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Review and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 24

PURIFYING THE HEART.
Earlier text: THINGS IN MAINE.

REPORT OF MEETINGS IN OHIO.

By J. H. WAGGONER

I LEFT Bowersville the date of my last report, Oct. 8, and went to Bloomfield. My object in going there in advance of the meeting was to get a little rest, without which I was not able to do anything more in my feeble state. I improved the opportunity to bring up my writing which I had been obliged to neglect.
Bro. Mears was with me in this meeting. We found the church of Orwell in as good condition as we could expect. Most of them appear to be striving for a daily victory; but some, as we fear is the case in every place, need reviving in order to indulge a good hope. We were very sorry to find a strong sympathy existing for errors that have been exposed and reproved, on the part of some of a neighboring church. I am more and more convinced that the remarks made in the Review on Order were just and timely. The brethren are taking into consideration the subject of building a meeting-house there, which we hope may be accomplished, as a house of worship is very much needed. The church of Orwell has an earnest worker in their elder, and we are pleased to find the members so well united, so ready to second his efforts and encourage him in his labors.
Bro. Mears accompanied me to Strongsville. Bro. Sweet has moved to Columbia, and is connected with this church. We were specially rejoiced to meet with Sr. Pierce, of Indiana, who came to attend this meeting, and whom we have not seen since the tent was in Columbia. Sr. P. has for years been a reader of the Earnest Christian, and has tried to bear that character herself, making a “conquest of every sin,” as D. F. Newton says, but not as he, excepting the violation of the fourth commandment. Her testimony as well as her presence was cheering to all. It was a meeting of encouragement, and we hope the counsel given there may bear fruit. A commendable zeal was manifested to profit by the warnings given, and we pray they may be steadfast to perform as well as ready to will.
The meeting at Wakeman, Nov. 2, 3, was good beyond our expectation. Past injudicious movements have left their influence over the cause here; and we hope by carefulness and humility the little flock may recommend this sacred truth to all around. It is important to remember that it “is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.” It is the most effectual argument, and the only one that should be generally used unless there is a clear duty to teach. One was baptized and one confessed the truth. Several from the Strongsville church attended this meeting adding much to its interest. Here we received Testimony No. 13, the reading of which made a deep impression on every mind. Will the Lord grant that it may be lasting.
The meeting at Clyde was the most solemn of all. I deeply felt for some over whom I saw evident danger impending. How wise the Saviour to foresee just what admonition is needed in these times; how precious the instruction to take heed lest our hearts be overcharged with worldly cares. This is a money-getting and a hurrying age. It is not possible to pay due attention to our religious duties when the mind is all absorbed and the body overtaxed with worldly business and labor. And how unprofitable would all that labor prove if it should cause that day to come upon us as a thief! It is a plain duty for all to be “diligent in business;” but if it be permitted to engross our powers so that we are not “fervent in spirit,” it may lead to our ruin. The testimony given to the parents was appreciated, and thankfully received. It was a time of much weeping, and we all felt that it was good to humble ourselves before God. May the Lord accept the offering, and give strength to perform our vows by daily watchfulness and obedience.
Nov. 16, 17, met with Bro. Van Horn at Bowling Green. It was a happy re-union, though we had been separated only a few weeks. This church is evidently rising from the influence of burdens and stumbling blocks which had hindered their progress in the past. They are again becoming active and united. They have borne and still bear quite a burden of the cause in this State, and I trust their labors of love have come with acceptance before the Lord. May they never be weary in well-doing, but ever remember that rest is promised when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed. 2 Thess. 1. Till that time let us count it a privilege to labor, to bear and to suffer with our Master.
Bro. Smith, of Norwalk, was at the meetings at Wakeman and Clyde. The ordinances were attended at all these meetings except at Wakeman.
We now return to our homes for a short time to rest our minds from our incessant labors, and to attend to some matters which need our presence at this season of the year. We feel assured that the prayers of the dear friends in Ohio will follow us; and we shall not cease to pray for them and for the cause in this State.
J. H. WAGGONER.
Bowling Green, O., Nov. 18, 1867.

