Earlier text: THE SPREAD OF THE TRUTH—The President has vetoed the new army bill. —The khedive still refuses to appoint European ministers. —In Hungary, floods have destroyed 300 houses in Kottori. —Destructive forest fires rage in the vicinity of Scranton, Pa. —The British government will not dissolve parliament this year. —Hungary Mohammedans are plundering the stores in Adrianople. —Four villages on the banks of the Plattensee, in Hungary, have been flooded. —The French minister of commerce favors reciprocity with the United States. —Moscow is to be subjected to a reign of terror similar to that of St. Petersburg. —Heavy failures are reported in Great Britain, amounting to £790,000, or $3,950,000. —Failures of trading companies in Rotterdam, Holland, are reported to the amount of $3,750,000. —Magnezu, brother of the Zulu King Cetewayo, has with a few followers surrendered to the British. —The greater part of Lubin, a city of 20,000 inhabitants in Russian Poland, has been destroyed by fire. —Should the German tariff bill succeed, which is almost certain, it will probably disrupt the national liberal party. —London, May 12.—The principal part of the town of Irbit, Russia, at the confluence of the Irbit and Nisa Rivers, has been burned. —Hurdwar, Upper India, has experienced an outbreak of the cholera. The indications are that disease and death will hold high carnival in the old world the coming year. There are many elements encouraging and inviting disaster of this kind. —An electric hailstorm extended over the southern part of Minnesota, May 12. At Modalia, hailstones were reported as large as goose eggs. —A grateful community in the famine district of China, have presented a magnificent heathen temple to the Jesus “Church.”—Christian Weekly. —Wholesale arrests of Nihilists continue in Russia, including noblemen and titled ladies. Some of these are charged with being the incendiaries of Orenburg. —A conference was held at Barnsby, England, May 4, at which 120,000 colliers were represented. They will strike if an advance of ten per cent in crease of pay is not allowed. —A Watertown (N. Y.) Times’ special says “a Mrs. Merrihead, of New Deer River, is suspected of poisoning her husband and brother-in-law, and an examination is now in progress.” —Buildings 405 to 409 North Fifth street, St. Louis, Mo., with their contents, burned Saturday evening; loss $275,000; insured about $100,000. The origin of the fire is a mystery. —London, May 12.—Lord Hamilton, Vice President of the Council, to-day stated in the House of Commons that in various cattle cargoes recently arrived from America, pleuro-pneumonia has been found. —May 14.—Great conflagration at Poonah, India. The government school, Boodwar Palace, law courts, post-office, police office, and fifty houses were completely destroyed. Also another fire at Orenburg, Russia, still raging on the 12th. —At Minden, La., a severe hailstorm occurred, May 16. The hailstones averaged the size of hen’s eggs, and fell to the thickness of a foot on level ground. All crops and vegetation in the path of the storm were entirely demolished. —Frank E. Hayden has been arrested at Fitchburg, Mass., on charge of poisoning his sister. He is also suspected of having poisoned his father and mother, who died recently—all to secure about $8,000 worth of property wholly to himself. —The South American War.—Valparaiso, April 19.—The Bolivians have retaken Atacama. It is announced from Jujuy, a town of the Argentine Republic, near the Bolivian frontier, that 15,000 Bolivians are marching to attack the Chilians. —London, May 13.—The St. Petersburg Gazette reports that the losses of the conflagration at Irbit are enormous. The treasury, post-office, and town hall were saved. The fire raged all day Saturday and Sunday. A Berlin dispatch points out that Irbit is largely used as a place of exile. —St. Petersburg, May 12.—Intelligence has been received from Tiflis that a disease with terrible mortality is raging in nineteen villages in the Caucasus. A solemn procession of holy pictures has been held in the district of Gori, and prayers offered for the preservation of the inhabitants. —Pestilence in the Caucasus.—St. Petersburg, May 14.