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E. G. STEVENSON

By E. G. Stevenson

From Bro. Stevenson.

BRO. WHITE : I would be happy to say to the readers of the Review, that I love the present truth. I also love to dwell upon the glorious teachings of "James, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptation." Chap. i, 2. How comforting those words are to the little few scattered abroad ! I feel fully satisfied in my own mind that those words reach down to the present time ; for we see a few here, and a few there, trying to live up to all the requirements of God.

I feel to thank God for the evidence I have that we are his people, and to know that our lives are hid with Christ in God ; and that when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall we also appear with him in glory. How encouraging to the Christian heart ! Let us come up to the standard of truth, taking a firm hold on all the promises of God, forgetting those things which are behind, and looking forward to the soon coming of our Lord to redeem his saints.

Yours in hope of eternal life.

E. G. STEVENSON

Chicago, Ill., Nov. 20, 1865.

A Testimony of Faithfulness

By William Caviness, Jr.

From Bro. Caviness.

Bro. White: I feel desirous to speak a few words through the Review once more. I still love the truth, and I want to strive harder to live it out before this perverse generation, that I may not be a stumbling-block in the way of any. I feel that we are living in solemn and perilous times, when the enemy of souls is doing his last work of deception, knowing that his time is short. And how careful we should live if we escape the temptations of the evil one. I want to gird on the Christian's armor tighter, and fight manfully the battles of the Lord, that when our warfare is ended, and the last victory won, I may hear the welcome plaudit, "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

Yours, hoping to meet all the people of God on Mount Zion. Wm. Caviness, Jr. Richmond, Iowa.

Receiving and Obeying the Truth

By Daniel D. Haines

From Bro. Haines.

Bro. White: I feel thankful to God that he gave me a heart and mind to receive and obey the truths of the third angel's message. I am striving by faith on the Son of God, to live out the truth and do the will of God, looking for the Son of God from Heaven that I may have eternal life and share the glories of the heavenly kingdom at his appearing. The church here prize the weekly visits of the Review with its instructions and the encouraging testimonies of the brethren and sisters.

In hope of life only through Christ. DANIEL D. HAINES.

Haverhill, Mass.

Obituary Notices.

DIED, Sept. 29, 1865, at Alton, N. H., Addie Elberton, daughter of T. D. and H. Varney, aged 4 years and 1 month.

“Death entered our bower And plucked a bright flower, The sweetest and fairest we had: Our dear little Addie, Our sweet blue-eyed Addie, And left us heart-stricken and sad.”

An appropriate sermon on the occasion by Eld. M. E. Cornell.

Nov. 19, these parents were again called to mourn. Another little daughter is gone. Death laid his icy hand on Cora Annett, aged 6 years. She was an interesting and lovely child, noticeable by all who knew her for her sweet and amiable disposition. How sad these bereavements but for the hope of the glorious morn just in the future, when these children with all the loved and lost of earth will be restored again.

Sermon on this occasion by Eld. J. G. Smith.

O. P. VARNEY.

DIED, in Ann Arbor, Nov. 30, Arthur Edmunds, aged 19 years, youngest son of Bro. and sister Edmunds of the same place.

He returned from Texas five days before his death, where he had been for a few months past.

His mind was much stirred up on the subject of religion, and from some expressions that he made his friends have hope of his acceptance with his Maker.

Funeral services at the Methodist church in Ann Arbor, Sabbath, Dec. 2, by the writer.

J. B. FRISBIE.

DIED, in Portland, Me., Nov. 13, 1865, of diptheria, after an illness of six days, Bro. Reuben Parker, aged 57 years. Bro. Parker had scarcely returned from the grave of his eldest son who died Nov. 7, ere he was stricken down by the same disease, and in the short space of time above mentioned was laid by his side. A companion and a younger son remain to bear their incomparable loss, while he will be greatly missed by the little company of Sabbath-keepers in that city, of which he was a member.

U. S.

DIED, in South Haven, Mich., Sep. 7, suddenly, though after a very severe illness, Eld. Austin Harmon, aged 37 years, 7 months, and 4 days. He was of the number of those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church under the care of Eld. N. Fuller, Niles, N. Y.

MRS. A. HARMON.

DIED, at Mannsville, Jeff. Co., N. Y., Sep. 29, 1865, of typhoid fever, my only brother, Silas O., son of Lorenzo and Jane M. Lowrey, in the 24th year of his age. He left a wife and one child to mourn his loss.

Funeral sermon by C. O. Taylor, from Rev. xxi, 9, “And there shall be no more death.”

H. A. LOWREY.

DIED, in Cass, Ohio, Nov. 18, 1865, Bro. Joseph Stacy, of typhoid fever, aged fifty-eight years. At his request we had a precious season of prayer with him on the morning of the 17th. Though very weak he praised the Lord and expressed himself encouraged. His companion and believing children mourn not without hope.

MARTIN KITTLE.

The Health Question

By Editor

WE call the attention of those interested in the "Health Question" to a short article in another column, entitled "Principles of Hygienic Medication." If they do not find in those short and comprehensive declarations, some good medical common sense, then they and we must "agree to differ."

J. M. A

By J. M. A.

MISNOMER.—The editor of the Peninsular Courier, Ann Arbor, Mich., with whom we have the pleasure of an exchange, in giving his readers an account of his recent visit to this Office, says he "went into the Office of the Herald and Review, a paper published by an association of the Seven Day Baptists," &c. He should have said, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, a paper published by the SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION.

