Bro. White : It cheers my heart to read the columns of the Review, and it produces a stronger attachment and love for those who are watching and waiting for the return of their Lord. I am all alone here, and feel the need of counsel and encouragement from those who walk in the Spirit; but I am striving through faith to cling to the promise of God, believing he will never leave nor forsake me, if I trust in him and obey all his commandments. Oh! how safe the Christian is, amid all the trouble and turmoil of life. The Lord can bless one poor, humble soul as well as a thousand, and my heart is filled with grateful love to God for his mercy and loving kindness to me, in permitting me to hear and embrace those precious truths which are dear to my heart. How it strengthens and encourages me when the Review comes to me from week to week. A number have read my books and papers. My prayer is that they may see the truth and obey it. I have a great desire to have the truth proclaimed in this place. I am waiting in hopes that the way will open that I can feel that it is right to send for a messenger to come and proclaim the message. If I had the means to recompense them for their trouble, I would not hesitate a moment, for I believe they would get a good hearing. But I will trust in the Lord, who is able to do this work in his own good time. I am determined to press onward, and let no obstacle turn me out of the way. I feel that I need to exercise great watchfulness lest I fall into temptation and come short of the glory of God, and lose my place among the finally faithful. May the Lord help me to overcome through him who has loved us.
Yours striving for eternal life.
LYDIA J. SHAW
Strykersville, N. Y.
Extracts from Letters.
Bro. J. Banks writes from Oakfield, Mich.: I would say that I am glad that I ever heard the sound of the third angel's message. It is a little over three years since I heard Brn. Lawrence and Frisbie with the tent at Greenville, and I and my wife commenced to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. For two years previous we had been members of the M. E. church. While with them I enjoyed much of the goodness of God as I tried to live up to all the light I had. But since I embraced the truth, many times my peace has been like a river. I have been called through scenes of affliction and trouble, but I can rejoice that these shall work a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, if I only hold out faithful.
I have often thought I had a hard lot; but while hearing Bro. Byington speak of a Daniel and a Jeremiah and John, and many others, my mouth is stopped, and I am led to see that I have been highly favored. I find it will be through much tribulation that we shall enter through the gates into the city.
Nearly a year ago Brn. White, Loughborough, and Byington organized us into a church, called the West Plains church, numbering ten members. Death and other causes have reduced our numbers to seven; but I can now give a good report of this little vine. It is flourishing. We are trying to get on higher grounds. I hope we shall not wound the cause we love, and that we shall let our light shine, by doing those things that are pleasing to God. Pray for us, that we as a church though few in numbers may walk worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called. It is a high calling to be prepared to meet God and Jesus, and holy angels, and the good and blest of every age.
Dear brethren and sisters, may the Lord help us to be faithful, and at last have a home in the earth made new, a country undefiled by sin, and an inheritance that fadeth not away.
Bro. J. Fishell, jr., writes: I would like to say to the brethren and sisters that I am still striving to be an overcomer. I believe that time is very short, and that God is now preparing the hearts of the people to receive the last message, and that the loud cry will soon go forth. I realize the narrowness of the way more than ever, and am bound by God's assisting grace to go through. Our hearts have been greatly encouraged of late by Bro. and sister Byington. They are truly a father and mother in Israel. My prayer is, Lord, bless their labors of love, that we may all be benefited, and at last stand together on mount Zion with all the redeemed.
Bro. J. Hiestand writes from Palestine, Ills.: It is now about one year since my wife and myself commenced observing the Sabbath of the Lord. We never heard a sermon preached on the subject of present truth, but we have examined the Bible, and, with the assistance of those little silent messengers printed at Battle Creek, we have been able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Therefore we remember the Sabbath-day, that is, to prepare for it and to keep it with delight.
Sister E. Warner writes from Woodhull, Mich.: There is a small church of S. D. Adventists here, who are still striving to overcome the powers of darkness and are struggling toward the light. We deeply feel the need of help from on high. We love the cause of truth much, and wish to meet at last with the true Israel on Mt. Zion.
Obituary Notices.
DIED, in Genesee, N. Y. of croup Sept. 25, 1863, little Willie, only son of Bro. and sister Vincent aged 2 years 7 months 10 days. Willie was an affectionate child loved by all. His parents and three kind sisters mourn his loss. But Bro. and sister Vincent and two daughters being believers in present truth have hope in their sorrows. This afflicted family is worthy of an interest in the prayers of the saints. The writer spoke on the occasion from Psa. xxxi, 16–17.
