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Still Onward.

By General Conference Committee

A GREAT MOVEMENT WELL BEGUN.

The general quarterly meeting of the Tract and Missionary Society of Michigan, appointed at Battle Creek for Nov. 14 and 15, has just closed. Elders Haskell and Butler, and several others of our preaching brethren, were present. Most of the districts in the State were represented by directors.

On the Sabbath the house of worship was crowded by those who listened to appropriate discourses from Bro. and sister White, with usual interest. On first-day, the circulation of our periodicals and other publications, and more earnest missionary labor, was the subject of general discussion. Union and a growing interest prevailed.

The directors present recommended that a pioneer paper, entitled The Voice of Truth, the size of the Advent Review and Herald of the Sabbath, be started with the new year, and that Michigan circulate 10,000 copies of it and the Health Reformer, and that the work commence immediately, so that as many as possible of the new subscribers shall commence with the new year.

It was also recommended that 10,000 copies of the Hygienic Family Almanac be circulated in the State of Michigan ahead of the coming flood of Drug Almanacs, and that our excellent series of health tracts have a wide circulation. The decision of the directors was then submitted to the congregation, and was ratified by unanimous vote.

It was decided to be the duty of the tract and missionary workers to obtain as many full-paying subscribers for our religious periodicals, and for the Reformer, as possible. That only in those cases where the T. & M. Society actually pay for these periodicals to certain persons should the prices be reduced. But in those cases where persons cannot be induced to pay full prices, the T. & M. Society, also individuals, can furnish them to this class for one-half the regular subscription prices.

The following paragraph shows that after Jan. 1, 1875, postage on periodicals is to be prepaid at reduced rates on regular, or bona fide, subscribers only.

“SEC. 5. That on and after the 1st day of January, 1875, all newspapers and periodical publications, mailed from a known office of publication or news agency, and addressed to regular subscribers or news-agents, postage shall be charged at the following rates: On newspapers and periodical publications, issued weekly and oftener, 2 cents a pound or fraction thereof; less frequently, 3 cents a pound or fraction thereof.”

That all who engage in the circulation of our periodicals may know what the law regulating the mailing of papers is, we here give Sec. 162 of Postal Law. It provides “That the Postmaster General may prescribe, by regulations, an affidavit, in form to be taken by the publisher or clerk, agent, or servant of the publisher, of any newspaper, or other periodical which may be sent to regular subscribers, without payment of postage at the mailing office, to the effect that neither he nor any other proprietor, clerk, agent, or employee within his knowledge will send, cause or permit to be sent through the mail, without prepayment of postage stamps, any copies of such newspaper or other periodical (naming it) except to bona fide and regular subscribers thereto; and if any such newspaper or any other periodical shall be thus unlawfully sent, with knowledge or consent of such proprietor, or his agent, clerk, or servant in charge of such business, or if such affidavit shall, when required by the Postmaster General, or any special agent of the Post Office Department, be refused, the person guilty of the offense, or refusing to make the affidavit, shall forfeit and pay fifty dollars in each case.”

We give the decision of Judge Sherman at Cleveland, Ohio, of what is necessary to constitute a person a “bona fide and regular subscriber” of a paper according to the intent and design of the law. He says:— “I would not wish to be understood as holding the terms employed by the act, to wit: ‘bona fide and regular subscribers,’ were it to be construed so strictly as only to embrace persons who, by their own hand, have made subscriptions; but it is quite plain that no one can be a subscriber unless he has subscribed himself, or by some authorized agent, or has subsequently, in some sufficient way, ratified the subscription which may have been volunteered for him. It follows that the sending of newspapers without the prepayment of postage to persons who have not subscribed themselves, or by any authorized agent, or not subsequently ratified it, is not a sending to subscribers, and is a violation of this section. In such a case, where a party not yet authorized desires to subscribe and have the newspaper sent to some other party, the only way of keeping within the law would be to prepay the postage until the party to whom the newspaper was sent had explicitly signified, in some unequivocal manner, that he ratified the subscription which had been made for his benefit, and was willing to occupy the position of, and be considered as, a regular and bona fide subscriber.”

