BRO. WHITE:—Some six short months have rolled away since I saw the light of the holy Sabbath. It has been a source of joy and much gladness to unworthy me. In my last letter I stated that I had not examined all points in the message. I had seen that there was a sanctuary in heaven, and that the Earth or the land of Palestine was not the sanctuary, but184only the place where God designs locating it in the glorious Restitution.
I am now satisfied that the work of cleansing the sanctuary has been in progress since A. D. 1844. Important events mark the beginning and ending of the seventy weeks, and our faith is based on conclusive evidence that the seventy weeks are the first part of the 2300 days. Therefore whoever would disconnect these two prophetic periods must give clear light for so doing.
I have been out some six weeks in company with Bro. M. E. Cornell, visiting the brethren. This dear brother has met the strong tide of prejudice through this country. Most of the time he has been alone in the field, yet by the grace of God he is a terror to the enemies of the present truth, and a praise to its lovers.
I return to my little family with the following impressions relative to my new class of brethren. 1. That while they are very zealous for the truth, there is nothing like fanaticism countenanced among them. Their highest joy is the triumph of truth, not a single point merely, but all the truth of our holy religion. True, their sympathies are largely drawn out for that holy precept of our heavenly Father's divine law; viz., the Sabbath of the Lord our God, that is so much hated by this degenerate age. God has promised many good things to that people that tremble at his word, and say, "Speak, Lord thy servant heareth."
2. That they are not so much attached to party, as to fellowship iniquity. They believe in, and carry into practice the strictest kind of Bible order in their churches. Not only do they require men to keep holy the Sabbath day, but every other precept of that law. And this is not all: the faith of Jesus must be obeyed to the letter. And while obedience to the whole truth is made a test of fellowship, our brethren make a proper allowance for the traditions handed down from our fathers. The fable schools of these modern times have poisoned and bewildered the public mind. Honest souls that are disposed to receive all the truth as God is developing it, have a great sacrifice to make, and much wisdom is needed as well as patience to lead them understandingly into all truth.
I have conversed with a number of ministers in my late tour. It is enough to convince any honest man that they are opposing truth, to hear their fable arguments relative to the Sabbath. Some take one position and some another, and when I hear them in their sermons resort to blackguard and bar-room vulgarity, it shows that they lack for argument.
It was truly strengthening to my faith in the truth of the Sabbath, to hear Bro. Cornell reply to two of the popular ministers, who came out against the Sabbath, and other features of the Advent faith. I could but think of the foxes in the desert. I am glad that while our faith is opposed by strong and popular influences, that the Lord of truth has made it the high privilege of his people to be thoroughly furnished, with strong weapons to slay its enemies. My prayer is that God will send forth more laborers into the vineyard. By the grace of God I hope to be an honor to this last message of mercy to a fallen world. Although I am poor in this world, yet the Lord requires of us according to our ability. My prayer is that God may keep his little flock unspotted, amid the perils of the approaching storm. At the present time I find myself tied at home by the sickness of my family yet I can use the time in studying the word of God.
I am making some effort to get the ears of my old congregation that was badly scattered last July when their earthly shepherd was slain by the mighty power of God's two-edged sword. I find some that are disposed to hear. It does appear that there is an overruling hand creating a strong desire in many to hear on the present truth.
Yours in hope, MANNING CURRY,
The New Hymn Book.
By Editor
We now hope to have the New Hymn Book ready for delivery as soon as the first of May. Those who have Hymns for the Book, original or select, should forward them immediately. We are carefully collecting Hymns from a large number of Books, some of them very old. We want a greater variety of Hymns on the following subjects: the Sanctuary, Priesthood of Christ, time of trouble, last plagues, &c., &c. We hope that this Book, like the Israelites' clothes, will last the journey through.
