Vol. 81 WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1904 No. 29

From the "Sunset" Magazine THE NOBLE DOMES IN KERN RIVER CANYON, CALIFORNIA AIDV NT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD JULY 2I, 1904

During Vacation We believe West Virginia is a most The Home and Church-School 1Wanua promising State for the book work, and that there are those who will respond to is especially valuable. The autho 's in- this call who are not now selling our pub- tention was that this book shoul be a lications. Address, W. Va. Tract So- guide to the parent in instructi gr the ciety, 1002 Williams St., Parkersburg, children at home, so that, when e tering W. Va. the church-school, they will have had t proper home training, and can edritint.e in the church-school without lintet- Testimonies, Vol. VIII ruption. This book is invaluable to an one interested in the teaching of chi IF you have not obtained a copy of this dren, as the following condensed de- most valuable book, we call attention to scription of its six departmentS will it again, for we believe those who have show:— not had the advantage of studying its Part I sets forth the general; prin- contents do not realize what they are THE simplicity and cheapness of our ciples of Christian education, and; states missing. It is a special book for this new tract rack are'being appreciated as the object of the church-schools. special time, and the words of admonition noted in the following paragraphs from Part II. applies these principles Ito the and caution with reference to carrying the secretary of a State Tract Society: — home training, and shows parenth hoik forward the third angel's message now " We received the tract rack, and •are to educate their children in the, home should be read by every one who is in- very much pleased with it. We are sure until they are old enough to enter the terested in this work. The proper rela- that it will fill a long-felt want among church-school. tion of our institutions to the message, our people, and we hope we can put• a Part III provides a course of I stu their location and work, our educational good number of, them into our State. for church-schools, recommends' text- efforts, questions of doctrine, etc., are " We are glad that something has been books, and tells how to teach eac1 su - given needed •consideration. The price produced that will answer the call for a jeet in every grade. is 75 cents, postpaid. Don't delay. cheap, convenient tract rack that can be Part IV presents a course of study f r used among our people." intermediate schools, and outlin's t e These racks •cost but 20 •cents each, principles upon which they should Thoughts From the Mount postpaid, and can be hung up in any conducted. of Blessing place where people are obliged to wait. 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You sent me eleven different the vest pocket alone, for its presence in Morocco 4.5' kinds, ten of each of the Sabbath tracts time of need is equally appreciated on the and fifty of the Second Coming of Christ. desk, table, in the machine drawer, etc., I am surprised to see 'how I can sell the where it may be found " just when I Help Wanted tracts. We moved on a farm two want it." AFTER quoting from a letter fro on' years ago last spring, four miles west It is not a little remarkable that a of our agents in West Virginia, who r of Coldwater, and I go to the city once book of 45,80o words can be manu- ports having just taken thirtyiseve a week to take my eggs and butter, and factured to weigh less than three ounces. orders for books in fifteen hours, arnoun I take a handful of tracts with me, and It also contains information that would ing to. $28.75, and seventy-four dbllar spend about an hour selling them. That do justice to a large atlas,— population worth of orders in seven days, the 'seer is all the time I have to give to the of all large cities, capital and area of all tary of the West Virginia Tract gimlet work, but I never forget my tracts. countries of, the world, maps of many says: — When anybody •comes to my house, they places, etc., also a digest of parliamentary " It may be that you can use thiS ite are always on my mind, and I have sold practise. so as to encourage some one to cone t a good many right here at home. Two All styles are- indexed. Bound in cloth, this field to help us in this good wor ,. of my neighbors took twelve tracts 25 cents; in Russia leather, 5o cents, About one third of this State, lying t' apiece, eleven of the Sabbath and one and in Morocco, with stamp holder extra, the south, has never been touched, and • apiece of the Second Coming of Christ. 6o cents. is the best territory in the State Or th I would like to give more time to the canvassing work, as the coal, timber, an work if I could, for I love the third Order of State Tract Societies; Review and oil are now being developed so dila th angel's message, the gospel of Jesus Herald, Battle Creek, Mich„ Review and Her- people all seem to have plenty of/oneii Christ, his power to save. ald, "Washington, D. C.; Pacific Press, Oakland, to spend, and. I believe they will spen " Yours in Christ, Cal.; Kansas City, Mo.; Southern Paoli it for the truth if they get a chant ." Assn., Nashville, Tenn. 4 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD JULY 21, 1904

gospel of salvation through faith in phetic periods, and ascribed to human or typical and temporary. It served as a Christ, as it is set forth by apostles and satanic agencies the powerful influence kindergarten lesson for people who were prophets. Its purpose is " to make ready of the Holy Spirit which had attended but children in spiritual discernment. It had its antitype in the mediatorial of- a people prepared for the Lord." the advent movement. Another class fices of Jesus Christ as our great high The one teaching which separates firmly held that the Lord had led them priest, and also its counterpart in the Seventh-day Adventists, not only from in their past experience; and as they human body, and its experiences under all so-called orthodox bodies but also waited and watched and prayed to know the ministration of Christ. Man is a dual being, intellectually from all other Adventists, is their teach- the will of God, they saw that their speaking. He is created with an intel- ing concerning the sanctuary and its great High Priest had entered upon an- ligence which is formed of his bodily, or, services. One or more of the various other work of ministration, and, follow- as we might say, his animal, propensi- denominations teach with more or less ing him by faith, they were led to see, ties and •desires. This is called " the clearness the truth concerning the Sab- also, the closing work of the church. flesh," the " carnal mind," the " body." This intelligence is possessed by all ani- bath, the nature of man, the near advent, They had a clearer understanding of the mals. . . . etc., but no other denomination inter- first and second angels' messages, and This department of human nature cor- prets, according to the Scriptures, the were prepared to receive and give to the responds with the first compartment of meaning and application of the typical world the solemn warning of the third the sanctuary. It is the body, or the angel of Revelation 14." flesh. In this God ministers con- sanctuary and its services so as to bring tinually. Here he is constantly at into prominence the position and special It thus appears that much more is in- work. Even in our sins we make him atoning work of the Son of God in this volved in this question than simply the to serve. This body is the temple of last generation. It is this teaching which theoretical interpretation of some types God, though it is often defiled. But here the Saviour of men graciously has given shape to this denominational and shadows. Some thoughtful men may manifests himself in sinful flesh. Here organization and work since the disap- be able to draw certain lessons from the lamp of consecration should always pointment of 1844. Many years ago it the earthly sanctuary and its services, burn. Here the sweet incense of a godly was said through the spirit of prophecy and others may suggest other lessons life should be continually offered. Here that " such subjects as the sanctuary, equally helpful, and the acceptance or is the bread of his presence.. . . But man is also endowed with an intel- in connection with the twenty-three hun- the rejection of these lessons would not ligence that is distinct from his animal dred days, the commandments of God, be essential to the existence of any gen- nature, and infinitely superior to it. This and the faith of Jesus, are perfectly cal- eral religious movement. But the inter- is called the " inward " or " inner man." culated to explain the past advent move- pretation given to this subject by the . . . As there was an inner apartment ment and show what our present position in the sanctuary, so there is an inner Seventh-day Adventists is of funda- phase to human •nature that is peculiarly is, establish the faith of the doubting mental importance to their existence as sacred to the presence of the indwelling and give certainty to the glorious fu- a separate denomination. The whole ex- God. The first apartment of the sanc- ture." It is perfectly plain, therefore, planation of the disappointment in 1844 tuary was a holy place because of the that the doctrine of the sanctuary and turns upon the sanctuary question. The divine presence in it. The ministrations of God's agents were always being car- its services, as taught by Seventh-day understanding of the threefold message ried on there, and so his ministrations Adventists, occupies a prominent place of Revelation 14 rests upon the same are evidently being carried on in the among the foundation principles of the foundation. The really distinctive work body, in the temporal and tangible things message which they are endeavoring to of this people could not be justified upon of life. From him we derive life and give to the world. breath and all things. Every function any other basis than their teaching con- of life is carried on under his care. But Other religious teachers have dwelt cerning the present work of our great in the soul, the heart of man, in his in general terms upon the ministry of High Priest in his closing work in the divine and godlike faculties, God has Christ our High Priest, usually giving heavenly sanctuary. For these reasons, designed to manifest himself in glory. it a more or less figurative interpretation, and because other religious teachers And as the Shekinah glory shone out over all the camp, so from man, God and regarding the earthly sanctuary as make a merely figurative application of desires to shine out to his own praise. typical of the church in its different ex- those scriptures which deal with the The way into the holy of holies was periences, or of the work of Christ upon sanctuary and its services, it is neces- through the first apartment. The way earth and in heaven, or of the human sary that the true meaning of this sub- into the soul is through the flesh. It is body, but it remained for Seventh-day the flesh that veils the divine in us. ject should be constantly emphasized. Not only in Jesus was " divinity veiled Adventists to present to the world the In view of these facts, we are sur- in humanity," but the same precious teaching concerning a literal sanctuary prised and pained that a publication treasure is to be found in every human in heaven, where a real priest conducts which claims a place in connection with heart. [Italics ours.] an actual service in behalf of sinful men, this advent movement should advocate There is much which might be said of which the earthly sanctuary and its such an interpretation of the typical concerning this teaching, but we must services were a copy and a pattern. sanctuary as is found in the following content ourselves by calling attention " The subject of the sanctuary was the paragraphs taken from an editorial en- briefly to some of the most important key which unlocked the mystery of the titled " The Earthly Sanctuary ": — considerations connected with it. Ac- disappointment of • 1844. It opened to cording to this interpretation it is " the The human system has two compart- human system," or " the human body," view a complete system of truth, con- ments in which Christ ministers. These nected and harmonious, showing that• correspond with the holy and most holy which is the counterpart of the typical God's hand had directed the great advent places of the typical sanctuary. sanctuary, and apart from any personal movement, and revealing present duty as In the old sanctuary there were two faith in Christ or any union with the it brought to light the position and compartments. Into the first the priest body of Christ, " this body is the temple entered every day, " accomplishing the work of his people. . . . The passing of service of God." Into the second, or of God, though it is often defiled." It the time in 1844 was followed by a pe- inner, compartment the high priest went follows also that " the flesh," " the carnal riod of great trial to those who still held alone once a year. This inner apartment mind," which " corresponds with the the advent faith. Their only relief, so was the abode of the Shekinah, or vis- first compartment of the sanctuary," is far as ascertaining their true position ible manifestation of God's •dwelling a sacred place where " God ministers with his people. The first was sacred, was concerned, was the light which di- to be Ffure; but the second was peculiarly continually," although the Scripture rected their minds to the sanctuary so, being solely the .abiding-place of the plainly declares that " the carnal mind above. Some renounced their faith divine presence. is enmity against God: for it is not This sanctuary, thus arranged, was subject to the law of God, neither in- in their, former reckoning of the pro- " Here is the Patience of the Saint: He e are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the Faith of Jesus." Rev. 14: 12. VOL 8i. WAS •INGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1904. No. 29.

Eltnotrb to Or thortamatton line of truth that has made the Seventh- very nature of God, for " God is love," lotto taut ingtortgb day Adventist people what they are, is and " the eternal God " is everlasting unto Or OttInto to be weakened. We have the old land- love. No finite mind can comprehend marks of truth, experience, and duty, such love or measure its fulness, but we ISSUED EACH THURSDAY BY THE and we are to stand firmly in defense of can all share in its wondrous blessings. Review and Herald Publishing Association our principles, in full view of the " What boundless love did Jesus Terms: in Advance world." A united people, standing upon show — One Year $1.50 Four Months .5 the original advent platform and under I can not tell, nor fully know, Eight Months...1.00 Three Months...:.. .4 the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, could What grief, what agony, and woe, Six Months .75 Two Months .2 He bore to set me free. No extra postage is charged to countries within t soon finish the work and bring the great Universal Postal Union. consummation. Let every servant feed " Yet may my lips tell forth his fame, Address all communications and make all Draf the household with food in due season. My voice sing out his worthy name, sod Money Orders payable to— My sinful heart his mercy claim, REVIEW AND HERALD, 222 North Capitol St And trust his boundless love." Washington, D. C. .4 Great Work THE threefold message of Revelation •t [Entered as second-class matter August 54,lrgo3,e Fighting Against God the post office at Washington, D. C., under the ac t 14 is to go " unto every nation and 1- Congress of March 3, 1879.] IT is no light thing to oppose the tribe and tongue and people." In this genuine work of God in the earth. message is the final preaching of the When his servants are fully consecrated grlitartal everlasting gospel. When this message to him,. God honors them as his own has accomplished its work in preparing representatives, and what is done to Food in Due Season the way of the Lord, then the Master them because of their faithfulness to will come. Living faith will not only be OUR Lord pronounces a blessing] upo him he regards as done to him. Thus revealed in the prayer, " Come, Lord " the faithful and wise servant "1 wh when the people turned away from Sam- Jesus," but also in earnest efforts for will be found feeding the household wit uel, the prophet of the Lord, and de- finishing the work which will hasten his food in due season in the period jus manded a king, the Lord said, " They coming. Amid all the efforts to weaken before his coming. We have r4che have not rejected thee, but they have faith in God's Word and work, and amid that period and the blessing is fcr- th rejected me, that I should not be king all the movements which are calculated workers in this generation. The gosp over them." When the apostles were to confuse the mind concerning the spe- message of warning and prep*tio brought before the council and there was cial message of truth for this last gen- which should be lived by the church an• a strong...sentiment in favor of putting eration, the faithful people of God should revealed to the world,— the coiistan them to death, Gamaliel, " a doctor of reveal to the world an example of stead- putting in remembrance of these thing ) the law," recognized this principle and fastness and loyalty, and should not even though they know them aiid b his counsel was, " Refrain from these 1 waver for a moment in their devotion established in the present truth,— this i men, and let them alone: for if this to the great work committed to them. food in due season. Those thrillin counsel or this work be of men, it will The great cities are to be worked. New themes which called us out fro ' th be overthrown : but if it is of God; ye fields are to 'be opened. " Our watch- world will call others out, if w wi 1 will not be able to overthrow them; lest word is to be, Onward, ever onward." present them " in •demonstration Of th haply ye be found even to be fighting Spirit and of power," and these i sam against God." This principle is worthy subjects will revive the faith andl hop Everlasting Love of serious consideration. It is a hopeless of the churches if they are living pruth THE love of God for his children is task to fight against God, and in the end in the hearts of the messengers.1 Th not a mere passing sentiment, dependent it means eternal ruin. It is infinitely nearness of the Lord's coming, aid th upon circumstances, changing with the better to fight " the good fight of faith " great work to be done for the urc change of outward conditions. His as- and to " lay hold on .eternal life." and the world in view of his near corn surance unto us is, " I have loved thee ing should be brought home to our ear with an everlasting love." This love with an ever-increasing emphasis. Th Loosening the Foundations never fails. truths which have been the foundatio THIS advent movement represents an " Down to lowest depths it reaches, effort to preserve and restore " the of this advent movement are the truth The all-loving Father's arm; for, these closing days. " There is t Toward his rebel children yearning, faith which was once 'delivered unto the be no change in the general features o Drawing them with magic charm; saints." It seeks a return to primitive our work. It is to stand as cleaY an Till the yielding spirits move, Christianity, basing all its doctrines distinct as prophecy has made it. W Touched by everlasting love." upon the plain teaching of the Word of are to enter into no confederacy! wit The outworking of this love is seen in God, and rejecting human philosophy the world, supposing that by so !doin the gift of the only-begotten Son. " In and the traditions of men. It emphasizes we could accomplish more. If any stan this was manifested the love of God to- the fundamental importance of those in the way, to hinder the advanc men ward us, because that God sent his only phases of truth which were obscured of the work in the lines that G ha begotten Son into the world, that we during the great apostasy of the Dark appointed, they will displease Gods N might live through him." Love is the Ages, and aims to proclaim the c/otriplete JULY 21, 1904 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 5

