BRO. WHITE: We believe that the Lord is still at work on the hearts of the people in this place. We have prayer and social meetings, Wednesday evenings, and Sabbaths. Three more have come out and decided to "keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus," and there are several others who are deeply interested. May the Lord help them to decide while his mercy still lingers. I believe that the last message of mercy is now being proclaimed to a perishing people. It is calling on us to become followers and subjects of Prince Immanuel. The reward is eternal life, to dwell in the New Jerusalem, that city whose streets are paved with gold; and to partake of the tree of life. Then why should so many be so willing to serve Satan who gives us nothing but a few transient pleasures, and those mixed with more or less sorrow, and leads us finally to the second death.
But amid all the trials, temptations and persecutions of a Christian, there is a joy and peace which the world cannot give. We often feel the approving smile of our heavenly Father resting upon us, and with hope and faith, we are looking to the end of the warfare to the starry crown, to the immortal life; which is to be the final inheritance of the faithful.
Let us try to be of that number. I want to get rid of "the sin that so easily besets," and be purified, although it may be through trials and afflictions. It is but a little while longer that we must toil on, for the "land is nearing" the city is just in sight, and soon Jesus will come; and I would not be of that number who will raise that unavailing prayer for rocks and mountains to fall on them. But may I be among those who shall say "Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him and he will save us" He will then verify his promise to wipe all tears from our eyes. I want the prayers of the brethren and sisters, that I may be faithful, never shrinking from any known duty, and finally with them inherit the new earth where the King of kings and Lord of lords shall reign forever.
In hope of eternal life.
ROMINA M. PHILO.
Bunker Hill, Mich.
Patient Continuance in Well Doing.
By Thos. Mackellar
BEAR the burden of the present—
Let the morrow bear its own;
If the morning sky be pleasant,
Why the coming night bemoan?
Holy strivings nerve and strengthen;
Long endurance wins the crown;
When the evening shadows lengthen,
Thou shalt lay thy burden down.
[Thos. Mackellar.
Extracts from Letters.
Sister J. A. King writes from Fox Lake, Wis.: The Lord is very good to me and I am striving to obey Him. I have found Him to be a present help in every time of need. I find that He is indeed the widow's God. I cannot better express myself than by the following lines, which I learned when a child. They may be applicable to others besides myself.
"My God, my love, my life, my light,
My morning joy, my evening rest,
Thy smiles illume the dreary night,
And calm the tremors of my breast.
Thy truths from infant days have shed
A lustre mild my path along,
Upheld and cheered my fainting head,
And lived upon my raptured tongue."
"When like the leaf of autumn fell,
The social sharer of my all,
When loudly moaned the doleful knell
And slowly moved the sable pall,
Thy breath, Almighty God, sustained
My trembling feet along the way,
Thy reverend smile my grief restrained
And round me shed celestial day."
"How shall I sing thy wondrous love?
How elevate thy gracious lay?
To that compassion faithful prove
That melts the shaft of death away?
Oh could I climb the morning skies
I'd write thy love in lines of fire,
That all the world with gazing eyes,
Might read and with my soul admire."
Sister S. A. Beach writes from Norfolk, Ct.: I feel like thanking God that it has been my privilege to become acquainted with those that are proclaiming the third angel's message, and that God is deepening his work in my heart. I want to gain the "gold tried in the fire," &c. May God carry on his work in my heart until Jesus can present me before his Father without spot or any such thing.
Bro. J. Nichols writes from La Porte City, Iowa: I love the truths advocated by the Review and Herald, and am trying to live them out. I believe Jesus will soon come the second time without sin unto salvation. I want to be ready to meet him. He has done much for me; and I feel to praise him. I want to be numbered with his peculiar people who are zealous of good works. There are too many false professors in the world, who do not hearken to the voice of God. They do not love his commandments. They do not love the appearing of Jesus. They even point the finger of scorn at those who desire his coming. May the Lord help me and all the brethren to be faithful till Jesus comes, is my humble prayer.
Appointments.
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will hold meetings as follows:
Kensington, Ct., Sabbath and first-day, Feb. 4 & 5.
Springfield, Mass., Tuesday evening, " 7.
East Otis, Mass., Sabbath, " 11.
Ashfield, Mass., Sabbath, " 18.
Clinton, Mass., Tuesday evening, " 21.
Manchester, N. H., Sabbath, " 25.
North Berwick, Maine, Tuesday evening, " 28.
Portland, Maine, Sabbath, March 4.
Topsham, Maine, Tuesday evening, " 7.
Woodstock, Maine, Sabbath, " 11.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
THE February monthly meeting for Oswego Co., N. Y., will be at West Monroe the first Sabbath in the month.
For Jeff Co., the second Sabbath in the same month, at Adam's Center.
C. O. TAYLOR.
MONTHLY Meeting at Olcott, Niagara Co., N. Y., the second Sabbath in February.
R. F. COTTRELL.
PROVIDENCE permitting, we will meet with the brethren of Parkville, Colon, and Vicksburgh, at their Monthly Meeting, in Parkville, Sabbath, Feb. 4 and 5.
JOHN BYINGTON.
OUR next Quarterly Meeting in Monroe, Wis., will be held Jan. 28 and 29, the last Sabbath and Sunday in the month.
WM. S. INGRAHAM.
