During the last few months, I have received several letters from brethren in different parts of the State asking me if I had left the Seventh-day Adventists and united with the Christian or Campbellite denomination, stating that it was so reported and that the Campbellites were boasting about it.
Who has thus “slanderously reported?” concerning me I know not. ’Tis true I have held meetings in churches belonging to that society; but I have preached equally as much, and perhaps more, in churches belonging to other denominations. And have also received partial remuneration for such labor by members of different denominations. But I did not know that that constituted me a member of that society.
My faith is unchanged. In fact, I have never seen the time during the last ten years that I was more firmly established upon the leading doctrines taught by Seventh-day Adventists than now. True I have done but little in the cause the past summer and fall. I have given way to a spirit of discouragement when I ought not; partly on account of poor health; but I expect, by the grace of God, to do better in the future. I hope cheerfully to labor on with the reapers till the work is done, and then share in the glory of the harvest home. I believe that “the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come;” and I feel determined to arise with the work.
It seems that the glorious era of the third angel’s message is dawning. It is going with power. The Tract and Missionary Society is already accomplishing wonders; and what shall we say of the future? When twenty thousand good, intelligent Seventh-day Adventists will consecrate their property and lives to this work, and go forth armed with papers, tracts, and pamphlets, having the sword of the Spirit at their command, and visit the people at their homes, pray with them, and beseech them to accept the saving truths of God for this age; then we may expect a mighty work to be done and this cause to close up gloriously. May the Lord hasten it in his own good time. C. H. BLISS,
Henry, Ill., Feb. 1.
Death Notice of Robbie Ferry, Infant Son
By L. L. Harvey
DIED, in Ovid, Mich., after a brief illness, Robbie, infant son of Sr. Maria Ferry, aged six months. L. L. HARVEY.
Tuscola Co., Mich
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
The next quarterly meeting of the church at Mt. Hope, Grant Co., Wis., will be held Sabbath and Sunday, Feb. 24 and 25. The brethren at Waterloo and Sand Prairie are invited. Can some of the ministering brethren meet with us? William Proctor, Elder.
I will hold meetings with the church in Chicago, commencing Wednesday evening, Feb. 21, and continuing till the 25th. H. W. Decker.
The next general meeting of the Wis. T. and M. Society will be held at Baraboo, commencing March 9, at 10 A. M., and continuing over Sabbath and Sunday. We hope to see a general attendance of the directors, also of our ministers who are situated so they can come. I appoint district meetings to be held in all the districts in the State, Feb. 25, at 10 A. M. H. W. Decker, Pres.
The next district quarterly meeting of the Tract and Missionary Society of Dist. No. 7, will be held at Ithaca, Gratiot Co., Mich., Feb. 24 and 25. Will the librarian of each church please send in his report and also the number of members belonging to T. and M. Society, to Mrs. R. S. Phippeny, Ithaca, Mich.? A general attendance is desired. Franklin Squire, Director.
Tuscola Co., Mich.
Elmwood, Feb. 21, 7 P. M.
Fairgrove, “ 22, “ “
Watrousville, “ 24, 25, 11 A. M.
Vassar, “ 26, 7 P. M.
Tuscola, “ 27, 2 and 7 P. M.
Thetford, “ 28, 7 “ “
Mt. Morris, March 1, 7 “ “
Systematic Benevolence and missionary work will be looked after at all of these meetings, and at Watrousville the church will be re-organized, and all other business attended to that is necessary. Hope to see all our friends at these meetings. J. Fargo. E. P. Doud.
Providence permitting, we will commence meetings in the village of Loyal, Clark Co., Wis., commencing Thursday evening at 7 P. M., Feb. 22, and continuing over Sabbath and first-day. Dedication services will be held on first-day at half past ten, A. M. We invite a general attendance from Maple Works, and Nasonville. Bring all your interested friends. Will some one meet us at Neillsville on Thursday morning the 22d, with team to carry us to place of meeting? We will be there Wednesday evening. I. Sanborn.
Kirkville, N. Y., Feb. 17 and 18. We hope to see a general attendance of the brethren of Dist. No. 8 at this meeting.
North Creek, N. Y., Feb. 24 and 25. We want to see every Sabbath-keeper in Dist. No. 6 at this meeting, and we also invite the brethren from Dist. No. 5 to meet with us. Will Eld. Jacob Wilbur meet me here? Brethren, let us make a special effort to attend the North Creek meeting. B. L. Whitney.
Quarterly T. and M. meetings in Maine as follows:—
Dist. No. 2, Allen’s Corner, at Deering, March 11, at 1 P. M. Geo. W. Varney, Director.
