“Well, Bro. A., this is a very unpleasant morning, and you must wrap up well if you go out to-day, or you will certainly take cold.”
“Oh, you need not fear for me! I will put on my waterproof overcoat, and thick boots, and trudge through it. My business must be attended to or I may lose several dollars. If Fridays will be disagreeable we must put up with them, but I cannot afford to lose the day.”
SABBATH.
Snow, rain, wind, and mud!
“Another very unpleasant morning, Bro. A., I suppose you will not venture out to-day.”
“No, I think not. I don't believe it would be right. This is really catch-cold weather, and I do not think it would be prudent for me to brave such a morning as this. You know it is our duty to take care of ourselves.”
FRIDAY.
“Well, Bro. A., you look very tired this morning, you can't be well; I think you had better keep pretty quiet to-day.”
“Oh, no! I am not much tired. Besides you know that we ought not to give way to our feelings. I will feel better when once engaged in business. I know how I can make three dollars to-day, and with good courage I go about it.”
SABBATH.
“How very tired you appear again this morning, Bro. A., you surely will keep quiet to-day.”
“Yes I am very tired. I must rest at home to-day. I think, instead of going to meeting, I will take a nap on the sofa. I am sure it will do me good. I would love to attend both the meeting and Sabbath-school; but it cannot be helped, I am feeling so weary and careworn that I cannot go. It seems to me I never felt so thoroughly tired out as I do to-day.”
FRIDAY.
“Bro. A., have you heard that the grand Duke of Russia will pass through the city to-day, and may be seen at the depot at precisely 10:30 A. M.?”
“I had not heard it. I must certainly go, although I will be obliged to go the five miles on foot, through the rain and mud. It will be such a privilege to behold so distinguished a personage.”
SABBATH.
“Well, Bro. A., had you heard that the brethren, conformable to the glorious promise of the divine Son of God, that where two or three are met in his name he would be in the midst, are to meet together to-day at 10:30 A. M.?”
“Yes, I knew it, but can't see how I can go. For one so tired and nearly worn out as I am, to trudge two long miles through this rain and mud, would seem very injudicious. Had I a covered carriage like Bro. W., I might think about going.”
H. A. ST. JOHN.
Maxims on Love, Trust, and Christian Character
By Jos. Clarke
Items.
Love softens and subdues anger; and if constantly exercised, prevents it.
The good mechanic repairs his mistakes soon as possible; he does not stop long to mourn over them. So let the Christian hasten his work; there is no time for discouragement.
Those who cavil at the Bible history of the deluge are obtusely insensible to the fact that more than three-fourths of our globe is yet under water; and that the small fraction out of water is all in disorder; all speaking in forcible language of former disaster and future ruin.
Those who object to the Bible account of the future conflagration of the earth and of its inhabitants neglect to fully consider the fact that the earth is already on fire, trembling beneath our feet.
No better evidence can be furnished to prove the weakness of man than his unbelief and hardness of heart.
There is no real happiness in this world, out of Christ. Without this firm trust, all is uncertainty and gloom.
A calm, settled trust in God and in his word, and a love for his character, form the basis of Christian character.
As in time of war, the soldier guards his lines against spies who would pass for friends, so should we guard our minds against doubts and unbelief in God and in his word.
Jos. CLARKE.
Beauties of Bible Language.
By Prof. Chadbourne
If we need a higher illustration, not only of the power of natural objects to adorn language and gratify taste, but proof that here we find the highest conceivable beauty, we would appeal at once to the Bible. Those most opposed to its teachings have acknowledged the beauty of its language, and this is mainly due to the exquisite use of natural objects for illustration. It does, indeed, draw from every field. But when the emotional nature was to be appealed to, the reference was at once to natural objects; and throughout all its books, the stars and flowers, and gems are prominent as illustrations of the beauties of religion and the glories of the church.
“The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.”
“The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you in singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fig tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree.”
The power and beauty of the same objects appear in the Saviour’s teachings. The fig and the olive, the sparrow and the lily of the field, give peculiar force and beauty to the great truths they were used to illustrate.
The Bible throughout is remarkable in this respect. It is a collection of books written by authors far removed from each other, in time and place, and mental culture, but throughout the whole, nature is exalted as a revelation of God. Its beauty and sublimity are appealed to, to arouse the emotions, to reach the moral and religious nature. This element of unity runs through all the books where reference to nature can be made.
