Earlier text: REMARKS AND DIRECTIONSAvon, Wisconsin.
By O. A. Olson
NOVEMBER 15, by request of Bro. Decker, I came to this place and commenced meetings near the village of Orford, among the Norwegians. Here is a large settlement of this class of people. They have three churches, and two ministers that live here in the settlement. They have never heard nor read on the subject of present truth, so this subject was entirely new to them. The meetings commenced with a good interest which continued till the last. After continuing some two weeks and a half, the minister nearest by thought it necessary to take the matter in hand. He consequently gave orders for me to meet him at Orford there to take into consideration the subject of the Sabbath which I had then been presenting. I met him according to his orders. The result was, a discussion took place which lasted three hours, each speaker occupying fifteen minutes in each speech. The arrangement was, that we should confine ourselves to Bible evidence. This was adhered to for a while, but as usual when this papal institution cannot be sustained by the word of the Lord, the “Fathers” must make up the deficiency. Although this meeting took place on one of the coldest nights we have had this winter, the congregation was very large and the interest intense. This being the first time that I have had any experience in defending the truth in a public discussion, I can but thank God for the liberty and freedom that I enjoyed. These things being new to the people and so different from their common belief and practice, they could not at once appreciate the plain Bible evidence. Still some were able to see which side dealt fairly with the word of the Lord, and what efforts were made on the other side to twist and turn aside the plain, “Thus saith the Lord.” This discussion caused a great stir and excitement among the people. Since then we have continued meetings among them more or less, visiting them at their homes, talking and praying with them, until Jan. 6, when the lock-out argument was used. I feel sorry that the meetings could not be continued, as the interest to hear was better at the close than ever before. We then tried to obtain a private house, but could not. The power of the priest, and former opinion, is a powerful obstacle in the way of the truth. As yet, none have commenced to keep the Sabbath, but quite a number are deeply interested, and these are some of the most respected in the community. As we have tried to urge the necessity of obedience, they answer, “We must have time to consider, for these things are so different from what we have been used to hearing and believing.” I have tried to do what I could for them at present; and as I leave them for a while, I feel anxious for them. May God have mercy upon them, and not let them rest, until they yield obedience to all his commandments, and find pardon in believing. I obtained nine subscribers for the Danish monthly, and sold a number of books and pamphlets. Next week, I shall commence meetings in another place. May God help me to have a true sense of the solemnity and greatness of this work, and daily live so near the Lord that I can have a heavenly grace and wisdom. These moments are precious. Mercy’s hour will soon be past. The sinner will soon be out of our reach, and his doom sealed for eternity. God help me to realize it, and improve these moments in the fear of God. Avon, Wis., Jan. 12, 1872. The Lord Cometh.
By G. W. Mitchell
ANY one who reads the Bible and the history of the world, carefully, and observes the signs of the times, must come to the conclusion that the end of time is upon us. As testimony, there is: 1. The age of the world. The best chronologers agree that the six thousand years are about fulfilled. Few chronologers, of any note, put it beyond 1882. 2. The four kingdoms of Daniel are in the past; the last of which closed its period of misrule in 1798. 3. After the death of Pius sixth, a new Pontiff was elected, whose power was confined to a small portion of Italy, and that power has been passing away since 1848, fulfilling the declaration, “They shall take away his dominion, to consume it unto the end;” and now not a vestige of that power remains. 4. The Sultan, whose empire extended from Asia into Africa and Europe, and who has held his right only by sufferance, since 1840, is almost at the point of being driven from Europe into Asia, to “plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas, in the glorious holy mountain.” 5. The lamb-like beast, that came up out of the earth, is almost ready to speak as a dragon, only waiting the confederation of the nominal churches to form the image of the beast, which had the wound by a sword and did live, to become the false prophet. 6. Spiritualism, under the banner of the prince of darkness, is almost ready to work “with all power, and signs, and lying wonders;” when it is declared that Christ shall come. 7. The nations have been preparing for war on a gigantic scale, which proves them to be angry; when it is declared, “Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged.” 8. The condition of the churches as described by Paul—“traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.” 9. We have had signs in the heavens; the darkening of the sun and moon, and the falling of the stars. 10. Signs in the earth are continually appearing: Earthquakes, tornadoes, storms, fires, cyclones, tidal-waves, etc., with unheard-of drouth in some parts of the earth; while other portions are flooded, destroying human life, and much property. 