We see a wonderful adaptability in all the works of God to the accomplishment of the ends of their creation and the perpetuity of their existence. This is especially noticeable in all living beings. How beautifully has the Creator designed all the different parts of the frame-work of each to fulfill its particular office and subserve the especial purpose of its being. Indeed, we see in these things a mighty argument to prove the existence of an intelligent creative mind of infinite wisdom, with corresponding power to carry out its conceptions of what was fitting and necessary.
His creatures would want to see different objects, behold the light of heaven, and gaze on the beauties of nature; so eyes of wonderful construction and ingenuity are furnished. But in such places as the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, where no ray of light penetrates, the fishes have no eyes. His creatures need to listen to nature's sounds; so ears of wonderful workmanship are given them. So also the senses of smell and touch, the proper organs are provided. And as the wonderful machinery of life wears and wastes with use, and consequently would need replenishing, and as many substances with which they would come in contact would be unfit for the system, nature's Creator implanted taste with which proper substances could be discerned. The gratification of this taste lies at the foundation of the appetite, and it seems evident that this sense was to exercise a most important influence in deciding what should enter the stomach and be incorporated into the system.
When man was pronounced "very good" at his creation, no doubt all his senses and tastes were in harmony with what would be for his well-being. He would naturally love those things that would be for his benefit; and yet, in man's case, reason was also to have a voice in deciding what should be eaten. Man was led astray through the appetite. The forbidden fruit seemed "good for food" and would not have been rejected merely by the taste. Reason had an important part to act in deciding whether to take it. In fact, the whole moral nature was deeply interested; and had the appetite been obedient to these, far happier had it been for our first parents and for the race. No, it has never been the exclusive province of the taste to determine what should be eaten. And especially is this true since it has suffered such terrible abuse. No reasonable person will deny that appetite is a creature of education. As a general rule, it will crave those things to which it has been accustomed in early life. It seems a wise provision of nature that we can learn to love what we have provided for our food. Were it otherwise, man, in many circumstances under which he is placed, would find it difficult to accommodate himself to them. But now, while there are notional peculiarities of diet, as well as individual, by means of this power he can place himself in almost any position and put up with it. The Creator evidently foresaw the contingencies under which man would be placed and gave him this accommodative power. But oh! how terribly it has been abused. When we see the abominable perversions to which appetite has been subjected we can but wonder at its capacity in this direction.
It seems strange to a person whose taste has never been perverted that man can ever learn to love the taste of tobacco or alcohol. And yet it seems that those things most distasteful, naturally, get the strongest control in the end, until the most powerful effort is required to abandon them. Appetite at first turns aside with loathing and abhorrence, then submits and becomes fully enslaved. Can any sane man say that appetite thus abused and enslaved should be the sole judge, and we submit reason and judgment to its dictation. But how reasonable that this power of accommodation should be used for good purposes, to overcome bad habits and establish good ones, instead of the contrary.
Thus the moral and intellectual element in our nature can work in harmony with the appetite and the whole man receive benefit. Man must be happier thus to have all the elements of his nature in harmony with each other. Let us then use our reason, look around us, and break up our bad habits, bring appetite into subjection to the higher nature, and thus find true enjoyment in life, and answer the end of our creation.
DRESS REFORM.
It is a risky matter for men to interfere in any manner with the social rights and privileges of the ladies; but when they inaugurate measures of their own, looking to economy, the matter may be alluded to without the fear of incurring rebuke. Certain wives, mothers, and daughters of a Southern town have organized themselves into a society, and issued a manifesto in which they declare their object to be, the discontinuance of extravagance in dress. They pledge for one year not to purchase any material for wearing apparel the cost of which shall exceed twenty-five cents per yard. Further, they will observe a strict economy in their household affairs, and cheerfully add, "by those delicate sacrifices to the general stock of home comforts—too often dispensed with for the frivolous outside adornment of the body alone." We simply direct the attention of our California ladies to these high resolves, and offer no comment.
GEO. I. BUTLER.
Religious Miscellany.
By Editor
—Bishop Haven of the Methodist Church is an advocate of woman's suffrage. Recent ly he made a speech at Boston in favor of it.
—Joseph Curry, who says he is Christ, and not long ago was driven out of Georgia for forming a free-love colony, has started a new religious society in Springfield, Mass. A negress is worshiped by him and his few fol lowers as queen of earth and heaven. He and this woman now represent themselves as fasting forty days and forty nights, and they have nearly starved themselves in a rigorous observance of the rite. They are terribly emaciated, and so weak that they can hardly walk. Curry says that at the end of forty days they will be transported to heaven in a chariot of fire.
