Fifth General Quarterly Meeting of the Iowa & Nebraska T. & M. Society.
By H. Nicola; L. McCoy
This meeting was held at Marion, Iowa, April 11, 1875. Meeting was called to order by the President; prayer by Bro. Shireman.
Of the nine directors, three were present, from districts Nos. 1, 2, and 3. Reports were had from districts Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, which present the following summary:—
No. of districts, 9; increase of membership, 18; No. families visited, 245; No. of letters written, 126; No. of subscribers for Voice of Truth, 445; Reformer, 403; Instructor, 70; Advent Tidende, 12; Svensk Harold, 9; REVIEW, 17; Signs, 3; No. of copies of papers distributed, 918; pages of tracts and pamphlets, 127,122; pages furnished libraries, 6000.
Money received on memberships, $18.00
“ “ “ donations, 78.95
“ “ “ book sales, 35.11
“ “ “ widows and orphans’ fund, 19.00
Total, $151.06
The treasurer’s report was as follows:—
Cash on hand from last quarter, 508.89
Rec’d during quarter, 834.84
Paid out during quarter, 636.33
Balance, $707.40
Amt. due the REVIEW Office, $768.41
Widows and orphans’ fund.
Cash on hand from last quarter, $128.70
Received during quarter, 54.94
Paid out during quarter, 160.50
Balance, $23.14
The following resolutions were adopted:—
Resolved, That the time and place of each general quarterly meeting be fixed three months in advance.
Resolved, That our next quarterly meeting be held in connection with our State camp-meeting.
Resolved, That we pay the traveling expenses of all officers attending meetings, from the general fund.
Resolved, That the widows and orphans’ fund be held sacred for the purpose for which it was originated.
On motion, L. McCoy was requested to act as secretary until the election of officers at next quarterly meeting.
Adjourned, H. Nicola, Pres.
L. McCoy, Sec.
April 11, 1875.
COMFORT IN SORROW.
By Elmira O. Davis
The following thoughts were suggested by the death of our aged friend, father Norton, whose Christian sympathy and counsels are treasured among our most sacred memories; and whose loss has left a vacancy which can not be filled until we meet again upon the other shore.
A FATHER has left us, his spirit has fled;
He is taking his rest with the lowly dead;
His joys and sorrows alike are gone;
We leave him to rest while we tarry to mourn.
Yes; we leave him there in his long repose,
All free, yes, free from life's cares and woes.
Naught now will disturb his peaceful rest,
For angels watch o'er the graves of the blest.
We leave him in silence and darkness to sleep,
No light can enter his chamber deep.
We mourn, for the king of terror reigns;
Our loved ones rest in his domains.
We well may mourn, for no light can come
To the chamber of darkness, to scatter its gloom.
From the chill, the silence, and damp of the grave,
None of us can our loved ones save.
But we catch a glimpse of a brighter day,
When the shades of death will have passed away;
When a glorious morning will dawn again,
And a Prince will come, on earth to reign.
Hark! a sound salutes the listening ear;
'Tis Gabriel's trumpet peals through the air;
It breaks the stillness of the tomb;
It scatters death with its shades of gloom.
Children of Zion! awake and sing,
Rejoice! rejoice! let earth's caverns ring.
For the King of glory comes to reign;
He comes, and the tyrant, death, is slain.
'Tis not a dream, nor a poet's song,
But a vision of prophecy, ye've heard it long.
The word of our God by his Spirit spoken,
'Tis the word of our God which can ne'er be broken,
That his loved who sleep shall wake ere long
To the conqueror's palm and the victor's song.
This is his pledge of promise given,
That Jesus died, and rose to Heaven.
He comes! these words of triumph ring,
O death, O death, where is thy sting;
Where is thy victory, O grave?
We conquer through Him, the mighty to save.
A blood-washed company come forth,
From east and west, from south and north.
Angels obey the Saviour's word,
“Gather my chosen to their reward.”
There's a banquet spread 'neath the crystal dome;
The marriage of the Lamb has come.
The bride in her beauteous robes is drest,
Her jewels are their righteousness
Earth's weary ones no longer roam;
Their rest has come; they are gathered home.
By the river of life, immortal and fair,
They will evermore dwell—may we meet them there.
Elmira O. Davis.
Battle Creek, Mich.
Don't Shiver for Last Year's Snow
“Do N't shiver for last year’s snow”—a saying of Archbishop Whateley’s, peculiarly applicable to those who make themselves miserable over troubles that are past.
Obituary Notices.
By James White
“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
MAGGIE A. LOUGHBOROUGH, wife of Eld. J. N. Loughborough, died of consumption at St. Helena, Cal., March 24, 1875, in her thirty-fifth year. She took a severe cold at her home in Santa Rosa, Cal., in July, 1872, after taking care of a consumptive lady for three weeks, who died in the house. From that time she had been troubled with a cough, more or less, until her decease. For the last year she had been a great sufferer; but bore all without a murmur. She was remarkably sustained by the grace of God.
