p. 55 | Review and Herald, Vol. 21, No. 7. (1/13/1863)

Earlier text: Do we Discard the Bible by Endorsing the Visions ?

J. L. BAKER

By J. L. Baker

From Bro. Baker.

BRO. WHITE: I am not preaching this winter as I intended, but hard at work at my trade. The way may open some time so that I may have a chance to go out into the field to labor for souls.

My heart is with those who are at the head of the work. I had a chance to see a report of the anti-organization conference of Marion. I have no fellowship for them. It is a drain opened for those that oppose the strait testimony to go by themselves. Five hundred, well united, are better than five thousand gift-hating and idol-loving people. Alas! how many will fall in the wilderness with unbelief! When so much precious fruit has been brought back, like so many clusters of grapes from the goodly land, it seems as though all might believe; but blind unbelief always has a handle.

Satan does not like to have the gifts brought back into the church. He knows that error and discord will cease when the gifts stand where they should in the church. God's people will come together, a perfect house, a habitation of God through the Spirit. "Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." 1 Thess. v, 20, 21. It seems as though some really despised prophesying, because it does not come in their own way, or just to suit them. I am glad a testimony is ripening in the church that will bring God's people into the unity of the faith. Paul says, "Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts." 1 Cor. xiv, 1. It seems to be just as necessary to desire spiritual gifts as it is to desire charity. Both go together.

I am glad God is so favoring his people as to correct their faults, and fit them to stand before the Son of man.

J. L. BAKER

Alba, Pa.

Striving to Overcome in the Truth

By M. Bean

From Sister Bean.

Bro. WHITE: I would like to say to the dear brethren and sisters through the Review, that I am striving to overcome, and I believe that by the help of the Lord I shall overcome and go through to the mount Zion; and having this blessed hope, it buoys me up under all my trials, of whatever sort they may be. I have had a good share of trials, but hitherto the Lord has been my helper, and having obtained help of him, I am still the monument of his saving mercy.

I love the Review, and am comforted and blessed from week to week in reading it. I feel warmly attached to all that write for it. I also take a deep interest in Spiritual Gifts, and Testimonies to the Church; they always do me good. I often wonder how any Sabbath-keeper can reject the gifts which the Lord has seen fit to place in the church, for the benefit and comfort of the remnant church in these last days of peril. For one, I feel to say, Let the Lord send by whom he will, and work as he pleases. I praise the Lord that I ever have been led into the truth of the last message to this world. I thank the Lord that I have a place with his dear people. I often feel to say,

Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love.

Yours, looking for redemption. M. BEAN. South Troy, Vt.

A Testimony to Present Truth

By Charles G. Satterlee

From Bro. Satterlee.

Bro. White; Feeling an interest in the Review, and the precious truths it advocates, I wish to add my testimony in behalf of this cause. It cheers my heart to read the communications from the dear saints scattered abroad.

The last Review came without a letter from any of God's dear saints, and it struck me very forcibly that I perhaps have a duty to discharge in this respect. I feel to thank God for the light of present truth, and wish to faithfully perform every known duty.

Dear brethren and sisters, let us double our diligence to make our peace, calling, and election sure. Let us strengthen each other's faith by conversing, writing, praying with and for each other.

I can say to my brethren and sisters that I am determined, by the assisting grace of God, to go through to the kingdom.

We were organized into a church last May, by Elders Ingraham and Sanborn, with thirty-three members; but we have since had a shaking, and three have turned back on account of the straitness of the way, and a lack of love for the strait testimony. The church seems to appreciate more highly the gift of prophecy which is and has been in the church. They see and feel more the necessity of pressing together, and all uniting their efforts, prayers, means, and sympathies, to prepare us to stand in the time of trouble which is just before us. The prayer of the church seems to be for more holiness of heart. O God, stir up thy people to more engagedness in this glorious cause, is my prayer.

Yours in love of the truth. CHARLES G. SATTERLEE. Princerville, Ills.

Standing Firm Against Persecution and Spiritualism

By M. J. Chapman

From Sister Chapman.

