p. 144 | Review and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 18. (4/18/1871)

Earlier text: Earthly Glory vs. Religion

Obituary Notices.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.

DIED, in Townsend, Sandusky Co., Ohio, March 27, 1871, sister Sybil Greenman, in the eighty-eighth year of her age, after an illness of three months. She leaves six children to mourn her loss. For upwards of seventy years, she has observed the Sabbath of the Lord, being connected with the Seventh-day Baptists until some seventeen years ago, when she embraced the doctrine of the near-coming of Christ under the proclamation of the third angel’s message, and united with the S. D. Adventists.

She has lived a consistent Christian life, always punctual in the performance of duty. She bore her sufferings with Christian fortitude and resignation.

“Asleep in Jesus! Soon to rise, When the last trump shall rend the skies; Then burst the fetters of the tomb, To wake in full, immortal bloom.

O. F. GUILFORD.

DIED, March 31, 1871, in Albany, Green Co., Wis., of inflammation of the bowels, Ann, daughter of Wm. and Margaret Francis, wife of William Reece, aged 21 years, 8 months.

A chain of nine links is broken by the cold hand of death, thus taking away the youngest of the number. Shall this chain be an unbroken chain in the morning of the resurrection? Shall we all be there, where husband and wife and children meet to part no more? Words of consolation were spoken by Eld. Meredith, from Luke 20:35, 36.

THOMAS FRANCIS.

The Struggle at Paris.

The horror excited by the fraternal strife which is going on around the walls of Paris is mitigated by the steady advance of the troops of the Assembly and the gradual crushing out of the insurrection. The Reds are slowly retreating within the city, where they vow they will continue the fight, and are making what resistance as they are able. But they cannot successfully cope with the well-served artillery and the forts in possession of the regular troops.

Within the city, if we may trust the accounts, the terrible days of the French revolution are repeated. The awful picture which we have been accustomed to look upon through the distance of more than half a century, and shudder as we gazed, is now unrolled before our very eyes. Yesterday and to-day they are doing, to some extent, at least, what they did when the prisons were crammed with the condemned, and the tumbrils emptied scores of human beings into the slaughter-pens of the guillotine. The rich men and the priests are the victims of the same wild passions which rose against all law and order and authority in the desperate effort of an oppressed and brutalized people to free themselves from degradation and despair . If the guillotine has not been erected yet, it is because the insurgents have all they can do, and more than they can do, to resist the progress of the regular troops. The spirit which animates the mob is apparently the same which ran riot in the days of Danton, Robespierre and Barrere.—Det. Post.

The Civil War in France.

NEW YORK, April 13.—Special dispatches confirm the foreign news already sent, and give the following additional intelligence from Bologna, Wednesday night: Yesterday morning the garrisons of St. Omer and Arras left for Versailles.

PARIS, April 12—7 P. M.—There was an artillery duel, lasting through the day. The nationals, refusing to fight, have been disarmed. The insurgents are in high spirits over the results of last night's fighting. An attack is expected to-night.

Dombrowski telegraphs that he is in possession of three-quarters of Neuilly, and hopes to get the bridge to-night.

Shells are falling in the rue Chaillot. The firing continues.

VERSAILLES, April 12—7 P. M.—The coup de main arranged for last night is deferred until to-night. Thiers is so anxious to avoid bloodshed that it is doubtful if it will take place.

The Assembly are enraged at the inactivity of the troops at Valerien. There was excellent practice last night.

Two new guns have been erected at Chatillon to bombard Issy.

At the last moment I learn that the attack inside and outside of Paris will take place certainly to-night.

PARIS, Wednesday Evening.—Porte Maillot has been shattered by the guns of Fort Valerien. The cannonade previous lasted all day, numerous shells reaching the Arc de Triomphe. It was intended to disperse the bodies of Communist troops. The latter were advancing from Choissy le Roi.

The condition of Paris is unchanged. The Commune grants passports liberally.

The Archbishop has written to Thiers begging gentle treatment for prisoners.

A Tribune special, from Versailles, Wednesday, says there was tremendous firing from the direction of Vanvres and Issy heard last night and this morning, but no important news has reached Versailles.

Cathelineau is forming a Cretan legion at Compiègne.

The Crown Prince of Saxony, at the same place, declares that district to be in a state of siege. Communication thence with Paris continues to St. Denis.

LONDON, April 13.—The Times's special at Versailles, says that a column of the insurgents advanced to Clamart without meeting opposition.

Thiers is opposed to bringing on any decisive action until 50,000 additional troops shall have reinforced the Versailles army.

