p. 200 | Review and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 25. (12/2/1873)

Earlier text: A Call to the Ministry. What Is It?

Judge Not.

“Judge not that ye be not judged.” He who spake these words was wise above all others, and well would it be for his children to heed the warning voice of that dear Saviour, coming down to them through the lapse of intervening ages, teaching his little flock the blessed doctrine of forbearance and patience with all men. When we see actions in others that look wrong to us, let us remember, with “that charity that thinketh no evil,” that we are not to be their judges. We know little of the outward circumstances surrounding them, or the influences brought to bear upon their conduct; nothing of the inward temptations, the heart-struggles, they may have to contend with. How chary, then, should we be of censuring them; for what we would condemn as reprehensible may be unavoidable necessity, or, viewed in another light, may seem right to others. There is sometimes a very fine dividing line between right and wrong; let us each, and all, act as our conscience may dictate, not as our self-interest would lead us; and leave the rest with God. We are all short-sighted beings, and the best of us are liable to err, being very apt to take that view of any case that will best promote our own interests. With our own faults we can never be too severe, but ought always to think with consideration of those of others, remembering that we are all little enough deserving of the mercy and kindness shown us by our Heavenly Father. If we do not follow their divine example, and let judgment be tempered with mercy, how can we expect to escape the more just wrath of an unerring God? Let us daily ponder these words in our hearts, and live by them. “Judge not, that ye be not judged, for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”—Sel.

Covetousness: Achan's Theft of Jericho's Spoils

By Julia McNair Wright

Covetousness.

The whole manner of Achan’s crime showed that covetousness was a habit with him. He was so secret, so wary, so persistent, so utterly obstinate, about his deed.

As he went up, sword in hand, over the prostrate wall, he came to the dwelling of a great man of Jericho, perhaps even to the palace of the king. The greedy eye of Achan was alert for plunder. He had not laid it to heart that Jericho was accursed, and all its gold and silver were consecrated to the Lord, and were to be brought into the sanctuary, purged by fire, and converted to sacred use.

The wealth of Jericho was the gain of vice and oppression. Its treasures were sacred to Baal and Ashtaroth: now the wrath of man was to redound to the glory of the God of Heaven, and the spoils of the idols were to decorate the sanctuary of the King of kings.

Looking eagerly about him, keeping guard neither over his eyes nor the lusts of his heart, Achan saw a noble trophy. Before him lay a right royal robe, a Babylonish garment. Even when he is about to die for its sake, it is so precious in his eyes that, with a miser’s relish, he calls it “a goodly Babylonish garment.” “It was,” says Josephus, “woven entirely of gold, fit for a king.” Near this garment were two hundred shekels of silver, probably in some wrought purse or bag, and a wedge of gold, in weight, fifty shekels.

Achan at once desired these for his own possession; he did not consider how worthily they would grace the Tabernacle; he did not remember that they were already the Lord’s, and that the eye of their Owner was fixed on him.

“Will a man rob God? But ye have robbed me, saith the Lord of hosts.”

We see that Achan was a true miser, one who loved treasure for its own sake, not on account of what he could do with it. There is a vast difference between these two classes. The world unites in execrating men who get gold to gloat over it in secret; to cherish it, and cling to it, and love it like a human thing.

Others gather money with equal avidity, but they get it as the means of amassing treasures of art and literature; of securing education, and lavishing beautiful gifts on their families and friends. If they add to this, that as they get they give; that their money is a fountain whence flow a hundred rills of blessing to the needy, and which make the waste places of the church bloom like the rose, then men rejoice in their success, as the securing of a positive good.

Achan loved the golden garment, the silver shekels, and the shining wedge for themselves. He at once appropriated them to his own use, and made all speed to his tent to hide them. His family, as we learn from the sequel, were like-minded with himself. They shared his doom; and, as God is just, it is evident that they shared his crime. A trench was dug in the earth under the tent of Achan, and there they hid away God’s property, the consecrated first-fruits of the spoils of Canaan.

Achan had plenty of time to deliberate, to repent, to make restitution, but he had no idea of doing either; he gloated over his booty.

Before long, he began to see the effect of his sin, for his people were smitten at Ai; and instead of coming again in triumph, the defeated army returned, rending the air with their cries, and bringing the dead bodies of thirty-six warriors.

Shame and confusion of face were Israel’s portion. In thirty-six tents the wailing women took up the lamentations for the dead. The “hearts of all the people melted and became as water.”

