p. 160 | Review and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 20. (5/17/1877)

Earlier text: TO THE MEMBERS OF THE IOWA AND NEB. CONFERENCE

Western N. Y. Camp-Meeting

Appointments

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

Western N. Y. Camp-Meeting.

This meeting will be held at Filmore Park, on the Buffalo, N. Y. and Philadelphia R. R., June 7-12, 1877. Filmore Park is eighteen miles S. E. from Buffalo and one mile from Aurora station. All trains stop at the ground. Half-fare will be given from all stations on the road to this point. Ask for tickets for Filmore Park or Camp Ground, which will be sold for regular fare one way, and on being indorsed by the secretary will be good for return passage. The usual arrangements for provisions, straw, teams, etc., will be made on the ground. We especially urge the brethren in the western part of the State to attend this camp-meeting. No effort to make the meeting a success will be spared, and we trust all these brethren will show their appreciation of this effort to bring this meeting into their midst, by a general turnout. N. Y. AND PA. CONF. COM.

Missouri Conference.

The second annual Conference of S. D. Adventists of Missouri will be held at Holden, Johnson Co., in connection with the camp-meeting, June 14 to 19, 1877. MO. CONF. COM.

Mo. T. and M. Society.

The second annual meeting of the T. and M. Society will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Holden, June 14 to 19, 1877. Directors will hold district meetings two weeks previously. Wm. Evans, Pres.

Kansas Conference.

The second annual Conference of S. D. Adventists of Kansas will be held at Ottawa, Franklin Co., in connection with the camp-meeting, May 24-29, 1877. Each church in the Conference should see that its delegate is elected, and provided with credentials signed by the clerk. Delegates should bring reports of the standing and condition of their respective churches. KANSAS CONF. COM.

Kansas T. and M. Society.

The second annual meeting of the Kansas T. and M. Society will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Ottawa, Franklin Co., May 24-29, 1877. Directors will hold their district meetings two weeks previously. Each director is requested to bring the district books to the meeting. J. N. Ayers, Pres.

General Meetings.

All are invited to attend.

Rome, N. Y., May 19, 20, beginning with Friday evening. D. M. Canright.

Alaiedon, Mich., May 26, 27. The ordinances will be administered, and an opportunity given for baptism. M. B. Miller.

Quarterly and Monthly Meetings.

Leslie, Ingham Co., Mich., May 19, 20. Ordinances and baptism. M. B. Miller.

Mount Hope, Grant Co., Wis., May 26, 27. Will some of our preachers meet with us? William Proctor.

By request I will attend the monthly meeting of the Jackson church in a grove meeting to be held in Springport, May 26 and 27. J. Byington.

T. and M. Quarterly Meetings.

Send reports and donations in season.

Dist. No. 1, at Prairie Valley, Daviess Co., Mo., evening after Sabbath, May 19. Let every member arrange to make a donation, however small, at that time. P. R. DeFord, Dir.

Dist. No. 2, Monroe, Wis., in connection with the quarterly meeting, May 26 and 27. Bell Klase, Sec.

Dist. No. —, at West Union, Ia., in connection with the quarterly meeting of the churches of Waukon and W. U., May 26, 27. F. H. Chapman, Dir.

Dist. No. 1, Curtis' Corner, R. I., evening after the Sabbath, May 27. Jabez C. Tucker, Dir.

Change of Appointment.

The quarterly meeting at Lancaster, Mass., will be held one week earlier than first proposed,—May 26-28 instead of June 2-4. The directors will govern themselves accordingly. Let the brethren especially seek God for his blessing at this meeting. D. A. Robinson, Vice Pres.

The Cost of War.

THE wars of this century have been the most bloody and costly since the palmy days of Rome and Greece. For its ten great bloody periods, viz., the Napoleonic, Grecian, Crimean, Italian, Danish, Austrian (1866), Brazilian, American, Abyssinian, and Franco-German wars—leaving out minor expeditions and skirmishes—the figures foot up $38,667,600,000 expended, and 11,708,600 men destroyed from 1800 to 1871. Two-thirds of this aggregate outlay of men and money are to be charged on the ledger to Napoleon I., up to his closing battle fought at Waterloo.

