Commenced meetings at the Cook school-house in the town of Richfield the twentieth of December last. Have given forty-four discourses. The interest, at first good, increased till the close. Our congregations were large for a country place, averaging about one hundred. The truths spoken affected the people, and nearly all were ready to say that what had been preached was the truth of God's word.
Quite an excitement prevailed in the community around, and, as is usually the case, the doctrines taught at the school-house were the subject of general conversation. The friends were very kind in lighting the house well during the entire meeting, and added to this the more substantial evidence of their love and appreciation of the truth. May they all have the blessing and feel the joy at last of those to whom the Saviour will say, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
The greater part of the people heard the truth gladly. When I spoke on the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week, showing it to be the work of that blasphemous power which should “think to change times and laws,” and not that of Christ or his apostles, a few were offended, and said it was too bad that I should come here, and break up their church. I replied that, if the unity of their church rested on error in doctrine, the sooner it was broken up the better. Others said, “If preaching ‘the word’ breaks up the church, let it break.” When the test came, several precious souls decided to obey the truth.
About forty were present at our first Sabbath meeting. A short discourse from these words was given, “Choose ye this day whom ye will serve.” A social meeting followed, in which nearly all took part. Strong men trembled and wept. There were but few dry eyes in the house. The testimony of all was, The blessing of God is in our meeting.
Seventeen covenanted to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Others have not yet fully decided.
This is the first effort I ever made alone; the blessing of the Lord has attended it, and to him be all the praise.
EDWIN R. JONES.
Look for the Blessing
Never turn a blessing around to see if it has a dark side to it.
Northern Kansas.
By Smith Sharp
I commenced meetings near Richland, Shawnee Co., Kansas, Jan. 13, and closed last night, Feb. 17, giving in all twenty-five discourses. Nine have covenanted to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. I leave with as good an outside interest as I ever saw in any place. Many wept last night as I spoke of the glories of the better world and exhorted all to seek for it. Obtained seven subscribers for Review, two for the Instructor, and sold several dollars’ worth of books.
I am indebted to the members of the Big Springs church for their presence and help, and the work that has been done is due much to the energy and zeal of these friends. My prayers shall follow these dear friends who have lately taken their stand on God’s holy law. If they will only prove faithful and honor their profession, I feel sure they will have many of their friends and neighbours soon to go with them. Let us be faithful. SMITH SHARP.
Words from a Swede.
By John E. Nostrom
Many thanks to our American brethren for all the kindness done to us Swedes. When we see with what love and self-sacrifice they are working for our enlightenment relative to the word of God, we are convinced that this glorious cause is carried forward by the Spirit of God, and that this is indeed the message that the Scriptures declare must go to “peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.” And we are encouraged to take hold, and work together with you for the salvation of those souls who are finally to constitute the people referred to in Rev. 14: 12.
When we consider how the number of laborers among us compares with the vast field before us, it almost makes us faint; for as yet we have but one. But he has done a good work among us here in Minnesota. The field could not appear a promising one to any one less influenced by a true missionary spirit. But, true to his calling, Bro. Lee put his trust in Him who is mighty to save, and with faith started out to labor in the vineyard of the Lord.
From the outset he met prejudice on all sides, but through his labor quite a number have been brought out to receive and love the present truth; and infidels who were proof against the popular views were brought to acknowledge the truthfulness of his preaching. May God be with him wherever duty points the way.
We are much cheered to learn that our Bro. Jonas Engberg is about to go to Battle Creek to prepare himself for the ministry. Our prayers are with him. God grant that many more may follow his example. May we soon be blessed with an able force, actuated with the love that holds God above all things and our neighbors as ourselves.
The General Conference, which designated Bro. Geo. I. Butler to visit the several churches among the Swedes, has our heartfelt thanks. Through the blessing of the Holy Spirit, Bro. B. encouraged us much. His visit among us at Chisago Lake will ever be remembered as a powerful reminder of the magnitude and importance of our cause.
