The world is so full of folly that we ought scarcely to be surprised at any exhibition of a lack of common sense in the multitude; yet the course which the Fenians seem to have resolved upon following in England is so preposterously foolish that one can hardly help suspecting it must have been inspired by some of their secret enemies. The folly of the British Government in hanging the three Irishmen at Manchester, by way of warning the conspirators to rescue no more prisoners, has been exceeded by the folly of the Fenians who blew up the Clerkenwell jail and destroyed a number of lives, by way of protesting that the warning was lost upon them. We have expressed our conviction more than once that the worst thing at present to be apprehended from the Fenian movement is the kindling of a riotous animosity between Celtic and Saxon mobs in the English cities and towns. Both parties seem now to be trying their best to precipitate this apprehended disaster. The Government has entered upon a course of ill-judged rigor; the press has been holding up the halter as the great national panacea; and now the Fenians have allowed themselves to be provoked into outrages which, if they are not stopped at once, will render it literally impossible for the Crown not to hang, or for the English people not to hate them. The British bull-dog is a very savage and brutal creature when he is roused, and if he persuades himself that his house is to be blown up with gunpowder, Ireland may be turned into a second India or Jamaica. The men who tied Sepoys to the cannon's mouth, and justified the murders of Eyre, will have little compunction about a massacre of Irish insurgents.
But more than this, the Fenians are losing the countenance of their best friends. The spectacle of an oppressed people struggling manfully against their oppressors, falling or conquering in honest fight, striking at their enemies, and sparing the guiltless, cannot but awaken enthusiasm in all honorable breasts. But the incendiary and the assassin is every man's foe. No cause, however holy, can justify a deed like that at Clerkenwell, which brought death and suffering upon the harmless, and in no event could have been any serious advantage to the Irish people. By the execution of Allen and his companions, Fenianism made a tremendous gain; by this affair, it has suffered a tremendous loss.—N. Y. Tribune.
Obituary Notices.
By Obadiah Davis; Jos. P. Lewis
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, in Acushnet, Mass., Aug. 12, 1867, of cancer in the stomach, Bro. David Chase, aged about 70 years. Bro. Chase was in all three of the messages and remarked in his last sickness, with much emphasis, that he regretted no step that he had taken in present truth. His endeavors were earnest in trying to promote love and harmony in the church; and may it be said of him “that being dead he yet speaketh.” A short time before his death he said, “I have tried to fight the good fight of faith, and henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of life, and not for me only, but for all those that love his appearing.” May God bless his feeble companion in her affliction, and she be remembered by the church in their prayers.
OBADIAH DAVIS.
DIED, of consumption, at her father’s residence in Windsor, Mich., Dec. 20, 1867, Andelena, youngest daughter of Joseph P. and Orle Lewis. She was 16 years of age the 25th of last July, the day on which she was taken sick. She bore her sickness with Christian fortitude, without a murmur or complaint, and before her death, obtained a clear hope in Christ. We bless the Lord for that hope. Words of consolation at the funeral by Bro. Smith.
L. H. RUSSELL: See report of Bible Class, in Review No. 2, on the Hop question.
Who is it? Some one writes from Avon, Wis., enclosing $2.00 to pay arrearages on Review. No name signed
SARAH E. LINDSLEY: Quackenbos’ Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric.
RECEIPTS.
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Appointments.
By C. A. Washburn; John Norton Loughborough; Editor; J. Byington; C. H. Rogers; Joseph G. Wood
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
The next Quarterly Meeting of the Waukon, Elgin, and West Union churches, will be held at Waukon, Iowa, Jan. 11, 1868. As no preacher is expected to be present, we hope all will come calculating to take part in this meeting. Come, brethren, praying the Lord to meet with us.
C. A. WASHBURN.
The next Monthly Meeting for Allegan Co., will be held in the Congregational meeting house in Otsego, Sabbath, Jan. 4, 1868. I will be present, if the Lord will, and speak at 11 A. M.
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
Owing to our being suddenly called away from the Office, the following notice failed to appear last week.
Ed.
As by making a change we can be favored with the help of Bro. Hutchins, the Monthly Meeting in Burlington is changed from the 2d to the 1st Sabbath in January.
J. BYINGTON.
The next Quarterly Meeting of the church at Mauston, Wis., will be held Jan. 18, 19, 1868. It is earnestly requested that all the scattered members of this church will try to be present, or report their whereabouts and spiritual condition, as we wish to keep pace with this solemn message, and make an advance movement. Will some one of the preaching brethren encourage us by being present to labor in word and doctrine?
By request.
C. H. ROGERS.
The next Quarterly Meeting of the S. D. A. church of Avon, Rock county, Wis., will be held at Avon, Jan. 18, 1868. We expect some of the brethren from Albany and Monroe and invite the Rockton church also to meet with us. Cannot Bro. Andrews or Sanborn come to this meeting?
JOSEPH G. WOOD.
REPORT FROM BRO. CORNELL.
