The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1895, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1895. THEIR TENET, CELIBACY. Misslonary Dowe Is Here Or- ganizing a Community of Shakers. ALL THINGS IN Curlous Ildeas of the Origin of Sin and the Means of Re- demption. There are only two Shakers on the Pa- ci Coast, and one of them, Arthur W. Dowe, is in this city earnestly engaged in an endeavor to organiz haker com- munity. The other is Sister Cornelia Powers, who is working on a similar line | Brother Dowe’s mission is | in San Dieg the result of express instructions from the Shaker society at st Canterbury, New Hampshire, where there have been some revelations, he says, from the spiritual world to the effect that such a society would be started on the coast. Brother Dowe is a firm believer in these revelations. The Shakers are a peculiar, a very pe- culiar, people. of the human race if all were to become E J ult of solution. | ates, are most communis aproblem d absolute ce and pra are here being | of them in | ate of about | \e most use- v and plain | are of Shaker > aresaid to al San Fran- | would be a | guration r e altrurian- ed to the radical ideal- | Such a community, | y,”” with a mem- | . composed of both e: in one building, the en dwelling in one of it and the in the other. The s meet only or at worshi Such communi non, Canaan, and ; West Pittsfield, fass.; Shaker | d En- | ism is tame cc ism of the St sister at meals ¢ ti i Sabba , Preston and D , t Hill and South Union, nd Pl ssionary Dowe has begun work here and held two me Ngs Golden Rule Hall at 948 Mis- . where he is also domiciled. attended in very few intere speaker’s * of the sect, h COMMON. | Just what would become | church being formed formally at New Lebanon, where the society now has acres of land. 3 “During the war of the rebellion at- tempts were made to draft us into military service, but through the influence of friends Secretary Stamton granted an in- definite furlough to all who had been pressed into the ranks. “Now we hold that every attemptat communism other than perfect Christian communism must necessarily be a failure | because of the need of a religious basis. We receive new members on probation, and when they join our society for good | they, notwit nding they may be al- ready married, become absolute celibates. If they own property it goes to the society | in trust, they drawing, as individual own- | ers, no interest therefrom, and our con- tract expressly stipulates against any pecuniary compensation being received for any services performed. As one person owns justasmuch as another of our com- mon property there is no want and no ex- cuse for crime, and our doctrines entirely do away with the incentives to vice. Money is not an indispensable thing with us.” AT THE PARK. Good Work of the Rain—Rare and Valu- able Orchids in the Conserva- tory. ! Commissioner Austin sat in the park lodge yesterday afternoon watching those who were passing to and fro. Suddenly a cloud of red dust rolled past and hid all from view, and the Commissioner re- marked, ““Singular, is it not; this morning | there were numerous puddles of water on | the road, but the sun has been shining a few hours and dried the roads to such an | extent that we will have to call out the | watering-carts to keep down the dust.”’ This has been a glorious rain, said Superintendent McLaren, “‘and it has done vegetation in the park a great deal of good. Not only that, but it will enable us to put the hose away for at least a week. For that length of time we shall not have to sprinkle the lawns and flower-beds. A new lot of orchids, nearly one hund- red and fifty, have been received from Mexico. re thriving, but it will be late in the fall before they can be exhib- ited in their floral beauty. There are also a number of the rarest and most beautiful of orchids. These are known as the Phalaenopsis from Borneo. Some have white flowers which resemble large white moths. The Espiritu Santo or Holy Ghost flower, over which so many have gone into raptures, will bloom in July and August, 1 foreman, and as soon as they do 1 be placed on exhibition. said th they wil MAKE THE PUBLI SUFFER What the Railroad Will Do if the Street-Car Ordinance Is Passed. | No Additional Cars Will Be Run and the Traveling Public Will Be Discommoded. At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors