‘‘MEN'S hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.’’ Luke 21 : 26.
THE S. F. Chronicle of Nov. 10th, says: More fires—fires everywhere. Fire at Batesville, at New York, at Cincinnati, at Peoria, Ill., at Marcellus Falls, N. Y. Here are losses by fire, within a period of a single week, footing up at over $300,000.
Saturday night, Nov. 7th, fire at Wittsburg, Ark., loss $25,000. Nov. 11th, forest fires near Dixon, Tenn., and between Union City, Tenn., and Hickman, Ky. Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property destroyed. Nov. 14th, heavy fires at Danville, Va. Loss $100,000. Nov. 19th, fire at St. Johns, N. B. Loss $40,000. Nov. 17th, fire at St. Louis, Mo. Loss $100,000; another Nov. 22nd. Loss $48,000. Nov. 22nd, fire at Syracuse, N. Y. Loss $130,000. Late dispatches report a fire in Manchester, England. Loss $750,000, and eight lives.
A dispatch from Washington, Nov. 15th, reports fires raging in every direction in the Dismal Swamp, destroying a large amount of valuable timber. The Indianapolis Sentinel, of Oct. 31st, states that forest fires were raging in every part of Indiana and Ohio; that the destruction to property was immense, footing up hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The S. F. Call says: ‘‘Another danger has been added to the many that beset the mariner at all times, in the fact that ten foreign, and seven American ships, have recently been lost by the spontaneous combustion of coal that formed their cargo.’’ These ships were all lost within the last three months. Five of them were bound for San Francisco. Nov. 22nd, two more coal ships reported burned at sea.
The S. F. Chronicle of Nov. 14th, says: Advices received from the Crimea, state that the drouth continues and causes much uneasiness. No rain has fallen for a considerable period, and the agricultural prospects are very depressing. The rivers have dried up, the vegetation over a large extent of country has been scorched and withered, and unless an abundant rain comes soon the crops will be ruined.
It is estimated that the people who have fallen victims to the famine in Asia Minor number over 150,000. In one village out of more than 1,600 sheep and goats, just one sheep and one goat remain, and of 100 cows two remain. In another, from a flock of 1,200 sheep and goats, eight are reported; and from another flock in the same village, numbering 800, the same number, eight, are reported.
A dispatch from Washington, Nov. 14th, says: The following telegram was received this morning at the Signal Office in this city, from the observer at Kingston, Jamaica: ‘‘Enormous damage has been done all over the Island by a hurricane on the 31st ult., and 1st and 2nd instants. It swept the parishes of St. Thomas, East Kingston, St. David, St. Ane's, Clarendon, Manchester, Portland, and Trelawney. The canes were blown down; the river rose six feet higher than ever before known; the coffee crops in Trelawney were seriously injured. The weather caused a general alarm. Enormous landslides have occurred; the roads and river-courses are blocked by huge trees; the iron bridges are even bent; and cattle and horses were swept into the sea. A dispatch dated Kingston, Jamaica, Nov. 15th says: ‘Sixteen vessels were driven ashore near here by the hurricane of the 1st inst.’’
A dispatch direct from Cuba, Nov. 12th, says: A most disastrous inundation has occurred at the village of Mayaria, which was overflowed for forty hours. Nearly all the houses within its limits were destroyed, entailing much suffering and destitution.
A dispatch from Buffalo, dated Nov. 6th, enumerates the names, cargoes, and loss of fourteen schooners and four propellers in a fog and gale in that vicinity, just prior to that date.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Nov. 11th.—A heavy storm of rain has swept this end of the Island. Railroads are washed away, and large quantities of sugar cane all over the country are leveled. The towns of Sauna and Tonalo, on the North Coast, are flooded, and cattle, goods, and houses are swept away.
LONDON, Nov. 17th.—Rains have swollen the rivers and streams in Lancashire county, causing inundations. Much damage has been done.
TORNADO. Eastern dispatches of Nov. 23, state that a terrible storm and tornado had been prevailing for twenty-four hours, doing great damage in Alabama, and reaching as far up as Philadelphia and New York, unroofing houses and destroying much property and lives. The city of Tuscumbia, Alabama, was half blown down.
