Bro. White: Myself and wife were very glad to receive the copy of Appeal to the Youth sent us, and after reading the little book, I must say that no pamphlet ever issued from the Office ever pleased me more, and I am satisfied it is destined under God to accomplish great good, not only to the young, but also another class of "little children" who have seen more years of experience than those for whom the Appeal was expressly designed at first. Those earnest, instructive, and simple letters of an affectionate, faithful, Christian mother to her absent children, though coming to us as they have by your courtesy and kind regard without money and without price, we shall ever esteem as among the most valuable and choice of reading for our young family. Our united hearts cry out, O God, give them a wide circulation among thy remnant people. The excellent discourse by Bro. Smith setting forth the hope of the church through the resurrection of the dead in so clear and pointed a manner, together with the letters of consolation abounding and overflowing with the same hope, greatly comfort and edify the true believer in Christ. Those who knew Henry, and love music, will ever appreciate the beautiful pieces, the "Evergreen Shore," and the "Pilgrim Band," which last he arranged himself and used to sing so sweetly. The closing verses by brother Smith on his death possess a double beauty and value when we consider them not only in the literary point of view, but also in the doctrinal. As a whole the tract is excellent, and should find a place in substantial binding in the library of every believing family as a standard work for the young. To the personal friends and acquaintances of our departed brother, his lithographic likeness will impart an additional value to the book.
Respectfully,
Edwin C. Stiles.
Portland, Me.
A. C. BOURDEAU
By A. C. Bourdeau
From Bro. Bourdeau.
BRO. WHITE. I have read with interest your articles in Review No. 10, entitled "Eastern Tour," and "To our Friends." I deeply sympathize with you in your great afflictions, and try to remember you in my feeble prayers. You and sister White fill an important place in the work of the Lord, and the enemy, would be glad to paralyze your efforts in the cause. But the Lord has been with you thus far and will not leave you helpless. He is ever able and willing to strengthen and sustain you in all your afflictions, and they will work out for you a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
I have gladly and gratefully received "Appeal to the Youth." It is the very thing wanted for the youth among us at the present time. The funeral address is comprehensive, instructive and appropriate. The narrative relates to a youth who has had an experience in the present truth, and it cannot fail to benefit the youth. The easy and familiar style in which the letters are written, the spirit they breathe, and the principles they encourage will make them highly interesting and profitable to parents and children, and to all those who will carefully peruse them.
A. C. BOURDEAU
The Purity of Present Truth
By E. Jones
From Bro. Jones.
BRO. WHITE: I have deep feelings of gratitude to God that I have ever been brought to see the glorious light of present truth. I was brought up to believe in and look for a time of peace, or spiritual reign of Christ of a thousand years before his personal appearing. But when I take heed to the sure word of prophecy, I learn that in the last days we shall see some of the characteristics of the days which preceded the flood. Then they were eating and drinking and giving in marriage, which implies that the world was more wicked just before Noah entered the ark, than they were in any former age. And so it will be in the days of the coming of the Son of man. And while the evidences are thickening around us, and these evidences are being presented before the world, the messenger and his message, are treated just as the world treated Noah and his message. This annihilates the idea that the world is growing better.
We are now having a comparatively pure gospel preached to the world, and because of its purity the nominal church and the world have united in rejecting it. So it was when Christ taught some of the humiliating truths of the gospel. Some said, This is a hard saying who can bear it? and they went away, Jesus turned to his disciples and asked, Will ye also go away? This shows that however humiliating any truth may be, we should never reject but love and cherish it in the heart.
Paul was persecuted for his preaching that the Christian received his reward at the resurrection. The doctrine is equally discarded now. But by whom? By the stoics and philosophers of nominal professors.
It would seem that they would be compelled to believe the plain words of Jesus when he says, "For they cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just." But this testimony is rejected with the rest. The Catholic and Protestant world have both got a track laid from death to Paradise upon which the majority of the world is traveling. But brethren and sisters, let us choose the highway of holiness which the Lord has marked out for us to walk in, feeling an assurance that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so them which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Let us all be faithful and immovable always abounding in the work of the Lord inasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Yours waiting for the return of the Lord,
E. Jones.
Dryden, Mich.
