p. 199 | Review and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 25. (6/7/1870)

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, of consumption, May 24, 1870, my dear sister, Nancy A. Snyder, aged 31 years. She endeavored for a number of years to live in harmony with the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Although she had to endure the wearing nature of disease, yet she was ever ready to look beyond this world of “sin and sorrow” with strong hope of having part in the first resurrection. She conversed freely with friends to the last. Turning to father she took his hand, saying, “All is well with me. I want to meet you in the kingdom of God. Farewell!” She encouraged the believers, admonished the careless, and exhorted all to meet her where parting will be no more. Thus dies the friend of Jesus, Whose sleep in him is sweet, Till that glad morn will greet us When parted friends will meet. J. H. ROGERS.

Altavista, Mo., May 26, 1870.

Died, on the evening of May 6, 1870, of pulmonary disease, our little Maggie, aged one year, eight months, and twelve days. She suffered much for more than a year; yet, the most of the time she was a very cheerful and happy child. We laid her away in hope of meeting her on the bright morning of the resurrection. G. W. MITCHELL.

Died, of liver complaint, in Tittabawassee, Saginaw Co., Mich., April 29, 1870, our much-loved sister Cornelia Ann Hilton, in the 26th year of her age. Sister C. was led to see, believe, and receive the truth of the third angel’s message some three years since, under the labors of Bro. M. E. Cornell. She lived in patient waiting, and died in hope of the immortal inheritance. “It shall be well with the righteous,” was the theme of the occasion, by the writer. C. STODDARD.

Died, in Richland, Iowa, May 19, 1870, Sr. Caroline Lemley, wife of Jacob Lemley, aged 39 years and 7 months. She, with her family, embraced the truth last fall, while the tent was there. She leaves a husband and seven children, the youngest a babe of two weeks. We have a good hope that she sleeps in Jesus. I made remarks at her funeral on 1 Thess. 4:13–18, trying to comfort those that mourn, with the blessed hope. D. M. CANRIGHT.

Died, of catarrh and consumption, at the residence of the writer, in La Porte City, Iowa, Sabbath morning, May 28, 1870, Sr. Helena Grettenberg, aged 33 years, 2 months, and 20 days. In her last sickness she suffered much, but bore her sufferings with meekness and Christian fortitude, and leaves behind her the best evidence that she awaits a part in the first resurrection. A husband and four children are left to mourn her loss. On the occasion of her funeral an interesting discourse was delivered to a large and attentive audience, by Eld. Hoyt, Presbyterian. AMOS AMBURN.

Died, in Fitchburg, Mass., May 13, 1870, Bro. M. D. Farnsworth, aged 31 years and 10 months. He was a great sufferer the last few years, especially the last few months of his life, but he appeared to be converted anew to the truth, and bore with much patience his sufferings. He leaves an aged widow, and daughter with broken health, who need more than words can do for them. We tried to comfort them and a few friends as best we could with the hope of the soon coming of Jesus, and the resurrection of the dead. P. C. RODMAN.

The Ten Sermons on the Sabbath and Law.

By John Matteson

I HAVE read this work carefully the second time. This is a good work to place in the hands of candid inquirers. It embraces more in a small compass than any other book we have. Those brethren who have not read it, will do well to read it carefully. And those who have already read it will not be disappointed in expecting to find a great many new ideas and valuable thoughts by a second reading. Some books contain a few thoughts clothed in many words. Others are filled with many thoughts clothed in few words. Brethren read, meditate, pray, and practice.

JOHN MATTESON.

Farlinville, Kan., April, 1870.

Intoxication in New York.

The New York correspondent of the Boston Journal writes to that paper some rather extraordinary facts relating to the drinking customs of respectable people in that city:

“I met the other day in the street quite a well-known minister, who was so drunk that two friends could hardly hold him up, and his language was neither chaste, reverent nor decent. Quite an excitement was produced in one of the Brooklyn ferry boat cabins, when most crowded, by a party too drunk to navigate, who insisted in announcing repeatedly his connection with the religious press, which he really held. It is no uncommon thing to see in the cars and on Broadway, women, some of them quite young, and some very fashionably dressed, so intoxicated as to attract attention. The drinking customs of New York are fearful. One of its banks, at its annual election, provides a general carouse. Brandy, whisky wines, punch ad libitum, are furnished, and old directors and stockholders, and young clerks get gloriously fuddled; nor is this custom singular with the bank.”

