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Elrootth to tip Proritunation of -gm holds out to every one that ideal of man- is the truth. He revealed truth to the Nat* was um brIttiertb hood which was shown to the world in world because he was the revelation of unto tilt, *Muth - Christ, and calls upon us to believe that God, who is himself truth. John tells what he did for his Son in the flesh us that " the law was given by Moses, ISSUED EACH THURSDAY BY THE he stands ready to do for us in the flesh. but grace and truth came by Jesus Review & Herald Publishing Association Christ." The law was given, grace and truth The Truth and the Life came. What was it that came by Terms: in Advance Jesus Christ, that did not come in the WE may understand what God is by 50 law as given by Moses? " Behold," said One Year $1.50 Pour Months what he requires us to be in order to Eight Months 1.00 Three Months 40 Paul, " thou art called a Jew, and restest Six Months 75 Two Months 25 reveal his image. 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C., under the act teacher of babes, which hast the form of Congress of March 3, 1879.] unto me a kingdom of priests, and an of knowledge and of the truth in the holy nation." This is to be an actual law." The law as given by Moses, which result; for we read in the Revelation, law is holy, just, and true, outside of 0lb:that " And they sung a new song, saying, Christ is simply the dead form of the Thou art worthy to take the book, and to truth; but in Christ it becomes the living God created man, he created open the seals thereof: for thou wast WHEN law, the reality. What the law says, him in his own image, perfect in his slain, and hast redeemed us to God by that Christ was. Every one who takes thy blood out of every kindred, and being, well-balanced in his powers, in the law outside of Christ, although it is tongue, and people, and nation; and hast harmony with God. It was God's holy, just, and good, and attempts to con- made us unto our God kings and priests: thought that man should thus continue form his life to it, is simply a formalist. and we shall reign on the earth." It is in harmony with him, living the very life That is what the Pharisees were. They God's purpose to have a people who shall of divinity ; but sin came in, and that had lost sight of the spiritual character be unto him kings and priests; but to likeness to God was marred, .and through of the law, and seeing only the form of show what it is to be a king and a priest ages of sin, became well-nigh obliterated. the truth, set themselves to work to con- unto God, Jesus Christ came as both. It was the purpose of him who is the form themselves to that form, and they He was indeed king, but his kingdom unseen, the invisible God, who hides him- succeeded just as well as any one ever was not of this world. He was God self in darkness, that before the universe can succeed,— they simply made them- manifest in the flesh, that we might see there should be an image of, himself, and selves formalists. But when we see the in him both God's image and our image; so he made man, in his own image. This law in Christ, who is himself the truth because in his divinity Jesus Christ was image being marred and well-nigh lost of which that law is the form, it, is our wliolly God, and in his humanity he was by sin, it was yet God's purpose that privilege to receive the very life of the wholly man. Both in his divinity and there should be in the world an image character of God in him, and to reflect in his humanity he revealed to the uni- of himself, and in the carrying out of this that character as revealed by Christ. verse what God intends that man shall plan, Jesus Christ came to the world Had there not been need that man be. In giving his Son to the world God as the second Adam, to be in himself should have something besides the form set before humanity his ideal man. the image of God for humanity. Re is of the truth, there would have been no Would you know what true manhood is? " the image of the invisible God, the first- need for the gospel; for the gospel is See it in the life of Jesus Christ, the born of every creature." God's plan by which the truth of which God-man. Would you know the char- Jesus is the embodiment, shall be re- acter of God? See it as revealed to the vealed in humanity. It is the plan of CHRIST was the life of God, in order world by his Son. Jesus Christ was the God to call us from darkness into his that the life of God which was revealed truth before man and before God, in marvelous light. And so Christ came in him, might be revealed in us; he was order that man might be the truth before to be the revelation of the truth of God, the love of God, in order that the love God and before his fellow men; that both as a means of telling the world what of God which was revealed in him, might humanity might be restored to true man- the truth is and of bringing to humanity be communicated to us. He was God hood, in the exemplification of that truth that truth. manifested in the flesh, in order that we which is holiness from God. Thus in the revelation of the image of may reveal the character of God. Think Let us observe now. in what special God in Christ we learn what God is, and not that this ideal is impossible. God way it was that Jesus Christ was the requires impossibilities of no one. When truth, how he revealed truth by being what he expects us to be; and through he says, " Be ye therefore perfect, even truth to the world. He was truth to the' Christ, the power of God, we are enabled as your Father which is in heaven is world, because he was God manifest in to show forth his praises. This is the perfect," he means that we should look the flesh, because he was the manifesta- substance and the purpose of the gospel to him for the power of perfection. God tion in life of the very law of God, which of Christ. 4 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD OCTOBER 24, 1907

The Assurance of Our Victory That righteousness does finally reign into the great movement of modern mis- THERE is perhaps nothing that brings there, and that translated human beings sions. greater ccmfort to the Christian than will be there, is because of the provision Captain Cook, who was slain by the the assurance of God's purpose to bring which God made, through Jesus _Christ, wild savages of the South Seas, was the sin and sorrow and suffering in this and because he proved faithful to the moved by commercial and worldly im- world to an end, and establish again in trust reposed in him. " I will greatly re- pulses. But there was art overruling 1 this world a kingdom of righteousness. joice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful Providence using him as an unconscious Because God's character is a righteous in my God; for he hath clothed me with agent for the furtherance of the great character, his purpose is a righteous pur- the garments of salvation, he bath cov- work of missions: Since his day thou- pose. It is unthinkable that in a kingdom ered me with the robe of righteousness." sands of explorers, inventors, merchants, of righteousness the righteous purpose of Isa. 61: io. In place of the " filthy rags " and students have been influenced to the righteous King should be thwarted of our own righteousness will be seen give their lives to the work which now and defeated. the spotless garment of the righteousness we can see was in the direct providence God's purpose concerning this world of the one whose life and sacrifice pur- of God to prepare the way for the gospel was such a purpose. It must not be chased back the forfeited possession and message to go quickly to all the world thwarted, else another purpose, a purpose unbolted the door of our prison-house. in our time. at war with righteousness, would be How certain is it that this purpose of What the Lord said of Cyrus might be warring triumphantly against the King God will be carried out? — As certain as said of many another : " I girded thee, of righteousness in his own realm. that God lives. He has said, it himself though thou hast not known me." Cyrus, While it was God's purpose that the in these words referring to the One a heathen king, was nevertheless the earth he created should not be a waste, chosen to fulfil that purpose: " Behold,' instrument in God's hand for the accom- but should be inhabited (Isa. 45: 18), it my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, plishment of his great purposes. It is was also his purpcse that the beings who in whom my soul delighteth: I have put this ability of the Lord to lay under con- inhabited it should be loyal to him, obe- my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth tribution every force on earth for the dient to his laws. The fact that death justice to the Gentiles. . . . He will carrying forward of his work that gives came into the world through " one man's not fail nor be discouraged, till he have courage in the face of the great work I disobedience," shows that life was con- set justice in the earth; and the isles before us and the little time in which to ditioned upon obedience. " This do, and shall wait for his law. . . . I, Jehovah, do it. The Lord commissions his fol- thou shalt live," said the Saviour. The have called thee in righteousness, and lowers to go forth, with the message, same thought is expressed in this lan- will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, under the assurance that all power in guage: " I call heaven and earth to wit- and give thee for a covenant of the peo- heaven and in earth is his. w. A. S. ness against you this day, that I have set ple, for a light of the Gentiles; to open before thee life and death, the blessing the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners and the curse: therefore choose life, that from the dungeon, and them that sit in The Peace of God thou mayest live, thou and thy seed ; to darkness out of the prison-house." Isa. THE peace of God is a gift to his chil- love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, 42 : 1-7. dren. It is not a commodity that can be and to cleave unto him; for he is thy With that assurance of God's deter- bought and sold; it can not be won by life, and the length of thy days; that mination to accomplish his righteous pur- mental attainments, by the will of man, thou mayest dwell in the land which Je- pose, with that assurance that the Lord or by any human effort separated from hovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abra- will not become discouraged while it God. Christ said, " Peace I leave with ham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give remains undone, what reason have we you, my peace I give unto you." them." Deut. 3o: 19, 20. The psalmist for discouragement, knowing that our The peace that God gives is not like voices the same purpose of the Creator redemption is a part of that purpose? the peace that the world gives; nor does in these words: " The righteous shall C. M. S. the Lord give his peace in the way that inherit the land, and dwell therein for- the world gives its peace. " Not as the ever." Ps. 37: 29. That purpose is car- Unconscious Agents world giveth," says the Master, " give I ried over into the New Testament. We SOMEWHAT more than a hundred years unto you." The world has a sort of read in Rev. 21 : 27 concerning the city ago, Captain Cook was voyaging in the peace which it gives to those who seek of God, after the redemptive work is new world of the South Pacific. His its pleasures, its riches, its honors. To complete: " There shall in no wise enter accounts brought to Europe the first the lovers of pleasure it offers nights of into it anything unclean, or he that ma- knowledge of peoples and customs in revelry and days of dissipation; it prom- keth an abomination and a lie; but only Polynesia. Discussing the possibility of ises to those who attend its halls of pleas- they that are written in the Lamb's book teaching Christianity to the natives, he ure that it will give peace that will sat- of life." The completeness of the reno- wrote: — isfy. But those who have drunk from its vation is shown in these words: " But It is very unlikely that any measure cup know that the peace which the world according to his promise, we look for of this kind [that is, missionary effort] can give in the pleasures it offers, is not new heavens and a new earth, wherein should ever be seriously thought of, as it satisfying to the soul. can neither serve the purpose of public dwelleth righteousness." 2 Peter 3: 13. ambition nor private avarice, and with- To those who seek riches, it offers the Then, in place of death, which reigned out such inducements I may pronounce peace (if such there can be) which for a time, there will be righteousness that it will never be undertaken. comes with large possessions, in stocks reigning for an eternity. And righteous- Little did the explorer understand that and bonds, in lands and real estate, in ness reigns in the universe because it the time was at hand when the highest, commerce and manufacturing industries. reigns in the hearts of all the happy sub- strongest motive of all, the love of But with great accumulation of wealth jects of that kingdom. " For if, by the Christ, would send forth missionary after there comes a tremendous responsibility trespass of the one, death reigned missionary, not only into the South Pa- accompanied with constant fear and per- through the one; much more shall they cific, but into all the world. plexity. The possession of wealth does that receive the abundance of grace and As a matter of fact, it was Captain not give soul satisfaction or rest. It is 4 of the gift of righteousness reign in life Cock's story of discoveries in the South probable that there are but few rich peo- through the one, even Jesus Christ." Pacific that stirred up William Carey to ple in this world who know what real Rom. 5 : 17. begin the definite agitation which grew peace or real happiness is. The other OCTOBER 24, 1907 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 5 day there appeared a note in one of ever knew was a man who had been passed on to all the Young People's So- America's leading dailies, with this head- stricken with paralysis in the very prime cieties in the United States. This is a line: "$7,000,000 for, One Happy Hour. of life. In his presence the sick and double effort. It will prove a blessing to — Ludwig Wolfe;') and these words are suffering found comfort and hope, and the people in the Santa Clara Valley quoted from his lips: " Gladly would I in spite of great physical suffering the who receive the paper, and the donation give up my millions, this home, which peace of God flooded his soul. will be a help to the ever-present and is barren despite its splendors ; my busi- I remember a dear old lady past eighty very precious cause of foreign missions. ness, everything, for peace, for an hour years of age, alone, destitute, living on It is a double donation — first a dona- of ease from my cares and worries. I charity, yet so full of the sweet peace of tion of time in selling the papers, and have lost so many who are dear to me, , God that all who knew her loved to visit second, a consecration of the profits to I have suffered so much, that every hope her. I used to go to her humble little the Master's work in foreign fields. This is dead. Only in the grave do I expect cottage Sabbath mornings, to get my initial effort in Mountain View affords to find rest from my woes." own heart watered, and my own courage an example which may well be followed What a contrast is this lamentable cry strengthened for the day's labor. by our whole army of young people. from the heart of this multimillionaire In dungeon cells, behind prison bars, E. R. PALMER. to the song the Christian sings amid his in hunger and thirst, in heat and cold, in sickness and penury, in death and poverty and suffering: — "Where Does the Second Sab- " I am resting to-night in this wonderful loneliness, the hearts of men and women peace, have been filled with the unspeakable bath Missionary Offering Go?" Resting sweetly in Jesus' control; peace of God. Or late several letters have been re- I am kept from all danger by night and This peace often comes to us in its ceived at the Mission Board office in by day, flood-tide in life's darkest hour,— when which the above question has been asked. And his glory is flooding my soul. death has stricken down the dearest idol We are glad to reply with a personal ",,Peace, peace, wonderful peace, of the heart,— when misfortune has letter to every such inquiry; for it shows Coming down from the Father above; ' Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray, swept away our confidence in earthly that the writer has an interest in mis- In fathomless billows of love." treasures,— when some great temptation sions, and also that the church to which Earthly honors can never give the or sin has long held us prisoner in the the inquirer belongs makes an offering peace that satisfies the heart. They may castle of Despair, and by faith we break each second Sabbath, when the readings gratify the ambitions for an hour or a its bars, and in the fulness of our re- prepared for that day are read. day, but there are other honors just be- pentant hearts, we find forgiveness in There are three regular offerings yond our grasp, and we are rarely long Jesus' name. which serve to form a continuous reve- satisfied with what we have. The hon- This peace is for every one of God's nue for the support of our missions, be- ors of earth are themselves a burden children. Those who desire it can find sides the annual offering taken up at the hard to bear. " Too much honor: 0, it when they find Jesus. " My peace I close of the week-of-prayer services, and 'tis a burden I —'tis a burden too heavy give unto you: not as the world giveth, the weekly Sabbath-school offering. for a man that hopes for heaven." give I unto you. Let not your heart be These are " First-day offering," " Ten- But the peace which Christ promises to troubled, neither let it be afraid." cent-a-week offering," and the " Second his followers is a gift from heaven, and I. H. EVANS. Sabbath offering." The First-day offer- is not dependent on others for a full en- ing and the Ten-cent-a-week offering joyment. The peace of heaven is a con- Missionary Work for the Young may be one and the same. That is, an individual may be paying ten cents a dition of soul-relationship with God, over People week and laying that aside each First- which the joys and sorrows, the hopes A LETTER just received from Mountain day morning. Others may be continuing and fears, the riches and poverty of earth View, Cal., gives an inspiring account of the First-day offering, but putting in have little influence. plans being laid by the Young People's more than ten cents a week. This is so Lazarus at the rich man's gate, beg- Society of the church in that place in much the better; for no one can be doing ging the crumbs from the table of Dives, behalf of the circulation of the Missions better service for God, or supplementing with only the dogs to nurse his wounds, number of the Signs of the Times. As his prayers for the success of God's clo- could have the peace of God in his soul. the employees in the Pacific Press Office sing work in the earth in a more prac- The peace of God, to be enjoyed, is worked on this number of the paper, tical and acceptable way, than by laying not dependent on even good health, or their hearts were stirred to do something aside each First-day as God has pros- the absence. of physical pain. Who has very definite themselves. Accordingly, pered him, an offering for missions. not seen those whose bodies were dis- one evening they called a council meet- But aside from these offerings, all can torted, and whose nerves were racked ing of the young people in the vestry join, at the close of the second Sabbath with constant suffering, happy and- full of the church. If space would permit, missionary service, in making up a church of the peace of God? we would gladly report the details of offering for missions. Our hearts at A year-ago I met a poor sufferer at that interesting meeting. The members that time are warmed and cheered by the a meeting in one of the Western States. present, thirty-one in all, decided to do good reports from our faithful mission- She no sooner saw me, than, with a more than circulate the Missions number. aries out on the frontier struggling with cheering smile, she greeted me in the They subscribed for 2,350 copies of the the problems and difficulties confronting name of the Lord. Twelve long years Missions number of the Signs, and them in their work for God; and how before I had met her lying in the same agreed that they would donate the pro- fitting it is that we manifest our love condition in the same wheel-chair. Since ceeds received from the sale to the cause and devotion to the cause of Christ by then she had not seen a well day. She of foreign missions. These papers cost giving of our means as a' tribute of had not walked a step, she had not fed at wholesale four cents a copy, the price thanksgiving and loyalty at this time. herself a mouthful of food, nor helped charged for clubs of five hundred or All the offerings above mentioned— herself to a single cup of water, yet she more. The revenue, therefore, will be praised God for his love and goodness, six cents a. copy, or a total of one hun- the First-day, the Ten-cent-a-week, and and spread sunshine and happiness all dred forty-one dollars on the club: the Second Sabbath church offering— about her. This plan appeals to us as being a very go into the general mission treasury. One of the most happy Christians I happy one, which might properly be They are accounted for in separate funds 6 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD OCTOBER 24, 1907 by our treasurers, but are all drawn upon gospel of Christ. The Catholic Church is proper and justifiable that the people from the general treasury, in support of is the greatest organization in the world, should be suspicious of the legal enforce- and following it are the Church of Eng- ment of an institution with such a par- the large list of mission fields being sup- land, the Lutherans of Germany, and ported by missionary funds donated by other denominations of both the Old entage. The declaration that it is done this people. World and the New. I know the crimes as a police regulation merely, and not We trust a lively interest will be kept and sins of the church. They are many, because of the religious idea in the mat- and the blots are often as black as the up by the officers in all our churches in ter, may deceive some, but it is too Inquisition, but nowhere in the world flimsy a proposition to bear any earnest this second Sabbath missionary service, is there such an organization for right- and also in the offering that follows. Let eousness as the one great organization scrutiny. not these funds be diverted from the of Christians. The editor of the Oregonian says: — mission treasury, nor other demands It is not necessary to speak slightingly Sunday is named for the rest day be- press this offering aside. We have no of any organization that we do not ap- cause . . the government can more prove. Neither is it necessary, in order easily secure and protect a day already greater or more important work before popularly designated, than establish a us as a people than the finishing of this to be Christians, that we laud an organ- new one; not, however, because the law work in the dark lands afar-off. The ization with such a history as that organ- undertakes to enforce a divine comrhand. need of these down-trodden peoples ap- ization has, even though •it profess to be Protection of individual liberty is the peals to Heaven, and surely must appeal the very embodiment of the principles of real object. to every true child of God. Let us be Christ. There is coming a time when But history has demonstrated that faithful to our trust as stewards of the the great bulk of the organized Chris- when governments have taken it upon grace of Christ. If we are Christ's, if tian world will be under the direction of themselves to " protect " days, customs, we have in a special sense given our- the papal power. Such panegyrics as rites, and ceremonies, they have inva- selves to him, then we are indebted to that above quoted are leading the Chris- riably trampled upon individual liberty the least of his creatures. And, more, tian world steadily toward that goal. rather than protected it. They have pro- Christ has given us to these very people tected the rites, ceremonies, and days in a special sense. Carefully study the many times at the cost of human life. not long following words of the spirit of prophecy THE Portland Oregonian And all this was invariably done also just received: — since gave nearly a full column of its as a mere matter of " police regulation." " You who claim to have given your- editorial space to an attempt to justify The church of the Dark Ages indignantly selves to me, 'I give you to the world, Sunday laws. It prefaced its apology denies responsibility for the death of the that the Father may be glorified in the for such laws with a very frank state- martyrs — the state did it. So now Sen. He who came as the light of the ment of the origin of the Sunday insti- when Christian men are arrested and im- world that he might bring many souls tution. Speaking of the reason advanced prisoned for quietly laboring on Sunday, to the Father, now sends you forth as by certain citizens against the enforce- the clerical Sunday law advocate denies the light of the world." ment of Sunday laws, the editor says : — responsibility for the cruel result — the Let the young people also join in ma- It is only a theoretical view, springing, state does it; it is a mere matter of king the second Sabbath missionary serv- naturally perhaps, out of a study of the police regulation. Nevertheless it serves union of church and state under Con- ice an interesting one; also join in ma- stantine, and opposition to its historical the purpose of enforcing a religious in- king the offering for that day a liberal consequences. That was a tyranny, to stitution, and perpetuates the tyranny of one. The Lord will certainly bless all be sure. It led to the extremest despot- a united church and state upon whom- who thus seek to honor him by helping ism, continuing many centuries, ever soever may elect to worship God accord- known among men. Sunday was the day to bring the light to those sitting in dark- of pagan observance, in the Roman ing to the dictates of conscience. ness. T. E. BOWEN. world. Constantine identified and united it with the day of Christian worship, based in its turn on the legend of the BISHOP CHAS. H. BRENT, of the Prot- Nntr anti Torttmrnt resurrection of Jesus. By a strange but estant Episcopal Church, speaking at the perfectly intelligible process the com- general convention at Richmond, Va., mand of the Jewish law, " Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy," was trans- October 8, in reference to conditions in THE great bodies of professed Prot- ferred/ from the Jewish Sabbath (Satur- the Philippines, made an impassioned ap- estants are being drawn by almost imper- day) to Sunday and converted in the con- peal for a change of policy on the part of ceptible stages closer and closer to the sciousness 'and practise of the Christian this government toward the Filipino peo- world into an additional sanction of Sun- Church of Rome. There are many who ' ple. He said : — day as the holy day. feel that the Roman Church is changing We wonder whether the clerical advo- I demand justice—only common jus- in her nature, manifesting a greater spirit cates of the Sunday law will welcome tice — for the Filipinos; and I appeal, in of liberty and breathing a kindlier feel- the name of humanity, for fair treatment such support as the Oregonian is giving, ing toward those outside her fold; and for these poor, oppressed people. Great if, it must be coupled with so plain and corporate interests in the country, in or- they are allowing this mistaken belief to unvarnished a setting forth of the origin der to secure gain for themselves, are lead them to look with more allowance of the institution they are seeking to pro- making the Filipinos pay the most ex- upon her past history, and with greacer travagant prices for everything, and the tect. The introduction of that acknowl- people, in consequence, are in the depths approval upon her present purposes. edged pagan institution into the church, That mistaken belief is an ignus fatuus of poverty and despair. It is time to through the influence and direction of a stop. Petition the people who sit in Con- that is leading them closer and closer to half-pagan emperor, was very largely gress. Christian people and Christian the fold of the Roman Church. The ad- responsible for that extreme despotism churches should demand that Congress give the Filipinos common justice. I dress by the new pastor of the Linwood which marked the Dark Ages. The in- Avenue Christian Church of Kansas demand that you will make an attempt troduction of that institution into the to remedy the injustice that has been City, Mo., on September 14, was char- church by force of legal enactments was done by the country to the people of the acteristic in this regard of many that are the beginning of that union of a pagan Philippine Islands. now heard in large and aristocratic state with a professed Christian church This is not a matter of politics, but of churches. He said : — which brought, in the torture chambers corporate greed, and the conditions You will never hear me speak slight- and the autos da fe— that work against against which he pleads are a striking ingly of any church which preaches the which the Reformation was a revolt. It sign of our times.

