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Review and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 6.

THE PROPHETIC CONFERENCE
Earlier text: LETTER FROM ITALY

Brazil Suppresses Religious Orders

Dom Pedro furnishes another illustration of the enlightening influence of his studies of history and his personal observation, in the new measure he has introduced providing for the total suppression of the religious orders in Brazil. He proposes to pension the monks and nuns, now only forty or fifty in number, and to apply their property, amounting to $2,500,000 or $3,000,000, to the reduction of the national debt. With his energy and enterprise he cannot patiently submit to have his beloved country inflicted with those mischievous brotherhoods who fatten on its industry and disturb its peace by their plotting and intrigue.—Christian Weekly.

THE CAUSE AMONG THE FRENCH.

By D. T. Bourdeau

From Elivon, Kansas, I went to Serena, Illinois. Here our lamented Bro. J. E. Morin died in bright hope of eternal life when Jesus comes. In his dying testimony he said, “Tell Bro. and Sr. White I died in the message.”
From Jan. 22 till last Monday, in company with several true workers of Serena, and greatly aided by Bro. G. W. Colcord, president of the Illinois Conference, I labored for the upbuilding of the cause among the French brethren of St. Anne and Kankakee. At St. Anne we had the largest gathering of French Sabbath-keepers ever held in America.
The only person lost to the cause in our absence, a man of ability and moral worth, was regained; the tithing system was introduced; the Sabbath-school was reorganized; and a T. and M. society was formed. It is encouraging to see how these dear brethren and sisters have persevered with hardly any ministerial help. They will have more hereafter. Eleven more copies of the French paper were taken.
I return to Illinois to conclude the work which now needs to be done for the French, give more attention to physical exercise, self-examination, and prayer, preparatory to laboring in America or Europe, in harmony with indications of an opening providence, and the counsels of my brethren.
D. T. BOURDEAU.
Battle Creek, Mich., Jan. 29.

IOWA T. AND M. INSTITUTE.

By Stephen Nelson Haskell; L. McCoy

The T. and M. Institute at Sigourney, Iowa, was opened Jan. 13, 1879, and closed Jan. 24. The school occupied eleven days, two sessions of three hours each each day. Eld. S. N. Haskell was chosen president and L. McCoy secretary. L. McCoy and W. H. Hankins were appointed a committee on supplies.
Eld. Haskell set forth the necessity of more thorough work in our tract societies, and stated that the object of this Institute was to give instruction in the proper manner of doing missionary work.
The class was organized with forty members, and afterward increased to fifty. The exercises consisted in the actual transaction of business. The librarian's, district secretary's, and State secretary's work was taken up in order. The class was instructed in making lists of members, taking inventory of supplies on hand, ordering supplies, writing letters, reports, etc., balancing books, and sending statement of accounts. Although this was a sham, yet it proved to be real work before we got through with it. All letters and reports were criticized by a committee appointed for the purpose, and lessons were illustrated on the blackboard.
The regular attendance was interrupted by a kind of epidemic influenza, which attacked a greater part of the members, and kept quite a number from attending.
At the closing session the following resolutions were unanimously passed:—
Whereas, In the providence of God Eld. Haskell has come to our State to hold this Institute, which has been ably and profitably conducted, therefore
Resolved, That we hereby express our gratitude to God for sending him to give us instruction in the tract and missionary work, and that the thanks of the members of this Institute are due him for his untiring labors in our behalf.
Resolved, That we recognize in the T. and M. Institute a long-felt need, and that we feel no hesitation in recommending the same to other tract societies as the most efficient means within our reach of obtaining a thorough and practical knowledge of this branch of the work.
Resolved, That we who have attended this meeting from abroad extend our hearty thanks to the Sigourney church for their kind and generous hospitality.
At a subsequent meeting, the members of the Sigourney church passed the following:—
Resolved, by the Sigourney church, That we express our gratitude for the privilege we have had of throwing open our doors to brethren and sisters from abroad during the T. and M. Institute.
Winter weather, long distances, and scarcity of money, kept many from attending who would gladly have come. Our time was well occupied, and two weeks more would have been profitably used in similar exercises. All were pleased, and felt the blessing of God upon them.
S. N. Haskell, Pres.
L. McCoy, Sec.
Sigourney, Jan. 28.

