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RELIGIOUS.
—The M. E. Church South is about to establish a mission in Cuba.
—Victoria, B. C., is to be made an archbishopric, and plans are under way for a magnificent cathedral.
—The Methodist ministers of the Ohio Conference have voted to sign a pledge of abstinence from opium and tobacco.
—The California State Sunday-school Association will hold its seventeenth annual convention in Oakland, May, 6-8.
—General Booth has issued an order that, at 12:30 o'clock daily, every soldier of the Salvation Army is to make the sign of the letter S, as evidence that he is saved!
—The Prussian Government has consented to the reinstatement of the archbishop of Cologne, which practically settles all differences between that Government and the pope.
—The remains of Babu Keshub Chunder Sen, the recently deceased leader of the Brahmo-Somaj in India, were duly cremated at Calcutta, and the ashes deposited in his chapel.
—The Methodist ministers of Cincinnati have issued an appeal to their brethren asking for contributions to aid in restoring churches destroyed by the great flood, and also to aid distressed pastors and members.
—The new Congregational creed has twelve articles. It is generally commended for its brevity. Rev. 14 brings to view a small company that will escape the seven last plagues and sing a song of deliverance on Mount Sion. Their creed has but two articles—"the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus."
—The Defense, a Paris Catholic journal, publishes a letter from Rome stating that the pope believes his independence threatened, especially since the Court of Cessation decided that the real property of the Propaganda Fide should be converted into Italian rentes. The letter asserts that the pope is again considering the advisability of leaving Rome, and that Malta will probably be the place of his future residence.
—There has been incorporated in San Francisco, "The Society of Progressive Spiritualists." The object is claimed to be the encouragement of moral and religious sentiments in society, to ordain spiritual teachers, upon whom the society shall confer all the rights now enjoyed by the clergy of all religious societies, to institute schools in progressive thought, and to encourage in its highest and purest significance a faithful monogamic marriage.
—The Jesuits, says the London Tablet, have ten or twelve men at work on the Zambezi, in Central Africa, and within five years they have lost twelve by death. Ninety-two members have joined this African regiment of pioneers. A training school is to be established near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, under the direction of Father Weld, Superior of the order, and men will be fitted for the interior missions. The Jesuits have purchased an estate of 7,000 acres for the school and mission house.
—The Mormon bishop West recently delivered a fiery address to his people, saying that "the blood of the Gentile persecutors shall be spilled on their own threshold, to appease the anger of our prophet. Tune the lyre, beat the cymbals, for our revenge is at hand!" Of Governor Murray he said, "His head shall be placed upon the walls of our city, and his entrails scattered throughout the streets of Zion, that every Gentile adventurer may behold, and take care that we are left to pursue our road to Paradise unmolested."
—Some Oregon Indians have explained to Government officials their reason for not wanting to enter their lands as private individuals. On having the legal requirements explained to them, they replied that it was a violation of their religion to deal in land; that the Great Chief had made them from the dust of the earth, and after they wandered on its surface for a certain length of time they returned to its bosom and again became part of the elements of the earth. Dealing in land they regarded as dealing in their own flesh and blood.
—While the Mormon problem is being discussed by the politicians and moralists of the United States, the different sections of the church are not inactive. Among the Mormons in Utah are 50,000 of Scandinavian and Lutheran stock. A special effort is making to restore them to Christianity. The Presbyterians are working through Norwegian evangelists. The Methodists have a Norwegian missionary at Salt Lake, where he has erected a church edifice and opened a school. The Swedish Lutherans have sent a minister who has gathered a congregation, and a Danish Lutheran clergyman will soon also commence operations.—Christian at Work.
SECULAR.
—A gang of fifteen boy-thieves was recently arrested in Boston.
—South Carolina's Legislature has voted a special tax on revolvers.
—The prohibitionists of Connecticut have nominated a State ticket.
—The Rhode Island Republican Convention has renominated all the present State officers.
—One branch of the Canadian Pacific Railroad has been blocked for three weeks by snow.
—The Swiss Federal Council has decided to grant the extradition of anarchists whenever asked for.