OCTOBER 24, 1907 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 7 Our i4nnbrrd attii 3ffiftu Tipaitoattb Dollar Nuttb Conference not specified 73.82 Total 10,505.62 PaCific Union Conference *Arizona 387.74 For Special Work at Home and Abroad California-Nevada 7,766.59 Southern California 1,189.61 Utah 395.08 An Encouraging ProspeCt not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us 'by the way, and while he Total 9,739.02 FROM the earnest efforts now being opened to us the Scriptures?" Let us Southern Union Conference made by our North American Confer- who to-day are the recipients of so many South Carolina 144.39 ences there is every reason to believe favors from God ptay for holy zeal, for Alabama 433.89 that the $150,000 will be entirely raised Tennessee River 1,119.61 heavenly enthusiasm for the cause of before this year closes. Nearly all the Florida 613.54 God. And let us show this by doing union and local conference presidents be- *North Carolina 587.21 great things for him. Kentucky 30.36 lieve that this should be done, and they A. G. DANIELLS. Cumberland 876.36 are making definite, well-directed efforts Louisiana 390.61 for its accomplishment. One union con- Mississippi 254.59 ference president writes that nearly every Received on the $150,000 Fund *Georgia 408.47 dollar of the amount to be raised in his up to Oct. 15, 1907 Total 4,859.03 union has been pledged, and that the Atlantic Union Conference Southwestern Union Conference local conference officers are rapidly col- *Central New England $ 2,635.61 Not specified 20.18 lecting these pledges. He hopes to have Chesapeake 504.04 Arkansas 384.86 the full amount of his union in early in Eastern Pennsylvania 1,888.18 Oklahoma 2,631.21 Greater New York 479.83 Texas 1,200.41 December. Maine 563.78 Many local conference presidents New Jersey 552.63 Total 4,236.66 write very cheerfully and encouragingly New York 1,626.50 Unknown of this endeavor. One says that his con- *Southern New England 1,158.50 Unknown 158.20 Vermont 922.83 ference has cleared off each specific obli- Foreign Virginia 468.58 *Algeria gation that has been allotted to it, that 13.33 West Pennsylvania 377.84 Australia 163.84 they hope to be out by December 31 on West Virginia 1, 351.86 Bermuda 36.00 this large fund, and then they will be Western New York 1,675.50 China 31.60 ready for the next thing when the new South Africa 278.16 Total 14,205.68 year opens. Jamaica 13.41 Canadian Union Conference Yukon Territory This is the spirit and tone in which 20.00 Maritime 317.43 England 263.06 nearly every conference officer writes. Quebec 63.64 West Africa 14.06 We are profoundly grateful that there is Ontario 730.17 Mexico 2.00 little, if any, criticism among our people Costa Rica 6.25 Total 1,111.24 India because of these continuous calls . for 18.88 Central Union Conference South America 40.95 funds. Some feared that the call for Colorado 2,391.57 Switzerinad 9.69 $150,000 in one fund so soon after clo- Iowa 4,251.07 Panama 19.00 sing the effort to raise $10o,000 would Kansas 2,560.39 Nicaragua 4.00 raise a great deal of criticism. But this Missouri 1,279.39 Central American Mission 26.00 *Nebraska Trinidad fear proved to be groundless. Our.peo- 5,399.82 28.69 *Wyoming 740.94 Norway 25.0o pie know that the time has come to finish Japan 12.50 the Master's work here below; they know Total 16,623.18 Hayti 5.00 that this will call for continual effort and District of Columbia *Egypt 51.55 giving until it is finished; they have set- *Washington churches 1,356.19 Palestine 2.00 Tobago, W. I. 1.22 tled that matter fully, and thousands of Lake Union Conference Cuba 8.00 them welcome the call for more laborers East Michigan 1,875.66 Hungary 3.00 and means. The Lord is blessing his *Indiana 5,177.27 Tahiti 11.88 North Michigan people as they move forward, and is 693.74 France 6.8o Northern Illinois Philippine Islands helping them to do truly marvelous things 2,578.31 1.00 Ohio 4,952.50 Samoa 8.00 for him. Southern Illinois 1,083.33 Now the hour has come to close this West Michigan 3,593.84 Total 1,124.87 large fund. It must be done, and we Wisconsin 3,238.07 Grand Total $95,372.65 earnestly request conference officers, min- All remittances should be made to the Total 23,192.72 isters, church officers, and all the people treasurer of the State conference wherein North Pacific Union Conference the remitter resides. If, for any reason, to take hold of this splendid effort with Conference not specified 429.66 this is not possible, then remittance enthusiasm. . Why should we not be British Columbia 122.80 should be made to I. H. Evans, Treas- really enthusiastic for our Lord's work? Montana .497.63 urer, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., The people of the world grow enthusi- Upper Columbia 2,286.53 and not to the Review and Herald Pub- Western Washington 1,909.78 lishing Association. astic and zealous in politics, commerce, Idaho 884.90 I. H. EVANS, Treasurer. and social matters. Why ,should we Western Oregon 2,128.94 not show greater zeal for the affairs " GIVE, and it shall be given unto you; Total 8.260.24 of the kingdom of God than any one good measure, pressed down, shaken to- Northern Union Conference does for the transient things of this. gether, running over. . . .For with what Alberta 200.80 measure ye mete it shall be measured to world? It was so with the Master. Of Manitoba 305.30 you again." Luke 6: 38. him it was said, " The zeal of thine Saskatchewan Mission Field.. 47.60 Minnesota 5,283.50 house, hath eaten me up," and of his * A star preceding the name of a confer- *South Dakota 2,645.47 ence, indicates that that conference has paid immediate disciples it was written, " Did *North Dakota 1.949.13 its membership share of the fund. 8 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD . OCTOBER 24, 1907

done by those who, having obtained an under the jurisdiction of God. Through (6rurrat Artirirs education in practical life, go forth pre- earnest prayer he is to cleave to Christ. pared to instruct as they have been in- To neglect this, to refuse his service, is " Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things structed. to forfeit the favor of the Great Teacher, are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever In his teachings the Saviour repre- and to become the sport of Satan's wiles. things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, what- soever things are of good report; if there be any sented the world as a vineyard. We It was the design of heaven by the infi- virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Phil. 4: S. would do well to study the parables in nite sacrifice of Christ, to bring men and which this figure is used. If in our women into favor again with God. That education that brings the student into The Torch schools the land were more faithfully cultivated, the buildings more disinter- close relation with the Teacher sent from THE Gcd of the Great Endeavor gave me estedly cared for by the students, the love God, is true education. • a torch to bear. I lifted it high above me in the dark and of sports and amusements, which causes God's people are his chosen instrumen- murky air, so much perplexity in our school work, talities for the enlargement of his church And straightway, with loud hosannas, would pass away. in the earth. They are to seek the coun- the crowd acclaimed its light, When the Lord placed our first par- sel of God. Worldly amusements and And followed me as I carried my torch ents in the garden of Eden, it was with entertainments are to have no place in through the starless night; the injunction that they " dress it " and the life of the Christian. In following And, mad with people's praises and " keep it." God had finished his work of the way cf the Lord is to be the drunken with vanity, creation, and had pronounced all things strength of his people. Their faith in the I forgot 'twas the torch that drew them, very good. Everything was adapted to gift of God's only begotten Son is to be and fancied they followed me. But slowly my arm grew weary uphold- the end for which it was made. While manifest. This will make its impression ing the shining load, Adam and Eve obeyed God, their labors on the mind of the worldling. He who And my tired feet went stumbling over in the garden were a pleasure; the earth takes his position as separate from the the hilly road, yielded of its abundance for their wants. world, and strives to become one with And I fell with the torch beneath me. But when man departed from his obe- Christ, will be successful in drawing In a moment the flame was out ! dience to God, he was doomed to wrestle souls to God. The grace of Christ will Then, lo! from the throng a stripling with the seeds of Satan's sowing, and to be so apparent in his life that the world sprang forth with a mighty shout. earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. will take knowledge of him that he has Caught up the torch as it smoldered, and Henceforth he must battle in toil and been with Jesus, and has ,learned of lifted it high again, him. 'Till, fanned by the winds of heaven, it hardship against the power to which he fired the souls of men ! had yielded his will. " Go work to-day in, my vineyard," And, as I lay in darkness, the feet of It was God's purpose to remove by the Saviour commands. " Whether the trampling crowd toil the evil which man brought into the therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever Passed over and far beyond me, its paeans world by disobedience. By toil the temp- ye do, do all to the glory of God." Let proclaimed aloud, tations of Satan might be Made ineffec- every one who claims to be a child of While I learned, in the deepening shad- tual, and the tide of evil be stayed. The (the Heavenly King seek constantly to ows, this glorious verity : Son of God was given to the world, by represent the principles of the kingdom 'Tis the torch that the people follow, his death to make atonement for the sins of God. Let each remember that in whoever the bearer be. of the world, by his life to teach men spirit, in words, and in works he is to be —Elizabeth R. Finley. how the plans of the enemy were to be loyal and true to all the precepts and thwarted. Taking upon himself the na- commandments of the Lord. We are to ture of man, Christ entered into the sym- be faithful, trustworthy subjects of the The Essential in Education pathies and interests of his brethren, and kingdom cf Christ, that those who are MRS. E. G. WHITE by a life of untiring labor taught how worldly wise may have a true representa- THE most essential education for our men might become laborers together with tion of, the riches, the goodness. the youth to-day to gain, and that which God in the building up of his kingdom in mercy, the tenderness, and the courtesy will fit them for the higher grades of the the world. of the citizens of the kingdom of God. school above, is an education that will If those who have received instruction teach them how to reveal the will of concerning God's plan for the education God to the world. To neglect this phase of the youth in these last days, will sur- Prayer—•No. 2 of their training, and to bring in to our render their wil's to God, he will teach G. 13, THOMPSON schools a worldly method, is to bring them his will and his way. Christ is to THE habit of prayer is perhaps one of loss to both teachers and students. be the teacher in all our schools. If the most satisfactory evidences there is Just before Elijah was taken to teachers and students will give him his of real piety. A man may make fine heaven, he visited the schools of the rightful place, he will work through them speeches, and engage in many kinds • of prophets, and instructed the students on to carry out the plan of redemption. phi'antlu:opic work, he may seem dili- the most important points of their edu- Students are to be taught to seek the gent in good works, and yet he a hypo- cation. The lessons he had given them counsel of God in prayer. They are to crite. But when a man goes into the on former visits, he now repeated, im- be taught to look to their Creator as closet, and there habitually pours out his pressing upon the minds of the youth the their unerring guide. They are to be soul to God, he is apt to be in earnest. importance of letting simplicity mark taught the lessons of forbearance and When the Lord wished to give Ananias every feature of their education. Only trust, of true goodness and kindness of evidence that Saul had experienced a in this way could they receive the mold heart. They are to learn the lesson of change of heart, he said, " Behold, he of heaven, and go forth to work in the perseverance. Their characters are to prayeth." ways of the Lord. If conducted as God answer to the words of David, " That our A man might be saved, and never hear designs they should be, our schools in sons may be as plants grown up in their a sermon. He might be deaf, or placed these closing days of the message will youth; that our daughters may be as under circumstances making it impossi- do a work similar to that done by the corner-stones, polished after the simili- ble to hear one of God's ministers preach. schools of the prophets. tude of a palace." In all this they are He might be saved, and never read a Those who go forth from our schools qualifying for service in the missionary chapter in the Bible, for he might be to engage in mission work will have need field. blind, or never have learned to read. of an experience in the cultivation of the The converted student has broken the But in order to be an overcomer, and be soil and in other lines of manual labor. chain which bound him to the service of saved in the kingdom of God, it i•s abso- They should receive a training that will sin, and has placed himself in right rela- lute'y necessary that we pray. The deaf, fit them to take hold of'any line of work tion to God. His name is enrolled in the the blind, the lonely ones, and those who in the fields to which they shall be called. Lamb's book of life. He is under solemn are unlearned, need to pray as much as No work will be more effectual than that obligation to renounce evil, and come do others. OCTOBER 24, 1907 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 9

