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Review and Herald, Vol. 36, No. 13.

Destruction Coming
Earlier text: Thoughts on the Book of Daniel

Meetings in Indiana.

By Joseph Bates

ACCORDING to appointment, I met with the church in Salem Center, Ind., Sabbath and first-day, Aug. 6 and 7. For sixteen years a company of Sabbath-keepers have been struggling here to follow in order with those who profess to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus in the third angel’s message. The Lord blessed and strengthened them to renew their choice, and put away all their wrongs, and follow in the pathway of the just.
Aug. 8, I spent in South Bend. The 9th, I came fourteen miles with Bro. Wm. Carpenter to North Liberty. Here we spent several days visiting from house to house, and holding social meetings. Sabbath and first-day, the 13th and 14th, held quarterly meeting, and celebrated the ordinances. At the last meeting measures were taken, and resolutions passed, to remove all wrongs, and give themselves more fully to the work of God. The Lord strengthened them to carry out their good resolutions.
Aug. 16-20, visited Sabbath-keepers in Fairfield, Howard Co. Sabbath, the 20th, was with Bro. E. B. Lane at quarterly meeting in Fairfield. We had quite a full meeting, and the people listened with interest and attention. Some called this a basket-meeting, because the brethren brought their dinners, and dined under the shady trees by the meeting-house. Short meetings like these, without food, will prove to be far better both for parents and children.
Sunday, the 21st, spent with the Brn. Lane in the Mich. Tent, at Burlington. During the day and evening the Sabbath and Sunday questions were presented to interested congregations. In so small a town, the inquiry was where so large a congregation of people came from. Said one, “We counted eighteen wagons all in one string.” Said another, “Some have come eighteen miles to the meeting.” The Lord grant that the meetings may prove a great blessing to them.
Aug. 22-24 I spent in visiting and holding meetings in Ervin. People were anxious to hear the evidences of our position. Returned home on account of sickness in my family. JOSEPH BATES.
Monterey, Mich., Sept. 6, 1870.

Obituary Notices.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, in Putnam Co., Mo., July 11, 1870, of consumption, Father Rousseau, aged 80 years. His life was spent from his youth up, in the service of the Lord. He was a faithful father to his family, and a kind husband. He has ever tried to train his children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. He embraced the truth about six years ago, and ever tried to live in strict obedience to the will of the Lord. He rests in hope. A companion and many friends mourn his loss. May we all be prepared to meet him where there will be no more death. F. ROUSSEAU.
DIED, in Elmore, Vt., on Sabbath, the 13th inst., Bro. G. L. Reddington, in the 43d year of his age. Death came suddenly, unexpectedly, and without warning. He fell from his chair; and in a moment, his feeble companion, a beloved Christian sister, was a mourning widow, and four children were weeping orphans. They have the sympathy of brethren and sisters.
An eruption of the left branch of the pulmonary artery, occasioned this sudden and unlooked-for death. Funeral sermon by the writer, on the 16th, from the words, “And there shall be no more death.” A. S. HUTCHINS. Aug. 26.

Kickapoo Center, Sept. 5, 1870

Since the above was in type we have received the following from Bro. Sanborn:
We have now closed our meetings at Liberty Pole, which have been very interesting from the beginning. The weather, some of the time, has been very unfavorable, yet the interest has steadily increased to the close. Yesterday, first-day, we had a fine day, and large congregations, and very solemn meetings. Especially did we have a very solemn and deeply interesting time at the water side, where ten willing souls were buried with their Lord by baptism, and rose to walk in a new life. May the Lord help them to be faithful to the end.
About thirty are keeping the Sabbath, and many others are fully convinced, who we hope will yet obey. Bro. Downer remains to follow up the work till I can return in the fall.
We will pitch the tent in Kickapoo Center, and commence meetings the 9th of Sept., and continue two weeks, which will bring us to the 26th of Sept. We then design to ship the tent to Palmyra, to Bro. Olds for winter quarters. I will then visit Sand Prairie, and Waterloo churches, and then return home the 18th of October, the Lord willing.
We feel much encouraged to labor on in this good cause. Pray for us.

Kickapoo Center, Sept. 5, 1870

Forearmed Against Trials.

By H. S. Z.

If you were traveling along the highway, and should find trees plucked up by a storm and cast before you, you would contrive by some means to pass around and thus proceed on your way. If you had not the facilities for removing the obstruction before passing here again, you would calculate upon a hinderance, and before starting would expect to be delayed, so that you would not, as before, be disappointed.
Thus it should be with you in your life labors; on the farm, in the counting room, in the study. In whatever vocation you are called, you will meet hindrances and perplexities. Let nothing vex or aggravate you.
Disappoint Satan in his maneuvers to overcome you. Use the language of Jesus. “Get thee behind me, Satan, I will have nothing to do with thee,” and angels will come and minister to you.
But especially when you have to contend with such difficulties as a balky team, unruly stock, quarrelsome neighbors, or contrary help, be not overcome. Be prepared for every emergency, by keeping on the whole armor of God.
Then your temper will never be ruffled, and you will at last come off more than conqueror through Him that loved us, and gave himself for us.
H. S. Z.

