General Conference Bulletin THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION

THE General Conference Bulletin THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION

VOL. 7 TAKOMA PARK STATION, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1913 No. 7

THE GENERAL CONFERENCE Throughout the field, faithful leaders 2. Society Lessons. BULLETIN have worked diligently and prayerfully 3. Missionary Volunteer Reading to carry out these plans, and God has Courses. Published by signally blessed their efforts. Not all 4. Standard of Attainment. The General Conference of Se% endl-day that we desire has been accomplished, 5. Leaflet Series. Adventists but we are truly grateful for what has 6. Libraries. DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY! been done, which, without a special ef- 7. Camp-meetings and Institutes. fort for the youth, would probably have 50 CENTS FOR THE SESSION, MAY 16 TO JUNE 9, 1913 III. Organized Missionary Effort. Editorial committee: W. A. Spicer. C. P. &Ammo. been left undone. I. Personal Evangelism. C. C. Crisler. T. E. Bowen, H. E. Rogers. J. N. Anderson. The interest in Missionary Volunteer 2. Literature Work. Office editors: C. P. BoIlinan, C. C. Crisler. Copy editor: Mrs. C. M. Snow. work has been manifestly deepened. 3. Christian Help Work. More time is being given to its develop- 4. Bible Readings and Cottage Entered as second-class matter at the post- ment; more extensive and intensive Meetings. office at Washington, D. C., May 16, 1913, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

DAILY PROGRAM (Except Sabbath) A. M. Devotional Meetings (in sections) 6: oo — 6:45 Breakfast 7:00 Bible Study 8: 3o — 9:30 Conference 30: oo — 12 : 00

P. M. Dinner 12 : 15

Conference 2 : 30 — 4:00 Departmental Meetings (in sections), Mission- ary Talks and Other Services (in big tent) . 4:30 — 5 : 30 Lunch 6 : oo Public Service 7 : 3o — 9 : 00

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REPORT OF THE MISSIONARY VOLUNTEER DEPARTMENT (Read during eleventh meeting of Conference session, May 21, 10 A. M.) THE CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D. C. OUR young people's work was organized as a separate department of the work is being done; and well-directed 5. General Conference six years ago. The Temperance, Religious Liberty, efforts are resulting in conversions and etc. plans on which the 'department should increased missionary activity among 6. Missionary Correspondence. operate were laid at a convention held the youth. There is a general awaken- 7. Christian Stewardship. at Mount Vernon, Ohio, during the ing to the fact that " the Lord has ap- summer of 1907. The General Confer- pointed the youth to be his helping Devotional ence in- session four years ago approved hand " in giving the gospel to the The first and greatest need of our of the action of the General Conference world; and that our young people well Committee in establishing the depart- youth is more devotion to God and a organized for service are a powerful more definite Christian experience. The ment, and of the plans laid at Mount factor in the prosecution of that work. Vernon, and also passed resolutions Morning Watch plan is a call to begin •calling the attention of our people to Training in Service each day with secret prayer, and doubt- the importance of this work, and out- The work of the Missionary Volun- less the faithful observance of the Morn- lining its salient features. This, there- teer Department naturally falls into ing Watch will do more than almost any fore, is our first quadrennial report. three • divisions, as outlined on this other one thing to establish between the The present officers of the department chart, " Training in Service " [chart individual and Heaven that unbroken took up their duties with fear and trem- exhibitedj. I will trace the develop- communion which is the secret of right bling, recognizing the greatness of the ment of this work by following this out- living and of successful soul-winning. work to be done, and sensible of their line. Thousands of young people testify that the Morning Watch plan is helping them own inefficiency to do it. But the work Training in Service is of God; and as we look back over to form the habit of daily secret prayer the past period of four years, we can I. Devotional — and personal Bible study. but exclaim, Behold " what bath God I. Consecration Services. The calendar used for promoting the wrought! " These years have, we be- 2. The Morning Watch. Morning Watch gives a Bible text for lieve, proved the wisdom of the plans IL Educational — each day, and several topics for special which were agreed upon at that time. 1. The Youth's Instructor. prayer each month. The first edition ap- 106 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

peared in 1908. That the calendar has and it is evident that many others read cards. Aside from the leaflets and made friends rapidly is seen in its cir- the books without enrolling. The read- pledges, a reporting system, including culation, which is shown on this chart. ing-circle membership embraces young record books, has been completed. Circulation of Morning Watch Calendar people in several different countries. The senior and junior courses for our Libraries ENGLISH EDITION English-speaking youth are used most Libraries are found in many Mission- 1908 6,000 copies extensively in Australia, Canada, and 14,500 copies ary Volunteer societies, and the efforts 1909 the United States. In the fall of 1911 young people's workers are putting 1910 17,500 copies a German course was begun ; this has copies forth to get other societies to build li- 1911 22,000 met with splendid success. In January, braries, are amply justified, because of 1912 25,000 copies 1913, a Spanish course was opened in 1913 33,000 copies the saving influence of good books. To South America, and our youth there help in the selection of books, each Aside from the English edition for pressed into the ever-growing reading young people's society is invited to pro- 1913, the calendar texts were printed circle. The workers in Japan are ma- cure fifteen recommended books as a also in German, Spanish, Japanese, Chi- king plans for a Japanese course. To nucleus of an ever-growing library. It nese, and Korean. Thus morning by each person completing the assigned is also suggested that the Reading morning, the members of this large reading in any course and writing the Course books be added from year to prayer circle, in all parts of the world, required book review, a reading-course year. The fifteen books and all the press around the same throne, seeking certificate is granted. During 1912 Reading Course books can be seen in the the same loving Father for victory over about ten times as many reading-course Missionary Volunteer exhibit in room temptation and power for Christian certificates were issued as in 1908. 22 of the Seminary Hall. service. A young man who is now in foreign Consecration services have been one fields attributes his choice of his life Camp-Meetings very effective way of safeguarding work to a reading-course book; a young The camp-meeting is the golden op- young people's societies against for- girl wrote, " I used to be an Adventist portunity of the year. The Missionary mality, and of bringing spiritual power because my parents were, but since I Volunteer, workers have prayed and to their members. These services have read ' Great Controversy,' I am an Ad- planned and worked to make this op- always been recommended to our Mis- ventist because I know it is right." It portunity a permanent blessing to the sionary Volunteer Societies, but for 1913 is still too early to measure the influ- youth. God has richly blessed their ef- each society program allows some time ence that the reading courses are exert- forts. Through careful preparation be- for social service. ing. However, there is abundant evi- fore the meeting, through untiring ef- Educational Features dence that they are fulfilling their in- forts during the meeting, and by keep- The Youth's Instructor for more than tended purpose. ing in personal touch with the youth fifty years has been one of the greatest [The speaker here exhibited a chart, after they leave the camp-ground, much single factors in the religious work for giving a list of the books used in the good has been accomplished. Generally the children and youth of this denomi- reading course, 1907-13.] the young people have their own tent nation. It is now the organ of the Mis- Standard of Attainment for services. Some conferences have sionary Volunteer Societies, but for 1913 also provided two other small tents, one The Standard of Attainment plan infor young men and the other for young fulfilling, we believe, a still wider mis- augurated at the Mount Vernon conven- sion to our youth. The Jugenbode women, where they meet separately for tion, has been used of God to stimulate prayer, study, and personal work. (Youth's Messenger) has helped to de- our youth to study Bible doctrines and velop the Missionary Volunteer work denominational history. Every young Institutes and Conventions among the German-speaking youth. person is invited to become a member of This paper has been a monthly pub- attainment. One year " The Great Sec- Institutes and conventions have been lication, but after July I, 1913, it will ond Advent Movement " was given in held in several union and local confer- be a weekly, with a Missionary Volun- the Senior Reading Course, and the so- ences. They have been an inspiration teer Department in each issue. ciety programs contained a series of to the workers who attended them, and The department has undertaken to have done much to develop better meth- forty lessons on Bible doctrines. Aside ods of work. Of one of the institutes supply each week through the In- from this, no special general effort has structor, material and outlines for the a conference president said, " This has been made to help individuals in reach- given the Missionary Volunteer work society lessons. , The following is a list ing the Standard of Attainment goal. of the Various groups of lessons from Missionary Volunteer societies have in our conference the greatest impetus November, 1906, to the end of 1911. it has ever received." The local con- been urged to organize Standard of At- ventions, now quite generally held I. Mission studies, including some- tainment bands to meet regularly to thing of the countries, peoples, and our throughout our conferences, are prov- study Bible doctrines and denominational ing to be a very effective method for work around the world. history. This plan has met with favor, 2. Lessons on the book " Ministry of stimulating and educating the members and today we find several hundred young of Missionary Volunteer Societies. Healing." people studying together in bands the 3. Religious Liberty. important subjects of which the Stand- Organized Missionary Effort 4. Temperance. ard of Attainment membership demands 5. Second Coming of Christ. a knowledge. Until the present year The devotional and educational fea- 6. Negro Work. the Standard of Attainment member- tures, although absolutely necessary 7. Bible Doctrines. ship has grown slowly, though steadily; parts of the young people's work, are 5. Second Coming of Christ. but about the close of 1912 this plan re- largely means to an end. The bugle call 9. Missionary Volunteer Methods. ceived a remarkable impetus. Twice sounded in the spirit of prophecy is, 10. Miscellaneous and special sub- each year Standard of Attainment ex- " Will the young men and young women j ects. aminations are held, when the general who really love Jesus, organize them- The society lessons for 1911 were Missionary Volunteer Department sends selves as workers?" It is this call that printed in leaflet form, to enable the so- out as many test questions as the con- the Missionary Volunteer movement is cieties to plan their work as far ahead ference Missionary Volunteer secre- endeavoring to answer, and, by Heav- as desirable. The program, with ad- taries order. In the spring of 1913, nine en's blessing, the young people's so- ditional help, also appeared weekly in times as many sets of test questions were ciety is proving to be a training-school the Instructor. The same plan was fol- ordered as at any previous examina- for young Christians. Associated to- lowed for 1912. The lessons for that tion. gether under wise leadership, appointed by the church, the young are built up year `consisted of twenty-four studies Missionary Volunteer Leaflet Series on missions, twelve on Missionary Vol- in Christian life by work and study. unteer work, eleven on helps for every- The Missionary Volunteer Leaflet Se- It is the earnest determination of day life, and a few miscellaneous sub- ries has grown until we now have forty- Missionary Volunteer leaders to give jects. four leaflets on instructive and inspira- personal work its proper place. Nat- The reading-course work is a success, tional subjects. Of each of these leaf- urally, it is fundamental to all other and doubtless is destined to become a lets the department has circulated sev- lines of missionary activity, and should power for much good. It is an effort to eral thousand. The demands have made forma part of each of them. All so- establish in the lives of our young peo- it necessary to republish a number of cieties are urged to have bands or com- ple the habit of systematic reading of them. Nearly forty thousand temper- mittees for carrying forward aggressive good literature. Thousands of young ance pledges have been circulated, and campaigns along the various lines of people and children enroll in the courses, about twenty-five thousand membership Christian service. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 107

A Summary of Work Done the Missionary Volunteer movement; work among the youth. The greatest The story of progress and increased and now that we have reviewed briefly blessing that could come to our Mis- missionary activity can be told best by the progress of the different phases of sionary Volunteer work would be that means of a few figures, which I have young people's work, let us get a pano- conferences should give most earnest prepared in the form of a statistical ra mic view of the movement in the re- attention to choosing and setting apart chart. [The chart was exhibited.] gions beyond. Leaving the United those who have these gifts, that they This summary reveals much, and yet States, we find many thriving societies should give their entire time to this im- the greater part of the story is left un- in the West Indies, and some in Central portant work. told. Nothing is revealed of the bless- America. In South America, where And having chosen them, let us retain ings flowing through these efforts in the. work during the last year has re- them in the work long enough to build leading souls to the truth, or in binding c o ved a remarkable impetus, the work- up something. Frequent changes greatly more securely to the cause the youth ers are preparing instructive literature retard the work. A physician may sell who do the work. and blanks, for the newly organized so- his practise, but the other man does cieties. . Crossing the Atlantic, we are not always get it. The attendance of Giving to Missions pleased to learn that the societies in a school will decrease because of the Reports show that since the organiza- England are doing well, and that the departure of strong teachers. The same tion of the young people's work, the work is being organized in some of the principle operates here. Give your sec- youth have given to home and foreign countries on the continent. Down in retaries who have a burden for the work missions about ninety thousand dollars. Africa we find some earnest Missionary and a degree of success in it, a chance To tell how this money has been used Volunteers. Coming to the Australasian to grow and become proficient in it, and would fill a volume. Some has gone Union, we are greeted by the strongest by and by you will see a strong body across the waters to pay laborers; to Missionary Volunteer organization out- of young people developing under a provide missions with typewriters, or- side the United States. That union strong leadership. New life will be in- gans, sanitarium supplies; to send na- claims about two thousand enthusiastic fused into your churches. A constant tives to Christian schools, and to build Missionary Volunteers, who are doing stream of recruits will flow into your homes for missionaries. Everywhere an abundance of home-missionary work, schools, and on into the Lord's work. our Missionary Volunteers are helping and studying to become better prepared Of course, we have been in the de- to bear the financial burdens resting for service. As we turn our eyes to the veloping stage of this work; but if upon this denomination. During the Orient, we draw new courage from the proper success is to crown our efforts, present year (1913), the young people in evidences of progress in those dark we must, it seems to me, make better South America are raising money for heathen countries. There is an inter- provision for developing and holding a the work in Peru; the Australasian esting young people's society in India; strong Missionary Volunteer leader- youth are supporting several mission- another, in the Philippine Islands; Ja- ship. This is the one recommendation aries in the South Pacific islands; and pan has a few local organizations; Korea now make to this. Conference, that, our Missionary Volunteers in the United has extended her number to eight; and perchance, this may make the more in- States are raising several thousand dol- today China also answers to the roll-call. delible impression upon your minds. lars for definite enterprises. The Atlan- God has blessed this movement mar- And may the Lord lead the delegates at tic Union young people are raising $750 velously in the past, and we are per- this Conference to select some strong for the Canary Islands Mission and suaded that he has far greater blessings man as general leader of this depart- West African rest home; the Columbia in store for it in the future. As we see ment. Far the past three years, the Union, $1,000 for the work among the how this movement is, under God, lead- time of your secretary has been nearly Inca Indians in South America; the ing young men and women everywhere all taken up with another line of work, Lake Union, $1,000 for Elder and Mrs. into ChriStian service, and as we realize and until the appointment of a field sec- Wood in India; the Northern Union, that the salvation of our youth depends retary a few months ago, the assistant $2,000 to $3,200 for training-school in largely upon their own efforts to save secretary carried the work almost alone. China; and the Central Union, $2,500 for others, shall we not say, " Blessed be What has been done has been done well, opening a new mission in India ; the the tie that binds our youth together but this young people's work is an evan- Pacific Union, $2,000 for treatment- into one grand army of soul-winners ? " gelistic movement, and cannot be properly carried forward without vigorous rooms in Bombay. Aside from these, Needs of the Work many other conferences are raising and continuous efforts in the field. smaller amounts to supply equally ur- The greatest need of this work, as I M. E. KERN, gent calls, conceive it, is that of a wise, devoted, Secretary. forceful, continuous leadership. First Junior Work of all, we need to feel that this work With the growing responsibilities of is worthy of the very best talent we Bildt INutig 3nur the regular Missionary Volunteer work, have. It is the nicest and most delicate the general •department has found little work ever committed to human beings time for the development of the Junior to deal with the tender minds of the PREPARATION FOR SERVICE work. During the past five years 4t has youth, and lead them in paths of right- R. A. UNDERWOOD conducted a Junior Reading Course, but eousness and Christian service. We aside from this the burdens of the Junior need wise, tactful, energetic secretaries, May 21, 8:30 A. M. work have rested almost entirely upon who are not leaders because they are THE general theme of Elder Under- the conference Missionary Volunteer appointed, but who are appointed be- wood's discourse in the main pavilion secretaries. Many of them have suc- cause they are leaders,— persons whose Wednesday morning, was the prepara- ceeded in organizing a Junior society in hearts are burdened for the young, and tion of heart needed for the reception every church-school in their respective who have had success in leading them of the Holy Spirit. God is waiting, conferences, and a few societies have to Christ and into Christian service. waiting, to bless abundantly ; and as we been organized where there are no We need secretaries with evangelistic do our part, fulfilling his will, we shall church-schools. The Juniors are doing mad organizing ability, persons with enjoy his presence and help in all our good work, and by various methods are judgment mature enough to meet deli- endeavors. raising money for missions. cate questions, who can command the In the typical services of the earthly respect of young people in dealing with sanctuary, there were ceremonies that Extent of the Work questions vital to their welfare, and brought every worshiper near to his "This young people's work is going hold the confidence of parents and other God. As the smoke of the incense as- around the world, carrying blessings in workers, cended daily during the time of morning its train." These prophetic words, ut- We sometimes hear slighting remarks and evening prayer, the minds of the tered some years ago by a worker of about specialization. We have no de- people were turned heavenward, and wide experience, are rapidly becoming sire for that kind of professional spe- none who exercised faith in the aton- history. Everywhere the Missionary cialization which demands one kind of ing grace of the promised Deliverer Volunteer movement is reaching out for work and no other. But the Lord has went away empty. the children and youth, seeking the iso- not given the same gifts to all. We Elder Underwood read the following lated as well as those found in churches have men who are especially adapted from " Mount of Blessing," pages 164, and companies, to business, others who are fitted for 165 (old edition) : — Not only in the United States and medical work, still others for preaching " The angels who offer the smoke of Canada, but in other countries as well, or teaching. There are others, thank the fragrant incense are ministering for young men and women are pressing into God, who have a s,pecial adaptability to the praying saints. Then let the eve- 108 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

ning prayers in every family rise stead- had commands, so to speak, to issue, Now, I know some of our brethren ily to heaven in the sunset hour, while and decrees to send forth. God was thought then that the work was going these divine ministers are speaking be- leading out a people, and the brethren to be wrecked, that we were going fore God, in our behalf, of the merits and sisters scattered about over the ter- to tear the organization all to pieces, of the blood of a crucified and risen ritory recognized this leadership, and and get up secession out there in the Saviour. The blood alone is efficacious. paid heed to the counsels given. But South Sea islands. But we did not get It alone can make propitiation for our after a while it was seen that this ad- up any secession; we did not raise any sins. It is the blood of the only-begot- ministration needed to be defined, these rebellion; and our brethren have found ten Son of God that is of value for us, leaders to be chosen by the people, and that out there in the Australasian field enabling us to draw nigh unto God ; this authority needed to be recog- where this new division was created, his blood alone that taketh away the nized in a proper way, and the lim- the people have been as loyal to this de- sin of the world.' Morning and evening itations set. So they framed a local nomination, and as loyal to this organi- the heavenly universe beholds every conference for the remoter parts, and a zation, too, as anybody in the wide household that prays; and the angel General Conference for the center. world. No one in the United States with the incense, representing the blood For many years the General Conference has been truer to this organized move- of the atonement, finds access to God." received its delegation from the local ment than the Australasian brethren. The speaker read several passages of conferences, and the local conferences We worked away at this for seven Scripture illustrative of the blessing and themselves dealt directly with all the af- years, and then the brethren came to power that come, today to all who pray fairs relating to general interests. see the advantages of it. In 1901 the in faith, believing that He who has Well, the work moved on; the people General• Conference recognized or rec- promised is well able to bestow upon his increased; new fields were entered, and ommended the organization of union children that which will enable them to new divisions sprung up, until away out conferences throughout the world. finish his work in this generation. in Australia, across the Pacific Ocean, day we have twenty-five of these, Close, daily communion between man nearly ten thousand miles from the cen- whereas we had but one or two twelve and his God leads to rejoicing. The tral headquarters, a people were raised years ago. Now it has been demon- inner experiences of the individual are up, and conferences were organized; strated that this organization thrown in revealed to all about. The exhortation and there we came to feel as never be- between the local conferences and the of the psalmist, "Let the redeemed of fore the need of something more in the General, has proved a great advantage the Lord say so, whom he hath re- way of organization to expedite our in our administrative work. Well, deemed from the hand of the enemy," work. Perhaps I might tell you what time has passed on. Twelve years have finds fulfilment. And, thank God, those we experienced, for I was out there. gone by, since the union conference who are even now rejoicing in forgive- We had our conferences — one in New came to stay with us and be a part of ness granted, are confined to no one Zealand, one in Victoria, one in New our organized work, and nineteen years land or people. They are being gath- South Wales, mission fields in Queens- since the first union was formed. ered out of all lands, " from the east, land, South and West Australia, and in Now we come before this delegation and from the west, from the north, and Fiji, and all about there. Well, we had with a recommendation for the putting from the south." Ps. 107: 2, 3. no authority out there outside of each in of another important piece in this "Christ 'hath redeemed us from the local conference, and it was our under- great machine that is built up, (And I curse of the law, being made a curse standing that all matters outside of the use the word machine in a proper way, for us: . . . that the blessing Of Abra- conference questions must be referred and a sacred way, because it is a great ham might come on the Gentiles through to headquarters. We were loyal, and facility in the hands of the Lord for Jesus Christ; that we might receive the we referred our questions, our needs, to carrying on the world-wide movement.) promise of the Spirit through faith." them. We could not always control the This is what is proposed: we find that Gal. 3: 13, 14. character of the question raised, nor our brethren in Europe have been do- limit the time when it needed attention. ing and growing and developing, as you But we would send the question on. have seen from the reports which have Conference Prottebingo It took about four weeks to get to the been brought to you. Now over the headquarters, and four weeks for an sea, across the Atlantic, we have a con- THIRTEENTH MEETING answer to get back. And, possibly, stituency of thirty thousand people, and while we were writing in, the secretary these people are in all these countries May 22, 10 A. M. and members of the committee were [pointing to the map]. Here is the W. T. KNox in the chair. out holding camp-meetings in remote United Kingdom; here are the countries J. T. Boettcher offered prayer. parts, and the question could not receive of Scandinavia; here are the different The secretary read the report of the attention when it got there. I remem- parts of Germany, and the Latin coun- committee on plans regarding the Eu- ber that we have waited three or four tries, with France, Italy, Spain, and ropean Memorial, found on page 91 of months before we could get any reply to Portugal. Here are the more eastern the BULLETIN. our questions. countries, the Balkan States, and this W. T. Knox: Is there any discussion Sometimes after two or three months great empire of Russia, and Asiatic on this? I believe Brother Daniells we received a note or five or six lines Turkey, and the northern part of Af- wishes to say something. from the secretary, saying our matter rica and Egypt. In all these lands this A. G. Daniells: I have been requested had come, but the conference brethren message is planted to stay, and there to make a general statement on the plan were scattered, and when they got to- are earnest, active, consecrated believ- of organization and the reasons for it. gether in the fall, they would take the ers all through these countries to the I shall try to be very brief in making matter up. Well, if it were the case of number of thirty thousand. such a statement, and outlining the rea- hanging, the answer would be too late, Now, we find that we have separate sons for this recommendation before us. and in many cases it was as important unions there. They are union confer- This suggestion is made for the pur- as that. We found continually that our ences, units, it is true, but they have be- pose of giving efficiency to our endeav- work was hindered. Sometimes • when come so large, the problems have be- ors in carrying on our work throughout the committee got together, they could come so great in conference administra- the world. There was a time when not quite see through our questions, and tion, the institutions have become so each local conference was directly con- wrote us for more light. After six or numerous, and they overlap and inter- nected with the General Conference; nine months, perhaps, we would get the mingle so closely, that they feel the and we may even go back of that, to a matter settled. This was impeding' the need of some kind of binding, uniting, center with its remote parts. Before progress of the work; it was hampering authoritative organization that will en- we had any organization at all, we had us. So when Elder Olsen, president of able' the people in all this overlapping a center of administrative and properly the General Conference, was out to see situation, with these big problems, to constituted authority, with the units us in 1894, he and Elder W. C. White act together in administrative work, scattered about over the field. That put their heads together and fixed up a and to act together in the support of center rested in the leaders. Elder union conference organization. This their institutions. I will relate an in- James White, Elder Joseph Bates, and a was effected. That was for the purpose stance to show the need of some sort of few of their associates, before ever a of bringing all those questions together organization like this. Twelve years conference was organized, before a con- and dealing authoritatively, administra- ago Norway was hit hard by a finan- stitution was framed, and an association tively, with South Pacific Ocean ques- cial crisis, and our printing house at was made, were administrators of this tions, Australasian problems, so that any Christiania was greatly hurt and im- work and movement. They had a word conference might get this word from a periled, and you know we were obliged to speak, they had counsel to give, they center of authority right there. in this country to come forward and GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 109

save the institution. We raised sixty- ference. And the division conference L. R. Conradi: There may be a ques- six thousand dollars to pay the people sustains the same organic relationship, tion, if it does cost more money, whether in Christiania what was due them. We defined by constitution, as the union this money will be taken from the funds were all glad when the last dollar was conference. So when this Division is in this country. I would state that this paid, and those mercantile and banking organized, the General Conference will motion means that Europe will in the interests were satisfied. But, brethren, go right on with its train of organiza- future carry all of its officers, the vice- when that was done, there was still a tion and divisions just the same as be- president included. But the motion also great debt on that institution, amount- fore; and four years from now, if the includes West Africa and the Canary ing to — end has not come, there will come from Islands. That means that America will L. R. Conradi: The mortgages on it the European Division Conference a have to pay ten thousand dollars less for were something like forty thousand dol- band of delegates representing their un- these fields, and that Europe takes the lars. ion and local conferences the same as, responsibility for them. So it actually A. G. Daniells: Yes, the mortgages on they are represented today in this Con- eases you of ten thousand dollars. it were very heavy; but we did not feel ference. W. H. Thurston: One question that here that we could go further than to General Discussion has‘been raised is, whether this new di- pay the creditors in the city. The On motion to consider each recom- vision will affect the statement made brethren there had to meet other credit- mendation separately, the first section through the spirit of prophecy that the ors of our own people. of the " Report on European Memo- General Conference should be composed I will tell you what our brethren in rial " BULLETIN, page 91) was read. of representatives from all parts of the Germany did. Without any union there, Question was then called on No. 1. earth in order to be recognized as the with its great publishing interests, and The secretary next read No. 2. organized work of God. I would like to various separate conference interests, J. A. L. Derby ; I would like to ask, ask Elder Daniells if this would affect and demands, they freely advanced to whether this Division Conference will that. Scandinavia large sums of money to in any way lessen the representation to A. G. Daniells: No, it does not affect save their institution. All these ten the General Conference. it a particle, because the Division Con- years and more, our German brethren W. T. Knox: It will not. ference is by the General Conference have been standing behind that institu- J. A. L. Derby : Will it in any way constitution made a member of the Gen- tion. But they did it voluntarily. lessen the expense of the General Con- eral Conference, and the delegates from There was no European board to work ference? the division are for the Division Confer- the problem out. W. T. Knox: No,. I do not know that ence, union conference, and local con- Now, brethren, I personally believe it will. ferences. that the great extent to which this work J. A. L. Derby : Will it not increase C. N. Sanders: In organizing this con- has developed in Europe, and the great the number of officers in the denomina- ference is not it simply recognizing 'what interests, both evangelical and institution, and thus increase the amount of has actually been going on in Europe for tional, demand a board of administra- money necessarily going for machinery? the last three or four years? They have tion, a European Division Conference, W. T. Knox: I do not think so. It been doing this work under another that will enable the 'brethren from all creates no additional officers, as far as name. They are not separating them- those states and kingdoms to have rep- we have been able to see. selves from us, as I understand it. resentatives and work together to aid A. G. Daniells: Mr. Chairman, I M. C. Wilcox: I understand that the one another in meeting crises and in would like to say a word on that. It first question raised was not so much the carrying forward the work committed to may call for a little more fuel to get up matter of expense in the operation of a them. more steam. It may call for the sowing new conference, as in the expense in- I cannot see that this step is in any of a little more wheat for the crop. volved in our general gatherings. Ought way striking against the organization That is a very proper question. it not to mean a lessening of the expense of this denomination. It does not touch We now have a vice-president super- involved in sending so many delegates to the welfare of our organization a par- intending that field, who will hereafter the general meetings? Ought not that ticle more than the organization of a be president of the division. In that to mean a cutting down of our represen- union conference dick. It is of the same respect, it will not add officers, nor call tation at the general meetings? kind precisely. For instance, over here for more money. However, there may A. G. Daniells: That can only be we had the separate conferences that be some new officers required. And done by our General Conference consti- were directly connected with the Gen- now, brethren, I ask you to think tution, and if we cut down, we will eral. Conference, and we rounded them whether that is a loss. It all depends have to cut on the American side as up into unions. Now we take those un- on whether the machine runs faster, well, because every member of the fam- ions and round them up into a divi- doesn't it? and whether it turns out ily must have the same standing. This sional conference. We take the consti- more product? Suppose you have, in a year our great trouble has been to get tution of the General Conference, as cotton-mill, ten machines, and the build- people recognized as delegates here who you will see when it is read here this ing is large enough for five more, and ought to be delegates, and who could morning, and, with the verbal changes the cotton is stacked up in great piles. not get in with the regular union dele- necessary to define territories, we rec- What would you do? gation. If it is concluded that this ognize the European Division Confer- Voices: Add more machines. meeting is not worth the expense; if ence. We have taken the constitution A. G. Daniells: Why, yes, you would we think the expenditure of money for of the General Conference and inserted put in another machine, wouldn't you? a quadrennial meeting is not, from an a word or two here and there to make it But if the machines you were running educational standpoint, justified, then apply to a division conference, as well were doing all the work, you wouldn't we shall have to take action to greatly as to a union conference. Before the add any more, of course. If you put lessen our delegates, and have only a unions, the General Conference consti- in another machine, it would require an- small body of counselors come, and tution recognized only local conferences other operative, and that would take leave the masses out. as members. When we organized the more money. Well, what does that J. 0. Corliss: The success of the third unions, they inserted another section, matter, provided the machinery yields angel's message depends upon the uni- recognizing the union. Now we pro- good returns? We must regard what fication of the work. I know of noth- pose to insert a section, or a line, that comes out of the machine. ing that does more to unify than a gen- will recognize the European Division We have had to meet the same ques- eral meeting of this kind. Even though, Conference. tion in every step of organization. this Conference should cost a quarter of I have taken more time than I in- When we organized the Young People's a million, it is worth more than a mil- tended, but not more than I should like Department, some one said, " More ma- lion dollars after the Conference breaks to take in speaking on this question, for chinery, more money, more people turn- up. I would not be in favor of cutting it is more than a defense of a proposal. ing the crank." " Well," I said, " let down the representation on the basis of It is reviewing a grand and glorious us see what they turn out." I under- economy, for it would not be economy. work that has been developed in that stood yesterday that it has taken $12,- J. A. L. Derby: The matter I had in great continent across the sea. The 000 to run that machine four years, mind was this: If we set off this Euro- brethren thought I ought to make a gen- and it has brought back to us, through pean Division as a separate division, eral statement. the Young People's Societies, $87,000 in what is left to the General Conference Not in the slightest degree does this cash. From a financial standpoint it has to administrate; and if we set off the militate against the General Conference. paid. But this is nothing compared with American Division in this way, what It simply recognizes a division confer- the tremendous results of soul-winning is left for the General Conference to ence as a member of the General Con- effort. administrate? If we do this, then will 110 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN it pay us any longer to have such an ference their tithe. They turned over " (d) Such division missions and such organization as a General Conference? this year surplus tithe to the amount union missions not included in any di- Will not the administration be largely of over twelve, thousand dollars. [The vision conference as have been or shall reduced to looking after mission fields? speaker hereupon read an action of the be properly organized and accepted by The point is, if the European Confer- European delegation concerning this vote. ence has reached its majority, has not matter, which later came before the con- " (e) Missions, properly organized, this, Conference also? Why not organ- ference and was acted upon.] not included in union missions." ize North America as a division con- J. A. L. Derby: I do not wish it to be Article III, section 3, to read:— ference? This idea has been .worked understood that I am opposed to this " Sec. 3. Delegates at large shall out by other denominations, and has recommendation, for I am not. be:— been found to lessen the expense of Question was called, and number (a) The General Conference exec- such organization. three was read. utive committee. W. A. Spicer: I might answer that the On motion of W. W. Prescott; the " (b) Such representatives of mis- recommendation suggests that this form word " each " was substituted for " the " sions of the General Conference and su- of divisional organization is to be ef- in the second line, making it read, " the perintendents of work among the va- fected " as the conditions of the work general mission funds of each division," rious foreign-speaking peoples in the require." Now in this country we have etc. North American Division and superin- the headquarters of the General Confer- Question was called, and number four tendents of work under the North ence. The union conference presidents was read. American Negro Department, as shall here meet as a part of the General Con- Question was called, and action was receive delegates' credentials from the ference Committee nearly every spring taken upon the whole report, the same executive committee, such credentials to and autumn; so there is no difficulty on being unanimously adopted. be given only by the consent of a ma- this side in carrying forward the work. W. T. Knox: If there is no objection, jority of the executive committee." It seemed to the committee wiser to see we will giv6 the delegates from the Eu- Article III, section 4, to read: — one division-conference plan worked out ropean Division an opportunity to pre- " Sec. 4. Regular delegates shall be where the conditions demand, before ex- sent a matter. such persons as are duly accredited by tending the plan, just as in Australasia' L. R. Conradi: We would present two division conferences, by union confer- the union-conference plan was worked actions taken yesterday afternoon by the ences not included in any division con- out before it was extended to all parts. delegates assembled here from Europe. ference, and local conferences not in- E. K. Slade: For several years I have The following are the minutes: — cluded in any union conference." anticipated a move of this kind, in view "European delegation meetings, May Article III, section 5, to read: — of the work that is being done in Europe. 21, 1913. Meeting was called to order " Sec. 5. Each division conference Especially since listening to the splendid by Elder Conradi. Prayer was offered shall be entitled to one delegate without reports from the different union confer- by J. T. Boettcher. Guy Dail was asked regard to numbers, an additional dele- ences in Europe, it seems to me that this to take the minutes of the meeting. gate for each union and local confer is a very appropriate time to study this "Voted, That we as delegates of the ence in its territory, and an additional question. It may be necessary at the European Division favor the organiza- delegate for each five hundred of its time of another session to make some tion of the European Division Confer- membership. Each union conference change in representation. That is some- ence in harmony with the recommenda- not included in a division conference thing that can be handled at any time. tion of the General Conference at this shall be entitled to one delegate with- But it seems to me that it is in perfect session. out regard to numbers, an additional harmony with the light that has come to "Voted, That we favor the European delegate for each conference in its us to settle this question now. Division Conference paying to the Gen- territory, and an additional delegate R. C. Porter: The plan seems to be a eral Conference a tithe of its regular for each five hundred of its member- very natural one, just the same as the tithe. It was carried unanimously." ship. Each local conference not in- Australasian plan was a natural develop- We would submit this for your consid- cluded in a union conference shall be ment. Europe is quite distant from the eration. entitled to 'one delegate without regard center of administration. There is no M. C. Wilcox : I move that we accept to numbers, and one additional delegate real need for the organization of a these minutes, and show our apprecia- for each five hundred members. Union North American Division Conference at tion of the sentiments expressed by missions and local missions not included the present time, because we have the spreading the minutes upon the records in division or union conferences shall center of administration right here in of this Conference. have such representation as may be de- North America. But in Europe it is The motion was carried. cided by the General Conference exec- otherwise. The principle would even- W. T. Knox: There is now no motion utive committee." tually extend the plan to all parts, but before the house. In considering Article III, section 5, the North American Division is not in G. B. Thompson: I move that the re- the following discussion ensued:— need of any such organization at the port of the committee on constitution E. W. Farnsworth: I would like a present time, because it is so close to (page 92), be adopted. little light upon how this will work out. headquarters, and we can afford to wait. The motion was seconded. I am not quite clear. Now, for in- Will this lessen the General Conference The Conference had concluded con- stance, in selecting delegates to the Gen- administration's opportunity to lift in the sideration of the first three articles of eral Conference, the committee of the European Division by having this organ- the constitution at the time of adjourn- Division Conference comes together ization? — Not in the least. The consti- ment. The report was amended to read and selects delegates to the General Con- tution provides that all members of the as follows: — ference, one for itself, and an additional General Conference Committee are Report on General Conference delegate for each conference in its ter- members of the Division Conference or- ritory, and then another delegate for ganization. They take right hold and Constitution each five hundred of its membership. help in that organization, as part of it, The committee on constitution sub- Will it not work this way, that the just the same as they do of the General mit the following report: — union conference in this division will Conference organization here. I believe I. We recommend, That the constitu- select a delegate for itself and then it will facilitate the hastening on of our tion and by-laws of the General Con- one for every five hundred of its mem- work in the European Division. I am ference be changed as follows: — bership? If so, does it not present a fully clear that the time has come to Article III, section i, to read: — double representation? That is, if the take this step. Then, later, we may or- " Section I. The membership of this Division Conference selects one for ganize other divisions as the providence conference shall consist of : — every five hundred members, and the of God may indicate. " (a) Such division conferences as union conference also does the same, F. W. Stray: I would like to ask two have been or shall be properly organ- do they not have a double representa- questions for information: Have these ized and accepted by vote. tion? I would like a little light on that. unions in the European Division been " (b) Such union conferences not in- W. T. Knox: By this arrangement, paying a tithe into the General Confer- cluded in any division conference as the representation comes from the Divi- ence treasury, as we do here? and, sec- have been or shall be properly organized sion Conference, and not from the ond, In the proposed organization will and accepted by vote. union. they pay a tithe to the General Confer- ",(c) Such local conferences not em- E. W. Farnsworth: Then is the union, ence treasury? braced in any union conference, as have as a unit, not represented at all? L. R. Conradi: These unions have paid been or shall be properly organized and W. T. Knox: No ; it obtains its rep- to the sub-treasury of the General Con- accepted by vote. resentation in the same manner as the GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 111

local Conference now obtains its rep- We found many a question that passed FOURTEENTH MEETING resentation through the union. by the local conference to the union May 22, 2 : 30 P. M. E. W. Farnsworth: Then, if I under- conference, and had to go on to the stand you correctly, the representation General Conference, and I think our W. T. KNOX in the chair. of the union conference, as a unit, will General Conference sessions have been Prayer by M. N. Campbell. be dropped out. as greatly pressed with affairs of large W. T. Knox: When we adjourned, W. T. Knox: The plan is for each character as ever passed before a union we were considering the report on the union to be represented by one delegate; conference organization. Instead of General Conference constitution. The the Division has, in addition to this, legislating regarding matters pertaining secretary will read, beginning with Ar- one for• each five hundred members to local conferences, we have been able ticle IV, section 2. throughout its territory. to lengthen our vision with reference By motions to amend and by common J. A. L. Derby: I would like to ask to great missionary enterprises. We consent, the remainder of the report on a question. Are the General Conference have been able to make the General the General Conference constitution, and the North American Division or- Conference a little more educational. was amended to read as follows : — We have been able to give more at- Article IV, section 2, to read: — ganized differently, or are they the same " Sec. 2. The executive committee thing? tention to the departments of work than we could have done without the union shall consist of the president, the vice- W. T. Knox: I would say, Brother presidents, the secretary, the treasurer, Derby, that while there is a North conference organization. Now when we organize the Division the vice-presidents of division confer- American Division; there is no North ences, the presidents of union confer- American Division Conference. Conference, we do not cut off 'the interests of Europe from this central ences, the superintendents of organized J. A. L. Derby: I move, Brother body. There are great questions of ad- union missions, the secretaries in charge Chairman, that the words, " and an administration, departments of work, in- of duly organized departments; namely, ditional delegate for each five hundred stitutional interests, all of which will the Publishing, Medical, Educational, of its membership," be stricken out. always have to go under the general Sabbath School, Religious Liberty, A Voice: Why? legislative work of the General Confer- Young People's Missionary Volunteer, J. A. L. Derby: It seems to me that ence. If you should organize North North American Foreign, North Amer- in having so many local and union and America into a division conference, ican Negro,— and seven other persons." division conferences, and so on, that it there would still come to the General Article V, section 1, to read: — would be just as well for the local con- Conference many important questions " Section I. The regular officers of ference to instruct its delegates to the relating to administration, institutional, this conference shall be a president, three union conference, and for the union and departmental work. You do not cut vice-presidents, a secretary, a treasurer, conference to instruct its delegates to those things off. You cut off details, an assistant treasurer, and an auditor, the division conference, and this would but not the great, important problems who shall be elected by the conference." very materially lessen the expense of a that are always arising. Now it is a Article V, section 3, to read: — general gathering like this, and yet I do very serious matter for us to vote out " Sec. 3. Vice-presidents: The presi- not see how it could in any way oper- this part of the representation, one for dent of the European Division Confer- ate against the democracy of the de- every five hundred members. What ence shall be one of the vice-presidents nomination. I do not see the necessity would you have left? You would have of the General Conference. His duties of having so many delegates from union the General Conference Committee, with shall be such as are prescribed by the conferences. forty-five members. You would have constitution of the Division Conference. W. A. Spicer: Brother Chairman, we no other representation from the union He shall preside at the councils of the remember that when the Conference conferences. All you would have would members of the General Conference ex- gathered here in session, it was found be this and about twenty-five members ecutive committee which may be held, that even this basis of representation more, being the presidents of the twen- in Europe, in the absence of the presi- was not sufficient, and there has been ty-five union conferences, and one dele- dent of the General Conference. quite an addition made to the delega- gate for each local conference. That " One of the vice-presidents shall tion by the Conference session. If we would leave out your departments, your labor in the North American Division, cut out this provision, the representation institutions, your editors, and all that as the executive committee may advise, would be perhaps a third less. class of men. At every session of the and, in the absence of the president, pre- Voices: Two thirds. General Conference our conferences side at the councils of the members of J. A. L. Derby: Brother Chairman, have been so anxious that their depart- the executive committee which may be the question is, if these divisions are or- ments, educational men, editors, and held in North America. ganized, does it not take away from the publishers, should be here to attend the " One of the vice-presidents shall labor General Conference a large amount of conference, and share in- the delibera- in the Asiatic Division, as the exec- work that it is now doing? Will not a tions, that they have requested us to utive committee may advise, and, in the large proportion of the work that the suspend the constitution, and permit absence of the president, shall preside at General Conference is now doing be them to attend. And we have been the councils of the members of the ex- handed over to the European Division glad to do it. Now if you cut this out, ecutive committee, and at missionary Conference? If so, why should the Eu- you would seriously affect the delega- conferences which may be held in the ropean Division Conference have just tion. Asiatic Division." as much representation as it now has ? We see more in a General Confer- Article V, section 4, to read: — A. G. Daniells: I think there is a mis- ence, brethren, than the transaction of " Sec. 4. The Secretary: It shall be conception with reference to the matter legislative affairs; than simply passing the duty of the secretary to keep the min- of taking away the work. The organi- recommendations. We see a great value utes of the proceedings of the conference zation of either a local conference or from the educational standpoint. Now sessions and of the committee meetings, a union or a division conference does what is the Educational Department and to collect such statistics and other decentralize detail work. It distributes doing in this conference? What is the facts from division, union, and local con- it. If we had no conference at all, ex- value to our medical work for our phy- ferences and missions, as may be desired cept a central body, then of course our sicians and nurses to attend these daily by the conference or the executive com- duties would be many. We should then meetings? What is the benefit to our mittee, and to perform such other duties have to look after churches, and all that. young people of having, young people's as usually pertain to such office." But when we organize a local confer- meetings? This educational work is Article V, section 5, to insert after ence, that steps- in between the• central of unspeakable value. Of course you the word treasurer, " and the assistant body and the church, and looks after could have these departmental meetings treasurer." those details. held as often as once in four years, or Article V, section 6, to read: — When we organized the union con- oftener; but then this would multiply " Sec. 6. Election of Officers : All of- ference, we distributed many duties of expense. The value is in having them ficers of the conference, and the mem- a detail character that the General Con- in a general gathering like this. bers of the executive committee except ference Committee was looking after. W. T. Knox : The hour has come, for such members as are presidents of union The interests of local conferences and adjournment. conferences or superintendents of union those cares were then thrust upon the Pending consideration of the consti- mission fields, and excepting also the union conference officers. But in doing tution, the conference was adjourned, president and vice-presidents of division that, brethren, we did not take out of the question having been called on Ar- conferences, shall be chosen by the del- the hands of the central body the general ticle III, section 5. egates at the regular quadrennial ses- administration of affairs of the denom- W. T. KNOX, Chairman, sions of the General Conference, and ination. W. A. SPICER, Secretary. shall hold their offices for the period of 112 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN four years, or until their successors are Sec. 3. Delegates at large shall be: — desired by the conference or by the ex- elected, and appear to enter upon their (a) The division conference executive ecutive committee. duties." committee and the General Conference Sec. 6. Election of officers: All offi- Article IV, section i of the by-laws Committee. cers of the conference and members of to read: — (b) Such representatives of organ- the executive committee except such " This conference shall receive a tithe ized missions in the division as may be members as are presidents of union con- from all of its division, union, and local recommended by the executive commit- ferences or superintendents of union conferences, and the tithe of its union tee, and accepted by the delegates in mission fields, shall be chosen by the and local mission fields." session. delegates at the regular quadrennial No. 2 of the committee's report, per- Sec. 4. Regular delegates shall be session of the European Division Con- taining to a change recommended in the such persons as are duly accredited by ference, and shall hold their offices for General Conference Corporation con- union conferences and by local confer- the period of four years, or until their stitution, was also discussed. Question ences not included in any union. successors/ are elected and appear to was called for on the whole report, and Sec. 5. Each union conference shall enter upon their duties. the report was unanimously adopted. he entitled to one delegate without re- Article VII — Incorporations, Depart- European Division Conferehce gard to numbers, an additional delegate for each conference in its territory, and ments, and Agents W. T. Knox: The next business in an additional delegate for each five hun- Section i. Such incorporations and order will be the consideration of the dred of its membership. Each local departments may be created as the de- suggested constitution and by-laws for conference not included in any union velopment of the work requires. the European Division Conference. conference shall be entitled to one dele- Sec. 2. At each regular session of this W. W. Prescott: As the means of act- gate without regard to numbers, and to conference, the delegates shall elect ing upon this constitution and by-laws, one additional delegate for each five such trustees of all corporate bodies I move that the following action be hundred members. connected with this organization as may taken: — Sec. 6. (a) Each union mission shall be provided in the statutory laws gov- In response to the request of the Eu- be represented in conference sessions by erning each. ropean delegates to this conference for delegates chosen on the basis of one for Sec. 3. The conference shall employ a European organization,— the union mission, one for each organ- such committees, secretaries, treasurers, Resolved, That we hereby authorize ized mission within its territory, and agents, ministers, missionaries, and the accredited delegates from the fol- one for each five hundred of its mem- other persons, and shall make such dis- lowing union conferences now present bers. tribution of its laborers, as may be nec- in this General Conference, namely, the (b) Each organized mission field out- essary to execute its work effectively. British Union, the Central European side of any union shall be entitled to one It shall also grant credentials or licenses Union, the Danube Union, the East delegate. to its ministers and missionaries. German Union, the Latin Union, the (c) The delegates of union and local Russian Union, the Scandinavian Union, mission fields shall be appointed by the Article VIII — Sessions and the West German Union,— to meet executive committee of the conference. Section I. This conference shall hold and organize the European Division Article V — Executive Committee Conference; and,— quadrennial sessions at such date and We recommend, That in organizing Section 1. At each session, the con- place as the executive committee shall said conference, they adopt and act ference shall elect an executive commit- designate by a notice published in the upon the following constitution and by- tee for carrying on its work between European Division Quarterly at least laws: — sessions. six weeks before the date of the session. Sec. 2. The executive committee shall Sec. 2. The executive committee may CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF consist of the president, vice-president, call special sessions at such time and secretary, treasurer, the presidents of place as it deems proper, by a like no- EUROPEAN DIVISION CONFER- the union conferences, the superintend- tice, and the transactions of such spe- ENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ents of organized union missions, one cial sessions shall have the same force ADVENTISTS member each representing the publish- as those of the regular sessions. ing, medical, educational, young peo- Article IX,— By-Lavis Article I — Name ple's, and Sabbath-school interests, and This organization shall be known as three additional persons. ' The voters of this conference may en- the European Division Conference of Article VI — Officers and Their Duties act by-laws and amend or repeal them Seventh-day Adventists, at any session thereof, and such by-laws Article II — Territory Section I. The regular officers of this may embrace any provision not incon- conference shall be a president, a vice- sistent with the constitution of the Eu- The territory of this conference shall president, a secretary, and a treasurer, ropean Division Conference. be Europe; the Russian and the Turkish who shall be elected by the conference. possessions in Asia; Persia, Arabia, and One or more auditors shall also be Article X — Amendments Afghanistan; and that part of Africa elected by the conference. This constitution or its by-laws may not included in Rhodesia, British Cen- Sec. 2. President : The president shall be amended by a two-thirds vote of the tral Africa, and the Union of South act as chairman of the executive com- voters present at any session, such Africa. mittee, and labor in the general inter- amendments to be not inconsistent with Article III — Object ests of the conference, as the executive the constitution of the General Confer- committee may advise. ence, and provided, further, that if it is The object of this conference is to Sec. 3. Vice-president: It shall be the proposed to amend the constitution at a teach the everlasting gospel of our Lord duty of the vice-president to assist the special session, notice of such purpose and Saviour, Jesus Christ. president in his work, as the executive shall be given in the call for such special Article IV — Membership committee may advise, and, in the ab- session. sence of the president, to preside at the Section I. The membership of this councils of the members of the execu- BY-LAWS conference shall consist of : — tive committee. Article I — Executive Committee (a) Such union conferences as have Sec. 4. Secretary: It shall be the duty been or shall be properly organized and of the secretary to keep the minutes of Section t. During the intervals be- accepted by vote. the conference sessions, and of the tween sessions of the conference, the (b) Such union mission fields as have meetings of the executive committee, executive committee shall have full ad- been or shall be properly organized and and to collect such data from union and ministrative power, with authority to accepted by vote. local conferences and missions as may grant and withdraw credentials and li- (c) Such local conferences outside of be desired by the conference or by the censes, and to fill for the current term any union as have been or shall be prop- executive committee, and to perform any vacancies that may occur in its of- erly organized and accepted by vote. such other duties as usually pertain to fices, boards, committees, or agents — (d) Missions, properly organized, not such office. by death, resignation, or otherwise — included in any union. Sec. 5. Treasurer: It shall be the duty except in cases where other provision Sec. 2. The voters of this conference of the treasurer to receive all funds, and for filling such vacancies shall be, made shall be designated as follows: — disburse them by order of the presi- by vote of the conference. The with- (a) Delegates at large. dent, and to render such financial state- drawal of credentials or filling of, vacan- (b) Regular delegates. ments at regular intervals as may be cies on the executive committee shall re- GENERAL CONFERENCE. BULLETIN 113

quire the consent of •two thirds of the REPORT OF THE LEVANT UNION of his heart to " bring the printed page members of the executive committee. MISSION to every family in Constantinople." Sec. 2. Any five members of the exec- He was zealous, full of courage, and utive committee, including the president (Read during the twelfth meeting of did not get alarmed by imprisonment or or the vice-president, shall be empow- Conference session, May 21, 2 : 30 P. M.) on account of the rage of the populace, ered to transact such executive business who gave him some rather rough treat- as is in harmony with the general plans THE eyes of the whole world have ment, but kept right at work. His ex- outlined by the committee, but the con- been turned toward the Near East by ample was really a great incentive to currence of all five members shall be the recent Italian-Turkish war, which the native brethren to attempt the sale necessary to pass any measure. wrested Tripoli from the rule of the of -our literature. Publications in the Sec. 3. Meetings of the executive com- Crescent, and by the successful advance Greek, Turkish, Armenian, and Arabic mittee may be called at any time or place of the forces of the Balkan States, al- have thus far been issued here. In the by the president or vice-president; or most to the very gates of Constanti- Levant field, there has been a gradual such meeting may be called by the sec- nople. As students of prophecy we are increase in sales, which rose from retary, upon the written request of any all intensely interested in the outcome $96.03 in 1909 tQ $896.22 last 'year, or a five members of the executive committee. of the conflict, because of its bearing total of $2,169.76 for the four years. Sec. 4. Previous to each session of upon the work among twenty-one mil- The number of canvassers varied from the conference, the executive committee lions of people in this field that must three to twelve; During the same time shall provide such temporary commit- hear the loud cry of the third angel's the Syrian sales ,were $319.31 ; and the tees as may be necessary to conduct the message. Perhaps the humiliation of Egyptian, $240.94. So far as I know, preliminary work of the conference. Sec. 5. At each session of the conference, the executive committee shall nominate for election the presiding officers of the. conference. Article II — Finance Section 1. The Division Conference shall receive a tithe from all its union conferences, and from local conferences outside of any union, and the tithe of the union, missions and local mission fields outside of any union. Sec. 2. This conference shall pay a tithe of its regular tithe to the General Conference. Sec. 3. The executive committee shall be authorized to call for such special donations as may be necessary to properly prosecute the work of the conference. Sec. 4. The conference shall receive offerings devoted to missions. Sec. 5. The conference shall receive any second or surplus tithes that may be turned over to it by any field. Article III — Audits . , Section 1. The executive officers shall have the accounts of the conference audited at least once each calendar year, OUR FIRST COLPORTEUR IN BEREA, MACEDONIA and shall report upon the same to the executive committee of the conference Turkey may lead many a sincere fol- Seventh-day Adventists were the first at the annual sessions of the committee. lower of Mohammed to lend a more to undertake the canvassing work in Sec. 2. The executive committee shall willing ear to the teachings of that Turkey — that is, selling Christian lit- appoint annually four persons not in its Book which twenty-five centuries ago erature among the Mohammedans. employ, who, with the president, the foretold the destiny of the Sick Man The school has held two successful vice-president, the secretary, the treas- of the East. terms at Constantinople. Some time urer, and not less than five presidents of The Turkish Mission each week was devoted to practical col- union conferences or superintendents of porteur work, the students going out in union mission fields, shall constitute a In spite of revolution, and war, and the city. Something 'over a dozen pu- committee for auditing and settling all famine, the last four years have been pils were in attendance. Instruction accounts against the conference. encouraging to our Turkish work and was imparted chiefly in the Greek, workers. During the latter part of Turkish, and Armenian languages. In W. J. Fitzgerald: I second the motion 1909, the forces of this union were ma- this connection, we would refer to the introduced by Brother Prescott. terially increased by accessions from question that has to be settled since The motion was put and carried, the without. Brother C. Voigt, of the Christians are now being taken by the delegation having previously studied in Hamburg house, was sent to open the government of Turkey to act as sol- detail the constitution recommended, publishing work in Constantinople. He diers. This change in the attitude of and making various changes, as will be was followed by Elder E. E. Frau- our government has caused many of the noted by comparing the amended reprint chiger and family, of Germany, who Christian youth to flee. A number of with the copy printed in the BULLETIN, took charge of the field, and by Brother our own young men have left the coun- on page 91. and Sister Scior, who had been laboring try because of this, and, if it continues, The meeting adjourned, the congrega- in Austria, and by Dr. V. Pampaian and it will rob us of the very young men tion uniting in singing " Blest be the wife, who established the work among we need for workers in this land. We tie that binds our hearts in Christian the Armenians in the Trans-Caucasian advise, our youth to so live out the mes- love." field. Brother Girou, of Belgium, went sage before their fellow soldiers and Chairman, W. T. KNox, to Constantinople the latter part of superiors as to bring honor to the name W. A. SPICER, Secretary.' 1911. of their Captain, Jesus Christ. The adoption by Turkey of the con- At the first general meeting ever held stitution in 1908 made it possible for us in Turkey, at Constantinople in Septem- to attain a good, degree of success in ber, 1910, 25 delegates, from 14 " BLEST be the tie that binds the publishing and canvassing work. churches and companies, came together Our hearts in Christian love ! At the time Elder Frauchiger went to to consider the needs of the field. The The fellowship of kindred minds Constantinople, a young man made the seven viliayets of Sivas, Trebizond, Is like to that above." trip thither from Germany at his own Mamouret-ul-Aziz, Diarbekr, Van, Ba- — Fawcett. expense, that he might fulfil the desires lls, and Erzerum were separated from 114 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN the Turkish Mission, and formed into Central Turkey, what one must surmount in traveling the Armenian Mission, beginning with about in that land. GUY DAIL, Jan. I, 1911. Brother Z. G. Baharian, The Central Turkish Mission has the Secretary European Division. the superintendent, now assisted by one largest membership. It contains the licentiate and one Bible worker, was vilayets of Constantinople, Adrianople, Letters From Bible Lands enabled to gain eleven new members Kastamuni, Aidin, Angora, Brusa, and [The letters described travel in Pon- tus, Cappadocia, Mesopotamia, and Syria — regions over which the apos- tolic missionaries passed so long ago. The baptism of believers was reported at various places. Here are a few extracts:— " At Diarbeker, the leading city of the Kurds, the cholera was raging. As we entered the gates, the dead were being carried out. We rented a house for meetings, and, in spite of the fact that the people had been warned by pastors to keep away, more came than could be let in. Indeed, there was such a rush for the meeting-place that the people stoned us and the house because they were shut out. Had not the police protected us, we would likely have lost our lives." Another: — " We had good meetings in Tarsus and Adana. The hall was too small, so that, even though it was the cold season, we had to speak to the people under an arbor. Carpets were laid, and in our midst were two charcoal fires. FIRST SABBATH-KEEPING FAMILY IN ALBANIA Two were baptized in the Sihun River. Now I am planning the trip over the the Turkish islands. Of course the snow-covered mountains into Ana- last year; in 1911, seven were received. tolia." The membership was twenty-four at the country has suffered greatly by the ad- close of 1912. The tithe averaged $6.52 vance of the contending armies in the Again : — a member last year, and the gifts to recent war. Elder Frauchiger is the " As I spoke at Smyrna, the secretary missions, $1.91. Elder Frauchiger, the local superintendent here. He is as- of the Grecian patriarch invited me to union superintendent, has recently vis- sisted by one minister, three licentiates, call on this ecclesiastical officer. I was ited this district, and though every- and three licensed missionaries. One received with open arms. We had a where he found open doors, yet there hundred two were added during the last most interesting talk about the prophe- are many difficulties, and converts to four years, but it should not be forgot- cies. An appointment was made for a the message are not won without a hard ten that this includes the members re- further interview. When we came to- struggle. ceived in the Armenian and Cilician gether the patriarch had his two secre- There were a number of delegates from Turkey at the Friedensau council of 1911, and it was then decided to make a further division in the territory of the Turkish Mission and of the Levant Union. Syria and Egypt were cut off from the union, and the Cilician field (which contains the vilayets of Ko- nia, Adana, and Aleppo) was organized out of the Turkish Mission territory. Brother A. M. Buzugherian was placed in charge. He is assisted by three missionary licentiates. .As the action took effect Jan. I, 1912, we have only one year's report of this field under its present organization. Nine were baptized last year, and its membership is ninety- three. The tithe averaged $4.15, and the gifts were $1.03 per member. Grecian Mission The Grecian Mission is the smallest in membership of any we have in the union. Its territory is : Greece, Crete, the vilayets of Janina, Scutari, Salo- nica, Monastir, Kossovo, with Novi- Bazar, all together with a population of 5,650,00o. Elder R. S. Greaves, who was formerly located at Janina, removed to Greece last year, and is located at WORKERS AT THESSALONICA, MACEDONIA Patras. They report eleven members. Brother Scior, the licentiate assisting missions until the time they were cut taries by him and a professor of the- Elder Greaves, is at ancient Thessalo- off from this field. The average tithe ology. Near by was another Greek of nica, and has learned the Greek lan- last year was $4.15; gifts, $1.02. The high standing. Through my translator, guage. The war has made his work ex- membership is now 189. In his recent I explained Daniel 2 and 7. When we ceptionally hard, but God has taken care trips, Brother Frauchiger has had some were studying the Papacy, the professor of him. Our nurse, Sister Loxander, exceedingly interesting experiences. I wanted to interrupt, but a the patriarch has been assisting in caring for wounded Will read from some of his letters, in would not allow it. Our interview con- soldiers in the hospital at Thessalonica. closing, as they give a vivid picture of tinued during the afternoon and till

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eleven o'clock at night. We had our F. L. Mead. We responded. The Boer close together, the three trains in sight French book on Daniel, which they pur- War was on in South Africa, and the of one another. It took us one week to chased. They only wished we had with British Government was trying to pre- reach' Bulawayo. Brother Anderson, us the work on Revelation also. The vent foreigners' going into the African with others from the mission, met us. patriarch cordially invited me to come interior. Brother A. Bacon, our Lon- The next morning we started, with ox to Smyrna again."] don transportation agent, said, " Let us teams for the Matabeleland station. go to the American ambassador, and We found a pleasant home there, and see if he cannot do something for us." met with many new experiences. Sis- iithir Wour The ambassador said, " Do you belong ter Mead was in temporary charge. to the Seventh-day Adventists ?" I Two months later Brother Anderson be- EXPERIENCES IN SOUTH AFRICA said, " Yes." " Very well," he replied, came our director. " I have a very dear friend there who As I had had experience in farming M. C. STURDEVANT AND F. B. ARMITAGE is an Adventist, and I will fix it up for in the States, I was given the work of May 22, 8 : 30 A. M. you so that you can go." He had the clearing up some of the land, prepar- passport prepared, and we hastened on atory to putting in a crop. At first I I BRING you greetings this morning to Africa. spent a portion of my time in the store, from the new Tsungwesi Mission, South Upon reaching South Africa, we where I met the natives and learned Africa. As we left the mission station found that we could not go on into considerable of the language. Soon I to come to this meeting, our native Rhodesia, as the government would not was placed in charge of the night school.

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0 a 1A 2,a ' so a C. P teachers and helpers there desired us to allow emigrants to go up into that coun- For some hours each day I took the boys greet you for them. I understand I am try. But I wanted to go on immediately with me and went out grubbing and not to give a missionary report, but to to Rhodesia. We had to stay there clearing up the place. The 'year that tell of some of the providential leadings about ten days, but by that time the way we arrived, there were only about five of God in opening up the work. was opened so we could go on. As we acres of land under cultivation. We In February, 1902, the Lord found left the Cape, we were escorted into the had, at that time, one plow, one harrow, me in Atlanta, Ga., working for the interior by one army train ahead and two wagons, and a few old cultivators colored people. The call came that I one behind. About sixty police were that had been eaten down by the white should go to South Africa, to the old with us. Heavy fighting was expected ants., We began to try to make the mis- Matabeleland station, Solusi, 'to fill, as at almost any moment. We traveled sion self-suporting, but the drought hin- nearly as I could, the place left by Elder only in the daytime, and at night lay dered, and we could not do very much. 116 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

When Brother Anderson moved away, age, living some miles away from our the infant ceased. I knew not what to Brother Hyatt said to me: " Brother station, had a dream. He found him- do. We had no Mulch cows, and were Sturdevant, we,.do not see how we can self traveling along a road, when he 14.o miles from the next mission station, continue supporting this mission. If came to a river, and saw something and rio miles from the railroad. We you remain, you will have to make the thrown across it. He knew nothing of took the matter to the Lord in prayer. most of the natural resources of the mis- bridges, had never seen one. In his I searched the country for a cow, but sion property." I responded, " All dream he saw the tracks of people who could find none. One morning, however, right." We continued to clear more had gone over the bridge, and, though one of our boys came to tell me a wagon land and to give much attention to fearful, ventured to cross. When he was coming. This .was an unusual oc- currence in those isolated parts. Soon our visitor reached us, and said, " I have come to learn whether I can make a trade with you for some of your oxen." I told him I had only a span of ten, and most of these were calves, and unfit for transport work. " But," he urged, " I am in trouble. I have a cow in my team that must have rest. I want to trade her for one of your oxen." I asked the man how he happened to come our way. He said he had been traveling another road for about a hundred miles, when in some unaccountable way he had lost his trail, and the road he ,AT THE SOLUSI STATION, RHODESIA took had led him to our mission station. Thus the providence of God intervened farming, and at the end of nine years, came to the middle of the stream, there in our behalf in a time of special need. when I turned the management of the was no more platform on which to Again: On one occasion we were mission station over to Brother W. C. cross, but just a plank. He was afraid destitute of provisions. Our attendance Walston, the work was in a prosperous to go farther, but all at once he made had increased till we had about twenty condition financially. The only help we up his mind he would get down onto boarding at the school. The natives had received was the salaries of the his hands and knees, and cross that needed something else besides corn. So missionaries from abroad. When we way. Before he had advanced very we began to seek the Lord. One morn- left, there were three hundred acres far, he saw a little building. When he ing we saw a string of oxen, thirty-two under cultivation. God has blessed in reached the building, he heard some one in number, coming toward the mission a remarkable manner the work at this reading in his own language. He dis- farm. They were traveling as fast as our oldest station in South Africa, which covered that it was a boy who was read- they could. I called to my boys to go is now fully self-supporting. ing. He asked the boy what he was and turn them in; and as soon as they Elder Porter here called upon F. B. reading, and was told that it was the came up to where I was, they began to Armitage to relate some of his experi- Word of God. He did not know any- lie down around me. I told the boys ences. thing about the Word of God, but felt they had been chased by lions, and now F. B. Armitage: I am very thankful a longing in his heart to learn about it. they had found shelter, they were ready to be present with you here, after hav- When the young man awoke in the to rest. ing been absent for sixteen years, and morning, he told his father about the The next day the owner of the cattle to be able to bring to you some of the dream, and said he was going to visit the came along, and told me his story. The good tidings of what the Lord has done missionary living on the other side of lions had chased his cattle about fifteen for us in Africa. I also bring greetings the river, and learn whether he could or eighteen miles from his place down from the Zulu people. Just before I attend school. His father gave him per- below the mission, and there the wind left there, one of the young men said: mission to go, and later sent three other changed; and of course oxen will not go " We want to send our greetings to the brethren in America that love us so. You tell them that we thank them very much for what they have done for the black people. Tell them to be of good courage, and to continue to help us by sending teachers who love the Lord Jesus and who will show us the way of life eternal." I will go back to the time I left the Solusi Mission station to work in the Somabula, or " big forest," station, about one hundred forty miles north- ward. In those days sufficient funds were appropriated to us to pay the wages of the missionaries, and we had to meet the expense of starting new schools and feeding pupils. Many problems were met. Many of the people had never seen a white woman, and but few had seen a white man. They were in the depths of heathenism. Fortun- SHANGANI MISSION, RHODESIA ately, we had taken with us some little orphan herdboys, and they became quite members of his family to learn the truth. with the wind with lions anywhere in a center of attraction. Soon afterward As a result, we soon had four pupils proximity. The lions always go against all the little herdboys in the country with which to begin school work. These the wind, because the lion always goes came driving their sheep and goats to were our first pupils. Today the young ahead of his prey, and then springs upon the mission in order to become ac- man who had that dream is a faithful it as it comes along; but he will never quainted with our boys. This gave us worker in the Somabula Mission, and chase it down. So these cattle had opportunity to become acquainted with stands as a monument to God's mercy. changed their course, and this had the parents, and to open a school, with Another incident: About three or four brought them to the mission. forty or fifty boys in attendance. Oth- months after my wife and little babe When the man found that I had taken ers came, and our school grew. and I reached Somabula, Mrs. Armitage care of his cattle, he wanted to know if Our earlier work at the Somabula was taken down with the Egyptian sore there was not something he could do for Mission was marked by many provi- eye, a painful affliction, necessitating me. I told him he was welcome to what dences. One night a young native mar- her remaining in a dark room. Under we had done; but before he left I asked ried man about twenty-three years of these circumstances the natural food for him if he knew of any one who could GENERAL CONFERENCE. BULLETIN 117 sell us some cows. He said, " No, I do continent. The work in which we are not know who will sell you-any; but if engaged is God's; is is yours as much as Oepartmental flieetingts you will permit me, I will send you some, mine; and I pray that your interest in to run here as long as you would like to the people of dark Africa may ever con- keep them." And so he sent us seven- tinue, and that the blessing of the Lord SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT teen or eighteen cows, and in a little may be with you alway. Fifth Meeting while we had an abundance of milk at R. 'C. Porter: There was an old chief the mission. • This we regarded as an- in Kafirland, who was before his death, THOSE attending this meeting were af- other marked providence. more respected than any other man in forded a rare pleasure in hearing Elder Another helpful providence was this: that land, who told them he had had a J. N. Loughborough relate his exper- God in his wonderful way brought to vision, in which he saw' a white man iences in connection with the early his- us people from all over the country. coming with a roll to teach them impor- tory of the Sabbath-school work. He Some came hundreds of miles, seeking tant truth. He advised his people that said: — a place to go to school. Four young when such a teacher came, they should " In the beginning, the people did not men that started out from the Shan- accept that white man's teaching; for believe in organization, and of course gani division, over a hundred miles the Lord had shown him that this no one believed in having an organized away, came saying, "We have wanted teacher would be a representative of the Sabbath-school. This work was started to find a mission station where the mis- people that would have the truth. The at first on a very small scale. The first sionaries do not use tobacco." chief died. Afterward, one of his rela- school of which I was a member was Kafirland tives was present when our people were started in Battle Creek, Mich. There out on a mission tour with the wagon, were only a few families there. Brother After spending six years at the Soma- and hung up .the chart with the law of M. G. Kellogg got together seven little bula station, it became necessary, be- God on it. This relative said, " This boys belonging to these families, and a cause of the susceptibility of our little is the people that the prophet before little while before the church service he girl to the black-water fever, to leave he died said would come and bring to taught these boys from Sabbath to Sab- the station, and go down to some point us the truth." He said, " Here is the bath. Even at that small effort some nearer the coast to labor. We were roll." He exhorted all the Kafir people of the older ones shook their heads, and invited to go to what is now known as to accept the doctrine we were advo- said that Brother Kellogg must be care- the Maranatha Mission, or the " Com- cating. This has opened the way so ful or he would be bringing in some of ing of the Lord Mission," as its name that we have most urgent invitations Babylon. One day Sister White stated indicates, To take up work for the Kafir in all that section of the country to that it had been revealed to her that people. come out and do evangelistic work. I we must have Sabbath-schools for the After putting up our buildings, we believe we can do much more in rapidly children, and the older ones must help. began making missionary tours among' disseminating the truth through evan- The parents were urged to teach their the people. Our equipment was a small gelistic tours than in any other way. children short verses to repeat in the wagon, a magic lantern, our fomenta- Two native evangelists are now pro- Sabbath-school. tion cloths, a few simple medicines, etc. claiming the message in that land, both "The Lord has developed this work Our little wagon attracted much atten- of them having recently accepted the step by step, and it has indeed grown tion. The use of a magic lantern was truth. We have many invitations. In very rapidly. If the present work for an innovatioin in mission work, and many ways God is calling upon us to the children had dropped down on us proved helpful. We went to one native go out and do evangelistic work, which in the early days, we would have thought village where the chief was not willing in Kafirland seems to be a much more the loud cry had surely come." to have us work among his people, be- rapid method of reaching the people " Personal Work" was the topic for cause he belonged to another denomina- than is mission-school work. the day. G. B. Thompson presented a tion; but there were many in that town Brother' and Sister Sturdevant sang strong paper, setting forth impressively who we thought should hear the truth. " What ,a Friend We Have in Jesus," in the need of this work being carried on in So we fitted up our lantern at the front one of the native languages of Mashon- every school. This paper will be pub- of the wagon, our screen at the rear, aland. lished in an early number of the Sab- and began showing the pictures as we R. C. Porter : I wish you could hear bath School Worker. drove through the streets of the town. the natives sing their gospel hymns. In Mrs. E. E. Prescott, of Buffalo, N. Y., In a little while we had a number of their social meetings many are on their emphasized in an impressive way the children running after us. We told feet at once. I have seen them when need of personal work. A gentleman, them to go and tell their parents that not less than six would be on their feet admiring a fine flock of sheep, asked the we were to have a meeting on the at once, until ninety or a hundred had owner the secret of his success in rais- street, and to invite them to come. That spoken. I have seen them with tears ing them. The significant answer was, night the whole town was out. The in their eyes as they pleaded that this " I take care of the lambs." How shall streets were blocked almost as far as same truth which had changed their we answer the Master when he puts the we could see. Thus we found it pos- hearts and given them light and peace, question, " Where is the flock that was sible to draw a crowd, and tell them of might be carried to their people. If you given thee, thy beautiful flock ? " Con- the love of Jesus, and of the provision could sit before congregations and see stant watchcare is needed over the lambs he has made for their salvation from_ these weeping eyes and hear these pleas, that have been gathered into the fold, sin through his blood. I know you would be glad that you have that they stray,not away. They should In these missionary tours we had helped to make possible the evangeliza- be encouraged, strengthened, estab- abundant opportunity to minister to the tion of these poor, dark heathen. We lished, and fitted for a place in God's sick. I could tell you some things that shall see them by and by in the kingdom work. our sanitarium nurses generally could of God. They are talking about going Mrs. Plummer spoke of the need of not tell, of the wonderful way in which home. They are talking about the great each worker consecrating himself to the God marvelously blesses the use of fo- gathering. They are talking about the Lord fully and completely if he would mentation cloths. time ' when Jesus will come, and we work successfully for others. We must When extracting teeth, as we are shall wear crowns of immortal glory. ourselves be what we ask our pupils often called to do,' we usually bind up They 'believe that time is not far dis- to become. It is the consciousness that all the sores we find. In every other tant. The language of their hearts is: self is not right, that hinders many from way possible we try to help the poor " 0, what shall we do for our poor peo- doing personal work for others. people. Chief Kama said that he hoped ple? What can be done to reach our C. H. Wilkinson, of Brooklyn, N. Y.: the day would come when his people friends?" I see the answer to these The consecration services we have held would be able to hire a Seventh-day pleas in the rising and continually in- in our school have been of the greatest Adventist trained nurse to give his creasing interest in missions on the part value. We usually appoint them two whole time to working among the sick of our brethren in this land. Funds weeks ahead, so as to have time for people of his tribe, and at the same time are coming ih freely. The members of preparation. Upon one occasion I gave teach them the truth of God as we un- our churches in the home land are giv- the teachers opportunity to plead per- derstand it. ing liberally. I pray God the time may sonally with their pupils to give their I am grateful to God for his blessing, soon come when it will be possible for hearts to the Lord. They did so, and and to our brethren and sisters in the us to send out a hundred evangelists the Spirit of God touched their hearts, home land who have so freely and so where we now have one, and thus rap- and souls were converted. liberally contributed of their means to idly carry the truth to all those peoples Mrs. J. F. Moser, of Takoma Park : carry forward the work in this dark throughout the continent. Let us welcome the rainy days when we 118 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

have only one scholar present. Do not different languages are now going out Mexico are extremely poor, and a large unite with another class, but make that from our press in India. One of these investment in sanitarium buildings would a precious occasion, when you may in the Urdu is for circulation among not pay financially. Dispensary work labor especially for that one. Mohammedans. The successful sale of could be nicely adapted to the needs of our literature by the natives is being that field. Medical missionaries even established, and depending upon the with meager facilities have an advan- PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT Lord's help we see brighter days ahead. tage over other physicians, for they have Brother Shaw made an earnest plea for the mighty God with them. Sixth Meeting at least two workers to take up the Dr. Wolfsen said that the question of IN the sixth meeting of the Publish- English work, and for help to lead out the support of medical missionaries in ing Department, Elder I. H. Evans, in the circulation of the magazines. the field has received considerable study after giving an interesting account of Elder Town read an excellent paper at the Hinsdale Sanitarium. Our great the rise and progress of the publishing sent to the conference by C. E. Weaks, dependence is in the Lord. It is his work in the Asiatic Division, made a who three years ago entered India, and work, and when his servants are labor- strong plea for at least six men with took charge of the literature work in ing in unfavorable surroundings, where whom to man their different fields. He the field. He gave a report of one it seems that means of support can not told how the Lord had blessed them in native worker who in Eastern Bengal be secured, he will provide. starting literature work in China, Ko- and Assam during the last six months Dr. Menkel was of the opinion that rea, and Japan, and that the Chinese has put in sixty-two hours, and has been while much can be done in foreign fields magazine had now reached a circulation blessed in his work with literature. He with meager facilities, yet much more of sixty-four thousand copies a month. also referred to the growth of the cir- could be accomplished with good equip- The possibility of training the rank and culation of the various periodicals, and ment. file of the believers there to sell our expressed the belief that the Lord is L. A. Hansen said that one whose paper is practically unlimited. The going to help in the accomplishment of heart is set on doing good can with the publication of books has commenced. great things in our literature work in most simple outfit do much in the way The circulation of the Chinese paper India. of rational treatment for the relief of has had to be restricted to certain prov- In the discussion of the need of men sickness and suffering. inces, so that the interests may be fol- for foreign fields every general book- W. B. White read a paper entitled, lowed up by evangelists. man present pledged his hearty support " What Shall We Do With Our Grad- Elder S. N. Haskell, who in his talk to the furnishing, of men. Seventeen uate Nurses?" A good many nurses are brought out the fact that he organized expressed a personal burden to take up graduated every year from our sanita- the first tract society work ever carried work in foreign fields as opportunity riums, and it is a vital question what to on in the denomination, gave a number and training will allow. do with them, that they may become in- of early experiences of great interest. By unanimous vote a resolution was deed a part of the work of God in these He referred to the fact that it was adopted which tends toward the contin- last days. Some are quite spiritual, and through reading " Elihu on the Sab- uing of the policy of furnishing lead- some not so much so. Some are appar- bath ' that he himself had become inter- ers from this country for book work in ently altogether professional, and seem- ested in the truth. He stated his firm foreign lands. Another resolution sug- ingly have no thought but to make a belief that the time has come for the gesting that we request our publishing success from the standpoint of money. rank and file of our people to sow the houses to furnish tracts at prices which But they are all susceptible to counsel, seeds of truth with our literature, call- will enable them to be sold by city work- and an effort should be made to convert ing special attention to the promise ers, was also introduced and adopted. them to the one great purpose of win- given in the last paragraph of page 612, ning souls for the kingdom of God. Great Controversy.' The conferences should take a deep Seventh Meeting interest in our graduate nurses, and en- MEDICAL DEPARTMENT deavor to use them in conference work. The needs of the work among the Sixth Meeting Some might be employed, to visit and in- millions of India were set before the struct our own people, to teach, advise, publishing men by Prof. J. L. Shaw. ELDER W. B. WHITE offered prayer. and help them. Some might be encour- With 147 distinct languages, in some Thirty minutes was given to a discussion aged by the conferences to operate treat- instances twenty-three languages being of the subject of the previous meeting. ment-rooms. Some should have special spoken by over a million each, with the Dr. Fattebert, of Mexico, said that the training, and be sent to foreign fields. A great Mohammedan religion embracing Mexican people are different from most number might be employed in city work sixty-six million of people, India pre- any other people in the world in some in connection with tent or hall work, sents problems that seem overwhelming. respects, but they need the gospel, and and a still larger number might be sent However, with God's help, a beginning nothing else will save them. Their sal- out into the large cities under conference has been made, and more than 20,000 vation is the true object of medical mis- direction to engage in charitable and copies of our seven periodicals in six sionary work among them. Many in benevolent work.