Michigan has set a good example to our Conferences and friends everywhere, so far as laying plans is concerned, and we expect she will also act with promptness and liberality worthy of her strength and central position in the great work. Let there be prompt and united action throughout the entire field.

All those who engage in the work of obtaining subscribers for The Voice of Truth, and for the Health Reformer, should bear in mind,

They should have some evidence at least that the persons would candidly examine Bible subjects.
They must obtain the request, or at least the consent (either by word of mouth or by letter), from persons to become subscribers, and must so report to this Office, in order for them to become bona fide subscribers, according to postal law regulating the mailing of papers. In order, then, for names to be entered on our lists of subscribers they must be accompanied with the statement that the persons have requested, or at least have consented, to become subscribers for these periodicals.

Specimen copies of the REVIEW AND HERALD, to represent The Voice of Truth, and of The Health Reformer furnished free.

We would appeal to our people everywhere to immediately take steps to furnish their relatives and friends with our periodicals and pay for them themselves, as far as their means will allow. They should at once correspond with distant friends, and obtain their request, or at least, their consent to become subscribers. This work of obtaining subscribers should not all be left to the T. and M. workers.

The price of The Voice of Truth will be $2.00 a year, and the Health Reformer will be $1.00 a year. When actually paid by the T. and M. Society, or by individuals for their friends, they will be furnished at one-half these prices.

No subscription taken for less time than one year. And no notice whatever will be taken of names sent in, unless accompanied with the statement that the persons have requested, or consented to become subscribers. More next week.

GEN. CONF. COM.

A Singular Co-incidence.

By S. N. Haskell

WHEN the temple of Solomon was built, the stones were gotten out in the quarry and all fitted for the building, so that when the building came together, it was without the sound of ax or hammer. This is like the work of God. He prepares one thing to meet another. When the time had arrived for Israel to be delivered from the Egyptian bondage, Moses was prepared. He had been schooled by the providence of God in the land of the Midianite for forty years. When Saul had rebelled and forfeited his claim to the throne of Israel, says God to his prophet, “I have found a man after mine own heart.” And while Saul was taking step after step which proved his final ruin, David also was being prepared in the school of affliction to take Saul’s place. Thus it is in the work of God. In all emergencies in the cause of Christ, the providence of God prepares the way.

In the September issue of the True Missionary a portion of a letter from a missionary now in Mexico, who had recently embraced the Sabbath, was copied. She states that among the Spaniards (and there are many of them where she has been laboring) there is the same interest to investigate the Sabbath truth as is manifested among other tongues; and this sister expresses a strong desire for tracts in that language. This, united with the appeal that has been coming from Europe for some time past, constitutes a demand for them. But what was the prospect of having publications in the Spanish language? Are there any evidences that the way is being prepared to meet this want? We knew of no one that was able to translate or that had any burden to do it. But while we were contemplating what was to be done, and yet having no light in this direction, news comes from the Pacific Coast that an educated Spaniard has embraced the truth, and is anxious to translate some of our publications into his native tongue. Thus, while upon one hand God gives the spirit of inquiry, upon the other hand the providence of God seems to be preparing the way to meet the emergency. With ardent desire we look forward to the time when not only the French, the Swede, the Dane, the German, and the Spaniard, will have publications in their native language, but every nationality where God’s people are, will have the privilege of reading present truth in their native tongue. Such circumstances we expect will come to light more and more. It should be the anxiety of every heart to stand where we can tell when good comes, and be ready to walk in the opening providence of God, and co-operate with the Spirit of God in the triumphant march of present truth.

S. N. HASKELL.

God's Free Pardon and the Hatred of Sin

THE Lord always pardons freely, but expects confidence; and whenever he pardons sin, he imparts a hatred to it.