Joshua, with torn garments and disheveled locks, lay weeping on his face before the ark of God.

The seventy elders of Israel put dust on their reverend heads, and refused to be comforted.

Achan knew why this blow had fallen; he saw the chiefs of his own tribe, Nabshon and Zabdi, lamenting thus before offended God, and he knew well that the root of all this bitterness was golden, and planted in the earth in the midst of his tent. Still he did not repent. It was open to him to confess and to restore; but no, he valued his treasure more than the lives and happiness of his people, more even than the fate of his nation.

His sin can not be hidden, and God becomes his accuser. The meaning of the disaster is made plain: There is a sinner in Israel.—“Saints and Sinners of the Bible,” by Mrs. Julia McNair Wright.

Words of Cheer.

By M. J. Bahler

“Though our sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isa. 1:18.

Oh! why can we not believe these holy words? You may bear a sinful heart, so covered with the foul stains that there is no pure place visible, and yet there is a remedy. Calvary’s bleeding Lamb opens a fountain in which you, with all your sin-stains, may be washed clean and pure. But others cannot place you in that fountain. We would quickly do it if we could; but, no; you must accept the offered pardon yourself. You must step into the troubled waters of your own free will if you would be made clean. Only believe that you are accepted, and turn with deep abhorrence from the old life and you may yet win.

And, trembling Christian, you whose feet have so many times slipped that the tempter whispers, “It is of no use, you have dishonored the Master too many times,” listen. He saveth unto the uttermost, and “him that cometh unto me I will in nowise cast out.” “Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.” Don’t wait to make yourself presentable; come now. M. J. Bahler.

The Divine Helper.

We believe in the Holy Spirit; and this faith is full of comfort, full of power. We could not hope to live with any approach, even the most distant, to the Christian standard without it; we could not go down to our graves “sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust” unless at each stage and every hour this our faith were melting, and flowing in a sweet experience. Without controversy, great is the power of the Holy Spirit; and after all controversies, “the faithful in Christ Jesus” are essentially of one mind in respect to its office in the economy of divine grace. What is that office? It is impossible to phrase it, in all its variety and comprehensiveness, in a definition, or to describe it in full by any delineation. But it may help us in the endeavor to see what it is, if we suppose that Christianity had handed down to us only the knowledge of God as the Father, and the example of a perfect human life in the beloved Son, with all the ethical and even spiritual instructions recorded in the gospel. At first thought, it might seem that this is enough; but a little reflection and the testimony of experience will satisfy us that something more is needed. For how shall man, infirm of moral purpose, with only languid and intermittent religious desires, immersed so largely in material interests, with a great burden of sin resting upon him—how shall he brace himself up to the task, and pursue it unaided, of transforming the frail creature he is into a true child of God as seen in the face of Jesus Christ? Surely something else is needed, some power, some hope, not found in words even the heavenliest, nor in examples though the most perfect.

And if we are going to express this deepest want in the form of prayer, we should bow our knees before the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and say: Send down, O Lord, thy Holy Spirit to renew us with might in the inner man; to make us strong in whatever is right to do thy will; to assist our feeble endeavors; to quicken our dull consciences; to take away our shame and fear; to give a fresh start and glow to our affections; and to keep our minds fixed, trusting in thee. A divine Helper who can enter the inner chamber of man’s life, the very holy of holies in that temple of God man is, touch the secret springs of his moral being, and supply new impulse and force to his faint, weary, struggling soul; a divine Comforter too, to allay the fevers of the worn and anxious brain, to still the fears and the hurried throbbings of the disquieted bosom, to plead with and mollify the accusing conscience,—such a Comforter, such a Helper, is not this man’s eternal need? Would not the divine dispensations be incomplete without such an effluence from God into the soul that is open and waiting to receive it? A Father, uncommunicative, having no immediate connection with his children, no way of reaching their hearts in their sorest needs, is scarcely a Father to be loved “with all the heart and soul and mind and strength.”

Therefore the truth of the Fatherhood of God is supplemented by that of the perpetual coming of the Holy Spirit, “to bring conviction of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment;” to scatter the shades of doubt, and confirm the word spoken in the outward ear; to calm sorrow; to breathe peace; and to witness with our spirits that we are the children of God. Christ might be all he is to us, and the Holy Spirit not known. God might be our Father, and no Holy Spirit visit us. But who could spare that breath divine, now that it is come and is forever coming? Whose prayer falters in the song:—

“Holy Spirit, light divine. Shine upon this heart of mine; Chase the shades of night away; Turn the darkness into day.

