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"Here is the patience of the Saints : Here are they that keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus." Rev. 14:1,2

Vol,. 61, No. 6. BATTLE CREEK, MICH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1884. WHOLE No. 1550.

(111 people their transgression, and the house of 1.411 precious blood of the Son of God, we shall ght Trim' mud Tfald, Jacob their sins." Want of faith in God and work from an altogether higher standpoint. ISSUED WHECICLY, BY THE love for our fellow-men are the great sins of God despises a dead offering; he requires a Seventh.day Adventist Publishing Association, the present time. Selfishness, self-love, and liVing sacrifice, with intellect, sensibilities, and love of display are withholding means from the Battle Creek, Michigan. will fully enlisted in his service. Every dis- Lord's treasury, and crippling the work that tinctive faculty should be devoted to this TWO DOLLARS A YEAR (50 NUMBERS) IN ADVANCE. must be done. Satan is a sharp financier, and work,—our feet swift to move at the call of he manages with subtlety to keep in his service duty, our hands ready to act when work is to Address all communications and make all 'Drafts and Money Orders every dollar that he can; and money is in- be done, our lips prepared to speak the truth payable to REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich. vested in houses and lands and spent for selfish in love, and show forth the praise of Him who gratification that ought to be used in sending has called us out of darkness into his marvel- the light of truth to all parts of the world. IN THE SUNLIGHT, ous light. We should continue this consecrae Practical faith will lead to greater consecra- tion, not taking anything from the altar ; for BY ELIZA II. MORTON. tion. If a man believes present truth, his. this is sacrilege. When his people thus conse- works will testify to the fact. The character crate themselves in sincerity and humility, they I SIT arid muse in the sunlight, And dream a dream of the past: of our work encourages the strongest faith; we are accepted of God; and they become to him The rush of a flood of music, have the treasury of Heaven to draw upon. a sweet-smelling savor, diffusing a rich fra- The sweep of a chilling blast, Our large cities are to be entered by making grance throughout-all the earth. The mind is The touch of a hand now pulseless, beginnings, however small, and then working at rest, and the eyes are opened to behold won- The thought of a hope now dead, by faith. The Lord has committed to his fol- derful things out of the law of God. That The duties too oft neglected, lowers the work. of giving the message of warn- The words of love unsaid; which was not understood when the mind was ing, and those who have means should give darkened and divided now becomes clear. Oh, The days half-spent in the shadow When the soul and the song were sad, financial aid. May the Lord move upon hearts amazing light for all who by faith and patient And the hours of golden beauty to do this. reliance upon Jesus claim the fullness of the When the heart and the voice *ere glad. In New York City we now have a reading- promise of God I have lived and learned this lesson, room and a depository for our publications. I was enabled to walk a quarter of a mile That the good which we bestow Ships are visited, and the publications pla,ced to attend the meetings held at half past five in To the world in its gloomy darkness on board are carried to all parts of the Is the sweetest joy below. world. the morning. A very gratifying interest was Until the Judgment shall sit, it will not be manifested in these early meetings. Persever- And so I sit in the sunlight, And pray that grace may shine known how much good has been done by this ing labor was put forth, and was attended From the throne of a mighty Father, sowing of the gospel seed. Although for a with good results. It is my earnest prayer And soften this heart of mine. time it may seem to have perished, if sown in that these dear brethren and sisters may daily And thus from his loving presence faith and with earnest prayer, it will spring up learn precious lessons in the school of Christ. I gather the strength I need, and bear fruit. Brethren, you who are making " Learn of me," says the great Teacher; " for I To go forth in the field of his promise a small beginning in the large cities, you are And scatter the fruitful seed. am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find Portland, Me. doing a good work, one which ought to have rest to your souls." Would that every one of been entered upon years ago. Do not be dis- them would testify to the world the matchless couraged if at first you see but little fruit of power of God, and his wonderful love to the your labor. Continue to sow beside all waters, children of men' ixr .1:rntribut1Lr5. remembering the words of Christ, " Without, There were two young men at the Wellsville O me ye can do nothing." "If ye abide in me, meeting who attended Battle Creek College at " Then they that feared the Lord spoke often one to another ; and the and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what Lord hearkened, and beard it, and a book of remembrance was written the time when there was a state of things before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his ye will, and it shall be done unto you." Will among teachers and students that confused the name." —Mal. 2 :16. the people of God, who believe that we are mind. The spirit then prevailing was not a living in the last days, wait for the light to be right spirit; and while some gave them right NOTES OF TRAVEL. given to the world by some wonderful mani- counsel, others gave them advice that was not festation of divine power: while they them- BY MRS. E. G. WHITE. so good. These young men confessed that they selves stand idle and irresponsible? Let us not, did not take a right course themselves, and ex- by our unbelief, stay the work of God and THE MEETING AT WELLSVILLE, N. V. pressed great regret that they did not do shut out his blessing. differently. I was glad to listen to these con- AT the close of the meeting in South Lan- A larger number of the brethren of the Penn- fessions, and I am sure that quite a number caster, Mass., we went to Wellsville to meet sylvania Conference were at the Wellsville will have to make similar ones before. they can with our brethren and sisters of the Pennsyl- meeting than we had expected to see. The advance in the divine life. May the Lord give vania Conference. On the way, we spent ministers who attended the General Conference these youth that repentance that needeth not several days in the city of New York, at the had received a blessing, and its influence was to be repented of. home of Bro. and Sr. Boynton, who are en- felt here. The meetings had been in progress At this meeting I knew thatI had help from gaged in missionary work there. It may two days when we arrived, and the brethren Jesus, the source of my strength. Without seem that the work they are doing is a small were already entering into the spirit of the this divine aid, I could not have borne my beginning in so large a city, and that it can- work. Many manifested a strong desire for a testimony. Sunday I attended three meetings not amount to much. It is indeed a small be- new conversion, an entire submission to the of our people, and at each one spoke about ginning; and when I see how great the work will of God. Confessions of impatience, of half an hour. In the afternoon I walked half and how few the laborers, I am deeply pained. fretfulness, of love of the world, were made a mile to the Baptist church, and for an hour Dear brethren and sisters, when you become with deep feeling. I was very anxious that and a half spoke to a full house on the subject imbued with the missionary spirit, when you the work should ibe thorough. Through his of Temperance. There was the best of atten- learn to love your neighbor as yourself, you prophet God promises, " Ye shall find me, when tion.; and at the close of the service, several will not be content to see ,souls perishing all ye shall search for me with all your heart." ladies came forward and expressed their grate- around you without doing all you can to save He demands the whole heart, or he will not ful appreciation of the words spoken. them. accept the offering; many fail through being I was glad to see our brethren and sisters The prophet Isaiah, speaking by divine in- half-hearted. manifest a disposition to bring their offerings spiration, exclaims, " Cry aloud, spare not, lift As soon as we realize that we are not our to the Lord. At this meeting about five thou- up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my own, but are bought with a price, even the sand dollars was pledged to be used in enlarg- . , 82 THE REVIEW AHD HERALD. '[VoL. 61, No. 6.

ing the missionary work in the Pennsylvania this journey. I started out by faith, and not guilt; his burial shall be my comfort in the Conference, and in establishing a depository of by sight; and I have seen the hand of God in dark hour of death ; his resurrection shall be our publications. The means raised exceeded every-day's labor, and daily his praise has been my blessed hope. He lives, and I shall live. their expectations; but it would be no more in my heart and on my lips. His Spirit has He will bring me forth from the dark realms than just and right for them to raise ten thou- helped my infirmities in so marked a manner of hades. He will change my corruptible body sand dollars, and I believe they will do it. J that I cannot fear to commit myself to his that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious I believe they will present their willing offer- keeping. I have the perfect assurance of his body. Phil. 3 : 21. Come, dear fellow-traveler ! ings to God, and he will bless them. love. He has heard and answered my prayers, come to your Saviour, and accept his word of We make progressive movements; but at and I will praise his name. eternal life. every step prej udice and false ideas must be The return of Christ. " And, behold, I come removed. This has been the case with every JESUS, OUR SAVIOUR. quickly; and my reward is with me, to give reformatory movement the world has ever seen. every man according as his work shall be." To some of small faith and selfish, money-loving BY ELD J. G. MATTESON. Rev. 22 : 12. Thus testifies our Lord and Say- disposition, each advance move has portended four Jesus Christ ; and this testimony shall go general disaster and an extravagant outlay of JESUS is our Saviour. That Jesus was born, forth with much power in the last days to pre- means. They have felt as did that poor man died, and rose from the dead, and soon shall pare many hearts to meet him in peace. The Judas when the ointment was poured upon the return to this earth to save his ransomed people, virgins must be aroused, the lamps trimmed, head of Jesus. Why this great waste? said are events of the greatest interest in the story and the oil bought before it is too late,—before he; this ought to have been sold, and the money of redemption. the door of mercy is shut forever. The mar- given to the poor. Again and again, when The birth of Jesus. " Fear not ; for, behold, riage supper of the Lamb will soon be ready. some advance step has been taken, the selfish, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which Still there is room for more guests. Jesus in- cautious ones have thought that everything shall be to all people. For unto you is born vites you also. His loving voice is calling, and was going to ruin; but when the battle has this day in the city of. David a Saviour, which he says : " Blessed are they which are called been fought against all odds, they have hailed is Christ the Lord." Luke 2 : 10, 11. Thus unto the marriage supper of the Lamb." the victory as a token that God was in the sounded forth the joyful tidings of salvation to Rev. 19 : 9. movement. When it has been so fully demon- the believing shepherds who kept their flocks Our Saviour says, " Surely I come quickly." strated that the work was of God that unbe- on the hills of Bethlehem yon peaceful night Can you answer with the waiting church of lief has had to yield, the men who led out, when Jesus was born. The angel of the Lord God, "Amen. Even so come, Lord Jesus" ? whose foresight was greater than that of others, stood before them, the glory of God shone about Rev. 22 : 20. Then it is well with you. who worked against all opposition, are hailed as them, and they feared greatly ; but the angel "Blessed are those servants whom the Lord men raised up for the time, and led by the comforted them with the joyful message of the when he cometh shall find watching." Luke Spirit of God. Do those men who blocked the birth of Jesus. And suddenly there appeared 12: 37. Many are drowsy, and sleep; there way realize the work they have done? Do a heavenly host praising God, saying " Glory is no oil in their vessels. They are not wise they see that the addition of their money, their to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good virgins. If they do riot awake and get ready, strength, their faith, and courage, might have will toward men." the day of the Lord will , come upon them as a made the work stronger and more influential, God the Father smiled on man ; he caused thief in the night. 1 Thess. 5 : 2, 3. The chil- and that their neglect to do what they could is a friendly ray of light to shine in the mist of dren of light will give heed to the sure word sin ? Many of these pioneers have become gray the curse; he created light in the dark night of prophecy. 2 Pet. 1 : 19. They will be look- and enfeebled in making mighty efibrts to of sorrow. God the Son smiled on earth. He ing for and basting unto the coming_ of the day advance the cause of God and the work of was born of a poor woman, and found shelter of God in all holy conversation and godliness. reform, while their brethren stood ready to in a stable. There was no room for him in 2 Pet. 3: 11, 12. wound them with their weapons of unbelief. royal places, no, not even in the simplest dwell- ing ; he was wrapped in swaddling clothes, and ' There are graves in churchyards that would WHO HAS DECLARED INDEPENDENCE? not now be there, had it not been for this very laid in a manger. But a heavenly light shone work of unbelief. Men of wisdom, mighty from the infant's beautiful face ; it smiled to BY ELD. A. T. JONES. men of God, after having years added to their the shepherds with a sweeter smile than ever lives, and pressing through many obstacles, had been seen on the lips of an infant. The IN 1698 Ireland was subject to England. have failed, and gone to rest; and now we angels rejoiced greatly, knowing that salvation Although she had her own parliament, yet she, need their help. through this child would be brought to their parliament and all, was governed by the Would that we lived so near the cross that fallen fellow-creatures on the earth, and heaven- mother country and by the parliament of the we could see as God sees, and work as he ly joy filled the hearts of the children of God. mother country. And in this, England was would have us work. If our brethren would •The fire of the divine love was kindled by the distinctly the mother country ; because the learn the value of souls in the light of what sweet notes of the gospel. governing class in Ireland was composed of col- their salvation has cost Jesus, they would Dear reader, do you not desire to bow down onists from England ; and it was only by the know that souls are of greater value than and worship your Saviour with the shepherds? power of England that these were enabled to houses and lands, gold and precious stones, or Do you believe in Christ, who can save you ? govern either Ireland or themselves. So en- high positions of honor. Jesus calls upon us' Do you love him more than all others? Oh, tirely was this true, that if `the protecting to love one another as he has loved us. May seek the Lord in his word, seek him in humble power of England had been withdrawn, any the Lord enlarge our minds to comprehend prayer I Behold, Jesus stands at the door knock- and all government in Ireland, in which the eternal things; for when we do, selfishness will ing ; have you no room for your best friend ? English colonists could have had any part at disappear, and we shall be doers of the word, The death and resurrection of Christ. The all, would have ceased to exist. Therefore, and not idle hearers. gospel which the apostles preached, by which it was literally true that the very existence of We left our brethren and sisters in Penn- also we are saved, is briefly presented thus : the then government of Ireland depended Sylvania greatly encouraged, and at twelve " That Christ died for our sins according to the wholly upon the mother country. Yet for all o'clock at night took the cars for Hornellsville. Scriptures ; and that he was buried ; and that this, the Irish parliament took a step which, We rode one hour, and were then obliged to he rose again the third day according to the if allowed to stand, would have not only sev- 1, wait in the depot till half past four in the Scriptures." 1 Cor. 15 : 1-5. This state- ered its connection with the home government, morning. I spent this time in writing. ment is to human wisdom of very little conse- but with that would have cost it its own exist- Monday evening, about eight o'clock, we quence, but it has pleased our gracious Heavenly ence. We will give this in the words of the arrived at Battle Creek, very weary, and with Father to bless it to the salvation of many historian himself. He says:— only a few days in which to prepare for our souls. It has lifted the fallen from the mire " The Irish Lords and Commons had pre- long journey across the plains. Friday night of sin, and: placed their feet on the everlasting sumed, not only to re-enact air English Act I spoke to the helpers at the Sanitarium, and rock of truth and love. God grant that the passed expressly for the purpose of binchng on the Sabbath to a large congregation in the reader of this may have grace to experience them, but to re-enact it with alterations. Tabernacle. These were my closing labors in the power of this word. The alterations were indeed small ; but the at- the East on this journey, and I have to say to The death and resurrection of Christ are two teration even of a letter was tantamount to a the praise of God, that he has sustained me 'at of the greatest events that ever transpired on declaration of independence."—Macaulay's every step. I have prayed in the night season; this earth. The Son of God, our dear Saviour, England, chap. 23, p. 63. [The italics are mine.] and in the day, when traveling, I have been died for all—even for me, a poor, fallen creat- Now, according to this true principle of gov- pleading with God for strength, for grace, for ure, who has merited nothing but to suffer ev- ernment, those people who claim that Christ light from his presence; and I know in whom erlasting destruction from the presence of the re-enacted the ten commandments, and that, I have believed. I return to California with Lord. But Jesus died; he was wounded for too, with alterations, virtually assert that more strength and better courage than I had my transgressions, bruised for my iniquities. I Christ declared independence of the Supreme when I left Oakland the 12th of August. believe that Jesus died for my sins. Oh, blessed Government. But against all such claims, we I desire the love of Jesus as I never desired truth I He accepts me as his child through have the words of Christ, in strictest accordance it before. I see reason to praise God for his grace,—through his divine love. . with this true principle, which declare: " Till goodness, his preserving care, and for the Let me, then, love Him again who has loved heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle sweet peace, joy, and courage he gave me on me first. The death of Christ removes my shall in no wise pass from the law," knowing ... • ------1.;A FEB. 5, 1884 ]3 THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 83 full well that to alter a "jot or tittle," or, in the is in the great heart of what is called evangel- REFINEMENT, words of Macaulay, "even a letter," would be ical religion. The whole lump is rising. It is equal to a " declaration of independence." almost too sad to contemplate, that so much BY ELIZA II MORTON. Therefore among the very first words' that he that is good and noble, such as the temperance uttered as a public teacher, "as one having question, the divorce reform, and other great .A TRUE Christian reflecting the light of authority," he lays down the fundamental moral questions, agitates so great a body of heaven cannot be coarse in spirit. His man- principle of true allegiance. And every other men,—men who have much to commend them ners may be unpolished ; but a kindly heart word, and every other act of his life, is strictly to public confidence and sympathy, but the softens the roughness, and reveals a gentleness consistent with it. Matt. 26:39: "0 my Father, success of whose plans would result in the which tells of communion with God. if it be possible, let this cup pass from me : disfranchisement of men as good and noble Literary ability should not make a person nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt." as they, in a more fearful corruption of the high-minded. The most learned men are often John 5:30: " I seek not mine own will, but body politic, in the dismemberment and destruc- inferior in judgment and true heart-wealth to the will of the Father, which hath sent Inc." tion of our great republic, and in the establish- those having less book-knowledge. John 6: 38: "I came down from heaven, not ment of a hierarchy which, like a whited The children of God have one Educator who to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sepulcher, would be fair enough without, but "will refine them as silver is refined," and our sent me." John 4 :34 : "My meat is to do the within be filled with all manner of uncleanness poor, weak efforts at mental discipline should will of Him that sent me, and to finish his and dead men's bones ! The almost mock not create a gulf between us and those who work." Was the work of God not done until solemnity of Gov. Butler's thanksgiving proc- have had fewer school privileges. by the ministration of Christ he had " re-en- lamation and hymn of praise would be ten " God's work in each age of the world, as in- acted with alterations" his own law, and had thousand times surpassed by political dema- dicated by the great movements of his provi- thus declared himself independent of himself ? gogues who, like Cromwell's round-heads, could deuce, is the only thing deep enough for the That would finish his work indeed, and with sing and pray with weapons of war in their heart," and the one thing that will give sym- a vengeance. But God. forbid. He cannot hands, or, like Claverhouse, with hypocritical pathy with every form of human life, and deny himself 2 Tim. 2:13. On the contrary, cant sheathe the sword of persecution and tyr- cause its possessor to move in the world "as his work can be, and will be, and was intended army in the breast of innocence. stars move on dark seas to bewildered marl- to be, finished in righteousness (Rom. 9:28), Nothing, or comparatively nothing, has been ners ;" or as the "sun wheels, bringing all the and " in Christ reconciling the world unto him- done in the South. The man is chosen, Rev, seasons with him from the South." self." , 2 Cor. 5 : 19. This "will " and this H. P. McCluskin, of Beaver Falls, Penn., to be Portland, Me. " work " Christ came to do, and in justice and the apostle of the new doctrine in the South. m— in righteousness he pledges himself and all his His success is assured beforehand, and all agree SOME COMMON SENTIMENTS. followers to the firmest allegiance to the gov- that converts flow to the standard wherever it ernment of the Most High. Matt. 7 : 21 ; 19 : is raised. They cannot be too sanguine, for BY B. F. PURDHAM. 17; Rev. 22 :14 ; 14 : 12. God has said it should surely be done. But On the other hand, how aptly this exploit of he has also said it will be the work of an apos- WE were holding a series of meetings at a the Irish Lords and Commons' with the Eng- tate church. certain place a short time ago, and the minister lish government illustrates the arrogance of It was plainly evident that the circulation in charge of another church, becoming some- the papacy with the God of heaven ! There of so many copies of the Sabbath Sentinel was what alarmed, I suppose, because of the interest was the Irish parliament ruling Ireland ; yet a good and timely work. It was thought that which the truth seemed to be creating, set itself dependent on the English parliament and it militated somewhat against the interest of his heart to get us out of the place if possible. power for its very existence. Here was the the Convention, as far as Cleveland was con- After failing to accomplish his purpose through papacy ruling the world in things temporal, cerned. This was probably true. It was con- the interference of other parties, he came to us and in things spiritual, yet itself dependent sidered by the Convention an impertinence, in person to make his wishes known. He said upon the mercy, the forbearance, and the long- and called so ; and 'it will doubtless be hard to we would do him a great favor if we would suffering and power of the Most High. There forget, or forgive, on their part. It was a close our meetings, and " quietly withdraw the supreme power had passed an Act for the matter of conscience with us to enlighten the from the place." We told him that it might express purpose of binding them. Here the public mind. The result is yet to be seen please him and many others for us to remain Power Supreme above all had passed Acts for and felt. quiet upon these truths, but we considered the express purpose of binding, not only the Nothing was said of putting candidates in God's work too important to be silenced. papacy, but all upon the earth. There, they the field independently for officers of the gov- I believe that we have a message for the last presumed to re-enact with slight alterations, ernment. This they are not yet prepared to generation, and we cannot afford to let the the Act which bound them. Here, he has pre- do. As far as they can choose between men, precious time go to waste, although the ene- sinned to re-enact with the most material al- they will do so. They will endeavor to place mies of truth would like to have us do so. aerations those Acts which God had passed to men in Congress and in the legislatures, of the Let us seek to please the Lord and forward his bind the human race. That, the historian says, several States, who will be favorable to the cause, regardless of the oppositions that may was " tantamount to a declaration of independ- principles of this National Reform. They will be waged against the good work. ence." This was nothing less than an out and urge these men to vote for a change in the pre- Last Sunday I went to hear another min- out declaration of independence. He has as- amble of the Constitution recognizing God as ister, who holds a high position among those of surned all the titles of the King of kings and the rightful sovereign of the universe, and his denomination (and it may be well to say Lord of lords. But it is not enough that he Jesus Christ the ruler, by God's appointment, that they are a very popular people in the should make himself equal to God, but he of the nations. Then the amendment to the world at the present time) ; and in the course must exalt " himself above all that is called Constitution of the national government that of his sermon he remarked that some people God or that is worshiped." And in the matter will "establish Christian usages upon an uncle- thought that, in order to be saved, it was nec- of subordinate government acting with Su- niably legal basis in this fundamental law of essary " to keep Saturday for the Sabbath " ; preme Government, and subordinate with Su- the land;" then the statutory provisions of the but that " Christ did not say so. " Said he : preme Ruler, I cannot conceive of a more de- States in harmony therewith ; and then, we " Let them believe that way if they want to ; ceded and effectual means that could be employed say, the crowning infamy of the two-horned but they must not come around trying to make for asserting independence than just the very beast,—the enforcement of the mark. us believe it." means which he has employed, and which is so All these things will take time. But what This reminded me of the words found in perfectly illustrated in the historical point un- time we need I What words of warning to the Rev. 13:11-17. This is a very mild way of der notice ; that is, " to re-enact with altera- world are to go forth from lips that are touched expressing their minds in regard to the matter Lions" the Law of God, the Ten Command- with the fire froth God's altar ! How busy, now ; but we will hear stronger language than molts. and filled with love, must be the hands, the this by and by. In conversing with some of head, the heart, of those who raise the solemn, his members after the service, I told them that PROGRESS OF THE NATIONAL REFORM earnest cry of the third angel, till the earth is he expressed not only his own mind, but that MOVEMENT. lightened with his glory, and the servants of this was the mind of a greatb many at present ; and in a short time we shall hear them say, BY BLD. D. H. LAMSON. our God are sealed in their foreheads 1 The angel is rising from the east with the seal of " They shall not " do and teach these things. IT is evident to even the casual observer the living God. The sentiments above mentioned are very corn- mon ones, but all are. not so free to express them. that much remains to be done before this party "Ten thousand of foes shall not make me afraid , gains control in politics. Only nine men are Ten thousand around me in battle arrayed." The things that our people have been so long now in the field devoting the whole, or nearly looking for are soon to be realized ; and in view the whole, of their time to the interests of the There is no time for dalliance with earth ; its of these facts, I feel more than ever like doing baubles are nauhtbg ,• its tinsel but show. Association'. This is, however, by no means Would you have the pure gold ? all I can to help forward the sacred truths of their ' working strength. Many hundreds of God. Let us take courage, trust in the Lord, earnest men, occupying the highest positions sinner, haste, there is mercy for thee, do our work well, and finally we shall be socially and morally, in the church and in the " And wrathwrath is preparing; flee, lingerer, flee I " among the number who will stand with the nation, are decidedly active in their respect- . " Lamb on Mount Zion," and sing the " new ive localities and spheres of action. The leaven —Wisdom belongeth only unto God. song " which no others can learn.

