"Here is the Patience of the Saints: Here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the Faith of Jesus*• Rev. 14:12. VOL. 79. BATTLE CREEK, MICH., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3o, 1902. No. 39.

111,tuuterl fu the Trarlanuttiart of "the of the heart. Keeping back a part of many who are robbing God under the Faith whirl; urns rnwe xieliurrvi the price was keeping back the whole plea that they must pay their obligations unto Om Saints " of the heart. A partial consecration is to men? It is a good plan to follow the no consecration at all. This case was put injunction, " Owe no man anything," but Issued Each Tuesday by the on record for our instruction and warn- it is a sad mistake to rob God in order Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Ass'n. ing. Who among us is doing the same to appear honest with men. " How much thing? He who gives all receives all. owest thou?" Terms: in Advance One Year $1.50 Four Months.... $.50 Eight Months 1.00 Three Months .40 Six Months .75 Two Months .25 God's Ownership Look on the Fields Address all communications and make all Drafts and AFTER the offerings had been brought THE words which Jesus spoke to his Money Orders payable to — for the building of the temple, " David disciples in connection with his talk with REVIEW AND HBRALD, Battle Creek, Mlch. the woman at Jacob's well need to be EENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT BATTLE CREEK] blessed the Lord before all the congrega- tion: and David said, Blessed be thou, often repeated in our time: " Lift up Lord God of Israel our father, forever your eyes, and look on the fields; for they grittarial and ever. Thine, 0 Lord, is the great- are white already to harvest." There is ness, and the power, and the glory, and a great work to be done by God's people What Might Be the victory, and the majesty: for all that before the coming of the Lord, and the How rapidly this message might is in the heaven and in the earth is thine. very doing of this work will be the best spread if every one of the seventy-five . . . All things come of thee, and of possible preparation of God's people for thousand and more who profess to be- thine own have we given thee." This the coming of the Lord. We must con- lieve it was an earnest laborer together was a public recognition of the fact that stantly bear on our hearts the great fields with God. How much new territory God's people are simply the stewards of which have never heard this message. might be occupied• for this message if God's property, and that when they bring When we remember that within the terri- the genuine missionary spirit should take an offering to him, they simply bring tory of the European General Conference possession of all those who are remain- to him of his own. When Abram re- there are five hundred million people, ing with the large churches merely for turned from the slaughter of the kings, very few of whom have received the their own convenience. How much Melchisedec, the priest of the most high truth as revealed to this people, it ought money would be available for sending God, " blessed him, and said, Blessed be to stir our hearts greatly, and lead to out those who are willing to go to the Abram of the most high God, possessor earnest consecration to service. The ends. of the earth with this message if of heaven and earth: . . . and he gave testimony from many fields is that the all its professed adherents would really him tithes of all." In pronouncing the doors are open to the truth, and it only follow the Bible plan of tithes and blessing upon Abram, Melchisedec recog- needs those who will enter these open offerings. Will anything short of perse- nized God as the possessor, or owner, of doors. It needs no argument to show cution arouse this people to their God- all things, and in paying to Melchisedec, that there must be in the church now the given duty and privilege? Let each one the representative of God, a tenth of all same revelation of divine power, the of us answer for himself. that God had given into his hands, manifest working of God with his serv- Abram recognized the same fact. In di- ants, as was seen in the early church Keeping Back Something recting his servants to bring tithes and when the gospel of a crucified and risen THE spirit of entire consecration laid offerings for the support of his work in Saviour was proclaimed in the then hold of the early church. When their the earth, the Lord has established a known world in one generation. It is minds were quickened by the Holy Spirit constant reminder of the fact that the only under the personal leadership of to see that Jesus had given himself for kingdom is his, and that he is the owner the Captain of the Lord's host, and only them, they gave themselves wholly to of all things. This practical acknowledg- through the power which comes from him. This included that which repre- ment of him as " Lord of heaven and such leadership, that the work before us sented their past effort for themselves. earth," opens the channel of blessing can be accomplished in this generation. And so " as many as were possessors of upon our stewardship, and makes the re- But the resources of God are not limited, lands or houses sold them, and brought maining nine tenths more fruitful in re- and he has agencies ready to bring into the prices of the things that were sold, sults. " I will rebuke the devourer for use just as soon as the human instrumen- and laid them down at the apostles' feet." your sakes, and he shall not destroy the talities are willing to act their part in This set a high standard of consecration fruits of your ground; neither shall your the campaign. The spirit of Caleb and in the church. An attempt was then vine cast her fruit before the time in Joshua is now needed as the inspiration made to have the reputation for such a the field, saith the Lord of hosts." This of all the Lord's people. They had the complete consecration without having divine plan for the support of the gos- same opportunity to see the difficulties as the actual experience. "A certain man pel, if faithfully followed, would bring the other spies, but they saw at the same named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, an abundant supply into the treasury of time the sufficiency of the Lord, who was sold a possession, and kept back part of the Lord, and solve one of the most try- with them. Rebel not ye against the the price." This pretending- to give all ing problems connected with the effort Lord, neither fear ye the people of the while keeping back a part was called by to extend a knowledge of this message land; for they are bread for us: their the apostle Peter an effort to tempt the quickly among all nations. The Lord re- defense is departed from them, and the ,Spirit of the Lord. The money could be bukes those who withhold tithes and of- Lord is with us: fear them not." The divided, but the heart cannot be divided. ferings, with this startling inquiry : faith of Caleb and Joshua brought them They gave some of the money, but none " Will a man rob God? " Are there not into the possession of the land, while 4 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD SEPTEMBER 30, 1902

the others perished in the wilderness. actual manifestation. It is in full oper- whole earth as eager to obtain a sale of This same faith will enable us to see the ation now. It springs also from his its produce in this vast metropolis, I end of this work in this generation. Let prevailing intercession with his Father, have rested in content. I see whence us " look on the fields." where he is seated at the right hand of the almost illimitable supplies are the throne of the Majesty on high. He drawn, and my wonder henceforth is, not The Living Fountain gives this living water from his appro- that the millions are fed, but that they WHEN Christ sat on Jacob's well with priated and representative life in glory; should be able to consume such immeas- the woman of Samaria, and asked her to for all power is now given into his hands. urable quantities of food. give him a drink, she responded, " How Matt. 28:18. What comforting and " Thus when I behold man's spiritual is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink sweeping inferences we may draw from need, I marvel that it should ever be of me, which am a woman of Samaria? " this, of his ability and willingness still met. But when I behold the person and Jesus said unto her, " If thou knewest to bless and supply all our wants. Since the work of the Lord Jesus, my marvel the gift of God, and who it is that saith he has this living water in his own un- ceases; and a new wonder begins: I to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest changing self, he has it now as fully as wonder rather at the infinity of grace have asked of him, and he would have he ever had. He is himself the sole than at the power of sin." u. s. given thee living water. The woman fountain, full and all-sufficient, forever. Wesley's beautiful hymn, as familiar as saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to Studies in the Gospel Message it is Scriptural, is always in place: — .draw with, and the well is deep: from IN our study last week we raised the whence then hast thou that living " Thou of life the fountain art, question why it is necessary at this time Freely let me take of thee; water ? " John 4 : 7-1 to place so much stress on the study of The object the Lord had in view in all Spring thou up within my heart, Rise to all eternity." the book of Daniel, and in •seeking an this interview was to bring the woman answer to this inquiry our attention was Speaking of Cairo, the author of to seek salvation of him. But she failed directed to the central theme of the gos- " Ragged Life in Egypt," says, " Perhaps to catch the intent of his words, and fell pel — the indwelling presence of God in no cry is more striking, after all, than right back to the literal and material the heart of the believer. We found that the short and simple cry of the water water before her, and reminded him that the sanctuary and its services constitute carrier. He goes along the street, carry- he had nothing to draw with, and the a great object lesson, " a parable for the ing the water-skin on his shoulder, cry- well was deep. " Whence then," she time now present," in which this funda- ing to all he passes, The gift of God.' said, " hast thou that living water ? " mental truth of Christianity, and the It is impossible to hear this cry without Jesus adapted his own language to her provision which God has made for the thinking of the Lord's words to the plane of thought, and gave her further realization of this truth through the woman of Samaria, ' If thou knewest the instruction. " Whosoever drinketh of sacrifice of Christ, are set forth. We gift of God, and who it is that saith to this water shall thirst again: but who- also noted the prophecy found in 2 Thess. thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest soever drinketh of the water that I shall 2 : 1-12, in which " the falling away " have asked of him, and he would have was give him shall never thirst; but the foretold, and it was declared that " the given thee living water.' It is very likely water that I shall give him shall be in man of sin " would be revealed, and that that water so valuable, and often so him a well of water springing up into he would pervert to such an extent the scarce in hot countries, was in those everlasting life." Verses 13, 14. An- truth taught by the sanctuary and its days, as it i•s now, spoken of as the gift other scripture says, " But this spake he services that he would take the place of God,' to denote its preciousness. If of the Spirit, which they that believe on which belongs to God in his own temple, so, the expression would be extremely him should receive." John 7: 39• The claiming all the time to be the represent- forcible to the woman, as well as full of figure was that of a living spring of ative of God. At the close of the study meaning." — Biblical Treasury. water, in contrast with that of Jacob's we asked these three questions: Is there A Biblical writer says: " The fountain well, which was simply the drainage and any way of locating the rise of this great of living waters is God himself." Jer. surface water from the surrounding apostasy and of following its develop- 2 : 13. " With thee is the fountain of hills. The meaning of his words was ment? Has the church any duty to the life." Ps. 36:9. It is not a mere cis- that his grace was like water from the world with reference to it? Does the tern; it is a pouring, running, living spring, or living well, which is of the time of the coming of the Lord depend stream; nay, rather, a fountain that most refreshing kind. It ministers re- in any way upon the working of this springs up perpetually. We all know freshment and life. It is also aggressive, " mystery of lawlessness "? And the that a jet or fountain is produced by a and forces its way up. It is abounding, promise was made that these questions that is, it does not dry up, and is free head of water that presses down from a should be considered this week. to all corners. He intimated that it was great elevation; and the higher the Inasmuch as " the falling away " could in him, and he had it to bestow. There spring, the loftier and more powerful the come only by a complete setting aside of was no need of a bucket with which to jet; which, however, never surpasses the truth of genuine Christianity as draw it. It would be given for the ask- the height of the source. Our spiritual taught in the sanctuary and its services, ing, •and he alone could give it. It was life, " wellspring of life," has its source it is evident that restoration from this not to be found in any earthly well. in heaven: " and it is heavenward that it great apostasy can come only through In her ignorance the woman inquires, rises, and is content with no lower level. the teaching of the truth revealed in the " Whence then hast thou that living It came from God, and to God it will re- sanctuary and its services. And inas- water?" That is a theme on which we turn." much as this apostasy continues until the can study. The revelation we have of With one more extract we bring these coming of the Lord, and is brought to the Lord Jesus reveals his source of comments to a close: C. H. Spurgeon. an end only by the coning of the Lord, power. He has now unlimited power to of London, England, says: " When I it is equally evident that before the com- bestow, arising from his divine nature, have ridden through London, I have ing of the Lord, and as a means of pre- allied with his perfect humanity. It been overwhelmed with the greatness of paring a people for that event by saving springs also from the purpose and ap- the supply which must daily be necessary them from this apostasy, the truth taught pointment of God respecting his Son; it to feed its millions, and have wondered in the sanctuary and its services must be arises from the anointing of the Holy that, a famine did not at once set in. proclaimed just as widely as the apos- Ghost, and from his redeeming work, But when I have seen the markets and tasy has spread. In other words, the which operated for good, even before its storehouses, and have thought of the message of preparation for the coming .f.,:EPTElViBER 30, 1902 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD

of the Lord must restore the knowledge the historical part of the book we. find, and skill in all learning an•d wisdom. of, and the experience of, the vital truth on the one hand, in the experiences of . . . And in all matters of wisdom and revealed in'the sanctuary and its services. Daniel and his companions a living in- understanding, that the king inquired of It remains for us to inquire where we terpretation of the central truth of Chris- them, he found them ten times better can find the help needed in order to un- tianity as taught in the sanctuary and its than all the magicians and astrologers mask this " man of sin," and to reveal services the indwelling presence of that were in all his realm." The true the truth concerning this " mystery of God guiding and ruling the life; and on reason for giving attention to food and lawlessness." the other hand, in the experience of drink is here made plain. It is not The Saviour directed the minds of his Babylon we have a concrete illustration merely to avoid aches and pains and the disciples to the book of Daniel for light of the rejection of this vital principle, inconvenience of sickness,— these are concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, the consequent assertion of self, and the purely selfish reasons,— but rather that and encouraged them to believe that the inevitable result of such a course. In the the human temple may be preserved in prophecy could be understood. " When prophetic parts of the book we have a the best condition for the most efficient ye therefore shall see the abomination of wider application of these same princi- service. To waste the God-given powers desolation, spoken of by Daniel the ples as exemplified in the experience of in the gratification of appetite or passion prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso the saints of the Most High, or the is to rob God of just so much power for readeth, let him understand), then let church, and of the kingdom of the world, service. When his right to the highest them which be in Judea flee into the with special reference to the time when and best service is recognized, and the mountains." " When the idolatrous the church is in Babylon. Thus Daniel body temple is kept in the best possible standards of the Romans should be set up and his companions in Babylon be- condition for it, then the way is open in the holy ground, which extended some come a type of the church in Babylon, for the revelation of the glory of God in, furlongs outside the city walls, then the and the historical part of the book of his temple, and the light will so shine that followers of Christ were to find safety Daniel has a prophetic application. From men will see good works and glorify God. in flight." But we pointed out last week this standpoint it is plain that the real So it was in the case of Daniel. This is that the prophecies concerning the de- purpose of studying and teaching the shown in his later experiences in Babylon struction of Jerusalem have an applica- book of Daniel should be to learn how in his ability to render service to the true tion also to the destruction of the world to become a Daniel, and how to help God. This merely suggestive study of at the time of the second advent. " The others into the same experience. the first chapter of Daniel has shown Saviour's prophecy concerning the visi- In order that we may see more clearly that it is the fitting introduction to the tation of judgments upon Jerusalem is that the real subject of the book is The main subject of the book,— The Service to have another fulfillment, of which that Service of the True God, we will briefly of the True God,— and that it deals with terrible desolation was but a faint consider the experience of Daniel and the foundation experience of the best shadow. In ale fate of the chosen city his companions as given in the earlier service. The other chapters will be taken we may behold the doom of a world that chapters. After a statement of the fact up in our next study. has rejected God's mercy and trampled of the captivity, and of the command of upon his law." In view of this fact we Nebuchadnezzar to choose some of the "Adroit Statesmanship" are warranted in concluding that the children of Israel to be trained to stand THE leading editorial in the North- words of Jesus concerning the book of before the king, we are introduced to western Christian Advocate (Methodist, Daniel apply to the time when the de- Daniel and his three companions as Chicago) of September 17, is - printed struction of the world is near, just as among those who were selected. The under the title, " Has the President of much as at the time when the destruc- purpose of Daniel " that he would not the United States Been Made the Cat's tion of Jerusalem was near. And as the defile himself with the portion of the Paw of Archbishop Ireland?" ".The work of." the man of sin" and of "the king's meat, nor with the wine which he asking of such a question ought to be an mystery of lawlessness " is an evident drank," indicates that he recognized his insult to the president," says the Advo- perversion of the truth taught in the body as the temple of the living God, cate; nevertheless it feels that the ques- sanctuary and its services, and culmi- and that it was his duty to preserve that tion is justified, because "if founded nates in such an abomination of desola- temple in the very best conditipn for the upon fact," it "is one of the gravest is- tion that " the man of sin," actually service of God. " Why did Daniel and sues which the American people could " sitteth in the temple of God, setting his companions refuse to eat at the king's be called upon to consider." The Advo- himself forth as God," it seems clear that table?, Why did they refuse his meats cate then proceeds to give reasons for when the book of Daniel is read so as and wines? — Because they had been believing that the question is indeed to be understood, it will both reveal " the taught that this class of food would not " founded upon fact." The expression of man of sin" so that .he may be recog- keep the mind or the physical structure such views of the situation by a leading nized when he appears,' and the truth in the very best condition of health to do organ of, the Methodist Church in this taught by the sanctuary and its services God's service." This is one phase, and country is well worthy of note. as the means of salvation from "the fall- a very important one, of the practical ap- The Advocate quotes a cablegram from, ing away." plication of the truth taught in the sanc- Rome dated September i t, stating it was The book of Daniel deals with the ex- tuary and its services. " Know ye not rumored there that President Roosevelt periences of Daniel and his companions that ye are the temple of God,' and that had intimated to the Vatican that he as captives in Babylon, and contains the Spirit of God dwelleth in •you? If would be pleased to see Archbishop Ire- prophecies which cover the whole course any man defile the temple of God, him land made a cardinal as a reward for the of events from the time of the captivity shall God destroy; for the temple of God services the latter has rendered the to the setting up of the everlasting king- is holy, which temple ye are." " Holiness church and .the United States. But little dom of God. The real subject of the becometh thine house, 0 Lord, forever." importance would be attached to this whole book is The Service'of the True The superiority of the service which cablegram, ,the Advocate says, were it God. It sets forth the true temple serv- these young men were prepared to render not that similar cablegrams from Rome ice as applied in both individual and na- because of their recognition of their rela- have been published of late in American tional life. It is a living exposition of, tion to God as their King and his recog- 'allies, "intimating that such action on the sanctuary and its seiVices, and the nition of °them as his servants is plainly the . part of the president had been or results of accepting or rejecting the gos- declared by the record: "As for these was to be solicited." As an example of pel of the kingdom as taught therein. In four children, God gave them knowledge these, it quotes from the Brooklyn Eagle 6 'ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD SEPTEMBER 30, 1902

