Review and Herald, Vol. 14, No. 8. (7/14/1859)

Review and Herald

Jul 14, 1859

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 14, 1859

NEW FIELDS

By James White

From our observation for a few years past we have been led to the following conclusions in regard to Tent Meetings in new fields, which we wish to suggest to those who take an interest in the spread of Bible truth.

1. A Tent pitched in a new field of labor, where the people have not heard our views, and where the prejudice and ire of the opposition has not been aroused, generally excites curiosity, and attracts the people to hear. The Spirit attends the preaching of the word, and the entire community is convicted, and for a time, with few exceptions, favorably impressed.

2. A Tent pitched in a place where there has been a few lectures given in the vicinity—enough to stir up the people

some, and set the ministers to fortifying and preaching against us—the conviction has worn off, and prejudice exists—will not be likely to excite the public mind, so as to get a good hearing. Such efforts, at present, will be nearly lost.

3. When the Message is proclaimed in the right place, and in the right manner, God's Spirit moves upon that community, and holy angels are present to do their work. How powerful these unseen agencies! Ministers of the word are mighty when supported by them. But how feeble when these agencies are withdrawn. How important then that those who give the Message move in the order of God—in the right field of labor, in the power of Christ, the holy Spirit and good angels—and remain in a community as long as good angels and the holy Spirit move upon the community—till they decide.

Some regard it of the highest importance to close up meetings on the highest pitch of interest. What a painful mistake! Hold on, brethen until the work is finished up—till the people have received or rejected your message, and the community at large have lost their interest and you have gathered the precious ones into the order of the Church of God.

J. W.

Michigan Tent Meeting at Centerville

THE Mich. tent will next be pitched in Centerville, St. Jo. Co. First lecture, Friday evening, July 15th.

THE EVIL AND THE REMEDY.

The blessings of eternal life are everywhere in the Bible placed upon conditions; and it would be singular indeed if the Lord should place before us so great a blessing making it conditional, and yet these conditions be such that we could not understand them, nor know when we were complying with them. And in thinking upon this subject of late, we have been struck with the beauty and simplicity of the plan of salvation. The reader will pardon a few thoughts upon a subject with which he is already so familiar.

The Lord has made mankind two offers of life. The first by the law. Had Adam and his posterity always been obedient, they would have obtained eternal life upon that condition alone. But men, having sinned, broken the law, and so lost all claim to life upon that ground, another offer of life is made them, and that is through Jesus Christ. Now does this second offer release mankind from the condition of the first? We answer, No: it only proposes to repair the failure which man made while depending upon the law alone. Thus, all mankind have sinned, as the Apostle assures us, and come short of the glory of God, and on the ground of obedience have lost all claim to eternal life; but Christ has died for us, and what does he propose to do? Remove the law out of our way and release us from it? No; but simply to repair the failures which man has made in rendering obedience to it. He proposes to forgive our sins and reconcile us to God, to cancel our past transgressions, and bring us into a position as though we had never broken God's law, and give us a disposition to render him obedience in the future; and if availing ourselves of this glorious offer of redeeming love, we so live that in the final account a broken law shall have no claims upon us, our title to life is indisputable and complete.

Thus the law and the gospel are inseparably connected in the great scheme of our redemption. We can do nothing without Christ; and yet the righteousness of the law must be fulfilled in us in order to our salvation; as the apostle says, "That the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit." Rom. viii, 4. Thus the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus are set before a guilty world as the way and passport to eternal life; and we can understand the expressions of the apostle, that by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified; and yet that the doers of the law (and they only) shall be justified. How it is that a plan so simple should be misapprehended, and teaching so plain as the Bible gives on this subject, should be misunderstood, so that people will array the law and the gospel in opposition to each other, as though the latter superceded the former, is beyond the limits of our comprehension.

MEASURING OURSELVES BY OURSELVES.

By A. S. Hutchins

NOTHING perhaps is more common than to hear individuals speak of the practice of this or that one, of Christ would be thrown into, if we leave the perfect

rule, and measure ourselves by one another. A carpenter's son had a rule given him to saw window sash by, the first sash was sawed by the rule, the second by the first sash, and the third by the second, and so on. A slight variation in the measurement each time, and the sash would soon be of all lengths and sizes. So with the unwise who measure themselves by themselves. Says Paul, "Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ." 1 Cor. xi, 1. Thus far, we may copy the example of each other, but no farther. Again, says he, "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children." Eph. v, 1.