THE REVIVAL IN N. Y.

By C. O. TAYLOR.

AND still the good work goes on here. We had held no meetings on the Sabbath in the meeting-house, till yesterday. The first Sabbath we were at Roosevelt, the second at Houndsfield, the third at Mansfield. Yesterday was a day of fasting and prayer, by most of the church, for a special object. We met for prayer at 9½ A. M. I spoke at 11, from Mark 1, 6, dwelling mostly on the subject of baptism, showing its importance in some seven or eight directions, taking up also the subject of re-baptism, showing its necessity in some cases, and examples for doing so in other cases. After this we went to the water where ten were buried in the likeness of Christ’s death, and rose to walk in newness of life. God owned the ordinance by giving a large measure of his Spirit. Three had never been baptized, a brother and two sisters of one family. Seven were re-baptized.
In the evening we held a prayer-meeting, when six came forward for prayers, desiring a deeper work of grace in their hearts. As we closed the day’s labor we felt satisfied that God will raise up his people when they will humble themselves by confessing their sins and putting them away. The church are humbling themselves in this county. To God be all the praise.
C. O. TAYLOR.
Adams’ Center, Nov. 17, 1867.

REPORT FROM BRO. MATTESON.

By John Matteson

SINCE my last report I have labored in Freeborn Co., Minn., mostly among the Danish brethren at Riceland and vicinity. In the town of Bancroft I obtained the school-house for awhile among the Norwegians. A number of people came out to hear. Some were interested. But at the end of two weeks they would not suffer me to hold meetings any longer. The whole town was governed by Lutherans, and thus they could close the door whenever they thought best. We trust, however, that those who received the word in willing hearts may be blessed, and that this may be a beginning with them to receive the message and be saved. Much ignorance prevails among them, and they cannot easily be approached at once.
We had many blessed meetings with the brethren, who manifested a desire to know their true condition. May they grow in grace, and be enabled to exert a saving influence on those around them.
Brethren John Hanson and P. Peterson were unanimously chosen and set apart for Elder and Deacon. Three converts joined the church, and one commenced keeping the Sabbath. On first-day, Nov. 10, we had the pleasure of baptizing eight happy souls into the likeness of the death of our divine Redeemer. May they ever continue faithful in the patience of the saints, the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
JOHN MATTESON.
Basseyville, Wis., Nov. 17, 1867.
In the Historical Department this week, we present an interesting sketch from the graphic pen of Dr. H. Bonar, on the treading down of Jerusalem. As the utter humiliation of the poor Jew is pictured before us, we can scarce restrain our pity for him; but his self-imposed fate is inexorable. His blood be upon us and our children, said the crucifiers of the Prince of Life; and they were taken at their word; and Jerusalem under the dominion of the Gentiles, and the Jews wandering in every nation under heaven, a distinct people though so thoroughly scattered and dispersed, have stood forth since then, a striking monument of the truthfulness of the words of Him who predicted that such should be their fate because they knew not the time of their visitation.
SUSPENDED. The Herald of the Bridegroom, Newark, N. J., which has for the past two years advocated the coming of the Lord in the year 1867, has now suspended publication, the point to which it looked, having passed by. We would that Adventists might learn wisdom by these repeated failures, and be led to see the folly of continually attempting to readjust the prophetic periods when they have once been scripturally and harmoniously fulfilled. In its issue of Nov. 13, the Herald said:
“As we are now within a few days of the testing point in our argument, we have determined to suspend the issue of the Herald. This number therefore will be our last. For over two years we have been warning the Church and world of the coming of the Bridegroom, and now, having acted in harmony with our honest convictions, we calmly await the issue. By the time this number reaches our readers we shall have entered upon the period of the ‘Feast of Tabernacles,’ which is the last Jewish feast in the year. We are shut up to the faith that deliverance must come by its close at the latest, and therefore consistency demands that we suspend our labors and await the result. Believing as we do, we bid our readers, who are standing in a state of preparation to meet the Lord, adieu for a few hours, hoping to meet them in Isaiah’s ‘chambers.’ Oh! ‘keep your hearts in the love of God, and in the patient waiting for Christ.’”
Some, we trust, will have their eyes opened by this disappointment; some will, no doubt, be thrown from the track, and suffer a total wreck of their faith in divine things; the wicked will have new occasion to scoff; and the ears of many who perhaps might otherwise have been reached, will be more firmly closed against the reception of the truth. We rejoice that the “’67 movement” has been so limited in extent; and for the same reason we regret the movement on 1868; since from being a more extensive movement, its failure will be more disastrous.
We have frequently had our attention called to the reckless oddity and drollery in which many preachers among the first-day Adventists seem inclined to indulge for the purpose of appearing eccentric, or for some other reason, but which is very unbecoming, to say the least, in a minister of the gospel, in his sacred calling of warning the world of the impending Judgment. A notable instance occurred at the late Advent Camp meeting at Alton Bay, N. H., as reported by a Congregationalist minister who was present. As his report has been endorsed by the leading Advent papers as a fair and candid representation of the matter, we presume his statements are correct. Speaking of one of the prayers offered on the occasion, he says:
“I was a little surprised, however, when the praying minister told the Lord, regarding the one who was to preach, ‘Lord, thou knowest he isn’t much of a preacher. He is only an earthen vessel, and nothing but poor crockery at that!’”
Such expressions, to all sensible outsiders, must be disgusting.

