The Advent Review
James White
TO MY SWEDISH BRETHREN IN MINNESOTA.
By George I. Butler
My Dear Brethren in Christ: I have for months felt a desire to say a few words to you. I had the privilege of forming the acquaintance of many of you over two years ago when I visited Minnesota, and spoke to you in your meetings and Eld. Lee interpreted my words into Swedish. I enjoyed those meetings very much; for the tender, melting Spirit of the Lord was in our midst, and we felt that we were all one in heart and in faith, whether born in America or in far-distant Sweden. The present truth had united us in the bonds of Christian fellowship and love. Since that time I have thought of you very often. I have rejoiced at every report of your prosperity. I have felt sad when I have known of anything that was causing you injury. Dear friends, I still feel the same interest in the great truths of the Bible that I felt when I was with you. We have seen that the Bible teaches that Christ is soon coming back to our earth to take his people home. We have also learned that a last great warning message is to be given, just before he comes, concerning the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. We are sure this message has been going among the nations of the earth for years. It has already gathered many Americans, Swedes, Danes, Germans, French, and others, into one body. These are trying to keep the Sabbath of the Lord. This good work has been in progress for years, and I trust we all firmly believe it will still go on until the work is closed up gloriously and our blessed Saviour comes. This special work which we call the third angel's message has been in progress in our country nearly thirty years. It started from a very feeble beginning. A few persons commenced to advocate these truths, who were very poor and very humble. They labored very hard to bring this great light to other minds, often depriving themselves of the comforts of life that they might give of their means to help forward this work. God greatly blessed their labors, and the work has prospered, till now they have the privilege of seeing it go among the different nations of the earth. Never was the prospect of its final success so great as now. It is attracting the attention of many minds among the nations of Europe and in all parts of the world. Our printing presses in this country are sending forth the glorious truths of the message by millions of pages, and in various languages, and very soon we shall have an office of publication in the center of Europe itself, spreading the light to all the people of that continent. But this prosperity, though very encouraging, is not the most important evidence of the work being of God. The fulfillment of prophecy, the many evidences in the Bible of our obligation to keep the commandments of God, and the sweet blessing of God when we took our stand to obey his truth, are mighty proofs to us that this is his work. This work is one. It unites the hearts of those who have been born in different lands and trained up in different churches. The one Spirit of God united our hearts when we met together the first time. When you met with your American brethren in camp-meeting the same thing was seen. While the one cause has prospered, all those who have drawn off from it have not prospered. Here is a point upon which I feel anxious to speak to you. None of you have been acquainted with this work as long as I have, so I hope you will permit me to refer to this point, and give you some brotherly counsel. It is possible men may rise up among you and try to turn away your confidence in this great movement which has brought you to see the importance of God's commandments. Beware of every such effort. At different times in the history of this work men have split off, claiming they had some wonderful light, but they very soon gave up much of that which they believed before and became unbelievers in the message itself. Those persons usually commence their work by finding fault with the testimonies and writings of sister White, and with her important labors among this people. When they succeed in breaking down the confidence of people in her labors, then they take some other point, and so they continue until they very often renounce much which they formerly preached themselves, and become the bitterest enemies our people have. Many such, after awhile, give up the Sabbath and the truths they once rejoiced in. I have been long acquainted with the labors and writings of sister White, and I have the utmost confidence that she is a humble and devoted Christian. Her labors in this message have been a very great benefit to it. She has been connected with this message as a laborer from its very commencement, and the Lord has used her greatly for the upbuilding of his cause. Many times she has reproved pride, worldliness, selfishness, and many sins in ministers and people, and this has often resulted in great good to those who have been reproved and to the cause itself. But sometimes proud and selfish persons hate her because their sins are reproved; they find fault and do all they can to break the confidence of the people in her, saying she is led by the devil, is injuring the cause, and many other hard sayings. But those of us of long experience, who have watched the workings of the cause for many years, know better. We feel thankful that sins are reproved among us. The Bible commands God's servants to reprove sin. One great trouble with the popular churches is that they let sins pass unrebuked in their midst. We rejoice that in this cause God has servants who rebuke sins and reprove those who are wrong, and try to have them see their evil course and get right before probation closes. We feel sure that the Lord has specially helped sister White to point out the sins and errors of ministers and others, and great good has resulted. If persons are lost at last it will be because they have not realized their sinfulness, and repented and made thorough work while probation lasts. Reproof often enables people to see their sins in a clearer light, and to repent and reform. I have great confidence in these testimonies of reproof given by sister White, because I have always seen their good effect when persons would receive them, and not get angry against them. I can speak also from personal experience; because I have been reproved by these testimonies myself. I accept such reproof as correct in my own case, and feel thankful to God for it. I feel that it has already been a benefit to me, and I mean that it shall benefit me more and more. My dear Swedish brethren in Minnesota, do not let anything turn your hearts from the present truth. If God's Spirit led you into this truth a few years ago, the same Spirit still desires you to go on in harmony with it; for the work has not changed. We still teach the same doctrine, and have the same Spirit. My faith was never stronger than now that this is God's work. Let us all go hand in hand to the kingdom, trusting in God and keeping his commandments. May God greatly bless you, and lead you, and build you up in his holy truth. Your brother in Christ,
GEO. I. BUTLER. THE CASE OF ELD. CHARLES LEE.
