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Review and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 24.

THE CHANGE OF THE SABBATH
Earlier text: Visions and Prophecy

The Swedes.

By H. F. Phelps

I ARRIVED at Maiden Rock yesterday. On my way, I stopped with the Swedish brethren in Lake City. I was very much pleased with my visit with them. The truth has certainly taken hold of some noble minds here. They were about to pass through some trials of faith which seemed to make my call providential; at least, they all expressed themselves thus. I hope I did them no harm. The Spirit of God was with us.
The day of my arrival, three Baptist ministers came to the place to do what they could to break down the work, and draw souls away from the truth. But the brethren had already decided not to attend the meetings, but to meet together and pray to God for help. I was very glad of the privilege of meeting with them. They urged me to speak to them; and as nearly all understood the English language, I did so. I was with them two days, and spoke twice. They listened with great attention. I had the pleasure of forming an acquaintance with Eld. Ongman from St. Paul.
In their efforts against the work here, they only succeeded in drawing one away. So eleven remained steadfast, and they were all excluded from the Baptist church. I thought of the text, “Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and shall cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy; for, behold, your reward is great in Heaven.” Luke 6: 22, 23.
Among those who are in the truth is the former leader of the church here. May the Lord give him a burden of soul for his people. They all seem to love the truth, and are trying to walk in it. May the truth speed on among this people, and to all nations. These friends are looking with favor upon the health reform, some of them beginning to doubt the healthfulness of pork, and are freeing themselves from tobacco, tea, and coffee. Let the work go on.
H. F. PHELPS.
Maiden Rock, Wis., May 8, 1874.

Purgatory and Masses.