News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times? Matt. xvi, 3.
The Rev. Mr. Murphy, a Catholic priest in Portsmouth, N. H., was recently invited to offer the prayer at the opening of the Supreme Court in that city.
Garibaldi, it is said, is to be exiled from Italy to the United States. He will receive an ovation in this country, if he comes, such as would be tendered to no other man in all Europe. Garibaldi claims to be a citizen of the United States, it is reported. We doubt if he was ever fully naturalized; but it is said that he declared his intentions to become a citizen, and took out his first papers in New York, many years ago. If this is true, it can easily be verified by an examination of the records in New York.
—Fear not to pray, because your tongue is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you. Just as the mother understands the first babblings of her infant, so does the blessed Jesus understand those who call upon him in prayer. He can read a sigh, and hear a groan.—J. C. Ryle.
—“One pound of cotton,” says Mr. Gordon, “which formerly could only be spun into a thread of 108 yards long, can now, by the application of steam, produce a thread of 167 miles in length.”
—The trade between San Francisco and China is destined to be of immense importance. A dispatch from San Francisco, of Oct. 14th, says that the last steamer from China took nine hundred passengers, seven hundred tons of freight, and one million in treasure. Another indication is the fact that a submarine telegraph from San Francisco to Japan and China is suggested; and the opening trade of the new line of steamships holds out strong encouragement for undertaking the enterprise. All of which goes toward making New York ultimately the commercial center of the world.
—In the department of the Home Journal entitled “chit-chat,” we were informed that in a fashionable church in Pittsfield, Mass., strangers are seated according to their dress. Moire antique and boniton close to the pulpit, muslin half-way up the aisle, and last year’s bonnets back by the door.
—The oldest city in the world, is Damascus. Tyre and Sidon have crumbled on the shore; Baalbec is a ruin; Palmyra lies buried in the sands of the desert. Nineveh and Babylon have disappeared from the shores of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Damascus remains what it was before the days of Abraham—a center of trade and travel, an island of verdure in the desert.
—A clergyman going to a miserly old lady to beg for a worthy object, found himself refused on the ground of poverty. Finding himself much interested in her story, he expressed great surprise thereat, and said, “I had not thought you in such want;” and then taking out some money he said, “here is something that will do for the present purpose; when I call again, I will give you more.” The old lady was so enraged that she gave him a good round sum to show that she did not mean she was a pauper.
Sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States.—Copenhagen, November 2. It is again reported that the United States have purchased the Danish West India Islands, but the amount to be paid is now stated to be $14,000,000. Christensen, formerly Governor of St. Thomas, it is said, will be sent to Washington by the Danish Government to complete the transfer of the Islands.
