Earlier text: The SanctuaryHe that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. AFTER the Blair Camp-meeting, Bro. Farnsworth and I held meetings with the Smithland church about a week, laboring to help the church in the daytime and speaking to the people generally evenings. Good results seemed to follow. Quite an interest to hear was created in the village, so much so, that the house was filled full toward the last; and it was thought best for Bro. Farnsworth to stay longer and follow up the interest. Six were baptized by Bro. Bartlett, and united with the church. These had been observing the Sabbath previously, having become interested by reading. The friends here have taken much interest in distributing reading matter, with good results. We secured some members for the T. and M. Society and some donations. Last Sabbath and Sunday I spent with the church at Nebraska City. This little church has prospered, and grown in grace and the knowledge of the truth. Sunday three young ladies were baptized and united with the church. It was one of the most pleasant baptisms I ever attended. THE interest to hear is still good at Boston. The people are willing to hear, but are slow to move. The rain and cold have broken up the interest of our meetings very much. Yet I am not discouraged. They come to hear, and many are thinking, and some are reading. None have yet fully decided to obey, but I hope they will have the moral courage to do so. They are waiting to see what their preachers will say about it. The Lord is good. He has blessed me this season much. I hear from those at Antioch that they are getting along well, and are of good courage. I feel cheered to hear the good reports from other fields. Pray for me, that I may be fully qualified for the work. T. M. STEWARD. BRO. CANRIGHT’S sermons at this place on Sabbath and first-day seemed to more than compensate all present for their pains in getting there. A few dear, well-known faces and the familiar scenery around brought fresh to memory our spring camp-meeting. In our daily seasons of prayer the absent loved ones of the household of faith were not forgotten. Each day of the discussion God’s word, presented with clearness and courtesy, shone brightly in contrast with the opposing jargon of contradictory inconsistencies, made at times more disgusting by low cant and braggadocio. We think Wisdom was justified of all her children there. Last Sabbath I met with the brethren west of Council Grove at Elm Creek. Thirty-five took part in their prosperous Sabbath-school. They hold one or two weekly prayer-meetings. Yesterday I commenced a series of meetings at Pleasant View. The people are almost impatient for the return of Bro. Lamont. Council Grove, Oct. 23, 1876. WE began our course of lectures here the evening of the 19th inst. We are preaching in the Christian (Disciple) church. The entire board of trustees have very kindly agreed to let us occupy the house for one month. The weather thus far has been very unfavorable for night meetings. The nights have been very dark, and the roads muddy. Our congregations have averaged thus far about fifty. Our hearers have listened to our discourses with intense interest. All seem to be delighted with our method of teaching the word of God. We have preached upon the Saints’ Inheritance, Kingdom of God, and some of the prophecies. If we can have favorable weather, we hope by God’s grace to accomplish good. Pray for us, that the word of God may have free course. G. M. DIMMICK, N. BATTIN. MY last report was from Alma Center, Aug. 10. We continued in that place till Sept. 1, holding thirty-three meetings. Our congregations were not large at any time, on account of the hurrying season of the year and almost continual rain; yet we feel that our effort was not in vain there, as six honest souls embraced the message of mercy, for which we feel to give the Lord all the praise. At the close of this meeting we took down our tent and put it away for the season, Bro. Hogg going home to prepare to hold meetings as the way might open. From Alma I went to Taylor, and commenced meetings in a school-house; continued there till Sept. 25, holding thirty meetings, with very good interest. At the close, fourteen signed the covenant to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Five were baptized. Sept. 26, I went to Pole Grove, and held one meeting. The 27th, four willing souls were buried in baptism. Thus our labors closed in this part of the State for the present. In all, thirty have signed the covenant, and a goodly number have signed for the REVIEW, REFORMER, and INSTRUCTOR. My prayer is that they may all prove faithful, and finally be saved in the kingdom. I am at home for a short time, to prepare for winter; then I hope to find my place in the solemn work. Remember me in your prayers, brethren. Johnstown Center, Wis., Oct. 20. In company with Bro. Fulton, we came to Dimondale and held meetings Oct. 21 and 22. We found the friends all holding on to the truth. The most of them had attended our good camp-meeting, from which they received great benefit. A church was organized consisting of fourteen members, eight of whom were baptized on first-day. Six others were taken under their watch-care. The plan of S. B. was entered into and $43.78 were pledged. This amount will be increased by pledges from some who were not present. We think they did well considering their circumstances. This sum was all devoted to the Conference fund. Since my last report, I have held thirty-one meetings in Delhi County. Fairs and political gatherings have detracted from the interest of the meetings. Some admit the truth, but think their circumstances forbid their walking in the light. An opposition discourse was given, which we reviewed. Our opponents, not feeling