DEAR BRO. WHITE: I never felt the importance of living to God with all my heart, as now. The precious truth is shining brighter and brighter, and the third angel's message is waxing louder and louder. My heart is filled with gratitude to God for his goodness to his children. He has showed, and is showing them how they may escape the seven last plagues, and that is, by keeping the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
I am glad that the standard is raised, and the children of God are rallying around. All the opposition that is brought against the truth, is not able to overthrow it. I often think of the many inconsistent positions taken by those that opposed the advent doctrine, when I see the many positions taken against the Sabbath of the Lord our God. One says the commandments are all abolished, another that the Sabbath was a shadow, another that the first day of the week is the true seventh day, and another that the first day is the Christian Sabbath. Thus making void the commandment of God, that they may keep their own tradition. But thanks be to God, the darkness cannot put out the light.
My prayer is, that God may speed the message and let all the jewels see the light. Amen.
Yours in hope of immortality at the appearing of Jesus. JOHN LINDSEY. Irasburg, Vt., Feb. 15th, 1852.
Meetings in Northwestern Michigan
By B. B. Brigham
From Bro. Brigham to Bro. Rhodes.
DEAR BROTHER: Our dearly beloved Brn. Case and Andrews are now giving the message in this north-western part of Michigan.
Last Sabbath and First-day we met at Bro. D. Kellogg's in Ionia. In comparison with some meetings you have at the East, you doubtless would have called it a day of small things; but it seemed to me by far the best meeting that I ever enjoyed. To tell you the truth, we had been almost starved to death. Bro. Andrews on First-day morning took up the commandments of God.
I had read his writings, and my expectations were raised; but I think the Lord gave him unusual liberty. The whole discourse seemed new, and I could but say, "O, how love I thy law."
In the afternoon Bro. Case spoke on the Sanctuary with fervor, unction, demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
How dangerous the position of those who reject, after having the blood of the covenant so clearly exhibited to their view. He who disregarded the law of Moses died without mercy. He who accounts the blood of the covenant an unholy [common] thing, and treats the Spirit of grace with contempt, is worthy of much sorer punishment.
I hardly know of anything that grieves me so much as the desperate opposition of the Harbinger, to that law which Paul calls holy, just and good. How void of consistency, to fight God's Holy Day, and those who keep it, and plead that there is no Sabbath, while the same writers know that the whole Catholic and Protestant world, including the kings of the earth under their influence, sabbatize Sunday, and the writers in the Harbinger with them. Doubtless J. Marsh, and his associate writers would consider it a grievous slander to be accused of not keeping Sunday.
I find but little if any satisfaction in conversing with professed christians of any stamp. "Ears have they but they hear not, eyes have they but they see not." Though treated with disdain by my former advent brethren whom I dearly loved, and though I feel lonely in a dry place and weary land, yet I meet with nothing now that I dare call great afflictions. At no very distant period I look for something that will try men's souls, and will draw a line between him that serves God and him that serves him not. I hope never to forget the mercy of God in sending you here to look for the lost sheep. You met with abusive treatment to be sure from those who claimed to be God's peculiar people; but your Saviour endured still more bitter persecution from a similar class. To the wise and observing, such events are more effective than preaching.
My prayer is that you may endure afflictions, and do the work of an evangelist. Adieu,
B. B. BRIGHAM.
North Plains, Mich., Feb. 17th, 1852.
Confession and Faith After the Disappointment
By Horace Patten; Olive M. Patten
From Bro. and Sr. Patten.
