Report of the Thirteenth Annual Session of the N. Y. and Pa. Conference.
By B. L. Whitney; S. B. Whitney
CONFERENCE convened according to notice at Kirkville, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1874. Twenty-eight churches were represented by thirty-four delegates, and two by letter. Two new partially organized churches, at Corydon, Pa., and Silver Hill, St. Law. Co., were admitted to the Conference, and a company of believers at Pierrepont, St. Law. Co., was taken under its watchcare. The usual invitation was extended to other brethren present to engage in the discussion of business.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved, after which it was
Voted, To appoint a committee of three to examine the records of the Conference, in relation to the standing of the churches whose names appear therein. It was then
Voted, That the Chair appoint the several business committees. Objections being raised to that course, the President declined, whereupon it was
Voted, That R. F. Cottrell, S. B. Whitney, and C. O. Taylor be authorized to nominate said committees. Adjourned to call of Chair.
A short session was called at 10 o'clock, A. M., Sept. 11, to receive the nominations, when the following report was made. For Committee on Nominations: A. H. Hall, J. M. Lindsay, D. B. Green; Committee on Resolutions: R. F. Cottrell, S. B. Whitney, F. Wheeler; Committee on Credentials, &c.: S. N. Walsworth, Daniel Bowe, C. A. Osgood; Auditing Committee: A. H. Hall, Henry Brown, Daniel Bowe, M. S. Tyre, J. M. Lindsay, Wm. Coats; Committee to examine the Conference records, &c.: P. Z. Kinne, R. F. Cottrell, S. B. Whitney.
The report was approved and the nominees declared elected by a single vote.
Another session was called at 8½ o'clock, A. M., Sept. 14. The President being indisposed, B. L. Whitney was called to the chair. The following names were presented by the Nominating Committee for Conference officers, viz.: President, B. L. Whitney; Conference Committee, P. Z. Kinne, S. N. Walsworth; Secretary, S. B. Whitney; Treasurer, Chas. E. Green.
The report was accepted, and the officers elected in a body. The Committee on Resolutions made their report, which was approved, and the following resolutions adopted by a rising vote:—
1. That we deeply deplore our present condition of lukewarmness, and hereby express our gratitude to God and his servants for the strait testimony borne to us during this meeting; and we mean by God's grace to so receive and practice the same that we may see the cause rise and prosper among us, as we hear of it in other places.
2. That our confidence in the spirit of prophecy developed among us is increasing, and we more than ever before feel our great obligation to God for the benefit we have received through this channel, and especially in favoring us with the presence and labors of sister White at this meeting; and we hereby pledge anew our hearty co-operation with God's dear servants whom he has led and is still leading out in this work.
3. That we approve of the broader plans of operations proposed to our people, and esteem it a privilege as well as duty to aid in sustaining the cause and establishing a branch office of publication on the Pacific Coast.
The congregation was called upon to express themselves upon the second resolution which they did unanimously by rising.
In behalf of the chairman, Bro. Butler presented the Auditor's report, accompanied by close and timely remarks by himself and sister White, after which the following resolution was adopted:—
Resolved. That in the judgment of the Conference, the labors of our aged brethren, Wheeler, Cottrell, Edson, and Arnold, in case they receive credentials, should be mainly in a local sphere, looking to themselves mainly for their support.
The Committee on Credentials and licences reported as follows, viz.: For credentials, J. N. Andrews, S. B. Whitney, F. Wheeler, C. O. Taylor, R. F. Cottrell, D. Arnold, H. Edson, C. B. Reynolds. For licences, B. L. Whitney, A. P. Bump, Jacob Wilbur, D. B. Welch. The report was approved, and the recommendations confirmed in each case.
The committee appointed to examine the records of the Conference, reported that in their judgment, the best thing to be done was to make a selection of such churches as are known to be in comparatively good working order, to constitute the present Conference list, and accordingly present the following as such selection; suggesting that the name of the church in Clarkson be changed to Parma, and the condition of the church in Rochester be inquired into more fully than they had been able to; viz.: Adams Center, Allegany Co., Bangor, Brookfield, Buck's Bridge, Catlin, Chester, Clarkson, Corydon, Pa., College, East Elma, Farmington, Pa., Fine, Genoa, Keene, Kirkville, Lancaster, Mansville, Middle Grove, Norfolk, Olcott, Oswego, Parish, Pitcairn, Portville, Ridgeway, Rochester, Roosevelt, Silver Hill, Ulysses, Pa., Vermillion, Vermontville, Verona, West Monroe, and Wheeler.