A beloved brother inquires, "Will it be best to have the Hymn Book of a size and quality to cost more than 50 cents? Many of our brethren are poor, and all will want a Hymn Book." To assist the poor is certainly a commendable object; but there is no need of pinching the Hymn Book in size or quality to gain this worthy object. If there was a Book Fund raised in the several States, and in different portions of some States, sufficient to take the entire edition of 4000 copies off our hands when completed, they could be afforded for $40 per 100. Probably not more than 2000 copies will be called for the first three or six months. Now if we are to take the whole responsibility of the Book, (and probably one half of the edition lay on our hands some time,) we must receive on the first 2000 more than one half first cost. Now if any one brother, or brethren, in different parts of the field, will take a portion of this burden, and send us $100, we will pay them in the Hymn Book when completed, at the rate of $45 per 100. It will contain 320 pages, with 50 or 60 pieces of music, printed on fine, firm book-paper, and well bound. At this price the poor could have the Hymn Book at 30 cts., and an equal number of the more able would have to pay but 60 cts. Now if brethren who are worth their thousands, will take a portion of this burden off from us, they will relieve us, and be able to supply poor brethren with the Hymn Book at a very low price.
Meeting in Vermont.
By Editor
BRO. J. Hart writes, Feb. 9th:—"As we were gathered together in a church-meeting, the subject of having you come to Vt. was spoken of, and thought best to have a general meeting at Waitsfield, calling in the male members of the churches. There are many points which it seems necessary the church should take into consideration for the spirituality of the people of God. We therefore request you to come. We have made provision for your expenses to visit Vt. We hope to see you here the first Sabbath in March. We shall expect to see you here if you can do it and not grieve the Spirit of God. If the time of the meeting will make any serious difference with you, you may make the appointment. We cannot throw out a general invitation because it is impossible to find room to hold them."
REPLY.—We are sorry to say that feeble health, the duties of the Office, and cares at home at this season of the year, will prevent us from meeting with our dear Brn. in Vt. at the time above stated. We shall be obliged to move the first of April, and till after that time, cannot leave home. We think we could meet with the Brn. in Vt. the 7th and 8th of April. The Hymn Book will be completed by that time we hope. We expect Bro. D. P. Hall [now in Pa.] to visit this State, and we think it would be for the good of the cause for him to accompany us to Vt. A definite appointment can be given in next REVIEW, after we hear from Bro. Hall, and Brn. in Vt. ED.
OBITUARY.
By H. G. Buck
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—It becomes my painful duty to announce to the readers of the Review, the death of Sister Eusebia Paine, of Morley, who embraced the present truth one year ago last Sept. She fell asleep in Jesus on the 19th of Jan., aged 21 years 7 months and 21 days. Her disease was consumption, and her sufferings in her last sickness were great; but she fell asleep without a struggle or a sigh. She loved the truth dearly, and stood for it stoutly, but meekly. She leaves two sisters and a widowed mother to mourn her loss; but they are not without hope of soon meeting her again in a better country.
Within ten years Sister Paine has buried a husband, an only son, and four daughters. Oh sin! when will thy effects cease? May it be soon!
The funeral sermon was preached by the writer, in the Wesleyan Chapel in Morley, to a large and attentive congregation, Rev. xiv, 13 being the text for the occasion. I think much prejudice was removed from the minds of many present who had been misinformed with regard to our views of life and death.
Your brother in affliction.
Buck's Bridge, N. Y., Jan. 25th, 1855.
H. G. BUCK.
E. J. PAINE
By E. J. Paine
My dear sister, Delina Loper, now sleeps in Jesus. She died Dec. 23d, 1854. In her last moments she was triumphant, and among her last words she whispered, "Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus." Although her company was dear to us here, I cannot wish her back. She is done with sorrow, done with suffering; and when I contemplate the awful scene just before us, I feel that she is taken away from the evil to come. Although she suffered much, she was patient; her trust and confidence was in God. She has left a companion and three children to mourn the loss of a kind affectionate wife and mother; but he who tempers the wind to the shorn lambs, hears also the orphan's prayer.
