1. Is God's law spoken of as containing a seal?
"Bind up the testimony, seal the law among My disciples." Isa. 8: 16.
2. What is the special use of a seal?
To show the authority of the lawmaking power.
3. What are some of the essentials to every seal of an official document?
The name of the individual executing the document, his official position, and the territory over which he presides.
4. Does the law of God, the Ten Commandments, contain such a seal right in the very wording of the law itself?
The last five commandments do not mention God at all. The first refers to Him; and the second, the third, and the fifth each contain the name of God. But none of these give any sign of His authority, or any clue to the territory over which He rules. Hence none of these nine commandments can be said to lay any claim to containing the seal that God has placed on His law.
5. Does the fourth commandment, in addition to the name of the Lawgiver, make mention of the territory over which He rules, as well as tell the office that He holds as lawmaker?
Read carefully the fourth commandment, which follows, and observe that it not only speaks of God, but tells us that He is the Creator of "heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is," and therefore He has authority to give the law. He has expressed the seal of His authority in the very law itself. The fourth commandment reads thus: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." Ex. 20: 8-11.
6. What two leading features mark the remnant of the seed of the woman, or the last part of the church that shall live just before Christ comes?
"And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Rev. 12: 17.
7. What fearful warning is given against those who worship the beast and his image?
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." Rev. 14: 9-11.
8. What is peculiar about the people who give this message against the beast and his image?
"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." Rev. 14: 12.
NOTE.—The remnant, or the last part, of the church keep the commandments of God, and they are Christians, and not Jews or any other sect of that kind, for they keep also the "faith of Jesus." And those who give this last great warning against the beast and his image are also commandment keepers, and they have the "faith of Jesus." God is the Author of these plain texts that combine the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. To Him, and to Him alone, we will have to answer. Is it not wise to look carefully to see if we are really keeping God's commandments, as well as professing to have faith in His Son? The seal of His power and authority as Creator is in the fourth of His precepts.
Prophecy That Is Now Being Fulfilled
By Editor
PEOPLE are not apt to think of the prophecies as something that call for an absolutely definite fulfilment. But we should call to mind that the God of the Bible, the Author of all true prophecy, is also the God of all nature. He is the mighty Creator of all things. And in all His created works there is absolute accuracy displayed. All nature shows that it is operating under definite law. The chemist or the astronomer, as well as any other man that is dealing with true science, knows that definite law pervades everything, so that he can count with infinite accuracy on the results that he is seeking to secure.
But nowhere is this infinite accuracy that is displayed in nature any more striking in its operations than in the field of Bible prophecy. God calls for definite things, in the prophecies of His Word; and marvelous accuracy is displayed in their fulfilment. Two weeks ago we commented on one of the prophecies that speak of the amassing of wealth in this time, and promised to give at a later date other prophecies that speak in the same definite way about the operations of the money power that would characterize the closing hours of earth's history. To keep the whole matter in mind, let us quote again the prophecy referred to in that issue:
"But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away." 2 Tim. 3:1-5.
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Let us observe that the text says that the last days are to be made grievous because men shall be lovers of self and lovers of money. And not only will they be loving self and money, but they will have a long list of other leading characteristics. We will not comment further upon this text, but will refer the reader to what was said two weeks ago. But in harmony with our promise, we present the text which follows, and invite the reader to give it careful attention:
"Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out; and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you.
"Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the Judge standeth before the doors." James 5:1-9.
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It is necessary only to observe carefully what the foregoing text from James says, in order to see how accurately and remarkably it is meeting its fulfilment right before our eyes in this very time. It is in perfect accord with the text from Paul, and gives some added particulars.
In the first place, the text draws attention to the weeping and howling that the rich will pass through because of the miseries that are coming upon them. Their riches are not honestly acquired, neither are they properly used; for attention is called to the hire of the laborer that is kept back by fraud. The laborer is not properly rewarded. And because the laborer is not getting his just reward, the wealth of the rich is "heaped" together, as expressed in the King James Version. Their riches are corrupted and their garments are moth-eaten. Their gold and silver have been hoarded so that their rust shall be a testimony against the wealthy, and shall finally eat their flesh as fire.
