When will incorrigible doubts be dumb?
When will injurious suspicions cease?
Proclaim anew, with cannon, fife and drum,
“The Empire is Peace—is surely Peace!”
Where is not record of the blessed truth?
Read on Sevastopol’s blood-boltered stones;
Read, all the way from Petersburg to Pruth,
On steppe and waste, in heaps of whitening bones—
“The Empire is Peace!”
Read, in the rice fields on Ticino’s bank,
Where the green blades wave greener for the slain;
In the blood-fattened grasses that grow rank
From the death-pits on Solferino’s plain—
“The Empire is Peace!”
Read, in each cold and desolate French hearth,
Bereft of brother, husband, son or sire;
Read in the rapine, ravage, scathe and dearth,
Through Piedmont wrought by hostile sword and fire—
“The Empire is peace!”
Read, in the brow of England grimly bent,
Her hands all busy with the gear of war;
In voted war tax and hot armament,
And out-look as for foemen, near and far—
“The Empire is Peace!”
Read, in the gathering hosts along the Rhine,
The cannon bristling on each forest front,
The turfed and angled earthwork’s sheltering lines,
On Scheldt or Meuse, against invasion’s brunt—
“The Empire is Peace!”
Read, in the gloom, as of the thunder cloud,
The stir, as of a pent volcano’s power,
Where, free awhile to speak her thoughts aloud,
Italy, sad and stern, awaits the hour,
“The Empire is Peace!”
And if the records of the truth be weak,
To sweep your sudden doubts, like dreams, away,
With trumpet-tongue let the armed thousands speak—
Who late through Paris marched in war array—
“The Empire is Peace!”
Letters.
By A. Ross
“Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another.”
From Bro. Ross.
Bro. SMITH : Since Bro. Barr left this place for Pa., I received a call from West Monroe, to meet with a few in that place who had resolved to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. We found eight heads of families who had started for the Mt. Zion, among whom were P. Allen, Dea. of the F. W. Baptist church, and his companion. The first Sabbath that they observed, they held a public meeting at the meeting-house in that place, where Brn. Barr and Wheeler had been laboring before, and since, Bro. and Sr. White labored with and for us at the tent meeting, which some from that place attended. Two weeks from the first meeting Bro. Treadwell and myself met with them again and found them growing strong and bold in the cause of truth. The inquiry is, Where is Bro. Barr? is he coming back? That region appears to be a good field for labor. They say since last winter the truth has been working like leaven, growing out from the reading of those silent messengers, published at the Review Office, which we distributed when we were there. The work is still onward. I have just learned of two others that have laid hold on the Sabbath, and many are interested.
In hope of eternal life. A. Ross.
Caughdenoy, N. Y.
Get Ready for the Coming of the Lord
By Geo. Smith
From Bro. Smith.
DEAR BRETHREN: How important that we get ready for the coming of the Lord! Do we realize that he is coming to change us from mortality to immortality, take us to those mansions prepared for his people, bring us to all the joys of heaven, to holy angels, to the society of all the blood-washed throng, and to enjoy their company forever; even for ever and ever! Think of it, cold-hearted professor, and while the poor of the Lord (but rich in faith) are rising to fall no more, and are putting their shoulders to the car of salvation to move it onward, and you apparently with your arms folded; think of it, and be not deceived, for God is not mocked.
The coming of the Lord draweth nigh. A few more short months and our work will be over, and if faithful to the end we shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of our God.
Yours in the patience of the saints.
Geo. Smith.
Laporte, Ind., Oct. 19th.
Holiness of Heart
Bro. Rew writes from Ordino, Wis.: “There are some twenty or thirty in this place and vicinity who are looking for the coming of the Lord, and are trying to walk in obedience to God’s commandments. We had a two days’ meeting here the 8th and 9th of this month. Bro. Welcome and other ministering brethren were present. There was a general gathering. The blessing of the Lord was poured out upon us; all seemed to partake of the good Spirit, and were strengthened and encouraged. Holiness of heart is our motto, and unless we know that our will is in submission to God’s will and love has possession of the heart, we are not satisfied. When it is so with us, how easy it is to perform every duty! Our crosses become a pleasure, and truly his yoke is easy and his burden light. I would that all might see that Christ came to save us from our sins, and not in them. He has purchased our perfect freedom; the blood of Jesus is sufficient to cleanse us from all sin. I praise God that I ever saw that there is a fullness in Jesus; that I was ever able to come to him and rejoice in the fullness of a Saviour’s love. I am determined to be faithful unto the end. My course is onward.”
Old Grudges
Old Grudges.—A writer in the Congregational Journal says: "I take this opportunity to say, that, according to my acquaintance and prayerful observation of many of our feeble churches, the greatest cause of decline, and of the withholding of God's blessing, are old grudges among the brethren and sisters, and a destitution of family religion. Old grudges are like old ulcers within the body, unseen except by their effects, wasting away the moral and spiritual life of man, and imparting to it an effluvium that poisons the whole atmosphere of Zion. Those who harbor them never act in character as Christians, for they are always under a more potent influence than that which proceeds from the love of Christ and his cause, yet they take no open stand on the side of the world."
Sorrow
By Adam Bede
Sorrow.—It would be a poor result of all our anguish and wrestling, if we were nothing but our old selves at the end of it—if we could return to the same blind loves, the same self-confident blame, the same light thoughts of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted human lives, the same feeble sense of that unknown, toward which we have sent forth irrepressible cries in our loneliness.—Adam Bede.
Ohio Conference.