The Cry of “Mormonism.”

By R. F. Cottrell

It is marvelous how many people can see things which do not exist, and fail to see the things which really are. We come to the people with the open Bible—the common translation which they all have and approve—insisting upon its most obvious sense as the rule of life, and the cry of Mormonism is raised. The man who decided the dispute between Mosheim and Neander, concerning the observance of Sunday in the primitive church, by his own experience, also said that our teaching and work were just like Mormonism. I replied that there was this difference: That Mormonism insisted upon the reception as a divine revelation a book said to be dug up in Ontario County, and translated by Joe Smith, while we only insist upon that which is plainly taught in that revelation which all Christians profess to believe. We urge the faith and especially the practice of Bible truth. But instead of listening to the teachings of the Scriptures, and yielding to the claims of the commandments of God, they assert some foolish fallacy against us, to fill their own eyes and those of others with the dust they have cast into the air, and run off crying, We can’t see it! we can’t see it! But do they deceive God! For all this God will bring them into judgment. They may blind themselves, but they cannot deceive him.

R. F. COTTRELL.

Weekly Book Orders Filled at the Office

The four principal orders for books filled at this Office the past week, to say nothing of a host of smaller orders, amount, at wholesale, to $1976.78.

Episcopalians Returning to Catholicism.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

“As seen through Roman Catholic eyes, English ritualism is not very different from papacy, the following from the Voce della Verità, in Rome, showing the points of similarity: ‘One of the strangest facts certainly is that of the English ritualists, who style themselves by a ridiculously contradictory name—English Catholics. It is a real comedy, which we are inclined to call sacrilege if it were not excused by the good faith of some, by ignorance and prejudice in others. As it is, they use almost all our rites, and if you enter their churches or are present at their ceremonies, it can be hardly believed that you are not in a Catholic church. The altar which, in England, was once but a naked table with a cover and a Bible, is now a rich altar, richly decorated with a cover, candlesticks, candles, flowers, a cross, or even a crucifix. They have their litanies and and a rosary. They use incense and our sacred vestments. They cross themselves; they have the holy water; they bend the knees before what they call the Most Holy Sacrament. Their priests are completely shaven, they dress like ours, and even now they assume the collar; so that you must know them to distinguish them from ours. They say mass (after their fashion) and recite (si sic est) the canonical hours. They observe most strictly the feasts of the saints, and they speak with great remorse of Lent, of the vigils, and of the quattro tempora, only that here the ritualistic bark is shipwrecked on the rock of fasting, which is certainly mentioned at the commencement of the ritual or prayer-book; but there is a fatal obstacle to it in the gastric juice of the English stomach. Accordingly, they fast very fully and mentally. They have even their Sisters of Charity and monks.’ Under the circumstances it is surprising that the Catholics look with hope, and the true Protestants with anxiety upon present tendencies in one portion of the Church of England.’”

As the daughters advance in age they show all the traits and features of their old mother the Church of Rome. They are ripening for destruction with her. D. M. C.

Our Arrival in Switzerland.

By John Nevins Andrews

God has brought us in safety to our destination. We reached Neuchatel, Oct. 16. We were met at the depot by Brn. Albert and Luke Vuilleumier, and received from them a cordial welcome. We left Paris Thursday afternoon about 3:30, and reached Neuchatel the following morning at 11 o’clock. We were one hour behind time, owing to the fact that our train brought to the Eastern part of France nearly 2000 soldiers. Our route was via Dijon, and Pontarlier, and Verrières, at which town we entered Switzerland. Eastern France is quite level until within a short distance of the Swiss frontier, where it rises into high hills. We ascend these by the railroad, our way being along the hillside, and through ravines, and by tunnels which take us through the hills themselves. When we reach the frontier, we are fairly among the Jura Mountains. Our route from that point to this place is across the mountains, and it leads along the side of precipices, down which we could look many hundred feet.