Sister Loughborough professed religion and joined the Methodist church at the age of 21 years. Three years later she became a Seventh-day Adventist, and continued in this faith till her death. She was married to Eld. Loughborough at Victor, N. Y., June 12, 1868, and came immediately to California to endure the hardships and privations and trials of missionary life with her husband. She ever desired to see the prosperity of the cause, and only three months before her decease wrote to her husband not to leave the work of God on account of her sickness, and, if she should die while he was away from home not to grieve for that. Eld. Loughborough, however, was at his home in St. Helena, and watched the last days of his beloved wife, and administered to her wants after she was unable to walk about the house.
She often said in her last sickness that she did not know what she should do at such a time without the Christian’s hope, and that it paid well to live a Christian life for the consolation it afforded in her last sickness. Her desire and prayer had been that her last moments might be without great suffering. Her petition was granted. She retained her senses to the last, and died as calmly and peacefully as a child goes to sleep. “Tell all my friends when I am gone,” said Maggie a short time before she slept, “to meet me in the kingdom.”
“She sleeps 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.”
The services at the funeral were conducted by Eld. M. G. Kellogg, of Woodland, Cal.
JAMES WHITE.
Obituary of Mrs. Louisa M. Bartlett
By E. Y. Fisk; L. B. Fisk
DIED, of slow paralysis, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. E. Y. Fisk, in Stafford, Conn., Feb. 9, 1875, Mrs. Louisa M. Bartlett, aged 64 years and 8 months. Our mother was a faithful Bible student, so that in her younger days, she could repeat from memory nearly all of the New Testament. She was brought up a Congregationalist, and joined that church Sept. 5, 1830. She embraced the Adventist views about 1850. Her sister, Miss Hannah Moore, sent her the ADVENT REVIEW and other publications. From her diary of Dec. 28, 1867, we quote: “I now keep the Sabbath of the Lord my God, the seventh day.” Since that time she has taken the Sabbath publications and circulated them. She was buried in baptism by Bro. P. C. Rodman, June 30, 1872. From her youth she lived a consistent Christian life. During her sickness she manifested a cheerful resignation, and fell asleep in hope of a better resurrection. E. Y. & L. B. Fisk.
Death Notice of Sister Laura A. Sern
By Pliny Potter
— DIED, of consumption, at Oakland, Wis., Jan. 6, 1875, sister Laura A. Sern, in the thirty-first year of her age. Sister Laura embraced the truth under the labors of Bro. J. Sanborn, at Little Prairie, in 1850. Although she was a great sufferer she was patient to the last. We trust she rests in hope. PLINY POTTER.
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Swedish Mission.
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Cash Received on Account.
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Mo. & Kan. Sufferers.
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Swiss Mission.
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Hygienic Book Fund.
Amelia Wilson $3.00.
Danish Mission.
H M Casler $2.00.
Mich. T. & M. Society.
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Pacific Mission
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S. D. A. Educational Society.
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Wm E Newcomb $50.00.
S. D. A. P. Association.
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Quarterly Meetings in Minnesota Conference
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.
Quarterly Meetings in Minnesota Conference.
BLUE EARTH CITY, May 1, 2, 1875.
Tenhassen (Tuesday), “4,”
Cherokee, “8, 9,”
Mankato, “15, 16,”
Kingston, “22, 23,”
Litchfield (Wednesday), “26,”
Koronas, “29, 30,”
Churches at Grove Lake and West Union, at Grove Lake, June 5, 6, “
Corinna, “12, 13,”
Chisago Lake, “19, 20,”
River Falls, “26, 27,”
Concord and Kenyon churches, at Kenyon, May 8, 9, “
Greenwood Prairie, “8, 9,”
Pine Island, “22, 23,”
Lake City and Maiden Rock churches, at Maiden Rock, June 5, 6, “
Stewartsville, “12, 13,”
Wells, May 8, 9, “
Riceland, “15, 16,”
Steel Centre, “29, 30,”
Golden Gate, June 12, 13, “
Medford, “19, 20,”
No providence preventing, one of the Conf. Com. will attend all the above meetings, and as these meetings will be the last in this Conference year we hope that all our churches will prepare to come up to our next Conference with our S. B. all paid up. Harrison Grant.
QUARTERLY meeting for Dist. No. 1, N. Y., & Pa. T. & M. Society, in connection with the regular quarterly meeting at Lancaster, May 15, 16. We would like a special effort on the part of each of the librarians to be present with their reports. Those who come from Buffalo on the afternoon train will find teams in waiting at Grimesville. W. H. Eggleston, Director.