A Times correspondent at Bombay telegraphs that it is estimated that 2,000 persons were killed in the town and district of Midapoor during the recent cyclone.
The reports from Hong Kong, China, Oct. 6th, are that the typhoon there destroyed 2,000 lives, and damaged every ship in the harbor, and that ‘‘it exceeded everything of the kind that has ever before been placed on record.’’
LONDON, Nov. 20th.—A terrible explosion of fire damp occurred in a coal mine near Sheffield. Twenty killed and two more seriously injured.
An unusually heavy earthquake was felt in Chili, Oct. 26th. Its duration was thirty seconds, and the vibrations from east to west. It was the greatest one experienced since July of last year. The centre of the shock seemed to be at Valparaizo. Its effects were felt over a section of 1,500 square miles. Some dwellings and churches fell at Santiago. The alarm there was great. The temperature of the atmosphere arose 26 degrees. Vessels in the harbor felt the shock severely. There were lighter shocks and tremors of the earth for several days. There were two more heavy shocks of earthquake at Vera Cruz, Mexico, Nov. 13th, each lasting ten seconds. Several houses were destroyed.
THE GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE.—An officer sent from fort McPherson, Nebraska, to visit all sections of the grasshopper district, reports that relief must soon be given, or hundreds will starve before winter is half over. With in ten days many will be without a pound of corn or flour.
One graphic reporter describing the work of these grasshoppers, says: ‘‘Before swarms of ravenous grasshoppers the Nebraska and Kansas farmers retreat in dismay. An invading army of men is a merciful enemy compared to this remorseless insect. To-day everything is green and flourishing, and the farmer rejoices in the certainty of reward for his toil. To-morrow the sky is obscured as with a kind of haze, and the deadly hum salutes the farmer's ear. He is as powerless to avert the impending doom, as if he were one man among ten thousand. Nothing that is green escapes. A fire does not leave a prairie more desolate than a swarm of grasshoppers leaves a wheat field.’’
Reader, please open your Bible to Joel 1 : 2, 4; 2 : 4–11, 25. You will see Joel describes what is to be in the time just before ‘‘the day of the Lord’’—the coming of Christ. The faithful chronicler tells us what is taking place. A beginning, at least, of the work of Joel's ‘‘army.’’ (J. N. L.)
A correspondent of the Penn Yan, N. Y., Chronicle thus describes a new enemy of vegetation working in that quarter: ‘‘Several acres of forest have been denuded of leaves by a new insect pest, popularly called the ‘wood horse.’ This disgusting animal is from two to four inches long, is shaped something like a darning needle with four or five span-gled legs. He crawls, wriggles, climbs, and drops from the tree, but cannot fly.’’
Seventy thousand men are now said to be out of work in New York, and there is little likelihood that the prospects will change for the better during the winter.
A controversy of no small magnitude is going on in England between Gladstone and Archbishop Manning of the Romish church. Gladstone claims that no one can become a convert to Rome without renouncing his moral and mental freedom, and placing his civil loyalty and duty at the mercy of another. He declares that the Vatican Council established even a wider claim than infallibility, namely, of ‘‘absolute and entire obedience.’’ The Pall Mall Gazette thinks it is ‘‘none of Gladstone's concern whether Catholic principles lead to disloyalty or not.’’ This controversy does not augur well for the great Catholic Council called in England to make the Pope the arbiter of nations.
Religious riots have recently occurred at several points in Poland on account of the forcible introduction by the Government of Church reform, under which the appointment of Priests is made by Imperial authority. A number of newly appointed Priests have been maltreated by mobs. A number of the ringleaders have been arrested and imprisoned.
The republic of Venezuela is again in the midst of a general uprising against Guzman Blanco. The revolutionary forces number 4,000 strong.
We can only give a brief summary of the many perplexing topics now before the nations of the East.
There is complete anarchy in Khiva. A dispatch dated London, Nov. 17th, says: ‘‘The Russian advance posts on the Amu Dury report that Colonel Ivanhoff is preparing to cross the river with an armed force to punish the marauding tribes whom the Khan of Khiva was unable to control.’’
A great conspiracy has recently been discovered in Russia. The conspirators had attempted to take the life of the Czar. Over 3,000 persons were arrested for participating in this conspiracy, some of them ladies of high rank. Russia is about to formally recognize the Republican Government of Spain. The Russian Government has ordered eighteen iron clads for the Sea of Aral, and two steamers for service in the Amudury River. Prussia declines the proposition of Russia to renew the boundary line between the two countries.