—The disease which has broken out in the Caucasus proves fatal in twenty-four hours. In Derby, which contains 150 houses, seventy persons died. In Medvricheni, with 200 houses, there are 100 persons dead. Mortality elsewhere is on the same scale. —Irbit is in the government of Perm and is famous for its annual fair, in the months of February and March, a fair which, next to that of Nishni Novgorod, is the largest held in Russia. To this fair are brought goods to the value of $25,000,000 from China, India, Persia, and Europe. The population of the place is about 35,000. —St. Petersburg, May 15.—Large numbers of Nihilist incendiaries are being made in towns throughout Russia. Revolution is rampant, and a feeling of dread and insecurity prevails everywhere. The trial of a large number of male and female revolutionists, many of whom are members of the nobility, is in progress at Kieff. —London has more Roman Catholics than Rome, more Jews than all Palestine, more Irish than Belfast, more Scotch than Aberdeen, more Welsh than Cardiff; its beer and gin shops, placed one after another in a line, would reach sixty-two miles, and one entire quarter of the city is inhabited by three hundred thousand of the most miserable wretches and worst thieves to be found on earth. —Nearly 2,000 southern negroes are awaiting transportation Kansasward, along the lower Mississippi. Gen. Conway and two members of the society of Friends have left St. Louis to see to what extent they have been denied transportation, and to bring suits against such steamboat owners as have denied to carry them when they offered to pay the way; also to devise means of transport for them. —One of the most singular phenomena ever witnessed occurred in Louisville, Ky., at 11:30, May 15. An army of black clouds came up from the south, and one after another in quick succession burst, pouring such a flood of water upon a portion of the city that within thirty minutes the streets became the channels of roaring torrents, the water averaging three feet in depth. Passengers in the street cars were obliged to climb upon the seats to keep dry. Rome, May 12.—At the consistory held to-day the pope appointed five cardinal priests and three cardinal deacons. Among the new cardinals are the Rev. Dr. John Henry Newman, of England, and the Rev. Dr. Herzenroether. The pope also made numerous appointments to bishoprics, among them those of Cardinal Hohenlohe to the bishopric of Albano, the Rev. Dr. McCabe to that of Dublin, and the Rev. Dr. Woodlock to that of Ardagh and Clonmacross. —The power of the gospel to change a nation from half-naked savages to comfortably dressed, civilized, and enlightened people, is illustrated by the following extract from a letter from Pitus Coan, the veteran missionary to the Sandwich Islands. Mr. Coan says: “I once thought I should never live to see all our natives shod with leather shoes; but many of the men wear $14 to $17 boots, with other articles corresponding, and all are comfortably shod, and clothed in foreign fabrics.” Washington, Minn., May 11.—A meteor, apparently about the size of an ordinary foot-ball, passed over this place about five o’clock this afternoon, and descending east of the town, exploded with a report equal to the discharge of a 300-pounder. The concussion shook the town, and the first impression among the people generally was that there had been a mill explosion. The shock and report were very great. The meteor was plainly visible in its passage through the air, looking like a ball of fire with a long train of vapor behind it. It exploded just before it struck the earth.—Inter-Ocean. “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth.” Rev. 14:13. GRIFFIN.—Died of lung fever, on Crotch Island, Maine, April 27, 1879, Lizzie E., daughter of G. H. and D. E. Griffin, aged 1 year and 7 days.
G. W. Varnex. STREETER.—Died at Morton Hill, Wis., of a complication of diseases, little Clara Bell, daughter of F. E. and E. R. Streeter, aged 2 years, 2 months, and 13 days. Remarks were made from Jer. 31:15–17.
S. Fulton. VANDERBURG.—Died at Little Prairie, Wis., at the residence of her son, Wm. Vanderburg, April 16, 1879, sister Betsey Vanderburg, in the eighty-seventh year of her age. Sister Vanderburg was one of the first to receive the light on the Sabbath at Little Prairie in 1860, under the labors of Eld. L. Sanborn. May those dear ones who ministered to her wants here, see to it that they obtain a clear title to an inheritance in the earth made new.