By James White; Uriah Smith
“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.” Rom. 16:17, 18. In view of our obligation to the cause of God and his dear people, it becomes our unpleasant duty to thus publicly expose the evil course now being pursued by Eld. Charles Lee of Minnesota, a Swedish preacher. For about one year we have kept silent, while he has been working against the cause and doing all he could to injure the character of some of the leaders in this work. We hoped that he might see the evil of such a course and reform; but as he has now renounced all connection with Seventh-day Adventists, and avows it to be his object to fight against us and to divide and tear down our churches, both among the Swedes and the Americans, we can in justice no longer keep silent. Eld. Lee can have no influence with our American people; but with the Swedes it is different. He was the first, and for three years the only, Swedish minister among us. Several churches in the West have been raised up by him. Hence they would naturally have a great regard for him. Very few of them can speak or read English; hence they have little acquaintance with our doctrines or with our people, except through our Swedish publications which are very few as yet. This has given Eld. Lee every chance to tell them what he pleased, while they had no means of knowing the truth in the matter. That he has misrepresented and made statements utterly false, we can readily show. It is not strange, therefore, that some of the Swedes, his own converts, should be deceived by him. We are thankful, however, that there are but a few. Eld. Lee now claims that he has great light from God and is called to lead out in a special work of reformation. But his past history has not been such as to justify such a supposition. When the Lord selects a man to lead out in a special work he does not choose one who has been led by Satan this way and that way in the wrong direction, but one who has taken a straightforward course and every step he has taken has been in the right direction. Luther, Wesley, William Miller, &c., were raised in error; but when they began to change, they stepped toward the light and the right every time. Not so with Eld. Lee. He was first converted and baptized among the Baptists, a people who have much truth and light. But the next step he took was right into Spiritualism,—a doctrine which rejects Christ, the Bible, and everything that is holy. Here he left the Lord and came directly under the special power of Satan. He says himself that he was under the special influence of the devil for quite a while. Is this the way the Lord leads his servants? The next move he made was to embrace the doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists, and come directly into fellowship with, and, as he says, under the influence of, sister White. He now says that for about three years he was under the influence of Mrs. White, and that she is the false prophetess, the Jezebel of Rev. 2:20, 23, who is inspired by the devil. It has only been a few months since he found this out. Evidently, then, according to his own story, the devil, instead of the Lord, has been leading Eld. Lee most of the time. On the Minnesota camp-ground last June he twice publicly confessed that he had been wholly wrong, had been led by the enemy, and had sinned. Then he and his wife both came forward for prayer, to be prayed for by Bro. and Sr. White. Besides this, Eld. Lee was once insane. This was his condition when the writer first saw him some five years ago. At another time he was upon the point of committing suicide. Now he has started out on another new path. Judging from the past, he will not stick to this long. Brethren, the Lord does not lead men in so many different directions. Eld. Lee complains that he has labored hard for five years among S. D. Adventists and has received but very little for it. But what are the facts? He has labored under the direction of our Conferences less than three years; and much of this time he was not actually out at work. Most of this time he was a single man, having no family to support, no expense of housekeeping, getting his board among the brethren, &c. Besides, he was a beginner, a man whom we had not proved. Minnesota, the State in which he mostly labored, was a poor Conference financially. It has been able to pay its best ministers but the smallest wages. The Swedish mission in which he labored was young and very poor, having to be mostly supported by contributions from the American brethren. Under these circumstances he could not reasonably expect to receive much. But he has, as our books show, been paid well, even more liberally than many of our old, efficient American ministers. He has received as follows:— From Eld. White, $50.00
Of the Gen. Conf., 445.71
Of the Minn. Conf., 320.00