It was also recommended that other companies of believers either disband and unite with other churches, or take steps to get into a condition to be properly united to the Conference. Report accepted.
The name of Clarkson was changed to North Parma. Rochester was referred to the Conference Committee. The foregoing list was then accepted as the present standing of the Conference.
The selection of a camp-meeting committee being considered, it was
Voted, That the President nominate such committee, whereupon the following persons were presented and duly appointed, viz.: Daniel Bowe, W. H. Eggleston, E. Wilbur Whitney.
The following resolution was adopted:—
Resolved, That we most earnestly request the General Conference Committee, if in their judgment it is at all consistent, to send Bro. Canright to labor in this State, according to the suggestion of Bro. White.
Voted, To appropriate $1000 to the General Conference.
Voted, To purchase the forty-foot tent that Brn. Kinne and Whitney have on hand.
Voted, That the entire sums of S. D. in the churches be placed in the Conference treasury.
Voted, To publish these minutes in the REVIEW. Adjourned sine die.
B. L. WHITNEY, Pres.
S. B. WHITNEY, Sec.
The Pope Expelled from the Free Masons.
THE Pope was formally expelled from the order of Free Masons by the Grand Lodge which met in Italy on March 27. He was connected with a Lodge at Palermo in his early youth, and charges were first preferred against him in 1865, but he refused to meet them. Subsequently, when he had cursed the order, and excommunicated all members of it, the charges were renewed, a regular trial was held, and a decree of expulsion was entered and pub lished, signed by King Victor Emanuel, Grand Master of the Orient of Italy.—Detroit Tribune.
Kankakee, Ill.
By D. T. Bourdeau; R. F. Andrews
We took down our tent last Thursday. It had been up just nine weeks. For four weeks, we held nine meetings a week, and during the last five weeks we held twelve meetings a week. We spoke ninety-six times in all—eighteen times in French. Twenty have taken their stand on the Bible Sabbath. We have obtained ten subscribers for the REVIEW. Yesterday (Sunday), S. B. was organized, amounting to over $150 a year. We contemplate the organization of a Bible-class and Sabbath-school the present week. We think that as a general thing it is better to organize S. B. during the first course of lectures. This can be done without urging, or leaving the impression that the preacher is after money. Thank God that our system precludes the possibility of doing this, while it gives young believers an opportunity of proving the sincerity of their love, and teaches them at once the lesson of working and sacrificing for the cause they have espoused. We have learned that the French and English are fully up to our American brethren in contributing of their means for the support of the cause. The friends at St. Anne have already met their pledges for the first quarter.
D. T. BOURDEAU,
R. F. ANDREWS.
Kankakee, Ill., Sept. 28, 1874.
Massachusetts.
By P. C. Roman
After our N. E. camp-meeting, I returned to Ipswich, Mass. Fourteen here have signed the covenant to keep all the commandments of God and faith of Jesus. Others, we hope, will join them soon. I organized a Bible-class, and they have hired a hall in which to hold Sabbath and evening meetings, which costs them $1.80 a week. This they proposed to raise by subscription which was very quickly done at an evening meeting, when they pledged over two dollars a week. If they seek meekness and do their duty, God will bless them, and they will grow in grace and truth and be a strong company.
We think of commencing lectures in Rowley, about four miles from Ipswich. We ask the prayers of the church that the Lord may go with us.
P. C. Roman.
From Bro. Osborn.
By S. Osborn
I am on my way home from the good Ohio Camp-meeting. My heart was made to rejoice to see so many good old soldiers of the cause, especially Bro. and sister White. It seems to me that no person, after hearing their testimony, could doubt but the Lord is leading them out in this work. May God bless them, and give them health and strength and much of his Spirit. May they lead on still in the work of the third message.
Time and ability would fail me to give a description of that meeting. I leave that to abler hands. Suffice it to say, I feel much encouraged and strengthened, and by the grace of God I will do my duty in the work. Brethren, pray for the Kentucky mission.
