We have now spent about ten days with the church at Bloomfield. We find all the old friends holding on to the truth, determined to grow in grace, even though they seldom hear the living preacher. There had been but one discourse by our ministers in the place for over a year until the time of my visit. For myself, I had not seen the place for over eighteen months. During our visit we gave ten discourses and visited with our brethren and sisters at their homes.
Our meetings were quite well attended, and the Lord gave us freedom as we endeavored to present anew some of the reasons of our faith and hope, mingled with practical discourses and instruction. The church were cheered by this visit. Several were in our congregations who are reading the Signs and our tracts, and who are deeply interested, and closely watching this people. With two of these who have decided to obey the truth we conversed. One was an intelligent, active brother 82 years of age, formerly a Methodist, but who has been for six years a believer in the Advent doctrine, although knowing nothing of the Sabbath question until of late he has been reading the Signs, the Review, and tracts. Another case was that of sister Rima, who lately moved from Lyon Co., Kansas, where they lost their all by the ravages of the grasshoppers. Even before coming she had read the Signs and Review, since coming to California, she has commenced the observance of the Sabbath. Her name was presented for membership with the Bloomfield church and will be acted upon in their next Sabbath meeting.
Wednesday evening, July 14, I spoke at our house of worship in Green Valley to an interested and attentive audience. Our own people seemed especially encouraged by this meeting. We hope the word spoken may not be without good results to others.
J. N. L.
Health Department.
By H. L. Hastings
"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." 3 John 2.
Doctors in the Judgment.
The practice of medicine is fraught with the gravest responsibilities. The most faithful and conscientious physicians are liable to make mistakes, and that, too, when a mistake may cost a life; and a careless, or intemperate, or incompetent physician may spread death and havoc through an entire community.
Sometimes the council of such men, when followed, leads not only to death, but to perdition; and there is hardly a vice or a habit which debases and destroys mankind but that some "doctor says it is good," and often under direct medical advice, the victim enters the downward road.
Sometimes the physician comprehends the importance of his position. The Medical and Surgical Reporter states that long before the temperance reform became prominent in America, a missionary from the West Indies sought medical advice from the famous Dr. Rush, and when a very unpalatable medicine was prescribed, the patient asked if he could not take a little "good old Jamaica" with it.
"No, sir," the doctor decidedly replied.
"Why, sir, what harm will it do?" demanded the West Indian.
"What harm will it do?" continued Dr. Rush; "I am determined no man shall rise on the day of Judgment and say, 'Dr. Rush made me a drunkard!'"
If Dr. Rush feared to meet a throng of liquor-drinking patients in the day of Judgment, what will be the condition of those doctors who prescribe spirituous liquors for almost every disease, or those nostrum makers who sell thousands of barrels of ardent spirits under the form of patent medicines; or of those religious editors whose papers advertise these mixtures far and wide, and thus lure thousands of the unwary to intemperance and perdition?—H. L. HASTINGS., in The Christian.
Religious Miscellany.
By Editor
—The Foreign Mission Committee of the Southern Church closed the year with a debt of $15,000.
—A tribunal at Posen has sentenced the prince bishop, Dr. Forester of Breslau, to a fine of 2000 marks or 133 days' imprisonment for illegally excommunicating a priest.
—Twelve English and American societies represented by about a hundred missionaries, several of them women, have made a foothold in the principal Japanese cities.
—The silly mummery of "blessing bells" is still practiced by the Catholics even in this country. The last instance was at West Hoboken a few days ago.
—In all Germany the number of Old Catholics is placed at 47,737 persons, with 54 priests, 32 churches recognized as parishes, and nearly 150 societies. It is a weak movement which will amount to nothing.
—In Ireland, within the last few months, two hundred and forty-three parishes, two hundred and two priests, and two hundred and thirty-six thousand lay members have gone over from the Catholic to the Greek Church.
—The corner-stone of a Carmelite convent has been laid upon the Mount of Olives. The site was purchased for the purpose by Madam la Princesse de la Tour d'Auvergne, and is asserted to be the very spot where our Lord taught his apostles the Lord's prayer.
—Several clergymen in Manchester, Eng., have united in forming a "Whist Club," thereby justly creating a great scandal. A clerical "Whist Club!" Most people will think, we fancy, that they had better have formed an association for some very different object.
—The Presbyterians of Scotland have sent out a missionary party to Lake Nyassa, in Africa. The English Government also sympathizes with the enterprise, so far as to appoint a naval officer to head the expedition and superintend its establishment at the site selected.
