Dear Friends of the Sabbath: I want to tell you through the Review how good the Lord has been in permitting me to hear present truth, and opening my eyes to see, and my heart to understand, that I may no more violate his holy law through ignorance.
While visiting my parents at Adel, Iowa, last winter, I was permitted to hear Eld. Carright preach once. My parents, a brother and a sister, were keeping the Sabbath. I stayed there three months, but would not investigate the subject then, fearing I might be deceived, but determined to apply myself diligently and prayerfully as soon as I returned home, which I did, and the Lord blessed my efforts to understand his will, and now I am striving to keep the Sabbath of the Lord, and I feel the light of his countenance shining upon me. I often have direct answers to prayer. Sometimes Satan gains a victory over me for a season, but, praise the Lord, I have been able to overcome, and my sky is growing brighter every day. I have friends who send me the Review occasionally, and I read it with great delight. I hope soon to send for it myself. I have read some tracts, and then given them to others to read, where I thought they would do good. They are “pearls” to my soul, and I have endeavored not to “cast them before swine,” but to scatter them on good ground, that the seed sown may bring forth fruit in abundance.
I feel that the church prays continually for the “lone ones,” that we may be steadfast in the faith of Jesus, let our light shine, and keep ourselves in readiness to meet our Saviour at his appearing.
I want to conquer every evil in my nature, and so live that those over whom I have an influence may be persuaded to love God and keep his commandments. Bless the Lord, O my soul, for his goodness and mercy endureth forever.
MATTIE P. GRIFFIN
Calhoun Co., Iowa.
Holiness to the Lord.
By L. Wiswell
It has been sixty years since I espoused the cause of Christ, and I never felt the importance of holy living so sensibly as at the present time. As I see the signs which are to show us that the coming of the Lord draweth nigh, and realize that we are living in the investigative Judgment, and that my case will soon come before the Judge, I feel the importance of living a holy life; for without holiness no one will see the Lord in peace. I feel the importance of consecrating myself wholly to the Lord.
I would say a word for the encouragement of the lonely ones, being one of that number myself. Though we may not often hear one of the living preachers speak the words of life and truth, yet we have the Bible, the REVIEW, and the publications, to guide us in the right way. These blessings, rightly improved, will lead us to that heavenly home that we are seeking for. The Lord help us to make such improvement of these blessings that we may meet on the fair banks of deliverance. The blessings of the Lord are sure for those who are honest in heart and seek them in the right way.
L. WISWELL.
The Heavenly Magic of Scripture
THERE is a strange movingness, and if the epithet be not too bold, a kind of heavenly magic which is to be found in some passages of the Scriptures, which is to be found no where else.
Obituary Notices.
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
Fell asleep in Jesus, on the morning of the 25th of August, 1871, at his residence in Adel, Iowa, my dear father, Elihu Crayne, aged 55 years, 11 months, and 11 days. He died in hope of a part in the first resurrection. We mourn not as those who have no hope.
Belle Crayne.
Died, in Brighton, Iowa, Sept. 8, 1871, of consumption, Mrs. Mary Robison, aged sixty-nine years, nine months, and seventeen days. She had been a believer in the Advent doctrine since 1868. She lived with her daughter, Mrs. Cramer, who, with her family, embraced the truth under the preaching of Brn. Cornell and Butler. She dearly loved the Sabbath, and died in the belief that the dead sleep in the grave till the Saviour comes. We laid her away to wait the resurrection, in the hope that she will come forth immortal, to inherit eternal life.
M. E. Presler.
Don't Wait Any Longer.
By James White
For a long time we have been wondering why so many were delinquent in paying for the REVIEW, Instructor, and Reformer. We have turned the matter over, and over again in our mind, and have decided time and again that the delinquency of not less than ten thousand dollars on these three good periodicals could not be because of any lack in the papers themselves; for they are certainly excellent, and worth many times the subscription price.
The enlarged REVIEW is printed with good type, on superior paper, and is well filled with Bible truth, experiences, and matter of general and special interest to the reader.
The enlarged and improved Reformer needs not a word to be said in its favor. And so long as its columns are filled with deeply interesting matter from warm-hearted and able contributors, its patrons will feel doubly paid for the trifling sum of one dollar a year.
And then the Youth's Instructor, so admirably adapted to the wants of the youth, and well filled with just what our children need, is worthy to be promptly paid for by all of its readers. It, therefore, cannot be because of any fault in our periodicals that any who receive them neglect to pay for them.
