Earlier text: The Publishing AssociationGrant City.—On my return from the Rochester (Ind.) camp-meeting I held a few more very interesting meetings here. Two were baptized, and a Sabbath-school was organized. About twenty are keeping the Sabbath. Bro. Covert joined me, and replied to three discourses on the Sabbath by a Disciple minister. The truth gained the victory; to God be all the praise. I think a church may be organized here. Calls for help come in from almost all directions. Truly the harvest is great, but the laborers are few. J. M. REES. Warrington, Hancock Co., Nov. 4.—Since my labors with the Illinois Tract Society closed, I have continued to work in the tract and missionary cause. Soon after the close of the Illinois camp-meeting we came into Indiana and attended the camp-meeting held at Rochester. Bro. and Sr. White arrived on the second day, and their presence seemed to give new life and vigor to the meeting. Since the camp-meeting we have visited quite a number of our brethren of like precious faith, who receive us with cordiality. At Warrington, where Brn. Rees, Shrock, and Thompson had been laboring, and also at Grant City, we found quite a goodly number interested, and twenty or twenty-five keeping the Sabbath, with whom we have had the pleasure of meeting two or three Sabbaths in social meetings and Sabbath-schools. May God bless those who have recently taken their stand on God’s holy Sabbath in the vicinity of these two places, for they have had to meet much opposition. We have visited many since we came here, and we are well assured that there is much undeveloped interest, and that by a well-directed effort many might be brought to obey the truth. We learned soon after coming here that a Disciple preacher was going to deliver a series of lectures against Seventh-day Adventists at Mechanicsburg; so by invitation I went to hear what was to be said against this people by a prominent preacher of the church with which I had for many years stood identified. He signally failed to prove by the Bible a single point in which the S. D. Adventists are in error; but in his expositions of Scripture he did violence to many passages. While hearing him I was led to rejoice that though I was once in the same spiritual darkness, by the divine favor I had been led to see the harmony and beauty in present truth, and had become associated with a people who have taken their stand upon the immutable law of God. Address me, until further notice, at Kankakee, Kankakee Co., Ill. W. POTTINGER. “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.”
Matt. 9:38. The harvest is great, but laborers few,
And work abounds for all to do;
Why, then, stand idling all the day,
While wasting moments glide away,
And multitudes, who might be fed,
Are perishing from lack of bread?
If late, at once thy work begin,
And make no compromise with sin. Before the evening shades appear,
Before the night of death draws near,
The smallest service for your Lord
Can never lose the sure reward.
Though late, still hear the Master say,
The eleventh hour receives its pay;
Then what thy hand doth find to do,
Delay not, but at once pursue. Clarksfield.—We have now closed our labors in Clarksfield. We have not seen all accomplished here that we desired, but our labors have not been without fruit. Through the influence of our meetings here, I think that not less than eighteen persons have commenced the observance of the Lord’s holy Sabbath. Time may develop more fruit. About $15.00 worth of books have been sold, and several subscribers obtained for our periodicals. The Lord willing, we begin meetings at New Haven, Friday evening, Nov. 7. My address until further notice, will be New Haven, Huron Co., Ohio. H. A. St. John. Burnham.—The work of reform moves steadily forward in this place. Bro. Webber was here Oct. 25, 26, and gave two lectures on temperance, with good effect. It is encouraging to see how ready the most of those who embraced the Sabbath last summer are to give up the use of the filthy weed, tobacco. A goodly number have already signed the teetotal pledge, and we still hope for others. May God bless the brethren and sisters in Burnham. We hope to see others embrace the whole truth.
