BRO. WHITE: Sabbath, Aug. 4, I spent with the churches of Jackson, Tompkins, Hanover, and brethren from Leslie, at their Monthly Meeting in Jackson. I believe all felt that this was no time to give place to the enemy, and if we had done it, speedily to get free. We had the ordinances, and I trust all felt benefited by this meeting. Meeting the 5th, at Leslie, where we exhorted them to press together and be of one mind in the Lord. The 8th and 9th I was with the church at Greenbush. One youth was baptized. May he prove faithful. Here, three years ago, I baptized six youth and children; and all are proving faithful.
The 11th and 12th, I had three meetings with the church at Ithaca. I had never met with them before. They were led to embrace the present truth by the labors of Brn. Van Horn, Lawrence, and Canright, two years since. They now have a neat, plain house of worship, and I believe are laboring on all points to be a people of reform.
The 15th and 16th I had three meetings with the church at Seville. Their numbers are small; but they give evidence of love for the truth. The elder of this church has had a hard battle to fight with tobacco, but is a conqueror. He has not used it since Bro. Van Horn's visit with them last spring. May others do likewise.
The 18th and 19th, I had five meetings with the church at Alma. Their place of meeting is a large hall, owned by Bro. Gargett, merchant. Our meetings were well attended, and a lively interest was felt in the truth.
We met again with the church at Ithaca the evening of the 19th. The 20th, met with the church at Greenbush, and attended the ordinances. The 21st, visited Brn. in Matherton. Sickness prevented our meeting. Staid with the family of Bro. Perry, at Portland. The 22d, visited the sick, and put up with Bro. Dubois, at Oneida. Sickness prevented our meeting. The 24th and 25th, had three meetings with the churches of Oneida, Windsor, and Charlotte at their Monthly Meeting at the school-house, near Bro. Carman's. Our meeting was one of interest. I think all felt that it was time to rise and put forth united effort. I hope it will not be long before they will erect a house of worship. Arrived home the 26th, in comfortable health.
“It is a very awful and solemn thought, that every one of us must stand before the judgment-seat of Christ. And yet how very apt are we all to forget it. The scoffer says, “Where is the promise of his coming?” and we justly condemn him, but practically we too often act as if he were not coming—as if the Lord Jesus Christ had gone, never to return, never to come again to judge the quick and dead! Yet, ‘The Lord is not slack concerning His promise.’ He has promised, and he has not forgotten his promise, as some men think he has forgotten it: he is simply long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish.”
Female Drunkenness.
THE Round Table publishes a startling article upon drunkenness among women. It says the vice is prevalent among fashionable ladies, and that some of the most elegant of them will pass the summer, not at Saratoga or Newport as usual, but at an asylum for inebriates. The writer intimates that the vice of fashionable drinking is now more prevalent among the ladies than among the gentlemen of this country; that certain dressmakers make it a point to furnish their customers with drink, while in some stores bottles of wine are also kept on hand for lady shoppers, and in others, merchants allow their boys to go to the nearest bar-room for liquor when ladies desire it. Whisky and brandy are the favorite drinks of these ladies, and as some of the saloons they frequent do not have these liquors on the bill of fare, a neat little sign—“If you do not see what you want, ask for it,” gives the hint to the initiated. In dressmakers’ bills the significant item “small trimmings” often covers up the expense of liquors which the lady has ordered through the modiste who panders to her vitiated taste, while at the watering places a bribe to the waiter procures a secret supply of liquor, which, by the connivance of the landlord, is charged as “extra luncheons.” It is asserted that girls of 18, daughters of most respectable New York merchants, have been seen grossly intoxicated in Broadway stages and upon the public streets, and that no superiority of intellect or social position is sufficient to guard a lady against this vice.
The Health Institute at Battle Creek.
By John Nevins Andrews
I DESIRE to call the attention of our friends still further to this important enterprise. Its merits have been well set forth by others, and with what has been said I heartily agree. As a people, we have undertaken to do what no other religious denomination, to my knowledge, has ever attempted. We have taken in hand the idea of Christian temperance as set forth in the Bible and endeavored to make it a practical matter throughout our whole body. Considering the difficulties of the undertaking, we have met with great success.
That this great idea of “ceasing to do evil and learning to do well,” is the grand secret of restoring and preserving health, is now clearly understood. But how shall we secure the accomplishment of this object?
We answer that this is to be effected to a large extent by the proposed Health Institute. Here we mean to have not only the best facilities for the treatment of disease, but the best of instructions by means of lectures, that everything may be fully understood by those who shall attend. All indeed will not be able to visit the Institute; but some from every quarter will do it, and thus practical instruction will be diffused throughout our ranks on the preservation of health, and on the treatment of disease.
