And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Annual Meetings—Special Notice!
GENERAL CONFERENCE.
Providence permitting, the ninth annual session of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Battle Creek, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1871, at 9 o'clock, A. M. All the different State Conferences will please immediately make arrangements to represent themselves by delegate. Let all the delegates come prepared to furnish to the General Conference full statistics of their respective Conferences, according to the blanks issued for that purpose. Scattered brethren everywhere have the privilege of presenting their requests to the Conference, either in person or by letter; and such requests will be acted on according to what may seem to be duty in the matter, or according to the ability of the Conference.
Let those who come be punctual at the commencement, and come prepared to remain to the close.
JAMES WHITE, } Gen.
J. N. ANDREWS, } Conf.
J. H. WAGGONER, } Com.
☞ For want of space, the meetings of the Publishing Association, Health Institute, and Michigan Conference, are not given this week. These, however, follow on the 8th, 9th, and 10th. JAMES WHITE.
MONTHLY meeting at Athens, Me., Sabbath and first-day, Feb. 11 and 12, commencing Sabbath evening at half past six. We hope to see a general gathering at this meeting. By order of the committee, GEO. W. BANKER.
MONTHLY meeting at Tompkins, Mich., for churches in the vicinity, the first Sabbath in February. Let every member of the church that can, be present. Those that cannot come should report by letter. Cannot some messenger meet with us? There will be a team at Jackson on Friday. E. P. GILES.
The next monthly meeting for brethren in the vicinity of Johnstown, will be held at Johnstown Center, Wis., Feb. 4 and 5, 1871. A. B. WILLIAMS.
The Ohio State Conference Committee would like to have the brethren who were licensed at the last Ohio Conference, report through the REVIEW.
OHIO STATE CONF. COM.
Due for Books.
By James White
There are due the Association for books more than three thousand dollars. And a large portion of this amount is in small sums. We decide to settle all these accounts as soon as possible, and then do a cash-in-hand business, at one-third discount on all our books, pamphlets, and tracts.
We are sending out bills of indebtedness, and shall be happy to correct mistakes, if they occur. We shall expect these accounts settled before the first of April. Those who have books on hand can return them to this Office at their own expense. Or, if they choose, retain them, and pay for them at one-third discount.
And here we would state that there are still due us about three hundred dollars for books we have trusted at camp-meetings. We paid for them at this Office from our own private purse, and look to those friends we accommodated for our pay.
We are resolved to do away with this miserable system of trust. Our plan is established, to sell to those who have money to pay, give from the book fund to the poor, and trust none. J. W.
Our Danish Brethren.
By James White
We feel a deep interest in these brethren. Bro. Matteson speaks this week like a sincere man of God. We love him as such, and are anxious to help him in his fervent labors for his people. We are glad to hear that his people are pleased with his Danish hymn book. We have done all in our power to secure to the Danish brethren a good book. We have also printed 2000 copies each of several new Danish tracts. These Danish works, excepting the hymn book, are held for circulation from our book fund, the same as works in English. Those of our Danish brethren, who can circulate them to advantage, and have not the money to pay for them, can have them by sending us the amount of postage. We hope Brn. Matteson, Hansen, Olson, and others, who are active, will feel free to send for Danish or English tracts, as they may need. It is best to sell our works in different languages, if we can; but when people want them, and cannot pay for them, they must have them without pay. For this object the book fund is raised. Brethren, let the light shine. Of whatever tongue we may be, let us remember that the cause of God is one. In union there is strength. J. W.
Health Institute,
By General Conference Committee
We send this week to such of the stockholders of the Health Institute, as have not already done this, an urgent request that they assign their dividends to the charitable fund of the Institute, that that institution may rest wholly upon a charitable basis. We desire to fully accomplish this work by the time of our General Conference. We also send to those who have not already appointed some one to act as their proxy, a paper to be filled out and signed, authorizing such proxy. This is very important, as we must have a majority of the stock represented in order to hold a legal meeting of the Institute. We send you each a stamped envelope, addressed REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich. We trust to receive an immediate response from each of those addressed.
Quite a number of the stockholders have changed their place of residence, so that we know not where to reach them. Those therefore who do not receive our letter, will understand that we know not their address. Will such please report to us, that we may know where to write them? GEN. CONF. COM.
News and Miscellany.
