It was at a boarding-house in one of our large cities, where I was expecting to sojourn for some months, that I made the acquaintance of Henry Somers. The first time I went to the table, he attracted my attention by his loquacity. He talked more than any one else; but though his conversation was fluent and animated, his countenance did not light up; indeed he had not an expressive face, and what expression there was, was not cheerful. It was that of a man with whom things were not going happily; of one who had something on his heart—some disappointment, some sorrow, some anxiety, some heavy care. At first I thought the sweet, gentle, youthful woman who sat beside him was his wife, but in this I soon found that I was mistaken; their proximity at the table being merely accidental, and their acquaintance not of long standing. He had never been married.135
Judging from his appearance, I should say that Somers, at this time, was approaching forty years of age. His dress was always most scrupulously neat, and his light brown hair and full handsome beard in perfect order. His blue eyes, though lusterless, and surrounded with a dark circle, were always in motion, as if indicative of an uneasy, restless soul. His cheeks were somewhat sunken, and his face pale.
As the season advanced, I became better acquainted with my fellow boarder, and found that he had been quite a traveler; having not only been in Europe, but in China and Japan. I discovered, too, that he belonged to a wealthy family, and that he had enjoyed opportunities of improvement far beyond what fall to the lot of most young men. But still there was not that intelligence and culture which such advantages should have given him. His conversation was quite disconnected, and, sometimes almost silly. Occasionally he seemed much dejected, talking about the unfeeling and heartless, selfish world, and his own hard lot; and even wished he was dead. He had no employment, but told me that not long before he had almost completed arrangements for going into business, but that the party failed to keep their word.
Two or three months had elapsed after my first meeting with my somewhat mysterious acquaintance when he disappeared from his place at the table for some days, and no one knew what had become of him. He had told no one of his intended absence, and his trunk and clothes were still in his room. Various were the conjectures, as day after day passed without his return. The mystery was soon solved. Learning one morning that he had come back the night before, and that he was sick in his room, I went to see him. The first glance told the tale. He had been in a debauch, and was now in the prostrate condition consequent upon days of drunkenness. I sat down by his bedside, spoke kindly to him, let him know that I understood the state of the case, that I wished to be his friend, and to do all in my power to help him up from his fall.
Sympathy and kind words quickly unlocked his burdened heart, and he told me his sorrowful story. He had fallen in with so-called friends, who enticed him to drink, and having once tasted he could not stop; he had lain several days at a public-house under the influence of liquor, and the debauch having run its course, he had now come back, "in soul and body," as he expressed it, "the most wretched man alive." With nerves unstrung, stomach disordered, burning thirst, an aching head, and an aching heart, he was indeed a pitiable spectacle.
But notwithstanding the evident sufferings of this miserable man, it was a relief to him to have some one present, and especially one to whom he could unburden his oppressed and troubled soul. He told me his whole story. "This is not the first time," said he, "no, not by hundreds, that I have been as you now see me. This thing has been going on for years. Long ago I contracted the habit of drinking, and it has clung to me with a power that I can't shake off. I am the son of a rich man and that has been my ruin. I had plenty of money, and abundant opportunities of indulgence, and but for that my life would have been a very different one. My social position, and ample means gave me access to a club, when I was quite young.
"There I met a gay, jolly set, and we used to play cards, and take drinks night after night, until a very late hour. In this way things went on from bad to worse, until sometimes I took a dozen or more drinks in a night, and of course never went home sober. This sort of life soon brought its natural consequences. My family were mortified and distressed. At first they pleaded and remonstrated; then they grew harsh, and reproached. I was making a brute of, myself disgracing them. Various means were resorted to, to reform me, and after a time I was taken to Europe to get me out of the way of bad companions; but this did not help the matter much. Afterwards they sent me off to China, in hopes that the long voyage and change of life would break up my wretched habits; but this did not avail.