J. B. GOODRICH. Boulder, Nov. 3.—My labor in this State in connection with Brn. Corliss and Cornell closed with our effort at Ft. Collins. We have labored together harmoniously, and, I trust, profitably. This mission has only been opened about a year, but it now numbers fully one hundred Sabbath-keepers. It has two organized churches, two companies, four Sabbath-schools, a live tract society, and s. b. sufficient to make the cause self-sustaining from this time. Several are making preparations to join Bro. Corliss in the work. It will not be long before Colorado will be numbered with our State Conferences. In Denver about $40 worth of books were sold, and in other places, in about four weeks, $50 worth were disposed of. I now return to Michigan to labor the coming year. A. O. BURRILL. Beaverton, Nov. 3.—Though reports of labor from the distant field of the N. P. Conference have been few, it is not because nothing is being done. The cause of present truth is steadily and surely moving onward. As in all new Conferences, there are times when the cause goes hard, but there are those connected with the work here who are true-hearted soldiers, and will strain every nerve before the cause shall go down. We can see the hand of God connected with the work here, and many ways are opening for the truth to be sent out among the people. There is not so lively an interest taken by all in the T. and M. work as the situation of things demands; for there can be no better field for missionary work than in this Conference. If all would improve the opportunities within their reach, much more might be accomplished. The preaching of the word meets with fair success wherever labor is bestowed, which is a source of much encouragement. As we have come now to that season of the year when most can be done in all branches of the cause, we shall put forth efforts to make advancement in all parts of this Conference. This is a large field, and more laborers than are now here might be well employed in good openings, where the people seem eager for the truth. There is one drawback here as elsewhere, which is a lack of financial support. If there was steady and continued lifting in this direction on the part of all, giving as the Lord has prospered them, we should see much greater results than we now do. May the Lord open the hearts of his people here to use all their ability to advance his cause, and their understanding that they may comprehend the vastness of the work to be done and the short time we have to do it in; and may he give them wisdom to use all the means in their hands in the way that will glorify God and advance his cause. I. D. VAN HORN. Labor among the Churches.—Sunday, Oct. 26, I commenced labor with the church at West Pierrepont, St. Lawrence Co. Brn. Plumb and Lewis have assisted. We have held meetings every evening during the week, twice on the Sabbath, and twice on Sunday. Our labor has been directed mainly toward the revival of Bible religion in the hearts of professed Christians, and the restoration of love, peace, and unity in the church. In this work the Lord has blessed as we talked and prayed from house to house; and we believe our labors have not been in vain. If the church will only come up to her duty, we believe many may be brought to a saving knowledge of the truth. A few years ago the audiences were disrespectful and noisy; but now, when a minister comes, the neighbors flock into the church, and listen with respect to the preaching of the word. Some of other denominations who were once bitter now invite us to visit them. On Thursday, leaving the meetings in charge of Brn. Plumb and Lewis, I went to spend the Sabbath with the little company at Chase’s Mills. A Sabbath-school of a dozen members had been organized here one week before. It seems to be doing well. Sabbath, the school at Smith’s Hill met with the school at W. Pierrepont. Fifty-five Sabbath-keepers were present and took part in the Sabbath-school. Sunday we had a good temperance meeting, although some of those whom we most wanted to benefit were absent. Breathe it softly, brethren, but if you want to get all the church out to the temperance meeting, don’t announce the subject beforehand. About a dozen, however, signed the teetotal pledge. We have had some glorious victories in these meetings, and to God we ascribe the praise. —The Hungarian budget shows a deficit of $9,000,000. —A Swiss colony has purchased a tract of 75,000 acres in Nebraska. —The President has appointed Thursday, Nov. 27, as a day of thanksgiving. —During the year 1878 there were 103 earthquakes and 12 volcanic eruptions. —The railroad riot at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1877, will