Earlier text: WHO WILL EXPLAIN ?“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth.” Rev. 14:13. Died of brain fever, in Madison, Maine, Jan. 8, 1879, Mabel, daughter of Dexter W. and Mary S. Rowe, aged 4 years and seven months. “She sleeps in Jesus—cease thy grief;
Let this afford thee sweet relief,
That, freed from death’s triumphant reign,
In Heaven she will live again.” Died of diphtheria, in Hartland, Maine, Dec. 12, 1878, Linnie C. Ham, aged 5 years, 7 months, and 16 days; Dec. 22, George M. Ham, aged 7 years, 2 months, and 20 days; Dec. 30, Willie W. Ham, aged 9 years,—children of John T. and Sarah H. Ham. Thus in eighteen days these parents were bereft of three of their loved ones. Little Willie said to his mother, “I shall get well when Jesus comes.” May they all meet in the earth made new, where death will never come. Rev. 21:4. Died of membranous croup, near Daytonville, Iowa, Dec. 19, 1878, Edith Alberta, daughter of John and Ellen Reisman, aged 1 year and 7 months. She was a lovely child. Her parents are comforted in this great affliction by the promise that she shall come again from the land of the enemy. Funeral sermon by Eld. H. Nicola from Jer. 31:15, 17. Died of diphtheria, in Navarino, Shawano county, Wis., Oct. 5, 1878, Eddie, aged 4 years and 7 months; also, in Sumner, Osborne county, Kansas, Jan. 10, 1879, Walter A., aged 6 years and 7 months, sons of Frank and Henrietta Enoch. When Christ shall give them life, they yet
Together may be seen,
Although their little graves were made
A thousand miles between. Died of diphtheria, in the town of Liberty, Jackson county, Mich., Aug. 7, 1878, Rebecca, aged 10 years and 5 months; Aug. 14, Maggie, aged 4 years, 1 month, and 11 days; Aug. 19, Lizzie, aged 11 years, 9 months, and 23 days; Sept. 3, James E., aged 7 years, 8 months, and 13 days; Sept. 4, Nettie, aged 6 years, 4 months, and 18 days,—children of Robert and Maggie Dixon. In this deep affliction our brother and sister have the sympathy of many friends. These children possessed amiable dispositions, and we miss them sadly; but we mourn not as those without hope. May the parents be faithful to the end. One son only remains. Funeral sermons by Eld. Smith (Methodist). Died of croup and diphtheria, near Douds, Van Buren county, Iowa, Jan. 13, 1879, in the second year of her age, Bertha Bell, daughter of Hattie A. and Edward Morrow. A discourse on the Christian’s hope was delivered to a large number of sympathizing friends. Elizabeth E. King died at Fish Creek, Wis., Jan. 13, 1879, aged 78 years and 4 months. She embraced the truth about three years ago, under the labors of Bro. H. W. Decker. Jesus was precious to her, and she rejoiced in the truth and in the hope of the resurrection from the dead. Funeral discourse by Bro. C. P. Fairchilds from 2 Tim. 4:6-8. Seward, Nebraska, is a central point for general State gatherings; but there is no house that can be obtained on reasonable terms for holding these meetings. Both the interests of this church and the general interests of the State are calling loudly for a house of worship. What are the sister churches willing to do by way of lending a helping hand in this good work? I would like to hear from the elder or leader of each church, through whom the willing are invited to pledge, sending the cash, or pledges to be paid on or before Oct. 1, 1879. The scattered friends who wish to assist, can send directly to me. Dear brethren, please read carefully the prophecy of Haggai. This work will soon wind up, and our opportunities of saving the perishing be forever past. In behalf of the cause in Nebraska,
CHAS. L. BOYD. Emigration as Relief for Overcrowded Labor Markets
The North Wales Miners’ Association takes a very sensible course to relieve the distress of its members. Instead of endeavoring to get up a strike, they appropriate $35 to every member who will emigrate to America, and $70 to those who decide to go to Australia. The simple principle of social economy upon which they base their action is, that the labor-market is overstocked. Now our government would well to appoint an agent to meet each ship-load and conduct them to good land of the public domain, and afford them every facility in getting settled and obtaining a good title to 160 acres. It would be good economy to see to it that none of the members shall get stranded in our already overcrowded cities. Instead of a chance of added pauperism and crime, we might thus insure a reinforcement of productive citizens.—The Advance. To those who have written to me, and have not received any answer, I would say, Since reaching home I have been very low, and not able to write. I am gaining slowly at present. I am able to sit up a part of the time, and hope soon to be able to attend to correspondence again. My address is Garnett, Anderson & Co., Kansas. J. N. AYERS. ANOTHER RECRUIT.
