Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, in Georgetown, Ottawa Co., Mich., April 4, 1871, of quick consumption, Bro. Martin F. Spear in the forty-fifth year of his age.
Bro. Spear embraced the present truth about two years ago under the labors of Eld. I. D. Van Horn. We believe he sleeps in Jesus awaiting a glorious resurrection when the Lifegiver shall appear.
ADOLPHUS SMITH,
DIED, at Pilot Grove, Iowa, April 2, 1871, my dear mother, Sarah Nicola, wife of Jacob Nicola, in the sixtieth year of her age. Mother embraced religion about thirty years ago, and lived up to all the light she then had. About ten years since, she heard and embraced the third angel’s message. From that time until her death she was a firm believer in the near coming of the Lord to wake the sleeping saints and change the living to immortality. She had been a sufferer for a number of years before her death, but bore her affliction with patience and Christian fortitude, and gave good evidence that her peace was made with God, and that she will have a part in the first resurrection. She leaves a kind husband, a large family of children, and many friends, to mourn her loss; but they mourn not as those that have no hope.
May he (my dear father) who feels this stroke heavier than any other one, be sustained by God’s Holy Spirit and led fully to seek an interest in the atoning blood of Christ, and he and all the children make preparation to meet mother in the resurrection morning, that we may be an unbroken family in that bright world where death never can come.
HENRY NICOLA.
Suggestions.
By David Downer
THE REVIEW of April 11 is before me. In it I find some things of universal importance. I notice Bro. White's call for co-laborers to help in pushing forward the work. Now, brethren, we ought to be doers, not hearers alone. Our lay members can extricate Bro. W. from some of his embarrassments by paying up. Ministers can contribute to the paper, even if our contributions are small. Drops of water form the ocean. But we are apt to think that those who are writing will continue to write. Is it justice to compel those who have borne the burden faithfully through the heat of the day, to continue to bear it till, sick and tired, they faint by the way? How many appeals Bro. White has made for help! How many true testimonies he has borne to the people of God, and I fear unless we come to his rescue, he will fall.
Now shall we sit in the shade and see our faithful men wilt under their labors, or will we immediately, like true men, move out into line and prepare for the last great struggle. In future, let us not read the stirring appeals for faithfulness on our part, without acting in harmony with them. United we stand, divided we fall.
I notice on page 133 REVIEW of April 11, Bro. Canright's remarks on the terrible fever for moving, so prevalent in the West; men moving in every direction to better their circumstances. I believe this desire, covetousness, was born in Adam, and has been transmitted to his posterity. Men move and locate only to become dissatisfied. And why? Because they are looking for a second Eden on the present earth. We are always grasping for more territory. God has promised to gratify our desires. “Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth.” Matt. 5:5. I think the brethren that have a little home here, would do better to be content until we all move together to inherit the earth. Moving is, or has been, a disadvantage to us as a people; therefore, if we move, let us try to move in harmony with the will of the Lord, and in whatever business we are engaged, lay up treasure in Heaven.
DAVID DOWNER.
Choosing the Furnace.
THE three companions of Daniel in captivity, have rendered the world signal service in the example set by them at a critical period in their lives. It was an easy thing to fall down and worship the huge image set up by Nebuchadnezzar in the plain of Dura. To obey the king's command, and to find personal safety by doing it, were not matters of small moment. It might seem proper on the whole to follow the obsequious multitude in the homage they were ready to pay at the appointed signal. By their momentary compliance with a royal decree, however absurd, they would avoid attracting special attention to themselves, and would not incense an arbitrary monarch, whom it might be fatal to disobey.
The penalty of not obeying was the burning fiery furnace. To be thrown into the midst of this, or to bow down before the golden image, was the alternative presented. The decision of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego was quickly made. They feared the true God, and could, under no circumstances, worship a false one. Conscience kept them steady and unfaltering in the line of duty. Nor could the dread of sharpest suffering and a frightful death swerve them a hair's breadth from the strictest fealty to God.