Total, $815.71 In addition to this, the brethren where he has labored have given him between $200 and $300 in money and clothes, as we find by a little inquiry among them; so that Eld. Lee has actually received over $1000 for his work. While Eld. Grant, president of the Minnesota Conference, and all the other ministers in the State, received only five dollars per week, Eld. Lee received ten dollars per week at the same time. This is the way he has been abused by us! Notwithstanding all Eld. Lee’s begging for money and pleading poverty, when I met himself and wife at Litchfield, Minn., April 14–16, I found them both dressed in the best of clothing, better than Elder Grant, Elder Lindblad, Bro. Sawyer, or myself wore. I have seldom, if ever, seen the wife of one of our ministers dressed as richly as Mrs. Lee. How shall we account for this? He and his wife have reported that they were greatly abused at Battle Creek while there. But nothing can be more false and ungrateful than these statements. Just before Eld. Lee came to Battle Creek, he stated to Bro. J. E. Norstrom of Cambridge, Minn., with whom he was then holding a tent-meeting, that he should not labor longer in the humble manner that he had in the past in country school-houses and small places. His place now was to be more at headquarters where he could look after the paper, go into the large cities, or on a mission to Sweden. It was with such exalted ideas as these that he left the interest there to die out and hastened to Battle Creek. Bro. Sawyer here took him to his home and treated him as a brother. Dr. Lee, without consulting the brethren at Battle Creek, brought with him a Swedish girl to take the place of sister Deedon, who had become quite efficient help on the HAROLD, and whom he intended to take away as his wife. Thus he had virtually taken into his own hands the matter of managing affairs connected with the publication of the HAROLD. Dr. Lee and sister Deedon were married by Bro. White. The marriage fee of $5 Bro. W. returned to Dr. Lee, and in a note to his wife, Julia, added another five to it. Bro. and Sr. Lee stayed at the Health Institute about six weeks, during which time they were charged nothing either for board or baths. Mrs. Lee has had much to say about paying the last dollar she had for a bath at the Health Institute. First, she was not sick, and need not have gone there for a bath. And, secondly, it was simply by a mistake that any thing was taken for her bath as she paid it to the wrong person, who knew nothing of her being entertained there free of cost. The following action by the Trustees of the Publishing Association will explain itself:— At a meeting of the Board, Oct. 8, 1874, it was “moved and supported that the money paid by sister Deedon for board and tuition be refunded to her.” The books show that the money was refunded accordingly. The tuition referred to was for the study of the Swedish language in the school. Eld. Lee having for a while paid the board of the girl he brought with him, the following action was taken by the Trustees of the Publishing Association Nov. 30, 1874, in regard to that:—2 Moved and carried, that Bro. Lee’s board, his wife’s, and the board bill of the Swedish girl, be paid from the Swedish fund. The books show that this also was paid them. Thus the action of the brethren in Battle Creek toward them was characterized by kindness and generosity in the extreme, and yet they report that they were greatly abused while there. This is the kind of abuse they received. The first man to take any interest in the Swedish work was Bro. James Sawyer, an American. He studied hard to learn the language, and began to translate tracts into Swedish before he knew of any who had embraced the truth, and before he heard of Eld. Lee. Through his efforts the HAROLD was started. Soon Bro. Carlstedt was engaged to help him. The Swedish Sabbath-keepers were very few and mostly poor. The expense of publishing the HAROLD and the tracts was mostly met by the American brethren. Under these circumstances Eld. Lee should have felt very grateful to Bro. Sawyer and to his American brethren for what they were doing for his people. But instead of this he immediately manifested great jealousy of Bro. Sawyer. He began to find fault with him, to criticise his work, and to belittle him, and labor to turn the Swedes against him. This he has kept up till the present time. And Bro. Chas. Carlstedt, though a Swede, he treated in a similar manner. This is the spirit which Chas. Lee has manifested toward his brethren from first to last. Evidently he feared some one would be above himself, and his valuable labors would not be appreciated. So he has let no chance slip to tear down others that he might build up himself. For this spirit he was reproved by the testimony through sister White, and never was a reproof more true and more needed than this. It is epistle No. 1 in Testimony No. 24. All should read it. It can be had at the Review Office. Here is where he began to rebel, to turn against Bro. and Sr. White, and the work generally. A hatred of just reproof and a rebellion against it, is the real root of all his trials and the reason why he hates the testimonies and sister White so much. All