Earlier text: DEFENSE OF THE TRUTH IN SAGINAW CO., MICH.—The difficulty between Denmark and Prussia as to the possession of North Schleswig continues. It is stated that France sympathizes with the Danes. —European mail advices state that all arms of the land and naval service of France are being strengthened, and that the activity all through France produces an impression of pending difficulties. —From all sources come most encouraging reports of the cotton crop. A New Purchase.—New York, July 10. The New York Tribune's Washington special says that our Government has been negotiating for the purchase of the Sandwich Islands. St. Louis, July 10.—An Omaha dispatch says:—“Indian depredations are again reported on the Platte river. Lieut. Kidder, of the 2d cavalry, with ten men and a guide, who left Fort Sedgwick on the 29th, with dispatches for General Custer, has not been heard from, and fears are entertained for their safety.” General Sherman has been led to believe that there is no help for an Indian war, whether it is wanted or not. All reports from the frontier, Fort Harker and the Smoky Hill route, are that the Indians are scalping and killing every day. There is scarcely a day but that some white is brought into a military post scalped. The mails are very irregular and unreliable. A week has elapsed without a mail arriving at either end of the route. Spurgeon in London. One of the most remarkable scenes in London, and perhaps in the world, greeted the eye yesterday, it being the Sabbath [Sunday]. Mr. Spurgeon has been preaching in the Agricultural Hall. This huge building is a miniature Crystal Palace. The roof is glass; the center is a circus, used often for the exhibition of fat cattle. Seated as it is for this occasion, it will hold 20,000 people. For five Sundays Mr. Spurgeon has occupied this room, his chapel undergoing repairs. Admittance to this hall is by tickets. Seventy-five cents admits to reserved seats for the course, and twenty-five cents to an early admission to seats not reserved. This immense place has been crowded not only to repletion, but thousands have gone away not able to enter. All the churches in the neighborhood have been completely emptied, and two standing near the hall contained but twelve persons. Last Sunday was one of the stormiest of the season. The heavy rain rode on a gale, turned umbrellas inside out, and drenched the community generally; yet every avenue leading to this room was packed an hour before the doors were open, by ladies and gentlemen waiting for admittance. No theatre on an exciting night ever presented a livelier scene than did the main entrance of this building. The vestibule was crowded as if some exciting entertainment was going on. It seemed like a place of amusement rather than of worship. “Show your tickets,” “show your tickets,” was heard on all sides, and excited men and women rushed in to get favorite seats. I sat on the platform. Such a sight I never saw before. Every inch of room was occupied; more than an acre of people was before me. The people in the distant galleries could scarcely be seen. Probably no other man in the world could draw such an audience. Whitefield, of Moorfield, may have preached to as many, but I doubt if he ever did so on such a rainy day. The hymns were sung from slips of paper. On the side of the building, near the center, were a dozen singers. The audience faced this group, and were led by a gentleman, who swung an immense baton to keep time. There was an organ in the building, but Spurgeon will not have it played, as he will have no attraction but the simple preaching of the gospel to draw men to his places of worship. He began the service with prayer as usual. His clear, sharp, bell-like voice rang through the whole audience, most of whom heard plainly. His sermon was an affectionate, earnest entreaty for men to receive the “unsearchable riches of Christ.” Between the heads of his sermon he paused. It allowed the audience time to relieve their pent-up feelings, of which they took advantage. Twenty thousand people sneezing, coughing, sighing, produces a sound not easily described. The sermon was an hour long, and was listened to with devout attention to the close.—London Cor. Boston Commercial. A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati Gazette, writing from near Richmond, Indiana, gives a vivid account of an extraordinary thunder-storm and tornado which passed over that place, on Tuesday afternoon, June 4, and scattered destruction in its path. The writer says: Soon after the first few peals of thunder, which were not severe, the rain set in accompanied with a perfect tornado of wind. In a few moments more the rain turned into hail, and fell in the most bewildering masses and with irresistible fury. So much so was this that it was impossible to tell from which direction it came. It seemed to come from all directions. So sudden had been the accession of the storm, that many farmers were unconscious of its coming until they found it too late to get shelter for their stock, and scarcely for themselves. Horses that were hitched at the roadside broke away and ran for dear life. One farmer, near here, lost eighty out of a hundred chickens; and a farmer a mile