—Conferences have been going on between Northern and Southern Presbyterians with reference to a restoration of fraternal relations. Committees from the General Assemblies exchanged views, failed to agree, reported to their respective bodies, and each Assembly approved the action of its own committee.
—San Francisco claims a population of 275,000 persons. There are about fifty-five places where the gospel is preached every Sunday. The Presbyterians have twelve churches, the colored people three, the Chinese three, and the Roman Catholics thirteen. It is estimated that there are twelve thousand regular church-goers, less than five per cent of the population.
—In the most Catholic nation of Spain, where there are nine archbishops, ninety-three bishops, one hundred thousand priests, fourteen thousand monks, and nineteen thousand nuns, out of a population of fifteen million, less than a million can read or write. And so it is in every country where Catholicism rules. This indicates what a curse it is to the world.
—The Chancellor of Lincoln, Eng., before whom a Wesleyan minister brought suit to establish his right to place the title of "Rev." before his name on the tombstone of his child, has decided against the plaintiff, on the ground that he is a preacher in a schismatic body which the Church of England does not recognize. Also a bill which gave nonconformist ministers the right to officiate at funerals of their own people in parish burial grounds, was recently defeated in parliament.
—The Examiner and Chronicle thus laments the covetousness of the churches:—
"It is frightful to think of how many whole churches, having pastors to instruct and guide them, contribute absolutely nothing, from year to year, to a cause so pre-eminent in its claims and popular in its character as that of missions, at home and abroad. Scarcely less appalling is the fact that of the contributing churches, not more than a fourth of their members are represented in the yearly contributions."
—The Marquis of Cholmondeley has been preaching at St. George's Hall, and so has the Earl of Cavan, who is also assisting at the meetings of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. Lord Radstock has been preaching on Sunday evenings at Beresford chapel, Walworth. Lord Carrick is preaching at Castlecomer and other towns in Ireland, while a son of the Earl of Chichester has done the same in villages of Sussex, of which county his father is Lord Lieutenant. All these things tend to make religion popular and to take away the cross.
—That the Jews as a whole have almost entirely lost their fear of God and a love for his worship is evident. Commenting upon the facts that they have no place of worship at Long Branch where thousands of them go, the Jewish Messenger says:—
"If it was a question of betting on the races, or paying for a fancy dress ball at one of the hotels, the Israelites would not be backward in contributions; but as to paying for worship, or merely exerting themselves to have worship without pecuniary expense, they are singularly weak."
—The New York Tablet, a Catholic paper, says: "The great enemy of the pope in Germany is neither the Old Catholic party, who objects to him for conscientious reasons, nor the German Government, who regard him as a political adversary artfully disguised in a cassock or gown. The force the Vatican has really to fear in this country is the determined rationalism of the educated classes. This is an intellectual power as strong, at any rate at present, as the fervent belief of his immediate adherents, and as there is not much visible difference in this respect between Catholics and Protestants, the pope has no reason to look upon the failure of the Old Catholic reform as calculated to improve his prospects."
—The English preachers who have long depended upon the professional sermon-writers are coming to grief. The business of furnishing sermons became so extensive that bureaus were established who employed and paid the sermon-writers, and sold to the clergy such as they needed from a "large and choice stock constantly on hand." The criticisms and exposures of this business have had the effect to decide many of the preachers to abandon it and do their own sermon-writing. But now come the "bureaus" who threaten to expose any of their old customers who refuse to continue their subscriptions. The lithograph preachers denounce this as blackmail, and ask protection from the law; but it will not avail them. Honesty is the best policy.
The Tree and the Post.
If an oak a hundred years old, or any giant tree is cut down, in the place where it stood there is a visible vacancy—a vacancy that is felt. For many years, as you look at the place, you miss it. The branches of the neighboring trees do not fill the empty space, it is as if they shrunk from occupying the place where the mighty neighbor once stood. There are hollows even in the ground—depressions which show how massive were its roots, and how far they extended. But if you draw out of the ground a wooden post, you soon forget where it stood. The surface of the ground is not disturbed, the landscape is not changed. There is no vacancy. No eye misses anything.
Art thou, dear reader, a cedar, planted in the house of the Lord, spreading all around thee on every side a grateful and cooling shade? Art thou a palm tree, bringing forth blossoms and rich fruit, so that all pronounce blessings upon thee? Art thou so useful, that, if thou wert taken away, it would seem impossible to fill the place? Or art thou only a dry post—a thing without leaf, or sap, or fruit—which might at any time be taken away, and no one would ask, "What is gone there?"