JOHN BARROWS.
DIED of lung fever in Patten, Me. Aug. 1, 1863. Caroline Arista adopted daughter of Levi B., and L. M. Ricker aged 11 years and 5 months. Little Caroline was left an orphan nearly two years since and upon being adopted into the family of Sr. R. soon evinced a sweetness of disposition and love for the truth worthy of imitation. She was a child of piety and prayer and fell asleep in Jesus.
Striving to Overcome
By Agnes W. Court
From Sister Court.
Bro. WHITE: I thank the Lord for what he has done, and is still doing, for me. It is nearly two years since I commenced keeping the commandments of God. I have never for once been sorry, but have often rejoiced. I can say of the commandments in the language of the poet, They are holy, just and true. I thank the Lord that I ever saw the light of present truth. I believe this to be the last message of warning to this sinful world. I want to live out the truths contained in the third angel's message. I want to keep all God's commandments, that I may have a right to the tree of life and enter in through the gates into the city of the living God.
I have just been much strengthened by attending one of our monthly meetings here at Little Prairie. It is truly cheering to hear the testimonies of brethren and sisters, and hear them tell of the goodness of the Lord and of their determinations to go through to the kingdom.
I can say that I am still seeking an inheritance in that kingdom. I feel that I have a great many things to overcome before I get there; but by the grace of God I am still striving to overcome. My daily prayer is that God may give me overcoming grace. I want to lay aside every weight and the sin that doth so easily beset me, and run with patience the race set before me, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.
I believe we have not long to stay here on this earth. A few more monthly meetings will bring us home, where we shall have the privilege of worshiping God in the holy city. I feel more determined than ever to do the whole will of the Lord. I want to be a humble follower of the blessed Saviour who has done so much for me. I want to take up my daily cross and follow him. I am willing to confess him before the world, that he may confess me before my Father which is in Heaven, and before the holy angels.
Dear brethren and sisters, I rejoice in the light of present truth. The nearer I live to God, the brighter the truth shines before me. I feel that nothing but a close walk with God, will keep us from the attacks of the enemy. I want to put on the whole armor of God, that I may be able to withstand all the fiery darts of the enemy.
I thank the Lord that he has so blessed his remnant people as to set the gifts in the church. They are the very thing we need in these last days. I have often wondered how any one can doubt in regard to this subject. It was by reading Spiritual Gifts, Vols. 1 and 2, that I and my household were led to see that we were breaking God's commandments. I rejoice that my children are willing to obey God and keep his commandments, and go with their parents to the kingdom. We want to be an unbroken family in the kingdom of Heaven. Oh, how I want to have my lamp trimmed and burning when the Bridegroom shall come, that I may be able to go in with him to the marriage supper. Oh what a cheering thought, that if we prove faithful a little longer, we shall have our reward. Christ says, Behold, I come quickly and my reward is with me. My desire is that I may have the reward of the faithful.
Your sister striving to overcome.
AGNES W. COURT.
Little Prairie, Walworth Co., Wis.
A Testimony of Hope
By Angie Johnson
From Sister Johnson.
BRO. WHITE: I would again add my testimony to the many cheering ones given through the Review. Dear Brn. and sisters, I realize that we are living in solemn times, and that we need much of the grace of God to enable us to overcome the many temptations which surround us. I feel like setting a double watch over my ways, and a godly example before my young associates that they may take knowledge of me that I am a true follower of the meek and lowly Jesus.
When I yielded myself to the claims of the gospel, I made no reserve whatever. The world with all its vanities passed away like a cloud before the morning sun; while Jesus in all his loveliness, the new earth arranged in all its beauty, the celestial city with all its splendor, and eternal life with all its glory, stood before me.
Oh glorious thought! How my heart exults with rapturous hope, when I realize that none but the pure and righteous will be permitted to enter those gorgeous mansions. There will be no vile nor unclean person to mar the happiness of the saints. There will be no more parting from our dear brethren and sisters, nor will we then be denied the privilege of worshiping God with his dear children on his holy Sabbath. But we shall come up from Sabbath to Sabbath to worship the Lord of Hosts.
Let us be faithful a little longer; for a few more days of sorrow, and we shall behold the bright cloud in the distance. Then will we be glad, knowing that our redemption has come.