“Holy Spirit, love divine, Glow within this heart of mine; Kindle every high desire; Cleanse my soul in thy pure fire.

“Holy Spirit, joy divine, Cheer this saddened heart of mine; Bid my troubled thoughts be still; With thy peace my spirit fill.”

—Monthly Religious Magazine.

Forgiven Long Ago.

By H. T. Robbins

YEARS ago, I read in Charles Kingsley somewhere—and I have never forgotten it—that when we have thought our highest and best of the love of God, the real thing is beyond it infinitely. There is nothing on earth like it, save the love of a mother for a lost son. Oh! friends, put away dark and harsh views of the love of God; they are all devil’s lies; there is no truth in them. If you were moved now to return this minute to the great God, in whose heart nestles all fatherhood, and motherhood too, he would receive you straight away into the embrace of his almighty love. The love of God is the highest thing that angel’s know. I lately heard one tell this story: “It was my happiness to know something of the enduring and indestructible character of a mother’s love. She had much trouble when I was young. My father died early, and we soon found out that he died a bankrupt. Things had to be sold. One trouble came after another, and my widowed mother had as much as she could bear in the way of anxiety and toil. At last, to crown all, her eldest son, who should have been her prop and stay, ran away in very distressing circumstances. I well remember the early years of that cruel separation. Sitting by the fire in the long winter nights, my mother would speak to me and the other children calmly and quietly of our poor father that was dead; but if anybody named the wanderer, she could not endure the anguish; and so after a time his name was never heard. I remember how, in the night, when the wind was raging round our humble cottage on the hill, making it tremble to its foundation, I used to hear my mother, for her bedroom was over mine, pacing the floor all night, sobbing and praying for her lost boy. She did not know where he was, and, for aught she knew, he might be on the sea. Fourteen years passed away. All of us were scattered except two, who were twins, now men, but little more than babies when their brother went away. ’Twas early summer, and they and mother were sitting in the little parlor with the window open. To the window, with halting step, came a great, dark-bearded stranger. He looked in, leaning on the window sill. My mother looked at him, and did not know him at first. But the big tears were running down his face, and she knew him through the tears. She sprang up and bade him instantly come in, ‘No, mother!’ said he, ‘I shall never cross your threshold till you have told me that you forgive me everything.’ My mother said, ‘Why, dear! I’ve forgiven you long, long ago. There’s now nothing to forgive, save that you have stayed away so long.’—Rev. H. T. Robbins.

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, in Santa Rosa, Cal., Nov. 12, 1873, of catarrhal consumption, John Ferguson, aged seventy-nine years, two months, and seven days. Bro. Ferguson was among those who embraced the truth and were baptized at the time of the tent meeting in Santa Rosa four years ago last June. Although advanced in years, he has ever been a faithful, active, and cheerful member of the church. His last affliction was borne with patience and submission. Almost his last words were praises to the Lord. We think the words of Job. 5:26, applicable to his case: “Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.” J. N. Loughborough.

Died, at Hook’s Point, Iowa, Nov. 1, 1873, Bro. Geo. Cornell, aged thirty years, eight months, and twenty days. Bro. Cornell embraced the third angel’s message a year ago under the labors of Eld. R. M. Kilgore. Since then, has been a consistent member of the Hook’s Point church. The last days of his sickness were marked with severe affliction, but it all tended to drive him nearer the Lord; and he said, “The truth shines brighter and brighter.” When he found there was no hope of his recovery, he calmly and deliberately arranged his temporal matters, and submitted to the will of God. We have reason to believe he sleeps in Jesus. He leaves a wife and two children and many friends to mourn their loss. May this sad affliction be sanctified to the bereaved family, and may we all finally be gathered when the Lifegiver comes. W. B. Everhart.

Battle Creek School Term Enrollment and Student Board

By George I. Butler

ment. There are very many of our young people who should attend this term. And those in more mature years, who have not had the advantages of early education, would do well to spend one term, at least, in study. It would be worth more to them than dollars and cents. We are never too old to learn, and it is always honorable to instruct the mind, and fit it for greater usefulness. There are many of our people who could afford to spend their winter months in just such mental discipline. They may never have had a good opportunity before. Now is a good time to improve their writing, grammar, and various branches in which they are deficient. We hope to see a large attendance. Tuition from three to six dollars a term, of twelve weeks, payable one half at the beginning of the term, the remainder at the middle.

