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“Being Let Go.” Acts 4:23.

“And being let go, they went to their own company.” This simple statement presents a beautiful example of the instincts and tendencies of human nature. We always find that when a man is released from some special engagement—set free from some special demand upon him—in a word, when he is “let go,” he will most probably seek the company of those who are most congenial to his tastes. When parade is over, the soldiers betake themselves to their various associates and pursuits. When a school breaks up, the pupils do the same. When the warehouse or counting-house is closed, the young men betake themselves, some to the religious assembly, some to the reading-room, some, alas! to the tavern, the theater, or the gambling house. “Being let go,” they are almost sure to go to “their own company.”

It is when a man is fully at leisure that you see what his bent and tendencies really are. When he gets free from personal claims, you will be able to judge of the pursuits and companions of his heart’s selection. Two men may be seen standing behind the same counter from eight in the morning till six in the evening; but mark them when the clock strikes six, observe them when “let go,” and you will find one making his way to the tap-room, and the other to some place of worship or religious instruction. Thus it is always. “Being let go,” we soon find “our own company.”

Reader, how do you act when “let go?” What company do you seek? Do you betake yourself to those who, like the assembly in Acts 4, occupy themselves in holy worship, prayer, and praise? Or do you own for your companions the giddy and the thoughtless, the profane and the immoral, the scoffer and skeptic, the infidel and the atheist? Oh, search and see. Just ask yourself, when next you take your seat in the midst of your own company, “Would I, at this moment, like to hear the voice of the archangel and the trump of God?” Are you washed from your sins in the blood of Jesus? Are you saved? Are you at peace with God? Let me beseech you, dear friend, to make close, earnest, personal work of it this very hour. Do not trifle with your soul and with a boundless eternity.

God is in earnest; Christ is in earnest; the Holy Ghost is in earnest; Satan is in earnest—and will you trifle? Will you delay? May God lead you now to believe in the love of God, and lean fully and without a shadow of a doubt upon the perfect sacrifice of Christ. Then you will seek the “company” of the redeemed on earth, and when “let go” from every weight and hindrance here, you will join your own company in the mansions above.—Sel.

Bowling Green, Ohio.

By George I. Butler

I had the privilege of attending the T. and M. meeting with Bro. Haskell last Sabbath and Sunday at this place, being called to the vicinity upon business connected with our proposed school building. I was happily surprised Sabbath morning to find nearly one hundred and fifty people in attendance at the morning services. I learned that these were all persons from the vicinity, many of whom had embraced the Sabbath since last fall.

Bro. E. B. Lane has been laboring near the church and in the village of Bowling Green, and from seventy-five to one hundred have embraced the Sabbath of the Lord. This is a good result indeed. The interest still continues. I had the privilege of preaching to an audience of some four hundred interested listeners Sunday evening although lectures had continued already seven weeks.

The hearts of these new converts were warm and tender. A great responsibility rests upon the older members of the church, to watch over, instruct, and encourage, them, many of whom are anxious to serve God with all their hearts. I hope they will appreciate their burden, and cheerfully bear it.

Bro. Lane has seen a good work done this winter where he has labored. We hope for still greater success in Ohio.

GEO. I. BUTLER.

Battle Creek, Mich., March 24, 1874.

Weldon, Illinois.

By D. T. Bourdeau

THE work is going on bravely at Weldon. We had an excellent meeting last Sabbath. Fourteen or fifteen have commenced keeping the Sabbath. Eleven of these have spoken in our meetings. Most of these were non-professors. Some had concluded from the inconsistencies of professors, that there was nothing to religion and that the Bible was no better than old wives' fables. The people are very anxious to have a Bible-class and Sabbath-school organized to learn the truth more perfectly. We will gratify their desire next Sabbath.

D. T. BOURDEAU.

Weldon, Ill., March 23, 1874.

Grand Traverse, Mich.

