I WISH to give my testimony in favor of our excellent paper, the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and of the truth which it teaches. Our church is small, as many of our brethren and sisters have moved to other places. Those who remain are trying to live out the truth and have the blessing of God. We sometimes regret that we have no preaching with us, but we find the SIGNS a good preacher, and I think if we have the truth, and if we are in the last days and this is the last message of mercy that is to be given to fallen men, we ought to be thankful for the blessings we have received, and feel more interest to have our ministers go to other parts and warn others of the dangers which are coming on the earth.
I have noticed that they who complain most of the want of preaching are the most slack in discharging their own duty. The sifting time is surely coming, and we must not sleep now.
Some think they can be saved without keeping the commandments of God, but as Paul says, “By the law is the knowledge of sin,” they will be proved sinners if they transgress the law, in spite of their great profession. For my part I have no greater desire than to live out this truth, and to have wisdom to raise my children to grow up in the admonition of the Lord.
Forestville, Cal.
News and Miscellany.
"Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." Luke 21: 26.
ILLICIT SPIRITS.—The Los Angeles distillery was recently taken possession of by government officers on suspicion of fraudulent practices. While digging about the premises the officers struck a pipe which led to the discovery of concealed tanks containing 60,-000 gallons of grape brandy. The search is not ended. It is characteristic of the liquor traffic that there are more frauds on the revenue department, committed by this, than by all other branches of business combined.
A GREAT SEA HORROR.
As near as the public can ascertain, the loss of the Pacific Mail Company's ship Japan, in which more than 400 passengers lost their lives, was owing to the inefficiency of both captain and crew. The captain left the ship early, without making provision for the safety of the passengers; and the crew was largely composed of cheap Chinese seamen, who were utterly demoralized by the danger. A great crime rests on somebody, and will rest, while large companies calculate for their own gain instead of providing for the lives committed to their care.
DEATH OF GENERAL LORENZO THOMAS.
WASHINGTON, March 2.—The late Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas died in this city to-day in the seventy-second year of his age. He was sick about three weeks ago with a slight attack of pneumonia, from which he had so far recovered that this morning he was walking through the hall of his house when he was taken with a congestive chill which lasted two hours, and resulted in death. General Thomas was Secretary of War during the administration of Andrew Johnson.
A TERRIBLE SHIPPING DISASTER.
LONDON, March 4.—The steamer Gothenburg has been wrecked on one of the Fourneaux Islands in the straits between Van Dieman's Land and Australia. She had on board eighty-five passengers and a crew of thirty-five. Of these only four persons are known to be saved. Three boats filled with passengers and crew are yet to be heard from. The steamer had a large cargo, which included 3,000 ounces of gold.
SNOWSTORM AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, March 3.—A furious snowstorm commenced here about 1 o'clock this morning, and raged the remainder of the day. The snow now lies about a foot deep. The roads are blockaded, and traffic of all sorts is much impeded. All the railroads are more or less blocked, and trains are much behind time. No such storm has prevailed here for eleven years.
THE FLOOD IN TENNESSEE.
NEW YORK, March 3.—A special from Knoxville, Tennessee, says the water in the Holstein river rose five feet yesterday, inundating the town, and causing $40,000 damage to property. The gas works are damaged, and the city is in darkness. The East Tennessee floods have been terrific, the loss being $200,000 in Cook county alone. There are twenty-five breaks on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, between here and Chattanooga.
THE LOUISIANA COMPROMISE.
NEW YORK, March 3.—A Washington special says: D. P. Penn, of Louisiana, had an interview with the President yesterday by invitation. Penn was assured of the intention of the Administration to use all its influence to compel compliance with the compromise. The President said: "You carry out your part of the compromise, and there will be no difficulty about the other side." Penn thereafter telegraphed to New Orleans that he thought it advisable for the Conservative members to take their seats, which was done accordingly. An adjustment of the difficulties now seems certain.
