“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
Fell asleep in Jesus, May 10, 1878, in Jackson, Mich. Sr. Nancy Knight, aged seventy-four years. Her disease was inflammation of the bowels. Three sons and one daughter mourn their loss. She was among the first to embrace the Sabbath in Michigan, and was a faithful and earnest Christian; therefore she will be greatly missed by the church of which she was a member. Funeral discourse by the writer. Text, 1 Thess. 4:13. J. B. French.
Died in Vassar, Mich., March 20, 1878, Kenneth Guy, infant son of G. W. and M. R. McElroy, aged one year, two months, and twelve days. We mourn our loss, but sorrow not as those that have no hope. Words of comfort were spoken by Mr. Clark, Presbyterian, from 2 Sam. 12: 22, 23.
M. R. McElroy,
Ringsted, Denmark.
By John G. Matteson
We arrived at Sjælland last Thursday. I have held two meetings at Ordrup, at the house of a brother of Bro. Anders Petersen, Iowa; and I have visited several friends who believe in the truth. There are some Sabbath-keepers here, but they are rather scattered. One brother who lives north of Sorö has kept the Sabbath more than four years. Another brother in Ordrup has kept it two and a half years. There is one more Sabbath-keeper in Ordrup and two at Ringsted.
Our opponents dislike to have us so particular concerning the Sabbath (though we do not consider the other commandments of any less importance; would that we could regard them all much more sacredly than we do!); but we do not make void the law through faith. Rom. 3: 31. We believe that it is the love of God that we keep his commandments, 1 John 5: 3; and we know that the Papacy has tried to change times and laws, Dan. 7: 25; and that we worship God in vain by teaching for doctrines the commandments of men—commandments which God has not given. Matt. 15: 9. We are therefore very happy sometimes to find a faithful soul who loves the Lord’s Sabbath. For we can in no better way show our love for God than by trying continually to do his will as we find it revealed in his holy word.
We have received a letter from the brethren in Alstrup and Tylstrup. They assemble every Sabbath to receive strength and encouragement from the word of God. We consider it our duty to try to encourage the few souls at Sjælland, who have the same precious faith as we, and, as far as God will give us grace and opportunity, to preach the Second Advent to our dear countrymen on this island. It is quite difficult for us to work in a place altogether strange to us; but we try to rely upon the living God, who is the only one that can save souls, and who can cause his down-trodden and despised truth to shine forth among the people of the last generation.
We have rented a small room in this city, and intend to stay here for the present.
JOHN G. MATTESON.
Ringsted, May 15, 1878.
APPOINTMENTS
“And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
Providence permitting, I will meet with the brethren in Nebraska and Iowa as follows:—
Orleans, Harlan Co., Neb., June 13-14
New Era, Furnas Co., “ “ 21-27
Waco, York Co., “ “ 27-30
Linwood, Butler Co., where Bro. Crampton may appoint, July 4-8
Smithland, Woodbury Co., Iowa, July 11-15
We would be glad to see a good attendance of our brethren at all these places.
E. W. Farnsworth.
Quarterly meeting for the church at Burnside, Wis., will be held July 6, 7, 1878. The churches of Augusta, Arkansaw, Eau Galle, and Rock Elm are invited. Let us make this a special time of seeking the Lord. Let us leave our business and cares at home, and come expecting to receive a blessing. Cannot Bro. Decker or Bro. Olsen be with us?
J. D. Mulhollen.
No providence preventing, I will meet with the church in Convis, Mich., Sabbath, June 8. Attendance from the region around is invited.
L. Bean.
The Lord willing, I will be at Independence, Kan., June 13.
Canola, June 15-18.
Elk Falls, “ “ 22, 23.
Hope to see at these meetings all who live within a reasonable distance, and those who want labor in this part of the State.
J. N. Ayers.
We will be at Osawkee, Jefferson Co., Kan., June 22, 23.
Richland, Shawnee Co., June 29, 30.
They have a new meeting-house at each of the above places, and dedication services will be held at each place on Sunday, at 11 o’clock A. M. Meetings will be continued as the interest demands. A general attendance is desired.
C. F. Stevens.
Smith Sharp.
Meetings will be held in Canada as follows:
At South Stukely (near Waterloo), P. Q., in the lecturing tent, June 8 and 9.
At Dixville (near Coaticook), P. Q., in the Adventist chapel, June 15 and 16. The chapel is completed and will then be dedicated.
The meetings in each place will commence on Friday evening and continue over two days or longer. Eld. S. N. Haskell, a member of the General Conference Committee, will hold these meetings. Cannot the president of the Vermont Conference attend also? The meetings will be advertised largely. Brethren and sisters, come, praying that the Lord may meet with us.
A. C. Bourdeau.
The Cause in Virginia.
