p. 64 | Review and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 8. (6/25/1857)

J. R. TOWLE

By J. R. Towle

It becomes my duty to write to you that my father-in-law, Joseph Brooks, fell asleep in Jesus in Brandon, Vt., Aug. 26th, 1856, aged 67 years. He embraced the Sabbath in 1851, and maintained his integrity to the last. Just before he died he said, O how I wish that I could live to see Jesus come in the clouds of heaven. His funeral was attended by Bro. J. Alexander.

J. R. TOWLE

West Canaan, N. H., June 14th. 1857.

A String of Pearls.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

It is with life as with coffee, he who would drink it pure must drain it to the dregs.

He that loves sin, and can live in sin, is not in a pardoned state, let him presume as he may.

Friendship is a silent gentleman that makes no parade; the true heart dances no hornpipe on the tongue.

He has a good income who has but few occasions of spending—not he who has great rents and great vents.

To win a soul is your noblest prize, and the greater the number you win, the greater and richer will be that "crown of rejoicing" which you will wear in the day of the Lord.

Quench not the Spirit

LEST he cease to move upon your heart, and you become hardened. And O, think what it is to be HARDENED. It is to have all the moral and religious sensibilities of the soul deadened. It is to become reckless and unconcerned. It is to be habitually in such a frame of mind that there are no compunctions for the past, no apprehensions for the future. Deaf to all the calls of mercy; stupid under all the means of grace. It is to be habitually in such a frame of mind that all promises and threatenings are alike disregarded, and all motives ard all appeals equally unavailing. As the dead man feels not the burning of the coal lodged in his bosom, nor the flinty rock the softening influences of the showers of heaven, even so is it with him whose heart is hardened. He may be in the sanctuary, but the most pungent discourses make no impression. He may witness sacramental scenes, but they inspire no solemnity. Even funeral rites and the burying of the dead affect him not. Spread before him the glories of heaven, and he is not allured.

Point him to the torments of the damned, and he is not alarmed. Lead him to Calvary, and talk to him about the love of Jesus and his dying agonies, and still he is insensible as steel! Friends may entreat, but he heeds it not; ministers may warn, but he repents not; others around him may feel, but he feels not; others around him may weep, but he weeps not, he is hard as rock. The rock may be rived, but it is not melted; it is rock still. It may be broken into a thousand fragments, but there is no softening yet. And so it is with the sinner.

Eternity Has No Gray Hairs

"ETERITY HAS NO GRAY HAIRS."—The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity.

Eternity! stupendous thought! the ever present now, unborn undecaying, and undying—the endless chain, compassing the life of God—the golden thread entwining the destinies of the universe.

Earth has its beauties, but time shrouds them for the grave; its honors, they are but the sunshine of an hour; its palaces, they are but as the gilded sepulchres; its possessions, they are the toys of changing fortune; its pleasures, they are but bursting bubbles. Not so is the untried bourne.

In the dwelling of the Almighty can come no footsteps of decay. Its day will know no darkening—eternal splendors forbid the approach of night. Its fountains will never fail—they are fresh from the eternal throne. Its glory will never wane, for there is the ever present God. Its harmonies will never cease; exhaustless love supplies the song.

The Testimony to the Laodiceans

Bro. Wm. Lawton writes from West Winfield, N. Y.: "I did feel to say, Amen, after I had read what Bro. White said about the surface work of the testimony to the Laodiceans. I believe without a doubt that when the testimony to the Laodiceans is understood and believed, and we try to live out the testimony before our neighbors, that it will produce a great change, not only in our conversation with our neighbors and with our brethren and sisters, but I do believe that it will lead us to throw aside unnecessary articles of dress. I am perfectly satisfied that if I should try to conform to the world by burdening myself with unnecessary equipage, my brethren and sisters would say at once that Bro. Lawton professed to receive the testimony to the Laodiceans, but it had not produced so much as surface work. But I do feel to praise the Lord for the testimony to the Laodiceans, and it is the desire of my heart, so far as I know it, to understand the testimony, and be zealous and repent, and thoroughly reform; for I want to be an overcomer."

"A word to every brother and sister that has the privilege of reading the Review. Brethren and sisters, I want you to remember me in your prayers that I may understand and know how to get down at the feet of my Saviour where I can receive a blessing and not be exalted, and open the door of my heart and let the Saviour in. Praise the Lord for what he is doing for the remnant. And I would ask an interest in the prayers of the friends of truth in behalf of those that have the charge of the Review, and books that are being published, for I do feel to praise the Lord that there are a few on the earth that are trying to get the truth in its purity before their fellow mortals."

Beards and Mustaches.

By Editor

In view of the feeling which is growing up on this subject throughout the country as evinced by the many unshaven faces which one everywhere meets, and considering moreover that some of our correspondents have expressed themselves quite warmly in favor of this reform, if reform it may be called, it may be proper for us to say a word on the subject at this time. We would say then that we must beg to be excused from taking any interest in the question, or discussing its merits or demerits in the REVIEW, as we cannot look upon it as a Bible question.

