How mighty in its workings; yet how little it is contemplated! The influence each member of society exerts on all others, is one of the pleasing subjects to which we can turn our attention.
Were it destroyed, that firm foundation, on which the beautiful structure of social happiness now rests, would become a tottering mass of ruins. Silent, but effectual, it goes forth to conquer the evil propensities of our natures; and when well directed, serves as a faithful barrier to all the encroachments of vice and error. Like the tender plant, it grows silently, but constantly—weak, at first, but finally strong.
Well directed, it is one of the noblest attributes of the soul. It goes forth enlightening and cheering, as the sun in the spring-time, on the cold earth, making it rich with verdure. It goes to the heart, like a sunbeam into the darkest cell. It turns sorrow into joy—darkness into light. It makes the proud, wicked man humble and penitent. It brings back the wayward child, and the misguided parent. But an opposite tendency once given, it is equally deadening and destructive. Like the frightful blast of winter, it sheds desolation and decay through all the recesses of the soul; and tends to bury all its faculties in its caverns of ignorance and vice. If it be silent, it is none the less effectual. All feel its power, and must acknowledge its importance. We are all exerting it, and in return are under its dominion. The little things continually transpiring about us are swelling, as rivulets, the mighty stream. Small though it be for good or evil, we, individually, are exercising it; and all our actions are tending to enlighten and bless, or sink in despair, obscurity, and wickedness, those by whom we are surrounded.
Thinking soberly and candidly, is “influence” of insignificance? Are we to sit quietly, and let this mighty current make its own windings, and destroy whatsoever it chooseth, regardless of consequences?
These questions are especially applicable to the young, whose characters are undergoing the process of formation. Their influences will soon be exerted in some direction. They will be called to take places in society, where “influence” is powerfully felt. Some will be trainers of minds—one of the most important offices in life. They deal with the most costly jewels. And if “influence” in this case be pure and good, how beautifully brilliant may this jewel be made; but if it be evil, what a wreck it will become.
Others, now in the morning of life, will be parents. They will have the training of physical, mental, moral, and religious natures. Should they not cultivate these qualities in their own natures, that they may be able to exert the right influence?
In every path you tread, study the right, and do it. Make the fountain pure, that the issues therefrom may be pure, also.
Year after year are going forth those who are to live on the pages of their country's history; those who are heralds of freedom and truth, and those who have enveloped the mind in deeper obscurity and wickedness.
Already, many of the human family have stationed themselves in different parts of the world; and the lights emanating from them will be for our glory or dishonor.
If, then, influence be so great, there must be a corresponding responsibility resting on all. This responsibility will meet all.
Many will run parallel with their eternity, according to our own use or neglect of their will. Weigh well this matter which involves such momentous issues. Our influence will outlive us.—Sel.
The Living God still Lives.
By R. F. Cottrell
Some men's faith in God is about like this: They have a faint and vague idea that once, a good while ago, there was a God that had something to do with the affairs of men. But, as for the present, the language of their hearts is, “The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.” Zeph. 1:12. They cannot see that the Lord is doing anything at the present time. If ancient prophecies are fulfilled, they lay it to chance, or search for natural causes to explain it away. The time of miracles, with them, is past, and all things continue as they were. They virtually say, “Where is the God of judgment?” or, “Where is the promise of his coming?” With them “it is vain to serve God;” they can see no profit in keeping his requirements.
But the living God has not left the earth. His providence has not been superseded by chance. He has not gone a journey and left the earth and its inhabitants to themselves; he is not asleep, that he need be awaked; nor is he so engaged in conversation, or other pursuits, that he cannot attend to the affairs of this world. He lives and reigns, and is now fulfilling his word in the earth. He has not withdrawn himself. Not one of his promises has failed or can fail. His providence is guiding the affairs of men and nations, fulfilling the promised signs of the last days; and he is leading and teaching his people, as in times of old. By the same Spirit by which he inspired his ancient servants to promise a last warning message to mankind, he now is inspiring his servants to give the warning, and teaching those who heed the warning the needed preparation to stand the trial of their faith and endure to the end. Yes, the living God still lives, and we can confidently rely upon his power to help, if we heed his admonitions and reproofs, and in all things follow his instructions. This, and this only, is the path of safety.