Neuchatel is very beautifully situated on the west side of the lake which bears the same name. It is at the foot of the mountain range which fills the west of Switzerland, and seems to be crowded almost into the lake. At some distance across the lake to the east, the Alps rise to view, their tops being white with snow. Neuchatel is the capital of the canton, and it contains about 15,000 inhabitants. It was a place of some importance in the Reformation of the sixteenth century. The market place where Farel preached in the open air is but a few rods from the house of Bro. V., and it is still used for a market.

I have as yet met only a few of the Swiss brethren, as the most live at some distance from here and in several different places. Last Sabbath, I gave to those present, through Bro. Ademar as interpreter, a history of our work from the beginning, and in particular I related the labors of Bro. Bates, and of Bro. and sister White.

I have sought the blessing of God continually in coming hither that I might be prepared to work for God. And since our arrival I have cried to him to fit me to labor here with acceptance and success. I have now to educate my ear to distinguish, and my tongue to utter, the sounds of the French language. With God’s blessing I hope to make rapid progress in this work. I have for years as I have had opportunity, read French works with some degree of satisfaction as I have sought to gain information not otherwise to be found. But to cease to hear the English language, and to take in its place the rapidly spoken and peculiarly blended sounds of the French language, is a change which is attended with some degree of pain and with considerable labor. But I did not come to please myself, and I trust, with God’s help, that I shall be able to be faithful to the work, even though it shall be, as in America, attended with pain. I firmly believe that God has much people in Europe who are ready to obey his holy law, and to reverence his Sabbath, and to wait for his Son from Heaven. I came here to give my life to the proclamation of these sacred truths concerning the near advent of Christ and the observance of God’s commandments. I hope to walk circumspectly, and not to count my life dear to myself. I feel great assurance that God will help.

Those who live in Europe can know but little of current events in America. Even in England the papers mention very little of American affairs, and here in Switzerland a brief paragraph, or a single item, is all that one paper is likely to contain of American news. The contrast between the newspapers of America and of Europe is very great. Americans can read each day the principal events transpiring in all parts of the world. In Europe it is quite otherwise. Of secular events in America, for the last six weeks, I know almost nothing. I should be very thankful if friends in different parts of the United States would send me an occasional paper containing matters of interest. My address is Neuchatel, Switzerland, care of Albert Vuilleumier.

I hope within a few days to meet the brethren from the several churches in Switzerland, when we shall consider matters of importance pertaining to the cause, and form plans of action for the prosecution of the work. Pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course in this country.

J. N. ANDREWS.

Neuchatel, Switzerland, Oct. 23, 1874.

Pinckney, Nov. 4, 1874

By J. O. Corliss

Michigan.

After the close of tent labor at Eaton Rapids, I went, by urgent request, ten miles to Onondaga, and gave eight discourses. One man with his wife embraced the Sabbath. The man after hearing on the Sabbath question, and taking a decided stand in favor of it, stated to me that twelve years ago, while passing through Battle Creek, he heard a discourse on the subject by Bro. White, and had never since been able to relieve his mind of the impressions received at that time. This is a remarkable fulfillment of the scripture, “Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days;” and it should be a source of encouragement to those who labor at times without seeing immediate results from their efforts.

Immediately after our good camp-meeting at Lapeer, I went to Antrim, and held eighteen meetings. Seven were baptized and eight united with the church. Others will unite soon. Arranged s. b. for 1875, amounting to nearly $70.00.

Oct. 24 and 25, met with the Locke church at Leroy. Brethren from Alaiedon, Antrim, Genoa, and Bunker Hill, were present. It was a season long to be remembered by those who enjoyed it, and we earnestly hope the good resolutions expressed by those present may not soon be forgotten.

