THE last antiquarian sensation, and one which bids fair to exceed the Nineveh discoveries of Mr. Layard—if the announcement is only true—is the discovery of the ancient gold-exporting city of Ophir, of biblical fame. The alleged discovery points to that part of Southeastern Africa lying north of Zululand as the site of the old city. The tribe living in the locality allow, it is said, no approach to the ruins, from which it is supposed they procure the materials for the manufacture of certain gold ornaments they are in the habit of wearing. Discarding a great many probable falsehoods and exaggerations, the truth of the matter seems to be that gold is found in the corner of Africa indicated, and that there are some traces there of an ancient civilized settlement. Biblical allusions seem to confirm this supposition, and the majority of antiquarians lean to the opinion that Ophir was situated somewhere in that part of the continent of Africa.—Public Opinion.
Gratitude
GRATITUDE.—A poor Protestant congregation in Lyons was trying to build a small house for their public worship. An old soldier brought all his three months' earnings. “Can you spare so much?” asked the minister.
“My Saviour spared not himself,” he answered, tears of gratitude and love trickling down his cheeks, “but freely gave his life for me; surely I can spare one quarter of a year's earnings to extend his kingdom on earth.”
Is not that a motive to open the heart?
The Pope’s Prediction
THE Pope recently made an address to his cardinals, in which he said that the present year would witness an extraordinary triumph of the Church, and that he would die in 1868.
P. A. BRIGHAM
By P. A. BRIGHAM
From Sister Brigham.
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: Our Monthly Meeting which has just closed was one of interest, and I trust profit to the church here, and at Adams' Center. Bro. Fuller was with us according to appointment, and gave us the words of life. Sabbath morning he gave a discourse from Mark xii, 16. The Spirit of the Lord accompanied his words, and I felt to tremble as the question came to my own heart, Shall I come up to the courts of Heaven with a counterfeit hope? I felt to ask the Lord to help me to have the genuine, that I might share in the blessings soon to be given to God's people. Sunday afternoon we listened to an interesting discourse on the resurrection. Truly I can say that these were comforting words to my poor heart. I felt to say, Sleep dear companion, till the trials of earth are past, then shall we meet again to talk over our trials never more to be parted. Sleep on, lovely babe. While you hold the flowers that fade, you will soon pluck with that lovely hand the flowers that never fade. Oh glorious thought! My heart leaps at the thought of the time when “in that happy land, we no more take the parting hand.”
And again was my heart made glad to see God's servant come to my lonely dwelling, to speak words of courage and comfort. I felt that God's faithful shepherds had a care for the lonely ones, and God would reward them. Our heavenly Father hath chosen us in the furnace of affliction, and when he can see reflected in us his lovely image, then we shall have overcome. I believe that God is leading this people on to victory. Let me share in the sorrows of earth, and be partaker in the joys when Jesus comes; and I ask no more. Oh let us take courage! Jesus will soon come. He says, In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. And he will help us also.
P. A. BRIGHAM
Mannsville, Jeff. Co., N. Y.
Obituary Notices.
By Libbie W. Crandall
Died, near Lewistown, Fulton Co., Ill., March 25th, 1866, of Lung Fever, Oliver Perry, youngest son of Frank and Libbie W. Crandall, aged 9 months and 3 days. Before he left us, it had seemed that we could not part with our treasure; but our hearts have been comforted, and we know our infant is at rest; and that in the resurrection, if our lives are ordered aright, we shall again receive him to our embrace.
In the resurrection morning,
When the Saviour, Christ, appears;
We'll again embrace our darling,
In a land that's free from tears.
LIBBIE W. CRANDALL.
The Sabbath.
By Editor
In connection with the article of Bro. Canright in this number concerning the movement in Maine in behalf of the first day of the week as the Christian Sabbath, we notice an article from the Wisconsin Puritan on the same subject, copied into the Peninsular Courier of this State. The article thus speaks concerning those who keep, and teach others to keep, the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day of the week:
"The agency of some honest, but, as we believe, misguided friends of Christ is also used by the adversary, in the endeavor to unsettle the convictions of Christians respecting the day of the week which is commonly observed as a day of sacred rest. Documents are published and widely circulated, designed to prove that the seventh day of the week, and not the first, is the Christian Sabbath. The effect of such efforts, so far as they may be successful, will be throwing open the question, to divide and scatter the friends of the Sabbath, and impair public respect and reverence for the day."
The writer then goes on in a nervous style to urge the importance of the Christian Sabbath, and the necessity of all observing it, if we would save our nation from moral destruction and social and civil wreck. He proceeds to exalt in a fervid manner the first day over the seventh, and cry out against the mischief those are doing who are so tenacious for a particular day. We have not room for his arguments, which are of the usual kind, but make a note of the article as an evidence that there is an undercurrent of agitation on this question which is occasionally coming to the surface.
We look for the great appeal to be made in behalf of the first-day Sabbath on the ground of national necessity, and when reason and history and Scripture fail in the support of the institution, the only recourse left, by which to enforce it, is to the strong arm of the law.
Appointments.
THE Lord willing, the next Quarterly Meeting for the church at Mauston, Wis., will be held Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 20 and 21. Brethren living at Hillsborough, Narrow's Prairie, Baraboo, and Dell Prairie, are expected to attend this meeting.
