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Upper — THE GARDEN, BRAZIL SCHOOL FARM Cross indicates where gardener stands Lower—THE DAM IN REAR OF BUILDINGS Provides water for garden in time of drouth See article in " World-Wide Field " department. Vol,. 94, No. 8 2 (vo) THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD now be easy for a State desiring to be state their opinion that the people are Ode anb Coiyment " bone dry " actually to be so. ready for this step. The London Daily England Nezts is among these: — ' Prohibition Advances Public opinion in England is rapidly " What we have not, and to our na- tional shame seem incapable of acquir- THE advocates of the legalized liquor drifting toward prohibition. " A whirl- ing, is the resolution to decree that the traffic continue to lose ground in both wind of sobriety, in theory if not in fact, prohibition of the consumption of alco- the United States and England. has swept over Britain, and almost every hol for the period of the war shall be newspaper, in both its editorial and ad- absolute and universal. There have been United States times when such a step would have pro- On' January 8 the Supreme Court of vertising columns, is advocating ' pro- voked a storm of opposition. Today we the United States handed down a deci- hibition for the period of the war' or believe it would be greeted with whole- sion that the Webb-Kenyon law is Con- the immediate state purchase of the liq- hearted approval by the solid mass of stitutional. This law was passed near uor trade. Shortage of food seems to the population." the dose of the Presidential term of have influenced the situation, and many It is surely a subject worthy of ear- William H. Taft, and had as its purpose journals of prominence have published nest effort that out of the present world the stopping of the shipment of liquor spirited protests against the conversion calamity some blessing should come to from wet States into dry States under of badly needed grain into intoxicants." the people, and that not merely for the the protection of interstate laws. Pres- The London Spectator, in reviewing time of the war, but for the subsequent ident Taft vetoed the bill as unconsti- the English situation, prints the follow- time of peace toward which all hopes tutional. Congress immediately passed ing paragraph at the head of its col- turn. If the nations of the world can the law over the Presidential veto, and umns: — free themselves from the throttle grasp now the Supreme Court has ruled that " The shortage of food remains the which alcohol has upon their manhood, the law is Constitutional. question of the hour, ' We are a be- they possibly can cope with the stupen- On January 9 the Senate of the United leaguered city.' Yet we continue to dous debts which the present war is States, by a vote of fifty-five to thirty- turn foodstuffs into intoxicants. Does fastening upon them. Otherwise the such a state of things satisfy the nation? struggle would seem hopeless. two, passed a bill to make the District It certainly does not satisfy us." of Columbia dry. And on January II L. L. C. It then proceeds to Outline its policy. -4- -4- -4- the same body passed by a substantial Heart Religion majority a bill excluding liquor adver- We quote only a short extract: — tising from mails in dry territory. These " The liquor problem has developed THE gospel according to God incul- two bills must pass the House before with extraordinary rapidity in the last cates submission to the will of God and three weeks, and is now, we believe, ripe uncompromising obedience to the com- they become law; but it is generally con- for solution. If it is solved now, the ceded that they will pass, if they come nation will greatly benefit, both in war mandments of God as found in his Word. up to a vote. and in peace. If, owing to want of The gospel according to man substitutes A new phrase in the prohibition cam- courage and consistency in our leading the will of man for the will of God and paign is now showing itself in the United politicians, it is not solved, the prose- the traditions of men for the command- cution of the war must be seriously States. The Prohibitionist latest slogan delayed, and we may be placed in a posi- ments of God. This is the religion of is "bone dry." Concerning this phrase tion of danger from which our states- human nature, which finds its fullest ex- the Washington Star of February 5, men could and ought to have preserved pression in the Roman Church, but as- says:— us. Moreover, we shall be forced to serts itself in the- experience of every face the future bowed down with a her- " This is the latest prohibition cry; itaFe of trouble from the past. individual, no matter what his church and it is very expressive. States have The Spectator policy provides, we connection, if he does not know the dif- gone, or are going, `bone dry.' No half- believe, the best method of solving the ference between religion as a doctrine way enactments, or halfway or half- problem. It is a winning policy and a and religion as a life. Well worth medi- hearted executions of enactments, but just policy. It can be stated, like most the real thing. When ' dry' is ordered, things that are worth anything, in a tation are the words of Clayton Sedg- ' bone dry' it is, or will be. very few words: — wick Cooper in the Christian Herald of " Reports of the past few days have (I) Prohibition for the war; (2) November t: — shown- great and significant gains for the elimination of private profit from the cause. They cover a wide sweep. " If we study the life of Jesus closely, the manufacture and sale of intoxicants we find that he was a breaker of tradi- Oregon has gone ' bone dry.' Tennessee after the war. will go `bone dry' March I. The gov- tions that had grown up about men and " The instrument for obtaining what had bound them hand and foot. The ernor has signed the bill, and will en- we desire is, in both cases, state pur- force the law. Alaska will be ' bone chase on just terms." Master brought the world back to reality, dry' by act of Congress. The Senate to God, to the inner laws of personal bill passed the House without a roll call. The London Times clearly states its righteousness. He said to the Jews, who Indiana will be `bone dry' in April of belief that prohibition is inevitable: — were sticklers for the letter of the law, next year. The bill passed both houses that to eat with unwashen hands defileth of the legislature by large majorities. " The liquor traffic is one of those not a man, but that the evil thoughts, the " Oregon, Indiana, and Tennessee are domestic concerns which have been pro- false witness against one's neighbor — solid and progressive States, inhabited foundly affected by the war; and, like these come forth out of the heart, and by people who are alert and up to date. others, it will be still further affected these defile the man. We need to exam- Alaska is a rich territory, just `coming as the pressure increases. Those who ine ourselves in the hours of meditation, out of the woods,' and Congress is show- are interested in it will do well to recog- to find if our religion is simply doing as ing a disposition to help her in every nize the signs and be prepared to accept some one else does, and always being way in her development. . . . the inevitable. It touches the conduct like the Pharisees, perfectly regular in Well, whether one believes in pro- of the war in two respects: one is the obeying certain man-made rites; or if hibition or not, all should welcome this food supply, and the other the efficiency religion is deeply rooted in a pure heart `bone dry' aspect of the contest. Let of our war industries. Both are of such and a right motive." it be understood what is in the balance, supreme importance that no regard for A life of unbroken fellowship with and what a victory will mean. If pro- sectional interests can be allowed to hibition on a nation-wide scale is to be stand in the way of any measures which God in Christ' leads one to inquire daily tried, let it be tried in the open, so to may be called for to strengthen the na- for the way of the Lord as revealed in say, and for all it is worth. The way tional effort." his Word without being turned aside to prohibit is to prohibit." While the Times favors state purchase from sound doctrine or trustful obedi- And with the Constitutionality of the and not prohibition, some papers declare ence by mere tradition — even our own Webb-Kenyon law assured, it should themselves openly for prohibition, and tradition. W. W. P. " Here is the Patience of the Saints: Here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the Faith of Jesus."

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great wave of national prepared as EDITORIAL swept over the country, mar canvass of both leading politica' les Let Us Avoid Jingoism as they have been several times exhorted in the recent Presidential contest. In by President Wilson, ought to preserve IT is to be regretted that in times like every quarter it has been recognized the spirit of neutrality and good will in these there are found so many men and that the United States must prepare for a political sense, how much more im- women throughout the country, and so an inevitable conflict in the future, that portant is it that the ministers of Christ many newspaper editors, who delight ap- the logical trend of events will draw the should do this. parently in creating false issues and in nation into the world's great maelstrom. stirring up a spirit of class hatred and These are times when we cannot af- In preparation for possible eventuali- racial animosity. Judging from Some of ford to indulge in wild talk. God's judg- ties the first session of the present Con- the statements we have read, it would ments are abroad in the land. We are gress appropriated more than two thirds appear to be the one desire of some of in the throes of earth's final struggles. of a billion dollars for naval armament, these misguided individuals to plunge We need to think seriously and soberly, a sum larger than all the nations of this, nation into war. and to talk wisely and discreetly. earth spent for naval preparation for It is difficult for one in the ordinary -4- -4.-- -4,-- the ten years prior to 1914. walks of life to realize the pressure A Sobering Sense of Responsi- In connection with this preparation a which is brought to bear upon men occu- bility new note has been struck in the Ameri- pying high positions in the state by these can program, and that is the cry for uni- untoward influences. Certainly the ear- THE present world situation must versal military training. This has been nest efforts of President Wilson are to bring a sobering sense of responsibility recommended by Gen. Hugh L. Scott, be commended in seeking as far as pos- to every Seventh-day Adventist who rec- the chief of staff of the United States sible to effect a conciliatory settlement ognizes its significance. Army, in his last report to Congress, with Germany, and the prayers of the What Is the Situation? and it is being voiced by a large major- children of God should arise daily that A great war, such as the world never ity of newspapers throughout' the coun- the Lord will give to him and to men saw before, in which fifteen nations are try, and by such men as ex-President occupying high positions of responsibil-, engaged, has been waged relentlessly for William Howard Taft. ity in every government, wisdom that the last two and one-half years. Four Already a bill has been introduced they may know how to rule in modera- million men have been buried on the into the Senate providing that every tion. battle fields in unmarked graves. Four young man of the age of nineteen shall We must remember that the United million others have been taken prison- receive six months' training in military States has a cosmopolitan population. ers, while fourteen million ,have been tactics, looking toward the creation in There is no distinct American national- wounded, many of them to remain help- nine years of a trained citizen army of ity. Either we ourselves or our fore- less invalids, gruesome living objects of more than three million men. Added fathers came from the nations of the war's terrible ravages. The national in- point is given to these preparations by Old World. Germany as well as Eng- debtedness of the nations involved has the strained relations now existing be- land and the other states of Europe has been increased by nearly fifty billion dol- tween the United States and Germany, contributed in no small measure to the lars. Peaceful countries have been rav- reaching the stage where direct diplo- stable citizenship of the United States. aged, fruitful fields desolated. Never matic relations have been broken off. The members of our own church as well has the world witnessed such desolation, Speak with One Voice as the members of other churches have such appalling frightfulness, and on To one acquainted with the prophecies gathered men and women of every blood. such a huge scale, as this conflict has of the Word these conditions speak with We need in our thoughts and words to produced. one voice. They proclaim that we are cultivate feelings of amity and good will We who live in the United States living in the closing days of earth's his- toward all men. have been unfavorably affected only in- tory; that the, last great struggle be- While we deplore the spirit of political directly. Indeed, so far as material tween the nations of earth is rapidly jingoism manifested by newspaper writ- blessings are concerned, this country has drawing near; that the scenes of Arma- ers, let us seek to avoid this spirit in our benefited by the sorrows of the Old geddon will soon be enacted; that the own personal experience. We have seen World. The rapidly diminishing gold judgment of the last great day is near several Seventh-day Adventist workers supply of Europe has flowed in unceas- at hand; that Christ will soon come to (but we are glad that they are very ex- ing streams into American coffers. This take his children home. ceptional) who have felt a special bur- country has witnessed an unparalleled The growing acuteness of the rela- den to discuss the national merits of the era of financial prosperity. But in the tions of the United States to the world present European conflict, and who have midst of this great prosperity American situation tells us that we in this country shown strong partisan feeling over the statesmen have recognized that sooner will soon be brought into the same diffi- question. This is unfortunate. Such or later this country will be brought culties, the same trying places, as have talk either in the pulpit or out of it can face to face with the terrible specter of many of our brethren in the Old World. never make for the spirit of peace and war, the same as the nations of the Old We can no longer comfort ourselves good will. If the people of this country, World. 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people of this country will read. The NA hilt we were thus talking, some of preme trial are far distant. We are liv- the h athen party ran upon us —'five or spirit of inquiry is abroad in the land. ing amid the troubles and trials of the six o . them upon each of us. Only one last I days, and the future promises no From every quarter is arising the ques- of our party made any resistance; the lessening of the intensity. Rather will tion as to what will be the outcome of other two sat still upon the ground. the darkness of earth's night increase this growing disquietude, this conflict The Ilieathen soon became afraid; they among the nations of men. What do were as children — yea, like dead men and the dangers thicken as we near the before us. Being thus left uninjured, dose of earth's history. these stirring events portend? Where we praised God, and proceeded on our may their significance be learned? 'dance in Perplexing Situations journey. God's power and love were The Hour of Opportunity with us that day. We thought of his he significance of these things word, ' He is a present help in trouble.' e to us a sobering sense of It is in our power to answer these in- He was our refuge and shield. He mn responsibility,,, The personal quiries. This is our time of rare oppor- alone is God; there is none else."— nship we should sustain to many tunity. God has connected us with this " Gems from the Coral Islands," Gill. varied and perplexing issues which movement for such a time as this, and In those same days some Rarotongan t us, every one must largely Be- woe to us if we are unfaithful to this teachers were set ashore on Efate, in te for himself. The Word of God solemn responsibility. We have passed the New Hebrides. Some time before, deals for the most part with great prin- the hour in the history of this movement wicked Sailors had, robbed and killed ciples. It does not tell us in clear detail when we can afford to be careless or some of the islanders, and in retaliation just what we should do in every situa- indifferent, when we can afford to go a party of twenty-one stranded sailors tion that may arise. The Lord knew on with the careless, ungodly throng. had shortly before been killed and eaten. that the dangers confronting his church These times demand a new and unre- But for the love of souls the teachers would become so complex, so multitudi- served consecration. were willing to be left among these sav- nous in form, that it would be practically May the things taking place around ages. Gill's account tells of opposition impossible to instruct his disciples in us be a clarion call to duty to every that quickly developed: — detail as to how they should relate them- Seventh-day Adventist. May every man " Determined to prevent the further selves to every phase of the situation. and woman in our ranks seek as never spread of the ' new religion,' thirty But he did give the Holy Spirit as a before to realize that God has a work armed savage warriors came from a distant settlement, in the bay, to the guide, and he tells us that when we shall for him to do in helping to warn the place where the teachers resided, and, world; in seeking the lost and endeav- be brought into these dark and trying in company with a few of the most dar- experiences, when we shall be brought oring to save men and women for whom ing there, determined to put an end to before kings and governors to answer Christ died. In laboring to save others, their lives. They were as lambs among for our faith, it shall be given us in that each must work out his own salvation. wolves, but an invisible hand was their May a sobering sense of our solemn defense, and not a hair of their head same hour the words we should speak, was then injured. For many days the " for," he says, " it is not ye that speak, responsibility rest upon us in this hour warriors continued their schemes and but the Spirit of your Father which of opportunity. F. M. w. experiments to strike the fatal blow, but speaketh in you." See Matt. To: 16-2o. all without success; and they returned This emphasizes the need of every be- home, declaring it a wonderful thing, The Restraining Hand and as an evidence of a power that they liever's sustaining that pvsonal relation- could not understand, that the teachers, ship to the Lord that will enable the SOME one has said that the record of without weapons, should escape from Master to guide him in judgment and in early missionary achievement in the their hands. Again and again these wisdom in every trial. South Seas should be written in letters 'wicked men came in contact with the of starlight. Wonderful transformations teachers — more than once they actually Our Duty in the Present Crisis raised their hatchets; but their arms But while we may not understand were wrought in those island fields by were restrained, they trembled, and clearly at this time just how we should the power of the gospel. Again and could not strike. relate ourselves as individuals to some again the, hand of God was stretched ' Sonic time after, another party from another district set out on the same of these perplexing situations, we may forth to save his servants from enemies who could not understand why they bloody errand, and determined that they understand without a doubt or question would not suffer a defeat, as their neigh- what God requires of us as a church in were powerless to carry out their savage bors had done. Many canoes were fitted the crisis which confronts us. He has purposes. out, in which not less than sixty of the most savage of heathen warriors set off made his church the conservators of the Mission work on Aneityum, in the New Hebrides, was begun by native teachers on their murderous expedition. Could everlasting gospel. He has given to it we have seen them, skirting the shores, a knowledge of the meaning of these in the early forties. One of them has passing quickly along to the spot of their things that are coming upon the world. told, in his simple way, how God deliv- expected conquest, we should have heard Upon the church there is laid the duty ered him and his associates while on a their profane war song, already chorused visit to the heathen in the inland dis- with shouts of victory; we should have of disseminating this knowledge, of call- seen them whirling their paddles and tricts. They were met in the forest by ing the attention of earth's inhabitants their, spears in the air, dancing about as to present conditions, not as events of a party of warriors with clubs and the limits of the canoe admitted, with political significance merely, but as signs spears. The account continues. — diabolical fury, as their bloodthirsty de- " They said that they had heard of us; sires seemed even already gratified. . . . of the day of God. It is our duty to But God 'was near to save. The party study conditions in the world as related they well knew what we were trying to do ; they knew that their gods were as had not proceeded more than two thirds to fulfilling prophecy; and it is no less true as ours; and that they were come of their journey before they were over- our duty, as well as our blessed privilege, out to kill us. taken by a storm; their canoes were to give to others that which Heaven in " One of our party, who well knew dashed in pieces, and the whole com- pany returned to their homes, more un- mercy has given to us. their language, told us they were quite sincere in their intentions, and inquired successful and more humbled than those We may not be able to go forth and what we should do. ' Shall we fight who had gone before." preach the word, but in the providence with them,' he asked, ' and thus try to The scene shifts to New Caledonia. of God there has been prepared an abun- defend ourselves?' To which I re- Teachers were settled upon the island. plied, ' No, friend; let us do nothing. dance of literature dealing with these * and converts were increasing. Chief vital, living questions. Every member Let not our hands be upon them. God is with us; let us trust in him, and he Mathuku, of the neighboring Isle of of the church can take part in distribut- will either save us out of their hands or Pines,. or Kunie, one of the wildest and ing this literature. As never before, the strengthen us to bear the trouble.' most powerful chiefs in Polynesia, had (173) 5 FEBRUARY 22, 1 9 1 7 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD again and again sent word to New Cale- the Jewish nation, and then in the vis- literature. Words are used with novel donia that the Christians must be driven ible embodiment of himself in Jesus of meanings; and the capitalization, the out. Finally he sent the message,, ;" If Nazareth. " In the beginning was the punctuation, and the construction are you do not kill the teachers, I will' apme Word, and the Word was with God, and unusual. Speaking of her doctrine and and kill them, and you too." He clime the Word was God. . . . In him was some of the terms she uses, Mrs. Eddy with canoes full of warriors. Taunga, life; and the life was the light of men." says: — the leading teacher, wrote: — John I : 1-4. " I named it Christian, because it is compassionate, helpful, and spiritual. " The people of our settlement wished It seems strange indeed that those who have received this revelation should God, I called Immortal Mind. That us to flee to the mountains and hide our- which sins, suffers, and dies, named selves; but we said, No; Jesus is our turn from it back to ideas and theories mortal mind. The physical senses, or mountain, and we will fly to him.' On which do not spring from divine inspira- sensuous nature, I called error and the day appointed, it was arranged that tion, neither are in agreement with it.° shadow. Soul I denominated Substance, nine or ten of the heathen savages should because Soul alone is truly substantial. come to the teachers' house, 'and com- Yet in our day we see many new fads and " isms " appearing even among God I characterized as individual entity, mence an angry discussion about the but His corporeality I denied. The Real resurrection of the dead. As the discus- Christians,— false doctrines which, when I claimed as eternal; and its antipodes, sion advanced, one of the party, pointing received, sweep the recipients from their or the temporal, I described as unreal. to some graves near, demanded of the Spirit I called the reality; and matter, teachers in an angry tone of voice, former moorings in the truth of the Bible. The very conditions which we the unreality."—"Retrospection and In- When will these men live again?' trospection," edition 1891, p. 90. With mingled positiveness and kindness, see all about us were foretold by the the teachers replied, They will live apostle Paul, and given by him as a sign Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy tells of her again at the end of the world. Jesus, of the times in which we live. In the discovery of Christian Science, in the the Son of God, will come, and all who following words : — have lived will live again, and will be fourth chapter of the first epistle to judged; those who love him will then Timothy we read: — " In the year i866 I discovered the live with him in heaven forever, but Christ Science, or divine laws of life, " Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, and named it Christian Science. God those who love him not will live in ever- that in the latter times some shall depart lasting fire.' By this we know you are had been graciously fitting me, during from the faith, giving heed to seducing many years, for the reception of a final deceivers,' rejoined the heathen; `and spirits, and doctrines of devils." Verse T. we are going to kill you.' revelation of the absolute divine Prin- " Upon this four men rushed forward We must not, however, suppose that ciple of scientific being, and healing."— armed with hatchets, and one of them because an idea or teaching is new to us, "Science and Health," edition 1906, p. 107. seized Noa's right arm in his left hand, it is necessarily wrong. There is many and raised his hatchet to strike the fatal Without going into any discussion of blow. Another stood behind Taunga a hidden diamond, deep down in the with his weapon over the head of his in- mine of the divine revelation, which may the life of Mrs. Eddy, or the validity of tended victim. The teachers bowed their be found 'by the painstaking searcher. the experiences she went through as heads and calmly resigned themselves These jewels, when polished, serve but she recounts them in her own published into the hands of God. All was ready. works; without calling into question the It was as though the deed was already to adorn with still greater luster the done. But strange to relate, the man diadem of truth. How then shall we sincerity of the woman, or even the ac- at whose nod the hatchets were to fall, distinguish the false from the true? tuality of the healing she says she ex- silently signified, ' Not yet ; ' and the sol- perienced, let us consider how she says emn crisis turned in favor of the devoted " To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, she gained the Christian Science doc- teachers. A positive, yet unseen, Power trines. 'She says : — was there. The company dispersed, and it is because there is no light in them." the `men of Jehovah' were left under Isa. 8: 20. " The Bible was my textbook. It an- the experience of emotions similar to Christian Science swered my questions as to how I was those of him who said in former days, Of the new teachings which we find healed; but the Scriptures had to me a Now I know that God hath sent his spreading at the present time, one of the new meaning, a new tongue. Their angel, and hath delivered me out of the spiritual signification appeared; and I hand of Herod.' "—Id. most interesting is Christian Science. apprehended for the first time, in their Its appeal is especially strong to the No wonder these faithful converts to spiritual meaning, Jesus' teaching and sick and the afflicted,— those who feel demonstration, and the Principle and Christianity who placed their lives in that there is no human remedy for their rule of spiritual Science and Metaphys- daily jeopardy for the love of Jesus, ills. The ranks of its adherents are ical Healing,— in a word, Christian came to know that their God Jehovah Science."—"Retrospection and Intro- largely recruited from those who them- was able to deliver. " He alone is God," spection," p. 33. selves have received physical benefits or "I have found nothing in ancient or they said; "there is none else." whose friends have received such help in modern systems on which to found W. A. S. from Christian Science practitioners. my own, except the teachings and dem- onstrations of our great Master, and the Few, if any, well persons have been con- lives of prophets and apostles. The Bi- False Systems of Belief verted to it simply through careful study, ble has been my only authority. I have FALSE systems of belief have been of its doctrines. In our consideration had no other guide in the straight and prevalent in the world ever since man of these doctrines we shall present quo- narrow way' of Truth."—"Science and first turned from God and the truth tations only from recognized Christian Health," p. 126. which is in him. As a result of apostasy Science authorities. This seems a direct challenge to com- from God, ignorance of divine truth Two difficulties immediately present pare the teaching of Christian Science came upon the great mass of mankind. themselves as obstacles to a fair dis- with the teaching of the Bible. If the Many in their blindness, feeling that in- cussion of the doctrines of Christian two are found to be out of harmony, the stinctive desire to worship, which seems Science. One difficulty is that the sys- true Christian will know which to re- inborn in the human heart, made them- tem of belief is so contrary to all human ject. L. L. C. selves gods of wood and stone and wor- experience that it was impossible even shiped these dumb idols. Even the most for Mrs. Eddy, the founder of Christian SMALL kindnesses, small courtesies, gifted among the heathen could not find Science, in that textbook of the faith, small considerations, habitually prac- God by searching for him., But God, " Science and Health, with Key to the ticed in our social intercourse, give a in his infinite mercy, granted a revela- Scriptures," to be consistent in her pres- greater charm to the character than a tion of himself to mankind,— first in his entation. The other difficulty is the pe- great display of talents and accomplish- dealings with the patriarchs and with culiar diction used in Christian Science ments.—M. A. Kelty.

