“Here is the patience of the saints.” Rev. 14:12. We believe the above language applies to a people living in the last days. We find, then, that this people must have a Christian grace called patience; and we inquire, What is patience? The definition is, “Calmness of spirit under trials, constancy in labor, or exertion” (Webster), and the word of God does not contradict this definition.
The period of the third angel’s message is a time of patience with the people of God. Paul says on this subject, “For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.” Then patience is necessary in order to receive the promise. James says, “Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.” James 5:7. Why do we sometimes become discouraged and grow cold in the cause of truth? Is it not because we lack patience? I have known some to embrace present truth under the third angel’s message, accept all the reforms connected with it, and work energetically in the cause. I have seen these grow indifferent, and have heard them say that this part of the reform or that part of the truth was not essential to salvation, and that they could have much more influence among their neighbors if they would discard it. I have watched their progress in Christian life. They were among those who always bore stirring testimonies in the conference meetings in former times, but as soon as they began to conform to the ways of the world, the scene changed. Their testimonies were cold, and often they attended meeting without giving in a testimony. Such persons sleep at their post, instead of watching as the Saviour has commanded. Those whom they thought to influence by deviating from the path of duty mock at the truth they profess, and point them out as examples. Oh! is it not time for us to awake to the requirements of the Master?
In this age of the world, when there are trials and difficulties many, let us not doubt God’s truth, but look at the promises he has given us. “For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shown toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints and do minister. And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end; that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” Heb. 6:10–12.
When we are tempted to complain, let us look back to Calvary and see the patience manifested by our Saviour. When he was buffeted and spit upon, he prayed the Father to forgive his persecutors. Should not this encourage us to bear the trials of the way, “in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses?” 2 Cor. 6:4. But the Lord assures us, “If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” Fearful words! While some believe to the saving of the soul, others doubt the work of God in the Advent movement, become impatient, cast away their confidence in the way the Lord has led his people, and give up their experience as the work of man or Satan. The apostle continues in behalf of the faithful: “But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.” These words are the language of saving faith. Having sufficient evidence that God has led them out from the world, and from a fallen church, to wait for his Son from Heaven, they stand fast. They see the chain of truth, as set forth in the three messages of Rev. 14:6–12, which explain and harmonize the past, give certainty to the present, and light up the glorious future, and they joyfully receive the truth.
J. H. DURLAND
Sigourney, Iowa.
The Truth Rejected.
By C. O. TAYLOR
I do not believe the wicked receive their full punishment for a course of sin in this life, yet I am confident that justice sometimes overtakes those who will not obey the plain requirements of God, even in this life. If men will persist in opposing right and truth, when they know, or might know, that by their acts they defy the claims of God, and set aside his authority, he will give them over to their own ways, to commit some act that will bring a stain upon them never to be wiped out.
There is a man in jail, in Oswego Co., N. Y., charged with the murder of his wife. Several years ago I visited the neighborhood in which this man's father resided to hold meetings. I called the attention of the people to the claims that God has upon them as revealed in his law. I showed them that the law was holy, just, and good, immutable, eternal, that to break it was wrong; that to do the things forbidden, or leave undone the things required, was sin; and that sin would in time bring upon the sinner the punishment due his crime.
The interest was good. The house was filled with attentive hearers. There was good order. The father of the man now charged with murder was the first to come out against the law of God. He got his minister to come and oppose the truth. He came, and caused confusion. He turned a part of the people against the truth. They went very far in this bad work, and tried to break up the meetings. There was a man living in the neighborhood who claimed to be a minister, but had no reputation for honesty, of whom it was reported, and generally believed, that he was given to stealing. By his wrong course he had fallen so low that none would hear him preach; but when this man gave out that he could put down the law of God and show that God's Sabbath need not be kept, the people turned out to hear him. The man whose son is now under the law for one of the darkest crimes on record was first in the crowd to hear and learn, and to correct one of his sons for making some little noise, although the same boy was allowed to attend my meetings and make confusion of all kinds.