The lesson is a profitable one to review from time to time, that its real significance may be seen and its force felt. The principle contained in it is a vital one, true and fresh now as it ever was, and adapted to this age as it has been to every other. The apostle Peter expressed it in that weightiest of brief utterances, “We ought to obey God rather than man.” In the spirit of this he stood ready to do and suffer all things, undeterred in the rigid performance of his duty, by any dangers that might threaten, or any personal suffering that he might encounter. Paul's whole Christian career is a still more marked example of conscientious fidelity to this principle. And when, as the closing period of his work drew nigh, he grandly exclaims, “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith,” the words were the honest utterance of a man who had endured for years without flinching or complaining all forms of hardship and suffering, that resulted from uncompromising obedience to the Lord's commands.
This steadfastness in duty at all times, and at all hazards is a demand which the church and the church's Head make upon every Christian. “If ye love me,” the Master pleads, “keep my commandments.” Strict obedience, therefore, in all things is the test of love.
The world, however, is seductive. Its amusements and pleasures are full of fascination, especially to the young Christian who has only for a short time girded on the warrior's armor. Gay and irreligious companions, sometimes kinfolks, nearest and dearest, indulge without restraint in pleasures which the Christian's vows, and allegiance to the Master, render forbidden pleasures. The influence of example on the part of persons so nearly related, aided, it may be, by personal solicitation, is strong. It is hard to resist the urgency of friendship to visit say, for example's sake, the theatre. It may look unkind to refuse. It may lead to unpleasant dissensions, to frown upon what others take delight in and pronounce harmless. It may occasion even family jars, making the person refusing, the mark for keen personal reflections if not ridicule, and so rendering the young disciple's social surroundings uncomfortable, not to say painful.
To prevent all this it is only necessary to comply with a world's fashion, to stifle the voice of conscience, to bow down with the rest and worship an earth-built image, to do in short what is felt to be a wrong and an offense to Christ, by one on whom consecration vows are resting. So the young man, who has given himself to Christ, coming to the city from the country, finds enticements to stray from the path of duty lying in wait for him on every hand. The billiard saloon and drinking saloon—rarely found far apart indeed—the card table, the theatre, the house of her whose gates lead down to death—these and others assail the young man's constancy. Peace of mind and safety to the soul lie only in “resisting unto blood, striving against sin.” To yield in a single point is often the surrender of all. Discomfort and suffering in various ways, may be, and probably will be, the fruit of such uncompromising resistance. But the “peace of mind that passeth all understanding” will be sure to reward through Christ's favor, the endurance of him who stands “steadfast and unmovable” in spite of all insidious solicitations to do wrong.
And so, whatever form or degree of suffering or affliction may result from undeviating adherence to the right way as Christ has pointed it out, this precious reward will not be long wanting, and this reward vastly overbalances all sacrifices made to secure it. Christ's favor given to those who are faithful unto death in all things, to duty, and to him, is the soul's sunlight. Sufferings vanish in the luster of it. The soul has, in the consciousness of duty faithfully done, a present joy which is the foretaste and harbinger of the fuller joy to come. And the steadfast Christian shares the apostle's experience as set forth in these noble words of rapture, “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” —Interior.
A Dark Picture.
REV. H. W. BELLOWS of New York, in a speech on Thursday evening at Cooper Institute, drew the following gloomy picture:—
Speaking about the difficulties of the government of the city, he said, “There are 517,000, out of a population of 900,000 persons, living in tenement houses. There are about 30,000 professional thieves in the city of New York. We have more than 20,000 lewd women and harlots here; we have about three thousand grog-shops and two thousand gambling establishments. We have an immense number of foreign people here (and they are none the worse for that), foreign people of different nations, not brought up in our ways of thought—but remember that we have, of two nations alone, 350,000, or perhaps 400,000 persons, of whom at least 170,000 are bound by their connection with a particular creed into a particular box of iron, which is moved by politicians from one side of the ship to the other, and which essentially governs the politics of the city. Remember, too, that when the majority vote in this city, by an almost fatal necessity it is always against those very principles that lie at the bottom of American freedom and of American institutions.”
The speaker then called upon the upper and educated classes to take a hand in this reform movement.
What are the capitalists doing to defend our rights? Why, when I see a set of rich men proposed as a committee to open streets, I say to myself, “I don’t want to trust rich men to open our streets;” for when a man may own two hundred or one thousand houses in a locality, he dare not bring down on his head the possible injustice of the men in power, who, if he dared to thwart them, could trample his property in the dust.