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411, titito Abram, after that Lot was sep- aiated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, TSibic MP. tubie5 and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and east- The Saints' Inheritance I give it." For a time, Satan claims the ward, -and westward : for all the land world as his dominion, and we are in the which thou seest, to thee will I give it, E. K. SLADE enemy's land. He is recognized as prince and to thy seed forever. And I will SALVATION is for eternity, and its re- of this world by Christ, who said to his make thy seed as the dust of the earth: wards are to be everlasting. Those who disciples, " Hereafter I will not talk so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be cherish the blessed hope, and who choose much with you : for the prince of this the lot of the " saints " here, are jus- world cometh, and hath nothing in me." numbered. Arise, walk through the land tified in cherishing a deep interest in that John i4: 3o. He who was placed in Eden in the length of it and in the breadth which is promised and provided for their' to have dominion over all the earth be- of it; for I will give it unto thee." Gen. eternal happiness. " The way of the came a slave to the usurper. As a sub- 13 . 14-17. Many centuries have passed righteous is made plain." We are not ject of Satan, he was expelled from since this promise was made, and it is left 'to guess and speculate, nor need Eden. So God " drove out the man; and certain that neither Abraham nor his there be any degree of uncertainty re- he placed at the east of the garden of descendants have come into possession garding the time, place, and nature of Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword of the land. It is also certain that the the saints' inheritance. Men will spend which turned every way, to keep the way earth is as much in the hands of the their lifetime here in seeking accurate of the tree of life." Gen. 3: 24, Through enemy as it was in the day that this and definite knowledge concerning mat- Adam's fall the dominion was lost, not promise was made. In the promise made ters of only temporal value, and neglect to him only, but for the time being it to Abraham and his seed, it is evident to learn that which is so vital to their ceased to be the kingdom of God and that the seed cannot be his natural de- eternal welfare and happiness. It is the became the realm of a rival ruler. scendants. The promise relates to a future time and to those who are born privilege of the Christian to have a clear The Dominion to be Restored ihto the great family of God through and vivid understanding of " the reward This apparent failure in the purpose of the inheritance." faith. " Know ye therefore that they of the Creator concerning this earth is which are of faith, the same are the Purposes of God Not to be Defeated overcome by the plan of redemption. An children of Abraham." " If ye be At the time of the creation, as re- all-sufficient ransom price has been paid Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, corded in Genesis, this earth became a by Christ, " who gave himself a ransom and heirs according to the promise." fixed part of God's kingdom. It was not for all." I Tim. 2: 6. The plan of sal- Gal. 3: 7, 29. vation is designed to redeem and restore an experiment, nor was it a temporary That Abraham and his natural de- that which sin has wrought. " The ran- arrangement subject to change or de- scendants did not receive the inheritance somed of the Lord shall return, and come feat. " Thus saith the Lord that created in this world, and that it is still future, to Zion with songs and everlasting joy the heavens; God himself that formed is clearly shown by the words of Paul: the earth and made it; he hath estab- upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing " By faith Abraham, when he was called lished it, he created it not in vain, he to go into a place which he should after formed it to be inhabited." Isa. 45: 18. shall flee away." Isa. 35: to. Christ wins back and restores to the saved the receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and It was given to man, whom God had he went out, not knowing whither he made in his own image. " The heaven, lost dominion. "And thou, 0 tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter went. By faith he sojourned in the land even the heavens, are the Lord's: but the of promise, as in a strange country, earth hath he given to the children of of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion: the kingdom shall dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and men." Ps. 115: 16. The record of the Jacob, the heirs with him of the same' gift to man and the dominion he was to come to the daughter of Jerusalem." Micah 4: 8. No one will question that promise: for he looked for a city which have, is as follows: God created man bath foundations, whose builder and in his own image, in the image of God the former dominion is this earth which was given to Adam. The following maker is God." " These all died in created he him; male and female created faith, not having received Ihe promises, he them. And God blessed them, and statements from the book of Daniel in- dicate that the plan of redemption gives but having seen them afar off, and were God said unto them, Be fruitful, and persuaded of them, and era: iced them, multiply, and replenish the earth, and to the saved this earth renewed, to be their future home: " There was given and confessed that they were swinger, subdue it: and have dominion over the and pilgrims on the earth. For they that fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, say such things declare plainly that they air, and over every living thing. that seek a country." Heb. II : 8-1o, 13, 14. moveth upon the earth." Gen. I : 27, 28. should serve him : his dominion is an In harmony with this great fundamen- "And the Lord God planted a garden everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which tal truth so clearly and positively stated eastward in Eden; and there he put the in the promises to Abraham and his man whom he had formed." Gen. 2 : 8. shall not be destroyed." " And the king- descendants, are all Bible declarations Regardless of subsequent events, we are dom and dominion, and the greatness of relating to the reward of the righteous. warranted in believing that God could the kingdom under the whole heaven, Christ, through whom the inheritance is not be turned from this purpose of his shall be given to the people of the saints made possible, said to his mountainside concerning the, earth, which he had " es- of the Most High, whose kingdom is an hearers: " Blessed are the meek: for tablished." everlasting kingdom, and all dominions they shall inherit the earth." Matt. 5: 5. The Dominion Lost shall serve and obey him." Dan. 7: 14, 27. This is sufficient to show that The thirty-seventh psalm contains the Through disobedience, Adam yielded • the present world is to be redeemed and following repetition of the promise: himself and the dominion into the hands given to the redeemed from among its " Those that wait upon the Lord, they of Satan. The claims of the rival ruler inhabitants. shall inherit the earth." " The meek concerning this part of God's kingdom shall inherit the earth; and shall delight which Adam lost by choosing obedience The Promise to Abraham Yet to be Fulfilled themselves in the abundance of peace." to him rather than to God, are recorded We have considered some of the " Such as be blessed of him shall in- thus in Luke 4: 5, 6: " The devil, taking prophecies concerning the redemption of herit the earth." " The righteous shall him up into a high mountain, showed the lost dominion and its restoration as inherit the land, and dwell therein for- unto him all the kingdoms of the world the home of 'the saved. We will now ever." Isaiah mentions the inheritance in a moment of time. And the devil said give attention to some of the promises of the righteous: " They shall inherit the 4 unto him, All this power will I give thee, relating to the future abode of the re- land forever, the branch of my planting, and the glory of them: for that is deliv- deemed. God's promise to Abraham the work of my hands, that I may be ered unto me; and to whomsoever I will should be understood. " The Lord said glorified." Isa. 6o: 21. (175) 7 FEBRUARY 22, 1917 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD

Time and Place Made Known advanced movements are expected to 6. Tell how Adam lost the dominion. 7. Who claims the earth now, and on Vague and indefinite views are held by prepare the nations for that time. It is what grounds? a vast majority) of Christians regaIrding felt that mankind and the present nations 8. What ransom is paid for the lost man the time that the saved enter into their of earth are to be reformed, and that the and his home? reward, and the place and nature of their kingdoms of this world are to become 9. Who wrests the former dominion from Satan? eternal inheritance. Heaven is spoken the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his 0. Who are they that will possess this of as a place to which the soul goes to Christ, in the sense that he is to become dominion and kingdom in •the future? spend eternity, and it is difficult for the the ruler over this present world. 1. Give the promise made to Abraham and mind to grasp anything tangible, real, or When the promise to Abraham is ful- his seed. 12. Who are included in this promise? enjoyable in such a conception. filled, there is to be a new order of 13. Have any to whom this promise is made There is no Scriptural foundation for things. Only the man with a new heart entered the inheritance? the theory that the reward immediately will be a subject of God's kingdom. The 14. Give other promises relating to the re- follows death. This belief is based on nations of earth become " like the chaff ward of the righteous. 15. Where are the righteous to be re- the popular teaching that man is im- of the summer threshing floors." They warded? mortal, and that the undying part passes are wholly destroyed, and no place is 16. When are they to be rewarded? to its reward at death. But since man found for them. He who comes to be 17. What becomes of •the old world? is mortal, and death is a state of uncon- our King says, " Behold, I make all 18. Under what conditions does Christ be- come king? sciousness, or " sleep," there must be an things new." The kingdom restored is 19. What does Isaiah say about the new awakening from that condition before to be a new heavens and a new earth, heavens and earth and the city ? a reward can be realized and received. with a new Jerusalem as its capital. 20. Tell of conditions described by' John. Christ speaks of the time of reward: Isaiah records the promise thus: " Be- -1- -1- " Thou shalt be recompensed at the res- hold, I create new heavens and a new -1- urrection of the just." Luke 14:14. earth: and the former shall not be re- Going Home Job said, " If a man die, shall he live membered, nor come into mind. But again? all the days of my appointed be ye glad and rejoice forever in that DELLA BURROWAY time will I wait, till my change come. which I create: for, behold, I create Je- BEFORE I left India, my people wrote Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee." rusalem a rejoicing, and her people a me that they would go from Canada, Job 14: 14, 15. "As in Adam all die, joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, Oregon, and Indiana to Canton, Ohio, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. and joy in my people: and the voice of to greet me at my home-coming. Though But every man in his own order : Christ weeping shall be no more heard in her, the Atlantic was unusually sough, I was the first fruits; afterward they that are nor the voice of crying." " They shall strengthened to bear the seasickness by Christ's at his coming. Then cometh build houses, and inhabit them; and they the thought of loved ones and home. Ar- the end, when he shall have delivered up shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit riving in New York, I received at least the kingdom to God, even the Father." of them. They shall not build, and an- a dozen letters from different members Cor. 15:22-24. other inhabit; they shall not plant, and of the family, all telling me that broth- These and many other scriptures another eat: for as the days of a tree ers and sisters were with mother await- plainly teach that the reward follows are the days of my people, and mine ing my return. the resurrection, and that the resurrec- elect shall long enjoy the work of their As the train sped from New York to tion comes at the second coming of hands." Isa. 65: 17-19, 21, 22. Canton, every frame house, every red Christ. The rule of Satan is then at an That which was promised through barn, every woman with a sunbonnet end, and the kingdom is rescued and re- Isaiah, was revealed to John for our en- on, the little dandelions, the clover fields, stored, to become the home of the saved. couragement, and the following beauti- all cried, " Home, home, home and loved Thus the time of reward is clearly ful description has been a comfort to ones." taught. many weary pilgrims: " I saw a new Feeling that the meeting was too It has already been clearly shown by heaven and a new earth: for the first sacred for the public to gaze upon, the many scriptures that the earth restored heaven and the first earth were passed family sent my brother and brother-in- is to be the home of the saved. Every away; and there was no more sea. And law to the station to escort me home, promise points to such a reward. The I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, where the family were all gathered to saints of all ages have looked forward coming down from God out of heaven, greet me. Boys and girls who were to a better country " and to a " city prepared as a bride adorned for her hus- babes when I left, came rushing toward which hath foundations, whose builder band. And I heard a great voice out of me, while brothers, sisters, and mother and maker is God." In harmony with heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle each tried to be first to greet me, tears this belief, is the promise, " Behold, the of God is with men, and he will dwell of joy mingling with the embraces and righteous shall be recompensed in the with them, and they shall be his people, words of greeting. Glorious home- earth." Prov. II: 31. and God himself shall be with them, and coming! All Things New be their God. And God shall wipe away As my mind goes back to that family all tears from their eyes; and there shall The Jewish church, and even the fol- reunion, to the loved ones whom I never be no More death, neither sorrow, nor expect to greet again on this earth, my lowers of Christ, took great pride in their crying, neither shall there be any more church, their nation, and their achieve- heart cries out, " Home, home, eternal pain: for the former things are passed home•! I must win it at any cost." ments. On one occasion, " one of his away." " He that overcometh shall in- The day is soon coming when the work disciples saith unto him, Master, see herit all things; and I will be his God, will be finished, and we shall go home. what manner of stones and what build- and he shall be my son." Rev. 21 : 1-4, 7. ings are here ! " Mark 13 : I. This be- Father is waiting for us. Our Saviour This, dear reader, is the Christian's is waiting for us. Angels are waiting trays the pride they felt for Jerusalem hope. These are some of the scriptures and the temple. They felt that the Mas- for us. The redeemed who have been forming the basis of our belief in the resurrected and translated are waiting ter must become the king of their nation purpose of God concerning this earth and make their earthly kingdom his for us. The journey is almost over. and the redeemed. realm. It has always been the tendency The heavy trials just ahead can be light- of mankind to set the heart upon earthly ened by keeping the mind fixed upon the kingdoms and human achievements. At Questions home-going. Soon life's rough sea will the first advent, it was thought by the 1. Are the righteous left in doubt as to the be crossed, and we shall be at home. certainty and character of their reward? Brethren, sisters, let us not delay to followers of Christ that he would then 2. Do men as a rule seek for facts and become the king of their nation and sub- definite proof concerning the future of this get ready, or the loved One will come due their enemies. Another error re- earth as they do in other lines of knowledge? and we shall not be present at the great- garding the kingdom of Christ and the 3. For what purpoSe did God create the est family reunion that the world is ever home of the saved, is held by a large earth? to know,— a family reunion which will 4. To whom does the earth belong? and class today who believe that Christ is into whose hands was it given? continue throughout the ceaseless ages soon to become this world's king. Great 5. How extensive was Adam's dominion? of eternity. 8 (176) THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD VoL. 94, No. 8

day ; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father; for the " Cannot Come Down " against the Sabbath of the fourth com- mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." mandment. We should not allow our This disturbs the enemies of our faith, MRS. E. G. WHITE feelings to control us, and divert us from and every means is employed to hinder (From the REVIEW of July 6, x886) the work of warning the world. us in our work. And yet the broken- " I AM doing a great work," said Ne- The case of Nehemiah is presented be- down wall is going steadily up. The hemiah, " so that I cannot come down: fore us. He was engaged in building World is being warned, and many are why should the work cease, whilst I the walls of Jerusalem, and the enemies turning away from trampling under their leave it, and come down to you? " of God were determined that the walls feet the Sabbath of Jehovah. God is in God's people should not relax their should not be built. " But it came to this work, and man cannot stop it. The watchfulness, or their vigilance, for one pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, angels of God are working with the ef- moment. Satan is upon our track. He and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, forts of God's faithful servants, and is determined to overcome God's com- and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls steadily the work advances. mandment-keeping people with his temp- of Jerusalem were made up, and that the We shall meet with opposition of every tations. If we give no place to the devil, breaches began to be stopped, then they description, as did the builders of the but resist his devices, steadfast in the were very wroth, and conspired all of walls of Jerusalem; but if we watch and faith, we shall have strength to depart them together to come and to fight pray, and work as they did, God will from all iniquity. Those who keep the against Jerusalem, and to hinder it." fight our battles for us, and give us pre- commandments of God will be a power In this case, a spirit of hatred and cious victories. Nehemiah " slave to the in the land, if they live up to their light opposition to the Hebrews formed the Lord, and departed not from following and their privileges. They may be pat- bond of union, and created the mutual him, but kept his commandments, which 4 terns of piety, holy in heart and in con- sympathy among different bodies of the Lord commanded Moses. And the versation. We shall not have ease, that men, who otherwise might have warred Lord was with him." we may cease watchfulness and prayer. against each other. This will illustrate Messengers were sent repeatedly, so- As the time draws near for Christ to be what we frequently witness in our day liciting a conference with Nehemiah; revealed in the clouds of heaven, Satan's in the existing union of men of different but he refused to meet them. Bold temptations will be brought to bear with denominations to oppose the present threats were made of what they proposed greater power upon those who keep truth, whose only bond seems to be that to do, and messengers were sent to ha- God's commandments; for he knows which is dragonic in its nature, manifest- rangue the people engaged in the work that his time is short. ing hatred and bitterness against the of building. They presented flattering The work of Satan will be carried on remnant who keep the commandments inducements, and promised them free- through agents. Ministers who hate the of God. " Nevertheless we made our dom from restraint and wonderful priv- law of God, will employ any means to prayer unto our God, and set a watch ileges if they would unite their interest lead souls from their loyalty. Their against them day and night, because of with them, and cease their work of build- hearts are fully determined to make war them." ing the walls of Jerusalem. against those who keep the command- We are in constant danger of becom- But the people were commanded not ments' of God and have the faith of ing self-sufficient, relying upon our own to engage in controversy with their en- Jesus. This class feel that it is a virtue wisdom, and not making God our emies, and to answer them not a word, to talk, to write, and to act out the most strength. Nothing disturbs Satan so that no advantage of words might be bitter hatred against us. We need not much as our not being ignorant of his given them. Threatenings and ridicule look for fair dealing, or for justice, at devices. If we feel our dangers, we were resorted to. They said, " Even that their hands. Many of them are inspired shall feel the need of prayer, as did which they build, if a fox go up, he shall by Satan with insane madness against Nehemiah, and like him, we shall ob- even break down their stonewall." San- those who are keeping the command- tain that sure defense that will give us ballat " was wroth, and took great indig- ments of God. We shall be maligned security in peril. If we are careless and nation, and mocked the Jews." Nehe- and misrepresented, all our motives and indifferent, we shall surely be overcome miah prays, " Hear, 0 our God ; for actions will be misjudged, and our char- by Satan's devices. We must be vig- we are despised: and turn their reproach acters will be attacked. The wrath of ilant. While, like Nehemiah, we resort upon their own head." the dragon will be manifested in this to prayer, taking all our perplexities "And I sent messengers