Punctuality in Attending and Taking Part in Religious Meetings.
By Daniel T. Bourdeau
“AND let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.” Heb. 10: 24, 25.
This language implies that there will be danger on the part of the church of neglecting to assemble for divine worship. It also strongly enjoins punctuality in meeting together to encourage one another in the heavenly direction. It is sufficient to know that the Lord enjoins this duty in order to cheerfully fulfill it; but aside from this, there are reasons in the nature of things why we should obey God in this particular.
1. This duty is promotive of the worship of God, in which it is reasonable and just for us to engage. In worshiping our Creator we only render him that which is due, and engage in that employment which brings into requisition our higher and nobler powers, in a natural and healthful manner, and which, while it glorifies the Author of our existence, and of all our blessings, also affords us the greatest happiness that we are capable of experiencing. We are naturally religious and worshiping beings. If we do not worship our Creator, we shall worship ourselves and other created objects; shall pervert our higher faculties in their use, and consequently our happiness will be incomplete; for no created object can serve as well, as a stimulus to our higher natures, and grant us as much pleasure and as great blessings in the use thereof, as the Being on which they naturally fasten, and to which they are adapted by creation—as the God of Heaven and earth, the creator and supporter of all things.
2. This duty is designed to keep our minds rightly balanced between secular and religious things, and destroy worldly-mindedness. The secular and selfish have been too much cultivated in us. Our selfish propensities and interests have so long taken the lead, that our spiritual natures have in a great measure lost their tone and become dormant, while we are greatly susceptible to, and have a great interest in, worldly things. We act too sluggishly toward God and heavenly things, and there needs to be a breaking away from the world and from self, to engage in the service of God. Our nature demands this, and God mercifully meets our wants by the duty enjoined in our text, and by giving us the Sabbath, prayer and social meetings, etc. We see in the Sabbath and in the cultivation of divine worship more than mere physical rest—we see the Lord drawing us out toward him, and giving exercise to our spiritual faculties. We contend, that aside from the reverence and worship that we owe to God daily, man, even in his state of innocency, needed one day in seven—and that the day fitly marked out by the Creator—to devote to the cultivation of his spiritual nature. Without this, man would have become selfish, and would have withered spiritually. Now if man in the beginning needed the Sabbath and Sabbath privileges to keep him from departing from God, how much more do we not need these now that mankind have so greatly forsaken the living God, and that we live in an age so characterized by selfishness and a lack of reverence for God and divine things—how much more, I say, do we not need these to bring us back to God and restore us to a right state of spirituality? It is on this principle, and because time is short and we have a great work of preparation before us, that we are exhorted to meet together and exhort one another, and so much the more as we see the day approaching.
3. In meeting together and engaging in divine worship, we exert a salutary influence over each other as social beings, and strengthen and encourage each other in overcoming. We also enjoy that happiness derived from the exercise of our social faculties with reference to the highest Object in the universe, that we could not experience if we remained by ourselves. Those greatly err who think there is no pleasure in religion. Those who are truly religious enjoy that pleasure that is of the highest type. Indeed, they are the only ones who can be said to be truly happy; for they alone properly exercise all their powers, and answer to the object for which they were made. They alone are in harmony with themselves, with their God, and with all around them that God has prepared for their felicity; and as they give to every object its just claims and true position, they in return reap the sweetest benefits from all around them, and constantly drink at the cup of joy and happiness, being filled with a sense of God’s unspeakable goodness and boundless love. Says the wise man, “Two are better than one.” This is true in religion, and in the subject before us, as well as in secular matters. If God had designed that his intelligent creatures should lead a hermit life, he would have made but one human being in the beginning, without a “help-meet.” We would have an isolated God in Heaven, and there would be no family of God in Heaven or on earth. No; God knew that we would need each other’s help, that we would exert a mighty influence over each other, and that our example would tell. The devil also knows this from his own experience, and therefore uses the mighty power of example in leading men away from God. And think of the various kinds of social gatherings that are gotten up to carry out his wicked designs. Alas! it is more natural for the carnal heart to follow the multitude in doing evil, to follow a bad example than to follow a good one. And shall we give the devil the whole ground in the use of this mighty weapon? By no means. We should rather “provoke one another unto love and good works,” agreeably to the injunction of our text, and, as our Saviour says, “Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.” And Paul enforces the same principle on another important subject when he says, “Wherefore show ye to them and before the churches the proof of your love.” 2 Cor. 8: 24. And the Bible everywhere abounds with such testimonies.