held last Monday Mr. Hirsch introducedja | resolution which will put the railroad people to no little trouble and exvense if finally agreed upon by the Health and Police Committee, to whom it was referred. The new law proposes that cars on the following named s and streets shall not exceed a higher rate of speed than six miles an hour between 4 and 7 o’clock in the afternoon: California street, between Kearny and Mar- ket: Clay street, between East and Kearny; Howard street, between nth and Eas Jackson street, between East and Montgomery ny street, between Market and North and streets; Mission street, between Seventh Ea aud and Montgomery streets; Polk street, between Post and California; Post street, between Dupont and Market; Sacramento street, be- tween Kearny and Market; Sutter street, be- tween Dupont and Market; Third street, be- tween Market and Folsom; Washington street, between Montgomery and East, It is further provided in the ordinance that any violation of the same shall be punishable by a fine not exceedin $500, or imprisonment not exceeding three months. If the resolution of Mr. Hirsch becomes | a 1aw the railroad people must either put on a number of extra cars to accommodate st; Montgomery avenue, between Union | Chinese Preacher to a Chinese Audience. He Bigoted and Blind in Thelir Own Conceit. Tong Kit Hing. dozen converts from the Baptist Mission ington, and soon had a big crowd around CHRIST AND CONFUCIUS, A Comparison Made by a WAS AN OPEN-AIR MEETING. | Sald His Countrymen Were The excitement in Chinatown yesterday gave an excellent opportunity to the Rev. | In company with half a | and a portable organ he took up his stand | on a side street, a little way off from Wash- | him. Heisan excellent speaker and his | Scripture reading were now that Christ in all his glory is pro- claimed unto you, and you still'hold by Confucius and ‘Buddha, then your sin re- maineth.” The speaker next reviewed the life and habits of the priests in the josshouses. He said they exhorted the people to give up the dealing in and the smoking of opium, while at thesame time they were reeking with the fumes of the drug. They woul | urge their heqrers to keep away from lot- tery games, and at the same time would { have half adozen tickets in their pockets. This seemed to tickle the audience, as they laughed and made remarks on the point to one another. He called the priests *blind leaders of the blind,” and advised his hearers to take up the cross of Jesus Christ and follow him. The reverend gen- tleman spoke for nearly half an hour, and every one of his -sidewalk audience re- mained to the Jast. A CHINESE ORDINATION. Another Mongolian Has Qualified to Preach the Gospel. : Soo Hoo Nam Ant was ordained as an evangelist in the Chinese Presbyterian Church yesterday. The sacred edifice was beautifully decorated for the occasion and | a large congregation of Chinese witnessed the ceremony. The ol?ening rayer and by tne Rev. Joseph fMife,, & g 1//”/:\@ J”L i g—‘ i — fl iy THE REV. TONG KIT HING AND HIS AUDIENCE. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] description of the arrogant Chinese who thinks he knows it all drew considerable merriment from his audience. There were a number of Europeans present, and even they could follow the drift of the story from the gesticulations of the speaker. The Rev. Tong Kit Hing came here from Canton on an evangelizing tour. is a graduate from the school of the Rev. Dr. Graves of the Southern Baptist Mis- sion of thatcity, and stranege to say can hardly speak half a dozen words of Eng- . "Heisa most eloquent and convinc- ing speaker and has done splendid work since he has been in San Francisco. While the people of California;; are still sperding thousands of dollars to Christianize China, that country has re- turned the compliment by sending a mis- sionary from Canton to Christianize the Chinese in San Francisco. Tong Kit Hing took for his text y day the words addressed to the Phari. in Jerusalem nearly 1900 years ago: ye said ye were blind then ye had no sin, but now ye say ye see, therefore your sin remaineth.” TIn order to bring the Jesson He | spent and | [ E. Scott, the sermon was preached by the Rev. H. C. Minton, D. D., the constitu- tional questions were asked by the Rev. mes Woodworth, moderator of the | ‘Assembly, the charge to the newly or- dained minister was delivered by the Rev. D. Hanson