Five years have brought changes. The minister has given up preaching and is partially insane. The son of the man who opposed the truth so violently is charged with the murder of his wife, and morals generally are low in the neighborhood. It might have been different. The Lord says, “Them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.”
Justice sometimes lingers, but it is sure. It comes at last, and when it does come it falls heavy. Beware, you that turn away from God's authority. His law cannot be trampled upon and divine justice never overtake you. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay saith the Lord.”
C. O. TAYLOR.
Vaticanism in America.
By Eugene Lawrence
The conflict at the polls this fall will be more than ever before between the Roman Catholics voters, led on by Tilden, O'Conor, Kernan, and their associates, and the people of New York. The pope and the Cura demand a repeal of the American law of education, and an enormous throng of ignorant and half-savage Irish Catholics and ultramontane Germans will cast their vote without reflection on the side of the Democracy. It is possible that the papal priests may not instruct their people openly, as in Ohio, to vote for Bigelow and Robinson, or use their churches, as in New Jersey, for the distribution of ballots and election circulars. But no one can doubt that the same process will be carried on in secret, and that every cathedral and convent will be a rallying point for “Democratic” clubs. Foolishly blind as we have chosen to remain for so many years to our dangerous condition and the swift spread of a papal party among us, we can continue so no longer. We have suffered the Catholic voters to rob the city, the State, the nation, until recently without a murmur. They have purchased the press, bribed legislators, terrified the timid, and cajoled the weak. But our bleeding and outraged city cries out against our negligence.
Once more fallen into the hands of thieves by the connivance of Tilden and O'Conor, what have we before us but ruin if we are silent? If Governor Tilden were a prudent politician, he could never consent to consort with the ruffians of Tammany Hall. If he had any real projects of reform, he would first labor to sweep away the thieves who hang ominously around our city treasury. But here the priests warn him away, and he tardily labors to hide the chains that bind him in a pretense of activity. Had the Republicans remained in power, the canal thieves would have suffered long ago the punishment of their crimes; and only the energy of the Republican Senate saved the city of New York from an unparalleled robbery. Would it not be madness to trust the schools of the State to the care of the men who sought to destroy them when they were last in power, or to invite the dishonest leaders of Tammany Hall to conduct the management of the city and State treasuries? Yet this is what the Democratic Convention requires us to do.
The same odious and ominous names appear everywhere on the Democratic committees. Behind them stand a thick array of papal priests. They make no secret of their design to fasten their sectarian institutions upon the public treasury, and to propagate their faith at the cost of the State. This they attempted to do in New Jersey, and were defeated. For this they opened clamor in every other State. For this every cathedral and monastery among us will this autumn be converted into a Democratic club-house, and for this the people of New York will administer in the fall election so grave a rebuke to Messrs. Tilden, O'Conor and Kernan as shall prove the impotence of the foreign priests.—EUGENE LAWRENCE, in Harper's Weekly.
MARY M. COOK
By Mary M. Cook
Afflictions.
“I AM the true Vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away, and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” These are the words of the Saviour, yet how often we fail to see the hand of God in our afflictions! How often we are impatient under the pruning knife! How often we fail to realize in times of trial that our afflictions are according to God’s holy will, and that, rightly borne, they will purify us and make us meek and humble.
When our union with the true Vine is perfect, we shall bear in our lives the fruits of the Spirit. We shall abound in good works. The sick, the afflicted, and the poor, are always with us. Have we hearts of deep gratitude for the privilege of being co-workers with Christ, and of ministering to their needs?
Would you know whether you are being grafted into the true Vine? Here is the test, given by the high and holy One, “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love.” The disciples who met Jesus as they went to Emmaus said, “Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way?” It is our privilege to live so that we may know for ourselves that the love of the dear Saviour warms our hearts. We may enjoy great peace and comfort in communion with him. We may have Him for our friend, who owns the cattle upon a thousand hills. He will provide for all our wants, and sustain us in every trial. The pruning knife may wound, but it cannot destroy as long as we “abide in the Vine.”
