H. S. GURNEY of Memphis, Mich., states that at a protracted meeting held in that place last winter, a sister from Muskegon, on a visit there, became so much interested that she continued her investigation after she returned, and became a Sabbath-keeper. Her husband soon commenced to keep the Sabbath, and now she writes that they number seven, all from reading. She writes to a friend in Memphis:—
“I received the papers and books you sent me. I was thankful for them. They are a great help to us. My husband has turned Sabbath-keeper, and we are striving to serve the Lord and obey all his commandments. It is such a pleasure to us to take his holy word as the man of our counsel, and try to be guided by all its precepts.
“I do wish I could see you and tell you how happy I am. I wish a preacher would come and spend a short time with us. My prayer is continually for some way to be opened to send the true gospel to us poor heathen here in the woods.
“There are seven of us striving for the truth amidst opponents on every side. Do pray for us. I am in earnest in this. My heart is full and running over. I do not ask for a thousand tongues to praise his name. I want to praise him right with the one he has given me.”
Nebraska.
By CHAS. L. BOYD; R. A. HART
The Nebraska tent is now pitched at Stromsburg, Polk Co. Have given six discourses to attentive listeners. If there are any scattered friends of the cause in this vicinity they are invited to meet with us.
CHAS. L. BOYD,
R. A. HART.
Osage Co., Kansas.
By Chas. F. Stevens; Smith Sharp
We closed our meetings at this place yesterday after staying nearly six weeks. Sixteen have signed the covenant, and others are keeping the Sabbath, so there are twenty Sabbath-keepers there now. We sold several dollars' worth of books, and obtained six subscribers for the REVIEW. Organized a Bible-class and Sabbath-school. We now go to Linn Co. Our address will be Centerville, Linn Co., Kan.
Chas. F. Stevens,
Smith Sharp.
Hear what great truths in parables of old
Our Saviour told :
“He that shall hear, and do My word,” said he,
“Compared may be
To a wise man, who on a rock doth base
The firm foundations of his house, and there
Builds, with strong mason-work, his dwelling-place;
The rains may fall,
The torrent of the wintry floods may rise,
And raging winds come howling through the skies;
Against them all
His house shall stand secure; he needs not care.
“But he that hears my law, and, having heard,
Keeps not my word,
Is likened to a fool, whose house is set
Upon the wet
And treacherous groundwork of the drifting sand;
When the rains fall, and the waters flood the land,
And when winds blow, and beat upon its wall,
It shall not stand,
But it shall fall, and great shall be its fall.”
Alike to hear thy word and keep thy way,
Teach us, we pray,
O Lord, that the Rock of Ages founded fast,
May at the last,
In the great day of trial, firmly stand!
—Sel.
Indiana.
By S. H. Lane
At the time of our last report we had just erected the tent and commenced a course of lectures in Bourbon, Marshall Co.
The people turned out well from the first. They became deeply interested, so much so that it was difficult for ministers of other denominations to procure a congregation when our meetings were in progress.
Through the blessing of the Lord good has been accomplished and hearts reached by the truths of the third angel's message, which are well calculated to prepare a people for the soon appearing of our Saviour. Held four Sabbath meetings after the subject of the Sabbath was introduced; also organized a Bible-class, both of which were well attended. Some fifteen or more embraced the truth, thirteen of whom signed a covenant to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Have enjoyed some excellent meetings with them. May the blessing of the Lord accompany their efforts to live out the truth.
During the last week of our meetings two discourses were delivered in the tent against our positions in reference to the state of the dead—one by the Methodist minister; the other, by one of the presiding elders of the United Brethren denomination. The first speaker treated our positions in such a manner that he made no friends by it, but rather turned the people in favor of our positions. He was followed the next evening by the presiding elder, who treated the subject with much candor and Christian courtesy. Upon both occasions the tent was well filled. The next evening we replied. The people could not all find seats in the tent, and many listened standing outside. The congregation seemed much interested. At the conclusion of the discourse we introduced the REVIEW, and obtained twenty-five trial subscribers. Sold during the meetings $33.00 worth of books.
The first of August, Bro. Waggoner left to attend the General Conference, and at its conclusion was assigned another field of labor. Through the kindness of the General Conference Committee, Bro. H. M. Kenyon was permitted to join me in labor.
