The Vt. Sabbath-school Association convened upon the camp-ground at Essex Junction, Friday, Sept. 12, at 9 A. M. In the absence of both president and secretary, the meeting was called to order by Bro. W. C. White. Prayer by Eld. Butler. C. W. Stone was appointed to act as president pro tem., and Chester E. Powell, as secretary. Remarks were made by Eld. A. S. Hutchins to the effect that there were Sabbath-schools in nearly all the churches in the State, and as a general thing with a good and increasing interest. This was followed by brief remarks from several of the brethren in different churches, all saying that the schools were doing well.
Bro. Stone asked to be informed as to the best way to take the collections, and was satisfied by Bro. W. C. White’s reply that he believed the Lord had delight in free-will offerings, and that the best way was to have a box in a conspicuous place. No one need be urged, but all have the privilege of paying something. Bro. Butler then arose, expressing his great interest in the work. He made some excellent remarks, saying that the Bible and common sense plainly tell us that we should teach our children in youth and infancy what we would have them practice in maturer years.
Bro. Martin, from the Barford church in Canada, said that through the instrumentality of the Sabbath-school, three had been converted and brought into the church.
Bro. White then announced the hour for the camp-meeting Sabbath-school at a quarter before nine Sabbath morning, and also gave some very good advice relative to learning the lessons, and the duties of a good Sabbath-school teacher. The delegates were then called, and a committee on nominations and one on resolutions were appointed.
Adjourned to call of Chair.
SECOND MEETING, Monday P. M., Sept. 15. Summary of last year’s reports read by Bro. H. Peebles. Report of nominating committee called for, and read as follows:—
For president, H. Peebles, So. Lunenburgh; secretary and treasurer, Frank S. Porter, North Fayston; executive committee, H. Peebles, H. W. Pierce, and M. E. Kellogg. These were unanimously elected. The committee on resolutions reported as follows:—
Resolved, That we urge all our people to avail themselves of the advantages of our Sabbath-schools, and encourage those outside our faith to attend.
Resolved, That we recommend the officers and teachers of our Sabbath-schools to hold a teachers’ meeting on the fourth Sabbath of each month.
Resolved, That we express our satisfaction with the plan of the penny contribution and recommend all Sabbath-schools to adopt it fully.
Resolved, That we recommend the Sabbath-schools to pay a tithe of their contributions to the State Association, and the State Association to pay a tithe of its receipts to the General Association.
Resolved, That we recommend the president of our association and the ministers in our Conference to hold Sabbath-school institutes, for the instruction of teachers and officers, as often as practicable.
These resolutions were acted upon separately, and all adopted. The financial report was then read by the secretary. The treasury being left so low, Bro. W. C. White took the liberty to take a contribution; and the sum of $7.30 was soon raised. Bro. White made a few remarks relative to the use of the money raised in the different schools, saying it should be used to supply the schools with maps of Palestine, Bible dictionaries, concordances, etc., for the benefit of teachers and scholars. The meeting then adjourned sine die.
H. PEEBLES, Pres.
FRANK S. PORTER, Sec.
A PLEA FOR DUMB THINGS.
By Elizabeth Akers Allen
“Mamma,” says the average little girl to her mother, as, suddenly reminded of a great moral question, she pauses in the loving squeeze which she is administering to the feline pet in her arms—“Mamma, do all good people go to Heaven?”
“Certainly, my child,” responds the average mother, with cheerful confidence; although all the time conscious of a little dread as to what question may come next.
“But what if they can’t read, mamma? and can’t study Sunday-school lessons, and read good books? Will they go to Heaven just the same, if they are good?”
“Surely,” replies mamma, a little reassured; “some poor people never have a chance to learn, as you do—they cannot go to school, or learn to read, perhaps; but if they do as well as they know how to do, and are never unkind or wicked, the Lord loves them just the same. He is no respecter of persons; he does not love the wisest man in the world any better than the poor, ignorant little child; so they both alike try to live an innocent life, and are as good as they know how to be.”
The child’s face brightens, and she finishes the interrupted squeeze, with—
“Good! then my white kitty can go to Heaven, can’t she?”
“A kitty go to Heaven! No, indeed! Kitties and puppies and chickens do not go to Heaven.”