Many never grow in grace. Though deuce, can never •be injured morally. He Lessons from Past Experiences born again, they remain infants, dwarfs, will never faint because of these " all —No. 21 all through life. As one writer has said, things," which cause others to faint, for GEO. 0. STATES he understands their significance and mis- " They are pilgrims, indeed, but pilgrims ELDER BUTLER remained president of like the Gibeonites of old; their bread is sion, and reads in them God's thoughts the Iowa Conference several years. The of peace toward him. Should Satan des- always dry and moldy, their shoes always workers took the field; and in almost troy property, such a one will say with old, and their garhients always rent and every place they visited, they preached a Job, " The Lord gave, and the Lord bath torn." If you knew the secret life of sermon on the subject of spiritual gifts. taken away." all such, you would find that they neglect It was not long before Iowa became one to pray. But suppose some one speaks harshly of the best conferences in the United There are others whose lives are in to me, or treats me spitefully; in what States. marked contrast to the class just men- way is that to work together for my Every member who stayed with the tioned. " They grow like the grass after good? Let us read another scripture denomination was strong on the Testi- rain, they increase like Israel in Egypt; which may explain this: " With what monies, and there was a sentiment all they press on like Gideon; though some- measure ye meet, it shall be measured to through that conference that those who times faint, they are always pursuing. you again." The reason why God per- did not have faith in the spirit of proph- They are ever adding grace to grace, mits others to treat me harshly is be- ecy did not believe in the third angel's and faith to faith, and strength to cause at some time I have treated others message. Soon the Iowa Conference had strength. Every time you meet them, in a like manner, or I have something in three times as many members as it had their hea'rts seem larger and their spir- me that would lead me to do so, should when the trouble arose over organization. itual stature taller and stronger." Learn occasion arise. Many of our strongest ministers have the daily history of these individuals, We can expect no peace from the out- developed in the Iowa Conference. and you will find that they are persons side until there exists peace within. God These things were taken up by all our who pray much. You will find them permits harshness on the outside until conferences, and our loyal ministers la- often in the secret place, supplicating the all harshness is overcome within; and bored faithfully among the churches, throne of God for help. when all harshness is overcome within, preaching on the gifts. Some who did Some are converted, and run well for we shall have rest from our enemies not believe the whole message dropped a time; but later they turn aside to some round about on this particular point. out and joined, in opposing some points bewitching fable. They lose their first From the things that come to us from of the truth. These experiences were love, and like Demas, go back to the without we may understand something of repeated all through our ranks, but of world again. When tested, they fail to what exists within. It is God's way of late years there has been a time of com- endure, and become stranded on the pointing out to us that which needs re- parative peace, and many have embraced rocks of doubt and unbelief. These are placing by a Christlike virtue. the truth who know little or nothing of persons who neglect to .pray. Men do If harsh and unkind words spoken to our history and the opposition of earlier not backslide while praying. It is while me lead me to get rid of all harshness in years on the matter of organization. absorbed in the business of life, and for- myself ; if the untruths said about me There is great need that our ministers getting to pray that they grow cold, and lead me to get rid of all untruthfulness. study the subject of spiritual gifts and depart from the truth. I shall receive no injury from the things the wonderful work God has done " The darkness of the evil one en- from without. 'In other words, if I recog- through Sister White, and present these closes those who neglect to pray. The nize that all things are for my sake and things to our people as they go from whispered temptations of the enemy en- for my good, they will be for my good. church to church. I know there is a hard tice them to sin; and it is all because But if these things do not lead to prayer, struggle before this people on that ques- they do not make use of the privileges but lead me to take up arms in self- tion, and doubtless many will be sifted that God has given them in the divine defense, I sustain an injury. Instead of out; but our ministers should stand firm, appointment of prayer. Why should the harshness being gotten rid of, or con- unmovable, and united, and then the sons and daughters of God be reluctant verted into compassion, it is cultivated. rank and file will stand in line. Since to pray, when prayer is the key in the We see how God makes the wrath of this series of articles has been coming out hand of faith to unlock heaven's store- man to praise him, and that " it must in the REVIEW, I have been astonished house, where are treasured the boundless needs be that offenses come." If I fully at the numerous letters I have received resources of Omnipotence? Without un- believe this, offenses will never lead me from all parts of the United States, and ceasing prayer and diligent watching, to pity myself, for I am benefited by even Canada, urging me to continue them, we are in danger of growing careless and them. They will lead me to pity the one and telling how much good had been re- of deviating from the right path." through whom they come, because' the ceived by reading them. Of all the let- —"Steps to Christ," pages 118, .179. woe is upon him. It will lead me to pray ters that have come to me, I can not I repeat the question, How much time for those who despitefully use me and recall more than two or three that op- do you take to pray? persecute me. posed what had been said• in favor of the Takoma Park, D. C. While offenses conic, by the child of Testimonies. I have received numerous faith they will not be regarded as of- letters from brethren and sisters who fenses. The one who recognizes their have grown old in the truth, and whose "All Things Work Together for mission will have constant peace, and hands trembled so they could hardly hold Good" can never be offended. " Great peace the pen, but they were rejoicing in the D. H. KRESS, M. D. have they which love thy law: and whole truth. " ALL things are for your sakes, . . . nothing shall offend them." " The eyes I would have been glad to answer for which cause we faint not." From of the Lord are upon the righteous, and these letters, but my health has been these words it is evident that everything his ears are ,open unto their cry. The such for over three years that I could that comes to, human beings God designs face of the Lord is against them that do do very little mental work. I believe, for their good. Whether all things will evil." " And who is he that will harm however, that if faithful just a few years, be for their good or not depends upon you, if ye be followers of that which is we shall be permitted to become ac- their mental attitude toward all things. good? " quainted in the new earth, and all these To those who know that all things are Worry kills, but worry is an expression struggles will be in the past. for their sakes, and designed for their of a lack of faith. There is health, As we have read from week to week good, to them " all things work together peace, and happiness in a faith that en- the editor's letters, and those of our for good;" while to those who fail to dures as seeing him who is invisible, in other brethren who have been traveling recognize this, but call good evil, the in- every providence, in every trial, in all in foreign fields, it inspires faith in the -tended blessings prove a curse. things. And to all such " all things work rapidity with which the message is going. The one who sees only good in every together for good." The truth is rapidly encircling the earth, experience, in every trial, in every provi- Takoma Park, D. C. and is swelling into the loud cry. 10 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD OCTOBER 24, 1907

My prayer is that the Lord may won- the Son of man on the white cloud to Manner of Giving derfully bless our brethren of the General reap the harvest of the earth. P. J. LAIRD Conference Committee, and that plans Other glorious things come before his A PREFERABLE and more exact render- may be laid that will hasten the work in vision. He beholds the new heavens and ing of I Tim. 6: 10 is, " The love of all parts of the earth. the new earth, and the city of God, the money is a root of all kinds of evil." Cedaredge, Colo. New Jerusalem, coming down from God Money, like all God's gifts, will bring out of heaven. What wonder that in blessing to each and every one who co- rapture he fell at the feet of the angel. operates with God in its use. Among The Coining of the King His mind is carried forward to the time other subjects brought under the lash of L. D. SANTEE when redemption shall be completed; harsh criticism, is the raising and appor- WHEN Jesus, with all the glory of the when the tabernacle of God shall be with tioning of funds for religious purposes. Father and accompanied with his holy men; and he sees the fulfilment of the When asking my informant why one angels, leaves heaven and comes again words of the prophet, " For the earth man had donated fifty thousand dollars to earth, when " the Lord himself shall shall be filled with the knowledge of the to Peking, China, and twenty-five thou- descend frOm heaven with a shout, with glory of the Lord, as the waters cover sand dollars each for Seoul, Korea, and the voice of the archangel, and with the the sea." Hab. 2: 14. He saw the land Kyoto, Japan, for new Y. M. C. A. build- trump of God," it will be the greatest where death shall be no more, where ings, he replied, " Because he believes in event that this world has ever witnessed. pain can not enter, where " the inhab- the organization of the Y. M. C. A." His first advent, so wonderfully revealed itant shall not say, I am sick" (Isa. " Where ycur treasure is, there will your to the wise men, and heralded by angels 33: 24) ; and his heart thrilled as God heart be," needs no comment. to the shepherds, while it was an event opened before him the joys in reserve The wonderful progress of the Sev- of vast importance, yet it pales before for the faithful. That prophecy of enth-day Adventist movement is largely that coming when " every eye shall see " things which must shortly come to due to the fact that the members of the him, . . . and all kindreds of the earth pass " was to be written out, and studied denomination believe the General Con- shall wail because of him." until their fulfilment; and so God com- ference to be in such direct touch with The teachings and the sacrifice of missioned the seer of Patmos, " What all branches of the work the world over Christ during his stay on earth were but thou seest, write in a book ; " and in the that it is better able to judge of the gen- preparatory to the time when he should twenty-two chapters written, though eral needs than is an ordinary, individual. gather the " harvest of the earth." Even " through a glass darkly," the gleam of Many pressing needs could be known his intercessory work as our high priest the golden morning shines with its eter- only by that body. These they make in the sanctuary in heaven is all in refer- nal radiance. known, and the members rally to their ence to that time when he shall " gather As John begins this wonderful, reve- support, and trust them implicitly with together in one all things in Christ, both lation, what is first? The city of God? the funds placed in their hands. This is which are in heaven, and which are on or the music of heaven ?— No, no ! Fol- seen in the large amounts of subscrip- earth." Eph. : so. Then will rewards lowing close on the introduction are tions passing through " official channels." be given to those who, during the ages these words: " Behold, he cometh with Hasten the day when even a larger pro- past, have proved their loyalty to God. clouds; and every eye shall see him." portion may pass that way. " For the Scn of man shall come in the Here was the door that opened the rest, Just a word to those who feel that glory of his Father with his angels; and that exchanged Patmos for Eden, and they must send funds direct to a con- then he shall reward every man accord- made the rest of the prophecy possible. ference worker in a missicn field. Often ing to his works." Matt. 16: 27. With him the coming of Christ was the those who 4o this are quite ignorant of Jesus did not promise his followers alpha and omega. He begins with the the fact that many others are doing -the an easy time in this life,— they were to glad announcement of the advent, and same. This aims a blow at real prog- be hated of all nations for his name's closes with the response, " Amen. Even ress. The writer is personally acquainted sake,— but he often pointed them for- so, come, Lord Jesus." Rev. 22: 20. with a case where quite a large sum ward to the resurrection, to his coming Properly in point of time, he places came in this way. The person in ques- again, or to the regeneration, as the time the event as immediately following the tion did not believe in training native when they should be rewarded. Read third angel's message. Rev. 14:9-14. workers, and the time of most of his Luke 14: 14: " Thou shalt be recom- He had heard the lips of Christ yoice associates was taken up in developing pensed at the resurrection of the just." the promise, "I will come again." John his plan of working, After nearly Paul, in his dying testimony, speaks of 14:3. He had seen his Master ascend twenty years a large compound had been " the crown of life " to be given at from the hills of Bethany to heaven, and built, very largely for philanthropic pur- Christ's appearing. John says, " When he had heard , the angelic assurance, poses. The local committee was never he shall appear, we shall be like him; " " This same Jesus, which is taken up consulted as to disbursing the ear-marked and to the ends of the earth the disciples from you into heaven, shall so come in moneys received. When invalided home, carried the good news of the second com- like manner as ye have seen him go into the whole of his branch had to be closed ing of Christ as the " bow of promise." heaven." Acts r: 11. The revelation down, as no cne of his profession was Peter, commissioned by Christ to feed his showed him in vision, in advance, the on hand to carry on the work. Other sheep and his lambs, did so by pointing return of his Master, and his heart was instances could be given where " private his flock forward to the Saviour's return, filled with joy unspeakable. What he funds " have caused workers in the same and saying to them, " When the chief saw in vision the saints will soon see in mission to become estranged, and never Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a reality. Then the prayer of Jesus will to meet together, except at a yearly con- crown of glory that fadeth not away." be answered, " Father, I will that they ference or at similar gatherings. • Perhaps the most striking outline of also, whom thou hast given me, be with Opponents of organization are very the events connected with the close of me where I am; that they may behold often those who themselves have been this world's history is to be found in the my glory." John 17: 24. In the rapture set aside in favor of others because they book of Revelation. It was handed of that glad reunion the sorrows and toil could never be controlled; hence their down, in vision to John, the last of the of other days will not be remembered, in unfitness to control others. apostles, and to him is given to see great a manner to dim the present joy. Earthly " While we have not great men or events in the future. He sees the seven conflicts will be recalled only by the vic- great means, we have a great truth." stages of the Christian church, the dis- tories that have been won. The saints The very difficulty of getting this truth ruption of the Roman empire, the perse- may now look forward into the glorious before the Chinese shows us our impo- cuting powers of the earth, and their future to the time when they will ex- tence. God alone must do it, but his final fate. He has a view of the closing claim, Thou hast " redeemed us to God gifts of power, men, and means are most work of the gospel (Rev. 14: 6-12), and by thy blood." Hail, glorious advent likely to be given to the denomination following these great proclamations of that brings immortality ! that stands as one man for him. warning, he sees in vision the coming of Chicago, Ill. Changsha, Hunan, China.

