I HAVE just returned from Smyrna Mills, Maine. While attending a series of meetings held in that place by Bro. J. B. Goodrich, and listening to the faithful testimonies of the brethren and sisters, I felt that the Lord strengthened and blessed us abundantly. Nearly all seemed willing to work. One new one came out who will be an honor to the cause if she proves faithful to God. She is a lady of talent, who has many friends whom we hope to see imitating her example by breaking away from prejudice, giving their whole heart to God, not fearing what man may say about them, but rather fearing to disobey God by trampling under foot his holy law, the ten commandments.
I believe that great good could be accomplished here in Aroostook Co. if our ministers could stay longer at a time. The interest must be followed up in order to be effectual. There is a large field where our faith has never been presented. A large church could be raised up here if we could have constant labor for a year. “How shall they hear without a preacher?” Rom. 10:14. Three years ago, I knew of but one family in this section who were keeping the Sabbath; now there are a goodly number whose hearts are in the work. May God speed this precious truth is my prayer.
I feel sure we have the truth on the third angel's message. Oh, how sweet are the promises of Him who cannot lie or fail to fulfill! Why should we doubt? If Jesus is for us he is more than all who can be against us. Oh! that our entire being may be sanctified to God without any reserve. A life that is hid with Christ in God is the only life I want. How glad I am that we can have just such a life in Jesus' worthy name. May the Lord help us to have decision of character and moral courage to do right is my prayer. SARAH A. DENBAR.
Iowa.
By C. A. Washburn; E. W. Farnsworth
The Northern Iowa tent is pitched in Marble Rock, Floyd Co., Iowa, about eighteen or twenty miles west of Bradford. We commenced meetings last evening, June 25. The people appear intelligent and friendly. We are expecting Bro. Minos Miller immediately to join us in this field of labor. Pray for us. Address us at this place until further notice. C. A. WASHBURN, E. W. FARNSWORTH.
Oakland, Cal.
By Dudley Marvin Canright
We have now been in this city about seven weeks. Our meetings were discontinued two weeks on account of the great excitement attending the Temperance movement in this city. Our tent was used for the temperance meetings, which gained for us the good will of the best and leading citizens of the place, and brought us prominently before the public.
From the beginning, we have had a fair, though not a large, attendance. It has run from seventy-five to four hundred, about one hundred being quite regular hearers. Probably not less than one thousand persons have heard us more or less. This is right on the great thoroughfare of travel. Hundreds are constantly coming and going. Many who have attended some of our lectures have gone to different parts of our own country, and some to other countries. These have taken more or less of our books with them. We already hear of some of these who are keeping the Sabbath. Thus the knowledge of the truth is being spread abroad.
We have sold over $100 worth of books, and have obtained a number of subscribers for the Signs. Though we have asked for nothing, and have taken up but one collection, yet friends have donated nearly two hundred dollars for our expenses.
About thirty-five new converts have embraced the Sabbath; making a company of nearly fifty now in Oakland. There is still a good interest, and many for whom we hope. It is one of those places where the interest does not cease with the close of the lectures. Hence much may be hoped here for the future.
Sunday, June 14, I enjoyed as pleasant a baptismal scene as I ever attended. The day was delightful and the location was all that could be desired, being on the grassy bank of a beautiful lake. At the water's edge was a level, grassy place, just large enough for the candidates and their friends. From this, the bluff rose about thirty feet high, upon which was gathered from fifteen hundred to two thousand persons, while many little boats were quietly riding upon the water.
Before baptism, Bro. White gave the crowd a short, earnest, and convincing address upon the law and baptism. All listened with the greatest respect and manifest interest. Not the least disturbance occurred from beginning to end. Twenty-three were buried in baptism. These occasions are green spots in our path to which we look back with pleasure.
Bro. White has been with us all the time and has aided us with his counsel, with his publishing, and with some preaching. He and Bro. Loughborough will follow up the work here, while Bro. Cornell and I go to San Jose. We remember all our old and dear friends in the East, and are greatly cheered and encouraged by the good reports from there. Surely, the work is moving rapidly on. Remember us in your prayers.
D. M. CANRIGHT.
June 22, 1874.
Please Stop My—What?
