AND SABBATH HERALD.

" Here is the Patience of the Saints ; Here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the Faith ofjesus." VOL. XVII. BATTLE CREEK, MICH., THIRD—DAY, JANUARY 29, 1861. No. 11.

The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald that those races which are best adapted to the ional deviation from established rules is the pre- is:published weekly, at One Dollar a Volume of 28 Nos. in advance J. P. KELLOGG, CYRENIUS SMITH and D. It. PALMER, conditions of life, live, whilst those which are less rogative of intelligence. Without any actual ev- Publishing Committee. adapted become extinct. idence on the subject, it would be vastly more Uriah Smith, Resident Editor. J. N. Andrews, James White, 3. H. Waggoner, R. F. Cottrell,and Stephen We have not the least reason for supposing reasonable to suppose there would be special inter- Pierce, Corresponding Editors. .4%-.Address REVIEW AND HERALD Battle Creek, Mich. there is any such thing in the universe as force, ferences with nature's laws, thin that there would except what comes from mind. One of the pri- be none. That there should never be a miracle, GROWING IN GRACE. mary characteristics of matter is, that it is inert. would be the greatest miracle of all. It would It cannot move of itself, nor when put in motion, lead almost inevitably, to the atheist's conclusion, Tuts did not once so trouble me, can it of itself cease from moving. The Almighty that there is no God ! That better I could not love Thee; impresseP upon a particle, or collection of parti- Hence the importance of miracles, in any sys- But now I feel and know, tem of religion that is expected to secure cre- That only when we love, we find, cles, motion in a straight line, and were there no How far our hearts remain behind other force to counteract, these particles would dence. So far from a religion of miracles being The hive they should bestow. move on in a right line forever. But he also im- repugnant to the common sense of mankind, we presses matter with gravitation, and forthwith find that the inhabitants of all countries, when While we had little care to call suns and systems are imbued with a compound unsophisticated by science, are believers in super- On Thee, and scarcely prayed at all, natural interpositions of the Deity. The relig• We seemed enough to pray ; motion, projecting them in wonderful order But now we only think with shame, through the orbits to which this union of forces ious want in man's nature creates a necessity for How seldom to thy glorious name confines them. The power to move the human something above and beyond the operation of Our lips their offerings pay. frame comes from the mind. We have a certain physical causes. A supernatural religion man portion of matter included within our physical will have, must have, by the very constitution of And when we gave yet slighter heed his being. Infidels, atheists even, are obliged to Unto our brother's suffering need, organism, and connected with the mind by nerves Our heart reproached us then and muscles through which that matter is con- resort to their superstitions as a substitute for the Not half so much as now, that we trolled; and when we will that the hand should revelation they have discarded. With such a careless eye can see rise, it rises ; or that the foot should fall, it falls. Christianity can only be rejected from dislike to The woes and wants of men. The power that we have over a hand, but in high- its doctrines. The miracles of the Old and New In doing is this knowledge won, er perfection, God has over every particle of mat- Testaments are certified to us by an amount of To see what yet remains undone ; ter in the universe. Every seed that germinates evidence unequalled in any other department of With this our pride repress, does so by means of force, impressed by the Crea- human history. Writers in defense of Christian- And give us grace, a growing store, tor; every winged ray of light is sent on its er- ity have portrayed and argued these evidences That day by clay we may do more, rand by God's hand ; every hue that variegates with such clearness and force, that nothing fur- And may esteem it less. [Richard Chenevix Trench. the face of nature is an impress of his will. 'Man ther in this direction can be desired. And yet acts upon matter indirectly as well as directly; there will, no doubt, be skeptics till the day when the motion which he communicates to the hand the Son of man shall appear in the clouds of ARE MIRACLES PRECLUDED BY THE LAWS OF NATURE? is transmitted to the implement which the hand heaven. Men who claim to be philosophers pro- wields, and is thus comunicated to other bodies fess their inability to accept the Scripture mira- IT has long been with infidels a standing argu- with which it comes in contact. God acts in like cles. They would not be so averse to a belief in ment against Christianity, that its miracles are manner; his machines are at work throughout the special exercise of omnipotent power, if it contrary to the laws of nature, and therefore un- the whole system of nature. One of the most were only exerted on great occasions. They worthy to be credited. The laws of nature, say wondrous laws he has given her is that each or- would allow that the Creator may have started the they, are uniform; we never knew them vary; ganized form shall reproduce itself, like giving primordial germs of vegetable and animal life ; but we have often found human testimony false ; birth to like, from the hyssop under the wall to they would admit the reasonableness of his setting hence, when the two are in conflict, we are bound the cedar of Lebanon ; from the mammoth to the the worlds in motion ; they would feel no strong as philosophers to reject the uncertain in favor of animalcula ; from nervous man to the sense- repugnance to the idea of a general divine gov- the certain. less polyp. The same rule is extended to other ernment through the operation of natural causes ; It becomes us therefore to inquire, What does than organic substances; anger begets anger; but a special providence, a universality and minute- nature teach ? Has she any testimony to offer on love begets love ; smile begets smile ; terror be- ness of direction that includes the sparrow's fall, this subject, and what is it? Has she made any gets terror; virtue and vice spread their likeness a positive interference with the course of nature laws that bind the action of the Eternal ? wherever they can find objects to influence; the for the sake of rewarding or punishing, advancing We reply, Nature makes no laws. To make thoughts and opinions of one man reflect them- or preventing the purposes of mankind ; above laws requires intelligence ; but of this, nature is selves in the thoughts and opinions of others; a all, the bestowment of supernatural power on not possessed. She cannot tell why it would be pulsation of music multiplies itself through all mortals, in answer to faith and prayer, the con- better to impress upon the planets two forces than the air; a single ripple becomes a thousand waves ; nection, through an atoning Mediator and an in- one; if she can, then she becomes mind, and is flame spreads flame ; disease propagates disease ; tercommunicating Spirit, of man with his Mak- raised to the rank of divinity, an elevation which so far as our knowledge extends, image mirrors er; these are doctrines incomprehensible to the many would, no doubt, accord her, if by that image, throughout the whole extent of being. carnal man, whose only life is the life of the flesh, means they could disprove the existence of a God. This is but one of the Creator's laws; he has who has no spiritual experience, who " receiveth Nature has no laws except what God has given made others of like universality in their applica- not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can her. The term " laws of nature" appears to be a tion, and under them he has set the wheels of na- know them, because they are spiritually dis- philosophical expression, invented for the purpose ture in motion. But will he never change their cerned." of avoiding any direct recognition of them as modes of operation ? Will he never stop the ma- It is here that our treatises in defense of Chris- God's laws. So of the new phrase which Darwin chine ? Will not the wheels be sometimes turn- tianity fail; and fail they always must, to a great- has invented, " natural selection," as though na- ed off the track in order to a special end ? In- er or less degree, not through the imperfection of ture selected such individuals and species as are terrogate nature on this point. What says rea- evidence, but through the lack of spiritual per- best adapted to existing circumstances and condi- sbn7 What says probability ? What says analo- ception, the blind eye, and the deaf ear, and the tions, and rejected the rest. Nature makes no gy ? Does not the mower's scythe sometimes pulseless heart of the- dead sinner to whom the selection. The phrase is an absurdity. The make a balk in order to spare a bird's nest ? If reasoning is addressed. The church must rely great discovery designated by its author, as " nat- mind he the force which moves all this machinery for its power, not on proofs and arguments, but ural selection," is, in plain terms, simply this : we must expect there will be variations. Occas- on present spiritual experience. It is the living • r — ------8'--)., THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 1- V01. xvii.