But people say to the servants of the Lord, “Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.” Jer. 17:15. They complain of a want of light to discern the path of duty. They think that the ancients were more highly privileged, in that God spoke to them, warning them of danger, and teaching them his will. To them they think the path of duty must have been very clear. But that is so long ago—it is so long since God spoke plainly to his people—the path of duty is not so clear to us. “If we had been in the days of the fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.” No, no! On the contrary, we would have heeded their divine instructions, and esteemed it a great privilege thus to be taught of God.
But while they think such thoughts and use such language, they are doing the same thing that the wicked in former times have done. As God warned the people before the flood, so he is warning the people now. By the Spirit, he promised the warning eighteen hundred years ago. The promised warning has become due; for the signs of the times show that the day of Christ is at hand; and he is sending his servants to proclaim it. But the people doubt. They think that if God would only tell them now what to do, they would do it. God is speaking to them by his Spirit through his servants, just as he has been accustomed to speak to the people in past times. He is making the path of duty clear before them; but they reject his teachings, just as the Jews rejected the teachings and mission of Christ. If they could only have lived in the days of the fathers, what believing and obedient people they would have been! Said the Jews, “We know that God spake unto Moses;” but as for Christ, they knew not whence he came. The words of Jesus to them were, “Had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.” So, if the people now believe the seer of Patmos, they will believe the third angel's message; for he wrote of it; and if they believe the ancient prophet Joel, and the teachings of Christ and his apostles, they will believe that God is now leading and teaching his people by the spirit of prophecy; for they have foretold it. The testimony of Jesus, as well as the commandments of God, was to characterize the last remnant of the church. Rev. 11:17, and 19:10. And the people are being manifested bearing the divine credentials.
If men would believe what God has caused to be written before, they would believe what he is doing now. And they could have the teachings of the living God, which they profess so heartily to crave. R. F. COTTRELL.
Resurrection.
By Samuel W. Pack
The hope that we should have another life beyond the grave is the revelation of Jesus Christ himself. Man could not have imagined such a wonder, that, after he had crumbled into dust, he should again be brought forth a living creature; for still, as at Athens, when they hear it for the first time, they fall to mocking. “Can these dry bones still live?” is still the unbeliever’s sneer. This theme was the burden of the apostles’ preaching; and wherever the first missionaries went, they made this prominent, that there should be a judgment and a resurrection from the dead.
How does the apostle Paul describe the gospel that he preached? “I delivered unto you,” said he, “first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures;” and he argues that if Christ be not risen, his preaching and their faith were vain. 1 Cor. 15:3, 4, 14. Now, if we would honor Christ, we should give prominence to this truth, for it is, as C. H. Spurgeon calls it, the keystone of the Christian arch.
In the fifth chapter of John’s gospel, Christ, after speaking of his power to give everlasting life to those who believe on him, says, that all who are in their graves, multitudes upon multitudes, shall at his voice come forth and stand before him. “The hour cometh!” What an hour it will be when it does come; and it is coming apace. Eighteen hundred years have passed since this declaration was made; and according to the fulfillment of prophecy and the signs of the times, that hour is now very close upon us, in which the dead in Christ shall hear his voice and come forth clothed in glorious immortality. How little we realize it, yet that hour is sure to come, for “God hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.” There is an hour which precedes this hour of the resurrection, and that is the hour of his judgment, as recorded in Rev. 14:7. We are now living in that hour. It began in 1844; and how soon it may come to a close! Then the destiny of all will be forever sealed; for Christ at the close of this judgment hour will pronounce the sentence, “Let him that is holy be holy still; and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still.” Rev. 22:11. Probation will then be ended.