Pliny Potter. KIRKMAN.—Died near Eddyville, Iowa, Feb. 27, 1879, Bro. John Kirkman, aged 65 years. The circumstances of his death were sad indeed. He went into his son's coal bank for a few moments, and while there a large quantity of slate caved in upon them, partially covering them. In this condition Bro. K. prayed till he died. They were found about two hours after. Bro. Kirkman embraced the truth through Bro. Waggoner's labors at Eddyville, several years ago.
E. W. Farnsworth. CHRISTIANSON.—Died in the town of Alaiedon, Mich., March 28, 1879, of erysipelas, after an illness of three weeks, sister Margaret Anna, wife of L. C. Christianson, aged 56 years. Sister Christianson began the observance of the seventh day Sabbath from reading the Bible, about thirteen years ago while residing in the city of New York. In the main, her life was a success, and she now sleeps to await the coming of the resurrection morning, and to share in its glory. Service at the Alaiedon church; remarks from Ps. 30:5.
E. P. D. HEHNER.—Died at Armada, Macomb Co., Mich., May 9, 1878, of consumption of the blood, Bro. Josiah Hehner, in the 67th year of his age. He leaves wife and five children to mourn their loss. Bro. H. embraced the advent faith under the proclamation of the first angel's message. He received the Sabbath truth through the labors of Bro. Bates in 1852. He cherished a sincere love for these truths till his death. Funeral service at the S. D. A. house of worship, May 11, attended by a large concourse of people. Text, 1 Peter 2:7, first clause.
H. M. Kenyon. CLAYTON.—Fell asleep in Jesus, in Pawnee Co., Neb., our dear sister, Elizabeth M. Clayton, Feb. 25, 1879, aged 39 years. She embraced present truth in July, 1876, under the labors of Brn. Wing and Hackworth at the tent meeting at Pawnee City, and continued strong in the faith unto the end. She leaves a husband and six children to mourn, but they sorrow not as those without hope. Bro. Clayton embraced the truth at the same time his wife did, and is striving to lead his family in the observance of the same. May God help him under all his trials and responsibilities to look to him for guidance.
Louisa Edwards. BARTHOLOMEW.—Bro. Lester Bartholomew, residing one mile west of El Dorado, Butler Co., Kansas, died March 21, 1879, in the 49th year of his age. Bro. B. was endeavoring to handle a very wild horse, when the animal sprang upon him crushing him to the ground, breaking his knee, and tearing the muscles from the bone below the knee. His limb had to be amputated. His sufferings were great; but he bore them with the meekness and patience of a true Christian. He leaves a companion and three little boys to mourn their loss. Our brother was loved by all. His remarkable patience and industry had won for him a large circle of friends. We mourn with sister Bartholomew, and pray for the fatherless little children; for they have met with a great loss. Funeral discourse by Eld. Jones, Methodist.
