p. 64 | Review and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 8. (8/16/1877)

Our Home Is Not Here.

By E. Hawkins

“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matt. 6 : 33). There is not one amongst us who does not need to be perpetually reminded, amidst the toils, or the distresses, or the anxieties, or the pleasures of this life, that he also is but “a stranger and a pilgrim upon earth.” Not one who does not perpetually need to lift up that humble prayer, ‘Lord, increase my faith.’ Not one, therefore, who has not ample cause to receive and to use with devout gratitude all those gracious means with which our Heavenly Father has blessed us, in order to strengthen our conviction of his faithfulness, and to invigorate our hope and trust; until our pilgrimage be past, our race be run, and we at length, through the precious blood of Christ, received among them that are called to “the promise of an eternal inheritance.”—E. Hawkins.

Caution Against Repeating Harmful Reports

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to another to conceal it.

Obituary Notices.

By R. F. Cottrell

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”

Died, at East Otto, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., of inflammation of the bowels, July 20, 1877, Frank J. Crumb, aged 22 years and twenty days. He was the youngest of the family of Bro. and Sr. C. S. Crumb, and the only one of them who had neglected to seek the Lord and make profession of his faith. I was called to see him in his sickness, and he desired prayers. He joined in the prayers, calling on the Lord to forgive his sins. He obtained a hope, seemed reconciled to his lot, and would, amid his sufferings, which were great, say, “Praise the Lord for his blessing.” “I love the Lord,” etc.; and when the hope was entertained for a day that he would recover, he said he wished me to baptize him as soon as he was able to be about. We trust his repentance was accepted, and that he will have part in the first resurrection. This hope affords consolation to the sorrowing family. They can say in their grief, The will of the Lord be done.

R. F. COTTRELL.

New England Camp-Meeting

Appointments.

And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

New England Camp-Meeting.

The next annual camp-meeting of S. D. Adventists for the New England Conference will be held at Groveland, Mass. (same place as last year), Aug. 22–28, 1877. The grove is three miles from Haverhill, on a branch of the Boston and Maine R. R. Those coming through Manchester and Nashua, N. H., will change cars at South Lawrence station. Cars pass the ground nearly every hour. All trains are expected to stop at the camp-ground, if conductor is notified in season. Ample provision will be made for man and beast. Have your baggage distinctly marked, Groveland Camp-ground.

M. Wood, C. W. Comings, J. C. Tucker. } N. E. Conf. Com.

New England Conference.

This Conference will hold its eleventh annual session in connection with the camp-meeting, at Groveland, Mass., commencing Wednesday, Aug. 22, 1877. Delegates should be on the ground at the commencement of the meeting. Let all the churches in the Conference be well represented. It is expected that each church will send delegates according to the constitution, also let each S. D. treasurer see that all pledges are paid up to July 1, 1877.

M. Wood, C. W. Comings, J. C. Tucker. } N. E. Conf. Com.

Illinois Camp-Meeting.

The Illinois State Camp-meeting will be held at Clinton, De Witt Co., Ill., commencing Wednesday evening, Aug. 22, and closing Tuesday morning, Aug. 28. This place, being a junction for the Illinois Central, Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Western; and the Gilman, Clinton and Springfield railway lines, will be very easy of access from every part of the State. If we receive sufficient encouragement to warrant, we expect to run excursion cars from Freeport and Gilman, and return; thus saving more than one-half the regular fare. As usual, ample provision for the comfort of all will be made. We hope to see a general rally of all our churches in Illinois; we also hope that our sister churches in Southern Wisconsin will send us a good delegation to this feast of tabernacles.

Come, friends, lay aside worldly cares for a season, and labor for the Lord. Surely, you can afford to give him one week out of the year.

Conf. Com.

Illinois State Conference.

The seventh annual meeting of the Illinois State Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting, Aug. 22–28, for the election of officers, and to transact any other business that may come before the meeting. Every church in the Conference, and every unorganized body of believers, should be represented at this meeting by one delegate or more, if possible; and where this is not practicable, they should send forward a letter in season, stating their numbers, condition, and wants.

Conference Committee.

Illinois T and M Society.

The annual State T. and M. Society meeting will be held on the camp-ground, Aug. 22–28. This branch of our work will receive particular attention.

Committee.

Vermont State Conference.

The fifteenth annual session of the Vt. State Conference of S. D. Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Morrisville, Sept. 6–11, 1877.

We hope each church will be represented by a delegate or delegates, according to the constitution, with letters stating the numerical and financial strength, and spiritual standing of their respective churches. Let each S. D. treasurer see that all pledges are paid up to July 1, 1877. Please do not defer the payment of S. D., or means otherwise due to the Conference, on the supposition that funds are not needed. “Will a man rob God?”

