BRO. WHITE : I write to inform you of the sudden death of my husband, which occurred on the 25th of March. His health had been slowly failing for the last three years, but for two months before his death had failed very fast.
We had bought a small place at West Monroe, and were moving there. When I wrote to you to change the address of our papers, he was gone with the third load of goods. When he returned, how our hopes and prospects for this world were blighted! He did not know his home, wife, nor children. His horses turned up to the gate and stopped, but he reined them back and drove on. I saw him and was alarmed, and got one of my neighbors to go after him. He overtook him about half a mile from home, but could not persuade him that he had passed his house. He took the lines from him and brought him home.
He was in awful distress in his head and stomach. We employed a physician, and he pronounced it congestion of the brain, and said he could live but a few hours unless he got help, and the best thing he could do was to bleed him. This placed me in a trying place. I knew Mr. Curtiss had condemned that practice for years, and now must I consent to have him bled! I could not, I did not. Most of his mother's family were present, and for their satisfaction he was bled. When completely exhausted from exercise and pain, he would drowse for a little while, and during one of these spells they bled him so he did not know it; but a few moments after, he roused up, and seeing some blood on the bed, looked astonished and said, "What in the world!" It seemed to me the truth flashed across his mind, but it was only for a moment. He never came to himself to speak one word of consolation to his afflicted family. We felt that we needed his advice as to our future course; but this, too, was denied. He soon sank away; lived but two days and three nights after he returned. But we mourn not as those who have no hope. He was an every-day Christian. The worth of his example cannot be told. His religion was manifest in his business always, and the general expression is, "It is well with him."
I need not tell you how we miss him at morning, noon, and eve, around the table and the family altar. Oh! how we miss him there. The promises of the God of the widow and fatherless are very precious; but I feel a loneliness that I cannot express, and none but the widow can know.
Pray for us, that this mysterious dispensation of God's providence may be sanctified to our good, and that I may have wisdom to train up my children in the fear of the Lord. My youngest is a little boy two years of age.
Yours in affliction.
A. N. CURTISS
Camden, N. Y.
Poisoned Pork.
A few months since, a hundred persons sat down at a festive celebration in the Harts mountains, where pork in various forms was the principal food. Of these, eighty persons are in their graves, and of the remainder, the majority linger with a fearful malady. This strange event has led to the discovery that this food was charged with flesh worms in all stages of development, or trichina, found in the muscular tissues of the survivors and traced to the pork. These flesh worms are not killed by ordinary cooking, and multiply rapidly by thousands. A great alarm exists in Germany, and the eating of pork in many places is entirely abandoned.
Living Out the Truth
By E. B. Saunders
From Bro. Saunders.
Bro. White : It is a long time since the friends of present truth have heard from me, and some may desire to know if I still love the glorious truths of the third message. To all such I can say, Yes, I do love these things, and am striving to live them out. I desire a deeper heart-work, and greater love for God and holy things than I have yet experienced. My prayer is, Give me thy Spirit, O Lord, and make it work in me a thorough reformation, till I am fitted for eternal life.
The Bible seems to me perfectly harmonious, yet evil men try to show contradictions in it; but it is truth, beautiful, exalting, life-giving truth; and my heart is ready to praise the Lord for the Book of books. I believe also that the Seventh-day Advent people are bearing on high the standard, around which the precious will rally in the trying time before us.
I have many acquaintances in the West who love God. Some of them have received the truth from poor M. H. I hope that these brethren will not be shaken by his apostasy. M. H. did not make the third message, but his connection with the message made him what he was.
Myself and companion are the only Sabbath-keepers in this village at present; but we hope that others will soon go with us. Oh for grace to shun all fanaticism and error, and to live out the truth before our neighbors, and thus glorify God.
Your brother. \ E. B. Saunders.
Penfield, N. Y.
Horrible Death from Wearing Hoops.