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CROSSING AT A FORD. is withheld, or an act forbidden is yet permitted ME DIM, to be done. So, little by little, here and there, BY JOSEPH CLARKE. a child's character is built for evil or good. Do- mestic training cannot begin too early. The Whenever we cross a river at a ford, s grow t a,"uTglitaetrosuirnaermbise m gprooirsnbelaP ifn„tr htehi er ys l?rau tihi tutha oo-f u al. wee things can be taught to play in setting a If we would pass in safety, we must keep naiaco."—ps. 141:12. Our eyes fixed steadfast on the shore beyond ; • • store cupboard in order, to unpack stores, to For if we cast them on the flowing stream, take care of twine, of paper, and nails, to have The head swims with it ; so if we would cross SONETHING FOR CHILDREN TO DO. a place for every thing, and to understand (in The running flood of things here in the world, Our souls must not look down, but fix their sight THERE is something on earth for the children to do, play) that if there is not a place just made for On the firm land beyond,— Longfellow. For the child that is striving to be every thing, things cannot be put away prop- Like the One who once murmured, in accents of love, If this instruction grows -kith their AT times the best and safest fords are yen- "Let the little ones come unto me." erly. impassable by reason of high water. growth—and it is sure to do so by habit =how tiered There are sweet, winning words to the weary and sad, much comfort in a home there will be when the Perhaps you are very anxious to get home. By their glad, loving lips to be said; There are hearts that are waiting by some little hand little one is a woman! The river is high but barely passable ; it is Unto Jesus the Lord to be led. nearly half a mile across. You close your ears The regular routine of a mother's work in to the terrific roaring of the waters, and fix There are lessons to learn both at home and at school; the kitchen after breakfast should be shared by There are battles to fight for the right; the child, and the instructions given to a young your eves upon the tall charred oak a long There's a watch to be kept over temper and tongue, way up the opposite bank. You hold your God's help to be asked day and night. servant will not be for her ears alone ; the child lines tightly and travel nearly up the stream. will share it. It will not understand much at There are smiles to be given, kind deeds to be done, first, neither will the servant ; but by reitera- Thus you press carefully on, for it seems almost Gentle words to be dropped by the way; certain that the rapid current will sweep your For the child that is seeking to follow the Lord tion, repeating this and that over again, knowl- There is somethidg to do every day. edge enters the brain, however young and in- teani and wagon down the stream. But there —selected. is no other choice ; the hour is late, and the experienced. It is also good to let a child have her own brushes and dusters, and be taught (as twilight is deepening into the gloom of night. A MUCH ABUSED TEXT, You wish now that you had taken the more play) to keep her own bedroom clean, or a cer- circuitous route, by the bridge, but it is too late BY A. SMITH. tain part of the nursery. A mother's watchful now. You could not find the place where you eye will teach her child to have corners clean " TRAIN up a child in the way he should go ; before the middle of a room is swept. A proper entered the river ; or if you could, you dare and when he is old, he will not depart from it." not turn around in these rapids. So you keep method of dusting should be observed. The Prov. 22 : 6. room should not be swept with the windows your team headed directly for the charred oak, Somepeople have almost lost faith in this the only object you can clearly see on the op- and doors open, but shut; and for the reason portion of the Bible, because of having seen that the dust in sweeping would, with win- posite bank. You dare not look down at the children turn out bad who were carefully edu- turbulent waters, or to the right or left ; you rows open, fly out of the door to the passage cited by their parents in the right way, thus or on to the furniture, which, however, should dare not tremble or fear, lest you might miss crushing the hopes of kindred and friends. In the way toward the friendly, faithful oak. A first have had cotton wrappers put on. But if examining this question, there are three things to the door and windows be shut, and after sweep- thousand chances occur to the imagination ; be considered,b which I will notice in the order of and you reject them all lest you become ex- ing the rooms the dust be left to settle for ten their importance :— minutes, —still with closed doors an d windows,-- cited or faint. So you bid words of cheer to 1. The inherited propensities of the child your faithful team, which seems endowed with the dusting process can then be gone through are, doubtless, very much stronger than those by first wiping off the dust carefbully, shaking special courage and strength. To add to the acquired by education. The anteLnativity train- unpleasantness of the situation, the wind is the cluster out of the window, and then care:- ing, therefore, by the parent, is of the utmost fully going over the process again. The dust piercing cold, and you cannot live long in the importance ; and. the integrity of the text should waters this fearful night. All these, as well will not have been fluttered from one place to never be questioned so long as this fact is over- another, but will have been removed altogether. as a score of other terrors, are sketched u on looked. your imagination with vivid clearness. And, last of all, the wrappers are to be shaken, 2. The most careful training that a parent and folded with the clean surface inside, and Finally, you reach the middle of the stream, can give his child is corroded, more or less, by and now you can dimly see the place of land- put in their place. All this may be done in the unavoidable street training • he receives in theof way "h elping mother." ing. Soon your good ponies are scampering this corrupt age. The parent may unconsciously up the bank, all unmindful of the dangers Children soon tire of toys ; there is no satis- err, alio, in the training of ' a child, and then factory result, and whatever grown persons they have passed. But you will never forget improperly charge the responsibility, not upon the roaring of that river, as it rushed along its may think of the wee ones, they are in their himself, where it belongs, but upon the text own conceit little men and women,. and like to bed of limestone toward the ocean. Your under consideration. lungs and heart almost cease to act, and you deport themselves accordingly; they like to be 3. We are liable to judge too hastily. After helpful, to be of importance, and to be thought feel a pang of anguish, a mental shudder, to years of wandering, the child who has been think of that fearful adventure. That tree, important. trained in the way he should go, as nearly as Monday mornings always bring the linen standing straight and tall, was your guide. possible, by a God-fearing parent, the corrupt- By looking continually toward it, you kept sorting and setting down for the laundress ; ing influences of societyagainst it notwith- and the clean things need overlooking as to the only safe route. Had you lost your pres- standing,b may, when he becomes old, remember ence of mind, and neglected to look toward want of buttons, tapes, and mending fractures the instructions of his youth, as is often the case, in the wash. A child may be brought to find that friendly oak, you might have perished. and not depart from them. So it is with all in this world. Life is but a amusement in the work, and in due time to be- crossing, a ford in the river of time. Christ is come a real help. The mistake that mothers our only guide. We must keep our eyes fixed DOMESTIC TRAINING FOR GIRLS. make is, they do n't want to be troubled with up on him •; his noble exam ple we must follow, a child while their work is in progress. Of or Am into the snares laid for our feet. IN a sensible chapter on this important sub- course, child's help is nothing, but is oftentimes Cassell's Family _Magazine, Mrs. War- fall id the noise, and bust le, and confusion, ject in a hinderance ; yet the probable future should rep makes some practical suggestions of great and contradictions, and opposition, and trials never be forgotten: for only in this way can a value. of life, although we may be almost faint and child be properly taught domestic work, and, bewildered, and nearly overpowered at times, 'A young child's preceptions are clear, active, indeed, be kept out of mischief, which is merely and lasting, and the impressions of childhood we may never forget to look at the tree on the improperly directed energy.--Christian Ad- and youth often remain till the last moments other side. The Man of Calvary is there. If voeate. of life. The three great foundations upon*which we are weak, he can strengthen us ; if defiled, ' • the superstructure of training should be built he can cleanse us. He is our landmark, he is —It is not for you to say whose influence is are truthfulness, obedience, and punctuality ; our lighthouse, our harbor, our life-boat. Now most far-reaching.— and, strange to say, without these even cookery t us undertake all our enterprises having him What though thy power, compared to some, will be a failure. Weights and measures must Be weak to aid and bless ; inle view ; otherwise, our best efforts will result be true, no weights and measures of " guess Because the rose is queen of flowers in failure. Do we love the daisy less ? work ;" and as to questions connected with cook- Others may do a greater work, cry, if the replies be not true, no reliance can But you have your part to do ; —As the bright rays of the morning sun show be placed on a person's conduct if unwatched, And no one in all God's heritage the influence of the blighting frost, so the sun- and there is no honest principle. Can do it so well as you. — selected. shine of God's truth, shining in our hearts, These three virtues a child should be taught shows the fearful deformities sin has made, simultaneously, not in the way of teaching a —I hope I know so much of the worth of which only can be effaced by his great mercy. lesson, but in the love and watchfulness, care souls, that I should think it a greater happiness " The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth and example of the mother. Before the child to gain one soul to the Lord Jesus Christ than us from all sin." 1 -John 1 : 7. IT. F. ' can speak, it can intuitively discern truth in to gain mountains of silver and gold to myself. the actions of those around it, and later on with —The Lord loveth those who trust in him, a deeper impression, such as if a thing promised —Affliction, like the smith, shapes as it smites. , .