deed can be." And the premises laid and through saving grace the heart of is to be destroyed. Our eyes, the eyes down force the writer to the logical con- man becomes again his temple. of this very generation, are to see it clusion, which ought to startle him, that The same writer touches upon this accomplished. The Lord commissions us " not only in Jesus •was ' divinity veiled same subject in a communication dated to tell men the way of escape and of the in humanity,' but the same precious Jan. 26, 1904, in these words: — path to. heaven. Let us as workers ever treasure is to be found in every human When Christ abides in the heart by remember that lost wanderers from God heart." faith, the Christian is the temple of God. need to have the trail made very plain. This interpretation of the typical sanc- Christ does not abide in the heart of the W. A. S. sinner, but hearts that are susceptible tuary leads to the same conclusion which to the influences of heaven's instrumen- is being urged by those who wholly re- talities, and have been sanctified by obe- ject the atoning work of Christ the only dience to the truth, are representatives Nutt anxi Commtnt Saviour. Thus Felix Adler says, in an of his righteousness. address •delivered April 3, 1904: — We do not see 'how the distinctive THE Washington Times is of the message which Seventh-day Adventists opinion that the battle that has been If you want to find God, look for him fought out between employer and em- in the beggar who passes under your have been called to give to the world, in window, in the neighbor who jostles you which the sanctuary question has such a ployee in Colorado, will sooner or later when he goes by on the street, in your prominent place, can be advanced by ad- be repeated in other States, though it own child, and in the man or woman vocating an interpretation of the typical believes the deplorable results seen in with whom you keep house; and if you Colorado need not follow elsewhere if find not God there, you will not find him sanctuary which leads to the conclusion anywhere. . . . As the votaries of old that all men have the treasure of divin- the right weapon is used to settle the used to cry out to their gods 'when they ity in them, just the same as Jesus of contest. It says:— withdrew themselves into darkness, " 0 Nazareth. Instead of encouraging this No intelligent student of public af- god, show thyself," so do you say to fairs can question that the conflict waged your familiar friend and neighbor, " 0 belief, this message should point to the in Colorado between organized employ- God that is within, show thyself." And heavenly sanctuary, and to Jesus as the ers and organized employees is a con- the God, the divine power, will surely only hope of salvation, and should say, flict that must be waged in some form respond in some measure to your appeal. " Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh or other in all parts of the country. Shutting one's eyes to this fact will not away the sin of the world." The trouble with this whole •teaching destroy the fact. The great question is: is that it sets aside entirely, or at best Shall the weapon of the rebellion be the places altogether in the background, the Finding the Path ballot •or Colt .45s? change which has come through the ex- Unfortunately the experience of more AT a Western meeting, a sister spoke perience of sin, and bestows upon every than one community affords ample proof out with the true ring of a heart's dis- man indiscriminately the benefits which that the ballot can not always be relied covery, "I have found the path." are the result of faith in Christ and his on as a peaceable means of securing Did you ever lose the homeward path work for the sinner. The writer who justice. Justice is often defeated by the in the woods, and then come upon it declares that the typical sanctuary had ballot, and the will of the people regis- again with its old familiar markings ? " its counterpart in the human body " tered by the ballot is often defeated by If so, you will remember that when you may believe, and• may at other times the unscrupulous use of money. This found the path, you were almost as glad advocate, the truth concerning the heav- was only recently demonstrated in as though you were already at home. enly sanctuary, but such views as are Colorado, where the union miners, re- The path led 'home, and you had your set forth in his article will prepare his lying upon the power of the ballot, feet again in the dear, familiar road. own mind and the mind of his readers secured the enactment of an eight-hour It is a grand and glorious discovery to place less and less stress upon the law, and afterward a constitutional when 'the heart finds the path, the way other view, and if he fully accepts his amendment to make the law effective, of salvation, that leads to God and own conclusions, it may soon be difficult but still were unable to secure what the heaven. Thank God, we knbw the path, to see the need of any service in the heav- popular will, registered by the ballot, had and the Lord will lead us in the path of enly sanctuary. This is not the teaching decreed. It is to be feared that the righteousness for his name's sake. It is of the sanctuary question which brought labor unions are coming to distrust the the old familiar path that the feet of light and comfort to this people after the efficacy of the ballot as a means of patriarchs and prophets, apostles and disappointment in 1844, and it is not securing their ends, and may feel driven pioneers have trod before us. It is the the teaching which will strengthen their to resort to less peaceable agencies. A advent pathway to the city of God. And faith in this movement now. resort to arms will inevitably come when we have found it. It is the next thing once it is settled in this country that the It is only through the " exceeding to actually being home. Let us rejoice great and precious promises " that men ballot can not compete with wealth in the and thank God for the path. control of public affairs. become " partakers of the divine nature, This path is what the truth-seeking having escaped the corruption that is in hearts in all the world are looking for, the world through lust." It is only and our work is to go quickly to all JAPAN'S prime minister has published through faith in Christ that man may nations and point out the path. We must a letter to Japanese Christians express- become a temple of the living God. make it very plain. The late Bishop ing himself in favor of •religious liberty. Note the % clearness of •the following Whipple, apostle to the Indians of the He expresses himself on the subject in statements taken from " Desire of Ages," Northwest, won the confidence of his these words: — pages 177, 178: — men of the " wandering foot" because For my own part, regarding religion From eternal ages it was God's pur- he dealt in simplicity with practical as an essential element of civilization, I have uniformly tried to treat all relig- pose that every •created being, from the realities, and talked straight to their bright and holy seraph to man, should ions with becoming respect, and I be- be a temple for the indwelling of the !hearts. The chief of the Red Lakes said lieve it to be an important duty of states- Creator. Because of sin, humanity to him, " You are patient, and you make men under all circumstances to do their ceased, to be a temple for God. Dark- the trail plain. I have your face on my utmost to prevent racial animosities. ened and defiled by evil, the heart of heart." And so in the year 1895 at the time of the Japan-China war, my soldiers had man no longer revealed the glory of the No higher ambition can any of us divine One. But by the incarnation of no sooner set foot on the Liao Tung the Son of God, the purpose of heaven cherish than that of making the way Peninsula than I took especial pains to is fulfilled. God dwells in humanity, plain. The Lord is coming. The earth see that the greatest care was exercised 6 A ENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD JULY 21, 1904 by them in extending protection 'rom all The people of this age are crazy to do " That the recommendation from the harm to the Christian ,believers 'nd anything'which gives them even a doubt- Lord be accepted that the present prop- churches planted there by the iEng ish ful promise of a little worldly gain; but erty in Healdsburg be sold, and land, and French missionaries. well wooded and watered, be purchased, As the present war is one carried on in the infinitely greater profit that is to and the college be established in some against Russia — a professedly Chris lan be for eternity, through godliness, they rural district where teachers and stu- nation — I have felt that redoubled ef- feel no interest. Well says the Scripture dents can have the privilege of work- forts should be made that no ulwor by that " the god of this world hath blinded ing the soil and raising produce. This sentiments should be tolerated, that [vve the minds of them which believe not." will reduce expense, and better educate should adopt a thoroughly unbihsed nd both teachers and students." equitable attitude toward all, and t at the whole nation should give pract Pal ACCORDING to the following which effect to the policy so clearly set f rth WAR is always the most expensive in the imperial edict, that this is a ar was published in the Catholic Mirror, way of attaining the end sought by the the pope, though professedly a " pris- which has no other object than the sa ety successful party, and not always does oner " in the Vatican, is the owner of a of the empire and the peace of the far it happen that the anticipated result is East. vehicle, the purpose of which is alto- realized after the awful cost of war I sincerely hope that no one; will be gether out of keeping with the tradition betrayed into the error of supposing t' at has been paid. The recent South Af- of his imprisonment : " — such things as differences in race or re- rican War may be cited as an illustra- The pope owns a sleeping-car. It ligion have anything whatever toclo ith tion. At the time of that war it was the present complication. was constructed in 1868, when the line from Rome to Naples was opened, and commonly said, both in England and in will be shown at the Milan exhibition in Cape Colony that it would res4lt in ma- 1905 to inaugurate the Simplon tunnel. RECENTLY a quite successful effort \ as king South Africa a " white man's coun- The car consists of three compartments — made by the city authorities of Chic go try." But we are now told that " the a throne room, a compartment for the to stamp out race-track gambling in he guard of honor, and a bed-room. The census which has just been completed western metropolis. In an account of throne room is richly furnished and has does not bear out this expectation. In this effort, contributed by Mayol Ha a cupola engraved with the papal arms Cape Colony, Natal, the Orange River son of Chicago to the Saturday Even 4lig and the twelve apostles. Colony, and the Transvaal, there are one It is so arranged that the pope, when million one hundred and fifteen thou- Post, he speaks of the extent tn wh c.h seated on his throne, can be plainly seen this form of the gambling mania as by the crowds who might, be expected to sand whites, a little more than four found to be invading all distr@s nd throng the stations for his blessing. million native blacks and one hundred classes of the city. He mention's a girl Two years after the construction of the and one thousand East Indians. Com- stenographer who " studied th4 dope pope's car his temporal dominion sud- pared with the census of 1891, this shows sheet,' " " knew the vocabulary of he denly came to an end, the pontiff shut an increase for the blacks of nearly race-track," " knew the • horseS," nd himself up in the Vatican, and chose eighty per cent, while the whites in the same period have increased only about " was as proficient as a race-tr rather to deprive the multitudes of the sixty per cent. In Cape Colony, where ' tout.' " This girl " gave her cornfis- papal blessing than to admit the claim the actual number of whites is largest, sions when she could not get to 'a pool- of the Italian sovereign to the dominion the blacks outnumber them by more than room or to the track." It was diseOve ed of Rome. three to one." that " pool-rooms were operated es e- Another and more surprising result of the war, if we may credit figures and cially for women," and " to these plates IN its issue of June 14 the San Fran- statements given by the well-known went the highly respectable woinenl of cisco Call publishes an article relating English writer, W. T. Stead, in an ar- family." The business was acqtiirin a to the removal of the Pacific Press Pub- ticle' contributed to the Saturday Eve- systematic hold upon the city in gene al. lishing Co. from Oakland to Mountain ning Post (Philadelphia), is that British View, Cal. Lifelike portraits of Breth- supremacy in South Africa is no nearer On this point he says': — to being established than before the war As with the stenographer, so With he ren C. H. Jones, M. C. Wilcox, and W. was begun. " The net result of the great army of workers who fill do in- T. Knox, and a good view of the present three years' war " says this authority, town Chicago during the ot plant of the Pacific Press serve to give " has been to establish beyond all gain- every one a race-track " fiend," b t ev ry prominence to the article. We quote saying the fact that, in the contest be- one exposed to the same temptation t at tween British South Africans and Dutch the following paragraphs : — had converted the stenographer into o e. South Africans, the balance of strength A glance at the crowds in the oars o- The Seventh-day Adventists have is so overwhelmingly on the side of the ing to the. races or at the crowds in closed their annual camp-meeting, which latter, that if they were left to them- the grandstand, the club house; or at has been in progress in this city for two selves the Boer supremacy would not be the rail will be sufficient to give an i ea weeks, and which is in reality the an- challenged." The Uitlanders, who, under of the scope of the race-track mania nual business meeting of the many in- the Boer republic, complained that they We discovered that the big doWn-to n dustries and organizations of that sect. were deprived of the franchise, are still buildings were •so saturated with he This meeting has been one of the most waiting for the franchise. Attempts to craze for gambling that agents 6f po tl- important in the history of the order, settle the country with English colon- rooms made it a practise to visit o -Pe for two important moves were decided ists fail, because farming in South Af- after office to obtain commissi9ns Or upon. The Pacific Press Publishing rica is a laborous occupation, beset by bets. The gambling solicitor was as Company, the Seventh-day Adventist such drawbacks as locusts and drouths. regular a visitor as the man with la fr sh church, and the general Seventh-day " The English will be, as they have been, towel supply. Adventist settlement in Oakland will all mostly dwellers in towns, speculators in The book agent and the peddler mi t be removed to Mountain View, Santa mines, tradesmen and managers of trans- be refused admittance, but the gambit g Clara County. The Adventist college port. The immense preponderance of solicitor entered without hindran e. at Healdsburg will also be removed to the white men on the land will be in From the stenographers, clerks, and even some spot not yet selected. These two the future, as in the past, men of Dutch the trusted men of the office he took the moves will be an abandonment of what descent. The Boer cradle is constantly money that was badly enough needed or have been the great centers of Advent- refilled. The old Continental sneer at legitimate purposes, but which as ism in California. the dimensions of English fainilies has risked in the insane effort to profit v The move from Oakland has been un- lost its point. It is the Boer, not the hazard. der contemplation for some time, and Britain, who has his quiver full of chil- We discovered that these solicit rs a committee has been at work which dren." worked the elevated trains and surf. e finally presented the plan that was How much better in any case to settle cars just as a baggage collector does! a adopted at the annual meeting of the international differences by arbitration, through train: not only the cars' to t e Pacific Press Publishing Company. but especially when the fearful price of races but the cars carrying people to The resolution upon the removal of war is paid without securing the end that and from their work. the Healdsburg College reads: — is sought. L. A. S. JULY 21, 1904 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 7

to meet as we work for God, and until in thy brother's eye, but considerest not arnrral *AirIts the close of this earth's history our la- the beam that is in thine own eye? Or "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are bors will become more and more trying. how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let honest, whatsoever things are Just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever I entreat the members of our churches me pull out the mote out of thine eye; things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if not to make the work more trying than there be any pm:se, think on these.things." Phil. 4 : & and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? it necessarily is by watching one an- Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam Alone other for a word or an act upon which out of thine own eye; and then shalt to comment unfavorably. Let them, if a thou see clearly to cast out the mote " ALONE with God ! " the keynote this report is brought to them about some Of every holy life, out of thy brother's eye." The secret power of fragrant growth, one, make it a rule to do just as Christ So great is the intemperance in speech And victory over strife. has said should be done in such cases. that much instruction has been given Let them follow the counsel of the Great on this subject by the Great Teacher. " Alone with God ! " in private prayer Teacher, who gave his life for the life He has given special directions for the And quietness we feel of the world. His directions are plain. discipline of the tongue. Study and obey That he draws near our waiting souls, " If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and these directions. Check the harsh And doth himself reveal. there rememberest that thy brother hath words that, if 'spoken, would create dif- aught against thee; leave there thy gift ference and alienation. Speak words " Alone with God! " earth's laurels fade, before the altar, and go thy way; first Ambition tempts not there; that will cement hearts, not estrange The world and self are judged aright, be reconciled to thy brother, and then them,— words that will heal, not wound. And no false colors wear. come and offer thy gift." " Tell him When difficulties arise among church- his fault between thee and him alone." members, let them be cleared away be- " Alone with God! " true knowledge Without delay make every effort to heal fore the Sabbath comes. This should be gained, the wrong that exists. Do not, by speak- regarded as a Christian •duty by every While sitting at his feet; ing unwise words, give the enemy op- church-member. " Let the peace of God We learn life's greatest lessons there, portunity to arouse suspicion and evil- rule in your 'hearts, . . . and be ye Which make for service meet. surmising in the mind of your brother. thankful." Are you troubled and per- — E. M. Exton. Be determined to do all in your power plexed? Sweep away the rubbish that to make the wrong right. Do not tell has been accumulating before the door to a third person the story of the diffi- of the heart, and open the door, inviting The Value of Christlike Love culty. Go directly to the one who has Jesus to come in and abide as an honored MRS. E. G. WHITE erred, and " tell him his fault between guest. Bring peace and comfort into THE Lord desires me to call the at- thee and him alone." Go to him, not your own heart and the hearts of others. tention of his people to the thirteenth to condemn, but to seek for reconcilia- This is most blessed missionary work. chapter of First Corinthians. Read this tion, because Christ has told you to love The Lord has instructed me to say chapter every day, and from it obtain one another as he has loved you. to his people, Work for perfection. Do comfort and strength. Learn from it Our gifts, our prayers, are not ac- nothing that will cause disaffection to the value that God places on sanctified, ceptable to God while we leave this duty spring up in hearts. Do not serve the heaven-born love, and let the lesson undone, and let the poison of envy and enemy. Overcome your inclination to that it teaches come home to your hearts. evil-surmising take possession of our find fault and condemn. Give no place Learn that ,Christlike love is of heav- souls, to destroy our union and happi- to him whose delight it is to accuse. enly birth, and that without it all other ness. 0, how much unhappiness would Remember, my beloved brethren and qualifications are worthless. be saved, how many evil thoughts would sisters, that you are pleasing and helping " If I speak with the tongues of men be quenched, if believers would take up Satan by every word you utter that dis- and of angels, but have not love," Paul the work that Christ has said must be parages another. declares, " I am become sounding brass, done to prevent evil speaking! We I greatly desire that you shall follow or a clanging cymbal. And if I have pray, " Forgive us our trespasses, as we the directions that Christ has laid •down. the gift of prophecy, and know all mys- forgive those that trespass against us." As you do this, he will certainly help teries and all knowledge; and if I have Do we do our part to remove every you to adjust the difficulties that exist. all faith, so as to remove mountains, but stumbling-block from before the feet of He will help you not to make dissension have not love, I am nothing. And if our brother? Too often our prayers are by magnifying little mistakes. The light I bestow all my goods to feed the poor; hindered by our pride of heart, by our that the Lord has given me is that he and if I give my body to be burned, but refusal to confess faults and to remove will greatly bless his people, if they will have not love, it profiteth me nothing." wrong impressions. Let us remember not think or speak evil of one another, How beautiful the earth was when it that our prayers are not acceptable to but go directly to the one they think is came from the Creator's hand! God God while we suffer e fellow worker to in the wrong, and in a'kind, compassion- presented before the universe a world in misapprehend us. If we are not to ate manner point out his mistake. May which even his all-seeing eye could find blame for the misunderstanding that ex- the Lord help those who have learned to no spot or stain. Each part of the crea- ists, we can, perhaps, make an explana- criticize, to learn to think no evil, and tion occupied the part assigned to it, tion that will remove the misunderstand- to speak only good words,— words of and answered the purpose for which it ing. If we are to blame, if we have comfort and healing. Then they will re- was created. Peace and holy joy filled left a wrong impression on a brother's joice; for they will have evidence that the earth. There was no confusion, no mind, we are certainly under obligation they are laborers together with God. clashing. There was no disease to afflict to do all in our power to remove this Christ loved the church, " and gave man or beast, and the vegetable kingdom impression. himself for it; that he might sanctify was without taint or corruption. God Let the suspicious ones, who think and and cleanse it with the washing of water looked upon the work of his hands, speak evil of their brethren, remember by the word, that he might present it wrought out by Christ, and pronounced that they are doing the devil's drudgery. to himself a glorious church, not having it " very good." He looked upon a Let every one pass over little differences spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing ; but perfect world, in which there was no and mistakes without comment. Do not that it should be holy, and without sin; no imperfection. magnify the small mistakes made by blemish." But a change came. Satan temptod some one, but think of the good that is My brethren and sisters, I beseech you Adam, and he fell. He who in heaven in him. Each time mistakes are thought to give diligent heed to these words, had become disloyal and had been cast of and talked about, they grow larger. because the day of the Lord is right out, made lying reports of God to the A mountain is made out of a molehill. upon us. You have no time to lose. beings 'he had created, and they be- Ill-feeling and a lack of confidence are Do not neglect the word of God to you. lieved his lie. Sin entered the world, the result. " We then, as workers together with and death by sin. The consequences of To many these words are applicable: him, beseech you also that ye receive not our first parents' disloyalty we now have " Why beholdest thou the mote that is the grace of God in vain. (For he saith, 8 iktiVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD JULY 21, 1904