"I remained two years in the East, and soon made the acquaintance of Englishmen who were harder drinkers than my old companions; and the only wonder is that I lived to get back to my own country. Perhaps it would have been better if I had died there, but I was spared and came home, and for a while strove to do better. Indeed I reformed so far that my father put me into business, but the accursed drink soon got the better of me, no longer fit for business, I was once more set adrift, and with old companions to help me on to ruin.
"What I have gone through since then, God only knows. Some time ago I concluded that I would make a desperate effort to break the horrible bondage, and as it was important to get away from old haunts and companions, I came to this city. I am allowed just money enough to pay necessary expenses; but even that, with the exception of a few dollars a month, is not risked in my hands. I had been keeping sober until I fell into this bad company, and then, as you see, I was overcome and I fear this will continue to be the way. What is to be the end—how long this wretched sort of life is to continue, I don't know; but if I were only ready for a better world, what a relief it would be to die!"
The foregoing was not given in the continuous form in which I have narrated it; he was suffering too much for that—nor in the precise words; but this is the story. He looked and talked like one who, although conscious of his frightful bondage, was yet hopeless as to his power to escape. I told him that God could help him, that his grace was all-sufficient, and that if with a penitent, broken heart, he would cast himself at the feet of the Sinner's Friend, he would find mercy and be made a thoroughly reformed man; and that this was the only help that would certainly avail.
"I wish I were a Christian," said he; "what a blessing it must be to be a Christian! I should think you must be the happiest man in the world, with a Christian's hope, and spending your life in trying to do good."
This was spoken in the tone and manner of one whose bitter experience afforded a sombre background for setting off his ideal of a Christian. But though the words were sincere, they were evidently but the passing utterances of a restless, disturbed spirit.
After a few moments silence, he said:—
"I'm like the man in the Bible—Esau, was n't it?—that sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. I sold mine for a glass of liquor."
"Well, there's one thing," said I, "that you ought to do, and which I suppose you can do—that is, to get some employment. You know the proverb 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop;' and so long as you are unemployed, you will be more liable to fall into temptation."
"I know that very well," he replied, "but how can I get employment? My father won't trust me with money, for he thinks I would soon waste it; and nobody would take a man into a business house who knows nothing about business, and who, they would be sure to find out, had been dissipated. And to tell the truth, I am not fit for business; my miserable course of life has injured my mind. I can't fix my attention on anything, and what I undertook to do wouldn't be done well. The fact is, there's no hope for me. Oh, if I was only prepared, what a relief it would be to die!"
The tone and manner in which this was said, showed that it came from a thoroughly wretched heart. It was the wail of woe from one who had made shipwreck of himself.
After this interview I not unfrequently conversed with this unhappy man. His course was still the same—sometimes months conducting himself well, and then falling into a debauch. But at his best moments there was about him an air of misery and hopelessness, which always excited my sympathy. He went to the West some years since, and not long ago I read a notice of his death. Poor fellow! from what I have been able to gather about his last years, there were no light shed upon his closing scene.
I have narrated the foregoing as a striking illustration, of the wreck which bad habits, contracted in youth, make of the entire subsequent life. This man was not cut off in the morning of his days; he lived to middle age. Nor did he sink to utter degradation. He never lay in the gutter; he was not a common outcast; nor did he die literally a drunkard's death. For years he saw the evil of his course, and would fain have changed it; but when he had made the attempt, he could neither form the social ties nor make the business connections so essential to his continuance in well-doing.
What he said of himself, indeed was true; he really was fit for nothing. His enfeebled mind rendered him an uninteresting companion; he was incapable of continuance and intelligent application, and he was restless as the troubled sea. All this, combined with shattered nerves and an irresolute will, made him apparently as unavailable for all the practical purposes of manhood as any human being I ever saw. Oftentimes I used to think what could be done for him, or with him, but there was developed nowhere to begin, nothing to build upon. Had he become a Christian that would have furnished the needful objective point; but thoughts on that subject came and went through his mind like water through a sieve. And so powerless was his will, that if he made a pledge of abstinence he would not keep it.
