A wonderful, detailed, and content-rich 96-page manuscript record of meetings of the Young People's Volunteer Society, 1912-1914, of the Seventh Day Adventists.

We have handled many items like this over the years. This is definitely of the better order, with detailed accounts of the content delivered at the meetings, subjects discussed, spiritual content, etc.

Contents include discussion of / mention of

Subscribing to the "Special Times" weekly; purchasing tents for missionaries in South America, the history of the Young People's Societies [beginning 1907], their reading list for the year including The Uplift of China - Patriarchs and Prophets - Pilgrims Progress - Daybreak in Korea etc. on the unlearning of trashy literature, an interesting address on the Holy Spirit's giving of dreams and prophecies as a result of Pentecost, reading of a piece entitled The Miracles of Prayer . . . including a special note on wonderful healings, a talk on "one of God's earliest pioneers in the message . . . William Miller . . . In childhood he manifested more than ordinary intellectual gravity, but for 12 years was a deist . . . he was bro to a view of the Savior and comparing Scripture with Scripture he stated that the Ottoman power might fall in the year 1839-1840, etc.," the lives of Mr and Mrs James White  are then discussed, the Sabbath, Joshua Himes and the Signs of the Times, Pandita Ramabai, on Joseph Wolff as a follower of William Miller's doctrine, biographical sketch of David Livingstone, talks on deeper consecration, a reading on the 40th chapter of The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White, James Chalmers of Rarotonga, the recent baptism of 14 new Christians in Java where they had given up opium and pork etc., [this appears to be an Adventist missionary], temperance topics, etc. etc. etc. 

The location is noted as Batavia, but there are of course "Batavias" in New York, Illinois, Ohio, etc., 

Complete, bumped at corner causing a dog-ear to the entire text block. Easily relaxed in a press. A bit shaken.