down the road, a dozen lambs. The proprietors of the Water Cure have a very extensive conservatory, besides numerous hot-beds. The glass in them was totally demolished. Of course, the garden is a total wreck. Early tomatoes are useless stalks, and peas, beans, &c., are broken and spoiled utterly. But the worst feature of the case is the wheat. This, in the track of the storm, is totally ruined. Within sight of where I am writing are some six or eight fields of wheat, some of which I have to-day examined. The heads of every stock are either cut off or so broken down as to be beyond a resurrection. The farmers who are thus afflicted are utterly disheartened. For two years past the crop has been a failure, and this season, until yesterday, the wheat has been magnificent; so promising, indeed, that many have borrowed money on the strength of it, and are consequently bankrupt. It was supposed here last night that the fury of the storm had been spent in this immediate vicinity, and that the damage to the country at large had consequently been comparatively slight. The Gazette of to-day speaks of the violence of the storm as it raged in the city at five o'clock, and it must, therefore, have traveled the distance from here to there in about two hours and a half; hence, making about twenty miles an hour. How much destruction it has dealt in its path it will be hard to determine, but many a farmer who was well to do on yesterday morn is to-day penniless, with the hopes and labor of months past shattered and lost. Fortunately, the breadth of the storm's track was not great—variously estimated at a mile and a mile and a half—so that, although it mowed a clear swath as it went, it kindly left the acres on either side untouched. The trees suffered not less than the grain and the gardens. Hereabouts there was a fine prospect for fruit of all kinds, but the trees were either uprooted, or stripped of leaves or fruit, or both. There is a great diversity in the appearance of various trees, as on some the fruit remains, while the leaves are stripped, and on others the reverse is the case. The result will doubtless be the same in both cases. Many trees were not only unburdened of their infant fruit, but were uprooted entirely. Mr. James M. Starr, who has a fine residence in the suburbs of Richmond, has thirty shade trees torn up. Taken all in all, it was the most fearful and destructive storm that has prevailed hereabouts in the “memory of the oldest inhabitant.” Heaven spare us from any more of the same kind. Accounts, also, from several interior counties in Missouri make mention of probably the same storm on the day previous, and in many places it did great damage to the fruit and crops. In some places hail-stones fell as large as hen's eggs, covering the ground completely, and remaining forty-eight hours. The Effect of the Pacific Railroad.
HAVE any of us sufficiently considered the effect of the completion of the great highway which is to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? How the great iron link in the course of commerce round the world along the isothermal temperate zone is to effect the future weal of the country? Perhaps one of the most fascinating conjectures of commercial speculation is to fancy the immense trade in teas, silks, spices, and rich fabrics, which now finds its way tediously round Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope, brought to our own western coast, and wheeled by the power of steam rapidly across the continent, there to be re-shipped again to Europe. The frugal and industrious five hundred millions of Eastern Asia have many products which the expert two hundred millions of Europe need, and vice versa. The shortest route between these two opposite sides of the earth lies right across our country; and recent indications there is no conceivable limit to the interchange of commodities between these mighty populations. India and China afford a vast market for our precious metals, while we can take in return their tea, rice, and fabrics, the product of cheap labor. We can do the carrying trade for half the other continent, and support a vast one of our own. Evidently, future expansion lies largely in this direction. Great as are these possibilities, and flattering as are these prospects, they form in reality, only half—the least half—of the current which must pass and re-pass along this great artery of our internal circulation. Nothing in the future seems more certain, than that78the three great cities of this continent are to be New York, San Francisco, and a central city in the Mississippi Valley; but whether Chicago or St. Louis, does not yet appear. The experience of our system of railroads shows that they create their own traffic as fast as they can accommodate it—pouring a vivifying and fertilizing stream of capital and population wherever they traverse. We no longer build roads between centres of population exclusively; they provide for their own support in the ultimate development of the country they drain. In no case is this more conspicuous than in the Great Pacific railway. In half a century the progressive spirit of our people has occupied a territory larger than a European empire. By the completion of the great