DISCUSSION IN IOWA.

By J. H. Morrison

By request of Eld. L. McCoy, the president of our Conference, I came to Olin to hold a discussion with Eld. Bowman. Bro. Pegg held meetings here last fall, and did a good work, which seemed to call from a distance the heaviest artillery that could be secured. Eld. Bowman, of the M. E. church of Cedar Falls, Iowa, was selected, as he was considered, both by the people and his brethren, as the champion of that system of theology which he represents, and had claimed the victory in many bloodless battles. He came at the close of the tent-meeting, and preached a few discourses against our views on the Sabbath, the kingdom, the nature of man, etc., and then challenged for a discussion.
We agreed to discuss the four following subjects, viz., the Sabbath, the kingdom, the nature of man, and the end of the wicked. Two days and two sessions a day were allotted to each proposition. He affirmed two of the propositions, one of which was the Sabbath upon Scripture authority. He had frequently met the First-day Adventists, but had never met one of our ministers; hence the Sabbath was a new subject to him, and he unconsciously fell into all the absurdities consequent upon their theory. Having failed to establish the Sunday from Scripture, he resorted to history. I called him to order, showing that the proposition contemplated the Scriptures as our ultimate appeal. The Elder was very much confused, and almost, if not quite, lost his equilibrium; but in a few moments he recovered, and closed with an exhortation. He tried to give the impression that I was not willing to meet the historical facts on the subject; but I told him that if he would extend the time and have an extra session, I would allow him to bring in his proof from history. He was not so willing then, and I pressed the matter, and the audience decided in favor of an extra session.
I think the discussion made a good impression upon many. Six or seven have since taken their stand upon the truth, and many more are interested. J. H. MORRISON.

A REQUEST.

By GEO. M. DIMMICK.

Dear brethren of Minnesota, I wish you to make my case a special subject of prayer, that God will restore me to health. I am in such a condition that unless I have help I shall be obliged to leave the work. I love this work and cannot bear the thought of giving it up. I have tried to look over my failures and wrongs, and humble myself before God, and I feel to covenant with the Lord to live more for his glory. Will all the churches make my case a special subject of prayer, Sabbath, Feb. 8.
GEO. M. DIMMICK.

TO THE BRETHREN IN KENTUCKY.

By S. OSBORN

We have in this State some live workers; but there are many who seldom attend our quarterly meetings. If they have no excuse to stay at home, if they do not wish to go somewhere else, and if they can make it pay in a worldly point of view, they will go to meeting. Dear brethren and sisters, let me appeal to you on this point. At these meetings the ordinances of the Lord's house are celebrated, the business of the church is considered, and the wants of the cause are canvassed. No church can prosper without attending to these necessary duties, and the Bible plainly enjoins them upon us. Yes, says my brother, but there are others; let them attend to these duties. I do not think it right to leave my home affairs to suffer, while I go to meeting. Stop, my brother; think a moment. You say it is right to have these church matters attended to; but who is to attend to them if all who have home duties are exempt? This idea would break up these meetings entirely; for it is a rare thing to find a member who has no home duties, and all think their own duties more pressing than those of others.
There are duties to do in financial matters. Read 2 Cor. 8: 13, 14: “For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened; but by an equality,” etc. The point is that there should be equality. Can there be equality unless each bears his part of the burden? There surely cannot be. But some insist that they do help financially, whenever they have anything to spare. Read Lev. 27: 26-30; Neh. 10: 35-38; Mal. 3: 8-11; Matt. 23: 23. These texts plainly show our duty in this matter.
The ordinances of the Lord's house are celebrated. The duty of attending to these ordinances is clearly set forth in the Bible. See Matt. 26: 26-28; John 13: 14, 15. Can your brother or sister, who you think, has not quite so many home duties as you have, eat the bread and drink the cup of the Lord for you, and thus supply your spiritual wants? No. Then let your reasons for not attending these meetings be weighed well. If they will not stand in the Judgment, you had better go to meeting.
At our last quarterly meeting, the subject of reports from absent members was considered. Brethren and sisters, if you are in full sympathy with this work, it will be but little trouble for you to report to the church at these meetings. This is an important matter; and if you do not report hereafter, we shall be obliged to deal with you according to the suggestion of the General Conference Committee. S. OSBORN.

