THE work in this mission is moving slowly on. Our last quarterly meeting was a success in some respects. The meeting was well attended by the friends of the cause, and there was an interest manifested, more or less, by all. Four were baptized and six received into the church.
The principal business done was to organize a T. and M. Society. This is a good field for such a society to work, and much good can be done by them if they will work.
The cause here demands more labor to place it in a condition to sustain itself, and we have concluded to remain with them till spring.
The T. and M. society will need to be set in working order, and we hope to organize two churches, one at Dayton, and one at Milton. When this is done they can be left to carry on the work alone. We hope and pray that the Lord may direct in all efforts to advance his cause.
T. D. VAN HORN.
Walla Walla, W. T., Oct. 24, 1875.
Praying and Saying Prayers.
It is said of Sir William Cecil, once Lord Treasurer of England, that when he repaired to his home he was wont to throw off his official gown with the remark:
“Lie there, Lord Treasurer!”
He desired to cast off the cares and anxieties of his official life, that he might enjoy a season of refreshing quiet and rest.
So the Christian should come into the presence of his Lord, leaving at the church door his secular cares, his worldly pleasures, his traffic, and his gain.
There is a story told of one who offered his horse to his servant on condition that he would say the Lord’s Prayer, and think upon nothing but God. The proffer was accepted, and he repeated the first petition, then paused and said:
“But I must have the bridle too.”
“Thou hast lost both already,” replied the master.
We may smile at the man’s disappointment, but should the Lord send down his blessings to us on similar conditions, would we fare better?
It is only when the heart goes with the lips that our prayers rise as the pleasant perfume of frankincense to the very throne of God. It is only such prayers of the saints that are treasured up before him, and that bring down a blessing upon ourselves and others. There is a vast difference between praying and merely “saying our prayers.”—S. S. Times.
The Mind in Sickness.
In whatever state the mind is, in almost every case the health will be in a corresponding condition. If the mind is depressed, the body will be ailing. On the contrary it is almost invariably the case that a jovial person is remarkably free from ills. The mind is the best curative agency in sickness; not that it is warranted to be a specific cure in all cases, but the pharmacologist can prepare no medicine that is susceptible of such a variety of uses as this is.
Physicians prescribe travel and sanitaria. They send one man to Minnesota and another to Brazil, and the temperament of the man is not taken into account. If a man can be fully impressed that in a certain country and under those climatic influences he will be almost entirely exempt from the pains that are now racking his frame, and if he succeeds in getting to that place without having his opinion refuted, he will, ninety-nine times in a hundred, have those glorious expectations realized; on the contrary, if you can succeed in getting just the opposite opinion thoroughly impressed on his mind, the most invigorating climate under the broad heavens will work no desirable changes in his condition, even if he should tarry there half of fourscore years and ten.
We will make another statement, and think it will stand the test of a trial. Take a healthy person possessing a nervous temperament; let five of his most esteemed friends separately and seriously tell him daily for one week that his health is failing, the bloom on his cheek is departing, the vigor of his youth is wasting away, and already the seeds of his final disease are being sown in his constitution, and he will soon commence to be alarmed concerning his condition; once alarmed, he begins to waste away, till the idea is eradicated from his mind, or death is the result.
From these uncolored pictures it will be seen that we can almost entirely will sickness or health. That we can, by control of the will, but disregarding the sanitary laws, be free from illness, I do not assert; but observing these, and keeping the mind properly directed, no person can fail to add ten years to his life. If you are an invalid, arrange your life so that you can enjoy it, and you can do it by being restful and happy. Wherever you go, you are not benefited by a climate when you stay one hour in a place that is not enjoyable to you.
Whatever is true of the health is true of happiness. We can be happy and materially advance the comfort of those around us if we so incline, or we can bring just the opposite upon us and others. If our business amuses us, and we are succeeding, and we can keep our tempers happy, then we can spurn the offer of medicine. On the other hand, if we have a distasteful business and have not the will or the power to adapt ourselves to it, then we are an excellent subject for pity. If we look on the dark side of every obstacle and search not for the other, then we are more deserving subjects for sympathy.
Counterfeit Manifestations of the Holy Spirit
When men are determined upon being blessed, but will not obey God, the devil will give them an elation of soul that readily passes with many for a manifestation of the presence of the Holy Spirit. The counterfeit so closely resembles the genuine that experienced believers are often deceived.