In the matter of board, the Battle Creek church have, after carefully looking at it, appointed a committee of five, consisting of Harmon Lindsay, Myron Cornell, Calvin Green, Aurora B. Lockwood, and Mary Gaskill, to find proper places and assist students and others in securing proper accommodations. It is expected that all who come here to school or to labor in the Offices, will report to this committee. It is not every place that is favorable, and those on the ground, persons of good judgment, are certainly better prepared to attend to this than strangers coming into the place. We do not expect board will exceed $2.50 per week, washing, room, lights, and wood included. We recommend many to hire rooms and board themselves. In that case, they should bring bedding, &c., with them. We think where two or more club together they can, in this way, board themselves for $1.50 per week, and live comfortably well. This is very cheap.

We shall welcome to our school those who thirst for knowledge however poor their chances may have been hitherto. We hope to see those who want to prepare themselves for usefulness, those who are moral and upright, and who are willing to submit to reasonable discipline. But this is no place for lawless or reckless spirits bent on mischief. Such we advise to stay away; for if they come, we intend to promptly send them away unless they cheerfully submit to proper discipline.

GEO. I. BUTLER, Pres. Gen. Conf. Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 30, 1873.

A Stricken Family.

If you are in the habit of whining about your “luck,” read this concerning the family of Mr. Jasper Baker, until recently a resident of North State street: Three years ago, Mr. Baker was a conductor on one of the North Chicago street railways, and the happy head of a family consisting of a wife and three interesting children. On the 4th of July, his wife went to visit a sister at Aurora, taking the children with her. On the same day, Eddie, her eldest child, a boy of six, while attempting to catch a ride on a freight train, was run over, and had a leg and foot cut off. His little sister, a child of two, was so appalled at the sight that she was thrown into brain fever and died. After returning to Chicago, the crippled boy was seized with small pox, and infected the rest of the family, including Mr. Baker’s mother and sister. Mrs. Baker died, and her husband, not sufficiently recovered, in attending her funeral, took cold, and after six months of suffering, died a few days since. Finally, on Saturday last, the elder Mrs. Baker received a dispatch summoning her to the deathbed of a daughter at Elgin.—Chicago Times.

Our Periodicals.

By James White

NOW IS THE TIME TO WORK.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, having been established much on the basis of a charitable institution, and not simply to amass wealth, is now prepared to offer its periodicals to those who wish to send them to their friends, and actually pay for them for their friends, at half price. It also offers them to the several branches of the Tract and Missionary Society, to furnish to the worthy poor, to be paid out of the T. and M. treasury, at half price. Hence, in such cases, the cost of the REVIEW will be one dollar a year, or fifty cents for six months. The Health Reformer will be fifty cents a year, and the Youth’s Instructor will be twenty-five cents a year.

The present is the most favorable season for missionary work, and just the time to seek for new subscribers, as the volumes of our several periodicals commence with, or near, the new year. It is expected that the friends of the cause will not only send our periodicals at half prices to their friends; but that they will also obtain many new subscribers at full price. Now is the time to work, that all new subscribers may commence with the first numbers of the volumes of our several periodicals.

JAMES WHITE, Pres. S. D. A. P. A.

Remember This!!

By James White

THAT all persons who subscribe for our papers themselves, are expected to pay the full subscription prices, excepting on the REVIEW, in those cases only of great general interest when courses of lectures are given, and tent meetings are held, when, after all believers have subscribed at full price, it may be offered to the crowd for three months at the small sum of 25 cents. Half price is only when you send it to friends, and when furnished to the poor by T. and M. Societies.

J. W.

Advance-Pay System.

By James White

By the efficient labors of the tract and missionary workers the advance-pay system on our periodicals has been fully established. And now to keep what we have gained in this matter will require a continued effort.

The time has arrived, at the close of the volumes of our several periodicals, when many names must be stricken from our lists, and turned over to the T. and M. workers, unless they immediately pay up. Pay up, friends; pay up for the REVIEW, Reformer, and Instructor. Pay up. J. W.

The Next Term of School.

