The church has come to a point in her history when it seems that faith is almost lost in sight. The evidences of Christ's coming are so clear that those who love his appearing can, with unwavering faith, lift up their heads and rejoice, knowing that their redemption draweth nigh. Oh! yes; to the wayworn pilgrim, and the servants of Christ and the church, who have borne the burdens and heat of the day, and are still toiling on, how cheering to know that deliverance is so near.
You that are keeping pace with the work of God, can you not see that the message is rising? that we are living near the time of trouble, and when the refreshing will come upon God's people?
Bro. Smith's piece in REVIEW, Vol. 36, No. 26, “Without Excuse,” is right to the point, also Bro. White's remarks in Nos. 24 and 25. Such writing must have a tendency to arouse the lukewarm in the church. Surely, we are living in a fearful, and yet solemn and deeply interesting, time. Yes, in the Judgment, when the cases of each one will soon come up for investigation.
And while I rejoice that Jesus is soon coming, yet I am sad and burdened most of the time with the thought that many Seventh-day Adventists will come up to the decisions of the Judgment unprepared, and will find themselves deceived when it will be too late to reform. Oh! how dreadful to lose eternal life. But what will be the cause of their loss? Certainly not for the want of light. Oh, no! but because they have not lived it out, but have esteemed the gratification of self, and the pleasure of the world, of more value than eternal life. Others seem to have no sense of the work they have to do to fit them for the Judgment, or the society of the pure and blest. They have never seemed to feel the deep movings of the Spirit of God in their hearts. We do not see them panting after purity, and agonizing to get the victory over sin. But there they stand. I fear they feel that they are rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that they are wretched, and miserable, poor, and blind, and naked. Oh! what will arouse them? God grant to anoint their eyes with eye-salve that they may see, that they may be zealous and repent, before their cases are decided. You that have faith in God, and access to his throne, pray much that God may send a spirit of deep conviction for sin upon the church.
I feel to thank God for the spirit of prophecy. As I read the testimonies to the church, and see how fast they are being fulfilled, I feel alarmed for those who are not moved by these things.
“The Lord is coming. Who shall stand?
Who shall be found at his right hand?
He that hath the white garments on,
That Christ our righteous king hath won.”
C. LAWTON.
Jefferson Co., N. Y.
Solemn Reflections.
By Nancy Gibbs
It is in the day of God's preparation. He is preparing a people for translation. The hour of his judgment is come. Soon there will be a famine in the land; not a famine for bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, from the north even to the east. They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. At that time, though Noah, Job, and Daniel, were in the land, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. The watchmen will have left the walls, not one sermon more to be preached, not one prayer to be offered; probation closed; the decree gone forth, He that is holy and he that is filthy, let them so remain. It will then be said, Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof; I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh, Alas! for the day; for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty, shall it come. Truly, the night is far spent, and the day is at hand. Soon Jesus will come, robed in glory and honor, to gather his ransomed ones home. Shall we be ready? brethren and sisters; shall we be ready? Shall we be able to say, This is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us? Was there ever a people that had so much light and truth as this people? The Lord help us to walk in the light, and purify our souls by obeying the truth. NANCY GIBBS.
The Peaceful-Minded Terror to Evil-Doers
The peaceful minded are a terror to evil-doers.
Confidence in the Work.
By P. Martin
I EMBRACED the Advent doctrine in 1832, and the third angel's message about ten years since; and I am fully satisfied that the Lord is leading his people, and that if we follow the teachings of the Bible, the testimonies, and the warnings and admonitions of our good paper, we shall be saved. Who can doubt these truths after witnessing the fulfillment of so much prophecy? Read Dan. 7:26, 27. His dominion is gone. The Lord help us to be doers of the word.
P. MARTIN.
Dane Co., Wis.
Religion and Reason
RELIGION is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion; the one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason in attempting to account for the phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to. If there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.
The Spirit of Sacrifice.
