Earlier text: Mutual ObligationWatch and Pray.
By C. P. A. W.
“Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation.” “Peter and the two sons of Zebedee” were not alone in their need to listen to the sacred charge. Every follower of Christ has need to watch and pray lest failure comes in the hour of temptation. When the spirit of slumber rests heavily upon us then do we need to watch in the darkness of the lone garden with Christ, to arouse ourselves to a consciousness of what he endured to save us from eternal death. If we catch even one glimpse of his great agony, if even one ray of the light of his love unspeakable penetrates our hearts, we cannot yield to love of ease, neither can we dwell upon our sorrows. We are lost, all swallowed up and lost, in his great sorrow! We forget to dwell upon our wrongs; forget to cast reflections upon those who fail to give us sympathy and support in hours of affliction. Since the dear, pitying Saviour was left to endure alone in darkness, there being not one of all his chosen friends who could cast off the spirit of slumber to watch for one little hour by him. Shall we yield to jealousy and discontent because in our trial, friends fail to turn from engrossing business cares and watch by us? Away with self and selfish interest. Cling closely to Christ, the unselfish one, who could suffer and die even for those who could not watch one hour with him in his great agony. C. P. A. W. Sketch of Experience.
By Wm. B. Palmer
About eleven months since, Bro. Sanborn visited the neighborhood in which I reside, and preached a few times. I was somehow induced to attend the meeting and hear what he had to say. I had been a Methodist about twenty years, and armed with a considerable amount of prejudice, I went to the meeting. I did not feel at home; but as he began his sermon, I became interested, and at the conclusion of the meeting my mind underwent quite a change. I could see the spirit of Christ in his servant, and was almost convinced that I should give up Sunday and keep the seventh day as the Sabbath. I however kept my feelings to myself. I had for a number of years been quite backward in religious matters, and as the Holy Spirit began to warm up my heart, and caused me to feel as I used to, the question would come up, Would you be willing to keep the seventh day as the Sabbath with the reproaches of the church and the world heaped upon you, and have the love of God shed abroad in your heart? I must say that this thought gave me a great deal of uneasiness; and perhaps I might have gone no further in that direction, had I not been induced to attend the camp-meeting at Kilbourn City. The arguments brought forward at that meeting decided me; and on my journey home I made up my mind to cast in my lot with the Sabbath-keepers. Full well I knew what I must encounter by so doing; but by the grace of God I have been enabled to stand, and feel that I am on the Rock. I had been for a good while almost convinced that Sunday was not the Sabbath; but I did not want to see the light. There are very many in trouble on this point. They will not read for fear they may be convinced; and as the drowning man will grasp at anything within his reach, so they will fly one way and the other, and come to conclusions that are so foolish that a person of good sense feels almost ashamed to reply. I can say with an honest heart, that I have been glad when I have thought of the course that I have been led to pursue. I want more humility, more of the mind of Christ, a deeper sinking into his will. How true are the words of the psalmist, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” It is only when we take the teachings of men instead of the word of God that we go into darkness. How plain are the teachings of the word of God! When I look at the condition of the world and note how fast the prophecies are being fulfilled, I wonder that people cannot see. Satan was never so busy as at the present time; for he sees that his time is short. How often, in this “vale of tears,”
Through all its changing, fleeting years,
In disappointments, griefs, and fears,
We find “a time to weep.” “A time to weep”—how oft, indeed,
The wounded heart has cause to bleed,
When none the tears of anguish heed,
Save eyes that never sleep. For human hearts are just the same,
Beset with ills of every name,
As when the wisest man of fame,
Declared, “A time to weep.” To weep not for ourselves alone,
But make another’s woes our own,
And every cause of grief bemoan,
That makes a brother weep. Oh! can there be a heart so dead,
From which all feelings pure have fled,
No tear of sympathy could shed,
Nor “weep with those that weep?” To weep when slander’s venomed breath,
Diffuses poison worse than death,
Destroying friendship, love, and faith;
Then is “a time to weep.” “A time to weep”—but, most of all,
When innocence and virtue fall,
Shrouded in ruin’s dismal pall;
Then might an angel weep. “A time to weep”—when Zion’s foes
Rejoice and triumph in her woes—
When few the ways of sin oppose—
Oh! then ’tis time to weep. To weep before the mercy-seat,
When in the house of prayer we meet,
Or in the sacred, lone retreat,
For Zion’s sake to weep. “A time to weep,” when all around,
So many precious souls are found,
Whose steps in ways of sin are bound.
