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STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING.

NOTICE is hereby given that there will be a meeting of the stockholders of Healdsburg College Corporation at the South College building in the town of Healdsburg, California, on Monday, April 16, 1887, at 9 o'clock A. M., for the purpose of electing seven trustees of said corporation, for the term of one year, and for the transaction of such other business as shall be brought before said meeting.

W. C. WHITE, Pres. W. C. GRAINGER, Sec.

Pennsylvania Tract Society Office Removal

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TESTIMONIES FOR THE CHURCH.

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THE ADVENT REVIEW

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AND SABBATH HERALD.

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PACIFIC HEALTH JOURNAL

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THE HOME OF THE SAVED.

By John Norton Loughborough

BY ELD. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

This pamphlet gives the Bible evidence upon the interesting topic of the earth made new, as the inheritance of the saints. It contains 82 pages. Price, 10 cents.

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NOTICE OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE RURAL HEALTH RETREAT ASSOCIATION.

(A CORPORATION.)

NOTICE is hereby given that a special meeting of the stockholders of the "Rural Health Retreat Association" (a corporation), will be held at the principal place of business of said corporation at the Rural Health Retreat Building at Crystal Springs, near St. Helena, Napa County, State of California, at the hour of nine o'clock, A. M., of the 6th (sixth) day of April, 1888, to consider the following propositions, viz. :—

First—To increase the capital stock of the "Rural Health Retreat Association" (a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California), from the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000).

Second—To amend the Articles of Incorporation of the "Rural Health Retreat Association" (a corporation formed and existing under the laws of the State of California), by adding a subdivision to be known as Subdivision 6th of Article II of the original Articles of Incorporation. Said Article II reciting the purposes for which said incorporation was formed, said subdivision 6th to read as follows, viz. :—

Sixth—To purchase, acquire, collect, and convey, ten (10) inches of water out of what is known as "Bell's Canyon," on Howell Creek, from a point just below a hydraulic ram belonging to W. A. C. Smith; located in the N. W. 1/4 of the S. W. 1/4 of Sec. 6, T. 8 N., R. 5 W., M. D. M., or other available points in this section; and Sec. 1, T. 8 N., R. 6 W., M. D. M., to conduct the same along such route or routes as are deemed most feasible and practicable (according to careful surveys made by the Company's engineers) to the said Rural Health Retreat, and to supply said Rural Health Retreat with all necessary water for the purposes of consumption, manufacturing, and irrigation, and also to supply the inhabitants of said village of Crystal Springs and vicinity with water for irrigation and domestic purposes, and to sell the water, and collect rates for the sale and use of the same.

Dated, Crystal Springs, Napa Co., Jan. 30, 1888. Signed, J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, W. C. WHITE, J. D. RICE, W. A. PRATT, A. B. ATWOOD, Directors of the Rural Health Retreat Association (a corporation). Attest: J. FULTON, Sec'y.

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OUR GENERAL AGENTS.

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Kaiser Frederick Improving in Health

ALL lovers of peace and good order will be glad to learn that Kaiser Frederick is improving in health. For some time there has been a steady gain, with no adverse symptoms. It is well known that he is for preserving peace; and although his malady may be incurable, it is sincerely to be hoped that the end will not come very soon.

Questions Concerning Church Trustees

By Editor

SOMEBODY has sent us some questions concerning church trustees, Sabbath-school superintendents, the leasing of churches, etc., but has given no name or address. If these are furnished us, together with stamp, we will reply by letter. The questions are not of sufficient general interest to be answered in the SIGNS, and we cannot answer anonymous communications. No person ought to be ashamed of his name.

The All Fools’ Club

By Editor

An "All Fools' Club" has been started in San Francisco. We wouldn't dare deny the right of the club to such a name, but we greatly fear that it hasn't got all of them yet. The worst of the class are those who deceive their neighbors, and say, "Am not I in sport?" The report states that the club was started with an unlimited capital stock of folly. That is a sort of capital against which we have not heard of any organized opposition on the part of laboring men, or others. If there were such a movement, we should hear less about strikes and boycotts.