S. Osborn.
Greenup Co., Ky.
Infidelity.
By Jos. Clarke
We do not hold that infidels have done no good; we do not say that infidels have been useless as public or obscure men; nor do we justify those who persecuted them for their avowed principles. We do not hold that none of Thomas Paine's writings were of any account? His imprisonment was an error of the intolerance of his times. No doubt he did much by his writings to open the eyes of our people as to the evils of tyranny and oppression. No doubt he met with cold ingratitude for his persevering efforts to oppose the armies of Great Britain in the war of the American Revolution; and his influence was felt in the spread of the then new doctrine of a church without the State, and the State without a king. So far, all right; but his ultra views are far from correct; for he would, if it had been possible, have had no church at all. So with all who advocate principles undermining public confidence in the Bible; they go beyond the mark.
All that is good in society, or in public morals, proceeds from God, and the Bible is his book; and nature itself curses the course of infidel principles; for infidelity is contrary to nature. Such men as Paine, Voltaire, and Hume, are the natural outgrowth of false Christianity. They saw the workings of the union of church and State in Europe; and, seeing no further, they condemned the whole system of Christianity. There are fine sentiments woven into all the productions of these writers; but who would sit down to eat at a sumptuous repast if it were tinctured with arsenic? So with the writings of infidels. We abhor the poison. JOS. CLARKE.
Man Without the Holy Scriptures
MAN, without a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, is a soldier without weapons, a horse without a bridle, a ship without a rudder, a writer without a pen.
Shall I Grudge to Spend My Life for Him?
SHALL I grudge to spend my life for Him who did not grudge to shed his life-blood for me?
Obituary Notices.
“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
DIED, in Alpine, Mich., of typhoid fever, Sept. 7, 1874, after a sickness of six days, sister Frankie Darling, daughter of Geo. and Ruth Darling, aged 20 years. She first made a start to serve the Lord and keep his commandments at the Michigan camp-meeting, Aug. 6–17, and was one of the sixty-two baptized at that time. She expressed to her friends here that she could not return home till she had been baptized. Happy decision. It is now seen that she started none too soon. But we believe she gave good evidence of conversion; that the Lord accepted her, and that, while she sleeps, her life is hid with Christ in God, to be restored to her in the morning of the resurrection. Remarks at the funeral by Eld. Chapman, Baptist. U. S.
FELL asleep in Jesus, at Honey Creek, Henry Co., Ind., Bro. Geo. W. Shortridge, aged 51 years and 5 days. Bro. S. made a profession of religion when about eighteen years of age, and united with the Christian denomination. About eight years since, he became convinced that the seventh day is the Sabbath, and commenced its observance. Some few years ago he saw its observance in the light of the third angel’s message, and fully embraced it in that light. During his sickness he was a great sufferer, yet few bear affliction with more resignation and Christian fortitude than he. He labored with many friends and neighbors even in his sickness to make Jesus their refuge. He leaves, to mourn their loss, a companion, six children, and a large circle of relatives and friends. Funeral discourse, to a large and deeply-affected audience, by the writer, from Rev. 14:12–14. S. H. LANE.
DIED, in Campbelltown, Steuben Co., N. Y., Aug. 29, 1874, Roswell Morse, aged 90 years, 11 months and 17 days. His disease was a fever sore of nearly fifty years’ standing, and a stroke of paralysis nine weeks before his death. During his sickness he never expressed a wish or desire to get well, but prayed often and earnestly for the Lord to relieve him of the awful sufferings and agony that he endured every moment. He has, with my mother and myself, kept the Sabbath of the Lord for over six years, and we have reason to believe he sleeps in Jesus. He leaves an aged companion and four children and grandchildren, who deeply feel their loss. Discourse by Eld. B. F. Balcom, Baptist, from Mark. 9:8. HARRIET MORSE.
DIED, Sept. 23, 1874, at Orange, Mich., Bro. Benjamin F. Howe, aged 28 the 29th day of last March, of typhus fever. He kept the Sabbath, loved the present truth, and died in faith. He was one of eleven children. He leaves ten to mourn their loss, with an affectionate father and mother who are living Christians. Funeral discourse Sept. 24, on 1 Thess. 4:18. J. B. FRISBIE.