BERLIN, March 3.—The North German Gazette says that the French government has ordered the purchase of 10,000 cavalry horses in Germany, and hopes that the German authorities will take steps to prevent such purchases.
—A case of death by wall-paper poisoning has occurred in Louisville, and examination showed that the paper on the deceased's bed-chamber contained two grains of arsenic to the square foot.
VIRGINIA'S DECISION REVERSED.
The martyrs died as felons, and it was reserved to history to do them justice. The memory of John Brown is being rescued from the reproach of Virginia's courts, as appears from the following:
"Some time ago a subscription was opened in Paris to commemorate—by a medal to be presented to John Brown's widow and sons—the event of his honorable death as a martyr in the cause of liberty. The Franco-Prussian war and its consequences delayed for a considerable time the accomplishment of this object; but at length a fine and exquisitely modeled gold medal was prepared by M. J. Wurdur, of Brussels. It bears on one side an excellent likeness of John Brown, and on the reverse the inscription: 'To the memory of John Brown, judicially murdered at Charlestown, in Virginia, on the 2d of December, 1859, and in commemoration also of his sons and comrades, who, with him, became the victims of their devotion to the cause of negro emancipation.' This medal weighs nearly five ounces, and has only recently been received."
—A fire occurred in Homer, N. Y., March 1, which destroyed eight business houses, with Post Office and telegraph office. Loss, $150,000.
—About two-thirds of Port-au-Prince, Hayti, was burned Feb. 10-12. 800 to 1,000 houses were burned, and several lives lost. The city contains 25,000 inhabitants, and 1,000 families are left homeless. The fire originated with the explosion of a kerosene lamp. Loss, $2,000,000.
LUTHER once said, “The ways of God are like a Hebrew book, which can only be read from the end backwards.” His meaning was that we cannot rightly understand this present world without first taking in the final outcome. It is only the conclusion that clears up the darkness and uncertainty which prevail till then. And if we would not hopelessly err in our whole philosophy of things, we must take particular account of the end, and settle ourselves firmly in what God has revealed concerning the grand finale; for the doctrine of the last things in the key-stone is the arch of the Christian system, without which the whole fabric must tumble to pieces.
Reminders of that approaching end are again plentiful about us. On all sides there are symptoms and pre-intimations of it. Both the church and the civil years are drawing to a close. The fallen and withered leaves, and the scattered snowflakes gathered upon them, the shutting down of our windows, and the lighting up of our hearth-fires, the moan of the wind around our dwellings, and the frosty pendants that weep by the fountains, tell how rapidly the year is verging to the dead of winter. And all our church lessons for the season point forward to the sounding of the last trump, and the end of the world itself.
To many these are not welcome things. But what avails the shutting of our ears to them, if still the end must come, and every day, and hour, and heart-beat, is bringing us nearer and nearer to it?
Rather let us give ear that we may hear, and open our eyes that we may see what Almighty God hath purposed, and will most surely bring to pass.—Dr. J. A. Seiss.
The Old Way.
For about thirty years we have unwaveringly believed that, in the most emphatic sense, "the end of all things is at hand." This belief has not been founded on the opinions of men, but by much prayerful searching of the Scriptures, comparing Scripture with Scripture.
To expect to know the day or hour, or even the year, of the coming of Jesus in the clouds of heaven, we have never thought to be within the province of other than the great Eternal. But that the humble Bible student may, by a careful reliance on the teachings of the word, and observance of the times, know when the coming of the Lord draweth nigh, and is even at the very doors, is a truth too palpable to require comment. See Matt. 24 : 29-33.
That he will come again we know, because there is not a more explicit, uncontrovertible declaration within the lids of the Bible than this. Why should not Christians of the present day be like the Christians of nearly two thousand years since? So greatly did the Christians of Thessalonica long for the speedy coming of their Lord, that instead of putting it off "thousands on thousands of ages hence," as did a teacher in Israel with whom we were conversing, their almost impatient desires inclined them to think it must be immediate.