“Oh! that my head were waters deep,
A fount of tears, that I might weep.” Iowa: Cheering Report from Bro. Canright
By Uriah Smith
We take the liberty to present the following cheering statements from a private letter just received from Bro. Canright. “Present truth has come to be an absolute certainty to me. I think we can boldly say, that we know it is God’s work. The evidence for it is increasing rapidly. It is sure to triumph soon; and I mean to hold on till it does. “A good work has been wrought in this section this year. We are now putting up the third meeting-house for this year. The truth has a strong hold on the people of Osceola. Many of the leading men of the place are our strong friends.” U. S. Wales Center, Mich.
By Albert Weeks
SEPTEMBER 5, I commenced meetings at Wales Center. The neighborhood was mostly composed of spiritualists consequently the attendance was not large. The candid portion of the congregation came about two miles from the Goodell district, to which place, by urgent invitation, the meetings were moved. The Lord has blessed in the administration of the word, and two have taken their stand with God’s commandment-keeping people. Others are saying, “It is truth;” but whether they will obey or not is yet to be seen. God grant that they may. Pray for us. ALBERT WEEKS. New York.
By John Lindsey; S. A. H. Lindsey
The first Sabbath after our return from the good camp-meeting in New York State, we met with the church at Niles Settlement. Two weeks later, Sept. 2 and 3, we met with this church again in monthly meeting at Willing. We were encouraged to hope for good results here. The Lord met with his people as they united in the work of seeking him with all their heart. The spirit of the camp-meeting has been retained by the most of those who were under its excellent influence and will we trust prove to them “a savor of life unto life.” Sabbath, Sept 9, we met with the friends in Ulysses for the first time in several weeks. This church has for a season enjoyed a good degree of the prospering Spirit of God, but with this Satan is not pleased. He is trying to bring us under his oppressive power. Instead of light and freedom, he would spread over the church a pall of darkness. May our kind Father’s watchful care be over us. May the angel of the Lord encamp around us and deliver us. JOHN LINDSEY,
S. A. H. LINDSEY. D. H. LAMSON
By D. H. Lamson
The meeting at Greenwood, Oct. 7 and 8, among those who came out in the late tent meeting, has been a precious season to all concerned. We shall soon be able to completely organize and get into working order. I expect to commence a series of meetings in the neighborhood of Bro. Albert Weeks, Sabbath evening, Oct. 13, at the Bartlett school-house, near the county house, St. Clair County, to continue as long as the interest may demand. We earnestly desire the prayers of all, that this meeting may prove to be in the counsel of God, and success attend the effort. My post-office address, until further notice, will be Memphis, Mich., care of H. S. Gurney. An Address
By D. H. Lamson
TO THE LICENTIATES OF THE MICHIGAN CONFERENCE. Dear Brethren:—In view of the vastness of the gospel field, the condition of the harvest and the lack of LABORERS we feel it a duty to urge you to commence earnestly, and as soon as possible, the work to which you have been called. Determined, persistent, and united action will accomplish wonders for the cause of present truth. When shall it begin? Why not now? Has God called us to work? If so, will he be satisfied if we remain inactive? The time of year has arrived when individual effort can be made with strong hope of success. Then let the ball be set in motion. Let the banner of the third angel in all its gracefulness and beauty be unfolded. Indecision in a great degree seems to characterize the movements of those who have but little experience in the work. Should this be so? It should not and for the following reasons: Those who have rightly received license to publicly present the claims of the present truth, have not themselves only felt a burden of the work, but their brethren have also felt it a duty to urge them into the field. No one can reasonably expect to labor with any degree of acceptance who does not feel the force of both these considerations. If but one of these reasons is available in the case of any, or can with propriety be urged, grave doubts as to expediency will arise; but if neither, then beyond all doubt the energies of such should be applied in labor of a different character. But it is believed that all who have during the present year received license, have felt deep convictions of duty, calling for an exercise of their abilities in the direction of public labor. There is no doubt that if there be directness of effort firm and unflinching, the blessing of God will attend and desirable results will be attained. Dear brethren, the church has placed upon you responsibilities. Will you bear them? You yourselves have accepted them of your own free will. Dare you throw them off without an effort? Do not forget the advantages of immediate action. If you fail utterly there is no ignominy, no reproach. The church can withdraw its claims and leave you free. And if successful, how cheerfully will you be sustained in all your labor. It will take no long time to prove your calling. One month, possibly two, under favorable circumstances, is enough; and surely we can sacrifice this much of time even though we fail. But let not failure but success be our motto and with the blessing of God, a work will be accomplished which will tell in our favor in the day of eternity; for the souls that are gathered will add stars to our crowns. There are toils and privations, buffetings and temptations, sighs and tears, even on our own account, with the griefs and woes of others. All these to bear; but “he that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” And whose shall this happy lot be in that day? Is the Sabbath a Yoke?