DEAR BRO. WHITE: We feel that duty demands a brief account of God’s dealings with us, and a confession of our errors. We would also express our gratitude for the present truth and the blessings that attend it. We embraced the Advent doctrine about the year 1841, and were warm advocates that Christ would come in 1843. We believed without a doubt that we should see our blessed Jesus, whom our souls loved, at the end of the 2300 days. We saw the tarrying time, heard the cry “Behold the bridegroom cometh,” and with strong and unwavering confidence, expected perfect and eternal deliverance, on the tenth day of the seventh month, 1844. But the sad disappointment and trial we then felt, is best known to those who experienced the same. We could not understand why, Christ had not come for his people as we expected, but firmly believed that what we had passed through was nothing less than the mighty work of God. Some cried delusion, mesmerism, and the work of the devil. This we could not believe, for God had wrought a work in our souls that was not the work of some strange spirit. During this state of things, our minds became much distracted, which way to turn we knew not. We had clearly seen that Babylon was fallen, and cried “come out of her my people.” Every bridge was taken up; go back, or deny the past, we could not. We were earnestly looking for something to explain our position, when in the spring of 1845 there came certain brethren to us, who said we proclaimed the time right, but were wrong in the manner. By ingenious, and mystified interpretations of many scriptures, too numerous to mention, they made it appear that we had come to the dispensation of the fullness of times, that there was a change from natural or literal interpretations of scripture, to spiritual, 1 Cor. xv, 46, “Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.” Now, said they, we have come to the end of the natural, or literal interpretation of the word, and all the scriptures are to have a spiritual fulfillment, they cannot be understood by the natural man, because the natural man knoweth not the things of the Spirit, for they are spiritually discerned. You recollect the devil quoted scripture to Christ, so a multitude of scriptures were presented to us. In our bewildered state, and for want of better light, we drank the deadly poison. We were soon led to believe that we had been carnal, in looking for a literal person of Jesus to come, and in looking for that city above, “the mother of us all.” In short the fire of spiritualism soon burned up the person of Jesus, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and all the glories of heaven. We began to talk about God and heaven in us, so we could no longer look up to our dear Father in heaven, and family prayer was soon neglected. From this time we did hope but nothing obtain. We looked for a more special manifestation of God, and his glory in the future, but our hopes were emphatically like the house built upon the sand, [Matt. vii, 24-27,] for we did not hear and do the sayings of Christ.
Pride, self-exaltation, and a worldly spirit crept in, till we no longer had the spirit, or bore the marks of the meek and lowly Jesus. Here we were, our souls well nigh drowned in destruction and perdition, shielded against any truth that could be brought from the Word, by the false idea, that it was going back to the natural, when the message of the third angel came to our ears. We wonder the glorious truths of this message, ever penetrated the thick darkness which surrounded us. We are miracles of grace, monuments of the mercy and long suffering of God. We thank and praise our Heavenly Father, that his own mighty hand was stretched out in kindness, to rescue us from this awful snare. Last August Bro. Rhodes came to us imbued with the Spirit of our Blessed Lord and Master, and presented a harmonious chain of scripture evidences that all the commandments, were still binding upon us. We thought there was no Sabbath; but the scales fell from our eyes, and we were enabled to see that the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord our God, and we determined to keep it, let what would oppose. Here we found the blessed company who are keeping the commandments of God that they may have right to the tree of life, and enter through the gates into the city. We were fully satisfied that we had once more found a humble, self-denying, sacrificing people, sanctified through the truth who were going through to the kingdom. With them we wanted to go. We were willing to confess and forsake all our errors; to give to the winds all our spiritualism, and believe the word of God as it reads. We are heartily sorry we have been engaged in spreading error and darkness among the dear children of God. We are unworthy of a place among his people. But we do believe the Lord has forgiven us and we would gladly do any thing in our power to wipe out the stain, and put an end to these evils. The Lord forbid that honest souls should stumble over our darkness. O! that we could tell you with what joy and gratitude we received the true light on the cleansing of the Sanctuary. No one could be clearer, than we were that the days ended 1844. In our darkness we have secretly longed for something that would more fully explain the past mighty move, and the fulfillment of this scripture, “then shall the Sanctuary be cleansed.” Then think of our joy, after waiting near seven long years in ignorance, to learn, that our Great High Priest, did exactly fulfill the types on the tenth day of the seventh month, and entered the Most Holy Place, in the True Sanctuary above which the Lord pitched and not man, bearing in the names of all Israel, there to complete the great work of redemption, and perform his last work of mercy for fallen man. Now we are praying that our names may be retained on the breastplate of judgment, may be confessed before the Father and the holy angels, so that when he comes out, our errors and sins may all be blotted out, and we receive the never ending blessing. We are now looking with more confidence than ever, for that same Jesus to so come in like manner as he was seen go into heaven, also for the Holy City, New Jerusalem which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God, to come down from God out of heaven.
