p. 95 | Review and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 12. (3/7/1871)

“WHEN, WHERE, AND WHITHER.”

A Spiritualist writes to a favorite organ of his school that the work Spiritualists have before them is—

“To enthuse all humanity with a new religious devotion to ‘all truth, lead where it may;’ and if the truth be not known, to its discovery; and if the way to discover it be also unknown, then to the discovery of the way. To the discovery of the discovery, they devote themselves; and thus will the hierophantic souls sail down the picturesque vistas of protoplasm to the shore of the analogies.”

To sail down a vista, and especially such vistas as those of the protoplasm, may be a greatly pleasanter and smoother thing, than to accompany Christian upon his toilsome pilgrimage; but then how are we to do it? Evidently after the discovery of the discovery of the discovery, the “hierophantic soul” has still another discovery before it. If only the soul could then “discover” its own foolishness! In the whole range of Spiritualistic books, the above quoted passage strikes us as the supreme effort of imbecility. And yet these people discard the Bible because its utterances are too dark even to their illuminated understandings!—Christian Union.

The Poor Woman’s Two Mites

Some people, because they cannot give as much as they would like to, will not give anything. But this was not the way with the poor woman, noticed by our Saviour, who cast two mites into the Lord’s treasury.

Tuscola, Michigan.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

THURSDAY, Feb. 23, in company with Bro. Fisher, I came to Tuscola after an absence of five years. Here was one of the brightest spots in all my labors. For many reasons the friends here always seemed specially dear to me. The parting meeting five years ago was a marked and touching one. Now as I went from house to house, and inquired after the old friends, we were often melted to tears. What a change these five years have made! Some are sleeping, some have turned back, and others have become cold and silent in the blessed cause. All this is sad. On the other hand, new ones have been raised up, weak ones have become strong, and nearly all have improved much. Could we have known then what we know now, what errors and sad mistakes some of us might have avoided, and none more than I. But God is good and merciful, and we will still trust in him.

Nearly all the Sabbath-keepers in the county were present. Bro. Cornell's recent lectures seem to have done considerable good. Hope he may go to Cairo. I felt the solemn, convicting Spirit of God upon me in preaching, and the word took effect. Several backsliders returned to the Lord with confession, and more than a dozen youth and children came forward for prayers. We had also a good attendance from without.

The brethren and sisters here need to launch out into deeper waters and get more of the spirit, life, and power, of free salvation. Their prayers and testimonies are too weak and feeble. They are burying their talents. Yet they seem to have the root of the matter in them, and love the truth fervently. On the whole, we had a profitable meeting. I left the place feeling much better and more hopeful than for a long time before. May God keep us till the Lord comes. D. M. CANRIGHT.

P. S. By the advice of the Gen. Conf. Committee, Bro. Littlejohn and myself are to return to this county to labor with the tent this season. We hope the friends will seek God for his blessing upon our labors. D. M. C.

Why I Keep the Sabbath.

By Francis Gould

OUT of the many reasons why I keep the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, I deduce the following:

1. God is an unchangeable being; his government is unchangeable, and his law immutable. He who takes the position that Christ, or an apostle, or the church, has, or ever has had, power to modify or change God's government, to abolish or change his moral law, takes a position we think, which has no foundation in truth. If God is unchangeable, the ten moral precepts being a transcript of the divine mind are perpetual and never-ending in their duration, and consequently are obligating upon the children of men now, and will be until probation closes. We think a few texts of Scripture will settle this question. God says, “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.” Ps. 89: 34. We ask, What covenant did God mean should be preserved unbroken? and what was the thing that went out of his lips, which should not be changed? Let us hear Moses: “And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire; ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.” Deut. 4: 12, 13. The ten commandments constitute the covenant which they were commanded to perform, and were the conditions on the part of the people. Not one of these ten conditions will ever be altered in the least degree; but they are made the conditions on which eternal life is suspended. So says the Saviour. See Matt. 19: 17.