By D. W. Milk

My meetings were cut short with the friends at Monroe Center, March 29 and Feb. 1, on account of the M. E. quarterly meeting coming at the same time.

I spoke twice and held one business meeting, helping Bro. Trotman organize a T. and M. Society, in which all present took part. Their love for, and interest in, the truth is commendable. Even their bitterest enemies have to acknowledge that they are better Christians than before embracing these heresies (as some call them).

Their numbers are few, yet they have kept up their meetings each Sabbath since we left them fifteen months ago. Bro. Corliss visited them in July last. Otherwise they have been alone amid bitter opposition. Yet with some candid minds, I am happy to state, prejudice is giving way, and they are inquiring. Eld. Nickerson (a Wesleyan) said to me, if he had the faculty to reform people of their tobacco only as we had, he would devote his whole life to it. God grant that he may feel the claims, and force, of the moral law and present truth, and thus be led to use his talents and influence in helping to carry forward the work of reform of which he feels so much need.

Those that have embraced the truth there are in union. May they continue in the love of the truth till Jesus comes.

D. W. MILK.

Chesaning, March 7, 1874.

Little Things in Religion.

LITTLE words, not eloquent speeches nor sermons; little deeds, not miracles nor battles, nor one great act of mighty martyrdom, make up the true Christian life. The little constant sunbeam, not the lightning; the waters of Siloam, “that go softly” on their meek mission of refreshment, not the waters of the river “great and mighty,” rushing down in torrent noise and force, are the true symbols of a holy life.

The avoidance of little evils, little sins, little inconsistencies, little weaknesses, little follies, little indiscretions and imprudences, little foibles, little indulgences of self and of the flesh, little acts of indolence, of indecision, slovenliness, or cowardice, little equivocations or aberrations from high integrity, little bits of worldliness and gayety, little indifference to the feelings or the wishes of others, little outbreaks of temper and crossness, or selfishness, or vanity; the avoidance of such little things as these go far to make up at least the negative beauty of a holy life.

And then attention to the little duties of the day and hour in public transactions, or private dealings, or family arrangements; to the little words and tones, little benevolences, or forbearances, or tendernesses; little self-denials, self-restraints, and self-thoughtfulness; little plans of quiet kindness and thoughtful considerations for others; punctuality and method and true aim in the ordering of each day, these are the active developments of a holy life, the rich and divine mosaics of which it is composed.

What makes yon green so beautiful? Not the outstanding peak, or stately elm, but the bright sward which clothes its slopes, composed of innumerable blades of grass. It is of small things that a great life is made up; and he who will acknowledge no life as great save that which is built up of great things, will find little in Bible characters to admire or copy.—Pulpit and Pew.

The Word Eternity.

By Flavel

A GENTLEWOMAN of this nation, having spent the whole afternoon and a great part of the evening at cards, in mirth and jollity, came home late at night, and finding her waiting-woman reading, she looked over her shoulder upon the book and said, “Poor melancholy soul, why dost thou sit here poring so long upon thy book?” That night she could not sleep, but lay sighing and weeping. Her servant asked her once and again what ailed her? At last she burst into tears, and said, “Oh! it was one word that I cast my eye upon in thy book that troubles me. There I saw the word eternity. How happy were I if I were provided for eternity!”—Flavel.

Shun Evil Speaking and Hasty Belief of Reports

By Wallace

SHUN evil speaking. Deal tenderly with the absent; say nothing to inflict a wound on their reputation. They may be wrong and wicked, yet your knowledge of it does not oblige you to disclose their character except to save others from injury. Then do it in a way that bespeaks a spirit of kindness for the absent offender. Be not hasty to credit evil reports. They are often the result of misunderstanding, or of evil design, or they proceed from an exaggerated or partial disclosure of facts. Wait and learn the whole history before you decide; then believe just what evidence compels you to, and no more. But even then, take heed not to indulge the least unkindness, else you dissipate all the spirit of prayer for them, and unnerve yourself for doing them good.—Wallace.