A FRANK ADMISSION.

A gentleman on his way from Boston to Lowell, took a seat beside a stranger in the car. An interesting conversation commenced between them, upon the times, prospects of the country, business, &c., the general line of remark by the Boston gentleman denoting that business was extremely dull.
“My business is very good indeed,” responded the stranger,—“never better.”
“What is your business?” asked the man from Boston.
“Well,” answered the stranger, “you know that any business which panders to the vices of men is always good, and my business is of that character. I sell cigars, tobacco, and rum.”
That was a frank confession. If there is an honest rumseller in the State, we think that he must be the man. But is it not humiliating that the most demoralizing business should thrive so well—that men whose sole trade is to corrupt society should be accumulating wealth faster than many men who are engaged in legitimate traffic?—The Nation.

Throw Yourself into the Redeemer's Arms

INSTEAD of torturing yourself on account of your sins, throw yourself into the Redeemer's arms. Trust in him, in the righteousness of his life, in the atonement of his offering.

Report from the Wisconsin Tent.

By J. Sanborn; D. W. Downer

We have been greatly hindered in our labor, the past week, by heavy rains. Last first-day we had no meetings on account of great rains. In connection with this, we had a heavy wind storm, which broke the large ring in the top of the tent. There were nearly two hundred people in it, yet it stood the storm and kept all dry.
But notwithstanding all the disadvantages we have labored under, as near as we can tell, about twenty-five are now keeping the Sabbath, and many more are deeply convinced, who, we think, will yet turn to the Lord. We are hoping for good weather this week, as we design to close our tent labor here the 4th of September. I left the tent yesterday morning, and came twenty-one miles to Victory, and preached last evening to a large and attentive congregation. And to-day at ten, A. M., five were baptized. I preach to-night again, and return to the tent to-morrow, the Lord willing. The good work is prospering at Victory. We have good reason to believe that others will turn to the Lord. In all my past experience, I have not seen a better prospect for a great and good work than there seems to be in Vernon Co. I pray that the Lord may give us wisdom to follow up the work very closely till it is finished. We feel much encouraged to press on in the good work till the end. Pray for us, that we may have wisdom to do it well.
J. SANBORN.
D. W. DOWNER.

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Camp-Meetings.

Michigan, Sept. 15-20. Ohio, 22-27. GEN. CONF. COM.
The next quarterly meeting of the Hundred Mile Grove church, Wisconsin, will be held Oct. 1st and 2d, 1870. We hope to see a good representation from our neighboring churches.

N. M. JORDON

The next quarterly meeting for the churches of Lapeer, Oakland, Memphis and Holly, will be held at Lapeer, Mich., Oct. 1 and 2. Cannot some of the preaching brethren visit us?
GEO. O. STATES, Clerk.
Providence permitting, I will meet with the church at Sand Prairie, Wis., October 1 and 2. Preaching will commence Friday evening at early lamp lighting, and Sabbath at half past ten, and in the evening; and the same on Sunday. We would be glad to see the Sabbath-keepers from Muscoda at this meeting. It is two miles west of Port Andrew. We hope for a general rally of all the Sabbath-keepers for miles around, at this meeting. Be sure to come and bring your interested friends.
I will also meet the church at Waterloo, in Grant Co., Wis., in quarterly meeting, Oct. 15 and 16. I will commence meetings with them on Wednesday evening, Oct. 5, and continue till the 16th. I hope there will be a general rally to these meetings from every quarter, as you will have but few such chances to hear the last message of mercy brought before you. May the Lord mightily stir up his people to do their duty in all things, is my prayer.
Will some one please meet me at Cassville, Oct. 4.
I. SANBORN.

Our good Camp-Meeting.

By A. S. Hutchins

My mind reverts to it with great satisfaction. I feel grateful to God for the privilege of attending it. The truths presented for our consideration were stirring, solemn, and of great importance. There were anxious hearers, tearful eyes, and hearts most solemnly impressed with a necessity of an entire consecration to God.
Oh! may we not forget our resolutions. May we pay our vows unto the Lord. May we be better, happier, and more useful in our sphere, for the Vermont Camp-Meeting. We must all give account for the improvement we shall make upon this opportunity.
A. S. HUTCHINS.

