Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? What then are the fruits which we daily bring forth? What is the general tenor of our thoughts? If sinful thoughts arise, do we cherish them? Are we fond of retaining them? or have we obtained the mastery over our imaginations so as to be able almost instantly to suppress them, when contrary to purity and holiness?
Do we find delight in secret retirement, meditation, reading the Scriptures, and prayer? Are we careful of our words? Are they not light and trifling? Do we love to discourse about God and the second appearing of our Lord and Saviour? Is Jesus, that endearing name, often upon our tongue, not from mere profession or religious parade, but from a heart-felt love to him? What is the nature of our actions? Do they spring from a lively faith, that by them our faith may be known, as a tree is known by its fruits? Are we careful to maintain good works, knowing that if a child of God, we are created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them?
By some persons this train of self-examination may be termed legal; but where these evidences of grace in the soul are wanting, all pretension to gospel liberty is a delusion of Satan. M. Wood.
Boston, Mass.
Every Day Religion
By Spurgeon
We would not urge all of you to give yourselves up to mission work, but to serve God more and more in connection with your daily calling. I have heard that a woman who has a mission makes a poor wife and a bad mother; this is very possible, and at the same time very lamentable; but the mission I would urge is not of this sort. Dirty rooms, slatternly gowns, and children with unwashed faces, are swift witnesses against the sincerity of those who keep other’s vineyards and neglect their own. I have no faith in that woman who talks of grace and glory abroad, and uses no soap and water at home. Let the buttons be on the shirts, let the children’s socks be mended, let the house be as neat as a new pin, and the home be happy as home can be. Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill these up with holy service.—Spurgeon.
The Manzanita Tree and Christian Vitality
There is a tree in California called the Manzanita, so full of life and vital force that it is constantly pressing off the bark from the wood as fast as it forms. Oh! for Manzanita Christians, that by the fullness of life within shall crowd off the bark and excrescences of worldliness that would otherwise gather about them.
Dependence on Others in Human Life
He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
A Work of Faith.
EDS. REVIEW:—I send you Dr. Cullis’ “Seventh annual Report of the Consumptives’ Home and other Institutions connected with a work of Faith.”
This institution was commenced in the city of Boston about eight years ago and removed to Grove Hall, Boston Highlands—two miles from our place of residence. It is open every day—Sundays excepted—for the inspection of visitors. This report exhibits a remarkable work of benevolence and faith in God. Many hundreds of poor consumptives, that have no home, nor friends to care for them, are freely received at the “Home,” and cared for by kind nurses, and made comfortable “without money and without price.” It is no marvel that God’s blessing has attended Dr. Cullis in such acts of righteousness and faith in his word.
Peter said, “Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons; but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.” Acts 10:34, 35. Jesus said, “Ye shall know them by their fruits. . . . Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.” Matt. 7:16–20.
The subjoined article concerning this institution we clip from a recent paper.
THE “CONSUMPTIVES’ HOME.”
To many of our readers, the “work of faith,” which has resulted in the origin and sustenance of a “Home” for poor consumptives, in Boston, Mass., is not fully known; and as we hope at other times to give sketches of the work carried on by its founder, Dr. Charles Cullis, we can at present do little more than acquaint our readers with the fact of its existence.
The “Consumptives’ Home” is an institution unlike any other in the country, supported entirely through the grace of our Lord, in answering the prayer of faith, and day by day supplying its various needs out of his own inexhaustible resources. The object of the institution is to care for the “poor, sick with consumption;” and any person coming under the above head, of whatever nation, creed, or color, having no home or friends to provide for them, are freely received in the name of the Lord.
There are at present forty patients provided for, with comfortable and cheerful rooms, godly nurses ministering to them, and Christian influences surrounding them. The salvation of the patients is of far greater importance than bodily comfort or restoration, and whilst in the latter respect every attention that can possibly be given by willing and loving hearts is with constant painstaking bestowed, yet the Lord’s servant, to whose stewardship is committed this vast work, prayerfully labors for the spiritual welfare of every individual patient. The results have indeed been cheering, as nearly all, if not all, of those who have fallen asleep, have fallen asleep in Jesus. It may stagger the faith of many professing Christians, and bring the skeptical smile upon the face of others, to hear that last years expenses amounted to $55,723 30. The whole sum expended since the beginning of the work, eight years ago, amounts to $142,028 75. All this sum has been received in direct answer to prayer. You marvel, and well you may, my reader, if you do not know the goodness, and greatness of Him who said, “Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father, in my name, I will do it.”