If the joyous anticipations of the return of the Son of man should so fill the mind's vision of the early church nearly two thousand years ago, how should the vision of the believers of the present day be occupied with the subject.—Guide to Holiness.
Drink and Work.
"I DRINK to make me work," said a young man; to which an old man replied: "That's right. Hearken to me a moment, and I will tell thee something that may do thee good. I was a prosperous farmer. I had a good, loving wife, and two fine lads as ever the sun shone on. We had a comfortable home, and lived happily together. But we used to drink ale to make us work. Those two lads now lie in drunkards' graves. My wife died heart-broken, and she now lies by her two sons. I am seventy years of age. Had it not been for drink, I might now have been an independent gentleman; but I used to drink to make me work, and, mark it, it makes me work now. At seventy years of age, I am obliged to work for my daily bread. Drink! drink! and it will make you work!"—Sel.
An Encouraging Rumor.
THERE has lately been current in the city a rumor so improbable and yet so delightful that most men fear to investigate it lest it may vanish in the process. It is asserted, perhaps in quarters too sanguine to be trustworthy, that ladies are seriously thinking of wearing dresses which they can walk in. For the last year, the promenade has been a torture to any woman who respects herself a little. Her dress drags all the way around, and the train thereof follows her for a foot or so. She must either make it loathsome by dragging it through the filth, or she must hold it up with both hands. If she attempts this delicate and fatiguing office with one, tired nature soon asserts itself, and somewhere or other a fold of the idiotic garment drops into the mud. It is generally known that the female human has but two hands, and if both of these are filled with superfluous raiment, the management of the parasol, the portemonnaie, the half dozen bundles of dry goods and pound of confectionery, without which a street costume is incomplete, becomes a matter of some difficulty. The unassisted male intellect can see no way out of this trouble except the shortening of the pecant skirts. But we do not envy the fate of the rash man who should suggest it. He will be told he has no taste, no perception of style, no regard for the pure intuitions of woman. If he shall say that a few years ago women wore lovely short dresses and looked like angels in them, he will be met with the crushing reply that “a few years ago” is not to-day. None of these severe votaries of Fashion, however, seem to see that they are evading her decrees in holding up their dresses. The milliners compel them to wear these long robes, so that may get muddy and wear out sooner, and it is disloyal to try to save them from this fate. But what avails preaching? The only thing that can curtail the street robe is a Movement, a Convention with orations and poem, with chairmen and vice-president, and impassionate orators from Boston and Brooklyn to fire the advanced heart, and denounce Capital and Privilege.
N. Y. Tribune.
A Man Who Never Tasted Meat
A MAN WHO NEVER TASTED MEAT.—A correspondent of the Reading Eagle writes to that paper that about one-half mile south of Holmesdorf lives an old farmer by the name of Abraham Blatt, who is about 60 years of age, is healthy, robust, and as strong as a horse, who has never in his life tasted the least bit of meat of any kind. He says he never tasted beef, pork, mutton or veal, no kind of poultry, no kind of fish, no kind of game, in fact nothing pertaining to meat. He has such an abhorrence of meat that when they kill a beef or hog on his premises he generally leaves home and goes about other business. He is the father of a large family, all healthy children. Among the lot is also one boy, who, like his father, eats no meat of any kind. In reply to the questions put to the father how he could work so hard without eating any meat, he says he believes he is much healthier than if he ate meat. He uses very little butter.
Wisdom in Using Circumstances
He is wisest who best utilizes his circumstances, or, to translate it, his surroundings; and happiness, if we deserve it, will find us wherever our lot may be cast.
Search the Scriptures.
THE simplicity of the Scripture is a theme of frequent encomium; nor is there any danger that it will be too highly appreciated. But there is danger that it may be too exclusively appreciated. The Bible is so simple that he who runs may read; but it is so difficult that only he who sits long and thoughtfully over it may most profitably study it; it yields its ripest and best fruit only to the student. It is like a fruitful field which gives a rich yield even to the hoe, but best repays the deep plowing; or like a gold country, where the mere superficial traveler may pick up shining particles of the precious metal in the sands, but where only the miner with pick and hammer, breaking up the hard quartz, gets the best nuggets.
