p. 8 | Review and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 1. (6/26/1879)

THE WORK IN NEW ENGLAND.

By D. A. Robinson

Our quarterly meeting is now in the past. The resolutions formed and vows made have all been recorded on high. Will they be faithfully carried out? Is the interesting question we are now individually by our course of action deciding. This work will soon be cut short in righteousness. Then happy will be the people who have faithfully labored and sacrificed to see it advance.

From the location of this meeting, we did not expect a general turnout, the place being off the line of railroad, and consequently accessible only by teams. It was, however, the largest meeting ever held at Amherst, excepting, of course, the camp-meeting. The absence of our beloved Bro. Haskell was felt by all, especially on Sunday in our business meetings. The meetings on the Sabbath were seasons of profit. The testimonies of the brethren and sisters indicated a deepening conviction that our working time will soon be over, and that what we do must be done quickly. The social meeting at the close of the Sabbath was one of deep interest. After a short discourse, fifty-one testimonies were given in quick succession, and all felt that it was good to be there.

The secretary’s report will show what was accomplished on Sunday. The two special objects considered were the reserve fund, and the new tent we have just purchased to be used in this Conference. Pledges were made on both these objects, and nearly one hundred dollars were paid. The reserve fund is designed to be made up by those who can pay in large sums, but this deprives none of doing what they can; and I wish to add right here for the benefit of our scattered brethren who hardly ever get out to meeting, that pledges from such on our tent and the tract society will always be in order. These pledges should be sent to the secretary, Sr. Eliza Thayer, South Lancaster, Mass.

Dear brethren and sisters, do not forget the cause, which needs your help now. Soon our efforts will be of no avail. May God help us to arouse ourselves to a deep sense of the solemn moments in which we live, and to act in such a manner that life with us shall prove a grand success by our being permitted to share the life that is to come.

D. A. ROBINSON.

OHIO SABBATH-SCHOOLS.

By D. W. Reavis

Since our last report we have visited the Wakeman, Norwalk, New Haven, Troy, North Bloomfield, and Parkman schools. These schools are doing well, and are trying to make the Sabbath-school work what it should be, yet there is a great lack of real interest with some of the members. Some excuse themselves from attending the Sabbath-school, and all the meetings held in behalf of its interest, upon the plea that “We have no time.” They should be pointed, and come directly to the fact in the case, and say, We have no interest. A man will generally be found where his interest is. All should attend to their business, and make the necessary provisions for their families; “but seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” Many say, We can, and we will, and they commence to act; but are greatly hindered and discouraged by others who say, “We can’t, and we will not.”

All of the officers and most of the teachers of these schools have a good interest in the work, and to them we shall look for the rise and progress of their schools. Each school has a club of the Instructor, secretary’s book, teachers’ records, Song Anchors, and most of them are getting, or making arrangements to get, all of our large maps. They are beginning to give the synopses of their lessons, and to make their Sabbath-schools a success. D. W. Reavis.

Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth.” Rev. 14:13.

INGLE.—Died in Lovington, Ill., May 24, 1879, Sister Nancy Ingle, aged 55 years. Sister Ingle embraced the truth over four years ago, under the labors of Brn. Colcord and Bliss. She leaves nine children and many friends to mourn their loss; but we are comforted with the hope that in the morning of the resurrection she will awake to life and immortality. Words of comfort were spoken by Eld. R. F. Andrews, from Job 14:14, 15.

JACOB NEWLAN.

WEEKS.—Drowned at Pleasant Grove, Minn., May 28, 1879, little Emma, Daughter of Bro. Samuel Weeks, aged 7 years, 4 months, and 21 days. She was playing on the bank of Root River, when some stones upon which she was standing gave way, and let her into the stream. The river being much swollen by the recent rains, she was instantly carried away. Search was instituted at once, but the body was not found until six days afterward. When found, her little hands were clasping firmly some willows which she had seized in the last efforts of life. Remarks by the writer from Eccl. 7:14.

What! gone without one farewell word or kiss, Our loved one, source of fond parental bliss? Yes, it is so; death’s cold and ruthless hand Has wrested one from our most happy band.

We fondly loved her, yet the summons came, And now with saddened hearts we speak her name. The vacant chair, the little, waiting bed, Too plainly say, Your Emma dear is dead.

That resting-place upon the quiet pillow Was changed for one beneath the angry billow; The fond embrace at each last waking breath Gave place to one, the cold embrace of death.