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THE EVENING SERVICE stood aloof from the heathen, but this vation of our God come to us — even to led to formalism, and tradition was put tis who are by nature so hopeless and May 21, 7:3o P. M. in the place of God's Word. Instead of wretched. May God make it so in the ELDER E. J. HIBBARD was the speaker submitting to the righteousness of God, case of all of us. of the evening. He took for his theme they sought to establish their own right- " The Idea of Worship in Connection eousness. Self-righteousness is the ORDER OF SABBATH SERVICES basis of all heathenism, and in all the With the Third Angel's Message." He THE General Conference Sabbath- first brought out the thought of two experiences of Israel, which were the school will meet in sections at nine opposing-forms of worship enjoined by substance of the old covenant, there o'clock Sabbath morning, as usual. This two opposing powers, under fearful was nothing of grace, but merely the will be followed by preaching, service penalties. See Revelation, chapters 13, purpose of God to show their utter forenoon and afternoon. 14. helplessness to save themselves. The All false worship of every form and whole ritual•service was to point out the nature is of Satan, and in honor of grace of God made real in Christ; but CHILDREN'S MEETINGS him. This is seen in the attempt of Israel perverted even this, and it was CHILDREN'S meetings are held each Satan to bring Jesus to bow down and taken to be a means of salvation. day on the camp ground. Mrs. H. W. worship him. The attitude of Satan on How different is God's free salvation Carr, of New York, has general charge. this occasion is typical of his continual by grace through faith All that God The attendance of children has been so claim to worship and obedience. All requires is the humble, glad surrender large that it has been necessary to sepa- worship demanded of human beings by of our souls to his care. rate them into two groups. Mrs. E. C. Satan leads not only away from God, Again, this same great delusion of Boger, of British Guiana, has supervi- but compels open and flagrant violation self-righteousness became seated in the sion of the intermediate division, and of God's commands. Witness the apos- Christian church, so called, and reached Miss Gertrude Sims, of Vermont, the tasy in the time of Elijah and Is- its culmination in the time of the Ref- primary. The attendance in each divi- rael's sin in the matter of Baal Peor. ormation. And this is the test in our sion is about one hundred. The interest Thus in the last analysis Israel turned day — the receiving of Christ's full, from the beginning has been excellent. away from all of God's commands, and divine grace, ministered by the Spirit so went into captivity to Babylon. See on the condition of faith. Our one only A CORRECTION 2 Kings 17 : 7, 8, 16, 17; Jeremiah, chap- plea is the all-sufficient offering of ters 5, 6, 7. Israel was diligent in all Christ, apart from all claim to merit. FOR " two thousand five hundred," their ritual, but in the matter of holy Thus it was in the case of Paul, and in given on page 97 of the BULLETIN as living they had no part. the case of Luther, and the Wesleys. the weekly circulation of Present Truth, Following the captivity, the Jews Thus, and thus only, shall the full sal- read " twenty-five thousand."

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VOL. 7 TAKOMA PARK STATION, WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1913 NO. .8

THE GENERAL CONFERENCE reading? — Isaiah, the prophet. Now, which we hardly know the names of. this man might have had the whole of There are the versions for the Indians BULLETIN the Old Testament, but it is quite likely in South America, for example. Our Published by he had only the roll of parchment con- 'society has issued the gospel in the Ara- ThekGeneral Conference of Seventh-day taining Isaiah's writings. wak. From my experience since com- Adventists In what language was he reading? ing here, I would not be surprised to I do not think that I ever was introduced find as many languages represented as DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY to so many people from different lands there are people here. 50 CENTS FOR THE SESSION, MA? 16 TO JUNE 9, 1913 E. C. Boger: Dr. Fox, I am from a Editorial committee: W. A. Spicer. C. P. Beaman. all at once as I have been during the C. C. Crider. T. E. Bowels. H. E.. Rogers. J. N. Anderson. last five minutes, and I confess that it is field which includes work in the Ara- Mee editors: C. P. Bolimn. C. C. Crider. Copy editor: a great delight to me. I have a child's wak. Mn. C. M. Snow. love for people who come from far off, Dr. Fox: " According to your faith, who speak a language different from our be it unto you." Does anybody here Entered as second-class matter at the post- office at Washington, D. C., May 16, 1913. under own. Our English language is a delight, speak Mosquito? I have no doubt you the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. but I wish I could speak Zulu. Now, this have heard mosquitoes sing, but there man was in North Africa. What was is a Mosquito Bible. [After the talk his language? It is altogether likely Dr. Fox met Elder H. C. Goodrich, who DAILY PROGRAM (Except Sabbath) A. M. Devotional Meetings (in sections) 6:oo— 6:45 Breakfast 7: oo Bible Study 8:30— 9:30 Conference Jo:00-12:0o

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THE BIBLE IN ALL LANDS that he spoke Greek, and that the Bible has Mosquito Indian brethren in his ADDRESS BY DR. JOHN FOX he was reading was Greek. You know field.] Now, I am not going on. Why, I could spend the whole time just read- May 23, 8:3o A. M. that 25o years before Christ came into the world, God sent his angel, or his ing names of the languages'all over the [It was by invitation that Dr. Fox, Spirit, in some way, to insure that his world; and is it not wonderful to see. secretary of the American Bible Soci- Book, the Old Testament, as it was how God uses the diversities of tongues ety, addressed the Conference on the called, that had always existed in He- as an inestimable blessing to his church? work of the Bible Society.] brew, should be translated into Greek, It is a victory for Christ. I AM very happy, indeed, to be here. and when I talk about the Bible Society Some one has said that the Bible So- I have just come over from Atlanta, I always like to have that for a base- ciety is intended to " cancel the curse of where three Presbyterian general as- line. The translation of the Hebrew Babel and prolong the blessing of Pente- semblies are in session. I am connected Bible into Greek was one of the great cost," and I would not wish a more ad- with one of them, but I come here not events in the history of the human race, mirable definition of what its aim is. as a Presbyterian, but as a Christian, to and yet how few people realize that ! But let me speak of Africa. One of meet with you, whom we recognize in We do not know just how it happened, the most noted of the scholars connected the Bible house in New York as a part but it is probable that the old tradition with the Bible house in London esti- of our constituency, and to whom it is is true, that Alexander the Great, when mated eight hundred different languages a great privilege for me to speak. It he made the great library at Alexandria, in Africa. Of course that includes dia- is an inspiration to me to speak to you, wanted to have a copy of the Jewish lects. and if I can bring you any added inspi- sacred books, and asked their rabbis to The Ethiopian eunuch, we may sup- ration, it will be a very great satisfac- procure him one; and that they trans- pose, spoke Greek; certainly, he read tion to me. lated a copy for that purpose into the Greek; maybe he was a bilingual, who I always like to have a text. This is Greek. So, if you choose to believe the read one language and spoke another, a very familiar one: " And Philip• ran tradition, by a stretch of fancy you might as our Saviour himself, very likely, and thither to him, and heard him read the say that Alexander the Great was the certainly as his apostles undoubtedly did. prophet Esaias, and said, Understand- first promoter of the Bible Society. They spoke Aramaic, which was the est•thou what thou readest? " Acts 8: But my business here is to touch upon common language, and they probably 3o. You know it was in the providence how the Bible is being translated from spoke and certainly read Greek, which of God that the Ethiopian eunuch should Hebrew into Greek, from Hebrew into was the lingua franca, sustaining the meet with Philip the evangelist, and English, and from Greek into French, same relation to the peoples that lived learn to understand the Scriptures. German, Spanish, and Zulu, and all about the Mediterranean Sea that French What book was the Ethiopian eunuch those wonderful languages, some of has done in Europe, and as English is 122 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

getting to do in the world generally, and Bible circulation. That is not the in itself that might fill the Mind of a in place of French. The Japanese are rule, however. statesman, or any other large-souled not content unless they know it, and I had this pleasant experience some man. Just make your own calculations. even the Chinese are beginning to learn time ago: The manuscript of an article There are 400,000,000 people in China. it. I was at a Shanghai missionary con- intended for publication in the Roman If you give a book worth four cents to gress six years ago, and one of the things Catholic Encyclopedia, which treats of every one of them, that is a book bill that struck me most was this, that there all religious matters, and is a very of $16,000,000. Of course a great many was a request from the missionary learned publication, was submitted to of them are children and many are il- women that, the Bible Society would me at our Bible Society office for cor- literate; but the children are going to furnish more Bibles in the English al- rection. It was an article on Bible so- learn • to read. The women are going to phabet [spelling the sounds of Chinese cieties. I felt highly honored at being learn to read. words], because they thought the women considered a more infallible authority Heathen eyes are this moment turn- of China, most of whom can not read than the Pope himself, but they gave me ing toward the light. 0, in how many the Chinese characters, would more to understand that they did not want me a home, how many a heart, the first readily learn to read in our English to revise and Protestantize, the article, dawning of the Sun of Righteousness is alphabet. but to see that no mistakes were made now rising in China! I saw some things There are many nations that not only in reference to the statement concern- there that moved me greatly. had no literature, but they had no ing our, Bible Society. The article was The boats on the rivers near Canton alphabet, and the missionaries haie con- published, and in it was the statement are large enough to contain the family, structed one, or else they have taught concerning the anathema of the Pope and they are run by women. The hus- the English alphabet. I know I could pronounced upon us. Now I regard band may be working at his trade and call upon your friends here from Zulu- that article as a sign that God is open- the women manage their boat. I shall land to tell you about the Zulu language ing blind eyes all over the world. never forget one Chinese boatwoman that is written in the English alphabet. Now we must remember that the Bible whom I saw. She stood on the edge One of the niain things I had to do just Society is a Protestant institution. It is of the boat, with an oar like an old raft before leaving New York was to look the corollary of the Protestant Reforma- oar. There was no binding of her feet, over the proof of the new Zulu Revised tion, and is distinctly Protestant in its or arms, or person. Wearing her Chi- Bible. Just think what that means ! — a methods. Our work must depend upon nese women's trousers, and with her lit- nation that had no alphabet, no litera- Protestant support. I come here today tle baby strapped on her back, and a ture, and not many of what we call civ- not only because I am a Christian, but little girl sitting on a very narrow ilized customs, either. And they did not because I am a Protestant Christian, and place right by her, that woman was row- have words for what we esteem almost we need all Protestants who are truly ing the boat in and out among the river essential. For instance, certain articles one with us in Christ Jesus to cooperate craft, steering it in the swirling cur- of clothing were not very abundant. with us in this work. I am here to ap- rents at the mouth of that great river. The Zulu maidens do not have as many peal to you as followers of Christ, and How can any one look upon such a changes of apparel as some of the ladies children of those men of old who broke spectacle and not ache to speak Chinese, described in the Old Testament. And loose from the tyranny of " no Bible for and tell her about Christ, the Redeemer when they came to the translation, for the people." We are meeting before of her body as well as of her soul? I example, of the wardrobe of Aaron and God and angels to prosecute this great asked the missionary to let me talk to his sons, the linen breeches, there was propaganda, of circulating the truth of her, through him, and he did. I said, no synonym, in Zulu for that, and they God, and to see that this great enter- " Tell me the names of your children." had to make one. That illustrates the prise is adequately financed, adequately She said the oldest girl, about twelve, difficulty of translation. Of course it prayed for, until every child of Adam was named Flowery Princess, and the did not make much .difference in that that can read or can be taught to read, second girl was named Little Heifer, and particular case, but the same poverty shall have a copy of the Scriptures in the third — they had run out of names of word and thought exists as to the his possession. That is our platform. — was simply Number Three. How can things that it does make a difference We are elected of God on that platform, anybody look on such a scene and not about. How are you going to/ teach a and we do 'not propose to repudiate its long to give them the blessed gospel Zulu, until he has learned the gospel, pledges [amens]. Now that involves of Christ ! There were thousands of what justification, as distinguished from more than " amen." It involves sacrifice interesting cases like this. sanctification, is? You can see that and self-denial. It involves cash. It Floating in the river hard by was a these simple things illustrate greater involves that we recognize that this is little girl ten or twelve years of age; a ones. not a missionary luxury, but it is some- dead, drowned child. No one paid any You are a people — I know you are, thing that is obligatory on us to prose- more attention to that child than if it for I see it in your faces — who believe cute. It is part ,of the missionary cur- had been a dog or a log. That is an- in the Bible to the world. , You have riculum we have been studying. other side of Chinese life. We may look your advanced line all over the earth. I The Bible Society managers some- upon them sometimes as having a am a member, in fact one of the oldest times feel that the people forget the ne- strange callousness. But they need the members, of our Presbyterian Board of cessities of the institution they have whole Bible. 0, how it vexes me to Foreign Missions, and I shall tell them themselves constructed for the purpose hear people say, " They do not need all that they must look to their laurels. of doing this work, and consequently the Bible " ! Why not? Was all the Here are two or three thousand people the societies are hampered. I am Bible made for proud, boastful Anglo- interested in Africa, interested in Asia, ashamed to say that this is so with our Saxons only? and the isles of the sea, and especially American societies. However, there One of our colporteurs told me of a interested in the translation, the circu- has been much more help rendered Chinaman who was convicted by reading lation, and the distribution of the Scrip- lately by our American people, and now the genealogies. " Why," he said, " a tures everywhere. the British Bible Societies are coming man that has such a pedigree as that [Many voices: Amen, Amen I] to look on us and our work very differ- must have been a great man." And you . Now, in order to do this work, one ently from what they used to. They can easily see, if you stay in China a must be interested in it; and with you regard us as coming to the front in this few weeks, how true that is. They do are all the Presbyterians, and the Meth- missionary work. The British Bible not despise their ancestors. " Honor odists, and the Episcopalians, and all Society is doing a great work in the cir- thy father and thy mother" is a com- the rest, or most of them. I am speak- culation, of the Bible. We have no envy mandment that hardly needs to be taught ing of denominations. I am speaking of toward them for the work they are in China. It is much more needful to all the believers, the saints called in doing, and we would be glad if they had teach it here than it is in China. We Christ Jesus. They must be interested the honor of doing it all, but we want must have the whole Bible there, and we in it, although there are some who are to do our share. must have it adequately translated. It not. Now here is a thing I am ashamed to must not be an apprentice attempt, it We have had the rare honor as a so- tell, but it is a fact. We have had to must be the finished product of the best ciety, along with our British friends, of refuse, for reasons of financial prudence, Chinese scholars.. I suppose 'that it, will having been twice officially cursed by any larger appropriations to China. God finally have to be made by Chinese people the Pope. But we pray that God may has opened China, as Robert Morrison themselves. [The speaker told of the turn his curse into a blessing. There and his prophetic-souled colleagues never various languages and dialects to be are, however, countries where the Ro- dared to believe it could be. And we dealt with in China.] man Catholic Church appears to have have not yet collected the money we need I would like you to know how cheap learned the value of Bible translation to Bibleize China. That is an ambition we make Bibles. A single small book GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN '123 costs one cash, that is, one seventeenth of Whereas, Such activity can be greatly Catholic nation: of Europe is more in- a cent. I am almost afraid to say that, stimulated and aided by live and well- tensely Catholic than is Quebec. Great because Satan is so cunning that he instructed church tract society officers; Catholic cathedrals, monasteries, con- might make Christian people feel that therefore,— `cents, and schools abound in_ all parts that was a measure of benevolence; but Resolved, That advanced steps be of the province, while long-robed priests I think the penny is as low as we ought taken by officers of each conference and and monks are to be met with at every to go, and perhaps it will work in the mission field in the thorough training of turn. The people are held in absolute reverse way; that if we can make Bibles librarians and missionary leaders for subjection to the man of sin, who, on so cheap, we ought to have the funds to their duties, by — the banks of the Tiber, " sitteth in the make a great many of them. The single (a) Personal and private instruction temple of God showing himself that he is books of the Bible 'are the larger part of in the home and local churches. God." the circulation there. I am not here to (b) Gathering these officers together The General Conference has made a lecture on translation, except to show from a group of churches and conduct- special appropriation this year for the that to do, the work we must have time ing institutes with them. employment of French colporteurs to and money. We must put down our best (c) Bringing them together at gen- carry our literature and visit among, the translators, and keep them at it until it eral meetings for instruction and coun- French people of that province. These is done. We must be patient, until all sel. workers have already been secured. We the tribes of the earth, every nation, The adoption of the report was moved think that the printed page can enter kindred, tongue, and people, are reached and seconded, and it was then left over and work where the living preacher with the divine oracles. May God bless to be voted upon after it appears in the would be rigorously excluded. Elder you, dear brethren, and fill your hearts BULLETIN. Virilleumier is now stationed in Mon- treal, and is gaining a foothold in that with a wise and understand'ng spirit, CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE that you may have the• manifest tokens city. of the Spirit of God in your own affairs QUADRENNIAL REPORT Another problem of no small .mag- and in the affairs in which you measure I. H. Evans: It has been arranged nitude is the matter of carrying the with, the universal church of believers. this morning for the unions in the Uni- message to the numerous fishing villages [At the close of this address 'an offer- ted States and Canada to finish their that line the coast of the great island ing was taken for the Bible Society reports. We will now call upon Brother of Newfoundland. These villages .are amounting to $132, and a vote of M. N. Campbell, of the Canadian Union accessible only by sailing vessels, and $500 from general funds was made, the Conference. then only during the limited period of Conference desiring to, share more n. N. Campbell (reading) : — open 'navigation. We have four labor- largely in the work which is carrying It is with pleasure that I submit to ers on the island at present, one ordained the light, of God's Word into every dark this' body of delegates the third quadren- minister, a licentiate and his wife, and land. Dr. Fox expressed deepest ap- nial report of the Canadian Union Con- a church-school teacher. A start has preciation. He said it was an unusual, ference. This organization includes been made- in some of the larger towns, in fact, a new experience to him, and within its territory the eastern half of and souls are accepting the truth. that this action by the. Conference would the Dominion .of Canada, and consists The believers in this union are organ- be appreciated at the Bible Society head:- of the Ontario, Quebec, and Maritime ized into forty-three churches and six quarters in New York.] Conferences, and the Newfoundland companies. Definite plans are being Mission Field, embracing a population of carried into execution to set every be- 5,000,000. For convenience I will pre-: liever at work at something, especially Conference ProteebittO sent the work of the uniOn under the with our.tracts and magazines. At Mon- various department headings, consider- treat a license fee of one hundred dol- FIFTEENTH MEETING ing first lars is exacted from canvassers. This fOr a time seemed to be an insuperable May 23, ro A. M. The Evangelical Department barrier to. our book and magazine work I. H. EVANS in the chair. The evangelical work of the Canadian i in that city. One of our workers who Prayer, by Elder George I. Butler. Unicn Conference is carried forward by attempted to sell magazines without a Among the delegates answering for 16 ordained and 8 licensed ministers, be- license 'was confined in jail several days. the first time to the roll-call, we were sides 18 workers' holding missionary cre- The church at that place made the mat- glad to greet Elder Geo. I. Butler. dentials.. ter a subject of special prayer, asking the The chairman called for ,reports from The work which for years has moved 'Lord to remove this restriction to 'the committees. The committee on plans along so slowly is gathering momentum, work, which was proving such a hin- presented the following further partial and the seed-sowing of former years is drance. These .prayers were heard in report, through Brother Dail, its sec- now bearing fruit. During the last heaven, and since that time our workers retary : --- twelve months alone 5 new churches have been entirely unmolested, and the have been organized, and the member- magazine work' is being carried on ex- Report of Committee on Plans ship of one old church raised from 18 tensively in that city. Thus are the h For manifold mercies and blessings to nearly one hundred members, thus high walls being thrown down before 5. adding 150 to our membership alone, the advance of the message in Canada. that have preserved this great threefold message in its integrity, and maintained aside from all other, work. Institutions unity among its adherents; for the won- The introduction of the third angel's derful prosperity that has attended the message has met with determined' op- There is but one union institution in advent movement as revealed in its rap- position from pulpit and pew, being eastern Canada,— the Canadian Publish- idly growing membership, and its in- looked upon as an unwelcome innova- ing Association. Though carrying quite creasingly liberal financial support; for tion. However, our literature has been a ponderous name, its equipment is of its remarkable development and exten- faithfully distributed for the last twenty a very modest order, consisting of a sion into new fields; for liberty of con- years, and during the same period the small press of sufficient size to print the science still vouchsafed; for the new life living preacher has proclaimed the mes- union paper, and a few small pieces of and energy taking possession of the be- sage by word of mouth, and now the machinery suitable to the simplest kind lievers,— for these and all other bless- flinty rock of conservatism is breaking of work. Nevertheless, this press is ings and favors bestowed by a compas- down under the heavy blows of the ham- kept 'on the move, turning out literature sionate and merciful Heavenly Father, tiler of truth. The heaviest ingather- for this field. We find that some of the we render sincere praise and heartfelt ings are still before us in Canada, and most important tracts are so strongly thanksgiving. the time has evidently arrived when the tinctured with Americanism that they 6. • Whereas, The efforts of the past reapers may look for large returns from are quite unpalatable to the average four years in supplying needy fields with their labors, for the harvest is fully Canadian reader, and it is necessary to trained leaders in the colporteur work ripe. revise and reprint them for that field. have proved so eminently helpful and The most serious problem confronting For some years in the past the han- satisfactory; therefore,— the union at the present time is the evan- dling of the literature in the Canadian Resolved, That this policy be continued gelization of the great French-speaking Union field has been under the exclusive until every important field is supplied population of the Province of Quebec. control of the Canadian Publishing As- with qualified leaders. That province, except for a narrow sociation, but this year tract societies are 7. Whereas, The life of the church fringe of territory along the border of being established and canvassing agents depends largely upon the missionary ac- Vermont, New Hampshire, and New are being placed in the field. We believe tivities of its members; and,— York, is solidly French Catholic. No that this move will strengthen the book 124 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN work materially, and give an impetus giving to the support of the message. bath-school contributions for 1912 were to the work generally. In 1912 the Canadian Union went two $5,914.02. About thirty miles east of Toronto, at hundred dollars above the quota of fif- Educational Oshawa, Ontario, is located the Buena teen cents a week per member for for- Vista Academy, which was transferred eign- missions. They have no notion of We have two academies within our from Lorndale to its present location dropping below that mark the present union. One is located at Pitt Meadows, last year. A farm of 237 acres has been year. The per capita of tithe is on the British Columbia, and is known as the secured, on which have been erected up grade. Manson Academy. It had an enrol- buildings suitable to the needs of the In concluding this report, I am glad to ment this year of about 5o. The other institution. assure you that the courage and faith is known as the Alberta Industrial Acad- emy, and is located at Lacombe, Alberta. It. has come to be quite well recog- of the workers and the people of the The enrolment of this school this year nized that educational work higher than Canadian Union is bright, and we look forward to the coming quadrennial pe- reached 160. These academies are do- the twelfth grade must be furnished for ing splendid work, and good results of our young people within the Canadian riod as the time when our growth will he commensurate with the means and labor each are already being seen in our field. field itself, as experience has demon- Besides these we have 14 church and strated that few of those who go to the that have been expended on the field. M. N. CAMPBELL, President. family schools in operation. The total States for their advanced training ever enrolment last year of all our schools return to labor in the home field. This WESTERN CANADIAN UNION was 446. has seriously depleted our ranks, for Perhaps the following comparison may when the young people settled down in CONFERENCE better express the real pulse of the work the States, their parents frequently fol- in our field for the period of the four lowed them. Aside from this, the na- I. H. Evans: We will now hear 'from the Western Canadian Union Confer- years just passed. Comparing the re- tive Canadian worker has a very great ports at the close of 1908 with those at advantage in laboring among his own ence. H. S. Shaw will present the report. the close of 1912, the following will 'be people, and steps must be taken to train observed:— the young people in the field. H. S. Shaw (reading) : — Jan. I, 1909, our total membership was The new institution at Oshawa has a Quadrennial Report 839 ; Jan. I, 1913, it was 1,304. capacity for 75 boarding students, and The Western Canadian Union was Our total Sabbath-keepers then num- is in many respects admirably adapted bered 1,159; now the number is 1,8ox. to the work suggested for it. We are organized in October, 1907, and was admitted to the General Conference at its At that time our annual tithe receipts sure that the guiding hand of the Lord were $15,005.01, while for 1912 our tithe was manifest in the location of this quadrennial session in 1909. Its terri- amounted to $36,044.23. school, and we look forward to seeing tory embraces the four western conferences of Canada,— British Columbia, Our tithe per capita at that time was it develop into an important factor in the $12.95; now the tithe per capita is work of proclaiming the •third angel's Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba,— $20.02. message in the Canadian provinces. having in addition all that portion of For the year 1908, our book, tract, At Williamsdale, Nova Scotia, is lo- Ontario lying west of Port Arthur. The and periodical sales were $59,425.58; in cated the Maritime Conference Acad- entire area covers a little more than a million square miles. 5912 our book, tract, and periodical sales emy, a school that has served that sec- were $34,044.23. tion of the Canadian Union for nine Population Our offerings to missions for 1908 years. Situated about twelve miles from were $3,984.14; 1912 our offerings to town, among the Cobiquid Mountains, it The population is about one million missions were $14,125.05. This does not is safe from the' allurements of city life. seven hundred thousand, composed of include the percentage of tithe paid in Its capacity has been tested to the limit English, German, French, Scandinavian, regularly for foreign missions by each the present year, and several had to be Russian, Polish, Roumanian, Bohemian, of our local conferences. refused admittance for lack of space to Galician, Chinese, Japanese, native In- properly care for them. This academy dians, and many other nationalities. The Union Paper closes the year with a splendid record area being one million square miles and About a year ago we began the pub- for both spiritual and scholastic work the population one million seven hundred lication of a union paper, which we call accomplished, and has the additional thousand, it will be observed that the the Western Canadian Tidings. This satisfaction of having all its accounts average is a Tittle less than two persons is proving a great blessing to the field. and expenses paid, and one thousand to the square mile. It is an eight-page periodical, published dollars cash in the bank. Industries biweekly, and now has a circulation of One of the oldest, if not the oldest, nine hundred. intermediate schools in the denomina- The chief industries within the union There are many things we would like tion is located at Fitch Bay, in the prov- to tell you about our work in this in- ince of Quebec. There, amid the most territory are farming, stock-raising, dairying, fruit-raising, mining, and lum- teresting field, but this report must be beautiful surroundings of mountains brief. In closing, it is my duty as well and lakes, for nearly twenty years, a bering. Since the message entered this field, as my great pleasure to tell you the school has been maintained that has our brethren have been struggling to message sent from our people in west- given a training in Christian education ern Canada, that they purpose by the to from twenty to forty students each place the work on a permanent basis as rapidly as possible. The first year the grace of God to remain true to the year. cause. H. S. SHAW, President. At St. Johns, Newfoundland, a school union was organized we received sev- n enty-five hundred dollars appropriations is maintained which is rapidly outgrow from the General Conference, there not REPORT OF NORTH PACIFIC ing its present quarters. The attend- UNION CONFERENCE ance ranges from forty to fifty. Quite being a local conference within our ter- a proportion of the students are children ritory that was self-supporting. The I. H. Evans: The next report will be of those not of our faith. Lord blessed the efforts of our brethren, from the Northern Pacific Union Con- however, and year by year they were ference. Medical Work able to diminish the appropriation. One C. W. Flaiz (reading) :— conference after another declared itself The North Pacific Union Conference There is no sanitarium work carried self-supporting, until at the beginning is located in the extreme northwest por- on under conference supervision in this of 1913 we were able to inform the tion of the United States, and comprises union. Two small sanitariums under General Conference that we would not the States of Montana, Idaho, Washing- private management and an equal num- ask for further appropriations. ton, Oregon, and the mission field of ber of treatment-rooms comprise the Last year the total number of laborers Alaska. It is divided into six confer- work in that line. The membership of in our field was 15 ordained ministers, ences, viz.; Montana, Upper Columbia, the union should be at least doubled be- to licentiates, 33 missionary licentiates, Western Oregon, Southern Oregon, fore any countenance is given to the and 48 book and periodical colporteurs, Southern Idaho, and Western Wash- establishment of a sanitarium. making a total of 104 laborers. ington. It was organized in the year Financial We have 48 churches and 2 compa- 1906, with 136 churches, comprising nies, with a total membership of 1,304 a membership of 4,50o. The growth We are glad to be able to report that and 497 isolated Sabbath-keepers, ma- of the conference can perhaps best be the believers of the Canadian Union are king a total of 1,8ox Sabbath-keepers. shown by a comparative statement show- determined to keep abreast of their There are 68 Sabbath-schools, with a ing gains in churches and membership 'American brethren in the matter of total membership of 1,659. Our Sab- during the quadrennial period just past. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 125

The number of churches in 1909 was of young people's work. During the year However, we are glad that we can share 147; the number of churches in 1912 is 1912 the sum of $1,139 was contributed our blessing with these needy fields. 166, showing a gain of 19. The member- to missions. Much more could be done Briefly to Recapitulate ship in 1909 was 5,700 ; • in 1912, 6,942, in this union in the way' of organizing showing a gain of 1,240. In addition to our young people for effective service. This union has raised in tithes and of- this we have to unorganized companies, ferings during this quadrennial period a with a membership of 422, making our Medical Missionary Work total of nearly seven hundred thousand total gain in Sabbath-keepers ,for four The Portland and Walla Walla Sanita- dollars. years 1,663. riums, together with a number of insti- We have turned over to the General Our members are paying, annually $17 tutions under private management, have Conference on the Sustentation Fund tithe per capita. We receive an annual done excellent service in medical mis- $13,422. tithe of about one hundred fifteen thou- sionary lines. The Portland Sanitarium The per cent of the tithe to the General sand dollars. Our union has raised dur- has been especially prosperous. Besides Conference amounted to $41,342. ing the past four years, in tithes and of- greatly improving their equipment, they Sabbath-school offerings, $58,860. ferings, a total of nearly seven hundred have been able to do something toward Harvest Ingathering, $19,972. thousand dollars. All our conferences reducing their indebtedness. The influ- All other offerings, $110,994. have adopted and are carrying out the ence of this institution is felt in the bet- Making a total of $244,59o. recommendation of the General Confer- ter circles of society. Prejudice is being The amount raised for the General ence in the matter of the division of the allayed, and many are inquiring concern- Conference during the year 1912 was tithe with the General Conference. This ing principles advocated. Thirty-eight $74,704. amounts to an average of fifteen per cent young people have been graduated from We have 38 ordained and 25 licensed for the union. This, with the five per the nurses' course, and are finding their ministers. cent paid on the Sustentation Fund, places in the organized work. The increase in the number of makes fully twenty per cent of our tithes churches was 19. turned over to the General Conference. Religious Liberty Work The increase in Sabbath-keepers, Early last year it was announced that 1,663. Sabbath-Schools the second session of the World's Citi- We are' thankful to God for the de- We have 259 Sabbath-schools, with a zenship Conference would be held in gree of prosperity that has attended our, membershio of 7,852. There has been a Portland, Oregon, June 29 to July 6, efforts, and pledge ourselves to renewed constantly increasing interest in our Sab- 1913. Our committee regarded this as consecration and devotion to his closing bath-school work, as indicated by the in- an opportunity to call the attention of the work. C. W. FLAIZ, crease in donations, amounting the past people to the true principles of Christian President. year to $20,288. The total Sabbath- citizenship in contrast to the pernicious REPORT OF THE PACIFIC UNION school offerings for the four years principles that will be advocated in this amount to $58,86o, making an annual gathering. It was thought that an edu- CONFERENCE average of $14,715. Many of our cational campaign, should be carried on I. H. Evans: The 'Pacific Union will schools are making an earnest effort to throughout the union. Arrangements now report through its president, E. E. increase their donations during the year were accordingly made to, hold a series Andross. 1913. . of meetings in the principal cities in the E. E. Andross (reading) : --- Educational early part of the year. The best halls The quadrennial period closing with were secured, and careful attention given December, 1912, was one of prosperity Our educational work is carried for- to advertising. This resulted in bring- ward by Walla Walla College, 8 inter- for the Pacific Union Conference. I may mediate and 58 church-schools. We have ing out large audiences of the most in- be permitted to speak more freely re- ! an enrolment of 652 students above the fluential people, and space was accorded garding this matter, since my official eighth grade, and 1,258 in the lower us in the leading dailies. Large quanti- connection with the conference as presi- grades, making a total enrolment. of ties of religious liberty literature were dent has covered less than one year of 1,910. We are employing a total of 126 distributed. It was planned to make a this time. The conference had formerly personal visit to each of the nearly one been blessed with experienced, aggres- ' teachers. The esteem in which Walla thousand ministers located in the cities Walla College is held by the people of sive leaders, and all departments of the on the Coast, calling their attention to work had moved steadily forward. The this union is showdby the fact that the the Christian Citizenship number of the attendance the past year has been the Lord has dealt very kindly with his peo- magazine Liberty. This specially pre- ple, and with deep gratitude of heart largest in its history, its total enrolment pared number of the magazine will be being over four hundred. furnished to all ministers, attorneys, phy- we acknowledge his blessings, both Several of our intermediate schools sicians, educators, and merchants resi- temporal and spiritual. are to be especially commended for the ding in these cities. This union conference embraces the excellent work done. A large number of Many of our churches have become States of California, Nevada, Utah, and our young men and women at present in thoroughly aroused to the importance of Arizona, and these are divided into six these schools are planning to continue local conferences. Within its territory this work, and are flooding their neigh- many and varied interests center, and their work in the college, with a view of borhoods with selected religious 'liberty fitting themselves for service in some literature. They are also giving of their I am very glad to be able to report branch of the Master's work. means to help continue this campaign progress in each. The progress has not been so much as. it should have been, Book Sales as the way may open before us. There are many evidences that this systematic considering the times in which we are We have employed on an average effort has made a deep impression on the living, and we have no disposition to about eighty. salesmen. We have met public mind. boast over what has been accomplished; with some success in our efforts to secure but God in his great mercy has wrought permanent workers who will give their Help for Foreign Fields for us, and of this we gladly speak. entire time, summer and winter, to this Our conference has been drawn upon We have endeavored to keep our work. quite heavily for workers in the various force of workers constantly employed During this quadrennial period we lines for other fields. We have supplied in aggressive evangelistic work, largely have sold subscription books to the one union president, three local presi- in new territory, and, with but very few wholesale value of $131,328. The whole- dents, three mission superintendents, two exceptions, some visible success has at- sale value of trade books, tracts, and general field agents, two mission treas- tended every effort. We now have 143 other literature sold was $104,330, ma- urers, and several ordained ministers, be- churches, with a membership of 8,777, king our total sales for the four years sides Bible workers and canvassers. showing a net gain of 26 churches and $235,658. During 1912 the North Pacific Eleven workers were furnished during 1,337 members. Twelve companies, with led the union conferences in Pacific Press the year 1912. Workers from this union a membership of 94, and 123 isolated territory, with sales amounting to nearly are to be found in some of the ,cities of Sabbath-keepers are reported," giving a fifty thousand dollars. The prospects for the East, in Australia, New Zealand, total of 8,994. Thirty-five church build- the present year are most encouraging. East Indies, India, China, Japan, Korea, ings have been added, making 113 in South America, and Persia. It has been all, an increase of about forty-five per Young People's Work a real sacrifice to part with these tried cent. The seating capacity of our We have 37 young people's societies, workers, and in some instances impossi- church buildings has been increased with a membership of 887. These are ble to fill their places, and as a result, 5,800, or from 15,370 to 21,17o, and the composed of earnest, devoted young peo- some of our conferences have not shown estimated value has increased $5o,866, ple, actively engaged in the various lines the .gain that we should be glad to report. or from $220,775 to $271,641. 126 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

We have an efficient and devoted corps 338.4o, or Ho per centover the previ- sawmill has been installed, and these of laborers, which is continually being ous quadrennial period. • buildings have been constructed from strengthened by the addition of recruits the lumber taken from the trees growing from our schools. We now have 63 or- Educational Work on the property. Not having seasoned dained ministers, 27 licensed ministers, This feature of our work is also en- lumber, it was necessary to purchase and 67 licensed missionaries,, with 47 couraging. Sixty-three church-schools some finishing lumber for part of the book and periodical canvassers; a total have been conducted the past year, with work. The school has a well-equipped of 204 laborers. 88 teachers. The enrolment has reached farm of 1,653 acres, and is endeavoring to make the industrial as well as the Finances 1,656, an increase of 20 schools, 32 teachers, and 476 pupils. The estimated spiritual and intellectual features as There has been a steady increase in value of church-school buildings and strong as possible, thus giving a sym- our tithe receipts during this period, as equipment increased from $38,000 in metrical education. During the four follows: — 1908 to $41,326 in 1912. years of its operation, about $35,000 has 1909 $117,731.47 We have three academies, located as been credited to student labor, thus en- 1910 135,731.01 follows: San Fernando, Southern Cali- abling many young people to attend the 1911 160,575.30 fornia; Lodi, Northern California; and college who could not otherwise have at- 1912 179,772.45 Armona, Central California. These tended. have an enrolment of about five hundred Owing to peculiar conditions existing Total $593,810.23 eighty students, and a capacity of about in our union, there seemed to be a lack This shows an increase over the for- seven hundred. A good missionary of system in our educational work; and, mer quadrennial period of $199,681.46. spirit has prevailed in each of these in order to secure closer cooperation, The average yearly per capita tithe has schools, and quite a number who re- to raise the standard of efficiency, and to been $19.99. A total of $82,909.44 has ceived part or all of their training at reduce the operating expense to a mini-

AT TIIE LOMA LINDA MEDICAL COLLEGE, CALIFORNIA

been appropriated from our tithe to these institutions, are now occupying re- mum, a council consisting of the heads fields outside of our conference. sponsible places in the work. Within of our schools and the members of the The offerings to missions amounted to the past four years the Fernando Acad- union conference •committee was con- $213,155.46, or about twelve and one-half emy has sent forth nineteen students, vened for a brief period in June, 1912, cents per member per week. This shows who afe now laboring in the following when we could have the assistance of an increase over the previous period of fields: one in Spain, two • in the Philip- Prof. H. R. Salisbury. Again in De- $123,612, or 138 per cent. Including the pines, one in China, two in Chile, five cember last we called another and larger tithe appropriated to fields outside of in India, six in Africa, and two in the council, consisting of the members of the our conference, we have a total offering Hawaiian Islands. Two are at present union conference committee and of the of $296,064.90, with a total increase of under appointment for India. There are local conference committees in the four $192,608.84, or one hundred eighty-six two licensed and two ordained minis- California conferences, the members of per cent. Including the entire amount ters, about twenty church-school teach- the boards of our advanced schools, the •raised for the work at home and abroad, ers, besides canvassers, bookkeepers, and educational secretary, and church-school we have the sum of $1,081,518.69, or an stenographers from this school, work- superintendents. About a week was average of $129.35 for each Sabbath- ing in the home land. About forty of spent in earnest, prayerful consideration keeper. This does not include that the former students of the Lodi Acad- of the various interests of our local and which has been raised in cash for our emy are now working as church-school union conference educational work. We institutions, or in the construction of teachers, canvassers, etc. The Armona feel confident that the results of these church and school buildings, which, if Academy students have been quite suc- councils will be seen in increased effi- added, would materially increase this cessful in the canvassing field. ciency in our school work, and in the amount. The Pacific Union College will soon reduction of our operating expenses. complete its fourth year, having opened I take pleasure in reporting substan- Sabbath-School Work its doors in September, 1909, with an tial and encouraging progress in the Our Sabbath-school work has made enrolment of 85 students. Its present work of the College of Medical Evan- commendable progress. There are at enrolment is 167. Since the opening of gelists of Loma Linda. It was char- present 19 schools, with a membership the college a large ladies' dormitory, one tered as a medical college in the latter of 8,294, showing a gain of 3o schools half of our new college building, and part of the year 1909, and has four and 1,596 in membership. The total of- several cottages have been erected classes enrolled. Seventeen students are ferings were $67,336.40, a gain of $35.,- wholly by teachers and students. A in the first year, seventeen in the second, GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 127

twenty in the third, and seven in the year by year to materially decrease these The Missionary Volunteer Department fourth year. There are also two taking from the earnings of the institutions. The number of Missionary Volunteer the 'medical evangelistic course. The former has a family of helpers societies has grown during the past four From the human viewpoint, it seemed numbering too, including 5 physicians, years form 47 to 74, while the member- that as a denomination we were quite 76 nurses, and 19 other workers, while ship has increased from 937 in 1908 to unprepared to undertake such a large the latter has 55 helpers in all, including 1,754 in 1912. While much has been enterprise; but our great need of a 3 physicians, 25 nurses in training, and accomplished in the department, it is school for the training of medical mis- 27 other workers. yet in its infancy, and we expect much sionaries, and the direct counsel of the The Loma Linda Sanitarium has been larger results in the future. Lord urged us forward; and, as we prospered materially during the past four have endeavored to supply this need, years. Its income from patients has The Religious Liberty Work and to walk in this counsel, we have increased from $39,786.99 in 1908 to The past four years have been stren- been greatly surprised to see how won- $72,619.33 in 1912, while its present uous ones in this line of our work, es- derfully the Lord has led, and how worth has increased from $11,262.65 in pecially in California. Much has been he has 'enabled us to accomplish appar- 1908 to $67,519.38 in 1912. With the done to enlighten the people on the true ent impossibilities. The difficulties are removal of its liabilities, and the release principles of, religious liberty, chiefly by not yet all removed, but our courage for the use of patients of all of its the generous distribution of literature and faith in God have grown with the cottages, now occupied by medical stu- on this subject. The names of more experiences of the past few years, so dents and employed as a clinical hos- than sixty-eight thousand voters were se- that we no longer question the possi- pital, we believe it w.11 be possible for Jan- bility of realizing all that God' is calling the sanitarium to very largely, if not cured in the autumn of 1910 and in for in this important department of our wholly, carry the inevitable financial uary of 1911 to a petition addressed to work. With the present equipment, and loss in the operation of the medical the legislature of California in opposition to any form of religious legisla- that which is now being• supplied, we college. tion. It did not become necessary to feel confident that the college will be Each of these institutions is success- present this petition to the legislature able to graduate students with a scien- fully conducting large nurses' training in 1911, hence it was preserved and pre- tific preparation equal to that which may classes. St. Helena Sanitarium has a sented to the legislature this year. Al- be obtained in any of the medical insti- class of 75, Glendale 61, Loma Linda 51, though very strenuous efforts have been tutions of the world; and when we con- and Paradise Valley 25, or a total of made repeatedly to swing this State into sider the spiritual advantages offered; 212. Many of our young people are line with all in the Union, save Arizona, our college is placed beyond comparison in this way being prepared for efficient on the question of Sunday laws, each with other medical institutions. We service in this great work. While we succeeding effort has failed, and Cali- trust that our young people who are rejoice over what has been accom- fornia still stands uncommitted to the seeking a preparation to engage in the plished in this line, we are anxious to evil principle of religious legislation. work as physicians or as medical mis- make our nurses' training-schools still There is a strong desire on the part sionaries will not fail to take advantage more effective in the preparation of of our people throughout the union con- of this splendid opportunity God is now workers to carry the third angel's mes- ference to see this message speedily car- Providing for such training. sage to the world, which we believe ried to the darkest corners of the earth, should be the ultimate object of every Medical Work and with the passing of the years, and nurse receiving a diploma from our the increasingly numerous tokens of the We have at present four conference sanitariums. approaching end, this desire is being sanitariums in our union, besides several These institutions are coming to be a greatly strengthened. There is nothing private institutions. These are located positive force for the extension of the that thrills the hearts of our people like at St. Helena, Loma Linda, Glendale, message. From the human viewpoint, the old simple truths of the advent mes- and Paradise Valley near San Diego, it seemed for a time that we were sage as they were originally proclaimed all in California. The first is the weighted down with an oversupply of by the pioneers of this great movement; oldest sanitarium under denominational such institutions, especially considering and they are ready to join in a grand control. The past four years it has en- the heavy obligations we were carrying, united forward movement all along the joyed marked prosperity. For many and the strenuous effort required to line. With undying faith in the triumph years it struggled under a heavy load of place them on vantage-ground. We can of the message, and the coming of the indebtedness, but, through the blessing now see, however, that the Lord, who Lord in this generation, we pledge our of God, this load has been lifted. From sees the end from the beginning, guided property, our children, and our lives, to its net earnings the St. Helena Sanita- in their acquisition; and we are assured the blessed work of hastening this glo- rium has appropriated to medical mis- that if we follow his guidance in the rious consummation. sionary work in the needy mission fields future, we shall soon see every word the sum of $22,992.49. Its family of he has spoken through his servant con- E. E. ANDROSS, President. helpers at present numbers 155, inclu- cerning them verified. Besides the REPORT OF THE SOUTHEAST- ding 5 physicians and 75 nurses in train- above, we have several private sanita- ing. The food factory has been passing riums and treatment rooms that are do-, ERN UNION CONFERENCE through deep waters, but the sanitarium ing good work. I. H. Evans: We will next call upon has come to its relief. At the recent Publishing the Southeastern Union, Brother C., B. annual meeting the business was pur- Stephenson. chased by the California Medical Mis- Our book and periodical sales for the C. B. Stephenson (reading) : — sionary and Benevolent Association. quadrennial period, closing with 1908, The Southeastern Union Conference The Glendale and Paradise Valley were $160,992, while for the one closing was organized in January, 1908, being Sanitariums have passed through trying with 1912, they were $284,370.45, show- formerly a part of the Southern Union times, but the situation with each insti- ing an increase of $128,378.45, or 79 Conference. The conferences compri- tution has greatly improved. The Glen- per cent. One very encouraging fea- sing this union are the Cumberland (lo- dale Sanitarium sustained a loss in 1908 ture of this growth has been the large cated in east Tennessee), Georgia, of $5,469.59. In 1911 the tide was turned, increase in the sale of tracts and small North Carolina, South Carolina, and and we were able to report a net gain of books, especially at our camp-meetings, Florida. The membership, which at the $3,496.36. In 1912 the gain was $7,- for use in missionary work in our beginning of the quadrennial period, was 516.01, and including donations, it was churches and in evangelistic efforts. 1,778, increased to 2,556 during the four $9,702.47. With the Paradise Valley The Pacific Press Publishing Associ- years, making a gain of 778. The total Sanitarium the change has not been ation has enjoyed, during this period, population of this territory is 7,800,000, quite so marked, but during the biennial steadily increasing prosperity, its' net about forty per cent of whom are col- period its former losses have been con- gain the past year being $33,343.78. ored. verted into substantial net gains. It has From its net earnings the institution Ministry recently been purchased by the Sanita- has invested $9,720.78 in mission work, rium Association of Seventh-day Ad- chiefly in the Orient. Its business is There are 27 ordained ministers,, of ventists of Southern California, and is wholly confined to our denominational whom 4 are colored, 18 licentiates, and now under the same management as the work, and its capacity is almost contin- 32 licensed missionaries, 8 of whom are Glendale Sanitarium. Each of these uously taxed to its utmost. We rejoice colored, and 66 evangelistic colporteurs, institutions is enjoying a splendid pat- that such splended facilities have been making a total of 143 field workers. ronage. They are carrying heavy liabil- provided for lighting the earth with the The spirit of prophecy .has said that the ities, but we believe it will be possible glory of this message. Southern field is one of the most diffi- 128 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN cult in the world. The Lord has It is located in a representative section Negro race is by the living preacher. blessed in giving fruit in every effort to of the city. Work will be continued dur- The membership of this department promulgate the last message of warning the present year, and we, fully ex- in 1909 was 276; in 1912, 777, making a ing. Representative efforts have been pect a large increase of members. Do- gain of 5or, with only 4 ordained min- conducted in Atlanta, Ga.; Jacksonville, nations sufficient to cover the entire ex- isters and 8 licentiates. Tithe in 1909, Fla.; Savannah, Ga.; and Wilmington, pense of the effort were given by the $1,796.47 ; in 1912, $5,201.44, a gain of N. C., with very satisfactory and en- people. They are paying into the treas- $3,404.97. Donations, 1909, $615.76; in couraging results. The Press Bureau ury every month about $ioo tithe, and 1912, $2,204.01, making a gain of $1,- 588.25. Educational There is i academy and 34 church- schools in the union, with an enrolment of 810, and employing 38 teachers. Our academy, at Graysville, Tenn., is doing most excellent work in training young men and young women for service in the world-wide work. Medical The medical department has had its blessings and its discouragements. There are three institutions in this field, located at Graysville, Tenn.; Atlanta, Ga.; and Orlando, Fla. The Graysville Sanitarium has not, for a number of years, made the progress that we should have liked to see, with the result that it is heavily involved in debt. A careful study of conditions is necessary. The Atlanta Sanitarium, situated in one of PARADISE VALLEY SANITARIUM, NATIONAL CITY, CAL. the largest cities in the union, has been making some progress, and has a very did effectual work in giving publicity to are giving liberally to missions, at the encouraging outlook. The patronage is the message in the Atlanta and Jack- same time financing their church enter- steadily increasing. sonville efforts, as has been referred to prise. A church-school, with an enrol- The Orlando Sanitarium property was by the secretary of that department in ment of over fifty, is being conducted. purchased about five years ago. The in- his report. We are endeavoring to educate them to stitution has received a liberal patronage from the first, and promises to become a Finance be self-supporting, so far as is possible. At Wilmington, N. C., over one hun- strong factor in the promulgation of our The tithe is as follows: — dred Sabbath-keepers are the result of medical missionary work in the South. 1909 $22,558.27 less than a year's work. There is an Canvassing Work 1910 31,174.90 abiding interest at this place, with con- 1911 36,721.16 stant additions to their number. They Perhaps the book-and-periodical work 1912 33,570.01 have leased a commodious hall for wor- will show the most encouraging growth Making a total of $124,014.34. ship. I understand that this effort will of any of the departments, as the fol- Trust funds remitted to the General Conference are as follows: — In 1909, $8,325.50; per capita, $4.68. In 1910, $14,898.04; per capita, $7.85. In 1911, $16,382.02; per capita, $8.57. In 1912, $19,933.86; per capita, $9.03. Making a total of $59,539.42. (These figures include the Negro Mission De- partment.) In addition to this amount $22,949.63 has been raised for home missionary and local work, making a grand total of tithes and offerings from all sources of $206,503.39. Negro Department I wish to call your attention to what God is doing for the colored people in this field. The spirit of prophecy has said much about these long-neglected people, urging that special efforts be put forth for them. While we have not been able to do all that we should have liked to do, a beginning has been made, and we believe that in the near future we shall see a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon them. God is raising up men and women from the common walks of life, filling them with his Spirit, and sending them forth in power to win souls. GLENDALE SANITARIUM, NEAR LOS ANGELES, CAL. I will refer to at least two city efforts that have been conducted by them. be continued, and doubtless a very lowing comparative figures will indicate : These efforts were conducted at Savan- strong church will be developed. We Sales of 1909, $27,000.82;' 1910, $35,- nah, Ga., a strong Catholic city, and at believe God is beginning to do a mighty 123.10; 1911, $46,478.10; 1912, • $54,- Wilmington, N. C. In less than one year work for the colored people. Our ex- one hundred thousand, so far as we after the work was opened in Savannah, perience is that the Negro should be know has not a single Seventh-day Ad- about 225 Sabbath-keepers had been trained to work for the Negro. To this ventist in it; and nothing has been done gathered. A church building is in proc- end the Oakwood Training School is there. ess of erection, which when finished doing a most excellent work. The most We have in this union eighteen white will cost about four thousand dollars, successful method of evangelizing the ordained and six licensed ministers, and GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 129

118.71; making a total for the quadren- to see the people engaged in the work penses, running behind from two to five nial period of $162,720.73. Twenty-six which means a call for ministers to or- thousand dollars each year, we were canvassers were added during the four ganize and complete the interest created obliged to discontinue operating the in- years, making a total of 66. Much has by local missionary effort. All through stitution. It was closed by the full con- been done to encourage the colored peo- the union there is activity, and people sent of the union conference commit- ple to sell our books and periodicals. are sowing the seed, which it seems must tee and the local sanitarium board, after Institutes have been held for them, with bring, in the very near future, a boun- receiving advice from the General Con- the result that it has been demonstrated tiful harvest. ference Finance Committee, which com- they can make a success of the work. Colporteur Work mittee had carefully investigated the finances of the institution. It is, how- Conclusion One hundred seventy-three thousand ever, our determination to still carry on As above stated, the population of the nine hundred twenty-six dollars and medical missionary, work as best we can. territory embraced in this union is about forty-two cents' worth of books .have What we have failed to do with an in- 8,0oo,000. To warn this large number been placed in the hands of the people stitution, we will now endeavor to do of people in the time allotted by proph- during this quadrennial period by our without an institution. faithful colporteurs, and already ecy will require Spirit-filled, consecrated, Miscellaneous Institutions God-fearing workers,— men and women churches have been raised up as the who are willing, for the love of souls, to result of their labors. Many interests The Southern Publishing Association, undergo self-denial, and to persevere un- have been created where today people Oakwood Manual Training School, der all conditions. While it is true that are calling for ministerial help. Too Madison Sanitarium and School, Hill- in the South there are many perplexing matters, yet God is leading, and giving success. The people are responding to the gospel, and are loyal to the message. The field is white to harvest, but laborers are few. Our prayer is that God will, by his Holy Spirit, lay the burden of this field upon the hearts of those whom he can use to " come over and help us." Our workers are all of good courage. In closing, I am sure I voice the sentiment of the entire constituency in expressing appreciation for the liberality shown by the General Conference in providing for this needy field. C. B. STEPHENSON, President. [Amens at conclusion of reading.] SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE QUADRENNIAL REPORT I. H. Evans: We will now call for a report from the Southern Union Con- ference. S. E. Wight (reading) : — The Southern Union Conference is composed of the States of Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi Louisiana, and that portion of Florida lying west of the Appalachicola River, and about two thirds of the State of Tennessee. Its population numbers 9,307,713, about ATLANTA (GEORGIA) SANITARIUM forty per cent of which is colored. much can not be said in praise' of the crest School, and others are located The South is an interesting field. For good accomplished by our books and within our territory. These institutions upwards of thirty years the work has magazines. There are approximately are conducted in the interests , of the been carried on there. For some rea- seventy-six' colporteurs now engaged in whole South, being of a general charac- son it has not seemed to prosper until selling books. The, prospect for the ter, and for this reason are not to be recently. It seems now to be taking reported by me. shape for the steady onward march of future development of this line of the the progressive work of Seventh-day work is good. Missions and Tithes Academy Adventists. The workers, though few The people of this field, with all their in number, have set themselves for the We have in our territory one acad- heavy burdens of building churches and accomplishment of the task. The work emy, located at Hazel, Ky. It is man- doing active missionary work, and in the of the past years has not borne fruit as aged by the Tennessee River Confer- face of devastating floods and failure some may have wished, but ,the field, is ence, but all students in the union are of crops in some localities, have given to now yielding to the efforts put forth, welcome to this school. There is no de- missions $24,225.29; and $10,716.86 of and the seed sowers of the past may be mand for an advanced school in this ter- this amount was given during last year ; encouraged by the present-day results of ritory, and probably will not be for some the tithes amounted to $118,849.74. their faithful labors. time to come, or at least until the South- It takes effort to get people into this ern Training School, located at Grays- Evangelistic Work truth anywhere, and the South is no ex- vine, Tenn., is so crowded as to be Evangelistic work is being carried on ception to the rule. By persistent, faith- obliged to refuse our students. actively in the cities of New Orleans, ful effort the workers during the past Nashville Sanitarium Food Factory Birmingham, Jackson (Miss.), Memphis, four years have managed to increase the Nashville, and' Louisville. All these membership a little, there being an ad- The Nashville Sanitarium Food Fac- places have a small constituency, both dition of 285. At the time of the last tory is supervised by the Southern Un- white and colored. Efforts in these General Conference the constituency of ion Conference, and is located at Mad- places are being made, with results that the Southern Union was 1,918, and to- ison, Tenn. This institution is of spe- assure us that if the labor, of the men day it is 2,203; 590 colored and 1,613 cial benefit, in that it furnishes good now in the field can be supplemented by white. food products, and also work for sev- some additional help, these cities will The Lord certainly has subjects for eral of our people. soon be made strong centers of influ- his kingdom in this field, and they are Nashville Sanitarium ence, and the Southern Union soon be being sought out. In some conferences self-supporting. There are many fully one third of the constituency are We regret to report the closing of the places in the South yet untouched. The spending a part of their time in mis- Nashville Sanitarium. Owing to its city of •Covington, just across from Cin- sionary work. It is certainly gratifying failure from the very first to pay ex- cinnati, in Kentucky, numbering about 130 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN seven colored ordained and three li- eyes, but we as workers began to think This company of young people held, censed ministers. that something, was going to happen, during the year 1912, 2,204 Bible read- The people of the South are today and it did. The next year Brother ings and cottage meetings. They sold probably in a better condition to receive Pierce ordered two car-loads of books 20,628 papers, and gave away 60,165. the truth than they have ever been be- shipped into our field. We would like They sold 1,250 of our denominational fore. It is the time to strike, and to to give you, year by year and conference books and 52,027 pages of tracts, and strike hard, and we wish to take this op- by conference, how this branch • of the gave away 131,769. They also took 475 portunity to thank the General Confer- work has climbed the hill, but time will subscriptions for our periodicals. Books ence, which has so kindly assisted with not permit. Suffice it to say that during loaned and given away, 2,067. money and men to work this important the years 1905-08 we sold $161,543.96 Offerings to foreign fields for the years field. worth of literature, and from 1909-12, 1909-12 amounted to $498.96; for home Our courage is good, and we are look- $309,580.28; a gain of $148,036.32, or an mission work, $258.22; for local work, ing forward and working to the end of average gain per year for eight years of $461; total, $1,218.18. Best of all, carrying this message speedily to the $18,504.54. there were 18o conversions from the South, that we, with all other faithful Educational Work ranks of our young people. Seventh-day Adventists throughout the • world, may see the day for which we This branch of the great whole is Work for the Colored The work of this last message is not making rapid strides among the colored people of our union, but we hope that we, are finding our bearings, and that some stakes are being driven " as a nail in a sure place." One of these is our industrial school at Devalls Bluff, Ark. Here we have a forty-acre farm mea- gerly equipped for the training of workers to carry the glad news of a soon- coming Lord to their own people. The Oklahoma Conference has lately purchased a movable chapel, which serves a good purpose. The North Texas Con- ference has two new churches in process of erection. We hope for better days among the colored people of our OFFICE OF SOUTHERN PUBLISHING ASSOCLATION, NASHVILLE, TENN. union. Sabbath-School Work have been looking and waiting,— the receiving no little care and attention by day of final triumph. those in charge, and the 1,347 students We thank God for the Sabbath- S. E. WIGHT, President. attending some one of the 46 schools in schools. We have 215 in our union, our union are being led by our corps of which not only afford Bible instruc- REPORT OF SOUTHWESTERN God-fearing teachers and secretaries to tion for the more mature minds, ,but for UNION CONFERENCE look upon the giving of this message the prattling child as well. The revenue from our Sabbath-schools reaches every I. H. Evans : Brother G. F. Watson as the greatest thing in all the world. Thus a goodly number enter some Seventh-day Adventist mission in the will now render the report for the world; and some of this comes from the Southwestern Union Conference. branch of the cause of God yearly. Much attention is paid to the training Southwestern Union. From 1905-08 our G. F. Watson (reading) : — schools gave $6,201 and from 1909-12, The territory of the Southwestern of our older students to enter the field during the vacation as colporteurs, and we gave $37,587, a gain of $31,386. Union Conference comprises the States There are many po'nts of interest to of Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, in this way many make their own way through school. Fifty bright young us in our field that might have been and Texas. The Southwestern Union brought in, but our reports are so tame Conference was organized in men and women left our Keene school 1902, with after hearing reports from other lands four conferences, but in 1909 the West to enter the field with our books this year, others taking up Bible work and that silence is eloquence. Texas Conference was organized, and G. F. WATSON, President. in 1911 the South Texas Conference was tent work. The same 'spirit prevails in organized, thus dividing the State of the intermediate schools throughout the CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE Texas into three conferences ; thus giv- uion. ing us ,six conferences in our union. We Some reverses have overtaken us I. H. Evans: The Central Union Con- are not able to give the growth in mem- during the past year in our school work. ference will now report. Brother E. T. bership, but at the present time our mem- Early in. February, our broom shop was Russell. bership is 4,331. Ordained ministers, 25; burned, which threw many of our young E. T. Russell (reading) : — licentiates, t8; missionary licentiates, 41. men out of employment, besides en- Our territory is Nebraska, Missouri, tailing a loss of $2,500. But we erected Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and a small Finances in its stead a splendid modern broom portion of the Black Hills of South Da- Our ; finances have steadily increased factory, at a cost of two thousand dol- kota, and it comprises the conferences during these years, as the following will lars. We also erected a neat normal of Nebraska, North and South Missouri, show: — building, at a cost of five thousand dol- East and West Kansas, Colorado, West The tithe for the years 1905-08 was lars. Our water-supply had never been Colorado, and Wyoming. It has a total $152,354.93; for the last four years, sufficient, but during the summer of membership of about 8,40o, with 247 1909-12, $208,961.58; a gain of $0,- 1912 we supplied this long-felt need, at churches and 3o companies. There are 606.65, or $15.27 per capita. a cost of two thousand dollars. We 62 ordained ministers, 3o licentiates, and A comparative statement of our offer- raised during the past year for these 93 holding missionary licenses. In this ings to missions and institutions out- expenditures about fourteen thousand class are included Bible workers, physi- side of our union also show a good in- dollars. cians, etc. It is safe to say that from crease. From 1905-08 we gave $11,- The Volunteer Work 2,000 to 2,500 conversions have been re- 055.66; from 1909-I2, $113,258.58; a gain ported during the four-year. period. of $102,202.92. The Missionary Volunteer work in our The total amount of trust or mission funds passed from the local conferences Literature Sales union is onward. The membership numbers 859. Our faithful secretaries are through the Central Union treasury dur- Our faithful colporteurs and tract so- getting the work well in hand, and many ing the past quadrennial period amounted ciety secretaries have caused this branch of our young people are following up to $265,623, and the total tithe receipts pf, the work to climb the hill, along with the Reading Courses outlined by the was $5194.22. The total value of books the rest. When Brother R. L. Pierce, General Conference. One of our secre- sold and delivered was $375,000. who is at the head of our branch house taries during the last nine months sold This we consider a fairly good show- in, Forth Worth, Tex., began to inquire over $800 worth of the Reading Course ing when we take into account that many about rates on car-load lots of books, books, and has delivered 103 certificates of our field agents have been frequently not only the railroad men opened their to those finishing the courses. changed, and at different times confer- GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 131