By John Norton Loughborough

In this article we call attention to the papal doctrine of purgatory. That we may understand the views of the Romish church upon this subject, we will quote from their catechisms. Butler says in his catechism:—
“Q. Where shall they go who die in mortal sin?”
“A. To hell for all eternity.”
“Q. Where do they go who die in venial sin?”
“A. To purgatory.”
“Q. What is purgatory?”
“A. A place of punishment in the other life, where some souls suffer for a time before they can go to Heaven.”
“Q. Do any others go to purgatory besides those who die in venial sins?”
“A. Yes; all who die indebted to God’s justice on account of mortal sin.”
“Q. When God forgives mortal sin, as to the guilt, and eternal punishment it deserved, does he require temporary punishment to be suffered for it?”
“A. Yes; very often, and for our correction to deter us from relapsing into sin; and that we should make some atonement to his offended justice and goodness.”
“Q. Can the souls in purgatory be relieved by our prayers and other good works?”
“A. Yes; being children of God, and still members of the church, they share in the communion of saints.”
The above sentiments of Butler’s Catechism are directly opposite to the Scriptures in two respects: First, Paul represents the forgiven sinner, under the new covenant, as having “no more conscience of sins.” Heb. 10:2. That is, their past forgiven sins are so fully cancelled by the blood of Christ that they are as though they had never been committed. The papist has the forgiven sinner remembering his forgiven sins and doing penance for them in this life, or “suffering” in purgatory to “expiate forgiven sins.” Secondly, They have the living performing works to save their friends in purgatory, while David says that no one “can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him.” Ps. 49:7.
Upon this doctrine of purgatory we will now quote from Weninger’s Catechism:—
“Q. Why does God change the eternal punishment into a temporal one?”
“A. That man, as the Council of Trent teaches, may not sin wantonly.”
“Q. How can we satisfy for this temporal punishment on earth?”
“A. By patience in affliction, and by works of penance.”
“Q. How is this temporal punishment atoned for in the next world?”
“A. By the pains of purgatory.”
“Q. Shall we not be judged before the end of the world?”
“A. Yes; every one shall be judged after his death, for the apostle says: ‘It is appointed for men once to die, and after this, the Judgment.’”
“Q. How do you call this judgment?”
“A. The particular judgment.”
“Q. What follows after the particular judgment?”
“A. The reward or punishment, so that every one will go immediately to Heaven, purgatory, or hell, according to his deserts.”
“Q. What is purgatory?”
“A. A place where those who die in the state of grace expiate their venial sins, and the temporal punishments due to their forgiven mortal sins.”
In Hughes’ Catechism we read:—
“Q. What do you mean by purgatory?”
“A. By purgatory I mean a middle state of souls, suffering for a time on account of their sins.”
“Q. In what case do souls go to purgatory?”
“A. Souls go to purgatory when they die in less sins, which we call venial, or when they have not satisfied the justice of God for former transgressions.”
“Q. How do you prove there is a purgatory?”
“A. We prove there is a purgatory, because the Scripture teaches that ‘God will render to every man according to his works; and that nothing defiled can enter Heaven,’ and that some Christians ‘shall be saved yet so as by fire,’ and that it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins.”
This doctrine of purgatory is not a Bible doctrine, and their texts and fathers are not sufficient to maintain it. The text quoted above, concerning their being “saved so as by fire,” does not refer to burning up the people’s sins in purgatory, but means if a sinner in the gospel has brought into the church “wood, hay, and stubble”—unprincipled individuals, they will be lost, being burned up, and so his work in the gospel will suffer loss. The fire will try it, but that fire will “burn up the chaff.” Matt. 3.
On the doctrine of purgatory we will quote from Kirwan: “The doctrine of purgatory, you know, sir, is one of the peculiar and most cherished doctrines of your church. Indeed, I do not know how your church could get along without it. My object now is, not to reason with you about it, nor to controvert it; but to state to you a few facts in reference to it that made in early life a strong impression on my mind. You know that, in Ireland, the custom of the priests is, at a certain point in the service of the mass, to turn his back to the altar, and his face to the people, and to read a long list of the names of deceased persons whose souls are in purgatory, and to offer up a prayer for their deliverance from it. This is done, or used to be done, in the chapels on every Sabbath. To obtain the name of a deceased relative on that magic list, the priest must be paid so much a year, varying, I believe, with the ability of the friends to pay. If the yearly payment is not made when due, the name of the person is erased from the list.”
“A circumstance arising out of this custom of your church, occurring in my boyhood, is distinctly before me. A respectable man in our parish died in mid-life, leaving a widow and a large family of children to mourn their loss. True to her religious principles, and to her generous instincts, the widow had her husband’s name placed on that list, and heard, with pious gratitude, his name read over from Sabbath to Sabbath, with a prayer offered for the deliverance of his soul from purgatory. After the lapse of two or three years, on a certain Sabbath, the name of her husband was omitted from the list. The fact filled her with mingled joy and fear—joy, thinking that her husband had escaped from purgatory; and fear, lest she had done something to offend the priest. On timid inquiry, she learned that his soul was yet in purgatory, but that she had forgotten to send in the yearly tax at the time it was due. The tax was promptly paid, and the name was restored on the next Sabbath. With this fact, sir, I am entirely conversant; for that widow was my own mother, who sought the release of the soul of my father from purgatory.”
“Another fact which early impressed me in reference to purgatory was this: Your church makes a distinction between mortal and venial sinners. The former go to hell forever—the latter go to purgatory, ‘whence they are taken by the prayers and alms offered for them, and principally by the holy sacrifice of the mass.’ Now I always saw that the most mortal sinners, that everybody would say went to hell, could always have mass said for them as if they went to purgatory: provided their friends could pay; and that the less mortal sinners, that people would say went to purgatory, were sent to hell, if their friends could not pay for masses for them. And their souls were kept in purgatory for a long while when their friends paid promptly every year; but their souls were soon prayed out whose friends could not pay long for them. Facts like these, sir, very early impressed my mind, and shook my faith in the religion of my parents and my priests.”
We would ask the papist in all candor, What has the blood of Christ, which cleanseth from all sins to do with those middling Christians who die, not good enough to go to Heaven, nor bad enough to go to hell, if they can be got out of purgatory by the money paid for them?
We will quote from the works of William Tyndale, who died some three hundred years since, on the then prevailing custom in England of paying to have mention made before the public congregation of friends in purgatory. If the Romish church is infallible, and never changes, this must be her sentiment still, “only more lenience is granted to those who dwell among presumed heretics.” But to the quotations. “I will that mine executrice, at the time of the delivery of the aforesaid torches, give unto every church curate or curates deputy of the aforesaid named nine parishes four pence to the end that my soul and the souls above written may be remembered in the parish bede rolle by the whole space of a year after.” Fabin’s will, in Nicholas’ Testamenta Vetusta, p. 504.
Again, “Thomas Trethwitte, Esq., in his will, dated Sept. 20, 1528, bequeaths ten shillings to the intent that his name may be put in the bede rolle, and prayed for every Sunday in the pulpit by name as the custom of the country is.” Nicholas’ Testamenta Vetusta, p. 644. Again, “Church Wardens’ account of St. Mary’s Hill, in the city of London, Annotations 17 and 19 Edward IV. ‘Pd. to the Parish Priest to remember, in the pulpit, the soul of R. Bliet, who gave six shillings and eight pence to the church works.’”
J. N. Loughborough.
(Concluded next week.)

