NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Society of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Oakland will be held Wednesday, April 3, 1889, at half-past seven o'clock P. M., at the house of worship of said society, S. E. corner Twelfth and Brush Streets, in the city of Oakland, Cal. The object of the meeting is the election of a Board of five Trustees, and the transaction of such other business as may be presented.
W. N. GLENN, Sec.
Oakland, March 18, 1889.
GOOD PROPERTY FOR SALE.
A GENTLE FAMILY HORSE, TWO-SEATED BUGGY, A FINE 11-STOP, 5-OCTAVE WALNUT-CASE ORGAN, RESIDENCE LOTS, ETC., FOR SALE CHEAP.
ONE-HALF the entire proceeds of sale will go into the California Conference Fund, Rural Health Retreat, or some branch of the missionary work if the property is sold by May 15, 1889.
THE HORSE is not afraid of railroad trains or cable-cars, can be ridden or driven by a lady; my children use the horse nearly every day. The horse, light two-seated buggy, harness, horse blanket, etc., I consider worth from $115 to $125 to any family that needs such an outfit, and I will sell them for $100 cash.
THE ORGAN is a fine-toned A. B. Chase, style 302 C, 5 octaves, 4 sets of reeds, double octave coupler, 11 stops. List price, $250. Height, 72 inches; length, 53 inches; width, 24 inches; weight, boxed ready for shipment, about 400 pounds. Plain walnut case, heavy mouldings, carved lines, smooth, hard, oil-finish. Has been used very little. Warranted first-class in every respect. Instrument can be examined at my residence, or it will be boxed ready for shipment, and delivered on board the cars here, for $100 cash or $125 on time payments.
REAL ESTATE, a good location for residence. Lot 50x100 feet, on Forty-second Street, near Market, within three blocks of Telegraph Avenue street-cars on the east, and three blocks to San Pablo cable line on the west. These lots in the Alden Tract are selling for $500 on time payments. I will sell the above described lot, 50 feet front, on sunny side of street, for $100 (half cash, balance on $10 monthly installments, with interest on said installment at the rate of 8 per cent per annum), if sold within 30 days from date of this paper. For map, abstract, and free conveyance to the property, call on B. R. Nordyke, at the Pacific Press buildings, corner Twelfth and Castro Streets, Oakland, Cal.
Civil Government and Religion
By Editor
The above is a reproduction of first page of No. 4 of our "SENTINEL LIBRARY," a semi-monthly publication. Send 75 cents for a year's subscription to PACIFIC PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY, OAKLAND, CAL. Or, 43 BOND ST., NEW YORK.
Civil Government and Religion.
By A. T. JONES, ONE OF THE EDITORS OF THE "AMERICAN SENTINEL."
Scriptural, Logical, Plain, and Forcible.
This important work shows clearly the relation that should exist between Church and State at the present time, as proven by the Bible and history of the past twenty-five centuries.
Chap. I distinguishes between "What Is Due to God and What to Caesar;" Chap. II shows for what purpose "The Powers That Be" are ordained; Chap. III outlines vividly the relation that existed between "Christianity and the Roman Empire;" Chap. IV ably discusses "The Religious Attack upon the United States Constitution, and Those Who Are Making It;" Chap. V unmasks "Religious Legislation," calling special attention to the Blair Sunday Bill, now pending in Congress; Chap. VI is devoted to "The Sunday-law Movement in the Fourth Century, and Its Parallel in the Nineteenth."
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MILLIONS OF COPIES should be placed in the hands of thinking people AT ONCE. It clearly defines what position we, as American citizens, should sustain toward the effort now on foot to secure religious legislation. Address, Pacific Press Publishing Co., 12th and Castro Sts., Oakland, Cal. Or, 43 Bond St., New York.
The Signs of the Times.
By Editor
OAKLAND, CAL., SECOND-DAY, APRIL 1, 1889.
We send no papers from this office without pay in advance unless by special arrangement. When persons receive copies without ordering them, they are sent by other parties, and we can give no information in regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the SIGNS are not indebted to the office, and will not be called upon for pay. Please read the papers and hand them to your friends to read.
