p. 16 | Review and Herald, Vol. 44, No. 2. (6/23/1874)

Earlier text: What Manner of Persons Ought ye to Be?

Romish Dealing with Sins.

By John Norton Loughborough

There may be a greater fitness than we would at first imagine in the fact that Inspiration has called the papacy, “That man of sin.” It is a power that has a great deal to do with sins, and makes high pretensions of what it can do with sins. It may not be amiss here to notice its teachings relative to confession, penance, indulgences, and absolution. First, of confessions, we will see what it teaches. We will quote from Weninger’s Catechism.

Ques. What is the fourth precept of the church?

“Ans. To confess our sins to a priest, at least once a year, and to receive holy communion at Easter time.

“Q. What penalty does he incur who disobeys this precept?

“A. He thereby forfeits Christian burial.

“Q. What is confession?

“A. It is a secret and contrite declaration to a priest of at least all the mortal sins we have committed after baptism for the purpose of receiving absolution.”

“Q. Are we obliged to confess our venial sins?

“A. No: we are not. It is, however, useful to confess them, so that our confessor may know us better; or when we have no mortal sins to confess.”

“Q. Can we again confess sins confessed before?

“A. Yes, if we repent of them again.

“Q. When should we repeat former sins?

“A. When, by the help of God, we have committed no new sins, we have to repeat one or two of our past sins, in order to give matter for absolution.”

Mark the above. They must confess once a year. Their sins have all been confessed, hence, all absolved by the priest; but, to keep up the form, I suppose, they must confess absolved sins over again, so that the priest can have something to absolve.

Now we will quote from Hughes’ Catechism on this subject.

“Ques. What is confession?

“Ans. Confession is to accuse ourselves of all our sins to a priest, in order to obtain absolution.”

“Q. How must we declare our sins?

“A. We must declare the number of our sins and their different kinds.

“Q. Must we declare all our sins?

“A. We must declare all our mortal sins; for, if we were to conceal willfully any mortal sin, we should not obtain the forgiveness of any, and we shall besides commit sacrilege.

“Q. At what age do children begin to be obliged to go to confession?

“A. Children begin to be obliged to go to confession when they come to the use of reason, so as to be capable of mortal sins, which is generally supposed to be about the age of seven years.”

Next we quote from Butler’s Catechism.

“Ques. What means the commandment of confessing our sins, at least once a year?

“Ans. It means that we are threatened with very severe penalties by the church if we do not go to confession within the year.

“Q. Is it sufficient to go but once a year to confession?

“A. No; frequent confession is necessary for all those who fall into mortal sin, or who desire to advance in virtue.”

God calls on us in his word to turn from our sins, to turn to him, but the catechism calls on all over seven years of age to turn to the priest, and confess to him. Some difference.

Let us quote now the words of Kirwan on confession: “The doctrine of confession is one of the primary doctrines of your church. It requires every good papist to confess his sins to a priest at least once a year. If any sins are concealed, none are forgiven. This doctrine makes the bosom of the priest the repository of all the sins of all the sinners of his parish, who make a conscience of confession. And this is one of the sources of the fearful power which your priests have over your people. And with this doctrine of confession is connected the power of the father confessor to grant absolution to the confessing penitent. It is sometimes affirmed, and then denied, to suit circumstances, that the priest claims such power. But Dr. Challoner, in his ‘Catholic Christian Instructed,’ Chap. 9, asserts this power, and on what he deems scriptural authority. And I never knew an individual who came from confession, with the privilege of partaking of the communion, who did not feel and believe that his sins were forgiven him. And if they were not immediately forgiven, they would be on the performance of the prescribed penances. You, sir, will not say that I either misstate or misrepresent the doctrine.

“Now, sir, let me again turn querist and ask you, Where in the Bible do you find your doctrine of confession taught? With me the teachings of all your councils weigh not a feather; give me, if you can, Bible authority. Is there one text from Genesis to Revelation, which you, as a scholar, will say teaches it? . . . A poor, unlettered peasant from Mayo or Galway, into whose lips words are put, as into the mouth of a parrot, might quote to me James 5: 16, which says, ‘Confess your faults one to another;’ but will you do it? . . . If James is your authority, are not you bound to confess to me, if I am to you? ‘Confess your faults one to another.’ If this text teaches auricular confession, I hold you to it. When did you put the poor Irishman, who whispered his sins into your ears, in your seat in the confessional, and kneeling down outside, whisper through the little square hole cut in its side, your sins into his ear? This would be confessing your sins one to another. Did you ever do this, sir? Never, never.”