How sad the scene,—and shall we ever be Beyond the realm of this mortality? Will ever father, mother, daughter, son, Be where all partings, sighs, and tears are done?

Yes, blessed hope! a brighter morn will dawn Than mortal eyes have ever looked upon, When from the silent tomb, the briny deep, The pure, the blest will wake no more to weep; In happy union all will notes prolong, And swell the chorus of redemption’s song.

Then Emma, clothed with immortality, May pluck the golden fruit from life’s fair tree, And by life’s river join the pure and blest Who safe in Jesus’ love will ever rest.

JOHN M. HOPKINS.

THOMPSON.—Died at South Newstead, Erie Co., New York, June 8, 1879, Sister Catherine Thompson (mother of Sister Gorham Newcomb), in the sixty-eighth year of her age. She embraced present truth in 1872, and lived an earnest, humble, Christian life, beloved by all who knew her. Funeral discourse by the writer, from Rev. 14:13.

CHAS. B. REYNOLDS.

OHIO CAMP-MEETING LOCATED

Appointments.

“And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Matt. 10: 7.

OHIO CAMP-MEETING LOCATED.

We decide to hold our camp-meeting at Spring Mills, Richland Co., five miles west of Mansfield. In order to secure as large an attendance of Sabbath-keepers as possible, we sought to locate the meeting at a convenient point. The place selected is the most central for our people of any in the State. Three important railroads, viz., the Baltimore and Ohio, the Pittsburg and Ft. Wayne, and the Mansfield and Coldwater, run within sixty or eighty rods of the camp-ground, and have stations there, though there is no village. But on every side there are large villages. The people can come directly to the ground either by cars or teams. We have seen the railroad officials, and hope to get reduced rates and excursion trains on Sunday. Near the ground are two of the finest springs I ever saw in any part of America. They are so large that they run a good flouring mill. Now let all calculate to come. Remember it is Aug. 21-25. D. M. CANRIGHT.

CAMP-MEETING in the vicinity of Eaton Rapids, Mich., July 31 to August 4. This meeting is designed for the special benefit of the brethren in Monroe, Lenawee, Hillsdale, Jackson, Washtenaw, Clinton, Eaton, Ingham, Shiawassee, and Livingston counties. Eld. D. M. Canright will attend this meeting.

The above counties embrace Sections 1 and 5. We hope the ministers who have charge of these sections will do all they can to secure a general attendance, and try in every possible way to make the meeting a success.

We expect to hold three or four meetings of this kind this season, in different parts of the State. By so doing all can attend without going so great a distance from home. Brethren, do not fail to attend these meetings. Come prepared as far as possible to care for yourselves. J. FARGO, Pres. Mich. Conf.

The quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 2, Neb. T. & M. Society, will be held at Seward, Seward Co., Nebraska, July 12, 13. E. D. HURLBURT, Director.

The church quarterly meeting at Humboldt, Neb., is postponed until July 12, 13. We desire the attendance of all within reasonable distance. Bro. Boyd will be with us. D. H. MAXSON.

DISTRICT quarterly meeting and S. S. convention for Dist. No. 3, will be held at Mannsville, N. Y., July 12, 13. A general rally of the friends of the cause is desired, as a special effort will be made to advance the interests of the T. and M. and S. S. work. WM. H. BROWN, Director.

No providence preventing the quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 2 will be held in the tent at Appleton, Ohio, July 12, 13. A. O. BURRILL.

QUARTERLY meeting for Dist. No. 13, will be held at Memphis, Mich., July 12, 13. There will be preaching. GEO. O. STATES, Director.

The quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 11, will be held at Alaiedon, Ingham Co., Mich., July 12, 13. Sabbath meeting at the usual hour. Hope to see a good attendance from all the churches in the district. Let all be sure to hand in reports. C. N. STUTTLE, Director.

OUR State T. and M. quarterly meeting will be held at Edgefield Junction, Tenn., July 19, 20. We want to see every representative of present truth in the State at this meeting. The importance of the T. and M. work will be considered, and a Sabbath-school convention will be held. This will be a tent-meeting, and ample provisions will be made for those coming from a distance. We trust you will be repaid ten-fold for all the sacrifice made to attend this meeting. The ordinances will be celebrated, and there will be opportunity for baptism. Bro. and Sr. Owen will attend. CLAYTON OWENS, Pres.

PROVIDENCE permitting, we will meet with the brethren and sisters at their next quarterly meeting at Soliquoy, Shenandoah Co., Va., commencing with the Sabbath, July 4, and continuing over first-day. We hope to meet all who can possibly come from Page and Rockingham counties, and from Buck Hill. Especially do we desire to meet H. H. Stone and J. A. Stuart.

