I LEFT St. Helena for Healdsburg February 27, 1889. I began labors in this place March 2, and continued until March 26, during which, notwithstanding the efforts of some who were feeling very unfriendly toward us, God's blessing was manifested in a good degree. There were some genuine conversions to the church, and a good impression was left upon the minds of those who had been prejudiced against the truth.
I left Healdsburg March 26 for St. Helena, where I remained two days on account of my wife's health, and on the 30th left for the Fresno camp-meeting, where I have been laboring ever since.
The result of the camp-meeting was such that the Conference Committee thought best that the large tent should remain for another week, that the interest might be followed up, which was done, and now, at this writing, although on account of other appointments we were obliged to close the meetings, there is still a deep interest to hear. Since the camp-meeting proper closed, eleven have signed the covenant and desire to go forward in baptism. A large number of others are making diligent inquiry about the truth. I leave this place to-morrow morning at an early hour for Burrough Valley, though very much wearied with the work, of excellent courage, and of unwavering faith, that if we are faithful just a little longer, we shall all triumph with the work our God has so graciously committed to our trust.
E. P. DANIELS.
Fresno, Cal., April 14.
The Sacredness of Christians
If you are Christians you are the brethren of Christ, the sons of God; the dignity of his image and likeness is upon you. Your bodies are his holy temple, your hearts the altar on which he has kindled the fire of his love. You are called by his high calling to be holy and pure. The glory of your adoption, the inestimable price paid for your redemption, have made you more sacred than a dedicated thing.
Debate Thy Cause with Thy Neighbor
"DEBATE thy cause with thy neighbor himself, and discover not a secret to another;" and "go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone." Yet away we go and tell somebody else about it instead!—Selected.
BESSIE'S LESSON.
By L. E. Orton
BY L. E. ORTON.
Mrs. Rowe sat knitting by the window of her cozy sitting-room, one day in early spring. Her silvery hair, and the wrinkles on her placid face, showed that her days had been many upon the earth. She was truly a mother in Israel. She did her Master's work because she loved to do it. In filling up her life with kindnesses to others, she had sowed seed that had yielded an abundant harvest of blessings, both temporal and spiritual, in her declining years.
There was always an air of peace and contentment about her, that made her presence sought by many who found, at times, the buffetings of Satan almost beyond endurance. Neither did she wait for opportunities of doing good to come to her, but she visited the distressed and afflicted, scattering the clouds like sunshine after rain.
This afternoon, as the rays of the lowering sun were reddening the leafless branches and swelling buds of the maples in front of her house, her mind was dwelling particularly upon a dear friend, Mrs. Parks—or Bessie, as she familiarly called her—who had, ten years before, come, a bride, to the thriving Western city. An only daughter, she had been sheltered as much as possible, by fond parents, from pain and trials. Being of a sociable, affectionate disposition, she soon found in Mrs. Rowe a congenial nature; and as the acquaintance ripened, the bond of mutual affection strengthened, until at this time Bessie Parks's children addressed the elder woman by the endearing title of "Grandma;" and she was the counselor and confidante of the whole family.
Mr. Parks and his wife had enjoyed much prosperity during the years of their wedded life. He was an industrious, Christian man, and though he had commenced poor, God had rewarded his diligence, and he had been able to keep from debt, and lay by a little for a rainy day. And when the "rainy day" came, it proved to be almost a deluge, in more ways than one. One after another of their three children had been dangerously ill with scarlet fever; then the mother, worn with long watching and anxiety, broke down, and for weeks lay helpless on her bed, from nervous prostration.
With the added expense of nurse and doctors came another misfortune. The cashier of the bank in which their savings were deposited, defaulted, and all but their little home was lost by the bank's failure.
When Bessie was convalescent, her husband came home from his work one evening and said: "Bessie, dear, I have kept from you as long as possible that I have a felon on my right hand. The doctor lanced it to-day, but he says it will be weeks before I am able to work. You know carpenter work requires two sound hands. I am sorry, for we can poorly spare my wages now," and he sighed heavily as he sank into a chair. It seemed to her that God must have forgotten them, when he allowed stroke after stroke to fall upon them. She voiced David's complaint: "Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?" Suddenly turning to her husband she said, "George, I think the Lord doesn't care to hear us pray any more, for instead of sending relief he permits fresh disaster to come upon us!"