Aug. 25, the tent was shipped to Bunker Hill, Miami Co., where Bro. K. commenced labor, while I remained to follow up tent labor at Bourbon. One of the leading physicians of the place tendered for our use, free of charge, to hold meetings in, one of the finest halls in town. The United Brethren kindly granted us the use of their fine brick church, in which we held five meetings. Just before we left the place the friends kindly donated to us $32.00 to apply on tent expenses. May the Lord reward them.
The congregations at this place, Bunker Hill, have thus far ranged from one to two hundred. We hope for success.
S. H. LANE.
Bunker Hill, Miami Co., Ind.
The New England Camp-Meeting.
By George Ide Butler
This meeting assembled at the appointed time, at South Lancaster, on the ground where our camp-meetings have been held for several years in the past. Between forty and fifty tents were up, and about three hundred Sabbath-keepers present.
Sister White reached the ground Friday. There was considerable disappointment that Bro. White could not be present, owing to the pressure of labor at Battle Creek. Bro. Andrews, who is soon to start for Switzerland, was able to be present, and assist in preaching.
There were very few outsiders present at any time excepting on Sunday afternoon, when quite a crowd were in attendance. Sunday morning, ten $100 men were found in about ten minutes to pledge help on the Pacific printing press. Another thousand was pledged on the book funds.
The meeting was one of very hard labor and earnest effort to bring up the people to realize the importance of the work of God and the necessity of enjoying the blessing of God in order to be able to accomplish his work successfully. It seemed to be very difficult to make the people realize their sacred privilege in this respect. Monday, however, was a good day, and we realized that a good move in advance was made. A large number desired prayer, and many intelligent, heartfelt testimonies were given by persons of stability and character. God seemed to draw very near. On the whole, however, we did not have as free a meeting as our other camp-meetings have usually been this season.
The Conference has suffered a loss by having Bro. Haskell called away so much. They have needed his labor here, as no one has been provided to take his place. In consequence of not having some one provided to give the matter the attention which it demanded, S. B. has fallen short considerably. The people, however, are very ready to engage in every good work. No great effort was made to press the raising of means here at this meeting. As the brethren had been so free heretofore, it was not thought necessary to urge the matter, otherwise much more could have been obtained.
God has been blessing the labor of the tents the present season, quite a number having already come out in the truth. Nearly fifty have embraced the Sabbath of the Lord within the last two months. God will always bless with increase where the people are willing to sacrifice as they have been in New England.
GEO. I. BUTLER.
A MOTHER’S HOME.
By H. H.
The most perfect home I ever saw was in a little house into the sweet incense of whose fires went no costly things. A thousand dollars served for a year’s living of father, mother, and three children. But the mother was a creator of home; her relation with her children was the most beautiful I have ever seen; even a dull and commonplace man was lifted up and enabled to do good for souls by the atmosphere which this woman created; every inmate of her house involuntarily looked into her face for the keynote of the day; and it always rang clear. From the rose-bud or clover leaf which, in spite of her hard housework, she always found time to put by our plates at breakfast, down to the essay or story she had on hand to be read or discussed in the evening, there was no intermission of her influence. She has always been and always will be my ideal of a mother, wife, homemaker. If to her quick brain, loving heart, and exquisite tact had been added the appliances of wealth and the enlargements of wider culture, hers would have been absolutely the ideal home. As it was, it is the best I have ever seen. It is more than twenty years since I crossed its threshold. I do not know whether she is living or not. But as I see house after house in which fathers and mothers and children are dragging out their lives in a haphazard alternation of listless routine and unpleasant collision, I always think with a sigh of that poor little cottage by the seashore, and of the woman who was “the light thereof,” and I find in the faces of many men and children, as plainly written and as sad to see as in the newspaper columns of “Personals,” “Wanted,—a home.”—“Bits of Talk about Home Matters,” by H. H.
Words of Encouragement.
By Angelia J. Edmonds
How a few words spoken by a Christian brother or sister will cheer the lonely pilgrim. When the hour of temptation and trial comes, it sometimes seems as though the turbulent and angry waves of trouble and despair would entirely engulf us. Then words of sympathy and love come to our minds that were spoken when our friends least thought they were speaking words of encouragement. And this is one of the many ways our kind Heavenly Father works through us by his Holy Spirit to comfort and strengthen each other in time of need.
