BRO. WHITE : By the aid of a brother and sister who came to see us, we held a meeting on the first Sabbath of the year at my mother’s residence. We all enjoyed a great degree of freedom, and felt that the blessing of God rested upon us. The next day we held another meeting; had a very interesting and refreshing season; passed a series of resolutions to start anew with the new year to do our Lord’s work; appointed meetings to be held at my mother’s house on the first Sabbath of every month. We also adopted the plan of systematic benevolence.
There are eight Sabbath-keepers here, and we are all striving to live out the truth before the world, and all desire to be strengthened by the visit of one of our messengers to our place. We receive a number of Reviews among us, and one Instructor, and they are hailed with great joy. We desire the prayers of our brethren for the welfare and progress of our little society; and should a messenger come here and labor, we think it is a good field, and that some honest in heart may be led to seek the Lord.
Yours in hope. ELBRIDGE G. RUST.
Winfield, Montcalm Co., Mich.
Rich Man and Lazarus.
Henry Grew says: ‘It must be admitted that a part of our Lord’s representation of the state of the rich man and Lazarus seems to favor the opinion of conscious happiness and misery immediately after death, especially the request of the former that Lazarus should be sent to his father’s house. The entire representation, however, is far from sustaining such an opinion. So that the parable could not be considered as clearly teaching the popular theory, even if there was no opposing testimony.
‘By what process of reasoning do we infer the conscious misery of a disembodied spirit from the declaration that a man ‘lifted up his eyes’ in hell, and felt his ‘tongue’ tormented in the flame? Is not our Lord’s representation strong proof that man has no soul which is capable of suffering without the body? If such an opinion is true, was not this the very occasion to teach it? Would the faithful witness of the truth teach that the bodily members were actually tormented, when in fact they were as dead as a stone, in the grave? Does not such a representation oblige us to understand our Lord as anticipating that state, when the body, or the man, raised from the grave, should be capable of the suffering and enjoyment which he describes? Even that part of the parable which refers to the rich man’s concern for his brethren, contains some proof than there is no conscious spirit separate from the body; for the representation is that Lazarus could not make the desired communication, except he ‘rose from the dead.’’
Business Department.
Business Notes.
E. S. Griggs. We have mailed the Instructor regularly to D. C. Austin.
Leonard Marsh. You neglected to give the P. O. address of the names you sent in. G. W. A.
Capt. R. Reid. The $3. you speak of was received and credited.
C. O. Taylor. E. Potter was credited with $3 on his Review, but through mistake there were but $2 in the receipts. His account stood xix, 1, and it now stands xxii, 1.
RECEIPTS.
For Review and Herald.
Annexed to each receipt in the following list, is the Volume and Number of the REVIEW & HERALD to which the money receipted pays. If money for the paper is not in due time acknowledged, immediate notice of the omission should then be given.