DIED, in Cleveland, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1874, after a long and painful illness, sister S. M., wife of Levi P. Miller, aged 57 years, 11 months, and 26 days. Sister Miller embraced the third angel’s message about 20 years ago in Shelby, Macomb Co., Mich., under the labors of Brn. Cornell and Loughborough. She was a member of the Oakland church. Through all her suffering she was perfectly resigned to the will of God. We trust she sleeps in Jesus. JOHN E. ALLEN.
DIED, at Nashville, Mo., Sept. 18, 1874, of lingering consumption, our much-esteemed brother, Henry M. Parker, aged 33 years, 10 months and 20 days. Nearly three years ago, the REVIEW was sent him on trial of six months; and although he was at that time very much prejudiced against the doctrines it advocates, he soon became interested in reading, and before the six months expired, he and his companion were both keeping the Sabbath of the Lord. He afterward said that he was indebted to some one for the REVIEW, but as he did not know who, he concluded to send it to three others. He lived an exemplary Christian life, and died in full hope of the soon coming of the Saviour. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn their loss. Discourse by the writer to an attentive audience. J. G. WOOD.
DIED, in Oceana, Mich., Sept. 10, 1874, Francis M., only child of R. J. and L. E. Carr, aged two years and five days. Discourse by the writer to quite a large circle of sympathizing friends. E. H. ROOT.
DIED, of erysipelas, in Greenwood, Oxford Co., Me., Aug. 8, 1874, Generous Ames, aged 62 years and 8 months. He was a firm believer in the near coming of the Lord.
Also, his son, Ephraim, died, Aug. 24, 1874, of consumption, aged 19 years, 5 months, and ten days. Bro. Ephraim left good evidence that he fell asleep in Jesus. CHAS. DAVIS.
FELL asleep in Jesus, in Rochester, Fulton Co., Ind., Sept. 10, 1874, sister Deborah Goodrich, aged 32 years and 10 months. Sister G. was converted and united with the Baptist church at the age of seventeen, since which time she has led a humble and consistent Christian life. Last summer she attended the tent-meeting at Rochester and accepted the truths of the third angel’s message. Sabbath, July 4, she gave her last public testimony in favor of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, which was very affecting and made a deep impression on those who heard her. She leaves a husband and four children to mourn their loss. Funeral discourse by the writer from 1 Cor. 15:26. S. H. LANE.
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand
The monthly meeting for December will be held with the church at So. Norridgewock, Dec. 19, 20. The Maine T. & M. Society will hold its next general quarterly meeting in connection with this meeting; also Dist. No. 1 will hold its quarterly meeting at this time. We hope to see all come together to work for the salvation of souls.
J. B. Goodrich.
Quarterly meeting for the T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 1 will be held at Kenyon, Goodhue Co., Minn., at the usual place of holding meetings. Let there be a general attendance of all interested in the cause. Will Bro. Phelps try to be present?
M. J. Akins, Director.
The next quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society, Dist. No. 5, Mich., will be held in Wright, Ottawa Co., Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 24 and 25. We hope to see a general rally at this meeting that preparations may be made for the winter campaign. Hope all will report in season for this meeting.
J. S. Wicks, Director.
The next monthly meeting for Cattaraugus Co., New York, and vicinity will be held at Cottage, the third Sabbath and first-day in October.
B. B. Warren.
The quarterly meeting for District No. 2, of the Minn. T. & M. Society will be held at Mankato, Minnesota, in connection with the general T. & M. meeting.
Calvin Kelsey, Director.
The next quarterly meeting for North-western Kansas will be held in connection with the T. & M. Society Dist. No. 1, at Solomon Rapids, Mitchell Co., Kansas. Hope all the brethren and sisters who can consistently, will come with their hearts filled with the love of God that the meeting may prove a blessing to all.
O. O. Bridges, Director.
Will meet with the brethren at Plum Creek, Trempealeau Co., Wis., in quarterly meeting, Oct. 24, 25. Would like to meet scattered brethren in Trempealeau and LaCrosse Cos. Make an effort to come together, that we may seek the blessing of God.
O. A. Olsen.
The first quarterly meeting for the T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 7, Minn., at West Union, Oct. 17 and 18. We hope all the members in the district will be present.