When we received present truth, the long lost family altar, was speedily restored. Our children all pray with us. The truth attended by the blessing of God, has made us a happy family. We feel that “We are on our journey home, to the New Jerusalem.” Our treasures and our hearts are there and we want eternal life at the expense of every thing. Never did the scriptures open so gloriously, showing past, present, and future, in delightful harmony, as now. Never were our feet so firmly planted on the sure foundation, the unerring Word, as at present. We feel that it will take all to enter the kingdom, but no sacrifice can be too dear, to make, no suffering too great to endure, if we can only with the 144,000 be redeemed from among men, and enter through those gates into the holy city, where we may eat of the leaves of the tree, and drink from the crystal stream, that makes glad the city of our God. We want the prayers of the people of God, to unite with ours; “that we may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Yours in the patient waiting time,
HORACE PATTEN.
OLIVE M. PATTEN.
Rochester. N. Y., Feb. 19th, 1852.
Extracts of Letters.
By Editor
Sister S. Haskel writes from Norfolk, N. Y., Feb. 18th, 1852: "Last September Brn. Baker and Ingraham came here with the third angel's message. We had been looking to the Lord to send us the light; for we saw there was none in the papers, and it would often come into my mind, 'wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread.'" Isa. lv. 2.
"When the brethren came we received them as from the Lord. We had been looking for the proclamation of the third angel, believing that it would draw the dividing line between the wise and foolish. I have often felt afraid that I should be of the latter class in consequence of the fog that has been thrown around my mind, many having denied the past, which I could not. I have ever believed we had the truth in 1843 and 1844, for the Lord taught us by his Spirit, and by his Word.
"The truth and light that now shines from the Word makes my heart rejoice, and I have been led to exclaim, praise the Lord, O my soul.
"I feel a union with the seventh-day brethren and sisters, and their letters are food to my soul, and I can say with the Psalmist, 'Blessed are they that know the joyful sound.' I long for a deeper work of grace in my heart. I want on the whole armor, that I may be able to stand in this evil time.
"Pray for us, that we may not be led away with the error of the wicked, and fall from our own steadfastness."
Bro. E. A. Poole writes from West Lincklaen N. Y., Feb. 16th, 1852: "We are striving to make our way onward in the pilgrim's path. The Sabbath becomes more and more precious.
"I love to think of that first Sabbath, when the Great Jehovah, having surveyed all his works and pronounced them very good, entered into his holy rest. When Eden bloomed in all its beauty, the flowers sent forth their sweet odors, and the feathered tribes their blithe songs in praise of their Creator. The tabernacle of God was with men, and he dwell among them. With what ecstasy must our first parents, in such nearness to God have poured forth their songs of thanksgiving and praise in this grand temple of nature. And I thank God for the anniversary on which we can enter into our earthly temple, and draw the curtains between us and the world, and open the sky-light, and let in the heavenly glory upon our holy convocations."
Bro. H. B. Simons writes from West Hartford, Vt., Feb., 1852: "My attention was first called to the present truth by Brn. Hart and Day. They called on me last August; but on account of sickness in the family I had but little chance to talk with them. They left me a pamphlet called the third angel's message and other books on the Sabbath.
"I resolved to spend the first Sabbath that came, in examining God's word, to see if these things were so. I had not spent half of the day before I was convinced that God's ways were not as man's ways to be changed for the better, or to be improved; for who hath been His counsellor.
"Since that time I have called the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable."
Embracing the Third Angel’s Message
By Ira Wyman
From Bro. Wyman.
Dear Bro. White: I thank God that I have the privilege of addressing you. It is of late that I have embraced the third angel's message, and have kept but three Sabbaths, and the Lord has been with me. O yes, I thank God that I now see the truth. We have it. I know it is the truth. My experience in the past testifies to it, and that is in harmony with the word of God. I never could give up the past, and my heart has been pained while I have heard my brethren call our past experience the work of the devil, mesmerism, &c. For me to deny the past would be to sin against God, and the Holy Ghost.
God was with us in proclaiming the first angel's message, and blessed his truth to the conversion of thousands. And he was with us in the second angel's message. God called us out of the churches, and they are fallen. They know it, and acknowledge it. "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God", &c. We are now having the last message of mercy, and in it is the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Blessed be God, when our Savior comes, he will find just such a people, and that class he will present, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing.
The advent people in this place call me a Judaizer, fallen from grace, and finally, they blot out the whole law of God. But says our High Priest, "Blessed are they who do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." Rev. xxii, 14.
May we be kept in the love of God, and in the patient waiting for Christ, is the prayer of your brother.
IRA WYMAN.
Hebron, N. Y., Feb. 15th, 1852.