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God," is the injunction of the apostle. Let this injunction have its weight upon our minds that its importance demands, and we shall find but little time to spend in gratification of the lust of the eyes, or the pride of life.

"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world." 1 John ii, 16.

Neither shall we find fault with brethren and sisters, nor backbite, nor tattle, if they should not measure themselves by us. A fault-finding, talkative spirit is in the hearts of some, which I fear will shut them out of the kingdom, if it is not subdued. Brethren and sisters, we must have a religion that will "bridle" the tongue; that unruly member must be tamed.

"SPEAK NOT EVIL ONE OF ANOTHER, BRETHREN." A. S. HUTCHINS. Bristol Vt. June 14th, 1859.

in justification of their own course, and often too, when if they did not desire to pattern after them, their practices would be condemned at once.

The worldling, and the proud, haughty professor, we may expect will be content with poor, frail mortals for their pattern. No better one is sought or desired. The Perfect Pattern is rejected, "despised and rejected of men."

They eagerly grasp the expensive, ridiculous, hurtful and sinful fashions and customs of the day. The tide of fashion sets downward to death and destruction, and away they are borne as the bubble floats upon the surface of the water.

Yes, professed followers of "the Man of sorrows" spend their precious time, strength and means, in running from fashion to fashion, whether modest or immodest, decent or indecent, cheap or costly, healthful or hurtful. "It is the fashion," "quite fashionable;" and this atones for wasted means, loss of health and time, with "lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God."

"Surely every man walketh in a vain show." "The fashion of this world passeth away." "And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." 1 John ii, 17.

But how few, very few realize these things and lay them to heart. Fashion excites and feeds the pride of the heart, and drives away the thoughts of the Bible, of heaven, of God and the judgment.

"Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly; but the proud he knoweth afar off." Ps. cxxxviii, 6. "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble." Oh! ye proud and haughty ones, come read your fearful doom: and consider upon it, I beseech you.

"For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch." Mal. iv, 1.

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. Be afflicted and mourn and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." James iv, 7–10.

Happy, thrice happy the individual who obeys the instruction of God's word. Whose pattern is the meek and lowly Saviour, who suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we "should follow in his steps."

But, dear brethren and sisters, do we pattern after him? Is he our example? Is there not a measuring ourselves by ourselves, not pleasing to the Lord? Do we not justify ourselves in some things not right from the example of others?

In our opinion it is high time that snuff and tobacco were put away from among the remnant. But it is to be believed that some yet continue to chew and snuff the filthy weed, and that to on the strength of the practice of others. Such a brother or sister uses it, and if he or she can, "it is not wrong for me." Or such a brother may use some simple means in sickness, and it is no worse for me to use my snuff or tobacco or tea. Such a one dresses so and so and it is no worse for me to wear this or that.

Now why not quit at once taking license to do this or that, because that some one does the same, or something that you construe to be as bad, or worse? Do you think to justify yourself in this way? If your course is right, it is right; and if it is wrong you cannot hide the wrong under the practice of others. We shall stand or fall for ourselves. And "every one of us shall give account of himself to God."

Says the Apostle, "For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves; but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise," 2 Cor. x, 12.

A figure will illustrate the condition that the church of Christ would be thrown into, if we leave the perfect rule, and measure ourselves by one another. A carpenter's son had a rule given him to saw window sash by, the first sash was sawed by the rule, the second by the first sash, and the third by the second, and so on. A slight variation in the measurement each time, and the sash would soon be of all lengths and sizes. So with the unwise who measure themselves by themselves.

Says Paul, "Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ." 1 Cor. xi, 1. Thus far, we may copy the example of each other, but no farther. Again, says he, "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children." Eph. v, 1.

"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world." 1 John ii, 16.

"SPEAK NOT EVIL ONE OF ANOTHER, BRETHREN."

A. S. HUTCHINS. Bristol Vt. June 14th, 1859.

OBITUARY.

BRO. SMITH: Will you please publish the following notice, and oblige the bereaved friends.

Died in Willing, Allegany Co., N. Y., June 26th, David M. Stillman, in the 22d year of his age. The circumstances of his death were to his friends of the most afflicting character. For the last year or more he has been under the influence of a partial mental derangement, occasioned by disease, and at times subject to deep melancholy and gloom of mind.