faith of the living members of Christ's living great sin. You bring a green log and a candle of a Christian friend been like life from the dead spiritual body that can lay hold on heavenly together,s, and they are very safe neighbours; but unto him. Harrassed by temptations, he begins that premises, bring down heavenly power, and scatter bring a few shavingsa and set themalight,and to think' that his religion is a delusion, and heavenly influences through an unbelieving world then bring a few small sticks and let them take his troubles are peculiar to himself, a nd he is The conversion of sinners is as really the result fire, and the log be in the midst of them, and you ready to give up in order to find relief. How of supernatural interposition as the raising of the will soon get rid of your log. And so it is with cheering then, at such a crisis, to meet with some dead to life, With Christ and his apostles the little sins. You will be startled with the idea of Christian brother who details to him a similar ex- pardon of sins stood on the same footing as other committing a great sin, and so the devil brings periencein the beginning of his Christian life, supernatural gifts. The mighty Healer not only you to indulge yourself. , There is no great tells him not to be discouraged, for in due time, said, " Rise and walk," but also, "Thy sins be harm in this,' no great peril in that,' and so, by if he faint not, he will obtain deliverance I To forgiven thee !" The word that healed and the theselittle chips,' we are first easily lighted up, many a believer it has been- the decisive moment word that saved were one. " The prayer of faith and at last the green log is burned. in his career, the grain which turned the scale shall save the sick, and if he has committed sins " Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temp- when he was hesitating between going on and they shall be forgiven." It cannot be that the tation," turning back. power of faith is obsolete. It cannot be that We need it too, in our seasons of joy and re- Christ and his apostles would have insisted with CHRIST'S SYMPATHY. joicing. How it enhances these to behold our exulting in our happiness as we tell such earnestness upon the importance of faith, if Noo exercise of the human affections is so bene- brethren them of the goodness we have experienced at the it were not to be connected with spiritual heaven- facial as that of sympath To the heart almost "Come and hear all ye that fear ly gifts to the end of time. Faith was a leading broken with sorrow, it is beyond measure cheer- handof God! His life was God, and I will declare what he has done for my subject in all our Lord's discourses. ing and refreshing. To the person bowed down He soul," is the language of every believer. What is a continued example of its perfect exercise. with grief, it is a stay and support. To the vie- it makes the fellowship of Christians so delight- spoke to the tossing waves, and every crested bil tim of disappointment, ready to despair of success, and their communion so profitable as they low felt the instant check of an omnipotent rein. it is a source of encouragement, often the step- f111) "take sweet counsel together, and walk unto the Come, said he to Peter, and the sea became solid ping stone to prosperity and happiness. In time Is it not the call- to his tread. . Money was wanted, and the mag- of rejoicing it adds that drop to our cup which house of God in company ?" the Creator's ing out of their sympathies, in seeing so many netic thread that stretches from causes it to overflow. When the heart has been in their religious experi- throne to the remotest atom of the universe made sick with hope deferred, and fears and points, of resemblance draws the fish with his treasure to Peter's hook, doubts begin to reign within, it is a cordial to our ence ? vit Bear no more fruit, said he to the fig-tree, and souls, dispels our doubts and drives away our Valuable as is Christian sympathy, what is it rich juices throughugh the life force that sent up 7rt fears. Our Creator, in the exercise of his wisdom when compared with that of our great High trunk, and branch, and leaf ceased its play. and goodness, has implanted it in the soul of man Priest, our elder Brother, our Saviour our Re- was not as man, but as God, that he spoke, to alleviate the troubles and lessen the miseries deemer? His is so tender and comprehensive, thought the disciples. Nay, said the Master, y ‘ so inseparable from our lot, even in its most perfect in every respect. He possesses in an infi- also, if ye have faith, can do not only the same'. pleasant form, and to heighten those joys and nite degree, all the requisites for the most un- but even greater things. It is impossible for us brighten those hopes, which make a period of bounded' exercise of this feeling. Consider the in the eleventh of to read Paul's enumeration, sunshine in our journey through this world, greatness of his love, the breadth, and length and Hebrews, of what faith has done, without feeling Mutually dependent as we are to so great an ex_ depth and height of which surpass our compre- that the saints of old knew something of a power tent, we require it, and we look for it, the one hension. Remember, too, the intimate experi- with God which Christians at the present day from the other, and it is our duty freely to be- mental knowledge he has of all the troubles which have in a great measure lost. Nearly all these stow it. befall us in the course of our life. He was a instances of faith were attended by supernatural In order to the exercise of this feeling there man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; in tokens of divine favor; the acceptance of Abel's must be love. Sympathy with one whom we infancy he was cradled in poverty; in manhood offering; the translation of Enoch; the preserva- hate is impossible; with a person in whom we he hail not where to lay his head ; at the begin- tion of Noah ; the miraculous interpositions in feel no interest, it can scarcely be said to exist. ning of his ministry he was tempted forty days favor of Abraham, Isaac, Joseph and Moses. And in proportion to our love will be the measure by his great adversary; at the close of his life, in Faith cried, and the waters opened ; faith blew of our sympathy. Hence the fullness and largeness that hour which he called " your hour and the the rain's horn, and unseen forces scattered the of a mother's sympathy in all the varied hopes and power of darkness," he was exposed to hell's un- city walls; Samson prayed, and a spiritual iuflu- fears and joys and sorrows of her children—in the governable fury. He hungered, he thirsted, he strung every nerve with . a superhuman • ence child ish sports and fleeting griefs of youth as was weary. He was insulted and mocked by his strength ; prophets were permitted to look into well as in the real and more serious cares of later enemies, reproached and forsaken by his friends; women received their dead restored to futurity; years. Hence, too, the tender sympathy of the he agonized in the garden, and- his soul was ex- life ; through faith persecuted saints "stopped the loving partner of our life—her who has been uni- seeding sorrowful, even unto death. On the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, es- ted to us for weal or woe, till death shall separate cross he endured the hiding of his Father's coun- caped the edge of the sword, out of weakness us. Even in things in which it might be thought tenance, which caused him to exclaim, " My God, were made strong." she would not beblea to manifest it, or only in a my God, why bast thou forsaken me ?" Medi- This is the very faith of which the Apostle is slight degree, love comes to her assistance, and tate on these things, and see how well able he is speaking, when he tells us that without faith it is atones for all deficiencies. Oh ! the value of the to sympathize with you in all your sorrows. Al- impossible to please God. Then Christians must sympathy of a loving affectionate mother, or of a though God bath highly exalted him far above They may have it in different de- all possess it. tender, faithful wife I Often has it reclaimed all principality, and power, and might and domin- grees, but if they are without it, the Scriptures the erring man and strengthened his resolutions ion, and every name that is named, not only in pronounce them earthly, sensual, having not the of reform. Often has it saved the strong man this world, but also in that which is to come, he Spirit. Only the living Christian is properly pre - from ruin, and - kept him from yielding to the still retains that heart which took compassion on pared to resist the assaults of infidelity. He has dark and gloomy promptings of despair. Often the widow who was following her only son to the the witness within himself; the supernatural in- . has it eased his troubled mind, and upheld his grave, that heart which wept at the tomb of Laz- flowing of the divine life. This is the best of all weary hands. Often has it sweetened his cup of arus, and mourned for Jerusalem as he contem- evidence. While the merely intellectual believer pleasure, and made him feel that the lines had plated its impending doom. Blessed be God, is perpetually weighing human testimony, liar- fallen unto him in pleasant places—yea, that he " we have not an High Priest which cannot be sassed with doubt and anxiety, lest some new dis- had a goodly heritage. touched with the fellow-feeling of our infirmities, covery of geology, or astronomy, or history, should . . Experience, wisdom and a knowledge of shares but was in all points tempted like as we are yet with- be found to conflict with the sacred record, he ter tend to perfect our sympathy. The affection- out sin." And blessed be his holy name for the en- that has the Spirit feels no such perturbation ; no ate child may and will sympathize with his pa- couragement we are to draw therefrom : " Let us speculations or reasonings of philosophers can rent when in distress, but how far short does it therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, shake the basis of his faith, for it rests on person- fall of his who once buffeted the same billows of that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help al experience ; he can as soon be persuaded that misfortune himself, or of his whom a long ac- in time of need." Christ suffered not only that his physical life is a dream or a delusion, as that quaintance has made to know his friend even he might satisfy divine justice tut also that he the higher life infused into his soul by the Spirit of better than he knows himself ! But as none pos- might be qualified to sympathize with his people He holiness, is not a blessed and divine reality. secs all the qualifications, and only some in a lim_ in their sufferings. has not only the inward consciousness of a joyous ited degree, man's sympathy is necessarily imper- He is acquainted, moreover, with the disposi- communion with heaven, but he occasionally ex- feet; hence the need of one superior to man to Lion and character of every one of his people, periences in the course of his pilgrimage, direct administer consolation and comfort—one who will with all the events of their lives, with their pres- and unmistakable answers to prayer, such as bring possess in their fullest extent, all things necessa- ent feelings, situations, and wants; and to all with them the same evidence of supernatural inter- ry for so doing. these—innumerably various though they be—his position as did the miracles of old.—Am. Baptist. In nothing is the exercise of this feeling more wisdom enables him to ad apt those consolations useful or more called for than in the trials and which he alone isable to bestow. He knows TEMPTED AT DEGREES.