The words, “God bless you,” spoken by a dear brother at parting, have many times been spoken again in my ear by the still, small voice when the enemy has come very near, seeking to devour. Also the words, “We may have sweet peace and comfort,” come to my mind often, and I raise my earnest cry to Heaven, Oh! that I may do just right at all times, that this sweet peace and comfort may be mine to enjoy! Again, I remember the words spoken by a dear sister, “We shall rest by-and-by.” Oh! how soothing when the tired brain and limbs are throbbing with pain. Yes, tired ones, we shall rest by-and-by in those heavenly mansions now preparing for us.
If a few words spoken in the right spirit encourage me so much, how ready I should be to speak at all times words that will encourage others. We are expecting words of good cheer from the servants of God—the messengers who speak to us from time to time—but we often excuse ourselves, thinking that we cannot say anything to encourage them. Now they have many severe struggles with the enemy. They are human and must overcome as well as we. They are awake and at their post. Satan is also awake and at his post. When we sleep, he sleeps. Now, do not our leaders long for the words of sympathy and love, also words of good cheer from us, filling the responsible places they do, where the mind is continually perplexed with the burden and care of all the churches? Jesus, when he sweat great drops of blood, would have been glad to have his dear disciples watch with him. Oh! may we not sleep as they did, but let us agonize to enter in at the strait gate. What if you do have to bear burdens and agony of mind for others’ sins and your own, until the great drops of sweat stand upon your brow! Remember the agony of our Saviour. “Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.” Heb. 12: 4.
May we live very near to Jesus; then our tongues will not be silent when we are with those that teach us how to walk in the narrow way. “Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.” Gal. 6: 6.
If we all live so near the Lord that we can prove our own work, then shall we have rejoicing in ourselves and not in another.
ANGELIA J. EDMONDS.
Obituary Notices.
“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
Died, in Battle Creek, Mich., Sept. 3, 1874, of congestion of the bowels, Flora, daughter of M. S. and R. G. Merriam, aged 21 years. Six years ago last January she commenced with the entire family, parents, two sisters, and brother, to observe the Sabbath of the Lord. One year ago last June she made a public profession of religion, and with her sisters, went forward in baptism. She was singularly conscientious, and where moral principles were involved, was firm and decided, though naturally of a timid and yielding disposition. She never missed attendance upon public religious services, when it was possible for her to attend, and during the three years and a half of her membership in the Battle Creek Sabbath-school, she never had an imperfect lesson, was never tardy, and never lost a lesson except through sickness or absence from the place. But above all she was one of whom the rare record can be borne, that she never caused her parents an hour of sorrow. She was a child of God, and though now held for a little time under the dominion of the enemy, we believe she has secured a sure title to a mansion in the city that hath foundations. At the funeral, on the 5th, Bro. White spoke words full of hope and comfort, from 1 Cor. 15: 26, to a very large and sympathizing congregation. U. S.
Died, at her residence in Attica, sister Mary, wife of Peter Schell, after a lingering illness of several months, in the 66th year of her age. She leaves a husband and a large family of children to mourn their loss. She was a member of the Lapeer church. Being disappointed in obtaining a preacher, remarks were made on the occasion by the writer from 1 Cor. 15: 22, 23. WM. POTIER.
Died, in Oronoco, Olmsted Co., Minn., Aug. 28, 1874, of cholera infantum, Bertha May, daughter of R. S. and S. Warner, aged 8 months and 2 days. S. WARNER.
Died, in Alba, Pa., July 15, 1874, of consumption, Hiram Lockwood, in the fiftieth year of his age. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn the loss of a good husband and kind father. Funeral was attended by Eld. R. F. Delmont, Disciple. JEFFERSON LOUGHHEAD.
Died, at White Hall, Trempeleau Co., Wis., Aug. 12, 1874, infant son of L. and J. Shafer. We have laid our little jewel away until Jesus comes, when he will gather the lambs for his kingdom. L. & J. SHAFER.
Died, at West Union, Iowa, July 22, 1874, of consumption of the bowels, after a long and painful illness, Minerva, wife of L. H. Davis, in the thirty-third year of her age. Sister Davis embraced the third angel’s message in the autumn of 1862 under the labors of Bro. Cornell. She has lived a consistent Christian life ever since. Her prayers and exhortations have often cheered and instructed us. The funeral was attended by Eld. Fathergal of the U. B. church, who made very appropriate remarks from 1 Thess. 4: 16–18. NASON HOYT.
Died, in Banks, Mich., Aug. 9, 1874, of water on the brain, John William, grandson of John C. and J. Revell, aged three months and 29 days. JOHN C. REVELL.
Died, July 4, 1874, at his son’s residence, 515 Sycamore street, Milwaukee, Wis., Lester Bryant, aged seventy-eight years, three months, and ten days.