11. The railroads, with their jostling trains, so graphically described by the prophet Nahum, were to be in the day of his preparation. 12. The increase of knowledge, whether confined to the art of man, or to the understanding of the prophecies, is a sign of the great day. 13. The condition of society; and here it is not only murder, rapine, fraud, and every species of crime; but men and women, who, twenty years past, were honest and honorable, are now not to be trusted. Covetousness and selfishness, have got such a hold on the hearts of mankind, that society is held together by a very weak affinity. 14. The gospel has been published in all the world, as testified to by the officers of the various missionary societies. Then shall the end come. 15. The first angel's message was given, from 1840, to 1844, by at least fifteen hundred of God's able ministers. 16. The second angel's message has been given in part. 17. The third angel's message is now preparing for the loud cry, when a short time will suffice to call out the remnant of God's people. Brethren and sisters, let us gird on the whole armor, and press forward under every trial, and the victory is ours in Christ Jesus. G. W. MITCHELL. With every returning Christmas, with every ending year, there comes the thought, What have these years, each one celebrating at its close the birth of Light into the world, these Christian years, lit up in all their course by the radiance from Calvary, what have they left to the world of actual, universal good? Is the world better or worse since the star of Bethlehem shone for the ages? Are the later centuries higher up than the earlier? In what is the nineteenth ahead of the first? Is it anything more than a self-complacent pride in that which is our own that gives the brighter flame and the purer odor to the incense of the present? To be sure, we have the Laureate’s word that “thro’ the ages one increasing purpose runs,” but just what this “purpose,” with its commendable perseverance means, no one but the Laureate knows. To be sure, within less then a century electricity and steam have annihilated distance and made the whole world neighbors. Italy and France shake hands under the mountains, Europe and America hold tete-a-tetes under the waves. But have all the triumphs of science made the world as a whole any better, any wiser, any purer and happier? Is truth any the more the property of the masses? Have ignorance and crime and poverty any the narrower range? In the mad race for power and wealth are men any the less unscrupulous? Has political honesty come to be any the less a contradiction of terms? Is war, with death in its course and suffering in its train, any the less frequent or horrible? Is drunkenness, with its wrecked lives, blighted homes, any the rarer? Does Poverty hold wide open the doors of Crime to fewer starving and freezing children? Are gallows and prison and morgue any the less necessities of society? If to these questions there comes in reply from every land a mournful negative, of what avail are developed civilizations, perfected governments and ripened sciences? The improved military system of Prussia makes her all the more ready to accept the challenge, involving in its consequences the slaughter of thousands and the laying waste of a nation. The ever-increasing looms of New England furnish scope for grinding out health and hope for the lives of so many more factory children. The building-up of large cities, by an increase of population, offers so much the wider harvests for the sickle of Pestilence. Is the earth, with all its new developments and improvements, really moving further and further away from the millennial years? Is the golden age behind us and not before? Are the generations attesting, and the eternities waiting sadly to prove, that the evil in man is stronger than the good, and destined ultimately to triumph? Have the light and the love which for thirty-three years walked the earth, for its good, from Bethlehem to Golgotha, been wasting themselves along the path of nineteen centuries? Has the angelic song of “Peace on earth, good will to men” proved only a dream of the night, a beautiful unfulfilled prophecy? If indeed so, if every dying year carries something of the good with it into a sepulchre from which the stone is never rolled away, and upon which no resurrection morning breaks, what hope is there in the unborn years to come? No hope, if it were not that above all speculation, above all experience, there are a belief and a trust, that somehow in the eternal plan, somewhere in the great universe, sometime in the endless future, the true and the good, so surely as God reigns, are to triumph.—Palladium. A CORRESPONDENT alludes to the wretched, monotonous dreariness of many prayer-meetings, the long-winded exercises, the prayers that cover the whole dictionary of subjects, the exhortations that become stereotyped sermons, and thus suggests, by way of prescription: When one prays in public, let it be a thoughtful, genuine prayer, and a short one; let the petitions be varied; omit telling God about the attributes that he possesses. Keep your long prayers for your closet. Be cautious about the number of times in which you proclaim publicly how vile you are. Keep that for your closet. And when you speak in meeting, have some fresh thoughts on Scripture; or some old thoughts re-dressed; or some new instance of God's love and mercy, and converting power; or some personal experience, tersely told, that may profit the hearers; or some joyous thing to awaken and make happy those who attend the meeting. The Two Pairs of Fetters.