By Robert Snyder; S. A. Snyder
When we commenced to keep the Sabbath of the Lord, it seemed a great cross, greater than we had ever experienced, separating us from old friends and neighbors; and we might say causing almost an entire separation from the world. This for a time made it appear to be a cross. Jesus says, “My yoke is easy, and my burden is light,” and he has made it so with us. When sixth day comes, and the Sabbath draws on, a conscious sense of right pervades our very being, and we cannot help but rejoice in all the goodness of the Lord toward us. How pleasant to meditate upon the vast assemblage Moses led out of Egypt, preparing to keep the holy Sabbath of the Lord. We thank the Lord for the yoke, and our prayer is that we may ever be yoked to his truth. The burden he has entirely removed. Some of our old acquaintances send us the Advent Christian Times and the Crisis; but Eld. J. N. Andrews completely shows how much honesty of purpose there is in the Crisis, in the REVIEW of August 8. We desire to be remembered in the prayers of our brethren and sisters everywhere. Remember that every Sabbath afternoon, there is assembled a little band of Sabbath-keepers in Cumberland Co., N. J. The Lord pours out his Spirit and blessing upon us in plenteous showers. ROBERT SNYDER,
S. A. SNYDER. One danger of secret sin is that a man cannot commit it without being by-and-by betrayed into a public sin. If a man commit one sin, it is like the melting of the lower glacier upon the Alps, the others must follow in time. As certainly as you heap one stone upon the cairn to-day, the next day you will cast another, until the heap, reared stone by stone, shall become a very pyramid. See the coral insect at work; you cannot decree where it shall stay its pile. It will not build its rock as high as you please; it will not stay until an island shall be created. Sin cannot be held in with bit and bridle, it must be mortified. Words to Christian Mothers.
By Ellen G. White
ON THE SUBJECT OF LIFE, HEALTH, AND HAPPINESS.—NO. 2.
Obedience to the laws of our being should be regarded of great importance, and to every individual, a matter of personal duty. Indifference and ignorance upon this subject is sin. The two great principles of God's moral government are supreme love to the Creator, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. We are under obligations to God to take care of the habitation he has given us, that we may preserve ourselves in the best condition of health, that all the powers of our being may be dedicated to his service, to glorify his name, whose we are, and whom we ought to serve. It is impossible to render to God acceptable service while we, through wrong habits, are diseased physically and mentally. We are also under obligation to ourselves, to pursue a course which will not bring unnecessary suffering upon ourselves, and make our lives wretched, we groaning under the weight of disease. If we injure unnecessarily our constitution, we dishonor God, for we transgress the laws of our being. We are under obligation to our neighbors to take a course before them which will give them correct views of the right way to pursue to insure health. If we manifest an indifference upon this great subject of reform, and neglect to obtain the knowledge within our reach, and do not put that knowledge to a practical use, we will be accountable before God for the light he has given us, which we would not accept and act upon. I have heard many say, I know that we have wrong habits that are injuring our health; but our habits have become formed, and it is next to impossible to change, and do even as well as we know. By hurtful indulgences these are working against their own highest interest and happiness in this life, and are, in so doing, disqualifying themselves to obtain the future life. Many who are enlightened still follow in a course of transgression, excusing themselves that it is very inconvenient to be singular. Because the world at large choose to war against themselves and their highest earthly and eternal interest, they who know better venture to do the same, disregarding the light and knowledge which hold them responsible for the result of their violation of nature's laws. God is not responsible for the suffering which follows the nonconformity to natural law and moral obligations to him. Enlightened transgressors are the worst of sinners, for they choose darkness rather than light. The laws that govern physical life, they may understand if they will; but the desire with them is so strong to follow popular, sensual indulgences of the day that are in opposition to physical and moral health, that they are insensible to its importance, and will not impress it upon others either by precept or example. Their neglect of this important subject exposes them to a fearful accountability. Not only are they suffering themselves the penalty of nature's violated law, but their example is leading others in the same course of transgression. But