The Carlists, the friends of the old Spanish Government, are very evidently losing ground. A telegram from Paris to London, Nov. 14, says: ‘‘Don Carlos' cause is utterly ruined, and his situation hopeless.’’ In the retreat of his forces from Irun, sixty of his men were frozen to death in the snow. The Carlists burned the houses of Republican sympathizers about Irun, and the heavy snow which has fallen finds the country populated with houseless women and children. The Republican troops followed the retreating Carlists, and burned the houses of Carlist Sympathizers. So there will be suffering on both sides.
Turkey is in trouble. Austria pays no attention to the demands of Turkey, but defies Turkey by concluding a commercial treaty with Roumania. The Porte asks, whether, through ‘‘this fresh blow at the treaty of Paris,’’ the day will not come ‘‘when human efforts will be powerless to stop the torrent let loose by successive violations of treaties.’’ The great Eastern question is being revived, ‘‘and,’’ say the public prints, ‘‘while Russia and Austria look with longing eyes upon the Turkish provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia, Turkey is clinging to the shreds of her dominion.’’
Greatness and Goodness.
TAKE goodness, with the average intellectual power, and compare it with mere greatness of intellect and social standing, and it is far the nobler quality; and if God should offer me one of them, I would not hesitate which to choose. No, the greatest intellect which God ever bestowed I would not touch if I were bid to choose between that and the goodness of an average woman; I would scorn it and say, Give it to Lucifer; give me the better gift. When I say goodness is greater than greatness, I mean to say it gives a deeper and serener joy in the private heart, joins men more tenderly to one another, and more earnestly to God. I honor intellect, reason and understanding. I wish we took ten times more pains to cultivate them than we do. I honor greatness of mind—great reason, which intuitively sees truths, great laws, and the like; great understanding, which learns special laws and works in details; the understanding that masters things for use and beauty; that can marshal millions of men into an organization that shall last for centuries. I once coveted such power, and am not wholly free from the madness of it yet. I see its use. I hope I am not ignorant of the joys of science and letters; I am not of the pursuit of these. I bow reverently before the men of genius, and sit gladly at their feet. But the man who sees justice and does it, who knows love and lives it, who has a great faith and trusts in God—let him have a mind quite inferior, and culture quite as little, I must yet honor and reverence that man far more than one who has the greatest power of intellect. I know that knowledge is power, and reverence it; but justice is a higher power, and love is a manlier power, and religion is a diviner power, each greater than the mightiest mind.
Isn't that good? Now my humble friend just cease your sighing for greatness.
From Elder Cornell.
By M. E. Cornell
WE arrived in Chicago on Friday, November 6th, at about 4 o'clock P. M., after a tiresome journey of nearly six days from Oakland; but we are in good health and spirits. In conversation with Bro. Butler upon the great things of the present truth, and in reading and writing, the time passed pleasantly enough.
At the urgent request of Bro. W. Salisbury, I remained in Chicago and spoke twice to the Danish congregation. This was an interesting season to me. For order and devotion, this society of fifty or sixty Danes will compare favorably with any of our American churches. They seem to be well established upon all the present truth.
With the good rest at the home of Bro. S., and the pleasant interview with these Christians, I feel much refreshed and encouraged. We take the cars at nine this morning for Battle Creek.
M. E. CORNELL.
Chicago, Ill., Nov. 9th, 1874.
From Brother Walker.
By Editor
Bro. Walker encloses $4.00 for the Signs, for two subscribers, and says,
“It inspires my soul with new zeal when I read the accounts of the prosperity of the work in different places. In my own neighborhood there is more call for visiting and tract distributing than I can attend to, and at the same time attend to my daily avocations on the farm. One says, Come over and see us, and let us become more acquainted with your views of truth. Another says, Have you any more of those papers for me? Another says, Come to the Sunday School and take a class and talk your views to us. A young man says, Come and talk to my father and mother. By the help of the Lord I will do what I can. Pray for us that we may bear some humble part with the people of God. J. G. Walker.
San Benito Co., Nov. 18th, 1874.