unto them, manner. But we should not be in the and burdens to God, we should not feel saying, I am doing a great work, so that least discouraged. Our strength is in that we have nothing to do. We are to I cannot come down: why should the Jesus, our Advocate. If we, in humility watch as well as pray. We should work cease, whilst I leave it, and come and humble trust, hold fast to God, he watch the work of our adversaries, lest down to you? Yet they sent unto me will give us grace and heavenly wisdom they gain advantage in deceiving souls. four times after this sort; and I an- to withstand all the wiles of Satan, and We should, in the wisdom of Christ, swered them after the same manner. to come off victors. make efforts to defeat their purposes, Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me It will not increase our influence, or while, at the same time, we do not suffer in like manner the fifth time with an bring us into favor with God, to retaliate them to call us from our great work. open letter in his hand." or come down from our great work to Truth is stronger than error. Right- We shall receive the most fierce op- their level in meeting their slanders. eousness will prevail over wrong. position from those who oppose the law There are those who will resort to any The Lord's people are seeking to heal of God. But like the builders of the species of deception and gross falsehood the breach which has been made in the walls of Jerusalem, we should not be di- to gain their object and deceive souls, law of God. "And they that shall be of verted and hindered from our work by and to cast stigma upon the law of God thee shall build the old waste places: reports, by messengers desiring discus- and those who love to obey his com- thou shalt raise up the foundations of sion or controversy, or by intimidating mandments. They will repeat the most many generations; and thou shalt be threats, the publication of falsehoods, or I inconsistent and vile falsehoods, over called, The repairer of the breach, The any of the devices Satan may instigate. and over, until they make themselves restorer of paths to dwell in. If thou Our answer should be, We are engaged believe that they are truth. These are turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, in a great work, and we cannot come the strongest arguments they have to use from doing thy pleasure on my holy down. We shall sometimes be perplexed FEBRUARY 22, 1917 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD (177) 9 to know what course we should pursue, Then again, what some one else does, My One Only Desire to preserve 'the honor of the cause of must never be allowed to make us do J. M. HOPKINS God, and to vindicate his truth. wrong, even if the " some one else " is I no not ask my humble name The course of Nehemiah should have a leader in Zion. The leaders were going May have a place on roll of fame, a strong bearing upon our minds, as to absolutely wrong when they put the ark Nor would I seek that men should say, the manner of meeting this kind of op- upon a wagon drawn by oxen, instead " He's rich in gold ; he men can sway." of upon the shoulders of certain priests. I pray for naught the world calls great ponents. We should take all these My soul to stir, my pride elate; things to the Lord in prayer, as Nehe- The oxen stumbled, and it looked to Nor yet for aught my heart to cheer, miah made his supplication to God while Uzzah as if the ark was going to fall; For greater joys or fewer tears. his own spirit was humbled. He clung but God never gave him the job of hold- ing the ark on the wagon. Some of the But this I pray, That I may be to God with unwavering faith. This is A brother kind to each I see, the course we should pursue. Time is leaders were guilty of disregarding God's A helper true to him in need, too precious for the servants of God plain instruction; but Uzzah knew he The naked clothe, the hungry feed; to devote to vindicating their character had no right to touch the sacred chest, That some may say, " He was kind to me, and the fact that even the generalissimo And a happier vision now I see,— blackened by those who hate the Sabbath A life more blest, a sky more bright, of the Lord. We should move forward of Israel's armies had charge of the pro- With wrongs redressed and purpose right, with unwavering confidence, believing cession and was first guilty of trans- A hope beyond this vale of tears, that God will give to his truth great and gression did not seem to tie sufficient rea- A home in heaven through eternal years ; " son in the sight of God for sparing That I this suffering world may bless precious victories. In humility, meek- Till Jesus calls me home to rest. ness, and purity of life, relying upon Uzzah's life. He did mercifully spare Roseburg, Ore. Jesus, we shall carry a convincing power the life of the leaders, and afterward -4,- -4,- with us that we have the truth. they went at the work in God's own way, We do not understand the faith and and were abundantly blessed as they Commandment Keepers the Light confidence we may have in God, the carried out God's plans. of the World great blessings which faith will give us, The whole " conference committee " E. HILLIARD as is our privilege. An important work that were running things at Jerusalem is before us. We are to obtain a moral the day when Jesus stood there by the IN the days of our Saviour, Jewish fitness for heaven. Our words and our chests and watched the people cast money tradition and the rigorous round of example are to tell upon the world. An- into the treasury, were at that very mo- senseless ceremonies had nearly extin- gels of God are actively engaged in ment using the funds of the temple to guished the light of truth. The Jewish ministering to the children of God. Pre- oppress, and exceedingly unworthy men church had departed far from the divine cious promises are upon record on con- were getting their salaries out of the instruction given her through patriarchs dition of our obedience to God's require- funds drawn from those chests; but and prophets. Dim the light of the ments. Heaven is full of the richest of when the widow came along and put in church, and you darken the world. blessings, all waiting to be communicated her two mites, she was commended for Christ, by precept, example, and miracle- to us. If we feel our need, and come to her faithfulness. While the record does working, flashed forth the truth in all its God in sincerity and earnest faith, we not so state, yet it is believable that her heavenly brilliancy; and yet " the dark- shall be brought into close connection widowhood might have been made more ness comprehended it not." He was in with Heaven, and shall be channels of harrowing by the very men her two mites the world that he created, was the light light to the world. helped to feed. Jesus could have said, of it, and still it knew him not. The warning needs to be often sounded, " Now, sister, you would better keep that It was his sinless life in contrast with " Be sober, be vigilant; because your ad- money yourself. You need it much more the lives of sinful men, that shone forth versary the devil, as a roaring lion, than those, blind guides who get it." But in such clear, distinct rays amid the walketh about, seeking whom he may no; he looked with gladness and joy and moral darkness. " In him was life; and devour." commendation upon the woman who the life was the light of men." John -4- -4- -4,- loved the Lord so much that she gave : 4. His life, recorded on the sacred Another Thought or Two—No. 6 all her living to the cause of God. What page, is still the light and life of the a rebuke that is to those who withhold world. How sad to think that most of J. G. LAMSON their tithes and offerings because some- the world fail to comprehend our Lord's SOMETIMES those who are doing all thing does not seem just right ! One mission to seek and save the lost ! It they can to keep Zion strong and pure woman says, " Why, those preachers was to make saints of sinners, to turn become frightened at the terrible indif- dress better than we do, and they have transgressors to the full obedience of his ference and laxity of the watchmen. rugs on their floors, while I am too poor Father's law, that Jesus came and lived Sometimes 'the " rank and file " are led to have even one in my home; so I will for more than thirty years in poverty to doubt and distrust and become per- just not pay tithe any more." And the and suffering. It was the moral law en- plexed over the course of some of the poor soul loses the 'blessing. shrined in our Saviour's heart that has officers and leaders in the organized When the records for those who have brightened our world for nineteen hun- guard of Zion's army. Would it be pos- a name to live in Zion are made up, will dred years. It was living in complete sible to say truthfully that those lieu- the Lord accept as an excuse for our harmony with that divine instrument tenants, and captains, and colonels, and delinquency the old complaint? " Well, that empowered his words of truth. generals have never given occasion for Lord, Brother looked crossways " Never man spake like this man," was this perplexity ? — Hardly. But suppose at me the other day when I met him, the verdict of the people. His sinless it be granted that occasion has been so I am not going to occupy my seat in life was the secret of his power. The given ; will the Commander in chief of the New Jerusalem; " or, " Sister inner man had moral support. the church militant excuse any one for told Sister -- that I wasn't a very good A thousand years before he began his remissness in duty because others, even Adventist or I wouldn't do thus and so. public ministry, it was prophesied of leaders, get out of their place? God will Now if she feels that way about me, him, " Lo, I come: in the volume of the require the blood of the innocent, slain I'm just going to remain away from the book it is written of me, I delight to do because of betrayal of trust, at the hands church after this." thy will, 0 my God: yea, thy law is of the unfaithful .watchmen. But how What a foolish thing to let another within my heart." Ps. 4o: 7, 8. It was about the one who was not innocent? person's wrong act lead me to take a the law in his heart that shielded him You and I cannot charge our crooked wrong course ! It is a fine thing to let from the assaults of Satan and made course to the erratic ways of others. If the right example of a leader encourage him the light of the world. In the Ser- we had sense enough to judge that some us to more care in our own case. It is a mon on the Mount, Christ said to his other person had gone wrong, we by grander thing to let the treachery and followers, " Ye are the light of the that very judgment showed that we had traitorous conduct of others, even though world." Matt. 5 : 14. The people of sense enough to know that if we fol- they are bright " stars," lead us to more God are to reflect the light that was in lowed him, or did as he did, we should fervid zeal, more correctness of be- Jesus. To do this they must have the be wrong. havior, more righteousness in the Lord. same law in their hearts that was in his. 1 0 , (178) THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD VoL., 94, No. 8

God's holy law must be enshrined in the what we do not practice; no more right " Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again,— The eternal years of God are hers ; soul, and thereby the individual come into to lie in poetry than in prose. Poetic But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, covenant relation with its divine Author. license does not apply to practical liars And dies among his worshipers." Then every feature of the ten precepts anywhere. 0 brother, let us obey the truth. Let will be manifest in the daily life. Christ He who keeps out of trouble is wiser us build on the true and safe foundation. will be formed within, the hope of glory. than he who gets out of it. Caution is If we do, we shall be like a house built Through the fulfilment of his precious better than cure• Better be scared than on the rock, for the proverb says, " The promise to write the law in our hearts, scarred. house of the wicked shall be overthrown: we shall become partakers of the divine He is nobler who does small things but the tent of the upright shall flour- nature, and escape the corruption that in a great way than he who does great ish." " The grass withereth, the flower is in the world through lust. Compare things in a small way. He who does fadeth: but the word of our God shall Heb. 8: io with 2 Peter I :4. The light commonplaces uncommonly, turns up stand forever." of the law will then beam forth in our dignity out of digging. Port Townsend, Wash. association with our fellow men; " for The lesser is comprehended in the -4- -4- -4- the commandment is a lamp; and the greater. He who gives you life will law is light." Prov. 6: 23. give you living. The breath is more Effectual Prayer From what we see and hear from than bread; the man more than manna W• J. WALTERS worldlings, we conclude that it is not or mantle. He who can carry you to PRAYER, to be effectual, must be in ac- so much the printed page, or sermons, heaven, cannot he care for you on cordance with the revealed will of God. that exert such a salutary, saving in- earth? The will of the suppliant must be in as the obedient fluence on the world He who regards his morning from the submission'to the will of God. Effectual lives of church members. If the princi- evening viewpoint, will trace a clean, prayer implies a desire commensurate ples of God's holy law were translated straight road thereto, making records fit with the importance of that which is into daily life, there would be less op- for evening rehearsals. He will not say sought. Prayer, to be effectual, must be position to the truth, less fault found at dusk, " I have no pleasure in them!' offered from right motives. Many a with the Bible; infidels would be con- West Indies. prayer is offered from pure selfishness. verted to God, and far less would be Prayer, to be effectual, must be accom- said and written about a change of the panied by the intercession of the Spirit. law or its abolition. How carefully the " And It Was So " It must be persevering. Do not think followers of Christ should guard their you are prepared to offer effectual or thoughts, words, and deeds! The in- DANIEL NETTLETON prevailing prayer if your feelings will ward thought of every heart should be, " AND it was so." How much is com- let you pray once for an object and then " I will take heed to my ways, that I sin prehended in this brief, emphatic state- leave it. Why did Jacob wrestle all not with my tongue: I will keep my ment of Moses, repeated six times in the night in prayer with God? He knew mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is first chapter of Genesis.' When God that he had done his brother Esau a .before me." Ps. 39: I. speaks, what he says is so. " He spake, great wrong, and now he had been in- Moral darkness, dense as in the days and it was done; he commanded, and it formed that his brother was coming to of Sodom, is enveloping the world• This stood fast," says the psalmist. God not meet him with an armed force altogether calls for men and women whose lamps only creates all things by speaking, but too powerful for him to meet in his own are well filled, trimmed, and burning he upholds " all things by the word of strength. What did Jacob do ? He was bright ; people in whose hearts Christ his power." We may put great empha- left alone over the brook, and there he is enthroned. " Christ's character is to sis on that word " so," and yet we shall poured out his very soul in an agony of be revealed to the world through the not fully emphasize or sense the strength prayer all night. Just at the break of perpetuity of his Father's law in the and solidity of that statement, " And it day the angel with whom Jacob wrestled, lives of his people." It is of such that was so." said, " Let me go," and in agony of soul Jesus said, " Ye are the light of the God's word is likened to rock, and Jacob said, " I will not let thee go, ex- world." " the strength of the hills is his also." cept thou bless me." The record is that St. Paul, Minn. I have been in the Rockies, and viewed the angel inquired his name, and told -4- -4- -0- with pleasure and admiration the great him it should no more be called Jacob Morsels mountains. They impressed me with a but Israel, " for thou hast prevailed both sense of my own littleness and frailty, with God • and man." But he always PHILIP GIDDINGS and their strength and solidity. As I bore the mark of that night's wrestling 4 THE Bible is so written that " they stood by the side of a great mountain with the angel. who run may read," and that they who and put my hand on that stupendous pile If you mean to pray effectually, you read may run• of rock and earth, And tried to push it must pray a great deal. If you intend " The wicked flee when no man pur- back, I never before felt so little and prayer to be effectual, it must be offered sueth: but the righteous are bold as a incompetent. The mountain did not in the name of Christ. You cannot lion." Iniquity and inquietude are rela- move. In fact, it was not disturbed in come to God in your own name; you tives, and so are integrity and intrepid- the least by my puny push. So with the cannot plead your own merits; there is ity. As the spider spins its web from word of God. " Forever, 0 Lord, thy only one name that you can use that is its own body, so the wicked are held word is settled in heaven." A Paine and always acceptable, and Jesus Christ with the cords of their own fabrication. an Ingersoll, with the combined strength gladly gives us the use of his name. His Prov. 5: 22. of all their predecessors and followers, name has all the virtue on your lips that Not merely what we say, but what may push against God's word or try to it has on his own; and God is just as men see we are, is what influences. A " upset Moses," but all their efforts are willing to bestow blessings upon you, dumb Christian has more persuasiveness ignominious failures, for " It was so " when you ask in the name of Christ, and than a talking hypocrite, who is but a withstands all their puny pushes. in faith, as he would be to bestow them canting phonograph. " The Scripture cannot be broken," upon Christ if he should ask. You can- Our sway over others depends on our says Jesus• " Thy word is truth," he not prevail in prayer without renouncing ways among them. declares. The truth cannot be defeated all your sins. If the will of God is indi- A warm heart and a cool head are a or destroyed. It may be arrested as it cated by his providence, you ought to just balance for discreet discrimination goes on its life-giving way through the depend upon it, according to the clear- and administration. earth. It may be seized, shackled, hand- ness of the indication, so far as to accept It is reason, not resonance, that con- cuffed, and imprisoned. It may be the blessing you have prayed for. vinces; there may be a lot of sound with chained down to the stone floor and its Never in the history of the world was no soundness. feet made fast in the' stocks, but it is the there a time when prevailing prayer was We have no more right to lie in truth still, and it will sing and rejoice, needed more than now. church than out,— to preach or pray for it is on its way to victory. Mount Vernon, Ohio. FEBRUARY 22, 1917 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH , HERALD (170) 11