P. Luke 1,00,xxiv,1. David Holloway 2,00,xxv,8. H. W. Decker for Lucretia Green 2,00,xxv,9. O. Wilcox 1,00,xxv,9. J. B. Benson 2,00,xxiv,14. C. Cartwright 2,00,xxv,1. R. Terry 1,00,xxiii,18. C. Bates 1,00,xxv,1. C. Bates for A. T. Brown 0,50,xxiv,2. John Frank 1,00,xxv,7. L. M. Jones 1,00,xxv,7. E. G. White for S. Foss and Melissa Tapley each 1,00,xxv,9. D. B. Webber 1,00,xxiv,1. John Frank for Catherine Stiles 1,00,xxv,9. R. Griggs 2,00,xxv,9. M. C. Butler 0,50,xxiv,1. C. Smith 1,00,xxii,13. Ch. at Knoxville, Iowa for C. Cooper 1,00,xxv,9. H. Kenyon 2,00,xxv,14. A. R. Morse 2,00,xxiv,1. A. P. Morrill 1,00,xxv,9. Mrs. E. D. Scott 2,00,xxv,1. D. Chamberlain 2,00,xxv,1. G. Castle 1,00,xxiv,1. B. Castle 1,00,xxiv,9. Julia Anne Taylor 1,00,xxv,14. A. B. Rust 0,25,xxiii,22. N. Blood 1,00,xxii,13. N. Blood for H. Blood and G. Rowel each 0,50,xxiv,9. M. Marquart 2,00,xxiii,10. J. H. Cottrell 1,00,xxiv,1. E. Tucker 1,00,xxiv,1. J. Rousha 1,00,xxiv,14. Sarah Robinson for Mrs. A. Draper 1,00,xxv,9. C. N. Ford 0,50,xxiii,22. J. Cramer 1,00,xxiv,1. Mary Palmiter 1,00,xxv,1. J. H. Murray 1,00,xxiv,8. J. H. Malory 1,00,xxiv,9. G. W. Eggleston 1,00,xxv,9. S. Williams 1,00,xxv,9. J. Holland 1,00,xxv,9. S. Holland 1,00,xxv,9. H. Holland jr 1,00,xxv,9. Mrs. M. Nichols 1,00,xxv,9. Mary E. Helines 1,00,xxv,9. Arnold Holland 1,00,xxv,9. C. G. Rodman 1,00,xxv,9. John Gould 1,00,xxv,9. Anna M. Hollis 1,00,xxv,9. Sarah H. Carpenter 1,00,xxv,9. G. P. Arnold 1,00,xxv,9. A. G. Gould 1,00,xxv,9. J. K. Holly 1,00,xxv,9. J. I. Sweet 1,00,xxv,9. W. Slocum 1,00,xxv,9. R. R. Tifft 1,00,xxv,9. P. Robinson 1,00,xxv,9. J. C. Tucker 1,00,xxv,9. G. G. Peckham 1,00,xxv,9. W. P. Gardner 1,00,xxv,9. S. N. Tifft 1,00,xxv,9. E. V. Wisel 1,00,xxiv,1. E. Hall for Mrs. B. Bullis 0,50,xxiv,9. J. J. Vosburg 1,10,xxiii,1. G. Walling 1,00,xxiv,20. D. Weaver for A. Weaver 1,00,xxiv,9. V. Weed for S. Weed 1,00,xxv,9. W. H. Nickesen 1,00,xxv,9. J. Berry 2,00,xxvi,1. A. Bliss 2,00,xxvi,2. L. Marsh 2,00,xxiii,10. Nancy A. Logan for O. C. Willmarsh 1,00,xxv,9. for J. Elliot 1,00,xxv,9. Mary A. Graham 1,50,xxiii,14. R. O. Hunnewell for Mrs. J. C. Williams 1,00,xxv,9. J. Ralston 2,00,xxv,9. Capt. R. Reid 3,00,xxv,4. S. Babcock for Nancy Barber 2,00,xxiv,9. Lebbeus Drew 2,00,xxv,14. L. Lyman 6,00,xxvi,18. J. C. Buck 1,00,xxiii,16. A. Korb 1,00,xxiv,1. I. N. Mathews 1,00,xxiv,5. Sarah Nicola 2,00,xxv,9. Jacob Hare 1,00,xxv,9. S. M. Holland 1,00,xxiv,1. B. Dickey 3,00,xxiii,14. Elsie Davis 1,00,xxiv,1. Lewis Hackett 1,00,xxiv,7. G. G. Green for Lydia Witter 1,00,xxv,9. M. Hill 1,00,xxiv,1. C. Flemming 1,00,xxiv,1. Ellen M. Warren for B. H. Warren 1,00,xxv,9. C. Walker 2,00,xxvi,1. J. Robarge 1,00,xxv,17. L. Haskell 1,00,xxiv,2. J. Bending 1,00,xxii,1. Lyman Child 1,00,xxv,9. G. W. Mitchell 2,00,xxiii,7. M. Adsit 2,00,xxiii,8. P. Stewart for F. K. Myers 0,50,xxiv,9. R. Rundall 1,00,xxiv,1. T. F. Emans 1,00,xxiv,1. Mrs. O. T. Booth 2,00,xxv,4. T. B. Dewing 2,00,xxvi,10. Jas. Long 2,00,xxiv,11. J. Long for Lucinda Heath 1,00,xxv,9. J. McLoney 0,50,xxiv,9. H. Downs 2,00,xxvi,12. W. Hills 2,50,xxiv,14. A. McAllaster 1,00,xxiv,1. E. R. Kelsey 3,00,xxiv,1.