the statement concerning the contem- the record of these things contained in From these " transactions at Rome, as plated promotion of Archbishop Ireland, the last twenty years of United States reported in the Roman Catholic papers," that "it is considered that if, after a sat- history, has any occasion to be surprised the Advocate sees that " there should be isfactory solution of the Philippine ques- at the intimation that the government has no further negotiations in Rome or tion, President Roosevelt asks the pope lent itself now to a faction of the Roman Washington with an official representa- to recompense Archbishop Ireland for his Catholic Church. tive of the Vatican," nor should there be services in the affair, the pontiff will then The Advocate clearly sees that if the " further prolongation of negotiations consider the matter." president should make the request at- over the removal of the friars." The The Advocate considers it " hardly tributed' to him in the cablegram from evidence shows that " the church authori- credible " that the president has been Rome, " it would place him and his ad- ties can no longer be trusted to deal guilty of " such violation of the spirit, ministration under obligations to an ec- frankly with the president and the gov- if not the letter," of the national consti- clesiastical power which not only claims ernment of the United States in this mat- tution, and of " such an insult to the temporal sovereignty, but claims to be ter," and therefore " the negotiations members of the Protestant churches," as superior to all temporal sovereigns, in- should be brought at once to a definite would be involved in a request of this cluding the president of the United and final conclusion." Why did not the nature to the pope. " That any presi- States." And, says the Advocate," there Advocate know all this before the nego- dent or any political party," it adds, are developing evidences which seem to tiations were begun? Was anything else " should permit the friends of Archbishop show that a trap was laid for the presi- to be expected, in the light of papal his- Ireland to use them, would be the most dent and his advisers on the friar ques- tory and papal claims? Why were the astounding act in the history of Ameri- tion, and that they have walked into it, founders of this Western republic so can politics; and if committed, would and from the Roman Catholic point of careful to separate the civil government surely result in strife that would wreck view have been caught." The Advocate from the sphere of religion? Was it not the careers of politicians and political can also see that Governor Taft's mission because they had in view this very his- parties." to Rome, about the merely " business " tory of the papacy, and knew that the The Advocate is mistaken; this would character of which so much was said in union of church and state was a funda- not be " the most astounding act in the American newspapers, really amounted mental principle of the papal system ? history of American politics." We would to diplomatic intercourse between the pa- Religious legislation is a papal measure; remind this Methodist organ of an event pacy and the United States. On this and when such legislation is enacted and which happened in this country a few point it quotes from the Rome corre- enforced as has been done in this coun- years ago, to which posSibly it paid but spondent of the Catholic Citizen (Mil- try in the matter of Sunday laws, what is little attention, the papal church not be- waukee). It seems, the Advocate says, to be expected but that the government ing directly concerned in it ; namely, the on the authority of this correspondent, will finally come into touch with the pa- surrender of congress to the church-and- " that the pope willfully but adroitly pacy itself? And now just this thing state party in this country, who demanded changed the character of Governor Taft's has come, or is so threatening as to cause that the Columbian Exposition in Chi- mission from a business to a diplomatic this organ of Methodism to speak out in cago should be closed on the " sabbath." mission, thus apparently forcing an offi- alarm; but the time to have taken alarm Congress, led by the Senate, enacted a cial of the United States government to was years ago, when American Protes- law declaring that the first day of the violate the Constitution, and usurp the tants began to imitate papal ways. week is the " Christian sabbath," and for- laws which declare that the power to L. A. S. bidding the exposition to be opened on .create a diplomatic mission inheres in that day. And shortly afterward a Congress alone." A BOSTON court has decided that it prominent member of the church party The whole affair was a piece of is legal to make a bequest of money for at whose demand Congress had done this " adroit statesmanship " on the part of the purpose of opposing the popular be- thing, in a sermon setting forth the lief in the immortality of the soul. the pope. So says this Rome correspond- Some months ago the sum of ten thou- " benefits " of ecclesiastical control in ent of the Catholic Citizen, and the Ad- sand dollars was willed to the Advent politics, said " I have learned that we vocate agrees with his view. " That was Publication Society of Boston for this [the church party] hold the United States exquisitely and robustly adroit states- purpose, and a nephew of the testator Senate in our hands." This is what a manship," he says, " which converted brought suit to recover the money, tak- majority in Congress did in 1892, and it ing the ground that to leave money for into direct relations with the United the purpose of opposing this popular was truly a " most astounding act," States at Manila the work of a com- dogma constituted evidence of insanity. judged from the standpoint of the Consti- mission that presented its credentials The leading Methodist organ in the tution of this nation. It was not permit- with a speech setting forth as the basic United States made note of the circum- stances, and said that the will ought to ting " the friends of Archbishop Ireland fact of the case, and its primary pur- to use them," but it was permitting them- be sustained " if the man was not in- pose, . . . a total separation between sane." To believe the Bible on this selves to be used by other ecclesiastics in church and state." That is to say, the point of Christian doctrine, to the ex- this country for an unlawful purpose. pope has used this mission of the Ameri- tent of showing one's faith by works, contrary to the spirit if not the letter of can governor to Rome, ostensibly bent on seems to be evidence of insanity from the Constitution; and the act was not one the standpoint of the popular creed. severing church and state in the Philip- The court opinion in the case was writ- whit better in character because the eccle- pines, to place the United States govern- ten by the chief justice of Massachu- siastics were Protestant and not papal. ment in a position squarely contradic- setts, and establishes a precedent which Indeed, it was in the machinations of this tory to the American principle of the may be useful in other cases where a testator's sanity is questioned on the Protestant church-and-state party, which separation of church and state. This is has persistently demanded religious leg- ground of his opposition to some popu- " adroit statesmanship," indeed, but lar church dogma. islation on the part of both state and adroit statesmanship is no new thing at national legislatures, that this evil prac- the Vatican. The papacy is a master of " IF ye love me, keep my command- tice of letting themselves be used for such statesmanship, and no government ments.' That does not mean such as ecclesiastical purposes had its beginning which enters into negotiations with the among politicians and legislators in this may suit our convenience, or meet our papacy has any reason to think it is not approval, but ' all things whatsoever I country. No one who has kept track of contending with the master diplomatic have commanded you.' Any profession *Rev. H. H. George, in a speech at Pater- power of the world. It can expect only of love which falls short of this is the son, N. J. to get beaten in the diplomatic game. merest pretense." .:ETTEMBER 30, 1902 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 7

read carefully the tenth and eleventh call into his service,— men WI:1Q will not chapters of Hebrews, and appropriate to carry forward the work in the lifeless themselves the instruction that this scrip- way in which it has been carried forward, ..Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are in the past. Many who, have not yet. west, whatsoever things are Just, whatsoever ture contains. The eleventh chapter is „,,,gs are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, what- a record of the experience of the faith- heard the message to. be given to the ...;ecer things are of good report; if there be any vir- and if there be any praise, think on these ful. Those who work for God in the world, have learned the meaning of self- Wags." Phil. 4:8. cities must go forward in faith, doing denial and self-sacrifice. Men will ac- their very best. As they watch and cept the truth who will work with ear- Sunshine as You Go work and pray, God will hear and an- nestness and zeal, tact and understand, 'rim world has need of sunshine as swer their petitions. They will obtain ing. , Let none discourage these zealous you go, an experience that will be invaluable to workers. In some things they will make For we often see the tears of sorrow them in their after work. Faith is the mistakes, and will need to be corrected flow ! substance of things hoped for, the evi- and instructed. But have not men who You can haste that coming day dence of things not seen. have been long in the truth. made mis- When they'll all be wiped away My mind is deeply stirred. In every takes, and needed correction and instruc- If you scatter blessed sunshine as you tion? When they made mistakes, the go. city there is work to be done. Laborers are to go into our large cities and hold Lord did not cast them off, hut healed Von can labor for the Master as you go; camp meetings. In these meetings, the them and strengthened them, presenting i'lant the precious seed, and he will bid very best talent is to be employed, that them with his banner to hold aloft. it grow; the truth may be proclaimed with power. Our large cities are fast reaching the Toiling on whate'er betide, Men of varied gifts are to he brought in. condition represented by the condition of With the Saviour by your side, One man has not all the gifts required the world before the flood, when " God You can scatter blessed sunshine as you for the work. To make a camp meeting saw that the wickedness of man was go. successful, several workers are needed. great in the earth, and that every imagi- nation of the thoughts of his heart was You will meet with many trials as you No one man should feel that it is his pre- go; rogative to do all the important work. only evil continually." God-dishonoring There will be some self-denials here be- If in the camp meetings held in the sins are practiced by people living in low ; cities the speakers proclaim the truth lordly homes; but some of these very But keep looking still above, in the power of the Spirit, hearts will people, under the preaching of the last, And remember 'God is love, be reached. The love of Christ received testing message, will be convicted and While you scatter blessed sunshine as into the heart will banish the love of converted. From his inexhaustible store you go. error. of grace, God can endow all who come —John M. Baker, in Philadelphia Pub- to him. Looking upon humanity, fallen There is need of camp meetings like lic Ledger. and degraded, he declares that the Holy • those held in the early stages of the • -• Spirit shall be poured out upon all flesh. work,— camp meetings separate from the Many who have never heard the special The Work in the Cities business work of the conference. At a truths for this time will feel the convic- camp meeting the workers should be free MRS. E. G. WHITE tion of the Spirit as they listen to the TIME is passing. and the Lord calls to give the knowledge of the truth to message of startling importance. upon the laborers in all departments of those who attend from outside. In our large cities the message is to go his work to lift up their eyes and behold At our camp meetings arrangements forth as a lamp that burned). God will the fields all ripe for the harvest. should be made so that the poor may ob- raise up laborers for this work, and his Our workers are not branching out as tain wholesome, well-prepared food as angels will go before them. Let no one they should in their efforts. Our leading cheaply as possible. There should also hinder these men of God's appointment. men are not awake to the work that must be a restaurant in which healthful dishes Forbid them not. God has given them be accomplished. When I think of the shall be prepared and served in an in- their work. Let the message be given cities in which so little work has been viting manner, especially for the educa- with so much power that the hearers done, in which there are so many thou- tion of outsiders. shall be convinced. God will raise up sands to he warned of the soon coming This work is not to be looked upon workers who will occupy peculiar spheres of the Saviour, I feel an intensity of de- as separate from other departments of of influence, workers who will carry the sire to see men and women going forth camp-meeting work. Each department truth to the most unpromising places. to the work in the power of the Spirit. of God's work is closely united with Men will say, " Yea," where once they filled with Christ's love for perishing every other department, and all are to said, " Nay." Some who were once souls. advance in perfect harmony. enemies will become valuable helpers, ad- Those in our cities —living within the " Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the vancing the work with their means and shadow of our doors — have been Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants their influence. strangely neglected, Organized efforts thereof; because they came not to the With intense interest God is looking should now be put forth to give them the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord on this world. He has noted the capac- message of present truth. A new song against the mighty." Let the indifferent ity of human beings for service. Look- IS to be put into their mouths. They are ones arouse, and act their part in the ing down the ages, he has counted his to go forth to impart to others now in work of the Lord, lest this curse be workers, both. men and women, and has darkness the light of the third angel's spoken against them. Let all who can. prepared the way before them, saying, messaze. give themselves to the long-neglected " I will send my messengers to them, We all need to be wide-aWake, that, as work in our cities,— a work that has and they shall see great light shining the way opens, we may advance the work been looked at. and then passed by on amid the darkness. \Von to the service 111 the large cities. We are far behind in the other side, as the wounded man was of Christ, they will use their talents to It'llowing, the instruction to enter these passed by the priest and the Levite. the glory of my name. They will go cities and erect memorials for God. Take up the work in the cities whole- forth to work for me with zeal and de- step by step we are to lead souls into the heartedly. intelligently, unselfishly. votion. Through their etfOrrS: the truth lull light of truth. We are to continue There are men of talent and influence will speak to thousands in 4. most forci- working4mtil a church is organized. and who are longing for something they have ble manner, and men spiritttallylilind will a humble house of worship built. I am not yet received. Let the truth in its receive sight, and will see tpy;salvation. greatly encouraged to believe that many simplicity be presented to them. Truth will be made so prominent that he persons not of our faith will help consid- God selects his messengers, and gives who runs may read. Means will be de- erably by their means. The light given them his message; and he says, " Forbid vised to reach hearts. Some of the me is that in many places, especially in them not." New methods must he in- methods used in this work will be differ- the gr:at cities of America, help will be troduced. God's• people must awake to ent from the methods used in the work given by such persons. the necessities of the tittle in which they in the past; but let no one, because of The workers laboring in cities should are living. God has men whom he will this, block the way by criticism." 8 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD SEPTEMBER 30, 5904

God will set in operation many plans this statement of what his message is, be ground to powder,— even this would for the accomplishment of hrs work. The and a little later he writes about the end not blot -nu our sin. means that he 'has intrusted to wealthy of the world: " For all that is in the The blotting out of sin is the erasing men will be used to sustain his cause. world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of it from the nature, the being of man, His people will concentrate their efforts of the eves, and the pride of life, is not The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from more and more on the great consumma- of the Father, but is of the world. And all sin. Our bodies are but the channel, tion, believing and obeying the commis- the world passed' away, and the lust the border, the sand upon the shore, of sion: — thereof: but he that ‘doeth the will of the river of life. Impressions have been "All power is given unto me in heaven God abideth forever." This, then, is made upon us by sin. At the seashore. and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach just the message for the last days, that when you see a smooth piece of sand, all nations, baptizing them in the name which will make people stand when the your first impulse is to make some mark of the Father, and of the Son, and of the world passes away. on it, to write some characters upon it. Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe Then the apostle speaks of " the Then the sea comes up, and each wave all things whatsoever I have commanded anointing which ye have received of that passes over it helps to obliterate you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even him," so that " ye need not that any the impression until it is entirely blotted unto the end of the world." " So then man teach you." No man can teach you out. Even so the stream of life from the after the Lord had spoken unto them, he the truth; the things which God has throne of God will wash away and blot was received up into heaven, and sat prepared are revealed only by the out the impressions of sin upon us. on the right hand of God. And they went anointing of the Holy Spirit. "And The erasing of sin is the blottina of it forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord even as it bath taught you, ye shall from our natures, so that we shall bknow working with them, and confirming the abide in him. And now, little children, it no more. " The worshipers once word with signs following." abide in him; that, when he shall ap- purged " actually purged by the blood pear, we may have confidence, and not of Christ — have " no more conscience- ,The Blotting Out of Sin be ashamed before him at his coming." of sin," because the way of sin is gone E. 3. WAGGONER So this is the message that will give from them. Their iniquity may be sought IT is part of fallen human nature people boldness at the coining of the for, but it will not be found. It is for- to make religion consist of forms and Lord, so that they will look up and say, ever gone from them,— it is foreign to ceremonies, formulas and doctrines. Sac- " Lo, this is our God; we have waited their new natures, and even though they erdotalism is not peculiar to certain for him, and he wilt save us." may be able to recall the fact that they denominations; it is inherent in fallen This, then, is the message, that God is have committed certain sins, they have human nature, and just to that extent that light; and if we walk in the light, the forgotten the sin itself they. do not one loses sight of God, that formalism blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from think of doing it any more. This is the will manifest itself even in those who all sin,— blots out all iniquity. The work of Christ in the true sanctuary, are most sincere. There are just as proof of whether or not we have the which the Lord pitched, and not man,— sincere souls among those whose religion truth is in the effect that that which we the sanctuary not made with hands, but consists of forms as among any people have has upon our lives. Does it cleanse brought into existence by the thought on earth. I have seen among Roman us from unrighteousness? If we walk of God. • Catholics as much devout sincerity as in the light, then the blood of Jesus among any people. Our danger lies in Christ cleanses us. Light is the flowing Is It True? And Does It Pay? 'thinking that the truth consists of certain forth of God's life, which cleanses and R. D. HOTTEL statements — of losing sight of the dis- blots out sin. IF we remember correctly, the REVIEW tinction between truth and the statement We need to be on our guard against had something to say some time ago of truth. There is just as much differ- the idea that the blotting out of sin is about the chain-letter business, condemn- ence between these two as there is be- merely as the passing of a sponge over ing the whole thing as being wrong mor- tween the law and the writing out of a slate, or an entry in a ledger, to balance ally, and also against the , postal laws. the law. The real law is living; the the account. This is not the blotting out This we presume applies when money is writing of it in the book is only a shadow. of sin. An ignorant man who saw a solicited. But there must be something We are in danger of making a creed, and thermometer for the first time thought fascinating about the chain letter whether thinking that that is the truth. to lessen the heat by breaking it. But money is solicited or not. Not long ago No human words can express the truth how much effect did this have upon the one came along from the far-away coun- of God. " Eye hath not seen, nor ear weather ?— Just as much as the wiping try of Australia, asking that each one heard, neither have entered into the heart out of the record of his sin has upon the receiving the letter write to three friends, of man, the things which God hath pre- sinner. The tearing of a leaf out of a soliciting used postage stamps, etc. Just pared for them that love him. But God book, or even the burning of the book recently one comes along from one of hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit." containing the record, does not blot out our prominent workers in America, ask- The fullness of the truth of God cannot the sin. The sin is not blotted out by ing that each one receiving the letter be stated in human language; otherwise blotting out the account of it, any more write to two friends requesting them to it could be heard by the ear. It cannot be than throwing my Bible into the fire pray for a certain object. It asks that framed in human thought; otherwise it abolishes the Word of God. There was the ball be kept -rolling till the thousand could enter into the heart of man. Truth a time when all the Bibles that could be number is reached. The one from Aus- can he revealed to man only by the gift found were destroyed ; but the Word of tralia wished only the one hundred and of the Spirit of truth. God — the truth — remained just the eightieth number. " This then is the message which we same, because truth is God himself ; it Unless we are greatly mistaken, we do have heard of him, and declare unto you, is his life. not believe that the means will justnY that God is light, and in him is no dark- Truth is implanted in the heavens and the end in any such arrangements. N\ ness at all. If we say that we have fel- earth; it fills the stars, and keeps them believe in praying for the work and the lowship with him, and walk in darkness, in their places; it is that by which the workers in all the fields of the world, and we lie, arid do not the truth : but if we plants grow, and the birds build their in giving of our means for the advance- walk in the light, as he is in the light, we nests; it is that by which they know ment of the message, but wo-beliat-that have fellowship one with another, and the how to find their way across the sea. this is a trap -of Satan to-lake- money blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth When Moses broke the tables of stone, from the people, and put it in the wrong us from all sin." x John 1: 5-7. the law was just as steadfast as it was place. It seems to us that at such___. $ Just forget the division of this epistle before. Just so, though arl the record time as this every cent ,Itould -lie---inade into chapters, with which John had noth- of all our sin, even though written with to count in the great work of God in the ing to do. This was a letter, containing the finger of God, were erased, the sin earth, and that there should be no dis- but a few sentences, not so long as we would remain, because the sin is in us. tracting efforts made to draw means from ourselves have sometimes written. At Though the record of our sin were the people to channels where it is not the beginning of the letter he makes graven in the rock, and the rock should used for the work of God. rESIBER 30, 1902 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 9