Bro. White: It affords me so much comfort to read the communications in the Review from the scattered saints, that I cannot refrain from casting in my mite. It is now more than two years since I embraced present truth, and I can say heartily, I have never regretted it, although I have met with some bitter persecution. But praise the Lord, that only strengthens me. I have only reason to regret that I have not made greater attainments in holiness, and been instrumental in the conversion of some of my friends and neighbors to the truth. I have endeavored in my feeble way to get them interested sufficiently to read my papers and books, but they make many vain excuses. The truth is, they are more afraid of being peculiar than anything else.

I have been considerably awakened of late. Have felt the need of having on the whole armor. I find Satan is not absent from this place, and he has been secretly at work, thinking to undermine my faith; but the Lord opened my eyes to the necessity of my making the Scriptures my chief study, that I might have wherewith to resist his fiery darts.

We have a rank Spiritualist in our neighborhood, who has been investigating some of our works, and who is convinced (judging from appearances) that the S. D. A. doctrine, with the gifts included, is the greatest barrier to Spiritualism he has yet found, and he is doing his utmost to find something to refute it. He does not succeed to his liking, therefore he undertook to circulate false reports about brethren he had never seen, but in both instances I had facts to nip the attempt in the bud, unless he is devoid of all honesty.

It seems to me that the time is not far distant when the truth will be presented to the people here, and I can but think there are some in this large place, who will see and embrace it. In the meantime I will strive to walk carefully, but faithfully, that I may not bring a reproach upon the cause.

I have long since laid aside tea, coffee, and all useless ornaments, and am trying to adorn myself with a meek and quiet spirit. I know that the Lord blesses me in proportion as I trust and obey him, and I do desire to so live that sin may have no dominion over me.

I am very lonely at times, but so long as Jesus is my friend I will not complain. Time is very short, and I feel that we have all great trials before us, but, with sister Dayton, I want to be one of the tried ones. And although alone, I praise the Lord that he ever permitted unworthy me to hear and receive these glorious truths. May he preserve me, and not only me, but all the dear children of the remnant, until he comes.

Yours in hope. M. J. Chapman.

Terre Haute, Ind.

Report from Lake Station

Bro. M. S. Kellogg writes from Lake Station, Ind.: Thinking perhaps that the brethren might be interested to hear how we are getting along here, I take this opportunity to write. We are striving to overcome and get ready for the solemn events before us. We meet every Sabbath-day, and one evening in the week, for worship; and many times we have the witness that the Lord is pleased. Those that received the truth under the labors of Bro. Bates last summer, seem to be getting firmly established in the truth, and growing strong in the Lord. There appears to be a spirit of sacrifice with the brethren here. Hoops, tobacco, and snuff, are laid aside. Systematic benevolence is cheerfully adopted, and faith in the gifts is being fully established. One sister is blind, and has been for seven years; yet she does not hesitate to walk one-half mile to meeting. We would like very much to have Bro. Cornell stop and preach to us while on his way home from the West. We are two and one-half miles east of Lake Station, on the Mich. Central R. R.

Waves of Trouble

MANY of the waves of trouble, like those of the ocean, will, if we await them calmly, break at our feet and disappear.

OBITUARY.

By J. D. Hillis

DIED, in Pleasantville, Marion Co., Iowa, Dec. 15, 1862, of puerperal fever, sister Rhoda E. McClelland, aged about thirty years. For many years she had been an exemplary member of the M. E. church, until the year 1859, when under the preaching of Eld. M. Hull, in Pleasantville, she was convinced that she was in error, and had been keeping the first day of the week for a Sabbath, in place of the Sabbath of the Lord, which the Bible says is the seventh day. She was also convinced that she must seek for immortality if she ever possessed it. On many other points she renounced the doctrine of the popular teachers of the present day, and embraced Bible truth, and has ever since been a firm believer therein. Many who may chance to see this obituary, know how she delighted in keeping all the commandments of God; and especially did she rejoice to know that she was no longer keeping a Sabbath instituted by man, but was now keeping the true Sabbath of the Lord, which she observed until her death. Perhaps they will also remember the happy seasons they have enjoyed with her in social meetings, and the many pleasant exhortations she has given them; and her musical voice in singing the hymns, "Three Messages," and "The Jewels of the Lord," which were favorites with her. She leaves a husband and three children to mourn the loss of a kind companion and an affectionate mother, while the church will lose a bright and active member; but their loss is her eternal gain. She will sleep in Jesus until the resurrection morn, when the saints shall awake to immortality and eternal life. J. D. HILLIS.