For months before her death she felt a great anxiety and concern for her children; but as she drew nearer the grave she became more resigned, and on being asked what would be done with her children, she calmly replied, I leave them in the hands of God.
Though she is now laid in the cold and silent tomb if we are faithful a little longer, we shall soon see her, clothed in glorious immortality, and with her, and all the redeemed, enter that glorious rest prepared for the finally faithful.
E. J. PAINE
Barre, N. Y., Feb. 1855.
Note
By Editor
NOTE. Bro. M. first proposed translating some one of our Sabbath Tracts into Swedish. We then stated to him, that as no one of our Tracts covered the whole ground of the Sabbath question, it would be best to prepare a Tract for that special object. We would prefer that Bro. M. write the Tract; but as he requests us to write it, if health permits we will prepare it soon, subject to any revision he may think proper.
We shall never forget the season when we wept together by the road-side on parting last June. God bless the dear brother in his labors with those that no others of us can reach.
Progress Amid Opposition
By William S. Ingraham
From Bro. Ingraham.
Dear Bro. White :—I have just returned from Mc. Kean Co. The work of the Lord is progressing in this Co. Since my last letter in the Review twelve precious souls have embraced the truth. I have met with much opposition of late, when cold hearted professors are tested by the searching truths of the third angel's message. Some of them [preachers not excepted] spare no pains in opposing the truth, and in stirring up the baser sort to do the same. For all these things they will have their reward. With the Apostle I can say, None of these things move me. The word of God is sweeter than honey or the honey comb; and it is sharper than a two edged sword; and by it we are able to vanquish all our foes. The promises I find recorded in the word of the Lord, have been cheering to me in time of trial. I have often thought of the words of Peter, "If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of; but on your part he is glorified." I feel much of the time like a pilgrim and stranger, but my heart is fixed on the land of rest; and I hope to live to see the King in his beauty. I expect we shall be a tried people. It will be through much tribulation that we enter the kingdom; but it is beneath the dignity of a christian to try to shun the suffering part of religion. It is a faithful saying, "For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him. if we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us." 2 Tim. ii. 11, 12.
I firmly believe the coming of Christ is very near perhaps much nearer than many of us are inclined to believe. Let us heed the exhortation of the Apostle: "Let us not sleep as do others."
Wm. S. Ingraham.
Ulysses, Pa., Feb. 13th, 1855.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The London Times of Jan. 20th, in a leading article declares, that in the face of the increasing mismanagement in the Crimea, and the helplessness of the Government at home, it would be criminal to hide any longer the full truth from the British public. And then it startles John Bull with the information that of the 50,000 or 60,000 men who went to the East, not more than 14,000 infantry, and perhaps 1,500 artillery and sappers and miners are fit for duty, the remainder being dead, sick or wounded, while the cavalry, as a force, is broken up, the horses having been turned over to the ordnance to convey guns and provisions to the trenches. And even of these 15,000 men the great majority are only by courtesy fit for duty; they are weak and exhausted, harboring the germs of disease; they are disabled by sickness at the rate of a thousand a week, and the deaths number from 300 to 400 a week; there is no chance of this mortality decreasing for the work to be done by a force which becomes weaker and weaker every day, remains the same, and over-working is as great a cause of disease among those soldiers as any; and of the less than two thousand men who are reported to have been actually in good health on the 1st January, very many must have been reduced to helpless fever and dysentery by this time. Another article from the same journal on Jan. 25th, again sums up the dreadful facts of the case by saying, that at the existing rate of diminution, lord Raglan and his staff would, by the middle of March, be the only survivors of the expedition; and lord John Russell, in his speech in Parliament in explanation of his resignation, stated that the accounts from Sevastopol were "not only painful, but heart-rending." The number of deaths in the camp, lord John also states at from 90 to 100 daily. It is therefore impossible to suppose that the allegations of the London journals on the subject are mere partisan exaggerations, as has been pretended in some quarters.