ences have been without any one to take This institution is also enjoying fair suffice it to say that at present we are charge of the book work. The present prosperity. of good, courage in the final triumph of outlook for the canvassing work in the The Nebraska Sanitarium is located the advent message. • Central Onion is most excellent, as our at College View, Nebr., a suburb of E. T. RUSSELL, President. sales thus far this year are about 138 Lincoln, and the Hastings Sanitarium is The meeting adjourned. per cent better than for the same period located at Hastings, Nebr. Both of I. H. EVANS, Chairman; of 1912. these institutions are enjoying a splen- W. A. SPICER, Secretary. ,Educational Work did patronage and are practically free from debt. There are 53 church-schools, with a Publishing Work SIXTEENTH MEETING total enrolment of 870 pupils, and 5 in- May 23, 2:30 P. M. termediate schools, with 399 pupils en- • The International Publishing Asso- ciation, at College View, Nebr., is doing I. H. EVANS in the chair. rolled. The general character of the a good, steady work, in the circulation J. 0. Corliss offered prayer. instruction is excellent. While there are of foreign literature in this country. I. H. Evans: We have a few commit- many children who,' on account of being Ten regular periodicals are issued, five tees who have not yet reported. We scattered, do not have church-school being in German, three in Danish-Nor- should like to have any of the standing privileges, the general interest in edu- committees pass in reports, that they may cational matters is increasing, and teach- wegian, and two in Spanish, all of which have increased steadily in circu- get into the BULLETIN. ers of experience and professional train- lation. Ten-cent magazines have been Guy Dail: I would present a further ing are much needed. furnished in these languages for the partial report from the committee on There are also two training-schools, past three years, with marked success. plans and resolutions:- Union College and the Clinton German Books, Bibles, and tracts are handled in 8. In loving remembrance of our Seminary. This year Union College had faithful and devoted fellow believers an enrolment of 309 college students and thirty-two languages. The total sales • of all literature during the past four who have fallen at their posts of service 120 in the normal department, making years have amounted to $141,590, or for the Lord of the harvest in this and a total of 429. The German Seminary distant lands during the past quadren- had an enrolment of 130, exclusive of the about thirty-five thousand dollars each year. About thirty employees are ennial period, we hereby offer to the be- church-school or normal department, reaved our deep sympathy, with a prayer which had an enrolment of about 25. gaged in the work of this institution, and a good Christian spirit prevails to the. Father of mercies that they may Union College has closed one of the be sustained in their sorrow by the as- most successful years of its history. among them. Work for the Blind surance that only a " little while, and he Just before leaving for this Conference, that shall come will come, and will not I had the pleisure, as chairman of the After the great fire at Battle, Creek, tarry." board of management, of signing fifty- the publication of the Christian Record, Whereas, It is desirable that the Gen- three diplomas. Of this number there our paper for the blind, was transferred eral Conference treasury reports should were twenty for those who had com- to College View, Nebr., and, while con- show the receipts and disbursements pleted the full college course. This is trolled by the General Conference, is more than have ever before been gradu- from the entire world, we therefore- under the supervision of the Central 9. Recom,end, That all mission re- ated from this institution at one time. Union. It now has a circulation of ceipts and disbursements be reported The German Seminary was purchased about twenty-three hundred copies, and quarterly to the General Conference in 1909, and has had three successful is issued monthly. It seems to be ac- treasury department through the regular years of operation, with a gradually complishing a good work in enlighten- channels. growing attendance. When the building ing the physically blind. Though sight- Whereas, The present agitation to se- was bought, it was thought by some to less, many see the glorious message of cure religious legislation, and the aggres- be too large, abut it is now evident that the coming Saviour.. Last year they sive movements upon the part of both it will soon be too small to accommodate the gradually increasing number of students. Nearly all in attendance have a fixed purpose to prepare themselves for some place in the work of the Master. Fully fifty per cent of those in attendance this year will engage in some line of missionary effort during the vacation period. The past few months the seminary has enjoyed special blessings, both spiritual and financial, for which we are very thankful. Missionary Volunteer Work The Missionary Volunteer work has been fostered by an excellent corps of State secretaries. The gathering of THE COLORADO SANITARIUM, BOULDER, COLO. funds for missions has been a prominent factor in the work of the societies. purchased a building for their office, and Protestant and Roman Catholic organ- The actual membership is not so great are at present comfortably located in it. izations, which threaten to subvert re- as it is possible to attain. The Volun- Aside from the paper, they are publish- ligious freedom, demand the most ear- teer institutes that have been held an- ing many tracts treating on the message. nest efforts to teach and maintain true nually have stimulated the young people I would recommend that the committee principles of liberty; therefore,— to make greater efforts to become active on plans take under advisement the io. Resolved, That each union confer- Christian workers. bringing in of a recommendation look- ence in the United States appoint a re- Sanitariums ing towards the incorporation of the ligious liberty secretary who can give his Christian Record, as many benevolently whole time to department work. We have four sanitariums under de- disposed people might feel desirous of 1. Resolved, That during the winter nominational management, and two pri- assisting this branch of the work by of 1913-14 a lecture campaign be con- vate institutions. Our denominational deeds and legacies. ducted in each union conference under institutions are as follows : Colorado, Suffice it to say that nearly all lines the direction of its religious liberty sec- Kansas, Nebraska, and Hastings. of work are being carried forward in retary, and that addresses be delivered The Colorado Sanitarium is located at the Central Union in a strong way, ex- on the principles of religious liberty and Boulder, Colo., and is under the man- cept the religious liberty work, which upon the fundamental truths of Prot- agement of the Central Union Confer- has been somewhat neglected, as we estantism from the standpoint of the ence. This institution is doing a good have been without a secretary for some threefold message; that this work be work in the training of laborers and also time. The past four years have been a under the general direction of the several in treating the afflicted. period of deep anxiety to those in union conference committees, who shall The Kansas Sanitarium is located at charge of the work, but it has also been secure such help, local or general, as Wichita, Kans., and is under the man- a period marked with evidences of the they deem necessary. agement of the Kansas Conferences. special favor and blessing of God. And 12. Resolved, That an institute for the 132 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN benefit of union conference secretaries like manner the heavenly sanctuary was Leading them to work for those around and such others as may be especially dedicated by the blood of Christ: The them is one of the best ways of brighten- invited, be held at such time and place speaker read scriptures showing that ing their faith and giving them strength as the General Conference committee the earthly sanctuary was first anointed; and courage. We find, in reaching these may determine. That the purpose of and hence he held that thus it was in isolated ones, that, aside from what per- this institute be to prepare a general the case of the heavenly sanctuary, as sonal visits can be made them, a letter outline of addresses upon the subjects to seen in the outpouring of the Holy of encouragement each month, with en- be presented in the lecture campaign, and Spirit at Pentecost. The tongues as of closed report blank, is the best-known to furnish the special material for such fire 'at Pentecost were typified in the fire means of keeping in touch with them." a campaign. of the God of Israel in the first initial A paper on " Reporting," read by Miss Whereas, The magazine Liberty has opening of the sanctuary, showing that Case, emphasized the importance of com- done efficient work among State legis- the way of access to heaven was open. ing in personal touch with the workers lators, molding sentiment against Sun- And, further, he said that the close of in the local societies and giving them day legislation ; we therefore,- Christ's ministry in heaven must surely careful instruction. 13. Recommend, That local confer- end with a great demonstration of the • --00. • ences supply this magazine to all State Spirit. legislators, court and municipal officials, MEDICAL DEPARTMENT public-school teachers, and other per- Seventh Meeting ;ID epar tin en t a 1 eetingli sons of influence. THE meeting opened with prayer, in On motion to adopt, the partial report which a number joined. Dr. Kress read was ordered printed in the BULLETIN. MISSIONARY VOLUNTEER DE- a lengthy paper on " The Relationship of I. H. Evans : We have some very sad PARTMENT the Unorganized or Self-Supporting news to impart to the delegates and to Medical Work to the Organized Work." our visiting friends. Since this confer- Fifth Meeting He said his views had changed very ma- ence convened this afternoon, we have ISAIAH 53 was read by Elder L. R. terially of late with reference to this the announcement of the death of our Conradi for the devotional exercises. question, and that in his opinion the beloved brother, Elder G. A. Irwin, at Earnest prayer was offered. The time of self-supporting worker was as much a the Sanitarium. I am sure this will be .part of the organized work as was the to all of you, as it is to the meeting was given to the study of the a great surprise principles and problems of organization. worker in the conference. This called us. And out of respect to his memory W. W. Ruble's excellent paper laid down forth very earnest discussion. and his long service in this cause, it fdur fundamental principles of the or- W. J. Stone said he regretted the post- would seem proper that we adjourn this ganization of our Missionary Volunteer ponement of the consideration of W. B: meeting. work : White's paper of the preVious day, and Allen Moon: I move that out of re- " 1. Salvation of young people who called attention to the close union that spect to the memory of Elder G. A. Ir- are church-members. all admitted should exist between the win, that this Cnoference do now ad- "2. Salvation of young people who evangelical and medical work. journ. are not church-members. Dr. Miller said he did not think we 0. A. Olsen: I second the motion. " 3. Training these young people for were turning out too many nurses, judg- The meeting adjourned, Elder Has- service. ing from the need of such workers in kell pronouncing the benediction in a "4. Organizing their efforts to finish foreign fields. Foreign fields are calling prayer that God might comfort and sus- the work in this generation, and direct- for medical workers to connect with the tain Sister Irwin and the family. ing these efforts in harmony with the' evangelical workers, and we cannot I. H. EVANS, Chairman; plans of the great movement that God separate the two without doing violence W. A. SPICER, Secretary. has instituted in the earth for the finish- to the message. ing of the work." Elder Burden thought the encouraging Next came a paper by Miss Jennie R. of independent medical workers was de- THE EVENING SERVICE Bates, on " The Work of the Conference structive of organization, and that, May 22, 7:30 P. M. Secretary." It was a strong appeal for while the present conditions make it thorough, systematic work in every con- necessary for some to work independ- THE theme of the discourse by Elder ference. The following extract is of ently of the organization, yet it is not Andross Thursday night was " The general interest: — God's plan, and we should work to cor- Sanctuary and Its Services." Accord- " The work of the secretary is to save rect the condition and meet the mind ing to Heb. 6:13-20, the certainty of the the youth, to save them to the cause of God. Christian hope is made secure by the of God, and to help train them for the Dr. Fattebert said that Mexico is a oath and the promise of God. As an kingdom. It means that we must go very good field for medical workers. anchor that holds the great vessel in after them,- we must keep going after The nurses there are worked beyond times of storm, so this hope, as an an- them, and never stop going after them endurance, and many, because of a de- chor entering into that within the veil until we get them. It means work and sire to make money, have forgotten the —Christ himself — holds the Christian, prayer each day, and all the days; prayer great work of saving souls. He thought linking the believer and Christ. The that will take no denial, work that knows all branches of the message 'should be sanctuary is the center of all our hopes, no thought of hours. It means such under the supervision of the conference. because Jesus is there in majesty as is close connection with God that we are Dr. Sadler said that we are discussing seen in Heb. 8:I. simply his mouthpiece, and that the youth conditions that prevail, and stated that, The speaker declared that the early will turn as naturally to us for help and for some reason, independent workers church must have known fully the truth counsel as the' daisy to the sun; a work are increasing. He could not locate the set forth in this Hebrew letter. But that knows nothing short of the souls cause, but suggested that it is the duty this truth, along with other gospel light, given to our keeping, shining in the of all concerned to use every endeavor to went into eclipse until the time of the kingdom of God. The greatest duty a effect harmony and cooperation. end. He then dwelt on the circum- secretary owes her young people is to Dr. Fulmer was much interested in stances and experiences of the '" 1844 walk where it will be safe for them to the question from the standpoint of a movement," which carried with it a bit- follow — in habit, in dress, in conversa- self-supporting worker. There is a dif- ter disappointment, but issued in the tion, even in her personality. She must ference between an independent worker discovering of the great truth of the have a heart of love, warm and tender, and a self-supporting worker. He did heavenly sanctuary ministry. but strong and swift to duty." not like the term " independent worker." Next the speaker briefly explained in Mrs. Katie M. Pogue's paper, on " The The true, loyal, self-supporting worker detail the typical earthly sanctuary — a Conference Secretary," was brimful of is just as much a part of the organiza- divinely ordained object-lesson, point- splendid suggestions for work among our tion as the worker on the conference ing in all its appointments to Christ and isolated youth. She appealed to the con- pay-roll. Thousands of people never will the heavenly sanctuary, the true, the ference secretary in these words: — hear the message from the organized real, the eternal tabernacle. " The work for this isolated class conference worker, and must be reached This, he said, is of great interest, but means that upon the shoulders. of the by those who are working without con- the supreme interest centers not in the State secretary there rests the heavy ference support. structure itself, but in the service car- burden of bringing help and encourage- Elder W. C. White All who love God ried on therein. As in the old cove- ment to these lonely ones, and making are a part of the organized church, but nant the earthly sanctuary was set them feel the necessity of doing some- there is a vast difference between the apart by the sprinkling of blood, so in thing for Jesus wherever they may be. church and a department of church GENERAL CONFERENCE' BULLETIN 133 work. The medical work is a depart- state are united. It, appears that in the fields, to arrive at Sabbath-school in ment of the organized work, and to be United Kingdom and its colonies the good time. It is quite common for them connected with it we cannot be inde- greatest freedom exists for the propaga- to assemble at the meeting-place as pendent of it. We should study the use ting of denominational doctrines. Free- early as seven o'clock. and meaning of terms, and we should dom to worship according to the dictates A number took part in the discussion, study the relation of each department of conscience is so generally understood Elder Thompson closing with the of the organized work to the whole, and as to be axiomatic. pointed remark, " The best way to get God will give wisdom. The great ques- In certain European countries it ap- anywhere on time is to start on time." tion is, Are we right with God? do we pears that the individual has a better Second topic : " The General Review, love God? and are we a part of the great chance in appealing for religious lib- Length of Time, Methods." A. F. organized work of God in the earth? erty, than a religious organization has Haines, of Jamaica, defined the pur- . in securing recognized freedom for a poses of the review, as follows : i. To denominationalpropaganda. test the pupils learning. 2. To fix se- RELIGIOUS LIBERTY DE- Elder Prieser, of Basel, stated that curely in their minds what is under- PARTMENT many hundreds of young men have been stood. 3. To give a comprehensive stir- Fifth Meeting exempt from military, service on relig- vey of past lessons. 4. To stimulate ious grounds, but that the present war home study. 5. To prove the teachers' PRAYER by W. A. McCutcheon. pressure under which European coun- own work. The readiness of a class in S. B. Horton moved that a committee tries are now all resting, has changed review will be the test of its teacher's Of five, including the chairtnan, be ap- this condition. The latest edict is to the efficiency. It is a severe test, but a just pointed to consider the advisability of effect that all religious bodies must teach one. sending a delegation, representing the their sons the importance of military Miss Alice Teeple continued the sub- General Conference assembled, to wait service, or suffer under the penalty of ject, presenting a valuable paper. She upon the President of the United States. an imperial act. urged that every school make provisions The motion was supported and unani- A thrilling narrative was related by for reviewing each division separately. mously carried. Committee named, W. Elder Conradi: — In passing over a new road, the direc- W. Prescott, C. S. Longacre, K. C. Rus- " A young man doing military service tions are followed with anxiety. The sell, S. B. Horton, J. E. Jayne. in the army was put in prison because second time the road is traversed, the A paper was read by C. M. Snow, on of his refusal to break the Sabbath. company of a friend is welcomed, and " The Federal Council of the Churches While in prison a former minister of our many points of interest noted. The last of Christ in America.' This paper dealt church who had apostatized, visited him. trip, made with one who is still more fa- in a straightforward way with the prin- He did his best to confuse our brother, miliar with the path is full of interest ciples underlying the organization and and told him our people were not taking in observing many beautiful scenes workings of the Federal Council. Mr. care of his aged mother, from whom he hitherto unnoticed. In this way the stu- Snow said, " The Federal Council of had been separated through the impris- dent passes over the lesson route, first the Churches of Christ in America is onment. The misrepresentations af- alone, then with his teacher, and lastly urging the government to do what the fected the young man to the extent that with the reviewer. government has denied itself the right he yielded. He was given his freedom, Brother J. E. Fulton, of Australia, to do; and, more than that, the Fed- and left the prison. He soon learned emphasized the value of maps, by re- eral Council is organized for the specific that all that had been told him was false, dating the experience of a native is- purpose of compelling the government and that the church had been faithful in lander who, upon seeing a map of Bible to do what the Constitution denies it the taking good care of his mother. He at lands, remarked that he did not know right to do." once returned to the prison officials, and that Palestine was on earth, but thought K.C. Russell said that in the past eight said : ' Here I am again. I refuse to it was in heaven. Another had thought years the Federal Council has not accom- recant from my former position relative that Egypt was " off on one side," not plished the great work which its plans to the keeping of the Sabbath.' He was 'on the earth. contemplated. Nevertheless, it is stead- again incarcerated, but was later re- ily working toward that peculiarly des- leased by official decree." Seventh Meeting tined goal to which its principles must In regard to the operation of Sunday " Some New Things" was the at- ultimately lead,— rejection of the Bible, laws in Germany a peculiar contradic- tractive title of the first topic. L. H. and a Saviourless teaching, culminating tion seems to exist between the opera- in an image to the beast. He quoted Wood, of Union College, related the tion of these laws in the cities and in way in which the Union College Sab- Dean Mathews, the present president, as the country. In the cities all kinds of bath-school attained a record of ioo per sayings that their present platform labor must cease under, penalty. Busi- cent in attendance for an entire quarter, sounds more like a political platform ness of all kinds must be closed. But as a record never before attained, so far than it really is. Reference was also soon as one passes the city limits, he made to the significant action at their as we know. The interest in the offer- sees everywhere men and women at ings was also greatly increased by set- last meeting in Chicago, when the word work on their farms and engaged in all ting before the school the definite goal of Protestant was forever removed from manner of employment. Indeed, officers sending a missionary from Union Col- the constitution. who look upon their work, commend A. Smith spoke briefly, emphasizing lege to China, at the rate of two cents L. them for doing it well, and converse with a mile. The missionary was sent well the thoughts already presented. them concerning the nature of their inland in China by the offerings in one In the discussion which followed, par- crops, or the quality of their tools. This quarter. The students sacrificed in va- ticipated in by A. J. Clark, F. W. Paap, resembles the original Sunday law en- rious ways to earn money for their gifts. C. H. Edwards, W. A. Colcord, H. A. acted by Constantine in A. n. 321. " The Power of Home Influence " was Weaver, J. E. Jayne, V. Watts, H. C. the special theme of the hour. Mrs. C. Clemen, W. F. Martin, C. M. Snow, and M. Snow, of Takoma Park, read a very K. C. Russell, the prevailing sentiment SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT helpful paper setting forth strongly the was that among' the Federal Council of Sixth Meeting truth that the days of childhood are Churches and its allied organizations character-making days. The world is there are some honest, conscientious, not so wide nor the span of life so long though misguided men, and that in speak- FIRST topic: " Sabbath-School Mem- bership, Attendance, Punctuality." Miss that the influences of home lose their ing of the organizations, we, as workers power. Many a ruined life can be traced ix the last message, should be guarded Eunice Crawford, of Kansas, in the opening paper deplored the irregularity directly to the influence of the home. in our expressions. We should deal Short measures, prevarications, a little with principles rather than men, and in and tardiness of our people in attending the Sabbath-school. Two rules were criticism of neighbors, ministers, Sab- a kindly, Christian manner, yet be as bath-school teachers, a little slighting of firm as possible in pointing out error. given which would insure a poor Sab- bath-school. I. Do not attend. 2. If the Word of God, do a work that tears Sixth Meeting you do attend, be tardy. A number of and prayers may not undo. The principal speakers were L. R. helpful suggestions were given which, Mrs. Flora V. Dorcas, of Iowa, re- Conradi, of Hamburg, Germany ; W. T. if followed, will do much to bring about ferred to the instruction given by the Bartlett, of Watford, England; F. improvement in this matter. spirit of prophecy concerning the home, Prieser, of Basel, Switzerland; and H. F. Mrs. G. F. Jones, of Singapore, and its location, surroundings, and the spirit Schuberth, of Berlin, Germany. Mrs. M. C. Sturdevant, of Rhodesia, that should prevail. Definite instruc- They all told of conditions prevailing South Africa, both spoke of the eager- tion has been given parents to study the in European countries where church and ness of the natives in, their respective lesson daily with their children. The 134 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

promise is that if parents will do their work, since he should have a broad out- meet its needs. Our memories and our • part, " God will do his." On the other look, not only in definite knowledge of reasoning powers need to be taxed to the hand, we have the statement, " Par- his subject, but also as to methods of full in order to keep them at concert ents who neglect their children will be teaching. pitch." We need the hard lessons espe- weighed in the balance and found want- The preparation needed by secondary cially, the ones that at first baffle and ing." teachers should be general, with special perplex us, in order that by manfully Miss Edith McClelland, of Spring- training in that subject, or group of struggling with and overcoming the dif- field, Ill., called attention to Moses, Tim- closely-related subjects, which he ex- ficulties they present, we may develop a othy, and Joseph as examples of the pects to teach, besides enough profes- high degree of intellectual strength and permanent effect of right parental train- sional training to show him the respon- efficiency. ing. Two hundred years ago Susanah sibilities of his work, and give him prin- But if we need the intellectual stimu- Wesley, living in the midst of deepest ciples to direct him in that work. The lus of the Sabbath-school lessons, how poverty, in Epworth, England, trained aim of our normal course of study is a much more do we need the spiritual food her children for the Lord. Her sons balanced education, including strong they contain. The first requirement of stood as light-bearers for God in a academic training, governed by the best life, physical or spiritual, is food. Peter time of great religious declension. God methods of developing the nature of the admonishes us to " desire the sincere calls for homes in these last days where child for Christian service. milk of the Word " that we may grow the youth will be taught reverence and thereby, and Jeremiah writes: Thy devotion. Word was found and I did eat it, and thy • FAITHFUL STUDY OF THE SAB- Word was unto me the joy and rejoicing EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT BATH-SCHOOL LESSON of my heart." But let it be noted that feeding upon the Word means appropria- Third Meeting- A Paper Read in• the Sabbath School ting it, making it a part of ourselves. AT the third meeting of the educa- Department Meetings This is not accomplished by nonchalantly tional council, Miss Peck, normal di- reading •a chapter or dreamily musing rector of Union College, read a stirring THE Sabbath-school is the one uni- over the contents of some verse: The paper on the pressing need of more and versal educational institution of this de- Word is to be conveyed into the mind better-trained teachers for our elemen- nomination. Its teachers not only out- as food into the body. It is to be firmly tary schools. This denomination owes number ten to one those in our church lodged in the memory, and then it is to be to every child in Israel an education in, schools, academies, and colleges; but diligently meditated upon, one scripture our own schools. The purpose of the they are the only teachers who meet the being compared with another, till the church-school is to gather the children same little group of people, week after full force of each, as well as: its bearing out of the world; to give them an edu- week the year round, and instruct them upon the others, is apprehended„ Then it cation that is not only free froM error, in the mysteries of the kingdom. The is to be considered in relation to the daily but that is based on the Word of God; Sabbath-school lesson, moreover, repre- life. What new duties and privileges to give them an experimental knowledge sents the only systematic study of God's does it bring to view? What new crosses of the message for this time ; and to fit Word in' which our people everywhere to be borne ? What victories to be won ? them to act their part in the proclama- can and do have a part. What new glimpse does it give of the tion of the truth in the last days. That This is the more meaningful and sig- sufferings of the Redeemer? Of the this work may be accomplished, teach- nificant because the Seventh-day Advent- glories of the world beyond? , ers must be trained, and be trained in ist denOmination is in a special sense the We have but begun the appropriation accordance with the principles, meth- outgrowth of Bible study. We have of the. lesson when we have fixed the ods, and aims in education that called separated from the world and from other' main points of it in mind; but, let the these schools into being. Our field professed. Christian bodies in order to point be emphasized, the spiritual bene- workers, college presidents, academy render implicit obedience to God's Word. fit which is to be derived from it is principals, may greatly aid the work of We exist today for the one purpose of largely dependent on this initial intellec- normal training by encouraging those witnessing in word and in deed to the tual mastery of the text. cleansing, sanctifying power of the Holy who have natural ability to teach to Such a study of the Sabbath-school consecrate their lives to this work for Scriptures. As we therefore come together week by week in the capacity of lesson will require some time; but is it our children. The preparation of edu- not meet that we should give liberally cational bulletins arid teachers' manuals a Sabbath-school for the purpose of enlarging and deepening -our knowledge of of our time to study the Word which is on subjects taught for normal directors to make us wise unto salvation? Is and critic teachers, is as indispensable the Word; we are performing what may be called a fundamental duty — we are there any occupation at all that will to success in the development of teach- bring richer returns in abiding joy, and ers as are institutes for canvassers, min- conserving and strengthening that which is most unique and precious among us. deep soul-satisfaction? It requires time isters, Bible teachers, •church-school to eat the meals that support our phys- teachers, and others to their work. Obviously the officers and teachers who lead out in such a work carry a very ical system, yet we manage to take them Professor Van Kirk read the report regularly, and mostly with some degree of the standing committee on normal heavy responsibility for the welfare of God's people. If we fail to make the of leisure. Shall we do less for the sup- standards, which the chairman promised port of the spiritual nature. to have duplicated and distributed for most of our unique opportunities, if we fail to study the lessons deeply ourselves, Is there not a danger that we as offi- study in detail. cers and teachers are not fully alive to Mrs. Osborne's discussion of the re- or fail to inspire in our pupils the spirit of prayerful study, who can estimate the the need on the part of our pupils of port was postponed, at her request, till this daily feeding on the Word? If we this report is in the hands of the as- loss? But if, on the other hand, our work is well and faithfully done, what an knew that these same pupils 'were suf- sembly. fering for want of physical food—that Miss Kellogg, normal director of Em- uplift, intellectual and spiritual, to the entire denomination ! they would often go days without get- manuel Missionary College, read a pa- ting a good meal, would it not draw per on " The Relative Importance of Arid now, in taking up more directly upon our heart strings'? Ought we to Academic and Professional Studies." the need of thorough lesson preparation let us first consider the question in its feel less concern that they shall be spiri- Aside from spiritual and moral qualifi- tually fed? cations, scholarship of the highest type intellectual aspect. The Bible is a whole is fundamental to success in any grade library of books replete with knowledge, The Duke of Wellington was once of school work. No amount of science and abounding in the deepest wisdom. twitted by a friend who •had been look- of education, methods, and psychological But it must be studied to be understood. ing over some of his published des- principles can take the place of a well- Its contents must be mastered ; and not patches. He said he saw very little built foundation in Bible, science, lan- till this is done can we feel that we are there about fighting and sieges and vic- guage, mathematics, etc. On the other truly established in the faith. It is one tories, but the despatches were mostly hand, no amount of expert knowledge thing to give a sort of assent to the taken up with orders for beef and corn will guarantee success to a teacher who truths of the message as presented from and other supplies for the army. The is striving to fashion -a character without the pulpit; it is quite another thing to Iron Duke replied : " Very true, and a thorough understanding of the mental be able to take the Bible and with its properly so: the feeding 'of an army is processes, the inter-dependence of mo- sole aid explain these truths ourselves. the most important thing a commander tives and ideals, and the stimuli that Yet this is an experience we all must has to see to ; for it is the well-fed army arouse the inner life of the pupil. Aca- have. that wins victories. demic training should not all be given It is an intellectual age we live in, and Is it not possible that the lack of with reference to the teacher's future we must be wide awake intellectually to strength to withstand temptations, the GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 135

listlessness, the spiritual anemia which Not infrequently the assignments will less hurried than in the morning; but it we are sorry to see in the lives of many be a definite portion of the lesson itself. might be well occasionally to read two believers, is chiefly due to lack of reg- A teacher in some instances may divide or three of the texts also at morning ular daily feeding on the Word? to a the entire lesson into as many parts as worship. The Sabbath-school lessons lack, in other words, of the full appro- there are pupils, in the class, and assign taken up in this way instead of the usual priation of the blessings which the Sab- one to each, with the understanding, of somewhat conventional reading of a bath-school offers us? course, that each pupil will also study chapter of the Bible, would afford sub- So much for the need of faithful les- the lesson as a whole. The writing of ject-matter for thought, and some of the son study. Let us now consider meth- a short essay on some phase of the les- outstanding facts of the lesson would be ods of bringing it about. How can we son is another form of special assign- pretty sure to come up at the dinner as teachers induce our pupils to prepare ment that has worked well. The prep- table, where much helpful discourse their lessons thoroughly? How can we aration of material for such writing, might be had. Moreover the texts con- help them to make room in their lives and the act of composition itself both taining spiritual comfort would be sure for the daily systematic study of God's give the pupil valuable practise in the to be in the mind of the mother as she Word? First, we must become enthu- use of his mental powers. Map-draw- would go about her work, and the chil- siastic over the lessons ourselves. We ing can be made a very practical and in- dren, whether at work or at play, would must study them more deeply, see more teresting feature of home work. Out- be revolving the facts of the lesson, and clearly their relation to the experiences lining the lesson is especially suitable preparing to gratify the teacher next of our everyday life, and in general en- in some cases. Many other modes of Sabbath with a vital knowledge of the joy a more vital experience in feeding making assignments will suggest them- subject. But best of all, the home aton the living Word. We must not only selves to the thoughtful teacher. Pains mosphere would benefit greatly by the• be filled with the lesson, we must over- should of course be taken to adapt the hallowing influence of God's Word, and flow with it. But to continue the fig- various assignments to the abilities of every member of the family would ure: we must not overflow in the unwise the several students, and there should gather from it overcoming strength. manner of those enthusiastic teachers be a constant variety. Is the program I have suggested an whose flood of oratory carries all be- Much tact will be needed in dealing impossible one? I hope not. Would it fore it, and works ruin and devastation with these assignments in the recitation be anything more than God himself re- among the budding thoughts and ideas period. The pupil must have an oppor- quires? Would it not come short even of the pupils, which should have been tunity to read what he has written, or of carrying out to the full the solemn encouraged to blossom and yield fruit to tell what he has learned, and the instruction given to his people of old: in intelligent questions and answers. In teacher must let him feel that his effort " These words which I command+ thee other words, the overflow is not to be is appreciated, that good work receives this day, shall be in thine heart: and like the uncontrolled outbreaks of our its due recognition. thou shalt teach them diligently unto own Mississippi, which carries away Now, a few words with reference to thy children, and shalt talk of them whole villages, and spreads ruin over another phase of the question. Sooner when thou sittest in thine house, and smiling fields and valleys. Rather let or later a Sabbath-school teacher dis- when thou walkest by the way, and it be like the overflow of the River Nile, covers that whether his pupils are chil- when thou liest down, and when thou its waters controlled and diverted into dren or adults, the home conditions have risest up. And thou shalt write them hundreds of little channels which dis- a great deal to do with the weekly prep- upon the posts of thy house, and on thy tribute it over the whole face of the aration of the lesson, so if he is a wide- gates." Deut. 6: 6, 7, 9. But you ask: country, so as to make what would awake teacher he will study the homes of How can it be brought about? The otherwise be a desert to blossom as the his pupils, and will form in'his own mind, answer is: By hard work and prayer; rose. Thus the enthusiasm of the wise and endeavor judiciously to have car- but first of all we must aim for this Sabbath-school teacher will flow into ried into execution, a plan for the study thing, we must want it very much. We many 'hidden channels ; it will come of the lesson, which will take in the must take for one of our mottoes: " The from the teacher, but it will manifest whole family. He will be wise not to Sabbath-school lesson seven days in the itself chiefly in the pupils, whose alert, expect too much to begin with; but any- week," and then bind our whole ener- interested, wide-awake faces and prompt thing less than some daily study of the gies to its accomplishment. We must answers are the best evidence that the lesson, however short, will not be found seek to make the Sabbath-school a much teacher is imparting his own life to satisfactory. larger factor in the daily lives of our them. Let us take a typical instance. Here pupils. We must feel a holy jealousy Among the special devices for en- is a family of, let us say five — father, for the Word of God so that it must couraging thorough lesson preparation, mother, and three children. The two grieve us to see our pupils spending so is that of making definite assignments younger children study the lessons on much time over the daily newspaper and to individual pupils. It has worked creation; the parents and eldest son those so little on the life-giving Word. We well, so far as the writer has observed, on the. sanctuary. It is a very busy fam- must feel that, in allowing temporal wherever it has been adopted. ily, and the present plan is to study the matters to occupy the attention, largely The definite assignment puts a pupil lesson Friday evening, when everybody to exclusion of the Sabbath-school les- on his mettle. He knows exactly what is more or less tired and sleepy. What son, our pupils are crowding their Sa- is wanted of him and does it. More- would be the more excellent way for this vious out of their lives. We must feel over the definite assignment fosters the family?— Obviously a lesson-study be- that it is a life and death matter, and idea of the Sabbath-school being a real gun on Sunday and continued daily dur- when we do this, we shall pray as we school, where lessons previously learned ing the week. Let us suggest that the have not prayed before, and work as we are to be recited. study be taken up at family worship in have not worked before, for a Sabbath- Naturally the assignments will be of the evening. Sunday and Monday could school class composed of members spiri- various kinds. Sometimes they may be be devoted to the children's lesson. Tues- tually alive and keenly interested in in the nature of side-lights upon the les- day and Wednesday to the lesson for God's Word, not only on the Sabbath, son, having to do with customs and tra- the adults, Thursday to a review of the but on every day of the week. ditions of early times, which help to a children's lesson, and Friday to review As Sabbath-school teachers we are clear understanding of the text. Some- questions on both lessons, and to a spe- not alone in our work; we have a times a Bible doctrine, only indirectly cial consideration of its practical appli- mighty helper, the God of heaven. stated in the lesson, may be assigned to cation. Of course, this program is only Trusting in his strong arm, be the diffi- a pupil for further development. At suggestive. It would need to be adapted culties we have to surmount ever so other times a pupil may be asked to to the situation, in each home. The eve- great, we shall not suffer defeat, but look up a passage bearing on the lesson ning hour is suggested because the mem- ever go forth conquering and to con- in the works of the spirit of prophecy. bers of the family are likely then to be quer. M. E. OLSEN. 136 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

SABBATH DAY AT THE CAMP Afternoon Services with them in mourning the loss of a The Sabbath-School When we penned the lines published prince in Israel, and in renewing their A FULL report of the various divisions in Friday's BULLETIN, announcing the determination to exalt the principles of of, the Sabbath-school will appear in a usual order of services for Sabbath truth and righteousness that our fallen later issue. Those who went from tent afternoon, little did we think that we brother so untiringly upheld during his to tent during the study-hour found should be called upon so soon to mourn lifetime. many bright faces in the kindergarten the loss of one whom we have long loved Elder Irwin's associates on the Gen- division, attentive boys and girls in the as a dear personal friend and revered eral \Conference Committee, of which he intermediate classes, and much anima- as a father in Israel. Yet such is the had long been an honored member, were tion among the various groups of adults case; and now it becomes our sad duty among the mourners who accompanied in the tent assigned to those who pre- to announce to our readers the death of the body to the beautiful Rock Creek ferred to recite in some foreign lan- Elder Geo. A. Irwin. Cemetery, his resting-place for a season. guage. Although the Sabbath-school Though delayed by serious heart diffi- " Blessed are the dead that die in the was necessarily divided into many sec- culty while en route to the Conference, Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the tions, yet all seemed united in an effort Elder Irwin was enabled by God's bless- Spirit, that they may rest from their to make the hour one of profit and in- ing to resume his journey early last labors; and their works do follow them." spiration. week and to reach the encampment in To the companion who has shared the time for a feW days of service before his labors of this fallen leader, and to his The Sermon sudden death from heart-failure at about children and loved ones, we extend our The eleven o'clock hour was given to half past one o'clock Friday afternoon. deepest sympathy. Elder A. G. Daniells, who chose as his At the time of his decease he was in A full report of the funeral service text the triumphant testimony of the the Washington Sanitarium, an institu- will appear in the Review. apostle Paul, " The law of the Spirit of tion he had helped to bring into exist- The remaining hours of the day were life in Christ Jesus hath made me free ence, and to the interests of which he spent in seeking God, and in renewing from the law of sin and death." Elder had given some of the best days of his vows of consecration and obedience. A Daniells was specially blessed with free- life. Providentially, Mrs. Irwin was large number desired special prayer for dom. As he traced the tendencies and with him, and also his only son, Prof. .deliverance from sin, and these gath- the struggles of the human heart, and C. W. Irwin, and wife, all from Cali- ered in smaller tents, where many found contrasted the works of the flesh with fornia. Everything that loving hands freedom and peace. Some who yielded the fruits of the Spirit, his hearers were and skilled medical aid could do was gave themselves to God for the first time. led to close self-examination and to a done, in his behalf, but all to no avail, The work carried on in the various sec- personal application of the truths set and he quietly fell asleep in Jesus. tions was a quiet one, yet signally forth. The key-note of the discourse, The funeral was held at two o'clock blessed of Heaven to the conversion of and, in fact, of all the services of the Sabbath afternoon, in the main pavilion. precious souls. day, was freedom in Christ — an assur- The service was a simple one, yet deeply ance of sins forgiven, of acceptance with impressive withal. As a number of A CORRECTION God, and of power in personal soul-win- those with whom he had been intimately IN the editorial, " Half a Century ning service. associated in official capacity and as a Ago," on page 104. of the BULLETIN, for It is hoped we shall find space in an brother in gospel ministry, paid their " Monterey" read " Battle Creek." We early number of the BULLETIN to publish last brief tribute of respect, the congre- thank Elder Loughborough for calling the sermon in full. gation of over three thousand united our attention to this matter.

THE CAPITOL THE General Conference Bulletin THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION

VOL. 7 TAKOMA PARK STATION, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MAY 26, 1913 No. 9

THE GENERAL CONFERENCE helpers, I visited northern Korea. We ing liquor?" We told them that we BULLETIN obtained for meetings the largest build- would study with regard to that. " But," ing in one town, a room about 12 x 30 they replied, " We want to know; for if Published by feet. The first evening I told them about we join some of the other religions we The General Conference of Seventh-day the soon coming of our Saviour, of the do not have to give those up." Yet when Adventists promise that he left that he would pre- the third angel's message got hold of DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY pare for us many mansions. This prom- them, they became free men in Jesus. 50 CENTS FOR THE SESSION, MAY 16 TO JUNE 9, 1913 ise is recorded in John 14. I dwelt upon Brother R. C. Wangerin, from Wis- Editorial committee: W. A. Spicer, C. P. Raman, the conditions of this new home,— no consin, entered our field three years ago. C. C. Crider. T. E. Bowen, H. E. Rogers. J. N. Anderson. more sickness, suffering, or sorrow. Office editors: C. P. Boliman. C. C. Crider. Copy editor: About a year later it was decided that he Mrs. C. M. Snow. Now, the Korean is always interested should take up the work in southern when you speak of his obtaining bless- Korea. He and I visited that part and Entered as second-class matter at the post- ings. The home of the saved always in- tried to find some place where he could office at Washington, 3K C., May 16, 1913, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. terests them. As I was speaking, I no- live. ticed an elderly gentleman sitting in Possibly if I tell you something with front of me, a man who had a full beard, regard to the native homes, you can see DAILY PROGRAM something greatly prized there. As I why we were unable to obtain a suitable (Except Sabbath) spoke of the glOries of the earth made place for him. Our Korean houses are new, the tears rolled down the old gen- A. M. built with mud walls, five to six feet in Devotional Meetings (in sections) 6:oo— 6:45 Breakfast 7:oo Bible Study 8:30— 9:3o Conference 10:00 — 12 : 00

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EXPERIENCES IN KOREA THE NEW STATION AT KEIZAN, KOREA C. L. BUTTERFIELD tleman's cheeks, and at the close of the height. The roofs are very low, with May 25, 8:3o A. M. service, when I asked how many there little pitch, and plastered with mud on WE sang at the opening of this serv- were in the audience who wished to have the under side. The floor is built in such ice, " 0, there'll be joy when the work part in that glorious home when the Sav- a way that the smoke and heat from is done, joy when the reapers gather iour should soon come to receive his cooking the food passes under the floor, home." There will be joy not only to people, this old man stood up. And he keeping it warm. It is not a disagree- the workers who have gone out from has been faithful, attending all our meet- able arrangement in winter, when it is your midst, but joy among those who ings, and accepting every point of the very cold, to have a warm floor, but it is have received this message in heathen truth. Last evening I received a letter rather unsanitary. The floors are made lands, as Chosen, or Korea, of which I from Dr. Russell reporting the bap- of flat stones laid in ridges so that the speak. Non-Christians know nothing of tism of this man. In this way the truth heat can pass through. It is very sel- a loving Saviour. A great many times, has gone. dom that you find a house with a window. in fact, the mother will hush her child by When work was first begun in that There are sometimes one or two doors; saying, " Be still, or the devil will get section, some twenty or more years ago, covered with Korean paper, through you." In that way they are brought up, the missionaries would give presents to which a little light passes. There being to fear at all times the evil spirits. those who attended their services. They no ventilation to speak of, the air is any- Those who receive the truth are often made presents to those who would be thing but good. The doors are usually persecuted; they are ostracized from baptized. They gave them a certain small, not more than twenty to twenty- their own people, and can scarcely have amount of rice, or some other present. four inches in width, and many are not any connection with them. One young The people consumed much liquor, and more than three feet high. In such man, now one of our evangelists, ac- would say to the missionaries, " Now homes as that we have been very loath cepted the truth when he was fifteen or that we have come and joined you, must to house any of our workers. We think sixteen years of age, though ridiculed we give up our liquor and tobacco? " their lives and their work too precious and abused by his older brothers. When For a time, I am told, they were an- to the field to risk living in such houses. he lay down to sleep, they would throw swered, " You can drink three glasses a In the fall of 1910 we purchased a pillows at his head. And their pillows week." This, I think, was cut down lit- piece of land in Keizan and began the are not soft, like yours, but are small tle by little. Tobacco is used by a great erection of a house. For a while Brother blocks of wood. But the boy remained many who profess Christianity. Wangerin lived in one side of a tent, faithful, to the truth. When we first entered the place,, they while we held meetings in the other side A year and a half ago, in company said to us, " Now, if we join, your people, every evening. During that time about with Dr. Russell and four or five Korean must we give up using tobacco or -drink- twenty took their stand for the truth; 138 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

That company has grown, until at the taught that we should keep the seventh one side and the women on the other, present time they have about forty-five day of the 'week. Perhaps there are with a curtain between. The people sat baptized members. I have just received some Christians who do as the Bible on the floor. Few women in Korea a letter from Brother Wangerin, in teaches." either read or write. So they could not which he says there are eight companies I have had the privilege of ordaining join in the singing of the hymns, or read of Sabbath-keepers in that vicinity, ready this man as elder of our church in that the Bible, or understand the service. It for baptism. We praise God as we see place. He suggested to me that we need was very hard to get them interested in the truth spreading in that great field in literature, that we must have a paper so the truth, under these conditions. But southern Korea. that this message can be given to all his the women came to the meetings week Many times men have come to Brother people. I said to 'him, " If we begin pub- after week, those held on Sabbath as well Wangerin from perhaps one or two hun- lishing a paper, will you go out as an as during the evenings, and became dred miles, asking if we were the " On- agent and sell it to your people ? " deeply interested in learning of the sal- seeko,"— the Sabbath Church,— the term He replied, " We can never sell litera- vation of Christ. by which we are known over there. We ture to our people in Korea, but I will go It is a hard matter to reach these Ko- reply that we are the Seventh-day Ad- out and give some away." Every time I rean women with the message, because ventist Church, who keep the seventh- met'him after that, I pressed it upon him, they believe they are beyond hope of sal- day Sabbath, and believe in the soon- but he always said that it could not be vation. One woman said to me: " Do coming of our Saviour. In that way the done. you think I can be saved? My husband truth has gone throughout the field. The' first Sabbath of this year, when tells me I have no soul, and I am not I would like to have you visit our he attended a devotional quarterly meet- worth saving. He says it is useless for churches. There are some who have ing of the elders of the various churches me to come to these meetings." But as been faithful in the face of great trial and the Sabbath-school superintendents, soon as these women learn that the love and persecution. Many of them are de- he told us of a six months' experience of , God is freely given to all alike, they pendent for their living upon what they he had in colporteur work. Many a day are so thankful, and become faithful con- can raise on a small piece of land, and he has sold from forty to fifty papers, at verts. when they accept the Sabbath and stop five sen a copy, which would amount to In Korea a woman is regarded as a working on Saturday, the people of about $1.25 in gold. He could not make slave, and is kept in an ignorant condi- whom they rent, take the land away from that every day, of course, because he has tion. One time while traveling through them, and refuse to give them work any long distances to travel, and many in the Korea, I stayed at a hotel. I was just longer. I have seen these believers country villages cannot read. As he was about to go to sleep, when I heard the come almost to the place of actual star- giving in his testimony, telling with cry that some one was drowning. The vation, but they say, " We will not give great enthusiasm how the paper could be Korean well is not like ours, but is a large, up the truth.' Last winter we were sold, and of his methods of placing it in wide hole. I ran out to see, and saw compelled to help some of our people in the homes of the people, I could scarcely two Japanese trying to pull a woman out the southern part, where they came right restrain the tears. I could not help think- of the well near the hotel. She was finely down to the point of starvation. The ing of how he had said only a short time dressed, and about twenty years of age. people told them that just as soon as they before that the paper could not be sold. When they dragged her out, she cried would give up Saturday and unite with At the close of his testimony, I told the out that she wanted to die, because she some other denomination, or give up audience of what he had formerly said. had been married to a husband twelve Christianity entirely, they would give " Yes," said he, " I know now that God is years of age, and did not want to live them land to work again. But they said, in this message, and that the people read with him. 12Ier father-in-law had tried " No, we will not do that." At that time it more readily when they buy it than to get her to go to her husband's house, we sent Brother Wangerin some money, when it is given to them." and had used violence, but she preferred and told him to give them some work. Elder Corliss: Yes, that is always the to die rather than go. When the hus- Those people love the truth, and are will- way. band saw that she acted this way, he re- ing to sacrifice for it and do anything C. L. Butterfield : In this way the mes- fused to take her, but the father of the they can for its advancement. Quite a sage has rapidly gone, until we have be- girl had spent the money that had been good many have been sent out to sell our lievers now from the northern part to paid him for the girl, and insisted that paper, of which Miss- Scharffenberg will the southern part of the country, and she should go to her husband's house. doubtless tell you more later on. We they are all praying for us at this meet- This is the condition of the women in charge them nothing for it, and they sim-, ing. Two days ago I received a letter Korea. The wife is a slave to her hus- ply make their way by selling it. There from my secretary, who said, " Remem- band's family, and is bought and sold are eight or ten that are giving the most ber that we are praying for you; we are without her consent. But when we tell of their time to the sale of our literature. praying for the General Conference, that these people of the love of a Saviour, and In that way the truth has rapidly gone God may direct in all that is done at that tell them of his soon coming, and that through that part of the field. place." he will deliver them from their troubles, Nearly twenty years ago, through the I want to say, brethren and sisters, they are very thankful. efforts of some of the believers in other as you give of your means to carry the It is certainly a privilege to be able to denominations, an educated man was in- truth to these people, you are doing a tell them of the truth, because they appre- duced to buy a Chinese Bible. He was noble work. They appreciate it, and ciate it, and many are willing to endure urged to become a Christian, but said he some day will stand by your side in the great persecution because of the truth. would read the Bible, and if they were earth made new, and will thank you for They learn to love it, although they can consistent with its teachings, he would bringing them this truth. When once not read or write. The women are very become a Christian. He read it through, they understand God's Word, there is anxious to learn to read. We have pu- and then he said to them : " Why is it that nothing that can change them from obey- pils from eight years of age to sixty. you people keep the first day of the ing its principles. We are thankful as The women take their places along with week? I have read the Bible through, we see with what power the message is the children, and make good progress in and I find it teaches nothing but Satur- going forth. We trust it may now go as reading and writing. They recite their day, the seventh day of the week." They never before in these fields. Our train- lessons as we write them on a piece of endeavored to tell him that was a ing-schools are turning out workers rap- paper instead of a blackboard. They minor matter, and it was not necessary idly, and this means the rapid spreading were well pleased when they 'learned to to keep that day, but if he would keep of the message. master the alphabet. When one who is the day observed by the great majority Sister Scharffenberg will now speak now one of Our best Bible workers in that of Christendom, it was all that was nec- of her experience in the field during the field came to us a few years ago, she essary. He replied that if it was not past seven years. could neither read nor write, but soon be- necessary to keep the day that is taught Miss Mimi Scharffenberg came a very intelligent reader of the in the Bible, it was not necessary for him Bible, and after a short time she was to become a Christian. When I went to Korea it was a very able to go out and give Bible readings. For seventeen years this man would strange sight to me to see the companies It is very interesting to see how earn- have nothing to do with Christianity; but of people eager to learn the truth. Al- est the women are in obeying the truth. a little over three years ago he was though they did not know the love of Two years ago I visited a country brought into touch with one of our na- Christ, the Spirit of the Lord drove them church, and became acquainted with 'an tive workers, and learned that he• kept to the meetings. In the first district I old widow. She was continually the seventh day of the week as the Sab- visited, the church, buildings were so low weaving cloth. When we got to talking, bath. " Why," said he, " when I read the I could not stand upright. The people I asked her why she was weaving this Bible several years, ago, I found that it entered at different doors, the, men on piece of cloth. She said : " I own a piece GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 139

of land, but everything I raise, I have to all about the book. They were very persons arose. Our union conference use up for myself. I have no money much pleased with it. And we were al- agents expressed their willingness to as- with which to pay my tithe, and so I am lowed to go ahead and put out as many sist in looking up these workers; and weaving this cloth until I get enough to as we wanted to. We believe this was sending them on to the regions beyond. pay my tithe. I have carefully figured certainly the leading of the Lord to give That is' the feeling all over our field. up what I owe the Lord." There were us permission to put out the book. We want to see these foreign fields en- sisters in the Seoul church who were We are of good courage, and have tered and worked as rapidly as possible. greatly burdened about paying their tithe. many interesting signs to show that the We are willing to give of our best for Their husbands were not in the truth, Lord helps. The Koreans are just as this work. and would give them no money; and earnest as our people are at home. N. Z. Town : I would like to add a those who had sons did not receive any word. It will take something more than support from them. But these sisters voting it here to have it carried out as saw a way out of the difficulty by paying Conference Proceebingl we hope it will be. I believe that not their tithe in spoons of rice. So every only the United States, but such fields morning they would count off a certain SEVENTEENTH MEETING as England, Germany, Australia, and amount of rice from their own bowl, and other fields, where the work has been ask us to sell it and receive their tithe May 25, to A. M. established for many years, will also find in this way. These people are very earn- A. G. DANIELLS in the chair. a blessing in uniting in supplying such est in doing. the Lord's will. Prayer by R. D. Quinn. fields -as China and India with the men One interesting experience I will tell. R. L. Pierce wes seated as a delegate. they are calling for. These fields may A canvasser told me he had passed a A. G. Daniells : We have some unfin- not be surprised during the coming years place where there was a woman inter- ished business which should first claim if they get requests from the Publishing ested in the truth. The canvasser could our attention, on page 123 of the BUL- Department for men to go from their not talk with her, because in Korea the LETIN. fields, as well as from North America, in response to these requests. better class of women are not permitted Discussion of Resolutions to talk openly with men. He could not G. W. Caviness: Mexico has one re- see the woman, but had managed to speak The secretary read, from the first col- quest to make. A few workers have to her through the fence which sur- umn of page 123, the fifth recommenda- been sent down to us, and when they rounded her house. So I went to see tion of the report from 'the committee began to have fairly good success, they her, and found she had been a Christian on plans, relating to thanksgiving for the were taken away. Brother Brown came for a number of years. She at once be- mercies and blessings attending this work to Mexico first, and then he was sent to came very much interested in the truth during the recent past. Spain; others were called to Cuba. We of the Bible. She was in the employ of That all present might be given an op- wish you to send down more to take one of the other churches, and was in portunity to express themselves, a rising their places. charge of an orphanage. Her husband vote was taken. F. H. Westphal: Ecuador is also call- was a drunkard. When the people she Recommendation 6, with reference to ing for a bookman, a state agent. worked for learned that she was coming supplying needy fields with trained lead- Recommendation 7, relating to home to our meetings, they tried to prevent it. ers in colporteur work, was read. missionary work, was read, and question Failing, they brought her before a coun- E. R. Palmer : This resolution is but was called. cil, and tried to confuse her. She replied, an echo of the resolution passed four Recommendation 8 (p. 131), was read, " I am an ignorant woman, and can not years ago, relating to a forward move a resolution of sympathy with those who explain these texts, but I know the things in behalf of our foreign fields. That have lost members of their family while I have learned concerning the Sabbath resolution was received with enthusiasm, engaged in service in this cause during are in the Word of God." and many of our foreign fields recorded the past four years. When our paper was first published, it their requests at that time, that leading Question was called on this, and on was put out in the month that Korea men be selected and, sent out to these recommendation 9. was annexed to Japan. It was named great frontiers to organize into trained Recommendation I°, relating to ap- " The Last Gospel Message." As soon field workers believers who are accepting pointment of union religious liberty sec- as the authorities saw our magazine, they the truth. Important steps in this direc- retaries, was read. sent the police after us, and asked : tion have been taken during the past four W. W. Prescott: I would be glad if " What do you mean by publishing such years, the work being chiefly in the those presidents of union conferences in a sarcastic paper? Do you think that hands of your present secretary, Brother which union religious liberty secretaries because Korea is annexed to Japan, the Town. Brother John Brown has been have been giving their whole time dur- end of the world has come?" We tried sent to Spain, Brother Weaks to India, ing the past year or more, would feel to explain the matter to them, but they Brother Clark to South Africa, Brother free to say a word concerning this mat- would not let us use this title for our Trummer to South America, and a num- ter. paper. Finally, we submitted a list of ber of workers to Mexico, Cuba, and E. E. Andross: The Pacific Union names to them from which to choose. Porto Rico, and one at least to the Phil- Conference has kept a religious liberty In the list was the name " Three An- ippines. So that work has been pushed secretary employed during the entire gels' Messages." They said they would during the past four years. It has quadrennial period. We believe the ex- let us use this, and we thought it a very brought success in the fields where these penditure has been abundantly justified. appropriate name. men have been sent. It has brought We have met a strong effort, especially We had some interesting experiences great satisfaction to the department office in California, to secure religious legis- in getting out our book on the prophecies that results have been so satisfactory. lation, but this has been warded off — of Daniel. We were anxious as to This resolution is presented, as I under- deferred — through the earnest efforts whether we would receive permission to stand it, to indicate the courage and the of our secretary and his associates. The publish that book, because when we were intentions of the department in this di- same good results have followed the ef- called before the police department we rection, and we trust that this movement forts of our secretary in the new State were told that we should not use certain has been satisfactory to the fields, and of Arizona since its admission to the expressions. Just a few days before we that all the home fields will cooperate, Union. It is the same in Utah ; and so had to go to the police department with as in the past, in an effort to secure these we feel that we are justified in this ex- our book, the wife of a Japanese official most valuable men as leaders in the great penditure. We would not think of doing came to see us. The pictures to go into mission fields. otherwise than what we are now doing. the book were lying on the table before C. H. Jones : At the meeting of the W. W. Prescott : The next resolution, her. When she saw them, she became Publishing Department last Wednesday No. I I, indicates that the dutieS of these very much interested in looking at the Elder Evans called our attention to the secretaries will extend a little beyond pictures of the symbolic beasts. We took need of more bookmen in the Asiatic what we have technically termed the re- the opportunity to explain what the pic- field, three for China, one for Korea, ligious liberty work, and will take up the tures meant, and told her all about the one for Japan, and one for the Philip- Roman question also. This emphasizes book. She asked if we had been down to pines,— six bookmen. The next day the need of appointing proper leadership the police department and received per- Elder Shaw called our attention to the in these conferences. These campaigns mission to publish it. I told her that I need of six more bookmen in India. Just are not merely campaigns with legisla- had not as yet; but that I was to go down before the close of that meeting, we tures in order to prevent them from do- the coming Friday. Well, when we went asked if there were any present who ing something — these campaigns ought down, we were received with great pleas- would be willing to go to these fields to be positive campaigns for teaching the ure, and they told us that they had heard in case they were called, and nineteen truths of the message; and the oppor- 140 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN tunities are very great. The agitation such an answer that they dropped the Sunday bills in the California legislature, being carried forward by other organiza- matter after that. It will be greatly I saiv some of those men, and even Ro- tions, opens the way in a very striking to our help if we can maintain the repu- man Catholics, take our literature and manner for a positive campaign — not a tation of being fair, sober, sane, and read from it in order to defeat the Sun- mere oppositiOn to something that some authoritative in our whole dealing with day measures. But Liberty has not been one else is attempting. this question. circulated so much of late in our union Recommendation II was read, relating Recommendation 13, on use of the as it was formerly. It strikes me that to lecture campaigns. magazine Liberty in legislatures, was there is a policy to be followed that will W. W. Prescott: This proposition is read. not take strenuous lines upon either not purely an academic one for discus- C. H. Edwards: I would like to ask a Protestants or Catholics. We may re- sion. In the North Pacific Union Con- question in regard to the character of view history, without saying Catholics ference a campaign after this order has Liberty. For quite a number of quar- or Protestants, but dealing with the been carried forward during the past ters the magazine itself has been filled violation of principles. That applies winter very successfully. I think those quite largely with articles upon the sub- either to Protestants or Catholics who who took part in that campaign — mem- j ect of Romanism. Now, this has come have appeared at fault in the matter. I bers of both the union and local confer- to us time and again, coming into the believe it can be carried on in this way, ence committees — were greatly encour- New England States, where nearly two and then Liberty can be used with Cath- aged by the results. If this same ex- thirds of our legislators are Roman olics as well as Protestants. perience could be had by others, so that Catholic. We have desired very much C. L. Butterfield: It may be of in, every union conference could conduct a to have some organ to present to the terest to know that it has been noted similar campaign during the winter of members of the legislature, but we have by a Catholic magazine printed in the 1913-14, I feel very confident that much been unable to use the magazines be- Korean language that there is a tribe advanced work would be done — many cause they have been so filled with an having headquarters at Washington who doors opened, and many persons inter- attack upon Romanism. It is not be- publish a magazine, whose chief object ested in the truth through this channel. cause we do not want to use them. is to besmirch Catholics. Therefore, the importance of appoi ►ting With two thirds of 'the legislature Cath- Question was called on the whole, and the secretaries to be ready for this work, olic, it simply brings a prejudice to these the partial reports were adopted. the importance of having that institute men that we cannot meet. When we go It was voted that E. W. Farnsworth to specially train those who are to do to hearings, the first thing they say is, take the place on the nominating com- this work, will, I hope, commend itself " Are you connected with Liberty?" mittee made vacant by the death of Elder to the minds of the delegates. " Yes, sir." That is the end of it. We G. A. Irwin, and that Charles Thompson Recommendation 12, on institutes for cannot do anything. Now, I believe be an additional member of the nomina- religious liberty secretaries, was read. that the Protestant Magazine should ting committee. W. W. Prescott: May I make a brief deal with the Catholic question, but that L. R. Conradi: In receiving the West statement, and that is this, that especially Liberty should deal wholly with the and the East German Union Confer- in entering upon an aggressive campaign principles of religious liberty and relig- ences in the Central European, we did concerning the Roman question, there is ious legislation. not, at the time, say anything in regard the very greatest need of exercising con- W. W. Prescott: As the editor of to the German Union Conference. The siderable care in the use of proper doc- Liberty is not present, perhaps I' as an German Union was organized in 1902, uments, authoritative quotations, and associate editor can say a word, inas- and now it has been divided into four that we should be careful in state- much as I was editor during the time unions, so I would move that we drop the ments made. An illustration of this complained of. This question raised by German Union, as such from our rec- comes to me just now. The Chris- Brother Edwards is not so simple a ords. Carried. tian Herald, known to you as a leading question as might first seem to appear, A. G. Daniells : Are there any other undenominational paper published in because it comes to this finally : Shall we items to bring before the conference by New York City, with a circulation of criticize Protestants for attempting to committees? If not, we may call for about three hundred thousand copies a do things contrary to religious liberty reports from the conferences. We will week, has recently been conducting a principles and then say nothing about first call upon Allen Moon to submit his department under the general heading, Roman Catholics when they attempt to report for the Lake Union Conference. " The Voice of the Nation Concerning do these things? The suggestion is Allen Moon (reading)_: — Rome," in which letters have appeared made that the division should be care- [This report will appear in a future from men, more or less prominent fully drawn between Liberty and the number of the BULLETIN.] throughout the United States. One or Protestant Magazine. An effort was At the close of Elder Moon's report, two editorials have also appeared from made to draw this distinction. It was W. T. Knox, acting as chairman, called time to time. The Roman Catholics have agreed that in Liberty there should not upon Charles Thompson, president of the now taken this paper to task for making be articles upon general anti-Roman Northern Union Conference, to present untrue statements. They have written to subjects, but that where members of the his report. the editor. They have called upon him Roman Catholic Church step across the Charles Thompson (reading) : — for his authority for definite statements line and attempt to interfere directly THE NORTHERN UNION CONFER- and plainly with religious liberty, and which they have quoted from his paper. ENCE QUADRENNIAL REPORT He responded with a statement. They violate the principles in action, then have published his response in a special Liberty should deal with it. But there The Northern Union Conference is pamphlet, and answered it, and they have were so many cases of this that the composed of the States of Iowa, Minne- given him considerable trouble to meet Catholic issue still kept in Liberty, and sota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, them. It illustrates this fact, that now, objections were still raised. Therefore, a territory of 287,835 square miles, with as perhaps never before in the history as stated in my report, which I think a population of 5,461,423. Each State of our work, Roman Catholics are awake Brother Edwards did not hear, the ed- has but one organized conference, hence to watch every statement made by Prot- itors had a meeting and decided that the Northern Union has but four local estants in print, to catch and make use they would attempt to shut out from conferences. Liberty of some mistake. A regular organiza- any considerable comment . on Membership and Laborers tion has been formed, covering the Uni- even open violations of the principles by ted States, for this express purpose. Roman Catholics, and try the other pol- Our present membership (church and Now I shall be very glad if it is pos- icy for awhile. We will do the best we company) is 6,266. We have 236 or- sible for us to keep out of that phase can to meet the situation, and to meet ganized churches, and II unorganized of their campaign. I shall be glad if the desires of those who are doing the companies. we can be able not to give them any field end of the work with the legis- As laborers we have 46 ordained min- just occasion for calling us to account latures. isters, 33 licentiates, and 46 missionary for our statements; but if they do, I J. 0. Corliss: I have had consider- licentiates, besides a number of book and shall hope that every one who makes the able experience in the distribution of magazine agents. The largest number statements will have the proofs at hand, Liberty, and I may be allowed to say of these reported in the field at one time so that he can meet any such challenge. just a word upon the subject. Some was 107. I have had my own experience with one years ago, before the condition com- As a result of the evangelistic efforts of these large publications in New York plained of, we sent Liberty to every leg- put forth during the quadrennial period, City, calling me to task for something islator in California. We received approximately fourteen hundred souls that appeared in the Protestant Maga- words of congratulation for Liberty. I have accepted the truth and been bap- ' zine. I was very glad to be able to give well remember that before arguments on tized. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 141

Financial They had in attendance the first year 82 filment of prophecy in the events taking There was paid in as tithe during the students; last year, 94, and about the place in' this and other lands, and be re- same number this year. period as follows: — minded that the day of God draws on AMOUNT PER CAPITA We are most happy to report that apace, and soon " He that shall come 1909 $105,661.81 $17.67 within the short space of four years this will come, and will not tarry." May God 1910 99,967.80 16.84 school has been established and is dbing give us the spirit of consecration and 1911 100,043.61 16.60 most excellent work, without a single sacrifice to finish the work committed dollar of note indebtedness. They, of to our hands, is my- prayer. 1912 108,090.04 17.71 Making a total tithe for the period of course, have many internal needs, to re- CHAS. THOMPSON, President. pair, alter, and equip the building so they $413,969.92, an average per capita of THE SIBERIAN UNION MISSION $17.20. can better carry on their work and care We passed on to other fields from this for their increasing patronage, but they W. T. Knox: We will now call upon tithe: — still have several thousand dollars of un- Brother Dail to furnish us a report from 1909 $18,286.90 paid pledges. If these were all paid, as the Siberian Union Mission. 1910 18,690.20 we expect they will be, they could make Guy Dail (reading) : -- their needed improvements and be en- 1911 22,549.36 Heartiest of greetings to you from 1912 13,689.81 tirely free from debt. Elders Olsen and Christian will doubtless have something the nearly eleven hundred brethren and to say concerning this school, so I will sisters of the Siberian Union Mission, Totals $73,216.27 which began its separate existence Jan. not give further details. The offerings to missions aside from I, 1911, when the. Russian committee the per cent of tithes was: — Young People's Work turned it over to the special care of the 1909 $35675.63 ioc per capita a week European Division, after it had had 'a 1910 41,622.81 14c per capita a week The missionary efforts of our young two years' development as an individual 1911 34,740.35 nc per capita a week people, through the work of the Mis- field under their administration. 1912 48,890.55 16c per capita a week sionary Volunteer Societies, is worthy of The field appeals to us in several Making a total of $160,929.34, or an notice. We have 37 regularly organized ways: First of all, it is bewilderingly average per capita of twelve and three- societies, with a membership of 885. As large. It contains the Volga, the Ural, fourths cents a week. a result of their efforts, they report 356 the Turkestan, the West and East Rus- We have 323 Sabbath-schools, with a conversions among the young people, and sian Missions. It extends from the present membership of 7,251. Their to- have raised $2,076.98 for foreign mis- country of the. Don _Cossacks in Russia tal donations for the quadrennial period sions and $352 for home work, in addi- on the west, to Bering Strait, in the Far was $52,496.36. Of this amount, $52,- tion to providing food and clothing for East, covering 145 degrees. of longitude; 074.51 went to foreign missions. Dur- many of those in need. We as a peo- from the extreme northern boundarY of ing the last half of the period not one ple ought to appreciate more and more the field which is formed by the frigid cent of donations was used for supplying the faithful work accomplished by our shores of the Arctic Ocean, to the ex- home demands. Educational and Missionary Volunteer treme southern boundary of Russian Departments. Publishing Work Turkestan, or forty-three degrees of lat- Medical Work itude. This union is nearly twice the We are endeavoring to keep pace with size of the United States and all her ter- the ever-increasing and rapidly develop- We have located at Nevada, Iowa, a ritorial possessions, and would 'make ing work of our publishing department. new and well-equipped sanitarium. This thirty-three countries the size of Ger- Since last General Conference we have institution is owned and operated by the many, or .fifty-six the size of Great sold in our field $111,676.56 worth of Iowa Conference. We have three private Britain. subscription books, $16,034.84 worth of institutions in other parts of the union, 'Again, Siberia appeals to us because trade and educational books, $6,428.36 doing what they can to represent the of its climate. Latitude for latitude, it worth of tracts, $252.38 worth of Bibles, gospel of health in the world. We have is the coldest country on earth. The and $48,822.20 worth of magazines, ma- four doctors and forty-seven graduate pole of maximum cold. is located at king a grand total \of $182,614.34. nurses doing private practise in our field. Verkhoyansk, within the Arctic Circle, Sixty-one young people have been grad- Educational Work where the thermometer sinks 89 degrees uated from these institutionss the past below zero in the long winter months, Our educational work is making en- four years, and thirty-seven are now in and rises 177 degrees above its lowest couraging progress. While our church- training. winter mark, during the short summer 'schools have fluctuated to some extent, The enemy of civil and religious free- season. In many places there is insuf- during the past four years we have aver- dom has neither slumbered nor slept since ficient rainfall, with its attendant fail- ,aged 34 schools each year, with an at- last we met in General Conference ses- ure of crops, and its famine and suf- tendance of 422. We have four well- sion. In every State composing our fering. equipped academies, employing 25 teach- union, during the last winter some form Siberia appeals to us because of its ers besides the student teachers ; the at- of legislation has been evoked recogni- great river systems thirty thousand tendance in each is about one hundred. zing the papal institution of Sunday- miles of which are navigable during the The spiritual interest is one of encour- keeping. So far as I know, no drastic short summer; and by the mighty Trans- agement. In some instances the entire measures have been incorporated into Siberian Railway, which was con- student body has been led to accept of law. Our representatives at the various structed at a cost of over five hundred Christ as their personal Saviour. Each legislative assemblies have been cour- million dollars, proving a grand factor of these schools is doing creditably teously treated and heard with interest. in the country's colonization on the part twelve grades of work. There is a But we surely need to wake up and be- of Russia. The .great railway into Tur- strong affiliation and sympathy between stir ourselves. Rome's announced policy kestan has answered a similar pirpok these schools and our foreign seminaries is to make America Catholic, and in her in that region. and Union College. All are working for efforts to accomplish this, the true voice This union is also unique in that it the salvation and training of the noble of Protestantism should ring forth from extends the Russian Imperial Post band of young people in our denomina- the promulgators of the third angel's routes to the most distant parts. . One tion. message. may go from one end ,of the 'country In addition to these academies, we In closing my report I desire to ex- to the other along these horse-express have located in our territory the Danish- press our gratitude to God for his pro- lines, and he will always find horses, Norwegian Seminary. This institution tecting care over his work and workers reindeer, or dogs ready to carry him haSlad its conception, birth, and growth in our union during the past year. While anywhere night or day, but it "must be since the last General Conference. It floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, and fire admitted that the conveyances are often was at the fall council of the General have devastated many places, lives have anything but comfortable; they are Conference Committee held in College been lost, homes wrecked, want and pen- clumsy, without springs, driven at a View, 'October, 1909, that the first steps ury have taken the place of comfort, breakneck speed up-hill and down-hill, were taken toward its establishment. plenty, and prosperity, with the exception frequently over abominable' roads. 'In A school property formerly built and of slight damages from the Omaha tor- summer the traveler 'is surrounded 'by ' owned by the Danish Lutheran Society, nado, our field has escaped. No epidem- clouds of choking dust; during the at Hutchinson, Minn., was found to be on ics have visited us. Aside from the nat- thawing season, he is bespattered by an the market. This, with one hundred fifty ural results of mortality, our work and abundance of flying mud ; and in the acres of land adjoining, was purchased, workers have gone forward unhindered. winter he is tortured by the dreadful and the school opened Sept. 28, 1910. We hope all will read aright the ful- cold. One of our workers recently wrote GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN of his experience: " We had to cover ing held in Saratof last June, there was [This report is held over for the pres- about 1,450 miles with the sleigh. At passed a special vote of thanks for the ent because of lack of space in this issue one place we got lost. We spent five succor the German and the American for illustrations.] hours of intense suffering in the snow- brethren rendered our people in the dis- At the close of Elder Carscallen's in- storm. We almost despaired of being tressing times they had been experienc- teresting report, Conference adjourned. A. G. DANIELLS, saved alive. The brother with me tried ing. Brother G. Perk, whom many of Chairmen. to assist the driver in finding the way, you may know, is the local superintend- W. T. KNOX, but he himself soon got confused, and it ent, and is also in charge of the union. W. A. SPICER, Secretary. was only after repeatedly calling that Five Bible workers and one ordained we found him, wet through, and greatly minister assist the superintendent here. exhausted. I was on the sleigh all alone Ural District EVENING SERVICES during what seemed like a small eter- May 23, 7:30 P. M. nity to me. I thought of our great Next is the Ural field. It is nine times work, and of the harvest to be garnered as large as Ohio, and has three times DESPITE the heavy downpour, a large in, and of my loved ones at home. her population, 15,676,000. Brother F. congregation assembled in the pavilion Hours passed, evening drew on, and Ginter, of Samara, who is with us, is to hear the sermon by E. W. Farnsworth, after an almost endless amount of trou- local superintendent, and is assisted by who spoke on " Repentance," beginning ble, we found our way back to a village an ordained minister and three licensed with the message of John the Baptist, • — for which we most heartily thanked missionaries. The membership is 247. preeminently a preacher of repentance. God." Seventy-five of these were won th past When the twelve apostles were sent out, The conquest and settlement of Si- two years. The tithe averages $3.40; they also preached that men should re- beria also appeal to the imagination. the offerings, $.76. pent. This same message was preached It was during the latter part of the six- by Jesus, as is seen in the warning he teenth century that the Novgorodians Turkestan gave to his followers when he said, " Ex- began the conquest of Siberia for Rus- Turkestan, the Central Asian field, is cept ye repent, ye shall all likewise persia, and her advance has continued to as large as Alaska, Maryland, and Dela- ish." These words, let it be remembered, this' day, until now nearly nine tenths ware, and five times their population, were spoken to professed church-mem- of the population are either of Russian 7,621,000. The last two years there bers. or of other Slavonic nationalities. A were 41 new members added, giving us The same call to repentance was made very large number were transported to III members now. The average tithe by Peter on the day of Pentecost: "Re- Siberia as convicts under the famous is $4.08; offerings, $1.45. pent, and be baptized every one of you." Siberian exile system. The aborigines, West Siberian Mission Again, on another occasion, he said, who are said to be dying out, are of " Repent ye therefore." A similar com- Finnic, Mongolian, or Tartar extraction. Coming now to Siberia, we will men- mand to repent is recorded in the mes- The Russian Greek Church is operating tion the West Siberian field first. It sages of the angels to the seven churches, missions among them with a degree of would contain II States as large as Cal- culminating in the warning given to the success, and does not look with favor ifornia, and has about four times Cali- church of Laodicea. upon mission work among these people fornia's population, 9,197,300. During The speaker referred to Revelation, on the part of other denominations. the past two years 131 members were chapters 7, 1o, and 14, showing that the Russian Turkestan is also a land of ro- added. The membership is now 365. Lr.odicean, or last church, did repent, mance, where years of war, strife, and The tithe averaged $3.94; the gifts 69 and with mighty power carried forward massacre paved the way for the downfall cents, in 1912. Brother H. K. Loebsack God's truth in the final hour of human of the Mohammedan civilization, and the is assisted by one ordained minister, one history. This he compared with Rev. advent of Russian dominion. Here we licentiate, and two licensed missionaries. 18: 1-3. meet with the famous cities of Tashkend, We have believers in Omsk, Samar- The speaker next showed the meaning many of whose earth-covered roofs are kand, Semipalatinsk, and Tomsk. of repentance — its results in the lives laid out in flower beds; and Samarkand, of those who truly repent. He referred full of old architectural ruins, and con- East Siberian Mission to the preaching of Jonah in Nineveh. taining the tomb of the renowned ori- By far the largest of the local fields The people of that city turned from all ental conqueror, Timur Bey, of four- is the East Siberian, which contains their evil ways, and called on God might- teenth-century fame. In the former city more square miles than the United ily. In this connection the speaker made there are twenty-seven members in our States and her colonies. But there is a very clear the fact that God's mercy and church, and two are representing the small population, only three million. love for repentant sinners is in striking message in the latter city. The Turko- The last two years, forty-three members contrast with man's inhumanity toward mans, Khirgiz, Uzbegs, and Sarts are were received, giving us a present mem- his brother. Jonah expressed great dis- at home in this field, as well as the bership of seventy-six. At the last Gen- appointment when the city repented and Aryan Tajiks, who are the most intelli- eral Conference Elder Boettcher read to was saved. gent of the natives, and are chiefly land us a letter from the church in Harbin, God's wonderful mercy in forgiving owners, merchants, and priests. , which then numbered five; but now it sin is the theme taught in the parables Taken as a whole, the union employs numbers twenty-five. The field averages given in Luke, chapter 15. 23 workers. Ten of these are ministers $17.79 in tithe, and $3.86 in missionary In closing, a strong appeal was made — 2 in each local field —1 is a licen- gifts. Elder Gnadin is superintendent. to the congregation to repent of all sins tiate, and 12 are licensed missionaries. He is a native Russian, and is located at — of lukewarmness, and disinclination to There are 9 canvassers, who sold $912 Irkutsk. He writes of some sixty now pray or to read the Bible — that God may worth of literature last year, a gain of waiting for baptism in his field. Elder bring to us his great salvation. $117 over 1911. The tithe of the union Goebel, who went out there last sum- May 24, 7: 30 P. M. averaged $3.96, and the offerings $.90 for mer, is located a little north of Vladi- 1912. One hundred eighty new members vostok. There are many more calls An interesting stereopticon talk on the were received, as against 16o for 1911, than our force in that field can answer. missionary work carried on by the Euro- the net gain being 70. Our present union There is only one laborer, a licensed pean General Conference Division in membership is 1,088. The population missionary, to aid the two ordained min- Africa was given by L. R. Conradi. He numbers 44,094,000. isters in all that region. gave a graphic account of the work, and The Volga Field Our greatest need is for more of the of the present results, in Abyssinia, Brit- right kind of men to assist our brethren ish East Africa, and German East Af- Let us now look at the individual mis- already on the ground. They must be rica. It has involved much sacrifice in sions: The Volga field, located in south- brave men, not afraid of anything. lives, money, and labors, but splendid re- eastern Russia, is four times as large as They must be patient, God-fearing men, sults have appeared in compensation. Mississippi, and has 8,60o,000 people. willing to endure hardness as good sol- In those 3 fields there are now forty- During the last two years 5o have been diers of the army whose captain is five missionaries, located at 23 main sta- received, and the present membership is Prince Emmanuel. Remember this great tions. Already there are 250 converts, 289. Last year their average tithe was union in your prayers, that God may 75 of whom are acting as teachers in $2.50; missionary offerings, $.67. Ow- send forth more laborers into his har- the schools. In these schools, 4,700 pu- ing to the failure of crops in many parts, vest. pils are learning the way of salvation. we found it imperative to assist our W. T. Knox : We will now call upon " All this," said the speaker, " is but brethren on the Volga, and at the time Brother Carscallen, of British East the first-fruits of a great harvest in the of the Siberian Union committee meet- Africa. near future."

