We have enjoyed another interesting monthly meeting at Cottage, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. There was more interest manifest from without than we expected. The evening after the Sabbath, I spoke to the people in the Methodist house. And though the notice was short, a considerable congregation were present, and listened to the word with remarkable attention. The believers feel encouraged, and the spirit of labor is manifest. Tracts are being sent into new fields to open the way for the preached word. May the Lord open the way, and guide in all the labor. And may a great work be done in this region, and an abundant harvest of souls be gathered.
R. F. COTTRELL.
A Thank-Offering.
The following communication presents an example worthy of imitation. Bro. R. C. Hight, of Maine, sending $5 to be used in the advancement of the cause of truth, as a thank-offering, says:—
Bro. Smith: Here is a thank-offering to the Lord, for more than usual health the past fall. I feel truly thankful; and what shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits? We show our love by obedience, and I would not be found wanting in rendering offerings as well as tithes. I want to commence the year 1871, with renewed zeal and consecration to labor in the vineyard, knowing the night is far spent, the day is at hand.
The church in Cornville is being revived. A number of new converts have taken hold of the Sabbath, and we rejoice that the cause is not left to die out in Maine yet. Yea, we have faith that the work will move onward more than ever. Bless the Lord, O my soul! Such a meeting as we had last Sabbath, the last day of the year, we seldom enjoy. One old gentleman, nearly 70 years of age, confessed the truth of the Sabbath, and we rejoiced in the Lord for that. Strong young men and children also took hold of the work. We are greatly encouraged. Let us all come up to the help of the Lord, that the curse of Meroz be not ours.
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From a far-off land come words of good cheer for the REVIEW, which we take the liberty to lay before its friends. Nothing more encourages those who labor to make the paper what it is, and who are constantly studying to learn how they can make it better, than to know that their efforts are doing others good. A brother, writing from Healdsburg, Cal., to renew his subscription, says:—
I thank the Lord for the day that the REVIEW ever made its visits to my cottage. I love it, and cannot keep house without it. I must have it if I have to work for two bits per day in order to obtain it. My prayer is, that the Lord may abundantly bless it. I would rather read this good paper than to hear many dead, lifeless preachers. It talks of Jesus' soon coming, for which my soul longs.
Watching.
By A. J. Stover
We are watching with interest the fulfillment of prophecy, and the approaching end. Knowing that these things are so, we are too forgetful, too lukewarm, and not awake to our situation as we should be. God has been good to us. Although lonely, he has not forsaken us, but has bestowed his benefits upon us, and has showed us the true path. When we were wayward, he brought us up and set our feet upon the rock. Praise his name.
A. J. Stover.
La Bette Co., Kansas.
GEO. T. BUTLER
By George T. Butler
Iowa.
My last report closed Nov. 21, with the meeting at Sigourney. Since that time, I have been very busy, but have no items of interest to narrate. From Nov. 27, till Dec. 4, held meetings every day some sixteen miles south-east of Mt. Pleasant, in Bro. Stienbarger's vicinity. Preached in a schoolhouse. The attendance increased till the close; and there was a strong desire expressed that I should return when I could stay longer. I hope there may yet be a small church, at least, organized in that place at some future time.
Dec. 11, started on my northern trip through the State with a team. Dec. 17 and 18, was at Anamosa. There was quite a good attendance from Lisbon and Marion. I did what I could to instruct in the principles of godliness. Our meetings were solemn. I trust good will result. I passed through Monroe on my way north, and preached Tuesday evening. Dec. 24 and 25, met with the church at Laporte City. The weather was very cold, and several who intended to be present were not able to come. Yet quite a number were there from other places. I trust our meetings were profitable. Bro. Johnson was present from Butler County, and spoke to the people once. During the past season he has preached but little, comparatively; yet a few have commenced to keep the Sabbath. There are some interested in the truth at Laporte City. One prominent member of the Baptist church has recently commenced to keep the Sabbath.
Monday, we had a business meeting, and among other things noticed the camp-meeting question. The church all desire to have a camp-meeting there, and are determined to do what they can on their part to make it a success, should it be thought best to have it there. Should there be two in the State, I judge it would be likely to accomplish as much good there as anywhere. I baptized one young man, who came down with Bro. Johnson, from Butler Co., who has recently commenced keeping the Sabbath.