EIGHTY years ago a fierce war raged in India between the English and Tippoo Sahib. On one occasion several English officers were taken prisoners; among them was one named Baird. One day a native officer brought in fetters to be put upon each of the prisoners, the wounded not excepted. Baird had been severely wounded, and was suffering from pain and weakness. A gray-haired officer said to the native official, “You do not think of putting chains upon that wounded man?” “There are just as many pairs of fetters as there are captives,” was the answer, “and every pair must be worn.” “Then,” said the noble officer, “put two pairs on me; I will wear his as well as my own.” This was done. Strange to say, Baird lived to regain his freedom,—lived to take that city; but his noble friend died in prison. Up to his death he wore two pairs of fetters! But what if, he had worn the fetters of all in the prison? What if instead of being a captive himself, he had quitted a glorious palace to live in their loathsome dungeon, to wear their chains, to bear their stripes, to suffer and die for them, that they might go free, and free forever? Friend, such a thing has been done. “There is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;” “who gave himself a ransom for all.” “Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures.” “Our Saviour, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity.”—The Christian. If you ever watched an icicle as it formed, you would have noticed how it froze one drop at a time, until it was a foot long or more. If the water was clean, the icicle remained clear, and sparkled brightly in the sun; but if the water was slightly muddy, the icicle looked foul, and its beauty was spoiled. Just so our characters are formed. One little thought or feeling, at a time adds its influence. If every thought be pure and right, the soul will be bright and lovely, and will sparkle with happiness; but if there be many thoughts and feelings impure and wrong, the mind will be soiled, the character depraved and darkened, and there will be final deformity and wretchedness. How important then, that we should be upon our guard against every evil impulse and desire. HERE is a bit of spicy suggestion from some anonymous source: There is a mystery about this effect of the weather on piety. Sabbath heat seems hotter, Sabbath cold colder, and Sabbath rain wetter than that of any other day; for the same measure of heat, or cold, or rain, on a week day, will not keep one from his usual business. We need a Sabbath Almanac calculated for our churches, that will show by its weather scale when it will be safe for a vigorous Christian to expose himself on the Sabbath by going to the house of God. Such an almanac would enable pastors and superintendents of Sabbath-schools to know whom they could depend on in church, Sabbath-school, and prayer meeting. I have recently been examining microscopic views of the different snow flakes, a hundred or so of them. I would suggest to our curious savans an examination of Sabbath snow, to see if it has a peculiarly sharp and injurious crystal. Three Reasons for Reading the Bible.