I have heard thee in a time accepted, aid shall fail of receiving a welcome into 736 — a gain in • ten years, of 40,332. in the day of salvation have I sltccored the city of God. He who continues to Or, in other words, we had gained in ten thee.)" i be a transgressor of the law of God, years 2,928 more Sabbath-keepers than Will you not, as servants of tlie M st even though he break but one precept, we had gained during all our previous High God, give heed to these iwor can have no place in the royal family. existence. Is that stagnation and death? Will you not respond to God's; me I entreat those who have given so — Nay, verily; it is growth, not equal and compassion and love toward you by much time to talking of the faults of to our desires, but a growth hardly loving one another as Christ his lo ed others, to cease this cruel work, and equaled in per cent by any other denom- you? obey the words, " Search the Scriptures; ination. " Behold, now is the accepted ti e; for in them ye think ye have eternal In 1893, our offerings for •mission work behold, now is the day of salvati n. life." The divine directory, God's holy had averaged for the previous five years, Giving no offense in anything, that he Word, is in our hands. In the toil of $70,240.72. In the five years preceding ministry be not blamed." Retnem er business and the unceasing activity of 1903, our offerings for mission work that when you speak words that d s- daily life, this Word is to be our guide. averaged $131,166.96, while in the 1903 parage one another, the ministry is This Word is appreciated by him who is donation, it reached a grand total of blamed. The lack of power in she striving to overcome. It is to him as a $184,026.58. church is charged to the ministry, won pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of Our annual offering for 1903 exceeded .often it is directly chargeable 1 to he fire by night. the high-water mark of all other years, members, because they do not mix fa th Let God's people set a perfect example, by more than $10,000. with their hearing. honoring Christ in every place, in every In 1892, the total tithe of all our peo- difficulty following his directions. Then The ministers are to be men of fai !h, ple aggregated $302,310.19, while in 1902, men who give expression to the p jre at last they will be received into the it reached $643,747.83. love of God. And the members! are to family of the redeemed, and there will Besides this, look at the institutions give no offense in anything, " that .he be given unto them a crown of immortal planted during the last ten years. When ministry be not blamed." No d life. did the church-school work make its dealing or harsh words are to find a growth ? — During the last ten years. place in their experience. When did our conference schools, which " In all things approving oursdlves as Is Our Work Disintegrating? are now in nearly every conference, get the ministers of God, in much Wien e, I. H. EVANS started? — During' the past decade. in afflictions, in necessities, in distress When •did our numerous sanitariums, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumul i s, How many times we have heard it vegetarian restaurants, etc., spring up? in labors, in watchings, in faSting said within the last eighteen months, " It — Nearly all, except the Battle Creek We should be preparing forij th Se looks to me as though everything was and St. Helena Sanitariums, have sprung things; for they will come. Those wi o going to pieces," or I think our future 'up within ten years. share in Christ's glory must share in is is pretty dark," or again, " I have lost sufferings. my courage. I think we are disinte- Look at the mission fields we have May the Lord lead every minister a , d grating, and will soon go to pieces ! " entered during this time. All of South every lay member to turn to hih1 w th Now remember, no one ever makes Africa except Cape Colony, Nyassaland, full purpose of heart, and make fling ht such remarks until he, himself, is in the the Gold Coast, German East Africa, work for repentance. Thus only c dark, when he at once concludes that Egypt, Palestine, Syria, India, China, Japan and nearly all the Pacific Islands, they obtain the sanctification iof e every one else must be in the same con- Spirit. How true are the wdrds of dition. South America, West Indies from Ber- Paul: " Ye are not straightened in s, There are many souls losing their hold muda to Guiana, Central America, Mex- but ye are straightened in your own f- on God, and wrecking their faith in the ico, Alaska, Manitoba, and nearly all of fections." Many complain of others e- final success of this work. But is this our mission stations outside of portions cause their own hearts are not lit un ty any argument that the cause of God is of Europe, have been entered during the with the Spirit of God. When self is not onward ?— None, whatever. past ten years. Never has there been crucified, Christ will take posses'sion bf Long have we known that the time such progress in all lines of the work as the soul-temple. must come when many who once loved we can now behold. Nearly every na- " Be ye not unequally yoked tbget er the truth and had even sacrificed for its tion of earth is now opened to the truth, with unbelievers; for what fellows ip advancement, would lose their zeal, and and many are pleading for help. ,hath righteousness with unrighteoitsnes ? become lukewarm,—" neither cold nor Has the third angel's message lost and what communion hath light with hot." What means the Laodicean mes- its power? Never was it so strong to darkness? and what concord hatli', Chr st sage, if it does not apply to such times win souls as now. Behold ! brethren, with Belial? or what part hath t at as we are now entering? We expect the whole mount is aflame with the believeth with an infidel? anc. 'w at that many will give up the truth, and chariots of God's messengers. The bat- agreement hath the temple of Grid w:th even become our bitterest opposers, but tle cry is "Onward; God's message to idols ? for ye are the temple of the Tti- all this signifies nothing as regards the all the world! " Shall we see such over- ing God; as God hath said, I will dw '11 progress of God's work. Man may often whelming evidences of God's leading, in them, and walk in them; and! I ill erect barriers against the truth, but truth and still remain a prisoner in doubting be their God, and they shall be try p 9- will triumph still. castle? Are we to see with our eyes ple. Wherefore come out from I amo g Nor is the third angel's message losing th6 " fine flour and the barley sold for them, and be ye separate, sailth t e its power to affect hearts. It may not a shekel," but not taste its sweetness Lord, and touch not the unclean; thin stir our own hearts as it once did, but ourselves ? and I will receive you, and will be a that may _signify that our hearts are If the next ten years sees the same Father unto you, and ye shall !be hardened, and that we have lost our first marked progress, and there is an equal sons and daughters." love, instead of the power of the mes- increase in membership, there will be " Having therefore these pymis s, sage being lessened. Never in the his- living on earth then more than 144,000 dearly beloved, let us cleanse oursel s tory of our work has there been such Seventh-day Adventists, scattered among from all filthiness of the flesh and spir t marked progress along all lines, as the nations of earth. Our tithes will perfecting holiness in the fear of Go 1.7 during the last ten years. then have reached over $1,280,000 a year, Let every one humble his heart I befo e Look at ten years of growth in this while our offerings will have reached God, and make a surrender of bo work, and then ask the question, Is God's nearly half a million dollars per annum. soul, and spirit to him, that he may gi e work stagnated, or has my own heart Is it a time now to sit in ease and his people his rich grace abun;dant y. become paralyzed? quietness, or shall we join the workers' Let the heart be closed against selfis - In 1893, our reported total member- ranks, and become one of the Lord's ness. Let us follow the exan1ple o f ship was 37,404. In 1903, just ten years host that goes up to possess the goodly Christ. If we fail of doinv this. e later, our reported membership was 77,- land? JULY 21, 1904 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 9

"Hide a Multitude of Sins" has for animus and first cause,. Satan's cleansed his face, and unwise as though hatred of Christ, of the plan of salvation he dashed into battle without arms or D. T. BOURDEAU and its application to those whom he has armor. Be it ours to bathe in the softly THESE are the last words of the epistle led to connect with his kingdom; and his flowing river of communion with God of James. They set forth one of the desire to discourage those who have left before the heat of the wilderness and the things that one will do who really takes his ranks, and to retard the gospel work burden of the way begin to oppress us.— part in restoring a brother who has erred in the earth. Spurgeon. from the truth. James 5: 19, 20. One Can a person who is constantly dwell- who succeeds in restoring an erring ing upon and exposing the confessed and brother or sister " shall save a soul from forsaken sins of others be walking in the Patience With the Faults of death, and shall hide a multitude of sins." light? — Certainly not. There is surely Others The second death is here referred to. something wrong in one's pursuing this A Golden Rule Meditation The vast importance of saving one soul course. He will certainly by so doing, LET me not require perfection in my from that death will be more fully seen either imitate the very sins he is ex- brother till I am somewhat near it my- than it can now be, when those who have posing and dwelling upon, or himself self. 0 what a hypocrite I am to be died in their sins, shall experience the commit sins that are more grievous; if, enraged at faults in others that I cherish awful second death in the final confla- indeed, he has not already done this: in myself ; to call them sins in others, gration of our earth beyond the resur- There is generally selfishness or envy, or and in myself peculiarities ! I frown rection of the ungodly which occurs at both, at the very root and basis of such upon their frowns as if my face were the close of the thousand years that are a course. The sooner this thing is smiling. I am harsh with their harsh- to intervene between the resurrection of known and realized the better, the more ness, exaggerate their exaggerations, the just and of the unjust. Revelation hope is there for a reform of those who and insincerely reprimand their false- 20; 2 Peter 3. are so noted for flippantly talking about hoods. But saving a soul from the second the sins and errors of. others. I will no longer judge my brother; death is not the only object that those " But," says one, " the individual who I will begin to judge myself. Shall I shall gain who succeed in this important has erred has again fallen into the same close my eyes to his grievous errors ? — work of restoring the erring. They shall errors and made the same mistakes; and Yes, until I can open them upon my own hide the many sins and errors that have are you sure that he will not again do sins. While the beam is in me, I will caused the fall of the person exposed the same thing?" That may be true, not play surgeon for their motes. to the much-to-be-dreaded second death. or partially so. • But have you never fal- Then, too, what love have I for men It is absolutely necessary to kindly, ten- len into errors and made mistakes 'after when a single fault in them can check derly, lovingly, and mercifully show the making progress in the good way? If its course? How shallow is it when the erring his sins, that he may confess them, not, cast the first stone. If you have, wind of criticism can make it muddy ! repent of them, and reform. But when be merciful, that you may obtain mercy; How sluggish it must be when even once this has been done, and the doing and be careful lest the judgment that their indifference can turn it from its of it has brought about the desired re- you pass on others shall be passed on course ! sults, the duty to hide the sins committed your own soul. How •much better it is Let me love others as I would have and the errors fallen into, becomes im- to cultivate and cherish that charity or them love me. I am wrong to-day, perative. God has forgiven the one who love that " suffereth long, and is kind," but to-morrow I repent and forget it, has confessed, repented, and reformed. that " envieth not," " vaunteth not itself, and expect my dear ones to forget it, His attitude toward him has changed ; is not puffed up," " doth not behave itself and to love just the same. So let me love he does not hold up his sins before him unseemly, seeketh not •her own, is not them with a love that seeks excuse for through this word, spirit, and chosen easily provoked, thinketh no evil," their evil, rather than an increase of human agents, as he did before his re- " beareth all things, believeth all things, condemnation; with a love that is eager pentance ; and should we not follow his hopeth all things, endureth all things." to forget, rather than tenacious to re- example in this respect? Christ has Corinthians 13. Even by the discipline member; with a love that goes more washed the sins of this repenting believer for the church that Christ has left us, we than half-way to meet repentance; that in his own precious blood; and should are encouraged to pursue a course in goes all the way, and pleads for it. we dwell upon them as if to revive them laboring for the erring that will favor 0 I fear that every bitter judgment again and make them a present, exist- the plan of giving the least possible 'pub- of my brother's faults, that all impatient ing reality? Shall we continue dwell- licity to the sins they have committed. anger at my brother when he sinned, ing upon them as if they had not been Matthew 18. has become stern condemnation of my- forgiven, and as if the blood and inter= Let us in this matter, by grace divine self in heaven ! For I that knew so well cessions of Christ had not removed them and by a consistent course, place our- how another should live, why did I not from the person who has committed selves on the side of God the Father, God live better myself? I that was so strict them? the Son, the Holy Spirit, the heavenly to mark iniquity in others, why was I Of backsliders who turn unto the Lord host, and with wise and faithful workers so lax with my own grievous sins ? Ah, and forsake their sins, it is written: on earth, and not give way to the accuser forgive me, thou who didst wear the " Thou [God] will cast all their sins of the brethren and the infernal spirits crown of thorns, and help me to forgive into the depths of the sea." Micah 7: 19. and human agents who aid him in the men when they only throw a bramble in Is that continually calling up those sins, criminal work of annoying, discouraging. my way. Be gracious to me, thou who bringing them in sight, speaking of them and destroying souls for whom Christ didst love them as they nailed thee to to others, and accusing those who com- died. Then shall we save many souls the cross, and teach me to be patient mitted them? To do this would be ta- from the awful second death, and hide when men but brush my garments king sides with Satan as " the accuser a multitude of sins, rudely. Amen.— Anon. of our brethren" (Rev. 12: so), and with the Pharisees, who were noted for accusing publicans and sinners who had Morning Prayer BETTER to be the man that daily strives, confessed and forsaken the transgres- THE morning is the gate of the day, Though humbly poor, to uplift human sions that had characterized and stained and should be well guarded with prayer. lives, It is one of the threads on which the Than he whose hand, though heaped their lives and characters. Such a course with shining gold, is not only out of harmony with, but day's actions are strung, and should be Is reached to shield no outcast from the diametrically opposed to, the course of well knotted with devotion. If we felt cold; God the Father, and his Son Jesus more the majesty of life, we should be Who drags out life in dull and dark Christ ; is against the salutary workings more careful of its mornings. He who unrest, of the Holy Spirit, those of holy angels rushes from his 'bed to his business and And leaves the world unblessing and and of human beings who are earnestly waiteth not to worship, is foolish, as unblest. laboring for the salvation of sinners; and though he had not put on his clothes or — Jane Greenough Avery Carter. 10 AD ENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD JULY 21, 1904

He wants his people, by a careful study of foundation principles, to be level- headed. Many people,— among those usually accounted well educated as well as among, the ignorant,— are not so well able to select a proper dietary as an ordinary animal. The Lord desires better things of his people. He would have his people use not only the specific directions he has given, but also the facts learned Home there have been many such,— what do they gain for themselves or for the from an intelligent study of physiology, HOME'S not merely four square wall truth ? Do they recommend to , others and from observation of the effects of Though with pictures hung Ind foods on themselves and others. gilded; the truth they profess to believe? Will Home is where affection calls, such a health reform prove to be an Filled with shrines the heart h th " entering wedge " to lead people to in- The Care of the Baby in Hot builded! vestigate other phases of the message? Doubtless many in reading the thrill- Weather Home ! go watch the faithful dove, ing story recounted in the first chapter UNLESS the baby is under six months Sailing 'neath the heaven abOve of Daniel, have been led to believe that old, take off his flannels when sultry days Home is where there's one to love ! if they should conscientiously adopt a come. Home is where there's one to love s ! diet which they believe to be. right, God When you take him for an outing, Home's not merely roof and room, would bless them with increased health with the thermometer climbing toward It needs something to endear it; and strength and with greater power in the nineties, leave his coat and veil at Home is where the heart can bloom, presenting the gospel of truth. home. Where there's some kind lip to ch•,er Now, of all things, one should not If you have a feather pillow in his it! violate his conscience by eating what he coach, smooth it down as flat as possible, believes to be wrong or injurious, for and tuck a thin quilt over it tightly. What is home with none to meet " Whatsoever is not of faith is sin." Take off that starched, ruffled dress None to welcome, none to greet us On the other hand, a food is not and the furbelowed petticoat. Home is sweet — and only sweet.— necessarily the best for a person because Substitute socks for stockings, or When there's one we love to meet s. he believes it is. Suppose, for instance, leave the tiny feet bare. —Charles Swain that as a result of the study of the Put on him a simple cambric slip' Testimonies I conclude that I should plainly made and laundered without Zeal Not According to Kno4iled e confine myself to fruits and grains; starch. suppose, again, that these foods do not See to it that he has frequent drinks GEO. H. HEALD happen to agree with me. May I, reason- of cool water, not iced, but npt of a AN earnest brother one day said to ing from the first chapter of Daniel, con- warmish temperature that is quite nau- me, " I like Brother D's testimomi: it as clude that there will be divine interfer- seating. the •old-time ring so seldom heard n 'I,tv- ence with the laws of nature in my case If he seems irritable and cries easily adays. He says ' Some people are ie- so that the foods will be beneficial to me? when this general health is good, be sure coming discouraged in their attempt to Has the Lord laid down a fiat that these that he is not too warm. live health reform, but I am not. I h ve foods shall be eaten, purposing that as To make him very happy, take off started to live health reform, and I s all we comply with his requirements, he will all his clothes but his underwear, and stick to it, if I die in the attempt !1' T is bless us with better health, or has he lay him in the center of the bed or upon reminds one of the earnestness; of he pointed out the foods which were origin- some outspread quilts upon the floor. early church." ally given to man as best, and which, as In a second he will be gurgling and This is no doubt an extreni ca e. man becomes more normal will 'be found kicking and cooing in delight. Few people express themselves t is y now to best serve the purpose for which A small hair pillow is better than a in words, though numbers do rienta ly food is intended? feather one for hot weather. Trained and in their actions. The above se ki- As we study the question more at nurses say, however, that no pillow at ment involves, as one may readily s r e, length, it will appear that the Lord has all is the correct thing for a small baby. two errors: first that health reform i a dealt rather in principles than in specific After having found the correct food, certain formula of life, a collection 'of details to be blindly followed by .each do not experiment with the baby's menu. rules,— " Thou shalt," and " ThOii sh It individual, regardless of his heredity, Give him that which suits him, and noth- not," similar to that given in the qleve training, and idiosyncrasies. ing else. chapter of Leviticus; second, thatiit is n One principle which has been given Do not give a child under one year act of merit to observe thes rues us, and which should govern all our of age crackers, mashed potatoes, or bits whether they tend to improve or imp ir study of this subject is, " What is one of bread. It may seem to be digested the health. man's meat is often another man's and kept down without trouble, but as The spirit manifested is good, ttie w il- poison." If we attempt to live by any the summer progresses you will probably ingness to sacrifice is praiseworthy, tit code of health precepts, we may find have a case of cholera infantum upon is it not in a wrong cause? DOes tr e that " the commandment which was or- your hands. health reform ever cause people; to 'e dained unto life " is " unto death." As It seems almost unnecessary to say, or fail in health in the attempt td live it in spiritual matters, so in the matter of do not give him cakes or candy, ice out? We can honor the man} w o, diet, it is often the case that " The letter cream or strawberries, or any of the sum- knowing that shortly he will be mit do n killeth, but the spirit giveth life." mer fruits, for these things mean most in the midst of his usefulness, koes to The Lord has directed us to make a serious trouble for an infant and his the Gold Coast or to a leper colony to close study of physiology. He has even stomach. spread the gospel. He counts not his 1 e said that it should be taught to children As stated before, the mischief may not too dear to sacrifice on the altar or from the time they are able to under- show immediately. But be sure that you souls purchased by •his belovedMast: r. stand, and that it should be made the will reap a terrible harvest from your If as a result of his labor one soul is basis of all educational effort. folly. A disordered stomach kills nine turned to Christ, he will count that is Why is this? In order that they may tenths of the babies that die, and the life has been well spent. know how to care intelligently for their ignorance or carelessness of the mothers But those who adopt a so-calle hea th own bodies ; how to avoid the indiffer- is responsible for it. reform and become thinner, wea r, 1 ss ence of ignorance on the one hand, and " Indigestion consequent upon teeth- efficient and possibly shorter ived,, the tendency to follow fads on the other. ing," " convulsions incident to teething," JULY" 21, 1904 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 11

" summer complaint caused by teething," with her boys and husband. They carry Normally the Saliva is alkaline, and all these phrases laying the blame upon all their worries to her; they consult her any acids produced in the crevices of the the circumstances of teething, are gen- in all their plans. teeth are thus neutralized and decay pre- erally at fault. Her life was broadened in their lives. vented. There are two conditions under Why is the teething such a hard mat- Her friends still complain that she does which the saliva is unable to neutralize ter? Why do convulsions and indiges- no public work. the acids produced locally, namely : ) tion manifest themselves when the teeth But, " her children rise up and call when it is deficient in alkalinity, and (2) are being cut? Very often it is because her blessed."— Andora. when it is deficient in quantity. As to so many mothers feed their babies mis- the former, it is well known that the cellaneous food, food just about as di- saliva becomes less alkaline, or even acid, gestible to their tiny stomachs as would A Little Poem of Life in any condition of prolonged gastric be ground up brickbats, just previous digestion, a phenomenon which occurs in to the teething period, which commences Thou,— nearly all cases of dyspepsia. Moreover, at about the seventh or eighth month. We,— the teeth when decayed further tend to The cutting of teeth in a healthy, vig- They,— keep up the state of chronic dyspepsia by Small words, but mighty. ' orous child which h.as been fed properly, rendering mastication imperfect. A In their span vicious circle is thus established. is as natural and easy as the growing of Are bound the life and hopes of man; its hair or fingernails. To obviate this form of dental disease Dress the baby simply, keep him clean For, first his thoughts of his own self are the teeth should be washed frequently and quiet, let him have frequent drinks full, with a solution of which one of the in- of cool water, and feed him regularly Until another comes his heart to rule. gredients is bicarbonate of soda. This with the food which has been found best For them life's best is centered round may prevent one of the most disagree- suited to him, keeping all utensils used their love, able results of the disease — facial in its preparation scrupulously clean and Till younger lives come all their love neuralgia.— The Commoner. to prove. well sterilized. — John arenham. On such a regime you can face sum- mer and its changes with the utmost Windmills as Wealth Producers cheerfulness. Even if you stay in the A Rich Man WITHIN the last few years the farm- city, the child should keep well and ers of the prairie States have learned to ONE of Thoreau's quaint sayings was: happy.— Michigan Christian Herald. utilize the energy going to waste in the " A man is rich in proportion to the wind for pumping water for irrigation. number of things he can afford to let In several States the southwest wind alone." On this basis there surely never Queen of the Household blows almost constantly in the summer, were such opportunities for wealth as at and the blasts of heat often seriously I KNEW a beautiful and wealthy the present time, when we are surrounded damage the growing crops. But from woman who, as a girl, had been a reign- by beautiful, attractive, and tempting ob- an injury these winds have now been ing belle. Her old friends crowded about jects which are freely bought and used turned into a blessing, since they have her, but she had no time for worldly by our neighbors and acquaintances. To been harnessed to pumps, and made to amusements. She literally never lost be able to resist temptations to buy lift the water that is in vast areas at sight of her children. She nursed the things which we are just as well off only a short distance below the surface. baby and bathed it herself. She in- without, and to indulge in amusements Many of these wind engines are home- spected every meal the older children and recreations which are not for our made, and of very curious construction ; ate, and talked and played with them physical or moral well-being, to be but the advantage from their use is so constantly. Her friends protested. able to limit ourselves in regard to great that increasing numbers of well- " You are degenerating into a mere creditable indulgences — these are evi- made windmills are being set, up. The nurse-maid ! You give yourself no chance dences of a strong character: One windmill is almost as common in some to grow! " they said. of the first and most important lessons portions of the Central West as in Hol- " God just now has given me nursing which the mother of to-day must teach land. to do," she said quietly, " and I can grow her child, is to let things alone. When A new use of this wind power is now in that line." the baby has learned to admire the being made. Farming is a science in the I- lost sight of •her for three years. pretty flowers without picking them, to great corn and wheat country, and elec- Then her husband moved to the country, see candy, fruit, or other things which tricity is found of great advantage in where I lived. Her children were at he knows " taste good " without putting plowing, and particularly in harvesting; school, but she still kept close to them. them in his mouth; when the child has this has usually been produced by steam, She took drawing lessons with Mary, learned not to do things simply because and then transmitted to the field where studied mathematics with Joe, and taught " the other boys and girls " do them — it is to be used. Only on the Pacific Jim history, coloring the dull dates with then he can be trusted to go out into the Coast is water power available for com- vivid stories of battles and heroes. Her world alone, for he can resist temptation. mercial use. In the Middle West water mother-eye was on each child, and when When such a boy grows to manhood, his is scarce in summer; but wind is not. the teacher drove one of them too hard, wants will be so few, his desires will be So the farmers are placing dynamos at the child was promptly brought home so well under control, that he will be the bases of their windmill towers, and and turned loose on the farm for a few indeed what Thoreau would call " a very using electric motors to run their months. rich man."— The. Congregationalist. thrashing-machines. Through the hot Her friends protested that she took months the mills keep pumps going to no part in the modern affairs of women. save their crops, and in the fall they run She belonged to no clubs. Teeth and Digestion dynamos to harvest the same. " L must be about my own business," THE close connection between decayed This development of wind power she said. teeth and diseases of the digestion is works to the advantage of the small Her• husband was a large cattle- pointed out by a writer in Guy's Hospital farmer. The owner of thousands of grower. She knew his affairs to the Gazette. acres finds it pays him to have an ex- least detail. The presence of free acids in the pensive steam-power plant to furnish When Joe was ordained a minister she mouth is particularly harmful. These him with electricity. This the owner of threw herself into his parish work. may come from various sources, but a few acres could not afford to do ; but When Jim became a magazine editor she most commonly from the acid fermen- he has found that a few cheap windmills, plunged into the works of modern wri- tation of the carbohydrate food lodged each running a two- or three-horsepower ters and poetry and read scores of manu- on or between the teeth at the gums, dynamo, puts him on an equality in this scripts for him. and due to the action of micro-organisms respect with his richer neighbor.— The She is still living, still keeping step present in the mouth. Boston Globe. ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD JULY 21, 1904