Will friend Chase set us right before his readers?

J. M. A

Note.

By Joseph Bates

BRO. WHITE: The proposition of Bro. J. M. Aldrich that "the subscription list of the Review, between this and New Year's day, may be, and ought to be doubled," is a reasonable and important one. I sincerely hope that our dear brethren and sisters scattered abroad, will take hold and make a short and successful work of it. The church in Monterey are moving in the matter.

JOSEPH BATES.

Monterey, Mich., Nov. 26, 1865.

Worth Remembering.

SAYS Mr. L. B. Coles, in the Introduction to the "Philosophy of Health:"

"The laws which govern our constitutions are divine: and to their violation there is affixed a penalty, which must sooner or later be met. And it is as truly a sin to violate one of these laws, as it is to violate one of the Ten Commandments. Many seem to think that they have a right to treat their own bodies as they please; forgetting that God will hold them under obligation to physical as well as moral law, and that every infringement will meet with its legitimate and appropriate reward."

Sunday Sabbath-Keeping Examined

"Sabbath.—What day of the week does God command us to keep holy? Ans. Read the commandments as given through Moses—that refers to Saturday which was and is still the Jewish Sabbath. Among Christian nations, Sunday, or the first-day of the week, is kept as the Sabbath, in commemoration of Christ's resurrection. We know of no command in the New Testament making obligatory the keeping of the first-day of the week as the Sabbath. But by general consent among Christians, Sunday is set apart for rest, recreation, and devotional exercises."

The above extract is from the "Notes and Answers" in a secular journal. And it would be a happy thing if theological writers generally would take as truthful a view of the sacredness, or rather the lack of sacredness, of Sunday-keeping.

Spiritualism.

SAYS the Advent Herald, in a late issue:

"Spiritualism is rampant, and hurls defiance at the Bible and the God of the Bible. Their great conventions, following each other thickly, are developing their strength and purposes. The bitterness with which they regard the Christianity of the Bible is becoming more apparent every month. There can be no room for doubting that this system will form one of the great engines of evil in the conflicts of the last days."

Regarding Donations

By James White

I thank those brethren who have donated recently for me, though I have not appealed to them for help; but I wish to say, I am not needy. Should I need help, I will ask for it What has been donated can be returned, or given to the Publishing Association, as the donors may direct. JAMES WHITE.

The Present.

HEART gazing mournfully Back through past years— Bringing sad memories, Loden with tears— Life's hours wasted, Talents abused, Bright opportunities, Blindly refused— Close up the record Fraught with such pain; Years that have vanished Return not again. Grasp thou the Present, Be earnest and bold— Fleeting its moments, More precious than gold.

Origin of the Cholera.

The President of the General Sanitary Department for Egypt has submitted a report to the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in which he attributes the periodical return of the cholera and of other destructive epidemics that have sacrificed many million victims in thickly peopled Europe, to the wretched custom of pilgrimage to the holy cities of the Mohammedans. He states that from 700,000 to 800,000 pilgrims annually assemble in the holy city, large numbers of whom fall victims to the deadly climate and their unreasonable and filthy manner of life. The dead are not regularly interred, but are hastily shuffled under the desert sand, and their bodies being soon uncovered, of course infect the air, while the decomposition of the skin, blood, bones, and offal of perhaps 2,000,000 sheep offered in sacrifice, adds to the deadly miasma. It is not strange that the cholera broke out so violently the past season from such a center of decomposing matter, and that within a fortnight 100,000 pilgrims died. He asks in his memorial, "Can Europe ever be regarded as secure from the cholera or any other disease which may follow, just as cholera has followed plague, so long as this barbarous practice of pilgrimage to Mecca is not abolished, or at least kept within reasonable bounds?"

The cholera is making progress westward, being on the increase in France, and having appeared in England. While it was prevailing in Constantinople, the American missionaries devoted themselves with great success to the sick among the poor. The mortality of those under their treatment did not exceed five per cent., while the average mortality in the city was about sixty-five per cent.

A Straw.

STRAWS show the way the wind is blowing. I copy the following from a religious paper, dated Saturday, Nov. 25, 1865, published at New York. It is a resolution passed lately by the Pennsylvania Association;

"Resolved, That the Sabbath was an institution belonging to the Jewish dispensation, the word Sabbath is not the proper name of the first-day of the week; but that day should be called the Lord's day, or Sunday." H. C. M.

Education Among the Freedmen

A man writing from Memphis, Tenn., gives the following testimony:—

Will you believe it? In a few months, a thousand negroes have learned to read. Scores of them take and read a loyal paper,—they will have no other. A child has learned to read in ten days, who did not know a letter before. In one hour, another has learned the Lord's prayer perfectly. Memory is remarkable in them. Teach them, then. Teach them letters, and the principles of our Government. Last month, 1,949 colored children were in school in Memphis and vicinity. In six months, the negroes here have paid $3,720 for school purposes, and all this cheerfully.

Business Department.

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Appointments.

THE next Quarterly Meeting of the church of Seventh-day Adventists at Avon, Rock Co., Wis., will be held at the church in Avon. Meeting to commence Sabbath morning at half past ten o'clock. It is the request of the church that Bro. Ingraham attend this meeting, if he can make it convenient, or any other of the preaching brethren.

ORVIL JONES, Clerk.

Quarterly Meeting.

West Bangor, N. Y. Dec. 30 and 31.

I change the time to be present.

C. O. TAYLOR.