These wealthy people live delicately; they take their pleasure, and nourish their own hearts, even in this time when the slaughter of the great populace is going on. For while the wealthy are having every luxury, there is heard the cry of the laborer on every hand. Millions of people, taken the world around, do not know where they are to get their next meal. They may be ruthlessly thrown out of work in order to create panics; and the wealthy man, instead of showing tenderness toward the laborer who has reaped down his fields, places himself in a hostile camp to oppress him.
In saying the foregoing, let it be understood that we are not presenting some theory for you to think about; we are endeavoring to call attention to what the text actually says, and are depending on the general knowledge of the reader to enable him to see that current events are in direct harmony with what is said in the prophetic Word. Let us closely study the text; for it is what the text says, and not some theories about it, that counts.
Observe, furthermore, that the text says these wealthy men have laid up their treasure in the last days. The statement is very plain upon this point. And not only do we have this direct statement that the prophecy is for the last days, but we are exhorted to be patient when grinding under these conditions, for it is then that the "coming of the Lord is at hand," it is then that "the Judge standeth before the doors."
Now we trust that the reader will see that the prophetic texts of Scripture call for definite things in a very definite way. These texts tell in advance the story of things as they are to be. And with all the agitation that is on in every part of this world over the question11of capital and labor, can you not see that we are even now coming into the very midst of the days when grievous times have come because the perils of strife and discontent are thickening on every hand? Not merely millions, but billions of dollars are gathered into the coffers of just a few men. They have become world powers because of their world control of the gold and silver. This monopoly of wealth is the menace of the age, and everybody knows it. But did you know that God's Word foretold it nearly two thousand years ago?
Another prophecy concerning the wealth of this time and its significance will be considered next week. T.
The Sunday-Law Movement in California
By T.
We are informed by the "Weekly Rest Day League" that they secured a total of only 8,610 signatures to their petitions favoring the initiation of a weekly rest-day law here in California, to be voted on at the election in November. To many of our readers it may be interesting to get the report in detail, which is in the next paragraph:
"The following is the number of petitions certified to by the different county clerks and forwarded to the secretary of state: Kern County, 17; Colusa, 22; Amador, 24; Nevada, 42; Marin, 52; San Luis Obispo, 54; Sutter, 55; San Francisco, 59; Butte, 61; Napa, 73; Humboldt, 79; Yuba, 79; Solano, 80; Santa Cruz, 81; Orange, 84; Mendocino, 86; Lake, 89; Merced, 101; Sacramento, 107; Kings, 108; Sonoma, 113; San Benito, 125; Tulare, 149; Santa Barbara, 155; Stanislaus, 172; Imperial, 174; San Joaquin, 208; Contra Costa, 261; San Diego, 306; Fresno, 322; San Bernardino, 368; Riverside, 518; Santa Clara, 603; Alameda, 1,475; Los Angeles, 2,307. Total, 8,610."
On the face of it the showing is that there is not very much enthusiasm in California in favor of a general Sunday law. The charge has often been made that California would have had a strict Sunday law long ago had it not been for the opposition of the Seventh-day Adventists. The Seventh-day Adventists in this particular case had no definite information that an attempt was being made to initiate a Sunday law to be voted on at the next election. They heard many persistent rumors to that effect, but it was only when just a few days were left for securing petitions that they learned that efforts were being made to get a Sunday law on the ballot. We noticed the proposed law quite fully a few weeks ago. Here was a case in which we had scarcely any opportunity to oppose the proposed measure, and still it has very signally failed. This failure can not be laid at our doors, unless it should be said that our educative work in the past in regard to the meaning of Sunday laws in general may be responsible for it.
But it might be well to take this occasion to affirm again that the Sunday-law movement will ultimately become successful in so far as securing a general law is concerned. For more than fifty years the people who are back of this paper have been affirming this fact from the prophecy. The conditions into which the world is ripening will bring on one of the greatest religious controversies that has ever arisen. It will be sharp and strong, but it will be very short, because the second coming of Christ will prevent it from being prolonged.