"My dear wife, do not speak so, I beg of you! It sounds like tempting God. I know you have been, and are, greatly tried, but I am sure it is for our good, and that the Saviour will stand by us through it all, if we only trust him."
Then he added, coaxingly, "Put on your wrap, and go for a little walk in this bracing air; it will calm your nerves, and freshen your spirits."
Following her husband's advice, she went out into the street. The robins were tunefully whistling their good-night song in the elms above her head, and there were sounds of busy life all around her, but, immersed in her own gloomy thoughts, she sauntered slowly and listlessly on, till, on looking up, she found herself in front of Mrs. Rowe's gate. Her feet had obeyed the unconscious impulse of her heart, and carried her to her friend.
As she caught sight of Mrs. Rowe, her manner brightened, and the cloud lifted a little from her face as she hastened forward to grasp the hand extended in welcome at the open door.
"O grandma!" said she, "I am so discouraged. I have come to talk with you; for if I do not tell it to someone, I shall go distracted!"
"Poor child," said Mrs. Rowe, giving her a motherly kiss, "come right into my room. I have been thinking of you all the afternoon, and I can give you hearty sympathy if nothing else."
After putting her in the easy-chair, before the open wood fire, she drew another one up near to her, and said, "Now, my dear, relieve your mind, and I will be an attentive listener."
The young matron narrated her troubles, which did not grow smaller, in her mind, by dwelling upon them, and finished by saying:—
"George was dreadfully shocked, because I said the Lord was tired of our prayers, or words to that effect; but I do not see—when he is omnipotent—how he can let us have such trouble, if he loves us at all."
Mrs. Rowe gazed thoughtfully into the fire for a few minutes, and then, turning to her guest, said:—
"Do you know, Bessie, that the comfort I received when thinking of your case to-day came from the thought that you were sure, by these tokens, you were really children of God's love?"
"I fail to see the argument," replied Bessie, "for I do not show my love for Nellie and Walter by whipping them and making them unhappy."
"Perhaps not for pastime, but if you had a certain plan in view for their ultimate good, you would not hesitate to discipline them, if the result could not be reached without it, would you?"
"I do punish them when they need it," said Bessie; "you know I try to have my children lovable and obedient; but if I was all-powerful I would have them so without any pain to them in the process."
"We must not dare to criticise our Maker," said Mrs. Rowe gravely. "We cannot know the mysteries of the infinite mind. But we have a record of his dealings with his beloved servants, anciently, and as it is written for our learning, it is our own loss if we fail to profit by it. There is a promise in the Scriptures to fit every condition in life, and every sad experience of his children. We may break our promises to God, but he never breaks his to us."
"I do not find one for my troubles," said Bessie despondently.
"Then you must read your Bible with dimness of sight," answered Mrs. Rowe, reaching for hers, which lay open on a stand near by. "It is so filled with them that I hardly know which to read first, but I have opened to one directly. Listen.269"When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour."
"That is indeed a comforting promise," said Bessie. "I am afraid I have doubted being the one to whom he speaks comforting things, because I felt I was under his wrath and being punished."
"You remember who is the father of doubts, my dear, as well as the father of lies, do you not? Instilling doubts was his first work in Eden. If God spared neither one of his true prophets of olden time, none of his apostles, and not even his own dear Son, from tribulation, want, and sorrow, do you think we can be truly his children and escape? The Captain of our salvation was made perfect through suffering. Sanctified trouble brings us into kinship with a royal household, for 'whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.'"
"I think," said Bessie humbly, "that I have been listening, in my trial, more to the suggestions of the enemy than to the promises in God's word. I can see now how he has mixed mercy and tender forbearance with the bitter draught, for he has spared my husband and children to me even while I have been harboring such rebellious thoughts towards him; and, worse than that, I have winged those thoughts with words to settle in another's mind."
"Well, dear child, our Father is as forgiving as he is loving. He knows the conflict you have been engaged in. Pray oftener. Go to him first, in doubt or trouble. He will give you heavenly wisdom, which far exceeds the power of your best earthly friend to do,—wisdom to defeat the tempter."
"Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees."
"It seems as if scales had fallen from my eyes," said Bessie, "everything appears so different. I wonder that I have been satisfied to sit in darkness, when the light of God's countenance was ready to shine upon me, if I would only turn my face that way. I must go home now, and I shall start a little praise meeting in my heart, on the way, thanking him for the many good things he has left us, and above all for his tender love, and patience with me."