Krum, and Brother Zarub, of Beirut, had arrived. Sabbath evening we had meet- ing in the German Temple Colony, near Jaffa, During the last thirty years several thousand Germans, mostly from Wurtem- berg, have founded many flourishing colonies in Palestine. Their idea was to ham, Dail, and I went to Port Said, en build up spiritually a temple body, by In Egypt and Syria; route to Jaffa. Brother Hoerner, accom- having a number of people settle here. L. R. CONRADI panied by others of our friends, met us In fact, this movement was to some ex- As the route to German East 1 Africa at the boat there. It was remarkable tent an outgrowth of the 1844 movement passes Suez, we decided to so 4rran that ours was the first steamer from the — another offshoot; but as the colonists our journey that I could spend a f w South that had landed in Jaffa for about have become prosperous in worldly weeks with our workers in Egypt a d six weeks, and more than that, the day things, not a few have lost their old Syria, and then meet the .missionar es before, the sea had been so stormy that fervor. However, when I spoke of our for German East Africa at Port Sa'd. boats arriving from the north were not message in their hearing, and of the Accordingly, Brother Dail and I I 'ft able to land. Jaffa is one of the most providence of God in the first angel's Hamburg, February 16. unhandy and dangerous seaports with message, one gentleman, sitting near by, We reached Alexandria on the niorni which we are acquainted. responded by hearty " amens," and in of the twenty-second. Elder Wakeha Friday we took a drive into the country greeting me, he shook hands very cor- and one of the Armenian brethren livi to visit. several institutions, and to get dially, and said " Yes, that was our there met us. We had an interesti g facts helpful to us in our work. Pleas- bright hope, and I am still glad to hear meeting that night, and next Morni g ing, indeed, was it to us who had so about it." took the train for Cairo. Elder Wa'e- lately been among the snowy hills of the Sabbath was a beautiful day. Seven- ham seems in good health, and since e North, to see the immense orange teen of us were assembled. This is the

GERMAN TEMPLE COLONY, MT. CARMEL have closed out the hygienic' re4aura groves, laden with their burden of fruit, largest number of our people that were he has his whole time for the! gos el or the almond-trees, in full bloom. We ever together in the Holy Land. In the work. Mrs. Wakeham is in Keneh, p- went to Ramleh, and from there visited afternoon it was my privilege to baptize per Egypt, with her children, and th y a farm secured by the German Orphan- three converts under the billows of the are getting hold of the Aral* qu to age in Jerusalem, and then we visited Great Sea. They have come to a knowl- rapidly, as they live among the' peo Rishon, one of the leading Jewish col- edge of the message 'through the work and are doing some edukational wbrk fOr onies in the land of the Philistines. I of our mission in Jaffa, and will all go them. Dr. Keichline has opened a sm 11 was surprised while traveling through to Friedensau to further prepare them- office in Cairo, where he is fast wi - the length and breadth of Palestine to selves for usefulness in the Syrian Mis- ning friends among the Mohamtheda s, find at least thirty of these thriving col- sion. Returning to the home of Brother especially among the student clases, f r onies. The Jews have purchased large Hoerner, we celebrated the ordinances whom he feels a special burden. tracts of land here; a good deal of this of •the Lord's house; this was a solemn Quite recently some converts ha e is devoted to grape culture, and at occasion. Sunday forenoon we fully or- been baptized in Egypt, and others, a e Rishon, there is probably one of the ganized the Jerusalem-Jaffa Seventh- about ready to take the step. The pr s- largest wine cellars in the world. day Adventist church, ordaining Brother pects for our work are brightet ing in Upon returning to Jaffa, we found Jespersson as elder, and Brother Hoer- this dark land. that Brother and Sister Jespersson, of ner, as deacon. We hope the day may The twenty-fourth, Brethren Wa Jerusalem, as well as Brother and Sister soon come when we shall have a church JULY 21, 1904 ADVENT REVIEW AND ,SABBATH HERALD 13 in each of these places, but we are mount of God. One has a wonderful Finally the papal authorities in Rome thankful that at least so much has al- view from this mountain chain. Next asked the monks to make peace with the ready been accomplished in this field. morning at breakfast, the German coq- Germans. Oct. 18, 1887, the rights for We are glad to report that the two med- sul was present, and he read to us the which the Germans had been contending ical missions in Jaffa and Jerusalem have experiences he had in planting the in- in court were awarded to them, but the been favored of God financially, and are stitutions on the summit of that hill, trial alone had cost five thousand dol- paying their rent and other expenses, showing how the providence of God had lars. By the time the road to the sum- besides bearing half of the wages of the gone before them. mit of the hill had been finished, the leading workers employed in them. And, In 1870, the first houses of that Ger- rest of the money donated had been best of all, a few have been brought to man colony had been built, and even spent. All they could do was to put up a saving knowledge of the truth through then the founder thought that some day a few wooden buildings. But in 1890, the influence of our laborers here. they must have a kind of health home they decided to erect a stone building, as As there were some questions with on the top of the hill, One great diffi- the lady promised them still more help. reference to the future of these institu- culty then stood in their way — the However, they found that even after the tions, as to whether they should remain French monks held the lower part of permanent building was begun, the Turk- in their present locations, or be removed the mountain, and had established quite ish government was opposed to the move, to some other place, as Haifa, or Beirut, a convent there. They sought in every and sent up Turkish soldiers to destroy or to another part of Palestine, we de- way to make it appear that the Germans the work; yet, in spite of all these things, termined to take a trip through the were trying to get possession of this they finally succeeded in completing the country, visiting a number of places to- place only that they might later on con- structure. The present building cost gether, and at the same time hold as quer the whole country. When, in 1880, twelve thousand dollars. There are 'many council meetings as the circum- they tried to get possession of some prop- olive groves and vineyards around the stances might admit. We mapped out erty, these monks, learning of it, built home, and there is also now a hotel in our course, intending to go to Haifa at a' wall across the Raman road which led the same neighborhood. the foot of Carmel, visit Nazareth, the up to Carmel. In 1881 some Germans Staying over night with us in the Sea of Galilee, and from Tiberias return were gathering wood, and a monk, with home, was a noted bank director, of via Samaria to Jerusalem. We hoped to eight of his servants, thinking they were Berlin. He is a prominent man in the get through in six days. laying out a road by which they might State Department of Religion. He led As we had beautiful weather, we were get up to Carmel, beat them terribly, in the morning worship. I had a good able to crowd ourselves together in one so that one of the men suffered two opportunity to speak with him about wagon, drawn by three horses, and Sun- months from its effects. The Turks and our work, and of the opening providence day afternoon at five o'clock we set out the Germans finally united to contest of God in German East Africa. He from Jaffa, going north through the with the monks their right to barricade seemed very much interested. Plain of Sharon. As spring had already this public road; and, according to the (To be concluded) begun (it was the twenty-eighth of Feb- customs of the country, the two parties, ruary), the plain was covered with a Jan. 29, 1885, ascended the mountain to Mission Notes rich carpet of flowers. Many trees were demolish a part of the wall. This in bloom; the fig-tree was just shooting brought about quite an agitation among ONE new use has been found for the forth its fruit and leaves. We drove the the people. The German and French village cock-pits in the Philippines. entire night, stopping only to water and governments had to interpose, and a Bible Society colporteurs use them for feed the horses. Our route lay a little long court trial was the consequence. In lantern-slide exhibitions, which open a to the east of the site of ancient Cxs- April, 1885, the expenses of this trial market for Bible sales. area, mentioned in Acts 21 : 8. At pres- had already reached three hundred and ent there are only a few of the ruins fifty dollars. Not knowing what would " WE promise to keep the ten com- left, and these are fast disappearing, as be the outcome, Consul Keller, for so is mandments and the eight beatitudes. We they are used for building stone, and for he called, was one day meditating upon will daily pray in our homes also, be- limestone. We also passed through quite the matter when there passed by him a seeching:the Lord to send us a teacher." a large Jewish colony called Zammarin. bier carried by four mules, and followed This is the form in which a band of From here we turned to the sea, near by three mule drivers and a European heathen Chinese in the province of Sze- the town of Tantura ; this is the. ancient lady. " Then it seemed that something chuan, writing to a member of the China Dor, whose inhabitants the Jews, did not said to me," said the Consul, " that I Inland Mission, offered guarantees in drive out when they took possession of should go to the hotel, for God had some- order to have the mission recognize them the. land. See Judges I : 27. At Athlit thing for me. But I did not go until as inquirers. There is something attract- we saw large ruins of the old castle, of I was called there. I was informed that ive about a country where inquiries be- the pilgrims, in use during the crusades. the lady who had just arrived, had lost gin at:this point. It is the last fortress •which fell into the her husband on the road between Naza- hands of the Mohammedans in 1291 A. D. reth and Haifa. I did all I could to help THE receipts of the British and About half-past five in the evening, this distressed woman with the burial, Foreign Bible Society for the year 1903- we came up to Carmel. We rounded the and also tried to comfort her. All the 04 amounted to $1,156,179.20. Its ex- promontory, and passed the thriving Ger- German colonists sympathized with her penses were not met by this sum. The man colony just as we entered Haifa. in her great bereavement. The lady de- deficit amounts to $83,581.96. During In the city we met the German consul, sired in some way to reward us for the the same time the American Bible who is very favorable to our work. He kindness shown her; but I would accept Society received $496,194.34 from all asked that we climb Carmel by moon- nothing. However, I told my wife that sources. Among the missionary societies light, and spend the night in the health if the lady should again say anything, the Presbyterian (North) received $1,- home he had erected there. Carmel is I would surely relate to her our plans 131,510. Its expenditures exceed this quite a range of mountains, something for the health institution we wished to amount, however, by about $40,000, and like twenty miles long. It is here about build on Carmel. She did speak to me for the first time in six years it closes one thousand feet high, but its highest again, and then I told her of our project, the year with a debt. The American point lies some eighteen miles inland, and said it would cost us at least five Baptist Missionary Union received from where the " top of Carmel," is one thou- thousand dollars. The lady answered, all sources $735,585.02. The Presby- sand eight hundred feet high. Here it is ' All right; I will give you that amount.' terian Church of Canada received $109,- that Elijah had his wonderful experience When she said it, I hardly dared to be- 454, but its expenditures amounted to with the prophets of Baal. The butt of lieve it. But she said, ' You better write $135,057, making a deficit of $25,603. Carmel is beautifully covered with green, seven thousand dollars, because you will The Southern Baptist. Convention re- and its sides and top contain a number need it.' The trial continued until 1887, ceived $247,629. The Society for the of vineyards and olive-trees. • Isa. 35: 2. and even Bismarck intervened in the Propagation of the Gospel received There are many natural caves on this matter." $766,927.28. 14 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD JULY 21, 1904

limang doing well with Dr. P. K. Gaston as physician in charge. Brother John Harzman has been work- ing in Mexico City and the State of 5-...:;:::::1;P:::::tilt Mexico with quite good success. In re- ,0 )I 4,,, ...f. .,Fi.i,,,.;1:,,y,:::!: 5,,,7,...:1i.::;:...... ,,,,,.,...s.,, i.:. •;..,...,.:::::,::::.::,.., iili)i'i, flip i 1 g LI i!t II 1:F:::.;7, canvassing the city of Toluca he secured % m...... , ...,, renewals from about one fourth of the subscribers to El Mensajero, and took enough new subscriptions to more than Mexico about the different points of our faith make up for those which were not re- I AM glad to be able to record so e and left him an English " Thoughts on newed. advancement in the work in this fi ld Daniel and the Revelation " to study. Elder Bodwell took over one hundred since my last report. Besides i3rinti g He understands English well. At this subscriptions in Tampico and vicinity twenty-five hundred copies of El Men ,a- plaCe we disposed of more books and during the month of May, and is now jero de la Verdad each month, We h. traits, and took some subscriptions to following up the interest in San Luis gotten out two hundred and fif y e. eh the paper. Potosi. of the Sabbath-school lesson pa phl is The next stop was at Zacatecas, a Some of Brother Kelley's Bible readers for the three quarters of 1904, and a quaint old mining town, begirt with hills, who began keeping the Sabbath some two thousand edition of each of :he fol- which has a population of about twenty- time ago are now ready for baptism, and lowing tracts : The Sabbath in t e N w seven hundred people. There we spent a thus the seed which he has been sowing Testament, Is Man Immortal, and e day with a Protestant minister who had is bringing forth fruit. We rejoice in Second Advent. Professor Caviness as written to Brother Leland, questioning these evidences of progress in the work had the oversight of this work, doing he him in regard to the doctrines held by us in this field, and are of good courage, translating and supervising the printe s. as a denomination. We took our Bibles believing that the sickle of truth will The new building for our p inti g- and studied the different points of truth gather sheaves for the garner of the office and depository is all done exc pt with him and his wife in the forenoon, Lord even from the long-neglected hanging the windows and doors a d and in the afternoon he called in one of Mexican field. putting in the In closing, I wish to earnestly ask the floor. Providence prayers of the brethren and sisters in not preventing, behalf of those who are studying the we shall soon be truth here in Mexico. Pray that God able to move in, will give them courage and faith to step and will then be out fully and obey all his commands. able to do our GEO. M. BROWN. work to much better advantage than now. California T h e greater SINCE leaving the work of conference part of June I secretary last September, on account of spent in making failing health, I have held meetings with a trip with Elder the churches at St. Helena, Sanitarium, Leland through Healdsburg, Santa Rosa, and Calistoga. the central part I have also held two meetings with the of the Republic. old soldiers at the Veterans' Home at We visited Chi- Yountville. I have been living in the huahua, a thriv- country where I have had the privilege ing town of about of a more active life in the open air. twenty-three hun- This has resulted in a great improvement dred people, and of my health for which I am very thank- the capital of the ful. State of Chihua- This improvement in health enables hua (chiwawa). me to do more work in the cause, and I We were there TAIRAH MARA INDIANS OF CHIHUAHUA have accepted a call from the conference five days, and we and the Healdsburg church to labor at sold some books and secured a f 'w his members and we continued the study. Healdsburg, in behalf of the important subscriptions to El Mensajerot ie His attention was first called to the Sab- interests which center there. above picture represents a gi4toup lof bath by reading a little book written by I rejoice in the blessings which the Tarahumara Indians who live in C i- a Catholic against the Lutherans, in Lord has bestowed upon me, and in the huahua. We saw some of therji wile which the writer charged them and all prospect of the speedy triumph of this we were there, and were told that t ey Protestants with inconsistency in claim- message. M. H. BROWN. are Catholics, and come to the , city in ing to take the Bible as their sole guide, large numbers to celebrate the fies as and persisting in the observance of at Christmas and New-year's. They w ar Sunday for which there is no Bible au- Gold Coast, West Africa no clothes except the serapes shown in thority. Thus we see illustrated again CAPE COAST CASTLE.— I have delayed the picture, and a loin cloth. Th se the old truth that God will use the efforts making a special effort at the hall for Indians are fair representatives 9f m. of the enemies of the truth to bring light the better class, hoping that some reg- thousands in Mexico, who, though no fi- to those who are seeking it. This ular minister would soon be here to help. nally Catholic, are as truly pagan as t ey brother seems to fully believe in the However, I am now thinking of starting ever were. Still even to such as th•se seventh-day sabbath, immersion, the special lectures on Sunday nights, and' the everlasting gospel must be carried second advent, and other truths. I be- making an effort to get this class to From Chihuahua we went to Torr on lieve that he will walk in the light as attend. Our papers have made a good where we remained a week. This a fast as he sees it, for he gave up a impression on their minds, and I am new and rapidly growing railroad to n, lucrative position in the army to be a sure we would see fruit if we could minister. it being the junction. point of the Mee i- have a strong lecture course at this can Central, Mexican Internatioltal, rid One of the principal objects of this trip time. We have been here over a year Coahuila & Pacific Railroads. was to look over the ground with a view now, and it is past time that we make Here we were hospitably entertai ed to opening work in a new place. Doubt- a decided effort. Many, very many, are by the pastor of an independent Mexi an less Elder Leland will soon move his just= hanging in the balance. When I congregation of Protestants. This pas or family from Guadalajara and begin work talk to them, they say they know that is a young man of strong character w o, either in Aguascalientes or Torreon. it is so, and that they will be lost un- with his congregation, separated fr om A recent letter from Dr. Erkenbeck less they change. I fear that many of the American missionaries becatise t ey says that the sanitarium is having a these will lose the good impression, and persisted in having church festivals nd better patronage than is usual at this become bitter; then we can do nothing entertainments. He is self-sup orti g, season of the year. The medical mis- for them. and seems very favorable tow rd )te sion in Guadalajara which is now under This whole village has been stirred truth. We enjoyed talking- wi h the supervision of the sanitarium, is with our doctrine, and now is the time JULY 21, 1904 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 15