if men and women would act in reference to their highest temporal good, untrammeled by fashion, living naturally, we should see fewer pale faces, hear less complaint of suffering, and attend less death-beds and funerals. Because the majority choose to walk in a path which God has positively forbidden, shall all feel compelled to tread the same path? The question is not, What will the world do? but, What shall we as individuals do? Will we accept light and knowledge, and live simply and naturally, feeling that we are under obligation to society, to our children, and to God, to preserve health and a good constitution, serene tempers, and unimpaired judgment. We have a duty to live for the interest of others. In order to benefit others, many think they must conform to custom, or they will lose the influence they might have upon the world. But when they do this, their influence to reform and elevate is lost, and their example leads away from reform. They are on a level with transgressors, therefore, cannot elevate them while their own example sanctions the customs and enslaving fashions of this age. The only hope of benefiting society is in showing them a better way by proper instruction sustained by a correct course on our part. Those who have means at their command, can do a good work if governed by religious principles. They can demonstrate, if they will, to rich and poor, that happiness does not consist in outward adornings and needless display. They may show by their own simplicity of dress and unaffected modesty of manners that there are higher and nobler attainments than conformity to the latest styles of fashion. If we would have happiness in this life, we must live for it, and show to society that we can preserve firm principles in defiance of extravagant and injurious fashion. If we conform to the world and bring on disease by violating the laws of life and health, fashionable society cannot relieve us of a single pain. We shall have to suffer for ourselves, and if we sacrifice life, we shall have to die for ourselves. We should as individuals seek to do right, and to take care of ourselves by living naturally instead of artificially. We cannot afford to live fashionably, for in doing thus, we sacrifice the natural to the artificial. Our artificial habits deprive us of many privileges and much enjoyment, and unfit us for useful life. Fashion subjects us to a hard, thankless life. A vast amount of money is sacrificed to keep pace with changing fashion, merely to create a sensation. The votaries of fashion who live to attract the admiration of friends and strangers, are not happy—far from it. Their happiness consists in being praised and flattered, and if they are disappointed in this, they are frequently unhappy, gloomy, morose, jealous, and fretful. As a weather vane is turned by the wind, those who consent to live fashionable lives are controlled by every changing fashion, however inconsistent with health and with real beauty. Very many sacrifice comfort and true elegance, to be in the train of fashion. The most enfeebling and deforming fashions are now enslaving those who bow at her shrine. Fashion loads the heads of women with artificial braids and pads, which do not add to their beauty, but give an unnatural shape to the head. The hair is strained and forced into unnatural positions, and it is not possible for the heads of these fashionable ladies to be comfortable. The artificial hair and pads covering the base of the brain, heat and excite the spinal nerves centering in the brain. The head should ever be kept cool. The heat caused by these artificials induces the blood to the brain. The action of the blood upon the lower or animal organs of the brain, causes unnatural activity, tends to recklessness in morals, and the mind and heart is in danger of being corrupted. As the animal organs are excited and strengthened, the moral are enfeebled. The moral and intellectual powers of the mind become servants to the animal. In consequence of the brain being congested its nerves lose their healthy action, and take on morbid conditions, making it almost impossible to arouse the moral sensibilities. Such lose their power to discern sacred things. The unnatural heat caused by these artificial deformities about the head, induces the blood to the brain, producing congestion, and causing the natural hair to fall off, producing baldness. Thus the natural is sacrificed to the artificial. Many have lost their reason, and become hopelessly insane, by following this deforming fashion. Yet the slaves to fashion will continue to thus dress their heads, and suffer horrible disease and premature death, rather than be out of fashion. Pleasure-seeking and frivolity blunt the sensibilities of the professed followers of Christ, and make it impossible for them to place a high estimate upon eternal things. Good and evil, by them, are placed upon a level. The high, elevated attainments in godliness, which God designed his people should reach, are not