A PRIVATE letter from Virginia to Bro. E. B. Lane gives a very encouraging report of the prospects for the cause in that State. Bro. R. T. Fults, who writes, states that himself and another brother meet a very friendly reception from the Disciples, are invited to their meeting-houses, and have very great freedom in presenting the truth, which is awakening an interest in the minds of many. People leave other meetings almost at their own doors, and come quite a distance to hear on the truths they have to present. One man, not a professor, but who stands high in the community, offers to fit up and seat a grove on his own land, if they will come there and preach to the people. A Bro. Rife is preaching at another place with a good interest. When Bro. Corliss and Lane left, the people looked for the movement to die out; but now instead of two, there are five or six talking the truth, and they do not know what to make of it. He reports the cause as looking brighter in Virginia now than ever before.
Salvation by the Sunday Law.
THE troubles and calamities into which this nation seems about to plunge, are to be made the fulcrum for a strong appeal in behalf of the movement for the Religious Amendment and the Sunday Law. This is foreshadowed by such expressions as the following from the organ of the National Reform Association, the Christian Statesman. In its issue of May 16, it says:—
“The relation of this commonwealth to the Sabbath is a question at this moment of supreme importance. On a right answer to it depends the continued favor of God, with our prosperity and our very existence.”
In its issue of May 23, the same paper says:—
“Nothing but a thorough religious reformation can lift our government up to the plane where divine wisdom will guide its action, and the reverence and confidence of the people will attend and support its decisions.”
Just as soon as a sufficient number of persons can be brought to believe, as the friends of the amendment movement are now urging, that “the divine favor,” our “prosperity,” and even our “very existence,” depend on the proposed action in favor of Sunday, then the “thorough religious reformation,” based on legal enactments, will not be far away.
The Theological Tri-lemma.
We have received a work bearing this title, written by Rev. J. H. Pettingell, M. A., and published by Sherwood & Co., New York. It is a discussion of “the threefold question of Endless Misery, Universal Salvation, or Conditional Immortality” to which latter proposition is wittily and forcibly applied the Darwinian principles of “the survival of the fittest!” So far as we have had time to examine this work, we have read it with unfeigned pleasure. It handles the unscriptural dogmas of Eternal Misery and Universal Salvation as they deserve, and is a clear, concise, and forcible defense of the doctrine of conditional immortality or life only through Christ. It is written in a pleasing style, and the logic and spirit of the work are such as must commend it to every clear thinker, and candid seeker after truth. At this time when the old stereotyped creed of Christendom, on this question is being largely fused by the popular agitation of the subject, to be re-cast, we trust, in a better mold, we are glad to see a work of this kind from this source, believing it will be a valuable help in building up a correct public sentiment on this question. We can heartily wish it a wide circulation. Cloth, 286 pp., price, single copy by mail, $1.00. Address Sherwood & Co. 76 East Ninth street New York.
Letter from Egypt.
EXTRACT from a letter to Dr. Ribton from Bro. Bertola, Alexandria, Egypt, March 31, 1878.
DEAR BROTHER IN CHRIST: I arrived here on Tuesday, March 25, after a tolerably fair passage, but so cast down in health and spirits that even to-day I can hardly write a line, feeling myself almost paralyzed. Notwithstanding all this work of the evil one, I met with a warm and fraternal reception from all the dear brethren here, and all reported having received letters and papers from you, which they had carefully studied. At our first meeting the subject of the observance of the fourth commandment of the decalogue was taken up, and it still continues to be discussed. The doctrine of the near approach of the advent of our Lord has been accepted by all these brethren, without contradiction. In the observance of the Sabbath we have already a few brethren and one sister, and if the Lord will bless his word, with the assistance of these, we will be able to impart this truth to others. I hope that after a short time these brethren will write to you, first separately, then all together, professing their adhesion to the doctrine of the Sabbath, and thanking you that through your means they have been able to comprehend better the will of the Lord and acquire strength and courage to obey it.
I met with much opposition on the part of one brother who had been brought up in a Waldensian college; but I do not at all despair of him, for in a discussion which we held yesterday evening he seemed already inclined to yield, retaining still only a doubt whether the day called Sabato by the Italians is really the same day of rest that was consecrated by the Lord.
Dear brother, I ask you and all the brethren of the church of the Lord who assist you in testifying to the integrity of God’s word free from human traditions, to remember me in your prayers; for I have never felt so much need of prayer as now.
Salute our dear Bro. B., and tell him that his words at parting are still impressed upon my heart. Kind regards also to our dear Licausi and the other brethren, and I hope that very soon the saints from Egypt will be many in number, and from brethren of equal faith with those in Naples, to the glory of our Lord.
The Vermont Camp-meeting.
By A. S. Hutchins
THE Vermont camp-meeting will be held at Morrisville, in the same grove where it was held last year, and about the same time in the season. The present is none too early to commence arrangements to attend this camp-meeting. A. S. HUTCHINS.
Notice to Kansas T. and M. Society Members
By J. N. Ayers
Notice.
ALL business connected with the Kansas T. and M. Society, to receive prompt attention, must be done through the secretary, A. J. Stover, Oswego, Labette county, Kansas, as I shall be from home most of the time.
