Earlier text: Sabbath Items“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.” Died, in Battle Creek, Mich., Dec. 9, 1874, of osteo-cancer, and disease of the biliary organs, sister Violetta, wife of Eld. Isaac Sanborn, of Wisconsin, aged 49 years, 7 months and 24 days. Sister S. professed religion when she was 14 years of age, and remained with the Christian church till she embraced the doctrine of the Bible Sabbath with its kindred truths, about twenty years ago. She had long suffered from cancer, and had spent considerable means, and endured much suffering in attempts to arrest its progress, and had at times obtained temporary relief. But it was found after her death, that the cancer had seated itself in the bones, and some of the internal organs, which rendered her recovery, by any human means, absolutely impossible. A full report of the pathological features of this case, is given in the February number of the Health Reformer. U. S. Died, in Ostego, Mich., Dec. 30, 1874, Lucinda, wife of John H. Green, aged forty-eight years. Sister Green embraced the Sabbath in the State of N. Y., twenty-eight years ago, under the labors of Bro. Bates. Her disease was erysipelas. We trust she died in hope of eternal life. Remarks by the writer, from John 11:25. A. H. Hilliard. Fell asleep, Dec. 29, 1874, at the residence of the writer, sister Margaret Stanton, in the eighty-fourth year of her age. Sister Stanton was among the first who embraced the present truth in Wisconsin under the labors of Bro. Rhodes. She went down to the grave as a shock of corn fully ripe. Pliny Potter. Died, at Maiden Rock, Wis., Nov. 26, 1874, Howard E. son of Henry and Nancy Hall, aged six years and nine months. His lovely form now in the tomb,
Fast moldering back to mother dust,
Will in immortal beauty bloom
When the dark grave shall yield its trust.
Stephen Reese. Family Religion.
By Talmage
Take first the statement that unless our children are saved in early life they probably never will be. They who go over the twentieth year without Christ are apt to go all the way without him. Grace, like flower-seeds, needs to be sown in spring. The first fifteen years of life, and often the first six, decide the eternal destiny. The first thing to do with a lamb is to put it into the arms of the Great Shepherd. Of course you must observe natural laws. Give a child excessive meat diet, and it will grow up sensual; catechism three times a day, and sixty grains in each dose will not prevent it. Talk much in your child's presence about the fashions, and it will be fond of dress; notwithstanding all your lectures on humility. Fill your house with gossip, and your children will tattle. Culture them as much as you will, but give them plenty of money to spend, and they will go to destruction. But while we are to use common sense in every direction respecting a child, the first thing is to strive for its conversion, and there is nothing more potent than family prayers. No child ever gets over having heard his parents pray for him. We had many sound thrashings when a boy, but the most memorable scene of all was father and mother at morning and evening prayers. We cannot forget it, for did we not often squirm around on the floor, and look at them while they were praying? Your son may go to the ends of the earth, and run through the whole catalogue of transgression, but he will remember the family altar, and it will be a check, and a call, and perhaps his redemption. Family prayers are often of no use. Perhaps they are too hurried. We have so much before us of the day's work, that we hustle the children together. We get half through the chapter before the family are seated. We read as if we were reading for a wager. We drop on our knees, and are in the second or third sentence before they all get down. It is an express train, with amen for the first depot. We rush for the hat and overcoat, and are on the way to the store, leaving the impression that family prayers are a necessary nuisance, and we had better not have had any gathering of the family at all. Better have given them a kiss all around; it would have taken less time, and would have been more acceptable to God and them. Family prayers often fail in adaptedness. Do not read for the morning lesson a genealogical chapter, or about Samson setting his foxes' tails on fire, or the prophecy about the horses, black, and red, and speckled, unless you explain why they were speckled. For all the good your children get from such reading you might as well have read a Chinese almanac. Rather give the story of Jesus and the children climbing into his arms, or the lad with the loaves and fishes, or the son of Galilee dropping to sleep under Christ's lullaby. Stop and ask questions. Make the exercise so interesting that little Johnny will stop playing with his shoe-strings, and Jenny will quit rubbing the cat's fur the wrong way. Let the prayer be pointed, and made up of small words, and no wise information to the Lord about things he knows without your telling him. Let the children feel that they are prayed for. Have a hymn if any of you can sing. Let the season be spirited, appropriate, and gladly solemn. Family prayer also fails when the whole day is not in harmony with it. A family prayer, to be worth anything, ought to be twenty-four hours long. It ought to give the pitch to all the day's work and behavior. The day when we get thoroughly mad, upsets the morning devotion. The life must be in the same key with the devotion.—Talmage. Take Time to Be Thankful.