to reap the fruit. Two of the ministers " 2. We recommend the use of the 880. The tithe for the last year was even acknowledged to their people that Family Bible Teacher in tent-meetings, $9,915.33, or nearly eleven dollars per the Roman Catholics changed the Sab- Bible readings, and home missionary ef- member. Tract society sales amounted bath. forts. to $3,509.45, and contributions at' the I lost about ten months on the lan- " 3. We recommend, That we urge our camp-meeting to $1,469.18. guage, but have taken it up in earnest brethren throughout the State to do Elder Farnsworth gave us the closing now. It is very easy •to learn. I want more missionary work than we have admonition: " Move out into 'new fields; to soon begin translating some Bible hitherto done, and that a special time, lengthen your cords, strengthen your readings. I can work at it as I learn a month or more prior to the holidays, stake's. Preach the third angel's mes- the language. They have prayer books, be set apart for a missionary campaign. sage in every place. Pay an honest service and hymns, also the Bible in " 4. We recommend, That one or more tithe. Be faithful in all things, and suc- their own tongue. Reading is done persons be selected in each church or cess will follow." mostly in the English but many read the company, to act as local 'agent for certain We left the camp full of courage in native tongue. books set aside for their special use at a God to press the battle to the finish. e have had no desire to leave since discount of forty per cent; and that this N. M. JORGENSEN, Secretary. we came. We only hope that we shall local canvassing work be under the live long enough to see our work well general direction of the field secretary, established. J. M. HYATT. but that each librarian arrange for the Montana Camp-Meeting work in his own church. OUR camp-meeting held at Townsend, " 5. We recommend, That during the Mont., is now in the past. All who at- Virginia coming year a canvassers' school be con- tended this meeting were certainly re- ducted for the benefit of all who desire paid for coming. With the exception LOWRY.— We came to this place from to engage in this work, time and place to Ephesus, June 29, and pitched our tent of one day the weather was almost per- be arranged by the conference com- fect. • There -was a good attendance con- in a beautiful grove near the Norfolk mittee. & Western depot. A Catholic lady sidering the distance many of our peo- kindly gave us the free use of the grove. " In order that our industrial school ple were forced to come, and it was Our congregations have been good may be finished and relieved from em- evident that those who did come were from the beginning, some nights the tent barrassing financial conditions,— there for the purpose of getting a closer will not hold the people. We praise our " 6. We recommend, That a sum of connection with Christ, and to impart dear Heavenly Father for this. Some eight hundred dollars [afterward voted to others the blessings received. How are becoming interested as they hear the to be sixteen hundred dollars], be raised good it is to be so minded. Sometimes message of God for this time ; and we in cash and pledges. it means a real sacrifice for many of our long to see a good company raised up " 7. We recommend, That conference people to attend the •annual camp-meet- here. We shall labor to that end. • But workers report monthly, and that our ings, but in the very sacrifice made the it is hard for the people to forsake their president be authorized to draw their blessing is received, and hearts go away churches, and give up the old ways of salary warrants, on the basis of the strengthened to press forward in the living. All but one of those at Ephesus former audit. spiritual warfare. who came out in the spring are still " Recognizing the fact that the church- Elder A. T. Jones •was there the last faithful. There are a few others there school teachers are sacrificing much for half of the meeting, and none present who; we think, may yet obey the truth, the cause of God,— will ever forget the stirring testimonies as they study our literature. We expect " 8. We recommend, That they be as- of faith and courage he gave in his in- to remain here till camp-meeting. We sisted to attend the summer institute, struction. His visit will be long remem- hope to have baptism Sabbath or Sun- each to the extent of twelve dollars, and bered by his Montana friends, and there day, July 16 or 17. We expect Elder fare to the institute, and from there •to will be always a warm place in our Hottel 'here then. the respective schools to be taught. hearts for Elder Jones. T. H. PAINTER, " In harmony with the instruction The medical work was well repre- C. B. RULE. given us by the spirit of prophecy,— sented by Dr. H. B. Farnsworth, of " 9. We recommend, That our people Missoula, Mont., who gave some excel- be urged to make diligent study of our lent discourses on the value of right South Dakota Conference and health principles, and that our workers living. His addresses were practical, do all in their power to agitate the sub- and such talk always reaches the hearts Camp-Meeting j ect. of the hearers, bearing positive influ- THE twenty-fifth annual session of the " 10. Resolved, That we take steps ence in stirring to action. Surely the South Dakota Conference of Seventh- immediately to raise a fund for establish- principles of 'health demand our earnest day Adventists was held in connection ing a health institution. attention. with the camp-meeting at Canton, S. D., " 11. Resolved, That we continue the At this meeting there was not a large June 9-19, 1904. effort to place the conference business attendance from the outside, but some First meeting was called June 9, 'at 3 on a cash basis. were interested who, we trust, may yet P. M., with Elder Burman in the chair. " Realizing the need of some effort cast their lot with those who keep the Hymn No. 140, " 0 for that flame of being made in behalf of the religious commandments of God. On Sunday living fire," was sung. Scripture reading 'liberty work in our conference,— afternoon ten persons were baptized in by Elder Hayes, after which Elder " 12. We recommend, That the consti- the Missouri River, a large crowd wit- Underwood led the congregation in a tution be so amended as to provide for a nessing the baptism. Our desire is that solemn prayer that God might lead this religious liberty secretary." each one who went forward in this sol- entire conference to his glory. A health and temperance secretary emn rite may remain faithful to the The newly organized church at Aber- was chosen, also n German correspond- blessed truth and message which makes deen was admitted into the conference. ing secretary. With the exception of a this a peculiar people. A committee of nineteen was elected few changes on the conference com- In our young people's meeting the from the floor to appoint the standing mittee, the officers were re-elected for last Sabbath we were there, it was im- committees. the coming year. pressed on us that our youth must be In reporting the work for the past Credentials were granted to the fol- called to bear the great burden of this year, Elder Burman stated that in every lowing-named persons: C. A. Burman, work, and that they must press forward place where meetings had been 'held, E. G. Hayes, N. M. Jorgensen, C. Reis- in •every phase of the work to which some had been won for the truth. He wig, F. L. Perry, Daniel Isaac, and R. they may be called. Wonderful possi- also mentioned the excellent health of E. Harter. The last named was also bilities are open to those who stand firm all our workers. ordained. Ministerial licenses were as a rock to principle, taking the Bible The following are some of the resolu- given to J. W. Beach, J. W. Christian, as their guide. Courage, determination, tions that were adopted: — N. B. Baldwin, C. M. Clark, C. F. Betts, grit, level-headed faith,— these are some " Inasmuch as we have been urged to W. A. Baker, Bertha E. Jorgensen; and of the essentials necessary to our own assist in every way the progress of mis- missionary credentials to L. D. Randall, salvation as well as to success in any sionary effort in the South,— Milla M. Johnson, Mattie E. Randall, line of work. The man who never knows " I. We recommend, That •a systematic Geo. W. Miller, Leona Burman, and defeat, will never fail of success, no effort be made in behalf of the book, Dolphy Hayes. matter how hampered by adversity, bod- ' Story of Joseph, ' and invite every The Sabbath-school secretary reported ily. affliction, or imaginary evils, Which member of our Sabbath-schools to sell thirty-three Sabbath-schools and nine- latter, most• often, cause discouragement one or more copies of that work. teen home-schools; total membership, and defeat to many who master bravely 16 ADV ENT REVIEW AND SABBATH, HERALD JULY 21, 1904 the real difficulties of life. It iS hard hOme field in Iowa is not attended with school take active measures to have all in , for young people to launch out by fai h the reward of souls as in the early days its vicinity become members of its home in a work that is all of faith, and o of the message; and, believing that our department, supplying them with les- which they are wholly unaccustomed, b t laborers of to-day are no less faithful, son pamphlets and report blanks, and by this is what must be done in order o devoted, and earnest than those of kindly 'Christian sympathy encouraging begin, 'and the experiences gained d y former times, we, therefore, conclude them to become workmen that need not by day are'the great factors in the re 1 that the failure to gather fruit is not a to be ashamed, rightly dividing the training preparatory to the 'heaven Y result of a lack of honest effort, but word of truth. school — the higher education. rather to the preaching of the gospel of " 8. Resolved, That we continue to ac- Our young people must 'be encou - the kingdom in a field in which the real quaint our Sabbath-schools with the sit- aged, loved, and helped in the work f r Macedonian cry for help does not exist uation in other lands, and that we keep themselves as well as in their work f r at this time. Therefore, be it,— before them the need of liberal contribu- others. As one well says, " Man's s - " 1. Resolved, (s) That we instruct tions, that as Sabbath-schools we may cerity should never be put too rudely ,o our conference committee to place at the do our part in carrying the message to the test, it needs encouragement ar d disposal of the General Conference Com- all the world. indulgent 'welcome. He who rebuffs t mittee one half of our laborers and one "'Whereas, The Lord has said the by inhospitality is likely to frighten it half of our tithe to the filling of calls in Sabbath-school is one of the most effi- from his house." So the sincerity o r destitute and needy fields; (2) that it cient means of bringing souls to Christ; young people should be recognized. t be the policy of our conference in the and, whereas, he has given so much should be given indulgent welconie, a d future to use the forces and resources of instruction as to the best way to do this every help, kindness, and syriipat y the State of Iowa as a recruiting and work,— should be extended to those who a e training ground for needy fields that " 9. Resolved, That we continue to secretly yearning to enlist in t e are calling for help, believing that in the study the light given in Sabbath-school Master's service, yet shrink fro future when the tide of battle shall turn Testimonies, and that we follow the in- putting themselves forward. We c n again to this country in the great closing struction of our Great Teacher. only say to you who are 16ngi g conflict of the ages, many strong, expe- " Whereas, There is need of trained for such experience, Come along, co 'e rienced workers will be furnished us and intelligent officers and teachers in with us and we will share o r from other lands in response to our cry all our Sabbath-schools; and, whereas, experiences together; we will; fig t for help then offered. the Sabbath School Worker is a valu- the battles in this spiritual warfare s te " Inasmuch as the numerous and vari- able helper and counselor in all branches by side, and together share in tl'e gl ous calls for means to be used in the of the Sabbath-school work; therefore,— rious victory. If it is to canvass for o r establishment and equipment of our " so. Resolved, That we welcome the excellent literature, we can say the sa e many institutions, both in this State and Sabbath School Worker as an old and thing. Those of long experience are in the general work, render it impossible tried friend, and that we recommend all extend the hand of confidence and co - in many cases for us as individuals to who bear responsibilities in our schools radeship to the youth. It is not dnou h give to all, that each and all may have a to study and practise the instruction it simply to say, Go, and the Lord ble s part in all these institutions,— contains. you, but rather, Come, and shal-e t 'e " 2. We recommend, That as a confer- " i s. Resolved, That we 'encourage blessing. Such it seems to me 'show d ence we endeavor to raise during the parents, and also our young people, to be the spirit manifested to young43eop e coming year the sum of fifteen thousand subscribe for the Youth's Instructor, and starting out in the highest vocation o dollars, to be 'divided as follows: Wash- that we will do all in our power to in- which man 'has ever been called-- th t ington work, fifty per cent; Iowa Indus- crease its circulation and usefulness. of leading souls to Christ. trial Academy, fifteen; Iowa Sanitarium, " Whereas, God has called upon this After the close of the meeting the iri- fifteen; Southern field, fifteen; tent denomination to maintain as system of terest was followed up for several days fund, five. Christian education that shall include the by personal work, though with what "Whereas, The canvassing work is a home-school, the church-school, the in- success we have not learned. means ordained of God for the spread termediate school, and the training- Plans for the summer's work 'we e of the truth, we most earnestly request school, not only as a means of salvation laid by the conference committee, a d that this department receive special at- for our children, but also as a means aggressive efforts are to be made n tention in our conference this year. of evangelizing the world; therefore,— new fields. Tent efforts are now bei g " 3. We recommend, As a means of " 12. Resolved, That we urge all our made at Missoula and Pony, Mont. building up this work, that the executive 'ministers and other workers to study We trust to see our educational wo k committee arrange for one of our min- the subject of Christian education, and firmly carried forward, that these greq t isters and the State agent to visit the present it to our people very much more principles of truth which are so, esse - churches in the interest of this work. frequently than they have in the past. tial, may in no wise be allowed to f 11 " Whereas, The General Conference 13. Resolved, That we pay the in the rear. Our intermediate industrial publishing committee has set aside cer- traveling expenses of all our teachers to school must find a permanent locatio tain denominational books for the use whom we grant •teachers' licenses to and and our church-schools also must e of home workers, as a means of encoura- from the union conference summer maintained. A great work is before s ging and developing regular canvass- school at Atchison, Kan. (This was here in Montana. All are of good cour- ers,— amended to provide that they expect to age. AMOS. E. EVEEETT. " 4. We recommend, That an effort teach a regular church-school the com- be made to secure one or more persons ing year.) in each church to engage in the sale of 14. Resolved, That the workers co- Iowa Conference Proceeding s these books. operate with the educational superintend- THE forty-first annual session of t le "Whereas, The series of readings ent to give the literature prepared by the Iowa Conference convened on the' cam called The Family Bible Teacher pre- Educational Department of the Central ground at Colfax, June 3-12, 1904. sents a means by which any one can do Union Conference, together with the Four churches were added to the li t. thorough missionary work,— books, " Education," " Bible in Educa- Ministerial credentials were granted o " 5. We recommend, That our people tion," and Volume VI of the " Testimo- thirteen, ministerial licenses to tiwen make a liberal use of them in presenting nies," as wide a circulation as possible. one, missionary licenses to twenty-fottr, the truth to their friends and neighbors, " 15. Resolved, That we encourage the church-school teachers' credentials to and that this be followed by an effort to employment of our young ministers and three, •and licenses to twelve. sell pamphlets and small books. Bible workers as church-school teachers The following resolutions were "Whereas, Our Sabbath-school les- in such places as the conference com- passed:— sons are designed to educate our people mittee deems advisable, with the under- " Whereas, Most stirring Macedoni n in the truths for this time, that they may standing that they lead in the mission- calls for help are continually comi g be prepared to give the light to others; ary work of the church, and that they from 'destitute mission fields ; and,— therefore,— spend their time when school is not in " Whereas, The third angel's mes- " 6. Resolved, That we use every pos- session in conference work in the vicin- sage has been preached in the IoWa sible means to encourage thorough, sys- ity, thus building up a strong work with Conference for nearly half a centutiy, tematic study of the same. the church, the conference bearing the and has been attended by the blessing "Whereas, Those who are so situated expense while such laborers are in its of 'God so that we have a large numb r that they can not attend the Sabbath- employ, and that, when necessary, it of believers, a large annual tithe, and a school are just as greatly in need of the assist,even during the school term. large band of workers; and yet we fi d truths found in the lessons; therefore,— " 1. Resolved, That we create a con- that the preaching of the word in o r " 7. Resolved, That each Sabbath- ference educational fund to be used un- JULY 21, 1904 ADVENT REVIEW AND .SABBATH. ,HERALD , 1.7

der the •direction of the conference com- be largely increased in order to maintain now closing a contract for one for them-, mittee to assist in maintaining schools the present low prices,— selves. where the churches are unable to •do so " 22. Resolved, That our people be We have started the work in the themselves, providing they come into urged to give the bakery their patronage Southern Illinois Conference with the harmony with the spirit of prophecy re- and hearty support, and also to work motto, " Owe no man anything." Our garding the establishment of church- up •a •demand for these foods by intro- expenses have been heavy, having to buy schools ; first, by taking a collection on ducing them among their friends and almost a full set of small and large tents, this camp-ground; second, by carrying neighbors. which we are glad to report are paid out any plan that the conference com- Whereas, One of the principal ob- for. mittee may deem best, such plan to be jects of our camp-meetings should be the We have also built a conference school prepared as soon as possible. evangelization of the communities in building at DuQuoin, at a cost of fifteen " 17. We recommend, That the plan of which they are located; therefore,— hundred 'dollars. One successful term of organizatiOn for our young people as " 23. Resolved, That in the future it school has been held in this building. set forth in the Testimonies, that of be the policy of our conference, as far forming small bands of two or three, as possible, to go to those cities that STATISTICAL REPORT OF THE SOUTHERN for the purpose of prayer and personal have never had the benefit of our meet- ILLINOIS CONFERENCE FROM NOV. 1, 1902, TO MAY I, work for the salvation of souls, be en- ings, and that we do our best to secure 1904 couraged and worked out as fully as grounds near the center of the cities Number of churches 27 possible in this State. where we go. Further, we suggest to Membership 55o " 18. We recommend, That the State our executive committee the favorable Number in companies and isolated workers and leaders of the young people consideration of such cities as Dubuque, Sabbath-keepers 5o make a special study of the Testimonies, Davenport, Muscatine, Burlington, Total Sabbath-keepers 600 and meet at some convenient time and Council Bluffs, Sioux City, and other Number of Sabbath-schools 27 place for the exchange of thought, that cities and towns of like character. Membership 625 God's plan for this work may be more " 24. Resolved, That we express our Number of church-schools 3 fully developed; and as there is a lack regret that so many of our people plan Membership 45 of suitable leaders, we would suggest to come to the camp-meeting so late, Number of church buildings Io that the ministers and leaders of churches thereby losing in a large measure the Total ministers given credentials 5 select those having ability to act as such, blessing and benefits of the meeting, and Licensed ministers I and place them under instructiorl, that that we earnestly entreat our people in Licensed Bible workers and workers they may learn how the work should be the future to put forth greater effort to Canvassers 7 carried on. We would suggest that as come at the beginning and stay until the Total laborers 17 far as practicable this work of training close. Total tithe receipts $7,604.39 and instructing leaders be carried on at " 25. Resolved, That we ask our con- Annual offerings to foreign our camp-meetings this year; and that ference committee favorably to consider missions 592.03 one or more be selected whose whole the advisability of subsidizing persons Weekly offerings to foreign time be devoted to training these leaders, to sell The Signs of the Times and The missions 233.96 and to visiting churches and companies, Southern Watchman." Miscellaneous offerings to for- encouraging the young people to set The following-named officers were eign fields 115.08 themselves to work for the Master. elected for the coming year : President, Total Sabbath-school offerings 579.51 " 19. We recommend, That our young L. F. Starr; Secretary, Mrs. Flora V. Sabbath-school offerings to for- people, who are more or less inclined Dorcas ; Treasurer, C. W. Larson; first eign missions 310.24 to engage in amusements and recreation, member of committee, B. E. Fullmer; Miscellaneous offerings to dif- be encouraged to participate in those second, Chris Juhl; third, J. W. Dorcas, ferent funds (as Religious only which tend toward mental, physical, superintendent of Missionary Depart- Liberty, Int. Pub. Assn., and spiritual development. ment; fourth, Dr. J. E. Colloran, super- etc.) 221.74 "Whereas, The Bible training-school intendent •of Medical Department; fifth, Retail value of book sales $7,088.07 for workers has developed a number of J. 0. Beard, superintendent of Educa- J. M. REES. efficient and successful Bible workers,— tional Department; sixth, C. H. Parsons. " 20. We recommend, That this school Trustees of the Iowa Seventh-day Ad- be continued, and that at least one per- ventist Association are as follows: L. Thief River Falls (Minn.) Camp- son from each church in the State, F. Starr, C. A. Washburn, C. G. John- Meeting where possible, be encouraged to attend; ston, C. H. Parsons, C. W. Smouse, THE local camp-meeting appointed to and if there are those having ability to Chris Juhl, and C. J. Robinson. be held at this place opened on time, do Bible work, but who are unable to MRS. FLORA V. DORCAS, Secretary. but with a smaller attendance than was meet their expense at the school, we expected. However, this did not detract would suggest that the church assume from the spirituality of the meeting; for the responsibility of their training for The Southern Illinois Conference the testimony of all present was to the the work. We further recommend that Report of the President at the Lake effect that this meeting was a time of the school be continued in Des Moines, Union Conference rich blessing to them. that the nurses may receive the benefit Our brethren living in this part of of a Bible training. THE territory composing the confer- the State are widely scattered, and many "Whereas, The health work is to the ence of Illinois was divided in the fall of them are not blessed with much of message as the right arm to the body ; of 1902, and in October following, the this world's goods, yet they have a deep and, whereas, this work centers in and Southern Illinois Conference was or- love for the truth. radiates from our sanitarium, there- ganized by Elder S. H. Lane, its first The hearts of the laborers were made fore,— president. The territory of this confer- glad to see the hearty response when " 21. Resolved, That we ask our peo- ence is that part of Illinois south of a the different needs of the cause in ple to remember the work our sanita- line running east and west through the Minnesota were presented, and the gifts rium is doing, and urge all to give it city of Peoria, taking in that city. We. made at this meeting represent a real their hearty support. Inasmuch as there have a population in our territory of sacrifice on the part of the givers. is no charge for advice by mail, we in- 1,878,149. Among the laborers present may be vite our people to correspond with the As to, the working of the conference, mentioned Elder H. S. Shaw (president sanitarium concerning home treatments I can speak for only the past nine or ten of the conference), P. A. Hanson, M. S. in case of illness. And, further, we ask months. On coming to the conference, Reppe, W. W, Ruble (the canvassing our laborers to recommend to the sani- I found twenty-five churches with a real agent), •and Ella Merickle (the Sabbath- tarium such of our young people as membership of about four hundred. Two school secretary), and the writer. should take up that work, and to put, churches have been organized — one at The children's meetings were in them in communication with the man- Springfield and one at Farmington. charge of Sister Merickle, and the work agers. About one half of the members of the for the youth was in charge of Brother Whereas, The sanitarium bakery is Springfield church were colored, and in Ruble and the writer. One singular 'thoroughly prepared •to furnish the best order that they might do better work and feature of the meeting was the large quality of health foods at the very low- reach more of the colored people with proportion of young people encamped on est prices ; and, whereas, owing to a the truth, we organized them into a the, ground, the majority of those present heavy increase in the cost of raw ma- separate church, the white people giving being youth. terial since the present prices were • es- the colored people the church building. As the needs of the school enterprise tablished, the volume of business must The members of the white church are were discussed, there was a special in- 18 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD JULY 21, 1904