We here see great advantage derived from exhortation, public prayer, singing, and other public exercises. We should not engage in these exercises to be seen or heard of men, but to lead others by our example in the path of duty and life. As we hear others exhort, and relate their experience, we are encouraged, and are stirred up to emulation, if we are deficient; and if we have a similar experience, if our conflicts, trials, victories, hope, joys, and resolutions, are the same, there is strength in the happy concurrence. As we also see each other’s wants, we are prepared to help one another. And the variety in the different leadings of mind and testimonies greatly adds to the interest; and so of public prayer. And, oh! the power of prayer when two, three, or more, are agreed on earth as touching one thing! The promise seems to be doubly sure to them, provided the works of Christ dwell in them and they ask according to the will of God, the thing they ask shall certainly be granted them of their Father in Heaven. Matt. 18: 19, etc. And how their faith is strengthened as they realize the verification of the promises. In this exercise we are in a special manner drawn near to the Lord and to each other.
And none of my brethren and sisters will deny the cheering, elevating, and enlivening influence of appropriate, harmonious, and well-conducted singing.95It is not only important to the church, but it is interesting and attractive to all lovers of music and refinement, so much so that it has often been remarked that the singing makes up one half of the meeting. It has formed an important part of public worship in every age, and is enjoined in the New Testament, as follows: “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” Col. 3: 16. And in another place Paul adds, “Making melody in your heart to the Lord.” Eph. 5: 19, etc.
In all these social, religious duties, “we bear our mutual woes, our mutual comforts share;” and in so doing we die to self.
The manner in which God dispenses the gifts of his Spirit to his people in church capacity, giving one manifestation to one member, and another to another member, according to the natural ability of each, and so that each member will depend upon every other member, shows in the strongest possible manner the importance of worshiping together as social beings, and has a tendency to strongly unite the church in brotherly love. For how can we help drawing near to those whom God honors and makes a blessing to us? If every member enjoyed all the gifts and manifestations of the Spirit of God, then might we have a plausible excuse in living by ourselves.
Though God does not depend upon numbers, yet when his people are together and all united, their strength in overcoming their foes is even beyond the proportionate increase of their numbers, as illustrated by the following scriptures: “And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight.” Lev. 26: 8. “How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up.” Deut. 32: 30. Now if their strength increased only according to the increase of their numbers, in the first of these texts one hundred would put only two thousand to flight instead of ten thousand, and in the second the power would increase only in a tenfold ratio; whereas the increase of strength, as seen in its results, is in a tenfold ratio; two put ten thousand to flight. Now we have many foes to contend with, and though we must at times fight single-handed, yet when we can get more help let us not refuse it, but let us secure it by rallying together against our common foes.
In the light of these benefits, we can see the force of these words of Solomon: “Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.” Prov. 27: 17. If this is true in common things, it is much more so as Christian friends meet for worship.
4. But we are not simply cheered and strengthened by meeting with each other; the promise is that the Lord will also meet with us. For the Saviour says, “Where two or three are met together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Matt. 18: 20. This, of course, is by his Spirit, the great agent by which he and the Father work for the salvation of men. And the good angels who existed from the beginning—not the spirits of the dead—are ever where the Spirit is manifested. No doctrine is plainer than that each child of God has at least one accompanying angel, and when the church meet, these meet with them, to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation. Heb. 1: 14. And when the Saviour says he will meet with his children, it means more than a common blessing of the Spirit of God, else there would be no special force to the promise; for the people of God always have more or less of the presence and aid of the Holy Spirit. No; Christ and God are present by the Spirit to work with power, guiding in the truth, comforting, convincing of sin, of righteousness, and of an impending judgment, showing of things to come, and powerfully helping those who are earnestly striving to overcome.
