p. 40 | Review and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 5. (6/28/1864)

Earlier text: BOTH SIDES OF THE SABBATH QUESTION

Report from Bro. Waggoner.

By J. H. Waggoner

MAY 26 I left home for the Ohio Conference, of which I need not speak particularly, as it has already been reported. It was a good and profitable meeting. Eight were baptized. My only regret was a want of time, by which our business was rather hurried. At such meetings I think the main business sessions should be before the Sabbath.

Early on Monday morning, in company with Bro. Hutchinson, I started eastward, and arrived in Bloomfield, Trumbull Co., Tuesday noon. I was very anxious to pitch the tent that week, and used all diligence and labored hard to accomplish it. There was a strong desire expressed by some to have a tent meeting at Mesopotamia, Trumbull Co.; and I thought if one could be commenced June 3d, it could be carried nearly through before Bro. Ingraham could come here, and then we should have time to more fully carry out the intention of the General Conference Committee. But on Thursday, June 2, I learned that the ground could not be obtained. The little village is so situated that no suitable ground could be found except the "common," on the south side of which stood the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Universalist meeting houses. The Town Trustees were members of those three churches, and they told me that the churches would not like to have somebody pitch a tent right before their doors to preach other doctrines in! This was about the amount of their reason for a refusal. Fully expecting to get the ground, I had made considerable preparation; and feeling that I had discharged my duty, I rested the matter in the hands of the Lord, confident that he will vindicate his down-trodden truth in his own appointed time.

June 3d I spent visiting different places, but no suitable opening presented.

Sabbath and first-day I held meetings at Orwell center. This was a good time for that church. The interest was increased by Bro. Hutchinson's giving an account of his journey to the Conference in Michigan, and his impressions formed by intercourse with the brethren both in public and private. By this visit these new brethren and sisters seem more thoroughly united with the churches in other places.

On coming to Wayne Center the way seemed to open before me. Every encouragement was given that could be expected, and we have accordingly pitched the tent, and intend to commence meetings this evening. I have not yet heard from Bro. Ingraham, but hope to soon. I pray the Lord may open the way before him and direct him hither.

Our post office is Lindenville, Ashtabula Co. Ohio. This is ten miles directly east of Orwell.

J. H. WAGGONER.

Wayne Center, O., June 9, 1864.

C. O. TAYLOR

By C. O. Taylor

From Bro. Taylor.

BRO. WHITE: Since I have moved to Adams' Center, I have labored some with the church at Mannsville. The most that attended this meeting received the plain testimony with cheerfulness. They see and feel the sad state in which the true witness finds them, and they are anxious, yes, resolved to get into a better place. They are ready to help themselves; and the melting spirit of the Lord was often in our meeting to testify that God was willing to work for them. They have needed wisdom in the past to keep from the shoals and rocks that the enemy would cast the people of God upon in these last days. With this motto, "Nearer my God to thee," they will never be again, where they have been. I expect the angels will find some at Mannsville, to gather when the Lord comes.

C. O. TAYLOR

J. B. FRISBIE

By J. B. Frisbie

From Bro. Frisbie.

BRO. WHITE; After our good Conference at Battle Creek I was detained at home by sickness of my family a few days, so I was deprived of the privilege of meeting the church at Bunkerhill when they expected me; but I understand that there was quite a gathering and they had a good meeting.

Last Sabbath, June 4th, I met the church and found them prospering in the cause. I had good meetings with them. On first-day we held meeting in a brick school-house about three miles south from where they usually hold meetings, where we had a good congregation of attentive hearers, and most triumphant liberty in speaking to them. The interest seemed renewed. I am glad to learn that some are still favorable for whom we hope. After meeting we went to Pleasant Lake where we buried six in baptism. The Lord was with us there.

I visited around during the week and found the friends firm in the truth. They speak of their good meetings and how well they enjoy their minds.

I expect to spend the next Sabbath in Oneida, and the next following in Charlotte, then at home.

Yours in hope,

J. B. FRISBIE

Bunkerhill, Mich.

P. S. I have visited the little churches at Bunkerhill, Oneida, Windsor and Charlotte, within the last three weeks. Had some interesting meetings. While I have been trying to strengthen others, I have been strengthened myself. And the Lord has helped.

I sold about $15 worth of books, baptized six. Find some new ones investigating.

J. B. F.

The Plow.