Thursday evening, I spoke to a few in Bro. White's neighborhood. Bro. W. came from Northern New York several years ago, and has been keeping the Sabbath alone. I judge that lectures in this vicinity will do good.
Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, held meetings in West Union. There was a fair attendance from Waukon, and other places. Our meetings were quite encouraging.
I now commence lectures near Fayette, as the interest may demand.
GEO. T. BUTLER
*Fayette, Iowa, Jan. 2, 1871.
Fall of Babylon.
By Dudley Marvin Canright
DAILY the evidences increase that our position on this question is correct. The churches are going farther and farther from the Lord. True piety and the spirit of Christ, are becoming more and more scarce. Ministers are being carried away by the spirit of the times, and the love of gain. Rev. L. F. Van Cleve, in The Methodist, April 23, 1870, says: “Our fine churches multiply, wealth increases, and so does the scarcity of competent preachers. The presiding elder is called upon for a satisfactory man, but his assortment is so limited that the bishop must be applied to, and his brains put to the rack, and his authority to the test, to supply the pressing necessity. Just what is needed he cannot tell; but it is very certain that one of the old men won’t do.”
Metaphysicians are intolerable in the pulpit; and doctrinal preaching, such as thrilled and electrified the people some years ago, is too dry now. Practical preaching is too secular, too political, offensively personal, or abounds in impertinent reproofs. A young man, brilliant, poetic, scholarly, of high social position, must be had; one that can create a sensation, and keep the drowsy hearers awake, one that can fill the church with such as will keep its revenues in good condition, one that will be popular in first-class society. But the sensationalist is like the garment of the wealthy, soon old, and he too must give place. An evangelist is sent for to galvanize the congregation into spiritual life. But he draws very much like the latest opera, and about as long. What is to be done?
The Cincinnati Times, July 28, 1870, says: “A well-known clergyman here who comes under the head of Sensationalist, was asked by a friend the other day, why he so often violated good taste both in matter and manner when speaking in the pulpit.
“I will tell you, was the reply, I have no more liking for the kind of sermons I deliver than you have. They are meretricious in rhetoric, and unsound in sentiment; but they are popular; and I must furnish the sort of article my congregation is willing to pay for. You are aware that my predecessor was an able and scholarly man, and extremely conscientious withal; but he failed to fill the pews, and he was requested to resign. If I had obeyed my own inclination as to sermons, I should have shared his fate. I was anxious, however, to retain the position; for I have a large family, and it is my duty to support them. Do you blame me for discharging that duty?”
“Churches now are nothing more than theological theaters, and preachers the actors who are paid so much for performing cleverly and acceptably. When the priestly artists do not draw, their engagement is discontinued. We are forced to make our sermons attractive to those who come to hear them. In consulting our household expenses we must make a liberal surrender of our tastes and convictions. I receive $10,000 a year. If I preached simpler and better sermons, reflecting my real views, I could not get $3,000. So, you see, bread-earning outweighs both aspiration and inspiration.”
This case probably illustrates thousands of others who are in the same position, but are not honest enough to confess it.
D. M. CANRIGHT.
Peru, Dec. 28, 1870.
The European Outlook.
In that month of all the year that has been specially consecrated, by tradition and religious observance, to the birthday of the Prince of Peace, the world is this year compelled to look forth upon a prospect of war, unparalleled in magnitude and uncertain in its course and conclusion. The Franco-Prussian contest still rages, and not only engenders its own woes and crimes, but imbitters the new conflict now threatened in the Eastern countries of Europe. Should war actually break out between England and Russia, it would scarcely fail to become general throughout Europe, and, by so doing, materially to change its original shape and tendency. It would directly become involved with the war now raging in France; for, of necessity, England would then become the ally of France, as she was in the Crimean war; while Russia would ally herself with Germany. Nor could this struggle long continue without the result foreshadowed by Lord Clarendon in his secret dispatch to Sir Hamilton Seymour, in March, 1853. The English minister, then holding the same place and the same sentiments that Lord Granville now holds, said, that “no great question can be agitated in the East without becoming a source of discord in the West; and every great question in the West will assume a revolutionary character, and embrace a revision of the entire social system.” And we have the authority of no less a person than Count Bismarck that such revisions can only be accomplished by “blood and iron”—a remark which he has been illustrating, on a grand scale, since the first of August last.
