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Significant Names.

By Dr. John Hall

DID you ever consider the significance of the names of places connected with the earthly career of Jesus Christ? He was born at Bethlehem, the house of bread. He is the living bread for our souls. He was brought up at Nazareth, the place of shrubs or sprouts. He is a tender shoot out of the stem of Jesse. He agonized at Gethsemane, the oil press. He trod the winepress alone, and of the people there was none with him.—Dr. John Hall.

Honesty in Trade: Sins of Commerce Condemned

EVIDENTLY the Christian has seen something of the world, or it never could have found out so many sins that need to be preached against as it condenses in a few paragraphs. “We want a religion,” it says, “that banishes small measures from the counters, small baskets from the stalls, sand from the sugar, chicory from coffee, alum from the bread, and water from the milk-cans. The religion that is to save the world will not put all the big strawberries at the top, and all the little ones at the bottom. It will not make one-half a pair of shoes of good leather, so that the first shall redound to the maker’s credit, and the second to his cash. It will not put Jouvin’s stamp on Jenkin’s kid gloves; or make Paris bonnets in the back-room of a Boston millinery shop; nor all-wool delaines and all linen handkerchiefs be amalgamated with clandestine cotton; nor coats made of old rags pressed together be sold to the unsuspecting public for real broadcloth. It does not put bricks at five dollars a thousand into chimneys it contracts to build with seven-dollar material; nor smuggle white pine into floors that have paid for hard pine; nor leave yawning cracks in closets where boards ought to join; nor make window blinds of slats that cannot stand the wind, and paint that cannot stand the sun, and fastenings that may be looked at, but on no account touched. The religion that is going to sanctify the world pays its debts. It does not consider that forty cents returned from one hundred cents given is according to the gospel, though it may be according to law. It looks on a man who has failed in trade, and who continues to live in luxury, as a thief.”

Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”

DEPARTED this life near Afton, Iowa, Dec. 16, little Nellie, daughter of A. and F. Goodale, aged two years, one month, and seven days. Funeral discourse by a Methodist minister. Text, 2 Sam. 12:23. E. J. T.

FELL asleep in Jesus, Nov. 15, 1874, in Green Lake township, Green Lake Co., Wis., sister Maranda M. Nelson, aged 49 years.

At an early age sister Nelson was converted and united with the Methodists; about twenty years since she became interested in and embraced the truths of the third angel’s message. The blessed hope of salvation through Jesus never lost its charms for her. Her consistent, humble, devoted Christian life showed that that hope grew brighter and brighter until life’s journey was completed.

She leaves a husband, son, mother, and many relatives, and a large circle of friends, to mourn her loss. Funeral discourse by the writer to a large and attentive congregation from 2 Sam. 14: 14.

S. H. Lane.

DIED, at White River Junction, Vt., Aug. 20, 1874, at the residence of her son-in-law D. F. Chase, sister Rhoda J. Atwood, aged 71 years, 2 months and 22 days. She embraced the truth under the labors of Bro. J. N. Loughborough, when the tent was in Newport, N. H.

Mrs. Daniel F. Chase.

DIED, in Sumner, Jefferson Co., Wis., Dec. 17, 1874, of pneumonia, after an illness of nine days, Eld. Waterman Phelps, aged sixty years and nine months. Funeral discourse by Eld. Willcox, from Rev. 21: 4, “There shall be no more death.”

T. Bickle.

Vick’s Floral Guide for 1875.

By Uriah Smith

THERE is an ineffaceable conviction in our minds that there is some connection between a man’s manner of conducting his business, and his manner of making it known. If that which a person throws out before the public as a representative of any enterprise in which he may be engaged is first class, we conclude his work is equally excellent.

If this is a correct principle, then James Vick, of Rochester, N. Y., is the best seed grower in all the world; for his Floral Guide, in which he illustrates and advertises his business, is the most beautiful production of the kind of which we have any knowledge.