Missionary Districts.
By request we print again a list of the Missionary Districts of California, and the P. O. address of the Directors. All our missionary officers should have this list in their business books ready for reference.
DISTRICTS.
District No. 1, consisting of the southern portion of Sonoma county and Marin, including the churches of Petaluma, Bloomfield and Green Valley. John Judson, Director, Bloomfield.
District No. 2, consisting of the northern part of Sonoma county and Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity, Klamath and Del Norte counties, and including the churches of Santa Rosa and Healdsburg. Wm. Harmon, Director, Healdsburg.
District No. 3, Napa and Lake counties, including the churches of Napa and St. Helena. John Mavity, Director, St. Helena.
District No. 4, Solano county, including Vallejo church. J. S. Howard, Director, Vallejo.
District No. 5, consisting of Yolo, Colusa, Sacramento, Sutter, Yuba, Placer, Nevada, El Dorado and Amador counties, including Woodland church. H. C. Yerby, Director, Woodland.
District No. 6, consisting of Tehama, Shasta, Butte, Sierra, Plumas, Lassen and Siskiyou counties, and including the church of Red Bluff. J. H. Disher, Director, Red Bluff.
District No. 7, consisting of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Calaveras, Alpine, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Mono and Mariposa counties, including the Oakland church. D. B. Rickey, Director, Oakland.
District No. 8, consisting of Santa Clara, San Benito, Merced, Fresno, Tulare and Inyo counties, including the churches of San Jose and Santa Clara. Wm. Swinnerton, Director, Santa Clara.
District No. 9, consisting of San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Kern, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Diego counties, including San Francisco church. Charles Chittenden, Director, No. 733 Bryant street, San Francisco.
Quarterly Meeting Appointments.
THE first State quarterly meeting of California, under the new Missionary Constitution, will be held with the church at Oakland, Sabbath and first-day, Jan. 2d and 3d, 1875. All the Directors of the nine districts, and all the State Missionary officers are requested to be present, and as many of our brethren and sisters as can make it convenient to attend. At this meeting we shall expect a quarterly report from every district as required by the new constitution.
The district quarterly meetings will be held as follows:
District No. 1. At Petaluma, Dec. 19th and 20th, 1874. John Judson, Director in charge.
District No. 2. At Healdsburg, Dec. 19 and 20, 1874. Wm. Harmon, Director in charge.
District No. 3. At Napa, Dec. 19 and 20, 1874. J. W. Bond, Vice President and John Mavity, Director in charge.
District No. 4. At Vallejo, Dec. 19 and 20, 1874. J. S. Howard, Director in charge.
District No. 5. At Woodland, Dec. 19 and 20, 1874. H. C. Yerby, Director in charge.
District No. 6. At Red Banks School House, Tehama county, Dec 19 and 20, 1874. J. H. Disher, Director in charge.
District No. 7. At Oakland, in connection with the first State Quarterly Meeting, Jan. 2 and 3, 1875.
District No. 8. At San Jose, Dec. 19 and 20, 1874. J. N. Loughborough, and Wm. Swinnerton, Director in charge.
District No. 9. At San Francisco, Dec. 19 and 20, 1874. Charles Chittenden, Director in charge. By order of the Board of Directors.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH, President.
LUCIE BUSH, Secretary.
THIS WEEK'S PAPER.
By John Norton Loughborough
THIS number of the SIGNS is a few days later than we intended, in consequence of the interesting tent meeting in San Francisco demanding our strength there. We have tried to select for the pages of this number a good variety of instructive readable articles. We have not space here to notice all. The article from Bro. White on Our Present Position, is very instructive to those who wish to learn the facts concerning William Millers' true position. The articles on Ministration of Angels and Saints' Inheritance present new proofs on the topics considered. The article on the Morality of the Sabbath we commend to all.
The Cause in Europe speaks for itself. The article from Bro. Smith, Seventh-day Adventists; connected with Present Position from Bro. White, shows who are consistent with Bible chronology. Our Missionary Department continues its thread of instruction and encouragement to workers. Reports from different sections show progress. Several more have taken their stand in San Francisco within the last two days, and the end is not yet. The News and Miscellany columns contain much that should lead men to inquire what these things mean.
