We are taught that this class will arise in the last days. 2 Tim. 3:1, 2. Notice one of many instances which might be enumerated as a fulfillment of this prophecy. The quotation is from the Land Owner, a Chicago paper, of Oct., 1872. “There has been but one parallel to the mighty creation recorded in Genesis, and that is the rebuilding of Chicago in twelve months. That God made the world in six days by the exercise of divine power, is no greater a marvel than that man has erected three thousand brick and stone structures, a majority of them as costly and massive buildings as the world can boast, in three hundred working days.”
It is true, that this is a great work; but to say that it is parallel to the creation of the world, and that it is equally as great a marvel as the creation of the world in six days, is blasphemous. The divine record says of God, “Great and marvelous are thy works.”
The works of man may be wonderful, but they are not wonderful to the same degree as the works of God. Mortal man should remember that he was a part of the work of God in the six days of creation. And shall the machine boast of an equality, or of a parallel work to that of its maker? It is blasphemy. Man can pile up the brick and stone into massive edifices, but he cannot make the materials.
“Is not this great Babylon that I have built . . . by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?” There is too much of this spirit of boastfulness and self-exaltation among the would-be mighty men of this age; for is not this the substance of their language, “Is not this great Chicago that we have built by the might of our power, and for the honor of our majesty? Did not we show the world that we could get up a big fire, and have we not proved now, that if we could not build up our city as quickly as the fire burned it down, we have at least equaled the creation of the world in six days?” The writer may have written this to hear himself talk; but if he did not mean it, he should not have written it, as “what is written is written.”
Speaking of the terrible fire, the same writer says: “But to counteract the dreadful memory will be the picture of the prosperous present, and the outlook for a most glorious future.” The forcible language, “Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth,” is not much heeded in this boastful age. The peace-and-safety cry, the good time coming, the glorious future, are the themes which are lulling the church and the world to sleep. May God forbid that those who profess to be Adventists should partake of this spirit. Wm. PENNIMAN.
Are the Days of Noah and of Lot Returning?
We have no hesitancy in answering this question in the affirmative, for we believe the words of the Lord Jesus to be true: “As in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matt. 24: 36–39; Luke 17: 26–30). If we are not taught here that the earth is to be “filled with violence” as it was before the flood, we are at least taught that up to the day of the revelation of the Son of man the inhabitants of our world will, as a general thing, in spite of warnings and entreaties, go on in unbelief and worldliness so that the Judgment will come upon them unexpectedly; and other passages show that vice and crime will fearfully abound in the midst of knowledge and professed piety. No cities in the Union make a greater boast of progress and civilization than New York and Boston, and yet the abominations that are committed in them are astonishing. Take the following item from the New York correspondence of the Boston Journal of last week, and see if it will not do to go under the head of “fierce” in Paul’s catalogue of evils which were to render “the last days perilous” (2 Tim. 3: 1–5):
“MURDERERS IN THE TOMBS.
“If a man commits petty larceny in this city he is quite likely to be ‘sent up’. If he steals a loaf of bread he will get into the Tombs. But if he robs a company of millions, or steals double-handed from the City Treasury, he stands a good chance to go scot free. The least dangerous pastime is murder. If a man dips his hands in blood, heaven and earth seem to be moved to save him from the gallows. We have in the Tombs to-day twenty-two murderers, and there is no prospect of either punishment or trial. This is understood perfectly well, and burglars go armed to take life on the slightest provocation. It is safer to kill than to rob. The chances of detection are lessened and the danger is less if the party is detected. In the disputes that occur on our ferry-boats, pistols are drawn on the slightest provocation, and on some of the lines of our cars a man who travels after ten o’clock takes his life in his hands. Roughs are especially protected now, as the election is near and every vote counts. A vigilance committee is talked of. We shall have it if the autumn elections do not give us some protection.”