The Education of Indian Children

The government has intrusted the education of 70 Indian boys and girls to General Armstrong, of the Hampton (Va.) Agricultural Institute. The General says that 250,000 of our 350,000 Indians are anxious to educate their children in the learning and arts of the whites. It would be a much more consistent policy for a Christian people to educate these sons of the forest than to exterminate them. The tenth annual report of the Board of Indian Commissioners states that the 250,864 partially civilized Indians in the United States, instead of roving about and living in huts, now own 33,060 houses, while ten years ago they had only 8,646 houses. The schools have increased from 148 in 1868 to 366 last year, with pupils in proportion. Ten years ago they cultivated 179,071 acres of land; last year they cultivated 373,018 acres. There is a corresponding increase in the number of cattle, sheep, and swine owned by the Indians.

Lessons from Losses and Crosses

Tho’ losses and crosses Be lessons right severe, There’s wit there, ye’ll get there, Ye’ll find no other where. —Burns.

STANDARD BOOKS

Issued by the S. D. A. Publishing Association, and for Sale at this Office.
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.
The Sanctuary and the 2300 Days of Dan. 8:14. By Elder U. Smith. This question has developed the people known as the Seventh-day Adventists, and is the pivotal doctrine upon which their applications of prophecy largely depend. 352 pp. $1.00.
Thoughts on Daniel, critical and practical. By Elder U. Smith. An exposition of the book of Daniel, verse by verse. 384 pp. $1.00.
Thoughts on Revelation. By Elder U. Smith. This work presents every verse in the book of Revelation with such remarks as serve to illustrate or explain the meaning of the text. 352 pp. $1.00.
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. 410 pp. $1.00.
The Biblical Institute. Containing a synopsis of the lectures given at the Institute held at Oakland, Cal., in April, 1877. These cover the main points of our faith, giving facts and dates. 352 pp. $1.00.
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.
The Spirit of Prophecy; or the Great Controversy between Christ and his angels, and Satan and his angels, in four volumes. By Mrs. E. G. White. These volumes cover the time from the fall of Satan to the destruction of sin and sinners at the close of the one thousand years of Rev. 20. Each 400 pp. Vol. I. Old Testament Facts in Christ. $1.00. Vol. II. Life and Ministry of Christ. $1.00. Vol. III. The Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ, with the Lives of His Apostles. $1.00. Vol. IV. (In preparation). $1.00.
The Constitutional Amendment: A discussion between Elder W. H. Littlejohn and the editor of the Christian Statesman, on the Sabbath. $1.00.
The Bible from Heaven. By Elder D. M. Canright. An argument to show that the Bible is not the work of men, but is in deed and in truth the word of God. 300 pp. 80 cts. Revised edition (in preparation). $1.00.
The United States in the Light of Prophecy; or, an exposition of Rev. 13: 11–17. By Elder U. Smith. Dealing with our own land and applying to our own time, this is a portion of prophecy which should possess surpassing interest for every American reader. 200 pp. 40 cts. Paper covers, 20 cts.
Thoughts on Baptism. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. A careful examination of the subject of Christian Baptism in the light of history and the Bible. It presents strong arguments against the notion of Trine Immersion. 186 pp. Bound in flexible cloth, 35 cts. Paper covers, 25 cts.