When she reached home the children bounded out to meet her with bright faces. In their eagerness to tell her some good news, they jumbled their words, but she caught the idea that papa had a visitor who had brought some good to them in some way.
She walked, wonderingly, into the little parlor, and there found Mr. Brown, the chief contractor and builder of the town, engaged in earnest conversation with her husband.
He turned to her, after the usual greetings, and said:—
"I have been making a proposition to Parks, here, and I am glad to say he looks at it favorably. I am unexpectedly called East, on important business, that will detain me for one or two months; and as I have that row of workmen's cottages—for the paper-mill owners—well under way, I must get someone to superintend the work while I am away. I don't know of anyone so likely to give satisfaction as this man," giving a friendly nod toward Mr. Parks.
"Will he be able to fill the position with his sore hand?" asked Bessie.
"Strange as it is, I regard that as the providential part of it," replied Mr. Brown. "If he had been at work, I should have considered it a mean thing to ask him to leave Wiley Brothers; but as he is out of their employ, and can do what I require as well with one hand as two, and at twice the wages they paid him, I don't see why it is not a good chance for both of us. I will make permanent arrangements with him on my return, for I am sure I can trust my interests with him. I have not watched him all these years, to form a false estimate of his character now."
"Thank you for your good opinion; I will try my best to merit it."
"I am certain of that," Mr. Brown replied, as he drew on his gloves to leave. "You will have the use of my horse and carriage the same as I would," and, glancing up at Bessie, he continued, "your wife is looking so frail, you better make it convenient to take her with you as often as possible when driving about. Come up in the morning and look over the plans and specifications with me, and get some last instructions, for I must leave in the afternoon. Good-night."
After Mr. Brown went out, Bessie gave one glance at the moved face of her husband, and, without stopping to congratulate him, she hurried to her room, and, kneeling down, she besought, with streaming eyes, her heavenly Father's forgiveness for all her murmuring and doubts of his watchful love for his children.
The Home Circle.
By Congregationalist
MOTHER'S WAY OF RESTING.
I often marvel why it was
I gave so little thought
To all the helpful lessons which
My patient mother taught.
Now, older grown, and she has gone,
I often long to tell
Her how they all come back to me,
Each one remembered well;
For in the work and cares of life
That come from day to day,
I find I stop to ask myself,
"What was my mother's way?"
There never seemed to be with her
A drudgery of life;
She got along so quietly
With all its cares and strife.
She always sang about her work,
And, 'mid perplexing things,
The farm-house walls re-echoed,
"Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings."
I never hear old "Amsterdam"
But that I think how oft
It bore my mother's soul from earth
To unseen things aloft.
When, sitting in her rocking-chair,
Her lap with mending piled,
She used to say, "I want to rest,
Now read a psalm, my child."
I learned by heart about "the hills"
And "lifting up my eyes;"
Those "pastures green" and "waters still"
The Shepherd's love supplies;
And all about "abiding 'neath
The shadow of his wing;"
For "God our refuge is, our strength,"
I read in everything.
Sometimes I hurried through the psalm,
Sometimes I gave good heed,
And then her thanks, so kindly said,
Encouraged me to read
Some of the words that Jesus spoke,
For that was mother's way—
To read from psalms and Gospels both
Upon the busiest day;
Those blessed truths so restful!
How glad I am each day
That my mother's way of resting
Was such a helpful way!
—Congregationalist.
ANECDOTES OF SIR EDWIN LANDSEER.
A story is told of a rebuke Sir Edwin Landseer once received from a stern guardian of the law at South Kensington. Sir Edwin was looking round the galleries, when on one of his own pictures he saw some dust, and with his own handkerchief he gently brushed it off. The policeman detected him, and inquired: "What are you a-doin' of there, touching them pictures?"
"I've often touched this one before," Sir Edwin replied.
But the constable did not recognize the painter, and looking on the confession as impudence, replied: "Oh, you 'ave, 'ave you! Hall right! You just come along with me!"
Sir Edwin was marched off to the authorities, and the constable began his story about having seen "this 'ere man pulling the pictures about," when, to his great astonishment, he was welcomed with every demonstration of respect and courtesy. The active and intelligent officer, being told that he might go, went on his way sorely perplexed.