AMONG a party of friends who had gone recently on a visit of inspection to the biscuit factory of Messrs. Joseph Robinson & Co., in London, was Miss Mary Nelson, and she was accompanied by Mr. Burrows, to whom she was to have been married within a few weeks. The party had not been more than two minutes in the mill, and were still examining the basement story, when a piercing shriek from Miss Nelson, who had tarried slightly in their rear, made them pause in terror. Her attention had been attracted by an Archimedean screw, which was fenced by a brass rod breast high—but when she stooped to look at it, her expanded skirts were caught by the machinery, and when her friends turned to look at her it was rapidly drawing her into the grasp. Mr. Burrows clasped his betrothed round the waist, and strove to draw her back—but the steel of her hoops had been clutched by the wheels, and all his efforts were powerless. The engine dragged her out of her lover's arms, and whirled her round and round before his eyes; all her limbs were shivered into fragments, and her body was lacerated and mangled almost out of human semblance.—London Star.
A Word Fitly Spoken.
REV. DAVID NELSON, the author of that admirable work, "The Cause and Cure of Infidelity," narrates the following:
On one occasion, he went to the house of a young man of wealth, on an evening when the brilliant parlors were filled with sons and daughters of fashion. After the crowd had dispersed, as he sat alone with the young man, he began to talk with him about the interests of his soul. The man replied that he would gladly become a Christian, if he knew what to do. 'Suppose,' said Dr. Nelson, 'the Lord Jesus stood in this room, and you knew it was the Lord Jesus, and he should look kindly on you, and stretch out his hand toward you, and should say, 'Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,' what would you do?'
'I would go to him, and fall down before him, and ask him to save me,' was the reply.
'But what if your gay companions were in the room, and they should point and laugh at you?'
'I should not care for that. I should go to the Lord Jesus.'
'Well, the Lord is really in this room, though you cannot see him, and he stretches out his hand to you, and says, 'Come unto me;' and you should believe what he says in his letter, the Bible, as much as though you heard the words.'
Soon after this conversation, he had the pleasure of meeting this young man at the table of the Lord.
Secret Prayer.
By Rev. James Hamilton
BESIDES the open return there is a secret reward of secret prayer. There is a peculiar and present joy in communion with God. The deepest pleasures are the purest; and of all pleasures the purest is the peace of God. To feel that he is love—to draw so near to him as to forget the world, so near as to lose the love of sin—is of all pleasures the sweetest, of all blessedness the purest and most profound. And next to this high communion with God—next to this joy of passions lulled, and sin slain, and self forgotten in adoring fellowship with the Father of lights, is their sedater comfort who can pour their griefs into their heavenly Father's bosom, or who feel that they have bespoken help against coming toils and trials at their heavenly Father's hand. To know that God is near—to know that he is trusted, honored, loved, to feel that you are acting toward him as a reverential and affectionate child, and that he is feeling toward you as a gracious and compassionate father—there is in this itself an exquisite satisfaction, a present reward.—Rev. James Hamilton.
The Ills of Life
The Ills of Life.—There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual; for it is religion alone that can teach us to bear them with resignation.
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PUBLICATIONS
The law requires the pre-payment of postage on Bound Books, four cents for the first four ounces, or fractional part thereof, and an additional four cents for the next four ounces, or fractional part thereof, and so on. On pamphlets and tracts, two cents for each four ounces, or fractional part thereof. Orders, to secure attention, must be accompanied with the cash. Address ELDER JAMES WHITE, Battle Creek, Michigan.