BOOKS IN PAPER COVERS.

The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. 184 pp. 20 cts.
The Atonement. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. An examination of a remedial system in the light of Nature and Revelation. 168 pp. 20 cts.
The Ministration of Angels, and the Origin, History, and Destiny of Satan. By Elder D. M. Canright. 144 pp. 20 cts.
Our Faith and Hope. Sermons on the coming and kingdom of Christ. By Elder James White. 182 pp. 20 cts.
The Spirit of God, its gifts and manifestations to the end of the Christian Age. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. 144 pp. 15 cts.
The Three Messages of Revelation 14:6-12. Particularly the third angel's message and the two-horned beast. By J. N. Andrews. 144 pp. 15 cts.
The Two Laws, as set forth in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. By Elder D. M. Canright. 104 pp. 15 cts.
Matthew Twenty-Four. A clear and forcible exposition of our Lord's discourse upon the Mount of Olives. By Elder James White. 64 pp. 10 cts.
The Sunday Seventh-Day Examined. A refutation of the teachings of Mede, Jennings, Akers, and Fuller. By Elder J. N. Andrews. 88 pp. 10 cts.
The Seven Trumpets. An exposition of the subject, as set forth in the eighth and ninth chapters of the Revelation. 96 pp. 10 cts.
The Truth Found. The nature and obligation of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. 64 pp. 10 cts.
Vindication of the Sabbath. By Elder J. W. Morton, formerly missionary of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, to Hayti. 68 pp. 10 cts.
Sermon on the Two Covenants. By Elder J. N. Andrews. 48 pp. 10 cts.
Hope of the Gospel. By Elder J. N. Loughborough. 80 pp. 10 cts.
Refutation of the Age to Come. By Elder J. H. Waggoner. This is a most decisive refutation of the view that men may find forgiveness of sins after the Saviour has closed his work in the Sanctuary above. 168 pp. 20 cts.
The Morality of the Sabbath. By Elder D. M. Canright. 96 pp. 15 cts.
Christ and the Sabbath; or, Christ in the Old Testament and the Sabbath in the New. By Elder James White. 56 pp. 10 cts.
Redeemer and Redeemed. By Elder James White. This work sets forth the plan of Redemption in its three stages. 40 pp. 10 cts.
Systematic Benevolence. Setting forth the Bible plan of giving for the support of the ministry. 64 pp. 10 cts.
The State of the Dead. By John Milton, author of “Paradise Lost.” This work shows that Milton was a decided believer in, and an able defender of, the doctrine that in death man is unconscious. 32 pp. 5 cts.

Notices and Employment Requests

The permanent address of Lizzie Hornby, the State secretary of the Iowa T and M Society, will be 204, West 16th St., Davenport, Iowa.
WANTED.—A good cabinet-maker to take an interest in a steam manufacturing establishment. Please correspond with Bisbee & Hare, Knoxville, Iowa.
WANTED.—I would like all the names of the S. S. secretaries and superintendents in the Pennsylvania Association immediately. ANNA M. OYER, Sec. East Otto, Catt. Co., N. Y.
The address of the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Conference is D. T. Fero, Wellsville, Allegany county, N. Y.
A young married man wishes to work on a farm by the day or month, for some Sabbath-keeper in Michigan. He would be glad to find work in Battle Creek. Address, W. H. Griffin, Denmark, Tuscola county, Mich.
The address of Wilson Pottinger, vice-president of the Illinois Tract Society, until further notice, will be Kankakee City, Kankakee county, Ill.
To the New York Sabbath-School Secretaries.—We urgently request each Sabbath-school secretary in the State, who has not already reported, to send at once the name and address of both the superintendent and the secretary elected in his school for the present quarter, to the State secretary, Mrs. N. J. Walsworth, Adams, Jefferson county, N. Y.
Bro. R. Peterson, Marne, Cass county, Iowa, would like to find employment among Sabbath-keepers. He is a young man, and can furnish good references if desired. For particulars, address as above.
Will those in Canada or in the States with whom I have through mistake or otherwise left French sheets entitled, “Adresse au Public,” forward these to me immediately at St. Anne, Kankakee county, Ill.? D. T. Bourdeau.
To the T. and M. Officers of Iowa.—Will the directors, district secretaries, and librarians endeavor to dispose of the Health Annuals remaining on hand in the State? They should be used by all means. Please make an effort in this direction. Order all you can possibly dispose of, from Mrs. P. A. Holly, State Center, Iowa. All other orders for tracts, and books, and periodicals should be sent to the State secretary, Miss Lizzie Hornby, Davenport, Iowa. All business of the tract society must be done through her. All tracts and books belonging to the State society should be sent to the State secretary at once. If each member of the tract society in the State would take one Annual at ten cents it would pay for all we have, and the balance could be given away. They can be had at three cents each. Come, brethren, do not let these go to waste. L. McCoy, Pres.