Here, then, was the sad spectacle of a man hardly yet in the noon of his days, restless, miserable, exiled by his family, without one intimate virtuous friend, and for practical purposes good for nothing. It was one of the most sorrowful illustrations I have ever met with, of a blighted life. At the outset of his career he had every advantage—social position, wealth, influential friends, everything—but by yielding to the tempter these were all sacrificed. In those days and nights card-playing drinking and jollity, no doubt seemed very fine, that was the seed-sowing, but when I saw him, the harvest time had come. He sowed to the wind and was reaping the whirlwind.
As I used to listen to the moaning of his wretched heart, and feel how powerless I was to help him in such a case, oh, how my inmost soul pitied him; and how unspeakable seemed the folly of those who, with beacons before them, deliberately and persistently follow in their footsteps. "Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird." So spoke Solomon; but it does not seem to be so now. The net stands right in view, with its victims struggling in its meshes, and yet how many with eyes wide open walk right into it.
Young man, beware of dissipated company! Touch not, taste not, the fatal wine cup. Avoid the first step in the road to ruin and then you will not take the second. Take warning from the bitter experience of Henry Somers, lest like him sowing the poison seeds in youth, like him you reap the blighted life.—Sel.
A Vain Delusion.
By Editor
A FAVORITE theme with the editors of so-called health journals and household medical guides is that of “overwork,” and so much has been written on this subject and of such a nature, that, were we to believe and act upon this advice thus given, the world would become almost a hive of drones. We confidently believe that so far as honest brain work goes, the more we do of it the better, and if, owing to a reckless disregard of recognized hygienic and sanitary laws, an occasional “student” finds an early grave, let the blame be put where it belongs, and not credited to the worthy zeal that some call “overwork.” Having long held to this opinion, and believing that facts would sustain us, we are gratified to find that an eminent English physician has given expression to a like view, and, coming as it does from one high in authority, we trust it will receive the attention from both students and drones that it deserves.
We condense from Dr. Wilk’s communication as it appears in the Lancet, as follows: After answering the simple question, “Are people suffering from overwork?” with a decided “No!” the writer says: “Medically speaking, I see half a dozen persons suffering from want of occupation to one who is crippled by his labors. Very often when a business man complains of being overdone, it may be found that his meals are irregular and hurried, that he takes no exercise, is rather partial to brandy-and-soda, and thinks it is not improper to poison himself with nicotine every night and morning.”
Passing from man to woman, the case is made to appear even more severe. It is not overwork, therefore, that is to be deprecated, provided the work is legitimate, and such as to claim a normal exercise of the functions. The brain is an engine of many horse power; its energy must be accounted for in some way; if not used for good purposes it will be for bad, and “mischief will be found for idle hands to do.” So work is actually a safeguard. The human body is made for work, and just as the muscles are better prepared for work by previous training, so the nervous system, whether it be the brain or spinal column, becomes more energized by use. It is only during sleep that the brain is actually inactive, and hence, if we will not give it work to do, it will find that to engage its energy, even though in the end the labor be profitless.
After referring in a plain, though hardly gentle manner to the men and women whom the frivolities of life “sadly busy,” the writer contrasts them with those whose minds are never at rest and yet who live to a good old age. As the closing passages are not only truthful as to facts, but of value by the suggestions they contain, we are prompted to quote them at length—and should there be among our readers some of these overworked brain-workers, they will find in these words sage counsel and encouragement. The writer refers to the honest, cheerful, but constant, workers as follows:—
“Practically they have no rest, for, when one object of study is complete, they commence to another. It is by the happy faculty of diverting the powers into different channels that this is accomplished. Instances might easily be quoted of statesmen, judges, and members of our profession, who know no absolute rest, and who would smile at the suspicion of hard work injuring any man. I make it a custom to ask young men what their second occupation is—what pursuit have they beside their bread earning employment. Those are happiest who possess some object of interest, but I am sorry to say there are few who find delight in any branch of science.