Self-love.
It is recorded of an architect of the name of Cuidius that, having built a watch-tower for the king of Egypt, to warn mariners of certain dangerous rocks, he caused his own name to be engraved in a certain stone in the wall; and then, having covered it with plaster, he inscribed on the outside, in golden letters, the name of the king, as though the thing was done for his glory. He was cunning enough to know that the waves ere long would wash away the coat of plastering, and that then his own name would appear, and his memory be handed down to successive generations. How many there are, who, while affecting to seek only the glory of God and his church, are really seeking whatever is calculated to gratify self-love. Could the outer coat, as it were, of their pretenses be removed, we should see them as they really are, desirous not of God's glory, but of their own.
Religious Miscellany
—Four Catholic Universities are to be opened this month in France.
—A Chinese Christian has finally been admitted to Holy Orders in the Che-Kiang Mission of the English Church in China. This is the first instance of the ordination of a native.
—A man in Massachusetts has written a book to prove that there will be two heavens—one for the women, and the other for the men. The writer says nothing about two hells for the rest of folks.
—Dr. Holland suggests a new form of church consecration, as follows: “We dedicate this edifice to Thee, our Lord and Master. We give it to Thee, and Thy cause and kingdom, subject to a mortgage of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000),” etc.
—The managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of New York City have commenced the erection of a large building near Peekskill, where they propose to put several hundred boys to work, making boots, shoes, doing tailoring, printing, and other light work.
—Mr. Garter, who labors among London thieves, burglars, and pickpockets, has gathered a church of eighteen hundred members from these outcasts of society. His wife instructs sixteen hundred mothers, meeting four hundred at a time, who, without her labors, would receive no instruction at all.
—Recently the Baptists in Prussia have secured an official recognition, which is likely to be of advantage to them in various ways. A law was proposed by the Government, which gives to the Baptist Churches the right of incorporation. It was discussed very fully, and had opposition to meet, but it was finally passed by both Houses.
—President Grant has ordered the removal of the Post-master at Ogden, Utah, who is a Mormon but not a polygamist. This is the first step toward the removal of all Mormons holding Federal offices in Utah. The removal was opposed by Senator Sargent of California on the ground that the incumbent had a right to his religious belief, so long as he did not practice polygamy and thereby break the laws of his country.
—The Irish Catholic bishops have come out explicitly against State education, and have decided to establish a Catholic training school for teachers, under the care of the Vincentian Fathers. They say the primary education system is more than ever distrusted by them, and declare that the control of the State over the education of the country has been enlarged to an extent perilous to liberty, and they are convinced that in a few years the band of professors and masters now being formed by the Catholic University, will have the intermediate education of the country in their own hands, and it will become impossible for the State to withhold legal recognition of them.
—From Mr. Montague’s report of the Montefiore Testimonial Fund, we should judge that the Jews about Jerusalem are in a sad condition of degradation and poverty. Mr. Montague says that there is no manufacture whatever, deserving the name, in Jerusalem, except on the smallest scale—trifles of olive wood, made to supply the demands of visitors. One Jew only has made himself a loom, and fabricates a coarse kind of cloth. Soap is manufactured on a small scale from a greasy kind of earth, and some olive oil and wine are made. Palestine, in soil and general appearance, forcibly reminds one of the Rhineland. Many of the hills show the appearance of having been terraced for vine-growing. The ploughs are merely bent sticks, which trace a faint and shallow furrow in the soil; but the crops are said to be good, and the land very fertile. Cotton is growing in considerable quantity at Nablous, the ancient Shechem. Mulberries have been planted in great abundance at the Netter Agricultural School at Jaffa, but have not yet been used for producing silk. Excepting at the Institution just named, no Ashkenaz Jew employs himself with agriculture. He pays a miserable pittance to Arab laborers, and superintends; or he purchases the cattle, and implements, and lends them to the Arab proprietor of the soil, taking a proportion of the produce in payment; or he simply lends money to the Arab farmer, taking interest in grain.
THE BIBLE IN TURKEY.