It may be, however, that a general European war is not so imminent as many imagine. If the demands of Gortschakoff for a revision of the treaty of Paris are persisted in, and if diplomacy cannot settle the matter, war is certain to follow,—but it may not be for months yet. It is probable, however, that, if the Franco-Prussian war does not soon close, this fact alone will compel hostilities between England and Russia; for in no way, except by war, can England and Austria make sure of checking the progress of Russia in Turkey. As “England’s distress is Ireland’s opportunity,” so the humiliation of France is the opportunity of Russia. If the Czar really means to carry out the policy of his father Nicholas, and establish himself as the political head of the fifteen million Christians now under the Sultan’s government, he can do so now with very little opposition, if England does not threaten war. He will not need the active co-operation of his kinsman, the king of Prussia, nor will he fear the military force of Austria and Turkey. England alone has the power to thwart him, either by actual war, or by such a menace of it as will persuade him that diplomacy is his best resort. The maintenance of general peace in Europe depends, therefore, to-day upon the firmness of Russia in pushing forward, and the resolution with which England opposes.
The immediate cause of quarrel is what is known as “the neutralization of the Black Sea.” This phrase came into general use at the time of the treaty of Paris, in March and April, 1856; but the fact implied had existed by treaty ever since June, 1841. In that month a treaty was made between the five great powers of Europe—England, France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia—by which the Sultan was allowed to exclude from the entrance of the Black Sea all ships-of-war. He might invite them to enter; but he was at liberty to exclude them. During the Crimean war, Gortschakoff, now the Russian prime Minister, but then ambassador at Vienna, proposed, as one condition of peace, that the Czar and Sultan should both be allowed to maintain war vessels in the Euxine,—the number to be decided upon by the two powers between themselves,—while all other war vessels should be excluded. This, of course, was refused by the other powers, and the eleventh article of the Paris treaty, taken in connection with a special convention on the subject, fixed the number of war vessels of Russia and Turkey in the Black Sea at ten each, for coast service. All other vessels-of-war, of any nation, were to be excluded. It is this stipulation of 1856 that Russia now maintains the right to disregard. The answer made by Lord Granville is the obvious one,—that condition imposed by a Congress of powers cannot be set aside at the will of a single nation. It is our secession movement over again,—Russia claimed the right to secede from the Paris agreement, just as South Carolina seceded from the Federal Union. In itself, however, the Russian demand for a revision of the treaty is not an unfair one; and it re-opens the old question, whether the Western powers of Europe will maintain the Turks in possession of their decaying empire.
In his remarkable conference with Sir Hamilton Seymour in 1853, the Czar Nicholas asserted that it was not for the interest of Europe that the “Sick Man” of Turkey should continue there. “The Turkish Empire,” he said, “is to be tolerated,—not reconstructed if it falls in pieces.” England then thought otherwise; and so she does now. There is no point of her foreign policy so well established, none which she is so little likely to yield as this, and hence the danger of war now as in 1854. It might then have been averted but for the intrigues of Louis Napoleon, who wanted to strengthen his then recent usurpation by an alliance with England against Russia; it might now be averted but for the ruin which Louis Napoleon has finally brought upon France. If that great nation is allowed to remain under the chastisement of Prussia, war between England and Russia, to be followed by a general European war, seems inevitable. Of this, the English have gradually become aware, and the whole weight of that nation is now throwing itself, to some purpose, in favor of an armistice in France. And thus the Eastern menace of war may bring about peace in the West of Europe. This is the gleam of hope in the stormy sky of this sad December.
There is, however, a far better hope in the results of the conflict now raging. The basis of peace proposed by Bismarck—the cession of territory—can hardly be accepted by France. If forced upon her now, she will exact vengeance for it hereafter, when her turn comes. But the basis of peace suggested by Senator Sumner—the general disarmament of the European nations—is timely, practical, and of immense value to civilization. In the demonstration which Russia is now making, the shrewd ministers of the Czar have several objects in view; but one of them, no doubt, is such a general disarmament. And if a peace congress of the European powers should assemble to consider the propositions of Russia, we doubt not that one of them would look to the reduction of the standing armies. For such a result the way is now open. The French standing army is destroyed; that of Austria can with difficulty be supported from her bankrupt treasury; that of Prussia will no longer be needed, nor will the people tolerate the burden of it much longer. If Russia, then, comes forward, and offers to disband half a million of soldiers, a European peace may yet be possible on the condition of a universal disarmament. This is the most hopeful view that can be taken of the present European complication.