Of the tendency of the confessional, Brock says, “The confessional has proved to many Roman Catholic priests an awful snare, yea, a cause of eternal ruin. Is this a Protestant calumny? No, my friends, it is the sad admission of a canonized saint of Rome, whose ‘Moral Theology’ (if, indeed, we may call it moral) trains Rome’s priests for the confessional. It is Alphonsus Liguori who says, lamentingly, ‘Oh, how many confessors have lost their own souls, and those of their penitents, on account of some negligence in this respect.’ (Liguori’s Moral Theology, Vol. 9, p. 145.)”

“By means of the confessional, the breast of a frail, sinful man is made the receptacle of all the sins of every Roman Catholic man, woman, and child over seven, in the neighborhood. ‘Who will venture to say that the very machinery of the Roman church is not a cause of leading many to sin? It is very hard for a man’s mind to become turned into a common sewer without contracting pollution. And what want we with this polluting and polluted earthly confessional when our great High Priest summons us to the heavenly confessional, and bids us confess our sins to him, and promises us, if repentant and believing, the full and free forgiveness of all our sins?’”

We will conclude our notice of the confessional by quoting from Gavazzi, who served several years as a father confessor. He surely ought to know something of the nature, tendency, and power, of the confessional. He says: “Why is the system of auricular confession upheld by the Roman church? Its adherents say, ‘Because it promotes morality.’ I answer, simply, A thing immoral in its nature cannot promote the morality of those who use it, but renders them immoral. Poison cannot improve health, nor prolong life. But auricular confession is immoral in its nature, to prove which, it is enough to know that Christ has not commanded it; were it necessary, it would not have been left unenjoined by the divine Lawgiver.

“Although the Bible has been distorted by papists to prove auricular confession, the Sacred Volume offers no proof of it. The apostles never used it; we cannot find it in the first centuries and among primitive Christians. The earliest trace of confession is found in the case of apostates from the church, who, seeking re-admission, were compelled as the scandal they had given was public, to make a public confession, not an auricular confession, of their apostasy, before being received again.

“Immorality in the Roman church commenced with her confessors. The confessional is, to the young unmarried priest, a suggester of impurities; there he contracts the stain; outward from the confessional it travels, until it is scattered on every hearth, met in every crossway.

“Auricular confession is said to be a religious institution, but practically it is made, in astute hands, a political instrument. Master of the secrets, the conscience, the soul of the penitent, the priest is a more effective tool of despotism than armed legions.

“In the hands of astute priests, especially of Jesuits, auricular confession is no more than the machinery of a universal espionage all over the Christian world. It will be said, ‘No! because they cannot use it.’ Ah! my friends! you do not know Jesuitical practice. If one member of a family go to a Jesuit confessor, all the secrets of that family are discovered—and used. The confessor does not restrain himself to the secrets of the penitent; if that be a young lady, or a servant suppose, she is questioned about the actions of her father and mother, and masters, who came into the house, what kind of society was kept, what subjects were spoken of, if the food used on Fridays and Saturdays were such as the church prescribes; what books be read; if there be any daily worship in the house; which church they frequent; if they go to confess to the Easter sacrament, and so forth. Hundreds and hundreds of such questions are put, not appertaining to the penitent. Why? To know the secrets of the family—to get this great power—and to use it.

“All those revelations, made by the confessing person, of facts not personal, of circumstances and persons out of her confession, are not under the seal; the confessor is not obliged to keep silent upon other guilt than that of the penitent, or what is immediately connected with the penitent, who has become an instrument, a spy, in the hands of the cunning priest. I give a case which lately occurred at Milan. A poor man, keeper of a hotel, discovered some fire-arms in his house. As the punishment by martial law, which then operated there, for possessing arms, was to be shot, the man went alone to the father confessor, and said: ‘In such a part of my house I found five or six muskets and rifles; I desire to be discharged of the heavy gift; therefore arrange the matter so that I can avoid condemnation.’ The confessor said: ‘Oh! I will arrange it all; go in peace!’ Two hours afterward, the police came to the hotel, went directly to the part indicated by the confessor, and found the arms; a few hours after, that poor man was shot. This is the silence, or if you please better to say, this is the prudence and charity of confessors.”