The Truths of the Bible

THE truths of the Bible are like gold in the soil. Whole generations walk over it, and know not what treasures are hidden beneath. So centuries of men pass over the Scriptures, and know not what riches lie under the feet of their interpretation. Sometimes when they discover them, they call them new truth. One might as well call gold, newly dug, new gold.

Ten Rules for Farmers.

1. TAKE good papers and read them.
2. Keep an account of farm operations.
3. Do not leave implements scattered over the farm, exposed to snow, rain, and heat.
4. Repair tools and buildings at a proper time, and do not suffer a subsequent threefold expenditure of time and money.
5. Use money judiciously, and do not attend auction-sales to purchase all kinds of trumpery because it is cheap.
6. See that fences are well repaired, and cattle not grazing in the meadows, or grain fields, or orchards.
7. Do not refuse to make correct experiments in a small way, of many new things.
8. Plant fruit trees well, care for them, and of course get good crops.
9. Practice economy by giving stock shelter during the winter; also good food, taking out all that is unsound, half rotten, or moldy.
10. Do not keep tribes of cats and snarling dogs around the premises, who eat more in a month than they are worth in a lifetime.
—Morning Star.

The Character of Prayer Meetings

Nothing more clearly indicates the true character of a church than the quality of its prayer meetings. They are, in a peculiar sense, the outward sign of whatever inward grace the church may possess. If they are cold, formal, dead, be sure there is coldness, formality, and destitution of spiritual vitality in the heart of the church. A deep, earnest religious sentiment pervading the membership will as certainly make itself known in these meetings as sound physical health asserts itself in the ruddy cheek and glowing eye.

Obituary Notices.

"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth."
DIED, at our residence, Madrid, N. Y., April 11, 1874, sister Adaline Dalgrien, aged 67. Her daily life gave evidence of a sincere heart and an ardent desire to be a true disciple of Him who was meek and lowly. Funeral services attended by Eld. C. O. Taylor. Text, “And there shall be no more death.” H. HILLIARD.
DIED, in Waseca, Minn., May 8, 1874, after a long and trying affliction, Bro. Wm. S. Ingraham, aged nearly 53. He fell quietly asleep in perfect confidence in the Lord, and in the blessed hope of having part in the first resurrection. Words of consolation by Bro. L. H. Ellis, from Rev. 14 : 13. Having lived with Bro. I. during the past winter and become acquainted with him more intimately, I can freely say that I believe he rests in the Lord. He Sleeps the sleep that knows no waking, Till the last loud trump shall sound; Rests until the last great shaking Breaks the chains with which he’s bound. A. H. VAN KIRK.
DIED, May 4, 1874, in Marshall Co., Kansas, our little Charlie, aged nine months and fifteen days. He suffered a long time with throat disease, which terminated in his death. J. & JULIA RAEDELS.

Illinois Camp-Meeting

Appointments.

And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand
** Services in Chicago, every Sabbath (seventh day), at 269 West Erie St. All Sabbath-keepers spending a Sabbath in Chicago are invited to attend.

Illinois Camp-Meeting.

The Illinois Committee announce that the camp-meeting for that Conference will be on the farm of Bro. Alfred Hobbs, seven miles south of Somonauk on the C. B. & Q. R. R., and one mile from Sheridan, on the Fox River branch of the C. B. & Q. R. R. in La Salle Co., the same spot upon which it was held three years ago the coming June. It will be held June 11–16, 1874.

Illinois Conference.