Irwin and the benediction was ried to David Jackson Staples, who a short time after came to the new El Dorado, ar- nvmgbm 1849, Shortly after, Mr. Staples went back to his New England home and returned to this coast with his young wife by the way of Panama. Among their fel- low-voyagers was George Bromley. Mrs. Staples set foot in San Francisco on Janu- ary 8, 1851. The couple settled at once on Staples’ ranch, near Lodi, twelve miles from Stockton, where they lived for twelve years. A week had not elapsed before the young woman pioneer established a Sab- bath-school in Lodi, and as there was little or no lumber to be had she conducted her school in & small tent. This was among the first, if not the first, Sunday-schools in California. The Staples ranch was on the Moke- lumne River and on the line of the overland trail. Hundreds of weary emigrants aiter crossing the continent and the mountains via Emigrant Gap reached Staples’ ranch footsore, weary and often sick and wasted by disease. To all thiese Mrs. Staples and her hushand extended the hand of wel- come and hospitality until the Staples ranch became a household word along the entire Coast. There are to-day in this State hundreds of people who will remem- ber their reception in the valley by these the Jiving and the one who has gone. Her goodly efforts did not cease when the family moved to this City. The Lick Old Ladies’ Home was founded in reality by Mrs. Staples. For several months Mr. Staples assisted the late James Lick in framing the will and when the document was nearly completed Mr. Lick turned to Mrs. Staples and said: “Is there anything that you would like to have me do before I put my name on this paper?” % “Yes, I would have you set aside a goodly sum of money for a home for aged women,” was Mrs. Staples’ reply. ““{t shall be done and you shall help me fix up this bequest,” said the cavitalist, and it was done. Mrs. Staples was also the founder of the Children’s Hospital. She was an intimate friend of Mrs. Crocker, and one afternoon in Mrs. Staples’ home, where the Bohe- mian Club now stands, Mrs. Crocker, Mrs. Staples and several other ladiés organized the “Pacific Dispensary for Women and Children,” called in later years the Chil- dren’s Hospital. Mrs. Staples was elected its first president, Mrs. A. L. Stone and Mrs. Elkan Cohen the vice-presidents, Mrs. E. W. Phillips the secretary and Mrs. Oliver W. Easton the treasurer. Mrs. Staples and Mrs. Dr. Flint went to Sacra- mento and by hard work secured an ap- propriation from the Legislature with ‘which to start this worthy charity. That was twenty years ago. Again she reached out her hand and drew around her people of means who joined her in the establishment of another worthy institution, the Crocker Old Peo- ples’ Home, which was liberally endowed by Mrs. Crocker. In her work Mrs. Staples was quiet and unostentatious, and but few knew of the labor she was engaged in. There are sur- viving of five children only one. Mrs. H. W. Yeamans, the other children having died, and four grandchildren, the off- spring’ of the deceased daughter, Lizzie and Elmer Painter. The funeral- will be held to-morrow, Tuesday, at 2 p. M., from the family resi- The interment will be private. ———————— Football was a crime in England in Henry VIII's reign. dence. | pronounced he Rev. Hoo Nam Ant. HER LIFEWORK 1 DR | Mrs. D. J. Staples Passes Away | After an lliness of Four % Months. Her Life Devoted to Alleviating the S Sufferings of Old and Young. | Mrs. Mary P. Staples, wife of D. J. Sta- home the preacher described the condition | ples, president of the Fireman’s Fund In- his enthusi; and commun pang or two of disappointment in not wit- | of their unwillingness to decrease the nessing any of those remarkable spiritual | manifestations and phy verturbations which in the past have afforded the pro- | fane and skeptical an opportunity of ni naming the United ty of Believers “Shakers. 