Earlier text: A FALSE CHARGE EXPOSED“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth.” Rev. 14:13. OLSEN.—Died of tumor in the stomach, in Oakland, Jefferson Co., Wis., March 26, 1879, our dear mother, Bertha Olsen, aged 55 years, 4 months, and 3 days. Mother was born in Norway, and with our father came to this country in 1850. They first connected themselves with the Methodist church, but in 1857 they embraced the Sabbath, and shortly after received the light of the third angel's message. They were the first among the Scandinavian people to embrace present truth. During the many years mother was connected with the church, her life was marked with true devotion, and an unselfish interest for her family and the cause of truth. She had twelve children, and the nine now living are all trying to follow her example, and are members of the church. Three of her sons are now engaged in the work of the ministry, and a fourth contemplates soon entering it. Through her sickness not a cloud disturbed her peace of mind. She felt that her work was finished, and said she had nothing to say to her children only, “Be faithful.” She was very desirous that they should all be present at her funeral, but did not wish them called from their places of duty till the time of her death. By the providence of God, this wish was granted, and they were all present. After following her remains to their last resting-place, the family united in prayer in their father's house, and soon after separated, probably never to all meet again this side of eternity. May God grant that we may all meet then. Words fail to express our loss, but the blessed hope cheers and sustains in our great bereavement. We would ask the prayers of God's people, especially for our father, that he may be sustained and cheered during his declining years by the blessing of God. O. A. OLSEN. PARKER.—Died of lung fever at Pittwood, Ill., April 6, 1879, Walter Ray, infant son of John and Sena L. Parker, aged seven months and twenty days. Words of comfort from Jer. 31:15–17. R. F. ANDREWS. BELLOWS.—Died in Eaton, Eaton Co., Mich., March 25, 1879, Sister Mary A. Bellows, aged 23 years. She leaves evidence of a hope of everlasting life. Her mother, three brothers, and many friends and neighbors, mourn her loss. Discourse by the writer to a large congregation, in the United Brethren meeting-house, from Luke 8:52. J. B. FRISBIE. HUNTLEY.—Bro. E. S. Huntley, for many years a resident of Battle Creek, Mich., died at DeWitt, Ill., Feb. 4, 1879, after a short illness. He was a member of the Battle Creek church of S. D. Adventists at the time of his death. R. C. SIMMONS.—Died of diphtheria, March 11, 1879, Georgie O., little son of A. and M. E. Simmons, aged 3 years, 1 month, and 27 days. LIZZIE L. RHODES. PIXLEY.—Our dear mother, Mrs. A. G. Pixley, died on the 16th of March, at Amboy, Ill., of acute pneumonia. Her death was sudden, but she died trusting in our Lord Jesus. She loved the Review next to the Bible. She will receive her reward. H. W. PIXLEY. WHEELOCK.—Died at Delhi Center, Mich., March 21, 1879, Willie, infant son of Dr. J. S. and Z. R. Wheelock, aged 5 months and 9 days. Funeral services at the Presbyterian church. Discourse by Eld. Bryant (pastor) from Matt. 18:10.
“Three little treasures we mourn departed
From our fond hold,
Leaving us desolate, stricken-hearted,
With griefs untold.
We cannot fathom the why nor wherefore
Of joys or woes,
But the dear Lord does ever right, and therefore
My Jesus knows.”
