WHEN we were at Ithaca last summer, we were speaking upon the subject of circulating tracts, and were overheard by sister Jeffrey at whose house we were stopping. In a moment she expressed her approbation and handed Mrs. W. five dollars toward a tract fund. From this the matter started which finally suggested the more enlarged plan of circulating Spiritual Gifts, &c.
Learning that our good sister Jeffrey was sick, we have come to her house and find her some better. Her interest in the cause is the same. From her hand we have just received $10 for the book fund, and in her sitting-room we now write.
In regard to tracts, when we set forth the importance of their circulation and offer them for sale for purchasers to give to the poor, and that we will give it them to those who have not the means to obtain them, we find most ready to pay for them. We have them in packages, and take only what we have to pay for them of those who give them to the needy.
JAMES WHITE
Ithaca, Mich.
COME LORD JESUS, COME QUICKLY.
By H. F. Phelps
Yea, come. We long for thee. We are weary of waiting. Long years have we looked for thy return. Why dost thou tarry so long. The cup of the wicked is fast filling up. Iniquity abounds. The love of many is waxing cold. So long hast thou now tarried, that few believe thou wilt return. Every thing seems to demand thy return. Old earth seems to heave from her very center. Nature is decaying, waxing old. She feels the weakness of old age. Her pulse beats feebly. Her life blood is ebbing away. And with louder voice, earth and nature combine in calling for thy return, to robe her in her Eden beauty.
The curse is wearing heavily. Every thing feels it more and more. Both man and beast must soon sink into decay, unless thou dost come to restore. Man, made in the image of God, has so long felt the effects of the curse that he is fast dwindling away. We are weary of this state of things. Everything has decay written upon it. Passing away, everywhere. Mortality is indelibly stamped upon every thing, both animate and inanimate.
I am tired of earth in its present state. I long for thy return. Come and change me to immortality. Come and change earth to a beautiful Eden. Come burst the silent tomb. Awake the silent dead. Call forth thy sleeping saints. We long to meet our loved ones. Oh! joy will fill our hearts then! We shall shout praises to thy name. Glad day, roll on! Glad meeting, haste thee! Come Lord, come quickly. Thy persecuted ones cry, Come. The tried and tempted say, Come. "The weary pilgrim sighs, O! come." All the church join in the united cry, Come quickly.
Thou wilt come, full soon enough for me to get ready. I turn my eyes within myself. Am I ready? Nay, verily! I am still a slave to wicked passions. I am full of sin and uncleanness. In mercy thou art staying away. Thou art giving me time to get ready. Help me to improve upon it. May I not slight the offers of mercy. That morning will soon come. I have little time to get ready. O my soul, rouse thyself! make an effort! Shake off this lethargy! Why sleepest thou? Thou art upon enchanted ground. Satan is intent upon thy destruction. Awake! or thou art lost, and lost forever!
Jesus, help me. I will try to awake. I cannot alone. I can almost feel death's stupor upon me. My strength is weakness. My efforts are vain. I can do nothing alone. I cast myself at thy feet. If I perish it must be clinging to thee.
M. Johnson: Cannot give you the information you ask in reference to a hand mill. The address of Eld. J. N. Andrews is 313, Main Street, Rochester, N. Y.
J. H. W.: We cannot tell who have blanks. We will send wherever you may direct.
L. B. Perkins: Your poster shows the credit.
S. B. Gowell: It is impossible for us to say at present.
RECEIPTS.
For Review and Herald.
Annexed to each receipt in the following list, is the Volume and Number of the REVIEW & HERALD to which the money received pays,—which should correspond with the Numbers on the Papers. If money for the paper is not in due time acknowledged immediate notice of the omission should then be given.
$1.00 each. S. E. Schochensparger 32-6, Dr. Ballou 32-6, Wm. Darrow 32-6, M. M. Lane 32-6, C. L. Hasbrouck 32-10, T. White in full, D. T. Fero 32-6, Diantha Fero 32-1, M. A. Judkins 32-6, L. Page 32-6, A. Gump 32-6, S. E. Edwards 31-17.
$1.50 each. M. Currant 32-13, J. Atkinson 32-7, Susan Shaw 32-1, W. H. Carver 32-1, M. H. C. 32-1, L. H. Priest 32-1.
$3.00 each. O. A. Purchase 33-6, A. A. Casey 33-1, H. M. Backus 33-1, E. Flayne 33-1, L. Griswold 33-1, J. Hale 33-9, Mrs. A. Morrison 33-9, N. Ashton 33-1, Wm. Hornaday 32-1, Mrs. M. A. Eggleston 32-20, J. H. Lonsdale 33-1, W. A. Wrightson 32-16, H. Hammond 32-22, J. Fishall Jr. 33-1, B. S. Merriam 32-5, Mrs. M. Burwell 33-6, J. T. Farrell 33-1, C. H. Barrows 33-6, W. McHenry 33-10, S. B. Gowell 33-9, N. Atkins 33-6.
Miscellaneous. Mrs. E. J. Bump 33-20, 33-6, J. Rawson 3.10, 33-7, A. R. Fentree 2.90, 33-6, J. Krenakisle 3.00, 33-1, J. Goss 4.00, 33-3, M. B. Benson 3.25, 33-1, S. Feenedy 2.25, 33-1, I. Ritchie 3.00, 33-6, A. G. Friday 2.60, 32-15, R. S. Ricker 2.00, 32-14, B. Sawyer 2.00, 33-6, L. Law 2.00, 33-1, G. A. Gilbert 2.00, 33-6, C. W. Smith 2.00, 33-6.