The plow used in Syria is so light and simple in its construction, that the husbandman is under the necessity of guiding it with great care, bending over it, and loading it with his own weight, else the share would glide along the surface without making any incision. His mind should be wholly intent on his work, at once to press the plow into the ground, and direct it in a straight line. ‑Let the plowman,‑ said Hesiod, ‑attend to his charge, and look before him; not turn aside to look on his associates, but make straight furrows, and have his mind attentive to his work.‑ And Pliny, ‑Unless the plowman stoop forward,‑ to press his plow into the soil and conduct it properly, ‑he will turn it aside.‑ To such careful and incessant exertion our Lord alludes in that declaration: ‑No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.‑

Thankfulness for Present Truth

By Aurelia S. Cowdrey

From Sister Cowdrey.

BRO. WHITE: I am glad that there is one department of your excellent paper, that is appropriated to the use of the Brn. and sisters, for the purpose of speaking "often to each other," which to me, situated as I am so nearly alone, is indeed a source of much comfort, and I trust profit. I feel thereby strengthened and encouraged to pursue my onward march to Mt. Zion. I love these living testimonies. I love to feel this union of spirit with you Brn. and sisters. I love the truths of the third angel's message. My prayer to God is that I may be sanctified through the truth, and thus be prepared for the great events which lie just before us.

I feel to thank God for revealing to me his truth, and for inclining my heart to obey it. For the word of God teaches us, that to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams. I hope therefore, that I shall ever have a disposition, not only to obey, but be careful to hearken to the voice of God, as he speaks to us through his word, and also by his "testimony to the church." Oh, how thankful we ought to be, for the light, which in these last days has dawned upon us! May we "walk in the light" as he is in the light, rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing, and in everything give thanks. Oh, I love this humble, self-denying way, because it brings me nearer to Christ; and I want to keep so close to him that I can see his foot prints, then I know where I am. And if I am accused by my former friends, and associates, of embracing error or "strange doctrine," it disturbs me not, since by the light of divine truth, I can see where I stand. Oh, that the Lord would send some of his servants this way, as I very much desire to follow my Saviour in the ordinance of baptism. I would humbly ask an interest in the prayers of the church, that I may be strengthened by divine grace, to overcome every evil, bear every trial, and finally be so happy as to strike glad hands with the redeemed people of God, "safe on the evergreen Shore."

Aurelia S. Cowdrey.

Colebrook River, Ct.

Monthly Meeting in N. Y.

By C. O. Taylor

BRO. WHITE: The monthly meeting for Oswego Co., at West Monroe, closed with some omens of good. Some matters of difference were talked over and put away. Hearts were brought nearer together. The attendance outside of the church at this meeting was better than at any previous time that I have been there, and the feeling and interest with that class was good.

During the meeting two were baptized and three united with the church, and I am confident that others will come and do likewise as the church moves along in the narrow way, of the last message of mercy. Our light must shine out if others would see it, and that is the only way that our Father in Heaven can be glorified. C. O. TAYLOR.

Quarterly Meeting in Monroe, Wis.

By Wm. S. Ingraham

Bro. WHITE: Our Quarterly Meeting in Monroe has just closed. It was the best meeting of the kind I ever enjoyed in the West. There were brethren present from Johnstown Center, Avon, Dayton, Mc Connell's Grove, and Crane's Grove. Five were received into the church and three were baptized. The people in Monroe gave us a good hearing and our house of worship was well filled. If the church in this place walk circumspectly, we look for an increase of numbers. I enjoyed good liberty in preaching the word. We hope to see you and Sr. W. in this vicinity once more. I am now getting ready to join Bro. Waggoner in Ohio.

WM. S. INGRAHAM.

Monroe, Wis.

Clyde Quarterly Meeting.

By G. W. Colcord, Clerk

According to appointment, the Quarterly Meeting of the Seventh-Day Adventists of Clyde, Whiteside Co. Ill., was held in the new house of worship, March 28 and 29. In accordance with a special request, Bro. B. F. Snook attended the aforesaid meeting, from its commencement, to its close. This was the second meeting of the kind, for 1864, and both have been very agreeable, and profitable. This, like the other, was well attended. The Brn. (or a part, at least) from Elk Horn met with us, and took part in, and shared the blessings of this series of gatherings.

Sabbath A. M. Eld. Snook delivered a discourse on the subject of the kingdom, and the necessary preparation for an entrance into the same. The P. M. sermon was on the second advent. At the close of the Sabbath we enjoyed a communion season.

Sunday morning 9 o'clock social meeting. 10½ A. M. sermon on the three messages. P. M., sermon on the seven seals. Sunday and Monday evenings, there were stirring truths brought out before the people.

At the close of the sermon on Monday evening, Bro. R. F. Andrews took an expression of the people, for the purpose of determining who, and how many, believed the sacred truths we had heard, and were willing to try to live them out in their lives. Three, stood up for the first time, as witnesses that they would try to go with God's people to the kingdom. Oh that they, and many others may live out their convictions.

The church at Clyde is in a thriving condition.