The conditions of the time are freighted with social and political problems that are making the best of men tremble. One legislative expedient after another is being tried. But the last and culminating effort will be to unite all the religious world to correct the evils by sheer force of numbers. And where the multitude of professedly religious men, instead of the power of God, is depended upon to work moral reforms, the end is religious despotism. The very intensity and excitability of this time will make that struggle the most bitter of anything that has ever yet appeared. The time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation, spoken of by the prophet Daniel, is still before this world.
These are times when men should be close and honest thinkers, and reverent students and teachers of God's Word, rather than determined agitators in any line. The days are ominously freighted with mighty and dangerous issues. God has taken a hand in the controversy. There is safety only on His side, and we can not tell when we are on His side except by a prayerful and unprejudiced study of His divine Book. T.
The Davis Torpedo Gun
By T.
SOME years ago we mentioned the Davis torpedo gun that was being developed. Commander Davis has been conducting a long line of experiments to perfect a gun that could be carried through the water like an ordinary torpedo and then its charge fired right against the side of the battle-ship. His first experiments were with the older kinds of steel, and his gun was thus made so heavy that it was not workable. But since vanadium steel has come into such general use he has been enabled to perfect a gun that is in reality a combination of the modern cannon and the automobile torpedo.
The automobile torpedo has displaced the older forms of torpedoes, which had a range of only about two miles. The automobile torpedo is equipped with a little motor that is driven by an explosive called motorite, invented by Mr. Hudson Maxim. This motor-driven torpedo has a very wide range of action, and is constantly being improved. And now Mr. Davis comes with his invention that builds a high-power cannon in this improved torpedo. Concerning this new weapon the Scientific American says:
"The Davis torpedo, recently tested in the waters of the Lower Chesapeake, carried an 8-inch gun capable of expelling an 8-inch projectile with a muzzle velocity of something like a thousand feet per second. Ordinarily, an 8-inch gun strong enough to fire a shell with this velocity would be far too big and too heavy to be placed within the permissible limits of a torpedo. We are speaking of a piece of ordnance to be fired in the open air. Now the Davis gun, when fired, is surrounded by the sea, which, so to speak, reinforces the walls of the gun. But this is not all. The weapon is made of vanadium steel, which has a very high elastic limit, and the great strength on the part of the metal makes it possible to construct a gun of seemingly ridiculous lightness. This fact has made the new torpedo practicable."
The illustration at the bottom of the opposite page gives a view of the completed torpedo gun. The large propeller at the rear is what drives it through the water, following the initial discharge that it gets when aimed from the vessel that discharges it. The small propeller in front begins to whirl as soon as the torpedo starts and releases a pin that sticks out in front. When this pin strikes the target, it is driven backward into a device that fires the percussion-cap, and a shell is then thrown from the gun with its muzzle against the very side of the hostile ship. As this shell strikes the side of the vessel, it ignites a fuse that is timed to set off a bursting charge of high explosive right inside the ship. It can be imagined what the results would be to have a shell of this kind exploded in the boiler room or the ammunition magazine of a war-ship.
The experiments with torpedoes and mines show that very frequently the greater part of the force of the explosion is exerted on the water, which is not so resistant as the solid walls of the ship, and about all the result obtained is to make a fine, high waterspout. But the Davis gun drives the shell with its destructive bursting charge of high explosive right into the vitals of the vessel.
It has been only within the last year or so that architects have been giving any attention to putting armor on the battle-ship below the water-line. They have had to contend only against the shell that came crashing through the air. But now, with the submarine torpedo-boat that has been so fully perfected during the last fifteen years, and with the automobile torpedo gun that Mr. Davis has made an assured success, and with the further prospect that we are right on the threshold of the time when the air-ship will be dropping deadly bombs from the skies, the battle-ship architects are put to their wits' ends to know what to do next.
The intensity of the struggle in preparations for war is awful. And despite all the efforts of the good men and women who are working to hold it in check, it goes right on increasing in its destructive madness. There should be no doubt in the mind of any thoughtful person that we are in the very time foretold in the sixteenth chapter of Revelation, when the spirits of demons are going to the kings of the whole world to incite them to the great Armageddon war of the day of the Lord.