John Emerson, Director.
The church at Osceola, Iowa, will hold a two-day's meeting commencing Oct. 24 and holding over first-day.
By order of the church.
A. W. H. Millard, Clerk.
General quarterly meeting of the Tract and Missionary Society of Michigan, Nov. 14 and 15, 1874. The place will be given next week. The time is here given so that each district may hold its district quarterly meeting in season to have its report ready for this meeting. Let this be attended to at once. Send reports of district quarterly meetings to the general State secretary, Mrs. E. B. Gaskill, Battle Creek, Mich. Bro. S. N. Haskell will attend the general quarterly meeting.
E. H. Root, Pres.
General meeting of the Tract and Missionary Society of Iowa, at Osceola, Iowa, Oct. 24 and 25, 1874. Let all directors be prepared to report as far as possible. We trust there will be a general interest in this matter, and a general rally to the meeting, as the brethren will be favored with the labors of Bro. S. N. Haskell, a privilege they will not often be able to secure.
H. Nicola, Pres.
Quarterly meeting of S. D. Adventists on Sartwell Creek, Potter Co., Pa., commencing Sabbath evening, Oct. 31, 1874. A general invitation is extended to all, and we hope to see a general turnout. Will D. B. Welch, Wm. Coats, and D. C. Phillip be present, also the brethren of Ulysses. Come one and all and bring the Lord with you.
J. G. Saunders.
Quarterly Meetings in Minnesota.
Sibley, Iowa, Oct. 24, 25.
Mankato, Minn., Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.
H. Grant.
The general quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society of Minnesota will be held at Mankato, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 1874. I hope to see our Conference Committee and all the directors and many of the friends of the cause at this meeting. The new meeting-house at Mankato will be dedicated at that time. Elds. Lee, Curtis, and Ells, are especially requested to be at this meeting. I would say to the brethren and sisters to come prepared to take care of yourselves as much as possible, as but few of our people live near the place of meeting.
Harrison Grant, Pres.
My P. O. address till further notice will be Battle Creek, Mich., care Review & Herald.
Henry Nicola.
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.
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Books Sent by Freight.
J H Rogers, Pleasanton, Kansas $56.72, M P Martin, San Francisco Cal. $1.00.
Michigan T. & M. Society.
Dist. No. 3, $1.00, Memphis 15.00.
General Conference Fund.
Indiana Conference $100.00.
Book Fund.
A Friend 75 cts, Charles Waggoner 5.00, Urcha Lovette 5.00, Julia A Knapp 3.00, Merrill Lloyd 10.00, Caroline Styles 1.00, C O Taylor 50.00, H C Crumb 50 cts, Alzina Fairchilds 50 cts, M A Nourse 10.00, Harriet S Curtis 5.00, Sally Dunton 1.00, James Harvey 18.00, N S Raymond 50.00, Ophelia Raymond 50.00, Levi Felker 5.00, Eliza Bliss 5.00, sister Dayton 5.00.
Michigan Conference Fund.
Received from the Church at East Saginaw $8.25, Orleans 62.00, Cedar Springs per I A Olmstead 25.00, Ransom per H C Booker 5.00, Convis 30.00, Fairgrove 20.00, Greenbush 12.50, Holly 42.71.
Cash Received on Account.
M B Miller 11.00, John F Hanson 21.00, J H Waggoner per Fred Walter 1.00, S N Haskell per J P Lewis 4.00, A Olson 8.50, J H Waggoner from Indiana Conference 156.42, S N Haskell 114.54, Cal T & M Society 50.00, G W Colcord 9.70, Indiana T & M Society 82.00, P C Rodman 18.50, David Dowdner 9.00, Lowa T & M Society 155.51.
Danish Monthly.