Eastward.

By C. W. S.

From a telegram received to-day, May 14, we learn that Bro. White is on his way to Battle Creek, where many matters of importance demand his counsel and oversight. With Bro. Smith, he will probably stop to attend the Kansas camp-meeting. C. W. S.

Presbyterian Clergyman Suspended for Heresy in New Jersey

Rev. Mr. Miller, a Presbyterian clergyman of New Jersey, has been convicted of heresy and suspended from the ministry by the New Brunswick Presbytery. He was charged with teaching that the soul is not immortal, but that it is revived with the body at the resurrection, and with disbelief in the trinity.

The Standard of the Prophet.

[The following article has an interesting bearing on the present Russo-Turkish war. It is an editorial of the Chicago Tribune of May 11.]

“The startling news is sent from London that the Sheik-ul-Islam, who is the head of the Church in Turkey, and to whom the Sultan must refer in every act of importance, has instructed the leader of the annual pilgrim caravan which starts shortly from Constantinople for Mecca to proclaim in all the cities through which he passes that the faithful are called to the war against Russia, and that he will bless the Sultan as the leader of the holy war. The news is in accordance with previous dispatches which have represented the Sultan as declaring, in spite of English advice to the contrary, that he would unfurl the standard of the Prophet when the emergency arose. With one powerful army along the whole line of the Danube from its mouth to the Servian frontier, and another driving the Turks before it through Asia Minor, the Sultan may well imagine that the emergency has come.

“The unfurling of this standard, the ‘Sanyak-Sherif,’ will present a new phase of the conflict. The standard is as old as Mohammedanism itself. It was part of the flowing curtains that adorned the room of Mohammed’s favorite wife, and has always been carefully guarded from profane eyes in the Seraglio. It matters little how old it is, or what it is, however, to Mohammedans. It is to them the symbol of their faith, the standard of their Prophet, the badge of Islam. When that standard is unfurled, it summons every Mohammedan to the rescue of Islam. It calls upon 3,500,000 Mohammedans in European Turkey, over 40,000,000 in India, 3,500,000 in Persia, and over 100,000,000 more scattered through various parts of Asia and Africa, to rally to the defense of Islam against the ‘infidels.’

“It is of course impossible that Turkey could ever organize these immense hordes into regular armies, regularly drilled and disciplined, to encounter the troops of Russia. It is not the purpose of Turkey to do it. The unfurling of this standard is an invitation to massacre and plunder all who do not believe in Mohammedanism. It is a declaration that every Mohammedan who kills nine infidels, men, women, or children, it matters not which, will receive a passport to Paradise. If this news be true, then indeed is Turkey rushing upon her doom, and taking the first step to array the whole Christian world against her. When the standard of the Prophet is unfurled, Russia will not be alone in this war. The advocates of the Christian religion and of Christian civilization, the whole world over, will rise and declare that Turkish rule shall forever end in Europe, and that the Turkish tyrants shall be sent over the Bosphorus to their old Asiatic possessions.”

Erratum: Misspelled Word in Previous Review

ERRATUM.—Through a mistake of the typesetter and an oversight of the proof readers, the word chronometer in second column, page 148, of last REVIEW was misspelled.

Christian at Work Moves to Broadway Offices

The Christian at Work exchanges its old office for a much larger and more commodious office in the National Park Bank Building, 214 and 216 Broadway. Since Dr. Wm. M. Taylor has taken the helm as editor-in-chief, the paper has gone on steadily in prosperity, till it is now obliged to exchange its offices for those more befitting its increasing business. These accommodations it finds at Nos. 214 and 216, in one of the handsomest and best buildings on Broadway, where, hereafter, all exchanges or correspondence for the Christian at Work should be addressed.

Corrupt Reading.

Sir Thomas Chambers, at a meeting in England, stated that no boy was brought before the criminal courts whose fall is not due to impure reading. Mr. James T. Fields said that the Boston boy murderer had read sixty dime novels, all about murderous doings and all sorts of thrilling adventures. No wonder the nature of a fiend was developed in him.—Christian Statesman.