Receipts.
By Editor
C Rice, J Thomas, C Webb, E A Averill, D R Palmer, P Dickinson, J P Kellogg, C Smith, C Weed, M F Cook, B Marks, M L Kellogg, M G Kellogg, S Kellogg, A A Marks, J D Morton, A A Dodge, W B Heald, O Brink, A Rowell, A Arnold, G W Bryant, A Easterbrooks, H Nichols C Herring, H Holmes, J Smith, C Monroe, C Pitts, S Titus, A Loveland, (omitted by mistake) N H Brooks, E L Brooks, J U Streeter, A Friend of truth, (for R Russell) A Friend of truth (for M Dart,) C W Stanley, S Vanloon, I Dorance, (should have been receipted in last No,) Mrs. Dr. Cowles, I V Mack, Wm B Parsons, O Parmenter, B Hamilton, J E Titus, M Brown, L Harris, Wm Merry, A M Babcock, I C Burdick, B R Walworth, J Jubs, R Moran, A Pierce, S Kingston, M Edson, E Richmond, L J Richmond, T Hale, D S Marsh, T I Giddings, A Southwic, S Dunten, H Hilliard, each $1.
E Hutchins, E Comroy, B Thomas, R B Kellogg, R Griggs, F Stees, E Goodwin, S Howland, Henry Emmons, each $2, Wm H Laughhead $3, A Cartwright, ($1 each for Wm and B Cartwright,) $5, D Howard, $2,50, J P Rathbun, $1,75, R Adams, N Gibbs, each $0,50, E B Thomas, $0,39, N Colby, $0,25,—$95,50, behind on the REVIEW.
Letter from Sr. Rice to Bro. J. F. Byington.
By Cornelia Rice
My Dear Young Friend and Brother:—Prompted by duty, I address you with these few lines. I have received the REVIEW for some months past, and have learned that it was through your or Bro. White's liberality. It has become a welcome visitor to me, and I do not wish to receive it gratis. I wish to contribute my mite to build up the faith I once destroyed. Truly I can say, The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; for since I commenced keeping all his commandments, my eyes have been enlightend to see how far I have been led by false teaching, from the word of God; I believe the REVIEW teaches the same doctrines that the Prophets and Apostles taught. It was with caution and much prayer that I embraced these truths.
Heathen philosophers tell us we have immortal souls. Paul tells us corruption does not inherit incorruption; but that life and immortality are brought to light through the gospel. Which shall we believe? O, I prize my Bible more than ever. I am alone, and yet I am not alone; for God is here, and I know his grace will be sufficient for me, if I trust in him; and he will bring out others, I trust, to see things in their true light. I hope if your Father comes to Rochester, the way will open for him to come here. I should be glad to see Bro. Cottrell again; but I hope to meet the redeemed in the kingdom of our Father. Yours in the hope of the gospel.
Feb. 14th. CORNELIA RICE.
GOD'S LAW
By J. D. Hough
WHILE musing on the present day,
We view the sects how far they stray
From law and gospel faith;
You ask them what the gospel means,
And three-score comments they will bring,
To mystify the truth.
Now what conclusion can we draw,
From such divines as shun God's law,
And boldly teach men's creeds?
Can I lay by the word of God,
Deny the path the Saviour trod,
To please their will and deeds?
No! I will try to firmly stand,
And keep the law that God commands,
While here on earth I roam.
They persecute me more and more,
Because I say God's law is sure,
And ever will remain.
They say the law that God has given,
Says we must keep one day in seven;
But God to man hath said,
That thou shalt keep the seventh day:
And while I view his word so plain,
I cannot turn aside.
J. D. HOUGH.
Rochester, Mich., Dec. 1854.
"The Bible Examiner" Office
By George Storrs
Has fallen by the devouring fire, and all its contents destroyed!
