ZEST! How may it most effectually be dissipated, how irrecoverably lost? Forgive me now this wrong, if conscience driven, as I am, I utter what must, I know, offend some who read this paper. Genuine zest disappears wherever fiction holds sway. I am intending no onslaught on novel-reading. I have no Puritanic horror of novels. I have listened to most of those that were the popular fictions of that by-gone time. I would say this only to the heads of families: Make your choice—freely admit from the circulating library the three-volume novels of the season, and then be content to find that all residue of zest is gone as to history or biography, or science, or anything else that is real and genuine, Christianity included. Novel-reading is an infatuation which masters souls as surely as dram-drinking does. Many are the melancholy spectacles which one encounters in towns; as for instance a woman, wasted, worn, in tatters, and near to starvation—that is a sad sight. And so it is sad to meet the well-dressed lady of forty or fifty, hastening home with the three greasy-boarded volumes, which are all to be devoured between the noon of to-day and the dawn of to-morrow! The alternative for the individuals or the family is this: Novel-reading with its consequent ennui and utter apathy, or else genuine feeling, employment with zest, as to whatever is real in life, in history, in science, in poetry, and in general literature. Fiction of any sort in one scale, and reality in the other, the beam will never stand on the level.—Littell's Living Age.
Drought and Starvation in Cuba
VERY little rain has fallen in Cuba for seven months. The tobacco crop is lost. Starvation stares the poor in the face, and subscriptions were being made in Havana for their relief.
Obituary Notices.
DIED, in Olivet, Mich., Oct. 10, 1865; of typhoid fever, Ada, daughter of sister Mary Hayes, aged 6 years and 2 months.
Also, May 21, 1866, of consumption, Lena, another daughter of sister Hayes, aged 12 years, 11 months and 6 days.
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On the death of Dora C., only child of Bro. S. M. and Sr. Maria S. Kellogg, of Battle Creek, Mich., who died, May 18, 1866, aged 7 months, 2 weeks and 5 days.
OH, yes, we do pity, and now we would seek
To speak words of comfort; but language seems weak,
We bid you to turn to God's blessed word,
Its promises sweet, true comfort afford.
Oh then to your hearts these promises bind,
To comfort and cheer the sorrowing mind,
And think as you enter your desolate home,
She was taken away from the evils to come.
From earth's sorrow and strife now sweetly at rest,
While o'er the dear form the cold turf is pressed,
But soon will be broken death's envious chain,
Then glowing in beauty you'll see her again.
A. M. A. CORNELL.
DIED, in Poy Sippi, Wis., May 18th 1866, our only daughter Clara Rosanna, aged 6 months and 9 days.
Words of comfort were spoken by Bro. P. H. Cody, from 2 Sam. xiv, 14.
J. F. & E. G. EASTMAN.
DIED of diptheria in Patton, C. E., Wm. W. Waterhouse, son of R. G. Waterhouse, aged 17 years and 3 months.
William has left the reputation of a kind, amiable, and Christian young man, who loved and tried to keep the commandments of God. The joy of hope is mingled with the tears of the afflicted family.
ALBERT STONE.
Deliver us from Pork.
By Editor
If any think that the light has come forth any too soon on the subject of pork eating, or that any too much is being made of it, we commend to them a careful consideration of the following startling facts, the statement of which we have just received from Bro. D. T. Shireman of Marion, Iowa.
"I wish to say that the pork disease is in our city. Some have died, and others are in a situation that they cannot recover. The circumstances are these: A family residing in this place had two hams brought to them by some of their own relatives, about the first of May.
Some time after a number of the family were taken sick. Last Friday, the 2nd day of June, one child, 11 years old, died; and Sabbath the 3rd, a young man about 23 years old died, both suffering dreadfully. At the present the father and one child are alive, but cannot live long. The mother and one child, and a son, a young man, are very poorly. I understand that some others have been afflicted with the same disease. On examination of some of the flesh of the first boy that died, they estimated that there were about two hundred and sixty thousand of the trichina in a cubic inch.
Appointments.
THE business session of the Wis. and Ill. State Conference will meet at 9 o'clock, A. M., June 22.
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet with the churches in the Western District in Mich., as follows:
Caledonia, Sabbath at 10 A. M., June 23.
On first-day, as Bro. Jones may appoint, “ 24.
Bowne, at Bro. Gardner's, at 2 P. M., “ 26.
Vergennes, at Bro. Vendeusen's, 2 P. M., “ 27.
Cato, Sabbath, at 10 A. M., “ 30.
Fairplains, at 2 P. M., July 3.
Orleans, Sabbath at 10 A. M., “ 7.