Books Sent by Express.

J B Gregory $4.00, Alfred Nettleingham 4.00, Loyd Caldwell 1.80.

Books Sent by Freight.

J N Loughborough, England, $394.84.

Books Sent on Account.

Wm Ings per H J Spicer $6.00, N Y T & M Society 689.73, Wis T & M Society per M A Kerr 95.50, Ira J Hankins 20.58, E W Farnsworth per J J Hankins $1.50, Geo A King 20.00, Iowa Conf Fund John I Abbott S B 6.00, S B Whitney 8.90, Maine T & M Society per R J Goodrich 50.00.

English Mission.

R F Barton Thank-offering $12.50, R D Benham 10.00.

European Mission.

J S Hoyt Egypt $5.00, Anna Banks 1.00, H W Decker 25.00, Samuel Reash 25.00, Susan Shively 25.00, Chester Pomeroy Italia 2.00.

Gen. T. & M. Society.—Donations.

Judith Foster S B $2.00, Wealthy McNitt 50c.

Mich. Conf. Fund.

Blendon per A Smith $7.00, Gaines per H M Kenyon 17.80, West Plain 1.65, Vergennes 51.18, Bushnell 1.00, Muir & Lyons 7.50, St Charles per J M Wilkinson 20.00, Otsego per J M Green 25.00.

Mich. T. & M. Society.

Dist 7 per Willett Reynolds $19.00, Dist 14 Potterville per E B Lane 9.50, Dist 6 per F Howe 22.20, Dist 6 added ⅛ 21.34, Dist 12 per M F Mullen 11.45, St Charles added ⅓ Dist 8 8.00, Dist 14 per T K Henry 7.63.

S D A. E. Society.

A H Wentworth $10.00.

Mich. Camp-Meeting Fund.

John B Buck 50c.

G. W. COLCORD

By G. W. Colcord

Appointments.

"And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand." Matt. 10:7.
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet with the friends in Illinois as follows:— Sodorus, Bro. Craw appoint, Feb. 7-16. Lovington, Bro. Newlan appoint, “ 18-23. Oakland, Bro. Ritchey appoint, Feb. 25 to March 2. Near Ashmore, Bro. Bitner appoint, March 3-5. Martinsville, Bro. Little appoint, “ 7-16. Greenup, Bro. Welker appoint, “ 17-19. Webber Grove, P. O. Mt. Vernon, Bro. Herald appoint, March 21-23. Du Quoin, Bro. Morrison appoint, March 25 to April 6. Carbondale, Bro. Train appoint, April 11-13.
I earnestly request friends at Cerro Gordo to meet me at Sodorus, Feb. 14-16; those at Dalton, please come to Lovington, Feb. 21; those at Greenup, come to Martinsville, March 14; Keenville and Mt. Vernon friends, come to Webber Grove to stay through the series of meetings. I shall be glad to aid Bro. Morrison and Foster, April 7-10.
Now, brethren and sisters, I expect to work harder than ever, and hope for God's blessing. Come to meeting.