Space forbids a notice of all in the paper. Read it all. You will find something of interest throughout. J. N. L.
What They Say.
War in Europe.
On the Continent the sky is dark and lowering, and it is impossible not to feel that a storm is brewing, yet nobody can tell in which direction to look for the first flash. There are no distinct quarrels ready for fighting about, but the relations of several important States exhibit just the sort of feverish irritation which may at any moment precipitate a collision. It may be assumed that France and Germany are bound to fight some day; but France, though busy with military preparations, of which every traveler through the country brings over startling accounts, is not yet ready for war; and on the other hand, it is difficult to see what more it can be possible for the Germans to get out of another conquest. There can be no doubt, however, that Germany is just now in rather an explosive condition. The people are groaning bitterly under the strain to which they have been subjected, and which has still to be continued in order to maintain the enormous armament which is deemed necessary as a check upon reprisals by France. At this moment Germany is probably the strongest power in Europe; but the question is how long it can maintain itself in this position. It is at the highest point now, but the cost of this supremacy is fearfully exhausting. Every year the country becomes less capable of enduring the drains upon it in men and money, and every year, while Germany is thus at the best only barely holding its ground, other powers are growing rapidly in strength and confidence. Hence the idea which is supposed to have taken possession of Bismarck, that the policy of Germany should be to strike while it is at the top of its strength, and while other countries are weaker, and thus to obtain an opportunity of lessening its military expenses by paralyzing its chief opponents while it still has power to do so It must be remembered that it is not merely France by itself that the Germans have to reckon with in the future, but also the papacy and the Czar—two very formidable opponents, who would each be pretty sure to do all in their power to help France against the power which has already defied the one, and is suspected of a similar intention in regard to the other. The European situation, therefore, comes pretty much to this—that Germany, despairing of becoming any stronger, and more than doubting its ability to maintain its strength at its present standard, would be glad of an opportunity of trying to cripple its antagonists at once in such a way as to secure for itself some amount of ease and peace for a good while to come. Whether this opportunity will be found, nobody can say; but there can at least be little doubt that Germany is bent on creating an opportunity if it can, and that it will avail itself of any that offers. It is no wonder, then, that with such a state of things on the Continent, there should be doubt and perturbation in the financial world. Almost anything may happen before spring.—London Cor. N. Y. Times.
Stirring Words.
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, the great London preacher, is said to have uttered the following awakening sentiment in one of his recent sermons: "You ministers who have got to be fine and intellectual, clear your throats and preach Jesus Christ; pull the velvet out of your mouths, ye gentlemen who use fine words, and speak so men can understand you; and mind Christ and him crucified. Ye Methodists who are getting to be very respectable, get to be red hot as Methodists used to be; ye Independents, be like the old Puritans; and ye Baptists, who seem to be dampened with cold water, or worn out, pray the Lord to baptize you with fire, and that will be the very best thing that can happen to you. Look at your chapels, half full; your congregations, half asleep; your preacher, often reading from his book, and not preaching at all, or when preaching, preaching as though he were not awake much lower down than his neck; his heart is still asleep, and only his mouth is talking."
Dead and not Dead.
By R. F. Cottrell
Two young men that were brothers lie side by side in the graveyard. They died the same year, 1872, one in September, and the other in October. The bereaved parents have erected head stones at their graves. On one is this couplet:
"Go home, dear friends, dry up your tears;
I must lie here till Christ appears."
On the other, this:
"Do not mourn, my parents dear,
I am not dead, but sleeping here."
Here is a seeming contradiction. How is it to be reconciled? Not by supposing that the soul is immortal, and is elsewhere; for the I that is not dead is sleeping here, that is, in the grave. But because of the hope of the resurrection at the appearing of Christ we say, by a figure of speech, The dead are not dead; for they shall rise again—they shall be awakened out of their sleep. In this sense Jesus said of the dead child, "She is not dead, but sleepeth." He was about to raise her from the dead. He said also of Lazarus, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth, but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep." The awaking out of sleep is the resurrection. So with the hope of the resurrection to eternal life at the appearing of Christ we may say, The dead are not dead; for they shall soon live again. Death is but a temporary sleep. The slumber of the saints of God shall soon be broken; so that life, and not death, is their inheritance.
R. F. COTTRELL.
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