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GENERAL CONFERENCE SAB- Statistics rapidity. The great heathen nations are BATH-SCHOOL MEMBERSHIP OFFERINGS awaking; the world is talking peace, peace, and is preparing for war. May 24, 1913 Pavilion 1,675 $338.31 Youth and children 283 15.29 The speaker showed how all nations BEFORE the appointed time, the large Foreign department 163 58.6o will be gathered to a place called in the pavilion was well filled for the second Hebrew Armageddon, a place north of Sabbath-school session of the General Totals 2,121 $412.20 Jerusalem near Mount Megiddo, to settle Conference. The school met in nine the supremacy between the Orient and divisions; namely, senior, youth, pri- This is an average per member for the Occident. History is today record- mary, kindergarten, German, Scandina- the entire school of about nineteen and ing what the prophet nineteen hundred vian, Spanish, French, and Hungarian. four-tenths cents. years ago said would take place. Elder In the pavilion the opening song, " 0 Porter read statements from recent Lon- day of rest and gladness, 0 day of joy don newspapers giving utterances of and light," expressed the sentiment of EDITORIAL BRIEFS British statesmen regarding the events many hearts in welcoming the Sabbath SUNDAY was an ideal day at the camp. in the Near East as tending toward day, with its special services. After the heavy rains of Friday and the Armageddon; how the nations of the The one hundred forty-fifth psalm was clouds that overhung the encampment East are awaking and arming themselves read responsively. Prayer was offered Sabbath, the bright sunshine was most for the impending conflict. by. M. C. Wilcox, the large congregation welcome. The grounds were thronged This gospel message must first be uniting with him in repeating the Lord's with visitors from surrounding towns preached to all the world, and the four prayer. A special song was then ren- and from the city of Washington. angels are commissioned to hold the dered by F. W. Paap and Brother St. winds of strife a little longer, until the John, entitled, " He Will Hold Me Fast." servants of God are sealed in their fore- C. C. Lewis conducted a very interest- Toward the close of the Sunday foreheads. " It is high time to awake out ing. review of last week's lesson. Five noon session, Elder Guy Dail, in the of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer leading topics were written on the black- absence of Elder Perk, now in Man- than when we believed." board, as follows: — churia, read a report of the great Si- I. God manifested in the earthly sanc- berian Union Mission, stretching from tuary. the borders of Europe and of the Cas- While the departmental meetings were 2. God manifest in the flesh. pian Sea on the west to the shores of in progress during the 4: 3o hour Sun- 3. The ministry of Christ by the Holy the Pacific Ocean on the east. The re- day afternoon, the main pavilion was Spirit. port is published in full in this issue. filled with campers and visiting friends, 4. The early and the latter rain. Elder J. F. Ginter is the only represen- who listened attentively to missionary 5. The two mysteries. tative of the Siberian Union present as talks by Elder L. V. Finster, of the Questions on the lessons were grouped a delegate at the Conference. Philippines, and Elder R. W. Munson, under these headings, and leading proof long a missionary in the East Indies and texts cited. The responses were prompt, Elder A. A. Carscallen followed the Straits Settlements. A brief report and the ten-minute review brought to Brother Dail with a report of progress in of these talks will be given in our next mind in an impressive way the preceding British East Africa. He told of the number. lesson. struggles of those who undertook work The lesson study was conducted by among a people whose language had not J. 0. Corliss. The leading thought cen- been reduced to writing at the time he Ten days have passed since the open- ters around the name of the Lord. The entered the field. Only a few years ago ing meeting of the Conference. Much temple was built as an abiding-place for there was no portion of the Bible, no has been accomplished during this time. God's name; and God's name is in the primer, no helps of any sort — not even Many reports have been read. The most heart of the believer. Through the a gospel hymn — in the Kavirondo lan- of these have already appeard in the sanctuary services God was made known guage. Now three of the Gospels have BULLETIN. It is not to be supposed that to the children of Israel• as their right- already been printed — Mark, Luke, and our brethren and sisters will be able to eousness, their deliverer. If God's name John; and while en route to the Con- read with care all these reports from was not recognized by them, the sanc- ference Elder Carscallen left with the day to day; but if the BULLETINS are tuary would profit them nothing. Satan's British and Foreign Bible Society in preserved, these important summaries of continued effort has been to cast God's London copy for the Gospel according to the progress and present standing of the name out of the 'sanctuary, and out of Matthew, and this will be printed soon. work in various lands, can be studied the hearts of his people. He led the Some time after entering British East later more leisurely, and with much Jews to think more of the temple than Africa, our missionaries succeeded in profit. Church officers, leaders of young of the Lamb of God, and he haS caused translating into the Kavirondo one of the people's societies, and students of mis- the exaltation of the man of sin above beautiful songs of Zion. This they used sions generally throughout our ranks, the name of the true God. When the at all times,— at the opening of each will find it to their advantage to keep a sanctuary in heaven is cleansed, God's meeting, and then following the prayer, file of the BULLETIN as a help in the name will he written in the foreheads of and finally as the closing hymn. Today preparation of matter suitable for pres- his people. Rev. 14: I. our workers and native believers in the entation before others in the months to come. Mission Talk Kavirondo district rejoice in having a neat little hymnal made up of seventy- I. H. Evans spoke of the millions in nine choice selections, together with, the The various committees appointed China who have never heard the name Lord's prayer and the ten command- early in the session are now hard at of God, never saw a Bible, never heard ments. When Elder Carscallen exhibited work. The business of the Conference a prayer. When the Chinese are con- this little booklet, it reminded us of the is well under way. Already a few reso- verted, they love the truth, and respond first hymnal published by Seventh-day lutions have been reported and acted readily to calls for means. They endure Adventists, in 1849, entitled, " Hymns upon. Thus far, the business proceed- hunger and privation, that they may for God's Peculiar People." ings have been characterized by a spirit have an offering to give from their This report is worthy of illustration, of harmony and helpful cooperation. scanty wage of three to five cents for and so for lack of space in this issue a long day's work. They give much be- it is held over for publication later. cause they love much. Here in the ERRATA home land we should remember that it will take all that we have, to finish Elder Allen Moon's report, also, will THE last six lines at the bottom of this work in this generation. appear in a later issue. third column on page 128 belong at the The collection was again taken and bottom of the third column on page 129. carried to 'the platform in large waste- paper baskets. J. N. Loughborough in- R. C. Porter, of South Africa, spoke voked Heaven's blessing upon the gifts. in the large pavilion at 2: 3o, on the Elder R. W. Munson, in his testi- The superintendent called attention to subject, " Armageddon in Prophecy," mony, as recorded on page 5 of the the Sabbath-school thermometer, with basing his remarks chiefly on Dan. 12 : I ; BULLETIN, middle of second column, by •its rising columns, and expressed the Rev. 16 I2 ; Micah 4:1-7; Joel 2 : I. a slip of the tongue said, " Bishop hope• that the " mercury of money " We are living in a time when events are Fowler," when he meant to say " Bishop might •reach the top. succeeding one, another with wonderful Vincent." THE: General- Conference Bulletin THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION

TAKOMA PARK STATION, WASHINGTON. D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1913 No. io

THE GENERAL CONFERENCE Mr. Chairman, I move the acceptance of Guy Dail: The further report of the BULLETIN - this. committee on plans has one other res- Frederick Griggs: I second that. olution before that of the Enabling Act. Published by L. R. Conradi : Are there any re- This report is as follows: The General Conference of Seventh-day marks? 14. Resolved, That in consequence of • Adventists W. T. Knox : When this plan of or- the request of its executive committee, DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY ganization was first suggested in the the name of the Canadian Union Con- 50 CENTS FOR THE SESSION, MAY t6 TO NNE 9, I9I3 memorial that came to us from our ference be changed to that of the Eastern Editorial committee: W. A. Spicer. C. P. BoHman, brethren in Europe in the fall of 1912, Canadian Union Conference. C. C. Crisler, T. E. Bowen. H. E. Rogers, j. N. Anderson. the matter then received considerable In response to the request of the Office editors: C. P. Bollman, C. C. Crisier. Copy editor: Mrs. C. M. Snow. attention by the brethren in attendance North American Union Conference at the autumn council, and at the spe- presidents for the organization of a Entered as second-class matter at the post- cial council in California last January. North American Division of the Gen- office at Washington, D. C., May 16, 1913, under To most of the brethren the plan of di- the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. eral Con ference,- viding the world into division confer- 15. Resolved, That we hereby author-

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EIGHTEENTH MEETING _ MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN DELEGATION May 26, io A. M. L. R. CONRADI in the chair. ences seemed reasonable. It was ize the delegates from North America, H. R. Salisbury offered prayer. thought best not to attempt this work at of the following union conferences now W. A. Spicer (following the roll-call once further than the creation of the present in this General Conference, of new arrivals) : Brother Chairman, European Division Conference. But as namely, the Atlantic, the Central, the there are only three delegates in the we have had time to counsel together, Columbia, the Lake, the Northern, the whole list who are not present,— J. B. it has seemed, inasmuch as a change in North Pacific, the Pacific, the Southeast- Clymer of the Lake Union, M. L. An- our organization would be inevitable ern, the Southern, the Southwestern, the dreasen, of the Northern Union, and sooner or later, that this was the oppor- Eastern Canadian, and the Western Ca- D. H. Aymes, of the Australasian Un- tune time to create a North American nadian Union,— to meet and organize ion. It is really a remarkable list. Four Division Conference. There will be, the North American Division Confer- years ago the total delegate list was 328. without doubt, an Enabling Act intro- ence; and we recommend that in or- This year the total list is 375, and all duced which will give opportunity for ganizing said conference they adopt and fully enlarging upon the benefits that present but three. act upon the following constitution and appear to be within our reach in this by-laws [This reprint is according to L. R. Conradi: We will now hear step. But I would simply state that the the form adopted, after several minor from committees. advantages to be gained as a result of changes in the consideration of it.] : — W. T. Knox: I crave the privilege immediate action so far outweight the CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF of presenting first a memorial we have difficulties that confront us, that we feel prepared. In behalf of the committee, constrained to bring this memorial be- THE NORTH AMERICAN DIVI- H. R Salisbury will present it if there is fore you at this time. From counsels SION CONFERENCE OF SEV- no objection. we have had with the different union ENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS H. R. Salisbury (reading) : " In har- conference presidents, and also a num- mony with the plans for perfecting the ber of leading brethren intimately con- Article I — Name organization of our world-wide work, cerned with our work in America, I feel This organization shall be known as the union conference presidents of the free to say' that we are united in pre- the North American Division Confer- United States and Canada respectfully senting this request before you. ence of Seventh-day Adventists. petition the General Conference assem- Question' was called, and the motion bled to authorize the organization of a to accept the memorial was carried. Article II — Territory division conference to be known as the L. R. Conradi: Are we now ready to The territory of this conference shall North American Division Conference." have this Enabling Act read? be the continent of North America, ex- 146 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN cepting Mexico and the states of Cen- Sec. 2. President: The president shall amended by a two-thirds vote of the tral America. act as chairman of the executive com- voters present at any session, such amendments to be not inconsistent with Article III — Object mittee, and labor in the general interests of the conference, as the executive the constitution of the General Confer- The object of this conference is to committee may advise. ence, and provided, further, that if it is teach the everlasting gospel of our Lord Sec. 3. Vice-president: It shall be the purposed to amend the constitution at a and Saviour, Jesus Christ. duty of the vice-president to assist the special session, notice of such purpose Article IV — Membership president in his work, as the executive shall be given in the call for such spe- committee may advise, and, in the ab- cial session. Section 1. The membership of this sence of the president, to preside at the BY-LAWS conference shall consist of: — councils of the members of the executive (a) Such union conferences as have committee. Article I — Executive Committee been or shall be properly organized and Sec. 4. Secretary: It shall be the duty Section i. During the intervals be- accepted by vote. of the secretary to keep the minutes of tween sessions of the conference, the (b) Such union mission fields as have the conference sessions, and of the meet- executive committee shall have full ad- been or shall be properly organized and ings of the executive committee, and to ministrative power, with authority to accepted by vote. collect such data from union and local grant and withdraw credentials and li- (c) Such local conferences outside of conferences and missions as may be de- censes, and to fill for the current term any union as have been or shall be prop- sired by the conference or by the •execu- any vacancies that may occur in its offi- erly organized and accepted by vote. tive committee, and to perform such ces, boards, committees, or agents — by (d) Missions, properly organized, and other duties as usually pertain to such death, resignation, or otherwise — ex- not included in any union. office. cept in cases where other provision for Sec. 2. The voters of this conference Sec. 5. Treasurer : It shall be the duty filling such vacancies shall be made by shall be designated as follows: — of the treasurer to receive all funds, and vote of the conference. The withdrawal (a) Delegates at large. disburse them by order of the president, of credentials or filling of vacancies on (b) Regular delegates. and to render such financial statements the executive committee shall require Sec. 3. Delegates at large shall be: — at regular intervals as, may be desired the consent of two thirds of the mem- (a) The division conference executive by the conference or by the executive bers of the executive committee. committee and the General Conference committee. Sec. 2. Any five members of the execu- Executive Committee. Sec. 6. Election of officers: All offi- tive committee, including the president (b) Such representatives of organized cers of the conference and members of or vice-president, shall be empowered to missions in the division as may be rec- the executive committee except such transact such executive business as is in ommended by the executive committee, members as are presidents of union con- harmony with the general plans outlined and accepted by the delegates in session. ferences or superintendents of union by the committee, but the concurrence of Sec. 4. Regular delegates shall be such mission fields, shall be chosen by the all five members shall be necessary to persons as are duly accredited by union delegates at the regular session of the pass any measure. conferences and by local conferences not North American Division Conference, Sec. 3. Meetings of the executive com- included in any union. and shall hold their offices for the period mittee may be called at any time or place Sec. 5. Each union conference shall of four years, or until their successors by the president or vice-president; or be entitled to one delegate, without re- are elected and appear to enter upon such meeting may be called by the secre- gard to numbers, an additional delegate their duties. tary, upon the written request of any for each conference in its territory, and five members of the executive committee. an additional delegate for each five hun- Article VII — Incorporations, Depart- ments, and Agents Sec. 4. Previous to each session of the dred of its membership. Each local con- conference, the executive committee ference, not included in any union con- Section I. Such incorporations and shall provide such temporary committees ference, shall be entitled to one delegate departments may be created as the de- as may be necessary to conduct the pre- without regard to numbers, and to one velopment of the work requires. liminary work of the conference. additional delegate for each five hundred Sec. 2. At each regular session of this members. conference, the delegates shall elect such Article II — Departments Sec. 6. (a) Each union mission shall trustees of all corporate bodies con- The work of the departments of this be represented in conference sessions by nected with this organization as may be organization shall be in charge of the delegates chosen on the basis of one for provided in the statutory laws govern- secretaries elected by the conference, the union mission, one for each organ- ing each. associated with the committees selected ized mission within its territory, and Sec. 3. The conference shall employ by the executive committee, when not one for each five hundred of its members. such committees, secretaries, treasurers, otherwise provided for by the con- (b) Each organized mission field out- agents, ministers, missionaries, and other ference. side of any union, shall be entitled to one persons, and shall make such distribu- delegate.- tion of its laborers, as may be necessary Article III — Finance (c) The delegates of union and local to execute its work effectively. It shall Section I. The division conference mission fields shall be appointed by the also grant credentials or licenses to its shall receive a tithe from all its union executive committee of the conference. ministers and missionaries. conferences, and from local conferences outside of any union, and the tithe of Article V — Executive Committee Article VIII — Sessions the union missions and local mission Section I. At each session, the confer- Section i. This conference shall hold fields outside of any union. ence shall elect an executive committee its first regular session in 1915, and shall Sec. 2. This conference shall pay a for carrying on ,its work between ses- thereafter hold quadrennial sessions at tithe of its regular tithe to the General sions. such date and place as the executive Conference. Sec. 2. The executive committee shall committee shall designate by a notice Sec. 3. The executive committee shall consist of the president, vice-president, published in the Advent Review and be authorized to call for such special secretary, treasurer, the presidents of the Sabbath Herald at least six weeks be- donations as may be necessary to prop- union conferences, the superintendents of fore the date of the session. erly prosecute the work of the confer- organized union missions, and the sec- Sec. 2. The executive committee may ence. retary of each department of the confer- call special sessions at such time and Sec. 4. The conference shall receive ence; namely, the Publishing, Medical, place as it deems proper, by a like no- any percentage of tithes, or any surplus Educational, Young People's, Sabbath tice, and the transactions of such special tithes, that may be turned over to it by School, Religious Liberty, General, For- sessions shall have the same force as any field. eign, German, Danish-Norwegian, Swe- those of the regular sessions. Sec. 5. The conference shall receive dish, and Negro,— and five additional Article IX — By-Laws offerings devoted to missions. persons. Sec. 6. All funds received for mission The voters of this conference may en- Article VI — Officers and Their Duties work to be used outside of this confer- act by-laws and amend or repeal them at ence shall be passed on each month to Section i. The regular officers of this any session thereof, and such by-laws the General Conference treasury. conference shall be a president, a vice- may embrace any provision not inconsis- president, a secretary, and a treasurer, tent with this constitution. Article IV — Audits who shall be elected by the conference. Article X — Amendments Section I. The executive officers shall One -or more auditors shall also be have the accounts of the conference elected by the conference. This- constitution or its by-laws- may be audited at least once each calendar year, GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 147

and shall report upon the same to the sible by this measure to care for all the planations to the South Americans. executive committee of the conference work in North America, and leave all (Laughter.) at the annual sessions of the committee, that we designate the Fifteen-cent-a- W. A. Spicer: It is not only in South and to the conference at its quadrennial week mission Fund to be used in the America that we would have to take sessions. work outside of North America. more time for explaining than it would Sec. 2. The executive committee shall Now that, to me, is a very desirable require to give the full name. Somehow appoint annually six persons not in its feature. It will be a satisfaction to be throughout the world the United States employ, who, with the president, the vice- able to say to our brethren everywhere has preempted the name "American." president, the secretary, the treasurer, that this work that pertains to the North People from the United States are and not less than five presidents of un- American Division, the assistance to the known as Americans everywhere. I like ion conferences or superintendents of cities of the Atlantic and Columbia un- the words " North American; " for Can- union mission fields, shall constitute a ions, the work in the South, the care ada will be a very large part of this new committee for auditing and settling all of the Negro work, the care of the division conference. [H. S. Shaw (of accounts against the conference. North American Foreign Department, Canada) : Hear ! Hear l] We must re- G. Dail: I move the adoption of the which call for thousands of our dollars, member the saying that if the nineteenth report. will be cared for independent of our century belonged to the United States, On this motion the question was called mission funds, separated completely from the twentieth century belongs to Canada. on recommendation 14. the General Conference funds. The W. J. Fitzgerald: I simply rise to state Recommendation 15 was discussed. tithe that now comes from local confer- that we would be everlastingly having W. T. Knox: It would appear to me ences to the General Conference, will to explain in England that the "Amer- that there is no argument necessary to constitute the funds of the North Amer- ican Conference " embraced it all. Over make it seem that this measure is the ican Division Conference. The funds there we always speak of the United consistent measure to take, following on that will belong to the General Confer- States as America. our action of some two or three days ence, for its work, will be the tithe that M. C. Wilcox: I wish, Brother Chair- ago. It gives to us "a symmetrical organ- it receives from all division and union man, and brethren, that we could have a ization. One of the first objections I fields throughout the world, and the mis- different name than "division." How heard raised to our previous action in sion offerings of our people. would it do to call our conferences creating the European Division Confer- Now I believe that this measure will " local," " union," " general," and ence, was that it gave us an unbalanced appeal to the delegates. In fact, it is " world "? condition; that it seemed to place the the sentiment that was found existing in L. R. Conradi: We are on the motion General Conference in a position where this field that has given inspiration, to -whether it should be American or North it ceased to be a world-wide conference. the action now brought before yoga this American. One of the principal objections that I morning. H. S. Shaw: I can not see the force Of have heard expressed at different times C. F. McVagh : What is the meaning this argument about this long name, We to the work of the General Conference of " union missions " in this constitution? have the " North Pacific Union Confer- officers has been the time that was re- There might be organized missions in ence," and we have the " Southwestern quired at their hands in giving attention this territory, but I see no great possibil- Union Conference," and the ""South- to the affairs of North America, thus ity of union mission fields. eastern Union Conference," and I do not depriving the other great fields to which L. R. Conradi : There might be the pos- know as this is any longer than some of God is sending this message, of that at- sibility of some far parts of Canada or those. tention and care that seemed to be de- of Alaska being organized some day that Voice: And the Western Canadian manded of them. way. It leaves the matter open to have Union Conference." This measure proposes to give to North such organizations, if necessary. Is H. S. Shaw: Yes, and we have the America an organization of its own, be _ there any other question? Eastern Canadian Union Conference. I coming one of the great divisions com- W. W. Prescott : I would like to make hope yOu will leave it as it really seems posing the General Conference, and a a final appeal in behalf of the name of to me it shOuld be,—" The North Amer, full official organization,—with a presi- this division. This long name, to be ican Division Conference." dent, vice-president, secretary, and treas- used constantly in so many ways, in wri- The question was then called, and the urer. There is in mind, also, although titig and in printing and in speaking, to motion to change the name was defeated, not brought out in the Enabling Act, that call it " The North American Division the mover also voting against it. they shall have a full complement of de- Conference of Seventh-day Adventists," E. L. Maxwell: From the discussion partments necessary for the successful seems almost discouraging. (Laughter.) this morning it seems to be evident that execution of their work. This will leave Now, why not call it ""The American Di- it is the plan to have the European Di- the General Conference officers free to vision," the same as across the water vision administer its own mission funds give their attention to the great fields they call theirs " The European Divis- and pay only a tithe to the General Con- composing the world,— not that they are ion "? In the provision for the territory, ference; whereas, it is proposed that the to turn now from North America, and to they take in not only Europe, but parts North American Division shall not only give it no attention, to drop its problems of Africa and Asia. Why did not they pay a tithe to the General Conference, and difficulites, but to give to this divi- call it " The Europe-Asia-Africa Divis- but it shall also pay fifteen cents a week sion the attention called for, and at the ion Conference "? (Laughter.) Be- a member for foreign missions. Now same time to give the same fostering care cause they did not *want such a long we who have to raise this money in the and development to the other fields. name attached to it. I think we should local conferences will have to explain to As treasurer of the General Confer- do the same thing, and call this " The the people this seeming discrepancy. ence, there was one possibility in con- American Division Conference," and This is what I do not understand. nection with this measure that especially thus save a great deal of time and breath R. C. Porter : It is a very natural commended itself to me, and that is the and ink. I therefore move that the word plan; in the European Division they funds. As I have visited among the " north " be struck out. have been carrying their regular work conferences of America, and appealed J. W. Westphal: I make an appeal for into European dependencies adjoining. to our brethren for their assistance in the name to remain as it is. There are But in the North American Division we furnishing funds for the carrying of this two Americas,— there is a North Amer- have not been doing so. We simply go message to the world, one of the ever- ica and a South America. If this was a on with the plan we have been following present questions presented to me is that question that came up only in the United all the time. There will be no explana- of the use of General Conference funds States, then it would probably be appro- tion needed that you did not need to in portions of North America. Some of priate; but these names are names that make all the time. Then at any time in you may recall the statements in the go throughout the whole world. We the future when Providence and circum- report of the, treasurer, showing that have to deal with them in South Amer- stances may direct, we can make such there was raised in this field independ- ica. The people in South America con- changes as may seem wise. ent of the mission funds, sufficient money sider that they are Americans just as W. T. Knox: Might I add that when to meet the expenditures in America, in- much as the people here. The full name you look at the European Division you dependent of the mission offerings. of " North American Division " is the find it there with a defined territory, in- Now, however, you will see that provi- only way to describe fully where it is eluding within its borders the mission sion is made so that it will be possible and what it is. Consequently, I am in fields to which it is furnishing a •surplus for all, absolutely all our general funds favor of the name remaining as it is. tithe, while it has 600,000,000 people to be used in the work of the General The little extra breath required in Speak- within its own territory. The territory Conference. By the division of the ing the word " north " will be more than of the North American Division includes tithe frbm conferences, it will be pos- saved by not having to make lengthy ex- all the union conferences of the United 148 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

States and Canada, and no more. In Question was called, and the report Constituency that territory, however, there are some was unanimously adopted. But once the Australasian field is union conferences that have mission ter- The meeting then, adjourned. reached, it is fo‘und to be a most inter- ritory; as, for example, the Pacific Union L. R. CONRADI, Chairman; esting one. Australia and New Zea- Conference. It appropriates a portion of W. A. SPICER, Secretary. land are settled by a most progressive its tithe to the support of those mission and intelligent people, chiefly English, territories. Now, however, when we or of English extraction.. The aborig- look out beyond, we see South Africa, NINETEENTH MEETING inal inhabitants rank from a rather low South America, the Far East, the East type of man in the blacks of Australia to and West Indies,— territory entirely out- May 26, 2:3o P. M. one of the finest races of the world — side of either the European or North the Maoris of New Zealand — who have American Division. This territory must L. R. CONRADI in the chair. so nearly approached the whites in in- fie supplied with men and money. Now Prayer by F. H. DeVinney. telligence and prosperity that race dis- it would not be a natural thing for the tinction is practically unknown in the North American Division to attempt to L. R. Conradi : This afternoon we are to hear from the Australasian Union dominion. care for mission work throughout the But not only is the Australasian field great fields of the world. It is the nat- Conference. Brother J. E. Fulton, the union president, will lead out. an interesting one from the standpoint ural burden and responsibility belonging of the peoples to be found in its home to the General Conference. J. E. Fulton : Before presenting my report, I would like to read a communi- field, but also because the numberless No new condition has been created by islands in the many groups of the South Pacific, which are inhabited by intelligent tribes, present to us a grand sphere of missionary opportunity. Within this union conference are the conferences of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria-Tasmania, South Aus- tralia, West Australia, and New Zea- land; and twelve missions; namely, Ta- hiti, Pitcairn, Rarotonga, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Lord Howe, Norfolk, New Heb- rides, New Guinea, the Maoris of New Zealand, and the Queensland mission for the aborigines. Institutions Besides the local conferences and tract societies and church-schools there are eighteen distinct institutions under union conference control. Of these institutions there are six cafes, in the following-named cities : Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Wellington, and Auckland. There are five sanitariums, situated at Wahroonga, New South Wales; Avondale, New South Wales; AT AN AUSTRALIAN 'MEETING Warburton, Victoria; Adelaide, South Australia; and Christchurch, New Zea- land. We have four educational insti- the organization of this division confer- cation from one of the conferences tutions; namely, the Australasian Mis- ence, but we find ourselves in North farthest away which has just come to sionary College, New Zealand Training- America related to the mission fields in hand : — school, the Darling Range School, West the same manner as before. " To the brethren in General Conference Australia, and the Fiji Native Training- B, F. Kneeland: In reference to this assembled: Greeting! school. (This does not include the proposed constitution and the organiza- " DEAR AND BELOVED BRETHREN: We, nurses' training-school, which is con- tion of the North American Union Con- the Seventh-day Adventist Conference nected with the Wahroonga Sanitarium, ference, I would like to know what effect of West Australia, unite in forwarding already mentioned). There are two pub- it will have upon the handling of the to you our most heartfelt greeting 'on lishing houses, the main one at Warbur- Sustentation Fund. this important occasion. We desire to ton, Victoria, and the other at Cooran- W. T. Knox: I understand that that, express our steadfast confidence in the bong, in connection with the college. with other matters of similar nature, will message, our loyalty to the General The food factory, located at Cooran- have to be determined upon by the or- Conference, and our determination to bong, should also be mentioned. ganizers of the division conference. stand by the great principles of the truth Progress of the Work B. G. Wilkinson: The memorial sent that God has revealed. That divine over from Europe last fall called for guidance and understanding may be With so many institutions, there must triennial sessions for the division, quin- given in all your deliberations and de- of necessity be some perplexity in a field tennial for the. General Conference, bi- cisions, will ever be our prayer. with such a small constituency, but we ennial sessions for the union, and annual " W. L. H, BAKER, President. are glad to report that God has blessed for the local. I would like to ask if the " R. H. CONSTANDT, Secretary." our institutions generally. Not that drafters of the constitution at this time J. E. Fulton (reading) : -- they are doing what we had hoped for, have taken this into consideration, or if or are making large gains, but, taking they are yet to take it into consideration. REPORT OF THE AUSTRALASIAN the work as a whole, it is, we believe, W. J. Fitzgerald : I would like, for UNION CONFERENCE moving steadily forward. the matter of discussion, to move to sub- Referring more in detail to our edu- stitute the word triennial for quadrennial. The Australasian Union Conference cational institutions, it is very encour- The motion was not seconded. comprises the Australian Common- aging to note that our training-college R. W. Parmele: The delegates in this wealth, the Dominion of New Zealand, has had quite a full attendance. We section do not seem to know definitely and the numerous islands of the South- have been glad for the good help of Pro- what provision will •be made for the sup- ern Pacific, with a population of about fessor Machlan, and are very sorry to port of our colored work and the relief six million, and with about five thou- lose him. Each year this institution of the institutions in this division. They sand Sabbath-keepers. This union con- supplies new recruits for our field. may be covered in the organization. ference territory is much to one side Many who in former years were stu- L. R. Conradi: That will be brought from the great thoroughfares of travel, dents in this school are now doing suc- out in the organization. Now are we being so far separated from other coun- cessful work both in our home and ready to vote on the constitution as a tries and continents by great bodies of foreign fields. In the New Zealand Con- whole? water. ference alone we counted ten of the GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 149

laborers who were trained at the Aus-training the people to buy -- establishing the following observations relating to tralasian MisSionary College, three of the " book habit." Their success proves the progress of the work, so far as fig- these being ordained ministers. God has this to be true. ures tell them: — blesSed this school in the past, and it has Our ..cainp4neetings have been seasons The tithe during the quadrennial opened again this last year with the of refreshing, and have been more period ending 1908 was $223,702.14; largest attendance in its history. largely attended by God's people than during the last four years, $327,836.84, During the past few years the New ever before. These annual gatherings or an increase of $104,134.70. Zealand school has struggled with finan- have resulted in great good to our con- I think the Australasian Union Con- cial difficulties, and the attendance has ferences. The outside interest in some ference can claim the honor of being been small. Recently the farm and instances has been most excellent. Our the first union conference whose Sab- buildings have been sold at a fair price, tent-meetings also in many places have bath-school offerings were wholly do- and we are now starting in a new place won new adherents to the cause. An nated to missions. The offerings in our under new conditions. We have a increasing number of young men are Sabbath-schools ,from 1904-08 'were $23,140.45, and from 1908-12 they were $41,553.29, showing an increase of $18,- 412.84. The total offerings to missions apart from Sabbath-school and young' people's donations during the last four years were $45,734.36, or an increase of $20,144.04. Our offerings to home missions have not thereby been lessened, for there has been an increase from $8,- 796.76 in 1905-08 to $40,487.11 'in the last four years, or an increase of $31,- 690.35. Young People's Societies The number of our young people's societies has increased from sixty-six to eighty-eight societies; and we can report great progress and efficiency along all lines. We look upon the young people's society as an important factor in our work. During the past four years CHURCH IN NORFOLK ISLAND our young people, in addition to what they are doing in other departments, smaller farm and smaller buildings, and entering the field as evangelists. This have given $17,084.09, chiefly to mis- a smaller staff will operate the school, gives good promise for future days. sions. so we are confident that the future of Book Sales Work in the Islands the institution will be brighter. As we Although we have been repeatedly told passed through New Zealand to this The work in the islands moves on- that no more subscription books can be meeting, the school buildings were being ward. The work of translating tracts, sold in Australasia, still they sell. In finished, the farm was already sending papers, and books goes steadily forward, passing through New Zealand on my produce to the market, and, best of all, and these are being widely scattered. way to this conference, Pastor Cole, 'the the principal thought the school would Our missionaries are advancing to new president of that conference, informed be full of students at its opening., This is an intermediate school. The intermediate training-school at Darling Range, West Australia, has had a very successful time during its entire history. The Fijian school is still doing excellent work training laborers for the islands. Its representatives are found in a number of islands of the group, and also in New Guinea, where two of its students are now laboring. At ,Wahroonga Sanitarium the number of :patients has been' larger during the last two years than -for some time; and excellent work is being done by our medical workers in advancing the gospel of health. The nurses' training-school is being, carried forward successfully. It is encouraging to note that several of the gratidates have gone info the field as evangelical workers, some to far-away island fields. AuStralia, we believe, leads in the number, of cafes under conference direction.' Our cafés, have all been busy and have; done, good work for the Lord. We are glad to report substantial gains in almost every case. Our food, com- OUR' FIRST .CHURCH -BUILDING ERECTED IN AUSTRALASIA, 'IN TASMANIA. pany has been busy, and has made good gains. pdsts in the different groups already oc- me of the wonderfid interest to hear the' The, publishing ,house at Warburton cupied, and during the past year our truth in, those districts where thousandi. has.turned out, more work than ever be- work has opened up in Lord Howe and of "Great: Controversy "; haVe lately . fore, and we are glad that it has shown the New Hebrides. NeW recruits have been sold. During 'the, quadrennial the largest credit, balance'in its history. been sent to LOrd HoWe, New HebrideS, period of 1905-08, books to the valtie.'Of We are thankful; indeed, that God has Fiji, Rarotonga, and ,the SOeiety T3i4,334.69: were sold. This is a very blessed the .work there,• and also in the lands; work: has been commenced in good showing, but during the past four field, where Our noble, canvassing bands Aitutaki;anda wOrker and hii wife are years the value of books sold was $380,,,: have distributed so many of. our books waiting to enter Savage Island. 317.85, shOWing an increase of $0$,. 9$3 16 containing the message for this time. Rmances's Years,ago it was' thought by some1 thAt, Workers ' the, field was worn out, but some of our ,COoking back over the period since l'Af the beginning of ,this quadrennial successfill bookmen say. they, have been, the last General Conference, we make period, we had twenty-eight ordained. 150 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN ministers, and, notwithstanding the ex- Society Islands worked among his people, and as a result we learned, just before we left Syd- odus of workers to the United States, we The Society group, with 30,50o in- had at the close of the above-mentioned ney, that the natives in Niue were wait- habitants, has two organized churches ing to receive favorably the workers period thirty-seven ordained ministers, and a company or two of Sabbath-keep- or an increase of nine. There is also an who were under appointment to that ers. At the present time there are four field. increase of nineteen licensed mission- laborers in the field. aries. Samoan Islands Cook Islands Other brethren of our delegation who To the north of Niue is the Samoan render departmental reports will give Traveling west, the next group in group. Among a population of forty thousand, we have three workers. At present there are but eight Sabbath- keepers there. Friendly Islands West of the Samoan are the Tongan, or Friendly Islands. These are occupied by twenty-three thousand inhabitants, who are perhaps the proudest people of the Pacific. We have four workers in the group, and twenty Sab- bath-keepers. Fiji Islands The Fiji Islands are the central group of the Southern Pacific. Here we have a training-school for native workers. There are twenty workers in the field, fourteen of whom are Fijians, and one of them an, ordained minister. Among the eighty-five thousand Fijians we have two hundred forty-three Sabbath-keepers, In this group are forty-five thousand Indians of the coolie caste. We have one worker devoting all her time to IN NEW GUINEA work among them. New Zealand interesting facts only touched on in this which our work is established is the general report. Cook Islands. With• a population of 12,- South of Fiji is New Zealand, with While deeply grateful for the blessings 000, found on about twelve islands, we its forty-four thousand Maoris. The of God upon his work in Australasia have but four workers. work among them goes very slowly. during the past four years, we are at the Savage Island New Hebrides same time conscious of many failures, and that the work of God should have Niue, or Savage Island stands alone. North of New Zealand are the New made greater progress in our field than It long withstood the efforts of the early Hebrides Islands. This field has only it has. But, resolutely turning to the missionaries in the South Sea to evan- lately been opened by a party of four God of all grace for forgiveness of the gelize it. When the fact that our workers, consisting of an ordained min- past, and for help for the future, we are workers were about to enter the field ister and his wife, and a brother and determined to press the battle of our God in Australasia to the gates, till, with the representatives from many lands gathered here to-day, we can, with the remnants of nations and tribes we help to garner in, stand at last triumphant on the sea of glass, to sing the song of Moses and the Lamb. God grant it, for Jesus' sake. J. E. FULTON, President. L. R. Conradi: After this good report, we will hear from Brother A. H. Piper concerning the progress of the work in the South Pacific islands. 7T-T. -1-lipet--(rcasling) : — AUSTIZALASIAN UNION CONFER- gNCE EMISSION FIELD IN the South Pacific is found the. mission== field attached to the -Australasian tnitin Conference, At the resent time; operations afe being carried on • in fourteen missions. Pitcairn SCENE ON RAROTON GA, COOK ISLANDS Pitcairn, on the eastern fringe of the bec me known on the island, quite a his wife who are nurses. The popula- field, has a population of 153; the mem- spir t Of opposition was awakened. It tion is estimated at fifty thousand, many bership of the church there is bo. was thought best :to delay sending the of them being cannibals. Word has reached us since we have wor ers until the matter quieted. On Norfolls Island beep in Washington, that there has been this bec(iming known among our native quite, a revival "of late on the island. bret ren on Rarotonga, the chief-island Between the New Hebrides, and Syd- At the" present time, a young Married of he Cook Island group, the native ney are found= Norfolk and Lord Howe cOuPlep nurses trained at the Wahroonga dea on of the church there, himself a Islands. A- brother and his wife have- Sanitarium, New South Wales, are on nati e =of Niue, decided to go and= do charge of the work on the lormet. their way to this lone 'island, to replace whathe could. Without asking-, one Among 'a population of one thousand, the worker"who' has',- Lately.;returned. .to penny of the", conference, he 'paid his we, have a Church of sixty nienibers. Australia,. • •", ".passage -:the :island, 'Visited and ,on this, island that Sister Be1d6np GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 151

widow of our late Brother Stephen Bel- tion with these papers may be done as should rightly represent the third angel's den, lives. She has been an active perfectlys as possible, several -young na- message in every respect. It is the re- worker. During the past two years, a tives from the islands mentioned who ligious influence that pervades such company of Sabbath-keepers has been are in attendance at the Australasian places that inspires the guests with con- raised up on Lord Howe Island. Missionary College, assist in the work of fidence. The total earnings for the past New Guinea publishing them. All the papers are printed at Avondale. Sydney Sanitarium North of Australia is British New Our field is a large one. From its year amounted to $30,000. Guinea, or Papua, as it is officially eastern fringe to its western border, it A little over ten years ago the institu- known. The work is still in its infancy stretches one third of the distance tion known as the Sydney Sanitarium, in this interesting field. We have four around the world, and one sixth of the situated about twelve miles from the city, white workers and a young Fijian distance from north to south. We have was built at a cost of about $30,000, on couple, doing what they can to master many important islands and groups yet an estate Of 77 acres valued at about the language and win souls from among to be entered. But it is with courage $18,000. This institution is well fur- the three hundred fifty thousand that we face the future. Our training- nished and equipped with up-to-date heathen of this land. One night, some schools are full of young people, many medical and bath-room appliances, which time ago, a number of warriors from an of whom have their eyes upon the-mis- brings the net value up to $70,000, and inland tribe of cannibals raided the mission field. Our people in Australasia will accommodate 77 patients. sion station, with the intent of murder- are loyal and hearty in their sup- The Sydney Sanitarium is our med- ing all the natives working there. port of the work, for th6y believe the ical training-school for the Australasian Their plans were frustrated by a sick statement of the Spirit of the Lord, that Union. Of the many bright young peo- boy, who, being awake, gave the alarm, " upon the Australasian Union -Confer- ple trained here, some are today doing at Which the marauders made off ence rests the burden of carrying the acceptable work both .in the home field

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through the bush. We feel very thank- third angel's message to the Islands of and in the islands of the Pacific, thus ful- ful to God for this signal deliverance. the Pacific." May God help us to do it. filling the instruction given by the Spirit A Papuan, Vaori by name, embraced the A. H. PIPER, of the Lord: " God designs that all our Sabbath while working for the mission. Sec. Australasian Union Conference. institutions shall become instrumentali- Later he returned to his cannibalistic L. R. Conradi: We hear next from ties for educating and developing work- tribe in the interior. After some Brother Geo. S. Fisher, concerning the ers of Whom he will not be aShamed, months, Bennie, our Fijian worker- in sanitarium and health work in the Aus- workers who can be sent out as well- the field, went inland to see Vaori, and tralasian Union. qualified missionaries, to do service for to learn how he was prospering. He G. S. Fisher (reading) : — the Master." The course consists of found that Vaori was keeping a record three years. We have an average of of the days of . the week, a thing the REPORT OF MEDICAL WORK IN thirty-five nurses all the time in train- Papuan knows nothing about, and he told AUSTRALASIA ing, besides sixteen outside workers. At Bennie that that day' was Friday, and The medical department of the Aus- present there are nine men nurses and that the morrow was Sabbath. Not tralatian Union Conference was estab- twenty-eight ladies. only was he faithful in keeping it, but lished over fifteen years ago in the state Drs. I. A. Sherwin and M. M. Free- was also preaching the truth to his tribe. of New South Wales. From a small be- man, both graduates of the Sydney (Aus- tralia) University, are in charge of the Australia ginning, the work has grown, and today we have five sanitariums, four in Aus- medical work, and the Lord is blessing In Australia itself are found one' huri tralia, and one in New Zealand. their labors very much. Sister Elsie M. ,.; -cited thousand aborigines, sixty thou- We have a large field, sparsely popu- Shannon, of America, who has been in sand of whom, 'itv West Australia, have lated. We hope in the future to have Australia many years, is our medical ma- never, Conie•. in ,Contact with white, peo- the help of • several, eminent city prac- tron; and is giving her whole soul- to the ple; and: it, ,is said that they practise titioners. reference to finance, we training of workers. Otir patronage cannibalism; In Queensland some work have experienced • the same difficulties fluctuates, but, 'taking all the year round, has'been.dOne;rfor. them by a brother and that many ,of our, medical institutions it averages about forty patients. his - wife; who are giving all their time have. The cost of training so many Warburton• :Sanitarium in Ati..etitieav4e to 'teath" them the ines- young people, combined with the general • sage. 1\TegOtiations, are: at present be-, Maintenance and up-keep, is`very 'heavy, The Warburton S'apitariiiin, situated': frig ' carried :-:on with the Queensland and for seVeral years we have Tith be- about fifty Miles froth Melbourne, government permanent mission hind. Last year the tide turned, rand, built 'on a touch smaller' scale, and rep.1 station, jri --order more thorough, after..depreciating our stock and: :build resents an investment of abont Work --eati''."be'done in,that'state „for. them. togs;to the extent of $5,ocoo, and doing It is Under the ,care of Dr. W H:Jaines, :v Literature for most of • these,. 'island! charitable work to thesextent of . $1,00, of Victoria, Australia.' This institution - fields w-kiiitcd--,1*the Avondale • PresS. the balance sheet. revealed a gain of enjoYs a good patronage, espetially at--,COOranhorig,SNeW SOtith,WaleS. , In $4o net. For this we 'praite the Lord. frig: the summer: months. It is situated the:s-Sneietk; 'Saitioan,i'TOrigan;' and endeavor: to Maintain 'a high spiri- close to our publishing house,.-arid draws grotins;;:*4;10i the 'Maori& , tual: standardin,,Ahese institutions,;,and its water: andelectric stipply, froin il.'e*-"- 4ea,land;-i*e',.haVe'.'fnonthlY 'Opera' the people are. Much ,impressed With the Lastyeir- it waS - rim at .a small loss;; circulating These. are edited deportment.Ofthe staff. .We believelt is but the institution isstill - -in its infancy," tralia, and .in order that all in , cgnnec- God's' design. :that :theSe institutions and we feel certain that when it hbcomes 152 GENERAL CONFERENCE, BULLETIN more widely known, the result will be Temperance Work none; and New Zealand and Queensland different. Warburton is a great health were also very much in need of trained resort, and thousands visit there. Car- The temperance work has received agents; so that only New South Wales, loads of visitors are carried at excursion considerable attention, and today we are Victoria, and South Australia were left fares every week. as a people in the front ranks of tem- to depend upon for reports. However, perance reform. As opportunities have by the blessing of God and the hearty Adelaide Sanitarium offered, we have united with the great cooperation of union and state confer- The South Australian Sanitarium, lo- temperance bodies in fighting the drink ence workers in selecting and training cated in Adelaide, and built on the cot- evil, and our representatives are called good, consecrated men and women for tage plan, is capable of caring for about to take part in the alliance council meet- the canvassing field, the work has been fifteen or twenty patients. Some good ings. Special temperance literature is growing, until it has reached its pres- work has been done there, souls having prepared and scattered like the 'leaves ent standing. been won to the truth through its in- of autumn. Whenever the local-option Australia is in many ways a very dif- strumentality. question comes before the country, we ficult field to work, and it requires a see much fruit from this literature. great deal of faith and courage and Christchurch (New Zealand) Sanitarium Many of the towns in New Zealand planning on the part of all those con- are enjoying prohibition. There has nected with the book work, to meet with The work in Christchurch (New Zea- been a great reduction in licenses both success. The area of Australia and land) Sanitarium, under the care of in that country and in Australia. Our New Zealand is 3,079,052 square miles, Brother G. A. Brandstater, has made steady progress, the institution, including real estate, buildings, and equipment, representing an investment of about $20,- 000. Last year, alter all expenses were paid, there was a net gain of $450. The railway company has lately acquired some of the property, and built a freight siding thereon, so probably it will be necessary in the near future for us to seek another location. We would not forget to mention the good work being done by Drs. P. M. and Florence Keller, who are in private practise in Auckland, New Zealand; also the Drs. Richards, in Australia. Health Food Work Our health food work, another branch 'of the' medical work, has also been greatly blessed of God during the last . few years. The factory is built on the Avondale School estate, but is operated separately. The students are engaged mainly in the manufacture of health foods, of which we list about twenty- five or thirty kinds. At the time of the last General Conference, the indebtedness of this department exceeded $2o,000, MISSIONARY STATION IN TAIIITI,..SOCIETY ISLANDS but we have reduced that now about one half. Taking into consideration that our present worth is over $18,000, the work Australasian health magazine finds its a little larger than the United States. It is in a good financial condition. Last way into twenty thousand homes, and is is More than one fourth of the whole of year's balance-sheet showed a net profit recognized to be the leading health jour- the British empire, and nearly three Of $5,020. nal in Australasia. It has been enlarged fourths of the whole area of Europe. We have our own branch stores and to sixty-four pages, and sells readily at Yet its population is only about six mil- restaurants. The latter are established sixpence (12 cents) a copy. lion. In some parts of Australia our in every state of Australia, except one, Although much has been done to bring canvassers have to travel seven or eight and also in New Zealand. They are our health reform principles before the hundred miles- away from home in or- greatly appreciated by the general public, people, we realize the fact that there yet der to reach the outlying sheep stations and are a means of drawing attention to lies a great work before us. Disease and and gold fields, their books, afterward the truth. Only those who have a love sorroveare to be seen on every hand. So being delivered by post, as the expenses for the message, and who believe in we feel grateful that today our young incurred- by traveling over the ground health-reform principles, are engaged in people are consecrating themselves for again would be too great. this work. We have been counseled that future responsibility in the organized The increase in book sales for the we should have such places in the large work. GEORGE S. FISHER. year 1911 as compared with 1910 is en- cities, and that, if properly conducted, L. R. Conradi: Brother L. D. A. couraging, it being $13,866. As we com- they will be the means of calling the Lemke will now report concerning the pare, the last two years, we are able to attention of busy city folks to the Sab- book work in this union. report an increase -of $6,839 above the bath of the Lord. L. D. A. Lemke (reading) : -- $13,866 of the previous year: The total increase on the four years' work is Cafe Work SALES OF: LITERATURE 'IN AUS- $23,636. TRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, City Canvassing Last year our, cafe patronage increased by nearly 20;066.- The total'. earnings for Juiy 1, igo8, to June 3o, 1913 In ban/1611y: with the instruction given the year were $28,000. A few years ago In rendering our report, we desire by the spirit, of prophecy in regard.. to •there was .:great .prejudice against Vege- first.of all to express.; our gratitude and city work, we have endeavored, to work tarianism on the part of the women of praise to doa for the great love that he our, large cities' and towns with 'our re- Australia, but it is quite:different now. has manifestediow 4rd us in, that he has ligious books and have met with, good They attend our cooking demonstrations blessed' our Wark.mith g99d eess•itie We success; We have alniost finished S.' re- regularly, and, are intensely interested, in are glad to be` able.,,to report ,progress. canvass with " Great Controversy" them. We Praise God for all he is do- The , salesi of subscription, books, helps, throughOut the whole of NeW Zealand, ing_in the medical work, Our ' sole ob7 trade books;, Aott.trActs fOr, the. lour: and have planed during the, last three lea is to edticate the people by showing Years indin ,jizne 30,y 1912, are as col ,)rearsoyer eight thousand copies of that. then). how , to., prepare the ; most whole- lows 1909, '037 f6$00:; bbOk:in'.the ihbinei of the.penple,. In the some fOod, and 'how they can cooperate towns of, Australia we .'been work- witit-GOd in restoring his moral!.image In:190-- -91 e 4174114. had only In Chiefly with Great -Controversy,' tee canvassers at 'or ; Tasmania =had erards' '0 e_ Morning, Seer, ;_cif GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 153

Patmos," and . " Desire of Ages.," with area is a little larger than that -of the few years we have labored hard to bring good, success, and we are, now planning •United States. Yet, with that small pop- the figure up to ten thousand, but so far to,,ganmass Abe , cities of ,,Melbourue,:arid ;; g1a4ion !tp.mffate, a population approxi- we have not succeeded. We are not dis- _Sydney with our new book, " Prophetic mately that 'of one American city, there couraged in this, however, for our letter Waymarks," by Brother Haskell. are two publishing houses, five sanita- files contain many interesting communi- We are glad that, while we are able riums, seven cafes, two health food cations from people in all parts of Aus- to report advance in book • sales, we are factories, one college, two academies tralasia whose interest has been awa- also able to say that our canvassers in and numerous church-schools. In that kened through reading the Signs of the Australia are men and women who are small population our canvassers are now Times; and we know of numbers of Sab- in the work to win souls for the Mas- selling about one hundred thousand dol- bath-keepers who have learned the truth ter, and that they are, successful. It has lars' worth of subscription books per an- and been led to unite with God's people ° been a pleasure to visit the camp-meet- num, and in addition to that we are through reading this humble medium. ings in the different states, and to listen circulating two weekly journals,,the Now and again we publish large edi- to the reports, especially the last year. Australasian Signs of the Times an the tions to meet special issues. Every little Not only did these reports tell of good Australasian Record, also a sixty-four- while a great stir is made over the Bible- success in the sale of literature, but of page health magazine, and a sixty-four- in-schools question. This gives us an some small companies of believers raised page religious magazine. opportunity to set before the people the up during the year. This is the work As nearly forty per cent of the entire true principles of the relationship which we want to see done. population live in the state capitals, and should be sustained between church and During the last four years we have the remaining sixty per cent are scat- state. Our church-members take hold visited .all the conferences in the Aus- tered about in small cities and towns, or of the circulation of these special issues tralian Union Conference, and have held on great sheep and cattle stations, remote with much enthusiasm. • We believe that institutes with. our churches and com- from each other, it will readily be under- our missionary paper has exercised no panies. In addition to this, the union . stood that our periodical work is re- small amount of influence hitherto in conference has started a permanent can- stricted to ,a. rather small area, and .a preventing the council of churches from vassers' institute, in harmony with a still smaller population,_ for outside of accomplishing its design to teach religion recommendation to. that effect, passed at the metropolitan cities there are but few in the state schools of the three states our laSt. union. conference, held at War- parts of Australia where a periodical which are still free from this encroach- burton, :in Iwo. The object of the, in- worker might successfUlly travel from ment of the church upon the sphere of stitute .isOfold:, First, to educate men town to town upon a self-supporting the state. The temperance question is and women of mature years to become basis. Thus, while practically the whole another live issue in Australia; and of- permanent canvassers, and thus forma, of the settled portions of Australia have fers good scope for successful work with strong basis for the work; Second,, to in- been well canvassed by our subscription- our weekly paper. We have printed as struct young people whO desire to attend. book agents, it has been difficult to carry many as one hundred eighty thousand ,our...AVondale college, but have not- the on an extensive work with, our period- copies of one issue on the question of means, in the sale. of " Christ's Object icals. prohibition, in the circulation of which Lessons "' _so that they may thus earn You may question why we say so much we have not only had the aid of our own their scholarship. We ; have in connec- about the immensity of our territorial good brethren and sisters, but the vari- tion with this institute about ten acres area, and the meagerness of our popula- ous temperance organizations have also ,Of good garden land; with an abundant. tion;-but unless these facts are brought assisted us by distributing thousands of • water supply throughout . the whole year,. forcibly before, the. mind, it is, difficult for copies of these special issues. are thus, able to,grow our .own vege- any one to ,appreciate the problem that " Life and Health " tableS and .fruits, We have already seen faces a' union conference which, under- good result$' -of the work.done by this. in- takes to publish a weekly missionary pa- This magazine is finding favor among Stittite, and believe that it will prove a per, a health journal, and a religious a very good class of people, and through strong.-factor in, educating .and training magazine for circulation in a population its influence we are making good friends, a band of permanent.canvassers. equiValent to New York City, and 'about particularly in the large cities. For- .The General . Conference Publishing half ,of these people so remote from the merly this magazine was a twenty-four- Department has announced as • the aim centers of population as to be beyond page monthly, but a little over two years for this year a total sale of $2,000,000 the reach of the periodical worker. ago it was decided by the union con- worth of subscription books. The Aus- There ,are other difficulties, however, ference to publish the magazine bi- tralasian field has already sold an aver- which confront us in the publishing monthly, to change its name from the age number of books a month during work in that field. While there are pa- Good Health to Life and Health, and to the current year sufficient to indicate per-mills in Australia that manufacture increase its size from twenty-four pages that we shall sell our quota in attaining the cheaper jkinds of printing paper, they to sixty-four pages. It was a big ven- this excellent result. do not cater to our requirements. We ture for us to make, but the' Lord has L. D. A. LEMKE, General Agent. are, therefore, compelled to import al- responded to our faith, and has given, us L. R. Conradi: For the periodical most the 'whole of our raw material. much encouragement, for, whereas we work of the Australasian Union, Brother This means that we have to pay steamer were able to print only thirty-five hun- A. W. Anderson will now report. freight of twelve thousand miles to- dred copies of the Good Health, we now A. W. Anderson (reading) : — gether with a customs duty on our raw print twenty thousand copies of Life and materials. Our factory costs are also Health. PERIODICAL WORE IN ,AUS- higher because the editorial and type- " The Outlook" TRALASIA room costs must be distributed over a Last year we conceived the idea that - smaller number of copies of each issue it would be a good thing for our field As so much has been written and said than is the case in more populous coun- if we could produce a magazine of sixty- -concerning the scanty population of the tries. Is it any wonder that, under these four pages which would deal with our Australian continent, it will be unneces- conditions, the profits Of our Australa- great doctrinal subjects. . We deter- sary for me to do more than -merely sian publishing house are low? Never- mined to publish it without a date, so -mention the fact that' the 'territory oper- theless, we rejoice in God for the prog- it ;,could never be considered a back ated by the Australasian Union Confer- resS which has attended the work in that, number. In the first issue we presented - ence is .the most - sparsely populated 'in distant land,' despite the obstacles which the subject of the second advent of all the...world. Not- only .are there. but a have had to be overcome.. It must surely .Christ. The new magazine met with. mere handful of people within our.ter- be a source of great joy 'to the faithful al warm receptiOn by our ,church-.4nem-: „ritory 'compared 'with the population of., laborers who pioneered that 'field, 'and bers. Undoubtedly the main faCtor most of the other union conferences, but whO resolutely :faced all these difficulties in securing a good circulation for Our as our centers of population are..'scat-: and planted institutions 'in this country, literature, is to make ,it ,So. potent ,ior tered- .about at immense distances. .from. to know that they have become : strong, the truth, that our .own •people. are each 'other,'"the.l.cost , of operating : the ,.and are now prodahning the truth with vinced that the.;public .Must 1,4ave4: field- materially increased. no uncertain ' Thus the' literature will-.sell; not With a: view. "of _setting- before- you,, cause the piiblio,w.ant it, but ;because our in a Aticid ..and; 'comprehensive manner The, "Signs of the Times" people think—that the public should..and, -.- the ;actual'_ Conditions under whiali pub= We are somewhat disappointed' that .must have it. A. W. AKDEESOK.' .lishing"Work is carried on: in-the'.aritip= we cannot .:report greater: dircUlation, The --Australasian : field has been Will say.-that; Whilst.out than eight thousand,,five inindred for our thickly We :pray . that. Au4ralia.fp',abp.4:Ccitiat -to that, Weekly .miSSionaity Paper;. the Austra. God will Water this sed, that an New York City, ott geographical lasian the last dant harvest may be . gathered :,in 154 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

L. R. conradi: Now we will hear young people and children. Sometimes At present the estate consists of about from Miss Edith Graham about the Sab- a little help is received from the older eleven hundred acres, of which nearly •bath,school and Young People's depart- people. The money is earned in various two hundred acres are under cultivation. ments in this union. ways, in contributions from regular Oranges, mandarins, and lemons are the Miss Edith Graham (reading) : — wages, profits from sale of books and citrus fruits grown on the tilled land, periodicals, collections with missionary while summer fruits, such as apples, SABBATH-SCHOOL AND YOUNG tins, missionary gardens, missionary pears, plums, peaches, persimmons, and PEOPLE'S WORK hens, calves, sheep, lambs, vines, fruit- blackberries are grown in abundance. trees, etc., and earnings by work of va- Agricultural products necessary for the In the Australasian field, which in- rious sorts. Many -of the young people supply of the school are also grown. cludes Australia, Tasmania, New Zea- and children have shown considerable The farm affords work for a large land, and the Pacific islands, there are ingenuity in, devising ways and means of number of students, some of whom pay -194 Sabbath-schools, 29 of these being in earning money for the support of their their entire way in labor. the islands. The membership is 5;643. missionary. This work has been a bless- The offerings for the four years ending The domestic science department opens ing to all who have taken part in it, giv- the way for the young ladies to be trained December, 1912, amounted to $41,553, an ing them an active interest in the cause average of $7.36 a member, including in the art of housekeeping. The college of God, and so binding their hearts to it, press has been running more than ten the native members in the islands, many and occupying their time, that harmful of whom are able to give little or noth- years, and is a growing enterprise. As a things were crowded out, and a capacity missionary and educational factor, the ing. It is gratifying to know, however, for carrying responsibility developed. that they do give as far as they are able printing department is proving to be of in most cases, .and often they sacrifice Programs have been prepared and great importance. It is self-supporting, more to give, than their white breth- printed by the Australasian Missionary and employs about twenty-five stu- ren do. Volunteer department, and are used by dents. Several others are members of These offerings have been for the sup- most of the societies. Some societies the industrial class. Literature has been port of the work in the Pacific islarids, which are rich in talent and experience produced by the press up to the present and to „provide needed facilities for the prepare their own programs. Most of time in Fijian, Tongan, Tahitian, Raro- mission -work. the societies hold weekly meetings. tongan, Maori, Singapore-Malay, Java- In each state there is a state home de- The work has been a blessing to the Malay, Niue, Samoan, and English. Six partment, whereby the isolated mem- young people. Many who were formerly monthly publications and one weekly bers are encouraged to study the les- indifferent, have become consecrated, journal are issued. The Sabbath-school sons and give of their means. A regu- converted workers. Many have been led Quarterlies, and the various readings lar correspondence is kept up with all to give their hearts to God. A large used throughout the churches, are also of these, and many letters of apprecia- number of young people have been bap- produced by the press, and all lines of tion of this are received, telling what a tized during the four years covered by paper boxes, bags, and advertising mat- blessing the lessons have been. Many this report. The spiritual gain has been ter for the health foods are success- of these isolated ones are far from oth- the most encouraging feature of the fully produced. A stereotyping plant is ers of the same faith, some in divided work, and, while there- are yet great in operation, and a new Payne's perfect- homes, some aged and infirm. But to all things to be done, •the Missionary Vol- ing press was installed last year. of them the Sabbath-school is a help and unteer. work in Australasia is onward. The carpentry and blacksmithing de- comfort. L. R. Conradi: B. F. Machlan, former partmentS are well equipped and prove The interest in the study of the les- principal of the Australasian Training a great blessing to the school. sons seems to be increasing, The les- College, though now prihcipal of South The school having outgrown its ca- sons recently studied, on practical Chris- Lancaster Academy, has been asked to pacity to accommodate young men,-- the tianity, were especially helpful, and an report for the training college. carpentry department last year built an effort was made all through the confer- B. F. Machlan (reading) : — addition to the young men's -home. The dormitory now offers room for seventy- ence to get all to study them so as to be THE AUSTRAL-ASIAN MISSION= able to teach or recite -without use of five boys. During last year this depart- lesson pamphlet or Bible. Many re- ARY COLLEGE ment also built a church-school building sponded, and the Sabbath-schools de- The college is a busy little city, with for the use of the normal departnient. cidedly improved in interest where mem- its green grocer, general store, bakery, The industrial feature of the college bers came week by week with their minds and draper shop ; its sawmill,. blacksmith is a most interesting as well as a most full of the lesson. This increased the shop, plumber shop, carpentry shop, valuable one. Last year fifty-five per attendance, too ; for when the people press, factory, electric-light plant, and cent of the- students paid their entire had well-studied lessons they wanted to telephone exchange; together with its expenses in labor, thirty-five per cent recite them. fleet of boats for the transportation of paid one half their school fees, while Much still remains to be done to bring passengers and freight; the -whole oper- only ten per cent were full-paying stu- the standard of Bible study to what it ated by teachers and students. dents. should be, but the response already-re- In the year 1894, an estate was pur- The literary work of the school has ceived encourages us to press forward. chased near Cooranbong, New South not been neglected, and the college offers The Sabbath-school is truly a blessed Wales, Australia, on which to erect a • to its constituency a Biblical, advanced institution, and one which every Sab- Christian school. This estate was , sub- normal, missionary, music, and commer- bath-keeper should support both by ex- sequently called the Avondale estate, and cial and shorthand course. ample and precept. the school was denominated the Avon- The spiritual -interests of the school dale School for Christian Workers. To have been well guarded, and when the The. Australasian Missionary Volunteer meet the condition brought about by the school closed last year it was found that Department Compulsory .Military Training Act, the only one student had failed to acknowl- name was changed, -in June, 1911, to that edge Christ as his Saviour. The gradu- The Missionary Volunteer societies of of Australasian Missionary College. ating-class of 1912 was composed of four Australasia number 88, and (including However, - the name to the people' will students from the ministerial 'course, six the state department, have a membeiihip ever remain. the Avondale School. In from the missionary course, and one of -2,099. The contributions fin- home harmony with the instruction of the from the music course. and foreign work during the four years spirit of prophecy, the school was located The value of the Australasian Mis- were $17,084, of which ,over $r4,000 was in- -the country, where the- beauties _ of sionary College to the great union con- for foreign MisSions. nature -are more elevating than. the works_ ference which has fostered it from the -With the, foreign offerings a man and ofman; where the tilling of the soil-:is beginnin,g, and the value to the cause wife •are supported in the Cook ISlands, better for muscle, brain, and heart, than of- og d, only the judgment will reveal. a man: and -wife in ,Samoa, a man and the- amusements, :sports, -and holidays; You have here at this General Confer- Wife,itt:NeW. Hebrides, a, maxi and: wife where God's pure -air.is::sWeeter --than in ence :delegates: from the island fields as in! Tonga Islands, three native workers the city streets; and where true Manhood 'well as the continental mission fields, native worker Jn.New Guinea; and womanhood,- and the-love of Christ, who have been trained within its walls, and: - soine -. needed facilities , for the may develOp the_ hearts of our youth In. the home land, and in the :mission workers are also supplied:, Thus the under the best :possible tonditions,.., , field, are to :be .found its- faithful rep- young people are quite arilactdriin: the The nearest -.city --is: tWerity,five. miles resentatives • working, out the principles spread of the gpSpel.MesOge; away, the.rpapital.pf rtoilgh them, by 'their •alma miter. , South Wales, is seventy five ::miles 'dis B.- F.: MACilLAN.: Ot:Pfj11014A1 e. 941:140 these interesting reports, • • GENERAL CONVERENCE BULLETIN 155

the Conference adjourned, the benedic- tle Paul was in naturally. We are brethren, that there are many of us here tion being pronounced by Elder J. 0. all struggling with the. same great prob- on this ground who want the same bleSs- Corliss, who was one of those sent to lem, we are all in need of the same glor- Mg. We want power from God to over- Australia by the General Conference ious victory here today. We feel it; come our sins. We may be seeking for twenty-eight years ago, when there was and surely it must cheer our hearts this gain, or for honor and fame. We may not a Seventh-day Adventist in that morning to learn from the Word of God have evil tempers; wicked thoughts may field, Elder Corliss led the Conference that there is a way to be made free from crowd into our minds. We may have in thanks to God for the great work the law of sin and death. difficulties in our homes, with our com- that has followed the planting of the I do not know, dear friends, that I panions,. in our churches, with our breth- standard of truth in Australia. ever sensed the glorious value and mean- ren and sisters. It does not make any L. R. CONRADI, Chairman; ing and help of this statement more than difference what our besetting sins are, W. A. SPICER, Secretary. I did yesterday. And I think I may be brethren, we want the power of the Al- free to tell you why. While Dr. Fox mighty to overcome thein. We want was speaking yesterday morning, I ,was victory in the struggle at home, in the Q511Je *ertnott called out to the telephone, and was told church, on the street, among the people, that a gentleman down in the city wished and in all walks of life. Everywhere, FREEDOM IN CHRIST the to ring him up; I did so. He told me every day, we want to know personally that he very much wanted to see me. the power of God that , frees from the A. G. DANIELLS Well I arranged to see him at his law of sin and death. Anclebrethren, Sabbath, May 24, n A. M. hotel. He is a man of standing and in- that blessing, that personal victory over fluence. But he felt the same great sin, will be one of the greatest assets the WHEN I was asked by' the brethren need that. many of us, or all of us have denomination can have for the triumph Thursday to take this service, I did not felt. He said to me, " You are a Chris- of this work in this day; •for it is a vic- contemplate the great blow that would tian. I want to be one. I am having a torious, triumphant, overcoming church come to us [the sudden death of Elder great struggle because I lack the will that can bear powerful testimony to a Irwin]. I have been exceedingly busy power to do what I know to be right, and sinful world. 0, may God teach us our need of victory, and show us the way, so that in all the vicissitudes Of life,, in these powerful temptations that come to us when we grapple with them,— no one, perhaps, knoWing of our efforts' to be come free but our own poor, struggling hearts,— 0, that we may know the experience set forth by the apostle Paul in his trimphant testimony of personal vie-, tory ! We must Study the preceding verses in order fully- to understand the verse I have read. In these we' find that the law of GOd, the law of the ten commandments, enters into this great arguthent that the apostle carries on. Let us 'read a verse or two. In the seventh chapter, verse 7, the apostle inquires: " What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay I had not known sin, but 'ONE OF THE DORMITORIES, AUSTRALASIAN MISSIONARY COLLEGE, COORANBONG, NEW by the law: for I had not known lust, ex- souvi-t WALES cept the law had said, Thou shalt not covet." all the •morning, and I feel very greatly to refuse what I know to be wrong. What law is here referred to? — The the need of your earnest, united prayers I must have help. I must have power commandments of God. in verse 22 we at this hour. I am sure that the circum- to do that which my own conscience ap- read, " I delight in the law of God, after stances which surround us, and all that proves. I believe in God, and that he the inward man." The apostle is bring- we face at this hour, will cause us to hears prayer, and I have felt so anxious ing to our minds the law of righteous- humble our hearts, and lead us to recog- about this, that I thought you would ness,— that law the transgression of nize God, and to avail ourselves with all come down here and pray with me and which is sin. He also calls attention our hearts of the provision that is made ask God to give me victory." specifically to sin. " For sin," he de- for our present victory and for our tri- Well, I tried to show him from the clares, "taking, occasion by the com- umph and salvation at last. Bible what it taught, and it was there, mandment, deceived roe, and by it slew The text that has been impressed upon brethren! As I looked into the earnest, me." The apostle is dealing not only my mind is this: " For the law of the solicitous face of that man, and I with the law of God, which is the stand- spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made thought of the gaiety and the sin and the ard' of righteousness, but with sin itself ; me free from the law of sin and death." vanity of this great city — and that this and he tells us his relation to sin, his at- Rom. 8: 2. And this is the message I man locked himself in his room until I titude toward it; he says that it deceived want to bring to every soul here this got there — then to have him earnestly and slew him, and he was under its do- morning,— deliverance from the law of ask a Christian to pray to God for vic- miniOn and power. sin and death. I believe the apostle tory touched my heart. 0, how I prized Then Paul calls our- attention to hint- Paul tells us of his triumph in his own this statement of the apostle! and how self ; and in this he brings each one of personal experience. I do not think he I wished that it might be borne to all us into touch with the qitestion with was writing alone for some one else; I struggling men and women! And so, which he is dealing. _ He says, " We believe that 'he stated just what he him- after going over the provision God has know that the law is spiritual t but I am self had found, that the law of the spirit made, to redeem lOst humanity and to carnal, sold under sin. For that which of life in ChriSt Jesus, Iiad made him free give weak men strength, we knelt down I do I allow not: for what I would, that. from the law of sin and death. I believe together, .Side by side, and I besought the do I not, but what I hat; that I do." that what the apostle experiended and Lord with all my 'heart to give him new Verses 14, 15. He :is dealing with him- gave to us is a revelation of what we power, to give him will power, to con- self;-personally,'and in relating' his ex-. ourselves may experience in our strug- vert his heart, to make him a ChriStian perience, he relates:yours and mine, does gles with sinf. So we have this for ,dur and obedient. When we arose, he was he not? :.encouragement, and our, hOpe foday, and t?4tho in persOratinn,, and was very Voices_:. Yes, Yes! I am sure this must be' a, welcome word pale; he could not ,speak, and I: could Precisely, Patil could not have spoken. to. many hearts here- this morning. It saY:no more than to tell him I would Mote truly of 04; and 'if we were 16 be . dOet not make any differenee.What our continue to pray. ,He pressed my hand, as frank and as open and: true; We-would: names. are, What our nationality it but, did not •speak, and we parted. speak of Ourselves exactly as Paul did makes' no difference what our a.dvati-' I have thought of this' eXperience ever' oh himself tages or disadvantageS have been., we since as much as I haVe had time to`think If them I do that`'Which -nOti ;are all in the same, position: the .apos-' Of what men want ,and need, and I feel, I consent unto the law that' It sTs.goOd. 156 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