"I long to behold him arayed
With glory and light from above,
The King in his beauty displayed—
His beauty of holiest love."
Your sister striving for the kingdom.
ANGIE JOHNSON.
Southampton, Ills.
EMILY. M. LANGDON
By Emily M. Langdon
From Sister Landon.
BRO. WHITE: I love from week to week to read in the Review the cheering testimonies of the saints scattered abroad. I, too, feel like casting in my mite, although weak and unworthy. My earnest desire is to press forward with God's people. When I contemplate the beauties of that blessed land which is to be the future home of the faithful, my heart is filled with rapture and praise to my Saviour that such a great plan of salvation was provided for man, that we may by fulfilling the conditions thereof become joint heirs with him to the kingdom which God has promised to them that love him.
I am striving to make my calling and election sure before the storm of wrath shall pass over the earth, to lay the land desolate. I have thrown aside every known idol and am daily searching my heart to see if all is right in the sight of my Master. I want to be one of those that shall have right to the tree of life.
Dear brethren and sisters, it is death to sleep now, while Satan is marshaling his mighty hosts for the last conflict. But we can rejoice that if we are faithful, we shall ere long see our absent Lord coming the second time. Oh! let us strive to have the evidence of our acceptance day by day, and be ready to meet him with joy and rejoicing.
Your sister in hope of eternal life.
EMILY. M. LANGDON
Mendon, Mich.
Cultivate Cheerfulness
CULTIVATE cheerfulness, and people will love you for the sunshine that your presence will always bring with it. You will be better satisfied with yourself and everybody else, and time's wing will be gilded with happy remembrances of the merry faces and pleasant reflections that have crowned your pathway through life.
What Is Eternity?
“WHAT IS ETERNITY?”—The following beautiful answer, by a pupil at the deaf and dumb school at Paris, contains a sublimity of conception scarcely to be equaled—“The lifetime of the Almighty.”
Keeping One's Temper
THERE is always good policy in keeping one's temper. As often as temper is lost, a degree of influence is lost with it; and while the former may be recovered, it will be found far more difficult to recover the latter.
Cheering Motto
CHEERING MOTTO.—"I cannot remember a night so dark as to hinder or prevent the coming day; nor a storm so furious and dreadful as to prevent the return of warm sunshine and cloudless sky."
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Hope of the Gospel, or Immortality the gift of God, • 15 4
Which? Mortal or Immortal? or an inquiry into the present constitution and future condition of man, • 15 4
Modern Spiritualism; its Nature and Tendency, • 15 4
The Kingdom of God; a Refutation of the doctrine called, Age to Come, • • • • • • • • 15 4
Miraculous Powers, • • • • • • • • 15 4
Pauline Theology, or the Christian Doctrine of Future Punishment as taught in the epistles of Paul. • • 15 4
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Prophecy of Daniel: The Four Universal Kingdoms
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The Saints' Inheritance. The Immortal Kingdom located on the New Earth. • • • • • • 10 3
Signs of the Times, showing that the Second Coming
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Law of God. The testimony of both Testaments,
showing its origin and perpetuity, • • • • • 10 3
Vindication of the true Sabbath, by J. W. Morton, late
Missionary to Hayti, • • • • • • • • 10 3
Review of Springer on the Sabbath, Law of God, and
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Facts for the Times. Extracts from the writings of
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Miscellany. Seven Tracts in one book on the Second
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Christian Baptism. Its Nature, Subjects, and Design, 10 3
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The Sanctuary and 2300 Days of Dan. viii, 14, • 10 2
The Fate of the Transgressor, or a short argument on the First and Second Deaths, • • • • • 5 2
Matthew xxiv. A Brief Exposition of the Chapter. • 5 2
Mark of the Beast, and Seal of the Living God, • • 5 1
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Truth Found. A short argument for the Sabbath,
with an Appendix, "The Sabbath not a Type," • 5 1
The Two Laws and Two Covenants, • • • • 5 1
An Appeal for the restoration of the Bible Sabbath in
an address to the Baptists, • • • • • • 5 1
Review of Crozier on the Institution, Design, and
Abolition of the Seventh-day Sabbath, • • • • 5 1
Review of Fillio. A reply to a series of discourses delivered by him in Battle Creek on the Sabbath question, • 5 1
Milton on the State of the Dead, • • • • • 5 1
Brown's Experience. Consecration---Second Advent, 5 1
Report of General Conference held in Battle Creek,
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Quarterly Meeting at Pilot Grove, Iowa.