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DANGER AHEAD. the charge of one of the great departments in this pedal tut ion. city, there are $2,000,000 worth of valuable prop- THERE is no doubt about it that New York is erty, in everything pertaining to the upper realm divided into two great classes, the very rich and of art. Within a few months an organized at- THE JORDAN VALLEY CANAL. the very poor ; and the middling classes of reputa- tempt was made to sack that building. The ble, industrious, fair-to-do people are gradually injudicious utterings of a man on Blackwell's IT is reported that a large surveying party are disappearing, going up in the scale of worldly Island suggested the idea to a quick-witted re- now on their way at the expense of the English wealth or down into poverty and embarrassment. porter, who communicated with the officers of the government for the purpose of making an accurate It seems unquestioned that between these classes department, and, by timely police arrangements, exists, and is rapidly growing, under intentional dissuaded the ring.—N. Y. Cor. Phila. Press. examination of the whole route. It is expected to fostering and nurturing of evil men, a distinct, be able to report early in 1884. If this report is pronounced, malignant hatred. The sneers at Mr. correct, we shall bear more in the near future Vanderbilt in the public press meet the approba- IT appears from statistics which have recently about this stupendous project. tion of hundreds of thousands of people. Why been compiled that the United States possesses in He is not a bad man, although he never does any round numbers 38,000,000 cattle, India 30,000,- good. To men who are sensitive as to what other 000, and Russia 29,000,000. Russia has 20,000,- WHERE IS THEIR STRENGTH people should do with their money, he appears 000 horses, the United States 10,500,000, and hoggish ; but while as the representative of cor- Is it not pitiful to see professedly Christian Austria 3,500,000. Australia possesses 80,000,- porate selfishness, Mr. Vanderbilt stands supreme, 000 sheep, the Argentine Republic 68,000,000, organizations, abandoning those potent spiritual per se, he is an easy-going, well enough kind of a .and Russia 63,000,000. The United States comes weapons with which God has furnished us for the person, not good looking, not educated, in no sense fourth in this list with 36,000,000, but in the prosecution of his work, turn to the secular arm, refined, but, on the other hand, not evilly dis- matter of swine she' heads the world, having 48,- and acknowledge that their only hope of success posed. 000,000. In the food-producing animals—cattle is through political power. Pres. J. Blanchard of But I should be very sorry to be in Mr. Van- and hogs—our country leads every other nation. Wheaton College, Illinois, speaking of the dangers derbilt's boots if such times as we had here in 1863 should be repeated ; and Mr. Vanderbilt is which threaten Christianity in this country, says :— a type of thousands—I use the term advisedly— IT is well known that the American Bible Soci- " Our hope, under God, is in a political party, who are rich beyond their ancestors' dream of ety recently resolved to undertake the fourth re- and in churches, which will restore American avarice. There are men here worth $10,000,000 supply of the United States with the Bible. The Institutions to a recognition of God, the God of and $20,000,000 of whom you know nothing. I work was commenced in 1882, and by the reports our fathers, and his Christ, and the Bible. The know one lady, living in a magnificent house, made at the meeting of the Board of Managers National Christian Association, therefore, in- whose life is as quiet as that of a minister should March 1, 1883, it appears that from the beginning cludes the ' National Reform' which the States- be, who has given away not less than $3,000,000 of the year to January 31, the colporters visited man vindicates and seeks. It presents a square in five years, whose benefactions prior to her death 288,718 families. Of these, 45,034 were found issue agair,8t, the antagonisms to Christ and his will reach not less than $7,000,000, who has in without a complete copy of the Scriptures in their kingdom, and has sent me here to study and dis- her home paintings, statuary, diamonds, precious homes, and 35,242 of them were supplied by sale cuss this greatest of themes under the shadow of stones, exquisite specimens of gold and silve3;, with or gift, besides 19,996 destitute individuals ; 125,- our National Capitol." costly works of every imaginable art, an inside 810 copies of the Scriptures were sold, of the value estimate of which is $1,500,000, and she is not as of $46,521.76, and 37,339 donated, of the value of METEORS IN THE OCEAN. rich as many of her neighbors by several million $9,096.41 ; making a total of 163,149 copies, the dollars. There are men here who twenty years value of the same being $55,618.17. The salaries ACCORDING to the Panama Star Herald, two ago sold clothes on Chatham street, who to-day and expenses of the colporters amounted to $40,- vessels have narrowly escaped destruction by me- live at an annual expense of $100,000, and who 321.66. It thus cost the Society a little less than teors. One was the' steamship Lima of the Pa- wear jewels upon their person costing in reasona- fourteen cents for every family visited, and about cific Steam Navigation Company, and the other ble stores $25,000. twenty-four cents for every copy of the Scriptures was the United States man-of-war Alaska. A me- Come with me in a Madison avenue car any put in circulation. teor which plunged into the ocean close by the last- day, rain or shine, between the hours of ten o'clock named ship, just after sunset on December 12, is in the morning and five or six o'clock in the after- said to have terrified everybody on board by ex- noon, and I will find you car after car closely ploding with a great noise and a burst of flame packed with ladies in whose ears are diamonds asitet. just before it struck the water. This is not the worth from $500 to $5,000 each, on whose un- first time that meteors have fallen near ships, and gloved hands, red and fluffy, sparkle fortunes. " little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and there is nothing impossible in the suggestion that Walk with me from Stewart's old store, at the almonds."—Gen. 43 : vessels may have been sunk by them. Meteoric corner of Ninth street and Broadway to Thirtieth stones have fallen on land, which were heavy street and Broadway any day, —I do not mean —No service in itself is small, enough, and endowed with sufficient velocity, to Sundays, holidays, or special occasions, but all None great, though earth it fill; knock a hole through any ship. Within the last times,—and I will show you on block after block But that is small that seeks its own, forty years more than twenty vessels have disap- women in sealskin circulars down to their heels, And great that seeks God's will. peared at sea. How many of them may possibly worth from $500 to $2,000 each, with diamond have been struck and sunk by these flying missiles —If I grapple with sin in my oWn strength, the earrings and with diamond finger rings, and other devil knows he may go to sleep. from the sky, some of which follow in flocks in the precious stones as well, carrying in their hands tracks of comets, while others are lone wanderers dainty pocketbooks stuffed with money. They —Never turn a blessing around to see whether in space until they fall within the earth's attrac- represent the new rich with which New York is it has a dark side to it. tion, and plunge through her atmosphere with filling up. planetary speed, no one can tell. On that same street, at that same time, I can —" With all thy getting, get understanding"; and to your understanding, add also show you men to whom a dollar would be a for- grip. SWORN ENEMIES OF PROTESTANTS. tune, whose trousers, torn and disgraceful in their —Remember that an intense life is not a long tatters, are held about their pinched waists by one. Yield neither to ecstasy nor despair. Keep PROTESTANTISM cannot be extirpated in the ropes or twine or pins, whose stockingless feet cool. United States without a subversion of our system shuffle along the pavement in shoes so ragged that of government. Rome is the avowed; uncompro- they dare not lift them from the pavement, whose —Those who defer their gifts to the death-bed mising enemy of Protestantism, and ever has been. faces are freckled, whose beards are long and do as good as to say, "Lord, I will give thee To her it is a heresy not to be tolerated, and she straggling, as is their hair, while their reddening something when I can keep it no longer." Happy has sworn to wipe it out wherever and whenever hands taper at the nails like claws. How long is the man who is his own executor. —Bishop Hall. she has the power. Her . cardinals, archbishops, before those claws will fasten on the newly rich 1 --One watch set right will do to set many by; and bishops are each and all under obligations to Make no mistake about it, the feeling is born, the on the other hand, one that goes wrong may be the wage war with fire and sword against all who re- feeling is growing, and the feeling, sooner or later, fuse to acknowledge the authority of the pope. will break forth. Only last night I walked means of misleading a whole neighborhood, and Cardinal McCloskey, although an American by through Fourteenth street, on which there are but the same may be said of the example we each set to those around us. birth, has taken an oath to " seek out and oppose, few residences left, and in front of one, leading persecute, and fight against, heretics and schismat- from the door to the curbstone, was a canopy, —There is quite an excitement about " unsafe ics against his lord, the pope." under which charmingly attired ladies, accom- buildings " in cities ; but many of the unsafe build- Who, in America, are considered " rebels" by panied by their escorts, went from their carriages ings can be easily avoided by reading the signs on the Roman hierarchy, and who are heretics in the to the open door, through which floods of light and them, such as " Saloon," " Wine Room," "Sample eyes of Rome, but the descendants of those men sounds of music came. I stood with the crowd— Room," "Pool Room," etc. who pledged life, fortune, and honor to the estab- a big crowd—a moment, and there was born this lishment of civil and religious liberty, and made it idea, of an inevitable outbreak, unless something —The tired lark sinks in the evening shades to possible for Romanists to enjoy rights and privi- is done, and speedily done, to do away with the its quiet nest, and offers its grateful anthems for leges which Romanists have denied.to Protestants prejudice which not only exists, but is intentionally the boon of a house; but man, wearied with the elsewhere'? fostered, against the very rich by the very poor. strifes of the mart and of the field, seeks shelter in It would make you shudder to hear the way the his home, the sacred retreat of the heart. Foxes --We must take the evil with the good, for we women spoke. Envy, jvlousy, malignant ferocity, have holes, birds have nests, lions have dens, tigers are the pensioners of God, and may not refuse the every element 'needed, was there. All that is have lairs, dogs have kennels, but only men have cup his wisdom prepareth for us.--Tupper. wanted is a leader. In a public building, under homes.

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inspires confidence in all, and begets an interest CANVASSING IN DAKOTA. 0 Ur that we could not secure without it. We have raft one- ti o. mutual interests and obligations in this work, and I HAVE been canvassing most of the time for the they should be mutually shared. Hence, by fre- last three weeks. Last week I put in six days' "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters."-Isa. 32 :20. quent open counsels the understanding and coop- work. Took ten straight orders for " Thoughts," oration of all are in a measure secured. besides ten conditional, also ten orders for "United IF I WERE A VOICE. Arrangements were made to equip four tents for States in Prophecy," besides selling $8.80 worth field service in the next campaign, and for Bro. J. T. of other books, and taking two orders for the Signs IF I were a voice, a persuasive voice, Richards to enter upon the missionary work in the and one order for the Sentinel. Almost every That could travel the wide world through, family takes something. In two localities which ,city of Indianapolis. The churches are ordering I would fly on the beams of the morning light, I visited, people want to hear S. D. Adventist And speak to men with a gentle might, from twenty to one hundred or more copies of the And tell them to be true. Sabbath Sentinel, and nearly all the churches are preaching. Where are the laborers to take the I'd fly, I'd fly, o'er land and sea, takinc, clubs of the Signs. The new " Household truth to the people ? I now see my mistake in heart might be, &) Whereve a human Manual " is being put into the hands of the mis- not sticking closer to the work ; but I will do what Telling ariale, or singing a song, I can in the time that remains. Pray for me, that In praise of the right, in blame of the wrong. sionary workers with a view of increasing the cir- culation of the Good Health. Of course we did not the work may prosper in my hands. If I were a voice, a consoling voice, R. A. BURDICK. I'd fly on the wings of air • forget our faithful old friend and pastor, the RE- The homes of sorrow and guilt I'd seek, VIEW AND HERALD. This tried servant of the Lord And calm and truthful words I'd speak may expect to meet many new faces in Indiana this WORTHY OF IMITATION. To save them from despair. • year. I'd fly, I'd fly, o'er the crowded town, WIT° ? The Moravian church. Not in its doe- And drop, like the happy sunlight, down Bro. Lane, in obedience to the recommendation Into the hearts of suffering men, of the General Conference, will spend the present trines nor church polity, but in its faithful devo- And teach them to rejoice again. quarter in the State of Virginia. Bro. Victor tion to the work of sending forth what it con- siders the truth, and its earnest zeal in winning If I were a voice, a convincing voice, Thompson goes to Ohio to supply Bro. Rupert's place, l'd travel with the wind; as Bro. R. goes to Kentucky. Bro. Thompson has souls to Christ. Their origin antedates the ref- And whenever I saw the nations torn been a faithful. laborer in this Conference, and our ormation, they being the followers of Huss and By warfare, jealousy, or scorn, prayers shall follow him as belabors in this new field. Jerome. They endured the fiercest persecution for Or hatred of their kind, nearly two centuries, and were at last driven out I'd fly, I'd fly, on the thunder crash, A system of quarterly meetings for twenty-nine And into their blinded bosoms flash, churches was arranged to be held in March and of Moravia and Bohemia. Like the Waldenses, And, all their evil thoughts subdued, April by seven of our ministers. Many calls for they lived in caves and dens, read the precious I'd teach them Christian brotherhood, ministerial labor were presented from interested Bible in concealment, and many sealed their testi- If I were a voice, a pervading voice, ones in new fields. We can only supply a few of mony with their blood. I'd seek the kings of earth; these places with the help demanded. This merciless persecution by the papacy, how- I'd find them alone on their beds at night, ever, instead of extinguishing this little light, gave If all our brethren and sisters will do what they And whisper words that should guide them right— it, in God's providence, added luster and bright- can and should do, we can encourage several young Lessons of priceless worth. ness. A little company of only ten received permis- I'd fly more swift than the swiftest bird, men to enter upon the work of the ministry imme- lion from Count Zinzendorf in 1722 to settle on And tell them things they never heard,— diately-. Friends, the great day of the Lord is his estate of Berthelsdorf in Saxony. To this set- Truths which the ages for aye repeat,— upon us, and who shall be able to stand ? Unknown to the statesmen at their feet. tlement they gave the name of Herruhut, and are Wifi. COVERT. If I were a voice, an immortal voice, now commonly known in Germany as Herruhutus. I'd speak in the people's ear; This was the beginning of better days. Their And whenever they shouted " Liberty !" OUR WORK AND THE TRUE MISSIONARY SPIRIT. little band increased by additional refugees, fleeing Without deserving to be free, from persecution, and by the accession of other I'd make their mission clear. We have a OUR work is an aggressive one. Christians, who were won by the faith and piety I'd fly, I'd fly, on the wings of day, definite object before us. In the providence of Rebuking wrong on my world-wide way, manifested by this devoted people. Count Zinzen- And making all the earth rejoice - God, the last message of mercy has been intrusted dorf consecrated his life to the work, and his whole If I were a voice, an immortal voice. to us. This message is to warn the world ; estate to the cause. They adopted, or rather ad- -Charles Mackay. and there are steps to be taken continually to tiered to, the Augsburg Confession as their creed. ,. accomplish this. We cannot become stationary in • Their efforts were not to convert men by an ag- KENTUCKY T. AND M. SOCIETY. our experience, go the same rounds of form, and gressive warfare of doctrines and creeds, but to win accomplish the design that God had in committing souls by burning love and perfect lives. THE State quarterly meeting of this Society was to us the solemn message of the third angel. Our Their labors were early directed to heathen and attention is continually called to new enterprises. held at the house of Bro. D. W. Barr, Elizabeth- foreign lands. Their first mission was established town, Hardin Co., Dec. 30, 1883. Prayer was As we near the close of this work, these new en- in• 1732 on the island of St. Thomas, one of the terprises will increase in number, and follow each offered by Bro. Osborn, after which pointed and West Indies. Their missionaries were not only encouraging remarks were made both by the Pres- other in more and more rapid succession. willing to leave their homes in order to win souls, ident and Eld. Osborn. The following will show If we had a hundred years in which to work, we fse a.i. resolved to become slaves if necessary. A mic- a summary of the labor performed the past quar- might go about this work in a more leisurely man- s•wn to Greenland was begun in 1733, Success at- ter :— nor. But time is short, and what we do must be tended the enterprise. They came to this country done quickly. The object of the Tract Society is to No of members , 42 in 1847. " " reports returned, 15 give to every man, woman, and child who is inter- The progress made in the one hundred and fifty " " missionary visits, 15 ested in these things, the privilege of acting a part years since 1732, is something as follows: At the " " letters written, 16 in the steps to be taken ; and by working in bar- end of the first Jubilee (fifty years, 1782), they had Signs taken in clubs, 11 mony and at the same time, the strength of the " " new. subscribers obtained. for periodicals, 18 165 adherents, located at 27 stations. At the " " pages tracts and pamphlets distributed, 23,138 entire body of those who revere God and keep his 100th aniversary this number had increased to " " periodicals distributed, 326 commandments may unitedly tell against the 40,000 converts, at 41 stations, under 209 leaders. Received on membership and donations, $15.00; on strongholds of Satan every time there is a blow to In 1882, their third Jubilee, the statistics showed sales, $26.19; on periodicals, $21.75. The Society at Custer be struck. 99 stations, 16 out-stations, 312 male and female failed to report. What we most need at the present time is a missionaries, and 776,646 under pastoral superin- BETTIE COOMBS, Sec. true missionary spirit that will lead us to make tendence. And this work is diffused over nearly the _ such sacrifices as have been made by other denom- whole world. The banner of the cross has been inations. Let us look at the Judsons and many INDIANA STATE MEETING. . bravely carried over the burning sands of the trop- others. Where, among our people, shall we find its, and the ice-fields of the northern islands. THIS meeting was held with the Oak Hill church parallel instances of sacrifice anddevotion ? Dis- Faithfully have they labored under the fiercest per- Jan. 16-22. Five ministers and four licentiates Cant Burmah may not hold out her hands for help ; sedition. God has rewarded their noble, self-sac- were present. A quarterly meeting secretary was but from many directions we hear the cry, " Come rificing efforts. chosen for the year. It was ' frequently remarked over and help us." If we were not so self-caring, Now if this people have done so much with the that union and love were mingling themselves richly so unmindful of what has been done for us, so limited light they possessed, what ought we through all the business sessions and devotional serv- wrapped in indifference, we would not be so ob- Seventh-day Adventists to do ? We believe that ices of the meeting. , livious to the fact that many are raising the in- the end of all things is nigh at hand. Christ is When the reports of the past quarter were all quiry, " What shall. I do to be saved 1 " soon coming ; the judgments of God are in the brought in, it was seen that one church of twenty- The work -is fast hastening to its accomplish- earth ; probation is about to close ; the last mes- six members had been organized, and that about merit, and some one will have a share in the trials sage of mercy has been sounding for forty years ; the same number of members had been added to and burdens by the way, and also in the "far the mystery of God is being finished ; millions other churches, thus increasing the membership of more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." are going down to perdition. Some may be saved the Conference about fifty, and that as many as fifty Let us not remain with idle hands and unfeeling from the most hopeless wreck, in the most terrific persons had embraced the Sabbath since the General hearts, waiting for the tide to land us on the shore storm. But it requires strong, brave hearts to Conference. One meeting-house has been dedicated, of " the better land," or for some strong hand to man the life-boat, and venture their all to save the and the building of another one entered upon. For lift us safely over the thorns and brambles that perishing. Thousands are dying unwarned and the past two years these quarterly meetings have lacerate the weary feet of the workers. But let us unheeded, whose blood may rest upon us. Satan been seasons, of great -interest and profit to the Con- rather be among those who will be " faithful unto lulls us to carelessness and indifference. The en- ference. Business matters are discussed in ,open death," and receive a crow of life. chanted ground, with all its magical influence, woos counsel, and all the brethren and sisters are invited CRARLES P. WHITFORD. us to sleep. Facilities for spreading the truth and to attend and take part in the deliberations, This Florida, Jan. 12, light, in the shape of papers and books, are multi- r FEB. 5, 1884.y THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 87

