Earlier text: Men and ThingsHow NATURALLY they flow from the human heart! How often and easily are they made. When the truth is made so clear and plain, when it is seen in all its beauty and perfection, in all its comeliness and fair proportions, so that men are constrained to say it is the truth and ought to be obeyed, and even when the hearers are made up largely of those who have an awakened conscience, or at least claim to have these, how astonishing then to see them join with others who make no pretensions to holiness, in the work of making excuses. With the course of the one, we are unable to reconcile their profession; for the other we can but have pity, and pray that God will yet touch their hearts. People will admit that we have the truth, yet with almost the same breath begin to make excuse. When the Sabbath is presented, they say it is clear, it appears to be true, but— But what? Oh! we would like to hear the other side of the question. Well, you have heard it all your lives, and you ought to be able to decide by this time. But let me inquire, If some should come to you and say that it was right to make and bow down to graven images, how would you answer them? Would you not turn to the second command of the decalogue which says, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything? Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them?” Again, suppose some should say that it is right to profane the name of the Lord. Would you not turn again and read, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain”? To all Protestants of any evangelical denomination, these scriptures would be the best of evidence and considered of sufficient force to outweigh all objections that any might bring. But what bearing would it have upon the minds of Catholics to quote the second commandment who, as a body, have made it void by their own tradition? Or how would it affect the pagan or the spiritualist to read the third, to prove that profanity was wrong? Manifestly either course would affect neither in any degree. But all Protestants would object, and say that no tradition should stand for a moment against the plain letter of God’s word. This position is evidently the true one. Then why not take it as opposed to the tradition which makes void the commandment which says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy . . . The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God”? and why do Protestants oppose both pope and pagan for doing that of which they themselves are guilty? The Catholic says the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week has been handed down by an unbroken tradition from the days of the apostles themselves. Protestants have echoed and do re-echo the same. By tradition also Catholics worship the cross and host, and make images of their patron saints, and bow down and worship before them. Who can tell why one is received as Heaven-born truth while the other is rejected? And who can show that the logic is not as good that quotes the fourth command against the practice of the first as that which quotes the second against the practice of the other? Then let me say in concluding on this point that time to decide is not a necessity in this case; for the command which says, The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God is just as explicit as the one that forbids the making and worshiping of graven images, or the one which says, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. But the excuse mentioned and commented on above, or rather the indecision, is not the least plausible by any means, or one which causes the greatest sorrow and even anguish of heart of the servant of God. Excuses which he is ashamed to hear are boldly made without any apparent concern as to consequences even by those who profess to love God, and daily come before him in prayer. One said to me not long since, “I know it is my duty to keep all the commandments of God, the Sabbath not excepted. I feel its claims upon me, yet my business is in my way, I cannot sacrifice that.” He virtually said, “I cannot give up my business even for peace of mind here or a glorious immortality hereafter;” and he further said, that he knew the Lord did not hear him pray; “for,” said he, “my own heart condemns me.” God pity the men, and the women, too, who are in such a place as this; for there are many of both who are really in the same condition. My own heart is wrung with anguish while I write; and I pray earnestly that God will help them to add to their faith, courage. Take the next step, friends, and all will be easy. Take the next step, and the Lord will bless you. Then you will have confidence toward God; for your own heart will not condemn you. One is a class leader in the church to which he belongs. How can he leave his connection with the people who have been his choice, although his conscience tells him he should take a different road and so cease to trample on the law of God. Another is foreman in a lumbering district with men under his control, and is expected to labor as other men labor. How can he keep God’s holy day. Would God they could do as did Moses of old, “who refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he had respect unto the recompense of reward.” Again, a mother and daughters say, “How can we keep the Sabbath