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Review and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 15.

THE TWO COVENANTS
Earlier text: TO CORRESPONDENTS

WISCONSIN T. AND M. SOCIETY.

By H. W. Decker; M. A. Kerr

The sixth annual session of the Wisconsin T. and M. Society convened at Grand Rapid, Wis., Sept. 12, 1878. Prayer by Eld. Haskell.
The report of the last annual meeting was read and accepted. Report of labor for the past year is as follows:—
Districts No. of times reported No. of members No. of reports No. of families visited No. of letters written Money received New subscribers for periodicals Periodicals given away Annuals distributed Pages of tracts and pamphlets distributed Signs taken in clubs
1 4 54 30 528 280 $62.77 287 1873 547 26356 60
2 3 50 22 21 12 $51.50 52 296 235 9831 26
3 3 50 19 121 83 $99.60 251 368 489 24704 8
4 4 29 36 80 63 $19.66 19 583 1 2779 22
5 1 5 55 20 $1.75 20 4
6
7 4 33 27 120 27 $30.74 64 760 273 17208 12
8 4 36 43 41 154 $69.68 110 778 540 35895 13
9 4 229 51 $72.96 133 679 61 55404 33
10 2 19 2 40 10 2030
11 3 46 20 111 57 $28.22 65 415 280 18783 22
12 3 21 15 32 4 $59.45 17 77 350 19823
13 3 48 38 101 63 $19.60 20 673 232 21521 22
14 1 $1.00 100 1172
15 4 43 26 146 106 $101.98 210 748 549 31824 51
16 3 38 16 30 113 $25.15 9 135 12 7966
443 292 1627 1035 $644.40 1267 7485 3669 975294 344
The chair appointed the following committees: On nominations, J. Atkinson, C. W. Olds, O. A. Olsen; on resolutions, C. W. Stone, S. S. Smith, O. A. Johnson. Adjourned.

SECOND SESSION.

The second session convened Sept. 16.
The nominating committee reported as follows: For President, H. W. Decker; Vice-president, O. A. Olsen; Secretary and Treasurer, Mattie A. Kerr. Directors: Dist. No. 1, Thomas Bickle; No. 2, William Higley; No. 3, Alma Droullard; No. 4, C. K. Ackley; No. 5, Eli Osborn; No. 6, J. B. Ingalls; No. 7, Wm. Y. Eager; No. 8, Rufus Baker; No. 9, Wm. H. Canfield; No. 10, Wm. Hanson; No. 11, E. A. Whipple; No. 12, Thomas Pringle; No. 13, E. J. Rice; No. 14, Jas. D. Mulhollen; No. 15, Orcutt Burr; No. 16, C. Sorensen; No. 17, H. W. Reed.
The report was accepted, and the officers elected. The treasurer’s report is as follows:—
Received from ex-treasurer, $35.00 “ during year, $1582.57 Total, $1617.57 Paid to REVIEW Office, $1017.22 “ “ SIGNS ”, $321.00 “ “ secretary, $60.00 Incidental expenses, $188.89 Total, $1587.11 On hand, $30.46

GENERAL FUND.

Received during year, $465.59 Paid out, $400.93 On hand, $64.66
The Committee on Resolutions reported the following:—
Resolved, That we recommend the Wisconsin Tract Society to raise a sum of $1,500 to pay its present indebtedness and to establish a fund for the purchase of publications for this State society, said fund to include the T. and M. one-third and the pledges made at Madison.
Pledges were then taken, which, including those taken at Madison, make about $700.
Meeting adjourned sine die.
H. W. Decker, Pres. M. A. Kerr, Sec.

TO GUARD AGAINST DIVORCE.