Clubbing for the Signs.

By H. A. St. John

THIS is proving a very efficient method of extending the circulation of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. And when we consider that almost weekly we are learning of persons who are embracing the present truth by reading this excellent paper, it should stimulate all who love the truth energetically to make use of every lawful means to send the SIGNS far and wide.

So far as we can learn, but few churches in Ohio are taking hold of this matter. Clyde, Appleton, Waterford, and Gilboa, are all the churches that we know of that are receiving quantities of the SIGNS for distribution. We hope every church will be ready to fall into line in this good work when we visit you, if not before. H. A. St. John.

European Press.

By James White; E. H. Root; John Morrison; Wm. Ings; Geo. I. Butler; C. Comings; Dudley Marvin Canright; Chas. Chittenden

We, the undersigned, regard it a great privilege to donate to the Lord, for the European press, under the care of our worthy missionary, Elder J. N. Andrews, One Hundred Dollars each, and invite eight others to join us in raising $10,000.


James White — $100	E. H. Root — $100
John Morrison — 100	Wm. Ings — 100
Geo. I. Butler — 100	C. Comings & wife — 100
D. M. Canright — 100	Chas. Chittenden — 100
Newel Grant — 100	E. W. Whitney — 100
August Rasmussen — 100	R. G. Lockwood — 100
An Iowa Brother — 100	W. H. Hall — 100
Emily Leighton — 100	Betsey Landon — 100
S. A. McPherson — 100	S. N. Haskell — 100
“A friend in N.E. — 100	C. K. Farnsworth — 100
“W. P. A. M.” — 100	M. Wood — 100
Chas. L. Boyd — 100	Mrs. Getman (deceased) — 100
Freeman Nichols — 100	C. B. Tower — 100
A. H. B. — 100	A. T. Stickney — 100
D. A. Owen — 100	Mrs. J. L. James — 100
Wm. B. Mason — 100	A. La Rue — 100
J. N. Loughboro’ — 100	B. N. Berry — 100
J. S. Wicks — 100	M. J. Bartholf — 100
Reuel Stickney — 100	A Bro. in Minn. — 100
C. Clark & wife — 100	Mary Crouch — 100
W. A. Pratt — 100	H. C. Stone — 100
C. McNeil — 100	B. L. Whitney — 100
Mary R. Stem — 100	Thomas Alverson — 100
Jane Roland — 100	S. B. D. — 100
E. Green & wife — 100	E. Lobdell — 100
Susie D. — 100	Lucretia Day — 100
A. A. Bradford — 100	A Bro. & Sr. in New England — 300
J. S. Hart — 100	S. H. King — 100
C. S. Briggs & wife — 100	Elden H. Pullen — 100
Jacob Shively — 100	A. C. Woodbury & wife — 100
M. C. Israel — 100	James Harvey — 100
Right hand — 100	Mrs. A. Stickney — 100
A friend — 100	John Ely — 100
V. B. J. — 100	D. Ann Albin — 100
G. W. Colcord and wife — 100	J. Q. A. Haughey — 100
L. McCoy — 100	I. Sanborn — 100
“Thank-offering” — 100	A. S. Hutchins — 100
S. A. McCoy — 100	Jane Rowland — 100
Adolph Gomoe — 100	R. M. Kilgore & wife — 100
John Judson — 100	A believer in New York — 100
J. W. Lucas & wife — 100	W. Sanborn — 100
Mrs. S. A. McPherson — 100	Mary C. Bowers — 100
A friend in Mich. — 100	Mrs. H. Craw — 100
Geo. Leighton — 100	Henry Shultz and wife — 100
Lavina Haughey — 100
Eli Glascock — 100

Wisconsin Conference Clerks Requested to Send Addresses

By A. S. Osborn

Wisconsin.

