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MRS. F. JEFFERY

By Mrs. F. Jeffery

From Sister Jeffery.

Bro. White: It is the love I feel for present truth and an interest for its advancement that I venture to adress a few lines to the Review. We rejoice that the light has been so abundantly bestowed on us. We feel that we want others to share the same precious truths with us. We are sinful by nature. Our minds are dark until illuminated by his quickening and enlivening grace.

A little company of us here are striving to keep the commandments, and endeavoring to walk in the light. The crosses we bear, and the persecutions we receive, we hope will serve to further us on in the cause of him who when on earth had not where to lay his head. Here we have no abiding place, but are seeking one to come, whose builder and maker is God.

We are often led to exclaim, in the language of the poet,

"Oh what are all our sufferings here, If thou but count us meet With that enraptured host to appear And worship at thy feet."

Some of the brethren and sisters from St. Charles visited us last Sabbath, and we were made to rejoice while we listened to words of consolation and good cheer from them. Pray for them and us that we remain steadfast unto the coming of our Lord. We are about making an effort to build a convenient place of worship and hope by continuance in well-doing that we may accomplish our object. I have been led to rejoice in view of the precious light received from reading Spiritual Gifts and hope the time is not distant when we shall hear and see some of the brethren in the ministry in these parts and especially yourself and sister White.

MRS. F. JEFFERY

Ithaca, Gratiot Co. Mich.

Extracts from Letters.

Bro. W. H. Riley writes from Harrison, Ills.: I wish to add my testimony in favor of the third angel's message. I have been a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church at Rockton, Ills., for about one year. During this time I have been striving to keep all God's commandments with the faith of Jesus. I think I can say that I have found him of whom Moses and the prophets did write, and have been led to rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Hence I can say, like Naomi of old, Thy God shall be my God, and thy people shall be my people. I prize the weekly visits of the Review with its instructions, and the encouraging testimonies of the brethren and sisters.

A Mother’s Sorrow and Faith

Sister E. Carmichael writes from Middlesex, Pa.: One of my dear sons (Albert) was killed, and another (John) was wounded in the battle of the Shenandoah Valley on the 9th of last September. On the 1st of Nov. I started from Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, to go to the hospital at Winchester, Va., to visit the surviving one, and try to soothe his sorrows, and if possible to relieve his sufferings. But when I got to Martinsburgh, Va., within twenty miles of my loved one, I learned that he had died on the 30th of Oct. All tender mothers can know something of my feelings and anguish of heart; but the Lord has wonderfully supported me. On his strong arm have I leaned through all the dangers and troubles he has called me to pass through. I feel that he knows best what is for us and ours, and that these light afflictions are but for a moment, and that they will work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

I still desire the prayers of my brethren and sisters that I may be strong in the Lord, and be prepared to stand with them all on mount Zion.

Purity of Character.

OVER the beauty of the plum and the apricot there grows a bloom and beauty more exquisite than the fruit itself—a soft, delicate flush overspreads its blushing cheek. Now, if you strike your hand over that, it is gone. The flower that hangs in the morning, impearled with dew, arrayed as no queenly woman ever was arrayed with jewels, once shake it so that the beads roll off, and you may sprinkle water over it as you please, yet it can never be again what it was when the dew fell silently on it from Heaven. On a frosty morning you may see panes of glass covered with landscape—mountains, lakes, trees, blended in a beautiful fantastic picture. Now lay your hand upon the glass, and by a scratch of your finger, or by the warmth of your palm, all the delicate tracery will be obliterated. So there is in youth a beauty and purity of character, which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which when torn and broken, will never be re-embroidered. He who has spotted and soiled his garments in youth, though he may seek to make them white again, can never wholly do it, even were he to wash them with his tears. When a young man leaves his father's house with the blessings of a mother's tears still wet upon his brow, if he once lose his early purity of character, it is a loss that he can never make whole again. Such is the consequence of crime. Its effect cannot be eradicated; it can only be forgiven.

God Doeth All Things Well

God doeth all things well.

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A Short Dialogue.

By A. S. Hutchins

FOUNDED ON FACT.

A. Good morning Bro. B. Have you read that little work on the Sabbath?

B. I have. But still it really seems to me that the seventh day was the Jewish Sabbath, and that the first day is the Christian Sabbath.

A. Does the Bible furnish us any proof to this effect?

B. I know of none; perhaps it is nothing but tradition that makes it seem so to me.

A. But you know the Sabbath dates back to the creation for its origin, and that it was given to man as a grand and standing memorial of the Creator's works.

B. Certainly.

A. And do we not now, as much as ever, need this memorial?

B. Certainly. Well, I acknowledge that I am halting on this point. One thing troubles me. Once I did not love God. I used to work on Sunday. Ill luck attended me. I was reduced to poverty. I resolved to lead a different life. Since then I have kept Sunday, and been prospered in all that I have put my hand to; and now I stand in doubt about breaking it.

A. But you have seen very wicked men who prospered in worldly affairs. David speaks of those who bring "wicked devices" to pass, as prospering in their way.

B. Very true.

A. But your reform did not consist alone in Sunday-keeping?

B. Oh, no, from that time I have endeavored to live the life of a Christian.

A. If, then, the Lord has really blessed you with temporal and spiritual blessings for striving to render obedience to him, should not this fact lead you to love him still, and to continue to walk in the light as it shines upon your pathway, rather than to reject it and fall back upon your past experience? God requires his people to move forward as the light shines. "The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day."

B. Well, I will give this subject further consideration. I had not looked at it just in that light before.

A. S. HUTCHINS.

A Great Change Wrought.

BRO. B. F. BRADBURY writes from Green-Lake, Wis.:

Inclosed are three dollars to renew my subscription for the Review. I have been a subscriber for the paper for two years, but embraced the truth only about four weeks ago. I thought that two dollars a year for such a small paper was a great price; but since I have embraced the truth, I have changed my mind in regard to the paper. I feel as if I could not be deprived of it at any price. It cheers my heart to read from week to week the encouraging letters from the brethren and sisters in different parts of the country of like faith.

The paper is a light to my path. I consider that three dollars is cheap enough; and if the time comes that it will require more to get it, I for one, feel willing to pay whatever it may cost.

I have been rather bitter in regard to the Visions and Testimonies to the church; but since I have embraced the truth, I can see the sanctifying effect that they have in bringing God's people into the unity of the faith. I thank God for the straight testimony. It will have a tendency to sift the church from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, and purify unto God a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Bro. Rust Renounces the Democratic Party

By Editor

We take the liberty to make the following extract from a letter written by Bro. Rust to a brother in this office. He speaks in reference to the Democratic party, and takes a stand which we commend as an example to all who have in the least degree, feelings of affiliation with that party.

“The great excitement attendant upon election in this city (Chicago) is over. No riots, no mobs, or disturbances. And the returns are fast coming in to show an overwhelming majority for Mr. Lincoln. The Lord has been gradually working a great change in my mind for the better I trust; and I feel to praise his great name that the scales have fallen from my eyes. For some time past, and particularly since I came to Chicago, I have seen and heard things from the leaders of that party which I had clung to with such tenacity in former years, that I was compelled to denounce and condemn them as co-workers with Satan. I have forever made an end of justifying or apologizing for that party whose very life is in the perpetuation of that accursed institution of slavery. I now fully believe it. It has been, as you know, a source of great trial to me; but I thank God that I am now free. There are those who have been instrumental in my conversion on this point, but I feel to give God all the praise.”

Bro. Rust would be happy to have brethren living in, or passing through, Chicago, call on him at his boarding place, 230 Madison street.

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