MARY M. COOK
The Last of Earth.
The Paris correspondent of the Traveler has the following:—
“Never envy any man! All have their burdens; and He ‘who tempereth the wind to the shorn lamb,’ has endowed habit with the power of alleviating the heaviest loads. The other day there was a funeral in this street, a few doors below the home in which I live. All the hideous pageantry which increases the horrors of death was assembled. The crowd was numerous. The luxurious mansion of the great banker was one great funeral chamber. The banker is worth a million of dollars. His average income is a hundred and twenty thousand dollars. He is the head of a joint stock company, which enables him to dispose of ten millions of dollars at his pleasure. He is one of the lions on ‘Change.’ Do you not envy him? Oh! no; do not envy him; he has his sorrows as well as anybody; for only six months ago the undertakers laid his third son, then nineteen, in the grave. The other day his second son was carried away by the somber tradesman to the graveyard, though the boy was but twenty-one. His eldest daughter is a hunchback, and is in declining health. His second daughter is bed-ridden with consumption, and will surprise the doctors if she outlives the winter. The banker himself is blind from over-labor. He has been known to pass twenty days without undressing or sleeping in a bed; all his repose being a few hours of feverish slumber snatched from corroding cares, a respite passed on a sofa! Oh! do not envy the rich banker, though his coffers overflow with gold; for it avails little to him; and though, as I grant ye, the resonant chimes of coin tossed about as so much trash in his cash office, sounds musical to the ear, yet the oft-heard passing bell and doctor’s tread, common in that house as the resonance of gold, destroy all the effects, except the painful contrast between that and the emptiness of human vanity and ambition. So, envy no man!”
Love, Honor and Obey.
On the whole, married women, that is, real women, prefer to be ruled rather than ruling. It is scarcely in her nature to go speechlessly on doing what she has to do without aid or counsel. Almost any one of our sex is happier if she can “talk things over” with some man upon whose discretion she relies; and in married life most wives do, even in the smallest things, what “he” likes, and fancy that they like it themselves. Since independence has become the fashion, and strong-minded women have sneered at their more gentle sisters, there is a great affectation of despising the opinion of the men, but it is all sheer pretense. Almost every wife chooses her gloves and her ribbons of the tint that her husband admires, and the man she loves almost inevitably gives her her political opinions, and biases even her religious views. Her speech, her dress, her manner change under his influence. What he desires her to do she does in nine cases out of ten. The tenth case we find in the divorce courts. You may rule your wife as you please, good married reader, if you only love and pet her enough. Haughtiness and fault-finding alone will make restive. And you, dear girl, remember that it will be well to choose a husband good and noble and upright, so that you may obey him to your heart’s content without losing your own self-respect; for you will obey him if you love him; and if he be low and mean you will sink to his level slowly but surely in the course of years.—Sel.
WATCHING unto prayer is the life of the Christian.
Obituary Notices.
“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
Died, in Quincy, Mich., Sept. 25, 1875, sister Susan S. Dally, wife of Nicholas Dally, in the sixty-eighth year of her age. Sister D. resided in Quincy 31 years previous to her death. She embraced the truth when presented in that place.
Appointments: Services and Quarterly Meetings Announced
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
** Services in Chicago, every Sabbath (seventh day), at 269 West Erie St. All Sabbath-keepers spending a Sabbath in Chicago are invited to attend.
Quarterly meeting at Mt. Hope, Grant Co., Wis., Nov. 27 and 28, 1875. All the brethren and sisters of adjoining churches are cordially invited to attend. A minister is expected. John Proctor.
Quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society of the churches of Dist. No. 1, Western N. Y., will be held in connection with the church quarterly meetings at Akron, December 4 and 5, 1875. Teams will be at the stations on the Central Railroad as usual. W. H. Eggleston, Director.