—A brief cable dispatch brought the announcement that the Turkish Government has given its consent to the circulation of the Bible in Turkey. A letter from Rev. Dr. Bliss in the Congregationalist gives further details of the concession, and shows it to be a very important victory for the missionaries. By it the Turkish Government authorizes the printing of the book, and also the insertion upon the title page of a statement to the effect that this authorization has been given, so that nobody can stop its sale in the empire. A persistent demand was made at the very last on the part of the officials that the book should be labeled, “For Protestants,” or “Protestant Translation.” Had this point been conceded, any colporteur caught selling the book to Turks might have been stopped, and pointed to the title-page, and told that the book was for Protestants, and must be sold to them alone. “But,” argued the officials, “something must be appended to the statement of authorization to prevent the people saying that the Mohammedan Government is responsible for the book. Finally it was agreed to put on the title-page, in addition to the authorization, the name of the printer and the name of the Bible Society under whose auspices the book is published. This saves the point the officials made, while the official authorization secures the right to sell to anybody who wishes to buy.”
My last Cigar.
By T. DeWitt Talmage
It was three o’clock Sabbath morning in my western home. I had smoked three or four cigars since tea. At that time I wrote my sermons and took another cigar with each new head of discourse. I thought I was getting the inspiration from above, but was getting much of it from beneath. My hand trembled along the line, and, strung up to the last tension of nerves, I finished my work and started from the room. A book standing on the table fell over, and although it was not a large book, its fall sounded to my excited system like a crack of a pistol. As I went down stairs their creaking made my hair stand on end. As I flung myself on a sleepless pillow I resolved, God helping, that I had smoked my last cigar, and committed my last sin of night-study. I kept my promise. With the same resolution went overboard tea and coffee. That night I was born into a new physical, mental, and moral life. Perhaps it may be better for some to smoke, and study nights, and take exciting temperance beverages; but I am persuaded that if thousands of people who now go moping, and nervous, and half exhausted through life, down with “sick headaches,” and rasped by irritabilities, would try a good dose of abstinence, they would thank God for this paragraph of personal experience, and make the world the same bright place I find it, a place so attractive that nothing short of Heaven would be good enough to exchange for it. The first cigar made me desperately sick; the throwing away of my last made me gloriously well. For me, the croaking of the midnight owl hath ceased, and the singing of the birds has come.—T. DeWitt Talmage.
News and Miscellany.
—Mayor Otis of San Francisco died at his residence, Saturday morning, Oct. 30.
—The orange trees of San Bernardino are loaded with their golden fruit this season.
—The California “winter” or rainy season has been fairly inaugurated by two heavy showers during the last week. The change is quite refreshing. The dust is washed from the trees, and the air is so cleared that the hills look a third nearer than before the rain.
—The announcement that the Queen would become a patron of the Church of England Temperance Society is followed up by the almost equally gratifying piece of news, that His Royal Highness, Prince Leopold, will become President of the Oxford branch of the same society.
—Judge Boreman, in the Third District Court, has decided that the order made by Chief Justice McKean some time since, ordering Brigham Young to pay Ann Eliza Young $9,500 alimony pendente lite, be enforced and that Brigham Young be imprisoned until the same is paid, with costs.
—Slowly the Chinese are learning to prize the privileges of American civilization, and claim the rights of citizens. The latest development among them is the publication of a Chinese pioneer newspaper in San Francisco. There are few newspapers in China. English enterprise has stimulated presses in Hongkong and Shanghai, and there is one at Pekin, an official gazette, giving the decrees of the Emperor, petitions of high officers, and Government changes.
WASHINGTON, November 1.—Several pastors of different denominations in this city who were apprehensive that the government was about to abandon its peace policy against the Indians, called on the president to-day. The only change proposed was that of having the supplies for the Indians purchased and distributed by military officers who could be strictly punished should they prove unfaithful. The president said it was a mistake to suppose that military men wanted trouble with the Indians. It took them to the frontier; there was no glory to be gained by fighting the Indians; and as to promotion by the death of superiors, that was out of the question, for they always made the Second Lieutenants do all the fighting.
—The English Lords of the Admiralty have recently issued a circular directed to officers in command of her Majesty’s ships, instructing them in regard to their treatment of fugitive slaves who may take refuge on board their vessels. “The broad rule is,” they say, “that a fugitive slave should not be permanently received on board any description of ship under the British flag, unless his life would be endangered if he were not allowed to come on board.” Another rule is, “that the slave must not be allowed to remain on board after it has been proved to the satisfaction of the officer in command that he is legally a slave.” In that case he is to be surrendered to his master. Even when the slave has been received on board the ship on the high seas, he must be returned to slavery in the event of the vessel returning to territorial waters. This monstrous reversal of the settled policy of England for more than a century is already provoking severe comment, and will form not the least of the offences for which the Tory Government will ere long be called to account.