Well, then, what is the pulpit doing? Here is a minister looking down his broad aisles and seeing one man here, and another there, and another in another place, all mixed up with these iniquities—men who are paying the largest part of his salary—and he says to himself: “I must hush up; politics don’t belong to the pulpit; I dare not speak out, for my wife and children would suffer. I dare not speak the whole truth fearlessly, and with a fearless application to those chief sinners that I see before me.” What are the doctors doing? They are, some of them, attending upon these men who have been engaged in the vilest stock jobbing operations, until their hearts are as hard as their brains are soft, and all their ailments are going into forms of nervous disease, and they are ready to pay the biggest fees to the skilful physician, provided he is not one of the babbling sort, not too open-mouthed in regard to the political abuses of this community. I say, with inertness at the bottom and inertness and cowardice at the top, we are ground between the upper and the nether millstone; and until this people pluck up courage, and no longer hesitate at speaking the truth for fear their house will be burned down, or they will be stabbed in the back, or knocked down with a club, we need not expect any reform. These are the things that must be brought home to the intelligent classes; they must be told not to shrink from their duty in a cowardly manner—not to shrink from doing what they know to be just. My fears are not so much from the tenement-houses, or from the meagerly instructed class; we will stick by Mr. Beecher’s principle and instruct them. We have to maintain here the great principles of free government, which we have begun with. It will be better to fail in such a noble enterprise than to succeed in any other. What I fear is the cowardice and imbecility of the rich and intelligent classes—their unwillingness to sign papers, to show their names in opposition to all these outrageous frauds that are going on. I fear those who are in the top places, and who fail in their duty to this community. That is my point, and that is all I have to say.—Sel.
“Helps.”
By Stephen Pierce
AS THE term which heads this article has recently been brought before the readers of the REVIEW, and elucidated as a spiritual gift, it may be superfluous to further introduce it.
But it appears to some that there is another sense in which it may be brought before the mind with claims as imperative as that in which it has already been presented, if not more so. It is helps in the sense of financiers in transacting the business concerns of the REVIEW Office, and other affairs connected with the cause, which business affairs, in addition to all the other duties incumbent upon him, have unfortunately fallen upon Bro. White, not only to prevent his discharging many other more elevated and holy duties, which no others are so well qualified to perform; but further than this, if not soon relieved, to wear him down suddenly to the grave. We do not believe there is one in all our ranks, but that would say that they believe it to be the duty of Bro. and sister White to attend all our camp-meetings, or at least as many of them as their health will permit; that their superior gifts in this direction, may not remain unimproved. We do not believe there is one of discernment and sanctified judgment who is not convinced that Bro. White should have a general oversight of all the interests of the cause, not only as faithful counselor in our State Conferences; but experienced manager in all the interests of the cause throughout the land. But instead of this, he is left to be worn out by the more menial and subordinate duties pertaining to Office affairs, which others of good business tact might perform just as well. And as a consequence, sister White’s excellent gift is unimproved. But the darkest side of the picture is, that we shall doubtless very soon be deprived of Bro. White’s distinguished gifts as counselor and overseer in the cause of God, because he lies silent in the grave.
Dear brethren of business tact and ability, will you sleep on over this subject, and let the dearest interests of the cause die away; only dreaming of a few paltry dollars, which you, in your present occupation may accumulate, either to be burned up with Babylon and her wealth, or to be squandered in the cause, when our best manager has gone to rest, because too many burdens were put upon him, which others should have borne. For one, I should think this fearful experiment had been already sufficiently tried to have taught us better than to try it over again.
What should we think of a military authority, which, after an able and experienced leader had been appointed by government, should appoint this same commander to fill the place of every subordinate field officer in the army; and thus put upon him so much labor and exposure, as to bring his valuable life soon to a close. Would not every military man inveigh against such a course? Shall a general be burdened with the duties of a corporal? Is not his precious life of more value than several of theirs in this terrible warfare against the powers of darkness?