A Correction About February's Full Moon

By Editor

WE have received several letters, calling our attention to a little item that appeared in Number 11 of the SIGNS, to the effect that the month of February, 1886, had no full moon. It seems that the almanac says that there was one, and our correspondents want to know whether the error is in the almanac or in the SIGNS. No doubt we shall have to confess to being in error, for it wouldn't do to impeach the almanac. The error on our part consisted in republishing an item that was going the rounds, without verifying it. McCarty's "Annual Statistician" says that it was the month of February, 1866. The substitution of an "8" for a "6" is a very easy matter. If this is not correct we hope to be informed of it. We are glad that the SIGNS has such close readers. We hope that they will scan the Bible arguments as closely, and take the trouble to verify them.

The White Cross

By Editor

THE Interior has been asked to give some information with regard to the order of the “White Cross,” and answers in the following language, which expresses our sentiments exactly:—

“It is part of the work of the W. C. T. U. In our opinion the true White Cross origination is that original one, the Christian church. We do not have much faith in pledges or personal moral reforms not based upon sanctification by the Holy Spirit.”

We will say, in this connection, that whatever cannot be done by the church of Christ in the way of moral reform, cannot be done at all. Outside agencies may accomplish a little seeming good, but it is only a gloss on the surface. Only the Spirit of God can work an entire reformation in a man, cleansing the fountain whence all his actions spring. We think, also, that the modern custom of having societies formed within the church, composed only of those members who will pledge themselves to abstain from certain bad habits, or to do certain good and necessary work, is reprehensible, and productive of much evil, in that it tends to give people a low standard of church obligation. It produces the impression that a church-member need not necessarily be

Church Obligations to Temperance and Missions

a temperance man or a missionary worker, unless he has joined a society having that specific name, whereas the fact is that every church-member must be, by virtue of the church covenant, "temperate in all things," and a missionary worker. The church that is not a temperance society, and a missionary society, is not a true Christian church. That is, those members who are not temperance reformers and missionary workers, are not fulfilling the obligations that necessarily rest upon every professed follower of Christ.

Lent, Wine, and Formalism

By Editor

In a recent address before the Young Women's Christian Temperance Union in Oakland, Rev. Dr. Horton stated that he had been credibly informed that during this Lenten season there were many families which gave their children wine in the place of meat, and said that teachers in certain schools complained that those children became utterly unmanageable in consequence. Was there ever a worse exhibition of straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel? We believe Lent is a period of time devoted to the mortification of the flesh! "The church" forbids the use of meat during that time, so that the body may be kept under; and these people, who would think it almost a mortal sin to disobey the church in this regard, give their children (and undoubtedly themselves also) wine, which is ten times worse than meat could be. This is a fair sample of the working of a religion that is fixed by law. Formalism at the expense of piety always results.

Tobacco Growing in Colorado

By Editor

It is stated that Colorado has great hopes of becoming the tobacco-producing district of this country, careful experiments having determined that many varieties of tobacco will yield enormous crops upon its soil. The Oakland Times says:—

"If Colorado cannot produce the requisite soil and climate, it could certainly be found in California. With our vast domain it is ridiculous that we should still be spending eight to ten millions of dollars per year in buying the weed from Cuba and Sumatra."

We should say that if Californians must use eight or ten million dollars' worth of tobacco every year, it will be vastly cheaper to import it than to ruin good land in producing it. It is well known that there is nothing that grows that exhausts the soil so much as tobacco. Much good land in Connecticut and Virginia has been rendered unfit for use, because it has been devoted to tobacco-raising. Tobacco has only one mission, and that is, to kill, and it does that effectually, whether applied to the land, to men, or to pestiferous vermin.

