“Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another.”
From Bro. Wilkins.
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I am an old man, my sun of life is fast declining, my health is poor, and my warfare almost ended. I have been looking for the coming of the Son of man ever since 1843, and I can tell you I am not tired yet. I have been waiting for the consolation of Israel. If I should be called to lie down in the silent tomb and sleep a short time, I can say, Amen. But I will not allow my mind to dwell on the subject of death, but rather on the fulfillment of prophecy, and a coming judgment.
O, I feel that we are living in perilous times, and while iniquity abounds and the love of many waxes cold, we should have on the whole armor, that we may be able to stand.
I have been very lonely here in Iowa, but of late have had cause to rejoice. The subject of the soon coming of the Saviour is being agitated, also the Sabbath, and quite a number have recently commenced keeping God’s holy rest-day. Thank the Lord! I feel to give him all the glory.
If we could have some one come this way and proclaim the third angel’s message, I think much good might be accomplished. I think the court-house might be obtained for a course of lectures.
E. P. WILKINS.
West Union, Iowa.
Five Embrace the Truth
By R. M. Clark
From Sister Clark.
BRO. SMITH: I embrace this opportunity to write a few lines to the brethren and sisters, as my heart has often been cheered by their letters through the Review. It has been about seven years since we have had any preaching except the Review and Herald, until the past year. There has not been a Sabbath-keeper within ten miles of this place until the past summer the Lord sent Bro. Evans this way to proclaim the third angel’s message. Five in this neighborhood have embraced the truth, and are striving to live it out. We have meetings every Sabbath, and although our numbers are few, yet the Lord deigns to meet with us by his Holy Spirit to comfort and encourage us. It is about ten years since I commenced keeping the Sabbath, but never have I realized the narrowness of the way and the necessity of giving all diligence to make our calling and election sure as I have for a few weeks past. I feel determined for one to go through; for it is such as endure to the end that shall be saved.
Dear brethren and sisters, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and run with patience the race that is set before us. Is there anything too much for us to endure for the sake of Him who endured so much for us? Let us strive with all our hearts to overcome, and we have the promise that God’s grace shall be sufficient for us. O how often do I see the feelings of my heart expressed in the letters from the brethren and sisters in the Review. May the Lord help us all to be faithful till we all meet on mount Zion is the prayer of your unworthy sister,
R. M. CLARK.
Ely, C. E., Oct. 22, 1860.
OBITUARY.
Died of consumption, at Richmond Iowa, Oct. 22, 1860, sister Elizabeth Page, aged 28 years. J. W.
Died at Millersburg, Iowa, Sept. 22, 1860, J. Lorenzo, son of M. and A. Osborn, aged two years, four months and seven days. J. W.
DIED at Round Grove, Ills., Sept. 2d, 1860, Nora Blandina, only daughter of Samuel M., and Phebe A. Holly, aged 15 months lacking one day.
Little Nora was a sweet and amiable child, beloved by all who knew her. During her sickness, which was two weeks, she seemed to possess all the patience of a grown person. But death is no respecter of persons; the little innocent babe, and the man of full years fall alike beneath his relentless grasp.
Our aged brother, Abram Hoff, delivered a discourse on the occasion to an attentive audience, founded on Job xiv, 14, “If a man die shall he live again?” and also dispensed words of comfort and consolation to the bereaved parents and relatives of the deceased.
That the Lord may sanctify this dispensation of his providence to the good of the entire family, is the prayer of the writer. R. F. ANDREWS.
Round Grove, Ills.
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A HARD CHANCE FOR THE GOSPEL
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Nine Baptized in Friendship
By Editor
FROM a note received from Bro. Robbins, of Friendship, Allegany Co., N. Y., we quote the following cheering item: "Yesterday nine were baptized, and eight more will go forward in two weeks."
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By James White
We now design to commence printing another edition of our Hymn Book about the first of January 1861.
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Note from Bro. Lawrence.
By H. W. Lawrence
BRO. SMITH: I would like to say to the friends of Jesus that I am encouraged to suffer on in the cause of present truth, knowing that we shall reap in due season if we faint not. I still expect to see greater victories in the name of the Lord. It does seem that we who have been lukewarm in the truth ought to be very humble and zealous in our efforts to repent and to redeem the time. Affliction is still doing its work on some of the saints in this vicinity. Yet the blessed hope sustains the believer; and soon the conflict will end in final triumph. I hope to endure unto the end, and rest when the Lord returns from the wedding.
SINGULAR inferences are made from this connection; sometimes it is used in one way, at other times another; and by some to prove probation in the pope's purgatory. A little common-sense application of Grammar will settle the difficulty.
By which (verse 9), refers back to spirit in the 18th verse for its antecedent. Thus, by which (Spirit) also he went and preached to the spirits in prison, (the grave at the present time). When did he do this? When once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah. Who preached to these spirits? Certainly Noah was the one who preached in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing. See verse 20.
Then it is clear that the preaching to these spirits was done by Noah, in the days of Noah (by the Spirit), actuated by the Spirit of God, as if Christ had preached it; and now those spirits are in the grave (prison). Why was it necessary to preach to them? Because they were disobedient (verse 20); they had provoked God, and he warned them; and when they did not heed the warning, the flood came and destroyed them. Then the flood was a type, and the same waters which destroyed the wicked antediluvians, buoyed up the ark; and the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ made a way for the resurrection of the just; baptism being only a figure, an ordinance, reminding us of the burial and resurrection of Christ, pointing back to that, as the deluge (baptism of the earth) pointed forward to it, by the like figure.
Then what do we infer? That the deluge was a baptism of the physical earth, and pointed forward to the burial and resurrection of Christ, as the means of its final restoration to the Eden state, by the like figure, as the baptism of believers points back to the burial and resurrection of Christ, as the second Adam, who is to restore man to his first estate, in the new earth.
J. CLARKE.
APPOINTMENTS.
By James White
We have decided to go West and Bro. Loughborough will go East. We will, providence permitting, be at the Conference at Mauston, Wis., Nov. 3d, Marquette the 10th and 11th, where Brn. Sanborn and Ingraham may appoint the 17th and 18th, Round Grove, Ills., the 24th and 25th. JAMES WHITE.
PROVIDENCE permitting, there will be a conference in Monroe, Wis., Sabbath and first-day, Nov. 17th and 18th. Bro. White will be at this conference. Brethren coming to this conference had better fetch some provision with them, calculating in part to feed themselves. We shall have plenty room for teams, and brethren will find plenty of places for lodging. Let there be a general gathering at this meeting, and come to labor for the cause of truth.