p. 48 | Review and Herald, Vol. 34, No. 6. (8/3/1869)

Earlier text: THE WICKEDNESS OF THE SONS OF ELI

CHARLOTTE TAYLOR

By Charlotte Taylor

From Sr. Taylor.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: For the first time I write a few lines for the REVIEW. Two years ago I began to keep the Sabbath of the Lord. Bro. Town, at that time the only believer in the Lord's Sabbath in this place, came here with books and papers, and labored long and untiringly to explain the third angel's message to the people. My husband, myself, one daughter, and my brother's wife, embraced the truth.

I kept the Sabbath for a while with great comfort; but I had not on the whole armor. When persecution came, I could not stand. I confess to my shame that I ceased keeping the Sabbath for a while. Oh! what leanness it brought to my soul. Thank the Lord; he followed me day by day. It rang in my ears, If ye love me, keep my commandments. I gave ear to the still small voice, and no sooner had I made up my mind to keep all of God's commandments than the Lord unloosed my stammering tongue, and I could praise him. Now when I meet with trials, I can count it all joy.

I am improving in body and mind since I embraced the truth. Our number is few, but we meet to pray often, and encourage one another. I wish to render my warmest thanks to the brethren for sending the REVIEW to us. As we have no Sabbath preaching, it is a great comfort to us. By the grace of God, I am trying to overcome sins that I never discovered in myself before. Pray for us.

CHARLOTTE TAYLOR

Franklin Co., N. Y.

Faithfulness in the Last Days

By Jane E. Simonds

From Sr. Simonds:

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I am still keeping the Sabbath, and striving to live out the truth in my every-day walk. I sometimes feel sorry to see my friends and neighbors so careless about their eternal interests. I have faithfully distributed tracts and papers, and I always try to honor my Saviour and his cause. I feel that we are indeed living in the last days. We see professors, of all denominations, conforming to the world and its fashions and vanities. Death is abroad, striking down our fellows, on the right hand and on the left, and still they are not warned.

Dear brethren and sisters, I ask an interest in all your prayers that I may prove faithful unto the end, and meet you all where parting will be no more.

Your sister, striving for the kingdom, JANE E. SIMONDS. Union Co., Iowa.

Building on the True Foundation

By C. WEBSTER

From Sr. Webster.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS. Your cheering testimonies encourage me to add mine to those already given in favor of present truth. I feel that this Heaven-sent truth of the third angel's message is a soul-sustaining truth in this dark world. I feel to thank my Heavenly Father that amid the gloom that surrounds us, we have the illuminating rays of true gospel light as we are hastening on. The perils of the last days will soon close in around us. Are we prepared for that time? Shall we stand firmly planted upon the true foundation? Are we building of gold, and silver, and precious stones? If so our work shall remain, and we shall receive our promised reward. I often ask myself the question, What am I doing? Is my work such as is approved of my Heavenly Father? Oh! how often, as I review the past, tears fill my eyes as I think of what poor material I have been building. Oh! for heavenly wisdom to enable me to order all my ways.

Let us strive manfully to win the race. Eternal life is before us; then let us run with patience. Think what eternal life has cost. Is it not worth all our best endeavors to win eternal joys, eternal bliss? The once-bleeding, but now glorified, Saviour has left us encouraging promises, and his pure example. He followed none of earth's vain fashions. He was a Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief. How meekly he bore the railings of his persecutors, and then the shameful death of the cross. And now he cares for us still. He has us always in remembrance, and lends a listening ear to our petitions, no matter how feeble they may be. Having gone before us, being tempted in all points like as we are, he knows how to succor those that are tempted. The lonely ones he never forgets; earth's suffering ones he soothes. He has declared himself the way, the truth, and the life; and because he lives we may live also.

C. WEBSTER. Gratiot Co., Mich.

Watch Unto Prayer

By R. F. Phippeny

From Sr. Phippeny.

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I would say that I realize more fully than ever, the sad and awful time in which we live. Everything is indicative of the near approach of the closing scenes of earth. We are indeed living in the perils of the last days. How necessary that we have on the whole armor of God, working with all our combined energies, against the powers of the great adversary.

