ARRANGEMENTS have been made with Mr. James Fields, of Rochester, so that tents can be rented at the following rates:—
24x30 ft., $13.00.
16x24 ", 8.00.
12x17 ", 4.50.
9x12 ", 3.00.
No extra charge will be made for freight, &c., as these expenses will be paid from the camp-meeting fund. Those wishing tents should decide at once what number and size they will need, and send in their orders to B. L. Whitney, Kirkville, Onondaga Co., N. Y. It will be absolutely necessary for those expecting their orders filled, to send them in time to reach him before July 28, as the tents will be ordered from Mr. Fields at that time, so as to insure their being on the ground in season.
CAMP-MEETING COMMITTEE.
Christian Fellowship with Adventists
In the Christian Union of July 2, 1873, a correspondent asks: “Is it right for a Congregational or other evangelical church to grant a letter of dismissal and recommendation to a member who wishes to join an Annihilationist church? Can an evangelical church with consistency have fellowship with a church holding the doctrine of the annihilation of the wicked?”
To this Mr. Beecher returned the following answer:—
“We are in favor of the largest toleration and the widest fellowship consistent with Christian integrity. Many of the Adventist churches show a zeal that would put to shame half the orthodox churches, but they hold the doctrine of annihilation. And there is no subject regarding which one should be more tolerant of differences than the future life; because there is none concerning which we know so little with certainty, and because differences of opinion about the future life, and particularly about the nature of retribution, do not necessarily affect Christian living.”
IRISH Presbyterianism still stands out against the use of instrumental music in public worship.
News and Miscellany.
“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
Died, in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 21, 1873, Lewis Tappan, aged eighty-five years; one of the first and most prominent workers in the anti-slavery movement.
An Indiana Sunday-school man writes to a firm in New York: “Send me on some Sunday-school papers and books. Let the books be about pirates and Indians as far as possible.”
Visit of the Shah.—The cable lately announced, in a single line, the opening of a new historic era. The message ran: “The Shah of Persia to-day arrived in London on a visit to the Queen,” which, being translated, meant, “The long-closed East is open to the civilization of the West.” It is a matter of twenty-four hundred years since the great Darius Hystaspes thundered through Greece, and chained two peoples to his chariot wheels, and since his son’s discomfiture, no Persian monarch has trod European soil till now! The Shah is very observing. In machinery and all the arts of peace he is deeply interested. He has already instituted many reforms in Persia. He has granted to a chartered foreign company permission to build railways, construct canals, reservoirs, and water works; to utilize the forests, work the mines, and farm the revenues.—Christian Union.
The Mexican Congress has passed a new law for the separation of church and state. The law provides that no religion shall be either supported or forbidden by the Government; that marriage shall be regarded as a civil contract, to be legally valid only after registration in the presence of a magistrate; that no religious body shall have any corporate rights; that no Mexican citizen shall be bound by any vow he may have made as member of a religious order; and that witnesses shall not be required to take an oath in a court of justice. Against this uncompromising secularism the Ultramontanes are, of course, arrayed; and it is said that in their agitation for the repeal of the law they are secretly assisted by the president, himself a zealous Catholic, and by several Jesuits, who have lately arrived with instructions from Rome.
The managers of the Chicago and North-western, the Chicago and Iowa, the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific, the Burlington and Quincy, the Chicago and Alton, and the Illinois Central Railroads, have signed an agreement to issue no more passes except to their own employees and their families traveling on their own roads.
A fearful tornado at Galesburg, Neosho County, Kansas, recently, blew down a stone house, burying Mrs. Giddings and her three children in the ruins. The children were killed, and Mrs. Giddings was seriously injured. Another house was blown down, and Mr. Raders and wife fatally wounded.
A system of care of the poor which is meeting with much success in Germany is that of providing a visitor for every four poor families, and so securing permanent and careful personal supervision.
The Sultan of Turkey has fallen into a state of melancholy, or even madness, which at times quite incapacitates him for business. There are indications also of a revolutionary spirit in the capital, and a change in the succession is not unlikely.