When Christ comes on the white cloud, the wicked will be slain with the breath of his mouth and the brightness of his coming, and the righteous dead be raised from their graves and taken to the New Jerusalem above, where they will live and reign with Christ a thousand years. Rev. 20:6. The New Jerusalem then comes down from God out of Heaven. Rev. 21:2. The wicked are raised. The whole human family will then be assembled for the first and last time. Who can compute the number? It is a countless multitude!
Not one nation or two will be represented there, but the whole world are assembled, the righteous safe in the city, the wicked outside awaiting their doom. Thought of the resurrection and what our lot will be should lead us to forsake every evil way. It should be the inquiry of our hearts, Will it be said to me, “Come, ye blessed of my Father,” or, “Depart, ye cursed”? God grant that you and I, dear reader, may be found ready, when Jesus comes, to receive from him eternal life. Samuel W. Pack.
God Is Love.
By M. Wood
“The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.” Nahum 1:7.
His holy word declares that there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight; for “all things are naked and open unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.” Heb. 4:13. We may easily deceive our fellow-men; we may hide many of our sins from our brethren, and feel secure in their society; but God notices every action of our lives. Whether it be good or whether it be evil, it is recorded by the recording angel in high Heaven, and it is from these records, dear reader, that our future inheritance is decided. God is good. He has given to all men the necessary means of saving their souls; and will never require anything of us above our strength; so that we have only ourselves to blame if we fail in gaining eternal life. Paul assures us that God will render to every one according to his works. Jesus says, “Blessed are they that do his [God’s] commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates into the city.” Rev. 22:14. There is a great contrast between the inhabitants of God’s holy city, and those without the walls; for without are dogs, and murderers, and idolators, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. Rev. 22:15. Can we realize, dear brethren, the importance of keeping God’s commandments in spirit and letter. It is not only the fourth commandment (although that is the one which the world in general are trampling under foot), but it is the other nine also that we are to keep, and we are to keep them blameless in the sight of God. Ask yourself if you are doing this, dear reader; and let us both examine ourselves, and know for a certainty whether we are serving our Heavenly Father in an acceptable manner or not.
Let us trust in God; for he is a stronghold in the day of trouble. We should never attempt to compromise with God. We must either serve God or mammon; and if we choose the Lord, let us give him our undivided attention. Let us make a new covenant with him, that we shall be more faithful in the future, with the divine assistance of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
M. Wood.
SECRET OF HAPPINESS.—
An Italian bishop, who had struggled through many difficulties without repining, and been much opposed, without manifesting impatience, being asked by a friend to communicate the secret of his being always happy, replied, “It consists in a single thing, and that is, making a right use of my eyes.” His friend, in surprise, begged him to explain his meaning. “Most willingly,” replied the bishop. “In whatsoever state I am, I first of all look up to Heaven, and remember that my great business is to get there; I look down upon earth, and call to mind how small a space I shall soon fill in it; I then look abroad in the world, and I see what multitudes are in all respects less happy than myself, and then I learn where all my cares must end, and how little reason I ever had to murmur, or to be otherwise than thankful. And to live in this spirit, is to be always happy.”—Sel.
The Right Use of the Tongue.
In Bunyan's account of his conversion is a paragraph or two which illustrates the profit of the right use of the tongue. Bunyan had become uneasy about himself, had left off swearing, and had nearly made up his mind to leave off dancing. His neighbors took him for a very godly man; and, “To relate it in my way,” he says, “I thought no man in England could please God better than I. But poor wretch that I was, I was all this while ignorant of Jesus Christ, and going about to establish my own righteousness.”
“But upon a day the good providence of God called me to Bedford to work at my calling; and in one of the streets of the town I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at the door in the sun, talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear their discourse, I drew near to hear what they said, for I was now a brisk talker of myself in the matters of religion; but I may say I heard, but understood not, for they were above, out of my reach. Their talk was about a new birth, the work of God in their hearts.
“And methought they spoke as if joy did make them speak; they spoke with such pleasantness of Scripture language, and with such appearance of grace in all they said, that they were to me as if they had found a new world.”