Am now giving a course of lectures in the Congregational church at Pinckney, Livingston Co., with a good attendance. The people seem anxious to hear on the subject of prophecy, and pay the best attention. May the Lord give wisdom to know how to move in the work. J. O. Corliss.

Pinckney, Nov. 4, 1874

An Interesting Experience.

By Bernhard Mattern

Bro. White: In relation to the Bible lectures, I will try to attend them, though not with the intention of entering the ministry, yet it can in nowise do me any harm to be present, if my matters can be arranged to do so. I was brought up a Catholic. My age is forty-six. My education such as was furnished by a common public school, as it was about thirty-five years ago in Baden, Germany. I came to this country in 1852. In 1861, I began to read English. By this means I became acquainted with present truth in 1871. After this time circumstances were such that I began to practice English writing also, being my own teacher.

Since then I have studied much, but at great disadvantage. But having learned through the REVIEW that in the Battle Creek school a person can learn how to study, I have worked hard to save of my scanty means and small earnings enough to pay the expenses of at least one term, to enter when the new school-house is done. I want to study both the English and German languages, besides gathering all the Bible knowledge I possibly can. If by any means I may learn to translate, or in some way become useful in the great work. I have confidence that I shall meet there with Christian men and women in Battle Creek, who do not have respect of person.

The True Missionary has stirred me up in a manner that my heart refuses to rest any longer. Those urgent calls for laborers, the great and all-important work to be done, the shortness of time to do it in, and this time growing shorter and still shorter: and I, rejoicing in the light of truth, am here bound by poverty and necessity, facing a herd of dumb beasts; for I am now herding cattle. This is the most confining business I ever was in. It takes all my time from sunrise till dark, and seven days in the week, with horse and dog, at wages of about fifty-four cents per day, and find myself. I cannot content myself to spend my time in this way while there are hundreds of thousand of Germans in this country, and probably over forty millions in Germany who have not so much as heard that there is a last message of warning. I hope by the grace of God soon to be able to do something better.

BERNHARD MATTERN.

Emmet Co., Iowa.

This letter breathes the true missionary spirit, which is more fully expressed in the following lines penned by Bro. M. in the same letter. We trust the time is not far distant when Germany will hear the call, and many of that nation receive the light of present truth.

PROGRESS OF THE CAUSE.

God's people joining hand in hand, The cause moves on from land to land. Over mount and dale, both south and north, The silent preachers now go forth. To Denmark, Italy, and Sweden, To France, to Norway, and Great Britain, In many a tongue e'en now is heard The cry by which men's hearts are stirred. In Switzerland, the proclamation Of the last message to that nation, Will soon be heard with solemn sound, Her mountains and her vales around.

But Germany—alas! I see No preparation made for thee! No; not by letter nor oration, In thy dear tongue, to king or nation. Alas! is there no open door To bring in light, and to thy poor Preach Revelation fourteen, nine, And let the holy Sabbath shine? No candlestick, no star to light Thee in the deep and dreary night Of utter darkness and of gloom! No one to warn thee of thy doom? No one to take the great commission, To show to thee thy true condition? Forsaken must thou ever be? Is there no message due to thee? Oh! for some Jonah to be thrown Upon thy shores in thunder tone, To herald God's soon-coming wrath To wake thee up from sin and sloth! Lord, speed thy cause and show compassion On this now truth-forsaken nation. And if ten righteous there, I pray For their sake turn thy wrath away.

I have written a number of long letters, containing Bible truths to those most dear to me in Germany. Some were written with a lead pencil out on the Prairie. But among so many Catholics they will be no more than so many fire-flies in a dark night.

B. M.

Ominous Signs.

By M. Wood

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev. 12:17.

