Bro. WHITE: The following obituary, should have appeared months ago, but was inadvertently omitted. Please give it a place in the Review and oblige all interested.
Died, in Westbrook, Me., May 20, 1865, Jennie E., daughter of Bro. N. Atkins, jun., aged 20 years.
She sweetly sleeps in Jesus now;
Her sorrows all are o'er;
A victor's crown will deck her brow,
On Eden's blissful shore.
Then mourning friends, in God rejoice,
For soon the day will come
When you will hear dear Jennie's voice,
In her eternal home.
DIED, in Moscow, Hillsdale Co., Mich., Feb. 26, 1866, sister Befama Philips, in the 67th year of her age. Sister P. embraced the Sabbath and kindred doctrines, under the labors of Eld. J. N. Loughborough and S. W. Rhodes, at Roosevelt, N. Y. She has lived consistent with her faith, and now rests from her labors till the trumpet sounds, to awake to eternal life in the kingdom of God.
DIED in Wolcott, Vt., Sept. 20, 1865, Azuba, wife of Bro. Hiram Patch, in the 70th year of her age. Though she never made a public profession of religion, she gave evidence of love for the truth for many years before her death, by reading the Review and other Advent publications, and by observing the Sabbath.
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Mich. State Conference.
The Michigan State Conference of S. D. Adventists, will hold its sixth annual session at Battle Creek, Mich., Thursday, May 17, 1866, at 9 o'clock A. M. Let there be a faithful representation by delegates or letters from all the churches. Churches who wish to join the Conference, should also make their wishes known at this meeting. Let all delegates and ministers come prepared to make the various reports to the Conference that the constitution requires.
By order of the Committee,
I. D. VAN HORN, Secretary.
Our Yearly Meetings.
By Uriah Smith
SPECIAL NOTICE.
The meetings appointed in this week's Review, to be held at Battle Creek, May 16-21, are not designed for large gatherings. The arrangement for Monthly or Quarterly Meetings that exists in most of the States, which meetings are designed especially for the religious benefit of the brethren and churches, renders it unnecessary that a large company should assemble at our yearly meetings to be benefited by the religious exercises of the occasion. More benefit can be derived by the brethren and sisters, and less burden be brought upon any one church, by having a number of small meetings in various localities, than by a large gathering at any one place.
Second, the circumstances of the Battle Creek church the present season, are not favorable to the entertaining of a large gathering. It is therefore expected that the different meetings will be composed principally of delegates. Provision will be made for all who come in this capacity. It is also specially requested that those who design to come send word to the Office beforehand, that we may know how many to make provision for.
In behalf of the Gen. Conf. and Mich. Conf. Committees, and the Trustees of the S. D. A. Publishing Association.
U. S.
To Correspondents.
By Editor
ARTICLES DECLINED. "Clouds." We would say to the writer, that articles bearing more especially on some point of the present truth, would, we think, be more acceptable to the readers of the Review.
ARTICLES ACCEPTED.Rom. vii.—Experience.—The Lord's Coming.—Memorial of Bro. Bostwick.—Report from Bro. Matteson.—A Question for the Disciples.—An Item upon Order.—Letters of Recommendation.—Put your Children to Bed.—How are we justified?—Lord teach us how to pray.—Presumptuous sins.—Serpent Worship.—Faith.—Articles Declined.
Time Lost.—Old and New Style.
By J. M. A.
A NEW tract, entitled as above, has just been issued at this Office.
“Time lost,” and “Old and New Style,” are very frequently urged as objections against the identity of the seventh-day Sabbath. Our brethren should supply themselves with a package of these tracts, that they may be prepared to nail these objections whenever occasion is offered. Price $1,00 per hundred. J. M. A.
The Seven Trumpets.
WE have just published a thoroughly revised and enlarged edition of this important Tract which has been out of print for some years. This work is a complete exposition of Rev. viii, and ix, and those who wish to be posted on the important subject of the sounding of the Seven Trumpets, will here find the facts—historical and critical—made ready to their hands. It is put up in neat style, the extracts, for the reader's convenience, being placed in smaller type. It occupies 60 pages, and will be furnished for 10 cents. Postage 2 cents. Who wants the Seven Trumpets?