He was found dead in the woods a few rods from his father's house, shot in his head by his own hand, in a fit of melancholy.

He was a member of the Sabbath church in Willing, and before his derangement a believer in the Advent views. May the Lord give consolation to the afflicted father and mother, brothers and sister of the deceased. B. F. R.

Friendship, June 30th, 1859.

FELL asleep, July 1st, Rollins S., our only son, aged three years and six months. His disease was a tumor in the bowels, which measured at his death, thirty-three inches by twenty-seven round, and weighed eighteen and a half pounds; his whole weight being forty-four and a half. It had been growing three years, but he was able to walk until three months back, since which he has suffered intensely. Little Rollie has had the sympathies and prayers of the church, and often though he could not kneel, bowed his head and joined his voice in prayer. He often spoke of going up in the clouds to live with the Lord, and said if he died the Lord would come and take him out of the ground. Bro. Stone preached a comforting discourse from 1 Cor. xv, 26, and Jer. xxxi, 15, 17. ELIAS & ABBY COBB.

Roxbury, V., July 5th, 1859.

An Inquiring Japanese.

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SUPPOSE an intelligent Japanese, after acquiring the English language, and acquainting himself with the doctrines of the Christian religion as set forth in the Bible, should feel a desire to observe the practical effect of such sublime truths upon a nation who held them, and for this purpose should visit the United States. His first impression, of course, would be at the highest degree unfavorable. As he moved among promiscuous crowds in places of public resort, so far from seeing reverence to God and obedience to his express commands, his ears would be constantly greeted with the most wanton blasphemies, and his eyes pained with the continual spectacle of flagrant transgressions of God's holy laws. But suppose that, on expressing to some friend his astonishment at such a state of things, he should be informed that these men, although indignantly repelling the name either of heathen or infidel, yet by no means adopted that of Christian; that those who profess to belong to this latter class composed only a small part of the population, and that he must look among these to see the effects of the Christian religion. His first step would be to visit some church where Christians were assembled for public worship. Here he would witness, perhaps, what was, entirely agreeable to his expectations. He would hear the congregation express their solemn belief in the realities of eternity, he would hear them address their earnest prayers and offer their devout thanksgivings to their Heavenly Father, and he would hear the warnings, and exhortations, and promises of the Scriptures proclaimed with more or less fervor and unction by the officiating minister. At last he has found those for whom he is seeking, and after the services are over, he eagerly throws himself into their society. But alas! he here meets with new perplexities and amazements.

First he is greatly astonished to observe the easy airs and light smiles of the entire assembly, as they press down the aisles and through the doors of the church. "Can these be the persons," he says to himself, "whom I heard a few moments ago, while humbly bowed upon their knees, confessing their manifold transgressions of God's holy laws, and declaring their hearty sorrow and true repentance for the same"? And this astonishment is only increased when he joins himself to their company and listens to their conversation. Common-place civilities, stale observations on the weather, remarks on the latest news of trade or of crime, local gossip, uncharitable reflections on individuals, or at best "strifes of words," and "foolish and unlearned questions," such themes form the staple of conversation, as these Christians walk together toward their several homes. "What," exclaims the inquiring Japanese, "are these the persons whom I just heard declare their belief in the 'resurrection of the body and the life everlasting,' on an impending judgment and 'a heaven and hell'?" While he walks along silently pondering these strange phenomena, he is recognized by some Christian gentleman and invited to take a Sunday dinner with his family. On entering the parlor he finds several friends of his hospitable host engaged in the same strain of conversation as had so much disturbed his mind.

At last dinner is announced and the company are seated at the table. The hurried "grace" scarcely requires a pause in the conversation, and the heathen is at leisure to observe the "Sunday dinner." He sees before him cooked meats, and a variety of made dishes, together with expensive luxuries from distant climes. "Can these be the persons," again reflects the heathen, "who this very morning prayed that their hearts might be inclined to observe such commandments as 'Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, in it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou nor thy servant'? Is this the man who has just professed to consider himself but a steward answerable to his Lord for the expenditure of his means, and called to a life of self-denial? And yet I am told that this gentleman is a wealthy vestry-man, and a leading man in the church," continues the disturbed and doubting visitor. What wonder if the poor Japanese, discouraged and heart-sick at the result of this half day's inquiries, should cease to pursue the subject further, and return by the first opportunity to his heathen home, to inform his friends and countrymen that the boasted Christian religion is, after all, but a splendid illusion? —Epis. Rec.