By Roswell F. Cottrell
I HAVE been reading again the articles in the REVIEW, Nos. 23 and 24, Vol. 36, on “Present Truth and Present Conflicts,” pointing to some of the duties and dangers of the people of God at the present time. I hope these articles will not be lightly passed over by our people. When the Lord warned us by his servant Paul, that in the last days perilous times should come, he intended that we should realize the dangers, and so escape disaster. Let each one take it home. There is great danger—danger to me, danger to all. It is not an idle expression, to increase the size of the Bible. And so, also, when God's chosen servants by the same Spirit point out the particular dangers to which we are exposed under the last message, it should not be regarded as the Sodomites regarded the warning of Lot, who “seemed as one that mocked.” These warnings are not to be regarded as idle tales. They have a solemn meaning, a deep significance. May God help all to take them to heart, and profit by his merciful dealing toward us.
The work of human salvation is a work of sacrifice, from beginning to end. Christ set the pattern. His disciples are to follow it. Selfishness has no place in the system. Those who purpose to avail themselves of this great salvation, and not engage in the work of saving others, have no part nor lot in the matter. Selfishness cannot enter that kingdom, the foundation of which is laid in pure, disinterested, self-sacrificing benevolence. Those who are willing to suffer with Christ, and unselfishly follow his example of sacrifice to save others, are the ones that shall reign with him in glory. Let all those who would enjoy the rest, now willingly devote all their energies to labor.
SUNDAY-KEEPERS generally claim that this event occurred on that day because it was the first day of the week which God designed to thus specially honor. Had this been the case, how much easier and more effectual it would have been for the Lord to simply and plainly say so; but as it is, it is not even said that it was upon the first day of the week. But the connection gives the manifest reason why this was upon that day—pentecost—rather than any other. Pentecost was one of the greatest days in all the Jewish year, when all Israel would be gathered together at Jerusalem. The occurrence at such a time of such a wonderful event as was the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, would attract the notice of men from all parts of the world. This would prepare the way for the gospel to go into all the surrounding nations. Hence we read: “And there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.” Verses 5, 6. Then it mentions some seventeen different languages and countries there represented. Verses 8–13. To these, Peter preached; and three thousand were converted and baptized. These converts must have returned to their homes and thus have carried the gospel with them to all those countries. Had any other day been selected for this event, such a wonderful result would not have been effected. Manifestly, then, for this reason, and not because it was Sunday, did God select that day. D. M. CANRIGHT.
Be in Earnest.
By R. F. Phippeny
PROFESSING what we do, we should be in earnest. We are expecting our Lord to visit us soon. We know that our cases are pending in the court of Heaven. And are we forming characters that will bear the solemn test of the Judgment? We cannot afford to jeopardize our hope of Heaven for the light and trivial things of this earth. We must be in earnest, and make thorough work. Life, eternal life, depends upon our faithfulness now.
Are there differences to be adjusted? Let us be about it. Are there wrongs to be righted? For the sake of a better life, for the sake of Him who left the glory of Heaven to die for us, that we might live, let us set everything in order. Let us remember that we must be without guile at Jesus’ appearing, if we would return to the marriage supper with him.
While the sands in time’s glass are nearly run, may we quicken our steps, keep pace with the message, and finally sing the song of deliverance.
R. F. Phippeny.
Gratiot Co., Mich.
Suspension of Thought.
By Adolphus Smith
The following cases of suspended reason, or thought, were related to me by Mr. C. Richardson, of Jamestown, Ottawa Co., Michigan. They are, I think, pertinent illustrations of the scripture doctrine of the sleep of the dead.
Rev. Mr. Hendrix, when visiting the patients in a Canadian hospital, a number of years since, discovered therein, a man who appeared to be perfectly demented, but otherwise in good health. Inquiring into the cause of his malady, he was informed that it was occasioned by a depression of the skull upon the brain, by a blow from the falling limb of a tree. Procuring surgical aid, Mr. Hendrix caused the depressed skull to be raised to its natural position, when the patient uttered the concluding word of a sentence that he had begun to address to his son, with whom fourteen years before, he was splitting rails under the tree where he received the injury that deprived him of his senses:—“Put in the——wedge.”
