Sr. H. C. Wilkinson Rejoices in Family Sabbath Observance
SR. H. C. WILKINSON writes from Middlesex Co., Mass.: I do feel to praise God for what I have enjoyed to-day. I have been anxious for a number of years to have my companion join me in keeping the Sabbath. He has now commenced its observance, and ever since the Lancaster camp-meeting, joins with us in family worship. Have I not great reason to call upon my soul and all that is within me to bless and praise God for his goodness to me!
Sister Simonds on Hearing an Adventist Minister Preach
By Sister J. E. Simonds
SISTER J. E. SIMONDS writes from Union Co., Iowa: Some three weeks since, I returned home from Wintersett, where for the first time in my life I heard an Adventist minister preach. It was a feast of fat things to my happy soul. I never realized before what responsibility rests upon our ministers, but I pray that the Lord will uphold them with his almighty arm; for it is a great work to preach the last warning to fallen men. I feel a great interest in the cause of truth, and also a responsibility on myself as one that is trying to keep the commandments of God. Although I cannot preach, nevertheless I can exert an influence around me for the truth, and try to show by my daily walk and conversation that I esteem it a privilege to do something for my Redeemer and his cause. Although unworthy, I feel that I should not hide my talent in a napkin because I may not have the ability of some of my brethren and sisters around me.
I have reason to thank God that he has inclined my heart to embrace the third angel’s message. I expect many temptations and trials, but the Lord is our strength, the God of Jacob our refuge. Heaven will be the more sweet to us when we have done toiling here below. May the Lord give us grace to stand firm unto the end, that we may at last enter in through the gates into the golden city.
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Cash Received on Account.
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Book Fund.
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Foreign Missionary Fund.
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Michigan Camp-Meeting Fund.
B P Dawson $5.00, J R Brown 1.00.
Appointments and Camp-Meeting Notices
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
PROVIDENCE not preventing, I will attend meetings in the following places: Miller District, Oswego Co., N. Y., Oct. 22, 23; Happy Valley, Oct. 29, 30. The ordinance of baptism will be attended, if called for during these meetings. Brethren from other churches will meet with us, prepared to labor. C. O. TAYLOR.
PROVIDENCE permitting we will hold meetings as follows: Farmington, Oct. 15; Beecher’s Island, Oct. 16. Catlin, Oct. 22, 23. JOHN LINDSAY, S. A. H. LINDSAY.
The next monthly meeting of the churches of Western New York, will, Providence permitting, be held at the village of East Alma, Erie Co., on Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 9 and 10. Take the Washington and Buffalo R. R. from Buffalo to Jamison Roads station. Teams will be in readiness to convey to the village. It will be a two-days’ meeting. The lonely ones are especially invited. “Let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.”
There is a very earnest desire that Bro. Andrews will attend. CHAS. B. REYNOLDS.
PROVIDENCE favoring, there will be a monthly meeting at Monroe, Iowa, Oct. 28–30. We design this for a large and general meeting of all the friends in this vicinity. We expect them to attend from Knoxville, Sandyville, State Center, Des Moines, and scattered ones from other places. Ample provisions will be made for teams and for all who may come.
Meetings will be held in Anderson’s Hall, beginning Friday evening. Come brethren and sisters, and let us seek God for his blessing. D. M. CANRIGHT.
Indiana Camp-Meeting.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Sept. 30, we received the following telegram from Bro. Lane:
“Our Camp-meeting will be held at Tipton, Tipton Co., Ind., on the Peru and Indianapolis railroad.”
Kansas Camp-meeting.
By James White
WHEN we consented in Ohio to go to Kansas; it was with the express understanding that Bro. Matteson was to remain in Battle Creek. It was necessary that we should consult with him on our return to B. C. But when we returned, he had left. And although Bro. Gage went to Alaiedon to see him before we returned, he did not return to meet us here, to give us much needed information as to the situation of things in the West. What we most needed to know was what, and how many, tents were wanted at that meeting. What is the condition of the old tent used by Brn. Matteson and Lawrence? We concluded not very good. We regret to be left in the dark upon so important matters. But there is no time to be lost. We had not time to call Bro. M. to Battle Creek, or to go where he is. So we decided to take two small tents to Kansas, and have written to Eld. Geo. I. Butler, Winterset, Iowa, to be at Pleasanton, Kansas, in good season with the large Iowa tent, and if necessary, to use the express, and we would meet all expenses.
JAMES WHITE.
JAMES WHITE
By James White
Library.