Neither is it because of loose teaching in these periodicals that the readers become slack in the sacred duty of paying for them. They are all high-toned as to morality. And the REVIEW in particular, in adopting the ten commandments as the great basis of all moral action, and taking the position that the ten precepts grow out of the two grand principles of God's moral government, of supreme love to God, and equal love to our fellows, in its teachings does really unchristianize the man who adopts its positions, and neglects to pay for the paper that teaches such elevated truth. If men who are able to pay for these periodicals carelessly neglect this duty, they do not love their neighbor as themselves. They do not keep the commandments of God. And more, they do violate the declarations of Christ, and those of the inspired writers of the New Testament, where justice, faithfulness, and brotherly love, are made important in forming the Christian character.
But it will not do to say that none of these delinquents are Christians. No, this would be hasty in us. Then what is the reason of this strange delinquency?
Nor does it exist because our patrons can safely conclude that we have no need of these thousands of dues. No, they have been told that we are putting up a new Office building at the expense of ten thousand dollars, and they must know that the work needs just the amount they owe the Publishing Association. Why then this great delinquency under such circumstances?
The most charitable answer we can give to this question is this, that those delinquents who are able to pay for the periodicals they read, and have fallen behind, are afraid to trust their money with the mails. The sums due are too small to put into money orders, or drafts on the banks, and they dare not trust bank notes in letters with the mails.
We are prepared to state that we can now help all such cautious people, if they will follow our directions. Here they are.
1. Our delinquent patrons should find out how much they owe by comparing the volume and number printed on the first page of our periodicals with volume and number printed on the paster, indicated by the figures given in connection with their names. To illustrate: Vol. 38, No. 15, is the present issue. If the figures on your paster are 38–15, you have paid up to the REVIEW you are reading, and no more. If the figures on the paster fall below these, you are in debt for as many volumes and numbers as they fall below. If the figures rise higher than 38–15, then you have paid in advance for just as many volumes and numbers as the figures are above 38–15. If there should be persons who cannot understand their accounts, after this explanation, information will be cheerfully given as to the amount due this Office, if they will inquire by letter.
2. Our patrons are recommended to pay for our periodicals, if convenient, to persons authorized to receive such pay, at our yearly camp-meetings, and other large gatherings, or to our authorized ministers who labor among them. But to all who may not find it convenient to pay to an agent, we would here state,
Enclose the small sums, which are the yearly subscription prices of our periodicals, securely enveloped, with a plain statement of your wishes how the money should be applied, always giving your name, the name of your post-office, and the name of the State, kingdom, or province in which you live; and then, after addressing your letters, REVIEW & HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich., and paying the postage, commit them to the mails, and then, if any of these small sums should be lost, which is very seldom the case, the Publishing Association will sustain the loss, provided that in no case the sum in any one letter exceeds Two Dollars.
Larger sums may be sent in several letters, two dollars in each, at different times, or in Money Orders, or Drafts on the Banks. Those who send in bank notes, in sums of more than two dollars in any one letter, will do it at their own risk. We have never recommended registering letters, neither do we. The cost of Drafts and Money Orders, may be deducted from the amount to be paid at the Office.
Having, in the above statements, removed the only conceivable reason why Christian men and women should hesitate to pay for the worthy periodicals they and their children read, we shall now expect to witness prompt and speedy payment of the many small dues, but which amount in all to at least the sum of ten thousand dollars. Don't wait any longer.
James White,
President S. D. A. Publishing Association.
News and Miscellany.
“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
The Eastern question promises to become prominent again in European politics. Germany and Austria want the valley and mouths of the Danube. Russia wants the Hellespont and Constantinople. When either party is ready to strike, we shall see another tremendous war.
The German army is to be reduced to a peace footing of four hundred thousand men. This is a reduction. Four hundred thousand men is such a mere squad—particularly as this four hundred thousand will be kept constantly drilled to the highest point of perfection, and will be composed of the flower of German youth, armed with the best weapons known to military science, and handled by such generals as Von Moltke, the Crown Prince and his cousin, and others of high fame—that, of course, the surrounding nations must feel perfectly easy. It may be mentioned, as a trifle which the neighbors of Germany might otherwise overlook, that this four hundred thousand will receive about two hundred thousand fresh men each year, to be drilled into veterans, discharging an equal number who are already drilled, under a system so perfect that Germany can swell her four hundred thousand to a million and a third of drilled soldiers at any time, on two weeks’ notice, and this is only her “peace footing.” As a provision for war, it is reported that she has made a secret treaty with Austria, by which Austria agrees to back her with a million additional drilled soldiers.