gained. These lovers of pleasure seem to be pleased with earthly and sensual things, to the neglect of the higher life. The enjoyments of this life, which God has abundantly provided for them in the varied works of nature, which have an elevating influence upon the heart and life, are not attractive to those who are conformed to the fashions of the world. They rush on unmindful of the glories of nature, seen in the works of God's hands, and seek for happiness in fashionable life, and in unnatural excitement which is in direct opposition to the laws of God established in our being. God has surrounded us with his glories, that the natural eye may be charmed. The splendor of the heavens, the adornments of nature in spring and summer, the lofty trees, the lovely flowers of every tint and hue, should call us out of our houses to contemplate the power and glory of God, as seen in the works of his hands. But many close their senses to these charms. They will not engage in healthful labor among the beautiful things of nature. They turn from shrubs and flowers, and shut themselves in their houses, to labor and toil in closed walls, depriving themselves of the healthful, glorious sunlight, and the pure air, that they may prepare artificial adornments for their houses and their persons. They impose upon themselves a terrible tax. They sacrifice the glow of health God has given in the human face, the blended beauty of the lily and the rose, and tax the physical and mental in preparing the artificial to take the place of the natural. The beauty of the soul, when compared with outward display, is regarded almost valueless. In the anxiety to meet the standard of fashion, beauty of character is overlooked. The majority of pleasure lovers attend the fashionable night gatherings, and spend in exciting amusements the hours God has given them for quiet rest and sleep in order to invigorate the body. Hours are spent in dancing. The blood becomes heated; the system is exhausted; and while in this feverish state of excitement, the late suppers are introduced, and the unnatural appetite is indulged, to the injury, not only of the physical, but the moral health. Those things which irritate and burden the stomach, benumb the finer feelings of the heart, and the entire system must feel it, for this organ has a controlling power upon the health of the entire body. If the stomach is diseased, the brain nerves are in strong sympathy with the stomach, and the moral powers are overruled by the baser passions. Irregularity in eating and drinking, and improper dressing, deprave the mind and corrupt the heart, and bring the noble attributes of the soul in slavery to the animal passions. Many in returning to their homes from these night scenes of dissipation, expose themselves to the damp, chilly air of night. They are thinly clad with thin slippers upon their feet, the chest not properly protected, and health and life are sacrificed. By the limbs and feet becoming chilled the circulation of the blood through the system is unbalanced. Very many have, by pursuing this course, brought upon themselves lung difficulties and various distressing infirmities, which have, in a few months, carried them to an untimely grave. Many are ignorantly injuring their health and endangering their life by using cosmetics. They are robbing the cheeks of the glow of health, and then to supply the deficiency use cosmetics. When they become heated in the dance the poison is absorbed by the pores of the skin, and is thrown into the blood. Many lives have been sacrificed by this means alone.—Health Reformer. How ASHAMED we should be if our best friends could see the mean and selfish things we sometimes wish and think, but never say, or the unworthy things we do when no one is looking!—It is hard to keep them secret after all, and there are a hundred ways in which such things creep out in spite of us. And then there is another thing to think of—which is best illustrated by this little anecdote: One day the astronomer Mitchell was engaged in making some observations on the sun, and as it descended toward the horizon, just as it was setting, there came into the rays of the great telescope the top of a hill about seven miles away. On the top of that hill was a large number of apple trees, and in one of them were two boys stealing apples. One was getting the apples, and the other was watching to make certain that nobody saw them, feeling certain that they were undiscovered. But there sat Professor Mitchell, seven miles away, with the great eye of his telescope directed fully upon them, seeing every movement they made as plainly as if he had been under the tree with them. So it is often with men. Because they do not see the eye which watches with a sleepless vigilance, they think they are not seen. But the great open eye of God is upon them, and not an action can be concealed. There is not a deed, there is not a word, there is not a thought which is not known to God.—Sel. Trading for a Kingdom.