But we do not need to travel to New York to find criminals. “The assassination of Mr. Lane, and other crimes of less magnitude,” says the Church and Republic, “leading us to a question as to whether we are tending as a city. We are not sensationalists, nor are we equal to the worse folly of closing our eyes to facts which stare us in the face. The most important is this: that the aggregate of crime has increased more rapidly the past year than at any time before for several years, and that its greatest increase has been during the last four months, as shown by the police records. During the month of September the number of commitments to the city prison were 1551, as against 1143 in 1871. The same increase is to be noted in other recent months. The other fact is that at least three-fourths of all the crime committed—the testimony of police and judges is unanimous on this point,—is due directly or indirectly to the use of intoxicating drinks. Disguise it as we will, we are engaged, as a city, in training up a criminal element which threatens terrible things against us, in revenge for our neglect of duty toward them. More than one ward of our city is unsafe for citizens to enter at night, though an armed police patrols the precincts constantly, watching its inhabitants as though they were beasts of prey.”—Advent Herald.
THE OLD STORY.
COME and hear the grand old story,
Story of the ages past;
All earth's annals far surpassing,
Story that shall ever last.
Noblest, truest,
Oldest, newest,
Fairest, rarest,
Saddest, gladdest,
That this earth has ever known.
Christ, the Father's Son eternal,
Once was born, a Son of man;
He, who never knew beginning,
Here on earth a life began.
Here in David's lowly city,
Tenant of the manger-bed,
Child of everlasting ages,
Mary's infant, lays his head.
There he lies, in mighty weakness,
David's Lord and David's Son;
Creature and Creator meeting,
Heaven and earth conjoined in one.
Here at Nazareth he dwelleth,
'Mid the sin of sinful men;
Sorrowful, forlorn, and hated,
And yet hating none again.
Here in Galilee he wanders,
Through its teeming cities moves,
Climbs its mountains, walks its waters,
Blesses, comforts, saves and loves.
Words of truth and deeds of kindness,
Miracles of grace and might,
Scatter fragrance all around him,
Shine with Heaven's most glorious light.
In Gethsemane behold him,
In the agony of prayer;
Kneeling, pleading, groaning, bleeding,
Soul and body prostrate there.
All alone he wrestles yonder,
Close beside him stands the cup,
Bitterest cup that man e'er tasted;
Yet for us he drinks it up.
In the Roman hall behold him
Stand at Pilate's judgment-seat,
Mocked and beaten, crowned and wounded;
Jew and Gentile join in hate.
On to Golgotha he hastens;
Yonder stands his cross of woe;
From his hands, and feet, and forehead,
See the precious life-blood flow.
Sinless, he our sin is bearing,
All our sorrows on him lie,
And his stripes our wounds are healing,
God, for man, consents to die.
It is finished! See his body
Laid alone in Joseph's tomb;
'Tis for us he lieth yonder,
Prince of Light enwrapp'd in gloom.
But in vain the grave has bound him,
Death has barr'd its gate in vain;
See, for us the Saviour rises,
See, for us he bursts the chain.
Here we then the grand old story,
True as God's all-faithful word,
Best of tidings to the guilty,
Of a dead and risen Lord.
'Tis eternal life to know it,
Light and love are shining there,
While we look, and gaze, and listen,
All its joy and peace we share.
Here we then the grand old story,
And in listening learn the love,
Flowing through it to the guilty,
From our pardoning God above.
Appointments and Meeting Notices
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
WASHINGTON, N. H., Sabbath and first-day, the 23d and 24th of November. Meetings to commence Friday evening. S. N. Haskell.
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will hold meetings in the Illinois Conference as Brn. Brown and Ballenger may make arrangements, commencing Friday evening, November 22, and continuing over two Sabbaths. We hope general notice will be given. I will come with some of the brethren from Monroe.
I will also meet the church at Waterloo, Grant Co., Wis., at their house of worship, each evening of December 3, 4, 5. And on the evening of the 6th, myself or Bro. Downer will preach in the new meeting-house at Mount Hope. Will some one from Waterloo meet me at Cassville, Tuesday, Dec. 3? I. Sanborn.