By A. Q. Hagerman
An aged man, ripe and rounded in Christian experience, would sometimes say in class-meeting, speaking in his quaint English dialect, “I oft thinks we’re nawt ’aulf thankful enough.” Indeed, we are not half, “nor quarter” thankful enough. We are ready enough to fret and murmur over what we are pleased to call the ills and disappointments of life, but are very backward in giving thanks for life’s constant benefits and rich fulfillments. We find more happiness than grievousness along our path, and yet we do not give thanks as audibly and copiously as we pour forth our complaints. And still how many mercies encompass us—benefits of which we are almost stolidly unconscious until we miss them! Then we can fret freely enough, although we forgot to sing before in our prosperity. And we are so hurried in business, and greedy of more gain, that we seem to have no time to be gladly thankful, with the free, overflowing gratefulness of the heart of a little child. We, it is true, say over a more or less joyous form of thanksgiving in our daily prayers, but it is too often a hurried offering, in dull, stereotyped phrase, that has no upward spring of honest, heartfelt gladness behind the stately words; there is little freshness of feeling, little spontaneity, or outwelling gush of inward, quiet praise in much of it. We do not “shut to the door” of our heart so effectually that not a vexing note of care can creep in and make a jangling discord in our brief song of thanksgiving. I do not mean that our prayers ought to be all thanksgiving. No; that cannot be while we are in the flesh; but they ought rather to be like the Book of Psalms, in which are many utterances of sorrow, but which concludes with joyous exultation and a grand “Praise ye the Lord.” I know that we set apart, or have set apart for us, a day of thanksgiving. This is well. It is good to thus openly and publicly acknowledge the goodness of Him who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. But are we sure that there is no subtle desire, almost unconscious, perhaps, to do our thanksgiving by the job, and so make the day’s acknowledgements serve for a good while before and a long while afterward? We may, on that day, prepare our good things with gladness, and “eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is provided,” and all be content to be thankful for one whole day together, except, possibly, those overcareful Marthas who are cumbered about much serving. But is this enough? Let us beware lest we rest there, thinking we have done a large part of our task of yearly thanksgiving. Inasmuch as our Heavenly Father’s mercies are new every morning, ought we not to be ready to give him full, unblemished offerings of praise day by day? Oh, that we had more glad psalms in our hearts, and less grievous grumbling! “Praise is comely.” The reflex influence of true thanksgiving is blessedly uplifting to one’s own heart. And there is much to be thankful for in each one’s life. No living man is so unhappy in his outward circumstances but that his state might not be made worse. So let him be thankful that he has even that to comfort him, which, if it were to be taken away, would add to his affliction. In the midst of great sorrows, it is better to be thankful for little mercies than to fret the hours away and consume the heart with weak, childish self-pity. Let us be very sure that in all his dealings God is love. And is it no blessing that “he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind”? But all visible things are secondary. “The things that are not seen are eternal.” We have a present and everlasting salvation from sin, through Christ Jesus, to be thankful for always; and what a salvation from what a foul and dire estate! We have the gift of the Comforter to abide with us forever. We have a hope of Heaven, where no sorrow is, and no pain. “He that believeth shall not make haste.” We doubt, and therefore worry. We have so environed ourselves with pressing, vexing cares, that we seem pinched for time to be heartily, peacefully thankful. There is an unrestful sense of urgency in our hearts, driving so many of us from dawn till dusk, and which makes us hurry away from restful, strengthening communion with God, who ought to be our “exceeding joy.” Ah! this feverish unrest is a taint caught from the poisonous air of worldliness. We chase and grasp after riches, pleasures, fame. And how weakening and wearing it all is! How much stronger we should be if we would but daily take time to be thankful, rejoicing in the Lord always, casting all our care upon him, for he careth for us. “The joy of the Lord is your strength!” A. Q. HAGERMAN. On the twenty-fifth of February, 1758, Voltaire penned the following blasphemy: “Twenty years more and God will be in a pretty plight.” Let us see