Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, at Bunkerhill, Ing. Co., Mich., March 31, 1867, William W. Beers, aged 25 years. After some three years' service in the Union army in the late rebellion, he returned to his parental home, like thousands of others, was seized with a lingering consumption, of which he died in about one year.
Reading the published visions of sister White in his last sickness wrought so powerfully on his mind, in connection with the teachings of the Bible, that he became a convert to the “present truth” of the third angel's message, and lamented much that he had no opportunity to be baptized.
Yesterday we came here, by express, some 25 miles from Locke, Clinton Co., where we were holding a series of meetings with the church, to attend the funeral of his father, Daniel H. Beers, who died of the liver complaint, August 17, 1867, aged seventy-seven. Bro. B. became a member of the Presbyterian church some thirty-five years ago. About four years ago he united with the Seventh-day Adventists in this place, where he continued a sincere and worthy member.
His friends say he was a great sufferer for some three months, but endured with patience and resignation to the divine will. When his companion told him she thought he was dying, he was cheered, and reviving, said he was ready and willing to go, and believed that he should sleep but a little while. A voice from Heaven has said, “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.”
We enjoyed much freedom in speaking to the mourners and waiting congregation from the words of the great apostle to the Gentiles, “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” 1 Cor. xv, 26.
JOSEPH BATES.
Bunkerhill, Aug. 19, 1867.
STATE CONFERENCE IN MAINE.
By John Nevins Andrews; L. L. Howard
It is the judgment of the preaching brethren in Maine, and that of the different churches of the State, that a Maine Conference should be organized this fall. In their judgment the General Conference Committee concur. It is therefore requested that all the churches in the State send delegates to meet at Norridgewock, Nov. 1st, for the purpose of organizing a State Conference, and for the transaction of business that may properly come before the body. We request not only organized but unorganized bodies of brethren, if such there are, to send a representation; and we also invite scattered brethren who live remote from others to attend and participate in this meeting. Those who come to take part in the transaction of business should reach N. on Thursday evening October 31st, and they should bring credentials attesting their election by the churches of which they are members. They are requested also to bring a report of the condition of the church which they represent. The various church treasurers should be prepared to settle their accounts up to Nov. 1st, as the money will all be needed at that time.
Our meeting will be at a season of the year when quilts and buffalo robes will be in good demand. Those therefore, who can bring these are requested to do so. We hope the churches in the vicinity of Norridgewock will do what they can to share the burden with the brethren in N. Finally brethren let us seek the blessing of God upon our meeting, that it may give a new impetus to the cause of truth in Maine.
J. N. ANDREWS,
L. L. HOWARD.
South Lancaster, Mass., Aug. 30, 1867.
MEETINGS AT ATHENS, ME.
By Dudley Marvin Canright
OUR congregations have been good for the past week. The interest still seems good. Hundreds are reading and investigating. Some fifteen or twenty have embraced the Sabbath with a prospect of more. This is much more than we expected when we came here. We still stay to follow up the work.
Bro. Stratton came to the tent yesterday with cheering news of the work where he has been. We think that the state of the churches and of the cause generally was never so good in Maine as now. We are thankful to God for this. D. M. CANRIGHT.
Athens, Sept. 2.
To the Point.
Bro. G. L. Holiday writes from Green Co., Wis.: I wish to say that on my way to Monroe, last week, I got hurt, so that on my return home, not being able to work in my office, I thought I would see what I could do for the Review and Reformer. As the result, I send you two new subscribers for the Review, and four new ones for the Reformer. I feel that it is a shame that I have waited till I could do nothing for myself, before trying to work for our publications.
I shall try in the future to work in the cause of present truth when I am able to work for myself. Brethren and sisters, don't wait as I did. Work now.
AN ITEM OF EXPERIENCE.
By L. B. Kendall
I love to look back in my past experience to the time when I was brought to exclaim, “Here Lord I give myself away, ’tis all that I can do.” At the same moment I felt my burden of sin rolled off, and was filled with joy unutterable. Oh! that I never had grieved my Saviour since.
But I wanted to tell my brethren and sisters, how much comfort I used to take in secret prayer. My sister, and another girl nearly of my age, experienced religion about that time, and our greatest delight was in praying, sometimes together and sometimes alone. How many times the Lord blessed in those sweet bowers among the green hills of Vermont; and no places on earth seem more dear to me now, than those places of secret prayer consecrated by the presence of the blessed Saviour. And I would say to all the young, Seek the Lord often in secret prayer, and he will keep you safely through the perils of these last days, and gather you into his blessed kingdom.
Oh! how I long to be there, as the sorrows and afflictions of life gather and press around me. I often exclaim,
> “A few more storms may beat,
> On this wild, rocky shore;
> And we shall be where tempests cease,
> And surges swell no more.”
I will try to meet you in that better land.