Blessed be God, that there is One who can guide the streams of life even into the dry post, so that it shall be covered with blossoms.—Sel.
The Dangers of Hurrying
HURRIED work is generally ill-done. The powers of human endurance have their limit, and inordinate exertion leads to reaction. Healthy life is regular in labor and repose. A man who has spasms to-day, so that two men must hold him, may have palsy next week, so that four men must carry him. Thus over-action results in inaction.
CURE FOR DYSPEPSIA.
Not long since, a dyspeptic was beguiled by an advertisement to send to a New York individual a dollar, for which sum a cure for dyspepsia was promised. He received a printed slip with these words: "Stop drinking, and hoe in the garden." The man was angry at first, then laughed, and finally stopped drinking, and hoed in the garden. In a short time he was as well as ever.
WASTE NO TIME
After allowing yourself proper time for rest, don't live a single hour of your life without doing exactly what is to be done in it, and going straight through it from beginning to end. Work, play, study, whatever it is, take hold at once and finish up squarely and clearly; then to the next thing, without letting any moments drop out between. It is wonderful to see how many hours these prompt people contrive to make of a day; it is as if they picked up the moments dawdlers lost. And if ever you find yourself where you have so many things pressing upon you that you hardly know how to begin, let us tell you a secret. Take hold of the very first one that comes to hand, and you will find the rest all fall into file, and follow after like a company of well drilled soldiers; and though work may be hard to meet when it charges in a squad, it is easily vanquished if you can bring it into line.
BAD HABITS.
Understand clearly the reasons, and all the reasons, why any habit is injurious. Study the subject till there is no lingering doubt in your mind. Avoid the places, the persons, and the thoughts, that lead to the temptation. Frequent the places, associate with the persons, indulge the thoughts, that lead away from temptation. Keep busy, idleness is the strength of bad habits. Do not give up the struggle when you have broken your resolution once, twice, ten times, or a thousand times. That shows how much need there is for you to strive. When you have broken your resolution, just think the matter over, and endeavor to understand why it was that you failed, so that you may be upon your guard against a recurrence of the same circumstances. Do not think it a little or an easy thing that you have undertaken. It is folly to expect to break off bad habits in a day, which have been gathering strength in you for years.
Study and Longevity.
By Dr. W. W. Hall
Because brain work promotes the consumption of nutrition quite as much as bodily labor, a hard student will get ravenously hungry. The thing which keeps a man in health is the constant renewal of the particles of his body. Labor uses up the new particles of nutriment, and works off the old ones; eating supplies new ones in their stead, and in this way the body is always kept new and young, and vigorous and thrifty. If a man does not work at all, sits still for a great part of his time, the old worn-out particles of the system remain in it, and clog it up, and before long the body becomes torpid and the mind dull, in time approaching to idiocy.
The brain, like the body, appropriates the nutriment of food to its uses, and works off the old, effete matter. Kant, one of the most profound thinkers of his generation, living beyond three score and ten, gave it as the result of his observation that “intellectual pursuits tend to prolong life;” and President Humphrey, of Amherst College, said, at the age of eighty-two, “I have yet to see the man who died from the effects of hard study.” Newton, the greatest thinker of his time, lived to the age of seventy-three; and Herschel, the greatest astronomer of his age, lived beyond ninety, and so did Humboldt, the author of “Cosmos.” If ever a hard student dies young, it is because he has not lived rightly.—Dr. W. W. Hall.
News and Miscellany.
By Editor
—Lady Jane Franklin, wife of Sir John Franklin, died in London, July 18.
—The legislature of Panama has voted $200,000 for the sufferers by the earthquake at Cucuta.
—Six Chinamen were ordained deacons at a late meeting of the East Maine Methodist Episcopal Conference.
—In England a gentleman was appointed second secretary of the British Legation at Rome, but upon the discovery that he was a Catholic the government required him to resign.
—Donaldson and his companion, the aeronauts who, several days ago, ascended from Chicago in Barnum's great air ship, have not been heard from since. They were caught in a storm, probably, over the lake. Who tries next?
—A pleasant touch of human nature was revealed in the Wisconsin State Prison a few days ago. One of the convicts was mortally wounded by an accident in one of the shops, and his fellow-prisoners, out of their earnings, obtained by extra work, contributed $45 for his widow and children.