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duty of all individuals — obedience to * tr : lA- I.' right custcm, to law, to parents, to God; 44Paik,—.44,(44,:f _ ' because obedience is the only dignified 0, .4? 'I".*L4" AO' 4..x e..,:vlic:t,11,/4"/6! :' §‘)-1(q thing, if we obey rightful authority. Isa. A"... 1: 19; I Peter 1:22. '1)'`-'a.t4:14Wtii.4... t"Z.zit .: .' a" pa ,',' 44. 0 Too often, when children reach the '''9 years when they begin to think that, they AN are " grown up," they feel a rebellion against the commands of their parents. They think they are now old enough to Rock Me to .Sleep, Mother If she asks you a question, don't an- decide their own conduct. As long as BACKWARD, turn backward, 0 Time, in swer her in a rude or careless manner, they remain in the home, they should your flight, as if you thought she did not know what have so great a regard for the wishes of Make me a child again just for to-night! she was talking about, and wasn't worth the parents that they would desire to do Mother, come back from that echoless listening to. what would please their parents, and do shore, Don't tease her or make fun of her in it in the spirit of loving reverence. Take me again to your heart as of yore; The boys and girls who imagine that Kiss from my forehead the furrows of a way to hurt her feelings. You won't do that to some other girl. self-assertiveness and disregard of the care, parents' wishes confer a superiority on Smooth the few silver threads out of my You can depend on the boy who is themselves are mistaken. There is al- hair ; kind and thoughtful to his own sister, Over my slumbers your loving watch for you may be sure he will develop into ways something peculiarly charming in a keep ; the right sort of man, and is bound to loving deference to father and mother. Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to win the respect and admiration of every The whole world applauded when Presi- sleep ! one.— Selected. dent Garfield kissed his aged mother at • his inauguration, and by so doing im- Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue, plied that he recognized his indebtedness Mother, 0 mother, my heart calls for to her for all the honors that had come you! The Relation of, Parents and Children to him. Many a summer the grass has grown A false pride sometimes makes a young green, THE trinity of father, mother, and person ashamed of the parents whose Blossomed and faded, our faces between; child forms the most beautiful of all se'f-sacrifice, it may be, has procured for Yet with strong yearning and passionate human relationships. Ideally it is a com- pain him the superior advantages which their bination of protecting care, guiding love, lives have missed. Long I to-night for your presence again. and absolute faith. If it fails in any one Come from the silence so long and so I knew of a young man whose mother deep ; of these respects, it has not reached its took in washing to pay his way through Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to God-appointed place. " He setteth the college. He soon grew too proud to live solitary in families," so that they shall sleep ! in her humble home, and took room and not be alone; but united in interests and board among the more fortunate stu- Over my heart in the days that are flown, in love, shall find in this union strength dents. Sometimes he called upon his No love like mother-love ever has shone; and happiness. mother, but usually after dark. One No other worship abides and endures, As students of God's purpose in pla- Faithful, unselfish, and patient like yours. afternoon, however, he had called, and as cing us in families, we desire to see what he left the house, she accompanied him None like a mother can charm away pain is gained by this relation. Why should From the sick soul and the world-weary to the gate. A young lady whom he it not be as well for us to be free as in- brain, knew was passing, and he bade his Slumber's soft calms o'er my heavy lids dividuals, and not bound so indissolubly mother a rather curt good-by, and bow- to these few who form our family circle? creep ; ing graciously to the young lady, asked Upon our understanding of this matter Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to permission to walk by her side. " Who sleep will depend our appreciation of family was that old woman?" she asked, with duties, our recognition of our own place Come, let your brown hair, just lighted a rather supercilious air. " 0, that was, in the family group, our valuation of the only my washerwoman," he replied, with with gold, family. While the institution of the fam- Fall on your shoulders again as of old; the tone of one who did not want to be ily is not merely to secure a desirable praised for a good deed, " I often go in Let it drop over my forehead to-night, boarding-house for the man and a perma- Shading my faint eyes away from the to see the dear old soul, she appreciates light; nent situation for the woman, it certainly it so much." does accomplish these results, and too For with its sunny-edged shadows once " How very kind of you," said the girl, often in the realization of selfish comfort more. approving'y, for the young man who and protection the higher purpose of the Haply will throng the sweet visions of would openly acknowledge that he called yore, family is forgotten. on his washerwoman seemed quite a hero Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep ; The family should be a school for the in her eyes. If she had known the truth, Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to teaching of all the virtues. Here man she would have had a very different sleep ! should learn that he is the " house-band," opinion of the young man. —Elizabeth Akers Allen. holding all together by his protecting There is one thought that should ever foresight; the wife that she is the be present in the minds of youth; your " weaver," uniting all by interlacing parents may be humble, even uncultivated A Word to Brothers bands of loving helpfulness. and uncouth, but one thing is sure, you IT is the easiest thing in the world for It is not so very difficult to see what could never have existed but for them. a boy to be kind to some other fellow's is the duty and office of the parents in If life is worth anything to you, if you sister. Why is it that some of them find the home. To them is entrusted the are superior to them in abi'ity, yet you it so hard to ,remember to be equally guidance and education of their children. are indebted to them for the life that courteous to their own sister? Many a They are to teach the children the words gives you opportunity to use that ability boy is rude to his own sister without of the Lord. Deut. 6: 7; 32:46. really realizing it ; in other words, he But it is more difficult to decide just — yes, perhaps for opportunity itself. forgets to be polite. Then, again, he is the place and duty of the children in the To scorn them is to lower yourself; to afraid of being dubbed as " sissy " if he home if we take more than a superficial honor them is to exalt yourself. Prov. should be caught paying some attention view of the case. They are not placed 20 ; 20 ; 23 : 22. All deference, all loving to his sister. It is a bad habit for any in the home to be governed simply by service given to parents dignifies the one to get into — that of saving one's arbitrary authority; but they must be giver; but to withhold from them due polite ways for outside, taught to obey, because obedience is the respect is in reality to lower one's own 12 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD OCTOBER 24, 1907 station in life, and to bring upon himself the wrath of God. To talk to others of the shortcomings of our parents is in reality to uncover our own defects, So if we had no higher motive than self- protection, we should guard from the gaze of strangers the failings of the other members of the family, even as we guard our own.— Mary Wood-Allen, Ninth Annual Meeting in Holland past; they were grateful to the Amer- ican brethren for the tent that had been M. D. GUY DAIL THE eyes of the Whole world are so recently given them, and to the Ger- turned toward this delightful Dutch cap- man brethren for 'the assistance the Baby's Conifoit German Union has rendered, and for the Do not forget that the cool mornings ital, for here are convened the much- talked-of Peace Congress, and the Zion- presence and help of Brethren Conradi and evenings are felt by the baby. The and Pieper. floor is the coldest place in the house, ist leaders; yet we believe that all heaven is interested in the doings of that small We bespeak for our Dutch work and and the crawling or toddling baby should for the circulation of our Holland paper be protected from the sudden chatges. company met here to lay more effectual plans for the spread of the glad tidings and literature, the interest of our friends Put on the light flannels, the long sleeves, in all parts of the world. Wherever our and the high-neck dresses, the little stock- of the great Prince of Peace, who is gathering out the true children, of Abra- readers know of Dutch-speaking neigh- ings and shoes, even though you must bors and acquaintances, let them be dili- remove part or all at midday. Do not ham to inherit that everlasting kingdom of David. How precious to us the prom- gent in placing the truth before this let the little one crawl about on the bare nationality, for " this gospel of the king- floor with wet clothing, or with blue, ise: " Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you dom shall be preached in all the world mottled flesh. Much of a baby's sick- for a witness unto all nations; and then ness is clearly traceable to thoughtless th6 kingdom." In view of our insignifi- cance, even in the midst of this small shall the end come." neglect during the changeable weather The Hague. of the late summer and early autumn. nation of the Netherlanders, we are com- I It will not always do to " harden" the pelled to say : " Not by might, nor by baby by letting it get through the variable power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord temperatures as best it can. Young of hosts." China things must be kept warm, whether hu- Preceding the conference proper, JOHN J. WESTRUP man or animal, and a healthy baby is which was held August 15-18, there was WE can not afford to be without the never a cold, rough-skinned one. What- a ten days' canvassers' convention, at- REVIEW, the messenger of inspiration and ever is neglected, don't let it be the baby, tended by the eighteen colporteurs in the courage, in this wilderness of heathen- whose " only language is a cry," or some- field. Theoretical and practical instruc- ism. It comes to us every week as a thing told only in signs of discomfort, tion necessary to success in the distribu- loving letter from home, continually re- anxiety, and fretfulness, because it has tion of our publications was given. minding us of the great and blesSed hope not yet learned how intelligibly to tell There has 'been an encouraging growth we have in Jesus — the day when we you of its troubles. Take good care of in this department of the cause: the shall see our dear Saviour face to face, the baby. sales for 1905 were $794; 1906, $2,012; and meet and embrace all the dear breth- Don't forget the extra quilt or com- and for the twelve months ending July 1, ren in the Lord. We nearly always read fort laid beside the children's bed, or your 1907, $3,200. We believe the future will Sister White's article first, because it is own, these cool nights, and do not close see still better progress. especially Spirit-filled and inspiring. the windows and doors too soon. See About one hundred of our people were We have just finished reading "Christ that there is fresh air, though there must in attendance at the mission conference. Our Saviour " through the second be additional covering at hand for any On Sabbath forty or more came forward time for little Joseph. While he has change. for prayer, and ten have been baptized been blessed, my wife and I have been Don't send the little ones out to school to-day. Brother J. Wintzen was or- doubly blessed in reading it. This book without making some provision to meet dained to the ministry. and the " Desire of Ages " help one to the rapid lowering of temperature which We are pleased to see so many strang- realize the love of. Jesus better than any sometimes, at this season, converts the ers attending the public lectures. How- other books I ever read. All who really warm, sunny morning into the cold, ever, there is strong prejudice against want to come up on higher ground, who windy, or wet afternoon. It is better to our work, and in places there has been hunger and thirst for the righteousness put on an additional outside wrap for a bitter persecution. Nevertheless, during of Jesus, and long for the day when they month or more yet, than to put on the the year, sixty-four were received into can measure their lives by the life of thick woolen underwear which, though membership by baptism and by vote, Christ, will thank God every day for the at the time comfortable, may be a source bringing our present enrolment up to blessed books and Testimonies that he of great discomfort if the weather should one hundred and seventy-five, scattered in his love has given to this people. become suddenly warm. Colds, coughs, among thirteen churches and companies, 0, how we long for the day when we catarrhs, and a tendency to rheumatic all of which had representatives at the shall be able to give this grand truth in and other ailments, are surely " in the conference. Cause for special joy is to its completeness and depth to this peo- air," these deceptive autumn days.— be found in the newly organized com- ple ! The first year and a half is very Selected. pany in Brussels —the second we now trying in China, as one's very 'breast have in Flemish Belgium (the first be- seems to he continually aching with a SOME white men might study ethics ing organized in Antwerp). We also longing desire to give this blessed gospel under an old Indian on the Kakima Res- have believers in Amsterdam, The story to these people. But we thank ervation. He is a Christian. A lady Hague, Groningen, Helder, Haarlem, God that now we can begin to see the had bought several cords of wood of him. Hilversum, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Win- fruit of eighteen months' hard study. When the wood was measured, he found s'choten, Wagen-Zwolle, and Zutphen. Mrs. Westrup has been preaching to the that it lacked just a few pieces of full The tithe last year was $1,050.49, or women and children at ten o'clock in the measure. The lady said, " 0, that is all $335.95 more than for 1905. morning, and teaching them the Sabbath- right ! " A few days afterward, how- Elder R. G.. Klingbeil was again school lessons at three in the afternoon, ever, he came with enough wood to fully chosen unanimously as mission superin- for some time. I have conducted the 4 make it up. The lady said, " Why, I told tendent. In all the business doings, meetings for the men, and taught them you that was all right." But the Indian there was present a spirit of candor and the Sabbath-school lessons. Yesterday replied, " Me want no short cords of co-operation. The brethren felt very (Sabbath) was a very blessed day for wood to meet me in heaven."— Selected. thankful to God for his blessings in the me. It reminded me of olden times as 'I, OCTOBER 24, 1907 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 13

during the Sabbath-school, was standing prayed for ; but it must be unity in our Lord, with all its attending events, before about thirty persons, preaching Christ. And Christ is the truth; hence and we shall never lose courage, but be teaching, and asking questions. And 'I it must be unity in the truth, and not to faithful to the end, and receive the crown was glad to see in their beaming faces persecute those who hold the truth pre- of life. that they understood the truth presented, cious. This great union will not include We are all well, and the truth was and the love of Jesus. Seventh-day Adventists in China; one never more precious to us than it is now. Let this be an encouragement to the May be sure of that. But God lives, and What we all need is more earnestness in many brethren and sisters who, we ex- Christ is with us even to the end of the prayer in the name of Jesus. Prayer pect, will come to the Lord's help in world. brings all the grace and power of heaven China this fall. While it is difficult in It is a great encouragement to read at our disposal. the beginning, let us remember that God about the great movement among the Shang-tsai, Honan. lives, and that he is able and willing to Hwa Miao tribe in the southwest of help us over all obstacles — only let us China. Hundreds walked six and eight have faith in God. clays in order to get within the sound St, Vincent, West Indies A week ago last Sabbath, a woman of the blessed gospel, and then stayed J. GERSHOM DASENT possessed with the devil came to the Sab- and studied the gospel until two o'clock ST. VINCENT, one of the Lesser An- bath-school. As my wife was telling in the morning. As a result, fifty im- tilles, and the smallest in the range of the women and volcanic islands, was discovered by children about Christopher Columbus, Jan. 22, 1498. the love of Jesus, This day is known in the Spanish cal- the devil began endar as Saint Vincent's day; hence, the to torment the origin of the island's name. woman. My wife At the time of its discovery, it was prayed, and the inhabited by a tribe of wild Indians, very name of known, as the Caribs, a fierce and des- Jesus made the perate people by nature. With the en- enemy powerless. trance of civilization, adventurous colo- When thus nists were introduced, who settled in the brought face to most fertile portions of the country, and face, so to speak, eventually owned the land, and became with the devil, rich. The Caribs, however, maintained how very thank- their hold until 1796, when their subju- ful we are that gation was accomplished by Great Brit- we have Jesus, ain, after a bloody struggle. In 1763 mighty to save. St. Vincent was declared a British pos- The enemy is ex- session, and from that time to now it has ceedingly angry, endeavored to keep to the front, and hold and he is using its own among the islands of the Carib- even those who bean. profess Christ to The island is traversed lengthwise by persecute those a range of volcanic hills, intersected by who wish to keep s, the Morne Carow, which rises about the same Sabbath fifty-two hundred feet above the level of ONE MODE OF TRAVEL IN HONAN that Jesus kept, the sea. " From its dark top, upon which who believe that Christ will create a moral club-houses were destroyed, and clouds almost constantly hang, the rich new heaven and a new earth, wherein hundreds of drunkards became total ab- lava soil slopes to the sea, spreading into dwelleth only righteousness, when sin stainers, and have remained so for over great plantations and verdant groves and and sinners and the author of sin two years. In three years' time thou- gardens toward the coast." The great shall have been destroyed, and come sands have diligently sought and found Horne Soufriere, the scene of the terrible to naught. But thus it has always been, Christ, and with childlike faith, they are eruption of 1812, and the more terrible is, and will be to the end. Those who living up to the light they have, and are one of 1902, is about four thousand feet love the truth are regarded as peculiar waiting for more. This gives us a little in altitude, in the northwest, flanking the and bigoted, and are held in contempt. glimpse of what God will do when he main peaks at some distance. Now we read about the great cen- wakes up the sincere and honest ones, As in other parts of the world, the in- tenary missionary convention, held in and cuts his work short in righteous- habitants of St. Vincent have had warn- Shanghai. The Chinese Recorder states ness. These great unions will bring per- ings from God in dreadful visitations. that about fifteen hundred people were secution, and persecution will bring out Twice have they been panic-stricken by present, representing eighty-three differ- the sincere ones. Hence we rejoice to see terrible eruptions of the volcano La ent societies or agencies working in more them affected; for thus the last part of Soufriere, and thrice by devastating hur- than five hundred cities throughout the Revelation 13 will soon be fulfilled, and ricanes; and by these two destroying empire of China. In the great Martyrs' this will hasten the consummation of all elements —fire and wind — the colony Memorial Hall is this embroidered things. has been greatly reduced. St. Vincent is motto : — In the face of these sign-fulfilling now poor, and her resources are quite " 1807 LADS DEO '1.907 events, what shall we do? Let us lay limited. Agriculture is the general pur- UNUM IN CIIRISTO " aside all self, get out of Babylon and suit. Formerly sugar and arrowroot The uppermost thought in the confer- into Christ, and thus be ready for the were the chief exports, but recently the ence is union — union at any cost. The great finishing work that God shall ac- cotton trade was introduced, and is ta- plan is to form a Chinese church, " and complish through his people. Let us, king the place of that of sugar. The leave confessional questions to the judg- by the grace of God, prefer one another plantations are worked by water-mills, ment of the Chinese church for future in love. Let love be without dissimula- the water coming from ravines, in which consideration." Dr. Gibson reminded the tion, and let us pray earnestly for one the island abounds. conference of the old story of the man another. Christ has told us to watch At the meeting of the West Indian who went out early in the morning and and be ready; " for in such an hour as Union Conference, held in Jamaica last thought he saw a tiger through the mist. ye think not the Son of man cometh." January, 'I was asked to make the island Coming nearer, he saw it was a man; In the dark hours before us let us con- of St. Vincent my future field of labor; and when nearer still, found it was his stantly have our eyes directed toward so on the twelfth of March I sailed from own brother. Unity is a thing to be heaven, and the approaching advent of Barbados, where I had been laboring for 14 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD OCTOBER 24, 1907

two and a half years, and landed at Branch and family carrying on the work chase of this place. If the Board decides Kingstown, the chief town, on the morn- left in their hands by the death of Elder to buy it, I shall describe it later. Our ing of the thirteenth. I met a small J. H. Watson. On the hillside, a few training-school for teachers could be church of about twenty members, who yards from the mission hcuse where I started at once on this place. extended to me a cordial welcome. We am writing, is Brother Watson's grave. The three leading tribes of Nyassa- very soon found plenty to do. We have Brother and Sister Branch have done the land are distributed in the form of a no meeting-house in the town, and it is general work of the mission, while Miss triangle, the center of which is the new now about four years since aggressive Mabel has taught the school, assisted by station which we hope to secure. Zomba, work of any sort has been carried on her brother Paul and some native teach- the seat of government, is forty miles here. There is a population of about ers. The attendance is •from fifty to north of Blantyre, and thirty miles from forty thousand, and four thousand of sixty-five. The yearly vacation began the place just mentioned. these are in the town. May 28, and the family, except Brother While we must forego many con- The Church of England and the Wes- Branch, went to Cape Town for a rest. veniences and comforts of the home land, leyan Methodists are well represented. They have been here almost five years, we are favored with good garden ground; Besides these, there are the Church of and have worked faithfully. vegetables grow well, and can be had Rome, Presbyterian, and a few Antino- According to instructions from the fresh almost the year round. Since com- mians. St. Vincent is ripe for the mes- South African Union Conference Board, ing I have planted sweet corn, beets, sage that is to make ready a people for I set out, soon after arriving, to find ,a potatoes, lettuce, radishes, etc.; we are the second coming of the Lord. Self- new station farther in the interior. now eating radishes planted three weeks ishness, with its destructive train, The old station, called Plainfield Mis- ago. abounds on every hand. Suddenly are sion by its former owners, the Seventh- Both my wife and myself have had men and women called from time into day Baptists, is not centrally located. It good health in all our travel, and since eternity, without .a hope to cheer the has comparatively few natives near it, coming here. We know many who are tomb. The time has come for another and these are of an inferior tribe. We praying for us, and we are thankful for special effort to be made in behalf of our should have our main station farther God's answers. We are studying the people here. The members .of our tract north, within reach of the two leading language, and while it is not difficult, yet society have divided themselves into we desire divine help to learn it quickly. bands, and are doing successful work Remember us in this, and also pray that with our tracts and leaflets, and we hope we may have wisdom to reach the people soon to begin preaching services in the quickly with the message. town. Remember us in your prayers, Cholo, Nyassaland, B. C. A. that we may find grace in the sight of the people, and gain souls for the king- dom of Christ. Kingstown. Angola L. BROOKING ANGOLA, or Portuguese West Africa, The Message In the Land of having a population estimated at from Livingstone five to nineteen millions, is a country of JOEL C. ROGERS which Portugal has had control for four centuries, and is one of the darkest por- THE path of the white man in Africa tions of the Dark Continent. The first may be traced by graves. At Shupanga, Protestant missionary to that country on the left bank of the Zambesi River, was Matthew Stober, who left England and some two hundred miles from its Tomb of Mary Mottat Livingstone. mfe of and landed in Loanda, the capital, in mouth, Mary Moffat Livingstone is David Livingstone, on the bank of the 1899. As he walked about the town, and buried. The accompanying photograph, Zambesi River, at Shupanga. saw the slave sheds where the slaves which I took last May, shows her rest- were stored previous to shipment, and ing-place. Her tomb is under a baobab- tribes of British Central Africa. In a heard the flogging of them, he did not tree, near the Roman Catholic mission. later article I hope to write mere fully sleep much that first night. He wrote The little steamer ascending the river of these tribes. about the horrors of that traffic, making usually stops for passengers to see this. On my first trip over the country, I an effort to get the Portuguese govern- historic tomb. The mission was an asy- visited Blantyre. This town is about ment to put a stop to it, also endeavor- lum to Dr. Livingstone and his wife— forty mi'es northeast of Plainfield, and ing to arouse public opinion in Great as it has been to others — when she de- is the business center, as well as the mis- Britain and other European countries to scended the river, stricken with Africa's sion center, of British Central Africa. A ask that it be stopped. He described plague — malaria. I was thankful to be railway will soon connect Blantyre with hew the slaves (called contracted labor- in good health during the journey up this the Zambesi River. The track is now ers) live only a short time — the women deadly river, and also thankful that God laid within twenty miles of the town. two years, and the men five at most — has sent faithful missionaries before Probably Blantyre will always he the on the islands of Santo Thome and to prepare his way. base of supplies for the whole country. Principe, under appalling drudgery on This East Central Africa may well Here there is but one way in and the the cocoa plantations, and the terrible be called the land of Livingstone. He same way out of the country; quite climatic and other conditions which make traversed it many times, and began the different from American cities, where the islands a death-trap. Seven thou- suppression of the slave-trade, thud giv- railways radiate as wheel spokes. I be- sand slaves were taken over annually ing the native peace and prosperity, and lieve our main station for training native from the mainland, to fill up the gaps preparing him for the gospel. He lived teachers should be within reasonable dis- caused by death — and this goes on at a long time in the land, established mis- tance of such a center as Blantyre. present. sions, and died here. Small stations where well-trained natives His first hymn translated into the The message now has a foothold in can teach the truth to their own people, native language was, " Wombaka Kwa this land. A Brother James came here must he planted in all parts of the land. Yesu," and this is the name by which in 1895, I believe, and scattered the seeds With Brother Branch, I first visited he is known; " Steal away to Jesus." of truth. His fever-stricken remains also a place called Shiloh, which we found to He has seen how the Spirit of God has lie buried on the Zambesi bank.A. But be entirely unsuitable for our work. gone before him among the heathen, the seed took root, and though the plant We next visited a place which we especially so cn one occasion, when, on is still small, it is growing. found well suited to our needs, and it is reaching a district to which he had been On May 23 my wife and I reached offered at a price far below its real told by the Portuguese it was death to our mission at Cholo. We found Brother value. We have recommended the pur- go, he found an old chieftain who Hs- OCTOBER 24, 1907 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 15