L. B. KENDALL.
Olmstead Co., Minnesota.
SING.
By E. BOOTH.
LUTHER, who sang much, truly said, “Singing will ever drive evil away.” We, as a people—as American citizens—as professing godliness, do not sing forth that measure of praise due the Giver of every good gift. We are silent, thoughtful, morose, taking too earnest heed to little cares and trifles which a few hours’ time would float gently away, without troubling heart or brain. In our singing moments we can accept with cheerfulness the misfortune of a broken mirror or upset cream jar, forgetting to rise in rebellion against our sphere of human troubles. In full aspiration of praise and love there was no room for the tempter to enter. Did you ever sing when hate or envy annoyed, or perplexity aroused the natural man, without a great effort or strenuous endeavor to rise above these malevolent affections? But the moment you sang, the trouble was over, the antidote found.
The same Being that created the angels hears the faint lullaby; and he who watches the insect and knows the fall of the sparrow, hears the song at the wheel, the anvil, and plow, no less than the prayers of his children, or the praises of the cherubim.
E. BOOTH.
NOTHING.
Me the contented man desires;
The poor man has; the rich requires;
The miser spends; the spendthrift saves;
And all men carry to their graves.
Choose the Plainest Road
CHOOSE ever the plainest road: it always answers best. For the same reason, choose ever to do and say what is most just and the most direct. This conduct will save a thousand blushes and a thousand struggles, and will deliver you from those secret torments which are the never-failing attendants of dissimulation.
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
THE next Quarterly Meeting of the Waukon, West Union, and Elgin churches, will be held at West Union, Sept. 28, 1867. The brethren and sisters from abroad are invited to attend.
NASON HOYT.
ELD. L. L. HOWARD will preach in South Boston at the house of brother B. F. Rice, or where he may appoint, Sabbath and first-day, Sept. 28 and 29. Brother Rice lives on Old Harbor street.
THE next Monthly Meeting for Central Mass., and Southern N. H., will be held at the house of Bro. L. W. Hastings in New Ipswich, N. H., the last Sabbath and first day in Sept.
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet the church at Clyde, Ill., in Quarterly Meeting, Sabbath, Sept. 28, 1867.
T. M. STEWARD.
The P. O. address of Eld. P. Strong is Wheatland, Ionia Co., Mich.
RECEIPTS.
For Review and Herald.
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Cash Received on Account.
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Books Sent By Mail.
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Books Sent By Express.
Geo Walling, Anamosa, Iowa, $10.80, Henry F Phelps, Pine Island, Goodhue Co., Minn., 16.61, Philip Strong, St. Johns, Mich., 20.85.
General Conference Missionary Fund.
Church at South Lancaster, Mass., $38.00.
Michigan Conference Fund.
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To Publish Small Tracts for General Distribution.
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For the Health-Reform Institute.
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Charitable Fund of the Institute.
Calvin Green $20.00.
Work for the Review
Work for the Review, and the circulation of our publications. A person knows not how much he can accomplish till he has made the effort. See the extract of a letter from Bro. G. L. Holliday in another column. Let others do likewise. Give a little time and effort to the circulation of our periodicals. Why might not one thousand of our subscribers put forth the same effort with the same success? This would be a great help to the office. Your neighbors need the truth, and the cause needs your help. Will you try it?
A WORD FROM THE OHIO TENT.
By Mrs. A. P. Van Horn
Having a short leave of absence from the Health Reform Institute I have been making a visit of a few days to the tent, where my husband is laboring with Eld. Waggoner in the quiet little town of Bowersville, Green Co., Ohio. The village contains nearly two hundred inhabitants. There are three houses of worship owned respectively by Protestant Methodists, Methodist Episcopal, and Disciples.
The meetings in the tent have been in progress since Aug. 22, nearly two weeks; and the interest to hear the truth is gradually increasing. The average attendance has been about three hundred. Last Sunday morning it was stormy, still as many as this were out, and in the afternoon the number increased to five hundred. Last evening it was estimated that the congregation numbered full six hundred, and all the villages within three, five, six, and even fourteen miles from this place, were represented. The subject which had been previously announced was the setting up of the kingdom, by Bro. Waggoner, which was listened to with the deepest interest.
The Sabbath question has been presented, but has been opposed as it usually is; yet many are looking upon it favorably. Sixteen discourses have been given up to this time, and a solemn impression seems to rest upon the minds of the people that these things may be true; and some are investigating. All the circumstances connected with the meetings thus far seem to indicate that this is as favorable an opportunity of doing good as could be desired for tent labor. The work is the Lord's, and prayers of faithful brethren and sisters are solicited for its prosperity in this place.
MRS. A. P. VAN HORN.
Bowersville, Ohio, Sept. 4, 1867.
The Prophets and the True Church
The giving ear to the prophets is a fundamental character of the true church.—Sir. I. Newton.