DEAR BRETHREN: Having closed the labors of the winter, I feel constrained to say a few words in parting. I have seen but few of you during the past season, as my duty lay in another direction; but I am as much interested in your welfare as though I had visited you in your assemblies or at your firesides. I feel cheered and encouraged by what I have both seen and heard for past months in this State. Though the roads in this part of the State have been exceedingly bad most of the time since I came here, labor has been attended with better success than a year ago. Souls are rejoicing in the truth with the fervor of the "established love" of the saints of Christ. Forgetful of unfavorable circumstances, I rejoice with them, and determine to press on in the good work.
During the past summer a series of quarterly meetings was held by the State Committee, and to these you are indebted in a great degree for the present cheering aspect of the cause in the churches. But in this the members of the Committee bore a very heavy burden, spending their time, neglecting their farm work, and paying their own expenses. Brethren and sisters, you who are at home about your work, and who (very unfortunately) sometimes need to be urged to attend these meetings, little realize the sacrifice made last season by your Committee. But He who says, "I know thy works," has blest them, and they too are enabled to rejoice. But this labor and sacrifice was too great to be longer borne; one of the Committee wrote to me, and I quote from his letter without asking his consent: "With my limited means I can not see it duty to do as I have done the last year. Do not think I am discouraged. I am willing to do all that I can; but I have a family, and to do as I have done is to use up my capital, while others much more able, scarcely diminish their interest. I want some assurance of duty under the circumstances."
Brethren, permit me to make a few suggestions in behalf of your Committee and the cause. The Lord has blest. Since the visit of Bro. and sister White over a year ago, a brighter prospect has opened before us. Shall it be dimmed by neglect? or shall it grow brighter and brighter by our earnest prayers and labors to secure a greater blessing? It seems to me that the present is the turning-point for the cause in your State. While we consent to the readiness of the Lord to bless, he requires us to prove him, and to know that he will pour out a bountiful blessing. Would you not rejoice to have such a blessing, that there should not be room to contain it?—that every heart should overflow? Read Malachi iii. "Be not faithless, but believing." And this I am persuaded you will be forward to do. With this confidence it may not be amiss for me to remind you of a few of the wants of the cause.
1. You want two laborers with the Ohio tent the coming year.
2. You want to send your delegates to the General Conference with such pledges and assurances of support that they can freely urge your necessity for laborers.
3. You want to select delegates to the spring State Conference whose hearts are in the work—who are competent to judge of its wants, and ready to co-operate in meeting them; in whose hands you are willing to trust your interests in the Conference, and whose actions you can sustain. Do not send them because they can most conveniently go, but because they ought to go.
4. You want to have your pledges all made out, and send them to the State Committee in season for them to make safe and liberal calculations.
I trust I need not further say that you want to realize that the liberal shall stand by liberal things; that covetousness is idolatry; that there is that withholdeth, but tendeth to poverty; that godliness is profitable to all things; that to gain the whole world and lose life is unprofitable; that faith without works is dead, being alone.
Dear brethren, let your earnest prayers go with your officers and laborers. God is answering prayer. He is raising up such helps as you have long felt the need of in this State to assist in quarterly meetings, &c. In this I rejoice with you. Let us not slack our hands now, but press with vigor on, and soon we shall join the glad cry, "Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
J. H. WAGGONER.
Warren, Ohio, March 21, 1864.
The Future Glory of the Church
By H. R. Parsons
From Bro. Parsons.
BRO. WHITE: As I was reading in the Bible to-day I happened to turn to the 60th of Isaiah, and was forcibly impressed with the representation there given of the future condition of the church of the living God. What a glowing picture by the man of God is contained in the last five verses of the chapter. "Violence shall no more be heard in thy land. . . . The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee. . . . Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall the moon withdraw itself; for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. Thy people also shall be all righteous : they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation : I the Lord will hasten it in his time."
Now I am fully convinced of the truths set forth in the quotations cited above. And if these are the words of the living God, declared by the mouth of his prophet, then we are left to conclude that subsequently there is to be a condition of things altogether different from the present state of affairs. It is to be a change most congenial to the feelings of those who love the appearing of Christ, and are waiting his second coming—are waiting and watching for the Lord to come. It will be a happy change indeed when our world is delivered from violence and oppression, and the brightness of the Sun of righteousness overshadows and destroys all iniquity. I feel as if it were of but little consequence to me how the world goes on, if I am only able to stand when my Master says, Come home. I hope to be able to enter into the city—into the New Jerusalem, and to sit down in the kingdom with all the sanctified, and to realize all the blessedness in store promised to the faithful. "Come unto me all ye ends of the earth, and be saved, for I am God, and there is none else."
"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned." Words from the lips of the Redeemer of the world.
How gladly would I enjoy more of the presence of my Lord; but when I would do good evil is present, so that at times I am at a loss how to determine.
A few weeks ago Eld. Cottrell was in our vicinity, and gave us a course of interesting lectures on subjects connected with our eternal destiny. They were clear, forcible, and conclusive, and were a battery against the enemy of all righteousness. A few were inclined to listen to the truth, and not a few concluded to believe in the good old adage that cursed is he that removeth his neighbor's landmark. Oh, how long, how long, will the world be bound in superstition's chains? How long will darkness oppress, and prevent the light of eternal truth from spreading? Oh, may we all who believe in the coming of Jesus drink long and deep from the well of salvation. May we sip and sip aqua vitæ, until our Saviour comes in the clouds of heaven.