This, I think, is a remarkable example of suspended thought. For fourteen years he had lived perfectly unconscious of the loss of a moment of time. But he ate, drank, slept, awoke, and moved about; but how? Simply as a machine. Like the clock, the human mechanism had been wound up, or set in motion, and must run its allotted time, though a part of its complicated machinery nonessential to its longevity, should cease to move. The hunger, and the act of supplying its demands, were but a part of the natural movements of the intricate machine.
Another case related by Mr. R., is concerning one of his natural sisters. About forty years since, Miss Emily Richardson, a teacher of public schools in the county of Somerset, in the State of Maine, returning home from a visit to a friend, one clear starlight evening, early in September, being thinly clad, took a severe cold, which, in a few hours, rendered her a raving maniac.
It soon became necessary to confine her in a cell prepared for the purpose, and separated from the kitchen by a partition of strong wooden bars. In this condition she remained, being occasionally removed that her cell might be cleaned, until about the 20th of March following, when, in the evening, on being removed from her cell as above, and not very closely watched, she seized a large frozen beet that lay in a corner of the room, and hurled it with great force at her brother’s head, inflicting a severe cut in his face. He threatened her with punishment in case she should repeat the act. In a moment the beet was hurled at him a second time; when in anger, he struck her a severe blow on the back of the head and neck, which felled her to the floor in an instant. She presently arose, seated herself on a chair, and sobbed for some time. She then said she was tired, and would go to bed. Her brother, out of remorse for his rashness, plead that she might be allowed to sleep with her sister. It was granted. Early in the morning she arose, and having robed herself, went to the window, looked out, and started back in amazement, exclaiming, “Why, how it has snowed during the night!” (the snow lay deep on the ground). “I guess not,” said her brother, “there was snow on the ground yesterday.” “No,” said she, “it was clear and starlight last evening, and not a particle of snow on the ground.” She got breakfast ready in good order before the family arose. From that time she was perfectly sane, and soon took another school. It always seemed strange to her, that she should close a summer term of school, and take another so soon. The whole winter had been to her a perfect blank.
In the foregoing examples, by injuries inflicted upon the brain, the first was rendered idiotic, the last insane. Yet, in both, there was an entire suspension of thought, or conscious existence, for a time. Can it be possible, that, if man possesses innate immortality, a slight injury to the brain should suspend consciousness of existence for a time, while a greater injury, resulting in death, should intensify that consciousness, in a ratio that exceeds the action of the healthful human mind, as the spiritual exceeds the natural?
Such is the teaching of popular Christianity, and such the voice of Spiritualism—a doctrine which originated with him who in Eden declared, in contradiction of the word of God, “Thou shalt not surely die.”
After penning the foregoing I submitted it to Mr. R. for criticism. He pronounced it correct. I do not remember to have seen these cases noticed in print. ADOLPHUS SMITH. Ottawa Co., Mich.
Obituary Notices.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
Died, Dec. 8, 1870, at Oakland, Wis., Susanna Olson, in the 81st year of her age. Our grandmother came to this country fourteen years ago, and found one of her sons keeping the Sabbath. She readily embraced this truth, and afterward, together with the rest of us, all the truths of the third angel's message. She fell asleep in a good old age, with a bright hope of having part in the first resurrection. “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.”
Remarks on the funeral occasion by Bro. E. M. Crandall. O. A. Olson.
Died, in Jefferson, Iowa, Oct. 10, 1870, of consumption, Sr. Laura L., wife of Bro. J. P. Farnsworth, in the 24th year of her age. She was baptized the past summer, and joined the church in this place.
Also, died, in Ludlow, Iowa, of typhoid fever, Nov. 2, 1870, Sr. Olive Collins, aged nearly 14 years. We have good grounds for hope that she will “come again from the land of the enemy to her own border.”
Died, in Rindge, N. H., Dec. 24, 1870, Jonathan Wheelock, aged 70 years. He embraced the faith of the Seventh-day Adventists on the day he took his bed at the commencement of his sufferings, and it buoyed him up until the end. He would often say, “When the trial came, the antidote came also.”