What a scene! Men and angels meet together, and God and Christ meet with them by the Spirit; for whenever the Spirit is manifested, it comes directly from the throne, by the direct authority of those (the Father and the Son) who sit on it, and in connection with some of the millions upon millions of the heavenly host who wait around the throne, and are ever ready to go at God’s bidding on errands of mercy to fallen men; and so near is the Lord made by these agencies, that it is accounted as if he were present. Thus Heaven and earth are connected and brought near each other, and thus we may have a foretaste of heavenly bliss, as it were a Heaven on earth. What a privilege for poor, sinful mortals to enjoy. Can we disregard it without sustaining a great loss? Can we do it without evincing worldly-mindedness, a distance from God, and that we are so destitute of the sweets of true religion and of the rich blessings of the Spirit of God that we cannot appreciate them?
Anciently, God chose to dwell in the temple at Jerusalem, and well might Israel look toward, and be strongly attached to, Jerusalem. Well might David in a prophetic strain say for the pious Jews at Babylon: “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.” Ps. 137: 5, 6. And may we have the same attachment for those places where God manifests his presence, glory, power, and mercy, to those who meet to wait upon him in truth.
D. T. BOURDEAU.
(To be continued.)
Meetings at Cedar Springs
By I. A. Olmstead
From Bro. Olmstead.
Dec. 25 and 26, met with the brethren and sisters at Cedar Springs. Had three meetings; the best, they said, they had ever had in the place. May the Lord have all the praise.
There are six here who wish baptism, and twelve or more that wish a church organized. They have a Sabbath School and Bible Class, and seem to be united, and all decided to make thorough work, overcome and stand entire at last.
They request Bro. Byington to make them a visit soon.
My prayer is that the influence of these meetings may never be lost. I. A. OLMSTEAD.
Obituary Notices.
By Stephen N. Haskell
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
Died, in Blakeville, N. H., Feb. 1, Christina P., wife of Levi Martin, aged 19 years and 8 months. She was among the first to embrace the truth, when it was presented there one year ago, and her whole interest since has been in the prosperity of the cause. She was not considered in danger, until a few hours before she died, when her mind was drawn out for some for whom she felt an especial interest. And after securing a promise from one that he would serve God, with a smile she committed herself to God, and quietly fell asleep in Jesus. Discourse from Rev. 14: 13, to a large circle of mourning friends. S. N. Haskell.
A Plea for a Preacher in Iowa
Bro. E. Vansyoo writes from Washington Co., Iowa: We are lonely here, but hope to be overcomers and at last dwell with those of like precious faith in the earth made new. We pray that some preacher may come to this place and raise up a few honest souls to keep the commandments of God.
Nine Keeping the Commandments
By G. Bisel
Bro. G. Bisel writes from Richland Co., Ohio: I embraced the truth through the labors of Bro. Lawrence and Van Horn. A friend of mine, and myself, bought some tracts of them, and soon became convinced that it was the truth. We commenced keeping the Sabbath a year ago last fall. Our companions, and others around us, have since embraced the truth. There are nine of us in this neighborhood who are trying to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
Faith in the Three Angels’ Messages
Sr. F. Lawson writes from Ill.: I love the truth. My heart is in union with the body of commandment-keepers. My faith is strong in the first, second, and third angels' messages. I believe the Lord is in the work.
Books Loaned in Richland County
Sr. E. J. Connet writes from Richland Co., Ill., ordering a fresh package of books, and adds: I have loaned all the books I have, until they are very much worn. They have done some good, for which the Lord be praised. Two sisters have come out on the Sabbath. How I wish some one could come here and proclaim the last message of mercy to dying men. I think much good could be done.
An Inheritance in the New Earth
Sr. A. J. EDMUNDS writes from Johnstown, Mich.: Do you want an inheritance in the new earth? you will have to purchase a title here. Oh, my brethren and sisters, awake now! If you are like the servant that hid his Lord’s money because he had but the one talent, I entreat of you, put it out to the exchangers before it is taken from you, and you hear the words pronounced, “Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Sabbath Keepers in Iroquois County
By C. H. Bliss
BRO. C. H. BLISS writes from Iroquois Co., Ill.: There are some fifteen Sabbath-keepers here scattered throughout the country within ten and twelve miles of this place.
This is the same neighborhood where Bro. Merritt and I held some meetings last summer.
We have meeting here every Sabbath, and also upon first-day evening.
Considerable prejudice exists against the truth. The people are slow to hear, and slow to move, even when convinced. Some, in order to get rid of the claims of the law, have fallen in with the idea that the law and Sabbath commenced and ceased with the Jewish people. May the Lord save the honest in heart from this terrible delusion.