tened attentively, and who had the pe- and, although the door had to be At Santiago, where I preached twice, culiar name " Petto Dingalala Kwa screened, and invitations to public meet- there is a growing interest. In the four Nzambi'," which means " Peter Waiting ings could not be given, there was a months since the conference, a large for God." On asking him how he got fair attendance and interest. 'One man number of new faces had made their such a name, the old chief replied: " My had begun to keep the Sabbath, and his appearance, and some, had already taken name was not always so, but years ago wife was expecting to begin the next their stand for the truth. Some of the I had a dream, in which I was told that Sabbath. We hope for more fruit from brethren are moving to new fields. This, I was no more to be called by my usual this effort. Three meetings for the pub- we trust, will serve to open up new terri- name, but ' Peter Waiting for God' " lic are being held weekly in both Lima tory. The work is great, and the laborers The missionary inquired among the old and Callao now. This keeps Brother are few. people privately if they remembered any Perry and his associates quite busy. It was my purpose to stop off at Punta such change, and they said, Yes ; that There is also some interest in Lima, but Arenas, to visit our brethren there. But years ago, one morning the chief had a better place is really needed for the as I had already been gone so long from come very excitedly to them, telling meetings. The brethren are of good Argentina, and the situation urgently them of the dream and the instruction. courage. They desire the prayers of our demanded my speedy return; and as our The old chief asked him to stay •with people. boat did not stop long enough for us to him. But Mr. Stober told him that he Leaving Lima July 8, our vessel land and return, I was under the neces- must go farther on and tell the gospel reached Valparaiso the twenty-second. I sity of foregoing this. There is at least to others also. So he went on, finding had made every reasonable effort to get one, and I think there are more, in this many times a hostile reception at first; to this place to take the steamer, for southernmost city of the world, keeping but when he left, he would often be ac- Montevideo, due to leave the twenty- the Sabbath. It is evidently a place companied by hundreds of the natives, third, but its departure was postponed where further work should be done to listening as he went. He never has had first to the twenty-seventh, then to Au- plant more firmly the truth. an opportunity to go over the same gust 3, and finally to the sixth, just a As I write this, August 16, our steam- ground again. There are other mission- fortnight after the schedule time. I met ship " Orita," the largest to the west aries of his and other societies now; my brother and several members of the coast, is nearing the harbor of Monte- but they are few, in the midst of such conference committee in counsel at Val- video. Except for the cold, the voyage darkness. paraiso, which had been arranged for in has been an exceptionally pleasant one. Mr. Stober told me that if the natives view of my coming. They have impor- In another week I expect to reach home, could be said to, keep any day at all, it tant questions to decide in their new but after an absence of five months. Pray is the seventh, as on that day, he has growing work. They have a good press, for the work in South America. noticed, they generally refrain from cul- and other things necessary to fit up a Buenos Ayres, Argentina. tivating the crops, which work is done small printing plant, purchased at .a very mostly by the women. So amid darkest low price, and are already doing effective Africa the remembrance of God's true work. They are printing eight thousand Mission Notes Sabbath is recognized to some extent, copies of their paper monthly, and many A LETTER from Cape Town, South thrcugh all the ages of the darkest tracts and leaflets, Lately agents for Africa, brings an appeal for help from heathenism. our periodicals seem to be springing up Brother D. C. Theunissen. He says: This gentleman gladly took some of spontaneously, and the future prospects " We have quite a nice, large company our doctrinaPtracts to study, and three for our literature work are good in Chile. at Salt River, two or three miles from copies of our Portuguese paper. But they own no place on which to locate Cape Town. Sabbath after Sabbath we Caterhant Sanitarium, England. their plant. The place they now occupy are crowded into a room not very large, will have to be vacated in a few months, for which we pay thirty shillings a and it is certainly expensive to move month. We can not afford to hire a South America frequently. They desire to get a location larger place. What we need is a suit- J. W. WESTPHAL in some smaller town, within easy reach able building, large enough to accom- TAKING the steamer " Mapocho " at of Valparaiso. But there is no means modate a •good-sized congregation, that Guayaquil, Ecuador, Friday, June 28, on with which to purchase, and since the the cause of God might be established the return trip to Argentina, I was agree- earthquake rents are very high. here among the colored people. We need ably surprised to meet a brother, Frank Sickness had come to hinder the work. about four ,hundred pounds — from one E. Hinkley, of Boston. He was on his Elder E. Balada was called home from hundred to one hundred and fifty for the way to Arequipa, Peru, to connect with the north, on account of the serious ill- lot, and the remainder for the building. the Harvard University observatory at ness of his wife. Sister Steele was ill; I appeal to you to help us in our extreme that place, as photographer, under a five- Brother Julian Torreblanca, a member of need. I have prayed earnestly about this years' contract. We are glad thus un- the conference committee, who had re- matter. I trust God will help." expectedly to have a representative lo- cently been engaged in canvassing work, cated at this important place. Brother had been dangerously ill. But at the time MISS ANNA T. JEANES, a Quakeress of Hinkley loves the message, and it is his of my departure both were recovering. large means, has given one million dol- purpose to witness• for the truth in that Notwithstanding the difficulties, the work lars, the income of which is to assist in needy land. During our two-weeks' trip is moving forward. Elder Balada re- establishing and maintaining rural together we had good visits, and I was ports having baptized eight in the north schools for the colored people all pleased to learn thus directly in regard of Chile during his three-months' stay through the South. Booker T. Wash- to the work in the Eastern States, and of there. On • the Sabbath before I left ington is one of the trustees in charge Elder H. F. Ketring, who had labored in Valparaiso, Brother Stee'e, the elder of of these, funds, and colored people and our field, and whom Brother Hinkley had the church, administered the rite to three. white people will be represented on the seen very recently. There have been sev- At Quillota, a city of over ten thou- governing board, the power of naming eral surprises in my trip on the west sand inhabitants, less than two hours by being lodged with the three trustees. coast. In Ecuador I met a young man train from' Valparaiso, seven have re- Mission schools will be supported as far from my home in Wisconsin. cently begun to observe the Sabbath. as such schools can be started. This is Our steamer stopped at Callao four One of these is now busily engaged in not'to be understood as providing for all days, including Sabbath, July 6, and this selling our literature. The selling of the that needs to be done in this direction; time I spent with the brethren at Callao Senales de los Tiempos on the streets for the report closes by saying: " Not- and, Lima. On Sunday I was privileged was the beginning of this work. Elder withstanding such gifts as this of Miss to baptize two sisters, very earnest souls, Damaso Soto has followed it up. Others Jeanes, and of Mr. Rockefeller to the who united with the Lima church. Dur- are interested. The writer had one meet- General Educational Board; notwith- ing my trip to Ecuador, meetings had ing with them. Evidently a baptismal standing the increased prosperity of the been begun in a rented room in Callao; service will be held there erelong. South as a section; ,notwithstanding the 16 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD OCTOBER 24, 1907

new disposition of the Southern political leaders to champion generous appropria- tions for the education of the negro, his former and long-tried friends in the North still have their duty and gen- erosity to perform."

THE power of real self-sacrifice, and the true courage born of it, are beau- Fruit Already Seen a place where he has been holding meet- ings. tifully illustrated by an incident in the WE have good words to report from As soon as I finish this trip through life of Robert Moffat, who was sur- South Lancaster Academy. The year's work opened September 18, and the en- the island, I shall try again to go into rounded one day by a South African Guatemala. Perhaps things will have chief and twelve followers with poised rolment has already reached two hundred and fifty-one. This is thirty more than quieted down there by that time. Sep- spears, ready to kill the noble missionary 'the enrolment for the whole time last tember 29 and 3o our workers will meet on the spot. At the time, Moffat was year. If as many come this year as together in French Harbor, Ruatan, and engaged in repairing a wagon ; and his generally do after the school opens, we talk over matters, and lay plans for the wife, with babe in arms, was watching shall have at least three hundred before winter, also for the general meeting every movement of their foes. She heard the end of the year. This shows that which we hope to have next spring. her heroic husband, in a singular tone of a new interest in education is springing It encourages my soul to see the truth advancing in all parts of the globe; and voice, defy them to do their worst, as up in the minds of our young people, and of their parents also. it inspires me to work harder to push he bared his breast, after dropping his out into the unentered fields in our own tools, calmly saying: " Your threats are That which will gratify both parents and patrons of the academy more than territory. We have a large field in this vain. We have come to bless, you, and any thing else is to know that the bless-, mission, and it means something to grap- here we stay. If you are bound to be ing of God is in the school. Friday ple with the conditions as we find them rid" of us, do what you will. But our evening, following the opening, in the in these countries. Darkness surely cov- hearts are with you, and we shall stay ,students' prayer-meeting three gave their ers this people. E. L. CARDEY. with you till we are killed. Now spear hearts to the Lord. The next Friday, Me, if you will, and when you have slain evening eleven more followed; and last me, others like me will come to take up Friday, evening thirteen came forward Western New York Conference the work." Down went their spears, and for prayers. Sabbath, October 5, eleven Proceedings the chief turned to his comrades, saying: were baptized and thirteen united with the church. The States of Vermont, THE first annual meeting of the West- " These missionaries are so fearless of New York, Connecticut, North Carolina, ern New York Conference was held in death, they must have ten lives: there New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Penn- connection with the tent-meeting at must be another life beyond! " From sylvania, and Maine, also Washington, Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 29 to Sept. 9, that time, instead of opposition, Moffat D. C., are represented by those that were 1907. had the co-operation of the natives. baptized. At the communion service, The first meeting was called to order held in the church in the afternoon, about by the president, Elder H. W. Carr, and two hundred and 'forty in all partici- was largely taken up in the appointment " SEND the gospel of salvation pated. It was a meeting that will long of the usual committees, To a world of dying men ; be remembered, for God was there. The At a subsequent meeting, the presi- Tell it out to every nation, results of the work so far seen are the dent' gave a brief report of the year's Till the Lord shall come again." first-fruits. Let us all pray that the work. In many respects, more had been harvest may be much more abundant and accomplished than during the previous glorious. E. W. FARNSWORTH. year, when the New York Conference O MY soul, dignified with God's image, was undivided. The book sales for the redeemed by Christ's blood, betrothed by last nine months of the present year were faith, enriched by the Spirit, adorned by Central America nearly double those of the undivided con- graces, ranked with angels -- love him ference. Activity in selling papers was by whom thou art so much beloved LA CEIBA, SPANISH HONDURAS.— The an encouraging feature of the work. Lord has been merciful to us all this Be intent on him who is intent on thee; Buffalo Sanitarium has enjoyed its most summer, although the fever has attacked prosperous experience during the past seek him who seeketh thee ; love him most of our workers and their families. year. The Tunesassa School has been who loveth thee — whose love anticipates However, all are well again, so far as I successful in its first year's experience, thine, and is its cause ! He has all merit, know. It went through my family, and and looks forward to a prosperous fu- he is thy reward; he is the vision and left my wife in a bad condition. As a ture. Two young men have entered the the end! Be earnest with the earnest, consequence, I have had to send her to ministry, and the workers in every de- pure with the pure, holy with the holy ! the States for treatment. partment are encouraged. What thou shouldest appear before God, The enemy has been working very On account of the division it was nec- hard in this field this summer ;, but this essary to create a large tent fund. This that should God appear to thee ! He who is evidence that the Lord is working, is kind and gentle, and of great compas- has not been raised as fully as we had also. The prospect for our work never hoped. sion, requires the meek, the kind, the looked brighter than it does now. Our The following resolutions were passed, humble, and compassionate. Love him laborers are all of the best of courage, after consideration : — who drew thee from the lake of misery, and are ready to move as good soldiers. " I. Resolved, That we recognize with and from the miry clay. Choose him for In the past three months 'I have baptized gratitude the guiding, protecting care of thy friend above all friends, who, when thirty-four souls. Just to-day I admin- God in the prosperity which has attended thou art bereft of all things, can alone istered the rite to two here in La Ceiba. our conference work during the year that remain to thee. He will not forsake Our finances are in good condition, is now closing, and that we pledge our- At the end of the year we shall be able to thee, but will defend thee from devour- selves to renewed faithfulness for the return to the union conference all that coming year. ing foes, lead thee through an unknown the Mission Board has sent to us this " 2. Resolved, That we do all we can region, bring thee to the streets of the year, and even more. Our tithe will, to carry on a progressive campaign in heavenly Zion, and, place thee with an- without doubt, almost double that of last the canvassing work, (a) each church gels in the presence of his majesty, year. doing everything in its power to furnish where thou shalt hear the angelic melody In a few days I go from here to Bo- at least one canvasser, (b) and all our — holy, holy, holy.! There is the chant nacca, to hold a few weeks' meeting. A workers, including canvassers, doing all of gladness, there the voice of exulta- good interest has been awakened on the in their power to encourage other per- tion and salvation, of thanksgiving and north side of the island, where, with a sons to take up the work, (c) institutes little more labor, we believe a church can praise, and perpetual hallelujah! There being held at convenient times, and do- be organized. Brother Smalley is doing nations of food and cash being called is accumulated bliss and supereminent a good work on the island of Ruatan. for to help carry them forward." glory ! — Selected. He reports two new Sabbath-keepers in It was voted that our Sabbath-schools OCTOBER 24, 1907 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 17

be encouraged to adopt the plan of turn- As a result of the tent effort pre- with a " Thus saith the Lord." I refer ing over the regular Sabbath-school col- ceding the camp-meeting, fifteen honest to Pauliasi Bunoa, who was ordained at lections to the. Mission Board, and to souls embraced the truth. Twenty-eight the last union conference in Australia. furnish supplies for their own schools by were baptized at the close of the camp- He was a great help to us after he ac- other contributions. • meeting, a goodly number of these being cepted the message, and he has ever been The supervision of our church-schools promising young people. a vigorcus advocate of present truth. is to be vested in the conference com- All joined in a unanimous vote of He has not only preached the truth, but mittee in connection with the local board. thanks to the city of Rochester fcr the some of the most pointed articles for our Church elders, ministers, and other work- free use of the grounds for the meeting; paper have been from his pen. ers were urgently recommended to pre- also to the five daily papers of the city We have now a number of tracts on sent to our young people the claims of for notices and generous space allowed various subjects, a bound book of one God upon them, and encourage them to in their columns and the favorable men- hundred pages, a little book of Bible enter the Tunesassa School or South tion of the services. readings, an abridged edition of " Great Lancaster Academy. The conference DELIGHT M. LANDON, Secretary. Controversy" (three hundred pages), pledges its moral support to all the young and a hymn-book containing one hun- men and women of the Western New dred hymns. This is the first hymn- York Conference in preparing themselves Our Literature in Fiji book in the language with the music. for the Lord's work, and recommends to At our late Fijian council it was de- all our ycung people in need of an edu- THERE is no doubt that the great powei cided to print some new tracts, and cation, the scholarship plan as offered by of the denomination is found in its litera- revise some of the old ones. A physi- our schools and tract society. ture, Preachers are few in number in ology in the Fijian was asked for as well. A resolution was passed calling the comparison with the tens of thousands of The results of the circulation of our attention of all our young people to the tracts and papers and books in every literature in Fiji have been beyond our chapter in " Ministry of Healing," " The language. Many are the sermons which expectations. A family was brought into False and the True in Education," and are preached by the printed page, and the truth through reading a torn tract, encouraging them to pledge themselves there are many staunch believers in and others were influenced in favor of to avoid harmful reading. the third angel's message who were led the truth by one who had read the tract. Steps are to be taken at once for open- to it through reading our publications, In 1903 we published a little booklet- ing the way in homes for calendar. On each of the care of any who may the twelve pages there be in need of homes, and was a Bible study along such arrangements are to with the calendar of the be made as will enable month. This fell into all to share in this work. the hands of one who is At this meeting the now a student at the people pledged them- school in Buresala, and selves to greater faith- he says that that little fulness than ever before tract brought him into in the matter of scatter- the truth. In one sec- ing our missionary pa- tion of the largest is- pers, Signs, Liberty, land, where we now Watchman, Lif e and have two churches, quite Health, and also our a number accepted the tracts and books, • that truth largely through the coming year might the printed page. We show more accomplished are trying in Fiji to than during any previous scatter the reading-mat- year of our work. A GROUP OF BELIEVERS IN FIJI ter as " the leaves of Property is to be pur- autumn," and shall look chased at Gowanda for the establishment Our work of printing literature in for g-oOcl results from this effort. of a sanitarium, which is to become an Fijian began under many difficulties. In J. E. FuLroN. integral part of the conference. the year two Brother J. M. Co'e sent • Donations were Called for at this meet- us a small printing-press from Oregon. ing, and are to be taken. at other meet- After the press had arrived, there was New Jersey ings, to pay present obligations on the no one with any practical experience to Tunesassa School, and to complete the do the printing. But we felt that the BRIDGETON.— September 20-22 I spent projects now under way at that place. work must be done, and the Lord helped in a union meeting of the churches in As the treasurer reported that our por- us get a paper started. In May of that southern New Jersey, at Bridgeton. tion of the $15o 000 fund had already year we started the Rarama, a little pa- Brethren from Vineland, Salem, Cam- been received, a song of jubilee was sung. per in the Fijian language. We still den, Burlington, Trenton, and Atlantic Officers for the coming year were publish it every month, and there are City were present. Elder K. C. Russell elected as follows: 'President, H. W. a number who have been brought into rendered very effective assistance Carr ; Vice=President, J. W. Raymond; the truth by this -paper. The first Fijian throughout the meeting. other members of the Executive Commit- publication, however, in present truth This was also the close of the tent tee, F. H. Hicks, F. E. Kriley, E. T. was a tract printed by the Pacific Press effort that Brother Carl B. Haynes has Breitsman ; Secretary and Treasurer of Publishing Co., then at Oak'and, Cal. been holding in Bridgeton. These meet- the Conference and Tract and Mission- At that time I was not so well acquainted ings have aroused much interest among ary Society, Delight M. Landon; Field with the language, and in writing the the citizens, and several have begun Missionary Secretary, Allen Manry ; tract, I sought the aid of several reliable keeping the Sabbath as a result. The Sabbath-school and Young People's Mis- natives for their criticism of the manu- presence of the Spirit of God was very sionary Volunteer Department, Mrs. Alta script. A native minister visited me on marked throughout the meeting. On Carr; Educational Secretary, R. B. several occasions, and manifested con- Sabbath, after an impressive sermon by Clapp; Religious Liberty Secretary, T. B. siderable interest. As his interest grew, Elder Russell, twenty-eight came for- Westbrock; Medical Missionary Secre- his visits were more frequent. On these ward for prayers, and all testified to a tary, A. R. Satterlee, M. D.; Atlantic occasions I read the manuscript of this full victory gained. Union Conference delegates, H. W. Carr, tract to him, altering it and correcting it Sunday morning it was the privilege E. T. Breitsman, A. R. Satterlee. as seemed best. Before he came again, of the writer to bury fourteen willing Ministerial credentials were given to more manuscript was written, which souls with Christ in baptism. It was a H. W. Carr, J. W. Raymond, C. Meleen, would be read and changed at the suc- beautiful day, and the Holy Spirit wit- F. Peabody; ministerial license was ceeding visit. Thus the tract was fin- nessed in a marked manner to the serv- granted to T. B. Westbrook, R. B. Clapp, ished, and the native minister was quite' ice. Some were led to make their de- F. H. Hicks, B. E. Fisk. Missionary fully convinced of the truth by what he cision to be baptized while the ordinance licenses were given to Mrs. Eva Jenks, had learned while correcting the tract. was being administered. The addition of Miss Effa Gilbert, E. A. Manry, Mrs. He was greatly agitated, and sought the twenty-four new members by baptism .R. B. Clapp, Mrs. Helen M. Miller, De- white ministers for light on the Sabbath during the year has greatly encouraged light M. Landon', Mrs. Alta Carr. question, but they could not satisfy him the Bridgeton church. Brother Haynes 18 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD OCTOBER 24, 1907