MARY ANN WHEELCOCK.
Died, of dropsical consumption, in Otsego, Mich., Dec. 25, 1870, David H. Snow, aged 23 years. Discourse by the writer.
W. H. Littlejohn.
Economical Use of Time.
By E. Nelson
An idle person, or one that lives to please himself, cannot cast an influence for good in any cause. There are some who have families wholly dependent on their labor for support, who suffer great privations, if labor is not economized. For a man to fail to so economize, would be to neglect to provide for those of his own house; and St. Paul says of such an one, “He hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” 1 Tim. 5:8. Certainly, such cannot keep the fourth commandment, nor be numbered with those described in the first five verses of Rev. 14, who will stand without fault before the throne of God.
There are many ways that men (professing love for the truth) take to spend their time to little or no profit, thus neglecting the claims of the cause they profess to love, and the care of the families for whose existence they are responsible.
Perhaps there is no habit that leads more directly to poverty, want, and woe, than that of hunting; nor is there any idol clung to with greater tenacity than the gun. Those that make hunting profitable are very few; and if it were profitable, we doubt whether the chasing of game, or the pursuit of hunting, is favorable to a growth in grace. But there are many who spend much of their time hunting to no profit, either temporal or spiritual; and how can a person be justified in leaving his family destitute, day after day, to hunt for game, when past experience must teach him that it will not yield him a comfortable living?
And it certainly is very unconsoling to the wife and mother as she cares for her little ones at home, to think that her husband seldom gets even the “rabbit skin” of the old cradle song, or anything else wherewith to clothe or nourish his family; but oftener comes home at night, faint, as did Esau from his hunt, ready to sell his birthright, or any other right, for something to eat.
And while he partakes of the scanty fare, he will revive hope by relating how he almost got something; and if it had not been for this or that, he would perhaps have shot a deer.
Thus consoled, after eating and sleeping, he is ready to renew the chase the next day.
Should you presume to offer such persons a bushel of corn per day for their labor, they would feel insulted; when they know that they work harder for less pay.
With regard to making an idol of a gun, I have myself had an experience. When a boy, if I saw a gun, I looked upon it as a pearl of great price, and would readily sell all I had to buy it.
I was more successful than some, but could never make hunting profitable; and I believe if I had spent my time according to the dictates of my conscience, I should now have wherewith to help the cause of truth. I say conscience, because I never started on a hunt without feeling that I ought to be doing something better.
In view of my own experience, I pity the boy who is so smitten with the gun as to allow it to absorb all his thoughts and time; and I would say to such, Break away from this infatuation as an enemy to your present and eternal good.
E. NELSON.
Gratiot Co., Mich.
Light Reveals the Greatness of Faults
Little faults become great, and even monstrous, in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun, in rising, reveals the true dimension of objects which were dimly and confusedly discerned during the night.
Is It Right?
By T. Swain
WHEN times are hard, or money is scarce, is it right to diminish donations to God's cause first? Ought we not rather to cut down expenses of living first? Let us remember Him who, though he was rich, became poor for us, and when we retrench, begin at the right end. Our living, our apparel, and our superfluities, should be cut short first. Let us deny,—not God, but ourselves. If we honor Him in hard times, he will help and honor us by giving us easy times.—T. Swain.
Be Just to Others
Be just to others, that you may be just to yourself.
Perplexed.
