DEAR BRO. WHITE: I would like to express through the columns of the Review my sincere and heartfelt thanks that through a kind Providence my life has been spared to hear the startling truths of the third angel's message.
It is now about a year since I commenced trying to keep all of God's commandments, and I fully realize the fact that we must watch unto prayer, and lead sober and consistent lives; for the day of the Lord is nigh at hand. I am determined through a sustaining providence to live separate from the world, and all its vain allurements; and I can truly say that I would not exchange my hope of eternal life for all the pleasures that this world can bestow. I will say to the brethren and sisters scattered abroad that I feel a sweet union with them, and trust that we may prove faithful in our duty to our heavenly Father, faithful to our fellow-laborers and fellow-sufferers, and, when the Master comes, reap a rich reward.
Your sister seeking for eternal life.
Dianna Lyon.
Marquette, Green Lake Co., Wis.
S. MCINTOSH
By S. McIntosh
From Sister McIntosh.
BRO. WHITE: I feel like saying through the Review that I am striving to overcome and gain an inheritance in the kingdom of God. I love the Review and the truths it advocates. I think we should be thankful that the Lord has provided such a means for our instruction. The church here is rising and trying to press together and rally more closely around the standard. I feel like consecrating myself anew to the Lord from day to day, that I may at last arrive unto the perfect stature. And although I make many crooked paths, and often ask myself in deep solicitude, Shall I ever be able to overcome? Yet I feel to say that through God strengthening me I can do all things. O for a living experience in the things of God! O for power to live in that way that I shall know at all times that I am doing those things that are well pleasing in his sight. I feel that I want a living faith to rely upon the promises of God, that I may stand in these perilous times.
S. MCINTOSH
Arlington, Columbia Co., Wis.
EVERY MAN AGAINST HIS NEIGHBOR.
"THE St. Louis correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette writes of the peculiar nature of the contest in Missouri, owing to the mixed sentiment of its people, and of the state of feeling in and about St. Louis at the present time:
"Missouri was not grandly in flames anywhere. There was no terrible army upon her territory threatening her cities with destruction, or menacing the people under her government as a body. Her trouble was deeper and seemed almost beyond the reach of Federal strength and wisdom. Wicked, bitter and devilish feeling was distilled through all her population. Business relations seemed about suspended: the social relations were poisoned; the common feeling of fellowship and friendship and confidence gave way to universal suspicion, mistrust, apprehension and fear. The old farmer found himself at deadly enmity with his old neighbor on the next farm. Mechanics, tradesmen and professional men, in the country neighborhoods, and villages and towns, ceased to understand each other, and no longer worked together like machinery, but began to fear and hate—and deadly fear leads to all lawlessness and cruelty and violence. Murder became an every day occurrence, and lost its awful character. There was danger of such bloody anarchy as was never known on the earth before."
What is to hinder a similar condition of things over the entire globe? Such a result is no more unlikely, than is the present condition of things in our own country. And should such a state of society generally exist, it would not greatly differ from what the Scriptures seem to foreshadow of the closing scenes of the present dispensation.—Ad. Herald.
THE ART OF NOT HEARING.
THE art of not hearing should be taught in every well-regulated family. It is full as important to domestic happiness as a cultivated ear, for which so much money and time are expended. There are so many things which it is painful to hear—many which we ought not to hear—very many which, if heard, will disturb the temper, corrupt simplicity and modesty, detract from contentment and happiness—that every one should be educated to take in or shut out sounds, according to their pleasure.
If a man falls into a violent passion, and calls me all manner of names, the first word shuts my ears, and I hear no more. If, in my quiet voyage of life, I find myself caught in one of those domestic whirlwinds of scolding, I shut my ears as a sailor would furl his sails, and making all tight, scud before the gale. If a hot and restless man begins to inflame my feelings, I consider what mischief these fiery sparks may do in the magazine below, where my temper is kept, and instantly close the door.
Does a gadding, mischief-making fellow begin to inform me what people are saying about me, down drops the portcullis of my ear, and he cannot get any further. Does the collector of a neighborhood's scandal ask my ear as a warehouse, it instinctively shuts up. Some people seem anxious to hear everything that will vex and annoy them. If it is hinted that any one has spoken evil of them, they set about searching the matter and finding out. If all the petty things said of one by heedless or ill-natured idlers were brought home to him he would become a mere walking pin-cushion stuck full of sharp remarks. I should as soon thank a man for emptying upon my bed a bushel of nettles, or setting a swarm of ants in my chamber, or raising a pungent dust in my house generally, as to bring in upon me all the tattle of careless or spiteful people. If you would be happy, when among good men, open your ears; when among bad, shut them.—Sel.
L E T T E R S .
"Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another."
From Sister Osgood.
DEAR BRO. WHITE: My heart is cheered as I read from week to week the cheering epistles from the brethren and sisters in the Review. Though most of them are written by those whom I have never seen, and probably never shall "till this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal immortality," yet I can rejoice in the same hope they express, can look forward to the same period for the termination of all my trials and sorrows, if only faithful to God a little while longer.
Yes, when I look abroad and witness the ravages of war in our own land, and also other unmistakable signs of the period in which we are living, I feel to thank God for the promise of new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Yes, my dear brethren and sisters, I believe that ere long Jesus will come to change our vile bodies, that they may be fashioned like unto his own glorious body, and then, and not till then, shall we appreciate fully the value of the great sacrificial offering that was made for our sins.
Your sister striving to overcome.
B. M. OSGOOD.
Lairdville, N. Y.