were major operations. Our mortality rate is only one eighth of that of one of THE , the best hospitals in Buenos Aires. During one year we operated on twelve WORLD-WIDE cases of suppurative appendicitis without the loss of a single case, while in the FIELD hospital just referred to the same num- ber of similar cases were operated on with eight deaths, or 66 2-3 per cent compared with o. Since the success of On Furlough We earnestly desire to return. "Let this class of cases depends almost en- me go back," has been our watchword R. C. WANGERIN tirely on the after-treatment, it is a from The day we landed in San Fran- strong testimony to the work of our AFTER an absence of seven years we cisco. Our little daughters often come faithful nurses, and the sanitarium care were privileged to return once more to to mamma or papa and say, " When are and treatment. the homeland. We spent some time in we going?" or, "I want to go back to Wisconsin, saw the home folks and many our house in Korea." Outside Work friends and former acquaintances. My " Let me go back ! I am homesick Not only do we have the care of the own dear mother has become totally For the land of my love and toil, patients in the sanitarium, but we have blind since our separation. I was able Though I thrill at the sight of my native also an outside practice. This is often- to see her, but she could not see me, hills, times the hardest part of our work, as The touch of my native soil. nor her little " Korean " grandchildren. Thank God for the dear home country, the round trip frequently calls for a I spent some time in a sanitarium, but Unconquered and free and grand! sixty- to ninety-mile ride in a farm my family and I are now in Colorado But the far-off shores of the East for me, wagon. Many nights are spent on such Springs, Colo., where we hope to better And the shores of the Promised Land. trips, my rest and sleep being what I am our condition and to have a favorable " For there are my Chosen' people, able to get lying on the wagon box. chance for a speedy recovery. I am And that is my place to fill, While on these trips I perform many To spend the last of my life and strength operations, which are not included in making fair improvement. In doing my Master's will. We have observed many things since Let me go back ! 'Tis nothing those already mentioned; I also find we returned to America. Some we see To suffer and do and dare, many patients for our sanitarium, and from a different viewpoint than for- For the Lord has faithfully kept his word ; bring them in. Not only is the outside He is with me always there." merly. We have contrasted the Orient work a recruiting field for patients, but with the Occident, the church and be- -4- -4- -4- also a source of income, as it incurs lit- tle expense, except the doctor's time. lievers there with the church and its The River Plate Sanitarium individual believers on this side of the During the two years this branch of the great sea. We have much praise for [The readers of the REVIEW will be work has brought into the sanitarium the noble, earnest Christian people who interested in portions of the report Dr. treasury $7,019.12, a gain of $784.38 the compose our churches in America. We R. H. Habenicht, superintendent of the last year over that of the first. find loyal, whole-hearted believers, faith- River Plate Sanitarium, presented at a Results fully, liberally supporting this great ad- recent conference meeting. This report In our work we do not judge results vent movement. And in the younger, covers two years.] by the number of patients, nor by the growing church in the far eastern field, THE Argentine sanitarium began its number of operations and recoveries. we find the same spirit of loyalty and work as an organized institution Nov. While all these are good and must have sacrifice. 15, 1908. This report covers its sixth their place, the great question is, What Yet since our return we have noticed, and seventh years. is being done for the souls of the sick in some places and in not a few cases, The institution has employed an av- and dying? In this line much remains a lightness and an indifference in proper erage of thirty-five workers for the two to be desired. Although we never know Sabbath observance. Another notice- years, twenty-four of whom were nurses the full extent of the influence exerted, able point is the " unequally yoked to- in training; and owing to the fact that some tangible results have been seen. gether " marriages of some of our peo- only two classes have been in operation Eleven persons have been baptized as a ple. These few do not, of course, set at a time, we have graduated only one direct result of the work, and several the standard of our faith, but they do class since the last session. The mem- have accepted the message through the exert a strong influence in a wrong di- bers of this class — four women and six efforts of those who were baptized. rection. With all that has been written men — all enter directly or indirectly Adding to these some of our helpers in the Testimonies, and spoken and into the work of the denomination. who have been converted and baptized, preached against marriage with unbe- At this point I wish to make mention I think I can safely say that fifteen to lievers, some dare form this alliance with of the loss of our Brother Victor Peter- twenty have fully received the truth worldlings, with the danger of eventually sen, who, when waiting for the boat to during the past two years. losing their own Christian experience. start to his field in the Argentine Con- The general influence on the public is We are very anxious to return early ference, was drowned while bathing. good. From the government down, we to our " Chosen " people and field. We The force of medical workers thus lost are held in high esteem, and our work receive heart-touching letters from time one of its number. We brought him in general is known through the sani- to time from our native workers and back to his home, from which he had tarium. believers. They wrote us that while our gone but a few hours before, full of Spiritual Needs Keizan station and house were vacant, joy and hope, happy because he could Few ministers in the field have a reg- they would pass by the place and go to enter the work; and here we laid him to ular congregation of thirty to fifty peo- the church building on the hill back of rest in our newly laid-out cemetery. ple. Such we have nearly all the time, it, and weep and pray. They send us We covered his grave with flowers and with no one to do anything for them this message, " We know that you will watered them with our tears, but we outside of the regular evening worship. get well and come back to Korea. We hope soon to see him in the land where My time is so taken up with office and are praying for you." the flowers do not fade, and where death outside work that I have little to spend Now they rejoice that the station is does not enter. in spiritual work, and I am sure that a vacant no longer, but occupied and Another class of four won-len and five devoted man in this place would bring manned doubly strong. They are glad men are now finishing their last year, results far greater than those seen at Brother W. R. Smith and family have and a large class has just been received. present. moved there, and speak with high praise Two hundred and ninety-three surgi- We thank God for the degree of suc- of the new family. Brother and Sister cal operations were performed the past cess we have had, and for a part in the F. J. Urquhart. two years, of which a large number work of this last message. 12 (180) THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol.. 94, No. 8 Notes from Brazil — No. 2 0. MONTGOMERY A Visit to the New School THURSDAY afternoon we took the car to Santo Amaro, a suburb of Sao Paulo, where Brother J. H. Boehm met us with the school team and took us out to the school, which is between five and six miles from this place, on a tract of nearly four hundred acres. The build- ings are nicely situated on a hill that gives a good view of the surrounding country. MAIN BUILDING OF SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, SCHOOL The west wing, which was in process of construction when we were here last At the left may be seen unfinished section where proposed wing is to be added, like one at right. January, and the main part of the build- school, but we find that one third of the be above ground. The building when ing are practically finished. It is a one- present attendance is young women. completed will accommodate sixty stu- story brick structure, roofed with ce- So it has become necessary to put sev- dents, with rooms for twelve above the ment tile, and plastered outside as well eral of the boys in the attic under the bakery; the total capacity of the school as inside, which is the manner of build- roof. As the building is only one story will then be seventy-two. ing in this country. The buildings are and no provision has been made for Work on the wing will not be started substantial, and present a fine appear- using this space, it will be seen that it is until the money is in hand with which ance from all directions. The brick and to complete it, as tile were made on the place. the " no debt pol- In the wing are the large pantry, icy " is being strictly kitchen, dining-room, and small parlor. followed in the es- In the main part of the building are the tablishment of this chapel, principal's room, matron's room, school. A strong and rooms for eighteen students. Just effort is to be made back of the main building is a two-story at once to raise suf- eight-room building, the lower floor of ficient means in the which is devoted to a laundry and a bak- field to complete this ery. Brother and Sister Paul Hennig part of the building. occupy two of the rooms upstairs, and Several of the in- six boys have the other two rooms. fluential people of There are thirty-five students in the Sao Paulo are inter- home, and they will compare favorably ested in this school with students in our schools in the enterprise, and are States, though not so well advanced in favorably impressed. their studies. They are a fine class of An industrial school young people, and several of them give is a new thing in promise of making good workers. There Brazil. This school, is a splendid spirit in the school, and established on a the students are making good progress large tract of good in their studies as well as in their Chris- land within easy tian experience. At six o'clock in the reach of one of the BAKERY AND LAUNDRY morning I heard several young men best cities of the re- talking loudly down in the road in front not a very desirable place, especially in public, is attracting the attention ',f of the building. At first I thought this semitropical climate. The boys have thinking and enterprising people, The they were disputing, but soon discovered adjusted themselves to the situation very director of agriculture of the state of that each had a book in his hand and nicely, and are making the best of it in Sao 'Paulo has given the school many was studying earnestly without regard a good spirit. varieties of valuable seeds. The direc- to the others. This illustrates the spirit It is quite clear that the east wing tor of the horticulture station of Sao of earnest endeavor that characterizes must be completed as soon as the means Paulo gave about fourteen hundred fruit the school. Many of the students are can be provided, not only to care for the and ornamental trees, and has shown making good progress in music under present students, but to make room for himself very friendly in many other the able leadership of Brother Hennig. others who will come. Several who ways. We greatly enjoyed the splendid pro- made application this year could not be About a year ago an old Austrian gram rendered by the young people Sab- accommodated because of lack of room. gardener offered to take charge of the bath afternoon. In building this wing it is planned to garden at a very low wage, desiring to At first it was thought by the brethren provide for the pantry, dining-room, and help the school get started. As he used that not many girls would attend the kitchen in a high basement which will tobacco and drank beer, he was told that he could not be employed because of these habits. He said he would give them up. He was a splendid gardener, and as the school had no one to look after that work, he was given a trial. He fulfilled his promise to leave off his bad habits, adjusted himself from the start to all the regulations of the home, at- tended all the services, and began to read and study the truth diligently. As a result, he has accepted every point of present truth, and is rejoicing in Christ as a personal Saviour. He is the hap- BARN AND TEAMS piest person on the place. His work in FEBRUARY 22, 1 9 1 7 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD (181) 1 3

the garden and his influence among the students have proved a great blessing to the school. The tables are supplied with an abundance of the best fresh vegetables, even through the six months of drouth that is just now being broken by an occasional shower. By building a dam between the hills a good reservoir of water fed by living springs can be provided at a very small cost, from which all the gardens can be Conducted by Mrs. I. H. Evans, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. irrigated during the dry season. The Through the columns of this department, hints will be given on all matters pertaining bananas, about five hundred of which to the home life. Short articles and letters are solicited from home makers, telling of their were started, have had a setback, due everyday experiences,—their joys and sorrows, their failures and successes, to the heavy frosts during the winter, but they will come on again soon. The establishment of this training Inasmuch it. Fathers and mothers who do not school marks the beginning of a new era MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE know what their boys are reading will for the work in Brazil. Its influence ON such a night as this, 0 God, find food for sober reflection in the fol- will be far-reaching, its benefits and Have pity on the poor; lowing excerpts from his " Confes- blessings manifold. Through it we hope The bleak blast shakes the windowpane, sion: "— And drives across the moor; " I have been a maker of sensational to see many of the splendid young peo- To don his snowy robe of white ple in this field saved to the cause and The Storm King marches high, fiction, mostly for boys, for many years. trained for service. From its doors we And dark mists rise in threatening wrath, I have written half-dime novels, ' nickel expect to see a stream of earnest and And scud athwart the sky. weeklies,' paper-covered ' library ' books sold for fifteen cents, and boys' stories consecrated workers going forth into the Have pity on the poor, 0 God, field. The appreciation of the brethren The winds are fierce and wild; to be bound in cloth and sold for twen- here is expressed in the following reso- They beat on many a cheerless cot ty-five cents. It is these latter books to lution, which was passed by the commit- And many a homeless child. which I wish especially to call attention. Dost thou not see the saddened hearts, Altogether, I have written of such tee while at the school: — The helpless widow's tear? " WHEREAS, The second Thirteenth The bitter prayer of dark despair, ' thrillers ' more than one hundred and Sabbath Offering for 1916 was devoted 0 God, dost thou not hear? twenty-five titles. They are all of the to the purpose of establishing a training type of story that long ago was con- school in Brazil, and has enabled us to 'Twas thus I cried, when from the skies demned under the term ' dime novel.' sweet voice answered me: Because of this output, I feel I can purchase this property and erect these ft Give of thy plenty, foolish child; qualify as an expert on dime novels.' splendid buildings, therefore be it — Have I not given to thee? "Resolved, That we, the Brazilian Un- Go, bless the homes of poverty,— And because my sense of decency finally ion Committee, the school board, faculty, The hungry must be fed,— rebelled at the writing of them, I pro- I blessed thee, child, that thou mightst give pose to tell what I know about such and student body, in counsel assembled My needy children bread. stories. at the school, do hereby express to our it " I wish to show how they are bought brethren and sisters our deep apprecia- And ne'er forget, 0 child of mine, — tens of thousands of them — by peo- tion and heartfelt thanks for this splen- Though small thy service be, Whate'er thou doest for my poor ple who don't know what they are buy- did gift to our field; and that a copy of Thou doest it to me; ing, conservative people who give them this resolution be sent to the General And ' inasmuch ' as thou hast given, to their sons and daughters freely, Sun- Conference." To thee thy King shall say, --4- -*- I'll give to thee a crown of life day school teachers and church people ELDER ROSCOE T. BAER, president of That fadeth not away.' " who would be shocked at the accusation Lansing, Mich. the Argentine Conference, sends the that they are buying ' dime novels' for following word: " We have many evi- their children. " I began to write thrillers because I dences of the working of the Holy Your Boy and His Books needed the money. I am a college man Spirit. The last Sabbath of the old MRS. I. II. EVANS year was observed by an all-day meet- and a newspaper man. I traveled over ing of the four churches in Buenos A FEW months ago we reprinted in this country and a good part of Europe Aires, on the banks of the La Plata these columns an article written for a gathering material for a book I wanted River, near our headquarters in Florida. well-known magazine by Walter Pritch- to write. I, spent five years in travel As it was the thirteenth Sabbath, we set ard Eaton, entitled " Your Boy's Books." and study — and then I wrote my book. our goal at a one-hundred-dollar offer- In it the writer set forth some of the It took more than a year. But it was ing, and reached it easily. Our people dangers of the books which, formerly a failure, and there came a time when are very enthusiastic. At the close of appearing in their true colors as " dime I must earn money at once. Sabbath school eighteen persons were novels," " yellowbacks," and " nickel " I got into touch with one of the baptized. After lunch we held an after- thrillers," now masquerade in cloth cov- ' paper-cover ' book houses, as they call noon service, during which God came ers, prettily stamped, and often well the publishers of `dime novels' in the very near to us. We had another bap- printed and illustrated, as respectable trade. They liked what I submitted, and tism in the city of La Plata on the thir- and desirable books for the child whose I was told to write a detective story of teenth of January. To the Lord be all parents would have been horrified to see thirty thousand words, and show what the praise." him reading them in their true guise. I could do. The result was that I was -4- Parents and teachers by the thousand hired to grind out thirty thousand words DAVID LIVINGSTONE stated a worthy buy these books for their sons and pu- each week in return for a weekly salary missionary purpose when he said: "I pils for no better reason than that they of fifty dollars. So I became a writer will place no value on anything I have appear attractive to the casual examina- of `dime novels.' or may possess, except in its relation to tion, and may be bought for a price that The Publisher's Instructions the kingdom of Christ. If anything I appeals to the purse. " The letter telling me that I could have will advance the interests of that Would you like to know what one consider myself on' the publisher's staff kingdom,. it shall be given up or kept, who has written a large number of such also told me that a batch of books was as by keeping or giving it I shall most books has to say of them? In the De- being forwarded to me, and gave me promote the glory of Him to whom I cember issue of the Ladies' Home Jour- some instructions. Among them were owe all my hopes, both of time and nal a man who calls himself " A Dime some paragraphs about like these-: — eternity. May grace be given me to ad- Novel Writer " tells how he came to " ' Read the sample books carefully, here to this." enter this field, and why he abandoned that you may familiarize yourself with 14 (182) THE , ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD VOL. 94, No. 8 the characters run in the series. For " For the school story the only differ- bought from the `paper-cover' houses instance, one of the detectives is a ven- ence in the setting is that the scene is some of their so-called ' good series,' triloquist, and makes use of his power laid in the school or in a summer camp, and brought them out at fifty cents, in to trap the men he is after. or on a trip to some foreign country cloth. They are still sold, though the " A live story has something happen instead of in the business office. price is now twenty-five cents. at least every thousand words. Remem- " Eliminate the school or the business " The success of this kind of book — ber to emphasize the fact that crime setting, and you practically have the a wolf in sheep's clothing — was imme- does not pay, and that punishment al- half-dime novel.' The hero takes the diate. But the stories were old. The ways overtakes the wrong-doer. place of the detective; the bad boy, the next step was the publication of new " Never make a hero of a criminal. criminal. Instead of cracking a safe, stories, of a similar exciting character, If you attribute a good act to a bandit, the bad boy steals books or examination first at fifty cents, later at twenty-five. offset it by saying something like, " How questions, and hires thugs to beat his To make these books the publishers nat- fine a man he would have been had he rival. The hero first suspects his enemy, urally sought the writers who had been turned his abilities to honest pursuits," then spies upon him, and finally traps turning out the half-dime novels,' whose or, " He was not bad at heart, but had him. All the excitement and thrills of market in paper covers was dwindling, been driven to a life of crime by cir- the half-dime novel' are rung in,' no and who were therefore glad of the new cumstances." ' situations are impossible, and, of course, work. This was how I came to write " Now please note that, (I) the pub- the hero always comes out on top — in twenty-five-cent juveniles.' lisher knew his stories were likely to accordance with the publisher's instruc- A Fiction Factory suggest crime, and make it look attrac- tions that crime does not pay.' tive to youngsters; and (2) he therefore " One other notable difference between " One of the old nickel-novel men, deliberately tried to put in something the good series' and those that cannot after writing many of these new juvenile to correct that tendency. be called `good' is that in the back of books under his own and other names, " The stories suggest mean, bad mo- the latter are advertised handbooks on got a new idea. The houses that were tives to impressionable young people. how to make love, for example, ap-, publishing cheap cloth juveniles de- How far they are responsible for crime paratus for practical jokes, powders to manded more stories than he could write I cannot say. I have run across one make people sneeze or to cause itching, himself. So he formed a syndicate '— startling piece of testimony, however. etc. . . . a fiction factory '— to manufacture this On a trip through the underworld, made A Decline in Profits product. He employed many of the old in the company of a city detective while producers of nickel thrillers, myself " Now the business of publishing pa- among the others. I was in search of local color, I was per-cover thrillers, half-dime novels,' As I had obtained my work on the introduced to one of the most expert began some years ago seriously to de- strength of having turned out paper- safe-breakers in the United States. In cline. There have been several causes covered thrillers, the instructions for the course of our conversation that for this. The first break came when the writing twenty-five-cent juveniles pre- worthy volunteered the information that low-priced magazines — some of them supposed my knowledge of the technic he and his kind eagerly read detective issued by the `paper-cover' publishers of building dime novels.' So it was stories for new ideas and ways to turn themselves were put on the market. not necessary to show me how to write their tricks! People soon found that they could get the story. I was cautioned, however, Fit for Any Home more for their money in buying such a against producing sensational situations magazine than they could in a five- or " But there is further proof that these too often,— the old rule was once every fifteen-cent library.' As a matter of publishers are aware that their crime thousand words, you will remember,— fact, whereas before they received only stories are bad for youngsters. For ev- and told to moralize frequently. ery such house has one or more series one story for their money, each maga- zine contained a dozen or more short " Descriptions of killings, fights, or of that those in the office habitually speak the commission of serious crimes were of as good series.' In their advertising thrillers and two or three exciting se- rials. to be entirely avoided. If my story to sell these good series' the stock called for a killing, by Indians, bandits, phrase is, ' These stories are fit for any " Then there has