The scripture above quoted was quite forcibly brought to mind last Sunday morning, by the remarks of an exasperated Sunday-keeper who was hurling his darts at God's commandment-keeping people. For several weeks Bro. S. has been engaged in erecting a block of tenement houses on a piece of land adjacent to that of our enraged friend. And as the carpenters are Sabbath-keepers, they avail themselves of the privilege of working Sundays, much to the annoyance of (though in no way disturbing) our friend in question, who, feeling that he could endure this nuisance no longer, made his way to the store of the writer, there to give vent to his pent-up feelings. After expressing a desire for a gun that he might shoot these depraved creatures who were transgressing God's holy Sabbath (Sunday) he left the store, and a captain of the police, who came in to make a purchase, immediately turned upon the side of our Sunday-Sabbath adherent, and expressed himself strongly in favor of a stringent Sunday-law. He hoped that the day was not far distant when all manner of business would be suspended, that peace and quietness might reign on the Lord's day (Sunday). He protested against our doing business on Sunday.

It is easily to be seen that the clouds are gathering thicker and faster; that the dragon's ire is aroused against those who are trying to keep the commandments.

A sister who lately embraced the third angel's message was threatened by her husband that if she ever attended another S. D. Adventist meeting he would either take her life, or put her in the insane asylum. Another sister, after returning home from meeting, found the doors of her dwelling locked against her. After parleying awhile with her husband, he granted her admission into the house, but what a reception did she meet! Her furniture, bed, bedding, and clothing, were strewn from one end of the house to the other, and the victuals thrown upon the floor. For what? Because she chose to obey God and keep his commandments. Oh! how much we need the grace of God in our hearts to enable us to stem the downward current, and prepare for what is coming upon

the earth. Oh! that it might be said of reader and writer, Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. M. Wood.

Boston, Mass., Nov. 4, 1874.

MY KING.

Love is King! When he commands, Let all meaner things withdraw Only he, in all the lands, Royal, unrestricted, stands, To himself a perfect law!

Love is King! By right divine, From the God-head pure he came: Through his veins the fruited vine, Flows in ever living wine, And his heart is fadeless flame.

Love is King! No cringing thrall Suing for withholden bliss: As his own he claimeth all That his own he cares to call: What if here his crown he miss?

What though he be dispossessed Of his throne? An exile he, Doomed to wander in unrest? Still, above all, is he blest In a conscious royalty.

Ah! my King, mistrusted here, Masked in beggarly array! Comes a morning, radiant, clear, When, no more a wanderer, Dawns for thee a perfect day;

When the heavens shall swing their gate To thy lordly entering; When the people of thy state And all joy, on thee shall wait, And I triumph in my King!

—Sel.

Sauk Center, Minn., Nov. 4, 1874

By W. B. Hill

Minnesota.

We have now twenty-one Sabbath-keepers in Kingston and vicinity, and two Sabbath-schools in working order. There are others also that will, without doubt, take hold of the good work shortly.

I now return home, having been absent nine weeks. I hope the dear brethren and sisters will be as a city set upon a hill whose light cannot be hid. W. B. HILL.

Sauk Center, Minn., Nov. 4, 1874

CHAS. L. BOYD

By Chas. L. Boyd

Nebraska.

SINCE my last report, I have labored some among the friends at Stromsburg. Three more have signed the covenant, thus making a company of ten. A leader is elected, a Sabbath-school organized, and meetings held every Sabbath.

Have also held a series of meetings about seven miles from Stromsburg. Found the people here very ready to receive the truths of the third angel’s message. Thirteen have signed the covenant, among whom are the Methodist and United Brethren class-leaders. Others are keeping the Sabbath.

The day the covenant was signed, the spirit of the last phase of the two-horned beast was very manifest. One leading man in the United Brethren church arose, and expressed his desire for the time to come when the Sabbath (Sunday) should be established by law, and all be obliged to observe it, this subject being the foundation of the discourse just delivered. Arrangements have been made for monthly meetings, alternately, at each of these places the first Sabbath in every month. Have just commenced meetings seven miles north-west of Seward.

My address is Seward, Seward Co., Neb.

CHAS. L. BOYD

Nov. 1, 1874.

