Earlier text: Letter from D. P. CurtisTHEY DENY THE BIBLE
By Joseph Harvey Waggoner
Modern Spiritualism.—No. 2.
In Isa. 8:19, 20, are the following words: “And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and that mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” We think the present work of spiritualism is here pointed out. Peeping and muttering well characterize the discordant utterances of spirit mediums. But as it will be our first object to show that they speak not according to the word of God, and that there is no light in them, we quote the following words of Paul in 1 Tim. 4:1: “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” As a person cannot depart from a place at which he has never been, so one cannot depart from a faith which he never held. This would lead us to expect just what we now see, many professed, religious teachers turning to the advocacy of spiritualism. In the early days of spiritualism a large part of its public teachers were ministers of various religious denominations. Its friends among professors of religion cannot now be enumerated. This scripture is literally fulfilled. And they shall give heed to seducing spirits. This brings us to notice the claim continually set up that they are good spirits, doing good, &c. In order to seduce, they must have the appearance and profession of goodness. Seductive, says Webster, is “tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances.” Flattery is the seducer’s strong hold; and this is a characteristic of the teachings of the spirits. And this is the real secret of the success of spiritualism. Man is constituted to receive and enjoy the influence of God’s Spirit, and by sin his mind is so blinded, and his powers perverted, that it is absolutely necessary for him to receive its aid to guide him through the journey of life. This the Bible offers to him only on condition that he shall be humble, cross-bearing, and self-denying. On the contrary, while spiritualism professes to supply the same wants, it deludes by flattery, fills the heart with pride, and grants such a license of life as is congenial to the carnal mind. Thus again, in this particular, we find a remarkable fulfillment of the prophecy. A bare statement of their teachings is sufficient to show that they contain the “doctrines of devils.” We will enumerate some of their positions with a few evidences on the several points. A. J. Davis says that nature is “the true and only Bible.” Dr. Weisse read a lengthy paper before the “investigating class” of New York, to prove that the Bible is a mere transcript of heathen fables, and remarked:— “If I am wrong in my views of the Bible, I should like to know it, for the spirits and mediums do not contradict me.” Dr. Hare exalts spiritualism above the Bible, because the former teaches the immortality of the soul, and the latter does not; he says:— “The Old Testament does not impart a knowledge of immortality, without which religion were worthless. The notions derived from the gospel are vague, disgusting, inaccurate, and difficult to believe.” Spir. Sci. Dem., p. 209. Again he says, page 138:— “The Bible of the spiritualist is the book of nature—the only one which by inward and outward evidence can be ascribed to divine authorship.” Deacon John Norton (a spirit), through Mrs. Conant, medium, says:— “I can assure my friends on earth it is very hard for me to give up believing in the Bible. . . .” “The Christian would say, you must not alter one word of that book. I once believed thus, and I do not blame the people of your day for doing so; for the tide is mighty, and the multitude is being borne that way. A few have stemmed the torrent, and are struggling against wind and water. When a majority of the souls shall perceive the new light [spiritualism], the tide will flow the other way [against the Bible].” Of this we have no doubt. We think “the spirits” are laboring to this end. But their denial of the Bible is now so well known that it seems needless to multiply proofs. The reader may be interested to know that, as they are fruitful of substitutes for Bible truth, so have the spirits attempted to produce in form a substitute for the Bible. A few extracts from their first chapter of Genesis are here copied. It was given, professedly, by an exalted spirit, under the title of “Disclosures from the Interior.” “1. In the beginning God, the Life in God, the Lord in God, the Holy Procedure, inhabited the dome, which, burning in magnificence primeval, and revolving in prismatic and undulatory spiral, appeared, and was the pavilion of the spirit; in glory inexhaustible and inconceivable, in movement spherical, unfolded in harmonious procedure disclosive.” “5. And God said, Let there be space! and the firmament was separated from the emanation, and the firmament, unmoved, appeared, and the emanation unfolded within the procedure. And the firmament is manifest infinitude, and the emanation separated, is