A ROMISH priest, who found one of his flock getting very familiar with the Bible, and fearing the result, tried to persuade him to turn his attention more to the “fathers.” “And who are the fathers?” he inquired. “Those good men, said the priest,” who lived near the times of the apostles, and who are said to have best understood what the apostles meant.” “Well,” said the man, “as they lived after the apostles, I shall prefer attending to the apostles themselves; I think the GRANDFATHERS are better guides than the fathers!” and so he continued reading, and found the entrance of God’s word gave him light and life. Another priest, wishing to induce a man to give up his Bible-reading, argued thus: “Suppose, now, you were going to Dublin, and came to that spot where four cross-roads meet, and you did not know the way, and one person told you to go to the right and a great number told you to go to the left, to whom would you listen? In other words, would you mind what Luther, a single heretic, says, or what the pope, and cardinals, and all the doctors of the Catholic Church teach you?” “Well,” replied the man, “if I had a road-book I should not mind what any of them said. Now [producing his Bible] I have here a road-book to Heaven, and God helping me, I mean to follow it in spite of all that popes and cardinals may say.” “What warrant have you to read the Bible?” said another priest to a poor Irish lad. “The best of all warrants,” shrewdly replied the boy, “namely, a search-warrant; see, here it is, John 5: 36, ‘Search the Scriptures;’ for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of Me?” Tracts and Letters in Dutchess County
BRO. and sister C. and J. Franklin write from Dutchess Co., N. Y., rejoicing in the truth, though they have never heard a preacher speak on these things, have never seen but six Sabbath-keepers, have met with only four, and that on only one Sabbath. Tracts and letters have done the work. KEEP THE SABBATH.— Be zealous on this point. Whether you live in town or country, resolve not to profane your Sabbath, or in the end you will give over caring for your soul. The steps which lead to this are regular. Begin with not honoring God's house; cease to honor God's book, and by-and-by you will give God no honor at all. Let any man lay the foundation with no Sabbath, and I am never surprised if he finishes with the top-stone of no God. It was a remarkable saying of Judge Hale, that of all persons convicted of capital crimes, while he was upon the bench, he found few who did not confess that they began their career of wickedness by neglect of the Sabbath. The Strength of a Clear Conscience
How bravely a man can walk the earth, bearing the heaviest burdens, perform the severest duties, and look all men square in the face, if he only bears in his breast a clear conscience, void of offense toward God and man. There is no spring, no spur, no inspiration like this. To feel that we have omitted no task, and left no obligation unfulfilled, this fills the heart with satisfaction, and the soul with strength. Obituary Notices.
By J. H. W.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. DIED, in Battle Creek, Jan. 11, 1872, sister Louisa Nesbitt, aged thirty-three years. Sister Nesbitt came to the Health Institute about three months before her death, and though the physicians could give her no hope of her recovery, it was the wish of herself, and of her friends, that she should remain, as she could there be better cared for than in a family. She had been a great sufferer for nearly fifteen months, and had a desire to come to the Institute, but unfortunately delayed till she was entirely beyond all hope of recovery. She was perfectly resigned to the will of the Lord, and by her amiable disposition, her patient, submissive spirit, and Christian conversation, she won the sympathy and affection of all who attended or visited her. By the blessing of God, in answer to prayer, her last days were comparatively free from pain. Funeral services were held at the Adventist house of worship. Scripture, 2 Cor. 4. Her remains were taken to Erie Co., Pa., for burial. And as ye go, preach, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. ALDO, Ill., Feb. 3–11.
Rockton, “ 17, 18.
Greenville, “ 24, 25.
These are all quarterly meetings. Let all within a reasonable distance of them attend. Come praying that God may meet with, and bless, his people. The meeting for Greenville will be held in the Wesleyan house, known as the “Chelsea meeting-house.”
R. F. ANDREWS. NO PREVENTING providence, I will meet with the church at Civil Bend, Mo., Sabbath and first-day, Feb. 3 and 4, and at Wolf Creek, Kansas, the following week. Will Bro. Plant, or Bro. Elder, meet me at the city of Lawrence on Tuesday the sixth of February. Friends in Kansas and Missouri may address me at Big Springs, Douglas Co., Kan., for the present.
R. J. LAWRENCE. QUARTERLY meeting of the church at Patricksburg, Owen Co., Ind., Sabbath and first-day, Feb. 3 and 4. We invite all our friends to attend this meeting.
N. CAMERON. I WILL meet with the church in Otsego, Jan. 27.
J. BYINGTON. QUARTERLY meeting for the Convis, Burlington, and Newton churches, at Newton, Mich., Feb. 3 and 4. Other friends are invited to attend. The church unanimously invite Bro. Matteson to attend.
In behalf of the church, J. BYINGTON. MONTHLY meeting for Allegany Co., N. Y., in the Nile Settlement, the second Sabbath and first-day in February. It is earnestly hoped that all the members of the church will be present, as there is important business to be transacted.
