p. 184 | Review and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 13. (9/22/1868)

Earlier text: THE CONVERSION THAT IS NEEDED

The Christian’s Glorious Hope

By G. Castle

Bro. G. Castle writes from Hillsdale Co., Mich.: To those who love the truth I want to say that I am trying to walk by the same rule. It is fifteen years since I began to look for the coming of Jesus. Twelve years ago I began to keep the Sabbath. I supposed that Jesus would come in three or four years at the most. Well I am still looking. My love to God, his law, and his people has not grown cold. The latter rain will soon be felt by those who are looking for it. The Christian's hope is a bright and glorious one. It is no time now to hold back, no time now to lay up the riches of this world. The heavenly treasure looks brighter than ever; riches and honor in one hand, and long life in the other. Only think for one moment of being caught up to meet the Lord in the air by the bright and loving angels. Think of the harps, and the crowns, and of entering in through the gates into the city. I confess I get excited when thinking on this glorious subject. I never feel sorry that I have tried to live a Christian.

Keeping the Sabbath in Wisconsin

By Sister L. E. Martin

SISTER L. E. MARTIN writes from Marquette Co., Wis.: I have been reading the REVIEW, and myself and invalid daughter have tried to keep the Sabbath, all alone, with only the paper for our companion and consolation; and it seems almost as necessary to us as our daily bread. It is loaned to the neighbors around, and is read with quite an interest by some in the place. I hope and pray it may do some good.

Hoping to Gather on Mount Zion

SISTER L. M. DAVIS writes from Niag. Co., N. Y.: I feel that I cannot praise God enough for the light of present truth, and I mean to live up to all the light I have. I am numbered with the scattered ones, but I hope soon to be gathered with all the faithful on Mount Zion to sing the song of Moses and the Lamb.

A Brother’s Faith and Request for Prayer

Bro. F. Ramsey writes from Daviess Co., Mo.: My faith in the present truth is as strong as ever, and I mean, by the help of God, to go through to the blessed kingdom. I often think of those I have formerly associated with, and long to see them. I want the earnest prayers of God's people to help me to overcome my faults.

A Home in the Earth Made New

SISTER E. A. RICHER writes from Montcalm Co., Mich.: I feel that I had rather suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming the reproaches of Christ greater riches than the treasures of earth. I want my treasure in Heaven; for where the treasure is there will the heart be also. I want a home in the earth made new, where sorrow and care will never enter. My prayer is that I may have strength to overcome.

Wealthy Merchant’s Wife Arrested for Intoxication

THE wife of a wealthy New York merchant, highly educated, and a fine writer, has been recently arrested three times in Poughkeepsie, while in a state of beastly intoxication.

Obituary Notices.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.

DIED, in Shabbona, Ill., at the close of the lovely Sabbath, Aug. 29, 1868, our beloved brother James Dickey, aged 70 years, in the blessed hope of a glorious immortality. As he sat conversing, without a moment's warning, he fell to the floor, and was taken up dead.

Bro. D. embraced religion at an early age, and joined the Baptist church, of which he was a worthy and active member for many years. He was an earnest seeker after truth, and was one of the first here to commence the observance of the Sabbath as brought to light in the fulfillment of prophecy, with all its kindred truths. This is the first time death has entered our little company, and oh! how little we thought we could spare him; but the Lord's thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways, but we should say, The Lord gave and he hath taken away, and blessed be his holy name.

He leaves an only daughter, and a large circle of friends to mourn, but they sorrow not as those without hope; for he came down to the grave like a shock of corn fully ripe in its season. May the mantle of his love and kindness fall upon his surviving friends.

“Peaceful thy slumber! oh! sweet thy repose! Safe from life's turmoils, its cares and its woes. Short is the silent embrace of the tomb; Hope, pointing upward, disperses the gloom. Soon will the King in his glory descend, Triumph o'er death, and the grave's fetters rend; Kindred and friends will we meet as we rise Bright and immortal ascending the skies.” L. E. MILLNE.

DIED, in Gratiot Co., Mich., July 18, 1868, James Eugene, only son of George W., and Susannah Davis, aged 2 years, 7 months, and 8 days. A discourse was delivered by Bro. S. E. Sutherland, from Jer. xxxi, 15. G. W. DAVIS.

DIED, in the town of Marshall, Mich., Aug. 31, 1868, Frankie, son of John and Mary A. Sisley, aged one year, seven months, and nine days. Funeral sermon Sept. 13. J. H. WAGGONER.

DIED, in Estherville, Emmett Co., Iowa, July 28, 1868, of diphtheria, after an illness of 11 days, my little sister, Alma A., youngest child of Washington and Olive Morse, aged 8 years 2 months and 4 days. H. I. FARNUM.

Trusting God Through Suffering

By Sister M. B. Pierce

SISTER M. B. PIERCE writes from Andover, Vt.: I feel like striving more and more to be in earnest in the great and solemn work of getting ready to meet the blessed Jesus.