encompassed space.” “11. And God made two great lights to rule the zodiac, and to be for creative disclosure, disclosive manifestation, manifest glory, glorious radiation, interpenetrative aggregation; and thence vortices, vortical suns, suns of vortices, solarisms, vortical planetariums, planets, floral universes, universal paradises, paradisiacal heavens, heavens of spiritual universes, celestial heavens, seraphic habitations, seraphimal universes, cities of heavenly seraphima, and final consociative universal intelligence in unity of innumerable individuality, in trinity of unfolding universes, adoring and ascending in beatification unto eternal life.” Such a piece of nonsense—such a stringing together of words without meaning, we venture to say, cannot be found beyond the limits of spiritualism. And it is truly strange that any one that has capacity to pronounce these meaningless phrases should think it an improvement on the Holy Scriptures! To destroy all just and true ideas of God is to effectually destroy his worship, and to dishonor him. This is Satan’s great aim, and the teachings of spiritualism in this respect fully prove its satanic origin. In the Banner of Light, Feb. 3, 1866, the “controlling spirit, through Mrs. Conant, medium, said:— “It should be understood that there are as many Gods as there are minds needing Gods to worship; not only one, two, or three, but many. . . . The noble forest trees, sun, moon, and stars, all things are Gods to you, for they minister unto the needs of your soul. It is vain to suppose you can all bow down to, and truly serve, one God.” By the same medium, and in the same paper of Dec. 2, 1865, it was said:— “We understand God to be life, simply life; that is everywhere, no more in one place than in another.” Spiritualists talk a great deal about the love and goodness of God, but when we examine their teachings, we find that they all tend to pantheism or atheism. Those who are most intimately acquainted with them, having been long connected with them, say that such is their tendency. Joel Tiffany, a spiritualist lecturer and publisher, in his “Monthly” of June, 1858, said:— “In an article entitled ‘Spiritualism,’ published in the December number of the Monthly, among other faults and errors, I charged that its influence had tended to create a kind of moral and religious atheism—that these modern developments had not awakened religious aspirations in the minds of those who had been the subjects of them. To this charge many took exceptions, as being too severe. I have carefully investigated its truth since that time, and find the charge to be just. My experience has been, go among spiritualists where you will, and, as a general thing, they have no faith in a living, conscious, intelligent deity; possessed of love, volition, affection, &c., as an object of religious aspiration and worship. They feel no demand for worship themselves, and they denounce and ridicule its exercise in others. On an examination, both of their theoretical and practical faith in God, you will find that it amounts to nothing but an indefinite and incoherent pantheism.” Dr. Randolph, after eight years experience as a spiritual medium and lecturer, said:— “Harmonialism robs God of personality; converts him into a rarified gas many million times finer than electricity! according to Davis, and elevates Reason to the throne of the Universe by defying human intellect. God, Nature, Love, Panthea, Rarified Gas, Sublimated Oxygen, and Ether, are by this lexicon convertible terms and essences.” The “Healing of the Nations,” a standard and popular work, published by N. P. Tallmadge, says:— “If God is one, all must be fractional parts of him, and he alone must be all.” Woodman’s Reply to Dwight says:— “I believe in one God, and that God exists in one person; that the universe is filled with an immense ocean of life or spirit, which is the body of God.” A. J. Davis, in his “Pantheon of Progress,” says:— “But it is the central principle, the Idea of Ann Lee, for which we now reverently inquire. That principle, in brief, is this: God is Dual—‘He and She’—Father and Mother! Hindu teachers obtained a golden glimpse of this impersonal truth. Forming and destroying principles, male and female energies and laws, were perceived and taught by the early inhabitants. But not one person from God Brahma to President Buchanan, has done what Ann Lee did for this world-revolutionizing Idea. She centrified it in a thousand forms of expression. It took wings in her spirit. Better than the Virgin Mary’s saintly position in the ethical temple, is the simple announcement that God is as much woman as man, a oneness composed of two individual equal halves, Love and Wisdom, absolute and balanced eternally.”