What a beautiful picture! women, three or four of them—poor—sitting at a door—in the sun—talking not about their hard lot, but about the things of God—close by them John Bunyan, still an unpardoned sinner, listening with all his might to what they are saying! We wonder if any artist has thrown that scene upon canvas.—Sel.
Obituary Notices.
By A. S. Hutchins
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
Died, in Granville, Vt., June 5, 1871, Lucinda, wife of Eld. D. T. Evans, in the forty-eighth year of her age. For months previous to her death she suffered greatly. At times, for some two years past, sister E. had been deeply impressed with the importance of consecrating herself entirely to God. During this period, there was evidently a favorable change wrought in her feelings toward the people of the Lord and his cause; yet she manifested no satisfactory evidence of her acceptance of her Saviour, till a few weeks previous to her death. Her friends cherish the comforting assurance that she rests in hope. Some of her last moments were spent in warning and affectionately entreating kind neighbors and friends to turn from sin and folly, to obedience, to walk the way of life, to God and Heaven. She leaves a companion and two small children. Funeral services were attended on the 7th. Sermon from John 11 : 24.
A. S. HUTCHINS.
Condemning Others Does Not Improve Ourselves
The faults of the world can only be learned by a long acquaintance with them, and by suffering by that acquaintance.
He who blackens others does not whiten himself.
News and Miscellany.
“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
LONDON, June 29.—The delegates of the American Evangelical Alliance, to confer with the Czar of Russia, were banqueted at Richmond last evening by the Evangelical Alliance of England. Thos. Hughes, M. P., gave them a reception to-day.
GALESBURG, June 29. The hail storm of last Friday, in the township of Brady, and Pavilion, and part of St. Joseph County, Mich., was the severest ever known in this part of the country. Some farmers have not got a stalk of corn, or wheat, or blade of grass left standing in their fields—all is ruined. Mr. Boughton, a farmer of Brady, reports here that he saw ice nine inches square fall, and pieces near a foot long and some 10 inches in circumference. The range of the storm was some three miles wide, and destroyed all crops where it went.
BUENOS AYRES, May 22. At last the dreadful plague with which this unhappy city has been smitten during the past four months has been stayed, and the mortality has diminished to an average of about 15 or 20 daily. A few stores are already opened for the first time in many weeks, occasionally ladies may be seen in the streets, business men are returning slowly to inspect the probability of soon resuming traffic, and altogether the prospects are that we shall in a week or two at most be industriously at work in the reparation of the havoc of death.
Dexter E. Clapp, United States consul here, gives me his opinion to the effect that he believes the deaths will not fall short of 50,000, and he bases his estimates in some degree upon the expressed opinion of many of the most eminent foreign physicians.
NEW YORK, June 22. Wall street was yesterday a scene of panic such as few of its oldest frequenters have ever witnessed. Thirteen large firms were broken almost in an instant! Millions were involved, and the stock exchange was transformed, as it were, into a menagerie of wild beasts. Snarling, howling, wailing, and cursing added their charms to the attractions of the scene, and altogether, the day is one which will be memorable in the annals of stock-gambling.
When it became known that there had been a collapse in the market, as the exchange opened, the building was immediately thronged with a wild, unwieldy crowd, that swayed here and there in the utmost disorder. The air was suffocating. Many threw off their coats and wandered about in their shirt sleeves. All were discussing in the wildest language the extraordinary turn which the market had taken. Knots of three or four were gathered together in places. Others were rushing frantically about, seeking to sell at a sacrifice that which nobody would buy until something definite could be known of its actual value.
THE losses entailed on the bankrupt firms will reach millions, while those of individuals who have been imprudent enough to dabble in the affair cannot of course be estimated.
The catastrophe has had its natural effect upon other branches of the stock market. North-western stock fell five per cent within five minutes after the panic had spread. Since the bursting of this huge bubble all confidence in stocks seems to have been lost. Twenty-nine thousand seven hundred shares of Rock Island were sold yesterday “under the rule” for what they would bring.