—Mr. Budd, of California, has introduced a bill in Congress to prohibit the importation of opium.
—Cincinnati's city engineer figures that it will cost $20,000,000 to fill in the flooded part of the city.
—Twenty-seven Nihilists were arrested at St. Petersburg last week, including four artillery officers.
—Dr. Horniann Keer says that the annual mortality from intemperance in Great Britain is 40,500.
—Five men lost their lives in a snow-slide at Carey, Col., on the 16th inst. The avalanche was fifty feet deep.
—The French Prime Minister Ferry pronounces general disarmament by the European powers an impossibility.
—A little girl named Eva McMahon died of hydrophobia in the suburban town of Lake near Chicago, on the 5th inst.
—There are but two teetotalers in the U. S. Senate, but it is claimed that there are not so many hard drinkers as in former days.
—The foot-and-mouth disease, which has been so disastrous to cattle in southern Kansas and Texas, has reached southern Utah.
—A prominent officer of the Belgian army is under arrest and will undergo an investigation on a charge of cheating at cards.
—Young Findlayson, of Albany, Oregon, who murdered his grandmother last fall, has been convicted of murder in the first degree.
—The sheriff of New York and four deputies have been arrested on indictments for forgery, perjury, larceny, and several other crimes.
—March 16th, the female employes in the various Government departments at Washington were tendered a reception at the White House.
—Sixty persons in a recent funeral procession at Danbury, Conn., had their ears, hands, and feet frozen while on the way to the cemetery.
—A woman recently bit the hand of a man at Athens, Ga. The wound began to inflame, and the man is now lying in a dangerous condition.
—Fifty-six young colored men and three women, from the Southern States, arrived at Bakersfield, Cal., last week, to be employed in cotton raising.207
—At New York, S. W. Jacobs has gone insane over the Lasker resolutions, and J. W. Jacobs has become crazed on the subject of Salmi Morse's Passion play.
—Last Saturday was the 87th birthday of the German emperor. Mr. Sargent, the American Minister, was invited to dine with Bismarck in honor of the event.
—Six thousand rebels face the palace at Khartoum, on the right bank of the Nile. They recently fired upon 300 blacks sent down the river for wood, and killed 100 of them.
—The yearly cost of the German army now reaches $116,000,000, and is met with much difficulty. It has been demonstrated that Russia, deeply in debt, can only borrow now on ruinous terms.
—Two little colored children were brutally murdered, last week, and two others mortally wounded, near Augusta, Ga. The father and mother were at work when the crime was committed.
—By mistake, four children of G. D. Alsop, living near Louisville, Ky., were given opium for powdered rhubarb, by their mother. Two of the children died, and the others are not expected to live.
—During the past two months there have been several disappearances of young girls from the vicinity of Scranton, Pa., and it is now believed that they have been abducted by organized operators.
—Some Philadelphia reporters at a seance of the noted Henry C. Gordon, who was materializing deceased persons, on the night of the 17th inst., made a grab for the "spirit," and, as usual, caught the medium.
—A Pittsburg chemist is said to have discovered the lost art of making articles from obsidian, a species of volcanic glass, and among them black mirrors, which are used in the making of astronomical instruments.
—The strike of factory operatives at Fischen, Bohemia, is spreading. Officials of the city have received letters threatening them with death. A battalion of troops has been dispatched to the center of the disturbance.
—A bill pending in Congress provides that newspapers shall have an exclusive right to their news for eight hours after going to press, and any infringement upon the right may be prosecuted and damage recovered.
—The Communists of Paris celebrated the anniversary of the beginning of the Commune of 1871, last week, by banquets in several of the suburbs. The speeches at these were violent and of a highly revolutionary character.
—The Brooklyn, N. Y., Health Department has analyzed the candy known as "rock and rye." It was found to be flavored with "essence of whisky," or fusil oil. Large quantities of the candy have been sold to school children.
—A farmers' convention of 150 delegates was held at St. Paul, Minn., for the purpose of devising protection against the extortions of the railroad companies and millers' combinations. Governor Hubbard addressed the convention.