—Great Harmonia, Vol. V., p. 196. In the same work is “the author’s vision of Paul’s teachings,” in which is the following:— “Yesterday I thought, with Paul, that God was hidden from me except through the medium of a particular ‘Jesus,’ and all at once I beheld immeasurable quantities of worthlessness in every direction. Of the swarming millions that had lived, are now on earth, and will be, only a poor group here and there, felt any faith adequate to the imperative demand. Death and destruction, like the demons of universal despair, went arm-in-arm into every part of the world. Gloom and dimmed glory filled the whole land with suffocating clouds. Amid all I tried to behold the great mercy and wisdom of ‘Our Father’—to be thankful for love I did not behold, and for knowledge I did not possess. Presently as I walked the fields, the curtain was lifted mountain-high. ‘Incarnation’ of an Infinite Father was nowhere particular. His manifestations in material organizations, and in combinations were like himself impersonal. The sun shone with a thousand-fold more splendor. The wave of barbarism had rolled away. My whole spirit breathed from the roots of the superanimal consciousness. Like a rose I felt glad in the sunlight, and my thoughts swept like uncaged birds through the fragrant air. Mysterious beauty held me as by a psychological spell. Every tree from top to germ was a divine image; it was just so much true incarnation of the Infinite Duality. Animals, insects, creeping things, no longer offended and detracted from my soul’s dignity and happiness. My fellow-men all were unfallen demi-gods. I beheld their spiritual interiority, their susceptibility to the common divinity.”—pp. 129, 130. It is difficult to tell whether the “interiorness” of this and of the majority of spiritualistic writings is deism, pantheism, or atheism. They are rather a strange mixture of all together. The Scriptures reveal God as a supreme ruler and judge. The attributes of justice and character of judge are entirely denied to God by spiritualists. The spirit of Thomas Paine, according to “Rev. C. Hammond, medium,” was told in the spheres:— “Your own minds are white thrones. As you are now pure you can judge. But no mind will judge you. All judgment is with you. Each mind will judge itself, and not another. The judgment will be pure, because purity resides in you. The judgment will be right, because it is the judgment of self. . . . The throne is within you. On that white throne determine your works. It is your inalienable prerogative. It belongs to no one else.” In the Banner of Light of July 23, 1864, the controlling spirit gives the following answers:— “Q. Are all human beings parts of one great spiritual being?” “Q. From whence does the Infinite Spirit derive its principles of life?” “A. You are constantly giving to all things, and receiving from all things. This, then, proves that God, or the Great Infinite Spirit, has as much need of you as you have need of him.” Yet Dr. Hare praises spiritualism because it gives us exalted views of God! Again in the same paper of a later date, same medium, is the following:— “Q. Do you know of any such spirit as a person we call the devil?” “A. We certainly do. And yet this same devil is our God, our Father.” This is surely an honest confession. See John 8:44. So it was not without meaning that the spiritualist lecturers in Boston opened their meeting with a prayer to the devil! Extracts of this kind might be multiplied to almost any extent, but we tire in the recital. Candid reader, are we not right in saying that this system is degrading? Under its influence multitudes are relapsing into the grossest heathenism, even to worshiping the devil! and that openly and confessedly. Sun, moon, stars, trees, self, everything, is worshiped but the true and living God. The words of inspiration are being fearfully fulfilled; truth is abhorred, and “doctrines of devils” are received with greediness. The Camp-Meetings.
By James White
FIVE camp-meetings have already been held, one in each of the States of Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. At each of these general gatherings of our people, the annual Conferences of the several States were held. Both the religious services and the business sessions of these annual meetings are reported to us as having been characterized by harmony, spirit, power of the present message, and the presence of the Holy Spirit. Many have been converted to the truth and to Christ at these meetings, and the word and work of God have taken a deeper hold of our people generally. And while many of our young men are dedicating themselves to the work of the ministry, the spirit of sacrifice, in order to sustain the rapidly growing work, is increasing with the people. These are indeed favorable omens. Mrs. W. has given very full accounts of the Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota Camp-meetings since our last issue, which, if given in full, would alone nearly fill this number. There have never been such meetings of wonderful interest among our people before.—J. W. in Signs of the Times. How Long Does It Take to Be Converted?