Extracts from Letters.
Bro. Wm. S. Lane writes from Beaver Dam, N. Y.: I bless the Lord for his long suffering and tender mercy toward me, in bringing me to see and realize the present truth. I rejoice in hope of the glory that shall soon be revealed at the coming of the Son of man. I almost shrink when I view the trials that await God's people; but his grace will be sufficient.
Bro. C. O. Rathbun writes from Lapeer, Mich. : Dear brethren and sisters, how good the Lord is in these last days to show us the right way in which to walk, in order that we may inherit eternal life. He has promised to be with us through all our troubles, trials and temptations, and deliver us out of them all, and carry us safely through to the haven of rest, if we will put our trust in him. We are to take heed to our ways, hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful who has promised. Again he saith, Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward; for ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise; for yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry.
Obituary Notices.
DIED on Block Island, Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 10, 1864, Lucretia D., wife of Abram R. Mott, in the fifty-third year of her age. Sister Mott was one of the first Sabbath-keepers on this Island. She was a faithful Christian companion and mother, and was universally beloved. The Sabbath before she died her testimony was truly cheering. That she sleeps in Jesus no one has a shadow of doubt.
Also their son, Nathaniel Mott, aged 26 years, died Feb. 14, 1864. His disease was consumption. He leaves a companion to mourn with many other friends. He had always been considered exemplary in life, but had not met with a satisfactory change until during his last sickness. He said he had but one desire to live, and that was to witness to all, what the Lord had done for him.
At each of these funerals we spoke to a large concourse of people concerning the nature of man and the Christian's hope. An unusual interest was manifested in the subject of the Bible hope.
M. E. CORNELL.
DIED of diptheria, near Marion, Linn Co., Iowa, Feb. 7th, Merrit C. Ross, son of Bro. and sister Ross, aged three years, eight months and twenty-nine days. The writer spoke to an attentive congregation on the means devised by which we may attain to a better resurrection.
WM. H. BRINKERHOFF.
Love in Deed and in Truth.
By Editor
Three weeks since, we gave under the caption, Go Thou and do Likewise, an extract from a note from Bro. Heistand, with remarks relative to Eld. J. N. Andrews. It is proper to state here that the brethren in the State of New York have purposed to get Bro. A. a home, and have done something toward it, but how much, we cannot now report. What they have done, pledged, or purposed, can be put into the general free-will offering. Bro. A. has worked for the general good of the cause, not only in preaching from Maine to Minnesota, but his invaluable works are telling, and will tell, on the cause everywhere.
When he last commenced his labors in the State of New York, that was a hard and discouraging field; but, with the blessing of God, he is straightening things up, and new life is entering the churches. His principal work will probably be with the churches; not confined to any one State; but to work where his labor is most needed. When New York can spare him, New England may demand and deserve his labors for a while. Bro. Andrews is not the property of any one State; but to God's servant, and in a certain sense the property of the entire cause. As such, the brethren who have abundance will with the greatest pleasure provide him a liberal home. We want to raise at least Twelve Hundred Dollars, these times when dollars will buy so little. We will now state what we want, and what we don't want in raising the necessary sum to get Bro. Andrews a good home:
WHAT WE DON'T WANT.
1. We don't want anything from those who are embarrassed with debts, and have not the property at their command to pay them.
2. We don't want anything from those who do not pay up promptly for the Review and Instructor.
3. We don't want anything from the stingy.
4. We don't want anything from those who have families, and have no home of their own.
5. We don't want anything from those who are depending on each week's labor for support.
6. We don't want anything from the aged who have only a competency.
7. We don't want anything from any one who would feel that Bro. A. was in the least indebted to them.
8. We don't want anything from those whose faith is so weak that they expect to backslide, and be sorry afterward for what they may give.
9. We don't want anything less than $10 from any one, and can accept of no sums less than $5.
10. We don't want anything from any one who would give less on other benevolent objects, in consequence of helping Bro. Andrews.
WHAT WE DO WANT.
1. We want the sum made up promptly, without a second call.
2. We want every dollar of it to be a free-will offering, given from choice.
3. We want it in sums from ten to one hundred dollars. Those who are not able to give ten dollars, or more, as well as not, should feel excused from assisting in this matter.
