I HAVE just returned home from Almont and districts north and west of Almont, where I have been trying to strengthen, encourage, and assist, Bro. Kenyon in his new field of labor. Ten have made a good start at the Webster district. The most of them seem to take hold in good earnest to prepare for the Lord's coming; and some who never made a profession of religion before, are now turning away from their evil habits, and are trying to give their hearts to God with a contrite spirit. The Lord will help them in such a good work.
I go to the Lapeer quarterly meeting, and then, in company with Bro. Kenyon, commence meetings in China, St. Clair Co., in a new place. We go, trusting in the Lord. H. S. GURNEY.
Monthly Meeting at Cornville, Me.
By J. B. Goodrich
This meeting commenced Sabbath evening, Jan. 11, and held over first-day. Although the weather was cold, yet there was a goodly number of brethren and sisters present from Norridgewock, Canaan, Athens, and Hartland. At the close of the meeting, the most of them left, feeling that they had gained strength and encouragement by coming.
There was some interest manifested in the tract and missionary work, and we hope to see it increased. May the Lord inspire our hearts with holy zeal in this work; and as the silent preachers go forth to present the truth around the firesides, these cold, stormy days and nights, may God's blessing go with them, and much good be the result.
J. B. GOODRICH.
North Jay, Jan. 22, 1873.
Note from Bro. Byington.
By John Byington
Dear brethren of the churches of Michigan, with whom I have formerly met: It is not that I have forgotten you that I have not met with you the year past, as before. The death of my son, Dr. J. F. Byington, made it my duty to remove with my wife from Calhoun to Ottawa County, to have some care for the widow and the five fatherless children, what time I could spare from other duties.
The most of my Sabbaths have been spent with churches in this county. My age, and being subject to a bronchial affection, with the severe cold, have prevented my traveling this winter farther than this county.
You no longer have the yearly visits of Bro. Bates. I love to read the reports from our young brethren, who of late have gone to the harvest-field. The fields are white and ready for harvest. May the Lord of the harvest raise up more laborers, shall be my prayer. J. BYINGTON.
Coopersville, Mich., Jan. 31, 1873.
A New Year’s Appeal from Iowa
By Mattie P. Griffin
Sister Mattie P. Griffin writes from Dallas Co., Iowa: We have entered upon the scenes of a new year. The old year is numbered with things of the past. Have we improved its golden hours in the Master's service? Can we render a good report to the King of Heaven? In answering, myself, these questions, I am led to tremble on account of duties left undone.
During the past summer, a few of us who are striving to keep the whole law of God, met at the house of Bro. and sister Walker, in Newell, and held prayer and conference meetings. They were precious seasons, for the Lord met with us; and we enjoyed them as none but the “lone ones” know how to. Those who are favored with Sabbath privileges and the society of those of like precious faith, know but little of the intense longing we have for the same. We are not discouraged. God in his providence has brought one, at least, to the light of his truth, and given her grace to come out on his side and keep all of his commandments. We hope the day is not far distant when others will believe the truth, and we shall have some one of God’s faithful ministers sent to us to preach the third angel’s message to us, and explain this truth to us more fully. Will you aid us by your earnest prayers, that we may so live before our neighbors that they may know that we have been with Jesus and learned of him?
The Blessings of the Review and Reformer
A BROTHER in Summit, Butler Co., Nebraska, to whom the REVIEW and Reformer have been sent free the past year, writes: I shall consider myself indebted until they are paid for. Circumstances are such that I cannot pay for them now. They were received with tearful thankfulness, and have been powerful agents in confirming me in the truth, and instructing me in much that was previously dark and incomprehensible. I like their sound and scriptural teaching, and rejoice with you in the blessed hope these truths inspire. I stand alone here in this great work, and feel there is much yet unlearned that will be necessary to successful labor. Oh! that God may prepare my mind, and sanctify me for this great work, that I may bear some humble part in the closing harvest.
Please continue the REVIEW and Reformer another year. I cannot begin to tell you what a blessing they have been to me. The Reformer found me eating pork, drinking tea and coffee, and smoking tobacco. Its visits no longer find me in the use of these things. I can say, with a spirit of happy freedom, I am emancipated. Friends say, “So you have gone to living on ‘bran’?” Thus they designate our good diet of fruit, grains, and vegetables; but I reply, Yes, and have a sweet breath, sound lungs, a face free from pimples, good health, and a clear conscience.