cost Allegheny county $2,750,000. —The yield of the anthracite coal-fields of Pennsylvania is now 20,000,000 tons per annum. —The Spanish government has voted £18,000 per annum for the use of their future queen. —Of the missionaries sent out last year by the American Board, five were children of missionaries. —The Municipal Council of Berlin recommends the universal adoption of the practice of cremation. —The Emperor William is said to be unwilling to sanction a policy of open hostility toward Russia. —Charles Freeman, of the Pocasset tragedy, has been indicted for murder in the first degree. —Secretary Sherman considers it possible to effect a reduction of $50,000,000 in the national debt next year. —Jacob Abbott, the well-known author of the “Rollo Books” and other works for the young, died Oct. 31. —It is stated that King Mtesa, of Central Africa, has been converted, and has freed his slaves, about half a million. —The Ameer of Afghanistan has been accused of treachery, and it is thought he will be sent a State prisoner to India. —It is thought that the specie imported into this country from Europe during the year 1879 will amount to $75,000,000. —The daily Inter-Ocean of Nov. 10 records the wreck of two steamers and two schooners, involving the loss of 49 lives. —The African king Mtesa has forbidden Sunday labor, and has been seriously discussing with his chiefs the evils of polygamy. —Nearly 5,000 women and girls, of whom 4,502 are under 16 years of age, are still employed about the coal mines of Great Britain. —The closing of our centennial anniversaries of revolutionary events will occur October, 23, 1881, in commemoration of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. —The Montenegrins, in a recent march on Gusinje, besides pillaging and burning everything before them, killed more than 300 Albanian Mussulmans. —The Porte is too poor to provision the pilgrimage to Mecca this year. This is something that has never before occurred since the foundation of the Ottoman empire. —A Paris paper asserts that the ex-Empress Eugenie, notwithstanding all efforts to dissuade her, will embark next February for Zululand, to pray on the spot where her son was killed. —During the third week in October a second crop of strawberries was gathered from the same vines at Martha’s Vineyard. Blackberry vines in a garden in Cambridgeport also yielded a second crop. —At a meeting held in San Francisco on the evening of Nov. 6, a proposition was made to organize a secret society to be called the Jacobin Society. Their object is to hang all employers of Chinese labor. —The Missionary Herald counts up over $3,000,000 given to the missionary enterprises of the Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, Wesleyan, and Congregational churches, by only a dozen givers, within the past year. —The general omnibus company of Paris subdues vicious horses by the use of electricity. By means of a small induction machine the wires of which communicate with the bit of the bridle, a weak current of electricity is passed into the mouth, when the animal’s will seems to be almost annihilated. —A leading manufacturer in Sheffield, England, the other day, showed his workmen an assortment of American made goods, and taking up a pair of tailor’s shears, offered to give the Union £50 if any of his men in a month would produce a pair of shears as good as the American. The challenge was not accepted. —There are 87 Indian reservations within the limits of the United States, including 139,201,000 acres of land. This would give to each of the 242,371 Indians maintaining tribal forms, over 500 acres,—a reasonable competency, if they could be induced to abandon a nomad life. —The great discoveries of the lamented missionary explorer, Dr. Livingstone, are to be utilized for the benefit of civilization and commerce. A company of Manchester merchants is to be formed with a capital of $10,000,000, for the building of a railroad from the river Zambesi to the northern coast of Zanzibar. —The great tunnel to connect Jersey City and New York is to cost $10,000,000. It is to be 26 feet wide, 24 feet high, and 12,000 feet long, reaching from Jersey City to Broadway, New York. The ceiling will be lined with brick and cement. The time of car transit will be six minutes. It is intended to complete it in three years. —On the 25th anniversary of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, the pope will, it is said, offer indulgences to the faithful. The Independent thus comments on the above: “Of course, he will. We, who believe he is a more liberal pope than his predecessor, do not imagine that he is going to