national highway we shall have opened up a third of the country equal in natural bounty and permanent wealth to the rest. Of the seventeen hundred and fifty miles between the Missouri river and the Pacific, four hundred are already spanned by the iron rail, and the autumn will see the gap reduced to a thousand miles. On this side the Union Pacific railroad has opened up a continuous line of road from Chicago to three hundred miles westward of Omaha, and will probably reach the great gold fields of Colorado not far from a year hence. On the other side of the continent the progress is even more surpassing. Certain business men of California, well known for their shrewdness and working power, have sagaciously organized and secured the valuable franchises of the western half of the road, have seized the most available route across the mountains, and are pushing forward the work with an unflagging energy, characteristic of the new States. The Central Pacific railroad of California is, in reality, by far the most important, as it is the most remunerative, link of the great road, since it is, so to speak, the pipe of the funnel, the solitary strand across which the whole volume of traffic must pass on such terms as its corporations and stockholders choose to decide. It also controls the great and immensely lucrative traffic between the coast and the two hundred thousand square miles of adjacent mining territory, capable of sustaining fifty or sixty millions of people; and which will be actually settled by a million within a year after the completion of the road! The wagon freight between California and one portion of Nevada, one way only, amounted in a single year to $13,000,000—enough to keep an ordinary railroad busy. What then must be the value of an expanded traffic reaching eastward to Salt Lake, northward and southward for two hundred and fifty miles? It will be entirely safe to estimate it at not less than twenty-five millions a year in gold! Truly no more wonderful prospect of legitimate wealth ever offered itself to human foresight! The vision is dazzling in its magnificence, and it is morally certain that whatever other enterprises may arise, this must retain all the business it can do at rates which will be satisfactory to its customers and its projectors. In other words, the Central Pacific must prove a success. Eight thousand men, of whom four thousand are the cheaper Chinese laborers, are employed on the other end of the line. A hundred miles, the most costly and difficult portion of the road, are already built, and in working order. Six thousand of the seven thousand feet of ascent in climbing the western side of the Sierra Nevada range, has been safely and easily overcome, with no heavier grades than we use in crossing the Alleghanies. Nine hundred only of the sixteen hundred feet of heavy tunneling through the crest of the mountains remain, and the track is nearly graded for twenty-eight miles east of the summit; so that by autumn, at farthest, the locomotive will be rushing down into the great interior plains, along the Humboldt river, where progress is easy. Three hundred miles of iron are purchased, and everything is ready for a lavish energy as soon as the mountains are crossed. No better road in the country has been built, and it quite befits its great mission in its appointments. What, then, is the secret of this marvellous activity on the part of the Californians? First, the infallible profits to accrue from the road itself as a permanent investment. Second, the increased value it will add to every mine and every acre in the immense tract which shall feel its influence. Third, the great impetus it will give to mining interests, by lessening the cost of extracting and reducing the precious ores one half, while the saving in time and labor will increase the working power twofold. In a word, the Pacific Railroad is to quadruple the productive capacity of the territories, while it doubles the value of land and improvements and renders civilized settlements practicable. What wonder that this young State on the Pacific, with so much already invested at home and in adjacent territory, finds means to seize and finish a full half of the gigantic work? What better proof could be asked for rapidly accumulating wealth and future prospects? By the munificence of Congress in granting ten millions of acres of valuable land, and its bonds proportioned to the length of the road; by the largesses of her own capitalists, and such other private capital as must find its way into the Company's bonds, the success and early completion of the road is placed beyond conjecture. Its net earnings as far as completed in 1866 (varying from forty-two to ninety-five miles) was no less than $650,000, in gold; or more than enough to meet the annual interest to be provided for when one hundred and fifty-six miles shall have been built and equipped! This, in a season of expensive and exceptional outlays, over the most difficult part of the road of up-hill grades! So far as human sagacity can discern, no more beneficent project to the country has been undertaken, and none more profitable to those whose means are employed in carrying it out.—Methodist. The Publishing Association.