—Government officers in British Columbia have seized 2,500,000, feet of logs cut on the Canadian Railway belt by Americans, who intended to float the plunder to the Puget Sound mills. The spoliation has been going on unchecked for years.
—The "San Joaquin Valley Regulators" shot and killed a saloon-keeper named Doane, at Modesto, on the night of the 19th inst., who had been warned to leave the county. Two other parties were warned at the same time, but they had heeded the warning and gone.
—A second levee break has occurred at Roberts Island, San Joaquin Co., Cal., which, added to the one reported a short time ago, aggregates a destruction of 21,000 acres of wheat. It was considered good for thirty bushels to the acre, and the loss is not less than half a million dollars.
—It appears that General Gordon has found the quieting of the Soudan insurrection a heavier undertaking than he anticipated, and asserts that he cannot defend Khartoum without a strong military force. Admiral Hewett has been instructed by the War Secretary to withdraw the reward of $1,000 for Osman Digna's head, which he offered without authority.
—Nineteen Chinese lepers are in a hospital in San Francisco. They are persons who arrived not long ago, and the steamship companies decline to take them back, as they claim that the disease appeared since their arrival here. This is considered very doubtful, and the Bulletin queries why the companies are so cautious on this side, and so reckless on the other side of the ocean.
—A Berlin dispatch says that Bismarck has received many telegrams from America approving his speech on the Lasker resolutions. It is said that Minister Sargent has been given his option, by our Government, of remaining in Berlin or accepting a Ministerial position somewhere else.
—Another revolution in war implements is the dynamite gun. A hollow projectile is filled with dynamite, and thrown from the gun by compressed air. When the projectile strikes an object the dynamite explodes. The N. Y. Tribune says satisfactory experiments have been made at Fort Hamilton.
—General B. M. Prentiss, a member of the court-martial which tried and convicted Fitz-John Porter, asserts in an interview at New Hampton, Ia., that there were votes in favor of punishing Porter's conduct with death, and that the sentence of the Court was the lightest that could have been inflicted in view of the testimony in the case.
—A dispatch from St. John's, N. F., of the 19th inst., says: "At Heart's Content several houses were severely shaken by an earthquake yesterday. At Clark's Beach the ground heaved in undulations, and the ice in the lakes was cracked and rent. Two woodmen who were compelled to fly from the woods describe the hills as rocking and shaking. To-night the western sky is illuminated as with a conflagration."
—This city was the scene of a terrible tragedy on the 19th inst., which terminated in the murder of an infant by a maniac mother, the suicide of the mother, the attempted suicide of the husband and father, and the probable insanity of a French woman, crazed by horror at the sight of the crime. The unfortunate mother partially lost her reason on the loss of another child a few months ago, which she charged a neighbor with poisoning.
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Inducements to Agents.
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THE experience of those who have been working to increase the circulation of the SIGNS during the winter of 1883-84 has been very encouraging.
There is power in the truth, and the PRESENT TRUTH, printed weekly in the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, will move the people, if it is read continuously.
One subscriber obtained is of more real value than many papers given away, and will cost less. Therefore, to induce all our friends to engage in the work of increasing the number of paying subscribers to the SIGNS, we make the following liberal offers:—
For FIVE NEW SUBSCRIBERS we will mail a copy of either of the following choice books: "The Biblical Institute," "The history of the Waldenses," illustrated, "Geikie's Life of Christ," "Life and Epistles of St. Paul," or the New Testament—revised version—American edition.
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THE COMING CONFLICT.
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This book contains a complete history of the rise and progress of the National Reform Party, together with an exegesis of the last portion of the thirteenth chapter of the book of Revelation, assigning to the United States its proper place in prophecy.
EMPHATICALLY A BOOK FOR THE TIMES.
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THOUGHTS ON BAPTISM.
By J. H. Waggoner
BY ELD. J. H. WAGGONER.
AN EXAMINATION OF THE ACTION, SUBJECTS, AND RELATIONS OF THE ORDINANCE OF BAPTISM.
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OUR COUNTRY'S FUTURE FORETOLD.
