DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS:—There is one command of our Saviour which I fear has been almost forgotten in these last days. It reads thus: Moreover if thy brother trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone. Matt. xviii, 15. In this chapter we are exhorted not to expose the faults of our brethren or sisters to the world, or even to the church until we have first spoken to them alone, and then in the presence of two or three. How often is this exhortation forgotten by those who profess to believe that the coming of Christ is at hand. Where is that brotherly love that should exist among us? or where is that Christian confidence which we should have in each other? Alas, I fear it is not among us now, as it should be.
The Saviour tells us that if we love one another, all men will know that we are his disciples. Is not this the way in which to let our light shine before men, that they, seeing our good works, may glorify our Father which is in heaven? The Saviour has commanded us to love one another as he has loved us. If we obeyed this command, should we be heard complaining of each other to those who know not God? O no; for that is not the way to do good to those who sin against us. The apostle James tells us not to grudge one against another, lest we be condemned; and then he tells us, as a reason why we should not disobey this command, that the Judge standeth before the door. Dear friends, let us love one another; for love is of God; and try to be as united as we can; and may God grant us the aid of His Holy Spirit. The enemy is trying all he can to cause divisions among us, and thus weaken our influence. Alas, he has been too successful in some places.
Dear brethren and sisters, I think it is time for us to lay aside all the little differences that exist between us, and be united on the one grand theme of the coming of Christ. Let us show to all by our actions that this world is not our home, and that we expect soon to see our Saviour coming in the clouds of heaven. Let us all join in prayer to God for the outpouring of his Holy Spirit, and soon we shall see a change that will be delightful to all those who love the Lord Jesus.
Yours in hope of soon seeing the Saviour.
L. HARRIS
A New Believer’s Testimony
By B. F. Colvin
From. Bro. Colvin.
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I have been a subscriber and constant reader of your very valuable paper, the Review and Herald, nearly one year. I was induced to become a subscriber by Bro. M. L. Dean of Ulysses, who also gave me tracts to read, and by comparing the doctrines contained in them and the Review, with the Holy Scriptures. I learn that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord our God; and I am endeavoring to keep it, together with the other commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. I wish to be a reader of the Review while it is published, as I fully believe the doctrines it teaches. It has been about six months since I embraced the Sabbath with the kindred doctrines, as believed and taught by our Sabbath-keeping brethren. I meet with the brethren in Ulysses, which is about ten miles from here, it being the nearest place where brethren of like faith reside and meet for worship. We are blessed with the occasional labors of Bro. Wm. S. Ingraham.
I feel to rejoice and praise God for the privilege of reading the communications from the brethren scattered abroad. Oh, may the Lord bless them and keep them in readiness for the time of trouble which we must soon pass. May we be numbered among the hundred and forty-four thousand, which are soon to stand with the Lamb on mount Zion, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. O brethren be watchful and prayerful. Let not your faith fail; for soon you are to reap a rich reward.
Yours in expectation of soon seeing Jesus. B. F. COLVIN. Potter Co., Pa., Sept. 13th, 1855.
E. L. H. CHAMBERLAIN
By E. L. H. Chamberlain
From Bro. Chamberlain.
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I have been for some time this morning thinking of you and the dear saints scattered abroad. Trials and "much tribulation" have been the lot of God's "peculiar people" in every age of the world; and in these last days we may expect the furnace to be heated hot enough to consume all the tin and dross, that the pure gold may shine out. Well, I am glad that the work is now going on among the remnant—to fit them to stand without fault before the throne of God. Our position never looked clearer than it now does. Truly, Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.Ps. xcvii, 1. I hope to walk in the light while I have it. Jesus says, [John iii, 21.] He that doeth truth cometh to the light, &c.; and in verse 19, he says, "This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." O how true that the great mass will not come to the light: their deeds are evil. The little flock, the fewest of all people, [Deut. vii, 7,] only will see and rejoice in the light of the third angel's message, and be found when Jesus comes in their lot and place, keeping all of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. I long for the time to come when the church will shine forth as clear as the sun, and become as terrible as an army with banners.
I fully coincide with Bro. Hart's and your remarks in the last Review, relative to going out with the message into new fields. The highways and the hedges must be visited, and we must "compel them to come in, that my house may be filled," as Jesus says. We know that two messages are in the past, as in Luke xiv. The servants did go out at supper-time, and bid many. Afterward, they went out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city. Now they must go into the highways and hedges and compel them to come. May the Lord speed on the last message, is the prayer of your unworthy brother.