THE next annual meeting of the Illinois Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held one mile south-east from Sheridan, LaSalle Co., Ill., in the grove of Bro. Alfred Hobbs, June 11–16, in connection with our camp-meeting; the same grounds we occupied three years ago. Sheridan is situated on the Fox River branch of the C. B. and Q. R. R. Those coming from the north-east will come via Aurora and Sheridan. Those coming from the north and north-west will come by way of Mendota and Somonauk, where they will be met with teams on the 10th, and carried to the ground. All who design coming this way are requested to drop a line to Geo. Foreman, Northville, La Salle Co., Ill., and they will be met. Those coming from the west on C. R. I. and P. R. R. will change at Ottawa; thence north to the ground. Trains will stop on the edge of the ground for the accommodation of the passengers. Straw will be furnished free. Hay and grain for horses and provisions at reasonable rates. Let the churches all be represented. We would name Sunday, May 31, as the day for them to meet to elect their delegates and re-arrange their s. b. and give attention to any other matters that should be attended to before camp-meeting and Conference. We extend to Bro. and sister White a pressing invitation to attend. R. F. Andrews, for Committee.
THE Illinois T. and M. Society will hold its next annual meeting in connection with the Conference and camp-meeting to be held near Sheridan, LaSalle Co., Ill., June 11–16. We hope for a very general attendance, as this will be a meeting of importance to the Society. Officers will be chosen for the ensuing year, and other matters of general interest will have to be attended to. R. F. Andrews.
GENERAL quarterly meeting of the New England Tract Society at Amherst, N. H., June 20 & 21. It is necessary that the various directors in the Conference hold their meetings previous to this date, so a report may be sent to the secretary or carried to the meeting in season for a report to be read at this meeting from each district. Blank reports will be furnished to each member of the Tract Society that they may be properly filled out and returned. A general attendance is expected. The vice-president will attend the meeting. S. N. Haskell.
QUARTERLY meeting of the churches of Allegan Co., Mich., June 6 and 7, with the church at Allegan. The T. and M. Society quarterly meeting for district No. 4, at same time. Hope the librarians will see that each member reports in season. J. L. Rumery, Director.
Lapeer, Lapeer Co., Sabbath and first-day, May 30 and 31. A. S. Hutchins.
MONTHLY meeting at Memphis, Mich., June 6, 7. Surrounding churches and scattered brethren are earnestly invited to attend. Baptism on first-day. D. H. Lamson.
GENOA, as Bro. Carpenter may appoint, May 30, 31; Leroy, June 6, 7. R. J. Lawrence.
THE next general quarterly meeting of the N. Y. and Pa. T. and M. Society will be held at Niles Hill, Allegany Co., N. Y., May 30, 31, 1874. Those coming from the east will leave the N. Y. Central at Genoa and take the boat for Watkins. Those from the north will come by Canandaigua to Watkins. Those from the west and south will stop at Corning. There will be teams at Watkins at 2 o'clock P. M., and at Corning at noon, Friday. A full attendance is desired. P. L. Kinne.
QUARTERLY meeting for Dist. No. 2 of the N. Y. & Pa. Tract and Missionary Society, Roosevelt, June 6, 7, 1874. Monthly meeting for the churches in Oswego Co. at the same time and place. A general attendance is desired. Daniel Bowe, Director.
QUARTERLY meeting of the T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 5, Mich., in Blendon, Ottawa Co., June 6, 7, 1874. We hope to have a full report of labor done during the past quarter. Brn. Byington and Root are invited to attend this meeting. J. S. Wicks, Director.
THE T. and M. Society of Wisconsin will hold its annual session in connection with the camp-meeting at Lodi. We hope the district secretaries will send their reports to Mattie Babcock, Monroe, Green Co., at least one week before the camp-meeting. P. S. Thurston, Pres. T. and M. Society.
QUARTERLY meeting of the Liberty Pole, Wis., church the first Sabbath and Sunday in June. Brethren and sisters of adjoining churches are requested to attend. Will some of our ministers try to meet with us? Milton Southwick.

The Work of God Connected with our School.