“But why?” with sudden disappointment clouding the puzzled face. “I am sure, my kitty does as well as she knows how to do; she never steals nor scratches, and is just as good as she can be. You said it was no matter about reading and being wise; and every other way, my kitty is as good as anybody can be.”
“But kitties have no souls, and it is the soul that goes to Heaven.”
“What is the soul?”
This is deep water. But the mother makes another plunge.
“The soul, dear, is the part of you that loves and knows and remembers,—the part that does not die when the body dies,—the immortal—”
“But, mamma, my kitty has something to love with, too; and she loves me, and knows me from all the other girls, and remembers where her milk-saucer is, and has learned lots of things; and why isn’t that her soul just as it is mine? And why must she all die when her body does, if I don’t?”
Alas, why? and many a little child never gets a satisfactory answer to this question. The mother generally finishes by alluding in a vague way to the Bible; but she cannot, for the life of her, think of a passage therein which would prove her position; and though adroitly changing the subject for the present, she inwardly determines to have a little private consultation with Cruden at her first convenience. She is much disappointed and disquieted, afterward, at the unsatisfactory result of the conference.—
Elizabeth Akers Allen.
BLESSED ARE THE PURE.
By J. E. Green
“Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.”
Blessed, indeed, are they who are thus pure, not alone because they shall at last enjoy the unspeakable glories of an endless life in the city of God, but because of the peace and happiness afforded them, even now in this present life. But how much is contained in those three little words, “pure in heart.” In order to be thus pure, we must be freed from all unholy thoughts and desires, from all the polluting ideas that the enemy of all righteousness and of our souls is ever too ready to suggest to the mind. It is a real affliction to be buffeted by Satan in this manner. There are those who seem to have a stock of low anecdotes always on hand, and who ever delight in peddling them out whenever or wherever they can catch a listening ear; and how such ideas stain and pollute the minds of those who hear. How such recitals cling to us, and how hard it is to keep them from the mind.
It is sweet at night to look back on the day that is past and feel that our mental visitants have all been pure. A great and glorious work is given each one of us, to take a soul all stained and polluted with sin and fit it for a home among the pure and holy angels. It is a grand work! and happy will he be who can return it to the Master in spotless purity. Thank God it can be done. Ample provision is made for us, and we may all be purified and made ready to have it said of us, “Blessed are the pure in heart.” J. E. GREEN.
Are the False Religions Doing Nothing?
The current view of the present condition of the world's false religions is, that they are in hopeless decline. We are here in a Christian land, and, breathing the air of an active religious life, are accustomed to victory both at home and abroad. Indeed, we have gradually grown into the conviction that all we have to do abroad is to go over and possess the land. The false faiths seem to us to have run their race, and are now in their state of aged despair. But there is another side to the question. We must remember that the missionaries whom we have sent abroad, with all their valor and quenchless zeal, are as one to many thousands. Idolatries of long life and vast wealth stand up to oppose every step of their way. Numbers, and prejudices, and laws, and gold, are all against the men who bear the cross to the ends of the earth.
We would not say a discouraging word to them, or of them; and yet it is well that we look the facts squarely in the face. There is much power yet left, in some of the grossest of the Ethnic faiths; and to such an extent does it exist that several of them are making important movements toward the further propagation of their faith. This is no new phenomenon in the history of the church. It seems to be a law of its progress. No sooner do we find it gaining great victories, than we find its foes striking out on new campaigns, and endeavoring to win on new fields what it has lost on old ones. Take Jesuitism as the most remarkable illustration of this very law. When the German Reformation had achieved its brilliant triumphs in the world of thought and in territorial grasp, Roman Catholicism produced Jesuitism, which immediately set to work to recover—in the old seats of the Eastern Church, and at the leading courts of Europe, and over the far-off regions of India and the American continent—what it had lost through the thunderbolt of Luther and his coadjutors. We see the same process going on in offsetting the marvelous triumphs of the gospel in pagan lands. Those faiths are not dying of absolute inactivity. Their devotees are witnessing the triumphs of Christianity, and yet are not sitting down in inactivity, accepting their own decay and extinction as a foregone conclusion.
