Bro. B. G. Jones writes from Newport, N. H., July 15th, 1857: "Bro. Smith, I am still striving to obey the commandments, and to heed the counsel of the faithful and true Witness to be zealous and repent and buy the gold tried in the fire that I may be rich, and the white raiment and the eye-salve, and use them so as to have all the requisite preparation to meet the coming events, and to stand before the Son of man. I have to confess that I have been in a cold, indifferent state, although I have been trying to obey the Third Angel's Message, but have not realized it as I ought. I feel at this time a determination to start anew to do my duty in trying to obey the requirements of my heavenly Father, that I may be prepared to reign with him on the new earth.
"We are living in a time when we must watch ourselves continually in order to keep the influence of the holy Spirit in our hearts, to lead us in the way of truth. My prayer is that the Lord will help us to hold fast and endure the trials unto the end that we may receive the reward that is laid up for those that are faithful."
Blessings at the Parish Tent-Meeting
By C. B. Preston
From Bro. Preston.
Bro. Smith: It is with a grateful heart I write and would beg the privilege of saying to the scattered remnant through the Review that we were greatly blessed in attending the tent-meeting in Parish, N. Y. We went diseased in body, and oppressed and discouraged, not having met with, or heard the word spoken from a messenger of the Lord, for more than three years; but there we heard the Lord's messengers preach his word clear from fables. The clear blazing light of truthful testimony that was given in power by Bro. White, Ingraham, Wheeler and others revived in us some of the spirit of 1844, when the cry was made, Behold the bridegroom cometh. It is a message that must, it will, and it does stir into action all the powers of the whole man. We felt it to be a precious blessing that we had long desired, yet were unworthy to receive. How blessed to meet with those we had not met with for a long time and find that they had a reserved tear to shed over a poor weeping brother almost in despair. The love of God is a precious furnace to melt the heart.
My sympathy is with you Bro. Smith, in your responsible station; also with those who sacrifice ease to try to win some from the enemys' ranks and if possible teach them the way to get to heaven; and my sympathy is with you, lone ones, who on your pilgrim journey seldom meet with one of like precious faith. Let us live right so we may be gathered with the ransomed of the Lord. We feel to heed the all-important message to the last church, and beg an interest in the prayers of a rising church, that we may rise with you.
C. B. Preston.
Glenmore, N. Y., July 12th. 1857.
Alone Keeping God’s Commandments
By William Gould
From Bro. Gould.
Bro. Smith: I feel thankful for your kind favor in sending me the Review. In reading the communications from the brethren and sisters, I am reminded of the passage in Malachi iii. 16. "Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another; and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name." Placed in the situation that many of us are, the Review is the only medium that we have of speaking often one to another. May God help us to exhort one another and so much the more as we see the day approaching.
This town contains four or five thousand inhabitants, and I am the only one who is keeping the commandments of God. I feel lonely and need the prayers of the dear brethren and sisters to sustain me in this Sodom of a place. They look upon me as a very wicked person for working on the first day of the week. May the Lord bless you in your labor of love is my prayer.
William Gould.
Lawrenceburg, Ind., July 14th, 1857.
A Lonely Believer’s Appeal for Prayer
Sister C. A. Ingalls writes from Eureka, Wis.: "I prize the Review next to my Bible. It is indeed a watchman on the walls of Zion to give us the time in which we live. I am very lonely here. I have not heard a sermon preached since Bro. Waggoner went to Michigan, nor seen any of like precious faith except my mother-in-law. We are trying to heed the counsel of the True Witness, and arise from our lukewarmness and have on the whole armor of the Lord that we may be enabled to stand in the hour of temptation that shall come on all the world to try them that dwell on the earth. We desire an interest in your prayers that we may overcome."
J. W. RAYMOND
By J. W. Raymond
From Bro. Raymond.
BRO. SMITH: I still feel like a pilgrim and stranger on earth, seeking for the preparation prerequisite to an admittance into the glorious and never fading kingdom of God; for which many have fought, struggled, bled and died. And here I have reason to praise and adore the name of God, that our struggling with the powers of darkness, is of short duration; for soon the last and most important work of Jesus in the heavenly Sanctuary, viz., its cleansing, will be brought to a terminus; and then will ensue a time of trouble such as never was, at which time Michael will stand up, and every one will be delivered that is found written in the book: then, and not till then, will our conflicts cease, and we be transported from this dark, lurid, wicked and sin-cursed earth and to that city for which Abraham looked. Praise God for the glorious and soul-cheering hope which we have, the fruition of which we shall soon, very soon enjoy. I have thought that if a glorious hope, based upon God's word, has a tendency to make a people happy, then we may be a happy people. We are not looking down into the cold grave; (although a few may fall therein,) but we are looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of the Lord, in the which God will roar from on high, and utter his voice from Jerusalem: then consternation will seize the wicked, while those who have renounced all the sins of this world, led a self-denying and cross-bearing life, and stood firm and inflexible for God's cause and truth, will be made happy recipients of that precious boon of God, immortality. Then onward, onward let us press, for if faithful we shall pass the confines of sin and suffering, and bloom forever in the vigor of immortal youth.
I as firmly believe that Jesus is near even at the doors, as I did two months ago that Summer was near when I saw the trees putting forth their foliage. And when I realize the shortness of time, and feel the force of the truth, (for there is a vast difference between believing in the truth, and feeling the deep moving and soul-stirring power of it,) I feel in the language of Paul, to present my body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is my reasonable service, and not be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of my mind.
May God bless you and all his children, and finally bring us one and all with the many that Jesus said should come from the East and West, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
Yours seeking for holiness of heart, without which no man shall see God.