Two weeks since, we referred to the importance of a good library for the benefit of those who write and speak upon the prophecies and the Sabbath, and called for two hundred men, each to donate ten dollars. A goodly number have pledged, and $130 have been paid. We can furnish pledge papers, on one side of which pledges can be made for the library, and on the other side for the Kansas camp-meeting, &c., &c. We request that these papers be circulated, and that they be returned as soon as possible to this office, paid as far as possible.
JAMES WHITE
European Mission.
By James White
The following sums make up the $2000 advanced to help the cause in Europe.
A Sister, .................................................. 50.00
F. T. Wales, ............................................... 5.00
M. Gould, .................................................. 5.00
Linda Whitford, ............................................ 2.00
JAMES WHITE.
History of The Sabbath.
By James White
For two years the edition of this very important work at the Office, has been exhausted. We hope Bro. Andrews will prepare the second edition as soon as possible. He can have all the help and means he needs to accomplish the work on application to this Office.
JAMES WHITE.
To Correspondents.
By Editor
A. H. PERVORSE: There seems to be good evidence that the resurrection of Christ took place on the first day of the week. Respecting the day of the crucifixion, there is more ground for difference of opinion, and we consider it less essential what view is entertained upon that point.
O. E. McCORD: We think 1 Cor. 14: 34, 35, was designed to correct some local irregularity in the Corinthian church. See article on this subject in REVIEW, Vol. 18, No. 4.
W. S. ERNST: The price of “How to Treat the Sick without Medicine,” is $2.25 by mail.
Sabbath-Keepers at Carpenterville, Putnam County, Indiana
Sabbath-keepers living in Carpenterville, Putnam Co., Ind., on the line of the Louisville, New Albany and Crawfordsville R. R., would be pleased to have any of like faith call on them, who may be passing through the place.
Note from Brn. Rodman and Haskell.
By P. C. Rodman; S. N. Haskell
We have been here two weeks to-day. Have given eighteen lectures. The attendance is not large, but we think the most are candid listeners. We hope for good. Pray for us that the Lord may bless our labors.
P. C. RODMAN.
S. N. HASKELL.
Westerly, R. I. Sept. 13, 1870.
The First-day Sabbath.
By WILLIAM McCLATCHEY
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD: Sir—In your issue of the 23d of August last, there appeared an article by Elder Preble, stating that there was no Scripture proof that the first day of the week should be kept as the Sabbath day. Your correspondent would beg space to submit the following quotations from the Holy Scriptures, which would seem to prove to the contrary. You will please examine the following: Lev. 23:11, 15, 21; Matt. 28:7, 9, 16, 17; Luke 24:1, 6, 13, 33, 34, 35, 36; John 20:19, 26; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:1, 2; Col. 2:16, 17; Mark 2:27, 28; Rev. 1:10. Please give it a place in your paper and oblige. WILLIAM McCLATCHEY.
Publications on the Sabbath for Sale
REPLY.—Elihu on the Sabbath, for sale at this Office. Price 2 cts. Seven Reasons for Sunday-Keeping Examined, 2 cts. Who changed the Sabbath? 2 cts. An Appeal to the Baptists from the Seventh-day Baptists, 5 cts. Vindication of the True Sabbath, 10 cts. Review of Gilfillan, 10 cts. The Truth Found, 10 cts. The Seventh part of Time, 10 cts. Discussion on the Sabbath Question, Grant and Cornell, 20 cts. Sermons on the Sabbath and Law, 30 cts.
The Last Message of Mercy Examined
☞ Says a writer in a leading first-day Adventist paper, “God has given to us the last message of mercy to the world.” Does the writer believe this? and does he claim to be carrying out such a mission? If so, we inquire, What is the last message that is to be given, in probation, to a perishing world? It is brought to view in Rev. 14:9-12. There can be no mistake about this; for the very next event is the appearing of the Son of Man upon the great white cloud. And the message that last precedes this event is what is there brought to view as the third angel’s message, the burden of which is a warning against the worship of the beast and his image, and against the reception of his mark; in contrast with which is presented the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. But does the writer herein referred to, make this the burden of his preaching? Is it his work to warn men against the worship and the mark of the beast? Is he endeavoring to sustain a reform upon the commandments of God? No; but rather he racks his brain to see what opprobrious epithets he can invent, and what severe denunciations he can bestow upon those who are, or at least claim to be, doing this very work. Yet we, in his vocabulary, are fools, and fanatics, and he, occupying only a negative position on the great themes of the message, or, at least, treating them with silence, is the one who is giving the message. So oblivious to the most glaring inconsistencies do these minds become which are led by the spirit of error.