Drafted Adventists and Noncombatant Claims
By Editor
We call attention to the letters from drafted S. D. Adventists published in this number. The experience they give seems not to be the exception, but the rule. We have not yet heard of any who, though their claims as non-combatants were endorsed by the provost marshals of their districts and certificates granted them accordingly, have succeeded in obtaining a position in hospitals, or in the care of freedmen. And even the district provost marshals sometimes refuse to endorse the claims of our brethren, notwithstanding all the evidences, as non-combatants. Where is the wrong in this matter, and how can it be remedied? Has Bro. Andrews any light for us here?
English Bibles.
By James White
WE can furnish Minion, Ref. after verse, Morocco, Gilt, for $5. Nonpareil, Ref. after verse, Morocco, Gilt, $4,75. Diamond, Marg. Ref. Brass Rim, $2,50, post-paid.
When we say that a bill of $22,67 for Bibles at the Bible-house at Toronto, C. W., cost us in United States currency $69,87, the above high prices will be explained.
Our people must have the Holy Scriptures, and we shall soon be prepared to furnish American reference pocket Bibles, for from $1,25, to $2,50 each.
J. W.
Report from Lovett's Grove, Ohio.
By O. Mears
WE would say that the Lovett's Grove church, though small, besides paying one hundred and seventy-five dollars into the Military fund, which went, the most of it, to redeem Bro. Simonds who was drafted, have donated to the Association for different purposes, seventy dollars, donated to Bro. Waggoner twenty-five dollars at the time of the sickness in his family, paid, I think, about two hundred dollars into the Systematic fund, every dime of which goes into the State treasury, and have, independent of this, just completed their house of worship, twenty-six by forty, which is also paid for.
We respectfully invite brother and sister White to make us a visit as soon as convenient.
O. MEARS.
Lovett's Grove, Wood Co., Ohio, Jan. 1, 1865.
NOTE. We should be very happy to visit Ohio, and hold meetings in the new house built by this energetic church. But other duties nearer home, and various hindrances will probably prevent at present.
J. W.
Symbolic Time
By Editor
SYMBOLIC TIME.—The following note is from an edition of the Bible with notes, by the American Tract Society, 1857:
"Dan. vii, 25. A time and times and dividing of times; probably here, and in chap. xii, 7, a year, two years, and half a year; that is, three years and a half the same as 42 months. Rev. xi, 2, Rev. xiii, 5, a thousand two hundred and three score days. Rev. xi, 3, and xii, 6, each day representing a year, as in Ezek. iv, 6."
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Important Work.
By Editor
THE first of the series of pamphlets entitled, "Health; or How to Live," is now ready. We wish to call the attention of the brethren everywhere to these works, prepared with especial care, on the important subject of a reform in our manners of life, which is greatly needed, and as we view it, will surely be accomplished in whatever people find themselves at last prepared for translation. The series will consist of five pamphlets of 64 pp. each. Price $1, post-paid.
Number One, contains the following: 1. "The Ladder with eight Rounds, or Bible Sanctification;" the substance of a discourse by Bro. White, showing the important part that temperance in food and drink, occupies in the work of sanctification. 2. Our Home, or Three Weeks at Dansville, N. Y., an account of the visit of Bro. and sister White to that place, with what they saw, heard, and thought. 3. "Flesh as food for Man," an extract from one of the best and ablest lectures of Dr. J. C. Jackson. 4. Cookery: embracing twenty pages of recipes for preparing food, embracing Bread, leavened and unleavend, Mushes and Porridges, Pies and Puddings, Fruits and Vegetables, containing in all one hundred and seven recipes. These have been prepared with great care, each one when at all necessary, being tested, especially for this work. To those who wish to know the best methods of preparing healthy food, these alone will be found of more value than the price of the whole series.
Chapter I, of disease and its causes, by sister White, with some miscellaneous items fills out number 1.
With this number will be sent a Catalogue of everything for sale at this Office: such as Works on Health, Am. Tract Society publications, Bibles, Office publications, Educational publications, Writing paper, Envelopes, Rain-Water Filters, Bread-pans, &c. On the back of this Catalogue is printed a Sabbath-keeper's Calendar for 1865, which can be cut off and pasted upon the desk or in a pocket pass-book. The peculiarity of this calendar is, that it gives the time of the sun's setting, or the commencement of the Sabbath, each week through the year, and will be found exceedingly convenient.
Brethren, do not be behind on the Health question. Let the orders come in for How to Live.
Abolished.
Our Saviour when upon earth declared himself to be the Lord of the Sabbath. Hence, say the opponents of the Sabbath, he had power to abolish it, and hence, they continue with their gratuitous conclusions, he has abolished it. But we believe that the Lord on one occasion said to his disciples something like this: If I then, your Lord and Master have done so and so, ye ought also to follow my example. John xiii, 14. Christ here declares himself the Lord of his people. We presume that those who are so sanguine that Christ abolished the Sabbath because he declares himself its Lord, take him for their Lord also. We presume this is so, though we might almost be led sometimes to doubt it. But if so, there is a fatal discrepancy between their claim in this respect, and their argument in reference to the Sabbath. And if they will persist in using such an argument against the Sabbath, they must do one of two things, either concede that Christ is not their Lord; that they will not have him to reign over them, or acknowledge themselves abolished!