Died, at Fremont, Waupacca Co., Wis., July 16, 1874, sister Harriet Vannostrand, aged fifty-two years. She gave her heart to God twenty years ago, and united with the M. E. church where she remained a worthy member until last February, when she embraced the Sabbath, and became a believer in the last message and united with the band at Fremont to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. We tried to speak words of comfort from 1 Thess. 4: 13, 18. C. W. OLDS.
Fell asleep in Jesus, in Arcadia, Gratiot Co., Mich., Sabbath, Aug. 15, 1874, surrounded by loved family and friends, Deborah Nelson, in the 63d year of her age. The chosen companion of my youth, she walked by my side through the vicissitudes of life for more than 41 years. She has entered the valley a little before me, and left me sorrowing, yet I hope with her to shout victory through Christ in the first resurrection. FRANCIS NELSON.
California Camp-Meeting
Appointments.
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.
California Camp-Meeting.
The California camp-meeting will be held near Yountville station, Napa Co., Cal., on the same ground as last year, commencing Oct. 1, and continuing to the morning of Oct. 12. In connection with this camp-meeting, the yearly business sessions of the Cal. State Conference, and the Cal. State Missionary Society will be held.
We hope to see all our brethren and sisters in the State assembled at this camp-meeting. Come in the name of the Lord, bringing with you all you can induce to come, and all such as you have hope may be benefited by such a meeting.
You will find a fuller statement concerning this camp-meeting in Signs of the Times, Nos. 6 and 7.
J. N. Loughborough,
Pres. Cal. State. Conf.
General Meeting for Southern Ill.
At the earnest request of the friends of the cause in Southern Illinois, there will be a general meeting held under the tent in Greenville, Cumberland Co., Oct. 1–5, 1874. This meeting is appointed for the benefit of the scattered friends of the truth in the southern part of the State. We hope to see a general rally from this part of the field. Come, dear brethren and sisters, let us now commence the work of humbling ourselves, and drawing near to God, that we may obtain his blessing. All should come as far as possible prepared to care for themselves. As the meeting in Indiana will be held a week before, could we not have some ministerial help sent us? The presence of Bro. and sister White would be hailed with joy, or any other help the General Conference may send.
R. F. Andrews.
Indiana Camp-Meeting.
This meeting will be held at Rail’s Grove, four and one-half miles west of Kokomo, Howard Co., Ind., Sept. 24–28.
Teams will be at Kokomo to convey to the camp-ground those who come by railroad the 23d and 24th.
We hope to see the largest gathering of Sabbath-keepers at this meeting that ever convened in Indiana. It is desirable that all furnish tents that can do so, but for the benefit of those who cannot, ample tent-room will be provided. This is a young Conference and but few keeping the Sabbath in the State. It will be very encouraging to all, and especially those who labor with and for us, to see a general attendance.
Let those who desire to pitch tents be on the ground and have their tents erected as early as the 23d. Let each church appoint in season a delegate to the State Conference and each S. B. treasurer see that all S. B. is paid up to August 1. All friends and those interested in the cause of the third angel’s message should be encouraged to attend this meeting. We hope to be favored with the labors of Bro. and sister White. Let us
all come to this meeting praying the Lord to bless and prosper his cause in our midst.
Camp-Meeting Cor.
Indiana Conference.
The second annual session of the Conference of S. D. Adventists of Indiana will be held in connection with the camp-meeting to be held at Rail’s Grove, four and one-half miles west of Kokomo, Howard Co., Ind., Sept. 24–29, 1874.
Ind. Conf. Com.
General Quarterly Meeting of the Ill. T. and M. Society.
There will be a general quarterly meeting for the Illinois T. and M. Society held at Serena, La Salle Co., Ill., Oct. 10, 11. Let the directors hold their quarterly meetings in their respective districts September 26 and 27, and forward reports to Carrie Dryden, Keithsburg, Mercer Co., Ill. District No. 3 will hold their quarterly meeting in connection with the general quarterly meeting. We hope our brethren within a reasonable distance will make an effort to be present, and that the secretary and directors will be there without fail. We extend a cordial invitation to Bro. S. N. Haskell to meet with us.
R. F. Andrews.
P. S. Let the directors give notice in their respective districts of the place of their meetings by letter to the churches in their districts.