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

(Concluded next week.)

The Sign of Ridiculous Notions

SOME young ladies, feeling aggravated by the severity with which their friends speculated on their gay plumes, necklaces, rings, etc., went to their pastor to learn his opinion.

“Do ye think,” said they, “there is any impropriety in wearing these things?”

“By no means,” was the prompt reply, “when the heart is full of ridiculous notions, it is well enough to hang out the sign.”

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, at Becket Center, Mass., May 26, 1874, my mother, Emeline A. Phinney, aged sixty-six years, three months, and twenty-three days. Funeral discourse by E. Dow. EMILY PHINNEY.

DIED, in Trenton, Mo., May 20, 1874, from relapse of measles, Ella May, daughter of Harry and Enogene Winters, aged two years, six months, and twenty-four days. LUVINA BUTLER.

DIED, near Salem Center, June 8, 1874, sister Lydia M. Lock, aged seventy-three years, eleven months, and eighteen days. She embraced the Sabbath and other truths of the third angel’s message about the year 1850, and from that time, until her death, was a worthy member of the Seventh-day Adventist church. She leaves a large circle of friends to mourn, but not without hope. Her children have lost an affectionate mother, the church one of its most useful members. She entered the dark valley with a bright hope of a part in the first resurrection. Remarks by the writer. H. L. DOTY.

FELL asleep in Jesus, March 30, 1874, at Melbourne, P. Q., after an illness of five weeks, of influenza and bronchitis, William Hills, aged seventy-one years, six months, and fifteen days. He leaves an aged widow and eight children, and numerous relatives to mourn their loss. He was a firm believer in the keeping of the commandments of God, the fourth not excepted, and the faith of Jesus. He died the death of the righteous, and his end was peace. ELIZABETH F. HILLS.

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 Ohio T. and M. Society will hold its next quarterly meeting at Bowling Green, July 4 and 5, 1874. Teams will meet the trains at Tontogany on the 3d. A full attendance is desired. The district directors will hold their meetings and report to the Secretary in time for this meeting. O. MEARS.

THE quarterly meeting of the churches of Grant and Vernon, Mich., will be held in connection in Grant on the first Sabbath and first-day in July. J. E. GREENE.

QUARTERLY meeting for Allegany church, Niles Hill, N. Y., July 4, and 5. Members invited to be present or report. D. C. PHILLIPS, Clerk.

MEETING at Rockton, Ill., June 27, 28, 1874, to consider the interest of the tract and missionary cause in Dist. No. 2 in the Ill. Conference. We desire a general attendance. Let all make an earnest effort to attend and come with a mind to work. Bro. Steward is expected. J. H. BENNETT, Director.

I WILL meet with the friends of truth at Warren, Vt., June 27, 28; at Stowe Forks, where Bro. Harlow may appoint, July 4, 5, 1874. L. BEAN.

QUARTERLY meeting at Farmington, Tioga Co., Pa., the second Sabbath and first-day in July. A cordial invitation is extended to all. A. J. MARSH.

THE quarterly meeting of the churches in Saginaw Co., Mich., will be at Jay, July 4, 5. Also the T. & M. quarterly meeting in connection with it for Dist. No. 8. A cordial invitation is given to brethren from Bay and Midland Counties. Can Bro. Hutchins meet with us? JOHN McGREGOR.

MONTHLY meeting for Tuscola Co., Mich., will be held at Watrousville, Sabbath and first-day, June 27, 28. In connection with the same, there will be a meeting of the T. & M. Society. Bro. A. S. Hutchins will be present. We hope to see a good turnout. J. L. MILLER, Director.

No providence preventing, I will meet with the brethren in Lancaster, Mass., July 4 and 5, 1874. S. N. HASKELL.

JULY 11 and 12, 1874, I will meet with the church at Chicago Lake. Intend to have a general gathering of our Swedish friends. Hope that all the brethren that can leave their homes will meet with us. CHARLES LEE.

