Earlier text: REPORT FROM BRO. FULLER.TO THE S. D. A. CHURCHES IN OHIO: In the great mercy of our God we have been permitted to meet again in Conference, and having considered the state of the cause, we feel constrained to address you in this manner. I. We see no reason why we should feel discouraged in this great work. The Lord has continued to bless us in all our unfaithfulness and unworthiness. During the past year we have been enabled in his good providence to have more labor than usual in this State, and we have all rejoiced over the success which attended it both in new fields and among the churches. Circumstances have hindered the carrying out of the design of having many or all of the churches visited previous to the Conference; but we are gratified to know that they are generally free from difficulties and trials, so that at this time we are not aware of any circumstances which call for the special labor of the ministers among the churches. In these days of darkness, trials, and temptations, we truly rejoice that such a state of peace and outward prosperity attends you. In connection with these facts it will be cheering to all to know that through the kind consideration of the General Conference we have secured the services of two ministers from Michigan for the ensuing year, who expect to spend the entire year in this State; and not, as has been mostly the case in time past, labor a few months and then return to their own Conferences. This, we trust, will be the means of securing a more permanent, healthy state of the cause. II. But while we congratulate you on the peaceful state of the churches, we would not have you deceived in regard to Satan’s wiles and devices. We sometimes mistake quiet for prosperity, and think because we have no present, visible conflict with the enemy, that therefore he is not laboring for our overthrow. He works not only with power and signs and lying wonders, but “with all deceivableness of unrighteousness;” and it is often much easier to overcome or stand free from his signs and wonders, than to resist the subtle influence of his mild and pleasing deceptions. As avowed hatred is less dangerous than flattery, so is active persecution less soul-destroying than the seductive arts which soothe and throw us off our watch. As has been written, “Far more the treacherous calm I dread,
Than tempests bursting o’er my head.”
We beseech you not to be deceived by the enemy of all righteousness in this respect. Do not mistake indifference for inward peace. Do not lose sight of the truth that lukewarmness is nauseous in the mouth of the faithful and true Witness. And we urge you to the necessary work of self-examination, to see whether you are indeed active, earnest, zealous Christians; whether you are hungering and thirsting after righteousness; whether the prosperity of God’s cause and the honor of his name are dearer to you than any or all earthly interests. We thus entreat you because we fear that many of you are not as much alive to the wants of the cause, do not realize the perils of the times and the near coming of the Lord, as in days past. Brethren and sisters, “THE LORD IS COMING!” And do we indeed believe it? Is it our abiding incentive to duty? Do we daily and hourly make our calculations in reference to this great truth? Are we really preparing for that day? or for many days to come in this evil state? “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also,” and so will your destiny be decided when Jesus shall come to save them that have made a covenant with him by sacrifice. We do not expect that such as are lukewarm will at once realize it, or understand the danger of the position they occupy; nor do we think that any of us realize the importance of the present hour, the magnitude of the wants just before us, and the weight of our responsibility in relation to them. And we do entreat you all without any exception to review your own position; to examine yourselves with care in the light of God’s fulfilling prophecy, and see whether you stand where he can constantly approve and smile upon you. We may have this testimony that our “ways please God,” and without this, all earthly joys and treasures are but a vain show. We cannot help fearing for the present professors of the third angel’s message. We do not see among many of them that earnestness and fervent zeal that existed among them when their numbers were less and the perils of the passing hour not so great. “The fervent, effectual prayer” of faith is seldom offered. Special or present blessings are seldom sought. Because our wants are not realized we do not press our cases with urgency to a throne of grace. We have settled down in self-complacency because we have the truth, and felt little burden for those around us who “perish for lack of knowledge.” We have cast off the burden of the cause from our hearts, and left the whole work to a few overtasked ministers. This is no fancy sketch, nor is it overdrawn. Have we not cause for fear? God will have a proved and faithful people to carry on his work. Are we striving to be such a people? Do not, we entreat you, pass lightly by this appeal, but157attentively consider it. Examine yourselves before God in humble, fervent prayer, and seek for the enlightening influence of his Spirit to assist you, that you may see and realize how far we are removed from the only source of consolation—the presence of our Saviour. III. While it is well to look to our standing, it is not well to waste our time with mere regrets. We must arise and get nearer to our Father. We will try to lay before you some of the means whereby, in our judgment, this may be accomplished. The Saviour directed us to pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers. This, of course, devolves upon us wherever the circumstances of the cause demand an increase of laborers. How is it at the present time? 1. There is not a resident minister in the whole State of Ohio; nor is there a supply of lay brethren who feel called or qualified to take charge of the Monthly Meetings of the churches. Thus we are entirely destitute of laborers; entirely dependent on other Conferences for our labor. In consequence of this our labor is uncertain; we are not always able to get such as are acquainted with the field; it is inconvenient for the ministers thus to labor away from their own Conferences; and it is scarcely ever possible to get labor for the entire year. Such is our condition in regard to laborers. 