THE LIFE OF MAN.

How graphically the varied aspects of the leaf picture the various aspects of man's life! The tenderness of its budding and blooming in spring, when that rich golden-green glints on it that comes only once a year, represents the bright beauty and innocence of youth, when every sunrise brings its fresh, glad hopes, and every night its holy, trustful calm. The dark greenness and fresh vigor of the summer leaf portray the strength and self-reliance of manhood; while its fading hues on the trees, and its rustling heaps on the ground, typify the decay and feebleness of old age, and that mysterious passing away which is the doom of every mortal. The autumn leaf is gorgeous in color, but it lacks the balmy scent and dewy freshness of hopeful spring; life is rich and bright in its meridian splendor; deep are the hues of maturity, and noble is the beauty of success; but who would not give it all for the tender sweetness and promise of life's morning hour? Happy they who keep the child's heart warm and soft over the sad experiences of old age, whose life declines as these last September days go out with the rich tints of autumn and the blue skies of June.

Archbishop Manning's Claim That the Pope Is Christ

A PROVIDENCE, R. I., paper says:— “It is one of the singular features of the time that with all the intellectual activity of the age, the advancement of science, the tendency to materialism and the general decay of distinctive superstition, there should be manifest, at the very moment when the temporal power of the pope is expiring, an inclination on the part of his most enlightened followers to accept his spiritual claims and decrees with more abject submissiveness than at even the darkest periods of ignorance and superstition. Archbishop Manning, of England, in a recent lecture, as stated in the Times, announced his firm belief that the pope is the very Christ, divinely inspired and entitled to the same reverence and obedience that Christ himself was when here in person. There is a little confusion in the language, for there is no need of an if in the case, granting that the pope is Christ, as, if he is, he certainly is here in person, and no more or less can be made of the words used. Dissenters and Protestants of course find it impossible for a man to believe implicitly anything and everything that may be said by any other man; but Bishop Manning has gone far beyond all this, and having worked himself into the belief that the pope is Christ he finds no more difficulty in believing what the pope says than Protestants do in believing the Bible.”

Secret Kindnesses and Their Beauty

SECRET kindnesses done to mankind are as beautiful as secret injuries are detestable. To be invisibly good is as godlike as to be invisibly evil is diabolical.

The Health Institute.

This model health institution is situated in the most healthful and delightful part of the proverbially neat and enterprising city of Battle Creek, Michigan, an important station on the Michigan Central R. R., about half way between Chicago and Detroit.

GROUNDS.

The grounds are ample, consisting of a site of about twenty acres, a large portion of which is covered with shade, ornamental, and fruit trees. They are also high, overlooking the entire city, and affording a fine view of the landscape for miles around.

BUILDINGS.

These comprise a large main building and seven fine cottages, all situated upon the same site. The main building contains commodious parlors, dining halls, bath and movement rooms, etc., etc., while the other buildings are fitted up as private apartments for patients. By this means are secured that quiet and retirement which cannot be obtained in an institution where scores of suffering individuals are crowded together under one roof.

ROOMS

Are large and well ventilated, and are furnished much better than in any other institution of the kind, thus affording the patient all the luxuries and comforts which he enjoys at home, and many more.

OUR REMEDIES

Are Light, Water, Air, Electricity, Exercise, Cheerfulness, Rest, Sleep, Proper Clothing, Proper Food, and, in fact, all Hygienic and Sanitary Agents. All known means of restoring health are constantly employed, poisons alone being excluded from our Materia Medica.

OUR PHYSICIANS.

The medical managers of the institution comprise an adequate number of conscientious, watchful, and efficient physicians, who give personal and unremitting care and attention to their patients, anticipating, as far as possible, their wants, carefully studying their cases, and applying every available means to restore them to health.

OUR FACILITIES.

Very few institutions are provided with conveniences and advantages equal to ours. Our bath rooms are both capacious and convenient, and are furnished with an inexhaustible supply of pure, soft water.