Who can estimate the difference, so far as the success of this dreadful conflict is concerned? Will picked men whom God wants at Battle Creek conclude that they alone are exempt from sacrifice at this time? They may reply that they sacrifice largely of their means every year. I ask what sacrifice can it be to throw out even largely of means when they have after this, much more than they need for their comfort and convenience? This may be a sacrifice of some of the impertinent aspirations of the mind, and this is well so far as it goes; but when duty marks a course for us which takes the food from our mouths, the clothes from our backs, or deprives us of other comforts which cause sufferings of body or perplexities of mind, those may be considered sacrifices indeed.
We beseech you dear brethren, who were chosen at our last General Conference, not to look at sacrifices, but rather look at the wants of the cause; for it is evident to us that two or three of those picked men placed now at Battle Creek to let Bro. and sister White go free would do more for the promotion of the cause, than for thousands or even tens of thousands of money thrown in here without any one to make use of it.
Who of you, dear brethren, will leave houses and lands, mills or shops, the coming season to accomplish this desirable, this glorious object! Or must this lamentable scripture be fulfilled here, that “all seek their own, and not the things that are Jesus Christ’s.”
Poor preachers, when called, leave what they have, families and all, with cheerfulness, and count it endless gain to do the Master’s will. Who will do likewise that are not preachers, and by and by hear it said, “Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of thy Lord”?
STEPHEN PIERCE.
Health Institute, Battle Creek, Mich.
Yes, Thank God!
THERE is rest—many an interval of saddest, sweetest rest—even here, where it seems as if evening breezes from that other land, laden with fragrance, played upon the cheeks, and lulled the heart. There are times, even on the stormy sea, where a gentle whisper breathes softly as of Heaven and sends into the soul a dream of ecstasy which can never again wholly die, even amidst the jar and whirl of waking life. How such whispers make the blood stop and the very flesh creep with a sense of mysterious communion! How singularly such moments are the epochs—the few points that stand out prominently in the memory after a flood of years has buried all the rest, as all the low shore disappears, leaving only a few rock-points visible at high tide!
Simplicity, Perseverance, and Trust
THERE is no truth more important and few less thought of, than this: the more we forsake simplicity in anything, the more we multiply the means of corruption and error.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
God will not share the heart with mammon. He sent no manna till the provision of Egypt was spent.
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News and Miscellany.
“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
“The situation around Paris unchanged,” is the closing announcement of the week relative to the European war.
Paris.
FRIDAY and Saturday last, according to the news from Paris a general attack on the city was “imminent.” Sunday it was certainly going to begin. But nothing of consequence really occurred Sunday. Monday seems to have been fooled away about as usual.
This French siege of Paris has now been going on a little over a month; and while it may end at any moment, it may continue a month longer. From all that appears to outsiders, the great question on both sides seems to be how not to do it. The Germans occupying some of the forts around Paris have been enjoying an excellent opportunity to observe all the worst weaknesses of the French military system. Doubtless, they have often laughed grimly at the indecisive movements of the contending French forces, and their abortive style of fighting. Having whipped both French parties themselves, they now occupy the position of honored spectators, while the French fragments are engaged in polishing each other off; and, doubtless, they find the situation sufficiently interesting to relieve the tedium of garrison duty. So long as Germany gets the stipulated cash, it makes no difference to her which of the two French factions whips the other. But every Frenchman killed is one more possible future foe of Germany put out of the way. BISMARCK can truly say, in imitation of Iago: “Now whether THIERS kills the Commune, or the Commune kills THIERS, either way makes my gain.” Consequently Germany, thus far, has not exhibited the slightest disposition to interfere; and, as Germany holds so large a mortgage upon France that the country is in a sense her property, no other nation cares to interfere, as any interference might make the meddler responsible for the payment of the French debt to Germany, and Germany is pretty sure to collect her debt of any party becoming responsible for it.
The Versailles army seems to be gradually getting the better of the Communists, notwithstanding the lack of vigor on the part of THIERS; though French affairs are so exceedingly uncertain that he would be a bold prophet who should venture to predict the exact result a single hour before its final accomplishment. If THIERS succeeds in putting down the Commune and in capturing Paris, the next conundrum is, What will he do with it? Nobody has ventured to guess the answer, except in the vaguest of terms. But nearly all people except the French seem to feel pretty sure that whatever is wisest and best to do is exactly the thing that will not be done.—Det. Post.
Camp-Meeting in Illinois.