2. I keep the Sabbath because it is a memorial of what the Creator did during the first week of time. He wrought six days. He rested on the seventh day. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Ex. 20: 8–11. God wrought six days. We honor God by laboring six days and doing all our work. God rested on the seventh day. We honor God, and commemorate his rest day, by keeping the Sabbath. As we rest, and behold the heavens, the earth, or the sea, we behold the Creator's work. “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.” Ps. 19: 1. Oh! give thanks to the Lord of lords; to him who alone doeth great wonders; to him that by wisdom made the heavens; to him that stretched out the earth above the waters; to him that made great lights; the sun to rule by day; the moon and stars to rule by night. Ps. 136: 3–9.

This commemoration is to be perpetual. “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.” Isa. 66: 22, 23.

3. Another reason why I keep the Sabbath is, that God rested on the seventh day, and blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it; and this sanctity and blessing has never been transferred to another day. God has never transferred it. Christ has not done it. We have no Bible record that the apostles, or the primitive church, made a transfer. Consequently, the original Sabbath which was sanctified and blessed in Eden, remains unchanged.

We are often asked why it is that Christendom with a few exceptions keep the first day of the week. We answer, The papal church has imposed upon us a counterfeit Sabbath. This is evident from Dan. 7: 25, which refers to the little horn power (the papacy) as wearing out the saints of the Most High, and thinking to change times and laws. When the Reformation began to dawn, Martin Luther and others through the light of the Bible saw the corruption of the papal church, and came out and protested against it. But they did not get all the light. They brought out many traditions and human institutions. Sunday-keeping was one of them. A breach has been made in the law of God. A golden link of that chain which binds man to God, has been taken away, and man has almost lost sight of the Sabbath of the Lord.

But the Lord has promised to restore truth. The work is now going on. Under the third angel's message, the people of God are taking their true position. “Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” Rev. 14: 12. Let us arise, go up, and stand in the gaps, to make up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord. Eze. 13: 5. FRANCIS GOULD. Stowe, Vt.

Love.

By Jos. Clarke

“He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.” 1 John 4:8. Very many texts might be adduced to prove that love is a virtue, inseparable from the Christian character. Love is one of the ingredients which form the fine gold spoken of in Rev. 3:18, and from what is said in that chapter to the Laodicean church, we may infer that one great cause of the lukewarmness existing, would be a want of this love; for the fine gold is placed first; and we believe that the fine gold alluded to here, is union of faith and love. “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire,” Rev. 3:18, is the language of the Revelator. Here this is placed first on the list of graces. Peter, in his arrangement of the Christian graces, also puts faith at the foundation: “Add to your faith virtue.” See 2 Pet. 1:5. Now as Paul asserts that faith worketh by love, and we are assured that true faith is mixed with love, we must believe that faith without love is a dead faith.

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,” is the plain command of God. See Deut. 6:5. Can we love God too much? or can we begin too soon? Can we take a single step in the Christian life, or maintain, or attain to, a single Christian grace without this love? Can we do anything acceptably to God in the absence of this love? When Israel heard God announce his law from Sinai, they fancied in their hearts that it would be easy to obey; but when the terror was withdrawn, their zeal abated; for there was no love to God or to his law to anchor them to his throne.

Some suppose that because Peter enumerates the graces, placing charity last, that this grace is not to be expected of those commencing the Christian life. They suppose that these graces must be laid as a mason lays his layers of stone, or brick, or marble, in due form.

Now the object of Peter, here, is to bring out to view these graces in order, relatively.

A person truly converted to God, will manifest all these graces in a greater or less degree, as soon as they are called for by circumstances. Often in the hour of his enlargement, his conduct is an illustration of each of them; but Peter would have each of these cultivated, and would have the attention of all drawn to them.