Now then it is no more I that do it, but personally, he makes the triumphant perhaps the person has not been wionged sin that dwelleth in me." The apostle statement _I have chosen for our text: at all, but only thinks so. The next reveals his relation to sin, just how he " The law of the 'spirit of life in Christ time they meet, the person that thinks and sin stand,— and how is it? Why, Jesus hath made me free from the law of he has been wronged, will not look at he said, sin dwells in me. The wicked sin and death." The law of the spirit the one he thinks has wronged him,, but thing itself is in me, and that is what of life had come in and wrought for him looks the other way. The one he thinks makes me do the things I do not want the deliverance for which he longed. has wronged him may try to get his eye to do, and keeps me from doing the But how did this marvelous change and perhaps may now and then succeed things I desire to do. That is it. For come about? How is it that Paul steps in getting an icicle sort of nod, but if he I know that in me (that is, in my flesh), from a state of condemnation and sin, shakes hands with him, it is like shak- dwelleth no good thing: for to will is a state of bondage and groaning servi- ing a pump handle. There is no life, present with me; but how to perform tude, to the place where he can say, no brotherly sympathy and love, mani- that which is good I find not." " There is therefore now no condemna- fest. And then this person goes into the That is just what many who come to tion "? He tells us that the law of the church and " worships the Lord "! us today say, " I will, but I have not spirit of life in Christ Jesus had come in- Brethren, this is all wrong. It is a man- power to carry out my will; I promise, to his body — among his members — ifestation of the law of sin and death. It but I have not the power to keep my and had made him free from the law of is one of the works of the flesh, which promise.; and what I want is that prayer sin and death. Brethren, there is the is of the devil. Now do you think breth- shall be offered that God will give me way of victory; there is the way of con- ren, that we are going through to the the poweff' That is just what Paul is quest. Paul found the way, and he has city of God feeling that way toward talking about; and, brethren, that is just shown it to us. Now, brethren, this may some one who has wronged us, either in- what we are struggling with. 0, you be argument, but I want it to be more tentionally or unintentionally? people that have come here to this gath- than argument today. I want it to come Voices, No. ering from your homes, I do not believe to every heart as a blessed experience. I heard of a brother who had uninten- that you came here primarily to visit But we must know the way, and I do not tionally wronged a brother, or at least the city of Washington! believe there is any other way than the a brother supposed he had been wronged, Many voices: No, No! way laid down here in this Word. and when this brother met the other he I do not believe that you came here Now just a few words more about this would not speak to' him. It went on and chiefly to visit one another. I believe law of sin and death. In Gal. 5: 19 we on, until finally the brother who was sup- that back of every other reason, deep read: " The works of the flesh are mani- posed to have injured the other brother down in your hearts, you came here for fest, which are these"—we get now the became so agitated over the matter that the blessing of God. features of this rule of sin and death, he could not endure it. One day he met Voices: Amen! this power of evil that rules in the hu- the other brother in the road, and he fell Did you not brothers, sisters? Did man heart, and that enslaves the whole down on his knees before him, and said : you not come here to get new help ? human race. These features are traced " My brother, I cannot live with your Voices: I did! in all their ugliness and meanness, and hatred toward me. I want to be -a Did you not come here to get a little we can hardly read the horrible things brother to you, and I want you to be a more power to resist temptation? Did Without blushing. First the apostle men- brother." And there he had to plead in you not come here hoping that somehow tions " adultery, fornication, uncleaness, the dust for that brother to smile upon you would be given the secret and the lasciviousness "—that terrible, vile, and him. And 'when they came to talk it all power of a victorious life in your homes, awful thing that has fastened itself in over, it proved to be nothing but a in your associations, and in your service every heart of the human family. It has misunderstanding. for God? Is not that it? I should be come to us in its various insidious mani- I will tell you, brethren, a great many very sorry if that were not the real pur- festations and operations. 0, brethren of the troubles that come to us, that pose of our gathering here. That is it! and sisters, we want the power of the cause us sleepless nights and anxiety, Now let us go on with Paul's experi- living, God to blot this„.thing out of the are caused by just such misunderstand- ence. The twenty-second verse: " I heart I We want the cleansing blood to ings and misjudgments. And unless we delight in the law of God after the in- wash us clean of this evil thing. Per- get hold of God enough to take that evil ward man: but I .see another law in my haps that is all I can or dare say here, thing out of our hearts, and make us members, warring against the law of my but you know what is meant, we all know forbearing, and long-suffering, and kind mind,"— against my conscience, against what is meant, and know that we want to people' who actually mistreat and my knowledge, against my sense of the cleansing blood, and we want the wrong us, how can we go out and talk things. There is another thing in me be- law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, the gospel of peace and good-will to our sides a conscience, besides enlightenment, to set us free. fellow men? 0, we must experience besides understanding, that has power Here is another thing, " idolatry ". this thing in our own hearts. We must over my conscience, over my understand- Idolatry is not all confined to India, know it. ing, and over my desires. I see another China, Japan, and the heart of Africa. Now the apostle tells us that we were thing in me that is ruining me, that is I will tell you, my friends, that thing has sometimes disobedient, hateful, and taking me down to perdition, as much as residence in the human heart; it re- hating one another, but he says, " after I desire to be delivered. " 0,_ wretched Sides wherever the heart is not cleansed that the kindness and love of. God our man that I am! " That is what Paul ex- and made free by the law of the spirit of Saviour toward man appeared, not by claimed. I am sure that many here have life in Christ Jesus. works of righteousness which we have sent up that cry to God more than once. And the list goes on, " witchcraft, ha- done, but according to his mercy he Then the apostle asks, " Who shall de- tred." 0, yes, you say, I can forgive, but saved us, by the washing of regenera- liver me from the body of this death ? " I cannot forget! This is hatred. In tion, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ; Who shall deliver me from this law in how many forms does it manifest itself ! which he shed on us abundantly through my members, that is successfully and Hatred is the cause of trouble in the Jesus Christ. our Saviour; that being triumphantly warring against the law of churches, trouble in the family, in the justified by his grace, we should be my mind? Why, that is a fearful situa- neighborhood, and in the world. In the made heirs according to the hope of tion to be in ! One may be in physical epistle to Titus we are told something eternal life." danger, he' may be surrounded with per- about this, in the third chapter and the The apostle pictures a marvelous plexities, or facing dreadful calamities; third verse: "For we ourselves also were change that came over the church of and he may work himself out by a terri- sometimes' foolish, disobedient, deceiVed, God, and made, them new creatures in lile exertion. He may throw himself serving divers lints and pleasures, Christ Jeitis, so that they had victory into the battle and win out. But not so ing in malice and envy, hateful, and ha- over the law of Sin and death, with this. The thing is in him, and it is ting one another." That is one of the Now let us go back to the law of sin beyond his power; struggle as he may, manifestations .of the law of sin and and death, as presented to us by the he .cannot conquer. So Paul surrenders. death; that is one of the parts of that apostle Paul: " Idolatry, witchcraft, He throws up his hands, and exclaims, law that runs in the heart and rules-,the hatred, variance, emulations; wrath, " 0, wretched man that "I am! who shall Very life; and that must be'broken; and Strife, seditionS, heresies, enVyings, trim- deliver me ". from this terrible thing? eradicated frOm the heart, It is a ders, drunkenness, revelings, and such I. cannot deliVer myself. Who can and strange thing to me to have a brother, like: - Of- which 'tell you before, as. who will? , or a sister take offense in the ChUre: I have also told you in time past, that Now, after speaking plainly of his ex- I have seen it tight some 4hey which do such things shall not perience and placing before us those one has wronged a brother or a '-Si4tetJ;; heart the -kiogdo-tp of God," facts that are Well krioWnto, Ourselves, either :intentional 17. :,salvation. ,";depends upon our GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 157 liverance from this law of sin and death. revelation of what love meant. It was Saviour, Jesus Christ, who died on the We cannot get to heaven with this law a .simple thing, but that does not make cross for us. Brethren, it is that love reigning in our hearts and controlling any difference. • Our experiences Come we need to give us power in soul-win- us. There is no use. We may hide a to us many times in little things. I was ning work. We all need it, brethren, in thing from our brethren and from the traveling on the train in Australia from our homes, in our communities, in our world, but it is known to God, and we Sydney to Melbourne. We came to a churches, everywhere. We need it in must be fair and honest with him, and place where we had to change cars. missionary endeavor; we need it in the take that thing to him, and ask him to 1 got my satchel placed on the train, schools as teachers. 0, how you teach- slay it, and deliver us. And do you and as I turned around, I saw a group ers need this love of God to make you know what real pleasure there is in of men and women looking at a poor patient, forbearing, helpful How you going alone, where not a human ear can man who was intoxicated. He had need it to make you kind with• the err- hear a word said, and bow down in the dropped his satchel, and it had opened. ing, with' the wayward, with naughty presence of a holy God, and say, " Lord, His things were scattered about, and the children ! 0, it is love that will con- look on this wicked thing in me. Look ladies were passing around so as not to quer ! But without love we can do on this thing I am struggling with. come near him. Some of the men were nothing. You know its power. You know how looking on with disgust, and some were We could spend all the time this I have struggled with it. Lord, slay that making fun of the poor fellow. Some- morning on this one fruit of the Spirit thing. Crucify it; deliver me from it, how it touched my heart greatly. I no- — love. It is love that must be manifest whatever it may be." If it is a desire ticed that his face was intelligent. in the life if we have power to win to for gain, leading you to withhold from There was a drunken man who could Christ. But, brethren, love =comes only God his tithe,— 0 brother, if you are not help himself. Before, I, had always through the law of the spirit of life in tempted to grip the tithe, and not let it steered clear of an intoxicated man. Christ'', Jesus. ... , get back to God, where it should go, But in this instance I went forward and Brethren, there is indeed " no con- that is an evil thing! Take it to the stooped down and picked up his things demnation to them which are in Christ Lord, and say, " Lord, look down at this and put them in his satchel. Then I Jesus;" for the law of the spirit of life room in my heart where commerce has said to him, " My man, where do you does free all from the law of sin and its seat; look at this selfish thing that want to go" He said, " I want to go death. This experience comes to every reigns here ; look at my covetousness; to —," naming the town we were then man who surrenders himself fully to which is idolatry, which exalts money in; so I said, " Well, we ,are here." But God. We may have such an experience and gain above my God; look at this evil he said he must get on that' train. I on this camp ground, and we ought to thing, and, 0 Lord, deliver me from it ! said, " No." have it. This people ought to know this If it is desire for place, to be the elder All the time these people looked on, experience, this abounding love. We of the church, or the chief singer, or thinking, I suppose, I w,as his brother. are commissioned- to go into all the the ruler in the conference, or anything It was a little embarrassing, but I world and preach this love to a lost else, we can say, " Lord, look at this worked with him. I ,finally got him by. world, and how can we fulfil our trust thing that sin has planted in my heart; the arm and helped him to stagger along without this love abiding and abounding look at it, and deliver me, 0 Lord! Give to a cab. I said to the cabman: " Here in our hearts? 0, we must, have vic- me a humble mind. Make me enjoy is a man. This is his town, but he can- tory; we must know it ! You have come service for others. Help me to be will- not manage himself. You take him to to this meeting, I trust, for it. Do you ing to be the servant of others. Lord, his home, and if you want your pay be- want to win your wayward boys to deliver me from this thing." forehand I will pay the bill." As we Jesus? Make them know the love of Do you know how much joy and were going toward the cab, the drunken God. Do you want to win that worldly pleasure there is in an hour of such man turned to me, and said, " Who are husband to Christ before it is too late? communion with God? I' will tell you, you?" I said, "Never mind." But he Somehow reveal to him the love of God. brethren, it is not only joy, but it is vic- said, " Who are you? " I 'said, " I am Brethren, we must be winning these tory, and you can come from the secret a friend." He said, "Well, I bet you victories. This people ought not to be chamber with a new flush upon your are." Then he began to fumble in his weak in soul-winning endeavor. We cheek, with a new feeling in your heart, pocket, and got out a sixpence. He said, ought to be mighty in the world, and and with the honor of all your brethren I must pay you." " No," I said, " put people ought to know that they can send and your neighbors cherished. It is for that back in- your pocket, and hurry to us for prayer. And, 0, when we go us. I do not know of a single evil in along, because I must get my train." in response to such calls, we ought to the whole category of sin, but what can So he staggered along. He said, " I bet know how to lay hold of God for vic- be dealt with in that way, and can be you will that sixpence." I did not tory ! We ought to. put down and slain, and the grace of know what he meant, but I got him in I must close. Brethren, I want to ask, God be put in its place. the cab and all fixed up, and then said, though, how many there are here whose Now perhaps I have said all I can at " Good-by." Althought intoxicated, this hearts yearn for this change. Of course this hour on this law of sin; but I will poor man was tprofuse in thanking me in the great congregation I am sure all tell you it is a terrible law, an awful for my kindness. He appreciated what do, but are there some here who espe- thing. It is that which binds the na- I had done for him. cially desire this victory that comes tions of the world today; it is, that which I went back and sat down in my seat. through the law of the spirit of life in rules throughout the world; it is that I thought of that poor soul. I thought Christ Jesus? First of all, I want to which causes the bloodshed, the sorrow, of his lost condition. I thought of his ask those who especially desire this, who the suffering; it is that which has landing at last in perdition, and 0, how long for it, and feel that they must broken and held millions of hearts; it, my heart yearned to save him! And know more about this before leaving this is that with which Paul is dealing, and somehow, just then, a flood of Christ's conference, to stand up. [Many arose.] from which he is telling us how to get • love came into my heart as I never had I do not call for a general manifesta- free. 0, I rejoice that God placed me felt love before for men. I put my hand tion, but you — whether you are a min- where I could see the light of this glo- in my pocket for my handkerchief, and ister or a teacher or an elder do you rious gospel sent into the world, to de- there I found that sixpence. I looked feel that somehow a new hold must be liver men, to deliver sinners ! at it, and I kept it a long time, because obtained, a new experience that will en- Now let us spend a few minutes in it renewed a very precious experience. able you to be victorious in your per- considering the law of the spirit of life I felt that I had tasted the love of God sonal struggles and in your endeavors in Christ Jesus. That is the grand, the for a helpless creature. I felt some as for the lost? I am sure it must be so. glorious, the beautiful side of this whole Brother Farnsworth pictured that father We all feel it. question. The law of the spirit of life who went out to meet his wayward, sin- We do not want any one to leave this in Christ Jesus is here contrasted with ful, sinning boy — so glad, so kind. Conference sorely disappointed. The the law of sin and death. " But the Brethren, I must say to you that from message has come to us that we must not fruit of the Spirit is love." How much that night — it was midnight when we repeat the • mistake of 1909 —going better this is than hatred! How much changed cars — from that hour there away with the showers of blessing just better it is to love a human being than came to me a new feeling and a new hanging over our heads, but not falling. to hate him! How much better to feel longing to work for lost men. I had They must fall upon us. Who, then, will an unspeakable desire to help a poor tasted some of the joys of such serv- join in the congregation, and in the ef- man than to crush him! ice. fort on our part necessary to bring this Love is the fruit of the spirit. I can Now the Bible says that one of the great blessing? [Others joined those tell you once, brethren, when that love fruits of the Spirit is love,— the love already standing, and here the service flooded my heart, and gave me a new of our Heavenly Father; the love of our closed.] 158 GENERAL CQNFERENCE BULLETIN jirom Yormer suit of. this decision, an application was and tried in every way to win their fa- sent to the government for a site some vor and friendship. We got boys for eleven miles southeast of Gendia. After many miles around to come in to our THE REPORT OF OttR WORK IN very little delay, the site was granted. schools, and they in turn begged us to BRITISH EAST AFRICA Work was commenced immediately, and go to their districts and start schools. before the heavy rains of March we, had In the spring of 1911 we were weak- (Read by Elder Carscallen during sev- a very good house built, and brother and ened, because- Brethren Baker and enteenth meeting of Conference ses- Sister Baker went to conduct the work Brooks were both taken ill at the same sion, May 25, .ro A. M. there. This is our Wire Hill Mission. time. Brother Brooks had to return I STARTED from England to British Thus, after two and one-half years' home several months later on account of East Africa, by way of Germany, Oct. work, we had two mission stations run- his illness, but Brother Baker recovered, 22, 1906. There accompanied me a na- ning, and four workers in the field. A and is still at work in the field. tive African boy named Peter Nyambo. few weeks later Brother Morse arrived In the spring of 1912, Brother H. We went directly to Tanga, German to help with the work at Gendia, and in Sparks came to British East Africa, and East Africa, to visit our missions in the November of that year, 1909, Brother a few months later Brother L. Lane followed, and in October last Brother E. Phillips arrived. The total number of workers who have gone to that field is eleven. Brother and Sister Brooks returned, and my wife and I are now home on furlough, leaving seven in the field at present. On the sixteenth of this month Brother Evenson, from Dakota, and Brother Watson, of Ireland, sailed from Southampton to join our little band on the shores of the great Victoria Ny- anza. Plans are being made for several other young people to go to that needy field before the end of 1913. We are very grateful to God for his mercy, shown in sparing all our workers. Dur- ing the six and one-half years of our work in that field, we have not lost a worker through death. During the last few months our work in British Africa has been wonderfully blessed of God. The government officials have become most friendly to us, and are now trying to help us. They also decided to sell their old station at Karungu, and gave us the first chance; consequently, it is now a Seventh-day Adventist mission station. We have been granted two new sites, and two KIDZU STATION, BRITISH EAST CENTRAL AFRICA others have passed the local officials, and we expect to hear at any time that they Pare Mountains, where our work had and Sister Brooks and Sister Morse have been granted. This gives us five been started some three years before. joined us, raising our number of work- sites secured and two others that we On returning from there Brother A. C. ers to eight. expect have been granted by this time. Enns accompanied us to British East We then wanted more stations, but One of the new stations already Africa. After spending a few days look- because of impressions that had been granted is in the Kisii country, among ing over the country and inquiring about made some years ago, the- government a different people, and now our workers the natives, from those who had spent was not in favor of granting us sites, will have to learn a new language. some years there, we decided to go to and in the matter of securing new sta- The Language the southern Kavirondo district, and pro- tions we were at a standstill. We tried ceeded up the Uganda Railway to Kis- to purchase from the government their When we went to the Kavirondo six umu, where we made further inquiry S concerning the country. In Kisumu we chartered a - small steam launch, with which we crossed the gulf, and pitched our tent in South Kavirondo on Nov. 27, 1906. We immediately began to look about for a favorable site on which to build our mission, and after a few days' time we chose a site on the top of a hill, about a mile and one half from the lake. Our first house in this part of the Dark Continent was of poles, grass, and papyrus reeds, but we did not occupy this very long, as we commenced work on a good stone house almost at once. In May, 1907, Brother Enns left me, and I was alone from that time until the end of July. July 27, Brother and Sister Baker and Mrs. Carscallen ar rived in the country, and we all lived A RAILWAY STATION ON THE UGANDA RAILWAY for some time in the one station. Dur- ing this time we worked to get the build- old abandoned station at Karungu, but and a half years ago, their language was ings completed, and also studied the lan- they refused at that time to sell, as they not yet reduced to writing, and the na- guage. A little more than a year later, thought of using it again themselves. tives knew nothing about what reading Elder Conradi visited us, in November, We, however, worked up good schools and writing are. They had seen Euro- 1908. At that time we marched with ' in the two stations we had, and did all peans write, but thought it was only him over a good- deal of our territory we could to strengthen the native boys some witchery that helped them to re- there, and it was decided that we should we had under instruction. We traveled member things. We had to start with start another mission at once. As a re- about the country visiting the natives, the alphabet, and teach them their let- GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 159

ters. We adapted the English alphabet and every Seventh-day Adventist should sixteen more followed in baptism, ma- to the language, and used the Arabic rejoice with us over these books; for king in all fifty-six boys, girls, and numerals, in order that they might write they, arernarks„of the progress of the women, baptized' among this tribe, in the down the numbers. We had no books third -angel's Message. heart of Africa, who but a few years ago whatever, not even a vocabulary of the Our School' Work were running wild and naked, without language. We had no hymn-books, no hope and 'without God in the world. Of Bible, no primer, nor any helps in that At first the school •work went very these, fifty-six only one has apostatized line at all. In our Sabbath services we, slowly, for three reasons: First, we did and one died of sleeping-sickness. We at first, had no hymns to sing, so we not know the language; second, we had have organized two churches, with a read from the English Bible, and then no text-books to put into the hands of total native membership of fifty-four, explained it. Later, when we got one the boys; third, the young saw no value many of whom are now scattered hymn, we were very proud of it indeed, in learning, as they did not understand throughout the district teaching, or help- and used to sing it at the opening of it. These things are reversed today, ing to teach. These young men and however. We know the language; our women are full of courage and enthusi- books are about ready; and the natives asm, and when I left them the other day, are becoming interested in learning. they requested me to bring their greet- We now have, in British East, Africa, ings to our people in Europe and Amer- three stations built and thirteen out- ica. Their message was,: " Greet our schools, with over six hundred boys and brethren and sisters in Europe and girls as students. We have about twen- America for us, and thank them for ty-six native teachers, including both sending, the missionaries down here. boys and girls, who have had some ex- Tell them that we are their brethren and perience, and have shown themselves sisters in this message, and that we love capable of teaching the primary lessons. the same truth, accept the same Jesus, Many more are now being prepared for and live in the same hope that they do. that work. Several of the advanced Also tell them to send us more workers boys and girls at Gendia can sit down to help take the Word of God to others." and write a good letter on the typewriter. Though our Kavirondo members num- In our scbt ols the students are taught ber less than one twentieth of one per reading, writing, singing, spelling, arith- cent of our world's membership, we are metic, geography, grammar, and Bible. glad to report that they help to make To illustrate how the natives are ta- the grand total what it is; they help king an interest in,school work, I might to swell the large increase reported for say that it is nothing for a native to the last four years; and may God grant come thirty, forty, sixty, or one hundred that they may help to sing the song 'of miles to one of our missions, and beg us victory when Jesus comes. OUR MISSIONARY BOAT, " KAVIRONDO," ON to go to his district and start a school. Brethren and sisters, our motto down If we do not go at once, he will come THE VICTORIA NYANZA there is, " This message to Africa's teem- back that one hundred miles to see us ing millions in this generation." I be- again, and urge us to go. They come the service, then sing it after the prayer, lieve we can do it; yea, we must do it. to us from all parts, as we are becoming His name shall endure forever ; his then sing it over again to close with. known as the people who teach the Word Now we have a fine little hymn-book, name shall be continued as long as the of God. sun; and men shall be blessed in' him; containing seventy-nine hymns, the Our Converts Lord's Prayer, and the ten command- all nations shall call him blessed. Blessed ments. This is the first book that we For some time we found it difficult to be the Lord God, the God of Israel, have written and had printed in this lan- persuade the boys to give up their cus- who only doeth' wondrous things; and guage, and we are now as proud of it toms and accept the Word of God. They blessed be his glorious name forever: as we were of the one hymn we had a few years ago. The Gospels of Mark, Luke, and John are now in print. The other day in London I took the translation of Matthew down to the Bible house, and it will be printed as soon as possible. We have written a nice primer, which is now, being printed in Watford, Eng- land. A copy-book is also in the hands of our printers there, and a small arith- metic will be ready for the press soon. We have good English-Kavirondo and Kavirondo-English dictionaries, and a very good grammar. Thus we are not only prepared with helps for teaching the natives, but we are able to put into the hands of our new workers a good supply of information that will help them in learning the language. Permit me to add that nearly all of the above books were written, once at least, on the little typewriter that the students and teachers of our school and sanitarium here so kindly donated to us. It was a most useful gift. WHERE FLOWS THE ZAMBEZI - ABOVE VICTORIA FALLS, AFRICA The other day we heard of the Bible or parts of it being printed in eight new are taught to believe that they will die and let the whole earth be filled with his languages during the last year. Three if they leave the native customs and glory. Amen, and amen. of the languages were named, and one is superstitions. Secondly, we were in no a British East African language. The hurry to baptize the boys, and worked Nilotic Kavirondo is another that came for nearly five years before we received WOMAN'S WORK IN CHINA out last year. It was taken in hand by any natives whatever into church fellow- May 26 the Bible House the year before. We ship. In May, 1911, we baptized sixteen now hope that it will not be long before boys, the first-fruits of our work among AT the 4:30 hour in the big tent a the Kisii language will be counted as a the Kavirondo people. In May, 1912, large audience gathered to hear Sisters new language at the Bible House. We we held another baptismal service, when W. C. Hankins and J. P. Anderson tell have not done all the translation of twenty-four were buried with their of experiences in working among the these four Gospels, but all the other Lord in the watery grave. At our last women and children of southern China. bo®ks that I have mentioned are ours, quarterly meeting, at the end of 1912, Incidents were related' showing how 160: GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN; hearts in Chinese homes respond to ciates became convinced that larger Topic: " The Training Course." Mrs. kindly attentions and efforts. books could be sold, and went into the Carrie R. Moon, of South Bend, Ind., The school work is one of- unbounded field and demonstrated their belief to be said in part: " In every line of under- interest. The Chinese child has a re- a correct one. Their sales have greatly taking skilled workmen are needed. No markable power of memory. Some of increased since, and now they have 128 one wishes to employ men or women the girls in our schools can begin at the men devoting their entire time to these who have not been trained for the line first word of Mark's gospel, and repeat larger publications. of work which they undertake to do. the whole book by memory, with very Another point made prominent was the We have been told by the spirit of few errors indeed. The descriptions of advantage of handling but one large prophecy that every teacher should feel these hearts and homes in China make us book and one or two helps, rather than that he must be ' better acquainted with long more than ever to send help to our a large variety. One of the most re- the best methods of teaching.' The sisters over the Pacific. markable facts presented was the num, Sabbath-School Teachers' Training ber of colporteurs who are constantly Course is planned to help us directly in • 1.••••- • employed in the field. They have 513 this. The very best books that could who are putting in more than one hun- be found on methods of teaching have WORDS FROM FAR FIELDS dred hours a month, and 452 who put in been selected. Ought we not to appreci- THE thoughts of all the mission work- less than that time, and who are called ate such help ? Some have objected to ers, we know, turn much toward the home workers. This makes a total of this course because books not written by General Conference these days. Here 965 colporteurs, and he expects this our own people have been sometimes se- are words from some who have had oc- number will reach a thousand by the lected. This objection does not seem casion to be writing the Mission Board time he returns. well founded. In ' Testimonies on Sab- office : — bath School Work,' page 9, we are told Elder W. H. Meredith (North Eng- that ' the modes of teaching which have land) : " While I cannot be there myself, FOREIGN DEPARTMENT been adopted with such success in the I am continually remembering you all at public schools could be employed with the throne of grace." Third Meeting similar results in the Sabbath-schools.' This shows that we are not to reject in- Elder W. M. Adams (Philippines) : " I [The first two meetings have not been pray that the Lord will give his Spirit reported.] struction because it has been written by in large measure as the brethren meet those who have not a knowledge of all THE third meeting of the Foreign De- the truths which have been revealed to in General Conference. We want more partment was called to order by G. F. help over here. Now is the time to us. We can learn much concerning Haffner. methods of teaching by what is written work these islands." 0. A. Olsen urged the necessity of do- Elder H. H. Votaw (Burma) : " You by teachers of experiences both in the ing more for the foreign population of public schools and in the Sunday-school, must remember that we who stay in the the United States and Canada. We have field are the ' India delegation ' no less rejecting that which is not in harmony millions of Italians, Poles, Slays, and with our work." than those who are with you in person; other nationalities in this country. The for from every family altar, and every Topic : " Camp-Meeting Sabbath- Lord is raising up believers among these School Work." Mrs. Flora V. Dorcas, secret place of individual prayer those people in many places. Earnest pleas petitions -will ascend that cause us to of Iowa, set forth strongly the valuable for help are being received continually. opportunity which the camp-meeting af- forget the miles between us, and in our This work will never prosper until lead- hearts we will be with you every day of fords the conference Sabbath-school ers are selected to lead out, in training secretary to advance the interests of the the Conference. Bear the message to workers, and to assist those already in the delegates that 'Burma gives evi- Sabbath-school work. The paper pre- the field. sented many details of. the work to be dence that the Lord's return is near." D. P. Boersma gave a report of the Elder F. A. Stahl (Bolivia) : "Dear done, and the desire to have copies of Holland work in New Jersey. Of the this paper immediately so as to use the brethren at the Conference, greetings Holland pOpulation in Northern New from us workers in Bolivia, and bless- suggestions in the coming camp-meeting Jersey about 70 per cent are adherents season, was so great that it was decided ings from the Lord to you." of Calvinism, which was taught them Elder Geo. F. Enoch (India) : "Some- to get out the paper in circular form at by the clergy of the Dutch Reformed once, for the benefit of the secretaries. how it seems to me mat the brethren at and Christian Reformed Churches. They this Conference will face the problems Miss Bessie Acton, of Mt. Vernon, have their own private schools, in which Ohio, urged the secretaries to improve of the finishing of the work more defi- their children are instructed in the doc- nitely than at any time in our history. the opportunity afforded by the camp- trines of John Calvin. About 18 per meeting to become personally acquainted May the Lord give the greatest out- cent are infidels, and the remaining 12 pouring of his Spirit that we have ever *ith the Sabbath-school workers from per cent are Romanists. While the work all parts of the conference. For weeks, received." among these people is attended with per- Elder W. C. Walston (Rhodesia, Af- plans and prayers have been centered plexing problems, progress is being upon the camp-meeting, and when the rica) : " I hope the blessing of God may made, and in this we rejoice, and take rest upon this important meeting." people arrive, they have laid aside the courage. cares of life for a few days, and their hearts are ready to respond to plans for progress and spiritual advancement Xlepartmentai Ofeetingo SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT which the leaders have to offer. The Eighth Meeting camp-meeting affords a chance for the PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT personal touch that will make all our Eighth Meeting " How to Draw " was ably presented work more effective. by Mrs. H. M. J. Richards, of Phila- Question Box: " What do you con- BROTHER H. BOEX, who has general delphia. She spoke earnestly of the sider the best time of the day to hold the charge of the territory supplied by the value of simple drawings in illustrating, camp-meeting Sabbath-school, forenoon International Tract Society of Ham- the Sabbath-school lesson, rather than or afternoon ? " burg, gave a most enthusiastic descrip- elaborate, carefully drawn pictures. A Mrs. Plummer thought the forenoon tion of methods and progress of the short line sufficiently represents a per- was unquestionably the preferable time. book work in his territory. Among the son, a number of lines a group or an The Sabbath-school forms a most appro- points emphasized were the following: army. The imagination of the child priate introduction to the Sabbath serv- For many years they confined their sales supplies the details. Mrs. Richards ices. to pamphlets and small books, the col- showed how mountains, trees, rivers, cit- Elder Thompson said that he had seen porteurs believing these were the only ies, and even figures of persons may be the camp-meeting Sabbath-school held publications that could be successfully quickly drawn by using the side of the in the afternoon, but every time he had sold. Brother. Boex and a few asso- crayon, thus making broad strokes. thought it almost a failure.

THIRTY:EIGHTII SESSION

No 7 TAICOMA PARK STATION, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1913 NO: :11

THE GENERAL CONFERENCE God, and was sure of fulfilment. It is ple had been without a prophet fOr four BULLETIN a 'source of great gratification to me or five hundred years. Malachi was the that the word of God abideth forever, last. Published by and is fulfilled to the very letter. And When John appeared with his mes- The General Conference of Seventh-clay as we go over the various prophecies sage, the Pharisees and rulers were dis- Adventists . that are so familiar to us as a people, turbed. They. were in spiritual dark- DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY it is a great comfort to know that they ness themselves, and they did not under- 50 CENTS FOR THE SESSION, MAY in TO JUNE 9, 1913 will surely be fulfilled. stand the prophetic significance of this Editorial committee: W. A. Spicer. C. P. Boll:nem Some may say, " How can 'we tell message, and so they sent a iiePutafiOn C. C. Crisler. T. E. Bowen. H. E. Rogers. 3. N. Anderson. when this was fulfilled ? " Turn to the to see what John was about,— to see Office editors: C. P. Boll:nen. C. C. Crisis,. Copy editor: Mrs. C. M. Snow., first chapter of the gospel of John. In what: he meant by stirring up the whole the fifteenth verse and onward we read : nation. They asked him, What is your Entered as second-class matter at the post- " John bare witness' of him, and cried, authority for doing this? He answered -office at Washington, D. C., May 16, 1913, under the act -pf Congress of Maich 3, 1879. saying,' This was he' of whom I spake, them with the words of Scripture; " I He that cometh after me is preferred ani the voice of one, crying in the wil-

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38thlt fnithg our REPRESENTATIVES OF-THE INDIA UNION MISSION IN ATTENDANCE AT THE GOD'S MESSENGERS GENERAL CONFERENCE: GEO. I. BUTLER before me: for he was before me. And derness, Make straight. the way of--the May 26, 8: 3o A. M. of his fulness have all we received, and Lord, as' said the prophet Esaias." He " THE voice of him that crieth in the grace for grace. For the law was ,given referred directly to the passage we have wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the by Moses, but grace and truth came' by choSen as our text, for his authority to Lord, make straight in the desert a high- Jesus Christ. No man bath seen God speak to the people. He was a' God- way for our God. Every valley shall be at any time ; the only-begotten Son; appointed man,, sent beforehand to bring • exalted, and every mountain and hill which is in the bosom of the Father, he to; the attention of the Jewish nation the shall be made low : and the crooked shall hath declared him. And this is the rec- great fact that their' expected Messiah be made straight, and the rough places ord of John, when the Jews sent priests was coming, and to do all he could, to plain: and the glory of the Lord shall and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, bring about a spiritual reformation, thus be revealed, and all flesh shall see it Who art thou? And he confessed, and preparing the way for the advent of the together: for .the mouth of the Lord denied not; but confessed, I am not the ,promised One. bath spoken it. The voice said, Cry. Christ. And they asked him, What The 'circumstances surrounding the And he said, What shall I cry? All then? Art thou Elias ? And he saith, birth and early training of John the flesh is grass, and all the goodliness I am not. Art thou that prophet? And Baptist, the prophecies given his par- thereof is as the flower of the field: he answered, No. Then said they unto ents, concerning his mission, and his long the grass withereth, the flower fadeth him,. Who art thou? that we may give sojourn .in the desert,— all these facts because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth an answer to them that sent us.' What are familiar to students of the Word. upon it: surely the people is grass. The sayest thou of thyself? He said, I am " The child grew, and waxed 'strong in grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the voice of one crying in the wilder- spirit, and was in the deserts till the the word of our God shall stand for- ness, Make straight the way of the Lord, day of his showing unto Israel". Luke ever." Isa. 4o:3-8. as said the prophet Esaias." Verses 1: 80. This prophetic passage, recorded 15-23. John appeared at the time predicted, seven centuries or more before the first John the Baptist made very clear to " preaching in the wilderness of Judea, those who came to him, that he was not and saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom advent of Christ, was doubtless read . with wonder by many who were tracing " that prophet " foretold by Moses in of heaven is at hand. For this is he that the Scriptures relating to the coming the eighteenth chapter of Deuteronomy, was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, Messiah. What could this prophecy not' was he Elijah returned to earth. He saying, The voice of one crying -in the mean? Nothing very definite could be simply, said, " I am the voice of one wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the learned from the wording of the text. crying in the wilderness, Make straight Lord, make his paths straight. . . . Then And yet it was a part of the Word of the way of the Lord." The Jewish peo- went out to him Jerusalem, and all 162 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

Judea, and all the region round about maybe he has .not tried- it so much as If- you did, you made a mistake. You Jordan, and were- baptized of him in-Jor- some of us old heads have. It is right should have said, The Lord knows- best dan, confessing their sins." Matt. 3: 1-6. that those- who, are• chosen by -.jheir I am nothing but a poor mortal man; The preaching of John ,wak accom- - brethren- should,- under God, fill exalted but I know that what God has - said will panied by a power that arrested atten- positions in connection with the cause stand. tion and created a mighty stir. Many of present truth; yet we know it is pos- Christ continued: " But what went ye began to humble themselves before- God, sible for -4tich men to ,get .the feeling out for to see? A prophet?- Yea, I to repent of their sins. and to seek the that Perhaps they can run matters about say unto you, and more than a prophet. way of salvation. Even the scribes and as well as any one else could. The time For this is he, of whom it is written, Pharisees were there, and to these who may come when old age or something Behold, I send my messenger before still claimed to be spiritual leaders, but else makes it advisable for them to step thy face, which shall prepare thy way who had failed to fulfil their sacred down from positions of responsibility, before thee. Verily I say unto you, trust, John addressed words of stern re- and let younger men come in. It is at Among them that are born of women buke. " Who hath warned you to flee such times, brethren, that the princi- there hath not risen a greater than from the wrath to come?" he inquired. ple to which John referred, applies, John the Baptist: notwithstanding he As John the Baptist proclaimed his even in our times —" He must increase, that is least in the kingdom of heaven message from day to day, many were but I most decrease." It is a good thing is greater than he. . . . And if ye will converted, and baptized of him in Jor- to learn how to do that gracefully. I receive it, this is Elias, which was for dan. -In the midst of this remarkable want you to learn that lesson so that to come." Verses 9-14, spiritual awakening the promised Mes- you will be fully reconciled to all that The messenger who was to come in siah suddenly appeared, at the time ap- may come to you in connection with the the spirit and power of Elijah, to pre- pointed. laying off of burdens you, are no longer pare the way for the advent of the Mes- "Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to able to bear. siah, was prophesied of by Malachi. Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. John must have passed through an ex- Through the last of the Old Testament But John forbade him." How do you ceedingly trying experience; but the rec- prophets the Lord slid: "I will send my suppose he knew who that was? 'Why ord left us reveals that, he triumphed messenger, and he shall prepare the way should he forbid him more than others? over every temptation to doubt, even before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, 0, John was taught of God, he knew after having been imprisoned. In Mat- shall suddenly come to his temple, even he: was standing-in- the presence of the thew we read-: " When John had the messenger of the covenant, whom ye HtlIy One of Israel, and he felt un- heard in the prison the works of delight in: behold, he shall come, saith wdrthy to baptize him. And so we hear Christ, he sent two of his disciples, the Lord of hosts. But who may abide hint saying, ," I have need to be baptized and said unto him, Art thou he that the day of his coming? and who shall of E thee, and' comest thou to me? " But should come, or do we look for an- stand when he appeareth? for he is like other ? " The Saviour knew of the JeStis, answering, said unto .hitn, " Suffer a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: and it to be so now for thus it becoineth triafi of mind through which: John was he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of us I to fulfil all righteousness. Tlien he passingr and he answered-his messengers silver: and he shall purify the sons of suffere-d'hini, Arid Jesusiwhew he; was: kindly:;-3171* cast no reproaches because Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, baptized; wilt sti ai 001 aY.-Pub o£ the of 'thetiatiy, " Art thou'he that,should that they may offer unto the Lord an water-;:, and,,lo,- the heavens' were openea come, -or 'do we look for ' another?" offering in righteousness. Then shall untoin„ ;aud-he:-eacy. the-Spirit of iGnd Jesus -answered and said - unto. them, the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be deScendint-ilik0 dove, and ,.lighting Goehowand= John. again those things pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days upnnAifitk- and to al voice lic-nn heaven, Which ye do :Hear- and see: the blind of old, and as in former years. And saying,_Tbikialtiy belO04*)11, in whoin receive- their siglit, and the lame, walk, I will come near to you to judgment, I an well pleaSed!'' Matt,y 3: 13,.w.- the lepers --are =cleansed,.andi-the._deaf and I will be a swift witness against the That-Was_ ,a most interestinro4ceasion. hear,. the _dead: are raised- up, and the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, There iS something grand about some- poor have the gospel preached to them. and against false swearers, and against thing :Oat ineltS .tny heart when ;I think And blessed is-'be, whosoever Shalt not those that oppress the hireling in his of !"1-1OW.rrnY 'blessed SaYiOW'so:cfniildc so., be offended- in :Verses. 2-6. wages, the widow, and the fatherless, meek so hultble, came -to 'be'tiaptized, Doubtless:1119n' disciples went back and that turn aside the stranger from by-.John, .so aie'tO set an example for all and told their master just what he told his right, and fear not me, saith the that should follow. Blessed Jesus! them' to, and no doubt it was a- source Lord of hosts." Mal. 3:1-3. J'ohn's work went on. But after the of great courage and blessing to John. This prophecy was written about four Messiah appeared, it began to be seen He had not known the condition of af- hundred years before Christ. When in that John's work was beginning to at- fairs, and now when he was assured by the fulness of time the Messiah ap- tract less attention than before. John him whom he had himself said was the peared, he said that John was his mes- himself recognized this. Later, when he Messiah, that a mighty work was in senger, and that there was no prophet " was baptizing in /Enon near to Sa- progress,— the gospel was being that had excelled him; and it seems to lim," prior to his imprisonment, " there preached to the poor and needy, the me that he plainly taught that a mes- arose a question between some of John's sick were being healed, and the dead senger of the Lord is greater than an disciples and the Jews about purifying. were being raised,— I suppose John ac- ordinary prophet of the Lord. That is And they came unto John, and said unto cepted that word with joy, and his heart interesting to me; I have thought of it him, Rabbi, he that was with thee be- was filled with solace and comfort. considerably. yond Jordan, to whom thou barest wit- As the messengers sent by John de- And I cannot help believing with all ness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all parted, " Jesus began to say unto the my heart that in the closing work of men come to him." They thought per- multitudes concerning John, What went the gospel, preparatory to the second haps that would stir up John's feelings, ye out into the wilderness to see? A advent of Christ, the spirit of proph- as the crowd coming to him was dwin- reed shaken with the wind?" You ecy will ever play a prominent part. dling and the crowd thronging Jesus' have seen reeds shaken by the wind, There are others who have been con- was increasing; but John was a man have-you not? You have, if you have nected with the Scventh-day Adventist with a noble spirit, and his answer was, been observing people. The reed is denomination longer than I have. There " A man can receive nothing, except it influenced by every changing current. are two here [pointing to Elders Lough- be given him from heaven. Ye your- Was that the kind of man the Jews borough and Haskell] on the platform. selves bear me witness, that I said, I went out into the wilderness to see But the Lord has given me many oppor- am not the Christ, but that I am sent when they went out to sse John bapti- tunities for observation, and as I have before him. He that hath the bride is zing? I think not. That man was as mingled with our dear brethren and the bridegroom: but the friend of the firm as a rock. sisters, during the years that have been bridegroom, which standeth and hear- Some may ask, Was it proper for passing, I have been impressed that a eth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the John to ask those questions, under the grave danger confronts this people. It bridegroom's voice: this my joy there- peculiar conditions he was facing at the is that, as the work develops, and tens fore is fulfilled. He must increase, but time? In reply I would say, He had of thousands are added to our numbers, I must decrease." John 3:23-30. not given up his faith at all, but he did they will never conceive ex understand In these words, dear friends, John not know how to understand some prov- the difficulties that confronted the pio- stated a great principle that is not al- idences. Did you ever come into such neers; and, they may lose sight of some ways easy to' learn. I see one of my a place, brethren? I dare say you have. of the fundamentals that have to do with dear brethren at the front smiling. I have, a good many times. Did you the foundation principles of our mes- Perhapshe has tried it. I hope so, but doubt and give up and go into despair? sage. 0, how I wish some of you could GENERAL CONFERENCE Bt/LLPTIN '163

have a glimpse of how the Lord wrought everything finally 'Came out just as she given up that institution then? That in theite' early days! And how I wish had said it would. institution has been• proSpeted by the you might ktioW more of hoW that That dear woman has lived for more hand of God, and it has 'come' up to a bleSSed servant of the Lord, Sistet than.fetirscore years, • andshe, of course, high standard of efficiency, and is do- White, worked many times —hoW -she feels the- effects Of age. I think the ing a noble work. The debt has 'been Corrected this error, and that error; how Lord is taking off from her some of the paid by the earnings. she counseled in times of perplexity and heavy burden of responsibility that she And so it is, my friends, with our discouragement. If you could know has previously carried. She is not so sanitarium over in Colorado. I have some of the facts we older ones know strong as she once wat,— how could she made up my mind, though I am not much regarding these matters, I am sure you expect to be, when she is eighty-fiVe of a sanitarium man, that the devil does would love and appreciate this blessed years old,— and yet she is able to look not like our sanitariums very well, and truth more than ever. You would cher- after her writings and to giVe us good he will throw every influence possible in ish everything that had to do with the counsel. She is not here with us this the way of stopping them. I believe beginnings of things, when foundations year, though she was four years ago, and those instiutions might be made to were being laid by the pioneers of this really risked her life in coming, too. prosper if we could get the right kind message. But, 0, what a flood of light she • has men to manage them. I have heard about a meeting in New left for us ! Those precious volumes,— Btethren, we are' etting to be a great York where they came together after what could we do as a denomination people, and we- shall have to watch our the disappointment of 1844, and every- without them? And now the question is, schools, our educational work, and our thing was in disorder. But God had a Will we, as a people, give proper atten- sanitarium work. I am so thankful that servant who helped them step by step tion to these counsels? As I advance our educational work has developed, and all the way along. in years, I find developing in my heart that our children can attend our' own As I look back, there have been crises an increasing desire that our people; our schools. We must be careful' to live When great men, intelligent men, have leading brethren, carefully study what close to the Lord, and pray him to guide gone astray. But the testimony always these Testimonies say, and live: up' to us i* all' these matters, and to keep us came plainly in regard to these matters. their teachings. I am watching jhis walking in' the light. 0, I see dangers A good many of us can remember that point 'pretty closely, and I want to say coming to us ! I see that, we are, let- when pantheistic teaching was, intro7 a warning word here, beeause I ana one ting down the lines somewhat. I belieVe duced, a few years ago, light came from of the old wheel horses' of this denomi- we are' making a great mistake in. Our God, about it. The Lord bade his mes- nation, or have been, at least, I want music. I believe we ought to make More senger " meet it," as in a vision she to say that if we 'de not folio* thete Ilse` :tha`n we do of our standard hymn- saw a ship meet, an iceberg and shatter things very eloSely, we 'shall". fall' into bdok,'" Hynnis' and 'Tunes." I told Yon it to fragments. A good; many chunks serious difficulties. ' ' that Vint' year§ ago,, and now. I, tell, it to of ice were broken off then. In later years, after being 'called to you again. I must not stop to expatiate, on this the presidency of the Southern field; "I 'We must be guarded on all points; we topic of the place God's messenger oc- corresponded with Sister' White a great must keep ups the standard; we miist cupies in the church, but I am very deal concerning my work in that dis:- not permit` ourselves to drift like the much interested in it, my friends. Of trici. Elder Daniell§ and Sister White world. EverY important 'religious course I am getting very old, and may had urged inc tci‘ serve, in spite of' my movement' in the woyld has started en- pass ay soon , but I am not worrying pretests.• I worked there 'six years, as couragingly, but by and. by 'worldlinest about that. What I do worry about is hard as I ever worked in my life, and has been allowed to prevail. The Cath- how I stand in God's sight, , I have believe God blessed ,me, too, during that olic Church' went into apestasy, Piotes- come to the point where I do not care administration. tantiam today 'is drifting 'in the same so very much about what my brethren Voices: AMen ! airection. The ''greatest danger we as think, though of course it is pleasant Now, in regard to the sanitarium a people have to meet, as we become nu- to know that the leading men are glad work, I wish to say that some three or merous and pre§petons,, is worldliness. to see me, and that they still think a four sanitariums were bitilt in the Let 'us guard against this. Let =us. ever little of Brother Butler.; but, brethren, South, in hartnony, as we understood, cherish the high spiritual standard up- the great thing is to know, day by, day; With counsels received through 'the held by the pioneers of this message. what the Lord thinks about us. spirit of prophecy. Sister White and I May God help us, is my .prayer. were in constant correspondence, and I I did not expect to come to this Con- cannot tell you of the interest she mani- ference; but my attendance was urged, fested in building up those institutions THE EVENING SERVICE and so I just dropped everything, and in the 'Southern 'field. And I -cannot May 7:30 arranged to come. I did not know tell you, my friends, how sad I feel 25, P. M. whether the brethren would want me when I see that some of them are likely K. C. RUSSELL Spoke on " The Second to preach, but I decided that if they did, to be dropped out. One of them, I un- Coming of Christ," using,' as his text I would say just exactly what I derstand, has already been closed. This Joel ''2 : I. thought; so you must pardon me, for I is not because Sister White counseled 'He dwelt on the solemnity of the sec- shall say what I think just as well as thus, for she advised that it 'be per- ond coming of Christ. The very call of I can. mitted to live, if possible. " Why," said the prophet Joel to Prepare for this event, I greatly fear, brethren, that there are a brother,." it was running in debt!" which would take place many hundred multitudes of our people who have not But I wis I could tell of the hard ex- years after his time, is one of great "sol- half learned the value of the instruction periences many of our' greatest sani- emnity. In the same spirit and in much that comes to us from the messenger of tariums have had to go through. I re- the same language the apostle Peter em- God. Brethren, if you fail to make much member when they started that sanita- phasizes the same great truth. of the counsels of God's chosen mes- rium in 13attle Creek, the first one, that Elder Russell spoke Of the fatal mis- senger, you will suffer great loss. When has done so much good in the past. take made by the people of our time in I review •the life of that dear, precious They, hardly even had a doctor when not giving attention to this momentous woman, whom I honor more than any they began, and they had to begin in a subject. This very neglect on their part other person, I think what a tremendous private dwelling-house. There came a lays the greater burden of proclaiming responsibility she has carried. I have time when it appeared as if everything this truth upon us, the professed people been in high offices myself. For nearly was going to smash, entirely demoral- of God. Though we as a people preach a dozen years I was president, of the ized, and they' had to gather all the the near coining of our Lord, we do not General Conference; and during that Men together and plead with them to set any time. There is no Bible warrant time I knew there was only one thing lend a hand in helping to relieve a dif- for the preaching of a definite time. that would make my administration a ficult situation. But, while we do not teach a set time safe one, and that was to follow closely Then, too, there is the sanitarium at for Jesus'. return, we do hold that in the what the servant of the Lord had for St. Helena, Cal.; I am undet the impreS- many signs in the world all about us the me. I always corresponded with her in sion that there was a tithe when they nearness of his blessed revelation in the regard to important problems, and she were one hundred twenty-five thousand clouds of heaven is clearly shown. Wit- kindly admonished me. Sometimes the dollars or more in debt there; and at ness the mighty military activity in our counsel came pretty close and set pretty the same time thir water supply was in- day; the vast• accumulation of wealth, snug; but I am glad I prayed over it a adequate, and theY seemed to be going the social unrest; the rapid increase of great deal, and trusted God to make mat- right on deeper into debt. Would it not crime; the moral drift away from God. ters plain; and I am glad to say that have been sadly unfortunate if they had And in the face of all this is sounded :164 GWRAT,:l cpNEgRENcE, BuLLETIN

the i cry of 'peace and . safety, in direct labor, "nany, tm)re believed on,hirn be- My; interest in the_general work, js still fulfilment ,of Paul'S.,proplietie.Word. cause of his own word;" -,ThiS was their as, deep as ever, and Lgreatly desire that The one only solution to all this is the testimony; '`,Weiliave,,beard him, Our- the cause of present truth shall, -stead- corning: of Christ;, and ,t_I,,glorigus selves, ancilmoW that this is indeed the ilY advance in all parts of the world. consummation we ardently desire. Christ, .the- Saviour of the' .world." 1,it I find it advisable not to attempt Who among God's ,professing people much public work while my book work will take up ithis sacred work, and labor demands -my supervision. I have some Conference Proteebingss for the souls-who are perishing for lack of the best of workers— those who in of knowledge? The, world Must be the providence of God connected with warned. Many places are pointed out to me in Australia, with others who have TWENTIETH MEETING me as in need of consecrated, faithful, united with me since my return to Amer- May 27, Io A. M. untiring effort. Christ is opening the ica. I thank the'Lord for these helpers. hearts and minds of many in our large We are all very busy, doing our best W, T. KNox in the chair. cities. These need the truths of God's to prepare matter for publication, I Prayer by E. W. Farnsworth. Word; and if we will come into: a sacred want the light of truth to go to every Elder Daniells read to the Confer- nearness with Christ, and will seek to place, that it may enlighten those now ence a message of greeting and counsel draw near to these people, impressions ignorant of the reasons of our faith. from Sister E. G. White. The Message for good will be made. We need to wake On some days my eyes trouble me, and up, and enter into, sympathy with Christ I suffer considerable pain in them. But COURAGE IN THE LORD and with our fellow men. The large and I praise the Lord .that he preserves my small cities, and places nigh and afar sight. It would not be strange if at my Recently in the night, season, my off, are ,to be worked, and worked in- age I could not use my eyes at all. mind was impressed by the Holy Spirit telligently. Never draw back. The I am more thankful than I can ex- with the thought that if the Lord is coal- Lord will make the right impressions press for the uplifting of the Spirit of ing as soon as 'we belieVe . he is, we upon hearts, if we will' work in unison the Lord, for the comfort and grace might to be even more active than we with his Spirit. that he continues to give me, and that have been- in years past in getting the I have words of encouragement for he grants me strength and opportunity truth, before the people. you, my brethren. We are to move for- to impart courage and help to his .peo- In this connection, thy mind reverted ward in faith, and hope, expecting large ple. As long as the Lord spares my to the, activity of the advent believers in things, from God. The enemy will seek 'life I will be faithful and true to him, 184$ and 1844. At that timeithere was in.every way to hinder the efforts that seeking to do his will and to glorify much house-to-house visitation,: and are being ;made to advance the truth, his name. May the Lord increase my tiring efforts were made tn. warn the but in the strength of the Lord you may faith, that I may follow on to know people of the 'things that are ,spoiten, Of gain .success. .Let no discouraging him, and to do his will more perfectly. in God's Word. We. should beptitting words be spoken, but only such words Good is the Lord, and greatly to be forth even greater effort than .Was put as will tend to strengthen and sustain praised. forth by those who proclaimed, the first your fellow workers. I greatly desire that the old soldiers angel's, message sp faithfully. We are I long to be personally engaged in of the cross,' those grown gray in the rapidly ; approaching the end of, this earnest work in the field, and I should Master's service, shall continue to bear earth's history; and as we realize that most assuredly be-engaged in more pub- their testimonyright to the point, in or- JesusJpu is indeed coming soon; 'We shall lic labor did I ;not believe that at my der that those younger in the faith may aroused to, labor as never before. agp kis not .wise to presume on one's understand that the messages ,which the We are bidden to sound; a, alarm to, the physical strength. I have a:work to do Lord gave, us in the past, are very im- people. 'And in our _own lives we are in communicating to the church and to portant at this stage of the earth's his- tb _show forth the power of truth, and the world the light that has been en- tory. Our past experience has not lost righteousness.. The, world ,is soon to trusted to me . from time to, time all one -jot of its force. Meet' the great Lawgiver over s hi broken through the years during which the Let all be careful' not to discourage Those only who turn front' trans- third angel's message, has, been pro the pioneers, or cause them to feel that gression to obedience, can hope for par- claimed. My heart isd lle with a most there is little they Can do; 'Their in- don and peace. earnest desire to place the truth before fluence may still be mightily exerted We are to raise the banner on which all who can be reached..And I am still in the work of the Lord. The testimony is inscribed, " The commandments of acting a part in prepaing matter for of the aged ministers will ever 'be .a help God, and the faith of Jesus." Obedi- publication. But I have to move very and a blessing to the church. God will ence to God's_ law is the _great issue. carefully, lest I place _myself where I watch over his tried and faithful stand- Let it not be put out of sight: We must cannot write at all. I know not how ard-bearers, :night and day, until the strive to , arouse church-members, and long I may live, but t am not suffering time comes for them to lay off their those who make no profession, to see as much healthwise as I might expect. armor. Let them be assured that they and obey the claims of the law of Following the General Conference of are under the protecting care of Him Heaven. We, are to magnify this law t00% I spent several weeks attending who never slumbers or sleeps; that they and make it honorable. camp-meetings and other general gath- are watched over by unwearied senti- Christ has commissioned us to sow erings, and visiting various institutions, nels. Knowing this, and realizing that the, seeds of truth, and to, urge upon in New England, the Central States, they are abiding in Christ, they may Our people the importance of the work and the Middle West. rest trustfully in the providences of to be done by those who are living Upon returning to my home in Cali- God. amidst the closing scenes of this earth's fornia, I took up anew the work of pre- I pray earnestly that the work we do -history. As the words of truth are pro- paring matter for the press. During rn. this time shall impress itself deeply -claimed in the highways and the by- the past four years I have written com- on heart and mind and soul. Perplexi- ways, there is to be a revelation of the paratively few letters. What strength ties will increase; but let us, as believers working of the Spirit of God on human I have had' has been given mostly to the in God, encourage one another. Let us -hearts. completion of important book work. not lower ,the standard, but keep it lifted 0, how much good might be accom- Occasionally I have attended meet- high, .looking to him who is the author 'plished' if all who have the truth, the ings, and have visited institutions in and finisher of our faith. When in the Word of life, would labor for the en- California, but the greater portion of night season I am unable to sleepy I lift lightenment of those who have it not. the time since the last General Con- my heart in prayer to God, and he When the Samaritans came to Christ at ference has, been spent in manuscript strengthens me, and gives me the assur- the call of the Samaritan woman, Christ work at my country home, " Elmshaven, ' ance that he is with. his ministering serv- spoke of them to his disciples as a field near St. Helena. ants in the home field and in distant of grain ready for harvesting. " Say I am thankful that the Lord is sparing lands. I am encouraged and blessed as -not ye, There are yet four months, and my life to work a little longer on my I realize that the God of Israel is still then cometh harvest," he said. " Lift up books. 0, that I had strength to do all guiding his people, and that he will con- your eyes, and look on the fields'; for that I see ought to be done! I pray that tinue to be with them, even to the end. they are white already to harvest." he may impart to me wisdom, that the I am instructed to say to our minister- Christ abode with the Samaritans for truths our people so much need may be ing brethren, Let the messages that come two days; for they were hungry to hear presented clearly and acceptably. I am from your lips be charged with the the truth. And what busy days they encouraged to believe that God will en- power of the Spirit of God. If ever were! As , a result of those days of able me to do this. there was a time when we needed the GENERAL' CONFERENCE BULLET' 165

spetiaftnidance-of the I~oly Spirit; 'it is Knox: Now we will- give oppor at "a time when'•these temptations were now.. We ,need a thorough, consecration. tunity, if it is desired, for any one to very strong' upon Me. I am glad that It is, fully tine that we gave_ to the world express himself in connection with this there is yet - sympathy for one another a demonstration of the power of God in communication. among our brethren. , But I do not want our own lives and in our ministry. , J. N. Loughborough: I can say that to' talk particularly upon that point. The Lord desires,,to see the work,, of this communication has shed a ray of en- I 'feel encouraged by the exhortation proclaiming the third angel's message' couragement through my mind, and killed we have received in this communication, carried, forward with, - increasing effi- one of the lies that the deVil has been to do all that is within our power to help ciency. As he has worked in -all ages trying to tell me for a number of years. others see the truth. That is the point to. give victories to his people, so, in this That lie was that the brethren did not that appeals to me more than anything age he. longs to carry to a: triumphant want to hear from me. He would say, else. I feel as though my greatest desire fulfilment his purposes for, his church: " You keep still; they do 'not want' to is to give this message, and my prayer He bids, his believing; saints to ,advance hear you." A brother who came to me is that God will give me the strength and unitedly,' going' from strength to greater this morning said he thought I had grown power of mind to go forth with this mes- strength, from faith -• to increased •asso old that the devil does not bother me sage as in days of old. When I hear the surance, and confidence, in the truth and any more. But I thought I was like a reports of the progress of God's work righteousness of his cause. man who said he thought the devil must throughout the field, it seems that there We, are . to stand firm 'as a rock to let everybody else alone, hespent so is something that rises up within my the principles of :the Word of .God, re- much time on hitn;": The devil tells me heart and says, " Go ! " I feel as though membering that God is with us to give I have tot old and 'had better keep' still: I can hardly keep still. I know it is us strength -to. meet -each-new experi, He has told me that a thousand tithes, "I thought that my best days are behind ence. Let us ever maintain in our lives suppose, and I guess fifty times since I me, but I do believe that God still has a the principles of righteousness,' that we have been in this meeting. ut if I un- work for some of us older ones in his may go forward from strength • to derstand that' testimo y, I ca say some- cause. I want to so live that I may know strength in the name of the Lord. We thing once in a while hat wit encourage the triumphs of his Holy Spirit "all the are to hold as very sacred the faith that the people. time, and be ready either to die or to do. has': been substantiated by the instruc- Many Voices: Ame! (Amens.) tion.-and approval of the. Spirit 'of God J. N. Loughboroug : And. when that A. G. Daniells : I read the communica- from our earliest experience' until the testimony Spoke " cou age-in the Lord," tion, but said nothing as to my own ap, present time: (We are to cherish' as I.wanted to say, " Courage in the Lord." predation of it. So I wish to say that very precious the work' that the Lord The Lord,is,talking,to us Yet feel jtrateful >to .our Heavenly Father, has been carrying 'forward, through his ,: I repeat on thing that with' looks doWn upon us in all our weak- S:14.41askell ness'and all our frailty, and pities us,•and commandment-keeping people, ;, = and Elder_ Loughborough said... Of course which, through the. poWer of his grace, speaks:words of encouragement and good the devil is not, dead, and have mye . will gee* stronger and more efficient as temptations_ :the same as he h s. cheer. I am greatly encouraged by the time: -advances.) The eneiny. 'is . seeking that I will not believe note of cheer-it sounds, and which it ad;- made up ,longMind , monishes us always to sound. And; tdo, to becloud the, 'discernment of God'S hiin:' As brig I. am armin people, and to 'weaken their efficiency, to' be`around. And if there s anything brethren, let be admonished by it, alL but if, they will labor, ,as .the Spirit, Of I can say, I hope that I shall always be ways to Speak- Woi6—af courage ah'd God shall direct, he will. open doors of near enough to the Lord to .gay it, - and cheer . uplift and strengthen one an- opportunity before- them :for the . work not to feel as though I ought not to say other in the work and in the battle. of building . up the •.old ,,waste placeS. anything.. I know people thin I am get- Temptations are not peculiar to men Their experience will be one of Constant who are gray or white with years. They ting to be old, and I suppos I am, ac- dome to some of us in middle life, and growth,'''until..the • • Lord shall descend' cording to years; but I was t inking the from : heaven with. --power and great ..I felt , unusually they' come' to young people. Trials, dis- other morning, when couragerrients, and temptations of all' glory to set his, Seal of final triumph well and clear,— abOtit as .1 sed to feel upon his faithful, ones. .! : ,'• 6,— I feel sorts come to uS, arid we must take twenty-fiVe or, thirty years,,a age, even •When temptations are pressing The work, that3lies, before',Us . one as, though • I tan not live less' 1 am that will put toy the Stretereverrpower us hard, if 'we are to win victories. So' doirig something to advance this work. good of the- 'human, being It will call- for of gh feels this morning I praise God for this ; And tknow Brother Loughbo Word that has come`to us, and I ani sure the exercise of 'stront faith arid, con- the same way. stant vigilance. ',At tinres:Jthe,'diffitut: that as we -read it and' study it, it will I, am very much encoura ebY ' Ais be'a help and a strength to us. (Amens.) ties, that :We' :shall: meet :will moat dig- testimony. I thank the; Lo that we heartening.: -The merY'greatheas of - the have the Lord's voicet amo g us still. A. C. Beinrdeau: 'I thank the Lord for task, will appal us. And, yet; with God's May the Loyd help' to heed that voice, this• testimony .that came to US this morti helm.: his 'servanta.;will finally triumph.' and be prepared for his eolui ing. It applies to each one of us. It is a " Wherefore," -'my brethren; I -.desire' lessed.and word of encouragement to God's people, that ye faint not " because of the try- G. I. Butler : I feel greatly edified with this last commu ication we to his servants;' and eyen to the aged like ing *experiences- ,. that,' are 'before you. 1/1 ., vtho felt' as though they Jesus. will 'be with you; :he,'Will* go be- have received from God's; s rvant. It should encourage us all. It s the .old- should, lay down the armor and be-Cluiet. fore you 'by his Holy Spirit, preparing in all her I feel fUll of courage, and am determined the ':way; and' he will be your helper in fashioned ring in it that is earlier writings. Some, thou ht thataS by the grace of God to gO'through With• every: emergenty. . • ' this people. Brethren, be of good cour- she grew old her writings w ld be less - '" 'For "this cause I:bow my knees- Unto powerful; but it, seems, to m that her ate in the Lord. the Father- of-our Lord''Jestia 'Christ,' later writings are the best. od is with , D. T. Shireman: I,; am glad to, hear of whom the whole 'fainily heaVen and that dear. woman. feel th nkful for this testimony of encouragement that."has" earth is named,' that he would grant you, this communication. I belie- e it ought come to us this morning. I am of good according 'to' the . rithes of his glory, to to encourage" us all in the wo k of God, courage, and am glad..I have a part, in . be strengthened with might by his Spiiit and especially is it encouragi g to some this work. I want to buckle on the in the inner man; that Christmay dwell, of us who are growing old. May the armor anew, and press on. in your hearts by' faith,; that ye, being Lord bless us all and save us in his Wm. Covert : I am very thankful to be rooted and grounded .-in love, may ' be kingdom. with you. I have been in this work a able- to comprehend with all saints what word? I good many years. I have felt the ,pres- is the breadth, and length, and depth, J. 0. Corliss: May I say have been feeling somewhat s has been ence of God with me all these years. I and height; and 'to know" the love' of ethren. I thank the Lord because I am associated Christ,- which ' pa'sseth knowledge, that expressed by these other b presume that the experience f the past with a class of workers who love the ye might be filled with all the. fulness ed me, has• Lord and love' one another, and I am of 'God." ten months, which has depres ,„ had the tendency to bring, t is feeling glad that I love them with all the fervor NOw unto him, that is .able to do ex- upon me. I know it is not ight. But of my heart. I still hope to live to see ceeding 'abundantly above ' all that we I am very thankful for one thing, and .1- sus come. By the grace of God, I ask or think, according to the power that that is that I have receive from my will strive to .keep my place, and work worketh in us, unto him be glory in the brethren such encouraging let rs.. I was with all the strength God gives me. church by Jesus Christ throughout all especially encouraged by a 1 tter from 0. A. Olsen: I cannot be denied the ages, world without end. Ainen." • Brother Daniells. It did my eart more privilege expressing my gratitude for ELLEN G. WHITE. good than I can express. It ame to me the blessings of this message. I am glad 166 GENERAL CONFERENCE • BULLETIN that all ,my life, from a child, so to speak, ilege to present our hearty greetings to REPORT OF THEJAPAN MISSION has been lived in connection with this you, which I brought from Japan. I The work of •the third angel's message work. And I am so thankful for what hope you may understand it. If you do had its beginning in Japan in November, that blessed gift has been to me in. the not understand it, please listen how it 1896, when Elder W. C. Grainger and T. various experiences of my life. I thank sounds to you,- and afterward Elder De H. Okohira, a young Japanese from Cal- God today for the courage he has given Vinney will translate to you. In Japanese ifornia, reached Yokohama, as our first us, and for the admonitions that have manner, when we present such a greet- misionaries, under the support of the come to us. I want to be faithful to the ing, we always bow down this way [ma- California Conference.: Elder Grainger end. king the bow], and' then we step back had formerly served the cause as the W. T. Knox : I am sure we all appre- three steps, and read for the president principal of Healdsburg College, and Brother Okohira had accepted the truth four years before, at a tent effort in Southern California, and had connected with the college 'as a student. From an acquaintance thus formed, Elder Grainger was inspired to give himself to the work in Japan. They began work in Tokyo. A little later Brother Okohira opened the work in Kobe, and among the first converts there was a young lady, who later became his wife, and a young man, who developed into an effective public laborer and was ordained to the ministry a few years later, and who will be remembered by those attending the last General Conference as Elder H. Kuniya, one of the delegates from Japan. The development of the work was of necessity-slow. We were of the very last of the Christian denominations to enter the field, and had to encounter all the opposition found at home from the established churches, and the self-satisfied indifference of a -heathen people. Elder Grainger, who was well along in years, and other foreign laborers who followed, did not acquire the language, which, by the way, is admitted by the best authorities to be one of the most difficult to FIRST VENT-MEETING IN JArAN learn in the world. But step by step the AT message has advanced against all opposi, tion, young workers have been 'developed ciate this message of courage that .has and to you. (The letter was then read and trained, earnest efforts have been come to us from Sister _White, and-that in Japanese.) made to acquire the language, and by ex- all pray that God may continue „to-:bless F. H. De _Vinney'; I will read the perience workers are learning- to avoid- her, and be ;very-near to hery: It is gra- translation (reading) ; many 'of the early difficulties, and how tifying: to, know that while I she. is not " The members of, the Seventh-day to reach the honest-hearted; for there here, still ,,her,, heart is . with and Adventist Church in. japan 'feel greatly are many honest souls in Japan who hear through: her, God has sent, this message honored to be accorded the privilege and receive the truth gladly. extending their most hearty. greetings to The distance- between the outposts Of W. Watt: I have now been in the the brethren assembled in conference at the•mision is now more than twelve hun- ministry 'for thirty-two years, •have Washington. dred miles by rail. This makes* both grown• old in, this• cause. I am glad this "'The believers in the Land of the Ris- difficult and expensive to administer our morning• for, the word that has come. to ing Sun, by fasting, and prayer, are affairs, This development is not the re- us, God has, a place still for those who pleading With the Heavenly Father that sult of any planning, but came through gfow,,graY, 41 his cause. My courage is his Spirit may' he • poured out, as in the the calls for help which resulted from good in the Lord. day of Pentecpst, upon-the General Con- the canvassing work. All our laborers, W=IT,, XIV*: It is ,suggestecl that we ference COmmittee, the delegates, and when necessary to travel by cars, use give 'all the privilege of voting their ap: the brethren from all the world gath- the second and third class. Most of the preCiation;,otthis message that has been ered at"this other foreigners use the first class. received by #4, -by rising: (All- the• con-, " We are praying that all the actions Wherever a company is established, we gretdtion ArQs0 taken at this conference may be in ac- encourage resident canvassing; but when C. P. : I move'Tthe president cord with the will of God, that they may necessary to go from place 'to place, and-Secretary of the General Conference help extend the work in the whole world, whenever possible the canvasers walk, be asked, in behalfof this body, to con- and hasten the' setting up of God's glo- thus saving the car fare and distributing vey to, Sister White an expression of rious kingdom upon' the earth. the tracts and papers by the way. appreciation of the counsels given in this " Especially are we hoping, with a While nearly all other denominational message, and of assurance of our Chris- longing that counts one day as a thou- literature is given away, ours is all sold. tian love and regard. sand autumns, that the brethren who To give it away makes it of less value in' 0. A. Olsen: I second the motion. have been accorded the privilege of rep- the minds of the people, and is not a good The motion prevailed. resenting the work in the Japanese field training, for them. Though the price is W. T. Knox: We have as yet received may receive Heaven's blessing, and be very small, yet it entails some sacrifice no report from Japan. We will there- able to faithfully perform their duties, upon the purchaser, and is much better fore take advantage of this occasion to and quickly return, bringing an excellent for them; besides helping to give the call upon Brother De Vinney and others report of the Conference. truth to somebody else, by producing to report. • Finally, 0 Lord, bless all our as- more literature. The people of the sembled brethren. We thank thee for GREETINGS FROM JAPAN middle class are poor, by American what thou hast done for Japan through standards, very poor; they have very F. H. De Vinney: We bear a letter of thy faithful children; but, Lord, grant little money left after the most common, greeting from the believers in Japan, that thy children may quickly answer the meager essentials of life are procured. and, thinking that you would like to hear Macedonian cry of the Far East. Amen. Those who have come in contact with it read in the Japanese, I have asked " From all the believers of the Sev- the ordinary mission work have been Elder T. H. Okohira, one of the pioneer enth-day Adventist Church in Japan." trained to receive rather than to give workers in Japan, to read it for you. This greeting was received with amens. anything to the support of the gospel. T. H. Okohira (dressed in 'Japanese F. H. De Vinney (reading fur- In this way they fail to receive the costume) : It is my great joy and priv- ther) : — blessings, and to make the development GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 167