By request of the church,
G. G. GREEN. Meetings at Monterey.
By James White
SABBATH and first-day, the 13th and 14th, we enjoyed exceedingly profitable meetings with the church at Monterey, Mich. Here we met brethren Bates, Littlejohn, and many others from Allegan County. Sabbath morning we commenced to speak to the people, but had to leave the stand in a short time from faintness and dizziness. Mrs. W. immediately took the stand, and spoke with freedom, while we found rest and relief upon the sofa. Mrs. W. reached the feelings of the people in the afternoon, and in the evening half the congregation were forward for prayers. The Spirit of God moved upon the people. First-day, our congregations were large and attentive. We spoke in the forenoon with freedom. The work moved on powerfully. We had a most deeply interesting season in the evening in the family of Bro. Geo. T. Lay, in which the entire family took part. It was a season long to be remembered. Second-day morning Bro. Lay took us to the train, and we reached home in safety, though weary and worn. The following Sabbath was probably the best ever enjoyed by the church at Battle Creek. The work here moves slowly, but apparently deep and well. Many have been reclaimed, and a few precious souls converted. We now design to be with the church at Wright next Sabbath. Mrs. W. will doubtless be able to speak to the people, if we are deprived of the pleasure for want of strength. The Publishing Association.
By James White
The financial report of the S. D. A. Publishing Association gives the increase during the year ending Dec. 25, 1871, to be $10,879.97. But let it be borne in mind that this is a short year of only forty-seven weeks, or less than eleven months. And while it is true that $5,778.00 of the above sum has been received in stock, taken in the Association during the past year, it is also true that the above figures do not represent the real increase by a sum larger than the amount taken in stock, so that after all, the real increase has been not less than $1000 each month. The following reasons show why the report does not correctly represent the increase. 1. The discount from retail prices, on our books, pamphlets, and tracts has been, until the last year, only one-fourth. This year the discount on this kind of stock is one-third, making a difference of $2,200. 2. The enlarged Review cost, the past year, $1,500 more than the smaller size cost the year previous. 3. In case of prompt payment there would have been received on the Review the past year not less than $10,000; whereas the receipts have been only $8,199.56, at least $1,000 less than cost. There are due on our periodicals nearly $8,000 which was not taken into the inventory. 4. Improper inventories in the past, which have this year been corrected, and the reduction of prices of some books. These reduced the inventory considerably. 5. Had the Association printed and bound its usual amount of books the past year, this alone would have added to the increase not less than $2,000. These considerations taken into the account, the real increase will be seen to be not less than one thousand dollars each month. J. W. Organization of Tract Societies.
By J. H. W.
We have received a statement from a certain individual saying that he tried to organize a Tract Society in a neighboring church, but the church refused to second his efforts; and he wishes us to warn the people against influences, which, he says, stood in the way. This we cannot do until we know that the person making the statement was authorized to act in that capacity. This work is in its infancy, and the General Conference appointed a Committee to draft a plan of operations, and we advise all to act in harmony with that plan, and thus act unitedly. This matter must be left in the hands of the Conference Committees, and of those whom such committees indorse or authorize to act in the case.
J. H. W. To the Friends in Wisconsin.
By C. W. Olds
As THE harvest is great and the laborers are few, how necessary that the few should be able to work to the best advantage. Therefore we should be glad to hear from any in regard to good openings for the presentation of the last message. My address is for the present Hazel Green, Grant Co., Wis. A certain minister speaking of those Christians who make every duty a cross, and are continually complaining of their trials, said that they reminded him “of the unbroken heifers that bore the Ark (1 Sam. 6:12); they went, and they went in the right direction; but they went bellowing all the way.” The Review vs. Tobacco.
By Editor
A SISTER WRITES: “I cannot get along without the Review; but my husband does not like it, and thought he could not afford to take it another year. I told him I liked the paper as well as he did his tobacco, and I thought it would do me as much good as the tobacco would him; and as I did not use tobacco, tea, coffee or pork, I thought he could afford in view of these things to let me send for the Review.” This reasoning is certainly sound; and we are happy to say that in this case it prevailed. Perhaps others in similar circumstances can follow the same line of argument to their own advantage. BRO. J. CHASE of Columbia Co., Wis., writes that according to Paul they that preach the gospel should live of the gospel; and as the Review is the only preacher which himself and wife have, in their lonely situation, they love to contribute for the support of that preacher. TIME TABLE.