undoubtedly been an awakening of the public conscience miners, or anybody, I was merely to lead home,' which may be taken as an admis- up to it, and then later state the fact as sion that their other series are not fit brought about by the persistent work of organizations, supplemented latterly by accomplished. The same was to apply for any home. to fights between schoolboys, or our " Out of these so-called good series' public libraries and the best of the popu- lar publications devoted to women and hero' and any one else. I was told the have been developed twenty-five-cent fights must not be described by rounds books bound in cloth that sell by the the home. " Another factor against the cheap or even graphically. I was to lead the hundreds of thousands. The chances characters to the spot, start them going, are that you have some of them in your trash is the moving picture show. More and then tell who won, and go on. . . . house. nickels than ever are spent for thrillers, " Now the chief difference between the but it is even more exciting to see a Stock Models half-dime novel' and the good series' dare-devil action than to read about it. " You see, then, the chief differences in paper covers, is that the former deals The moving picture magazines also are between the old dime novel' and the with criminals and their capture or with now bought by thousands of women, twenty-five-cent juvenile I write about, ``Wild West' thrills; while the latter young and old, who used to spend their lie in the imagination of the buyer, the deals with boys in school or in business, money for the fifteen-cent library price, and the cloth cover. Substitute in travel, in history, or adventure. If books.' our hero ' for the detective, bandit, or the story is about business life, the The Disguising Cloth Cover whatever he may be, his rival for the hero, a poor but honest lad with bound- " But American boys and girls still villain, tone down your situations, and less ambition, starts in as an office boy. get trashy, harmful stories. The price you have transformed the dime novel' He soon makes an enemy, a dishonest and the form are changed, that's all. into a twenty-five-cent juvenile. Just as office boy or clerk; and then it is a battle Instead of sensational, cheap, improbable there were stock models for the paper of wits between the hero and the villain. stories in paper covers that your boy thrillers, so there are for these twenty- They resort to all sorts of tricks and had to read on the sly, if at all, you may five-cent stories. The plot invariably devices; the dishonest boy does not hesi- be buying the same thing for him, and depends upon a struggle between our tate to commit crime in order to trap encouraging him to read it — in harm- hero' and a villain '— often one of his the hero; and the hero, the humble office less-looking cloth covers. own schoolmates. Our hero,' though boy, does not hesitate to rebuke any one, " It began when publishers of stories sometimes under a cloud, and sometimes up to the president of the concern, in in cloth saw a new market for cheap in opposition to parent and teacher, is order to prove himself right. In the books. Most stories for young people always right. end he usually marries the president's were then made to sell for a dollar or " All the old cheap dodges of the daughter. more. These publishers, however, dime novel ' are worked over and over, FEBRUARY 22, 1917 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD (183) 15 with the introduction of modern facts I find this test in a recent circular liceman come and get her. He would and inventions, such as the submarine, warning parents against this class of beat her with his stick, and take her the airship, and wireless, to make them books: — 'way off. I took down the receiver to ' up to date.' Scarcely any physical or " Read your children's books your- telephone to the policeman, and she cried scientific feat is impossible for ' our self. Or, better still, get your boy or and cried, and said, Don't, mamma! hero.' Who should know better than 1 girl to read them aloud to you. Ask don't let him have me. I never will stay that these modern books for boys and yourself during the reading: — again. Please, please, mamma! I will girls are essentially the same as the con- " Does this book lay stress on vil- come right home every night.' So I demned ' dime novel '? Have I not writ- lainy, deception, or treachery?' told her it was all right, but the next ten both? The pay for the twenty-five- "` Are all the incidents wholesome, time I would surely let the policeman cent juveniles, however, is not so good probable, and true to life?' have her. That was why she stopped as it was for the old ' dime ' and ' half- " ' Does it show young people con- here; she said you kept her a little while, dime ' novels, being only seventy-five dol- temptuous toward their elders and suc- so I didn't punish her, but I will if it lars for from fifty to sixty thousand cessfully opposing them?' happens again." words. " ' Do the young characters in the Do you wonder that this poor child " However, the writer is relieved of book show respect for teachers and oth- was afraid of policemen for many years one burden. He is not obliged to work ers in authority?' after this experience? out his own plots. The head of the " ' Are these characters the kind of flow different was the case of a little `fiction factory' works out all his own young people you wish your children to tot who was out walking one morning. plots, and sends them to his writers. associate with?' Meeting a policeman, she said, " Good The plot usually bears the name of the " ' Does the book speak of and de- morning, Mr. Policeman; " and to story, and the accompanying letter tells scribe pranks, practical jokes, and pieces auntie, " I like to say Good morning to when the manuscript must be finished. of thoughtless and cruel mischief as if the policemen, 'cause they are so big and Three weeks is the customary allowance they were funny and worthy of imita- kind to take care of me." for fifty thousand words. The writer is tion?' If mothers were wise, they would told to ' stick to the synopsis.' So, when " When you find that your own chil- never threaten their little, ones, nor im- he receives the manuscript, the head of dren, or your neighbor's children, are plant fear in their heart. the syndicate is sure that the story is ,getting these cloth-bound ' dime novels ' Clintonville, Conn. ' safe,' that the old habit of the ' dime- from local stores, do what you can to --4- -.- novel' author has not betrayed him into spread the information I have given here A " Home Credits ". System crudities that would not do for a ' good about them. Don't, however, blame the series.' bookseller too much. Remember he MRS. MERNIE LEWIS " Now how does this affect you? If keeps such books for sale because you MY five children are not very bad, but you wish to know whether the boys and and your friends have bought them, and it is the little weeds which do the dam- girls near you are reading this kind of permitted your young people to buy age when grown,— quarreling, talebear- trash, find whether there are in your them. Bear in mind that the publication ing, selfishness, a habit of slighting work, house cloth-bound modern storybooks and sale of such books will be stopped and such things as I know ought not to that cost twenty-five cents. Read one only when the public has awakened to be. I talked to them, prayed with them or two yourself. If you ever read a the fact that the old ' dime- novel' they and for them (the oldest is eleven), and ' dime novel,' you may recognize some condemn, and the newer twenty-five-cent sometimes I punished; but all this of the old stock thrills. juvenile book they buy freely, may be! seemed to have little effect, so I took one and the same thing. this idea from the home credits they Only Shama " It has not been easy for me to write have in school. " I am not condemning these books this article. It may not be easy for you , We cut little cards, one-half by one because of the price. Many worthy to act on it. But I have done my part ; and one-half inches, from pasteboard, books are reprinted and sold in cloth in laying bare the situation. And I have and call them merit cards. Every time today at this and other low prices. But clone so because I have become disgusted they do their tasks perfectly,— get up the twenty-five-cent juvenile of the kind with the whole business. Never will I without being called, win a victory over I have written about, and which I wish write another ' factory' story." temptation, retire at the proper time, to warn you against, is a definite type. when the little ones wash their hands If you have any doubt of the character -4- and faces before meals without being of a particular book or series, submit it Children and Policemen told; in fact, for almost everything they to the children's librarian of the nearest do well,— I give them one merit card. MARTHA E. WARNER public library.. Ask her whether the Each morning they tell me what they library circulates such books. ONE night I found a little girl on my did the day before, and receive cards " The reason it does not is because porch, sobbing as if her heart would accordingly. such stories are not real stories — only break. She was afraid to, go home, be- When a child has fifty cards, I give shams. They do not deal with real life, cause her teacher kept her after school. him some little thing,— a child is so but with worn-out, conventional char- Her mother had told her if she did not easy to please. Last week I made little acters and incidents, juggled now into come directly home from school, the spelling tablets, and tied each with baby this, now into that, form of cheap, un- policeman would get her, and carry her ribbon. When they have five of these natural excitement. They are made to off, and beat her 'most to death, and 0, tokens, I give them something a little thrill. Above all, they are made to sell. she just couldn't go home, she was so nicer. The cards go back in the glass " One of the greatest curses of these " 'fraid ! " in the cupboard to be used again. I ex- cheap storybooks lies in the fact that I calmed the child as best I could, and pect to give pencils, school tablets, mar- they deaden and finally destroy the taste went part way home with her, for it bles, etc., and for later presents some- for real books. Their readers miss the was growing dusk. thing a little better, till for one thousand fine, real things. They come to prefer The next day the mother came to see merits a still nicer gift is received. impossible fiction to serious books, to me. I asked why Carrie was so fright- This whole plan takes very little time biography, history, or even to stories ened. What did the child mean by her and study, nothing compared with the that present life and character as they talk about the policeman? rest and peace it brings into the home. are. She told me that one night Carrie On Sabbath the children do not work What are You Going to"Do About It? stayed and played with another child for merits, but show mamma they can " Since I have 'shown you the inside until quite late. " When she reached be good and kind one day in each week of the cheap juvenile `works,' the ques- home," the mother added, " I whipped because they love her and because it is tion is, What are you parents or older her hard with a strap. Then I told her right. This keeps their minds free from friends of the youngsters going to do was ashamed of her. She was not the cares of life on God's holy day. about it? my girl any more. I would let the po- II /I elbeta, Nebr. 16 ('s") THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD VoL. 94, No. 8

up its population. Among those most in evidence were the Chinese, Malays, East Indians, _and natives from the dif- THE FIELD WORK ferent countries making up this large is- land country generally known as Malay- vIkbel em , sia, Each class of people appears in the VOO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD" main in its own peculiar manners and customs. Three principal agencies are in use for getting about the city — the jinrik- Work in the Western Pennsylva- Educational Work," " Gospel Finance," isha operated by Chinese coolies, a cab nia Conference and " Personal Labor in the Cities," were drawn by a small pony that does not get of great benefit to all, giving us a keener over the ground so fast as the coolie, I wisx to say to my many friends in realization of the stupendous task before and the electric car. Judging from the this cause, through the columns of the us, and a clearer understanding of how large number of jinrikishas in use, they good Old REVIEW AND HERALD, that I am better to execute the plans of God in the are evidently the most popular of the very thankful for the precious light of earth. three modes of conveyance. this message, which grows brighter and Just before our last meeting, Elder Although Singapore is within two de- brighter as we near the end. A. R. Sandborn, president of the confer- grees of the equator, the temperature is I accepted the truth in the spring of ence, received word of the death of his not trying to the visitor; but to the resi- 1874, and have been preaching the mes- mother, in Michigan. This sad news dent European or American the unvary- sage ever since. The second Sunday in turned our minds to the solemn realiza- ing heat is generally very debilitating. February, 1917, closes the thirty-sixth tion of the bitterness and sorrow that sin Our ship steamed into this beautiful year of my ministry, and I thank the has brought to this world, and the need harbor early Wednesday morning, the Lord that my health is good, and that of our being faithful in finishing speed- sixth day out from Hongkong. We I am still able to work in this precious ily the work of God, that the last enemy, were heartily welcomed by our brethren cause. death, may soon be destroyed. The serv- at this place,— Elder F. A. Detamore, I am in the field at work almost all ice was one of prayer and consecration, the superintendent of the Malaysian Mis- the time. At present I am at a small village where there are no Seventh-day Adventists, and where no work has been done by our people. I have the privilege of holding services three nights each week in a schoolhouse, and I am plan- ning also to hold some cottage meetings during the week. I have been here only a few days, so cannot tell what the in- terest will be, but at present the outlook is very encouraging. There is a call for meetings to be held in a village about seven miles from here, and there are so many other calls that I am not able to answer them. I find little companies of people not of our faith who see the lack of spirit- uality in the popular churches, and are gathering in cottage meetings to seek the Lord. I have found two such com- panies recently ; one of these has re- quested me to hold a tent meeting in their neighborhood next spring. NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE WORKERS' CONVENTION I believe God is going to close up his in which was manifested much of the sion; Brother J. W. Rowland, of the work in the earth very soon. Those Spirit of God. Straits Settlements; and Brother K. M. who know the truth should now be At the close of the institute, the work- Adams, who with a number of native wholly consecrated to God, and should ers left for their several fields of labor, teachers is conducting our mission do all in their power to help those who each one with a firmer resolve and a school. These brethren and their wives are seeking light and truth. bolder determination to press the battle made our brief stay most enjoyable by Brethren, pray for me and for my to the gates, and by God's help speedily their kind and gracious hospitality, work, that precious souls may be saved. to finish the proclamation of this last In the evening we had the privilege J. W. WATT. gospel message to a lost world. of meeting a large portion of our Singa- -4- -4- -4- • The prayers of the REVIEW readers are pore church. This church is composed solicited in behalf of the growing work of about one hundred and twenty-five New Jersey Workers' Meeting in New Jersey. members who have been gathered from JOHN W. MACNEIL. these various nationalities; and as far IN harmony with the words of our as could be discerned, these dear people Saviour to his disciples, " Come ye your- -4- -4- -4- love the truth of God just as fervently selves apart . . . and rest awhile," the From Hongkong to Colombo as we do, and are equally interested workers of the New Jersey Conference with us in every evidence of the ad- gathered at the Seventh-day Adventist OUR party, consisting of Elder and vancement of the work. church in Trenton, January 16, for a Mrs. R. C. Porter, Mrs. Knox, and The most interesting feature of our three days' institute. In addition to the the writer, sailed from Hongkong on work at Singapore is our mission school. regular conference employees, many of the Peninsular and Oriental steamer It is very favorably and conveniently the local church elders met with us. " Malta," December 1, booked for Co- located in rented quarters on one of the The first service, which was led by lombo, Ceylon. On this journey of more electric lines. At present our American Dr. D. H. Kress, medical secretary of than twenty-five hundred miles, requiring workers have their homes on the same the Columbia Union Conference, struck two weeks, we were favored with very tract of land. The school has an enrol- the keynote of the whole meeting,— pleasant weather and a smooth sea most ment of one hundred and twenty, com- consecration to the work of God, and of the way. posed chiefly of Chinese, Malays, Bat- earnest seeking, in the streets and lanes The trip was broken by two stops, one taks, and natives of the Celebes Islands. and in the byways and hedges of the cit- of two days at Singapore, and one at These students are certainly as bright ies, for souls for whom Christ died. Penang. The two days at Singapore and promising a group of young people The papers and the free discussion on gave us opportunity to become ac- as could well be gathered in any country. such subjects as " City Missions," " City quainted with our work at that place, The advanced class of twelve young Tent Efforts," "City Medical Work," and to see something of the city with its men are all definitely preparing for the " Work in Rural and Small Towns," many interesting and strange features, work of God in such capacity as they " Foreign Work in Our Large Cities," not the least interesting of which were may seem best qualified for, and as the " Bible Work," " Young People's and the different races of the East that make providence of God may indicate. FEBRUARY 22, 191 7 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD (180 1 7

I was privileged to speak to the school ture. In addition to meeting its own We are enjoying splendid health since at the chapel exercises, and afterward running expenses and paying the sala- coming to this country. There are two to the Chinese students through an in- ries of the secretary and stenographer, rainy seasons and two dry seasons here terpreter. These Chinese young men the tract society shows a gain of over each year. The dry seasons are the hot- speak the Hakka language. They are $700, as shown by the financial report. ter. However, we have passed through all Christians, and express themselves Our conference association liabilities wet and dry, but have not suffered from as anxious to have a part in this closing were reduced during the year by several the heat. Georgetown is a fine city for work. thousand dollars, our notes payable at this country. It has about sixty thou- What I have seen in Singapore makes the present time being less than $40,000; sand inhabitants, electric lights, electric me look forward with much pleasure to whereas, a few years ago they were over street cars, and a quite modern water our proposed visit to this field next Feb- $8o,000. In addition to this, more than system. Remember us at the throne of ruary, when we hope to make a more $15,000 has been invested in the State grace, that we may have help from the extended stay, and visit other portions during the year in church extension Source of all power to push the work to of the Malaysian territory where the work, in the erection of new buildings a finish in British Guiana. work is reported as making such satis- at Cresco, Liberty Center, Ottumwa, and I, G. KNIGHT. factory progress, Creston. A good building worth several CARRIE KNIGHT. This afternoon as we look westward, thousand dollars was purchased from land is in sight. We are assured that the Congregationalists at Marshalltown -+- -II- -*- early tomorrow morning we shall land at a very moderate price. In addition on the shores of Ceylon, where " every to this, the remainder of the Nevada Work in the North Pacific Union prospect pleases, and only man is vile." church debt was paid, making an aggre- Conference W, T. KNOX. gate of over $15,000 invested in church IT was my privilege to spend three building property during 1916. -•- -.- --•- months, from Nov. 1, 1916, to Jan. 30, Our institutions in this conference are 1917, in the North Pacific Union Con- The Iowa Conference enjoying a good patronage. The Oak ference, working for the German people. Park Academy has the largest regular The first six weeks were spent in Mon- BELIEVING that the many old-time attendance of any year of its history. Iowa people now scattered in many for- tana, in connection with Elder J. K. The sanitarium has also enjoyed a good Fischer, the German conference worker. eign lands as well as in nearly every and regular patronage, so that the insti- State in the Union, would be glad to We visited four places, and held meet- tution has been able to carry all its own ings with both our own people and oth- hear a brief report from the Iowa Con- obligations and invest several thousand ference through the REVIEW AND HER- ers. In some places a good interest was dollars in improvements. started, and some decided to obey the ALD, we take this opportunity of giving We begin the year 1917 full of cour- a summary of the work in our confer- truth. We could not finish the work, age and confidence that the Lord will but Brother Fischer will return and la- ence for the past year. continue to bless the interests of his own The secretary's report shows that dur- bor there. The prospect is very encour- cause in this as in every other part of aging, there being many opportunities ing 1916 there have been received into the field. A. R. OGDEN. church membership in the conference for labor in that field. 