J. M. A.
Confession.
By Edward Saxby
Bro. WHITE: I would say to the brethren and sisters who have known my manner of life since I have separated myself from God's people, that I humbly confess my backslidden condition for the past four years, during which time I have found no rest; and whereas I thought that Bro. White was too plain with me at the tent meeting held at North Sutton four years ago, and that Bro. A. C. Bourdeau was out of his place, I now feel free to say that Bro. White was not plainer than my case demanded, and that Bro. A. C. B. was in his place. And I would here ask the forgiveness of Brn. White and Bourdeau for what I have said in regard to them. I would also ask an interest in the prayers of the brethren and sisters that I may recover myself from the snare of the Devil, be fully restored to the favor of God, and be saved at the coming of Christ.
EDWARD SAXBY.
Bakersfield, Vt., March 28, 1866.
Boys Using Tobacco.
By H. F. Phelps
THE following short article I copy from the Rural American. If it is worthy, please publish.
H. F. PHELPS.
"A strong, sensible writer says a good sharp thing, and a true one, too, for boys who use tobacco. It induces a dangerous precocity. It tends to a softening and weakening of the bones, and it greatly injures the brain, the spinal marrow and the whole nervous fluid.
A boy who smokes early, and frequently, or in any way uses large quantities of tobacco, is never known to make a man of much energy, and generally lacks muscular and physical, as well as mental power. We would particularly warn boys who want to be anything in the world, to shun tobacco as the most baneful poison. It injures the teeth. It produces an unhealthy state of the throat and lungs, hurts the stomach, and blasts the brain and nerves."
Dangers Ahead.
SAYS the New York Daily Herald, of March 12th, 1866:—
"No point in our history has been more dangerous than this; and we may see the real extent of this danger by comparing our position with analogous ones in the history of other nations."
In a late speech of a Senator in Congress, he is reported to have said:—
"The country is alarmed, the people are anxious, and the political atmosphere bodes the coming of no common storm. What can we do to prevent it, and bring back peace to the country and harmony to the party? Is there no common ground on which we can stand? Is there no common standard round which we can rally. . . . If, however, we refuse moderate counsel, the only remedy will be to take the consequences, and they seldom linger long behind the act."
Candid, thinking, observing men, are well satisfied that some great event is at hand.
Appointments.
By Uriah Smith
General Conference.
The fourth session of the General Conference of S. D. Adventists, will be held in Battle Creek, Mich., Wednesday, May 16, 1866, at 9 o'clock, A. M. The different State Conference Committees will see that their delegates are duly appointed and furnished with credentials. In those localities where there is no State Conference yet organized, brethren can represent themselves by delegate or letter, at their discretion. Let all parts of the field be well represented by delegates or letters. Ministers will remember the amendment of the constitution passed at the last meeting, that all those in the employ of the Conference, make a written report of each week's labor during the Conference year.
By order of the Gen. Conf. Com.
U. SMITH, Secretary.
Meeting of the S. D. A. Publishing Association.
By J. M. Aldrich
The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association will hold its sixth annual session at Battle Creek, Mich., Friday, May 18, 1866, at 9 o'clock, A. M., to deliberate for the general interests of the Association, elect officers, and transact any other business that may come before the meeting.
By order of the Trustees,
J. M. Aldrich, Secretary.
Oakland Quarterly Meeting
By John Matteson
PROVIDENCE permitting, there will be a Quarterly Meeting of the Oakland church, Wis., on Sabbath and first-day, April 14 and 15. All who can, are kindly invited to attend.
JOHN MATTESON.
Numbering the Sermons
By Editor
THE Sermon furnished us by Bro. Matteson, this week, we number three, commencing our enumeration from Bro. Goodrich's discourse in No. 5, present volume; A Short Sermon on the Fourth Commandment, by Bro. Waggoner, in No. 16, being number two.