M. J. Pierce. ENTERING INTO REST.
By Mrs. E. W. Jones
When the week's work is nearly done, and preparation day dawns, it is with almost joyful exultation that I hasten through the details of this day. What lover of God's holy Sabbath but has a peculiar feeling of anxiety that every thing should be done, the week's work neatly rounded off on this day, and the Sabbath met with clean hands and a clean heart. We are entering on sacred time, when worldly labor and cares, and the profit or loss of business matters should be gladly laid aside. I have often wondered where was the bondage of this blessed day. To a certain extent, we enter upon a sweet rest from worldly cares wherein we can commune with God, study his blessed word more carefully, read and study upon the beautiful truths presented in these last days, in reference to which God has said, “If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable, and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words.” Isa. 58:13. Now what is the promise to those who do this? The next verse tells us: “Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” Is this not a blessed promise? “The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” How well we know that promise is kept to those who fear his name. When I first turned away from the first-day observance and the commandments of men, it was with fear and trembling; fear of God, and trembling and despair at my own desires. For, thought I, I shall never love the seventh day as I have the first. How many pleasant recollections from childhood are connected with one, and how few, in fact not any, with the other. But blessed be the name of Him who helps every trembling child that walks out by faith, God's Sabbath now far exceeds the man-made day. I look forward to it with joy, and part with it in sadness. By the grace of God, nothing shall wrest it from my grasp, while life remains; and if death overtakes me ere our blessed Lord, the Lord of the Sabbath, shall come, I will close my eyes fondly hoping to open them in the new earth, to welcome God's hallowed day again. For on every Sabbath, I expect to come up to worship the Lord in the Eternal City. Blessed be God, the maker of Heaven and earth, who has given us a slight foretaste of that eternal rest in the day that he has blessed and hallowed for us on the earth—the only green spot left after the expulsion from the garden of Eden—to remind us that there is still an eternal Godhead mindful of fallen man's needs, an oasis in the desert of life wherein we can stop and rest, and go on refreshed in our pilgrimage. I smile now at the sneers, “under bondage again,” “under the law,” “Jews,” &c. If striving to keep God's commandments and the faith of Jesus is bondage, then I am happy under such bondage. If obeying the God of the Jews makes me a Jew, happier still am I to be nearer to my blessed Lord, who was himself a Jew. In obedience to God I have found sweeter peace than when in the freedom of the world. I am happy in the bondage with which good angels have encircled me. God grant that all who “lay hold” of the Sabbath, may hold on to it with other truths, cling fast to God's promises, and be enabled to experience the blessed assurance referred to by the prophet, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee.” Mrs. E. W. JONES. Until eighty years ago, the Jews were secluded from Jerusalem itself, when the Sultan, by a decree, permitted them to live there to the maximum number of three hundred at a time. Forty years ago the restriction as to number was taken off, but they were forced to live in a particular quarter of the city bearing their name. At last even this ban was removed, and the Jews have since bought all the purchasable real estate in the city, and have built entire streets of houses outside of the walls. Their synagogues and hospitals are multiplying; the German Israelites have no less than ten charitable societies; there are twenty-eight religious congregations, and two newspapers. Six thousand patients are annually cared for in the hospitals. A Venetian Jewess has given $12,000 for the establishment of an agricultural school. In consequence of Jewish immigration, the population of Palestine has doubled in ten years; the value of land has increased tenfold, and the construction of public works goes on night and day; and Baron Rothschild, loaning forty millions to Turkey, took a mortgage upon the whole of Palestine for security.—Selected. ALL France is deeply stirred by the prospect of a revolution in the system of public education, which must follow the adoption of the bill of M. Ferry, now before the legislature. The Chambers have adjourned the Lower House until the 15th of May, and for the present the excitement has subsided. Episcopal protests have fallen on the head of the Minister of Education in a continuous shower; even moderate republicans condemn the reactionary features of the new measure. The radicals contend that the Roman Catholic Church is hostile to the republic, and should therefore be deprived, as far as practicable, of all control of education. The moderates answer that the Church party has been fairly defeated, and has no immediate prospect of returning to power. The principal changes contemplated are: 1. The restoration to the state of the exclusive right of conferring university degrees. This reverses the legislation of 1875, out of which sprang the five free Catholic universities. It must be borne in mind that in France a university degree opens the way to public office. 2. The exclusion of all clergymen—Protestant and Catholic—from the directing councils of the state universities, including the Chief Council of Public Instruction. 3. The exclusion from all teaching, public or private, of the religious orders not recognized by the state. This provision will especially affect the Jesuits, whose colleges are somehow popular in France. The bill of M. Ferry may be modified, but in most of its features will undoubtedly be accepted by the Assembly.—Harper’s Weekly. The Age of Man.