DEAR SIR:—Yesterday morning the Office of the Bible Examiner, located in No. 140 Fulton St, was totally destroyed by fire : not a vestige of our Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, or Examiners for this or past years, bound or unbound, escaped; all are gone. A delay will, necessarily, be caused in answering orders for Books, but we trust it will be short. We shall print immediately "Bible vs. Tradition," and our New Edition of the "Six Sermons." Of other works we will speak more particularly hereafter. The regular issue of the Bible Examiner will not be interrupted; though we cannot at present, if ever, supply new subscribers with the back numbers of the present volume.
The special object of this Circular is to ask a favor of those to whom it may come. Our Mail Book, and all the Letters of our Correspondents containing subscribers' names, have been lost in this fire. We are therefore without the address of a large portion of our subscribers; and a serious delay must occur in sending their papers unless you will help us immediately by furnishing us anew with all the names of subscribers you have sent us for 1855. Will you therefore, with the least possible delay, give us again their names, written out, full and plain, with the Post Office, County and State; and also the amount each has paid for this year?
You will thus much oblige,
Your Servant in Christ,
GEO. STORRS, Ed. Bible Examiner.
New York, Feb. 6th, 1855.
Business.
By Editor
J. W. MARSH.—We have not received your letter containing $3.
D. BAKER.—Your MS. has been received, but we cannot publish it.
F. WHEELER.—Your letter containing $7 has not been received.
OLIVE A. WHEELER.—We have received your letter, but it contained no money.
To raise the Tract Fund to $500.
By Editor
P Dickinson, $1. D R Palmer, J P Kellogg, each $4. This Fund now stands at $267,79.
This Fund now stands at $267,79.
To raise $500 to relieve the Office.
By Editor
C Smith, C Weed, S Kellogg, J P Hunt, E M L Corey, A Lover of truth, each $1. P Dickinson, J D Morten, A S Coburn, M Edson, each $2. M S Avery $4. D R Palmer, J P Kellogg, R Godsmark, each $5. Church in Vermont, by J Hart, $30. L McLellan, $4,84. L Titus, $2,75. A Loveland, $2,50. M Jones, 50 cts. H Norton $4,75.—Amount raised, $236,39.
Receipts for the Extra.—Expense.—$10.
E. P. Below, J. A. Fowler, E. Goodwin, G. Cobb, S. Howland, I. Abbey, J. Marsh, each $1. J. Wilcox $0.24.
Office Notices
By Editor
Bro. Andrews' work on the Three Angels of Rev. xiv, 6-12, will probably be completed in two or three weeks. He has been hindered by other matters, is the reason why it is not ready as soon as was expected.
EVERY Body's Book, by Phineas A. Smith, published 1850. We have had some orders for this work recently, and have obtained a few copies to supply orders. Price 10 cents.
We have many excellent communications on hand, which we cannot publish for want of room. We have a sufficient amount of excellent matter to fill the REVIEW weekly.
We shall have the lengthy article from Bro. Dunn in this No. printed in a 16 page Tract in a few days, and for sale at this Office at $1, per hundred.
The great cause of mistakes in business matters at this Office, is, correspondents frequently mix up such matters with a long letter. We ask all to put business matter on a separate sheet, or on a part of the sheet that can be torn off as soon as their letters are opened.
Appointments.
By Joseph Bates
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet with the brethren in Conference at Washington, N. H., Feb. 23d, and 25th, commencing at 7 P. M. Also in Irasburg, Vt., as Brn. Barrows and Churchill may arrange, March 2d and 4th, commencing at Sixth-day at 2 P. M. We hope to see a general attendance of the brethren in the above places, strongly desiring Church Order and Gospel union.
Brethren acquainted with open doors for the presentation of the position of the remnant of Israel, will please address me at Irasburg. Brethren let us come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty. JOSEPH BATES.