G T Berg $10.00, A B Oyen 5.00, F Oyen 10.00, C R Rasmussen 50.00, J Johnson 25.00, Mary Berg 5.00, S Soter 5.00, A Cash 5.00, Anna Matteson 5.00, Thomas Bickel 5.00, Willie Hansen 4.00, Recarda Lertuzen 2.00, L Johansen 2.00, Henry Hanson 2.00, L Andersen 2.00, C Ericksen 2.00, Sarah Cash 2.00, Rikke Baarsen 1.00, Maren Shong 1.00, J Johansen 1.00, Ragnhild Nass 1.00, P Hoen 1.00, Matilda Matteson 1.00, Alexander Matteson 1.00, Benjamin Revalja 50c, Robert Berg 30c, Theodore Berg 25c, M E Goodwin 50c, John Peterson 5.00, Wilhelmine Peterson 2.00, Peter Hanson 1.00, H C Jorgensen 13.00, Mine Olson 25c, L Mortensen 5.00, Samuel Matteson 1.00, Daniel Matteson 1.00.
Hygienic Book Fund.
W W Stebbins $5.00, N L Burdick 10.00, H C Burdick 2.00, Rancie Bliss 5.00, G Kellogg 5.25.
Shares in the S. D. A. P. Association.
John O Corliss $10.00, Mary L Randal 5.00.
Michigan Camp-Meeting Expenses.
O B Sevey $1.00.
S. D. A. Educational Society.
$100.00 EACH. Geo Leighton, James Harvey, Martha Ashbaugh.
50.00 “ Levi S Gregory, M E Bourdeau.
25.00 “ L B Kneeland, Edward Lobdell.
20.00 “ David W Rice, Abner Brown, Seth Newton, Donald Warren, J W Marsh.
15.00 “ C H Wolcott.
10.00 “ C E Moser, C A Ford, A Owen, Frank E Brown, Solomon A Sellers, A H Hall, C R Chapel, Mrs W A Chesbro, J M Lawrey, Mary Kundert, A A Hutchins & wife, Samuel Smith, Wm Avery, Frank Baldwin, Wm Lucas, Cathrine M Cottrell, M M Ross, Mary Chesbro, M E Goodwin, S L Sauson.
2.50 “ S N Curtis.
1.50 “ Harriet Horniday.
1.00 “ L C Foster.
The Biblical Institute.
By James White
It is decided to commence the series of Lectures of the Biblical Institute Dec. 15, at 7 P. M., to continue until the opening of the new school building, Jan. 4, 1875. Responses to the call of the committee in our last issue, thus far, have been very encouraging. The attendance, doubtless, will be large. It is hoped that our brethren of the Danes, Swedes, French, German, and others, will join their American brethren in this means of instruction and improvement. It is also designed to be a season of revival and spiritual growth, to more fully unite the servants of the Lord in heart and spirit, as well as in the great truths of God's word for this time.
JAMES WHITE.
U. S
By Uriah Smith
Correction.
The poetry entitled The Prize Beyond, published in last REVIEW, and credited to the Baptist Union, should have been credited to The Christian. It was written by H. L. Hastings, the editor of that paper, and first printed in its issue of November, 1867. We credited it to the Union because we found it thus credited in a paper which comes to this Office. Having learned the facts in the case, we are happy to make the correction.
U. S
Kansas General Quarterly Meeting
By S. N. Haskell
Notice.
The providence of God permitting I will meet with the friends in Kansas at their general quarterly meeting at Centerville, Oct. 16-18. We hope for a general attendance, as matters of especial interest to the tract and missionary workers will be laid before the brethren.
S. N. Haskell
Our Health Almanac.
The friends of health reform will be glad to know that the Hygienic Family Almanac for 1875 is now ready. It has fifty-two large, fair, well-executed pages, and contains most valuable reading on the subject of health, to the amount of a thirty-two page tract, besides that which usually pertains to an almanac. It is just the thing to place at the fireside of 25,000 families. Nothing can possibly be better to hand to, or send by mail to, your friends, before whom you wish to let shine rays of light preparatory to their more full investigation of the great health subject.
Single copies sent by mail, 10 cents; fifteen copies for $1.00. Special terms to agents and canvassers.
Address, HEALTH REFORMER, Battle Creek, Mich.
Canvassers Wanted.
We want five hundred men and women to enter the field as canvassers for the HEALTH REFORMER, Way of Life, Hygienic Family Physician, Hygienic Almanac, and other health works.
We offer better terms than last year; but cash must accompany all orders. For particulars send for our circular. Be in season.
Address, HEALTH REFORMER,Battle Creek, Mich.
A Request.
By Asa Hayes
WILL those that write for our papers sign their full names to their articles? When we read a good piece we want to know who is its author.