—The caterpillars are making terrible ravages in the State of Maine. They have completely stripped the foliage from many orchards, cutting off all prospects of fruit, and often killing the trees. This is a serious loss to the farmers, as many of them depend largely upon their fruit-harvest for a livelihood. Thus curses are multiplied: caterpillars in the East, grasshoppers West, and potato bugs through the Middle States.
—The Colorado potato beetle has reached New York. This pest, which in 1868 crossed the Missouri river, and in 1870 reached Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, have now pitched their tents in New York, Pennsylvania, and States still farther east. Previous to the last ten years this bug was very little known except as a native of the Rocky Mountains, living upon a wild relative of the potato. When the emigrants began to cultivate the potato in the Territory the beetle left its native food and chose the more tender domestic plant. Their numbers greatly increased and dissatisfied with the scanty supply of food, they followed back upon the trail of the emigrants to the broader fields of Missouri, Iowa, and the Eastern States. In eight years they have traveled about two thousand miles, or about two hundred and fifty miles a year. At that rate two more years will carry them through the Atlantic States.
Camp-Meeting.
By John Norton Loughborough
THE California Camp-meeting is to be held this year on the Fairfax Picnic-grounds, Marin Co., three miles above San Rafael, commencing Thursday, Sep. 23, and closing Thursday, Sep. 30. This ground is under the control of the North Coast Pacific R. R. Company. In behalf of the Conference I have signed a contract with the R. R. Company to occupy the grounds at the time above specified. They offer, on their part, privileges and advantages very desirable to us.
The grounds are handy of access from San Francisco and Oakland, being only 17 1/2 miles from S. F. by boat and R. R. They reduce their fare, during the meeting, for the round trip from S. F., to one dollar. Besides this, they haul our straw thirty miles free of freight, and deliver wood and lumber at the grounds at as cheap rates as we obtained them last year. They guarantee us all the water we need.
There is on the ground a building 60x150 feet, in which is a good matched floor, and there are also three sheds, two of them 10x30, and one 20x20, and a necessary out building with four rooms and a good door to each. We have the free use of the grounds and of all the buildings upon it, as well as the use of 150 feet of tables, 600 feet of benches now on the grounds. The grounds are about fifteen rods from the R. R. stopping place. There is a stream of water running through the grounds, and a good well of water on the ground.
The large building consists of the floor and roof, without sides, surrounded by shade trees. We design to put up a tent 60x96 for our meeting room, and prepare lodging rooms in the large building. These rooms can be constructed of factory cloth tacked to frames, which frames can be furnished on the ground at a small sum. These rooms will be of uniform width and height, 12 feet wide, and 6 feet high. The length of them can be 10, 12, or 14 feet, as most desired by those who occupy them. These should be made of factory, one yard wide, and do not require any sewing at all.
To construct a room 10x12 will require 44 yards of factory, one yard wide. A 12x12 room will require 50 yards. A 12x14 room will require 56 yards. Their being only six feet in height will be no objection, as there is a good roof for shade above them. Those who have tents will have a chance to erect them in good shade. Those who have no tents can have tent room for sleeping apartments as above described in the building, where there is space for at least twenty-four of these rooms. All that is necessary is for those who wish rooms to send the requisite number of yards of cloth for their room to Fairfax Camp-ground, Sept. 15, and they will find their room ready for occupying the evening of the 22nd, by setling the expense of frame and tacks. When meeting is over the tacks can easily be drawn and the cloth can be taken home for domestic purposes.
We wish to know soon, however, who wish to erect these rooms, so that our committee can plan the building before the hurry of camp-meeting comes on. Some have already spoken to me, in person, for room, without stating size; but let that pass. We now call for definite orders, stating the size of the room you wish, whether 10x12, 12x12, or 12x14. Remember, your cloth must be exactly one yard wide to construct these rooms. Send your orders to me at Oakland, or hand them to me in person when you see me.
We have three new tents of drilling, 10x12, for sale at $18 each, and can furnish others at the same rate. Those men who do not wish tents, but bring their blankets, will have free lodging in the big tent. We shall have a provision tent, restaurant, and stock yard on the ground the same as in former years.
Those coming to the grounds with teams from Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties, should go by the way of Petaluma. They will find a delightful road with splendid scenery from Petaluma to San Rafael. At San Rafael inquire for Fairfax picnic grounds. They are on the west side of the R. R. track, three miles from San Rafael. Distance from Petaluma to camp-ground, twenty-five miles. More soon.
