ACHARD, LOUIS A. E. 



ADYENTISTS. 



missionaries, and have great influence over the 

 people. 



A Germ an- Abyssinian Company, which was 

 formed in Berlin for the colonization of Shoa, 

 the most southern province of Abyssinia, was 

 dissolved in -September, only a few days before 

 the intended departure of the colonists. The 

 iinancial affairs of the company were found to 

 be in such disorder that recourse was had to 

 the police. The society had, from the very 

 beginning, great difficulties to struggle with, 

 for scientific authorities, such as Baron von 

 Rlchthofen, the President of the Berlin Geo- 

 graphical Society, and the African traveller, 

 Dr. Nachtigall, pointed out that the undertak- 

 ing had no probable chance of success, besides 

 which the German press, too, warned people 

 against embarking in such a speculation. 



ACHARD, Louis AMEDE EUGENE, an ele- 

 gant French writer, born in April, 1814; died 

 March 24, 1875. He was at first intended for 

 a commercial life, was in Algeria from 1834 to 

 1835, and upon his return became private secre- 

 tary to the Prefect of H6rault. After 1838 he 

 devoted himself to literature, and in 1835 

 wrote "Lettres Parisiennes," on the life in 

 Paris, for the Courrier de Paris. After the 

 Revolution of 1848, M. Achard engaged in pol- 

 itics, and edited an illustrated journal, Le 

 Pamphlet, in the interest of the royalists. 

 During the terrible days that followed in Paris 

 he lost his brother, and was himself taken a 

 prisoner by the revolutionists. The next year 

 he took charge of KAssemblee Nationals, in 

 which paper he published "La Chasse Royale." 

 In 1858 he fought a duel with Florentine, the 

 editor of Le Corsair, in which he was severely 

 wounded. His principal works are : " La 

 Belle Rose" (5 vols., 1847), "Histoire d'un 

 Homme" (1863), "Le Clos-Pommier " (1856), 

 "L'Eau qui dort" (1860), "La Misere d'un 

 Millionnaire " (1861), and " Madame de Sareus " 

 (1865). He was decorated with the cross of 

 the Legion of Honor in 1847, and became an 

 officer of it in 1866. 



ADVENTISTS. SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS. 

 The following is a summary of the statistics 

 of this denomination as they were reported at 

 its General Conference in August, 1875 : 



The total number of licentiates was 76. 



The treasurer of the General Conference re- 

 ported that his receipts for the year, including 

 the balance from the previous year, had been 

 $7,435.63. 



The fourteenth annual session of the Sev- 

 enth-Day Adventist General Conference was 

 held at Battle Creek, Mich., beginning August 

 15th. Elder James White presided. Resolu- 

 tions were passed recognizing " the hand of 

 God in establishing a school in the city of 

 Battle Creek, for the special purpose of pre- 

 senting facilities, under favorable circumstances, 

 for the thorough education of the youth of 

 Seventh Day Adventists," and recommending 

 the institution ; expressing confidence in the 

 principles of health reform which had been in- 

 troduced to the denomination and adopted at 

 Battle Creek, and urging their more thorough 

 adoption and extended dissemination, and rec- 

 ognizing, in the fulfillment of the message of 

 Rev. xiv. 9, " the nearness of the end" of the 

 world. The executive committee were ad- 

 vised to take immediate steps to establish a 

 printing-office in Europe, to issue periodicals 

 in the French and German languages, and also 

 " to enter the openings presenting themselves 

 in Great Britain, France, Germany, Holland, 

 Italy, Hungary, Africa, and Australia." Con- 

 tinued prosperity was reported in the work on 

 the Pacific coast, through which about a thou- 

 sand souls in the territory between Mexico and 

 British Columbia had received the doctrines 

 of the denomination. The secretary was in- 

 structed to prepare the constitution of the 

 General Conference, with amendments, for 

 publication. 



The sixteenth annual meeting of the Advent 

 Christian Association was held at Chapin's 

 Grove, Springfield, Mass., August 9th and 10th. 

 Six official delegates, forty-seven ministers, 

 and thirty-three lay delegates, were present. 

 An address was made by the president, Elder 

 S. G. Matthewson, at the opening of the meet- 

 ing, in which he described among the objects 

 which it was the duty of the association to 

 promote : 



" We are to define and maintain a pure code 

 of Christian doctrine. We must defend the 

 time-honored and evangelical doctrine of the 

 regeneration of the human heart ; the personal 

 advent of the Lord Jesus Christ; the physical 

 resurrection of the dead, just and unjust ; the 

 retribution due to sin, and the reward of the 

 good and holy in the kingdom to be estab- 

 lished under the whole heaven ; and last, but 

 not least, that great scriptural truth which 

 underlies all others, the essential deity of the 

 Lord Jesus." 



The principal business of the meeting was 

 the reception of reports and adjustment of the 

 concerns of the Publication Society and the 

 newspaper organs of the Association. The 

 receipts of the Publication Society were rep- 

 resented to have been $18,697.61, and its ex- 

 penditures $18,888. The publishing-house had 



