p. 31 | Review and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 4. (6/21/1864)

Earlier text: BOTH SIDES OF THE SABBATH QUESTION

Obituary Notices.

DIED, of measles and lung fever, at North Sutton, C. E., April 11, 1864, Philip A. Cross, only child of Bro. and Sr. Amos Cross, aged 5 months and 19 days. D. T. BOURDEAU.

DIED, in North Dartmouth, Mass , April 21, 1864, my mother, after four days of severe illness, (lung fever and pleurisy) borne with that calm patience which marked her whole life. JARVIS T. ASHLEY.

DIED, in Upton, Me., Feb. 3, 1864, of diptheria, Frank, second son of Bro. and Sr. Generous Ames, aged 11 years, 3 months, and 14 days. He had read the Instructor for about one year, and was much interested in it. C. WOODMAN.

Sometime.

By Mary House

'Tis a varied picture, this pathway of ours, A rough, thorny hedge-row, then borders of flowers; But then there'll be sunshine with no damping showers, Sometime.

'Tis hope bright and joyous, then doubting and fears; 'Tis laughter and singing, then sighing and tears; Oh! we shall rejoice when deliverance appears, Sometime.

Yet here, while life's pictures exposed to our sight, Two sides will be seen, both the shady and bright; But the dark will be merged and enveloped in light, Sometime.

'Tis a hard, cruel world for the weary and sad, For earth despised wanderers, too, I may add; Yet pilgrims and strangers on earth will be glad, Sometime.

Here mourning, and weeping, and conflicts, and fears, More thickly surround as the blest haven nears; But there will be gladness, not sorrow and tears, Sometime.

For Jesus hath promised, "again will I come;"; There are mansions preparing for pilgrims who roam; There'll be a response and a glad welcome home, Sometime.

Shall I be among the redeemed of the Lord, To see his dear smile of approval? the word Of acceptance to hear? Oh! there'll shoutings be heard Sometime.

Then, Lord, lead my feet in the pathway, though strait, Suffer not me to fall just this side of the gate; May I, with the saints, share their victory great, Sometime. MARY HOUSE.

Bearing much Fruit.

GREAT stress is laid here upon the word "much;" but how much is it? The word is comparative. What would be much with one person would be very little with another. The single hour which the overworked seamstress snatches from her ill paid labor to devote to her prayer-meeting or her tract-distribution is more than whole days devoted to God's service by the moneyed man of leisure. And her dollar—given at the cost of a supperless night's rest or a fireless room—really outshines the one thousand "greenbacks" which the millionaire flings into charitable treasuries from his enormous heap. The thorough teaching of a mission-school class by some pious mechanic is a full match, in God's sight, with the delivery of one of those colossal sermons with which Chalmers used to "make the rafters roar." It costs quite as much labor for one to teach three boys as it did for the other to teach three thousand men.

"Much fruit" means simply the giving to Christ the best we have got. It is the lading of every bough on life's tree—be that tree a giant or a dwarf. He who, in the humblest walk of life, walks according to the Bible, employs his time, controls his words, directs his choices, and regulates his conduct so as to glorify his Saviour, and make his religion clear and legible to all about—such an one bears much fruit.

What can be Done in the Strength of the Lord.

Sister S. Weathers writes from Rossville, Ind.: I must now tell you what I have been enabled to do by reading your articles on the use of tobacco. After having been a submissive slave to the use of that all-powerful weed for over forty-three years, being at first induced to use it by a physician, I now, at the age of eighty-two years, have been clearly convinced that it is a useless practice, and as unwholesome as it is useless. I have therefore abandoned the pipe. I have not smoked a whiff for about three months. And although I am surrounded by those who do smoke, I do not feel tempted in the least, and would not resume the unnatural practice for anything.

Misusing the Word of God

THE following is a short but pointed and comprehensive description of the manner in which too many use the word of God.

Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill; Bend the straight rule to their own crooked will; And with a clear and shining lamp supplied First put it out, then take it for a guide; Halting on crutches of unequal size, One leg by truth supported, one by lies; They sidle to the goal with awkward pace, Secure of nothing, but to lose the race.

Another Sign Appearing

ANOTHER SIGN APPEARING.—In enumerating the characteristics of the last days, our Saviour says, "there shall be famines." It has been announced by the public prints, that in Hungary, the harvest has failed for the last two years. The plains of the Theis, which, from their extreme fertility, have been called the granary of Hungary, are now little better than a desert. The numerous flocks and herds which compose the wealth of this pastoral people have perished. Townships which formerly possessed from 20,000 to 30,000 head of cattle, now have not 1,000 left. Many farmers, for want of fodder, have been obliged to slaughter their oxen, sheep and pigs, and good horses have been sold for 2f. or 3f. each. The excessive severity of the winter and sickness have further aggravated the sufferings of the people. At this moment starving multitudes are wandering about the country, men, women and children, pale and emaciated, to an extent fearful to behold.

Extracts from Letters.

Bro. W. H. Wild writes from Brooklyn, N. Y.: My mind has been unsettled in regard to the fourth commandment being binding upon us, but having received of a fervent lover of God's blessed commandments a few copies of the Review and Herald, and having examined the reply to Preble's argument against the Sabbath, it has taken away every lingering doubt from my mind that the fourth command is binding. I have been endeavoring for some time to keep the Sabbath, but having doubts about its being binding on us, I have not, neither could I while in that frame of mind, let my light shine. I wanted just such light as I now have obtained from the Reply. I am now firm and established in the faith that the ten commandments are yet in force. The idea that that which exposes sin is dead or nailed to the cross, looks to me very absurd.

How to Interpret the Scriptures.

By Editor

A VENERABLE gentleman in Kentucky, who signs himself "An Old Man," sends us the following:

'In addition to your regular workmen, it is likely that, like myself, there may be some volunteers, and amongst us, visionary wild ones. Visionary hair-splitters will bring the Times into disrepute. I remember, many years since, a wealthy man died. His son, his executor, wrote to his brother, an eminent jurist, to look at the will and write to him as to its import in certain particulars. The jurist wrote back to him, "Read the will to your wife, and to brother Richard's wife, and they will tell you what it all imports." Wills are to be interpreted according to the most simple, common acceptation of the language in which they are written. Common minds, with common sense, will ascertain their true meaning, when hair-splitters will doubt. What are prophecies but the will of God? Let us then receive it in its most plain and simple acceptation, and we will not run wild.'

"An Old Man" has spoken eloquently and to the point. We have repeatedly said, that one of the strangest things in the world is the manner in which some people read the Bible. It would almost seem as if they turned it upside down, and read it backward. "Eyes have they but they see not." They praise it, and hold it in holy regard, and insist that everybody ought to have it; yet they look into it only as some recondite volume, which is a good text-book for preachers, but quite beyond the reach of their understanding. Many seem to view it as a very sacred book of mysteries and sublime riddles, rather than a plain piece of information and advice given by a Father to his inexperienced and exposed children. And many who sit down to write commentaries upon it appear to be continually haunted with the idea that there is something mystical in every word, or that the real mind of the Spirit is not to be found in the plain import of the letter, but in some abstruse or latent analogy which it is their business to dig after.

We hold that the Bible is a book for everybody, that the prophecies in it are for everybody, that everywhere in it God speaks for the purpose of being understood by everybody, that its language is conformed to the ordinary uses of speech, and that it is to be interpreted in the same homely way in which we would interpret the will of a deceased parent or ascertain the meaning of a serious letter on important business. And we fully agree with our correspondent, that, if we will receive it in its most plain and simple acceptation, we will not run wild. Or, if this hyperspiritualistic and rationalistic age should call us "wild," God will himself in due time attest the wisdom of our course.

Honor God's Saints and Word

Honor God's saints, especially his ministers, but above all his Spirit and word.

The Fruitlessness of Sin

SIN, all sin, is fruitless; it blossoms fair, but always deceives: "What fruit had ye in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?"