here, when the husband and father will not, and is even opposed to the very idea?” Another party, a husband and wife, are fully decided as to the truthfulness of positions taken, confess the necessity of obedience, yet strong fetters bind them to the old course of life. Oh! if the way to life was not narrow, if there were no crosses, if we should never be persecuted, or in affliction, or forsaken, how many would reach for the words of life instead of shrinking from them! How many would have the palm, the robe, the crown, if it was easy to keep unspotted from the world. But now we see before us the den of lions; shall we be as hopeful as was Daniel with the angel? Do we see the furnace of fire heated one seven times hotter than it was wont to be heated; and is our faith so strong that the form of the fourth will be with us? If so, not even the smell of fire will be on our garments. Do our enemies surround us as they did Elisha at Dothan? Then may God help us to say, “Ten thousand of foes shall not make me afraid, Ten thousand around me in battle arrayed,” and our deliverance will finally be as remarkable and as complete as was that of the prophet. My Bible does not say, These are they which come out of great prosperity, but out of great tribulation. Can we mix with the world, and enjoy its peculiar pleasures? “But I have chosen you out of the world,” says the Saviour, “therefore the world hateth you.” Must I risk my reputation, give up my business, and forsake all that I have, social relations and all? “He that forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be my disciple.” What is for me then? “There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake, who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.” Must I give up my church and people, the brethren and sisters I have so dearly loved, if they will not with me keep the commandments of my God? And will they not cast my name out as evil, and even turn me out of the church? Oh! I cannot bear that! My friend, whoever you are, this feeling pressed heavily upon others almost two thousand years ago, and upon many, doubtless, from that time to the present. See John 12: 42: “Nevertheless, among the chief rulers many believed on him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue.” Is a place and a name among men better than a place and a name with Christ and the angels? Is a separation from friends here with a sure promise of more and better, and eternal life at last, more grievous to contemplate than the eternal separation at the consummation, and the blackness of darkness forever? Oh! for the faith of our fathers, their courage and constancy, who were “tortured, not accepting deliverance,” “had trials of cruel mockings,” shrank not from the rack or the flame, “of whom the world was not worthy.” We shall need some of it before the final conflict is over. May God help us to prepare, for we must be made white and tried, and without fault before the throne of God. D. H. LAMSON. ADOLPHUS SMITH
By Adolphus Smith
Recently, a scene of rare beauty was penciled upon the heavens in this latitude, by the setting sun. Parallel with the horizon, and a few degrees above it, stretched a line of silver-tipped clouds, like the low mountain range of some desert coast. Beneath this range were clusters of diminutive clouds, like gold-spangled fleets upon the distant sea. Above, stretched a waste like a desert of golden sand, relieved by an oasis, here and there, while near the zenith a patch of blue called to mind the mirage which only entices to deceive. At the right, the line of clouds swelled into apparent towering, snow-capped peaks, overtopping lesser heights of granite piles, and shedding gloom into the deep caverns at their bases. Altogether, the scene was one of surpassing beauty and awful grandeur, inspiring adoration of the beneficent Creator whose glory the heavens declare, and whose handiwork the firmament attests. While gazing upon this scene of loveliness, the poet's appropriate hymn of praise became our own: “When day with farewell beam delays,
Among the opening clouds of even,
And we can almost think we gaze
Through opening vistas into Heaven,
Those hues that make the sun’s decline
So grand, so beauteous, Lord, are thine.” Seven Begin Seeking the Lord
By Sister E. M. Hicks
SISTER E. M. HICKS writes from Pleasantville, N. Y.: The Lord is at work for the little company here. We feel more and more like giving all for Christ, like consecrating ourselves, with all we have, fully to him. Seven in this place have made a start to seek the Lord, within three weeks. To the Lord be all the praise. Following Christ.
By L. A. Cartwright
In the new delight of sins forgiven, we scarcely think of the self-denial and cross-bearing life of the Christian. We feel that it is a pleasure to do our Lord’s requirements, and truly “his yoke is easy and his burden light;” but sin and temptation are in the world, and “Satan with malicious art,
Watches each unguarded heart.”
And ere we are aware, trials are upon us that make us feel there is bitterness in self-denial, and pain in the cross we must bear. The spirit may be willing, but the flesh is weak; and it is only by keeping ourselves in the love of God that we can “rejoice in tribulation,” and “Bear unmoved the world’s dread frown,
Nor heed it’s scornful smile.”