The most effectual way of doing this, is to watch unto prayer. I feel like consecrating myself anew to the work of overcoming, and to the cause of present truth. How doubly dear it is to me, when I see it is in danger of being trodden upon by the workings of Satan. Let me get nearer to the side of my great Commander, and then I shall feel safe! Let me get low down at the foot of the cross, where Jesus can smile upon me, where holy angels will love to be, inciting me by their holy presence to deeds of charity.

Satan is working hard to destroy us. May God have mercy on us, and help us to humble ourselves beneath his mighty hand, that we may come forth from the crucible, fully purged from all dross. R. F. PHIPPENY.

Purity Amid Worldly Vileness

THE rays of the sun shine upon the dust and the mud, but they are not soiled by them. So a holy soul, while it remains holy, may mingle with the vileness of the world, and yet be pure in itself.

Anger and Malice

To indulge anger is to admit Satan as a guest; but to indulge malice is to close the door upon him as an inmate; in the one he finds a transient lodging; in the other a permanent home.

Wisdom in Life

the other a permanent home.

WISDOM does not show itself so much in precept as in life—in firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The Best Part of Beauty

THAT is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express.

Appointments.

By JASON C. SUTTON; P. C. RODMAN

And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

The next Quarterly Meeting of the S. D. A. church of Farmington, Tioga Co., Pa., will be held at Thorn Bottom, in Farmington, Sabbath and first-day, Aug. 14 and 15. The brethren and sisters of the churches of Ulysses, and West Union, and as many others as can, are earnestly invited to meet with us. Let us have our hearts uplifted to the throne of grace, that we may have a heavenly sitting together in Christ Jesus our Lord. Bro. and Sr. Lindsay, and any of the preaching brethren that can, are especially invited to attend. JASON C. SUTTON, Clerk.

The Monthly Meeting in Rhode Island, for August, will be held with the church on Block Island, Aug. 14 and 15, as brethren may arrange. Eld. S. N. Haskell will attend. Boats run from Newport every Tuesday and Friday. Also from Stonington every Monday and Thursday. P. C. RODMAN.

Business Department.

Not Slothful in Business. Rom. xii, 11.

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 Posters. If money for the paper is not in due time acknowledged, immediate notice of the omission should then be given.

$1.00 each. D J Burroughs 35-1, J M Daigneau 34-1, I D Cramer 35-1, D D Haines 35-1, A Hopkins 35-1, Ann Alvita 35-1, E Briggs 35-1, A H Vankirk 35-4, L H Ellis 35-6, Mrs Jacob Smith 35-1, Lillis M Fuller 35-1, C S Lynell 35-3, M Adit 34-1, W Shade 35-1, T Brackett 35-1.

$2.00 each. H Evans 36-4, L P Baldwin 36-1, S Bowers 35-14, Geo Crouse 35-8, C Van Horn 36-1, A Hough 36-10, A Graham 35-1, A Wright 36-1, L O Morehouse 36-1, M P Martin 36-1, Mrs S Verplank 36-1, S J Nelson 36-1, B B Warren 36-5, Lucy Royce 36-1, Mrs A E Hurd 36-1, Wm Coats 36-1, W S Urquhart 34-7, Mrs M A Pasco 36-1, Mrs Wm Page 36-1, Geo Dant 36-1, L McCoy 36-1, J M Brunt 36-1, Thomas Smith 36-1, W Farrar 37-1.

Miscellaneous. P Chaffee $2.50 36-1, J A Hoyt 50c 35-1, N Sargent 3.00 35-1, J M Dunlap 75c 35-1, J G Sanders 5.00 35-1, D R Seeley 2.24 34-1, W W Davis 3.00 36-1, S Hastings 2.70 36-18, E M Chamberlain 1.50 36-1, Nancy Gains 1.50 36-1, Jennie Green 1.50 36-1, E Herps 75c 35-1, G W Whitney 75c 35-1, John Caskey 1.50 36-1, Adaline Eaton 1.50 36-1, Ella Crouse 1.50 36-1, D S Hall 1.50 36-1, L M Barrick 1.50 36-1, Margaret Arnold 75c 35-1, J Warren

50c 35-1.

Books Sent by Mail.