No preventing providence, there will be a union meeting for Illinois and Wisconsin, at Monroe, Wis., Dec. 4, 5, 1875. We hope there will be a general attendance of all the brethren in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin. Bring blankets and bedding, as the weather may be cold. Brn. Andrews and Colcord are expected, and also Bro. Olson and others from Wisconsin. Come, brethren, prepared to work for the Lord. O. H. Pratt, Elder.
The Wells and Blue Earth City churches will hold a general meeting at Wells village, Minn., Nov. 27 and 28, 1875. A general invitation is extended to the members of all the churches within reach, to all the scattered brethren, and all interested persons, to come and get a refreshing from the presence of the Lord. It is expected that Brn. Grant and Ellis will be present. D. P. Curtis.
Monthly meeting at Parkville, Mich., Nov. 20, 21, 1875. Scattered Sabbath-keepers in the vicinity are invited. There being but few Sabbath-keeping families in this place, those who come will please make provision as far as possible, to care for themselves. Eld. M. B. Miller is expected. By request of church. R. Aldrich, Clerk.
Providence permitting, I will meet with the church in Oceana Co., Mich., in the town of Hart, in the school-house near G. W. Newman’s, Nov. 27 and 28. I will be at Mears’ Station the 26th, at noon. J. Byington.
Quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 2, of the N. Y. & Pa. T. & M. Society, in connection with the State meeting, at Roosevelt, Dec. 11 and 12, 1875. It is desirable that pledges to the Society should be paid at or before this meeting. Daniel Bowe, Director.
The Lord willing, Mrs. Bourdeau and myself will meet with brethren West and East as follows: St. Anne, Ill., Nov. 13; Kankakee, [ditto] 20; Battle Creek, Mich., [ditto] 27; Bordoville, Vt., Dec. 4. As this is our last opportunity of seeing our friends before leaving for Europe, we hope there will be a general turnout at these meetings. D. T. Bourdeau.
The next quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 5, Iowa, will be held in connection with the monthly meeting, at Monroe, Jasper Co., Iowa, Nov. 20, 21, 1875. Director.
Quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 2, Iowa & Neb. Tract and Missionary Society, at Marion, Iowa, in connection with the State meeting, Dec. 4, 5. Let every member report at this meeting. Come, praying that the Lord may send the true missionary spirit into our midst. D. T. Shireman, Director.
Mt. Morris, Mich., Sabbath and first-day, Nov. 20, 21, to continue during the following week, if necessary. Pine Run, Nov. 28 and 29, and the week following. Flushing, Dec. 4 and 5, and the week following. Saranac, Dec. 11 and 12. R. J. Lawrence.
Quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 10, N. Y. & Pa. T. & M. Society, will be held with the church at Ulysses, Pa., Nov. 27, 28, 1875. Members will please be prompt in reporting in season for the meeting. Wm. Coats, Director.
Providence permitting, there will be a meeting at the North Rogers School-house, Eaton Rapids, Mich., Sabbath, Nov. 20, 1875. J. E. Titus.
Quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 7, Iowa, will be held at Adel, Nov. 20, 21, 1875. A. J. Stiffler, Director.
Quarterly meeting, Dist. No. 4, of the Iowa T. & M. Society at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Sabbath and first-day November 20, 21, 1875. Bro. Nicola will be with us, and expects to see the friends from Brighton and Richland. W. G. Bralliar, Director.
No providence preventing, there will be a meeting of all the churches of Dist. No. 11, Mich. T. & M. Society, at Le Roy, Mich., Nov. 20, 21, 1875. All the members are urgently requested to attend as far as possible. Meetings to commence Sabbath 10½ A. M. Come prepared to pay all of the back pledges. Will Bro. Root meet with us? Alex. Carpenter, Director.
The next quarterly meeting of the Iowa & Neb. T. & M. Society, Dist. No. 3, will be held at Pilot Grove, Nov. 27, 28. We hope to have a report from every member. Will the librarians please see that they are ready for the meeting? J. W. Adams, Director.