QUARTERLY meeting at Rockton, Ill., Nov. 16 and 17. Bro. Steward will meet with us. Brethren from other churches are invited to attend. G. M. Bowers.
QUARTERLY meeting for Vernon Co., Wis., at Liberty Pole, Nov. 29, 30. Can Bro. Downer attend this meeting? S. E. Sutherland.
Clyde, Ill., Nov. 23 and 24. Brn. Andrews, Whitham and Steward, are expected to meet with us. All the Directors of the Conference are invited to be with us. Would like to see Bro. Newton (State Secretary).
The friends of Erie and Shabbona Grove are expected to unite with those of Clyde in a Tract and Missionary Society. W. O. Dungan, Director 4th Dist.
MONTHLY meeting for District No. 8, of Michigan, at Orleans, the first Sabbath and first-day of January, 1873. The churches will be visited as follows:
Orange, Nov. 9, by Brn. King and Maynard.
Bushnell, Nov. 16, by Brn. King and Rust.
Greenville, Dec. 7, by Brn. F. Howe and S. Alchin.
Montcalm, Dec. 14, by Brn. E. Van Deusen and Aldrich.
Orleans, Dec. 21, by Brn. Warren and Cyphers.
Vergennes, Dec. 28, by Brn. Fargo and Richmond.
S. H. King.
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet with the following districts in Tract and quarterly meeting:
Dist. No. 9, at the Dart school-house, in Baraboo, Wis. Bro. Kelly will be at the depot, with a team, to carry to the meeting those coming on the cars. The meeting will be held Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
Dist. No. 11, Poy Sippi, Dec. 7 and 8.
Dist. No. 7, at the brick school-house in Deerfield, Waushara Co., Dec. 14 and 15.
Dist. No. 8, Mackford, Dec. 21 and 22.
We hope for a general attendance at these meetings. Come prepared to seek God, and labor in this good cause. These meetings will commence Sabbath evening, with a prayer-meeting. P. S. Thurston, Pres. Wis. T. & M. Society.
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet with the following districts in New York in quarterly meeting:—
Dist. No. 6, at North Creek, Warren Co., N. Y. Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1872.
Dist. No. 5, at Keene, Essex Co., N. Y. Nov. 16 and 17.
Dist. No. 4, at Buck’s Bridge, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Nov. 23 and 24.
P. Z. Kinne, Pres N. Y. & Pa. T. & M. Society.
The Review on Trial.
By James White
We now offer one volume of the REVIEW of twenty-six numbers, covering one-half of a year, to all those who wish to send it to their friends, for the small sum of fifty cents. This liberal proposition is made to only those who subscribe and pay for the REVIEW for their friends.
Those who subscribe for the REVIEW on trial for themselves can have it for the sum of seventy-five cents for one volume of twenty-six numbers. We no longer offer it one year on trial for $1.50. One volume covering half a year is sufficient time for trial. The trial volume will commence December 17, when the first number of it will be issued. Relative to the trial volume we have to say—
1. It will cover the season of the year when the people have time to read, and investigate.
2. The greatest care will be taken to fill the trial volume of our excellent paper with the reasons of our faith and hope, covering, as far as possible, the entire ground, and with the best articles relative to the Christian life.
3. It is expected that the discussions now being conducted by the editor and Elder Griswold, and Elds. Waggoner and Vogel will come to an end before the trial volume shall commence.
4. The volume will reach to the middle of June, 1873, when the progress department will be crowded with the reports of tent labor. The volume just before that time can be devoted very largely, as before suggested, to stirring, burning truth relative to our faith and hope, and the preparation to meet the Lord. We design that the trial volume shall be a special repository of the light and fire of the truth of God's word for this time.