We also feel under obligations to our American friends, at the same time praising God, for the much-needed Swedish paper, entitled, Svensk Advent Herald. Let us all who feel an interest in the present truth, and especially the Swedish brethren, make it a special duty to extend the circulation of this publication. This mirror of truth will reflect its light into many minds and hearts that are willing to receive the good seed which, when sown in good ground, will grow up into practical Christianity and everlasting life.
JOHN E. NOSTROM.
Chisago Co., Minn.
Return Thanks.
By C. P. WHITFORD
God himself has said, “In everything give thanks,” and he has taught his servants to say, “We glory in tribulation also,” and most certain it is that, to true believers, afflictions, trials, and disappointments, will work out for them a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Afflictions to the true Christian are chastisements of love, and who will dare say that such love does not demand our warmest thanks, our highest praise, our ceaseless adoration? We should praise him, for in this way he is training us for a union with his own Son and a home in glory. Thus he kills our corruptions, and is wisely contriving to bring us nearer to himself and to ripen us for the honors of his heavenly kingdom. And thus shall tribulation work patience, and patience experience, and experience a more assured hope, even a hope which shall not make ashamed while the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.
C. P. WHITFORD.
Berkshire Center, Vt.
Tradition vs. the Bible.
By R. F. C.
[The following extracts are from a Roman Catholic writer, in controversy with a Protestant. R. F. C.]
“The gentleman’s Bible repeatedly forbids to eat blood. Gen. 9: 4; Lev. 7: 26, 27; Acts 15: 28, 29. Yet his church allows it to be eaten on the authority of tradition. The quotation from the Acts commands us to abstain from blood and fornication; and as both are put in the same category, by what principle of consistency can he admit one and reject the other? Simply because the traditions of the Catholic church have never sanctioned the latter. It is therefore ungenerous in the gentleman to skulk through the dark into the pantry of the church and steal a blood pudding from the safe of tradition, and then raise the “hue and cry” against me for going there openly in the daytime to partake of a luncheon at the special invitation of St. John and St. Paul.”
“It is ungenerous in him to laugh at me for holding that doctrine on which alone he administers the sacrament of infant baptism; and it is unjust in him to denounce me for holding a doctrine which every week he practically declares to be of more authority than his own Bible.”
“His Bible commands him to keep the Sabbath on Saturday, yet he keeps it on Sunday, on the authority of tradition.”
“The blood pudding which the gentleman stole was wrapped up in a sheet of an old homily on fasting. I will swear that he ate the pudding, but would be glad to know what he did with the homily. Tradition, it appears, is sufficient authority for feasting, but not for fasting.”
“His Bible does not sanction infant baptism, yet he baptizes infants on the authority of tradition; and after all this he will swear to his sixth article, which declares that tradition is no part of a Christian’s rule of faith.”
“I have already shown that he steals blood puddings and baptizes infants in the very teeth of his sixth article of faith’ without any ‘warrant of Scripture;’ let us now see how far his conscience can stretch in favor of a doctrine which his lips deny. Christ never wrote, but God the Father did. He wrote the ten commandments on the tablets of stone, and the only commandment he emphasized was that to keep the Sabbath day. ‘Remember to keep holy the seventh day;’ and there is no command so often repeated throughout the Old Testament. If the Bible alone be the gentleman’s rule of faith, he is bound by this commandment; but does he observe it? No, he does not. Has he any Scripture authority for rejecting it? No, he has not. Why then does he not observe it? Because the church thought fit to change it. Here the gentleman admits the authority of the church to be superior to the handwriting of God the Father. And yet he will look you in the face and declare that the Bible without church authority is his rule of faith!”
Corydon, Pa.