The dethroned emperor of France is cherishing the hope that he may be recalled to Paris when peace is declared, and be allowed to rebuild the throne of his son, if not his own. Probably there are many Germans and a few Frenchmen who believe such a restoration possible; but we think that they cherish a delusion. The republic may not endure; but it is not likely to be succeeded by a Bonaparte empire; so much seems to have been made sure by the events of the war. The virtual union of Germany under a single government is another of its good results. Indirectly, the deposition of the pope as temporal sovereign has been caused by the war, the good effects of which have, so far, greatly outweighed its evils. A war between England and Russia would probably drive the Turk out of Europe, and liberalize the whole political system of the Old World. The cause of the people in Europe is now in such a posture that it must advance by whatever takes place. It has had already some signal triumphs in the year 1870, and appears destined to other successes in 1871. But its hope now is in peace rather than in war, and the American people, as its most powerful representative, ought to offer their prayers and exert their influence for the restoration and continuance of peace.—Scribner’s Monthly, Jan., 1871.
The Waiting Church.
THE position of the Christian church since the departure of Christ from earth, like that of the Jewish church before his coming, has been one of waiting. Having finished his work here below, and opened a way of salvation, having become the one offering for sin, and having established a kingdom, a body, and made it ready for receiving as its soul the Holy Ghost, he, in accordance with the announcement made to his disciples, went away from them, ascended into Heaven, there to remain an intercessor at the right hand of the Father until his coming again to judge both the quick and the dead, and to receive his children unto himself.
For the first few centuries after his departure, and even down to the time of Constantine, his church was emphatically a waiting and a watching church. The thought of his return was the one hope that burned with increasing brightness in proportion as the darkness of persecution deepened. Watchmen stood upon the walls anxious above all things to detect signs of the promised morning, to discern the first herald of his glorious coming. The apostolic faith in Christ was among other things, a faith in him as about to return and gather his suffering followers into a kingdom blessed and illuminated by his divine, yet personal presence. He was regarded as an absent Lord, and therefore the nature of his presence on earth, in the sacraments, was not discussed. They regarded the whole existing economy, both civil and spiritual, as only temporary.
They accepted the parting benediction of their Master when he was lifted from among them out of sight, into Heaven, in its literal meaning; believed as they were told, that “the same Jesus” would come again in the very same manner in which they had seen him go, that is, visibly, personally, surrounded by clouds, not of mystery, but yet of glory. That promise was thenceforth the central hope of his orphaned church—the comfort and stay of the espoused bride. It breathed in every epistle, from the first; and the last prediction of the Apocalypse, “Behold I come quickly,” was only a continued echo of what had been constantly heard since the hour of the Lord’s ascension.
And the belief of Christians in that promise, was more than physical signs and wonders, the secret of their marvelous power of patience. This attitude of waiting for a Judge and Saviour, about to return; for a Christ, then localized as to his presence, only in Heaven, yet soon to become localized on earth, separated the early church, by lines which no one could mistake, from the careless, self-seeking, and scoffing world. If men then speculated too much upon prophecies relating to Christ’s second advent, they were thereby prevented from speculating upon other subjects which have since done so much towards making the unity of the church little more than a name.
But because the Christ of the apostles was a waiting Christ, and their church a waiting church, the faith was kept as delivered, and the kingdom remained unbroken all through that fearful night of persecution.
And it was not till the church ceased to watch and to wait for the Bridegroom’s return that it showed signs of unfaithfulness. But when it forgot its absent Lord, and looked no longer for his coming, heresies and corruption began to rend and stain its Heaven-wrought vesture.
This attitude of waiting in which Christ left the church, should, and must be preserved until the end. Every advent season through all the more than eighteen hundred that have come and gone, has brought nearer the consummation which seemed so near to those who first believed. Every moment of this waiting, every moment which lengthens the period of the Lord’s delayed coming, hastens the hour of his return.
Let us then trim anew the lights that have been growing dim, and gird up our loins, as those whose work it is to watch, lest coming suddenly he find us sleeping.
For while Christ waits, he pleads for the reconciliation of souls to God, through himself, by the Spirit, and for the building up of his saints unto such an image of his measure and stature as will make them meet for the promised inheritance.—The Churchman.
THE POWER OF MASONRY.