By The Christian
“TIMES are hard, money is scarce, business is dull, retrenchment is duty—Please stop my—” Whisky? “Oh! no; times are not hard enough for that yet. But there is something that costs me a large amount of money every year, which I wish to save. Please stop my—” tobacco, cigars, and snuff? “No, no, not these; but I must retrench somewhere; please stop my—” ribbons, jewels, ornaments, and trinkets! “Not at all; pride must be fostered, if times are ever so hard; but I believe I can see a way to effect quite a saving in another direction—please stop my—” tea, coffee, and needless unhealthy luxuries? “No, no, no, not those; I cannot think of such a sacrifice; I must think of something else. Ah! I have it now. My paper. It costs five cents a month; sixty cents a year;—I must save that. Please stop my paper! that will carry me through the panic easily. I believe in retrenchment and economy, especially in brains.”—The Christian.
The Ten Commandments in Scotch.
A BROTHER has handed us a slip containing the ten commandments in the Scottish dialect as follows:—
THE TEN HAIL-BIDDENS.
Dr. Waddell, of Glasgow, is translating the Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek into the Scottish dialect. A specimen page from the twentieth chapter of Exodus will entertain the reader:—
EXODUS, OR THE OUT GATE.—CHAP. 20.
God’s bidden maun be dune or waur.The Ten Hail-Biddens, or Commauns.
Syne spake God ilk word o’ thir, sayan:
2. Mylane am the Lord your God, wha reddy yo frae the lan’ o’ Egyp, an’ out frae the house o’ haud.
3. Ye sal hae nane ither godds fornenst me.
4. Ye sal schupe nae eidol till yersel, nor dracht o’ what’s heigh i’ the lift, or what’s laigh on the yird, or what’s intil the watters whilk are aneth the yird.
5. Ye sa’na lout yersel till them, nor ser’ them; for mylane am the Lord your God: a God fu’ sikker o’ his ain, fetchin hame the misdoens o’ the forebears on the bairns, aye, till the third an’ till the fourth o’ their bluid wha ill will me;
6. But warkin nieborlie wi’ thousans o’ them that lo’e me, and bide my bidden.
7. Ye maunna even the name o’ the Lord your God wi’ nocht; for the Lord himsel canna redd the man wha evens his name wi’ nocht.
8. Mind ay weel the quattin-day, till haud it sikker.
9. Sax days ye may paingle an’ do a’ yer wark:
10. But the seven day is quat till the Lord your God. Ye sal nae wark intil bit; yersel, nor yer son, nor yer dochter; yer loon, nor yer lass, nor yer beiss; nor the frem frieen’ who taigles in yer yetts.
11. For intil sax days the Lord wrought the lift, an’ the laigh, an’ the bouk o’ watter, an’ ilka haet in them; an’ rested him ontil the seven day: whar-thro’ the Lord blythebad the seven day, an’ set it by the lave.
12. Be cannie ye o’ yer faither an’ o’ yer mithter; that yer ain days may be lang on tha lan’ whilk the Lord your God foresettles on yo.
13. Ye sal tine nae life.
14. Ye sal loup nae fauld.
15. Ye sal fash nae gear.
16. Ye sal skaithe nane yer neibor’s name.
17. Ye sal grein nane yer neibor’s ain o’ his biggin; ye sal grein nane yer neibor’s ain o’ his wife; or his loon, or his lass; or his knowte; or his naig; or ought that is aught o’ yer neibor’s.
Immensity of Creation.
SOME astronomers have computed that there are not less than 75,000,000 suns in the universe. The fixed stars are all suns, having, like our sun, numerous planets revolving around them. The solar system, or that to which we belong, has about thirty planets, primary and secondary, belonging to it. The circular field of space which it occupies, is in diameter 3600 millions of miles, and that which it controls much greater. The sun which is nearest neighbor to ours, is called Sirius, distant from our sun about 852,000,000 of miles. Now, if all the fixed stars are as distant from each other as Sirius is from our sun, or if our solar system be the average magnitude, of all the 75 millions of suns, what imagination can grasp the immensity of creation! Who can survey a plantation containing 75 millions of circular fields, each ten millions of miles in diameter? Such, however, is one of the plantations of Him who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand—meted out heaven with a span—comprehended the dust in a measure—and weighed out the mountains in scales, and hills in a balance—He who, sitting upon the orbit of the earth, stretches out heaven as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Nations to him are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; and yet, overwhelming thought! he says, “Though I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also will I dwell who is of an humble and contrite spirit, and trembles at my word.”—Christian Almanac.
RELIGION! WHAT IS IT?