The Roman Question—The Pope’s Temporal Power.—London, November 16. The conference proposed by Emperor Napoleon for the settlement of the Roman question seems to be attended with difficulties. The Pope objects to any conference whatever, and the several Powers which have been invited to participate are divided on the question of the necessity for a conference. It is asserted that Spain is the only nation that supports the temporal power of the Pope in any event.
Trichina in St. Louis.—St. Louis, November 16. Two clearly defined cases of trichina died in the city hospital last night. At a post mortem examination, made at a meeting of the medical society this evening, the muscles of the men were shown which contained ciscus gregarinæ. One of the men had been treated for consumption and the other for typhoid fever.
The Real Feeling of the South.—Every Southern State reconstructed on the White basis is to-day a Rebel State—shaped and ruled by men who execrated Lincoln’s reluctant and tardy resistance to the Rebellion as a causeless and criminal aggression, and profoundly rejoiced over Bull Run as their victory. There is no paramount question of good faith or gratitude to the Blacks. Their votes are as necessary to the preponderance of White loyalty as to their own protection and security. Reconstruct the South, on the White basis, and every one of the fifteen States which held slaves in 1860 will be intensely, overwhelmingly Copperhead thenceforth and evermore. Allow to-day the plea that the Blacks are ignorant and degraded, and those whom you thereby clothe with power will take good care that the plea shall be as valid and well-grounded a century hence as it is now. Public Education and Civil Rights for the Freedmen can only be achieved and maintained through the ballot. “We are for Negro suffrage—the way they suffered in New Orleans,” was the inscription on a banner borne in a late Conservative or Democratic procession in Baltimore; and the spirit which dictated that avowal is still rampant in the South. But for what is stigmatized as Military Despotism, it would daily avenge by outrage and infliction what it deems negro treachery to the Southern cause.
The Evangelical Alliance.—Observance of the Sabbath.—Some of the “sectional” meetings of the Conference were of a very interesting character. In one of these the question of the observance of the Lord’s day came under review. It was the wish of the British Organization of the Evangelical Alliance to speak as decidedly in Amsterdam as in Geneva about the Continental mode of spending the Sabbath. M. Alexander Lombard, of Geneva, spoke with great earnestness and ability upon the subject. He said he advocated the cause of the Lord’s day, not merely as a day holy unto the Lord, but from a social point of view. He expressed his hearty desire that the Conference should not separate without something more being done to improve the observance of the day on the Continent. He thought committees should be formed in the various towns and countries of the Continent, and referred to what had been done in Neufchâtel and other places after the Conference of 1861 at Geneva. He wanted to see an international league established for the purpose of directing general attention to the subject, and of stirring up continental governments to release workmen from their seven days’ toil. Eventually a resolution was unanimously adopted calling upon the representatives of different countries to use all their influence, upon their return home, to bring about a better observance of the Lord’s day.