VIRGINIA CITY.—The people of California and Nevada have answered nobly the calls for help from the afflicted city. San Francisco has proved to the world that “every man for himself” is not the sole principle of action in that City. The merchants have done themselves great credit in their liberal donations of clothing, boots and shoes, blankets, hardware, and groceries; while those who had none of these have given the always acceptable cash. Gen. Schofield has sent twenty-five army tents which will answer a good purpose as temporary shelter. Bedding and stoves seem the things most needed. But the spirit of the enterprising city still lives, and every preparation is being made to rebuild the city. Said the Virginia Enterprise of Oct. 30, “It was a sight to see the workmen clearing the wreck. Along the streets there was a continuous assault made upon the debris.” Around the disabled works of the mill and shafts the same clearing work is going on.
—MR. G. T. LANGAN, in two letters to the Independent, gives what seems to be a very intelligent and fair account of the famous Guibord case, and the subject has assumed such importance that we condense the substance of his statements. The power of the Ultramontane Catholics in Canada has been very great. In recent years, it has suffered some diminution, especially through the influence of thousands of young Canadians who were a good deal liberalized by a temporary residence in the United States. The Ultramontanes have consequently redoubled their efforts to assert and maintain their supremacy, and both sides have been disposed to measure strength with each other. The case of Guibord has brought the question whether the church is subject to the State to a direct issue, and this having been fully decided against the church in the highest English court, the question whether the law itself can be defied by the mob is as yet undecided. Guibord, who died six years ago, was a member of the “Institute Canadien” at Montreal—a society resembling an English mechanics’ institute, or American lyceum, professedly Catholic, but liberal in its tendencies. The bishop at last forbade membership in the institute to Catholics, on the plea that its library contained books forbidden in the Index, and treated with contempt a respectful invitation to point out the obnoxious books. The more courageous members defied the bishop; the more cautious, Guibord among them, appealed to Rome, whereupon they were cut off from the sacraments. While the appeal was pending, Guibord died, without the last rites of the church, and was refused interment in consecrated ground. In his widow’s name, the liberals of the institute appealed to the civil courts to compel the interment, and the case was carried up until it reached the English Privy Council. Their decision was unanimous, ordering the issue of the writ of peremptory mandamus, and obliging the church to pay the very heavy costs of the legal proceedings. But the attempt to inter the body last September was successfully resisted as our readers will remember, by the disgraceful violence of a mob, with the connivance of the police. There the matter rests at present. The church authorities have had no word of condemnation for the rioters. Party spirit runs high, and an obstinate contest may be expected even when the immediate issue is decided. It seems impossible to doubt that the church will eventually be forced to confine itself to its proper field.—Christian Union.
The Best Physicians.
By R. F. Cottrell
ALL physicians give fewer drugs than formerly, and have greater faith in the curative powers of nature and good nursing. A French physician gave good advice to his medical friends.
As the celebrated physician Desmoulins lay on his death-bed, he was visited by the most distinguished medical men of Paris, as well as other prominent citizens of the metropolis. Great were the lamentations of all at the loss to be sustained by the profession, in the death of one they regarded as its greatest ornament. But Desmoulins assured his brother practitioners he left behind him three physicians much greater than himself. Each of the doctors, hoping his own name would be called, inquired anxiously who would be sufficiently illustrious to surpass the immortal Desmoulins. With great distinctness the dying man answered: “Their names are Water, Exercise, and Diet. Call in the services of the first freely, of the second regularly, and of the third moderately. Follow this advice and you may be well without my aid. Living, I could do nothing without them; and dying, I shall not be missed if you make friends of these, my faithful coadjutors.”—Youth’s Companion.
If physicians have lost their faith in drugs, why not abandon them, and tell the deluded people frankly that all the curative powers are to be found in nature; and that the sick must depend wholly upon God and nature, with good nursing?
R. F. COTTRELL.
Obituary Notices.
By M. G. Kellogg
“I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death.” Hosea 13:14.