We also cordially invite our brethren, sisters, and friends, from Canada, who may or may not have united with the Conference as churches, to meet with us in our annual gathering.

A. S. Hutchins, L. Bean, S. H. Peck, } Vermont Conf. Com.

Vermont T. and M. Meeting.

The sixth annual meeting of the Vt. T. and M. Society will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Morrisville, Sept. 6–11, 1877. A. S. Hutchins, Pres.

Maine Camp-Meeting.

The Maine Camp-meeting for 1877 will be held at Richmond, Aug. 29 to Sept. 4, on the ground occupied last year. Half-fare will be granted on the Maine Central R. R. and its branches. We hope to see a general gathering of our people this year. Let no one who can possibly attend stay at home. Let all the tents be in order on Tuesday, so that we can have things in readiness to commence the meeting on Wednesday. And let all come prepared to stay until its close. We earnestly request all of our scattered brethren and sisters to attend this meeting.

Conference Committee.

Maine State Conference.

The eleventh annual meeting of the Maine State Conference will be held on the camp-ground at Richmond, Aug. 29 to Sept. 4, 1877. Let all our churches and scattered Sabbath-keepers immediately take the necessary steps to fully represent themselves at this meeting.

We request all the delegates to be present on Wednesday, so as to attend the first session of the Conference.

J. B. Goodrich, Geo. W. Barker, Wm. Morton, } Maine Conference Committee.

The Maine T. and M. Society will hold its fourth annual meeting on the camp-ground at Richmond, Aug. 29 to Sept. 4, 1877.

J. B. Goodrich, Pres.

At Victor, Iowa, Aug. 18, 19. State Center, Tuesday evening, Aug. 21. Nevada, Thursday evening, Aug. 23. Hook’s Point, Aug. 25, 26. Denison, Sept. 1, 2. There will be opportunity for baptism at each of these places, and the missionary work will be considered. H. Nicola.

CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1877.

Location	Dates
ILLINOIS, Clinton,	Aug. 22-28.
NEW ENGLAND, Groveland, Mass.,	“ 22-28.
MAINE, Richmond,	Aug. 29 to Sept. 4.
VERMONT, Morrisville,	Sept. 6-11.
NEW YORK, —	“ 11-17.
MICHIGAN, Lansing,	“ 18—.

The Camp-Meetings.

By James White

The pressure of calls for experienced laborers at the camp-meetings has never been so great as the present season. Each day brings appeals from Ohio, Illinois, Vermont, Maine and Massachusetts. We have distributed available forces as follows:—

Elder Waggoner, and Mrs. White accompanied by our daughter, Mrs. W. C. White, attend the Indiana meeting; Elders Smith and Waggoner, the Ohio meeting; Elder Waggoner will attend the Illinois meeting; Mrs. White, and possibly the writer, will join Elders Canright and Haskell at the Massachusetts meeting; Mrs. White will attend the Maine meeting; and the writer, and may be Mrs. White, will be at the Vermont meeting. J. W.

Michigan Camp-Meeting.

By James White

It is suggested by the president of the Michigan State Conference that for not less than two reasons the Lansing camp-meeting should hold over two Sabbaths.

First, one week is not sufficient to give proper attention to the important business of the General Conference, the State Conference, the Educational Society, the Publishing Association, the Western Health Institute Association, and to our extensive Tract and home and foreign missionary operations.

Second, this would give chance for more general attendance of our people, as portions of families could leave home over the first Sabbath and first-day, and return to give opportunity for that portion to attend over the second Sabbath and first-day who were obliged to remain with home duties and cares the first week.

Such a meeting would doubtless take us across the “line storm.” Let all come prepared for it. Our tents are nearly or quite rain tight. And with the grand pavilion tent for the congregation we could be quite comfortable in a storm. Each family tent can have a small stove. It may be wet, it may be dry; it may be cold, it may be warm. The brethren should come with clothing, and bedding, and stoves, prepared for the worst. The line storm may come the first week, it may come the second. In either case we could not expect it to hold more than twenty-four hours.

It is suggested that the turnout will be vast this year. May it be so. J. W.

Progress of the Cause.

By James White

God is graciously at work among his people. Success is attending all our efforts. We are cheered with the good news that comes over from the Pacific coast by private letters and by the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. There are seven men in the State of California alone giving their whole time to the ministry. Three tent companies are active in California, and one in Oregon.

And on the Atlantic, only nineteen miles from old Boston, Elder Canright has the largest interest he has ever witnessed. The number of conversions given in the Progress Department of this week are one hundred and thirty-six. We congratulate the Empire State on her cheering prosperity since Elder Canright pitched his tent at Rome thirteen months since. And most of the other Conferences are showing a like prosperity. How unspeakably good to feel, and to know, that the God of our fathers is with us.