By O. A. Constantine
Professor Farraday adopts Flourin's physiological theory that the natural age of man is one hundred years. The duration of life he believes to be measured by the time of growth. When once the bones and epiphyses are united, the body grows no more, and it is at twenty years this union is effected in man. The natural termination of life is five removes from this point. Man being twenty years in growing, lives five times twenty years—that is to say, one hundred years; the camel is eight years in growing, lives five times eight—that is to say, forty years; the horse is five years in growing, and lives twenty-five years, and so with other animals. The man who does not die with sickness lives anywhere from eighty to one hundred years. Providence has given a man a century of life; but he does not attain it, because he inherits disease, eats unwholesome food, gives license to his passions, and permits vexation to disturb his healthy equipoise; he does not die, he kills himself. The professor divides life into two equal halves, growth and decline, and those halves into infancy and youth, virility and age. Infancy extends to the twentieth year, youth to the fiftieth, because it is during this time the tissues become firm; virility from fifty to seventy-five, during which the organism remains complete, and at seventy-five old age commences. O. A. CONSTANTINE.
Woodburn, Ill. The P. O. address of E. H. Gates, until further notice, will be Springfield, Clark Co., Ohio. WANTED.—A place with a Sabbath-keeping farmer, for an active boy of nearly fourteen years, to work during the summer vacation. Address, Battle Creek College. WORK.—Sabbath-keeping farmers resident in the State of Michigan, desiring help on the farm during the months of July and August, will do well to apply to Battle Creek College. A WOMAN wants a situation in a Sabbath-keeping family to do general housework. Address, D. L. Stiger, Atchison City, Atchison Co., Kansas. WANTED.—Two teamsters, Sabbath-keepers, work till the 1st of October. Address, James Hunter, Grand Junction, Green Co., Iowa. WANTED.—A man to work on a farm. A Sabbath-keeper. Nelson B. Cole, Grand Ledge, Mich. NOTICE.—A blue cross opposite this note indicates that your subscription will expire in two weeks. Please renew at once, as we shall be obliged to stop the paper unless we hear from you in that time. Ill Conf Fund per J P Hunt $3.00, Iowa T & M Society 30c. Muir & Lyons per J B Haynes $15.00, Fowlersville per W H Kennedy 1.40, Isabella per W Reynolds 24.35, Williams church per E M G Margerson 8.50. Dist 7 per W Reynolds $10.00, Dist 3 per N Sawyer 7.50, Dist 8 per J McGregor 5.24, Dist 9 per M E Lockwood 1.00, Dist 7 per W Reynolds 4.00. Gen. T. & M. Society.—Life Members.
Sr Post, Kan $5.00, Thos Newman 50c, Eleanor Beaumont 5.00, B C Chandler 2.50. Lizzy Hornby $337.27, James A Ashbaugh 114.72. Stevens Point, Wis., May 24, 25. Avon, Rock Co., May 30 to June 1. H. W. Decker. Providence permitting, there will be a general meeting and Sabbath-school convention for the churches and schools of Jackson Co., Mich., held at Spring Arbor, Sabbath and Sunday, May 31 and June 1. Sabbath-school at 10 A. M.
The children and youth will recite the regular lessons for that date, the fifth Sabbath in May, incorrectly dated in the Instructor for the first Sabbath in June. The Bible class, lesson 28, the last in the lesson sheet for May. As the usefulness of the convention will depend on the attendance, it is hoped that the officers of the schools in the county will secure a full attendance of their schools at the convention. M. B. Miller. W. C. White. No providence preventing there will be a two days’ meeting held with the church at Hartland, Maine, commencing June 13, at 6 P. M. Sabbath-school and Bible-class the 14th at 10 A. M. We invite all to come prepared to take part in it. Lessons for examination, The Old and New Covenants. We wish to awaken a deeper interest in the Sabbath-school work in this State. Our new 50 foot tent will be pitched to accommodate the people. Let all come to take hold of the work, and lift in the cause of present truth. J. B. Goodrich. Allens Corner, Deering, Maine, May 24, 25. We invite the churches in Dist. No. 3 to meet with us. May 31 and June 1, at Somerset Mills. There will be an opportunity for baptism. Will the churches in Dist. No. 1 meet with us? Cornville, June 7, 8. Baptism will be administered. We request all the friends of the cause in Dist. No. 2, to meet with us. Let all come to take hold of the work in earnest, and the Lord will bless. J. B. Goodrich. Nothing preventing, I will commence meetings in Baltimore on Wednesday evening, May 28, as Bro. John F. Jones may arrange. I should very much like to have some of the brethren from East Maryland attend, as the meetings will continue over Sabbath and first-day. We hope for a general rally of all that love the Lord and his word.