The report of the agent, Mullen, of Philadelphia is a very suggestive one. It shows that there are in that city three hundred and sixty-six churches, three hundred and eighty school-houses, and eight thousand dram shops. It also shows, by the analysis of Dr. Hutchings, that in a large amount of liquors there is a gallon of strychnia solution, belladonna solution, or stramonium solution to every fourth of the liquor. Tobacco is added; digitalis is added; oil of vitriol is added; opium, aconite, Indian hemp, etc., etc., are added. To give color, calomel, or burnt sugar, or molasses, or red saunders, or oil of almond, is added. To give it the taste of age, gravestones or oak sawdust is added. Query: What amount of these “bitters” should a man take to get rid of the dyspepsia?
Another terrible calamity has overtaken the unfortunate Island of St. Thomas. A hurricane and earthquake prostrated nearly all the houses on the island, and made nearly six thousand persons homeless. No more dreadful commotion of the elements can be imagined than the disturbance which has thus afflicted St. Thomas. The island has been so frequently devastated by earthquakes and storms that it may be considered well nigh uninhabitable. Certainly it is an undesirable place of habitation, and not to be coveted even as a naval station.
Advices received from London state that Bismarck has commenced a vigorous campaign against the papacy, and as the first blow has directed the Parliament and his official gazettes that he regards the ultramontane church as hostile to the State, and has broken off all relations with it not purely political, and has dissolved the Catholic department of the ministry of worship. He is intriguing for the establishment of an orthodox Catholic party, which is the name applied to the opponents of infallibility, and is actively supporting Dr. Dollinger, of Munich, who, though excommunicated, has just been elected by a vote of 54 to 6 as rector of the University. It has been announced by ultramontane organs that the State will treat as Catholics those who are in the habit of rejecting the infallibility dogma.
It is an illustration of the value at which the different kinds of service are estimated, that the salary of the president of Harvard College is but $3,000, while that of the chief cook at the Parker House, one of the principal hotels in Boston, and distant from Harvard about forty minutes’ ride by the horse-cars, reaches the handsome figure of about $4,000.
Not long ago, we observed on the way to his pulpit, in this city, a Dr. of Divinity who, at every few steps, squirted from his mouth a dirty stream of tobacco juice. Comment is unnecessary. But such a mouth, we thought, was not fit to speak a pure word, or utter a beautiful truth. When will preachers learn to be decent?
Fuseli, the painter, had a great dislike to what is known as “tatting.” Once, when sitting in his room among some trifling visitors, who were discussing the weather and such like interesting subjects, he burst forth with a—“We had pork for dinner to-day!” “Dear! Mr. Fuseli, what an odd remark!” exclaimed one. “Why,” replied he, “it’s as good as anything you’ve been saying for the last hour.”
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$1.00 EACH. Mrs N. Carter 38-1, John A Towns 39-15, John G Cheal 39-23, E Brackett 39-1, H D Corey 40-1, H L Richmond 39-20, Wm Gulick 39-1, E Pomeroy 39-1, E G Hill 39-1, Wm Borden 37-1, D W Bartholomew 40-19, Wm Allen 39-15, M W Rathbun 40-6, J Iden 39-1, Lucina Sanders 39-15, W Acuff 39-15, R W Day 39-13, R Myreck 39-2, R S Barnhill 39-15, Wm C Hays 39-15, A J White 39-9, A J Nelson 39-10, J C Ogle 39-15, W B Chase 39-1, J N Smith 38-1, H S Smith 39-15.
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Books Sent by Mail.