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History of the Sabbath, Part I. Bible History, . 15 “
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The Three Angels of Rev. xiv, 6–12, particularly the Third Angel’s Message, and the Two-horned Beast, . 15 “
Hope of the Gospel, or immortality the gift of God, Which? Mortal or Immortal? or an inquiry into the present constitution and future condition of man, . 15 “
Modern Spiritualism; its Nature and Tendency. This book should be in the hands of every family, as a warning against Spiritualism, . . 15 “
The Kingdom of God. A refutation of the doctrine called Age-to-Come, . . . . 15 “
Pauline Theology, or the Christian Doctrine of Future Punishment, as taught in the epistles of Paul, . 15 “
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Law of God. The testimony of both Testaments, showing its origin and perpetuity, . . . 10 “
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Nature and Obligation of the Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment.—Apostasy and Perils of the Last Days, 5 “
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An Appeal for the restoration of the Bible Sabbath in an Address to the Baptists, . . . 5 “
Review of Crozier on the Institution, Design and Abolition of the Seventh-day Sabbath, . . 5 “
Review of Fillio. A reply to a series of discourses delivered by him in Battle Creek on the Sabbath question, . 5 “
Brown’s Experience in relation to Entire Consecration and the Second Advent, . . . 5 “
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CONFERENCE IN WIS. AND ILLS.
By John Norton Loughborough; Isaac Sanborn
A CONFERENCE for Illinois and Wisconsin will be held at the new meeting-house in Avon, Rock Co., Wis., commencing Friday evening, Sept. 13, and holding over Sunday, the 15th. We hope to see a general gathering of the brethren and sisters of Northern Ills. and Southern Wis., and delegates from churches in Northern Wis.
As this meeting will close up the tent season, we hope all who have pledged on the support of the tent will come to this conference prepared to pay, or else send their pledges. It will also be necessary to raise some $50 more than was pledged at the last spring conference to meet the expense of the tent. Let the treasurers of the different S. B. funds come prepared to act in this matter.
Let the brethren and sisters, as far as convenient, bring blankets, buffalo-robes and provisions. The houses of the brethren will be open and their tables free to all who come. We expect and hope that this will be the largest gathering of Sabbath-keepers ever known in Wis. Come, brethren, praying that the Lord may meet with us, and then our gathering together will not be in vain.
In behalf of the church. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
ISAAC SANBORN.
POSTAGE STAMPS—SPECIAL NOTICE
By Editor
SUBSCRIBERS are requested to send in to this Office no more postage stamps of the old issue. A new stamp is already prepared, and in some places has taken the place of the old. When that change takes place in Michigan, the old ones will be worthless to us. We therefore give this notice that no more stamps may be sent in, till the new ones can be obtained.
ANNUAL MEETING
Of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association.
THE first annual meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, for the election of officers, and the transaction of all other business pertaining to the interests of the Association will be held at Battle Creek, Mich., sixth-day, October 4, 1861, commencing at 9 o'clock, A. M.
James White, Geo. W. Amadon, E. S. Walker, Uriah Smith, J. N. Loughborough, Cyrenius Smith, J. P. Kellogg, Trustees.
THE NEW HYMN BOOK.
By J. H. Waggoner
DEAR BRO. WHITE: I have received the new Hymn Book, and am very much pleased with it. The arrangement of the hymns, by paging the hymns retained as they are in the old book, is excellent. I think we have a book now that is suited to every want, both in hymns and music. It is to be hoped that more attention will be paid to the music, that there may be more uniformity in our congregational singing. The tunes in this book are sufficient in number and variety for every purpose. As a whole, I think it is as complete and perfect as may be attained unto, and feel confident that it will give general satisfaction.
J. H. WAGGONER.
TO THE BRETHREN IN SOUTHERN IOWA.
DEAR BRO. WHITE: Please say to the brethren in Southern Iowa that the Tent season is drawing toward its close, and the amount received on pledges has been barely sufficient to meet current expenses. Bro. Waggoner will soon have to return home, and it will be necessary that the pledges be paid, to provide for the wants of the messengers and their families. Winter is drawing near, and their wants should be attended to. Brethren will please forward to me by mail or otherwise as fast as possible.
H. C. WHITNEY.
Sec. of S. I. Tent Com.
Knoxville, Iowa, Aug. 25, 1861.
APPOINTMENTS.
By James White
Providence permitting, we will meet with the brethren at Wolcott, Vt., Aug. 31, and Sept. 1; Greenfield, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Sept. 7 and 8; where Brn. Hull and Cottrell may appoint, Sept. 14 and 15.
JAMES WHITE.
Discussion at Mannsville
By Moses Hull
Providence permitting, I will be ready to enter into a discussion with Eld. Turner (of Syracuse) at Mannsville, Sept. 8, at 10 A. M.
Moses Hull.
Conference in N. Y.
By M. Hull
THERE will be a conference of Seventh-day Adventists at Lyndonville, Orleans Co., N. Y., commencing Friday, Sept. 13, at 4 P. M., and continuing over Sabbath and first-day. The object of this meeting is to settle up past tent expenses, and make arrangements for having the tent manned out next year.
It is expected that Bro. and sister White will be at this meeting. Brethren, come to this meeting praying the Lord to give us a good time. Come prepared to say what you will try to do another year. We have great reason to be encouraged. The cause is onward in this State. Let us prepare now to have the tent strongly manned and well sustained next year.
Especially do we invite our brethren in Central and Northern N. Y. to represent themselves at this meeting, as the tent will perhaps run in that field next year.
M. HULL.
ENGLISH BIBLES.
By Editor
WE have on hand a good assortment of English Bibles, which we sell at the prices given below. The size is indicated by the amount of postage.