No preventing providence, I will meet with the church at Richland, Iowa, June 27, 28; at Washington, July 4; at Brighton, July 11, 12. H. NICOLA.

MONTHLY meeting at Cornville, Me., July 11, 12, 1874, commencing Friday evening, at 6½ P. M. Let all make an effort to attend this meeting and the Lord will bless. Some minister may be expected to attend. J. B. GOODRICH.

THE quarterly meeting for the churches of Ransom and Hillsdale, Mich., at Ransom, the first Sabbath and Sunday in July, 1874. We invite all the scattered brethren to be present, or report by letter, especially those belonging to the Ransom church. Cannot Bro. A. S. Hutchins, or some other of our ministers, attend this meeting? TRUMAN RAMSEY.

QUARTERLY meeting for the church at Greenbush, and scattered brethren in the region round about, in the tent at St. Johns, Clinton Co., Mich., Sabbath and first-day, June 27, 28. We hope to see a general rally of the friends of truth at this meeting, and that all will come with a mind to work.

It is requested that all will come prepared to settle up arrearages on their S. B. at this meeting. By order of the church, H. M. KENYON.

A Meeting on Sunday.

By V. N.

EDITORS' REVIEW AND HERALD: In the last volume of Review, page 196, over the signature of “J. W.,” are thrown out five different challenges, offering five hundred dollars to any one who will prove any one of the five propositions. We think that the 4th proposition can easily be proved. He says “that the disciples of Christ ever had a religious meeting in the day time of that day”—of course referring to the first day of the week. We read in Acts 2 of one of the most powerful meetings that was ever held on the first day of the week, at least it was held on Pentecost, which always comes on the first day of the week. We presume that “J. W.” could not have consulted his Bible or he could not have made such a mistake. A. WOLF. Manhattan, Iowa.

ANSWER: If our friend had carefully read page 169 of the same volume of the Review he would have found this statement:—

“As to Acts 2 : 1, 2, it has not the slightest bearing upon the subject. It mentions the events of the day of Pentecost, which have not, however, any relation, in any way to the change of the Sabbath, and it is, at least, a disputed point among first-day writers of distinction, whether this day of Pentecost actually fell on Sunday or not.—Hacket’s Commentary on the Acts, p. 50.”

A further answer will be found in the History of the Sabbath, pp. 149, 150. After quoting Acts 2 : 1, 2, it says:—

“This text is supposed to contribute an important pillar for the first-day temple. On this wise it is furnished: The disciples were convened on this occasion to celebrate the first-day Sabbath, and the Holy Spirit was poured out at that time in honor of that day. To this deduction there are, however, the most serious objections. 1. That there is no evidence that a first-day Sabbath was then in existence. 2. That there is no intimation that the disciples came together on this occasion for its celebration. 3. Nor that the Holy Spirit was then poured out in honor of the first day of the week. 4. That from the ascension of Jesus until the day of the Spirit’s outpouring, the disciples had continued in prayer and supplication, so that their being convened on this day was nothing materially different from what had been the case for the past ten or more days. 5. That had the sacred writer designed to show that a certain day of the week was honored by the events narrated, he would doubtless have stated that fact, and named that day. 6. That Luke was so far from naming the day of the week that it is even now a disputed point; eminent first-day authors even asserting that the day of Pentecost that year came upon the seventh day. Horatio B. Hacket, D. D., Professor of Biblical Literature, in Newton Theological Institution, thus remarks: ‘It is generally supposed that this Pentecost, signalized by the outpouring of the Spirit, fell on the Jewish Sabbath, our Saturday.’—Commentary on the Original Text of the Acts, pp. 50, 51. 7. That the one great event which the Holy Spirit designed to mark was the antitype of the feast of Pentecost; the day of the week on which that should occur being wholly immaterial. How widely, therefore, do those err who reverse this order, making the day of the week, which the Holy Spirit has not even named, but which they assume to be the first day, the thing of chief importance, and passing in silence over that fact which the Holy Spirit has so carefully noted, that this event took place upon the day of Pentecost.”