The weekly visits of the REVIEW have been like angel visits to my frontier home, bringing strength and cheer to my oftimes fainting heart.
True Sayings.
By C. H. Bliss
1. If you will defend the truth, the truth will defend you.
2. The devil never catches men when they are awake; but when they fall asleep he makes sure of his prey.
3. Generally when men are starving they will sacrifice the dearest object for food; yet many professed Christians starve to death while an abundance of food is within their reach.
4. Christians live on faith, Heb. 10:38; and as soon as the food begins to fail, they commence falling away.
5. A fool is known by his foolish talk; for “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
6. Small boys sometimes put on men's clothing; but large men very seldom attempt to wear boys' garments. So with the world; all are striving for higher stations in life.
7. Sheep have become so poor in these days that there appears to be room for both the sheep and the wolf under the same fleece. The only effectual way of keeping out the wolf, is to fill the fleece yourself.
C. H. BLISS.
The Present Condition of the Papacy.
WITHIN the past two weeks three nations of Europe (Switzerland, France, and Germany) have broken off diplomatic relations with Rome, or more properly, in two cases at least, with the pope. In the first case the rupture grew out of the excommunication of some priests on account of their denial of the dogma of the infallibility of the pope. In the second, which will probably be of brief duration, it arose from the personal sympathy of the French Minister for the pope, whom he considered insulted, because some French naval officers, at the beginning of the holidays, called upon the King of Italy and the pope on the same day. But the third case is of a more serious character than either of the former. At a Consistory held in Rome, Dec. 23, the pope delivered an allocution, in the course of which he “repeated his censures of those who encroached on the rights of the church, and denounced Germany, where the pitfalls of open violence and calumny were employed to destroy the church by men who, ignorant of religion, sought to define its dogmas.” These words were characterized by the German papers as “an unpardonable insult to the Emperor of Germany.” The journals were threatened with immediate confiscation if they published these insulting references, and those who did not heed the warning have had proceedings instituted against them. The German Charge d’Affaires has informed Cardinal Antonelli that he has been instructed from Berlin to take unlimited leave of absence. He has since closed the Legation and quit Rome.
When we take into consideration the fact that there are about fourteen millions of papists in Germany, and that, on the other hand, the government and army are Protestant, we may understand the magnitude of the interests involved in this quarrel. The pope, by his obstinacy, which, perhaps, grows out of his reliance upon the millions of Catholics of Europe, has been inviting just the state of feeling that exists. He seems to forget that the dark ages are past, and that an era of education has brought his system to the verge of ruin. But all this was prophesied. The Babylonish woman was to say, on the verge of destruction, “I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.” See Rev. 18. Daniel also was informed that just before going to the burning flame, this power should utter “great words” of pride and blasphemy. See Dan. 7.
The powerful governments of Europe, once under the domination of papacy, will not now brook the insults of the old man who is desperate in his death struggle. The papacy has been wasted by France, Italy, Germany, and other nations, until but a skeleton of his former self remains. Not only has the last vestige of temporal power gone, but the law is about to go into force which suppresses religious orders and confiscates the ecclesiastical property of the church in Rome.
What is the meaning of this? For three hundred years (until within the last five or ten), Protestant writers have declared that when the present position of papacy was reached, either the millennium would commence or Jesus Christ would come. To believe that the world is about to yield en masse to the claims of the gospel is stupendous folly. We are living in the midst of a carnival of crime unparalleled since the days of Sodom. So, then, we are to look for the advent. And this is in accordance with Scripture. That the papal succession, or line of the popes, is Paul’s “man of sin,” we have no doubt; and the apostle declares that he “shall be consumed by the spirit of His mouth, and destroyed by the brightness of his (Christ’s) coming.” If a criminal, who was to be executed according to law, was in the last stages of consumption, we should say that he must be hanged or he would not die in the prescribed way. Even so with the papacy. The consumption is almost complete, the last symptoms appear; but it shall not die a natural death! God’s word is out against it. How, then, can we escape the conclusion, were there no other reasons, that we are in close connection with the end of the dispensation? The state of every prophetic department cries aloud to us for faith in the speedy consummation of ages. The Master, as it were, has his hand upon the latch, and is about to open the door and come in upon a guilty world and sleeping multitudes of his professed followers. We have entered upon a year which, to our mind, will be fraught with great and interesting events, and there is evidence to warrant the hope that it will bring deliverance. Our duty is to work, wait, watch, and strive to understand more fully the truth as it is in Jesus.—Herald of Life.