The purely scientific man finds his best recreation in literature or art, but even in intellectual work so many different faculties are employed that a pleasant diversion is found in simply changing the kinds of labor. For example, a judge after sitting all day, and giving his closest attention to the details of the cases before him, may yet find relief in his evenings by solving problems in mathematics. The subject of overwork, then, is one of the greatest importance to study, and has to be discussed daily by all of us. My own opinion has already been expressed, that the evils attending it on the community at large are vastly overestimated; and, judging from my own experience, the persons with unstrung nerves who apply to the doctor are not the prime minister, the bishop, judges, and hard-working professional men, but merchants and stockbrokers retired from business, government clerks who work from ten to four; women whose domestic duties and bad servants are driving them to the grave, young ladies whose visits to the village school or Sunday performance on the organ are undermining their health, and so on.
“In short, and this is the object of the remarks with which I have troubled your readers, in my experience I see more ailments arise for want of occupation than from overwork, and, taking the various kinds of nervous dyspeptic ailments which we are constantly treating, I find at least six due to idleness to one from overwork.”—Appleton’s Journal.
Unquietness
UNQUIETNESS is the greatest evil that can come to the soul, excepting sin. For as seditions and civil discords of a commonwealth ruin it entirely, and disable it to resist a stranger, so our heart, being troubled and disquieted in itself, loseth strength to maintain the virtues which it had gained, and with it the means to resist the temptations of the enemy, who, at that time, useth all kind of endeavors to fish in troubled waters.
SECULAR NEWS.
—During the year 1876, 108,771 Italians came to America. Of this number 89,000 are set down as temporary tourists.
—The amount of lumber cut upon the Connecticut river and its tributaries the past winter is estimated at 30,000,000 feet.
—Over 1,200 emigrants arrived at Atchison in one day, destined for the interior of Kansas.
—Tornadoes are reported from Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky and Michigan, doing great damage to property, and inflicting many personal injuries.
—The Windsor Hotel of Coburg, Ontario, was recently burned to the ground. The front wall fell in, burying a number of firemen in the ruins, four of whom were killed.
—From three to four hundred cases of typhoid fever were reported daily in St. Petersburg during March, on account, it is held by some, of epidemic germs having been brought from the seat of war.
—It is estimated that in the neighborhood of Smyrna, about 10,000 tons of raisins are annually produced. From August 1876, to June 30, 1877, as many as 1,343,900 boxes arrived in England from Malaga, against 977,520 up to the same date of the previous year.
—It is stated that the great cyclone and storm wave which visited certain districts in Bengal on the morning of the first of November, 1876, that the total number of persons drowned was 90,000, and that the outbreak of cholera which followed carried off 75,000, making a total mortality of 165,000.
—The Madras Times believes that Southern India is on the threshold of another famine sufficiently widespread to cause the greatest concern, and as if to fill their cup of affliction to the full, a visitation of grasshoppers has ravaged the country clearing the growing crops and leaving the fields as if burned with fire.
RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
By Editor
—The American Bible Society will hold its anniversary this year at Richmond, Va., on the 12th of May.
—The debt of the New York City Mission Society is now $13,168. It employs thirty-five missionaries.
—Seven of the present Congregational pastors of New England have occupied their pulpits continuously fifty years.
—Hengler's large circus in Liverpool, holding 4,000 people, is crowded at the religious meetings held there every Sunday evening.
—The number of Roman Catholic missionaries and teachers among the Indian tribes in the United States is 117.
—The children of the Free Church of Scotland are engaged in raising money to purchase a steamer for the Livingstonia Mission in Africa.
—An exchange says: "The New England Methodist Conference, at Westfield, Mass., has voted not to admit ministers in the future who use tobacco."