2. Almost every church reports favorable fields in their immediate vicinities, and very urgent calls come from lone individuals, and even from places where scarcely anything is known of our faith. In fact, the calls come up from every direction—the fields are truly white to the harvest, and no laborers to answer to the calls. Now, brethren, we believe the Lord does not tell us to seek his face in vain; we are commanded to pray because he is willing to grant our requests. We believe that the very commandment to ask for a blessing carries with it the assurance that our prayers will be heard. Why, then, is it that these urgent calls for help have met no response from the body of believers in the truth? Why are we so earnest in pursuing our earthly interests, while the greatest interests of the cause are neglected, and so many are calling for help, and we shut our ears to their cries? Why is it that this commandment of our Saviour goes unheeded from month to month and from year to year? Has not the Saviour said, If ye love me ye will keep my commandments? And will our profession of love be accepted with him while disregarding a commandment which is given to draw out our hearts toward God and our fellow-men, and to prove in us that enlarged benevolence which is a leading characteristic of the gospel? If anything can prove that we are lukewarm, and in imminent danger of being spewed out of the mouth of the Lord, it is this disregard of our Saviour’s words on this point, wherein is shown our selfish, cruel indifference to the spiritual wants and eternal destiny of our fellow-men. We consider it quite unreasonable to expect to greatly enjoy the blessing of God, to arise from our lukewarm state, or to see the precious cause of truth revive, till we wake up to the near coming of the Lord, to the importance of the work, and to our responsibility before God in view of his mercy to us in sending us this precious light, and to the faithful discharge of this much-neglected duty to God and our fellow-men. We wish to record our deep regret that circumstances have caused us to neglect for some time past the wants of the churches in respect to Monthly Meetings, which have been found to be so useful in every State where they have been tried. We have lacked efficient aid to take charge of these meetings. This we regret. But we also regret that a wrong idea has obtained among the churches: viz., that the presence of a minister is necessary to the success of such meetings. From our observation we are convinced that unless something special calls for the attendance of a minister on such occasions, these meetings are most profitable if conducted by a lay brother and the work of the meetings devolves upon the churches. It seems to be natural to look to the minister to do the work when he is present, and thus the members place themselves under a restraint. While the minister may do his work faithfully, and therefore be free before God, the members may be pleased more than benefited. They may go to their homes weak and barren of spirit because they have not been active in their duty. If the churches will look at this matter in a more correct light, and take hold of their duties promptly, the ministers may be filling positions which others cannot occupy, in carrying the truth to other places; and the truth will not only be built up in our hearts, but others will be brought to rejoice with us in the light, and be prepared to meet the perils soon to come. But if the time of the minister is consumed among the churches, the Spirit of God will be grieved away for our lack of Christian benevolence, and we will not be blessed as we would be if we would labor and practice self-denial for the sake of our fellow-men, and for the glory of God in the spread of the knowledge of his word. We invite you to carefully consider this matter. Rest assured that God has made us our brother’s keeper, and his blood will be required at our hands if he is left to perish by our neglect. May the Lord prepare all of our hearts and minds for more active service in the cause of our heavenly Father. Another means of rising may be found in a more perfect conformity to the adopted plan of Systematic Benevolence. Many are doing well in this respect; others adopt no system, or put their means far below a just valuation. No man can afford to defraud his soul of the blessing of God. We may deceive ourselves; but God is never deceived. He knows our hearts, and we shall all be closely tested at last. But while we are permitted to labor in his cause we should remember that the extent of our works is the measure of our faith. All beyond that is vanity. IV. While we exhort you to labor more diligently in the cause, and to show your faith by your works, we would again remind you that all our works are but vanity unless growing out of personal piety and consecration to God, or having his love shed abroad in our hearts. While we know that a profession of love to God is nothing without obedience and love of his truth, we may err on the other hand in loving the truth or a theory of the truth without loving God. We fear there are those who show an interest in the success of the truth, and who would do all in their power to extend it, who yet do not draw near to God in their own hearts; who do not enjoy or seek a deep experience in the way of salvation. The truth is not the end we seek, but only the means. Its design is to draw our hearts out toward God; to sanctify and fit us for his holy kingdom. And though we may have all knowledge of its doctrines, and could speak with the tongue of an angel, and give all our goods to support the truth, or suffer persecution in its defense, if we have not love to God, we are nothing. There is no substitute for holiness of heart. If we enjoy this, the fruits will appear, and our works and labor of love will find acceptance with God, and be crowned with abundant success. V. In conclusion, we would exhort you to bear in mind the resolution passed by our people in General Conference in regard to humbling ourselves before God for our ingratitude for his favors in the past. May the Lord lead us by his Spirit, and support us by his grace, that we may know how to discharge this important duty in his fear, that his smile may return to us; that the joy of his salvation may be restored to us; that sinners may be converted to God and his name be glorified in the earth.