Choose Ye this Day Whom Ye Will Serve.
By A. P. Lawton
Have we made the choice? Are we serving the Lord? Can we say with the psalmist, “Oh! how love I thy law? It is my meditation all the day?”
But why to-day? Because to-morrow may not be ours. If we should live many years, have we too much time in which to perfect Christian character? Are we afraid of paying too much for eternal life?
But I must deny myself and make sacrifices. I have been accustomed to do about as I pleased, and these things will be crossing to me.
Do you think it was no self-denial, or cross, for Jesus to leave the glory and splendor of Heaven, become poor, without where to lay his head, that we through his poverty might become rich? Think you it could be no sacrifice for the great God to consent to give his only Son to die for a race of rebels? He who was with him when the worlds were made, and when he said, Let us make man after our image? Great must have been his love toward us. Not that we loved him, but that he loved us, and manifested that love by giving his Son to die, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God. Have we shown our appreciation of that gift, by coming to him? By this act he has thrown the responsibility of our salvation upon ourselves; he can be just, and yet justify the ungodly, and we be left without excuse.
With this light before us, can we hesitate whom to serve? and when to begin? The undecided will say, I have about all I can do now to keep straight with the world and my business, and it will be expected of me to meet the obligations of a consistent profession of religion. What we save by denying ourselves of things hurtful to us, will more than meet increasing expenses. Thus you see we receive more than we give. But suppose we should give without receiving as much again, or expecting it? Can we not afford it? God loves the cheerful giver. A man's life consists not in the things which he possesses. Seek first the kingdom of Heaven and its righteousness, and all other things shall be added.
The Christian is not dependent on this world for his happiness. He knows that if he lays up treasure here and is not rich toward God, it will increase his responsibility as a steward. If he has little he is therewith content. His Father knows what he needs, and more might be a burden and a weight in his Christian course. I have often felt that I would be glad to be able to respond to every call to send these truths to the inhabitants of earth. God knows best to whom to commit earthly treasures. The cattle upon a thousand hills are the Lord's, and he is not dependent upon me for means to carry forward his work; but if I refuse to do what I can, I shall suffer the loss, and the work will move on without me. God can do well without me, but I can not do without him and his protecting care.
Those who refuse to serve God have heavy crosses to bear, galling chains to wear, and an accusing conscience, without strength from above and the comforting hope which pure religion always brings. If the Christian has tribulations, he rejoices in them, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope; and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in the heart. The earth will be dissolved, and the works burned; but the love of God abides forever. It is a tree of life, which the fire cannot wither. It is a fortress, a strong tower, into which the righteous may flee and be safe. The Lord encampeth round about his saints. He esteems them as the apple of his eye, and gives his angels charge concerning them. Who dare run the fatal risk of neglecting this proffered aid? Can we measure arms with Omnipotence, and save ourselves? But it is humiliating. Admit it; but will our proud hearts not allow us to take some humble part in our own salvation? Christ is our benefactor and saviour. Are we willing that he alone should bear all the humiliation. Can there be no yielding on our part? The condition is, Son, give me thine heart. Have we done this, and done it cheerfully? Jesus says, Ye will not come to me that ye might have life. Everything is ready, and the invitation has gone forth. Will we accept the condition and come to-day?
A. P. LAWTON.
West Winfield.
Tract and Missionary Department.
By J. E. Baker; WM. Haynes
Maine Tract and Missionary Society.
The Maine T. & M. Society held its quarterly meeting at Cornville, Jan. 12, 1873.
The meeting was called to order by the President, at 9 o'clock A. M.
The report of the Secretary for the quarter ending Jan. 12, was then called for and read, which gave the following results:—
No. families visited, 61.
Money received for membership, $7.00.
“ “ by donation, $15.19.
“ “ “ booksales, 1.69.
Total, $23.88.