“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
The bombardment of Paris, if a true picture of it be given, is evidently frightful beyond description. The shells and shot go crashing in among the magnificent churches, palaces, art galleries, and parks, killing women and children, and making the sad havoc which such work must make in a beautiful and teeming city. The Germans will naturally be exasperated for this bombardment; but it's little they care for that. If they can bring the war to a close one week sooner, get home to their wives and families and workshops any more quickly, keep down their debt and taxes a million dollars by bombarding Paris, they will do it, let art critics and art worshipers berate them as they may. If Paris wants to save its beauty, let it surrender, they say. We have something to do that concerns us more nearly than to preserve the pictures, and statuary, and domes, and spires, of the Paris which shouted less than six months ago, “On to Berlin!”—Det. Post.
Annexed to each receipt in the following list, is the Volume and Number of the REVIEW & HERALD to which the money receipted pays,—which should correspond with the Numbers on the Papers. If money for the paper is not in due time acknowledged, immediate notice of the omission should then be given.
$1.00 EACH. J D Cramer 36-8, P B Allen 38-1, M Paul 37-1, N Chase 38-1, D Tupson 36-18, A Van Luven 38-1, A Stafford 38-9, S C Hart 38-9, C Korak 38-9, L C Rogers 40-9, M Addison 32-22, Geo Berry 36-16, L Hobly 34-8, P S Thurston 38-1, J E McDowell 38-8, J Taylor 38-9, A Holmes 39-1, W R Chase 38-1, A J Richmond 38-1, C F Hall 38-1, J R Whipple 38-1, Ella Rogers 38-1, J M Gifford 38-1, C P Williams 37-1, Mrs W Butler 38-1.
$2.00 EACH. M N Sarchet 36-1, John Helligas 39-7, Jacob Yates 39-1, A S Osborn 39-1, J M Kilgore 37-19, R Ashbury 39-1, O C Bliss 39-1, F Crandall 38-1, G W Pierce 40-1, Mrs J Shearer 39-1, P Potter 39-3, H Raymond 39-1, A Nellis 39-1, S S Baldwin 39-1, T F Rice 38-9, J Hart 39-1, D M Canright 39-1, D Wilcox 39-1, E J Patterson 38-1, Z Beaman 37-1, B C Sherman 38-14, J Green 39-1, J Valentine 39-1, J C Winslow 39-1, E F Smith 39-1, Geo Penfield 39-1, M A Dayton 39-17, L Austin 39-20, H M Zenor 38-1, H Smith 39-6, L Parrot 39-11, N C Foster 39-1, F Burnham 39-14, S Lunt 39-1, F Wheeler 38-1, F C Perry 39-1, J W Marsh 38-1, M Beach 40-1, E Wallace 38-21, M Stern 39-1, E H Adams 39-8, M Smith 39-1, Chas Chaff a 38-1, D H Lamson 38-1, J Goodwin 38-1, R Miles 35-6, B L Francisco 39-1, J T Terrell 39-1, S E Eldridge 39-1, Walter Case 39-1, D Putman 39-9, G Phillips 36-14, P Allen 39-1, Grace Holbrook 39-1, Jane Holbrook 38-21, J Place 39-1, E Smith 39-1, O T Booth 37-19, M Field 40-18, H L Richmond 38-20, H Buck 39-1, J F Shaw 39-1, R Loveland 39-11, M Leach 39-1, E M Emerson 38-1, N Carpenter 38-20, A Tuttle 39-1, H Brigham 40-1, Wm B Dennison 39-1, A B Burton 39-1, M Boyers 39-1, R M Kilgore 39-1, C Nelson 38-14, S M Colbourne 39-1.