The Emperor of the French.

It is within a month of sixteen years since Louis Napoleon struck Liberty an assassin's blow and laid her dead upon the soil of France. He stole upon her in the night, while she watched with faithful eyes the land she had redeemed, and her mortal blow came from the hand of him whom she had set to guard the gates against the foe. Never was there a worse treason since the world began; never was there a treason so little looked for; but never was there one so successful. From that day to this, one of the most cunning, cold-blooded, unscrupulous of tyrants has held his throne, not only against all foreign foes, but against murmurs, discontents, and warnings from his own people, and there seems no reason why he should not keep his grip upon the sceptre until death and old age come hand in hand and lead him softly to a peaceful grave. Such lives as his, such deaths as his may be, put to shame all the accepted theories of Providence; to a casual eye, they show a God to whom the evil and the good are one; and it is not possible to explain the existence of such unmixed evils, working widespread ruin and misery unchecked and uncontrolled, by any dogmas of any sect. Before such mysteries, we can only stand in silence, happy if they do not strengthen our doubts or drive us into disbelief.
In one sense it may be allowed that, if the French people like this sort of government, it is no one's business but their own. If they like to have a chain about their necks, let them have it. If they like to have their press gagged, their freedom of speech taken away; if they relish being perpetually watched in their houses, dogged in the streets, questioned for every act; called to account for their comings and goings, told what they may read, and what they may not read, what plays they may see acted, and what songs they may sing—if a nation be sunk so low that it can love such things, let it hug this loathsome corpse of life in peace; we can hold our noses and keep to the windward. Meanwhile, it is not a little absurd to hear such a nation forever bragging of its high civilization, and claiming the right to lead the world of ideas as well as the world of national progress. But bragging, though offensive, hurts nobody, and France may be permitted to grovel and to brag unquestioned within her own domain.
It is only when this “vice of kings, this pick-purse of the empire and the rule,” steps out of his own kingdom and undertakes to set straight the affairs of other nations as he has done those of his own, that we have a right to complain; and Louis Napoleon has now reduced his meddling to such a system that there cannot be a movement for liberty in any part of the world that he does not send his armies to crush it, if possible, at the very least to hinder it, by every cruel, desperate, and insulting means.
And so completely has his will domineered over the rest of Europe, that until Prussia rose and confronted him, there was no power to say him nay, or even dared hint displeasure at his acts. England lies at his feet cowering like a threatened hound; her only conquests of late are over the wretched Fenians, whom her own laws have made beggars and exiles, over Indian savages whom she frightens by a bloodthirstiness more awful than their own, over the merchant vessels of a nation with whom she is at peace; Austria, whose simple-minded heir has been inveigled by his cunning arts into a shameful death, makes haste to Paris to kiss the hands that shed his blood; Russia sends her Emperors to eat his salt who has brought her to open shame, and for a whole summer long, kings, princes, and nobles from every land that is overawed by them have made crowns and coronets as familiar in Paris streets as the citizen's hat.
When we were in the mortal agony of our civil war, this man put all his infernal enginery at work, and tried both to secure our ruin and to destroy the life of a great neighboring State. Gladly would he have done both, and long and hard he worked to accomplish his purpose. It was a bitter day for him when he found that Americans are not Frenchmen, and that Mexicans are not Italians; a bitter day when the bone to which he had set his teeth was snatched from his paws, and he was beaten to his kennel. But Louis Napoleon learns no lesson. Made the laughing-stock of the world by his disgraceful defeat in Mexico, sneered at for a prophet, scorned for a promise-breaker, he tried again to meddle, and this time with Prussia. All the world knows the end of that meddling, and perhaps there never was a jest so relished by the world as Napoleon's defeat by Bismarck. It might almost seem as if fate were bent on forsaking her favorite, if his heel were not still planted on the neck of England and on the head of Italy.
Three times, now, has this man, acting from his own selfish desires, to be thought the controller of events, and, driven by his own fears of liberty, prevented Italy from ordering her Government as she thinks best. When he first set his blood-hound army at the throat of this fair fugitive from tyranny, all the world cried out at the enormity of his crime. But he defies the conscience of the world, as he defies God and Justice, and sat for fifteen years by the side of prostrate Italy holding her chains and threatening her with his sword. Since then, the world has watched, heart-sick and weary, waiting for the time when he should release his hold, and lend an ear to the mingled threats and pleading of the world. But we wait in vain. While this man draws his hated breath, Italy shall not live, nor her children draw a free breath. Coward that he is, he has at last found one nation too weak to shake off his bonds, and the luxury of tyranny is too great that he should easily forego it. Thwarted in Mexico, snubbed in Prussia, kept in order by America, uneasy at home, he has of late been stinted in his craving for meddling, and must bully Italy while as yet she has no friends to stand up for her. How long shall Napoleon rule to hinder Europe in her yearning for unity and freedom? How long must the world be obliged to sit in patience, while one man thwarts the will of millions, and by the mere virtue of a name quenches every noble aspiration of the people of Europe, and makes them his own slaves?—N. J. Tribune.