satisfied with the result, sent to Ohio for a certain Eld. Vail who is earnestly engaged in trying to sustain popular error. My brother Richard is with me, and we shall try to maintain the truth. Pray for us. OCT. 6–11, I was with the church at West Plains. I held with them, in all, eight meetings, and spent the remainder of the time in visiting from house to house. On Sabbath a. m., a goodly number of brethren and sisters from Greenville, and Bro. Rasmussen with his Danish brethren, met with this church. At the close of this meeting, three applied for admission and baptism,—Dr. Chaffee and wife to the Greenville church, and a young man, the son of Eld. Withem of the Free Methodist order, to this church. At 11 o’clock A. M. on first-day the above-mentioned persons were buried in baptism by Eld. Fargo. Everything was conducted with decency and in order. This church has had some trials, caused by the lack of judgment of some. If such would seek the counsel of their brethren, and follow it, it would save them and the cause of God from reproach. We regret that we had not more time to spend with this church, but previous arrangements made it necessary for us to leave them for the present. Our earnest prayer is that the Lord will help them to live worthy the vocation wherewith they are called. Oct. 13, I came to Estella, Gratiot Co. There we spent the time from Sabbath to Wednesday with the brethren, visiting from house to house, and holding meetings every night. We found these brethren all in the love of the truth, and determined to keep on. They are most of them young in the truth. They will all need to remember that fallen man is weak in himself, and needs divine grace and wisdom to do all things well. We are anxious to see them prosper and grow in grace; and if those of older experience will move from reason and not from impulse, the Lord will perfect them for a place in his kingdom. Home matters and preparations for leaving home for a large share of the winter compelled us to cut short our stay. Thursday morning we started for home by way of Carson City, where we found Bro. Burrill and the brethren hard at work on their meeting-house, pushing it through toward completion as fast as possible. Friday, the 20th, found us at home with just time enough to make a hasty preparation for the Sabbath. We shall stay here one week; and then, the Lord willing, we will again be at work for souls. Pray for us. Vergennes, Mich., Oct. 22. I BEGAN meetings nine miles east of Hampton, October 17, with a good audience for the first night. Rain and mud have hindered somewhat; yet the house was well filled yesterday and last night, while I spoke on the coming of Christ and the signs of the times. There seems to be an interest to hear. I need God’s help; for without it I am utter weakness. I sincerely desire to be remembered in the prayers of God’s faithful people. My address is Hampton, Franklin Co., Iowa. I AM still at Glade Creek. I have baptized three. The State election is now two weeks in the future, and there is so much excitement about it that the people think of little else; therefore I shall enter no new field until it is over, but shall try to finish up the work here and visit the company at Bee Creek. I expect Bro. Richardson will join me soon. Brethren, pray for us. CAME to this place with the expectation of laboring among the French; but as the way did not open as expected, I went to Navarino, Shawano Co., having received an urgent letter from my brother to go and give some lectures. Gave eight lectures; but the roads being very muddy, the nights very dark, and it raining every day, the people could not come out to hear. But before leaving, I was rejoiced to see my brother, with his family, take hold of the truth. I then returned to Green Bay, and began a course of lectures in the town of Scott, near Wequiock. Have spoken sixteen times. The interest has increased from the first, the congregation ranging from twenty to forty, mostly young people. Many have acknowledged that we have the truth, but none have as yet decided to obey it. Some who come to hear are Catholics. One evening, after having spoken on the Little Horn of the seventh of Daniel, while on our way home we were greeted with a shower of stones. They fell thick and fast around us, but none touched us. Ps. 34:7: “The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.” We have hopes that some will obey. We feel like consecrating ourselves more fully to the Lord, that we may be humble instruments to bring some souls into the fold of Christ. Expect to remain here another week. Brethren and sisters, pray for us and for the cause here. Green Bay, Oct. 20, 1876. THIS good quarterly meeting is in the past. The preaching meetings were all held in the Disciple church in the village of Bowersville, excepting one on T. and M. work at the house of the director. One interesting feature of the meeting was the presence of Elder James McFarland of Springfield, O. He was a Presbyterian minister for a number of years; but on account of poor health he has been traveling for a few years past in the interests of the American Tract Society. Now he has got hold of the light on the Sabbath and health reform, and is joyfully walking in both. He is very anxious to get into a place where he can give his whole time to lecturing and distributing reading matter upon these great themes of truth. He spoke to us once on the Sabbath question. May he soon find his proper place in the ranks of reform. Four members were added to the Bowersville church, and four members to the T. and M. Society. The director presented a report from every member in his district, and what was better still, every one of these reports represented a donation. This reads as it should, viz:— Number of members, 20.