Be a Christian, and marry a Christian.
Never both be angry at once.
Never taunt with a past mistake.
“I forgot” is never an acceptable excuse.
A good wife is the greatest earthly blessing.
If you must criticise, let it be done lovingly.
They who marry for physical characteristics or external considerations, will fail of happiness.
Never make a remark at the expense of the other.
Never talk at each other, either alone or in company.
Give your warmest sympathies for each other’s trials.
If one is angry, let the other part the lips only for a kiss.
Neglect the whole world beside rather than each other.
Never speak loud to each other unless the house is on fire.
Let each strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other.
Always leave home with loving words, for they may be the last.
Marry into different blood temperament from your own.
Never deceive, for the heart once misled can never trust wholly again.
It is the mother who molds the character and fixes the destiny of the child.
Never find fault unless it is perfectly certain a fault has been committed.
Do not herald the sacrifices you make to each other’s tastes, habits, or preferences.
Let all your mutual accommodations be spontaneous, whole-souled, and free as air.
The very felicity is in the mutual cultivation of usefulness.
Consult each other in all that comes within the experience, observation, or sphere of the other.
A hesitating or grum yielding to the wishes of the other always grates upon a loving heart.
Never reflect on a past action which was done with a good motive, and with the best judgment at the time.
The beautiful in heart is a million times of more avail as securing domestic happiness than the beautiful in person.—Selected.

Vanity of Worldly Pride and Honor

Survey the things that raise your pride; consider how vain they are. Is it silver and gold? The dust of the earth; perishing treasures; poor comforters in an hour of inward distress, of sickness or death! Is it beauty, and youth, and strength? What withering flowers are all these! What gay and dying vanities, that are wasting hourly, and may be blasted with an east wind! Is it honor and fame among men? What an empty thing is the breath of mortals! how subject to change! how unjust and feeble a foundation for pride! It is sometimes given to the worst of men without due merit; and even when it is best merited, and most justly given, it is but a sound that vanishes into empty air. Is it high birth that makes you proud and scornful? This is the honor of your ancestors more than your own, and perhaps it was not raised at first upon virtue or true merit; then it is a worthless thing indeed. Is it your wisdom and knowledge that puffs you up with conceit? It is a sign you want one large branch of it, that is, the knowledge of yourself, for that would make you humble.—Watts.

“THE SECRET OF THE LORD.”

By J. N. D.

If I say I am in Christ, I say Christ is in me, and my business is to show out Christ, and nothing else. It is having Christ always before us, and really walking in the presence of God. The great secret is to be more with God than with anybody; and if we are not, we shall go astray. The moment I get away from the conscious presence of God, self has a certain place; whereas if I am really in the presence of God, I am nothing.
You are not competent to discern the will of God if you are not with him: “the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him.” We have to be before God himself, or else we shall never keep straight; and for that we must be in the path of God, for him to lead us. I cannot realize God’s presence out of the path of his will. The instant we lose the sense of dependence, we are in danger. Obedience and dependence, these are the two living principles of the new man. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”—J. N. D., London.

CHARGE FOR BURNING OF THE BODIES OF LATIMER AND RIDLEY

The following interesting memorial of Popish persecutions was discovered recently in the British Museum:—

CHARGE FOR BURNING OF THE BODIES OF LATIMER AND RIDLEY

£ s d
For three loads wood fagots, 0 12 0
Item, one load furze fagots, 0 3 4
Item, for carriage, 0 2 6
Item, a post, 0 1 4
Item, two chains, 0 8 4
Item, two staples, 0 0 6
Item, four laborers, 0 2 8
Total, 1 5 8
Such a document serves better than many pages of description, to bring to mind the days when men counted not their own lives dear unto them for the sake of truth.

Prayer as Preparation for Heavenly Praise

It is by prayer on earth that the soul is tuned for eternal praise in Heaven; and the more we pray in a proper manner, the more we shall have cause for praise, even here below. The praise of a higher sphere will be, as it were, the echoes and antiphones of our prayers in this.

COMFORT

By Alice Cary

What comfort, when with clouds of woe The heart is burdened, and must weep, To feel that pain must end,—to know “He giveth his beloved sleep.”
When in the mid-day march we meet The outstretched shadows of the night, The promise, how divinely sweet, “At even-time it shall be light.” —Alice Cary.

Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
My dear father, Mark Newlan, peacefully fell asleep, in Lovington, Ill., Aug. 20, 1878, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. My father embraced the present truth four years ago, under the labors of Brn. Colcord and Bliss. His faith in the final triumph of the truth was ever firm, and he was a good worker in the cause. He was one of the early settlers in this country, and he leaves many friends to mourn his loss. But we expect to meet him when this corruptible shall put on incorruption. Jacob Newlan.
Bro. Matthew Young died of bleeding at the lungs, in Hector, Potter county, Pa., Sept. 6, 1878, in the forty-ninth year of his age. Bro. Young embraced the present truth last winter, under my labors. He attended our Sabbath meeting in the tent Aug. 31, and bore his testimony and offered his prayer for the last time among us. He knew that his end was near, and was ready. He leaves a wife and six small children to mourn his loss. Discourse from John 5:28, 29. J. G. Saunders.
Our little son, Lawrence V., died near Crescent City, Iowa, July 28, aged about two months. We are comforted by the hope that we shall soon meet him again. Funeral discourse by Bro. A. Petersen from Luke 7:11–16. L. P. and Ellen Nelson.
Julius Cæsar, son of Reuben and Susannah Worick, died of diphtheria, in Center township, Jewell county, Kansas, Sept. 15, 1878, aged 10 years, 8 months, and 11 days. We do not sorrow as those who have no hope. We expect to meet our dearly beloved son, when “the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.” Isa. 35:1. Reuben and Susannah Worick.
Died, at her home in River Sioux, Harrison County, Iowa, Sept. 18, 1878, Mary Bean, aged 72 years. She was a native of the State of New Hampshire and emigrated, with her husband, to the State of Iowa in the year 1870. At an early age she was converted, and about four years ago she embraced the truths of the third angel's message under the labors of Eld. J. Bartlett. She has since been a sincere and devoted Christian, manifesting at all times her devotion to the cause of present truth, and we sorrow not as those without hope. Words of comfort by the writer from Rev. 14:13. Thomas J. Bryceson.
Died in Black Creek, Wis., Bro. Hume Lathrop, after a sickness of three days, aged 67 years and 3 days. His death was caused by a disease of the lungs and bowels. He was converted under the preaching of the advent message in 1841, and was an observer of the seventh-day Sabbath for the last eighteen years of his life. His careful and consistent life commanded the respect of all who knew him. Discourse by the writer from John 11:24. S. S. Smith.
Died, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. William Longmate, in the town of Cambria, Niagara county, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1878, Mrs. Fannie F. Longmate, widow of Deacon William R. Longmate, in the 79th year of her age. The deceased was born in Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. She was married when quite young to Mr. D. P. Oliver, in Cazenovia, N. Y., from whence the youthful couple came as pioneers to the western part of the State of New York and settled in the town of Cambria, about three miles west from Lockport, about sixty-one years ago. Mr. Oliver died some years ago, and she afterward married Dea. Wm. Longmate, of Pendleton, whose death last winter left her the second time a widow. She embraced religion when quite young, but united with no church until 1844, when she joined the Baptist church in Lockport. Some time before her marriage with Dea. Longmate, she embraced the Sabbath and the views of the Seventh-day Adventists, but did not unite with the denomination. When the Seventh-day Baptist church of Clarence and Pendleton was organized, of which her husband was a deacon, she became one of its members. On the occasion of her funeral, at her request a discourse was preached from 1 Thess. 4:14. C. A. B.

Weeding Our Own Gardens.

By M.