OHIO CONF. COM. The Italian Government Displeased.—FLORENCE, August 16, Evening. The Italian government is displeased with the visit to Rome of the French General Dumont, and will soon look for a change in the treaty of last September. —The jury in the Surratt trial having failed to agree, Judge Fisher discharged them on the 10th inst. The Judge afterward read a note prohibiting Mr. Bradley from practicing in that Court, which led to a challenge from the latter gentleman, and created great excitement. Immense fraud on the Government by means of soldiers' discharge papers have been discovered. There are apprehensions of the yellow fever becoming an epidemic at New Orleans. Indian outrages in the territories continue, murders and robberies being fearfully frequent, even on the new railroad lines. Opposition Gains in France.—PARIS, August 16. At an election recently held throughout the empire for members of the Councils General the Opposition made very heavy gains. The Suspension of Secretary Stanton.—Mr. Stanton having declined to resign in compliance with the President's suggestion, was by him suspended from his office as Secretary of War, and Gen. Grant appointed in his place ad interim. Aug. 12. Mr. Stanton yielded, under protest, to the President's order. There are rumors of further disagreements in the Cabinet, according to the following dispatches:— The Tribune's special says: The suspension of Secretary Stanton has created some excitement and many speculations as to whose turn it will be next—Randall or Seward. It is the almost universal impression that both of these gentlemen will sever their connection with the administration, for the reason that both are disgusted with the President. Seward has leaned strongly toward Stanton in all his troubles with the President, and especially in this last one. This afternoon, after Cabinet meeting, the Ex-Secretary and Mr. Seward were out riding, and this, with other things, has given color to the report that Seward will leave the Cabinet by his own free will sooner than was expected. The Herald's special says: It is stated that the President desires that all of his Cabinet should send in their resignations that he may make a general revision of his council. Seward and McCulloch are believed to be in bad odor at the White House. Reports were in circulation looking to the speedy decapitation of Judge Hall and Gen. Sheridan. The President intimated to-night that he will soon tender the office of Secretary of War to a distinguished Ex-Governor of New England, probably meaning Andrews, of Massachusetts. The Tribune's special says: Gen. Sheridan has written a letter to Gen. Grant, complaining bitterly of the conduct of Gen. Rousseau in New Orleans, stating that he exerted his influence with the rebel citizens to prevent the acceptance by them of Gen. Sheridan's construction of the reconstruction acts, and also of his general demeanor toward Sheridan. It is not true that the President telegraphed to Gen. Steadman to take Mr. Stanton's place. Gov. Flanders, of Louisiana, has ordered an investigation of the connection of Ex-Governor Wells with the three bond swindle. The Adjournment of Congress.—Before Mr. Johnson gets through with the business he has laid out for himself, we think that the judgment of those members who opposed the adjournment of Congress will command the respect of the most conservative person in the Republican party. In his debate with Mr. Fessenden, it will be recollected that Senator Chandler, of Michigan, predicted that the previous conduct of the President gave every reasonable assurance that he could not be trusted without the restraint of a continual session of Congress, and maintained that the people demanded either that Mr. Johnson should be so restrained, or that he be deprived of all power to inflict injury upon the Reconstruction policy of Congress. This was the feeling of both of our Senators, and it was shared by the Radical portion of the Senate and House. But other counsels prevailed. Congress was adjourned. The healthful constraint of impeachment was removed by the mere indifference of a certain portion of the Republican party, and four long months were gratuitously given to Andrew Johnson to obstruct and overturn what had been accomplished after eighteen months of vigilance and contest. In one month he has rid himself of the most important obstacle in his way; for he was evidently obliged to remove Mr. Stanton first in order to weaken and tear down the military power which Congress erected against him. He has still three full months in which to continue this work of destruction. What there is left when they meet again in November of all that Congress gained in a prolonged and incessant fight with him will be the result of a want of energy and skill on his part, not of foresight and wisdom of theirs. That new and more important responsibilities will devolve upon them in consequence of their mistakes there can be no room for doubt.