Dist. No. 3, at Linneus, Byron school-house, March 11, at 1 P. M. Enos Leavitt, Director.
Dist. No. 1, at South Norridgewock, March 18, at 9 A. M. T. S. Emory, Director.
General quarterly meeting at South Norridgewock, March 18, at 10 A. M. We request every member to send in a report, If you have done nothing, then send in a blank. J. B. Goodrich.
There will be a T. and M. meeting for Dist. No. 1, at Bourbon, Ind., Feb. 24 and 25. Let us have a report from every member, and a large turnout, and that will insure us a good meeting. Can Eld. S. H. Lane be with us? J. D. Shilling, Director.
Mansville, Tuesday, Feb. 20. Meeting will begin at 10 A. M., and close at 4 P. M. No evening meeting. We make a special request that every member of the church attend, however far away he may live.
Parish, Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 1 P. M., also meeting at evening.
West Monroe, at Bro. Bowe’s, Feb. 23-26. Roosevelt and Vermillion invited.
Vermillion, Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 10 A. M. till 4 P. M. No evening meeting. D. M. Canright.
I will meet with the following churches in northern Kansas at their quarterly meetings:—
Pleasant Valley, Feb. 24 and 25.
Palermo, Doniphan Co., March 3 and 4.
Meetings to begin at each place on Friday evening. I will continue meetings during the week in Jefferson Co., where the brethren may arrange. Hope for a general turnout. Chas. F. Stevens.
Tell It, Write It.
By Dudley Marvin Canright
My brother, why don't you write for our paper? “I don't know how, I have not the ability, I don't know what to write.” Yes, that is the short answer always given, but it is a very poor one. Life begets life; acting gives power to act; exercising strength, gives more strength; thought produces thought. Good, sound thoughts do not come without calling any more than any other good thing. Money buried in the ground never produces more money. Remember the parable of the buried talent.
Everywhere we go I am constantly meeting brethren who have many an interesting incident or experience to relate, bearing directly upon the interest of present truth. Many of these are deeply interesting and very instructive. Besides, they would cheer the hearts of the believers everywhere. Why not pen them down and send them along?
Do you wish to write an article for the REVIEW or the REFORMER? do not wait for some leisure hour or day, then sit down, get out your paper, open your ink bottle, dip in your pen, and for the first time begin to brush your hair to start an idea, as a man would beat the bush to start a rabbit. No, my brother, the first thing is to get the rabbit in the bush, then it will not take much of an effort to start him out. But that is the point, how will you get the rabbit there? Easy done, my friend. Have a little blank book in one pocket, a pencil in the other. Now watch; when you are riding, walking, working, waiting, listening, and you get a bright thought on something which looks clear to your mind, out with your pencil, put it right down. You need not stop to write an article either, but just two or three sentences to call up the subject again when you have leisure to write. Practice this for a little while, and you will soon have notes enough for several articles, they need not be long ones. Then improve the first half hour you have, and commence to write them out. When you get through stop, sign your name, and send it on.
D. M. Canright.
Value of Missionary Efforts.
By C. W. S.
THE Judgment day and Eternity alone will reveal it. Sometime you may know who is saved by means of the day's work you did at canvassing, or by the dollars you gave for the distribution of good reading, of periodicals and tracts laden with truth for these last days.
C. W. S.
Sunshine Series.
By C. W. S.
A YOUNG critic of ten summers, living in S. Troy, Vt., who has walked several miles to sell almanacs, says, “I have read ‘Sunshine Series.’ I think ‘Bertha’s Graveyard’ is the best story, and that it wouldn’t hurt older people to read it.” C. W. S.
That One Subscriber.
By H. A. St. John
HAVE you obtained that one subscriber for the SIGNS and REFORMER? Our canvassers are having slow and laborious work in gaining subscribers, and may God bless them for hanging on so persistently; but they should have the help of the rank and file of the T. and M. Society. It will bring great relief if our brethren and sisters will each obtain that one subscriber. Come, one and all, look about you for at least one subscriber for SIGNS and REFORMER. If you cannot get a subscriber, be resolved that you will send the paper and journal to some one, and pay for it yourself. Every report at our next T. and M. quarterly meetings should represent one subscriber for SIGNS and one for the REFORMER. Think, think, think, act, act, act.
H. A. St. John.
The Jews Require a Sign.
By R. F. C.
The fulfillment of prophecy in the advent and mission of Jesus was not sufficient to satisfy the Jews. They asked for a sign in the sky. They were not indulged in this; the word to them was, “They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;” and “if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither would they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.”