On another occasion a friend of Sir Edwin, who accompanied him to Kensington Museum on the first occasion of its exhibition by gas light, relates that Landseer stopped short before his large picture, "A Visit to Waterloo."
"I must have been mad," said he, "when I painted that."
And walking up to the picture he placed his hand over the part which had attracted his criticism. An attendant policeman shouted his polite caution: "Now, then, take your 'ands off there!"
"My good man," said Sir Edwin, "I was merely remarking how bad that was."
"Then why don't you go and do better?" said the policeman, who had no idea to whom he was speaking.
"Quite right, quite right! I am ashamed of it!" returned Sir Edwin.—Indian Young Folks.
Health and Temperance.
By John Ellis, M. D.
IS IT NOT SIN?
Does any Christian man say that it is not a sin to indulge in the unnecessary habits of drinking intoxicating drinks, smoking and chewing tobacco or opium, and tight dressing?—all of which impair health, and even the vitality of the children born, and cause so much unhappiness and suffering, and often rapidly destroy life, and, as statistics show, shorten materially the average duration of human life. Are such courses of life no violation of the divine command, "Thou shalt not kill!"? Is it no violation of the command to love our wife, children, and neighbor, to drink intoxicants which we well know may bring wretchedness and sorrow untold to all whom we should hold most dear? Is it no violation of the divine commandments to pollute the atmosphere which wife, child, friends, neighbors, and even strangers within our gates are obliged to breathe, by puffing into it the nauseous smoke of tobacco, which, according to the testimony of some observers, occasionally destroys the life of infants? Is it no violation of the divine commandments for women by tight dressing to prevent the development of the body, and to cause the most serious displacement of organs, and the greatest deformity of the body, until they are not able to bear well-developed and healthy children, and to nurse them successfully, until the very existence of the native American race is threatened? Gentle reader, look at the frail, deformed, nervous, delicate, sickly American women around you, and at their puny, imperfectly developed, sickly, and dying children, and at the suffering, unhappiness, poverty, and discomforts which result from such evil habits, . . . and say, if you can, that the unnecessary indulgence in habits which produce such shocking results is not a sin against God and a violation of the commands to love the Lord with all our hearts and our neighbor as ourselves, instead of being ruled by perverted appetites and vanity.
According to the testimony of physicians having in charge the insane in our public institutions, more than one-third of the cases of insanity which exist have been caused by the use of intoxicants; and the writer will make the prediction that the day is not far distant when it will be found that not less than another third of the cases which exist among men, are caused by the use of tobacco, and no inconsiderable number of both sexes by the use of tea and coffee; and at least one-third of the cases which exist among women are caused by tight dressing and habits of idleness, and consequent discontent and nervousness. Then we have only to look at the mental anxiety, disappointment, mortification, and poverty which result from the above evil habits, to account for a large portion of the remaining cases of insanity, excepting perhaps a few cases where there is a strong hereditary tendency, and correct habits of life would unquestionably overcome even such a tendency in most cases. For life from the Lord flows in most abundantly into all who repent and are striving to live orderly lives.—John Ellis, M. D.
News and Notes.
RELIGIOUS.
—The Baptist anniversaries will be held in Boston May 15 to 21.
—The world's Sunday-school convention will meet in London in July.
—Out of 600 native newspapers in India only six are favorable to Christianity.
—The Society of Christian Endeavor is said to be making steady progress in England.
—Calvin's old church, the Cathedral of St. Pierre, in Geneva, is, it is said, to be restored.
—The present year is the centennial year of the introduction of Methodism into New England.
—Four hundred and eighty-two works on theology were published in the United States during the year 1888.
—A Young Men's Christian Association for French-speaking young men is to be established in New York.
—England has paid a ransom of £1,000 for the three missionaries who have been held captives at Zanzibar.
—The Advance says that "three-fourths of the population of Chicago never enter a Christian Church of any kind."
—The Sultan has granted a charter for a railroad from Jaffa to Jerusalem. The estimated cost of the road is $250,000.
—Palestine now has 500,000 inhabitants, not as many as the city of Chicago. Of these only 7 per cent. are Jews.—Jewish Times.
—The total number of children in the Protestant Sunday-schools of Baltimore is 58,046. It was in that city that the first Sunday-schools in this country were organized.
—It is said that the evangelist, Sam Jones, received about $2,000, all told, for his recent month's labor in San Francisco. The San Francisco papers estimate that the amount realized by him in the State was about $6,000.