The Patient Must Surely Be Very Sick
By T.
ALL the papers and magazines of the country are telling us of the social ills of this time. Some of these papers are dwelling on one class of ills, and other papers are telling of a different class, and so on. But all are agreed that something is very wrong. Murders and suicides are on the increase; insanity is on the increase, some affirming that it is increasing five times as fast as the population; the consumption of wines, beers, and liquors is on the increase; the white slave traffic is assuming appalling proportions; corrupt officials in many of the large cities have formed an alliance with the criminal and the prostitute, and have so commercialized vice and crime that the honest officer who would do his duty is borne down by the host of other officers who are affiliated with the base and lawless ones; the wealth of the world has been gathered into the hands of a few men, while the rest of humanity are facing the problem of the “high cost of living,” to say nothing of the actual starvation that is staring millions of people in the face. And the list might be greatly increased if necessary.
Now there is no denying the fact that the whole press of the world is given up to the discussion of the problems that are confronting us to-day. Bitter denunciations are hurled in every direction. Each one has his peculiar theory as to the cause of all the trouble, and he is also sure that he has a remedy that would cure the whole thing if he could only get men to listen to him and apply his cure-all. Old established papers are discussing the situation, and old societies and organizations are working to check the tide of evil. And new societies are organized, and new papers are launched, each one with the specific purpose in mind of combating some one or more of the ills and dangers that threaten to disrupt society.
Some are sounding quite a cheery note, in spite of the conditions that all recognize to be appalling. They think that somehow things will suddenly become better. There will be a revolution, or something of the kind, that will cure the social malady. But in view of the fact that the disease has become so deep-seated and so thoroly chronic, where is the revolution to come from that will relieve it? Is it not far wiser for sane men to acknowledge that God knew what He was talking about when He declared centuries ago that “evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived”? And again we have the statement “that in the last days perilous times shall come.” And still again we have this word — that there shall be “upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.”
Are not the perils of the last days even now upon us? Are we not in the time when men’s hearts are failing them for fear as they look after those things that are coming upon the earth? God’s Word does not descend to project theories; it assumes to speak with authority, and proclaims fact. To stand with that Word is to stand on the foundations of security, and safety, and power; to do otherwise is to plunge into the conflicting mass of theories that mere men have invented, flounder for a while in the despair of uncertainty, and finally go down to utter ruin.
T.
More than Raiment
By Clara Edna Rosencrans
By Clara Edna Rosencrans
HOW often we meet people who are extremely unprepossessing! The features seem thrown together without any regard to each other. The nose does violence to every canon of beauty. The mouth is wide, the teeth are uneven, and the ears are out of all proportion.
It would seem at the first glance that to love such a person would be impossible. Gradually, however, as we come to know that person better,—as the barriers are broken down, and friendship and confidence are established,—we begin to see below the homely exterior, and to discern the beautiful spirit that dwells within this humble temple. The gentle graces of the Spirit have so transformed it that soon we find ourselves looking at that face with new eyes, and discovering things both admirable and beautiful.
It is then that we have a faint glimpse of what our Lord meant when He said, "Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?"
How is it that we judge our friends? By the gowns they wear? By the irreproachable evening suit, or the very latest creation in head-gear? I greatly fear that if we do this we shall never get below the surface. To be sure, dress is an indication of character, and as such, is valuable as far as it goes; but like the homely face, it often hides inward beauties of which we little dream.
If we have the spirit of the Master, we shall look beneath the outward seeming; beneath the awkward, ill-fitting garments, the plain, irresponsive features; will catch the winning smile that curves the wide mouth into lines of beauty, and note how the dull eyes kindle at some noble thought. These things show us the person—show what spirit has its dwelling-place in the inner chambers of the soul, where the altar-fires are kept burning with constant care, fed by an inspiration not gathered from outward things. Could we but see these lives as God can see them—see all the secret springs of action laid bare—and know that beneath the plain face and homely, ill-clad form dwells a spirit noble even to sublimity—see how the fires of genius, the love of beauty, the joy of attainment, have all been quenched by poverty and lonely, unremitting toil, we should feel like covering our faces in awe, that our Father could make something so beautiful and sweet out of a thing seemingly spoiled and blighted.