Many and various have been the trials through which I have passed the last few years. Disease and suffering have been mine to share; and a number of times it has seemed to threaten to overwhelm my frail nature; but the Lord has thus far kept me from the jaws of death; but even now disease of a serious nature hangs heavily upon me, supposed to be an inward cancer, and almost constant suffering is my lot. Yet I try to trust all with the Lord, and at times my soul rejoices in the love of the blessed Lord, and I try to commit my dear family, my poor little children, and all, into the safe keeping of our kind Heavenly Father. The coming of the dear Saviour never seemed more precious than for the past few months.

The little church here is striving to arise and live nearer the Lord. And although few, yet our meetings are solemn and interesting. To-day as we tried in our weakness to worship the Lord of the Sabbath, I felt as expressed by the poet:

“How sweet and awful is the place, With Christ within the doors.”

Truly we felt it was thus. I am unworthy the prayers of God's dear people, but I crave them in my behalf, and I will still strive to be in a place where the Lord can work for me.

Battle Creek, Sept. 21, 1868

By James White; Ellen G. White

We are glad to find that the Health Institute is filling up. Yet there is room for more patients. This is a favorable season to improve health. The afflicted poor can come as well as the wealthy. When such have done what they can, and their friends and brethren have had a chance to help them, we will see that what remains to meet their expenses is made up to them. But let all such address us at Battle Creek before coming. Such, belonging to our churches, must bring certificates from the churches to which they belong, that they are worthy of the charity of the benevolent.

JAMES WHITE, ELLEN G. WHITE.

Battle Creek, Sept. 21, 1868

Note from Bro. Fuller.

By N. Fuller

I would say that the Lord blessed us at Roulette as we met for worship, last Sabbath and first-day.

Deep solemnity rested upon those who are unconverted. If all would live just right, a great work might be done in that place. Satan would have us so live as to make enemies; but God would have us gain friends, and win to Christ.

On my way home, I met with the church at Ulysses, on 2d day. Some darkness has been thrown among them by some who have lately moved to that vicinity. But they have come out right. All have cut loose from wrong influences.

N. FULLER.

Wellsville, Aug. 26, 1868.

THE PROSPECT.—

Chief Justice Pearson, of North Carolina, says: “I am alarmed at the condition of the country, and fear we are drifting into another civil war. In my opinion, the ‘war clouds’ are as dark now as in the winter of 1860-61. We were then promised ‘peaceable secession;’ we are now to have ‘peaceable nullification.’”

A FACT FOR REFLECTION.

Prof. Gamgee has made a report to the effect that one-fifth of the meat eaten in Great Britain, whether beef, mutton, veal, or lamb, is diseased. Prof. Gerlach states that half the meat consumed in Berlin is diseased. Upon which the Scientific American asks, “How about the United States? The butchers in New York say that the demand for beef has largely diminished in consequence of popular doubt upon this point.”

Marriage and Divorce

In the French Revolution when the flood-gates of vice were opened, there were twenty thousand divorces granted in France, in about a year and a half. Yet in Connecticut and Indiana, which stand as representative States in this respect, there were granted, in 1866, a greater number of divorces, in proportion to their population, than were granted in France during the French Revolution. And they have by no means grown less since that year. What a vitiated state of society does this denote. These facts we gather from an article on marriage and divorce, in The Methodist, of Sept. 12, 1868.

Correction

CORRECTION. In the article, “Application for Help,” in REVIEW, No. 10, it was stated that Bro. C. A., of Pleasantville, N. Y., had four children. He wishes us to correct the statement as he has but two.

Freemasonry Articles Continued

By Editor

As the articles on Freemasonry were commenced and promised before the paper was cut down we continue them. Two more numbers will complete the series.

JAMES WHITE

By James White

The call for Life Incidents is far beyond my expectations. The binder cannot turn them out fast enough to meet the demand. There are many orders at the office which cannot be filled at present. But 40 copies could be spared to go in the boxes of books shipped to California the 18th.

Very many are purchasing the book at the low rates to give to friends, and to the Lord’s poor. And the friends of the cause are subscribing liberally to help me circulate the book to thousands in a judicious manner free. I design to give all a chance to help in this work.

JAMES WHITE

Camp-Meeting Appointments

By James White; Ellen G. White

We now design to attend the camp-meeting at Clyde, Ill., and Pilot Grove, Iowa, and the Ohio and New York Conferences. Our post office address, until further notice be given, will be Battle Creek. Letters requiring immediate answers should be addressed to the several points of our meetings in season to reach us.

JAMES WHITE, ELLEN G. WHITE.

Note from Bro. Dorcas.

By Jesse Dorcas

BRO. SMITH: Permit me to say, for the encouragement of the friends of present truth, that, if the work of the Lord is not spreading much in this part of the field, it is most evidently deepening. Our last monthly gathering, which closed yesterday, at Marion, Iowa, was one of deep, and, I trust, will be of lasting profit to all present. Sound, godly, heartfelt confessions of faults were made without any of the old fashion pressure, and where they were scarcely thought called for. The prayers and healing must follow if the righteous men are to be found. God is evidently at work for us here. We praise his holy name. Yours in hope. JESSE DORCAS.

