We have already spoken of the good camp-meetings in Iowa and Illinois. We can now speak of the opening of the meeting in another portion of the great vineyard. We reached the Wisconsin camp-ground to-day, June 17. Seventeen tents are already up, and more in process of erection; and brethren are still coming in. Eld. Sanborn has just arrived in company with about fifty brethren and sisters, who have come a distance of one hundred miles from Grant County with eleven teams.
All are taking hold with interest in the preparatory work of the meeting. It promises to be as good as the preceding meetings, and we trust it may be even more abundant. The cheerful faces we everywhere meet speak forth more plainly than words, hope and courage on the part of the people. It all means success henceforward, and victory at last. Five ministers of the Wisconsin Conference are present. Bro. and sister White are enduring the labors of the campaign thus far, well. They are cheerful and hopeful in the Lord. The brethren and sisters hail their presence here with joy, and we doubt not are prepared to receive the benefit of their testimony. More next week. U. S.
Corrections.
By James White
In our report of the Iowa Camp-meeting, in the REVIEW for June 17, the copyist or the printer makes us say that our Health Institute, at Battle Creek “can earn $16.000 before we commence to build next year.” This is a mistake of $10.000. We wrote $6.000, which we think is a candid and correct statement of the ability of that institution to earn, judging from those periods in the past when it has been under proper management.
Again, the secretary’s report, in the same paper, relative to the $300 appropriated last year to the Pacific Mission, which we returned this year, should read, “They donate $50 to Elder White to assist in paying an indebtedness on the Signs of the Times,” instead of “they donate it,” &c. J. W.
New Work—A Word for the Sabbath.
A THIRD edition of this poem, which has long been out of print, has been issued. The work is revised and enlarged, and issued in a new form. Printed on heavy book paper, bound in colored muslin, stamped in black with gilt title. It is thus made a fitting ornament for the center table, and is in a style that is calculated to arrest the attention of a certain class of minds, and interest them in the great theme of the Sabbath. Price, post-paid, 40cts.
J. V. Himes’s Defense
Elder J. V. Himes has published a defense, against the charges of Miles Grant, in the fourth and fifth numbers of his Journal. Those wishing to read it can address him Buchanan, Mich.
To the Brethren in Illinois.
By R. F. Andrews
Our new tent, with sacks, extra rope, &c., cost $306.10. At our camp-meeting $113.35 of this was paid and $70.00 more pledged. I have borrowed $192.75, and paid for the tent. I yet have to get poles, oil-cloth, lamps, &c., which will cost not far from $30.00 more.
I would say to our brethren who are circumstanced so that they can, Send your donations to me, at Gilman, Iroquois Co., Ill., to pay this debt. And as soon as the tent is paid for, I will give the names of the donors, and the amount given by each, in the REVIEW. I hope the brethren will respond promptly, as $100.00 of this amount must be paid by July 10.
R. F. ANDREWS.
Gilman, Ill., June 17, 1875.
Modern Church Worship.
By J. H. W.
MRS. H. B. STOWE is a very good delineator. In a recent novel she gives the following description of worship in a modern fashionable church:—
“It was a church of eminent propriety. It was large and lofty, with long-drawn aisles and excellent sleeping accommodations, where the worshipers were assisted to dream of Heaven by every appliance of sweet music, and not rudely shaken in their slumbers by any obtrusiveness on the part of the rector. In fact, everything about the service of this church was thoroughly toned down by good breeding. The responses of the worshipers were given in decorous whispers that scarcely disturbed the solemn stillness; for when a congregation of the best fed and best bred people of New York on their knees declare themselves ‘miserable sinners,’ it is a matter of delicacy to make as little disturbance about it as possible. A well-paid choir of the finest professional singers took the whole responsibility of praising God into their own hands, so that the respectable audience were relieved from any necessary exertion in that department. As the most brilliant lights of the opera were from time to time engaged to render the more solemn parts of the service, flocks of sinners, who otherwise would never have entered a church crowded to hear these ‘morning stars sing together,’ let us hope, to their edification. The sermon of the rector, delivered in the dim perspective, had a plaintive, far-off sound, as a voice of ‘one crying in the wilderness,’ and crying at a very great distance. This was in part owing to the fact that the church, having been built after an old ecclesiastical model in the days when English churches were used only for professional services, was entirely unadapted for any purpose of public speaking; so that a man’s voice had about as good a chance of effect in it as if he spoke anywhere in the thoroughfares of New York.”
It seems a pity that such scenes are to be only painted in novels, which are looked upon as romances, of course, and thus the force of the truth contained in the sketch is lost upon the minds of the readers. As a specimen of Mrs. Stowe’s style of sarcasm this is even copied approvingly into religious papers. But let some bold reformer point out to the congregation where this mockery of the solemn worship of God is carried on, and cry out against the abomination as it deserves, and no popular religious papers would notice him, unless to rebuke him for his uncharitable ravings! Preaching, prayer, and singing, should all be aimed to the purpose of leading the congregation to worship aright; but instead of this they are too often substituted for action and activity on the part of the membership. The church itself is prayed to, sung to, and preached to, while it remains a passive spectator of the form of worship. It is a wonder that all cannot in these things find a fulfilment of Paul’s prediction in 2 Tim. 3:1–5. J. H. W.
The Burden of the Gospel Is Love
The burden of the gospel is love; but it is a love which speaks the command of God with authority, and insists upon obedience to him as the only way of safety and life.
New Horse Disease in St. Louis
A New horse disease has made its appearance in St. Louis, and seems to be spreading. Its effects are far more fatal than those characterizing the epizootic of 1872.
Reduction in Fare.
By I. Z. LAMB
ALL passengers passing over the Winona & St. Peters railroad to the Minnesota Camp-meeting will return at one-fifth rate by procuring a certificate on the camp-ground. I. Z. LAMB.
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