—John Newton says, difficultiesof theChristian life; the young con- what is in man. " He knoweth our frame; he "Satan seldom comes to Christians with great vest who'is just setting out on his journey, espec- remembereth that we are dust." He has wrestled temptations, or with a temptation to commit a ia•needs11 y it. Oftentimes has the kind sympathy with the tempter, and he knows how hard it is ... qt No. 11.] THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 83 for flesh and blood to overcome him. Oftentimes 1. Take for example the oft repeated prayer for a daughter's conversion with a theater ticket he sees that our inclinations exceed our ability, for growth in grace. This is a vital request, and in their pockets—a "family ticket" for the that "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." the most formal Christian professor will utter it whole household ! They go to church, look de- How well then, and how fully he can sympathize nearly every day of his life. If he would resist vout, and then come home to trifle, to gossip, to with us ! "For in that he himself hath suffered, the continual gravitation of inward sin and sur- entertain Sunday visitors at a sumptuous feast, to being tempted, he is able to succor them that are rounding worldliness, he must cry as continually talk politics, to do anything, in short, but follow tempted." for heart-grace. But just imagine the owner of up the teachings of God's minister with affection- The prophet Isaiah, when reviewing God's a vast field of weeds kneeling down among the ate faithful home instructions. The practical ef- dealings with his ancient people, says : "In all " johnswort" and Canada thistles, and praying God fect of their whole conduct and conversation, both their afflictions he was afflicted." How constant to give him from that field a plentiful corn har- on the Lord's day, and all the days of the week, and how comprehensive this sympathy. " Saul, vest! Not a furrow has been turned. Not a is to undo whatever good may have been done by Saul, why persecutest thou me ?" was his lan- kernel planted. But the insane husbandman im- the earnest labors of the pulpit. What must guage to that wicked man when on his way to plores from heaven a crop, toward the growing of such children think of those fluent prayers that Damascus to destroy all those who called upon which his sluggish fingers have not- been lifted. they hear every night at the family altar ? What the name of Jesus. My Christian brother, you never are guilty of of the consistency of those parents who utter such "Inasmuch as ye have done it Unto one of the such folly in the management of your secular in- solemn mockeries ? Oh ! it is better never to least of these my brethren ye have done it unto terests. You never expect cargoes without send- pray at all for the conversion of your offspring, me," will be his language of approval at the day ing ships seaward; you never count on crops than to ask God in solemn tones to save them of judgment to those on his right hand; while to without ploughing, manuring and seeding your while you are using your whole influence to hard- those on his left, he will utter the language of acres. No school-girl would expect to see her en and destroy them. " Out of thine own mouth condemnation. "Inasmuch as ye did it not to one pet flower grow in the conservatory without water will I judge thee, thou unfaithful servant." of the least of these, ye did it not to me." See and fresh earth, She sprinkles the azalea leaves In eternity it will be a terrible thing for many here the condescension connected therewith in until they drip, and feeds the delicate tuberose a man to meet his own prayers. Their very la,r,- his identifying of himself with the meanest of' his with new earth as its wasting leaves telegraph its plass° will condemn him; for he knew his duty people. " Thus saith the Lord of hosts, he that hunger. God takes care of her plants, but she but he did it not. Those fervent prayers which toucheth you, toucheth the apply of mine eye." takes care of them too, and does not expect him the good man labored to make effectual, will be Believers are " members of Christ's body, of his to work miracles for the benefit of lazy people. " shining ones" in white raiment to conduct their flesh, and of his bones ; and whether one mem- Her prayer for her flowers is in the brimming author in to the banqueting-house of the great ber suffer, all the members suffer with it." "Now pitcher and the virgin earth which her careful King. But the falsehoods uttered at the throne we are the body of Christ, and members in par- hands bring to the green-house. of grace will live again as tormenting scorpions in ticular." These passages present to us its quick- Carry this same principle into your religion. the day of the Lord's appearing. Be not rash ness and completeness. Do you pray with the lips for growth in holiness, with thy mouth, nor let thy heart be hasty to tit- What a source of joy and rejoicing have we in growth in heavenly mindedness, growth in spirit- ter anything before God," is an injunction that these thoughts ! We may be despised by the ual stamina ? Then to the work of cleansing the forbids more than irreverence in prayer. It for- world, and unknown, but we have a friend that heart-field Then to the cutting up of the tares bids us, by implication, to ask for that which we sticketh closer than a brother—we have one who of covetousness, the johnswort of pride, the nettles do not sincerely desire. Above all, it forbids the feels for us, who pitieth us as a father pitieth his of selfishness, the briers of deceit, the overgrown asking from God those blessings which we are children. How cheering when alone, to know burdocks of sloth, and the seed-scattering thistles hindering by our neglect, or thwarting by our that Christ is with us to comfort us and console of unbelief! Pull them by the roots. Give your selfishness and unbelief. —T. L. enyler. us! Well, then, may we dispense without a inward lusts no quarter. Keep no terms with murmur with the friendship and sympathy of them. Make no compromise with some darling EARLY CHARITY. man ; the friendship and sympathy of God are sin to sprout and grow unobserved in some back TRAIN your children in charity. Begin young. far bettor. These will sustain us when flesh and corner of your soul-garden. Clear out every weed As soon as they can speak, they can learn the heart faint and fail us.—Sd. in order that the seed-corn of godliness may have grace of giving pity, prayers and money to the the full strength of the affections and the ener- destitute and distressed. Easier then than later. gies to make it grow. Watch over that precious When the tenderness of childhood and youth has ANSWERING OUR OWN PRAYERS. seed. Water it with prayers and penitential tears- been supplanted by the more earnest and sterner Strengthen it with Bible truth. And as you business of active life, it will be much harder to THE many kind responses to our brief para- pray for the growth of heart piety, let no indulg- touch -the heart with tales of sorrow, and elicit graphs on "the model prayer-meeting" and on ed lust, no pet sin, harbored in secret places sympathy in its behalf. " prayerless prayers," prompt us to a few further prove your uttered prayer to be an-abomination The mother of queen Victoria often took her words on answering our own prayers. We use in the sight of the all-searching God. "If I re- when a small girl, into the hovels of the poor and this expression, not too literally, but simply for gard iniquity in my heart (i. e., if I cling to it sick, and thus taught her to sympathize with the want of a better one. The idea we aim at is, that and cherish it) God will not hear me." Nor will heirs of poverty. Childhood is more sympathetic every Christian is bound to do his utmost for the the Lord of holiness answer with a yea what we and tender than age. Train it to love the good, fulfillment of his own prayers. He is never to are practically answering with a nay. to pity the suffering, and help the needy. Send ask God to give what he is not trying his ut- your children with presents to the poor. Give most to obtain ; he is never to ask God to make 2. Let us illustrate and apply this principle in the poor a chance to talk to them. When collec- him what he is riot faithfully trying to become. the next place, to parents who are praying for the tions arc to be taken, give them money that they This is our idea. It is partially illustrated by the conversion of their children. No petition is more can give for themselves. In this respect parents familiar fable of Hercules and the wagoner. When fitting than this ; none could be more acceptable are often at fault. They give for their children, the overloaded wagon sunk into the mire, instead to God. But what hope have you my friend for but this will not affect their experience in the of laboring to pry out the imbedded vehicle, the the renewal of your children's hearts if you pray least. Give a child a penny, a shilling, a dollar; wagoner fell to praying Hercules to interpose his in one direction with the lips, and quite in the tell it of the breadless poor, of the millions that brawny arm for his relief. The god of muscle, opposite direction with the life ? We sec con- have uo Saviour, and its own heart will at once thus appealed to, reminded the luckless teamster stantly the two antagonistic types of parental in- respond with the money. To snake it liberal, one that while he prayed for help, he had better put fluence. Both are nominally Christian; only generous, zealous in the cause of God, benevolent his own shoulder to the wheel and help himself. is really such. The one man pleads at the altar and kind to the poor, begin early. All Sabbath- In one sense this heathen fable illustrates the true for the sanctification of his household--that his schools ought to institute a system of beneficence, relation between the sovereign God and the child sons may become sons of God, and his daughters to cultivate the gracd of charity in the scholars. of prayer. On our side is complete dependence. may be as polished stones in the temple of' Christ. The different objects of benevolenffe should fre- On the side of Omnipotence is infinite mercy. He makes religion prominent in his family ; it is quently be explained to them so as to enlist, at From him cometh down every good and every visible, legible and above board. The books that least their sympathy in their behalf. In this re- perfect gift. And because we are so dependent are brought home for the children to read, the spect it is likewise true : "Train up a child in urn our heavenly Father, and owe him so much newspapers that are taken, the amusements that the way he should go, and when he is old he will of submission, obedience and trust, therefore are are chosen, the society that is sought, the aims in not depart from it." we to " pray without ceasing." But while we life that are set before those children'all bear in pray we are to work; first as a proof of the sin- one direction, and in the right direction. God is Mr. Beecher on "Feet-Washing. cerity of our desires, and next, in order to obey not asked by that father to convert his offspring THE Examiner says, that Henry Ward Beech- God, who commands us to become the very men to godliness while he is doing his best to pervert er, in his sermon before Theodore Parker's con- that we ask him to make us by his grace. them to sin and worldliness. Nor is God implor- gregation in Boston, took ground that "feet- Does every child of God do his utmost to se- ed to 'convert them while the parent uses no agen- washing is a most affecting ordinance of the cure the answers to his own uttered requests ? cies to effect the longed-for result. church," which stands upon a command just as Most emphatically, we reply, NO ! With even Yet professed Christians do this very thing oft- explicit, and just as literally enjoined as the the best men, there is a sad disparity between en in morals and religion. They pray for their " Lord's supper, or baptism," and which " bears prayer and practice—between the askings of the children's recovery to holiness, and then poison an idea as fundamental to humanity and manhood lips and the actings of the heart—between their them ! They pray for a son's purity, and then as these other sacred ordinances do to spirituality, life and their liturgy. flash the wine-cup before his eyes. They pray and faith, and futurity."

84 THE REVIEW AND HERALD. [Vol. xvii.

Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you, thousand times in past ages of the world, that dark- driA Mfri whom the heavens must receive till the times of resti- ening which was to constitute a sign of the end was to tution of all things which God hath spoken by the take place at that time, and there it did take place ; "Sanctify them through thy TRUTH; thy word is truth." mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." and being expressly foretold as a sign of the end, no BATTLE CREEK, MICH. THIRD-DAY, JAN. 29, 1881. Very much after the tenor of this passage is another sophistry can explain it away. So with the falling of found in 1 Tim. vi, 14, 15: " That thou keep this com- THOUGHTS ON THE ADVENT. the stars. The phenomenon of Nov., 1833 was the most mandment without spot, unrebukable, until the ap- remarkable of any of that kind on record. It was fore- (Continued) pearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which in his times told in connection with the darkening of the sun and ALTHOUGH we have found many unequivocal declar- he shall show," &c. It is here declared that the ap- moon. And so we find it following right on in that ations in the oracles of God that the Son of man is to pearing of Jesus shall be shown ; in Acts iii, that God great series of events by which nature herself seems, return to this earth personally and visibly in power shall send him ; and when the Almighty utters his pur- as it were, to have been appointed to herald forth to and glory, and have produced an amount of evidence poses with a shall, who is he that dare disbelieve ! mankind the approaching restitution of all things. In- on the point, which must be more than satisfactory to 1 These. i, 10. " He shall come to be glorified in fidels and professors may strike hands to explain these every candid mind, there are other scriptures which his saints." 2 Thess. ii, 8. " And then shall that things away ; scoffers may scoff at our hope ; but the we are unwilling to pass entirely by. wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with glorious day is coming, redemption is nigh. Let sin- The coming of the Lord is inseparably connected the Spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the ners tremble ; let the saints rejoice.—En. with other scenes. A series of events of which this brightness of his coming." To harmonize this scrip- forms a part is often spoken of in the word of God as ture with their soporific theory, advocates of a tempor- A CALL FOR HELP. a whole ; the day in which it is to take place we find al millennium tell us that a personal coming is not here many times and uniformly described. This being the intended, but a coming in the sense of an increased IN the Millennial Harbinger for Dec. 12, 1860, pub- case, it follows that those scriptures which foretell any power imparted to the truth, and a universal spread of lished at Seneca Falls, N. V., we see the following : of these events, or declare to us that such a day is ap- the gospel ; and that by this means the man of sin is " A Request. proaching, become so many direct prophecies of the to be destroyed and consumed, or, in other words, be "Will Bro. Stephenson answer the following ques- coming of Christ, though this event may not be partic- converted to the religion of Jesus. Had such persons tion through the Harbinger? Was it the ten command- ularly specified therein. To a few passages of this never read beyond verse 8, although their interpreta- ments that slew Paul ? My reason for asking this class we now propose to call attention. " For your- tion would then be marvelous in the extreme, it might question is this, James White asserted that it was. I selves know perfectly," says Paul in 1 Thess. v, 2, still be looked upon with greater allowance. But we think that the 29th verse of the 20th chap. of the Acts "that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the feel warranted in utterly scouting such an idea, from is applicable to him. J. JEFFREY. night." But what about this day of the Lord ? Has the verses immediately following in which we are told "Freeport, Stephenson Co., Ills." this anything to do with the coming of Christ. Is the that those who perish, are such as did not receive the It is supposed from the above that Mr. Jeffrey refers latter one of the events to take place therein ? See the love of the truth, and were therefore given over to to Paul's conversion and not to his martyrdom, yet he connection. In the previous chapter, verse 16, Paul strong delusion, not that they might be converted and does not state which. had been discoursing directly about the coming of the saved, but that they all might be damned. Nothing At our recent call at Crane's Grove, Ills., we spoke Lord, and laying down declarations plain and strong less than a personal coming, and that, too, in incon- to the people one evening on the subject of Bible con- like this : " For the Lord himself' shall descend from ceivable power and glory, can produce the results men- version. We referred to the statements of Paul in Rom. heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, tioned in verse 8. Such it will therefore be. vi and vii, where the law of God is shown to act an im- and with the trump of God." And he continues in the Paul in his letter to Titus [ii, 11-13] tells us that portant part in the conversion of the sinner. We stated, first verse of chap. v, " But of the times and seasons the grace of God bath appeared to all men teaching us 1. That the epistle to the Romans was written A. D. [when these things shall take place] ye have no need that we should live soberly, righteously and godly in 60, at least twenty-five years after the " hand-writing that I write unto you." Why ? " For yourselves know this present world, looking for that blessed hope, and of ordinances" was nailed to the cross ; therefore, perfectly that the day of the Lord cometh," &c. ; and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Sav- 2. Paul, in such language as is found in Rom. vii, since you know about this, you of course know about iour Jesus Christ," or as it might better be rendered, 9, " For I was alive without the law once, but when the coming of Christ, which is one of its primary the appearing of the glory of the great God, and our the commandment came sin revived and I died," must events. Saviour Jesus Christ. mean, by the word law, the precepts of the moral law ; Again, we have in Rev. vi, 12-17 a record of the But Paul is not the only witness here. The other for, events which John saw transpiring under the sixth sacred penmen all come forward as if impatient to bear 3. It would be folly in the extreme for him to speak seal. After mentioning the signs in the sun, moon and testimony to the glorious theme. Peter dwells in glow- thus of a law that had been dead at least twenty-five stars, he brings us to the closing event of the series ing terms• on the coming day of the Lord, and carries y ears. when the heavens depart as a scroll, and every moun- us forward to the delightful scene of the new earth These plain facts, with many others stated in that tain and island move. out of their places, and the great, wherein righteousness alone shall dwell. And Jude, discourse, seem to have caused trouble in the no-Sab- and rich, and noble of,earth cry to the rocks and moun- in his brief letter to Christians, is careful not to omit bath camp at Crane's Grove, and Mr. J. M. Stephen- tains, saying, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the fact that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophe- son is called upon for help. him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of sied, saying, Behold the Lord cometh with ten thou- But how is Acts xx, 29 " applicable ?" For I the Lamb ; for the great day of leis wrath is come and sand of his saints. know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves who shall be able to stand !" There can be no mistak- (To be continued.) enter in, not sparing the flock." We went to Crane's ing the fearful scene here brought to view. But it in- Grove single-handed and alone, therefore that part of volves the presence of him who sitteth on the throne, ALL EXPLAINED. the passage which speaks of grievous wolves, plural, is the revelation from on high of the once insulted, but not applicable to us. If the passage be at all applica- now exalted and avenging Lamb ; for otherwise they BRO. D. W. Canright writes from Kinderhook, Mich.: ble it must be in this way. could not pray to be hid from his presence or buried "It is remarkable how professors and infidels all agree We preached one Pauline discourse at Crane's Grove, from his wrath. So we may add Rev. vi, 16, to the in opposing present truth. Not long since one of the and after we left, grievous wolves (Clark, Collins, Jeff- long catalogue of inspired announcements that the brethren was preaching on the signs of the times, the rey, & Co.,) entered in to do their work, but as the Lord will come. falling of the stars, &c. After preaching he gave lib- sheep's clothing has fallen off these men, they appear In Isa. xiii, 6, 9, 10 ; Joel ii, 31 ; Zeph. i, 14, we erty for any to speak that wished to. An infidel Dr. in their true character, and none of the flock are de- have portrayed before us, in the graphic and sublime got up and explained how it happened that the stars ceived by them. strains of inspiration, the great day of the Lord, which fell at that time. He said it took place according to In the Millennial Harbinger for Jan. 2, 1861, we have is appointed for all the earth. But no surer does the nature, and consequently there was nothing in it. A " Response to Bro. Jeffrey's Question." On reading day of the Lord burst upon us, than our Redeemer ap- Baptist minister who was present, responded, Amen. the response our first impressions were that Mr. Steph- pears to the salvation of all them that look for him. Ho said that was right ; and that if the falling of the enson in his round about course had thrown as much Heb. ix, 28. stars in 1833 was a fulfillment of Matt. xxiv, then it darkness as he had light, even upon the mind of his Before leaving this division of the subject, we must no- had been fulfilled a great many times since its predic- brother Jeffrey, that some would regard it as very deep, tice a few more scriptures which speak to us of the great tion by the falling of meteors." while others would discover that it was very muddy. fact of the second coming of our Lord ; not that they are REIHARKS.—The attempt is made to dispose of the People sometimes make just such a mistake. Because necessary to the establishment of the point in question,. darkening of the sun in 1780 in a similar manner. That they cannot see to the bottom of a muddy pool of water, but simply for the gratification which the heavenward can constitute no sign of the end, it is said, because conclude it must be very deep. Perhaps Mr. Jeffrey traveler feels as he sees his hope recorded before him in many such events have taken place, in different ages had better send to the Harbinger another " Request," line upon line, line upon line, here and there, through- of the world. But the fact that that darkening was and ask Mr. Stephenson what is meant in his response out the book of God. To the weary pilgrim who mourns connected with particular events, takes it completely by "the bond-man whose children are the Jews," and the ruins of the fall, no prospect can be more cheering out of the hands of our opponents. "Immediately af- " the Revision party." J. W. than a restoration of all things to their primeval state, ter the tribulation of those days" (the 1260 years of a cure of all the evils that sin has wrought. And such Papal persecution), or as another Evangelist has it, BRO. H. C. WHITNEY'S QUESTION. a restitution has been graciously promised. But what " In those days, after that tribulation," the sun shall " Buo WirITE: Will you compare 2 Cor, iii, 7, with shall introduce this glorious era? Nothing less than be darkened, &c. The tribulation was shortened by Dent, xxvii, 8 ; Josh. viii, 32, and tell me what you the second coming of the Lord. Peter speaks in Acts the rise of the Reformation, the time arrived for the think of it ? iii, 19, of the times of refreshing which shall come from accomplishment of that prediction and it was fulfilled. QuEsTion. Were the ten commandments ever the presence of the Lord, and adds, " And he shall send Now it matters not if the sun has been darkened a engraven in stone ? If so, where shall I find it ? "

Tr No. 11,1 THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 85 •