reverse one single utterance of Pius IX.” —A correspondent of the Christian Union, speaking of the chain-gangs of Atlanta, Ga., says that the slave-driver of the South is not extinct. Convicts, with a chain from the ankle to the waist, are employed on the public works of the city. But cruel and degrading as this punishment is, it is yet merciful to what it becomes on isolated plantations and in lonely villages, where convicts are leased to men whose control over them is absolute. —An attempt was recently made in London, England, to open the Guild-Hall Library to the young men of that city on the only day of leisure they possess. The bishop of Manchester bore testimony to the good effects of a similar movement in that city, and many of the clergy of St. Paul’s favored the young men’s cause. The contest was a severe one, but was decided against opening the library on Sunday, by a vote of 104 to 34. —The railway destined to carry tourists to the top of Mt. Vesuvius is fast progressing toward completion. The station is 2,500 feet above the level of the sea, and the line, which will be rather less than 1000 yards in length, rises from thence at an incline which averages 56 feet in 100, but reaches, at its steepest part, 63 feet in 100. The rails are laid on a wooden platform like a gigantic raft, the lava and crumbling soil being much too unsteady to form a proper bed for the sleepers. —The Roman Catholic bishops of Belgium have declared their intention to relax no effort to secure for the children a religious education. They say that it is not enough that the Catholic faith is respected; it must be taught and practiced. The teachers who continue to teach in the “godless schools” have been excommunicated, and the sacrament has been refused to the children. A similar controversy on the subject of education is being carried on in France and Australia. —The Commissioner of Patents reports that during the year ending June 30, 19,300 applications for patents were received; 2,674 caveats filed; 12,471 patents issued; 1,547 trade marks and labels registered; 828 patents granted, but held for the payment of final fees. The receipts of the office were $703,000, being $154,000 in excess of the expenditures. The Commissioner declares the force of the office should be materially increased, and more room and better facilities for the conduct of its work be provided. An increased appropriation is asked for. —In another year it is expected that the famous Cologne Cathedral will be completed strictly according to the original plan. The first stone of this edifice was laid Aug. 15, 1248, and now the two towers have only to be fitted with their massive caps of solid stone-work. To accomplish this, it is necessary to erect two great scaffoldings to a dizzy height, and one of these is already finished. After the caps are completed, gigantic foliated crosses nearly 30 feet high are to be erected upon the top of them to crown the towers. The name of the designer of this wonderful cathedral is lost in the obscurity of the Dark Ages. —Preparations for the next European war, the outbreak of which seems rapidly becoming more imminent, would appear now to be conducted under the guise of neutralizing efforts. Thus, Germany has discovered that the French fortress of Belfort must be neutralized; and, to neutralize it, is constructing an immense fortified camp at New Biersack, near the left bank of the Rhine. So the work of exhausting the resources of the people in men and money continues, and, under the burdens of the immense armaments maintained and constantly being increased, the question underlying all European politics is coming to be, Which of the great powers will first break down under the weight of its own military establishment? —The contest between England and Russia for the ascendancy in the councils of the Porte, which now attracts so much attention in foreign politics, is but another of those accidents of the situation which for so long have conspired to uphold that anomaly and disgrace in continental affairs, Turkey in Europe. As hitherto, the expulsion of the Turks from the continent is deferred only because of the impossibility of agreement among the great powers as to the partition of the territory now occupied by the Ottoman empire. And so, while England presses her demands upon Turkey for what is styled reform, Russia, the traditional foe of the Porte, covertly encourages the latter to non-compliance; and meanwhile nothing is done, the Turkish government holding the question under advisement, and the orders for the dispatch of the British squadron to Vourlah seem to have been suspended. ELD. RAY AND THE AMERICAN BAPTIST FLAG.