E. L. H. CHAMBERLAIN
Middletown, Sept. 23d, 1855.
COMMUNICATIONS.
FOREIGN NEWS.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
Our Special Correspondent at Paris communicates, in a letter published this morning, some intelligence which will be read with great interest. As our readers are aware, the Administration at Washington have given notice to Denmark that our vessels will presently refuse to pay the tolls levied by that power on ships passing through the Sound into the Baltic. In this emergency, Denmark resorts to France for assistance and support, and this the Emperor promises her on condition of her joining the Western Alliance against Russia. If she accepts that proposition, the attempt of the United States to send their vessels through the Sound untaxed, will be treated by the Alliance as a cause for war, and France and England will at once employ the menace of hostilities to bring us to reason and maintain the Danish imposition in its present flourishing state.
This project not only comes to us from good authority and is probable in itself, but is also indicated in the leading columns of The London Times. The Allies are very desirous to enlist Denmark in their League, and might naturally take advantage of the straits to which her Government is reduced by the danger of a forced abolition of this rich source of revenue to compel her into the crusade against Russia. But that the menace of war will be so effective with the United States is by no means so clear as his Majesty of the French seems to imagine. In a just cause we dare say the people of this country would not be terrified by such a threat even from so formidable an alliance as that of Western Europe.
The Sound Duties constitute an iniquitous imposition. There is no valid reason that can sustain Denmark in levying such a tribute upon us. Indeed, The Times only puts it upon the ground of Danish necessity—a plea that might be used to justify any corsair that ever extorted black mail from honest commerce. Other nations may continue to pay this tribute if they see fit, but so far as we are concerned it should be done away with at the earliest practicable day; and we trust that our Government will continue resolutely in the path on which it has entered with respect to this question.
Our correspondent also communicates some interesting information from Sevastopol. It seems that the Commission of American Officers, sent to study the works there and observe such warlike improvements as have been introduced, have completed their examination within the Russian lines, and have returned to Vienna prior to going, by way of Varney and Kamiesh, to visit the trenches of the besiegers—permission having finally been granted by the French Government. They report that the place is impregnable by the force now arrayed before it; and that in any event it cannot be taken without bloodshed unexampled in history.
Note from Bro. Andrews.
By John Nevins Andrews
PERHAPS it would be proper for me to state in the REVIEW, why I returned home. The reason was this: my health was so far destroyed that I was not able to perform any labor at the Office; neither could I labor publicly from place to place. Under these circumstances I thought it was clearly my duty to return home. I did not do it, however, without earnestly seeking God for light. I also sought the advice of the people of God. I returned home, trusting that I should be able again to do a little if such were the pleasure of God. But through the greater part of the season I have been quite feeble. I have found it difficult to write enough to answer the letters which I have received. This is the reason why I have remained silent in the REVIEW. There were several important subjects which I wished to present in the REVIEW. I have done a little toward their preparation, but have found it nearly impossible to do anything by way of study. I hope however to be able to do something hereafter.
I ought in this place to acknowledge the kindness of Bro. White in making a call for me through the paper; and also that of the brethren in responding so freely to it. It caused me much pain, however, when I saw the call in the paper; but I appreciated highly the kindness of Bro. White in making it, and of the brethren in responding to it.
I should have spoken on these points earlier, were it not always a matter of pain to speak of myself; and I thought perhaps it would not be needed. I wish to say in conclusion that I did not return home to leave the work of God. The promotion of the cause of truth is still the great object of my life, and it is my purpose to do all in my power to accomplish this end.
J. N. ANDREWS.
Paris, Me., Sept. 16th, 1855.
THE BIBLE.
The present lord Bishop of Cashel, Dr. Daley, was conversing with a nobleman on the abounding of certain moral and social evils, and the latter said to the Bishop, “What remedy would you propose for them, Mr. Daley?” “The Bible, my lord,” replied the Bishop. He then enumerated another class of evils, and asked, what remedy, and received the same answer—“The Bible, my lord.” “Why, Daley,” said he, “you are a quack; you have but one remedy for all diseases.” “I am so far a quack,” said the Bishop, “that I do believe the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to be the only remedy for the moral wretchedness of man, under every possible variety of circumstances.”