PUBLICATIONS.
By Editor
THE ADVENT REVIEW, a pamphlet of 48 pages, containing thrilling testimonies by many of the leaders of the Advent cause.
THE BIBLE SABBATH, or a careful selection from the publications of the American Sabbath Tract Society, including the history of the Sabbath—64 pages.
THOUGHTS ON THE SABBATH, AND THE PERPETUITY OF THE LAW OF GOD, by J. N. Andrews—32 pages.
A brief exposition of the Angels of Rev. xiv,—32 pages.
The above publications can be had of us at Saratoga Springs, of Elias Goodwin, Oswego, (N. Y.), and Otis Nichols, Dorchester, (Mass.).
☞ VOLUME I OF THE REVIEW AND HERALD.—We have a quantity bound in paper covers, which should be circulated. Brethren, this is a valuable work for you to obtain to lend or give to those who wish to learn the reasons of our faith.
☞ NUMBERS 6 AND 8.—We have extra copies of these two numbers for distribution. No. 6. contains our entire review of the article, "Seventh-day Sabbath Abolished," and No. 8 contains the lengthy article on Babylon, from the Voice of Truth of 1844, the "Review of O. R. L. Crozier on Rev. xiv, 1-13," by J. N. Andrews, and our remarks on the Sabbath in reply to the Editor of the Harbinger." We hope they will be called for and judiciously circulated.
☞ THE REVIEW AND HERALD VOLUME II, will contain fourteen numbers. We shall have at the close of this volume about four hundred copies of each number, which will be bound in paper covers.
Those who wish to obtain publications from Saratoga Springs will please send for them immediately. If the paper should be published at another place, it would be better to send publications out from this place before the change is made. This will save the labor and expense of moving them.
The Review and Herald.
By Editor
To the Brethren.
We stated in our last that we had made arrangements to publish only two more numbers of the Review and Herald. But we have no idea that you should be without a paper for much length of time. If ever such a medium of instruction and comfort was needed, it is certainly needed now.
You are a scattered people, many of you not being able to meet with those of like precious faith for months, and even years. There are but few real laborers in the wide harvest, and new fields of labor still opening before them, and you cannot reasonably expect them to visit you but very seldom. And while you are thus scattered, and surrounded by unbelief and opposition, you certainly need the weekly visits of a paper devoted to the present truth.
Again, there are many calls at the present time for the labors of those brethren who travel and lecture, and they can tarry in a place only to give but few of the reasons of their faith. Should not their labors be followed up by a weekly paper, in which the reasons of our hope may be more fully given? We are satisfied that all who feel interested, and can realize the wants of the cause, will say that we need such a paper.
We object to conducting the paper in its present condition for the following reasons:
1. It is not convenient to print such a paper at a suitable printing-office, and have the work put by on the seventh day, and it is very unpleasant to us, as well as inconvenient, to have the work done on the Sabbath.
2. If a small office was owned by the brethren, the paper could be printed in such an office for about three fourths of what others can afford to do it for us in large printing establishments.
3. We think that hands can be obtained who are keeping the Sabbath who would take an interest in the paper that cannot be expected of others. In this case, much care would be taken from the one that had charge of it.
4. As the paper is now printed it is necessary that we should be confined to it. This is not only injurious to our health, but depressive to our spirits, while we hear the Macedonian cry from all parts of the country, "Come over and help us." We think that none of the brethren would wish to be thus confined, under such circumstances. And we think the Lord does not require it of any one that feels called to preach his word. But if an office was owned by our brethren, and the paper printed by those who are specially interested in the present truth, arrangements could be made to publish the paper, and the editor be absent a portion of the time.
During the last two or three years we have published considerable, under very discouraging circumstances most of the time. When we commenced there were very few friends to help and encourage. But with limited means we did what we could, and God has blest us ten-fold more than we expected. We have in this time traveled much, and in different places published the paper and books, which has been attended with much labor, care, perplexity, and many deprivations, until our constitution is very much broken down.
We do not ask you brethren to give us an office; we only ask you to have one of your own, managed by a faithful committee. We do not ask to conduct your paper; we hope to be freed from the care of it. But we are unwilling to leave it until we see you establish it on right ground.