will remain for a time to follow up the Arkansas go ahead with this work. We decided interest and strengthen the new converts. WALNUT RIDGE.— The meeting here that as thus far the Lord had helped us, May God continue to bless the work in is still progressing with good interest. we would go on. I got some of the lead- this needy field. B. F. KNEELAND. On a recent Sabbath there were seven ing brethren together, and laid the situa- who kept the Lord's Sabbath for the first tion before them. They responded by time. The people .are being wonderfully saying, " Let us proceed to build at Porto Rico stirred by God's truth for miles around once." That day we went to the moun- I the tent. They come in and listen to the tains, about ten miles from our home, WE are now in our fifth year in this truth, and take tracts home for their and contracted for what timbers we little tropical island field; and as we look neighbors to read, who can not come. thought we would need. Before we got about to take an inventory of our work, On a Friday night one of the lodges home, the rain came down almost in tor- we do wonder what the Lord can see has in the city met to transact some business, rents. been accomplished. To us it seems little. but they soon began to discuss the Sab- A few days later we were made glad In general, we can see great Changes bath question. Presently an old gentle- to read in the REVIEW that one hundred in the people of Porto Rico. This is a man, a stranger to all, came in and dollars was to be given for the estab- Catholic field, and Spain educated only walked to the stand where the lodge lishing of a training-school in Korea. twenty per cent of the people, while to- Bible was, and when he had opened it, Still we knew that even with the start day by day the large majority of the he read the fourth commandment, and we already had, and with the promise of children in the island are under instruc- said that those people at the tent have the Korean brethren to do the work, this tion. The Bible and good literature have the truth of God. He continued to read amount would be gone before the build- been and are being distributed among the and preach the third angel's message ing was completed. But yesterday we people, and we now have a number of with power. When he concluded, he just felt that thanksgiving was due to our good religious papers that are well re: walked out and left. The members of Heavenly Father, when we received a ceived by them, whereas before they had the lodge were so impressed with the letter from those in America from whom but fiction and political reading. This truth that they dismissed without finish- we had sought assistance, containing a change is having a great influence for ing the business they came together to do. further donation of two hundred yen. good, and the people are beginning to At the close of a sermon on the " Seal For God's prospering care over his work compare and choose between the good of God and the Mark of the Beast," about in this portion of his vineyard we are and the bad. twenty or more gave me their hand that indeed grateful, and request an interest The visible results of the work this they would keep God's Sabbath. in the prayers of his people. year are not encouraging, and we have J. S. ROUSE. W. R. SMITH. neither baptized nor received into the church , any members, notwithstanding • ■ that a goodly number have asked for baptism and church-membership; but our Korea The Oklahoma Conference past experience has taught us that it is SOONAN.— When we came here, our THE fourteenth annual session of the better to wait until they prove that the duties were not clearly defined, more than Oklahoma Conference was held in con- work is of God. that we were to learn the language as nection with the camp-meeting at After returning from the Kingston quickly as possible. This we have tried to El Reno, Okla., Aug. 23 to Sept. 2, 1907. conference, I suffered from physical in- do, and are thankful that the Lord has At this meeting resolutions were ability to work, and as Brother and Sis- blessed our efforts. From the first, the adopted affecting various departments of ter J. C. Brower were unable to do field crying need of the work pressed us into our work. We pledged ourselves to work while studying the language, Mrs. active service, and we have tried to be greater diligence in circulating our liter- Connerly did the most of the work on faithful in doing what seemed to be our ature by encouraging suitable persons to the paper, while the burden of the field duty. engage in the sale of subscription books, work fell on our faithful Brother Nathan Surely the Lord has cared for the work by encouraging the members of the Moulton. here. New companies of Sabbath-keep- churches to place as many of the forty- The Lord has blessed the brethren in ers are continuing to spring up. But as per-cent books as possible in the hands Arecibo, and on my last visit there I they know scarcely anything of the truth, of their neighbors and to sell missionary found them all of good courage, and it seemed to us that we must have a and health papers in the cities. A sub- some of them were out visiting among building where the workers could meet stantial reduction in the rent of tents their neighbors and selling our paper, with all who are interested, and give to regular canvassers attending the El Centinela de la Verdad. them proper instruction. There are now camp-meetings was also recommended. • In San Juan two sisters who were eleven companies of Sabbath-keepers. In reference to education it was rec- baptized a year ago are conducting a At all these places church-schools are ommended that suitable persons be en- little Sabbath-school and selling both El greatly needed, as there is no school sys- couraged to attend Keene Academy, that Centinela and the Caribbean Watchman. tem in Korea. But until there are school- the conference continue to pay one half The middle of July Brother and Sister teachers, this will be impossible ; so, the salary of the Bible teacher, and that Brower went to Ponce to make their realizing the great need of a little train- the educational fund for assisting worthy home, and the Sabbath-school in their ing-school• we went to work to get one. young people be enlarged. family makes the fourth one in the is- We felt that we must have the school, Concerning Sabbath-school work it land, each a little light to which the and believed that the Lord would help us. was recommended that officers and teach- Spirit of God can call the attention of We secured from the government a ers read the Sabbath School Worker, the honest in heart. Sister Brower is tract of four or five acres, also some old and that all the class donations be given also watching for. an interest in medical buildings, from which we can get tiles to missions. missionary work. and other material for the roof. The Resolutions were passed covering the Brother Moulton spent four months in property is worth, altogether, about three election of religious liberty secretaries Santo Domingo, where he did a splendid hundred yen. If took several months for the conference and the local work. He had planned to sell as many to secure it, and when this was accom- churches, and the wide distribution of of our books there as possible in opening plished, we hardly knew what to do. Religious Liberty Leaflets. 'It was up that work, but we were disappointed We did not then know that the Gland further resolved that the• conference reg- in getting the books. As a result of the council had voted two hundred yen to- ularly supply the journal Liberty to all work in Santo Domingo, we are sending ward building a training-school in Korea. members of the State legislature, and nearly a thousand copies of El Centinela I wrote to some of our relatives in that our-people be urged to write to their and twenty-six of the Caribbean Watch- America, and asked them to help us. respective congressmen and State legis- man monthly, and nearly every mail The time for the rainy season, to which lators whenever issues arise involving brings the Macedonian cry for help. the people look forward to fill up their the principles of religious liberty. Somebody must locate there soon. Our rice fields with water and make their It was recommended that a Young Earthquake special in March did a good crops, was half gone, and no rain had People's Missionary Volunteer Depart- work in getting the people to thinking on fallen ; and, to make matters worse, a hot ment be organized with secretary in the signs of the times ; and in August we wind had blown for several days. The charge, who shall, as soon as consistent, issued a special on the advent message, natives told us that unless a rain came reorganize the societies. Only those who 4 which has been gladly received by the very soon, their crops would all die. We are members of the Seventh-day Ad- people, and I trust may cause some to were perplexed to know whether, in the ventist Church, and who are willing to decide in favor of the message. midst of so many uncertainties, and in enlist for service, will he asked to join. B. E. CONNERLY. the face, of an apparent famine, we should A temperance resolution was passed, OCTOBER 24, 1907 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 19

urging that we seek so to, arouse the and the time of beginning and ending rocco), and I delivered five of them. people to the evils of intemperance that the Sabbath, strong objections were made This book tells of the apostasy of Satan public sentiment will demand the prohi- by the prosecution, upon the grounds that in heaven, and is' one of three books bition of the liquor traffic. this was not a question of what a church which the spirit of prophecy tells us It was recommended that we continue teaches, was not a question of creeds should be placed now in the homes of the taking of a donation every third and cults. To place it upon such a basis the people, for it will_open many blind Sabbath for the State fund, and that we would be to make void the law of the land eyes to the truth. It is amazing to see urge the raising of what is still due on and bend it any way to conform to the how angels go before and prepare hearts the $150,000 fund. It was voted to pay dogmas of a church. This is a civil to buy this priceless volume cn the very to the General Conference $2,000 from trial, not a religious trial, and it must themes the world needs now. the surplus tithe, and $5,000 to continue be tried according to the law, and not I praise God for a part in his good the support of two German workers in according to the teachings of a church. work. All honor is to our Father in New York City. Judge Shea overruled the objection, say- heaven for all I am enabled to accom- The following officers were elected : ing that this was different from ordinary plish. , Please read Isa. 61: io; 63: 7; President, Andrew Nelson; Treasurer, trials: this has something to do with Ps. 28 : 6, 7. WALTER HARPER. T. J. Eagle; Secretary, William Voth; religious rites, as the exemption clause General Missionary, V. 0. Cole; De- says they must conscientiously observe partment Secretary of Tract and Mis- the seventh day. The judge admitting "Finish the Work" sionary Society, T. J. Eagle; Executive the evidence, the Sabbath truth was Committee, Andrew Nelson, David Voth, plainly and clearly brought before the DELAYS are dangerous. There is pleas, U. B. Dake, J. R. Bagby, and A. J. Voth. court officials. The judge asked Brother ure in completing any work we have in Credentials were given to the following Jarvis why he kept the seventh day, hand to do. There is no satisfaction in persons: Andrew Nelson, A. J. Voth, Brother Jarvis answered: " I have thor- viewing an unfinished task after the U. B. Dake, David Voth, J. R. Bagby, oughly searched the Bible and find noth- time has passed when it• should be ac- D. F. Sturgeon, T. J. Hickman, E. L. ing to show why we should keep the first complished. Maxwell, William Braley, I. A. Crane, day, but all the evidence is that we should ' For nearly a year we have been try- W. S. Lowry, G. G. Rupert. keep the seventh day; therefore, I ing to finish the work of raising the Ministerial license was granted to keep it." $150,000 fund. Has the time not come V. 0. Cole, J. B. Hampton, C. M. Mc-, After the evidence was in, and the now to close up this account and to Donald, Isaac Baker, C. M. Hayhurst, lawyers had made their pleas, Judge finally finish this work? Just one more W. F. Talbert, R. P. Montgomery, Ray Shea, in substance, gave the following strong, steady effort will carry us Hickman, Ezra Fillman, W. E. Baxter, decision: — through the campaign, and will enable H. L. Wilcox. " In our dealings with one another we us to triumph in the accomplishment of The following persons received mis- are liable to be too narrow, and not want our purpose. I have an earnest desire sionary license: T. J. Eagle, William to give to our fellow man the same rights that the Atlantic Union Conference Voth, Daniel Voth, Sophia V. Parker, and privileges that we wish for our- shall complete its part in this work be- Faye Eagle, Faye Waters, Luna Ste- selves. We want to concede to others fore the close of the conference in Phil- vens, Mary Baxter, J. M. Fittro. their natural rights to think and act for adelphia, November 14-24. We can do WILLIAM VOTH, Secretary. themselves, so long as they do not molest it if we will. These are some of the their fellow-creatures in the same right. ways 'I would suggest to bring about this We have many churches holding to dif- desirable result: ferent tenets of faith. On baptism dif- Let the presidents of the different The Sunday Law in Indiana ferent theories are taught and practised; conferences send letters to all their min- IT will be remembered that Brother in celebrating the ordinances some prac- isters and churches laying this matter Bruce Jarvis, of Seymour, Ind., was ar- tise close communion, and others prac- before them and inviting their co-oper- rested for Sunday labor performed June tise open communion. The law does not ation. 9, 1907. In the preliminary trial before interfere with these rights. The intent 2. The conference and tract society the police court Brother Jarvis was found of the law is evident in the exemption secretaries should send out kind letters to guilty on the ground that, since he kept clause, exempting those who conscien- each church, enclosing a list of pledges the day from sundown Friday evening tiously observe the seventh day. It is where such pledges are still Unpaid, in- until sundown Saturday evening, he did not a question as to parts of days, or viting them to speedily forward the not keep the legal seventh day, which weeks, or months. These have fre- money. begins at midnight Friday and ends at quently been changed by man. The 3. Church elders, librarians, and min- midnight Saturday, Being found guilty, Gregorian calendar is different from the isters should labor by personal effort and and to settle this technical point of the Julian calendar. Since it has been correspondence to reach all whoin they law, the case was appealed to the Jack- proved that he conscientiously observes can influence to help finish the work be- son County circuit court. The case was the seventh day, according to the teach- fore the date mentioned. called in this court before Judge Shea, ing of the Bible, I therefore find him not 4. Individuals may assist by sending Friday, September 20, and Brother Jar- guilty." the amount they have pledged to the vis was found not guilty. How grateful we should be that there tract society secretary, and by getting The prosecutor made his whole fight, are still officials of principle, and that others to do the same. Possibly there and rested the case, upon the same liberty is still ours to enjoy.— A. L. Mil- may be those who have not yet made grounds that•he did in the police court; ler, in Indiana Reporter. any special gift to this fund. Just now namely, that ,Brother Jarvis did not keep is the opportune time for all such' to the legal seventh day, and was therefore bring their offerings, great and small, guilty. that the account may be closed up. In the examination of the witnesses With 'the Books in California We pray that God may impress every he combatted. every inch of the ground CRESCENT CITY. JulyJuly I0 I left San member of the Atlantic Union Confer- upon this point of the legal seventh day. Francisco, Cal., ,for Crescent City, near ence with his duty in this hour to come to When I was asked if Mr. Jarvis was a the Oregon line, to labor in the can- the help of the Lord and to finish this member of the same church of which I vassing work for the summer. I trav- work just now. All will remember the was a minister, the prosecutor objected. eled by ocean• steamer, and had a safe joy and courage brought into the last saying this was not a question as to what and pleasant voyage. The Master had General Conference by the spontaneous church any one belonged, but as to a care for our good ship " Mandalay." outburst of liberality in finishing the whether or not Mr. Jarvis kept . thesev- I began work as soon as possible. The $ioo,000 'fund. Why not repeat that ex- enth day.. We are not trying churches Lord went before, and opened a wide perience at our union conference? Let to ascertain the church to which he be- door. I saw many tokens of 'God's love, the response come from every individual, longs, or whether he belongs to any and care during all the summer. For all every church, and every conference until church, but whether or not he keeps the this I do thank and praise his holy name. the 'amount in the treasury far exceeds seventh day. The judge overruled the It has been refreshing to find so many our apportionment of $19,422. We lack objection, stating that the answer might open homes and hearts to • receive that only four or five thousand dollars of the have some bearing upon- the case, owing grand treasure-casket of truth, " Patri- full amount; and when this is received, to what the church teaches relative to archs and Prophets.." In one cabin, one we cart sing our song of jubilee. the day to be kept. When the questions Sunday in a redwood logging camp, the Come, brethren and sisters, come. were asked as to what day the church clear Lord gave me orders for six copies Lift once more, lift a little harder, lift taught for the Sabbath, what day it kept, of " Patriarchs and Prophets " (mo- a little stronger, and keep lifting until 20 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD OCTOBER 24, 1907