The fact is well known to those most intimately acquainted with the “Home,” that “there is no fund, endowment, or known pecuniary provision, whatever, existing for the support of the home; no human friend of it who has ever made any promises, express or implied, to preserve it, or relieve its necessities, and no person in any way connected with Dr. Cullis, who has the control of means sufficient to do more than render small contributions toward its maintenance.”
OTIS NICHOLS.
Dorchester, Mass., Oct., 1872.
One False Step Can Wreck All Prospects
BUT one false step, one wrong habit, one corrupt companion, one loose principle, may wreck all your prospects, and all the hopes of those who love, honor, and regard you.
Till He Come: Verses on Trial and Hope
Clouds and conflicts round us press;
Would we have one sorrow less?
All the sharpness of the cross,
All that tells the world is loss,
Death, and darkness, and the tomb,
Only whisper, “Till He come.”
Driving Boys from Home.
Mothers who are disturbed by the noise and untidiness of boys at home must be careful, lest by their reproaches they drive their children from home in search of pleasure elsewhere.
“There are those banisters all finger-marks again,” said Mrs. Cary, as she made haste with a soft linen cloth to polish down the shining oak again. “George,” she said, with a flushed face, as she gave the cloth a decided wrench out of the basin of suds, “if you go up those stairs again before bedtime you shall be punished.”
“I should like to know where I am to go,” said George, “I cannot stay in the kitchen, I am so in the way, and can’t go in the parlor for fear I’ll muss that up; and now you say I can’t go up to my own room. I know of a grand place where I can go,” he added to himself; “boys are never told they are in the way there, and we can have lots of fun. I’ll go down to Nile’s corner. I can smoke a cigar now as well as any boy, if it did make me awful sick the first time. They shall not laugh at me again about it.”
And so the careful housekeeper virtually drove her son from the door to hang about the steps and sit under the broad inviting portico of the village grog-shops.
The Baptism of Fire: Machinery Without Power
By Arthur
SUPPOSE we saw an army sitting down before a granite fort, and they told us they intended to batter it down, we might ask them, “How?” They point to a cannon-ball. Well, but there is no power in that; it is heavy, but not more than half a hundred or, perhaps, a hundred weight; if all the men in the army hurled it against the fort, they would make no impression. They say, “No, but look at the cannon.” Well, but there is no power in that; a child may ride upon it, a bird may perch in its mouth. It is a machine, and nothing more. “But look at the powder.” Well, there is no power in that; a child may spill it, a sparrow may pick it. Yet this powerless powder and powerless ball are put into the powerless cannon; one spark of fire enters it, and then, in the twinkling of an eye, that powder is a flash of lightning, and that cannon-ball is a thunder-bolt, which smites as if it had been sent from heaven. So it is with our Christian machinery of this day; we have all the instruments necessary for pulling down strongholds, and oh, for the baptism of fire!—Arthur.
Appointments and Quarterly Meeting Notices
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Potterville, Mich., Sabbath, Oct. 26. U. Smith.
While stopping at home in Iowa for a few weeks, I shall esteem it a privilege to have a general meeting of the friends of the cause in Osceola, Iowa, Nov. 9 and 10, meetings to commence with the Sabbath, and close Sunday night. I shall esteem it a great privilege to have a general attendance of my old friends from all that section of country. Geo. I. Butler.
Quarterly meeting of the Greenbush church at the Colony school-house in Duplain, Mich., Nov. 9 and 10. Preaching is expected. O. B. Sevy, Clerk.
Quarterly meeting of the Waukon and West Union churches, at West Union, Iowa, Nov. 16 and 17. Bro. H. Nicola is invited to attend; and if the time appointed does not suit his convenience, he is at liberty to change it. Nason Hoyt.
Quarterly meeting of the churches of Saginaw Co., at Jay, Mich., Sabbath and first-day Nov. 2 and 3. Sister churches are invited. There will also be a meeting of the T. and M. Society of District No. 10, and it is hoped that each church will be represented. Cannot Bro. Van Horn or Lane meet with us at these meetings? John McGregor.
Quarterly meeting for District No. 8, at Greenville, Mich., first Sabbath and first-day in November. J. Fargo, Director.