By R. F. Cottrell
There are a few Sabbath-keepers in this place, about eight persons, some of whom embraced the truth about seven years ago, and others more recently. I have been laboring here nearly four weeks in two places. Considerable interest has been manifested from without, and believers have been edified. Although a number confess the truth, but one or two have resolved at once to keep it. The greater number of those who are keeping the Sabbath have not been baptized. I think it will be duty to return before long and attend to baptism and organization, which they desire. May God prosper the work here, and convert the young. The brother and sister with whom I have made my home have a family of kind and noble sons, well-disposed and favorable to the truth. May God help them to break away from the world, and give themselves to his service.
R. F. COTTRELL.
Feb. 16, 1874.
Stout Looks and Pomp of the Little Horn.
By John Norton Loughborough
DANIEL says, in his prophecy of the little horn, “His look was more stout than his fellows,” his fellows, meaning the other horns, or kingdoms. To see how he looks, as compared with them, we note what we have already presented, in that the papal hierarchy claims to be as far “superior to all other kingdoms as gold is to lead;” but we will quote concerning his claims and acts, from a work called, “Mystery of Iniquity,” by Henry Moore, D. D., published in London, 1664.
He says, “What can be more blasphemously antichristian than to suffer himself to be decked with the spoils of the divine attributes, to be styled ‘Our Lord God,’ ‘a God on earth, a visible Deity,’ declaring that his tribunal and that of God is one; that his power is absolute; that what he does, he does as God and not as man; that all must submit to his decrees as being infallible: that he is all, and above all; that he has the disposing of kingdoms, can pull down one and set up another; that he can do all that God can do; that he can change the nature of things, make something of nothing, make injustice justice, and wrong right; that all laws are in his breast; that he can dispense with the canon of the apostles, and with the New Testament itself; that he is the cause of causes; that it is sacrilege to doubt of his power; that he has dominion over angels, purgatory, and hell; that he is monarch of the world, and exceeds the imperial majesty as much as the sun does the moon; and that he is to be adored by all the potentates of the earth. This is one blazing eruption out of this infernal Ætna of Luciferan ambition.” Chap. x. par. 2.
“The second [blast of Ætna] was his haughty exaltation over excommunicated and subdued princes. First, for example, that it were most savagely antichristian for this triumphant patriarch of excommunication and submission to his power thereupon to make one emperor to wait for some days together, barefoot, and clad in canvass, with his empress, for absolution at his gate, and that in the midst of winter; to make him resign his imperial ornaments; and after all this to depose him, and give his empire to another. To make another prostrate himself publicly in the church, and in his prostration to set his foot on the emperor’s neck, as if he were crushing an adder or snake; to crown another, not with his hands, but with his feet, and then with the same feet to kick the crown from off the emperor’s head.” To make one prince resign his crown, and live for some days as a private person, and then, upon condition of becoming a vassal to his high-priestship, to permit him to receive it again at his legate’s hands, lowly kneeling at his feet. To make another, by way of penance, go creeping along his holy highness’ palace upon his hands and knees, with a collar about his neck like a dog; to whip another stark naked in an open cathedral, every monk or religious person bestowing some number of lashes upon him.” Chap. x. par. 3.
“According to the known service of this sacerdotal court, when his holy highness, universal head of the church, will be something still higher by getting on horseback, the emperor or king that is present must of duty hold the stirrup as he gets up; or if his will is upon some occasion to be transported in the chair of State, the emperor and king are to submit their necks to the yoke, and take up this stately man in his chair upon their shoulders.
“When this grand prelate also goeth to dinner, the emperor or king, there present, must have the honor bestowed upon them to serve him with water and a towel to wash his anointed hands; for which service they shall be permitted to sit down at table, after attendance till the first course be served.
“The emperor’s place in an ecumenical council shall be at this high priest’s feet, like a good son of a corporal. And finally, wheresoever this ecumenical patriarch goes, the people shall fall down on their knees, or if they do not that worship willingly and glibly, be knocked down upon them by the rigid guard.” Chap. x. par. 4.
The above, which might be still greatly extended by facts, is proof of the arrogance and assumptions of the little horn, and, at the same time, it is clear proof that the little horn whose “look was more stout than his fellows” was evidently prophetic of the papal power.