Ten of us here have covenanted together to keep the “commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” We want to get rid of all our sins, that when Jesus comes our robes may be white and clean.
Pray for us, that we may be enabled to so live, that others by beholding our godly walk and chaste conversation, may be led to embrace the truth which we love.
The Fourth Commandment
Sr. I. Oliver writes from Pierce Co., Wis.: The fourth commandment will contradict more lies, at present popular, than anything I know of in so short a compass. I wish that every one in this place could hear Bro. White preach his sermon, number six, of our “Faith and Hope.”
J. B. GOODRICH
By J. B. Goodrich
From Bro. Goodrich.
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I feel as though it would be right for me to say a few words through the REVIEW, that you may know how I stand in relation to the truth. My faith in the third angel’s message grows stronger, and I feel confident that if I live out the truth, I shall soon gain the prize; but I fear lest I shall fail, and not live up to the rule which is given in the Bible; for it is a great thing to keep all the “commandments of God and the faith of Jesus;” but I hear Jesus saying, “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city.” I hope to be an overcomer, and stand “without fault before the throne of God.”
I feel the need of a deeper work of grace in my heart, to prepare me to stand in the trying scenes just before us. The image of the beast is soon to be formed, and the mark of the beast is soon to be enforced, and the wrath of God will soon be poured out without mixture upon those who worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in their foreheads, or in their hands. I want to heed the admonition given by the Lord, through the prophet: “Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment: seek righteousness, seek meekness. It may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.” Zeph. 2: 3.
I have held some meetings in this vicinity, and there seems to be some interest. One has started to keep the Sabbath; one is reclaimed; and others, I hope, will make a move. Pray for me.
J. B. GOODRICH
Hartland, Me., Feb., 1870.
Our Coming Conference.
By Editor
Our General Conference, which assembles March 15, will, no doubt, be a meeting of great importance to the cause of God. We expect to see many of our brethren from all parts of the field. We hope they will come in the spirit of the work, and in a condition to aid in the responsibilities of the meeting. We trust our meetings this spring will mark a new era in the prosperity of the cause of present truth. We hope that all who shall attend, will first prepare their hearts to seek God. And we earnestly request all who have an interest at the throne of grace, to pray that God's blessing may be especially granted at this Conference.
The Articles on the Judgment.—
An apology is due the readers of the Review for the length to which this series of articles has been extended. When they began to appear in the Review, the writer did not contemplate giving half the number. Having entered into the subject, he has been led to speak more fully than he designed. Two articles will finish the series. The forbearance of the reader is requested.
B. F. Snook Becomes a Universalist
Though we intend to be careful in our statements, there is always more or less chance to doubt the correctness of a first report. Our confidence in Bro. Butler as a careful, reliable man, and the direct manner of his statement, left us no room to doubt the fact that B. F. Snook had become a Universalist. To remove the uncertainty, we can now say that, according to the intention spoken of in Bro. Butler's report, Mr. Snook, last Sabbath, publicly gave his reasons for becoming a Universalist. This we learn through a person direct from Marion.
Conference Bedding Notice
SPECIAL NOTICE. Those of our friends who live in the vicinity of Battle Creek, are requested to bring bedding sufficient to provide for themselves during the Conference. The season of the year will make it more necessary that they should do this, than it has been at former times. As several empty houses can be obtained, it would be well, perhaps, that these should be secured, and as many as can, wholly provide for themselves.
The Law of God
On the inside of this paper will be found a valuable article from Sr. White, entitled “The Law of God.” The readers of the REVIEW will be interested to learn that Sr. White purposes to furnish articles for each number of the paper.
Sunday Legislation.
The Methodists of the State of New York have just held a State Convention at Syracuse. They state their position on many points. Their thirteenth “position” reads thus:
“The Christian Sabbath is fundamental to American freedom. Its protection by the government is, therefore, a high public trust.”
These words plainly indicate the purpose to enforce the first day of the week by law.
M. Harper Seeks Forgiveness
By J. H. Burlingame
By request, Bro. J. H. Burlingame writes concerning Bro. M. Harper, who for some time past has not been in sympathy with the body of S. D. Adventists. He is low with consumption, and sees, and wishes to repent of, his wrong in the course he has taken. He asks the forgiveness of God, and the forgiveness and prayers of his brethren.