Lectures in Rowley, Massachusetts

By P. C. Rodman

Massachusetts.

We are now lecturing in Rowley, Mass. Average attendance, seventy. Interest increasing. Hope good will be done, and souls receive the truth. We beg an interest in the prayers of God's commandment-keeping people. P. C. Rodman.

Note from Bro. Cornell.

By M. E. Cornell

Nov. 1, in company with Bro. Butler, I took the cars at San Francisco, Cal., and in a little over five days, arrived in Chicago, where I remained over till Monday. I spoke twice at the Danish chapel and was much pleased with the intelligence and good order of that congregation.

After an absence of three years and a half, I am again at head-quarters in good health and spirits. I am much rejoiced at the abundant signs of progress I see here, on every hand. The Lord is certainly working for his people, and the cause of truth is speeding on gloriously.

My address until further notice will be Battle Creek, Michigan.

M. E. CORNELL.

GEO. I. BUTLER

By George I. Butler

California.

Meetings in San Francisco continue in the large tent, with a steady interest. Soon after my last report was written, the weather became quite stormy for that country, and for this season of the year. Nearly every day it threatened rain, and the next Sabbath and Sunday after my report there was a severe storm, which tore one of the large tents badly, so that it had to be taken down for repairs. No such storm for many years had been known at this season of the year. This injured the interest somewhat, as the evenings were cool, and everything damp. But it began to come up again as soon as settled weather returned. The weather has since been delightful, and the congregations have numbered from 200, up to 1,000, evenings. They gave the best of attention. I shall be disappointed if there is not an ingathering of souls as the result of the meetings.

At this writing, I am returning East on the Union Pacific R. R. My acquaintance with the brethren of California has been most pleasant, and I trust some good has been accomplished by my visit there. I can see no good reason why there may not be prosperity on the Pacific coast. Thus far the truth seems to have a favorable impression there; and if I can judge, it has the ears of the people. There is no lack of financial strength in that Conference, and the brethren seem to be willing to do what is necessary to set this work on a proper basis.

But I judge they have an experience to gain there which some of our older brethren have learned in the East. I found things there in full as good condition as I expected, and shall ever feel a deep interest in the prosperity of the cause there. The work has increased most encouragingly in California since our brethren went there a few years since. Now it is one of our strong Conferences.

The establishment of the paper there is an important era. We expect it will prove a blessing to the cause. Bro. Cornell is returning with me to labor in the East. Brn. Loughborough and Canright have more than enough to do. We hope they will husband their strength. I have feared Bro. L. would break down under his earnest labors. The care of the paper will add to his burdens. May God work upon the hearts of the people there and raise up true helpers in the work. This seems the greatest lack. Men and women are wanted more than means.

GEO. I. BUTLER

U. P. R. R., Nov. 4, 1874.

Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”

On the nineteenth of October last, our only daughter, Annie, aged thirteen years, fell asleep. Her disease was typhoid fever, and it became alarming only a short time before her death. The circumstances connected with her illness were very painful, as I was absent in California, and all the burden of perplexity, care, and sorrow, fell for the time upon my companion. I was too far away even to reach home at the funeral. This afflicting providence has caused a great vacancy in our family circle which can never be repaired in this world. Annie was a good and obedient child, and thoughtful above her years. She made a profession of religion over a year since, and I had the privilege of burying her with her Lord in baptism at the Iowa camp-meeting last year. She has read her Bible, taken part in family worship, and spoken in meeting often since, and we cannot doubt but she sleeps in Jesus. Annie had a fine mind. She stood high in her classes, and was a great favorite with all who knew her. A large number of her classmates attended the funeral and wept bitter tears of sorrow at their loss. This sad bereavement has left our home very desolate. It seems to us it will never be home again. About her last rational words were concerning her absent father and her desire to see him. Our Annie is gone. We shall never see her again in this world. But the consolations of our holy religion are infinite in such a time as this. We shall meet our child in glorious immortality in a few short years. We have no murmuring feelings. Our Father doeth all things well. One less link to earth—one more to Heaven. Poor, dark world. We wait in patient hope for that day when death shall be swallowed up in victory.