G. W. Colcord, Clerk.

Extracts from Letters.

Bro. C. G. Satterlee writes from Princeville, Ills.:

We were disappointed in not having a messenger at our last quarterly meeting, but were made to rejoice in having the presence of Jesus. His sweet Spirit seemed to pervade the meeting from its commencement to its close. The brethren and sisters had a mind to work and the Lord was ready to bless. My sister was baptized at this meeting and arose to walk in newness of life. Our prayer is that she may live an humble, consistent Christian life that when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, she may receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

The interest of our Bible-class and Sabbath-school seems to be increasing, and quite a number of children, whose parents observe the first day, attend.

Sister C. Bryant writes from Milwaukee, Wis.:

I am trying to keep the Sabbath of the Lord, and hoping for his second coming. I was in the Advent movement in 1843; came West in 1850; lost sight of all the Advent people until about four years ago, when I heard upon the Sabbath question. I was glad to hear from the truth through one who was trying to give meat in due season. I began to keep the Sabbath and have tried to be faithful.

Obituary Notices.

DIED in Lock, Ing. Co., Mich., June 5, 1864, Mrs. Martha White, aged eighty years, mother of Sr. Perry of the above named place.

JOSEPH BATES.

Death of Phebe Eliza Arnold

By James Bates

DIED in St. Charles, Sag. Co., Mich., June 12, 1864, Phebe Eliza, daughter of James and Sr. L. L. Arnold, aged five and a half years. J. BATES.

Death of Ada Roushey

By Robt. F. Andrews

DIED of diphtheria, at Elkhorn Grove, Ills., May 22d, 1864, sister Ada, daughter of John and Mary Roushey, in the thirteenth year of her age.

She was one of the exceptions of the last days, a lovely child and consistent Christian. She died in bright hope of a part in the first resurrection. ROBT. F. ANDREWS.

A. GRAHAM

By A. Graham

Died of bilious typhoid fever, at Bro. John A. Wilcox's residence, in Brooklyn N. Y., Bro. Jacob Ayers, in the fifty-second year of his age, after a brief sickness of about a week.

A discourse was preached on the occasion at the Seventh-day Baptists place of worship by Elder Crandall Seventh-day Baptist.

"Asleep in Jesus blessed sleep! From which none ever wake to weep; A calm and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by the last of foes."

A. GRAHAM

The Blessed Dead

BLESSED are the dead that die in the Lord.

Business Department.

Business Notes.

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Books Sent By Mail.

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Books Sent By Express.

Wm Romine Waterloo, Black Hawk Co Iowa $16. H Nicola Washington, Iowa $9,75.

Cash Received on Account.

J R Goodenough for Eld. T M Stewart $2. B F Snook $20. L M Jones $9. E C Stiles $2.50. O Mears $4. J L Locke $2. E S Griggs $20. W Romine $18. A S Hutchins 20c. H Nicola $5. J B Frisbie $5.50.

General Conference Missionary Fund.

J D Cramer $1. E Temple $10.

For Shares in Publishing Association.

E E Frothingham $10.

Appointments.

Special Meetings.

ELDERS J. N. Andrews and John Byington will, providence permitting, hold meetings at Battle Creek, July 2d. Preaching in the evening, at the commencement of the Sabbath, social meeting Sabbath morning at 8 A. M., preaching at 10½, and at 2 P. M. A general attendance from surrounding towns is desired.

Elders Andrews and Byington will also hold meetings at the house of prayer at Newton, Sunday July 3d at 10½ A. M., and at 2 P. M. A general attendance from towns around is solicited. GEN. CONF. COM.

THE next monthly meeting for Allegan county Mich. will be held at Otsego, the second Sabbath in July. H. S. LAY.

PROVIDENCE permitting Brn. Frisbie and Strong will meet with the brethren in Winfield, Montcalm Co., Mich., at the block school-house, Sabbath, July 2, and labor in that section as the way may open. MICH. CONF. COM.

THE next Quarterly Meeting of the church at Little Prairie Wis., will be Sabbath, July 9, 1864. Cannot Bro. Steward meet with us? C. W. OLDS.

An Appeal

By James White

IN BEHALF OF THE YOUTH'S INSTRUCTOR.

Christian parents and guardians, we appeal to you in behalf of the Youth's Instructor. This little paper has continued its straight-forward course, doing its work of love, for more than eleven years. Its object has been the instruction of the youth in true knowledge, to warn them against the dangers to which they are exposed, and to lead them to the paths of virtue and holiness.

This precious sheet has not descended to baby-talk, cat and dog stories, and the like, but, while it has been adapted to the capacity of youth and children, it has possessed an elevated, moral, and religious tone. Such a sheet is certainly worthy the patronage of all believers. Those who have not welcomed the Instructor to their homes have sustained a loss.