Miscellaneous. B Morris 1.50 40-4, I D Bard 1.50 39-1, H H Hankins 1.50 39-1, W Edgar 4.00 39-1, A C Hudson 5.00 37-1, B Reed 1.50 39-1, N Foster 1.50 39-1, J P Porter 1.50 39-1, B F Brown 1.50 39-1, J A Kelly 1.50 39-1, E Johnson 1.50 39-1, A W Smith 3.00 39-1, H Johnson 1.50 39-1, F Clark 1.50 39-1, S E Huyck 1.50 39-1, J Urice 1.50 39-1, B J Carpenter 4.00 39-6, J C Nicola 2.60 39-1, E Pratt 2.32 37-20, W Ellis 1.80 39-21, N C Sanders 4.00 39-1, L Lape 1.50 39-1, F A Elwell 5.00 37-13, D Johnson 2.15 39-1, M T Connett 1.50 39-1, A Mullen 3.00 37-21, J Binhouser 1.50 39-1, A H Pervorse 1.40 37-16, J Adams 4.00 38-23, M N Cross 3.00 38-17, E Bullard 1.50 38-13, C Baldwin 50c 38-1, L H Eastman 4.50 40-1, D A Babcock 4.00 40-1, S More 1.50 39-1, Ira Dean 1.50 39-1, L W Carr 3.50 40-1, G B Walker 1.50 39-1, J Hornback 1.50 39-1, M Dennis 3.00 37-6, D B Rogers 1.50 39-1, G Marshall 1.50 39-1, S J Twinge 2.08 38-18, B Aldrich 1.50 39-1, M E Chickering 1.50 39-1, C Williams 1.50 39-1, Benj Seaman 1.50 39-1, L Boyce 1.50 39-1, S Axtell 50c 37-17, S H Denman 1.50 39-1, T M Ward 1.50 39-1, E Dyke 2.50 39-5, J E Allen 5.00 39-1, Mrs L Lantier 1.50 39-1, A Marshall 1.50 39-1, J M Trumbo 1.50 39-1, J W Debolt 1.50 39-1, E Martin 1.50 39-1, Mrs Foreman 1.50 39-1, Mrs G Nottingham 1.50 39-1, Eld P S Booth 1.50 39-1, A Noble 1.50 39-1, Amy Luce 5.00 36-1, T Curtis 3.00 39-5, S C Coury 5.00 38-5, J S Johnson 4.00 39-1, F Miller 1.50 39-1, M J Cooper 1.50 39-1, J Cronkite 4.00 37-1, H Richardson 1.50 39-1.
Books Sent by Mail. A E Hafer 50c, A H Pervorse 60c, R Loveland 25c, J C McGown 50c, R E Tetf $1.25, H C Green 75c, H A Place 1.00, D O Hopkins 2.75, S Paine 2.25, C E Cole 50c, W H Hankins 20c, J Field 50c, M A Berry 35c, L Ballard 35c, W A Doyal 50c, Mrs S Billyard 2.90, S N Wright 3.00, Jacob Shively 4.00, Susan Shively 2.00, A B Berton 45c, J Brunton 75c, A S Osborn 2.25, Mrs J Shearer 60c, E C Herro 17c, G A Green 15c, M Tears 50c, G Elliott 30c, W McAllister 30c, A Hamilton 25c, E S Stringer 60c, S H Wickersham 15c, A J Richmond 2.25, H H Babcock 25c, S J Twing 4.92, W Ings 1.10, C Nelson 1.50, W W Nicholson 20c, D M Canright 2.16, E J Connet 15c, C S Haskins 35c, D F Bartlett 60c, H M Cox 50c, N Hanson 3.00, W T Baker 30c, W Fenner 50c.
Books Sent by Express. S C Perry, Portland, Ionia Co., Mich., $5.00, D T Shireman, Marion, Linn Co., Iowa, $20.50.
Received on Shares in Publishing Association. “Friend S” $10.00, M W Kearns 10.00.
Western Camp-Meeting Fund. H B Stratton $100.00, R F Andrews 5.00, Geo Bisel 10.00, H D Dudley 5.00, E H Whitney 10.00, Sybil Whitney 10.00, D M Canright & wife 10.00.
Michigan Conference Fund. Church in Ithaca $20.00, Lapeer 25.00.
Cash Received on Hand. L W Carr $1.00, R F Andrews 3.50, M Adsit 1.50, J M Lindsay 20.00, A S Hutchins 25.00.
Library Fund of the S. D. A. P. Association. H Dudley $10.00, A Van Deusen 10.00, B L Whitney 10.00, D M Canright & wife 5.00, G W Mitchell 10.00.
General Conference Missionary Fund. G W Mitchell $5.00.
Book Fund. S J Twing $1.00, E J A Vosburgh 1.00, V H Lucas 2.00, A F Perry 3.75, H P Wakefield 5.00, Mrs A S Wakefield 2.00, R Rhodes 7.00, S E Tuttle 2.00, G W Mitchell 4.00, J H Murray & wife (free-will offering) 7.00.
Michigan Camp-Meeting Fund. E Van Deusen $10.00, J H Mellinger 3.00, L W Carr & wife 15.00, W S Nelson 5.00.