LIBRARIAN'S SET D. A set of Librarian's blank books especially prepared for very small churches or companies. It comprises a one and one-half quire Journal, a quire Record, and a three-fourths quire Periodical Book. The Record and Periodical Books are bound in bonnet board to save expense. This set will probably hold all the business of a society of ten or twelve members for two or three years. $1.20.
THE COMPLETE S. S. RECORD AND REGISTER, for the use of Superintendents and Secretaries. This book will hold the records of a school for two years. It contains ruled and printed blanks in which to keep the register of officers, teachers, and scholars; the minutes of each Sabbath; a weekly, quarterly, and yearly summary of class records; and a cash account. Three sizes, as follows:—
Record A contains 320 pages (half Russia binding), and is suitable for a school of over two hundred members. $1.50.
Record B contains 175 pages (half Russia binding), and is suitable for a school of from eighty to two hundred members. $1.20.
Record D contains 110 pages, and is suitable for a school of less than eighty members. 75 cts.
THE S. S. CLASS RECORD for the use of teachers. This book contains full directions for keeping the record, and a sample page showing the complete record of a class for a quarter. The record is very complete, and yet it is so simple that any one after reading the directions can keep it with ease. 15 cts.
Address,REVIEW & HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich.
RELIGIOUS ITEMS.
By J. Clarke
Love to God and man lightens care and removes useless burdens.
Slander cannot hurt those whose hearts and lives are pure.
A resolute will, a good conscience, a sound mind, and an industrious life, give force and power, and create true happiness within and without.
Old age, if accompanied with purity of life, holiness of heart, and a cheerful countenance and conversation, is the best age of human life.
Real happiness is the result of an inward discipline of the heart, and consistent, careful outward manifestation of the life.
Faith in God leads to a candid and impartial study of his word.
This is an age of skepticism; and nowhere is it more evident, than in the rejection of the fourth commandment by the churches of the nineteenth century.
We wonder at the stupidity and malice of the Jewish Senate in condemning Christ, yet we may have condemned him in the person of his saints, without suspecting ourselves of error.
The greatest evidence of the weakness of man's moral powers is the fact that almost the whole human race are either idolaters or skeptics, or are blindly led to embrace false systems of Christianity.
Cheerful people are grateful to God for the blessings they have received; while ill-natured people look with covetous eyes upon the gifts they have not received, and are in trouble because they cannot get them.
Economy should not descend to meanness, nor should liberality be lavish of the gifts of God. J. CLARKE.
Divine Pity Better Than Worldly Prosperity
The experience and possession of divine pity is better than bodily ease, freedom from trouble, or the greatest worldly prosperity.
Appointments.
By H. W. Decker
“And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Matt. 10: 7.
MEETINGS in Wisconsin as follows:—
Victory, Feb. 8, 9.
Kickapoo, “ 11–13.
Debello, “ 15, 16.
Leon, “ 22, 23.
H. W. DECKER.
M. B. MILLER
By M. B. Miller
JASPER, Mich., Feb. 1, 2. Meetings will begin on the Sabbath at 10:30 A. M. We desire the attendance of all the Sabbath-keepers in this vicinity.
M. B. MILLER
A. S. HUTCHINS
By A. S. HUTCHINS
BORDOVILLE, Vt., Sabbath and first-day, Feb. 1, 2. Jericho, at 2 and 6:30 P. M., Feb. 5. Bristol, Sabbath and first-day, Feb. 8, 9. Warren, Sabbath and first day, Feb. 15, 16.
These meetings will be very important. Bro. H. Peebles will be with me to organize Sabbath-schools, if not organized, and to render every possible help to Sabbath-schools. Please come to the meetings.
It will be noticed that the appointment for Sutton, as given in last week's REVIEW, is withdrawn; and that the meeting at Warren will be held one week later.
A. S. HUTCHINS
Meetings at Lansing, Michigan
By E. B. Lane; J. F. Carman
No providence preventing, we will meet with the friends at Lansing, Mich., and vicinity, where Bro. Wm. H. Kynett may appoint, Sabbath and Sunday, Feb. 1, 2. Meeting to commence on Friday evening. Brethren from Albion, Grand Ledge, and Westphalia are invited. T. and M. meeting on Sunday.