GEO. I. BUTLER.

The following notice of the death of Bro. Carlstadt, has been translated from the Swedish paper, the Svensk Advent Harold, for the Review:—

It becomes a duty to inform our readers of the sad news that Charles Carlstadt, the editor of this paper, after two weeks’ illness, departed this life, Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 5 o’clock A. M. He sleeps in the faith of Jesus. His death was unexpected to all. Even his nearest kindred, up to the last few hours of his life, had no expectation that his sickness would end in this fatal manner. He was taken first with the ague, and then fever set in for a few days, until the help of the physicians was fruitless.

Charles Carlstadt was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and was 29 years and 2 months old at his death. He came to America ten years ago. He spent one year in the war. About eight years since, he became alarmed about his spiritual condition, and sought and found peace with God. He joined the Baptist church, to which he belonged until two years since, when his attention was called to present truth, which he embraced with a ready mind.

During the last ten months of his life his business had been editing the Svensk Advent Harold, and translating tracts from the English into the Swedish language. His last work was translating Scriptural References. His thoughts were much taken up with this, night and day, for the last few weeks of his life, and it seems he had overdone in hastening to get it ready.

With full confidence we can say that his life was that of a Christian. He had an ardent and living faith in the Saviour, and sought in his life, especially the last year, to govern himself by God’s word and his commandments. His prayer was daily for the work of missions among his own countrymen. Especially was he interested in the Svensk Advent Harold, and sought to make it as instructive as possible. He died in hope of a resurrection with the righteous. He left a widow, and a child ten months of age, and two brothers, all of whom deeply mourn their loss. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them.

His funeral services were held in the house of worship at the S. D. Adventist church at Battle Creek. Appropriate remarks for the occasion were made by Eld. James White.

WORKING AND WINNING.

“It is of no use for me to try to get an education,” complains many a youth who meets a few difficulties in his way. So he yields to discouragement, and settles down to a much lower plane in life than he need if he had only possessed a stronger resolution. It is the duty of every one to make the most of the powers God has given him; but a spirit of slothfulness is very common, and is like a fetter of iron bound to the hands. We must work if we would win any good in this life. Hon. Ezra Cornell gives this advice to poor students: “I will assure the boys that if they will perform a fourth as much labor as I did at their ages, or as I do now at sixty years of age, they will find no difficulty in paying their expenses while prosecuting their studies.”

You need more of the spirit that actuated young William Goodell some sixty or seventy years ago, when he set out on foot to travel sixty miles to an academy where help was given to poor students struggling to get an education.

There was no vacancy for him that term, but he was encouraged to come again the next quarter. His disappointment was great, but it did not turn him aside from his purpose to fit himself for a minister. He felt that God would help him through.

Again he started on his toilsome journey; this time he had a little trunk strapped on his back, containing all his worldly possessions. It was not very heavy, but would grow burdensome as the miles were passed. He took the middle of the street, and sometimes the boys ran after him, and shouted, asking him “if he had a monkey in his trunk,” but he did not stop to quarrel with them.

He had a hard time to find a boarding place, and get started, but he looked to God for help every hour, and he never disappoints those who put their trust in him. He worked his way through college and theological seminary, and graduated without incurring a single debt.

He was long a missionary in Turkey, and was able to perform a great work for the Master in that land. He translated the whole Bible into the Turkish language, and was sought out by distinguished men from all the courts of Europe, when they visited Constantinople. He labored there forty years, and came back when old age pressed upon him, to sleep with his kindred.

If he had yielded to the many discouragements in his way, and concluded not to strive for an education, what a great work for Jesus would have been left undone!—Child’s World.

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