We give three reasons why you should make the Bible, not merely a reading book, but also a study-book.
1. It does not present truth built into systems, but in fragmentary and isolated forms, which it leaves us to gather and put together. There is a system in it, but as there is in a house in the forest which the wood-cutter and carpenter must construct. If the Apostle's Creed were the whole of Christianity it would be easy to commit Christianity to memory. But God has not given us truth thus in epitome. Moses comes bringing it in law; David comes singing it; Isaiah comes bringing the glorious vision of it; Paul comes preaching it; Christ lives it. If one asks what are the essential principles of our American government, he must go to the founders and read and compare the words of Washington and Jefferson and Madison and Hamilton, and if one would know what are the essential principles of the Christian religion he must go to the book and cull and compare the various utterances of its various writers. He no more gets the true meaning of the Bible who merely reads without such process of comparison and construction, than he knows astronomy who merely looks at the stars.
2. The Bible is a book of seed-thoughts. It is not God's substitute for thought, but God's inspiration to thinking. There are full-fledged birds in it that sing like the twenty-third Psalm; but there are also nests of eggs like the book of Proverbs, that need our incubation. It abounds with apothegms, parables, proverbs, and paradoxes, which do not reveal their meaning at a glance. The sermon on the mount is accounted a model of simplicity in preaching. So it is. But there are verses in it which do not disclose their meaning without much pondering and some comparison with other Scripture. Take, for example, the precept, "Judge not, that ye be not judged." It is but a superficial view which sees in this command only a warning against censorious judgments. What more does it mean? Take your Concordance, examine every passage where the verb "judge" appears, and decide for yourself.
3. The themes of which the Bible treats are the grandest in the realm of thought. They transcend the reason, they transcend the imagination. It deals with experiences which defy description, with a heart-life which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor the imagination of man conceived. It deals with the invisible world, in which every new discovery opens boundless fields for further discovery, still beyond.
Take the simplest and the most fundamental truth in the Bible, the existence, character, and attributes of a living, personal, present God, a God regnant in nature, a God dwelling in the hearts of those that will humbly receive him. The utmost study never can fathom the depths of the Divine Being: can never measure the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of the love of God. The mere reader of the Bible is like the mere traveler on the ocean, who sees the surface of the waves. The student of the Bible is like one who takes measuring instruments and sounds the ocean depths, and studies its hidden currents, and brings from its depths its secret treasures. It is only by the study of the Bible that its teachings concerning the character of the incomprehensible God can ever be understood; and no study can ever exhaust the theme.—Am. Messenger.
The Neighbor's Field
I was walking with a farmer through a beautiful field, when he chanced to see a tall thistle on the other side of the fence. In an instant he sprang over the fence and cut the thistle off close to the ground.
"Is that your field?"
"Oh, no," said the farmer; "but bad weeds don't care much for fences, and if I should leave that thistle to blossom in my neighbor's field I should soon have plenty in my own."
I wish all fathers and mothers would think of that. The evil weeds in your neighbor's field will scatter seeds in your own.
Why Should They Do So?
By James White
WHY should our opponents persist in misstating our real position relative to the work of the law of God upon the minds and hearts of the children of men? Seventh-day Adventists have never taught that salvation from sin came by the law. But they have taught, from first to last, that by the law is the knowledge of sin which can be put away only by the blood of Christ. We have proclaimed, and have repeated again and again, in our prints, and in our public discourses this plain and evident fact, that it is not in the power of law, either human or divine, to redeem the transgressor of law. Pardon is the sinner's only hope of escaping the full penalty of the law. It is not true that Christian Sabbath-keepers trust in the law for salvation. We rely on Christ alone for salvation from sin, and complete redemption from its results, to a life of eternal glory.