—Detroit Post. FOREWARNED is forewarned; and though it is comfortable to take the optimistic view of events, and always the right thing to hope for the best under all circumstances, we are not to close our eyes to obvious facts, or to refuse to understand the tendency of things because it is not what we would like to believe. The158Earl of Shaftesbury was not talking utter nonsense when he quoted Senator Wade's Kansas speech as showing one of the dangerous tendencies of universal suffrage. More accurately speaking, it is the debasing tendency of ignorant suffrage against which there is need of warning. Whenever a considerable class of voters are illiterate and uninformed upon public questions, demagogism flourishes naturally, and there is a tendency even among party leaders of average wisdom and integrity to descend to low and dishonest arts, and cater to the prejudices of the multitude. This has always been an element of weakness and corruption in our politics. In the best-taught communities, where the people are trained in public schools, it is not entirely absent; and in the communities of the South and West, where the masses have had little opportunities for education, it has made our elections too often mere games of trickery and deception, in which the loudest brawler, the most impudent charlatan, and the most conscienceless panderer to the prejudices of the rabble was sure to win. We have increased this element by the rapid naturalization of foreigners, till it governs some of the chief cities; and our demagogues who control it thus secure themselves in power, whatever abuses they may commit. To the foreign element we are now adding a still larger one, more untaught and quite as susceptible of easy control; and very soon we shall add another in the hundreds of thousands of Asiatics who are pouring into the Pacific states, into whose heads the first idea of self-government has never entered. For we cannot go backward; we must go through with the experiment we have undertaken, for weal or woe. If we are to complete it successfully it will not be by refusing to recognize its possibilities of evil, but by foreseeing and providing against them, so far as that is now in our power. There are many thoughtful men who believe that the severest ordeal of our institutions is yet to come, and through this unlimited and unqualified extension of the suffrage. Nor does it relieve this apprehension to insist that the theory of universal suffrage is right; that whoever must support the government and obey the laws should have a voice in the making of the laws and the selection of their administrators. Those who have established the government, and maintained it at a great cost of treasure and blood, are not to yield such blind and unqualified allegiance to a theory as to surrender the control of affairs to those manifestly incapable of perpetuating free institutions. If the Chinese and Japanese should outnumber the Americans in California, it does not follow that they must be allowed to rule that State. Sufficient probation and preparation may at least be required, to fit them to comprehend their rights and duties as free citizens of a republic, without doing violence to the democratic theory. Michigan proposes to give suffrage to its Indians, and they are so few and so far civilized that there is no danger in the experiment. If they were numerous enough to outvote the white citizens, the latter might well hesitate before surrendering the state to their keeping. The freedmen of the South are better fitted for full citizenship than either the Indians or Asiatics. They have seen freedom and longed for it all their lives; their instincts are right, and they are docile and eager to learn. The experiment of suffrage is tried by them under peculiarly favorable circumstances, and they are pretty certain to go right at first, substantially, through their connection with the party that has given them their liberty and clothed them with political power. But they are a nation of children, in knowledge and self-control. They are just beginning with the rudiments. The ten-year-old schoolboys of Massachusetts are infinitely better fitted for the exercise of political power. And their very docility and implicit trust in those who profess to be their friends exposes them to the arts of the demagogues. This was illustrated in the Richmond convention, last week. Even Hunnicutt saw the importance of holding the white Unionists of Virginia in the republican party, and endeavored to secure them a hearing and fair treatment in the convention; but the petty demagogues circulating through the black mass were stronger than Hunnicutt, much as the freedmen trust him, and they disregarded his advice. The same class controls the freedmen at Charleston, and in most of the southern cities. And they hold them by promising to share among them the property of the South, to be confiscated for their benefit. When the negroes find that these and other promises cannot be kept, there will be danger that they will forsake not only the demagogues who have deluded them, but the party in whose name false promises have been made. The negro vote is secure for the republicans in the reconstruction