R. F. A.
The Indiana T. & M. Society will hold its first annual meeting in connection with the camp-meeting. District officers will please get all missionary work in good reporting shape, and hand it over to the State secretary in time for this meeting.
Wm. Covert, Pres.
Quarterly Meetings in Minnesota.
Maiden Rock, Wis., Sept. 26, 27.
Providence permitting, I will be present.
Stephen Pierce.
Quarterly Meetings in Minnesota.
Chicago, Sept. 26, 27.
River Falls, Wis., Oct. 3, 4.
Harrison Grant.
The general quarterly meeting of the Wis. T. & M. Society at Hundred Mile Grove, the time appointed, Oct. 3 and 4, not Lodi, as before stated through mistake.
O. A. Olsen, Pres.
The next quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 1, Wis., will be held at Little Prairie, Wis., Sept. 26 and 27. Hope for a good representation. Elder Matteson expects to be present.
A. Olsen, Director.
The next quarterly meeting of the church at Hundred Mile Grove, Wisconsin, will be held at their meeting-house, Oct. 3 and 4, in connection with the general quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society of Wisconsin.
N. M. Jordon.
Quarterly meeting of the S. D. Adventists of Ulysses, Potter Co., Pa., at the white school-house, Sept. 26 and 27, 1874. Invitation is extended to all.
A. D. Galutia, Clerk.
Wolcott, Vt., Sabbath and first-day, Sept. 26 and 27.
A. S. Hutchins.
There will be a general meeting of the T. & M. Society for the Mo. & Kan. Conf., at Coolidgeville, Kan., Oct. 16–18, 1874. This is designed to be a general rally for all the friends in the Conference. Let each director come prepared to report as far as possible, and let all come, that we may become more thoroughly acquainted with the workings of the Society.
J. H. Rogers, Pres. Mo. & Kan. T. & M. S.
Quarterly meeting of the Greenbush church, at the Colony school-house in Duplain, Clinton Co., Mich., Sept. 26 and 27. All the members are requested to be present, or report. Will Bro. Strong or Bro. Lawrence meet with us, as there are some desiring baptism, and admission to the church? Sister churches are invited.
O. B. Sevy, Clerk.
The quarterly meeting of the Grant and Vernon churches will be held at Vernon, Wis., Sept. 26, 27.
J. A. Converse.
Monthly meeting for Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Cos., N. Y., and Warren and McKean Cos., Pa., at Randolph, fourth Sabbath in September. We hope to see a good attendance. Teams will be at the station on Friday for those coming on the cars.
S. Thurston.
Quarterly meeting of Allegany church will be held on Niles Hill, Oct. 3, 4. Members invited to attend or report.
D. C. Phillips, Clerk.
Quarterly meeting for Sand Prairie, Wis., Sept. 26, 27, 1874. The friends from abroad are invited. Eld. Z. Atkinson is expected.
Thos. Demmon, Clerk.
Quarterly meeting of the Waukon and West Union churches, at Waukon, Iowa, Sabbath and first-day, Sept. 26, 27, 1874. Neighboring churches and all our scattered friends are cordially invited to attend.
Calvin A. Washburn.
Quarterly meeting of the Plainfield, Wis., church, Sept. 19, 20, in connection with the T. & M. S. meeting at the Plainfield school-house. Bro. O. A. Olsen is expected. The brethren and sisters of the Fish Lake church and the scattered brethren and sisters are cordially invited.
Almon Fassett, Elder.
The next quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 2, of Wisconsin, will be held on the last Sabbath in Sept., 1874. Let all send in their reports in good time for the secretary to make out the report before the meeting.
O. H. Pratt, Director.
To Correspondents.
“Does God know the end from the beginning of all things?” This question is asked by several correspondents, more especially with reference to its bearing upon the creation of man. Did God know when he created man that he would fall? We prefer to think that he did not. He is able to foreknow, or to see the end from the beginning, in everything which he chooses; but that he has done so in some things, as revealed in the prophecies, does not prove he chooses, or is obliged, to do so in all things; and if at any subsequent point in man’s history he chooses to look forward to the end, it would not follow that he did so from the beginning. It would seem to us more in harmony with a correct idea of his omnipotence, and his infinite resources, to suppose that he would permit the enemy, so long as he worked at all, to carry forward unseen his efforts, in any way he might be able, and then give to the universe a greater proof of his own supremacy, by showing himself able to meet, without previous provision, any emergency which that work of the enemy might occasion.