G. W. COLCORD

Progress of the Cause in Foreign Fields

By Editor

The reader will find in this paper many stirring reports relative to the progress of our cause. We call especial attention to the reports from the foreign fields. The letter from Bro. Ribton will rejoice many hearts. And the news from Norway and England shows how the Lord is opening the way for the progress of his work in these fields. Truly we are seeing the fulfillment of the prophecy that this message is to go to many people, nations, tongues, and kings.

Pestilence Approaching Europe

Coming up from the interior of Asia, a fearful plague is approaching Europe like the shadow of a dark cloud. Germany and Russia have sent their wisest men to the borders to investigate its nature, and if possible devise means to stay its progress. With the late yellow fever scourge in our own country, the famine and small-pox in Brazil, the cholera in Algiers, small-pox in Ireland, and the plague now approaching Eastern Europe, it cannot be said that so far as pestilence is concerned, men have any occasion to cry peace and safety.

Plague and Pestilence

have any occasion to cry peace and safety.
And just as we go to press, news comes that the black plague is breaking out in the province of Ceara, Brazil, that the deaths from small-pox in Rio de Janeiro average six hundred daily, and that the people are going mad amid their appalling suffering and destitution, and devour carrion and corpses. All remedies prove unavailing to check the spread of the Russian plague, and the infected villages are given to the flames.

Cincinnati’s Intemperance and Its Cost

The fearful condition of Cincinnati, viewed from a temperate standpoint, is well shown in the following item, which we clip from the Inter-Ocean. One hundred and eighty dollars, on an average, for strong drink, from each of the fifty thousand families of the city, is hideously suggestive, not only of the enormous waste of means, but of the crime, poverty, and suffering which must be the inevitable concomitant of this tide of intemperance. It reads:—
Cincinnati seems to have demonstrated the truth of the conclusions reached by the Gazette some weeks ago, that the city is very wicked. One of our exchangers, the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, credits this wickedness to the enormous consumption of liquors at Cincinnati, and says: “Not less than twenty-five thousand persons depend upon the profits of saloons for a living, and it is estimated that the 50,000 families which comprise the population of the city expend on an average $140 each per annum for beer alone, or $23.20 per capita, counting six persons to a family. The expenditure for strong drink of all kinds is put at $9,000,000 a year, or $180 per family, equal to $30.12 per capita.” That is a pretty bad record to have so far from home.

Shall We Go Straight to Heaven?

“Shall we go straight to Heaven?” is the subject of a sermon recently delivered by H. W. Beecher, a newspaper synopsis of which has been sent us. It is of no sort of consequence what Mr. B. believes on this subject, in itself considered; but it becomes a matter of interest, painful many times, to see what views of the Bible some of these men hold, who have had so much influence with the masses, and to whom some perhaps still look as spiritual guides. Mr. B. disposes of Saint Paul’s testimony in the following summary manner: “Paul at the beginning of his preaching held that Christ would reappear during his time; and during three hundred years this more sensuous belief lingered in the church. Every succeeding letter of Paul, however, showed that other ideas had arisen and were growing in importance in his mind.”
Could Mr. B. tell us at just what point Paul became so wise that his teachings could be taken as completely reliable? We wonder if he ever reached that point? If anything in Paul’s writings doesn’t suit us, can we not set it aside at once on the ground that it was written when he was in his puerile state, his thoughts immature, and his belief “sensuous,” notwithstanding he takes pains to assure us that the gospel which he preached he received by direct revelation from God? Gal. 1:11, 12. Eternal shame on such contemptible handling of the word of God! Open infidelity is a saint by its side. That does its work in a way that is comparatively manly. That would never be guilty of such a slip-shod, emasculated method of trying to get around the language of Inspiration.

