p. 191 | Review and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 24. (11/8/1864)

National Thanksgiving.

THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION.

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Oct. 20, 1864.

The following proclamation was promulgated this afternoon.

By the President of the United States of America:

A PROCLAMATION.

It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our National life another year, defending us with His guardian care against unfriendly designs from abroad, and vouchsafing to us in his mercy many and signal victories over the enemy who is of our own household. It has also pleased our Heavenly Father to favor as well our citizens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps and our sailors on the seas with unusual health. He has largely augmented our free population by emancipation and by immigration, while He has opened to us new sources of wealth, and has crowned the labor of our working men in every department of industry with abundant reward. Moreover He has been pleased to animate and inspire our minds and hearts with fortitude, courage, and resolution sufficient for the great trial of civil war into which we have been brought by our adherence as a nation to the cause of freedom and humanity, and to afford to us reasonable hopes of an ultimate and happy deliverance from all our dangers and afflictions.

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart the last Thursday in November next, as a day which I desire to be observed by all my fellow-citizens, wherever they may then be, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler of the universe; and I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the Great Disposer of events for a return to the inestimable blessings of peace, union and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased Him to assign as a dwelling place for ourselves and our posterity throughout all generations.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this 20th day of October, in the year of our Lord 1864, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-ninth.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

By the President:

WM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

The Doctrine of the Second Advent.

It is no hasty conjecture, no novelty of a feverish period, rashly caught up, without consideration and without evidence. It can produce the testimony of ages in its behalf; and they who have held it in our day, have been men who studied their Bible on their knees, and have come to their conclusions after long, deliberate, and most solemn investigation. It is no fable of romance; it is sober, scriptural reality, though far beyond what fancy ever painted. It is no vision of the politician; yet it shows us how, ere long, shall be exemplified that which earthly governments have been vainly striving to realize,—A PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROUS WORLD.

Letters.

By Editor

"Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another."

This department of the paper is designed for the brethren and sisters to freely and fully communicate with each other respecting their hopes and determinations, conflicts and victories, attainments and desires, in the heavenly journey. Seek first a living experience and then record it, carefully and prayerfully, for the comfort and encouragement of the other members of the household of faith.

Extracts from Letters.

Bro. E. Jones writes from Thornville, Mich: I am often made to rejoice in hearing of the onward march of truth, and that there are some who are willing to listen to and obey the mandates of Heaven. Oh that I could see more flocking around the standard of truth. But perhaps I am not doing all I can to advance that which I love so dearly and cherish in my heart. The Review is all the preaching I have, and I am thankful that I feel its sanctifying sentiments applied to my heart. And while I feel its holy aud sanctifying influence, an anxious desire arises that others also might share its rich blessings.

I enclose forty cents for the package of nineteen tracts spoken of in the Review of Sept. 6, 1864. If the people will not hear me, perhaps these little messengers may find their way into some heart.

Obituary Notices.

DiED, in Painted Post, Steuben Co., N. Y., Oct. 6, 1864, our beloved Bro. John Whitenack, in the 54th year of his age.

The subject of this notice has long been identified with the Advent people; and when the truths connected with the third angel's message were presented to him, he embraced them with all his heart, and set an example before his neighbors that is worthy of imitation. J. A. LAUGHHEAD.

DIED, in Alma, Pa., Sept. 26, 1864, Irad J., eldest son of Bro. John L., and sister Semantha Baker, aged 10 years and 7 months. The writer made a few remarks to an attentive congregation from this scripture, "Afterward they that are Christ's at his coming." J. A. LAUGHHEAD.

DIED, in Meriden, Minn., May 17, 1864, of quick consumption, Bro. S. P. Loder. Bro. Loder embraced the truth when quite young under the labors of our lamented Bro. C. W. Sperry, in Illinois. Discourse by the writer from Rev. xiv, 13. F. W. MORSE.

DIED, near Pleasantville, Iowa, sister Margaret Johnson, companion of Bro. F. D. Johnson, aged 53 years and 1 day. She embraced the Advent faith about five years since under the ministry of Bro. Cornell, and lived an exemplary life. Her sorely stricken companion and children are consoled by knowing that she fell asleep expecting soon to meet her Saviour, companion, and others dear to her. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." JOHN A. LUKE.