A Christian will not merely cultivate one of these graces to-day, another to-morrow, but each receives its due share of attention day by day. Charity, the last in his enumeration, is woven into the daily experience of the man of God, from the first of his experience; and faith, the first in Peter’s list of graces, is as much cultivated in the last of the Christian life. We cannot classify the various graces just as we would in mechanics. No; for love and faith are the cement and strength of, and ingredients in, all the graces. Take away love from the Christian, and he is a dry tree, a barren heath, a desert. Without love, his benevolence becomes but a drudgery, and his prayers become hypocrisy.

From the plain testimony of John, we have no reason to hope in God’s mercy, unless we love God, and our brother also. Here, then, is the grace of charity; love to the household of faith, even to the most imperfect. Not that this can exist alone, but they are all mutually dependent upon each other; and the better developed the Christian virtues are, the more perfect will the grace of charity become. No one of these graces can stand long alone. They all uphold, strengthen, and encourage, each other; and often we cultivate those most difficult to attain, by the assiduous cultivation of the others which come up like the reserve of an army to the relief of the weaker portion. So that if we despair of one point, let us look the more closely to the others, with at least the forlorn hope of victory.

What can we attain to, then, without love? Whom can we help without love? Would you take a mote from your eye with a penknife, or with a needle? As soon may you correct the erring without love.

This love does not weaken the column of truth. We say it strengthens and polishes the pillars of wisdom, and settles and confirms the wandering and wayward in the path of truth. It restores the erring, and wins the froward from the influences of evil. JOS. CLARKE.

We Do Not Pray Enough.

FELIX NEFF once made the following comparison: “When a pump is frequently used, but little pains are necessary to have water—the water pours out at the first stroke, because it is high; but if the pump has not been used for a long time, the water gets low; and when you want it, you must pump it a long while, and the water comes only after great efforts. It is so with prayer; if we are instant in prayer, every little circumstance awakens the disposition to pray, and desires and words are always ready. But if we neglect prayer, it is difficult for us to pray; for the water in the well gets low.”

FREQUENT PRAYER

Prayer is the key to open the day, and the bolt to shut in the night. But though the clouds drop the early dew and the evening dew upon the grass, yet it would not spring and grow green by that constant and double falling of the dew, unless some great shower, at certain seasons, did supply the rest; so the customary devotion of prayer, twice a day, is the falling of the early and latter dew; but if you will increase and flourish in works of grace, empty the great clouds sometimes, and let them fall in a shower of prayer; close out the seasons when prayer shall overflow, like Jordan in the time of harvest.

Exercising Faith When Weak

THE weak should look to Jesus, and believe that they have faith, and then they can exercise faith. The very time to exercise faith is when we feel destitute of the Spirit.

Sins of the Tongue.

By C. A. OSGOOD

The psalmist said, “I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue.” Sins of the tongue have become very common. Most people have formed the habit of committing these sins. They sin thus many times every day. These sins are recorded in God’s book. Our Saviour said, “By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.” We see, then, how necessary it is for us to “take heed” that we be very careful not to sin in this manner.

There are those who “speak wickedly concerning oppression;” they sympathize with those who oppress their fellow-men; they express their sympathies in words. “They speak loftily. They set their mouth against the Heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.” They speak of God’s people on the earth, in language of contempt. They speak loftily concerning their Creator. They say, “How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?” Yes; men scoff at God’s existence and knowledge, scoff at the idea that prayer avails anything. They scoff exceedingly at the thought that our Lord will come again soon. How many proud words are uttered, words to recommend the goodness and worth of those who utter them, when these persons possess no true goodness or moral worth!

Those who use language that is not truthful, sin grievously against God and man. God is displeased with falsehood. “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord.” Satan is the father of lies. He supports his throne by mischief and deceit; and those who use deceitful words imitate him, and help forward his cause. They do great injury in the world. God’s testimony against falsehood is, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” Little falsehoods, as truly as great ones, God abhors. Oftentimes they do great injury. How many of them are spoken with but little thought. Peter tells us to “lay aside all guile and hypocrisies.” Nathanael was approved of by the Lord, because he was an Israelite indeed, in whom was no guile. The one hundred and forty-four thousand who shall be translated at the appearing of Christ are spoken of thus: “In their mouth was found no guile.” Those who love and make lies will be left outside of the holy city, with all other abominable characters.