—The Jewish Messenger thus bewails the sad condition of the Jews in this country:—
"To be plain and explicit, our dissention and want of union, or even co-operation, threatens to uproot everything we have pre served, and place in its stead a species of Judaism hardly beneficial to the present gen eration, and subversive of all that was wont to be Israel's pride and boast—one people, one in preserving our purity of race without any admixture, one to maintain intact our laws regarding marriage, divorces, burial of the dead, and other matters."
—The Boston Congregational Association, has started a Ministerial Bureau for the pur pose of securing positions for unemployed ministers and of furnishing ministers for vacant churches. Thus religion is coming to be an article of merchandize to be bought and sold.
FOREIGN.
—The Jews are endeavoring to raise a fund for the purpose of encouraging industrial, mercantile, and agricultural pursuits among the Jews of the Holy Land. To assist them in acquiring the requisite land, establishing schools, and in other ways promoting Jewish interests there.
—The missions for the conversion of the Jews are almost an entire failure. Of all people they are the hardest to reach. There is in Philadelphia a mission to that people, but not long since some one moved its dis bandment, as being quite fruitless so far, and utterly unpromising. Last year the English society spent over $175,000 in its work, and gained only eighteen converts! This is about as well as it has done before.
—An attack was made, May 1, upon the American Methodist Episcopal church in Kuikiang, in consequence of a belief among the natives that children were maltreated by missionaries.
BERLIN, June 23.—The German Govern ment is preparing a parliamentary measure prohibiting religious processions. This is aimed at the Catholics.
—The Spanish Catholics have shown their teeth, in a futile way, by seizing upon a number of Protestant books consigned to an American resident of Santander. The act has been brought to the notice of Minister Cushing, who will see that it is redressed The spirit of the old serpent will still show itself whenever there is a chance.
—The Roman Catholics have now over one hundred missionaries at work in Africa.
—R. Pearsall Smith, the American Revi valist is creating about as great an excite ment on the continent of Europe, as Moody is in England. Our deliberate conviction is that the apparent good effect of all these spas modic movements will be but temporary, after which the people will sink lower than before, the same as it was after the similar excitement of 1858.
—A writer thus describes the state of re ligion in Italy:—
"A profound indifference prevails. The churches are open every day, from morning until noon, but, oh, how cold and solitary! A few priests reading prayers, a dozen people kneeling here and there, almost as many lazy beggars at the door, a monk or two with cowl and beads—what were these great ignorant fellows made for?—One or two ladies at the confessional, and a dozen tourists with their guide-books:—this is the unvaried scene, the summary for Sunday and the rest of the week. There are, in general, no seats; there is but little sermonizing."
—The tribunal of Castro Villari, before which the case of a priest, Vitale, was brought, who wished to marry, has just deci ded the civil marriage of a priest in Italy to be perfectly legal and valid. This decision is a very important one, and is still another loosing of the bands which have bound the Italian Government to Rome.
WARM BATHS FOR CHILDREN.
A physician in a very sensible article upon bathing says: “For the ‘Wind in the stomach’ children are thought to have, for their tiresome crying, and for the restlessness and worrying at night with which they are afflicted, if the warm bath were resorted to oftener, and the dosing of soothing syrups and worse nostrums less, it would be better for the children.”
News and Miscellany.
By Editor
—Nearly twenty thousand persons visited Woodward's gardens on June 24, the occasion of the yearly combined celebration of Sunday-schools. Over twelve thousand children's tickets were distributed to the pupils of the different schools, and over two thousand to teachers.
—At the Atlas works, Pittsburg, Pa., they are making the largest shears ever constructed in this country. They will weigh forty tons, and will shear cold iron five inches thick.
—General Cortina has been arrested and imprisoned at Matamoras, Texas, by Mexican cavalry. Cortina's police have been arrested, disarmed, and imprisoned. All business houses in Matamoras are closed, and armed citizens are gathering, threatening to take Cortina from the soldiers. Judge Castilla, the wife of Cortina, and fourteen others are prisoners; and orders have been published that Cortina will be shot if any effort is made to rescue him. Arms are being smuggled out, and the people around Matamoras are arming themselves.
LONDON, July 1.—A special dispatch from Vienna reports that the peasants of Deva and vicinity, in Transylvania, have revolted against the nobles and defeated a battalion of military. Many persons were killed, including two judges. Regular troops have been sent to the scene of the out break.