130 by baptism and 161 by letter and for- -*- -*- The next place I visited was in Idaho, mer baptism, giving a total of 291 mem- Georgetown, British Guiana but as I was called to Endicott, Wash., bers received. A number, however, have to be present at the dedication of a left Iowa for 'other States, and this, with WE are glad to report progress in our church, I could not finish the work in several deaths, reduces the net increase part of the field. We pitched a tent in that conference which I came to do; so of membership very materially. Our Georgetown soon after getting settled after spending about three weeks visit- present membership in the conference here. Elder M. B. Butterfield joined us ing the German churches in Washing- is 2,648. about the beginning of September, and ton, I returned to Idaho. We have never Financially, the Lord has blessed the we started a campaign which lasted six had a Germgn minister permanently set- work even beyond our expectation. We weeks, with a splendid interest to the tled in this field, but I am glad to see the had set a goal of $50,000 for the year's close. The first week was devoted to work moving forward. We have now tithe, but when the books were closed the war question, from the Bible view- two German churches, one company, and at the end of the year, we found that point, which stirred the people as they several scattered believers in that State. we had received the splendid amount of said nothing else had done. At first the One church of fourteen members was $57,387.68, nearly $10,000 more than for tent was crowded to its utmost capacity, organized before I left the field, and the previous year. The total mission besides hundreds on the outside. It was about five others are ready to join the funds for the year were $29,710.72, a estimated that between seven and twelve church. These people are not new in surplus over our twenty-cent-a-week hundred were present, and scarcely at the faith, but have moved there from quota of $4,771.52, of which amount any time could we seat all who came. other States. We hope that some of $12,909.48 was contributed by our Sab- At the close of the meetings about fifty their neighbors will accept the message bath schools, making over $1,000 a month joined the baptismal class; later others soon, as there is quite a large settlement on an average from this source. ioined it until there were sixty-three. of Germans in that vicinity. The con- We are especially grateful for the We have had two baptisms; at the first ference has invited Elder J. Riffel, of blessing of the Lord in the Harvest In- there were six candidates, and at the the Upper Columbia Conference, to gathering work. Over 50,00o copies of second nineteen. In a few more weeks make Idaho his field of labor. This is the Harvest Ingathering number of the we shall have another baptism. There quite an encouragement to our people in Signs were used in our conference, and are twenty in the class preparing for that field. We expect great things in the returns amounted to $7,328.72, which baptism. Since we came here, thirty these two conferences, Montana and was over $too more than twice Iowa's have been added to the Georgetown Idaho. Many people have moved into part of the General Conference quota church. To the Lord be all the praise. these States, and now is the time to of the $100,000 Fund. Upwards of 300 We have been very busy, as Elder But- work for them, before they' become set- persons secured in this campaign more terfield had to leave as soon as the tent tled in their own churches. I enjoyed than $5 each, the largest amount being effort closed. my work very much during these three received by one of our younger workers, Lately we had a chance to take a trip months. I am glad for this experience Miss Florence Dietel, who secured the up the Demerara River about eighty-five in pioneer work in that new field. The splendid sum of $612.70. We almost miles, to our Bootooba mission, where brethren are all of good courage, and feel encouraged to place our goal for Brother and Sister Payne are in charge. have consecrated their life anew to the the Harvest Ingathering campaign for The pupils are nearly all Indians. They finishing of this glorious work. 1917 at 6o,000 copies of the paper and are getting along quite well. Five can- G. F. HAFFNER. $10,000. didates were baptized while we were The tract society business for the year there. -*- has shown a splendid increase over that This is a very low, flat country. On God's Love for All Mankind of any previous year. The literature the way up the river we had to stop sales amounted to over $38,000. Our overnight at a place called Wismar. The I WILL relate two or three experiences large books placed in the homes of the next morning we went on board another among the Visayans which show " that people amounted to more than $5,000, vessel. Imagine our surprise, on starting God is no respecter of persons: but in and our churches and people generally up the river, to see the water running every nation he that feareth him, and have shown a greater interest than ever upstream. The tide was coming in, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with before in the circulation of our litera- it rises as far as Bootooba. him." 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A Victory The schools are doing good work in After a pleasant stay of one week at Two boys staying in our home are preparing workers for the field. Twelve the hospitable home of Elder and Sister quite opposite in disposition. One has young men of mature age are in the B. A. Meeker, in Hongkong, we took considerable education and refinement, advanced class, and will soon complete passage by the steamer Malta," of the and is rather timid and retiring in dis- their course and enter the work. Ten Peninsular and Oriental line, for Co- position. The other is inclined to be times this number could be used to ad- lombo. rude and harsh, has a hasty temper, and vantage in the Cantonese field. These During our visit in Hongkong Sister no consideration for those that do not students show good training, and• they Meeker had to be taken to the hospital agree with him. The boys had been are manifesting ability unsurpassed by on account of illness. The long hot sum- having trouble. We tried to settle it, students in our older schools. mer season has told on the health of but it would break out anew. While I The girls' school is filled to its ca- both Brother and Sister Meeker, yet was away in Negros one Friday night, pacity with very bright students, and Brother Meeker is actively engaged in Mrs. Adams tried to get them to confess there is great need for a teacher. The his work. He is conducting a very suc- to each other and make matters right, work throughout south China is making cessful campaign with the Harvest In- for they had had trouble again that day. good advancement in every way. gathering Signs. He is also using a But one boy became angry and said he Special attention is now being given large number of the weekly and monthly did not believe the Bible and did not to the literature work. Brethren Weaks, Signs in his work. want to pray any more. Then he started Blunden, and Mountain are holding some Five days on the water brought us to to go downstairs. Mrs. Adams called institutes in the interests of this line of Singapore, where we took our mission him. He stood awhile with his face to- work, and some well-trained workers workers by surprise, as we came in sev- ward the steps, and then slowly turned will soon enter the field with our truth- eral hours ahead of the time they ex- round and bowed for family worship. filled literature. pected us. We visited our training After all others had prayed, he prayed. In Manila we spent a few days in school, where one hundred and twenty When worship was over, he said that committee council. We were sorry to bright young people are availing them- selves of a Christian education prepara- when he started to go downstairs he saw learn that on account of the failing Jesus hanging on the cross, and he could health of his wife, Brother W. E. Lanier, tory to giving the message to their own not go down. The boys then went to who has had charge of the literature people. Prof. K. M. Adams and Miss Lena Mead are doing excellent work in their room, confessed to each other, and work, is obliged to return to America. Brother and Sister R. M. Wallace are the school. Their force of native teach- prayed together. ers is sufficient, and their quarters, al- Triumph over Appetite returning to Australia, as Sister Wal- lace is in very poor health. Brother though spacious and well adapted to When I was in Bacolod, Negros Oc- C. N. Woodward was invited to take their work, are more than filled. cidental, conducting a canvassers' insti- charge of the printing plant, and Brother In the Harvest Ingathering campaign tute, I baptized three men. One of J. J. Strahle of the book work. the best work is being done here of any them, aged thirty-one, had used tobacco The printing plant is installed in its place in the Division. Most of the funds for fifteen years. One evening, with the new quarters, and the dwellings for the are given by the native people, but good evangelist, I called on this brother to printer and for the school-teacher have collections are made from the business see if he was ready for baptism, He been erected and are ready for occu- men of Singapore. A well-planned cam- expressed his desire to be baptized, but pancy. The school dormitory is nearing paign covering the entire Division would we found that he had not yet full vic- completion. It is provided with sleeping- reap a bountiful harvest for the ad- tory over tobacco, and he felt that he verandas instead of sleeping-rooms. vancement of the message, and we hope needed medicine to help him overcome This is a much more desirable arrange- to see such a campaign organized next the habit. We tried to point him to the ment for the warm climate of Manila. year. power of God, and asked if he would The lower floor, which is used for class- The work in Malaysia is taking on a• like us to bow there and pray for him. rooms, has sliding partitions. This ar- more aggressive form. Eighty have been He hesitated to do this because he was rangement makes possible the throwing baptized during the year. We are indeed living in a house with unbelievers. He of the whole lower floor into one room glad to see the progress the work is mak- said we could do it at our house. He for chapel services, if desired. This is ing along all lines. The devoted com- came over a little later to the place a good economy in space. Study-rooms pany of new workers are contributing where we held a study for the candi- are adjacent to the sleeping-verandas. their share toward this strong advance dates. After a brother had opened the The building presents a creditable ap- movement. R. C. PORTER. meeting with prayer, I felt impressed pearance, although it is inexpensive. -4- -+- -4- to pray for this man, so I offered a brief The new church building for the Fili- Pittsburgh, Pa. prayer that he might obtain victory over pinos in Manila, constructed with a view the tobacco habit. Nothing more was to accommodating general meetings THE hand of the Lord has been mani- said about it that night. When I arose which will naturally be held there, will fested in the many rich blessings which the next morning, I prayed for him be ready for occupancy at the time of followed our work here during 1916, again. We expected him at another the coming general meeting, which will and to his name we give the glory. We meeting the next day, but he did not be attended by Elders A. G. Daniells rejoice in the advancement that has come. I feared that he was discouraged and J. E. Fulton, and their associates. been made, yet we feel that if we had on account of the strong hold the habit While in Manila we were privileged to lived up to God's ideals for his people, had on him. But in the evening he greet Elder and Sister Daniells, Elder much more could have been accom- came. After the meeting he told us that and Sister Knox, Brother and Sister plished. he could not come in the morning, for H. W. Barrows, and Brother C. C. Cris- On December 31 .the net membership the washerwoman had not returned his ler. We were most happy to welcome of the Second Seventh-day Adventist clothes, and he had no clean ones to these brethren and sisters, some to join church in Pittsburgh was sixty-nine, wear. He said that the night before us in a brief tour of the field, others to thirty-five members having been added when we prayed for him, he saw no remain and share in its burdens and during the year. The finances for this change, but :that early in the morning privileges. The last evening of our stay church are as follows: Tithes, $1,057.18, his desire for tobacco was gone, and it in Manila the missionaries of the va- as against $710.21 in 1915; mission of- seemed as if it had been years since he rious denominations spent a very pleas- ferings, $484.33, as against $286.65 the had used it. He said, " I felt that it was ant evening at the home of Elder and previous year. This is in addition Lo the Holy Spirit, and that some one was Sister L. V. Finster, it being their union nearly two hundred dollars donated for praying for me." monthly meeting. We were glad to meet church expense and improvements on ELBRIDGE M. ADAMS. so many of those interested in evangel- building, and about two hundred and -4- -4- -4- ical work. fifty dollars paid to the tract society for After our council meetings in Manila, literature, not including individual can- In the Asiatic Division Elder and Sister Knox accompanied me vassers' accounts. ° LEAVING Shanghai November 5, on back to Hongkong, and finding that we The company of nineteen at McDon- the steamship " China," Brother C. E. had a few days before sailing for India, ald also did well. Their tithe amounted Weaks, Brother H. M. Blunden and we spent two days at Canton in council to $435.90, and mission offerings to family, Mrs. Porter, and I enjoyed a regarding the educational work in the $145.92, as against $272.43 and $77.85 very pleasant voyage, to Hongkong. We Cantonese field. Elders Daniells and the year before. proceeded at once to Canton, where we Fulton and Brother Weaks remained in It will be seen that both churches paid spent two busy days attending commit- Manila for a more extended visit, after $1,489.08 in tithes, and $630.25 in offer- tee meetings and visiting the girls' and which they will tour the northeastern ings for foreign fields, amounts which boys' schools. portion of the Division. more than equal their pastor's and Bible FEBRUARY 22, 1 9 1 7 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD (187) 19

workers' salaries and expenses. These have been active workers in the large experienced. Do you not think it was companies, with some help from certain and difficult field of Chicago. I hope a battle for this conscientious, educated brethren of other churches, also reduced and pray that some of our conferences Indian girl to take this step against the the indebtedness on their church build- in the East and West where there are wishes of her dearest friends? And dare ing from $2,290.68 in January, 1916, to large cities, can place laborers in their we doubt her sincerity, when her first $1,464 on December 31. I am glad to fields to work among the Italians. Christ thought after receiving the third angel's say that on December 3o $398 was cannot come until all the Italians, as well message was to take the " good story," pledged by the new members, so that as the people of other nationalities, have as she calls it, to her own people? our entire indebtedness, with the ex- been given the gospel. Let us not worry Now her father and mother, thor- ception of a few dollars, is well taken too much about funds; the Lord has oughly pagan Navajos, are interested in care of. We make payments on our plenty of money, and he is willing to the " good story." After I had held a pledges the first Sunday of each month. give it to us in order that we may suc- long Bible study with the father yester- When we review the work and see where cessfully work all his vineyard. day, he said: " I have thought of these it was four years ago, and note that it Our two Bible workers, Brother Jo- things many times, but I could not un- has now become self-supporting, we feel seph Sansonetti and Sister Vesta Cash, derstand them. Now they are plain. I to exclaim, What bath God wrought ! are doing good work. Our church school believe them. I want to hear more, and In closing, it might be well to call at- is doing well. Our Missionary Volun- I am coming to see you as often as I can, tention to the fact that the doubling of teer Society is making advancement so I can hear more of the ' good story."' the Pittsburgh membership during the under the faithful leadership of Sister He lives twenty miles from here, and I year was in a great measure due to the Cash. The church missionary society, promised to visit him whenever possible. procuring of our new church building. too, is doing its part in proclaiming the The father of our first Navajo con- This demonstrates that it is economy to message. vert is a wealthy stockman, and has secure neat and permanent church build- During the year 1916, fifteen persons many horses, cattle, sheep, and goats. ings in these large cities, as moving from were added to the church by baptism, He named his daughter " Lilikai " (lots house to house and into all sorts of un- which is five more than were received of sheep) as an expression of his own suitable halls really gives no prestige to the previous year. The total amount of financial circumstances. In other words, the work. tithe, offerings, and church expenses her name means " rich girl." Now that We have many open doors, our mem- was $1,267.14, or $447.69 more than in she has found the true riches, she is rich bers are all loyal to the organized work, 1915. We have reached our quota for indeed. ORNO FOLLETT. and everything seems favorable for con- missions, raising twenty-six cents a week -1- -4- -4- tinued advancement along all lines. We per member. When we, consider the solicit an interest in your prayers, that small wages earned by the Italians, and Work for the Colored in the we may be able to double our member- the large families they have to support, Chesapeake Conference ship again this year. Our members are we feel thankful for their faithfulness IT has been quite a long time since I working to this end. and loyalty to the cause. Indeed, we are last reported the progress of the colored A. N. DURRANT. happy to know that the Lord can use work in this field. As always before, the -4- -0- --0- the Italians, as well as other nationali- Lord has blessed in every endeavor that ties, for the finishing of his work. At The Italian Work in Chicago has been made to enlarge the work present we are busy with our winter among these needy people. We left Bal- IT has been quite a long time since we campaign. We need your prayers. We timore in June, to hold tent meetings, in. reported the progress of our Italian work are looking for great things from the Wilmington and Cheswold, Del., and the here in Chicago. We feel that the good Lord this present year, an we trust it Lord blessed at both places. Our young news we have to tell will rejoice our will be the best in the history of our worker at Wilmington reports several faithful brethren and sisters in other Italian work. To God alone we give all additions to the church there, with a places, and so we shall briefly mention the glory. R. CALDERONE. general revival of all the older members. a few encouraging features of our work -4- -4- -4- At Cheswold we baptized five loyal be- during the past year. Our First Navajo Convert lievers, and there is a good interest We do not wish to speak of the hard- among the people. ships, perplexities, and persecutions we LILIKAI, an exceptionally bright Na- Baltimore was not wholly neglected have endured, so will only say that the vajo Indian girl twenty years of age, while these two efforts were going on. Lord has helped us to overcome them, has definitely decided to obey the truth, I returned every Sabbath, and often for and that we could close the year with after the hardest moral battle she ever Friday evening services. As the result complete victory. We are still on the of the summer's work there, thirty-three battle field, ready to fight to the end. were baptized in October. Brother Cox, We enjoyed many rich blessings dur- who is now at Wilmington, did faithful ing the week of prayer, and also during work during my absence, visiting inter- the Harvest Ingathering campaign; and ested ones and establishing them fully in we begin the new year with good cour- the message. age, trusting in the Lord. Generally In 1916 we baptized sixty-one persons speaking, the work among the Italians in Baltimore, including some who had has been quite prosperous in all its va- united with the church in the latter part rious phases. The Italian Signs of the of 1915, and were waiting for baptism. Times is doing good work, and meets Forty-three new additions were received with a ready sale. Last Sunday, in a during the year. The report shows few hours, a girl of fourteen who speaks $1,590.84 raised for church expenses, but little Italian, sold forty-eight copies $1,25o of which has been paid on the of the magazine at ten cents a copy. church debt, and the remainder on in- This was done in Chicago; and I be- terest and incidental expenses. lieve that the same could be done in Our members were very faithful in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Pitts- bringing in their tithes and Sabbath burgh, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and school offerings last year. The Balti- other large cities where there are thou- more church reports tithe paid to the sands of Italians. amount of $2,005.68. This is the largest Last July Brother Michele Cali went tithe ever paid by this church. In 1915 to Milwaukee, Wis., to work among the the tithe was $1,584.86, so the gain for thousands of Italians in that city. We 1916 was $420.82. Our mission offer- feel thankful for what he is doing. The ings were especially encouraging. Dur- interest in Milwaukee is good, and a ing '915 the Third Seventh-day Advent- church could no doubt be organized in ist church of Baltimore reported $575.09, a short time if the work could be con- and during the past year $1,092.08, a ducted in a more effective way. gain of $516.99. A tithe of $2,005.68 In Chicago we have three capable shows that Heaven has blessed us with young men, well trained and having a money to the amount of $20,056.80; that good Christian experience, who could is, our poor members have earned over enter other fields. They have attended $20,056 in the past year. To my mind the Chicago Bible Training School, and LILIKAI (in center) this is wonderful, considering that we