By J. G. Wood
While I was at Windsor, Mo., with the tent last October, Eld. Ray, editor of the American Baptist Flag, was sent for. He preached four discourses against our views. I reviewed him in one. His strong point was brow-beating and base misrepresentations. So ungentlemanly was his course that several leading men of Windsor, of whom Mr. J. C. Beedy, president of the bank, was one, felt free to denounce it in a written article which accompanies this, and will speak for itself. In his paper of October 8, to which they refer, he says: “The Advents attempt to sustain their Jewish Sabbath from the law of Moses. They, like the Judaizers of old, contend that unless we keep the law of Moses we cannot be saved.” This is a base statement. Thousands of witnesses, if necessary, will testify that we always draw a distinction between the law of God and the law of Moses. One was written by God himself, with his own fingers, on tables of stone (Ex. 31:18; 32:16), and put into the ark. Deut. 10:4, 5; 1 Kings 8:9. This is God’s law, and it contains the fundamental principles of all “morality and religion.” This law says, “The seventh-day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God” (not the “Jewish Sabbath”). So we believe, and so we teach. The other was the law of ordinances and ceremonies, written by Moses in a book, and put in the side of the ark. Deut. 31:24-26. This law was imposed on them for a limited time; viz., till the reformation. Heb. 9:10. Again, he picked up a tract published at Battle Creek, Mich., called “One Hundred Bible Facts upon the Sabbath Question.” On p. 9 of the old edition it is said: “If the law has not been abolished, then the Sabbath has not been done away, for it is a part of that law. Jesus then emphatically declares that every jot and tittle of that law will stand till Heaven and earth have passed away; yea, even till all things are fulfilled. ‘For verily I say unto you, Till Heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.’ Matt. 5:18. Heaven and earth have not passed away yet, hence every jot and tittle of the law is in force still. All must admit that the Sabbath is a part of that law, much more than a jot or tittle certainly.” Eld. R. says, “This extract from an Advent document contains the gist of their argument for the Jewish Sabbath.” We know of no Jewish Sabbath. The Bible calls it “the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” We believe it is embraced in the moral law, and we hold up both hands in its defense. We try to do and teach this law, and the condemnation of Jesus rests upon those that break, or teach others to break, one of the least of these commandments. Matt. 5:19. The following is the statement from some of the leading citizens of Windsor, above referred to:— The undersigned have read an article under the above heading in the American Baptist Flag of Oct. 8, 1879, edited by Eld. D. B. Ray, in which Eld. Wood is represented as an “oily-tongued hypocrite and deceiver.” Again, as we understand Eld. Wood, he is misrepresented in some points of doctrine. Eld. Wood is charged with a “cowardly back-down.” A number of persons were present, and heard what passed between Elds. Ray and Wood at the Baptist church, and those of us who heard it do not consider that Eld. Wood “backed down” from a single proposition of his faith; but, on the contrary, in a Christian-like spirit, and with more meekness than most men possess, he proposed to discuss the points in dispute,—each to affirm the doctrine he teaches, and he (Wood) would bear half the expense of a reporter; and the discussion should be published in their respective denominational papers; these propositions Eld. Ray would not accept. And further, both in words and actions he treated Eld. Wood with indignities that we conceive to be unbecoming in one who professes to be a follower of the meek and lowly Saviour. Eld. Wood has been preaching at this place some seven weeks, and his Christian deportment has been such as to command the respect of the good citizens who have attended his meetings. J. C. Beedy, President of Bank. Jas. P. Allen, Atty. at Law. Geo. J. Shelton, Lumberman, Bank Director. J. R. Chappel, Bank Director. AN ANTI-TOBACCO TESTIMONY.