How glad we should be, then, that God can see each one of us as we really are; that "all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do;" that tho we may be misunderstood, persecuted, traduced—nay, even killed—the Lord looks not at the record of one day, one month, or one year, but sees the end from the beginning, and that before Him the entire life is read as an open book. But in this thought, beautiful and comforting tho it is, there is an element of terror as well as joy. That God knows the nakedness, the vileness, the evil, of our hearts, is a fearful thought sometimes; and yet His knowing us so utterly, enables Him to clothe us with garments that are entirely fitted to our need, and that will shine with all the purity of heaven.
No one should ever despair, no matter how ugly his face may be. There is power in the love of God to transform the life and to change the expression of the countenance, until that which bore the impress of Satan will wear at last the image of the divine.
Reader, did you ever hear the story of the prisoner whose life had been so black with sin that his face had become ugly and repulsive? Even little children shrank from him, and those who looked into his eyes shuddered as if they had seen a devil. By and by the Lord found him, as He did that other man who came forth from the tombs of Gadara, and the sin was cast out of his life. But his face! how could he meet the world with a face like that? He wanted to work for his Lord; but who would believe that God had changed him, while he carried about with him that terrible hall-mark of his sin? In utter self-abandonment and despair, he threw himself down before God, and cried to Him to give him a new face. He said, "Thou hast given me a new heart, and I know Thou canst give me a new face to mirror forth the change within."
As the years passed, with the years came resignation to labor and to endure. Love, joy, peace came in to dwell with him. Pity for the suffering made his big hands gentle as a woman's, and tenderness for children filled his eyes with warmth and light. Gradually the change for which he had prayed came. As the years passed, the inward life was mirrored in that face, and a strange spiritual beauty took the place of the terrible deformity that had made it the dread of all beholders; and one day, glancing into his mirror, he beheld the answer to his almost forgotten prayer. Falling on his knees, this time in thanksgiving, he poured out his soul to God for the miracle.
Such is the transforming power of love. Such a change, dear reader, will be wrought in your life and mine, if we will but let God have His way with us. He who has Jesus in his heart has a well-spring—a never-failing fountain of tranquil joy. No matter how hard the way may be—no matter how long; no matter what sorrows are his lot, he knows whither the path is leading him, and he can sing amid the trials, "Praise God, I've found the way—Jesus is mine!" Sweetness and light will irradiate every feature, and his face will shine with the beauty of heaven, even while he treads the mazes of the enemy's country.
Life Boat Mission, Springfield, Mo.
Where'er His Hand May Lead
By Flora E. Warren
By Flora E. Warren
Where'er God's hand may lead, go thou,
my soul,
And be content.
Tho it be where the stormy billows roll,
Give glad consent.
He may lead where the daisies glory in
His peaceful life;
Perhaps—the gloomy wilderness of sin,
And toil, and strife.
Where'er His hand may lead, know thou,
my heart,
It is the way
To endless joy—there is no better part—
And perfect day.
A Little Talk at Dinner
THE girl had been married five or six years, and in the main was happy and still "the Girl." Her intelligence and charm, together with her husband's sincerity and kindliness, had made for the couple a circle of friends and acquaintances that included many of the "best" people in town — which, of course, is too often taken to mean merely the people of most wealth and highest social position. The only flaw in the Girl's happiness was the modest size of her husband's income.
To-day she had been one of the guests at a little reception. "The Davises are charming people," she remarked that night at dinner. "I wish we could see more of them."
"Well, I don't know why we can't," her husband answered, cheerfully. "Joe Davis was a close friend of mine in our school-days. We'll have them down here."
"I don't know what they would think of our house after their elegant place," the Girl replied, doubtfully. "Everything about their home is so beautiful — so nice!"
"Why should we care what they think?"
"But don't you care?"
"Not in the least. This is our home, not any one else's. It is in keeping with our circumstances, and therefore it is honest, and represents us. My income is twenty-five hundred dollars a year. Joe Davis's is eight or ten thousand. Joe likes and respects me now — at least, I believe he does; but would he continue to if I tried to cheat people into thinking we were richer than we are?"