We therefore appeal to our friends everywhere, to aid in this important enterprise, by taking shares in the Health Institute. We mean that it shall be managed with prudence and integrity, and we believe that it will yield a fair per cent. upon the money invested. We therefore ask those who appreciate this enterprise, to invest their means therein, believing that they may help forward a noble object, and at the same time secure a fair return to themselves.
J. N. ANDREWS.
Appointments.
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet with the churches in the Southern district of Michigan, and Northern Indiana as follows:
Burlington, Sept. 15, 16.
Tompkins, " 18, 19.
Jackson, " 20.
Hanover, " 22, 23.
Ransom Center, " 29, 30.
Hillsdale, Oct. 6, 7.
Colon, " 9, 10.
Salem Center, Ind., " 13, 14.
South Bend, " " 17, 18.
North Liberty, " " 20, 21.
Meetings on the Sabbath commence at 10, A. M. Appointments for the other churches in the Southern district following in order.
Will one of the brethren in Burlington meet me at 1, P. M., in Marshall, at the depot, Friday, Sept. 14, 1866.
JOSEPH BATES.
We design to hold meetings as follows:
Sabbath and first-day, Sept. 15 and 16, D. M. C. will hold meetings in Cornville; J. N. A. will hold meetings in Eddington.
The following week, J. N. A. will attend the N. Y. State Conference.
After these appointments are fulfilled, we hope to labor mainly in the other New England States.
J. N. ANDREWS.
D. M. CANRIGHT.
PROVIDENCE permitting Eld. J. H. Waggoner will attend the Monthly Meeting at Orange, Sept. 29 and 30. Also Eld. J. Byington will meet with the church at Vassar, Tuscola Co., Sept. 29 and 30, and with the church at Warrensville, the Sabbath and first-day following. He will then be prepared to bestow further labor in the county, if circumstances demand it.
MICH. CONF. COM.
THE next Quarterly Meeting of the Waukon, West Union, and Elgin churches, will be held at West Union, Iowa, commencing Sabbath, Sept. 29, 1866. It is hoped the Brn. Bourdeau will be present.
GEORGE I. BUTLER.
PROVIDENCE permitting, Eld. M. E. Cornell will meet with the church in Oneida, Mich., Sabbath, Sept. 29, and preach the funeral sermon of Bro. Cole’s daughter on first-day, the 30th. Meetings to be held as the brethren in Oneida may arrange. The churches of Charlotte and Windsor, are invited to consider this their Monthly Meeting, and meet with them.
MICH. CONF. COM.
The Atlantic Cable.
It is astonishing that men will overlook startling fulfillments of prophecy in our own time, which are as consistent as the rules of mathematics, and as plain as the alphabet, and then strain themselves to find prophetic fulfillment, in a manner so distressing as the following:—
“SCRIPTURAL PROPHECY OF THE ATLANTIC CABLE. Rev. Tresham Dawes Gregg, Chaplain of Nicholas Within, Dublin, Ireland, has made an original translation of the Prayer of Habakkuk, in which he finds Scriptural prophecy concerning the Atlantic Telegraph, according to his version of the third chapter of Habakkuk, which differs in essential particulars from the accepted version. The ninth verse reads as follows: ‘Thou didst make thy bow quite naked, seven rods each, spoke Selah; thou didst cleave the earth with flowings.’ The explanation is, ‘Here the cable is the bow, composed of seven compartments (or wires), or seven may stand for a sufficiency. The oracle is marvelous in its accuracy.’ 11th verse, ‘The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation. For enlightenment thine arrows went for illumination, the lightning of thy spear.’ Comment: ‘Through telegraphic rapidity, the element of time seems illuminated as though heavenly bodies were stationary.’”
“The Visions, Objections Answered.”
By C. O. Taylor
DEAR BRETHREN: I have read with deep interest, the articles entitled “The Visions, Objections Answered.” There has been no subject in all the Advent message, that I have been so slow to believe as I have the visions. My mind at first was much prejudiced against them, and every advance step was taken with great caution; every point had to be weighed; and I am a believer in them, because the evidence is so clear and conclusive that I cannot doubt them. I do not wish to reject any truth, neither do my brethren. I would say to them, Read up, and inform your minds on this important point of truth. There is no occasion to be wavering and doubting. You may know for yourselves, having the evidence within you that they are of the Lord. Those men that have raised objections against them, are as capable as any of doing so. They have been in our ranks. They have believed them, or at least professed to. I consider that Bro. Smith has answered every objection, as clearly and plainly, as they could the objections of the Infidel against the Bible. I say again, Read up. Now is the time. Let them be a subject for the Bible Class. Let them have a thorough examination. Truth will stand. Many of those same objections have perhaps troubled you. Read the answers. Read twice, yea thrice, and even more, till you can see the point, and light and peace will be the reward of your labor.