—The $20,000 needed to provide a fireproof building in Philadelphia for the library and valuable papers of the Presbyterian Historical Society has been secured.
—Nine-tenths of the immense number of liquor establishments recently visited by the police in New York, were run by Roman Catholics. The rest made no claim to religion.
—The Established Church in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is governed by two archbishops and twenty-eight bishops. The salaries of these range from $75,000 per annum, given to the archbishop of Canterbury, to $12,000. The deans, the next inferior dignitaries, have salaries averaging about $5,000, the highest paid having $15,000. The total income of the church may be set down at $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 a year. No religious census has been officially made, but the church population has been estimated on trustworthy data at 12,500,000, for whom 5,750,000 church sittings are regularly fixed and available.
More Truth.
WHEN our pilgrim fathers were in readiness for their departure from Leydon to this country in 1620, they kept a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer. It was a most solemn and interesting occasion, and the devoted Robinson improved it in a most fitting manner, charging them to ever keep their minds open to conviction. We commend the following extract from it to all who may read this paper:—
"Brethren, we are now quickly to part from one another, and whether I may live to see you face to face on earth any more, the God of heaven only knows; but whether the Lord hath appointed that or not, I charge you before God and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveals anything to you by any other instrument, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry; for I am verily persuaded, I am very confident, that the Lord hath more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go, at present, no farther than the instruments of their reformation. The Lutherans cannot be drawn to go beyond what Luther saw. Whatever part of his will our God revealed to Calvin, they will rather die than embrace; and the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God, who yet saw not all things. This is a misery much to be lamented; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God; but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace farther light as that which they first received."
Meetings at Battle Creek, Mich.
By Dudley Marvin Canright
We began meetings here Sabbath, April 13, for the benefit of the backslidden and unconverted. Brother Haskell was with us till Wednesday, and rendered good aid. Brother Hollenbeck, our blind brother from Iowa, was with us all through, and rendered valuable aid. From the first, the Lord seemed to bless our meetings. All meetings in the place were suspended, at the College, at the Offices, at the church, and at the Sanitarium, and the brethren generally attended the meetings, so that our house was crowded at every meeting. At the first invitation, probably about fifty came forward to seek the Lord. Nearly all these were persons who had never made any start in the service of God. During our entire meetings, we made no call for those who were simply on the background and needed reviving. We recommended them to seek God at home, and get a preparation to help us in the work. It was simply those who had never been converted, or who were wholly backslidden, that we labored for. There was much more feeling than we expected to find, and more needed to do than we had anticipated.
On Sunday, April 14, we baptized ten. By Wednesday, twenty-two more were ready, and we baptized them. Every evening from ten to fifteen new ones made a start. We have held our meetings just one week. The last opportunity we gave was on Friday evening, April 19. It was by far the most solemn meeting we have had. The whole audience was deeply moved. Several times nearly all were in tears. When, for the last time we gave an invitation to those who wanted to avail themselves of this opportunity, a good many felt that it was their last chance; and brethren and sisters who had friends here felt very deeply for them, and went to them all over the house, to talk with them. One after another came forward, weeping and broken down. We spent about an hour in this manner. When we got through, about one-hundred and twenty-five were forward for prayers. This number did not include those already baptized. We then gave opportunity for them to speak. This was one of the most precious meetings I have ever enjoyed. It did our souls good to see strong men and women, and little children, rise up in rapid succession, expressing their desire to be Christians without reserve. Largely, they were persons who had never spoken a word in meeting before. We all felt to thank God and take courage. Sabbath afternoon we went to the banks of the Kalamazoo, where so many scores have been baptized before. Both banks of the river were lined with hundreds of spectators, while Brother Jones and myself had the pleasure of baptizing fifty dear souls into Christ. Many here said it was the most beautiful baptism they had ever witnessed. All went off most pleasantly. Everybody was quiet and solemn, and the Spirit of God seemed to be present. Thus eighty-two souls have been baptized within the past week. This is the largest number ever baptized here at any one time. Several more, who were not quite ready yesterday, will be baptized in a few days.