Books Sent By Mail.
M. G. Kellogg $10,50. N. W. Vincent $2,13. Elder L. B. Steele 14c. W. A. Robinson 10c. Dea. R. A. Fuller 17c. Eli Wiswell 21c. E. Quimby 19c. D. Donovan 17c. C. Hayden 50c. J. L. Baker $1. W. A. McIntosh $2. Mrs. E. O. Foot 15c. B. M. Osgood 32c. J. Y. Wilcox 34c. W. J. Cook 35c. Bliss Cobb 30c. Elisha Starbuck $4. H. L. Richmond 27c. W. P. Davis 50c. J. Taber 12c. A. M. Preston 50c. L. Hackett $1. L. Marsh $1. Mrs. J. C. Williams 35c. M. Maynard 25c. H. D. Corey 25c. B. B. Warren 50c. N. A. Lord 28c. R. Rundall 75c. J. F. Emans 15c. T. B. Dewing 15c. Mrs. E. Crawford 15c. Mrs. N. Dennison 15c; Mrs. H. Clinton 35c. James Long $1. J. E. French 15c. H. Bowen 50c. Wm. S. Ingraham 50c. J. M. Davis 15c. M. Palmer 45c. H. Anway 15c. S. H. King 45c. J. N. Wilson 15c. H. H. Wilcox $1. J. Rogers 15c. H. M. Grant 15c. W. O. Cheever 40c. Preston Day 15c. J. N. Loughborough $8. H. Hilliard $1. T. P. Burdick 15c. L. G. Bostwick 50c. M. Van Dorn 15c. N. Fuller $1,25. Wm. Sadden 15c. C. E. Belden 15c.
For Shares in Publishing Association.
Jemima E. French $10.
General Conference Missionary Fund.
Ch. at Wright, Mich. $50. J. S. Woodward $1. A. Woodward $6,25. Ellen M. Warren $0,25.
Michigan Conference Fund.
RECEIVED FROM CHURCHES. Ch. at West Plains, $6. Wright, $50. East Thetford, $3. Eureka and Fairplains, $25. Tomkins, $5. Oneida, $3,75. Convis, $9. Jackson, $10. Parkville, $10. Colon, $4. Chesaning, $2,50. Caledonia, $14.
RECEIVED FROM INDIVIDUALS. H. C. S. Carus $2. Brethren at Leslie, Mich. $2. Joseph A. Demill $40.
Worthy of Notice.
THE following important testimony is from the Syracuse Daily Journal of Nov. 28, 1863.
ANTICIPATING THE END.
A very general impression prevails among the Mahommedans that great changes are soon to take place, by which Christianity will triumph over and supersede their religion. A missionary of the Church of England at Nazareth, writes: "Most remarkable is the general faith of the Mahommedans iu the speedy advent of Christ from heaven to destroy antichrist; the belief that the time will not be far distant when the Sultan will be obliged to retire to Egypt, and when the Christians will even enter Mecca."
Rev. Dr. Perkins the veteran missionary to the Nestorians, in a recent letter states that he was visited by one of the highest nobles of the country, who alluded to the changes and commotions in the world, and very thoughtfully added, "Do you know what these things mean? I do. Jesus Christ is about to come."
The Work goes Bravely on.
By E. S. W.
SUBSCRIBERS continue to come in. We have received sixty more the past week, and from present indications we shall be able to report a list of 5,000 before the close of present volume. You are doing finely brethren and sisters. Commit the rules to memory and reduce them to practice, and there will be no failure. We are pleased to see the way some of our messengers are working. Bro. Cornell has already sent in 42 subscribers since the commencement of the year. Brn. Steward, Snook, Loughborough, Cottrell, Hutchins and Strong, have reported. Others no doubt will report soon. Brethren present the claims of our itinerant messenger at every fitting opportunity and urge upon your hearers the necessity of having its weekly visits, in order to keep them posted in all points of present truth. E. S. W.
Quarterly Meeting at Hamlin, N. Y.