By Merritt E. Cornell
Our labors at Tittabawassee are closed for the present. The interest was good to the last. The church now numbers fifty-three. Their S. B. amounts to over six hundred dollars a year. Their legal organization is perfected and they are prepared to hold their church property. The diet and dress reform is being quite generally adopted; and those who have entered upon the plan like it much.
The effort at Midland city, did but little more than to confirm those already interested with us. The lumber interests stood in the way of raising an interest upon present truth. We now feel that our duty is done in this section and we are on our way to fill some of the many calls we have to go into new fields.
May the Lord still open our way before us, and give success in the work.
M. E. CORNELL.
St Charles, Mich., Dec. 25, 1867.
PRAYER.
Ere the morning's busy ray
Calls you to your work away;
Ere the silent evening close
Your wearied eyes in sweet repose,
To lift your heart and voice in prayer
Be your first and latest care.
MONTHLY MEETING IN MINNESOTA.
By H. F. PHELPS
We would like to say through the Review, that the Monthly Meeting for the churches of Oronoco, and Greenwood Prairie, which was appointed to be held at Pine Island, the third Sabbath in Jan., 1868, is changed to Greenwood Prairie, for the following reasons: As we suggested in the appointment that it might be necessary, we made due effort to get to the appointment given for Greenwood. The way did not open very favorably, yet we succeeded, and two or three brethren from here were going, designing to start Sabbath A. M. Daylight found us about ready when it began to snow. The storm increased in severity, accompanied with a strong, east wind, which we should have been obliged to face most all the way for seventeen miles, which is indeed no desirable job across these western prairies. We decided not to go. The storm continued most of the day, with but little abatement.
At the usual hour we went to the place appointed for prayer, little expecting to see many out. But soon they began to come in, and to our great surprise and joy Bro. Pierce came with them. Not many minutes passed ere the little company here were all together, not one missing. Bro. P. accidentally, or providentially, it may be, did not get his paper containing the appointment, and understanding that the first meeting was at this place, had come here.
We had a good time, an interesting Bible Class, as usual, a good exhortation from Bro. Pierce, followed by a few testimonies from those present. The Spirit of the Lord was present. As Bro. P. expressed it, we felt that there might be more than one angel in the room. One of our neighbors was in. She remarked that it was an excellent meeting. May she be led into the whole truth.
Had a prayer-meeting in the evening. We felt that the day had been well spent, and we concluded that it was in the order of the Lord that Bro. Pierce came, but were sorry our brethren at Greenwood were so disappointed, as they must have been.
Hope to be able to favor them the third Sabbath in January. And may the Lord meet with and bless them.
H. F. PHELPS.
Pine Island, Minn.
It melts the heart to think that God is as full of mercy, as I am of sin; he, as free to forgive as I am to offend; he hath daily mercies for daily sins.
WHAT PRAYER IS.— Prayer is this—to look into the Bible and see what God has promised; to look into our hearts and ask what we want, and then for Christ's sake, ask and expect the promise to be fulfilled.
God's BENEFITS.
Read the article in another column entitled, “The old year and the new,” and remember God’s Benefits. The years are full of them. Be grateful for them, improve upon them. And as the old years of time are rapidly dying, one by one, so the great week of 6000 years of time will itself soon be brought to its dying hour, and a new year of a new dispensation will open. May that be to us all, a “happy new year.”
W. B. CASTLE. The Conference address on Organization, is in tract form in the Report of General Conference.
BRO. EDWIN KINCAID, Butler Center, Iowa, wishes us to say that he would be glad to have any brethren passing that way call on him.
“Nuts for Boys to Crack.”
To while away an hour or more occasionally on a long winter evening in the social circle at nut-cracking is usually accounted rare sport for the “boys.” And who, indeed, among the older ones, cannot call to mind many a happy hour thus spent, before the days of hygiene dawned upon us?
But alas! for hygiene! We now learn that it is not for our health to eat nuts between meals, or in the evening, as we were wont to do. But although we have learned this important fact, we take pleasure in announcing, that we have for sale at this office “nuts for boys to crack” that are perfectly hygienic and may be partaken of without the least harm at any hour of the day.
Send for a package. Price $1.00. Postage 12cts.
Lest any of our readers should entertain a wrong idea of the “nuts” we advertise, we would say that we refer to a most excellent book for boys, published by the American Tract Society, entitled, “Nuts for boys to crack.”
J. M. A.
PATIENCE.—Patience is a tree whose roots are bitter, but the fruit is very sweet.
Note from Bro. Waggoner.
By John H. Waggoner
I LEFT home on Friday morning, Dec. 20, for Ohio. It was a stormy time; and, as circumstances prevented my taking the early train at Coldwater, making it impossible to make connection at Toledo, I stopped at Hillsdale. It has been over two years since I saw the ever-dear friends at this place, and we were all rejoiced at this opportunity. Yesterday I spoke to them in the morning, and attended the Sabbath School in the afternoon. To-day I preached again in the forenoon; in consequence of changes of weather, the attendance was not so large as was expected.
To-morrow I expect to take the morning train east. My P. O. address, till further notice, will be Bowling Green, Wood Co., Ohio.