No. new subscribers for Review, 10; Instructor, 38; Reformer, 4.
No. pages of tracts and pamphlets given away, 12,911; value of the same, $17.93.
Bro. Artemus Atwood, resigning his office as President of the Society, Bro. J. E. Baker was elected to serve in that capacity.
J. E. BAKER, Pres.
WM. J. HAYNES, Sec.
Report of the T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 4, Ill.
By W. O. Dungan
As per notice in REVIEW, the friends of the Tract and Missionary cause met in the Liberty school-house. Bro. Andrews in the chair.
Prayer by Eld. Whiten.
Bro. I. Colcord appointed secretary, pro tem.
Eld. Myers gave us meat in due season, from Matt. 24:45. Then followed essays on many of the Christian graces, and other good subjects relative to the tract cause, many of which showed that they came from approved workmen. May the Lord help the willing.
First-day, Jan. 19. Officers present as yesterday. Constitution read, and remarks on the working of the Society, by the director, followed by Eld. Andrews, in his plain, forcible, and logical, manner, after which, fourteen became members, donating eleven dollars.
Bro. Whiten spoke from Prov. 23:23, with clearness.
The time was all well filled up. The meeting will result in good, I humbly trust. We see no need of discouragements, if all go to work in the tract cause. There is plenty for all to do, and of a kind that will make them strong men and women in the Lord.
W. O. DUNGAN, Director.
P. S. A good letter was read from Bro. L. Newton, our State Secretary, who is attending school at Ann Arbor, Mich., to whom I hope all the directors in the State will report at once for this quarter.
W. O. D.
Shall I Be Saved?
By Charles P. Whitford
How important the question, and what thrilling realities hang upon the decision that shall in a little while be made in the heavenly sanctuary above. Saved! Yes; how important the question, Shall I be saved in the kingdom of God? saved from sin and all its sad and terrible consequences? Yes, dear brethren and sisters, I feel that I must have salvation. I must go where saints are going. I must see the holy angels. I must dwell in the heavenly city. I must partake of the fruit of the tree of life. I must see the King in his beauty. I must hear Jesus sing praises unto the Father, in the midst of his church. I must join in the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. I must be a sharer of all the joys, and the glories, and the complete fullness, summed up in the words, eternal life at the right hand of God.
Dear Saviour, guide my every step. I would walk close to thee. I would live as in thy presence. I would know thy love and power to save from sin. I long to see the green fields and flowery vales beyond—and they are almost in sight. I want those unfading joys. Earth has but few treasures left, and they may be mine in that heavenly home. I long to realize my long-cherished hopes. I want to see Him whose mercy has been so wonderful to me, to adore and worship before him, and praise him with an immortal tongue.
Oh! to be one of the redeemed throng, arrayed in white robes and palms in their hands; to be of that company from whose faces tears will be forever wiped away, never to weep again, never to know sorrow any more. Oh! shall I be there? Shall I ever enjoy that rest which remains for the people of God? Yes, I feel that amid earth’s manifold disquietudes, its crosses and its losses, that I can with joy look forward toward that blessed hour when there shall be no more sin, and therefore no more sorrow. And when I think of that blessed time when God shall terminate the tears of a weeping world, my heart cries out, “Come Lord Jesus and come quickly.” Then every tear shall be wiped from every eye, and then may I be permitted to know all that is comprehended in the holy beatitude, How “blessed,” indeed, are “the pure in heart,” who are to “see God.”
CHARLES P. WHITFORD.
Berkshire, Vt., Jan. 25, 1873.
Call Back the Erring
SPEAKING of some whose behavior had given great offense, Polycarp, the disciple of John, says: “Be ye moderate, and look not on such as enemies, but call them back as suffering and erring members, that ye save the whole body.”
Obituary Notices.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, in Brown Co., Minn., Sept. 20, 1872, Lizzie C., eldest daughter of S. and L. A. Rima, aged five years, ten months, and four days. Words of comfort were spoken to the afflicted family by Eld. Wm. Sweet, first-day Adventist, from Isa. 61:1. E. GEER.
Advent Christian Times, please copy.
DIED, at his residence in Fenton, Mich., Mr. Emory O. Jones, Sabbath evening, Jan. 5, 1873, in the sixtieth year of his age.