THE tent season in Ohio closed with a general conference at Lovett's Grove in Wood county. At this conference we had hoped to see a general gathering of the disciples of our Lord, but having large crops of sorghum to be gathered, and oxen to be proved, many of our brethren begged to be excused. But as the holy women of old hasted to the sacred sepulchre from whence the Lord of life and glory had arisen, while their brethren sat at Emmaus, sad hearted and despondent, so did the sisters on this occasion. From all directions they might be seen coming, in wagons, buggies, ox-carts, &c., any way to get to the conference where the general interests of the cause at large were to be considered. May God's blessing attend them.
Our hearts were much cheered to see the zeal manifested by those who embraced the present truth in Fulton Co., this summer, nearly all of whom came from twenty-five to thirty-five miles to attend the meeting, and not as idle spectators either, but to cheer the true servants of God with their warm and earnest testimonies. We hope our older brethren will not only follow this example at the next conference, but also set them an example in turn, worthy of their imitation.
According to previous notice given in the Review, conference convened Oct. 14th, and organized by appointing G. W. Holt chairman, and T. J. Butler secretary, and after appointing a committee composed of delegates from the following churches: viz., Portage, Turkeyfoot, Jackson, Republic, Wauseon, Delta, Cass, Greenspring, Townsend, Ayresville, Gilboa, and Lovett's Grove, to consider measures to be taken to pay up past indebtedness, and still carry on the message, the business meeting was adjourned till evening after Sabbath. First-day evening, met pursuant to adjournment, when the following resolutions were presented by the committee, and unanimously sustained by the conference.
1st. Resolved that we procure a new tent for the coming season.
2d. Resolved that Brn. O. Mears, Jno. Clarke and J. Mears (Lovett's Grove), act as a central tent committee, to transact all business connected with the tent enterprise in Ohio, J. Clark being chairman, and O. Mears treasurer, of said committee.
3d. Resolved that the sum of twelve hundred dollars be raised by the first of June next, for the following purposes. 1st. To liquidate past indebtedness. 2d. To purchase a new tent. 3d. To defray the expenses of the general cause in the future.
4th. Resolved that the conference recommend the plan of systematic benevolence to all the churches in Ohio, for their adoption.
5th. Resolved that Bro. Waggoner be invited to labor in Ohio the coming winter.
6th. Resolved that the respective members of the financial committee act as solicitors in the various churches to which they belong in raising the sum specified in the 3d resolution.
During the conference, able, heart-cheering and animating discourses were given by Brn. Waggoner and Holt, and it is hoped that an impetus was given to the cause of present truth at this meeting, which will not die away with the autumnal flowers, but that will go on, gaining new accelerations of strength, until hope is turned to full fruition.
G. W. HOLT, Chairman.
T. J. BUTLER, Secretary.
Oct. 24th, 1859.
P. S. For the encouragement of those who have a heart in the cause, but were not at the conference, we would say that over seven hundred dollars were subscribed to raise the sum specified in resolution 3d, by the few brethren present, with a fair prospect of those fully converted to God and rejoicing in present truth, subscribing the balance, without the necessity of laying any burdens on the half-hearted. T. J. B.
Wanted!
By James White
1. SECOND edition of History of the Sabbath, as soon as Bro. Andrews can make those additions he designs, or hopes to be able to make. The first edition will very soon be used up.
2. Bro. Andrews' discourse on the two laws, delivered in the tent at Battle Creek general conference last June. We want to print 5000 copies as soon as possible.
3. Bro. Andrews is wanted at Mannsville, Jeff. Co., N. Y., to labor in the vicinity a few weeks. The brethren there are anxious for his labor, and able and willing to assist him. If in the Sabbath-History enterprise he wishes to visit New York, Boston, &c., the old friends of the cause on the route, would esteem it a great privilege to hear a discourse or two from him, and help him on his way.
We hope to meet Bro. Andrews at the conferences at Wright and Monterey.
JAMES WHITE.
Sick Divinity
SICK DIVINITY.—It is estimated that there are one hundred and fifty D. D.s in the Northern Methodist Church; while ten years ago there was less than a dozen. When, some forty or fifty years ago, a Presbyterian divine inquired of a Methodist elder with whom he was traveling, "why the Methodist church had no doctors of divinity," the Methodist promptly replied, "Because our divinity is never sick." It would seem, however, from the above statement, that its health has declined rapidly during the past ten years. Independent.
APPOINTMENTS.
By James White
Providence permitting, we will meet with the brethren in General Conferences as follows:
Lapeer, Mich., Nov. 5, 6.
North Plains, " " 8—10.
Wright, " " 12, 13.
Monterey, " " 19, 20.
JAMES WHITE.
How to be like Enoch.
Do you seek Enoch's introduction to the living God? Go to him, as Enoch went, believing that he is, and he is accessible [Heb. xi, 6], and seek to get into the same just and realizing knowledge of him that Enoch got. He is revealed to you more amply, perhaps, than he was to Enoch. Believe. Believe that he is not far off, but nigh. Believe that he is not hostile, but propitious. Believe that he is all that Jesus said—that he is all that Jesus was—and believing this, walk with him. Admit him into your home, that he may bless it. Admit him into your hourly occupations, that he may elevate and expedite them; admit him into your happy moments, that he may enhance them; and into your hours of anguish, that his presence may tranquilize and transform them. Let his recollected presence be the brightness of every landscape—the zest of every pleasure—the energy of every undertaking—the refuge from every danger—the solace in every sorrow—the asylum of your hidden life, and the constant Sabbath of your soul. Learn, with all reverence for his greatness, but with equal reliance on his goodness—learn to make the eye that never slumbers, the companion of your nights and mornings; and the ear that never wearies, make it the confidant of your weakness, your solitude, your ecstasy and woe. Learn to have not one life for God, and another for the world; but let your life be divinely devoted, and divinely quickened; let every footstep be a walk with God.—Dr. Hamilton.
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