DIED, in Claremont, Minn., of typhoid fever, Sept. 12, 1864, sister Sarah A., daughter of Bro. Elias and sister Elvira Sanford, in her seventeenth year. A few months since, whilst a member of the Battle Creek Sabbath-school, she set out to follow the Saviour. Her conduct has been a worthy confession of her Lord and Master.

Also at the same place, of intermittent fever, Sept. 20, sister Elvira, wife of Bro. Elias Sanford, aged fifty-one years. Sr. S. was known as an humble, devoted Christian. Bro. Sanford's people had just returned to Minn., after a year's residence in Battle Creek, Mich. All were well, and happy with the prospect of again enjoying the society of loved friends and brethren at their old home; but death entered, and the circle was broken. How fleeting the prospects of earth! Remarks by the writer from 1 Thess. iv, 13-18. F. W. MORSE.

Appointments.

Meetings in Ohio.

Bro. Wm. Hutchinson is expected to hold meetings in Ohio at the following places,

West Townsend, Nov. 19 and 20.

Cass, “ 26 “ 27.

Gilboa, December 3 “ 4.

Ayersville, “ 10 “ 11.

In behalf of the Ohio State Committee.

Jos. Clarke, Secretary.

Providence permitting, I will meet with the Hundred Mile Grove church in Columbia Co., Wis., at their next Quarterly Meeting, which will commence with the Sabbath, in their new meeting house, on the 19th of November, and continue over the following Sabbath. We hope to see a general gathering.

The Lord willing, I will also commence a protracted meeting at Broadhead, Green Co., Wis., on the second of December, as Bro. Decker may arrange.

Isaac Sanborn.

Patience.

By John Nevins Andrews

This excellent grace can be acquired only in the school of experience. The lessons of patience are learned by experience in tribulation. Tribulation to a greater or less extent is an indispensable element in the Christian's life. "In the world ye shall have tribulation." But tribulation alone will not bear fruit to the glory of God. Submission to God that shall exclude all murmuring even in the heart, and faith in his promises that shall in the darkest hour sustain the troubled soul, these must unite their work with tribulation to produce in us the patience of the saints. It is the grace of God that can bring forth this fruit of the Holy Spirit in the hour of deep distress and anguish of soul. It is the lack of grace that makes it generally true that tribulation produces not patience but murmuring and rebellion against God.

How is it with those who read this article? Does patience have its perfect work? Or does tribulation cause the heart to rise in rebellion against him who chastens us?

J. N. A.

Which Dies? the Law, or the Sinner?

By G. W. A.

It is a readily conceded fact that one of the strong forts of S. D. Adventists in maintaining their position on the law of God, is found in the seventh chapter of Romans. Here, with a masterly hand, the apostle Paul has shred into fragments the blighting arguments of those who would make null and void God's rule of holy living. The sixth verse of this chapter, "But now are we delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held," has been seized upon as giving aid and comfort to those who delight in the freedom of antinomianism. With the marginal reading in the text this verse would read thus: "But now are we delivered from the law, being dead to that," &c. Seventh-day Adventists have rested down upon the marginal reading of this passage as more consonant with the Apostle's argument, and as being a better representation of the original.

As efforts are occasionally made from this text to get Paul on the side of those whose motto is, "Down with the law," we will venture an argument on this point, and then give a few testimonies from high authorities, the justness of which will be conceded by all who make any pretensions to candor. Taken literally from the Greek, with a word-for-word translation, this oft-perverted scripture would stand thus:

Νυνὶ δὲ κατηργήθημεν ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου ἀποθανόντες Now but we have been freed from the law, having died ἐν ᾧ κατειχόμεθα. in which we were held.

Here, then, at a glance, we have the whole argument fairly before us, and there is not one person in ten thousand, unless bent on sustaining a theory, but who would say it was the sinner that died, and not the law. To further show how critics generally render this passage, although our faith does not stand in the wisdom of men, we will place before the reader a number of translations of this text, which come from persons who for their piety and knowledge of Biblical criticism are greatly entitled to our consideration.

WESLEY'S New Testament renders this passage: "But now we are freed from the law, being dead unto that whereby we were held."

The SYRIAC TESTAMENT translates: "But now we are absolved from the law, and are dead to that which held us in its grasp."

MACKNIGHT'S Version renders it: "But now, having died with Christ, we are released from the law."