In Revelation, chap. 17, John has a view of this power, under the symbol of “a woman seated upon a scarlet-colored beast,” and he says of her that she “was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls.”
We should judge that the power above represented was given to pomp, show, and processions of display. Surely this has been abundantly fulfilled in all the gaudy trappings and pomp of the Romish worship, to say nothing of their extravagance in church building. As a sample of their display, I quote from the Irish World of April 12, 1873, where there is an illustration and description of some of the ceremonies in Rome during “Holy Week.”
The writer says: “The ceremonies peculiar to “Holy Week” are carried out impressively everywhere, but especially in Rome, where the scenes and incidents during this time have been the theme for thousands of all shades of opinion to dilate admiringly on.” He speaks of it as “crowds of magnificently attired priests and prelates, churches whose interior dazzled the eye with that magnificence with which the church does honor to Almighty God; or grand illuminations, processions, and other features of the time.”
The writer says of St. Peter’s, “Neither pen nor pencil is adequate to convey an idea of the grandeur of this, the largest and noblest church edifice in Christendom. The church is the length of three ordinary blocks. The front of the basilica is as broad as five of the largest American churches would be standing side by side, and is about as high as three such churches piled one above the other. The roof of the nave is as high as the tallest of our city steeples.” He states that the dome and steeple are twice as high as Trinity steeple, New York.
Of the proportions of St. Peter’s, the writer in the World says: “It affords a fine opportunity for the display which constitutes the solemnities of Holy Week at Rome. The pyrotechnic exhibition has never had a parallel. The American Fourth of July fades into insignificance when compared with the illuminations of St. Peter’s, or the monster display of fireworks on the slope of the Pincian Hill. The illumination is made by means of hundreds of thousands of tiny oil lamps, whose white gleam has given the name of ‘silver illumination’ to this part of the display. All the lines of the vast façade of the church—the roof, the sites of the stupendous dome, the form of the lantern, and the cross surmounting all—are traced out with rows of these lamps; and as the golden light of an Italian sunset fades away, and the purple shadows of evening settle over the city, these are lighted, coming out like stars in heaven, until the whole structure blazes like a constellation. Every architectural line, every column, cornice, capital, every arch and entablature, are pricked out in fire against the sky. It is difficult for any description to suggest the magnificence of the spectacle of the illumination of St. Peter’s, because words cannot depict to the imagination the vastness of the edifice that is thus etherealized in light, and which seems to rise, or rather to hang, over the city above which it towers, shining and glittering in the calm night like a jewel.
“When about half an hour has elapsed, a gun sounds from the Castle of St. Angelo, and like magic the silver illumination becomes transformed into a golden one. The effect is very startling and the change is beautiful in the extreme. It is produced in the following manner: Large hanging pans, containing resinous matter, are placed at proper intervals along the architectural lines and curves of the basilica. The task of lighting up these pans devolves upon men who are stationed conveniently near them. When the signal gun booms out from the castle, each of the men lights three of the pans, and the powerful glare produced completely outshines the soft and delicate radiance which made the silver illumination. Nothing can be imagined so grand as this scene. Down below are the dense crowds of people with faces upturned, never wearying seemingly of gazing on the scene of fairy splendor which appears like a link joining earth and heaven. Then a great start is given as the enraptured stillness of the multitude is broken by the thunderous tones of the cannon reverberating from the castle. And now above, in the basilica, shadows are moving with great, but dangerous, rapidity, the silver hue is growing dim, and lo! ere the echoes of the signal gun have died away, the dazzling splendor of the golden illumination flashes out on the night, and whispers of admiration run through the thousands below.”
The writer says: “This scene has been described as THE MOST SURPASSINGLY BEAUTIFUL ever witnessed.” Further on he says: “With this grand display Holy Week is closed . . . ending in A HALO OF DAZZLING SPLENDOR.”
