CHILD of God ! the load was needed
Which has bowed you to the dust ;
'Tis your Father's hand that chastens ;
In his love and mercy trust.
Hard may seem the dispensation ;
Dark the path you have to tread ;
But his wisdom marks it for you—
Lift up, then, your drooping head.
Do you mourn a loved one taken—
One whose heart was all your own—
Taken from your fond embraces,
Leaving you bereft and lone ?
Are you kneeling by the pillow
Where the weary head's at rest ?
Clasping cold and icy fingers
Which so late your own had pressed ?
Do you think that Love would never
Lay this burden on your heart ?
Never would have sent the summons
Bidding you and yours to part ?
Ah ! your God can see the future
Which is veiled from mortal sight,
And he knew this trial needed,
Though it robs your home of light.
Are you suffering, sadly tossing
On a weary bed of pain,
Through the long and aching hours,
With a throbbing heart and brain ?
Friends around are tending on you,
But the suffering's hard to bear.
And they cannot soothe its anguish,
Though they strive with gentlest care.
Oh ! have those who loved forsaken—
Those whose hearts you thought your own ?
Have they, proving false and treacherous,
Left you desolate and lone ?
Is your head bowed down in sorrow ?
Do you bear an aching heart ?
It may be you wrongly worshiped—
God saw best that you should part.
Do you mourn o'er disappointments—
Are you brooding with dark fears,
O'er the blighting of the prospects
Fancy formed for future years ?
Tread you the rough path desponding,
Letting many a teardrop fall ?
God afflicts you in compassion,
There's a "need be" for it all.
Or, have other trials met you,
Bitter, dreary, hard to bear,
Almost crushing 'neath their burden,
Almost driving to despair ?
Oh ! believe that they were needed,
Sent by him who reigns above ;
Trust his wisdom, trust his mercy ;
Christian ! trust your Father's love.
Petaluma
By D. M. Canright
SUNDAY, Feb. 28, I began a course of lectures in the Baptist church in Petaluma. This was the first place the tent was pitched in California, six years ago. A fair company came out then, most all of whom held fast to the faith. But some have died, and about half have moved away, so their number is now quite small—about fifteen. Their small house being at one side of the town, is not convenient for public meetings.
As we could have the Baptist church, it was thought to be a good time to make another effort here. I advertised extensively to expose Spiritualism. Had the house crowded the first three lectures. Then I took up the prophecies. At first the audience dropped down about one-half; but it has gradually increased to a fair congregation of from one to two hundred.
I have visited a goodly number who are deeply interested. An aged Baptist minister has been hearing and reading for some time, till he is convinced of the truth of our doctrines, and with his wife is in full sympathy with our work. We hope he will now take a decided stand with us. An educated Catholic young lady, and her father and mother, are deeply interested in our lectures. One brother who has been back-slidden has returned to the Lord and to his duty.
I have had good freedom most of the time. I feel that the Lord is at work for us here. In his name we expect fruits of our labor.
D. M. CANRIGHT.
March 9.
HELPING ANOTHER
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Report of District No. 2.
By Joseph Dimmick
CALIFORNIA T. & M. Society, Dist. No. 2, for the quarter ending March 7, 1875.
Number of names of members on Secretary’s book, 72; number of families visited, 7; number of letters written, 36.
Tracts and pamphlets loaned, 791 pages; tracts and pamphlets given away, 12,037 pages; bound books loaned, 17.
JOSEPH DIMMICK, Sec.
The Carnal and the Spiritual Man.
By R. A. Morton
"But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Cor. 2:14.
By the expression "natural man" is meant the natural condition of the heart, before it is wrought upon by the Spirit of God. If the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can know them, but considers them foolishness, it is evident that there must be a change of heart before he can be a friend of God. The words of Christ are: "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of Heaven." Matt. 18:3. The change necessary is in the spiritual condition of man; for the works of man are but the fruits of the condition of the heart. If the heart is bitter, which is its natural condition, it will yield bitter fruit. If it is sweet, it will yield the pleasant fruits of holiness. Matt. 12:35.