Brethren and sisters, the time in which to save perishing souls around us is very short. We are therefore anxious to meet you in counsel, that we may wisely lay our plans for future labor. Be sure to bring in all the reports of missionary labor during the last quarter.

We will also meet the brethren of Page county in their quarterly meeting, commencing with the Sabbath, July 11. All the scattered Sabbath-keepers are especially urged to attend. Mrs. Sanborn expects to accompany me to these meetings. I. SANBORN.

TO MINISTERS VISITING CHURCHES.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Each of our preachers in Ohio who has the charge of any church is provided with the following list of business to be attended to when he visits a church. A reference to these items will aid his memory, and may help him to make his labors successful. It is of small account for a minister to simply preach to a church and attend social meetings, while he leaves the real work and the most important matters wholly untouched. Thinking this might be of use to others, we give it here.

MINISTERS’ BUSINESS.

Examine church records.
Look up and visit all Sabbath-keepers.
Never rest till all take the REVIEW, Instructor, and Good Health.
Examine the S. S. book, and balance accounts.
Preach on S. S., and induce all to sign the tithing pledge.
Examine the T. and M. books, and instruct the librarian.
Urge all to join the T. and M. society and support it.
Attend Sabbath-school, and look after all its interests.
Obtain pledges and payments of previous pledges on enterprises which are in need of funds.
Inquire if all have family prayers and attend meetings.
Converse personally with each member in regard to his spiritual condition.

D. M. Canright.

MORE HELP FOR EUROPE.

Bro. J. P. Jasperson and wife, Sister Anna Rasmussen, and Bro. Matteson's children are now on their way to Europe to join Bro. Matteson in his Norwegian mission. On their way from Wisconsin, they stopped a few days in Battle Creek. Bro. Jasperson addressed the Danish brethren and sisters one evening while here. They left this city the 9th, and sailed from New York in the steamship “City of Chester,” the 14th. Bro. Matteson's hands will be much strengthened in his important work by this re-inforcement.

THE EATON RAPIDS CAMP-MEETING.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

This meeting, appointed for July 31 to Aug. 4, is one of three or four local camp-meetings to be held in Michigan this season. It is not designed to have any general camp-meeting in Michigan this year, but to hold about four instead of the one. These will be located so that all in the State can attend at least one of them. But all who live in the counties designated for this camp-meeting should make a special effort to attend this one. The others will be so far away that you cannot well attend them.

All the interests of the cause in the section embraced by this camp-meeting will be considered at this time. The preachers in these two districts should be at this meeting as far as possible, but none need leave their work in other fields to attend this meeting. As there will not be much Conference business to take our time, we can give the more attention to religious exercises.

Begin now to make your calculations to attend. Get your tents ready. If you have none, buy or make them. Invite interested friends and neighbors to come. Bring the children. We will do all we can on our part to help those who come. D. M. CANRIGHT.

CAUTION

We take this means to caution our brethren in the western States, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Dakota especially, against receiving and fellowshipping professed Seventh-day Adventists coming from Wisconsin without proper recommendations. Those in good standing can easily procure them; but many, having disgraced the cause, go West hoping to conceal their true character, and to palm themselves off upon our too credulous churches.

Quite a number have left this State in this condition, and there may be others going. Hence we advise caution upon the part of our brethren in the West. WIS. CONF. COM.

TENT LABOR IN WISCONSIN.

ACCORDING to present arrangements, Wisconsin will have eight tents in the field this summer, manned and located as follows:—

No. 1, O. A. Olsen and E. G. Olsen, Sturgeon Bay, Door Co., to begin in about four weeks.

No. 2, G. C. Tenney and J. J. Smith, Delona, Sauk Co.

No. 3, C. W. Olds and E. M. Crandall, some point in Racine Co.

No. 4, O. A. Johnson and Andrew Christianson, Rockton, Vernon Co.

No. 5, N. M. Jordon and Andrew Fuller, Green Co.

No. 6, S. S. Smith and Eli Osborn, Mackford, Green Lake Co.

No. 7, T. B. Snow and Chris Holmes, Weston, Clark Co.

No. 8, A. D. Olsen and A. J. Breed, Retreat, Vernon Co., or Mt. Sterling.

There's No To-Morrow: Verse on Present Duty

“THERE'S no to-morrow. Though before our face The shadow so named stretches, we always Fail to overtake it, hasten as we may; God only gives one island inch of space Between the eternities, as standing place Where each may work—th’ inexorable to-day.”