By Sel.
'T is not to go to church to-day,
To look devout, and seem to pray;
And ere to-morrow's sun goes down
Be dealing scandal through the town.
Not every sanctimonious face
Denotes the certain reign of grace;
A phiz that seems to scowl at sin,
Oft veils hypocrisy within.
'T is not to mark our daily walk,
Or of our own good deeds to talk,
And then to practice secret crime,
And so misspend and waste our time.
'T is not for sects or creeds to fight,
And call our zeal the rule of right,
When all we wish is, at the best,
To see our church excel the rest.
'T is not to wear the Christian's dress,
And love to all mankind profess;
Then treat with scorn the suffering poor
And fast against them close our door.
Ah, no; religion means not this;
Its fruit far sweeter—fairer is;
In heavenly soil alone it thrives,
And more than blossoms where it lives.
Religion! 'tis the rule of life,
The bond of love, the bane of strife,
Its precept this, "to others do
As you would have them do to you."
It grieves to hear an ill report,
And scorns with human woes to sport;
Of others' deeds to speak no ill,
But tell of good, or else be still.
And does RELIGION this import!
Oh, may our souls its influence court!
Haste, haste, the bright, the blissful day,
When earth shall know no other sway.
—Sel.
Largeness of Heart.
By Jos. Clarke
“AND the Lord gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart.” 1 Kings 4:29.
Our hearts become contracted by selfishness, and by constantly looking to our own interests, and by the constant pressure of sharpers from without, who make it a business to absorb whatever they can, and appropriate to themselves what comes in their way, either by one way or another.
Men get to feel as if almost every other man was on the lookout to cheat them and get hold of the little they have earned, and this, with the inward principle of selfishness, soon begets a sort of enmity which he learns to conceal, and thus hypocrisy is fairly commenced.
Men of education and principle, and men of mind, do, to a greater or less degree, see the case and restrain themselves from that disgusting phase of selfishness which is often developed in more contracted minds; but nearly all have drank in so much of the spirit of the world that we need to pray, O Lord, enlarge my heart.
Our hearts are too small. We find it hard to sympathize with those beyond our little sphere. If our affairs are going on smoothly, we cannot feel for others who are not of our neighborhood. If our homes are safe and prosperous, we cannot weep for those whose dwellings are carried away by the overflowing floods, or destroyed by the devouring element. If our fields yield their increase, we have little sympathy with the victims of famine and want. If we are well, we care little for the sick and afflicted.
There are noble minds whose hearts God has touched, who only value property for the good it can do, and talent for the good influence it may exert. Such live in an atmosphere of bliss, and their memory is blessed.
“Circumstances alter cases,” and the S. D. Adventist who truly believes what he professes, and loves God with all his heart, and loves his neighbor too, will be very liberal according to his ability—much more so than any former church; for he believes that time is soon to close and the world must all be warned of the coming event—disaster to the unbeliever, but deliverance to the saint.
In a few years, earth will be a dreary waste; no one will inhabit its vast extent. Of what use will the goods of earth be to us then? our abode will be Heaven or hades, and we, in either case, will need no more the things of this world.
Jos. CLARKE.
Obituary Notices.
“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
DIED, in Monroe, Iowa, April 14, 1874, of consumption, sister Frances Mortimer, aged 49. The deceased had been a member of the Methodist denomination for many years. When Bro. Canright came to this place to labor about five years ago, she embraced the present truth, and has lived a life worthy of imitation by all who knew her. She died in the glorious hope of the soon coming of the Lord, when the righteous dead shall be raised and made immortal.
J. B. BENINGTON.
DIED, May 17, 1874, at Roosevelt, N. Y., sister Ashphalina West, aged 64 years. She died in the triumphs of faith, a bright example of patience, with the hope of soon beholding the Lifegiver. She was formerly a member of the M. E. church. She has been a Sabbath observer for nineteen years, and died a full believer in all the truths of the third angel’s message. She was a great sufferer for two years with cancer, of which she died. Funeral discourse by Eld. Wheeler, from 1 Thess. 4:18.
A. & M. M. ROSS.
Died, at Matherton, Mich., March 31, 1874, Bro. A. C. Kellogg, aged nearly 35 years. His disease was quick consumption. Bro. K. has long been a faithful observer of the Sabbath. We believe him prepared to meet Jesus, and hope hereafter to join him in that eternal bliss which the followers of Jesus are awaiting to enjoy. The funeral sermon was preached by Eld. Young, of the United Brethren of this place.
