BRO. WHITE: It is now nearly three years since first I decided to serve the Lord by keeping his commandments and the faith of Jesus. Previous to this time, I was walking in the broad road to ruin and destruction; not having made a profession of religion; and deem it very providential that ever I was brought to a knowledge of the truth of God.
A few weeks before I yielded to my convictions, the brethren had a meeting at my father's house in Carlton, and the Lord met with his people there and blest them. Satan would keep all if possible from God; and he tried to hinder me from being at the meeting. I was willing to obey him, therefore on Sabbath morning I left, with the intention of being away from meeting. My feelings on that forenoon cannot be told. I met with some of my associates, but could not be happy. A heavy load was on my mind which I could not cast off. Something kept whispering in my ears, Go home! go home! At last I yielded to the voice of conscience, and went home and stayed through the rest of the meeting.
The burden of that meeting was for the young, and that the Lord would give the children of the remnant to go with them to Mt. Zion. I was fully convinced, but did not commit myself. In other words I wanted to count the cost; and for four weeks a continual and dreadful struggle was going on within my breast. I knew that this people had the truths of God's word. I was convinced that these truths would bring out a people that would stand upon the earth through the time of trouble and not be moved. But could I give up my associates, this world with its pleasures and follies? Could I separate myself from the friends I loved, and give up all and enlist under the banner of Christ?
By the grace of God assisting, I decided to serve him. And never have I been sorry that I have been led out on the truths of the three angels' messages. Although I have passed through great trials and temptations, through many hours of great discouragements, never have I felt like giving up these truths. I love them. They are precious unto me.
How sweet are the precious promises contained in the word to the trusting and humble child of God. Never has the hope of eternal life been more bright. Never have I had such peace of mind. Through and beyond the dark clouds shines a brighter light, which makes the pathway of the Christian more pleasant than a path strewn with roses. I feel the need of a daily searching of my heart and a closer walk with God. I want to see the sinfulness of my ways, and have grace given me to overcome. I do not want to be one that shall run the Christian race in vain. I want to be a perfect overcomer. I want to feel that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth me from all sin. Pray for me.
Yours seeking eternal life,
WM. G. BUCKLAND.
Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y.
The Winfield Sabbathkeepers
By E. G. Rust
From Bro. Rust.
On my return from Conference, I went by the way of Winfield, Mich., and remained over Sabbath and first-day with the little band of commandment-keepers there, and attended some very interesting meetings with them. This is where Brn. Frisbie and Strong labored one year ago last spring. From their isolated condition they have had but little help of the ministering brethren since the first work was done. The enemy has been allowed to work and some have fallen away. But while there the melting spirit of the Lord was with us in all our meetings. Wrongs were acknowledged, faults confessed and hearts united. All seemed to be awaking to a sense of duty. Some are striving to live up to the Health Reform movement. They seem determind to press forward with renewed energy. They need help from the ministering brethren. About twelve or thirteen are keeping the Sabbath. May God bless these dear friends in their endeavors to live out the whole truth and make ready for Jesus coming.
E. G. RUST.
Chicago, Ills.
A Young Christian’s Sabbath Joy
Sister L. A. Hall writes from Athens, Me.: I am striving to be a Christian and keep all the commandments of God. It has been two years since I started in this blessed way, and six months since I commenced keeping the Bible Sabbath; and I can say with all my heart I never knew what it was to enjoy the Sabbath till within these few months.
I love my Saviour and the blessed hope that he is soon coming to gather the loved ones home. The Lord bless you in spreading the truth.
I feel anxious that my friends and youthful companions should be ready to meet their Saviour, and I trust the Lord will bless my efforts to save them.
Cleanliness
CLEANLINESS.—It is of less consequence to people to know how this moisture escapes, than to know the fact that it does so, and to know also that if this constant perspiration—for that is its name—is checked for any considerable time, mischief, in the form of colds, fevers, rheumatisms, and consumptions, may ensue. Great mischief may also follow, if this perspiration is checked by neglect of cleanliness.
There are, also, other offices performed by the skin, which are curious, but I will mention no more of them now. The more you understand the structure of this part of the frame, the more you will see how important it is that it should be kept clean by washing, every day we live. And yet how many there are, who hardly wash at all, except, perhaps, their faces and hands! Such persons are scarcely fit to be entrusted with a habitation so fearfully and wonderfully made. In truth, they are not usually so long entrusted with it as others. The great Architect usually turns them out many years earlier than he would, if they took care of it; and in the case of cholera or malignant fever, sometimes thrusts them out with apparent, though deserved violence.—Herald of Health.
HOW HE GOT TIME FOR STUDY.
It was not by sitting up late at night, but by rising early in the morning, that he found time for study. He well observed, "A late morning student is a lazy one, and will rarely make a true scholar; and he who sits up late at night not only burns his life's candle at both ends, but puts a red-hot poker to the middle."