By L. D. DIBBLE
On and after Wednesday, Nov. 22, 1871, Trains will run [on Chicago Time] as follows, viz.: GOING WEST. |
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L. D. DIBBLE, Pres't and Gen. Sup't, Battle Creek. “Can ye not discern the signs of the times?” THERE is a story that an American ship, arriving at some out-of-the-way Turkish port, the captain was astonished to see the consignee leave the cargo lying unprotected on the wharf. To which he was answered, “What harm can come to it? There is not a Christian within fifty miles!” We fear that those days of Ottoman innocence are past, that the evil communications of Europeans and Americans have corrupted their good manners, and that they are now little better than the Christians themselves. Only last month Haider Effendi (which title, we believe, implies descent from the prophet), ex-prefet of Constantinople, was condemned to two years’ imprisonment in a fortress; and the former minister of police, Hussein Pacha, and Emin Bey, lately secretary to the Sultan, have each been condemned to six years’ imprisonment for defalcation in office. Thus the blessings of civilization are gradually extended to the lands of the misbelievers! Constantinople may yet hope to rejoice in a Tweed or a Connolly of her own; but she must not hope to rob us of our distinction of raising the biggest thieves yet known—at least, of private citizens. We have on hand a good supply of English Bibles which we offer, post paid, at the following prices:
Diamond, Marg. Ref., Morocco, Gilt, $1.50
Pearl, “ “ “ “ 2.25
Nonpareil, Ref. after verse, “ “ “ 2.75
“ Marg. Ref., Circuit, “ 3.25
Minion, Ref. after verse, Morocco, 3.00
“ “ Marg. Ref., Circuit, “ 4.25 Annexed to each receipt in the following list, is the Volume and Number of the Review & Herald TO which the money received was paid—which should correspond with the Numbers on the Papers. If money to the paper is not due in time acknowledged, immediate notice of the omission should then be given. $1.00 EACH. G W Bartlett 40-12, M J Shattuck 40-17, E P Daniels 40-14, C L Haskins 39-1, George Hostler 39-1, Wm L Jaycox 39-19, George Richardson 40-6, J K Farnsworth 41-1, M A Caldwell 40-6, R McKune 40-1, Peter Owens 40-6, Mason Ganson 40-1, J B Ingalls 42-1, P E Ferrin 39-14, S C Courcy 40-5, Wm K Robertson 40-14, C Perrin 39-1, George Smith 40-6, M P McLenathan 40-1, S D Barr 40-1. $1.50 EACH. S Smith 39-20, Mrs J M Platt 41-6, Thomas Wall 41-6, S W Buck 41-6, L Potter 39-14, E Buchanan sen 41-6, Mrs G Smith 41-6, Mrs Annie Showe 41-5, Mrs Austin Humiston 41-1, Wm Pervis 41-1, W P Gheen 41-6, Mrs I Moore 41-6, Mrs M A Dunevant 41-6, Wm Y Cretcher 41-6, Jeremiah Rice 41-6, John Musser 41-6, T P Berry 41-6, C B Fitzgerald 41-6. $2.00 EACH. Caleb Bailey 40-1, W L Wheeler 41-1, George Satterlee 41-1, J Russ 41-1, John Pierce sen 41-1, S Rumery 40-17, A H Hilliard 41-1, Geo Leighton 41-1, Robert Reed 41-21, Mrs D F Chase 40-5, A Rasmussen 41-1, W W Goodale 41-1, Joseph Jellis 40-13, Mrs P S O’Bryan 40-25, Mrs C Gregory 40-1, Emily Palmer 40-11, Mrs S S Baldwin 41-1, E Wallace 40-21, M J