iVe have been tempted ourselves to try it. To court persecution is not to -suffer persuaded that the compass of your ear mailing- of the kind to raise means for with Christ. Our part is simply to know, must measure it all, regardless of the le needs of our field, where the work and by faith to make sure, our complete probability that there are many octaves moves slowly, and the need is. great, and oneness with Christ, and then, knowing of rich bass and silvery treble that none the people poor, but since the thing has when tribulation conies, that we are par- but celestial beings have ever heard? been condemned., we have not tried it. takers of his sufferings, we must neces- Man is perpetually reminded of the If we are to solicit means, let it be sarily rejoice.— Present Truth. depths and heights beyond him, and of brought into the treasury of the Lord. necessity feels the unknown continually Let us see: it costs two cents for the coming into close contact with the man to start the letter. The second man Reverence for the House of God known. We are finite beings, constantly is requested to write two letters to two FLORENCE WELTY aware of our ignorance and insufficiency, friends, asking them each to do the same, " YE shall keep my sabbaths, and rev- and yet glorying in the grandeur and and so on. It costs the second man four erence my sanctuary : I am' the Lord." beauty of all that is around us and cents to write the two letters. These In Leviticus, the book of the law, I read within the range of our comprehension. two friends who receive the two letters these words. What could be more fitting than that we are to write to two friends each, and it Is reverence a necessary element in revere the Author of all things, and not costs them eight cents to do the writing. our characters, or is it but a pleasing only in his sanctuary, but everywhere These four who receive the four letters sentiment? It cannot be the latter, or and all the time? If it seems difficult from the two friends are to write two we should not be enjoined so emphat- to do this, go to work for him, contemn letters each, and it costs them si*teen ically to exercise it. Men whose lives plate his character; and through behold- cents to pay the postage, and so on, are not given to piety are apt to call it ing him and co-operating with him, you doubling each time the number of the weakness, and attribute it to mere super- will grow into this blessed state of rev- letter is increased. stition; and thus many close their eyes to erence. The highest reverence comes Below we have a table showing the that which should be closely examined, not by idle contemplation, but by earnest cost of postage to the number of thirty. being willfully blind, choosing delusion obedience and sincere co-operation with We do not have the time to compute the in preference to truth. But true rever- God in his work. cost any further, and would not take the ence is an evidence of power rather than Now let us see where we are particu- time for this if it were not for the pur- of weakness; of true knowledge of the larly admonished to be reverent. "When pose of getting right ourselves in the existence of the unknown (if not com- I consider thy heavens, the work of thy matter, or getting some one else right. prehended in every detail) rather than fingers, the moon and the stars, which Please study the table below, and see if a fancied delusion or mere superstition. thou hast ordained; what is man, that the application is right, and then answer What opinion could you have of a man thou art mindful of him? and the son the questions: who had no respect for principles too of man, that thou visitest him? " For The Letter Chain deep,. too profound, for him to under- many centuries God dwelt among his .02 stand? Would not this very attitude people by the symbol of his presence, and 2 .04 declare his weakness? Phillips Brooks he says that " where two or three are 3 .o8 has said, and well said too, that " irrev- gathered together in my name, there am 4 .16 erence everywhere is blindness, and not I in the midst of them." Since the days of the first sanctuary in the wilderness, 5 .32 sight. It is the stare which is bold 6 .64 because it believes in its heart that there God has met his people in his house, which is called the " house of prayer 7 1.28 is nothing which its insolent intelligence 8 2.56 may not fathom, and so which finds for all people." The psalmist says, " Lord, I have loVed the habitation of 9 5.12 only what it looks for, and makes the 10 10.24 world as shallow as it ignorantly dreams thy house, and the place where thine honor dwelleth." " Send out thy light I I 20.48 the world to be." How sad that just 12 40.96 such characters exist, and sometimes and thy truth: let them lead me; let 13 81.92 within the church of Christ! them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles," " to behold the 14 163.84 What would you think of a little 15 327.68 child, who, standing on the sandy beach, beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his 16 655.36 with the waves laving his dimpled feet, temple." There we find his presence, 17 1,310.72 and the straying winds playing hide and and as Joshua was commanded to loose 18 2,621.44 seek in his golden hair, would shake his his shoe to show his reverence for holy 19 5,242.88 tiny fist at the approaching breakers, and ground, so we are commanded to con- 20 10,485.76 mock in skeptical and careless indif- duct 'ourselves with sacred composure 21 20,971.52 ference at the coming hurricane? Now when we come into his presence. " Keep 22 41,943.04 there are those who, being as ignorant thy foot when thou goest to the house 23 83,886.08 as the child, though boasting of mature of God, and be more ready to hear, than 24 167,772.16 years, will dare to stand in the very to give the sacrifice of fools: for they 25 335,544.32 presence of " him that made heaven, and consider not that they do evil. . Be not 26 671,088.64 earth, and the sea, and the fountains of rash with thy mouth, and let not thine 27 1,342,177.28 waters," and yet fail to recognize his heart be hasty • to utter anything before 28 2,684,354.56 almighty power, acting as carelessly and God: for God is in heaven, and thou 29 5,368,709.12 as blindly as though they were not en- upon earth : therefore let thy words be few." 30 10,737,418.24 dowed with reason, and could not be expected to respond to the claims of the Permit me to present to your minds $21,474,836.46 God who made them. two pictures. Please consider the first It is said that figures never lie. We Reverence modestly veils its face one just long enough to make you as would like our wise men and mathema- from that which it does not know, and sorrowful as it. made me, and may the ticians to go over the matter carefully obediently waits. second, in marked contrast, for all time and answer the questions, Is it true? We never can do any work, and do be your inspiration. In one of our large and, Does it pay ? it " heartily, as to the Lord," without cities, I once visited two churches. One feeling the existence of deeper and more beautiful Sabbath morning I made the distant springs, which we as yet are un- first visit, which was to a church whose ALTHOUGH. happiness comes only able to comprehend. Do the seven people professed to revere the command- through suffering, we are not to go out octaves of the piano complete the mus- ments. I naturally expected much from of our way to seek it. We are not to ical scale of the universe? And are you such a church. Their doctrine being so make trouble for ourselves. There is no sound, I expected some outward expres- virtue in making a martyr of one's self. u* Paper read before the Northeastern Colorado S. S. sion of this inward perfection, some There is trouble enough without making convention, July 19. outward sign of this inward grace. As 10 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD SEPTEMBER 30, 1902

I entered, whispering and even chatting to seek to obey the plain commands of Having given God his place and taken aloud greeted my ear. Men and women God with respect to our conduct in his our own, we are in a position to accept in groups were talking, and children sanctuary, and to encourage others to and appreciate the standing we have in were running to and fro. Fathers and unite with me in bringing about a radi- Jesus. The only begotten Son of the mothers, with conscience reproving them, cal change of demeanor among our com- Father is his chiefest delight, and he were casting uneasy glances around the municants. Why do we not more must be our chief delight also. In him room and toward the door, because their generally follow our Guidebook? Both dwells all fullness. Through, him we are children were off somewhere in the yard the Bible and the Testimonies are filled emboldened to enter the very presence or the vestibule. Every time the door with plain instruction. The facts are of the Father. To do this is the great opened to admit a worshiper, some one these: the enemy of all righteousness is object of fellowship, and from it comes made himself offensive by an unwar- the god of Babel, or confusion. He seeks every good and perfect spiritual gift. In ranted stare. In other words, ill-man- constantly to divert our minds from this way Christ is formed within us. nered noise and confusion reigned the true purpose of our meeting. He de- And God, seeing Christ in us, and us' supreme just a few moments before the sires nothing more than to cheat us out covered with Christ, finds his delight service began. As I think of it now, of the blessing for which we came. in us. I fancy that the angels from the glorious In the olden time every devoted thing Christ thus is in us as a power, his courts of heaven turned away in sor- was called " most holy " when dedicated presence is with us as a person, and, row. to God. Was your church building thus mystery of mysteries, his likeness be- The second visit was made on Sunday dedicated? Do you realize that you are comes wrought in us. He becomes morning, in company with the lovely in the actual presence of the King of formed in us in such a way that we par- young woman who had gone with me on kings when you enter his courts? Think take of his nature, and his image begins the first visit to my church, and now, out of the respect that earthly sovereigns to shine out in us. This is the great and of courtesy, I accompanied her. As we demand, and then compare them with blessed work that results from fellowship, entered the large edifice, a holy calm God. Do your eyes of faith see him who and by means of fellowship is carried on seemed to rest upon the assembled peo- is invisible? If so, order and quietness day by day. So certain is this that it is ple. The aisles and vestibules were will control everything, and we shall worthy of all acceptation. God loves the clear, and almost perfect silence reigned. endure as seeing him who is invisible. image of his Son. He longs to see it Families, parents with their children, " For who in the heaven can be com- everywhere. He delights to reproduce occupied nearly every pew. If one child pared unto the Lord? . . . God is greatly it in us. And this gracious work may be was missing from his accustomed place to be feared in the assembly of the counted on so far as we wait on God beside his father, nearly every one saints, and to be had in reverence of all and have fellowship with him. noticed it, and wondered if he were them that are about him." This is the special work of the Holy sick. I was at once filled with the spirit Even an outward manifestation of Spirit. He loves to take the things of of prayer on entering such a quiet, reverence has this virtue: it leads to a Christ and make them known to us. He orderly place of worship. By and by genuine regard for things sacred. We does not speak of himself. He glorifies the stillness of that holy hush was cannot afford to disregard even the least Jesus. As we wait before God, the Spirit broken by the singing of that beautiful of God's requirements. And now let us takes these things of Christ, and minis- old hymn of Watt's, which opens with all, old and young, say with the sweet ters them unto us. Let every approach these words: — singer of Israel, But as for me, I to God be marked by the definite attitude " With reverence let the saints appear, will come into thy house in the multi- of self-surrender and a worshipful ex- And bow before the Lord; tude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will alting of the Heavenly Father, and to His high commands with reverence I worship toward thy holy temple." the confidence of faith will be given the hear, presence and power of the Holy Spirit, And tremble at his word. taking the things and the image of Christ Fellowship with God and revealing them to and in us.— Se- " Blest are the souls that find a place Within the temple of thy grace. EVERYTHING in the spiritual life de- lected. There they behold thy gentle ways, pends upon the quality of our fellowship And seek thy face and learn thy with God. All real life comes from God, THE most effectual way to manifest praise." and is dependent upon him for its suste- gratitude to God is to help some of the And then the minister, filled with godly nance. The air and the light of the sun great benevolent causes or institutions, fear, invoked the Lord's blessing. After are not more necessary to the healthful or to relieve the suffering of some of this followed a discourse that seemed life of any one than is this vital com- his needy children. The prayers of the to tra ,sport us to the very gates of para- munication between God and myself to priest and the Levite weighed not one- dise. At the conclusion of the service, the life of my soul. The air of yesterday thousandth as much on the scale of God's to the soft and melting strains of the will not do for to-day. The manna of estimate of gratitude as did the act of organ, after having quietly greeted our yesterday becomes corrupt. Fresh infu- the good Samaritan. Long prayers, elo- friends and neighbors, we departed to sions of life must be secured for the quent sermons, and loud speeches on our respective homes. As we walked soul by a daily waiting upon God. Take thanksgiving day must be supplemented home together, my companion said to time to meet God. with real acts of kindness and relief- me, " I can commune with my Maker in In all successful fellowship with God giving to his suffering children, if they the stillness of that heavenly place. I two things are necessary: I must set are to count for anything in our Heav- am sorry that it is so, but I do not feel God in his proper place, and I must take enly Father's book of reckoning. A kind word spoken, a show of sympathy with at home in your church." 0 how I my own proper place. Everything de- felt the truth of her words, and how pends upon my humbly giving God his the bereaved, a visit paid to some one afflicted in body, the directing of the they stung, when I so longed to see her proper place. He is the chief, the only thought of one far from God to the sin- unite with us ! I could not blame her, one. He is the excluder of all else. Let fulness of sin and the goodness and 0, no! for her orderly, reverent nature the heart say to itself that God is. God mercy of God,—these are the tha demanded just such a place in which to is near. God is, longing to communicate offetings which are in the sight of worship; but I was obliged to submit himself to me. He longs to make him- " of great price." — Religious Telescope. to the thoughtlessness of others, while self known to me. The soul must take long years of custom had established time to realize this precious fact. This for her the favorable and much-to-be- being assured, the attitude of the sup- " ALL, that God has to give he gives to coveted conditions. pliant's heart becomes clear. Blessed- those who do all that he gives them to do. What were her conclusions? I will ness for the creature consists in a recog- Obedience shows men to be in harmony leave you to guess; but of my resolutions nition of his nothingness. This is only with the order of God, and in that order I will speak more at length. I deter- emphasized by the consciousness that we and harmony are to be found perfect mined from that hour to resist this evil are all sinful creatures. Self-abasement peace and strength and joy. Obedience tendency by both precept and example, is the attitude of victory. is the supreme law of all life." SEPTEMBER 30, 1902 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 11

success which is his to-day. But he de- sired to follow Christ. And there is no such thing as a lazy Christian. He whose mental qualifications, when a mere child, were sufficient to confound the learned doctors and lawyers of his time, was also his father's helpful as- sistant at the carpenter's bench. And he just as surely leads his followers into the domain of physical exercise as into Life employee performs his tasks with equal the realm of mental effort. LET me but live my life from year to faithfulness when the employer's back Time rolled on, and a gradual change year is turned; for he realizes that there is came into the life of that young man. With forward face and unreluctant One who takes knowledge of every de- Instead of permitting himself to be a soul, tail, and that he must surely meet his burden, he seemed to make it a matter Not hastening to, nor turning from, the life record by and by. It is a pleasure goal; of conscience to help lift the burdens of for such a worker to be accommodating, others wherever he might be; to be Not mourning for the things that dis- to lend a hand to help others whenever thoughtful of the comfort of others appear opportunity is offered. How different is under all circumstances. God helped In the dim past, nor holding back in fear his life-work from that of him who him in his efforts to overcome, and From what the future veils; but with aims to do only that which is required to-day he is an earliest worker for the a whole of him; who circumscribes his sphere Master. And happy heart, that pays its toll of usefulness to such an extent that he The true Christian is the only one To Youth and Age, and travels on with fails to realize the blessing gained in who ever really succeeds in life and cheer. helping some poor soul who is overbur- he always succeeds. For in following So let the way wind up the hill or down; dened, or in putting forth an extra ef- Christ, all selfishness and slothfulness Though rough or smooth, the journey fort now and then to further the inter- are abandoned, and he lives to labor will be joy ; ests of the institution in which he is for the good of others. He does not Still seeking what I sought when but employed. He seems to excuse his lack slight the unexpected opportunity for a boy, of interest by saying to himself, " That doing good. It may require time that New friendship, high adventure, and a is not my job; " and to have entered might be devoted to his own selfish in- crown, the work more for the benefits which terests. It may require some expendi- I shall grow old, but never lose life's he hopes to receive than for the pur- zest, ture of muscular energy. It may, in Because the road's last turn will be the pose of becoming a blessing to the fact, be something that is very distaste- best. world. ful to his natural heart. But instead of — Henry Van Dyke. " But," says one, " people are not all seeking consolation in the thought, constituted alike." Very true. But That is not my job," and employing his time for his own selfish interests, That Is Not My Job" whether one's talents be few or many, the great Giver requires equal faithful- he hails it as a precious privilege to get MRS. M. A. LOPER ness on the part of every soul. And in a little extra time for the Master, SUPPOSE it is not your job. Perhaps that individual who possesses ten talents as it were, and he does it, whether he the proper performance of it, if you are along with a slothful constitution, has feels like it or not; and he receives a out of employment, may help you to something to overcome in order that blessing in so doing. secure a job of your own. In these his record may be equal to that of him The Christian is in the world for days when so many are seeking employ- who possesses but one talent, but who service. He does not remain idle sim- ment, those standing at the head of our is faithful in the little work which he ply because he cannot be favored with different institutions are the recipients is able to accomplish. It is not the such work as might, perhaps, be most of numerous requests for positions, ac- amount of money one puts upon the agreeable. If he does not find a va- companied, perhaps, with recommenda- contribution plate that counts, but the cancy where he wants it, he accepts tions from those who may have an in- amount of sacrifice that goes with it. what he can get, knowing that — fluence in securing for them the desired So it is not the number of talents one " The heights by great men reached and employment. And many times people possesses which tells, but the faithful- kept have been accepted on these recommen- ness with which those talents are em- Were not attained by sudden flight; dations only to prove a disappointment ployed for the bettering of mankind. But they, while their companion' slept, to their employers, their recommenda- Selfishness and slothfulness the sen- Were upward toiling in the night." tions having been obtained, perhaps, timent, " That is not my job " — keep The Christian prefers humble service through friendship, through sympathy, many talented people from ever reach- to idleness, knowing that it is better or merely because they were solicited, ing success in any department of work. to begin below the position lie desires, when it may be the writers knew noth- But God will help any individual to and by persevering faithfulness work ing of the individual's qualifications ex- overcome these besetments who will co- up to it, than to secure some high posi- cept in a general way. operate with him in the undertaking. tion at the start, and not be able to The best recommendation one can How well I recall a youth who was maintain it. And he performs his tasks, possibly have is good, faithful service; permitted to share the comforts of a however menial, so cheerfully and so and any individual who is willing to private home during a protracted period thoroughly that in time his services are put forth the efforts necessary to obtain while pursuing a college course. He considered indispensable; and it is not the enviable reputation of a conscien- was talented, and fond of books; and surprising that he should receive pro- tious, energetic worker, will make a consequently his reputation as a student motion. success of life against all odds. He was very commendable. But to him it Some time ago I heard a lecture to will neither shrink at the ' Slough. of was a much more agreeable task to mas- boys and girls, in which instructive les- Despond, nor give heed to the lions in ter his lessons than it was to mas- sons were drawn from the flowers. The the way; for he knows that persever- ter the odd chores that fell to his lot weak foxtail, for instance, bows its ance in the right direction will conquer by way of compensating for his board. head, and sways in every passing every difficulty. The mental duties were much more breeze, while the stately blue grass An army of workers is employed in easily seen and undertaken than were simply nods, and regains its upright carrying on the details of business at those which called for muscular energy. position, the difference being due to the the present time; but even among the And had that youth pursued the course fact that the blue grass grows more professed followers of Christ all are which his natural make-up indicated, sand into its structure. The Christian not faithful to duty. The conscientious he surely never would have realized the appreciates the privilege of growing 12 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD SEPTEMBER 30, 1902