Number of reports received, 20.
Number of donors, 20. The number of pages of tracts and pamphlets distributed during the past quarter is 34,317; no. of families visited, 283; donations received, $20.10; book sales, $14.50; district expenses, nothing. This was the director’s report. Sr. Elsie Gates is modestly and quietly doing a good work in Springfield. May the Lord abundantly bless her labors of love. We looked about Springfield in view of our next camp-meeting. We think Dist. No. 1 will have at least two active agents this winter for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES and other periodicals. We made arrangements for the distribution of about 1000 Almanacs in this district during the next quarter. One sad thing to relate in the end, the worthy director soon moves from the State. It is not yet determined who will be his successor. But we pray that his mantle may fall upon some one who will possess even a double portion of his spirit. Clay Lick, O., Oct. 20, 1876. THREE HEADINGS.
By H. A. St. John
The director in Dist. No. 1 very soon moves from our State;—highly esteemed and much needed, yet we must give him up. The director in Dist. No. 3, on account of ill health, has left our State, to be away perhaps a year;—young, efficient, and zealous, yet we must be content to think of him as absent from his charge. The worthy elder of one church has just moved from our State, leaving one flock without a shepherd. Only one minister is out in new fields in the State. One or two churches of efficiency and strength are much weakened by internal commotion. And what more do I see? A few gloomy features; but, praise the Lord, the picture is rapidly turning, and the bright side appears. See the elevating title, Dist. No. 1 moves off encouragingly in the T. and M. work. Four new members have been added to the church and Tract Society, more than making up, in numbers, for removals. One constantly active missionary, with one or two busy canvassers for our periodicals, with a very fair prospect for the distribution of one thousand Health Almanacs, are some of the happy features from that section. Valuable souls are continually embracing the truth in different parts of our State. The one minister in a new field reports an extensive interest and a large hearing. Openings for labor are many, with earnest appeals for help. Reading matter is called for, and is slowly but continually passing out. A spirit of sacrifice is met occasionally143which cheers the heart greatly. Some of our churches are having seasons of sweet union and communion together, while the Lord blesses them much, and precious souls are being added to their number, such as we hope will be saved. The strong church of Clyde has not stood in a better place for many a day, than just now. May they abound in love toward God and toward each other, and in good works more and more. No, indeed. We feel deeply for those of our dear brethren in trial. Sometimes we feel much depressed when we think how the enemy has succeeded, in some instances, in dividing the hearts of our brethren, and thus nearly hiding their light from the world. But we have seen his power broken, and light, liberty, and union, come in, so we are very hopeful in these cases. The Lord is good. We are hopeful of seeing much good accomplished during the coming winter. Brethren, one and all, let us take hold unitedly to watch, pray, and labor, for the progress of the good work of the Lord. H. A. ST. JOHN. WORK FOR ALL.
By Mrs. E. E. S. B.
In the market place why stand ye,
Idling all the golden day,
While the Master's vineyard needs thee,
Pruning withered boughs away? Haste ye to the field of labor,
Where the Master shall approve;
And the rubbish that encumbers,
Nerved with quickened zeal, remove. Teach the erring child the waymarks
God has left us in his word,
All his holy, pure commandments,
All the ways of life to heed. Sow the seeds of truth unsparing,
All the precepts of his word;
Ask his guidance and his blessing,
That no error may intrude; Ever at his footstool kneeling,
Seeking grace from day to day,
That the Holy Spirit, guiding,
May direct thee in the way. And a blessing on thy labor
Shall attend each earnest prayer,
That the vineyard of the Master
Bloom for fruitage everywhere. WILL THEY DO IT?