One of the adaptations of the Bible to the nature of man is found in the sublime and perfect representation of the natural world, by which nature is ever made to proclaim the character and perfection of God. No language can be written that so perfectly sets forth the grand and terrible in nature and its forces as we hear when God answered Job out of the whirlwind. No higher appreciation of the beautiful, and of God as the author of beauty, was ever expressed than when our Saviour said of the lilies of the field, “I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these;” and then adds, “If God so clothed the grass of the field”—ascribing the element of beauty in every leaf and opening bud to the Creator’s skill and power.—Prof. Chadbourne.
Conquer your Troubles.
A GREAT many men, whatever may have been their experience in life, are accustomed to complain of the usage they have received in the world. They fill the ears of those who have the misfortune to be their friends, with lamentations respecting their own troubles. But there is no man that is not born into a world of trouble; and no man has ever attained to anything like the full stature of manhood, who has not been ground, as it were, to powder, by the hardships which he has encountered in life. This is a world in which men are made, not by velvet, but by stone and iron handling! Therefore, do not grumble, but conquer your troubles.
Prayer and Works.
PRAYER and works must go together. The one is the complement of the other. Not that God needs our help to accomplish his purposes, but, where results are to be reached by human instrumentality, he expects the means to be used.
The Christian Review tells the following by way of illustration: Dr. Macleod and Dr. Watson were crossing a lake together, in the West Highlands, in company with a number of persons, when a storm came on with terrible force. One of the passengers was heard to say, “The two ministers should begin to pray, or we will all be drowned.” “Na, na,” said the boatman, “the little ane can pray if he likes, but the big ane maun tak’ an oar.”
A String of Pearls.
HOW TO REPROVE.—When we wish to reprove with profit, and show another that he is mistaken, we must observe on what side he looks at the thing; for it is usually true on that side, and to admit to him that truth, but to discover to him the side whereon it is false. He is pleased with this, for he perceives that he was not mistaken; and that he only failed to look on all sides. Now, one is not vexed at not seeing everything. But one does not like to be mistaken; and perhaps this arises from the fact that man naturally, can not see everything, and that naturally he cannot be deceived in regard to the side that he looks at, as the apprehensions of the senses are always true.—Pascal.
FOLLOWING Christ personally, individually, as well as collectively, is our great business—not following him in a certain way; not following him by giving services and ordinances and ceremonies; not following him in externate, but following him in trust, in joy, in peace, in hope, in love, in faith in the invisible. And they are the best Christians who, following Christ thus, follow him most closely.
NOT a day passes in obscurity but men and women do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer great sorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers, and martyrs, the greater part will not be known till that day when many that are great shall be small, and the small great.
WHEN mothers denounce the tyranny of the family relation, and proclaim that its yoke must be thrown off, then home life will pass into a tradition.—Revolution.
No man is worth reading to form your style who does not mean what he says; nor was any great style ever invented but by some man who meant what he said.—Ruskin.
LIFE is divided into three terms: that which was, which is, which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better for the future.
THE chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex one, and in prudently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones are let on long leases.
LIBERALITY should have banks as well as streams, say some. True; but even the banks should be green and velvet. When we cannot relieve another's want, we can at least refuse with kind and courteous words.
Obituary Notices.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, Dec. 7, 1871, in Hartland, Mich., at the residence of Bro. E. Stone, his son-in-law, Bro. Jacob Chrispell, aged eighty-three years and ten months. Bro. Chrispell experienced religion at the age of about twenty-four years, and joined the M. E. church, of which he was a faithful member for forty years, and most of the time a class leader. He became a convert to present truth under the early labors of Bro. Cornell, and has been an earnest advocate of the doctrines held by Seventh-day Adventists for some twenty years. He died in hope. Funeral services by the writer. Text: Rev. 14:13. R. J. LAWRENCE.
FELL asleep in Jesus, Dec. 24, 1871, sister E. S. Decker, of Hammondsport, Steuben Co., N. Y., in the fifty-fourth year of her age. She embraced the third angel’s message sixteen years ago; and her love for the cause of God, and the spirit of sacrifice which she ever possessed for its advancement, greatly endeared her to us. We feel that we have indeed met with a great loss, and shall miss her much, yet we mourn not without hope; and we are glad to know that her sleep in death’s cold embrace is to be short. May her removal from the family circle be so blessed to the good of the surviving friends, that each shall finally be prepared to meet her, and her only daughter by whose side she now sleeps, in that blissful land where “there shall be no more death.” Discourse by the writer. J. W. RAYMOND.