Quarterly meeting of the N. Y. & Pa. Tract Society, Dist. No. 4, where Bro. Green may appoint, Nov. 27, 28. Dist. No. —, at Akron, Erie Co., N. Y., Dec. 4, 5. The general quarterly meeting will be held at Roosevelt, Oswego Co., Dec. 11, 12. A general attendance of the directors is specially requested as there are matters of importance that require consideration at that time. B. L. Whitney.
No providence preventing, we will hold a general meeting with the Wells church, where Bro. Kelsey may appoint, Nov. 27, 28, 1875. We hope to see the brethren and sisters from Mankato and Blue Earth City at this meeting. Elds. Curtis and Ellis expect to be present. Come prepared to take care of yourselves as far as possible, as the brethren are very much scattered. Harrison Grant.
Quarterly meeting of the N. Y. & Pa. T. & M. Society, Dist. No. 3, will be held at Adams Center, Nov. 27, 28, 1875. We desire to see a general gathering at this meeting. Eld. B. L. Whitney will be present. D. B. Green, Director.
East Saginaw, Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 17 and 18, where the brethren may appoint. Meetings commencing Wednesday night at 7 o’clock. Jay, Sabbath and Sunday, Nov. 20, 21. We expect all the friends from Williamstown will meet with us at this meeting. Edenville, Sabbath and Sunday, Nov. 27, 28. St. Charles, Sabbath and Sunday, Dec. 4, 5. Preaching will commence at each place on Friday evening. Social meeting at 9½, Sabbath morning. Preaching, at 11 and 2½ and in the evening, and three times on Sunday. Preparations should be made for baptism and the ordinances in each place. We hope there will be a special effort with all the friends in and around each of these places to attend all these meetings. D. M. Canright.
The next quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 1, of Iowa & Neb. T. & M. Society, will be held at West Union, Iowa, Nov. 27, 28. Let the librarians see that a full report is sent in. Members of the T. & M. Society, let us have a full report. Be sure and report what money you receive or give during this quarter. Send your reports to J. Farnsworth, Waukon, Iowa, or to me. F. H. Chapman, Director.
Quarterly meeting of Dist. No. 1, Kansas Tract and Missionary Society, will be held at Mulberry school-house two and a half miles west of Beloit, Mitchell Co., Kansas, commencing Friday evening, Nov. 19, and continuing to the 21st. Come, brethren, prepared to make a full report. Eld. J. H. Cook will be present, and wishes to make this meeting a general gathering for all the scattered brethren in this part of the field. O. O. Bridges, Director.
Quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 9, N. Y. & Pa. T. & M. Society, will be held with the church at Farmington, Tioga Co., Pa., Nov. 27, 28, 1875. Hope to see each church in the district represented. Let there be a full report of the labor the past quarter. J. W. Raymond, Director.
The Review and Herald.
Battle Creek, Mich., Fifth-Day, Nov. 18, 1875.
The Signs of the Times.
By James White
VOLUME ONE of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES cost, postage paid, only $6,190.93. But this has been accomplished by economy, such as using the wheelbarrow instead of the express-wagon, night-work, and working for nothing, and for sums near to nothing.
The lowest estimate we shall make for 5,000 copies of the SIGNS, postage paid, is $9,000. We hope for 1,000 full-paying subscribers at $3.00 each, a year, which will amount to $3,000. And the next 4,000 copies at $1.50 would amount to $6,000, making the sum of $9,000 for the first 5,000 subscribers. The next 2,000 copies could be afforded for $3,000, and at the rate of $1.50 a year to any amount.