His sickness was long and painful, yet his trust in the Lord was firm to the end, when he gently fell asleep in the hope of a better life. A. T. JONES.
Winter Lightning.
The Freaks of Electricity on the Telegraph Wires in the Recent Storm.
Mr. C. H. Simmons, electrician of the Western Union Telegraph Company, a gentleman whose careful and accurate observations have before placed scientific men under many obligations to him, furnishes the Inter-Ocean the following highly interesting account of the electrical phenomena which attended the great storm of the 7th and 8th inst. Mr. Simmons says in his letter accompanying the account: “I regret that I am unable to give you a solution of the whole affair, but my statement may be the means of causing others to make observations in the future.” The following is the statement:
The recent storm which passed over the West and Northwest was accompanied by some very peculiar electrical phenomena, rarely seen east of the Rocky Mountains. These phenomena may be called electrical storms in contradistinction to the auroral or magnetic storms—the former being confined to a comparatively small space, beyond which the state of the electricity in the atmosphere remains unchanged, while the latter manifests itself over whole continents simultaneously, while evolving light by the action of magnetic forces. The area in which this electrical display was confined, was clearly marked, having Minnesota for its northern boundary, Iowa for the south, Detroit for the east, and Omaha for the west, limit. It was first noticed on the telegraph wires in Central Iowa, on the afternoon of January 7, at 2:25 P. M. The lines leading west were rendered useless for the transmission of messages, owing to an incessant discharge of electricity, increasing in intensity until it would leap from one strap of the switch-board to another, across the intervening space, and then in a luminous stream to the ground plate of the lightning arrester. At times, the whole brass-work of the switch-board would appear as a mass of flame, illuminating the office with a blinding glare. The excellent arrangement with which every office is provided for discharging the lightning from the iron during the frequent thunder-storms of the western plains, proved adequate for the discharge in this case, although in intensity and volume much greater than ever before witnessed. For several hours previous, and for some time after the cessation of these electrical discharges, a southwest wind was blowing at a speed of thirty-five miles per hour, accompanied by light snow, with the thermometer at five degrees. At 6:45 P. M. the electrical storm had reached the Mississippi River, traveling eastward, producing similar effects to those noted in Central Iowa. At about 9:30 P. M. light discharges from the western wires were observed in the Chicago office, but it was evident that these came from a distance, and that the storm had not traveled far east of the Mississippi. These continued at intervals during the night of the 7th, and until the evening of the 8th, when the discharges became more rapid and of exceedingly high tension. When the batteries were taken off, and both ends of the line left open, if the finger of an individual standing upon the floor was presented in proximity to the wire, an immediate discharge took place in the form of a spark; and when a number joined hands and insulated themselves from the floor, a spark could be drawn from any of them by any one standing on the floor. It was now evident that the storm had reached this locality, and it was ascertained that it had entirely ceased west of the Mississippi River. Observation disclosed the fact that, with two or three exceptions, the effect was confined to wires running almost due east and west, the exception being on wires running due north from Chicago, on which but little interference was noticed.
Another singular fact observed was, on some routes, where a number of wires occupied the same poles, one wire alone was highly charged and so affected that to work it was an impossibility, while all the others were entirely free from any external influence. In some cases, the wire occupying the top of the pole would apparently receive the whole of the charge; in other cases, the bottom wire would receive it, and still in others, the charge seemed to be divided equally between all the wires. In the Chicago offices, the effect was similar to that observed in Iowa, and every observation confirmed the opinion that the center line of the storm was due east from Des Moines, Iowa, to Detroit, Michigan, narrowing in its limits north and south as it approached the latter place, where it arrived on the evening of the 8th inst., and rapidly subsided. A high wind, varying from 28 to 25 miles per hour, with the same range of temperature as first noted, accompanied the electrical storm from its inception in the West until it had passed Chicago, where the weather was clear and bright, but the wind still blowing a gale. This display was observed by a large number of operators and practical telegraph men, and all accord in saying that its effects were entirely different from those experienced during ordinary auroral storms with which they are familiar.