The Review.

By Jos. Clarke

The Review has been a blessing to thousands, who hail its weekly visits with joy. By it many are enlightened, many are comforted and strengthened, many instructed and encouraged, or corrected, or reproved; and often the same individual experiences all these benefits from one copy of this weekly journal of the S. D. Adventists.

It is not filled with accounts of bloody victories, or of sickening defeats; but often we find in it accounts of victories over the world, the flesh, and the Devil; such victories as angels reckon to be far greater than ever mortals won on battle-fields where the warrior is bathed in human gore, where are heard sounds of confusion, where human life is cheap, and virtue is trodden beneath the iron heel of war.

Many an honest, devout soul received his first lessons on present truth from this paper; and many a lonely one hails its weekly visits as his only preacher. It makes up for many a want, and gives to the lone pilgrim a means by which he may, if disposed, almost keep even pace with those who enjoy church privileges.

When I first saw the Review, it filled me with joy to find such a paper, and such a people, who honored God's holy law. I thought the ideas it promulgated respecting many other things were rather extravagant; but on attention to its instructions I found its knowledge of God, and his word and Spirit, so far excelled my fond conceits, that I hid my face in the dust, still praising God that I had found teachers who cared for my soul. Many a pang I caused them before I laid down all my pride of opinion; but their patience and love won my heart, while their arguments enlightened my understanding.

This paper is good, because it is the exponent of the third message, and the organ of the chosen people of God, who in these last days are washing their garments in the blood of the Lamb, who are shaking off the dust of earth, and arousing themselves from the stupor of the Papal ages, and are girding on the armor for the final conflict.

What S. D. Adventist can afford to be without this paper? By reference to Review, Vol. xxi, No. 1, it will be seen that Bro. Fuller has found somewhere in Pennsylvania some S. D. Adventists who do not take the Review. Can it be so? I do not see how they can get along without the paper. I should think they would suffer much, spiritually. Such losses are not easily made up.

I had supposed that all the brethren got the Review in some way. If there are any who do not read the Review, I hope they will soon get it; for it is truly meat in due season.

If you wish to keep with the body, if you wish to be posted on all points, so as to avoid the snares of the enemy, if you wish to walk understandingly with the people of God, then take the Review, and read it carefully.

One thing I have noticed: those who love to read the Review, love to read the Bible; I have seen no exception. Jos. CLARKE.

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Let Your light Shine.

By A. S. Hutchins

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS ; Has the Lord given us any light in regard to the use of tea, or has he not? If he has, do we do well to put it under a bushel? Are we ashamed of the position that we as a people and organized churches have taken in regard to the use of this herb? If not let us live out our faith, when with tea-drinkers, as well as when with those who drink cold water. But I do not see how this can be done by those who allow themselves to sip a cup or a part of a cup of tea, every time they have tea-drinking company: or that take a "part of a cup" or "have it just colored" or a "little weak tea" when they go where others use it.

Let your light shine. We want straight-forward, thorough-going, whole-hearted Christians, Christians at home and abroad. "Pay thy vows unto the Most High." "Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay."

A. S. HUTCHINS.

APPOINTMENTS.

By James White

Quarterly Meetings.

For the next quarter the order of meetings may be irregular, as shorter journeys may be practicable during the season when good traveling is uncertain.

Monterey, January 17 and 18.

Caledonia, " 24 and 25.

Wright, January 31, and February 1.

Lowell, February 7 and 8.

JAMES WHITE.

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Bible Class Report Delayed

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On account of the protracted meeting in this place, our Bible Class has been omitted for two weeks; consequently there is no report on Revelation for this number. It will be resumed next week.