E. B. LANE,
J. F. CARMAN.
Meetings in Canada
By A. C. Bourdeau
NO PROVIDENCE preventing, I will hold a series of meetings in Canada as follows: At Glen Sutton, Feb. 1, 2; at South Stukely, Feb. 8, 9; at Dixville, Feb. 15, 16; Sabbath and first-day, March 1, 2, where Bro. J. Claxton may appoint.
A. C. BOURDEAU.
Twin Lake Meetings
By E. B. Lane; E. H. Root
TWIN LAKE, Mich., Sabbath and Sunday, Feb. 8 and 9; meetings to commence on Friday evening. We expect to meet with other churches in this vicinity. Appointments in due time.
E. B. LANE.
E. H. ROOT.
Meeting at Burlington
By E. R. Jones
No providence preventing, I will meet with the church at Burlington, Mich., Sabbath and first-day, Feb. 1, 2. All the church are requested to be present Sunday morning to consider some important matters of business. We invite Bro. Byington and the friends from Newton to meet with us on the Sabbath.
E. R. JONES.
The Three-Penny Piece
We trust that, with all our people, the temptation to feel for the smallest piece of coin when a call is made for means for the Lord’s treasury, has wholly lost its power. But if this is not the case, if any one still has to battle with that temptation in regard to his contributions to the Lord’s cause, let him read the following and be cured:—
“An English writer discourses somewhat sarcastically of that small coin, the three-penny piece. He says: ‘It is too small to fetch a flitch of bacon; it is too weak to bring home a sack of flour; it is of no use to pay a half year’s rent; so it is solemnly and sacredly set apart to the help of the Lord against the mighty.’”
Treatment of the Cheyenne Indians
An item in our news column reports the disgraceful and wicked treatment of the Cheyenne Indians by United States soldiers. Still later reports say that the number was finally reduced to eighteen men and about half that number of women and children. At length these companies of soldiers gallantly charged upon this almost defenseless company of savages, slaughtering all but one of the men, and wounding the remainder of the party. This is one of the most flagrant of the acts of injustice and fraud which in these later years have disgraced our boasted civilization.
The Safe Side
We have received a copy of a tract entitled, “The Safe Side,” by Eld. C. H. Bliss, published at the Normal Offering office, Normal, Ill. It is a plea for the Protestant doctrine of “The Bible and the Bible Alone,” as opposed to the “tradition” of papists; and, an application of this principle to some of the disputed doctrines of the Bible, such as the Sabbath, repentance, baptism, the rejected ordinance, etc. 16 pp. Price 5 cts. single copy, $2.50 per hundred.
Permanent Address in Southampton
The permanent address of Eld. J. N. Loughborough and wife, and Bro. Wm. L. Ings, is, for the winter, Stanley Cottage, Stanley Street, near Shirley Road, Freemantle, Southampton, England, instead of the address given in last paper.
Review of A Dialogue on the Sabbath and Law
A friend has sent us an article published some time since in The Restitution, entitled, “A Dialogue on the Sabbath and Law,” with the request that we review it. We saw the article at the time of its publication, and read enough to become convinced that it would have no weight with sensible and candid persons, and hence would do no damage. Prejudice, ignorance, and strong partisan feeling, crop out in almost every paragraph. It is so easy for an enemy of the Sabbath, in impersonating its advocate, to make him say just what he wants him to say, bring up only such points as he wishes to meet, and make him put the argument in so weak a shape as to make it in itself ridiculous. It is no representation whatever of the Sabbath argument. A live Sabbath-keeper would have given the writer a very different job. We therefore thought it best to let it pass into its destined oblivion with the least possible stir.
Court Distinguishes Sabbath from Sunday
By Editor
The court, in the action recorded in the following item, has taught a good lesson to those dishonest religious teachers who, in the face of the Scriptures, will steal the word Sabbath, and apply it to the man-made Sunday. The quashing of a few more indictments will show them that it would be better for them to sail under their own colors. We are sorry that any one should sell cigars on Sunday or any other day, but he has just as much right to sell them on Sunday as on Monday. The item, clipped from a recent newspaper, reads as follows:—
“A cigar-seller at Bridgeport was indicted for an offense on Sunday, but the indictment instead of saying Sunday, said, ‘the Sabbath or Lord’s day.’ The court quashed the indictment because the offense was not done on the Sabbath, but on Sunday. It said the Sabbath means the seventh day of the week, while Sunday is the first, and the Lord’s day is Saturday with some and Sunday with others.”