We have been cheered and refreshed by the convocation of our annual camp-meeting in Massachusetts. It has truly been a time of refreshing. May we in New England profit by the counsel we there received. May it be to us as apples of gold in pictures of silver.
We were made to feel that we have been too careless in regard to the matter of self-investigation; and that while our own little garden-plots are all choked up with the bramble and the thistle, we, quite unmindful of this sad need at home, reach out far beyond and take a large amount of labor upon ourselves in weeding and cultivating the gardens of our neighbors and friends, which are often in much better condition than our own. Let us, by the grace of God, remove all these noxious weeds, which, if not plucked up, will eventually shut us out of the kingdom.
The camp-meeting has left a very solemn impression upon my mind. I feel more than ever before the importance and magnitude of the work we each have before us of fitting up our lives to be in perfect harmony with that immutable law by which we are to be judged in that great and terrible day when it will be said to so many, “I never knew you; depart from me, ye workers of iniquity.” May we each examine our own lives with far more attention, and greater severity, than we have ever been led to search the lives of those around us. Let us take heed that we be not deceived into overlooking any little pet sin, which, however small, will be sufficient to debar us from the companionship of Jesus and his angels.
When we attempt to change our course of life, we are too apt to take an overwhelming burden upon ourselves, by looking into the future for a time to begin, and also by summing up the vast amount we have to overcome. The time is now; but the Christian warfare is first a battle and then a march, as Sr. White has so truly remarked, and we can only live one day at a time; and when that day is past, it will be a witness either for or against us in the Judgment.
Upon rising each morning, we should resolve, with the help of God, to place a strict surveillance over our thoughts and acts for just that one day; and then, as night comes on, look over the day’s work carefully and prayerfully, noting where we have gained, and where failed; thus letting each day as it passes be an experience to aid us in living each succeeding day better and more acceptably in the sight of our Heavenly Father. The motto, “Never cross a bridge until you come to it,” seems very applicable here. By living one day at a time, instead of having a care for a whole week or month in the future, we can much lighten our burden, and render victory more certain of attainment.
If we have not been making the spiritual advancement that we should, we must arouse ourselves at once, as the message is rapidly going forward, and will continue to advance, whether we stand still or not; for God, and not man, has the lead of this great work, and the fields are fast ripening for the harvest. May our zeal from henceforward be earnest and sure, that we may stand justified before our Lord when he comes to make up his jewels. M.
Ipswich, Mass.

Read, Remember, Act.

By D. A. Robinson

The S. S. treasurers in New England should read what follows, and then act accordingly when the proper time comes.
1. Four times a year you should send a report to the Conference secretary and treasurer. The secretary will see that you have blanks for that purpose.
2. When to send the reports. This should be done on the Monday following the first Sabbath in January, April, July, and October, which will be the Monday following your church quarterly meeting.
3. Filling out blanks. This is where there is so much misunderstanding. Some adopt one plan, others another, and still others not any. There was, however, a marked improvement in the last reports that came in, but we want to see them just right. When a report comes from a church, and has under the head, “Pledge for the Quarter,” the amount that has been pledged for the year, it renders it impossible for us to make out a correct report, unless we happen to be good at guessing and guess just right. Now, my brother, take your blank and notice it particularly while you read. The first point after the heading is “Pledge for the Quarter.” Now the question is, What is to be put in the blank that follows it? Some put in the amount that has been paid during the quarter. That is wrong, unless each member has paid up his pledge for the quarter. Add the weekly s. s. pledges of all the members together, then multiply this sum by thirteen, and you have the amount to place under the above head.
A little further down on your blank you find this, “During this quarter we have paid,” etc. Under this head state what you have done with all cash paid out that has not been sent to the treasurer.
The last point is, “Paid to Conference Treasurer.” Here you should put the amount actually sent to the treasurer, and no more. We have seen some put down under this last head simply the treasurer’s name and address.
Now we do not wish to find fault with any one, but have tried to state these points so all can understand them; then there will be uniformity, and a correct report can be made from your blanks. Be careful, brethren, to make out your reports correctly. In conclusion let me emphasize this: Be sure to report every quarter, and also send your s. s. by bank check or post-office order. When I send you blanks after this, I shall give no instructions what to do with them. Fill them out both alike, and send one to Josiah Webber, New Ipswich, N. H., the treasurer, the other to D. A. Robinson, South Lancaster, Mass., the secretary.
D. A. ROBINSON.

APPOINTMENTS

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

Kansas Camp-meetings.