Thursday, the 12th of June, I will commence meetings near Camden, N. J., as Bro. McComber may arrange, at half past 7 P. M., and continue over Sabbath and first-day. We hope for a general rally of all who love the Lord and his truth. By invitation of the General Conference Committee. I. Sanborn. Gaines, at the usual place of meeting near Bro. Hardy’s, Sabbath and Sunday, May 24, 25. At Monterey, May 31 and June 1. Meetings to commence Friday evening. We invite the brethren from Allegan to attend at Monterey. E. B. Lane. Providence permitting, we will hold meetings at the following places in Ohio: North Bloomfield, Friday eve., May 23, continuing over Sabbath and Sunday. Parkman, Tuesday, May 27, at 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Solon, Thursday, May 29, at 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. Peninsula, May 31, 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M., to continue over Sunday. These will be important meetings. Come one and all, dear brethren and sisters, to seek God, and work for him. D. M. Canright. R. A. Underwood. Providence permitting, we will hold a general meeting in the tent at Waterford, Ohio, beginning Friday evening, June 6, and continuing over Sunday, June 8. We specially urge a general turnout from all the surrounding region, particularly from Belleville, Corsica, Appleton, and Newark. We hope that this meeting will be of great importance to the cause in that district. D. M. Canright. A. O. Burdill. Du Quoin, Ill., May 30 to June 1.
Bro. D. Morrison appoint for “ 2–5.
Carbondale, Ill., “ 6–8.
Bro. C. H. F. Foster appoint for “ 9–15.
P. O. address, Du Quoin. G. W. Colcord. Hillsdale, Mich., May 24, 25. Napoleon, Monday, May 26, at 5 o’clock P. M., where Bro. Francisco may appoint. Special attention will be given to the Sabbath-school work. M. B. Miller. W. C. White. Lapeer, Mich., May 24, 25. Flint, Sabbath, May 31 and June 1. Bro. Jamson will be with me at Flint. We shall expect a general attendance of our brethren at these meetings. H. M. Kenyon. Sedalia, Mo., Sabbath and Sunday, May 24 and 25. Meetings commence Friday evening. We wish to see a general attendance of all our brethren and sisters. E. W. Farnsworth. Brockville, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., Sabbath and first-day, May 31 and June 1. The dedication of the church will take place Sunday at 2 P. M. Dedicatory sermon by Eld. B. L. Whitney. Eld. John Raymond and others will assist in the services. Opportunity will be given for baptism, and the church will be organized. Teams will meet afternoon trains at Ashville Station on A. & G. W. R. R., Friday afternoon and Sabbath morning. Let all who can bring necessary bedding. Come and unite in dedicating yourselves and this building to the Lord. Chas. B. Reynolds. Norwalk, Ohio, Friday evening till Sunday evening, May 30 to June 1. New Haven, Tuesday evening, June 3. Troy, Friday till Sunday evening, June 6–8. The object of these meetings is to look after the Sabbath-schools. D. W. Reavis. Caroyt, May 31 and June 1. Let us meet all the friends on the Sabbath. A. S. Hutchins. Pontiac, Mich., Wednesday evening, May 28. Hope to see all interested in the truth at this meeting. H. M. Kenyon. “That kind of morality which requires the aid of the political world to enforce it, is a harlot in disguise, and her path is the way to death; in her secret chambers you will find war, rapine, and murder, and in her train will be seen revenge, hatred, envy and division.” Is that the kind of morality which the “Religious Amendment” party are seeking for? SOUTHERN MISSOURI CAMP-MEETING.