By M. Wood
This question, asked by Bro. White, is a momentous one deserving the most careful and prayerful consideration of all; and it should be (and no doubt will be) answered in the affirmative by every living member of the T. and M. Society from Maine to California. If I am not mistaken in the object of the T. and M. Society, it was, at its formation and organization, destined to act in co-operation with those bearing heavy burdens and filling responsible positions in the cause of God. We are told that the T. and M. Society bears the same relation to the third angel’s message that the right arm does to the body. It has become an auxiliary in sounding forth the last warning message. And while it is an established fact, that this army of workers has rendered most efficient assistance to our ministers and the cause generally in the distribution of our periodicals, yet from a scriptural stand-point we have not done one-twentieth of what we might have done, were we fully consecrated to the work of God. Now, brethren, shall we redeem the time, return to primitive holiness, place ourselves in close connection with Heaven, and carry out those Heaven-born principles in our every-day lives? God in his infinite mercy has given us light and knowledge of his will to be communicated to others. We thus become living channels through which the truth of God finds its way to honest souls struggling for light and liberty. Though we may never in this life witness the good resulting from our labors, yet there is no cause for us to be discouraged, become weary in well doing, and settle down content with the achievements already made in this noble enterprise. God forbid that a single individual in the missionary corps should lay down his arms and feel at ease while the Macedonian cry is being heard from every quarter of the field. In what better way can we aid the cause of God, and help our fellow-creatures on to eternal glory than by placing in their hands such reading matter as will, if perused and its teachings put to a practical use, lead them to the Lamb of God? The SIGNS OF THE TIMES is a paper designed for that very purpose. It is our missionary, or pioneer, paper, offered to the Tract Society for the small sum of $1.50 per year, post-paid. What an easy matter, brethren, to increase the circulation of the SIGNS ten, twenty, yes, thirty thousand, before the first of January, 1877! The sixteen Conferences have a membership of upwards of 10,000. We will venture to say that in this number there are not a dozen individuals but that could obtain at least one subscriber for the SIGNS; and many, if they would give themselves to the work, could obtain scores of subscribers for this most valuable paper. And as delays are dangerous, it is expedient that we enter upon our winter campaign at once, not in a careless, haphazard style, but in a judicious, systematic manner, ordering our business through the State secretary. Dear friends, it is time to awake and exercise faith in God and his work, and to make advance moves while public sentiment is turned in favor of these unpopular truths. I verily believe that a live, energetic canvasser, devoted to the cause of God and consecrated to his service, could by well-matured plans enter the city of Haverhill, Mass., and obtain at least five hundred subscribers for the SIGNS and REFORMER. Sr. White’s lecture on temperance in that city carried everything by storm. It has allayed prejudice, and won the hearts of the leading people of the place, who are favorably impressed with the doctrines taught by S. D. Adventists. We look upon this opening as brought about by a special providence of God. Let us in our respective districts follow up these openings so providentially brought about. Now will you do it? Yes! let ten thousand voices reply, we will do it, God’s grace assisting. While penning these lines in behalf of the SIGNS struggling in its infancy for freedom, a sister called to see me upon business. I made known to her the subject upon which I was writing. She thought she could not obtain many subscribers, but she gave me $50 for the SIGNS. Reader, “go thou, and do likewise.” M. Wood. GREAT THINGS FOR A LITTLE ONE.