Suppose we take Mohammedanism as an illustration. It has shed blood enough, and ground down millions enough, to have bitten the dust long ago. But such is by no means the case. The Moslem of to-day, despite his great defeat in European Turkey, is a thorough missionary. He is sending out his emissaries into every hopeful field, and is determined to contest with Christianity every inch of the disputed territory. In a late number of the Bibliotheca Sacra we find an array of facts on this point from the pen of Dr. Aiken, of Princeton, which is well calculated to arouse the attention of the whole Christian world. His paper seems to have been suggested by Max Müller's division of the world into two great classes—non-missionary and missionary; Christianity, Buddhism, and Mohammedanism being classified under the former head.
We have abundant testimony that this lost faith is marching with rapid pace, even in this bright day of Christian faith and progress. A writer in the leading German Missionary serial says of it: “To-day its forward movement is not arrested; instead of this, it is moving toward the interior of Asia and Africa at such a rate that it alone may claim to make as many proselytes as Christianity and Buddhism together.” J. M. Arnold, of long experience as a missionary, says: “None but those who have witnessed the missionary zeal of the modern Arab merchant, would believe what efforts are still being made to proselytize the pagans in the interior of Africa.” Grundemann testifies to the advance of Islam about Gambia, and Sierra Leone, and in the islands of the Indian Archipelago. Von Kremer and Vambery declare that Mohammedanism has every prospect of gaining its lost religious ascendancy in British India.
Dr. Ellinwood writes, in 1875, of the Mohammedan training school for missionaries in Cairo, which, in 1838, had declined to five hundred students, that it is now visited by ten thousand students, representing all lands where Mohammedanism is known. There are three hundred and fourteen professors. The students come from Morocco and Algiers, Soudan and Darfour, Zanzibar and the Vale of Yemen, Persia and Turkestan, India and Malaya. They have no lodgings, but roll themselves up in their rough blankets, throw themselves down in the hall-ways to sleep, live on coarse Arab bread, and thus prepare to preach Islamism in the far-off lands.
It is well for us here at home to remember that neither gold nor men must be spared to make sure the conquest of the world for Christ. As in his incarnate life, the powers of darkness contested with him the dominion of the world, so now goes on the same warfare. The old faiths of ages are going to hold on as long as they can. Some of them will fall suddenly when they do fall, but let us make the day of their ruin as near in the future as faith and wealth can do.—Christian Advocate.
CRITICISM
True criticism is profitable; but he who essays to act as critic should be sure that he is himself correct. One of our exchanges which maintains a “Critic’s corner,” in a late issue gives us the following:—
“Differ with and differ from. These expressions are both used with considerable frequency, but they cannot both be correct. The former is wrong, the latter is right. Never say, ‘I differ with you.’ The preposition ‘with’ implies agreement, while the verb ‘differ’ implies disagreement. The sentence therefore involves an absurdity. Say, ‘I differ from you.’”
This would be good if it were only true. As it is, it will mislead, and doubtless betray many into inaccuracy in speaking. We are therefore compelled to differ with our friend on this subject. There are two respects, at least, in which persons differ; the first is, in opinions or sentiment; the second is, in regard to shape, size, etc. This distinction is indicated in the language we use. If the reference is to opinion or belief, we say, “I differ with you;” if it is simply to some unlikeness in form, color, size, etc., say, “I differ from you.” Therefore when opinion is the matter in question, never say “I differ from you,” as that would be incorrect. “This distinction,” Webster says, “is fully established in England, and to a great extent in America.”
Neither does the preposition “with” always “imply agreement;” as will be illustrated in the sentence, “Our late war with Mexico.”
KANSAS CAMP-MEETINGS
Appointments.
“And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Matt. 10:7.
General meetings in S. S. work in Minn., as follows: At Kingston, Oct. 11, 12; West Union, Oct. 18, 19. In Eld. D. P. Curtis’ district, wherever he may appoint, Oct. 25, 26. We hope to see a large attendance of parents and children at all these meetings. Come prepared to recite the regular lessons for each Sabbath upon which the meetings will be held. W. B. Hill, Pres.
KANSAS CAMP-MEETINGS.
The northeastern Kansas camp-meeting will be held at Osawkee, Jefferson Co., Oct. 9-13, in a grove adjoining the meeting-house. Those coming by rail will come on the A. T. & S. Fe, either from Atchison or Topeka to Meridian, Wednesday, Oct. 8, where they will be met by teams to carry them to the ground.
The south-western camp-meeting will be held in a grove near El Dorado (the county-seat of Butler Co.), at the terminus of that branch of the A. T. & S. Fe R. R., Oct. 16-20.