J. W. RAYMOND
Wheeler, Stuben Co N. Y., July 13th, 1857.
Take Notice.
By Editor
Some one writes us from somewhere, at some date, neither of which points we are able to make out, as follows:
"N. B. The last time I sent you six dollars, five for the Office and one for the paper. I saw the five acknowledged, but the one for the paper, I noticed not. I might have overlooked it. I sent you a letter to that effect. I received no answer that I noticed."
As this letter contained neither Post Office, Town, County, State, date nor name, we are unable to take the first step towards looking up the business. Will the brother, or whoever it may be, take notice, and give us the required information, by telling us who he is, where he lives, and when he wrote the letter referred to. If he will give us a fair hold of the thread, we will endeavor to unravel the mystery satisfactorily.
Tent Meeting in Green Vale.
By John Norton Loughborough, E. Everts, J. Hart
Our tent was pitched in this place and the meeting commenced as appointed in the Review. Our congregations were small compared with other meetings. A few seemed interested in the word spoken. Several furnished themselves with books desirous of still further investigation of the truth. A bitter tide of opposition was against us from without, not without cause. An inconsistent course had been pursued by some in the church which had caused the people of God to be "taken up in the mouths of talkers." Brother going to law with brother, and such like acts we understand meet their rebuke in the word of God. We felt it our duty to deal plainly with those who had been the cause of reproach. One confessed heartily, one withdrew, and one was set aside. We feel that it is too late for us to hear long justifications of self on those things that God's word speaks plainly against. We must deal plainly, yet in love, with those who err from the way. The Lord help us.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
E. EVERTS.
J. HART
Wisconsin Tent.
By Editor
We have purchased the Wis. Tent of Eld J. M. Stephenson, for $140,00; and having been informed that some who contributed towards the purchase of that Tent wish their means to remain there still, we would say that all such may write to J. Hart, Round Grove, Whiteside Co., Ills , signifying their wish, and the amount they contributed, that we may know by the time our last payment becomes due, which is the first of September next. This must be satisfactory to all parties, as Eld. Stephenson told us when we purchased the Tent, that he knew all who contributed, and would act according to their wishes in the disposition of their means which they had placed there.
E. EVERTS,
J. HART,
G. W. MITCHEL. } Tent Committee.
Tent Meeting at Morrison
Bro. E. Everts writes from Round Grove, Ills., July 20th: "Our tent meeting which commenced in Morrison, Whiteside Co., the 17th inst., closed the 19th. Attendance on First day was good. Some six hundred were out. The truth interested many, and the anxiety to hear more, and the urgent requests, showed their hungry and starving condition. The plainer and more pointed the truth was presented in the faithful exposure of the apostasy of the erring, fallen, popular churches, the more it awakened assent; and the desire to hear more, assures us that the time is near when the mighty cry of Babylon's doom as well as fall must be proclaimed, and that to effect."
POWER PRESS.
By James White
This No of the REVIEW is printed on the Power Press. Up to this time everything connected with this enterprise has gone off most pleasantly and prosperously. The cost of the Press, and getting it in running order by hand power, is $1,950. But we must have an engine immediately, which will swell the entire cost to near $2,300. Of this sum $1,530 have been received. We leave for the West in about two weeks, and shall be much relieved in our business matters if the friends of this enterprise send us help before we leave.
JAMES WHITE.
English Bibles.
By James White
We have just received fifty English Bibles from Toronto, C. W., which we hold for sale as follows.
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By R. F. Cottrell
A stranger, S. Lyman, J. Barrows, — Ball, L. Hackett, each $0,25. Sr. Griggs, P. Angel, R. Judd, M. Earl, each $0,50. S. A. Allen, D. Drew, T. W. Potter, P. Robinson, P. Sprague, D. L. Daniels, M. L. Dean, D. Baldwin, J. H. Heggie, T. Kibbe, H. Hopkins, each $1. C. H. Barrows, A. Slade, each $1,50. D. Smalley, R. Smalley, Jno. Santee, J. Young, T. Angel, E. Wilcox, D. Arnold, J. Stryker, M. Owen, L. Lyman, each $2. A friend, A. Woodruff, J. Parmlee, each $3. H. Place, N. H. Satterlee, I. Abbey, H. Edson, J. Demerest, S. Smith, each $5. C. P. Buckland, J. M. Lindsay, each $10. J. H. Cottrell $2,50. J. A. Loughhead, $15. S. Santee, $0,70. T. E. Sharp, $0,75. Sr. Santee, $0,45. Jas. Santee, $5,40. Wm. Harris, $6. S. Corey, $1,85. J. Baker, $1,25. Conference at Parish N. Y., $30. Balance of last year's fund $9,28. A. Monroe, $0,25.
Total $169,68.
Our expenses have been $60,37. Paid Bro. Ingraham $28,00. I have used $47,74. Remaining on hand $33,57.
Those who wish to send means by mail, within six weeks of the above date, will address me at Andover, Allegany Co., N. Y.
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Tent Meeting Near Madison
By James White
Providence permitting, Bro. Josiah Hart and myself will hold a Tent Meeting in the vicinity of Madison, Wis., to commence Aug. 21.
We invite a general attendance of Sabbath-keepers in Wisconsin, both Preachers and people. Particulars next week. James White.
Self-Proclaimed Elijah in Newport
An individual, wearing a bright scarlet uniform, and carrying a long sword, has been perambulating the streets of Newport, Ky., for the past few days. He states that he is Elijah, the prophet, and predicts the destruction of the world speedily.