plied on every hand. We rejoice, but leave the truth through this means are swelled to mammoth out of the water, the Spirit caught away Philip ; work to others: Macedonian calls are wafted on proportions. Outside of this is New York City and the eunuch went on his way rejoicing. the breeze from every direction, " Come over and and vicinity, with a population of two million ; then How simple and beautiful are the ways of the help us," and we heed them not. Fields are white the three million passengers that sail either to or gospel ! How ready is the Saviour to fold about us for harvest. Why are we so ready to ask to be from this port annually ; and finally the half his arms of love ! How cheerfully did this unen- excused. million sailors that man the craft, all making a lightened Ethiopian obey the truth when it was But, thank God, there is a better day just ahead. vast throng to be warned of the approaching made known to him And how ready was God to Even now its dawning rays gild the horizon. end. receive such obedience ! Reader, so will the Lord Hearts are waking ; souls are being stirred ; the We may well say, "Who is sufficient for these honor cheerful and hearty service in you and me. incubus of fear and doubt and sloth and sleep, is things ?" With our present force of workers here, THE CONVERSION OF SAUL.—At the time Stephen being shaken off; light and hope and faith are we can expect to make but a small commencement was stoned, the clothes of the witnesses were laid cheering the hearts of the true and tried. The in the work, but we know that this is God's work, at the feet of a young man named Saul, who after- words " Christ is coming," are beginning to be re- and that it must and will go. .We want to con- ward made great havoc of the church at Jerusalem, alized. A few are fitting for the "latter rain." tribute something to its advancement, and to this even entering houses and carrying men and women God grant that the many may fall into line, that end we crave the prayers of God's people. to prison. Not content with thus persecuting the we may not only imitate, but excel. Courage in WM. BOYNTON. Christians at Jerusalem, in his misdirected zeal he the Lord ! Send it along the line. New York, Jan. 23, 200 East 27th Street. secured letters from the high priest authorizing Jesus is corning, be earnest to do him to go to Damascus, and thence bring bound Work for the Master; he suffered for you. to Jerusalem every Christian he could find. But Crowns will be given the faithful for aye, while on his way, as he drew nigh to the city, sud- When sin's dark night yields to eternity's day. fabba0- denly at midday there shone round about the com- M. C. WILCOX. pany a light from heaven brighter than the sun ; " And thou shalt teach them diligently. "—Dent. 6 :7. and while all were stricken to the earth by the THE NEW YORK CITY MISSION. power of God, there fell a voice from heaven, heard by all, but understood by Saul alone, which said, THINKING that it might be of interest to the LESSON FOR THE THIRD SABBATH "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? " The readers of the REVIEW to know how this mission IN FEBRUARY. reader will do well to compare carefully the ac- prospers, and what has been accomplished since its (See Instructor of Feb. 6, 1884.) count in the ninth chapter with those of Paul him- establishment here, I give a report in brief of the STORY OF THE LESSON. self in the twenty-second and twenty-sixth chap- first six months of its existence. (Review of Acts 8 :25 to chapter 10.) ters, and also to notice that at this time Paul saw July 2, 1883, the reading-room was opened to the Saviour. 1 Cor. 15 : 8. the public, since which time there has been an PHILIP AND THE EUNUCH.—After preaching the Trembling with fear, Saul arose and entered the apparently increasing interest and attendance. A gospel in many villages of the Samaritans, Peter 'city fully convinced that he had grievously sinned free reading-room in New York City is not a and John returned to Jerusalem, while Philip is in persecuting the Christians, and resolved to es- novelty, as there are several of large proportions, called away upon another labor of love. The an- pouse the cause of the despised Nazarene. The where the reading public can procure for perusal gel of the Lord told him to go southward until he great light had made him blind, and for three days almost any book they may desire. But this read- should strike the road leading from Jerusalem to he was without sight, and did neither eat nor ing-room fills a place much needed, and desired by Gaza. "What for ?" some of us faithless, modern drink. Ananias then, directed by the Lord, vis- some, containing, as it does, nothing of a fictitious Christians would have asked, who seldom move ited him, and restored his sight; and. Saul arose, character ; and reading of this kind so largely, pre- without understanding all the whys and where- and was immediately baptized. dominates in other reading-rooms. Works upon fcires in the case. Not so this man of living faith; After this he preached Christ in the synagogues, health, temperance, and religion present these "he arose and went," trusting the Spirit of God confounding the Jews and proving that Jesus was subjects in a different manner from that in which who called him, to lead him aright. the Messiah. After a time, the Jews took counsel readers have been accustomed to find them else- While Philip is on his way, let us precede him ; to kill him, watching the city gates night and day ; where, thus making this reading-room a novelty and we shall find the "chamberlain of Queen Can- but their plans were made known to Saul, and the to the reading public. "Its carpeted floor, its dace passing southward on his return from Jerusa- disciples, by night, let him down in a basket out- pleasant, home-like appearance," as our patrons lem, and reading in his chariot, as it rolls along side the city walls; so he escaped, and came to express it, "seem more like a pleasant parlor than its slow way, the prophecy of Isaiah. Ethiopia is Jerusalem. Here he tried to join himself to the a public reading-room." And they express them- 'stretching out her hands unto God,' and the sup- disciples ; but they, remembering him as the fierce selves glad that it has been located in their midst. pliant is not unheard." "Hungering and thirst- persecutor of the church, were afraid of him, and We have endeavored from the first to make our ing for knowledge, he had laid his perplexities could not believe he was a disciple until Barnabas readers feel at home, and we think we have suc- before the priests and scribes ; but he was still declared how the Lord had met him in the way, ceeded in a measure. Much more, however, might more mystified than before by their interpretations and had spoken to him, and how he had preached have been accomplished, had we at first secured a of scripture. He prayed fervently for light and boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. Then place with a room adjoining the reading-room, into knowledge, and God heard his prayer, and sent his they received him gladly ; and he preached Jesus which we could invite interested persons for pri- angel to Philip," bidding him leave for the time boldly, disputing against the Grecians until they vate conversation upon Bible truths. Thus we the crowds of interested hearers in Samaria for the sought to slay him. Then the brethren brought could have more successfully followed up the in- purpose of preaching Christ to a single soul who him down to Cfesarea, and sent him forth to Tar- terest awakened by reading. At the expiration of was thirsting for the truth. sus, the city of his childhood; and the churches our lease here, we intend to obtain such a place not The Spirit had well timed his journey, so that had rest, and were prospered. far from our present location, so as to secure to it when Philip reached the road above mentioned, PETER PERFORMS TWO IVIIRACLES.—While Peter our present attendance. there was the Ethiopian riding along in his chariot, was making a general tour among the churches, he The attendance from July 2 to Dec.. 31, 1883, and reading about Him who " was led as a sheep to came to Lydda, about thirty miles northwest of Je- was one thousand seven hundred and thirty-six. the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb before his rusalem. Here he found a certain man named One of the first readers has been converted to the shearer, so he opened not his mouth." "Go near, aEneas, who had kept his bed with the palsy eight truth, and since September has been devoting his and join thyself to this chariot," said the Spirit ; years. "Peter said unto him, YEneas, Jesus Christ entire time to the missionary work. Over one and Philip, obeying, heard what the eunuch read. maketh thee whole : arise and make thy bed. And thousand visits have been made to families in the " Understandest thou what thou readest " inquired he arose immediately. And all that dwelt at city, and the Signs of the Times left with them. the evangelist ; and the eunuch replied, "How can Lydda and in [the plain of Sharon saw him and Some trial subscriptions have been taken for it, I, except some man should guide me ?" Then he turned to the Lord." and at the expiration of the time, some have re- asked Philip to sit with him, and as soon as he At Joppa, down by the seaside, about nine miles newed. Our tracts are now being purchased every was seated asked, "Of whom is the prophet speak- from Lydda, and almost within sight of the latter day, more or less, by families during our mission- ing? of himself, or of some other man ?" What a place, lived a noble woman named Tabitha, (or ary visits. precious opportunity ! and one not lost by the Dorcas in the Greek), meaning gazelle or antelope. What time I could give to the work here, aside servant of God. Beginning "at the same script- This woman, who was a Christian and full of good from the canvassing work outside of New York ure, he preached unto him Jesus,"— works and alms deeds, died while Peter was at and the reading-room and other duties, has been "Jesus, the name that calms our fears, Lydda. And the disciples, hoping the power of devoted to securing free transportation for periodi- That bids our sorrows cease ! God might be manifested through Peter in this as cals to our missionary workers in foreign parts, in ' Tis music in the sinner's ears, in the case of .2Eneas, sent two men to Lydda de- which we have succeeded beyond our expectations ; Tis life, and health, and peace." siring him to come down without delay. When also to visiting ships and placing our reading on As the parched ground drinks in the grateful Peter entered the room where the body lay pre- board. Thus a friendly relation with the officers showers, so eagerly did this thirsty soul accept the pared for btirial, there stood the widows whom has been secured, who in turn feel it a pleasure to truth. With all his heart did he receive the Sav- Dorcas had helped, weeping and showing the gar- carry free any packages of reading we may wish to iour ; and Philip having shown him the steps nec- ments which she had made for them. "But Peter contribute to missionary workers or reading-rooms essary .to be taken in conversion,—repentance, put them all forth, and kneeled down and prayed ; at the different ports to which they sail. When faith, and baptism (see "Spirit of Prophecy" Vol. 3, and turning to the body he said, Tabitha, arise. we consider that there are about twenty-five miles p. 304),--he requested to be baptized. Philip said, And she opened her eyes ; and when she saw Pe- of shipping here, comprising a list of five hundred "If thou believest with all thine heart, thou may- ter, she sat up.. And he gave her his hand, and ships and steamers which dailyb lay at this harbor, est ; " and the eunuch declared that he believed Je- lifted her up, and when he had called the saints the work of communicating with them all becomes sus Christ was the Son of God. So, straightway and the widows, presented her alive. And it was a work of no small magnitude. And it will take descending from the chariot, they went down both known through all Joppa ; and many believed in a vast amount of literature to supply the demand. into the water," and the newly converted man of the Lord. And it came to pass that he tarried Then, as each ship touches at several ports during Ethiopia was buried beneath the wave in the like- many days at Joppa with ono Simon a tanner." its voyage, the advantages for the spread of the ness of the Saviour's death. When they were come C. C. L. 88 THE REVIEW AJVD HERALD. 8[VoL.B1, No. O.

110 So some may have acted in reference to the Sun- word. In the other, tradition and popular custom aim and 'eraltit. day question, and thought they received a blessing ; are followed without the word. but any blessing received for Sunday-keeping, we John 13 : 12-15 : " So after he had washed their " Sanctify them through Thy Truth : Thy Word is Truth. " aver, without any fear that it will be disproved in feet, and had taken his garments, and was set the great day when all secrets shall be revealed, down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I BTATLE CREEK, MICR. , FEB. 5, 1884. has been one of the kind last indicated. have done to you ? Ye call me Master and Lord ; But let us analyse this excuse a little further. and ye say well ; for so I am. If I then, your URIAH SMITH, EDITOR. If Sunday-keeping had been an error (so they rea- Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also IL WAGGONER, ) - CORRESPONDING EDITORS. GEO. I. BUTLER, C son), God would not have blessed them in it. If ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given such is the rule, it would work in everything else you an example, that ye should do as I have done THAT SUNDAY BLESSING. as well as Sunday-keeping. This could of course to you." „ IF Sunday is not the Sabbath, why have I been be no exception ; so we must make the rule uni- But very few of our first-day friends can see blessed so often for keeping it ? " One of our T. and versal, and come to this conclusion ; namely, that proof for feet-washing in these words of our Lord. M. workers writes that the people he meets bring no man can be blest while he is cherishing any But what a relief they would experience if they up this excuse more frequently than any other for error ; that any one who receives the blessing of could find a tithe of the proof for Sunday-keeping. not keeping the Sabbath. God has blessed us, God, is absolutely free from all error! This is the Suppose the above quotation from John spoke of they say, for keeping Sunday, and that is proof to inevitable conclusion from this objection. But the first day of the week as follows : So after Je- us that it must be right. will our friends stand to this ? Every denomina- sus had observed the first day of the week as the But let us look at this proposition a moment. tion of Christians believes that all the others are Sabbath, he said unto his desciples, Ye call me We would ask them, first, if they are sure God involved in some errors of doctrine or practice. Master and Lord, and ye say well; for so I am. has blessed them for keeping Sunday. That he But will any one deny to all the others the bless- If I then, your Lord and Master, have observed has blessed them while keeping it, we will not ing of God It is logically bound to do so accord- the first day of the week as the Sabbath, ye also deny ; but that is a very different thing from bless- ing to this rule. Suppose the Methodist should ought so to observe it ; for I have given you an ing therefor it. Has any one with the issue before say, God has blessed me for being sprinkled ; but example that ye should observe the first day of him, with a conviction that he must keep Sunday if sprinkling for baptism is wrong, God would not the week as I have done. as a duty to God, in opposition to counter influ- have blessed me in it ; therefore sprinkling is right ! Could Sunday-keepers find in the New Testa- ences and impulses, decided in its behalf and been What would the Baptist say to this ? Just so of ment similar language to the above, they might blessed therefor This question we must answer any difference of views or practice between any of hold a jubilee over the fact that sacred Scripture in the negative till further evidence to the con- the denominations. sustained them in following this long established trary is presented. It will be found that when But further, has God anywhere laid down this human custom. But no such language relative to they have been so blessed, the question of Sunday rule by which to test what is truth ? Has he said, first-day observance can be found in the New observance was not the point at issue at all. We Whatever you have my blessing in, that is truth ; Testament. lay this down as the general rule. There may have and by this you are to determine what the truth QUESTIONS ON THE SANCTUARY. been exceptional cases of the kind which we will is ? If he has not, then no man has any right to 1. A CORRESPONDENT asks concerning the gen- now name. erect such a standard. But all know that he has We have known persons to be soundly convicted said nothing of the kind. But he says that his der and signification of the words hilasterios and Greenfield in of their duty to observe the Sabbath of the Lord ; word is truth. Whatever he has declared and hilasterion (aogriAsoc, 12,aur4lor). but it involved a cross, and personal inconvenience, caused to be written as his revealed will, that is his lexicon to the New Testament makes the first and perhaps pecuniary loss ; and they were deter- his truth ; and that we are to obey regardless of a noun in the masculine gender, meaning " one mined not to keep it, if any possible excuse could feeling or blessing. who makes expiation, a propitiatory sacrifice ; " be framed for such a course. At length they would But how then can it be explained that so many applied to Christ in Rom. 3 : 25 ; and the second seize upon some flimsy pretext, and with it stifle have enjoyed the blessing of the Lord while in a noun in the neuter gender, meaning the mercy- their convictions, give up all idea of keeping the the observance of Sunday That this has been seat. Heb. 9 : 5. The accusative singular of the Sabbath, and thereupon. feel great peace of mind the case we freely admit. But the matter is easily first, and the nominative singular of the second, and buoyancy of feeling. What was it The explained according to a rule which Christ himself have precisely the same form ; which has led blessing of God ? Not by any means, but the spirit lays down. He teaches that a person is responsible some into the error of confounding the two words. 2. " Is holiest ' in Heb. 10 : 19, in the singular of error counterfeiting the blessing of God—the only for the light he has. Thus he said of the Jews: work of the enemy, not the work of the Lord. " If I had not come and spoken unto them, they in the Greek ? and what does the ' new and living way ' refer to " Fearful deception! had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for Answer. There are three instances in which We received a letter not long since from a young their sin." If a person is honest at heart, desiring, the words "holy places," plural, have been man rejoicing in the discovery that the Sabbath no matter at what sacrifice, to do God's will, and is strangely rendered in the singular in the English was not binding and no one was under obligation walking up to the best light he has, the Lord ac- cepts such person according to his good intentions version. The first is Heb. 9 : 8 : " The Holy to keep it. He was a telegraph operator and had Ghost this signifying that the way into the holiest a good situation. He had been powerfully con- and the amount of light he enjoys ; for it is re- quired of a man according to that he "hath, and of all was not yet made manifest while as the first victed of his duty to keep the Sabbath ; but after tabernacle was yet standing." Here the Greek studying on the subject a long time, he suddenly not according to that he hath not." 2 Cor. 8: 12. Multitudes, yes the great majority of Christendom, has ridv- cly(c.a), genitive plural, "holy places." The discovered that the ministration of death was second is verse 12, " By his own blood he entered " done away ; " and then away went the Sabbath have no doubt honestly observed the first day of the week, supposing they were doing God's com- in once into the holy place," where the Greek has in his own mind, and all his convictions of duty ; ra ayta, accusative plural, "holy places." The and in his exuberance of joy be wrote to us of his mandment thereby ; and multitudes are at the present time so observing it. And God does not third is the passage named by our correspondent, emancipation from " the yoke of bondage." Now Heb. 10 : 19 : " Having therefore, brethren, bold- we can read that case as easily as we can read an withhold his blessing from them, because they are honest in purpose, and it is the best light they ness to enter into the holiest by the blood of open book. The Sabbath stood in the way of his Jesus." Here the Greek has 7451/ ciyiwv, genitive business. He would lose his situation if he kept have. But when light comes, and new truth is developed, that light must be followed, and that plural, the "holy places." The rendering given it ; but that he was determined not to lose ; his in our English version can be accounted for only truth obeyed, or condemnation will follow. To pecuniary interests would suffer ; and not having on the ground that the translators did not see and integrity or nerve enough to follow duty in the refuse to do it because you have been blessed with- out doing it before you had the light, is to abuse understand what the apostle has taught us in re- face of unfavorable worldly prospects, he seized upon gard to the sanctuary. that flimsy pretext, a perversion of 2 Cor. 3, to God's mercy by making his past favors an excuse The new and living way is Christ's fle In or throttle his conscience and throw off convictions of for not doing his present will. Be not guilty of sacrifice. The apostle does not say that the vail duty, and then felt great relief and freedom. What so great a sin. But receive the truth and share is his flesh, as some contend ; but his flesh is the was it God's blessing I No, but a soothing spell in the new blessing which always accompanies it. way or means by which we gain access to the holy thrown over him by the power of darkness. God places. A transposition of the sentence will bring will accept no unwilling and half-hearted obedi- FEET-WASHING AND SUNDAY. out the true idea, thus : " Having therefore, ence ; and if this is all a man has to offer, he will brethren, boldness to enter, through the vail, into suffer him to follow his own way as he did Balaam. ONE is taught in the New Testament in plain the holy places, by the blood of Jesus, by a new From this snare and deception of the enemy into language, yet almost universally rejected or neg- and living way, that is to say, his flesh [or sacri- which this young man has fallen we have our fears lected by the Protestant churches. The other is fice], which he hath consecrated for us." Under that nothing will arouse him till in the Judgment nowhere taught in the New Testament, yet it is the type, the people entered into the earthly sanc- he meets the demands of God's unchangeable law, almost universally observed by the same churches. tuary by the blood of dead beasts; under the and has nothing to answer. In the one, the cross is avoided contrary to the' antitype, the gospel, we enter into the heavenly off FEB. 5, 1884.y THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 89

sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, who though he INSPIRATION.-NO. 5• came unto Nathan " (verse 4), telling him that once gave his life to provide the sacrifice, has been THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO MEN THROUGH David should not build a house to the Lord, but raised from the dead, and now " ever liveth " as a that his son should do so, and giving the king VISIONS. mediator for us before God. So Jesus is the way many gracious promises relative to his descendants. for us ; for he first in his own body provided a WE have seen that Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, John, Verse 17 reads, " According to all this vision, so sacrifice which was able to take away sin ; and he and Paul had visions from the Lord, and by means did Nathan speak unto David." The " vision " is the " living " way ; for he is now a living medi- of this light wrote inspired books bearing their and "the word of the Lord coming to him" were ator for us before his Father. names. The record states this so plainly that we the same thing. The same things are also stated 3, " What service is being done in the holy cannot doubt it. The .prophetic books of Jere- in 1 Chron. 17. place during the cleansing of the sanctuary I Can miah, Hosea, Joel, Jonah, Zephaniah, Haggai, and In Ezekiel 1 : 1-3, the same fact is made very new cases be brought there, since the work of Malachi, which do not speak of visions directly, clear : " Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, atonement commenced 1" were evidently inspired from the same source. In in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, Answer. There is no service in the holy place nearly every one of these books the writers com- as I was among the captives by the river of while the ministry is going forward in the most mence by saying, " The word of the Lord came Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw holy. Lev. 16 : 17. But the sacrifice avails and unto me," or " The burden of the word of the visions of God. In the fifth day of the month, mercy is offered just the same in the most holy Lord " by such a prophet, giving his name. These which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's place as in the holy ; for the blood of the goat expressions are common in these books. captivity, the word of the Lord came expressly which was ministered in the' most holy place on We propose to show that these and other ex- unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the ' the day of atonement, was for all the people ; and pressions used, were but other forms of speech in- land of the Chaldeans by the river of Chebar; and they availed themselves of its benefits by afflicting dicating that these writers had received visions the hand of the Lord was there upon me." their souls. Lev. 16 : 29 ; 23 : 27-29. So the from the Lord, and that this light brbught before The prophet in commencing his writings, far blood of Christ, the antitype of that goat, is for all the mind by the Spirit of God they call " the word away from his native land, among the children of the people ; and all who will, may avail them- of the Lord," or " the burden of the word of the the captivity, sees fit to give a brief statement selves of its provisions and find mercy till the last Lord," etc. As proof of this, we first notice the showing the evidences of his inspiration, so that act of mediation therewith has been performed in calling of Samuel to be a prophet. For some time the rest of his people would have abundance of ev- the most holy place, and .the work of the atone- previous to his being called, the " word of the Lord idence that he was a prophet of the Lord. He ment is done. had been precious," as " there was no open vision." gives us three expressions which all refer to the I Sam. 3 : 1. He was but a youth serving under same thing : He "saw visions of God," "the word WHAT CAN BE DONE FOR THEM 1 Eli, the high priest, in the sanctuary of the Lord. of the Lord came expressly to him," and " the hand The voice of the Lord called him in the night. He of the Lord was there upon him." He beheld glo- A BROTHER, writing us from a distant State, thought it was Eli, and went to him several times, rious scenes of divine Majesty, angelic beings speaks of the difficulties and opposition which some saying, "Thou didst call me." Perceiving that it talked with him, and his physical powers and in his section have to meet in trying to obey their was the voice of the Lord which called the lad, Eli senses were made conscious of the presence of the convictions in regard to the truth. He mentions instructed him to say, "Speak, Lord ; for thy ser- Deity. All these are embraced in heavenly visions. especially the case of one sister who would be glad vant heareth." Then the Lord gave to Samuel a He proceeds to describe, as well as he was able, the to keep the Sabbath, but who has been told by her revelation concerning Eli's house, and the judg- wonderful scenes which were portrayed to his mind, husband that just as soon as she does so, she may ments which should befall it. which we (alas for our lack of comprehension) pack her things and leave the house ; and he asks " And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened can scarcely grasp. We shall never be able to do what can be done in such cases. the doors of the house of the Lord. And Sam- this till the spiritual world opens before us. But Does not the Lord answer this question when uel feared to shew Eli the vision. Then Eli enough is made plain to give us far higher ideas of he declares what would be an acceptable fast unto called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he God's methods of revelation than we could have him in the following language ?-- answered, Here am I. And he said, What is the without these descriptions. In visions of God "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to thing that the Lord hath said unto thee I pray grand scenes are brought before the mind, and act- loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy thee hide it not from me. God do so to thee, and ual words are spoken by heavenly beings. These burden, and to let the oppressed go free, and that more also, if thou hide anything from me of all the are real, and not a flight of fancy. There is a ye break every yoke Is it not to deal thy bread things that he said unto thee. And Samuel told power which makes itself felt upon the bodily to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And senses. It is not a matter of imagination at all, not are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the he said, It is the Lord ; let him do what seemeth a mere impression of the mind, but a power is pres- naked that thou cover him; and that thou hide him good. And Samuel grew,, and the Lord was ent which rises above and controls the human not thyself from thine own flesh ? " Isa. 58 : 6, 7. with him, and did let none of his words fall to the agent. The " word of the Lord " comes through Does not the instruction about bringing those ground. And all Israel front Dan even to Beer- " vision." that are cast out to our houses apply to the very sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a These positions are also evident from the language cases in question ? Do not such cases afford an prophet of the Lord. And the Lord appeared used in the prophetic books themselves, where it is opportunity to the church to carry out both the again in Shiloh ; for the Lord revealed himself to not directly stated that the writers had visions. letter and spirit of that teaching? Should not the Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord." The case of Jeremiah is one of interest. When he church be prepared to say to such, Obey your con- Verses 15-21. This narrative is very instructive was but a child like Samuel, he was called to be a victions of duty ; be loyal and true to God, come as to what is necessary in order to be a " prophet prophet of the Lord. Jer. 1 : 5. " I ordained thee what may ; and if, in consequence, you are obliged of the Lord " in the fullest sense, and also as a prophet." In Samuel's case we see it was by to leave home and friends, our doors are open to showing that having a " vision " and the Lord's a vision. Then he was recognized at once by all give you shelter, and you will find friends multi- "revealing himself by the word of the Lord" is Israel as a prophet "established " by the Lord. plying according to the words of Christ who has precisely the same thing. Doubtless this was so with Jeremiah. " Then the said :— God had not revealed himself in "open vision " Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth." " Verily I say unto you, there is no man that for quite a period of time previous to Samuel's ex- Verse 9. " Moreover the word of the Lord came hath left house or brethren, or sisters, or father, perience. It was a time of backsliding and apos- unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou ? And or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my tasy. Those who served in the temple of the Lord I said, I see a rod of an almond tree." Verse 11. sake and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hun- corrupted the people. They were in perplexity, He also shows him a "seething pot," and then tells dred fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, waiting for the signs of a true prophet to appear. him the signification of these views. Such lan- and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands God manifested himself to this lad Samuel by a guage can only apply to visions given by the Lord. with persecutions; and in the world to come vision. This was a "revelation by the word of The Lord touched his mouth as he did that of eternal life." Mark 10 : 29, 30. the Lord." A heavenly angel talked with him. Isaiah. It is plainly stated in chap. 6 : 7 that he To so open our arms and hearts to those who Then all Israel knew that a true prophet had once had a vision, and talked with him, and showed are oppressed for the truth's sake, would certainly more appeared. This devoted lad was " estab- him scenes which he brought before him by super- be according to the teaching of both prophets and lished " as such. natural power. This is but another way of say- apostles. In 2 Sam. 7, we have another instance showing ing he had a vision. —Peter, the blundering desciple, was the fore- that the " word of the Lord " comes through The prophet Amos commences his book with most apostle. A cold-blooded, impassive man, who " visions." David, in his prosperity, desired to these words : " The words of Amos, who was is always proper, is not chosen for a leader either build a magnificent temple to the Lord to show his among the her dmen of Tekoa, which he saw con- by God or man. The world lacks impulse rather gratitude for all his mercies unto him. He coun- coring Israel." than knoweledge, and a man of good and mighty seled with the prophet Na than relative to this, This is one of the terms most commonly used impulse will be called to the front in spite of many who at first told him " to do all that was in his when visions are given. The same term is used characteristic blunders.—Selected. heart." But that night " the word of the Lord by Micah in the first verse of his prophecy. Hab- orl

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akkuk uses the same expression, and presents be- of eleven days' march. What a significant state- increasing faith, union, and courage in the good fore its the scenes which he beheld. Zechariah ment that was I And how humiliating to those work. The writer has watched this cause with presents before us the views which were given who heard him ! Had every day been a day of untold interest for fifty years, and labored for its him; so we cannot doubt his having visions, though overcoming, every night had witnessed their tents advancement, if his weak efforts can be called la- he does not directly use that word. And all of pitched a day's march nearer the land of promise. bor. these prophets use the expression, "The word of A very brief period after the great work wrought The early history of the cause was a day of the Lord came unto me," etc., which we have shown at Sinai was sufficient to have taken them to the small things, and the means employed seemed in- is but an other expression for having visions. land which they sought. But they did not profit sufficient for the work. But the men and women We are therefore forced to conclude that all the by God's dealings with them. They did not over- of faith have known from the beginning that the distinctly prophetic books of the Old and New come. They went on, day after day, yielding to strong arm of the Lord was enlisted in this work. Testaments were revealed through visions. the power of Satan instead of resisting it, and so They have known that the set time to favor Zion a. T. B. instead of ,a comparatively brief journey to the land had come, and that the Lord had set his hand to of Canaan, they spent forty years of wandering in gather his people. They saw that the Lord was WHAT ONE PARENTHESIS CONTAINS. the wilderness, and every one of them, with two at the helm, and that the gospel ship, freighted exceptions, failed of entering the land which God with the remnant church and her cargo of restored THE book of Deuteronomy is a rehearsal of the designed for them. truth, tried faith, and perfected love, would come forty years' wanderings of Israel in the wilderness. How strikingly does this illustrate the religious safely into harbor. To the thoughtful reader of the Bible, it is a rec- experience of most professed Christians ! In an Dear brethren mid sisters, let us gratefully ac- ord of remarkable interest. Indeed, we can experience of forty years, how many there are who cept the encouragement the Lord is pleased to never exhaust its treasures of instruction and its have not traveled a greater distance than eleven give us at this stage of the work. Now is the lessons of experience. The second verse of the days' journey of a faithful disciple of Christ. How time, not to put off the armor, but to gird it on book is worthy of much more attention than it many at the end of this long period find themselves anew. No harm will come to those that abide in It is given in a parenthesis, as usually receives. at the borders of Egypt and not of Canaan ! How the ship. Now is the time to be active. Stand though breaking the connected story by an im- many whose heads are white for the grave, and to your post and work with your might: portant explanatory clause. Thus we read, Deut. who have been in name the disciples of Christ Let the sowers of the precious seed take courage. 1 : 2 : "(There are eleven days' journey from almost their whole lives, have spent, like Israel in You may sow in tears, and be called to bear bur- Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh- the wilderness, at least as much time in traveling dens that may seem heavy, but if faithful, you will barnea.)" from the promised land as toward it ! How awful return with joy, bringing your sheaves with you. From Horeb, which is but another name for this is to think of ! Fitly do such persons say, Now is the time to weep. Let the Lord's minis- Sinai, or else another peak of the same mountain, "I have made many crooked paths." They have ters weep, weep, weep, between the porch and the to Kadesh-barnea, which was close to the border indeed. And if they do not pay • the penalty altar. Let them cry aloud, and spare not ; let of the promised land, there was a distance of that Israel did, of coming short of the land of them lift up their voices like trumpets that give a eleven days' journey for the host of Israel. They promise, it will be because godly sorrow works certain sound, that the people may prepare for remained at Sinai nearly one year, receiving the repentance unto life. Alas ! what a miserable de- battle. Let the messengers gauge the truth, point law, constructing the tabernacle, and organizing ception is much that is called Christian experience, downward, so that it will go deep, and turn up the the camp of Israel. Then in the second year —what a dishonor to the cause of Christ is such subsoil of hearts congealed by error, tradition, and (Num. 10), the pillar of cloud removing, they fol- religion ! . sin. Let them deal plainly in view of the Judg- lowed its guidance to Kadesh-barnea. There were Christian experience is nothing more nor less ment. If the indolent, the lukewarm, and the some hindrances, and much that was evil in their than forming an acquaintance with Christ, which conduct by the way, yet eleven marching days from worldly, minded are stroked the rough way, it will becomes every day more intimate and precious. It be all the better. Sinai brought them to the land which God had prom- . They cannot be aroused too is following on to know the Lord. ised. That they were not fit for it, had been made It is adding soon. grace to grace. It is walking with God. It is re- How brightly the truth shines out amid the painfully apparent. Rebellion flowed from their .. sisting the •devil. It is humbling ourselves before evil hearts of unbelief, as naturally as water from darkness and errors of these last days ! God. It is overcoming temptation. It is keeping' a fountain. So it was proper that they'should be Battle Creek, Mich. ALBERT STONE. our face turned toward Canaan all the time. subjected to a trial that should show how far they It is advancing always. It is retrograding never. had profited by the wonderful dealings of God KANSAS POOR-FUND. It is bearing the cross of Christ. It is denying with them ; that should, in a word, show just what self. It is dying daily. It is not living ourselves, FOR nearly two years we have been making an they were. The report of the spies at this point but having Christ live in us. effort to raise a Rind for the poor among us, but in their history, furnished just the trials that they Eleven days of such Christian experience is we are sorry to say that we have not succeeded in needed. Num. 13 ; 14. So upon the very border accomplishing our design. Probably a little over of the land of promise, the people almost as one worth more than forty years of such as most per- sons are satisfied with. Why is it that men can forty dollars, all told, has been raised ; over one man broke out in such rebellion against God that hundred has been expended. So all that has been with a solemn oath he swore that they should never• learn that the service of self and Satan is not the service of Christ ? That progress made given has been used, and over sixty dollars has never set their feet upon the soil of that good. land been borrowed, leaving the fund that much behind The spies that had visited the land had spent with our back toward Canaan and our face toward forty days in examining it, and God fixed the pe- Egypt, will never bring us to the land of promise. now. And even to journey in the right direction fora A few weeks ago one of our brethren was so un- riod of their wanderings in the wilderness at fortyfortunate as to have his house burned ; nearly all years, each day of the spies' examination of the time, and to offset this with an equal or greater retrograde march, is to make no progress in the that they had was destroyed, and he was sick. land being answered by a year of wandering in the The church wrote for help ; but the fund was ex- wilderness. idirection. Can we findnothingin allthis for solemn admonition 1 How much progress have hausted, and more too. Therefore there was no What a terrible sentence to be pronounced upon a we made in the five, or ten, or twenty, or forty means on hand for that purpose. Now it seems to people, just ready, as they supposed, to enter the land ! years that we have been on the road ? How far me that it is all wrong, that in the midst of plenty They must wander forty years. And that was not are we from the point where we set out to gain we do not make special provision for the worthy the worst of it. When that time should expire, it was the kingdom of God? Are we even now gaining poor in our ranks. I wish to copy a little bear- , not the purpose of God that they should enter the P ground day by day 7 If not, it may be set down ing on this point from Testimony No. 31, pp. land. No, by no means I On the contrary, every 0 as a moral certainty that we shall never enter the 146, 147 : "In every church there should be estab- one of, that host of men and women, with almost the land of promise. We cannot afford to lose one fished a treasury for the poor. Then let each mem- smallest possible exception, knew that they should day. ' Tis time we all awake ; the dreadful day ber present a thank offering to God once a week or die before that period expired. And so they did,, once a month, as is most convenient. draws near. J. N. A. This offering the second numbering of Israel attesting the fact will express our gratitude for the gifts of health, of that not one of the. vast host of rebellious men PROGRESS. food, and of comfortable clothing. And according and women remained alive. Num. 26 : 63-65. as God has blessed us with these comforts will we And now at the end of their forty years' sojourn, WE congratulate the friends of truth and moral lay by for the poor, the suffering, and distressed. Moses rehearses their long and weary wandering reform in view of the encouraging state and hope- I would call the "attention of our brethren es- in the wilderness. How much time had they ful prospects of the cause of present truth. We pecially to this point. Remember the poor, fore- spent from Sinai to the promised land ? About join in the general feeling of praise and thanksgiv- go some of your luxuries,' yea, some of your corn- thirty-nine years. How far was it actually from ing to the Father of all mercies and the God of all forts, and help those who can only obtain the the one point to the other ? Only eleven days' grace, that he is drawing nearer to his afflicted most meager food and clothing. In doing for journey. No wonder Moses could not enter upon people, and that he is giving special help to the them you are doing for Jesus in the person of this forty years of needless wandering without cause that lies so near their hearts. Encouraging his Saints. He identifies himself with suffering pausing to tell his hearers that it was a distance reports reach us from every part of the field, of humanity. Do not wait until your imaginary wants