A Smart Woman
A SMART WOMAN.—A preacher not long since, asking to stay over night at a country house, was forbidden by the lady. Knowing her to be a member of the church, and generally pleased to entertain ministers, he began to quote Paul to her, hoping she would understand by this hint that he was a preacher. He had hardly got out, “for thereby some have entertained angels unawares,” when she said, “but angels, sir, would not come with tobacco in their mouths.” The preacher left without further ceremony.
Babel-Builders.
THESE race is not yet extinct. They said, “Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered.” Gen. xi, 4. Independence of God was the spirit of their enterprise. One of them said, “Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” Luke xii, 19. Christ directs, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt;” and adds, “seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matt. vi, 19, 33. It is safe, it is blessed, to trust in Him. But Babel-builders do not trust His word, and are striving as hard as ever to build each his tower of wealth, or fame, or other like vanity; and of all such it will soon be said, “Therefore is the name of it called Babel,” that is, confusion. A better trust had David, who said, “The Lord is my rock, in whom I will trust, and my high tower.” Ps. xviii, 2. Of this rock, the Lord Jesus Christ, Isaiah wrote, [Isa. xxviii, 16.] and Paul, [Rom. ix, 33; x, 11,] and Peter, [1 Pet. ii, 6,] “He that believeth on Him shall not be confounded.”
Why have you rejected this chief corner-stone? O quit your foundation of sand, [Matt. vii, 26.] and fly to the rock Christ Jesus!
“I was Mistaken.”
A lively writer has said, “I was mistaken,” are the three hardest words to pronounce in the English language.” Yet it seems but acknowledging that we are wiser than we were before to see our error, and humbler than we were before to own it. But so it is; and Goldsmith observes, that Frederick the Great did himself more honor by his letter to his Senate, stating that he had just lost a great battle by his own fault, than by all the victories he had won. Perhaps our greatest perfection here is not to escape imperfections, but to see and acknowledge and lament and correct them.
Meeting at Battle Creek.
SEPTEMBER 23d, 1855, a meeting of those interested in establishing the ADVENT REVIEW Office in Michigan, was held at Battle Creek, when Eld. J. B. Frisbie was chosen Chairman, and A. A. Dodge Secretary, and the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
1. That the ADVENT REVIEW Office still remain the property of the Church.
2. That the ADVENT REVIEW Office be moved to Battle Creek, Michigan.
3. That a Financial Committee of three be chosen, whose duty it shall be to move the Office, and publish the ADVENT REVIEW.
4. That D. R. Palmer of Jackson, Henry Lyon and Cyrenius Smith of Battle Creek, be the Financial Committee.
5. That the Committee call on the Church at large to send in their Free-will offerings to defray the expenses of moving the ADVENT REVIEW Office, and to replenish the Office with those things necessary in editing and publishing the ADVENT REVIEW.
6. That the Committee propose through the ADVENT REVIEW a plan on which the Editorial Department of the ADVENT REVIEW shall be conducted, requesting those interested, in the several States, to speak out on the subject by letter to the Committee—either to adopt, amend, or reject the plan and suggest another—and, that, if necessary, the Committee call a meeting of delegates from different parts of the field to choose an Editor, or Editors, to conduct the ADVENT REVIEW.
7. That the doings of this Meeting be published in the ADVENT REVIEW.
J. B. FRISBIE, Chairman.
A. A. DODGE, Secretary.
APPOINTMENTS.
PROVIDENCE permitting, we will preach in Norfolk, N. Y., where the brethren may appoint, Oct 27th and 28th. At Canada West, where Bro. Hebner may appoint, Nov. 3d, and 4th.
A. S. HUTCHINS.
C. W. SPERRY.
P. S. If Bro. Hebner has not written me, he will please direct to Norfolk, N. Y. A. S. H.
Tent Meetings.
PROVIDENCE permitting, there will be a Tent Meeting in Haverhill Mass., Oct. 6th and 7th. Bro. F. Wheeler is invited to attend.
JOSEPH BATES
THERE will be a Tent Meeting in Morristown, Vt., near the dwelling house of H. Bingham, commencing Sixth-day eve, Oct. 13th, and continuing over Sabbath and First-day. Come brethren, one and all, bringing bedding and provision.
At the close of this meeting, there will be a Church conference. The churches will please send a good number of delegates from the following places: Johnson, Irasburg, Sutton, Goshen Gore, Wolcott, Hardwick, Stowe, Northfield, Warren, Braintree and Brookfield. Let the churches be well represented.
H. BINGHAM,
E. CHURCHILL, } Tent Committee.
S. PIERCE,
A. STONE,
H. BINGHAM, } Church Committee.
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