The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association was incorporated in Battle Creek, Mich., May 3, 1861. Its object is to issue “periodicals, books, tracts, documents, and other publications, calculated to impart instruction on Bible truth, especially the fulfillment of prophecy, the commandments of God, and the teachings of Jesus Christ.” Its capital stock is raised by shares at $10 each; and every shareholder is entitled to one vote in all the deliberations of the Association, for every share that he or she may hold. The Association has now a large and well-furnished Office of publication, established in Battle Creek, Mich., and employs two steam power presses in carrying on its business. A meeting of the stockholders is held each year, at which a board of trustees is elected to manage its business, and editors chosen to conduct its periodicals, till the ensuing meeting. All persons employed in the publishing department, are engaged at stipulated wages, and all profits accruing from the business, are strictly applied by the Association to the carrying out of the object of its formation, and to its charitable uses and purposes. All lovers of truth, who “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,” are still invited to take shares in the Association, and have a voice in all its deliberations. The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
Is a large sixteen-page religious family paper, issued weekly by the S. D. A. Pub. Association, and devoted to an earnest investigation of all Bible questions. It is designed to be an exponent of momentous and solemn truths pertaining to the present time, some of which are set forth by no other periodical in the land. The fulfillment of prophecy, the second personal advent of the Saviour as an event now near at hand, immortality through Christ alone, a change of heart through the operation of the Holy Spirit, the observance of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, the divinity and mediatorial work of Christ, and the development of a holy character by obedience to the perfect and holy law of God, as embodied in the decalogue, are among its special themes. And while it will endeavor to present impartially both sides of all important questions, it has a definite theory to teach, and hence will not devote its space to an indiscriminate and aimless mass of conflicting sentiments and views. Regular price, $3,00 per year, or $1,50 for a volume of 26 numbers. On trial for six months $1.00. No subscriptions taken for less than six months. To the worthy poor—free, by their reporting themselves and requesting its continuance, once in six months. The friends of the Review are invited to earnest and unceasing efforts to extend its circulation. Is a monthly sheet, published as above, and designed to be to the youth and children what the Review and Herald is to those of riper years. You who wish to see your children instructed in the great truths which so interest you, will here find a sheet in which these things are set forth in a plain and interesting manner, free from the popular fables and errors of the age. It should not only visit regularly every youth and child who professes to be a follower of Jesus, but should be taken and read in every Sabbath-keeping family. Don’t forget the children. See that they have the Instructor. Terms, 25 cts. per year in advance. This is the title of a monthly health journal, “devoted to an exposition of the laws of our being, and the application of those laws in the preservation of health and the treatment of disease.” It is an earnest advocate of the true philosophy of life, the only rational method of treating disease, and the best means of preserving health. Practical instructions will be given from month to month relative to water, air, light, food, sleep, rest, recreation, &c. Health, its recovery and preservation, is a subject of world-wide interest, whatever may be a person’s tenets in other respects; and to this the Reformer will be exclusively devoted. Edited by H. S. Lay, M. D., Managing Physician of the Health Reform Institute. Terms $1.00 in advance for a volume of twelve numbers. Address Dr. H. S. Lay, Battle Creek, Mich. Is becoming a theme of wide-spread and absorbing interest. To those who wish to give the subject a thorough investigation, we recommend the History of the Sabbath. As a work setting forth a connected Bible view of the Sabbath question, its history since the79Christian era, and the different steps by which the human institution of the first day of the week has usurped the place of the Bible institution of the seventh day, it is unsurpassed by any publication extant. Between two and three hundred quotations from history are given, to each of which is appended a full reference to the authority from which it is taken. It is replete with facts and arguments which challenge denial or refutation. Other works on this subject, from the penny tract to the largest size pamphlet, will be found noticed in our book list. There is no other Bible subject upon which a more extensive misunderstanding exists, than upon the Sabbath question. Circulate the books, and spread abroad the light on this subject. Round Dances.—The following discloses another of the means by which Satan is fast drawing the world into the lowest depths of moral pollution. The Baltimore Episcopal Methodist has an article on the subject of the condemnation, by the plenary council of the Catholic Church, of certain fashionable dances. The Methodist takes sides with the council in the discussion that has ensued. We quote: “Nor are we ignorant of round dances as practiced now. We have observed them at Saratoga, night after night, until we knew all we wished to know about them. An old doctor, accustomed for many years to see the unvarnished side of society, is not likely to be over-prudish and fastidious about corporeal exhibitions; but if Esculapius had lived until now, he would not have thought it proper to look at the phenomena of the polka as we saw it at Saratoga, except as a permitted study in animal physiology or moral pathology. The young ladies who were handled and swung about there night after night might have been perfectly innocent of all evil,—we trust they were,—but if we were young and marriageable, we would no more think of seeking one of them for a wife than we would select the snow cake in a confectioner’s window for home consumption. It might be a very good cake, but then the association of the ideas of purity with public exposure and irreverent handling has a natural difficulty in it, so great that, from what we have heard fall from gay gentlemen, even the practice of the polka does not overcome it. We know the defense against it. We are entirely familiar with ‘Honi soit qui mal y pense’—‘Evil be to him who evil thinks’—but this motto of the gamester is said to have originated under circumstances that contradicted its philosophy, and its use is commonly true to its origin. It is well to have a pure imagination, but to have one purged of common sense is not laudable. The mind that can perceive no evil tendencies in things not positive breaches of the commandments is not only pure, but stupid. The Cordeliers have a legend that, when St. Francis saw a young man stealthily kissing a maiden, he raised his hands to heaven and returned thanks to God that there was so much Christian charity in the world. The saint was so pure that he could imagine no impulse to kissing but Christian sympathy, and discern no spirit in it but elevated religious devotion. Now, we confess that we are not pure enough to be stone blind. We are not to be ‘honi soit’ out of our senses and a knowledge of human nature. We do not think that polkaing has a power to steady the reason, and that waltzing gives a paralytic vertigo to animal nature, or that the German shuffles the intellect into a region of pure elevation inaccessible to the passions. We do not think that gross improprieties become harmless because they are ‘fashionable.’ We think of a waltz much as Byron did, who was not a Puritan. The opinion of the Catholic Council derives great weight from the fact that it is based upon the information obtained in the confessional from one end of the country to the other. The effect of these dances upon the mind and morals, with us, is an inference, with them it is disclosure, and we do not know how its weight is to be resisted by the votaries of the fashion.” Obituary Notices.