Hoops

By J. Clarke

Are used by mechanics, in the construction of a variety of articles, such as pails, tubs, kegs, barrels, tierces, hogsheads, pipes &c. and are very useful in their proper place; but like every other useful article, should be confined to their proper sphere; and as soon as they do wander from their appropriate calling, they are an awkward thing.

Sometimes little boys use hoops to amuse themselves with, in their innocent diversions, and this is well enough when they can find no better play.

I once knew a person, who was sometimes a little crazy, who at one time imagined himself in danger of bursting. In order to prevent so unpleasant a catastrophe, he procured himself some staves, and hooping his body tightly with a rope over the staves, came into town in this condition, for the transaction of business; and this was considered good evidence of insanity.

But this is a fast age, and a novel use has been found for hoops. Females may be seen in every locality with skirts distended, appearing like some inverted balloon; and such is the universal rage for this fashionable deformity, that even in the most remote and rustic hamlet, the swinging, gas like, balloon shaped skirt, deforms our female population, from the aged matron down to the innocent tottling babe.

I had occasion not long since to call on business on an acquaintance who has a large family of children, mostly daughters from 15 years of age to the infant in the cradle, and it was a wonder to me, to see the little girls all floating about at their domestic employments, and avocations, brushing against this one and just grazing against that one; yes those little rustics, who might be simple and innocent and good, are thus early taught to bow at the shrine of the goddess of fashion. Oh shame, where is thy blush! Oh! it is not the fashion to blush in this wonderful, intelligent age. But says an apologist for hoops, (a minister, too) "They are cool in the summer, and all right when of moderate dimensions." Oh, fashion! to what hights of extravagance wilt thou not lead thy worshipers. Let these inflated articles go out of fashion, and how soon would the apologist for hoops hang this useless, disgusting appurtenance in the garret. Oh the folly, the madness, of raging fashion. How beautiful is simplicity and neatness in dress. God has gifted humanity with a graceful form, and a truly godly person will not deform it for fashion's sake.

J. CLARKE.

Encouragement in the Faith

By Geo. Wright

From Bro. Wright.

BRO. SMITH: With a grateful heart to my heavenly Father I would acknowledge his goodness to me and mine; and to the dear ones of like precious faith scattered abroad I would say a few words of encouragement. Let us contemplate for a moment the unspeakable love of God, in the gift of his dear Son to die for us, the just for the unjust, to bring us to himself. Well might the poet exclaim,

"O for this love let rocks and hills Their lasting silence break, And all harmonious human tongues, Their Saviour's praises speak."

Brethren and sisters, let us from this hour set out anew and send up our united petitions to the most holy place for a deeper and more thorough work. My own soul cries out while I write, Praise the Lord, and let all that is within me praise his holy name. When I think of the meek and lowly Redeemer, the humble path he trod, that he had not where to lay his head, and then of my own unfaithfulness, and what the Lord has done for me, I cannot praise him enough. Remember his promise is, if we suffer we shall also reign with him. The prayer of my heart is, O Lord, give me patience. Yes, let patience have her perfect work, and I can say that with one of old, I would rather suffer affliction with the people of God than enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season.

It is now about ten months since I commenced to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of his dear Son. Then it was I began truly to live. Previous to that my life was a mere blank. I feel determined, the Lord being my helper, to consecrate myself fully to his service. Reviewing this brief period, I can say with Bro. J. Clarke, I thak the Lord for loving, faithful brethren, and the many precious seasons I have enjoyed in our social meetings. Often has the Spirit of the Lord descended like the gentle dew upon us. My present business gives me the privilege of meeting often with the people of God at different points. I have had precious seasons with the little churches at Orion and Shelby. I found them given to hospitality. The Lord reward them for their many kind acts to their unworthy brother. I believe if we are faithful we shall soon sing the new song with the redeemed on mount Zion. Lord, hasten the day.

The cause of present truth is onward in this part of the State. Five come together in North Branch about twenty miles north-east of Lapeer. They have heard but two or three lectures, and our good little paper has told them the rest. Bro. Barnard, from there tarried with me over night a short time since. I found him strong in the truth, so far as he knows, and manifesting a strong desire to have the truth presented there. He thinks there are mony honest souls there that would come out. Bro. Lawrence intends to visit them, and stay as long as duty may direct. May the Lord bless the effort put forth, and bring out such as shall be saved in his kingdom.