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THE UNITED STATES IN PROPHECY.
By Eld. U. Smith.
This is a full exposition of a portion of prophecy which applies to our own Government, showing the position the United States holds in prophecy, and the part it has to act in the closing scenes of time.
THE SUNDAY MOVEMENT,
Which is now attracting such general attention, is thoroughly canvassed, and abundant testimony is given to prove that it is fast coming to be the ALL-IMPORTANT QUESTION in this country. Dealing with our own land and applying to our own time. Of surpassing interest to every American reader. New edition; revised and enlarged. Cloth, 225 pp., 75cts. Paper covers, new edition, condensed, 186 pp., 25cts.
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SKETCHES FROM THE LIFE OF PAUL.
BY MRS. E. G. WHITE.
In this book the history of Paul's life, from the time when he "made havoc" of the church until he was "offered up" as its chief representative, is traced in a clear and connected manner. Paul's allusions to himself in his epistles are connected with the record in the book of Acts in such a manner as to throw great light both on the epistles and the "Acts." But that which gives the book even greater value than its historical accuracy, is the lessons that are drawn from Paul's words, and the hardships which he endured, and their practical application to our own times. This is a marked feature of this work, and the instruction given in this way cannot be estimated in dollars and cents. 234 pp. Neatly bound in cloth, 80 cents.
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HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION.
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A MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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History of the Waldenses.
By Editor
For a good book, an interesting book, for old and young, we recommend Dr. Wylie's "History of the Waldenses." It is well calculated to strengthen our faith in the power of the gospel to sustain the soul of the believer under the most bitter and cruel persecution, and to incite to perseverance in the cause of the Master. Paul's great lesson on faith, Heb. 11, is made up of instances of faithfulness under trials, and thus we have an inspired model for biographies of martyrs. Parents, give it to your children; they will be sure to be interested in it, and thus form a taste for good reading. See advertisement in this paper.
Great Controversy, Vol. 4.
By Editor
This work, so long expected, but necessarily delayed, is now being put into pages, electrotyped from entirely new type, in this office. We this day (March 23) were favored with the reading of a chapter on the Origin of Evil. We have no fear but that a deep interest will be taken in this book, judging from what we have read. We long for its appearing; and so would thousands of our readers if they knew its value. We do not wish to institute comparisons, but we can assure our friends that this volume will not fall below the very best of the writings of Sister White that are already published.
Materializing Mediums.
By Editor
The Banner of Light notices the case of a young lady in Georgia, a member of the Baptist Church, who appears to be unconsciously developed as a medium. She knows nothing of Spiritualism, but the exhibitions of her powers are a wonder to all her friends and to the doctors who have examined her. Evidently she is no imposter—that is, she has no intention of deceiving. Such cases are among the very strongest evidences of the reality of mediumship. For we believe there is a reality in Spiritualism and mediumship; indeed, we have seen that to which we could ascribe no origin but a supernatural one; and we have seen some of the most popular "exposers of Spiritualism" exhibit, but they did not approach to some of the acknowledged wonders of mediumship, and where they approached most nearly they confessed that they could not explain it!
"Materialization" is now the most popular phase of Spiritualism, and if we can credit the testimony of such experimenters as Dr. Crookes, we are compelled to believe that there are actual occurrences of this kind. But we do not believe they are as common as mediums profess. The Banner quotes from the N. Y. Sun this remark concerning the Georgia young lady: "She succeeds best in her performances when everything around her is quiet." And then the Banner adds: "Spiritualists who grab their physical mediums should make a note of this fact."
But there is one fact which the Banner of Light does not seem to appreciate. They who "grab their physical mediums" do not grab at a professed physical medium, but at a professed materialized spirit. Will that paper please to explain to its readers how it is that in every case where a spectator grabs at a materialization he catches a medium? Or will it cite to a single instance of grabbing where this was not the case? We shall wait for an answer.
Fare to the Los Angeles Camp-Meeting.