The southeastern camp-meeting will be held at Parsons, at the Junction of the M. K. & T. R. R., Oct. 23-27.
These meetings will begin Wednesday evening, at 7:30 o’clock. Let every tent be pitched, and everything in readiness to begin at that time. Kan. Conf. Com.
DISTRICT QUARTERLY MEETINGS.
To be held Oct. 11 and 12.
Springfield District, Ohio, at New Antioch, Clinton Co., Ohio. The brethren from Springfield and Leesburg are earnestly invited to attend. The Sabbath-school work will receive attention. E. H. Gates.
Dist. No. 9, Illinois, at Onarga. J. W. Tait, Director.
Dist. No. 1, Vermont, at Bordoville. A general attendance is desired. C. P. Whitford, Director.
Dist. No. 7, Mich., at Estella. The Sabbath-school and Bible class lessons will be those in the Instructor and Lesson Sheet for that date. Franklin Squire, Director.
Dist. No. 10, Mich., at Lapeer. Either Bro. Lamson or Bro. Kenyon will be there. S. Woodhull, Director.
Dist. No. 2, at the Gravel school-house, Jackson Co., Mich. Will Bro. Miller attend this meeting? E. P. Giles, Director.
Dist. No. 3, Ill., with the Gridley church, Oct. 12. C. Turnipseed, Director.
Dist. No. 2, Pa., at Niles Hill. Post-office, Wellsville, N. Y. Will all the librarians be present with their account-books? D. C. Phillips, Director.
Dist. No. 7, Iowa, at Peru, Madison Co. A. J. Stiffler, Director.
Dist. No. 2, Ill., at Belvidere, Oct. 12. All are invited. Bro. Bliss is expected. R. Vickery.
Dist. No. 15, Mich., at the house of Bro. D. A. Owen, near the Barry Co. Poor Farm. I shall be on hand with a good supply of tracts and annuals. Hope the friends from Hickory Corners and Maple Grove will be present. Come, brethren, let us arrange for the winter’s work. Can Bro. Potter be present? L. G. Moore, Director.
Clyde District, Ohio, in the town hall at Wakeman. Rally then and there. Sermon Friday evening, Oct. 10. Eld. D. M. Canright is expected. There are only two families of Sabbath-keepers in the place. Come prepared to go into the country from two to five miles to stay nights. Bring blankets, etc. Come to receive good and to do good. H. A. St. John.
Lima District, at Uniopolis, O. A Sabbath-school convention will be held at this meeting. The lessons for Divisions Three and Four will be the regular lessons in the Instructor and Lesson Sheet for that day. Lesson 41 in small book for children in First Division. G. G. Rupert.
The quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 4, N. Y., will be held at Buck’s Bridge. We urge a general rally. Will those who have made pledges to the tract society come prepared to meet them as far as possible? Librarians and members, be prompt in reporting labor.
A district Sabbath-school convention will be held in connection with this meeting. Bro. E. M. Plumb will take charge of it. The lesson for Bible classes will be the second lesson in the October Supplement. The lessons for children and youth will be those found in the Instructor designed for the second Sabbath in October. H. H. Wilcox, Director.
Dist. No. 11, Mich., at Bancroft. We wish to make this meeting the most interesting by far of any we have held in the district. Let each church be well represented. Bro. T. M. Steward is expected to be present. C. N. Stuttle, Director.
The next annual meeting of the Maine T. and M. Society will be held with the church at South Norridgewock, Oct. 18, 19, commencing Friday at 6½ P. M. As the election of officers for the ensuing year will take place at this time, we request a general gathering of our people. Let every church be represented. All should be interested in this branch of the work.
We also want a report from each district secretary; each secretary should have a report from each church librarian; and each church librarian, a report from each member of the society in his church. Every member of the church should be a member of the T. and M. society. This is an important meeting. Let none excuse themselves and stay at home. J. B. Goodrich, Pres.
The annual meeting of the Wisconsin T. and M. society, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, will be held at Hundred Mile Grove, Wis., commencing Thursday evening, Oct. 16, and continuing one week. Steps having been taken for the division of our State into sections to be placed under the charge of our several ministers, it is expected that they will assume their duties soon after this meeting. For the benefit of all who may attend, a special drill in business and matters of organization will be given. The health and temperance work will receive especial attention. All ordained ministers in the Conference are requested to be present. All our directors should be there, and as many of our brethren as can attend. H. W. Decker, Pres.