How many sin by using unkind words, when speaking of, or to, others. Sometimes this is done with a design to wound the feelings of others, sometimes thoughtlessly. In either case, it is a violation of that blessed rule, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”

How abundant is the testimony in the word of God against this practice. “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, be put away from you, with all malice, and be kind one to another.” “Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, speaketh evil of the law.” But why does he speak evil of the law? Evidently because the law is intended to protect our neighbors’ rights. Evil speaking is encroaching upon his rights, and thus the law which protects those rights is reproached. Unkind words are the cause of great trouble in families, in communities, in churches. Sad, indeed, it is that anything of this sort should enter such a sacred place as the church. Oh! how should those who love the truth, and love the appearing of Jesus, love one another with pure hearts, fervently!

There is “jesting and foolish talking, which are not convenient,” that are sinful. Time is too precious, the end of all things too near, the dangers to which we are exposed so many, and the work to be done in us, and by us, so great, that it seems like madness to jest. Our Saviour has said, “For every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of Judgment.” How few believe the sayings of Jesus! Multitudes of professed Christians, and even some Seventh-day Adventists, use many words in jest; many words which are of no use, convey no meaning, are only a substitute for profane expressions which others use. Jesus said, “Swear not at all; neither by Heaven, for it is his footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King; neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea, Nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these, cometh of evil.” By these words of our Saviour we are to understand, that our communications to each other should be free from everything like profane expressions, by-words, or words which convey no idea to the hearer; that all these are evil, or in other words, sinful.

I have mentioned some of the ways by which people sin with their tongues. We are in great danger of indulging in sin in some of these ways. Indeed, some of the readers of the REVIEW are faulty in these respects now. Let us take heed to our ways, and put a muzzle upon our tongues, not only when the wicked are before us, but at all times. And may “the words of our mouths, and the meditation of our hearts, be acceptable in the sight of the Lord, our strength and our Redeemer.” C. A. OSGOOD.

Settling Accounts on the Sabbath

“I NEVER go to church,” said a country tradesman to his parish clergyman; “I always spend the Sabbath settling accounts.” The minister immediately replied, “You will find that the day of Judgment will be spent in the same manner.”

A Reader’s Appreciation of the Review

Bro. P. Martin writes from Dane Co., Wis.: I have taken great pleasure in perusing the Scriptures for the last thirty years, especially since I became a reader of the REVIEW. It is meat in due season. I cannot do without it. It makes the crooked places straight, and the rough way smooth. My prayer is, that the blessing of the Lord may follow it where it goes. The Lord bless all the laborers in his vineyard.

The Truth Is Very Dear to Me

Bro. J. F. Frauenfelder writes from Green Co., Wis.: The Review comes to us every week richly laden with its golden truth, like a good fruit tree in the fall. May God bless abundantly both the readers and the writers, and the cause of truth generally, that a rich harvest of souls may be gathered, such as may be saved when the Lord shall appear. The truth is very dear to me. It found me first a wicked being and a rough stone; but God set himself to hewing and polishing me, and by his grace I mean to let him do the work until I may be fitted for the heavenly temple. May God grant that I shall never oppose the work, but that it may be finished in me before it is too late.

SPIRITUAL LINGO.

The New York Tribune says that “it is a melancholy fact that no spirit has yet been reported to us as talking otherwise than like an idiot or a lunatic,” and verifies the statement by the following which was reported as a communication from John Quincy Adams: “Ever the Empyrean grows with the golden effulgence of truth, and man, emancipated from the terrestrial dust, soars to the heights of flowery magnificence, while white-robed truth attends upon him, and his soul expands in the purified atmosphere of a rejuvenated existence!” To say the least of it, a remarkable change has taken place in the style of the stern old statesman if this revelation is authentic.