we can all rejoice in a finished work. Yesterday three families kept their first question. The people on the streets are Those who have done much may be able Sabbath (this includes five adults and discussing it. Last Sunday we were to do a little more. Those who have not three children), and another woman is also attacked by the ministers in the helped at all should now seize the op- about to decide. With the Lord's help, pulpits. To our surprise Monday night portunity. we will continue the work until they are the people flocked to the tent more than " Be strong and of good courage, dnd established on all points of the truth." ever before, anxious to hear more of do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the the truth." Twenty-one have taken their Lord God, even my God, will be with FROM Brother W. R. Uchtmann, who stand for the commandments of God. thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake is assisting Brother F. C. Gilbert in his thee, until thou hast finished all the work among the Jews, comes this word: BROTHER B. F. PURDHAM has closed work." E. W. FARNSWORTH. " The work here among the Jews of the tent-meetings at Uniontown, Pa. Boston is not an easy task, but God is He writes: " We have secured a good abundantly able to overcome all obstacles hall for our meetings here, and will do South Dakota and give us the success we are surely all we can to follow up the work at this expecting. Several have now taken a place. I think much good can be done CHAMBERLAIN.— On September 14 a decided stand for the Messiah, which we by house-to-house work, and by using church of nineteen members was organ- trust is but the first-fruit of an abundant the excellent literature the Lord has ized at this place by Elder C. M. Clark. harvest." given us in these last days. We have Seven persons at the Chamberlain Sani- organized a Sabbath-school of twelve tarium have accepted present truth, and SABBATH, October 5, Elder A. G. members, and hope soon to organize a have been baptized, and several patients Haughey organized a church of twenty- church, as we have Sabbath-keepers are deeply interested, and we trust that one members at Buchanan, Mich, scattered around in this part of the field, they will soon accept the truth in its ful- Brother W. E. Videto was present and and we hope also to see others take hold ness. The message has been proclaimed baptized four. Several younger workers of the truth." with power by Elders R. E. Harter and have labored at this place, and this is C. M. Clark. Quite a number in the city some of ,thefruits of their labors. At AT the suggestion of a brother living have taken their stand with us, and we present H. C. Pitton and Myron B. But- expect to see them unite with the church in Bloomfield, Conn., Brother W. R. terfield, are conducting a tent-meeting Andrews was invited to fill the pulpit in a little while. So much interest has there, and it is hoped that others will be been manifested in the third angel's mes- of the Methodist church last winter dur- added to this church. ing the illness of the pastor, and later sage here, that the pastors of the other 'he had a similar opportunity in the Bap- denominations have secured the services DURING the past two years consid- of Evangelist Johnson, and have erected tist church at the time of the pastor's erable canvassing and house-to-house death. The interest aroused was suffi- a tabernacle, in order to expose the fal- work has been done in Pontiac, Ill., and cient to call for a tent-meeting. As a lacies of Seventh-day Adventists. We as a result a church of more than fifteen result of this tent effort, one of the thank the Lord for this, as it is an indi- members has been raised up. During deacons of the Baptist church, with his cation that the interest of the people is the tent-meeting conducted there the wife and five children, accepted the, truth. greatly stirred. past summer by Brethren J. C. and F. J. Besides this family, two others took their About eighty patients have been Harris and C. A. Hansen, five were stand. treated at the sanitarium since the first terfield are conducting a tent-meeting of August. When it was dedicated, it four other new Sabbath-keepers who was full. More than a score of heavy will join later. operations have been performed success- Tumid fliniron fully. We thank the Lord for all his FOR five weeks a meeting was held blessings, and ask your prayers that we every night in a tent at Sterling, Ill., by — A terrible explosion occurred Oc- may keep humble, and that the Lord's Brethren J. M. Burdick and C. R. a- tober 5 in a cartridge factory at Osaka, work may prosper in this place. oon, of which they write: " We haveg Japan. Sixty-three girls who were sort- C. P. FARNSWORTH. been greatly encouraged by the earnest ing condemned shells and, cartridges help given on the part of our dear peo- were killed, and more than sixty were injured. ple here. As the result of united effort Field Notes and Gleanings three have been added to the church, — Twenty-two members of the crew FIVE persons were baptized at Des and three are keeping the Sabbath who of the new steel freighter " Cypress " Moines, Iowa, Sabbath afternoon, Oc- have not yet joined us. Others are in- were lost when she sank recently in Lake tober 5. terested, and we will for some time de- Superior. The sole survivor has ex- vote our time to house-to-house work plained that the catastrophe was due to• IN following up the interest resulting with these and others." the shifting of the cargo during a storm. from the camp-meeting at El Reno, — This season's fatalities resulting 4 Okla., Brother D. F. Sturgeon was priv- THE tent-meeting in Baltimore, Md., from Alpine accidents are the most nu- ileged to see five colored adults take a closed Sunday night, September 15. merous ever recorded.. Eighty persons stand for the truth. Brother Morris Lukens writes that " at were killed and twenty-two injured in this, the closing service, the tent was ninety accidents. Three fourths of the ELDER G. G. RUPERT is holding meet- well filled, as usual. We have rented a deaths were caused by falls over preci- ings in a schoolhouse near Tecumseh, very pleasant hall, on one of the city's pices, and the others by avalanches, Okla., and is having a good interest. prominent. streets, where services will be snow-storms, and lightning. Some of those who attended his meet- held on Sunday evening for some time to ings last summer in Tecumseh are at- come. The interest is being followed — The closing session of the Inter- tending the meetings in the schoolhouse, with Bible readings in the homes of the national Peace Conference was held at and some have taken their stand to keep people. There are twelve who are keep- The Hague, October 18. During the the commandments of God. ing the Sabbath, in addition to the twelve four months of its sitting the conference who united with the Baltimore churches has passed thirteen specific conventions, LAST winter while canvassing in Lin- after camp-meeting." but they are couched in such general coln, Neb., Sister Minnie M. Hahn held terms and are of such a nature that much some Bible readings, and as a result one THE meetings at Comanche, Tex., of the press comment is disparaging in sister has been baptized and united with conducted by Brethren B. E. Miller and reference to any real good in the inter- the church.. This sister is now, in turn, G. A. Lagrone, have just closed, with the ests of peace resulting therefrom. scattering papers and tracts, and has a attendance remaining good till the last. — Wireless communication across the good interest among her neighbors. Sis- A recent report says: " Last week Atlantic for news and business purposes ter Hahn was compelled to stop canvass- the ministers, lawyers, and an ex-judge was begun October 17, in accordance ing in December on account of her decided to break up our meeting and get with the promise of Marccni, the in- health. Of her later experiences she us confused by handing in a number of ventor. For several hours there was a writes: " This summer my mother, questions for us to answer; but instead constant exchange of messages between brother, and I have been spending what of the enemy's winning the victory and the station at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, time we could distributing papers and hindering the cause, the truth prevailed, and the one at Clifden, Ireland. Numer- tracts and giving Bible readings in the and the interest of our meetings was in- ous press dispatches. were sent to and fro suburbs of East Lincoln. Through the creased more than double. The whole at a rate of twenty words a minute for Lord's blessing, the result is wonderful. town is stirred up over the Sabbath each instrument employed. OCTOBER 24, 1907 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 21

— Failure to obey the standing rule to the law, he found to his amazement that slow down for a curve on the railroad, riitrat tasionaru the Sabbath of the fourth commandment caused the derailment of 'a passenger- was being desecrated every week by the train as it entered the station at Shrews- Brpartmrnt Christian churches. He began imme- bury, England, October 15. Nineteen diately to keep the seventh-day Sabbath. persons were killed, and thirty-nine were That step marked the beginning of the Conducted by the Medical Department of the General injured. religious movement under the third an- Conference gel's message, and Joseph Bates was the — Again the southwest of Europe was W. A. GEORGE, M. D., - Chairman man with whom, in the providence of deluged with torrential rains last week. W. A. RuBLE, M. D - .Secretary God, that movement began. One Spanish village near Barcelona was For many year; previous to this Joseph literally washed away, and in France a Bates had been an earnest temperance hill is slipping, and threatens a village History of the Medical Mis- reformer. In 1821, when twenty-nine i,000 feet below. There has also been sionary Work* years of, age, he discarded intoxicating more loss of life. liquors. A year later he added wine to Tni history of the religious movement the list of discarded beverages. In 1823 — The aged emperor of Austria, set on foot by the proclamation of the Francis Joseph, has not been in his usual he ceased using tobacco. In 5824 ale, third angel's message shows that the porter, beer, and cider were'rejected. health of late. His illness has occa- medical missionary work as a depart- sioned much speculation by the press of What he had seen of the evils of in- ment of the whole movement is co-equal temperance, and the benefits he had ex- the world as to the probable effect his with the other parts of the movement. death would have upon the political his- perienced by abstaining from intoxicants, The principles of a healthful dietary led him to consider seriously the advi- tory of Europe. and of the rational treatment of disease sability of organizing temperance socie- — The jury in the case of the Atchison, were recognized and applied in conjunc- ties. In 1827 he organized the Fairhaven Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company, tion with the other special features of the Temperance Society. This was the first charged with rebating, brought in a ver- message. All came gradually to light, temperance society ever organized in the dict of guilty on all counts enumerated and were developed together. Our med- United States. The members of this in the indictment. The maximum fine ical missionary work is not an append- scciety were given the name of " tee- for the offenses charged is $1,100,0oo and age to the message; it is an inherent totalers." But the movement became the minimum is $66,000. part of it. It began with the whole popular, and town, county, and State movement, and it has grown with it until temperance societies were organized in — Violent earthquake shocks were re- the present time. And furthermore, the the State of Massachusetts. From this corded by seismographic instruments in true medical missionary work of the may be dated the beginning of the organ- various parts of the earth on October 16, third ange:'s message will never be sepa- ized work of temperance societies but so far it has been imp"ssible to locate rated from the message. While there throughout the world. the center of the convulsion. Scientists will be those who are not identified with But Joseph Bates went further in tem- are somewhat puzzled, but think the the third angel's message who will recog- perance reform than the discarding of chief disturbance may have been in the nize and apply, in their way, some of intoxicating liquors and tobacco. In polar regions, or possibly in mid-ocean. the principles of our medical missionary 1832, when forty years of age, he dis- — The town of Fontanet, Ind., was work, yet the work itself, as a part of continued the use of tea and coffee, and destroyed October 15 by the explosion the third angel's message and developed eleven years later, at the age of fifty- of the Dupont powder mills located about with the message, will remain with it one, he discarded the use of flesh foods a mile from the town. Not a building to the end. and became an ardent vegetarian. From 'was left in the town. Thirty-six per- It is generally understood, I think, that that time until his death, at the good ripe sons were killed, and 600 of the 1,000 Joseph Bates was the first Seventh-day age of eighty, his dietary consisted of inhabitants were injured, fifty of them Adventist in the world. He was the first fruits, grains, nuts, and vegetables. seriously. The concussion was felt 200 man, who, under the third angel's mes- From these facts it is plain, and it is miles away, and farmhouses miles away sage, connected the observance of the significant as well, that the man who was were partially wrecked, injuring the oc- seventh-day Sabbath with the doctrine led to the Sabbath truth under the light cupants. of the immediate coming of the Saviour. of the third angel's message was also led He had been in Ole first advent move- to adopt and establish the dietary of the — Secretary of War William H. Taft, ment up to the disappointment in 1844; medical missionary department of our while en route from Japan to Manila; when the disappointment occurred, he, cause. From this step Joseph Bates. and called at Shanghai, where the American with all• the rest, was thrown into great other pioneers of the message associated and Chinese residents seemed to vie with confusion and perplexity. But believing with him, steadily advanced toward the each other in doing him honor. After that the movement had been of God, he light until they came into possession of dedicating the building of the Young felt sure that there must be a true ex- all the fundamental principles of our Men's Christian Association, he was planation of what had taken place, and medical missionary work. given a reception by prominent Chinese so he addressed himself to the task of Thus we see that this medical mission- merchants representing forty-five of the finding that explanation. He prayed ear- ary work as a distinctive feature of the guilds formerly in the boycott against nestly for light, and searched the Scrip- whole movement under the third angel's American manufactures. Speeches were tures with great diligence to learn, if message, was recognized and developed made by merchants, officials, and fhe possible, what that great advent move- with the other features of the message representative of the viceroy, in which ment meant, and why they were disap- from the very beginning of the move- they said the friendship of the United pointed. The result of his earnest ef, ment. States had been evidenced by the relief fort was that he began to get clear The adoption and advocacy of a sent to the famine sufferers, the support views of the third angel's message. He healthful dietary was the first step in the of schools and hospitals, and the waiving came to see clearly that the third part development of our medical missionary by the United States of her part of the of the great threefold message was to work. Then came light on the rational Boxer indemnity. At this reception Chi- follow the first and second parts, and treatment of disease. The essential prin- nese women of aristocratic families were that a prominent feature of the third ciples of natural and rational therapeutic present, and even presided at the tables part of the message was to restore the agencies began to be recognized and ad- whence they served refreshments. This Sabbath to its proper place in the deca- vocated. These principles were first is the first time such a thing has hap- logue. He received much help from the brought forcibly to the attention of our pened in China. Throngs of people eleventh chapter of Revelation, which people by Sister E. G. White in a series awaited Secretary Taft on his arrival at says, " And the temple of God was of six small pamphlets. Later these were Manila, October 15. The next day he opened in heaven, and there was seen in bound together in a book entit'ed " How formally opened the Philippine Assembly, his temple the ark of his testament." In to Live.' The following notice of this whose members were elected some his study of that statement his mind was little book appeared in the REVIEW AND months since. In his speech Secretary directed to the law that was deposited in HERALD, dated June 53, 1865: — Taft expressed his confidence in the Fili- the ark, and when he began to examine " This work, in six small pamphlets pinos, and his belief that they realized neatly put up in paper covers, four hun- their responsibilities. He expressed the * From an address delivered by Elder A. G. dred pages of reading-matter in all, is belief, however, that they would not Daniells at the Medical Missionary Conven- now complete, and we have sent all the be fitted for self-government for at least tion, held in Takoma Park, D. C., June 9-1x, numbers by mail, post-paid, to about eight a generation. 1907. hundred only, who had subscribed for 22. ' ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD OCTOBER 24, 1907 the work, leaving twenty hundred at the sion of the Atlantic Union Conference. Con- - Office waiting for orders." cerning the membership of this corporation, NOTICES AND the by-laws provide as follows : — This was the first book published by " The members of this corporation shall our denomination on the subject of a APPQINTNItNTS consist of the executive committee of the proper dietary and the rational treatment General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, of disease. When this book was pub- the executive committee of the Atlantic Union lished, there were but three physi- Notice! Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the cians, so far as we know, in the denomi- AT a quarterly business .meeting of the First executive committee of the Chesapeake Con- nation. These were. Dr. H. S. Lay, Dr. Seventh-day Adventist church of Denver, ference of Seventh-day Adventists, the execu- John Byington, and Dr. J. H. Ginley. Colo., a resolution was adopted to this effect : tive committee of the Virginia Conference of That our non-resident members be informed Seventh-day Adventists, the executive com- In 1865 Dr. Lay contributed a series of through the REVIEW AND HERALD , and the mittee of the West Virginia Conference of articles for the REVIEW AND HERALD OR Echoes from the Field, that if they are absent Seventh-day Adventists, the board of man- the subject of health. from this church for one year without report- agement of the evangelical work of the Sev- The next important step in the develop- ing to the church, they will be suspended. enth-day Adventists in the District of Co- ment of our medical missionary work MRS. MELISSA HERMANN, Church Clerk, lumbia, and Takoma Park, Md., and the board was the launching of a health journal go.t.r Quitman St., Denver, Colo. of trustees of the Washington Training Col- under date of June 5, 1866. The REVIEW lege." AND HERALD contained the following By order of the Board of Trustees, G. B. THOMPSON, Secretary. statement regarding the new journal: — An Opportunity to Help . The Health Reformer THE Toluca Industrial School, Toluca, " The first number of a monthly period- N. C., conducted by Elder D. T. Shireman, Notice! is in great need of a typewriter for its busi- ical, with the above title, sixteen pages, NOTICE is hereby given to the constituency ness office. On account of the failure of a magazine form, with cover, will be issued of the Washington -(D. C.) Sanitarium Asso- local fruit crop, the school would also be glad at the Western Health-Reform Institute, ciation, that the third annual meeting of said of donations of canned fruit. Any one who Battle Creek, Mich., Aug. I; 1866. association will be held in the Seventh-day can aid in this matter is requested to cor- Adventist church, West Philadelphia, Pa., " The nature of this journal is suffi- respond with Elder D. T. Shireman, Toluca, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 5907, at 3 P. H., in con- ciently indicated by its name. It is de- N. C., before forwarding anything in response nection with the third biennial session of the signed to aid in the great work of re- to this request. forming, as far as possible, the false Atlantic Union Conference. The members of this corporation consist of the executive com- habits of life so prevalent at the present mittee of the General Conference of Seventh- day. day Adventists, the executive committee of The Virginia School " It will aim to teach faithfully and the Atlantic Union Conference of Seventh-day energetically those rules of health by THE contract has been awarded, and the Adventists, the executive committee of the obedience to which people may secure the work on the new industrial school at New Chesapeake Conference of Seventh-day Ad- largest immunity from sickness and pre- Market has begun. We are now ready to ventists, the executive committee of the Vir- receive amounts due on pledges for this pur- ginia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, mature death. pose, for payments will have to be made as " It will advocate the cure of diseases the executive committee of the West Vir- the work progresses. Send in the amount ginia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, by the use of nature's own remedies, air, of your pledge to Dr. A. M. Neff, New Market, the board of management of the evangelical light, heat, exercise, food, sleep, recrea- Va., who will send receipt for the same. We work of the Seventh-day Adventists in the tion, etc." will report progress on the building as the District of Columbia, and in Takoma Park, The first number of this health journal work goes on, and as soon as we can know Md., and the board of trustees of the Wash- contained articles from Dr. Ginley, Mrs. when we shall occupy the same, will send ington (D. C.) Sanitarium Association. E. G. White, Elders J. N. Loughborough, out calendar of ,the school. We hope, weather This meeting is convened for the purpose of permitting, that we can use the building some electing a board of trustees, rendering and D. T. Bourdeau, R. F. Cottrell, J. N. before the close of the school year. Andrews, J. H. Waggoner, and Dr. Lay. considering reports, and for the transaction R. D. HOTTEL, of any other business that may properly come As there were but few physicians and For Virginia Con f. Agency. before the association. no nurses to advocate the health work, By order of the Board of Trustees, our ministers came forward and ren- G. A. IRWIN, Chairman. dered all the help they could. Their articles show that they did this with much Notice! zeal, and a fair degree of intelligence NOTICE is hereby given that the fourth One Thousand Agents Wanted regarding the question. This health annual meeting of the members of the con- journal has never been discontinued. stituency of the Review and Herald Publish- To sell the great World's Missions double number of the Signs of the Times in all the (To be concluded) ing Association of Washington, D. C., will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church, large cities of the country. The work can West Philadelphia, Pa., on Monday, Nov. easily be made self-supporting. Two con- 18, 1907, at 3 r. M., for the election of offi- ferences have already ordered •ten thousand Findings cers for the coming year, and for the trans- copies each to start with. One young man action of such other business as may prop- in the East, the son of one of our ministers, DR. L. LEOTA HOLLAND has discon- erly come before the meeting. has become so enthusiastic that he places a nected from the Pennsylvania Sanita- The following persons are members of this definite order for 2,000, and asks for a price rium, and is taking a short vacation at corporation : those composing the executive oh 55,00o. He feels sure that he can dis- pose of that number easily. her home in West Valley, N. Y. committees of the General Conference, the Atlantic Union Conference, the Canadian A sister in Spokane, Wash., is selling 400 Mr. Wilfred Ingle, of Claremont, Cape Union Conference, the Lake Union Confer- copies weekly of the regular issue. Others Town, South Africa, arrived in Wash- ence, and the Northern Union Conference of in Los Angeles, Cal., are doing the same. No ington recently, having come to pur- the Seventh-day Adventists; those who corn, doubt others feeling a burden for the work pose the executive committees of the several would do equally well in all the large cities sue medical studies in the George Wash- of our country. Our sisters seem to be espe- ington University. local conferences of Seventh-day Adventists within the territory of the afore-mentioned cially blessed in taking up this work. Prof: J. E. Tenney writes from Grays- union conferences ; those who compose the The Signs of the Times is our pioneer ville., Tenn.: " Can you put me in board of trustees of the Review and Herald paper, and is especially adapted to the work Publishing Association ; and such, persons as of giving the last warning message to the touch with a good, live, loyal physician, world. whom you can recommend, and who have received certificates of membership in said association. As large an attendance of The World's Missions number is particularly would likely be glad to join me in school the membership as possible is desired. adapted to sell on the street and from house and sanitarium work? I have some very By order of the Board of Trustees, to house. It is beautifully and appropriately encouraging openings for this kind of W. W. PRESCOTT, President. illustrated, and the subjects are striking. The work." whole - number is fairly bristling with facts, figures, and interesting information, together Prof. and Mrs. C. H. Hayton and with the strongest appeals ever made to finish daughter, who have been connected with Notice! the work in •this generation. Claremont Union College, Cape Town, THE next meeting of the constituency of Seventh-day Adventists have been accused South Africa, are now connected with the corporation known as the Washington of being a denomination of proselyters, but the the Foreign Mission Seminary. Pro- Training College, for the election of trus- table of statistics in the Missions number will tees, and the transaction of such other busi- fessor Hayton has begun studies in the show that our people are doing much more ness as may be necessary, will be held in the per capita than any other denomination, both medical course at the George Washing- Seventh-day Adventist church in West Phil- in the matter of donations and in the send- ton University, where he will probably adelphia, Pa., Friday, Nov. Is, 1907, at 3 ing of missionaries abroad. The figures will be for four years to come. P. H., in connection with the biennial ses- surprise even our own people, and astonish OCTOBER 24, 1907 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 23