The following statement, which we clip from the Detroit Post, shows the perplexity attending even a Conference called to deliberate upon European affairs:—
The London Conference, in which the Great Powers are expected to consider the “Eastern Question,” now appears likely to have about as free a discussion as men might have with their mouths gagged. England will not allow the Congress to discuss the real “Eastern Question.” France will object to any discussion of that part of the “Eastern Question” that relates to Egypt. Bismarck says the Congress must not presume to discuss the Franco-German war. Italy will not allow any mention of the pope. Spain will insist upon absolute silence relative to her affairs. Russia says she means to reject that part of the treaty of 1856 which provides neutrality on the Black Sea, whatever the Congress does or says. And now Turkey comes forward and objects to any discussion touching the Danubian Provinces. “Men,” said a French general once, “this election is perfectly free. Every soldier will vote exactly as he pleases. But if any one votes against the government, he shall be shot!” So this Congress is to consider the Russian claims, provided it decides as Russia wishes; to consider the “Eastern Question,” provided it does not meddle with British or French operations in the East; to declare whether the old balance-of-power treaties are still binding, provided it does not meddle with the treaty of 1807, which Prussia repudiates, or the treaties which guaranteed the papal see, which Italy repudiates, or the violation of treaties of which both France and Prussia have been guilty, or the Spanish disturbance, or the Danubian Provinces questions, or the Concordat, which Austria has repudiated. Except these, and a few dozens of other strict limitations, the conference will be perfectly free!
News from the Siege of Paris
ALBERT BARNES, the commentator, died Dec. 24, 1870, aged 72 years. The circulation of his “Notes on the New Testament” is said to have reached a million volumes.
FIRES destroying property to the amount of one million dollars, are reported to have occurred between Monday morning and Tuesday night, Dec. 26 and 27; chiefly the result of drunkenness.
HORRORS OF A SIEGE.—The N. Y. Tribune, in speaking of the capitulation of Metz, says that recently prices had reached the following maximum: sugar, $6 a pound; salt, $3 a pound; one ham, $60; one potatoe, 9 cts; one onion, 12 cts. A little pig, caught near Gravelotte, sold for $150!
DISTRESS IN PARIS.—A Paris balloon letter of the 16th says that rats sold there in the market at 15 cents; cats, at 60 cents; turkeys, $16; rabbits, $8; chickens, $3; eggs, 15 cents each. The black swans, Carolina and Chinese ducks, yaks, hamas, buffalo and wild bears, and the like, of the Garden of Plants, had been killed and sent to market. There was more drunkenness in Paris than was ever known. Over a thousand persons have gone insane since the beginning of the siege, mainly, it is thought, from spirituous liquors. There were from four hundred and fifty to five hundred deaths weekly from small-pox. The want of food is telling on the spirits of the inhabitants. Board is becoming wretched. To get the 30 grammes of meat allowed to each inhabitant, one is obliged to wait several hours in the rain, or snow, or cold. The price of every article of food advances daily. No charcoal is to be had. Coal becomes dearer daily. As soon as peace is signed, there will be an immense exodus from Paris and France. Thousands are ready to depart.
The Bible Banner.
We have received the first number of a publication bearing this name, a large eight-page sheet, which it is proposed to issue monthly in N. Y. City. John Couch, Wm. Sheldon, and A. A. Phelps, editors, H. A. King, publisher. The “object and scope” of the paper is declared to be “to elucidate the fundamental features of Bible truth in the various departments of Doctrine, Prophecy and Practical Piety,” special attention being promised to such subjects as the “Nature of Man, Atonement of Christ, Signs of the Times, Coming of the Bridegroom, Resurrection of the Dead, Destiny of the Wicked, Redemption of the Earth, and Crowning of Christians in the Kingdom to Come.” But there are two papers already published, The World's Crisis, and the Advent Christian Times, which, so far as we are able to gather, have exactly the same “object and scope;” and with both of which one of the editors of the Banner now stands officially connected. The query therefore arises, Is a new paper having the same object in view, called for? Why not concentrate effort and talent upon those already established, to make them able and prosperous, rather than add to a list already none too liberally supported? The first number of the Banner presents a very creditable appearance, and the enterprise seems to be entered into with great earnestness and confidence. Terms: $1.00 per year.
A Crown of Flowers.
AMONG the things that are said to have come down to us from paradise, uninjured by the fall, the “Beauty of Flowers,” stands foremost; and this relic of Eden is, happily, within the reach of all. The rich have no monopoly in this; rank and reputation are not necessary to its possession; for, true to the touch of the divine pencil, the flowers will open with as gorgeous beauty by the side of the poor man's cottage, as by the palace of the millionaire; and the lowliest dwelling may be surrounded with that which in beauty of adornment outrivals Solomon in all his glory.