SPIRITUAL GIFTS.

By Joseph Clarke

It is some twelve years since we became acquainted with the Seventh-day Adventists. At that time we were very deep in popular errors; but we did not then think so. We knew, however, that something was sadly wanting in the religion of 1855; and this had been our conviction from youth, that apostolic religion and sabbatic observance was far different from the practice of the Protestants of the nineteenth century. It was the Sabbath day when first we read the Experience and Views of sister E. G. White; and it was a solemn yet joyful day, never to pass from our memory. Even now, our inmost soul is moved as we think of the deep impressions made upon our mind at that time; and at each successive issue of the Testimonies, we felt a new impetus onward in the way of Zion; particularly when the Great Controversy was issued, throwing such a flood of light upon Scripture subjects. Bro. Van Gorder got a copy first, and we went down to his home and staid until late at night, to hear him read aloud a great part of that priceless work; and as each successive issue of Testimonies came, we waited with more longing eyes than those do who collect on the ocean’s strand to get a view of the homeward-bound ship, bringing intelligence from friends far away. For is not this a divine missive, fresh from the glorious Heavens? What if it is testimony against us, not for us? Are not mercy’s gates still open? And was not the Lord very thoughtful of us, to warn us before it was too late?
Testimony No. 13, the latest in the series, is evidence that God still cares for his people; and that he has not rejected them. Let us each make it ours. Each one of us will be proved. Oh! may we be as gold refined, and finally prove genuine, in the day when the jewels are numbered.
JOSEPH CLARKE.

Address of the Pope to the Officers of the French Troops.

PARIS, November 14.—Previous to the departure of the French troops from Rome, the Holy Father received the staff officers in a body, in the audience chamber of the Vatican, and addressed them in a most feeling manner. He expressed his happiness at having soldiers of France around him once more, but never had his happiness been so great as now, because of the recent peril to which he had been exposed. He returned thanks to the officers, to France and to the Emperor Napoleon for the deliverance of the Holy See. He was filled with grief to see that Italy had sent out as a vanguard against Rome a horde of anarchists upon whose flags were inscribed rapine and devastation. While the valor of the Pontifical troops had successfully defended the soil of the church, the army of France had come to crown the splendid defense. The Pope concluded by saying that, in the midst of his troubles, he had the consolation of receiving sincere expressions of Catholic sympathy from all parts of the world. His holiness then terminated the interview by giving his Apostolic blessing to the army, the people and the Emperor of France.

The Pope's Lamentation.

By PIUS, P. P. IX.

THE last Encyclical of the Pope, contains the following outburst of sorrow, which shows either that the Papacy is not the branch of Babylon which says, “I sit a queen and am no widow,” or that the time has not yet come for that boast. After speaking of various evils and calamities which threaten the Papacy, he says:—
“Amid all these calamities and sorrows which have burst upon the Church and upon ourselves, as there is no one save our Lord God alone who sustains the contest in our favor, we earnestly call upon you venerable brethren in the name of your love and zeal for Catholic interest, and in the name of your profound piety toward us, to unite your most fervent prayers with ours, to beseech and to supplicate God unceasingly, with all your clergy and your faithful people, that, mindful of his eternal mercy, he may turn his indignation from us and cause us and his church to escape the deluge of evils; that he may send the aid and protection of his almighty power to the children of that church, who in all countries, but especially in Italy, in the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Poland are now a prey to so many attacks, and are afflicted by so many sorrowful trials; that he may preserve and strengthen them more and more in the profession of the Catholic faith, and its saving doctrine; that he will confound the impious scheme of the enemies of the church; and lastly, that he will withdraw them from the pit of iniquity and lead them into the path of his commandments.”
Consequently we desire that there be obtained in your dioceses a triduum of prayers within six months, dating from this day, and within a year in countries beyond the seas. In order to arouse the zeal of the faithful to assist in these public devotions and to pray God themselves, we mercifully grant in the Lord plenary indulgence and the remission of their sins to all and each of the sex who, having confessed and communicated, shall assist devoutly in the prayers during these three days, and who shall pray to God, in accordance with our desire, for the present needs of the church.
By the faithful who, contrite at least in heart, shall have done the works prescribed upon one or other of the aforesaid days, we grant, following the habitual forms of the church, an indulgence of seven years and seven forty day periods for the penitences of any sort they may have incurred.
All these indulgences, remissions of sins and penitence, we grant in the Lord to the souls of the faithful in Christ, who, united with God in charity, have departed this life, application being made to them thereof through representatives, and this notwithstanding any opposition to the contrary.
Finally rest assured nothing can be more agreeable to us than eagerly to profit by the present opportunity of attesting and confirming the extreme good will with which we pray for you to God. As its strongest proof receive the apostolic blessing we bestow with all the warmth of our heart upon yourselves, venerable brethren, and all the faithful ecclesiastics and laity confided to the vigilance of each one among you.
Given at St. Peter's at Rome, this 17th October, 1867, in the twenty-second year of our pontificate.
PIUS, P. P. IX.