Quarterly meeting for Oakland, Little Prairie, and Johnstown, Wis., at Johnstown, Nov. 2 and 3. Bro. E. B. Lane and E. Brackett will be present. We would be glad to see a large attendance. E. F. Reynolds.
No providence preventing, I will meet with the following districts in New York, in quarterly meeting. Dist. No. 11, at Catlin, Chemung Co., N. Y., Oct. 26, 27, 1872. Dist. No. 10, Nov. 2, 3. Dist. No. 9, Nov. 9, 10. The place of meetings in Districts No. 10 and 9 will be given next week, also the time and place of quarterly meetings in the eastern and northern districts. P. Z. Kinne, {Pres. N. Y. and Pa. T. and M. Society.}
Quarterly meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist churches of Gratiot Co., Mich., at Alma, Nov. 2 and 3, 1872. G. W. States, Clerk.
Hastings, Oct. 26; quarterly meeting at Burlington, Nov. 2. John Byington.
Monthly meeting for Oakland, Little Prairie, Raymond, and Johnstown, will be held at Johnstown, Wis., Nov. 2 and 3, 1872. Can Bro. Sanborn or some other minister meet with us? D. B. Staples, Clerk.
A general meeting of the S. D. Adventists of Tuscola County, Mich., will be held at Vassar, beginning Friday evening, Nov. 8, 1872, and continuing over Sabbath and Sunday. On Sunday, the 10th, at 10:30 A. M., the dedication services of their new meeting-house will take place. Brethren and sisters from other places are cordially invited. I. D. Van Horn.
The P. O. address of Eld. A. S. Hutchins is Irasburg, Vt.
N. G. Saunders: The German Tract is out of print.
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Book Fund,—$10,000 Wanted.
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To the Churches and Scattered Friends in Indiana.
By Wm. Covert
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS: I wish to say a few things to you in behalf of the dear cause within our infant Conference. At our late camp-meeting, we separated from the Michigan Conference, and formed ourselves into the Indiana Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. I trust you all feel that new responsibilities are resting upon you. And now let us begin at once to discharge those duties. The S. B. treasurers will please report quarterly to our State Treasurer, Isaac Zirkle, Mechanicsburg, Henry County, Ind. Our Conference year commenced with September. The second report is due December 1.
There are quite a number of scattered ones who are not paying S. B. Such are requested to join in this good work. Send your tithe either to the nearest church treasurer or to the State treasurer.
Don’t begin to excuse yourselves because you have no preaching. We want to make this the means by which you may obtain help. We expect to send some preachers to good points, and those that take the most interest in the work are most likely to get up the best interest in their neighborhoods, and get preaching first.
Take hold of the Missionary and Tract Society work. We will have it in operation soon. You can have books and tracts at one-third retail rates. All can help in this branch of the work. The lonely ones have a better chance to do good in this part of the work than any others.
We would say to those who are taking our periodicals, see to it that your subscriptions are paid up. We shall have a list of the delinquents shortly, and shall have to learn the reasons of your indebtedness. Will you please to save us this unpleasant duty?
Friends, we want your co-operation in this great work. “Each should feel his brother’s sigh, and with him bear a part.” Mutual obligation is one thing that many never seem to think of; but probation has not yet closed, and all have a chance yet to repent of this sin.
Dear brethren, what shall be done for the cause in this State this year? This has been with me of late a subject of earnest thought. We are just starting here, but the message has a quarter of a century the start of us; and in order for us to overtake and keep pace with the progress of the cause, we have to use more energies than we have been wont to do.
And now, while our Conference is young and weak, let us put forth our best efforts to push the work forward. We have a goodly number of brethren in Indiana that have abundance of means to help the cause. God has given you this means and the light on the third angel’s message, and he now asks you to use them in warning fellow-mortals of the approaching doom of this present generation. Every consideration demands that we act now. If we are really living in the last generation of mankind, what is the use for brethren to hold from five to thirty thousand dollars, and go about the country telling their neighbors that this is the generation that shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven. But before Christ comes, the two-horned beast will enforce an edict that will keep commandment-keepers from all trade and traffic. They may feel the force of the argument; but the greater part will reject it unless they can see more consistency in works.
I propose that we run two tents in Indiana next summer. I am fully satisfied that it can and should be done. I believe we can get the ministerial help if we show ourselves to be in earnest. I propose to double my Systematic Benevolence for next year, and do a good share toward another tent to start the first of June, if we can get the help to man them. What say you? I can think of no other way to fill the numerous calls. We have a good field and plenty of means (except preaching help) in this State. Let us put these talents out to the “exchangers” while we can buy and sell, so that the message may be kept moving.