Seventh-day Adventism Not Orthodox

By Editor

The Review and Herald contains a brief review of an article published in the Free Methodist, by C. E. Harroun, Jr., entitled "Seventh-day Adventism Not Orthodox." We can well imagine what the article in question is, for we once listened for two hours, with all the patience we could muster, and our full stock was required, to a sermon by this same man. The title of the sermon, which had been extensively advertised, was "Adventism against Orthodoxy, or Adventism Essentially Infidel." We mention one of his arguments as a sample: He said that Adventists didn't live up to their profession, because he knew some who labored every Saturday. He had honesty enough, however, to state a few moments afterward that those Adventists were First-day Adventists, who didn't profess to keep Sabbath. As for the rest of his sermon it was merely a statement of what he believed, and a contrast of that with the belief of Adventists. Of course he could very easily show that we didn't believe the vagaries that found ready acceptance with him, and therefore he was sure that we were infidel. The Bible was not once referred to as the standard of belief.

Catholicism and Free Speech

The Christian Union's Chicago correspondent, commenting on the fact that Dr. Fulton was not allowed by the city authorities to fill his appointment to lecture on the topic, "Is Popery in the Way?" because they feared a riot, thinks that such refusal was unnecessary, and adds: "It surely is a dishonor to the Catholic Church if it is supposed that bloodshed

Catholic Intolerance and Violence

By Editor

would result if ever so violent addresses were made against it.

Indeed it is a dishonor to that church, and a dishonor which it has brought upon itself many times. The Catholic Church has had about fourteen centuries of such dishonor, for everybody who knows anything about that church knows that when it has had the power it has never hesitated to shed the blood of those who spoke against it. No man's life would be safe if he should go into any community in the United States, where the Catholics are numerous, and should openly tell the truth concerning that church. A false religion has no other argument at its command but violence.

The following item from the Michigan Christian Advocate, which came to our notice just after the above was written, is a very good comment on the Christian Union's statement that the Catholic Church is too good to cause blood to flow in consequence of addresses made against it:—

“Michael Welch was telling a Gladwin audience why he left the Catholic Church, when a party of men entered the room, and informing him that they were after blood, began throwing bottles at his head.

Protestants and the Papacy

By Editor

ON another page of this issue of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES we have made the statement that those who apologize for the Papacy now, would have condemned Luther if they had lived in the days of the Reformation, and that therefore they are not Protestants in any sense of the word. Since that article was written, we have received from the editor of the Herold der Wahrheit a translation of a part of the remarks of the prosecuting attorney of the city of Cassel, Germany, in the case of the Rev. Thümmel, who was indicted for attacking the Papacy and calling the Pope antichrist. In moving for nine months' imprisonment for Thümmel, and two months' imprisonment for the publisher of the article, the prosecuting attorney said among other things:—

“The defendant refers (or appeals) to Dr. M. Luther. First, it must be considered that Luther lived three hundred years ago, and that meanwhile the customs, the tone, and taste, etc., have changed. If Luther lived to-day and should say and write the same things that he did then, he would undoubtedly, by reason of section 166 of the Penal Code, be condemned.”

Undoubtedly; and this is in a city where the majority of the churches to-day are Lutheran. If a man should be condemned now for using language similar to that which Luther used three hundred years ago, then he ought to have been condemned then, for it is Rome's boast that she never changes. If Luther were alive to-day he would undoubtedly say the same things about the Catholic Church that he said in the days of Leo X., and would include many professed Protestants in his remarks. Fortunately there are some still who are animated by the same spirit that Luther was, and who do not flatter the Pope simply because his power is increasing.

The Qualifications of a Rabbi

The American Israelite says:—

"Holiness and sanctity of thought and belief, in the sense in which our Christian brethren understand them, are not demanded of the rabbi. Aside from intellectual ability, eloquence, and scholastic requirements, there is nothing asked of him further than the morality, charity, and good breeding that the world looks for from every man who desires to be ranked as a gentleman."