who are acquainted with the circumstances know that this is so. Eld. Lee should have been very thankful for the publication of the HAROLD for his people. Even though it was not perfect in every way, he should have given it his hearty support, made the best of any mistakes, encouraged the people to like it, and done all he could to make it better. But he has done just the reverse of all this. He has tried to discourage those who were doing their best for it, has tried to get them out of the Office, has pointed out and magnified every slight error in the HAROLD, has held it up to criticism and ridicule before the brethren, etc. Here is a sample of what he has done all along in this respect. In a letter to P. E. Hansen, dated May 18, 1875, he says:— “I wrote to Bro. Swanson to look through our paper. Tell him to notice particularly in the March number the article, ‘Who Changed the Sabbath?’ in the April number, the article, ‘The End of the Wicked.’ Unless I look after our interest it will be lost.” “They would have the work in their own hands, and cannot carry it out.” This letter reveals what he was after all the time; namely, to get the paper out of the hands of those who had started it and had supported it, and get it into his own hands. This is a specimen of the way he has worked privately to set the Swedes against the paper. And what were the things in the HAROLD which were so terrible? Simply a misspelled word, a poorly constructed sentence, or a slight variation in the translation? These things will occur in the best of papers. Not one in fifty of the readers would ever have noticed them or have cared for them if they did, unless Eld. Lee had called their attention to them. But he could do no better himself; and after trying and failing, he went to Chicago to learn his own language sufficiently well to write correctly for the HAROLD. Every reasonable inducement has been held out for Swedish young men and young women to come to the Office and to the school, and qualify themselves to help print the HAROLD and Swedish books. If Eld. Lee was so anxious for this branch of the work, why did he not encourage persons to do this? On the other hand, he has discouraged those who wished to come and has used all his influence with the Swedes to keep any from coming to Battle Creek. Besides this, he refused even to write for the HAROLD unless he was paid for it. But this is something we have never done for any one. Elders White, Waggoner, Andrews, and others, have for twenty-five years written thousands upon thousands of pages for our papers for which none of them have ever received one cent. They have bought their own paper, envelopes, stamps, &c. But this young novice must have pay, pay, pay, for every scratch he makes. Several dollars have been sent to him with which to pay his postage. This is the spirit of sacrifice he has had for the Swedish work. We are sorry to say further that Eld. Lee is not a man of truth. His word cannot be relied upon. He has made statements which are positively untrue, as we can readily show. In his letter to Bro. Hansen, above quoted, he says, “I will say this in relation to Bro. and Sr. White: They have three very large farms, one in Battle Creek which they paid $10,000 for.” Again, “Bro. and Sr. White own two farms, each worth 15,000 dollars.” These statements of Dr. Lee against one who has been his true friend and benefactor, whether made in ignorance or malice, are false. Eld. White has never owned any such farms. He has owned several small farms and city residences at different times. One he sold in 1869 for $4,200 dollars, one in 1875 for $4,200 dollars, and one six months later for 4,600 dollars; but did not own them, and was not able to own them at any one time. During the past three years Eld. White has been selling his property, and has put $6,000 into the several branches of the cause, a portion of which has gone into the unworthy pockets of Dr. Charles Lee, and at the present time he holds a title to only one piece of ground 60 by 50 feet, on which is his house and home for his family at Oakland, Cal. Eld. Geo. I. Butler labored some among the Swedes; so they became acquainted with him and regarded him as a good man. Now Eld. Lee has reported everywhere among them that Eld. Butler was in sympathy with him and did not believe Sr. White’s testimonies. But this is utterly false. Bro. Butler has written to Eld. Lee and other Swedes, plainly stating how he stands. His article published in the last HAROLD and in this number of the Review shows that Eld. Lee has made this tale, like other things, out of whole cloth. He also took extracts from Testimony No. 24, epistle No. 3, pasted them into his scrap-book, and read them everywhere he went, and said they were from Bro. Butler’s testimony. Then he could easily show how false they were so far as Bro. B. was concerned. This had much weight with many, but that testimony is not Eld. Butler’s. At Litchfield, Minn., when the writer proved to him that he had been circulating a falsehood, he