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are all satisfied. Do not trust to your feelings, and death, I answer, Such an hypothesis is not justi- the death or incontinence of the other party to the give when you feel like it and withhold when you fled by the context. It is assumed to enable the marriage. The word "loosed" has the following feel like it. Give reguarly either ten, twenty, or objector to remove a recognizedcu difficultylty. definitions, according to Worcester; "Not fastened The declaration of Paul to the Jews at Rome, as fifty cents a week, as you would like to see upon the or confined • unbound." found in Acts 28 : 17, is unqualified, and therefore ' ' heavenly record in the day of God. Do not wait for covers all the customs of the fathers. He is not 2. I understand that in 2 Cor. 7 : 5 Paul inti- them to call your attention to their needs. Act as simply arguing that he was not at the time in mates that when in Macedonia he met with con- did Job. The things that he knew not he searched question violating any of the customs of the fa- tinual opposition and persecution from his enemies, out. Go on an inspecting tour, and learn what is thers, the penalty for the violation of which was and that these were so tierce that at times he trem- needed and how it can best be supplied." death ; he went a step beyond that, claiming that bled for cause of God and was ereatly distressed in the instance under consideration he was guilty hi mind. e, The foregoing speaks so plain that all may see of violatine•b none of the customs whatever. Noth- what is duty in this matter. ing less than that would have enabled him to stand 3. In Heb. 2 : 2, the expression, "if the word Now I hope we shall study these words and before the Jews at Rome justified in making the spoken by angels was steadfast," contains an allu- commence at once to establish a fund that may be defense which he did make. Do you inquire,- sion to the fact that angels were employed more or large enough to meet all the necessities that may How, then, it is possible to vindicate Paul's course less in communicating the ceremonial law to Mo- arise in that direction. If each one should put in at Rome, if, as I claim, he had actually been guilty ses. Paul reasons thus : If a law given in part by only from five to fifty cents a quarter, it would on different occasions of disregarding the customs beings inferior to Christ was enforced rigidly, and of the Jewish. fathers? I answer, It is very easy soon raise a large fund. its infraction severely punished, how much more , to do so when the text is properly translated. In I appeal to every member of our churches in the original the verb which is translated "have severely will those be punished who set at naught Kansas to remember what the Lord has said about committed': is in the aorist tense, and should be the words of Christ I thus contributing for the poor. I appeal to every rendered, "had committed." When the passage 219. —EVEN HIM. elder of a church, director of a district, and to our is thus rendered, it simply teaches that at the time ministers at large. Join your efforts to stir up the that Paul was arrested and delivered to the Ro- E. B. C.: Our people generally understand the people on this matter at least once a quarter. mans hedone,had or was doing (a sense properly words, "Even him whose coming," found in 2 conveyedyb the aorist tense), nothing against the Thess. 2 : 9, to refer to Christ. They also under- Let it not be a spasmodic effort, but see that customs of the fathers, and therefore his arrest was every quarter it is brought before the church, and unjustifiable. Such a defense was necessary to re- stand, that the working of Satan with all power, that the brethren unite in doing something in this lieve him from the odium naturally connected with etc., spoken of in the same connection, as some- dfrection. Let the contributions be paid into the his condition as a prisoner sent to Rome on a thing which is to be fulfilled in modern spiritual- church treasury, and thence forwarded to the State charge which had been made by his own country- ism. Treasurer, A. G. Miller, as so much for the poor men. 220.—SIN AND NO SIN. That the interpretation of Acts 28 : 17 offered fund. above, as found in the original, is correct, the fol- B. J. : I harmonize 1 John 1 : 8-10 and 1 John If these persons mentioned fail to present this lowing recent translations will prove : "I, broth- 3 : 6-9, as follows : In the former, the apostle subject, let some one else take it up. Don't let it inn, though I committed nothing against the peo- teaches that we all have sin, or in other words, rest. Jesus is suffering in the person of his poor ple, or customs of our fathers, yet was delivered that all have sinned. In the latter text, he is prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the saints. And shall we not open our hearts and our speaking.in general terms of those who are born of Romans."—Dean Alford's Translation. "Though purses? God, and declares that they do not sin; e. i., they The ledger of heaven is fast closing.Shall we let I had done nothing.," etc.—Revised Version. if b b having done nothing,ei, etc.,—S. Bagster é Sons Lit. do not deliberately sin. Doddridge renders it it be closed up with the balance against us that the grans. The reader will at once perceive that the thus : "Doth not practice sin ;" Macknight, thus : poor should have had? Shall we hear it said, "In- translations cited above make it clear that Paul in "Doth not work sin." asmuch as ye did it not to the least of these my the text before us did not intend to cover the brethren, ye did it not unto me ?" Fearful words whole range of his Christian experience by what 221.—THE FLESH AND BLOOD OF CHRIST. are these to stand against us in the heavenly he said in regard to the customs of the fathers; A. F.: I understand that in John 6 : 53, our but that it applied merely to the point of time at ledger. J. H. Come. Lord meant to be understood as teaching that men which he was delivered to the Romans, and the ' -`*-"-'''''' could be saved only through his death. It would ------offenses charged against him then and there. Turning to the 22d, 23d, and 24th chapters of be absurd to suppose that he meant to inculcate onmentarp. Acts, we find-that he was charged with defiling the the doctrine that men must literally eat his flesh temple, etc., etc., but that the controversy in no and drink his blood. We conclude, therefore, that wise turned upon the Sabbath question, and there- he meant to teach that we should eat the one and "Tell me the meaning of Scripture. One gem from that ocean is fore that Paul did not have it in his mind when worth all the pebbles of earthly streams."—M' Ohmic. drink the other in a spiritual sense ; i. e., that as he uttered the words found in Acts 28 : 17. Here we must drop the subject. Should it be suggested our bodies are built up by what we eat and drink, SCRIPTURE QUESTIONS. that our theory demolishes what has been supposed so we are dependent for eternal life upon the atone- to be a strong argument in favor of the Sabbatarian went which was made possible through the death ANSWERS BY W. H. LITTLEJOHN. practices of the great apostle to the Gentiles, we of Christ and the shedding of his blood. The Lord's reply, Let it go; the Sabbath truth is too well for- supper, with its broken bread, and wine poured 216.—THE CUSTOMS OF OUR FATHERS. tilled to need the support of a false interpretation out into the cup, furnishes an impressive expres- How do you interpret Acts 28 :17 7 A. L. An unsound argument is like a of Scripture. lion of the same thought in symbolic form. ANS. Somewhat differently from the manner boomerang, which when hurled by an unskillful in which it is usually interpreted. Our ministers hand is liable to return and smite him who pro- 222.—ISA. 34 : 9. often employ it as a proof-text to show that Paul jetted it. He who uses Acts 28 : 17 in the Sab- was an observer of the seventh-day Sabbath. I bath argument, by giving it an interpretation such MRS. R. W : I think Isaiah 34 : 9 will be ful- am satisfied that in doing so they are not justified as the one which is combated in this article, will, filled in the future. by the principles of sound exegesis. Paul was un- if pitted against a wily antagonist, get worsted in doubtedly an observer of the seventh-day Sab- the discussion. 223. —NOT MADE WITH HANDS. bath ; but this text does not prove that such was A. H. V.: In 2 Cole 5 : 1, the heavenly house, 217.—CLEANSED BY WATER, ETC. the case. or resurrection body, is spoken of as ac not made argument usually employed in the matter in What is meant in Eph. 5 :26, by " cleanse it with the washing of A. S. with hands," by way of contrasting it with the question runs as follows : Paul declared to the water by the word",? Jews that he had done nothing against the customs ANS. The apostle, when speaking of the rela- earthly body, or our present physical organization. of their fathers at any time. Seventh-day Sab- tionship of husband and wife, compares it to that In the Scriptures the term "not made with hands" bath observance was a custom of the Jewish fa- of Christ to the church. The husband should love is applied to anything which is produced by the thers ; therefore as Paul states that he had done the wife, and desire her sanctification and purifica- miraculous power of God without the intervention nothing against those customs, he must have kept tion, even as Christ is anxious that his, spouse, the of man. Dan. 2 : 45. Our present bodies are the the seventh day. church, should be purified through the word of result of natural generation. They are therefore The weak point in this syllogism lies in its ma- corrupted, and in one sense may be said to be the jor premise. Paul certainly did not mean to be God, as physical uncleanness is washed away in understood as saying that he had never done any- the bath. production of human agencies. The resurrection thing against the customs of the Jewish fathers, It is not impossible that there is also an allusion body, on the other hand, will be free from corrup- since that would not have been strictly true. Cir- here to baptism, which, perhaps, not only typifies tion, and will be the direct product of the Divine cumcision, for example, was a custom of the fa- the death and resurrection of Christ, but also our energy. thers, and enforced by the Mosaic Law. Luke 2 : 27. purification from sin as a consequence of that death 224.—THE 144,000. But it will not be denied that Paul struck against and resurrection. Acts 22 : 16 . the rite of circumcision. Gal. 5 : 6; Gal. 2 : 3-5 ; I. A. W. : I understand that the one hundred There are also many other customs of Gal. 5 : 2. 218.—THREE TEXTS EXPLAINED. and forty-four thousand will include those who the fathers which Paul set at naught, but we have not space to mention them here. Should it be re- J. C. M. : 1. In 1 Cor. 7 : 27, 28, Paul refers have died in the message since 1844 and those who plied that Paul was talking only about those ens- either to one who has never been married, or to will be alive and be changed at the coming of toms the neglect of which was punishable with One who has been released from marriage either by, Christ. L 92 THE REVIEW AN_D HERALD. "[VOL. 61, No. 9.

ings the past few weeks gives us new courage ; RECOMPENSE. MAINE. and as new courage and a deeper interest are man- EAGER to see, yet willing other eyes PRESQUE ISLE, JAN. 23.—We closed our meetings ifested by those who profess the truth, we may ex- Instead of mine, should catch the happy light; at this place with a general meeting last Sabbath pect to see the cause rise and the work prosper. And blind to beauty in the earth and skies, and Sunday. Two, a man and his wife from Rich- I still could walk by faith if not by sight. 0. A. OLSEN, mond, N. B., accepted the- Sabbath at this meeting. H. GRANT. Eager to hear, yet willing other ears The man bad been an infidel for some years, but was Should listen to the music clear and strong; convinced of his error by reading the Bible. He Content to wait in silence through the years, OHIO. • If I might bear at last the sweet, new song. has preached some, although he has not identified himself with any denomination. Twelve), in all, NEWARK, OHIO, JAN. 29.—We have just closed Eager to climb, yet willing other feet received the Sabbath as the result of our meetings. a series of meetings at this place, consisting of Should go before me in some upward way, If I might follow on, and so complete Some of these are not professors. As there were twenty-two discourses. The meetings were well The lonely journey ere the close of day. five here that were keeping the Sabbath when we attended, and a fair interest was manifested. We came, they will have Sabbath meetings and a Sab- think some real good was accomplished. Eager to do, yet willing other hands Should grasp and hold the toiler's well-worn gain, bath-school. We have commenced meetings at a My work now closes in this Conference, for the If I might only feel that he who stands school-house about two miles distant, with a good present, at least. May we all be faithful till Jesus With patient waiting, does not wait in vain. congregation. Shall meet with the brethren in their COMPS. G. G. RUPERT. Eager for love, the crown of all life's bliss; Sabbath meetings and Sabbath-school. We need But willing still to bear its thorns and cross; the prayers of our brethren that the Lord may give YOUNGSTOWN, JAN. 20.—Last Sunday and Mon- Asking and seeking for no more than this, us strength and wisdom for this work. day I was at Grove City, and I think the Lord di- A holier love to fill the human loss. S. J. HERSUM. rected the way ; • for the Spirit of the Lord was with Eager for all; yet glad through all to say, us in our meeting. I met quite a number of the "Thy will not mine be always done with me :" people, prayed with them, and spoke of the near- Not in life's darkness, but in heaven's bright day IOWA. Its plan and piirpose I shall clearly see. ness of the second advent of our Lord, and our WESLEY AND ALGONA.—From Swea I went to —Mrs. C. B. Le Bow, in N. Y. Observer. duty in regard to the commandments of God. The Wesley to labor among the Scandinavians living Spirit of the Lord accompanied the word spoken. in that vicinity. Some here endeavored to close Two dear sisters covenanted to keep all the com- the school-house against me, but others listened to mandments of God, and subscribed for the REVIEW purgrez5 the to the word with joy. I sold tracts to the amount for one year. Several others are halting between of $1.29, and five Bibles ; four subscriptions to two opinions. the Tidende were received, and five for the Har- I expect to return soon and hold more meet- " He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing preeiot s seed, shall doubt- less come again with. rejoieing,hringing his sheaves with him."--Ps. 126:6. olden. The last evening I received $4 in donations. ings. May God help us all to stand firm and The 18th, I came to Algona with a few of the faithful through the days of trial and temptation. friends from Wesley to attend the dedication of A few more battles with the enemy and the vic- INDIANA. the church here. I expect to return to Wesley tory will be won. H. T. HOOVER. soon, however, as the members there manifest the ARLINGTON, JAN. 25.—The interest here is great. The large church edifice in which our meetings are spirit of the Bereans (Acts 17 10, 11), and I hope DUNKIRK, WATERFORD, AND CORSICA.--We had held is filled nightly with hundreds of deeply in- that some may obey God. At present, I shall visit held four meetings at Dunkirk, when a telegram terested hearers. During the canvass of the Sab- some of the churches with Eld. E. G. Olsen, that called one of us to attend the funeral of our be- bath question the audiences increased rather than I may become better acquainted with. the Scandi- loved brother, EM. A. M. Mann. Bro. Gates re- diminished. Next Sabbath will be held our first navian work. My permanent address will be mained and continued the meetings with good Sabbath meeting ; and I trust to see many pub- Algona, Box 68. results. Our brethren were Much encouraged. A licly embrace the Sabbath. Some have already Jan. 21. JOHN WILSON. V. M. Society was organized, and clubs of the taken their stand for the truth, notwithstanding REVIEW, Signs, and Sabbath Sentinel were taken. FONTANELLE, JAN. 28.—I came to this place Dec. our meetings have continued but two weeks. A This town will be canvassed for the Sabbath Sen- 6, and have held meetings constantly, with the debate here is inevitable. Pray for the work here. tinel and Good Health. We held three meetings exception of the week of holidays, until last eve- A. W. BARTLETT. at Waterford while there to attend Bro. Mann's ning, the interest increasing from the first. The funeral, which we will speak of hereafter. last weeks of the meeting the German church, in At Corsica our meetings were also encouraging. EDEN, Jan. 28.—We closed a two days' discuss- which the meetings were held, was full to over- This was the district quarterly meeting. Our ion at this place on the Sabbath and Sunday ques- flowing, at times many going away, unable to ob- brethren took hold to lift in the good work. Over tions the 25th inst. The victory for the truth is tain even comfortable standing room. As the result one thousand copies of the Sabbath Sentinel will complete and unquestioned. The Methodists sent of the meetings, twelve were added to the church, be taken by this district, one brother taking five to Greenfield for a minister. Be promised them nine by baptism, and three subject to baptism hundred. Who will follow his example ? We want that he, could drive us from the field. While I at a future time. Several others are keeping the five thousand copies to come to this State. The was attending our State meeting they commenced Sabbath, and a goodly number are on the point of two hundred Manuals we ordered to this State as a protracted meeting, continuing it nine days. deciding to do so. ,premiums for Good Health are already gone. Why Three ministers were in attendance. When they We used the Congregational church for the first not have one thousand new subscribers for Good learned that they were not going to get any addi- three weeks, and afterward the German Lutheran, Health in this State during the next six weeks 7 tions to their church, they preached against what both of which were kindly granted us free of cost. No family can afford to be without it. We have we had been teaching, saying very many unbecom- We have had but little opposition, and the truth about $3,000 pledged on our reading-room fund, ing and untruthful things. Our friends prevailed seems to be taking deep root in the hearts of very and thus far we have been largely among our poorest upon the minister from Greenfield to remain and many. brethren. R. A. UNDERWOOD. discuss with me. The result is very favorable in- During the week of the holidays we visited the E. H. GATES. deed. We are locked out of the church, but the church at Osceola, and held seven meetings with prospect is that a new church Wilding will soon be them. Left them encouraged, and wishing for erected in the village. more help. We are sure a meeting of two or three MICHIGAN. Arrangements are being made for us to occupy weeks' duration- would be productive of good re- a vacant house for Sabbath meetings and preach- HOYTVILLE AND VERMONTVILLE. —Wednesday, sults at Osceola. We go now to Afton, and will the 16th., in company with Bro. Hill, I went to ing once a week until better conveniences can be hold meetings there during the week, returning to provided. Calls are coining in from all quarters Hoytville. Bro. Starr, who had labored there Fontenelle on the Sabbath for a time. Our cour- with the tent last summer, was there, and in the for preaching. Ten or more kept last Sabbath. age is good in the Lord. J. D. PEGG. If we had a good place for preaching at present, evening we held our first meeting. We had to perhaps the result of our efforts would be more meet in a private dwelling as there was no public than we can expect as it is. I am holding meet- MINNESOTA. place open for our use. There was quite a room- ings evenings this week in a school-house two and full of interested hearers, and we spoke to them of one-half miles from the village. WM. COVERT. AMONG THE CHURCHES. —Jan. 5-7 we held meet- the Christian church and its duties. The next ings at West Union. Sabbath was a very cold day we met together at the house of Bro. Maynard, day, which made our opening meeting somewhat at 10 : 30 A. M., and proceeded to organize a church ILLINOIS. small. But the meetings increased in interest and of nine members. Bro. and Sr. Maynard will join attendance to the last. Our brethren and sisters by letter from the Sheridan church. They all CHICAGO. —Our Biblical lectures which we com- seemed to be aroused to a sense of our time and unanimously adopted the tithing system. Bro. menced to give here in the Scandinavian tongue, work as they never had before. Many of the Dwight Stevens was chosen and ordained elder. Jan. 13, have continued now for two weeks with neighbors also showed marked interest. _ This church will be known in the Michigan Con- the best of interest, and with a class of hearers On the 8th and 9th we held five meetings at ference as the Hoytville church, Hoytville being which we truly delighted to have before us. The Lake Ellen. There seemed to be a good outside the post-office address. hand-bills, containing a list of some of the subjects interest to hear, and Sr. Johnson remains to follow Sabbath and Sunday, ,Tan. 19, 20, I was at Ver- we intended to bring before the people, and the ad- up the work. Jan. 12, 13, we were with the church moutville, and enjoyed pod meetings with the few vertising in the daily papers, created a lively in- at Minneapolis. There is quite a large body of Sab- commandment-keepers that represent the cause terest, which has continued unabated. We have bath-keepers here, and if harmony and union pre- there. Most of them embraced the truth under passed through the prophecies, and shall soon test vail, and right relations to the truth and work, the labors of Bro. and Sr. Owen during their tent the people on the law of 'God and the message for the church might be a strong one. We tried to effort last summer. Sabbath was a good day with this time. deal faithfully in the fear of God, and we have us, some being present from other places. We had Remember the cause in this great city at the reason to believe that the effort will not be in vain. a good Sabbath-school and two discourses. Our throne of grace. J. F. HANSON. The blessing of the Lord manifested in our meet- meetings were held at the private residence of Bro. FEB. 5, 1884.]" THE REVIEW AND _HERALD. 93