what was taking place at precisely the time indicated. On the twenty-fifth of February, 1778, Voltaire was lying, as was thought, on his bed of death. Racked and tortured by remorse for past misdeeds, he was anxious to propitiate the God whom he had insulted and the church which he and his band had sworn to destroy; and hence he resolved on addressing a minister of religion in order to receive the sacrament of reconciliation. On the twenty-sixth he wrote the following to the Abbe Gaultier: “You promised me, sir, to come and hear me. I entreat you to take the trouble to call as soon as possible.” The Abbe went at once. A few days later, in the presence of the same Abbe Gaultier, the Abbe Mignot and the Marquis de Villeveille, the dying man made the following declaration: “I the undersigned declare that, for these four days past, having been afflicted with a vomiting of blood at the age of eighty-four, and, not being able to drag myself to church, the reverend rector of St. Sulpice, having been pleased to add to his other good works that of sending to me the Abbe Gaultier, a priest, I confessed to him, and, if it pleases God to dispose of me, I die in the Holy Catholic Church, in which I was born, hoping that the divine mercy will pardon all my faults. If ever I have scandalized the church, I ask the pardon of God and of the church. March 1, 1778.—Voltaire.” This document was deposited with Mons. Momet, notary of Paris. It was also, with the permission of Voltaire, carried to the rector of Sulpice and to the Archbishop of Paris, in order that they might say whether or not the declaration was sufficiently explicit and satisfactory. Twice before, when dangerously ill, the wretched man had made abject retractions. But these he had not only rejected when restored to health, but, passing from bad to worse, he poured out fuller vials of his wrath against God and Christianity. It was then of necessity to receive the most solemn and full abjuration of past infidelities. When Gaultier returned with the arch-episcopal answer he was refused admission to the dying man. The arch-conspirators trembled at the apostasy of their hero; and, dreading the ridicule which would fall upon themselves, it was determined not to allow any minister of religion thenceforth to visit him. Finding himself thus cut off from the consolations of religion, Voltaire became infuriated, no reproach, no curse being deemed bad enough for the D’Alemberts and Diderots who guarded him. “Be gone,” he said; “it is you who have brought me to my present state. Be gone! I could have done without you all; but you could not have existed without me; and what a wretched glory you procured me!” And then praying, and next blaspheming, now saying, “O Christ,” and next, “I am abandoned by God and man,” he wasted away his life, ceasing to curse and blaspheme and live, on the thirtieth of May, 1778. These facts were made public by Mons. Tronchin, a Protestant physician from Geneva, who attended him almost to the last. Horrified at what he had to witness, he declared that to see all the furies of Orestes, one only had to be present at the death of Voltaire—“Pour voir toutes les furies d’Oreste, il n’y avait qu’à se trouver à la mort de Voltaire.” “Such a spectacle,” he adds, “would benefit the young who are in danger of losing the precious helps of religion.” The Marshal de Richelieu was so terrified at what he saw that he left the bedside of Voltaire, declaring that “the sight was too horrifying for endurance.”—London Popular Journal. Scolding the gospel at people, is not the most effective way of presenting God’s message to man. The wrath of man worketh not God’s righteousness, nor man’s salvation. “Were you ever a fisherman?” said an aged Christian to a student of divinity. “Yes, I have fished with the rod at the rocks,” was his reply. “Oh! but I mean with the net?” “No; I never did.” “Well, you need to learn it. And do you know that when there is thunder, the fish go to the bottom of the sea?” “Yes; I know that to be the fact.” “Well, my young friend, there are very many ministers that don’t seem to think of that.” Not like hail, and snow, and hurricane, and tempest, does the gracious word of God come most effectively to the hearts of men. The words that break hearts come from hearts that are broken. Said Moses; “My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distill as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass; because I will publish the name of the Lord; ascribe ye greatness unto our God.” Deut. 32:2, 3. “Many years ago,” says a writer in the Oberlin Evangelist, “we knew a gospel minister, who had been preaching many a pointed sermon on many an anxious Sabbath, to stir up his people to the work of the Lord. Hope, long deferred, began to threaten heart sickness; it was clear that no