive now, and the Holy Synod promises to publish the Old Testament, which it is now translating into Russian, in the course of a few months. One of Lord Radstock's converts, a millionaire of the name of Pashkoff, distributes 1,000 copies of the New Testament among the moujiks every month."
-In Massachusetts, where the Baptists were once so severely persecuted, they are now raising a centenary fund of $350,000. In connection with this fact the Post makes a note of the fact that in Cambridge, where the first President of Harvard College, the Rev. Henry Dunster, who was inaugurated in 1640, was persuaded in 1654 to resign his office on account of his having adopted the principles of the Baptists, there is now a very handsome and costly church of solid granite; and several prominent Massachusetts Congregationalist churches, whose ministers have been educated at Cambridge, have consented to allow baptism by immersion to all who wish to receive it in that form.
D. M. C.
What Will Make Good Teeth?
It is an old and common saying that bread is the staff of life. The maxim must have originated many generations back, when bolting mills were unknown, and sieves but little used, when bread was made with all the ingredients of the grain included. Such bread is the staff of life. The bread of our time is, most of it, the handmaid of disease. If there is in it any staff, it is weak and brittle, which will soon let a man down. Wheat, more than any other grain, perhaps, contains all the elements needful for the nutrition of the system. To have this affect, however, all its properties must enter the bread made of it; none must be bolted or sifted out, nor must the stone grind it too fine.
. . . It is our duty to be instructors to the heads of families, who, with their children, are our patients, in relation to the matters herein treated. When we discover children's teeth defective and decaying, we ought most earnestly to exhibit both the cause and the remedy, and urge instant and continued attention to our counsels and instructions. We are bound to recommend the use of proper food, such as oatmeal, barley, unbolted wheat, peas, beans, and other food designed to make strong bone, good teeth, and healthy bodies.—Dental Register.
Christianity as Life and Growth
CHRISTIANITY is not a thing to put on or off at pleasure. It is part of the life of the man—the good in him developed—and this it takes time to do: it is growth. We may be enamored with it momentarily; it is not enough: it must be made the controling principle of life.
A Reason of the Hope.
By R. F. Cottrell
WE are taught to be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us. And certainly if we can give an answer to others, we must be able to know for ourselves on what our faith and hope are grounded. Our faith is to be tried. Each one must be prepared to stand the test for himself. He that endures to the end will be saved. Some have depended too much upon others, and have not studied the reasons upon which our faith is based. Such are in danger of being moved from their foundation. They have moved because others did; and if others fall away, having no root in themselves, are liable to go with them. It is to our interest to know for ourselves why we believe and hope.
If our faith and hope are correct, our all depends upon holding fast; if not, the sooner it is abandoned the better. If it is correct, it must bring believers into unity. It is impossible for it to fail of this end. Then every departure from the spirit of unity is a departure from the truth. Sectarianism is a wicked thing. The heretic or factionist is rejected of God. He is self-condemned. Let all beware of a party spirit. It is not in agreement with the Spirit of God. The gathering call is sounding. "He that gathereth not with me," says Christ, "scattereth abroad." Have you received, as truth, the faith that God is sending out the last message—a message that is to prepare his people for the advent of Christ? How important, then, that you should be laboring to build up this truth in unity! Can you lightly give influence to a party spirit?
Let all who are satisfied with the foundation of our faith and hope hold on to it. Encourage unity for the truth's sake, and for the sake of the salvation of souls. If any doubt the foundation let them inquire till they are satisfied, and then act accordingly. Be prepared with a reason for your position—a reason that will satisfy yourself, at least. The time is coming when you will want a foundation more firm than the ebbing and flowing of the waters, the fluctuations of others who are unsettled, and are turned about by every adverse wind. Have salt in yourselves, and have peace and unity with those who are grounded in the truth. Have you no reason but the fluctuations and caprices of other unstable souls? Then be in haste to find a better one, or give up the ship.
Yes, have a reason at hand that will silence the contending waves of passion and party spirit—a reason that will make you calm in the midst of adverse squalls. If we have taken the right ship it will land us safely, if we remain on board. My advice to all is, "Don't give up the ship." I can give no good reason for forsaking it. Can you? Search and see. Is this the work of God, the work predicted in prophecy? If so, hold fast that no one take your crown. Eternal life and a home in the promised new earth is the prize to be gained or lost. It is all important that our faith and hope are well grounded. Let us know the foundation of our hope. Let us have a reason that will abide the storms and billows of passion and pride.
R. F. COTTRELL.
Bro. White left Battle Creek, Monday, July 26, for New York, to purchase power presses, engine, book-binding machinery, &c., for the Publishing House in California. He will invest about ten thousand dollars before his return to Battle Creek, Aug. 3.
Certificates of Stock.
By John Norton Loughborough
In a few weeks we shall receive our stock book and seal press, and shall commence to issue certificates of stock to all full paid shareholders who have paid $10.00 per share in coin.
Currency will be counted at the rate of $11.50 per share, until further notice. So those who have paid currency expecting shares to the amount they have paid will take notice that all shares are counted in coin value.
J. N. L.
California Tent Fund.
By John Norton Loughborough
We have sent out lists of unpaid pledges on the tent fund to business agents and individuals, according to previous notice. We hope to receive favorable responses from some of these soon, as we go about the work of preparing for camp-meeting. These pledges were all to be paid by Oct. 1, and we presume all are planing to meet them by that time. Still, any who can pay them sooner will confer a favor to the camp-meeting enterprise by so doing. J. N. L.
Wanted.