Thank God for the assurance that his grace is sufficient for us, and as our day so shall our strength be. But if we dally with temptation, we are in the “broad road;” and death is the sure consequence; for the “wages of sin is death.” The way of life is a strait and narrow way; there is no room for the sins and follies of earth. The cross reaches to the crown, and Christ alone leads there. And to follow him we must take up our cross daily whatever it may be, and move on, not a few days only, but every day; for there are no vacations till the work is done, and no tarrying place but at Jerusalem. It may be the work designed for us is humiliating to all our earthly hopes and aspirations; but it is just what we are fitted for. No one else can do it for us, nor can we do another’s work. “God has placed the members in the body as it pleased him,” and if instead of an eye or hand, we find ourselves only a foot, we should not despise the situation. God requires it, and that makes it noble. Thankful if one talent is committed to our trust, let us not “hide it in the earth,” but diligently inquire, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” And though “Little and unknown,
Loved and prized by God alone,”
if we truly follow Christ, we shall be with him and behold his glory. Shall our Naturalization Laws Be Amended?
The insatiable greed of dominion that is engendered in the human breast by the exercise of arbitrary power is something that seems incomprehensible—almost appalling—to the lover of rightful and legitimate rule. History is one continuous record of contentions, by holders of unlawful power, to extend their arbitrary sway. But no act of modern times is so startling in its significance as that of the Roman Pontiff, tremblingly seated on his rickety chair of state, calling together from all countries a council of his religious magnates, for the purpose of seating him on the throne of the political world. And his followers now boldly declare that all rightful political authority comes from him. Recent events in this country show that this is not intended for idle talk; but that it is the intention to make good this preposterous claim. The gauge of battle is thus thrown to freedom, and we have no election but to take up the strife. The emissaries of this potentate are doubtless swarming among us, engaged in their Jesuitical work. “The battle of the Boyne” is to be fought over again in this country—it is needless to try to dodge it—with these differences, however: The same greed for tyrannical power on one side, will be met by a determination to keep firmly separated all matters of “church and state,” on the other. Secondly, moral, instead of physical forces, will decide the contest, and the missiles will be ballots not bullets. There is a large number of voters among us, of foreign birth, who have never intended to throw off their temporal allegiance to the pope. These, of course, are hostile to constitutional liberty, and in this contest will be arrayed against it. Our lax manner of naturalization is accountable for this. Prudence demands that our laws be amended in this particular at least, so that every applicant for citizenship should be required by oath to renounce all allegiance to every prince, potentate, or ecclesiarch whatever, claiming temporal power, and especially to the Pope of Rome. This last-named potentate having assumed a hostile attitude should be especially mentioned as one to whom he cannot owe any sort of allegiance and be a citizen of the United States of America. Many, doubtless, scoff at this idea of danger; but if we are wise, we will face it as real. The most revered of our early and great statesmen left us, as his legacy, this warning, that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”—Sel. Obituary Notices.
By A. S. Osborne; V. E. Osborne
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. DIED, in Bloomington, Grant County, Wisconsin, Nov. 18, 1871, of diphtheria, Charlie C., eldest son of A. S. and V. E. Osborne, aged nine years, six months and four days, after an illness of six days. While bending over his dying bed he tried to comfort us with the thought of the soon coming of our dear Saviour. He said, just before he died, “Do not weep, for if I die, I shall be on the safest side, and the time will not seem long to me till Jesus will come to take us to himself.” This afforded us great consolation in the struggle we had to give him up. It was his pleasure every Sabbath to read the Instructor to his blind, aged grandfather. Our dear boy never failed to daily pour out his heart to God in prayer aloud around the family altar. Oh! it is a great trial to give him up, but we are comforted with the thought that it will not be long before the conqueror will come and break the bars of death, and then, our three darling ones, two of which have fallen with this same fell disease, will, we believe, come again from the land of the enemy. Appropriate remarks by Elder Brothers Methodist, from 1 John 3:8. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand
THE Tract Society of the S. D. A. churches of Monroe, Sandyville, Knoxville, and State Center, will meet at Sandyville, Iowa, Jan. 7, 1872. We request a general gathering as we have a large stock of books for distribution. Come, brethren, praying to God for the advancement of his cause.
RUSSELL HART, President. MONTHLY meeting for Sandyville, Knoxville, Monroe, and State Center, at Sandyville, Iowa, the first Sabbath and Sunday in January. As the Tract Society meets at the same time, it is important that we have a large gathering. I design to be there, and hope Eld. Butler may be also.