particular impression was made on the hearts of the people. At length, under circumstances divinely ordered, his feelings became intensely earnest for the conversion of several of the youth in his congregation. It seemed to him like a mighty baptism of love and prayer for their souls. When the next Sabbath brought him before his people, he tried to tell them, in a plain, simple way, how he had felt for the souls of some of their children, and naturally made some allusions to the need of repentance, and of first love of the church. It was remarkable, however, that not one stern word fell from his lips. He spoke freely of his own sins, sparingly of theirs. In fact, it seemed to him that day, as if it would be a great relief to him if, somewhat like his Master, he could bear the sins of his beloved people on his own soul; at least, so far as to bow before God, and repent of them all, and especially in view of his own responsibility for those sins. It was natural that he should speak with some feeling of the freeness of pardon through Christ, even for such grievous sins—this truth being fresh and blessed to his own soul. “That day was an era in that church. The house of God was another Bochim, and many an aching heart found relief in tears. The people of God repented, and came up with one heart to the help of the Lord, and many were turned from their sins, to praise redeeming love. We noted the lesson at the time, and have ever since deemed it in point, to show how those who labor for Christ should bear themselves toward their tardy, and, perhaps, backslidden brethren.” The Secret of Comfort: Small Pleasures
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By J. H. Rogers; Chas F. Stevens
We write in behalf of the brethren and sisters in Kansas, who are destitute. From the knowledge we have of their condition, together with the testimony of numerous letters received from different ones, they surely must be helped with food and clothing, or they cannot get through the winter. Bro. J. N. Ayers, our Conference treasurer, writes to a brother in Iowa, Jan. 21, from which we copy:— “My brother was over to see me to-day in relation to asking aid for the Centerville church. He says it is impossible for some of the members to get through the winter without help, both in provisions and clothing, and that all of us will have to have provisions and seed in the spring. He says that he talked with Bro. Brown (the elder), and they concluded it would be best to see if the brethren in Iowa would not ship these things to us, and wait on the church until we could raise a crop, or until we could raise the means to pay for them. If the brethren can do it, it will be esteemed a great favor by the brethren and sisters here.” “Please let me know what can be done immediately, as something must be done here, and I do not see how we can relieve those that are suffering unless we get some assistance from abroad. Freight would have to be paid; for the church cannot raise money enough to take anything from the depot. It is humiliating to say so, but we cannot help ourselves.” “Yours in haste and hope, “By recommend of the elder and deacon.” We could copy from many others. Bro. O. O. Bridges, of Mitchell Co., Kan., writes concerning their destitution in the Solomon Valley. Now we appeal to our brethren from abroad who are willing to lend a helping hand, to forward their donations to Bro. J. N. Ayers, Farlinville, Linn Co., Kan., by registered letter or P. O. order on Mound City, Linn Co., Kansas. Let the elders and leaders of the different churches report the true condition of the destitute, and those likely to suffer, to Bro. J. N. Ayers, as above, who will be prompt in seeing to proper disbursement of means of any kind donated. Now, dear brethren, we would not make this appeal were we not sensible of the fact, by observation, and otherwise, that actual starvation is staring some square in the face, in those parts where the drought and grasshoppers cut off everything in the shape of subsistence. We submit this matter to you, believing that many would esteem it a privilege to assist if they were sure their donations were not misdirected. J. H. ROGERS, } Committee. Appointments and Quarterly Meeting Notices, February 1875