Ten genuine African boys arrived at Lincoln University (colored) in Pennsylvania a week or two ago, just in time to make a sensation at its Commencement, when they were brought upon the platform and introduced. Six of these youths are from the Basso tribe, one a Congo, one a Vey, and two from Liberia, all of whom the Presbytery of Western Africa has sent to this institution in the United States to receive an education, with the expectation that in a few years they will return to their own people to preach the Gospel as trained ministers.
In the sudden death of the Archbishop of Utrecht, at Cologne, the Old Catholics in Europe have met with a serious loss, especially at this critical moment when he was looked up to as their ecclesiastical head in their conflict with the dogmas of the Papal supremacy and infallibility.
The Great Eastern arrived at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, June 27, having successfully laid the fourth Atlantic Cable. Of those previously laid, two are in working order. That of 1865 broke a few months ago, and the Great Eastern will now proceed to grapple for it.
Khiva is captured at last—this time, officially. The town surrendered unconditionally. Whether Russia will at once take permanent possession of the province, or retire after taking guarantees for future good behavior, remains to be seen.
The will of Humphrey Jewell, a wealthy citizen of Ulster County, who died in March last, has been set aside by the Surrogate, on the ground that at the time it was made, the testator’s mind was so disordered and weakened by disease, as to have no testamentary capacity. The New York State Bible Society, the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church, the Home of the Friendless in this city, the Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church, and the Orphan Society of this city, lose, by this decision, bequests amounting in all to $40,000.—Christian Union.
The drought this season has been most severe in New England, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania and New York, and in most of Delaware and Maryland. The grass is nearly a failure in some parts.
Post Office address of John F. Hanson is Lake Lillian, via Atwater, Kandiyohi Co., Minn.
The Post Office address of Eld. D. M. Canright and wife is Black Hawk, Colorado.
Bro. John Matteson's address is Cambridge, Isanti Co., Minn.
We have received a letter from Grand Rapids, without signature, containing two dollars. Will the person who sent it please give his name.
Daniel Powell: We know nothing about it.
RECEIPTS.
For Review and Herald.
Annexed to each receipt in the following list, is the Volume and Number of the REVIEW & HERALD to which the money received pays—which should correspond with the Numbers on the Masters. If the money to the paper is not in due time acknowledged, immediate notice of the omission should then be given.
$2.00 each. D Hildreth 44-1, Mary A Van Horn 44-1, James Lowery 44-1, Marcus B Appleton 44-1, B F Anderson 44-1, Jacob Baker 44-1, Asa Burrows 43-13, C D Mann 44-1, J S Rogers 44-14, Jane E Moore 44-1, Mary Carpenter 44-1, Laura J Payne 44-1, Mary Casey 44-1, D C Birch 44-11, N D Brewer 44-9, Albert Horr 44-10, James Pease 44-1, Hans Rasmussen 45-1, Jas Peterson 44-1, W F Irish 43-19, John Hansen 44-1, D Daniels 44-9, J C Bunch 44-1, Garrett Gerould 44-1, Dr. Z Woodworth 44-1, M B McReynolds 44-2, M W Neal 44-6, D Honeywell 44-1, Grace Holbrook 44-1, Lewis Bean 44-1, N W Emery 44-1, Leonard Wiswell 44-14, Sarah A Holmes 44-1, Thomas Bickle 44-1, John McMillan 44-14, N Atkins 44-1, D A Stockman 44-1, Edwin Church 44-1, S N Wright 44-1, J Bodimer 44-1, M W Rathbun 44-1, G K Owen 44-1, L B Caswell 44-1, G B Goff 44-1, H A King 44-1, T Butcher 44-6, H B Stratton 44-1, John W Wakeling 44-5, E Hatch 44-5, E G Bolter 44-4, S N Kent 44-4, A Brown 44-4, M C Hodges 44-4, J B E Young 44-4, Louisa J Baker 44-12.