But not until the soul, sinking down beneath its load of sin, cries in child-like humility and love to One mighty to save, can he receive things of the Spirit of God. In Gal. 5:17, we read: "The flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other." Again, in Rom. 8:7: "The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."
The expression, "carnal mind," means the natural state of the mind which is enmity against God, and cannot be subject to him or love him indeed.
But in this text, the reason that the carnal mind is enmity against God, is given. It is because "it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." This shows that insubordination to this law is the cause of man's alienation from God. That the law of God is the great rule of action that condemns man and by which he is to be tried, may be easily shown from the Scriptures.
But is it holy and spiritual? Is it a thing of the Spirit of God? If so the natural heart cannot comprehend the eternal principle of love upon which it is founded. In Rom. 7:12, 14: "The law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good. For we know the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin." But the reverse of this is frequently taught at the present time by the popular ministry, which is: we know the law is carnal (a burden); but I am spiritual, born of the Spirit.
From the Scriptures we learn that the law is holy and spiritual; that it is a thing of the Spirit of God. Hence no unregenerated person can keep it in spirit. Yet it may be understood, and kept, in part, by the unregenerate, so far as the letter is concerned. For instance, I may read the Holy Scriptures and refrain from labor on the Sabbath, and thus obey the letter of the law. But if the heart is unregenerate, these acts of obedience to the letter of the law, are selfishness. A close examination of self will discover this to be true.
In brief, the letter of the law condemns the fruits of the natural condition of the heart, and thus brings the sinner to repentance, while the spirit of the law condemns both the heart's natural state and its fruits. So that he who keeps the letter of the law and is not converted is still condemned by the spirit of the law. It is plain, therefore, that the law stands far above the natural man, and condemns all that is not holy and spiritual. "To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." Therefore, to keep the commandments of God is life. "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." Rev. 22:14. But to keep them not is death. "Sin is the transgression of the law." "The wages of sin is death." Millions are breaking God's holy Sabbath every seventh day of the week. The proud churches of the world, blinded with carnality, are dumb concerning this great truth.
Dear reader, let us, in the name of our dear Saviour, seek to know that in our hearts has been kindled a flame of love toward our Heavenly Father and our fellow-man.
Oh! what transcendent love did our Lord manifest toward you and me. He laid aside his glory. He left his Father's house on high. He was crowned with thorns that we might be crowned with the glories of eternal life. Yet this wondrous love is not deeper than the principle of love contained in the ten commandments. It is the same brought to us through the condescension, the sorrow, the grief, and the shameful death of our dear Redeemer. Through his name will our Heavenly Father give his Spirit to the penitent soul bowed down with godly sorrow. Thus may we keep the commandments, be a friend of God, and be saved with an everlasting salvation. R. A. MORTON.
Left to Himself.
IN this world it is needful not only to put things right, but to keep them right. Anything left to itself soon goes to ruin. Very often to do nothing is to do mischief. The sluggard's garden was overgrown with thorns and nettles, not because he had sown them there, but because he had neglected to root them out. "The stone wall thereof was broken down," not because he had thrown it down, but because he had allowed it to fall. Prov. 24:31. It is astonishing how soon a house gets out of repair and becomes a ruin if it be shut up and neglected. The tiles drop off one by one, the timbers give way, the windows fall in, the floors decay, and in the course of a few years, a house left quite to itself is in a state of dilapidation.
It is just so, too, with human beings. The seeds of evil are already sown in the child's heart, as the weeds were in the sluggard's garden. They will spring up of themselves, and it is for us to root them up, or they will cover all the soil. The mother who lets them grow unchecked in the heart of her little one, will bring the child to ruin, and herself to shame. Prov. 10:1; 17:25; 19:18.