A minister one day acknowledged to the doctor that he was in the habit of remaining late in bed, and added that he had been protesting and praying against it for several years, but that it still lingered and seemed to be a most inveterate, if not incurable evil. The doctor addressed him: "My dear brother, you have entirely misapprehended the case. The remedy is simple, and of easy application. It has been a maxim with me for many years never to trouble the Almighty about a thing which I could do myself. Now, instead of lying in bed and praying on the subject of early rising, I get up at the appointed time, dress myself, and go at once to my study and my books. If you take my advice, you will act in future on the same maxim."—Dunn's Life of Adam Clarke.
Obituary Notices.
DIED of consumption March 9, 1865, James Sparks, aged 40 years, 7 months and 9 days. He embraced the Sabbath when the truth was presented at Knoxville, Ia. He bore his sickness with patience. When he was told he must die, he called his family around his bed, told them his work was done, and exhorted them to keep the commandments. In the death of Bro. Sparks the church has lost an efficient working member. He leaves a wife and eight children to mourn his loss.
B. SUTTON.
DIED, in South Kingston, R. I., Feb. 25, 1865, of consumption, sister Mary E. Gavit. She died in hope of a better resurrection. She embraced present truth from hearing Eld. Cornell's lectures, about one year ago, and took delight in the Sabbath of the Lord.
"Prepare to meet thy God," were the words chosen by her as a text, from which a discourse was preached at her burial by the writer.
P. C. RODMAN.
DIED in Clinton, Me., sister Etta, daughter of Jesse M., and Mehitable Hamlin aged twenty-three years. She was beloved by her friends and all Christians. She sleeps in Jesus. Sermon by L. L. Howard.
CHAS. STRATTON.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON DARK ROOMS.—Florence Nightingale's "Notes on Nursing" contain the following useful hints:
A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth, and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill they cannot get well again in it. Three, out of many negligences and ignorances in managing the health of houses generally, I will here mention, as specimens.
1. That the female head in charge of any building does not think it necessary to visit every hole and corner of it, every day. How can she expect that those under her will be more careful to maintain her house in a healthy condition than she who is in charge of it?
2. That it is not considered essential to air, to sun, and clean rooms while uninhabited, which is simply ignoring the first elementary notion of sanitary things, and laying the ground for all kinds of diseases.
3. That one window is considered enough to air a room. Don't imagine that if you who are in charge don't look to all these things yourself, those under you will be more careful than you are. It appears as if the part of the mistress, was to complain of her servants and to accept their excuse—not to show them how there need be neither complaints nor excuses made.
A Diseased Ham
Two gentlemen not long since entered a respectable meat shop in this city, in quest of "steak." One called for some from a fine looking piece of pork lying on the counter. It was accordingly cut, when his friend concluded to have some of the same. The obliging shopman proceeded to serve his customer, when, to the disgust of all, and particularly the pork-eaters, the first incision of the knife laid open a concealed tumor, from which flowed about a gill of thick, creamy-looking matter, giving off an odor of the most terribly offensive putridity that can well be imagined. The tumor was entirely concealed in the ham, and the flesh looked perfectly fair to within a very short distance of it—in fact had been cut, and somebody had probably eaten the steak almost to it, and it is not altogether improbable that some M. D. has had a job before now as the result of it. That the hog is, among the animals used for food, the most liable to disease, is a fact long since established. Suffice it to say there were two families in the city who didn't have pork-steak for breakfast the next morning.—Detroit Tribune.
Gossip and Faultfinding
WHAT a world of gossip would be prevented if it was only remembered that a person who tells you of the faults of others, intends to tell others of your faults.
THis woman (popery) is called "the mother of harlots and abominations." Who are the daughters of the Catholic church, unless The Lutheran, the Presbyterian and the Episcopal churches which are all branches of the Catholic church—off-shoots from it, and the Methodist a branch of the Episcopal. Are not these denominated harlots and abominations in the above passage? I do not wish to insult you; for the question is a legitimate one, and I am in prayerful earnest. I so decide—I could not, with the stake before me, decide otherwise.—The Great Iron Wheel*, p. 30. By J. R. Graves, A. M., Editor of the Tennessee Baptist.
I send the above extract as being good testimony on the subject of Babylon. J. B. Frisbie.
The Health Reform.
It is not for the sake of commendation from others, that we, as a people, have entered into a reform on the subject of health. The advantages of this movement which we experience in ourselves lies in a far higher direction. Yet it is gratifying to know that our efforts in this respect are appreciated by those to whom this is a subject of chief interest. In a letter to the Editor of the World's Crisis, Dr. J. C. Jackson, of "Our Home," Dansville, N. Y., thus writes:
"Now I said to Bro. Himes, when I saw him last, that I thought you Adventists, considering your elevation in regard to general views, are at a low ebb in matters pertaining to health. You are giving it as a body of Christians, far less attention than the Seventh-day Adventists are. They publish books and tracts on the subject, arousing the attention of their people, until really as a denomination, they are in advance of any denomination of Christians in the United States. I think the effect of this must be very conducive to a high spirituality."
Note from the Mich. Tent.
By D. M. Canright; I. D. VanHorn
Bro. White: The Michigan Tent was pitched in this place on Friday, June 2. Vassar is the county seat of Tuscola Co. It is beautifully situated on the Cass river, and contains about five hundred inhabitants. They appear to be a sober, industrious class of people.