admitted that he did not know that it was Eld. B. who was meant, but he supposed that it was. This is a sample of his statements in which he is dealing so largely. He boldly asserts as facts what he does not know to be true, and other things which he must know to be false. The following statement from Elders Lindblad and Meyer will have weight with our Swedish brethren. Eld. Lindblad was a Baptist preacher. He embraced the truth under the labors of Dr. Lee, and has been well acquainted with him for some time. Bro. Lindblad is now elder of the Swedish church at Lake City, Minn., and also a preacher. He has been at Battle Creek, and has had a good chance to become acquainted with our people and our work. Bro. Meyer was also a Baptist minister, and is now elder of the Swedish church at Trade Lake, Wis., and a laboring minister. He has been with Dr. Lee and knows him well. None of the church, either at Lake City or at Trade Lake, go with Dr. Lee. Here is the statement referred to:— ISANTI, ISANTI CO., MINN., APRIL 22, 1876. TO OUR DEAR SWEDISH BRETHREN: We are personally acquainted with Dr. Charles Lee, and we know the course he has been pursuing for several months in fighting against the very truth and people which he once loved so much. We are fully satisfied that he is led by Satan in his present work. We have been compelled to know that he does not always tell the truth. His word cannot be relied upon. We have no sympathy with his present evil course, and we pray God that our brethren may not be deceived and misled by him. PETER LINDBLAD.
CARL MEYER. In harmony with the above, read the following:— The Swedish church of Seventh-day Adventists at Litchfield, Minn., to their Swedish brethren, greeting: This is to certify you that we have no fellowship with the course now being pursued by Eld. Chas. Lee. We believe his peculiar doctrines to be unsound, leading away from the present truth, and calculated to divide and distract the people of God. We advise our brethren to stand with the body of our people, and hold fast to the faith we have received. Done by order of the church.
April 16, 1876. Litchfield is the strongest Swedish church in Minnesota, and the one that has done the most for Dr. Lee. The same resolution was passed by the Chisago Lake church. This shows how he and his work are regarded where he is best known. The following will speak for itself:— APOSTASY OF ELD. CHARLES LEE.
TO THE CHURCHES OF S. D. ADVENTISTS—DEAR BRETHREN: It becomes our duty to inform you that Eld. Charles Lee, once an ordained minister of the Minnesota Conference, has now apostatized from the faith of this people, has embraced pernicious and fanatical doctrines, and is now engaged in sowing divisions and discord among our people. He avows it to be his object and business now to divide and tear down, not only the churches which he himself has built up, but all others as far as he can. We have borne with him patiently, treated him tenderly, and admonished him of his wrongs for many months, but all to no purpose. He does not claim to be a Seventh-day Adventist now, and no longer recognizes the authority of this Conference. Hence we hereby warn our churches and brethren to beware of him, and that they do not allow him to preach in their churches, or in any manner receive encouragement in his evil work. HARRISON GRANT, } Minn. Conf.
I. Z. LAMB, } Committee. Litchfield, Minn., April 16, 1876. We now ask our Swedish brethren to consider a few facts. 1. It was from the American brethren that the Swedes received the precious light of the present truth. For over twenty-five years these brethren have searched, and prayed, and toiled, and sacrificed everything, to bring out and give to the world these blessed truths. 2. When there was not a Swede to touch the work, your American brethren began to publish the truth in the Swedish language, and to make great sacrifices to get the light before you. The publication of the HAROLD thus far has cost about $2,300. Of this amount, about $1,700 have been contributed by the American brethren. Besides this, they have paid to Dr. Lee, Elds. Butler and Canright, Bro. Sawyer and others, who have labored among you, over $1000. True, the Swedes have given something in S. B., but not near this amount. This, certainly, is substantial evidence that we have an interest for you. 3. What have we done to harm any one? Whom have we misused? Have not we been true brethren to you? Have we not proved our love to you in every possible manner? And are we not willing to do so still? We appeal to your sense of truth and justice in this matter. 4. Listen to the advice of your own Swedish brethren who have had the best chance to know the truth and facts in this case. 5. As Bro. Butler states to you, many others in time past have gone off upon the same track now being followed by Dr. Lee. But every time they have come to naught. We know that he will come out in the same way. Brethren, this is God’s holy cause, and those who fight against it will sooner or later be brought to confusion.