The fall camp-meeting for Missouri, and the State Conference, will be held at Windsor, in the northeast corner of Henry Co., on the M. K. & T. R. R., twenty miles southwest of Sedalia, Oct. 9-14. Those coming on the Mo. Pacific R. R. from the east make connection with the M. K. & T. R. R. at Sedalia. Those coming with teams from the northwestern part of the State can reach Windsor as easily as they could Sedalia, where the meeting was held last year. Mo. Conf. Com.
The Missouri State Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, State tract and missionary society, State health and temperance society, State Sabbath-school association, with model Sabbath-school, all meet at Windsor, Henry Co., Mo., Oct. 9-14, 1879. Every preparation is made for a good meeting. Come at the beginning and stay till the close. Come! D. C. Hunter, Sec.
A general meeting will be held at Pleasant Grove, Minn., commencing Friday evening, Oct. 10, and holding over Sabbath and Sunday. This meeting will be held especially in the interests of the T. and M. and temperance work in Dist. No. 4. We hope to see a general attendance. Bring your children, as the Sabbath-school work will receive attention. N. Battin. W. I. Gibson. Harrison Grant.
There will be a T. and M. meeting held at Liberty Pole, Vernon Co., Wis., Oct. 11 and 12. Meetings commence Friday evening. Let every one who can, attend this meeting, and come prepared to work for the Lord. A. D. Olsen.
Quarterly meeting of the Jackson, Mich., church, at H. H. Bramhall’s, Springport, Mich., Oct. 4, 5. E. P. Giles.
Western World Rising: Gladstone's Prophecy and Commerce
Another indication of the important position the Government of the United States is coming to hold among the nations of the earth is given us in the following item clipped from a late number of the Detroit Evening News:—
The time that Gladstone prophesied—when the western world will be the center of commerce, industry and wealth—is approaching. No country can much longer afford to be unconnected with us. So thinks little Portugal, no doubt, who is now preparing to hitch on with a new telegraphic cable by way of the Azores.
Grant's Lavish Welcome in San Francisco
Gen. U. S. Grant, who has been receiving royal honors in the semi-civilized and pagan countries through which he has traveled, reached San Francisco Sept. 20, only to find more than such honors, so far as is possible in a country like this, heaped upon him here. The papers are filled with accounts of the most lavish expenditure of vast sums of money, the most extravagant display, and the gathering together of immense, gaping, and crazy crowds to greet him on his return. Such hero-worship is a strange spectacle in a republican government like this. There is but a step between such excessive adulation, and movements like those which led to that dark period for Roman liberty when the people were set aside as mere ciphers, and the military power placed upon the throne of the empire the creatures of its choice.
Sunday Observance in Nevada and California Mines
In the Advance of Sept. 18, appears a communication from S. V. Blakeslee, Oakland, Cal., touching the total disregard of Sunday in the mines of Nevada and California. In this article he calls Sunday “the Christian and Scriptural Sabbath, which God has set apart as holy,” and in twelve other instances applies to it the name “Sabbath.” He five times calls it “the law of God;” four times, “the command of God;” and quotes in its behalf the first part of the fourth commandment, with the remark that “the law of God is direct and positive.” Now will Mr. B. please tell us when Sunday was set apart as holy by the Lord? Will he point out the “law” for it? Will he show us any “command” in its behalf?
We would be truly glad to have all the miners keep the Sabbath, the true Bible Sabbath, the seventh day. But how are we going to convict them of wrong for working on Sunday? for “where no law is there is no transgression,” says Paul. Cannot some of our Oakland brethren do something toward relieving Mr. B. of so great a misapprehension?