Senators Refused Hotel Board

Two United States Senators have been refused board at one of the leading hotels at Washington this season on account of their habits. Think of that, citizens of America!

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, Feb. 9, 1871, at Civil Bend, Mo., Celestia Estellie, infant daughter and only child of Bro. and sister W. H. and E. D. Winters, aged 1 year, 1 month, and 17 days. L. R. L.

DIED, in Volney N. Y., at the residence of David Arnold, Dec. 16, 1870, of heart disease, Amanda Westcott, aged 41 years. Sister Westcott was one of those who embraced the present truth at Rochester, N. Y., while the REVIEW was published there.

On the removal of the publishing family to Battle Creek, she took up residence with us, and has since remained a faithful inmate of our family, and by her kind and social ways, won a deep place in our affections, and secured a large circle of friends. She was a firm believer in present truth; and although her death was sudden and unexpected, yet for some time previous she seemed to be making preparation for the great change. Our loss we feel; but the blessed hope comforts us. D. & L. K. ARNOLD.

DIED, in Haverhill, Mass., Sarah, widow of the late James Osgood, aged 79 years, 10 months. Our sister died in the triumphs of the faith of the third message. The last day of her life she called her children and grandchildren to her and gave them solemn and good instruction. She was very anxious to have them give their hearts to the Saviour, consecrate themselves to the service of God, live right, and meet her in the kingdom. D. D. HAINES.

SISTER CATHARINE KEEFER fell asleep in Hillsdale township, Mich., Jan. 26, 1871, aged 93 years, 9 months, and 16 days.

Catharine Hart was born in Pennsylvania, April 10, 1777; lived in Hillsdale Co. since 1838. She was converted in 1829, from which time to her death, she lived a consistent Christian. She was educated in the German language. At the age of 75, she commenced to study the English, being anxious to read the Bible in that language, and in a few years was able to read the English Bible fluently. She commenced keeping the Sabbath of the fourth commandment in the winter of 1857–8. Her conversation was always interesting and instructive, showing that she not only possessed a strong mind well instructed by extensive reading, but was a person of fervent piety and of a rich Christian experience. She fell asleep in the hope of the Saviour’s soon coming to raise his saints from the dust of the earth. J. H. WAGGONER.

DIED, in Rutland, Barry Co., Mich., Jan. 29, 1871, Bro. Robert Owen in the 66th year of his age. The last forty-six years of his life, Bro. Owen had devoted to the cause of God. Thirty years of this time he was an active member of the Methodist church. The remaining sixteen years, he had been keeping all the commandments of God, and looking for the second advent of his Lord. He leaves a wife and seven children who mourn his loss; yet they sorrow not as others who have no hope. Discourse by the writer from Job 14:14. H. M. KENYON.

Business Department.

Not Slothful in Business. Rom. 12:11.

Business Notes.

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Woman and Her Work

By Editor

“Woman and Her Work,” is the title of a monthly journal, issued in Concord, N. H., by the Woman’s Christian Association. This Association declares its object to be to “help those women who labor in the gospel”; and the journal is published “for the purpose of enlarging the sphere of woman’s usefulness, especially in that department which becomes her so well, namely, Christian charity.” We are not among those who would hedge up before woman any avenue of labor or usefulness. Of the thirty-one persons now employed in this Office, twenty are women, filling positions with eminent ability, as editors, book-keepers, mailing clerks, compositors, proof-readers, and book-binders. Let woman work in public, and in private, in whatever position her varied capacities may render her efficient. The Association above-named, seems to be accomplishing a work of Christian charity in which every philanthropist can bid them God-speed. Terms of Woman and Her Work, $1.00 per year. Address Mrs. T. F. Sargent, Box 426, Concord, N. H.