terest manifested by the youth. , Th y the present writing is as follows: two than one State already, and it has been gave pledges, and agreed to help, in i,s ordained ministers, three licentiates, one agitated in many more. 'establishment in every way in: the r secretary, one Bible worker, three can- In some States, like Tennessee, where power. The sum of $55.15 was rais vassers, and one more in training for for years large schools for the colored for this enterprise, the larger Oorti the Bible work. The workers are all of people have been taught by whites, in coming from these young people. good courage, and have no desire to its important universities, there was not The evening services were artang leave the field, though the work has sufficient influence to sanction such a to make prominent the special featur, s sometimes been hard. Our brethren in law, but these things are being can- .of our faith. A good congregation fro the churches are, generally speaking, in vassed more and more, and will be, no the city assembled each evening, a d good spirits, and earnest in the work. doubt, as time goes on and the crisis gave excellent attention to the )trut s They have taken part in missionary draws near. It is well that our •people preached. On Sunday afternoon; seven effort, including the sale of " Object should confront this issue. White youth were buried in baptism by Eld r Lessons." This work has been finished teachers can now, in many parts of the Shaw in the Thief River. Thes ga e in this field as far as the quota is con- South, teach colored people, but the way evidence of consecration to the ,Lora s cerned, ours having been more than is gradually becoming hedged up, and it service. May God's blessing 3 rich y filled some time ago; this does not mean is very probable, to say the least, that attend this part of the field. that nothing more will be done in this this will not always be permitted. M. B. VANKIRK. work. What then will be the prospects of We can truthfully say that this is a our getting the truth by means of pub- promising and fruitful field. The Lord lications and reading-matter before the The Superior Mission Field has blessed us much, and still there are colored people? Can not every reader of Report of the Superintendent at the many more and greater blessings ahead. this article see at a glance, that if we Lake Union Conference We ask our dear brethren to remember fulfil our -duty, we must, while we have us before the throne of grace. opportunity, make every provision for THE Upper Peninsula of Michigan E. R. WILLIAMS. colored teachers who can teach their own began its work as a mission field, Oct. people, if whites are not permitted to do 1902, when Michigan was dividdd in ,o so, the great principles of present truth, four parts. The two southern 4onfe - The Only Seventh-day Adventist the last message of mercy to the world? ences (East and West Michigan) ikind y Colored Training School We are now prepared to notice the consented to help support the Work n importance of supporting and sustaining this new field, where the number ;of b in the World and greatly enlarging the only Colored lievers was few, there being at thAt ti e FOR many years past, light from the training-school among our people in two organized churches and one Or t o Lord has been coming to us continually existence — the one at Huntsville, Ala. unorganized companies, with a 1-4mbe '- in regard to the duty of our people all That school has already had an existence ship of less than one hundred and t:went , through these United States to assist in of some nine years, with a greater or including scattered Sabbath-keepetis. T e thoroughly establishing the colored work. less degree of prosperity. Its prosperity annual tithe amounted to about eig t There are many indications that there and success have been decreasing in the dollars a member. At the presetit ti e is a great crisis liable to come in the near last two or three years, rather than in- there are five organized churche, a d future, with reference to the relations creasing, due to a variety of causes. The three companies, with a memberhip f between the white and colored people in attendance, to the best of my knowledge, about one hundred and sixty, and tith s the great South. Both white and colored has been about fifty or less, for several amounting to nearly twelve dollar's p r often speak of this, and it is to be years past. capita. expected that we shall yet see fearful It is not my purpose to depreciate in We present herewith a financial stat times in the South. any degree the reputation or efforts of ment covering the time since our la t It (has been intimated by the Testi- those who have been laboring in the camp-meeting, or a period of a little le .s monies of the Lord that what we do in school. I can conscientiously say that than ten months. The amount of ;mon y reference to the colored work must be all have tried to do faithful work, and received from all sources is as f.1- done soon; that the way will be hedged have done a great deal of good, but the lows : — tip earlier in some fields, especially in the school has not yet accomplished all that Lake Union Conference 1$ 300 South, than in others. This is why the it, was designed to accomplish by its East Michigan Conference .... Lord has been especially pleading for creation. West Michigan Conference 1,1 2 our people to take hold of this work The problem haS- been a very perplex- Sup. Mission Field 1,4:o even more strongly than in the great ing one to those connected with the nations of the earth, where much needs Southern Union Conference, for two or Total '$2,9 7 to be done, and where we have a great three years past. The school belongs to Amount paid workers 2,6;8 work to accomplish, because things here the Southern Union Conference, the are in a peculiar condition. same as our Graysville Training-school Balance on hand $ 3 I have not space in this article to for the whites. While the Graysville The annual donation was $137; t delineate and present before the readers school has had about one hundred in at- book sales have amounted to $1,675. of the REVIEW many things I know tendance, the colored school •has had only with three canvassers in the field. T relative to this matter. Having been about half as many. tract society, which started with o now some fifteen years in the South, I The difficulties of the situation may money and only a few books, has n have become acquainted very consider- account largely for this difference in at- quite a little stock of books, tracts, et'., ably with the questions that are es- tendance. It is expected of all the white and about one hundred dollars. We e pecially agitating the minds of the people students that their tuition and expenses glad to make mention in this connecti.ti, in the South. ,will be paid. This has seemed impossible of the fact that the West Michigan Co - Last season, in one State at least, the in the condition of the colored students ference kindly donated a number of t e governor was elected on the issue of in attendance, because of their great Swedish edition of the " Life of Chris ," educating the colored people in the poverty. ' I will not, for lack of space, which has helped very much in the wo 12 South. It was a heated campaign. The enter into many of the conditions and here. candidate who was elected came right reasons why such difficulties exist in the The Sabbath-school work has al o out in public, repeatedly, and said that carrying on of this colored work, but been making some progress, there bei g education " spoils the field hands." they do exist, as no one conversant at the present time eight organiz d Of course the sentiment, which was with the matter will deny. The per- schools, three family schools, and thri, e so pronounced in that political campaign, plexities have, within the last year or so, Young People's Societies. Al co was very contrary to the feelings and been so great that some have even ques- parative statement of the donations e- views of many of the best citizens of tioned whether the Huntsville school ceived will help in forming some idea ,,' f the South. But it shows which way the should be closed. This, however, has not the interest manifested in this work, afid wind is blowing. Different States have been the prevailing opinion by any of its growth since the organization of been agitating the question for -some means, but it has been, in some instances, the mission field. The amount receiv years past, that none but the colored suggested. Various opinions have been during the first quarter was ninete people should educate the colored people; entertained. dollars. During the last quarter that it Should be contrary to the law for The matter was quite fully considered donations received •were nearly ; dou le white teachers to teach the colored in our important council at Nashville those of the first, the amount, bei: g people. It has • been put in legal last winter. The perplexities were so thirty-six dollars. statutes that such schools should not be great that it was with difficulty that The number of workers in the field sanctioned by state authority, in more leading ;brethren of experience in the t JULY 21, 1904 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 19

conference would consent to serve on the There is a great deal more that might duty, if we are ever going to see this Huntsville board. be said concerning this important insti- work advance as it should among this All of us felt the deepest interest in tution, but the writer feels unwilling to afflicted race. The servant of the. Lord having the counsel of Sister and Brother take up more space than is necessary has been on the ground, and all that has White, and other leading brethren at the to give a clear idea of the matters in been shown her in the past has 'been meeting held in Huntsville by the Confer- question. I feel certain that the minds revived in her 'mind by what she saw ence Executive Committee and the of all our leading brethren are settled concerning this institution. This is Huntsville board, June 20-23. There was that the Huntsville school must be made what, for years in the past, our people quite a full attendance at the meeting, a •success. It must fill an important work who are interested in the prosperity of and Sister White enjoyed a fair degree in this denomination. It is favorably the work in this most distressed field of health. She spoke twice to the people located, near the great " black belt," have desired, and now we present before present with freedom. where the greatest mass of colored peo- you a synopsis of this information. She had very excellent and satis- ple is to be found. The excellent work The whole Union Conference Commit- factory counsels to give to the brethren that 'has been done here must now he tee are in 'hearty accord with what I who had the important interests of t'he supplemented, arid greatly increased. any now seeking to present before the institution in charge. She stated, sub- It was resolved by the committee that, readers of the REVIEW AND HERALD, our stantially, that the Lord had shown her instead of having a long intermission church organ. We feel like doing our this school, and its surroundings, Several during the summer, where the students utmost to carry out the instructions we years ago. She pointed out different go elsewhere and get under worldly in- have received. We believe that it is features concerning the buildings, t'he fluences, the school should be continued the only consistent thing to do. This in- fruit-trees, and the general appearance throughout the year, with simply short stitution must not be left to fall into as it was presented to her. She spoke vacations, so that those who come to ruins; it must not be left to go down in the highest terms of the capabilities attend it, and receive its benefits, should in disgrace. This work, that needs our of the soil, if it could be properly man- be retained on the place, to be thoroughly attention, and our 'earnest prayers, and aged, and its best qualities be fully de- instructed and fully impressed with the our devoted efforts must be put in a veloped. great truths for this time. Many of condition of health and prosperity. She said emphatically in public that those who have attended the school, by May our dear brethren and sisters " not one foot of this land should 'be thus going out into the world, have lost everywhere think of this great need, and sold; " that the school, instead of num- their interest, and were really lost to come to its rescue. bering fifty students or under, ought to the cause. This line of policy will be GEO. I. BUTLER. have .one hundred or more — indeed, she changed. had made statements concerning it, as The school, which is now •having its .represented by 'her son, that the school long vacation, will reopen September 21, The Seventh-day Adventist Pub- might attain to some two hundred or and continue right on. lishing Association two hundred and fifty in number, if Now, we appeal to our brethren, properly managed. She gave sugges- throughout the great Northern field to IT is well known to the friends of the tions as to changes that should be made ; help us in this important crisis, to put Seventh-day Adventist Publishing As- these have been carried into effect. She this school in a proper condition. sociation of Battle Creek, Mich.,• that says that immediate efforts should be It was voted to raise five thousand dol- efforts have been in progress for more made to enlarge this school, and put it lars as soon as it could be done. The than a year to close up our publishing in a far better condition. school is in debt to the Southern Union work in Battle Creek, Mich., and to The buildings are much in need of Conference treasury to a large amount, transfer that department to Washington, repair, simply .because there have been as funds have not been at hand to pay D. C. no funds with which to improve them. the laborers in the school, and they have About one year ago the REVIEW AND Some of the houses must be repaired been borrowed from our depleted treas- HERALD and Youth's Instructor were soon, or they will be in a similar con- ury of the Southern Union Conference, transferred to Washington, and since dition. putting that treasury in very great dis- have been issued from that place. In the The statements, in the presence of the tress. But it seemed absolutely neces- meantime earnest efforts were being board and the committee, were such as sary, in order to keep the school going. made to have the court of chancery dis- to set at rest much questioning and doubt Teachers must have a living. solve the Seventh-day Adventist Publish- in regard to the future of this institution. We need, at once, one thousand of ing Association, appoint a receiver, and All those who believe the Testimo- this five thousand dollars, to 'make proper settle up its business affairs. On the nies felt satisfied with the only course repairs, and to put the schoolroom and twelfth of July, 1904, the court dissolved to be pursued was to take hold, and put dormitories in a respectable condition. the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing this institution in a state of greater Will not our people at once help in this Association, declaring its existence as efficiency. great work? Are there not some breth- having 'ceased, and appointed Irwin H. There 'has been some lack of union ren and sisters with means who will take Evans, of Battle Creek, Mich., as re- between the important colored work in hold and lift at this time. If some of ceiver. Mississippi, where some six or eight our •brethren would lend us a thousand Now it is the desire of all parties to schools are already in successful prog- dollars to fix up our cottages, we could expedite the closing up of all matters ress, and others about to be entered take a little longer time to get the rest, pertaining to the old corporation. Four upon, and the Huntsville Training-school but this is absolutely essential. We months' notice is given for a hearing of in Alabama. As one person having ought to have it in hand to-day, to fix the creditors, after which time the heavy responsibilities placed upon me in up the buildings and put them in a property must be disposed of, a settle- connection with this work, I have felt proper state of repair for the coming ment made with the creditors, and if that these institutions should be so united school year. there is any surplus, it will be divided as to be largely under one control, and Now, brethren and sisters throughout pro rata among •the shareholders. full unity should exist, instead of being the great field, we have laid these facts Many of our people have already as- dissevered, drawing in opposite direc- before you; we have reached the crisis signed their stock to the Washington en- tions. of this important undertaking, the only terprise, but there may be some who are Elder F. R. Rogers, who has had spe- colored training-school belonging to Sev- yet hesitating whether they had better cial responsibilities under great diffi- enth-day Adventists in the world. do so or not. We would say that nearly culties, in looking after the colored work Are we really in earnest? and do we ten thousand shares have already been in Vicksburg and vicinity, was elected really desire to help this poor, afflicted, received, and there must doubtless be superintendent for the coming year. despised people, to bring the light of quite a few whose loyalty to the cause of Though he may not be able to devote all truth before them? If we do, we shall God will lead them at once to transfer of his time to the Huntsville school, certainly rally to help the only training- their stock for the benefit of the work in everything indicates that it will receive school of this people to be placed in a Washington. Any one who is so dis- special attention from him. Prosperity condition to enter upon its work which posed should at once take his certificate, and success have attended the 'work in the Lord has declared for years and and turn it over and write on the back the Mississippi schools. Wherever a years in the past must be done. I can the name of I. H. Evans, Trustee, in the school has been brought into existence, not overdraw this picture. blank provided for such purpose, date a church of colored people has been I appeal to our people, as one of the it and sign his name, and forward 'it raised up around it. The crops being old hands, who has known this cause, to 267 West Main St., Battle Creek, raised at Huntsville this year are look- and helped to raise means for it for Mich. ing very well, better than the average some forty years, to help in this time of The Review and Herald Publishing of those in the neighborhood. dire distress and need. We must do our Association of Washington, D. C., which