in,Christian character, which come from quiries and? .calls for help 'which came men :and Nvomen 'filled with .the love of making a sacrifice to the Lord by giVing; ft-OM—different =places. Faith and cour- souls. For _the work of the message to but we are raising another standard. age in large measure were required in be made a success in our field, more Our tithes, and offerings are yet small; those days; for the needed funds for native laborers must be trained and but are increasing each year, and even the continuance and upbuilding of the sent out, -and those already in the, field the poorest are encouraged to give of publishing work were meager. Small must be given additional training to their slender means as they receive the contributions from friends on the Pa- become effective laborers. They must additional blessings from the Lord by cific Coast, and some profits from the be associated with the foreigner who so doing. sale of health foods, constituted the sole has been - educated and trained under We have seven organized churches, source of support. About the time men- Christian influences, and who has the with two good church buildings, and one tioned, Brother W. D. Burden connected spirit of the message. There is that in course of construction, also money on with the mission, and though he was not something that the Japanese language hand for the fourth. Total membership, a printer, he arranged for enough type cannot readily convey to "them from the 281; tithe for the year 1912, $1,493; and necessary equipment to do the most teacher, but which they must observe offerings, $322. Foreign laborers, 7; of our own printing. and absorb from him. We must have Japanese laborers, 4o. There are, be- During our period of development, a enough young people of this stamp who sides, those counted as canvassers who number of different tracts and pamph- can get the language, win the love and, receive a certain amount of books, lets, and two books have been published. confidence of the workers, and :be to tracts, or papers free each month, ma- We have just begun the publication of a thetti _the confidant and friend from' king 56 laborers supported entirely or monthly church paper. We trust that whom they are willing to receive coun-; in part. this will be to our. Japanese people what sel",and advice. Much, very much, has All our Sabbath-school donations are the Review and Herald is to our Eng- been in effort and money in the past given to missions, and Japan is joining lish-speaking believers. from ,'not having such associate_ work; with her sister schools of the world in In the summer of 191-I, Brother Chas. and. this condition must not continue; the thirteenth-Sabbath offerings, and N. Lake; of the Pacific Press, and a longer. will try to do her part toward the mark practical printer, joined our force of Wei are laboring for 'Success,-:endeav set before us of a million dollars for workers. This released Brother Bur- oring to be just-as little a.,'Cliarge-ttpoU missions during the next four years. den, who has Since led in the canvass- the'loyal,__ -devoted, and ,liberal.' friends Our mission training-school work was ing work, arid last summer went into the here„--: .pOsSible;- and we . are - hoping first opened as a three months' workers' field with a class of young people, in- arid that -We---inay in- time 'be-. institute in the fall of 1908, in Tokyo. structing and directing their work. come not 'only self-supporting, but may Our great need of more trained workers In the year 1905 a tent, which had been bear_ ,a, share, - ofthe burden of :spreading made imperative the continuation of the secured by gift from the States; was the 'great Warning" message.: the- rej; school. The following winter, again, pitched; and has 'been in, constant use gions-:beyond, revery. nation shall: the school was opened in Tokyo. A por- for meetings. The tent has been found know f the,salvation of God, .and the; tion of a foreign dwelling-house was to be the best means for reaching the power-"of-his' -Christ.-- And in-the gt,eat used for the schoolrooms, and three Japanese houses were rented for dormitories. Since, that time the school has continued each year, with an average attendance Of about twenty-five. At pres- out we have few workers. When the school can be properly housed, and suffix cient competent teachers can be secured, we know that a better school can be conducted. It was thought best to discontinue our mission sanitarium in Kohe during the year 1909, and since that:time the Condi-. tions have led' t1S‘to confine our Medical work to local treatment-rooms and personal medical missionary' work. Dr. W. C. Dunscombe *as with us in 1910 and 1911, prior to 'his .call to Cape ToWn. In Kobe, Dr. Noma, a Japanese lady and a sister in the truth, a Japanese- trained physician; have built up art institution, popularly known as the Eisei-In, which is doing a splendid work among the Japanese, a work that any foreign managed institution could not hope to do. Since the Closing of the mission sanitarium, Brother J. N. Herboltzheimer, our trained nurse, has been connected with the Eisei-In as a teacher of nurses, and general adviser; but with the beginning of the present year, he has opened medical missionary work in Yo- KOBE CHURCH, JAPAN kohama, one of the principal ports of the empire. In the spring of 1911 the people. In 1910 the second tent, and in consummation, just at hand, as the re- mission lost the services of Elder F. W. 1911 the third tent, and this present sult of the devotion and loyalty of those Field, who had long and faithfully year the fourth tent was procured. who have loved righteousness more than served as superintendent and principal Our tent experiences are remarkable convenience or pleasure, loved souls of the training-school, and who had been for nothing except for the number of more than life or ease, the truth more called home to take up work on the Pa- children who gather. We always have than houses and lands, may there stand cific Coast. All parted with him with to hold a children's meeting in the in that great blood-washed throng a regret, as he had endeared himself to hour previous to the regular meeting, mighty tribute from the "Land of the both old and young by his kindly traits and then dismiss them from the tent, or Rising Sun " from among the sons of and Christian character. we would not have room for any Nippon, who shall join in the everlast- Prior to 1899 the mission had had adults. After a couple of evenings the ing song of praise, and honor, and glory, printed about one dozen different leaf- little children will sing our good Chris- to him that sitteth on the throne. lets containing short Bible readings; but tian hymns as though they had been W. T. Knox : We shall be glad to hear in July of that year our missionary pa- acquainted with them all their lives. further from Brother Okohira. per, the Owari No Fukuin, first made its The greatest need of the mission T. H. Okohira (whose words will be appearance, as a monthly. From its first work in Japan, second only to that which better appreciated with little change in issue, its influence was seen in the in- Heavenly help and blessings affords, is editing) : I am very timid to stand here 168 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN because Japanese cannot speak English, speak this morning, as 'I made my re- this message as we have in all other but Il-triust say something, for God. I port and handed it over to Elder De countries. We cannot get _ along any am so thankful for what God has done Vinney, and you heard it with his. better in Japan than they can in other for Japan in past through you brethren However, we have a fine class of young countries without having, young men to and sisters in this country. Especially men and young women. They are able push the work. So when you are send- I am very thankful that you. have given to present the truth clearly, and with ing your sons and your daughters .to your beloved sons and daughters to the as much face as graduates from our China and India and Africa, remember cause of God and sent them over to the schools in the States. We have one there is along the east coast of Asia an heathen land. I know it is 'a great trial exceptional young man. We found him empire needing your help. We are hop- to you. to separate from your children, in Hiroshima, when he was, a small boy, ing that while we are here in the States, — your beloved sons and daughters. I undersized, and of poor physical devel- we can get in touch with a large num- realize more so in this time. The day opment. That was about four years ber of young men to come over and I was starting to this Conference, It took ago. At the present time he is out in help in the work in Japan. my children to the steamer. When the the tent work. He was with me last Following reports from Japan, the steamer began to move, my daughter of year for a short time, and this year he Conference adjourned. is one of the main speakers in our tent W. T. kNox, Chairinan; efforts. He is doing excellent work. W. A. SPICER, Secretary. The Lord has helped, him spiritually, mentally, and physically. We have others who are doing as well. Our chief trouble is getting more matrons or pre- TWENTY-FIRST MEETING ceptresses to work in the school. The May 27, 2:30 P. M. foreigner cannot do that work nearly W. T. KNox in the chair. as well as a consecrated Japanese sister. Prayer by J. 0. Corliss. At present we need such help:- W. T. Knox: This meeting will ,be We do have a difficult language. devoted- to hearing reports from India. There is not a foreigner, perhaps, who Brother J. L. Shaw will now present his has ever really mastered the Japanese report. language. We have three languages to J. L. Shaw (reading) : — deal with — the ordinary colloquial, the original language, and the public speak- THE INDIA UNION MISSION ing language: The language used in public speaking is about half way be- The India Union Mission field includes tween the literary language and the col- within its boundaries India, Burma, and loquial. We must learn all the Chinese Ceylon, which comprises a territory of characters, and quite a bit of Chinese, 1,766,597 square miles, equal to that por- JAPANESE EVANGELISTS to be able to read the Japanese. It is tion of the United States east of the difficult; it is no easy work learning the Rocky Mountains. With the impassable thirteen could not stand to see me, and language. But all our students who. have Himalayas in the north, the Arabian my boy of ten cried out. So I realize been to the language school- in 'T016,, Sea on the west; and the Bay-of Bengal it is a very hard trial to you to separate have done well, and -,have got ,gOocl to the east and south, India is set apart your children; but that time I thought, grades. What the other missionaries as a world of its own. Though it com- I have a Father in heaven who loves can do, we can do, ailk they haVe:heen prises only one thirty-fifth of the world's me more than I love nlyAildren: And able to get enough, of_ the langtiaWSO area, when we take the population into the word catpc to me at That time, " So that they can,do4Oebtable work. "ay? consideration India is a continent in it- God loveth 'the World that he- gave his. can do work in Pr,ea§hing. and teadhigg. self. According to the very carefully only-begotten_ Son." -These wordS corn- fort yout;;;: Now*:0-fked. sure more help, in Japan. I am ..very :thankful for what you have In the-paatbut we 4F-1 /1101*TOW-::- men,_, young worrien,:, ,tei4lelp:;pur ,Work in J4P41.1, _I . was' glaebecanse yPU sent Elder yon-, sent:, a,rtiti and a ,wolnan needed here.' 'Don't '04 ,,think that_ we children in heathen. land;' need a goad father, good mother mare than yon4teed Pon't you ' think-that'? Uthank dait:liecattse yon also sent 'good_ yotinVnen,. 'Mgt *trim :the, Just,,asI :was leaitng home they Haft atl,,And-::Trrei:it PeVittney,ila*p language schOOlV,h4Ve7varnivatiOi sa*---Aeir .report :card ;tvery ' lessoin they =got ,eXcellent; There were= mane students from other denominations. There were graduates of the university. But our young men got ahead over the class. So you young men, young women, do, not be afraid that you have not enough education to go to heathen land. COLPORTEURS IN JAPAN You don't need to be afraid. If you have the, knowledge from on high, that As some one has expressed it, " If tabulated census of 1911, British India is enough. If you have a spirit of con- Japan is ever converted, it will be over has a population of 315,132,537. Adding secration, that is enough. Those young the hibachi"— a small charcoal burner to this the population of Ceylon, which is men had such a good report in examina- that they have in their houses practi- 3,600,000, we have the enormous total tion just like Daniel and the three He- cally all the year round. When you are of 318,732,537. This is equal to the brews in Babylon. So I hope you may talking with a man, you are generally whole population of Europe, without decide to come to Japan this fall. Now on one side of the hibachi and he on Russia, and is nearly four times the pop- I wish to say more, but the time is lim- the other —" around the fireside." That ulation of the United States in a little ited. If I have time more I , will say is the only way,that Japan — and over half the territory. One person out another time. I am thankful to you. think it is just aout as true of other of every five in the world lives in the W. T. Knox: We would be glad to countries— can be converted, going to Indian Empire. hear from Brother H. F: Benson, head the people_ in their homes. We must India is like Europe in the number of of thp (•.110o1 in Japan. have the same amount of supervision nationalities and languages, and for that H. F. Benson: I had not expected to of those who have been, raised up in reason, among others, the work has been GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 169

compelled in its beginning "to move vides .offices for the India Union Mis- school will help to' finish the work in Slowly. There are said to be no less than sion and the' International Tract Soci- Burma. 147 distinct languages in use, over 23 ety. Thanks to: the $300,000 Fund.. A yeaf ago a Burmese quarteriy Mag- of which are -'spoken by over a million Burma azine was started. It has met with "even people. is a difficult field, but we a better circulation than we expected. are glad that a beginning has been made We shall now give you a survey of our It now has a subscription list of over in eight different tongues, not including work• in the different local mission fields, three thousand, 'and six thousand copies English. To place workers in each of beginning with Burma. Burma has a of the last issue were published. these languages, to keep them there un- population of 12,000,000. Brother H. H. Brother Robert Beckner, is at this• meet- til they beconie proficient in its use, to Votaw, who is superintendent of the ing, and will tell you of his work.;' start small centers, to provide literature field, is located at Rangoon, the chief The call for opening up work 'among and circulate it as we are doing in these city, where a thriving little church has the Karens has been answered. Miss tongues, and to train workers for dif- been • raised up, most of the members Mary Gibbs began the study of Karen ferent lines of work, is a very great being English-speaking people. Re- two years ago, and Brother G. A. Hain- undertaking, and we, must necessarily cently ten souls were baptized and united ilton and wife, lately of California; are take these conditions into consideration with the church. Of the members of now giving as much time as possible in our survey of the field: this church, several have become active to the Andy of the language, with a We must also recognize the fact that and successful workers in different view to opening up mission work among India is the very .Gibraltar of heathen- lines of work. the. Karen people. ism. The caste system divides the peo- Shortly after the last General Con- Dr. Oberholtzer-Tornblad, who : was ple into thousands of castes. The zenana ference, Brother R. B. Thurber went previously at Moulmein, in southern system shuts • up'' 111 prison 40,000,000 Burrria; 'h'as opened up our first mission women, keeping them in ,ignorance and statiOn,in'the Shan States. Brother and superStition, while the :early `Child mar- SiSter?,. T6rnblad are supporting and riage stands at the very`,Springs of the oPerating this station. The church life of, the Indian people, hindering the membership of the Burma mission is normal development of - which they are eighty-five. caPable'. :These are conditions met no- Brother H. H. Votaw, the superip- where else in the world, which we, with, you, must realize and faCe in our program 6f misSion,work in India. The little force of foreign , workers has been increased, until now, counting the wives of workers, there are seventy- two in the •field:: The health of our rnis,_ Fran sionariei on 'the whole4ias'heen excep- tionally good, :Death, linwever, has entered Or ranks, and claimed tWO,wOrk- ers,' Elder G. K. Owen; the oldest min- iiter, and Elder• J. C. Little, ;who died of chOlera, ' At the bierinialconferenee held /. Lucknow in October, 1916, India, in- it6Q0000 cluding Burma and Ceylon, was organ:. ized into what is known as the' India ley, 01 Union Mission of Seventh-day AdVent- 1'471 eri_g uq.ges .X,HINDI 71 270000 ists. The field was divided into five lo- X BENGALI 44614000 cal missions, as follows: Bengal, com- BIHARI 33 077000 prising the Bengali, Oriya, Santali, and Tr Luc° 20 697 00o A$samese language areas; North India, X MARATHI .18 238 000 x Pum,LABI 17 071 000 covering the Hindi, Bihari, kajasthani, X TAMIL 16 525 000 Ptinjabi, and Sindhi language areas; KANARESE. . 10,365 000 West India, comprising ,thc languagf GLUE RATI 10 000 .,000 • 'ORIYA ' 9 700000 areas of Marathi , and , Gujerati; South x BoAmEst 7500000 India, including the island of Ceylon, MALAYALAM 6 0219000. and; comprising the language areas of Slmomi 3 006 000 ,„1 351 000 .'. Tamil, Kanarese, Malaylam, and Sing- INDIA AsSAmEsE halese; and Burma, including the coun- X SAmrmALI 2,000000 try of 750000 . . • MiisiOn Headquarters TERRITORY AND POPULATION, INDIA UNION -MISSION Lucknow, a large city in North In- dia, was chosen as the headquarters of to Burma for the purpose of opening up tendent, sends the following statement the India -Union Mission. It is located an industrial school at. Meiktila, in up- of •the, needs of the field: in one of the' most beautiful provinces, per Burma. Thirty acres of land have "-There is a splendid opening in the has excellent postal, telegraph, 'and rail- been acquired. A neat building, which city of Rangoon for treatment-rooms. way facilities,and is only , one night's serves as a dormitory, has been erected, A consecrated man and wife could -be ride from Delhi, the •new capital of the and also a dwelling for Brother Thurber. of great, help to our work. They •could Indian empire. It is in_the very heart A building for industrial: work is now in find :a large field for their ministry in of the Hindustani world, which com- process of construction. More than half visiting in the homes, in distributing prises fully a fourth of the population of the funds for these buildings has literature, in assisting •in the services of the empire, and is in close prox- been raised in Burma. The: enrolment of the loeal church; and I feel sure that imity to the Himalaya Mountains. One is 141. One or two thriving industries they would be able to make their work night's' ride on the train in the hot are affording instruction and work for entirely self-supporting in a short time. season takes our workers from the fiery Burmese youth. A letter from Brother 4-` We ought to have a young school heat of the plains to the cooling breezes Thurber reads as follows: man to connect with Brother Thurber. which blow from the snow-capped " I send this to tell you the good news At present he is carrying very heavy mountains. that I baptized nine persons in the lake, duties, and if, he• should suddenly be- The International Tract Society, with March 22.,< They are all of the ,earnest, come ill, our work would suffer alitiost its printing department, is also located hard-working,. substantial 'class. Twelve irreparable loss. At the present we •are at •Lucknow. A year ago land in the more wanted baptism, but they were before the public more conspicuously in best part of the city, on Abbott Road, asked to wait: I believe we have reached our work in Meiktila than in any other one of the principal streets, was pur- the beginning of the harveg, 'and that a branch of our missionary effort in chased. The land had upon it a well- great work is: just before us." Burma. Ours is the first industrial built building, to which has been added We are looking: forward to the time school to be .s4Ocessfully operated in a substantial addition, and this now pro- when trained workers from the Meiktila this province.",,.-s 170 GENERAL CONFEItENCE BULLETIN

,Bengal penses, -including -rent, which in Cal- this need, and the -work -"'in Bengal, cutta is -quite excessive. Brother J. H. Br-Other W. , R. French sends the fol- Bengal is one of our largest mission Reagan is in charge- of the treatment- lowing message to this Conference: fields,..having a population of 78,000,000. rooms, and Brother J. W. Asprey man- The third angel's message has made It was in Calcutta, the capital of Bengal, ages the health food business. progress in Bengal; in fact, the 'proc- the largest city, and for over a hundred Gopalgunje and the many surround- lamation of the message in the India years the capital of India, that the mes- ing villages present a large and needy Union Mission had its beginning in Ben- sage began to take root in Hindustan. field. Many are -favorable to Christian- gal, and today the work in Bengal forms In Bengal there are four mission sta- ity. -A strong, intelligent, well-trained no insignificant part of the India Union tions, Calcutta, Karmartar, Gopalgunje, couple of missionaries are urgently re- Mission. But the established work in and. Babulmohal. Pastor W. R. French quired to connect with the work. We this section of the field is suffering at is local superintendent of the field. The have but one lone worker, who is present for the lack of men to bear re- church membership of this division is bravely holding the fort until help ar- sponsibility in the operation of two of 153, rives. We must either strengthen the our main stations. It is not money or Calcutta has an English church and a work at this strategic point, or abandon equipment that is most needed, but men Bengali church. For several years the the station. to use the equipment which we have, English work has languished because of Our work at Karmartar, which grew and to bring into action the resources a lack of suitable evangelistic help to slowly for several years, has been ma- available at these stations. carry it forward. But the call for help king more rapid growth the past two " Our most imperative need is 'two for English work in the cities of India years. A mission bungalow has been men and their Wives to provide for our

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.has not been in vain, Brethren J. M. built. Sister Burroway will tell you of established mirk, and then, just as soon Corner and W. R. French, assisted by the work at this station. as men and means are provided, we Brother Baasch and Sister Rachel Jones, We have one more mission station would like to Open up"work in these two are now carryng fOrward a growing in the Bengal section, located at Babu- above-mentioned' fields, and thus remove work. Souls are accepting the truth. mohal, among the Santals, forty miles them as hindrances to the , second com- At a recent service the Sabbath ques- from Karmartar. Brother W. A. Bar- ing of our Sairiour. tion was presented, and in response- to low, who speaks both Santali and Our great --need is for Spirit-filled the call of the Holy Spirit, thirty-five Hindi, is in charge of this station. A men, and the Outpouring df the Spirit." arose one after the other, signifying boarding-school of about twenty boys North India their intention to obey the command- has been conducted the past two years. ments of God. Some of these are very One or two village schools afe also at- Brother and Sister L. J. Burgess, who substantial people, and should be a tached to the station. Brother and Sis- have been pioneering the way among strength to the cause. Twelve have re- ter Leech, who have been studying. San- the Hindustani people in North India cently been baptized. thali, are now looking for a suitable for the past seven and one-half years, A monthly magazine in the Bengali location for another mission station are at this Conference. language has been circulating in Bengal among the Santali. North India comprises -the largest mis- the past four' years, with a varying cir- At the biennial conference held in sion field in India, having a population culaton of from two to six thousand. Calcutta last November, it was voted of 130,000,000. Considerable work has Brother L. G. Mookerji, who has acted to ask for two families for mission been done in preparing -and circulating as pastor of the Bengali Calcutta church work in Bengal, one family for Gopal- literature in Hindustani. The tenets of until recently, is the editor, and Brother gunje, and the other to open a training- our faith have been made plain to many A. G. •Watson acts as agent in circulat- school for Bengali workers. This call Hindustani Christians through the ing the paper. He has associated with for workers for Bengal seemed to take printed page. him a number of Bengali canvassers, precedence of every other need in the Nearly three years ago an industrial some of whom have become quite profi- field. A training-school for Bengal is school was started by Brother and Sister cient in selling papers. The outlook for an urgent necessity. The work will Burgess in the mountains of Garhwal. an increased circulation of the Bengali never go in Bengal as it should until A beautiful location was obtained among Signs, which has recently been changed a place of training is provided. Our the lofty Himalaya Mountains. A to a quarterly, is encouraging. Bengali young men will never be pre- schoolhouse, mission house, two dormi- --4,-There is also located in Calcutta a pared to work for their own people until tories, and other small buildings, have well-equipped set of treatment rooms, such a school is provided for them. We been erected. The funds for these and a small health food factory. The have bright, keen, intelligent young Ben- buildings, have come through the earnest treatment-rooms have been continued galis, whom we wish to place in such a efforts of Elder and Mrs. S. N. Haskell. since the sanitarium was closed five school, and a a school can be provided The enrolment of the school last year years ago. Since then they have liqui- with a capable consecrated teacher '-in was about one hundred. The boys bring dated a small indebtedness, added to their charge, it will mean progress for the their food from their villages, and work equipment, and paid their running ex- work in that great field. Concerning for their -tuition. :: GENIZAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 171

Mission work was begun at Najiba- Western Ghats, a few hours' ride by native children; (d) by planning for a bad, at the foot of the mountains, about train from Bombay. As the result .of strong mission center in the Deccan, the forty. miles,., from . the Garhwal station, work . done by ,Brother Enoch,.several high table-land beyond the mountains, aborit'' three-. yearS ago. Sisters ,Kurts-Erigligt-SPeakitig 'people have accepted where lies a' good portion of the Marathi and Shyrock began dispensary work for the truth. Our last Sabbath prior to area wholly out of touch with our pres- women, .and Sister O'Connor opened up coming to this Conference was spent at ent stations in the Komkan, that strip a school for girls. The dispensary has Lanovia, and we had the privilege of of land between the mountains and the met with a growing patronage from the seeing seventeen souls sign the covenant sea. first. As- many as ninety patients a day to keep the commandments of God and 3. The opening of a strong evangel- have been treated. Many homes have the faith of Jesus. Brother A. G. Kel- istic campaign in the city of Bombay. been thrown open for Bible study, and say has recently been stationed at Pan- This city has about five hundred thou- the workers have more of this kind .of vel, a Marathi village of ten thousand sand Hindus, two hundred thousand work than they can do. One great people, in a densely populated district Mohammedans, seventy thousand Par- drawback to the work at Najibabad has close to the city of Bombay. Two sees, twenty thousand English-speaking been the unsuitable place for workers schools have been started, and some of people, and Jews and. JaMs. This is one to live. the people seem favorable to Chris- of the great seaports of the. Orient, peo- But better days are ahead for the tianity. ple from many lands meeting in its busy . work at Najibabad. Land.has been pur- Elder M. D. Woodand wife, who have marts. With such a population as we chased out of the city. When we passed recently joined- the work in West India, face in •Bombay, we Should have the through Najibabad on the way to this are located at Kalyan, a junction -station medical arm of the work properly rep- Conference, the brick walls of a mission between Lanovia.. and Bombay. Work resented. We repeat this appeal, breth- house . were above the tops of the win- was -started in about a. year ago. ren, because we do not want to see the dows.' Dr. V. L. Mann expects soon to open up at this station a training class for dispensary workers, and there :will be carried 'on with this a dispenSary for men. Nearly seven years ago -property was purchased in Mussoorie to serve as ,a rest home for workers, 'and a 'training- school, The whole of the' estate is now used for .school purposes, as , it affords a very suitable. Place for carrying on an English school for the. children of missionaries ;and EngliSh-speaking believers. HaVing an elevation of onearlY- seven 'thousand feet; Mi..10s,00tie-,Affords a very;. agreeable cliMate even in the' hottest season. -It a great blesSing. to our missionaries to have a school for' their children in- - a good -climate:. Plan's- are now "oti- foot 'to' erect a ''cloriiiitbry for boys. and 'a school building. We `axe very-thankful-indeed td. be able' to say to--. missionaries coming' to India ,that we haVe ra.school in a bracing 'Cliinate S. D. A. MloSiON WAILS' SCHOOL, NAJIBABAD, NORTH INDIA where they can send their children. The' teachers now consist of Mrs. Bruce, Nine acres of land very suitable for finishing„ of, the work delayed in this Brother and Sister M. M. Mattison, and a mission station were purchased in Jan- corner of the- vineyard. ' Sister Wilson.. uary of this year, and our first Mission South India Since the sanitarium closed in Mus- bungalow in West India is now being soorie, nearly three 'years ago; treat- built. Some of -Brother Wood's former in South" India work -is -being carried' ment-room work haS. been .continued. converts have wine -to him, and are on'- at Nazareth and- Trichinopoly In Each, year the .patronage has increased. learning the truth: Preliininary steps addition- to the mission house at 'Nap,: Last year about eleven hundred dollars are being taken 'to the organiZation of reth, 'Whith. was in course 'of construc-' was cleared; 'above all ' operating . .ek- a Church at Kalyan. Two villagesehOols tion :at .the time of the last - General, penses.' With improved 'equipment in- are being conducted. Sister Wood has Conference, a 'neat church and School stalled this year, the outlook for the opened up a neat and Well-arranged dis- buildinghas been 'added, and two more Mussoorie- treatment-rooms is very en- pensary, and has associated with her acres of -land' 'have - been purchased: couraging. Brother . William Lake and two Indian' assistants. The patronage Brother J. S. James, who haS been "con= Sister :Nellie Wagner are carrying- on is growing, and from thirty to forty pa- nected 'with the work in 'South India the work in the Mussoorie .treatment- tients are treated daily. from its beginning, will -give a report room's. At the biennial conference last No- of this field. , At Lucknow, outside of 'office work, vember, it was decided to open up Eng- The International Tract Society, Sister 13.era Chilton is working for. pur- lish evangelistic work in the city of which represents the publishing work in dah women. As. is well known, women Bombay, and Brother G. W. Pettit has India, has made some progress: Brother of the higher classes live in most cases located in: that great city. Some souls S. A. Wellman, Brother W. R. Perrin, lives- of, seclusion. They do not appear are already becoming interested in the Mrs. M. M. -Quantock, and Sister ,Ma-1 on the streets or. in places of public truth, and preparations are now being rion BelchamberS, together with about resort, but remain in their own homes made to begin a public effort at the close -fifteen Indians as assistants, , are Con- behind the curtain, seen only by women of the present hot season. nected with the publishing work : at and 'their Own - husbands. The only way The work in West India appears more Lticknow. Brother C. E. Weaks has they can be reached is through the ef- encouraging than at any time previous. charge of the field' work, having asso- forts of lady missionaries who can visit Pastor G. F. Enoch, the superintendent, ciated with him in. the sale of English their homes, and tell them in their own sends this word to the Conference: — literature, Brethren Raymond' and Po- tongue the gospel of Christ. " Our needs as we lay them before ley, Brother and Sister P. A. Rick, and Brother W. Carrott. In the distribution West India our brethren in conference assembled are: — of vernacularliterattire there' are about- Elder G. F. Enoch, the superintendent " I. The baptism of the Holy Spirit. twenty Jridian canvassers, Two Eng- of the work in West India, began work "2. The •beginning made in the Mar- lish monthly journals, and five quarterly in that section of the field a little more athi work must be strengthened, as fol- magazines, each in 'a different language, than five years ago. The first two years lows: (a) By opening a strong evan- are published. These magazines vary 'in were spent mostly in language study. gelistic center in the great city of Bom- circulation' from three to six thou- Nearly three years ago mission work bay; (b) by opening a training-school sand an issue. For some time it was was opened up at Lanovla and Panvel. for native workers; (c) by the estab- thought that, vernacular literature could-- Lanovia is a semi-hill station in the lishment of a boarding-school for our not be sold,, but Indian canvassers are . 172 GENERAL' CONFERENCE 131.1'LLETIN , being: developed who are having good among whom our message: is as yet-si- maining nine million comprise minor succes..T:in: selling, our literature :among lent. other religions. The people of this field' their own, people. ,The Oriental.1Fatc4 Our workers in • India are eagerly speak- five cultivated languages; besides man and the Herald of Health have in- looking toward this-Conference for help. numerous uncultivated tongues and dia- creased,their•size and about.trebled-their- Shall these'new workers be sent? - Some lects. The main languages and the circulation the past two years:— •• • of those already in the field are:bearing number of people speaking each are as Six mission homes, several school two or'three men's burdens. What word follows: Telugu, 20,700,000; Tamil, 16,- buildings, a mission headquarters, and shall be sent on to them is an important 500,000; Kanarese, 10,300,000; Malay- printing-office have been provided question for this Conference to answer. alam, 6,000,000; and Sinhalese, 2;- through' funds , sent to India from the In conclusion, let me 'state that a 000,000. $300,000 Fund. These have brought en- greater question than that—of men or Thus far we have begun work in but couragement to., the workers, ,:provided means is ever before us in the mission one of these languages,— the Tamil, a comfortable homes in more healthful lo- field. We are in the midst of multitudes race who have shown themselves more cation,-,:and necessary facilities- with in the dense darkness of heathenism. susceptible to Christian influence than which to work. They have given -us They are dying more rapidly than con- any other people of the empire. In the prestige among the people even more verts are being added to Christianity by Tinnevelly District, a small division of our field corresponding to a large county in this country, are to be found more Christians than there are in all the rest of. India put together. They have = a constituency which maintains their own bishop and clergy, and trains their own men to send to other parts of the couti try: The tenets of the Christian religion have been preached and known within the borders of our field by scores of Protestant societies since the days of the Dutch East India Company, in 1652, more than two hundred sixty years ago.- Viewing our territory in the light of the commonly accepted rules of present-day mission comity, we have no unoccupied fields within our boundaries. In 1908 we began work in the Tin- nevelly District among a semi-heathen community known to us as the Tamil. Sabbath-keepers.- The fact that this sect of people had been taught certain ideas concerning the Sabbath, created a, common ;ground of mecting between:us, and' opened the way for, the-final, eStablish,: merit; of our work in those parts. They, came forward :with A generous offer of ,two acres of ,land :adjoining their village on the north, where we could erect .buildings for, carrying- on GOPALGUNJE MISSION HOUSE, EAST BENGAL our work. In March, 1908, I located- with my family in: the midst .of, the chief than we exPected„ for which_ we .are means., of __every, .missionary - agency. village, occupied by these people, 'and: profoundly thankful. Upon; a superhuman force, - a power began the task of establishing. Our work Your loyal support' and that of the greater in., its measure: .and:- more mighty among them. This was not the..easy General Conference Committee:, and its in its:. operation than,:this movement has task that it might have seemed from two rcpresentatives,i.professor pxescott, yet., experienced, _depends- the possibility a distance, considering the fact that the and Professor,, Salisbury, :047 of our programin:India., „We , are,: facing religious ideas of this sect consisted of i ted i on, field during the a mountain ..-greater' Alan 2erubbabel. a grotesque mixture of klinduism, Bud- pas,t,quadrtopiuip, has been A-great hit: Our „hopg, iitt heatheri:;lands cannot :be dhiStn, Judaism, and Christianity. spiration_to. themissionaries in-the field.' met:by:mere -men, not,by an army; Finding it impossible to ;carry for-- They: feel_ that; y,ou,are,whole-hear,tedly nor. by ,power,:but by my ,•Spirit,- saith ward work in our chosen locality with- supporting:them:in_their work, and that the;Lord• of _.hosts.!'.. 'For the finishing out a ,proper house, which would -re-- you_ are becoming, more_ intelligent con- of God's ,work in India, we ask your con- move •our residence from.-the midst of cerning the. conditiOns ,in:.whICk-they la-. tinued, support,: and sacrifice and earnest great danger of disease in : congested, ber,. the stupendous - problems facing prayers. unsanitary, and plague-infectect quar- them in that land, and the great needs. - W. T,'Knox:, We -will now call. upon ters, we built a mission bungalowi in the and opportunities of the :present hour. Brother -J. -.S.: James... summer of 1909, at a cost of about thir- With _this assurance . and faith in God,. J. S:-James (reading) teen hundred dollars, for •which we owe your,,,mission_aries . in :India,. are •!going. our deepest gratitude to the loyal be-,, courageously forward, :and- God: is bless- - THE SOUTH INDIA,,MISSION lievers in the home land, who fuOished ing their efforts. During the first four us with the means to build. We now months of the present year, fifty-one The members of the-South India Mis- own three acres of land, on which has were. baptized. Some of these are Euro- sion of • Seventh-day Adventists . send been constructed a brick building 50 x. •peans, ,_while. others are, men reclaimed their Christian greetings to the General 36 feet, so arranged as. to give us the from the clutches of heathenism. -The Conference assembled. - equivalent of four large, rooms and two work in the India mission field as a The South India Mission includes that verandas. With this house we have whole ,Shows a larger measure -of pros,- portion of :British India, and Ceylon in about an acre of land which can be.used perity: than ever, before. Which the following 'languages are spo- for garden purposes, in which is a good The biennial conference of last No- ken: Telugu, Tamil,, Kanarese, Malay- well of, fresh water. vember asked for nineteen_new mission- alam, and Sinhalese. It has a popula- During our five years'_labor in this aries, including wives of missionaries. tion of about sixty million people,,which, field we have held fivetisms, ap four While requesting that provision be made is more than half that : of the United in the Tinnevelly District, and one in for strengthening the work already un- States of America, and an area greater Trichinopoly, an important center two dertaken the afore-mentioned' help will than that of the Atlantic Union Con- hundred miles farther north. The total allow us to place two families among the ference plus the States of Pennsylvania,. number who have united with us by Telegues and. two families among the Maryland, Virginia, and West ,Virginia. baptism is sixty-eight. In addition to Punjabiis. There, are great nations per- Within this area we - have forty-five these we have as many, or more, who haps more favorable to Christianity than million Hindus, four million Mohamme, come regularly to our church, pay their any among whom we have labored, yet dans, two million Christians, and the re- offerings to us, send their children to ,GENERAL CONFERENCE BV,LL',ETIN 1173

our -,school,- arid. take .pride in: calling nately, owing to ,illness, Brother and Sis- -people, and those who: should read them. themselves Seventh-day . Adventists. ter, Lowry were, obliged to -return, to .Since.the,first;issue of -onr-paper,,uhre We' have not seen our way, clear to America just as their knowledge of the 'months ago, our workers have. gathered baptize them, because they . have not language and the people made,thern of :over twelve ;hundred fifty subscriptions thine' into proper' harmony. with the intreasedAvalte.. But the interest has among a most excellent class of -Indian .teachings of God's Word. . continued, and Brother :and Sister readers; altogether disposing of 9,525 We have carried on medical work in Peugh, recently of the Foreign Mission copies. Since the appearance of, our connection with our mission from the Seminary, have located there and are paper, We have had many calls froth va- very .first.. Our first dispensary was on now studying Tamil. rious quarters'asking" ik-S'ilOLChnie or the back stoop of the building 'we were At about the same time we opened send some One Who 'WOuld'teadli them occupying in the midst •of • the native up work in Trichinopoly, an out-station the Word of God, We are confident village, . and our only equipment was a was established near our work in the that the time is near when we may look few basins, bottles, and pans donated Tinnevelly District, manned by two of for a large gathering of souls from from Mrs. James's culinary department, our Indian workers who had been in among the millions of South India. We and that highly useful piece of furniture training some time previously. This was now have " Steps to, Christ" in- the so much prized by missionaries,. a good scarcely launched before the leader was hands of our colportetits, Which- is meet- box, which I .managed ..to . donate. To taken with cholera and died, thus making ing with a ready sale.*.." Bible Read- these we added a few simple medicines it necessary for us to abandon the. en- ings " is now, in the hands Of ' the for treating sores, and wounds, diseases terprise for the time being. But our printer, as is alse the tract " Funda- of the skin, eyes, ears, mouth, etc. evangelist, while being cut down sud- mental 'Principles of ,Seventh-do:.:Ad- Our first patient was a man whom we denly at the', beginning of his work, left ventists," and a series Of Sabbath-school persuaded to come in, from the street an`: influence which later resulted in lessons Covering Hinduism in. South In- out the first issue of our Tamil quar- study and work before new workers can dia: ,The .work began in this place terly, The Present Truth, which was qualify to use the languages of South In- through a Tamil brother, who first heard finished and delivered to us the last day dia readily, and do much effective work. of the truth in Singapore. Brother G. G. of the institute. After. the ,men had We heartily thank our dear brethren in Lowry and wife were stationed there to been assigned their territory, we knelt the home lands for their loyal support develop the work, and as a result sev- around this pile of papers, three thou- in the past, and we shall continue to eral, intelligent Indians became very sand in all, and asked God to bless press the battle forward in the strength much interested in the truth. Unfortu- those who were to carry them to the of our divine Leader, praying that you 174 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN end tlf the baSe of sup eaw.:tolme- and reproved me for teach- A Bible worker working with me in sed with largeness of he child thus. One little -boy . came Karmartar. 11teino to meet the groWittg d O.4ne-and wanted to go into the mis- I want you to know that India work- a`iiieratiOus work in the titter -slob home; to leave his home. I werit ers love their Lord. I took these teach- of tile earth. to his- father and asked if we might ers for two weeks itinerating in the JUDSON S. JA have the child. The father wanted to jungle. We left our carts at six o'clock know what we would do with the •boy. in the morning and went through the Knox: We will now call upon I -told him we would make a teacher out rice fields, expecting to go back at nine Miss ioroway to render her report, re- of him. After a time he decided that he o'clock to get our breakfast. At nine garding.4he Karmartar mission. would give us -the boy, and would make o'clock I suggested that we go back, and -Miss Della Burro: way: Four years out the papers the next -day. But dur- one of the teachers said, " This is our agO Elder Shaw characterized -our sta- ing the twenty-four hours, the mother, last day; why cannot we work on? " tion an -experimental station, for the who had not been consulted in regard At eleven o'clock I suggested that we go again. He said, " Let us do without eating today, and work." We stayed until three o'clock, when our Bible worker became so weak that for her sake we gave up and went back. This Bible worker is from the second caste in Bengal. There are three native castes, some authorities say, in India, and she comes from the second highest caste. - She stands with the teachers, and gives her testimony, in the villages. She can sell literature as well or better than I can. When we stop to realize that her Hindu sisters are in purdah, we see how God has worked for our Christians. Very few people realize what a stronghold Bengal is in caste. A Hindu had consumption for three years. ,He had sacrificed to devils-- he was a devil worshiper —toto be healed of this disease. When we found him he was , - - wholly discouraged. He said if:there -NEW 'PUBLISHING AND - MISSION HEADQUARTERS, LI1OkNO\717,. INDIA was nothing better in the Hindu religion, he did not want it. We told him 'reason that we have--carried on so many ID the matter, went -to :the head man of there was a God who could - help him, -kinds of Work-there. Started first as an the Village, and -; told Nin the circum- and we• knew that he would find rest in :lienne,, we haVe .contintied_ with stances, and they: took the boy out df: the the Christian religion. We taught him 'school'work, as well as other kinds of school. This 'boy and - we prayed to- regularly for eight or nine months. At work._ The la'st- four or -five- years - we gether, and he was again placed as a the end of this time he asked for bap- have given our-time-wholly to work for day student. tism. In the meantime we •had studied the Bengali -people: Within- - one mile Every Sabbath morning, with our with his wife. She was not converted, of our station there are five languages Morse and cart and three =teachers, I but she thought she would take her spoken. In our home Sabbath-school visit each one of these schools. We stand. The day he was to be baptized, we have classes in four different lan- hold Sabbath-school in every one of our his wife, for fear of her caste, backed guages, the Hindi,- Bengali, Santali, and village schools. We leave the house in down. e did not want to take the English. I do not- have any trouble, the morning at six o'clock, go four and stand alone, so he said, " Let us put it however, with the language I have one-half miles to our first school, where off," I invited her to a little dinner, learned, because if. some one speaks in the school children and the villagers are given in the home of one of our teach- another language, I tell them _I cannot understand, - and to speak in Bengali, and I find they can, generally - do this. During ;the past iyear'we--have__ 40010 the sixth -school in Karmartar. FiVe- are located in villages, and =the .0*th i‘slo- cated in the-,'-mission -- compound.- This_ school corresponds- to, ._our- -grrainunar.-_ schools here in the United StatW' When there is a call for a village- school, we state the • terms- to..-the lagers : They- must give -the- hoUS-etb the teacher, and buy the supplies, and we furnish the teachers. There are- many of these calls we cannot fill. One been standing four years. In these Schools we begin in a very simple way. The house donated is always a little mud house. There are many holes in the walls to let in the light. The children learn their letters by writing on the mud floors; I' try 'to visit the schools every Week,- with my Bible worker. AT THE NAJIBABAD DISPENSARY, NORTH INDIA A little while ago I overheard a conversation between one of the students gathered together. By a picture and a ers. She and her husband attended, but and his father. The father wanted his chart hung up before them, we teach the did not eat the food. Their caste peo- son to take part in a Hindu festival. children to pray, and to sing songs. We ple did not know but that they' had The boy replied: " I cannot do it. There go on two and one-half miles farther to eaten the food, and the entire village is no good in killing goats." But - the the next school. We go from there to was put out of caste because of this. father said, " We and our fathers and the bungalow, where I rest, and then A village is usually composed of a fam- their fathers have alWays -done it." again we go to another village school. ily -- the father, grandfather, grand- " Yes.," the child said, "There was a Coming in from that, we have our own mother, nieces, nephews, uncles, aunts, time when God commanded us to kill Sabbath-school at four o'clock, In our etc. This entire relationship was put the goats, but not since his Son came. home school we have four different lan- out of caste. They could get back 'into He was the lamb himself." - The father guages taught. We have teachers and caste by giving a feast, which would

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cost them quite a little. They gave the doefersAl, iftause of the help- they- Miss Burroway: The canvasser must feast, and told our missionary that if he 'haVe buy his food from the native bazaar entered the village again, they would H. R. Salisbury : Tell about the Mo- always. We can go into their homes stone him to death. For six months we hammedan that gave his house ,to the and ask them to cook, us rice. They will could not go there. At the end of six school. not eat with us, but will cook for the months this man sent for our worker Miss Burroway : At one of our oldest Christian. We have been invited into and told him that before he died he schools there is a cripple who owns a Hindu homes, and the food we eat- is wanted to be baptized. This was on house, which he gives us for a school, placed on banana leaves, but these ba- Tuesday. We set the time for Sab- and he sits there all the time in nana leaves we must ourselves carry bath, as we had to send for Elder our school. We believe this is good out ; they will not touch them .at all. French. On Thursday the worker was called again, and there, with our Chris- tian worker, the man passed away. We believe he was saved. We have been doing very little work for Christians in Karmartar. All our work has been for Hindus and Moham-4 medans. However, just before our conference a delegaton of Christians came from about seven miles away. Just then I had not much time to study with them. I gave them three subjects, "The Sab- bath," " The First Day of the Week," and " The Two Laws." I went to the conference; they went home. When I returned, these men came • back and told me the entire village was keeping the Sabbath,— a large family. Another village of the shoemaker caste came over to know why we kept the Sabbath. I said to them, " Why do you want to know? " They told me that one from their mission had joined our mission, and they wanted to know why he had changed, and was keeping the. Sabbath: I taught these men, and sent them back to their village. Every Sabbath regularly these people came twenty-two miles to worship with us. I said to the men: " Why do you not go to your own mission? Your own mission is only half a mile, from you." A GROUP OP CANVASSERS IN INDIA They said, " Do you suppose we would walk twenty-two miles when we could for him, because he hears the Bible Following Miss Burroway's talk, Con- ga half a mile, if we did not believe every day. He has a Bible of, his own, fererioe adjourned. this truth?" We have four of their and he reads it and studies and be- W. T. KNox, Chairman,. children in the school now. When I Neves much that is written there. He W. A. SPICER, Secretary. wrote to the missionary, I asked him for has not yet taken his stand, buf we hope transfers, .and told him why we wanted that in time he will. One day the pastor to take the children. He wrote back of another mission came to him; and. THE EVENING' SKKATICE. and''said he would not give certificatess, said, " You people ,are wrong; you I wrotebk ac dan Idto hi m t hat their to be keeping the first day- of the week." May 26:7:3a P. M. parents 'Wanted to keep the Sabbath, and This :cripple replied:, " Miss. Sahib, you rtiniSt take their children' without the do not know your, own Bible„ You ought F. M. WILCOX preached from Matt. certigtates. not to be keeping the first:day. Your 23: 23. He, referred to the very encour- Every Hindu owns, his own, little Bible- teaches, you to keep; the :seventh aging features of the present great hoine 'in Karmartar., It may be only a day. These people are.-keeping the right, meeting—;the many reports and eviden- little mud huilding, but it is his own day, but you are not." ces of progress in the cause is all parts little home. When we were living in When we canvass, ,we try: not to let of the world and warned against the rented property ' in Karmartar, they the, people think that, this, is a Christian danger of spiritual declensiOn because hardly knew whether we were going to book or a `-.`Christ". boolc :If ,we ,,do, of a consciousness of success and pros- stay, or not. The only renters are the and the priests hear of it; they will, tear perity. This he said is-" illustrated in the wealthy people; who come up and, rent the book to pieces before our eyes, We case of the church of the Reformation a house, and then go. back again. When sell the, book from the standpoint, of and the church raised up by the Wesleys. the Mission Board sent over the money the :,signs of the times. We canvass FirSt there was spirituality, but soon for a mission home; the people saw we it from the standpoint of events that there came worldliness and a spiritual had come to stay, and it has given al- are transpiring in the world today. We fall. Their danger is our danger. We together a different character to our do not tell, them that this is a Christian have great institutions, a great system of work in Karinartar. paper. If they happen to see the name organization, great denominational"ac- I want to speak a little about the dis- Christ ,on the first page, they will not tivity and achieVement, yet this, good as. pensary, of how it was given to us. We have it at all., It makes no difference it all is, will not save us. Let us beware went. out and solicited funds for it. as far as different:castes are concerned; lest we trust to these for our salvation. This took a long time. We went into the all castes are against Christianity. But He said that his faith is unwavering poorer homes, and the better homes. if you simply tell them of the events in the ultimate triumph of this: church Many gave us only four cents. It only that are transpiring in the world today and this message, but he called attention amounted to fifty dollars, when we had as signs of the end of the world, not as to the fact that only„A personal faith, in finished. Soine of you may say it did signs of Christ's coming, the paper is Christ, made real and vital by the Spirit not pay to collect the few cents that we bought and oftentimes read. of God, can save us as individuals. " The were able to get.. It did pay, because One caste can never eat with an- ground for this warning," said, Elder the dispensary now belongs, to the, peo- other; it would break caste. Even if Wilcox,' is the presence of subtle ten- ple. and they- believe it is theirs. They the little children come to our bunga- dencies among us. There is in our midst come there eXpecting to get help, below in famine time, they will not accept grave turning to the world. There is a cause it is " our dispensary," and " our cooked rice; they will die first. serious departure frost the Sabbath in doctor." And in this way they have Voice: What will the canvasser do the matter of laxity among us." greater faith inu s Theywill call our then? How will he eat? He referred to a recent issue of the 170 GENE RA CONFENgE )3T)1.,L4TW

Sabbath Recorder ,in which one of the reliable authority by which they hoped, PUBLISHING. DEPARTMENT leading ministers of that denomination to justify their use of the quotations., Ninth Meeting calls,,his Lpeople to task for !increasing They .enlisted the assistance.of those ,at laxity in, Sabbath observancethiongh- the General Conference headquarters. " had one hundred 'thousand dol, out that body. Elder, Wilcox still fur- But their efforts also were futile. lars, and ten years in which to :give- 'the ther watned against our danger of drift- Traced back, from one writer to another, message to, Mekico, I would use ninety ing away into the world in the matter of the quotations finally vanished:• into ob- thousand dollars arid nine years in fill- neglect to study the Testimonies. " Let scurity. They found absolutely no ing the country With literature. ' Then us return," he said, " to the old-time ground for their use, 'and the result I 'would use the good canvassers who faithfulness in all our daily experiences." was a near defeat in that particular scattered the literature, ' to- follow up At this point he pointed out very for- locality. Their experience, however, the work with Bible readings and cibly, that we can be saved only _by faith was valuable, Professor Prescott pointed preaching, using the last year and ten in tbe-Lordjesus Christ. All our doing, out; in that it served to bring foreibly.tO thousand dollars for this purpose." is all our givilig,15-fvaiii;asse-means of sal- the attention of our workers everywhere This striking statement, made by G. W. vation.- Buti'once linked'Ao, Christ by the important fact that whe Caviness, on the subject "The Place living faithf_we,will clp and give, not by with the principles of Roman Catholi- Our Literature Should Occupy in Giv- _ compulsion, -but spontaneously. This is cism'in public, great caution should;- be ing the Message in Spanish-Catholic the - will of Grod concerning us. Let us exerciSed. Only such: quotations shonld )Fields;" shows his high appreciation of -then `attend= to the weightier matters of be employed as can' be traced ta , re- the printed page. From his paper and the law —love, faith, and judgment. liable sources. He -stated there is, no experiences it would seem, that our 'May God make it 'so. dearth of `Such statementsm as will serve tracts, papers, and books have been al- the purposes of our workers in their most entirely responsible for the com- public speeches-a and_writings, that: can panies of believers raised up in Mexico. epaittnentai ineetingpl be authenticated; - ' -.- Calls haye come from persons getting a A very-animateddiScussion followed, part of a paper 'or a tract. During the and those present strongly -endorsed'the past six months, Professor Caviness has JOU:MS LIBERTY DE- chairman's position on the timely:topic. baptized eighty-five persons. `--PARTMENT , Recently, a man attended meeting's in --- - -,_ Pochutla a few evenings. When. the ‘41itli. ;„Meeting , speaker made his, acquaintance, the man MEDIF,. EPARTME,_. Eanii-'llOfllew2.., York1'. City ,-,''- showed him a -tract he had carried for .. eleven: years. It proved to be one of 'irkter-esting,- paper u on the, :-.;;Aglithr'',Ifeitling:-,. i elTettinfPnY ci •_ istory the first- tracts printed on the, little press eti '-fi--:4!).76 -Pr9 4iby... of :, PRAYER by 15fiq;',.-Wileq,,-;,.1-4' at inTacubaya, As a result of this and sen-..gave.a,'--Snrirnrar)ij_:61-,46infaii_w;:13; the meetings, he was baptized. • In spite White's..?110ilt.littd,--At ',a::::PrOA94s ,tkitot+ of revolution and other difficulties, eight Seil,,initierquS citablethoritw Aneltitrs - . onfaii Ca g4ipo,tetpffsn't to utilize the colporteurs have, (hiring the past two kt (luring tho furies 'cbyited 'serti41 ,.OT.'!-'Orir nurses, r,Ii06 (iyi''itir_rtiii- ,,„.. years, sold fifteen thousand dollars' ire prophetic word, 1 reneeS. F. :U. worth of books, tracts, and papers in need ofCloSe counsel Mexico.. :ger should arise to -persecute the ;fox Spoke of the r had The missiona y J. W. Westphal; in outlining some of force, corporal punishment,. and tor- who does not at once find a place di- the, needs, in South America,',stated that ture, inciting• bloody wars in her at- rectly in the conference work, may be he believes only a slight beginning has tempt to, crush' heretics. loyal and true, and such will ever seek been, made, in: our literature in that `The period of 1,26d_years covered by to uphold, and advance the -al tere sts of country. In addition to health litera- this power„ or from, 538 D. to -1798, the organized .work: ture, he feels the need of something was,'proved by numerous citations to be ChaS. ThotnpsOn said that every con:- Simple on practical Christian living. correct, as held by the Seventh-day verted man and woman owes all his These, he believes, can be followed sue- Adventi sts. time, talent, and ability to the work 'of cessftilly with books treating upon the saving souls. Dr. A. B. Olsen thought different points rof truth. Eighth Meeting he 'cotild discern among his brethren Elder Westphal's ,paper was strongly Under the topic; " On the Use of Quo- representing the ,medical work a desire seconded by a paper. sent by Max Trum- tations," W: W. Prescott, secretary of to come, together in a spirit of loyalty mer, who has_ charge of the colporteur the Religious Liberty Association, led and devotion to the work. The 'desire work in Argentina. Our . bookmen are out in a' discussion, in which he laid of his heart was to see all classes of familiar, with the kind of man Brother bare many facts touching the use of Medical workers united under one com- Trummer is, and with some of the dif- certain, quotations by our workers and: mon banner for the advancement of the ficulties he has had to face, and .of the writers purporting to be authentic, but cause of God. W. 13. White admon- victories, he has gained in , that coun- wbich,_when, traced up have been found ished every one, whether minister, doc- try. Elder Westphal spoke particularly to have: had no certain reliable origin. tor, or nurse, to hold himself in readi- in his paper of the preparation ,for, and He recited the case of some of our ness to answer the call of God, what- Successful methods in, pioneer colpor- workers in Canada wild were holding ever that tall 'to service may, be. tem' work, enlarging upon the following meetings, and who made public use of Geo A. Williams read- a paper em- outline: — certain quotations relative to the change phasizing the importance of establishing r. Qualities and consecration of the of the Sabbath. These quotations were a nurses' bureau, in order to conserve worker. . supposed to have originated in Roman for direct service the force of nurses (a) A thorough conversion. Catholic sources. They had been handed coming from our sanitariums year by (b) Passion for souls. down from one writer to another until year. Our consecrated nurses do not (c) Given to faith and prayer. their origin was difficult to trace. A Ro- wish to becbme mere professional nurses (d) Industrious and persevering. man Catholic -priest attended. the meet- in the world, but to have their work 2. The course of instruction. ings and openly challenged our workers count in every way possible for the (a) Bible examples and testimo- to produce the authorities from which building up of the cause of this mes- nies. the quotations were supposed to have sage. G. B. Starr urged the uniting (b) Salesmanship and the laws of been taken. He.branded them as lies, in service of all our forces; both evan- success. and used the pnblic press in denunciation gelical and medical. The work of God (c) General instruction. of those who' made use of them. The calls for every converted man and (d) Study of the literature to be brethren at once began a search after woman. sold. THE General Conference Bulletin THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION

VOL. 7 TAKOMA PARK STATION, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1913 No. 12

THE GENERAL CONFERENCE how unsearchable are his judgments, this life, truth shall be ever unfolding BULLETIN and his ways past finding out ! ' Eirery to his people. There is only one way day you should learn something ew in which this knowledge can be ob- Published by from the Scriptures. Search them as tained. We can attain to an understand- The General Conference of Seventh-day for hid treasures, for they contain the ing of God's Word only through the Adventists words of eternal life. Pray for wisdom illumination of that Spirit by which the DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY and understanding to comprehend these Word was 'given." holy writings. If you would do this, Further: God desires man to exer- 50 CENTS FOR THE SESSION, MAY 16 TO JUNE 9, 1913 Editorial committee: W. A. Spicer. C. P. Gellman, you would find new glories in the Word cise his reasoning powers." Notice C. C. Crider, T.E. Bowen. H. E. Rogers. J. N. Anderson. of God; you would feel that you had what follows: " The study of the • Bible Office editors: T. P. Bonin% C. C. Crisler. Copyeditor : Mrs. C. M. Snow. received new and precious light on sub- will strengthen and elevate the mind as jects connected with the truth, and the no other study can do." There is no Entered as second-class matter at the• post- Scriptures would be constantly recei „ring study that will elevate the mind, that will office at Washington, D. C., May 16, 1913, under a new value in your estimation."— purify the character, like the Word of the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Page 266. God. It is the best mental as well as Brethren, I believe this. It would be spiritual exercise for the human mind. DAILY PROGRAM (Except Sabbath) A. M. Devotional Meetings (in sections) 6: oo — 6 : 45 Breakfast 7: 00 Bible Study 8 : 3o — 9 : 30 Conference 1o: oo — 12 : 00 P. M. Dinner 12 : 15 Conference 2 : 30 — 4 : oo Departmental Meetings (in sections), Mission- ary Talks and Other Services (in big tent) 4: 30 — 5 : 3o Lunch 6:00 Public Service 7 : 3o — 9 : 00

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ON THE STUDY OF GOD'S WORD ELDER S. N. HASKELL IN ATTENDANCE AT THE C )NFERENCE FROM SOUTH AMERICA May 27, 8:3o A. M. well for every one of us to believe, it. We can trace this thought all through I WILL call your attention for a few We should take as our companion con- the spirit of prophecy,— the exaltation moments to the importance of studying tinually the Word of God. of God's Word as revealed to us in the the Word of God. The Bible should I will now read another pass age, Scriptures. be our constant companion. It is our found on page 533 of this same volume: We do not always study the Bible as strength, and the strength of the third " We must place a higher value than we should; but, my friends, the highest angel's message; and when we become we have upon the Scriptures, for education that we can ever obtain in this negligent in the study of the Word, we therein is the revealed will of Go to world is to learn to believe the Bible,— are losing that strength. men. It is not enough merely to as- not simply to take it as a theory, but to We talk about the Holy Spirit; but sent to the truthfulness of God's Ward, accept it as a message from God direct the Holy Spirit is in the Word. So, but we must search the Scriptures to to us. when we get the Word, we get the Holy learn what they contain. Do we rec live Do you remember how Paul tells us Spirit. When the Word seems to us the Bible as the oracle of God'? It to study the Bible? — To compare spiri- the most precious, the Holy Spirit is is as really a divine communicatior as tual things with spiritual. When the speaking to us. It comes with the though its words came to us in an Saviour went with the disciples who Word, it is in the Word, and the Word audible voice. We do not know its -are- were on their way to Emmaus, and they represents the Spirit. It is the Spirit's ciousness, because we do not obey its were sorrowing over the death of the voice. instructions." Saviour, what did he say to them? I will read a few expressions from According to this, the Word sh uld Voices: " 0 fools, and slow of heart " Testimonies for the Church," Vol. be to us as precious as would be a per- to believe all that the prophets have V, regarding the Word of God: — sonal interview with the God of heaven. spoken." " In the Scriptures thousands of gems Well, my friends, if we knew God was Where did he begin to explain to them of truth lie hidden from the surface- speaking to us from heaven every morn- about himself? seeker. The mine of truth is never ex- ing, we would be ready and eager to Voices: At Moses. hausted. The more you search the hear him. We would not let one morn- How many prophets did he quote Scriptures with humble hearts, the ing pass without a study of the Word, from? — All the prophets. And what greater will be your interest, and the if we knew it was God's audible v )ice else? — He began at Moses, and went more you will feel like exclaiming with to us. through all the prophets and the Psalms. Paul, 0, the depth of the riches, both I will read from page 703 another Then all the Bible has that truth; and he of the wisdom and knowledge of God! statement: " God intends that, even in compared spiritual things with spiritual. • 178 ;;' GENERAL :CONFERENCE BULLETIN

He traced the teaching of; all the proph- Christ.. I did, not argue, but, when I aame. as. God; the pronoun' has. changed ets on that topic, arid, compared them, came to' a :paisage in which the 'doctrine from . the Word to ; God. The . creative 'that they might know of a surety that was prominent, I reread it. Then I power of God is in the Word. So there • ,he was the Messiah: watched his countenance to see what ,is. sufficient ,power „in, it to: paralyze sin, The early disciples were earnest stu- effect the Word of God had upon him. My, brethren ,and ,sisters, if you .knew dents of the Word. The strength of I could not get a single expression to the power there is in the Word, you their teaching was in the preaching of tell me what he thought. who are tried and tempted every, day, the Word. And they fulfilled their mis- Six weeks later, when we were com-. could get some promise ,in the ,Bible, and sion gloriously. In their generation, ing baCk, we stopped' by a brook. He throw it back in the• devil* face, .every every creature under heaven heard the said, "Here is water; what, doth hin- time he tempted you, and it would para- gospel. This is made plain in Col. i : der, me from being baptized?" I "was as lyze ;him.: I know this because .I have 23: " If ye continue in- the faith bappy as you can itnagine. I then had tried it.' When I .am tempted .day after grounded and settled, and be not' moved the first intimation that the Word of day, and night after, night,' I :get some away from the hope of the gospel, which God' had taken effect with him; and I text of Scripture, and when the, devil ye have heard, and which was preached answered him right back in the language begins to tempt me, I quote it.. This is to every creature which is 'under of Philip, and he replied in the language what .,we are, told to do- by the, spirit. of heaven; whereof I Paul am made a Of the eunuch. If there had been suffi- prophecy, The Saviour did this,; ,He minister." How many people heard cient water to, baptize him, I would have told the devil, "It is, written," ' de- the gospel?—Every creature under done so, and not said another word, fense, was the ,,Word .of heaven, in thirty years. The Bible says Some timetime., afterward, this' brother Now we 'read on, and,•notice if.-the so; then it is so. Can we limit one ex- came Over to Colony and was bap- ' pronoun is changed again : Seeing then pression God ever used? If God should tized, and his son is now teaching in, that we have a greathigh priest, that -is talk, to,-us from heaven direct, and, say the niissibn. Power is in the, Word, and passed into the heavens, Jesus the Sou `those, Words, ,would :there be any ques- you convey that power to the heart in of God, let, us hold ,fast our. profession. tion as to how we should take the proportion as you believe it. If you For we :have not an, high•priest, which words of Scripture? You may say take it as a mere theory, and pretent cannot be touched, with ,the , feeling., of there must • have been some tribe or it thus, the person to whom you present our infirmities; but was in „all points country '-somewhere that did not hear it will accept it as; a mere theory; but tempted like, as we, are, ..yet , witliOtn; sin. 'the Word of God.; The Scripture tells if you believe it as the Word of God, Let us therefore come boldly unto. ,the Its that every creature, in all the world God will do the converting. throne of grace, that we .way,.,.obtain head the'Word of God.at Whdoes he Let us read another text which shOws mercy, and find ;grace to help in. time of ,call' the Word of God? The gospel. the power of the Word: " For. the Word need." " Let us therefore, come boldly We ahoUld take every expression in the of God is quick, and powerful." Heb. unto the throne, of, grace:" . What. is Bible as if God spoke- it audibly; and 4: 12. your medium ? The Word, Christ., and he says that every creature, every man, Then the life of God is in the Word. God. . woman,. and 'child, heard the gospel. • There is tremendous power in sin; but Read another verse. , Take. the first Now read:yerses 25-4; " WhereOf I God has more power than has the devil. chapter of, John, first verse. ..I want You am made• a minister, according to the There is all the power of the devil in to see that your shield in this .shaking diapensation of God which is'' given to sin, but it is paralyzed by the blood time is God's Word. That Word is, a Me for you, to fulfil the word of God; of Christ. Sin will live, and the devil shield and .a- buckler;;and the weakest even the mystery which hath been hid will watch it, and when circumstances saint on earth, the most feeble. person in from ages and from generations, but are favorable to his evil purposes, you this world that can (mote .a text Of now is made manifest to his saints : to will have to meet that sin face to face. Scripture, and, throw it back , in, '.the whom God would make known what' is There is nothing but the Word of God devil's face,. is more than a match for the richea of the glory of this mystery and the power of ,the Spirit that can him. The reason so many, people go among the Gentiles; which is Christ in.,, paralyze the influence of sin. All Adam through. the ,world grumbling is that you, the ,hope Of glory:" did was to take the forbidden fruit; it they do not hide behind the Word. If If , you• get the Word, you get the was not much, you know, just a little bit they would do . this,. the Lord would take ,gospel; and you get Christ in you. of a thing. But I want to tell you it care of them. Now, if you , knew positively that you has ruined this world. But the Word of " In the beginning was the Word, and 'could ,have Christ in you, the hope of God has power in it to paralyze sin. the Word was with Geld, and:. the Word glory, and 'have your judgMent enlight- I am thankful that God has power to was God." Then the Word becomes my ened and sanctified by his Holy Spirit, Paralyze the devil. safety, and my only,, safety. Now read would- you not read your Bible every Let us again, read from the fourth of the fourteenth verae:. " And the Word day? Hebrews: For the word of God is was made flesh, and dwelt among us Here is another thought: The Scrip- quick; and poWerful, and sharper than (and we beheld his glory, glory as tures contain the creative power of God. any twoedged sword, piercing even to of the only begotten of the Father), lull Power is in the Word. The Bible con- the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, of grace and truth." Christ was the : tains not only that which leads to Christ and of the joints and marrow, and is Word clothed in humanity. You have :,and to, forgiveness of sins, but it con- a discerner of the thoughts and, intents • .God in the Word; - yon have :Christ in tains thepower of making one a new of the heart." the Word. Now another. text , (John .0: creature in Christ. I could tell instances Then the Word is quick and powerful, 63) : "It 'is the ,spirit that quickeneth; of infidels being converted by simply — living and powerful,— and is intelli- the- flesh', profiteth nothing:, the words reading the Word of God. I never at- gent. There is intelligence in the Word. that I speak unto you,. they are spirit, tempt to explain the Bible to such per- I have often thought of that expression and they are life." God is in the ,W9rd ; sons; I simply read, it with, them, and which Paul uses, " dividing asunder of Christ is in the .Word;. and the • Holy let the Word of God talk to them, and soul and spirit." I have often thought Spirit, is in the Word. • , thus give the Holy ; Spirit a chance to of what Paul must have alluded to. He .In ."Early : Writings " • we read: convert them. I will tell of ,one instance was a Pharisee of the highest order; and " There are many precious truths con- in my experience. Does any one here when he brought his offering , for sin, , tained, in the Word of God, but it, is ,'know of ,Kalaka, in Basutoland?. Yes, fat was in it, and that • fat represented ` present truth! that the flock. needs now. •here is Brother A. T. Robinson. Kalaka sin. And so he separated all the fat I have seen the danger of. the_ messen- was, a man who had been educated by from it. • The Word divides asunder gers. running off from the. important the French, Evangelization Missionary now, just as in the day of types and points of present truth, to dwell upon Society to translate the Bible. I became shadows the fat was separated from the 'subjects' that are not calculated to unite acquainted with him in Kimberley.; ; The flesh-meat. the, flock and sanctify the soul.. , Satan missionaries there were much prejudiced Next verse: " Neither is there any will here, take every possible advantage , against me when ; they learned I was a creature that is not manifest in, his 'sight: to injure the cause. Seventh-day Adventist. I went .around but all things are naked, and opened unto " But-such subjects as the 'sanctuary, with. Kalaka for six weeks in : that part the eyes of him with whom we have, in connection 'with the 230o days, the of the country, but we never discussed to do." commandments of God and the faith of a question- of present truth during that Do you notice how the pronoun Jesus, are perfectly calculated -to. explain time. I simply read the Bible, with him changes? What is he speaking of first? the past ,advent movement and show every morning. We read portions of the —The Word, What does he say, now? what our present position is, ,•establish Bible containing our, doctrines, such as —Creature., in his sight. The word the faith of the doubting, and, give cer- the nature of man.. and, the coming of " his " 'synchronizes with, God. It is the tainty to the glorious. future. -..Theae, I i,GENERAL .CONFERENCE ,BULLETIN , 1.79

