BRO. WHITE: As I have not had the privilege of meeting with the people of God for a long time, I feel very lonely, and want to give in my testimony on the Lord's side. I am still trying to live out the truth. I can say I delight in the law of God. I love the precious truth of the third angel's message. I want to live in obedience to the message and be purified through obeying the truth.
The Review and books on present truth, have been a great help to me. While reading them I feel encouraged to press my way onward. I feel like striving earnestly for an inheritance in the kingdom.
By the assisting grace of my heavenly Father I mean to be an overcomer, and stand on mount Zion with the remnant, and sing the song of the redeemed. Pray that I may be faithful.
Yours striving to overcome.
ELVIRA A. NUTTING.
Clermont, Iowa.
Obituary Notices.
DIED of congestion of the bowels, in Chesaning, Mich., Alice Almada, youngest child of Nelson, and Christiana Herrick, aged seven years one month and five days.
J. A. DAYTON.
DIED at Leslie, Mich., April 24, 1864, my second wife Nancy Lane, aged twenty-one years six months and fifteen days.
ASA HULET.
DIED in Wolcott, Vt., Apr. 10, 1864, Augustus A. Peck, in the 16th year of his age.
Augustus read the Instructor with great interest, and attended the Sabbath-school. It has been said of him “Everybody loved him.” His parents and only sister feel deeply afflicted. His death was sudden and unexpected.
A. S. HUTCHINS.
Songs in the Shadow of Affliction
It is a curious fact that while some birds refuse to sing when the cage is darkened, others have softer and sweeter notes of song. And so it is in human existence. When a soul comes under the "shadow of a great affliction," it has no longer the voice of melody. The resources and the heart of joy are gone. But another sits in shadow and sends up to God the purest tones of music, and loftiest strains of praise from a chastened spirit. It was thus with David, whose harpings are never so heavenly as when they rise from the "depths" of his sorrow. It is not strange that those are dumb when "the days of darkness come" whose songs of delight lived only in the glare of earth's fitful transient splendor.
Appointments.
Our next quarterly meeting in Monroe, Wis., will be the 10th of June. The meeting will commence Friday evening at 7 o'clock
Wm. S. Ingraham.
The next quarterly meeting of the church at Princeville, Ill., will be held June 4th and 5th.
Come brethren we love to enjoy each other's presence, and should do so at least as often as once in three months.
Will the State Conference Committee send us a messenger to be at this meeting.
C. G. Satterlee. Church Clerk.
Our next monthly meeting for Western N. Y. will be held at Bro. J. Lamson's in Hamlin the second Sabbath in June.
Bro. Cottrell is requested to meet with us, as some wish to be baptized. Come one, come all.
Wm. K. Loughborough.
Providence permitting we will hold meetings with the church in Woodhall, Shi. Co. Mich., Sabbath and first-day May 28 and 29. Church in Locke, Ing. Co., June 6 and 7. St. Charles, 11 and 12. Chesaning evenings 14 and 15. Greenbush, Clinton Co. 18 and 19.
Joseph Bates.
The next quarterly meeting of Lynxville and Kickapoo, churches will be held at Lynxville, June 11th and 12th where Bro. Heligass may appoint. Will Bro. Sanborn please attend.
Thomas Demmon.