A letter from Guizot, on the state of affairs in France, was published to-day. He approves of the conduct of the Assembly, trusts that the struggle will be short, and expresses confidence that the result is both certain and decisive.

VERSAILLES, April 13.—Thiers, in a circular bearing date of the evening of the 12th, describes the situation as in the main unchanged, and says the government will act at the proper time. The Commune accounts of a victory at Paris are as false as they are unprincipled. Our victory will come bloodlessly.

The Paris delegates have arrived, and were received, not because they are Communists, but because they are Republicans. The answer to them was that no one menaces the Republic but assassins. The lives of the insurgents will be spared, but the workmen temporarily subsidized in Paris must return to their labor, and secession will be suppressed as it has been in America.

A dispatch from Marseilles says the city is quiet, and that the police force is being reorganized.

The delegates from the party of conciliation have returned to Paris. The condition of peace proposed to them by President Thiers were that Paris shall first lay down arms, and then that the municipal franchise shall be granted to the city.

It is officially announced that the alleged Communist victories are entirely without foundation. No engagement took place Tuesday, and on Wednesday there was merely an insurgent fusillade, followed by a cannonade. There has been no engagement this forenoon. All the roads leading to Paris are occupied by the Versailles troops.

PARIS, April 13.—The plate seized in the Bureau of the Minister of Foreign Affairs is being converted into specie.

The Commune, considering the column in the Place de Vendome a barbarous monument, a symbol of brute force and false glory, and a negation of the people, have ordered its demolition.

Shells from Fort Mont Valerien are falling in the Champs Elysees. Cannonading is heard south of the city.

LONDON, April 14.—It is the intention to make a supreme effort for the capture of Paris. The Maillot gate is an utter wreck.

A dispatch from Paris, dated to-day, states that 12 shells have been fired into Paris and caused great damage. The shells are continuing to fall, and it is supposed that house property valued at 2,000,000 francs has been destroyed already. The government is endeavoring to obtain the use of Prussian guns against Belleville and Montmartre.

VERSAILLES, April 13.—Immense quantities of gunpowder, connected by a wire with torpedoes, have been laid down in many streets.

LONDON, April 15.—2:30 A. M.—BEFORE PARIS, April 14—Evening.—There was fighting last night and this morning at Neuilly and Asnières, but it did not result in appreciably modifying the relative positions of the belligerents. The Versailles forces still occupy the vicinity of the bridge of Neuilly, and a detachment which the insurgents are endeavoring to force to recross the Seine remain on the Island of Grande Jatte and wait reinforcements. The buildings in the neighborhood of the ramparts are badly damaged, and nearly all the inhabitants have moved away. The situation on the south side of the city is unsettled. All are waiting for the grand attack by Marshal MacMahon, who is reported to be at Rueil.

LONDON, April 12.—Napoleon is ill at Chiselhurst, and has been confined to his room for several days.

A young preacher in Tennessee several years ago believed in slavery; preached it as Biblical doctrine, and saw a divine plan in the whipping of men, the selling of women, and the separation of families. When the war broke out, he was honest enough to fight for what he believed to be the truth. He felt so deeply the wickedness of the final triumph of freedom that he could not remain in this country, and went to Brazil with other Southern malcontents. He soon became a naturalized citizen, and then a bankrupt. According to the Brazilian law the children of a bankrupt citizen may be sold in payment of his debts. This man's two children, one of them nearly grown to womanhood, were sold for twelve hundred dollars. He does not now believe in the divine origin of slavery.

Iowa State Conference

Appointments.

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

Iowa State Conference.

Notice is hereby given that the Iowa State Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its next annual session in connection with the Southern Iowa camp-meeting, to be held near Knoxville, Marion Co., Iowa, June 1–5, 1871. It is expected that all our churches in the State, so far as practicable, shall elect delegates to represent them according to the following ratio: Twenty members or under, one delegate; and one delegate for every additional fifteen members. It is expected that every church shall send to the Conference a written report of their standing, their losses and additions during the year, and the yearly amount of their Systematic Benevolence fund. Geo. I. Butler, Iowa State; J. T. Mitchell, Conference; H. Nicola, Committee.

No preventing providence, I will meet with the brethren at Rockton, Ill., Sabbath and first-day, April 22 and 23, and where Bro. Brown may arrange, Sabbath and first-day, the 29th and 30th. Hope to see all the friends of the cause from Nora, Greenvale, Winslow, and McConnell’s Grove. Will Bro. B. meet me at Lena the 26th? I expect to meet with the friends at the Marsh school-house, west of Aledo, May 10, and stay over the 14th. Will Bro. Dungan see that the appointment is made public? Brethren, pray that we may have the blessing of God at these meetings. R. F. Andrews.