A Caldwell $7.60, Joseph Clarke 10.00, T Denmon 3.10, L Dysart 50c, L P Baldwin 50c, Sarah Bugg 1.78, Martha Van Dorn 6.00, J E Crocker 1.62, R H Johnson 1.10, L E Milmine 1.25, W Shade 20c, J N Russel 50c, H F Harmon 2.00, Wm Boynton 5.00, F A Buzzell 35c, D R Seeley 2.74, S O Winslow 50c, F W Mace 2.25, A J Stiles 10c, L H Ellis 50c, A H Sanders 2.12, Mrs E A Bennet 50c, J N Loughborough (Envelopes) 1.50, W Farrar 1.75, W G Israel 1.20, John C Revell 1.00, E Van Deusen 25c.

Michigan Conference Fund.

Church at Parkville $10.00, A friend 5.00.

General Conference Missionary Fund.

R M Warren $1.50, Church at Haverhill, Mass., $14.00.

Foreign Missionary Fund.

C B Preston $5.00, E A Preston 5.00, W C Gage 5.00, E S Walker 5.00, S H Lane 5.00, A H Adams 5.00, E M 1.00, Mrs Jacob Smith 5.00.

On Shares in the Health Institute.

Cyrenius Smith $25.00.

Books Sent by Express.

Eld R F Cottrell, Medina, N. Y., $13.00, B F Merritt, Paxton, Ill. 29.80, A Paton, Madison, Wis., 25.00, U Smith, Owosso, Mich., 7.80.

To Correspondents

By Editor

C. M. J.: Your manuscript is read and considered. We think you entirely mistake our Lord's meaning in Matt. xvi, 18. The rock on which Christ builds his church is the great truth confessed by Peter that Jesus is the Son of God. The mere fact that this truth was revealed to Peter by God the Father, cannot, as we think, be the rock on which the church is built. The subject of Spiritual Gifts is one of great importance, but we can add nothing to their force by arguments not founded in sound reasoning.

B. F. M.: The subject of the two covenants is now being prepared for publication.

JOSEPH CLARKE, Ohio: You request articles touching the Judgment, resurrection of mankind, and the reward of the righteous and wicked, etc. Perhaps it will be some time before they can be furnished, but your request shall be remembered.

Appeal to the Friends of Truth in Ohio.

By I. D. VAN HORN

DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: The cause of truth in this State has demanded for some time a general gathering of its friends, in order to concentrate their efforts for the advancement of present truth. In the providence of God, such a meeting has now been appointed. Nothing in providence preventing, Bro. and White will be present.

It is for your special benefit that this meeting is held. You cannot receive this benefit unless you are present on the ground. You should let no excuse keep you away. Are you driven with work? Make a sacrifice and you will receive a blessing that will more than make up the loss. Don’t let earthly interests be brought into the account at all. Come one, come all; come to the meeting, and receive a blessing from the Lord. Those who have lost their interest, grown cold, and backslidden, are the very ones who should come to the meeting.

To the scattered ones, who cannot come with tents, I would say: Ample provisions will be made for you by the brethren in Clyde. Come to the meeting. We must make this, our first Camp-meeting, a success. May the Lord meet with us and grant us his rich blessing.

By order of the Committee. I. D. VAN HORN.

Call for Help.

BRO. WARREN SUTLIFF, of Minnesota, asks that a preacher be sent to Burns, La Crosse Co., Wisconsin. He says that in consequence of a visit to that place last winter by himself and wife, and from the distribution of publications, quite an interest has been awakened to hear on the present truth. He earnestly requests Bro. Sanborn to visit the place, as it would probably be not much out of his way to do so. He gives very strong reasons why this call should be heeded. See the note from the Gen. Conf. Com. in this REVIEW.

Ohio Camp-meeting.

THERE will be a general Camp-meeting at Clyde, Ohio, to commence August 12, 1869, and hold over Sabbath and first-day, and longer if thought best. The tents should all be erected on the 11th, and all things be ready for a service in the evening of that day. CAMP-MEETING COMMITTEE.

JAMES WHITE

By James White

Bro. J. McGregor: It will not be possible to visit Tittabawassee before Camp-meeting.

JAMES WHITE

By James White

J. WALTON: We will do the best we can for you at Watrousville, but do not see how your dedication can come off before the Camp-meeting.

JAMES WHITE

Book Fund Report

By James White

The Book Fund Report is free to all who will enclose in their order the postage.