By George Ide Butler

On my return West from New England, I spent a short time in Battle Creek, in looking after things connected with the cause, and had the privilege of attending some of the exercises of the school, the lectures, &c.
Knowing the interest our people have in this comparatively new enterprise, I will report briefly concerning it. Our present attendance is not as large as that during the winter term. I think the number is between eighty and ninety. This is not to be wondered at, for it is largely so in all schools, the autumn and winter being more favorable to attend than the spring. I presume there are many others who ought to be there, who are not; many who are losing great advantages which are now placed within their reach. I am certain that many among us have not realized the importance of school privileges as they should, and that it will require effort, on the part of men of influence, to cause that general interest there should be. Still I feel greatly encouraged by what I saw. The religious lectures by Bro. Smith are of interest. A class numbering 31 are in daily attendance, and my great regret was that the number was not quadruple what it is. The exercises of school are quiet, thorough, and faithful, and all the scholars that I have inquired of concerning the school (and they have been many) expressed themselves highly pleased with the school.
We appointed a prayer-meeting for the scholars. The matter was all left voluntary on their part, yet some sixty were in attendance, and there was a readiness to take hold in speaking that was truly encouraging to me. I felt sure there was a good degree of true religious feeling and interest in the hearts of that roomful of scholars. My heart was most deeply touched at what I saw and felt. I am happy to repeat that this religious influence is being felt more and more as our school progresses, and the teachers tell me its effects are already manifest in their department and the religious exercises connected with the daily round of school duties. Scholars who commenced to attend full of fun and vanity, in some cases, begin to feel that seriousness which should characterize those living in this age of the world, and who are about to take upon them the responsibilities of active life. The greatest fear we have all had concerning our school has been whether a large number of scholars brought together could be made to feel that seriousness and religious interest which is so desirable. Without this, our school will prove a curse. But if this can be accomplished, then will our school prove truly a blessing to those who attend it.
Our experience so far has been quite encouraging. We want to see many of those who attend truly converted, and instead of losing their interest in religious things while in Battle Creek, have the opportunities there enjoyed help them on in the divine life. This is the object we aim at. We are making the experiment now. Our teachers are in hearty accord with this object, and God is giving us encouragement. If we can accomplish this we gain more than any school in our land has gained. It is not merely to obtain the advantages of education that we establish this school; but it is to unite these advantages with spiritual benefit that shall be a help in the higher life, as well as to qualify individuals to labor for the salvation of souls. We have fairly commenced this experiment, and I feel fully prepared to speak encouragingly, thus far, of the prospect.
My heart beat with peculiar emotions as I watched the operations of our school. Some young men have already gone out of it to labor for God. Others will. But oh! how many more there should be thus preparing themselves to work for the Lord. There will be a long summer vacation, lasting at least two months. In the commencement of the autumn term there ought to be a large number of our young men and women ready to be instructed and disciplined, and thus prepared for labor. Now is the time to plan for this. Earn means during the summer months so that you may enter upon this work. What is more important than education? Nothing, certainly, but religion. There should be young people studying the languages so that they will be qualified to go out with those who were born in foreign lands, and thus act a part in the great work of saving souls. But more of this hereafter. We thank God for the prosperity of our school thus far. We believe he has already shown his willingness to bless this enterprise. And we hope our people will avail themselves of these advantages placed within their reach. God bless our school. GEO. I. BUTLER.

The Earthquake of Lisbon, 1755.

By Uriah Smith

PLEASE answer the following question: Mitchell's Geography states that 30,000 were killed at Lisbon, by the earthquake in 1755. Mrs. Willard (Universal History) states 30,000 killed in one hour. G. W. A., in REVIEW, Vol. 41, No. 21, states 60,000 killed in six minutes. Please harmonize. H. G. B.
ANSWER. The first and second statements seem to fall short of the truth. The new American Encyclopedia (1873) is doubtless good authority on this question. A statement from it will be of interest to the reader:—
“The great earthquake of Lisbon commenced on Nov. 1, 1755. The rumbling sound below the surface was immediately followed by the shock, which threw down the principal portion of the city. In the short space of six minutes it is believed that 60,000 persons perished. The sea retired, leaving the harbor dry, and returned in a great wave 50 feet or more in hight. The mountains around were shaken with great violence, and were even rent and thrown into the valleys below. Multitudes of people sought safety from the falling buildings by crowding upon the marble quay, which had just been constructed at great expense. It suddenly sank with them like a ship foundering at sea; but when the waters closed over the place, no fragments of the wreck, none of the boats and vessels near by that were drawn into the whirlpool, and not one of the thousands of bodies carried down, reappeared upon the surface. Over the spot the water stood 600 feet deep; and beneath this, locked in the fissured rocks, in chasms of unknown depth, lie the relics of what was the life and wealth of this portion of the earth's surface in the middle of the 18th century. . . . The portion of the surface of the earth that was shaken by this earthquake was estimated by Humboldt as equal to four times the extent of Europe. The shock was felt in the Alps and on the coast of Sweden. In Germany the thermal springs of Toplitz disappeared for a time, and again burst forth, deluging the region around with ochre-stained waters. The waters of the lakes in Scotland, as Loch Lomond especially, rose suddenly more than two feet, and then subsided below their usual level. On the shores of Barbadoes, Martinique, and Antigua, the tide suddenly rose twenty feet, and the sea was of inky blackness. Even the distant waters of Lake Ontario were strangely agitated, and the shock was sensibly felt along the coast of Massachusetts. In Deane's ‘History of Scituate’ it is stated that the earth was seen to wave like the swellings of the sea, and occasionally break into fissures. This lasted for fifteen minutes, during which chimneys were shaken down and houses disjointed. The sea roared with the unusual commotion, and with the rumbling of the earth the noise was more appalling than that of the loudest thunder. Water spouts burst forth, and springs opened which continue to flow to this day. As the movement passed beneath the ocean, it was felt by several ships, the impression being like that produced by striking upon rocks. The motion is described as undulatory, and proceeding at the rate of about twenty miles a minute.”
This event is important as marking the opening of the sixth seal. Rev. 6 : 12. U. S.