Overcoming Evil With Good

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this: that when the injury begins on his part, the kindness begins on ours. If both the ways were equally in our power, yet it is a much more desirable conquest to overcome evil with good, than with evil. By this we can only conquer our enemy, and may perhaps fail in that; but by the other we certainly conquer ourselves, and perhaps our enemy too; overcoming him in the noblest manner, and leading him gently until he be cool, and without force effectually subduing him to be our friend.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Michigan Central Railroad.

GOING WEST.

LEAVE.	MAIL.	DAY EXP.	EVE. EXP.	NIGHT EX.
Detroit,......	6:50 A.M.	7:30 A.M.	5:40 P.M.	9:00 P.M.
Battle Creek,......	1:05 P.M.	10:57 A.M.	11:20 P.M.	1:12 A.M.
Chicago, Arrive,	8:05 P.M.	4:00 P.M.	6:30 A.M.	7:10 A.M.

GOING EAST.


Chicago,......	5:00 A.M.	11:30 A.M.	5:15 P.M.	9:00 P.M.
Battle Creek,......	11:53 A.M.	4:28 P.M.	11:20 P.M.	2:50 A.M.
Detroit, Arrive,	5:40 P.M.	7:55 P.M.	3:45 A.M.	7:30 A.M.

☞ THESE trains all run by Chicago time, which is fifteen minutes slower than Detroit time.

The Pork Question

☞ Will the public ever be led to take the true view of the pork question? The following looks hopeful:—

“There is something radically wrong in the management of swine, resulting yearly in the loss of millions of young pigs and hogs, or else the genus Sus is an unhealthy and unwholesome animal, and therefore unfit for human food. One or the other of these conclusions seems to be forced upon the common sense and sound judgment of the observer. The mortality among young pigs, for which the butcher has no responsibility, is nearly if not quite proportionate to that of infants of the human species, and aggregates millions of individuals yearly.”

This is from the report of the Agricultural Bureau, of Washington, on the subject of domestic animals. That the least suspicion should be for a moment admitted in such a document that “the genus Sus is an unhealthy and unwholesome animal, and therefore unfit for human food,” is evidence that the path of progress is not yet entirely hedged up. Reformers may still take courage.

Faithful in the Closing Hours

By Sister A. Hamlin

SISTER A. HAMLIN writes from Clinton: I am with you heart and hand in the great work of preparation, while the few closing hours of probation last. I will try, the Lord being my helper, to overcome my sins and be found at last among the faithful ones who have been keeping God's commandments. I pray that I may realize more deeply the solemn times in which we are living. While Jesus is finishing his work in the heavenly sanctuary, let us be faithful. The third angel's message is preparing the people of God for translation, and the world for destruction. Shall I, a poor sinful creature, be found at last with God's people? I will try to be there. I thank the Lord for present truth. It has been four years since I commenced to keep the Sabbath, and I am not weary of the way. The truth looks better and brighter every day. Truly, we are living in an evil day, when wickedness is increasing, and the enemy's wrath is kindled against those who are keeping the commandments. Trouble is increasing; but God will be a Sun and Shield to his people. He is a strong tower in the time of trouble. We will trust in the Lord. We need not fear; he is an ever present help in the time of affliction.

Appointments.

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

Camp-Meeting Appointments.

General Camp-meetings of S. D. Adventists are to be held in the West as follows:— Marion, Iowa, June 9–14. Nora, Ill., " 16–21. Wasioja, Minn., " 23–28. Kilbourn City, Wisconsin, June 30, to July 5. These meetings are designed to be occasions of a general rally of the Sabbath-keepers in their respective States. See more particular notice in previous REVIEWS.

THE next Quarterly Meeting for the churches of Johnstown, Oakland, and Little Prairie, Wis., will be held at Little Prairie, June 25 and 26. We request every member of this church to report at this meeting. Will one of the ministers meet with us? C. W. OLDS.

PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet the church in Holly, Mich., Sabbath and first-day, June 11 and 12, 1870. A general attendance of the friends in that vicinity is requested. J. H. WAGGONER.