4. We want the aged pilgrims, whose opportunities to do good must soon close, who have many thousands to leave to wealthy heirs, to consider their duty in this matter.
5. We want young men of health, strength, some property, and small family, if any, to take stock in this enterprise.
6. We want all those in good circumstances, who prize such works as the History of the Sabbath, Three Messages, Sanctuary, written by Bro. Andrews, more than they do gold and silver, and greenbacks, to show their gratitude to the worn author by doing liberally just now.
7. We want those brethren who are burdened with houses, lands, mortgages, notes, and greenbacks, to find a little relief at this time in giving Bro. Andrews much relief.
8. We want that brother who has a fine farm of one, two, or three 80s, well stocked, and money to let, to let the Lord have some to help his servant just now.
9. We want that brother who has his last year's clipping of wool, his wheat, and corn, and has not sold it because he has not known where to put the money, to see that we have found a good place for some of it.
10. We want to see the sum raised by the first day of May, 1864, without taking one cent which should be donated to the General Conference fund, the State Conference funds, or paid for papers and books to scatter abroad. And we feel confident that we shall not be disappointed.
Pledges and money can be sent to the Review Office. The General Conference Committee will hold the means for Bro. Andrews till he and they decide where Bro. Andrews should locate his family.
To be paid before May 1, 1864:
James and Ellen G. White, $50.00.
Bibles and Bible Helps
By Editor
We have American Bibles which we can send with Charts, Concordance, Bible Dictionary, Bible Atlas, &c., &c., by express, charges pre-paid. The sizes of the Bibles range from a pocket Bible to a good sized family Bible. Prices from 65 cents to $2.25. These Bibles we sell for just what we paid for them one year since.
Appeal to the Youth Editions
Two editions of the Appeal to the Youth have been printed, and are nearly half gone. The first sells for 30 cents. The second, without likeness, 15 cents. Fine, thick paper, is ordered for a third edition, to be bound with likeness, for 75 cents.
Praise for the Appeal
ELDER J. N. Andrews says: "I am highly pleased with the Appeal. It will do good everywhere."
Talk with our Committee.
By Editor
WE beg leave to report another accession of forty-seven more subscribers to our list during the past week. We are having a slow but sure and gradual increase, and in time will no doubt raise the list to the desired number, but the increase is not fast enough to raise it to five thousand by the close of this volume. So, brethren and sisters, you must make greater efforts, or make up your minds to continue longer in the work, for whether sooner or later, by the blessing of God and your efforts, we expect to realize the consummation of our hopes.
We have only heard from about three hundred of the Committee, which would leave some two thousand five hundred families where the Review is taken from whom we have had no response. It will require but a trifling effort on the part of those to fill out the balance of the quota. Brethren and sisters, will you do it? Make a special effort, and you will undoubtedly succeed.
We have kept a list of the members of the Committee who have sent in subscribers since the 1st of January, 1864, with the number sent in by each. This we propose to publish in next week's Review, giving the number of subscribers obtained from the first of January to the first of March, and hereafter shall publish similar reports monthly. We hope to be permitted to place on the record a large number of the names of our Committee during the month of March, and at its close report the largest monthly list yet obtained.
E. S. W.
Appointments.
SOME brother from Battle Creek will meet with the church at Convis, Sabbath, March 5. The bad going and rain prevented Bro. Byington from meeting with them last Sabbath.
THE next quarterly meeting of the Seventh-day Adventists of Peoria co. Ills., will be held at the Christian Church in Princeville, the first Sabbath and first day of March which will be the 5th, and 6th, of the month. We hope to see a general attendance. Cannot Bro. Sanborn or Bro. Ingraham be with us on this occasion.
H. C. BLANCHARD.
Business Department.
By Editor
Business Notes.
C. A. Ingalls. The price of Spiritual Gifts Vol. 3 is 75 cents.
W. H. Brinkerhoff. The $1. was received and the Testimonies sent.
H. C. Blanchard. There are 25 cents due on Instructor sent to C. Colwell.
RECEIPTS.
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Cash Received on Account.
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General Conference Missionary Fund.
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