more sand into his structure — of ac- vidual, the warmer proportionately visions of floating kidneys. suspended by quiring that strength of character which should be the clothing. Nature makes delicate nerves and blood vessels, seek- will fit him to resist the winds of temp- this provision in the finer and closer ing a resting place; a liver indented and tation, and withstand the power of dis- feathers and furs with which she clothes misshapen, sometimes a portion nearly couragement, and to fill successfully any the smaller animals. Those who are constricted off from the rest; a 'stom- position to which God may call him. ill, whose vital forces are weakened, and ach from two to seven inches below its " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, the aged, have not as large a capacity normal position; a transverse colon sag- do it with thy might." for heat production as those in health ging and relaxed, the small bowel or middle age, and hence cannot bear as crowded down; the chest walls con- long-continued exposure to cold. The tracted, the breath of life excluded The Requisites of Clothing occupation, active or sedentary, also in- from the lower part of the lungs; the LILLIAN ESHELMAN, M. D. fluences the amount of heat elimination whole internal anatomy distorted, dis- HEALTH has been defined as perfect and heat production. A man of seden- placed, deformed. The picture is not circulation in a sound organism. The tary habits needs to dress more carefully overdrawn; for we can find it all, and blood, besides being the great healer than an active laborer. more, in the " beautifully formed " ( ?) which constantly bathes every cell of The Functions of the Skin figure so smoothly incased in its silken the body, bringing nutrition and oxygen Such materials should be selected as draperies which seek to cover a multi- and gathering up the waste products to will least interfere with the normal tude of evils. be eliminated, fulfills another important function of the skin. Evaporation of Unless an organ has absolute free- function as a distributor of heat. No the insensible perspiration must be fa dom, its vital activities are lessened, its matter what the temperature of the ex- vored, and not enough clothing worn to blood supply hindered, its displacement ternal world, the human body must be induce sensible perspiration; the ma- assured,assured, and and its its function function impaired.impaired. kept at a uniform temperature of about terial should be porous and of light Perfect health depends upon perfect 98.4 degrees. This is accomplished, first, weight. A thin mesh of linen, silk, or circulation in a sound organism. The by the stimulation of nerves ending in cotton worn next to the body allows requisites of clothing demand an ob- the skin, which carry the impression to evaporation, and is easily washed and servance of natural law in the life of nerve centers when more heat is needed; renewed daily; over this may be worn the organism. Think first of this. second, by impressions sent from the soft flannel of sufficient weight to Right dressing is an art, but every true nerve centers to the tissues to increase maintain warmth. art is founded upon science.— Good oxidation and the generation of heat; The Distribution of the Blood Supply Health. third, by the elimination of surplus heat The extremities, being remote from through the skin by means of perspira- the vital organs, and having a large Beginnings of Intemperance tion and evaporation; fourth, by means blood supply with a large eliminating A. B. OLSEN, M. D. of the blood the heat is carried from the surface, need to be clothed even more MANY say that the first glass is the thermogenic, or heat-producing, tissues warmly than the trunk of the body, in beginning of intemperate habits, but in to the external surface. In health, the order that an undue amount of heat may the majority of cases this is not so. You external temperature of the body is ten not be lost, or that the blood vessels of must go back beyond that first glass, and or twelve degrees below that of the in- the extremities, being contracted by rea- inquire, What was it that made the ternal organs; and as the blood makes son of the cold, do not offer such an man or boy want that first glass? And the circuit of the body twice every min- amount of resistance as to throw undue you will find, in many cases, that the ute, it has much to do with maintain labor upon the heart. The feet are one appetite for liquor had already been ing the balance of the heat produced by of the most important reflex areas of formed before the first glass of wine or the oxidation of the nutritious sub- the body. They are connected and inti- beer was taken. Some of us have stances and the elimination of heat by mately related by reflex nerve rout, s thought, perhaps, that alcoholic liquors evaporation from the skin. with various portions of the sympathetic are the only stimulants; but there are In the mild tropical countries, the nervous system which influence the others; there are foods that have stimu- body is capable of maintaining the nor- brain, the throat, lungs, kidneys, stom- lating effects 'on the body, and tend to mal temperature without the aid of ach, bowels, and other abdominal or- develop in children, as well as in adults, clothing, and it is among the savage gans. If the feet feel the impression an appetite for something stronger. Rich tribes that we find the most perfectly of cold and dampness through thin- foods, often eaten with a large amount developed physiques. The children of -soled shoes sufficiently to contract the of condiments, produce an evil effect on the frigid zone carefully conserve the blood vessels supplying them, the same the body, and create a desire for some- heat, normally thrown off by the skin, impression is carried to the organs re- thing stronger. Flesh meats of all kinds by muffling themselves in impervious flexly related to them. The blood ves- are stimulating. Thus in many cases the hides. In the temperate zone, that great sels of these organs, especially the arte- appetite for strong drink has been formed belt of civilization, clothing is a neces- rioles, contract, and if the exposure to in a temperate home where no alcoholic sity, and should be thoughtfully and in- cold is long continued, venous blood col- liquors were used. This is an important telligently iselected, that being chosen lects, until a state of passive congestion question, and should receive much at- which will best permit and promote the results, hindering the function of the tention. The children and youth ought vital processes of the organism with the organ thus affected, and if many times to have the most wholesome food, simply least incumbrances and inconveniences repeated, this condition becomes chronic. prepared and affording ample nourish- of the vital economy, a department of Thus colds, indigestion, " kidney trou- ment. the subject of dress to which fashion bles," and the like are fostered. and custom have long failed to give Absolute Freedom of Every Organ Must A Swarm of Bees prominence, but which is of vital im- Be Insured portance to those who wish to maintain BE quick in obeying. be loving, be true; If the feet are cramped and irritated Be mindful of manners in all that you health, especially during the cold sea- by ill-fitting shoes or hoots, the whole do; son. body suffers through the reflex irrita- Be cheerful, be helpful, be gentle, be The primary factor in the study of tion of the sympathetic nervous system. kind; the requisites of clothing is the needs Hot, high, tight, stiff collars are de- Before in all right ways; in wrong ways of the body; this includes several con- stroying the beautiful curves of the behind; siderations. neck for our whole civilized race, and Be earnest, be honest, be useful, be pure; The Capacity of the Body for Heat Pro- are also contributing largely to the cause Be good, and your happiness then will be sure. duction and Heat Elimination of husky voices. The smaller the body, the greater is If we would but turn an anatomist's the proportion of eliminating surface as eye upon a corseted figure, or even upon BE definite in your appeals to God. compared to the amount of heat-produc- a person who likes to feel a snug ad- See clearly what you do want, and ask ing tissue; hence the smaller the indi- justment of her clothing, we should see for it.— Baptist Union.

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they know it not. 0 that we for whom the truth has done so much would so love and so appreciate it that our whole desire and effort would go out to the suffering ones of earth who know it not!

Religion in the Philippine Islands Foods in Brazil from sugar cane, one sees very many Rev. Curtin G. Roop, in The Missionary W. H. THURSTON most pitiable cases of the terrible ele- Review of the World phantiasis. IN almost every country one finds a THE history and state of religion in But one can live in Brazil and fare national dish. In Brazil it is rice, beans, the Philippines is so identified with the sumptuously. A great many vegetables and farina. Rice grows there with but history and state of the races there found little cultivation, as do beans also, but are grown the year round, almost all, in that an account of the former involves fact, except cabbage, which is abundant large quantities of rice are also im- an account of the latter. And in order ported. The rice is cooked with fat— in the cool season. Sweet potatoes are to be at all definite in this required eth- plentiful, large, and well flavored. generally lard— in such a way that every nographical treatment of the islands, we kernel is whole, dry, and mealy, and the A great deal of macaroni is made, and must also point out the general geo- beans are thoroughly boiled, and served it is cheap. Fruits are abundant, and graphical features. The archipelago with plenty of broth. These two are their name is legion. Some varieties are stretches northwest and southeast, from mixed together on the plate, and then on the market the year round, while twenty-one degrees to four degrees forty- five seconds north latitude; that is, from the latitude of the southernmost point of Cuba, one thousand one hun- dred miles southward. In extent the archipelago is a little more than equal to our own country from Maine to the Po- tomac, excluding Pennsylvania. The ac- tual land area is estimated at fifty-two thousand five hundred square miles— not far from that of Florida or Arkan- sas. The islands are hundreds in num- ber. I shall speak of but two by name. The first is Luzon, most important and northernmost, practically the only part of the group with which the Americans have had to do thus far. From Luzon, islands of greater or less size stretch southward to Mindanao, the second lar- gest in the group. From Mindanao southward extends the subordinate group of the Sulu, belonging to the Philippines and reaching to Borneo. The relation between the history and state of the re- ligions and the ethnography and geog- FISH MARKET IN RIO DE JANEIRO raphy of the archipelago will appear sprinkled with farina, and eaten with others come in their season; but as soon throughout our treatment. gusto. Every variety and color of beans as one or more varieties are gone, others Scanty burial relics are found, indi- can be found in the cities, as well as dif- take their places. Pineapples are large, cating a prehistoric pre-Malay race. ferent varieties. of lentils and peas. juicy, and abundant from November un- These relics bear Chinese and Japanese Black beans, however, are the general til February. Watermelons and musk- resemblances, and, as compared with the favorites, though in some states a small melons grow to enormous size, and in most original surviving tribes of to-day, brown bean supersedes them. some parts are very plentiful. Bananas indicate a more advanced race. Such Farina is made from' the mandioca can be had all the year very cheap, while a race is supposed by some to have occu- root, which is extensively grown. This the greater part'of the year one can buy pied a Malay continent of prehistoric root grows to quite a length, being some- one hundred large, juicy oranges for times, now submerged, and to have been times as long as one's arm and eight or even less than the price of a dozen in a considerably developed people. No 'ten inches in circumference. The flesh this country. Nuts are no dearer than traces, however, indicating the religion is pure white, and when boiled, much in the United States, while walnuts and of these pre-Malays in the Philippines resembles the Irish potato. The natives peanuts are even cheaper. are found, except that the burial relics grate the 'uncooked root, or grind it, Corn is the only grain which can be are such as show a belief in continuance and then subject it to heat, until it is successfully raised in that warm coun- of a life subject to want of food after thoroughly dried, and this is their much- try; but one does not need such a variety death, and indicate such reverence as to loved farina, which one finds on the of grains when fruits, legumes, and suggest worship of the dead; especially tables of rich and poor, high and low, nuts, as well as vegetables, are so plenti- is this seen in the fact that these relics alike. Of course it is only a raw starch, ful all the year. But, as is the case in seem to have been very sacredly — that and plays much mischief with the di- all this sad old world, the natives have is, superstitiously guarded from dis- gestive organs. However, it is not as perverted the bounties of nature, until turbance. dreadful as the dry salted beef which the diet is far from being pure, simple, Aboriginal Religion they use to a great extent, even eating and natural, as our loving Father de- Of the people now surviving, the it raw or steeped in vinegar. Its appear- signed it should be; and the great need Aetas, or Negritos, are considered to ance is very repulsive to a foreigner as of that great land is for patient, loving have been the aborigines of the archipel- it. hangs in great slices in all the grocery hearts to go among the people, live with ago. They are a small, black race, in shops; but the native feels that he is an them, and show them how to live. As height about four feet ten inches. They object of charity when he cannot get they leave the stimulants and coarse, are spiritless and cowardly, and of a money to buy his came secca, as he calls fiery diets, their warm, impulsive na- very low mentality. They climb trees it. From its use and the constant drink- tures can he directed to the Desire of like monkeys, swiftly chase the deer ing of their fiery paraty, a whisky made nations, for whom they also long, though afoot, have voices similar to the voices 14 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD SEPTEMBER 30, 1902 of monkeys, herd together in fifties and Proceeding southward, we next men- down the straw roof from over the fetish, sixties, and, in order to protect them- tion the Igorrotes. They are scattered and go their way, and the object is for- selves from the scourge of fleas, sleep over a considerable part of Luzon. As gotten. From all .that has been said, I scattered about in ashes. One writer to their religion, the most noticeable conclude that the Tinguianes had origi- says of them: " Their religion seems to thing distinguishing them seems to be nally a sort of fetishism and, perhaps, be a kind of cosmolatry and spirit wor- that they are utterly impervious to ancestor worship. ship. Anything which for the time be- Christianity — at least, to Spanish Cath- Coming on farther south in the island ing, in their imagination, has a super- olic Christianity. The answer one of of Luzon, we arrive among the Taga- natural appearance is deified. They them made to a priest who was trying to logs (Tagalas, Tagals). They are at have profound respect for their dead." teach him Christianity, and to explain to present inhabitants of Manila and the Another writer says of these aboriginal him the marvelous life of St. Augustine, adjacent territory. They are Malays Negritos: " They neither worship sun was characteristic of the tribe when he with a considerable blending of Chinese nor stars, nor bow before permanent said, " No colored man ever became a and Japanese --- for it is to be borne in idols, but adore for the day any rock or white man's saint." In the religion that mind that the Chinese and Japanese have tree trunk in which they trace a resem- never canonized the colored man the Ig- been on the islands from time imme- blance to an animal. They have great orrotes desired no "part nor lot." morial. The Tagalogs are at present respect for the aged and the dead. For The Tinguianes are next in approxi- the most advanced people of the islands, years after the decease of one of them mately geographical order southward. and have been Christian for about live they place betel-nuts upon the grave, It is concluded from physical resem- hundred years. Consequently their origi- above which the deceased's bows and ar- rows are hung." Every night, so they believe, he quits his grave to go hunting. They have no funeral ceremony, but sim- ply lay the corpse at full length in the grave, and cover it with earth. When one is afflicted with a malady deemed in- curable, or has been smitten with a poi- soned arrow, they bury him alive. In view of their high regard for the dead, and their reverence for old age, which borders toward that state, it is reason- able to suppose that they consider the fatally wounded to be candidates for the awe-inspiring after-state, and there- fore to be dismissed from the midst of the living at once by immediate consign- ment to the grave. One writer says of their religion, that it seems to be, in- deed, a kind of ancestor worship. Sum- ming up, it would seem that these abo- riginal Negritos, under the influence of a sort of animism, deified natural ob- jects (trees. stones, etc.), and worshiped them, and that they also accorded their dead such awe and regard as with them was equivalent to worship. These aborigines are now found only in the interior of the islands among the A VILLAGF, IN THE PHILIPPINES mountains, whither they were driven by blances that this tribe is descended from nal religion can be learned only from the incoming Malays. They number the shipwrecked Japanese who sought the very earliest accounts we have of about twenty thousand (some say only refuge in the' mountains. One writer the islands, and from surmises on their ten thousand), and are destined to dis- says: " They are pagans, but have no close similarity to surrounding tribes, appear entirely. temples. Their gods are hidden in the which stretch back into the interior, and The Malay Period mountain cavities. They believe in the still retain, to some extent, their prime- The Malays, at a time unknown, came efficiency of prayer for the supply of val customs. to these islands, probably from Malaysia. their material wants. Hence if there be Such a tribe are the adjoining Bicols, Long before Spain's arrival they had too great an abundance of rain, or too closely related to the Tagalogs in race driven the Negritos back, and were them- little of it, or an epidemic disease rag- and language. Such also are the Bi- selves occupants of the coasts and of ing, or any calamity affecting the com- sayans (Visayans), stretching still far- considerable territory inland perhaps munity in general, the anitos (images) ther south, who, with the Tagalogs (and most of the territory. What the religion are exhorted." They highly regard their Bicols), will probably, on account of of these people was we of course can dead. According to one writer, they superior intelligence, ultimately absorb only partially gather, as we find it spoken roast them into a dry state, and bury all the other tribes in the northern half of by the first and later visitors to the them (generally beneath their dwelling, of the archipelago. One writer says of islands, and as we find it illustrated in in a sort of well) in niches, each person the Bicols that they believed in good and the more or less undomesticated tribes in a niche, above his father, They be- evil spirits, witches, circumcision, divi- of to-day. Let us go to the north and lieve in the existence of a soul, and that nation by the stars. Of the Bisayans we proceed southward. it detaches itself at death, and remains have gathered much more. It is evident The Gaddanes are a fierce tribe in the with the family. They worship neither that they never had temples, but each north of Luzon, whose conquest has sun, moon, nor stars. When a chief man performed his religious ceremony in never been attempted, of whose habits sees a stone, tree, or any natural object his hut. Some huts may possibly have something is written, but of whose re- of peculiar shape (as, for instance, the been used as clan meeting-places — as ligion I found nothing, save at the sea- shape of a cow or buffalo), he tells it were, temples. They prayed to par- son of the year when the tree popularly the people of his village, and they go ticular gods called " devotes" (anitos known to the Spanish as the " fire tree " forth to worship it. They may, for in- among the Tagalogs), and had one de- bears its fire — red blossoms — these stance, make a straw shelter over the vote to govern the sea, and another to people celebrate their religious feasts, object worshiped, and sacrifice a pig. watch over the children and house. One and gather scalps and trophies of war. After worshiping and feasting, they burn writer says that they sacrificed to devote SEPTEMBER 30, 1902 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 15