20 (188) THE' ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD VOL. 94, No. 8 have but a few over two hundred mem- I saw the person, not the words nor the bers. Truly the Lord can and will take SEIMionarp 'Volunteer ideas; and I thought, That is the way care of those who, casting all upon him, to look at the Scriptures and understand serve him with the whole heart. fit partment the thoughts of God; to see in them the very organization in the church is face of love, shining through and of good courage. The Brotherhood is through; not ideas, nor doctrines, but M. E. KEEN - - Secretary Jesus himself as the life and source and a splendid body of men, aiming to keep MATILDA ERICKSON - - Assistant Secretary themselves of good courage and to dis- MRS. I. H. EVANS - Office Secretary sustaining presence of all our life.' MEADE MACGUIRE " I prayed a long time to get sancti- tribute tracts and do every kind of mis- C, L. BENSON Field Secretaries sionary work that comes to hand. They J. F. SiiaoN 111 fied, and sometimes I thought I had it. help the church considerably through On one occasion I felt something, and their special offerings. The Senior Bible Year I held on with a desperate grip for fear Concerning our other churches among I should lose it, and kept awake the the colored people in this conference, I Assignment whole night fearing it would go, and of Feb. 25.Dent. 1- 3: Retrospect. course it went with the next sensation must say that there is every evidence of Feb. 26.Dent. 4- 6: The law repeated. advance. We have but one ordained Feb. 27. Dent. 7- 9: Exhortation and warnings. and the next mood. Of course I lost it Feb. 28.Dent. 10-12: Reminiscences; pleadings; because I did not hold on to Him. I had minister to labor for our people, and no laws. Bible workers at present, and but one March 1. Dent. 13-16: Doom of idolaters; tithing. been taking a little water from the res- March 2. Dent. 17-19: The coming Prophet. ervoir, when I might have all the time missionary licentiate, Brother Cox, at March 3. Dent. 20-22: Social and moral laws. Wilmington. received from Him fulness through the All our people feel that more must be —4— -4- open channels. done for the millions of colored people Keeping Up " I went to meetings and heard people yet unwarned. It is sad to know that speak of joy. I even thought I had the many of these are ready to receive the HAVE you not sometimes been sur- joy, but I did not keep it because I had message, but as yet know nothing about prised to see how much you can accom- not Himself as my joy. At last he said it. Here in the Chesapeake Conference plish by doing a little every day? I won- to me, oh, so tenderly, ' My child, just are 300,00o colored people, and scarcely der how many have been surprised to take me, and let me be in you the con- T00,000 have heard enough of the mes- see how far they have fallen behind in stant supply of all this — Myself.' sage to have any correct idea of it. We the Bible Year assignments by not do- " And when at last I got my eyes off have but four churches; we should have ing a little every day. The Bible Year my sanctification, and my experience of forty. has awakened many to the realization it, and just placed them on the Christ Last November when the offering was that while the days and years have been in me, I found, instead of an experience, taken for the work among the colored slipping by they have been doing very I had a Christ larger than the moment's I people, my heart was sorely grieved little general Bible reading. If this real- need, the Christ that had all that I when I heard that only $68 was given ization shall drive us to God for for- should ever need, who was given to me in our own conference, which has eight- giveness for the neglect of his Word, at once, and forever ! And when I thus een or twenty churches; and $44 of that and lead us to give more systematic at- saw him, it was such rest; it was all amount was given by one church. tention to the Book of books, then all right, and right forever. For I had not I ask the brethren who read this ar- the efforts put forth will have been only what I could hold that little hour, ticle to become burdened for these peo- abundantly rewarded. but also, in him, all that I should need ple. I pray that they may feel more and Have you ever kept account of how the next and the next, and so on, until more impressed to help them by liberal much time each day you spend with the sometimes I get a glimpse of what it will contributions. We need better school newspaper and with the Bible? Such a be a million years afterward, when we equipment, church buildings, tent com- record might startle some of us. Isn't shall `shine forth as the sun in the king- panies, etc. I ask all to help our loyal the newspaper important? It has its dom of our Father' (Matt. 13: 43), and ministers to double and redouble their place. But many have not yet learned have all the fulness of God.' . . . membership. The Cushite is to be among how to read it. If you lived near the diamond mines " I am like the little bottle in the sea, the remnant (Isa. II:it), and when he as full as it will hold. The bottle is in takes his place in this message, he will and the owner told you that for the pe- riod of one month he would allow you the sea, and the sea is in the bottle; so be faithful to his vows to God and assist I am in Christ, and Christ is in me. mightily in giving the message to those to go and dig for the precious gems all the time you could spare from your But besides that bottleful in the sea, of other races. From all our colored there is a whole ocean beyond; the dif- believers we have received during the daily home work, would you not reduce the daily routine of your work to a min- ference is, that the bottle has to be filled year 1916, $1,408.77 for mission work, over again, every day, evermore. . . . and $2,793.01 tithe, a total of $4,201.78 imum? Would you think it important sent to the conference treasurer. to spend a half hour each day in reading His Faith We are of good courage in the Lord, the newspaper? Would you read the " There came a time when there was and hope to see a greater advance in our continued stories in the magazines? a little thing between me and Christ. I work this year than ever before. We Would you take a day off to go to the express it by a little conversation with 4 ask your prayers, that our few workers circus? Would you think it necessary a friend who said, `You were healed by may be faithful and be daily filled with to crochet lace for the adornment of faith.' Oh, no,' I said, ' I was healed the Spirit of the Lord. your clothing? How insignificant those by Christ.' What is the difference? things would seem in comparison with GUSTAVUS P. RODGERS. There is a great difference. There came the precious stones within your reach! a time when even faith seemed to come -40- -*- We are doing worse than this by neg- between me and Jesus. I thought I lecting daily to seek for the precious should have to work up the faith, so Field Notes diamonds to be found in God's Word. I labored to get the faith. At last I A CHURCH of six members has been When shall we reverse the order and thought I had it; that if I put my whole organized at Conde, S. Dak. give more time to the things that are of weight upon it, it would hold. . . . I eternal worth? Next week, or next said, when I thought I had got the faith, THE baptism of nine persons is re- year? Now is the time. ' Heal me.' I was trusting in myself, ported from Greenville, S. C. M. E. KERN. in my own heart, in my own faith. I —.— -4- was asking the Lord to do something ELDER J. K. JONES reports the baptism Himself for me because of something in me, not of eight adults at Lawrence and Me- because of something in him. So the thuen, Mass. "I wisH to speak to you today about Lord allowed the devil to try my faith, Jesus, and Jesus only. . . . and the devil devoured it like a roaring SEVEN persons were recently buried " I once saw a picture of the Consti- lion, and I found myself so broken down with their Lord in baptism, and united tution of the United States, very skil- that I did not think I had any faith. with the church at Marshalltown, Iowa. fully engraved in copperplate, so that " God allowed it to be taken away when you looked at it closely, it was until I felt I had none. And then God ELDER L. K. Dicxsox recently spent nothing more than a piece of writing, seemed to speak to me so sweetly, say- two weeks with the church at Monitor, but when you looked at it from a dis- ing, : Never mind, my child, you have Ore. The Spirit of the Lord was pres- tance, it was the face of George Wash- nothing, but I am perfect power, I am ent in a marked manner, and eight went ington. The face shone out in the shad- perfect love, I am faith, I am your life, forward in baptism. ing of the letters at a little distance, and I am the preparation for the blessing, FEBRUARY 22, 1917 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 089) 21 and then I am the blessing, too. I am peace and happiness to its possessor. BERRY.- Hazen Berry, of Cedar Run, Mich., all within and all without, and all for- The aspirations are elevated. There is died suddenly in Detroit, on his nineteenth no room for sloth or selfishness. Those birthday, Jan. 25, 1917. The body was taken ever.' to Traverse City, Mich., for burial. Services "It is just having ' the faith of God.' who thus exercise the Christian graces were conducted by the Congregational min- Mark 1i: 22, margin. ' And the life I will grow and will become strong to ister of that city. ELLEN PAYNE. now live in the flesh I live,' not by faith work for God. They will have clear (Lake Union papers please copy.) on the Son of God, but by the faith of spiritual perceptions, a steady, growing the Son of God.' Gal. 2: 20. That is it. faith, and an increased power in prayer." FRAZIER.- Josephine Frazier was born in It is not your faith. . . . You have to -Idem. Baltimore, Md., in 1845, and died there Jan. take his faith as well as his life and 25, 1917. She was a member of the First " The humblest and Poorest of the dis- Seventh-day Adventist church of that city healing, and have simply to say, ' I live ciples of Jesus can be a blessing to oth- for some years. One sister and three broth- by the faith of the Son of God. . . . ers. They may not realize, that they are ers mourn. A. S. BOOTH. The Secret doing any special good, but by their un- conscious influence they may start waves REAM.- Mrs. Elizabeth H. Ream died in " The apostle Paul tells us that there of blessing that will widen and deepen, Gridley, Cal., Jan. 26, 1917, aged 63 years. is a secret, a great secret, which was She is survived by her husband, two sons, and and the blessed results they may never one daughter. Sister Ream was a member hidden from ages and from generations know until the day of final reward. (Col. 1:26), which the world was seek- of the Seventh-day Adventist church for about They do not feel or know that they are twenty-five years, and fell asleep in hope of ing after in vain, which wise men came doing anything great. They are not re- a part in the first resurrection. from the East hoping they might find, quired to weary themselves with anxiety A. J. OSBORNE. which sages died vainly seeking for about success. They have only to go themselves, and God says it is nbw forward quietly, doing faithfully the KINSEY.- Etta Bowman Kinsey was born made manifest to his saints;' and Paul work that God's providence assigns, and in Kentucky, Aug. 1, 1878, and died in Salem, went through the world just to tell it to Ore., Jan. 5, 1917. Five years ago she em- their life will not be in vain. Their braced the third angel's message, and fell those that were able to receive it; and own souls will be growing more and asleep •in its blessings. She was a member that simple secret is just this, Christ more into the likeness of Christ; they of the Salem Seventh-day Adventist church. in you, the hope of glory.' are workers together with God in this Her husband, one daughter, and three sons " The word ' mystery means secret; life, and are thus fitting for the higher survive. H. G. TnuasTorr. this is the great secret. And I tell you work and the unshadowed joy of the today, nay, I can give you,- if you will VAN HORN.- James Arthur Van Horn died life to come."-Idern. in the Swedish Mission Hospital at Omaha, take it from Him, not from me,- I can Nebr., Dec. 15, 1916. He was born in Omaha, give you a secret which has been to me, July 26, 1891. He fell asleep at peace with oh, so wonderful! Years ago I came to his Saviour, and we feel confident that he him burdened with guilt and fear; I will have a part in the first resurrection. tried that simple secret, and it took OBITUARIES The sorrowing parents are comforted by the away all my fear and sin. Years passed blessed hope. JAMES D. Jomrsofc. on, and I found sin overcoming me, and FIx.-Austin Fix was born my temptations too strong for me. I KARAHADIAN.- Lillian, infant daughter of in Delaware County, Ohio, Jan. 15, 1848, and died Jan. Karl and Emma Karahadian, died Jan. 13, came to him a second time, and he whis- 26, 1917. He was a faithful member of the 1917, in Fresno, Cal., aged I year, 1 month, pered to me, Christ in you,' and I had Seventh-day AdVentist church for forty years, and 14 days. The parents and two small victory, test, and blessing. . . . at the time of his death holding fellowship sisters mourn. E. H. ADAMS. " And so I would say, If this precious with the company at Asheville, N. C. He is little secret of Christ in you,' will help JEWELL.- Helen Anderson Jewell was born survived by his wife, one son, three sisters, and one brother. you, you may have it. May you make in Sabo, Sweden, Oct. 15, 1846, and died at J. S. KILLEN. better use of it than I! I feel. I have her home, in Kent City, Mich., Jan. 14, 1917. only begun to learn how well it works. She was married twice, and her second hus- DICKENS.- Died at his home, in Lake Run, Sullivan Co., Pa., Jan, 9, 1917, Joseph Dick- band, Charles Jewell, fell asleep in 1912. In Take it and go on working it out, through ens. He was born in Rome, Pa., time and eternity - Christ for all, grace 1890 she became a Seventh-day Adventist, June 21, and remained faithful until her death. 1846, His marriage •to Barbara A. Richert, for grace, from strength to strength, of New York City, took place in 1881, and from glory to glory, from this time forth W. REEFMAN. with one son she is left to mourn. Brother and even forevermore."- A. B. Simp- Dickens was baptized in 1891, and rests in son. DAILY.- Emily Jane Jeffers was born near hope of a part in the first resurrection. Highland, Kans., Sept. 16, 1859. She• was L. L. STONE. In Him Is Life married to Jas. L. Daily Feb. 25, 1875. In July, 1896, she united with the Seventh-day " You are just as dependent upon Josux.- Mrs. Amelia Joslin died Jan. 22, Adventist church, and remained faithful. Christ, in order to live a holy life, as 1917, in Hollister, Cal., aged 68 years, 2 Her husband, four of their seven children, is the branch upon the parent stock for months, and 6 days. She accepted the third five brothers, and two sisters are left to growth and fruitfulness. Apart from angel's message more than twenty years ago, E. E. DUNHAM. him, you have no life. You have no mourn. while in Petaluma, Cal., through the efforts of Elders E. E. Andross and U. G. Adkins, power to resist temptation or to grow COLLINS.- Richard Collins was born near and remained faithful to the message through in grace and holiness. Abiding in him, 12, 1833, and died Seneca Falls, N. Y., Nov. the long affliction which finally caused her you may flourish. Drawing your life in Willow Creek, Mont., Dec. z6, 1916. He death. W. F. HILLS. from him, you will not wither nor be was the father of eight children, six of whom, with their families, are left to mourn. Brother fruitless. You will be like a tree planted DOREMUS.-Marcus Doremus was born in Collins embraced present truth thirty years by the rivers of water."-Mrs. E. G. Montclair, N. J., Nov. 15, 1827. He was mar- ago, and his life was that of a consistent White, in "Steps to Christ." ried to Miss Julia Ann Dyer, of La Fayette, Christian. GEo. F. WATSON. " Although there may be a tainted, Ind., April 27, 1854. To them was born one daughter, who died in infancy. The family corrupted atmosphere around us, we BROWN.- Mrs. Amanda Brown was born moved to Oregon in 1861, and twenty years need not breathe its miasma, but may in Dillsboro, Ind., Jan. 8, 1843, and died in later he united with the Seventh-day Advent- live in the pure air of heaven. We may Wichita, Kans., Jan. 8, 1917, the seventy- ist church. His was a consistent Christian close every door to impure imaginings fourth anniversary of her birth. She became life. He fell asleep Dec. 22, 1916, at the a member of the Seventh-day Adventist and unholy thoughts by lifting the soul home of his adopted daughter, who, with church twenty-one years ago, continuing into the presence of God through sin- many friends, is left to mourn. faithful until death. Her aged husband and cere prayer. Those whose hearts are H. W. COTTRELL. open to receive the support and blessing five of their seven children survive. of God will walk in a holier atmosphere M. A. ALTMAN. BRUEN.- Ella Lue Hoisington was born than that of earth, and will have con- April 3, 1862, in Bloomington, Ill. In 1882, stant communion with Heaven. . . . NOTT.- Eliza Ann Leffler Nott was born after the death of her father, the family •moved near Ft. Wayne, Ind., April 23, 1837, and to Columbus, Nebr., where she finished her We may keep so near to God that in died at the home of her son, in Hutchinson, every unexpected trial our thoughts will education. After teaching for three years, Kans., Jan. 12, 1917. She was married to she was married to David Lewis Bruen. She turn to him as naturally as the flower Samuel Nott in Hardin County, Iowa. • To became a Christian early in life, and in 1903 turns to the sun."-Idem. them were born twelve children, ten of whom united with the Seventh-day Adventist church. are left to mourn, together with two brothers She was a devoted Christian, and after a In His Service and one sister. Sister Nott was a faithful, prolonged illness peacefully fell asleep Jan. " The spirit of unselfish labor for oth- earnest member of the Seventh-day Adventist /8, 1917. Her husband and seven children, ers gives depth, stability, and Christlike church at Colome, S. Dak. her mother and one sister, with other relatives loveliness to the character, and brings E. E. DUNHAM. and friends, mourn. C. E. AcMoony. 22 (190) THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol.. 94, No, 8

PREECE.— George H. Preece was born in Mrs. D. W. Courtney, Sunset Heights, Wales in 1883, and came to this country in Houston, Tex. 1899, settling in Los Angeles, Cal., the fol- appointment5 anb James Harvey, 1729 Grove St., Oakland, lowing year. He was married June 27, 1907. Cal. Continuous supply. His wife and one daughter mourn his death, gotico D. A. Easton, Marceline, Mo. Continuous which occurred Dec. 4, 1916, but they sorrow supply of all denominational publications ear- in hope. Brother Preece became reconciled nestly desired. to God several months before he fell asleep. Loma Linda Sanitarium Nurses' Train- ing School Mrs. D. M. Eaton, Fresno, Cal. REVIEW, C. D. M. WILLIAMS. Signs (weekly and monthly), Little Friend, SANDBORN.— Sarah, wife of Columbus Sand- THE nurses' course of the Loma Linda and Instructor. born, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. College of Medical Evangelists for 1917-18 -4- -4.- -*- May Nickels, Bay City, Mich., Jan. 18, 1917, will begin Aug. 15, 1917. Unusual advan- Requests for Prayer being 73 years and 14 days of age. Mother tages are to be had at Loma Linda. as we THOUGH widely separated from one an- has gone to her rest, after having borne the have a large medical faculty, in addition to other, the followers of our Lord and Master burden and heat of the day. Her life was a varied experience in field, sanitarium, and can meet in spirit daily at the throne of grace. bound up in the experiences of her family, hospital work. In our devotions let us remember our brethren being ever ready to sacrifice for them. She Students should be over nineteen years of and sisters who are in affliction. Says the and father accepted present truth forty-six age, and should have had ten grades of regular apostle : " Remember them that are in bonds, years ago, and she stood faithfully by his school work. Applications are now coming as bound with them ; and them which suffer side until he laid down his burden two years in. Those who are planning to enter this adversity, as being yourselves also in the ago. After father fell asleep, mother was course should write early for calendar and body." We ourselves shall share in the lonely, and longed for the rest that comes application blank, addressing Superintendent blessings we seek for others. " The Lord at the end of the journey. She now sleeps of Nurses, Loma Linda Sanitarium, Loma turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed by his side, awaiting the call of the Life-giver Linda, Cal. for his friends." We suggest the noon hour at •the first resurrection. We, her children, -4- -4- -4- as an appropriate time for remembering these who mourn the loss of our dearest friend on New England Sanitarium and Benevolent special requests: — earth, but not as those who have no hope, Association look hopefully forward to the time when the A sister in Indiana asks prayer for healing grand reunion will come in the kingdom of NOTICE is hereby given that the seventeenth from palsy. God. Words of comfort were spoken by the annual meeting of the constituency of the " Please pray for the healing of my sister writer from i 'Mess. 4: 13. New England Sanitarium and Benevolent As- in England," writes an Iowa reader. A. R. SANDBORN. sociation will be held in the sanitarium in -4-- -4- -*- the town of Stoneham, Mass., Monday, March BOARDMAN.