NEXT monthly meeting for Jefferson Co., N. Y., at Adams Centre, the first Sabbath in May. The ordinances will be celebrated. I expect to be present. Let the gathering be general. C. O. Taylor.
BIBLE lectures in the Christian church, at Moscow, Muscatine Co., Iowa, evening after Sabbath, May 1, Sunday following at 11 o'clock A. M., and at night. Any who receive this notice living near are invited. Jesse Dorcas.
PARTELLO, Calhoun Co., Mich., May 8, 9. Fennsville, Allegan Co., May 15, 16. Hope to see a general attendance of the brethren at these meetings. There will be opportunity for baptism. H. M. Kenyon.
ROCK CREEK, Osage Co., Kan., Friday evening, May 7. I hope there will be a general turnout as the subject of organizing the church will be considered. Meetings will continue over Sunday. The following Sabbath and Sunday, May 15, 16, where the Richland and Belvoir churches may arrange. There will be an opportunity for baptism at all these places. Smith Sharp.
MEETING of the friends at Eaton Rapids, Mich., May 22 and 23, 1875. Bro. E. R. Jones will be present. We hope the friends at Potterville and Springport will meet with us. Meetings will be held at my house. B. F. Lewis.
QUARTERLY meeting at Johnstown Center, Wis., May 8 and 9. All the members of this church are requested to be present to re-arrange Systematic Benevolence and transact other important business relative to the church. Neighboring churches are invited. Meetings to commence Sabbath evening. Can Bro. O. A. Olsen attend? In behalf of the church, C. W. Olds.
JEFFERSONVILLE, Wayne Co., Ill., where Bro. Scott may appoint, May 7, at 7:30 P. M. In the school-house near Bro. J. J. Shreve’s, New Franklin P. O., Wayne Co., Sabbath morning, May 8, at half past ten o’clock. Further appointments will be made at that time. At these meetings I greatly desire to see friends of this sacred cause from Richland and Jefferson Counties. There will be an opportunity for baptism; and to celebrate the rites of our dying Lord. G. W. Colcord.
No providence preventing, I will meet with the friends in Dartmouth and New Bedford, May 14, 15. Meetings will be held where Bro. Jarvis Ashley may appoint. Let all who can, possibly, be at these meetings. D. A. Robinson.
QUARTERLY meeting of the churches of Blendon, Wright, and Ravenna, will be held with the church at Wright, Ottawa Co., Mich., Sabbath and first-day, May 1, 2, 1875. The T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 5, will hold its next quarterly meeting in connection. Hope for a good attendance. We would also request a full report at this meeting, including all subscriptions to the several periodicals not heretofore reported. J. S. Wicks, Director.
THE next quarterly meeting of the churches of Saginaw Co., Mich., will be held at Jay, May 1 and 2, 1875, also quarterly meeting of T. & M. Society, Dist. No. 8, in connection. John McGregor.
War Preparations.
EVEN the most superficial observer can scarcely fail to notice the very extensive preparations being made on the part of the five great powers for the coming European conflict, which sooner or later is bound to come. France has about completed the re-organization of her army, increasing the rank and file, and is manufacturing artillery and fire-arms with unparalleled rapidity. Germany too is giving its army every attention, and Krupp’s foundry is at work night and day turning out the famous steel guns which did such effective service during the late war. So complete is the organization of the army that it is claimed by a German paper that at a given moment the number of German troops, which hitherto has numbered at the most only 1,329,600 men, may be brought up to 1,600,000 men, in consequence of the formation of a fourth battalion in case of mobilization or war. The same paper states that the French army, which numbers only 1,089,400 men, may eventually be raised to the same number as the German army, by drafting into it the whole newly-created territorial army.—Christian at Work.
Historical Chart.
By Uriah Smith
We have recently been shown a copy of “Lyman’s Historical Chart, presenting the World’s History by Centuries, and containing all the prominent events of the civil, religious, and literary history of the world, from the earliest times to the present day.” We judge this to be a work of immense value. It is to the study of history what a good atlas is to the study of Geography. The course of empire, the rise and fall of nations, is presented as in a panoramic view before the eye. Of course it only aims to present the main points of history; but it is so arranged that the contemporaneous history of the world for each century, in its leading features, is presented at one view before the eye. We see no reason to doubt the claim put forth in behalf of this work, that more of history can be learned with it in three months, than in a year by the common method; and in this age of steam and telegraphs, this is what is wanted. Sold only by subscription. Bro. Levi Turney is agent for this place. U. S.
The New Crop of Grasshoppers.
IT PROMISES TO BE EQUAL TO THE LAST.
CHICAGO, April 22: A Kansas lady, writing to a friend, here, under date of April 19, says: “I spent the day at the farm last Thursday, and I never saw so many grasshoppers in my life. They are very small, not a quarter of an inch long. The planks around our flower-beds were completely covered with them, and it was impossible to walk without killing them. Mamma’s rosebuds and all the plants were stripped of every leaf, and not a blade of grass was left. The wheat is completely ruined. As if that were not bad enough, the chinch bugs are waiting for the corn to come up.”