Those who have the truth can afford to fairly state the positions of those with whom they differ. The strength of those who oppose the truth is in putting its advocates in false positions. Do our opponents feel that they cannot afford to have our real views correctly represented before the people? And do they feel that their success in keeping the people from investigating our views depends upon their skill in misrepresenting them?
If we be thought severe, then we inquire, in the name of reason and religion, why do our opponents persist in stating, that while they trust in Christ for salvation, we trust in the law? They give the impression that we have left Christ and have "gone back," as they state it, to the law. If they are ignorant of our views, what right have they to handle them before the people? If they understand our real position, they very well know that ours, when properly contrasted with, theirs is this, that we hope for salvation through Jesus Christ alone, in obedience to the commandments of God, while they trust in Christ for salvation in violating the commandments of God and teaching men so.
"Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." Where? Certainly not with those who cast aside the commandments of God, and bear false witness against those who do them, and teach them. Near the close of the Christian age, see Rev. 14:12, a people was to appear to public notice, standing on the broad platform of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. On the one hand is the blind Jew, shut up to the Old Testament, boasting of Abraham, and trusting in the law. On the other hand is the equally blind Christian, shut up to the New Testament, and boasting of his faith in Christ, while trampling the commandments of God under his feet. Between these two extremes is the truth of God. Here is our real position. And by the grace of God the people shall understand it. And from it we reach out our arms to those on the right and left to help them from their nut-shell positions to the broad platform of the law and the gospel, or the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ. On this broad ground stood the apostle Paul at Miletus as he appealed to the assembled elders that he had kept back nothing that was profitable to them, "testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ." Acts 20:21.
Our only hope of eternal life hangs upon Christ. Adam placed his hope there. Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and the believing Jews, had no other hope. The hope of the next life depends upon Jesus Christ. Faith in his blood can alone free us from our transgressions. And a life of obedience to the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus will be a sufficient passport through the golden gates of the city of God.
J. W.
The Cause of Truth
By James White
It is encouraging indeed to know that our friends in all parts of the field stand firm, and to feel assured that the hand of the Lord is in the work. Only about six years since our mission was first commenced in California. It has not had the labors of sensational revivalists; but the work has moved on steadily. Some of the time it has moved so very slowly, or to human view at times has been going backward, because of injudicious labor, that but few have a just idea of what has been accomplished.
The results are really wonderful. At this date there are not less than six hundred well-established Seventh-day Adventists in the State. These are persons of moral worth. These have taken up heavy crosses, and come the long distance from the popular religious customs and last-day fables to accept the word of God as it reads, and to obey it. These can be relied upon three hundred and sixty-five days in a year.
There could come upon our cause no greater curse than to have it fall under the influence of sensational revivalists who might in the excitement of a few weeks raise it ten degrees, to be let down in an inevitable reaction, fifteen degrees. There is an actual loss in the end. Here may come in by illustration the old story of the frog in the well, who every day climbed up two feet, only to fall back three in the night.
Bro. Canright reports a growing interest at Petaluma, and a full house. He should have the earnest and energetic co-operation of all the brethren. Much visiting should be done by the lecturer, and by the brethren also, at such a time.
Bro. Waggoner returns from the quarterly meeting at Santa Rosa refreshed and cheered by his visit with the brethren in that county. Healdsburg has been visited by one of the meanest forms of opposition the sun ever looked upon. The matter was so completely overdone as to disgust the people, and create a strong reaction.
There is a call from the Woodland church for labor, and from the people for a course of lectures. May the blessing of God attend the efforts of young men who are laboring in different places in the State. And may thousands of prayers, bedewed with sympathy and love for Bro. and Sister Van Horn, go up daily for the blessing of Heaven upon the North Pacific Mission.
J. W.
Meeting at Santa Rosa, Cal.