as one who appeared to be in rebellion forms, and forms of savage animals, so and the only approach to priests was a against the deity. A true interpretation that they feared and trembled at him, species of sorcerers and witches. Belief would probably be that they sacrificed and adored him, usually by making fig- in the immortality of the soul seems to to devata as if to deity in hostile stage ures of those forms, which they some- have been universal. or anger. Hell was called " solad," times kept in caverns and special houses, (To be concluded) heaven "ologan." Souls of the departed where they offered perfumes and sweet go to a mountain in the Province of smells and food and drink." The Otou; called "niedias," where they are " devil " of which De Morga thus speaks Mission Notes entertained and served. Alongside of of being worshiped was evidently a god A MISSIONARY in West Central Africa the devatas, to which they sacrificed and or gods, since he speaks of their repre- reports that ‘six native women, after prayed, they placed their deceased grand- sentations of him by the "anitos," which hearing of the woman's work in other fathers and great-grandfathers. Also is the Tagalog name for images of their lands, came voluntarily to offer their they reckoned among the gods all who gods. " Others," he says, " worshiped services and be instructed. They began came to death by the sword, lightning, the sun and moon, making feasts and in a very simple way — reading the Bi- or crocodile, believing that such went to getting drunk. Some adored a mountain ble to their visitors, taking it when they heaven on a bow. They buried their bird marked with yellow, which they went to other villages and when visit- dead in coffins hewed out, fitting closely, called batala' (bathaba being the Ta- ing the sick. Once a month the mis- so that there should be no unoccupied gal name for God the Creator in con- sionary holds a meeting with them, to space requiring to be filled by the death tradiction to idols, which are called ani- hear reports and for prayer and council. of additional members of the family. tos and lic-has, or statues). In general Trinkets were buried along, and a jar they reverenced and adored the cayman, ALTHOUGH there are but few mission- of 6-Cc and one of water were placed by. a mammoth crocodile of the rivers, fall- aries who have direct access to the Mos- If distinguished slaves were killed and ing upon their knees wherever they saw lems in the Turkish empire, the Word buried for. attendance in the land of spir- it, and raising their hands to it, under of God reaches many of them. A col- its, tie coffins were placed in a grotto, the notion that by this it would be ap- porteur in Albania came one day upon or b&leath the house where the treas- peased and withdraw." They • had no a party of seven Moslems sitting to- ures are kept, or on a high rock. The temples; each person made, and for the gether reading the Bible. Last year caves where they were buried were not most part kept, his images, without so- forty-four thousand Bibles were circu- disturbed; they were regarded as the lemnity or' ceremony, in his dwelling. lated in Egypt, where ninety-two per dwelling places of spirits, which espe- There were no priests, if we except a few cent of the population is Moslem. Be- cially 'manifested .themselves by precipi- old men and women (witches and sor- sides that, from one Bible depot there tating storms upon sailors who passed cerers) ; these performed prayers and were sold last year nearly thirteen hun- by and did not reverence them. Sailors ceremonies to their idols for the sick, and dred copies of the Bible to the Sudanese. feared to pass by a burial cave, lest they believed in omens. " To those consulting also should .be drawn after the dead. them they answered a thousand absurdi- AN. English official from Peking was The aged chose to be buried on some ties and lies," says De Morga. He says once asked by a gentleman if he had promontory, where sailors passing by that they were never cannibals, nor did ever witnessed any effects of Chris- should worship them. Especially were they offer human sacrifice. We -have tianity upon the high officials of the those who had been distinguished by learned from other writers, however, that Chinese empire. In reply he said that bravery worshiped. Such were called at least some families of these people he had once asked a high mandarin if " humalagar," which corresponds to the killed human victims to appease their he had ever read the Bible. The man- Latin." manes " namely, deified ghosts dead relatives. " They had little cere- darin went back into an inner room, and of orie .departed. , When a man died, all mony or outward religious institutions, brought out a notebook full of extracts of the village were compelled to keep which fact made them the more suscepti- from the New Testament. He said that silence for a time, varying according to ble to Christian missionaries. They be- he had read the New Testament through, the rank of the deceased, sometimes un- lieved in another life, with rewards for and had copied from it. the things that til the relatives had killed a sufficient those who had been valiant and done he admired most. Then, laying the number of victims to appease the spirit great deeds, and with punishments for book upon the table, he put his hand of the dead. Such a practice would seem those who had done evil; but they did upon it, and said, " If only the people to be nothing more nor less than human not know how nor where this would be." who profess this religion were to live sacrifice made to appease a worshiped Their dead they buried in their own in accordance with its precepts, this spirit, the statement of some writers that houses, and kept the bones, especially religion would spread all over the human sacrifice was never practiced in venerating the skull. world." the islands to the contrary notwithstand- We have now traced the islands from ing. Some say that these Bisayans had the north southward, past their middle, idols, others doubt whether they had to the borders of the Mohammedan rule, A MISSIONARY object lesson is found anything corresponding to a permanent in Mindanao and the adjacent islands. in the presence of King Levankia in image recognized by the whole commu- Mutual hostility has always existed be- London. He is from Barotseland, Af- nity. The alleged idols are described as tween the Moslem southern part and the rica, and a decade ago was the cruel painted, with large teeth (boars' ,tusks), Christian northern part of the archipel- leader of a degraded people. He is large faces, concave or flat back, feet ago. Hence Christian travelers have now a professed Christian, and is la- turned up. One writer gives this peo- not been able to go through the southern boring to advance civilization in his ple's account of the creation as follows: islands so freely, and have not given to tribe. He went to London to attend "A vulture, soaring between heaven and the Western world very complete ac- the coronation of the king and gain earth, was unable to alight (the sea mer- counts of the peoples in the south. We some ideas for governing his people on cilessly rose higher and higher), whereat can only assume, therefore, that the pri- Christian principles. Heaven in anger came to the vulture's meval religion of the south did not dif- rescue by creating islands. The vulture fer materially from the more northern THE Presbyterian Board has made it then alighted, and split a bamboo, out of islands already described. the custom for a number of years to which sprang- man and woman; who then To sum up concerning the pre-Chris- gather at their headquarters in New begat children, and drove them forth tian, pre-Moslem religion of the Philip- York the missionaries under appoint- from home." pines, then, we should say that in gen- ment. Here they may meet one another' De Morga, a Spanish writer and trav- eral it consisted in an amorphous mix- and the different members of the board. eler of the last part of the sixteenth cen- ture of fetish nature worship, spirit wor- A few weeks ago sixty-two were thus tury, says of the Bisayans: " In their ship, and ancestor worship, and perhaps assembled, seven bound for Africa, four- religion they seem to have no notion .of arose in some instances to the plane of teen for China; nine for India, eleven the true God. The devil appeared to the worship of spirits of more general for Japan and Korea, nine for Persia, them in. various horrible and fearful cosmic control. Here were no temples, and four for the Philippines. 16 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD SEPTEMBER 30, 1902

schools on the Sabbath unless they : :.... attend a church school. I hope that , the Lord will find a teacher for St. Gallen, as we shall soon need one. It ._, OR is indeed a pleasure to be in this work. .s. . : .,. 1 enjoy it more and more. We are now having most beautiful weather, and the mountain scenery here is grand. St. Gallen lies very much Help Each Other place to place and see what is being done, and what there is to do, I often higher than Basel. People say that they IF any little word of mine often have a snow shower here in the May make a life the brighter, wonder how long it will be before we can have work started among the dif- middle of summer. If any little song of mine ALBERTINA B. \TOTH. May make a heart the lighter, ferent peoples of India. God help me speak the little word, Narainganj is the center of the jute And take my bit of singing, market of the world. The merchants are Trinidad Greeks, Armenians, and Englishmen. And drop it in some lovely vale SAN FERNANDO.— We have been able To set the echoes ringing. Among them I was able to sell quite a number of our large books, such as " Pa- to secure a good lot for a church build- triarchs arid Prophets," " Great Contro- ing at San Fernando, with funds raised If any little love of mine outside of our regular offerings, and May make a life the sweeter, versy," and " Christ's Object Lessons." I called on one man at Dacca who did have thirty-five dollars pledged toward If any little care of mine materials. We are doing all we can to May make a friend's the fleeter, a great deal of reading. He was also a business man. When I told him my keep our people here selling books, tracts, It any lift of mine may ease etc.. and turning in all, or at least part, The burden of another, business and what I had to show him, he at once spoke of two books that he had of the commission to the building fund, God give me love and care and strength as that is the only way they can raise To help my toiling brother. bought from some one in Calcutta who was selling off his books just before leav- money. We do not intend to begin build- — Selected. ing for England. The two books were ing till we can buy the frame and roof, " Patriarchs and Prophets " and " Daniel which will cost about one hundred dol- British Honduras and the Revelation." He was much lars. A minister told me the other day that THE interest is still good here, and one pleased with the style in which the books were written, and with the thoughts pre- he had decided to cast in his lot with us more has begun to keep the Sabbath. We soon, and was arranging to sever his have a dark, hard field in Central sented. He also bought " Great Contro- versy " and " Christ's Object Lessons," connection here at the end of the month. America. W. G. KNEF.LAND. Brethren Allen and Branster have just and subscribed for our paper. So the started out on a canvassing tour through seeds of truth are scattered, and will find the northern part of the colony. Brother nourishment in some hearts. In due Quebec Conference time they will spring up and hear fruit Branster has been over this territory THE twenty-third session of the Quebec before, and as a result one man is keep- to the glory of God. I am thankful for the privilege of having a part. Conference was held in Waterloo, Que- ing the Sabbath and wishes baptism. Mr. bec, September 4-14. The season being and Mrs. Allen will probably go to Te- There is a great work to be done, but it will soon lie done if we get our hearts an unfavorable one for crops, many were gucigalpa, at the beginning of the new kept from the meeting who otherwise year, as canvassers; and then we must right before God, and work with all our might. W. W. QUANTOCK. would have been present. The Lord came have another man and his wife to enter very near, and blessed his people as they Guatemala, a city of sixty thousand in- sought for forgiveness of sins, and con- habitants. From these two centers they Switzerland secrated themselves to his service. The can work out as opportunities occur, to ST. GALLEN.— Since coining to this first Sabbath was characterized by a enter other cities around them. Through- place, we have held meetings in a public manifest outpouring of the Spirit of the out Spanish Honduras and Guatemala hall four or five times a 'Week, and have Lord, and nearly all present were made there are several large cities that must visited from house to house. This to rejoice in God's goodness. Prior to soon he entered. There are thousands of work, together with our labor for those the Canadian Union Conference, which souls in these cities who have never heard who call on us, keeps us very busy. began the Toth, the local laborers and the the message of truth. We had quite a hard time to get a place writer worked in behalf of the spiritual H. C. GoomRicx. in which to hold meetings, hall rent interests of the meeting. being high, and there being great preju- Elder Wm. Ostrander, formerly of dice against our people. India Michigan, was present, and spoke in be- We are not nursing at present; but half of the work in Montreal. Here is DACCA, MYMENSING11, AND NARAIN- the Lord is with us, and is blessing our a priest-ridden city of three hundred GANf.— These places are situated in feeble efforts. Thursday nights my thousand inhabitants, and only a handful. eastern Bengal. Dacca used to be the husband gives talks, on anatomy, physi- of laborers to accomplish the work neces- capital of this district, and is conse- ology, and hygiene. We have Dr. Kel- sary to be done; but Brother Ostrander quently a noted place. It has only a logg's large chart, and it is indeed a was full of courage and hope, and ex- small European population, but its na- great help in bringing the truth before pressed his conviction that much might tive population is about one hundred the people. It is most surprising how he done the coming year. Brother E. P. thousand. It is quite an educational cen- ignorant people are of the laws of Auger has also come to labor for the ter, and has several colleges. It is said health. Even those who profess to be French people, and the conference will to he next to Calcutta as far as educa- Christians, when we visit them, offer do all it can to advance the work in Mon- tional facilities are concerned. It is one us beer and wines, believing that these treal the coming year. of the many places in India that are wait- are very nourishing. Recently we have Elders Farnsworth, Rickard, and Ellis ing for some one to come and hold up held a temperance talk each week, and gave interesting reports of their work the light of truth in all its glory. Being since beginning these meetings we have this past summer. an educational place, there are a great not been annoyed in this way. Although this is one of the old con- many students there. If some one could Several have begun keeping the Sab- ferences, having been organized over start the work in a place like this and bath since we came here. Six precious twenty-five years ago, the membership follow it up, there is no doubt that much sotils have joined our small company, is small, and the tithe sufficient to pay good could be accomplished among the and many others are interested, among only a very small corps of laborers. With students. whom are six Catholics and one Mor- the Canadian Union Conference head- Mymensingh and Narainganj are not mon, also a whole family of eight per- quarters located in this conference, and so large as Dacca. The Baptists have sons. One member of this family has the addition of laborers which have come quite a work started in this district. already kept two Sabbaths. I never in. we confidently expect to see Quebec About forty miles north of Mymensingh before realized as I do now, what it take advanced steps. The brethren re- they have been working- among an abo- means to give tip a good position and turned to their homes with courage and riginal tribe, in which the caste system look for other work, to lose friends, and hope. does not prevail, and as a result over he regarded as a fanatic. It is quite The following-named officers were thirty companies have been rnised up a step to take in this country. Children elected: President, S. A. Farnsworth; during the last few years. As T go from are almost compelled to go to public Secretary and Treasurer. W. H. Libby ; SEPTEMBER 30, 1902 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD

Executive Committee, S. A. Farnsworth, Some plantations are closing down, ow- " Blessed are ye that sow beside all H. E. Rickard, Wm. Ostrander, J. M. ing to the low price of sugar, and hun- waters, and send forth thither the feet of Ellis, and Wm. Blythe. dreds of laborers are thus thrown out of the ox and the ass." Isa. 32 : 20. " In It was a pleasure to meet these breth- employment, to starve, beg, or steal. I the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be ren for the first time, and as we saw am glad that our God is so great that justified, and shall glory." Isa. 45 : 25. dear souls find liberty in Christ, we were he can make use of even all these terri- M. T. Aut,x.visT. made to rejoice. J. W. COLLIE. ble experiences, to advance the interests Kungsgatart 34, Stockholm. of his kingdom. The interest in our work is more marked just now than at Montana any former time. The church is filled, The Canadian Union Conference PLAINS.— We arrived at Plains about and crowds stand at each window on THE first session of the Canadian the middle of July, and at once erected Sunday evenings. I am giving Sunday our tent, and began meetings. The Union Conference was held at Waterloo, evening lectures on Revelation. A great Quebec, Sept. 10--15, 1902. The confer- special power that is just now attending many are deeply interested. Many are the third angel's message has been with ences of Ontario, Quebec, Maritime, and convinced of the truth, and some are the mission field of Newfoundland were us from the very opening. halting between two opinions, almost A growing attendance and an ever-in- represented by delegates.; and Elder persuaded. A few are obeying, some of W. A. Spicer, of the General Conference, creasing interest have characterized the whom give evidence of sound conversion work, until at present we are in the midst was present two days of the meeting. to the truth. A spirit of unanimity prevailed in all of a revival which is shaking this coun- The increase of attendance and in- try, and bringing out a people to stand the meetings of the conference, and. terest is largely due to the unity, zeal, many said that it was the best meeting of on the eternal principles of truth and and earnestness of the church. Our mis- righteousness. the kind they had ever attended. The sionary, prayer, young people's, and Sab- general field was reported by Elder- The work here thus far has been so bath services are all seasons of refresh- manifestly under the direction of the Thurston, who outlined what had been ing, and are constantly increasing in accomplished since the organization of great Shepherd of the sheep that we will attendance and interest. Nearly every not at this writing attempt to draw any the conference, and spoke particularly member is doing something in personal, of the work in Newfoundland, which•he conclusions as to the outcome. A goodly house-to-house work — selling, loaning, company have already taken their stand, had recently visited. Elder Farman, rep- and giving away literature, inviting the resenting that field, also spoke encour- and we firmly believe that the near fu- people to church, praying for and minis- ture will see a church organized in this agingly of the progress of the medical tering to the sick and needy, holding and evangelical work. The presidents of place. Bible readings, etc. W. A. SWEANEY. " There shall be delay no longer " the Maritime, Quebec, and Ontario means business, brethren; God has put Conferences also presented reports which his hand to the work as we have not seen showed the outlook to be promising for it before. "A crisis is right upon us. Canvassing Work in Sweden the future. We must now by the Holy Spirit's power THE branch of the message that here The delegates present were chosen as proclaim the great truths for these last seems to be the most prosperous, and the a committee on plans, and the follow- days." Invisible armies of light and one receiving special attention, is the ing additional committees were chosen: power are attending the servants of God, canvassing, or book, work. About forty On Nominations, G. E. Langdon, H. J. and there is at this time " no measure to are giving almost their whole time to this Farman, J. M. Ellis ; Credentials and Li- the usefulness of those who are willing work in a country of about five million censes, J. W. Collie, S. A. Farnsworth, to undergo the necessary discipline," people. The colporteur work has for M. S. Babcock. One very pleasant fea- " and to become the hands of heavenly years been the leading feature in the ture of the session was the willingness instrumentalities to work out the pur- work of giving the message in this on the part of all to forget territorial poses of God in the earth." Courage is country. lines and merely local interests, and plan the keynote now. Hasten, 0 hasten, to " Prophecies of Jesus " is the main, for the entire field, each one expressing the work. R. D. QUINN, or large, book, which at present is being his willingness to render assistance W. D. EMERY. circulated, especially by the canvassers. where most needed. [Later word from Elder Quinn states We have recently obtained " Christ's Inasmuch as the field would be more that eleven were baptized at Plains. Object Lessons," which is on sale by accessible from Montreal, it was chosen Brethren Quinn and Gosmer are now ministers, Bible workers, canvassers, as headquarters, and the depository now conducting tent meetings at Hamilton.] and lay members. " Steps to Christ " located at Toronto will be moved to that is being sold in large numbers by the city. Elder Thurston will also locate canvassers. there, as well as Brother Hartwell, and Barbados Since my arrival here from the they will be able to render valuable as- BRIDGETOWN.— We have been holding States a year ago last July, I worked at sistance to the work in that city. a canvassers' institute the last week or my trade, blacksmithing, for a while, as The publishin, committee have under two, as several of our canvassers are I thought that this kind of work would consideration the advisability of re- home from the work in other islands. be beneficial to my health. But very soon printing French tracts bearing the im- We held one extra meeting each day, our earnest canvassing agent found out print of the Canadian Association, which for one week, and still hold two extra some particulars concerning my where- can be used to good advantage among the meetings on Sabbath and Sunday, to abouts, etc., and at once urged me to en- people of that nationality in Quebec. study the Bible and the Testimonies gage in the work of selling books. I Larger books and pamphlets will also be concerning the canvassing work, and considered this call as from the Lord, handled in the same way as may seem also to study the field, plans, methods, and from January of this year until June, best. books, etc. God has greatly blessed us, I canvassed in the city of Malmo, when The following officers were elected: although we were disappointed in having I attended the conference held at Ny- President, W. H. Thurston; Vice-Presi- none of our laboring brethren with us. hyttan. dent, J. W. Collie; Secretary and Treas- We considered the work with " Christ's At present I am associated in the urer, S. D. Hartwell; Executive Com- Object Lessons," and the church is tak- work with Brother P. A. Ahlstrom, who mittee, W. H. Thurston, J. W. Collie, ing hold of it bravely. We had only has also spent a number of years in the S. D. Hartwell, G. E. Langdon, H. J. fifty copies on hand, and in one week United States. We are laboring on a Farman, S. A. Farnsworth, T. H. Robin- they are nearly gone. We have sent to small island, by the name of Oland, loca- son, A. E. Lemon, M. D., E. P. Auger ; St. Vincent for more. This forms the ted in the Baltic Sea. The Lord is giving Trustees for legal incorporation, W. H. nucleus of a school fund, We hope to us good success in this precious work. Thurston, J. W. Collie, G. E. Langdon, sell a goodly number of books even here, In less than two months, from July 13 M. S. Babcock, S. D. Hartwell, T. H. where times are so hard, money so to the present, September 4, I have sold Robinson, S. A. Farnsworth; Publish- scarce, and poverty so pinching. My- 148 copies of " Prophecies of Jesus," 14 ing Committee, W. H. Thurston, J. W. self and family sold fourteen last week, of " Christ's Object Lessons." and 206 of Collie, S. D. Hartwell, G. E. Langdon, besides doing all our other work. " Steps to Christ." E. P. Auger. Barbados is again quarantined, on ac- Two years ago or more " The Great The results of this meeting will surely count of smallpox, which is assuming al- Controversy " was sold throughout the be felt, as each one present was made most epidemic proportions. Scores have island, and many consider it a good book. better acquainted with the several fields it, and several deaths have occurred. In many homes both " Great Contro- and their needs. A feeling of brotherly Prices of everything are extremely high, versy " and " Prophecies of Jesus " are kindness exists, and we confidently ex- and starvation stares many in the face. to be found. pect that advanced steps will be taken 18 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD SEPTEMBER 30, 1902 the coming year, and this field, which to and prayerfully weighed. As yet we foundland should have the opportunity a certain extent has been neglected, will cannot say what the results will be, but of knowing the truth as it is in Jesus, begin to take the place that God designs we are sure that there will be a harvest — the last message of mercy to the it should, and that many precious souls to the glory of God. Our courage in the world. will be gathered out as the result of work was never more firm than now; In your prayers and in your offerings, faithful, earnest work. J. W. COLLIE. for it is time to press the battle to the brethren and sisters, please remember gate. Newfoundland, that ways and means Our meetings have been attended by may be provided for speedily giving that Helena (Montana) Camp- Meet- the Catholic priest and the United Breth- people the third angel's message. ing Notes ren minister of the village. The priest W. H. THURSTON. reviewed one of our studies on the judg- +11-0--• THIRTY-FIVE tents were pitched on the ment, but to no disadvantage to the truth ground, and were occupied by one hun- and its progress. Missouri Camp Meeting dred and twenty-two persons. About My home address is 861 Summit St., THIS meeting was held at Booneville, eighty of these came by rail, so rates Columbus, Ohio; I would be pleased to August 13-25. The business meetings were easily secured. receive communications from any of my passed off pleasantly. About the same Nearly every church in the conference friends in other fields where I have la- persons were again chosen to serve offi- was represented. The laborers from bored. C. A. WATKINS. cially as served last year. Elder Rees abroad were Elder W. T. Knox, superin- was again elected conference president. tendent of the Pacific Union Conference; The laborers present from outside of C. C. Lewis, president of Walla Walla Newfoundland the conference were L. A. Hoopes, S. H. College; H. H. Hall, of the Pacific NEWFOUNDLAND is called The Norway Lane, Dr. W. A. George, Professor Rees, Press; and Dr. Yarnell, of the Spokane of the New World. It is only ninety H. Shultz, 0. E. Cummings, and the Sanitarium. All the laborers of the con- miles by sea from Canada. There is a writer. ference were also present. first-class steamer running between Brother R. C. Porter conducted an in- The spirit of the meeting was absolute North Sydney, C. P., and Port au stitute for the benefit of those intending surrender and complete victory. The Basques, connecting the Intercolonial to engage in church-school work, in Holy Spirit was present in great power, Railway from Montreal with the Reid which he was assisted by Brethren and a mighty shout of victory ascended Newfoundland Railway to St. John's. Hoopes and Rees, and others. from the camp of Israel. We are sure There is also a line of steamers plying A call was made for recruits to enter that many homes will he brightened by between Montreal and St. John's, calling the canvassing work, to which quite a the Spirit of God, which was received at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, number responded. The canvassers at this gathering. and North Sydney, C. P. St. John's were drilled daily by Brethren Cummings The youth's meetings, conducted each is located on the southeast point of the and Fairchild. day by Brethren Gibson, Quinn, and island, and Port au Basques on the During the meeting a number gave Gosmer, were certainly soul inspiring, southwest, and the railway connecting their hearts to God, and twenty-four fol- as the young people bore their testimo- these points makes a half circle, taking lowed their Lord in baptism. During the nies of surrender and victory, and a de- in the northern portion of the island. day practical themes were presented, and termination to see this truth triumph in The population of Newfoundland, in- in the evening discourses were of a the earth. cluding Labrador, is about two hundred doctrinal character. After the meeting The sales from the book tent were and twenty thousand, and the chief in- closed, Brethren Heacock and Terry about two hundred dollars. dustry is fishing. The majority of the pitched a tent in the town, and they re- The meeting was one of the best ever men from the bays go to Labrador, and port a good interest. held in Montana, and was a great spend the summer fishing, as they have A call was made for means to assist in strength to all who attended it. better success than when fishing around building a church in Kansas City, Mo., The church-school teachers' institute, the island. and about three hundred dollars was which preceded the meeting, was a de- There are many nice lakes and rivers pledged. cided success, about fifteen taking the in- in the island, and some timber; but the According to the report of the treas- struction under Prof. C. C. Lewis. interior is largely a barren, rough region, urer, the conference and tract society are The last day of the meeting a large uninhabited except by wild animals. in good condition financially. Reports assembly gathered in the West Side The island is under British rule, and also showed that the Lord had blessed Christian church, where seven candidates the people are very religious. The the labors of the workers in the field in were buried with Christ in baptism, to Church of England, the Methodist, and the conversion of souls. arise and walk in newness of life. the Presbyterian are the leading denomi- Everything considered, this was a good Wm. STEELE. nations. The schools are denominational. meeting. E. T. RUSSELL. each being assisted by the government. The people are taught that obedience to Ohio the church is a test of loyalty, and there The Dover (Oklahoma) Camp VINCENT.— At the late conference at are very few nonconformists. There are Meeting Coshocton I was invited to make Ohio about fifty Sabbath keepers in the island, my field of labor for a season, and as and the advent message is being given in Tuts meeting was held Aug. 21-31, arrangements had already been made several places, and considerable interest 1902, in a beautiful grove about half a with the Louisiana Conference, with is manifested. Quite a few hooks have mile from Dover, a village of eight hun- which I was connected the past year, been sold in different localities, and we dred inhabitants. was in readiness for immediate service. are now planning a systematic effort in Our people turned Out well, there be- At a small town in the southern part of the book business. There is only one ing- about seven hundred camped on the the State, but thirteen miles from Mari- ordained minister in the island, but we ground. The meeting was an enthusi- etta, the oldest city in Ohio, the way was are in hopes soon to have two more astic one. Every branch of our work open for the presentation of present there. was fully considered. The attendance truth. This community is in no sense The health institute started in St. of those not of our faith was good, and behind in any of the modern attainments, John's last May, with Drs. A. E. and they became much interested. Two ac- vet here, as in many other places, we Carrie J. Lemon in charge. is having cepted the truth, and an excellent im- found a great lack in the knowledge of a good patronage. It is wielding an in- pression was made. that all-important attainment acquired fluence for right principles, and is a The Oklahoma Conference has been only by the study of Scripture. Brother light in a city set on a hill. More help foremost in the sale of " Christ's Object M. C. Kirkendall and myself were re- is needed to meet the demands in this Lessons." A few months ago the mem- quested to pitch our tent here, and bear work, and we trust that it is forth- bers of the various churches purchased the message. We found a very desirable coming. their quota of books, agreeing- to pay for location. The people seemed kind, and it was my privilege to visit New- them individually; or in other words, gave us a welcome. At first we thought foundland recently in the interests of they donated the price of the books for the cool nights would hinder the interest, the work, and I found the few laborers the relief of the schools. All through but being convenient to gas, we were there all of good' courage, but much in the conference many have sold their able to heat the tent comfortably. The need of help. The people are kind, books, and some have sold the books of interest has increased continually, the courteous, and lovers of truth, but not others. The effort in these sales has attendance ranging from one hundred easily turned until fully convinced. We given all who have engaged in the work and fifty to four hundred at every service. have a truth, a special truth, for this a wonderful experience, and filled many The truths presented seem to be carefully time and people; and the people of New- with enthusiasm, which has impelled SEPTEMBER 30, 1902 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 19

them to engage in the sale of other of ing there. Brother J. W. Beach has been tirely of patients. A schedule has been our works. The sales of these other appointed to superintend the work of prepared, so that each class will attend books amounted to about fifteen thou- erecting the buildings, and he, with a the Life Boat MisSion at least one night sand dollars, or three times more than number of others, is on the ground. each week. This will not prevent any in- for the preceding year. The sale of They have begun work on the first build- dividual from going at other times. books, including " Christ's Object Les- ing, which will be ready for the use of A working committee has been ap- sons," amounted to twenty-one thou- the school in a few weeks. Leading pointed to assist in the Sunday morning sand dollars. About fifty left the camp citizens of the town and surrounding services at the Harrison Street Police ground to canvass, and fully as many country are much interested in the na- Station, and this interesting work will more volunteered to canvass in their ture of the work that is to be carried on, be pushed with greater energy than ever neighborhoods as far as time and op- — that is, the teaching of agriculture before. Each class will have access to at portunity will permit. One hour was and the useful mechanical trades in con- least one copy of the REVIEW AND HER- spent each day in the recital of experi- nection with the study of books, thus ALD, so that the Sabbath-school lesson can ences in the sale of our books, especially educating and training the students for be studied from that source as well as of " Christ's Object Lessons," These useful vocations. These citizens, unso- from the Lesson Quarterly. It was meetings were so interesting that at licited, promised financial assistance. agreed that two meetings each week times it was difficult to close them. It Our brethren are taking a lively inter- should be devoted to the study of the was good to attend them. est in this enterprise. Money is being Sabbath-school lesson, and that every There are several German churches freely given to forward the work; and effort should be used by classes and indi- in the Territory. They were well repre- with the blessing of God we expect soon viduals to increase the interest and at- sented at the meeting, there being fully to see a modest institution established tendance at the Sabbath school. The two hundred and fifty of their members in this conference where our young peo- other hours are spent in studying the life camped on the ground. Several were ple can receive a preparation to enter of Christ from the four Gospels, with held in their language in a large pavil- our college, or to fill some useful position " The Desire of Ages " as a side study. ion pitched especially for that purpose. in the service of the Lord. Our breth- As a result of this work, additional la- They seemed to be fully alive in the ren are praying and working for the suc- borers have been secured for the Life work, and enjoyed many spiritual feasts. cess of this school. Money may be sent Boat Mission Sunday school and for our Elders Shultz, Riffel, and Miller were to Brother ). W. Beach, Elk Point, mission Sabbath school. Hundreds of the German laborers among them from S. D., or to Lyman D. Randall, Sioux God's little ones are living and dying other States. The general laborers Falls. N. W. ALLEE. in darkness here because we have been among the English were Elders G. G. unadle to carry them the gospel light. Rupert and A. E. Field, and the writer. Bible meetings are held daily in the The entire meeting could properly be Chicago Bible Study Work . Workingmen's Home Dispensary and in termed a missionary camp meeting. The THE workers in the Chicago medical the Halstead Street Dispensary, and there Germans donated one hundred dollars in missionary work_ have received a great our workers meet with men and women money to aid the training school in Ger- blessing from taking up a systematic who Perhaps might never hear the gospel many. The contribution for the mission study of the Bible. Early this summer at any other place. work in the first Sabbath school was each worker adopted the plan of com- The work is onward and upward, and about thirty dollars; the last Sabbath miffing, to memory at least one verse of God is wonderfully blessing this move- one hundred dollars was donated. The Scripture each day, and seeking to add ment. We are of good courage, and we Germans in both instances gave fully something to the happiness of at least believe that God will develop our faith two thirds of the amount. There was one soul each day. A little later, Miss and expand our minds as we exercise the raised fully one hundred and fifty (101- Grace Atuadon came from Battle Creek talents that he has given us. lays in pledges and money on the Mis- to spend a few weeks with us, and she What is proving such a source of help sionary Acre Fund, an equal amount for began a regular Bible study class at 5: 3o to our Chicago medical work will be missionary work among the Spanish- each morning. This was found to be a equally helpful in every institution as speaking people in the Southwestern good hour; for all were wide awake, well as in every church and family that Union Conference, and a similar amount and had not yet begun to feel the effects will adopt the same plan as far as their for the Tent Fund. of the strain and responsibility of their circumstances permit. It was with difficulty we held a social hard clay's work. The class grew in in- CLYDE LOWRY. meeting, as so many would be standing terest and attendance, and the seeds that at once. We often divided the camp in were thus sown are already springing up order to give all an opportunity to and bearing fruit. Why I Am at Home speak. The testimonies were short, ear- When she returned to her church- IT is due me to say to my numerous nest, and fervent. school work in Battle Creek, Dr. Paulson friends who wonder why no reports of The business meetings were harmoni- and others felt impressed that the proper labor appear from my pen in the RE- ously conducted. Elder G. H. Haffner course to pursue was to divide our large VIEW, that one reason for my silence in was re-elected president of the Confer- family into many small Bible study cir- this respect is that in April last I met ence. The tithe increased about three cies. Several meetings of leading work- with an accident whereby my head was thousand dollars during the past year. ers were held, and it was made very clear bruised and my right arm disabled. But There was an increase in annual and that no one had a right to be considered a from this, thanks to a good constitu- Sabbath-school offerings. Three churches leader in an institution who was not pre- tion and to the exhaustless fountain of were added to the conference. pared to lead out in Bible study and in life in a merciful God, to which I have The revival efforts were greatly missionary activity. The result was that access, I am fast recovering; and 1 hope blessed. Fully one hundred and fifty fourteen volunteered to organize Bible that by grace divine I shall yet, through came forward for prayers the last Sab- classes to meet at convenient times and humble endeavors, contribute to the bath. Quite a number of the young places, so that every worker should have furtherance of the cause of present were converted. Thirty were baptized, an opportunity to attend one of these truth, which is dearer to me than my eighteen of whom were Germans. classes each day. These leaders included own life. When the meeting closed, and the our five physicians, and the matrons of I have not been idle for the past four campers departed for different parts of the sanitarium and hospital. the head months, but have taken great delight in the Territory, sonic by train, and others nurses of the ladies' and gentlemen's doing errands for the Lord, and in feel- in well-loaded covered wagons, many did treatment departments at the sanitarium, ing after the pillars of our faith, which so with praise on their lips, with hearts the manager of the Hygiea Dining to me seem as firm as the character and softened by the Spirit of the Lord, de- Rooms, the medical students at the throne of the Eternal. I have had the daring it to be one of the best meetings Workingmen's Home, the superintendent privilege of indulging in physical exer- they ever attended in Oklahoma. of the Life Boat Mission, and several cise, first with one hand, then with both S. H. LANE. others. hands, as my injured arm was recover- There has been a general and growing ing. Notwithstanding the effects of my interest, and plans are being laid that will accident, 1 have been able to do neces- South Dakota Intermediate School yet constitute this a mighty force for sary writing, and to keep up quite a THE location for this school has been the spreading of the gospel message in heavy epistolary correspondence, in- selected near Elk Point, Union County. this city. All members of our family are structing and encouraging French breth- The soil is of excellent quality, and in included in these classes, the average at- ren and sisters with whom I could not this part of the State crops are quite tendance of each being about six. Sonic meet. certain and market facilities good. Most of the Patients attend these studies, Dr. At the place in the West where of the land was donated by brethren liv- Hunter's class being composed almost en- French ministerial effort was most 20 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD SEPTEMBER 30, 1902

needed, the smallpox was raging, which, almost immediately I sold three of the pleasure to visit for more than a year of course, would be an obstacle to my library binding to one man. At first I an English lady, Miss Repsy, whose holding meetings, and this was one rea- spent only a short time each day, but relatives settled here during the English son why I have not made a trip among as my children did well, I began to occupation of these islands. She had our French churches in that section of spend an entire day occasionally. Inside always lived in Padang, except for three the country. With the sanction of lead- of eight months I sold four hundred dol- years, which she spent in a Baptist girls' ing brethren, I still contemplate visiting lars' worth of books, mostly of the best school in Calcutta, during her teens. these churches. My courage is good. I bindings. I delivered seventy-five books When I met her, she was trying to read follow with deep interest the progress before I lost an order. a very fine-print Bible, which she had of the cause in different fields, and my " Two years ago I canvassed again. always used since those far-away school greatest ambition is to aid in its ad- One day I took nine orders, amounting days, about sixty years before. We pro- vancement, and to triumph at last with to thirty dollars. Another day I se- cured for her from your Singapore those who endure unto the end. cured twenty-seven orders,— two for agency a fine large-print copy of the D. T. BovaDEAu. ' The Desire of Ages,' fifteen for ' The New Testament. It was her greatest Coming King,' and ten for ' Gospel treasure. She lived alone, except for Primer.' October Study of the Field her Malay servants, and was nearly " Eight years ago we moved to Okla- helpless. When asked if she felt lonely. 1. WHAT evidence does our missionary homa. Recently I was impressed again she would smile, and lay her hand on in Fiji give which proves that one essen- to canvass. We have a neighbor living her Bible and papers, saying, " These tial qualification of the missionary is near who is very bitter against all are my friends ; come often : I sleep bet- adaptability? churches, and is especially hostile to- ter• after we have read and prayed to- 2. Tell what you can of the great mis- ward book agents, having driven one gether; I now think of my God more sion field of Malaysia. Describe Elder lately from his yard. I decided to try than I used to do." After she had fallen Gates's visit to this field. to place at least one of our books in asleep, her relative sent me the Book she 3. Give an outline of Elder Reaser's his family. My husband said, Surely, loved. trip to our Matahele Mission. Describe you will not dare to go there.' I con- " The Chinese people here buy the the Mission farm. Tell about the or- cluded to canvass his wife. I visited Scriptures readily. One elderly man in ganization of the church. Mention sonic his home, hoping that he might he ab- Padang has read his Malay Bible of the needs at this mission. sent; but when I reached his house, through at least seven times in the last 4. Describe the work of John Meyer behold, he sat on the porch. I felt very two years; it is his constant companion. among the aboriginal Indians of British timid, but asked the Lord to aid me. His children are learning to read from Guiana. As I approached, I handed him a copy the Word as their only primer. Last 5. Give an outline of Elder Westphal's of `•The Marvel of Nations,' and said Sabbath I visited a Chinese woman here, recent trip through Chile. that I would be pleased if he would and sang a hymn; while looking for an- 6. Relate briefly the history of the look the book through. I passed into other, she pointed to the Gospel of Luke third angel's message in the Cook Is- the house, and visited with his wife, lying in my lap, and said, " Read from lands. showing her Best Stories.' When I that book, I like that better; " so I read 7. What is the population of India? was ready to depart, I asked him what and talked of the gospel a long time. How many of these are women ? What he thought of the book. He turned to I thank God for the Bible Society which openings are there for work among his wife, and asked her if she would is doing so much to hasten the coming them? like it. She replied, Yes.' Bring me of the Lord when the gospel shall have S. How many baptisms are reported one, best binding,' he then said to me. been preached in all the world.' " this month? Now many are enrolled in His wife said, ' This lady has one which our school? What classes of workers are would be nice for our little girl.' Very IV/ issionary Review of the World especially called for? Mention any re- well, bring one of the best binding.' I gives the following interesting account ports that have been particularly inter- delivered the books in about a week. of a church raised up in Brazil simply esting or helpful to you. He sent for another copy of ' The Mar- as the result of the reading of the Bible: 9. What may we each do to share in vel of Nations,' best binding, as he de- " Some time after the Presbyterians had this work ? See " The Missionary Cam- sired to send it to England as a present established mission work in Brazil, they paign," REVIEW AND HERALD, Septem- to a relative. found in the interior of one of the prov- ber 16. " When the work with Christ's Ob- inces, quite remote from any Protestant ject Lessons ' was introduced, I felt that work or influence, a community of Bible An Experience it was a call to me, and I began to sell Christians, with an organized church, AT all the camp meetings I have at- that hook in my neighborhood. I have living harmoniously together, without tended in the Middle Western States, sold twenty copies, and have been any connection or definite knowledge of we have devoted a portion of the time greatly blessed. any other like Christian community. of several days to experience meet- " I was born in Kentucky, and have Investigating the origin of this society, ings, in which our canvassers, and our longed to return to carry the message it was ascertained to be a growth from workers who are not regular canvassers, there, but until recently my husband the reading of a Bible that had fallen but who devote what time they can to has not been fully with me in the faith, into the hands of a young man in the selling books in their respective neigh- but he now is, and we have determined community. Other young men joined him borhoods, gave interesting items of their to visit that State and carry the truth in reading it, and became deeply inter- experiences. In the Oklahoma camp by the printed page." ested. They believed the truths and meeting an earnest sister arose, and said, If all our sisters who can possibly do accepted the salvation thus made known. in substance, with an enthusiasm which so would do as this sister has done, Others were brought under its influence, electrified the large congregation:— thousands upon thousands of dollars' and after a time they decided to organ- " I am the mother of twelve children. worth of books could be sold, and the ize a church according to the teaching We have always been in moderate cir- message would soon go with astonishing of the apostles, with elders and deacons. cumstances, and I have had the work rapidity. Now is the time, while money One served as pastor, to whom they paid of the family to perform. I have been is plenty, and crops are abundant, to a moderate salary. The missionaries an Adventist for nearly twenty years. enter the work. S. H. LANE, found that this Bible was one of an From the first, I have handed out tracts edition Of the American Bible Society, and papers. About ten years ago I felt THE following interesting report from published in 1834 or 1836, and doubtless impressed to canvass for our larger Sister Carrie L. Munson, in Padang, was taken to the country by a Methodist books. At that time my youngest child Sumatra, we copy from the August num- missionary, who was the first one to was eight months old, and my oldest ber of the Bible Society Monthly Re- distribute Bibles in Brazil. He was daughter was twelve years of age. I porter published in London: " Mrs. there from the winter of 1837 to the knew I could trust my little ones with Carrie L. Munson, an American mission- summer of 1840. No other Bibles were her for a few hours at a time. We then ary, writes from Fort de Kock, Upper sent to that country till several years lived in Kansas. I stated my impres- Padang, Sumatra, dated May 4, 1902: later. An attempt was made by the sions in regard to canvassing to my ' Some of your readers may be glad to Romish priests to destroy these Bibles, husband, but he laughed at me, and de- hear of the comfort and help which one hut this one and a few others escaped." clared that should I canvass the entire of your large-print Bibles gave to a township, I could not sell three books, dear old lady in this remote country. In HE who cannot find heaven on the for all knew that I was an Adventist. Padang we find few people who can earth would not be able to find it in the " I began with ' Bible Readings,' and speak English, but it was my great sky. SEPTEMBER 30, 1902 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 21