The church at Fairplains will meet with us at Orleans.
If my health will permit, further appointments will be given for the Western District.
PROVIDENCE permitting there will be a meeting of S. D. Adventists held on the fourth of July next, in R. I. one mile north of Slocum's Corner Depot, on the Providence and Stonington R. R., to commence at 9½ A. M., preaching at 10½. Said meeting to be continued on the following Sabbath, and over first day. Shall there not be good done in the name of the Lord? Brethren come praying, and ready to labor for this. If the weather permit, this meeting will be in a grove, near Mr. Eben Slocum's. Those who are unacquainted will therefore inquire for Mr. Eben Slocum or Clark Sweet.
The appointment for Memphis, Mich., June 23, on account of sickness, is changed to June 30.
Objections to the Visions.
By Editor
We commence this week the publication of Answers to Objections against the Visions. It may be proper here to state that this manuscript was prepared before our late Conference; but its publication was withheld till it could be submitted to the ministering brethren who might then assemble, for them to decide upon its merits, and the disposition that should be made of it. It was examined by them, and received their approval, with a decision that it should be published.
The most of the manuscript was also read before a joint session of the General and Mich. State Conferences, whereupon the following action was taken in reference thereto:
"Resolved, That we, the members of the General and Mich. State Conference, having heard a portion of the manuscript read, which has been prepared by Bro. U. Smith, in answer to certain objections recently brought against the visions of Sister White, do hereby express our hearty approval of the same."
"Resolved, That we tender our thanks to Bro. Smith for his able defense of the visions against the attacks of their opponents."
We would further state that in preparing these answers we have had no consultation whatever with sister White, nor received any suggestion or explanation from her on any point. We take the visions as they are published, and base our explanation of any apparent discrepancy, on the language as it stands.
In connection with this, it was also proposed at the Conference that there be published, some of the remarkable fulfillments of the visions that have occurred to the present time, with which those are well acquainted who have known them from the beginning. Brn. Bates, Andrews, and Loughborough were suggested as proper persons to furnish incidents of this kind; and they are hereby requested to prepare them for publication at their very earliest convenience.
To Correspondents.
By Editor
H. C. MILLER. The editions of Testimony for the Church, Nos. 7 and 9, in which occur the quotations to which you refer in Review, No. 22, last volume, are exhausted. Unless we re-publish them immediately, our opponents will doubtless accuse us at once of having suppressed them.
D. M. C. The obituary notice you speak of, appeared in last Review.
ARTICLES DECLINED. An article entitled The First Angel's Message, we shall not be able to use. The sentences are so long and complicated, that they would almost certainly make confusion in the mind of the reader. It would need to be re-written, for which we have not time.—Young women; not appropriate for the Review.—Love of Money; not treated from a point of view which would adapt it to the circumstances or dangers of our brethren.—Extracts from Muller's Life of Trust we have not room for. His operations are so remote, and his circumstances so different from those in which any of our brethren are, or probably will be, placed, that we think his work would rather serve to distract than strengthen faith. The perusal of works on present truth, or the experience of some well-tried but faithful Christian in our own midst, would in our judgment be more adapted to the wants of Sabbath-keepers, and more calculated to do them good.—Response to a Friendly Letter. It would hardly be worth while to publish this without the article that called it forth.—Forgive as Ye would be Forgiven. The style is too florid and the ideas too scattering.
ARTICLES ACCEPTED. Report from Tuscola.—The Christian's Hope.—To-day and To-morrow.—The Lord Jesus Christ the Great Pattern of Meekness.—Patience.—Our Responsibility.—Allegan Monthly Meeting.—
We have other articles on hand which we have not time to decide upon this week.
Sunday Drinking in New York
SEVENTY thousand persons went out of New York on Sunday, seeking localities where they could obtain whiskey and lager beer.
Business Department.
By Editor
Business Notes.
SOMEBODY from Hubbardston, Mass., sends $2.25, and requests credit to be given on Jeremiah Tolman's Instructor, and mentions other business, but signs no name. Who is it?
Jane Stacy. The money is sent as you requested.
A. N. Curtis. No.
Louis Oaks. Did not receive the money, but now give you the credit.
Z. Tyler. No subscriptions received for less than six months.
Eld. A. C. Bourdeau. Have sent your Bible and Hymn Book to Richmond, Iowa, care of H. Nicola.
W. C. G. The letter contained only $2.50.
Wm. Lessiter. Tell us where you hail from and we will stop your paper.
T. P. Finch. We are sending Review to Monterey to T. B. Finch. Is it intended for you? We send none to Allegan for you.
Susan McIntosh. The $2.00 we sent to Sr. Bostwick.