Bethany, Osborn Co., Oct. 16-21; Richland, Shawnee Co., Oct. 24-29; Sherman City, Cherokee Co., Oct. 31 to Nov. 5.
The Bethany, or Black Hawk, meeting is a general meeting for the Northwest, that at Sherman City is a general meeting for the Southeast, that at Richland is a general meeting for the whole State.
We look for a grand rally at each of these meetings. Ample provision will be made for all. The camp-meeting committee will see that the grounds are in readiness for the meetings to commence the eve of the first day for which they are appointed.
J. N. AYERS, Kan J. H. COOK, Conf. CHAS. F. STEVENS, Con.
Quarterly meeting of Dist. No. 6, at Hamler, Henry county, Ohio, Sabbath and Sunday, Oct. 12 and 13, 1878. Let every member who can do so, be there. T. F. EVANS, Director.
Providence permitting, I will meet with the church at Half Rock, Mo., Oct. 12 and 13. At the close of these meetings the debate between Eld. Padgett, of the Christian church, and myself will commence, to last probably a week or more, on the Sabbath, Immortality, and Kingdom questions. GEO. I. BUTLER.
State quarterly meeting of the Ohio T. and M. Society at Bowling Green, Oct. 19 and 20. District secretaries, send reports to State secretary, J. B. Gregory, Bowling Green, Ohio. O. MEARS.
Quarterly meeting of Dist. No. 5, Ill. T. and M. Society, at Princeville, Peoria county, Oct. 13. O. TURNIPSEED, Director.
Quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 3, Indiana T. and M. Society, at West Liberty, Howard county, Oct. 19, 20, 1878.
This district includes the churches at Alto, New London, Bunker Hill, Marion, and West Liberty. The church at Peoria belongs to this district, but it has no tract society organized. We desire to see all these churches well represented, as we shall make arrangements for the winter campaign. WM. COVERT, Director.
Quarterly meeting of Dist. No. 2, Wis., at Monroe, Oct. 6. Let every member report, and come with a liberal donation.
No providence preventing, I will meet with the church at Albany, Oct. 12, 13; Avon, Oct. 19, 20, with a full supply of tracts, books, and blanks, ready to receive every one's subscription for all our periodicals.
Don't forget to read “Missionary Work,” by Bro. White, in REVIEW No. 13, page 101. WM. S. HIGLEY, Director.
Church quarterly meetings at Norwalk and Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 12, 13. Meetings to commence at each place at 10:30 A. M. each day. Those who are distant, and cannot attend both days, should come Sunday forenoon. Come prepared to pay $2.00 to the tract society, if you can. Have your reports ready. Try to pay up S. B. Cleveland meeting at the house of Bro. I. Edgerton. Perhaps Bro. Gates can be at this meeting. Meet to work in the Lord's cause. H. A. ST. JOHN.
The churches in Dist. No. 5, Ohio, will hold their quarterly T. and M. meetings in connection with the church quarterly meetings Oct. 5, 6. Brethren, attend these meetings, and bring a report of labor and a liberal donation, and I will see that your money is so used as to give you more work.
Quarterly meeting for Dist. No. 5, at Bowling Green, Oct. 12, 13, 1878. I now expect to give you all a call during the coming quarter. J. J. BOARDMAN, Director.
The first quarterly meeting of the S. D. Adventist church at Ravenna, Boone county, Neb., will be held Nov. 9, 10. The brethren from Oakdale and vicinity are cordially invited. Bro. Boyd or Nettleton is expected. JAMES GARNER, Elder.

Business Department.

“Not Slothful in Business.” Rom. 12:11.
For sale—a first class farm in Southern Iowa; 240 acres, with good house and bank barn, two good wells, two orchards, nearly all kinds of small fruits, five acres maple grove. Also 80 acres, in good cultivation, with two good wells, and a hewed-log house; all within two miles of Osceola. Terms good. My object in selling is, that I may do more for the cause. For further particulars, address, D. Glunt, Osceola, Clark Co., Iowa.
For sale or exchange,—fifty (50) acres, 100 rods north of the Adventist College. Good buildings. Address, Rev. W. I. Baker, post office box, 428, Battle Creek, Michigan.
Till further notice, the P. O. address of Eld. A. O. Burrill will be Marshall, Mich.

RECEIPTS

For Review and Herald.