We have received the first number for 1875. It contains over 100 pages, and 500 engravings, descriptions of more than 500 of our best flowers and vegetables, with directions for culture, colored plate, &c. The illustrations are pleasing in design and artistic in finish. It is a treat to look through the book, even if we do not procure any of the beautiful and useful things which it presents to us. The Guide is published at the merely nominal price of 25 cents a year. Address, James Vick, Rochester, N. Y.

U. S.

Appointments and General Meetings Announcements

Appointments.

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

* Services in Chicago, every Sabbath (seventh day), at 269 West Erie St. All Sabbath-keepers spending a Sabbath in Chicago are invited to attend.

GENERAL meetings as follows:— Mount Hope, Wis., Jan. 16, 17. Leon, “ Jan. 23, 24. Grove Lake, Minn., “ 30, 31. Mankato, “ Feb. 6, 7. Stewartsville, “ 13, 14. The friends are all requested to attend these meetings. S. N. Haskell.

The next general quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society for Michigan will be held at St. Charles, Feb. 20, 21, 1875. The directors should hold their quarterly meetings in time for this meeting. E. H. Root.

The next monthly meeting for Marshall Co., Iowa, will be held at State Center, the last Sabbath and first-day in Jan. All the scattered brethren and sisters are invited to attend, and it is hoped that all absent members of the church will report at this meeting. S. M. Holly, Elder.

The postponed series of meetings at Lovington, Ill., will be held in the new church, commencing Sabbath evening, Jan. 15, at 6½ o’clock, to continue as long as the interest demands. Eld. R. F. Andrews expects to be present. Those coming in from abroad bring bedding. All come who can. G. W. Colcord.

QUARTERLY meeting of the Centerville, Kan., church at the Keokuk School-house, Jan. 23, 24, 1875. Can brethren Cook and Lamont meet with us? J. N. Ayers, Clerk.

THE quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 3, of the Mo. & Kan. Conf. will be held in connection with the Q. M. for the Centerville church at the Keokuk school-house, Jan. 24, 1875. Librarians will see that all reports are forwarded to the Dist. Secretary one week before the meeting. J. N. Ayers, Director.

QUARTERLY meeting at Monroe, Wis., Jan. 24 and 25. Elders I. Sanborn and D. Downer are expected. Hope to see all of the friends of the cause in this vicinity. Come to work for the Lord and for yourselves. O. H. Pratt, Eld.

QUARTERLY meeting of the T. & M. Society for Dist. No. 6, Mich., at Orleans, Sabbath and first-day, Jan. 23, 24. Librarians are requested to send in reports in season for this meeting. J. Fargo, Director.

QUARTERLY meeting of the T. & M. Society for Dist. No. 3, Mich., at Quincy, Branch Co., Jan. 30, 31, 1875. Will the librarians send their reports to J. Warren Wright, Battle Creek, Mich., in season for this meeting? I. A. Olmstead, Director.

WILL meet with the brethren at Arkansas, Pepin Co., Wis., Jan. 16 and 17. Will labor in that vicinity as the way may open. H. W. Decker.

T. & M. QUARTERLY meeting with the church at Wright, Ottawa Co., Mich., Sabbath and first-day, Jan. 23, 24, 1875. The librarians are requested to send their reports to the Secretary, E. Higley, Coopersville, Ottawa Co., one week previous to this meeting. J. S. Wicks, Director.

THE next monthly meeting of Seventh-day Adventists of Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., will be held at Cottage the third Sabbath and first-day in January, 1875. B. B. Warren.

No providence preventing, I will meet with the churches in Maine, as follows:— Brunswick, evenings, Jan. 13, 14, 1875. Richmond, monthly meeting, “ 16, 17, “ Canaan, “ “ 23, 24, “ Cornville, “ “ 30, 31, “ West Athens, evening, Feb. 2, “ No postponement on account of weather. J. B. Goodrich.

Dedication.