By Calvin Monroe
“The Lord has done great things for you,” said Bro. White to me as, I fondly remember; and Bro. Andrews, when leaving, a missionary for Europe, said, “You will go safe,” i. e., to meet the Lord. Pleasing and encouraging as were these testimonies to me, coming as they did from such a source, they are worthless, unless founded in fact. As to the former, blessed be God, I have lived to see it verified; for the Lord has certainly “done great things” for me, unworthy as I am, as intimated in the sequel. Well, what has he done? Educated me as a child of his; not as the world educates. He has, to a great extent, vanquished Satan, and put him beneath my feet, Rom. 16:20; so that I can smile at his rage, and face a frowning, wicked world; a conquest obtained by fasting and prayer. I am strong in faith, hope, love, peace, and joy. Are these small things? Nothing is greater, nothing more desirable, than this triumph over all. In the last decisive hour, full and complete victory will be given the saints. Then, on these, foul spirits have no power. “Angels that trace the airy road,
Shall lead them homeward to their God.” Again: Let a man “smite me on the one cheek.” What then? Do I smite back? No, not if I have the spirit of Christ. He did no such thing. It was pity and compassion, when upon the cross he prayed, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” It was in their ignorance they crucified the Lord of glory; yet did it “with wicked hands,” as do all sinners; but their ignorance will not save them. 2 Thess. 1:8. To be Christ-like is to be harmless, “Love worketh no ill.” Instead of an afflictive, I would extend a friendly hand; would point my brethren upward, from things treacherous, fading, and dying, to things better, safe, and eternal; to a home in glory, full of joy, peace, and love. Where Jesus lives there must be joy, “in the wide waste, as in the city full;” in the hovel, as in the palace royal. Such is Jesus, the Prince of loveliness, his power, his beauty, his image, as reflected by his followers. “Let others,” say they, “have the world and all its idle vanities; give us Jesus, and we ask no more.” He walks with them here the vale of tears, the vale of death; then wipes their tears, and walks with them the plains of light, no more to be overtaken by darkness, or the shadow of death. But why, in the caption, is the man called “a little one?” It is scriptural, and so he feels. Did not Paul, great as he was, call himself “less than the least of all saints,” and the beloved John, his brethren “little children?” This is it; this is in harmony with what Jesus said of little children. All his real children feel like this, small, weak, and dependent. None who feel “big and important,” can belong to that sweet family of humility. No aristocracy, no proud distinctions, are there. No, all is love, meekness, and humility. To gain membership in that blessed family, we must, as Bro. Littlejohn has well said, “come back to the cradle.” So it was taught by our Lord: “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of Heaven.” Matt. 18:3. This settles the question. Oh! how great, then, must be the alteration in every one of Adam’s race, to gain that kingdom! Let us not slumber over the question of fitness to meet our coming Lord, now “at the doors.” Matt. 24:33. Again: The late Dr. Guthrie of Edinburgh, “the king of preachers,” called himself “a little child,” in the family of Christ. Like Paul, the greater he was in piety, the smaller he felt. The more celestial light we have, the more clearly shall we see, and the more deeply feel, our smallness, our unworthiness, our ill deserts. This is a rule to which there are no exceptions. One thing more of Dr. Guthrie: He loved and cared for poor little children, and labored for their good. He gathered them into schools, and did so much for them “they almost worshiped him,” and on the day of his funeral, after the dignitaries of the church had concluded their solemnities, and he was lowered down, two little girls emerged from the crowd, and threw flowers upon his grave. This melted Scotland to tears. Here is love that never dies. “From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.” Here is seen what little hearts and hands can do,—can soften other hearts, and melt a nation to tears and tenderness! Should not this remind us of a greater funeral, the “funeral of the world,” so near at hand, “when nature dies, and God and angels come to lay her in the tomb”? “Every eye shall see, every ear shall hear,” Him whom they pierced;—see a world in flames, the end of earth; hear the knell of its decease, the voice of God dooming the nations! To-day we speak of it, to-morrow it comes! To-day let us be ready. Dear brethren and sisters, must we not come up to this work of preparation for translation, or to meet the Lord at his coming, sleeping or waking? Oh, yes! Let us lay siege to the Omnipotent Arm, and he will help us, for this is his will concerning us. “Be ready,” says he. Can we do less, and go safe? ’Tis thought to be something to be ready to see a poor, mortal king, in whom we have no interest; what then to be ready to see the King of kings, the King Eternal, in whom is our life, our all, for unending ages? Let us be wise to-day. To-morrow is the fool’s day; and he is never ready, only for perdition. To-morrow is in another world. To thousands this is certain; the reverse is sure to none. Just think of it, dear brethren, will you?—the sweetness, the blessedness, of being in the friendship of God, at peace with him, ready to meet him at any moment!—feeling that our work thus far is well and faithfully done. This is it; to be ready and keep ready, to meet the Lord, still growing in grace, and in the knowledge of this, our best Beloved. Besides, now is the time to finish up our work for others, our friends out of Christ, and all within our reach. “How beauteous are their feet,
Who stand on Zion’s hill;
Who bring salvation on their tongue,
And words of peace reveal.” Well, what can be said of the humble writer of these poor lines? Could he to-day be put in possession of the things, the glorious things, spoken of in 1 Cor. 2:9, he would rather decline, God willing, and for a season longer stay here, that he might help his dear friends and others, notwithstanding the infirmities of age. Whitefield, one of God’s faithful and successful ministers, said, “Give it not up but with life;” labor and pray on to the last, leaving the event with God. Though without Christ we can do nothing, and though in the very face and eyes of sin and Satan, and of abounding iniquity on all sides, that marks the perils of the last days, let us throw ourselves into the arms and work of God at once; and carry out, with swimming eyes and bleeding heart, the golden rule of salvation in behalf of perishing sinners; and be fellow-helpers unto the kingdom of God. Arise, let us go hence. This is not our rest! CALVIN MONROE.