Monthly meeting for the churches of Oakland, Little Prairie, and Johnstown, Wis., at Johnstown, May 6 and 7, 1871. Will not one of the ministers who may be near us come over and help us? Let every member of the Johnstown church be present if possible. And brethren and sisters, let us come together in the fear of the Lord. Come with our hearts overflowing with love and good works. Come determined to make this meeting a profitable season. Come prepared to stay until the close. Beseech often the throne of grace, and importune the Lord to meet with us, and pour out a blessing. Let us come together with a spirit of confession and humiliation. Let us pray for wisdom to direct, and a sanctified judgment, and hearts that shall beat in unison in the transaction of such business as may come up before the meeting. If we come in the right spirit, the Lord will certainly bless us. D. B. Staples, Clerk.

Monthly meeting for Oswego County, at Roosevelt, the 2d Sabbath in May. I hope there will be a general attendance, that all will come prepared for a two days’ meeting, and that all concerned will look over the subject of a Missionary Book and Tract Society, and be prepared to organize such a society at that meeting. Meeting at Happy Valley, the 3d Sabbath in May. The ordinance of baptism will be administered. Come all. C. O. Taylor.

Providence permitting, I will hold meetings in Wisconsin as follows: Waterloo, May 13 and 14; Victory, Vernon Co., May 20 and 21; Liberty Pole, May 27 and 28. Meetings at all these places will commence at 9 and 11 A. M., and at 2 P. M. I hope to see a general rally. There will be opportunity for baptism at all these meetings. L. Sanborn.

The next series of quarterly meetings for Minnesota will be as follows: Clark’s Grove, April 22 and 23; Brush Creek, 29 and 30; Tanhassen, May 6 and 7; Blue Earth City, 13 and 14; Deerfield, 20 and 21; Pine Island, 27 and 28; Maiden Rock, Wis., June 3 and 4; Greenwood Prairie, 10 and 11; Pleasant Grove, 17 and 18. H. F. Phelps.

Providence permitting, I will attend the monthly meeting at Parma, Mich., the first Sabbath in May. J. H. Waggoner.

Quarterly meeting for the church of Avilla will be held at Avilla, Mo., May 6 and 7. A cordial invitation is extended to the scattered brethren. Bro. Blanchard may be expected. E. W. Rice, Church Clerk.

Providence permitting, Bro. Lamson will commence meetings with the church in Memphis, Mich., Thursday evening, April 27, to continue over Sabbath and first-day. H. S. Gurney.

A Bad Report.

By James White

It is humiliating to be compelled to report that the bills sent out to delinquents in last week's Review sum up $4,193.19. And this sum is by no means all that is due on the Review, as we have sent bills to none who have paid up to the present volume. There are probably $2000 due on the current volume which would swell the entire sum due on the Review to $6,193.19.

The sums of the bills sent to different States, Territories, &c., are as follows:— Michigan, $1,198.51; Ohio, $222.64; Pennsylvania, $77.68; New York, $496.82; Maine, $254.91; New Hampshire, $41.50; Vermont, $127.02; Massachusetts, $60.60; Rhode Island, $60.27; Connecticut, $63.88; Alabama, $2.00; Arkansas, $4.32; West Virginia, $4.86; Canada, $76.70; Indiana, $78.13; Illinois, $209.74; Wisconsin, $378.99; Iowa, $404.85; Minnesota, $188.54; Missouri, $149.47; Kansas, $40.20; Oregon, $2.66; Nebraska, $26.80; Colorado Ter., $3.22; Washington Ter., $7.48; California, $11.40; Total, $4,193.19.

It is time that this matter should be taken hold of in earnest. We earnestly recommend

1. That all who can command the money, pay up past indebtedness, and, at least, one year in advance.

2. That each State take measures to settle those accounts that are not immediately settled.

3. That the Review be discontinued to all unworthy delinquents.

4. That the liberal and able of each State make donations for the worthy poor in their State, and pay for all papers sent to such at the rate of $1.50 per year.

JAMES WHITE.