J. N. L.
Kansas.
By John Nevins Andrews
PERSONS receiving the SIGNS OF THE TIMES on trial in Linn, Bourbon, Anderson, and Miami counties, are requested to report by mail to J. N. Ayers, Farlinville, Linn Co., Kan., whether they wish their paper continued, how they like it, and if any of their neighbors or friends are interested in the truths it teaches.
And if you can pay the postage on your paper, or wish to donate anything for its support, you can forward it to me at Farlinville. I want to hear from all as soon as convenient.
J. N. AYERS,
Director of T. and M. Society of Dist. No. 3.
Eastern Camp-Meetings.
By Editor
INDIANA, ..................... August 5-9, 1875.
MICHIGAN, ................... “ 10-17, “
VERMONT, .................... “ 19-24, “
NEW ENGLAND, ............ “ 26-31, “
MAINE, ......................... Sept. 2-7, “
NEW YORK, .................. “ 9-14, “
The California Printing House.
By James White
The California printing house, when all complete, fully supplied with presses, engine, and material for printing and binding, will cost about $30,000. Our brethren on the Pacific Coast will cheerfully complete a fine building the size of one of our printing buildings in this city. This, with the lot, will cost $15,000. It will require about $15,000 more to properly furnish this building as it should be with machinery, material, &c. We design to raise $10,000 of this amount in sums of $100 each, and $5,000 in smaller sums. Only about $5,000 of the $15,000 has been collected. We expect to lay out $10,000 immediately and depend upon collection at the camp-meetings. Do not disappoint us, brethren. Be in season. Get your free-will offerings ready.
James White.
Good Meetings.
By James White
We have enjoyed but few better Sabbaths at Battle Creek than the last. The word of the Lord seemed very precious while speaking to the people in the morning, and at the close of the exercise we were very happy in waiting upon Deacon Young and wife, who received at our hand Christian baptism.
Bro. Young had served the Presbyterian church as deacon fifty-four years, and now, although several years above four score, he and his wife go down into the water, and come up out of the water, with the willing, happy cheerfulness of youthful converts. The quiet and solemn calmness of the scene at the water gave dignity to the occasion. It was remarked by a Presbyterian sister who witnessed the baptism, that the Spirit of the Lord seemed to pervade the whole place, and cover the entire congregation. Mrs. White spoke in the afternoon, and also at the Health Institute Grove, at 3 P. M., the day following.
Just before the baptism a telegram was put in our hand announcing the death of the daughter of Eld. Kenyon of Monterey, and that the funeral would be first-day, A. M. We at once resolved to be present, and were happy to meet Eld. Smith and Prof. Brownsberger at the house of mourning and at the place of worship. Remarks were made before a crowded house by Eld. Smith and others, and everything pertaining to that funeral seemed appropriate to the burial of a youthful Christian who had fallen asleep in the brightest hope of immortality at the soon coming of the Lifegiver.
We gave a practical discourse in the afternoon, and after the public service enjoyed a successful examination of unpleasant matters before the members of the church, which had grown out of bad management of the leadership question. Many were encouraged at the prospect of a better state of things. In the evening we held a similar meeting with the church at Allegan, with the same results. This meeting held past midnight. After a few hours sleep at the good home of Bro. Baker, breakfast, and a season of prayer, such as we seldom enjoy, we took the train for Battle Creek.
Here we meet cheerful faces, good reports of progress of affairs, and among other items of interest from our sons at the SIGN Office in Oakland, Cal., the statement that the new building will be ready before the presses, engine, and other material, can be transported from New York by rail. We go immediately to the Atlantic to see a car loaded for the Pacific.
JAMES WHITE.
Certificates of Stock.
By John Norton Loughborough
In a few weeks we shall receive our stock book and seal press, and shall commence to issue certificates of stock to all full paid shareholders who have paid $10.00 per share in coin.
Currency will be counted at the rate of $11.50 per share, until further notice. So those who have paid currency expecting shares to the amount they have paid will take notice that all shares are counted in coin value.
J. N. L.
The California Printing House.