Waldo, Me. WHY JOHNNY LIKED THE MINISTER.
“Oh! wasn't that a good minister we had to-day?” said Johnny. “Yes, very good. Which sermon did you like best?” said his teacher. “Oh, I don't know! It was not the sermon altogether that I meant.” “Why, he prayed for Sabbath schools and boys so good; I never heard any one pray so much for boys. Most of them do not. That is why I like him.” “Do you not like to be prayed for?” “Why, yes, of course I do.” “The minister prayed to-day that all the boys might be Christ's boys. Did you like that?” “Yes; and I prayed as hard as I could that I might be. When we hear people praying for us, it makes us think it is about time to be praying for ourselves. If children don't like to say much about good things, I guess they all like to have the minister remember them. I always watch and see if they pray for young folks; if they don't, I think they won't have much for us in the sermon either. Then, of course, I don't listen as well as I should if I thought there would be something for me.”—Sel. We have heard from the east, from the south, and the west,
Of commotion and tumult, and dreadful unrest;
For the Sabbath of man is profaned by man's servants,
And men call for law to enforce its observance. Can it be that wise men have so blinded their eyes,
That they cannot perceive how the matter now lies?
Lo! the Sabbath, on which they say men have so trod,
Is the Sabbath of man, not the Sabbath of God. Vain man! if so grieved when your statutes are spurned,
Shall not God's vials of wrath on you now be turned?
Before you discover such faults of another,
Take from your eye the beam, then look to your brother. Can it be that man thought, when he made this decree:
From henceforth, the first day the Sabbath shall be,—
That the edict of man should forever abide,
While the law of Jehovah was thus set aside? God's Sabbath at first disregarded with spurn,
See! 'tis man's Sabbath now that is taking its turn.
What fruit could be surer? Let man never forget,
That the seventh-day Sabbath is God's Sabbath yet.
M. A. B., in Sabbath Recorder. One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is doomsday.—Emerson. “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.” Died, near Rock Creek, Kan., Sept. 19, 1876, David Otto, son of Jonas and Mary R. Divilbiss, aged one year, four months, and fourteen days. At the same place, Sept. 23, 1876, Mary R., wife of Jonas Divilbiss, aged thirty-three years, two months, and fifteen days. Sr. Divilbiss embraced the Sabbath when it was first presented there, and united with the church last summer. She leaves a husband and three small children to mourn their loss. During her last sickness, she expressed entire resignation and a hope of a part in the first resurrection. Funeral discourse Oct. 8, by Bro. Canright, from Rom. 8:28. Died, of epilepsy, at my residence in Washington, N. H., Sept. 8, 1876, Bro. Charles W. Reed, aged thirty-one years. While we saw the terrible convulsions of nature, and the merciless hand of Death fastening upon him, I asked, “How long shall Death the tyrant reign?” The answer came from the pages of divine inspiration, Not long ere the Lifegiver shall come, and he will swallow up death in victory. Then will be fulfilled the promise in Hosea, “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death.” We have laid him away in the grave, with the hope of seeing him again when the redeemed are gathered to Mount Zion. Thank Heaven for that morn so soon to dawn, that will know no death or sorrowing heart. “Dark is the hour when death prevails,
And triumphs o’er the just;
A painful void within the breast,
When dust goes back to dust;
And solemn is the pall, the bier,
That bears them from our presence here. “But there’s a bright, a glorious hope,
That scatters death’s dark gloom.