General Decline of Religious Interest.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

What is the world coming to? This is the inquiry on every hand. The mass of the people are losing their confidence and interest in the churches and religion of the day. Here is what the Boston Recorder, Dec. 23, 1870, says:—

“NEGLECT OF CHURCH.”

“This increasing tendency of the masses to keep aloof from our churches is regarded, as it should be, with great anxiety by all thoughtful men. The number of regular church-going people in proportion to the whole population of our country is believed to be diminishing. In England, according to the best estimates, not more than one-tenth of the population are accustomed to attend any place of worship whatever. In our country, the state of the matter is, no doubt, far better; and the actual figures would probably show a better record in this respect than almost any other the wide world over, and yet even here it might appear that (aside from the members of our institution) one-third of the people, within a radius of four miles, never attend any religious service whatever.—Prof. Mead of Oberlin.”

Is it not time for the Lord to work? Is it not time for us to work? D. M. CANRIGHT.

The Pope.

The dogma of the Roman Catholic bishops in this country that it is impossible for the pope to be a subject, is in a way to receive a practical decision. In the Italian Lower Chamber, on Saturday last, a committee reported in favor of a bill by which the Supreme Judiciary is empowered to authorize its officials to enter the papal residence (that is, to execute processes in the pope's house as in the dwellings of other subjects). Minister Lanza opposed it, and said that the guarantee of the pope's dwelling was necessary "to tranquilize the Catholic conscience, and prevent accusations of bad faith." The question was left open for every man to vote according to his own convictions, and adjourned till Monday. A report having obtained currency at Florence that a league had been formed in Belgium to organize an armed expedition in defense of the pope's temporal power, with branches in several countries, Minister Lanza stated, in reply to a question on the subject, that the rumors were at least of a doubtful nature, and that any movement of the sort would be promptly repressed. Our opinion is that the Italian Government is able and determined to make the pope keep quiet, and to make his adherents mind their own business.—Independent.

The Health Reformer.

By James White

We print 3000 extra copies of the March number of the Reformer and send a copy to each of those subscribers of the REVIEW AND HERALD that do not take the Reformer, with the expectation that they will subscribe for it. The next volume will begin at July next. We offer the remaining four numbers of the current volume, and the next volume complete, reaching to July, 1872, for the small sum of $1.00. Friends, we want your patronage in the enterprise of furnishing the best health journal in the country. Please send us your names and addresses accompanied with the small sum of $1.00 each. JAMES WHITE.

FRUIT! FRUIT! FRUIT!

We have just published a small work entitled

How to Cultivate and Can Small Fruits.

It contains valuable information, gleaned from larger books, and from personal experience on this subject. It is just what the people need to teach them in the selection of proper grounds, and the best kinds of fruit, in planting, cultivating, and in pruning, the Strawberry, the Raspberry, the Blackberry, and the Grape, and how to can all kinds of fruit.

Thousands of dollars are thrown away annually by those who purchase plants and vines, for want of the information contained in this work. It is to instruct the people generally in first, simple principles of fruit-raising, that we have prepared this book. One pays out his money for a dozen or two of grape roots, and raises nothing but a snarl of vines, and an abundant crop of leaves. This book will tell why he does not raise the precious grape berries in abundance. Another pays out ten dollars for Strawberry, Raspberry, and Blackberry plants and roots, and gets bushes and vines, and but little fruit. This book will tell how to secure fruit in abundance with but little labor.

• The book also contains a list of the most valuable varieties, and their prices, for the benefit of those who wish to purchase the best and purest roots and plants. Price, post paid, 10 cents. Send for this book immediately, as you will want it to assist you in making out an order for roots and plants, which order should be received immediately.

REDUCED PRICE LIST.

By James White

Strawberries.—We will furnish Wilson’s Albany, Triumph de Gand, Russell’s Prolific, Agriculturist, and Col. Ellsworth, at the rate of 50 cents per hundred, more or less.