“How long does it take to be converted?” said a young man to his father. “How long,” said his father, “does it take the judge to discharge the prisoner when the jury have brought him in not guilty?” “Only a minute.” “When a sinner is convinced that he is a sinner, and is sorry for it, when he desires forgiveness and deliverance from sin, and believes that Christ is able and willing to save him, he can be discharged by the judge. It does not take God a long time to discharge a penitent soul from the condemnation and power of sin.” Brakes Needed to Stop a Moving Car
A SINGLE brake will stop a car at starting, but many powerful brakes will be unable to stop it when under full headway. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand Services in Chicago, every Sabbath (seventh day), at 269 West Erie St. All Sabbath-keepers spending a Sabbath in Chicago are invited to attend. The Camp-meeting of S. D. Adventists of Vermont will be held at Wolcott, on the same ground occupied last year, Aug. 20-24, 1874. We hope to see the largest gathering of Sabbath-keepers at this meeting that ever met together in Vermont. Please read Bro. Butler’s article on Eastern Camp-meetings in REVIEW No. 5, last page, and remember that God will gather those that have made a covenant with him by sacrifice. Ps. 50:5. We expect to get free return tickets over the railroad and reduced fare on stage from Waterbury to Morrisville for those that come on Vt. Central. More particulars hereafter. In behalf of Camp-meeting Committee,
L. Bean. Quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society for district No. 2 of the N. Y. & Pa. Conference at Roosevelt, N. Y., on the 8th and 9th of August, 1874. A general attendance is expected. Please send in reports in time for the meeting. Monthly meeting at the same time and place.
Daniel Bowe, Director. Monthly meeting for Oakland, Little Prairie, and Johnstown, will be held at Johnstown Center, Wis., Aug. 1 and 2, 1874. The T. and M. Society of district No. 2 of the Kansas and Missouri Conference, will hold its first quarterly meeting at the Cordonier school-house, Doniphan Co., Kansas, August 14-16, 1874. Bro. Rogers is expected.
T. H. Wakeman, Director. Golden Gate, Brown Co., Minn., Aug. 1-9.
Steele Center, Steele Co., “ “ 13-16.
O. A. Olsen. The new church at Mankato, Minn., will be dedicated at the time of the quarterly meeting, Aug. 15 and 16, 1874. We expect some preacher to be with us. Brethren and sisters of the surrounding churches, and those who desire to unite with us, are invited to attend. All readers of the REVIEW in the vicinity are especially invited to come, and bring your friends. Come, praying for God’s blessing to be with us.
By request of the church,
F. W. Morse. Our first quarterly meeting will be held in connection with the tent, August 7, 8, and 9, at the grove about one mile west of Solomon Rapids, Mitchell Co., Kansas. Bro. J. H. Rogers and C. H. Chaffee are with us and expect to remain till after the quarterly meeting. As God has blessed our efforts to obtain a tent and ministerial labor, may we all take courage, trust in God, and be determined to do good, and receive the blessing of God.
O. O. Bridges, Director T. & M. S., Dist. No. 1. Sibley Iowa, Aug. 8, 9.
Harrison Grant. Belvidere, Iowa, Aug. 8, 9.
H. Nicola. The fourth quarterly meeting of the Mich. T. & M. Society, Dist. No. 3, will be held in connection with the general quarterly meeting at the camp-meeting, Battle Creek, Mich. A meeting of the officers of the society will be held. Will the librarians make a special effort to be present?
L. A. Olmstead, Director. The quarterly meeting for Western New York will be held in connection with the quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 1 at Lancaster, August 9 and 10, 1874. It being the last meeting of this district before our State Conference, full reports from all the churches are desired.