5. The terms are made so exceedingly easy that all our brethren and sisters can engage in the work of subscribing for the REVIEW for their friends. Just think of it! For the sum of ten dollars you can have such a paper as above described, sent to twenty of your friends for the period of half a year. To show you how this will go, we have seen a brother to-day who sent the REVIEW to his brother in Oregon, who has been opposed to the Advent doctrine, but who now reports that the REVIEW is the best religious paper he has seen. This brother wished to subscribe for another friend, and when told that he could send the REVIEW six months for fifty cents, he immediately subscribed for four instead of one.
6. We call for 20,000 trial subscribers. It will take just 1,000 benevolent persons, who love their friends, and wish to see them walking in the truth, to accomplish this work, by sending us twenty subscribers each accompanied with ten dollars. But all can take a part. Send in the names, all the way from two to two hundred.
7. When the time shall be up, we shall give due notice; urge all our trial subscribers to renew by paying the regular price in advance; and if they do not respond, their names will be dropped.
8. The friends should be in season. The members of the Tract and Missionary Society everywhere should be active. The names should be received as soon as possible, so that the printer may be able to form a tolerably correct idea of how many copies to print of the first number of the trial volume on December 15. Send in the names liberally, and by the tenth of December if possible.
JAMES WHITE. Pres. S. D. A. P. A.
Facts for the Times.
By C. H. Bliss
THE SPIRIT AS OUR GUIDE.
The following remarks, by L. R. Dunn, under the heading, “The Comforter as a leader and Guide,” shows the folly of those who are guided only by impressions: it is from the Advocate.
There are but two spirits in the world which lead and control men’s minds,—the Spirit of light and the spirit of darkness; the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error; the Spirit of God and the spirit of the Devil. These are in direct and eternal antagonism. They can never coalesce, nor co-exist. Satan, it is true, may appear as an “angel of light;” but he is no less a devil under this garb than in his own thunder-scarred deformity. Error may put on the garb of truth, but it is error still. When, therefore, the Spirit of God leads a man, he leads him to do right, to do good, to believe the truth and embrace it. The promise is emphatic, “He shall guide you into all the truth,”—not into error, not into folly, not into sin.
The spirit of God never leads a man to believe any thing contrary to the word of God, nor to do any thing contrary to its teachings. It is right here that we have an all-sufficient check against error and fanaticism. If any person thinks or feels that he is led by the Spirit of God, he is to test his impressions by the truths of God’s word. If the convictions, impressions, or inclinations of his mind and heart are in accordance with the eternal truths of that word, then he may safely follow them, and properly conclude that the Spirit of the Lord is leading and guiding him aright. But if they are not in harmony with the word, then the sooner he gets rid of them, the better it will be for himself and for all concerned; God has given his intelligent creatures powers of reason, of judgment, of understanding, of analysis and synthesis.
These are to be brought into exercise in reading the word of God, in humble reliance in the promised aid of the divine Spirit. Given, then, the word of God in our hands, the Spirit of God in our hearts, and our God-given reason duly enthroned in our minds, and no man need to or will go far astray. But any one who relies upon mere impressions will go astray into the wildest fancies, the grossest irregularities or the most mortifying blunders.
With these thoughts before us, what shall we think of those who disregard the fourth commandment on account of certain impressions? Are they not guided by the spirit of the Devil? “He will guide you into all truth” John. 16: 13. “Thy law is the truth.” Ps. 119, 142. C. H. Bliss.
General Conference.
By James White
For several important reasons, it seems necessary that General Conference, and the annual meeting of the Publishing Association, should be held at the earliest point of time.
1. The feebleness of the Secretary makes it necessary that another should be elected to that office as soon as possible.
2. The distance of the President from head-quarters, which distance makes it impracticable for him to hold the office only to the nearest point that another can be elected to take his place, is a very good reason why another should be elected at the earliest possible point of time. Since we left Battle Creek, notwithstanding our feebleness, we have done much in running that institution by letters, which we refuse to do after a suitable length of time, to hold a legal meeting to elect officers. We have other work for our time and pen.