All pledges made at our camp-meeting, for the Conference or T. and M. Society can be sent direct to him, as he is treasurer of both, and has the pledges. J. N. AYERS, Pres.
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 Numbers on the Papers. If money for the paper is not in due time acknowledged, notice of the omission should be given.
$2.00 EACH. Geo M Atkinson 53-22, Juliett Shearer 54-1, David Scott 53-22, James Green 53-21, G M Sumner 53-21, E Frichener 53-21, Mrs Fuhrman 53-21, J D Morton 53-18, Chas Bartley 53-22, Mrs Wm Minisee 53-22, Robert W Day 53-22, H N Austin 53-25, L J Sage 53-22, J M Palmer 53-23, E Whipple 51-20, Mrs Eliza E Stark 53-17, Mary J Kilgore 53-11, Isaac Deal 53-22, Mrs A G Pixley 54-1, J G Saunders 53-21, Jennie Kennedy 49-8, John Pugh 53-22, Thomas Walker 53-22, J R Israel 53-22, Sarah F Hubbard 53-22, Helen L Morse 53-22, M S Spicer 53-22, H S Gates 53-22, Edward Taylor 53-22, Wm Gosnell 53-22, H W Babcock 53-22, John French 53-22, J B Kaler 53-22, R J Hill 53-22, Robert Sawyer 53-18, Emma Helligoss 53-22, Joseph Miller 53-22, M A Goons 53-21, Wm T Seaward 53-22, Moses B Edwards 53-22.
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Books Sent by Mail.
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Books Sent by Freight.
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Cash Rec'd on Account.
Geo A King $13.00, M B Miller 25c, Kan Conf Fund per A J Stover 4.00, Kan T & M Society per A J Stover 836.00, G G Rupert 3.00, H Wren 1.35, Chas F Stevens 8.45, C L Boyd per E H Crampton 65.00.
Mich. Conf. Fund.
Wright per C Buck $81.00, Orange per F Howe 5.75, Carson City 6.62.
Mich. T. & M. Society.
Dist No. 6 per F Howe $2.25.
European Mission.
Geo Leighton $70.00, Pelinga Russell 1.00, Lovina Rosa 25.00, Ellen S Armstrong 2.00, Frances Ross 10.00.
Eld. James White Travels from Oakland to Battle Creek
We learn by telegraph that Eld. James White started from Oakland, Cal., Friday, May 31, for Battle Creek.
Sabbath School Lessons Printed in the Review
By Editor
To those organizing Sabbath Schools we would say that as the supply of question books has run low, we will give S. S. lessons each week in the REVIEW till such time as a new supply of books can be prepared. Will those concerned please inform us at once how many extra copies of the REVIEW, with lessons, they will want for the use of their schools, that we may know how many to print.
College Record Number Three In Preparation
By Editor
No. 3 of the present volume of the COLLEGE RECORD is in preparation. It will be out on time, and will be a number of more than ordinary interest. We trust all the friends of the College will do what they can to greatly extend its circulation.
Madison Camp-Meeting Opens to Encouraging Interest
We are in receipt of two copies of the Wisconsin State Journal, bearing dates of May 30 and 31, giving an account of the opening of the camp-meeting at Madison. It appears from these reports that the meeting has opened very encouragingly, and is exciting a good deal of interest among the people of that city.
Encouraging Reports from Mission Fields Worldwide
By Editor
We present in the Review this week what should cause the hearts of all the friends of the cause in which we are engaged to thrill with emotions of joy and gratitude to God; namely, letters or information otherwise gathered, from the diamond fields of Africa from Egypt, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark and Scotland, our home missionary fields of Texas, Alabama, Virginia and District of Columbia and the State Conferences of Oregon, California, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, New York and Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Maine, all giving an account, either of souls joyfully accepting the truth, or of remarkable openings which are presenting themselves for the spread of the message, and inviting us to enter in. The third message of Revelation 14, is fast becoming what it must be as it closes, a worldwide message.
Rapid Printing of The Bible from Heaven
By Editor
To illustrate with what facility we are now prepared to accomplish work at this Office, we refer to the following fact: Eld. Canright, on his way to the Wisconsin camp-meeting, stopped with us Sabbath and Sunday, May 25 and 26. On Sunday we commenced the printing of his late work, The Bible from Heaven, a book of over 300 pages. For this a portion of the type had yet to be set, plates prepared, the printing to be all done, cases to be made and embossed, and the books to be bound. Yet several hundred of these books were finished in good style, and were on their way to him by Thursday, May 30, to be in season for the camp-meeting at Madison, Wis., June 1 and 2.
Punctuation.
In Answers to Correspondents last week we referred to a newspaper paragraph in which the invention of the comma in its present form was assigned to the year 1790, and attributed to Aldus Manutius. From evidence we have since looked up concerning the time when this writer flourished, we are satisfied that a typographical error was made in the paragraph referred to, and that the date should be 1490 instead of 1790.