W. H. Eggleston, Director. The Signs of the Times.
By James White
Four numbers only of the Signs of the Times have been printed up to this date. The paper has thus far met with very general approval. But for two reasons we are issuing the Signs, at present, only once in two weeks; first, want of help; and, second, our list of subscribers is yet small. We do not wish to advance far in the volume before our friends get around with legions of names. Our terms are plainly stated as follows: “Two dollars a year to those who choose to pay a subscription price, and free to all others as far as the paper is sustained by the donations of the liberal friends of the cause.” If we can have 5,000 paying subscribers at $2.00 a year, we can furnish additional thousands to any amount for $1.00 a year. The sum of $10,000 will pay the expenses of the first 5,000 copies of the Signs weekly for one year, including editing, type setting, press work, paper, mailing, office rent, fuel, lights, &c., &c. The expenses of additional thousands would include only paper, press work, and mailing. Hence the second 5,000 could be furnished for one-half the first 5,000. The Signs of the Times cannot be published any cheaper than the REVIEW AND HERALD. The money must come from some quarter. Let the friends bear this in mind while making long lists of subscribers. We want all the $2.00 subscribers that can be obtained. We want all to send in their donations to the Signs who would esteem it a pleasure so to do. And then we want hosts of names, “money, or no money” under the following restrictions. 1. The agent that obtains them should have some evidence, at least, that the persons would candidly examine unpopular Bible subjects. 2. The agent must obtain the request, or at least the consent (either by word of mouth, or by letter), from persons to become subscribers. They must so report to the office of the Signs of the Times in order for them to become bona fide subscribers according to postal laws regulating the mailing of papers. In order, then, for names to be entered on the lists of subscribers to the Signs of the Times, they must be accompanied with the statement that the persons have requested, or at least consented, to take the paper, and pay the postage. 3. The agent should preserve a full list of all names sent to the office of the Signs of the Times, and should feel in duty bound to visit the persons, or write to them, as often as circumstances will admit, and learn of them whether they read the Signs with any degree of interest, and if they would like to have it continued, and if they wish to pay the subscription price or donate to its publication. Here is a cross to take up, an excellent field of missionary labor. Here is a chance for some of our people who are inclined to exclusiveness to move out and become broader in their feelings and in their course of action. The Tract and Missionary Societies are invited to consider the foregoing points, and co-operate with us in our endeavors to reach the people in a systematic effort. We are very much pleased with the tone of the following from Bro. J. N. Ayers, of Farlinville, Linn Co., Kansas, who sends forty-two names:— “Seeing a notice in the REVIEW AND HERALD EXTRA, of June 9, 1874, requesting the T. & M. Societies to forward the names of those who would read the Signs and pay the postage, and that you would send it without money to them, the following persons have all been visited, their promise obtained to receive it, pay the postage, and read it. No one of them has ever taken any of our periodicals. Many more can be obtained. How many ought I to send from this district? We are but partly organized; but we will have the district fully organized by the 19th of July.” Bro. J. G. Walker, of Paicenis Valley, Cal., says:— “God speed the Signs of the Times. I have fifteen names which I have obtained as subscribers for the Signs on the following terms. I told them to give me their names and try the paper, and when they had read a few copies, if they did not consider it worth two dollars per year, that they might let me know and have the paper stopped, and we would not charge them anything for what they had taken.” Bro. A. Gleason of Toledo, Ohio, sends fourteen names, and says:— “Herewith find a few names for the Signs of the Times. These persons I have seen. All agree to comply with your request, namely, to pay the postage and read it. I will get some more names that I have written to. Also will try to canvass a portion of this city if desired. You may put me down for $10.00 for the support of the Signs of the Times.” We give the foregoing as a reasonable notice that the law regulating the sending out of papers by the United States Mail, provides that in all cases when not sent to bona fide subscribers, the postage must be pre-paid. And according to the decisions of the courts, in order to be a bona fide subscriber, the person to whom the paper is sent must request, or at least consent, to become a subscriber. Therefore, in all cases before sending names to the Signs of the Times, the consent of the persons to become subscribers must be obtained, or the money forwarded to pre-pay the postage. Number five of the Signs will be mailed about the 26th of July to all those who are “bona fide” subscribers, according to the foregoing statements. Let all those who wish to become subscribers report without delay. J. W. Four Tents for Sale at Michigan Camp-Ground
By Uriah Smith
There will be for sale on the Michigan Camp-ground, four tents, two of them 12x16 and two 14x16, which will be disposed of to those who are first in their application for them. U. S. We wish to say to our brethren and sisters in Maine, that a reduction of fare on the R. R. to our camp-meeting cannot be obtained, but ample provision will be made for both man and beast. We shall do the best we can to obtain stables for horses near the ground, and pasturage for those who wish. There will be a boarding tent on the ground where refreshments can be obtained. We hope to see a larger gathering of the brethren and sisters this fall on the camp-ground than we have ever seen in Maine. There will be a team at Pishon's Ferry, Wednesday, Sept. 2, on the arrival of the cars to take passengers to the camp-ground. As we are drawing near the end, let our interest and zeal in the work of God increase. Shall we do it? We shall see. Wellsville, N. Y
By William Coutts
THE members of the N. Y. and Pa. T. & M. Society, Dist. No. 10, are requested to forward their reports and such other matter as is to come into my hands, so that they will reach me as early as the 10th of August next. If any want to pay their pledges on tract fund, send it to me by that time. WILLIAM COUTTS, Director. Notice on Mailing Correspondence to Eld. O. A. Olsen
By O. A. Olsen
IN writing to me, direct to Eld. O. A. Olsen, I make this request for the reason that as I travel I find so many of my name with the same initials that it is often much trouble to get my mail, and often some is lost. My home P. O. address is Fort Howard, Brown Co. Wis., Box 200. Other places you will see by appointments. O. A. Olsen. “This Generation.”
