A soldier's wife, with her three children, was passing through Essex, on her way to Chelmsford; it was a fine summer's evening, when she saw a young man standing at a farm-yard gate. She asked him if his master would allow her and her children to sleep in his barn? He said he thought he would; he went and asked, and the farmer gave his consent, and told the young man to unite two trusses of straw for them to sleep on. The woman asked him where she could get a little water. He went to fetch her some, and brought her a small can of milk, for which she was very thankful. She then took some bread from her bundle, but before she began to eat, she asked God to bless what she and her children were about to partake of, though it was only dry bread and milk. The youth felt interested, and sitting down on the left of the barn door, watched them eat their meal.
After finishing their humble repast, the soldier's wife took from her parcel a New Testament, and said to the young man, "We are going to have reading and prayer before retiring to rest, to thank God for the mercies of the past day; if you will join us, I shall be pleased." He did so, and after reading the first ten verses of the 10th chapter of Luke, she prayed earnestly for the blessing of the Lord to rest upon the farmer, his family, his servants, and the young man, for the kindness she had received from them.
The simplicity of the prayer struck him, and her words sank deep into the heart of the young man. He could not sleep. He rose early in the morning, and went to the barn, to ask the soldier's wife the way of salvation; but she was gone.
He told one of the servant girls what had passed, and she related it to her young mistress, who was pleased to repeat the simple tale to the rest of the family. It led the whole of them to reflect; they looked for the verses read by the soldier's wife the previous night, sent for the young man to have the tale confirmed, who wept as he told the simple story, and closed by saying "Salvation has come to my heart if it has not to this house, for I feel as I never did before." The farmer, his family, and the young man, became constant hearers of the gospel, and there was evidently a great change in the whole of them.
God moves in a mysterious way,His wonders to perform.
Reader, do you ask a blessing on your meals? There are many soldiers and soldiers' wives who do not. Reader, do you? Can you receive God's temporal mercies without thanksgiving? Can you enjoy your food without asking God's blessing? How can you expect it to nourish your bodies, to increase your strength, or fit you for your daily duties, without God's blessing? If you have hitherto neglected this important duty, neglect it no longer, but determine never to partake of another meal until you have sought God's blessing upon it.
Reader, do you have family prayer? If you do not, let the poor soldier's wife reprove you. She would not lie down with her children on the hay in the barn until she had praised God for the mercies of the day, sought his protection through the night, and endeavored to bring down a blessing on the kind-hearted man who had allowed her to lodge in his barn. It is to be feared that family prayer is very much neglected by professing Christians, especially where there is only a mistress at the head of the household, or when visitors are present. But the soldier's wife invited the young man, who was a stranger to her, to remain while she read God's word and offered up her evening prayers, and it proved to be a messenger of mercy to his soul. If you do not have family prayer, make up your mind to begin at once. Set up the family altar to-night, and let nothing prevent your leading your household to God at a throne of grace.
Reader, are you kind to the houseless and homeless? Caution should be exercised, but kindness should rule our conduct. "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." Neither the farmer nor the young man ever regretted their kindness to the soldier's wife, nor will they, for thus saith the Lord—"whoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, he shall in no wise lose his reward."
Once more, are you upon the lookout for opportunities of usefulness? If so, they will daily occur, and when you least expect, you may be made the greatest blessing. Sow the seed, and leave it. Bear your testimony, and go on your way. God will own it. The soldier's wife never heard the result of her prayer in the barn; but she may yet, for the day shall declare it. Aim to honor Jesus always and everywhere. Scatter the good seed as you pass along. Do good to all for Christ's sake. Be kind to his poor disciples.
Trials After Accepting the Sabbath
By D. W.; E. Emerson
From D. W. & E. Emerson.
Bro. Smith: It is now about three months since we received the Third Angel's Message, and commenced to keep the Sabbath of the Lord in preference to the commandments of men; and we feel to praise God that our eyes have been opened to the present truth. We can truly say that our path has not been all sunshine since we embraced the truth, for the enemies to the truth have gone so far as to threaten to starve us out, as they termed it. I am a poor mechanic, and therefore dependent on them for labor, but they have found it hard to fight against God. I know that he has been with us, and we have been able to rise above these trials and abuse.
There is one Sabbath-keeper here besides ourselves. We have the the Review through the kindness of Bro. Cunningham, and feel that we cannot do without it, and the precious, cheering truths it advocates. It is the only preaching we have.
Yours striving for the kingdom.
D. W. & E. Emerson.
Malta, Ills., June 7th, 1858.