VICTOR, Iowa Co., Iowa, Jan. 16, 17, 1875. Dedication services will be held on Sunday, the 17th. It is to be hoped that the friends of the cause in this vicinity will be present at these meetings. Bro. Butler may be present with us. Meetings to begin Friday evening. R. M. Kilgore.

Business Department.

Not slothful in Business. Rom. 11:12

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PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

By James White

Personal.

PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.

Since our return from California last August, we have been confined at Battle Creek, excepting flying visits to the Ohio and Northern Michigan camp-meetings. We have never worked harder, and yet we feel stronger for labor than five months ago. We have had special trials and hardships to endure, and have been wonderfully sustained.

But the time has fully come for us to change our labors and relation to the cause. We found matters in bad shape in several respects at headquarters, and have labored incessantly to improve them, to the neglect of the work of greater importance to which God has called us. Our people have too long laid the burden of general management of the working of the cause upon us. We have finally fully reached the point of decision to lay these burdens down, a point from which we can never be induced to go back. Let these cares and burdens be divided among our younger men. We, from this time onward, give ourselves to the word of God and to prayer. In this new relation, we come closer to the vital interests of the cause for which we have given a quarter of a century of the strength of life, and to which we most devoutly consecrate the balance.

We leave for the Pacific Coast in a week or two, to avoid what remains of winter and a Michigan spring, to counsel with the brethren in California relating to publishing and other matters, to speak to our people as the way may open, and write for our periodicals.

God has raised us up to health again, and we solemnly covenant with him not to abuse it under the cares and labors of a printing establishment in Michigan, California, or anywhere else. We hope to visit all our Conferences and home missions during the present year, in company with Mrs. W. We take time for rest, reflection, prayer, and preparation to speak and to write, and design for the future to undertake less, and do better what we attempt to do.

JAMES WHITE.

Kansas and Missouri.

By James White

The General Conference Committee have had under consideration the wants of our preachers in the Kansas and Missouri Conference. They recommend:—

1. That our brethren in that Conference be released from all pledges for the general good of the cause.

2. That tracts be furnished to ministers and Tract and Missionary workers from the book fund.

3. That means to a certain amount, more or less, as the case demands, should be furnished from the General Conference, and from individuals, for this one purpose, namely, to keep successful laborers in the field. For this object we individually donate one hundred dollars, and invite others to help also.

Address, REVIEW AND HERALD.

James White.

Change of Publication Day.

By Editor

OUR readers have perhaps noticed that the day of the publication of this paper is changed from the third day of the week to the sixth day of the week. It has been decided to issue it later in the week for a number of reasons, among which may be mentioned convenience to the Office, and an advantage to those who may have appointments to send in. By the present arrangement, the Office is relieved from its greatest pressure of business on the first day of the week, when it is often desirable that all should be at liberty to attend important meetings, and appointments decided upon at meetings held on Sabbaths and first-days can be inserted in the next paper. All appointments received as early as Wednesday morning will go into the paper of that week.

Twenty New Believers at Beaverville, Illinois

Bro. R. F. Andrews, writing from Beaverville, Ill., under date of Dec. 10, 1874, says that twenty have taken their stand on the truth in that place. We hope to hear a more full report soon.

Change of Appointments for Grove Lake and West Union

By Editor

The appointments heretofore given for Grove Lake, Minn., and West Union, Iowa, give place to Bro. Haskell’s appointments in this number.

To the Officers of the Iowa and Neb. Tract & Missionary Society.

By H. Nicola

You will take notice that G. V. Kilgore has resigned his position as secretary, and that L. McCoy of Sigourney, Keokuk Co., Iowa, has been appointed to fill the place.

It is expected that all business for the REVIEW Office will be transacted through the officers of this Society, and that officers and members will supply themselves with the necessary blanks, and report promptly.

All orders for papers, books, or tracts, sent directly to the REVIEW Office, without the proper recommendations, will positively be returned for such indorsement.

The secretary should know perfectly the condition of each district in the State. Please rewrite, report promptly. H. NICOLA, Pres.

Jan. 4, 1875.