"You are not getting the happiness out of life that you should, my dear. There is too much 'Wait till we get the new dining-room furniture,' or 'Yes, as soon as the floors are done over,' or 'Well, after my new dress is finished.' Aren't we cheapening our friends by assuming that they care more for these material things than for us? If not, aren't we cheapening ourselves by continuing to call them friends?"
"The Davises' house is better than ours, but the Mortons' is just as much ahead of the Davises', and I know Morton quite as well as I know Davis. If we try the Davis standard of living now, can we avoid the Morton standard by and by?"
"There is too much of this in our American life. I want to keep clear of it. Let us live our own lives, honestly and openly, enjoying the things we can afford and the friends who like us for what we are, and letting the others go their way."
The Girl thought at the time that the lecture was somewhat severe, but she could find no flaw in the argument, nor has she found any since.—Selected.
Our Work and Workers
SEVEN were baptized on a recent Sabbath at Memphis, Tennessee.
NINE have connected with the company at Spartanburg, South Carolina.
AT Natalbany, Louisiana, five have been baptized, and twelve at New Orleans.
FIVE pupils of the mission school at Punta Gorda, Florida, have been baptized.14(Continued on page 15)
Our Work and Workers
(Continued from page 13)
FIFTEEN have been added to the church at Newbern, North Carolina.
TWENTY-FIVE were baptized at the close of the North Dakota camp-meeting.
AT the Wyoming camp-meeting, eleven souls were buried in the ordinance of baptism.
TWENTY-ONE souls at Wolflake, Indiana, have been baptized, five at Boggstown, and five at Marion.
SIX at Cement, Oklahoma, and six in the vicinity near Cement, have taken their stand for the truth.
NINE souls have united with the church at Baltimore, Maryland, four having recently been baptized.
FOUR persons at Washington Court-house, Ohio, were baptized on a recent Sabbath, and eleven at Akron.
SIX at Dubuque, Iowa, have been baptized, ten at Mt. Etna, six at Cedar Rapids, six at Cedar Falls, three at Fort Dodge, and thirteen at Decorah.
TWENTY-TWO have been added to the church at Clinton, Missouri, and a new church building has been dedicated and a church organized at Mendota.
TEN at Rileyville, Virginia, have been buried in baptism, and eight more at Richmond, making thirty-seven at this place who have recently been baptized.
SOME over fifty were baptized at the South Dakota camp-meeting; twelve Germans have recently received baptism; four persons have been received into church-membership at Aberdeen, and four at Elk Point.
FIFTY-TWO followed their Lord in the ordinance of baptism at the Wisconsin camp-meeting; four at Tomahawk have received this rite, two at Orange, and four at Spooner. A church has been dedicated at Marshfield.
THREE at Bartley, Nebraska, have gone forward in baptism; three families of Germans at Lincoln, Nebraska, have stepped out into the light of this truth; and four persons at North Platte, two of whom have been baptized.
THE last day of the Minnesota camp-meeting, forty candidates were baptized. Four have been baptized at St. Paul, five at Hewitt, three at Lake Eunice, and five joined the church, and seven have been received into the Owatonna church.
A SABBATH-SCHOOL of sixteen members was organized at Sharon Springs, Kansas, on Sabbath, July 13. A church has been organized at Troy, where six young persons have recently been baptized; and eight at Arkansas City have received this ordinance.
A CHURCH with a membership of forty-four has been organized at Savannah, Georgia, where sixty-five adults and thirty children are obeying the message. Twenty-eight have already been baptized, and sixteen others have united with the church subject to baptism.
SEVEN earnest souls at Pueblo, Colorado, have received the rite of baptism. Ten at Canon City, five at Montrose, and five at Fort Lupton have expressed their intention to obey the commandments of God. A new church has been dedicated at Niwot, and a church organization effected at Grand Valley.
AT Ford, Kentucky, four have been baptized; at Yamacraw a Sabbath-school of eighteen members has been organized, and eight adults are walking in the light of present truth; a company of fifteen has been organized at Hartford, and eight have been baptized; and twenty at Louisville have taken a decided stand for the truth.
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