SPECIAL ADVANTAGES.

In addition to the appliances usually employed in health institutions, we make use of the Hot-Air Bath (which possesses all the virtues of the Turkish-Bath, while avoiding its evils), the much-renowned Electric or Electro-Thermal-Bath, the Lift Cure, and the celebrated Swedish-Movement Cure, which are so successful in many cases which cannot be reached by other means.

The “Vibrator,” a machine for giving passive exercise, has also been recently added to our other appliances, at an expense of several hundred dollars. This apparatus, besides being a triumph of mechanical ingenuity, is a most effective remedy for many chronic diseases.

DIET.

While we reject from our dietary those pernicious drinks and condiments which are the potent agents in bringing thousands to untimely graves, we take care to supply our table with an abundance of nutritious and palatable food, consisting of fruits, grains, and vegetables. We do not enforce, however, a radical and immediate change from old habits, but give the patient time to accommodate himself to the new diet.

OUR SUCCESS.

The class of individuals who seek aid at our institution is very largely composed of those who are afflicted with chronic diseases, and who have been drugged and poisoned until their vitality has become well-nigh exhausted, and they are given up by their friends and medical advisers to die. Under these circumstances, they come to us as a final resort, and, thanks to a true and potent system of treatment, this last hope is seldom disappointed.

CONSUMPTION.—Many cases might be cited and references given, in which this most insidious and hopeless of all diseases has been robbed of its victims and a new lease of life given them by a few months’ stay with us.

DYSPEPSIA.—Hundreds have come to us afflicted with this most deplorable disease in its most aggravated forms, and, after staying a proper time, have returned to their friends relieved of their sufferings.

PARALYSIS.—Even this formidable disease is treated with entire success, the use of paralyzed organs often being wholly restored.

Dropsy, Scrofula, Asthma, Kidney Difficulties (of the worst forms), Chronic Diarrhea, Chronic Congestion of the Brain, Cancer, Palpitation of the Heart, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Epilepsy, Bronchitis, Piles, Ulceration of Bowels, Tape-Worm, Catarrh of Bladder and Bowels, Constipation (in some cases without a natural passage for many years), Spermatorrhoea, and, in fact, Chronic Diseases of all kinds, are treated with a degree of success impossible with any other mode of practice. The most flattering success has attended the treatment of Uterine Difficulties, and all other Diseases of Women, which receive special attention.

ACUTE DISEASES.

Our mode of treatment is specially adapted to this class of diseases, meeting with the most uniform success with Fever, and Inflammations of every type and form, all Eruptive Diseases, etc., etc.

To the sick, we say, Do not delay seeking our assistance until your case is hopeless. Write at once for our Circular, which will be sent free on application.

Address, HEALTH INSTITUTE, Battle Creek, Mich.

Appointments and Quarterly Meeting Notices

Appointments.

And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

** Services in Chicago, every Sabbath (seventh day), at 269 West Erie St. All Sabbath-keepers spending a Sabbath in Chicago are invited to attend.

Providence permitting, I will hold meetings as follows: Norridgewock, Maine, Sabbath and Sunday, April 18, 19; Boston, Mass., April 25, 26, 1874. These are designed to be general meetings, and a hearty invitation is extended to the friends of the cause to meet together for the purpose of understanding the duties of the time more perfectly, and to give a greater zeal in the work of God. GEO. I. BUTLER.

Quarterly meetings in California as follows: — Woodland, April 18, 19; Bloomfield, April 25, 26; Healdsburg, May 23, 24; Petaluma, June 20, 21; Green Valley, July 18, 19. CAL. CONF. COM.

Quarterly meetings in Minnesota as follows: Pine Island, April 4, 5, 1874; Greenwood Prairie, 10, 11. HARRISON GRANT.

St. Charles, Mich., Sabbath and first-day, April 4 and 5, 1874. Hope all the friends who can will attend the meetings. A. S. HUTCHINS.