M. D. A. EASTERLING.—Died in New London, Ind., March 20, 1879, Sister Emma Easterling, aged 19 years. Sister Easterling embraced the truth about eight years ago under the labors of Eld. E. B. Lane. She leaves a husband, a brother, an uncle and aunt who have been a father and mother to her from childhood, and many other friends, to mourn their loss. The funeral was held in the Friends' church, as her husband belonged to that denomination. Words of comfort were spoken by Eld. Wm. Covert and the writer and some of the Friends. We trust she sleeps in Jesus. J. M. Rees. MILLER.—Died in California, Mich., March 9, Leo Ray, also the 11th, Leon Jay, infant children of H. W. and Sabina R. Miller. The funeral services of both were held March 12, and were attended by a large circle of sympathizing friends and neighbors. Sermon by Eld. Preston. H. W. MILLER. PHINNEY.—Fell asleep March 31, 1879, in Woodland, Barry Co., Mich., our baby, Claudia Lee, aged 9 months and 26 days. Words of consolation by Eld. Roberts, M. E. minister, from 2 Sam. 12:23. THEO. W. AND P. F. PHINNEY. —An insect is at work destroying the orange groves of Louisiana. —The pope has declined to accept Archbishop Purcell’s resignation. —12,000 looms at Blackburn, England, have stopped, and 5,000 weavers are idle. —There is a good understanding between the Vatican and the German empire. —Vast beds of superior magnetic iron ore have been discovered in Lehigh county, Pa. —A colossal bronze statue of Livingstone, 8 feet 6 inches high, has lately been unveiled in Glasgow. —A fire in Miragoane, Hayti, April 4, rendered 5,000 or 6,000 persons homeless. The loss is about $1,000,000. —During 1878, 471 persons were saved from wrecks or from vessels in distress by the lifeboats on the coast of Great Britain. —Queen Victoria, who is traveling on the continent, has received an autograph letter from the pope, welcoming her to Italy. —The famine in Upper Egypt, which was caused by overtaxation, has ceased, but has left disastrous consequences. 10,000 persons died by starvation alone. —The Senate has passed a bill for the construction of a refrigerating vessel, to be used for the disinfection of ships and cargoes coming from yellow-fever ports. —Hon. Andrew D. White, President of Cornell University, has been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate as Minister to Germany, to succeed the late Bayard Taylor. —A Jewish ex-rabbi, near Berlin, has celebrated his iron wedding on the seventieth anniversary of his marriage. He is in his 93d year, and 69 of his 145 descendants attended the festival. —During a heavy thunder storm at three o’clock on the morning of March 24, the Roman Catholic Convent in Cairo, Ill., was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. No one was injured. —The Tremont House at Claremont, N. H., was totally destroyed by fire on the 20th of March, and five persons were burned to death. There were forty persons in the house at the time, some of whom were injured in jumping from the windows of the burning building. —A contractor of Marseilles has just obtained a concession for the extraction of chlorate of potash from the Dead Sea. The process of producing it will, besides, furnish other valuable chemical substances, such as the bromide and iodide of potassium. —General Garibaldi has gone to Rome. It is said his visit has no political significance, but that the veteran general has probably gone there to die. Sick, and worn out with his journey, he was borne to the house of his son on a mattress, followed by a multitude of silent but admiring friends. —The Chinese are about to build large cotton and woolen factories, the former at Shanghai, and the latter at Tientsin, where sheep are numerous, and their fleeces can be had for the gathering. The Herald says these factories “will hurt America more than our 15-man travesty of legislation could hurt China.” —An English writer, reviewing the facts of the war in South Africa, concludes that if the money which has already been spent in conquering the Zulus had been applied to their improvement, it would have civilized tens of thousands of them, and made them a source of wealth to the colonies and to England also. —The greatest consternation has been caused in the town of Reading, Mass., by the discovery that Nathan P. Pratt, treasurer of a savings bank in that town, is a defaulter to the amount of $90,000, and that while enjoying the fullest confidence of the community he has for years been engaged in a systematic robbery of the bank. —France is experimenting with an electric automatic flood-warner, which is designed to reproduce from a higher point to a lower one a river’s variations in level. It is so constructed that when the rise of water forebodes danger, bells are rung in the houses, thus warning the inhabitants and giving them time to escape. —A missionary, after thirty years of service in India in building school-houses, largely with his own hands, complains that on returning to America he finds churches in large cities which cost $200,000 and $500,000, and a secretary of his own Foreign Board receiving a salary of $5,000 a year, when, he says, the oldest mission in India “is really dying out for lack of men and means.” —We have the strange news from India that Colonel Olcott, who went with others from this city last December to further relations between the Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj, has been offered by wealthy natives in Bombay a tabernacle in which he might conduct a revival of Buddhism. If this offer is accepted, it will be a sad sight—an American citizen preaching heathenism in one of the great cities of India! —At the beginning of this century the Jews in Jerusalem did not exceed 300, but in the past ten years, owing to the removal of restrictions, the influx has been great. Nearly all the old houses, as they became vacant, have been bought by them, and a great many new ones have been built in all parts of the town. Schools, hospitals, and religious associations have been started, and the population has increased to over 13,000. —Bishop Pennick, who is doing brave pioneer work in the Protestant Episcopal mission on the West Coast of Africa, does not express a high opinion of the usual style of intelligence sent home from heathen missions. He thinks that what is given to the public is too decidedly rose-colored and is selected with a view of keeping up the spirits of contributors. Perhaps his judgment is too sweeping, but he certainly sets an example of candor in describing his own mission, as, for example: “I have found that much which appears pious is simply cant, a mere language learned in the mission schools, without any character to back it up. There is a pitiable want of sincerity long after there is an astonishing pretense of piety.” While speaking thus bluntly, the bishop works like a hero. Soliloquy.—Our quarterly meeting was held according to appointment. It was a cold, disagreeable time, yet all the brethren and sisters were present except those living at a distance. We were sorry they did not think to report by letter. The church record gave a very brief account of the organization of a church over two years ago, and not the mark of a pen had been made since that time. And as the legality of that organization was thus lost, a resolution to disband was carried. The church was then re-organized, adopting the following covenant: “We, the undersigned, do hereby associate ourselves together as a church, taking the name of Seventh-day Adventists, and covenanting to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. And we also promise that we will not use tobacco any more in any form, nor opium in any of its forms; and that we will abstain from the use of all kinds of intoxicating liquors, because we believe them to be defiling to Christians. And we further promise that we will let our light shine according to the Scriptures, and thus help spread the third angel’s message throughout the world; that we will not speak evil of our brethren or sisters, nor of our neighbors; and that we will, by our presence and labors, do all we can to sustain and keep up our Sabbath-school and Bible-class, and our prayer and social meetings.”