LONDON, June 28.—The Standard publishes reports of fearful inundations in Bohemia, Moravia, Carinthia, and Tyrol. There has been some loss of life and great destruction of property. Many bridges have been carried away and thousands of cattle drowned. The crops in several districts are totally destroyed.
—A special dispatch from Buda to the Standard says a furious thunder storm passed over there June 29. The lightning was incessant, and hail fell in such quantities that roofs of houses and the surrounding hills were covered two feet thick. The waterfall was extraordinary. Torrents swept the streets of Buda, carrying vehicles and everything movable down. Many houses were suddenly flooded and destroyed before the inmates could escape, five hundred persons are missing and at least 100 were drowned or killed by falling walls. All railway trains are stopped.
—It is estimated that the destruction of property by the inundations in the south-western parts of France, will amount to 300,000,000 francs. The number of persons who perished is estimated at 3,000. Contributions for the relief of the sufferers are pouring in from all parts of France, Switzerland and Belgium. Subscriptions received for sufferers by the inundations are unprecedentedly large. The total to date is $200,000. The list opened by President MacMahon already reaches $40,000. It is announced that 100,000 persons will be wholly dependent upon public charity for months. President MacMahon is on a tour through the inundated districts.
—The Jewish population of France, excluding Algiers, amounts to 60,000.
Lists of Missionary Members.
By John Norton Loughborough
SEVERAL of our T. and M. districts have not reported their full lists of paid members to the State Secretary. All districts are requested to mail to sister Bush immediately a copy of the names of all paid members received in your districts since Jan. 1, 1875, that she may compare with her lists, and see what names she has not recorded upon her books.
These lists are to be sent by the district secretary. Remember this call is for the names of those who have paid their $1.00 each and have become members, not for those names who have only pledged to become members. A full list of paid members is requested from district No. 8. Mail these immediately to Lucie Bush, Woodland, Cal.
J. N. L.
Those Lists Again.
By Editor
We stated last week, in the SIGNS, that we had been requested in some places "to make almost a wholesale slaughter by cutting off forty names in a place, and where we judge from the tenor of their letter that they have not visited the parties to ascertain the real state of their minds."
We did not cut off the names in this case, and one week's time has shown that we were not mistaken in our judgment of the matter, as the following interesting letter from Washington Territory will show. Had we followed orders to "cut off all names in that place which we had not heard from," this name would have gone with the rest.
Read this letter, ye T. and M. workers, and patiently seek an interview with all those who have been reading the SIGNS for three months or more, and don't order any names cut off by guess, but as you read the letter, recollect that the writer sent $2.50 to pay for his paper. The letter reads as follows:—
"GENTLEMEN :—Before Elder Van Horn began preaching in ———, I was not inclined to read any of your publications; but now I take a great deal of interest not only in reading the books and papers, but in listening to his preaching whenever there is an opportunity. Elder Van Horn has done a great deal of good in this town and surrounding country, and doubtless scores if not hundreds would be glad to see the seventh day kept for the Sabbath instead of the first day, believing that the seventh day is the true Sabbath. I am anxious to know the whole truth, and shall continue to read your books and paper, trusting the right may prevail." J. N. L.
Reports.
By John Norton Loughborough
THE district secretaries of districts Nos. 3, 4, 6, and 8, are requested, if they have not already done so, to send immediately to sister Lucie Bush, Woodland, Cal., the reports of the working of their districts for the quarter, ending June 30, that she may be able to complete her report, and put the same upon the records of the Society. J. N. L.
San Francisco.
By John Norton Loughborough
According to appointment, a business meeting was held in San Francisco, Tuesday evening, July 6, to consider still further the subject of erecting a Seventh-day Adventists meeting-house in San Francisco. Plans, specifications, and a draft of the house were presented by Bro. O. B. Jones, for a house 44x70, with an unfinished basement, and a plain belfry. It was thought that such a church could be built for about nine thousand dollars.
It was voted to accept Bro. Jones' plan for a house, as a basis for future action, subject to such alterations as may be deemed advisable at a future meeting. Adjourned to meet again at the same place, No. 130, 5th st., San Francisco, on Thursday evening, July 22, at 7 1/2 P. M.
J. N. L.
Tent-Meeting in Gilroy.
By Joseph Harvey Waggoner
SINCE our last report we have had some encouragement. We have now about twenty keeping the Sabbath here, and we are hoping for some others. Have appointed to baptize to-morrow.