S. M. Ross : It does not appear that the texts to which you are referred, Zech. 13 : 8, 9, Rom. 11 : 4–6 ; Gal. 2 :16 ; 1 John 3 :9, prove the foreordained salvation of any particular individual. We believe that a certain class are elected to be saved ; but it is left with us to say whether we will belong to that class or not. We cannot be justified by the works of the law ; because we have broken it ; and a broken law never justifies. At the same time we cannot be justified unless we endeavor to keep the law ; for if we expect pardon through Christ while living in willful transgression, we make him the minister of sin. C. S.
The Battle Creek School is nearly full. There is, however, room for a few more students. The present term is a long one, consisting of seventeen weeks. Three weeks only of this term are now past, leaving fourteen weeks to come. The next term will commence the first Monday of January, 1875, in the new building. The prices of tuition for a term of twelve weeks are given below. For a longer term they are increased in proportion to its length. For those entering the study of the common branches, $4.00. For those more advanced in the common branches, also taking up History, Physiology, or Algebra, $5.00. For those studying Natural Philosophy, Rhetoric, Geometry, or Chemistry, &c., $6.00. Languages, Ancient and Modern (extra), each $2.00.
Those who design entering the school during the fall term should come immediately. They will be charged with a regular term of twelve weeks, no more, and no less, should they enter at any time between September 14 and October 26. It will, therefore, be an object to come at once.
JAMES WHITE, Pres. Board of Directors.
Hygienic Almanac.
By James White
The friends of health reform will be glad to know that the Hygienic Family Almanac for 1875 is now ready. It is much nearer perfection than any other of the kind we ever saw. Price, post-paid, 10 cents a copy. Twelve copies for $1.00. It contains as much of the most valuable reading on the subject of health as is found in a 32 page tract, besides all else usually pertaining to an almanac. It is just the thing to place at the firesides of 25,000 of your friends you wish to instruct upon the health question. More particulars next week. J. W.
Lapeer Camp-Meeting.
We have just received the following statement from David Malin of Vassar, Mich. Hope to get something more definite from the camp-meeting committee before next week's REVIEW goes to press:—
“Just received a letter from Supt. of the Detroit and Bay City R. R., stating that people attending camp-meeting at Lapeer will be carried for half fare upon D. and B. C. R. R.”
Western Iowa Camp-Meeting Notice
By James White
The notice of camp-meeting in western Iowa was turned over to the president of the Iowa and Nebraska Conference, who has turned it over to the Gen. Conf. Com., who will decide the matter the 16th, and report. J. W.
The Signs of the Times.
By James White
Relative to the paper entitled the Signs of the Times, published at Oakland, Cal., we wish to say:
1. Number seven only will be issued before the California Camp-meeting.
2. It will be published weekly as soon as possible after the delegate from the General Conference shall meet the California Conference Committee the 12th of October.
3. Those who have paid will receive their full amount of numbers at the rate of $2.00 a year.
4. Those who have pledged means to establish the Press on the Pacific Coast will please forward it to REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, or retain it until further notice shall be given. All money due me in California, or to be paid for the Signs of the Times, or for books, should be paid to Eld. J. N. Loughborough at the camp-meeting, or forwarded to his address at St. Helena, Cal. He is a straightforward, business man, and fully responsible. My address is no longer Oakland, Cal., but Battle Creek, Mich.
James White, Pres. S. D. A. P. A.
Calamities.
THE long list of calamities which have fallen on this country in recent years, is being extended by rapid and terrible additions. To the Louisiana floods, the Mill River disaster, the late Chicago fire, the devastation caused by grasshoppers in Minnesota, and the desolating drouth in Southern Kentucky, is now to be added the sudden and terrible inundation in Allegheny, by which an immense amount of property is destroyed and nearly two hundred lives have been swept away. These repeated judgments are solemn calls to individual repentance; they are stern rebukes of our national greed and impiety; they are warnings of heavier judgments to come, if the nation continues impenitent, and their increasing frequency and severity are among the signs in which faith and hope see promise that “the end draweth near.” Ministers of religion ought not to fail to use the fresh and vivid arguments which God is thus putting into their lips, or to teach the mighty lessons which these providences are designed to convey. —Christian Statesman.
Present Mailing Address
By G. V. Kligore
My P. O. address for the present is Battle Creek, Mich., Review Box. G. V. KLIGORE.
O. A. Olsen’s New Address
By Ole Andres Olsen
My P. O. address will be Lodi, Columbia Co., Wis. O. A. OLSEN.