By John H. Bennett; Seth Newton; R. F. Andrews
The time for this gathering of the people of God is drawing very near. We hope all the brethren in the Conference will do their utmost to make this the most interesting meeting ever held by our people in the State. There is no reason why it should not be, if we individually and collectively take hold of the work as we should.
Let none excuse themselves, but let all, as one man, come up to the help of the Lord. There will have to be a very general effort, to have the meeting a success. As a people, we very much need the benefit to be derived from such a gathering. We would therefore urge our brethren to arrange their matters so they can attend. The meeting will be held on the farm of Alfred Hobbs, two and one-half miles south of Northville, LaSalle Co., Ill. Somonauk, on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy R. R., is five miles north of Northville. Those coming from the west should get off the train here. There is a new rail road (the Fox River Valley) connecting Aurora, Ottawa, and Streator, that runs on the east side of the ground. We will make an effort to have special trains run from these cities during the meeting, and also have a reduction in the fare. We have looked all over the field and have decided that the above is the place that will accommodate the largest number, and we think the prospect is good to benefit unbelievers.
We confidently expect Bro. and sister White, and hope our brethren with their families will cheer these chosen servants of God by their presence, and be benefited by their instructions. Let all who can, bring tents with them. Arrangements will be made that provisions and horse-feed can be had on the ground. We would esteem it a great privilege to have our brethren from neighboring Conferences meet with us. Let all pray that the blessing of the Lord may attend this meeting.
JOHN H. BENNETT.
SETH NEWTON.
R. F. ANDREWS.
Illinois State Conference.
By SETH NEWTON; JOHN H. BENNETT; R. F. ANDREWS
THE first annual meeting of the Illinois Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, will be held in connection with the camp-meeting, near Northville LaSalle Co., Ill., June 8-12, 1871.
Let all the churches in the Conference be represented. Choose your delegates in season. Churches that have not as yet been admitted to the Conference should send delegates also, and become united to the Conference. Unorganized bodies of Sabbath-keepers, and isolated brethren, should have themselves represented.
It is expected that every church will send a written report to the Conference of their standing, loss, and gain, during the year, and the amount of their Systematic Benevolence fund yearly.
SETH NEWTON, } Ill. State
JOHN H. BENNETT, } Conference
R. F. ANDREWS. } Committee.
The Health Institute.
By James White
THE Health Reform Institute is rising gradually from the low estate into which bad management had plunged it. But the purchase of two new cottages, and the expenses of an important addition to the main building, which were necessary for the accommodation of patients, leave a considerable debt upon the Institute. Directors, physicians, and helpers, are economizing, in order to pay the debt.
Prices at our Institute are lower than at other institutions of the kind. It is cruel, then, to ask greater deductions at a time like this.
And again, there are a few persons in want, who have taken stock in the Institute, and who are not able to give it. If others who are able, will take stock in the Institute, then the directors can begin to refund to the most needy. Justice, humanity, and religion, call upon all health reformers among us to take this matter into consideration. After giving the matter proper attention, those who are able, will certainly see their duty clear to take stock in the Health Reform Institute, located in Battle Creek. By-laws of this Institution will be sent free to all who wish them.
Just now, in the struggle to free the Institute from all embarrassment, is the time to help. Who will help now? Institute stock is in shares of twenty-five dollars each. These are taken by our people from one to forty. Let all bear a part. Direct to REVIEW AND HERALD. J. W.
To Delinquents.
By James White
BUT very few of those to whom we recently sent bills have responded at all. Why is this? We need all these dues. Shall we have them? J. W.
How to Stop Your Paper.
By James White
If it was sent to you by your own request just pay up, and then if it be continued, refuse to take it from the post office, and it is then the duty of the post master to order it discontinued.
But if the paper is sent to you by another, without your request, act your pleasure about paying. But if you do not want it enough to pay for it, refuse to take it from the office. J. W.
Statement of Dr. Russell.
By John Nevins Andrews
The communication of Dr. Russell in the REVIEW for April 25, gives me great joy. It is an occasion of thanksgiving to God when any who have been entangled in the snare of Satan, recover themselves from his cruel power. I trust that our dear brother will continue to press toward the light. In doing this, he will continue to receive strength and help from God. His past circumstances have been, in some respects, unfortunate, calculated to cause him to stumble. I trust that he will nevertheless make good his recovery.