SECULAR.
—Baltimore is to have a $1,000,000 sugar refinery.
—A telegraph line between France and China has been agreed upon.
—Leopold, king of Belgium, contemplates a trip into the heart of Africa.
—The empress of Austria has been attacked by insanity, the family malady.
—Lyman E. Knapp, of Vermont, has been appointed Governor of Alaska.
—The Navajo (N. M.) Indians grow and market 1,000,000 pounds of wool yearly.
—The Yokohama Specie Bank has declared a dividend of twenty per cent. per annum.
—Great suffering and many deaths are reported from Queensland, Australia, as the result of the terrible drought and heat prevailing there.
—Dispatches from India say 15,000 persons are rendered homeless by a great fire at Surat. To add to the prevailing distress, cholera has broken out in the town.
—France, Austria, and Germany have adopted smokeless gunpowder for their armies, and are conducting experiments to get an explosive also as nearly noiseless as possible. A fair degree of success has been reached.
—According to the annual report of the Canadian Fisheries Department recently issued, the value of the fisheries of Canada for 1888 amounted to only $17,418,510, being a decrease of nearly a million of dollars over the preceding year.
—The Farmers' Alliance, representing 80,000 men in the South, has unanimously resolved to make an effort to break up the jute bagging monopoly, by using nothing but cotton bagging for the purpose of baling the cotton crop of that section.
—The direct use of electricity as a labor-saving machine has been applied at the great steel works, Cleveland, Ohio, where a large electro-magnet is used, suspended from a crane, to pick up 800-pound billets, and drop them where wanted by the touch of a key, the movement of the crane being done by steam.
—New York had a $3,000,000 fire the 19th ult.
—Murat Halstead is recovering from his recent severe illness.
—Jay Gould has been elected president of the Texas Pacific Railroad.
—H. B. Spofford, the historian, died at Rutland, Vt., on Thursday, April 25.
—The Post-office Department at Washington will hereafter be closed on Sundays.
—Preparatory work has already begun on the eleventh census of the United States.
—It is now practically certain that the Panama Canal will not be completed by De Lesseps.
—A Samoan relief fund of 20,000 marks has been forwarded to Prince Bismarck from Hamburg.
—The Pope has issued a brief to the American bishops, formally sanctioning the Catholic University at Washington.
—The railroads of New York have made a reduction of fifty per cent. in freight rates between that city and Mexico.
—A bill was introduced in the Michigan House of Representatives, April 25, restoring the death penalty for murder.
—It is estimated from present prospects that the wheat crop of California for this year will amount to 2,000,000 tons.
—The Czar is said to be suffering from extreme nervousness and excitement, being in constant dread of attempts on his life.
—A terrible storm recently destroyed all the crops in the Goerlitzen District of Silesia. Five persons were killed by the lightning.
—The Inman line's new steamer, City of Paris, recently crossed the Atlantic from New York to Queenstown in six days and six hours.
—Sir Julian Pauncefote, the new British Minister to the United States, arrived at Washington the 22d of April, accompanied by his secretary.
—The Spanish Government is soon to sell at auction $40,000,000 worth of State forest lands to obtain necessary funds for governmental purposes.
—Prince Ferdinand, nephew of King Charles, of Roumania, has been selected as heir to the throne of Roumania. He is a lieutenant in the Prussian Guard.
—The Pilgrim, the largest passenger steamer on the Atlantic Coast, ran into a freight steamer near Hell Gate, April 22, injuring herself and sinking the other steamer.
—Boulanger has left Belgium, and is now in London, where he has received a hearty reception from society, although in official circles he is being considerably ignored.
—The two great trans-continental lines of the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific Railroads have a serious quarrel on hand, and an overland rate war is being talked of.
—It is now practically settled that the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, will receive the contract for constructing the new coast-defense vessel recently authorized by Congress.
—It seems that the rumors of peace in Hayti were only rumors after all, and the revolution is still progressing. Legitime has sent to New York to purchase another war vessel.
—Dr. Frederick Barnard, late president of Columbia College, New York City, died April 27. He has long been known in educational and scientific circles, as a man of ripe thought and much experience.
—The Earl of Lonsdale, whose remarkable Arctic journey from Winnipeg to Bank's Land, and thence across Alaska, has attracted the attention of the whole civilized world, arrived in San Francisco the 23d ult.