36 to org: as you cail us, ars ago, and at the time of the World’s Fair I | went to East Canterbury. It has been | spiritually revealed to us that such a so- clety would be established on the Coast, | and so when I came out here I had that object in view. I have lately received posit communications to go to work immediately. “From almost time immemorial there have been similar societies in existence. | Such were .the Ascetics of Persia, India | and China, the Therapeutics in Egypt and | the Essenes of Juc r doctrines were about the same in pri that is, they were celibates, and enjoyed the holding of | goods in common. “During the seventeenth century a cer- | tain sect sprang up in, I think, tbe north | France, who were called the ‘French Prophets.” Some of these ‘prophets’ crossed over to England, d, Tevolting | against what they considered a genera system of anti-Christ, preached that the end of that particular dispensation or or- der of things was come. They made a number of converts among the Quakers, | with whom we are sometimes con- | founded. “A small society of these believers was presided over by James and Jean Wardley | in Manchester, England, in 1747, and | emong its members was a. remarkable | young girl named Ann Lee. She seemed | wonderfully led spiritually, and soon after | was given a revelation in which the origin | of sin and means ot redemption were | {mluinly shown to her. These people, at | heir meetings, were accustomed to be | seized with great bodily shaking, owing to | their spiritual power, hence the nickname | ‘Shakers” Ann Lee was thereupcn ac- cepted as the ‘Mother’ of an_entirely new | orderof things, and in 1774 received a reve- lation that there was soon to arise a great nation from the American colonies, inde- pendent of Europe and having a constitu- | tion and civil institutions that would | uarantee perfect freedom of conscience, or, mind you, the Shakers were very much persecuted for a long time. ‘Mother Ann came over to America, and a colony of only eight Shakers estab- lished itself at Watervliet, in New York, and soon after, during great revivals at New Lebanon, a large number of orthodox Christians united with them and pro- claimed the millennium as having come. The original colony of eight rapidly grew to a society of 2000 members, the first m here aker, *affirmed Mr. Dowe, “I ize a society. I became a ut three or f le; danger incident to travel between the hours named. If the statement of Mr. Huntington is to be regarded asindexing the feeling of the Market-street Railway Company, then the patrons of the various lines interested will find themselves greatly inconvenienced, to say the least of it. The ordinance cannot be carried out on cable lines without lessening the speed of all the cars, and, unless extra cars be put on, the traveling public must necessarily suffer. “I have heard of the proposed ordi- nance,” said Mr. H. E. Huntington yester- day, “‘but as it has not yet become a law there is little or no occasion for comment. I do not mind saying that if it should be I think the policy of the eompany would be to simply ‘slow down’ and not put on extra cars, 4 vy seem to think would be done, irst place it would entail a lot of expense that we do not at present care to undertake; and again, if the Su- pervisors, who are supposed to represent the people, enact such a law, the supposi- tion is that the people want it, and we nd ready to grant it. So far as electric cars go it would pe an easy matter to lessen speed on the streets named and make up time elsewhere, but with cable cars it is different. The cable runs just so fast and unless the speed of that is decreased the speed of the cars cannot be lessened. We will comply with the law, whatever it is, but I fear the peo- ple will follow the example set by Chicago. A law, similar to the one proposed by Mr. Hirsch, was passed in Chicago, and in less than thirty days the people were clamor- ing for a faster service. . “Now regarding the matter of substitut- ing electric cars on the horse lines owned and controlled by us, I will say that this will be don Every e as soon as practicable. horse-car road in the City will be converted into an electric line within the next few months, though just how soon active work will begin I cannot tell. Many of the cable lines will also use electricity asa motive power, work having been actual]y commenced on the Howard-street system.” mpler i i The cloth of the old yptians was so P | good that, though it has been used for thousands of years as wrappings of the mummies, the Arabs of to-day can wear it. Itisall of linen, the ancient Egyptians considering wool unclean. ———— THERE is an article on this market seldom equaled and never excelled—Jesse Moore Whis- ky. Meoore, Hunt & Co. guarantees itsp urity.” MRS. D. J. 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