By D. Burdick
As there is at present considerable discussion on the habit of tobacco-using, I think a little of my experience might not be amiss. For fifty years of my life I used tobacco, occasionally smoking, but chewing almost constantly. All this time I knew that it was a filthy habit, and expected to quit it soon. But when I saw boys but little taller than my staff with a pipe or cigar in their mouths, I came to the conclusion that I would quit using the filthy weed if I had to lie in bed a week as the consequence. This was a year ago last July, and I have not touched the vile stuff since, and I have no desire for it. I advise every one who still uses the weed to do likewise,—quit it entirely. “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth.” Rev. 14:13. SMITH.—Died in Canaan, Me., Oct. 30, 1879, Bertie Waldo, only son of Armand R. and Nancy F. Smith, of Lewiston, Me., aged 3 months and 24 days. Remarks by the writer, from Luke 18:16–17. J. B. GOODRICH. CAVILL.—Died of consumption, at Southampton, England, Sept. 16, 1879, Sister Anna Cavill, aged 15 years, 11 months, and 16 days. Sister Anna is the first of those who signed the covenant here who has fallen a victim to death. She was a great sufferer, but not a murmur escaped her lips. Not long before her death, though she had been unable to speak above a whisper for many days, she broke the silence of the night by singing with a clear voice:— “Though friends all forsake me, and foes all unite, Jesus is with me through the long, dark night.” The night before she died she was very happy, and said to her mother, “There are a great many angels coming; the room is full of them.” She sleeps in Jesus. May a godly company here be prepared to meet her in the resurrection. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH. SAGE.—Died in Jamaica, Vt., Sept. 28, 1879, Sister Abbie M. Sage, aged 23 years and 3 months. Sister Abbie has been a faithful member of the S. D. Adventist church of Jamaica since May 10, 1874, at which time she with four of her sisters was received into the church by baptism. Three years ago she went to Battle Creek and attended two terms of school, after which she taught in Michigan until the autumn of 1878, when her health failed and she returned to her home in Vermont. It was then evident that consumption had commenced its fatal work. She bore her affliction with Christian fortitude, and rests in hope of a part in the first resurrection. Funeral discourse by Eld. Raynolds, Methodist, from 2 Sam. 12:23. R. S. OWEN. BENSON.—Died of consumption of the bowels, Oct. 31, 1879, Benjamin Benson, aged 56 years and 6 months. Bro. Benson had been a believer in the soon coming of Christ for a number of years; but some less than a year before his death he embraced the third message, and was a consistent and faithful commandment-keeper up to the time of his decease. The disease that resulted in his death was contracted more than three years ago, and he was a sick man from that time. He was a great sufferer; but the blessed hope of a glorious immortality sustained him till the last. We shall miss our brother, but we laid him away in hope. His funeral was largely attended. He leaves a good wife and six children to mourn their loss. Sermon by the writer, from Rev. 14:18. H. A. ST. JOHN. A TRIAL has been made on board the Bloodhound, gunboat, at Portsmouth, England, of a new means for clearing harbors of sunken mines and fixed torpedoes. At present, the method adopted is to destroy the engines by counter-mining or by the hazardous process of “creeping.” This is effected by boats being sent out to grapple for the cable connections, and then severing them by small charges of gun cotton. This mode, however, is very slow. The new method of opening a free channel for the passage of ships, as tried in the Bloodhound, consists in running out a couple of booms, thirty feet in length, from the bows of the ship. Across the submerged ends is fixed a horizontal beam, 38 feet in length, having a zigzag arrangement of iron rods in the form of a W, the idea being that the open space of each V of the series, as it is pushed through the water, will inclose the torpedo fastenings or connections, and lead them to the point at the bottom, which is fitted with a scissor contrivance, the blades of which are worked by levers in connection with the capstan on board. The beam searcher has a sweep of fifty feet, and the mechanism is capable of cutting through the strongest electric cable. A net, which is supported from the whiskers of the bowsprit, receives the liberated torpedo, and prevents it exploding against the operating craft. The trial proved a great success.—Scientific American. BEACONSFIELD, in his speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet Nov. 10, preserved a marked reticence in regard to the Eastern question, though this is a subject on which there is universal curiosity. A St. Petersburg journal does not hesitate to say that his silence marked his failure at Constantinople. The dogged persistence of the Turks in refusing or neglecting to carry out the reforms recommended by the British government, leads the Christian Weekly of Nov. 15 to say:— The “sick man's” case is again attracting European anxiety. The promised reforms in Asiatic Turkey have not been carried out. Turkish supineness or hostility has stood in the way. Patience has ceased to be longer a virtue, and England now notifies the Porte that the requirements of the Berlin treaty must no longer be a dead letter. A crisis is imminent. Whether the patient has vitality enough to withstand another vigorous treatment is more than doubtful. THE Christian sentiment of England is again shocked by the appointment as governor of the provinces in South Africa conquered in the recent war against the Zulus of an apostate Englishman. Certainly a man deserves such a stigma who has been converted to heathenism, and is living, like the heathen about him, with a score of wives. Of course, he is an enemy of Christianity and of missionary efforts, and it is not surprising that one of his first official acts is—a decree that missionaries will not be tolerated in that country. We much mistake the character of Bible-loving Englishmen if they do not demand that the government shall at once remove one who, as their representative, is a disgrace to Christianity and civilization.—Christian Weekly. THE alarm which, it is reported, is felt in Belgium at the commencement of work upon the immense fortifications upon her borders, is not ill-timed. But what can that power do about it, or to avert the fate which these vast military works so situate as to be turned upon her, presage? Her attitude, like that of the other lesser powers, is, perforce, simply that of waiting for events and possibly accepting the situation, which signifies waiting to be absorbed so soon as it can be arranged among the great powers how that shall be done.—Inter-Ocean. BE LIKE THE WORLD.
