BRO. SMITH : I feel it duty in my weak way once more to write a few lines through the Review, to let my brethren and sisters know that I am still determined through the assisting grace of God to go through to mount Zion with the remnant. I think that I can say that the path grows brighter and brighter as my journey grows nearer the end. I expect soon to see Jesus coming on the great white cloud to receive his waiting ones to himself. Bless the Lord for his goodness to unworthy me, for sending his messengers this way that I might have the blessed privilege of hearing the third angel’s message. Yes, and bless God that he gave me ears to hear and a heart to understand the truth. My prayer is that I may live it out and be sanctified through it, that others may take knowledge of me that I have been with Jesus and learned his ways.
The little band of brethren and sisters that reside in this place I believe are striving to go through to mount Zion. We meet every Sabbath to try to worship God, and we have the evidence from time to time that Jesus meets with us, and we always receive a blessing when we worship him in spirit and in truth. We have some trials to pass through, but we believe that God will deliver us from them all.
Yours striving to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
L. SCHELLHOUS.
Colon, Mich.
A Striking Confirmation of Scripture.
ONE of the most interesting of the monuments of ancient Rome is the triumphal arch, erected to commemorate the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus, who, after the destruction of the temple made a triumphal march to Rome, bringing with him a long train of the captive Jews and the spoils, among which were the sacred vessels of the temple. This procession is represented in the sculptures on the beautiful arch, which thus furnishes an illustration of the Bible nowhere else to be found, these being the only representations that exist of the vessels, the table of the shewbread, the golden candlestick with its seven branches, and the silver trumpets used by the priests to proclaim the year of Jubilee. The Roman Senate and people little thought, when erecting this monument to a deified emperor, that they were erecting a monument to the true God in the verification of prophecy and divine history. A recent traveler says, ‘Not one of the Jews of Rome, of whom there are about 6000, will even at this day pass under the arch of Titus, although it spans one of the thoroughfares of the city. They shun it as a memorial of the subjugation of their nation, which has never yet been retrieved, and regard it with aversion.’
A Business-Man's Testimony to the Sabbath.
Of the late Adam Rolland, an eminent lawyer and chamber-counsellor, well known half a century ago, the following anecdote was told by the late pious Walter Tait, minister of the Trinity College Church of Edinburgh, of whose church Mr. Rolland was a member.
Mr. R., having met with a country-friend coming out of the church, invited him to share in the hospitalities of his house. On his friend telling Mr. R. that in fact it was to see him and to consult him on some important business that he had come to town, and being about to enter on the subject, Mr. R. gently touched him, saying, “My friend, I do not keep company on this day—far less could I enter on worldly business, of which I have enough during the week-days. The key of my business-room remains at rest till to-morrow at ten o’clock, when I will be ready to give you my best advice. I saw you in our church, and am happy to show you attention, but we’ll leave the concerns of this world out for this day.” He added, that to this resolution he owed much of the comfort he had enjoyed.
Extracts from Letters.
Bro. Jos. Catlin writes from Buchanan, Mich.: “My interest is still undiminished in the good cause in which you are engaged.”
A Call for Laborers
SISTER Mary A. Tilden writes from Appleton, Wis.: "I cannot refrain from repeating my request (and many join with me), that some one of like faith come to Appleton and hold up the truth to the people here."
To Correspondents.
By Editor
A. S. of Wis. : We believe the Bible to be the only creed, and that the only legitimate bond there is to hold the church together is the power of truth and love. In regard to dealing with members, we do not think the Scriptures represent it in the light of cutting off or casting out. But when a person is guilty of disorderly walk, the directions we have are to withdraw ourselves from him, and have "no company with him, that he may be ashamed." Your query should have been noticed before but was overlooked. Perhaps these few suggestions will answer as well as an article.
G. W. E. of Ohio : The three messages of Rev. xiv, of course have a proper time in which to be proclaimed. The first message could not go forth and be true, until the hour of God's judgment was at hand. It could not therefore have been given in the days of the apostles, nor of the reformers. We believe, for reasons set forth in our publications, that it was given at the right time just previous to 1844; the third following in order, subsequent to that time. Concerning the mark of the beast, Sunday-keeping has undoubtedly been that mark ever since the beast, by the institution of Sunday observance on his own authority, displaced one of the commandments of God, thus leading people to bow to his authority instead of that of God. But as we have many times said, so say we again, that we believe that from that time till the present there have been many good and Christian men who have paid reverence to Sunday ignorantly and therefore without sin. It is not however consistent with God's glory that it should always be thus. The breach in his law must be restored; the commandments must be kept in their purity; and as the light has come, and the true character of the work of the man of Sin now appears, the warning is now applicable, "If any man worship the beast," &c. We believe that now, whoever, after having the light clearly set before him, deliberately bows to the institutions of the man of Sin instead of those of God, receives the mark of the beast; but that where these circumstances are or have been wanting, nothing is imputed. It follows that the world must be tested on this point; and to those who reject the light, the words of Christ will directly apply: "If I had not come and spoken unto them they had not had sin; but now have they no cloak for their sins."
C. E. S. of Me. : Those who will not admit the divine commentary of Acts vii, 5, and Heb. xi, on the Abrahamic inheritance, could not probably be helped by any human reasoning. The promise to Abraham embraced, as Paul expressly tells us in Rom. iv, 13, the whole world; that it embraced the primary possession of the land of Canaan by his descendants as a type of the final and glorious inheritance there is no doubt; and we regard it as in this respect only that the possession of that land is said to be in fulfillment of the promise of God to the fathers. See Josh. xi, 23; xxi, 43, 44; xxii, 4, &c.
H. H. of Wis. : The time of observing the Sabbath, and the time of commencing the day, are probably the most important times changed by the little horn of Dan. vii. We do not look upon the time of commencing the year as of any particular importance, and should regard any attempt to change the calendar as altogether uncalled for and impracticable.
A. G. C. of Wis. : In our remarks last week concerning your query on Rev. xx, 4, we inadvertently wrote "those who worship the image of the beast" &c., for "those who do not worship," &c. See also 4th line of third paragraph and third line of fourth paragraph. This correction is essential to the sense of the article and will therefore we presume be readily supplied by all.
Not an Enthusiast.
The energy of the manner of the late Rowland Hill, and the power of his voice, are said to have been at times overwhelming. While once preaching at Wotton under Edge, his country residence, he was carried away by the impetuous rush of his feelings, and raising himself to his full hight, exclaimed, "Beware, I am in earnest; men call me an enthusiast, but I am not; mine are words of truth and soberness. When I first came into this part of the country, I was walking on yonder hill; I saw a gravel pit fall in and bury three human beings alive. I lifted up my voice for help so loud, that I was heard to the town below a distance of a mile. Help came and rescued two of the poor sufferers. No one called me an enthusiast then—and when I see eternal destruction ready to fall upon poor sinners, and about to entomb them irrecoverably, and call on them to escape by repenting and fleeing to Christ, shall I be called an enthusiast? No, sinner, I am no enthusiast in so doing."
APPOINTMENTS.
By M. Hull
PROVIDENCE permitting I will meet with the brethren of western Iowa as follows:
Decatur City, Jan. 5.
Afton, " 12.
Bro. Decker's, " 19.
Oceola, " 23.
Bro. Jones', or where he may appoint, " 26.
All the above meetings commencing at early candle-lighting. May the Lord give us a good time.
M. HULL.
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