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. The general quarterly meeting, appointed in last REVIEW, to be held at Buck’s Bridge, N. Y., Feb. 13 and 14, 1875, is postponed till further notice. B. L. WHITNEY, QUARTERLY meeting of Dist. No. 7, at Adel, Iowa, Feb. 13 and 14, 1875. A. J. STIFFLER. QUARTERLY meeting of the T. & M. Society, for Dist. No. 7, Mich., at Ithaca, Feb. 13, 14. WM. S. NELSON, Director. QUARTERLY meeting of the Dell Prairie, Wis., church will be held on the second Sabbath and first-day of February next. R. G. COWLES. GENERAL quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society for Minnesota, at Stewartsville, Feb. 13, 14, 1875. All directors are expected to hold their district quarterly meetings, and be ready to report all the work done in each district at this meeting. HARRISON GRANT. 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. No providence preventing, there will be a meeting of the friends of the cause near Hooper, Dodge Co., Neb., Sabbath eve. and Sabbath, Feb. 13. All the scattered brethren in this part of the State are invited to be present. CHAS. L. BOYD. QUARTERLY meeting of the T. & M. Society of Dist. No. 4, Mich., in connection with the quarterly meeting for the churches of Allegan Co., at Monterey, Feb. 13, 14, 1875. Hope the librarians will report to the district secretary, J. L. Rumery, in time for him to make his report. Cannot some minister attend this meeting? We hope for a profitable time. J. S. DAY, Director. The quarterly meeting of the N. Y. & Pa. T. & M. Society, District No. 1, will be held in connection with the monthly meeting for Western N. Y. at North Parma, Monroe Co., N. Y., Feb. 13 and 14, 1875. It is hoped there will be a general attendance at this meeting, and especially that every librarian in the district will be present, and prepared to remain till Monday, as there is business of special importance to the district to come before the meeting. I make this appointment at the request of the director. B. L. WHITNEY, Pres. ON account of the quarterly meeting of the T. & M. Society at Potterville, Feb. 6 and 7, the monthly meeting of the Jackson church is postponed to Feb. 13. E. P. GILES. PROVIDENCE permitting, I will hold meetings in Wis., as follows:—
At Victory, Vernon Co., Feb. 13, 14.
Waterloo, Grant Co., “ 20, 21.
Johnstown Center, Rock Co., “ 27, 28.
Among the French near Wequioch,
Brown Co., March, 6, 7.
Plainfield, Waushara Co., “ 13, 14.
Maple Works, Clark Co., “ 20, 21.
These are intended for meetings of special interest, and it is hoped and expected that the Sabbath-keepers in their vicinity will make a special effort to attend and make them profitable. The meeting at Plainfield is intended for the quarterly meeting for that District. The meeting at Maple Works will be the quarterly meeting for District No. 13. O. A. OLSEN. TESTIMONIES, Nos. 24 and 25, are now ready. They contain about 200 pages each. Bro. Haskell spoke in last REVIEW of No. 24. What he said of that may also be said of No. 25. Ever timely in their topics, and important in their instructions, these last two equal in these respects any of this series of works. The subjects treated of in No. 25 are as follows: Importance of the Work, State of the World, Reformation Needed, Love of the World, Presumption, Power of Appetite, Leadership, Call for means, Four Epistles, Christian Temperance, Cannot Come Down. An article from Bro. White, on Leadership, concludes the work. These numbers should be extensively read at this time. Price 25 cents each. We have received the first number of an occasional publication, bearing this title, issued by Ed. W. M. Jones, S. D. Baptist, at 15 Mill Yard, Goodman's Fields, London, E. As its name implies, it is to be devoted to the advocacy of the Bible Sabbath, and is designed to help the struggling cause of Sabbath reform in the United Kingdom. It is offered free, but contributions are solicited for its support. P. O. orders are to be made payable to W. M. Jones, at Well-close Square, London, E. We trust it will be well sustained. ANY persons wishing labor in their vicinity will please write me all the particulars concerning the interest in their section, whether or not a house can be had, whether there has ever been any Advent preaching and by whom, and what denominations there are, and how many of the people belong to them, &c., giving P. O. address distinctly. I. SANBORN. Railroads Carry Freight to Kansas Sufferers Free
NOTE. Most of the railroads are carrying freight to the Kansas sufferers from responsible parties free of charge. Correction Regarding Book Notice in Review
By H. S. Guilford
In my notice of a book in last week's Review, read Thoughts on Revelation, instead of Thoughts on Daniel. H. S. GUILFORD. Correction to Obituary Notices in Volume Opening Number
CORRECTION. In obituary notices in No. 1 of present volume, the name Lillie Maxon, should read Lillie Wixson. Elder I. Sanborn's Change of Post Office Address
By I. Sanborn
My P. O. address until further notice will be Monroe, Green Co., Wis. Better Trust All and Be Deceived
Better trust all and be deceived,
And weep that trust and that deceiving,
Than doubt one heart that, if believed,
Had blessed thy life with true believing.
Oh! in this mocking world too fast
The doubting fiend o’ertakes our youth;
Better be cheated to the last,
Than lose the blessed hope of truth.