We sincerely hope that our readers will not pass by or read carelessly the article of Sister White on the first page. There is instruction in it which will prove a help to all if they will apply it. May it help some to realize their responsibility.
BROTHER LA RUE writes from Hongkong, China, that the Lord is opening up the way for the work there in a wonderful manner. He says: "God has a care over us and our work; and we know that all is well. We are of good courage, and are doing what we can to spread the truth." He also speaks of the great activity of the friends of the Sunday and of their efforts to secure a Sunday law for Hongkong harbor. It is certainly not without significance that in almost every quarter of the globe the question of a better observance of the Sunday is being agitated.
THE Golden Gate expresses the belief that "it is in the power of Spiritualists to make their mediums honest." "This they can surely do," says that paper, "if they will encourage none others." But what, we would ask, would be gained if mediums were made honest? It is generally, if not universally, acknowledged by Spiritualists that the spirits themselves are not honest, that they impersonate each other and practice all sorts of deception; what then is to be gained by having honest mediums of communication between them and those who stand ready to be deceived by them?
THE Christian Register (Unitarian) says:— "It is pretty hard to find a thoroughly consistent Sabbatarian. Consciously or unconsciously, our more strait-laced brethren yield their logic or their practice under the influence of the spirit of the age."
No wonder it is hard for the Register to find a "consistent Sabbatarian," for the very next sentence in the editorial note from which we quote, reveals the fact that it looks only among Sunday keepers, and, as applied to such, the term "Sabbatarian" is a misnomer. If the editor of the Register really wants to find a consistent Sabbatarian, we can tell him where he can find a goodly number of them, but it will not be in the ranks of those who observe Sunday. "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord," and, though the name has been stolen, and is by many applied to the first day, the appellation "Sabbatarian" belongs, according to lexicographers, only to those who observe the day specified in the fourth commandment.
The following item from a late Honolulu paper will be of interest to the readers of the SIGNS:— "The bark Kalakaua will sail for Hongkong tomorrow in command of Captain Duncan. She will call at Johnson's, Wake's, Week's, and Kalo Deparages Islands in search of the schooner Phoebe Chapman, Captain Lovell, which left here July 31st for Tahiti and other islands, but has not since been heard of. It is thought by some experienced navigators that the schooner got out of her course and was caught on one of those islands that are grouped about 15 degrees N. and 176 degrees W. The missing vessel belongs to the Seventh-day Adventists, and had on board, besides Mr. Cudney, a missionary of that denomination, several passengers for different points in the Pacific. Her whole voyage, including a trip to San Francisco, was calculated to take six months. She is about seven months out now and two or three reports of her having been at Tahiti have turned out to be without foundation. It will be remembered that the schooner General Sigel was given up as lost with all hands for about a year, when her fate was discovered and her company rescued by the schooner Mana from the lonely island on which they had been cast away."
We hope to be able erelong to chronicle the news of the rescue of Brother Cudney and those with whom he sailed, even should their vessel prove to have been lost.
TWELVE years ago the Modoc Indians were uncivilized heathen. Now they are a community of industrious farmers, with half their number professing Christians. It cost the United States Government $1,848,000 to care for 2,200,000 Dakota Indians seven years, while they were savages. After they were Christianized it cost, for seven years, $120,000, a saving of $1,728,000.—Public Opinion.
It is stated that the President is quite a strict observer of Sunday, and that it is very quiet at the White House upon that day. Not a stroke of work is done in the executive offices, and the family rooms are as quiet as the Harrison home at Indianapolis used to be of a Sunday. Few people call, and not one of these on anything approaching business or politics. So strict is the observance that the President's mail is not opened upon that day.
This is, however, nothing more than is to be expected. Mr. Harrison is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church, and has, of course, been accustomed to strict Sunday observance. We fancy, however, that, though a great man, he would, were he inquired of on the subject, be compelled to give a very small reason for regarding the first day of the week as sacred. All, high and low, rich and poor, fail to find in the Scriptures any authority for Sunday keeping. However, so far as men are concerned, the President has a perfect right to keep that day as strictly as he desires.