Raspberries.—We will furnish the Doolittle blackcap raspberry sets at the rate of $2.00 per hundred; and the Miami black caps at the rate of $3.00 per hundred, more or less.

Blackberries.—We will furnish the Lawton, and the Dorchester, blackberry roots at the rate of $2.00 per hundred, more or less.

Grape Roots.—We will furnish the Concord, Delaware, Clinton, Hartford Prolific, and Iona, for fifteen cents a root, from one to one hundred.

We cannot furnish large lots of Grape Roots at these prices. The prices of the Strawberry, Raspberry, and Blackberry, are for quantities from ten, to three hundred each. When taken in quantities from three hundred to one thousand or more, one-fourth discount will be made. We will furnish to old friends who may desire it, on credit, and to the poor without pay. We hope to see a shower of orders by return mail.

We are receiving some very small orders from a distance. In this case, express bills will be much more than the value of the roots and plants. Orders from other States should not be less than five dollars.

Those wishing a lot, small or large, of each of the four kinds of plants, sets, and roots, can receive them all in one box by express, at any part of the country where there is an express office near them. Those who know anything about the business, very well know that there is nothing to be made at above prices. Our object is to instruct the people, to encourage the cultivation of small fruits, especially in the West, where fruit is scarce, and assist them to pure plants and roots, at cost.

The Doolittle raspberry sustains about the same relation to all other kinds, and the Lawton blackberry to all other kinds of the blackberry, as the Wilson’s strawberry does to all other kinds of the strawberry. This one variety of each is hardiest, and best for all who wish to raise fruit for family use or for the market. The only improvement we would suggest is in relation to the strawberry for family use. Mix with the Wilson’s Albany plants, one-third Tromp de Gand. The union of the two will give more fruit, and the Wilson will make the other harder and more tart, while the Triumph de Gand will make the Wilson milder.

All orders should be addressed to

ELD. JAMES WHITE, Battle Creek, Mich.

R. F. COTTRELL

By Roswell F. Cottrell

Mid-Week.

As I was conversing with a German lady on the subject of the Sabbath, she admitted that the commandment requires the seventh day, but raised the question, as is common with others, How can we tell which is the seventh day? I replied that Germans certainly ought to be able to answer that question; for they give names to each day of the week similar to the names we give them in English, so that they have the sun’s day, the moon’s day, &c., calling each one a day, except Wednesday, which they call, not Woden’s day, but mit-woche, equivalent to mid-week. Now if Wednesday is the middle day of a week of seven days, it is not a hard task to count from it back to the first, or forward to the seventh. The Germans have driven a stake here which it is difficult for after considerations and modern inventions to remove.

R. F. COTTRELL

Please Report.

By R. F. Cottrell

Of the churches of the N. Y. & Pa. Conference the first quarterly report was due Jan. 1. We desire to hear from the following churches: Brookfield, Catlin, Chase's Mills, Genoa, Kirkville, Mannsville, Norfolk, Oswego, Parish, and Ringville.

R. F. COTTRELL, Sec'y.

Ridgeway, Orleans Co., N. Y.

How God Strengthens us.

SIR WALTER SCOTT relates in his autobiography, that when he was a child, one of his legs was paralyzed; and that when medical skill failed, a kind uncle induced him to exert the muscles of the powerless limb by drawing a gold watch before him on the floor, tempting him to creep after it, and thus keeping up, and gradually increasing vital action and muscular force.

So God deals with us in our spiritual childhood and the weakness of our faith. He holds the blessing before us, so as to tempt us to creep after it. How weak our efforts! how slow our movements! But spiritual vitality is elicited, developed, strengthened, by these efforts and movements, slow and weak as they are.—Sel.

News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

MARCH 1, the Germans entered Paris. No disturbance was made by the populace.

VERSAILLES, March 2.—M. Favre to-day notified Bismarck of the vote of the National Assembly ratifying the preliminaries of peace, and Bismarck at once replied that he was ready to exchange formal ratifications, and the Emperor had already signed the treaty.