Those especially who have donated to this Fund, should obtain it, and see if their donations are correctly credited. I shall be happy to correct all mistakes. JAMES WHITE.

Camp-Meeting Address

By James White

For several weeks, during the season of Camp-meetings, our address will not be Greenville, but at the several points of meetings, which will be made known through the Review. JAMES WHITE.

Claims Against Nathan Fuller

By John H. Waggoner

Almost every one with whom I have done business in Allegany, N. Y., inquires about money paid to Nathan Fuller, for the REVIEW, Instructor, Reformer, Book Fund, &c., which has never been credited, and they request me to see about it. To all such I wish to say, had the money been sent to the Office it would have been credited, and the only way for them is to look to Mr. Fuller for it. He has a handsome property which he has obtained of the brethren under false pretenses, and he is abundantly able to settle all just claims against him. J. H. WAGGONER.

Rain, Mud, and Mildew.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

These are the order of the day here, and have been for weeks. We have had our tent pitched here four weeks, and have hardly seen half a dozen fair days. Those who know anything about Iowa mud can imagine about what the roads are here! Of course our congregation has been almost wholly composed of the villagers. As often as we have succeeded in getting up the interest, the rain has come and broken us up. This week it has rained harder and longer than at any time before. We have had to abandon the tent entirely, and go to the Court House. So it is about settled that our meetings here must be a failure. We regret it the more as this appeared to be an excellent opening.

But the Lord lives and reigns, and we believe that all will be for the best in the end, though we cannot see how. We try to improve our time in reading and writing. D. M. CANRIGHT.

Sigourney, Iowa, July 16.

Cultivate Generous Feeling

Be neither lavish nor niggardly; of the two avoid the latter; a mean man is universally despised, but public favor is a stepping-stone to preferment—therefore generous feeling should be cultivated.

Revenge

REVENGE converts a little right into a great wrong.

The Apocrypha on Immortality

The articles of Bro. D. M. Canright on the immortality theme are well worth the careful perusal of the readers of the REVIEW. They have cost the writer much labor and research, and they furnish a large amount of valuable information. The article beginning on the first page of the REVIEW for July 27, is richly worth a second perusal. It gives the entire testimony of the Apocrypha on this important subject.

Michigan Camp-meetings.

In view of the large membership, and extent of territory of the Michigan and Indiana Conferences, it is decided to be best to hold two Camp-meetings the present season in the State of Michigan.

The first of the two will be held in Owosso, Shiawassee Co., August 18-23. The second will be held at Ceresco, Calhoun Co., August 25-30. More particulars next week. GEN. CONF. COM.

JAMES WHITE

By James White

The brethren who attend the several Camp-meetings for the season, may expect to find on the ground a good assortment of all our publications.

JAMES WHITE

Response to Bro. Howe

BRO. S. A. HOWE: Your request for help has by accident been mislaid, and not read till to-day, July 25. It is is now to late to answer your special request, but if you are still in need of help, please write again, and if possible it will be sent.

Reply to the Seventh-Part Theory

Bro. W. H. Littlejohn is earnestly requested to write out for the readers of the Review, his argument in reply to the seventh-part-of-time theory as presented by him at the Orange tent-meeting.

Help Requested for Indiana

To the brethren in Indiana, who inquire relative to laborers' being sent to them: We are sorry to be compelled to say that at present there are none who can be spared to visit that part of the field. We earnestly invite you to attend the Camp-meeting in Michigan or Ohio, and, if possible, some provision will be made to send you help.

GEN. CONF. COM

ISAAC SANBORN: We forward to your address, Cassville, Grant Co., Wis., the letter of Bro. Warren Sutliff, of Minnesota, an abstract of which is given in this week's REVIEW. He asks for help at Burns, La Crosse Co., Wis.

We also send you a letter from a brother of that place. If consistent with duty we earnestly request you to visit Burns. Stop at Bangor Station on the La Crosse and Milwaukee R. R. It is two miles thence to Burns, the residence of those interested.

GEN. CONF. COM

Sutherland Returns His Preacher’s License

Notice is hereby given that Bro. S. E. Sutherland, has, at our request, returned to us his license as a local preacher. We think this the proper course of action in his case. MICH. CONF. COM.