Vick's Floral Guide for 1871, has come to our table. In neatness and taste, always up to the highest standard, the edition for this year surpasses itself. To show the increasing popularity of Mr. Vick as a dealer in vegetable and flower seeds, we have only to state that a few years since an edition of thirty or forty thousand copies of his Guide was sufficient to meet the demand. This year he finds it necessary to issue an edition of two hundred thousand.
Every one designing to make a selection of flower or vegetable seeds for the coming season, should send for Vick's Floral Guide, which is furnished at the nominal price of 10 cts. Make a selection of such as you wish, according to the description and illustrations there given, and get reliable seeds. From our own experience we can express the utmost confidence, that every order on the bank of Nature signed with the name of James Vick, will be duly honored.
Address JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y.
Swiss Watches.
By James White
We have just received a case of one hundred and twenty-two watches from Bro. Albert Vuilleumier, of Tramelan, Switzerland. The prices of these watches at this Office range from fifteen to thirty dollars. This second case has some of a larger size than the first lot, which will be eagerly sought by many, at twenty dollars.
These watches are of the most fashionable style, beautiful finish, patent lever, full jeweled, hunting case. And we have no reason to doubt that these watches, in point of time and durability, are all they appear to be. Will those who have carried them in our country, please send us brief statements of their opinion of the watches?
The Publishing Association does not engage in the sale of these watches for gain. The first case was sold below cost. The second will be sold a mere trifle above cost. Our object in this matter is to assist our brethren in Switzerland. Send your orders accompanied with the cash. Or, if you choose, send for a printed statement of sizes, descriptions, and prices. J. W.
Unidentified Review Payment
By Editor
We have received a letter with $2 for Review, containing neither name nor P. O. address. We cannot receipt without further particulars. Who is it?
E. B. Lane’s Postal Address
The P. O. address of E. B. Lane, is New Castle, Henry Co., Ind.
A French View of the War.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—A newspaper correspondent has had an interview at Bordeaux with Count de Chondourdy, Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs, whom he describes as a grave man, but a free talker. In reply to an inquiry of the correspondent, the Minister thus gives his views in regard to the chances of peace: “At present, peace seems to be distant. Lamentable as the war is, peace on dishonorable terms would be inadmissible. It would change France into a third-rate Power. Prussia made a great mistake in not concluding a peace with Favre at Ferrieres. The civilized world will condemn her for her refusal to propose terms which might then have been arranged in a manner that would have been honorable to Prussia, without being humiliating to France. Not only might guarantees against future attacks by France upon Germany have been exacted, but the feelings of hatred and revenge, now sure to prevail in the future, might have been changed to esteem. All that is now impossible, and no ministry, or constituent assembly, or government, could for a moment treat for peace under the conditions now imposed by the Prussian government, for although there is hardly a man in France but laments the war, yet there is scarcely one willing to allow the government to give up any territory. Rich and poor unite in the opinion that the only thing left is to fight out the war; and if in so doing France is financially ruined, there will be the less for Prussia to take.”
The Minister told the correspondent that he had great hopes that the Prussians would be driven out of France before long. “The present government,” he said, “is not fighting with obstinacy for political motives, but really with a fair chance of obtaining an honorable peace. Paris is able to hold out for a considerable time. The whole nation is armed, or arming. Three months ago it was difficult to inspire the people with courage; but now the government is obliged to restrain and check, rather than to excite, patriotism. We need arms and artillery it is true; but these are coming in every direction. We have an offer for more than we want from England alone. Happily all political parties are practically determined to allow the present government to do their best for the national defense, and have patience to wait. They do not raise revolutionary cries because events do not move quickly.”
The Count then spoke of the present status of England, who he does not think has elevated herself in the scale of nations by her recent action on continental matters. She is now committing the same mistake that France committed in 1866. In order to have her neighbor chastised, she has allowed her to lie humiliated beyond endurance, and even allowed her territory to be violated.