$1.00 each. S E Tyson 43-1, Sarah Shananbrook 44-4, Levi Wells 43-7, Mrs M E Harris 44-1, P M London 43-1, I Churchill 41-17, F Douglass 43-1, J C Peterson 43-1, Susan Berton 43-1, Martha Merrick 43-1, J W Ells 43-1, G R Starkweather 43-4, N G Spencer 43-1, N P Dixon 43-1, Russell Hoag 43-1, D S James 43-1, Mrs J Smith 43-1, P Potter 43-3, H Strong 43-1, Mrs M C Armstrong 43-1, Betsey E Keaton 44-1, Moses Foster 44-1, C P Sweet 44-1, C Van Horn 43-5, Betsey Reed 43-9, J G Camp 43-1, M E Mowry 43-1, John Holmes 44-1, Phebe Vedder 43-14, Zachariah Beaman 43-1, D Newcomb 43-3, N B Sweet 44-1, F Brooks 43-17, L Freeman 43-4, Mrs A Brown 43-4, Naomi Nourse 44-4, David Reynolds 44-4, E H Brisco 44-4, Thomas Housen 44-4, J Pickard 44-4, D T Sherman 43-6, S Parker 44-4.
50 cents each. Roxy Rosalk 42-20, H P Shepherd 43-1, Col. D Simmons 43-1, Louisa Dental 42-14, Willie Berry 43-1, I W Clark 43-1, I Mendinghall 43-1, J Allard 43-1, Mrs Job Spencer 43-1, Eugene Smith 43-1, Lewis Semos 42-18, J L Heasley 43-1, E Crandall 43-1, M Boyington 43-1, Ed Ira Day 43-1, G C Jewell 43-1, W E Pierson 43-1, Irena Lock 43-1, Paine Stillville 43-1, J A McWayne 43-14.
75 cents each. B Miller 43-1, Lydia Russell 43-1, Ann Foster 43-1, Wm Miles 43-1, G W Ellsworth 43-1.
Miscellaneous. J Calvert $2.50 44-1, S J Twing 2.50 45-14, F C Chappell 2.50 40-16, T Townsend 1.50 43-14, John Pierce 2.30 44-1, Chas Getchell 1.70 44-1, C Flemming 3.00 45-1, Julia A Savage 1.50 44-14, J H Collins 2.50 43-1, Thomas Brown 1.50 43-14, J G Stapf 1.00 43-15, S Blodget 3.00 43-1, M Simmons 3.00 45-1, Mary C Hodges 1.50 43-18.
Books Sent by Mail.
W H Graham 66c, Mrs B L Russell 20c, David Brewer 50c, M B Rich $1.00, G R Starkweather 10c, Julia A Whitman 1.00, Mrs S D Howard 20c, G H Brownson 35c, Joseph Gifford 65c, H C Crumb 1.00, Mrs Julia Nelson 50c, Mrs John Towne 32c, Miss A Bailey 25c, Thomas Breeding 3.00, Samuel J Twing 25c, Addie Worster 1.50, Mary F Aldrich 1.60, J C Bunch 2.00, J P Keefover 1.50, F W Pepper 2.00, P M Hill 1.00, Chas Carldstedt 25c, F A Buzzell 55c, Mrs E Baker 1.00, O A Olson 15c, J B Goodrich 50c, J W Heisey 40c, George Simpson 20c, B B Warren 50c, E Zytkoskee 1.00, C D Cook 1.30, John Snow 1.00, P S Marshall 45c, R F Phippeny 1.70, Ella Reed 2.50, Wm Chadler 20c, Lewis Martin 25c, R Hathaway 50c, S J Dey 25c.
Books Sent by Express.
A C O'Reilly, Vassar, Tuscola Co., Mich., $8.68, S H Lane, Logansport, Ind., 21.42, S N Haskell, South Lancaster, Mass., 98.95.
Books Sent by Freight.
P Z Kinne, Kirksville, N. Y., $187.04.
Michigan Delinquent Fund.
District No. 11, $46.00, District No. 4, 21.41, District No. 5, 92.25, B F Robbins, 5.00.
Michigan Camp-meeting Fund.
S. Rumery $5.00.
Michigan Conference Fund.
Received from the church at Otsego $25.00, Burlington 30.00, Hastings 34.40, Greenville 75.00, Potterville 14.48, Vassar 25.00, Ithaca 12.00, Genoa 9.25.
Cash Received on Account.
Eld. J Byington $2.50, J B Goodrich 2.25, Maine Delinquent Fund 15.36, D M Canright 48.29, John Hanson 12.00, David Downer 6.57, H W Decker 11.35, I Sanborn 2.42, Geo I Butler 100.00, S Haskell 501.26, Dexter Daniels 1.50.