WAKEFIELD'S New Testament renders: "But now we have been released by death from that law, by which we were holden."

SAWYER'S Translation gives it: "But now are we released from the law by which we were held, having died."

WHITING'S New Testament says: "But now we are separated from the law, being dead to that by which we were held."

THE EMPHATIC DIAGLOTT says: "But now, having died, we are released from the law."

BLOOMFIELD'S GREEK TESTAMENT, with English notes, gives this rendering: "But now we are freed from the law, being dead to that law in which we were held bound."

How plain to the unbiased are these renderings, and how exceedingly obvious that the death referred to is predicated—not of the law, but of the old man of sin! I know not how much farther this list might be extended, but presume it could be doubled, or trebled, if we had other versions at hand. And what will those of the antinomian school say to such evidence as this? Will they candidly weigh the Apostle's argument for the perpetuity of God's immutable rule of life, or will they still dash on with their blatant efforts to press Rom. vii, 6 into the service of law-abolishers? G. W. A.

The Star of Hope.

THE rainbow shines upon the darkest cloud; The white foam dances on the blackest wave; With rose and eglantine we deck the shroud, And wild flowers blossom on the lowly grave.

'Tis so in life! Our joyous hours may be "Like angels' visits, few and far between," Yet 'mid the clouds of care, we often see The Star of Hope in mellow lustre beam.—Sel.

Business Department.

By Editor

Business Notes.

J. N. Andrews. The Review to N. Sanders has been stopped. There are 50c due on it. We are out of the numbers of the Review ordered by Bro. Peabody. We will hold the $1.00 subject to his order.

We have not yet received our calf bound Hymn Books from the binder, which accounts for the delay in several orders for books. We will fill them as soon as received.

On account of an advance in the price of Cast Iron Bread Pans, we cannot sell them for less than $1 per set.

H. W. Decker. No.

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The End of the Wicked

By Editor

There has been quite a call for No. 21, containing Bro. Canright's article on the End of the Wicked. Our edition of that number is exhausted so that we cannot furnish any more of them. If there is a sufficient call for that article it will be published in pamphlet form. This will be determined by the number of orders received. Let the truth in all forms be circulated.

An Argument on the Law

By Editor

We call the attention of the reader to the article on the law by Bro. Goodrich, concluded in this week's paper. When he has finished its perusal, we think he will agree with us, that a better argument on the principle involved in this question has not lately appeared.

The Mark of the Beast

By Editor

In next week's Review will appear an article from Bro. J. H. Waggoner, on the mark of the beast, in reference to the late superficial remarks of I. C. Wellcome on this subject in the World's Crisis.

Important Statistics

By Editor

THOSE who have occasion to defend our views that the two-horned beast of Rev. xiii, is a symbol of these United States, will do well to fortify themselves from the article in this number, entitled, "Important Statistics."

The World's Crisis

By Editor

The "World's Crisis" published in San Francisco, Cal., makes its appearance this week, greatly enlarged and improved. We have been informed that the editor, J. L. Hopkins, has embraced the truth on the Sabbath question. If so, we shall expect he will let the light shine through the paper.

Dropped, Not Drafted.

By Editor

In the "Note from Bro. Sanborn" given last week, it was stated that three of the church in Clyde, Ills., had been drafted. Bro. S. writes us that he intended to say that three had been "dropped" from the fellowship of the church. The chirography of that word was unfortunately such that we could make nothing but drafted out of it. It would be fortunate, however, for the parties referred to, had it been correct; for a person had much better be drafted than lose his connection with the truth and this people.

Two Things

By Editor

Two THINGS. In the "World's Crisis," Boston, of Oct. 25, 1864, we notice an article on the law from M. D. Wellcome. In endeavoring to refute the declaration that "the old and new covenants were based upon the law of ten commandments," she enters into a long argument to show that the church is founded upon the prophets and apostles, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone! Some of her readers may be beguiled into the impression that when the New Testament writers speak of the church, they mean all the while a covenant; and some will not.

Corrections to Scriptural References

IN the Report of the N. Y. Conference, p 173, present volume, in the 26th line from commencement, for 2 Pet. i, 1, 2, read 2 Pet. i, 1-11. Second line of sixth paragraph, for Heb. xi, 13, read Heb. xi, 1-3.