D. M. CANRIGHT. MONTHLY meeting of the Jackson (Mich.) church, Sabbath, Jan. 6, 1872, at the house of Mrs. Betsey Landon, six miles north and three west of the village of Parma. I will be at Parma as late as one P. M., the day previous, to convey all that may come, to the place of meeting.
H. H. BRAMHALL, Clerk. QUARTERLY meeting of the Allegany church at the county-line school-house, on Dodge's Creek, near Portville, N. Y., the first Sabbath and first-day in Jan., 1872. Can Bro C. W. Reynolds be with us at that time? A general invitation is given.
By request,
D. B. WELCH. The following list of books we offer for sale for the especial benefit of those who wish to purchase holiday gifts for their friends. We offer none but what, on examination, have been found to be the best of this class of books, and comparatively free from popular theological errors. We offer them at publishers' prices, post-paid:— The Prince of the House of David, $2 00
The Throne of David, 2.00
The Pillar of Fire, 2.00
Earthen Vessels, 1.50
Losses and Gains, 1.50
The Higher Christian Life, 1.50
The Upward Path, 1.25
Nanny Davenport, 1.50
Tip Lewis and his Lamp, 1.50
Alert and Awake, 1.50
The Court and Camp of David, 1.50
Harry Maitland, 1.50
Opposite the Jail, 1.25
Little Nellie, 1.25
Pinny Rust’s Christmas, 1.15
Alive in the World, 1.15
True Books, 1.15
Climbing the Mountain, 1.15
Fred’s Fresh Start, .90
Alone in London, .90
Blanche Gammond, .75
The Better Life, .75
Whiter than Snow, .55
Stories for the Young, 8 vols., 2.50
Bible Studies, 6 vols., 2.50
History Reformation, 5 vols., 4.50
Pilgrim’s Progress (large type), 1.25
Life of Whitefield, 1.25
Lady Huntington and Friends, 1.00
Pastor’s Jottings, 1.00
Paul Venner, 1.00
Anecdotes for the Family, .75
Daughters of the Cross, .75
English Exiles, .75
Mirage of Life, .60
Songs for Little Ones at Home, .60
Young Men of the Bible, .50
Bible Reader’s Help, .35
Dairyman’s Daughter, .35
Hannah’s Path, .35
Harry Blake’s Trouble, .35
Mother at Home, .35
Peep of Day, .35
Home Pictures, .30
Tract Primer, .30
Fireside Pictures, .25
Mind of Jesus, .25
Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, .25
Village on the Mountains, .25
Widow’s Son, .25
Words of Jesus, .25
Bible Stories, .25
Child’s Primer, .06 Request for Danish Periodicals
By John Matteson
BRETHREN living in any part of the country where they can obtain Danish periodicals, political, religious, or otherwise, will do me a favor by sending a copy to this Office. I want a copy of every Danish and Norwegian paper in the land, if it can be had. Address Review & Herald, Battle Creek, Mich. Letters Referred To, Never Received
By John Matteson
W. G. BREBNER: Letters referred to, never received. JOHN MATTESON. We have on hand a good supply of English Bibles which we offer, post paid, at the following prices: Diamond, Marg. Ref., Morocco, Gilt, $1.50
Pearl, " " " " 2.25
Nonpareil, Ref. after verse, " " " 2.75
" Marg. Ref., Circuit, " 3.25
Minion, Ref. after verse, Morocco, " 3.00
" Marg. Ref., Circuit, " 4.25 He is a path, if any be misled;
He is a robe, if any naked;
If any chance to hunger, he is bread;
If any be a bondman, he is free;
If any be but weak, how strong is he!
To dead men life he is, to sick men health;
To blind men sight, and to the needy wealth—
A pleasure without loss, a treasure without stealth.