LAST week we promised “to speak” of this matter more definitely. We now wish to say that our next term will commence, if there is no preventing providence, Monday, Dec. 15, 1873. Owing to the fact that the present term commenced so late, and was hindered nearly two weeks by the Conference, we shall have no vacation, and probably none through the holidays. The next term will continue twelve weeks, and will be the most important one by far, that has been held. Our advantages are much improved on account of the new building in which the school is at present domiciled. Bro. Sidney Brownsberger, a graduate of the State University of Michigan, and a successful teacher, will instruct the higher classes. Bro. G. H. Bell, an experienced teacher, well known to those who have attended school here in the past, will teach the more common branches. Other teachers, if necessary, will be provided. The languages will be taught, if desired.

Bro. Uriah Smith will give Bible lectures if there are those who wish to qualify themselves for the work of teaching the truth. And we trust there will be many such who will come from different parts of the country. The winter season is the most favorable portion of the year to devote to mental improvement.

History of the Sabbath.

By James White

THE demand for this work is such that we are hardly able to fill the orders by mail. It will be of no use to order it by the quantity for several months. Send your orders by mail. It can be obtained from this Office by mail, post-paid, for $1.25. It cannot be had for less in any other way.

J. W.

The True Missionary.

By James White

A MONTHLY paper, entitled The True Missionary, devoted to the interests of the tract and missionary work, will be issued from this Office, commencing with the new year. The readers of the REVIEW AND HERALD are expected to forward their names and their addresses, accompanied by the small sum of fifty cents each, which is the price of the paper for one year. It is expected that the officers of the several branches of the T. and M. Society will act promptly in the matter of securing all the subscribers possible, at the earliest point of time possible, so that the first number can be mailed by December 20. We wait for a full list of names. Send them along, brethren, and you shall have The True Missionary.

J. W.

Action: Working to Circulate the Review and Herald

By Wm. Penniman

Action.

Have just received a letter and circulars from Bro. R. F. Andrews in reference to the REVIEW AND HERALD Trial Volume. He says, “The inclosed circulars will speak for themselves. We wish you to interest yourself and all others you can to take hold of this work. We want, at least, 1000 new subscribers from Illinois. Wake the brethren right up, wide awake. Arouse them at once.” Since reading Bro. Andrews’ letter and the circulars, I feel more like working than ever before. We can see from the circular that Bro. White means action, and Bro. Andrews means action, and we all should work with a heart and a will, knowing that “actions speak louder than words.” It is plain to be seen that the Lord is in this work. He is working through the leaders to wake up the people to action. Shall we heed the “Testimony to the Laodiceans”? Do we fully realize that God is speaking to us just as plainly through his servant, sister White, as though he spoke with an audible voice from Heaven? If we heed this testimony, we shall feel that we have a work to do, not only for ourselves, but for others.

Now that we have a special call from Bro. White to work for the circulation of the REVIEW, let us believe that the Lord is speaking through him, and show corresponding action. There has been enough said by Bro. White on this subject to arouse every Christian worker in the cause to immediate action, yet we feel like adding our mite, and if we can be the means of inducing some one to send out one trial volume, if no more, our object will be gained.

We may say, We have not the means, and have not the time. Then let us make a sacrifice. “Gather my saints together unto me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.” Ps. 50: 5. Now is the time to make a sacrifice, when there is so much to be done, and so short a time in which to work. Can we not save something by economy? Can we not lay aside something that we can do without, and some things we are better off without? In this way we can save money; and as for time, we must take it. We must take time to pray, and we must take time to work for the Lord, work for his truth. Thus we shall work for the salvation of souls, and “pluck them [as it were] as brands from the burning.” In doing this, we shall work for ourselves, and, if we do it from the heart, gain admittance into the glorious kingdom prepared for the faithful.

Wm. Penniman. Woodburn, Ill.

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$28.00 EACH. Sally Chase.

$20.00 EACH. Seth Newton.

$10.00 EACH. S J Smith, A C Warren, Leander Kellogg, W D Bartholomew, Freeman Nichols, M A P Wheelock.

$5.00 EACH. Lester Russell, E J Bartholomew, Samuel Smith.

Quarterly Meetings in Minnesota

Appointments

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

* Services in Chicago, every Sabbath (seventh day), at 296 West Erie St. All Sabbath-keepers spending a Sabbath in Chicago, are invited to attend.

Quarterly Meetings in Minnesota.