A few days ago, the newspapers published a citation issued by the Masonic Lodge of the Orient of Paris, against Rev. Bro. William, king of Prussia, as a traitor to Free Masonry. The king took no notice of this citation; so he was tried as contumacious, and condemned to excommunication. In connection with this, M. Victor Hugo’s newspaper, the Rappel, publishes the following: “Bro. William is now out of the pale of the law. All Free Masons are authorized to assault him and to inflict capital punishment.” It remains to be seen how the sentence will be carried out. A Free Mason, in whose presence a doubt was expressed as to the seriousness of such a condemnation, replied, “Do not laugh; the sentence of the Masonic tribunal is of such a dreadful nature that Bonaparte undertook the Italian war solely to retrieve himself from the excommunication pronounced against him by the lodges of Naples and Milan. Pianori and Orsini were Free Masons.”
He Who Spares Vice Wrongs Virtue
He who spares vice wrongs virtue.
Obituary Notices.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, at Mount Olivet, near Maspeth, L. I., on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 1870, Sarah E., only daughter of Charles M. and Anna M. Chamberlain, in the 4th year of her age. Our darling child sleeps in Jesus. CHAS. M. CHAMBERLAIN.
DIED, in Topsham, Maine, Dec. 2, 1870, of typhoid fever, Martha Evelyn, daughter of Eld. Abram, and Abbie H. Barnes, aged 13 years. J. B. GOODRICH.
DIED, in Alaiedon, Ingham Co., Mich., Dec. 28, 1870, Bro. Henry Barr, aged twenty-nine years. This brother came to his end through a sad accident. While endeavoring to load a saw-log upon his sleigh, with the help of a span of horses, the team gave back, after having drawn the log part way up the skids, thereby letting it roll back upon him, thus crushing him instantly. He leaves a family which, while suffering as the result of this terrible bereavement, enjoy the priceless consolation of believing that he sleeps in Jesus. Discourse by the writer. W. H. LITTLEJOHN.
DIED, in Windsor, Eaton Co., Mich., Dec. 10, 1870, Sr. Elizabeth Gilbert, aged 83 years. Sermon by Eld. Charlie of Potterville, from Rev. 14:13. W. H. LITTLEJOHN.
DIED, in Caledonia, Boon Co., Ill., Dec. 6, 1870, of inflammation of the brain, Mary Jane Wakefield, only daughter of Abner and Emily Wakefield, aged 7 years, 10 months, and 2 days. JOHN H. BENNETT.
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A C Hathaway 24c, B C Sherman 12c, E B Lane 87c, H E Bebee 35c, K Babcock $1.30, E Sanford 25c, V S Staley 1.17, S H Bonfoey 15c, J E Green 15c, M Wood 20c, J Young 1.00, O Foster 10c, L Pierce 40c, W H Littlejohn 68c, Fislie Wells 40c, Thos Stringer 50c, S Jameson 24c, J Green 12c, N Carryhoof 42c, Wm H Hawkins 2.00, J A Uitts 20c, L C Hudson 30c, Wm Boynton 75c, N Orcutt 25c, S P Stom 63c, M A Dayton 75c, M Doyle 35c, H M Zaner 2.00, S E Tyson 2.90, P H Cady 2.00, Isaac Sanborn 25c, A Johnson 1.78, J Valentine 1.00, S Forhan 18c, C E Moser 1.15, A N Craighead 20c, M E Crumb 10c, C G Gibbs 18c, N A Lord 50c, S W Pack 46c, M Stern 75c, J Buttolph 75c, N Foster 50c, S L Pierce 15c, M J Tanner 20c, Sarah Sanborn 40c, M F Clay 14c, T B McCord 15c, Mrs G C Dickinson 15c, M Cartwright 50c, Belle Currie 3.00, G L Perry 50c, S C Perry 50c, Mary E Goodwin 61c, Annie H Hale 1.90, Mrs H Barnes 28c, Jas Montgomery 50c, John G Stapp 50c, E W Lyman 17c, W D Moss 17c, J Weekly 17c, Wm Bitner 17c, A W Smith 1.00, P L Matteson 17c, S W Randall 3.00, L Pancoast 3.00, A W Gould 3.00, D Pettis 17c, Henry Gould 12c.
Books Sent by Express.
Geo I Butler, Postville, Iowa, $41.25.
Cash Received on Account.