The correspondent asked, “But can England afford war?”
Chondourdy replied: “There are other means beside drawing the sword by which a great Power like England can make her influence felt. These means she neglected to use, and she now finds herself insulted by Russia. The delays in the meeting of the proposed congress only gives Russia time to make her preparations surer in the coming spring. Prompt action would have been England’s true policy, and with Austria ready to join her, the moral and material support of England would clear France of her invaders in a fortnight, and show the rest of Europe that there is a limit which the most powerful armies must not pass. Such an alliance would be approved by the civilized world; for it would prove that it was not an alliance of conquest. At first, France was to blame for seeking a quarrel and making an aggressive war, although the people were not responsible for that. But now Prussia has rejected an honorable and lasting peace, and the sentiment of the world has undergone a change. France is now struggling for existence; and if she is crushed, England will feel the loss more than any country, and England cannot dream of the consequences. If she should allow France to be exterminated, Russia will then do what she pleases in the East, and Prussia in the West; and England, without a single ally, will cease to belong to the family of European nations, and will be reduced to a third-class Power.”
Kindness Makes Friends
You kindly greet
Each one you meet,
And you will find, you may depend,
That every one will be a friend.
Appointments
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
NO PREVENTING providence, I will meet with the friends at Aledo, Mercer Co., Ill., Sabbath and first-day, Jan. 14 and 15. Will Brn. Whitham, Gaily, and Dungan, please make arrangements for the meeting? I expect to remain for a short time, if necessary. Would be glad to meet Bro. H. A. Morrison, of Iowa. R. F. ANDREWS.
THE next quarterly meeting of the S. D. A. churches in the vicinity of Sand Prairie, Wis., will be held at Sand Prairie, Jan. 28 and 29, 1871. There will be a business meeting on first-day, and the members are requested to be in attendance, or report by letter. We also invite our brethren from abroad. Come one; come all. By order of the church, THOS. DEMMON, Clerk.
THE next quarterly meeting of the S. D. A. churches of Saginaw Co., Mich., will be held at Chesaning, Jan. 14, 1871. We hope to see a good representation from Tittabawassee. Especially is Bro. Stoddard invited to attend. An invitation is extended also to all sister churches. I. O. THOMPSON, Clerk.
THE Lord willing, the next quarterly meeting of the church of Bowersville, Ohio, will be held at Jan. 28 and 29, 1871. Scattered brethren are invited to attend, and all the absent members are requested to report. You are also requested to re-arrange and send your S. B. with your report. Come, brethren, and bring the Spirit of the Lord with you into the meeting. J. Q. A. HAUGHEY.
PROVIDENCE permitting, the next monthly meeting for Southern Iowa, will be held at Knoxville, beginning Friday evening, Jan. 13, and continuing over Sabbath and Sunday, Jan. 14, 15. We hope all will now remember the importance of attending these meetings, and come and help sustain them. Hope Bro. Morrison will be present. D. M. CANRIGHT.
Annexed to each receipt in the following list, is the Volume and Number of the Review & Herald to which the money received pays,—which should correspond with the Numbers on the Posters. If money for the paper is not immediately acknowledged, immediate notice of the omission should then be given.
$1.00 EACH. A E Sturzman 37-1, Mrs S F Flanders 38-9, J Palmer 38-9, A Emerson 37-19, M J R Reed 38-1, E Trumbull 38-1, T Cranson 37-1, R Nichols 38-1, M Shallenberger 37-14, M A Eaton 39-1.
$2.00 EACH. S P Merrill 39-1, R W Page 39-1, F Gould 40-1, Miss Stewart 39-1, D Briggs 38-13, F Nichols '39-1, E Kremer 38-1, B Salisbury 39-1, S W Flanders 39-1, W Livingston 36-1, A W Cummings 38-14, J Sutton 37-1, T Sliter 39-1, D J Burroughs 40-1, D B Welch 39-1, D Malin 38-20, E D Welch 39-1, S Cummings 39-1, W Morse 37-11, J Demmon 37-17, J Rogers 38-6, A Stranabaugh 36-6, J A Haughey 38-22, A O Burrill 39-1, H H Doane 39-1, P Smith 39-1, P R Chamberlain 39-1, Caroline Clough 39-1, L C Wardell 38-1, Mrs Washbond 37-18, J P Rathbun 38-14, L E Millne 39-1, J M Dean 36-5.