By M. C. Israel
WE are now able to give rates to the Los Angeles Camp-meeting by the Central and S. P. Railroads. We are offered a third-class sleeping-car attached to the express train that will accommodate thirty-six adults with their bedding and provisions for the trip. They will also be entitled to 100 pounds of baggage each, or 3,600 pounds, if all sent in care of one person. The train leaves San Francisco at 4 P. M., and arrives at Los Angeles at 1:30 P. M. the next day. Leaving Los Angeles at ten minutes before one P. M., arrives at San Francisco at 9:10 A. M. the following day. It may be best to leave San Francisco on May 6; returning, leave Los Angeles on the 21st, thus giving one day before the meeting, and two and a half after, at Los Angeles. Tickets from San Francisco and back will be $24; from Fresno, $18; and from Goshen, $16.50. In order that we may make definite arrangement, I would like to know by the first day of April who wish tickets.
It will be a great encouragement to our brethren south if a good delegation from the northern part of the State attend the meeting, and we hope this may be the case. Persons wishing tents will please let us know by the tenth of April. Address, Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal. M. C. ISRAEL.
Fresno, March 20, 1884.
Love God and Keep His Commandments
"THOU shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart." "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments."—Bible.
Notice.
By W. A. Pratt
NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Rural Health Retreat Association will be held at the Retreat the second Tuesday in April next, at 7:30 P. M.
W. A. PRATT, Pres.
St. Helena, Cal., March, 1884.
Annual Meeting.
THE regular annual meeting of the society of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Oakland, will be held at the house of worship, on Wednesday, April 2, 1884, at 7:30 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of electing a Board of five Trustees, and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting. A general attendance will be necessary, in order that the proceedings may be in accordance with the law.
By order of the President,
W. N. GLENN, Sec'y.
Kansas Camp-Meeting.
By J. H. Cook
THE Kansas Camp-meeting will be held May 22, at Bismarck, one mile from the historic city of Lawrence. Bismarck has been fitted up at great expense by the Union Pacific Railroad Co., for the convenience and comfort of camp-meetings, reunions, and conventions. No pains has been spared to make it one of the most delightful and pleasant places that the State affords for such a meeting as we purpose holding. There is on the ground a tabernacle that is said to accommodate 6,000 persons, stabling for 5,000 horses, and many other conveniences in the line of buildings, of which we may speak in the hereafter.
Special rates have been secured on the Union Pacific at four cents per mile round trip. We expect the same favors of other roads. Eld. S. N. Haskell and other able speakers from a distance are expected to attend. We are endeavoring to secure the labors of Sister White. We hope that she may attend, but cannot certainly say. We expect this meeting to be a gathering of thousands. We expect to see by far the largest gathering of S. D. Adventists that has ever convened in the State. Then we expect to see thousands from the outside. We give the notice thus early, so that all can begin to get ready. Brethren, you cannot afford to miss this most important meeting ever held in the State.
J. H. Cook, Pres.
HISTORY OF THE WALDENSES.
By J. A. Wylie
By J. A. Wylie, LL.D.
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THIS work describes the conflicts waged by the Waldenses, and the martyrdoms they endured in defense of their faith and their liberty. Recent events have brought the Waldenses to notice, and thrown a new light upon the grandeur of their struggle and the important issues which have flamed from it. To them are we to trace the Constitutional liberties that Italy now enjoys. In their mountain fastnesses they maintained the faith of the early Christians, and by their untiring missionary labors this faith was diffused to all the nations of Europe, thus preparing the way for the great Reformation. 212 pp. Price, 90 cts.
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THE HOME OF THE SAVED.
By John Norton Loughborough
By Eld. J. N. Loughborough.
Gives the Bible evidence upon the interesting topic of the earth made new, as the inheritance of the saints. 82 pp. Price, 10 cents. Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES,
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT OAKLAND, CAL., FOR THE
International Tract and Missionary Society.
A sixteen-page Religious Family Paper, devoted to a discussion of the Prophecies, Signs of the Times, Second Coming of Christ, Harmony of the Law and Gospel; with Departments devoted to Temperance, The Home Circle, the Missionary Work, and the Sabbath-school.
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