Annexed to each receipt in the following list, is the Volume and Number of the REVIEW & HERALD to which the money receipted pays—which should correspond with the Number on the papers. If money for the paper is not in due time acknowledged, notice of the omission should be given.
$2.00 EACH. L N Hagestad 54-14, L D Newton 58-7, W W Goodale 54-14, Geo Stringer 54-19, Jane A Rogers 54-17, Mrs Jane Thayer 54-14, John Trotman 54-14, I G Colcord 54-5, Gust Bernard 54-14, S J Noyes 54-14, S P Eckert 54-13, Alfred Hurlburt 54-14, W J Wilson 54-19, W A Towle 54-18, J M Watts 54-14, Peter B Peterson 52-1, H F Chatfield 54-14, M C Holliday 54-14, Lucinda Richer 54-13, John McMillan 54-14, S B Crandall 54-13, Adaline Lamb 54-14, J A Sullivan 54-14, J W Bond 54-14, Loyal Cross 54-14, Mrs Ives Wilson 54-14, James M Goodwin 54-14, Dr Cyrus Farnsworth 54-14, Mrs Mary Olmstead 55-1.
$1.00 EACH. Solomon Myers 53-14, Phebe L Cornell 53-18, A E Flowers 58-16, J F Ballenger 53-10, B F Richards 58-13, F A Payne 58-14, V Powers 54-1, M J Rice 53-14, Mason Smith 53-14, A S Perrin 58-17, Mrs Wm Butler 58-22, Margaret Manning 53-14, M J Olds 53-14, M T Haughey 58-1, John P Ibbson 58-3, Wm S Hyatt 58-14, J W Clayson 58-22, A S Scramman 58-14, Ruby Ouderkirk 53-13, David Honeywell 58-8, E Higley 53-14, D W Albert 58-10, Amasa Elliott 58-14, Mrs Vashti A Brewer 53-14, L E Millne 54-1, Abigail P James 58-7, W B Castle 58-14, Caroline Stark 53-7, Sarah Davis 58-14, Almira White 58-22, Merrick B Price 53-15, Wm S Higley 53-14, H C Green 58-7, H C Bagley 58-10, Henry Covell 53-16.

Miscellaneous.

Julius Wright 50c 58-2, C Chapman 50c 58-3, Alma Drouillard 50c 58-3, Leroy Mack $1.50 54-14, J Davenport 50c 58-5, Jacob A Miller 50c 53-2, Belle McCrillis 50c 53-2, Wm S Ashley 50c 58-1, R H Brock 50c 58-5, Mrs A A McNeme 50c 53-1, P Flansburgh 1.50 54-14, S Rogers 75c 58-14, Jackson Johnson 50c 53-4, A Hornback 50c 53-4, D R Keeley 50c 58-4, Ellen Morrison 50c 58-5, Mrs Martha McDowell 50c 58-5, A J Ricks 50c 53-5, H E Olmstead 50c 53-1, J A Davis 97c 53-2, B F Hughes 1.50 54-14, Mrs John Albright 75c 53-5, Mrs M Hotaling 50c 58-5, Mrs P S Froom 50c 58-5, Mrs B A Herrick 50c 58-5, Mrs Dessie L Strong 50c 53-5, Mrs L M Jaffray 50c 53-5, Douglas Click 50c 58-5, S Clark 50c 53-5, Stephen Pratt 50c 58-5.

Books Sent by Mail.

Mrs Wm Sogay 80c, J M Downie 1.00, E L Furniss 75c, A D Olsen 2.00, Mrs Thomas 2.25, Alfred D Cox 1.00, John Carmichael 1.50, S B Whitney 1.00, H F Hitchcock 25c, Wm E Russell 30c, Elsie M Gates 2.45, Jane Sheets 10c, Henry Idema 78c, Lee Matheny 50c, C H Harper 25c, L Ouderkirk 16c, Lucy E Blocher 25c, E E Sanford 6c, Phebe Lyon 4.00, N C Peterson 20c, T M Love 1.00, Wm Steffen 1.00, J M Barglum 1.00, M D 1.00, Wm O Strong 75c, Wm E Gilbert 1.50, M E McKee 1.50, Geo Miller 25c, I G Colcord 30c, Robert H Brown 10c, A S Chrisman 2.96, John Morrison 10c, Lou E Gallemore 25c, J A Davis 68c, H Hickox 25c, J V Davis 25c, S P King 15c, R M Kilgore 26c, Geo D Ballou 8c, Samuel Hicks 2.40, O A Olsen 2.89, J J Boardman 60c, John F Jones 87c.