J. G. CHEAL.
DIED, near Appleton, Ohio, June 11, 1874, of spinal affection, Lucinda M., daughter of sister Fanny Vanfossen, aged sixteen years and seven months. She was much loved by all who knew her for her kind and amiable disposition. Words of comfort from 2 Kings 4:26, by Eld. Peters.
DIED, in Bellevue, Mich., Feb. 4, 1874, of consumption, Bro. Lewis Griswold, aged 56. Bro. G. had observed the Sabbath of the Lord about twenty years. The funeral was attended at the Baptist church in Bellevue, Feb. 6.
U. S.
To Correspondents.
P. OWENS: For an exposition of 1 Pet. 3: 18–20, which speaks of the spirits in prison, see “MAN’S NATURE AND DESTINY,” pp. 87–95, or “STATE OF THE DEAD,” pp. 73–80. Published at this Office.
FRIEND OF THE CAUSE IN ILL.: During the work in the most holy in the heavenly sanctuary, God is Judge, not Christ. For proof that Christ entered the most holy in 1844, see the work on the sanctuary and 2300 days. Published at this Office.
F. CURTIS: For an explanation of Rev. 20: 1–3, see Thoughts on the Revelation, pp. 291–297. Published at this Office.
S. A. GILLEY: The reasons for our frequent use of the term “present truth,” will be found in the article in this number under that head.
QUERY: Will you give through the REVIEW the origin of the term Jew? B. F. KROUS.
ANSWER: Smith, in his Bible Dictionary, art., Jew, says: “This name was properly applied to a member of the kingdom of Judah after the separation of the ten tribes. In this sense, it occurs twice in the second book of Kings, 2 Kings 16: 6; 25: 25, and seven times in the later chapters of Jeremiah, Jer. 32: 12; 34: 9 (in connection with Hebrew); 38: 19; 40: 12; 41: 3; 44: 1; 52: 28. After the return, the word received a larger application. Partly from the predominance of the members of the old kingdom of Judah among those who returned to Palestine, partly from the identification of Judah with the religious ideas and hopes of the people, all the members of the new State were called Jews, and the name was extended to the remnants of the race scattered throughout the nations.”
The term Israelite is from Israel, the name given to Jacob when he wrestled with the angel and prevailed. Gen. 32: 28.
The other term by which that people were known, namely Hebrews, was more ancient. It is from a word which signified “from the other side” and was applied by the Canaanites to those who came from the “other side” of the Euphrates, the land from which Abraham was called. It was first applied to Abraham, Gen. 14: 13, and became the common name of his descendants.
J. F. L.: You will find an explanation of Christ’s words to the thief on the cross, in Nos. 23 and 24 last volume of the REVIEW, STATE OF THE DEAD, pp. 144–153, and MAN’S NATURE AND DESTINY, pp. 190–210. C. S.
The Michigan Conference
Appointments.
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 Michigan Conference.
The Michigan Conference will hold its next annual session in connection with the camp-meeting at Battle Creek, commencing Aug. 6, 1874. Delegates should be on the ground the first day of the meeting. Let the church officers make their reports in season; also let the S. B. treasurers make an effort to meet their pledges. We hope the friends of the cause will make an especial effort to attend this meeting prepared to work for the Lord.
F. H. Root, Mich.
M. S. Merriam, Conf.
H. Lindsay, Com.
The Health Reform Institute.
The stockholders of the Health Reform Institute will hold their eighth annual meeting at Battle Creek, Mich., in connection with the camp-meeting, Friday, Aug. 7, 1874, at 9 o'clock a. m., for the election of officers, and for the transaction of any other business that may come before the meeting.
Stockholders who cannot attend will please see that their stock is represented by proxy if they have not already made provision of this kind.
James White,
Ira Abbey,
Geo. I. Butler,
Harmon Lindsay,
Benn Auten,
E. B. Gaskill,
M. S. Merriam, Directors.
The T. and M. Society of Michigan will hold its next annual session in connection with the camp-meeting at Battle Creek. We hope the district secretaries will send their reports to the State secretary, Anna M. Driscall, Battle Creek, Mich., at least one week before the camp-meeting.