MISCELLANEOUS.
J Ghering $4.00 39-1, W Salisbury 3.00 39-1, M Salisbury 1.25 38-1, M Carrigh 4.25 39-3, J A Floyt 1.50 38-9, D Wallace 1.25 38-18, L Chase 1.25 38-1, H S Guilford 3.00 39-18, A Thayer 3.00 38-9, L Snyder 75c 38-1, J H Soule 1.50 39-1, S B Southworth 1.50 39-1, C N Miles 5.00 39-1, W H Chamberlain 1.50 39-1, C M Beebe 3.50 39-24, C Brackett 2.50 39-1, D I Stephens 2.18 39-4, N Ruble 50c 35-13, J W Landes 3.00 40-1.
Books Sent by Mail.
B Haynes $2 10, B A Seal 1 50, A A Crouse 30c, L Pratt 1.00, S B Doe 1.00, E F Robinson 85c, A M Preston 1.00, B I Hallock 2.10, H Gardner 1.00, A L Curl 65c, N P Robbins 40c, O Babcock 15c, E F Smith 58c, G Bisel 35c, P C Cornell 49c, Wm Cottrell 25c, M Densmore 1.00, A S Hutchins 1.00, L L Drew 50c, W Morse 17c, S E Cram 40c, A G Heaven 2.25, W Affolter 35c, E A Millne 17c, N Ruble 50c, A M Watson 20c, A Amburn 20c, S Thurston 20c, T H Wright 13c, J H Warner 15c, P D Dawson 50c, F D Gilman 50c, F Marrow 2 30, S Maycroft 60c, E Jones 1.00, L McCoy 1.00, J C Brown 1.25, C K Burdick 60c, C N Ford 1.00, Wm H Wild 1.50, L C Milne 38c, E A Stillman 1.28, H Nicola 5 00, J N Loughborough 9.69, S L Reddington 32c, W J Mills 1.00, J Berry 20c, B Rankin 18c, A Abbott 50c, J B Benington 1.05, J Aldrich 35c, E C Lea 75c.
Books Sent by Express.
Wm F Crouse, Union, Licking Co., Ohio, $32,00, R F Cottrell, Medina, N. Y., 16 00.
Book Fund.
C N Ford $1.40, A M Preston 5.08, D Styles 1.00, A good sister 1.01, Ella E Millne 1.00, Church at Genoa 11.15, M J Reed 2.00, Joseph Smith 2.00.
Library Fund of the S. D. A. P. Association.
I G Soule $10.00, C W Lindsay 10.00, J G Lamson 10.00, J M Lindsay 10.00, W B Gaskill 10.00, Jennie Mitchell 10.00, C K Farnsworth 10.00.
For Review to the Poor.
D H Snow $1 00.
Michigan Camp-Meeting Fund.
S S Jones $2 00, L P Bailey 10.00.
Cash Received on Account.
I Colcord for T M Steward $50.00, Alex Carpenter 6.55, S Rathbun 1.00, Jos Clarke 10.00.
Michigan Conference Fund.
Church at Genoa $23.00, church at Memphis 10.00, church at Cedar Springs 40.00.
Western Camp-Meeting Fund.
A J Emans $10.00, M Emans 5.00, S Gisinger 1.00, F Nichols 5.00, J Styles 1.00, P P Wood 1.00, L P Bailey 10.00, A E Gurney 5.00, L A Gurney 5.00, C Hurney 5.00, C W Lindsay 5.00, V B Gaskill 5.00, T H Lindsay 3.00, B Judd 5.00, M Dunn 2.00, J Clarke 10.00.