The question with some is, “Can we pay for two laborers?” But the question should be, Can we get four laborers to pay for? Perhaps we can. At any rate, we can try. But the money the brethren already have. Many of us are behind with the Lord several years, and must pay up; and we think this is a good opportunity. Shall we use it?
Wm. Covert, President of Ind. Conference.
Write it in Gold.
“The great comprehensive truths,” says President Quincy, “written in letters of living light on every page of our history are these: Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom none but virtue; virtue none but knowledge; and neither freedom nor virtue has any vigor or immortal hope, except in the principles of Christian faith, and in the sanctions of Christian religion.”
Tracts in Other Languages.
By James White
We have prepared two sixteen-page Tracts designed to be translated into the French, German, Danish, and other languages, entitled, first, The Millennium, and second, The Second Advent. We have ordered 15,000 copies of each in English.
We design to prepare a series of twelve Tracts for translation and print in other languages. We have been waiting two years for others to join us in this work, and can wait no longer. If God approves, and helps in this work, we hope to complete the twelve tracts at the rate of one each week. It is time that we had men in the great thoroughfares of the world's travel with the truth of God in the different languages to meet the wants of the people.
James White.
Note from Bro. Waggoner.
By J. H. Waggoner
THE weather continuing stormy, and the attendance small, I closed my meetings in Wellington. Though held under the most unfavorable circumstances I am thankful that they were not in vain. A few meetings held at Bro. Plum’s, (of the Troy church), were attended with a good interest. I am under promise to hold meetings at Troy as soon as the way opens. But having worked unusually hard during the past summer, I find it necessary to take a little rest during the present unfavorable weather, or else enter upon the winter’s labor in an exhausted condition.
Persons writing to me will please direct to Battle Creek, Mich., and letters will be forwarded from there, as I shall have no regular address for some time to come.
J. H. Waggoner.
P. S. There was a mistake made in publishing Bro. Butler’s report of the meeting in Ohio. It said, “two were baptized.” It should have read ten.
J. H. W.
500 Subscribers Wanted.
By Editor
There are still on hand at this Office a large number of the October Reformer. We can supply 500 more “Trial Trip” subscribers. Let the names come in immediately.
As the September number is out of print, we propose to commence with the October number, and give the January, 1873, number in place of September number.
Friends, do not leave these October numbers in the Office. Let them be doing good to your friends.
PUBLISHERS HEALTH REFORMER.
To the Churches in the Wisconsin Conference.
By E. R. Gillett
BRETHREN: By the Constitution of the Wisconsin Conference, it becomes the duty of the church clerk to “make a report to the Secretary at the end of each quarter, of the amount they have sent to the Treasurer, or paid to preachers during such quarter.” The Conference year begins July 1. Reports are due Oct. 1 and Jan. 1. Reports are also to be made yearly to the Conference of their standing, their losses and additions, also the amount of S. B. pledge.
Some of the churches have complied with the above requirements, while quite a number have not. I write, brethren, to urge you to greater promptness. Let us not be slothful in business. If any have not blanks, send to me, and get what you want.
I would say, brethren, if you write on business that requires an answer, be careful to give your name and P. O. address in full. I have quite a number of letters now asking for blanks and information, without giving P. O., or even the County. Some (nearly all) write the name of the church only—this may be the name of your office, and it may not. We want the name of the post-office.
E. R. GILLETT, Conf. Sec.
Albany, Green Co., Wis.
Fruit in Michigan.
One well posted in the Western fruit business states as the result of an inspection tour through what is called the fruit growing region of Western Michigan, that the number of fruit trees and grape-vines now growing is as follows: Peach trees, 900,000; pear trees, 140,000; plum trees, 30,000; cherry trees, 25,000; apple trees, 170,000; quince trees, 10,000; grapevines, 180,000. There are also a great many acres devoted to the culture of different kinds of berries. At the present time it is estimated that there are 630 acres of strawberries, 600 acres of blackberries and 900 acres of raspberries under cultivation. Land in the fruit district is worth to the farmers from $250 to $900 per acre. This season the peach crop was smaller than usual in some sections.
The amount of fruit raised in Muskegon County will be much larger this year than at any previous season. Over 1,200 bushels of peaches alone have been raised by Mrs. Fowler at Black Lake. It is safe to put the peach crop of this county for 1872 at about 18,000 bushels.