History of the Sabbath, (in paper covers), • • 40 10
The Bible from Heaven, . . . . . 25 5
Three Angels of Rev. xiv, and the Two-horned Beast, 15 4
Sabbath Tracts, numbers one, two, three, and four, 15 4
Hope of the Gospel, or Immortality the gift of God, 15 4
Which? Mortal or Immortal? or an inquiry into
the present constitution and future condition of man, 15 4
Modern Spiritualism; its Nature and Tendency, . 15 4
The Kingdom of God; a Refutation of the doctrine
called, Age to Come, . . . . . . 15 4
Miraculous Powers, . . . . . . . 15 4
Pauline Theology, on Future Punishment, . . 15 4
Review of Seymour. His Fifty Questions Answered, 10 3
Prophecy of Daniel—the Sanctuary and 2300 Days. . 10 3
The Saints' Inheritance in the New Earth. . . 10 3
Signs of the Times. The Coming of Christ at the door, 10 3
Law of God. The testimony of both Testaments, 10 3
Vindication of the true Sabbath, by J. W. Morton, . 10 3
Review of Springer on the Sabbath and Law of God, 10 3
Facts for the Times. Extracts from eminent authors, 10 3
Miscellany. Seven Tracts in one book on the Second
Adventand the Sabbath, . . . . . . 10 3
Christian Baptism. Its Nature, Subjects, and Design, 10 3
Key to the Prophetic Chart, . . . . . . 10 2
The Seven Trumpets of Revelation viii and ix. . 10 3
The Sanctuary and 2300 Days of Dan. viii, 14, 10 2
The Fate of the Transgressor, . . . . . 5 2
Matthew xxiv. A Brief Exposition of the Chapter. 5 2
Mark of the Beast, and Seal of the Living God, 5 1
Sabbath Institution and the Two Laws, . . 5 1
Assistant. The Bible Student's Assistant, or a Compend
of Scripture references, . . . . . . 5 1
Truth Found. A short argument for the Sabbath,
with an Appendix, "The Sabbath not a Typo." . 5 1
An Appeal for the restoration of the Bible Sabbath in
an address to the Baptists, . . . . . 5 1
Review of Fillio. A reply to a series of discourses de-
livered by him in Battle Creek on the Sabbath question. 5 1
Milton on the State of the Dead, . . . . 5 1
Brown's Experience. Consecration---Second Advent, 5 1
Report of General Conference held in Battle Creek,
June, 1859, Address on Systematink Benevolencc, &c. 5 1
Sabbath Poem. False Theories Exposed, . . 5 1
Illustrated Review. A Double Number of the Re-
VIEW AND HERALD Illustrated, . . . . 5 1
Nature and Obligation of the Sabbath of the Fourth
Commandment. Apostasy and perils of the last days,
In German, . . . . . . . . 10 2
In Holland, . . . . . . . . 5 1
French. A Pamphlet on the Sabbath, . . . 5 1
" " " Dan. ii, and vii, . . . 5 1
ONE CENT TRACTS. The Seven Seals—The Two Laws—Reasons for Sunday-keeping Examined—Personality of God—Wesley on the Law—Judson on Dress—Appeal on Immortality.
TWO CENT TRACTS. Institution of the Sabbath—Sabbath by Elihu---Infidelity and Spiritualism—War and Sealing—Who Changed the Sabbath—Preach the Word—Death and Burial—Much in Little—Truth.
THREE CENT TRACTS. Dobney on the Law—Milton on the State of the Dead—Scripture References—The Mark of the Beast, and Seal of the Living God—Spiritual Gifts.
Bound Books.
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The Hymn Book, 464 pages, and 122 pieces of music, . 80 "
" " with Sabbath Lute, . . . $1,00
" " Calf Binding, . . . . 1,00
" " " with Lute, . . . 1,20
History of the Sabbath, in one volume, bound
Part I, Bible History Part II, Secular History, . . 80 cts.
Spiritual Gifts Vol. I, or the Great Controversy be-
tween Christ and his angels, and Satan and his angels. 50 "
Spiritual Gifts Vol. II. Experience, Views and Inci-
dents in connection with the Third Message, . . 50 "
Scripture Doctrine of Future Punishment. By H. H.
Dobney, Baptist Minister of England, . . . 75 "
Home Here and Home in Heaven, with other Poems. This
work embraces all those sweet and Scriptural poems written by
Annie R. Smith, from the time she embraced the third message till
she fell asleep in Jesus. Price 25 cents.