No Waste in the Universe.

By Rev. C. A. Bartol

WhAT an economist is Nature, so made by God! She economizes even the light she so immensely possesses; catches it on the moon as a candle, after the sun has gone down, as we say, when he is but rising on other lands; and sends it inconceivably far to us from the stars. She economizes heat, equalizing it for the life and health of the whole world, by currents in the air and ocean and of the electric fluid. She economizes water, to answer a thousand successive important purposes, in a thousand different places, with the same drop. How nicely and carefully she sifts out its minutest portions from the briny sea, to cleanse the air and revive the plants at this season, to fill the springs, and paint the sky, and support all human life! How, with her mighty elemental agencies, she crumbles and bears down the barren rocks from the mountains and hills, to fertilize, for boundless and endless crops, the valley and the plain! How she makes the ashes even of the dead spring into grass, and blossom into flowers!

How, applying the same economy to crude mineral, from the very gravel in the ground, she distills a curious, delicate wash to protect the tender stalks of the growing grain; though you may not think what perhaps cuts your hand to bleeding is this varnish of flint! How she saves every hair, particle, nail-paring, and exhalation, to turn it to some account! How she converts ice, and the snow that manures the poor man's ground, into harvests of corn and wheat! How she nourishes her vegetable offspring, so that her animal may not die of hunger! The roots of a shrub, thirsty for a supply that had been drawn aside by an artificial channel, have been known, in their resolution not to be defrauded, to find their way to the aqueduct under ground, and bore a hole through its soft wooden plug, that every fiber might drink its fill, as was divinely intended.

To one who looks with a careless view on Nature, it seems as if everything with her were in extravagant excess. We quote the line about "many a flower born to blush unseen," and we talk of the floods that are poured away to no purpose. But a closer inspection corrects this error, and shows how frugal her utility, and perfect her order; enough, but "no room to insert a particle," however Art may re-arrange her forms to educate and give scope to human power.—Rev. C. A. Bartol.

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To Delinquen's.

By James White

NEXT week we shall drop the names of those who have not paid up to Vol. xxii. Next we shall drop the names of those who have not paid up to Vol. xxiii, and so on till the lists are cleared of delinquents.

One thing is certain in most cases, if they cannot pay up now, when money is plenty, worth but little, and easily obtained, they never can pay up.

We are ready to settle arrearages upon the terms delinquents may suggest. We wish to send the Review free to all who should have it free, and for half price to all who should have it at half price. But all should consider the fact that these times are ruinous to any publishing house that adheres to old prices. Paper has doubled in price, while labor, fuel, lights, &c., have increased at least one half former prices.

The Trustees of the S. D. A. P. Association decide not to advance prices until absolutely necessary. The first thing to be done is to establish a strict advance-pay system. Those in arrears will take warning. Look at the Vol. and No. of the Review, then compare it with the Vol. and No. beside your name on the wrapper or margin of your paper. If you are behind, pay up, or report yourself unable.

We would say to churches and scattered brethren and friends, it is your duty to see that all within your knowledge have the Review who should read it. If you cannot encourage them to take the paper, subscribe for it for them yourselves. Let preachers and people help us, and we will see our lists properly cleaned up and all still have the Review who should read it. J. W.

New Catalogue

By James White

NEW CATALOGUE.—Prices of Concordance, Bible Dictionary, &c., and works on health, have recently risen, so that we offer our friends a new and much more full Catalogue, which we will send them free of price and free of postage, with office publications, or alone, for a two-cent postage stamp. J. W.

Sabbath Observance

By Editor

A correspondent sends us the following from the Janesville Gazette, remarking that straws tell which way the wind blows. By Sabbath, we are of course to understand Sunday.