Hebrew Genealogies in the Bible
HEBREW GENEALOGIES IN THE BIBLE.—Genesis ch. 5.—The Rev. Dr. Cumming says, curiously, that "it is a remarkable fact that the names which are given in this chapter of memoirs and epitaphs, when literally translated from the Hebrew, contain a prophecy of the gospel of Christ, each one conveying a great and blessed truth."
“Adam is the first name, which means, ‘man in the image of God;’ Seth, ‘substituted by;’ Enos, ‘frail man;’ Cainan, ‘lamenting;’ Mahalaleel, ‘the blessed God;’ Jared, ‘shall come down;’ Enoch, ‘teaching;’ Methuselah, ‘his death shall send;’ Lamech, ‘to the humble;’ Noah, ‘rest,’ or ‘consolation.’"
“It is thus that if you take the whole of the names, and simply in the order in which they are recorded, you have this truth stated by them:
“ ‘To man, once made in the image of God, now substituted by man frail and full of sorrow, the blessed God himself shall come down to the earth teaching, and his death shall send to the humble consolation.’
“This is just an epitome of Christianity.”
The Price of Success
THE PRICE OF SUCCESS.—Effort is the price of success in every department of human action. From the attainment of rudimental knowledge, to the salvation of the soul, every step in our progress is made by undaunted toil. The boy who drones over his book a slave to listless laziness, thereby secures a place for himself at the foot of society. The Christian who like Bunyan's Timorous and Mistrust, flees at the voice of lions, is undone. The man that shrinks from difficulty in his business or profession who refuses to climb because the rocks are sharp, and the way steep, must make up his mind to slide back, and to lie in the shadows below, while others use him as a stepping stone for their own rising. For this, such is the constitution of society, there is no help. The poet wrote truly who said:
“Thou must either soar or stoop.
Fall or triumph, stand or droop.
Thou must either serve or govern;
Must, be a slave or must be sovereign;
Must in fine, he block or wedge,
Must be anvil or be sledges.”
To shake off an indolent sprit, or stir one's self to exertion, to reach constantly upward, to struggle for a firm foot-hold on the most slippery places, to wrestle manfully even when principalities and powers are our foes, or any evils however frowning, are conditions we must either fulfill, or sink to littleness, to uselessness—perhaps to ruin. Therefore, with a brave heart, and unconquerable spirit, every man should address himself to the work of the day, striving with pure views, and religious trust, for an increase of his talents, and for a victory, which will enable him to stand unabashed in the last day. He who thus strives, need fear no failure. His triumph, though delayed for a time, shall come at the last.—Zion's Herald.
Prayer.
By John Bates
Amalek's defeat, Joshua's victory. Hezekiah's recovery. Solomon's wisdom, Peter's deliverance out of prison, the Apostle's triumphs in the downfall of idolatry and the setting up of churches, were all experienced in answer to prayer. All earthly glory perished, but prayer is "for a memorial before God" It is a "record on high," that will never be forgotten. For a time Jesus seemed to refuse the request of the poor woman of Canaan, but she persevered and gained her suit. Zion's watchmen should rever hold their peace. "Ye that make mention of the Lord keep not silence, and give him no rest till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth."
"Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be destroyed," was a dreadful alarm, but Nineveh fasted and prayed, "And God repent d of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them, and did it not." Oh that we had such praying spirits as Noah, Daniel and Job. The first was saved when the world was drowned, the second by prayer recovered the King's dream by revelation, and the last by interceding for his three friends saved them from the judgments of God. Oh for such believing prayer, before which mountains depart Surely we may exclaim with Calvin, "O the Almighty-ness of the power of prayer."—John Bates.
Occupy Till I Come
Whatever talent you may possess, the Divine Master says, "Occupy till I come."
Note from Bro. Dorcas.
By Jesse Dorcas
Bro. SMITH: We wish to say to the brethren and sisters that Bro. Loughborough has arrived in this State. We wish to say that we feel in this appointment that God has greatly favored us. And now, my brethren and sisters be assured that God will see to his own work that it is not left to needless and just reproach. O that the Lord would give us a spirit of free-will sacrifice. A reference to one of our strong texts for the perpetuity of the weekly Sabbath will show us that other duties that abide all dispensations are as clearly enjoined as the observance of the Lord's Rest-day.
See Leviticus xxiii, 38. "Beside the Sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your free-will offerings, which ye give unto the Lord."
I feel free to say, from letters received from different brethren, that there has never been so strong an impulse in Ohio for pressing the present work of the Third Angel's Message strait forward, as at present. My brethren, I have of late passed through divers temptations, but now I count it all joy.
Yours patiently waiting for Christ,
JESSE DORCAS.
Fremont, Ohio.