A Weeks 75c, J E Clark 15c, J McGregor 25c, H A Rife 10c, C M Wade 25c, D L Rogers $2.00, J Raedels 1.00, R Williams 25c, B P Dawson 25c, J Lawrence 25c, R C Cauright 20c, S Post 25c, A Johnson 25c, C B Deyarmond 50c, O G Henry 25c, A M Purdy 1.00, H C Wilkinson 20c, A G Heaton 1.00, A J Whitson 10c, Geo. Koon 3 25, A I Neilson 1.00, J Livermore 1.00, M C Morgan 25c, F H Moakley 17c, M C Harper 3.60, J M Ferguson 10c, B D Durgin 35c, R F Andrews 75c, E B Carpenter 4.00, Jas Hull 1.00, A Rathbun 25c, L R Beadle 40c, Mrs P Luke 25c, S Osborn 25c, W D Bartholomew 25c, F Squires 25c, J P Bailey 25c, E C Buckland 60c, L M Baker 25c, C O Taylor 3.25, D Asire 3.60, L Martin 50c, H L Richmond 10c, G S Honeywell 1.00, J B Frisbie 15c, L J Cutler 30c, A C Bourdeau 4.50, S W Burlingham 1.00, Geo W Welch 25c, Frank Brown 1.00, J W Bond 3.00, M Ryland 4 25, F M Palmiter 1.25, S M Crosby 25c, J L Lewis 25c, M Gould 40c, L Winnie 25c, W H Kynett 2c, Lena Maine 40c, M West 50c, E Ashley 6.00, N T Bowers 75c, L D Smith 50c, E Strong 25c, Wm Boynton 50c, Geo W Mills 1.50, M A Lyons 20c, M Wilkinson 30c, J Weishaar 30c, J T Hoover 60c.
Michigan Camp-meeting Expenses.
Sister Hough $2.00, W H Kynett 3.00, A Marsh 25.00, O B Sevy 5.00, David Hewitt 1.00, Thomas McKee 2.50.
Cash Received on Account.
Thos J Cross $7.00 (for James White), J O Curtiss 2.00, Asa B Atwood 25.00, H C Winslow 5.50, A S Hutchins 15c, Geo J Butler 35.00, C E Cole 75c.
General Conference Fund.
D C Elmer (3 b) $1.00, New York Conference 500.00, Vermont Conference 50.00.
Shares in Publishing Association.
Lucious Winston $10.00, Mary E Parker 10.00, O M Ferguson & wife 10.00, R G Lockwood 10.00, Marshall Aldrich 10.00, M B Cyphers 10.00, Wm L Wheeler 10.00, Wm P Potter 10.00, Jas Minisee 10.00, Eliza Potter 10.00, Mary A Washburn 10.00, L S McClure 10.00, E D Scott 10.00, Mrs L A Marsh 10.00, J H Murray 10.00, Reuben Griggs 10.00, Mrs J N Andrews 10.00, Hiram Edson 10.00, Mrs H Edson 10.00, F Wheeler 10.00, Mrs S B Craig 10.00, S B Whitney 10.00, Jesse Rosa 10.00, Mrs Margaret Dickinson 10.00, Mrs Drusilla Lamson 10.00, L Vincent 10.00, J T Lane 10.00, Wm Covert 10.00, J E Titus 10.00, Aurora B Lockwood 10.00, Joseph Bates 10.00.
Michigan Conference Fund.
Received from Cedar Springs $25.00, Wright 124.25, Conviss 40.00, Newton 15.00, Edenville 50.00, Orange 20.00, Burlington 20.00, Colon 9.00, Lapeer 12.50, Tuscola 22.00, St Charles 15.00.
Donation to S. D. A. P. Association.
F R Richmond $2.00, J Wison 2.00 (thank-offering), Joel Lock 2.00 (thank-offering), A Friend 5.00, Mary Bracket 5.00, Maggie Wilkinson 1.00.
Shares in the Health Institute.
D R Palmer $100.00, Mrs W H Root 100.00, John S Day 25.00, Joseph Bates 25.00, Reuben Griggs 25.00, Wm P Potter 25.00, J N Andrews 25.00, J N Ferguson 25.00, A W Maynard 25.00, R G Lockwood 25.00.
Donations to Health Institute.
J B Locke $1.00, W E Stillman 10.00.
Book Fund—$10,000 Wanted.
Amount received heretofore $915.90.
Twenty-five Dollars Each.—D B Green and wife.
Ten Dollars Each.—E Walworth.
Five Dollars Each.—R S Tilton, H L Richmond.
Six Dollars Each.—Thomas McKee.
Miscellaneous.—E Howard $1.00, A friend 1.00, A friend 50c, A friend 2.00, A friend 2.00, Nancy Tubbs 2.00, Jarvis Martin 1.00, J A Owen 2.00.