VERSAILLES, March 2.—The preliminaries of peace, as arranged by Bismarck and other plenipotentiaries with Thiers and Favre, are as follows:

Article first specifies the line of demarkation.

Article second provides that France will pay the Germans five milliards of francs, one milliard, at least, in 1871, and all the rest in the space of three years from the ratification.

Article three provides that the evacuation is to commence on the ratification of the treaty by the Assembly, that the German troops will then immediately quit Paris and the left bank of the Seine, and also the departments of Cher et Indre, Loire and Seine Inferieure. The French troops remain behind the Loire until the signing of the treaty of peace, except those in Paris, where the government is not to have exceeding 40,000 troops. The Germans will evacuate the right bank of the Seine gradually, after the signing of a definite treaty and the payment of half a milliard of francs. After the payment of two milliards, the Germans will only hold the departments of Marne, Ardennes, Meuse, Vosges, Meurthe and Belfort. After the payment of three milliards, the Germans will only keep 50,000 troops in France; but if a sufficient money guarantee be given, the Germans will evacuate completely at once; otherwise three milliards will carry interest at five per cent, from the ratification.

Article four provides that the German troops make no further requisitions; that the French government will find food for the army in occupation of ceded departments; that favorable arrangements will be made with the inhabitants, and time given them to move, if they please, and no obstacle will be placed in the way of emigration.

Article six provides that prisoners will be immediately liberated on the ratification of a treaty, and that French railroads will lend their carriages and engines at the same prices as to the French government.

Article seven provides that the treaty will be definitely signed at Brussels immediately after the ratification.

Article eight provides that after the ratification the management of all departments occupied will be handed over to the French officials, subject to German commanders, and in the interest of the German troops.

Article nine provides that it be well understood that the Germans have no authority over departments not occupied by them.

LONDON, March 3.—A special telegram to the London Times, from Versailles, says the Germans evacuate Paris to-day, and Prince Frederick Charles retires behind the Seine. The Emperor and Crown Prince will leave in a few days for Ferrieres or some other point near Paris on the right bank of the Seine. The Parisian populace wreaked their vengeance on several men and women who were seen communicating with the German soldiers.

BERLIN, March 3.—The empress has received the following dispatch from the emperor:

“VERSAILLES, March 3.—I have just ratified the conditions of peace which the Bordeaux Assembly accepted, and thus far, the work is complete, which was through seven months’ battle to be achieved. Thanks to the valor, devotion, and endurance, of our incomparable army, and the sacrifices of the whole Fatherland. The Lord of hosts has everywhere visibly blessed our enterprises, and by his mercy has permitted an honorable peace. To him be the honor; to Fatherland the thanks. “(Signed) WILHELM.”

The above was publicly read amid the booming of artillery, the ringing of bells, and the cheers of a people wild with joy.

Appointments.

By D. M. Cartwright; W. H. Littlejohn

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

Providence permitting, we will hold a monthly meeting in Washington, Iowa, March 18 and 19. Meetings will be held in the house owned by the Church of God, and begin Friday evening. Meeting on the Sabbath at 9 A. M. We want a full turnout from Pilot Grove, Brighton, Talleyrand, Sigourney, Richland, and Mt. Pleasant. D. M. Cartwright, W. H. Littlejohn.

John Byington’s Appointments

By John Byington

PROVIDENCE permitting I will be at Parkville, Mich., Sabbath and first-day, March 18 and 19. At Alaiedon, Mich., March 25 and 26. At Leslie, Mich., the evening of March 29. JOHN BYINGTON.

The Review and Herald.

By Editor

TERMS:

If paid in advance,........................................$2.00 a year.

If not paid in three months,..........................$2.50 a year.

When ordered by others for the poor,................$1.50 a year.

When ordered by friends, for their friends, on trial $1.50 a year.

Address: REVIEW & HERALD, BATTLE CREEK, MICH.

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