p. 40 | Review and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 5. (2/1/1877)

A Child's Prayer and the Lost Treasure

“Mamma,” said a little girl in Philadelphia, when she was looking for a childish treasure she had mislaid, “I think God will help us find it if we ask him; so I’ll pray, and you hunt.” That showed a fitting appreciation of faith and works.

Appointments for Meetings in Jamaica, Kansas, Connecticut, and Chautauqua

Appointments.

And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand:

We will meet with the friends at Jamaica, Sabbath and first-day, Feb. 10 and 11. Come prepared to stay all through the meetings and worship the God of our fathers with all the heart. A. S. Hutchins. S. N. Haskell.

Quarterly meeting of the Kansas T. and M. Society, Dist. No. 1, will be held Feb. 24 and 25, at the Worrick school-house, 7 miles north of Jewell City, and 3½ miles south-east of Jewell Centre, in Jewell Co., Kan. It is expected that there will be a plenty of new Hymn Books, books, tracts, pamphlets, and Almanacs, for sale and for distribution. We expect all the members to be at this meeting, and especially the librarians. Bring in your reports. Reuben Worrick, Director.

The next monthly meeting for Windham Co., Conn., will be held at Bro. Wm. L. Ashley's, in Hampton, Sabbath and first-day, March 3 and 4. Bro. M. Wood, president of the N. E. Conference, is expected, and it is hoped all the friends of present truth in eastern Connecticut will attend. J. S. Miller.

Elk Falls, March 2-8; Canola, Chataqua Co., March 9-12. Meetings at Eureka will follow, and be arranged by private correspondence. I hope for a general attendance at these meetings. They will be protracted if the interest seems to demand it. J. H. Cook.

I will meet with the church at Solomon Rapids, Feb. 10, 11; Bull City, Feb. 17, 18; and with the brethren in Jewell Co., where Bro. Worrick may appoint, Feb. 24, 25. I wish to see a general attendance at each of the above meetings. I expect to visit the Parallel church if there is any way to get there from Jewell Co. J. N. Ayers.

Appointments in N. Y.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Thus far, we have been greatly hindered in our work by the continued bad storms; but the winter is now half gone, and there is some prospect of better weather. We have no more time to lose; hence I wish to say to all the brethren that the weather must make no difference with our appointments hereafter, wherever we have meetings appointed. We shall go right on with the business meetings, whether there be few or many present. So let there be every possible effort made to get all the church out, as these meetings are specially for the church, and those connected with the church. If those will attend, we may accomplish the main object of our meeting, even if we have no outside attendance at all.

We expect to go to the western part of the State about the first of March, where we hope to see a general turnout.

D. M. Canright.

A Good Hearty Amen.

By W. H. Hall

Bro. White says in the last Review, “More money” is wanted. I say, “Amen” in the shape of $100.00 for the European mission. May the Lord bless Bro. Andrews in his work is our prayer. Yours in the faith, W. H. Hall.

The N. Y. Treasury Empty.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

Bro. Charles Green, our State treasurer, lives here at Adams Center. He says there is only ten dollars in the treasury, and nothing coming in, though nearly half a year of S. B. is now due. I am told by leading officers in the Conference that many of the churches in this State have fallen into the wrong, unscriptural habit of letting their pledges run on through the entire year, and then paying them at the last minute at the camp-meeting. This is entirely wrong, brethren. That is not Systematic Benevolence at all. Such a course throws everything into confusion.

Our S. B. treasurers have no reports to make. The S. B. treasurer here at Adams Center told me that he had not one dollar to report at the end of the last quarter, and hence only had a blank report to send. He ought to have sent that, though he did not. This leaves our treasury embarrassed during the most of the year. The Lord cannot bless such a way of doing business.

Our brethren promise solemnly to lay apart one-tenth, and to do this regularly each week, and to pay this into the treasury at least as often as once in every three months. This is what should be done. Our brethren should not practice using all their means as fast as received simply for themselves, for their food, their clothing, their furniture, and their debts, and their wants. In this they are acting in a very selfish manner. They are serving themselves first. Finally, at the end of the year, when their pledges have run up till they seem terrible and really burdensome to them, they feel covetous and fretful over the matter, and feel as though they were not able to meet their pledge.

They lose in this manner nine-tenths of the real enjoyment they would have in giving, were they to do it systematically. The Bible requires us to give the first-fruits, not the last end of everything. Give a little at a time, as fast as it comes in, and you will have a continual feast, a continual blessing. We urge our brethren in New York immediately to pay up what S. B. is due. It is needed to-day, and the treasury is empty. D. M. Canright.

The Kansas Camp-meeting.

By CHAS. F. STEVENS

WHERE shall it be? Will those who have any suggestions to make with reference to the location of this meeting, write me immediately at Ottawa, Franklin Co.?