The first quarterly meeting of the Labette Co. church, Kansas, will commence on Friday evening, April 24, 1874, and continue over Sabbath and first-day, at the Stover School-house (four miles south-west of Labette on the M. K. & T. R. W.), Labette Co., Kansas. We request preaching brethren to come if convenient. Come praying for a blessing. ANDREW J. STOVER, Elder.

Quarterly meeting at Hamilton, Caldwell Co., Mo., April 4 and 5, 1874. The friends of the cause are solicited to attend. J. H. ROGERS.

Monthly meeting for the churches of Oswego Co., N. Y., at Roosevelt, April 11 and 12, 1874. Bro. P. Z. Kime is expected to be with us.

This is intended to be a general meeting, and important business is expected to come before it, and every member that can consistently should attend. DANIEL BOWE.

No preventing providence, I will meet with the church at Salem Center, Steuben Co., Ind., April 11, 12. Also at Mechanicsburg, Henry Co., Ind., April 18, 19. We desire to see a general attendance of the friends of the cause at each of these meetings. Will some one meet me at Pleasant Lake on Friday, April 10? S. H. LANE.

The next monthly meeting for Oakland, Johnstown, and Little Prairie, Wis., will be held at Little Prairie, April 18 and 19, 1874. All the members of the last-named church are requested to report. Eld. I. Sanborn and C. W. Olds are expected. H. HUNTER, Clerk.

General quarterly meeting of the Iowa and Nebraska T. and M. Society at Sigourney, Iowa, April 25, 26, 1874. Bro. Haskell is expected. Let there be an effort on the part of all the members of the society, officers especially, to make this meeting what it should be. Meeting to commence Friday evening. H. NICOLA, Pres.

The Blasphemy of Spiritualism.

W. Chaney, spiritualist, in a discussion with the editor of the World’s Crisis, at San Jose, Cal., Jan. 29, 1874, prayed to the devil at the opening of the last evening’s debate. The following is a copy of the prayer, according to the Crisis of March 11, 1874. It is designed evidently as a burlesque on prayer, and shows the terrible depth of blasphemy to which spiritualism has descended.

“O Lucifer, bearer of Light! O Beelzebub, Lord of Scorpions! O Belial, Lord of the Opposite! O Baal Peor, Lord of the Opening! O Hades, God of Orcus! O Devil, Prince of Demons in the Christian Hell! O thou Monarch of the Bottomless Pit! Thou King of Scorpions having stings in their tails, to whom it is given to hurt the earth for five months, I beseech thee to hear my prayer. Thou seest the terrible strait in which I am placed, matched in debate with one of the big guns of Christianity, with every advantage against me save that I have truth on my side. Thou knowest, Old Bull’s Head, that, according to all history, thy reign has been most glorious and triumphant. Thou knowest, Old Cloven Foot, that by thy wondrous power thou hast, in all time, possessed the hearts of Christians with a mad fury, so that they have slaughtered more than seventy millions of men, women, and children, since the dawn of the present era. Remember, O Prince of Brimstone, that when thou stretchest forth thine arm, the Christian’s God cannot stand before thee for a moment. Therefore we beseech thee to stand by us on this occasion. Bless thy servant in his labors before thee. Fill his mouth with words of wisdom. Enable him to defend thee from the false charges about to be made against thy Sulphurous Majesty, and to triumph by truth and logic over his opponent, so that this audience may realize that thou art a prayer-hearing and prayer-answering Devil. Finally, when he has done and suffered thy will on this earth, receive him graciously into thy warm dominions, assign him plenty of brimstone, turn him often with thy fork, and roast him eternally. And thine shall be the kingdom, the power, and the glory, worlds without end. Serenely thine, ‘THE OLD PROFESSOR.’”

ANOTHER ADVENT PAPER.