This meeting is to be held in Nevada, the county-seat of Vernon Co., on the M. K. & T. railroad, from May 29 to June 3. The ground selected is within the city limits, about half a mile from the depot, has plenty of good shade, water, etc. We expect to get a reduction of fare on the M. K. & T. R. R. Teams will be in readiness at the arrival of the trains to convey passengers to the ground. Feed and provisions can be purchased at reasonable rates. This will be an important meeting for this part of the State. We hope to see every family of S. D. Adventists who live south of the Missouri River at this meeting and as many more as can come. Bring your children and interested friends, that they may be converted. Prepare yourself with a family tent if you can, but come any way. The 40 foot tent will be pitched to accommodate those who have no family tent. Eld. J. G. Wood is now holding a protracted meeting in Nevada with an increasing interest. We want it to close with a good camp-meeting. Come one and all; let no trivial excuse keep you from this meeting. Let us humble ourselves before God, take hold of the work with zeal and humility, and the Lord will bless us, we shall see our friends converted and the cause prosper in Missouri. Can-not Bro. and Sr. White meet with us? We extend to them a cordial invitation. We trust the friends of present truth in Northern Missouri will begin now to prepare to attend the camp-meeting to be held in Daviess Co., and with one united effort make it a success. MISSOURI CONFERENCE COMMITTEE. T. and M. Supplement Delayed
By Editor
The T. and M. Supplement for the past quarter is nearly all in type, but some of the reports came in so late that we are unable to get it out with this number. It will appear next week. Chas. H. Jones Takes Position in Oakland
Bro. Chas. H. Jones, for the past four years the able and efficient foreman of the REVIEW and job departments of this Office, left May 16, for Oakland, Cal., to take a similar position in the Signs Office. Bro. Wm. C. Gage takes his place in this Office. Pennsylvania Religious Liberty Bill Fails
The Chicago Inter-Ocean of May 19, says: “The religious liberty bill before the Pennsylvania Senate, failed to receive a constitutional majority. The bill was in the interest of the Seventh-day Baptists, and the principal objection to it was that such a measure was unconstitutional.” Infidelity and Its Lack of Success
The Presbyterian Banner states a remarkable fact concerning infidelity, liable to be overlooked, yet well sustained by history. It annihilates the claims of infidelity at one blow. It is this:— “No community which declared itself infidel has ever prospered for any considerable length of time; and there is no record of the permanent success of any infidel institution of learning, since the beginning of the Christian era.” A friend has sent us a copy of two articles on The Sabbath Question, published in The Iowa Onward, in March last. The writer, to whom no clue is given except a star at the close of his articles, is yet in his A B C on the subject. There is nothing that demands review, as the assertions are all treated in our Sabbath works from the smallest tract upward. It is too late in the progress of the Sabbath controversy for men to tax the patience of the public, unless they can make a contribution of some new fact or argument to the subject, or can overthrow something which has been supposed to be established. Freeman Was Not a Seventh-day Adventist
By Editor
So many inquiries have come in asking whether Freeman, who murdered his little daughter at Pocasset, Mass., was a Seventh-day Adventist, or not, that it may be well to say again that he was not. He had no more connection with us, than he would have had, had he been a Mohammedan. Neither had the Mr. Haughawout, at the bottom of the Gifford tragedy, in Iowa, mentioned in REVIEW, No. 18. The reason why such men are supposed by some to be Seventh-day Adventists is because in very many places the people have never heard of any other kind of Adventists, and hence when they read that such and such a person was an Adventist, they think at once that he belonged to our people. Persons of weak and unbalanced minds belonging to any denomination, are of course liable to be impelled into disgraceful, if not fatal fanaticism, like the Methodist man mentioned in another paragraph. But, as we stated last week, we regard the doctrines of S. D. Adventists, appealing as they do to the reason and judgment, and the sense of harmony and consistency, as calculated to restrain and control any tendency to such irregularities. Religious Delusion and averted Tragedy