D. M. CANRIGHT. By appointment of our General Conference, Elder Canright has visited our Swedish churches in Minnesota. And after being with them three weeks in company with Bro. James Sawyer, meeting Elder Lee and his wife face to face, and learning many painful facts in the case, he gives the foregoing report. We wish here to state that from what we saw of Elder Lee while he was at Battle Creek, and the fanatical and wicked spirit he manifested at times, while in this city, in the fall and winter of 1874, and from what we know of Elder Canright as a man of candor and ability, we do not hesitate to fully accept the report.
JAMES WHITE.
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By James White
Progress and Wants of the Cause.
(Continued from page 192.) But we are sorry to say that our fine building with all its advantages is not more than half filled with students. This cripples, not only the usefulness of the school, but also its financial ability. There is a debt of $10,000, on the school, on which sum interest must be paid. There should be, instead of this debt drawing interest, a fund greater than the debt, the interest of which coming in would help sustain the school. Measures must be taken immediately for the relief of our school and to place it where it will accomplish the greatest amount of good possible. 1. The debt must be removed. There are more unpaid pledges than to cover the debt. These must be collected, excepting in a few cases of inability to pay. The Supplement which accompanies this week’s REVIEW gives the names of all who have made pledges to our College, whether paid or unpaid. These names will appear each month, either in a Supplement or in a monthly paper published in the interests of our College. Delinquents will in this way be fully notified of their delinquency, and as fast as they pay up, due credit will be given them as having paid. If mistakes occur they will cheerfully be corrected on receiving notice. 2. There should and must be equality in the pleasurable task of sustaining and nourishing our school. But few of our people have taken any part in this good work. The certificates of stock in our College number less than seven hundred, when in fact there are not less than three thousand persons among our people in the United States who are each able to hold stock in the amount of $10 each, and upward. 3. Many who have already taken stock in our College are fully able to take more, and as the necessities of the case are set before them they will cheerfully add to their number of shares. The writer has one hundred shares, and now, in consideration of the pressing wants of the College, takes fifty more for Mrs. White. The friends of education in the ranks of S. D. Adventists have only to know that our school needs money at this time, in order to know their immediate duty. We hope for a prompt response to this appeal from hundreds who have taken stock in the Battle Creek College, and who are able to take more. Forward the cash if you have it on hand. If not, send your pledges to be paid during 1876. 4. There are persons in the several States who should take a course of study at our school to prepare them for usefulness in the cause. Many of these need more or less pecuniary assistance. Each State Conference should give this assistance as far as possible to persons in their own State, and the General Conference should meet such wants in the weaker Conferences. The devoted poor, who give themselves to the Lord to labor in his cause, should have the benefits of our school. Let the College building be filled with students, and let our school be freely and fully sustained that it may accomplish the great good Heaven has designed. 5. Finally, we shall publish the names of all those who have pledged means for our College each month, and let it appear who have paid, and who have not paid. And each month it will appear who have paid pledges during the month, and who have added to the amount of their stock, and what new names are added to the number of stockholders. Less than seven hundred persons hold stock amounting to about $40,000. We are fully resolved to prosecute our present plans until at least 3,000 persons hold stock in our College to the amount of $100,000. The College owes the Publishing Association $10,000, and our publishing work is crippled for the want of this sum. We urge liberal equality by all those who are able to take stock in the Battle Creek College. And the real friends of our institutions, who can take from one to one hundred shares, and not feel the least embarrassed by so doing, is not less than three thousand persons. When every State and every church shall be thoroughly canvassed this will be found to be the case. Those who have not ready cash can give their pledges, to be paid during 1876. We hope to see the number of names doubled in the first number of the new paper for June. We ask for no sums less than $10 from any one. Those who find sums set to their names in this Supplement less than $10, are invited to make them up to $10, if they are able so to do, or give permission to have them turned over to the General Conference which has already appropriated $1,000 to the College.