By T. T. Brooks.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth,
Rev. xiv, 13. DIED, at her residence in Bainbridge, our sister, Sophia M. Strickland, after a short sickness of ten days, in the 42nd year of her age. Sister Strickland professed religion when a youth, and united with the M. E. church. In 1842 she embraced the Advent faith, and when the third angel's message was preached, fourteen years ago, in the city of Syracuse, she embraced it with all her heart, and loved to talk of it to all that came in her way. She lived a devoted life, which we hope will leave a lasting impression on all that knew her. She left a husband and babe, and a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. Yet being assured that all was well with her, we gave her up to the Life-giver to wait the resurrection morning, when we hope to meet her in immortal bloom. Services by Eld. Buel of the M. 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The works upon this important subject to which we would call especial attention, are, The Prophecy of Daniel, The Sanctuary and 2300 Days, and The Three Messages of Rev. xiv. The first gives an exposition of the plain and thrilling prophecies of Daniel ii, vii, and viii, showing from the course of empire that the God of Heaven is about to set up his kingdom. The Sanctuary question is the great central subject of the plan of salvation, and yet there are but few, comparatively, who have any acquaintance with it. It gives a new interest to a great part of the Bible, leads to an intelligent view of the position and work of Christ as our great High Priest in Heaven, completely explains the past Advent movement, and shows clearly our position in prophecy and the world's history. The three messages bring to view present duty, and future peril. All should read these books, and ponder well their teaching. Immortality through Christ Alone.
By Editor
We call the special attention of the reader to the subjects of the nature of man, his condition in death, and the destiny of the wicked. More than ordinary importance attaches to these subjects, at the present time. We would confidently recommend to all a thorough reading of the work by H. H. Dobney entitled, Future Punishment, as advertised in our book list. The reader will find it a work exhaustive in its investigations, and remarkable for its candor, and the strength and clearness of its reasoning. Which? Mortal or Immortal? is a lower-priced and more-condensed work on the same subjects. While “The End of the Wicked,” and the one, two and three cent tracts may be found sufficient to awaken interest with those who would not commence with larger works. Packages of Tracts.
By Editor
For the convenience of those who may wish to purchase books for general circulation, we have put up assorted packages of tracts in two sizes, which we will send post-paid at 50c. and $1.00, respectively. The 50c package contains Sabbath Tracts Nos. 1, 2, and 3, End of Wicked, Mark of Beast, Sin of Witchcraft, Objections to Second Advent, answered, Death and Burial, Positive Institutions, Much in Little, Truth, Preach the Word, Law by Wesley, and Miscellany. The $1.00, package contains The Three Messages, Which, Mortal or Immortal? Prophecy of Daniel, Saints Inheritance, Signs of Times, Seven Trumpets, Celestial R. R., Perpetuity of Spiritual Gifts, Scripture References, Wicked Dead, Sabbath by Elihu, Infidelity and Spiritualism, War and Sealing, Who Changed Sabbath, Seven Reasons for Sunday-keeping Examined, Institution of Sabbath, Thoughts for the Candid, Appeal to men of reason, Personality of God, Seven Seals, and Time Lost. Those who order these packages, save their postage. We cannot too strongly urge upon all the circulation of our publications, books and papers. Many, now rejoicing in the truth, can attribute their first interest in these things to these silent preachers; while in some instances they have opened the way for the formation of well established and flourishing churches.