DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS:—I esteem it a sweet privilege to be permitted to write a few lines to the scattered flock who are looking for their blessed Master to come in power and great glory to change these vile bodies and fashion them like unto his most glorious body. O what a glorious prospect there is before the outcast, down-trodden and way-worn pilgrims. They will be ushered into the City to "sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to go no more out forever." I ask why there are not more willing to deny themselves and go without the camp bearing the reproaches of a gain-saying world for the sake of Christ. The voice of inspiration answers, "For they love the praise of men more than the praise of God." I am very glad I am accounted worthy to suffer shame for the sake of him who died to save me from the curse of a broken law. I can say with the Psalmist, "O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day."
Truly the Lord has made hard things easy, crooked places straight, and rough places smooth. He has led me in a way that I knew not, and I feel to call on my soul and all that is within me to magnify his holy name, that in these last days, even at the eleventh hour, he has established me in the blessed truths of the gospel. "What God is like our God," who forgiveth iniquity, transgression and sin. Truly the "long suffering of God is salvation." He has made me to delight in his law after the inner man, and his commands are not grievous, but joyous to me. I feel there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit; and I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate me from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. In Christ there is a fullness. He is all in all, the chiefest among ten thousand and the one altogether lovely. I long to see him as he is and be made like him.
Brethren and sisters, as we prize eternal life let us give diligence to make our calling and election sure; let us stand, having our loins girt about with truth, and we waiting for the Lord.
Your sister seeking immortality.
R. B. WHEELER.
Worcester, July 16th, 1855.
Sabbath Converts Need Further Help
By Elvira Sanford
From Sister Sanford.
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—I wish to say to the scattered flock that I am striving to keep the commandments of God. One year ago last February I with my family commenced keeping the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. As the little band here are seemingly remote from others of like precious faith, we hear but little about them except through the Review, which comes to us a welcome messenger laden with rich stores of gospel truth. It cheers my heart to read the letters of the dear brethren and sisters, and I would say to them, press forward and victory will soon be ours. There are some indications of good here. One woman near us, by reading tracts Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, became convinced of the Sabbath, and being willing to do the will of God, commenced to keep it. I think if some of the preaching brethren could find it in their hearts to come here, good might be done. Many appear to be convinced that the fourth commandment is binding on us but fearing the reproaches of men more than the wrath of God, they still go on in the worship of the beast; but dear brethren and sisters, let us be found keeping the commandments of God and striving for the faith of Jesus, that we may have right to the tree of life and enter in through the gates into the City.
Yours waiting for the soon coming of Christ.
ELVIRA SANFORD.
Green Vale, July 8th, 1855.
HORACE W. LAWRENCE
By Horace W. Lawrence
My only sister, Mary Eliza Taylor fell asleep in Jesus, May 9th. 1855, after suffering much for years, especially during her last sickness. She had observed the Sabbath over a year and bore a thrilling testimony when with us, though mostly deprived of the privilege on account of poor health. Her patience was manifest while consumption was doing its last work—mind mostly clear, and faith and hope increasing to the last. She was known as a "peace maker" before embracing the Sabbath, having embraced religion in the Fall of 1844, under the proclamation of the second angel of Rev. xiv. 8, in connection with the cry, "Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him. We are much comforted on account of the blessing that now rests upon those who die in the Lord. Rev. xiv, 13.
HORACE W. LAWRENCE
Bangor, July 6th, 1855.
Death of Jonathan Chase’s Companion
By Jonathan Chase
It becomes my painful duty to record the death of my companion, which occurred on the 22d of May. This was a trying scene for me to pass through, but God has been, and still is, merciful. I rejoice that I am not called to mourn as those that have no hope. Her sickness was very distressing, but she bore it with Christian patience and resignation, and believed that in the first resurrection she should be raised to eternal life. JONATHAN CHASE.
Fall River, June, 1855.
Death of Sarah Farnsworth
By Frederick Wheeler
DIED in Washington, N. H., Sabbath June 30th 1855, Sarah, wife of Bro. Wm. Farnsworth, aged 43 years, after an illness of 10 hours. By this bereavement Bro. Farnsworth has lost an affectionate companion, and a large family of children a kind and tender mother. But they sorrow not as others which have no hope, having the assurance that she sleeps in Jesus, and will soon awake to immortality and eternal life.
Sister Farnsworth embraced religion and was for a number of years a member of the Christian church. In 1842 she embraced the Advent doctrine. In 1844 she, with others, left the church with which she was connected, to walk in the light of present truth, and for about five years she and her husband have been walking in the light of the third angel's message.
We as a church feel to sympathize with our brother in his deep affliction, while we also mourn the loss of one who has long been with us amid the perils of these last days, rejoicing in hope of the eternal inheritance. May the grace of God sustain him; and we as a church be prepared to meet our sister on the resurrection morn. F. WHEELER.
Death of Asa R. Kingsbury
DIED, in Jamaica, Vt., June 16th, 1855, Asa R. Kingsbury, aged 72 years.
