BRO. SMITH: Permit me to address the saints scattered abroad. I do not feel capable of edifying, but want to be on the Lord's side, and my testimony on the side of truth. I realize truly that I am a weak, imperfect creature. Alas! this wretched heart of mine, how prone to wander from its God! Oh, I desire to return unto the Lord with my whole heart, and say:
"Forever here my rest shall be,
Close to Thy bleeding side."
I feel truly that we are in a land of sorrow, sickness and death. "But the better land no sorrow knows." Oh, blessed promise of a better inheritance! 'Tis there I want to meet all the weary saints; there to rest this aching head, this troubled breast, these weary limbs, where death can never come.
We have been called upon to pass through affliction with many of our brethren and sisters. Death has visited our family circle, and taken one of our little ones, a son, aged four years. He died of scarlet fever. His sufferings were beyond description. When I told him, that the Lord would soon come to take all his people to a world where they would suffer no more, it seemed to comfort him in his sufferings.
Little Milo, precious one,
Gently sleeps he in the grave,
Till our dearest Lord shall come,
Who has died our souls to save.
No more pain shall rack his frame,
No more fever scorch his brow,
No delirium vex his brain,
He is resting sweetly now.
Dear brethren and sisters, is this not indeed a blessed consolation? O, Savior hasten thine appearing, and help us all to get ready, is my prayer. Pray for me, dear brethren and sisters. ELIZABETH HUTCHINS.
Ballville, Ohio.
Remember Jesus Has Been to the Grave
When you think of the grave, remember you are only going where Jesus has been.
Extracts from Letters.
Bro. C. Gregory writes from Monroe, Green Co., Wis.: "I take this opportunity to tell the brethren and sisters of my determination to obey God, by keeping all his commandments and the testimony of our Lord and Saviour. It has been about one year and eight months since I embraced the first message and its accompanying truths. I praise the Lord that he inclined mine ear to hear, and my heart to receive the gracious offer. I believe we have the truth, and it is my desire to be sanctified through it. I feel the necessity of having on the whole armor, in order to resist the temptations and escape the snares of the adversary. May the Lord help us to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh, and to purify ourselves by obeying the truth."
A Call to Overcome Lukewarmness
Bro. A. S. King writes from Hoosic Tunnel, Mass.: "I have long wished to say something to the brethren and sisters through the Review, but have been so lukewarm that I have said within myself, What good can I do in my situation? I see iniquity abounding, and the love of many waxing cold, and am led to exclaim, Who of us will endure unto the end, that we may be saved? I am thankful that I ever heard the truths of these last days, and am determined to seize every opportunity to obtain the whole truth, and the gold tried in the fire that I may be rich."
Warning Against Strong Delusion
Bro. J. Brown writes from E. Plattsburgh, N. Y.: "When I realize the condition the church is in, I am led to believe that we are living in that time of strong delusion that God said he would send that they might believe a lie instead of the truth. Dear brethren and sisters, shall any of us fall into this delusion? I fear for some when I see them loving the fashions and forms of the world. God's people will be a pure people, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. I believe we are living in a time when Satan will work all manner of deceivableness. O that the Lord may give us grace and wisdom to arise and get out of this state of lukewarmness, and come up to the standard of truth."
Note from Bro. Cornell.
By M. E. Cornell
Bro. SMITH: I have been holding meetings over two Sabbaths in Tipton. The interest has been better than I expected. Most of the time the court house has been crowded, and sometimes twenty or thirty have stood up for two hours. At present there is ground to hope that a few will receive the truth. Twelve discourses have been given, three of them on the Sabbath and I am to give three more on the Sabbath. If they can see and obey the truth on the law and Sabbath, then they may see the remainder. I shall stay over another Sabbath here and perhaps longer. I expect to be in new places all the time this winter, and till the third message ends. I will try to have as many as possible take the Review and Instructor.
M. E. CORNELL.
Tipton, Iowa.
Blasphemous.
By Editor
CASTING a glance lately upon a medical almanac—almanacs, by the way, which are becoming as numerous, and about as great a nuisance as the locusts of Egypt—our attention was arrested by the vignette on the cover. It was a representation of an angel flying through the midst of heaven with the patent medicine in his hand, and bearing this motto: “For the healing of all nations.” Now where was this idea of the healing of the nations obtained? Evidently from the Bible, which speaks of the tree of life whose leaves were for the healing of the nations. Probably the almanac would have used the very language of scripture, had the author been sufficiently acquainted with it to quote it correctly. Here then we have the healing properties of the tree of life, which God alone can give, applied to the miserable nostrums of patent medicine venders. This, to say the least, is insufferably degrading to the words of Holy Writ.
But worse than this, we have seen advertisements of patent medicine, Ayer's pills, pectoral, or something of the kind, accompanied with the vignette of a serpent raised upon a pole. Again we ask, Whence was this idea derived? And the answer is, From the brazen serpent which Moses lifted up in the wilderness, to which all who looked would live. And what was that serpent? A type of Christ! Here again the worthless compounds of unscrupulous patent medicine-makers are likened in their effects to the efficacy of the atoning blood of the Saviour of the world, which giveth life to all who come unto him. Perhaps those who originated these illustrations did not see their bearing upon divine things; and perhaps the religious papers which have inserted them, have done so inadvertently; but we cannot, on this account, consider them any the less blasphemous.
Queries.
By Editor
DEAR BRO. SMITH: I would like an answer to a question or two relative to John's preaching. At what age did he commence his public ministry? How long did he preach before he was cast into prison? At what period of his ministry did he baptize the Saviour? What led him when in prison, and after he had seen the Holy Ghost rest upon Christ in bodily shape like a dove, to send his disciples to inquire if he was the Christ?
J. BYINGTON.
That John preached a coming Saviour before his manifestation, is evident; but how long before, is not so apparent. Those who have any light on the above queries will please speak out.
To the Brethren in New York.
By Roswell F. Cottrell
I have corresponded with Brn. Andrews and Loughborough in relation to their laboring with the New York tent the coming season, agreeably to our request, and they are disposed to do so, provided duty does not evidently call them in some other direction. So we may expect their labors here, and be preparing to sustain them. Let the system we have adopted to raise means for the cause be vigorously prosecuted, that the Lord's servants may not lack, and that our prayers be not hindered, while we earnestly pray that the Lord will bless our labors to the advancement of his cause and the spread of the truth. R. F. C.
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By Editor
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A P P O I N T M E N T S.
If providence permit, Bro. and Sr. Byington will meet with the brethren as follows:
Parkville, at Bro. Keeney's, Sabbath, Jan. 7th, at 11 o'clock A. M.
Centerville, as Bro. Pratt may arrange, Tuesday evening, Jan. 10th.
Colon, Sabbath, Jan. 14th.
Meetings in Ashfield and Kensington
PROVIDENCE permitting we will meet with the brethren at Ashfield, Mass., Dec. 24th, and remain over two Sabbaths; and Kensington, Ct., the first Sabbath in January.
C. W. SPERRY.
D. T. BOURDEAU.
Western Iowa Meeting Appointments
By M. Hull
Providence permitting I will meet with the brethren of western Iowa as follows:
Decatur City, Jan. 5.
Afton, " 12.
Bro. Decker's, " 19.
Osceola, " 23.
Bro. Jones', or where he may appoint, " 26.
All the above meetings commencing at early candle-lighting. May the Lord give us a good time.
M. HULL.