By Isadore Green
I lately saw this heading to an article in a political paper. I thought what a vast difference exists between their exchange and the one soon to be made by the saints, who now are “strangers and pilgrims on the earth,” but who, when the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads, will obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Their captivity will then be turned. Deliverance will then come. They will be no longer the objects of contumely and scorn. They have sowed in tears, now they reap with joy the reward of the righteous in the kingdom of God. In this kingdom there will not be found any rebels; for all the subjects have had the sad experience of living in a world whose happiness was destroyed through disobedience. Their probationary days of trial will have taught them the blessings to be derived from obedience. Will Jesus fear for the future safety of his kingdom, as do earthly monarchs? Ah, no. The kingdom which is to succeed all earthly kingdoms, is to be an everlasting kingdom. Isaiah says that they “shall build houses and inhabit them; and plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat.” Here is the contrast drawn between the people of this world, and the immortal saints. Man clings with all the tenacity of life to his temporal power, even in this world, where sickness, death, and the ravaging wastes of war and famine desolate the land; where both sovereign and subject suffer alike. And when the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof, when it shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage, and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall and not rise again, where will be the haughty kings and rulers that have ruled with a rod of iron; and princes that have oppressed? Is it not wisdom in us to seek to become the loyal subjects of Christ’s kingdom, rather than to gain transitory honors upon this earth that is now kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men? “Over Jordan a home bright and fair,
Our Saviour has gone to prepare;
We shall rest by-and-by from our care
In that home, bright and fair.” THE military movements in Russia indicate that war is expected at no distant day. When Russia moves again upon the battlefield, we expect the closing scenes of the present dispensation are not far in the future. At the present time, there is such an accumulation of evidences in favor of Christ’s speedy coming, that we do not see how any one at all familiar with the prophetic Scriptures, and the history of the past and present, can doubt that “the last days” have truly come. A close observer of affairs in the old world says:— “‘It is well known that Russia during the past year has been using every effort to prepare for eventualities. The Czar is represented as having been engaged very recently, accompanied by General Leflo, the French Minister, in exercising his armies on a grand scale, training whole corps d’armee in the laying of temporary railways, and generally giving indication of military activity. It is said to be impossible not to notice that the vicinities of all the barracks show a great stir. Hospital wagons and camp-equipage are being repaired and put in order. The cartridge factories are humming constantly, turning out half a million metallic shells daily. Additional orders for Gatling guns have been sent to the United States. The Russians have now over three hundred of these terrible engines of war.’” Purity of Character
By Hammond
Over the beauty of the plum and apricot there grows bloom and beauty more exquisite than the fruit itself—a soft, delicate blush that overspreads its blushing cheek. Now if you strike your hand over that, and it is once gone, it is gone forever, for it never grows but once. The flower that hangs in the morning impearled with dew—arrayed as no queenly woman was ever arrayed with jewels—once shake it, so that the beads fall off, and you may sprinkle water over it as you please, yet it can never be made what it was when the dew fell silently upon it from heaven. On a frosty morning you may see the panes of glass covered with landscapes—mountains, lakes, trees—blended in a beautiful fantastic picture. Now lay your hand upon the glass, and by the scratch of your finger, or by the warmth of your palm, all the delicate tracery will be obliterated. So there is in youth a purity and beauty of character, which, when touched and defiled, can never be restored—a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, will never be re-embroidered. A man who has spotted and soiled his garments in youth, though he may seek to make them white again, can never wholly do it, even were he to wash them in his tears. When a young man leaves his father's house, with the blessing of his mother's tears still wet upon his forehead, if he once lose that early purity of character, it is a loss that he can never make whole again. Such is the consequence of crime.—Hammond. Obituary Notices.
By A. N. Fisher
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. DIED, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Crowbar, on the morning of September 3, 1871, of jaundice, sister S. M. Stevens, wife of Bro. Moses Stevens of Tuscola village, aged fifty years. Her kindness to the sick and afflicted will ever be held in grateful remembrance. A constant attendant at the prayer-meeting, she will be greatly missed by the Advent church at Tuscola, of which she was for five years a faithful member. Funeral discourse by Eld. Isaac Horton, a Baptist minister, of this place. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand. QUARTERLY meeting at Potterville, Mich., Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 28 and 29. Other churches are cordially invited. R. SAWYER. PROVIDENCE favoring I will hold meetings in Parkville, Mich., Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 21, 22, commencing Sabbath evening. All the friends are invited from adjoining neighborhoods, and are requested to remain through the meetings. Let the appointment be circulated in Parkville as extensively as possible. J. H. WAGGONER. QUARTERLY meeting of the Sand Prairie Church, Wis., Oct. 28—29. Cannot some preacher attend? THOMAS DEMMON. QUARTERLY meeting of the church at Patricksburg, Owen Co., Ind., Sabbath and first-day, Nov. 4 and 5. All are invited to attend this meeting. The Brn. Lane are expected. N. CARAHOOF. MEETING of the church at Fremont on Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 28 and 29. It is desired that every member of the church should be present at this meeting. The brethren at Clyde are invited to attend. WM. CHINNOCK. QUARTERLY meeting for Gratiot County at Alma, the first Sabbath and Sunday in November next. Meetings commencing at half past ten Sabbath morning. G. W. STATES, Clerk. CONVIS, Sabbath, the 21st of Oct. STEPHEN PIERCE.