R W Bullock $8.50, J Messersmith 1.60, R F Andrews 12.50, Amos Holt 10.00, I Sanborn 65c, T M Steward 10.00, John Matteson 1.00.
Michigan Camp-Meeting Fund.
Esther Doty $1.00, John Francisco 5.00, J F Carman 25.00, J H Murry 7.50, D W Bartholomew 10.00.
Book Fund.
A T Oxley $7.50, J F & M J Babler 3.00, C Tosh 1.00.
Library Fund of the S. D. A. P. Association.
H Brown $10.00, C E Green $10.00, H Green 10.00, A M Green 10.00, S W Walworth 10.00, I Green 10.00, Benj Hill 10.00, A L Burwell 10.00.
Michigan Conference Fund.
Church at Potterville $45.00, Gaines 20.00, Greenville 50.00, Bunker Hill 15.00.
General Conference Missionary Fund.
Harriet S Zoller 50c, Martin Kittle 2.10.
Donations to the Publishing Association.
S T Belden 5.00, R Newton 1.00.
Received on Shares in Publishing Association.
A T Oxley 10.00, Mary K Oxley 10.00.
A THANK-OFFERING.—A W Maynard $5.00.
Book Fund---$10,000 Wanted.
One Hundred Dollars Each.—Bro faithful, paid $81.50, James White, D R Palmer, Ira Abbey, H W Kellogg, P M Cross & wife.
Eighty Dollars Each.—I A Olmsted & wife.
Seventy-five Dollars Each.—Jacob Shively.
Sixty Dollars Each.—M & L J Gould.
Fifty Dollars Each.—N Orcutt, Friend B., N Grant, Eld Wm Cottrell, Friends from Cornish.
Forty Dollars Each.—Benj Armitage, Wm Sanborn.
Twenty-five Dollars Each.—A friend, A Rasmussen, E Lobdell, A friend, M E Goodwin, J Lamson, John Olive, A W Maynard, E P Kellogg, J Byington, A M Gould, J B & A G.
Fifteen Dollars Each.—H Rousseau, Mary E Mace, J W Lucas.
Ten Dollars Each.—W N Brown, A C Bourdeau, A O Burrill, J S Beecher, G Smith, H Beecher, R F Cottrell, W Boynton, C D yington, B R Austin, D Durgin, D Briggs, L Mann, S H Peck & wife, L Green, Wm Boynton, Betsey Landon, R F Andrews & wife, Etta Boynton, Abigail Rogers, John Saxby, J F Carman, Mrs S B Woodruff.
Five Dollars Each.—I G Royce, H Abbott, L Lock, T Brown, A friend, L Bolton, L Bean, F Lamondy, L M Ogden, A A Hoover, E M Crandall, S D Crandall, A M Potter, E Richmond, A Lake, S H Burlingham, T Alverson, C P Whitford, A friend, W T Carson, Mrs Daniels, Julia M Rhodes, J A Corliss, A friend, Thos Bickle, P C Rodman, D I Stevens, P Martin, R Niles, Z Brooks, E Geer, H Sawyer, J M Ferguson, A friend, A A Cross, H Page, C H Wolcott, P A Wolcott, James Styles, L E Milne, Josephine Baoa, S M Stockwell, A S Hutchins, M J Steward, J B Goodrich, S N Haskell, Mary Hale, Wm Dawson, Lillie Welch, P L Cross, R C Hight, S C Perry.
Western Camp-Meeting Fund.
Jacob Berry $5.00, J S Hart 5.00, R A Hart 5.00, J P Bray 1.00, M A Taylor 1.00, P C Rodman 1.00, C L Sweet 1.00, M C Tucker 1.00, A P Green 50c, J A Sullivan 1.00, A C Green 50c, R K Taft 50c, H B Tucker 25c, E Holly 50c, E Chase 25c, N Green 50c, L Taft 25c, J Prosper 50c, J Dorcas 2.00, L Mitchell 1.00, John Saxby 5.00, D M Stites 5.00, D B Stites 10c, M L Holly 50c, Addie Chamberlain 3.00, Matthew Hutchins 10.00, J F Ballenger 10.00, E W Ballenger 10.00, N F Ballenger 1.00, Ida W Ballenger 5.00, E S Ballenger 1.00, A F Ballenger 1.00, J Bowers 10.00, Elmer Hill 1.00, A B Pearsol 2.00, John McDaniels 5.00, Geo Stringer 5.00, R Stringer 2.00, U Crownhart 1.00, A Dalley 2.00, A Rasmussen 3.00, E Stone 1.00, F Squire 5.00, Jane Crownhart 1.00.