The failure of the following firms has been announced: R. Waller, Earle & Saltonstall, W. A. Bowron, J. W. Gillespy, James Austin, Dater & Timpson, H. A. Dennison, A. G. Wood, W. E. Tunis & Co., A. M. Judson, J. J. Hoyt, Fanshawe & McDougal, and W. S. Woodward.
THERE are 60,000 white adults in Georgia who cannot read, yet they think that the Negroes should not be allowed to vote because they are illiterate.
THE International Society seems to be getting into trouble in various places. After its great failure in Paris, one would suppose that a little common-sense would be beaten into the heads of its leaders; but it has been rioting in Brussels, and a large number of its active members are in prison; and it is reported to have concocted a conspiracy to assassinate the pope, besides issuing in the night fresh inflammatory proclamations in Paris.
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To the Brethren of Kansas.
By J. H. Cook
DEAR BRETHREN: You have before this noticed the fact that the Kansas and Missouri Conference has purchased a tent, that we might be furnished for our yearly gathering, also for tent labor in this new field. Now, brethren, the greater part of the amount yet due, $135, should evidently be paid by us in Kansas. But in order to do this, we must take hold of it promptly. Under the present circumstances, I would suggest that Bro. Brown, of Centerville, Jesse Tomlinson, of Eureka, and A. J. Stover, of LaBelle, be a committee to attend to this matter in their respective neighborhoods, to see that immediate action is taken in regard to it, and the amount forwarded to Bro. Rodgers. We expect the hearty co operation of our scattered brethren, and earnestly invite them as they love the Lord and the cause of the third angel to help us in this effort to advance the cause in this new field. Let none be afraid there will be too much raised, and so excuse themselves. If there should be a little surplus, let it go with the tent to meet its expenses, or to pay for delinquent subscription for our periodicals.
J. H. Cook.
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Post-Office Address of Elders Butler, Canright, and Kilgore
By Dudley Marvin Canright
The post-office address of Elds. Geo. I. Butler, D. M. Canright, and of R. M. Kilgore, for a time will be Leon, Decatur Co., Iowa. D. M. CANRIGHT.
Wesley's Power as a Preacher.
WESLEY'S own temperament was rather cold, and he had probably from that cold and calm nature, and the great self-control and presence of mind which he possessed, the power to awe, subdue, and thrill, an audience. While Whitefield, on many occasions, preached, dissolved in tears, and so moved vast numbers, the strong and determined will of Wesley was almost electrical in its influence and even frightful in its effects on the assemblages he preached before. Frequently, when he had concluded his discourse, the whole of his congregation appeared to be riveted to the ground, and not a person moved till he had retired. We have perhaps the best proof of Wesley's power over an audience, and the extraordinary effect of his preaching, in an incident he himself records in his journal. The account of it is rather comical to read. On one occasion a long wall, built of loose stones, on which many of his hearers were seated, suddenly gave way, and fell down; it did not produce any interruption of his discourse, or divert the attention of his audience. “None of those who had fallen,” he observes, “screamed; and none being hurt, they appeared sitting at the bottom just as they had sat at the top.”—Atlantic Monthly.
TOO LATE FOR MY CHILDREN.—An aged woman made this statement:
“Neither my mother nor any of my family were pious; yet, when I was a child, I often wished that some minister, or some one who knew the Saviour, would kindly tell me how I could be saved.
“I went regularly to church twice every Sabbath; but not one of the messages seemed intended for me. I felt that I was helpless, impotent, and blind; but that I would be willing to rise and follow the Saviour, if any one would take me by the hand, and raise me up, and lead me to his feet.
“Oh! had any one done this for me, then I had not been suffered to train up a numerous family without God and without hope. I am now nearly sixty years old, and it is only ten years since I found the strait and narrow way that leads to life.
“My six sons are young men grown, and most of them have families of their own. They are manly, intelligent, and dutiful, and appear to love and respect their mother as they should do.