PROVIDENCE permitting, we will meet with the churches in Calhoun County, Mich., at their Monthly Meeting in Convis, Sabbath and first-day, June 11 and 12, 1870. Also, we will attend the Monthly Meeting of the churches of Windsor, Oneida, and Charlotte, at Potterville, June 25 and 26, 1870. Will the Mich. Conf. Committee meet us at Potterville, as above, to consult in regard to the location of a camp-meeting ground? A general attendance of brethren and sisters, so far as consisent, is requested at both these meetings. U. SMITH, W. C. GAGE.

PROVIDENCE permitting, there will be a Grove-meeting at Farlinville, Linn Co., Kan., commencing Thursday evening, June 16, 1870, and continuing over Sabbath and Sunday. Farlinville is on the main road from Kansas City to Mound City, eight miles north of the latter place. Scattered brethren and friends are invited to attend. Come to get your spiritual strength renewed, and prepared to take care of yourselves. JOHN MATTESON.

AT Hamilton, Mo., no providence preventing, there will be a series of meetings, commencing Tuesday evening, June 21, 1870, and continuing over Sabbath and Sunday. Let all who are interested in these meetings make some sacrifice to attend, and come in the fear of God. JOHN MATTESON.

THE next Monthly Meeting for the Southern District of Maine will be held at Allen's Corner, Westbrook, near Bro. Morton's, Sabbath and first-day, June 11 and 12. Meeting will commence Friday at 6 P. M. I hope to see a general gathering of the friends of the cause at this meeting. Come prepared to labor for the salvation of souls. J. B. GOODRICH.

THE Lord willing, I will meet with the brethren at Altovista, Daviess Co., Mo., and commence meetings Friday evening, July 1, 1870. Meetings to continue over Sabbath and Sunday. Let all who can, attend. JOHN MATTESON.

PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet with the church in Johnson, Vt., the last Sabbath and first-day in June. It is desired that every member of the church should be present, or report their standing by letter. A. S. HUTCHINS.

I expect to meet with the brethren as follows: Washington, N. H., Sabbath, June 11, 1870. Amherst, June 18. Hope to meet the scattered brethren in these places at these meetings. P. C. RODMAN.

PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet with the church at Cottage, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. on the third Sabbath and first-day in June, 1870. Would be glad to have the friends at Eddyville, Randolph, Cherry Creek, and others in that region, meet with me there. R. F. COTTRELL.

Answers to Correspondents.

WM. COTTRELL: We have nothing positive to show how often the ordinances of the church should be celebrated. That the question has been left undetermined, is evident from 1 Cor. 11: 26. Our custom here has been, once in each quarter.

P. A. M., of N. Y.: The evil of which you speak is one which we would fain believe does not exist to a great extent among our people. Personal effort in behalf of the one to whom you refer, we think would be more effectual than any published appeal.

W. H. KYNETT: “Even him,” in 2 Thess. 2: 9, are supplied words, and convey a wrong sense. The next word, the relative pronoun, whose, refers for its antecedent back to the word Lord in the preceding verse. Literally translated, the connection between verses 8 and 9 is as follows: “Whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming, the coming of whom is after the working of Satan,” &c. The coming in both instances refers to Christ.—In regard to our duty under the coming decree, it is useless now to conjecture. If we are living near to God, he will then teach us what to say and what to do.—Matt. 1: 16, which says that Joseph was the son of Jacob, is harmonized with Luke 3: 23 which speaks of him as the son of Heli, by the fact that the Jews never permitted the names of women to appear in their lines of genealogy; so that when a family happened to end with a daughter, her husband's name was inserted in the genealogical reckoning, as a son of him of whom he was really only the son-in-law. Thus Joseph was really the son of Jacob; Mary was the daughter of Heli; but Heli having no son, Joseph the husband of his daughter, Mary, is put in as his son. Luke then runs back through the line of Mary, and Matthew through the line of Joseph. This explains all the apparent discrepancies between the two tables.

Notice.

By C. W. Olds

THOSE going to the camp meeting at Kilbourn city, can get round trip tickets the same as for fare one way on the Milwaukee and La Crosse R. R. Sale of tickets to commence June 29: and on July 3, return tickets good till July 5, 1870. C. W. OLDS.

East Elma.

By R. F. Cottrell

We had an interesting Monthly Meeting here. The tent was pitched, the weather was warm and good, and the congregations large and attentive, and listened to some of the reasons of our faith and hope with remarkable attention. We held meetings in the tent through the week and over another Sabbath and first-day; and on the latter day seven went forward in the ordinance of baptism. Brethren and sisters from the Lancaster church came the last two days of the meeting. Their presence and aid were timely, and I trust appreciated. We trust that the labors of Bro. Reynolds will still be blest to the salvation of souls in this place. Remember in prayer the work in Elma. R. F. Cottrell.

