To those of our friends in the Illinois Conference, who promised us financial aid in purchasing our new tent, I wish to say: Excepting three, all pledges became due on the first of this month. Our tent was paid for with borrowed money; and a part of this sum is still drawing interest. This leak can be stopped as soon as you redeem your promises. Let us hear from you. Remit, either in bank draft on Chicago, or registered letter, to me here.
G. W. COLCORD,
Arthur, Moultrie Co., Ill., Aug. 26, 1874.
To the Brethren in Indiana.
By William R. Carpenter
AS OUR Conference will hold its next annual meeting in connection with the camp-meeting, it is necessary that the clerk of each church furnish the secretary with a financial and church report. The treasurers should also send in their quarterly reports. Be prompt, brethren. Make no delay.
All reports to be sent to
WILLIAM R. CARPENTER,
North Liberty, Indiana.
Every Uttered Word Lives Forever
PHILOSOPHERS tell us that every uttered word produces a vibration in the atmosphere; an ingenious theory has therefore been broached that these vibrations never entirely cease? If this were true, we should still be moving among the inaudible words of our progenitors. This seems fanciful in natural philosophy; but there is a sense in which every uttered word lives forever. It lives in its influence on the speaker—in its influence on others. Paul's voice echoes still; millions of God's faithful messengers, being dead, yet speak!