By Dr. A. H. Studley
Three weeks ago I commenced to walk in the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus Christ. I am well known as a preacher in the Christian church, and was once the means of leading Bro. Matthew Wing from the truth, God forgive me. I would like to see Bro. Wing, and ask him to pray for me. Fremont County, Iowa, Jan. 19. A SISTER sends us from Appleton City, Mo., an interesting account of her experience in coming out from a Christian church of ninety members, and taking her stand upon the truth. We trust the great blessing she received in thus far heeding her convictions of duty, will continue with her as she continues to live them out. Another sister writes from Porter's Ranch, Kan.: “I have been a member of the first-day Adventist church, but I cannot find any command to keep the first day for the Sabbath, nor any record to show that the Sabbath was ever changed from the seventh day. I never heard a sermon from a Seventh-day Adventist, but I believe you have the truth. I want to be among those who fear God, and keep his commandments.” CANVASSING IN TENNESSEE.
By Clinton Owen
My experience in canvassing in Nashville, Tenn., has proved a great source of spiritual strength. I have visited all that took publications of me or subscribed for periodicals, and none have expressed regret that they took them. One lady, after reading a copy of the Instructor, said that it was just the paper she wanted for her children to read, and all speak of it in the same way. Another lady who took the Signs for a year is now keeping the Sabbath of the Lord, and her son and daughter are favorable and will probably observe it with her. Others are convinced on the Sabbath and kindred truths, and are just waiting for the living preacher. This is now a good place to labor. Those who have taken the Reformer speak very highly of it, and some are following its teachings and renewing their subscriptions for the year 1879. All this is very encouraging to me. WHILE doing tract and missionary work among the Russians, I came in contact with a minister of the Evangelical Association (German). On offering him our publications, he said he had read them all, and studied them carefully, and he was satisfied that we were wrong on the Sabbath question. I tried to have him set me right, which he attempted to do, taking the following positions during less than one hour: 1. The old seventh-part-of-time theory; 2. We cannot tell which is the seventh day; 3. Christ changed the Sabbath to the first day of the week, and by example taught his disciples to keep the first day; 4. We cannot keep the Sabbath on the round world; 5. The first day must have been kept by the early Christians, or Constantine (a heathen emperor), would not have legislated in its favor; 6. Finally, the Sabbath was not a test, because Christ broke it. All the above positions he actually took one after another; and had he not “had to leave,” I presume he would have found more. Truly they are like “foxes of the desert.” Let us thank God that “present truth” does not need any such contradictions and inconsistencies to uphold it.
D. T. BIGGS. A Remarkable Storm at Bethany
Bro. E. Kreamer, of Harrison county, Mo., sends an account of a remarkable storm that recently visited the town of Bethany in that county, as given in the Bethany Republican. About half an hour previous to the arrival of the storm, faint flashes of lightning and the distant rumbling of thunder were noticed. At noon a thin, dark cloud from the west, hovering close to the ground, approached rapidly and grew more massively terrible in appearance as it seemed to crawl along the surface of the earth, and as it drew near darkness accompanied it. A man could not have recognized his wife at the distance of one foot. In fact, it was total darkness at noon. The streets were full of people running in all directions. Lights began to show from business houses and residences, and the deep guttural roll of thunder was well calculated to unnerve the strongest man. Finally the water and ice fell to the earth in perfect torrents. After the darkness had prevailed about fifteen minutes, a dark green atmosphere took its place, and gradually faded to a sickly, awe-breeding yellow, when finally the sun broke, and brought forth, as it seemed, a new morning at midday. A heavy fog hugged the earth, and a heavy, low storm-cloud passed over without driving the fog before it, and the immense density of both obscured the sunlight entirely. Or, to use a scientific term, the sun-rays were absorbed by the density of the under stratas of atmosphere. Edwards County’s Temperance Success
The inhabitants of Edwards county, Ill., do not support any temperance societies or temperance lecturers, or spend their time talking about temperance. They decided twenty-five years ago that no liquor should be sold in that county, and since that date they have sent but one person to the penitentiary, and he committed a crime while drunk with whisky procured in another county; they support but two or three paupers, and their jail is empty most of the time. Their taxes are thirty-two per cent lower than those of the adjoining counties, and their terms of court occupy three days in the year, while their tax rolls show that they return more property than any other county in the State of equal population. It is said that the inhabitants are unanimously opposed to license under any circumstances. Families from other parts of the State seek homes in Edwards county as a good place to bring up their children. We find these facts stated in an exchange, and commend them to all who know how to reason from facts to conclusions.—Christian Statesman. Britain’s Excessive Liquor Consumption
English temperance advocates are in earnest in their efforts to bring before their people the frightful progress of the liquor business in Great Britain. From official statistics procured from Washington they have ascertained that our population of 45,000,000 consumes annually £93,000,000 worth of alcoholic liquor, which at a pro rata consumption there with their population of 33,000,000 would make their annual consumption amount to £68,000,000. The startling fact, however, is that their consumption actually amounts to £142,000,000, or more than double that of the same population in the United States. This is an important element to be considered in tracing out and removing the causes of the present fearful distress, and the possible loss of the manufacturing and commercial supremacy of the kingdom.—Christian Weekly. Wanted Notices and Business Notices
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