GEO. WRIGHT. Lapeer, Mich., June 18th, 1859.

A New and Deadly Projectile.

A GENTLEMAN by the name of Warry, of the Royal Engineers, has invented a gun which throws that of Sir William Armstrong into the shade. The new gun, like its rival, is a breech-loader, rifled, and, as long as it is supplied with ammunition, it will continue to pour forth a torrent of shot, shell or case, at the rate of one discharge every three seconds, or 1,200 rounds per hour. A lever of very simple construction, which by one movement, and almost at the same time instant, seizes the cartridge, cuts it, applies the priming to the nipple, hermetically closes the breach, and fires the discharge. In precision it equals any gun that has yet been tried, and it has this great advantage over Sir William Armstrong's that, whereas his being made of wrought iron, is necessarily very expensive, Warry's invention can be applied to all our existing ordnance of whatever calibre, and at a comparatively very trifling cost; a very important fact, considering that there are some 15,000 guns in the British Navy.—The Warry gun was tried at Chatham with the terrific missiles invented by Captain Norton, and charged with his "fire." The result left but one impression on the minds of the spectators, and that was that naval warfare, as heretofore conducted must be deemed at an end.—Alemakee Herald.

Intercession of the Spirit.

When the Spirit maketh intercession for us, it is not by any direct supplication from himself to God the Father, on behalf of any one individual; but it is by pouring on that individual the spirit of prayer and supplication. The man whom he prays for is, in fact, the organ of his prayer. The prayer passes, as it were, from the Spirit through him who is the object of it.

These groanings of the Spirit of God, which cannot be uttered, are those unutterable desires wherewith the heart is charged, and which only can find vent in the ardent but unspeakable breathings of the one who first feels his need, and longs to be freed from it; who hath a strong and general appetency after righteousness, and yet can only sigh it forth in ejaculations of intense earnestness. These are called groanings of the Spirit of God, because it is in fact he who awakened them in the spirit of man. When he intercedes for a believer, the believer's own heart is the channel through which the intercession finds its way to the throne of grace.—Sel.

Do Right

Do Right.—The Nashville Gazette says: "A man that has a soul worth a sixpence, must have enemies. It is utterly impossible for the best man to please the whole world, and the sooner this is understood, and a position taken in view of the fact, the better. Do right, though you have enemies. You cannot escape them by doing wrong; and it is little gain to barter away your honor and integrity, and divest yourself of moral courage to gain—nothing. Better abide by the truth—frown down all opposition, and rejoice in the feeling which must inspire a free and independent man."—Sel.

To Subdue the Flesh.

By Rev. W. F Robertson

DOES a man feel himself the slave and the victim of his lower passions, let not that man hope to subdue them merely by struggling against them. Let him not by fasting, by austerity, by any earthly rule that he can conceive, expect to subdue the flesh. The more he thinks of his vile and lower feelings, the more will they be brought into distinctness, and therefore into power; the more hopelessly will he become their victim. The only way in which a man can subdue the flesh is not extinction of those feelings, but by the elevation of their character. Let there be added to that character, sublimity of aim, purity of affection; let there be given grandeur, spiritual nobleness,—and then, just as the strengthening of the whole constitution of the body makes any particular and local affection disappear, so by degrees, by the raising of the character, do these lower affections become, not extinguished or destroyed by excision, but ennobled by a new and loftier spirit breathed through them.—Rev. W. F Robertson.

Alone in the Faith

Bro. Wm. Gould writes from Lawrenceburgh, Ind. "I feel very lonely here, having no one to meet with on the Sabbath. All are opposed to the present truth, even my own family. Yet when reading the kind letters from dear brethren and sisters in our paper, I see that there are some that are placed in the same situation as myself, and I feel like striving with them to overcome and at last meet them in that beautiful city, the New Jerusalem which is the mother of us all. May God help us to run the race with patience looking unto Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith."

Company with God

If you would please God, be much in his company.

Report of Committee.