E. H. Root.
The T. and M. Society of Dist. No. 4, N. Y., will be held at Buck's Bridge, St. Lawrence Co., July 18 and 19, 1874. We earnestly request all the members and others to attend this last general quarterly meeting for this district in this Conference year. Do not fail to bring all the reports you have, or send them. We shall expect some minister to speak to us.
A. H. Hall, Director.
Quarterly meeting at Greenup, Ill., third Sabbath and Sunday in July. Let all the friends of Clark and Crawford Counties come that possibly can, as we have important matters to consider. We hope especially that the different officers of the Tract Society (Dist. No. 7) will be present.
G. W. Colcord.
The T. and M. Society of Dist. No. 5, Mich., will hold its next quarterly meeting at Wright, Ottawa Co., Sabbath and first-day, July 25 and 26, 1874. We wish to see a general rally of the friends of the cause at this meeting, as it will be the last in this Conference year. Come one and all. Come prepared to pay up all arrearages and pledges, as we wish to leave a clean record.
A special invitation is extended to the brethren in Ravenna to meet with us at this meeting, especially on first-day, as we desire to establish a monthly meeting between the churches of Wright, Blendon, and Ravenna.
J. S. Wicks, Director.
Watrousville, Sabbath and first-day, July 11 and 12. Meetings to commence with the Sabbath. May these meetings be an occasion of seeking the Lord with all the heart.
A. S. Hutchins.
The Syrian Famine.
The following statement in a letter recently received by the New York Evangelist, from the Rev. Dr. Jessup, shows the suffering inflicted by the famine in Syria:—
Our Protestant communities in Syria, in common with the rest of the people, are in a state of great suffering. Many families have not tasted bread for days. The price of flour is three times what it was last fall. The last year's crops failed. There is little work to be had. Our congregations have taken up collections for the poor, until the relief is well-nigh exhausted, and the distress is increasing. I know whole families who have nothing in store to eat, and know not where to get their next meal. My brother has just been on a tour, and found the people living on roots, and grass, and oak leaves; and in order to feel a sense of fullness, they drink salt water to make them thirsty, and then drink immoderately of water to distend their stomachs. I have just heard of two men who attempted suicide because their children were starving. Jehoe, our faithful native preacher, who lives here, and preaches in the adjacent villages, is in real distress. Both his wife and her sister have become stone blind, and he has to hire a servant to care for them; and, owing to flour being eighteen dollars a barrel, and everything else in proportion, he has involved himself in debt nearly two hundred dollars in the past six months, and cannot get trusted for an ounce of flour. We have attempted to aid him a little, but the number of applicants is so great that we can do almost nothing.
“A Protestant from Lebanon, with a family of ten, came to me a day or two since, and said they had no bread, and flour was selling in the village by the ounce, and he had come down to beg for money to buy ten pounds of flour to give them one meal of bread. I see no prospect of any relief for three months, and probably none before August, when the new wheat crop comes in. The Lebanon Government is doing something for the poor, but where everything is in the hands of the Maronites and Druses, the poor Protestants will stand little chance of relief. The past season has been the severest ever known in Syria, as far as I can ascertain. The greater part of the sheep, and cattle, and goats, have perished from starvation and cold.”
Michigan Camp-Meeting.
By Uriah Smith
THIS meeting will be held in Battle Creek, at the time appointed. The western meetings, as already reported, have been seasons of great success and encouragement. The Minnesota meeting, an account of which will appear in next week's REVIEW, was equal with the rest. Shall not the eastern meetings be equally good? Let us make a grand rally in Michigan as a commencement. There should be as many as one hundred tents on the ground. Those who have not provided themselves with tents, especially new churches, should procure them immediately. See notices of Health Institute, Mich. Conference, &c., to come off in connection with this meeting. U. S.
A Singular Occurrence.
By Uriah Smith
We learn from the “New World” a Swedish paper published at Chicago, Ill., that two cherry trees at Lake View near that city, were sun struck, Sunday, June 28. As the owner was standing by them suddenly he heard a noise in the trees, and turning round saw the bark splitting and dropping from the upper branches. This continued till it all fell off. Then the leaves fell, and finally the berries withered and died in a few minutes. The paper states that nothing of this kind so far as it knew had ever before occurred. U. S.
Beware of Him.
We learn that L. D. Bruce, whom we exposed some years since as an impostor, is now operating in Canada. All his talk about working in this Office are utter falsehoods. Don't give him any money on any such pretense. Beware of him.