Review of The Prophetic Key

We have received two numbers of “The Prophetic Key,” a monthly magazine, edited and published by P. S. G. Watson and A. F. Baker, Versailles, Ky. The object of the publication seems to be to show that the Abomination of Desolation, or, the Antichrist, the apostasy, and the Man of Sin (all meaning the same thing), is yet future, to be fulfilled in a single person, and be continued 1260 literal days. We may presume the proprietors have embodied their ideas in the illustration on the cover, which shows us the interior of a domed temple, a giant standing on a pedestal, and receiving the admiration of the crowd, the table of show bread at the right, the altar of incense and golden candlestick at the left, and in beyond a partition curtain, the ark of God’s testament. But how is this? Is the Jewish temple and sanctuary to be rebuilt on this earth, and the abomination of desolation to consist of what is here represented? Of course to adopt such views would be to give up all the more prominent fulfillments of prophecy in the past, and surrender every principle of interpretation which has heretofore been considered sound and reliable. It would be an attempt to see how far the Bible could be made to appear to mean what it does not mean, or how far that could be made to appear reasonable which has no foundation in reason. We think the language of an exchange is applicable here. Speaking of the strange views now promulgated, it says that these things would “a few years since have startled sober people out of their propriety—only now-a-days we are so used to outrageousness that the faculty of wonder is worn threadbare.”

Lecture on Spiritualism

Eld. M. E. Cornell, will speak on Spiritualism at the S. D. Adventist house of worship, in Battle Creek, Sunday evening, April 23, at 7 o’clock.

Money Received for Ohio Tent.

By O. F. Guilford

Irwin Edgerton, $15.00; John Mears, 15.00; D. N. Fay, 10.00; Henry Hodgson, 5.00; A. H. Clymer, 5.00; I. B. T. Nichols, 5.00; Samantha S. Crouse, 5.00; S. Simonds, 2.00; Lottie Kasson, 1.00; George Bisel, 5.00; J. G. Smith, 5.00; J. B. Mock & wife, 5.00; P. F. Fercoit, 5.00; Wm. R. H. Avery, 5.00; C. S. Clarke, 5.00; James Barden, 4.00; Samuel Tafferty & wife, 4.00; Eliza Philips, 3.00; E. Penn, 3.00; Belle Wright, 2.00; John Clarke, 2.00; L. T. Dysert, 2.00; S. A. Green, 1.00; Elizabeth Hum, 1.00; L. I. McFarren, 1.00; Jane Shafte, 40c.

O. F. Guilford, Ohio Conf. Treasurer.

The Power of Railroad Corporations.

The New York Nation, in a recent article upon the tyranny of railroads, declared that “the right of locomotion and transportation has to-day passed away from the citizens of the United States just as absolutely and entirely as if they had never possessed it.” “It has been taken away so gradually and insidiously that we did not become conscious of the process until now, when we seek to remove some petty or odious restriction, and find ourselves suddenly confronted with the alarming fact that we have, by law, statute, enactment, or charter, whatever the device may be called, actually, fully, and absolutely surrendered our rights to an irresponsible, unscrupulous tyrant, whose power is, for the time being, absolute, who laughs to scorn our claims for redress, and sets our efforts at remedy boldly at defiance.”

This is strong language, but its purport, at least, is justified by the daily development of facts. The control which the Erie Railroad has obtained over the courts and legislation of New York; the power which the Pennsylvania coal railroads have got and abused in regulating the production and price of coal, simply by changing their schedule of freights; and the general disregard on the part of the large companies of the rights of the merchants and the people generally in fixing the cost of transportation, prove that the creature has grown independent of the creator, and that the servant has become the master.

Within the past few weeks a series of articles have been issued by Mr. Rufus Hatch, a Wall street broker, exposing the situation, and warning the country against the despotism which is overshadowing it.

The circular concludes as follows:— “The people’s representatives cannot refuse to grant protection against this usurpation by individuals of a power to tax and oppress the public for private gain, which even the Federal and State Governments would not dare exercise. We are told by one of our most prominent and widely-known public speakers that we have no Legislatures; that our legislators are bought and sold by the railway corporations as mutton is bought and sold in the market, and that the time will soon come when the controllers of the great line that spans the continent, connecting New York and San Francisco, will have acquired such wealth and influence that Congress will sit merely as a committee to register their decrees.”

The officials and executioners of Ku-klux law in Mississippi have within a short period robbed forty school-houses and churches, and whipped and banished several school teachers.

Business Department.

Not Slothful in Business. Rom. 12:11.

Business Notes.

J. C. BAKER: How shall we appropriate the one dollar sent for Summer Labree?

JOSEPH BATES: See J. Pierce Sr. credited $2.00 in REVIEW No. 8, Vol. 37.

D. HODGES: Yes. Their credit stands 37-1.

WHO is it? Some one in Marion, Iowa, sends us $10.00, nine of it to be applied on his indebtedness, and one for Reformer to be sent to Amelia Shireman. No name given. To whom shall the $9,00 be credited?

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