— Charity Lavina Urquhart was 26, at 7: 3o P. M., for the purpose of filling Being Talked About born in Rockton, Ill., and died in Twete, near vacancies in the constituency, electing the A LETTER just received from one of our Harlem, Mont., Jan. 26, 1917, in her seventy- board of trustees for the ensuing year, and ministers in Missouri, contains these words : third year. She was •the daughter of an Eng- transacting such other business as may prop- " To say I am delighted with the new Signs lish sailing captain. At the age of eighteen erly come before the meeting. Magazine and Signs weekly doesn't half ex- she was converted through the efforts of R. D. QUINN, President. press it. Really, I have heard more favorable Elder J. N. Loughborough and joined the H. B. STEELE, Clerk. comment on the new appearance of both pa- Seventh-day Adventist church. In 1866 she -4- -4- -*- pers than you could read in some time. The was united in marriage to Chester M. Board- striking way you have of arranging the head- man, and •to them were born five children, South Lancaster Academy Corporation ing, titles of articles, etc., is excellent. I three of whom survive. In the year I88o have always contended that people are anx- Sister Boardman and her family moved to NOTICE is herehy given that the thirty-third annual meeting of the constituency of the ious to read our message, and to hear it Kansas. About ten years later they came to preached, if properly presented." Gallatin! County, Montana, and in 1906 re- South Lancaster Academy Corporation will be held at the New England Sanitarium, It is the constant aim of the Signs pub- moved to Harlem, Mont. For more than lishers to supply our people with the very fifty years she stood firmly for the advent Melrose, Mass., Monday, March 26, 1917, at 7: 3o P. M., for the purpose of filling vacan- best that sanctified pens and mechanical skill message, though most of this time isolated can produce. Good as the February Signs from those of like faith. While it was her cies in the constituency, electing the board of trustees for the ensuing year, and transacting Magazine was, some think the March number lot to meet more than the usual share of is even better. life's hardships and privations, yet she did such other business as may properly come so with becoming Christian cheerfulness. before the meeting. Following the corpora- tion meeting, the board of trustees will meet Her life was filled with helpfulness to others, rjI.4" and kind friends were not wanting in her to transact any necessary business that may SIGNS *II hour of need. She sleeps in Jesus, and we come before it. confidently believe she will be with the saints R. D. QUINN, President. MAGAZct NE on those " beautiful hills " she so much loved J. ALBERT TROUT, Clerk. to talk of, " where the weary shall toil no -0- -4-- -4 more." A. E. EVERETT. California Medical Missionary and Be- -4- -4- -4- nevolent Association Mrs. Anna E. Rambo NOTICE is hereby given that the twentieth MRS. ANNA E. RAMBO was born Aug. 31, annual constituency meeting of the California /863, and died of pneumonia, in Bridgeton Medical Missionary and Benevolent Associa- (N. J.) Hospital, after a nine days' illness, tion will be held at Sanitarium, Napa Co., Jan. 12, 1917, at the age of 53 years. During Cal., Wednesday, March 14, 1917, at twelve thirty years of conference, church, and church- o'clock, noon, for electing directors, amending school work, Sister Rambo made a large by-laws, and transacting such other business number of friends and acquaintances, all of as may properly come before the meeting. whom, with her husband, two daughters, and E. E. ANnaoss, President. other relatives who survive her, sincerely L. V. ROBERSON, Secretary. mourn their loss. She was a leader in the -4- -4-- -*- church, a friend to the needy, a counselor to the perplexed, and a mother to the mother- Publications Wanted less. Forty children and young people, at THE persons named below desire late, clean different times, found a home under her hos- copies of our publications, sent postpaid, for pitable roof, which was " never too small to use in missionary work. In sending publica- shelter a homeless child " or youth. High tions care should be exercised to select only ideals were set before them, their capabilities such as are free from soil and disfigurement. were studied, and their talents trained for We have been credibly informed that some Here are the titles of some articles that the service of God. Truly " a voice was heard who oppose this movement and the truths will be talked about : — in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping," which it represents, answer these requests for Sin's Last Orgy ; Antics of Modern Pew because a mother in Israel is not. But she literature, and are sending to our brethren and Fillers; The Paradox of Peace; Neither In shall come again from the land of the enemy, sisters in various parts of the country tracts and her work shall be rewarded. Jer. 31 : nor Out of Purgatory ; Labor's Warning to and papers representing their opposition. Our Wealth; Europe's Deliberate Hara-kiri ; Bank- 15-17. The educational work carried on by workers should be careful not to confound rupting the World. Sister Rambo in Ramah, N. J., will be con- this literature with our denominational pub- tinued by her daughter, Elizabeth, and Missi You will find at least one message for each lications, and thus unwittingly become agents of your neighbors in the March Marion Whitcomb. The funeral service was Signs Maga- in sending out matter not printed in the in- zine. If circumstances prevent your going conducted by the writer at the home of Sister terests of the cause of truth. Emma Behler, 115 Oak St., Bridgeton. Our( out to circulate the paper, will you not use I sister sleeps in Jesus, in the Broad Street Mrs. C. Willeford, 315 Fletcher St., Thom- your influence to get others to do so? Cemetery, hidden " as it were for a little asville, Ga. Old prices still effective. They are: 5 to 40 copies, 5 cents each ; 50 or more, 4 cents each. moment, until the indignation be overpast." Grace L. Swingle, 1751 Monroe Ave., GEORGE W. SPIES. Tell your tract society secretary how many Scranton, Pa. you can use. FEBRUARY 22, 1917 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD (191) 23

Full of Good' Things 35 cents; ma copies, 6o cents; L000 cop- " I can assure you that I was very ies, $5. Foreign postage extra: Canada, glad to know that the subscription list MRS. NELLIE H. BRADLEY, State su- is growing, for I realize very thoroughly perintendent Literature Department, 12 cents a hundred; other countries, 24 that if our people keep up to date, they W. C. T. U., Washington, D. C., in sum- cents a hundred. Recent developments threatening to must have the REVIEW in their homes. ming up the contents of the 1917 Tem- It is very evident to those of us that are perance Annual, says, " It is full of good draw this country into the great world war have awakened the serious thought out in the field, that it is only the con- things." stant study of the In these few words Mrs. Bradley of the American people, and they are REVIEW that keeps our people awake to the general issues voices the voluminous expressions of ready to consider the meaning of this unparalleled war of strife and blood- of our campaign. We shall surely do thousands of temperance workers in all that we can to further the good cause. this country. The Annual is too good shed. This is, therefore, our most fa- " WM. A. and its message too important to fall vorable opportunity to sow message seed WESTWORTH." short of a half million circulation this bountifully, with the full assurance of a " I am certainly glad to know that the year. rich harvest. REVIEW campaign has succeeded so well, -4- -11.- Present Truth No. 5, the War Special, and can assure you that we will do, our is fresh from the pens of some of our best in continuing the campaign in west " Present Truth " Special Lists best writers. It is filled with up-to-date Michigan until we have the REVIEW in SUBSCRIPTIONS for Present Truth can matter written for this special issue. It every home if possible. be sent in at any time, and names will presents the burning message of the " Wm. GUTHRIE." be entered on the regular list as the sub- hour. It will not only thrill our people, " We shall not be satisfied until we scriptions come in. Twice a year there but will lead its millions of readers to get the REVIEW into every home of be- will be special lists beginning and end- conviction. It is impressive, convincing, lievers in our conference, and we shall ing at definite dates, thereby enabling irresistible present truth„ and all RE- work to that end this coming year, We all who send in names for these special VIEW readers will recognize their oppor- are glad to join you in the campaign to lists to know just when the papers begin tunity, and fulfil their obligations in con- get this faithful minister in the hands to reach their friends, what they are nection with its circulation. Millions of of our people. Any one who observes, reading at any specific time in the year, copies will lodge in the homes of the readily determines that those who read when the subscription runs out, etc. people within a few weeks, and showers the REVIEW are more spiritually alive This information will be helpful in writ- of blessings will water the hearts of the than are those who do not read it. ing to and praying for those to whom workers. " E. F. PETERSON." the papers are being sent. These special are, therefore, for missionary cam- " We have been so busy conducting lists general meetings throughout the confer- paigns; while the regular lists are han- The " Review " Campaign ence that we have not yet taken up the dled in the usual way, entering the weekly visits of the REVIEW are campaign of the names as they come in, and taking them THE REVIEW as we expect so necessary to every believer that the to do in the near future. I am a firm out, when the time expires. Let all un- time for making a special effort to se- believer that placing the REVIEW in the derstand, therefore, that subscriptions cure subscriptions cannot be limited to hands of all our people will produce a for Present Truth may be sent in at any a week or a month. Many conference most excellent effect in every way. It time. presidents have voluntarily expressed will increase their spirituality, their this sentiment, and we take pleasure in knowledge of the work, their missionary Prompt Returns letting our readers know what they zeal, and make them more self-sacrific- say: — ing in their contributions, and faithful THE full set of Present Truth Series in the payment of their tithe. was not completed until the first of last " We are doing what we can to get " K. C. RUSSELL." December, yet Capt. J. L. Johnson, who the REVIEW into the homes of the people. has been a ship missionary in the New From the elder of one of our churches " If the Review and Herald deems it York harbor for twenty years, reports comes the cheering word that he has the best to continue the campaign for 1917, the conversion of the chief engineer of joy and satisfaction now of knowing we will continue our sympathetic co- a large steamship through reading a full that all his members are readers of the operation in securing subscriptions. I set of the Present Truth Series given good old REVIEW. I myself have been know that our office sent in a large num- him by Captain Johnson a short time successful in getting orders from people ber before the close of the year. We all ago. This engineer has left the ship, who were not taking it, and when I do unite in a very earnest endeavor to raise though he was offered a salary of $500 this I can assure you I feel I have ac- the list to the highest notch possible, and a month to continue. He has been bap- complished a great deal, for I know that we will not slacken our interest during tized and joined the church, and is now the REVIEW will continue to help the 1917. G. W. WELLS." engaged in earnest missionary work people after I am gone. " I want to assure you that we will among the engineers in the New York " J. J. IRWIN." do all we can to get the REVIEW into the harbor. It is natural for this newly homes of all our people in the North converted brother to desire the Present "We have been endeavoring to •get Texas Conference. We began the effort Truth Series with which to work. He the REVIEW in all our Sabbath-keeping during REVIEW Week, and intend to could profitably use a thousand gets a families in this conference. We have keep it up during the whole year. When month if he had them. It would be good not yet reached the goal, but we still I visit the homes of the people, I con- missionary work to supply him with full hope and believe this can be accom- sider it a part of my conference work sets. They cost only 25 cents a set, and plished. The REVIEW should be in every to see if they are taking the REVIEW. yet one set is enough to bring people English-speaking S. D. A. family in the " DAVID VOTH." into the truth. world. N. T. SurroN." We surely have reached the time just o -0- -0- " We have reached our goal in refer- before the coming of the Lord. We The " Present Truth " War Spe- ence to the REVIEW, but still we are not have been told that the last moves will satisfied. When one of our men is go- be rapid ones. How necessary that all cial ing to a church and asks what he shall our people at this time have a wise coun- As soon as' the United States severed do, I always say, ' See to it that our selor, a faithful minister and spiritual diplomatic relations with Germany, and church papers are in every home, for helper. Such they will have in the RE- war clouds began to hover over our these papers will come and do their VIEW each week. shores, many of our people began at work week by week, while you make a The recent campaign had the result once to appeal to Present Truth for an visit only once a year or so.' of bringing our subscription list to a early issue dealing especially with the " S. E. JACKSON." little over 18,000. There are still many fulfilment of prophecy as seen in recent families who do not have the weekly developments in the world war. " We are glad Missouri is standing visits of the REVIEW. Our goal for 1917 In prompt answer to these appeals, high in the list, but we wish we could is 25,000 subscribers. Will every lover ~ile Present Truth War Special was pre- make it stand still higher, and we will of the REVIEW help to reach this goal? pared and issued as No. 5 of the new not stop until every family has the RE- By so doing you will help seven thou- Present Truth. It can now be had in VIEW. We realize that the home where sand believers get the same benefits from any quantity at the following regular the REVIEW goes regularly is stronger the REVIEW that you do. Right now is Present Truth prices: I to 20 copies, I in the truth than any other home in the the time to work. In a little while it cent each; 25 copies, 20 cents; So copies, conference. D. U. HALE." may be too late. 24 (152) THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol- 94, No. 8 A BOOK on " Exercise and Health " book committee consider it one of the may be had free for the asking, from best manuscripts we have received for the United States Public Health Service. publication. Elder Daniells has spent many months of careful study upon this great subject, and this little book em- bodies the results of his study. WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 22, 1917 OWING to a change in membership, the overflow on the Twenty-cent-a-week Every facility at our command is be- Fund has been increased to $27,844.78, ing employed to get this book quickly WORD from Elder A. R. Sandborn, in place of $26,961.58, as previously re- into the hands of our people. It should president of the New Jersey Confer- ported. be ready for shipment by March to. It ence, brings the sad news of the death -4- -4- will be unifom in style and price with of Elder J. M. Gaff, a German laborer " The World's Crisis " and " Armaged- WORD from Elder U. Bender and fam- don; " will be beautifully illustrated. in that conference. He was sick only ily, on arriving at Cape Town, tells of a, few days, and died of pleuropneumonia. 128 pages. Paper, 25 cents; cloth, 5o their long voyage by way of Australia cents. Order from your tract society. In this death the cause is deprived of an to Africa. All were well. Brother earnest, devoted worker. Bender will superintend the new Rhode- -47 -4- sian Union Mission. -4- -4- Religious Liberty Day BROTHER R. L. PIERCE, manager of SABBATH, February 24, is Religious the Southern Publishing Association, A LETTER from Mrs. A. J. Haysmer Liberty Day. A special offering is to be visited Washington last week in the in- brings to us the sad news of the death taken on this day for the benefit of the terests of the next Harvest Ingatheting of her father, Elder E. Van Deusen, religious liberty work. A most inter- campaign. The Watchman has been who died at her home, in Riversdale, esting program has been prepared and chosen as the medium of circulation at Jamaica, January 26. Brother Van forwarded to the local church elders. that time. Brother Pierce reports a Deusen was one of our oldest ministers, This program ought to be carried out growing prosperity attending the work being past eighty years of age. He was in detail wherever possible on this day, of the Southern Publishing Association. instrumental in bringing many people and the needs of the work emphasized. into the truth in Michigan and other -4- -4- Our people should be given an oppor- places in which he labored in the United tunity to renew their club orders to the THE last word received from Elder States. He also spent a number of years Liberty magazine. This magazine is W. A. Spicer, under date of January 5, laboring in the West Indies. His obit- filled with very important matter just reported him as in Holland, attending uary will appear later. now, and our people should not only meetings in that country. We have not -4- -4- take it themselves, but send it to in- been able to learn whether or not he fluential men in official positions and passed on into the German Empire. SENDING a report for publication, professional men who mold public sen- Foreign mail communications are greatly Brother 0. J. Gibson, of Yen-cheng, timent. Sunday laws are being submit- interrupted at the present time, and it Honan, China, under date of January ted to the people on the referendum, and takes from two to three times as long 1, says: "We feel to bless God for we must prepare to meet the issues. as usual to receive word from our breth- his keeping power. Another year has May the Lord grant a liberal offering ren in foreign lands. dawned upon us, and the work is still for this important line of work. progressing. In fact, we are contin- C. S. LONGACRE, -4- -4- ually puzzled to know how to divide Sec. Religious Liberty Dept. our time among the interests of the work COUNT JOHANN VON BERNSTORFF, am- in so many places, Our school has up bassador from Germany to the United wards of eighty students, and more will States, with his corps of assistants and come after the Chinese New Year, fill- The Advent Review several German professors returning ing our school to overflowing. We• are from American universities to their na- considering just now securing a location tive land, making one hundred and forty- in the city, and believe the Lord has and Sabbath Herald nine in all, sailed for home February 14. gone before us in this move, for what General Church Paper of Mr. Gerard, the United States ambas- seems a very desirable location has been the Seventh•day Adventists sador to Germany, is in Switzerland, en offered us. We are all of good cour- route for the United States by way of age." Devoted to the Proclamation of "the Faith Paris. -4- which was once delivered unto the Saints" " ThelWorld Wart LET all note that issuing the War Issued Each Thursday by the Special of Present Truth as No. 5 sets AT the present writing, conditions in- I all the following subjects of the series dicate that the United States may in a Review and Herald Publishing Association one number higher than the published few days be involved in the great Euro- list. The regular No. 5, " The Signs of pean war. Men's hearts are now stirred Editor - FRANCIS McLELLAN WILCOX as never before since the war began. ,Assoc,ate Editors Christ's Coming," will be No. 6, " The W. A. SPICER G. B. THOMPSON Millennium " will be No. 7, and so on all This gives Seventh-day Adventists an L L. CAVINESS through the remainder of the series. unparalleled opportunity to place their Special Contributors From No. 5 on, all subjects will be num- message before the people. A. G. DANIELLS L. R. CONRADI Just at this opportune time we have I. H. EVANS W. T. KNOX bered one figure higher than the number W. W. PRESCOTT C. M. SNOW given in the old list. received from Elder A. G. Daniells a R. C. PORTER manuscript which for several months he has been preparing for the World's Au. COMMUNICATIONS relating to the EDITORIAL Da S. M. KONIGMACHER, while looking Crisis Series. It is entitled, " The World PARTMENT. and all manuscripts submitted for publication, should be addressed to EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT, Review for a mission station in northern Rho- War: Its Relation to the Eastern Ques- and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., and NOY desia, Central Africa, tells in a recent tion and Armageddon." The importance TO ANY INDIVIDUAL, letter to the Mission Board of a trip and scope of the book are indicated by into Belgian Kongo, where none of our TERMS: IN ADVANCE the following table of contents: — One Year $2.25 Six Months 51.2$ workers had been before. He found 1. The World War. Two Years $4.00 that present truth had gone before him 2. The Cause and the Meaning. No extra postage is charged to countries within tb. and made friends, one family of Euro- 3. The Great Nations Speak for Universal Postal Union. pean parentage being favorably im- Themselves. Make all Post-Office Money Orders payable at th, pressed. They had met some of our 4. The Eastern Question. WASHINGTON. D. C„ post-office (not Takoma Park Station) Address all communications and make all Drafts and native Christians from mission stations 5. The Fate of the Ottoman Empire. press Money Orders payable to Ex farther south. Speaking of one of these 6. Armageddon, REVIEW AND HERALD native Christians, they affirmed that he 7. The Present Outlook. Takoma Park Station - Washington, D. C1 knew his Bible and was more clever with 8. The Kingdom of Righteousness, it than any native Christian they had This is a most timely book. It will ever met a good testimony for a rep- [Entered as second-class matter, August 14, 1903, a, be " meat in due season " to our friends the post-office at Washington, D. C., under the act of Cots resentative of a mission school! and neighbors. The members of our gress of March 3, 1879.)