Nineteen have signed this covenant, and others say they will soon. All the neighbors seem pleased with it. An elder and deacon were ordained. The Spirit of the Lord was present all through the day. In the evening after the Sabbath, the house was crowded with attentive hearers, who listened to a discourse from Mal. 3:7–11, showing that the professed people of God had gone away from his ordinances of the Sabbath, of tithing, of baptism, and of feet-washing; and that now, in obedience to the invitation in the text, they are returning to these ordinances. We then celebrated the ordinances of the Lord’s house. It was a triumphant meeting. The strong prejudice that I found against the truth when I came here is fast passing away. We have entirely broken down the spirit of combative contention about the truth, and have exhorted the people to be kind and to respect the feelings of all, and this course is having a most excellent effect on the public mind. I have not had one word of controversy with any person since I have been in the State, though I have preached and talked to a great many people. Prejudice, in all who hear, melts away. On first-day morning we had an excellent business meeting. After reading the reports of the missionary work, the importance of raising a fund to obtain tracts for me to use in my labors, was considered, and $25.50 was pledged and a considerable of it paid, the rest to be paid at the next quarterly meeting. I then circulated the tithing pledge, and I think all but one signed it, and I believe she will yet do so. Several who are not yet members signed this pledge. The Sabbath-school and Bible-class are prospering. Such a spirit of earnestness characterized all the meetings as can only be developed by the power of the Spirit of God through obedience to the third angel’s message. The brethren and sisters are all much encouraged to be more faithful to the Lord, and I never was of better courage in my life than at present. May the Lord help us all to be humble and prayerful. THE evangelical Protestants of France continue to express in the strongest terms their belief that the French people are riper for the reception of Protestantism than they have been at any time since the earliest period of the Reformation. Since the victory at Versailles over Conservatism, the French peasant puts on more independence. He pays less heed to the warnings of the priests, and welcomes the Protestant colporteur and missionary. The Evangeliste, the organ of the French Wesleyans, says: “Could the flag of evangelical Protestantism be unfurled wherever the spirits of men are set loose from Rome, not knowing whither to betake themselves, large crowds would be seen running to it.” Appeals are made to the various French Protestant societies to organize a comprehensive plan of action.” —Harper's Weekly. Sunny Side and Elk Point.— The meeting at Sunny Side, March 31, was a good one. On Sabbath twenty came forward for prayer, a good portion of whom were starting for the first time, and all expressed their determination to serve the Lord. Five were taken into the church, two by letter, two by vote, and one by baptism. A load were over from Lincoln, where Bro. Olsen has been holding meetings, and were greatly encouraged and strengthened. The members of this church have done well financially, considering their circumstances, having raised $38.00 on the tent, and pledged $22.00 on the Danish mission. Two joined the tract society. The Sabbath-school interest is also good. The meeting at Elk Point, April 7, was also good. One was baptized and united with the church, and one joined the tract society. The tract-society meeting was especially interesting. In the morning it was very rainy, and it looked for a while as though our meeting was to be a failure; but the friends were persevering, and we enjoyed the blessing of God in a good degree. A small sum was raised on the tent. As there was no suitable place for baptism within reach, the pastor of the Baptist church kindly offered us the use of their house and baptistery, which we gladly accepted, and the occasion was a solemn and interesting one. Sutton, etc.—There are ten Sabbath-keeping families here. Some of them meet in the S. D. A. meeting-house just over the Canada line, in East Richford, Vt. Sabbath, Feb. 1, for certain reasons, I met with them there. The Lord blessed. Two Canadians made a start in the service of God. In a business meeting held this side of the line, it was decided that the s. b. raised by friends living in this Province should hereafter be used in the Province, under the management and advice of the General Conference, the Executive Committee of the Vermont Conference assenting. Four persons paid $33 on s. b. for the year 1878,—about one-half of what was pledged. It is hoped that all will adopt the plan of s. b. There are fifteen Sabbath-keeping families in Stukely and three adjacent townships. The present winter has been so severe that meetings have been interrupted; yet my meeting in South Stukely