We have had five meetings. The congregation has increased every evening. Last evening there were two hundred and fifty out. We never saw a deeper interest manifested in so short a time.
Brethren pray for us, that the power of God may attend the word spoken.
D. M. Canright.
I. D. VanHorn.
Vassar, Tuscola Co., Mich.
Note From Bro. Ingraham.
By Wm. S. Ingraham
BRO. WHITE: I am now laboring in the town of Albany to follow up the interest my lectures raised up last winter before the small-pox broke out in the vicinity. Five more have decided to obey the commandments of God. The people are mostly English, and they deal largely in the practice of using tobacco. Quite a large number are interested in the truth but their idols perhaps will keep some away. How much labor it takes to bring people up to a place where they are willing to sacrifice all for the truth. Our congregations are large. The house does not hold all the people. Many stand at the door and windows and listen to the word.
I ardently request an interest in the prayers of the saints that success may crown my labors in the proclamation of truth.
WM. S. INGRAHAM.
Correction.
By Chas. Stratton
I WISH to correct one mistake in the article headed "Some of My Experience," as found in Review No. 18, Vol. xxv. I profess to do to others as I would have them do by me. I find by talking with Eld. Eldridge, and examining the record, that the instrument drawn up was in form of a resolve, instead of a letter. Therefore I cheerfully take back the statement that Eld. Eldridge was guilty of willful prevarication. I will also say that I never intended to say that the Conference voted him in for the special purpose of turning me out.
I meant just this and nothing more: that in the time of their emergency they voted him in, and he helped them out.
Chas. Stratton.
Acknowledgment.
By H. L. Doty
To those who have contributed of their means to clear me from the draft, and especially to Bro. Byington and others who interested themselves for me, I would express my sincere gratitude.
H. L. Doty.
Salem Centre, Ind.
Recipe for Making Soap.
By C. O. Taylor
Bro. White: As the days of pork and grease are passing away with us, I send you the following recipe for making soft soap.
Fourteen qts. soft water, one lb. good bar soap, one lb. salsoda. Boil till all is dissolved; cool; and it is fit for use.
C. O. Taylor.
Appointments.
ELDER J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH will hold meetings, providence permitting, as follows:
Hundred Mile Grove, Wis., June 17 and 18.
Mackford, " 24 and 25.
Iowa Conference, July 1 and 2.
Wawkon, Iowa, " 8 and 9.
Pleasant Grove, Minn., " 15 and 16.
Oronoco, " 22 and 23.
Deerfield, " 29 and 30.
Gen. Conf. Committee.
Quarterly Meeting at Palestine
By J. F. McReynolds
THE next Quarterly Meeting of the S. D. Adventist churches at Pilot Grove, Washington, Millersburg and Palestine, Iowa, will be held with the Palestine church, commencing on Friday evening, July 7th, and continuing over Sabbath and Sunday. Let all who can attend the meeting, come in the Spirit of the Lord, pray for a profitable time from his presence.
Bro. Brinkerhoff or Snook is expected.
J. F. McREYNOLDS.
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Unconverted Men Hate God’s Law
As bats hate the light, and fly against it, so unconverted men hate the pure light of God's law, and, fly against it.
Change of Arrangements.
THE three appointments for Minnesota are changed to a later date. Elder White and wife, providence permitting, will hold meetings at Princeville, Peoria Co., Ill., June 24 and 25. The scattered friends of the cause are invited to make a general rally at this meeting.
Elder Loughborough, and Elder White and wife, will meet a delegation of the friends of the cause in Iowa, at Pilot Grove, Ia., June 30th, and a general assembly of Sabbath-keepers in the State, July 1 and 2.
As it is decided that one or more of the General Conference Committee should attend the State Conferences, and as two of that Committee are now in the West, and as it is thought that the western Conferences can be held the first of July to accommodate farmers as to their work quite as well as at the usual time, and as there are matters in the Iowa Conference which need immediate attention, and as there is not time to submit the appointment to the Iowa Conference Committee, therefore, the Gen. Conf. Com. take the responsibility of appointing the above named assembly at Pilot Grove.
The churches of Iowa are invited to choose their proper number of delegates immediately of such brethren as can and will attend this great gathering of the people of God. And when assembled, with the ministers of the Conference present, they can accept this general gathering as the annual State Conference if this should be the voice of the people.
In consequence of the shortness of the time, vigilance will be necessary in appointing delegates, and preparing reports of loss or gain of numbers, amount of s. B. funds, and present condition.
In locating this assembly with the Pilot Grove church the committee feel that they are taking a liberty warranted only by the extreme urgencies of the case. We invite a great and general gathering of those who can take along with them four days' rations, and a soldier's blanket.
Let there be a general rally—not of idlers,—not of invalids and children—not of careless professors who come only to see and to hear—but let there be a general turnout of those who have the cause at heart, and who will come seeking the presence of God, and a knowledge of his will.
Business meeting will commence June 30th at 9 A. M.
A general assortment of publications and Bibles will be on the ground. GEN. CONF. COM.