Harper’s Educational Works
We thankfully acknowledge the receipt, from W. J. Button, Chicago, Ill., agent for the introduction of Harper's Educational works, of the following volumes of school books: Hooker's Natural History, Dalton's Physiology and Hygiene, Harper's School History of the United States, and Swinton's Language Lessons. From the cursory examination we have been able to give them, we should judge them to be well adapted to the purpose of conveying instruction on the subjects upon which they treat.
A. S. Hutchins’s Present Address
THE P. O. address of Eld. A. S. Hutchins for the present, is Battle Creek, Mich., REVIEW Box.
To Brethren in Iowa.
By H. Nicola
NOTICE is hereby given to the directors, and all concerned in the Iowa and Neb. T. and M. Society, that all orders for publications for the Society should be made through the secretary, G. V. Kilgore, Washington, Iowa. And let it be understood that the Society will not be responsible for bills of books obtained in any other way.
The Camp-meeting Committee of the Iowa and Nebraska Conference for the ensuing year is, Jacob Shively, Sidney Hart, John Auten. This should have been in our conference report but was left out by mistake.
H. NICOLA, Pres.
Duality of Man in Court.
By J. H. W.
Recently I stepped into a court room to hear the closing plea on a criminal case. It appeared that the counsel for the defense had set up the fashionable plea of “temporary insanity” and in the argument had stated that man was a dual being; and that in this case one of his two natures had obtained the supremacy, and, by an uncontrollable impulse, the man committed the crime.
The prosecutor remarked that God was considered a triune being, or a trinity, but he denied that man was a “biune” being, or a duality.
Here he was interrupted by the defense, who asked if he had not read that man was made in the image of God.
“Yes; but that does not meet the case,” the prosecutor replied. “I read that God made man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul; but I do not read that he made two of him. And I read further,” he continued, “that God made Eve to be with man because it was not good for man to be alone. Now if the doctrine of the defense is true, Eve could not have been created for such a reason; for, if there were two of Adam they might have been company for each other!”
This may be looked upon as merely a happy turn, but I do not know why it is not, as a reply, as good as any argument which has ever been produced in favor of the duality of man.
J. H. W.
Isaiah Eight.
By Jos. Clarke
Much of this chapter refers to the last days, and is now in process of fulfillment; although it is yet to be more fully developed. The associating together of nations and people, the secret organizations, and all the different orders of false religion, all are exceedingly numerous, and all have the promise of being broken in pieces. Verses 9, 10, and Daniel 2 : 44, 45.
We are instructed in this remarkable prophecy of Isaiah not to resort for protection to these different orders—not to say, “A confederacy” is our hope; but to resort to the Lord for protection, and to hide ourselves in him. Verses 11–22.
The union of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, are referred to in verse 16; also the sealing of the law, by restoring the fourth command to its place in the decalogue, and in this verse also is the only occurrence of the word disciples, in the Old Testament.
The great delusion of spiritualism is referred to in verse 19, and the revival of the true testimony of Jesus in the spirit of prophecy. See Rev. 19 : 10.
Truly the word of God is a lamp to our feet, and the word of prophecy is sure. 2 Pet. 1 : 19–21. Jos. CLARKE.
The Seed Must Die
The seed must die, before the corn appears
Out of the ground in blade and fruitful ears.
Low have those ears before the sickle lain,
Ere thou canst treasure up the golden grain.
The grain is crushed, before the bread is made;
And the bread broke, ere life to man conveyed.
Oh! be content to die, to be laid low,
And to be crushed, and to be broken so,
If thou upon God's table may'st be bread,
Life-giving food for souls an-hungered.
Appointment for Eastern Camp-Meetings.
MICHIGAN, ................ August 6-10, 1874.
NEW YORK, ................ " 13-17, "
VERMONT, .................. " 20-24, "
NEW ENGLAND, .............. " 27-31, "
MAINE, ..................... Sept. 3-5, "
OHIO, ...................... " 17-21, "
INDIANA, ................... " 24-28, "
Sister White Reports Encouraging Progress
By Uriah Smith
We were favored last Sabbath with the presence and testimony of sister White. The report she brought of the progress of the work in California, and at the western camp-meetings, four of which she attended, were of the most cheering and encouraging character. The Lord is working for his people. Sister W. will be present, nothing preventing, at the Michigan and all the eastern camp-meetings. U. S.
Atonement Articles to Conclude
The next paper will conclude the series of important articles on the Atonement.