To Correspondents
By Editor
To CORRESPONDENTS: As soon as the pressure of business preparatory to the Conference, and the Conference itself, with the Association, and Institute meetings are past, we hope to attend to many requests from you, which, till that time are impossible to be fulfilled.
Post Office Addresses Requested
H. W. MAPLES: It is necessary to give your post office, if you want an answer.
JAS. H. BRISBIN: Please give us your P. O. address, and we will return manuscript.
Note from California.
By John Norton Loughborough
SABBATH, Feb. 18, I spoke to the church in Healdsburg, Cal. Although it was a stormy day, the church were generally out. Two sisters were baptized and received into the church, making the present number 23. After baptism, we returned to the place of worship, and attended the ordinances of the Lord's house. It is still quite rainy to-day, but we have had one meeting. One more has commenced to keep the Sabbath since we met with this church last.
The meetings still continue in Green Valley with good interest. Brn. Bourdeau and Kellogg are there, while I am here. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
Healdsburg, Cal., Feb. 20, 1870.
Note from Bro. Taylor.
By C. O. Taylor
I HAVE been laboring in Oswego Co., N. Y., in new fields, since the first of October, having meetings nearly every evening, sometimes speaking twice and three times on Sabbath and first-day. I could not fill all the calls for meetings in new places. There seems to be more than a common interest to hear. Some twenty-five or thirty have commenced to keep the Sabbath. Others are investigating.
C. O. TAYLOR.
Report from Bro. Lawrence.
By R. J. Lawrence
I came to Lee Summit the 10th inst., by invitation, in expectation of having the Baptist meeting-house for a course of lectures, but found it occupied by the Presbyterians in a protracted meeting. So Bro. Bailey from Iowa, formerly from Bowersville, Ohio, took great pains to get an opening in Greenwood, five miles south, but failed, after I had given five lectures, partly on account of prejudice, and partly on account of a previous engagement of two of their houses for a protracted meeting. So last Friday, he brought me to this place, twelve miles from Lee Summit, a small country village.
One meeting-house was occupied alternately by three denominations, once on Sunday. I have the free use of it the rest of the time. I have given three lectures with good effect so far. It is very cold, so that but comparatively few come out. When the weather moderates, they will turn out en masse, they say. Eld. Weaver, the Baptist minister, has attended each lecture, and has expressed himself much edified, and says he shall be, as long as I stick to the Bible. He is a man well respected here. The people are prejudiced because they do not know anything about us or the doctrine. They are very plain people. There is no appearance of aristocracy, mostly members of churches, Baptists, about 200; Disciples, 130; Presbyterians, 40; and a few scattered Methodists. The place is very moral.
Yours, striving to do good, R. J. LAWRENCE.
New Tents.
By James Adams
SOME of our brethren in different parts think of purchasing tents this spring, and some have written me to make inquiries about the prices of different sized tents. The information may be of some benefit to others.
The following prices are from Gilbert & Hibbard, 205 & 207 S. Water st., Chicago, Ill.:
Tent top, 60 ft. diameter, of 12 oz. duck, $320.
Rail ring and rope guy tackle, 35.
Wall, cut 7½ ft., to lap 5 ft., of 8 oz. duck, 80.
Total. $435.
This does not include wood work, nor rings for the stakes.
A reduction of $30 will be made, when the top is made of 10 oz., and $60 when of 8 oz. They bind themselves to these figures for the next two months.
JAS. ADAMS.
Chicago, March 1, 1870.
Joy Comes with Early Light
By Bryant
There is a day of sunny rest,
For every dark and troubled night,
And grief may hide an evening guest,
But joy may come with early light.
For God hath marked each sorrowing day
And numbered every secret tear,
And Heaven's long age of bliss shall pay
For all his children suffer here.—Bryant.
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
The first Quarterly Meeting of the church of Alaiedon, will be held on the last Sabbath and first-day in March, the 26th and 27th. Meetings to commence sixth-day evening. Will Bro. Byington, or some other preacher, meet with us?
Done by order of the church.
D. V. Wynne, Church Clerk.
The next Quarterly Meeting of the church at Hundred Mile Grove, Wis., will be held April 2 and 3, 1870. We hope every member of this church will be represented at this meeting, either by their personal presence, or by letter. Will Eld. T. M. Steward please visit us at that time?
N. M. Jordon.
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