3. Immediate action in providing the proper men at Battle Creek, to institute and manage a denominational school, and to succor and guard our other institutions, is called for.
4. The interests of the Tract and Missionary work, the preparation, translation, and publication, of works in other languages, and the general interests of the cause, all seem to call for the General Conference at an early point of time. JAMES WHITE.
ADELIA P. VAN HORN
By Adelia P. Van Horn
Resignation.
TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE S. D. A. P. ASSOCIATION: I hereby, in the fear of the Lord, resign my position as Secretary of the Association, as the state of my health forbids my serving longer.
Respectfully,
ADELIA P. VAN HORN
Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 22, 1872.
Adelia P. Van Horn.
By James White
This Christian woman has filled the office of Secretary of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association for about three years, with great ability and unparalleled devotion. And we are sad to know that her health is failing, making it necessary that she should resign her office.
The relation we sustain to sister Van Horn may constitute a sufficient apology for speaking quite freely on her case, at this time. She was the first in her father's family to embrace the Sabbath, not far from twelve years since. She came into our family ten years since, and for several years had an excellent influence over our children. Her parents (Bro. and sister L. C. Patten) had trusted their daughter to our care, and when Eld. L. D. Van Horn asked her hand, we consented, and gave her to him with the interest parents feel for their daughters.
Before accepting the office of Secretary of the S. D. A. P. A., she had edited the Youth's Instructor, acted as Secretary at the Health Institute, and had shown superior ability in the REVIEW AND HERALD counting-room. But to take the office of Secretary of the Association, at the time she entered upon its duties, when confusion and embarrassment seemed to be written upon everything in the counting-room, the result of unconsecration and incompetency, was accepting a double task.
During the year then just closed, when she entered upon the duties of Secretary, the invoice of the property showed a decrease in the capital stock of the Association from $36,000 to $32,000. The invoice of ten months since gave $60,000. That of January, 1873, will not be much, if any, less than $75,000. Then, after deducting the amount of new stock taken during the past three years, the figures will show that there has been saved at the Office of the Publishing Association, not less than $32,000, equal to the entire capital stock, when A. P. Van Horn entered upon her duties.
And in justice to her, we further state that, in consequence of the absence of the President of the Association, a large share of his time, and his feebleness during almost the entire time he has been in Battle Creek, and from want of any other thorough business person connected with the Association, it has seemed necessary that her active, penetrating mind should reach beyond her duties as secretary, and enter largely into those of the President, in having, to a very great extent, the general supervision of the entire financial workings of the Association. In many cases, our most successful plans in the interests of the Association have been those of her own devising, which, when matured, she has submitted to the President for his opinion, and his acceptance. And, although she might decline accepting the credit of any share of the prosperity which has attended the Publishing Association, in doubling its capital stock in three years, yet without the interest, and care, and labor, which she has given it, all the efforts of the President to improve upon a former administration would have amounted to but very little.
And as she takes leave of her office, which she has filled with ability and faithfulness, under circumstances which insure the sympathy and prayers of all the friends of the cause, we are the more willing to let the simple facts in the case appear. Let the trustees do their duty by her as she resigns her office. A tithe of what she has earned the Association, above her wages, would be a handsome purse. We recommend the Rocky Mountains in summer, and California in winter, as the most favorable to those feeble from overwork. And, if it please God, we welcome Bro. and sister Van Horn, when she shall be able to journey, to our winter valley, and mountain summer, retreats. There are no better fields of labor than in the States of California and Oregon, and in Washington and Colorado Territories. And there are no warmer and more liberal hearts than in those who embrace the message here.
JAMES WHITE, Pres. S. D. A. P. A.
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 1, 1872.
The Iron Horse.
