Bro. Wm. Merry writes from Dover, Minn.: "We are still holding on to the law and to the testimony, hoping at the end that we may be found worthy to be partakers of the tree of life through Christ our Lord and Saviour, by whom only we have life. 2 Cor. iv, 14. Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. Having this promise set before us, what manner of persons ought we to be in all things pertaining to our high profession in Christ. May we have our armor on, and always be found ready without spot or wrinkle, to enter into that rest that remains for the people of God. Let us awake to righteousness and sin not, laying aside all things that may in any way hinder our progress in the way of the knowledge of truth as it is in Christ. We request your prayers that we may be able to hold on to the end blameless."
OBITUARY.
By A. S. Hutchins
DIED in Salem, Vt., on the 4th inst., of consumption, Bro. Alonzo Lee, aged 47 years. Bro. Lee had a warm and lively interest in the proclamation of the advent of the Saviour in the former messages. He devoutly loved the good news that the redemption of God's people is near.
He shared with the remnant church in their trials and conflicts about nine years in keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. With a bright and buoyant hope of a part in the first resurrection, he fell asleep. Sweet, quiet, peaceful sleep,
"From which none ever wake to weep."
This is the fourth time that death has broken the family circle within a few years. Father, mother, and children sleep together, where the "weary are at rest." A discourse was preached from John xi, 25.
A. S. Hutchins.
L E T T E R S.
"Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another."
From Bro. Dorcas.
Bro. Smith: I desire to say to the glory of God and for the comfort and consolation of his people, that since Bro. and sister Cornell's visit and sojourn with us, with also the visit of brethren Rhodes, Guilford, Hart, and Curtis, our spiritual strength has been renewed; so that we are enabled to say, Hitherto the Lord has helped us. There is nothing that I long for so much as entire conformity to the will of God. O how temporal are the things that are seen! How my longing heart aspires after the things unseen, the eternal things of the world to come!
Yours in hope,
Tipton, Iowa.
The Promise of the Fifth Commandment
Bro. Smith: Some are anxious to know your views on the promise of the fifth commandment; whether it has special reference to the world to come, or whether it applies here, in this present life. L. Huber.
Answer. If we go back to the time when the commandments were given, and read the fourth commandment, it might seem as if the promise of the fifth commandment had special reference to the Israelites then journeying to the land of Canaan. We are however shielded from such a conclusion by the reference which Paul makes to the fifth commandment in Eph. vi, 2, 3. He there calls it "the first commandment with promise;" thus bringing the promise over into this dispensation, and referring it to those who are Israel through Christ. Says the fifth commandment, "That thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." Says Paul, "That thou mayest live long upon the earth." Paul's language thus becomes a sort of commentary on the fifth commandment. It shows that the land which the commandment says the Lord will give his people is the earth; and reasoning back again from Paul's language to the commandment we learn that it has reference to the earth at a time when it shall be given to God's people; for it is "the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." But the earth in its present state is not given to the people of God. If it was, there would be no room for that glorious time predicted by the prophet Daniel when the saints shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom under the whole heavens. Dan. vii, 18, 27. When the Saviour says "The meek shall inherit the earth," he refers to the future. To the same we believe the commandment also has reference. And this view is confirmed by a glance at the followers of God in past ages, who of course would have been the recipients of the promise if it had reference to this life. But we find that they have not been thus distinguished, while in many instances their days have been violently cut short by the hand of persecution.
Sunday a Corner Stone of the American National Edifice.
By J. DORCAS.
In viewing the present state of the world, and comparing it with the Bible description of the last days, it strikes me forcibly that Babylon the great will soon be divided into three grand parts. God's people will be called out by the third message and will be a separate and distinct people; and though they will be, compared with the mass, a "little flock," yet God will lead them on to certain victory. See Dan. vii, 18. Then there are two other parts, the two great contending political factions which are now being arrayed in almost deadly hostility against each other. Three parts "and the cities of the nations fell!"
I am drawn out to make these observations by reading an address to the American people in the Bible Society Record for Dec. 1859, in which the writer seems to be laboring under fearful forebodings of the future of our Nation, in that she is now widely departing from Bible institutions, and he, like as in the Lord's warnings to his people, naturally enough terminates in the Sabbath question, and expresses fears that our "Sabbath worship will be turned into Sundays of revelry," and thus the corner stone of our free institutions be pried out and fearful be the result; and concludes "that he should be considered a traitor whose sacreligous hand should remove it (Sunday) from its ancient place in the wall." Still farther on he remarks, "But what shall cultivate conscience; what shall keep alive in the popular heart such elevated sentiments" (as held by the early settlers of America)? "I answer, the gospel teachings concerning God's moral government. Conscience must fall back upon a revelation, must get its strength from Sinai and its impressiveness from Calvary." Now I ask in all candor, can conscience receive any moral strength by falling back on to the revelation from Sinai, for Sunday keeping? Do the advocates for Sunday observance fail indeed to see that neither Sinai nor Calvary give them any warrant for profaning the seventh day of the week, as required in the fourth precept to be kept holy, and honoring a Pagan festival in its stead?
May the Lord speedily deliver his people from fallen Babylon before she is "thrust down with violence to rise no more forever." If this sort of confused divinity as taught by the so-called orthodox ministers is not well suited to set the world's head a reeling and settle them in a general antipathy against all religion, I think the devil will greatly miss his calculation.
J. DORCAS.
To the Brethren in Ohio.
By J. H. Waggoner
SEvERE sickness has prevented my visiting you as soon as I expected to. I now expect to start in a few days. I intend to visit most of the churches as soon as possible. At Lovett's Grove I shall meet Bro. Holt who will accompany me south and east.
I am authorized by the Tent Committee to say that I will receive funds and subscriptions for the Ohio Tent. Brethren will take notice; we hope to be able to get a Tent and perfect arrangements for operations in good season.
I shall probably make my visits with the churches brief, as I wish to visit some new places.
J. H. WAGGONER.
Burlington, Mich., Feb. 10.
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APPOINTMENTS.
By James White
Meetings in Iowa.
PROVIDENCE permitting Bro. and sister White will meet with the brethren in Iowa as follows:
Lisbon, Feb. 25th and 26th.
Richmond or Dayton, where Bro. Osborn may appoint, March 3d and 4th.
Knoxville, 10th and 11th.
We shall be happy to meet with our preaching brethren in Iowa at these meetings. JAMES WHITE.
Eastern Meetings and Sabbath History
By John Nevins Andrews
PROVIDENCE permitting I will hold meetings where Bro. Lindsay of Olcott N. Y., may arrange, Feb. 25th and 26th. At Mannsville March 3d and 4th, and 10th and 11th. At Roxbury, Vt. March 18th and 19th. There are several intermediate places at which I intend to call in this route, but can make no appointments. My object in going east is the preparation of a Sabbath History, and I am obliged to make other arrangements subservient to this. J. N. Andrews.