Hundred Mile Grove, Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 27 and 28.
For Sand Prairie, Tafton, Kickapoo, and Brodtville, at Sand Prairie, Sabbath and first-day, Nov. 3 and 4.
We hope all the brethren and sisters in the limits of these appointments will take pains to attend. Scattered brethren especially are invited. Come, praying that the Lord may meet with us, and that we may have a refreshing from his presence.
I. SANBORN,
R. F. ANDREWS.
THE next Monthly Meeting for Allegan Co., Mich., will be held in Monterey, the first Sabbath in October.
P. STRONG.
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Mercies Acknowledged.
By Geo. W. Amadon
DEAR BRETHREN: I desire to say to the praise of God, that I am apparently fast recovering from my sickness, which has confined me to my bed for over three weeks. My disease was the typhoid fever, which brought me quite low. During this sickness, I was under the care of the physicians of the Health Institute, located in this city, consequently have taken no drugs into my system to poison my life currents, and so retard my restoration to health. I feel that during my affliction, God has truly been very good and merciful to me. Whilst others at the same time, with the same disease, have been cut down, my unprofitable life has been spared, for which I sincerely praise the name of the Lord. The enemy has not been permitted to triumph, and in due time, with God’s blessing, I again expect to resume my duties in the Office.
The feelings of my heart at this time, are well expressed in Ps. cxxxvi, 1. “Oh give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth forever.”
GEO. W. AMADON.
Meetings in Allegan Co., Mich.
By P. Strong
BRO. WHITE: We met with the brethren in Allegan at our last monthly gathering, Sept. 1. It being rather wet, and bad getting out, there was not so full an attendance as usual. But those that were present, were made to rejoice in the Lord, and their testimonies are, to move on with the messages.
Sept. 15 and 16, met with the scattered few in Manlius, held four meetings with them. Some of the brethren from Allegan came to this meeting on the Sabbath, and their testimonies had a strengthening influence. There was a load started to join us from Monterey, but the bridge being gone, they had to turn back.
There are eleven keeping the Sabbath in this place, but they are somewhat scattered, making it rather hard for them to get together. Still they have meetings every Sabbath.
There are four out of the eleven who belong to the Allegan church, sixteen miles away; and they ask with the rest of these brethren, to be organized, at home, into a church, and to be remembered by the committee in their distribution of labor in this district.
P. STRONG.
Pine Grove Mills, Mich.
Notice to Brethren in Ohio.
The Quarterly Meeting appointed in Review No. 13, to be at Portage, Nov. 10 and 11, is to be at Lovett's Grove.
OHIO CONF. COM.
Raising the New Meeting-House
The raising of our new meeting-house was successfully accomplished without accident of any kind, on Wednesday, Sept. 26. An interesting feature of the occasion, was the plain dinner which the sisters prepared on the ground for the eighty-five men engaged in the raising, to which no one at the dinner hour seemed at all to object. This is the third house which the increasing work of present truth has rendered it necessary to build here. Its dimensions are 40 by 66 feet, 23 feet high inside. By means of the gallery over the entry, it is estimated that it will seat on special occasions one thousand persons. This is large enough for present use; but if at any future time it should be necessary even to make an addition to this house, no lover of the truth, certainly, will be found to object.
The Health Institute Windmill
We have been delighting our eyes for a few days past with the sight of the Windmill for the Health Institute, which is now up and in working order. It is an ornament to the neighborhood, and works in the most satisfactory manner. By means of a double-acting force-pump, it throws water from the well, with a very moderate breeze, through the hundred and twenty-four rods of pipe, elevating it some eighty feet, at the rate of a barrel in from three to five minutes. An inexhaustible supply of the purest water known is thus secured. This water is first received into a tank directly over the bath-room, of the capacity of three hundred barrels. From thence it is taken to the heating-tank, on the same floor, containing fifty barrels; and by means of pipes leading from both tanks to the bath-room below, water is easily tempered to any degree of heat required for the various baths to be given.
Hygienic Living and Sickness
By Editor
The communication from Bro. Amadon, in another column, may be the first information with many of our readers that he has been prostrated with a severe attack of typhoid fever. And we learn that some are ready to ask how it is that those who are trying to live hygienically, if the system is as good as we claim it is, are ever sick. We answer that some of us are not yet able to live altogether hygienically in the matter of labor. Bro. A.'s attack was brought on by an undue amount of care and labor as foreman of this Office. The apology we have to offer for this is that it is the hardest thing in the world for a person, whose whole interest is in the work, to see the work suffer, if he can prevent it by a sacrifice of his own strength. But violation of law in labor, as well as in diet or any other habit of life, has its penalty which must be paid. And yet, even in sickness, the benefits of the hygienic system are greatly apparent. Had Bro. A. been living as once, this attack would, in all probability, have proved fatal. As it is, through the care of the physicians of the Institute, and the blessing of Heaven, he is rapidly coming up to health again. We greatly need at this Office another hand, as our work is continually increasing, who is a practical printer in all its departments, engineer and pressman, and who can share in the responsibilities and labors of the foreman.