A few months ago there was a sad case of this kind before one of the London police courts. A poor woman applied to the magistrates for protection against her own son. Her husband, a small tradesman, had died some years before, leaving her with one child. She loved the little one with all the love of a widow for her firstborn—her only child. She could not bear to check or thwart him in anything he wished. He grew up an obstinate, self-willed boy. His poor mother would not believe the complaints the neighbors all made of him. Love blinded her to his faults, and she would willingly have worked herself to death, if she could, thereby have given him pleasure. His evil habits grew upon him, and bad companions led him farther astray. The poor woman now perceived the mistake she had made. But she could not find it in her heart to punish him, and she continued to supply him with money from her own hard earnings, which he spent in sin and folly. She wept over him, and entreated him to alter his course. But she wanted firmness to use the needful severity. His course was still downward. When the unhappy woman was unable to provide him with the means for self-indulgence, he began to plunder the little shop which she kept. She was at last reduced to actual poverty, and her son became not only the companion of thieves, but was himself imprisoned for theft. Her poor lodging was, little by little, stripped of its few articles of furniture, which he pawned or sold to raise money. As he grew more hardened and reckless she suffered such violence and cruelty at his hands, that she was compelled to seek protection from him; and the bitterest grief of all was, to know that her own mistaken fondness had been the cause of his ruin, and her own. Too late she learned the truth of the scripture warning, "The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame." Prov. 29:15, 17. See Prov. 13:24; 20:7; 23:13, 14; Gen. 18:19; 1 Sam. 3:13; 1 Kings 1:6; 1 Tim. 3:4, 12; Titus 1:6.
I was crossing the churchyard of ——, when I observed a coffin, borne by four men, approaching the door of the church. A single mourner followed. Her loud sobs and solitary appearance deeply affected me, and I paused by the side of one of the old elm trees. Several of the villagers uncovered their heads and respectfully bowed as the weeping female passed. An old man of threescore years and ten was amongst the group, and from him I soon found that the mourner was a mother—a widowed mother—and that she was following her only son to his premature grave. "He was as fine a lad as ever lived, sir," said the old man; his mother was left a widow when he was only a few years old. She was one of the kindest creatures ever born. She was too kind to him. She never would cross him in anything. He always had his own way, and it proved his ruin. She plentifully supplied him with money, and he had ready access to the decanter. Before he was twenty, he had some of the worst Sabbath-breaking companions in the place. Many and many a night has his poor mother sat up till midnight, when he has been carried home from the public house by his drunken comrades. Lately, he treated her more cruelly, but like a mother she bore it, as none but a mother could. He would bear no restraint. Last week, poor fellow, after drinking very hard, he had, for the third time, an attack of delirium tremens, and he died in an awful state. Ah, sir, I have seen many broken-hearted parents lay their ungodly children in this churchyard. I always say with Solomon to young fathers and mothers, 'Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.' I am an old man now, and have observed during my long life that those children who have been pampered at home, and always allowed to have their own way, have generally turned out to be bad, ungrateful children, and in many, many cases, have filled, like this poor widow's son, a drunkard's grave." "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
The responsibility of educating your children is one you cannot escape. It is a task imposed upon you by Divine Providence, and you may look to Him with confidence for guidance and aid. In short, you must educate your child, whether you choose it or not; for every action, every word and look, the very tone of your voice, and the round of ordinary daily events, which form the moral atmosphere in which he breathes, will influence him far more than the occasional lessons which he receives, however excellent. "As the mother, so her daughter." Ezek. 16:44. The Bible lays down four great rules, involving the four great elements of the successful religious training of children: prayer, instruction, example, and restraint. And it is doubted if a solitary case can be found where all these have been united, where the child has not followed in the footsteps of the pious parent, while, on the other hand, if but only one of the four has been neglected, it may have been the ruin of the child. Read 2 Cor. 3:5.—Norwich Tract.
My Experience.
By A. B. Atwood
Eighteen years ago I sought the Lord with all my heart. Though I had for years felt myself a great sinner, I had now come to that point where I wanted religion more than anything or all things else. But how to obtain an experience in the things of God I knew not. I talked with my wife and we agreed to erect the family altar, as we knew of no better way to begin. That evening we bowed together in prayer. We plead with God for the pardon of our sins, but it was more than a week before we obtained the desired evidence. The blessing came while we were kneeling before the Lord, and oh! how full of peace and glory! We then promised the Master we would walk in all the ways of his commandments.