The Chicago Tribune closes an article on “The Iron Horse” with the following figures: “There are now on the roads leading to this city 1,899 engines, valued on an average of $12,000 apiece. This would make their total value $22,788,000. These engines are distributed as follows: Chicago and Northwestern, 270; Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, 223; Chicago and St. Louis, 144; Illinois Central, 197; Chicago, Danville and Vincennes, 21; Michigan Central, 205; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, 201; Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, 346; Rock Island and Pacific, 182. The number of regular daily trains the “Iron Horse” pulls out of the city is 178, and the number in, 169, making a total of 347 regular trains. If we add to these the average number of irregular trains we have a grand total of 570 daily trains. The following will show at a glance something of the work the “Iron Horse in Chicago” performs in a year: He takes out, and brings in, 135,050 trains a year. He earns about $83,000,000. He brings in a profit of $29,175,119. He transports over the various roads he travels upward of 6,000,000 passengers. He represents $400,000,000 of capital.
Death of D’Aubigne.
The death of the Rev. Jean Henri Merle D’Aubigne, the well-known historian of the Protestant Reformation, accomplished by Martin Luther, is announced. He died at Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Oct. 28. D’Aubigne’s “History of the Reformation” has long been a standard work in this country as well as in Europe. The death of its celebrated author will be mourned by the entire Protestant world. D’Aubigne was born in Geneva, August 16, 1794. He was, therefore, at the time of his death, a little over seventy-eight years of age. He is chiefly known to the English-speaking race by his “History of the Reformation,” and his “The English Republic in the Days of Cromwell,” though he was the author of many other interesting historical books. As a clergyman he had filled a number of high church offices; and was an eloquent, as well as a very learned, preacher. For many years, most Protestant tourists who visited Geneva were wont to make it a point to call upon D’Aubigne.
Advice Given Sharply Rarely Received Humbly
Advice that is given arrogantly or sharply, can scarcely be expected to be received with humility or gratitude.
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Police Rascality in New York.
By Editor
The astounding disclosures of witnesses in the Jersey bank robbery case, go to confirm the suspicions which we have often had of the rottenness of the police and detective system of American cities. Here are a chief of police and a “crack” detective, alleged to have been betting on professional burglars to rob a bank. They originated the scheme; they incited the burglars to attempt it, with the understanding that they (the guilty officials) were to receive a large share of the plunder; and, when the minor rascals were caught and put in jail, the police chief and his right hand man connived at their escape by false keys, and but for the discovery of the plot, ten villains would have been let loose again to rob and kill. Such is the explicit sworn statement of one of the gang, who turns State's evidence. If Chief of Police McWilliams, and Detective Doyle, are guilty of these monstrous offenses, they must dread the unadulterated article of Jersey justice which will be dosed out to them. When police chiefs and detectives give up efforts to track out and arrest notorious bank robbers, people are divided in opinion, whether the officials are incompetent, or in collusion with the thieves. The former hypothesis is the charitable one, and we prefer to adopt it, in the absence of proof that policemen do really share with the plunderers of banks and other rich and successful criminals, and hence can never find those persons when they are wanted. After the revelations in the Jersey City affair, district attorneys and grand juries might properly take a careful look at the police detective systems in other cities.
THE PO OVERFLOW.
Turin, Oct. 28.—The damage caused by the inundations of the River Po, especially in the provinces of Mantua and Ferrara, are immense. Several hundred kilometres of the most fertile land in Italy are covered with water, and whole towns and villages are submerged. Many houses have been undermined and have fallen. In some places the water reaches the roof of the highest buildings. Thousands of people are homeless and others are flying from their dwellings, which are threatened with destruction. The towns of Cassal, Maggiore and Ostiglia, on the River Po, are in great danger, and the inhabitants are panic stricken. The suffering is wide spread and intense, but relief is going from all parts of Italy.
THE INUNDATION.
Turin, Nov. 1.—The River Po continues to rise, and the inundation is spreading. Families are flying, and those who cannot escape are starving on housetops and in trees, where they have taken refuge. The streams are filled with carcasses of cattle, and wrecks of houses and barns. The town of Reggio, fourteen miles from Maderia, has almost entirely disappeared beneath the flood.