DIED, in Woodland, Yolo county, Cal., Oct. 31, 1875, of inflammation of the spinal marrow, sister Amy E. Schneider, aged nineteen years and four months. Sister Schneider was converted in the winter of 1872–3, and united with the S. D. A. church the following spring, of which church she remained a consistent member until her death. She leaves a husband, a father, mother, and several brothers and sisters, besides a large circle of friends to mourn her loss, yet they sorrow not as those without hope. Funeral services were held in the church, where the writer spoke from Job 14:14, to a large and attentive audience.
M. G. KELLOGG.
Battle Creek.
By James White
BATTLE CREEK, Michigan, has been a very important point for the Seventh-day Adventists during the past twenty years. In the autumn of 1855 our Office of publication was removed to that place from Rochester, N. Y. Many and hard have been the battles for truth and the right on that old battle-ground, and it is encouraging beyond expression to know that victories turn gloriously on the right side. There our first College, our Health Institute, and our main Printing House are located. There is a church of more than two hundred members who regard us as their pastor, though we are from them six months at a time, and are with them only a few Sabbaths in a year. We can never have as much interest at any other point as at Battle Creek. In building up our fine and prosperous institutions located there, we have spent twenty years of the very best of our life. And now good news from that locality wakes up emotions of love and regard for the great work well founded and begun there, which have inspired our efforts during twenty years of labor and care.
An excellent letter from Bro. Wm. Ings of Battle Creek speaks of our labors with that church just before we left in September as follows: “There has been a great improvement since your labors here. Among the young a great degree of good is manifested. It can be seen in the deportment, and in the very countenance. There is more freedom in the social meetings, and the attendance is larger. The school, from what I hear, is doing much better than at any previous term. We have a good class of students, and there seems to be an effort on their part to make the most of their time. We may hope, I think, that many of them will make efficient laborers in the cause.”
Elder Smith has the work of two or three men on his hands. In his position, we know from experience, that no man can do justice to himself or his work. We shall help him on the Review all we can. And while there are many interests of our great work located in that city which have a strong hold upon our sympathies, it gives encouragement to know that our feelings of regard, and care, and love for our people, and for the work there are reciprocated by those on whose friendship we can rely. By our request on our refusal to act longer as President of our Michigan Association, Elder Smith was elected to that office. He has called an extra session, to resign, and elect the writer to his old position, which we shall not refuse under these circumstances.
The condition of our Pacific Association, and to avoid eastern cold winters, make it necessary for us to remain in Oakland until early spring, when we shall return, and make timely arrangements for the round of camp-meetings for 1876. Mrs. W. and the writer think we shall fill up the entire warm part of the season with meetings, one each week, and that we shall be able with the help of Elders Smith and Canright to attend all the Eastern Camp-Meetings. These are meetings of the greatest importance to our people, and each should be held at the proper time, and should have a full force of laborers. J. W.
Oakland.
By James White
The city of Oakland, the pride of California, has become a point of especial interest to our people, as the seat of the Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association. In the center of this beautiful city we have a Publishing House in the form of a Greek cross, 66x26, east and west, and 46x26, north and south.
This building has two stories, a fine basement of great value for storing stock, and four finished rooms in the attic. On the lower floor of the building in the rear part we have two fine presses in use, driven by the New York Safety Engine which is located in a brick engine house eleven feet from the main building. The rooms in the two stories are large, and twelve feet from floor to ceiling. The indentations at the four corners of the building give the rooms better shape and more light, which is highly prized by editors, compositors, proof-readers, and pressmen. We are five blocks from the noise of Broadway, in a quiet part of the city. And as we do not covet common printing, our retired position is desirable for our own work and fine book and music printing from the outside, which is already pressing in upon us before we are fully ready for such work.
In this city there is a church of S. D. Adventists of eighty members. The conversion of these resulted mainly from a course of lectures in the Big Tent sixteen months since. And there are no reasons why a similar effort should not result in doubling our numbers here. Our relation to the temperance cause at the time of the “Local Option” struggle, when the tent was first pitched in this city, brought us before the most valuable part of the public in our true character. And notwithstanding the unpopularity of our religious sentiments, we enjoy the confidence and friendly feeling of the people.
The growth of Oakland is rapid. The School Census Marshal for the year 1875 reports that in June the population by actual count was 20,691, in 1873 the population was 15,387. This shows an increase of 5,304 in two years. Its increasing and ever changing population will make this city one of the best fields of missionary labor in the world.