Sabbath Readings, a work of 400 pages of Moral
and Religious Lessons for the Young, . . . 60 cts.
The same in five Pamphlets, . . . . . 55 "
" " twenty-five Tracts, . . . . 50 "
CHARTS, Prophetic and Law of God, the size used by
our Preachers. Varnished, a set, with Key, . . $4,00
A set on cloth, with Key, . . . . . 3,50
On cloth, without rollers, by mail, . . . . 3,00
The Chart. A Pictorial Illustration of the Visions of Daniel and
John. 20 by 25 inches. Price 15 cents. On rollers, post-paid, 75 cts.
S. H. PECK
By S. H. Peck
The next quarterly meeting for the church in Wolcott, Vt., will be held on the first Sabbath in May, 1864. Will the brethren in the adjoining churches meet with us? Will Bro. Hutchins also meet with us?
S. H. PECK
Preble's Sabbath Articles in Pamphlet Form
By Editor
The World's Crisis for April 19th publishes the following request from Nahum Orcutt, Troy, Vt.:
"I have been much pleased thus far with Bro. Preble's articles on the Sabbath question. Can we not have them in tract form? I would like to scatter some in this vicinity. I would engage to take fifty copies or more."
We would say that Eld. Preble's articles are now being published entire at this Office, in Pamphlet form, in connection with Bro. Smith's reply, and that we shall be able to fill all orders on favorable terms, and will furnish this gentleman at Troy, fifty or more copies on terms to suit himself.
If our friends at the Crisis Office do publish Eld. P.s articles in Tract form, they will certainly feel under obligation to publish the reply in the work.
Catalogue of Books and Publications
By Editor
We have published a catalogue, in tract form, of Books on Health, Helps in the Study of the Scriptures, the Charts, other publications, Writing Papers, Envelops, &c., with their prices by Express, charges pre-paid, which we will send by mail on the receipt of a three-cent postage stamp. Address Elder James White, Battle Creek, Mich.
Testimony to the Church, Nos. 1–10
By Editor
The bound volume, Testimony to the Church, Nos. 1-10, is sold. Spiritual Gifts, volume 3, will contain the reading matter of these Testimonies, excepting that of a local and personal nature, and will constitute the second part of the volume. The first part, treating upon creation, the flood, the noted characters of the Sacred Scriptures, and the degeneracy of man, &c., will be ready as soon as possible.
To Correspondents.
By Editor
J. Hersey.—The work entitled, Prophecy of Daniel, &c., will answer your inquiry in reference to the close of the 1260 days.
We use neither tea, coffee or tobacco, and do not furnish them for others. If visitors must have them, they should bring them with them.
Quarterly meetings in Wis.
By William S. Ingraham
Our quarterly meeting at McConnell's Grove and Monroe, were the best we ever had in these places. At Monroe, three started for the kingdom. We have been under the necessity in Monroe, of holding our meetings in private houses. This has been very inconvenient especially on quarterly occasions.
We have now a good Meeting House which we have just purchased of the Christian Church, for the sum of $550.
WM. S. INGRAHAM.
Freeport, March 24, 1864.
D. T. Taylor’s Post Office Address
THE P. O. address of D. T. Taylor is Rouse's Point, Clinton Co., N. Y.
Baptism at Battle Creek
A good work is in progress in the Church at Battle Creek. The last Sabbath meeting was the best enjoyed for a long time. There will be Baptism next Sabbath afternoon.
Appointments.
By R. F. Cottrell
MONTHLY meeting at Bro. J. Lamson's, Hamlin, on the second Sabbath in May.
R. F. COTTRELL.
Loughborough’s Meeting Appointments
By John Norton Loughborough
Providence permitting, I will hold meetings as follows: Clinton, Mass., Sabbath and first-day, April 30 and May 1st. Kensington, Ct., evenings of May 4th and 5th. Ashfield, Mass., May 7th and 8th. Memphis, Mich., May 14th and 15th.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.