It cheers the saddened spirits up;
It gilds the Christian’s tomb;
It brings the resurrection near,
When those we love shall re-appear.” Died, of consumption, at Douglas, Allegan Co., Mich., Oct. 12, 1876, Bro. James R. Brown, in the seventieth year of his age. Bro. Brown had been an observer of the Sabbath of the Lord for twenty years. His last hours were peaceful and happy. He leaves an aged companion and two children to mourn their loss. Discourse from Job 14:14. Fell asleep in Jesus, Oct. 13, 1876, our beloved mother, Ruth Stansbury, at her residence five miles south-east of Mt. Pleasant Henry Co., Ia., aged sixty-three years. She had been a professor of religion for upwards of thirty years. She came into the truth by reading, and had been trying to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus for about twelve years; and she was connected with the Mt. Pleasant church of S. D. Adventists. She had been a great sufferer for many years, her disease being deranged liver and dropsy of the stomach and chest. She received a stroke of paralysis forty hours before she died. She frequently spoke to me of her faith and hope in Christ, and a few days before her death expected that event soon. Said she was resigned to the will of God, and expected to be raised with the righteous dead at the first resurrection. She wanted us all so to live that we might meet her there. She leaves an aged husband and nine children with their families to mourn their loss. The Rev. Mr. Cory, Christian minister, preached the funeral discourse from the last clause of Isa. 18:1, to a large congregation of sympathizing friends and neighbors. We, the undersigned, regard it a great privilege to donate to the Lord, for the European press, under the care of our worthy missionary, Elder J. N. Andrews, One Hundred Dollars each, and invite thirty-nine others to join us in raising $10,000. |
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| James White — $100 |
E. H. Root — $100 |
| John Morrison — 100 |
Wm. Ings — 100 |
| Geo. I. Butler — 100 |
C. Comings & wife — 100 |
| Newel Grant — 100 |
E. W. Whitney — 100 |
| August Rasmussen — 100 |
R. G. Lockwood — 100 |
| An Iowa Brother — 100 |
W. H. Hall — 100 |
| Emily Leighton — 100 |
Betsey Landon — 100 |
| S. A. McPherson — 100 |
S. N. Haskell — 100 |
| “A friend in N.E.” — 100 |
C. K. Farnsworth — 100 |
| “W. P. A. M.” — 100 |
M. Wood — 100 |
| Chas. L. Boyd — 100 |
Mrs. Gretman (deceased) — 100 |
| Mrs. E. Temple — 100 |
A. H. B. — 100 |
| Freeman Nichols — 100 |
A. T. Stickney — 100 |
| D. A. Owen — 100 |
Mrs. J. L. James — 100 |
| Wm. B. Mason — 100 |
A. La Rue — 100 |
| J. N. Loughboro’ — 100 |
B. N. Berry — 100 |
| J. S. Wicks — 100 |
M. J. Bartholf — 100 |
| Reuel Stickney — 100 |
A Bro. in Minn. — 100 |
| C. Clark & wife — 100 |
Mary Crouch — 100 |
| W. A. Pratt — 100 |
H. C. Stone — 100 |
| C. McNeil — 100 |
B. L. Whitney — 100 |
| Mary R. Stem — 100 |
Thomas Alverson — 100 |
| Jane Roland — 100 |
S. B. D. — 100 |
| E. Green & wife — 100 |
E. Lobdell — 100 |
| Susie D. — 100 |
Lucretia Day — 100 |
| A. A. Bradford — 100 |
A Bro. & Sr. in New England — 300 |
| J. S. Hart — 100 |
S. H. King — 100 |
| C. S. Briggs & wife — 100 |
Elden H. Pullen — 100 |
| Jacob Shively — 100 |
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| M. C. Israel — 100 |
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| Right hand — 100 |
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