We have received the first number of a paper called “Good Tidings,” published in Chicago, Ill. It claims to owe its existence to the necessity for a “straight Advent paper,” and we judge is published by some who were formerly supporters of The Advent Christian Times. It is beautifully printed on good stock, with new type, and presents a lively and creditable appearance. Terms, $2.00 per year.

The Purchase of Tents.

By George I. Butler

As the time for tent operations draws near, the need of new tents to supply the place of those worn out begins to be felt, and additional ones will also be needed for those wanting to labor. When these wants exist, it is plainly the duty of the president of the State Conferences to see to this thing. They are supposed to know the wants of the cause in the State, and those who feel a need of such tents being provided should address him, and if appeals to the brethren to raise means are to be made through the REVIEW, they should come with the indorsement, and by the direction, of that officer. Those at the REVIEW Office cannot tell when to insert such calls in the REVIEW unless having the proper indorsement. The president of the Conference is the one chosen by the people to act in such matters. When he has consulted with his brethren on the committee, and makes calls by their orders, then the friends of the cause will be likely to respond. GEO. I. BUTLER.

Criticism on Gen. 2:2.

By D. Warren

“And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made.” Dr. Tafel, in his Interlineal Translation, has the following note: “As we have seen the Hebrew preterit denotes also the pluperfect, so there is no necessity for changing seventh into sixth, as has been done by the Septuagint, the Syriac, Samaritan, and other translators, and commentators.” D. WARREN.

Important Statistics.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

THE following statistics are taken from “Schem’s Statistics of the World” for 1873. They are from the very latest reports. They may be of interest to the readers of the REVIEW.

Total population of the world, 1,377,000,000.

STATISTICS OF CHRISTIANITY.

	Total Population.	Roman Catholics.	Protestants.	Eastern Churches.
America,	84,500,000	47,200,000	30,000,000
Europe,	301,600,000	147,800,000	71,800,000	70,200,000
Asia,	794,000,000	4,700,000	1,800,000	8,500,000
Africa,	192,500,000	1,100,000	1,200,000	3,200,000
Australia & Polynesia,	4,400,000	400,000	1,500,000
Total,	1,377,000,000	201,200,000	106,300,000	81,900,000

A glance at the above figures will show the comparative strength of Protestants and Catholics in the different countries of the world.

War ships in the world 3,742, carrying 25,394 guns.

Standing armies of the world mostly on a peace footing, 8,910,590.

Annual public expenses of all nations, $4,090,000,000.

Miles of telegraph wires in the United States, 159,040. Miles of telegraph wires in the world, 1,042,000.

Miles of railroad in the United States, 60,852; “ “ “ America, 68,322; “ “ “ Europe, 69,840; “ “ “ Asia, 5,437; “ “ “ Africa, 1,099; “ “ “ Australasia, 1,127. Total, 145,825.

D. M. CANRIGHT.

Increase of Crime in the United States.

By John Norton Loughborough

The following statements are from a paper published in San Francisco, called the Independent Defender: “From June 1, 1869, to May 31, 1870, there were in the United States 492,263 deaths. 1750 of these were murders. In ten years the number of murders has quadrupled, but the population has not increased at that rate.”

“In 1850, there was a murder for every 102,167 persons. In 1860, one for every 31,793 persons. In 1873, one for every 18,745 persons. Suicides doubled from 1850 to 1860, and trebled from 1860 to 1870.” J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

AS WE MAKE IT.

We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Until we have first been sowers, And watered the furrows with tears.

It is not just as we take it— This mystical world of ours; Life’s field will yield as we make it, A harvest of thorns or flowers.

Emigration to the United States in 1873

EMIGRATION to the United States from foreign countries for the year ending June 30, 1873, 459,803. It is claimed that about one-fourth of these are Catholics.—Defender.

Business Department.

Not slothful in Business. Rom. 12:11.