the world. However, we have nothing of Publications Wanted SMITH,— Harrison Smith died at his home which to boast. In view of what we profess, [SPECIAL NOTICE.— We learn that objec- at Owosso, Mich., May 6, 1907, after a sickness we are not doing a tithe of what we ought tionable literature is being sent in response in which he suffered much for several weeks. to do. Every man, woman, and child should to these requests, and urge all to examine Brother Smith had been a firm believer in be encouraged to do something. It means a with special care any periodicals or pam- the truths of the third angel's message since revival in all our churches, also the giving of phlets received outside of our well-known de- 1853. He was born in the State of New York, the truth to thousands of those not of our nominational publications. Be sure that the Nov. 24, 1821, and had lived in Michigan faith. literature which you distribute teaches the since 1867. At the time of his death he was A copy of this paper ought to be placed in truth.— En.] a faithful merhber of the Owosso church. the hands of every family in the land, and in The following persons desire late, clean Many friends and relatives mourn the loss of our large cities it should be sold by the 'thou- copies of our publications, post-paid: — a faithful friend and brother. Words of com- sands. It will do more to help set our people fort were spoken based upon Rev. 14: 13, ,D right before the world than anything we have James C. Rice, Rome, Ga., Signs, Watch- E. K. SLADE, ever issued, and will also do more to awaken man, Life and Health, Liberty, Training an interest in foreign missions than anything School Advocate, Instructor, and tracts. MOSER.— Died Aug. 21, 1907, Sarah Trol- we have ever published. Martin Dunn, 824 N. Broadway, Piqua, linger Moser, aged 7o years, 9 months, and 7 The members of the Young People's Society Ohio, Signs, Watchman, Liberty, Life, and days. She was born in Maryland, and was of Mountain View have subscribed for over Health, and tracts ; can make use of German converted under the labors of a minister of 2,000 copies, and they propose to donate the papers. the Christian Church. She afterward united profits on the sales to missions. We have no with the Seventh-day Adventist church at W. E. Carter, Elizabeth City, N. C., doubt but' that other societies will adopt the Signs, Bowersville, Ohio, and later at Yellow Watchman, same plan, and tracts on the Sabbath ques- Springs and Springfield, Ohio. She was a tion; anything that contains the message for It is hoped that this campaign in behalf of loving mother, an obliging neighbor, and a our times will be acceptable;. can use large the Missions number of the Signs of the faithful Christian. Her heart was always quantities of reading-matter. Times and the 24 special numbers to follow open to the appeals of those in need or dis- will be the strongest • and most enthusiastic tress, and of her means she contributed liber- that we have ever entered upon. The times ally for the spread of the gospel, at home certainly demand earnest action. Everything Address and abroad. She leaves her husband, two chil- goes to show that we are already in the loud THE address of Ftlder J. K. Humphrey is dren, and ten grandchildren to 'mourn their cry of the third angel's message, and now, 436 Elton St., Brooklyn, N. Y. ' loss. Funeral service was conducted by the as stated in the heading of this article, we writer. E. J. VAN HORN. want one thousand agents to take up the sale of the Missions number of the Signs of the BRAMHALL.— Died at Milwaukee, Wis., Times in our large cities. Who will respond? bituari Sept. II, 1907, Elisha H. Bramhall, aged 72 Orders can be filled promptly. The sale years' and r6 days. Brother Bramhall ap- parently died from a paralytic stroke which can continue until after Christmas. For SAINT.— Died at Mission City, British Co- terms, outfit, etc., address your State tract caused him to fall on the cement walk on lumbia, Aug. 9, 1907, Mrs. Ann Saint, aged the threshold of his home, crushing his skull. society, or Signs of The Times, Mountain 70 years and 1. 5 days. Sister Saint was born View, Cal. An operation was performed immediately, in England, and was the mother of ten chil- but he died about ten hours afterward with- dren, Elder J. L, and Brother J. F. Wilson out regaining consciousness. About twenty- being among those living. Sister Saint was two years ago, through the faithful labors and Business Notices faithful and liberal. As the result of a fall, prayers of his wife, Brother Bramhall was THIS department is conducted especially she was an invalid for some time before her led to give his heart to the Lord, and soon for the accommodation of the Seventh-day death. E. L. STEWART. after united with the Seventh-day Adventist Adventist readers of this paper. WILsoN.— Died at Catawba, N. C., Aug. church in Milwaukee. Although he had been Brief business notices will be published 27, 1907, Emily R. Wilson. She was born a brave, loyal soldier for his country during subject to the discretion of the publishers, Jan. 6, 1829, and was converted at the early the Civil War, he became a truer and more and on compliance with the following — age of twelve, uniting with the Methodist faithful soldier of the cross. The third an- gel's message was precious to him, and he Conditions Church. About eight years ago she embraced the third angel's message, and was baptized sacrificed his means, dedicated his children, Display advertising, and advertisements and himself rendered faithful and loyal serv- which call for agents, will not be accepted, by Elder D. T. Shireman, becoming a member of ithe Hildebran church. The funeral service ice for the church and for the cause of God. nor do the publishers solicit advertising of We are confident that our brother sleeps in any kind for this paper. was conducted by the writer. J. 0. JOHNSTON. Jesus. He was loved by all who knew him. All persons unknown to the managers of His wife and four children are still living. this paper must send with their advertisement REEDER.— Died at Alliance, Neb., Sept. 16, The runeral service was conducted by Elder satisfactory written recommendation. Such 1907, of convulsions due to fermentative E. R. Williams, assisted by the writer; and recommendation should come from one of our changes in stomach and bowels, Oris Uriah at the grave his soldier comrades paid their ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh- Reeder, son of H. E. and Julia Reeder, aged last respects in an impressive service. day Adventist church. It is not enough to 5 years and 6 months. The sickness, which R. T. DowsErr. refer to some individual by name. Secure his was of short duration, and the death, took recommendation in writing and send it. place at the tent where Brother and Sister Hosss.— Died near Graysville, Tenn., Aug. We open no accounts for advertising, and Reeder were assisting in a series of meetings. 7, 1907, of chronic Bright's disease, Miss 'cash must accompany each order. A sympathizing congregation attended the Elizabeth J. Hobbs, aged 53 years, II months, A charge of one dollar will be made for service, which was conducted by the writer. and r day. She was born in Putnam County, each insertion of forty words or less. Each Missouri, additional word, initial, or group of figures, G. W. BERRY. but the first thirteen years of her life were spent in Iowa. In 1866 she, with in excess of forty, will cost three cents. CHAPMAN.— Died in Los Angeles, Cal., her parents, moved to Johnson County, Mis- No discount for several insertions. Aug. 19, 1907, Barbara Elizabeth Chapman, souri, where she lived until the last two years. nee Haywood, aged nearly 45 years. In 1891 WANTED.— A middle-aged woman to keep She had an early Christian experience, be- she was married to Thomas Chapman,. who house for a man, with three boys aged 12, longing to the Christian Church. She was made her life very bitter, and finally ended 14, and 16 respectively. Must be a Seventh- one of the first of her father's family to it and his own. Sister Chapman received the day Adventist. Address H. P. Johnson, Box accept present truth, under the labors of Elder third angel's message about nine years ago, 6i, Menlo, Iowa. R. J. Lawrence in 187o, and was remarkably and was a faithful and self-sacrificing Chris- well acquainted with the Bible, and could FOR SALE.— Ten acres good land,— four tian. She was a graduate nurse, and had clearly explain all points of our faith. Hers acres good for onions •and celery,— young many friends. A son, father, and two broth- was a life of self-denial, never considering her orchard, good house, barn, well, and cistern. ers mourn the untimely death of this sister. own comforts or convenience when others Near Seventh-day Adventist church. Reason Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. needed her help. In order that her sisters for selling: I want to go to California. Ad- J. W. ADAMS. might engage in the Bible and missionary dress Susannah Fry, R. F. D. 27, Osseo, Mich. ROBERT.— Fell asleep in Jesus, at Edge- work, for over twenty-five years she cared WANTED.— A janitor. Must be a thor- field, near Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 5, 1907, for her mother, who was an invalid for sev- oughly reliable and steady Seventh-day Ad- Mrs. Adeline D. Robert, née Drake. She\was eral years before her death. Sister Hobbs ventist in good standing. A.good place for born May 18, 1868, in Michigan. 'When a had hoped to live to see the Lord come, but an aged gentleman. A night watchman also child, she was always in delicate heajth, and went to sleep without fear, fully expected ' wanted. References must be given. Address was several times near death's door. She soon to hear his voice calling her to life Pennsylvania Sanitarium, 1929 Girard Ave., gave her heart to God at the age of fourteen. again. Although she was a great sufferer in Philadelphia, Pa. After her marriage she was twice healed by her last illness of eight weeks, she bore it prayer once in Battle Creek and again in with remarkable patience, never uttering one WANTED AT ONCE.— TWO graduate lady Paris, France. ,From this latter place was word of complaint. She leaves two sisters nurses ; also two young ladies and one young sent an account of her healing, which was and, three brothers and many friends to mourn man who desire experience and practical work printed in the REVIEW. After suffering for their loss, but not without hope. Words of in hydrotherapy, massage, operating room, and eight months with tuberculosis, she died in Comfort were spoken by Prof. H. S. Miller nursing. Wages while learning, and access bright hope of eternal life. She leaves a in the Graysville church, and we laid her to to books for study. References required. Ad- husband and a little girl to mourn their loss. rest in the Lone Mountain Cemetery until the dress Fayette Sanitarium, Camersville, Ind. F. E. ROBERT. Life-giver comes. E, W. WEBSTER. OCTOBER 24, 1907 24 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD

numbers of the paper. An effort is being in aggressive evangelistic work, and were 1;14,1,0,01 made to secure one thousand agents to closely associated with the others in all 4r work with the Missions special. If such the work of the mission. an army as that can be secured to go WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 24, 1907 forth with such a journal, we shall see WE trust that our young people espe- this message going more rapidly than cially are getting ready to give a hearty - EDITOR W. W. PRESCOTT - - ever before. May success crown the reception to the " Our Truth ". number of C. M. SNOW t - - ASSOCIATR EDITORS W. A. SPICER effort. the Youth's Instructor, which will bear date of December 3, but which will go to press about the middle of November. It THE article by Elder E. W. Farns- PROF. C. C. LEWIS, president of Union will afford an excellent opportunity for worth on the nineteenth page will be of College, College View, Neb., sends the the young people of this denomination to special interest to those who reside in the following report of the really wonderful introduce the truths of this message to other young people who have never heard Atlantic Union Conference, but will be work that has been going on among the them. Let our young people organize good reading for all. student family of that institution: " The for definite and energetic work with this enrolment has reached four hundred number of the Instructor. WORD has been received of the safe twenty. In the church-school of nine grades there, are one hundred thirty arrival of Brother R. L. Price and family LIBERTY for the fourth quarter of 1907 at Port of Spain, Trinidad. He has en- more. Elder Warren's meetings con- is now ready. With this issue it becomes tered upon his duties in connection with tinue with increasing interest. Last a 48-page magazine. The importance of the issue which it represents, and the the Watchman printing-office, and they night [October Po] nearly seventy more were baptized. This makes three bap- increasing demand on every side for enjoy very much their work and general religious legislation, have made it seem tisms With one hundred fifty-one candi- surroundings. imperative that the journal should be dates altogether, There will be an- enlarged to its present size. The matter other baptism Sunday probably. The IT is expected that another union con- which this number contains is fully in pledges and offerings for the work keeping with the importance, of the maga- ference will be organized, to include for the colored people last Sabbath zine's mission in the world. The leading British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatche- theme in this particular number is [October 5] amounted to over fifteen wan, and Manitoba; and Elder G. A. " Rome and the United States." It also hundred dollars. College View never Irwin left Washington last week to at- sets forth the.true firinciples. of religious before witnessed such a revival." In con- liberty, the reason for our opposition to tend the meeting at Leduc, Alberta, nection with this read the good report all kinds of religious legislation, and the called for effecting this organization. from Elder E. W. Farnsworth concern- disastrous results of a union of religion and the state. It is full of facts and ing the work at South Lancaster Acad- principles, pithily expressed, that should LAST week it was arranged that emy, printed on page 16 of this issue. be brought to the attention of every citi- Brother Horace Giraldi should sail from It is certainly in the order of the Lord zen of the country. If ever a journal New York for Naples, to engage in the that deep heart-searching work should was worthy of a wide circulation, this number of Liberty work in Italy. He has been a laborer in be undertaken in connection with insti- is worthy. Its ar- ticles are well illustrated, and Its cover the Greater New York Conference, which tutions that are preparing the young for and make-up are attractive and will com- has on hand an encouraging and develop- service in the promulgation of the third mend it to the public. This is a number ing work among the vast Italian popu- anger's message. He is putting his hand that every one can circulate, and it will lation of New York City. to the work, and we may expect to see not soon get out of date. The people are in great need of education upon the prin- still more striking evidences of the ciples of true Christian liberty. We shall ELDER K. C. RUSSELL returned last mighty movings of his Spirit. find no better medium for that purpose week from a trip to Kansas City, Mo., than this magazine,' and this particular and Topeka, Kan., made in the interests number is specially adapted to that end. DR. S. A. LOCKWOOD, formerly med- Let it be circulated 'by the thousands in of the religious liberty work. Enthusi- ical superintendent of the sanitarium at every State. astic and well-attended meetings were Kobe, Japan, who was compelled to re- held in both these places, and the people turn to America last summer on account have been given an opportunity to study of the serious illness of his wife, is now The General Meeting for the Sunday-enforcement in the light of the the medical superintendent of the Port- German Ministers history of its results. The public press land Sanitarium, Portland, Ore. We are ALL our conference officers who have was liberal in granting space to reports not already done so should read the state- glad to learn that Mrs. Lockwood's ment made in last week's REVIEW by of these meetings. health " is so much better that it is no Elder Irwin, chairman of the Foreign longer a source of grave anxiety." The Department Committee, regarding the ADVANCE pages of the World's Mis- work of these two laborers was greatly general meeting for the German min- isters which is to be held in Chicago, Signs of the Times appreciated by those associated with sions number of the November 29 to December 9. All who have come to hand, and we can assure them in the Japan Mission, and their re- are marking the progress of our cause in our readers that there will be no disap- turn to America was wholly due to the all its phases must feel deeply grateful pointment on the part of those 'who re- condition of Dr. Myrtle Lockwood's for the signal blessing of God that is at- ceive that special issue of the paper. No health, as she had broken down under tending the efforts being made in behalf of the various foreign nationalities now amount of labor has been spared in the the burden of wearing labor performed located in the United States. The object effort to make it as good as it could be under conditions which are not fully of this council of our German workers, •made. It is a number that will be pre- understood in the home land. In com- is to plan for greater things for the Ger- served by those who receive it, and will, mon with all the other workers in the mans in America. It is the earnest de- sire of the General Conference Commit- long continue to do its good work. On mission, the Drs. Lockwood labored un- tee that all our conference officers shall page 22 of this issue of the REVIEW will tiringly for the advancement of the truth encourage their German ministers to at- be found an article by the manager of in Japan, and their labors' were fruitful tend this council. We wish to see the the Pacific Press Publishing Assn., tell- in many ways. Aside from the 'helpful German work made as strong and effi- ing of the plans for the circulation of influence of the sanitarium in breaking cient as possible. Shall we' not all pray earnestly that the special blessing of God that issue, and of the success certain down prejudice and making our work shall attend this meeting? ones are having in disposing of large favorably known, they engaged directly A. G. DANIELLS.