By Henry Nicola
Bro. WHITE; Our first quarterly meeting at Pilot Grove, has just closed. Quite a number of brethren and sisters came in from other churches. Three sisters came alone twenty miles through the snow and mud with an ox team. These sisters know how to appreciate the privilege of being at good meetings.
We felt much disappointed in not meeting Brn. Snook and Brinkerhoof, but we tried to feel that all things work together for good to them that love God, and began to look up and claim the promise of our blessed Saviour that where two or three had met in his name, he would be in the midst.
We had two meetings on the Sabbath, and a communion meeting evening after. This was one of the best meetings we ever enjoyed. We all felt that it was good to get humble enough to wash each other's feet.
We feel to praise the Lord for what he is doing for us. This church is gradually on the rise. Less than two years ago it was organized with about 30 members. It now numbers about 55. Others are waiting an opportunity to be baptized; and still others are investigating. May the Lord help us all to seek for that holiness of heart and purity of character that will fit us for an inheritance in God's everlasting kingdom.
HENRY NICOLA.
Richmond, Iowa.
About the Charts.
By James White
Up to this time the Eastern market has called for them faster than we could get them finished. We shall supply the West as soon as possible. We have not had time to prepare the "Key," and have concluded to sell the Charts without it, at the following prices for one or more of law, or of prophetic—
On cloth, . . . . . . . . $1,75
On paper, backed and varnished, . . . . . 2,00
The Key, when published, will probably cost 10 cts.
We will send the cloth by mail, post-paid, without rollers, for . . . . . 1,75
When we send two or more sets, in one package, we will prepay express. Quantities to preachers to sell again, one-fourth discount, and railroad freight paid.
JAMES WHITE.
Elder Himes Visits
By Uriah Smith
We were favored on the 10th inst. with a call from Elder J. V. Himes, on his way east from his western tour. No class of people have more reason than Seventh-day Adventists to esteem and respect the pioneers in the great advent movement in the past, inasmuch as we still look upon that movement as the work of God, and the commencement of a prophetic fulfillment of which the third angel's message is but a continuation. Hence, although we see no particular light in Elder Himes' present position, that the prophetic periods will end in 1868, we honor him for the part he has borne in the great work that has been accomplished in reference to the Lord's soon coming.
In the evening Elder H. spoke to the church, giving us an interesting discourse on Isa. xxvi, 3. His visit was much briefer than we desired, as he only arrived at noon and was obliged to leave the following night; but the interview with him was very pleasant, and we trust, profitable.
U. S.
Report from Bro. Byington.
By John Byington
BRO. WHITE: We have now been two weeks in Memphis. We have had eight meetings, and have visited and called on about twenty families, and in nearly every house we found the majority obeying the truth. We would say to the many others that requested us to call, Be patient and we will see you again. With suitable labor to keep them united and to encourage reform, I think this people will come out from the world and others will see the good done for them. I listened to a discourse on the law last Sunday from a Methodist minister. It was the first time that I ever heard a Methodist minister say the ten commandments were all abolished. This was his position in plain terms. He referred to the Bible for proof. I thought of this text while he was preaching. Rom. iii, 31. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid. Yea we establish the law.
At the close of his sermon he said he could find the spirit of nine of the commandments in the New Testament and requested Adventists to search and see if they could find the Sabbath. Thus he claimed immortality for the nine; but the hated Sabbath must forever die. But if he is so happy as to see the new earth I think he will see the Lord's Sabbath there. We leave today for Oakland.
J. BYINGTON.
Memphis, Nov. 5, 1863.
Appointments.
PROVIDENCE permitting we will meet with churches as follows: Tyrone, Mich., Nov. 21 and 22. Locke, Nov. 24 and 29 at 10½ o'clock. At the school-house near Bro. Allen's Dec. 5 and 6, or where the Brn. in Charlotte and Windsor may appoint. JOHN BYINGTON.
UNITED monthly meeting of the brethren in Niagara Orleans and Monroe counties, at Bro. J. Lamson's, Hamlin, Monroe Co. 7 miles N. of Brockport, on the second Sabbath in Dec. 1863. R. F. C.
Our next quarterly meeting in Monroe, Wis., will be held the last Sabbath and first-day in November. WM. S. INGRAHAM.