The Cleveland Leader is reminded by the Pocasset tragedy that a man in Ohio some ten years since fell under the same hallucination that seized upon Mr. Freeman, and that only tact on the part of his wife saved him from following it to as fatal a termination. Ten years ago, it says, Truman Phinney living in Geauga county, O., an industrious well-to-do farmer, with a wife and two bright children, became deeply influenced under the excitement of a Methodist revival. His wife was aroused one morning about 3 o'clock by the noise of his whetting a butcher knife. When she inquired what it was for, he told her that in order for the whole family to be saved, he must sacrifice his little son. She was alarmed beyond description, but kept perfectly cool, and by professing great interest in what was going on, at length persuaded him to go with her to call to the sacrifice a neighbor who was much interested in the family and in religious matters. By this means help was secured to put the lunatic in safe quarters. SABBATH-SCHOOLS
By J. G. Wood
For the benefit of our scattered brethren, Missouri is to have two camp-meetings this spring, one in the southern and one in the northern part of the State. We expect able help from abroad to instruct us in the great work of preparing ourselves and instructing others for eternal life. All S. D. Adventists in the State should attend one of these meetings, that they may receive personal benefit and get more thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the third angel's message. We need especial help in the Sabbath-school work so that all can work in unison and to the very best advantage. We therefore suggest that a Sabbath-school be held in the tent at each of the above meetings on Sabbath morning at 9 o'clock. Let each school in the State be represented by the superintendent with the teachers and pupils. Will each superintendent see to working up this interest and get all to come who can. Instructors containing the lesson will be furnished on the ground in proper time. J. G. Wood, Pres. Mo., S. S. Association. NOTICE
By E. W. Farnsworth
My permanent post-office address is now Mt. Pleasant, Henry Co., Iowa, Box H. 9. Letters may be sent, however, to the places of camp-meetings. Brethren and sisters desiring labor in their neighborhoods will please write to me. I may not be able to respond to all at once, but the letters will be preserved for future reference. TO THE BRETHREN IN PENNSYLVANIA.
By J. G. Saunders
ALL who are in arrears on tent pledges for last year should arrange to redeem them soon. As the tent season for 1879 will soon be upon us, and funds will be necessary, will the brethren look to this? Let the following brethren look after the pledges in their several localities and send the same to Eld. B. L. Whitney, Rome, N. Y.: O. P. Rice, C. D. Tubbs, Hiram Stebbins, and C. H. Barrows. AID SOLICITED.
By G. W. Colcord
I am copying extracts for a scrap-book. Here is a sketch of the plan I have adopted: No quotation is to be unnecessarily lengthy. Extracts bearing on controverted points are to be endorsed by reliable citations or authors. The number of testimonies for each subject will be full. After each list of proofs will be inserted a number of blank leaves on which may be added other selections. Those I use will be printed on the page in the usual manner. I hope to complete the work this year. I trust the work will be an aid in the hands of all friends of the truth, especially ministers. I hereby especially request my ministering brethren to assist me by forwarding to me at Du Quoin, Ill., such extracts as they would like to have published, but cannot be obtained from our publications. All be free to send quotations. G. W. COLCORD. “And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Matt. 10:7. MISSOURI, Nevada City, Vernon Co., May 29 to June 3. Missouri, near Winstonsville, Daviess Co., (on the farm of Bro. Mallory), June 5-10. Iowa, near Fairfield, Jefferson Co., “ 12-17. “ “ Indianola, Warren “ “ 19-24. “ “ Dunlap, June 26 to July 1. THE Wisconsin camp-meeting will be held at Madison, on the same ground as last year, June 11-17, 1879. COMMITTEE. The next annual session of the Wisconsin State Conference for the election of officers, and the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting, will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Madison, June 11–17, 1879. Wisconsin Conference Committee.