By R. F. Cottrell
The Saviour does not trifle with his disciples by seeming to answer the question, “What shall be the sign of thy coming?” while at the same time he intends to keep them in ignorance. He intends to be understood. He does not solemnly assert that “heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away,” in connection with words of a hidden meaning, words which he did not intend should be understood. Therefore we can understand what he means by “this generation.” And there is but one reasonable interpretation of it. He did not mean the generation living at the time when he uttered these words; for an overruling Providence causes the pen of the historian to record the fulfillment of prophecy, and no such signs appeared in those days. He did not mean that the Jews or the Christians should exist as a people to the second advent; for the existence of either of them throughout the dispensation would be no sign of the nearness of the event. It is to assure us that the event is near, even at the doors, that he says, This generation shall not pass away till it actually transpires. Has the advent been even at the doors for eighteen hundred years. Jews and Christians have existed all this time. This interpretation gives no light on the approach of the advent. It is vain. It only hides the awful meaning of the Saviour’s words—words which he designed should be understood, relating to the time of his coming. The only reasonable interpretation is, that when he reached in the prophecy the time when the predicted darkening of the sun and moon, and the falling of the stars, should become facts of history, the people living at the time shall not all die before the advent. We have reached the time; the signs have appeared; men that are now living will live to the close of the dispensation. This is evidently what the Saviour meant; and he says to every disciple of his, “Know that it is near;” and he designs that they shall know it. He does not trifle; he does not deceive. R. F. Cottrell. To the Brethren in Wisconsin.
The writer of the appointment given in another column for the Oakland, Little Prairie and Johnstown churches, whoever he may be, offers to the members of those churches the following exhortation in view of the appointment:— Dear brethren and sisters, let us commence now, if we have not before, to seek the Lord with all our hearts, examining ourselves in the light we have of late received, and come up to this meeting determined to start anew to serve God as we have never served him before. Let us each and all determine to have no more half-hearted work which is so offensive in God’s sight, but let each put shoulder to the wheel, and though small and weak, if we but be wholly united with one another and with our Lord, we shall be strong. Truly we are in the valley of decision where we must take a decided stand for or against this great closing work. Let each decide fully that, let others do as they will, I will be on the Lord’s side. Eternal life is at stake. Shall we, can we, give up the glorious prize? or shall we gird the whole armor closely about us, hold fast our weapons, and enlist fully and unreservedly for the closing conflict? Bro. Matteson is earnestly invited to meet with us. A BLUE CROSS on the margin of your paper signifies that your subscription will expire in two weeks, and that an earnest invitation is extended to you