Annual Meetings—Special Notice!
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Annual Meetings—Special Notice!
GENERAL CONFERENCE.
Providence permitting, the ninth annual session of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Battle Creek, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1871, at 9 o’clock, A. M. All the different State Conferences will please immediately make arrangements to represent themselves by delegates. Let all the delegates come prepared to furnish to the General Conference full statistics of their respective Conferences, according to the blanks issued for that purpose. Scattered brethren everywhere have the privilege of presenting their requests to the Conference, either in person or by letter; and such requests will be acted on according to what may seem to be duty in the matter, or according to the ability of the Conference.
Let those who come be punctual at the commencement, and come prepared to remain to the close.
JAMES WHITE, Gen.
J. N. ANDREWS, Conf.
J. H. WAGGONER, Com.
THE S. D. A. PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION.
The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association will hold its eleventh annual session at Battle Creek, Mich., Wednesday, Feb. 8, 1871, at 9 o’clock A. M., to deliberate for the general interests of the Association, elect officers, and transact any other business that may come before the meeting.
JAMES WHITE,
G. H. BELL,
J. N. ANDREWS,
J. H. WAGGONER,
WM. C. GAGE,
A. P. VAN HORN,
A. M. DRISCOLL, Trustees.
THE HEALTH REFORM INSTITUTE.
The stockholders of the Health Reform Institute will hold their fifth annual meeting at Battle Creek, Mich., Thursday, Feb. 9, 1871, at 9 o’clock, A. M., for the election of officers, and for the transaction of any other business that may come before the meeting.
G. H. BELL,
B. SALISBURY,
M. J. CORNELL,
S. H. KING,
E. H. ROOT,
D. R. PALMER,
S. A. McPHERSON, Directors.
MICHIGAN STATE CONFERENCE.
The Michigan State Conference will hold its eleventh annual session at Battle Creek, Mich., Friday, Feb. 10, 1871, at 9 o’clock, A. M. Let all the churches make report; by delegate if possible, or by letter, if the delegates cannot be sent. Let ministers and delegates come prepared to make the various reports required by the Constitution, that the necessary business may be promptly done.
U. SMITH, Mich.
C. S. GLOVER, Conf.
L. P. BAILEY, Com.
The next monthly meeting of Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., is to be held in the school house near Bro. C. S. Crumb’s in East Otto, the first Sabbath and first-day in February. R. F. COTTRELL.
The next quarterly meeting for the churches and scattered brethren of Gratiot Co., will be held at Ithaca, Sabbath and first-day, Feb. 4 and 5.
A general invitation is extended.
J. O. CORLISS, Clerk.
Providence permitting, I will commence meetings in Avon, Rock Co., Wis., Wednesday evening, Jan. 25, 1871, and continue over Sabbath and first-day. Brethren from Rockton, Albany, and Monroe, are invited to meet with us Sabbath and first-day. Let us all seek greater nearness to God.
Also in Albany, Green Co., on Wednesday evening, Feb. 1, and continue over Sabbath and first-day, where Bro. Holliday and others may arrange. Brethren from Monroe and Avon, and other places, are invited.
Also in Muscoda, Grant Co., Wednesday evening, Feb. 8, as the friends of truth there may arrange. As this is a new field of labor, I expect to continue several weeks. Will some one meet me at the station Tuesday evening, on the arrival of the train from Milwaukee? I. SANBORN.
The next monthly meeting for the churches of Marion, Anamosa, and Lisbon, will be held at Lisbon, Iowa, Feb. 4 and 5, 1871. J. T. MITCHELL.
Quarterly meeting at South Lancaster, Mass., Feb. 4 and 5, 1871. S. N. HASKELL.
The American Protestant
THE AMERICAN PROTESTANT is the title of a paper published in Boston, Mass., which has now reached its twelfth number. It is designed to rouse the people to the necessity of arising as one man to resist the insidious encroachments of popery upon the rights of man, and the institutions of our free government. This is a point Protestants may well look to. Lafayette said, “If ever the liberty of this Republic is destroyed, it will be by Roman priests.”