We plead for a wider circulation of this sheet; first, because of the good it is destined to do; and, second, the present circulation of the paper is not sufficient to support it, at twenty-five cents a year. With 3,000 paying subscribers expenses would be met. The present circulation of the paper is some less than 2,500. We sincerely hope that this paper will be sustained without raising the price. We therefore appeal to the readers of the Review to care for this little paper. This you can do in several ways.

1. Subscribe for at least one copy without delay.

2. If you have a family of several children subscribe for two or three copies. Then, when your children have read them, give all but one copy to your neighbor's children.

3. See that one copy, at least, is put into every poor Sabbath-keeping family.

4. Send a copy to that nephew, that niece, that cousin, and to all those boys and girls of your acquaintance who would love to read it.

5. And, finally, we would say to delinquents, Don't be guilty of owing twenty-five cents a year for the Youth's Instructor any longer, these times. Those who cannot and those who will not pay up now, may God pity. The first need pity for their poverty, the latter for lack of interest, care, and moral honesty.

God bless you friends, let the lambs be fed with heavenly manna. Let the lists of the Instructor be filled with good, honest, paying subscribers, and let all those apt to teach, contribute short, sweet instructive articles to its columns. Where are the Lord's ministers, whose work it is to feed the lambs as well as the sheep? Where are all those school teachers among our people? They teach the sciences to children with acceptance. God help them to adapt themselves to the work of pointing the youth to Jesus, and to Heaven. Where are the many Sabbath-school teachers among us? Sister Patten will be happy to hear from all of you.

Now, remember, the Instructor is a small sheet. It has no room for articles with long introductions, prosy style, and tedious terminations. First be sure you have something to say; second, come right at the subject, and clearly express your ideas in as few words as possible, and third, stop when you are done. Don't be wordy, while ideas stand in your article like mile-posts. God bless the Instructor. J. W.

Blanks! Blanks!

By James White

THE objects of the blanks in this week's paper are as follows:

1. To call attention to books and articles for sale at this Office, to suggest the economical way of obtaining them by express, and to furnish a blank, for those to fill who wish to order these things.

2. To furnish on the other side of the leaf a blank for those to fill, and return to this Office who owe for the Review and Instructor, and for all to use who can and will obtain new subscribers.

3. To give rules which we hope every correspondent will follow in writng to this Office.

The Trustees decide on carrying out the advance-pay system. It is absolutely necessary these times. There are near one hundred subscribers who have not paid up to Vol. XXII, which we designed to drop this week. But we have decided to wait two weeks longer, and give them time to receive the blanks, and return them with the amount of their past indebtedness, and advance-pay for two or three volumes. Several who have had their names dropped send in a five-dollar green-back. This is right. They should have the pleasure of being ahead half of the time.

Delinquents may depend upon it that we are after them, and in two weeks a host of them will be slain unless they haste to pay up. Let all delinquents send something, and we will give them as much of past indebtedness as they can in conscience ask for. We hope these blanks will soon be returned by all who should use them, bringing at least $2,000 due from delinquents, and 1,000 new subscribers for the Review, and as many more for the Instructor. J. W.

The Mich. Tent.

By I. D. Van Horn

We have our tent nicely pitched in this place. We have given five lectures, and the people are becoming some interested. Our congregations are small, ranging from fifty to two hundred, yet they are large considering the place we are in.

But we trust, that the Lord has a people here that will receive his truth. As I wrote before, we were some discouraged when we came to this place, but we begin to be somewhat encouraged, for everything seems to work in our favor.

We have good freedom in preaching to this people; for the Lord helps, and we will praise his holy name. I want my heart fully set to do God's will, and the truth to have its sanctifying effect, upon my life, that I may always be found discharging my duty in such a manner as shall be well pleasing to the Lord.

Pray for us that we may have success in the work of the Lord. Yours in the truth.

I. D. Van Horn.

Ithaca, Gratiot Co., Mich.

Coffee Adulteration

To COFFEE DRINKERS:—The coffee grounds are carefully dried at the army commissary departments, and bring twelve dollars a barrel. They are re-aromatized by some chemical process, put up in pound papers, and sold at fabulous prices as pure ground coffee.

The Popular Creed.

DIMES and dollars! dollars and dimes! An empty pocket's the worst of crimes! If a man is down, give him a thrust— Trample the beggar into the dust! Presumptuous poverty's quite appalling— Knock him over! kick him for falling! If a man is up, oh, lift him higher! Your soul's for sale, and he's a buyer! Dimes and dollars! dollars and dimes! An empty pocket's the worst of crimes!