We ask our friends in the Pacific Coast States and Territories to give us 500 full-paying subscribers, and 2,000 at half price. And let our numerous eastern friends make up the other 500 full-paying subscribers, and also furnish 10,000 at half price. Our eastern friends may object to these suggestions on the ground that the VOICE OF TRUTH has been furnished for $1.00 a year. But they should here understand that a paper the size of the VOICE, the SIGNS, and the REVIEW, in which there is not a single paying advertisement, cannot be sent out, postage paid, for $1.00 a year. Such a hazardous proposition will never be made again. And it may be objected that the REVIEW is only $2.00 a year, while the full price of the SIGNS is $3.00 a year. Very true; but the REVIEW has 5,000 regular subscribers at $2.00, which amounts to $10,000 for 5,000 subscribers, and we have estimated 5,000 copies of the SIGNS at $9,000, which is $1,000 less. Why the price of the first 1,000 copies is put at $3.00 each is to make up for furnishing the next 4,000 copies at $1.50 a year.
The REVIEW is self-sustaining at $2.00 a year. When the SIGNS shall have 5,000 regular subscribers it can be furnished; postage paid, at $2.00 a year. We do not ask any person to take the SIGNS in exchange for the REVIEW. We do not want those who are too poor, or too stingy to take both papers, to take the SIGNS at all. But what we do ask of our friends who are able, and who wish to help the SIGNS Office just $1.50, is to take the paper one year at $3.00. If you have both papers, then after you have gleaned the good of both, you can hand them to your neighbors and friends.
During the year 1875, we have sacrificed $3,000 in the cause on the Pacific Coast. And we ask the friends of our general cause everywhere to show their sympathy with us in our efforts and sacrifices at this time by things tangible in the way of gold, silver, and greenbacks.
The VOICE OF TRUTH has not been what we intended that it should be. It has been but little more than the REVIEW with a new heading. It has not contained the reasons of our faith, covering the whole ground, as we designed, and as the SIGNS shall. And it has contained many things of a local nature, and which could not interest any only our people. Bro. Smith has been from the Office a part of the time, and when in Battle Creek he cannot do everything.
Mrs. W. and the writer feel that we have light for the people. We are confident that God has committed a ministry and mission to us through the press, and we ask his living people everywhere to help us. Before the middle of December we shall issue our first large edition of 13,000 copies of the SIGNS, so as to be able to furnish it to all new subscribers at and after that time. With that number we shall commence sketches of Mrs. W's. life and experience, and also a series of sermons on the reasons of our faith and hope, which shall extend one year from that time.
We shall commence at first principles, and continue the several branches of the faith of Seventh-day Adventists in order, as our experienced ministers give a course of lectures in a new field. By the grace of God, nothing shall deter us from this grand object. Should we fail to give matter from our own pen, then we shall select from books written by others. Our people will not be disappointed this time. Those associated with us are awake to the wants of the cause, and have shown themselves competent to carry out our plans should we fail. But God will help us to accomplish all his Spirit impresses us to do.
JAMES WHITE.
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By James White
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Serapis Delayed Over Missing Champagne Pint Bottles
KATE FIELD writes that the sailing of the Serapis for India, with the Prince of Wales on board, was delayed, because, among the $15,000 worth of wine put aboard, it was discovered there were no pint bottles of champagne. And this prince is from the most intelligent kingdom of the world.
Iowa Widow Wins Suit Against Liquor Sellers
A widow in Hutching, Iowa, whose drunken husband froze to death, sued the proprietors of four saloons that furnished him the liquor, and gained a verdict of $2,800 against each.
Gales Drown Two Hundred Mariners in North Sea
THE London Times estimates that 200 mariners and others were drowned in the North Sea during the gales of the past month.