• _have frequently, •seen)) were •the'principat rotes, . people,'':and, a few subjects on which the messengers should . ContereM Protggbiinto minor tribes; and the invaders, who are known as the Tagalogs, Visayans, Ea- I have no comment to make' on' this; TWENTY-SECOND MEETING canos, Pampangans, etc:; according • to other-than that.i'think it is..welt..for us. the province from which, they„ come. ' -to believe it:, The 'principal subjects.,are May a, xo A. M. They are of Malay origin, and constitute those that point' out. our particular posi- W. T. KNOX in the chair. the real Filipino people. Since the con- tion at the,' present , time in the history J. T. Boettcher offered prayer. quest by Spain, three hundred years ago, With this quotation 'let' It was voted, that we invite the Euro- the Filipinos have been,members of the us link another passage; found in the lat- pean and North American Division Catholic Church, with the exception of ter portion' of this book, -, on • page 117, Conferences to supply their secretaries' the, aboriginals above mentioned, and "under the' 'title; ." The Third Angel's minutes of division conference Meetings the people on the island of Mindanao, ' Message:" 'The third 'angel closes his, for publication in the BULLETIN. called Moros, and those of the Sulu message thus: ''Here' is the patience of The following communication was Archipelago, who are Mohammedans. 'the saints;"here -are they that. keep .the presented to the Conference: -- Although professedly Christian for commandments Of God,' and 'faith' of " We desire to express our heartfelt three hundred years, it was not until the Jesus.' As .he repeated' these wordS,-, he, thanks to the members of the General American occupation that the Bible was • pointed to the 'heavenly sanctuary. The Conference Conmmittee and all the permitted an entrance into the country. minds of all 'who 'embrace 'this 'message many' friends who so kindly sympathized The church did but little More than, call "'art directed to the 'Most ., holy' place, their heathen customs by. Christian With us in our bereavement,:as expressed names. '"`"where' Jesus stands 'before the" ark, main their kind Words of comfort,' their ' king his' final intertession. for 'all those eager willingness to help,in anything Our Work o'•for whom mercy still lingers,' and' for that loving' hands could o, arid their' Our work 'was first started in' the is- those •who have Iigiiorailtly"brelten the beautifid floral tributes. We wish to as- lands :by Elder 'J. L. McElhanY "and of ,God 'This atoneirient'is made sure all the friends that their Many acts wife, Mx' years ago. He was 'success- for the 'righteous dead .as'. well as for• • the righteousliving.": • • ''" Then where the iffindS of: the, Lord's. people in' 'the laSt- days ' be''! ''POinted?— To the Sanctuary.'. ' We'read "further: '" Many . who embraced' 'the third message h'ad not had an 'experience in the two former messages. Satan understood thiS,' and his evil eye' was ,npOn them to overthrow them;, but the third angel- was 'pointing . them' to the most' 'holy place, and 'those who had 'had an experience the. PaSt. ' messages were pointing 'them the way to -the heavenly 'sanctuary. Many 'saw the'perfect 'chain ". of truth" in the angels', messages, and, gladly received them in their" order, and followed' Jesus by' faith into " the heavenly sanctuary. These ,messages• `- were represented to me 'as an' anch6r to' ;the people of God. ' Those 'who understand and receive' 'them, will be kept . "from being swept away 'by •tlie'Many de- lusions of Satan." One more text (Rev: 1o);" " The temple 'of God was opened in. heaven, 'and there was seen in his temple the 'ark of his testament: and 'there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, ' and 'an earthquake; and great hail." There was seen the"temple; and; within, the ten cOintnand'ments.- Take . the ten GROUP OF BELIEVERS, SANTA 'ANA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS cornmandmentS out of the third anger§ '-ritessage, and you take 'the: heart mit.- of kindness were greatly appreciated by ful in reaching several Americans, who ' The three messages are not ..new • us; and contributed much to the ameli- scion, however, returned to the United truth:. for "they are in reality' the. ever- oration of our grief. States. After two, years of faithful la- l'asting' gospel. Then, what makes " kEi,IBERS OF THE IRWIN FAMILY" bor, they were called to take up work in -separate' from the - world ?= It is a re- New Zealand: Brother Caldwell and setting of 'the truths of the ,eVerlasting It' was •voted that we accept this ex- wife, from Australia; were the next gospel An a framework of truth. The pression with thanks, and that the com- workers, Brother Caldwell representing Methodists,' the Roman Catholics; and munication be incorporated into the min- our book work there. the Baptists have 'truth .; every denomi- utes. ' Four years ago last 'December Mrs. nation has some truth; but•the trouble .is W. T. Knox: Are any of the commit- Finster and I arrived in Manila, -from that often truth 'is Set in a framework tees ready to report ? • If not, we will the Australasian field. We were' asked of error. But God places every truth 'in call for a report from rBrother L. V. to work espeCially for the Filipinos. its proper settitig The truths of 'the' Finster, on -the work in the Philippines. The needs of the nine million souls who Bible' are eyerlasting. The truths 'Con- L. V. Finster: On behalf of the be- had never heard of the `third angel's nected. with the last gospel message now .• lievers in the Philippines, I' am glad this message gave us one of the greatest 'being proclaimed seem new only betatise morning: to bring to you words of greet- welcomes we have ever received in any they haVe been taken from a framework ing. At the last General Conference 'field. of' error, and placed in a new setting: there were no Sabbath-keepers in the The people are divided, into thirty- "-L want to - say, 'brethren, iti Philippine islands. four different languages and -dialects; that the Bible should "be appreciated , (Reading) := and it is estimated •that about ten per more and more by, us, "and we 'should PHILIPPINE " ISLANDS MISSION cent understand the Spanish language. `- hear in' it' the yoke of God speaking to The younger generation are learriing the 'our souls.; 'and' You may know that that This mission field consists of the English language through the agency of 'Word can deliver people, no matter what ,‘Philippine Islands, the Sulu Archipel- the schools. We now have over nine 'their condition or circumstances may:be. ago, and the Bataan 'Islands. The popu- thousand - native teachers, more or less That'Word can heal the sick; that Word lation numbers about nine million. The perfectly teaching the English language Can do -anything that., G6d 'can 'do, :be, ' people are divided into two classes,— in the public schools. "cause the power of God is in it the aboriginals; called the Negritos, Igor- Our first year was devoted to Ian- 180 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN guage study, and getting out some tracts Our Needs deliver them, but he told the people that in the Tagalog language. The second We have started work in only one of he would not let them go until he ex- year we started some cottage meetings, the thirty-four languages of the islands. plained the books to them; and so he speaking through an interpreter. Soon Some one must go to learn those other started in with the second chapter of there were more calls than I could fill. languages, and gather around him the Daniel, and explained that, then the sev- Later I had a Bible school, which in- young people to instruct them so they enth, and then explained about baptism, cluded many of the native pastors of can carry the truths to their own peo- and the coming of the Lord. He would Manila. ple. Nine million people are too many spend a day with one man, and another Tent Efforts for one minister. day with another. We need better facilities for the When he returned, he told me he had Two years ago Brother I. H. Evans eight Sabbath-keepers down there. visited us, and we organized our first training of our young people. They are our hope for the carrying of this mes- These persons sent up by him an ear- church, with eighteen members. Our nest call that ,I should come down 'and hearts were very glad as we saw another sage and the finishing of the work in tongue joined to that host who are to this generation. teach them the truth; for they had just sing the song of M,oses and the Lamb We need to have the medical mission- come out of the Catholic Church. The when Jesus returns. ary work started. We should have a doctor had ordered my wife to leave Soon after this we pitched our first doctor and some nurses to instruct our the islands at once, and we had our tent in Manila. Our attendance was own people and to assist in the evan- tent-meeting, with some eight hundred good from the start. In fact, it was gelistic work. We need canvassers to people there every night. Brother Ad- packed, with crowds standing outside all take the place •of those that are leaving. ams had just arrived, and had to have around the tent. Our trouble has not But, above all, we need your prayers an interpreter with him, so I told this been how to get a congregation, but for the guidance of, the Holy Spirit, that man that we were all needed there, and how to care for those who come. They the work may be carried forward in no one could be spared to go. The tears continued to come every night for ten harmony with the Lord's mind. began to roll down the old man's cheeks, weeks at a time. We pitched our tent In closing, we wish to thank our Sab- and he asked what would become of in three different places, with the same bath-schools for the assistance they those poor people, if no one should go results. We have many urgent calls have given us in the erection of our to tell them the truth.. Finally, the only frdm other cities to teach them the first church in Manila, and for a mission satisfaction I could give him was that truth, but are unable to respond, be- home; also the many friends who have I would send the native evangelist down cause we have no one to send. One of helped us buy our printing-press and for two days, and that at the close of the hardest experiences of our mission equipment, and the young people's so- the tent-meeting, we would try to send Work is our inability to answer the ciety in Maine for our stereopticon lan- some workers down, that the people many calls for` help. One year later our tern. might know that we were willing to membership had grown to one hundred, We are thankful to the Lord for his help them. This satisfied the old 'man. with many others keeping the Sabbath. blessings, and to him we give all the When the brother went down, he Since then it has grown to something praise. called a meeting, and there gathered over one hundred seventy-five members. On leaving the islands our Filipino around him five or six hundred. When A year ago last January we were glad brethren asked me to convey Christian he started to pray, they fell down and to welcome Elder Elbridge M. Adams greetings to our brethren assembled began to cry. He never had such an ex- and wife and Brother Floyd Ashbaugh here in Conference, and to thank you perience before in all his, life. He said to the field. Since we left on our fur- for the light of the message you have that the Spirit of God could fall upon lough, Brother Adams is the only min- sent them. L. V. FINSTER, these darkened people the same as it did ister in the field. Director. in olden times. They kept him preaching the whole day long, and in fact, the Our Literature L. V. Finster (speaking) : I want to -read a few words from a letter I have two days he was there. When he re- In the Tagalog language we now have from a young Ilocano Sabbath-keeper, turned, he said they' were different; they ten tracts, also the book " Thoughts on who has been attending the high school were really keeping 'the Sabbath, and Daniel," and a small Bible-reading book, in Manila. As one of the examinations trying their best to find out the truths called " Suliranang ng Kapahunahan." came on the Sabbath, he' had to miss get- we hold so dear. But the sad part of We also publish a monthly paper, called ting his diploma. He says: " By pass- it is that we have not yet been able to Patnubay ng Katabusan. We have two ing, I could have pursued university send anybody to them, and that was a tracts published in the Ilacano language. studies. But I passed in all except the year ago. Our workers have been so = Our two canvassers have had excel- examination that came on the Sabbath. engaged in their work that we could not lent success. Brother R. A. Caldwell That subject spoiled my all, and my spare them. I only wish we could se- has sold eighteen hundred " Patriarchs teachers were disappointed, but I have cure some young people to come over and Prophets " in Spanish, one thousand peace from God. Now, Elder Finster, and assist us in answering such calls. " Coming King " in Spanish, and about the work is progressing wonderfully in W. T. Knox: We will now call upon one thousand copies each of the Tagalog the Tagalog provinces, and reports from Brother R. A. Beckner, for a report from books, " Thoughts on Daniel " and the Visayas are very encouraging. Ma- Burma. " Suliranang ng Kapahunahan," on the lobos has about fifty believers. Kawit R. A. Beckner (reading) : — island of Luzon. is receiving the gospel message. But I OUR WORK IN BURMA Brother Floyd Ashbaugh has had remember the Ilocano people, my people, splendid success this past year in the Mr. Finster. Not one among them is During the past four years our force island of •Panay, selling the Spanish keeping the Sabbath. We lack workers of foreign workers has varied, but most " Patriarchs and Prophets." for the fertile 'Tagalog provinces, but of the time we have had three men with Brother Caldwell and wife have just not one worker has been sent to the not their wives, one single worker, and one returned to Australia on furlough, and less fertile Ilocano provinces. Twenty self-supporting worker. Elder H. H. Brother Floyd Ashbaugh expects to re- more workers from America will not be Votaw, besides having the general over- turn to the United States at the begin- too many. I wish you to make an elo- sight of the work in Burma, has with ning of the school year to finish his quent appeal for my people in the Gen- his faithful wife been carrying on a education. So we are in need of other eral Conference." strong, aggressive work in Rangoon, canvassers. Several of the richest is- At the close of this letter, in compli- which is the local mission headquarters. lands are as yet unentered. ance with a request, Elder Finster re- Prof. R. B. Thurber, with his wife and family, is located at Meiktila, where he Our Filipino Laborers lated the following: — We have one old brother seventy-two is doing the work of three men in our We have carried on a training class years old with us. His hair is almost as industrial school. Dr. Tornblad is do- for several of our young men in the white as that of these men here. Often ing self-supporting medical work in the class,-room and by taking them with me he would come to me and ask that he southern Shan states. Miss ,Mary Gibbs in the active field work. Four or five might do something to help the work, has been studying the Karen language, have developed into quite acceptable because the Lord had been so good to at the same time carrying on medical workers. The Lord is using them in him in calling him out of darkness, and missionary work in Rangoon. Our lo- reaching their own people. It matters he wanted to do something for the Lord cation is Mandalay, but on account of not what the race may be, if the thirdi before he died. And so I sent him out giving a great deal of time to the lit- angel's message gets hold of the people, as a canvasser, and he went dowit to erature work the past year,. we have they want to tell others of the message Cavite province. When he came to de- spent only about, three months of the for this time. liver his books, he did not just simply time there. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 181

These workers, with Elder and Mrs. nominational schools, in that it has prac- ican lasts, which the school has on hand. G. A. Hamilton, who have come in an- tically no Seventh-day Adventist con- They make these, as well as the Burmese swer to that oft-repeated call for a man stituency to draw from, and the money sandals and slippers. and wife for the Karen work, give us for its start and maintenance, except Thus far anything along the line of ten workers among a heathen population the book teachers' salaries, has been agriculture has had to contend against of close to twelve millions. Suppose we raised from those riot of our faith, and all the stray horses, cows, and goats in say a million for each worker, this for the most part heathen. Four years the station. This has now been reme- leaves a few odd millions for any one ago, in response to a call from the Bud- died, or will be soon, as a few weeks who wishes an unoccupied field of la- dhist people themselves, R. B. Thurber ago, when Brother Votaw and I were in bor. Notwithstanding the great num- and family were sent to open a school at the oil fields getting money from the bers before us, we can say with Jona- Meiktila. At once they began the study Burmese oil-well owners, one of the than, " There is no restraint with God of the language, but the calls for the American drillers who had given to the to save by many or by few." Our great- opening became so loud and frequent school, suggested that we ask the oil est need now is a strong force of work- that school was begun, with no facilities, companies for old sand lines and dis- ers from among the Burmese. We thank in a rented building. Application had carded cables, which, unstranded, make God for the loyal men we do have, and been made for a certain piece of gov- fine fencing. We acted upon the sug- we believe that our school will soon be ernment land. After nearly a year's gestion, and were promised enough to supplying that most essential feature of delay, it was refused. At first this make a ten-wire fence around the whole twenty-five acres. We expect to receive from the Burma railways, free, or at a very low cost, enough old rails to furnish the posts, as any wood except teak would be eaten by the white ants. This will save over three hundred dollars. The school opened last year with thirty-five boys; the last word before starting for Conference gave an enrolment of 141. For some time we have been turning boys away, asking them to wait until there is more accommodation. Most of the boys are Burmese, but there are some Indians, Chinese, Karens, and Eurasians. Nearly all the .boys do some work. They are paid from the start, beginning at one pice (one-half cent) per hour. As they become more skilled, the wage is increased until some INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT,,,MEIKTIL.A SCHOOL, BURMA are receiving five cents per hour. Some of the parents are able to pay the school fees, and the boys have what they earn. missionary propaganda,— trained work- seemed to be a discouraging feature; All have the money placed in their ers from among the native people. but now we can see God had .a much hands. Thus we try to give them a better location for us. We have twenty- Growth financial training. A few are able to five acres of " freehold land " on high earn all or practically all their 'ex- Forty-five have been added to the ground about a mile and a half' from penses, but usually it takes about $15 church by baptism during the past four the town, overlooking the lake, where a year more than the average boy can years. Some have been taken in on the breezes come from, all sides. It is, earn. Several scholarships have been profession of faith; and some by letter, in, fact, the most ideal location in the sent from America, and several have so that the present membership is nine- whole place. been donated by individuals in Burma. ty-five. Counting the children, we have On this land there has been erected It is certainly a very little outlay to give over one hundred in Burma who are one, large school building 38 x 78, with a boy an education of his mind, train keeping the commandments of God and tile roof, cement floor, brick nogging up his hands, and bring his heart to a are looking for the speedy return of three feet, and double mat walling; knowledge of the true and living God. the Lord. Of the new members, five house for one teacher; house and stable This industrial school is the only are devoting all their time to active for cartman and bullocks; a temporary trades school in Burma. The only other mission work under the supervision of work shed with living quarters for the school for boys to learn a trade is in the mission. Of these, India has taken teachers of carpentry and cane work. jail. So we in Burma feel to say in ne three, one is teaching in the Meiktila When .we left, the foundation was being uncertain tones that the Meiktila School school, while Brother Williams will in a laid for a workshop the same size as the is a success, and I am sure that could few weeks, return from England, where school building. This is now used as a you have' been with me as I met with he is taking a change, and getting some dormitory, workshop, class room, store- them in •their prayer-meeting and heard training along medical lines. He passed house, study room, church, and office. those boys sing the songs of" Zion, seen the first examination in Burmese while This has all been done with money raised those yelling men, Who six months before still in private business, and will be largely in Burma and from those not might have been seen at pagodas bow- able to do active work in the vernacu- of our faith. ing down to an image of stone, stand up lar very soon. In the morning the boys are taught and thank God that they were at the The people of Burma are noted for Burmese and English; in the afternoon school, and ask their teachers and fel- their liberality. You cannot go to a they work at the trades or outdoor un- low students to pray that they may learn Burman's house without being asked to skilled labor. At present we have equip- quickly, so that they may be ready to eat. The fact that you have had a full ment to teach only three trades. The meet Jesus when he comes, you too meal less than an hour before, in no carpentry class are making chairs, tables, would say that it is a success. Could way lessens your obligation to partake of clothes-presses, working on the build- you have seen Ngwe Zin, who about their hospitality. This has its disadvan- ings, and have made new and repaired three years ago was " only a Buddhist tages when one has several calls to make old furniture for the government offices.' boy," as he stands before his class of in an afternoon. We are glad to say The officials were well pleased, and gave boys in the Sabbath-school, you would that this spirit of liberality is manifested the school a good recommendation. The be glad to give of your means that Bur- in behalf of the work as well; The total cane department is making cane chairs ma's boys may become mercy's messen- amount given by our people in Burma of various patterns, soiled-linen boxes, gers to Buddhist Burma. to the work during 1912 was 7,952 ru- stools, waste-paper baskets, and the like. In behalf of Brother Thurber and pees or 94 rupees ($30.67) per member. The shoe department has been so family, I wish to thank the liberal- This does not include money raised for crowded with orders for new shoes and hearted brethren and sisters who gave to the Meiktila school, which is about repair work, that they have been com- the $300,000 Fund; as from money re- r,000 rupees. pelled to hire four extra men who under- ceived from it they were able to move • Meiktila Industrial School stand the work to help. Even then I had into a nice new house on school land, to' wait four weeks for a pair of shoes. from a house of bamboo with a foot or The Meiktila Industrial School occu- There is a great demand for European more of water under it. In such a house pies a unique position among our de- shoes, especially those made on Amer- it was no wonder that he was down with 182 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN the fever before the new house on the as yet. we' have no i'Burmese workers Westphal :an oppOrtunity to present "-. a hill was finished enough to move into it. who can be spared for this work. From report from his field. January to 'March I took 1,065. sub- ' J. W. Westphal: When we were'com-, • Literature scriptions for Kin Soung; • 71 for the ing across the Atlantic; I had a 'conver- From time to time we have had can- 'Chinese magazine, and 16 for the Tamil sation with • a man apparently , of more ' vassers come to Burma to sell English quarterly., Although I had no Bengali, than average intellect' and education and books and papers. In fact, the first Hindi, or Urdu papers with me; I se, avoirdupois. On learning 'that I was- work • was done in that way; but the cured 14 cash subscriptions for these. from Argentina, he -asked me .where it record of work done is not very definite, I cannot speak — all these languages, was — whether it was south' of Panama. so We shall confine this report largely but the people can usually speak Bur- I told him it was at the southern ex-. to the year 1912, as showing what could mese or 'English, and the Lord helped tremity of the South American conti- be done with systematic work. One me to get the orders. We are glad to nent. . He expressed surprise, and said canvasser devoted all his time to Eng- be able to help in the circulation of the he suppOsed it was some place in the lish books and papers for about nine papers froin the other fields: United States. As we neared the, shore; months; three others sold some as their I believe that in a short time we will an 'official asked the passengers for much . .. time permitted. The, total value of these be able to take boys from the school information in regard- to their place of sales was $3,132. The English-speaking and train them to sell these papers. birth; their . nationality, their business, '• community is comparatively small, but They may never be able to equal the where they were going, and what they ofteri we can place English literature in 'Work of a foreigner, for a white face were going to do. There was with us a the, hands, of. Buddhists, Mohammedans, naturally gives one a certain advantage, young lady from Uruguay. He asked Hindus, etc„ because they wish to itn, but ten native workers would 'easily her what her nationality was. I replied prove in English. There is a great field give the paper a circulation of from for her that she was from Uruguay. He here for two or three regular canvass- ten to fifteen thousand. said, " What is that? Where in the. ers. Brother Carott averaged sales of From a small people of seven hundred United States is Uruguay?" I said it more than two hundred fifty dollars per fifty thousand (the Karens), the Bap- was not in the United States. I told month, and reached over three hundred tists claim forty thousand converts, him it was an independent republic in. dollars when .he reported full time. While from the eight or nine million Bur- South America, as independent as the, mese, they have about ten thousand. United States. He laughed, - shook his Vernacular Literature They get a small per cent of those edu- head incredulously, and said he' won-. cated in their schools, but adult con- dered what the customs officials in. New: The Burmese people are a reading verts from direct evangelization are rare York City would think or make of it., people.- ' All the boys must enter the and exceptional. Yet I believe the Lord 'These facts made me think that a monastery before they can become men, has solved the problem of breaking little lesson on 'South. American geag= and here they are taught the three down that barrier of indifference for us: raphy might not be out of place this " R's," So that now the percentage of Our industrial training-school 'will fur- morning, Our:South American field',is' those able to read and write is greater nish us with workers, trained -and not in the United States: [Laughter.] than that of Italy. The Baptists are tested; and the vernacular , papers will It is not in' ,any territory that belongs this year''` celebrating the one-hundredth be the means of reaching ,the people. As to' the' United States. It is south of year of their entrance into Burma. I have gone from house to house, I United States— south of Panama. It Other iniSsions have been there almost have found the-old copies of the papers embraces all of South America except= as long, btit to the best of my knowledge nearly worn out with reading. I be-7' ing the little republic of Panama. ;It,htts none have "ever made it a practise to sell Revd that each paper is read. three ,,or a populatiOn of something - over twenty Christian literature to the Buddhists: four 'times,; and they.: generally' read 'million. So much as regards -where` t Because 'of the indifference and self-sat- alond, and are heard by from one -to As, .allotted ,, fifteen, inittUteSAO isfaction of the people,: they seem to half a dozen each time. If one paper read my report, I have put these gen- have trouble in giving it away. has reaches so. many people, Burrna!s .mil- eral :remarks" into the preface. remained for 'Seventh-day Adventists to- lions may soon be warned. J. W. Westphal, (reading) : — demonstrate that literature can be sold; •' Scarcely a, mail tomes that ,does ..not ..; • • • and sold for a price that more than bring ..to us , letters pi ,appreciation fot% covers the ,cast of printing: Our "first 'the paper, and asking that all the, papers AMERICAN. UN real' attempt to" sell reading matter 'was and hooks, we .print in. Bnrmese be, sent. •-: ,r • . • made about two years ago, with a thir Value, payable., Some of the., other. It,i s. "'twenty years,since , the Ope ty-two-page ancl-cover , booklet on the missionaries have, used., large. quantities, 0 eqr..w9r.l . fil. South tWeiVe. : Signs of the Times and End of the of our literature. .,Meri often. come to' years since the fOtination. World." We really began by giving us as a result of reading onr,,papet. The American Union . and .'.seven':`: these away and selling gospels at a half- thugyi (head , maps) of , a village about year's`;Sinee' the, $outleAthetican cent each. After the first day, I adopted 'fifteen miles from Mandalay,: came., to 'Corifetente Now, ',1,q62 the 'plan of selling the two' fora half- Our house because. he did not ,get SeVenth;day.- Adventists 'froni cent. This `plan seemed to be good, So paper. The :Baptists had, just been 'to ,his sencl,',Oeetings.,to .the 6.erieral' we tried selling them for a half-cent Village .with a , magic lantern; but ;he ence' assembled 'inTaltiitita Park, 'Wash=,:, each: For, the past eighteen months we' Wanted to know why we kept " clo-bote- ingtOri,.' D. C., 194., -1 • do, 'not' have beep selling the "End Near " book- hai " on Saturday instead, of . have the meMbership of. Present:1! let for a cent; which 'covers the cost. In like, the :other " sons of Christ", South',,Ainericanteryitoiy'at. the four' years, fourteen thausand of these :Stayed ationt two talking, and close 61 1908,, bin ,,thre' years, -ago, it heralds of the Lord's Coming have been went ,away with the proMise that. we Was 1,242. There hasbeeri 'a gain Of 021 placed in the hands of the people. would. come to •his village and. preach ,as. In three years, An eight-page tract on " The True soon as we return, fi7op America. Daily, ,111fembership„, Mode of Worship," for free' distribu- these calls for more light come . from tion, was printed, and'an edition of ten one end of Burma, to the other. Every- ' Our work in the SOuth American,Uri-!-12, thousand 'was almost exhausted when I where we go we meet those. who, know, 'ion territory is•-repreSented as left. Fifteen hundred copies of an Argentina,-, 14 churches -;;" membership;' Of our work and belief.. I haVe. often eighty-page' health booklet, several thou- had fellow travelers,,taking for 76o;.', Chilei. '17 'thatches; tnembership. sand Comes of the Gospel Luke, besides American Baptist, begin an argument • goo; 'Upper Parana Mission, -embracing' a large• number of tracts on the Sabbath 'against Sunday arid .in favor of the ob- the 'republic of . Paraguay' and a portion's and other, . subjects, have been sold. 'En- servance of the Sabbath., of northern. Argentina, 7- churches 'and couraged by this success, but determined In BUrma we need 'the 'power of God. .2 companies, with a membership of 208; to launch out still farther, we issued, a And the workers and believers there are Bolivia; 1.company,'iwith- a membership • )•?' year ago; 'the first number of a twenty- looking to'' this Conference ' to be the of 7; Ecuador, i church, . with a merit- two-page •quarterly magazine, selling for beginning of a movement that will, reach -hership of.'12; churches ; -mem- fifteen cents a year, or three cents ""a even to "bagOda larid," to gather from' bership, 1-71 Uruguay,- 3, chtirches and ''• copy. The first three issues were s,000 the " sans of Buddha " a:goodly company company, with a membershipnf each; the fourth; 5,50o; and the issue' to' stand on the sea of glass. As an indication.of.their love for' and for last -month was 6,000 copies. These R. A. BEcKgER. 'interest in this work,. I refer to the fact were all' sold as they came out; either that the tithe for, 1912 'amounted to $20,- as single copies or 'mailed ta subscribers. W. T. Knox: We have •not yet' had 689.o6; .pfactically the'-amount • of the 'ap-,, ` No one 'has given his entire time to reports from our brethren in South propriation -front'. the General'','Confer- the cirtulation of these magazines; and America. We will give Brother J. W. ence; while the donations fot ibtal and 0-

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general, work amounted to more than the map will show that it is still a large Educational Work five thousand dollars. The average field, 'having a total length of about The River . Plate Academy has done tithe per member was $11.74, and the four thousand miles. Peru and Ecuador a good work. Under the direction of average tithe and donation for evangel- especially are very distant from our cen- Prof. W. C. John, it has been fully or- istic work:per:member was $14.78.. Of- ter, or from any acceptable center that ganized; and a course of ten years ferings for other enterprises and local could be chosen. A further division planned. Previously most of the stu4 work will amount to several thousand should be made in the near future. dollars more. The tithe for the quad- dents came only for a few months. Un- rennial. period is $67;026.07; donations Medical Work der the present plan, this has been for evangelistic work, $17,181.49; total Our sanitarium has done an excel- greatly improved. It is •exp ected that for evangelistic work, $84,207.56. lent work. It began in the school build- the first class will be graduated this year. The total number of ordained minis- ings, Nov. 15, 1908. With the opening The attendance of students, and children all ages has been about one hundred ters is fifteen; licentiates, eight; licensed of school early the following March, it of missionaries, twenty-five; book and pe- moved to its own quarters, in a dwelling each year. Much of riodical canvassers, thirty-five; a total house purchased from Dr. R. H. Haben- sale of our literature isthe due success to the inwork the of eighty-three. They are distributed 'as of this and the Chile school. One stu- icht. In the meantime a sanitarium - the work of the . Argentina, twenty-six; Chile, building was begun, and as fast as a dentgospel haS ministry. just entered As our students nearly all' come to us without any education, a two or three years' course does not render the help necessary. We hope for greater results when the students we now have are able to enter the mission- " ary field: NecessarilY 'the change in the school plan has increased the expense, but we are confident that this will be amply compensated for by better results. We are employing six teachers. They are endeavoring to develop a missionary spirit in, the school, and are holding before those ;in attendance the ,one object of our school, that of preparing students to carry the message to the people of. our, great. field., We are grateful for the help given in the sending of Professor and. Mrs. H. U. Stevens, of Union, Col- lege to take charge of ,the school, All ,are anxiously waiting to hear the result, of the thirteenth • Sabbath-schoOt Offering, which-the General Conference Committee so, kindly voted to give to the schools in Argentina and Chile. Thtis f far these schools have been ahle to keep free from debt; but„the facilities must be increased, some most necessary.things. IN .,111ONTgViDEO, URUGUAY ' ' Provided, .and . in Argentina, ,a mitorymust he built. The, investinent thirty; Upper Parana Mission, five;• Bo- morn:was ready, it was oecupied•by pa- of the, school.s : $18,096.9?, and the pres- livia, four Ecuador,'two; Peru; eleven; fleas: .For a short time its work was _ent worth; '$?6,923.51.. When Abe gOOd Uruguay, five. ' 't stopped by the medical authorities •ori;the acconnti :are collected; all •dehts will, be- Sirice,the,last session of the ,General . ground, that it 'had no recognized phy- wiped ,out. : . :, . Conference,. the union has been ,favored sicianithe doctor having only 'a license' - , by thelirisit,Of two General :Conference to practise 'Once since, a similar 'effort ,•'' Publishing Work representatiVes,' 0.; Conradi, Of Eit- has been made against it, but each time t'Or several Years, up to 191o, there,' rope, arid WS. A::. Spicer;. of 'Washington., its many friends came to the rescue, arid had been two ,Printing plants in the D. c, and disappointed in, nOt. its poptilarity has ' since continued. The Spanish 'part of the ;.South' Arnerica,n• ingperinitted to welcome G. DaniellS past' year has been a very' successful' Union Conference territory; ,riamely, in in 1916, as had been Planned. HeWever, one:. It' had a net , gain in I912 of $6,- Argentina and. Chile. At theon uni ses- Brother Conradi ably, ifilled his' place, 01:24: ThiS is enabling the institution sion a the Year,? telio, it was recom- and did us, gOod SerViee his'short to redtice its indebtedness,- and make mended that they be united at. Florida, stay. Hit limited, time'enabled him. to some of the most, needful irnproVernents,• in Argentina.. By, the cIoSe of. the year,' make only ,a brief ",viSit to 'chile On the eSpeCially in the surgical 'department. an additional and larger building was Weit COast,: and attend two meetings The total investment is $35,159:56; the erected, larger, and. better, printing ma- Argentina and One,iii net present worth, $22,456.54. Of the chinery procured, and the whole print= assets; over five' thousand dollars are ac- work taken'. over. . 'About $2,5oo Union Organization. counts.Fh' rom t irty. to thirty-five pa- from the $30o,000 Finid was •a great Up to 1901, the -'South American Un- tients can be accommodated'." In the ac- help in making these necessary changes. ion field was 'operated-, as., three separate ‘commodations and' furnishings, there is The total investment in the. South and. independent .mission fields, namely, still much to be desired, 'and the building American Union Publishing House is , Brazil, River Plate, , and Weet, Coast. is still incomplete. ' $22,554.60; the net present worth, $16,- Mission, ".In • that year ,they were organ- Last •October.; the sanitarium gradu- 117.57. Since the real estate and first ized„' into ,:tbe ,South .,American Union. ated its first nurses'. class, seven in`nurn- building were purchased at very low Mission., , But ,because of its immense ber. TWo of these are still in connec- rates, when property was cheap, they extent of territory; arid .the consequent, tion with the institution, while the re- would readily sell now for double the difficulties. in .'economical • and advanta- mainder are all in the field under con- amount they cost, which was $4,796.85. geous, administration, it .was considered ference employ — two in the Upper The net gain for 1912 was $2,426.07, advisable to divide it into two union Parana Mission, two in. Argentina, and which, however, will be materially cut conferences.. This,was done at ..the time. one among the Indians in Peru. As this down ,by salaries that, have since been of Brother Corirades. ;visit,. when , the work becomes more appreciated, and our apportioned. Brazil ,Union, Conference was organized,, young people are becoming better, edu- The house publishes three periodicals: This arrangement became, operative Jan. cated; a better-prepared class are taking Salad y' Vida, our health paper ; El Ata- t, r9I1. The . territory of the ! South Thup. What is greatly needed is a phy- laya, our missionary, paPer; and La Re- American, Conference is there- sician who will enter a medical school in vista 4dventista, our, church paper. fore reduced .to the . republics"entioned . our field for the purpose of securing a Thus far the other publications issued in the first paragraph of this, report, and diploma and thus obviating, further le,- • by the houie have been ;tracts and parn-. the :Falkland Islands..,...But a 'glance., at, gal difficulties: phlets, as we prefer to use books: from .- 184 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN other houses for the present. All the a large salary, the common people, indifferent, and are living only for the literature sold in the field has not those from whom the cause receives its satisfying of the carnal desires. A host passed through the house, nor do we principal support, receive a much are slaves, both spiritually and phys- have complete returns from all the fields smaller one. The farmer has heavy ically, wholly ignorant of their spiritual for the year 1909. The approximate farm expenses, and many of our people slavery, and just awaking to the fact of value of literature sold during the four are really poor. This materially af- their physical slavery. Some of the years is $78,896. Up to the last year, fects the tithe, which largely governs blackest crimes against humanity in his- when there was a small decrease, there the manning of our field. tory have been perpetuated against thou- has been a rapid rise in sales from about Owing to the difficulty in getting sands during the last few years in our $4,850 in 1909, to $19,651 in 1910, and places for meeting, and the high rents, territory, and against which the suf- $31,811 in 1911. The sales for 1912 the brethren have seriously considered ferer dare not cry. While the sufferings were $29,684. The increase is due to the advisability of procuring churches of myriads are calling 'to God for ven- more books and the excellent help the of our own in a few of the large cities, geance, they are calling equally loud for General Conference gave us in such ex- such as Buenos Aires, Montevideo, San- help from us. With us the Lord has de- perienced bookmen as E. M. Trummer, tiago, etc. But because of the scarcity posited the only certain means of help. R. B. Stauffer, and J. D. Lorenz. A of funds, and the fear of debt, nothing The great threefold message must be large amount of seed has thus been has yet been done except in Monte- brought to their doors and hearts if sown in many homes, some of which must surely spring up and bear fruit. As these institutions are all proper- ties of the union, and under its direct control, it has been decided, with the hearty approval of those in charge, to give a tithe of the net earnings to the union. Work Among the Indians One of the interesting features of our union is the work among the Indians on the shores of Lake Titicaca. On my way to the last General Conference, I was permitted to converse with several Indians who had begun to keep the Sab- bath. There were less than a dozen in number, and they knew but little about the truth. At that time, Brother F. A. Stahl was sent to labor in Bolivia. But the interest among the Indians, and the, demand for help, were such that he soon found it advisable to dedicate most of his time to this work, and it has rapidly grown, until now we have a church of over sixty members, and many oth- DISPENSAEV HOUR, LAKE 'TITICACA INDIAN MISSION ers are keeping, the Sabbath or are deeply interested. This is the more in- video, where a building has been se- they are saved. The Lord has provided teresting from the fact tha't it is prac- cured, at a cost of about six thousand no other means for their deliverance; tically the first fruit from Protestant ef- dollars. The necessary additional ex- he is counting on us. fort among the descendants of the In- pense of remodeling it for our use, and First-Fruits dians of the famous Inca empire, A adding two or three rooms for living property has been secured, and a mis- A little fruit is seen from the efforts purposes, will make the complete amount put ,forth. •From every class some are sion home and schoolhouse have been not •less than eight thousand dollars. The accepting the message. The artisan, the erected. Brother Bartholomew Rojas, brethren in Uruguay have done nobly in farmer, the servant, and the Indian in of the Upper 'Parana MissiOn, a grad- donating toward this, but the larger por- his' lowly hut, are alike rejoicing in a uate nurse from the River Plate Sani- tion will remain unpaid. The property Saviour's love and a soon-coming Re, tarium, has, with his wife, gone to take is very desirable, in a good location, and deemer. However, they are but the up work among these Indians, by teach- was secured at a low price. We should first-fruits of what is to be, the promise ing a school and laboring in other ways. have similar places in other large cities. of a much more abundant harvest. The There seems to be opening before The fact is that, with the above excep- prospects were never brighter than they our brethren an unlimited field among tion, we do not have a place in any this people. La Paz, the capital of Bo- are today. From plane and forest, from large city in South America where we mountain and valley, from mansion, cot- livia, is an Indian center, where work could have a general meeting. If pro- should be opened. Steps have been ta- curable at all, it would be with great tage,' and hut, a host will yet come to meet their returning Lord. ken to this end, but thus far we have difficulty, and at very great expense. lacked the necessary help. Conditions are developing that bid us General Spiritual Condition hasten our work. We who are laboring An Expensive Field to Operate in Roman Catholic countries must look The number of Sabbath-keepers, and with grave concern on the purposes of Necessarily, the South American field the tithes and donations, show some of Rome in the United States, the growth is an expensive one to operate. Buenos the good results of the work done. This of her power, and the boldness of her Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, La represents many years of seed-sowing claims. Her success there will surely Paz, and other places are noted for the and earnest labor. Of all the effects of react on our South American fields. high cost of living.' Rents are exceed- the work and distribution of literature, The doors the Lord has so graciously ingly high for very inferior and lim- we cannot judge. We only know that opened will again be closed. Difficulties ited accommodations. As nearly all the truth has found its way into many will increase, and the work must be manufactured articles are imported un- thousands of homes, and that it will not done under bitter persecution, and der' heavy duty, prices are high. In return void, but accomplish that where- amid war and revolution. These facts most places there are no cheap and eco- unto it is sent. But, at best, only' a urge us on to do our best now. nomical methods of handling home small portion of the work that must be products. Traveling is expensive, for accomplished has been done. Millions Needs the twofold reason that rates are high have not yet• heard the glad news that Some of the most urgent needs of our and distances great., This is equally Jesus is soon coming, nor of Jesus as a field are the following: — true of freight expenses.. It is difficult loving, sin-pardoning Saviour. 1. The further division of the South to secure meeting-places. Frequently Either infidelity or the grossest super- American Union field, organizing a un- only a large living-room can be ob- stition reigns everywhere. There are a ion mission, composed of the republics tained. and that by renting a house com- multitude who, by self-chastisement and of 'Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. This is plete. and always at a very high rate. other severe penances, are trying to ap- a special request of the South American While the professional man receives pease God's anger. A large number are Union committee. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 185

2. A General Conference representa- Hospitality geant became interested in reading it, notwithstanding the jeers of his com- tive to attend the South American Un- The inhabitants of these republics are panions. He took it home, and showed ion meetings in 1914. very hospitable and generous; the na- it to his wife, who changed her con- 3. An ordained minister for Argen- tives are especially so. The traveler in tina. ception of Adventists, and becoming in- the Country will find hospitality wher- terested, came to our Sabbath-school. 4. A minister for Peru. ever he goes. In my canvassing tours Eventually, both accepted the truth and 5. A physician to enter some Riyer in the interior, I have seldom found it Plate medical college, and as soon as were baptized. Another was baptized necessary to make a request; for favors later, and others were interested, on possible take a complete medical exam- were extended without asking; and if ination and secure a diploma. account of that Bible. pay was offered, they were frequently In another case we see how the Lord 6. Missionary nurses for Bolivia, offended. Chile, and Peru. goes before us in the work. A sister 7. A missionary canvasser for Ecua- Beginning of our Work went out to work in another town. She dor. The beginning of our work in Para- had a sick daughter, who was attended 8. The strengthening of our Indian guay was by means of tracts and papers, by a quack doctor. Meanwhile the lady work by additional help, so that this which were sent by a brother in Uru- received a letter from my wife, ad- work may be opened up in the city of guay to his relatives. They' soon became dressed, " My dear sister in Christ," La Paz. In this, the desirability of a interested, and requested help, which which heading was read by the doctor. young man of good education who was responded to by sending Brother He inquired what that religion was, and should study the native languages with Snyder, twelve years ago. The work asked explanation's. As this man knew a view of translating portions of the grew slowly at the beginning, but soon of the gospel and of the Sabbath, hav- Bible into them, should be considered. it extended more rapidly in the Argen- ing previously read the Bible, he wrote ,9. A missionary canvasser for the tine territory of Missiones. In order to to us. I answered, promising to visit Straits of Magellan and the Falkland work with the people, we have to be him on my coming tour to the churches. Islands. careful not to offend them in respect to When I arrived, he had invited a num- to. Ownership of suitable places of their idols and saints. They are very ber of neighbors, who heard for the first worship in several of our large cities. superstitious in this respect. In spite time the gospel of Christ. We had two 1. A general strengthening of our of the fact that I was reared in a Cath- meetings during the two days' visit. The work along all lines in all fields. olic country, I have been greatly sur- result was that both the doctor and his J. W. WESTPHAL, President. prised at their superstition. It is quite wife accepted the truth, and others were favorably impressed. As I could not re- W. T. Knox: Julio Ernst, of the same easy, however, to talk to them of the love of God, and salvation through main longer, I sent for a Bible worker field, is called for to report. Christ, and of his second coming, and to follow up the interest, and the last I Julio Ernst (reading) : — finally, the change made 'by the church heard: before leaving, it is still increasing. REPORT OF THE UPPER PARANA in the law of God. Those who accept the Bible generally have little difficulty At the same time I had a letter from MISSION in accepting the gospel in all its fulness. Pastor Luis Rojas,' who went to visit a THE Upper Parana Mission includes Once their confidence is gained; they place where Brother Taborda and other the republic of Paraguay and the north- can be easily guided into the truth. brethren have labored, and where there ern part of the province of Corrientes, With all this, a year or more is neces- are twenty who have accepted the Sab- the territories of Formosa, Chaco, and sary for them to truly understand Ad- bath. And now among these there are Missiones, which belong to the Argen- ventism, and be baptized. After they eight intelligent persons who will soon tine Republic, having altogether a pop- accept the gospel, it is necessary to be ready for baptism. ulation of about eight hundred thou- free them from their vicious custom Only a short time past, we commenced work in the city of Corrientes, sand. of drinking mate, or Paraguayan tea the capital of the province of the same. Early History and from the use of tobacco, which they use very much, the women even name. This has always been a fortress As the name Missiones indicates, these more than the men. After thA we of the clergy, whose bishop some years places have been Jesuit missions during. have to get rid of the idols, which in ago caused one of our canvassers to be the Spanish colonial period, where, some • homes furnish a good museum as imprisoned. When taken before the under the pretext of civilizing and con- to their variety and aspect. At last we judge he had a discussion with the verting the Indians, they put thetas under have to oblige them to get married, as bishop, who demanded that his books,be the bonds of slavery, obliging them to a rule. This may seem strange, nor burned and that he be banished from work, building their temples and towns, does it mean that we do not baptize old the town. Those who listened were in- and carrying out their industrial and maids and bachelors. The fact is that clined to favor our brother, and a law- agricultural plans, whose proceeds even- scarcely thirty or forty per cent of the yer made it known that such an act was tually enriched the church. parents of children are married. This unconstitutional. At once the can- To obtain their object, the Indians illustrates some of the fruits of Catholi- vasser was liberated, and proceeded to were made to believe that by making cism. sell his books with more success than ever. these sacrifices, they would gain heaven. Progress Those who rebelled, received corporal According to reports of Biblical col- punishment. However, the power of the gospel of porteurs, the clergy has obliged them to Finally the government suspected the Christ is the same in all parts.. We have retire in Corrientes. It is gratifying to Jesuits of taking part in a conspiracy faithful brethren. We are told that one note, however,- that the more educated against the , proper authorities, and the who is forgiven much, loves much. So classes are rapidly becoming eman- Spanish government expelled them, in we find that these brethren have a live cipated from the clerical yoke, following 1767, leaving their towns in ruins. Nev- interest in sending the good news to the example of the more southern cities, ertheless, the Catholic Church continued others, and many of them with success. where the priests are more the objects as the religion of the state, and sowed Thus we see the fulfilment .of Isa. 55 of ridicule than anything else. We have superstition, idolatry, ignorance, and a to, 11, which says: " For as the rain gone to this city to raise the standard very lamentable social state amongst the cometh down, and the snow from of truth. Our canvassers have sold white people, as well as the Indians. heaven, and returneth not thither, but many " Home and Health," besides re- watereth the earth, and maketh it bring ligious books. Conditions Today forth and bud, that it may give seed to Already, we have a family which has Such is the condition even today in the sower, and bread to the eater: so accepted the truth, and I was impressed Paraguay, as it is the policy of Rome shall my word be that goeth forth out when the brother used 'the language of to hold them subject .to its yoke. Nev- of my mouth : it shall not return unto the Bible without ever having read or ertheless, the government has made ef- me void, but it shall accomplish that seen one. Truly I see that he has come forts during past decades to educate the which I please, and it shall prosper in into the light. One of our canvassers masses, and there exists a fair number the thing whereto I sent it." obtained admittance to the president of of schools in the cities, although they At a general meeting, much disturb- Paraguay to present " Patriarchs and are few and deficient in the country. ance was made about the tent, the Prophets." He subscribed, and gave In Argentina it is much better, as the throwing of stones, bones, etc. A num- permission to present the book to the federal government maintains a goodly ber of soldiers off duty maltreated a remaining government employees. Thus number of excellent schools, both in brother, took his Bible from him, and many orders were taken. One of these, the country and in the, towns. took' it to the barracks. Here a ser- on receiving the book, said, " I am glad 186 G6TERAI:., CONFERENCE 'BULLt'TIN'

to haVe good :book, with which I with our missionaries and representa' a very peiplexing matter. I remember make war against the priests." Many tives from abroad. We will ask all the When he went. I was over there thyself are undeceived, as well as tired of Rom- delegates and friends from abroad to after a few years, under the auspices of ish 'doctrines, and it seems to me that gather on the platform at the opening of the General Conference, to assist in thiS is the opportune moment for carry- the meeting; then after the opening ex- building the house at Basel and the ing them the good news„ while they have ercises, we can meet one another and house at Christiania, and visited several religious feelings; for if they stand still' become acquainted. countries. I wish, dear friends, to ex, without help; they finally go to the ex-. Here Conference adjourned. press the great gratitude of my heart at treines ,of unbelief and atheism, which W. T. KNox, Chairman; this moment, to behold the faces of is most difficult and dangerous. W. A. SPICER, Secretary. ' these dear workers who have been' la- The workers of our 'mission are all boring in distant fields. May' God's converts 'of' the mission, excepting blessing rest upon you. me, and we .are all South Americans. A, G. Daniells: One of the first titles There are two ordained ministers, one A MISSIONARY RECEPTION I remember distinctly of Elder Haskell Bible- worker, two canvassers, and, two ACCORDING to appointment the: mis- was, The Apostle to the Gentiles; " graduate nursei,:who haVe just arrived. sionaries present from lands . outside for he traveled perhaps More than' any One who was . gradoated at the same North America, assembled on the plat- other maxi among us in the early days time was sent to. Peru, and two Other. form at 2: 30 P. M., for a general recep- among peoples of other lands in - behalf youth 'of intelligence and consecration tion. FolloWing are some of the good of our missionary work. Brother. Has-. will finish their course this year, and things enjoyed on this occasion. Seated kell, a word. hope 'to enter the work. These belong, in front with our 'missionaries were S. N. Haskell: I am a very poor hand to our' field. ' Thus we soon will have Elders Butler, Haskell, and Loughbor- on an occasion like this, but I remember produced several, earnest workers, ough. very well when I went to AuStralia, and Although Satan works with great A. G. Daniells: Now I know that our Brother Butler remembers it well: It • wrath here, as in other places, the fu- brethren and sisters will be glad of this came up in the General Conference, and ture of the work looks hopeful. Last sort of meeting. We have intended all I' opposed gding, and SO the question year, twenty-five were baptized. We the time to somehow give you a better was withdrawn. ' We went back into the have in all abOut two hundred ten mem- opportunity than you have had to, see committee meeting, and it came- up ' bers, some of - whom are from Brazil and to meet our brethren-and sisters who again, and finally - said I' would go. and Switzerland. have come to us' from over the seas; and, Brother Butler reached out his hand,. and we shook hands together over it. It was Finances while this will .be something of a social hour this •afternoon, yet I 'am sure that decided the 'next .day, and the first, party sailed for Australia in -1885.. _came qtir, :financial entry . for ;912 was it will' be an hour of blessing — that it will revive in our minds many ,Very pre- back in less than a- year from the time.. 12.9ithe; "t Sabbath school collection, that I left; . Then we had a printing 3274,16 ;•..:.other offerings, ,'$143; total, cious memories. It has begun already. As we began to - collect 'here, my' mind preis.. established, ,a large number, ,Of $1,936,10. This • gives $7.20 tithe per subscribers - for the :Melbourne] Bible' , capitai,nr-$9.19 total contribution. This ran back to 1874. I was only a lad then, but I remember the profound-impression Echo,, and --the work well launched. I may seem :small, but those who knout foundan reportother day a the poverty • Of the greater portion " of ,‘ made upon, my mind and. 'our people - N. An, SiimitiarY of 'the ' reportthat' waS our .church,., will consider it' quite satis- when we learned. that, Elder :of that trip, If I remember about', factory:. ; Still there are many : places, drews -was:to gO..acrosS :the great odean., four thousand dollars was' Invested in' 'it, that- 'nn.;worker • haS yet entered; to Europe. - In; those days Europe had a and' over two thOlisand''''cldllars:''Wai work seems greater than 'we can, •a&,' far-off: sound. to the most. of us. Across raised in Australia, - think` I 'had 'gone complish, and-.'we lack 'laborers. But the Atlantic, seemed 'a great trip: to • take,. to Europe before then.. s' when •virn think:that .there are 'other •inis--What joy would fill hi's, heart if, that. sions. near by .that haVe fewer workers faithful and conscientious' missionary, Daniella • 0,long belor e •. in comparison,. we do :not feel like ask-;. could, be. here this, afternoon and look . ,S. 'N,, ,Haskcil.: Then, afterward,:'We: ing for:,More.,; We only ask earnestly on this- group-, of foreign workers ! Then were prevailed. ,on: to --go,:.around, that we' may haVe your prayers, that we I thought, too; that Brother ;must world;, and if 'T. remember:lightly, Ihap- :e may be'filled'with the Holy Spirit,-,and' have, some feelings. oUgladnesS; because, titedintr. first Man: in Japan, but be was; united' in the" love of ,Christ, andthatVe if . I remember, rightlY,.Elder.Butler was not a Japanese,, he was an Englishrrian,;::, may feel debtors to our' feltow men -bo. then, the president 'of the General .Con-, I : baptized- our. first man ,China, but; carry quickly-the .triple..'message • to all ference and , joined -in: the movement: of,. he was, nota:Chinatrian,..,hnwas a.Scan, the world, 'so; that. Chrlit,,may'eome and that: day and that . hour. , to .: inaugurate., dinavian; and baptized 4',,company,in take '.it's :theittiansiotis which 'he his - this foreign. mission enterprise that-has New Zealand. -They were all-Eriglishnien„,, prepared. •'• ; grown until -it now, encircles the world. One •the. -first things: ,that," I learned „ :•••.J. ERNST, President. . • -This afternoon me cannot have a, word. when became connected with Seventh- .,."' from every one here; ..We think day Adventists was. thatin ,a view given., W, T.:1Knox: It, is so, near the; 'hour . therefore, to .follow :this :. plan, to:. call, to Sister :White in J.848, .rayS 'of light... of adjourning, it. hardly'-seems. wise- to., the list of workers., from -abroad and were seen:- going; out , from.. this .,people undertake:an'other report. We. 'have yet have. each .one . stand and :give, the ,fiate ta every portion, of this world. ,, We, three: other,laborers from South Amer- of going abroad, or coming into the truth see it.fulfilled today. Much mornmight 1, Ira to report:6 us::: A motion to adjourn-when abroad. - Our brethren hernia this' be said, but this :is isufficiept to let„youl,:„ would be in-.order. country read of thesepeople Who •are at know., that-- :Am,.:interested, In .4grelgn A. G.],Daniells: Before' we adjourn, -• work in other lands. They know some- 'mission work, and I,feel,,thankful T should like to say. .that we will not. have thing about you. [turning :to the dele- for what we hear -here at.this meeting?, a conference session this afternoon. gates],,- and they .want -to see .you, . and A. G. Daniells: :Elder :Loughborough, quite, a -number have -expressed the de- after the meeting have a' word:with )1::)11, -you all know him, among our early for, sire to :meet personally 'the missionaries •possible, eign missionaries, • who .arecbere, . all .our, representatives Geo., I. • Butler : shall; never forget J. N., Loughborough; Well; 'did .not „ from different' 'lands.. -,So the pastoral- the event::that 'our brother has spoken go t® those speaking, a foreign language..- committee has' arranged 'for this,.: and. at. of. Elder. J.. N., Andrews' was _a very ,I went to England and landed in South- ,.., 2: 30 this afternoon we will gather: here dear and precious friend of mine, and a hampton the last day of -December, and 'have' a. reception for our . foreign man to ,whom' I owe more than any one We worked there a while, We had few • people:- We would like , to have 'our else; ..he did more to- get. me out of facilities, I .thank .the Lord ,that those brethren , And sisters have: the' opportu- infidelity-.: than :any other.: There are who have been.working.:since have made . nity ,to meet these brethren and sisters; some here — Brother Haskell.; especially some . headway.. A- positive,. testimony , and shake-hands with them,- and , express 7— who :were associated' with 'me, in the came that. I:should. go, and how., I should, - their ,:good wishes. ...Some have ..been General 'Conference at that time. We work, We_ had :no. canvassing, work,: we working: here in 'this land for' the: labor, considered this matter., very• carefully. had no Bible-reading work. : Brotber,:„. ers in. 'different mission fieIdS, •and.have It was a great epoch,. as you .might say, Haskell told us that the:Lord would lead'.,; been. rallying. the:.young • people,..in . pro- .in the history 'of our denomination, this usi. and ,the Lord guided, us, • We got a : .offerings, and many of. the tins- starting of the.- foreign, missionary .work„ tent and pitched. it on a corner and went sionaries',names .have been 'used in:con- We had :abundance: to ,do in,., our own to. work, - nection.,'•with these ..efforts... It be country, but. to send a. man out to ,S. N.,. Haskell': - I. received, a letter :a a pleasure' for our, home workers- to . meet . .rope, far away in the foreign .fields, :was few days:-ago - from one ,,of:• the first con--; GENERAL

verts, , in, Southhampton, where Eider, hear the, ringing notes of courage borne •.organize a, General„ Conference in 1863. LoughbOrOngh. raised up a church. , by those from far-off landS; and their I was one of the' 'twenty' delegateS at. A. G.-Daniells.: :IS 'there any one here almost. universal words, to the effect, that .that meeting,; I was 'one. of ,eight on who went out with Elder Andrews, or in they were eager to be on their Way back ,the .committee that drafted the- coristi-, that year, i.$74..?,=-7.No.. One. That. was to their fields. • More than one said, " I tution of the General Conference; I .Was the. first year ef 'aux foreign missionary have my return ticket, and expect to one 'of the 'five on the committee that undertakings., „Any one .who went out go back immediately." drafted the constitution for State con- in '75? '76? , '77 ? Mrs. L. J. Burgess spoke regarding, a ferences.. Where are they ?.— Four Voice,: ye. , . native, daughter of India (who was apostatized;. the rest, are all dead, hut A. G, , DaniellS:' Sister Boyd. She called to the platform,, Miss Noni- the one who stands before ,yOti. I thank. went to EurOpe in' 1.877. Sister Boyd, bala Burrtis, of Bengal), and said, " She God I am here to see the extent, and. then, is the oldest „missionary, „in, the is the first convert in India from hea- growth,',,af, this work, and to- see here tent, from our . .standpoint,,— not iri thenism to our faith. She is in medical these representatives from many: years, but in service,— and, has only re- work in this country, preparing to go lands, . And -I- am 'glad-to see You start. out in these new forms of, organization. God will bless the ,work, far he haS ready spoken good wardS concerning it., 'Let us be of goad courage in the' Lord,' The service closed with, a Song, by -6. 'male quartet; " Answer the Cl,,aYe' Brave Men," and with bertedictto by, Elder 'G. I. Butler. Following the Meet-' ing, the missionaries mingled , with the congregation in ;informal peefings- hand, shaking:

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REPORT OF THE LAKE U,NIQN CONFERENCE (Read, during seventeenth meeting of Confiicac'e 16* .m..)' . .DHRING . the last .quadrennial -period, -Providence. has truly" smiled' upon ,ther THE NEW' HAInt:AETAE m'isST'oH, egxdo.,,INDIA people 'of the :Lake, . UnionConference. 'God .,has indeed blessed.ithem;in.basket.,,,.:: cently r,efurned .,frant abrOad; ..has,,ing,hack . to work . for.'her .:own people." She and .in The, Lotd ; is full Of !vain-',., ; been, fox years"in, Atstralia. , „ embraced the truth in 1897. :passion.and, gracious, :slow to' anger and Sister pbui'deau the con E 'W.. Farnsworth: I 'wish to add' a ;plenteous in. mercy.„ :Eternity. .Will reveal ;,..t gregation,',:herf;.Words. heing'repeated by little to interesting' meeting. -1.)am, how fully we manifested ,our gratitudestmgxii the ,ch,airtnan far ,ail to hear) J. She' says 'Yery;..glad- that those who stay at home - God :for ,his bountiful' gifts.: she, would like to have cOngregatibn" May.- have': part . foreignmissions, ' , As ; is well. -:known; :perhaps, .the Lake cu , see the remnant of the first company as well as those' who go. - The !Lord SO'Union:Conference,. as itsmame that went 'what `they then called' arranged the .matter, ordained it, that -. situated, in-the !Great Lake a mission Elder Loughborongh':everybodY 'Can' have' a part in - foreign I.t has ,a ,population„ something. [snore r;i and ;Sister - B ou rdeati's • 'and --.ntissione. I wag impressed 'with this" this than :13.,000,0co.; ; Within, 'its boundary 'is !,1,,; she went , 48641' 'afternoam " was:'lacated the second :city 'in:size in, Nn,rth,-.A1 There was tiO,railway:.acress the ContiL'5beginning,' as I. was ' passingdown 'one of:Ainerica, ,with a population approXimat-v nent,' they.' took the Boat': at: `New 'the aislesi a- lady:attracted:. my: attention, ing 2,50o,000,,--comprising ,Almost every! t4* YOrk'ind,?went ;•Fatiaitai and CrOSSett,'and stopped' and told..,me' that the nationality, under 'heaven-‘, ugft, the iStlinius, , atid-,too'k;•Abciat 'there' and Was 'not :a.- member . off,'onr. people '• She . •,., 'Work has been done for comparatively„ went upltoSati 'Francisco.:; )i • a stranger:, visiting the camp.:. I did :few ;;of: the. nationalities,: and, there 'is,a A. ThatwaS in 4868, -learn'. hoWniany, days she has 'been VAstfield, yet' tp, be opened mp, atnottg,thel openedhthe foreignMiSSion 'Movement.' 'here; 'but she felt • impressed' to help in' mixed population found in this great?,y,ti But See-What'-has grown' 'tip on the foreign ',mission work; l'and' sec her ',city. some yearsi past very little cific Coastl-sitlee'3"that ; time—'fourteen 'way_r,She handed check to: ',has been done in. the city of Chicago . thonsand believers, with institutions And-. assist"'our foreign:: missions;-~- arid :it isK 'in the' Way' of -opening' up 'new r.denters;,'I organizations' strong' Work., ' We 'for !one thottaand,:dollars. "She" a.lthough. there:were ,large areas:that ihatt,„ have but two of Alit missionary party a' Sabbath-keeper, but' I am . 'sure -she•-'-never ,been. 'entered. .for: this;fr tr. left. • These 'are the.' remnant' We thank will .be. ' seeming neglect was, .the'.: utter. want (of.; 1,':a God- that' they .had ' the, heart 'to ,ga; 'The congregation -at. once began 'sing- efficient- laborers, • and means for -carry,J • -?g that 'the 'fiord' blesSed their' labors;' And "Praise~God; - from whom allbless- Mg on the work. During the year .roti,::rsy that they' are' here ',believing,- iii this ings flow.", - a" beginning, was made:in a section of the message.• still and ., rej it; •'And E.. W. Farnsworth: I ought to' , re-' city 'where little _had, been -,done in 'the' may 'God bleis their'hearts here. today. mark; perhaps, of MrS, Cleland; the lady' past., • Now the ,request' is .sent An' that we. call who' gives the check, that her 'heart has Russell catne•to the assistance of Et"' the roll of ',the, countries,'!, • We , have'' been moved very much by what shesavi 'the local conference, andduring the.sunt- asked '1 our 1 RUSSian, L,,brother, here; the, gathering. of foreign' mission- r mer conducted a' tent. effort, which 'was, Boettcher,.,!t6 read. the' list; cries, and by what she has felt:as:she in: every--way 'a succesS.', '. Not- a ':'very,G At this- point the!' , the hat been, here upon-the:ground with US. large number of -people. were brought; rious'Icireigh •uniOn, conference's: 'and She 'is in'the:• audience,. and I assured a decision; but- those who did accept pres-c''. mission fields was taken up;,' The • repre= her that 'she =receives- the gratitude... and ent truth 'were, of ' a-Very substantial sentativeS (husband arid, . Wife' standing - appreciation of this whole' congregation :class. "This effort awakened inquiry oveiT together) '-'respondotl,',..' and, in' a brief for her kindness, and for her, sacrifice' a large unentered area, .and during 'the word told (the date' of .Acceptance of this in behalf-of' the truth. '• • winter. large church was. rented in an message, -:arid 'the 'year "of going' to'-the A.' G. Daniells : I know that what you adjoining locality to "that' in which . the • , field of service:, also with what religiOus' 'have, sung expresses 'to this -sister the 'tent work .was conducted;' and , a con-. -:,.•!1 body: Iffiliated prior tO' connection' with gratitude: of your 'hearts.-- siderable' 'number were :added to those'.' .'a this body! :In, the hour allotted' to = J. N. Loughborough : Perhaps ..none in in:the faith.: The influence . was • service oVer One hundred thirty-five niis- this congregation., can appreciate my Widened; andthe interest deepened, 'and, •I siOnaries spoke briefly as indicated, and .feelings, when there. stands lbefore. you . the way is; now open for an extended -o many on the list were, not present, ow=' the last relic of the organization of this work to ,be carried' on. We are hopeftairw ing to other Work in hand , at the same . conference, 'Ihwas :one Of the three that that nienand means will be provided to, hour. 'Was Helpful •, and inspiring'to ,signed, c- the .call 'for. tOrning together to, fall ow': up the. 'splendid interest create& 188 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

in the large and growing section on the creased their liabilities to any great ex- ence has no secretary of the Sabbath- west side of the city of Chicago, which, tent, with one exception. In the main, school department ; consequently, no sta- in the near future, may extend from they are not carrying very heavy liabil- tistics have been obtained of the work that locality to others, until the city is ities. Some are practically free from done. However, we have secured the completely warned. The growth of the debt. Emmanuel Missionary College has following: There are 425 Sabbath- city of Chicago exceeds one hundred expended several thousand dollars in schools in the Lake Union Conference, thousand annually, so that this in itself much-needed improvement, but at the with a membership of 10,525. The con- is a vast mission field in which individ- same time has decreased its liabilities to tributions to missions, during the year uals of all nations may have an oppor- some extent. 1912, were $27,197,— a little less than _ tunity to learn of the last message to A word further regarding Emmanuel one half of the total contributions to the world. Missionary College financially. During missions in the union for that year. Of the membership of the union, the the last four years the plant has been The work of the medical department of the union has not 'had the attention it deserved since the, last General Con- ference, for want of an active man to de- vote his time and attention to it. Our sanitariums, three in number, have all enjoyed an excellent degree of patronage each year, and their annual reports reveal the fact that success has attended the work of physicians in these institutions. Many people are rejoicing in the blessing of health restored as the result of their labors, and many more have received material benefit from treatment received. The spiritual atmosphere in these sanitariums is excellent. The Lord has put his blessing upon our sanitariums, burdened, as they are, with heavy liabilities financially. In fact, so heavy is the burden as to render it impossible for them to meet the annual interest and at the same time render very much help to those in need of charitable treatment. •Each of these enterprises was undertaken by an individual conference that soon found itself unable to meet the demands for means necessary for its maintenance, and pay the original cost, TRI-CITY SANITARIUM, MOLINE, ILL. of construction and equipment. It is very, evident that relief finally must come major portion may •be reckoned as true, put in a good state of repair. Much in by enlarging the sphere of responsibility loyal, faithful souls ready for every good the way of improvement has been done, in nearly, every case. work. Although hundreds have em- but at the same time the financial condi- One of the conferences responsible braced the truth in four years, yet the tion of the college has also improved. for one of these sanitariums has within union, as a whole, has not maintained Each year of the last period has shown its borders the second largest city in. its past record as to membership, owing a substantial gain in receipts over ex- North America. The membership of to death;' apostasy, and removals, espe- penditures in operating, as follows: in this conference is about twelve hundred,; cially the latter. 1909, $1,50o; in 1910, $2,7oo ; in 1911, and it is therefore too feeble to properly, The tithe receipts have steadily in- $500; in 1912, $5,400, after allowing for care for the work of the great city, and creased throughout the union, until at $700 depreciation that year. Two years give the message to its millions, to say present they amount to $15.75 per capita. or more ago, the managing board be- nothing of relieving the sanitarium of its The offerings to missions have not cor- came convinced that insufficient depre- heavy indebtedness. The other confer- respondingly increased, although some ciation of the plant had been recorded ences of this union having sanitariums advancement has been recorded. The in the early years. Arrangements were are somewhat more fortunately situated, Vital sum sent to the General Conference made for a complete estimate of values, having within their limits a larger mem, treasury during the period since the last which, when executed, resulted in cut- bership, and no cities with so vast a, General Conference, in tithes, and offer- ting down the value of the entire plant population. And yet these conferences ings for mission purposes, is $256,562.91, ten thousand dollars. This, of course, experience great difficulty in providing besides $18,500.95 to the Sustentation should be spread over the entire history sufficient means to supplement the earn- Fund. Also during the first two years of the quadrennial period, the churches of our union contributed several thousand dollars toward the support of work among the colored people, and to the religious liberty and other funds not then recorded as mission funds. There has been a gradual increase in the receipts from the sale of our literature in the union, although the receipts have not been large at any time. In 1909 the receipts were $44,735.61; in 191o, $49,387.15; in 1911, $64,628.07; and in 1912, $65,654.78; a total of $424,405.61, which represents literature placed in thousands of homes of the, people of the EM MANUEL MISSIONARY COLLEGE union. The schools of the Lake Union have of the school up to, and including, 1911. ings of the sanitariums in order to meet been fairly prosperous, and in most cases As already stated, the year 1912 showed the interest on their indebtedness, and to haye had a growing patronage. The a gain, in operating, of $5,400. The make necessary repairs and extensions. enrolment the past year was 229 at Em- school year which has just closed will Our sanitariums are a valuable aid in manuel Missionary College, 555 in the show a gain more than sufficient to cover carrying forward the work of God in academies and the intermediate schools, the balance of the ten thousand dollars' the earth. May the time come when they and 1,150 in the church-schools; making depreciation that appeared in the one will be free to do their God-appointed a total enrolment of 1,934 in the schools large sum. work unhindered by debt. of the union. Our schools have not in- At present, the Lake Union Confer- ALLEN MOON, President. GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN .189

imploring upon all our future -labors the whom should be union conference presi- Division confrrrnrs g tnutts divine benediction. dents, five local conference presidents, 2. Resolved, That we do hereby tes- and five other persons, to nominate the THE EUROPEAN DIVISION tify our appreciation of the fostering standing. committees. care bestowed in time past upon the Meeting adjourned. CONFERENCE work in Europe by the 'General Confer- A. G. DANIELLS, Chairman; First Meeting ence and our brethren in the United GUY DAIL, Secretary. States, and we, as a Division Confer- IN accordance with the action of the ence, invite the same fraternal interest Second Meeting, May 26, 6:4o P. M. General Conference, the delegates pres- for the future, pledging ourselves to The meeting was called to order by ent from European union conferences stand by the General Conference and met at 8: 30 A. M., May 25, 1913, in the Elder Daniells in the large pavilion. our brethren in loyal cooperation till we Prayer was offered by Elder Corliss. Seminary chapel, Takoma Park, Md. all rejoice together in the consumma- By request of the delegation, A. G. Minutes of previous meeting were tion of the blessed hope. read. Daniells occupied the chair. Guy Dail In adopting the first resolution, the acted as secretary. The chairman named the following as delegation arose, and Brother Geo. B. the committee to nominate the standing Delegates were present from the Brit- Thompson offered prayer. ish, Central European, Danube, East committee of the conference: W. B. The committee on nominations sub- White, M. N. •Campbell, C. B. Stephen- German, Latin, Russian, Scandinavian, mitted the following report, which was and West German union conferences. son, E. T. Russell, Allen Moon, F. M. adopted:— Burg, H. C. Hartwell, J. W. Christian, Most of the members of the General For president, L. R. Conradi. Conference Committee were also pres- J. I. Taylor, 0. K. Butler, Dr. Ruble, Vice-president, J. T. Boettcher. 0. J. Graf, J. B. Blosser, A. J. Clark, ent. Secretary, Guy Dail. It was voted,— L. H. Christian. Treasurer, Alice Kuessner. The committee was accepted. That, in harmony with the recom- Representative of the educational mendation passed by the General Con- The remainder of the hour was de- work, 0. Luepke. voted to a very careful and thorough ference, 2: 30 P. M., May 22, 1913, we, Representative of the medical work, the representatives of the unions named consideration of the' financial outlook Dr. A. B. Olsen. for the support of the work of the as forming the original constituency of Representative of the Sabbath-school the proposed European Division Con- North American Division, and of the work, H. Hartkop. mission work carried on by the General ference, hereby constitute ourselves the Representative of the young people's European Division Conference of Sev- Conference. work, E. Arnesen. The chairman stated the need of the enth-day Adventists. Representative of the publishing work, That we adopt the constitution recom- utmost care 'in launching this new di- W. C. Sisley. vision, that all branches of the work mended to us by the General Confer- Executive Committee : Those named ente [it having first been read, and care- may receive the financial assistance they above, together with the union confer- demand. He showed that we must plan fully considered]. ence presidents and union mission field That the Siberian Union Mission be for no decrease in the funds that have accepted into the conference, and F. superintendents of the conference, and heretofore been flowing into the General J. Robert, Chris.rjuhl, J. Erzberger, G. 'Conference treasury, as that would be Ginter seated as a delegate. Woysch (auditor). disastrous to our mission work, as well That the Levant Union Mission be The committee on credentials and li- accepted into the conference. as to the proper development of the censes offered a report, which was unan- cause of God in the North American That L. Krug and wife, of the Syrian imously adopted. [We omit the list of Division. Mission, be seated as delegates. names.] It was suggested that departments that That A. A. Carscallen, of British East Meeting was closed with prayer by deal mostly with affairs in North Amer- Africa, be seated as a delegate. That D. C. Babcock and wife be ac- L. R. Conradi. ica, as the Religious Liberty, North ALLEN MOON, Chairman; American Negro, and North American cepted as delegates from the West Af- GUY DAIL, Secretary. rican Mission. Foreign departments, and the Press That the union conference presidents Bureau, could probably be discontinued of the European Division act as a com- in the General Conference, to go with mittee to nominate the standing com- the North American Division Confer- THE NORTH AMERICAN DIVI- ence, while the publishing, educational, mittees. This committee nominated the follow- SION CONFERENCE medical, Sabbath School, and Mission- ary Volunteer departments might con- ing, their report being accepted: — First Meeting On Nominations: H. F. Schuberth, tinue General Conference departments. W. B. White, J. F. Huenergardt, J. THE first meeting of the delegates He suggested that the assistant secre- Sprohge, J. C. Raft. from the North American union confer- taries of General Conference depart- Resolutions: J. T. Boettcher, 0. E. ences was held in the Seminary chapel, ments could perhaps act for a time as Reinke, Guy Dail, Dr. A. B. Olsen, W. Takoma Park, Md., at 1: 3o P. M., May secretaries of the corresponding depart- T. Bartlett. 26, 1913. ments in the North American Division, Credentials: W. J. Fitzgerald, A. G. Meeting was called to, order by Elder until the Division has time to settle :upon Daniells, J. G. °blander, L. P. Tieche, Daniells. its permanent headquarters' location. Meeting was adjourned. W. C. Sisley. Prayer was offered by Elder M. C. Meeting adjourned to 7: 30, even date. Wilcox. A. G. DANIELLS, Chairman; A. G. DANIELLS, Chairman; By request of the delegation, A. G. GUY DAIL, Secretary. GUY DAIL, Secretary. Daniells acted as chairman, and Guy Third Meeting, May 27, To A. M. Dail as secretary. Second Meeting, May 25, 7:45 P. M. In this meeting, the delegates of the After the opening of the General By vote of the delegation, Allen following union conferences were pres- Conference a short , meeting of the Moon was asked to act as chairman. ent: Atlantic, Central, Columbia, Lake, North American Division Conference Prayer was offered by J. W. West- Northern,, North Pacific, 'Pacific, South- was called by,W. T. Knox, for the pres- phal. eastern, Southern, Southwestern, East- entation of the following report of the Minutes of previous meeting read, ern, Eastern Canadian, and Western committee selected to nominate the and approved after slight corrections. Canadian. standing committees: — The committee on resolutions offered Voted, That, in harmony with the Nominations : C. W. Flaiz, C. F. Mc- the following report, which was unani- authorization of the General Confer- Vagh, S. E. Wight, F. Griggs, G. F. mously adopted: — ence, in session at To A. M., May 26, we Watson, H. C. Hartwell, M. N. Camp- 1. Resolved, That we of the Euro- do hereby organize ourselves into the bell, 0. A. Olsen, E. K. Slade. pean Division Conference gratefully ac- North American Division 'Conference of On Plans: E. R. Palmer, Charles knowledge the prospering hand of God Seventh-day Adventists. Thompson, C. W. Irwin, J. H. Schilling, upon us, guiding and protecting to this The constitution recommended by the 0. J. Graf, W. A. McCutchen, L. A. time, and do, as we enter upon a new General Conference was then read and Hansen, Meade MacGuire, H. H., Hall, stage, of development and responsibil- adopted, as appears' in the BULLETIN, Dr. W. A. Ruble, A. J. Haysmer, M. C. ity, consecrate afresh our lives, our sub- page 145. Strachan, E. T. Russell, G. B. Thomp- stance, and our children, to the finish- The chairman was requested to ap- son, C. S. Longacre. ing, of the advent message, earnestly point a committee of fifteen, five of On Finance: W. T. Knox, H. A. Mor- 90 GENERAL CONFERECE BULLETIN