It is time this question was being agitated. There being no camp-meeting committee, our president has requested me to correspond with reference to this matter. Many of our brethren in this State have to come from one to three hundred miles with teams; hence it is necessary that they have several weeks’ notice, so as to prepare for such a journey.

Brethren and sisters of Kansas, let us begin now to make arrangements to attend this meeting. We hope it will be definitely located, so that no change of time or place will be necessary.

We want the advice of the General Conference committee with reference to where this meeting shall be held. CHAS. F. STEVENS.

Shawnee, Kansas.

For Sale.

By M. M. Faulkner

Forty acres of land, eleven ready for the plow; a small but good house, in Fremont, Saginaw Co., Mich., valued at $800. Address, M. M. FAULKNER, Locke, Ingham Co., Mich.

European Mission.

James White . . . $100 James Harvey . . . 100

W. H. Hall . . . . 100 Wm. Ings . . . . . 50

E. G. Lockwood . . . . 50

European Press.

By James White; E. H. Root; John Morrison; Wm. Ings; Geo. I. Butler; C. Comings; Newel Grant; E. W. Whitney

We, the undersigned, regard it a great privilege to donate to the Lord, for the European press, under the care of our worthy missionary, Elder J. N. Andrews, One Hundred Dollars each, and invite twenty-eight others to join us in raising $10,000.

Name	Amount	Name	Amount
James White	$100	E. H. Root	$100
John Morrison	100	Wm. Ings	100
Geo. I. Butler	100	C. Comings & wife	100
Newel Grant	100	E. W. Whitney	100
August Rasmussen	100	R. G. Lockwood	100
An Iowa Brother	100	W. H. Hall	100
Emily Leighton	100	Betsey Landon	100
S. A. McPherson	100	S. N. Haskell	100
“A friend in N. E.”	100	C. K. Farnsworth	100
“W. P. A. M.”	100	M. Wood	100
Chas L. Boyd	100	Mrs. Getman (deceased)	100
Freeman Nichols	100	C. B. Tower	100
A. H. B.	100	A. T. Stickney	100
D. A. Owen	100	Mrs. J. L. James	100
Wm. B. Mason	100	A. La Rue	100
J. N. Loughboro’	100	B. N. Berry	100
J. S. Wicks	100	M. J. Bartholf	100
Reuel Stickney	100	A Bro. in Minn.	100
C Clark & wife	100	Mary Crouch	100
W. A. Pratt	100	H. C. Stone	100
C. McNeil	100	B. L. Whitney	100
Mary R. Stem	100	Thomas Alverson	100
Jane Roland	100	S. B. D.	100
E. Green & wife	100	E. Lobdell	100
Susie D.	100	Lucretia Day	100
A. A. Bradford	100	A Bro. & Sr. in New England	300
J. S. Hart	100	S. H. King	100
C. S. Briggs & wife	100	Ellen H. Pullen	100
Jacob Shively	100	A. C. Woodbury & wife	100
M. C. Israel	100	James Harvey	100
Right hand	100	John Ely	100
A friend	100	D Ann Albin	100
V. B. J.	100	I. Sanborn	100
G. W. Colcord and wife	100
L. McCoy	100
S. A. McCoy	100
“Thank-offering”	100

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Hymn and Tune Book. 536 hymns, 147 tunes. $1.00.

History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week. By J. N. Andrews. 528 pp., $1.25.

Life of Wm. Miller. By Eld. James White, 1.00.

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The Atonement. By J. H. Waggoner. 20 cts.

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Sunday Seventh-day. A Refutation of Mead, Jennings, Akers, and Fuller. By J. N. Andrews. 10 cts.

The Seventh Part of Time; a Sermon on the Sabbath Question. By W. H. Littlejohn. 10 cts.

The Truth Found on the Sabbath. 10 cts.

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Vindication of the True Sabbath. Morton. 10 cts.

The Date of the Seventy Weeks of Dan. 9. 10 cts.

Matthew Twenty-Four. By James White. 10 cts.

The Hope of the Gospel: What it Is, and When it will be Consummated. 10 cts.

An Appeal to the Baptists, for the Restoration of the Bible Sabbath. 10 cts.

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By H. A. St. John

THE work of obtaining subscribers for our periodicals is a good work, but in most places these hard times require faithful continuance to make much success. Our canvassers, however, are gaining ground slowly. The great lack is courage and perseverance. When the work goes slowly, to hold on and keep to work is the thing. A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together, should be our watch words.

We wish to say to all that are thus engaged, If the battle goes hard, pray more and labor harder. Do not abandon the field because of hard times or repulses. Commit your case to the Lord every night in earnest prayer, and with new courage and good hope continue the good work every day. H. A. St. John.

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By Jannie R. Richards

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With the above we have also exchanged many of the ills of life for health, strength, the Christian’s hope, and happiness. “Go thou, and do likewise.” JANNIE R. RICHARDS.

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