Mobile Register on the Bridgeport Sabbath Indictment
The Mobile (Ala.) Register, of Jan. 7, 1879, speaking of the cigar dealer in Bridgeport, Ct., which was noticed in the REVIEW at the time, says:—
“Of all the days of the week, which is the Sabbath or Lord’s day?” The indictment against a cigar dealer of Bridgeport, Conn., charged that the offense was committed, not on Sunday, but on “The Sabbath or Lord’s day,” The court quashed the indictment, holding that the Sabbath means the seventh day of the week, and Sunday is the first, while the Lord’s day is Saturday with some worshipers and Sunday with others. The Christian use of the word Sabbath when Sunday is meant is a mere affectation.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
The following record, made by Senator Hamlin of Maine, sets forth a good example in one respect; we do not mean in the active participation in politics, but in the fact that in forty-three years he never changed or failed to keep an appointment:—
“It is said of Senator Hamlin, of Maine, that he has taken part in every political campaign in his State for forty-three years, and in that time has never once failed to keep an appointment.”
NEW YORK SABBATH-SCHOOLS, ATTENTION!
By M. H. Brown
Blank reports are sent to every Sabbath-school in our State, and we hope every superintendent and secretary will see that their blanks are filled out and sent to our State secretary promptly. Also see to it that each school is represented by delegate at our annual State meeting, which will be held in connection with the annual meeting of the T. and M. society, the third Sabbath and first day in October. The election of State officers for the S. S. Association will be made at that meeting, and other important business will be considered.
We earnestly urge all our preaching brethren and our tract and missionary officers to co-operate with us in securing prompt reports from all our Sabbath-schools, and a full representation, by delegate, at our annual meeting. The place of meeting will be given next week.
M. H. BROWN, Pres. S. S. A.Adams Center, N. Y.
REMEMBER THIS.
By C. H. Bliss
TO THE BRETHREN IN ILLINOIS.
1. That the quarterly meetings for our various churches are right upon us.
2. That in order to have the blessing of God upon us it is necessary to prepare to meet the Lord at the meeting. See Gen. 35: 1-3; Ex. 19: 10; Heb. 10: 22.
3. That our State has been divided into six sections, and a minister located in each one of these sections.
4. That it has been thought best for the churches to send their reports directly to the minister located in their section, so that he may examine them before sending to the State secretary.
5. That the time to report is the first Monday after the quarterly meeting. “Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord negligently.”
As I am located in northern Illinois my permanent post-office address will be Rockford, Ill.
C. H. Bliss.
THE SONG ANCHOR.
By Smith Sharp
I GLADLY acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the new edition of the Song Anchor. I have no hesitancy in saying that I regard it the best book of the kind ever published. The reduced price and the superiority of binding renders it still more desirable than the old edition, which gave universal satisfaction in our State where it has been introduced. I shall do all that I can to introduce it into the Sabbath-schools in Kansas. SMITH SHARP.
Bread Cast Upon the Waters.
By C. O.
FIVE years ago I handed the Voice of Truth to a family living in Illinois. Four of them are now keeping the Sabbath, and I expect there will be more. Missionaries, cast your bread upon the waters, and you shall find it after many days. C. O.
A prompt notice under this head of all books received, giving title, the name of the author and of the publisher, and the price, when known, will be considered by us as an equivalent to the publishers for the same. A more extended notice may be given whenever we consider that the interests of our readers would be subserved thereby.
ADVENT TEXT BOOK.
We have received from the author, C. H. Bliss, Bloomington, Ill., a copy of “The Advent Text Book.” The name indicates the nature of the work. It is a compilation of propositions on thirty-eight Bible subjects, with references under each to the Scripture texts which sustain the proposition; being a synopsis of thirty-eight Biblical lectures, interspersed with explanatory foot-notes, brief answers to nineteen supposed Scripture difficulties, etc., 112 pages. Price 20 cts. Liberal discount by the quantity.
FREEMASONRY AT A GLANCE.
We have received from Mr. E. Ronayne, 104 Bremer St., Chicago, Ill., a copy of a pamphlet bearing the above title. It contains, besides a woodcut likeness of Mr. Ronayne, forty-two illustrations representing the absurd and ridiculous mummeries of Masonry. Twenty-four pages, in paper cover, price 5 cts. Mr. Ronayne also publishes the “Handbook of Freemasonry,” 25 cts., and the “Master’s Carpet,” 75 cts. The two latter are also issued together under the title of “Mah-hah-bone,” for $1.00.
C. J. Whitaker of Bancroft, Shiawassee Co., Mich., would like to obtain a school near a Seventh-day Adventist society.
Will Bro. Francis Gould of Vt. please give us his P. O. address.
A. L. Bodine, East Elma, N. Y., would like to find employment with Sabbath-keepers in a sawmill or lumber woods.
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