The climate of Oakland is delightful. The water is good. The people attend to their own business and respect those who in a proper manner mind theirs. Probably there is not a city on the globe where the rights of men are regarded more sacred, and where property and human life are safer than in Oakland. The cheap labor of the Chinamen brings the services of common working white men at a low figure. Rents and fuel are too high for such in this city. And those men of small means and large families who cannot get a good living in the East would do worse in Oakland. And California is overrun with mechanics.
But the young cause in this city needs help from those who are able and willing to help. Men in advanced years, or in feeble health, who have made life a success, and have a liberal competency, live on the proceeds of property easier and happier in Oakland than in any other city of which we have knowledge. Having neither rents nor interests to pay we can print as cheaply in Oakland, Cal., as they do at Battle Creek, Mich.
J. W.
San Francisco.
By John Norton Loughborough
Some advancement is being made in the work in San Francisco. Our tent-meeting, notwithstanding the two rains, has been quite well attended. Our tent is pitched near the new church, and the meeting will teach hundreds the location of the church building.
We have used upwards of 50,000 bills and copies of a small paper called the Tent Meeting, of which seven numbers have been issued from the press in Oakland. These papers treat upon subjects introduced in the meetings, and each contains also, either some rare piece of music or useful tablet, which gives them a tone far above ordinary handbills and makes them eagerly sought. The same is true of our small bills. They were printed on both sides, a piece of music being on the back. Of these we have placed 15,000 in the street cars. We have also had a standing notice in the daily papers for a month and special notices every Sunday. All this, though incurring some expense, has resulted in furnishing us, from the first, a good audience of intelligent hearers. We are now in the midst of the investigation of the Sabbath question. Several have already taken their stand to keep the Sabbath. We are visiting, and preaching, conversing, and seeking to come near the people for whom we labor, and, with all praying earnestly that God's signal blessing may follow the effort.
It is expected that the meeting-house in San Francisco will be ready for dedication about Dec. 1. The second coat of plaster is to be put on this week, and the house will be rapidly completed. When the house is done the meetings will be adjourned to the church, and the tent will probably be taken to some other feasible point for another series of meetings until spring.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
Business Department.
“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully,” (margin, negligently). Jer. 48:10.
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California Tent Fund.
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Cash Received on Account.
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Our Receipts.
By James White
SINCE statements of small receipts on another page were put in type remittances have come in which begin to relieve the situation. May this be but as the few drops before a plenteous shower. J. W.
Sufferings of Christ.
By James White
THIS tract, by Mrs. W., has had a wonderful circulation. It has been carefully revised and an edition of 4,000 copies printed at this Office. It is the first book printed on the California press and does credit to the young institution. We will forward it to any point, post-paid, for $3.00 per 100 copies. J. W.
Special Appointment.
By James White
We will, accompanied by Mrs. W., hold meetings at Healdsburg, Cal., Sabbath and first-day, Nov. 20 and 21. The brethren at Santa Rosa, Green Valley and elsewhere are invited to come and enjoy a good meeting with us. There will be two services on Sabbath with a short intermission between. The friends should bring refreshments, prepared to spend much of the Sabbath in the house of prayer. First-day discourses will be given at 11 A. M., and 7 P. M.
James White.
Fanaticism.
By James White
Eld. J. Paton was considered one of the soundest of First-day Adventist preachers in the Michigan Conference. At their late annual meeting Eld. Himes says: “To-day we got a letter from Bro. J. H. Paton, who has been deeply interested in the time calculations of 1873-5. He, with others, expected the Lord would come in these years, and when the time passed, like some others, took the position that the Lord had come. And so he writes: ‘I believe Christ has come to set up the kingdom.’”
To be consistent with their own theory these deluded ones teach that the resurrection commenced last February! Such is the fruit of time-setting. By such is the way of truth “evil spoken of,” and the name of Adventist brought to reproach. How precious is the light of the third angel’s message, which shows that not time but duty is now to be proclaimed to prepare a people to “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,” and thus escape the last plagues of God’s wrath. J. H. W.
An Item for the Peace Societies.
Since the year 1800 England has waged forty-nine wars; France, thirty-eight; Russia, twenty-two; Austria, twelve; Prussia, eight; and in spite of all the peace societies and international conventions, they all appear anxious for another.