Books Sent by Express.

B K Brown $5.00, R A Underwood 16.88.

Books Sent by Freight.

S Thurston $29.79, E A Wilhelm 25.85.

Cash Rec'd on Account.

Geo A King $20.00, A O Burrill per E T Kirkbride 25.00, N E T & M Society per E Thayer 400.00, Minn T & M Society per E Olive 2.00, A O Burrill per E Hutchins 10.00, Cal T & M Society per A M L 70.00, Russell Hart 50.00, Vt T & M Society per A S H 107.25.

Mich. Conf. Fund.

Vassar per Ernest Smith $12.26, West Plain 17.22, Saranac 19.10, Muir and Lyons 154.34, Matherton per A Dexter 10.00, Rockwood per L N Miller 10.00, Gowen per Niels Larsen 17.20, Newton per James Stiles 47.25, Memphis per W H Mills 6.37, Partello 10.25.

Mich. T. & M. Society.

Dist 5 per E Higley $27.00, Dist 6 per F Howe 154.34, Dist 3 per W Rigby 1.00, Dist 2 per L A B 28.58, Dist 8 added ½ per J M Wilkinson 20.00.

S. D. A. E. Society.

Sarah Deihl $4.00, Maggie Phillis 2.50, P A Marvin 2.00.

English Mission.

L P King $15.00, Addie Bowen 15.00, L P Anderson 10.00.

Gen. T. & M. Society.

M A Green 50c.

Danish Mission.

E E Olive $3.00.

Book Fund.

E Colby $50.00, S R N Barrows 5.00.

European Mission.

J Taber $10.00, D R Palmer 10.00, Mrs S A Green 1.80, E E Olive 2.00, M Daniels 5.00, Henry Nicola 10.00, Maggie Phillis 2.00, J S Hart 50.00, W H Snook 1.00, E A F 5.00.

Arrivals of Veteran Workers at Battle Creek

Arrivals.

Eld. James White and party arrived from Colorado, Thursday night, the 26th.
Eld. J. N. Andrews, with his daughter Mary, and Eld. D. T. Bourdeau and wife, from Europe, arrived on the same night.
Eld. J. N. Loughborough and wife, from California, arrived Sunday night, the 29th.
To look upon the faces and hear again the words of these veterans in the cause as they come from their widely separated fields of labor is a pleasure which words cannot well describe. Never before have we been able so fully to realize what the final gathering will be after the war is over, as by this reunion of those who have so long been bearing aloft in different parts of the world the banner of the cross.

Arrived in Denmark.

Brn. Knud and Andrew Brorsen left Battle Creek, Aug. 13, for Denmark, Europe, to assist Bro. Matteson in his mission there. By letter just received from Bro. Andrew Brorsen, dated Alstrup, Denmark, Sept. 5, 1878, we learn that they have safely reached their destination, and have received a cordial welcome from their own people and the brethren there. They report a very friendly feeling on the part of the people toward the truth, arising from the good influence exerted by Bro. and Sr. Matteson; and many acknowledge that we have the truth. But few are as yet ready to obey. May much success attend these brethren, and the Danish mission.

Health Resort for Invalids Opens in Independence

We are requested to say that E. A. Hillis has opened a resort for invalids in Independence, Kansas, and Sabbath-keepers passing through the place are invited to call.

Tent Expenses.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

We are glad to see from many reports this season that the expenses of the different tents have been largely met by the people where the meetings have been held. Some report all their wants supplied and expenses paid, others a large proportion of them, while nearly all have received liberal donations. Financially, this will be a great help to our Conferences, especially to the weaker Conferences. And it does the people good to aid the minister by providing for his wants while among them. It brings the people more in sympathy with him. It is exceedingly bad for a young minister to fall into the habit of running up heavy bills for the Conference to pay. There is a great difference in this respect. Some make twice the expense that others do under the same circumstances.
It will be noticed also that those who receive the most aid from the people are generally the most successful in their work. The reason is evident. They get near to the people, go among them, gain their friendship, and so know how to help them. D. M. CANRIGHT.
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