PREPARING FOR A SQUALL.—

The Independent of Jan. 30, 1879, says:—
“Look out next week for an irruption of seventh-day arguments from the Sabbath Recorder and other seventh-day journals. A Sunday-school lesson on Sabbath-keeping is close at hand.”

HOW NOW!

Is the Herald of Life among the prophets? In its issue of Jan. 29, it publishes from A. Sage the following question relative to the Sabbath:—
Are believers living in the gospel dispensation under any law from God to observe as a day of rest the first, or any other day of the week?
In response to this it gives an article from L. H. Rowe, of about two-thirds of a column in length, which, though comparatively brief, is a straight out-and-out argument in favor of the seventh-day Sabbath. Score one for the Herald.

NOTICE

By Stephen N. Haskell

MANY of our brethren, and sometimes Conferences and tract society officers, do not realize the amount of money that will lie idle by withholding small sums that might be paid on pledges, and by allowing small sums to lie in the various treasuries.
In many leading enterprises like the Dime Tabernacle and the foreign missions, and in carrying out the plans of the General Conference, where means are required faster than they are received from the brethren, it has become necessary for the Publishing Association to advance money. Besides this, it is necessary for the Association to carry a large stock of books to meet the constant demands of our tract societies and others; and the providence of God is continually opening before us new fields of labor which we cannot enter properly without the immediate use of means which our brethren have pledged and are making arrangements to pay. All these things make the necessity greater and the duty plainer that those who have money should loan what they can to the Association without interest.
We are dependent on the friends of the cause, and we ask their help in the following manner:
  1. Let all indebtedness to the Association be immediately paid as far as possible.
  2. Let our Conferences and brethren that have money on hand that they have no immediate use for, deposit it at the Office.
  3. Let wealthy brethren loan large sums, secured by the Association's notes.
This will help the cause in all its branches. But in no case should this take the place of donations to important and worthy enterprises.
S. N. HASKELL.

District No. 1, Kansas

By J. N. Ayers

DIST NO. 1, KANSAS.

As Reuben Worick, your former director, has resigned, and his resignation has been accepted by the district, thereby leaving your district without a director, I hereby appoint James A. Ashbaugh, of Salem, Jewell county, Kan., director of Dist. No. 1, Kansas T. and M. Society, till the next annual meeting of the society. Bro. Reuben Worick will see that all books, tracts, papers, and other property belonging to said district, are promptly turned over to Bro. James A. Ashbaugh, who will give a receipt for the same, and at once enter upon the duties of director of said district.
J. N. AYERS, Pres. Kan. T. and M. S.

NOTICE TO ILLINOIS.

By G. W. Colcord

THE next quarterly meeting of the Illinois T. and M. Society is appointed for Serena, the third Sunday in April. Before you read this, January will be in the past. Time is passing. How soon the appointed date will arrive! Dear co-workers in the tract cause, will you not all work earnestly, and then report early? Let every officer be on duty. We want a better report at our next meeting than we have ever yet had. Shall we have it? Time will tell.
G. W. COLCORD.

Meetings for Tract and Sabbath-School Work

By WM. H. MILLS

Almont, Mich., at Bro. Foster’s, Sabbath, Feb. 15, at 10:30 A. M.; Imlay City, at Bro. Albro’s, Sunday, Feb. 16, at 2 P. M.; Dryden, Feb. 22, at 10:30 A. M.; Romeo, Feb. 11, at Sr. Welstead’s at 6:30 P. M.
We wish to finish up all matters pertaining to T. and M. and Sabbath-school work that have been left from past meetings, leaving everything in good working order; hence we would like to see all present that can make it convenient to come.
WM. H. MILLS, Director.

Meeting at Pleasant Grove

By S. N. Haskell

If nothing in the providence of God prevents, I will meet with the friends at Pleasant Grove, Minn., Feb. 7-11. S. N. HASKELL
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