April 20, 1878. D. M. CANRIGHT.
Red Bluff, Tent No. 3.
By M. C. Israel, B. A. Stephens
The interest continues to be good. Last Sunday evening three hundred and fifty were present to hear upon the subject of Spiritualism. The average attendance is seventy-five. Two have taken their stand with us, and were baptized to-day in Reed's creek. About eighty witnessed the scene. We desire the prayers of all for the success of the work here.
M. C. ISRAEL,
B. A. STEPHENS.
April 28, 1878.
The N. P. Camp-Meeting.
By Isaac D. Van Horn
It has been fully decided that this meeting be held near Salem, Oregon, from June 27 to July 2. We have a very good grove selected three miles north of Salem on the line of the O. & C. R. R. The gentlemanly superintendent of this road has consented to accommodate us by stopping all regular trains at the ground during the meeting, and also to pass back free all who pay full fare in coming to the camp-meeting.
Everything seems to open favorably before us so far, to have a good meeting. We want our brethren and sisters to feel that they must attend it in order to make it a success. If you have to make a sacrifice of time and means, you will find that you will lose nothing in the end. Move by faith in this matter and not by feeling.
Let all who come to the meeting come prepared to take care of themselves. What I mean is, come to live on the ground as you would live at home. Bring blankets and bedding, etc., as you would to camp in the mountains or by the seaside.
The Salem church will see that there is plenty of good oat straw for filling beds on the ground, feed for teams, and a provision stand where all can go and get food at as reasonable rates as could be desired or expected.
It must be remembered by all that the second session of our Conference will be held in connection with this meeting, and every company of Sabbath-keepers whether organized or unorganized should be represented by delegates. All the ministers and licentiates, who have labored in the Conference since the last session, should make out a full report of their time and expenses, and bring it with them or send it to the meeting.
In view of this all our brethren and sisters should see to it that their S. B. pledges are paid up for the first half of the year 1878, at least. Let the S. B. treasurers be specially active in collecting, that the S. B. and missionary one-third may be sent by their delegates to the meeting. The assessment to raise a fund to pay for our new tent must be all paid up so there will be no lack in that direction. A few who have not paid their pledge to the $300 fund, should make an earnest effort to have it all in hand at our camp-meeting.
Now let all our brethren and sisters wake up and lay hold of the burdens that are to be borne in advancing the cause in this Conference, with decided earnestness and zeal. Let none shrink from duty or responsibility, and we shall soon see the blessing of God attending the efforts of his servants to advance the cause. Time is rapidly passing and the work is hardly begun yet in this Conference. Look at the cause of your divine Master and ask yourselves, Is it prospering? Am I doing all that is in my power to help it along? The people must sanctify themselves that their prayers may be heard in behalf of the ministers and their work that God may crown their efforts with success.
I. D. VAN HORN.
Salem, Oregon, April 24.
Tent No. 2, Lemoore.
By J. L. Wood, J. D. Rice
After closing our meetings at Locust Grove and Pleasant Valley, and getting the work into shape that we could leave for a while, we came to Lemoore, pitched the tent, and commenced meetings the evening of April 26. We have held two meetings with fair attendance.
J. L. Wood,
J. D. Rice.
Hymns of Praise.
By Editor
WE have just issued a 64-page collection of hymns and tunes adapted to use in religious lectures, camp and tent-meetings, in social meetings and in the home circle. The hymns are all accompanied by music.
The first part of the book is devoted to standard hymns and tunes. The remainder is filled up with new, stirring, sacred songs, some of which appear for the first time in this book, and any one of which is worth more than the price of the book. Price 10 cents.
Address, Signs of the Times,
Oakland, Cal.