to renew at once. Annexed to each receipt in the following list, is the Volume and Number of the REVIEW & HERALD to which the money received pays—which should correspond with the Numbers on the Papers. If money for the paper is not in due time acknowledged, immediate notice of the omission should then be given. $2.00 EACH. Mrs E L Hurd 46-1, Emily L Canright 46-6, Henry Chilson 47-3, Chas Smith 46-1, J H Warren 46-1, Joseph Ball 46-10, R S Tyler 46-6, Thomas Thomas 46-1, J C Bunch 46-1, John Jones 46-1, I S Cronkrite 45-25, Wm Coleman 45-19, Henry Hitchcock 46-1, Wm Treadwell 46-5, W A Waite 46-9, Benj Hostetler 46-9, Weltha Wells 46-13, L M Chandler 46-7, Isaac Baker 45-24, W G Jenkins 46-6, Mrs Wm White 46-1, E Stone 46-2, Ann V Young 46-1, Alvin S Holden 46-1, P F Ferciott 46-1, J J Boardman 46-6, C E Moser 46-6, Lizzie A Mitchell 46-4, Leonard Darling 46-12, Mrs Betsey K Herrig 46-1. $1.00 EACH. O B Styles 36-18, Crosby Horn 45-9, C E Ryder 46-1, D Robbins 45-4, Thomas Anderson 45-1, Angeline Chamberlain 45-1, James Sawyer 45-7, Lavina Butler 45-1, Sarah Bacon 45-1, Maria P West 45-1, M B Clark 45-6, Rev A D Brand 46-1, Betsey A Seal 45-1, S A Webber 46-1, C Bryden 45-3, May L Smith 45-6, Mrs Anna Taber 46-1, Mrs Alicia C Birdsall 46-1, James Steen 46-4, J Burroughs 46-1, Annet Henderson 46-1, Samuel Smith 45-1, Demas Stiles 45-1, A C Coffey 45-1, H L M Doyal 45-6, S O Biland 46-1, W H Wild 45-1, A F Valentine 45-1, M Z Southwick 45-1, M A Walker 46-1, Eld Wm Cottrell 45-1, S A Bailey 46-1, Miss H Titus 46-6, Wm Holladay 45-3, G W Witter 45-1, Dr P S Boggs 46-1, E D Nye 45-5, Mrs Lucinda Decker 45-1, Henry Satterlee 45-6, R H Peck 45-15, Calvin Reed 46-1, Wm Pepper 45-1, I C Munger 45-5, Myron W Harris 45-6, B Alverson 46-1, W J Stout 45-1, Mrs Pauline Alderman 46-1, Mrs Rachel Alderman 46-1, Ebenezer Scribner 45-4, A T Hilton 45-1. Mrs R Slater 50c 45-14, M H Leonard 55c 45-2, Josephus Angus 50c 45-1, Rebecca Hutchins 50c 45-1, Mrs S C Ewing 50c 45-1, Joel Button 50c 45-1, R L Burchell 50c 45-1, Mrs L Porter 50c 45-1, Henry Marcy 50c 45-1, James Cockings 50c 45-1, Mr B Burton 50c 45-1, Mary Spicer 50c 45-1, Stephen Pursell 50c 45-1, C A Washburn 50c 44-18, Georgia Travas 50c 45-1, Mrs M Smeed 50c 45-1, Mrs S R Watkins 50c 45-1, Philip Shenaman 50c 45-1, Henry Dispenett 50c 45-1, Henry Coulter 50c 45-1, Theodocia Terry 50c 44-14, Lizzie Smith 50c 45-1, J E McDowell 50c 45-1. D H McClellan 10c, E A Manito 85c, O F Olmstead $1.00, Miss Adelaide Farrington 50c, A W Flowers 65c, Weston T Peckinpaugh 20c, Henrietta Hills 50c, S H Lane 4.43, S R Morrison 1.25, Emma Satterlee 30c, Ira R Payne 25c, Willie M Neubauer 25c, Mrs H A Munson 25c, Samuel C Andes 1.00, Chester E Tuttle 25c, James Hardy 20c, J L Rice 3.00, Timothy Bryant 1.00, J W Martin 31c, D W Gross 40c, Mary Roushey 2.50, Mrs G Wariner 50c, Eunice McCart 1.50, D A Smith 50c, John Jones 80c, M F Horine 2.90, D E Horton 25c, H L M Doyal 1.00, A D Webber 50c, Paul Love 25c, R O Dawen 35c, Abram Wright 75c, M E Crumb 50c, E Stone 1.00, H A St John 1.78, James White 85c. Eld S N Haskell, Kirkville, N Y, $582.82. Edwin R Jones, Flat Rock, Wayne Co, Mich, $14.63, C W Olds, Medina, Outagamie Co, Wis, 27.30. Michigan Conference Fund.
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We have received a dispatch from Bro. White that he would start for the Michigan Camp-meeting, Wednesday, July 29.