For eleven years we were members of the Baptist church. Residing in a village of five thousand inhabitants, we attended a union Sunday school made up of Baptists, Methodists, and Congregationalists. It was in this school that I learned that I was breaking the fourth commandment. I was led to investigate by the subject of the Sabbath being given out in the school, by the Baptist minister. The question was, Which day was the Sabbath of the Lord, and when was it instituted?
As it was given out for the following Sunday we had one week for study, and I was not surprised to hear from all the school, which was composed of adults, that the seventh day was the Sabbath of the Lord, and it was instituted at creation.
The subject for the next Sunday was, When was the Sabbath changed, and by what authority? I had ever felt certain that Christ changed the day; and as I searched for proof, for the first time my Bible read all wrong to me. I searched it day and night to find divine authority for the change. From Bible proof I found my way clear into the seventh day, but found no way to get back into the first day. As Bible testimony alone could satisfy my mind, I was convicted that I had been instructed wrong. I plead with God to give me a spirit that would agree with his word, and I promised that I would obey. That week I decided that I would never again trample upon God's authority, but keep all his commandments.
The next Sunday, although our school was large, only five took any part in examining the subject: two ministers, a lawyer, a doctor, and myself. Oh! how small and weak I felt to defend the truth, but the Lord gave me strength to say to them that unless they could produce Bible proof, I must henceforth keep the seventh day as the Bible Sabbath. And I thank my Heavenly Father to-day that I still stand a witness for this precious truth.
I know what are the sorrows and blighted hopes of earth. The dearest ones I have laid in the grave, but I look for the great Lifegiver soon to come to waken the sleeping saints. "This hope cheers the prospect that's gloomy and drear, And points to the haven of rest that is near."
To all the brethren and sisters, and to all desiring the peace of God, I would say, do not neglect the family altar. I have found it a precious means of grace. Here I have enjoyed the rich blessing of God. May the Lord ever bless us, and help us to so live to his glory here, that with all who keep his commandments we may enter the glorious city of God when our Saviour comes to deliver us from the ills of this present world.
A. B. ATWOOD.
St. Helena, Cal.
News and Miscellany.
By Editor
"MEN'S hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." Luke 21:26.
—They are rejoicing in Port Jervis, Md., over the fact that the ice gorge is likely to wear away without doing any great amount of damage; but it still holds firm, so says the telegraph on March 11.
—John Mitchell, who was convicted and banished by England, and who escaped to America and made himself notorious by his adherence to slavery, was recently elected to Parliament from Tipperary, Ireland. He was refused a seat, and a new election was ordered, and he has been re-elected. He will doubtless be rejected as ineligible.
—Hon. Caleb Cushing, our Minister to Spain, has presented his credentials to Alfonso. So the kingdom is fully recognized by the United States.
—Brigham Young was arrested March 11, and brought before the court on a charge of contempt in failing to pay alimony and counsel fees in the pending divorce suit. He was fined $25, and ordered to be imprisoned one day. There is great excitement among the Mormons over his imprisonment.
—A large gambling game which has been progressing for several days in the Chinese portion of Virginia City, Nevada, broke up March 11 in a general row in which over one hundred shots were fired. A number of Chinamen have been arrested who were armed with pistols and knives. Great excitement prevails. The Legislature of Nevada disgraced itself by refusing to repeal the law legalizing gambling. It is said that many of the most prominent business men of the Territory signed remonstrances against its repeal, fearing it would injure their business! Orderly people emigrating to the west, will take notice.
—Mexico, both city and State, is in a very disturbed condition, as usual. The Church party are fermenting troubles, with the view of organizing a revolution, using as their pretext the expulsion of the Sisters of Charity. The ill-feeling between Catholics and Protestants in Acapulco and other places, continues to grow, and in the streets of Acapulco shouts of "death to the Protestants," have been raised. The latter fear further violence, and many are preparing to emigrate. The American assassinated in Acapulco during the late riot was named Henry Morris, formerly of Boston. Minister Foster is making a collection for his destitute family.
A TWO-MILLION DOLLAR FIRE.