Dean Alford, in his “New Testament for English Readers,” remarks on this passage:—

“The question, on what day of the week this day of Pentecost was, is beset with the difficulties attending the question of our Lord’s last passover; see notes on Matt. 26 : 17; and John 18 : 28. It appears probable, however, that it was on the Sabbath, i. e., if we reckon from Saturday, the 16th of Nisan. Wieseler supposes that the Western Church altered the celebration of it to the first day of the week, in conformity with her observance of Easter on that day. If we take the second day of the passover as Sunday, the 17th of Nisan, which some have inferred from John 18 : 28, the day of the feast of Pentecost will fall on the first day of the week.”

Smith, in his unabridged Dictionary of the Bible, Art. Pentecost, says:—

“Doubts have been cast on the common interpretation of Acts 2 : 1, according to which the Holy Ghost was given to the apostles on the day of Pentecost. Lightfoot contends that the passage means, when the day of Pentecost had passed, and considers that this rendering is countenanced by the words of the Vulgate, cum complerentur dies Pentecostes. He supposes that Pentecost fell that year on the Sabbath. . . . The question on what day of the week this Pentecost fell must of course be determined by the mode in which the doubt is solved regarding the day on which the last supper was eaten. If it was the legal paschal supper, on the 14th of Nisan, and the Sabbath during which our Lord lay in the grave was the day of the omer, Pentecost must have followed on the Sabbath. But if the supper was eaten on the 13th, and he was crucified on the 14th, the Sunday of the resurrection must have been the day of the omer, and Pentecost must have occurred on the first day of the week.”

Olshausen on Acts 2 : 1, remarks:—

“Now since, according to the accounts given regarding the time of the feast, the passover in the year of our Lord’s death fell so that the first day of the feast lasted from Thursday evening at six o’clock till Friday evening at the same hour, it follows of course that it was from Friday evening at six o’clock that the fifth day began to be counted. The fiftieth day fell, therefore, it appears, upon Saturday.”

We may further add that the Pentecost was a yearly festival, and so far from coming always on the first day of the week, it fell on different days of the week in different years, like our fourth of July. V. N.

Correction.

By John Nevins Andrews

I LEARN that in several minor particulars I was in error in my statement respecting the work among the Swedes. 1. Sister Johnson was a resident of Evanston, Ill., and not of the State of Wisconsin. 2. Sister Johnson received the truth, not from tracts, but from reading our Danish paper, and from being visited by a Sabbath-keeping sister. 3. It was not tracts, but our papers, which were first sent to Bro. Sweedburg. I make these corrections, not because they are in themselves of any special importance, but that none may have occasion of complaint. J. N. A.

No Man Ascended to Heaven.

How do you harmonize John 3 : 13 with 2 Kings 2 : 2, and Heb. 11 : 5? R. S. Kellogg.

ANSWER: We understand that Christ in John 3 : 13, is speaking of those who are qualified to give instruction respecting heavenly things. No man of himself can do it; for no man has ascended to Heaven and come back to tell us of that place. In this sense the passage has no reference to such cases as Enoch and Elijah, who were translated for another purpose. But Christ is qualified to teach us of heavenly things; for he came down from Heaven, and in respect to his knowledge of the place, was, at the time he spoke, the same as if in Heaven. T. S.

To the Brethren and Sisters of Missouri and Kansas.

By J. H. Rogers

As we have entered upon another Conference year, with duties and responsibilities increasing upon us, and a demand for efforts to be made in the last message of mercy to a perishing world, shall we not see a united action on the part of all in pushing forward this work? During the past year, while we were feeling our weakness and doubt in regard to our Conference sustaining its labor with two tents, and even as the time drew near for our camp-meeting and Conference, our feelings were most intense for the prosperity of our Conference, and a disposition on the part of the brethren and sisters to come out and co-operate in the advancement of the cause. Therefore, it rejoiced our hearts to see them “coming up to the help of the Lord” from many places, and from long distances, and instead of growing weary in their efforts to sustain two tents, take right hold to buy two others; surely, brethren and sisters, this begins to “look like business.”

Now the question is, Shall the good work go on? Shall the pledges be paid on the tents? Shall the pledges for the T. and M. Society be promptly paid? Shall our s. b. be kept up, and we begin to consecrate ourselves with all we have to God and his cause? Shall we arouse ourselves as never before, in order to walk out into the opening of his providence, and begin to “let up” on our worldly investments, and really begin to believe in the message we are heralding to the world, that the Lord is coming soon, and go to work in the various departments while we can do something for the Master?