The S. D. A. Educational Society.

By Uriah Smith

We are now prepared to issue certificates of stock to those who have taken shares in the S. D. A. Educational Society. Most of those who have pledged, have pledged for two payments, one in 1873, and one in 1874. Some have already paid their pledges for both years. The certificates for these we shall issue first. And it is desirable that those who can should pay their entire pledges for both years, not only to furnish the means that will be needed to prosecute the work of building, already commenced, but to save multiplying certificates. U. SMITH, Sec.

U. S

By Uriah Smith

Queries.

PLEASE explain that part of Rev. 17:8, which reads, “Whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world.” Some are confused over it, thinking it teaches that those who are to be saved all had their names in the book of life from the foundation of the world.
ANSWER. Rev. 13:8 speaks of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. But he was not slain in reality till over 4000 years from that time. In the purpose of God only was he slain from the foundation of the world. So with those who are to be saved. God has purposed that all who will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ shall have their names in the Lamb’s book of life and be saved. And their names were in there in God’s purpose from the beginning just as the Lamb was slain from the beginning. This is our view of it. But so far as any difficulty is concerned, we would be willing to grant that the individual names of all who would be saved were actually written there from the beginning. This would only prove that God, looking forward, saw how many and who would believe in Christ, and so put their names in the book. But God’s foreknowledge does not interfere with man’s free agency. The fact that God foresees what course our free will will lead us to take does not cause us to act any the less from our own free choice and will in the matter.
QUESTION. Is there anything in the original to show that Adam and Eve ever partook of the tree of life? W. C.
ANSWER. We think not.
E. L. LANE: See article against joining any secret organizations, the Grangers not excepted, in REVIEW of Dec. 17, 1872. Also see notes on this subject in Nos. 9 and 15 of the present volume.

U. S

J. N. Loughborough’s Permanent Address

The permanent post-office address of Elder J. N. Loughborough is now St. Helena, Napa Co., California.

Pres. Iowa & Neb. T. & M. Society

By H. Nicolai

Notice.

To the Directors of Iowa and Neb. T. and M. Society, I would say that I will have on the camp-ground a full supply of publications to distribute in the missionary field. So each of you are requested to come prepared to take with you a sufficient amount to supply the libraries in your respective districts. H. NICOLAI.

Pres. Iowa & Neb. T. & M. Society

Western Camp-Meetings.

IOWA, at Newton, Jasper Co., June 4-9, ”
ILLINOIS, at Sheridan, La Salle Co., June 11-16, ”
WISCONSIN, at Lodi, Columbia Co., June 18-23, ”
MINNESOTA, at Medford, June 25-30, ”

The Cause in California

By Uriah Smith

The friends of the cause everywhere will rejoice in the good news from California. The recent contest between truth and error in that State has resulted in greatly strengthening the friends of truth there, and placing the cause on a firmer basis. Like a Gibraltar the truth stands through every storm, while the puny waves of error melt away in harmless foam at its feet. The publication of a paper there, for which the way is open, and which Bro. White is now engaged in starting, will give strength and permanency to the cause there. We rejoice in the prospect of a good work being accomplished all along the Pacific Coast. We are sure that every lover of the truth will feel to bid Bro. White God speed in his noble undertaking, and all who can will assist in a more material way. U. S.