APPOINTMENTS.
The Wisconsin camp-meeting will be held at Madison, Dane county, Wis., commencing May 29.
Special meetings will be held with the churches in Minnesota, as follows:—Rock Elm, May 8; Eau Galle, 11, 12; Maiden Rock, 18, 19; Lake City, 25, 26.
The Kansas Camp-meeting will be held at Neosho Falls, Woodson county, May 22 to 27, 1878. This place is seventy miles south of Topeka, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad. Also the Third Annual Session of the Kansas Conference, and Tract and Missionary Society will be held in connection with the Camp-meeting.
The camp-meeting of the North Pacific Conference of S. D. Adventists will be held from June 27, to July 2, 1878. The place of meeting will be on the land of Adam Stephens, three miles North of Salem, on the line of the O. & C. railroad.
The second annual session of the North Pacific Conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting. The proper number of delegates should be chosen by each organized and partially organized church, to represent them at the meeting. Ministerial help from the California Conference may be expected.
I. D. VAN HORN,
S. MAXON,
THOS. STARBUCK. } Conf. Com.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
By Editor
“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully,” (margin, negligently.) Jer. 48:10.
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$1.00 EACH. D Bowe 5-31, Frank Wood 5-6, James H Becks 4-42, Mrs Jabez Cowles 4-42, Mrs G W Underhill 4-37, Mrs Wm Camp 4-43, Miss Susan Willey 4-43, Andrew R Peterson 4-41.
75 CTS EACH. William Dieter 4-41. John Price 4-41. John Lane 4-41. J W Liversay 4-41, D R Swan 4-41. Alf Hall 4-41, G W Malone 5-4, Mrs S E Randall 4-38, Alfred Newby 4-41.
MISCELLANEOUS. S N Walsworth (2 copies) $3.00 5-17, Wm B Knapp (3 copies) 4.50 5-17, W W Williams (3 copies) 4.50 5-17, John Williams (2 copies) 3.00 5-17. Samuel Thurston (2 copies) 3.00 5-17, Mrs Wm Bowen (2 copies) 3.00 5-17, E M Warren (3 copies) 4.50 5-17, D E Lawrence (3 copies) 4.50 5-17, H M Carpenter (3 copies) 4.50 5-17, Daniel Newcomb (3 copies) 4.50 5-17, Anna J Cottrell (2 copies) 3.00 5-17, Darius Tabor (2 copies) 3.00 5-17, M S Bristol (2 copies) 3.00 5-17. Mrs L J Sage (16 copies) 24.00 5-9, Z D Howe (4 copies) 6.00 5-17, John Emerson (16 copies) 24.00 5-17, John Curtis (2 copies) 3.00 5-17, James Pease (4 copies) 6.00 5-17, D C Burch (4 copies) 6.00 5-17, Elida Brown (2 copies) 3.00 5-17, James Farrah (5 copies) 7.50 5-17, A Kisner (5 copies) 7.50 5-17, P H Cady (10 copies) 15.00 5-17, M A Pasco (7 copies) 10.50 5-17, J Tabor (8 copies) 12.00 5-12, Peter More 1.13 5-3. Mrs F M Mace (14 copies) 21.00 5-17, Wm Lord 50c 4-33. Chas F Abbott 25c 4-25, G Velthuysen 2.50 5-17. Wm Carpenter (8 copies) 12.00 5-17, Martha Watkins (2 copies) 3.00 5-17, J D Shilling (2 copies) 3.00 5-1. J H Disher 5-17, J Fitzgerald 30c 4-29, U J Huzzey 30c 4-29, E J Waldon 3.00 4-25.
Received on Account.
Geo R Drew $10.00, Cal T and M Society 68.15, New York T and M Society 250.00, Vermont T and M Society 50.00, Indiana T and M Society 40.00, Kentucky T and M Society 31.00, Wisconsin T and M Society 106.00.