Comfort in God's Different Perspective

If I cannot see things just as God sees them, it is a comfort to know he does not see them as I do. If I fail to realize that faithfulness in little things is just as pleasing to him as faithfulness in more, I can rejoice that the fact does not depend upon my consciousness of it.

New Sunday-Keeping Journal "The Christian Sabbath" Announced

We learn that a new journal is soon to be started in the interest of Sunday keeping. It is to be a monthly, entitled, “The Christian Sabbath,” and to be published at $1.00 per year, by Rufus Johnson, Galesburg, Ill.

Some Corporation Iniquities and Christian Complicity

Reader, what convictions are forced upon your mind when you read such an article as is given in another column, entitled, “Some Corporation Iniquities,” and then find the statement that even some wearing the Christian name are connected with such transactions?

Methodist Ministers Report on Arizona Territory

At a meeting of the Methodist ministers of Chicago, June 16, Mr. McChesney speaking of his visit to Arizona Territory, said:—

“Here, as in other parts of the West, the traveler was struck with the gambling, profanity, and prevalence of worse crimes. There were about 20,000 white people in the Territory, and not more than three or five—it was disputed which—churches. The Methodist church, he thought, should do something to help dispel the heathenism here, as dark and dire as in the most benighted parts of Africa.”

“On motion of the Rev. Mr. Colville, it was resolved not to oppose Sunday trains to the camp-meeting.”

The Great Tyne Boat Race Hype

The great, grand, majestic, magnificent, solemn, awful, sublime, and momentous, event of the age seems to have just taken place! At least one might judge so when he sees the papers on both sides of the Atlantic full of it, scores of thousands crowding out to witness it, and immense sums of money changing hands because of it. And what is it? Why, two men, it is no matter whether the reader ever knows their names or not, got into some boats on the river Tyne, England, to see which could row the faster. And lo! one rowed faster than the other! And this one was from Canada, and the other from England. And immediately all the world is agog, and men can neither think, read, or talk, of anything else. Verily, fame must be famishing for subjects.

Publishers' Department.

“Not slothful in business.” Rom. 12:11.

The P. O. address of the following persons is wanted at the Review Office: Hiram Hiestand, Jennie Chamberlain, Samuel Bigelow, Mary Young, Harriet Martin, Julia Noble, Hattie Harden, Ann Bartlett.

Books Sent by Express.

Lizzie Hornby $1.00, Lizzie Hornby $3.40, John Ely 9.30, Albert Alvery 6.00, Lillie Welch Anderson 7.50, Mary Sweeney 2.00.

Books Sent by Freight.

Signs of the Times $6.30, Gen T & M society 50.25, J B Gregory 22.09, S N Haskell 101.75.

Cash Rec'd on Account.

H A St John $5.00, Vt T & M society per Eld A S H 19.92, J W Ferris 12.00, Ind Tent Fund per S H Lane 11.50, H W Pierce 80c, James Sawyer 7.00.

Mich. T. & M. Society.

Dist 5 per John Wight $4.00, Dist 3 A A Fairfield 1.00, Dist 10 per S E Talifer 3.88, Dist 3 J K Gilbert & wife $2.40.

Mich. Camp-Meeting Fund.

J R Gilbert & wife $3.00.

Gen. T. & M. Society.—Donations.

A friend 42c.

English Mission.

Isaac Kaufman $50.00, Newell Grant 100.00, Sarah Bowers 20.00, A friend of the truth 13.00.

European Mission.

Isaac Kaufman $50.00, Orville Watts 1.00.

Danish Mission.

Isaac Kaufman $50.00, L P Anderson 20.00, Rasmus Peterson 2.00, Anna Peterson 2.00, Henry Peterson 1.00.

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History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week for the period of 6,000 years. By Elder J. N. Andrews. 528 pp. $1.00.

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Life of Wm. Miller, with portrait. This book gives interesting sketches of the Christian life and public labors of this pioneer in the Advent movement in this country. 416 pp. $1.00.

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The Nature and Destiny of Man. By Elder U. Smith. This work treats on the great questions of the condition of man in death, and his destiny beyond the resurrection. 356 pp. $1.00.

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The Constitutional Amendment: A discussion between Elder W. H. Littlejohn and the editor of the Christian Statesman, on the Sabbath. $1.00.

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The Two Laws, as set forth in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. By Elder D. M. Canright. 104 pp. 15 cts.

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