Rapid Events in the Franco-Prussian War

If any doubt that events are moving with unwanted rapidity in these days, let them look for a moment at the war in Europe. On the fifteenth of last July, the emperor of the French declared war. Two weeks elapsed before hostilities actually commenced. There has been, therefore, scarcely six weeks of fighting; and what is the result? The prestige of France is destroyed, its armies annihilated, the empress and her son fugitives, the emperor a prisoner of war, the empire overthrown, and a republic declared in France!
At the rate events move in ordinary times, years would have been required for such a revolution as this. The two nations were the leading nations of Europe. The most sagacious and discerning were unable to decide which was the more powerful, or to conjecture which would be the winner. That in so prodigious a conflict, with day after day of continuous and determined fighting, one party should be uniformly victorious, so that in six short weeks the other lies prostrate in the dust at its feet, is something more than the work of man. The hand of Providence is in it, and when God works, no great length of time is required for the accomplishment of great events.
As a singular coincidence, just as the pope proclaims his infallibility, he is left without support, and piteously begs a little assistance from some of the powers of Europe, but is invariably refused. It becomes the people of God to make no delay, but prepare speedily for great events. A short work will the Lord make in the earth.

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Correction to Address of James Ertzenberger

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Note from Bro. Ertzenberger.

By James Ertzenberger

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS ABROAD: I write but a few lines at this time, although my heart is filled with many things. I am now on the point of starting for Europe. Have taken a first cabin passage on board of the screw steamer “Calabria,” which is of the British North American Royal mail line, and leaves this afternoon, I think at 4 o’clock. My passage is for England (Liverpool). I intend to go through Belgium and Germany. I hope and believe the Lord will protect me, having seen a token of that already in this city. But when I ask an interest in your prayers, it is because I need them still. Do not forget to pray for your departing friend and brother. Pray for me that I may be humble and faithful.
And now farewell, all. May the Lord bless you and prepare you for his soon coming.
Yours in haste and with much love,
JAMES ERTZENBERGER.
New York, Sept. 8, 1870.

Church Clerks of the Illinois Conference.

By G. W. Colcord

You are hereby reminded of the fact, that the first quarter of our conference year ends Sept. 30. Let all be prompt to send in their reports as early as the close of the present quarter.
Address, as in the past, Coleta, Whiteside Co., Ill.
G. W. COLCORD.

A. S. HUTCHINS

By A. S. Hutchins

Encouraging.

LAST Sabbath and first-day, with Bro. Stone, I held meetings in Johnson, in a school-house, near Bro. Loveland's. Truth was spoken with freedom. Brethren and sisters were encouraged, and strengthened; and backsliders manifested a desire and resolution to return unto the Lord.
The tears shed by others, as the word of God was spoken and their desire expressed to be remembered in our prayers, indicated that their minds were favorably impressed. May they have moral courage and fortitude to obey God, to bear the cross, and win the prize. One was added to the church by baptism.

A. S. HUTCHINS

Aug. 30.

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F. E. SNOW, West'n Pass. Agt., Detroit.
W. K. MUIR, Gen. Supt., Hamilton, Ont.

Michigan Central Railroad.

GOING WEST.

LEAVE. MAIL. DAY EXP. EVE. EXP. NIGHT EX.
Detroit, ... 6:50 A.M. 7:30 A.M. 5:40 P.M. 9:00 P.M.
Battle Creek, ... 1:05 P.M. 10:57 A.M. 11:20 P.M. 1:12 A.M.
Chicago, Arr've, 8:05 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 6:30 A.M. 7:10 A.M.

GOING EAST.

LEAVE. MAIL. DAY EXP. EVE. EXP. NIGHT EX.
Chicago, ... 5:00 A.M. 11:30 A.M. 5:15 P.M. 9:00 P.M.
Battle Creek, ... 11:53 A.M. 4:28 P.M. 11:20 P.M. 2:50 A.M.
Detroit, Arrive, 5:40 P.M. 7:55 P.M. 3:45 A.M. 7:30 A.M.
THESE trains all run by Chicago time, which is fifteen minutes slower than Detroit time.

Peninsular Railway.

By L. D. Dibble

Going East. Passenger. Passenger. Mixed.
Battle Creek, 5.00 A. M. 1.30 P. M. 2.30 P. M.
Bellevue, 5.35 " 2.05 " 3.10 "
Charlotte, 6.10 " 2.40 " 4.25 "
Lansing, 7.00 " 3.30 " 6.30 "
Going West. Passenger. Passenger. Mixed.
Lansing, 11.00 A. M. 7.40 P. M. 7.00 A. M.
Charlotte, 11.46 " 8.31 " 8.30 "
Bellevue, 12.17 P. M. 9.04 " 9.50 "
Battle Creek, 12.50 " 9.40 " 11.00 "
L. D. DIBBLE, Pres. & Gen. Supt.

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Review and Herald · Sep 13, 1870