C. O. TAYLOR.
Farmington, Pa., Aug. 24, 1866.
Quarterly Meeting in Ill.
By B. F. Merritt
BRO. WHITE: Our Quarterly Meeting has just closed. We trust the church has been benefited, and good been done by this meeting.
Bro. Blanchard was with us and spoke three times. We missed those of our brethren and sisters, who have formerly met with us on such occasions, but were absent at this meeting. We trust they will be true to their profession, and faithfully do the Master's will.
We were made glad by seeing two of our Sabbath-School scholars go forward in the ordinance of baptism. May the Lord help us to work and pray more earnestly for the prosperity of Zion, that the honest-hearted may be brought to a saving knowledge of the truth.
B. F. MERRITT.
To Correspondents.
J. SAWYER. Bro. Loughborough, no providence preventing, will visit Wright, on his tour in this State, after the N. Y. Conference.
ARTICLES DECLINED. “Thoughts on the Care of God at the Close of Day:” contains too much that is thrown in simply to form rhyme. In poetry, equally with prose, the train of thought, and the connection and dependence of ideas should be preserved inviolate; and the rhyme should come in without any apparent effort.
ARTICLES ACCEPTED. Missionary Longings,—The Two Crowns,—Looking Beyond,—Praise and Prayer,—Strangers and Pilgrims,—The Weapons of Our Warfare,—The Third Angel’s Message.
Notice.
By C. O. TAYLOR
THOSE coming to the State conference at Roosevelt, can reach Fulton at 4 P. M. They will please do so, as there will be no teams there at a later hour.
C. O. TAYLOR.
Wellsville, N. Y., Aug. 13, 1866.
Business Department.
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 receipted pays. If money for the paper is not in due time acknowledged, immediate notice of the omission should then be given.
J F Upham 31–1, N H Ordway 30–15, Sarah Irons 30–15, B J Brokaw 30–15, W F Crous 29–4, W S Foote 29–1, M A Holt 29–1, Mary Paul 30–1, Jane Lambert 29–1, D Parker 29–6, J A Cook 30–14, S G Dunscomb 29–6, A H Babcock 29–15, J G Brown 29–19, F Taylor 29–19, A Greene 29–15, R Ralph 28–9, J Kemp 30–1, each $1.00.
L Ross 30–14, M Castle 30–1, J Leland 30–8, Mary Woodward 32–1, M Wolfe 29–1, M A Mills 30–14, A Fife 31–1, A R Morse 30–1, A C Hendrick 30–15, L Darling 30–12, P A Gammon 30–9, L C Patten 29–1, J S Van Deusen 30–14, Mrs A Clough 28–19, Louisa Day 28–18, Mrs Betsy Judd 30–11, J F Troxel 30–8, John Belden 30–13, D W Randall 30–13, T B Dewing 29–10, G W Titus 30–15, W Van Giesen 30–14, each $2.00.
S R Smith $3.00, 30–1, M J Clarke $1.50, 30–15, W McFadden $1.50, 30–15, J W Wolfe $3.00, 30–13, A Chase 50c, 30–1, J W Blake $2.79, 30–9, W N Brown $3.00, 31–6.
Subscriptions at the Rate of $3.00 per year.
J B Lamson $3.00, 30–14, D A Wetmore $3.00, 30–10, S Rogers $3.00, 30–20.
Books Sent By Mail.
A C Bourdeau $2.50, A Sherburne $2.00, J C North 12c, J Leland $1.20, J Hoofman 12c, B Kimball 12c, J W Wolfe $1.00, A Johnson 50c, Mrs C Paul $1.12, A Chase 70c, J W Blake $2.21, R Bisbee $1.12, J C Gregory 5c, J Kemp 27c.
Books Sent By Express.
D Smouse, Washington, Iowa, $8.00.
Cash Received on Account.
M A Howard 40c, S B Gowell $25.00, A S Johnson $2.35.
For the Western Health-Reform Institute.
The following amounts are subscribed for shares in The Western Health-Reform Institute at $25.00, each share.
S A McPherson $50.00, O Davis $25.00, E Lobdell $25.00, John Kemp $25.00.
On Shares in the W. H. R. Institute.
The following amounts have been paid on pledges previously given to the Health-Reform Institute.
J M Lindsay $75.00, S A McPherson $50.00, S Rogers $25.00, E Lobdell $25.00.
Topsham Appointment Withdrawn
Brn. Andrews and Canright wish us to say that their appointment for Topsham, Me., Sept. 22 and 23, is withdrawn. They will meet with the brethren in Portland, at that time.
Iowa Convocation Meeting Report
Read the cheering report from Bro. Loughborough of the good Convocation Meeting in Iowa. Thank God for all the tokens of his favor.