REPLY. The passages do not refer to the same DELAYING OBEDIENCE. al and real, belonging to the members of the church, event. 2 Cor, iii, 8, mentions circumstances with as ascertained from the Tax Books of 1860. And for which Moses was personally connected. "But if the To delay obedience to the truth is to continue in sin. the purpose of carrying out the above plan we call up- ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, Delay weakens the resolution—sin blunts the sensibili- on the different churches in Southern Iowa to appoint was glorious so that the children of Israel could not ties of the person, and gradually sears the conscience. some one of their number to make out a list of their steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of If men could see the exceeding sinfulness .of sin, they members, with the several amounts of their taxable his countenance, &c. But Deut. xxvii, 8; Josh. viii, would flee from it as from a poisonous serpent. They property set opposite their respective names, and for- 31, 32, refer to events which occurred after the death would not daily with, and caress it, and be so reluct- ward said lists to the Secretary of our Committee, at of Moses. "As Moses the servant of the Lord coin_ ant to leave it. The best time to obey the truth is Knoxville, Iowa, who will, as soon as the lists have when we are first convinced of it. mended the children of Israel, as it is written in the But the enemy tells been received, make out and send back to each church us not to be too hasty ; that we shall appear more book of the law of Moses, (see Deut. xxvii, 8), an said lists with the proportionate share of each member dignified,igne,ifi dif we take time to consider. He knows that altar of whole stones, over which no man bath lift up annexed to their names. his chances of success are increased by every delay and any iron, and they offered thereon burnt offerings The scattered brethren and sisters throughout South- every known sin. He tells us the time will come when unto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings. And he ern Iowa, where there are no organized churches, will the obstacles will be removed out of the way and it wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of please forward, as above directed, their names with will b. e more easy. to obey. At .the same. time he uses Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children the amount of their taxable property, and their pro- all his powers to increase the difficulties and obstruct . of Israel." portionate share of the foregoing amount will be re- .. the way. I have known people to wait for the Devil to As an answer to the "question" we quote Ex, xxxn, turned to them. open the way for them to obey the Lord; but they 16. "And the tables were the work of God, and the Before adopting the foregoing plan we consulted with waited in vain. 0, that men could see this subject in its writing was the writing of God graven upon the tables. o as many of the brethren as we could, and those to whom true light ! 0, that they could see that, by the coin- But the altar in mount Ebal was built of whole we submitted it were well pleased with the plan, and ma,ndment, sin, that before seemed dead, becomes ex- stones and covered with plaster upon which the law of were willing to adopt it. We should have consulted seeding sinful. Moses was written. ./. W. with more of the brethren if we could have had oppor- The person that does not delay but takes a decided tunity, and would have liked to have all the brethren of stand at once in obedience to the truth, has a decided Southern Iowa in Conference, but that was not practi- UNITY OF ACTION. advantage over one who delays. He is stronger on the cable, and the time was fast approaching when means start, and increases in strength more rapidly. While he UNITY of faith and unity of spirit will lead us to would be needed to send out the truth to others, and that delays is so weakened that if he should finally obey, unity of action. Nothing is a better test of our faith consultation among ourselves, and with some of it is with feebleness, and a long time is required to attainupon and spirit than our actions. The language of the the brethren, we came to the conclusion that under ex- to that strength with which he would have commenced, Christian is, " Show me thy faith without thy works, isting circumstances it would devolve upon the Tent had he obeyed when first the truth was made plain to and I will show thee my faith by my works." The Committee to take action in the premises. his mind. Such things have come under my observe- church should act in harmony in the great work of the We accordingly submit the foregoing as the best tion. Where persons have delayed for months or years last message, and be prepared for every good work. method of raising the necessary means that we could it would require as much or more time to attain Not wait till some pressing need calls for our action, devise, trustingathat it will meet with the approbation the strength with which they might have started. and then, very unfortunately, be destitute of the means of the brethren generally, and that they will cordially You that are delaying, know you what you are doing? to supply the pressing .demand. We do not act thus unite with us in carrying it out. But should any of Do you realize the awful nature of sin, and danger of in our temporal affairs. We do not wait till pinched the churches or brethren differ with us in opinion in delay? Do you realize that in every known sin you cru- with hunger, before we make arrangements for a sup- regard to the plan we have adopted, we hope they will cify the Lord afresh? ply of provisions. And, if we seek first the kingdom Do you realize how fast you are adopt such other system or plan for themselves as may of God, we shall take measures that the wants of his losing strength to obey—that Satan is riving his chains seem most advisable, and notify us of the fact through cause shall not fail to be supplied, sooner than we upon you—that the more convenient season is farther and our Secretary immediately, together with the amount farther in the distance ? Do you know that God holds would fail of our supply of daily food. they propose to raise as their part of the expenses of All should be united in a plan of operation. If no you accountable for your influence—that souls that running the Tent the ensuing season. In either plan had been laid down in Scripture, we should devise you might be instrumental in saving, are stumbling case, brethren, let us hear from you at as early a day over you into perdition ? one according to our best wisdom, and then all act in as possible. But, very fortunately, an apostle, Are you waiting for a change in your circumstances harmony upon it. By order of the Southern Iowa Tent Committee. under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, has marked out that will enable you to obey? You wait in vain. E. S. WALRER, Secretary. a plan of Systematic Benevolence ; and though, under Where is your trust in God ? Do you fear that forsak- ing your sin and turning to obedience will ruin you ? varied circumstances, it may not be practicable to lay REMARKS ON TIIE ADOVE.—We regret the publication weelc by week, yet we can carry out Have you no more confidence than that ? 0, blind un- aside our liberality of the above, yet do not take the responsibility to with- the design of the plan, in its essential features, by lay- belief! The person who thinks it better to delay than hold it a sufficient time to consult with the Tent Com- ing aside the portion of a number of weeks at once, to obey does not believe God. But. he that obeys God, mitten. We briefly state our objections as follows It is some time since this plan has been proposed for and he only, bath set to his seal that God is true. Be- 1. A plan of Systematic Benevolence has been intro- our consideration and action. And I have reason to ware, beware of unbelief—the parent sin ! Up ! get duced, and approved by General Conference, which is fear that it has not been acted upon as it should have you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy it ! in harmony with the word of God, backed up by the been. Some have had their objections to the plan, and In contrast with the course of him that delays, mark HolySpirit, which works admirably where adopted, others, who have not objected, have neglected it. It the words of the sweet psalmist of Israel : "I entreat- accomplishing all that can be desired of any plan to is time that we were up and doing. The great work of ed thy favor with my whoIle hhearlt, t; be merciful to me andraise means for the support of the cause. Now as union the third message is just before us ; and all, young according to, thy word. t ougi. on md y ways,d is desirable, especially in these perilous times, among and old, want a share in the work. As to objections, turned my feet unto thy testimonies. haste, those who labor to give the last message, we regret to I do not know of any that may be urged now, that and delayed not to keep thy commandments." .e r. c, see new plans introduced before those already before might not, with equal propriety, have been urged by . a the brethren are shown to be defective. It is our the churches of Galatia and Corinth, at the time when opinion that the suggestion of several plans will give of you lay by him in store as To the Different Churches and Scattered Paul said, " Let every one the impression that there is but little importance in God has prospered him." There is no compulsion about Members of Seventh-day Adventists carrying out any plan, and in the confusion and lack If we do nechoose to serve the Lord and his this. Southern Iowa. of general interest, no plan will be carried out as it But, as it was then, so it is in cause, we can neglect it. should be, and the desired object will not be gained. now, " God loveth the cheerful giver." WHEREAS the season is rapidly advancing when our Ohio was first in the secession from the approved plan I would recommend to all who have not, to adopt the Tent should be manned and sent into the field, and in of Systematic Benevolence, at the Gilboa Conference, plan; and to those who have adopted it, to carry it order to do so it is necessary that means should be Oct. 28, 1860, and with surprise we see the first steps vigorously forward. The increasing wants of the cause raised to defray expenses, and for the support of those taken for Southern Iowa to follow. will demand it. Let no one, young or old, who does brethren who go with the Tent, and as there has been not lack for comfortable food and clothing, excuse 2. We object to the above because it embraces but no action taken by our Conferences in reference to the one object, viz., the support of the Tent, which is not himself. A very little of that care and labor that pro- matter, we deem it duty to adopt some plan of raising vides these things, can aid in the cause of God. Some more than one third of the expense in Southern Iowa the necessary means as soon as possible ; therefore, content themselves with thinking how much they would to Winter as well as Summer the cause. The sum to Resolved, That Five Hundred Dollars be raised for sustain the cause in Southern Iowa for 1861 should be do if they were rich. As though, in that case, they •this purpose, and in order to raise said amount we set as high as $1500. could make the Lord rich. Such deceive themselves. . adopt the following plan : 3. We are sorry to see it in print that any able-bod- The poor widow could lay up as great a treasure in Inasmuch as a number of our young brethren have heaven as she could had she possessed millions. ied man should give less than $5 to sustain so noble an no taxable property, who would esteem it a privilege enterprise as the preaching of the last message in a Let each of us strive so to do that the Lord can say to bear a part in the support of the cause, we therefore She bath done what she could." portable meeting-house, from town to town, from city of us as of one of old : " recommend that every able-bodied male member PAY And if we are faithful in our sphere of action, we shall . to. city.. The $1 tax suggested above is, however, a one dollar each, without reference to property, and thatslight improvement upon the Ohio plan, reported in soon hear him say, "Well done.'' R. 10. C. the balance of the $500 be raised upon the principle of REVIEW, Vol. xvi, No. 26. That plan makes no call When the word of God is sweet as honey, the vani- gospel equality, or in other words, by a direct tax up- upon the able-bodied young man who has no taxable ties of time are bitter as aloes. on the amount of all the taxable property, both person- property. dg I n