MONTREAL, March 9.—A fire this morning was discovered in the Grand Trunk general office at Point St. Charles, and in half an hour the immense brick building, 400 feet long by 100 feet wide, was one mass of flames. The passenger and freight car repair shops also caught and were completely destroyed with their contents. The fire commenced in the telegraph office, where no stoves are used, and ran with fearful rapidity through the buildings. The loss is fearful. The greater part of the Grand Trunk Railroad documents and books are burned, and £300,000 sterling in bonds are gone in the fire. The fire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The loss on buildings alone is estimated at $1,200,000.
A fire in Callao, South America, Feb. 13. Help was afforded by a British crew, and by engines sent from Lima. Loss, about $100,000.
THE head of the Roman Catholic church of England, and the head of the Roman Catholic church in the United States, were once Episcopalians.
WATER is the strongest drink; it drives mills; it is the drink of lions and horses; and Sampson never drank anything else. The beer, wine, and tobacco money will soon build a house and make a fortune.
PHYSICAL suffering and enjoyment are only means for the control of the spiritual. If we look upon them as finalities, we cannot regard God as love. That physical life is so uncertain shows that it is not an object, but only a means.
HOW SHALL THE PAPER BE SUSTAINED?
By James White
Five thousand copies, at $2.00 a volume of fifty numbers, will meet all the expenses of publishing. And this estimate is considerably lower than the price of any other paper of the kind published on the Pacific Coast. This would make the SIGNS to our Missionary Societies at $4.00 per hundred copies.
We design that the paper shall contain reading matter better in point of variety and interesting news of the progress of the cause than what our tracts contain. The SIGNS is just what our friends should circulate everywhere in connection with their efforts to obtain subscribers. Quantities can be sent to any bona fide subscriber, post paid, at the new low rates of postage. We will therefore send the SIGNS by mail, post paid, for $4.00 per hundred copies. Nos. 17, 18, 19, are excellent.
No pains will be spared to make the SIGNS just such a paper as our friends will take pleasure in circulating everywhere. We shall very soon increase the edition to 5,000 copies. We shall encourage its circulation from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and everywhere that the English language is read. We return to our first plan, and now call on our eastern friends for donations, from one dollar to one hundred, to aid in publishing the SIGNS, and to purchase presses, types, &c., complete, to furnish the new office building. Some of our conferences pledged liberally last summer for this object. And by reason of bad management, confusion has been created. We now call on all to help us with free-will offerings. We press none, but invite all, to act of their free will in the fear of God. Brethren in the ministry in all the Eastern States are requested to act as agents for the SIGNS. They will please send subscribers and money. Let all who read our paper with pleasure and profit judge of their duty to help sustain it. They can pay the subscription price, or donate more largely.
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It is true that sufficient has been subscribed in California to purchase the site and to put up the building. But it is a fact that many who liberally pledged means are in debt, and are paying high rates of interest. These willing friends must not be pressed. In time they will all come up nobly to the work. We shall go right forward publishing and building. And we shall expect co-operation of personal eastern friends, and shall be happy to reciprocate their liberalities by attending their annual encampments, and in rendering all other assistance in our power.
J. W.
Another Wonder.
By James White
WHEN the invention of the telegraph was first announced, and the results authenticated, every body wondered how it could be, and it really seemed too strange to believe, even after we had received the news from every part of the country in a day. But soon the process was explained, the machinery exhibited, and it was brought down to the comprehension of every school boy who had learned something of the laws of electricity. And now, having settled down to the telegraph, not only as a matter of fact, but as a necessity without which Railroading must be only a partial success, we are again astonished by new discoveries. A Mr. Galley of Rochester, N. Y., has invented an instrument or system, we are at a loss to tell just what to call it, by which not only several messages at once, but messages in opposite directions at once, are sent over a single line!
With some knowledge of telegraphy and telegraphic instruments we are as much at a loss now as at the first invention. We have heard the project suggested, and never hesitated to say it was an impossibility. But the papers say it is accomplished. We confess we are no longer judges of what is and what is not impossible.