A Few Hints for 1875.
It is better to live in a little, mean, two-story, frame house, than in a jail; it is a good thing, when you are talking of another man's defalcation, to make sure that you could have handled as much money, with like opportunities for dishonesty, and not fallen before temptation. If you are wondering what makes your former schoolmate's hair so gray, or what makes such a one so wrinkled, or why such another one is growing so stout, just take a look in the glass. Do not imagine, because you have resolved to practice charity and to speak well of everybody, that everybody has made the same resolution regarding you.
If you are heart-sick with regret that you were not more tender and thoughtful toward the dear ones you have lost, just try to avoid further repentance in future by being good to those still left to you. Don't put off enjoyment. If you are not ready to enjoy things as they come, when you are ready they won't come. Planning to enjoy friends and fortune in the future is a most insecure investment. The chances are wofully few that you, your friends, and the fortune will all come together in the future. If you have any good deeds to do, or happiness to enjoy, to-day is the time. It is only when we are arguing ourselves into the committing of some act where we believe the end will justify the means, that it pays to wait till to-morrow. In such a case one cannot wait too many to-morrows.—Sel.
Scolding.
Of all the disagreeable habits the world was ever tormented with, scolding is the most annoying. To hear a saw filed, to hear a peacock scream, or an Indian yell, is music compared with it. Since we were little children we have always felt a mortal abhorrence to scolding. And if we had been scolded as some children are, we know not that we should ever have been good for anything. It is no wonder so many children are bad. The good is all scolded out of them. It is stunted or killed by early frosts of cold, icy scolding. What a frost is to the spring buds, is scolding to all the child hearts. Scolding folks at home! How miserable! Lightning, thunder, hail, storms, and winds, rather than the hurricane of scolding. Let all the powers that be wage a war of kindness on all the scolders, that they may be overcome with a better spirit.—Sel.
A Sharp Report.
—Bishop Reinkens has responded to the pope’s terrible curse upon him in a letter, in which he says: “The pope who was most feared, and who was surrounded with the greatest splendor on earth, Innocent III., condemned the English Magna Charta, cursed it, appealed to the heavenly and terrestrial powers against it, and struck it with his anathema and interdict. Nevertheless, the Magna Charta did not fall; it made the people of England great; and who will say that the English nation has lost it’s Christianity?”
Prayer: A Treasure Laid Up in Heaven
PRAYER.—In the very moment when thou prayest, a treasure is laid up for thee in Heaven. No Christian's prayer falls back from the closed gates of Heaven. Each enters there like a messenger-dove. Some bring back immediate visible answers; but all enrich our store of blessings there, and all return to the heart with the fragrance of peace on them, from the holy place where they have been. The Christian, even when he is walking for recreation, in his converse with others, in silence, in reading, in all rational pursuits, finds time for prayer. And although he is only thinking on God in the little chamber of his soul, and calling on his Father with silent aspiration, God is near him and with him.
Illinois Camp-Meeting.
By John H. Bennett; Lucius Winston; R. F. Andrews
We wish to say through the REVIEW that the place for our camp-meeting is the same that we occupied last year, on the farm of Bro. Alfred Hobbs, near Sheridan, La Salle Co., Ill. The brethren and sisters in this Conference are very desirous that Bro. and sister White should attend our camp-meeting, so we will leave the time for them and the General Conference Committee to arrange as may best suit them, suggesting that, if practicable, the meeting should be held early in June, or in the latter part of August or first of September.
It is also our judgment that Bro. Bourdeau should return to labor among the French in this State at as early a date as possible. Our French brethren here are anxiously looking for his return among them, and it will be a great disappointment to them, and a discouragement should he not return. We take this means of calling the attention of the General Conference to this matter.
John H. Bennett,
Lucius Winston,
R. F. Andrews, } Ill. Conf. Com.
Gilman, Ill., April 19, 1875.
A Child's Simple Answer on Faith
A CHILD was asked, “What is faith?” She answered, “Doing God’s will and asking no questions.” A beautiful reply.
Colorado Floods Delay Waggoner's Article on the Law
By Editor
We hear of disastrous floods in the valleys of Colorado, caused by the melting of the immense snow deposits in the mountains. Sixteen bridges are reported carried away on the Central Pacific R. R., interrupting for the time being the railroad communication with California. We presume it is for this reason that the continuation of Bro. Waggoner's article on the Law of God and other matter has not been received for this number.
Complete List of Popes as Claimed by Catholics
In another column will be found a complete list of popes, as claimed by Catholics. Bro. Loughborough copies it from the Irish World, as a supplement to his articles on Catholicism. It will be found useful as a document for reference.