—The principal streets in New York are being cleared of electric light, telegraph, and other overhead wires, and the poles are being cut down, by the order of Mayor Grant, who declares that all these obstructions must cease.
—The missing passengers of the Denmark have been heard from. They were rescued by gallant Captain Murrell, of the steamer Missouri, who towed the disabled Denmark until she began to sink, and then transferred her 669 cabin and steerage passengers, and sixty-nine officers and crew, to his own vessel, although he was compelled to throw overboard a large portion of his cargo to make room for them. He only had three days' provisions for the entire number, so he abandoned his course and ran to the Azores, where more than half the passengers were left, the remainder being brought to Philadelphia, which port was reached the 22d ult. Captain Murrell will be decorated by the king of Denmark in consideration of his praiseworthy services.
—Elijah M. Haynes, ex-Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, died the 25th ult. He had just completed a treatise on the Indian races and the dialects of America, to which he had given a quarter of a century of research.
—Because of its recent blunder in regard to the Parnell Commission, the London Times has to face an unexpected expenditure of £50,000 for law expenses, and another £50,000 for libels, or about $500,000 in all. This is paying rather dear for its whistle.
—The Brewers of Pennsylvania have already contributed $100,000, and propose to raise $1,000,000, to buy up the active political workers of the State to defeat the Prohibition Amendment, June 18. They are now trying to bribe men in the rural districts.
—There has been so much agitation of the proposition to abolish Sunday dress parades in the army that, before action is taken upon it by the President, it will be made a subject of discussion by the Cabinet. It is understood that army officers object almost unanimously.
—Dispatches from New York, dated the 24th ult., state that all the Vanderbilt roads will, on May 1, abandon a great proportion of their Sunday freight trains. This action is the result of the influence of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and has been determined upon for religious reasons, so Chauncey Depew has declared.
—At an anti-Jesuit meeting held in Montreal, April 25, the action of the Government and the Provincial Legislature was freely discussed. The general impression seemed to be that a crisis was near at hand, and that if the present state of affairs continued, the Church of Rome would soon be in possession of two-thirds of the estate of the province.
—A lady in Philadelphia recently died from the effects of egg-nog drank at an Easter party. The physician notified the coroner that her death was probably due to the bad eggs used in making the drink. If it had been the bad whisky, which doubtless did cut some figure in the matter, such an affair would not have been considered worthy of notice.
—Affairs are reported as being very quiet in Oklahoma. But little blood has been shed, and things are rapidly settling down on a business basis. Many claims bid fair to be contested, but most of the rival parties prefer the courts of law, rather than to resort to force of arms. Thousands who went expecting to get claims are returning disappointed, and some of them are forcibly settling on the Cherokee strip, which may cause future trouble, although, in some instances, the Indians appear glad to have the whites settle among them. This is especially noticeable in the Chickasaw, Creek, and Choctaw nations. The new territory has already several flourishing towns, and new and substantial houses are going up every day. Post-offices are being opened up, and banks are already doing a large business. It is estimated that from ten to fifteen thousand people, exclusive of those in the towns, have permanently located in the new Territory since it was opened to the public.
THE Upper Columbia Sabbath-school Association will hold its annual session during the camp-meeting, at Colfax, W. T., May 21 to 28, 1889.
D. T. FERO, Pres.
THE Upper Columbia Health and Temperance Society will hold an annual session in connection with the camp-meeting, to be held at Colfax, W. T., May 21 to 28, 1889.
D. T. FERO, Pres.
Obituary.
CARPENTER.—Died of typho's pneumonia, after an illness of six days, March 19, 1889, in Peace Dale, Rhode Island, Brother B. F. Carpenter, aged 61 years, 6 months, and 19 days. He embraced the Third Angel's Message about twenty-six years ago, and remained firm in the truth until death. He was a kind husband and father, and was highly respected by all who knew him. He was a member of the Curtis Corner church, of which he was leader at the time of his death. They lay him away in deep sorrow, to rest until Jesus comes to give a crown of life and immortality to his own. When informed that his recovery was doubtful, he calmly replied, "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." He leaves a wife and one daughter. May God bless the afflicted family, and may they be prepared for a reunion in the kingdom of God. Remarks by the writer, from Rev. 14:13.
J. B. GOODRICH.
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