86 THE REVIEW AND HERALD [Vol. xvii.

4. We object to the above because, governed by the preacher had a protracted meeting and one hundred ANOTHER CALL. taxable property on the Tax Books, there seems to be and seventy converts, and now he has gone and they a lack of equality. '1n God's arrangement, age, health, are left without a shepherd, and many of them have WE want some of the preaching brethren to come ability to acquire, and widowhood, are to be taken into gone back. No doubt here is a chance for a rich har- this way if possible, as there are two individuals here the account. That young man worth $500 should pay ten vest of souls. In such a place the servant of God will who wish to be baptized, and others who want to hear times the amount that that aged brother, or feeble wid- not, labor in vain. Lord direct, is my prayer. the truth. .If any should come we will pay expenses ow pays, who have the same amount. M. E. Conwma. and as much more as we can, C. C. BODIEY. 5. The liberalities of the church should be a free- St Charles, Saginaw Co. Jan. 21st 1861. Salem, Steu. Co., Ind., Jan., 1861. will offering. By this we do not mean that the breth- P. S. Any one coming to this place by Rail—Road • MEDITATIONS. ren should be left uninstructed as to duty, to do a tri- would come to Owasso on the Detroit and Milwaukee fie or nothing, just as it happens, No. But if a sys- R. R. Bro Griggs lives three miles west of Owasso. Tn E thermometer is an instrument which is well un- tem has been presented which is scriptural, consistent, M. . C. derstood at the present day, and perhaps there is a and necessary, which will accomplish the object, and -E thermometer by which one may understand the state which has the sanction of high Heaven, and also our REPORT FROM BRO. HULL. of his own heart. Our conduct toward our daily and General Conference, then let every minister among us SINCE my last report I have preached three times in intimate companions, and our hourly meditations and use his pea, his voice, and his untiring efforts to es- Russiaville. We also had a social meeting, in which desires, are indications; but these cannot be fully ap. tablish it east, west, north and south. Nothing so dis- nearly all participated. Some who never made a pro- preciated and impartially weighed, without some sure heartens those who would work for God and the cause fession of christianity declared their determination to test ; and this test is the witness of the Spirit. of truth with all their might, as to see a lack of inter- keep the commandments of God, and asked for the Those who are led by the Spirit of God will have the est, with fellow-laborers, or a willingness to hang hack prayers of the church. witness of the Spirit, which is true and faithful, and and draw ofF. Let a discourse on Systematic Benevo- EM. Hornaday, an Age-to-come, no-law minister, will witness against wrong by sharp conviction, as well lence be preached in every church. Patiently, kindly, having come to the conclusion that Eld, Shockey had as in favor of right by its sweet consoling influence. faithfully hold it before that rich brother till he sees not quite succeeded in abolishing the law of God, and This witness must be punctually heeded and obeyed, that God calls on hint for a tithe of all his increase. thus leaving the people to " perish without law," came or it will be grieved away, and fatal stupor follow. Soon he will see, and along will come his free-will of- to tryhis hand against it. I heard his discourse ; and " And I will come in to him, and will sup with him, fering. And how much better than to draw a half or although it was a self-refuting discourse, I occupied a and he with me." The call to the supper is now going quarter of a tithe from him with the help of Cmsar's few moments in reply. I have not time or space to forth, and soon the table will be filled, every seat will Tax Books, He knows best how much he is worth, relate his jumble of contradictions. be engaged. Those who would be sure of a place must and if he chooses to lie unto God as Ananias and Suffice it to have a prelibation, a foretaste now. Jesus offers to Sapphire did, he will have to answer for that. say that at one time Sunday was a holy day, i. e., a little holy, not quite enough for a Sabbath, but a little come into the heart of the zealous Laodicean, and with The Monterey, Mich., church heard one discourse too holy for a working day, just about holy enough to him partake of royal dainties. This offer to come on Systematic Benevolence, and are perfectly united, meet and break bread on. At another time he esteem.- in and sup is a very liberal and loving offer. It is an Every brother and sister does something. The Battle ed every day alike, and would argue with the Lord on offer made to the remnant church (and will be verified Creek church is also perfectly united on the subject., that question if necessary. In the day of Judgment if to the faithful), an offer not thus expressed to any of and puts down for 1861, $291,20. 'It is a pleasure the Lord accused him of Sabbath-breaking he intended the six previously mentioned churches, and coincides' for all to do what they propose to do during 1861. to present that text and convince the Lord that he was with the call in Luke xiv, 23, 24. And as the result of strictly carrying out Heaven's wrong. Before Eld. H. made this remark, I was aware Precious promises are recorded, and each appropri- plan, there is now in our treasury $150, waiting for that some would undertake an argument with the Lord, ate to the time and condition of each of the seven some worthy object which will really advance the cause but I ddi not think they would come out so successful churches; but most wonderful of all, is this invitation of truth. We will close our remarks on this subject Wit as H. anticipated. It appears that the Lord cuts them to a kindly social meal with the blessed Redeemer. till the friends have a chance to read Testimony for short in their argument with, "Depart from me, ye What is this repast which is to be realized in this the Church, No. 6. which will be out in a few days. that work iniquity." present state ? What is this foretaste which the zeal- Price, post-paid, 10 cts., or for nothing. a. W". I could not harmonize Mr. H.'s positions with each ous-hearted Laodicean is to experience? Will not the other, so I asked him to show their harmony, but found Saviour confer his precious gifts upon those with whom MEETINGS IN ST. CHARLES, MICH. him inadequate to the task. he partakes ? the spirit of prophecy, the testimony 1311.0 Sutra: My course of lectures in St, Charles, Eld. H.'s effort only strengthened our brethren in of Jesus! 0 come, heavenly guest, we will strive to closed last evening. The interest increased to the our position, and convinced them that the dragon is open our hearts to thee. last. I have never seen better attention to the word wroth with the woman, and determined to continue his Our position is indeed an exalted one. Never was In any place. The length of time from the commence- warfare against the commandment-keepers to the end. there an age in which the church enjoyed so much meat to the close has been three weeks and four days, My brethren in Indiana are very anxious that I light on revelation as at present, and consequently nev- during which we had twenty four lectures and three so- should move there. I am also convinced that a great er was there so much called for from the church. To dal meetings. Twelve have subscribed for the Review work can be done in Western Indiana, and Eastern whom much is given, of him much will be required, and seven for the Youth's Instructor. Nearly all my Illinois. And since such a great effort is being made and certainly much has been given to this church. books are taken and several are waiting for Hymn to put me down in that State, I am almost persuaded Such an exalted position has never been granted to the Books. Several have taken books to send to friends that it is my duty to go there. I shall make an effort church. Before us stand the visions of Daniel and in different States and the Canadas. to get some one else to go to Ind., but if I fail will try John, the image of Nebuchadnezzar, the four kingdoms, Twenty-five (that we know of), have decided to keep to go myself. The brethren in Ind. should have help. before our eyes the abominations of mystery Babylon, the Sabbath, and many others are investigating. May the Lord direct. M. HULL. and her harlot daughters, are made apparent. Proph- There has been but little interest in religious mat- P. S. On my way home I stopped in Vermillion Co., ecy is fulfilled and explained, prophetic time is meas- ters in this place, the number to hear preaching only Ills., to spend a few days with my father. During ured, and the two-horned beast is now rearing himself averaging about fifteen or twenty. But the charge is my stay there of five days I gave seven discourses, in brazen effrontery, as if to mock the mandates of so great that a business man remarked that " St. The interest was very good, and the house was some- Jehovah. Charles folks were all going crazy." Another said, times over-crowded with attentive hearers. Before us stand in bold relief the daughters with " Nearly all in St. Charles have turned to keeping m. H. Babylon branded upon their foreheads, with one eye , Saturday." Last sabbath the house was nearly full, leering contemptuously at Sinai's burning summit, and Mad the testimonies and confessions were good. URGENT CALL FOR HELP. the other fiercely eyeing the prophetic chart, and mur- My lungs are in need of rest, so I do not commence . muring in low but terrible imprecations, their anger at BRO. SMITH : In this letter are five dollars sent from another course till the middle of this week. I will be- those who carefully walk in the King's highway. gin at Chesaning (nine miles from here) and have the the North Liberty church for a messenger to come here Here we stand. At every effort of our enemies the meetings fairly started by the time a supply of books and lecture, for the people are starving for the truth, light grows brighter, and our feet are more firmly can arrive. I have appointed to be here again next It is requested that Bro. Hull come, if possible, and go planted in this firm but narrow path ; but it is a high Sabbath ,to strengthen the things that remain. to Crumb's Point, as there is a great desire there for position to fall from, and few who fall ever rise again. The sound of this meeting has gone some distance. him to come back. Those backslidden ones want him It is a dangerous position for any but those who are There are calls to go in every direction. Out of six to come again, and many others are inquiring for truth. faithful, dangerous for the unwatchful, dangerous for When Bro. Hull presented the truth at Crumb's Point or seven openings I cannot possibly fill more than t those who refuse the light, and walk in the sparks of three or four before tent season ; and then I ought to there was a deep feeling for the truth ; but when op- their own kindling, dangerous for all but those who position made its appearance he had to leave, and Sa- have a good brother to help sing, pray and exhort. If heed all the testimony,• ST, who get all the light. It is hard tan sowed his tares. Bro. Hull should come and clear any of the messengers are spending their time in the to walk in this highway without eyes, and those who the rubbish away, and the honest will obey the truth. churches, that have been in the work long enough to , refuse the eye-salve will trip and stumble, and fall. Wepledge ourselves to defray the expenses, and do all stand alone, or, are toiling away in old settled and The wise will understand. Let us rise with the mes- necessary. The cry is, Why don't you get a nsessen- sage. J. C. aristocratic places where they can only get from three ger ? If Bro. Hull cannot come, send Bro. Loughbor- to ten out upon the truth, and then they require a ough, or some one. Christ's love is the church's fire ; thither bring thy messenger half the time to encourage them up, I hope Your brother striving for eternal life. heart when it is cold, frozen, and dead ; meditate on they will come up and help in these places where they E. STYLES. his love, and pray until you can say, "He loved me, are hungry for the troth. In one place a Baptist North Liberty, Incl., Jan, 1861. and gave himself for me." _qEP 'g No. 11.1 THE REVIEW AND HERALD. 87

PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE. essary to us, But if so we must be dependent on them, here if the truth could be preached. It is our prayer yea, and governed by them. And then farewell to that some brother may see it duty to come here and MAKE haste, 0 God, and help us now, Before thy throne we suppliants bow; Methodist Discipline, if not doctrine too. proclaim God's holy word to us. If any brother will 0, hear our feeble cries we pray, Query. Has not that time come, and has not that come we will pay his expenses, and do better if we Nor do thou turn in wrath away. church practically thrown away the doctrines of its can." In troubles deep, temptations sore, Discipline? 'Mid toil and danger now we find, Bro. T. K. Henry writes from Leslie, Mich.: "I feel A wild and surging sea before, like doing what I am able to do in this cause. I be- And foes arc pressing hard behind. LETT~ti -`T henthey thelfe-ci-iji-ei;o'rd-,--s;aiie71 one to another:;- lieve in trying every expedient that will have a tenden- ,cy to cause others to engage in it. I do not feel dis- Satan his host is leading forth, From Sister Carpenter. From east, from west, from north and south, posed to give those up who oppose the truth at first. I To overwhelm the saints of God;— Bno. &urn: I seat myself for the first time to write am rather inclined to judge others by myself; and it He fain would lay them 'neath the sod, a few lines to the Review. It will be two years next is quite likely I never should have embraced the pros- And now ascending to the throne, July since I commenced to keep the Sabbath. During ant truth if it had not been for the unabating zeal of Is going forth the earnest cry— About two Oh ! look upon the tears we've sown, this time I have made but slow progress. Bro. I. D. Vanhorn and others. At first I clung to the Oh ! save us Lord, or else we die. months ago I longed for the evidence that the Lord first day of the week. I held to this as long as I could loved me, and felt that I would be willing to make any under the heavy blows of reason and scripture to which Have pity on thy people, Lord, sacrifice, and bring all and lay it upon the altar. My I was subjected. By these weapons I was soon core- According to thy gracious word; prayer was, Lord make duty plain. Strengthen me Trouble the camp of Satan's host, palled to loose my hold, but unfortunately for me, I So all in vain will be their boast. and I -will take up every cross and follow thee. I want lodged on the platform of no-Sabbath. To this I clung 0, God of Israel, be to us a home in heaven. I mean to be found among the with great tenacity. But I was finally compelled to Our strength, our light, our faithful guide; faithful, and gathered with the remnant. We meet relinquish this also, by the same weapons as before. So moving forth, and only thus with trials on the way, but none too many to keep us We can the stormy sea outride. This time I caught hold of the Lord's Sabbath, and near to God. third angel's message, and here I find a position which Give not thy chosen to reproach, I am living in Marengo, Iowa. I moved from Iowa the truth does not tear down, and evil cannot shake. Have mercy on thy remnant church; City the first of January. I do not know of any Sab- The text that did more than any other one to convince O'ercoming grace 0, wilt thou yield; bath-keepers about here. If there are any I should be me of the perpetuity of the Sabbath, is found in Isa. From Satan's power 0, wilt then shield. very glad to have them call on me. I live two blocks a Sabbath in the new And when his host is raging near lxvi, 23. Here it speaks a And pressing on the unhallowed strife ; east of the Iowa House. B. J. CARPENTER. earth ; and I thought if there was to be a Sabbath kept O'er us a covering wilt thou rear, Marengo, Iowa. there, it was necessary to keep one here, and I was And crown us with eternal life. forced to believe that the new earth Sabbath would be From Sister Canfield. A. L. GUILFORD. the one that God instituted. E'er we find no change of Monroe, Wis. BRO. SMITH: We still feel to call for help. The day, or cause; but it merely says the Sabbath; which •-.110.-.a truth has never been preached here. Will not some of must mean God's, and not man's. I conclude by say- EXTRACTS FROM THE METHODIST the brethren come this way. We live nine miles east DISCIPLINE. ing I will try to keep the Sabbath instituted for this of Saline. There are but two of us here trying to keep earth, and the one that is destined to be the Sabbath the Sabbath. I never heard any preaching but two or [BRO. SMITH : The following are extracts which I of the next. I commenced about the middle of last three evenings and one day ; that was Bro. Frisbie, have made from the Discipline of the Methodist Epis- south of Monroe, Mich. It was only the commencement harvest, having investigated the subject more than a copal church, old edition, hoping it may serve to open tend we had to go away. Now we desire year previous to that time." the eyes of some to,see how far the church has fallen of lectures some one to come here. We ask the prayers of the from what it once was, and from its own teachings. Bro. 0. K. Davis writes from Victoria, Daviess Co., church. D. W. CANRIGHT.] Missouri: "The cause of God is gaining here every Your sister striving to overcome, Part 1st, Sec. 2, Art. 5, 6. The Holy Scriptures LAURA S. CANFIELD. ' day. Many honest ones are investigating the truth, contain all things necessary to salvation, so that what- ,..1112...11.-- and some are walking out upon it. The church here soever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, From Sister Shell. is in a prosperous condition. Brtl„ Hull was with is not to be required of any man that it should be be- BRO. SMITH: I feel to thank the Lord for his good- us last October and gave a course ofieetures;and bap-- Roved as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or ness to me in showing me the truth as it is in Jesus. tized foUrteen souls. I was among the number. Thank necessary to salvation. . . . Although the law giv- It is ten months since I commenced keeping the Sab- the Lord! My desire is to go with the people of God, en from God by Moses as touching ceremonies and bath of the Lord. I feel to bless his name that though and reach the place that Jesus has gone to prepare for rites, doth not bind ChriStians, nor ought the civil pre- we are a scattered and perseouted people, still we can us. While men are preparing carnal weapons to fight' cents thereof of necessity to be revived in any common- rejoice in the prospect of soon, very soon, meeting our over the kingdoms of this world, let us take the wasp- wealth ; yet notwithstanding no Christian whatsoever Lord at his coming. ons that God has given us, and fight for the kingdom Amid all the confusion and trouble is free from the obedience of the commandments which When I read the warm-hearted testimonies in the that is in heaven. People have about this world, it Blinn be destroyed, are called moral. Review, I feel that I want to live nearer to my blessed and the kingdom will be left to the people of God at Chap. 2, Sec 4 Doing what we know is Master. My prayer is that some of the messengers Remember the words of the blessed Saviour on not for the glory of God ; as, the putting on of gold may come this way. I think that there are some here last. the mount, ' Blessed are the meek, for they shall inber- and costly apparel, the taking such diversions as can- who would receive the truth. My talent is small, of the times that not be used in the name of the Lord Jesus, the singing but my Lord has told me to occupy till he comes. I it the earth.' We see from the signs pos- those songs, or reading those books which do not tend have long felt deeply impressed to give in my testimo- the period is not far distant when the saints shall to the knowledge or love of God, softness and needless, ny in behalf of the truth. I often feel doubts and fears Bess the kingdom." self-indulgence, laying up treasure upon earth. = arising, but still, thank God, if faithful the conquest Sec 5 By running with patience the race will soon be over. I know that God will have a tried Bro. A. M. Smith writes from Bloomfield, Cal.: " I that is set before them, denying themselves, and taking people ; and I for one feel willing to give up all that I desire the Review, so that I may know how the breth- up their cross daily ; submitting to bear the reproach may win Christ. yen are getting along, and rejoice with them, though of Christ, to be as the filth and otfscouring of the world, Dear brethren and sisters, pray for me that I may far from them. I often wish that Bro. Morrison or and looking that men should say all manner of evil of prove faithful. I never hbard present truth till last Bro. Hull were here. I think that if either of them, or any other brother to hold up the truth was here, them for the Lord's sake. winter, when my brother, Josiah Hebner, came here much good might be done. Although we are alone, Sec. 6. They must attend to . . . family and priv- from Canada. I bless God for that visit. It came like ate prayer, searching the Scriptures, and fasting, or a portion of meat in due season. yet we endeavor to remember the Sabbath, and to med- itate upon God's law day by day ; and by the assisting abstinence. Yours waiting for the coming kingdom. Mani SHELL. grace of God we shall endeavor to hold out faithful un- Chap. 4, p. 65, ver. 10. lie (the minister) shall take to the end, rejoicing in the promises that are set before care that a fast be held in'every society in his vicinity Burtchville, Mich. us, and hoping that if we are never permitted to meet on the Friday preceding every quarterly meeting. Extracts from Letters. to enjoy one another's company on earth, we may Chap. 9, See. 1. Question. Should we insist on the meet where parting is no more." rules concerning dress ? Bro. II. Strong, Jr., writes from Huntsburgh, Ohio : Ans. By all means. This is no time to encourage "I feel to thank my heavenly Father that he ever, in superfluity in dress. Therefore let all of our people his infinite mercy prepared my heart to receive the Bro. E. Styles writes from North Liberty, Ind.: "I be exhorted to conform to the spirit of the apostolic truth of the third angel's message. How cheering it is want to say through the Review to those of like prec- precept, not to adorn ourselves with gold, and pearls, to hear from the dear brethren and sisters through the ions faith that I am still striving for eternal life. love the commandments of God, and in keeping them and costly array. 1 Tim. ii, 9. Review from week to week. We are but few in number there is great reward. The little church here, in gen- Part 8, Chap. 2, Sec. 1. Qum Is anything advis- here, but are still striving to keep the commandments able in regard to building churches ? of God and the faith of Jesus. We have the pleasure eral, are trying to get ready for the Coming of the Lord, and we beg an interest in the prayers of the Ans. Let all onr churches be built plain and decent, of meeting our brethren and sisters in Orwel frequent- faithful that we may be found with the remnant on and with free seats, wherever practicable, but not more ly. These meetings are a great pleasure and blessing mount Zion to sing the new and everlasting song of expensive than is absolutely unavoidable, otherwise to us. It seems gbed to meet with those of like faith, redemption." the necessity of raising money will make rich men nee- I think there is a fair prospect for good to be done n g 88 THE REVIEW AND HERALD. [Vol. xvii