By R. F. Cottrell
THis meeting, held Jan. 9 and 10, was an excellent and interesting meeting. The weather was severe, but those who were there did not regret the pains they took to assemble. Sister Orton, who has been absent from our meetings for some time, on account of feeble health, was present, and her testimony was in harmony with Ps. cxvi. Please read. We were greatly edified by the word spoken by Bro. Andrews, which was attended with the spirit and power of the truth. We hope and pray and believe that God will bless his labors in Western N. Y., and that we shall, ere long, see better days. May God grant it.
R. F. COTTRILL.
Note from Bro. Steward.
By T. M. Steward
I WOULD say to the churches and ministers of Illinois and Wisconsin that I hope they will live up to sections 4 and 5 of article iii, of our Conference Constitution. Our first quarter ended Jan. 4th, and I have only heard from one minister. Let us be prompt in doing the Lord's business.
T. M. STEWARD,
Secretary of Conference.
Wanted.
I WANT a man and a woman who are Sabbath-keepers to work for me either by the month or by the year this present season. My work for the man will be farming. Any further information wanted please write, Lebbeus Drew, South Pultney, Steuben Co. N. Y.
"Press On."
"STRIVE to enter in at the strait gate; for many, I say unto you will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. Luke xiii, 24.
Why haltest thou, deluded heart?
Why waverest longer in thy choice?
Is it so hard to choose the part
Offered by Heaven's entreating voice?
Oh, look with clearer eyes again,
Nor strive to enter in in vain.
Press on!
Appeal to the Youth
APPEAL to the Youth contains a brief narrative of the life, experience, and last sickness, of Henry N. White, by Adelia P. Patten, with the funeral address by Uriah Smith, his mother's letters to her children, pieces of music referred to in the narrative, and a lithographed likeness of the deceased. Copies will be sent to friends this week.
To Our Friends.
By Editor
At present we are somewhat embarrassed in consequence of poor health. We have never been what might be termed a church pauper, and we expect, with the blessing of Heaven, never to be. By the grace of God we will eat no man's bread for naught. But it is a pleasure to state to our friends the following facts for their consideration:
1. The publication of the Charts and Key, in which we invest $8000—the traveling expenses of our family East, and their board while there, with the $100 given to that mission—the expenses arising from our bereavement nearly one thousand miles from home—losses in business at home in our absence—the publication of "Appeal to the Youth," in which we invest $200, Testimony No. 10, and Spiritual Gifts, Vol. iii, in which we invest $1000—have brought upon us heavy debts. Were we able to travel, as we expected to be, we could sell the Charts and the books, and soon pay our indebtedness.
2. The above works are just what our friends want, and what they eventually will have, unless times so change that they cannot well pay for them. Now money is easily raised, and now we need it to pay our heavy debts. The Charts are received by those who see them, with satisfaction. The bright prints on paper, backed with cloth and varnished, are beautiful. Should they become soiled by hanging in the room, they can be cleaned as well as a pane of glass. The price of a set of these, with the Key, is only $4. These cannot be sent by mail. The price of a set of cloth Charts, with the Key, is $3.50. When sent by mail without rollers, $3. When we published the Charts, we supposed every family, unless very poor, would have these beautiful banners of their faith in their houses. Those who turn away from these Charts, and purchase the common trash teeming everywhere in the shape of war maps, pictures of generals, &c., &c., show that they are fast losing their love for the harmony of immortal truth illustrated upon them.
3. As we are not able to travel at present, we want some brother in each church, who would esteem it a pleasure so to do, to act as agent for us, with the lean commission of—Thank you—to order the probable amount of Charts and books wanted in their vicinity, to be paid for when sold, unless they choose to advance part or all of the money. When $20 worth, or more, of Charts and books, at retail prices, are ordered, we will pre-pay express bills, if the distance be not more than 1000 miles. If the distance does not exceed 500 miles, we will pay express charges on $10 worth. A little effort on the part of our personal friends will much relieve us, and help the brethren to that which, to them, is invaluable. We can send any of our publications with the Charts, and every church should have a small repository.
We can also furnish English and American Bibles, Cruden's Concordance, Bible Dictionary, Bible Atlas, Pilgrim's Progress, Fables of Infidelity, and Nelson's Cause and Cure of Infidelity.