The religious interest is small in this place, and we consider our success quite good under the circumstances. Of course many are convinced who make no sign toward moving at present. Some of them will doubtless quench the light they have received, but we hope some of them will yet act up to their convictions.
We do not see our way clear to leave here before July 18, and have appointed a closing meeting at that time when we hope to see all the scattered friends in the Santa Clara valley and adjacent sections. We hope they will not come merely in hope to get revived here, but come with the revival spirit in their hearts to help those who have newly come to the faith. Come praying, and ready to work. Pray for our meetings.
J. H. WAGGONER.
Gilroy, Cal., July 3.
Quarterly Meeting of Dist. No. 7.
THE third quarterly meeting of this district was held with the Oakland church, July 4, 1875. First session at 10 A. M. The president of the State society in the chair. Meeting opened with prayer by Bro. Loughborough.
The district secretary, sister L. C. Canright, stated that she expected to be away from the place, and tendered her resignation as secretary, which was accepted by unanimous vote. Sister Emma L. White was then nominated and elected as district secretary, by unanimous vote.
The report of the last meeting was then read and accepted. It consisted simply of the workings of the society for the second quarter.
The report of the workings of the society for the present quarter was as follows: No. of families visited, 34; No. of ships visited, 3; No. of letters written, 46; money received for memberships, $4.00; book sales, 4,885 pages, $9.60; for Kansas relief, $20.60. Total, $34.20. New subscribers for Review, 1; for Signs, 69; Instructor, 32; Reformer, 10. Distribution of reading matter: Signs, 118; Reformers, 33; tracts and pamphlets loaned 3,669 pages; value, $2.30. Tracts and pamphlets given away, 25, 488 pages, value, $15.93. Books furnished to library, by order of directors, 9; 3,122 pages; value, $6.11. L. C. Canright, Sec.
Remarks were made by the President on the financial standing of the district, showing that it had drawn from the State fund $26.00 more than had ever been placed to their credit on the cash book of the society, and it was voted to raise and place $100 in the Cal. State T. and M. fund for the benefit of this district.
A second session was held after the close of the State quarterly meeting, 4 P. M., July 4, in which a subscription was made of $133.50 to the T. and M. fund. Of this sum $74.00 were paid on the spot, and meeting adjourned sine die.
D. B. Rickey, Director.
Emma L. White, Sec.
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By Editor
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OAKLAND. — Regular services are conducted by the Seventh-day Adventists in their hall, corner of Twelfth and Broadway, Oakland, every Sabbath (Saturday) at 11 A. M., and each Sunday evening.
SAN FRANCISCO. — Seventh-day Adventist services each Sabbath (Saturday) in the A. P. A. Hall, Mission street near Third, at 11 A. M., and every Sunday evening.
BLOOMFIELD. — I will commence meetings in Bloomfield, Sonoma Co., Friday evening, July 9th. Meetings Sabbath and first-day, July 10th and 11th, at 11 A. M., and evening of each day. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
WE invite all the Sabbath-keepers in Santa Clara, San Jose, Watsonville, and Salinas, to meet with us in the tent at Gilroy, Sabbath and first-day, July 17, 18. This will be our closing meeting in this place, and we hope to see as many present as may be able to come. Come to take hold and work in prayer and social meetings. D. M. CANRIGHT. J. H. WAGGONER.
Business Department.
By Editor
"Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully," (margin, negligently). Jer. 48:10.
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New Office.
By John Norton Loughborough
The engine room for our new printing office is done, except plastering. The frame of the main building is up, and is nearly enclosed with rustic siding. The roof is being rapidly put on. It is expected that the Office will be ready to receive the press and engine in four weeks, and that the plans of Bro. White, formerly published, relative to tent meetings in San Francisco this fall, and a special effort there this winter in a new meeting-house, with meetings that shall be fully and freely advertised on a press of our own, will soon be a reality.
It can be but a matter of rejoicing to our people everywhere, especially on this coast, as they witness the prosperity that is attending our Office enterprise. It has been necessary to borrow means to bring the work where it is, and although this has been done without interest, the money itself will have to be paid ere long. We have done this that our brethren might have time to realize something from their crops, as many expected to do, before paying their pledges.
Harvest is now nearly passed, and soon your crops will be disposed of, and we shall confidently expect that our California brethren, with that promptness which has usually marked their payment of pledges, will give us a good lift on their pledges during the months of July and August, so that we may be prepared to meet some heavy obligations that mature about the first of September.
J. N. L.