Publication Department.

By Editor

Buy the truth, and sell it not. Prov. xxiii, 23.

The Publishing Association.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association was incorporated in Battle Creek, Mich., May 3, 1861. Its object is to issue “periodicals, books, tracts, documents, and other publications, calculated to impart instruction on Bible truth, especially the fulfillment of prophecy, the commandments of God, and the teachings of Jesus Christ.” Its capital stock is raised by shares at $10 each; and every shareholder is entitled to one vote in all the deliberations of the Association, for every share that he or she may hold. The Association has now a large and well-furnished Office of publication, established in Battle Creek, Mich., and employs two steam power presses in carrying on its business. A meeting of the stockholders is held each year, at which a board of trustees is elected to manage its business, and editors chosen to conduct its periodicals, till the ensuing meeting. All persons employed in the publishing department, are engaged at stipulated wages, and all profits accruing from the business, are strictly applied by the Association to the carrying out of the object of its formation, and to its charitable uses and purposes. All lovers of truth, who “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,” are still invited to take shares in the Association, and have a voice in all its deliberations.

The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald.

Is a large sixteen-page religious family paper, issued weekly by the S. D. A. Pub. Association, and devoted to an earnest investigation of all Bible questions. It is designed to be an exponent of momentous and solemn truths pertaining to the present time, some of which are set forth by no other periodical in the land. The fulfillment of prophecy, the second personal advent of the Saviour as an event now near at hand, immortality through Christ alone, a change of heart through the operation of the Holy Spirit, the observance of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, the divinity and mediatorial work of Christ, and the development of a holy character by obedience to the perfect and holy law of God, as embodied in the decalogue, are among its special themes. And while it will endeavor to present impartially both sides of all important questions, it has a definite theory to teach, and hence will not devote its space to an indiscriminate and aimless mass of conflicting sentiments and views.
Regular price, $3.00 per year, or $1.50 for a volume of 26 numbers. On trial for six months $1.00. No subscriptions taken for less than six months. To the worthy poor—free, by their reporting themselves and requesting its continuance, once in six months. The friends of the Review are invited to earnest and unceasing efforts to extend its circulation.

The Youth's Instructor

Is a monthly sheet, published as above, and designed to be to the youth and children what the Review and Herald is to those of riper years. You who wish to see your children instructed in the great truths which so interest you, will here find a sheet in which these things are set forth in a plain and interesting manner, free from the popular fables and errors of the age. It should not only visit regularly every youth and child who professes to be a follower of Jesus, but should be taken and read in every Sabbath-keeping family. Don't forget the children. See that they have the Instructor. Terms, 25 cts. per year in advance.

The Health Reformer.