elections; beyond that everything is uncertain and must be provided for. Or, if the freedmen control the new governments of the reconstructed states, how they will use their power is a matter for no little doubt and apprehension. Education before the ballot, and as the essential preparation for it, would have averted in a great measure these and other dangers. The soundness of the principle was confessed, but stress of party necessity overruled its application. As the next best thing we must press every means of education in connection with the ballot. The northern schools in the South should be more liberally sustained. They are as yet but a drop in the bucket to the immense need. Mr. Peabody's munificence should be brought into working effect as rapidly as possible. And the necessity for general education should be the constant theme of our Christian and political missionaries in the South. The establishment of a compulsory educational system by Congress for the South is not likely to be attempted; but if Congress may exhaust the treasury in feeding the southern poor, it may certainly do something for the instruction of her ignorant masses. At all events, and by all means and instrumentalities, the education of the people is to be secured. Accomplishing this soon enough, we shall pass through the great ordeal unscathed, and free institutions will stand. Neglecting it, who can say what ignorant suffrage and uncontrolled demagogues may bring in the next quarter of a century? There are evils more to be dreaded than war.—Springfield Repub. The Publishing Association.
The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association was incorporated in Battle Creek, Mich., May 3, 1861. Its object is to issue “periodicals, books, tracts, documents, and other publications, calculated to impart instruction on Bible truth, especially the fulfillment of prophecy, the commandments of God, and the teachings of Jesus Christ.” Its capital stock is raised by shares at $10 each; and every shareholder is entitled to one vote in all the deliberations of the Association, for every share that he or she may hold. The Association has now a large and well-furnished Office of publication, established in Battle Creek, Mich., and employs two steam power presses in carrying on its business. A meeting of the stockholders is held each year, at which a board of trustees is elected to manage its business, and editors chosen to conduct its periodicals, till the ensuing meeting. All persons employed in the publishing department, are engaged at stipulated wages, and all profits accruing from the business, are strictly applied by the Association to the carrying out of the object of its formation, and to its charitable uses and purposes. All lovers of truth, who “keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus,” are still invited to take shares in the Association, and have a voice in all its deliberations. The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
Is a large sixteen-page religious family paper, issued weekly by the S. D. A. Pub. Association, and devoted to an earnest investigation of all Bible questions. It is designed to be an exponent of momentous and solemn truths pertaining to the present time, some of which are set forth by no other periodical in the land. The fulfillment of prophecy, the second personal advent of the Saviour as an event now near at hand, immortality through Christ alone, a change of heart through the operation of the Holy Spirit, the observance of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, the divinity and mediatorial work of Christ, and the development of a holy character by obedience to the perfect and holy law of God, as embodied in the decalogue, are among its special themes. And while it will endeavor to present impartially both sides of all important questions, it has a definite theory to teach, and hence will not devote its space to an indiscriminate and aimless mass of conflicting sentiments and views. Regular price, $3.00 per year, or $1.50 for a volume of 26 numbers. On trial for six months $1.00. No subscriptions taken for less than six months. To the worthy poor—free, by their reporting themselves and requesting its continuance, once in six months. The friends of the Review are invited to earnest and unceasing efforts to extend its circulation. Is a monthly sheet, published as above, and designed to be to the youth and children what the Review and Herald is to those of riper years. You who wish to see your children instructed in the great truths which so interest you, will here find a sheet in which these things are set forth in a plain and interesting manner, free from the popular fables and errors of the age. It should not only visit regularly every youth and child who professes to be a follower of Jesus, but should be taken and read in every Sabbath-keeping family. Don’t forget the children. See that they have the Instructor. Terms, 25 cts. per year in advance. This is the title of a monthly health journal, “devoted to an exposition of the laws of our being, and the application