The T. and M. Society affords a splendid opening for all to see how much of the love of souls they have in their hearts and a willingness to sacrifice something; and I here predict that such enterprises as the Patrons of Husbandry, and similar institutions, will cease to attract our attention, when we become engaged as we should be in the cause of God, because the object sought after in these enterprises falls so far short of the “eternal gain.” Oh! how Satan would decoy us away from our Master’s cause by the prospect of worldly gain.

To the brethren of the different tent companies, I would say, As you are engaging in labor in your different fields, report progress occasionally. We all want to know what the tents are doing.

And to all our churches let me say, Be prompt in your remittances, reports, &c. The Treasurer is still J. N. Ayers, Farlinville, Linn Co., Kan.; the Secretary, Smith Sharp, Big Springs, Douglas Co., same State.

Let the directors of the T. and M. Society in their respective districts look after the work, see that it starts off right, and that all circulate books and tracts judiciously; and as we all take hold of this work in our respective stations, let us do so with renewed zeal and consecration, praying the Lord of the harvest to bless the labor.

J. H. ROGERS, Pres. Mo. and Kan. Conf. Nevada, Mo., June 15, 1874.

London and China Telegraph on the Pacific Railway

THE London and China Telegraph, of London, England, speaking of the great American transcontinental line, the Pacific Railway, calls it “an enormous line which is a marvel even in these days of engineering triumphs.”

Northern Missouri and Kansas Tent in Savannah

By L. R. Long

Notice.

THE Northern Mo. and Kan. tent is pitched in Savannah, Andrew Co., Mo. Those who know of good openings to preach the truth in this part of the State will please address T. J. Butler or L. R. Long, at this place. L. R. LONG.

Great Writers in a New Field.

WM. C. BRYANT will have another poem, a translation, in the July number of St. Nicholas. It will be remembered that the first number opened with a poem by this Nestor of American poets. It is certainly a gratifying thing that men of the genius of Bryant, Mitchell, Warner, Bret Harte, and others, appreciating the terrible evil of the wicked sensationalism of so much of the periodical literature now eagerly devoured by children, are willing to do their very best work for a juvenile periodical. St. Nicholas is published by Scribner & Co., New York.

Bigotry in Christian Burial

We recorded recently the death of Bigotry. Were we mistaken? The vicar of the living of Tetney, Lincolnshire, recently refused to have the bell tolled or to bury a little infant, aged six months, because, forsooth, the child had not been baptized. The villagers are very rightly incensed at this denial of Christian sepulture. The Nonconformist relates another singular case in which the vicar lost a child of his own which had not been baptized. On this account he bitterly mourned, and in his grief cried out that his child could have no rest, but is driving about in the air! “Verily,” says that paper, “if we are not living in pagan times, there are lots of persons who are filled with worse than pagan notions.”

Christ Alone Saves

You must not trust even your repentance or faith to save you. Christ alone must be trusted to do that.

The Provisions of the New Covenant

As the key fits into the wards of its lock, so will the provisions of the new covenant fit into all the intricacies of your case.

Appointment for Eastern Camp-Meetings.

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$2.00 EACH. D C Phillips 46-1, Moses Good 46-1, U V Lovett 46-1, James Potter 45-21, W S White 46-1, J W Clayson 45-22, P B Campbell 46-1, Mrs E Caulderless 46-1, Mrs E P Hamm 46-1, D J Oberholtzer 45-24, S Salisbury 44-1, S Vincent 46-1, C Turnipseed 46-1, D N Fay 45-1, Addie Worster 46-4, L B Caswell 46-1, Joel W Stone 46-1, M D Clark 45-24, D R Seely 46-1, H Huntington 46-1, Arba Smith 44-1, Absalom David 47-1, A J Terrell 46-1, S N Kent 46-4, Edwin Church 46-1, H Hilliard 46-1, C Bradley 46-1, D Colley 46-1, M Keaser 46-1, Mrs Hattie Shedd 46-1, J B Gregory 46-1, H L Becker 46-1, John Martin 46-13, Jane Moore 46-1, F Douglas 46-1, F W Mace 46-1, J C Tucker 46-1, S N Parish 46-1, Mrs M Demml 46-1, Mrs Emily C Day 46-1, Amanda Richardson 46-1, S M Fitzgerald 46-1, Wm H Place 46-1, Mrs S Verplanck 46-1, Mary A Van Horn 46-1, A B Castle 45-2, Mrs Nettie Craig 46-1, Hiram Hunter 46-1, D A Wetmore 46-1, E F Reynolds 46-1, G H Bell 46-1, Joel Gulick 46-1, L P Baldwin 46-1, F A Anderson 46-1, Ole Hanson 46-6, S B Gowell 46-1, Mrs R Pomeroy 46-1, Joseph Dimmick 46-1, Gorham Brackett 46-1, Mrs Emily Swett 46-1, S N Haskell 46-22, J W Cronkite 45-25, Geo Stringer 46-1, Eld W Putnam 46-13, N H Farley 45-21, John Reisman 46-1.