By R. F. Cottrell
Strange as it may seem, this is the advice given by a professedly religious journal: Be just as much conformed to the world as possible, the more the better. We are meeting with surprises thick and fast in the religious world in these days. Not long ago we gave, in our columns, a paragraph from a religious paper going to show that we are now in Heaven and hell just as much as we ever shall be. Now comes another giving the advice above mentioned. And this is no less a journal than the New York Independent, and these are its words:— “Some things recorded in Scripture are not applicable now, although they were applicable at the time in which they were uttered. Thus, when Paul wrote, ‘Be not conformed to the world,’ he gave very sensible advice for his time, when the world was hostile to Christianity; although the advice is very unsuitable now, after the world has become Christianized, and its spirit is in the main controlled by Christianity.” This appeared in the Independent of Oct. 30, 1879. Our astonishment was and is so great at usefulness of the association which should satisfy every one who may have had honest doubts. I am not sorry that I gave my hand to the work at once; and I shall expect to see those who have hesitated taking hold of the work. Like other general moves recommended by our leading brethren, its fruit is good, which proves it to be Heaven-sent. R. F. COTTRELL. NEW ENGLAND TRACT SOCIETY
“And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” Matt. 10:7. NEW ENGLAND TRACT SOCIETY.
The general quarterly meeting of the New England Tract and Missionary Society will be held at South Lancaster, Mass. Dec. 5–9, 1879. A general attendance is expected, and all the officers are urgently invited to be present. A meeting for the organization of a district Sabbath-school Association for Dist. No. 4, Nebraska, will be held with the Richmond church the first Sabbath and Sunday in December. We hope to meet a good representation of both officers and members of each school in the district. NOTHING in the providence of God permitting, I will meet with churches in Wisconsin as follows: Liberty Pole, Nov. 15, 16. Can Bro. Eli Osborn and T. D. Waller meet me at this place? Avalanche, Nov. 22, 23. Can Bro. J. B. Nofsinger, of Warner Creek, meet me here? Debello, Nov. 29, 30. Cannot Bro. H. W. Decker come to this meeting, and assist in the temperance and T. and M. work? I would like to see a good turnout at these meetings. Come to do good, and receive good. PROVIDENCE permitting, I will hold meetings in Wisconsin as follows:— Sand Prairie, Nov. 29, 30; Mt. Hope, Dec. 6, 7; Hurricane Grove, Dec. 13, 14; Waterloo, Dec. 20, 21. All these meetings will begin Friday evening. We request a general attendance. Publishers’ Department.
By Editor
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We are very thankful to our dear German brethren who have so kindly contributed to the next number of the Stimme; and we gladly renew the invitation to others who may wish to help the work of God among their countrymen. There are now between eighteen hundred and two thousand souls who take the Stimme. Let us all help with both voice and pen, and try to make the paper a truthful “Voice of Truth.” Shameful Trifling With the Sacred Teaching of Scripture
such utterances that we will attempt no comment. Is it not the most shameful trifling with the sacred teaching of the Bible? Having brought the church down to the standard of the world, we know there is now a determined purpose to bring the Bible to indorse their position, and then call the world Christian. But this is the plainest utterance on that point that we have yet seen.