How to Manage Temptation
How to Manage Temptation.—Some years since, three Indians in the neighborhood of Green Bay became converted to temperance, although previously surpassingly fond of the brain thief. Three white men formed the charitable resolution of trying to draw them back. Placing a canteen of whiskey in their path, they hid themselves in the bushes to observe the effect. The first Indian recognised his old acquaintance with an "Ugh," and making a high step, passed on. The second laughed, saying, "Me know you." The third one drew his tomahawk and dashed it in pieces, saying; "Ugh, you conquer me, now I conquer you."
To Correspondents,
By Editor
J. Bostwick. Whether or not Christ did partake of the emblems in his institution of the Lord's Supper, we have positive assurance that he was baptized; not indeed for the same purpose that sinners perform that ordinance; for he was without sin. It must have been for our example.
G. T. Collins. We think the first seven verses of Matt. xxii, refer to the Jews. A special message was sent to them in the days of the first advent, as the seventy weeks were drawing to their close, which is called the king's invitation to the dinner he had prepared. Verse 4. Paul and Barnabas told them that it was necessary that the word of God should first be preached to them. Acts xiii, 46. But they put it away from them. They scoffed at the invitation. They rejected and crucified the Messiah. And the threat pronounced against them in Matt. xxii, 7, God shortly after fulfilled: He destroyed those murderers and burned up their city. If this application be correct, the second embassy of verses 9 and 10, must embrace all those special gospel invitations which are to prepare a people for the wedding, (the marriage of the Lamb) at the present day. We believe this work to be brought to view in the parable of Luke xiv, 16-24, where we read that a certain man made a great supper and bade many. And at a point of time, here called "supper-time," there are three invitations sent forth. These we think synchronize with the three angels' messages of Rev. xiv. Two of them have been given; and the third and last, is now winning its way through the "highways and hedges."
WM. PEABODY. The saints will not of course be taken from the earth till the Saviour appears; and under the sixth plague he says, Behold I come as a thief. Rev. xvi, 15. Therefore he does not come up to that point of time, and we have no evidence that he comes till the plagues are fulfilled; consequently the saints will be on earth while they are poured out. As regards Rev. viii, 1, it is evident that the seventh seal follows in immediate connection with the sixth; and the sixth seal closes with the coming of the great day of wrath, and the prayer of the mighty men of the earth to be hid from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne. The cause of the silence in heaven for the space of half an hour, we are not here prepared to state, unless it be by an extremely literal interpretation of Matt. xxv, 31, which says that the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him. We cannot conceive what else at that momentous period would leave heaven silent. Half an hour, prophetic time, is seven days and a half.
Power Press.
By James White
While the subject of obtaining a Power Press was before the General Conference business meeting, April 12th, 1857, Easton Wilbur, of Hillsdale Co., arose and stated that he would give one hundred dollars for the enterprise, if some one would advance the money, and he would give his note on ten per cent interest. We then stated that we would advance the money, without interest. April 13th, Mr. Wilbur came into the Office and wrote a negotiable note on ten per cent interest, and handed to us. With this note we paid a debt of one hundred dollars, and in the list of pledges published in the REVIEW we marked Easton Wilbur Paid. It was paid, however, only by the note, on which we have not received a penny. Since that time Mr. Wilbur has turned away from the truth, and has said many bitter things against Sabbath-keepers. He has stated that they had got one hundred dollars from him, and they would get no more. Yet he refuses to pay the note, and offers, as one reason among many of the kind, the fact of his pledge being marked Paid in the Review.
We wish here to say that we have never had the least desire to collect the note of Mr. Wilbur, unless he wished to pay it; and we think that we express the views of all the friends of the cause.
And we wish here to state that we have obtained the note against Mr. Wilbur, and hold it subject to his order.
JAMES WHITE.
Power Press Debt
By James White
There is due on Power Press $204,50, which we very much need at the present time. You who have been waiting for somebody else to pay this up, come right along with your fives, tens, and twenty-fives, and close this matter up immediately. J. W.
GOD IS NEAR
LEAVE all to God, trust to his love,
Forsaken one, and still thy fears;
For He, the Highest, knows thy pain,
Sees thy suffering and thy tears.
Thou shalt not wait his help in vain:
Leave all to God who reigns above
Know God is near in sorrow's hour,
Though thou think him far away,
Though his mercy long have slept,
He will come and not delay,
When his child enough hath wept;
For God is near in saving power.
Benevolence
Benevolence.—Said one, who has long gone to his rest, "I will give my conveniences to relieve others' necessities, and my necessities to relieve others' extremities. Go and do likewise."
Business Items.
J. W., Raymond:—We have not yet decided.
E. Goodwin:—It was received.
M. West:—Jos. Button's paper was stopped by mistake in place of J. Button's of So. Edmeston.
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