A very pious old lady, in the place from which I write, owns that we are keeping the right day, the one mentioned in the fourth commandment, but is praying earnestly that if it is her duty to keep it the Lord will make her sick or lame some Sabbath morning, or in some way make it impossible for her to work on that day, and then she will believe that she ought to turn and keep it. I hope she will obey the word of God, whether he grants her request or not. We should not ask God for a sign whether we should obey his word or not, plainly expressed. But I hope to hear that her convictions have resulted in obedience. If God is willing to wet and dry the fleece for her, I will not object. R. F. C.
Guns for the Turks.
THE New York Herald of June 10 says:—
“On the 28th of December last the British steamship King Arthur sailed from New Haven, having cleared for Constantinople direct, with munitions of war for the Turkish government, as follows: 10,000,000 cartridges, 10,000,000 bullets, 10,000,600 Martini-Henry shells, 40,000 scabbards, 50,000,000 gun-wads and 43 packages of miscellaneous merchandise. The total value of this cargo was $1,334,000, and was said to have been the most valuable ever cleared from the port of New Haven.”
“The steamship Lotus, now lying at pier No. 53, North River, has been for some time past loading with Martini-Henry rifles, which have been made for the Turkish government. The weapons are the manufacture of the Providence Tool Company, of Providence, R. I., while the ammunition which will accompany the guns is made by the Winchester Company, of New Haven.”
“The cargo of the Lotus will consist probably of 76,000 rifles, with scabbards and bayonets; about 20,000,000 metallic cartridges and an appropriate number of wads. The contract for these munitions of war was made between the Turkish government and the American manufacturing companies alluded to about two years ago.”
Cannibalism Discovered Among Islands Off New Guinea
Real cannibals have been discovered by missionaries on the islands of New Britain and New Ireland, off the northeast coast of New Guinea. These natives are nude savages of the Oriental negro type, who live more like beasts than human beings. The Rev. George Brown, a Wesleyan missionary, reports that he saw women roasting the leg and thigh of a man who had been killed in a fight. In another hut smoke-dried human flesh was hanging. In another he counted thirty-five jaw bones of men and women. Cannibalism seemed to be common throughout the islands, not as a religious rite, but as an ordinary means of subsistence.—Religious Intelligencer.
Faith Greater Than Moving Mountains
WERE it the design or province of faith to say to a literal mountain, “Be thou removed to yonder place,” it would obey instantly; for that could be done by force far inferior to faith itself. An earthquake, a subterranean explosion could do that. Faith takes hold of objects more stubborn than a mountain, does what the Cæsars never did, controls spirit. “This is the victory that overcomes the world, even your faith.”
Labor: Two Boys Seek Sabbath-Keeping Employers
By Jacob F. Mauk
Labor.
I HAVE two boys, aged 15 and 18 years, who wish to hire out to Sabbath-keepers. Address, JACOB F. MAUK, Belleflower, McLean Co., Ill.
Two Young Men Seek Farm Work in Michigan
Two young men, Albert Frank and Silvester Redington, of Russell, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., would like to work on a farm for some Sabbath-keeper in Mich. Place near Battle Creek preferred.
Brother in Ishpeming Seeks Sabbath-Keeping Employer
A BROTHER in Ishpeming, Mich., would like to know if there is any Sabbath-keeper who could employ him in any kind of work. He is used to hard work. Address, P. AHLSTEN, Ishpeming, Mich., Box 93.
U. AFFOLTER
By U. Affolter
Shoemaker.
ANY thriving community wanting a Seventh-day Adventist shoemaker, please address the subscriber. Wisconsin preferred.
U. AFFOLTER
Avon Centre, Rock Co., Wis.
European Mission.
James White....$100 James Harvey...$100
W. H. Hall....100 Wm. Ings........50
R. G. Lockwood....50 A. S. Hutchins and
Julia M. Rhodes...50 wife ..........100
H. D. Soule....100 Eldon H. Pullen ..50
S. N. Haskell....50
The Papacy.
By Uriah Smith
THE papacy is one of the great focal points of prophecy, therefore everything pertaining to it, past or present, which throws any new light on its character and purposes, is of interest to the Bible student. It is for this reason we give the article from the Christian Weekly entitled, “The Moral of the Story of Canossa.” The reader will find there an ample array of facts to show that while the scepter is smitten from its hands, it is struck with a degree of blindness and presumption well befitting its near approach to final destruction. As a mighty angel, in the impressive imagery of the Apocalypse, took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, so with violence shall great Babylon be thrown down. And we are well assured that the victims of her arrogance and oppression will soon be called upon to rejoice over her as she receives the just vengeance of Heaven.
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