For Review to the Poor.
J. W. Barber $1.00.
Cash Received on Account.
Eld. R. F. Andrews 37c, Eld. G. I. Butler $7.00, H. C. Miller $12.00.
Books Sent By Mail.
D. Hoxsie 25c, J. R. Hooper $1.10, J. Atkinson 1.32, W. C. Duncombe 1.12, Mrs. King 1.12, Mrs. Judson 1.12, D. R. Palmer 20c, S. Shaw 20c, P. Cornell 3.15, Jesse Coy 20c, Noah B. Hovey 20c, H. Sutherland 3.40, Mrs. G. Osterhout 28c, J. Rawson 1.12, E. J. Clark 1.61, Wm. E. Newcomb 2.04, E. E. Mitchell 20c, M. E. Lockwood 20c, H. E. A. Demillo 2.52, C. Russell 22c, Wm. V. Field 50c, E. Calkins 1.00, M. Van Dorn 40c, M. B. Brown 20c, Geo. H. Dimmick 45c, J. H. Lonsdale 5.25, H. N. Bates 1.40, A. G. Pixley 1.12, M. Addison 20c, M. A. Brigham 20c, B. A. Neal 50c, Miss E. Thompson 20c, E. Parker 25c, Mrs. E. C. Holman 50c, F. H. Ferren 50c, W. M. Law 25c, G. A. Gilbert 1.27, Joan Walker 20c, J. G. A. Houghton 7.70, F. Scarborough Jr. 20c, L. M. Gates 1.00, Wm. Field 20c, M. I. Berry 22c.
Books Sent by Express.
H. C. Miller, Monroe, Wis., $14.66, Eld. James White, St. Charles, Mich., $40.28, H. C. Jewel, Fowler's Mills, Ohio, 5.75.
Michigan Conference Fund,
Church at Gaines, Mich., $15.00.
Pledges for Book and Tract Fund.
J. M. Foster $5.00, E. Foster 1.00, I. C. Snow 10.00, M. S. Burnham 5.00, E. J. Burnham 1.00, O. F. Symonds 5.00, G. M. Foster 5.00, H. H. Pierce 2.00, A. J. Foster 1.00, C. Walters 1.00, C. C. Spear 2.00, D. T. Shireman 5.00, W. Hoff 2.00, T. Porter 25c, Wm. V. Field 1.00, M. L. Field 50c, R. P. Stewart 1.00, John Fishall Jr. 1.00, Jennett Fishall 1.00, N. J. Dubois 50c, James Dubois 50c, A. W. Smith 25.00, S. B. Craig 5.00, W. B. Prentiss 5.00, Nicholas Smith 2.00, E. B. Saunders 2.00, S. A. Craig 1.00, E. M. Prentiss 1.00, H. Hilliard 5.00, A. Crosbie 3.00, S. B. Whitney 2.00, A. H. Hall 3.00, S. Crosby 2.00, C. M. Whitney 1.00, J. Perry 2.00, T. Coburn 50c, F. C. Castle 50c, E. Dalgrien 25c, A. Dalgrien 10c, L. C. Hilliard 2.00, J. Ghering 2.00, W. Thompson 2.00, M. Thompson 1.00, C. Ghering 1.00, Eunice Hall 3.00, C. P. Hilliard 65c, Geo. F. Evans 5.00, Wm. Bellamy 5.00, B. Green 1.00, D. Oviatt 1.00, G. G. Green 50c, H. Voorhees 2.00, N. Fuller 5.00, H. J. Stone 1.00, E. A. Diko 1.00, H. Hopkins 1.00, S. A. McPherson 20.00, Sarah M. McPherson 3.00, W. Hastings 1.00, H. W. Gordon 3.00, Ira Tubbs 1.00, E. Stafford 3.00, H. C. McDearman 3.00, M. McDearman 1.00, E. McDearman 1.00, C. G. Cramer 2.00, James Cramer 1.00, Sarah Cramer 1.00, James Sawyer 10.00.
Received on Book and Tract Fund.
A Friend $1.64, A. C. Gilbert 1.00, H. L. Richmond 2.60, H. S. Guilford 5.00, Mrs. F. Jeffery 10.00, Wm. E. Newcomb 5.00, T. Hare 5.00, Geo. Walling 50c, J. Tomlinson 1.00, E. Frothingham 50c, O. Tomlinson 50c, C. Davis 50c, A. Tomlinson 30c, M. Davis 25c, D. R. Palmer 2.00, A. Palmer 80c, Eld. D. T. Bourdeau 10.00, Sr. D. T. Bourdeau 5.00, M. E. Cornell 5.00, A. M. Cornell 5.00, W. Carpenter 5.00, A. S. Smith 2.00, Margaret Smith 2.00, D. C. Phillips 1.00, J. S. Carle 1.00, L. Vincent 50c, W. W. Williams 1.00, G. W. Amadon 5.00, R. H. Root 20.00, H. Root 5.00, J. S. White 5.00, C. Buck 5.00, M. Buck 2.00, S. W. Hastings 1.00, J. Wilson 1.00, Wm. Savey 1.00.
On Shares in the H. R. Institute.
The following amounts have been paid on pledges previously given to the Health-Reform Institute.
Abigail James $25.00, C. J. Hall 25.00, F. Scarborough Jr. 10.00, A. W. Cummings 25.00.