By James White
THE quarterly meeting was held at Santa Rosa, according to appointment, March 6, 7. The attendance was good, quite a number coming from Healdsburg. There has been no preaching at Santa Rosa for over a year. I had much freedom in speaking, and they seemed greatly to prize the privilege of hearing.
So far as I could judge on a short visit the cause is in pretty good condition there. The church seem to feel good courage. I was much pleased to find them so strong and cheerful in hope after being so long without preaching.
Friends from Healdsburg gave a good report of the state of the cause there. Recent events have created an interest in the community to both read and hear on the present truth, and there is an urgent call for Bro. and Sister White to visit that place, which we hope they will be able to meet before they go East. There are open doors for labor on this coast in every direction. J. H. W.
Washington Territory.
By John Harvey Waggoner
WE have just received a note from Bro. S. Maxson, of Walla Walla, in which he gives cheering news from that Territory. Bro. Van Horn has been laboring with success. He has just organized a little society in Milton, Oregon, of fifteen members, whole families together embracing the truth. He has now gone to Pendleton, Oregon, fifty miles from Walla Walla, to a new field, and the way is opening in every direction for successful labor. Remember the missionary workers in your prayers.
J. H. W.
The Steel Works of Alfred Krupp
Most Americans imagine that we have the greatest country and the largest factories in the world. The national finger is pointed at the rolling mills of Pennsylvania as though their equal were never seen. Perhaps it would enlighten the patriots to know that the steel works of Alfred Krupp, in Germany, cover 900 acres, and contain 280 steam engines and 70 steam hammers, 550 melting and cement ovens, 200,000 crucibles, and 600 tool machines. And only eleven thousand men are employed.
City and State Government Costs
A SIGNIFICANT item on how city governments are run: "The state of Maine has a population about equal to that of the city of New York. Maine has an area of 31,776 square miles. New York city has an area of twenty-six square miles. The annual cost of all branches of the Government of the State of Maine is $1,362,454. The annual expense of the government of the city of New York is $32,312,816."
The Effects of Rum
RUM gives us a million drunkards, a hundred thousand idiots and insane, and nearly or quite a thousand murderers and suicides a year.
"Behold I Come."
By Rainbow
I AM coming! All my loved ones,
Softly sleeping 'neath the sod,
Shall awake to life eternal—
Wake and smile to meet their God.
I am coming! Faint not, fear not,
Weary, heavy-laden one;
You—the sick, the sad, and sorrowing—
Shall immortal joy put on.
I am coming! Ye have trusted
In me only through the fight,
And ye shall be crowned as conquerors,
Sharers in my royal might.
I am coming! And the evil,
Against which you've nobly stood,
Shall die, and everlasting
Only be the reign of good.
Yes I come! I know ye love me,
Ye my death-bought, blood-washed throng,
Having my returning waited,
Ye shall sing the marriage song.
--Rainbow.
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The second State quarterly meeting of the Cal. T. & M. society will be held in district No. 3, with the Napa church, the first Sabbath and first-day in April.
The district quarterly meetings will be held as follows:
District No. 1, with the Petaluma church, March 27 and 28.
District No. 3, in connection with the State quarterly meeting, at Napa, April 3 and 4.
District No. 4, at Vallejo, March 13 and 14.
District No. 5, at Woodland, March 20 and 21.
District No. 6; time and place to be designated in the future.
District No. 7, at Oakland, March 27 and 28.
It is expected that reports of labor, as designated by the blanks, will be made by the churches in their respective districts. These should be summed up by the district secretary, and forwarded to our State T. & M. secretary, Sr. Lucie Bush, Woodland, so that she can make out her report of the workings of the society for the quarter, except district No. 3, before the State quarterly meeting. It is expected that each district, through its director, will balance all its indebtedness for periodicals, &c., at the time of the State quarterly meeting.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH,
Pres. T. and M. Society.
Woodland Quarterly Meeting.
We now design attending the Woodland quarterly meeting, the 20th and 21st, accompanied by Mrs. White.
JAMES WHITE.
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