The paper has been mostly sustained by large donations from brethren that have had the cause in their hearts, and have felt that it was a part of themselves. But we think the time has come when all who profess to love the truth, should bear a part of the expense, according to their ability. We should consider it a sin in the sight of Heaven to receive money from the treasury of the Lord to publish papers and books, and then freely hand them out to those who are able to help sustain the cause, without reminding them of their duty. We now speak of the professed friends of the cause. Those honestly seeking for truth, though they may be prejudiced against our views, should have our publications without money or price; and when they see the light, they will wish to help sustain that cause through which they have received the truth.
We now ask you, brethren, to take hold of the work unitedly, and have a weekly paper that shall go out free from charge, and free from embarrassments, to feed the scattered flock. We do not expect that those who reject the position of the Review and Herald, will help sustain it, but its friends certainly will.
Many of you are helping sustain weekly papers that bitterly oppose the precious truths you love. In so doing are you not strengthening the hands of those who unsparingly smite your brethren? Should not the cause of truth first be sustained?
The subject of the paper will be introduced at the Conference to be held at Bro. Thompson's the 12th, and we hope to hear from many of the friends of the cause before that time. Let each state what they can do towards establishing an office. We are not able now to state the necessary sum. It will probably require about five hundred dollars.
Let the friends that write express their views freely on this subject. Where shall the paper be published? How shall it be conducted? and how often issued? A decision will doubtless be made on these points at the Conference.
Speak the Truth in Love.
In this day of apostasy, when men will not endure sound doctrine, but turn their ears from the truth unto fables; when there is so much to tempt the bold to be rash and censorious, and the timid and mild to daub the walls of Zion with untempered mortar, how instructive are the words of the Apostle, "But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ."
Some seem to think that the truth is of little consequence; that they must fellowship almost everybody, even at the expense of the truth. They try to cultivate a good spirit, and pass along smoothly with apostates and hypocrites, without persecution and reproach for Christ's sake. Tell us, are such in the strait and narrow way to life, where there are but "few" travelers, or are they with the "many" in the broad road to death? The real Christian will be meek, humble, tender-hearted and courteous; but it will not be merely an outside work. It will be the very nature of Christ dwelling in the heart, naturally and simply, without affectation, shown out in all the duties of a Christian.
"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness," &c. With the real child of God this excellent fruit does not have to be tied on; for it grows there naturally. But the heart must first be purged from sin, and the mind freed from error and darkness, and occupied with the sanctifying truth of God, then the fruit of the Spirit will grow there bountifully.
Error darkens and fetters the mind; but the truth brings freedom to the soul, and gives light and life. "Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth." This was the prayer of Jesus for his chosen ones, and he adds, "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word." See John xvii, 17-20. Jesus, therefore, prayed to his Father that believers at the present time, as well as in past time, should be sanctified, not through the traditions and commandments of men, but THE TRUTH. Men talk in vain of sanctification outside of the truth. True charity [love] "rejoiceth in the truth." 1 Cor. xiii, 6. The Psalmist describing the great day of the Lord, and the protection of the saints in that day, says, "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust; his TRUTH shall be thy SHIELD and BUCKLER." "Thy law is the TRUTH." Ps. cxix, 142; xci, 4. St. John, the beloved disciple that dwells so much on the subject of love, says, "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in the truth." 3 John 4. "I rejoice greatly, that I found of thy children walking in truth." 2 John 4.
Those who think to walk in love, and outside of the truth, greatly err, "not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God." But others err on the other hand. While they see that salvation must come through the truth, as revealed in the Bible, they zealously advocate it, and do not always meet bitter opposition with all that meekness and patience that becometh saints. Such, in their zeal for the Lord and his truth, sometimes injure the good cause, and give unsanctified souls who are frequently heard to plead "charity," when the naked truths of God's word are set before them, a chance to cry "charity" with still greater effect, and prejudice the Lord's honest ones against the truth.
Brethren, while we see the errors into which some have fallen on either hand, let us be instructed by the word of the Apostle, "But speaking the TRUTH in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ."
MY BIBLE
By I. I. Leslie
From the "Voice of Truth" for March 4th, 1846.
MY BIBLE.
O give me my Bible—the statutes of heaven—
Its great Constitution I know to be pure;
Its laws and its by-laws in justice are given,
And all is divine, and unalterably sure.
I know when I read them, in love they were blended,
Nor one disannulled since the time they were framed;
No foul legislation has ever amended
One jot or one tittle, that therein is named.