Like that restriction which would exclude swine’s flesh from the list of our eatables, whatever other plea may be urged in its favor, we think it cannot be made to rest upon Bible ground. We do not regard that book as imposing upon mankind at the present time any restrictions on these subjects. Then let every one be fully persuaded in his own mind.

If a person is fully assured that shaving is incompatible with health, we would not of course have him do anything to injure his constitution; and if he thinks that the sympathy between his eyes and his upper lip is such that he cannot shave the latter without injuring the former, we see no other way but that a mustache must develop itself. Though in our opinion the views which many take on these points stand much in need of confirmation.

Again, as to its looks, and the plea that has been advanced, that to shave was to mar the divine beauty of the human visage as God designed it, we must remember that all have not the same ideas of beauty, and that in the eyes of many a projecting mustache and flowing beard, are as apt to make a man look like a rough goat as a venerable patriarch, and perhaps more so. We only say, let every one endeavor to form correct views of propriety and abide by them; and if under these circumstances they can feel free to make a meal of pork steak, or brandish a razor, we have no objections to offer.

Upon these subjects, until they shall assume more importance than we can at present attach to them, we design to be neutral; and neutrality, now-a-days, is silence.

Revival in Green Spring

By Editor

Bro. M. E. Cornell writes from Green Spring, O., June 15th, 1857: “The good work of the Lord is prospering here, and the friends of truth are being revived. Prejudice is giving away. Yesterday four lengthy discourses were listened to in the Tent, with more than common interest. We confidently look for much good from these meetings. We remain here another week.”

An Interesting Meeting in Mackford

Bro. J. Hart writes from Mackford, Wis: “Our meeting in this place has been one of interest thus far. We hope it will continue. Particulars may appear hereafter.”

TENT MEETINGS.

By James White

Eastern Tour.

PROVIDENCE permitting, Bro. and Sr. White will meet with the church of God in General Conferences as follows:

In Pennsylvania, where Bro. Ingraham may appoint, July 4th and 5th.

In Ohio, where the brethren may appoint, and pitch the Ohio Tent, July 11th and 12th.

We hope the brethren will come together prepared to work. We shall endeavor to bear testimony to the truth as far as health and strength may admit; but farther than this we hope to be free from the care and responsibilities of these meetings. JAMES WHITE.

New York Tent.

By Wm. S. Ingraham; R. F. Cottrell

Providence permitting, the New York Tent will be pitched for meetings at Kibbyville in the town of Ulysses, Potter Co., Pa., commencing July 4th, and continuing as long as shall be deemed expedient.

Bro. and Sr. White are expected at this meeting on the 4th and 5th, according to previous appointment in the Review.

WM. S. INGRAHAM. R. F. COTTRELL.

Ohio Tent.

By M. E. Cornell

CONFERENCE AT GREEN SPRING.

PROVIDENCE permitting, there will be a General Conference of Commandment-keepers held in the Ohio Tent at Green Spring, Sandusky Co., commencing Sixth-day, July 10th, at 2 o’clock P. M., and continuing over Sabbath and First-day.

It is to be hoped there will be a general attendance of the Sabbath-keepers, and honest seekers after truth at this meeting. Bro and Sr. White are expected.

In behalf of the brethren. M. E. CORNELL.

Wisconsin Tent.

By John Norton Loughborough, J. Hart,; E. Eveats

There will be a Tent Meeting in Dodgeville, Iowa Co., Wis., commencing June 27th, and continuing, the Lord willing, two weeks.

Also one six miles south of Warren Station, Jo Daviess Co., Ills., on the Chicago and Galena R. R., commencing July 11th, and continuing, Providence permitting, two weeks. Those coming on the cars should stop at Warren Station.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH. J. HART. E. EVEATS.

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A Theological Babel.

WHY is there so much confusion existing among those who are laboring to prove the divinity of Sunday-keeping? They have the same goal to run to; the same object in every case they wish to gain, and the same results to arrive at. Why then do they take such a multitude of ways to reach them?

It is a notorious fact that the views of so-called learned and great men on this subject completely overturn, eat up and annihilate each other. This may easily be seen by comparing their testimony, as has often been done in the REVIEW.

“Her creeds are various as her costly towers.”

Again we ask, Why is it? Is it not because the attempt to remove from its firm pedestal the ancient and magnificent structure of the holy Sabbath which God in the beginning placed thereon, and rear in its stead a superstructure of human invention, without one divine timber to support it;—is it not because this attempt is a work more impious than the efforts of the sons of men anciently to pierce the heavens with their tower on the plains of Shinar? and as then, has not God now branded confusion upon their language.

But the modern Babel-builders are more censurable than their venerable progenitors: of them it is recorded that when their language was confounded, they “left off to build.” And why do not our First-day champions, when they perceive that the arguments by which their cherished theory is supported, are at antipodes with each other, and that they have no more agreement one with another than Christ with Belial, or light with darkness, leave off to build, and abandon their structure to a fate which this very fact plainly proves that it justly merits? We can only ask, Why? for they do not do it.

The ancients then have the advantage of the moderns in this particular: when their language was confounded, they ceased from their abortive labors; but these (though scarce any two of them speak the same thing) who are dabbling with the brick and slime of modern Shinar, persist in their work of confusion with a pertinacity which baffles description.