JOSIAH HART
By Josiah Hart
DIED in Fayeston, Vt., July 26th, 1855, sister Mehtabel Tyler, aged 83 years. The subject of this notice was a firm believer in the truths contained in the third angel's message. She died in hope of soon returing from the land of the enemy.
The funeral was attended by the writer.
JOSIAH HART
Extracts of Letters.
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Jos. Clarke writes from Portage, Ohio:—"Enclosed is $1. Please send, by mail, its value, less the postage, in the most effective tracts for distribution.
People here are ready to read and hear, but we are not able to distribute as many as we would. Many hard speeches are made against our little band of First-day breakers alias Sabbath-keepers; but we trust the Lord is with us and will protect us. The way is rough and stormy, but the promise is full of hope while we keep the commands of God and have the testimony of Jesus."
Bro. J. Blain writes from DuBuque, Iowa, July 27th, 1855:—"Permit me to say through your paper to ministering brethren with your views, traveling or living in the west, that they can obtain a supply of my work, Death not Life, to sell on commission, of Bro. Samuel Brown of Millwaukie, Wis., and of S. L. Walter, Chicago, Ill., corner of west Randolph and Langamon Sts.; or of C. R. Blanchard of Moline, Rock Island Co., Ill; also at my house, No. 19 North Division St., Buffalo, N. Y."
Bro. Thos. R. Irons writes from Hartwick, July 30th, 1855:—"I would say through the Review that this part of the country stands in need of some talented man to proclaim against priest-craft, and to preach thy kingdom come, instead of has come; and that man is mortal, not immortal; and that Christ will soon come, not a thousand years hence; and that the saints or meek will inherit the earth in its purified state. Although I talk what I can, yet those that would please the world are many. Doctrines of men flourish much. May the Lord send some one of his servants this way."
Removal of Governor Reeder!
THE AXE HAS FALLEN! GOV. REEDER REMOVED!
The President of the United States has at last perpetrated an act which he has for some time meditated, but which his infirmity of purpose—for he is feeble even in the commission of wrong—has led him to postpone till he has dared no longer to refuse obedience to his southern masters. After some months of imbecile vacillation, characteristic of a little mind, he has screwed up his reluctant courage to brave the indignation of the united North, and has performed an act which will have no other interpretation than a deliberate endorsement of the late Missouri outrages.
That Gov. Reeder has been removed, not for malversation in office, but purely because he refused to lend himself as the pliant tool of a pro-slavery mob, is evident, not only from the facts of the case, but from the political complexion of the man who has been appointed to succeed him. John L. Dawson, of Pennsylvania, the newly appointed Governor of Kansas, is one of the members of the last Congress whom the people remanded to private life, in consequence of his participation in that gigantic fraud and insult to the North, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. He voted for that repeal through all the stages of the Congressional proceedings by which it was consumated, and Mr. Pierce has now found an opportunity to pay him the wages of his iniquity. The administration were disappointed in the character of Gov. Reeder, but they have now found a creature who will, no doubt, prove the subservient tool they wish.
The internal peace of the country has never been so seriously imperilled, since the organization of the government, as it is to-day. The Administration in power repealed a sacred compact hallowed in the hearts of all northern freemen, under the insidious pretence of restoring to the territory to which it extended, the principle of popular sovereignty. An armed mob from a slaveholding state invades the territory and takes forcible possession of its government. The Administration at Washington instead of aiding the inhabitants in repelling this invasion of their right, openly abet the invaders, and by a high-handed act of authority remove the Governor of the territory, for no other reason than because he is firm in asserting the rights of the territory, and faithful to its interests. As it has now become certain that no redress of the grievances of the territory is to be looked for from the General Government, it would not be surprising if the people should take the remedy in their own hand, and the mob from Missouri should be met by armed men from other States. If the torch of civil war should be lighted in Kansas God only knows how far the conflagration would spread, or when it would end. The nearness of the next presidential election opens the only door of escape from so dire a calamity, and this last act of President Pierce has put the seal of certainty to the election of a Northern man with Northern sentiments for his successor.—Buff. Com. Adv.
New Sabbath Keepers Seek More Light
By Laura H. Perkins
From Sister Perkins.
DEAR BRO. WHITE:—Within three weeks we have received some light on the Sabbath question and we want more, so that when the Master comes he may find us keeping all his commandments. We expect opposition from both friends and enemies as there are no Sabbath-keepers here for a number of miles, but we also expect and believe that God will sustain us in this trying time. O that we may love God with all our hearts and be kept from the hour of temptation that shall come on all the world to try them that dwell on the earth. May the Lord sustain you in all your trials, and preserve you blameless unto his appearing.
Yours in love of the truth.
LAURA H. PERKINS.
Macomb, July 16th, 1855.
EDWIN A. FREEMAN
By Edwin A. Freeman; Fanny Freeman
From Bro. & Sr. Freeman.