Connected with this procession and display, he says they have music from “a body of choral performers who have no equal in the world. Their music and poetry are grand on all occasions, but the part for Easter is certainly unequaled in the whole range of sacred music. . . . The effect is impressive in the extreme, once heard never to be forgotten.”
Of course all this display is gotten up to impress the senses of the people, and it has effect. The writer of the above says of those witnessing this gaudy display: “The most bigoted have acknowledged experiencing emotions such as could be occasioned only by a conviction that they were taking place in the center of religious truth on earth, and that they were being performed by the chosen priests of God’s own church.”
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
Obituary Notices.
By Uriah Smith
“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
DIED, in Elk Falls, Kansas, Sept. 11, 1873, my mother-in-law, Mrs. Almira T. Stevens, aged 70. Her health gradually failed for nearly a year previous to her death. She was one of the first in Maine to embrace the Advent doctrine, and kept the Sabbath of the Lord from 1844. Those acquainted with her constant Christian life and unfaltering love for the truth, felt that to her the language well applies, “Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.”
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D. WARREN: We have no faith whatever in the exposition of Phil. 1:23, which makes the “departing” from the Greek, analuo, mean in that passage, the returning of Christ. The word analuo is defined by Greenfield, thus: “Pr. to dissolve; to separate, break up, e. g. as a convivial party, to depart, come away, from a feast, Luke 12:36; to depart from this life, to die. Phil. 1:23.” Robinson defines it, “To unloose, to undo, as the fastening of a ship for departure, to release, as a prisoner. In N. T. intrans. to make oneself loose, to break up, to depart. a) Pr. eis ton gamon, Luke 12:36; here the idea of returning home is implied. b) Trop. to depart from life, to die.” Liddell and Scott give definitions essentially the same.
From this it is apparent that the primary meaning of this word is to unloose, to break up existing association. As applied to our Lord, represented as he is in Luke 12:36, as away to the wedding, it is very properly rendered return, inasmuch as the immediate connection shows that when he breaks up, or closes, that transaction, he comes the second time to this earth. But Paul in Phil. 1:23, applies it to himself here on the earth, and not to the Lord in Heaven about to come again to this earth. And if it here means to return, what does Paul return from? Nothing.
If it is said that Paul does not apply the word here to himself, but to the Lord, we reply that there is nothing to show it; and further, if this be so, Paul introduces three things; namely, life, death, and the coming of Christ; whereas he says that his mind was exercised in reference to only two.
In 2 Tim. 4:6, Paul says, The time of my departure is at hand. He here uses a kindred word, analusis. This, as a noun, expresses exactly what analuo expresses, as a verb. Here the noun is rendered departure, just as the verb is rendered depart in Phil. 1:23. But here Paul uses it with a personal pronoun in the genitive case which corresponds with our English possessive. My analusis, my departure, literally, the departure of me. It can be rendered, returning, here just as well as in Phil. 1:23, but then Paul would say, “The time of my returning is at hand,” which would make nonsense.
There is no necessity for resorting to such forced criticism in explaining Phil. 1:23. See this subject exhaustively discussed in the tract published at this Office entitled, “Departing and Being with Christ,” also, “Man’s Nature and Destiny.” pp. 199–210. V. S.
To Correspondents.
Is the decalogue ever called in the Scriptures the law of Moses? G. E. F.
We do not know of any instance where it is so called.
S. S. BARTLET. Attend meeting wherever you can do good. In regard to the question whether believers should marry unbelievers or not, Paul says they should not. See his rules in 1 Cor. 7:39, and 2 Cor. 6:14.
J. S. OSBORNE: See the question of the resurrection of Moses discussed in full in the pamphlet entitled, “The State of the Dead,” pp. 115 to 125, published at this Office.
Slow Business.
By J. H. W.
SEVERAL times requests have been made in the REVIEW, besides the standing address in the paper, that all business should be sent to the Office, and not to private persons. To show the necessity of this, I state that a brother wrote to me to have the address of his papers changed; his letter was dated Nov. 12, 1873. It was put into my hands in the Office to-day, Feb. 24, 1874. Where it has been in the interim I cannot say. It has been following me from place to place, far from the Office, most of the time. Please do not send any more Office business to me. J. H. W.