News and Miscellany.
“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
LONDON, Jan. 4. Official advices from Ispahan show that the famine in Persia continues without diminution. Entire districts have been depopulated, and the efforts of the government to afford relief are unavailing.
Although the arrest and imprisonment of Brigham Young on the charge of murder has been expected for a short time back, and is not, therefore, entirely a surprise, still it is an event of startling importance; and one that shows how great a revolution has already been wrought in Utah, where now the law lays its hand unresisted upon the Mormon prophet, and hauls him off to jail, under peril of his life, even though the jail be one of his own houses, in lieu of a better. The refusal of the court to accept bail was proper, as the offense charged is one not usually bailable; and the law ought to be no respecter of persons, so that the court ought not to show any more leniency to Brigham Young than it would to the most obscure roving miner, or hunter. Five years ago, the bare attempt to arrest Brigham Young would have caused an instant revolt on the part of the Mormons. But times have changed wonderfully. The “prophet” may be guarded, as the Mormons once supposed, by legions of angels; but they are powerless to dispute the authority of the marshal, armed with a writ from the United States courts; and even superstition must lose its faith in the sacredness of a “prophet” whose person has been desecrated by the clutch of the constable and the confinement of a jail.—Det. Post.
The stars in their courses seem to have fought against the poor Pope, as they did against Sisera of old times; at least, one of them. On the 27th of November, the very day when the Italian Parliament was opened in Rome by Victor Emanuel, thus completing the downfall of the temporal power, a star was seen with the naked eye at high noon by all the citizens, who accepted it as an omen favorable to the new regime. It was the star of the excommunicated King that was in the ascendant in the heavens, as well as on earth; while that of the Holy Father hid its head in darkness. This melancholy fact is well known His Holiness acknowledges, while protesting against it, by shutting himself up in the Vatican, and declaring himself a prisoner, though free to go whither he will. A sad proof of this he gave just a month before the apparition of this star, on the occasion of the official recognition, or preconization, of the newly appointed Italian bishops. This ceremony was performed with the usual ceremonies, and in the usual place—the Consistorial Chamber. But it was not a consistory, because the Pope, you see, was not free. He did not wear the white cassock with a train, nor the rochet, nor the camail, “nor the majestic falda,” whatever this may be; the cardinals did not use their painted and gilded coaches, with three laced footmen behind and two on the box; the prelates of the pontifical household wore the black cassock, instead of the violet one; and the officers of the noble guard and the Swiss guard were in undress, instead of full-dress uniform. Zion was in distress and in mourning. And yet that star appeared at mid-day on the day of the triumph of the infidel! His Holiness should have fulminated a bull against it, as his predecessor did against the comet.—N. Y. Independent.
The Rev. Athanase Coquerel, the distinguished Unitarian clergyman from Paris, lectured in Boston, last week, on the rise and decline of Romanism. He argued that when one religion passes away and another succeeds, those who come from the old into the new never come empty-handed. They bring with them many ideas, wants, and habits they have been accustomed to; and you often see the old religion reappearing in the new, as the old name on a repainted sign-board sometimes shows itself under the new owner’s name. In this way the Roman Catholic Church, though a Christian church, has absorbed a great deal of the Roman paganism, even to the signs and symbols. One striking illustration of this truth was cited by Mr. Coquerel in the origin of the pontifical title. On one side of a Roman obelisk it is inscribed that Caesar Augustus (Pontifex Maximus) ordered it brought to Rome. On the other side it reads that Pontiff Sextus ordered its erection. They were both pontiffs, but one was a Pagan Emperor, and the other a Christian priest. There is no such word as pontiff in the New Testament. It means “bridge-builder.” When Rome was a little town, twenty-five hundred years ago, the bridge over the Tiber was necessary to the defense of the city. They had an order of men called “bridge-makers” to keep these bridges in order. One of them was called chief pontiff, and it was made a crime to quarrel with or strike him, so important were his official duties. So “pontiff” became the most sacred of titles. The kings, consuls and emperors assumed it in succession. The Catholic Church, preserving much of the traditional lore of Rome, preserved this also; and Pius the Ninth, heir to those “who kept the bridge” (in repair) “in those brave days of old,” now proclaims himself the Supreme Ruler of this world; the builder of a bridge, forsooth, between this world and the next.