was well attended. The Lord met with us by his Spirit. On Sunday we organized a tract society for the counties of Shefford and Brome. We also organized a Sabbath-school, and arranged s. b. for the present year. Obtained twelve subscribers for our periodicals. The times are very hard for the poor laboring classes. Many are glad if they can get boarded for their work. By accepting provisions and other articles in several instances in payment of s. b. pledges, about two-thirds of the pledge for the year 1878 has been paid. Twelve families are keeping the Sabbath in the vicinity of Barford. They have a prosperous Sabbath-school. Nearly all the s. b. for the past year is paid. We completed the organization of the tract society of the Province of Quebec, Sabbath-school officers were elected, and s. b. was pledged for the present year. They pay for seven copies of the monthly Instructor and for ten of the weekly, besides taking some other papers. To the joy of God's people, two promising youths have decided to obey the truth. I held three Sabbath meetings with that church, and visited from house to house; also held an interesting meeting near Bro. Hool's in Compton. March 1 and 2, I held meetings in Westbury, and then visited scattered friends of the cause in Eaton. 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“And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Matt. 10:7. OHIO STATE QUARTERLY MEETING.
The Lord willing, this important meeting will be held at Clyde, May 2–6. All who design to labor publicly in any manner in the State this summer are requested to be there. All who wish labor in their towns should be there, as all the laborers will be assigned their fields at this meeting. We wish as large an attendance of all the lay brethren and sisters as can be had. Provision will be made for all who come. None should calculate to leave till Tuesday. We expect a careful report from every district in the T. and M. work. VERMONT STATE T. AND M. QUARTERLY MEETING.
This meeting will be held at Jericho, May 10, 11. P. O. West Bolton. We hope to meet the secretary and directors, and to have a general turnout of brethren and sisters on this occasion. With the great depth of snow now in the State, I dare not appoint earlier. Michigan State T. and M. quarterly meeting at Battle Creek, April 20, 1879. There are several reasons why all the T. and M. directors, and as many of our leading brethren as possibly can, should attend this meeting. It will be held in connection with the session of the General Conference and the dedication of the Tabernacle. Eld. Haskell will be present; and important matters pertaining to the missionary work will be considered, and plans will be laid for the summer labor in Michigan. Therefore we earnestly desire your presence and counsel. The house of worship at Birmingham, Mich., is nearly finished, and will be ready to dedicate on Sunday, April 27. At this time we expect to see many friends from surrounding churches, and respectfully request the Conference Committee to send us a minister for the occasion; one who can remain two or three weeks and follow up the interest which now seems to exist in this place. Eld. E. R. Jones will meet with the church at Birmingham on this occasion. The quarterly meeting of the New England T. and M. Society will be held April 26, 27, at Amherst, N. H. Hope to see a good representation of our brethren and sisters at this meeting. D. A. Robinson, Vice-president. The annual meeting of the Kansas Sabbath-school Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held near Emporia, Lyon Co., Kansas, in connection with the camp-meeting. The time of this meeting will be hereafter announced. “Each Sabbath-school of fifteen members is entitled to one delegate, and one additional delegate for each additional fifteen members.” Will each superintendent please see that his school is represented by properly appointed delegates? This is important. W. E. Dawson, President Kansas S. S. A. Green Ridge, Pettis Co., Mo.,—April 19 and 20. Union Point, St. Clair Co., “ “ 26 “ 27. Let all who can, come from other churches. Meetings to commence with the Sabbath. Will Bro. Holland, or some one else, meet me at Shell City the 25th, on the arrival of the train about 10 A. M.? As Bro. Haskell recommends the T. and M. Societies to meet on April 26, 27, and as our brethren are so scattered as to require but one meeting, we will hold our quarterly meeting the 26th and 27th, at Bro. J. B. Forrest’s, in Metcalfe county. A S. S. Convention will be held in connection with our State quarterly meeting. The lessons for adults will be Nos. 19, 20, Supplement to Youth’s Instructor for April, their synopses, and for the children, Lesson 14, for the first week in April. We hope there will be a general attendance of S. S. children. The Christian Woman (in the number dated April, 1879) says:— “The desecration of the Sabbath day [Sunday] is the dead line of this nation, and the sooner we secure the proper observance of this day the better.”