At the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, a similar phenomenon has been frequently witnessed upon a wire running north and south, but rarely on an east and west wire. As a high wind always prevails when the effect is experienced, many telegraph experts have attributed it to the friction of the wind, but this theory does not appear tenable, from the fact that we so frequently have the wind without electric charge. That the electricity evolved by various processes accumulates in the atmosphere, and varies in condition and intensity, is universally admitted, and that it is stronger in winter than in summer has been abundantly proved. Sir William Thompson has shown, by experiments with the electrometer, that, during a wind, the air is charged very intensely positive. Now, upon the theory that the earth is charged negative to the atmosphere, there must be a point at the surface of the earth where discharge occurs or neutralization takes place. At points where the relative humidity of the air is very great this is doubtless ever silently going on; but during seasons of intense cold, when the air is necessarily dry, the combination is rendered more difficult, and the tension thereby greatly augmented. If, under these circumstances, good conductors, such as telegraph wires, are interposed, they would certainly assist in carrying a good part of the atmospheric charge to a point where the electrical tension was far less.
What the electrical condition of the telegraph wires on the same poles were, to render one more susceptible of this inductive influence than another is difficult to determine. Or why wires running in other than east and west directions should not have been similarly affected, is a problem we shall call upon our meteorological friends to assist in solving. It is a fact, however, that the resistance and insulation, as measured and adopted as a standard of excellence in propagating the electrical current of the ordinary voltaic battery, did not assist in the least in forming a theory.
Should a recurrent storm pass over this latitude, it is hoped that more accurate and systematic observations will be made, and a possible solution result.
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Red, White and Blue.
By Editor
Those who find a red cross on the margin of this week’s paper will understand that their subscription has already expired, and their paper is to be stopped. Those who find a blue cross will understand it as notice that their subscription expires with one more number, and they are earnestly solicited to renew at once so as to lose no papers.
Lack of Knowledge, No. 4
J. N. Loughborough: “Lack of Knowledge, No. 4,” for March number of Health Reformer, is received. Accept thanks of Literary Society for article and selections.
French Tract Translations Received
By Daniel T. Bourdeau; Alonzo C. Bourdeau
D. T. AND A. C. BOURDEAU: The translations of the tracts into French are received.
General Conference.
By George Ide Butler; Stephen Nelson Haskell; Ira Abbey
Providence permitting, the eleventh annual session of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Battle Creek, Mich., Tuesday, March 11, 1873, at 9 o'clock A. M., for the purpose of considering all matters pertaining to the general prosperity and advancement of the cause, which may properly come before this body. The State Conferences will please prepare their reports immediately, to be sent in by delegates or letters.
Geo. I. Butler, } Gen.
S. N. Haskell, } Conf.
Ira Abbey } Com.
A SPECIAL REQUEST.
We deem it of the utmost importance that Bro. and sister White attend this meeting; and we therefore invite and urge, in the strongest terms, their attendance at this session of the General Conference, if their health will permit them to do so.
Will Brn. J. N. Andrews, T. J. Butler, and D. M. Canright, meet the Gen. Conf. Committee in Battle Creek, as early as March 6?
GEN. CONF. COMMITTEE.
New and Important Work.
“The Complete Testimony of the Fathers of the First Three Centuries, Concerning the Sabbath and First-Day. By Eld. J. N. Andrews.”
Such is the title of a work of 112 pages just issued by the Association. Bro. Andrews has in this work, by much careful research, collected, so as to present it all together, everything that any Father of the first three hundred years has said respecting either the Sabbath or the first day of the week. This period of Sabbath history is more important than any other this side the days of Christ. If the first day received no support in the Christian church as the Bible Sabbath for the first three hundred years, no evidence in its behalf this side of that time, can have much weight. Here the reader has all that was said by all the Fathers on that subject, which has been preserved to our own day. It is a most triumphant showing that they did not regard Sunday as a divine institution. Price, post-paid, 15 cts.
Chronological Review of 1872 Events
We have received two copies of the Boston Journal, the evening edition of Jan. 2, and the morning edition of Jan. 24, containing articles from the pen of ELD. D. T. TAYLOR, which give “a chronological review of the principle wars, revolutions, revolts, riots, conspiracies, revolting crimes, and other disturbances, which occurred during the year 1872,” together with the “political, civil, domestic and ordinary, home and foreign events” of the same year. The list is a significant and startling one; and but for its length, we would give it a place in the REVIEW.