Brother White:—Though personally unknown, I have long felt a desire to pen a few lines to you. It is about ten months since myself and husband commenced keeping the Sabbath of the fourth commandment. We have never heard a course of lectures, and the most information we have gained has been through tracts and the Review. Bro. Phelps called on us last Winter and presented the third angel's message which we embraced, and have since that time felt that it is a glorious cause. We are alone, excepting an uncle about six miles from us, in keeping the Rest-day of Jehovah, and meet with much opposition. Some think the seventh day looks too much like the Jews of olden times. I have thought that if Christ was to appear again as he did at his first advent, he would look too much like a Jew to be their Saviour. But I feel to praise God that I have been brought to the light of the true Sabbath, and hope I may ever be found with the commandment-keepers, having the testimony of Jesus Christ. I have taken much comfort in perusing letters in the Review from those of like precious faith, and feel unworthy a place with them.
EDWIN A. FREEMAN
FANNY FREEMAN.
Arena, 1855.
Laborers Needed in Illinois
By William Phelps
From Bro. Phelps.
Dear Bro. White:—I left home last Fourth-day, visited the friends in Walworth, spent one day with them. They are but four in number, and feel as though they were almost forsaken, not having had a visit from any one of the traveling Brn. for over one year; but they were somewhat encouraged while we talked the truth concerning our present position. From there I came to this place and found the friends here feeling lonely. They have not been visited until now for some eighteen months. I held meetings yesterday and to-day, and the friends here seem quite encouraged and built up in the faith. To-morrow morning I am to leave for other parts of the field. This is a large field here in Illinois, and not a laborer in it. I expect to spend a few weeks in this State and then return to Wisconsin. Who will come and labor in this field? O Lord send by whom thou wilt; let the message go. I feel as though I wanted to gird on the harness anew, and by the help of God I mean to press the battle to the gate. I want to be prepared to give the loud cry of the third message. O may God hasten the time when it shall go, and cut the work short in righteousness. I remain as ever, Your unworthy brother. W. Phelps. Alden, July 8th, 1855.
Some Sensible Remarks.
A CORRESPONDENT of one of the N. Y. Journals, writing from St. Louis, and in attendance on the Anniversary Meeting of the Presbyterian General Assembly there, makes the following suggestive remarks:
It is getting to be an immense job for a sojourner in our large towns to find his way to a house of God —and as to poor residents, (Heaven take care of and save them!) if the doctrine be true that there is no salvation out of the church, the poor people are inevitably lost, for they can neither buy nor hire a pew in these hundred thousand dollar churches. Gentility is fast getting to be the only passport to heaven—as the depths of a man's purse, so are his chances for future glory. This new church stands in the centre of acres of vacant lots, huge piles of building materials lying around as far as the eye can reach, with only here and there a brick block or single house rising above the dreary desolation. These piles of sand, these scattered pillars, pediments capitals, these huge layers of rock and solid and immense cubes of unlaid brick induce one to imagine himself transported to the sites of the famous ruins of Grecian, Roman and Egyptian cities, where storms, fires and earthquakes for 4000 years or more have been scattering their debris over the now solitary plain.
What are we respectable Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, and others, doing for the poor whom we have always with us? We are leaving them to be taken care of by Methodists and Catholics who being poor themselves must naturally expect to take care of the poor. The touch of the beggar of course will not soil their silks or broadcloths, nor will unfragrant mechanics leave unpleasant stenches in their damask pews.
When will our city ministers believe the word they preach, that the poor are God's chosen people? When will they have the moral courage to take the hand of a poor man in the street, and say as Moses to Hobab, 'Come with us and we will do thee good.'
FOREIGN NEWS.
Sebastopol has again been subjected to two days' heavy fire, without effect. The besiegers were erecting immense works against the Malakoff and the Redan, and the besieged were erecting equally formidable earthworks behind those defenses.
Another general assault is not far off. Thirty thousand men are employed on the works of attack. The Russians in addition to other additional defenses, are throwing up a formidable star fort, behind the Redan. A weak fire was kept up on the 10th and 11th.
Cholera was decreasing, and the health of the Allied army was satisfactory.
The Russians made a sortie on the night of the 7th on the works in the front of the Mamelon, but effected nothing.
There are strong indications of a campaign on the Danube, engineers having already been sent forward.
There are rumors of a dangerous insurrection in the Russian Siberian regiment, and also of a change in the Russian Cabinet.
The Asia arrived at Halifax on Wednesday, Aug. 1, with dates from Liverpool to the 21st ult. The intelligence she brings is of no great importance, though not destitute of interest. Mr. Roebuck's motion for a vote of censure on the Government, after being debated at great length, was thrown out in the House of Commons by a majority of 107. The Palmerston Ministry has therefore a new lease of life. The general prospects of the war were not encouraging. The successes and losses of the Allies before Sebastopol seem to be about equally balanced. The Sardinian and Turkish forces have again withdrawn from the valley of Baidar to Balaklava. The report is confirmed that the Russians have received re-enforcements. Accounts from Asia state that the Russian army, under Gen. Muravieff, had invested Kars, while a small army corps had advanced upon Katais and was pressing the Turkish garrison of Batoum. The Black Warrior dispute with the United States is at last definitely settled, the Spanish Government agreeing to pay an indemnity of a million of reals.
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