Bro. O. Davis writes from North Burwick, Me.: “We (self and family) are still striving to walk in the way of the commandments of God and faith of Jesus. To us it is our heavenly Father’s way to the kingdom of the saints. Three families about eight miles from us have come into the Sabbath, with whom we can occasionally meet. During a Sabbath afternoon spent with them a short time since, when a preacher that was in the fifty-four time was present, the Lord gave freedom and power to his truth, and conviction appeared to settle strongly upon him. May the Lord speed on his work. Living as we do considerably separated from those of like precious faith, we are often led to review the road that the Advent people have been led. And we think we can add our testimony to the correctness of our position as a body, when that position is compared with the word of God. I was very forcibly struck with the illustration of the ceasing of the second woe trumpet on the 11th of August 1840, as first pointed out by J. Litch, by the manner in which the recent persecution of the Christians in Syria was terminated or held in check. No sooner does the old spirit of the woe begin to manifest itself, than preparations are made to hold it in subjection. Who can question the ceasing of the woe when the Mohammedan power yields to the Christian? And thus it appears to me has been the case in the positions taken by the Advent people when they have humbly and prayerfully sought to be guided by the word of God. And although they may have at times gone forth tremblingly, yet light has shone upon their pathway, faith has been confirmed and hope has become lively. And are we not drawing new evidences of the truthfulness of our faith of a somewhat different character from those that we have been called thus far to experience; evidences found in the dragon spirit of the two-horned beast? O may we be prepared to meet them in the spirit of our Lord and Master! The language of Jesus under the Papal persecution was, “In your patience possess ye your souls.” “Here is the patience and faith of the saints.” Under the decree of the two-horned beast, “Here is the patience of the saints.” Shall we not need the oft repeated injunctions of the Lord to watch that we enter not into temptation: What I say unto you I say unto all, watch. May the Lord help us to watch, and not be found sleeping at his coming. We desire to be remembered by the Lord’s people, that we with them may be prepared for the things that are to come upon the earth and stand before the Son of man.”
Preaching the Third Angel’s Message
Bro. J. R. Goodenough writes from Dane, Wis.: “I am glad that the Lord ever permitted me to hear the sound of the third angel’s message, and gave me a willing heart to turn my feet into his testimonies. Once his word was all a dark mystery to me; now it is a glorious lamp to my feet and a light to my path; and I can say with the poet,
“A glory gilds the sacred page,
And brings the truth to light.”
I am trying to let its sacred truths have a sanctifying effect upon my daily walk and conversation. My heart beats in unison with those in the third message; for I believe that the Lord is leading out a people, zealous of good works, and preparing them for translation. I want to go with the remnant to the kingdom. I am now preaching in this place in a school-house. The people are generally interested. I have given thirteen discourses on the prophecies. Have had some opposition; but the Lord has made even the wrath of man to praise him here. Several have already decided to keep all God’s commandments, and the testimonies of his Son. Pray for me.”
Heaven is your home, therefore often think about it; tribulation is your lot, therefore daily expect it.
OBITUARY
By F. C. Castle
FELL asleep in Jesus at her mother's residence in Edwards, N. Y., Feb. 5, 1861, my oldest sister, Lucretia M. Castle, in the twenty-fourth year of her age. She came out from the world and embraced the present truth three years ago this coming spring. She laid aside the fashions of the world, which perish with the using, and sought for a conformity to the will of God, and endeavored to imitate the perfect Pattern by doing good unto others, and living a life of self-denial. In so doing she became beloved by all who knew her, thus leaving many friends to mourn her death. Her disease was consumption, which preyed on her system for many months. She felt that she would like to rest quietly in the grave, believing that it would be but a little while till the morn of the first resurrection, when the trump would sound, and she would come forth.
“Sleep, dear sister, kind and tender,
To friendship true;
While with feeling hearts we render,
This tribute due.”
“When the morn of glory breaking,
Shall light the tomb,
Beautiful will be thy waking,
In fadeless bloom.”
“Where no wintry winds are blowing,
No burial train;
Crowned with gems celestial glowing,
We'll meet again.”
F. C. CASTLE.
Note from Bro. Bates.
By Joseph Bates
BRO. SMITH: I have been holding meetings in this place every evening, Sabbaths and first-days for a fortnight, with good interest, considering the cold, stormy weather, and design to continue on over another Sabbath and first-day. About all admit our position on the Sabbath question, and some are uniting with us in keeping it. My next will give the result.
JOSEPH BATES.
Orange, Ionia Co., Mich.
The Contrast Will Out.
Popular religionists may claim with all the zeal they can command that they have the true scriptural theory in relation to man in death; but the contrast between their hope, and that held out to us by the apostles of our Lord and all the sacred writers, will manifest itself in spite of all their efforts, at almost every turn. Speaking of the death of Dr. Alfred Freeman, of New York city, the Scientific American closes its remarks thus: “He has left behind a large circle of relatives and acquaintances who do not sorrow without hope—for they believe that his spirit has gone to the better land!” The expression, sorrowing not without hope, is evidently borrowed from the consoling instruction of Paul in reference to our friends who are dead. And having thus been set upon the track of the apostle’s reasoning, the mind naturally expects to be led to the same conclusion that it is accustomed to meet with in the language of the apostle. But so suddenly are we whirled by the popular theology, as illustrated in the above extract, and switched off from the position of the apostle, and made to turn such a complete somerset in the conclusion, that it is scarcely possible to read it, without experiencing a sense of oppressive dizziness. They sorrow not because they believe that his spirit has gone to the better land! But does Paul say that this is the reason why men should not sorrow? Not by any means; but he tells the christian not to sorrow as others which have no hope; for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him [i. e., from the dead]. Here is our hope: we are not to sorrow as those who have no hope, not because their immortal spirits are now in heaven, but because they are to be raised again from the dead, when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven. Being satisfied with the hope of the gospel as explained by the apostle, we neither feel disposed to attempt to climb up some other way, nor to rest upon a foundation, which, though it has the reputation of being both scientific and scriptural, is in reality neither the one nor the other.
To Correspondents.
By James White
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Resolved, That as the different churches in this part of the State were not permitted to meet in conference at Marion, on the 15th inst., on account of a severe snow-storm, we send a cordial invitation to Bro. and sister Cornell to come to this part of the State to labor the coming tent season, and that they be sustained by our prayers and our purse.
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APPOINTMENTS
Marion, Iowa, Conference.
A snow-storm preventing the gathering of the brethren Feb. 15, the Marion church extend to us an invitation to meet them in conference, and leave the time for our decision. They invite the brethren at Lisbon, Rome, Anamosa, Fairview, Vinton, Iowa City, Dayton, and Millersburg to meet with them.
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