Overcoming Temptation and Trials

By J. M.

The form of temptations and trials may change as we progress in overcoming; yet we have a constant warfare. The enemy will never cease to tempt us until probation is ended. The daily and continual question is, How can we overcome? “He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” J. M.

Business Department.

Not Slothful in Business. Rom. 12: 11.

Business Notes.

We have received a letter from Cedar Run, with 50c enclosed. No name, nor directions how to appropriate the money.

RECEIPTS.

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Books Sent by Mail.

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General Conference Missionary Fund.

Church in Allegan, Mich., $20.00, G W Mitchell s. B., 10.00, I M L 1.50.

Benevolent Fund.

Gardner Owen $5.00, Chauncy Owen 2.00, Charlotte Althouse 2.00.

Michigan Conference Fund.

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Cash Received on Account.

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Received on Book and Tract Fund.

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A Midnight Lager Carouse

From the Marshall Statesman, of May 25, 1870, we learn that a physician of that city being called out a short time since to attend the sick, came, at a little past midnight, upon a party of young gentlemen and ladies, so called, all smoking but two of the ladies, all in a high state of exhilaration from the effects of lager, and making Main street hideous with their wild carouse. There are those who think the world in these days is very rapidly progressing. It is—in the direction here indicated.

First-Day Keepers and the Seventh Day

Eld. J. Litch is getting his first-day-keeping friends into trouble. By an array of words which he would probably dignify with the name of argument, he comes to the following conclusion:

“It will be seen by this, that Christians keep as much of the seventh day as Sabbatarians.”

Now as they believe that they should not keep any part of the seventh day, but that to do so, is to fall from grace, what shall we say of their present position? Are they not at least half fallen from grace? Let them immediately correct their reckoning, so as to get entirely clear of the seventh day, that they, in accordance with the laudable desire expressed by some of the earliest opponents of the Sabbath, may “have nothing in common with that odious brood” who keep it. For according to his distinctive titles, “Sabbatarians” cannot, of course, be “Christians.”

Henry Ward Beecher and Spiritualism

According to the proverb, “Where there's a will there's a way,” how long will it be before Henry Ward Beecher will be a Spiritualist, avowedly, as all believers in the immortality of the soul are, virtually. In the Christian Union of May 21, 1870, he says: “We frankly admit that we long to believe in Spiritualism—but cannot. We not only do not resist evidence and conviction, but we rather solicit belief. Who does not wish with all his soul that it might prove that windows were opened into the other world, through which we might commune with the disembodied.” He sticks chiefly at the literature of Spiritualism. But his scruples in this respect are not, we imagine, such as cannot be overcome, since if he and a few more like him should join the ranks, its literature would be greatly improved. He gives, however, so good a description of it as it stands at present, that we cannot forbear quoting. He says: “We cannot be so tolerant of the literature of Spiritualism as we are of the phenomenology. It is the most hopeless waste of sentimentalism, the most extraordinary effusion of fancy, futile philosophy, and maudlin religiousness, and in the most extraordinary quantity, that ever broke loose upon the world. It would be humiliating to the world to believe that dying gives to the soul such a backset as the revelations of Spiritualism manifest. After the growth and experience of seventy years in the flesh, it is hard to think that one is doomed in the other life to semi-idiocy.”

KEPT BACK BY FRAUD.

James speaks of a certain class of rich oppressors, who, in the last days, keep back by fraud, the hire of their laborers. It is not an open refusal to pay just debts, but a fraudulent transaction, a resort to the many dishonest ways which selfishness may devise to keep back wages, or cheat the laborer out of his just dues. Is not this emphatically fulfilled in the cases of very many of the freedmen of the South? In the report of the Agricultural Bureau of Washington, for April, 1870, we find the following statement:—

“Ouachita County, Louisiana.—The freedmen are working ‘on shares’; they get on an average one-third of the crop, and are at no expense (at least they are offered this). At the end of the year, however, in too many cases, the planter brings in a bill for goods sold the laborer, which takes up all his cotton; the corn is generally sold to the planter or employer at a nominal price, and the poor negro commences a new year’s work without a cent.”