THE REVIEW Al\ D HERALD. NOTICE. PUBLICATIONS. BATTLE MEEK, MICR., TRIED-DAY, JAN. 29,1861. AGREEABLY to an arrangement made with the breth- Supplement and Addition to Hymn Book, . . . . . 35 cts. " in paper covers 25 ren at Lisbon, on Friday, Dec. 20, there will be a con- NEGROES BEFORE ADAM! 'Sabbath Tracts, Nos. 1-1. This work presents a con- ference held-at Marion, commencing Friday eve, Feb. densed view of the entire Sabbath question, . . . 15 THE following is just about such a discovery as we 15, and hold over Sabbath and first-day, for the pur- The Three Angels of Rev. xiv, 6-12, particularly the should think some southern mind at this time would be pose of making necessary arrangements for running Third Angel's Message, and the Two-horned Beast, . . 15 likely to make, and such as southern people would be the Tent the coming season. We cordially invite our Rope of the Gospel, or immortality the gift of God, 15 prepared to receive. The wonderful revelation con- brethren from all parts to come up, that we may put Which? Mortal or immortal ? or an inquiry in- cerning immortal souls might also be considered of val- forth our united effort to send this gospel of the king- to the present constitution and future condition of man, 15 ue in other States besides the South. We give it as a dom to every creature. We hope to see a good repre- Modern Spiritualism; its Nature and Tendency. This sentation from all those points that stand identified book should be in the hands of every family, as a warn- curiosity : ing against Spiritualism, 15 with us in this conference. Others are also invited. A NEGRO TUE AUTHOR OF ADAM'S FALL.—The last The Kingdom of God. A refutation of the doc- Done by order of the Marion church. Ci Review trine called Age to Como, 15 number of De Bow's (Southern) contains an V. M. GRAY. article front the pen of Rev. Dr. Cartright, of New Or- Jan. 11, 1861. Pauline Theology, or the Christian Doctrine of Future Punishment, as taught in the epistles of Paul, . . 15 leans, in which that writer announces a strange discov- The Atonement, 15 CC ery in scriptural readings. He finds that the 24th A REQUEST. Prophecy of Daniel. The Four Universal Kingdoms, verse of the first chapter of Genesis has been mistrans- The Sanctuary and Twenty-three Hundred days, . 10 'C lated, and should read, " The Lord said, Let the earth AT ft meeting of the Seventh-day Advent church in The Saints' Inheritance. The Immortal Kingdom bring forth intelligent creatures with immortal souls Fairview, Iowa, it was located on the New Earth, 10 CC after their kind, cattle," Ste. Taking this as a basis, Resolved, That a cordial invitation be extended to Signs of the Times, showing that the Second Coming of Christ is at the door, 10 the Doctor, in a way satisfactory to himself, finds that Bro. and sister Cornell to come to this part of the State this race existed before Adam, that they were negroes, Law of God, The Testimony of both Testaments, show- to labor the coming season. ing its origin and perpetuity, 10 CC that the tempter himself was a negro in Eden, and not Resolved, That they should be sustained by our pray- Vindication of the true Sabbath by J. W. Morton, late by any means a serpent, but only called so on account ers and our purse ; and that means be raised to bear Misisionary to Hayti, 10 CC of the low cunning peculiar to the race. Thus, he ar- their expenses here. Review of Springer on the Sabbath, Law of God and gues, the negro being the child of the earth, is a lower Resolved, That this request be published in the Review. first day of the week, 10 order of being than the paler faced of the human fam- In behalf of the church. Facts for the Times. Extracts from the writings of D. WEAVER. ily.—Ch. See. mato entauthors Ancient and Modern, . . 10 SS Miscellany. Seven tracts in one book on the Second Ad- APPOINTMENTS. vent and the Sabbath, 10 be' We now design to be at the Marion Conference, Conference in Minnesota. The Seven Trumpets. The Sounding of the Seven accompanied by Mrs. W. We hope to see a general . it THERE will be a general conference at Pleasant Trumpets of Revelation viii and ix, . . . 10 rally. At a large gathering it is well to take along Grove, Olmstead Co., Minn., near Bro. Lashier's, com- Assistant. The Bible Student's Assistant, or a compencl buffalo robes, and blankets. mencing sixth-day evening, Feb. 1st, and continuing of Scripture references, 6 We shall probably spend ten or twelve weeks in the over Sabbath and first-day. One special object of this Nature and Obligation of the Sabbath of the Fourth West, and go from Marion as the bretheren may call, meeting is to take into consideration the wants of the Commandment—Apostasy and Perils of the Last Days, 5 CC cause in this new State, and also what course we will Truth Found. A Short Argument for the Sabbath with and open the way for us. Those who wish our labor take in carrying forward the work the new year we an appendix, "The Sabbath not a type," . . 5 CC will please write to Battle Creek, or Marion in season have entered upon. Will Bro. J. N. Andrews come to An'Appeal for the restoration of the Bible Sabbath in for the letters to reach us before we leave. this conference? All would be very happy to meet an Addreed to the Baptists, 5 CS JAMES WHITE. him there. Bro. J. Bostwick is expected. Review oS Crozier on the Institution, Design and Ab. We hope to see a general gathering at this meeting. olition of the Seventh-clay Sabbath, . . . . 5 'I Come, brethren and sisters, praying that God will bless Review oir Fillip—A reply to a series of discourses de- CAUTION. us, and give us wisdom for the future. Those who livered by' him in tattle Creek, on the Sabbath question, 5 cc live in Minn. will of course know that bedclothes and BE careful, sisters, and not let your preacher, and The Fate of the Transgressor, or a Short Argument en buffalo robes will be in good demand at this meeting. the First and Second Deaths, . 5 'C his wife if he has one along with him, sleep in damp Each will take care to bring along some. Brown's Experience in relation to Entire Consecration sheets. Air your sheets thoroughly, also your beds, WASHINGTON MORSE, and the Second Advent, 5 'C if they have not been slept in constantly, and do not H. F. LASHIER. Report of General Conference held in Battle Creek, June let your best friends endanger health andlife. We be- 3-6, Address on Systematic Benevolence, Br., . . 5 CC Sabbath ['ea n. A Word for the Sabbath, or False The- lieve that more than one-half the Neuralgia, Rheuma- u6inci30 Zepartinent. ories Exposed, 5 CC tism, hoarseness, and weakness of throat and lungs, is Illustrated Review. A Double Number of the RE- Business Notes. occasioned by sleeping in damp beds. Perhaps your Wm. Gould: Your paper is paid to close of present VIEW AID HERALD illustrated 5 spare bed is in a room where in the cold, damp seasons volume. Spiritual Gifts Vol. IL, or the Great Controversy be- tween Christ and his angels, and Satan and his angels, 50 you keep no fire. In this case the bed gathers damp- M. E. Cornell: We sent you the 25th inst., books and letter to Owasso, Shi. Co., Mich. Spiritual Gifts Vol. ti. Experience, Viows and Inci- ness. Such a bed should be thoroughly aired, and if dents in connection with the Third Message, - St Wm. Peabody : The papers you order, amount to - 60 sheets be put-on, let them also be aired, and save the Scripture Doctrine of Future Punishment. An Argu- $1,15. ft health and life of your minister. ment by II. II. Dobney, Baptist Minister of England, 75 J. W. A. Coventry : $1. Debt and Grace as related to the Doctrine of Future F. Moorman : Your INSTRUCTORS have been regular- Punishment, by C. F. Hudson, 100 it LW" TESTIMONY to the Church, No. 6, will be ready ly sent. There must be foul play somewhere. Voice of the Church on the Coming and Kingdom of in a few days, treating upon Organization, Systematic D. H. Simons : Your indebtedness for REVIEW is $2. the Redeemer. A History of the doctrine, - - 100 " S. B. Whitney: We apply 11 cts. of Sr. Blacka- Benevolence, Duty to Children, &e. Address Ellen G. PENNY TRACTS. Who Changed the Sabbath?—Unity of the more's remittance for INSTRUCTOR, in favor of the poor, Church--Spiritual Gifts—Judson's Letter on Dress—Law of God, White, Battle Creek, Michigan. in order to preserve even volumes. The bundle was by Dobney (2 cts.)—Law of God by Wesley—Appeal to men of reas- appropriated in the list of "Givers unknown." mien Immortality—Much in Little—Truth--Death and Burial— MEETINGS at Battle Creek next Sabbath at 10 Preach the Word. A. M., and at 1 P. M. The brethren and friends in Receipts. Those small Tracts can be sent, post-paid, in packages of not less than twenty-five. the towns around are invited to meet with us. FOR REVIEW AND HERALD. Rome Here and Howe in Heaven, with other poems. This JAMES WHITE. Annexed to each receipt in the following list, is the Volume and Num- worn embraces all those sweet and Scriptural poems written by ber of the REVIEW' AND HERALD to v5hioh the money receipted pays. If money for the paper is not in due time acknowledged, immediate notice of Annie R. Smith, from the time she embraced the third angel's HELP THE POOR PREACHERS. the omission should then be given. message till she fell asleep in Jesus. Price 25 cents. In paper cov- ers, 20 cents. WHO will be one of fifteen to raise $150 to pay the Jas. Hogle 0,50,xviii,1. Geo. Leighton 2,00,xix,1. Office for printing 3000 copies of Snook's Review of M. P. Shaw 1,00,iviii,14. F. H. Howland 1,00,xviii,l. The Chart. A Pictoral Illustration of the Visions of Daniel and John. 20 by 25 inches. Price 16 eta. On rollers, post-paid 75 Springer, and make him a present of the edition ? M. C. Holliday 0,50,xviii,11. Jno. Holliday 0,50, ets xviii,11. G. Kelsey 0,50,xviii,11. Wm. Atherton German. Das Wenn des Sabbaths nod unsere Yerpflichtung auf James White, pd $10. 0,50,xviii,11. Mrs. Collier 0,50,xviii,11. E. J. Stev- ihn noels dent Vierten Genets. A Tract of 80 pp., a Translation of II. C. Whitney, 10. ens 0,50,xviii,11. P. Hoffman 2,00,xvii,l. C. C. Bod- Nature and Obligation of the Sabbath of the Fourth Cotamomdsnesst. Noah Hodges, pd. 10. ley (for H. L. Doty) 0,50,xviii,2. S. Jones 2,00,xix,14. Price 10 cents. John Goss . 10. Holland. De Natuur en Trerbinding van den Sabbath volgens het Josiah Wilbur, pd. J. Newton (for G. Newton) 0,50,xviii,11. A. Drake 10. 0,50,xviii,11. L. A. Davis 1,00,xviii,10. H. M. Caslar vierde Gelled& Translated from the same as the German. Price Charles Smith, 10 cents. pd. $5. 10. 2,00,xviii,10. L. Tomlinson 1,00,xviii,l. A. D. Love A. C. Hudson, French. Le .8abbat de la Bible. A Tract on the Sabbath of 32 pd. 1,00,xviii,l. D. Robbins 1,65,xviii,17. G. W. Mitch- D. It. Palmer, pd. pp. Price 5 cents. 10. el 1,00,xviii,7. R. G. Graves 2,00,xviii,5. L. M. S. A. McPherson, 10. Locke (for Mrs. M. Dean) 0,50,xviii,11. La Grande Statue de Daniel l4- et lea Quatre Fetes Symboliques et Wm. Peabody, J. T. Lay quelques remarques sur la &amide Venue de Christ, et our le Cin- 10. 0,50,xviii,11. E. Parks 1,00,xviii,l. Jno. Newton A Sr. in Steuben Co., N. Y., pd 10. quione Royaume Universe'. A Tract of 82 pp. on the Prophecies. 0,25,xvii,20. D. Hewitt 1,00,xviii,l. H. A. Weston Price 5 cents. Let us hear from others soon. J. W. 2,00,xviii,l. J. B. Slayton 1,00,xviii,l. C. McCon- .)Q=- These Publications will be sent by Mail, post-paid, at their nel 1,00,xviii,l. E. Churchill 1,00,xviii,l. L. Bean respective prices. To the calls for preaching in new places which I One-third discount by the quantity of not loss than 1,00,xviii,8. C. H. Barrows 1,00,xviii,l. John Loop $5 worth. In this case, postage added when sent by Mail. All or- have received by letter from Wisconsin and Illinois, 1,00,xviii,11. J. A. Blackamore 1,00,xvii,l. J. Wad- ders to insure attention, must be accompanied with the cash, unless I would say, I will attend to them as soon as circum- man 0,50,xviii,11. A. E. Tallman 1,00,xvii,7. J. G. special arrangements be made. Give your Name, Post Office, Owns Satterlee 2,00,xviii,20. J. Upson 1,00,xviii,11. ty stances permit; and will give notice in the and State distinctly.. Address RE SEIM a HERALD, Battle Creek Review in FOR MISSIONARY PURPOSES.—S. D. Hall $0,75. Rich. due time. WM. S. INGRAHAM. FOR EASTERN IOWA TENT.—D. Weaver $10. 51J