Unidentified $35 Money Order from Lena
By Ivory Colcord
Notice.
SOME one sent me a post-office order of $35.00, from Lena, Ill., and signed no name to it. It was drawn at Morrison P. O. Who sent it? I need the money on it now, and cannot draw it. It is necessary for the person who draws the order to give his name in full every time. I cannot guess your name and draw your order. It is this that makes money orders safe.
IVORY COLCORD, Conf. Treas.
The Measure of Life
Measured by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measured by his good deeds, he has not lived long enough; measured by his evil deeds, he has lived too long.
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand
Services in Chicago, every Sabbath (seventh day), at 269 West Erie St. All Sabbath-keepers spending a Sabbath in Chicago are invited to attend.
If my health will permit and the will of the Lord so directs, I will meet with the church in Oceana Co., Mich., and attend to baptism, March 21, 22, 1874. J. BYINGTON.
QUARTERLY meeting of District No. 4, of Mich. T. and M. Society, will be held in connection with the quarterly meeting for Allegan Co., at Monterey, March 7, 8. Cannot Bro. E. H. Root meet with us? J. L. RUMERY, Director.
QUARTERLY meeting for the Liberty Pole church, Vernon Co., Wis., March 7, 8. We invite the brethren at Victory and Kickapoo Center, to meet with us. MILTON SOUTHWICK.
QUARTERLY meeting of the churches of Locke, Alaiedon, Bunkerhill, and Genoa, will be held with the brethren at Leroy, Ingham Co., Mich., Sabbath and first-day, March 14, 15, 1874. T. and M. Society quarterly meeting of Dist. No. 11, will be held in connection. Brn. Lawrence and Corliss are expected to attend and organize the church. Invitation is extended to scattered brethren and friends, with request that all will come prepared to care for themselves as far as possible. Those wishing to come by rail can stop at Leroy. ALBERT AVERY, Elder.
There will be a quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society, Dist. No. 2, at Richmond, Maine, March 14 and 15. Meeting to commence Sabbath evening, March 13. Eld. J. B. Goodrich is expected to be present. Let all who desire to work for their Lord and Master come to this meeting and secure a blessing. WILL E. MORTON, Director.
MONTHLY meeting at Richmond, Me., March 14, 15, 1874, commencing Friday evening at 6½ o’clock. It is expected that the Maine T. and M. Society, District No. 2, will hold its quarterly meeting at this time. Let all see that their reports are sent in in season, so that a full report can be made at this meeting. Let all come to work. J. B. GOODRICH.
MONTHLY meeting at Tuscola Village, Tuscola Co., Mich., March 7, 1874. The churches of Genesee Co. are cordially invited. J. L. MILLER.
The next quarterly meeting of the N. Y. and Pa. T. and M. Society, Dist. No. 10, will be held at Niles Hill, March 7 and 8. Request all reports to be sent to librarian in time for the meeting. All members are expected to attend. WILLIAM COATS, Director.
BUSHNELL, Mich., Sabbath, March 7, 1874. Would be glad to meet the few scattered brethren from Stanton and other places in this locality. A. S. HUTCHINS.
The church at Rockville, Mo., will hold their first quarterly meeting Sabbath and first-day, March 28, 29. We invite all the brethren within reasonable distance to meet with us. We should be glad if Eld. T. J. Butler could be with us at that time. J. F. KLOSTERYMEYER.
DECATUR City, Iowa, March 14, 15; Afton, March 21, 22.
Quarterly meeting in Dist. No. 7 at Winterset, 28, 29. This is the most central place in the district; and as there are matters of importance to consider in this meeting, we shall expect a general turnout from Peru and Adel especially. Don’t fail, dear friends, to be at this meeting. I will have publications with me to supply your libraries for missionary operations. H. NICOLA.