SABBATH OBSERVANCE.—A large meeting was held at Dr. Gurley's church, Washington, awhile since, to promote Sabbath observance in the army. Rear-Admiral Foote made a strong speech for the Sabbath and the veteran Gen. Casey said: "I have been thirty-six years in the military service and know that the army needs a Sabbath. I was five years in the Florida war. In long marches, better time will be made, and the men will go through in better condition, by resting on the Sabbath than by continuous marching. No prudent general will plan for a Sunday battle. I would appeal to the American people to save our American Sabbath. If our wealth is lost in this terrible war, it may be recovered. If our young men are killed off, others will grow up; but if our Sabbath is lost, it can never be restored, and all is lost."

Caution.

By J. Clarke, Sec'y.

A Dr. A. Clark is endeavoring to pass himself off in some parts of Ohio as a S. D. A. preacher. He holds meetings and offers to organize under another name than that held by the body. We have fully and repeatedly warned him and instructed him, but in vain, for nearly a year. He misrepresents and injures the cause and the brethren; and as he continues his course, and as we understand he intends visiting Indiana, fearing further mischief, we say to the brethren, Beware of him.

By order of the Ohio Conference Committee.

J. CLARKE, Sec'y.

Waste of Meat in England

The supply of meat in England is subject to enormous waste through the disease of the animals. The value of those unfit to be eaten is estimated in the United Kingdom at £6,120,000 per annum.

Note from Bro. Sanborn.

By Isaac Sanborn

Bro. White: Pursuant to appointment, I met with the church at Mackford, where we had an excellent meeting. I had great liberty in preaching the word. After preaching twice on first-day, we repaired to the water, where I baptized thirteen, some of whom had embraced the truth recently. On Monday morning I baptized one more. We also had a refreshing time at our quarterly meeting at Johnstown, which has just closed. We had a large attendance from other churches, and Brn. Ingraham and Steward were with us, and did most of the preaching. Five were baptized, and seven added to the church.

This meeting closes my labor in the Wisconsin and Illinois Conference for the present. And now, dear brethren and sisters, while I go to Minnesota to labor, may your prayers follow me in that field that much good may be done, and sinners be converted to God. ISAAC SANBORN.

Notice

TO THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS OF IOWA.

Brethren, in consequence of my poor health I will remain at home for a while, and by exercising in the air at manual labor, try to gain better health, and hence will not be with you at your quarterly meetings.

Wm. H. Brinkerhoff.

Lisbon, Iowa, June 7, 1864.

Appointments.

Meetings in Ohio.

There will be a meeting of S. D. Adventists at

Cass, Hancock Co., Ohio, July 2 and 3. Portage, Wood " " July 9 and 10. Lovett's Grove, " " July 16 and 17. Gilboa, " " July 23 and 24. Ayresville, " " July 30 and 31.

Those coming to Cass, can take the cars at Fremont and stop at Arcade, at Bro. H. J. Kittle's, near by; and those coming to Portage, will stop at Weston, where conveyance will be in attendance on the Dayton and Mich. R. R.; and those coming to Lovett's Grove, will stop at Tontogany, on the same road, where they will find brethren with conveyance. Bro. Wm. Hutchinson is expected to attend these meetings.

By order of the Committee. J. CLARKE.

J. H. WAGGONER

By Joseph Harvey Waggoner

Providence favoring, the next Quarterly Meeting of the Seventh day Adventists on the Western Reserve, Ohio, will be held in the tent at Wayne Center, Ashtabula Co., commencing sixth day, July 1, at 2 o'clock P. M., and hold over Sabbath and first-day. Brn. and sisters are all invited to come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel. This is a new field, and no cold-hearted formality should be allowed to chill the work here commenced.

Wayne Center is ten miles east of Orwell Center, and fourteen miles from the A. & G. W. Railway, at Bazetta.

Brethren coming in wagons should be prepared to lodge in the tent. Lodgings for the sisters will be procured in houses. By instruction.

J. H. WAGGONER

JOSEPH G. WOOD

By Joseph G. Wood

The next quarterly meeting of the Seventh-day Adventists of Avon, Rock Co., Wis., will be held on the first Sabbath and Sunday in July next. Come, brethren, prepared to work for the Lord.