Yours truly,
H. R. PARSONS.
Clymer, N. Y.
Test of Innocent Enjoyment.
By Dr. H. Moore
If any of our pleasures are such that the thoughts of our holy Brother in heaven cannot mingle with them, we may be sure they are wrong. If they were guiltless, His presence would only deepen and brighten them. If they are foolish, or gross or hurtful, or cruel; they will cower beneath His pure eyes. Perhaps there is no better test of their innocence than this: Would I like to see Jesus here and now? Only we must not imagine that he will be displeased to find us in any other than a solemn mood. He is not only our Prophet, Priest and King—He is our Brother. When did the sudden entrance of our elder brother ever chill our mirth? Only when it was contemptible, so that we knew it would shock his purer taste, or wound his nobler heart.
Our Divine Friend will rejoice in our joy just so long as it is untainted; but if it seems incongruous to ask Him to go with us to any place of amusement, we may be assured it is no place for us. If there is anything in our merriment which would offend His ear, then it is not fit for us. Let him be blended with all our thoughts—let Him be the confidant of all our feelings—let us rely upon his hearty sympathy in every phase of experience.—Dr. H. Moore.
Obituary Notices.
By John Byington
DIED, in Owasso, Mich., March 8, 1864, of Congestion of the Lungs, Alvan Wilkinson, aged 62 years.
Bro. Wilkinson embraced religion at the age of 31, and united with the Baptist Church. In 1849 he listened to the preaching of Seventh-day Adventists, received the truth, united with the church where he lived at the time of its organization, and continued with them while he lived. His sickness was only one week, and though his sufferings were extreme, he manifested great patience, and was peaceful and triumphant in his death. The companion and children, present, manifested much resignation, and all were united in the truth. One daughter and her companion were absent, living in Alexandria, D. C. May the news of the death of their father, lead them to Christ. We made remarks at the funeral from 1 Thess. iv, 18, "Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
JOHN BYINGTON.
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Quarterly Meeting at Orwell, Ohio.
THIS meeting was held according to appointment, March 18-20, at the Town-house in Orwell. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather and the muddy roads (by which the believers in Chardon, excepting Bro. Weaver, were prevented from attending), about thirty Sabbath-keepers were present, nearly all of whom have lately embraced the truth, under the labors of Bro. Waggoner. With much joy we greeted this little company, which has so joyfully embarked in this good cause. All expressed warm attachment to the truths of the third message, and soul-stirring testimonies were given, and much love to God and his truth and people was manifested, and the importance and value of present truth is by them appreciated in a good degree.
Bro. Waggoner had good freedom in presenting the fulfillment of prophecy, and the most marked and fixed attention was paid by the audience, as he located the messages, and gave such instruction as was called for. Although he had been confined to his bed the whole week previous, yet he was strengthened to labor and bear much of the burden of the meeting.
Sister S. M. Swan was detained from the meeting by sickness. At her request Brn. Waggoner, Van Gorder, and Clarke, met at Bro. Swan's on Sabbath afternoon. The prayer of faith was answered, and sister Swan, who had been confined to her bed by a disease of the spine, and was so low as to need assistance to even rise from her bed, was strengthened so as to rise and dress before we left to attend the evening meeting, and next day (Sunday) she rode over rough roads, encountering severe cold winds, about three or four miles, and thus we all felt encouraged and strengthened.
The Orwell church was organized, and Bro. Wm. T. Hutchinson was ordained elder. He has been a preacher in the Disciple church, and has a good reputation as a discreet, conscientious, devoted Christian, and our prayer is that he may be very useful in building up and strengthening the church, and that his health may be restored.
The Spirit of God pervaded the whole meeting, and at its close the brethren and sisters generally expressed themselves much encouraged to press forward and together in the good way, striving to walk in the middle of the highway of holiness.
The interest of this meeting was much increased by the result of the contest which the truth had with its opponents in the person of Eld. O. Higgins. Those who were partially convinced were fully established by the harmony of the Bible on our positions; so that the truth was made to shine more and more.
Bro. C. D. Swan kindly brought us to Warren (twenty miles), where we take the cars to-day for home, having been refreshed at the hospitable home of G. W. Van Gorder, hoping to arrive at our home to-morrow morning. Bro. Waggoner also returns home from this place.
COMMITTEE.
Warren, Ohio.
Appointments.
A quarterly meeting of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Lovett's Grove, Ohio, on the 16th and 17th of April next, to which all who can are invited to attend. Those coming by the D. & M. R. R., will please stop at Tontogany, on Friday, the 15th. Those coming from the north will arrive in Tontogany at 12.48, P. M., and will wait the arrival of the train from the south at 4.24, P. M., when a conveyance to the place of meeting will be in readiness. Committee.
I will be with the church at Mannsville N. Y., the third Sabbath and first-day in April, the 16th and 17th.
Providence permitting there will be a quarterly meeting at West Windsor, Mich., April 16 and 17. Will Bro. Van Horn attend this meeting?
Also meeting, April 23 and 24 at Bunker Hill, Mich.
Annual Meetings Announced
By Editor
THE time of our Annual Meetings is fixed to May 18-22. They will probably be held at Battle Creek. The church at Memphis may expect the labors of one or more of our efficient ministers about the time of the Conferences, which will better serve the cause at Memphis at the present time than the Annual Meetings, with their burdens and expenses. Definite notice will be given next week.