Days of Fasting.
By George I. Butler; Ira Abbey; S. N. Haskell
“Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.” Joel i: 14, 15.
In view of the many calls for laborers from all parts of the gospel field, and our inability to comply with these calls for want of men and women who feel the burden of this work, and possess the spirit of consecration that is necessary to be of benefit to the cause of God, we appoint Sabbath and first-day, Feb. 10 and 11, as days of especial fasting and prayer to the Lord of the harvest to raise up laborers to enter the gospel field. We expect all our brethren will participate in this.
There are two fasts spoken of in the Scriptures in reference to food. One, where food is wholly abstained from, and the other where they eat “no pleasant bread” or “bread of desire.” Margin. Where the health of the individual will not admit the former plan, we recommend the latter.
We also suggest that the brethren and sisters meet in their respective places of worship, and such remarks be made as will be calculated to lead the mind to the object of the fast. We have placed the time far enough in the future, so that the brethren in Switzerland may join in the fast.
GEORGE I. BUTLER, IRA ABBEY, S. N. HASKELL, Gen. Conf. Com.
Meetings in Battle Creek, Jan. 6.
By John Nevins Andrews
OUR Conference and Association business not being fully completed before the Sabbath of last week, a considerable number of our friends remained in this city over that day. Our religious services were profitable and deeply interesting. In the forenoon Bro. S. N. Haskell preached an instructive, practical discourse from Matt. 12 : 30: “He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.” In the afternoon, Bro. White called attention to many things of importance to the prosperity of the church and the Office. After this, seven persons were received as members of the church, upon being baptized. At the close of this meeting they were baptized in the Kalamazoo river, at our usual place of baptism. In the evening, the ordinances of the Lord’s house were celebrated. It was an occasion of solemn interest. The church in Battle Creek have entered upon a series of revival meetings with a prospect of witnessing the outpouring of the Spirit of God, and the conversion of sinners. J. N. A.
Present Help.
“Lo, I am with you always,” cheering thought to those who believe. Are we cast down and weary of earth? How it rests our souls to hear the Saviour whispering, “Come unto me, and I will give you rest.” Are we tried and tempted? Do our friends, “Peter-like,” forsake us when we are falsely accused? We can find a friend in Jesus, who can understand our case, being himself once subject to the same trials. Are we forced to part with the true, the loved ones of our heart, and feel that there is no earthly balm which can sooth or allay our suffering? Behold he takes us by the hand, goes with us to the grave, even weeps with us, and best of all, promises a happy re-union at the resurrection. Can we turn away from such love, and cling to the things that perish? God forbid. Let us rather make him our best friend. Without him our own works will surely come to naught. With him, we may build upon a sure foundation. Then come what will, we need not fear, for his promises are sure.—Sel.
Talent, Spirituality, and Christ Crucified
By Editor
MEN bow before talent, even if unassociated with goodness; but between these two we must make an everlasting distinction. When once the idolatry of talent enters, then farewell to spirituality; when men ask their teachers, not for what will make them more humble and godlike, but for the excitement of an intellectual banquet, then farewell to Christian progress. Here, also, St. Paul again stood firm. Not Wisdom, but Christ crucified. St. Paul might have complied with these requirements of his converts, and then he would have gained admiration and love, he would have been the leader of a party, but he would have been false to his Master—he would have been preferring self to Christ.—Ed.
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Meetings at Monterey
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Meetings at Monterey.
Providence permitting, we will hold meetings at Monterey, Mich., Jan. 13 and 14, 1872. James White, Ellen G. White.
Osceola, Iowa, Jan. 20, 21, 1872. Decatur City, Jan. 27, 28, “ Preaching will begin in each place on Friday evening. D. M. Canright.
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Autobiography of Eld. Joseph Bates, embracing a long life on shipboard, &c., with a brief account of the author's experience in the great Advent Movement of 1840-44, with author's portrait. 318 pp., $1.00.
How to Live; comprising a series of articles on Health, and how to preserve it, with various recipes for cooking healthful food, &c. 400 pp., $1.00.
Sabbath Readings; or Moral and Religious Reading for Youth and Children. 400 pp., 60 cts. The same in five pamphlets, 50 cts.
Appeal to Youth; Address at the Funeral of Henry N. White; also a brief narrative of his life, experience, and last sickness, with his mother's letters, &c. 96 pp., muslin, 40 cts. Paper covers, 10 cts.