THE entire cost of Power Press, Engine and Fixtures has been $2500.00, which has been paid by the following free-will offerings: D. R. Palmer      $100      John Pierce      $25 John Byington      100      H. A. Churchill      20 Wm. Peabody      100      Harvy Kenyon      15 E. Aldrich      100      C. C. S.      10 Geo. T. Lay      100      Wm. Treadwell      10 Ch. in Jackson, O.      100      John Day      10 A. B. Pearsall      100      J. Barrows      10 Hilliard & Crosbie      100      A. E. Gridley      10 Elon Everts      100      G. S. C.      10 H. Bingham      100      A. Belden      10 Geo. Leighton      100      M. Smith      10 Harvey Childs      100      O. B. Jones      5 R. Godsmark      100      A. Woodruff      5 A. L. Burwell      100      R. B. Abbey      5 A. B. Morton      100      A. Friend      5 Samuel Benson      100      L. M. C.      5 L. M. J.      100      R. J. Lawrence      5 S. Rumery      100      D. Drew      5 C. G. Cramer      100      J. Lobdell      5 J. Tillotson      100      H. Hilliard      5 B. Graham      50      L. Kellogg      9 J. D. Morton      50      M. C. M. Andrews      8 Thomas Hale      50      A. G. Smith      8 Friend of Truth      50      L. Schellhous      4 Three Friends      25      A Friend in N. Y.      6 A. R. Morse      25      C. M.      3 H. Gardner      25      S. Gove      2

Fifty dollars is receipted in Vol. xi. No. 12, for Power Press which was designed for other objects. The person had before given $100 for Power Press; but as Bro. White was anxious to have the Power Press debt paid up, this, with some other small sums given to be applied at his discretion, (not acknowledged above) was applied to pay for Power Press, Engine, &c. The amount of these small sums is now appropriated to publish a small edition of the History of the Sabbath, for Bro. Andrews, which better carries out the design of the donors.

J. P. Kellogg, Cyrenius Smith, D. R. Palmer, } Publishing Committee.

Conferences in Michigan.

By James White

It was our design to hold Conferences in different counties of the State this summer, in accordance with the vote of the General Conference. But we cannot at present. Our team became unfit for use, Mrs. W. has not been able to journey, and our own strength has not been sufficient for a two-day's meeting, without help.

We hope to be able to hold Conferences in Michigan this fall. Timely notice will be given in REVIEW.

JAMES WHITE.

A Cheering Note from Allegany, N. Y.

By B. F. Robbins

THE Lord is giving success to the truth of the third angel's message in this section. Quite a number have received the truth, and are in the experience of its sanctifying power. There are believers more or less in all the Seventh-day Baptist churches in this region, and the Lord is at work still. And though I am alone as a laborer in this field, yet have I reason to thank God and take courage for the success of the truth. Our numbers are increasing in spite of the opposition of our opponents. There will be I trust a precious little flock gathered here in Allegany, who will be among the precious jewels of our Master in the day of his coming.

Yours looking for Jesus. B. F. ROBBINS.

Slaying the Old Man with his Deeds.

By J. Clarke

WHAT should we think of the executioner, who would let the criminal, execrated for his crimes, sentenced, condemned by the law, and abhorred by God and men—what should we think of the executioner, who would let such a criminal slip through the noose prepared for his neck, and then run after him, and hang him again, using the second time a poor rope, which would break; and so continue hanging the criminal day after day? The very thought is shocking and repulsive.

Not less shocking and repulsive is the fact that those for whom Christ died are to all intents and purposes doing the same thing in a spiritual sense. Thus, the "old man with his deeds," the carnal heart, is only half crucified, he keeps coming to life, and the poor christian of the nineteenth century is continually letting this carnal man escape from the cross where he is only partially crucified, just enough to make him squirm, and fret, and so the poor, lukewarm christian is continually at work, sometimes nailing old Mr. Carnal Mind to the cross, at others running after him, and so life is spent, and time wasted, and Christ is crucified afresh.

Brother, this will not do. We must get a good rope, and when a good noose is prepared, we must get this troublesome individual's neck into it, and drop him, and let him hang there until he is dead, dead, dead. Individuals there are, perhaps, who have crucified the old man, but such persons are fewer than most persons imagine.

Brethren, it is time to take the alarm. Who will kill the carnal mind, and crucify the old man? That is the only way for us to come to life. Sleeper, awake! J. CLARKE.

Business Department.

By Editor

Business Notes.

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Letters.

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Under this head will be found a full list of those from whom letters are received from week to week. If any do not find their letters thus acknowledged, they may know they have not come to hand.

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FOR REVIEW AND HERALD.

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