— Violent earthquakes, causing the de- Currtnt Tarrctian struction of several towns and the loss of hundreds of lives, are reported from Kashgar, in Russian Turkestan. — Rich gold fields are reported to have been discovered recently near Thunder — The continuance of the strike in the Mountain, Idaho. anthracite coal region has of late been List of Missionary Acre Pledges marked by outbreaks of violence on the A. J. Gauge, $x. — Fourteen hundred and sixty-seven part of the strikers, directed against non- John 1. Phillips, $5, coal miners in the United States lost union workmen in the mines. The sher- James & Oliver Dickerson, r acre corn and their lives in the mines during 1901. iff in Lackawanna County, Pa., sent an brood of chickens. appeal to the governor for troops. Order Springdale Arkansas Industrial School, about — Mgr. Falconio, the present papal acre of peanuts. delegate to Canada, has been appointed is maintained' only by the presence of a large force of militia. F. N. Elmore, eggs from 20 hens. "apostolic delegate " to the United S. H. Carnahan, proceeds of 1 row of cab- States. bage. — The United States government has Mrs. Martin E. Kierstead, of proceeds of — Cholera is reported to be on the sent a protest to Europe, Great Britain garden. decline in Egypt, after having killed, ac- joining in the action, against the severe persecution to which the Jews are sub- Henry Quantock, $5. cording to a late estimate, 25734 people R. S. Wheat, $ r. in that country. jected in Rumania. Rumania has as- Robert Britton), $1. sumed a defiant attitude in the matter, Mrs. H. Quantock, $1.50. — Three fast gunboats will be sent by and as the use of force in connection with Nina McBride, proceeds from sale of 3 hens. the protest is not contemplated, the per- Gertrude Jenkins, $ro. Russia to put a stop to seal poaching by K. Winther. $3, American and Japanese seal catchers off secution of the Jews in that country will Mrs. K. Winther, eggs laid on Sabbath from the coast of Siberia. continue. May to, as long as chickens lay. — There is trouble again between Emil Nielson, $5. — Anarchy is reported to be rapidly J. H. & N. A. Morgan, $2. spreading in Macedonia, and there is Great Britain and Venezuela over the Albert Hedgecock, I acre of potatoes. general uneasiness among the peaceful boundary-line .question, both countries Mrs. Carrie S. Hammerd, $1. portion of the population. claiming possession of Patos Island, ly- H. A. Whitaker, $1. ing near the mouth of the Orinoco River. Maud Stevens, $1. — Cold and wet weather in Germany Great Britain has long claimed the is- Jacob Gacdc. $1. has greatly damaged the grain crops land. and the dispute was started by a James Dunkin, $1, there, and American grain will be called protest from Venezuela when the British Jacob J. Esom, $5. for in large quantities to supply the Lola McComb, $5. flag was raised as a protection to the in- shortage. habitants against the Venezuelan revo- — The South African Boers, through lutionists. There is a possibility that the United States may be drawn into the Generals Botha, Delarey, and DeWet, dispute. RI ---710— 0ELI E r".4' M have issued a general appeal to the out- side world for help to relieve the distress — President Roosevelt has been obliged due to the general devastation of their 111 to abandon the concluding portion of a M 1 ))C1 H i t (t country during the late war. trip he was making through the north- west, and on September 23, at Indian- — There is fighting still in the Philip- apolis, 'submitted to a slight surgical Donors to the Relief of the Schools pines, the IVIoros tribes of Mindanao re- operation for the removal of an abscess fusing to submit to the authority of the which had developed on his leg as a The Total Cash received on the Relief of the United States, and believing themselves Schools Fund up to Sept. 22, 1902, is $46,163.17 result of the accident through which he unconquerable. Several Moro forts have NAME passed recently at Pittsfield, Mass., when AMOUNT recently been captured by the American A friend (Michigan) $ 3 90 a trolley car collided with the carriage j. Simonds troops. in which he was riding. After the op- Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Swaney 2 00 eration the president returned to Wash- — Kansas farmers, who something Earl A. Rowell 4 35 ington. Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Clark 1 00 over twenty years ago were accustomed J. J. Davenport 10 00 to burn corn in their stoves, -will this — At a large meeting of the National' Alfred Eden 1 00 winter resort to this old-time fuel on ac- Baptist Association (colored) in Birm- John Bess 2 00 count of the scarcity of coal. Corn will ingham, Ala., September 19, a false Earl A. Rowell 5 oo be plentiful there, and there is an abun- alarm of " fire," which was raised in the W. J. Wilson 5 00 building where the audience was gath- Mrs. Willard 4 00 dance of alfalfa for feeding stock. Mrs. F. E. Woolf 2 00 ered, precipitated' a panic, and the num- — It is reported that Chicago beef Mrs. Shippley 50 ber of exits from the building being Dr. Albert Carey 6 70 packers, alarmed at President Roose- insufficient for such an emergency, the Mrs. D. T. Richardson 2 50 velt's attitude toward the trusts, and fear- weaker ones were thrown clown and Hans F. Williamson 5 00 ing that the power of the federal govern- trampled underfoot in the mad rush of Mrs. D. J. Hitchcock 5 00 ment will be turned against them, have people through the aisles, the result being Edna Edebrun. 5 00 decided not to form the combine which that 116 of the number in the building Cora Burkholder 00 was to have been carried into effect this were found dead after the panic was Robert S. Hall 00 5 month, over, the majority having apparently died H. H. Griswold 5 00 Hawaii from suffocation. Many more were seri- 00 — President Palma, of the Cuban re- Upper Columbia Conference 37 73 ously injured. H. A. Smith 2 00 public, has made an informal demand — Several columns of newspaper T. S. Parmele 2 50 for the withdrawal of the remaining American troops in Cuba. The United space have been given in Chicago dailies States government has refused to com- to advertising the supposed efficacy of Now ,‘ Christ's Object Lessons" ply with the demand on the ground that prayers to " St. Vito ' for protection against impending ills. A small boy Is Praised Cuban affairs are not yet in a settled condition. named Carlo was bitten by a dog in NOTHING affords me more pleasure August last, and began to pray to " St. than to say a good word for " Christ's — A careful analysis of the, death rate Vito " to protect him from hydrophobia. Object Lessons." My copy is kept in Great Britain, published by Knowl- Now the wounds have healed, and the where I can lay my hand upon it as edge, in London, shows that the decline boy has taken a vow never to eat meat easily as I can upon my Bible. It is in' the rate is entirely among children. on Monday (the clay he received the written in such a way that one can ob- It is increasing among older persons. bite), and also to offer a prayer to " St. tain from a single paragraph a seed- Between the ages of 45 and 55 the rate Vito " each Monday at eleven o'clock. thought that will serve as food for has increased' 6 per cent, between 55 and The hold of the Catholic Church upon the reflection all day. 65 the increase is 12 per cent. Modern press in this country is shown by this and I am having a good experience in can- sanitary improvement saves the lives of frequent like instances of advertising vassing for this book in Highlands, children, but the strain of modern life Catholic dogmas and superstitions in the N. C. NANNIE SMITH PAUL. increases the death rate of older folks. leading American dailies. 22 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD SEPTEMBER 30, 1902

But soon the Lord gave her a great of carrying a parcel of small books Silent Messengers burden to put some definite work into about for that purpose. Our Books, Tracts, and Periodicals the hands of every member of the If agents wish to sell single copies, church. She visited the members at they can carry a small roll with them their homes, talked with them before E R PALMER Editor without much trouble. This is , espe- and after Sabbath services, and would cially true of The Life Boat. not be satisfied until every one was We particularly advise that agents Pass It On doing something. Some of the members selling our health books try one of these HAVE you found the heavenly light? took clubs of from three to twelve periodicals as a help. Write to your Pass it on ! copies of one of the papers. A few took State tract society and obtain terms; Souls are grouping in the night, as many as a gross each week. Some and when you have given the paper a Daylight gone; sold a few small books, and several fair trial, let us know what your suc- Hold thy lighted lamp on high, sold, loaned, and gave away tracts, and cess has been. This is not a new plan. Be a star in some one's sky: held Bible readings. The effect upon It already has had a very good trial, He may live who else would die: the church was marvelous. Cold hearts and has been quite successful. Pass it on ! grew warm, and the church became a working power. Soon they opened up Be not selfish in thy greed, missionary work in a progressive way GOD wants no cowards in his ranks, Pass it on ! in halls outside. In one of these places So let your colors fly; Look upon thy brother's need, a large church has been raised up as He calls for fearless, loyal hearts Pass it on! the direct result of that effort. In an- Who dare to do or die. Live for self, you live in vain; other place four or five accepted the - Selected. Live for Christ, you live again; truth as the result of small meetings Live for him, with him you reign: held by lay members. The librarian Summary of the Canvassing Work herself was greatly blessed by this prac- Pass it on ! Reported for August - Henry Burton. tical experience, and for several years she has been one of the most earnest ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE and successful tract society workers we AGENTS ORDERS VALUE The Life Boat have. New York.... 9 238 8246.90 THE following card has just come to Dear brethren, let us labor some- Greater New York.... 5 122 77.50 Vermont 2 35 74.00 hand from Dr. Paulson, superintendent of where. The call of the hour is a call to New Jersey 6 30 219.20 the medical missionary work in Chi- service. The Holy Spirit is given to Maine 1 24 27.85 New England 5 228 628.20 cago: - qualify us for service. Jesus came to Chesapeake 3 8.00 Pennsylvania 27 385 2.752.98 " CflicAco, ILL., Sept. 19, 1902. this world to serve the world; he be- Virginia 6 8.75 " DEAR BROTI/ER : The October Life came the chief of servants, and he calls Boat will be a special home and purity us to be co-laborers with him. Service SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE Georgia 2 38 82.75 number, and the most valuable ever is- is the " law of life to the universe." Tennessee River 7 378 311.20 " There is nothing but the sinful heart Alabama 5 220 197.90 sued. Will you encourage our people Florida everywhere to put it into the hands of of man that lives unto itself." Every Mississippi i 23 17.5o atom in God's great kingdom' serves Cumberland ...... , io 425 854.65 all their neighbors? The children are Carolinas 8 321 3/2.36 having wonderful success in its sale. and supports its neighbor. We may Louisiana 6 225 304,80 become atoms of that kingdom now. Will you help circulate this seventy-five- LAKE UNION CONFERENCE thousand edition? Price, two cents each. Michigan " Your brother, Periodicals as Helps Ohio., 8 223 401.90 " DAVID PAULSON." Indiana 13 224 367. 2 4 Illinois 11 197 562.25 Certainly we should do all we can to IN some parts of the field periodicals Wisconsin 4 58 173.5. circulate The Life Boat. In another col- are being used successfully as helps. NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE We hope the day will soon come when umn we have suggested its use as a help. Minnesota 29 420 '. 940.95 Who will begin with this special number ? many of our periodicals will be used South Dakota 20 228 772.70 in this way; for doubtless all our agents North Dakota ... .. 7 329 3,736.8o Manitoba 8 225 459.90 have been conscious of one weak point Work for All in our canvassing work. We meet peo- CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE THE circulation of our periodicals ple, and. have good conversations with Colorado 8 277 902.70 Iowa 8 272 248.82 should not be left for a few especially them, sell them our books, and then go Kansas 20 400 521 35 away and lose track of them. Very Missouri appointed agents. Every member in Nebraska 27 476.76 likely many of these people become in- 247 the church should have a part in this SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE work. We do not advise that our peo- terested in the truth, and would like ple subscribe for a large club of papers to correspond with some one concern- Arkansas Oklahoma 169 6x6.8o to be given away. It is about as easy ing it, and order further publications, Texas 988.00 but they do not know where to write. to sell papers as it is to give them PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE away, and those that are sold do the We ought in some way to form a California 8 383 870.30 most good, for they are likely to be connecting link between our offices and Montana read and appreciated. We usually con- the people. Agents can do this to some Upper Columbia 6 297 815.45 Western Oregon . 7 67 774.75 sider of little value that which costs extent by preserving the names of their Western Washington us nothing. But we do believe that subscribers, and by collecting names Southern California 3 28 246.25 every Seventh-day Adventist should of other interested persons. These EUROPEAN GENERAL CONFERENCE take a club of one or more of our names can be turned over to the State Norway 790.55 papers, and devote a little time each tract society, and good use be made of Great Britain 47 2,868 4,832.66 week to selling them to his neighbors. them for missionary work. Denmark 23 1,237 629.2o Sweden 3,254 3,129.32 The busy farmer can give an hour Sat- But evidently much more than this AFRICA urday evening. The busy housewife ought to he done. Every agent might can devote one afternoon a week, and be doing something to get one of our South Africa 13 245 2,253.28 even cripples and invalids can sell good periodicals before the people. I AUSTRALASIA papers to those who call, and also to wish to mention in particular our Good Australasia 74 2,355 6,733.22 passers-by. God has given to every Health journal and The Life Boat. The man his work. Are you doing the work Life Boat sells for five cents a copy, SOUTH AMERICA. Brazil he has given you? and Good Health for ten cents. A 6 340 325.66 Several years ago an energetic young liberal commission is offered on both SUMMARY woman was engaged as an assistant in these periodicals, bath on single copies A. U C. 48 972 2,943.28 one of our tract society offices. The and on subscriptions for a year, or for S. U. C 39 2,704 2,081.26 L. U. C...... 36 594 1,504.79 office was near the largest church in three or six months. Either of these N. U. C...... • ..... 44 1,102 2,910.35 the conference. Soon she was asked • journals will make a favorable impres- C. U. C 53 895 2,149.62 S. W. U. C 169 1,604 8o to act as librarian of the church. She sion upon the people, and will help our P. U. C 24 575 2,606.75 was willing to do the work, but felt canvassers. Agents can carry with Canadian U. C Australasian U. C 74 1,355 6,733.22 perplexed as to the way in which she them simply a sample copy, and take E. G. C 6o Africa 7.359 9.382-73 could accomplish much for a large subscriptions, using the journal as a 11 245 2,253.18 South America 6 340 325.66 church of over two hundred members. help, thus being relieved of the necessity Grand Total 39$ • 4.309 833.494.34