“But when I would speak to them of a Saviour’s love, and would fain persuade them to obey his commands, or impress upon them their obligations to follow Christ, it is as if I recommended a new religion.
“My own early neglect of the great salvation, to my unspeakable sorrow, I now find is in the hands of my impenitent children, the most powerful weapon of defense against the convictions of religious truth and duty.”
Appointments.
And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
There will be a grove meeting in the town of Orwell, Oswego Co., N. Y., about half a mile north of the Voree school-house, July 22 and 23, 1871; also another in the town of Parish, near the German school-house, July 29 and 30. All are invited to attend these meetings. Brn. Wheeler and Ross are expected. C. O. TAYLOR.
No preventing Providence, I will meet with the brethren at Centerville, Lynn Co., Kansas, the third Sabbath and first-day of July. Any wishing baptism may come prepared at that time and it will be attended to. We also desire to celebrate the ordinances of the Lord’s house at this meeting. J. H. COOK.
J. R. T. Payne will give us his P. O. address in full, State not excepted, we will give him credit on the Youth's Instructor, and send the books, as he requested.
The Walpole Ferry leaves Detroit (Detroit time), as follows:
Foot of Tenth street, 4.00 A.M.; foot of Third street, 7.50 A.M., 6.00 and 8.05 P.M.; foot of Brush street, 8. A.M., 5.40 and 6.50 P.M.
Company's Passenger and Ticket Office corner Jefferson ave. and Griswold st.
F. E. SNOW, Western Passenger Agent, Detroit.
W. K. MUIR, Gen'l Supt., Hamilton.
Ionia and Lansing Railway.
GOING EAST.Express.Mixed.
Greenville, dep............... 6:30 A. M. 4:00 P. M.
Ionia, arr................. 7:30 “ 5:45 “
dep................. 7:35 “ 12:30 “
Portland,.................... 8:50 “ 1:50 “
Grand Ledge,................. 9:00 “ 2:55 “
Lansing,..................... 9:40 “ 4:20 “
GOING WEST.Express.Mixed.
Lansing, dep............... 5:25 P. M. 7:55 A. M.
Grand Ledge,................ 6:08 “ 9:00 “
Portland,.................... 6:45 “ 10:20 “
Ionia,....................... 7:35 “ 12:40 P. M.
Greenville,.................. 8:40 “ 2:30 “
R. LAUGHLIN, Supt., Lansing.
Peninsular Railway.
By L. D. Dibble
UNTIL OTHERWISE ORDERED, trains will be run as follows:
GOING EAST.
Morn. Exp.
Eve. Exp.
Mixed.
Chicago,
6.00 A. M.
—
—
Michigan City,
8.12 “
—
—
Niles,
9.50 “
—
—
Cassopolis,
10.50 “
4.20 P. M.
—
Schoolcraft,
11.56 “
5.30 “
12.30 P. M.
Brady,
12.13 P. M.
5.48 “
1.20 “
Battle Creek,
1.15 “
4.45 A. M.
4.00 “
Charlotte,
2.30 “
6.00 “
6.30 “
Lansing,
3.25 “
6.55 “
7.40 “
Owosso,
6.37 “
9.7 “
East Saginaw,
8.40 “
11.05 “
GOING WEST.
Morn. Exp.
Eve. Exp.
Mixed.
East Saginaw,
6.50 A. M.
3.50 P. M.
Owosso,
8.35 “
5.45 “
Lansing,
10.10 “
7.40 “
4.45 A. M.
Charlotte,
11.05 “
8.35 “
6.20 “
Battle Creek,
12.15 P. M.
6.00 A. M.
8.45 “
Brady,
1.17 “
7.10 “
10.40 “
Schoolcraft,
1.34 “
7.28 “
11.05 “
Cassopolis,
2.40 “
8.43 “
Niles,
3.30 “
Michigan City,
4.50 “
Chicago,
7.05 “
L. D. DIBBLE, Pres’t and Gen. Supt., Battle Creek.
The Review and Herald.
By Editor
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