A Misrepresentation of Sabbatarianism
By Uriah Smith
We notice by the World's Crisis of Sept. 20, that L. Boutell has embarked in a series of articles on "Sabbatarianism," said paper containing the opening, or "No. 1." It seems to be a characteristic of the opponents of the Sabbath to engage in a frothy tirade against that which they seem to be either unwilling or unable to understand. In the article under notice Mr. B. endeavors to tickle the prejudice of narrow minds, by again reviving the oft-exposed misrepresentation respecting our views of the mark of the beast. We would recommend him to acquaint himself with his subject, apologize for what he has written, and if he shall write any more on the same theme, let it at least have the merit of being true. U. S.
Publication Schedule Update
By Editor
The Camp-meeting put us back on the Review two days last week. We are one day late this week, but expect to be on time hereafter.
Foreign vs. Home Missions.
A PAPER of Dublin places in striking juxtaposition the following paragraphs. When such ignorance exists at home as is described in the first paragraph, the idea of Lords and Bishops rejoicing over openings for missionary operations in distant parts, while overlooking the wants that lie at their own door, is little less than ludicrous.
“At the Hendon Petty Sessions, some days ago, a girl named Maria Walker was produced as a witness for a prosecution on a charge of trespass. Mr. Blount, who appeared for the defendant, begged leave to cross-examine her, and did so to the following effect:—
“‘Have you ever heard of God?’ ‘Noa.’
“‘How old are you?’ ‘I do n’t noa.’
“‘Have you ever heard tell of Heaven or hell?’ ‘Noa.’
“‘Where will you go when you die?’ ‘I do n’t noa.’
“‘When you do wrong—thieve, lie, make mischief; whom do you offend?’ ‘I do n’t noa.’
“‘Have you a soul?’ ‘I do n’t noa.’”
And this:—
“At a meeting of the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, Lord Shaftesbury in the chair, the Lord Bishop of Sidney proposed, and the Rev. Maurice Nelligan seconded, the following resolution:
“‘That this gathering of the friends of Christian enlightenment is profoundly rejoiced to hear of the promised openings for missionary effort in the imperial cities of Vienna and Rome, and in Damascus.’”
A. S. Hutchins’s Postoffice Address
The postoffice address of Eld. A. S. Hutchins, for the present, is West Bolton, Vt.
Correction.
By R. F. Cottrell
In my report of the N. Y. and Pa. Conference it seems I made a strange omission. My worn condition at the close of our meeting is my only excuse. The $500.00 was appropriated to the General Conference. R. F. COTTRELL.
The Review and Herald.
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Don’t Wait Any Longer
By Editor
All delinquents are requested to read the article entitled, “Don’t Wait Any Longer,” then pay up. And should any fail to do their duty after the first reading, they are invited to read the article a second time upon their knees; not, however, until they have first asked God to forgive them for neglecting one of the plainest duties in the Christian life.
The worthy, suffering poor, God bless them, can have our periodicals free.
U. S
By Uriah Smith
We call the attention of the reader to two articles in our present issue. These are, “Crossing the Bridge before you Come to it,” given on the first page, and, “What Time Is It?” on the second page. These will both be found to be gems of sterling value.
U. S
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand
HILLSDALE, Sabbath, Sept. 30. The quarterly meeting of the Hillsdale and Ransom churches will be at Ransom, Sabbath and first-day, Oct. 7 and 8. I will endeavor to be present.
STEPHEN PIERCE.
MONTHLY meeting for the churches of Lisbon, Marion and Anamosa, at Lisbon, Iowa, Oct. 7 and 8.
J. T. MITCHELL.
THERE will be a meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Book and Tract Society of central Iowa, at Lisbon, Oct. 8, at 9 o'clock A. M.
J. T. MITCHELL, Pres.
JAMESTOWN, Ottawa Co., Mich., Thursday evening, Oct. 5, where Bro. Minisee may appoint.
Gaines, Kent Co., Sabbath, Oct. 7; Leighton, Allegan Co., on first-day, Oct. 8, where Bro. Pierce may appoint.
H. M. KENYON.
MONTHLY meeting at Lancaster, N. Y., on the second Sabbath and first-day in October.
Quarterly meeting at Cottage, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., on the third Sabbath and first-day in October.
R. F. COTTRELL.
MONTHLY meeting for Oakland, Johnstown, and Little Prairie churches, at Little Prairie, Oct. 14 and 15. Meeting Sabbath evening. We hope all will come prepared to stay until the close of the meeting. Will some of our ministers come to this meeting?
C. W. OLDS.