It is perhaps proper to refer to his visit to the Institute one year ago last winter. The circumstances under which he left, and his communication published in a western sheet peculiarly hostile to our work, which for the time he seemed to fully ally himself with, was thought to demand some response from the General Conference Committee. Hence the statement that was published in reply, which was written principally by myself.
Whether the publication of that reply was a mistake or not I cannot say. Perhaps it would have been better to have said nothing, as doubtless in most cases of this nature it is best to remain silent. The good sense of those who fear God, will, in most cases prove sufficient to prevent serious injury to them from adverse influences and from evil reports. But this I can say, that no feeling of enmity toward Dr. R. existed in my heart, or found utterance in the written “Defense.” What I did at that time was done with pain and regret, and only from a conviction that duty to the cause demanded it. And as I then felt deep sorrow of spirit that Dr. R. should take a course that would eventually involve him in ruin, so now from my heart I feel to rejoice that he is retracing his steps, and returning to the Lord. In this good work I bid him God speed, and promise to help him in every way that is in my power. J. N. ANDREWS.
65 Dorchester Street, South Boston, Mass.
The Iowa Camp-Meeting.
By George Ide Butler
I DESIRE to say a word to our brethren in the State in reference to the Northern Iowa camp-meeting being given up. It was my representations to Bro. White which no doubt caused him to drop the appointment for this meeting; and as it may be a source of disappointment to some, I desire to offer a word of explanation. From intimations from Bro. W. last fall, we judged he was willing to hold two camp-meetings in Iowa, in case he was able to come. After consultations with our brethren in the State, and because of peculiar local influences and prejudices against Bro. and sister W. in this part, and at the express desire of those living in their vicinity, Knoxville and Laporte City were decided upon as the places where these meetings should be held. When it became doubtful if Bro. and sister White could attend on account of extra burdens resting upon them, and poor health, the friends near Laporte City felt doubtful of the propriety of holding the meeting there, as a special object to be accomplished by the meeting would be defeated by their absence. After considering this point, and the expense attending two meetings, and the delay of tent operations in the State, and other matters connected with it, I took the responsibility of advising the appointment being changed in case Bro. and sister W. could not attend. I say that the responsibility of the matter may rest where it belongs.
It is probably best under the circumstances, at this late date, that the Iowa camp-meeting should be held at Knoxville as appointed. Although the locality is not the most central for all our people, I trust as many as possibly can come will attend even from the northern part of the State. We shall all feel disappointed that Bro. White is hindered from attending by the heavy burdens resting upon him. We trust it may be otherwise in the future. But if we all come to the meeting trusting in God, and determined to do our duty, the Lord can more than make up this lack. A still greater responsibility will now rest upon us all to stand at our post and look to God for his especial blessing. Brethren don't let these things keep you away from this meeting. The cause of God is onward. It is no time now for apathy. Let us do our duty. The promise is sure “Ye shall find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” It is a nearness to God we want. That alone will keep us in these days of peril. Let us make this meeting a success. God will do his part if we do ours.
GEO. I. BUTLER
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
Missouri Camp-Meeting.
By J. H. Mallory
I avail myself of this method of acquainting the brethren and friends who anticipate attending the camp-meeting in Missouri, that there will be teams at Kidder Station on Wednesday, May 24, to convey to the camp ground, all who may favor us with their presence.
We cordially invite our brethren and friends from a distance, and can say that ample provisions will be made to accommodate all that may attend. Come, brethren, praying that the Lord may meet with us at this great feast. J. H. MALLORY.
Daviess Co., Mo., April 30, 1871.
Monies Received for Ohio Tent.
By O. F. Guilford
Newel Grant, $15 00; Mary King, 10.00; D S Plum, 5 00; B Garker, 2.00; Mary Bowen, 2.00; Mary Himes, 50c; Mary Barden, 1.50.
O. F. Guilford, Ohio Conf. Treasurer.
May 3, 1871.
The Shadow on the Snowflake
Even the snow-flake lets a shadow fall,
As to the earth it softly sinks to rest;
So may the whitest, sweetest soul of all
Seem sometimes wrong to those who know them
best.