New Books.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

ALL who wish “Life Incidents,” Testimony No. 16, Bro. Smith’s new book, &c., can be supplied at our coming meeting at South Lancaster, Mass.

D. M. CANRIGHT.

A Revival of the Advent Spirit

Bro. and Sr. White and Bro. Andrews spent Sabbath, the 19th, with the church in this place. It was a good day. God is reviving the true Advent spirit, and Advent testimony, in the hearts of his servants. We bless the Lord for this. It is the hope of the church. How more stirring and solemn truths and exhortations could be expressed, we can hardly conceive. From this time, there must be a change in this cause. Those who are in earnest for a preparation for the coming of Christ, and everlasting life, will arise, and go forward. Those who do not do this, will be left behind.

TRACTS

By James White

The time has come for our tracts to be circulated with a much more liberal hand than they have been. In this good field of labor, all can work. And to encourage this worthy enterprise, the Trustees of the Publishing Association decided to furnish Tracts at the Office at cost. Hence, in a late Review, the following appeared:

“The Association will furnish tracts to ministers, and to others to distribute gratuitously, at the following cheap rates: 4-page tracts, at 25 cts. per hundred. 8-page tracts, at 50 cts. per hundred. 16-page tracts, at $1.00 per hundred. 24-page tracts, at $1.50 per hundred. 32-page tracts, at $2.00 per hundred.”

This is only $1.00 for 1600 pages. When very large editions are printed, and hands work for low wages, our uncovered tracts can be furnished by the hundred at the Office, at these rates. But these exceedingly low prices will no more than cover cost. Some are ordering them by mail, post-paid, at these rates. In all such cases, the postage, and cost and time of mailing, is a loss. In order that the tract enterprise be not a burden to the Association, they must be sold at the following rates:

At the Office by Exp. or R. R. By Mail. Less than 100 by Mail. 4-page tracts, 25 cts. per 100. 37 cts. At the rate of 50 cts. per 100. 8-page tracts, 50 cts. per 100. 75 cts. At the rate of $1.00 per 100. 16-page tracts, $1.00 per 100. $1.50. At the rate of $2.00 per 100. 24-page tracts, $1.50 per 100. $2.25. At the rate of $3.00 per 100. 32-page tracts, $2.00 per 100. $3.00. At the rate of $4.00 per 100.

Care will be taken to furnish those tracts, and those only, which the times demand. Let all the living, active members of the church of Christ work while the day shall last. Send your orders. JAMES WHITE.

ANCIENT HEBREW CYPHER.

By G. W. A.

In the “Complete Analysis of the Bible,” by Rev. N. West, is a brief sketch of each book, its authenticity, contents, scope, by whom written, &c. In speaking of the book of Jeremiah the following interesting paragraph occurs:

“There are some peculiarities in his writings, of which the most curious is his use of a sort of secret writing, or cypher, called in Hebrew, “Atbash,” which is a part of that secret learning of the Rabbins known as the Kabbala. This ‘Atbash’ consists in turning the Hebrew alphabet end for end, using the last letter instead of the first, the last but one instead of the second, and so on; as if in English we should put z y x w v, &c., instead of a b c d e, and should spell ‘bad’ by writing it yzw. Thus, in chap. xxv, 26, the word ‘Sheshach’ is unintelligible; but if, according to the Atbash, ‘Babel’ (i. e. Babylon) be substituted, a clear meaning appears. The same word, Sheshach, appears again, and can be treated in like manner, in chap. li, 41; and the words translated ‘in the midst of them that rise up against me,’ in the first verse of that chapter, if treated in the same way, become ‘Chasdim,’ i. e. Chaldees.”

The above, to say the least, is an interesting idea, and may possibly throw some light on the word Sheshach, in the 25th of Jeremiah, which heretofore has been a somewhat difficult term to explain. G. W. A.

Quarterly Treasurer Reports Due

By H. F. Phelps

Notice.

We would kindly remind our s. b. treasurers of this State, that the first quarter closes with Sept. 30, and we hope they will all respond in due time. We hope, also, they will report the amount of indebtedness previous to this Conf. year. H. F. Phelps, Sec’y.

Ohio Conference

Appointments.

And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

Ohio Conference.

The place for the Ohio Conference, appointed last week to be held Oct. 16–18, 1868, will be Bowling Green. Bro. and Sr. White, and Bro. Andrews will, Providence permitting, be present.

Providence permitting, I will meet with the church in Genoa, N. Y., Oct. 3 and 4, 1868. As these brethren have once been disappointed in my appointment at that place, I will try to meet them without fail. C. O. TAYLOR.

The next Quarterly Meeting of the Marquette and Mackford churches will be held at Marquette, commencing Sabbath, Oct. 3, at 10, A. M., and hold over first-day.

Will Bro. T. M. Steward attend this meeting with one or more of the Conference Committee? THOS. McDOWELL.

Providence permitting, we will meet with the churches as follows: Hanover, Mich., Sabbath and first-day, Sept. 26, 27; Hillsdale, Oct. 3, 4; Ransom Center 10, 11; Burr Oak, 13, 14. JOSEPH BATES.

Business Department.

Not Slothful in Business. Rom. xii, 11.

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