Mr. B. Moulton will pick and sell at the least 30 tons of grapes from his vineyard, on the north side of Muskegon Lake, this year. The quantity of grapes raised in this county this season is estimated at 160 tons. Other fruits have turned out as well, and the prospect is of a constantly increasing crop every season.—Muskegon News.
The Constitutional Amendment and Sabbath-Keeping
By Editor
We are happy to commence this week a series of articles by Bro. W. H. Littlejohn on “The Constitutional Amendment,” as it relates to the practice of Sabbath-keeping. What lends additional interest to these articles, is the fact that they are written for, and are now being published in, The Christian Statesman, the organ of the Constitutional Amendment movement, issued in Philadelphia, Pa. We design to lay them before our readers as fast as they appear in that paper. The article we give in this number, appeared in the Statesman of Oct. 5, 1872.
Music at Seventh Street Methodist Church Dispute
THERE is trouble in the city of New York between the Seventh Street Methodist Church and the proprietor of a beer garden who fills the air with music during divine worship on Sunday. The hearing of the case was postponed until October 4, and both sides have engaged counsel. There is talk of offers to suspend the music in service hours on Sunday, but the church wants the music stopped altogether. At a meeting of the Methodist preachers it was resolved to sustain the Seventh Street Church in every way, and the Germans in the city are earnest in sustaining Falk.
A STRANGE rumor comes from across the Atlantic. It states that the Italian Government is going to give the Pantheon at Rome for a place of Protestant worship. This is the most ancient church in the Eternal City. The pavement is said to rest on 200 wagon loads of martyrs’ bones, put there by order of Pope Boniface IV.
STAMPS are no longer required on business papers, other than the tax of two cents on bank checks, drafts, or orders. The repealing section of the law reads as follows:
“On and after the first day of October, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, all the taxes imposed by the stamps, under and by virtue of Schedule B of section one hundred and seventy of the act approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and the several acts amendatory thereof, be, and the same are hereby repealed, excepting only the tax of two cents on bank checks, drafts, or orders.”
A SUBSCRIBER renewing his subscription to the Religious Telescope casually remarks: “The tobacco crop is large in our region. As soon as it is out of the way, so that the people can attend meetings, we expect to give our time to the Lord.” This good Christian and his neighbors, who believe in seeking first the tobacco crop and its profits, and after that the kingdom of God, differ from a good many others only in the frank confession of their faith.
THE Philadelphia Ledger calls attention to the remarkable meteorological phenomena of the past winter and present summer. The heavy snows and rains; the intense and long-continued heated terms; frequency and severity of storms, extraordinary and destructive floods, and rains where they never were known before on the great Western Plains. Accompanying those violent phenomena there have been volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tornadoes in unusual numbers in various portions of the world, within the reach of the press and telegraph. The greatest scoffer must admit this much: that a better world than this is both conceivable and desirable.
A PAPAL CONUNDRUM.—A placard bearing the following amusing dialogue was recently found pasted on a statue of the Pope: “Query. What ails the Pope? Answer. Tumore (tumor). Q. What’s the cause of it? A. Strike out the initial T—Umore (moisture). Q. What will be the consequence of it? A. Strike out the initial U—More (he dies). Q. When is it going to happen? A. Strike out the initial M—Ore (within a few hours). Q. And who’ll take his place? A. Strike out the initial O—Re (the king). Q. Which king? A. Strike out the initial R—E (Emmanuele).”
A STRANGE and terrible disease is raging among the horses in Canada. A dispatch from Toronto, Oct. 8, says:—
The disease among horses here continues, and there is scarcely a horse fit for work. The interruption to business is becoming very serious. Merchants are unable to ship or get goods from the depot, and there are no hacks on the streets.
ARMS FOR PRUSSIA.—A firm in Birmingham has made a contract with the Prussian government to furnish 150,000 rifles of an improved pattern.
THROWING STONES AT ROYALTY.—PARIS, Oct. 8.—A special from Madrid says: “Last evening, while King Amadeus was walking in the Plaza del Oriente, two men, who were concealed behind statues, threw several large stones at him, crying at the same time, ‘Viva la Republique.’ The desperadoes took flight immediately, and were pursued by a number of policemen, but escaped. The King was unhurt. The occurrence causes great excitement in Madrid.”
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