ANNUAL MEETING IN OAKLAND.
By J. N. Loughborough
THE series of meetings to be held in connection with the stockholders' meeting of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, will begin Thursday evening, April 18, and close Wednesday evening, April 24. Every year these meetings become more and more important, as we have, each year, one year less in which to fulfill our mission of spreading the precious truths committed to our trust. This yearly meeting will be emphatically the most important we have ever held. Those who attend, and learn the situation, and what is to be done, will see it so before the meetings are over if they do not now. Those who are assigned to responsible positions in the work who do not attend this meeting, but pass it by as of little importance to them, will surely miss a precious opportunity for needed instruction and fitting up for labor. Brother W. C. White now designs to be with us, and will aid by his counsel and labors in the meeting.
It will be observed that the time for the meeting is much shorter than last year, but these six days will be packed full of interesting services, and the consideration of topics that are of the greatest importance in these eventful times. As the time of the gathering is so short, we hope to see a full attendance from the beginning to the very close.
The meeting should be attended by all our ministers, licentiates, canvassers, Conference workers, tract and missionary directors and officers, and as many of the church and Sabbath-school officers as can make it convenient to come. At this time, plans must be laid for tent and other summer labor. It will also be an occasion for imparting instruction relative to the mode of working. We want to know what is to be done, how to do it, where and when to work.
Let our people in different parts of the Conference send at once, in writing, to J. N. Loughborough, Oakland, Cal., their desires for help, and the openings they may see for labor of various kinds. And let your prayers, now, and up to the time of the meeting, ascend to Heaven that the Lord may guide in our councils, and that proper help may be employed, and that the workers may be properly distributed so that the greatest amount of good shall be done for the greatest number.
The Oakland church will have a restaurant, as usual, and will give free entertainment to such of our brethren and sisters as may attend the meeting. Please bring blankets with you, and give notice to C. H. Jones, Pacific Press, by April 12, that you are coming, and places of lodging will be provided. Thus confusion will also be avoided when you do come. On arriving in Oakland, April 18, come at once to the Pacific Press, Castro Street, where you will find a committee who will show you to your place of lodging and entertainment.
In behalf of the California Conference.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, Pres.
STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING.
By C. H. Jones
THE fourteenth annual meeting of the stockholders of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, for the election of officers, and transaction of other business, will be held at the office of the company, in Oakland, Cal., Monday, April 22, 1889, at 9:30 A. M.
This will be one of the most important meetings ever held, and a general attendance of stockholders is requested. The past year has been an eventful one, and many advance steps have been taken. According to a resolution passed one year ago, a branch office has been established at 43 Bond Street, New York City, and is now in good running order. Another office has recently been opened at 121 South Spring Street, Los Angeles; and one of the most important questions to be considered at the coming meeting will be the establishment of a branch office in London, England. The work in this field is assuming such proportions that the General Conference has requested one of our publishing houses to take charge of the publishing work, and the lot has seemed to fall to the Pacific Press. Definite plans must now be laid for carrying forward this work.
During the last few months, the attention of the whole country has been called to the work of the National Reform party and other organizations, in their efforts to secure religious legislation. In view of the important issues at stake, and the opportunity given to get the truth before the people, we called a special meeting of the board of directors, in January, at which time it was voted to publish the American Sentinel weekly instead of monthly. Accordingly the change was made to date from the beginning of the present volume.
The office has been doing a good business all through the year, and the outlook for the future is encouraging. We trust that there will be a general attendance of the friends of the institution, as well as the stockholders, at the coming annual meeting.
C. H. JONES, Pres.
HEALDSBURG COLLEGE.
THERE will be a meeting of the stockholders of Healdsburg College corporation at the South College building, Monday, April 15, at 9 o'clock A. M., for the purpose of electing seven trustees, to serve one year from that date, and for the transaction of such other business as may be brought before said meeting.
W. C. WHITE, Pres.
W. C. GRAINGER, Sec.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
By Editor
On account of the failing health of Elder S. Fulton, all persons having business to transact with the North Pacific Conference will please direct their correspondence to T. H. Starbuck, East Portland, Or., Box 105.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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