Hutchinson, Dec. 6, 7, Chrystal Lake, “ 13, 14, Tenhassen, “ 20, 21, Blue Earth City and Wells churches, “ 27, 28, where Bro. Kelsey may appoint, Harrison Grant.

The Lord willing, I will meet with the church at Hook’s Point, Iowa, At West Union, December 13, 14, At West Union, “ 20, 21, At Laporte City, “ 27, 28. H. Nicola.

The next general quarterly meeting for the Iowa and Neb. Missionary Society will be at Marion, Linn Co., Iowa, Jan. 10, 11, 1874. Let each director see that his district is represented in this meeting either in person or by letter. District quarterly meetings should be held in each district previous to this one, so that a full report may be given. Meeting to commence Friday evening. H. Nicola.

Quarterly meeting of the church at Pontiac, Ill., will be held Sabbath and first-day, Dec. 13 and 14. There will be a tract and missionary meeting on first-day. We cordially invite the brethren and sisters of adjoining churches to meet with us. L. Winston, Director.

Quarterly meeting of the church at Grant, Clare Co., Mich., the first Sabbath and first-day in January, 1874. Bro. Corliss is requested to attend. John M. Smith, Clerk.

No preventing providence, I will meet with the Holly church the first Sabbath and first-day in December. Meeting to be held at Dr. Dawson’s, in Tyrone. R. J. Lawrence.

If nothing in the providence of God prevents, there will be a general quarterly meeting for the New England Conference at South Lancaster, Dec. 27 and 28. Districts 2, 3, and 4, will hold their quarterly meeting in connection with it. We expect to see a general attendance, as this will be the annual meeting of the tract society, and important matters will be considered. S. N. Haskell.

Quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society for Dist. No. 4, at Clyde, Ohio, Dec. 6 and 7, 1873. O. F. Guilford.

No Providence preventing, there will be a monthly meeting held with the church at Deering, Allen’s Corner, Me., commencing Friday evening, Jan. 2, 1874, and holding over Sabbath and first-day. We hope to see a general gathering of the friends of the cause in this part of the State, at this meeting. Come prepared to take hold and labor in the cause of present truth. J. B. Goodrich.

The next quarterly meeting of the Iowa T and M. Society, Dist. No. 7, will be held at Winterset, Iowa. Sabbath and First day, Dec. 13, 14, 1873. Will Bro. Caldwell please meet with us? Henry Tawney, Director.

Monthly meeting for Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., will be held at Randolph, the third Sabbath and first-day in December. Come, one and all, and let us arouse to duty! Should be glad to have a minister with us. S. Thurston.

The next general quarterly meeting for the Tract and Missionary Society in Ohio, will be held at Clyde, Dec. 20 and 21. We hope there will be a general attendance at this meeting. We expect each director will hold his quarterly meeting Dec. 6 and 7, two weeks previous, so that a report can be sent to the Secretary, Miss. M. E. Reynolds, Mesopotamia, Ohio, or brought to the meeting at Clyde. It is hoped that each member will take an interest in sending the Review on trial to his friends. The money and names can be given to the Director and a report be made at the meeting. Eld. S. N. Haskell is expected to attend. O. Mears, Pres.

There will be a quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society for Dist. No. 2, Maine, in connection with the quarterly meeting to be held at Allen’s Corner, Deering, Sabbath and first-day, Jan. 3 and 4, 1874. Meeting will commence Sabbath eve, Jan. 2. Let there be a general gathering at this meeting, as we hope to enjoy the labors of Eld. S. N. Haskell. Send your reports to me at least one week before the meeting. Will. E. Morton, Director.

The next quarterly meeting for Little Prairie, Oakland, and Johnstown, Wis., will be held at Oakland on Sabbath and Sunday, Dec. 6 and 7, 1873. A. Olson.

The quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society of Dist. No. 7, Wis., will be held in Ordino, at the school-house near W. Farrar’s, Dec. 6, 7, in connection with the quarterly meeting of the Fish Lake church. A general attendance is expected at this meeting. Bring your reports of work done in the missionary cause. The Plainfield church is invited. We invite Eld. Cady of Poy Sippi to attend this meeting. P. S. Thurston, Pres.

Change of Appointment.

The appointment that was given in the Review, for a monthly meeting in Cornville, Maine, to be held Dec. 20 and 21, comes on the F. W. Baptists’ appointment. Our meeting will therefore be one week later. By request of the church, Chas. Stratton.