$1.00 EACH. Ezekiel Bullard 45-1, Wm L Wheeler 45-1, J A Baldwin 45-9, J W Morton 45-1, M W Welch 45-1, Sarah Towle 45-1, Judith A Davis 46-1, R A Jeffries 45-1, E R Glazier 45-1, M A Brigham 45-1, C W Hartson 45-1, Joseph Ehlers 45-1, G B Bardwell 45-1, J P Lewis 45-1, Thomas McGee 45-1, Henry Sykes 45-1, Daniel Litchfield 45-3, Hubbard Litchfield 46-1, Francois Depas 45-1, Mary N Waller 44-26, Myron Morse 46-1, Helen W George 45-1, David Quinn 45-1, G A Gilbert 45-25, J A Thornton 45-1, Mary Haskell 45-1, John Frank Jr 46-1, F A Marvin 45-1, Eld F Wheeler 45-1, Lewis Harlow 45-15, J B Slayton 45-1, Horace Merrill 45-1, S Thurston 44-18, Charles Roe 45-1, D P Curtis 45-1, E S Huntley 44-1, J C Nelson 45-1, M M Kenny 45-1, John P Frasier 45-1, M M Russell 45-13, Matthew Wing 45-1, Ellen E Smith 45-1, Mrs M J Gould 46-1, Dr Henry Lapp 46-1, Isaac Fellows 45-1, Laura Alexander 46-1, H L Doty 45-1, Mrs Louisa Caldwell 45-1, Jennie Kentfield 45-3, J H Priest 45-1, Mrs Adams & Locke 45-1, M Bounds 45-1, B B Francis 45-1, Mrs L A Smith 45-1, S C Perry 45-1, S D Hall 45-1, Mrs D F Chase 45-1, Chas M Nichols 45-1, J Calvert 45-1, Mrs P M Sprague 45-1, A R Fitch 44-21, V S Givney 44-21, Mr & Mrs N Brown 46-1, A Hempel 45-1, M B Miller 45-1, John Byington 45-1, Maria S Kellogg 44-22, Mrs Margaret Hyde 45-20, S W Flanders 45-1, C Sanford 45-1, David C Bridge 45-1, L H Russell 45-4, Mary A Cook 46-1, Chas Gibson 45-1, Eld Henry Clark 45-1, Addie H Brown 45-1, Louis Lawton 45-4, Mrs A Brown 44-21, Levi E Guernsey 44-21, W W Goodale 45-6, A P Shephard 45-1, Mrs Lydia Holt 45-1, Mrs Nancy Gerry 45-1, M A Holt 45-1, H C Miller 45-1, Lucy Deen 45-1, H Lockwood 45-1, A F Fowler 45-1.

Miscellaneous.