As our Conference is soon to meet, let every church clerk in the Conference in need of the necessary blanks send me his address immediately, and I will forward them. It is much better to use the printed blanks, and have some order and system about such things, than to go on the hap-hazard plan, and think almost any form will do for credentials or a report.

A. S. Osborn, Sec.

Tents Again.

By B. L. Whitney

If any of the brethren in the central or northern part of the State, who are not intending to attend the western camp-meeting, wish to purchase tents, we will see that they are rented at the western meeting, and shipped to them in good order ready for use at the fall meeting. In this way they will save twice the rent of their tents this season.

Brethren, shall we not own our tents generally throughout the State, and thus save the annual tax we are paying in rent? Send in your orders immediately.

B. L. WHITNEY.

CAMP-MEETINGS FOR 1877.


KANSAS, Ottawa (Forest Park),	May 24-29.
IOWA, Marshalltown,	June 7-12.
NEW YORK, Aurora,	“ “
WISCONSIN, Portage,	“ 13-19.
MISSOURI, Holden,	“ 14-19.
MINNESOTA, Hutchinson,	“ 20-26.
INDIANA,	Aug. 9-14.
OHIO, Newark (probably),	“ 10-20.
VERMONT,	“ 16-21.
ILLINOIS,	“ 23-28.

The time of the Missouri camp-meeting is changed at the suggestion of Bro. Evans, to give more time for people to finish planting.

Business Department

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

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Miscellaneous.

John Carmichael $1.50 51-19, G E Rust 1.15 49-8, Ann Taylor 50c 50-6, E C Eaglefield 50c 50-6, M S Spicer 50c 49-25, Mary A Snow 50c 50-8, Truman Ramsey 4.00 54-4, O D Trimmer 50c 50-10, O B Wood 50c 50-10, Mrs Sarah Tinkham 1.50 51-19, Mrs F E Reading 50c 50-3, Mrs Charlotte Hill 75c 50-13, Jonathan Allard 1.50 51-19, Louisa Watson 75c 51-12, Mrs O L Taft 80c 50-20.

Books Sent by Mail.

D Feast 15c, Mary E Byram 50c, John F Jones 25c, Mrs Julia Colman $1.25, W D Love 1.25, James Entwistle 50c, Edwin Sterling 4.00, Edson Cash 50c, J L Caldwell 10c, Mrs J W Ramsey 1.77, Lewis Johnson 1.00, C D Vos 50c, Mrs L N Miller 2.45, L F Ransom 1.20, Wm Young 3.00, Rev John Mack 2.00, Mrs Elizabeth Wood 1.25, J H Durkee 25c, A S Perrin 1.50, Wm Holden 1.00, O Root 25c, J A Killingsworth 1.00, Mrs D Cosgray 75c, Emma Minch 27c, Chas M Lee 30c, Norris Cusick 1.25, Mrs R A Worden 10c, A F Veatch 25c, John Hawkswell 25c, John M Adams 1.14, M W Norris 1.00, G H Crandall 1.50, L A Dean 15c, Mrs Emma M French 2.00, M E Underwood 40c, Daniel K Landis 75c, F M T Simonson 20.00, Mrs James Quirk 20c, O C Adamson 50c.

Books Sent by Express.

Henry F Morrow $15.00, Wm Covert 3.68, John F Jones 17.63, J S Shrock 6.95, B C Moore 10.00.

Books Sent by Freight.

S N Haskell $75.40, James Rowe 38.74.

Cash Rec’d on Account.

I A Olmstead $20.00, Md T & M Society 6.29, John F Hanson 2.50, L H Ellis 10.00, John Roberts 28c.

Gen. Conf. Fund.

Isabel W Ramsey $20.00, Calverton Md s b 12.58.

Gen. T. & M. Society.

“A friend” $5.00, Isabel W Ramsey 10.00.

Mich. T. & M. Society.

Dist 3 M J Chapman $10.00.

Mich. Conf. Fund.

Wright $87.00, Charlotte 14.00, Gaines 20.00, Allegan 20.00.

Book Fund.

Isabel W Ramsey $10.00.

Share in S. D. A. P. Association.

Isabel W Ramsey $10.00.

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