of those laws in the preservation of health and the treatment of disease.” It is an earnest advocate of the true philosophy of life, the only rational method of treating disease, and the best means of preserving health. Practical instructions will be given from month to month relative to water, air, light, food, sleep, rest, recreation, &c. Health, its recovery and preservation, is a subject of world-wide interest, whatever may be a person’s tenets in other respects; and to this the Reformer will be exclusively devoted. Edited by H. S. Lay, M. D., Managing Physician of the Health-Reform Institute. Terms $1.00 in advance for a volume of twelve numbers. Address Dr. H. S. Lay, Battle Creek, Mich. Is becoming a theme of wide-spread and absorbing interest. To those who wish to give the subject a thorough investigation, we recommend the History of the Sabbath. As a work setting forth a connected Bible view of the Sabbath question, its history since the159Christian era, and the different steps by which the human institution of the first day of the week has usurped the place of the Bible institution of the seventh day, it is unsurpassed by any publication extant. Between two and three hundred quotations from history are given, to each of which is appended a full reference to the authority from which it is taken. It is replete with facts and arguments which challenge denial or refutation. Other works on this subject, from the penny tract to the largest size pamphlet, will be found noticed in our book list. There is no other Bible subject upon which a more extensive misunderstanding exists, than upon the Sabbath question. Circulate the books, and spread abroad the light on this subject. A Year of Peace in Europe.
VERY remarkable have been the events in Europe illustrating the year of peace which began on August 24, 1866, by the signing of the treaty of Prague. Italy, with the exception of the city of Rome, has been united and strengthened; and already formidable efforts are making to redeem the Imperial City from the Papal rule which has so long cursed it. The old confederation of Germany has been consolidated in a great kingdom under a more liberal constitution than it has ever before enjoyed. Austria, though a constitutional monarchy in name for nearly twenty years, was practically an absolute despotism until a year ago; since then it has been forced to make great concessions to its subjects, to restore her old and liberal constitution to Hungary, and to permit her patriotic exiles to return and take their places in the councils of her country. England, displaying more influence in European affairs than she was supposed to possess, has by a timely interference prevented a renewal of war in Germany; and with more liberality or even greater shrewdness than she has had credit for, has conceded or else imposed on her people more liberal or else more deceptive Reform measures. France, forced to abandon her aggressive schemes in Mexico, turned her attention to the arts of peace, and won a great triumph in the display at Paris, to which have gathered, as to a feast of good fellowship, the lately belligerent monarchs and princes and warriors of Christian and infidel Europe. Very little indeed has been accomplished during that period which is not calculated to give the nations greater liberty of person and conscience, and advance them to a higher grade of civilization.—Harper's Weekly. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. DIED, in Davis Co., Iowa, June 22, 1867, after an illness of five months, sister Elizabeth Cowgill, wife of T. B. Cowgill, leaving the father with seven children to mourn their loss.
A. A. FAIRFIELD. DIED in Henry Co., Iowa, of bronchial affection and consumption, Moses A. Clark, in the 56th year of his age. Bro. Clark had been striving alone in his family and neighborhood for over seven years to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Though dead we believe he yet speaks to his family and neighbors in his faith and godly example. Words on the occasion from Rev. ii, 7, to a large and attentive audience of friends and neighbors. May the Lord incline their hearts to seek the overcomers' reward.
A. A. FAIRFIELD. DIED in Portland, Maine, July, 16th, 1867 of cholera infantum, Leon Irvin, infant son of Bro. and sister S. B. Cowell, aged 7 months and 15 days. He was sick only about two days. Thus a lovely flower is cut down by the enemy death, and is the third one that Bro. and sister G. have had torn from their fond embrace. But for the blessed hope of the resurrection so near at hand their grief would be inconsolable. Theirs is not a hopeless sorrow, for they have an abiding faith in the promise of the loving God, "they shall come again from the land of the enemy." Jer. xxxi, 16. Words of consolation were spoken by the writer from Job. xiv, 14.
J. L. PERSCOTT. DIED in Clyde, Ohio, July 28, 1867, Maria Jane, oldest child of Bro. and sister Herald, aged 9 years lacking 7 days.
A discourse was preached at the Universalist meeting-house in Clyde, on Sunday, Aug. 11, from 1 Cor. xv, 57.
J. H. WAGGONER.