Calls for ministerial help come in from all quarters. Where we have two hundred men in the field, we need a thousand. Where we have fifty young men at our College who have the ministry in view, we should have three hundred. There is no time to be lost. Those who think of coming next year, should by all means come this year. Those who think of coming at the winter term, should come immediately at the fall term.

Again, Biblical Institutes should be held in all our Conferences. The one held at Oakland, Cal., last spring doubled the ministerial labor of that State the present year. In God we must stand, and labor, and battle till the work shall be finished. J. W.

Reduced Price of the History of the Sabbath

By James White

The price of the History of the Sabbath, a work of 528 pages, is reduced to $1.00. Thousands of copies are ready waiting at the REVIEW Office for orders. The work should be widely circulated. J. W.

Notice on Book Fund Discounts for Tracts

By James White

By reason of the exhausted condition of the Book Fund, no further discounts can be made on Tracts on account of that Fund. They will cost the Tract and Missionary Societies at the rate of 1600 pages for $1.00. J. W.

New Books.

CHRIST AND THE SABBATH, or Christ in the Old Testament and the Sabbath in the New, by Eld. James White. This is a new and carefully written work, very important to those who are blinded with the popular error that the Sabbath belonged exclusively to the Old Testament, and Christ to the New Testament. Price, 10 cents.

REDEEMER AND REDEEMED, by Eld. James White. This is a new work; carefully written, of much importance, in which the work of human redemption in its three stages is set forth. Price, 10 cents.

The College.

By S. B.

THE fall term opens Wednesday, Aug. 29. On Tuesday, the 28th, the examination for classification will begin. This is entered upon the day before the opening, that there may be less delay in bringing all our students into working order. We ask all who expect to attend this fall, and were not in attendance last year, to present themselves at the College building on Tuesday the 28th, at 9 o’clock A. M. for classification. S. B.

To the N. E. Conference.

By S. N. Haskell

The arrangement that has been made this year with the various railroad companies for return tickets, has been attended with much difficulty, loss of time, and much expense to Bro. Wood. We hope, therefore, that our friends will appreciate it, and not only come themselves, but bring their children and unconverted neighbors to the camp-meeting. S. N. Haskell.

Is It Consistent?

By G. W. Colcord

1. Is it consistent for some of our brethren and sisters in Northern Illinois to have called for ministerial aid, during the past few years, while the labor has been bestowed on parts of the field farther south, and now, as we labor in their very midst, I repeat, is it consistent for said persons to stay away from the meeting? “I trow not.”

2. During the past few years, several in Illinois have said: “If we could have our camp-meeting in August, I could attend; but as it is to be held in June, I can’t go.” This year these friends have their desires gratified in point of time of appointment. They have been especially favored. If they remain away from our annual meeting this year, will it be consistent with their own words? They know it will not.

3. I received word, last week, from a member of our camp-meeting committee, saying: “I will be on the ground in time, even should I be compelled to leave my grain in the field till I return.” We have elected this brother to this office; now, should he be thus devoted to the cause—should he thus sacrifice and toil to make the meeting a success, and we, who elected him to his position, stay at home? If we should, any of us, let us not call it consistency!

4. Be consistent. Attend the tent-meetings near you. Go to your annual camp-meeting. Prepare for the glorious meeting on Mount Zion. G. W. Colcord.

Special Notice.

By M. Wood

To those coming to the Groveland Camp-meeting: Arrangements have been made for return tickets over the Worcester and Nashua, Boston and Maine, Boston and Fitchburg, Boston, Lowell and Nashua, and Cheshire railroads. We expect the Boston and Albany road will grant us the same favor.

Those coming over the Boston and Providence road should ask for camp-meeting tickets, at Providence, R. I., and New Bedford, Mass. Those coming from Washington, N. H., and vicinity, would make quite a saving by going by the way of Keene, Fitchburg, etc., to Boston. M. Wood.

The Seventh-day Sabbath in the Fourth Commandment

You cannot see the seventh-day Sabbath? Open your eyes, and I will show it to you in the fourth commandment.

Northern N. Y. Camp-Meeting.

ELD. B. L. WHITNEY writes that the Northern N. Y. Camp-meeting will be held Sept. 12-18, probably at Carthage, Jeff. Co. Full particulars will be given as soon as definite arrangements can be made for the grounds, R. R. facilities, &c.

Business Department.

“Not slothful in Business. Rom. 11:12.”

The post-office address of A. H. Hall for this month is Wellsville, Allegany Co., N. Y.

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