Bronson. Sunday morning we organized a church we can meet on the banks of the "river of life," locality, as all irrigated lands are more or less ma- of nine members here also. Several others will never again to part with those we love. After the larial. This valley has a small stream known as soon unite with them by letter. The tithing sys- farewells had been said, we drove to Ballard, a dis- the Napa river, and the land is devoted to vine- tem was also adopted here. Bro. Hill was present tance of twenty-five miles, where we held meetings yards, orchards of apples, peaches, apricots, prunes, and organized a T. and M. Society. Bro. Bronson until Monday evening. The meetings here were oranges, and other varieties of fruit. The Napa was elected elder, and was ordained at the close of also profitable seasons of waiting before the Lord. mountains are on the east. The Sonoma, range the public service in the afternoon. May the rich Tuesday we came to Springside where we re- on the west is a protection from the changes and blessing of God rest on these little companies, and mained until the following Sunday. While here disagreeableness of the western sea-coast, so ob- may each of them be a nucleus around which many we attempted, with the help of the Lord, to teach jectionable to some. souls shall be gathered into the fold. our friends that their strength is in Jesus, and The Rural Health Retreat is located about three Jan. 23. I. D. VAN HORN. that an entire consecration to the Lord and per- miles north of the enterprising little city of St. fect faith in his promises are all that w ill enable Helena, on the western slope of the Napa range, MONTEREY.—The T. and M. quarterly meeting of us to stand in the trying hour that is just before and full three hundred and fifty feet above the Dist. No 4, held here Jan. 19;20, was a good one. us. valley. We reached the Retreat by a winding We expect, if the Lord wills, to begin a series and picturesque road in the dusk of the evening, The attendance was larger for a meeting of this of meetings this week about five miles from this kind than we have had for years. The meeting and not until the beautiful sunlight of New Year's place. Pray for us brethren, that we may so ord6r morning burst upon us, did our eyes open upon commenced on Friday evening and continued un- our lives that the Lord can crown our efforts with til Sunday evening. A goodly number from the situation. And then, as we stood upon the abroad were present through the entire meeting, success. veranda and gazed upon the surrounding mount- Our address will still be Garrison, Pott. Co., ains covered with evergreen, and the lovely valley some remaining until Monday morning who had WILL D. CURTIS. intended to return Sunday afternoon. We are Kans. with its orchards and vineyards, we could but ex- glad to see this increasing interest in these meet- claim, How lovely! how beautiful! decidedly the ings. VERMONT. finest and grandest picture that ever burst upon Sabbath forenoon was taken up with the Sab- my vision! We think no one can visit this place bath-school and a discourse. The most interesting AMONG THE CHURCHES.—Our meetings with the without heartily commending the wisdom that part of the school was a class of little children. churches the past few weeks have been very en- located this Health Retreat. They were familiar with their lesson, and in the re- couraging, and we, trust profitable. The meetings Crystal Spring, just above the Retreat, on the view exercises answered promptly. This made an and Bible-readings with the church of Irasburgh mountain side, furnishes an abundant supply of impression upon older persons. It is not a vain and Charleston, were seasons of interest, and we water, the purest of the pure. It is a luxury in- work to labor in the Sabbath-school. ..xh the after- think, of instruction. deed to bathe in such water. The climate seems noon we had an excellent social meeting. The We could not fill our appointment at East Rich- to be everything that could be desired. I have faltering voice and falling tear gave evidence of the ford, owing to the severity of the weather and im- been here now three weeks, and though it is mid- presence of the tender Spirit of the Lord. It was passable roads, but we enjoyed very much the winter, I never saw more delightful weather in a good place to be in. meeting and visits at Troy, where we were detained. Ohio or Michigan in the month of April. And The time Sunday during the day was occupied We met with the brethren in Cabot at their this, I am told, is only a fair specimen of the winters by the T. and M. business. The tender Spirit of quarterly meeting. With the mercury running here. In the front yard may be seen the rose. the Lord did not leave us when we engaged in this from 35° to 40° below zero, we could expect but verbena, geranium, and other flowers, in full bloom, part of the work. This is an evidence that the few from abroad. Several of the canvassers were How many poor invalids, in the eastern States Lord sanctions the efforts of his people in this di- with us, and their testimonies added to the inter- hugging the unhealthy. stove, would more than rection. Former mistakes were confessed, and res- est of the meetings. The ordinances were celebrated, rejoice to be here. I am informed that it is an olutions presented and carried, which, if adhered to and we did what missionary work we could. The excellent summer retreat also, and it is very ob- in the future, we believe will give new life to the hope and courage of some who had been struggling vious that it is so; but it is more obvious that it missionary work. with trials, were greatly removed. From this is an invaluable winter retreat,.especially for east- The general feeling was that we had a good meeting Bro. 1. E. Kimball went out to canvass ern people. meeting, and it was a place where courage was giv- for " Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation." The facilities for treating the sick are being im- en to engage in the work of the Lord. We desire From here we went to Worcester, where we proved, and it is intended to make the artificial the continued blessing of the Lord upon the work visited friends who have recently embraced the advantages something on a par with the natural, in Dist. No. 4. M. B. MILLER. Sabbath. A Sabbath meeting was held. Bro. and thus make it an institution at least equal to M. E. Kellogg was with us and spoke once. We any in the United States. Treatment is efficiently also met some of our canvassers here, accompanied administered to bof h. ladies and gentlemen. KANSAS. by a brother who has ,just embraced the Sabbath A wealthy gentleman from New York, who has through missionary efforts. It is gratifying to been an invalid for many years, has just spent BALLARD, SPRINGSIDE, ETC.—In harmony with witness the progress some of these brethren and the request of our brethren of Dist. No. 3 to meet considerable time here to his great benefit. He sisters have made in the truth in so brief a period has spent nine years at Saratoga, some time in with them in their quarterly meeting, my wife of time. May their motto continue to be " Grow and started Thursday, Jan. 10, to drive a dis- Florida, and has visited many other places of note in grace," and may the crown of life be theirs. in the East and in this State, but is decided in tance of fifty-five miles to the place the director Yesterday we spoke to the friends at Wolcott, had appointed for the meeting. It was an in- giving the preference to our Rural Health Retreat. and celebrated the ordinances, and in the evening He says it is the finest locality he has seen, any- tensely cold day, and many thought we would held a Bible-reading. One was added to the suffer ; but we found it pleasant withal in doing where; and others who have traveled extensively church. One brother nearly eighty years of age, say the same thing. duty. who has recently embraced the Sabbath, was with The meeting began on Sabbath evening, and we us and bore a good testimony. The meeting was Our people in the East will do well to advertise had a precious season of waiting before the Lord. a good one for the little company here. Let us all the Rural Health Retreat. And may it be the With very few exceptions, our brethren and sisters hope and pray and labor for more devotion to God, the means, through the blessing of God, of ben- had come up to the meeting bringing the Spirit of for more love for perishing souls, and for more of efiting the souls and bodies of many people. _the Lord with them ; and the few who had become the missionary spirit in all our churches. H. A. ST. JOHN. somewhat " weary in well doing " quite generally. St. Helena, Cal., Jain. 24, 1884. . returned to the Father's house, and began anew "Workers beloved! There are spots in his vineyard yet untitled; the warfare against Satan and sin. The Sabbath There are hearts aching, longing, yet unfilled, AN exchange says : " Mr. Spurgeon sounds a was spent in fasting and humilation, and the Lord Waiting for thee." warning note against the habit becoming too com- came very near. There was awakened a deep Jan. 20. A. S. HUTCHINS. hungering for the bread of life, and a desire for a mon in many pulpits, of prominently describing the deeper experience in the things of God. At each theories of unbelievers. He does not think it nec- meeting the solemnity increased ; and the united RIIRAL HEALTH RETREAT, essary in giving a guest wholesome food to accom- cries of God's people brought the blessing in an pany it with a dose of poison, and declares that AT ST. HELENA, CALIFORNIA. abundant measure. many young men have got their first notions of in- The business meeting was characterized by WE reached Oakland, Cal., Monday morning, fidelity from these ministers, having sucked in the promptness and order on the part of the members. December 24, 1883. Spent one week in the cities poison and discarded the antidote." This is There were some good resolutions adopted, which, of Oakland and San Francisco. Attended meet- if carried out, will open up a new interest in the ing with the San Francisco church on the Sabbath, equally true of the press. Many editors, think T. and M. work. We were much pleased with and preached at the Sailors' Home on Sunday, in they must publish to the world what Robert In- the financial standing of the district at the present the same city. gersoll says in order to show their great ability to time. We could not help comparing it with that Having taken a severe cold in crossing the controvert or show the fallacy of his views, while of a year ago. At that time the district was mountains, which, instead of abating, rather grew at the same time unintentionally they poison the heavily in debt, and at each quarterly meeting worse, I decided to go to St. Helena, to our Rural minds of many young persons who would never considerable urging had to be done to raise means Health Retreat, at which place I arrived on Mon- hear of the false doctrines without such publica- to keep the work moving ; but under the efficient day evening, December 31. Found Bro. and Sr. management of the present officers, guided by the Rogers glad to see us; and they gave us a hearty tions.—Bible Banner. Spirit of the Lord, a different state of things has welcome. been brought about ; and the district has now a St. Helena is about sixty miles north of Oak- good credit on the ledgers of the State Society. land, in the beautiful Napa valley. There are —If what you have received from God you share Our farewell meeting was held Sunday, at 10 about twenty-six inches of rain-fall annually in with the poor, you thereby gain a blessing ; but A. M. It was indeed a solemn occasion, and we this valley, rendering irrigation unnecessary, thus if what you have taken from the poor you give to looked forward with great desire to the time when adding materially to the healthfulness of the God, you purchase thereby a curse.