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enjoyed a pleasant home for fifty-three years. tt. His long, active life was not wholly spent NOT10E-8 AND Obituatir5 for the things of this world. At the age of twenty he was converted, and obtained a "I am the resurrection and the life."-Yesus. A).PRNTNENTS clear experiende of acceptance with God, and united with the Presbyterian Church. The STILES.- Died at my home in Long Valley, latter part of 1843 he accepted the doctrine Opening. at Cedar Lake Academy Idaho, C. F. Stiles, in his eightieth year. of the second advent of Christ as taught by THE fall term, or quarter, will open Mon- Father fell asleep with strong faith in the William Miller. The lines of prophecy were day morning, October 6, at ten o'clock. We soon-coming Lord. M. E. S. JASPER. studied with great delight. He passed through are desirous that all who can should be here the disappointment in 1844; but he readily at the first session, but if for any cause it HORN.- Died at Carthage, Mo., April 29, accepted the sanctuary question, which cleared is impossible to do that, come as early as 1902, of hemorrhage of the lungs, Margret away the darkness, and this greater light re- practicable. Ann Horn, aged 72 years, i i months, and 7 vived his hope. He rejoiced in the new ex- There is every prospect of a better year days. She was a member of the Seventh-day perience which led him to the keeping of the than Cedar Lake has ever known. During Adventist church of Carthage. Funeral serv- Sabbath with all the commandments of God the early part of the term there will be much ices were conducted by the writer. and the faith of Jesus. Of his earnings a work, and those who are faithful can get D. N. WOOD. large portion was freely given to carry for- ahead of the usual amount of labor, so that ward the cause of the Lord. " Not slothful WILBUR.- Died at Carthage, Mo., June 2, later, when work is less, they will have more in business; fervent in spirit; serving the 1902, of tumor, Myrtle M. Wilbur, aged 22 time for study. Lord," was the characteristic of his life. years, 7 months, and 2 days. She accepted The commercial department will be newly Another pioneer is taken from our number ; present truth under the labors of Brother equipped with furniture, and that course will another good man has fallen in death. But Hyatt, and died in the triumphs of a living be made much stronger than in the past. there awaits for him, soon to be realized, the faith. Words of comfort were spoken by the Write for catalogue, and if you are think- first resurrection, and eternal life in the king- writer. D. N. WooD. ing of attending, send us word. We would be dom of glory. He leaves a widow and one glad to have all who can do so come October FERRIS.- Died at Carthage, Mo., June 28, son to mourn their loss, but not without hope. 1, as that will give time to settle before the 1902, of fistula, Sarah Ferrin, aged 7o years, The funeral was held in the Tabernacle, Sep- school begins. 6 months, and 16 days. She was a pioneer in tember II, with a large congregation present, J• GRANT LAMSON, Principal. the third angel's message, and conscientiously and he was laid to rest in Oak Hill Cemetery. lived its truths. She died the death of the I. D. VAN HORN. righteous. Funeral services were conducted Publications Wanted by the writer. D. N. WOOD. N. B.- Attention has been repeatedly called MICHIGAN CENTWIL to the necessity of having papers properly WARNER.- Died at Blachly, Ore., Aug, 25, wrapped. Do not roll or wrap too small. 1902, of consumption, Eva J. Warner, aged 33 ..The Niagara Falls Route." Cover papers well, so that they will be clean years, 6 months, 4 days. She fell asleep with Corrected Juno 28, 1912. when received. Some have paid double the a bright hope of a glorious resurrection. A 8 12 2 10 14 4 36 husband and four young children are left to EAST • 01010 Detroit Mail 8, .1.2. tx Pas,cro N. Y. fAtrotta postage necessary, while others have for- axpreas Accom. Sxpress. 0,s, Spl. Krpreser. 8,.. Op gxpr.aa. mourn. Funeral services were conducted by warded literature by express when it would Oeinego..., ... gm 10.00 ere 4.15 m10.30 Perr3.09 pm•5 20 .0,11.n Brother Henry Atkins. G. W. COPLEY. niohigan City 11.50 . 8.13 pm 12 08 4 39 6.50 am 1.25 have been cheaper to send it by mail, at Niles am 1.56 10.12 1.60 535 7,45 2.30 Kalamazoo 2.45 am 17.30 m 12.83 2.08 6.45 8.52 4.10 four ounces for one cent. Battle Creek 9.30 8.10 1.60 2.42 7.17 925 6.00 NEWLAN.- Died near Lovington, Ill., Sept. Marshall-- 11.10 1.30 8.09 Albion 14.32 1.50 63.20 The following persons desire late, clean 2, 1902, of summer complaint, Lydia Alberta Jackamy 6.20 pm 2.25 2.40 4.05 *8.90 10.40 6.48 Ann Arbor 6.20 8.20 5.47 4.52 9.80 11 25 7.46 copies of our publications, postpaid : - Newlan, aged I year, 9 months, and 12 days. Detroit ... 1.35 4.15 6.90 6.02 10 30 am12 20 9.16 Falls View ara 6.12 6.38 pm 5.10 Brother and Sister Newlan are comforted with 2000. Bridgr„ Mrs. A. M. McKinnon, Fort Payne, Ala., Niagara Falls 6,8 7.09 6.45 the hope of soon meeting their loved one, to Buffalo. am 1.20 8.10 7.50 gyp REVIEW, Signs, Life Boat. Rochestre 9.1e 10.00 9.31 8.40 847.200. 6.15 pm 12 00 11.20 1045 part no more. Funeral services were held at 9 05 04.35 pm*3 05 am 2.50 IVeb;Vork 1.30 8.15 630 - OO Bert Cool, Murdockville, Pa., REVIEW, Sen- the home, September 3. 0. S. HADLEY. Springfield pm 10.18 839 829 6.05 tinel, Instructor, Little Friend. Boston ...... 3.(2) .811.80 to 30 8.46 CAMP.- Died in Chicago, Ill., July 28, 1902, 7 17 5 3 23 12 97 WEST .01011 .51.11o,. 10.11 0 Pa., Weste n to5.51. *Pacific of cancer, Sister Jane Camp, aged 8r years, roxpres. &Ct,,,,. Expre..5 mail. grpresr. e.,. h I( pre... io months, and 20 days. Sister Camp had Boston . ,. .. ..,. pm 2.00 pm 8.01 Business Notices New Yorks 4.00 "'4.1R putit:10 been an intelligent and zealous member of iyratune 11.20 am 2.01 am 10.00 BRIEF business notices will be published Rochester....„ ank 1.10 485 11.42 the Seventh-day Adventist Church for about Buffalo 3.10 pro 7.25 6.03 pm 1 15 in this department, subject to the discretion Niagara Fella 8.0/ 7.02 5.02 thirty years. She was much loved by all. hoop. Bridge 7.15 6 18 of the publishers. A charge of one dollar Falls View 7 30 6.41 Funeral services were held at the house of Detroit pm 8.20 765 am 6.60 am 12.4 pnal2.4) pm 450 11,15 one insertion of six lines or less, and of knn Arbor 9.88 8.49 8 10 1 9, 1.38 5.58 am 12.20 for rackson,...., 11.20 9.50 11.05 2 2.5 2.85 7.30 1.26 twenty cents for every line over six, will be her son, where she died. 0. S. HADLEY. Battle Creek am 12.40 10.69 pm 12.25 2 80 8.50 8.49 3.00 Balamecoo 139 11.28 1.20 4.10 4.22 9.50 3.35 0.00 made, though in the case of the poor who 11'111A:igen City If pr"I:g 1.g80 6 gil 7.083 6.01 BORDEN.- Died at Spokane, Wash., Aug. /blear". 6.55 3.15 6.40 805 8,55 7 50 wish employment, the charge may be remitted. 23, 1902, of cancer of the liver, Sister S. J. Persons unknown to the managers of the *Daily. tDaillY except Sunda), If Stops on s'gnal. IStor0 to let off Borden, aged 63 years. Five years ago she passengers. publishing house must furnish good refer- accepted the light of present truth at Colo- a rTgl'aB oo Battle . m., and ences. t aCi.776!1141. 4.°1ail;Pelleg .671;45 te;'.'. 004 " p rado Springs, Colo. She died in bright hope O. W. RUGGLES, R. N. R. WHEELER, WAN FED.- A middle-aged woman to do of coming forth in the morning of the resur- General Peace Ticket Agent, Ohinage. Tioket Agent, Battle Creek, housework. Sabbath keeper preferred. Ad- rection. Words of comfort were spoken by dress Mrs. Elizabeth Wood, Hope, Mich. the writer, from John 14 : 1-3. W. H. SAXBY. GRAND TRUNK WY SYSTEM. WANTED,- A trusty Seventh-day Adventist EA.S'T 8 4 6 2 10 78 to work on farm this winter, doing chores, NICHOLS.- Died at Waterloo, Quebec, Sept. 15, 1902. of cerebral hemorrhage, James Clif- Chicago . • 01011.03 pm 3..(412 1.1441: t,n9.00 cutting wood, etc. Write to E. C. Stoop, Valparaiso . • PM t2.42 4 11.40 P51 AN Station E, Toledo, Ohio, stating age and ton Nichols, aged 7o years, 6 months, and 3 South Bend 1.58 etio 110:0.1 7.51) days. Brother Nichols received the third Battle Creek . . 4.00 8.00 40 2.03 4407.00 3.40 000 5.30 wages expected. Lansing 5.20 9 21 3.31 8.30 5.29 angel's message about six years ago. Death Durand. . • 1.0 Kb 10.95 4.25 9.30 6.30 Saginaw . 8.10 0 11.50 8.10 FOR SALE,- Three lots, two near Orphan's found him at his post of duty, and we trust Bay City . • • t 8.4: 7.15 t ill...40 85.7545 Detroit . • • 8.00 Home, one on Michigan Avenue. Or will ex- fully prepared to come up in the first resur- Flint • • • 10.30 4 55 10.21 7.20 Port Huron . . 9.40 44012.30 7.00 8012.20 9.80 change for (or toward) a small place in the rection. Funeral services were conducted by London . • • Hamilton . • country, or house and lot in city. Address the writer, assisted by Elders S. A. Farns- LIT:iron Bridge An 3,40 1.05 Pm 1 55 PO 8.35 40 2.40 8.20 3 05 9.50 Mrs. Allie Knapp, 55 Poplar Ave., Battle worth and J. W. Watt. H. E. RICKARD. Philadelphia PIP 3,47 P51 7.24 ,or 7.28 40 8.116 I'M 3.47 Now York . . • 4,33 8.23 2.23 9.33 4.33 Creek, Mich. Toronto . • 00 7.40 PO 7.40 BLAIR.- Isabella Blair, nee Hardy, was Montreal . . . Pe 6.00 7.09 en 7.00 Boston . 0.8.10 rm7. 65 49917.05 WANTED.- The name and address of every born near Glasgow, Scotland, March 21, 1832, Portland . . . 6,40 5.45 5.45 adult person in your church or company who and died Aug. 23, 0902, at bier home in Ionia, WEST 3 5 7 9 11 75 is not a subscriber to the REVIEW. Also Mich., aged 7o years, 5 months, 2 days. About Portland . . • 04108.15Pm 8.50 PO 8.30 your name and address if you are willing to fifteen years ago the truths of the third an- 1304t047 . . it 14.30 7.30 7.30 Montreal . . . P010,30 An 9.00 .40 9.00 distribute sample copies of the REVIEW gel's message came to her, and were accepted Toronto . 00 7.35 Pm 4.50 N411.20 New York. . Pm 5.45 8.00 551 9,30 among those who should be readers of our under the labors of Elder Van Deusen. Her Philadelphis . 6 30 5.40 daily life was an inspiration to all who knew Buffalo, • 031 .5.5E, 1.00 r010.0- church paper. Address the editor. Suspension Bridge 7.00 2.00 11.15 her. An aged companion and one daughter Hamilton . . . London . FOR SALE.-- Fine apple orchard of 45 acres. survive her. Interment took place at Sara- Port Huron . . . PM 10 00 9.00 All 4 0" (406.50 803.30 Flint. . . . PM 1.25 11.07 5,31 8,54 5.54 in full bearing, situated in the beautiful nac. Funeral discourse was delivered by the Bay City . . 005111.40 9.00 Saginaw . . tre412.15 9.30 Burrow Valley, in the foothills of Fresno writer. J. GRANT LAMSON. Detroit . • 000111.30 10.00 7.00 4.00 Durand • • • PM 1.52 04112.0 6.00 9.091 6.30 County, Cal. Excellent climate, good school, Lansing . . 2.33 12.51 6.44 10.42 7.53 0008.10 - Battle Creek . 3 55 2.18 8.10 P1412...420 9.30 PR and P. 0, within mile. S. I). A. church WHIPPLE.- John G. Whipple was born at South Bend . 5.40 4.12 10.00 6.85 Perrys Mills, N. Y., April 25, 1817, and died Valparaiso . • 7,00 6.0 11.12 4 building adjoining farm. A good home for Chicago . 8.45 7,20 8012.60 0.18 any one, especially for family with children. in Battle Creek, Mich., Sept. 9, 1902. His Nos. 2-4 6 8 Daily 900.3-5-7-Daily Would exchange for good property in Battle death was caused by a fall from a fruit tree. Nock i0-76-Daily exit Sunday Nos. 9-11.-75-Daily eel Sunday Creek, Mich. For particulars address Wm. He was married to Miss Sarah Butler. Feb. 6, G. W. FAUX, t Daily except Sunday. W. C. CUNLIFFE. Dunlap, Burrough, Cal. 1849, with whom be spent a happy life and IL G. P. & T. A., Chicago. Agent. Battle Creek. 24 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD SEPTEMBER 30, 1902:

BROTHER W. A. COLCORD, who has What Our Children May recently returned from Australia, will Accomplish remain in Battle Creek for the present AT the Iowa and Nebraska camp meet- at least, and will assist in the work of ings I grasped as never before what the the Mission Board. children of this denomination may do. In these conferences our leading work- BATTLE CREEK, MICH., SEPTEMBER 30, 1902. THE publishers of Good Health in ers have been encouraging the children England have increased the number of to undertake active missionary work, and URIAH SMITH they have found the selling of L. A. SMITH EDITORS pages to thirty-two, and they guarantee The Life W. A. SPICER a monthly circulation of fifty thousand Boat to be a convenient outlet for mis- W. W. PRESCOTT - - MANAGING EDITOR copies. Among the contributors to the sionary activity. The Managing Editor is responsible for all September number are Dr. J. H. Kellogg, At the Iowa meeting there were nearly editorial matter which is not signed. Mrs. H. R. Salisbury, M. E. Olsen, and forty children who had been selling The Mrs. W. C. Sisley. It is hoped that Life Boat, and they had live experiences, OUR churches were reminded last week treatment rooms will soon be opened in to relate at the children's meetings. that Sabbath, October 4, is the time rec- London, under the charge of Dr. A. B. To a certain extent this was true at ommended for the next semiannual col- Olsen. the Nebraska camp meeting. The chil- lection for the benefit of the Haskell and dren took hold of the selling of The James White Homes. We hope that WHAT better missionary work can you Life Boat on the camp grounds with public notice of this collection has already do in your home field than to place our such enthusiasm that it fairly surprised been given, and that there will be a lib- church paper, the REVIEW AND HERALD, the teachers. Nearly all the great mis- eral response. The work of these homes in the home of some one of your church sionaries began their missionary career appeals to all who believe in practical or company who, through indifference or in their childhood. When we are inter- godliness, and this call for help offers an inability, is not taking it? How can it esting children to do such simple work opportunity to express sympathy for the be expected that any one will keep pace as selling The Life Boat, we may be lay- work in a substantial way. Next Sab- with the advancing light of the third an- ing the foundation in them for great mis- bath is the time. gel's message who is deprived of the in- sionary experiences in the future. struction and counsel given week by week God has put a certain amount of ac- to God's people through this divinely or- tivity into every child, and if it is not ONE of our workers writes to us as dained channel of communication ? There wisely directed into right channels, then, follows : " We have found that the mes- is no other paper which is designed to like confined steam, it will show itself in• sage of ' Delay no longer' means that it take, or can take, the place of our destructive ways. Our church-school does not take all summer to hold one tent church paper. On this subject, the Lord teachers find that some of the most rest-- effort. The Lord would have us get more has given definite instruction: — less pupils take hold of this work with of the quickly ' into our work." We " Our people should make greater ef- the most enthusiasm. Do not crush the hope that others are having the same ex- forts to extend the circulation of the active spirit in your children. There is perience. It is certain that there must be REVIEW. If our brethren and sisters enough latent missionary talent among heralds who will go from place to place would only manifest greater earnestness, the children of this denomination easily with the message of warning and prepa- and put forth more persevering efforts to accomplish this, it would be done. . . . to dispose of fifty thousand copies of The ration. But those who do this work Those who consent to do without the Life Boat each month. It would bring effectively must be filled with the Spirit, REVIEW AND HERALD lose much. Through a great blessing to our children, to our that they may bear a convincing testi- its pages Christ may speak to them in homes, and to the people of the world, mony. warnings, in reproofs and counsel, which would change the current of their who would gladly purchase them. WE believe that we shall do a favor thoughts, and be to them as the bread of We supply them at two cents each, life." —" Testimonies," Vol. IV, p. 59p. to all who are interested in Bible study and they sell easily for five cents. This Will not you improve the opportunity by calling their attention to the Ameri- enables the children to earn money, which- that is before you to bring the bread of can Standard Edition of the Revised they can use to help other missionary life to some of those who have it not? Bible. We are inclined to accept the enterprises. Why not consider this sug- statement made in a leading religious gestion prayerfully, and then act upon WE learn by a letter from Prof. C. C. paper concerning this edition of the it, if you are favorably impressed by it?. Lewis, the president of Walla Walla Col- Bible, that " by remarkably unanimous DAVID PAULSON. lege, that that institution opened Septem- consent America now possesses the most ber 3 with an attendance of one hundred excellent translation of the Holy Scrip- THE special issues of our Swedish and and nineteen, which increased during the tures ever published in the English Danish-Norwegian papers are now ready first week to one hundred and thirty- tongue." The last edition is convenient to go on the press, and we hope they eight, including forty in the church in size, printed in bourgeois type, about will be ready to send out in a few days.. school. This is a larger number than has the same size of type as is used in this Our first edition is 40,000, and we hope been present at any previous opening, paragraph, and can be furnished bound that the orders will continue to pour in with one exception. Mrs. Lewis has in cloth boards, red edges, for $s. Better so lively that we may soon print another charge of the first four grades of the bindings can be supplied at higher prices. large edition. We have made plates, and. model church school, in which teachers Send your orders to this Office. can print several hundred thousand if preparing for church-school work are need be. We appreciate very much the given special training. Professor Lewis help we are receiving from our American brethren, and hope that those who have- A PAMPHLET of thirty-two pages has writes: " We are much pleased with our not yet sent in their orders will do so just been issued in the French language, new field of labor, and our hearts are soon. Here is the best opportunity we- entitled " un Grand Message. Les Trois filled with courage in the work, and with have had to get the truth before the. Anges Successifs D'Apocalypse 14." thankfulness to the Lord that he has Scandinavian people. Let us all do what This pamphlet was written by Brother given us a place in the closing message." we can to assist in this work. B. G. Wilkinson, and published at Basel. This is the second of our institutions to " How many are deceiving themselves We hope it will be the means of bringing report a most encouraging opening of the with regard to their true condition sim- a knowledge of this great message to school year. We shall be glad to hear ply because of their religious know], many who are now unacquainted with it. from the others. edge!"