“ALMOST.”—The Episcopalian says: “Almost transubstantiation in the doctrine of the Lord’s supper; our charitable societies almost nurseries; our theological schools almost monasteries; our clergy almost stage-actors, and men milliners; our communion tables almost idolatrous shrines; our choirs almost opera houses; our bishops almost inquisitors—is there nothing startling to the instincts of Christians in all these things? Is there nothing to make the ears to tingle and the cheeks to blush? Nothing to alarm the fears, and to make us tremble for the fate of the church?”
Piety First
Piety First.— The most eloquent and powerful preaching will fail to convert souls unless it is accompanied by Divine influence; and for this, God will be inquired of. Hence, the successful preacher will be often at the throne of grace; and those who wish to be blessed through their minister will not merely seek for a “smart man,” but likewise a man of prayer. When Rev. Dr. Griffin was once asked relative to a candidate for the ministry, he remarked, “He is a man of talent, and a good speaker; but I have my doubts whether he will pray down the Holy Spirit while he preaches.”
PROOFS OF AN EXTINCT RACE OF MEN AND ANIMALS.—
On Meagher’s Bar, opposite Nevada, have been discovered fossils that unmistakably prove that this part of the world was, at some time, inhabited by a race of human beings who stood, in maturity, from ten to twelve feet high, and by a species of quadrupeds at least twice as large as the Asiatic elephant. They were imbedded about eight feet, in what might be termed a close alluvial deposit, and what the configuration of the country indicates was once the eddy of a river.—Montana Post.
Obituary Notices.
By Wm. Johnston; JOHN D. PEARSON; S. F. PEARSON; J. Hunter; E. F. Hunter
DIED, Sept. 24, 1866, in Perry Co., Pa., my beloved companion, aged 33 years, 9 months, and 23 days. Her death was caused by internal injuries received in lifting. She was a sincere lover of Jesus, a believer in, and an advocate of, the present truth. More than five years ago she commenced keeping the Lord's Sabbath, even before she knew that there were any Seventh-day Adventists in the world. Some one or two years after this, a brother furnished us with several numbers of the Review; and the reading of these produced almost an entire revolution in her mind. She began to take more heed to that light that shineth in a dark place, and was soon enabled to embrace the present truth with the whole affection of her heart. She lived and died, in hope of the glory of God, and of an immortal crown, at the resurrection of the just.
Wm. Johnston.
DIED, in Otsego, Mich., our only son, Johnnie H. Pearson, aged nearly seventeen months. Appropriate remarks were made by Bro. A. Hilliard, from 1 Cor. xv. We believe that God will bring our sweet babe again from the land of the enemy; and, if we are faithful, we expect to meet him in the glorious resurrection morning. Bless God, this hope is ours.
JOHN D. & S. F. PEARSON.
DIED in Belvidere, Boone Co., Ill., Aug. 28, 1866, of cholera infantum, our youngest child, Zelia Adda, aged 16 mo. and 23 days. Funeral discourse from 1st Cor. xv, 26, by Eld. A. Cook, Free Methodist.
“We shall greet them at home, we shall greet them,
When the sorrows of life shall be o'er;
Our loved ones we hope soon to meet them,
On Eden's fair, beautiful, shore;
The glorious thought how consoling,
To think that the time is so nigh,
When Jesus, the future controlling,
Shall bring us to join them on high.
“We shall greet them at home, we shall meet them,
Where nothing can ever divide,
Where sickness and death cannot harm them,
Nor tear them again from our side.
We shall wander by life's glowing river,
'Neath the shade of life's tree we shall roam,
With the glory of God shining o'er us,
We'll greet them, we'll greet them, at home.”
J. and E. F. HUNTER.
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Key to the Prophetic Chart, 10 2
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Appointments.
By John Byington; I. D. Van Horn; N. M. Jordon; A. C. Bourdeau; D. T. Bourdeau
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will meet with the church in Centerville, Tuscola Co., Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 13 and 14. Also at Tuscola village, Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 20 and 21, commencing at 10 o'clock.
J. BYINGTON.
NOTHING in providence preventing, I will hold meetings in Ohio as follows:
At Bellville, Richland Co., O., Sabbath and first-day, Nov. 3, 4.
At Fredricktown, Knox Co., Monday and Tuesday evenings, Nov. 5, 6.
I will then attend each of the Quarterly Meetings as appointed in Review No. 13, viz.:
Lovett's Grove, Sabbath and first-day, Nov. 10, 11.
Gilboa, " " " " 17, 18.
Cass, " " " " 24, 25.
Jackson, " " " Dec. 1, 2.
Bellville, " " " " 8, 9.
Wakeman, " " " " 15, 16.
Strongsville, " " " " 22, 23.
Geneva, " " " " 29, 30.
Orwell, " " " Jan. 5, 6, 1867.
The appointment for Portage, in Review No. 13, by request, we have changed to Lovett's Grove.
I. D. VAN HORN.
THE next Quarterly Meeting of the Hundred Mile Grove church, Wis., will be held Oct. 27 and 28. Elders Sanborn and R. F. Andrews are expected to attend this meeting. We hope the brethren and sisters at Baraboo will be present. We particularly request those members of the church who cannot attend this meeting to represent themselves by letter. We hope all will be prepared to pay up their s. B. dues.
N. M. JORDON.
PROVIDENCE permitting, we will meet with the brethren and sisters in Iowa, as follows:
At Fairfield, Jeff. Co., Oct. 17, at 10 A. M. Knoxville, Marion Co., Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 20, 21. Sandyville, Warren Co., Oct. 27, 28.