By James White
The California printing house, when all complete, fully supplied with presses, engine, and material for printing and binding, will cost about $30,000. Our brethren on the Pacific Coast will cheerfully complete a fine building the size of one of our printing buildings in this city. This, with the lot, will cost $15,000. It will require about $15,000 more to properly furnish this building as it should be with machinery, material, &c. We design to raise $10,000 of this amount in sums of $100 each, and $5,000 in smaller sums. Only about $5,000 of the $15,000 has been collected. We expect to lay out $10,000 immediately and depend upon collection at the camp-meetings. Do not disappoint us, brethren. Be in season. Get your free-will offerings ready.
JAMES WHITE.
Cal. Tent Fund.
By John Norton Loughborough
PLEDGES were made to the tent fund at our last camp-meeting, amounting to over $1600. The sums pledged were all to be paid by Oct. 1, 1875. About one-half this sum has already been paid. But it will be remembered that out of the means raised there was $700 to be used in paying money borrowed to purchase the new tent; $184, for the splicing to the two tents; and $45.00, for three camping tents, remaining on hand at the close of the camp-meeting. Some $60.00 received for old camp materials, was also put into the tent fund. All that has been paid in has been applied on the old debt. Fifty dollars more are requisite before we can say that the old debt is cancelled.
We are beginning to make arrangements, and shall soon commence purchases, for the camp-meeting. In order to be rightly prepared for the meeting, quite a portion of the tent funds should be paid in immediately. We shall soon send out lists of unpaid pledges to the business agent in each of the churches that they may collect from those who are ready to pay their pledges. We give this notice that all, as far as practicable, may be ready to meet these collectors of funds.
J. N. L.
Notice.
By I. D. Van Horn
THE P. O. address of Eld. I. D. Van Horn and wife will be Oregon City, Oregon, till further notice.
I. D. VAN HORN.
Instructions for Signs Correspondence
By Editor
ALL money sent by mail to the SIGNS Office should be in drafts or postal orders, payable to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, if the sum exceeds $2.00. Sums less than $2.00 can be in currency or postage stamps.
ALL letters or business for the SIGNS should be addressed “SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.”
Appointments.
By John Norton Loughborough
OAKLAND.—Regular services are conducted by the Seventh-day Adventists in their hall, corner of Twelfth and Broadway, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11:30 A. M., and each Sunday evening.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Seventh-day Adventist services each Sabbath (Saturday) at the A. P. A. Hall, Mission street near Third, at 11 A. M., and every Sunday evening.
GILROY.—Sabbath and first-day, July 31, and Aug. 1, as Brn. Canright and Waggoner shall arrange.
SAN JOSE.—Sabbath and first-day, Aug. 7, 8.
HEALDSBURG.—Sabbath and first-day, Aug. 14 and 15.
SANTA ROSA.—Aug. 21 and 22.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
Business Department.
By Editor
"Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully," (margin, negligently). Jer. 48 : 10.
Received for the Signs.
$2 EACH. C H Clark 2-1, C Bartlett 2-38, Mrs Rebecca Cummings 2-38, H A Rima 2-38, Mrs M A Du Navent 3-1, B G St John 2-1, D B Rickey 3-1, Christian Leininger 2-38, Mrs Geo Andrews 2-20, Jerusha Wisel 2-1.
$1 EACH. Wm Owen 2-14, Mrs E A Horne 2-14, Mrs Anna Green 1-38, A R Carpenter 2-14, Susan B Griffin 2-14.
MISCELLANEOUS. A H Kauffman 10c, Sarah A Calder 50c 2-2, F G Quant 50c 2-2, Anna Boyl 50c 2-2. Wm Mc Phun $2.25 2-1, Jennie A Stiarvalt 10c, Mrs U Sevrens $2.25 3-1, Mrs Potter 75c 1-39, Henry A Denison 25c, John Cary 25c, Myron W Locke 25c, Mary B Needham 25c, Mrs M Munson 20c, O Ensign 20c, Mrs L J Slocum 20c, Miss Stella M Hayes 20c, M L Rondebush 20c, Miss Mary Brittain 20c, James Brunsdon 50c 2-2, N Stone 50c 2-2. H K Mckinney 50c 2-2, A Z Hamersley 50c 2-2, S E Hamersley 50c 2-2, Mrs L E Henderson 50c 2-2, G W Cannon 50c 2-2.
California Publishing Fund.
J B E Young $2, Mrs J S Howard $20, B Stein $100.
Donations to the Signs.
Mrs C Bartlett $10, A friend $1.
California Conference Fund.
Mrs C Bartlett $8, Received from the church at Napa $6.50.
Cal. T. and M. Society.
District No 1 $18.70, District No 3 $4, District No 9 $2.