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is duly incorporated under the statrtes f BROTHER E. H. HALL reports the open- The One Hundred Thousand the District of Columbia, has gre ing of a course of tent-meetings in New Dollar Fund to exchange its own note for any rote r York City, July 9. account that any party may hold 'gain t FURTHER partial list of the donations the Seventh-day Adventist Pub1ishi At Jonesboro, Ark., six adults have re- received on the Washington building Association of Battle Creek, Mic . e cently 'been led to observe the Sabbath fund at the General Conference office: — most earnestly desire to have the Oien S, by means of literature and Bible work. The total of the list last week was $1 who are loyal to the cause, assign t 'e short, having been added up before the notes which they now bold agai4st t e JULY 9, Elder S. G. Huntington insertion of a donation of that amount in Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Ass baptized and received six young men and the list. This, adds $1 to the amount ciation of Battle Creek, Mich., 'to t e women into the church at Kanawha Sta- previously reported. Review and Herald Publishing Ass tion, W. Va. Amount previously reported $15,603 57 ciation of Washington, D. C., 4nd n E. H. Root Soo 00 return for this assignment, oncei AGGRESSIVE work is being done this T. and E. Tucker too 00 Mrs. A. L. Prescott too 00 of note at 222 North Capitol St.,Tas summer in the State of Ohio. The ington, D. C., the said Revieiv a d W. A. Wilcox, Treas 53 50 Welcome Visitor gives this summary: — Carl Young 5o 00 Herald Publishing Association, of ,Was Elder A. C. Shannon and G. P. Gaede W. W. Conkling 5o 00 ington, D. C., will give its note for t e are conducting a tent effort at Sidney C. S. and Elvira Terwillegar 5o 00 same amount and interest up tO da with a good interest. Elder W. H. C. D. and Elsie Terwillegar 50 00 Of course, there will be no interest pa d Granger, James E. Shultz, and Harry Mr. and Mrs. A. Miller 5o 00 except on notes drawing interest. Benson have located a tent in Toledo, Thomas Rae 30 00 The court has decreed that e and' report an excellent attendance. Mrs. B. L. Turney 25 00 Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Ass - Elder M. C. Kirkendall and W. E. Bid- Christin Anderson 25 00 ciation must pay no notes until the e - Mrs. M. J. Lippincott 25 00 well have a tent located at Rows, Ash- Mrs. E. M. Merritt 25 00 piration of the time appointed for a hea - land Co., with fair prospects of additions A sister 25 00 ing of the creditors, which will be t e to the newly organized company there. Mrs. S. F. Soden 25 00 [ latter •part of November, 1904. Elder C. C. Webster and Fred M. Fair- W. H. Farley 25 00 At a meeting of the Revievt a d child are engaged in a series of tent- B. R. Wirt 25 00 Herald Publishing Association ttuste s meetings at East Liverpool with prospects Mrs. J. L. Ings 20 00 held on July 18, 1904., at 222 I Nor 'h of favorable results there. Brethren B. Mr. and Mrs. C. Y. Worthen 20 00 Capitol St., Washington, D. C. the fo - L. House and H. H. Votaw are in the Ann Arbor (Mich.) S. D. A. church ,20 00 lowing recommendation was adopted: --,-- midst of an interesting effort at Clark, M. H. Wangerin 20 00 " In order to facilitate the closing up C. C. Collins 20 00 . Holms Co. John Lauerwein 20 00 of the business of the old Sev4h-d y William Kerr 20 00 Adventist Publishing Associatidn, of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Pfender 20 00 Battle Creek, Mich., we hereby iiistru THE distribution of workers for the summer campaign in West Pennsylvania Lura A. Francis 15 00 our officers to receive any assignident Anna L. King 15 00 notes or accounts which any ctedit is as follows: — Miscellaneous II TO may hold against the said Seventh-d Elder E. J. Dryer, assisted by Elder James Hodge 10 00 Adventist Publishing Associatirin )f Baierle and Brother Prescott, will fol- A friend to 00 Battle Creek, Mich., and in return f• r low up the interest at Titusville. Later Harry H. Gerhart 10 00 Elder Baierle will conduct a tent effort John Bratley 10 00 I. the same to give the notes of the B.evi0 A. E. Devereaux to 00 t and Herald Publishing Association If in the vicinity of Industry. Elder C. S. Longacre, Brother Ned Lars Madsen to 00 Washington, D. C." D. and E. Isaac 10 00 We have thus arranged to confirm Ashton, and Sister Bolles will form a ;' C. A. Burman 10 00 just as far as possible, the business tent company for an effort,— first at Helen Watson I0 00 the old Seventh-day Adventist Piiblis Washington, Pa., and later in the vi- Edgar Henninger to 00 ing Association by merging its b4sine is cinity of Pittsburg or Allegheny. Julia C. Berry To 00 and its operations into this new cOrpor C. F. McVagh will work among the Margaret Smith 10 00 tion now existing at Washington,! D. churches in McKean and Potter Coun- Mrs. Ida Mohler to 00 ties. J. F. Gravelle and family to 00 The security of the new corp4rati Eber Weed to 00 is equal in every respect, as far as hum Elder W. F. Schwartz and Brother J. E. Veach will conduct a tent effort F. I. Richardson to 00 judgment can discern, to meets the 'e Sturgeon Bay (Wis.) church to 00 obligations, with that of the old cdrpor in Blair County, probably at Williams- Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Anderson . 00 tion. We feel that the creditors Will n t burg. Mrs. Sylvinia Crowell 10 00 lose in any way whatsoever by the e L. A. Miller to 00 change of their notes, and it will be a THE following board of directors and Isaiah Williams to 00 great accommodation in the settling Alice H. Robinson, Treas 9 39 p other officers of the Pacific Press Pub- D. Meade 6 00 e of our business for the creditors to_ ma lishing Company have been elected for Mrs. M. E. Devinney 6 00 this exchaneo- at once in harmony wi the ensuing term': — J. E. Cruss 5 00 the plans that6 have been laid out by t e Directors: W. T. Knox, president; Alice Finch 5 00 brethren who are managing the wor C. H. Jones, vice-president and general Mrs. A. F. Tenney 5 00 Any communication concerning th manager; E. A. Chapman, secretary and Mrs. 0. H. Kistler 5 00 can be addressed to the RevieW a treasurer ; M. C. Wilcox, W. B. White, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Downs 5 00 Herald of Battle Creek, Mich., or;to t e H. H. Hall, A. S. Kellogg. Mr. and J. G. Monroe 5 00 Review and Herald of 222 North Capit of Lena Wilson 5 00 Auditor, J. J. Ireland. Lucy Wilkins 5 00 St., Washington, D. C. Manager book and periodical depart- I. H. EvANs, H. A. McG. 5 00 ment, H. H. Hall; superintendent manu- Belle L. Brown 5 00 [ Receiver of the S. D. A. Publishing A facturing •department, F. H. Gage; man- F. J. Brown 5 00 ,i sociation of Battle Creek, Mich.i ager Kansas City branch office, James A. A. Zytkoskee 5 00 i F W. W. PRESCOTT, Cochran; manager Lincoln branch office, Mrs. C. Williams 5 00 [ President of the Review and Hera C. H. Miller. Mrs. B. Montgomery 5 00 Publishing Assn. of Washington; D. Editor Signs of the Times, M. C. Wil- Eunice Bogar 5 00 _ Frederick Holder 5 00 I cox; assistant editors, C. M. Snow and Jane Devore I W. N. Glenn. 5 00 Field Notes , Mary H. Graves 5 00 I Editorial committee on Our Little Orno Follette 5 00 THREE persons, were baptized recent y Friend: M. C. Wilcox, H. H. Hall, and T. J. Evans 5 00 1 at LaFayette, Ind., by Elder A. W. Ba Kathrina B. Wilcox. Peter C. Holt 5 00 lett, Editorial committee on Apples of Gold L. M. Bowen 5 00 and Bible Students' Library: W. N. Dena A. Smith 5 00 Wm. Cashner 5 00 A CHURCH-SCHOOL of thirty-sev n Glenn, H. H. Hall, M. • C. Wilcox, J. F. Beatty, and A. J. Bourdeau. Miss E. J. Howell 5 00 f members, near Tell City, Ind., cloSed 'n Robert Douglas 5 00 1 April. March 28 eleven of the pup s Publishing committee: C. H. Jones, Nettie Larson 5 -00 were baptized and united with t e H. H. Hall, M. C. Wilcox, W. N. Glenn, Mr. and Mrs. John. Ralston 5 00 I church as a result of the regular schI •1 C. M. Snow, W. T. Knox, and. A. J. Mr. and Mrs. James Vile 5 00' work. Bourdeau. Thomas Coverdale 5 eo JULY 21, 1904 ADVENT REVIEW. AND SABBATH HERALD 21

Sarah Braugh 5 00 Marion Teates 2 oo Yance Hangsted I 00 Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Clark 5 00 Charlie Frohock 2 oo Rachel Kegerreis I 00 C. P. Odell 5 00 J. B. Correy 2 oo Mrs. K. Gibson I 00 Rosa B. Smith 5 00 Margaret Evans 2 00 Robert Kegerreis I 00 E. L. Nesmith 5 00 0. R. Olson 2 00 J. H. Krum I 00 Elder C. Reiswig 5 00 George Ikawa 2 oo Leontine Krum 100 Mrs. J. C. Erickson 5 00 Otis Davis 2 oo Isabella Smith I 00 G. W. Miller 5 00 Josephine Leininger 2 oo Lydia Netzley I 00 R. Vkr: Sufficool 5 00 0. 0. Marvin 2 oo J. P. Glembin I 00 A stenographer 5 00 Mrs. Matilda Larson 2 oo Charlie J. Aalborg I 00 J. A. Kirshman 5 00 Mrs. Lizzie Fee 2 oo D. 0. Anderson I 00 Hosea Meade 5 00 Isaac Kejerreis 2 oo Jacob Ericson I 00 B. V. Finn 5 00 J. W. and Mary Vedder 2 oo Theresa Gilbert I 00 W. D. Parkhurst 5 00 Mrs. C. Handburg 2 oo W. 0. Johnson I 00 B. Haines 5 00 Richard Green 2 oo P. P. Kier I 00 Henry S. Foster 5 00 A sister 2 00 Mrs. M. H. Robinson I 00 Dudley Staats 5 00 A friend 2 oo Adelia Sechler I 00 Chris Johnsen 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Kisner 2 00 W. A. Baker I 00 Mrs. Johnsen 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Gentis 2 oo Lillian Nelson I 00 Mrs. Perry Sherman 5 00 Mrs. Branch Marshall 2 00 Sophronia Russell I 00 Mrs. Whitely 5 00 Henry Amperse 2 00 Mrs. Ida Challoner I 00 Mrs. Hattie White 5 00 S. J. Wilber 2 00 R. B. Fanton I 00 Thompson Lowery 5 00 W. S. Wilber 2 00 Mrs. E. R. Ford I 00 Mary Moore 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. Warren Clark 2 00 Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Ford I 00 Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Croop 5 00 Mrs. Ellen Moss 2 00 Emma Carroll I 00 Lida A. Eaton 5 00 J. F. Klostermyer 2 00 Mary Thomason I 00 Mrs. Annie Sufficool 5 00 Elizabeth McHugh 2 00 Sister Thomas I 00 A friend 5 00 J. Omwaker 2 00 Ober Thomas I 00 Andrew Maples 5 00 A. E. Bullock 2 00 Mrs. James Swingle I 00 Henry Timm 5 00 H. M. Vincent 2 00 Gale Reynolds I 00 Jennie E. Loomis 5 00 Mrs. Harrison Smith 2 00 Frank F. Frye 100 Ella Hiatt Amelia Reese 5 00 Northern Union Conference 2 00 100 J. W. and E. Rogers 5 00 E. Y. and J. Q. Burleigh 2 00 F. F. Peterson I 00 Daniel Wood 5 00 Mrs. Nellie Kroupa 2 00 Julia Husted and daughter I 00 Ida Wangerin 5 00 Arthur A. Reinke 2 00 Mrs. Bertha Firminger I 00 E. F. Moranville 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. A. Knapp 2 00 Hortense Andre I 00 Jane M. Lowery 5 00 Hans Nelson 2 00 W. Cratsenburg I 00 N. Paquette 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Nelson 2 00 N. H. Sleeper I 00 Mrs. H. T. Stickney 5 00 A. M. and C. M. Pervoise 2 00 Eunice B. Dixon I 00 Oscar B. Reinke 5 00 Eliza L. Richmond 2 00 Jennie Watrous I 00 H. Janes J. W. Sauber 5 00 Mrs. Frank Thompson I 75 I 00 Lena Neumann 5 00 Isaac Forte] I 70 S. E. Bartlett I 00 Mary H. Moore 5 00 A. 13. Power I 40 Burman I 00 Sophia Hanson 5 00 Mrs. Amanda Fetter 3o J. Medley I 00 M. Durst 5 00 Mrs. J. H. Hammond 15o 0. E. Davis I 00 P. Lamar '5 00 A friend 15o F. 0. Nelson I 00 Elmer Wassom 5 00 W. A. Slater I o9 Nellie Fox I 00 S. Sackett 5 00 Sister Reams and son I 05 Mrs. A. L. Snyder I 00 Mrs. M. J. Sampson 5 00 Miscellaneous I 45 Mary Yorger I 00 Nathan Osborn Mrs. Miller Cooley 5 00 Mrs. N. A. Hamilton 100 I 00 Mrs. Joe Mrs. A. M. Deco 5 00 Mr, and Mrs. J. W. Brewer • oo Miller I 00 I Lucinda Young Florence Kelley 5 00 Mrs. M. Boys oo I 00 L. Johnson 5 00 Mrs. Rachel Flory I oo Cynthia Larkin I 00 Mrs. E. J. Allen 5 00 Mr. Curt Flory I oo B. A. Hamilton I 00 Mrs. M. Work 5 00 T. W. Shedden I oo Harriet Oberholtzer I 00 Gertrude Grainger 5 00 John Woodburn I oo Emily Vescelius I 00 Mrs. Lizzie W. Grainger 5 00 H. D. Wells I oo Providence (R. I.) church I 00 I S. E. Wight W. J. Singletery 5 00 D. Pickard oo I 00 I M. L. Poole N. L. Botler 5 00 Eva Pickard oo I 00 Josie R. Archibald 5 00 M. Gibbons I oo 13 F. Banks I 00 George Close Mrs. Robert Scott 5 00 M. Milks I oo I 00 ' Ole C. Hangsted 4 00 H. Howes I oo Paul C. Coats I 00 I oo C. D. Flowers I 00 Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Kesmer 4 00 Miss P. M. Foster Mrs. F. W. Stickney I 00 Mrs. Edward Gauger 4 00 Miss B. Dickens • 00 N. E. Perkins Mrs. J. P. Hall 3 6o James Dickens I oo I 00 I G. W. Eddy J. H. Parritt 3 25 Mrs. E. H. Salsbury oo I 00 I Mrs. E. Spicer 0. T. Nelson 3 25 G. W. Bremhly oo I 00 Alamogordo (N. M.) church 3 65 A friend I oo Mrs. George Taylor I 00 M. J. Fritts A. A. Huntley 3 00 Retta Davis I oo I 00 I C. H. Dryer I 00 L. J. Whitney 3 00 Mamie Stitzel oo Mrs. M. Sahe I 00 5. G. Miller 3 00 Mrs. Clara Wolf I oo B. A. King 00 M. C. Frederickson 3 00 Myrtle Wakefield I oo I William C. Huxley Leona Burman 3 00 A friend I oo I 00 Henry Olmsted I 00 A. C. Ford and family 3 00 George R. Close I oo Wallace Birmingham I 00 J. H. Ocker 3 00 Mary Hardin I oo Maggie Yaeger I 00 John Hale 3 90 P. H. Mangan I oo H. V. Moranville I 00 Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Griffin 3 00 B. F. Curtis I 00 Mr. and Mrs. Daniels I 00 D. F. Barton 2 75 Sarah E. Curtis I oo Mrs. G. H. Branhan I 00 M. Stevenson 2 07 Sam Medler oo Mr. Thos. Worth I 00 Lemhigh Sabbath-school 2 70: John Wolverton 00 Mrs. Thos. Worth I 00 Lydia Stripe 2 25 C. A. Young I oo Faith Worth I 00 Plano (Tex.) church 2 70 Felix Blachowski I oo E. S. Krouse I 00 Jerome (Kan.) church 2 75 Thaddeus Blachowski I oo Mrs. C. D. Flowers I 00 Cynthia Hutchins 2 50' Mari Combs • 00 Chas. P. Zoerb I 00 J. W. Coil 2 50 Mabel Wood I oo A friend I 00 Mrs. Lizzie Christman' 2 50 E. H. Waler I oo Mrs. Belle Stucky I 00 S. Anderson 2 50 H. B. Steele • 00 Mrs. R. A. Grant I 00 J. E. Vosburg 2 50 Elizabeth Boyle I oo Nels Anderson I 00 Ellen E. Vosburg 2 50-' Mabel Beals I oo Carrie Anderson I 00 Brother Forcythe 2 50 Cora Wauchope 00 I S. H. Nelson I 00 Mrs. B. Beltz 2 50 George F. Brown oo Christian Erickson I 00 A friend 2 00 Mrs. Minnie Kelly oo I oo D. C. Latmitt I 00 W. L. McNeely 2 00 W. H. Loose oo W. B. Caps I 00 Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Warren 2 00 W. E. Burrows • • I oo Mrs. M. E. McDonald I 00 Miss 'Mattie E. Hughes 2 00 Mrs. Douglas oo Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Griffin I 00 E. W. Stone 2 00 Gusta Larson A V NT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD JULY 21, 1904

Mrs. Peck A. E. Gober Currrnt TarntbIrt W. P. Rickey N. S. and Melissa Reed Mrs. L. S. Felton — A fire at Millington, Md., July 12, Dorothy Aliatha Loose destroyed property to the value of one Jennie Gibbs 75 hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and Nellie Earl left two hundred people homeless and Camp-Meetings for 1904 Mr. and Mrs. Mads Jorgenson 63 Grace and Annabelle Nelson 59 destitute. ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE J. W. Heddleston 5o — A dispatch dated at Sydney, New Eastern Pennsylvania Mrs. M. Milks 5o Maine, Caribou, Aroostook Co South Wales, July 12, reports the wreck New York Arthur E. Dickens 50 of the steamer " Nemesis " in a gale off Mrs. Eveline Fanning 50 Southern New England Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Heinze 50 the Australian coast, with the loss of Vermont, Hardwick Aug. 18-28 Mrs. Wingate 50 •thirty-one lives. Virginia, Stanleyton Aug. 5-14 Fanny Shorey 50 — A dispatch from Manila reports a West Virginia, Clarksburg Sept. 8-18 Lucy Shorey 50 cloudburst in the hills northeast of that CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE M. E. Buckland 50 Maritime city, causing a flood which drowned two Quebec Etta Buckland 50 hundred people, and destroyed property Hattie Wakefield 50 SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE Julia Wolverton 50 to the extent of two million dollars. Alabama, Mobile July 28 to Aug. 8 Plummer 50 — Among noted persons who have Cumberland, Rockwood, Tenn..... Aug. 11-22 Eva B. Thompson 50 Florida, Plant City Oct. 13-23 50 died the past week are Major Samuel M. Beth Everts Jones of Toledo, commonly known as Georgia, Lawrenceville Aug. 5-15 Mrs. L. Hyatt 50 Louisiana, near Shreveport, July 28 to Aug. 7 Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Albrecht . 50 " Golden Rule " Jones, whose death oc- Louisiana, Arcadia, Bienville Parish A. Tanner 50 curred July 12 ; and " Oom Paul " July 27 to Aug. 7 Sister Carson 50 Kruger, president of the late Transvaal Mississippi Elsie M. Swingle 50 republic, who died at Clarens, Switzer- North Carolina, Statesville July 29- Mrs. Jane Woldron 50 land, July 14, from an attack of pneu- South Carolina Etta Woodruff 50 monia. Mr. Kruger's body will be bur- Tennessee River, Hazel, Ky. .. August 19-28 W. C. Atchison 50 LAKE UNION CONFERENCE Mrs. T. J. Hamilton 50 ied in the Transvaal. East Michigan, Flint Sept. 15-25 N. E. Peckham 50 — An agitation for the discontinuance Indiana, Martinsville Aug. 18-29 F. A. Rothbun 50 of Sunday work on public improvements Northern Illinois, Streator Sept. W. W. Loomis 50 in the District of Columbia, has been Southern Illinois, Decatur Aug. 17-28 Lucy Gullipod 50 started by women of the Forest Glen North Michigan Sept. 1-12 F. Houchin 50 Ohio, Marysville Aug. II-22 Maude Wilkinson 50 Presbyterian church. Sunday work is Superior Mission, Gladstone, July 28 to Aug. 8 Reith Worth 50 being done on the new railway station, West Michigan, Allegan Aug. 18-29 Mrs. A. Bean 50 the Pennsylvania railway tunnel, and the Wisconsin, Oshkosh Aug. 3o to Sept. 12 F. A. Bean 50 reservoir. Contractors are quoted as Marin Sounsin 50 saying that Sunday work is necessary in CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE Stena Erickson 50 order to finish the work in contract time. Colorado, Longmont Aug. 18-28 Mary Madsen 50 Kansas, Wichita Aug. 25 to Sept. 4 Mary A. Pritchard 40 — A strike involving about sixty Missouri, Columbia Aug. 11-21 Ellen Bledsoe 35 thousand men employed in the meat- Nebraska (State), Omaha Sept. Mrs. Melissa Sollaer 3o packing industry in Chicago, St. Louis, SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE W. T. Harris 25 Omaha, Kansas City, Fort Worth, and Arkansas, Russellville, Pope Co Aug. 11-23 Mrs. Nioma Johnson 25 other Western cities, was begun July 12, Oklahoma, Guthrie Aug. 25 to Sept. 4 Catherine Zykoskee 25 to settle a controversy over wages be- Texas, Keene July 27 to Aug. 7 Julius Capitska 25 tween employers and the union. The Texas, Hughes Springs (local) ....Aug. 16-26 C. C. Ward 25 PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE Mrs. C. C. Ward 25 cost of the strike is being largely paid W. J: Packham 25 by the public in the enhanced price of British Columbia, Vancouver ....Sept. 15-25 C. Moon 25 meat. Considerable rioting has attended Southern California, Los Angeles.. Sept. Clara I. Patten 25 the strike in Chicago, St. Paul, and Kan- Utah, Provo Aug. 10-17 Alvin Osman 25 sas City. UPPER COLUMBIA CONFERENCE Roy Beach 25 British Columbia, Vancouver Sept. 15-25 Lily Lineback 25 — But little reliable news has been re- Southern Idaho Sept. 12-18 May Summey 25 ceived of late regarding the progress of Oregon, La Grande Aug. 3o to Sept. 4 !?5 Mary Gibbs events in the Russo-Japanese war, Washington, North Yakima July 19-24 Jessie Burman ;25 though rumors have been plentiful, John Rogers 25 The presidents of the various conferences among these being a report of Admiral are requested to send us information regard- G. R. Earl 25 Togo's death, and of a great Japanese S. B. Woodruff 25 ing any meetings not mentioned in the prece- Mrs. J. E. Barber 25 reverse at Port Arthur, with a loss to ding table, so that we may be able to give a Arthur A. Vosburg 25 the latter of 30,000 men. It appears complete list. Please inform us at once of Mabel E. Vosburg 25 probable that the Japanese have been any corrections or additions that should be Ellen A. Seeley 25 repulsed in a number of assaults on the made to this report. Josie Delton 25 fortifications at that place, with con- Mrs. H. Willard 25 siderable loss. A naval battle off Port A, Note to the German Brethren and Anna Gilbert 25 Arthur is also rumored, but with what Andrey Stucky 25 result is not stated. Sisters in Wisconsin Emma Nelson 25 PLEASE take notice that the annual camp- Mabel Larson 25 — A number of wrecks of railway ex- meeting for 1904 will be held at Oshkosh, Mrs. Katincke Heinze 15 cursion trains have occurred the past Wis., from August 3o to September 12. A friend I0 week, the most serious being at Midvale, Come to this annual gathering. Bring a Nancy T. Knapp I0 N. J., July 1o, and at Glenwood, Ill., cheerful spirit along with you by letting Jesus With Nuckle 05 July 13. At Midvale a regular passenger dwell in your hearts. Come with the inten- Ida Nuckle 05 tion of helping your brothers rise and lead- Nannie Harlow 05 train ran into and telescoped the rear ing them to Jesus, for by so doing you will Mrs. Harlow 05 cars of an excursion train which had receive a great blessing in having had a part Noble Harlow 05 stopped to take water, seventeen persons in the work. Mrs. Flora Lovely 00 being killed, and about fifty others in- Let us pray that the Lord may prepare Rosanna Stewart 00 jured. At Glenwood a picnic excursion us for service. Let every one come to help Rachel E. Campbell 00 train from Chicago ran into the rear of a souls make Jesus their personal' Saviour, and Mrs. M. E. Doble 00 freight train, twenty persons being killed the Lord will make this meeting the best R. W. Coon 00 and about twenty-five injured. At La- ever held in Wisconsin. " And be strong, R. Rose 2 00 all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, S. S. Shearer 00 baddie, forty-five miles west of St. Louis, 5 July io, a Missouri Pacific excursion and work: for I am with you, saith the A friend 10 00 Lord of hosts." Haggai 2: 4. train was thrown down.an embankment Let us make a special effort for the Ger- Total reported 4418,61 55 by the derailing of the engine's tender, man people. Let all Germans be at all the A further list will follow. thirty-eight persons being injured but meetings held in their tent. Let them come W. T. BLAND, Assistant TreOsur none killed. up to the help of the Lord against the mighty. JULY 21, 1904 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 23