Prossor 40-1, M E Crumb 41-1, H C Goodrich 41-1, J B Slayton 40-1, Sarah A Beach 41-1, T F Cottrell 41-13, B S Freeman 41-1, Mrs. M A Beatty 41-1, D McAlpine 41-1, I B Palmer 37-1, D Deacon 39-1, A H Ennes 41-1, B M Miner 41-1, A F Sala 41-1, J T McCallum 41-1, J Wilbur 41-1, C E Fairman 41-1, O C Spencer 39-1, John Heligass 41-7, H A Mead 41-6, Daniel Griggs 41-3, Adams and Lock 41-1, Abisha Tubbs 41-9, Nancy Gibbs 40-8, G W Strickland 40-21, L D Smith 41-1, Lewis Kenfield 40-6, G Smith 40-22, E Hornaday 41-1, D Wilcox 41-1, Pierce Hacket 41-1, R Hart 41-6, S E Daigneau 41-6, John Parmalee 41-1, C B Boudley 41-7, Edward Martin 41-1, Jane Moore 40-16, Sedgwick Hupp 40-16, J E Flesher 41-1, James Frazier 41-6, A A Cowey 41-1. Miscellaneous. S W Pack 50c 39-20, W A Doyal $3.50 41-20, H Kenyon 6.00 39-14, J Pierce Jr 5.00 41-1, G T Lay 4.00 42-1, W H Stanton 6.00 38-1, G W Frank 3.00 38-1, Rev Robert Miller 3.00 41-6, W Wilz 2.75 39-1, J H Camp 5.00 42-1, Susan Baker 1.96 39-1, E E Jones 1.74 35-1, B Lowe 55c 41-1, Mrs C N Burch 75c 39-4, Wesley Hoff 4.50 40-14, Green & Davis 39c 36-9, James Wall 3.00 40-1, Geo E Gregory 3.00 36-1, L S Hopkins 4.24 42-14, Wm H Slown 3.00 41-1, Jacob Shell 2.50 40-19, N Socks 4.00 42-6, James F Smith 5.50 40-6, B F Hodson 75c 40-6, Hiram Hunter 3.00 42-1, R G Cowles 1.78 39-6, F Freeman 3.00 39-1, H H Morgan 5.84 39-4. Shares in S. D. A. P. Association. John Byington $10.00, James Wall 10.00, S C Conrey 10.00, Permelia Conklin 10.00, T M Steward 20.00, Alfred Hobbs 10.00, Seth Newton 10.00, Moriah Newton 10.00, Robert Niels 10.00, George Rhodes 30.00, Wm Cook 10.00. Donations to S. D. A. P. Association. S Vincent (thank-offering) $5.00, S D Barr 5.00, Calvin Green 3.00. Cash Received on Account. H C Blanchard $13.00, D M Canright 22.00, Chas Jones 20.15. I Sterling $1.00, J Messersmith 30c, S W Burlingham 60c, W H Greenman 1.00, F E Rogers 50c, M J Hussey 1.20, I Cooper 20c, O T Johnson 2.45, Chas Minham 1.50, E S Morris 1.00, P S Stoddard 45c, P Hackett 1.80, J Jellis 35c, Mrs B King 1.25, J Sprinkle 1.50, T F Emans 50c, R M Johnson 15c, F W Canright 35c, P C Denison 3.00, L W Bible 2.50, N T Furman 3.10, F Burnham 1.00, M Affolter 3.60, W H Blaisdell 1.74, J B Ingalls 50c, H D Stringer 20c, J Rice 50c, A Korl 1.10, N Loughborough 5.62, J Taber 1.50, P F Good 15c, O J Harwood 1.66, N Grant 1.50. Stephen E Sutherland, Boscobel, Grant Co., Wis., $5.00, John W Snyder, S Vineland, New Jersey, 2.25, W E Stillman, Bridgewater, Oneida Co., N. Y., 5.00. Shares in the Health Institute. Harry Allen $25.00, Alfred Hobbs 25.00, Julia M Rhodes 25.00. Michigan Conference Fund. Church at Newton $14.50, Potterville 50.00, Wright 180.00, Burlington 20.00, Orange 15.45. N P Robbins 75c, S H Bonfoey $1.00. Donations to Health Institute. S C Conrey $5.00, Mrs P C Denison 5.00, Sarah F Nichola 20.00. Book Fund.—$10,000 Wanted. Amount previously acknowledged. $4061.45. Six Dollars and Fifty cents Each.—S Vincent. Five Dollars Each.—Sarah F Gove. Miscellaneous.—Nancy Gibbs $1.00, Laura Vincent 2.50, Diana Abbey 1.00, Calvin Green (thank-offering) 3.00.