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Geo H Webster 15c, W E Cornell 10c, Geo M Booth $1.50, Jno A Myers 10c, N P Hanson 95c, Mrs J T McMillan 1.10, D H Nutting M D 25c, H C Miller 1.50, Asa T Robinson 1.50, R E Reed 10c, Mary Hoag 10c, Arthur H Barnaby 30c, Wm Dawson 1.50, D W Sprague 5.00, Mary Clark 1.35, W S Dailey 60c, Mrs Alfred Taylor 25c, M White 10c, P Marvin 50c, A Hazeltine 35c, J P Hunt 1.60, W Snyder 1.75, L P King 1.50, Eld John G Matteson 1.50, Mrs Hannah Craw 1.50, Kathrena Hale 1.50, J L Baker 1.50, Frank Oyen 1.00, A S Gillet 2.00, C E Cole 50c, Mrs S A Haughawont 25c, Lucius Sanborn 1.00, Mrs Flavel Simonson 25c, Mahala Jackson 10c, D R Marvin 40c, Z T Beachboard 35c, C E Hathaway 60c, Wm J Boynton 15c, Joseph Clark 1.50, G Rosser 1.50, Robert Murray 50c, L H Densmore 1.00, L J Dunscomb 10c, Wm H Wild 1.75, Geo A King 2.67, Wm Fenner 2.50, Mark Vanderbilt 1.50, W H Hall 1.00, F B Stebbins 1.61, H W Knight 10c, David Thayer M D 1.00, J R Purrington 30c, H H Fisher 50c, Edwin H Shaw 60c, Mrs Hannah Clough 1.00, J S Milton 50c, H W Young 2.50, A B Capp 25c, S S Rizer 25c, John Leland 1.50, Sarah Law 10c, Sabrina Simonson 15c.
Books Sent by Express.
Thomson Lowery, Woodburn, Clark Co., Iowa, $2.50, Daniel Glutt, Osceola, Clark Co., Iowa, 2.50, L L Syp, Afton, Union Co., Iowa, 2.50, A Caldwell, Leon, Decatur Co., Iowa, 1.87, Joel Lock, Salem Centre, Ind., 1.25, R Hoag, South Bend, St Joseph Co., Ind., 1.25, John Graham, Ligonier Noble Co., Ind., 1.25, Samuel Bristol, Bourbon, Marshall Co., Ind., 1.25, P Webber, Rochester, Fulton Co., Ind., 1.25, Allen Jones, Bunker Hill, Miami Co., Ind., 1.25, Isaac Zirkle, Middletown, Henry Co., Ind., 1.25, N Carahoof, Patricksburgh, Owen Co., Ind., 1.25, Joseph Rees, Kokomo, Howard Co., Ind., 2.50, Arthur W Bartlett, Indianapolis, Ind., 3.00, R A Underwood, North Bloomfield, Ohio, 8.98, A Mann, M D, Woodview, Morrow Co., Ohio, 14.28, Eldon H Pullen, Atwater, Minn., 21.82.
Books Sent by Freight.
O A Olsen, Lodi, Wis., $66.00.
Mich. Conf. Fund.
Blendon (s. b.) $7.00, Orange (s. b.) per A O Burrill 20.00, Ransom (s. b.) 102.50, Lapeer (s. b.) 37.50, Wright (s. b.) 81.58.
Mich. T. & M. Society.
Dist No 3 20c, Dist No 3 per J W Wright 4.00, Dist No 5 per J S Wicks 202.85.
Cash Received on Account.
Ind T & M Society, $20.89 (Wm Carpenter 15.00, Eliza Carpenter 3.50, Mrs Webber 2.39), Kan Conf (aid to ministers), A sister 3.00, Rusha Evans 1.50, S W & A E Harris 20.00, Mo Conf S W & A E Harris 20.00, Rusha Evans 1.50, Ill T & M Society (Rusha Evans) 2.50, T S McDonald 4.50, Mo Conf (aid to ministers) E B Lane 5.00, Kan Conf (aid to ministers) Mrs E S Lane 5.00, New Eng T & M Society 25.00, S N Haskell 25.00.
Book Fund.
— Hornedy $10.00, — Wisel 10.00, L M Chandler 3.50, A friend 10.00.
Swiss Mission.
A sister $5.00,
S. D. A. Educational Society.
J C Smith $10.00, Mrs D R Palmer 50.00, D R Palmer 37.53.
Pacific Mission.
H H Bramhall $11.50, Hannah Sawyer 11.50, E B Lane 11.50, Mrs E S Lane 11.50, H C Miller 11.50, A friend 10.00, L W Hastings 11.50, A M Wheelock 11.50, C A Nichols 5.00.