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— The French Premier, aroused by the visit of the numerous to fill one car, and all report the affair as German Crown Prince to the Pope, has promised very enjoyable. .a. this ,of toe "telt. amelioration of the condition of the clergy, and dis- " The annual donation of our minister is to be Feb- parsed religious orders in France. ruary 7. More of the particulars hereafter. . . . " Tidings of those things came."—Acts 11 . 22. EGYPT AND THE FALSE PROPHET. The box sociable last week Thursday evening was a — decided success. The drawing of the boxes and the —An army of occupation of 6,000 men for Egypt odd pairing off caused lots of laughter. FOR THE WERE ENDING FEBRUARY 2. will be provided for in the British budget. "There is to be a social dance of Barre people at DOMESTIC. —The commander of the British troops is engaging the Pavilion Tuesday evening, Feb. 5. The Howard numerous English officers for the Egyptian army, and opera house orchestra, seven pieces, will furnish the --Of the seventy-six senators, twenty are million- everything points to a British occupation of Egypt for music. aires. Ian indefinite period. " The Episcopal church sociable held at the Grand -The belle of Waterbury, Vt., is dying from using —Mr. Chamberlain, in a speech at Birmingham, Army Hall .•last Thursday evening was a decided sue- arsenic to beautify the complexion. said her Majesty's government would not permit the cess, financially considered, and would have been in Mandi's rebellion to interfere with the projected re- tevery otherhresp ect exce pt for the alcof room. B e- —Wendell Phillips is dangerously ill at Boston. ween one undred and s eventy-five and two hundred His malady is heart disease. forms which it had in mind for the welfare of the Egyptian people. persons were present. Good music was furnished for —The first discovery of tin in this country has been dancing, and refreshments were served during the made in King's Mountain, Cleveland Co., N. C. —The London Times, in a leading article, says the evening. The highest expectations of the ladies in fact that Baron Rothschild has lent the Khedive nearly charge were more than realized." —An epidemic of a peculiar character is killing off £1,000,000 implies confidence. The financiers of _.r.____ cattle in large numbers in DeWitt Co., Ill. England have taken Egypt in hand and will see her —The House of Representatives Friday passed the safely through her troubles. England cannot retire bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter by a vote of 186 now without exposing Egypt to a worse condition of to 78. anarchy than that which prevailed under Arabi Pasha. hituarp Ontift# —Three cars of a passenger train rolled down an FRANCE AND CHINA. —Reports concerning the prog- embankment near Southwick, Mass., early Wednesday ress of affairs in Tonquin are very meager this week. "Messed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth."—Rev. morning, injuring several persons. A report was current in the lobbies of the French 14:13. —The immigration to this country from Europe Chamber Wednesday, that the French forces, under through the port of New York foots up for the year Admiral Courbet, had recently stormed Bac Ninh and KINNAMAN. —Died at the residence of her parents, just closed a total of 388,342 persons against 454. 747 had been repulsed. The report irritated the members near Smithland, Iowa, Lucy J., youngest daughter of for 1882. of the Chamber because the government maintained W. W. and E. S. Kinnaman, aged eighteen months silence in regard to. it. The Paris Temps says : " The -- The Phoenix Glass Works at Phillipsburg, Ohio , and fifteen days. Little Lucy has been laid away to language of Marquis Tseng, the Chinese ambassador, • • burned Tuesday night, entailing a loss of $125,000 and await the I.4t-e-giver at the resurrection of the just. continues to be most warlike.• He is• only awaiting' ' an N. L. McOLINTom throwing 500 hands out of employment. attack on Bac Ninh to make a formal declaration of —Fifty-five Apache children left the San Carlos war against France. The Chinese government has or- Agency, in Arizona, Sunday for the Carlisle Training dered the Viceroys of the different provinces to report CALKINS. —Died near Tomah, Wis., Jan., 11, 1884, School in Pennsylvania. They are accompanied by immediately the number of soldiers they can furnish. Priscilla, wife of Bro. Albert G. Calkins, in the for- four chiefs of the tribe, tieth year of her age. She was the victim of consump- tion, and suffered a long time under the hand of a lin- -After an entertainment at Pana, Ill., Thursday RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. night for the benefit of Emma Bond, unknown per- geeing disease. The Christian experience of Sr. Calk- ins dates from her childhood, when she joined the sons hung Judge Philips, who presided at the trial of —Troubles in churches are increasing. When des- Montgomery, in effigy on the common church of the Disciples. In the spring of 1876, under cons and ministers get to calling each other liars or the first labors of the writer, she embraced present —" There is one little spot on the face of the globe," words to that effect, great " occasion is given to the truth, and has since endeavored to perfect a Christian said Mr. Keifer in the House the other day, "oneememiesof Godblto blaspheme. "—Christian Advocate. character. Her faith in God triumphed. She con- little isle tributary to that great civilized nation, Eng- —The case of the First Methodist Church vs. H. A. templated death without dread, and fearlessly entered land, that gives to women the full right to vote with Massey is being tried at Cleveland, Ohio. Two years the valley of its shadow. Father and mother, hus- I men, and that is th6 Isle of Man." ago the defendant, who is prominent in the Chautau- band, three sons, and a large circle of relatives, mourn —A new sheep disease in the Montana ranges is qua Assembly, subscribed $1,000 to the fund for can- her loss. Funeral services were held Jan. 13. Words decimating the herds. The animals suddenly swell collation of the church debt, later refused to keep his of comfort from the. text, "Let me die the death of up, bleed at the nose, and expire in a few minutes. word, and the trustees have sued to recover. the righteous." C. C. TENNEY. Hundreds die in a day, and there is no means of diag- —The Vatican and Prussia have settled the ques- nosing or preventing the malady. tion relating to the training of the clergy in semin- LANDON. —Died of pneumonia, in Chaplin, Conn., —A boulder, which rolled from the mountain, cries. Negotiations for the restoration of the bishops Dec. 30, 1883, after an illness of ten days, Mary F., wrecked a passenger train near Chattanooga Tuesday to their former dioceses are proceeding. wife of Bro. W. E. Landon, aged fifty-nine years. morning, killing the engineer, fatally wounding the —A clergyman lately bereaved of his wife confessed Sr. L embraced the Sabbath and kindred truths fireman, and seriously injuring six others. The en- to his congregation that he had been to the theater. thirty years ago. She leaves a husband and six chil- gine and three cars were demolished. "He had done so to divert his mind from his grief." dren to mourn their loss. A faithful, devoted wife Was this what Paul meant when he said "affliction andmother, she will be sadly missed from the house- —During the past three years 135 organizations hold. The funeral services were conducted by Eld. with contrivances for the transmission of intelligence . . . worketh for us a far more exceeding and eter- nal weight of glory, while we look not at the things H. Davis (First-day":11 Adventist), who spoke words. of have been incorporated in the State of New York, comfort 1from Job. 5:11. DA. ROBINSON. under the telegraph companies act , and the capital which are seen, but at the things which are not seen"? represented aggregates $225,000,000. " Blind leaders of the blind " are numerous in these days. KIMBLE. --Died in Catlin, Chemung Co., N. Y., —The strike of the window-glass workers ended —Charges having been made that the National Oct. 20, 1883, John Kimble, in the ninety-first year of Wednesday, after seven months of idleness, and the his age. Th.e subject.. of this notice was born in Sus- men will return to work after the furnaces are heated. Temperance Society publishes books which contain falsehoods and twistings of Scripture, the Publication sex, N.J., in 1.! 46U4 .In 1844 he removed to Catlin, While both sides have made great concessions, the where .he has. resided since, leading a quiet life marked terms at which work will be resumed Committee at a recent meeting adopted the following largely favor the by strict integrity. As a citizen and laborer he will workmen. resolution :— .Resolved, be greatly missed. His wife and some of the children —Moving ice from Allegheny River sunk two boats That we invite those by whom such charges are made, or who may have such charges to accepted the Sabbath early in the message, and he kept at Pittsburg Friday and set adrift several flats, the Sabbath with• them, and his sympathies.' seemed to Floods caused by gorges have resulted in much dam- make, to definitelyspecifythepassage or passages hich contain theallegedfalsehoods or false quota- be fully with the truth although he never made a pub- age on the bottom lands of the Youghiogheny, fami- lie profession of religion. He had been in poor health lies in some instances having been compelled bons and references, and we pledge ourselves to give to seek a fair examination to the charges, and if they are for years, yet he retained his mental faculties with safety in the upper floors of their houses. remarkable clearness until the last. His wife and six proven we will strike from our publications all such ' passages or quotations. children survive him. Funeral sermon by EU Tay- FOREIGN. lor (first-day minister) from Job 19 : 25, 26. —The poorer classes in the east end of London re- D. T. Fame. cently held a meeting to consider " what can be done —Work will soon be begun on the Baltic and North to improve the spiritual condition of the upper classes Sea Canal. DAWSON. —Died near New Lothrop, Mich Oct 7, of society." The chairman of the meeting was a shoe- 1883, William Dawson, in the seventy-fifth year of his —Robberies are so numerous at Vienna that a reign maker, and artisans and laborers were the speakers. age. Father had been suffering from the effects of a of terror prevails. --Dr. John P. Lange, the eminent German theolo- cancer for over twenty years, and was near his end, —Three shocks of earthquake were felt Sunday gian and commentator, from whose works frequent when dropsy set in and terminated his life. During night at Rothesay, N. B. quotations are made in the Sabbath-school Depart- the last three months his sufferings were great, but he bore all with so much patience that the following —The remains of De Long and his companions of ment, met with a "violent death" on Friday, Jan. 11. the ill-fated Jeannette reached Moscow Monday. His body, it is said, was found in the canal near Ham- words seemed to express his feelings :— burg, but the particulars of the case we have not yet —The steamer Rhywabons was wrecked on the • " I long to lay this painful head seen stated. And aching heart beneath the soil, Welsh coast Tuesday night, and eleven persons per- WHICH IS WHICH ? To slumber in that dreamless bed ished. From all my suffering, pain, and toil." —An explosion in a colliery in Rhonda Valley, THE following quotations are clipped from the same Wales, killed eleven men, and a rescuing party of four number of the Vermont Watchman, and all pertain to Father had been a reader of the REVIEW from Vol. I also lost their livts. the city of Montpelier. If it were not for the church 5 to the time of his death. The Sabbath and sleep of names attached to some of them, who could tell which the dead were themes that he loved to dwell upon. —By the great storm at London and Paris Satur- entertainments belonged to the church and which to Sleep, dear father, till the Lifegiver comes and sets day night, many persons were killed and much dam- the world ? In the sight of God, are they not alike ? thee free. LUCINDA. DAWSON. age done to property. or, rather, are not those of the church far more ab- -The ships Simla and City of Lucknow were in horrent ?— MATTESON. —Died in Oakland, Wis., Dec. 6, 1883, collision in the English Channel Friday Evening. " The ladies of Christ church will hold a sociable my dear mother, Karen S. Matteson, aged eighty-four Twenty men are missing. at the Pavilion on Wednesday evening of this week. years. None of her children or relatives were pres- --Fire near the Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise, in Dancing from half-past seven to eleven o'clock. ent ; but our dear brethren and sisters, living near by, Paris, Thursday night, destroyed several shops and " Montpelier's representatives at the `Old Folks did all in their power to relieve her sufferings and to dwellings, and rendered 100 families homeless. Ball' in Plainfield, Friday evening, were sufficiently take care of her, for which I render to them my heart.

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be furnished at any time. Thirty-three thousand same thing ; and that, Eld. A. Ross, after having VAT Ill irnd copies of the first number have been issued ; and long preached the consistent and scriptural doctrine we have at this writing a guaranted circulation of of life only in Christ, should return to the horrible BATTLE CREEK, MICH. , FEE. 5, 1884. nearly thirty thousand copies ; and there are other doctrine of eternal conscious misery. And we can parts of the field yet to be heard from. These account for such things on no other ground but CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER, facts speak for themselves. this : that when a person has rejected the truth he has no anchor to hold him in these days of wild [All articles, except in the departments of Choice Selections and The Home, which contain no signature or other credit, will be under- RELIGION BY THE SHORT METHOD. theological currents and moral disturbances. Be- stood as coming from the Editor. All signatures to articles written for the REVIEW will be printed in smALL carrrALs ; to selections, in ware, therefore, of the first step in the way of italics.] THESE are days of " short methods " in almost departure from the faith. Poetry. every pursuit or branch of knowledge. According In the Sunlight, ELIZA H. MORTON, 81 Something for Children to Do, Set 84 to an item in one of our exchanges, Henry Ward If I Were a Voice, Charles Mackay, 86 Beecher treats religious matters according to the FOREBODINGS. Recompense, Mrs C. B. Le Row, in N. Y. Observer,...... 92 Our Contributors. prevailing spirit, and summarily disposes of the Notes of Travel, Mos E. G. WHITE,...... ...... 81 ARE we on the eve of another great panic So Jesus, Our Saviour, ELI). J. G. MArr3soN . 82 great question of difference between Christianity Who Has Declared Independence 1 ELL A. T. JONES 82 and infidelity as follows :— some seem to think. The ominous cry of " dull Progress of the National Reform Movement, En). D. H. LAM- times " comes up from all parts of the land. A SON 83 " Henry Ward Beecher preached at Chicago, Refinement, ELIZA H. Mowrox, 83 brother in the employ of a manufacturing firm in Some Common Sentiments, H. F. PURDHAM, 83 taking the ground that there were no infidels : Crossing at a Ford, JOSEPH CLARKE, 84 the East writes us that their shops will shut down The Rome. those called such were simply disbelievers in the A Much Abused Text, A. Shirra 84 creeds, machinery, etc., of the churches, but not in in a few days unless new orders come in, and Domestic Training for Girls, Christian Advocate, 84 the true religion of Christianity." many hands will be thrown out of work. The pipet-tat Mention. The Jordan Valley Canal—Where is Their Strengthl—Meteors article we give this week in our Special Mention in the Ocean—Sworn Enemies of Protestants—Danger Ahead, Philadelphia Press—Live Stock Statistics—Work of Am. Bi- DON'T BITE THAT HOOK. Department, entitled " Danger Ahead," reveals an ble Society, 85 alarming condition of things. Read it. Our Casket 85 Qum a number of requests have come in of late Our Tract Societies. Prominent speakers at the late convention of Kentucky Tract Society, BETTIE COOMBS, &P. 86 that we will point out the longest verse in the Indiana State Meeting, WM. COVERT, 86 the National Reform Association in Cleveland, Our Work and the True Missionary Spirit, Cuks.LEs. P. Wurr- Bible. We can account for these on the ground FORD, 86 gave free utterance to their apprehensions in this Canvassing in Dakota, R. A. BURDICK, 86 that a certain publishing firm has offered a reward Worthy of Imitation, M. C. Wilcox, 86 direction. Dr. Milligan said that the hordes of New York City Mission, WM. BOVNION, 87 of $20 to any one who will name correctly the communists in our country are quiet now because the Sabbath-School. longest verse in the Bible. If more than one cor- Story of the Lesson, a a L., 87 there is as yet no pretext for an outbreak. But, Editorial, rect answer is given the money will be divided said he, let a panic come, as it came in 1873, and That Sunday Blessing, 88 among the successful competitors. But each one Feet-washing and Sunday, 88 as it is liable again to come, and then see what atti- Questions on the Sanctuary, 88 must send in 20 cents (I) and will receive a copy What Can be Done for Them? 89 tude these men will assume. They will throw off Inspiration—No. 5, o. I. B 89 of so and so for so long a time. What One Parenthesis Contains, J. N. A 90 all restraint ; and there will be anarchy, robbery, Progress, ALBERT STONE, 90 Can any one fail to see through such a dodge / Kansas Poor Fund, J. H. Coox, 90 murder, and plunder, from one end of the land to The Commentary. If one hundred send in the 20 cents, they get their the other. Scripture Questions, w. n. L. 91 prize money all back ; but they calculate on hun- - And this he would take to be a chastisement Progress of the Cause. dreds and thousands doing this ; while so many Reports from Indiana—Illinois—Maine—Iowa—Minnesota— from God upon the nation because it does not turn Ohio—Michigan —Vermon t —Kansas, 99, 03 will name the verse that no one will get anything Rural Health Retreat, H. A. ST. JOHN, 93 to him, and acknowledge him in that great na- Notes, 94 to speak of. It is your 20 cents they want, and tional instrument, the Constitution. Obituaries, 94 all they care for. And how many will hasten to Appointments, 95 And snore than this, he would evidently welcome Editorial Notes, 96 send it in, seeing nothing but the $20 prize, which they will never get nor any appreciable part thereof. such chastisement to the nation, if necessary to EW"' Congratulations have been received from Don't be hoodwinked by any such offer. It is secure the so-called reform for which they labor ; numerous sources since the beginning of the pres- only a little miserable advertising scheme, to which for he said that he thanked God that 500,000 ent volume, on the improved appearance of the perhaps thousands will respond, while the pub- bloody graves lay between us and slavery ; and what further baptism of blood God might find it REVIEW in its new dress; and there is manifested lishers will chuckle to see how many gullible peo- a wide-spread interest to increase its circulation. ple bite their bare hook. Moreover, the transac- necessary to bring the nation through before it tion partakes of the nature of a lottery, which no would learn righteousness and turn to him, we did Christian should patronage or encourage. not know. , They would evidently deprecate no CORRECTION.—In the report of W. D. Curtis, , on page 60, present volume, " Polk Co." should calamity, however great, if it but tended toward have been " Pottawatomie Co." ONE ERROR LEADS TO ANOTHER, the accomplishment of their purposes. So desper- ate have they already become in their determina- THE danger of giving up any well-established tion to legalize in the Constitution the religious Will the writer of the obituary notice of point of faith is shown in the fact that those who Abram Coon please furnish us with his name. usages and customs of the government, and secure do this are almost sure, sooner or later, to run wild the power, at the expense of religious liberty, to on almost every other doctrine. Bro. Rupert of coerce dissenters. THE BIBLE-READING GAZETTE. Ohio writes us of one in that State who some months since gave up the scriptural doctrine of THE copy for the second number of the Gazette TO THE BRETHREN IN DIST. NO. 8. MICR• is in the hands of the printers ; and this number spiritual gifts, and took a position of open hostility against it ; and now the same individual has given DEAR BRETHREN : The time has come for me to will be printed before another number of the RE- up the doctrine of the visible coming of Christ, go into Dist. No. 10 and labor there till the first VIEW is issued. Number one has given, so far as we have been able to learn, unqualified satisfaction ; and our position on the messages of Revelation of May. I expect then to start for Colorado. Will and the enterprise promises to be the means of 14. He believes that the coming of Christ is a those of you who are owing me for books please great good. spiritual, not literal event, and that it probably settle your accounts immediately, and thus save me took place in 1874 ! How great the darkness of loss of time and expense/ WM. OSTRANDER. THE SABBATH SENTINEL. any one who, having once had the light, turns his back upon it and walks into the shadows. THE CHICAGO TIMES. NUMBER 2 of this journal was issued the first of It seems very evident to us that the reason the the present month.. The following is the table of religious world generally is in the condition it is, THE readers of the REVIEW will remember that contents :— spiritually far from God, doctrinally surrendering we advertised in these columns, a few days since, " Dare to be Right (poetry-).—Why Object to to spiritualism, Darwinism, and the " higher criti- that we had received 500 copies of the Chicago the Sunday Law?—Ex-President Hayes on Na- cism," is because it rejected, in 1844, the great Times containing a sermon by myself on Spiritual tional Reform.—Will They Do It 9—Wheeling into doctrine of the soon coming of Christ ; and that Gifts. Orders have been coming in for these Line.—Church and State.—Human or Divine? the reason why there has been so much disintegra- papers until the supply is exhausted. Already we Which 9—How it Works.—Notice.--A Good Be- tion among first-day Adventists is because they re- have on hand quite a number of orders which can- ginning—A Sophism.—The Sabbath vs. the State. ject the third message which so scripturally and not be filled, as it is impossible to obtain any more —The Great Question.—The Difference : Position logically follows the first. Tt seems utterly unac- copies of the Times containing the sermon, that of the Statesman and Position of the Sentinel.— countable that such men as Eld. J. V. }limes, edition having been exhausted. If those who have The President Must Keep Sunday Better.- —Signif- after the light he once enjoyed and the great work sent in money and whose orders we have been icant Paragraphs." he accomplished, should enter the ministry of the unable to fill will direct us to that effect, we will Take notice that the Sentinel is worked from Episcopalians, with their infant sprinkling and oth- send them tracts or papers from the Office equal in plate.:, so that any quantity of back numbers can errors ; and that Eld. C. E. Barnes should do the value to the money received. W. L. 44