This is the title of a monthly health journal, “devoted to an exposition of the laws of our being, and the application of those laws in the preservation of health and the treatment of disease.” It is an earnest advocate of the true philosophy of life, the only rational method of treating disease, and the best means of preserving health. Practical instructions will be given from month to month relative to water, air, light, food, sleep, rest, recreation, &c. Health, its recovery and preservation, is a subject of world-wide interest, whatever may be a person's tenets in other respects; and to this the Reformer will be exclusively devoted. Edited by H. S. Lay, M. D., Managing Physician of the Health Reform Institute. Terms $1.00 in advance for a volume of twelve numbers. Address Dr. H. S. Lay, Battle Creek, Mich.

The Sabbath Question

Is becoming a theme of wide-spread and absorbing interest. To those who wish to give the subject a thorough investigation, we recommend the History of the Sabbath. As a work setting forth a connected Bible view of the Sabbath question, its history since the Christian era, and the different steps by which the human institution of the first day of the week has usurped the place of the Bible institution of the seventh day, it is unsurpassed by any publication extant. Between two and three hundred quotations from history are given, to each of which is appended a full reference to the authority from which it is taken. It is replete with facts and arguments which challenge denial or refutation. Other works on this subject, from the penny tract to the largest size pamphlet, will be found noticed in our book list. There is no other Bible subject upon which a more extensive misunderstanding exists, than upon the Sabbath question. Circulate the books, and spread abroad the light on this subject.

Obituary Notices.

By Wm. C. Gage; Fredrick Wheeler; A. M. Eaton; J. Wakeling

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, in Benton, Eaton Co., Mich., Nov. 15, 1867, of hemorrhage of the stomach and dropsy, Bro. Calvin G. Hayes, aged 57 years, 10 months, 13 days. Bro. H. had a living experience in all three of the messages, and was highly esteemed as an honorable, upright citizen and neighbor. A cloud of darkness had rested upon his mind a short time before his death, but through the mercy of God the power of Satan was broken, and he fell asleep in full hope of a resurrection to immortal life. Funeral discourse to a large and attentive congregation of sympathizing friends and neighbors, on Sabbath, Nov. 16.
Wm. C. Gage.
DIED in Roosevelt, N. Y. Sept. 22, of typhoid fever, Bro. Lyman Drake, in the 50th year of his age. Bro. Drake was converted under the preaching of the third angel’s message, and was ever ready to move forward in the increasing light of present truth. He united with the S. D. Adventist church in Roosevelt at the time of its organization and continued an exemplary and faithful member of the same until his death. In his death sister Drake has lost an affectionate husband, and the church an exemplary, faithful member; but they sorrow not as those who have no hope. His funeral was attended at the S. D. A. meeting-house, where a discourse was given by the writer to a large number of sympathizing friends, from Rev. xiv, 13.
Fredrick Wheeler.
DIED, in Medford, Mass., Oct. 14, 1867, of consumption, after an illness of two years and nine months, Charles W. Eaton. Bro. Eaton made a profession of religion over two years ago and joined the Episcopal church, and thought to go through to the kingdom on first-day views; but God showed him the truth on the Sabbath, and a few months ago our dear Bro. Howard buried him with Christ in baptism. He died trusting in Jesus, and testified that Jesus was precious until the last. We trust he will come up in the morning of the resurrection, all glorious. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn for him.
Pray for us, that God may sanctify this affliction to our good.
A. M. Eaton.
FELL asleep in Jesus, Aug. 16, 1867, Bro. Franklin E. Gilbert in the 61st year of his age. Brother Gilbert embraced the truth under the labors of Bro. Cornell, Lawrence and Van Horn in the tent, and afterward united with the church in this place and shared with them the trials and triumphs of the cause.
He died after a severe and protracted illness during which he was a great sufferer, but bore all with patience. His mind was clear to the last moment. Just before he died he requested prayer that he might have strength to endure the trial, and that this dispensation might be blessed to the good of the living members of his family, and they be prepared to meet him in the earth made new; and taking an affectionate leave of each, he fell asleep.
Funeral discourse by Elder Russell in the Congregational house of worship.
J. Wakeling.
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