By John Norton Loughborough
The provision stand, restaurant, and stockyard on the camp-ground, we wish to let to responsible parties. Those wishing either of these should make their applications in writing to G. D. Hager (chairman of the Camp-meeting Committee), Santa Rosa, Cal., by Aug. 20, so that the matter of those coming with teams may be considered by the Committee at the meeting on the 22d, and an answer be given to applicants.
J. N. L.
Question.
By John Norton Loughborough
The question comes in whether the rooms in the building on the camp-ground are simply lodging rooms, or whether it is expected that those who occupy them can also live in the building.
These rooms are to be placed in two rows through the building with a twelve-foot alley in front of them, the whole length of the building. There is a space 12 feet wide back of each row of rooms for tables and living arrangements. The rooms will be constructed with a doorway front and back. If these rooms are all 10x12 we have space for 28 of them in the building. We have already received definite orders for seven of them.
Let those who wish room in the building send in their orders soon. J. N. L.
Kansas.
By J. N. Ayers
Persons receiving the Signs of the Times on trial in Linn, Bourbon, Anderson, and Miami Counties, are requested to report by mail to J. N. Ayers, Farlinville, Linn Co., Kan., whether they wish their paper continued, how they like it, and if any of their neighbors or friends are interested in the truths it teaches. And if you can pay the postage on your paper, or wish to donate anything for its support, you can forward it to me at Farlinville. I want to hear from all as soon as convenient.
J. N. AYERS,
Director of T. and M. Society of Dist. No. 3.
Notice.
By Editor
It was stated last week that the P. O. address of Eld. I. D. Van Horn, until further notice, would be Oregon City, Oregon. But in a letter received just after the SIGNS had gone to press we were requested to counteract the above notice as circumstances demand his longer stay in Washington Ter. His address is still Walla Walla.
Foreign Mail.
By Editor
By the new postal law which took effect July 1, 1875, uniform rates of postage are established to Great Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, Spain, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, Norway, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey. The new rates are as follows:—
For pre-paid letters, 5 cents for each half ounce, or fraction thereof. For unpaid letters, 10 cents for each half ounce. For postal cards, 2 cents each. For newspapers, if not over four ounces in weight, 2 cents each. For books, pamphlets, and other printed matter, 2 cents for each weight of two ounces or fraction thereof.
Why Letters Go Astray.
By William C. White
WHEN we consider that in the United States there are 15 Buffalos, 12 Bostons, 18 Buena Vistas, 12 New Havens, 12 Newarks, 14 Albanys, 12 Oranges, 18 Highlands, 8 Hyde Parks, 11 Bradfords, 5 Cincinnatis, and 3 Chicagos, to say nothing of the almost innumerable Johnstowns, Jamestowns, and Smithtowns, it seems not at all strange that letters go astray. Then too, there are States that are thus abreviated: Me., Md., Mo., Mon., Mass., Mich., and Miss. The only correct way is to put the county upon every letter addressed. w. c. w.
The Sabbath Memorial.
By William Clarence White
THE July number of the Sabbath Memorial is just received. This is its third number, and although a little sheet contains much that is of interest to a lover of the Sabbath cause.
One of the noticeable features is a chart showing the names of the days of the week in twenty different languages of Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, in which the seventh day of the week is called the Sabbath. In the Hebrew, Arabic, Abyssinian, and Maylay, the days are numbered one, two, three, four, etc., and in the Persian and Hindostan, One from the Sabbath, Two from the Sabbath, etc., with these exceptions, that the Maylay, Hindostan, Persian, and Arabic call the sixth day, Assembly day, and that in all these languages the seventh day is called the Sabbath. The chart shows that the loss of a day in one or more nation is impossible, because in all nations there is perfect agreement in the numbering of the days of the week.
The Memorial reports the arrival of Eld. N. Wardner, S. D. Baptist Missionary from America, whose labors for the present are to be directed to Scotland and Ireland.
Of his labors from March to July, 1875, Eld. W. M. Jones, the publisher of the Memorial, makes the following report: "There has been received from friends in England, Scotland, and Ireland, £11 14s. 10d.; from Seventh Day Baptists in America, £10 10s.; and from Seventh Day Adventists, £8 2s. 7d.; total, £30 7s. 5d. This sum has been expended on hundreds of posted letters and parcels, on several boxes and parcels from our publishing societies, and in printing over 7,000 copies of the Memorial, and 5,000 copies of 'Mr. Moody not a Jew.'"
His address is William Mead Jones, 15, Mill Yard, Goodman's Fields, London, Eng.
W. C. W.
Business Department.
By Editor
"Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully," (margin, negligently). Jer. 48:10.
Received for the Signs.
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Appointments.
By John Norton Loughborough
OAKLAND.—Regular services are conducted by the Seventh-day Adventists in their hall, corner of Twelfth and Broadway, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11:30 A. M., and each Sunday evening.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Seventh-day Adventist services each Sabbath (Saturday) at the A. P. A. Hall, Mission street near Third, at 11 A. M., and every Sunday evening.
SAN JOSE.—Sabbath and first-day, Aug. 7, 8.
HEALDSBURG.—Friday evening, Aug. 13, and Sabbath and first-day, Aug. 14 and 15, at 11 A. M., and evening of each day.
SANTA ROSA.—Friday evening, Aug. 20, and Sabbath and first-day, Aug. 21 and 22, at 11 A. M., and evening of each day. On Sunday afternoon I wish to see the Camp-meeting Committee, that we may lay our plans relative to our coming camp-meeting.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
English Bibles.
By Editor
We will send any of the following English Reference Bibles, by mail, post-paid, at their respective prices:
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Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, etc., etc.
By Editor
For Sale at this Office.
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