M Cherry 50c 45-1, A A Hutchins 50c 44-14, Jacob R Harris 50c 45-1, Clinton Filson 50c 45-1, Amelia A Bell 50c 45-1, Stephen A Raymond 50c 45-1, Geo A Raymond 50c 45-1, Paul Fisher 50c 45-1, L O Pederson 50c 45-1, Levi Jones 50c 45-1, Maggie Martinell 50c 44-14, Edwin Haskell 50c 45-18, E Inman 50c 44-14, C A Constantine 75c 44-24, J Sage 50c 44-14, Mrs A Walters 50c 45-1, Wm Richardson 50c 45-1, David Maxwell 50c 45-1, A M Holt 50c 45-1, Ben Bonnett 50c 45-1, Wm Owens 50c 45-1, Mrs Rufus Wilkins 50c 45-1, Mrs Jonas Merriam 50c 45-1, J W Gladhill 50c 45-1, H W Bill 50c 45-1, Helen Burke 50c 45-1, G C H Cobb 50c 45-1, Ann Bringle 50c 44-17, Cooper Union Reading Room $1.50 46-1, Wm Wart 50c 45-1, W H Fowler 50c 45-1, Abbie Hamlin 50c 45-1, Mrs James Anderson 50c 45-1, Manuel Deurman 50c 45-1, W H Bill 50c.

Books Sent by Mail.

Peter Gang $1.00, Isaac Zirkle 20c, R Loveland 25c, T M Walter 25c, J R Hains 10c, P G Carter 1.50, Daniel Tyler 25c, D C Phillips 1.20, C J Chambers 2.50, G W Page 25c, J M Hall 25c, Austin Lent 25c, Turney Jones 40c, C N Macomber 35c, Robert C Livingston 1.00, L M Baldwin 1.00, E B Lane 3.58, K T Temple 25c, Mrs T R Staples 25c, Wm Cottrell 2.50, A Holland 9.75, Nellie F Heald 25c, Mrs C Relf 1.00, Harriet Evans 55c, Mrs G W Varney 55c, C B Bennett 1.25, Mrs E W Haynes 25c, Geo G Wellington 1.06, L D Smith 35c, N S Raymond 2.10, E V Reisman 5.10, James K Rogers 1.00, C M Rhyder 40c, J H Kizer 10c, E C Chipman 25c, Alf B Scattergood 15c, N M Killmar 25c, A Pershing 2.22, S N Wright 25c, S B Gowell 25c, Nellie Haskell 25c, James H Gray 25c, T Smith 25c, Wm Dustin 25c, John Fulton 6.00, S Walkley 40c, J E Threlkild 13c, R Gibson 25c, R M Greenslate 25c, V Hurlburt 4.00, Geo A Hobbs 50c.

Books Sent by Express.

J Fargo, Greenville, Mich., $9.90, John Trotman, Traverse City, Mich., 1.28, N M Killmar, Almont, Mich., 1.65, P H Cady, Berlin, Green Lake Co., Wis., 10.00, S N Haskell, Sheridan, Ill., 306.32, D H Lamson, Dryden, Lapeer Co., Mich., 38.00.

Cash Received on Account.

M A Robinson $7.48, W B Castle 3.50, Mrs C H Bliss 19.20, Maine T & M Society $5.30, A S Hutchins 13.60.

Donation to Mich. T. & M. Society.

Received from District No. 6 $57.00, Dist. No. 4 $63.50.

General Conference Fund.

Susan Elmer (S B) 50c, E Elmer 1.00.

Danish Mission.

Nels Larsen $1.00, Sadie C Reaser 1.00, L G 2.00.

Watch Sent by Express.

Geo B Rathbun, St Charles, Saginaw Co., Mich., $19.00.

Books Sent by Freight.

James Harvey, South Bend, Ind., $46.50, Wm Evans, Hamilton, Mo., $5.54.

S. D. A. Educational Society.

$100.00. W H Hankins & wife.

$65.00. Wm H Gardner.

$50.00. L T Hankins.

$30.00. H Nicolas.

$25.00 EACH. W S Wright, Chas A Russel, J B Gregory, Chas Buck.

$20.00 EACH. Christian Bauer, Chas L Boyd.

$15.00. E Berry & wife.

$10.00 EACH. C A Washburn, Fred W Kitchuhoff, Sarah Townsend, M E Reynolds, Maryett Walworth, J D Ballard, Mary Wheeler, M D Clark, R F Parsons, N B Emerson, Abigail P James, Sarah Ferrin, G V Kilgore, Abbie Hodges, Mary Nicola, Sherman Kenedy, Julia M Rhodes, C H Tubbs.

$5.00 EACH. J L Edgar, Mary Edgar, J Beck, Agnes Lucas, J S Johnson, H Ferrin, T Owen, Sally Kenedy.