True Goodness
True goodness is like the glow-worm—it shines most when no eyes, except those of Heaven, are upon it.
Love Is a Present
SCORN no man's love, though of a mean degree;
Love is a present for a mighty king.
The Finger of Charity
WHEN an eminent painter was requested to paint Alexander the Great, so as to give a perfect likeness of the Macedonian conqueror, he felt a difficulty. Alexander in his wars had been struck by a sword, and across his forehead was an immense scar. The painter said, “If I retain the scar, it will be an offense to the admirers of the monarch; and if I omit it, it will fail to be a perfect likeness. What shall I do?” He hit upon a happy expedient; he represented the emperor leaning on his elbow, with his fore-finger on his brow, accidentally, as it seemed, covering the scar on his forehead. Might we represent each other with the finger of charity on the scar, instead of representing the scar deeper, darker, and blacker, than it actually is? Might not Christians learn from heathendom a lesson of charity, of kindness, and of love?
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
PROVIDENCE permitting, the western camp-meetings will be held as follows:
Daviess Co., Missouri, 8 miles west of Gallatin, and
9 miles north of Kidder, May 25–29.
Knoxville, Marion Co., Iowa, June 1–5.
Illinois, “ 8–12.
Minnesota, “ 15–19.
Wisconsin, “ 22–26.
GEN. CONF. COM.
Missouri Camp-meeting.
By Gen. Conf. Com.
PROVIDENCE permitting there will be a camp-meeting on the land of J. H. Mallory, eight miles west of Gallatin, and nine miles north of Kidder, a station on the Hannibal and St. Joseph rail road. The meeting will be held May 25-29.
The session of the Kansas and Missouri Conference will be held during the camp-meeting. It will be expected that each church in the Conference, and each little unorganized body of Sabbath-keepers in the far West, will be represented at the Conference either by delegate or by letter. Scattered brethren, also, are invited to report themselves by letter. All letters should be addressed in season to J. H. Rogers, Alto-Vista, Daviess Co., Mo.
GEN. CONF. COM.
Iowa State Conference.
By George I. Butler; J. T. Mitchell; H. Nicola
NOTICE is hereby given that the Iowa State Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its next annual session in connection with the Southern Iowa camp-meeting, to be held near Knoxville, Marion Co., Iowa, June 1–5, 1871. It is expected that all our churches in the State, so far as practicable, shall elect delegates to represent them according to the following ratio: Twenty members or under, one delegate; and one delegate for every additional fifteen members. It is expected that every church shall send to the Conference a written report of their standing, their losses and additions during the year, and the yearly amount of their Systematic Benevolence fund.
GEO. I. BUTLER, Iowa State
J. T. MITCHELL, Conference
H. NICOLA. Committee.
Corrected.
By I. Sanborn
I THINK I made a mistake in the time of the last appointments I sent to the REVIEW, for Burns Valley and Dell Prairie. They should stand thus, Burns Valley June 3 and 4, and Dell Prairie 10, 11.
I. SANBORN.
J. LINDSEY
By J. Lindsey; S. A. H. Lindsey
PROVIDENCE permitting, we will hold meetings as follows: Knoxville, Pa., Thursday evening, May 11; Farmington, May 13 and 14; Hornby, May 17, evening; Catlin, May 20 and 21; Alba, May 27 and 28.
J. LINDSEY
S. A. H. LINDSEY.
Change of Appointment.
By H. F. Phelps
It is thought best that the next quarterly meeting of the Pine Island church be changed from the fourth Sabbath in May to the third, and be at Concord, in connection with the meeting appointed by Bro. Van Horn. Hope to see every member present.
H. F. PHELPS.
The New Building.
By James White
The lot is purchased, the job is in the hands of the builders, and the building, simply a duplicate of the one we now occupy, will go up immediately.
Those who are indebted to the Association for books, or our periodicals, are earnestly invited to pay up. We need all these dues just now.
Those who wish to take stock in the Association are invited to do so immediately. The stock is in shares of ten dollars each, which the early friends of the cause hold, in number from one to thirty, according to their ability. By-laws of the Association can be sent free to all who wish. Friends of the cause, we want your help now. J. W.