RECEIPTS.
For Review and Herald.
Annexed to each receipt in the following list, is the Volume and Number of the REVIEW & HERALD to which the money remitted pays. If money for the paper is not in due time acknowledged, immediate notice of the situation should then be given.
C W Bisbee 27-1, D M Phillips 29-1, T Ramsey 28-13, E Lanphear 29-1, L Oaks 28-1, I Church 30-1, B F Smith 30-1, J G Jones 29-1, A Smith 29-1, W Towle 29-1, F L Parker 28-18, D Myers 29-1, R Moran 28-1, E Tucker 29-1, W G Randall 29-11, H J Rich 29-1, M Rich 29-1, M Rich 29-1, Eld P Wheeler 29-1, P Allen 29-1, P Rusha 29-1, C Amy 28-14, J M StJohn 29-14, W White 28-1, P A Carlisle 30-1, N N Anway 29-14, each $1.00.
F C Ross 29-1, M E Rust 29-1, C E Cole 31-1, C Smith 30-1, E O Nelson 29-1, G W Pierce 30-1, J Hackett 30-1, J McGee 30-1, S A Doud 30-1, R Ashall 30-1, Mrs C Dalbey 29-1, J Hicks 29-13, J Cowles 29-9, J Glover 28-9, F Jeffrey 30-1, O B Sevey 30-1, J Richardson 28-1, W Janes 30-1, J J Vosburg 29-1, R Rundall 30-1, A L Malin 30-1, C G Daniel 29-1, A M Cornell 30-1, each $2.00.
G Ames $3.00, 29-1, Mrs S H Bonfoey $1.15, 29-5, J D Morton $4.00, 31-1, Z Tyler $3.00, 30-1, J R Carr $3.00, 30-13, H Cline $1.50 29-1, J M Ballou $4.00, 32-1, L Bristol $4.00, 30-1, E Mugford $1.50, 28-1.
B J Davis 29-1, L Wright 28-6, Dr C R Gilbert 28-13, J Carlisle 28-13, each 50cts.
Subscriptions at the Rate of $3.00 per year.
H Lindsay $3.00, 29-22, J Langdon $3.00, 30-1, T S McDonald $3.00, 29-11, O D Washburn $3.00, 30-1.
Books Sent By Mail.
A Preston 20c, H E A Demill 25c, G Inwood $1.00, P Stoddard $1.00, Eld J B Goodrich 25c, O D Washburn 25c, J Carlisle 50c, R Rundall $1.50.
Cash Received on Account.
H Lindsay $1.50, C O Taylor $5.75, B F Carpenter $10.00, J Bates $8.00.
Michigan Conference Fund.
S A Demill $10.00. Ch. at Oneida $6.00, at Seville s. b. $20.00, at Alma $20.00, at Watson $10.00.
Review and Publication Fund.
I C Snow $25.00, G W Pierce $3.00, O D Washburn $1.00. Ch. at Wakeman, O., $5.00, L Scheilhous $1.
To Raise the sum of $500 for Bro. R. F. Cottrell.
Previously received $60.00, Dan R Palmer $10.00.
To Raise the Sum of $700, for Bro. M. E. Cornell.
Previously received, $95.00, J P Flemming $10.00, Dan R Palmer 25.00, Ch at Owasso 10.00, H A St John 5.00, E H Root 20.00.
For Danish Tract.
Thomas Bickle $2.00, A Olson $15.00, S Sorens $10, H Olson $10.00, O A Olson $3.00, T Johnson $2.00, B Olson $3.00, A Matteson $1.00, S A Olson 1.00.
Hall’s Scriptural Quotations
By Editor
In the article, "Nature and Destiny of Man," another installment of which we give this week, we print Eld. Hall's quotations from the Scriptures as we find them in the Recorder. In almost every instance they vary somewhat from the common version. Perhaps he gives a translation of his own from the original Greek.
Spiritualist Murderers Sentenced
By Editor
In Review, Vol. xxvii, No. 5, we noticed the murder of three children in this city by their Spiritualist mother, a Mrs. Haviland, in connection with a certain Dr. Baker. The parties have just had their trial in the circuit court of this county, the result of which is, that they have been found guilty of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to solitary imprisonment for life.
Church and Conference Business Blanks
By Editor
We send out this week to the churches in Michigan, blanks to be used in the transaction of church and Conference business. They will doubtless be readily understood by all. If any church fails to receive them, let them notify us.
Bro. Frisbie’s Summer Labor
By Editor
To those who may be interested to learn the arrangements of Bro. Frisbie in relation to laboring in the cause the coming summer, we would say that at his own request he remains at home, during the warm season.