Let the singers be in their places when the examine them carefully before distributing JEWELL.- Died of pneumonia, at her home meetings open. Let the praise of our God them.- ED.] in Grandville, Mich., June 17, 1904, Sister be sounded out with singing. The following persons desire late, clean Anna Jewell, aged 28 years, 8 months, and The committee will do all in its power copies of our publications, postpaid: - 14 days. Anna was the daughter of Brother to make this tent attractive and pleasant. and Sister M. V. Taylor, who, with one May the Lord add his blessing, is my prayer. Mrs. E. T. Nowlen, Clinton, Ill., Signs, brother and three sisters survive her. Sister C. J. HERRMANN. Instructor, and tracts. Jewell's Christian experience was limited to H. Crippen, Alamogordo, N. M., all our the last few days of her life. She then gave publications, especially Signs. bright evidence of falling asleep in Jesus. The Southern Training School, Grays- She leaves a kind husband and one little Anna B. Durrie, 1006 Gilbert St., Danville, vine, Tennessee boy, with many relatives and friends to mourn Ill., Signs, Southern Watchman, Bible Train- their loss. The funeral was held in the M. E. THE new announcement of this school year ing School, Life Boat, and Good Health. church in order to accommodate the large 1904-05, has just come from the press, and S. H. Noel, Suite 38, McManus Bldg., congregation that gathered for the occasion. may he secured by sending application to the Davenport, Iowa, will gladly pay for Nos. t, The services were conducted by the writer, address as given above. It contains over 3, and 7 of the Bible Training School. assisted by Elder W. D. Parkhurst, of Grand forty pages, and in addition to complete in- Rapids. W. OSTRANDER. formation regarding the school, it contains a ADAMS.- Died at his home near Half carefully prepared outline of all courses of- Rock, Mercer Co., Mo., of cancer of the fered, together with a brief manual for the alaituartr5 use in church-schools. The latter presents stomach, Brother Adams, aged 52 years. He was born in the State of Illinois and moved to the work as it will be carried on in the Iowa with his parents in early boyhood. At Normal Department of the training-school. SAXBY.- Died of cholera infantum, at the age of nineteen he accepted Christ as Welsh, La., July 6, 1904, Eugene Leonard, his Saviour, uniting with the Christian the child of Cornelius and Ina Saxby, aged Church. He was united in marriage to Mary Notice! 15 months and 21 days. He was taken sick A. Evert. After hearing the truth presented only thirty hours before his death. Words THE twenty-first annual session of the Vir- by Brethren C. H. Chaffee and Woodruff, of comfort and counsel were spoken from ginia Conference will convene at Stanleyton, they united with the Seventh-day Adventist Isa. 40: I0, .1 to a large assembly of rela- Page County, in connection with the camp- church at Half Rock, of which he was a tives and friends. meeting, August 5-14, 1904. The first meet- member until his death. He leaves a wife, HERBERT H. DEXTER. ing of the session will be held Sunday, three sons, and two daughters to mourn their August 7, at 9 A. M. SCHUYLER.- Died at Lynden, Wash., June loss. He suffered greatly, but bore it pa- R. D. HOTTEL, President. 22, 1904, of pneumonia, Oliver R. Schuyler, tiently. Words of comfort were spoken. by aged 59 years, 7 months, and 6 days. He was J. Padget (Disciple). J. L. HILL. born in Van Buren County, Mich., Nov. 4, 1844. RANDILL.- Died at her home in Vermont- Business Notices Brother Schuyler was baptized last fall at ville, Mich., ,June 3, 1904, Sophrona .Randill, BRIEF business notices will be published in our camp-meeting, and has been a faithful aged 74 years and 2 months. She was born this department subject to the discretion of member of the church. His trust in Jesus in Virgil, N. Y., April 7, 1830. She came to the publishers. A charge of one dollar for was firm to the end. In his last moments he Michigan in 1846, and moved to Vermont- one insertion of six lines, or less, and of was heard to say, " I shall see him in his ville in 1896, at which place she accepted the twenty cents for every line over six, will be glory." A wife, three sons, and two third angel's message and joined the Seventh- made, though in the case of the poor who wish daughters are left to mourn their loss. day Adventist church. Although her bodily employment, the charge may be remitted. Funeral discourse was given by the writer, sufferings for several months were intense, : 25-27. Persons unknown to the managers of the from Job W. W. SHARP. she bore it all patiently, realizing that she publishing house must furnish good refer- REASER.- Died in Oakland, Cal., June 27, must soon fall asleep to await the resurrec- ences. 1904, of apoplexy, Mrs. Mary Catherine tion of the just. Of a family of eleven children, six boys and five girls, three sisters WANTED.- First-class men to work in saw- Reaser, aged 72 years, II months, and 3 days. mill and on yard. L. M. Richards, Spencer, She was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y. and one brother are still living. Words of comfort were spoken by Rev. Haynes, pastor Mich. Her maiden name was Wilbur. She was the of the Congregational church. The remains WANTED.- Man to work in brick and tile mother of seven children, three daughters and four sons, of whom five are living. In were laid to rest in the Woodlawn Ceme- factory. Must be Seventh-day Adventist. tery. C. W. CRAPO. Wages $1.75 per day. Also engineer wanted. 1875 she accepted present truth, and ever AALBORG.- Died at her home near Viborg, Archie Hilliard, Spencer, Iowa. after was a true commandment-keeper. She was a noble, unassuming, faithful Christian S. D., May 17, 1904, Mrs. Sophia Aalborg, WANTED.-- Situation by elderly couple, for mother, who lived to serve her family. Her after an illness of five days. Sister Aalborg coming winter; Sabbath-keepers, wife good end was painless. She sleeps in hope. was born in Denmark, March 4, 1843 ; was cook, duties must be light; Southern States or Funeral services were conducted by the married to C. J. Aalborg in 1861, and in 1866 southern California. Address Rice, St. writer, assisted by Prof. G. W. Rine. they came to America, and settled at Racine, Anthony Falls Station, Minneapolis, Minn. M. C. W. Wis., where she accepted Christ, and united with the Baptist Church. In 1873 they came WALKER.- Died at the home of her to Dakota, and two years later accepted the parents, near Mountain View, Mo., April 23, Addresses truths of the third angel's message, and 1904, Ellen G. Walker. She was born Sept. united with the Seventh-day Adventist THE address of Elder W. H. Saxby is La 14, 1879, and was married to John W. Walker Grande, Ore. Church, of which she was a faithful member. Oct. 20, 1899. At the age of seventeen she Sister Aalborg realized that the end was The address of Elder M. H. Brown until united with the Seventh-day Adventist near. She was the mother of eleven children, further notice will be Healdsburg, Cal. church at Omaha, Neb., and although her life of whom three are asleep. Her faithful Com- The address of Elder J. H. Rogers is River- was not always consistent with the faith, her panion, two daughters, and six sons survive, side, Cal. last few months showed acceptance with God mourning the loss of a dear companion and The address of Elder A. 0. Burrill is Galt, and a renewed love for his truth. She leaves a loving mother, but not as those who have parents, a husband, an adopted daughter, one Ontario. no hope. Funeral services were conducted by brother, and three sisters to mourn their loss. the writer, assisted by Brother J. W. The address of Elder F. H. Westphal is Funeral services were conducted by the Pua, Prov. de Malleco, Chile, South Amer- Christian. C. A. BURMAN. writer; text, John i 1 :35. ica. W. A. TuEo. MILLER. HALL.- Died at the residence of S. T. The address of the West Coast South Black, Pittsford, Mich., June 17, 1904, Mrs. American Mission is changed from Casilla WORTHEN.- Died at the home of her Stella F. Hall, nee Ingham, aged 23 years, 240, Iquique, Chile, to Casilla 787, Valparaiso, brother, S. W. Worthen, near Lynden, Wash., 5 months, and 29 days. Sister Hall was one Chile, South America. All correspondence June to, 1904, Ethel L. Worthen, in her of the pioneer church-school teachers, having for any of the workers of the mission should twenty-fifth year. Sister Worthen was born taught in Hillsdale and Shiawassee Counties, be directed as above. in West Charlston, Vt., and came West three and she was buried from the church in a part H. F. KETRING, Director. years ago because of ill health. At the age of which she had taught acceptably four of sixteen she gave her heart to Jesus, and years ago, at Jefferson, Hillsdale County. was baptized by Elder Wm. Covert. She de- About eight months ago Miss Ingham be- sired a place in the work of the message, but Publications Wanted came the wife of Brother Irving Hall, and as that dreadful disease tuberculosis had laid its trouble with the lungs became apparent, the N. B.-Attention has been repeatedly called fatal hold upon her; and a little while be- young couple sought relief and health in to the necessity of having papers properly fore the time for her graduation from Walla Colorado, but to no avail. About two weeks wrapped. Do not roll or wrap too small. Walla College, she had to leave school. It before her death she was brought back to Cover papers well, so that they will be clean was hard for her to give up her cherished Michigan, where friends kindly opened their when received. Some have paid double the desire to labor in the Master's vineyard, but doors to give a home to one who longed to postage necessary, while others have for- she found his grace sufficient to enable her be permitted to die among friends. The last warded literature by express when it would to give all into his hands. We laid her away few weeks were full of intense suffering, but have been cheaper to send it by mail, at four in the full hope that when he comes for his this only served to make her hold on the ounces for one cent. jewels, she will be gathered with them. Master more firm. A husband, father, [ SPECIAL NOTE.- All who receive period- Funeral service was held by the writer. brother, and other relatives survive. icals in answer to these calls are advised to W. W. SHARP: 4.too. J. GRANT LAMSON. 24 VENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD JULY 21, 1904

and hope that we 'may all 'be able to dis- Washington, D. C. cern the meaning of these continued THE appeal for the work' in Wash- visitations of providence. ington is meeting with a most remark- able response from our •people. The list this week is the largest that has been WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY I, 904. OUR •brethren in •the East Caribbean published in the REVIEW thus far, con- i W. W. PRESCOTT Conference have just closed a very taining $3,007.90. These donations were L. A. SMITH t all received during one week. At this - - ASSOCIiiTE E ITORS profitable conference, the second since W. A. SPICER rate the balance that is needed for the the organization of that field. The work here will all be paid in by January meeting was held in Bridgetown, II, 1905. But, as the donations are ELDER W. A. SPICER reports 0. ple 'sant Barbados. They rented one of the largely increasing, we believe it will be voyage across the Atlantic. rote largest halls in the city, where meetings paid long before that time. from the London office, and w s le ing were conducted each evening. Almost We 'have just received a donation of the evening of July 4, for the mee ings one •thousand dollars to be equally di- the entire expense of these meetings vided between the publishing work and on the continent. was covered by the collections. At the the one hundred thousand dollar fund. close of the series, ten precious souls That part which is to be applied on the one hundred thousand dollar fund will A SECOND tent has now been pitch 'd in were buried with their Lord in bap- tism. Others are interested. Brother appear in our next week's list. We Washington, and services were beg n in believe that many of our brethren, upon it last Sunday evening. A very f vor- and Sister Enoch remain to follow up reading the article 'by Sister White able location has been secur4d a the the interest. A full report of the meet- which appeared in last week's REVIEW, corner of Rhode Island Aqnue !and ing will appear later. will respond 'with donations of one thou- sand dollars, or even more, to this work. Third Street, N. W. A statement in the 'article to which we IT will be interesting to those who read refer reads as follows: " God's word to ON account of failing health, Brc ther Dr. J. M. Keichline's report in the last his workers in Washington is, ' Arise REVIEW to know that his work was made and build;' and his word to his people Luther Burgess has been corripelle to in all the conferences is, Strengthen the leave his work in India for a time. He possible by the generosity of the Battle hands of the builders. ' . . . The work- and Sister Burgess arrived in Calif rnia Creek (Mich.) Young People's Society. ers in Washington will advance with early this month. They will pro ably Prior to his going to Egypt, they steadfast courage just as fast as the Lord's people will furnish them with connect with the work at Takdma ark volunteered to place him in his chosen field, and support him there. Through means." We believe that this states an for a time, as Brother Burgess fin s it absolutely correct principle, which has necessary to engage in manual labo liberal efforts, they were able 'to place thus far been followed. in his hands at his departure, besides We trust that all who have received money for transportation, three hundred the subscription blanks will use them in IN response to the statement and and fifty dollars for •instruments, sup- active missionary work in interesting petition of the trustees of the Sevs nth- other friends in the establishment of the plies, etc. day Adventist Publishing Associatio of work in Washington. There are many After spending a year in the field, he' Battle Creek, Mich., the court has u er- who are not Seventh-day Adventists who writes that, according to agreement, they are already contributing to this work. taken to close up the affairs of that COT- had paid him on an average ten dollars If more than one set of our appeals poration, and has appointed I. H. E ans a week. Credit is due the • faithful has 'been received by any one person, receiver for that purpose. An impo tant we earnestly request that they be placed young people of Battle Creek. Young article dealing with this matter wi be in •the hands of some one else who will people elsewhere could do as well in found on the nineteenth page. use them in this work. proportion to their numbers, if definite The letters which reveal that one plans were laid. We can well afford to spirit is working even in this move to unite our people in one as never before, BROTHER I. H. EVANS, the Owl ap- sacrifice now, that the gospel may be pointed receiver of the Seventh-day Ad- would fill a most interesting volume. quickly carried to earth's remotest We quote one from an aged sister : — ventist Publishing Association of lattle bounds. To-day is our opportunity. " My heart was gladdened by hearing Creek, Mich., and Prof. B. E. Niteola, so favorable a report of the work that for the past five years principal o ' the has been accomplished in Takoma Park Huntsville (Ala.) Training-school' for An Organ for Paris since the removal from Battle Creek. As . OUR brethren in Paris, France, are I have watched the work, it is marvelous colored students, have been in Was mg- in my eyes. . . . In the wonderful prov- ton during the past week. Prof ssor very much in need of a good church idence of God •this great work has been Nicola has been invited to take c 4rge organ for their meeting-hall in that accomplished thus far, but he desires of an industrial school which wi i be large city. They have suggested that that all shall have a part in this work; opened this fall at Palisade, olo. probably some of our brethren and sisters and as we read ' Every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom Brother F. R. Rogers has been c osen in America would consider it a privilege , his spirit made willing ' brought gifts principal and business manager of the to, donate an instrument to the Paris mis- until there was more than was needed; Huntsville school. sion. Of course the instrument should may this be the case in this instance. be one in good condition, that will do " I am eighty-four years old, and am service for a long time, as it would not a canvasser, but will do all I can my- BY a letter from Elder A. J. Breen the self, and will make an effort -to send in be wise, to pay transportation on any pledges. I am so thankful that the third president of the Upper Colunibia on- other. angel's message will go to all parts of ference, we learn that the sanitariu at If any heart is touched 'to respond to the world from Washington, and that Spokane, Wash., was• destroyed by fie on this call, we assure you that the gift Sister White is with you now. This is the morning of July 7. No lives ere will count for much to our already bur- the Lord's work. I have 'been reading lost, and no one was injured but the the ' Testimonies,' Vol VIII : ' We shall dened laborers in the French field. They not be stinted for means if we go for- building was burned to the ground. We will gladly pay all expense of trans- ward trusting in God,' also ' when we have not received full particulars o the portation. The treasurer of the General bring our hearts into unity with Christ, loss, and do not know whether the Conference, 222 North Capitol St., and our lives into harmony with his property was insured. We extend I our work, the Spirit that fell on the disciples Washington, D. C., will make all neces- on- hearty sympathy to the managers !and the day of Pentecost will fall on us.' sary arrangements for shipment. It will When will our •people take heed to these workers who have been most dir ctly be necessary to respond at once, as they words? " connected with the Spokane irstitu'ion, need the instrument right away. J. S. WASHBURN.