—Green Mountain Freeman. The Spice of Innocent Variety
It is often said, that variety is the spice of life; but these varieties should always be innocent. Books, Pamphlets, Tracts, &c.,
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One-Cent Tracts: Appeal on Immortality—Brief Thoughts on Immortality—Thoughts for the Candid—Judson on Dress—Personality of God—Sign of the Day of God—Time Lost; Old and New Style—The Two Laws—What is Truth? Half-Cent Tracts: God's Answers to Man's Excuses for not Keeping His Sabbath—The Heavenly Meeting—Some Features of our Times—Which Day do You Keep, and Why? CHARTS: The Prophetic and Law of God Charts, the size used by our preachers; varnished and mounted, each $2.00. The two Charts, on cloth, by mail, with Key, without rollers, $2.50. Address REVIEW & HERALD, BATTLE CREEK, MICH. The new volume of the Youth's Instructor is to commence with the new year. And we have been considering how it can be improved. We have come to the following conclusions:— 1. This sheet is too small. There should be room in the Instructor for some longer articles, and many more short ones. It should also contain Sabbath-school Lessons in every number. We therefore decide to issue it during the year 1872 with eight pages, its present size, instead of four pages. We design to furnish an article for each number, and Mrs. White will try to do the same. 2. It is a fact that Congress enacts some laws which the people do not understand. And the law which decides the rates of postage on periodicals is one. For instance: The postage on a weekly, fifty-two papers, in a year, is only twenty cents a year, while the postage on a semi-monthly, twenty-four papers, is twenty-four cents a year. And we decide that on so small a paper as the Instructor, twenty-four cents for twenty-four numbers is a waste of postage. And, notwithstanding that some of the little folks may at first feel a little disappointed in having to wait so long for their good paper, we decide to publish it during the year 1872 on the first of each month. 3. In order to secure a very large circulation of the Youth's Instructor, we offer it for the year 1872, for thirty-eight cents. The postage will be twelve cents, so that the entire cost to the reader, postage and all, will be only fifty cents a year. And we will send it to new subscribers at the following rates:—
Three copies to one address, $1.00.
Seven “ “ “ 2.00.
Twelve “ “ “ 3.00.
Twenty-five copies to one address, 6.00. We will furnish a single copy of the enlarged Instructor for 1872, to all who wish to order it for their friends, or when furnished by Tract Societies, for the small sum of 25 cents. We design that the Youth's Instructor shall be the very best sheet of the kind in our country, and, with the reduction in the price, we shall expect a very large patronage. The readers of the REVIEW have some less than half a million of nephews and nieces, and other youthful acquaintances, to whom they should send the Instructor as a New Year's gift. Be in season. Let the names, with the quarters, come in by hundreds at every mail. We offer no premiums to canvassers. We recommend, however, firm religious principles, mingled with liberality, and a trifle of enthusiasm for this cold weather, and the many friends of the cause of God, and of the youth, will succeed in gathering up thousands of names for the Instructor. Address REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Michigan. JAMES WHITE,
Pres. S. D. A. P. A. J. VAUGHAN: The woman in Rev. 12, evidently represents the true church, the woman in Rev. 17, the corrupt Romish church. John was taken into the wilderness to behold this church to signify that this corrupt church would occupy the position here represented during the time when the true church was in her wilderness state. The two wings of a great eagle given to the true church, Rev. 12:14, as they were given that she might fly to a place of protection, are doubtless to be taken as symbols of the facilities God provided, by which she should be hidden and shielded from the face of the serpent. W. A. MATTHEWS: The ten commandments, Deut. 4:13, are called God's covenant, in that they are the conditions offered on his part, with which he commands all men to comply. What is spoken of in the New Testament as the first covenant, was the covenant made with Israel concerning these words. Ex. 24:8. See the Sermon on the Two Covenants, in The Ten Sermons, for sale at this Office. J. Du BOIS: If the discourse is such as you represent, we shall be happy to publish it, giving it an equal chance with other matter as to the time of its insertion. W. A. Bro. E. S. Griggs of St. Charles, Saginaw Co., Mich., writes us that he would like to engage, immediately, ten, strong, able-bodied men (Sabbath-keepers) to work in the lumber woods. Also Bro. H. W. Decker of Avon, Wis., writes that there is a good chance for a Sabbath-keeping shoemaker in that place, one who can come recommended by the church. J. N. Loughborough’s Permanent Address
The permanent post-office address of Eld. J. N. Loughborough is Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., California. Review of Preble.
By John Nevins Andrews
The articles in examination of T. M. Preble's first-day Sabbath, will now be necessarily suspended till after the session of the General Conference.