The Game of Life Illustrated, with Explanatory Notes, and Introduction by Eld. James White. This is one of the most instructive and impressive little works ever published. It has three illustrations, 5x6 inches each, representing Satan playing with man for his soul; 1. The game in progress; 2. The game lost; 3. The game won. In board, 50 cts.; in paper, 30 cts.
The Advent Keepsake; comprising a text of Scripture for each day of the year, on the Second Advent, the Resurrection, &c. Muslin, 25 cts.; do., gilt, 40 cts.
A Solemn Appeal relative to Solitary Vice, and the Abuses and Excesses of the Marriage Relation. Edited by Eld. James White. Muslin, 50 cts.; paper, 30 cts.
Sermons on the Sabbath and Law; embracing an outline of the Biblical and Secular History of the Sabbath for 6000 years, and a refutation of the Sunday-seventh-day theories of Mede, Jennings, Akers, and Fuller. By J. N. Andrews. 25 cts.
Our Faith and Hope, No. 1. Sermons on the Millennium, Second Advent, the Kingdom, the Judgment, the Time, the Sanctuary, and Saving Faith. No. 2 will be ready soon. 20 cts. each.
The Atonement; an Examination of a Remedial System in the light of Nature and Revelation. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.
The Nature and Tendency of Modern Spiritualism. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.
The Bible from Heaven; or, a Dissertation on the Evidences of Christianity. 25 cts.
History of the Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul. By D. M. Canright. 25 cts.
Review of Objections to the Visions. 20 cts.
Discussion on the Sabbath Question, between Elds Grant and Cornell. 20 cts.
The Ministration of Angels: and the Origin, History, and Destiny, of Satan. By D. M. Canright. 15 cts.
The Three Messages of Rev. 14, and the Two-Horned Beast. By J. N. Andrews. 15 cts.
Which? Mortal or Immortal? an Inquiry into the Present Constitution and Future Condition of Man. By Uriah Smith. 15 cts.
The Resurrection of the Just; a Vindication of the Doctrine. By J. H. Waggoner. 15 cts.
The Seventh Part of Time; a Sermon on the Sabbath Question. By W. H. Littlejohn. 10 cts.
The Truth Found; the Nature and Obligation of the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment. By J. H. Waggoner. 10 cts.
Review of Gillillan, and other authors, on the Sabbath. By T. B. Brown. 10 cts.
Vindication of the True Sabbath. By J. W. Morton. 10 cts.
The Date of the Seventy Weeks of Dan. 9; an Explanation of the Commandment to Restore and Build Jerusalem. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.
The Seven Trumpets; an Exposition of Rev. 8 and 9. 10 cts.
Matthew Twenty-Four; a full Exposition of the chapter. By James White. 10 cts.
Key to Prophetic Chart. The symbols of Daniel and John explained, and the periods determined. 10 cts.
The Position and Work of the True People of God under the Third Angel's Message. By W. H. Littlejohn. 10 cts.
An Appeal to the Baptists, from the Seventh-day Baptists, for the Restoration of the Bible Sabbath. 5 cts.
Milton on the State of the Dead. 5 cts.
Three-Cent Tracts: The Second Advent—The Millennium—The Kingdom—The Law and the Gospel—The Seventh Part of Time—Much in Little—The Sin of Witchcraft—Perpetuity of Spiritual Gifts—Celestial Railroad—Scripture References.
Two-Cent Tracts: The Sufferings of Christ—Seven Reasons for Sunday-Keeping Examined—Who Changed the Sabbath?—Sabbath by Elihu—The Rich Man and Lazarus—Institution of the Sabbath—Popular Objections to the Resurrection of the Body—Positive Institutions.
One-Cent Tracts: Appeal on Immortality—Brief Thoughts on Immortality—Thoughts for the Candid—Judson on Dress—Personality of God—Sign of the Day of God—Time Lost; Old and New Style—The Two Laws—What is Truth?
Half-Cent Tracts: God's Answers to Man's Excuses for not Keeping His Sabbath—The Heavenly Meeting—Some Features of our Times—Which Day do You Keep, and Why?
CHARTS: The Prophetic and Law of God Charts, the size used by our preachers; varnished and mounted, each $2.00.
The two Charts, on cloth, by mail, with Key, without rollers, $2.50.