Though thousands have written a substitute for them,
To sway over others the sceptre and sword;
Yet ever unaltered, these laws lie before them:
Unchanged and immutable—word of the Lord.
Then give me my Bible, and let me obey it,
Instead of the statutes and doctrines of men;
Aside for a moment, forbid I should lay it,
To listen and argue for dogmas again.
I. I. LESLIE.
Confession of Errors.
By Editor
This the Bible requires. Says the Apostle James, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed." Healed of what? Answer, from errors and faults, and restored to sweet communion with God and his people. It is the duty of the erring, to confess secret faults to Him who seeth in secret, and public faults, which have had a bad effect on the cause of God, as publicly as the offence.
The letter of confession from Bro. and Sr. Patten in this number, will be read with much interest. God has done much for them and their children since they embraced the Sabbath.
The only safe course for those who have ever fallen into the deceptive snare of spiritualism, in our opinion, is to make a thorough confession, of their errors. Some have not been sufficiently humble to do this, after they have seen their errors, and have embraced the Sabbath. But such have been a hindrance to the cause. The blinding, deceptive power of spiritualism still clings to those who have not fully renounced it, and before they are aware of it, they are teaching fanciful notions, which if followed, are sure to lead to "damnable heresies."
Letter from Bro. M. M. Truesdell.
By M. M. Truesdell
DEAR BRO. WHITE: I never was satisfied with regard to the termination of the 2300 days in 1844, until I attended the conference at Bath. I now believe they did then end. This view harmonizes the past experience of the Advent people.
Dear Brother, we want you to come and hold a meeting with us and the saints in Elmira. Conferences are very much needed in these places. Bro. Laughhead of Elmira, and myself thought we would invite you to come as soon as you could and give notice in the paper when you could come. We thought we would not appoint meetings until you could come. We should choose to have the meetings appointed between now and the first of April next. Your brother waiting for redemption.
M. M. TRUESDELL.
The Need for More Conferences
By Editor
Those who are acquainted with the beneficial effects of Conferences, and the wants of the brethren, will agree with us that many such meetings should be held in different parts of the field this spring and the coming summer. We hope to be so freed from the paper as to be able to hold Conferences at Catlin, Elmira, and many other places from which we are receiving urgent calls.
Communications for Number Fourteen
By Editor
Communications for No. 14 should be sent in immediately. All letters and remittances should be forwarded in season to be received before April 1st.
Letters received since February 17.
By Editor
E. Everts, A. Woodruff, N. A. Perry, E. L. H. Chamberlain, E. A. Poole, I. Wyman, J. N. Andrews, A. A. Dodge, O. Nichols, C. Bacheller, M. M. Truesdell, J. Martin, J. C. Bowles, O. Hewett, F. M. Bragg, E. W. Waters, D. M. Little, U. Smith, F. Wheeler, S. W. Rhodes, R. R. Chapin, C. Stevens, R. F. Cottrell, H. P. Wakefield, W. Holcomb, G. W. Holt, H. B. Simons, J. Lindsey, H. Lothrop.
Receipts.
By Editor
N. N. Lunt, S. Osgood, S. Dunter, D. R. Wood, J. Claxton, H. M. Ayres, M. E. Gleason, M. L. Bauder, H. Patten, D. Upson, Emily Wilcox, L. C. Young, each $1.
L. O. Stowell, P. Ingalls, Sister Dunbar, each $2. Leander Kellogg, $5.
Experience and Views
For the Pamphlet entitled "Experience and Views"
N. Drew, E. Lindsey, each $1.
G. M. DAVISON'S STEAM PRESS, SARATOGA SPRINGS
CONFERENCE.
By S. W. Rhodes; James White
THERE will be a Conference at the house of Bro. Jesse Thompson, two miles from Ballston Spa, N. Y., to commence March 12th, at 10 o'clock A. M., and hold several days. The Advent Brethren in the region round about are invited to attend. It may be expected that lectures will be given by different brethren defining our position.
There will be conveyance at the Depot, Thursday evening, to take the brethren to the place of meeting.
One great object of this Conference is, that as many of those who teach the message of the third angel, as can consistently attend, may assemble, and examine more fully their present position, that they may be better prepared to go forth into the wide harvest with union and strength, all speaking the same things, that a healthy influence may be exerted everywhere they may go preaching the Word. It is hoped that all those brethren that can attend this meeting will be present.