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$2.00 EACH. Rachel Elwell 44-1, Willard Mane 45-19, Mary Slade 45-23, Almira Conrad 45-23, Sarah Washburn 45-23, J I Stewart 45-14, Mrs Wm Sosey 45-19, C D Rumsey 46-14, Sarah W Herrig 45-23, Lucinda Davis 45-23, E C Chipman 47-10, J Pierce Sen 45-15, W Hanscom 45-21, Josiah Witter 45-15, M B Phillips 45-19, Wm J Patterson 45-20, M J Talbot 45-23, Maggie Clemmons 45-22, E M Lewis 45-22, Mrs Martha Wilson 46-1, J H Moore 46-1, Mrs B B Osmer 46-12, Austin Hamilton 45-16, Peter Fox 45-23, Robert Reed 45-21, Mrs Jennie Tacy 45-23, Mrs W H Jones 45-20, H B Stratton 46-1, Russell Hart 47-16, Mrs J Shearer 46-1, D Boardman 45-18.
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MISCELLANEOUS. Mrs R A Dunbard 75c 44-23, Geo W Davis 50c 44-6, Mrs O O Brown 50c 44-11, Wm F Crous $1.50 45-14, J D Pierson $3.00 46-1, Eld D M Ladd 50c 45-6, Wm Curtis 50c 45-1, Mrs M Steckle 1.50 44-1.
50 Cents Each, Paying to 44-23. Amber A Doan, Isaac Lamarueux, Charles Hare, Peter Whitbeck, Silas Stafford, Richard Montrith, Andrew Hoyt, Mrs M E Davis, J W McDougal, James Patterson, H Downs, Jay Taft, James Downs, Mrs L L Lewis, Mrs Jerome Gage, Mrs Pattie Oliver, A P Potter, E M Van Hoesen, E Jerrett, Mrs Nancy Shoop, Jane Miller, Almira Lane, H N Jennings, Mrs Deliah Dawley, L A Sexton, Mrs Eliza Updike, Stephen Riggs, Mrs Cornwell, S A Knight, Willis McCalister.

Books Sent by Mail.

L C Kachler 17c, Anna I Reed 30c, Mrs Alice Smith $3.70, Charles Cowles $1.00, Thomas Harlow 7c, Sarah W Herring 25c, C A Mitchell 1.25, Rev Shears 35c, Rev J C Harvey 35c, Wm Cottrell 2.75, J A Scribner 10c, Wm J Smith 20c, J G Davey 55c, Mrs John Tinkie 55c, Franklin Squire 1.00, F R Richmond 1.00, Andrew Hoyt 40c, John P Zirkle 1.10, Mrs M A Reed 1.00, E D Dorsey 25c, Annie Coil 10c, Robert Reid 1.00, M E Armstrong 2.00, Miss Susan Cheney 1.00, Mrs T Sawyer 3.60, D D Stewart 20c, S S Smith 2.00, Wm Phinissey 2.00, Levi Marsh 2.50, J H Paradis 30c.

Books Sent by Express.

J G Benton, East Saginaw, Mich., $2.00, H A St John, North Bloomfield, Trumbull Co., Ohio, 20.13, Eld Geo I Butler, Lee’s Summit, Mo., 131.25.

General Conference Fund.

G W Mitchell $10.00.

Michigan Conference Fund.

Received from the church at Orange, $37.00.

Watch Sent by Mail.

J C Downing, Healdsburg, Sonoma Co., Cal., $18.00.

Cash Received on Account.

H A St John $15.00, L McCoy 17.46, Cal T & M Society 50.00, J H Waggoner 2.50.

Books Sent by Freight.

Eld James White, Oakland, Cal., $97.63.

Danish Mission.

S N Haskell $10.00, Chr Olson 1.00, J P Christianson 5.00.

S. D. A. Educational Society.

$500.00 James White & wife. $200.00 U Smith. $25.00 EACH. J L Hakes, F R Richmond. $12.00 J E Titus. $10.00 G W Mitchell. $5.00 R A Titus. $1.00 C A Osgood.

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Review and Herald · May 26, 1874