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Mrs M C Dorchester $1.00, Sarah A Cardell 15c, John Williams 50c, W W Stebbins 1.25, W H Randall 1.00, Z Gilbert 40c, Wm O Russ 2.75, Mrs M J Spaulding 1.00, Abraham Cook 1.00, Tabitha Mount 1.00, Wm Krim 20c, W I McCord 1.00, David F Peffley 1.00, Sarah M Mason 1.00, A L Hussey 15.00, C E Cushing 25c, Libbie W Crandall 50c, W N Pile 20c, Mrs P J Striplin 2.75, Sarah E Stringer 25c, Mrs Benj Tay 1.25, Luther Smith 20c, Herbert Lamb 25c, M B Kelley 1.25, I D Van Horn 17.84, O O Bridger 7.00, L A Bramhall 10c, Mrs J Lovejoy 1.00, Wm Lawton 15c, Wilson Pierce and Co. 2.35, Hannah Dudley 1.25, George Ashton 35c, Isaac T Andrews 2.95, H Sorensen 3.60, Asa B Atwood 1.00, Mrs S V Cooper 1.00, P G Fernelius 2.75, N S Raymond 25c, James L Donthit 10c, Thomas D Wallar 75c, Lyman P Fowles 50c, Isaac Whisler 10c, E D Poye 25c, Jacob Larson 4.50, J P Henderson 1.50, C K Ackley 1.00, Miss Mattie B Wilson 2.00, Asa Hayes 1.00, N L Parmater 2.50, Jared Buzzell 25c, G S Honeywell 3.93, Amos Allman 1.00, A Gee 50c, D P Curtis 1.00, Annie McClurg 34c, J H Disher 1.00.

Books Sent by Express.

Hollis Clark, Leslie, Ingham Co., Mich., $6.90, Albert Avery, Williamstown, Ingham Co., Mich., 3.76, Lucious Winston, Pontiac, Ill., 12.25, Martin Kittle, Marshall, Clark Co., Ill., 15.75, Wm. Penniman, Bunker Hill, Macoupin Co., Ill., 16.94, John Trotman, Traverse City, Grand Traverse Co., Mich., 2.63, J. S. Hart, State Center, Iowa, 10.75, S. S. Rizer, La Fayette, Ind., 6.00, Mary E. Bromly, Waukau, Wis., 8.50, P. Strong, Osseo, Hillsdale, Mich., 25.50, Emily Leonard, Pittsford, Mich., 10.80, A. L. Hussey, Van Wert, Ohio, 15.00.

Books Sent by Freight.

O. H. Pratt, Monroe, Wisconsin, $20.00, M. P. Martin, Columbia, Cal., 30.00.

Michigan Conference Fund.

Received from the church at Oceana, $19.00.

Cash Received on Account.

T K Henry $1.20, Cal T & M Society 50.00, J P Henderson 50c, G S Honeywell 2.00, P Strong 4.20, D T Bourdeau 33.00, Minerva Smith 2.05, E Leonard 1.00.

Danish Monthly.

Betsey Wilson $1.00, M J Bartholf 1.00, a friend 1.00.

Michigan T. & M. Society.

District No. 11, $42.70.

General Conference Fund.

Eleanor B Bailey $2.75 (s b).

S. D. A. Educational Society.

$100.00 EACH. John H Bennett, A W Maynard.

$75.00 EACH. Eli Glascock.

$50.00 EACH. P B Francis.

$25.00 EACH. A C Gilbert, A Hamilton.

$20.00 EACH. J W Marsh.

$10.00 EACH. Louvinia C Walker, Mary Nicola, Jos Clarke, W G Allen, Allie Kilgore.

$5.00 EACH. Dolly Roke.

$3.00 EACH. Emma Russell.

Appointment Withdrawn.

By J. H. Morrison

My appointments for Hook’s Point, Bradford, &c., &c., are hereby withdrawn, as my health is very poor, and I am compelled to retire from the field until it improves.

Cannot Bro. Nicola meet with the brethren at Horton, Bradford, and Frericksburg? J. H. Morrison.