Another American invention. Another link in the interesting chain of events to which we are introduced in Rev. 13 : 11--18. Have all our readers had the privilege of reading the book entitled, United States in the Light of Prophecy? If not, we recommend to them to procure it at once. J. H. W.
Politics and Religion.
By James White
A VERY unusual circumstance, for this age, has lately transpired. A member of the North Carolina Legislature was expelled from that body because he denied the existence of God. The charge was based on the publication of a pamphlet, which several members characterized as blasphemous and indecent. If blasphemy and indecency were everywhere made tests of ineligibility to legislative honors, we fear some of these bodies would lack a quorum. We had no idea that such a vote would carry in any State in the Union. The feeling was strong against him, and the vote decided.
J. H. W.
Caution to Writers.
By J. H. W.
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Those who send business on Postal Cards should not write any more than the address on the face of the card. Postmasters are not required to forward cards with any thing more than the address on the face. Persons so writing and losing their business may know the reason. J. H. W.
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The district quarterly meetings will be held as follows:
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District No. 6; time and place to be designated in the future.
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It is expected that reports of labor, as designated by the blanks, will be made by the churches in their respective districts. These should be summed up by the district secretary, and forwarded to our State T. & M. secretary, Sr. Lucie Bush, Woodland, so that she can make out her report of the workings of the society for the quarter, except district No. 3, before the State quarterly meeting. It is expected that each district, through its director, will balance all its indebtedness for periodicals, &c., at the time of the State quarterly meeting.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH,
Pres. T. and M. Society.
Woodland Quarterly Meeting.
WE now design attending the Woodland quarterly meeting, the 20th and 21st, accompanied by Mrs. White.
JAMES WHITE.
Business Department.
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“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully,” (margin, negligently). Jer. 48:10.
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Refutation of the Age to Come. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.
The Atonement. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.
The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.
The Bible from Heaven ; a Dissertation. 20 cts.
Miraculous Powers. Evidences, Scriptural and historical of the perpetuity of Spiritual Gifts. 20c.
The Complete Testimony of the Fathers concerning the Sabbath and First Day. By J. N. Andrews. 15 cts.
The Ministration of Angels : and the Origin, History, and Destiny of Satan. By D. M. Canright. 20 cts.
The Three Messages of Rev. 14, and the Two-Horned Beast. By J. N. Andrews. 15 cts.
The Resurrection of the Unjust; a Vindication of the Doctrine. By J. H. Waggoner. 15 cts.
Life of Christ, No. 2, by Mrs. E. G. White, 15c.
The Saint's Inheritance, or the Earth made New. By J. N. Loughborough. 10 cts.
The Sanctuary and Twenty-three Hundred Days. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.
Sunday Seventh-day. A Refutation of Mede, Jennings, Akers and Fuller. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.
The Truth Found ; The Sabbath. By J. H. Waggoner. 10 cts.
Brown's Review of Gilfillan on the Sabbath. 10 cts.
Vindication of the True Sabbath. Morton 10 cts.
The Date of the Seventy Weeks of Dan. 9, established. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.
Position and Work of the True People of God under the Third Angel's Message. Littlejohn. 10 cts.
The Hope of the Gospel: What it is, and when it will be consummated. By J. N. Loughborough, 80 pp. 10 cts.
An Appeal to the Baptists, from the Seventh-day Baptists, for the restoration of the Bible Sabbath 10 cts.
Four-cent Tracts: The Two Covenants.—The Second Advent.—The Seventh Part of Time.—Who Changed the Sabbath?—Celestial Railroad—Samuel and the Witch of Endor—The Ten Commandments not Abolished—Address to the Baptists—The Present Truth—The Sufferings of Christ.
Three-cent Tracts: Much in Little—The Lost Time Question—Spiritualism a Satanic Delusion—Infidel Cavils Considered—The End of the Wicked—Scripture References.
Two-cent Tracts: Definite Seventh Day—Seven Reasons for Sunday-Keeping Examined—Sabbath by Elihu—The Rich Man and Lazarus—Argument on Sabbatism—The Millennium—Departing and Being with Christ—Fundamental Principles of S. D. Adventists.