DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I would like to say through our precious sheet, the Review, that there are still a few names of us in Columbia that love the truths of the third angel's message. We meet every Sabbath when the roads are passable. Some have to go seven miles. We feel the need of being organized. There are several brethren and sisters who live eight and ten miles from us, who desire to be organized with us.
Bro. Hutchinson met with us last September. We had a good meeting. All that were present could testify that the Spirit of the Lord was in our meeting. Love ran from heart to heart. We expect Bro. Hutchinson again in two weeks.
I have just returned from the church in Wright, Michigan, where two of my sisters lie side by side. They sleep in Jesus. They wait the morn of the resurrection. They died in the love of the truth. With this church I also saw how remarkably the prayer of faith was answered in rebuking disease upon Bro. McPherson after three had, in so short a time yielded to the enemy, death. God manifested his power in rebuking disease. My spirit cries for faith, the faith that God is able to perform that which he has promised. I do feel thankful for the feeling in my heart that I have of confidence in the power of God. I desire to humble myself before God, under the affliction which I have been passing through. Pray for me, that as earthly helps and comforts are one after another taken, I may be led to seek more and more from the only true source.
Yours in affliction.
L. C. TOLHURST
Copopa, Ohio.
R. W. REED
By R. W. Reed
From Bro. Reed.
BRO. WHITE: The brethren and sisters in Durand are striving to overcome the world, the flesh and the Devil.
A deep interest is taken in the reading of the Review, also in the writings of sister White, as well as others on the subject of health. There is a growing conviction in the church that it is high time to leave the flesh pots, by which we have sat so long, and away with the use of swine's flesh. For myself, I have for many years believed that the use of swine's flesh was forbidden to the ancient church, because of its injuriousness to the human constitution. And if it defiled the flesh and shortened life then, will it not do the same now? May the Lord send out his light and truth on all subjects essential to prepare his people for their pending trials and for an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom.
R. W. REED
Durand, Wis.
Extracts from Letters.
Bro. W. E. Caviness writes from Fairfield, Iowa: Time is undoubtedly short, and all that we can ever do for God and his cause must be done quickly. It should be esteemed a great thing to be counted children of the great God, the maker of the heavens and the earth; and to give and sacrifice in such a good cause, which will secure a crown for us that will fade not away, and bags in Heaven that wax not old. Let us, then, work for God and his cause while it is called to-day, for the night cometh when no man can work. A few more fleeting days and time will close, and Jesus will come in the clouds of heaven, to take his blessed children home. That we may all watch and pray that that day may not overtake us as a thief, is the desire of your unworthy brother.
M. M. Moody writes from Chatham Center, Ohio: As I am deprived of the privilege of meeting with brethren and sisters, I would say to them that I am still determined to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus that I may have a right to the tree of life. I am glad that I ever accepted this message, and by the grace of God I hope to be faithful unto the end. Pray for me that I may live out my profession before parents and friends.
The Hight of the New Jerusalem.
THE common version of Rev. xxi, 16, declares that the length, breadth and hight of the holy city, the New Jerusalem above, are equal. The city is said to lie four square, and the length is expressly declared to be as large as the breadth, and the measure of the city to be twelve thousand furlongs, which according to the lowest computation would give us 375 miles each for the length and breadth of that holy city. To make it as high even as this, would seem unnatural and out of order. But if we may understand the word equal in reference to the hight, to mean proportionate, the subject is freed from all difficulty. We should then have a city the hight of whose gorgeous structures and palaces, would be such as would be appropriate for a city covering so vast an area.
But there is another conjecture on this subject which we have to lay before the reader. It is, that the true reading of that text would say nothing of the hight of the city, at all. Says C. F. H. in the World's Crisis of Dec. 20, '64: "It is certainly no very rash conjecture of Granville Penn, when he thinks the true text would read thus: 'And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth of it are equal. And he measured the hight of the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.'"
Read the article in another column entitled "The Interval," a criticism on Thurman's Chronology. This chronology is the basis of the new-time movement, and the discovery of so grave a mistake as is there pointed out, should lead the abectors of that theory to abate a little their tone of confidence.
THE Quarterly Meeting in Minn., reported in No. 3, was held at Oronoco.
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Pope's House at Jerusalem.
A PARIS correspondent of the London Christian Times, says:
"A private letter from Jerusalem informs me that the house intended for the residence of his Holiness, whenever he feels inclined or forced to take another flight, is being built in that city. I leave this fact to the meditation of the prophetic students among your readers. Our Jansenists, the only members, I believe, of the Catholic church who make a conscientious study of prophecy, declare that Anti-christ is to sit on Peter's chair at Rome, 'whence evil has ever come;' they will probably regard the possible flight of an amiable man, too weak to stem the torrent of Ultramontane doctrine and practice, as the preliminary act in the last great drama of darkness, which they daily expect, and which after a terrible sifting time, is to usher in the reformation of religion, the conversion and restoration of Israel, and the personal reign of our Lord."
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Note from Bro. Bostwick.
By John Bostwick
Bro. WHITE: I wish to say through the Review that since our State Conference, I have been holding meetings in an adjoining township. My lectures have not yet closed, much prejudice exists in the minds of the people; and this was stirred up by false reports about the visions, &c. But prejudice is now giving way, and some are taking hold of the truth, who, I trust, will be an ornament to the cause.
Truly I can see the importance of following up commenced labors in a new field with continued and persevering effort, and not getting discouraged. I am truly thankful for the testimony of sister White on this point.
In hope of life.
Jno. BOSTWICK.
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