Brethren and sisters come to these meetings, and may the Lord bless all who may attend.
A. C. & D. T. BOURDEAU.
Bro. WHITE: I find by an examination of Dr. Clarke's comments on Genesis ii, 2, that the Septuagint, the Syriac, and the Samaritan read the sixth day instead of the seventh; and he says this should be considered the genuine reading which appears from these versions to have been originally that of the Hebrew text. He further says, that the characters used to represent the words sixth and seventh were so nearly alike that a mistake was probably made in the translation, making it read seventh instead of sixth. If Clarke is correct, then are we not under obligations to keep the sixth day instead of the seventh? Please give me some light on this subject through the Review.
Yours in hope,
East Rush, N. Y.
S. H. KINSEY.
NOTE. We think your difficulty arises from giving the criticism of Dr. Clarke too wide an application. It is only the first occurrence of the word seventh, in Gen. ii, 2, that Dr. C. says should be translated sixth. Then it would read, “And on the sixth day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.” And this reading removes an objection which some urge, based on the common version, that God performed a part of his work on the seventh day; and hence that we have not a full day set apart as the Sabbath.—Ed.
To Correspondents.
By O. H. Spencer
O. H. SPENCER. There is no contradiction between Matthew and the other Evangelists respecting the time when the women visited the sepulcher of Christ on the day of his resurrection. For the expression in Matt. xxviii, 1, “In the end of the Sabbath,” is from the original ὀψὲ δὲ σαββάτων, which means “after the Sabbath.” Robinson in his Greek lexicon defines the word ὀψὲ, “with a genitive” [as in this instance] “at the end of, at the close of, after.” He then quotes this sentence from Matt. xxviii, 1, and renders it thus: “At the end of the Sabbath, i. e., after the Sabbath, the Sabbath being now ended, the same as Mark xvi, 1.” Bloomfield in his Greek Testament, commenting on the same words, says: “This must with Krebs, Wahl, Tittm., Kuin., and Fritz., be explained ‘after the Sabbath,’ i. e., as Mark more clearly expresses it, ‘And when the Sabbath was past,’ which must determine the sense here. Of this signification the commentators adduce examples from Philostratus, Plutarch, Ælian, and Xenophon.”
By these authorities Matthew’s testimony is shown to be in perfect harmony with that of the other Evangelists.
Note from Bro. Byington.
By John Byington
BRO. WHITE: I am now in Tuscola Co., Mich., and shall probably spend most of this month with the churches here.
Had a good attendance at our meeting last sixth-day evening at Tuscola Village. They are not fully organized. I fear they were left too soon.
Last Sabbath and first-day I had four meetings, baptism, and the ordinances with the church in Vassar. Five were baptized, and three united with the church. They appear united, and are doing well.
I cannot visit all the churches in the Eastern District this second quarter. This is not expected, as Drs. Waggoner and Cornell have labored, and Bro. Loughborough will soon, in this District. The Committee have requested me to visit the newer places. I will try to do the best I can.
J. BYINGTON.
Tuscola Co., Oct. 2, 1866.
Famine in British India
A TERRIBLE famine is raging in British India. Upward of 75,000 are daily fed by public charity in the fifteen affected districts, and yet the number of deaths in one district alone is reported at three thousand.
Note from Bro. Hutchins.
By A. S. Hutchins
BRO. WHITE: I wish to say to the brethren in Vt., who have expected I should hold meetings with them this Fall, that the present prospect is I shall not be able to labor any more, for at least, some months.
On the 23d ult., I was singularly and suddenly attacked with a difficulty of the head. Have been able to do but little since. I now find myself much reduced in strength and flesh.
My sympathy and love are with the people of God. I realize my unworthiness, but would humbly beg an interest in their prayers, that the furnace of affliction may do me good. In hope,
A. S. HUTCHINS.
Wolcott, Vt., Sept. 26, 1866.
The Sealing.
By Jos. Clarke
“For him hath God the Father sealed.” John vi, 27.
THESE are the words of Jesus Christ respecting himself; and an inquiry suggests itself here: To what does he refer as the sealing? Was it some mark of God's acceptance, publicly promulgated, or not? We answer that we cannot decide with confidence; but it seems just to suppose that it was some token of God's acceptance, which his (Christ's) hearers understood. What could it be? Perhaps the manifestations of the power of God at Jesus' baptism, the descent of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, and the voice of God asserting this to be his beloved Son in whom he was well pleased, was the sealing he referred to. One of the meanings of the word sealing, is ratification; and, certainly, it looks clear, that this testimony of God was what decided John the Baptist's mind that Jesus was the Messiah; and the same testimony is perhaps referred to, by Christ, in John vi, 37; and it was this which empowered him, as a delegate of Jehovah, to enter upon his mission as a public teacher sent of God.
This sealing, being public, and amounting to an endorsement, by Jehovah, of the character and mission of his Son, may we not conjecture that Enoch had the testimony that he pleased God, given to him in the same public form and manner, previous to his translation? And, reasoning by analogy, may we not suppose that Revelation vii, 3, will be fulfilled in a similar form and manner?
JOS. CLARKE.
Notice.
By E. G. Stevenson
I GAVE an invitation some time since to all who were passing through Chicago to call on us. I would now say that we have moved to Battle Creek, where we expect to reside until the Lord directs elsewhere.
E. G. STEVENSON.
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