,W,..:Cottiell, j. W. . Far*le; 'leaflet entitled ," Marrying 'Unbelievers." perVisibri of thie work be tinder the di- Allen Moon, W. B. White, I. H. Realizing, that the cigarette habit is rection of the Conference Missionary L, M. Bowen. , • , making destructive inroads upon the Volunteer secretary or department. Oz Credentials. and Licenses:" .E. E. youth of this generation, and that it is 2. Recommend, (a) That, the les- :Andross, B. G. Wilkinson; C. B. ,Steph- important that all our people should be sons for the Junior Missionary Volun- enson, R. A. Underwood, A. T. Robin- encouraged to make a special effort to teers be easy studies in Bible doctrines son. save' thern from this course; we, there- and up-to-date mission work; (b) And The ,report , was. adopted. fore,— that we request those in charge ,of the , Meeting, then adjourned. • , ' , Recommend (3), That the department magazine, Christian Education to * take W.. T. Kxox, ,Chairman; pfepare an anti+cigarette pledge card to into consideration the printing of these W. A. SPICER, Secretary. be used in an aggressive, continuous lessons in the magazine.. campaign. , . • Seventh Meeting SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT ;Departmental eetingo "What shall we do for our juniors?" was the question which the Missionary Ninth Meeting MISSIONARY, VOLUNTEER. DE- Volunteer workers tried, to answer in WHEN the Sabbath-school „workers PARTMENT • their seventh Meeting.: :The committee asseinbled. for, this' meeting. their, eyes ; , • . on junior work had been studying the rested upon .a new. ,and quite elaborate , Sixth Meeting problem for tnOnths, and' rendered a exhibit of devices ,for, interesting. the THE devotional, exercise, conducted by :much appreciated report, suggesting children- in Sabbath-school lessons -and name, 'plan' of organization,'program J: Shaw;' of India; was; a -call for in children's meetings. By.invitation of , missionaries who have received the heart. topics, etc. the General Conference. Sabbath' School !'• preparation needed to .do .the,..Master's Mrs, Vesta J, Farnsworth, with a'. pa- Department, ,Mrs; ,Martha, W. Howe,, of 'work as :he 'did it.' • ' per' full, of practical suggestions, led out Portland, Maine; ,had brought her home- H.•'M.: Hiatt, in his paper 'on' "Mis- in an interesting and 'helpful discussion, made ..collection. of devices As.,a.help.to 'sionar'y ;Work Fundamental, and How. of the report. She said: "But the or- those who are, bearing.tesponsibilities.-in to Reach rthe'Masses," said that the chief' ganization of children into' working this' line. ofwork.. . • . „ requirements in society work, bands is beset with difficulties. Men and Mrs.. Howe spent about ten minutes are: (I) :Organization, (2) 'leadership, women of warm, loving 'hearts and wise .in explaining, the use of the various de- (3), enthusiasm, (4) individual. resporisi- judgment should plan to organize and vices, She describtd, a," reading room" ';bility, (5) simple plans of work pursued, 'direct 'the active minds and bodies of our, which she has sometimes provided, . for (6) continuous work.' intermediate children; These younger the. children who attended the children's I • -In his paper on. '" Plans for . Educa- members of. the Lord's family must not meetings, held in connection :with. tent- tional, Temperance, and' Religious Lib- be'frowned down, left unnoticed, and meetings. She arranged a tent .for-this erty Work," B. .L. House emphasized given nothing to do. Many bad girls purpose, and invited the children to the importance of our young.peoplebe- and boys simply need to be interested, come at . stated times, and inspect the ''ing urged to do strong, systematic, Con- to be employed, and to have some chan- pictures, cards; , and books which she qinuous work in temperance - and relig- nel provided through which to Work out had prepared. The children's .interest ious liberty lines. • ' their tireless energy. They must 'be was greatly increased by, this method. • The' secretaries 'met in special .session loved, prayed for, planned for, "and thus Brother R. Bryant, of New York, the evening to continue the discussion be. Made one of the most' valuable as- spoke of his impression of .first seeing ' of the report and the papers of the com- sets of the church." the 'exhibit,. and; the wonderful,possibili- mittee on missionary ,work. 'At this Sister Farnsworth suggested; (a) ties that opened before .his mind .as to time; the following resoutions were dis- That our junior organization be known its use., He spoke of the. value of, chil- as the Junior Missionary Volunteer So- Cussed. and 'passed:'— dren's meetings held in. connection with ciety; (b) that the organization be as Whereas, ' We need well - prepared tent-meetings, As a means of interesting 'literature in convenient .form for the in- simple as possible; (c) that church parents. He considered these, .devices struction of" officers of the Missionary membership be not required; and (d) of great value, on account of their .sim- that the work be under the supervision Volunteer societies; plic4y. Nearly all can be easily made, Whereas, This department 'was re- of the conference Missionary Volunteer and with but small expense. He urged quested at the. General Conference held : secretary. every secretary. to examine the various in 1909 to prepare' a 'manual containing The greatest problem 'before junior cards, pictures,. charts,, symbOls,. and this information; we; therefore,— workers is that of proViding efficient diagrams, and .plan to make, use of, the Recommend' (1), That such. a manual leadership. The discussion of the jun- suggestions. be published,- setting forth the aims and ior work was Contintted at a special eve- ,. Topic : "Children's Meetings at -CaMp- 'purposes :of' the Missionary Volunteer ning session. The following resolutions Meeting.", Mrs: J. P. Moser,: of Takoma work, arid 'containing General Confer- Were passed: Park, read the ,first. paper. "Every one ence recommendations relative, to this Whereas, The 'spirit of prophecy has who attempts ,to lead a camp-meeting department, its plans of organization, Said,' " The work that lies next 'to our ought to realize ,that the time in. which instruction in methods of ',missionary church-members is , to beCOme'interested they have to work is very ,short. What work; how to conduct society meetings, 'in our youth," and, " The Lord' of can we say, in a few short days, to con- and any information that night be help- heaven is' looking on to see who is do- . vince.the children of their lost condition, ful to inexperienced leaders and other ing the work he would haVe done for to lead them to be born again,, and to officers. ' the youth and 'children," 'we, there- teach them how to grow up in,to.the ful- Whereas, Our tract work has 'proved fore,- ness of. Christ?" The speaker empha- tn, be a very' efficient method in bring- 1. Recommend, (a) That, wherever sized the following points.: — ,f ing the. truth to, the people;. we, there- there :is; a church-school, the school it- x. The one who - leads 'the ,meetings ,fore,— '•: , • .‘ self be organized as a Junior Missionary must be thoroughly prepared.. Recommend ,That all 'our MiS- Volunteer SOciety; (b) That in places 2. The planned. _series of lessons *nary.- .Volunteers , adopt the King's where -there is, no church-school; and should: not be broken into.., Pocket League plan., • -. where conditions .seem favorable, the 3.,Helpers are needed to keep order ,We also 'recommend: .church and conference Missionary Vol- and to -do personal .work.. , •, .(a) .That the ,local societies, purchase unteer secretary cooperate in organizing 4. 'The work, between, meetings is: as the: Missionary Volunteer, leaflets for a Junior So:ciety; (c) That all; isolated necesSary, .-as, the work, in, the ,meetings. ..4istribution, among .,their members; children be encouraged to join, the Con- 5. Give the children somethingjo..do ' • • "1 !,, ; • ference Missionary. Volunteer Society as between meetings,. „ • • (b) That every 'conference 'provide junior members, (d) That each society 6;.,Order . is essential before; during, its local secretary -with the -same; to use have a leader and secretary, and that and after the. meeting. in•.missionary ; correspondence ;•:and,,-- in the school societies these officers be 7.,. "They that sow,. in, tears shall 'reap (c), Whereas, A .large number of our arranged, for by the teacher; while in in . , • young people , are • yearly: leaving 'the the churcksocieties the leader be elected Mrs, L. T. crisler, of Georgia, re,- truth, through, marrying unbelievers; in the same manner as ,the leader of the ferred to the statement.' in Joel, ." Gather therefore,—,. • .' • ' young people's society; the selection 'of the children," and to the example of, the We urge that each conference place the secretary to be under the direction as lie " gathered" the.. Children in the hands of every young person the of the leader; (e) That the general su- to him, when on earth. The children .GENERAL cQN,F.E,R,4NcE 13;14..11jI\T 191

should be welcomed to our camp-mee t-, should, if possible, „visit all schools at 2. It must see that proper translations ''ing§; and an 'attractive place prepar ed least 'once a 'Year:. When this is not are made 'so that all nationalities May for them. ' The leader • of children 's 'possible, -correspondence should be car- be reached. . „ meetings must be converted one w ho ried on ,most carefully and ,faithfully. 3. It should be on the constant lookout loves God and also loves children. Chri st for writers who have real ability in pre- should be the center of every lesson. senting, the truth in a strong, attractive Personal work should not be neglected ,EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT manner. Mrs. Anna' D. Brown, of Kentuck y, 4. While it does not own the great related some personal experiences in Fourth Meeting printing houses of the denomination, it children's meetings, and related the sto ry should unite them in one common en- Of the prodigal son, in simple language, THE meeting opened with an enthusi- deavOr. The General Conference Com- and in a manner that would not fail •t o astic talk on "Home Schools," by Miss mittee looks upon the men engaged in impress the, smallest child. Edith Shepard. In response to the ob- these houses.as haying just as important jections that mothers naturally make to a part in the work as do the ministers. Tenth .Meeting, . , the idea of teaching their own children, 5. This department should educate our " RIGHT Use, of the Memory-Ver se that they have no normal training, people until they cannot look upon one Cards" was' presented by Mrs. Marth a are not original, or, capable,— she shows of our books without a thrill of satisfac- Howe, of 'Portland; Maine. The, speake them our magazine, Christian Educa- tion and desire for service. This should urged' that greater: care ', be 'taken b tion, calling lheir attention to the work be a great department of service, inter- teachers 'and parents. to teach the 'chi1- outlined in it, and to our various 'other esting our people generally in the study school helps: Last fall, the, home schools -,:dren: to preset-Ye the, •s inemory:•vers and circulation of our literature. e ,in her conference were carefully organ- cards: 'These cards are an invaluabl e 6. We must, do more than educate; aid in 'teaChing- the children' portions o ized. • The mother-teachers follow the We must provide a system that' will en- f church-school course, keep a daily rec- "the • Word . of .God'. .The cards, should b able our people :to sell • this; literature ord, and report : weekly. The children "ordered in' good time; . and ' each chil d most 'successfully, and effectively; until 'given ., One each , Sabbath. ' Cards shoul are also Junior Missionary Volunteers, the system used becomes world-wide. It Sent to absentees.' 'The verses shoul and report once a month. Miss Shepard is business-like, .honest, and successful. !:be reviewed' each Sabbath:• , related personal experiences showing 7. Having established this system, we ff how consecration work can be done in must constantly„ hold up :its :advantages, Topic : "Institutes, and" Conventions. such a school. Mrs. "Lee Wheeler, of York City so that it may be adhered to everywhere. Presented a 'helpful, paper. ' She ha d , Mrs. Anna Rambo told of. home-school 8. I believe this department should, not work in New Jersey during the past four be content with directing,and assisting 'found that one excellent way 'to help th years, giving, with interesting detail, the iinekperienced 'in a convention; was t o in the sale of subscription books and methods and results in certain homes. magazines, but it should foster home 'assign them work. to de': By referring h In a strong paper on "How to Extend them to books' and papers dealing wit missionary endeavor, as well. It should 'their !respective topics, the writers o f and Improve Our Church-Schools," use its influence toward putting the rank the papers are developed as they see k Professor Russell emphasized that in- and file of our people at work he the creased efficiency in the teaching will circulation of periodicals and tracts. for'that•whieh will help others. Thre e increase the attendance, increase the de- '; or four Weeks, should be given for prep Brother J. A. P. Green told of meth- mand for schools, and increase the desire ods and progress in Mexico. He said aration., of parents to patronize them. The world t , 'Mrs. 'Wheeler also presented' a smal hat all but three of the cabinet .members 1 wants our children, and is willing to pay f the former President Diaz, the presi- - chart 'entitled "A Handful of Plans fo f the price, but are we willing to accept d 'Sabbath-School Progress." The palmo ent himself, church prelates, and a the price? We must gather all the chil- I arge number 'of governors and other the hand bore the inscription,' " Daily ,dren into Christian schools. 'To do this, study of the Sabbath-school lesson, with men in prominent position, had pur-, workers and parents must be converted c hased our books. He told of the sue- ,prayer; " the thumb bore the words' to their importance and necessity, and c "•Sabbath-School Workers' Training ess attending their efforts in Merida, carry on. 'an educational campaign Yucatan, and of the experiences they Course;" and the fingers were' labeled, among all the people. Inspire the peo- "respectively, " Consecration services,' ad in recanvassing a territory with ple with confidence by increasing the Patriarchs and. Prophets " two years "All regular contributions; to' missions,' efficiency of the teaching, and the I "'Home department," "Present by let- 'ter. Five large cases of this book in schools will multiply. panish were shipped to Yucatan by ter when absent." 'As- the handd• With her characteristic clearness and f -be crippled for service if a finger is dis- aith, and, the results were beyond their .simplicity, Mrs. Flora H. Williams told e xpectations, for only three of those who abled, so' a' school is, proportionately us what to look for in selecting teachers Weakened by the omission of these prom- ad purchased the health book two years to place a right, mold upon our children. a go, failed to, subscribe for " Patriarchs inent features. „ If we have twenty ideal teachers and a Mrs.' Knight, of the nd Prophets." A canvass with our pe- twenty schools, calling for teachers, we iodicals in the : Northern New England Conference,- ex- must still study the special needs of each same section has just plained the difference' between an " in- een 'finished, during, which orders school, and the fitness of temperament, a mounting to $600 were taken. Stitute " and a "convention." At an in- experience, and strength of each teacher, stitute instruction is' given to , Sabbath- before placing them. 'School officers, and teachers 'coVering the At the close of thern meeting, it was • details O•f 'their 'work.'' The following voted to hold extra sessions, of the coun- MEDICAL DEPARTMENT are suggestive topics: "Methods ' of • cil at 8 A. s. on alternate mornings, be- Ninth Meeting • on uc ing Sabbath-Schoo ginning Wednesday, May 28. "Methods of', Teaching," "DutiesDuties of IN Elder Underwood's paper On. ,‘fpi- Officers." 'At' a 'Convention 'general in- vine 'Healing,"- attention was' called to struction is ,given to the Sabbath-school the fact that- the work of healing Is a body,' and every' One-is invited to PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT work of creation. ;All. healing 'is 'the • discuss the' subject under consideration. Tenth Meeting working of a divine law; God is the only -" HOW the Sabbath-school May. Become healer.. Satan :may be allowed to 'afflict a Soul-Winning 'Agency," '"Relation- ENTHUSIASM ran high 'in the Publish- people, 'and may -at times:, remove afflic- hip of the -SabbathSchbol to 'the ing Department meeting held at 4: 30 tion, but he has not the' power to 'heal. Church," " Daily 'Study of 'Lesson'," are Tuesday afternoon, Elder :Daniells It is his studied plan to lead th&thoughts suitable. conventiOn topics. Mrs. Knight spoke on the" subject; "The Scope of men away from God, give glory exhibited a drawing of • a wheel; each and Work 'of the General Conference to' any one else rather than tO Odd. spoke 'of 'Which "as ' named an impor- Publishing Department," referring to • Elder •Parrnele: ,' The ;disciples' were tant feature , of the Sabbath-school 'the sales chart, which was prominently sent out to preach the gospel, and ,heal Work.' The' breaking of a' spoke, meant displayed. , He enlarged on the follow- the sick. .Wonderful Mires were the weakness of the wheel. - ing points:— wrought. 'Is the time not here when we Mrs. 'F. A. Washburn, of .Springfield, I. This department stands for the se- must give -le God the credit for results Mo., spoke of the tremendous advantage curing of literature adapted to the 'from ,.out efforts for :the 'healing Of the of convention work in pushing the va- needs of all classes, ranging from the sick? While making' a' 'wise use 'of rious - lines of work, such • 'as teachers' simplest people in; heathen lands to those rational ,'remedi'es i we, should not forget Meetings, reading' course, an' our . gen- of the highest intelligence' in" civilized the divine power of God in the -results eral- plans:, She' thought a -secretary countries. 'experienced. • 192 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

Elder Burden: God wants coworkers. There are thousands of islands dotted (3) a last-day promise. As a prophecy We may be coworkers together with over the south Pacific on which no rep- of the last days, the passage is in com-. him. We must learn to recognize the resentative of this message has as yet plete harmony with Matt. 24: 33 and fact that the power of God is manifest set foot. The Australasian Union Con- other scriptures. All about us are evi- in the results obtained from a right use ference has taken the burden of send- dences showing that we are nearing the of rational remedies. ing the light to these island fields. The end. There is danger, however, that Dr. Thomason: Our work is compar- believers are' praying for the latter rain this great event of our Lord's return able to the work of John the Baptist, in larger measure, in order that the may find us unprepared. and we are given great principles of work may be done. They are giving This last-day warning is addressed to healing, that must be believed and prac- their means and their children to this the last church. Rev. 3: 14-22. It con- tised. We dare not wait for some great service, even as our brethren are doing tains the sfraight testimony of the true display of His power in the shape of a in other lands. witness, and is just as great a test to special miracle, but must realize that the church as the Sabbath is to those God is healing every day in our med- without the church. The same warning ical work. I want to have faith in ANOTHER PIONEER AT REST is found in i John 2: 12-18. This mes- God, and be enabled to offer up daily an IN his remarks regarding the meet- sage belongs to the last days (verse 18), acceptable prayer to him, that he will ing that organized the General Confer- and is addressed to the fathers, to the bless in my medical work, and help me ence, May 21, 1863, Elder Loughbor- young men, and to the children (verses to recognize the divine in every case ough said that there was but one man 12-14). The things it warns us against of healing. now living, aside from himself, who are " the lust of the flesh, and the lust Dr. Ruble: We must see even greater took part in that meeting. (BULLETIN, of the eyes, and the pride of life." results than we now see in our insti- page too.) That man was Elder Isaac These are the very things that caused tutions. We must have more of the Sanborn, past ninety years of age. Eve to sin, that brought destruction to mighty healing power of God in con- Since Elder Loughborough's remarks, the antediluvian world, and death to the nection with the treatment of the sick. the conference has learned with sor- cities of the plains. When Jesus came, We get this power on our knees. Med- row of the death of Elder Sanborn, he was likewise tempted, but he tri- ical men of the world have all the skill at his home in St. Thomas, Ontario, umphed gloriously through the Word. and ability we have, aside from the on Sabbath, May 24. It was arranged Thank God, we can do the same. power of God, and with this power left for Elder A. J. Breed, in earlier years The passage under consideration is a out of our work we may well inquire as an associate of Elder Sanborn in labor, promise, as well as a prophecy and a to our being in advance of the world. to go to Ontario for the funeral ser- warning. It is a promise of infinite Dr. Kress: •On one occasion the Sa- vice. From an obituary notice in a possibilities to the redeemed. Jesus said, viour said, " Some one hath touched St. Thomas paper we take the follow- " When these things begin to come to me." Virtue had gone out from him. ing facts : He was ordained in August, pass, then look up, and lift up your We must be channels through which 1858, by Elders James White and W. heads, for your redemption draweth God's blessing may flow on to others S. Ingraham. He traveled and labored nigh." from • the great Physician. in nineteen states of the Union, and Look up, brethren; for the end is near. during the past seven years in the Prov- Look up, brethren; for soon we shall ince of Ontario. Elder Sanborn is sur- reap if we faint not. Jesus took our vived by one sister, residing in the humanity that we might partake of his AFTERNOON MISSIONARY TALK State of Iowa, and his widow, to whom divine nature, partake of his joy, his he was married in December, 1895, in peace, his character, his destiny. Breth- WHILE the various department meet- ren, let us sense this prophecy, accept ings were in session, at the 4: 30 hour, the State of Wisconsin. Elder Sanborn was beloved by all, the warning it contains, and share in the Elder J. E. Fulton spoke in the large boundless possibilities of the promise. tent on the work in the South Seas. and his strong faith and confidence He had just received a letter from in the truth were an inspiration to the Elder Parker, reporting the selection of end. Our deep sympathy goes out to CHILDREN'S MEETINGS Sister Sanborn in this bereavement. a mission station on the island of Am- INTEREST in the children's meetings brim, in the New Hebrides. It is an held at 8: 3o each morning continues to island with no Christians on it. Thus THE EVENING SERVICE deepen. Mrs. H. W. Carr has the gen- a new group has been entered. We eral supervision, with Mrs. E. C. Boger have heard of the New Hebrides chiefly May 27, 7: 3o P. M. and Miss Gertrude Sims, as leaders of through the story of John G. Paton's THE speaker, Elder J. W. McCord, the two divisions. Practical lessons are life among the wild people of Tana and of San Francisco, chose as his text Rev. given, also interesting missionary talks other islands. 3: 20-22 " Behold, I stand at the door, by foreign missionaries. A few mo- Elder Fulton, who formerly labored and knock: if any man hear my voice, ments are spent each day in the study in Fiji, told of the work of grace seen and open the door, I will come in to of the Sabbath-school lesson. Conse- in the transformation of lives in this him, and will sup with him, and he with cration services are held, the children group. Qur school work in Fiji has me. To him that overcometh will I responding in a very encouraging way. turned out trained workers, now doing grant to sit with me in my throne, even Some in the older divisions take notes good service, their simple faith and as I also overcame, and am set down of the talks. The Morning Watch burning zeal sending them out to win with my Father in his throne. He that verses are a special feature. A special others to the truth. The South Sea is- hath an ear, let him hear what the offering has been made for the Solusi landers have keen minds, and our mis- Spirit saith unto the churches." Mission in Africa. About one hundred sionaries are often surprised to see how These verses contain three points of fifty children attend regularly. Earnest strikingly the native worker sets forth supreme importance; namely, (t) a last- work is being done in behalf of the the truth to the people. day prophecy; (2) a last-day warning; lambs of the flock. THE General Conference Bulletin THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION

VOL. 7 TAKOMA PARK STATION, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1913 No. 13

THE GENERAL CONFERENCE be from heaven." Many understand ens from the middle, of the sixteenth BULLETIN these words to refer merely to the dark- century to the present time. The sten- ening of the sun and of the moon, and ographers found it impossible to prepare Published by to the falling of the stars; but, brethren, an adequate report of this interesting The General Conference of Seventh-day these great signs are only a part of that talk, because the chief appeal was to the Adventists which was foretold. eye. Fortunately, however, for our read- DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY In the prophecy of Joel regarding ers, Elder Loughborough has written the last days, he refers not only to the out a full account of these phenomena 50 CENTS FOR THE SESSION, MAY Id TO JUNE 9, 1913 darkening of the sun and the turning for publication in pamphlet form, and Editorial committee: W. A. Spicer, C. P. Bollman, these descriptions, together with accu- C. C. Crider, T. E. Bowen, H. E. Rogers. J. N. Anderson. of the moon into blood, but also to other Office editors: C. P. Boliman, C. C. Crisler. Copy editor: signs that should be given to arrest the' rate colored reproductions of his charts, Mrs. C. M. Snow. attention of multitudes. " I will show can be obtained from any of our tract wonders," the Lord declares through his societies or publishing houses. The title Entered as second-Ulan matter at the post- Olive at Washington, D. C., May 16, 1913, under prophet, " in the" heavens and in the of the pamphlet is, " Last-Day To- ,,•-• 'the aut;of COUgress of March: • earth, blood,, and, fire, and, pillars of kens.")

DAILY PROGRAM (Except Sabbath) Devotional Meetings '(in sections) 6: oot — 6:45 Breakfast 7:00 Bible Study 8: 3o — 9: 3o Conference 1o: oo'— 12 : oo

Dinner 12: 15 Conference 2: 30 — 4: 00 Departmental Meetings ('in sections), Mission- ary Talks and Other Services (in big tent) . 4: 3o — 5: 3o Lunch 6: oo Public Service 7: 3o — 9: 00

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TOKENS OF OUR LORD'S RETURN BRAZILIAN COLPORTEURS' INSTITUTE, BAHIA J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH May 28, 8: 3o A. M. smoke [Septuagint, " pillars of smoky IN the second chapter of Joel, the first vapor "" Joel 2: 30. This passage Conference firoceebingo verse, we read: " Blow ye the trumpet in precedes the verse foretelling the signs in the sun and moon; and this would Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy TWENTY-THIRD MEETING mountain: let all the inhabitants of the seem to indicate that some extraordi- land tremble: for the day of the Lord nary appearances would be seen in the May 29, 10 A. M. heavens prior to the appearance of the cometh, for it is nigh at hand." Let us A. G. DANIELLS in the chair. pass on to the thirtieth and thirty-first great signs in the lights placed in the verses: "And I will show wonders in firmament. Prayer by W. J. Fitzgerald. the heavens and in the earth, blood, and In traveling about in different parts A. G. Daniells: Last evening there fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall of the world, I have had opportunity was a meeting of the Loma Linda Med- be turned into darkness, and the moon to gather many testimonies from va- ical College Board, and, after careful into blood, before the great and the ter- rious eye-witnesses regarding some of consideration of the interests of the rible day of the Lord come." In the the wonderful things that have been school, it was decided by the board to sixth of Revelation we read that " the seen in many places. In 1897 I was at- request the Conference to permit this moon became as blood." tending a camp-meeting in Minnesota, morning the presentation of Loma Linda The Old Testament prophecy says: and Brother H. F. Phelps, now sleep- Medical College interests. This is a " Blow ye the trumpet," and, I will ing in Jesus, said to me, Why do you good opportunity to place before a large show wonders." The wonders which the not have charts made of these wonder- number of our people the interests of Lord through his servant foretold were ful phenomena you have been descri- this school and the needs of the institu- to appear in the time of the end as signs bing to us, and write a book on them, tion, the efforts that are being made, of his coming, have been appearing, in so we can all see and read about them?" and the object that we have in view. harmony with the prediction, and at the I have carried out his suggestion, and There a:re a few statements to be made time appointed. have had drawn a series of colored about this school. We know there is a Let us glance now at the New Testa- charts, which I will show you. difference of opinion regarding it, and ment prophecy in Luke 2I : I I : " And [By means of many charts specially we would like to have the one least in- great earthquakes shall be in divers prepared for exhibition, Elder Lough- terested in it, the one feeling most doubt- places, and famines, and pestilences; and borough traced the marvelous manifes- ful about it,— we would like to have fearful sights and great signs shall there tations of divine power seen in the heav- your attention above all the rest, for we 194 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

want to convert everybody that feels un- cise and direct and brief as possible; upon us in consequence of the establish- certain about it; at any rate, we want to for we, perhaps, may want to hear from ment of such a medical school were so come to a common understanding. a number, and so those who address the great that at first I felt that we were Now just a word with reference to the delegates ought to be brief, and get the unable to carry it. Those who were in object of the medical college. Its object problem before us before our hour is most direct touch with the beginning is to furnish a medical school for Sev- lost and we grow too weary. So' much of the medical school, as such, were in enth-day Adventist young men and good advice to the speakers. Dr. Ruble great perplexity. We did not know what young women, in which they may receive is to introduce the matter. to do, and at the biennial session of our thorough training as competent physi- W. A. Ruble: The following resolu- Pacific Union Conference in 191o, this cians, and from which they may be tions have been formulated: — question was given very careful atten- graduated to do the work we believe Whereas, The world-wide proclama- tion, and a committee was appointed, this denomination is called to do. That tion of health reform and rational prin- consisting of Elders I. H. Evans, H. W. is the object. Now, if we still need ciples of healing connected with the Cottrell, and myself, to interview Sister physicians, if we ought to have our third angel's message, calls for a special White, and to ascertain, if possible, young people take the medical course training of a large number of workers; whether she had any counsel from the and qualify for medical work, should and,— Lord bearing directly upon the question we attempt to give them that education Whereas, Under the special provi- under consideration. in our own institution, or should we not? dences of God, and in harmony with We did not interview her personally, George I. Butler: We certainly plain instruction from the Testimonies as we did not wish to come into touch should! of the Spirit, the College of Medical with her and to have it said that we had Other voices: Yes! Certainly! Evangelists has been established at influenced her mind in any way what- A. G. Daniells: Should we place them Loma Linda, Cal., as a training-school soever. Therefore, we addressed a com- under our Christian medical teachers? for gospel medical missionary evangel- munication to her bearing on this point, Voices: Sure! Amen! ists, some of whom are to be fully ac- a paragraph of which I will read: Are A. G. Daniells: Or should we send them to the world, to get their education from men who do not know this message, and many of whom do not believe the Bible at' all? , A -voice: Never ! A. G. Daniells: Should we endeavor to give them a medical education along the lines that we believe to be rational and right, or should we send them out to get another kind of medical education or instruction in the worldly schools? Now, that is the problem that we have on our hands. We may differ in our opinions, but that is certainly the problem we have to face. The question for all our parents whose children desire to take a medical course, is whether those children shall go to a Seventh-day Ad- ventist medical school, and take their VIEW AT LOMA LINDA training under consecrated, conscientious Christian, Seventh-day Adventist medi- credited as physicians of the highest we to understand, from what you have cal workers, or whether they shall go order; therefore,- written concerning the establishment of out and take it under others; and, too, 1. the delegates of the General a medical school at Loma Linda, that, while they are taking this course for Conference assembled, endorse the work according to the light you have received four or five years, whether they shall be of the administration in establishing this from the Lord, we are to establish a associated with a band of consecrated center of medical evangelistic training thoroughly equipped medical school, the young people, or with the young men for physicians and medical missionary graduates from which shall be able to they find in, the medical schools of the workers; and we further — take State board examinations, and be- world; whether they shall be, during 2. Recommend the College of Med- come registered, qualified physicians? " that formative period, closely associated ical Evangelists to all our young people In response to this question, Sister with influences of a sacred, hallowed who desire advanced medical training, White wrote: — character, or the opposite. That is the and ask all our people everywhere to ac- " The light given me is, We must pro- problem we have to face. quaint themselves with its principles and vide that which is essential to qualify Do we want any more physicians in purposes, and give to this worthy enter- our youth who desire to be physicians, the days to come? If we do, how shall prise their moral and financial support. so that they may intelligently fit them- we get them? How they shall be pro- Whereas, The college is in need of selves to be able to stand the examina- vided is the chief problem. The matter hospital and clinical facilities to prop- tions essential to prove their efficiency of location, the matter of the dollars to erly carry on its work, and meet all as physicians. They are to be prepared be invested,— that is secondary to the State requirements; we therefore — to stand the essential tests required by great question of how we shall give our 3. Recommend, That the North Amer- law, and to treat understandingly the young men and women the medical edu- ican Division Conference be recom- cases of those who are diseased, so that cation they need in order to do this mended to advance the necessary means the door will be closed for any sensible phase of our work. The brethren will from its treasury, and to arrange for a physician to fear that we are not giving endeavor to set before you this morn- call in all its churches throughout the in our school the instruction essential ing the solution of that problem, as it division to raise the funds thus ad- for the proper qualification of a physi- has come to us. I do not feel that I vanced; and we further,- cian. Continually the students who are ought to take more time at this juncture 4. Recommend, That a systematic ef- graduated are to advance in knowledge; of the meeting; but I do hope, brethren, fort be put forth with men and women for practise makes perfect. that at this hour we will give this ques- of means to secure an endowment fund " The medical school at Loma Linda tion very careful study and attention. for the college, sufficient to meet the is to be of the highest order, because We hope the ministers will do it, and necessary running expenses. we have a living connection with the you publishing men, and educational W. T. Knox was called to the chair. wisest of all physicians, from whom men, and leaders in all departments, Motion was made to adopt the resolu- there is communicated knowledge of a pnd brethren and sisters who have chil- tions, and numbers i and 2 were read. superior order. And whatever subjects dren, or who are neighbors to those who W. T. Knox: Are there any remarks are required as essential in the schools have children to be educated along this on these resolutions? conducted by those not of our faith, we line. Shall we not this morning give E. E. Andross: The question would are to supply, so that our youth need this matter most careful and prayerful naturally arise in the minds of the dele- not go to these worldly schools. Thus consideration? gates as to why this school has been es- we shall close a door 'that the enemy Now, as our time will be short com- tablished. I have long felt that we would be pleased to have left open; and pared with the length of our subject, I ought to establish a medical school, but our young men and young women, whom shall ask the speakers to be just as con- the financial obligations to be imposed the Lord would have us guard relig- GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 195

iously, will not need to connect with equip this institution that we shall have upon which it is established. And it is worldly medical schools conducted by men and women going forth from its for that reason we are anxious today unbelievers." halls that are so thoroughly equipped to get before you the platform on which E. E. Andross: When this communi- along medical lines that they will com- we are operating, the reasons for our cation came to us, we felt it was so mand the respect of the physicians of the operating, and the needs we have at plain, and direct, and clear, in answer world. Loma Linda. Our present facilities are to our question, that there was left no W. A. Ruble :, Four years ago at this sufficient to conduct only half of the ground whatever for either hesitancy or time I stood before this General Confer- medical course. Two years ago there questioning; that we must find some way ence as the medical secretary of the was built one of the best laboratories on of providing all that was required in General Conference. In that capacity the western coast for our school at Loma order to qualify physicians to practise I introduced a resolution which looked Linda, and it has been in successful and to receive the endorsement of the toward the discouraging of any effort operation since that time. We have, medical profession generally. to establish a medical college among us. however, entered upon the last two years But still the question lingered in the I believed that we were unable to fur- of the medical course, which requires us hearts of some as to whether or not nish the means for a medical college; to have, in order to give proper instruc- we might not furnish the first two years that we were unable to furnish the men tion during these two years, a hospital of the medical course, with all the nec- to man a medical college. On the other and a dispensary. It was for the purpose essary equipment, and the latter two hand, I looked at the need for medical of constructing the hospital that the do- years be spent in the very best medical men throughout the field, and our in- nation was asked for; but this has not schools of the world; for we under- ability to produce those men in our own come in sufficiently to enable us to go stood, after studying the question thor- schools, and fit them with the necessary forward and complete it. We have it oughly, that the largest expense would education. partly constructed at the present time; come in the latter two years of the The following winter there was a but the workmen have been called off, medical course. After this matter had meeting of the General Conference because the means have been exhausted, been given careful consideration, the Committee, called at Lincoln, Nebr., and and we are here today appealing to our following word came to us :— during that session the proposition was people to help us to go forward. " Some have advised that the stu- made to establish three new denomina- Medical requirements are the most dents, after having taken some work at tional schools, at an expenditure of one rigid — well, I will say that in another Loma Linda College, should complete hundred thousand dollars. That led me way. Medical men' are compelled to their education in worldly colleges. to believe that if we could establish three undergo more rigid requirements than But this is not in harmony with the additional schools in this denomination, any other class of people among us. Lord's plan. God is our wisdom, our we could also establish a medical school. From the time they begin their study sanctification, and our righteouSness. The thought that we were so much in until they lie down in death, they are Facilities should be provided at Loma need of medical men for our sanita- under strict medical laws, enacted by Linda that the necessary instruction in riums, led me to believe that we should the governments under which they are medical lines may be given by the in- establish a medical school where we operating. This is right. In taking structors who fear the Lord, and who could produce our own medical men for into their hands the lives of men, med- are in harmony with his plans for the our institutions. ical men are given the greatest responsi- treatment of the sick. I have not a At that time I was converted to the bility that is committed to any class of word to say in favor of the world's idea, and from that time on I have been people; and so they should be under the ideas of higher education in any school working with all my might and main for most rigid laws, in order to carry out that we shall organize for the training a medical school of our own, in our de- the instruction that we must carry out of physicians. There is danger in their nomination. It was not long after this, for the health of our people and others. attaching themselves to worldly institu- that I was called to head the medical These requirements demand that there tions, and working under the ministra- school at Loma Linda, and it has been shall be eight years of preliminary edu- tions of worldly physicians. Satan is the hardest thing I have ever had to do; cation up to the academic studies; then giving orders to those whom he has led but, thank God, it has come to be the four years of academic studies, in to depart from the faith. I would now most pleasant thing I ever had to do, which the exact subjects are indicated, advise that none of our young people although we meet more and more diffi- the number of weeks in each one of attach themselves to worldly medical culties year after year. I am pleased to those studies, the number of hours each institutions in hope of, gaining better say to you that we have, without excep- week, and the number of minutes for success or stronger influence as phy- tion, in our meetings always arrived at each hour's study. A medical student's sicians." the same conclusions in regard to our certificate from the State is then re- It seems to me this answers this ques- medical school, since that time. quired of all who desire admittance to tion ; and it is not really propounded in The spirit of prophecy soon came out any medical college. Then the student this resolution, but we recommend the with the statements that have been read is under the necessity of undergoing a following (reading again resolutions in your hearing by Elder Andross, which set course of study, which will fit him, and 2). have given us our commission, laid down according to the laws of the land, to Now, I do not know of any enterprise the platform for our school, and author- present himself for examination before upon which we have entered where we ized us to go straight ahead, and pro- a State board. After having undergone have received more direct, plain, and cure what was necessary to provide a all that, which with the preparatory definite counsel regarding its establish- medical school which would give a med- work takes at least sixteen years of, ment than that which has come to us ical education that would meet the re- study, he is not then permitted to take concerning the medical college at Loma quirements of State boards and medical up medical practise until first he sub- Linda. And as we have advanced by examining boards. Our people have mits to an official examination before a faith,— for we could not see our way,— stood by us, so far as they have known State board. If he passes, he is given I am glad to tell you this morning that on what basis we were operating, and full privilege in that State or county to we have never once been disappointed. the reasons for it. I have not met a man take the lives of his fellow men into his We have seen difficulties in the way, and or a woman to whom has been explained hands under any circumstances, and the there have been dark hours through these matters, who has ever said one law will uphold him. which we have passed, but God has word since that time against our having In establishing a medical school, we gone before us, and I am perfectly con- and operating a medical school. When must submit to these laws, because we, fident that he will still guide us as we God speaks, Seventh-day Adventists as Seventh-day Adventists, claim to be follow his counsel and step into his open- listen, and say, Amen. the most law-abiding citizens in the ing providences. So our men who have been gathered world; and we are conscientious in this If we ever needed a training-school together, before whom this matter has matter of meeting proper requirements. along any lines of missionary training, been presented, have always said, " Go So we are, according to the instruc- I certainly believe we need one for the ahead," and have made some provision tion given here this morning from the training of our physicians and for the for the means. You will all remember spirit of prophecy, endeavoring to meet better equipment of those who have al- that recently a day was set apart for a these requirements of the laws of the ready received their training in other collection for building the hospital re- land in the provisions we make for giv- medical institutions. I believe that is quired. We were in hopes at that time ing a medical education to our young so; and I want to let the delegates here that there would be sufficient means come people. We have succeeded thus far, know that I. am fully committed to the in to provide what was necessary; but and as evidence of this, I wish to read policy outlined in this definite instruc- we have been disappointed. It is only in your hearing this morning a com- tion; and I believe God will help us to because you have not understood the munication sent by the dean of one of finance the work, and so thoroughly need of our work there, and the basis the leading universities in the land, to 196 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN one of our students at Loma Linda: — that are necessary. We need a hospital. practise, they will still be true Seventh- " Since writing you last [this means It will require several thousand dollars day Adventists at heart? considerable correspondence, you see], to complete it. We must have a dis- That is why I see hope in opening we have had a decision from the execu- pensary in Los Angeles, which will call this' medical school for our young peo- tive council of the Association of the for the expenditure of a few thousand ple. I do not think we ought to be American Medical Colleges, which now dollars. When that is done, we cannot afraid that we can not operate such a authorizes us to admit the medical stu- expect that the few students we have school. I am proud of our young men dents from the Loma Linda College to are going to meet the entire expense wherever I see them. I visited that uni- junior standing, who have been in at- of operating that school from year to versity in Tokio, spoken of yesterday, tendance two or more years, and satis- year; so it will be necessary for us to where two of our students have passed factorily completed the courses, and this face the proposition of supplying some first on the list. Three weeks before without examination." means from which we can draw support that I visited the Nanking University, 'Have we made good? The universi- for the school, to a certain extent, for in China, and found that our students ties of the land are bidding for our the coming years. And for that purpose, who were taking their studies along with young people on this basis: If students the resolution has been placed before all the other missionaries in China, were have had two years at our school, they you this morning. passing at the head of the list. God has say, " Come along; and you may have H. R. Salisbury: A year ago the heads given us bright students, with bright two more years here, and we will take of our advanced training-schools in minds, and in some way we must con- you in without examination." North America, met at Loma Linda for serve those minds and hold them in this This is a temptation to our young our yearly departmental meeting, which denomination. And that is why I be- people, especially when they are going is provided for by the General Confer- lieve, with such bright students, that every step of the way by faith. We ence. We met especially at• Loma Linda God will help us in providing subjects have no hospital or dispensary; but we that we might study carefully the equip- suitable for them in our own schools. are saying to them that our people will ment and efficiency of that plant from The question has been brought now stand by us, and that we shall have fa- our standpoint, because we felt that it regarding this great medical trust. We cilities. But one class is already in the was from the advanced schools of this feel the same thing in our literary work, last two years of their course; and the denomination that the students of the as well. Certain men who have more American Medical Association has medical schools would be drawn. We money than they know what to do with, placed us in a class which will not admit spent six days on the ground. We were have passed out millions of dollars in these students to an examination in shown through all their laboratories. the United States to form a sort of edu- many of the States. But still they are We examined very carefully their cational trust, and crush out many col- staying by us. courses of study. We spent three nights leges . that ought to live. While there One class is staying by us under these with the doctors, discussing in careful is some good coming out of it, there is circumstances; and there are several detail the whole question of their cur- evil as well; and I think as long as there articles which have come out in the Jour- riculum; and at the close of that meet- is this special standardization being ap- nal of the American Medical Association ing we passed not as having to do plied to all schools today, we ought to that have been very difficult for us to with the medical men, but as the edu- meet it. So, in literary lines, we are meet. But when I left Loma Linda, cators of our advanced schools,— a reso- studying the question of how our ad- there was not one there but who was lution of confidence in the Loma Linda vanced schools can meet the require- standing firm for our school. Since Medical College, which meant that the ments. We do not propose to compro- that time these letters have been drop- heads of our training-schools in North mise. We do not propose to meet the ping in there, and there has been some America returned to their schools and world in their demands if it passes 'by little question as to whether we would told the young men who were finishing in the law of our God. But we do propose, get the means for our hospital or not. ,our colleges that we as educators had as far as we can consistently with this We held out the hope that this donation confidence in the Loma Linda Medical truth and with this message, to meet was going to give us the full means to College, that they could get there the them, and yet give our boys, and our establish that school. We needed twen- necessary training in medicine. girls the very thing they need. I believe ty-five thousand dollars; we got eight There is an objection I have heard that our medical school can and should thousand. That has all been exhausted, raised, as to whether we,need a medical be helped to do that very thing; and I and the workmen have been called off. college or not. It has been said to me understand that the principal plea that The young men get these letters from that we have 'had strong men, strong is being made this morning is that money other schools, and can you expect them doctors, graduate from the schools of the may be given to the college to carry on to have more faith than we have? It world, and come out all right. But is its work, so that the last two years of the is a trying proposition; and, further- it not because they were men of deep course may be as successful as the first more, we have a five years' course there. consecration that they have come out three years have been. The young men who have been there all right? That which has opened my W. C. White: There are two ques- two years can go to the universities and eyes, has been what has been told me tions which come very quickly to the complete their medical education in two by those who have passed through the minds of our, people,—" Is it a neces- years more; whereas they will have to schools. The reports coming to me of sity?" and " Can we do it? " I have stay with us three years. That is an- prevailing evils, have caused me to be- seen a little of the workings of various other temptation to these young people. lieve that for the moral training, for the schools and their influences. I have cor- But we have a five years' course in or- moral protection, and for the spiritual respondence from men in middle age, der that we may give the Bible instruc- upbuilding of our young men, it will be who, because of special circumstances, tion needed, and the instruction in the vastly better if we have a medical col- are attending the universities nearest special features that we emphasize in lege of our own. them, and I have asked them, " Will you our medical work. We are trying to Then, again, there is the financial permit your sons to attend the same follow the spirit of prophecy in getting temptation. I do not say that a doctor, school? " They say : " No, by no means. away from drug medication; and for on graduation, needs necessarily to The moral atmosphere, the worldly in- that reason we are under the obligation attach himself to an institution in order fluence, is beyond description, and we to continue our course for five years. to be a Christian; that a doctor who is shall not send our sons to these places But, in spite of that, our young people in private practise is any different, from that we are attending." are willing and ready to stand by the a spiritual standpoint, than any other Can it be done? Where the word of institution, if we will give them the doctor. I think it has been demon- a king is, there is power. It is my con- assurance that we are going to make strated over and over again that a man viction, based upon the best of oppor- good. We have made good thus far, can go on with his practise and make tunities to know, that the God of heaven and by the grace of God we are going his thousands a year and yet be a power has sent us messages to do this essential to make good all the way through, be- in the church; but the point is this, work, to do it without leaning upon the cause the Lord has spoken, and we are Can not we rather have a school where world's schools, to perfect that which trying to follow in his steps; and with these young men can go and while get- we have begun. that help we are going to succeed. ting their medical education be anchored From the beginning, it has been the I cannot emphasize too strongly the to this denomination, and while they are experience of this people to meet im- necessity of acting promptly for these getting their technical education be an- possibilities, and to conquer them. young people. There is no question but chored to the fundamental truths of When I was a little boy, I remember what we shall lose some of them unless this denomination, so that when they the conflict in my father's mind over the something is done, and that quickly; become out from that medical school, question of the tithing. He and others cause we must give them some assur- either to connect with one of our own said, " Why, it is right, it is fair, it is ance that we are to get the facilities institutions, or to go out to private just, it is Biblical, but will the people GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 197 do it ? " And most of the brethren said: by it will be impossible to work. Many termination,= to give their lives to " No, they will not do it. Tithing is things are impossible with men, but God's work. ridiculed. You talk about introducing nothing is impossible with God. Why, We could use a thousand doctors in the tithing, it can not be done." But, by the brethren, do you remember back in 1889 world today if we had them, those who grace of God, and by the influence of and 1890, when there was such a move- were loyal to this message, whose hearts his Holy Spirit, the body of men who ment for religious legislation, and our were in sympathy with it, who were met to consider that problem said, " We efforts seemed so small and so puny to not mere Sabbath-keepers, but who were will do it." And we see the results. meet it? We had the prophecy saying genuine, earnest missionaries. We could Would we give up the tithing system to- that that thing would eventually prevail, put them in every city in this land; we day? Where would we be? And so and a lot of our people said " If it has could scatter them over Europe, and out with other enterprises,— the establish- got to come, let it come. They are go- in the heathen lands. They would be a ment of a college, the establishing to run over us with a road roller, rallying power, a center of influence. ment of foreign missions, the establish- and what is the use of protesting? Let They would be mighty men for this ment of church-schools, the establish- it come." But no, the word of God work, if only the message burned in their ment of sanitariums,— these things have said for us to meet it, and we met 'it, souls when they completed their medical all seemed to be impossibilities; but, by and things have been put off year after course. the grace of God uniting hearts, and year, decade after decade. We have had Therefore, I believe that we ought to putting it into the hearts of men and freedom, and we have educated work- take hold of this school and make it a women each to do all that is possible, to ers to go out and work with free- genuine Seventh-day Adventist medical stand shoulder to shoulder, it has been dom, and so against the prospect of training-school. There ought to be a done. And, brethren, I believe that this difficulties, let us have faith that God large number of our brightest and best can be done. will enable us to do, and trust him to young men entering this school, and, 0, how I wish that others could have give guidance and grace to meet diffi- year by year, going out — not that they the opportunity I have had of hearing culties, and the residue of difficulties he may make money, not that they may go the verbal counsels, and •of reading the will restrain. into the world and do business for them- written letters and testimonies of in- I. H. Evans : I am sure it is not neces- selves, but that they may'put their shoul- struction, and cotild see, as I have seen, sary to discuss this proposition any fur- der to this great work and help to finish the perfect harmony of the long series ther. I think there could hardly be one it. And, with the denomination rallying Of instruction. Some say: There is who believes the testimonies but what about the school, with the faculty loyal confusion. The testimonies call for a would say that it is a necessity that we to this message, with all of us with but school to train nurses with extraordinary have a medical school. It is recom- one purpose, brethren, our medical col- ability to go out as medical evangelistic mended that our people study the prin- lege can be a mighty factor in finishing nurses. The testimonies call for med- ciples of the school, and familiarize this work. ical missionaries to go out with quali- themselves with its policy. I think that W. T. Knox: The question has been fications to be gospel ministers, and to would be a very good thing, and it ought called. The secretary will read the next connect the medical work with it. Some to be done. Every father and mother recommendation. of the communications seem to warn the who have a son or a daughter that they Recommendation 3 was read. people in Loma Linda against going too intend to send out to a medical school, W. T. Knox: The idea is this, breth- fast, and too far; and then, others say, ought, before selecting that school to ren: The preceding speakers have stated Go ahead. How do you harmonize all study carefully the principles that gov- to you the reasons for the establishment these ? " ern our Loma Linda school. of the medical college, why it is, with If you were near to the movement, I can scarcely think that a Seventh- all the other enterprises and burdens and could see how each of those mes- day Adventist parent, under ordinary that the denomination is carrying, that sages applied to the time it was given — circumstances, would desire his child to we have also undertaken to conduct a how necessary it was to save mistakes — be educated in any other medical in- medical college for training physicians. you would see perfect harmony in the stitution than that of our people. We It has been shown by them that its es- whole series of counsels, and you would have the institution — it belongs to us, tablishment is the result, largely, of in- discern that the testimonies call upon it does not belong to an individual; and struction from the Spirit of God; that, this people, not only in Loma Linda, but I think the whole denomination ought while the unfortunate conditions pre- in each one of our sanitariums, to main- to rally around this institution and make vailing in the ordinary medical college tain a strong medical faculty, strong gos- its work a splendid success, with a spirit have been recognized by the leaders in pel workers, teachers, and leaders 'in of confidence, with a spirit of sympathy, this work, yet the courage to start out gospel work, so that every one of these with a spirit of cooperation. and launch the enterprise was lacking institutions shall be an important train- I believe there are enough young men until this instruction that has been al- ing-center for missionary nurses.. You and women in our ranks to fill this in- luded to came to us. Now, this has been would also see that it calls upon Loma stitution. And when they have attetided made very plain to us at different times; Linda, and other places that may have this school, I am sure they will come out and, as it seems that it is a work that simple facilities, to train medical evan- with a great deal more, confidence in the must be done in order to preserve the gelists. You would also see that the de- third angel's message than if they had best interests of the cause, and our mand is clear, definite•, emphatic, for us attended a worldly school. I do not young people who are giving themselves to have a school in which instruction believe our boys and girls can go to a to the medical work, it would seem, will be given — a full course of instruc- university and take a medical course then, that the logical thing to do is that tion — to men who can stand in our in- and not be exposed to the gravest dan- which is aimed at in this third recom- stitutions, recognized by the State, hon- ger of coming out crippled for life in mendation; that is, the proper equipping ored by the medical profession, as full, their faith in the third angel's message. of a college that would meet the re- competent physicians,, to minister to the There is something in the very 'atmos- quirements both from the standpoint of sick, and to teach; and that these men phere of university life, something that the persons entering its doors, and also should be trained in our own schools. generally permeates the teachings of from the standpoint of the State. It also calls for men of special ability those that give instruction, that usually Now, the Loma Linda school does not to stand in our great cities, at the head disqualifies a boy or girl who has been at the present time have the necessary of medical missionary enterprises in under that instruction for four or five facilities. Our people generally, in those cities, leading and teaching those years, to come out and really preach America especially, are aware that we who are going forth in house-to-house from the heart the third angel's message. attempted to provide funds for the hos- work in the cities. So I am in favor of rallying around this pital by a special donation taken up in Brethren, I do not see how we can school, giving it our financial support, March. It was anticipated that this drop out the main feature of this plan sending our boys and girls to receive donation would give us twenty thousand and carry on the plan. I do not believe their medical education in this school, dollars or more. We believed that, as our people want to do it. There are and making it what it ought to be — a the needs of the college were placed difficulties, you say, in some fields — real denominational medical school. I before our people, there would be a in Europe and some of the distant fields. believe the graduates from this school hearty response. It is evident, how- They will not accept physicians from ought to be genuine Seventh-day Ad- ever, that we are to be disappointed. such a school —'they have got to go ventists. Their faith in this message While all the offerings have not yet come somewhere else and take postgraduate ought not to have weakened, but to have to the general treasury, we conclude that work. Good! let them do, it. strengthened. Instead' of going out crip- the offering will not be more than $9,000. You also say that, according to the pled, not knowing whether they want to It is necessary that we should have some- natural' result of the•, present movement work for God or themselves, they ought thing like $23,500 for' the hospital and for the elevation of standards, by and to come out of that school with one de- its equipment. And to establish a dis- 198 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN pensary even in rented quarters in Los late a little incident illustrating the im- a large amount of dispensary practise. Angeles will cost approximately another portance of the question before us. There are several dispensaries there al- $5,000, making something like $28,500. When I was in Louisiana last summer ready, one of which is one of the Before the offering was asked, there was I called upon the secretary of the State finest I have ever seen in the United a nucleus for the building fund amount- board of medical examiners, and asked States. There can be no question but ing to some $2,500. This, with the whether reciprocity would be granted to what there is plenty of opportunity in amount of the offering, makes it still my wife, a physician, stating that she the city of Los Angeles for our dispen- necessary for us to provide for some had a certificate from the State of Illi- sary. At the time our students are $17,500, in order properly to equip the nois by examination. The secretary re- there, they will also have access to the school. plied that he could do this, that the State city for out-practise, and will be priv- This equipment that we spoke of as of Illinois gave a very rigid examina- ileged to attend the clinics in the hos- being proper equipment, is not spoken tion. I felt as if the matter was prac- pital in Los Angeles. But our own hos- of from the standard of the personal tically settled, when presently he said, pital, with the additional facilities we desires of the men that are connected " By the way, of what school is your have, will, I am sure, be amply sufficient with it, but it is to meet the require- wife a graduate?" I told him she was to meet the requirements of the law. ments of the State. They must have the a graduate of the American Medical Charles Thompson: I would like to hospital ; they must have clinical facil- Missionary College [the school formerly ask if this resolution means, if adopted, ities. They are already drawing to the at Battle Creek]. " Well, let me look the that there are to be $17,000 advanced close of the school year in which these matter up," he said; "I am afraid not." out of the North American Division facilities are needed. They will be He looked it up in .the report of the treasury? needed from now on. How much bet- American Association of Medical Col- W. T. Knox: That is what it means, ter it will be for us to recognize the leges, and presently said that there was Brother Thompson. necessity, and provide for it at once, than no reciprocity in Louisiana, giving his Charles' Thompson: The question in to expose the school to the harm and the reason that the Medical Missionary Col- my mind is how it is going to be pos- danger and the actual evil that result lege was rated in the report as class B, sible to advance $17,000 out of a treas- from being improperly equipped. and no college in class B could be ad- ury that does not yet exist. Inasmuch But now, given the recognition on our mitted to reciprocity. Now, if it had as the General Conference treasury al- part of the school, add to that the plain, been rated in class C, she would not have ready exists, and the college is designed definite counsel that has come to us ; the been even admitted to examination. He to train missionaries for all the world, requirements of the State ; the school in then went on to read to me the reason why not have it come out of the Gen- operation, with the students becoming why the American Missionary College eral Conference treasury? If it is de- unsettled because of the lack of proper was rated in class B, the reason being signed to have it come out of the North facilities, and to them no results if that that clinical advantages were along the American Division treasury, I would continues, is it not the reasonable thing line of certain ideals, and that their like to move that this question be re- for us to do to provide the necessary equipment was not sufficient, and that the ferred to the committee on finance. funds at once? I think it is. We can- physicians composing the faculty were W. T. Knox: Brother delegate, this not delay this. It would be unwise for men who had practise on their hands. is only a recommendation to the North us to delay this until we can muster Hospital clinics were not given as they American Division. This body here our forces, select a proper date, and should be. That was the reason the col- could take no money out of their treas- again appeal to our people for their do- lege was placed in class B, and if our ury if it did exist. nations. The denomination should pro- graduates are to be admitted to reci- Charles Thompson: Then it would be vide the necessary money. I believe procity in such States as that, where a a matter that would have to be consid- they will, as the necessity is forced home rigid examination is given, it would be ered by the North American Division to them. But we cannot delay for that; necessary for our college to be second before it becomes effective? for if we postpone our efforts in this to none. So this hospital is an absolute W. T. Knox : That is it, exactly. line, the furnishing of the money, until necessity to provide clinical advantages J. A. L. Derby: Brother Chairman, I such time as we can again make a gen- for the students. would like to ask why it does not include eral appeal to the people, months will W. T. Knox: There have been some Europe. Is it because our students are pass before relief will come, and many questions sent up to the stand: " Will not recognized in Europe? I should of the students will not only be tempted the hospital asked for meet the require- think that the European Division ought to leave, but I actually believe they will ments of the law?" " Will Los An- to have a financial interest in this school. leave the college and seek other quar- geles furnish needed clinical material Is this a North American school, or is ters. for dispensary?" I will call upon Dr. it a denominational school? It is therefore suggested that the Ruble to answer these. L. R. Conradi: The trouble is that in North American Division Conference Dr. W. A. Ruble: The legal require- most of the countries of Europe we can- be authorized to supply, or to advance, ment made by the American Medical not have any post-graduate work. The the necessary means from its treasury, Association is for a hospital of at least students have to take the full course. and to arrange for a call in all the one hundred beds, to be owned and con- For example, in Germany,— my son to- churches throughout the division to trolled by the school. This hospital that day has the German diploma; but when raise the necessary funds. Now, I we are providing is for seventy beds: he goes to Switzerland, he has to take should hope that a proper appeal made and with the close affiliation we have his examinations over, even with a Ger- to the churches, with the necessities of with various medical institutions afford- man diploma. There is an uncompro- the case properly set before them, ing cilincal facilities and other advan- mising spirit which we cannot help. It would result in our gathering together tages, we believe we shall be abundantly is there by law. the necessary money. But if one offering able to meet the requirements of the F. W. Stray: I would like to ask, in- fails, and it has; if the second offering law, so far as clinical hospital facilities asmuch as it is contemplated to grant should fail, what is there for us to do are concerned. immediate help, where this seventeen but to, make the third call, and the fourth The next question is, " Will Los An- thousand dollars will be found in the call, until we have it? [Voices: Amen, geles furnish the needed clinical mate- North American Division, unless there Amen !] But we cannot jeopardize, the rial in its dispensaries?" The clinical is contemplated some division of Gen- interests of the school, nor of our young material comes from three sources,— eral Conference funds. Where will it men and women who are attending it, first, from the clinical hospital; second, come from? by delaying and making it possible for from the out-patient department; and, W. T. Knox: These funds are to come repeated appeals. I do firmly believe — third, from the dispensary. We have al- from the people. That is the place, in I have expressed myself over and over ready worked up a very good out-patient the beginning and in the end, from again to the effect — that we should clinic in our own neighborhood. We have which they will come. That is the only raise the money before we attempt to within six or eight miles of us a popu- place that the General Conference could expend it. But every general rule has lation of about one hundred thousand. go to find the money. its exception, and I believe that here We have four or five small cities there, F. M. Dana: Does it mean that the we are facing one of the exceptions, which, of themselves, have a population General Conference will get its money and it will be a good and proper excep- of over sixty thousand. We are in close, from the people in the North American tion if this people gathered here, the contact with them, and are receiving Division, so that they can advance it representatives of all the denomination, a number of patients from them, and to the institution? instruct the officers that are to be, to are conducting quite a large out-patient W. T. Knox: I cannot answer that do this thing. Therefore I( am in favor department in those towns and in the question, Brother Dana. That is a mat- of it. surrounding country. ter that will have to be worked out. R. W. Parmele : I should like to re- The city of Los Angeles will furnish Charles Thompson: I believe I will GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 199

move that we change it to the General favor some form of special training, help in accomplishing something to Conference treasury instead of the such as Missionary Volunteer secreta- which we are not appropriating money, North American Division treasury. ries' institutes. then we are not able to count the money The motion was seconded. (c) That the General Conference Mis- thus secured in our regular mission W. T. Knox: Are there any remarks sionary Volunteer Department endeavor funds. Thus the General Conference is on the amendment? to arrange with the Fireside Correpond- arbitrarily compelled to increase its ap- R. W. Parmele: I would like to in- ence School to conduct a course of study propriation to India by the amount the quire what field the General Conference for the benefit of Missionary Volunteer young people are adding to that field. would have to work to obtain this secretaries, and of those who contem- Now we do not object to the young money. Is it that the General Confer- plate entering this work. people or to churches having some spe- ence advances the money, and then the (d) That all conferences make a special object to which they should give North ,American Division replaces it? cialeffort to build up this department of their money; but we do desire that they If so, that is all right; but if the Gen- their work by a careful selection of shall select something to which money eral Conference is to supply the money, secretaries, in counsel with the Union is being sent, to which aid is being given, they would have to work the North and General Conference Missionary Vol- and thus help us to raise the funds that American Division territory to get it. unteer departments, and by having sec- we are appropriating. F. H. Westphal: It seems to me that retaries who have been reasonably suc- In our appropriations we must act by it would be a sad mistake to put this cessful, remain in office long enough to faith. For 1913, we have appropriated responsibility • on the General Confer- enable them to build up a strong work. $525,000, a number of thousands of dol- ence. The division conference will have 17. Resolved, That in raising funds lars in excess of the mission funds of its officers, and they will be here in the for interests outside of the local fields, the preceding year. We had to do that field. They can work the field, and se- our young people be encouraged to de- by faith. Why did we dare have such cure this money. The means is here in vote their efforts to those enterprises, faith? — Because we believed our peo- the North American Division, and there receiving appropriations through the ple would raise their offerings this year, would be no persons more ready or more regular channels. increasing the supply coming to us. We prepared to secure this money than the Vhereas, There is a call from many must, therefore, encourage our people to officers of the North American Division. fields for the publication of portions of lift along the lines of appropriations W. H. Thurston: The difficulty seems the writings of Mrs. Ellen G. White, made; otherwise the gifts do not count to be in getting the money. The reso- selected from, the "Testimonies for the on these needs which the fields list as of lution provides, or suggests, that the col- Church," and other of her books and first importance. lege cannot wait until the money be manuscripts; therefore,— W. A. Sweany (Bahama Islands) : I raised, and that it, therefore, be ad- r8. Resolved, That the General Con- would like to ask a question for infor- vanced from the North American Di- ference Committee be authorized to ap- mation. I have a letter in my pocket vision Conference. And there is no point three or more persons having a now, received from a secretary of a money in the treasury of the North broad knowledge of the needs of the young people's society in one of our American Division Conference. That field, to outline plans, and to assist the large churches, asking what they can do seems to be the difficulty, where the workers who are very familiar with to help us in our mission field. I have money is coming from. these writings, in the preparation of not answered the letter yet. It was not W. T. Knox: The North American several compilations from these writings in response to any call. The question I Division will certainly begin business of such matter as they regard funda- want to ask is this, If I write and tell sometime. mental in character, and believe will be them what they can do to help us, and W. A. McCutchen: I move to refer most helpful to the fields; these compil- they send the money direct to us, or if recommendation 3 to the two finance ations to form a basis for a series of I instruct them to send the money committees, that of the General Con- somewhat similar tracts and pamphlets, through the regular channel, and we reference and of the North American Di- in many languages. port it as so much money received from vision Conference, jointly, for further such and such a source, will that meet consideration. Discussion of Report all the requirements? The motion to refer carried. On motion to adopt, question was W. T. Knox: First of all, brother, Resoluition 4 was read, and question you should discourage this being sent to was called on the whole, the report be- called on resolution i6. Resolution 17 was read. you direct. It always brings confusion; ing adopted save for the portion re- and if allowed to go unchecked, it would ferred. W. T. Knox: Allow me to say a word there. Our young people have been very completely disorganize us and would The Chair called for reports from destroy our financial strength in mission committees. helpful to us in supplying funds for different ,enterprises in the foreign fields. work. It would result eventually in Guy Dail responded with a further re- leaving, some fields absolutely bare, while port from the committee on plans. The And we • have greatly appreciated what they have done. They are raising now I others •would be supplied. Hence, if you committee submitted a form of constitu- write to them and suggest that they de- tion for the Asiatic Division Mission, re- think something in the neighborhood of twenty thousand dollars a year. Now vote their gifts to some work in your questing that it be printed on slips for field that we are appropriating to, then study by delegates before taking up its in making their efforts in this line, they sometimes desire some special object to it will count on the mission funds com- discussion. ing from that field; but if it goes to Guy Dail (reading) :— which their offerings shall be given. They write to the treasury department; some work to which we are not appro- Report of Committee on Plans or the object may be supplied by cor- priating, we cannot credit •it to the con- The committee on plans and resolu- respondence with foreign missionaries. ference, and that will result in dissat- tions submit the following further par- Our local conferences are all straining isfaction. tial report: — every effort to supply mission funds. W. A. Sweany: Of course we are not Whereas, The efforts of the Young The pressure has become so strong that carrying on any work but the general People's Missionary Volunteer Depart- conferences greatly desire that money work to which the board is appropri- ment to reach all of our youth where raised in their territory for mission ating. they are, and to enlist and train them work shall he credited upon the amount W. T. Knox: For instance, many re- in Christian service, are of the utmost they are expected to raise in that par- quests come from different parts of the importance to this denomination ; and,— ticular territory. fields: " We would like a stereopticon; " Whereas, Success in this work re- For instance, here is a conference that " We would like a colporteur wagon; " quires Missionary Volunteer leaders who is supposed to raise $25,000 a year in " We would like an organ; "— all com- are especially qualified to work for and mission 'funds. It may have a strong mendable things, helpful in the message, with the youth; and,— young people's society there, that raises but things to which we are not appro- Whereas, There is a growing demand $500 or $1,000 a year for some kind of priating. for well-qualified leaders,— mission work. Now the conference de- Now we want every field to be well i6. Resolved, (a) That our confer- sires that that $5oo or $1,000• that is equipped, and to have all the facilities ence officers and school faculties encour- raised by their young people's society that can possibly be supplied, but I am age promising young people to prepare shall help make up the $25,000 that we sure that better results will come if these for this line of the Lord's work. expect them to raise; and we are quite extras are obtained in the same way that (b) That for increasing the efficiency willing it shall be counted so. But if we obtain the greater thing. Let me say of Conference Missionary Volunteer•sec- Brother So and So over in India appeals a word to the missionaries. When you retaries and the preparation of those to the leader of the young people's so- send into the General Conference your who contemplate entering the work, we ciety in that particular conference for requisition, asking for this or that, you 200 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

know that not a single thing is denied THE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEM- triumphs of this work. (More clapping that it is at all possible to supply. And PERANCE UNION PROGRAM from W. C. T. U. and amens from the now it will not result the best if, after congregation.) having placed your wants before the May 29, 2: 3o P. M. Mrs. Dr. Bourdeau-Sisco: The next General Conference, and having ob- speaker for the afternoon is our district tained your appropriation, knowing, as [By invitation, a regular meeting of the W. C. T. U., of Northwestern Dis- president, Mrs. Emma Sanford Shelton. you do, that the appropriation thus made Mrs. Shelton has been in the W. C. is made in faith, and must be obtained trict of Columbia, was held in the large tent, about two hundred temperance T. U. work since 1874. She was one of from the churches and the conferences the charter members in the District of and the young people's societies and the workers of the District being present.] MRS. J. W. ROBINSON, the vice-presi- Columbia. She was secretary for twen- Sabbath-schools,— it will not work the, ty-one years of this organization, and best, I say, if you then throw out other dent of the W. C. T. U. of the District of Columbia, conducted the devotional for three years she has been acting as pleas, separate and independent of that. our president. An instance comes to me now. I have exercises, reading the one hundred forty- sixth psalm, which is sometimes called While engaged in this work, she has in my desk over there some correspond- acted as the district superintendent of ence to show to one of the superintend- the W. C. T. U. " crusade song," after which she offered an earnest prayer for narcotics, and while working in this ca- ents from one of the great mission fields. pacity the wonderful Cigarette Bill was What was it this person was calling the blessing of God to rest upon the work of the people gathered in this camp, passed by Congress, one of the most for? Coming from one of the depart- wonderful bills that has perhaps ever ment heads in the mission fields, stating the meeting being held, and the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance passed Congress, not allowing any boy that they had been sending out letters to under sixteen years of age to get cigars their friends, some of them not of the Union in general. Dr. W. A. Ruble: I am sure we esteem or cigarettes. [Applause.] She worked denomination, and to their brethren here most diligently to have this bill passed, in America, pleading for a large sum of it a privilege to be assembled here this afternoon in the cause of temperance. and secured the cooperation of all con- money for, a particular purpose that had nected with the schools in any way. I not been presented to the committee, and We are glad to be associated with such a body of earnest, Christian women, who am sure we shall be glad to hear from tp which no appropriation had been Mrs. Shelton, our president. voted, and saying that in these letters are endeavoring to stamp out this great they had been careful to state to the curse from our country. Elder Daniells, Mrs. Emma Shelton: Your presiding parties to which they were, writing, that president of the General Conference, officer has said that this will be a bright money that would come from this appeal will extend to these, our friends, a word day in your history. But I assure you would be separate from the mission of welcome. we can return the compliment and say funds, and would not be counted. They A. G. Daniells: I am sure we are all that this is a bright day in the history said, they had every reason to believe glad to have these Christian workers of the Woman's Christian Temperance that, their appeals would result in their come out into the forest this afternoon Union, when they can appear before an obtaining what they wanted, but they in- to meet with us. It is not necessary audience representing a hundred thou- formed me, so that I would know what for me to explain to this congregation sand men and women who do not either it meant when the money began coming the work of the Woman's Christian use tobacco or whisky in any form. into the conference for this .purpose. Temperance Union; for you are well [Applause from W. C. T. U.] Would Some will come from the Northern Un- acquainted with it. to God that this could be said of every ion, perhaps; some, perhaps, from We have with us the district officers Christian church in our land and in the ,Southern California; some, perhaps, will and many representatives of this union world! [Many amens.] come from Greater New York. That from the District of Columbia. They • When I look into your pure faces, the brother did not think how those dona- will tell us of the work they are doing, faces of these men here,— my brethren, tions coming to us with the information and the victories they are gaining in this — the purity of your life is stamped that they were not to be counted in the great struggle. upon your face. We do not always mission funds, but for this specific pur- It may be of interest to these friends think that " what a man thinketh, so is pose— how that would appeal to the to know that they will have a most sym- he," and that as he thinketh and as brethren in these conferences that were pathetic audience this afternoon. (Many his life is, so it is stamped upon the still obliged to raise forty thousand dol- amens.) They have an audience of face. Your lives today are stamped lars for that same field. temperance people, and, to some extent, upon your faces. As I said to my com- Now if that field needed that ma- of temperance workers. This congrega- panion at the table, " Have you ever chine, all that was necessary in order tion is gathered from all parts of the seen a set of men with purer faces than to get it was that the request come in world. It may be interesting, too, to these men who are surrounding us to- the regular way, before the General state that among them all there is not day?" Conference, and then that the General one person who uses any kind of in- It has been said that the Woman's Conference have faith enough to believe toxicating liquor or tobacco. (Much Christian Temperance Union is an angel that they would have money enough to clapping of hands by W. C. T. U. lad- that stands at the door of every house- buy it; but to inject a secondary way ies.) And they represent more than a hold to guard the child. In the year of raising this money is injurious to the• hundred thousand people, among whom, 1874, the year of the crusade, a precious great work of financing these world mis- so far as I know, there is not one that baby boy was put into my arms, and as sions. We appreciate all that our breth- uses any kind of intoxicating liquor or I was in that bed, with that baby boy in ren in foreign lands are doing to help tobacco. Some one asked me how this my arms, I prayed for those women us raise these funds, but I do appeal to was secured, how they were pledged to who were going through the land, kneel- you, my brethren, in your seeking to help this. My answer is, They are pledged ing in the gutters, praying for men to us, to do it in a way that will really be to this because they are Christians, and give up the evil life they were leading, cooperating with us and not weakening they do not believe that Christians ought to give up the dreadful business they our hands. to use either. (More clapping by the were in, and it was then and there that Question was called, and resolution 18 visitors.) That is the only pledge we I dedicated my life to this cause; and was read. Question being called, vote require. Of course, when we meet with from that day to this, I have given the was taken on the whole report, which any other organizations that do this, best that I have to it. was adopted. we are not backward about signing the This work has been a blessing to me Meeting adjourned. pledge; but, as a people, we take our all my life. It has made me a better W. T. KNOX, Chairman; stand upon that because we believe it is wife and a better mother, and has made W. A. SPICER, Secretary. where Christians ought to stand. my son a better citizen. This great I am sure this hour will remain a body of 3on,000 women knows no polit- bright spot with our missionaries,— you ical organization; it knows no one who have been out under the depressing church. We are seeking the good of all " MY son, forget not my law ; but let influence of heathenism, surrounded by mankind. The work of the W. C. T. U. thine heart keep my commandments: for the terrible darkness and superstition of is preventive. We seek to save the child length of days, and long life, and peace, heathen lands so many years. You will from the evil habits. Besides working shall they add to thee. Let not mercy enjoy hearing from these earnest work- for the children, we are working among and truth forsake thee: bind them about ers, who are battling with all their en- the soldiers, the sailors, and the marines; thy neck ; write them upon the table of ergies and their devotion in this great and we are also working with the for- thine heart: so shalt thou find favor and cause of temperance reform. We shall eigners in this country. In fact, we good understanding in the sight of God pray for them, and shall endeavor, are distributing temperance literature in and man." Prov. 3: 1-4. wherever we may be, to aid them in the every direction. We are also engaged GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 201

in Sunday-school work, and are trying for the bill; why trouble me?" I said: paralyze. The reason a man sometimes to pledge thousands of children this year. " We cannot discriminate, and it, is a talks more freely when he is under the We thank God for a president of the nice thing to have your secretaries and influence of alcohol is because his in- United States who has taken his stand typewriters busy, and let them write to hibitory sense is paralyzed; and he very on this question. [Applause.] We your constituents. I am glad our women often says a great many things that he thank God for a secretary of state who are writing to you." ought not to say, and does many things has taken this question to heart. [Ap- There is another way to win, and that that he would not otherwise do. Alcohol plause.] And, as far as I know, we is by cooperation. Cooperation is a produces upon the brain degenerating have practically a temperance president wonderful thing. Dear friends, we to- effects, exhibiting itself in insanity. In- and a temperance cabinet in this country. gether, of every church and denomina- sanity is increasing in our country at an We thank our Heavenly Father that the tion, and many are represented here, alarming rate. It is estimated that United States House of Representatives join hands with this great church in brain degeneracy has increased 30o per- and the Senate were enabled to pass a hearty cooperation on the platform of cent in the last fifty years. stringent temperance bill for the Dis- temperance, on the platform of prohi- Prof. Forbes Winslow, one of the trict of Columbia. Some of the pro- bition. We view with joy and pride the greatest of the world's authorities on visions of this bill are that there is to great work this church did in the grand the subject, says that when the mothers be no saloon within fifty feet of another old State of Maine [applause], when as well as the fathers are given to drink, saloon; no saloon within three hundred this church was represented in that cam- the children will inevitably be either in- feet of an alley where there are resi- paign' by splendid effort. We thank sane, criminals, or drunkards. My dear dences; no saloon within four hundred you. We ask you to go on with us for friends, if there were no other reason feet of a schoolhouse or a church; a boy nation-wide prohibition. We are in to in the world for banishing alcohol from under eighteen will be fined if he enters win, and we shall win by cooperation, the face of the earth, it would be be- a saloon to drink; the saloon-keeper is and education, and legislation. We are cause of its effects upon the children. punishable also for selling the drink. bound to win, for God is with us, and It is the inalienable right of every child He must know the age of the boy before God is for us. to be well born, and every parent that he permits him to drink liquor. And the women — 0, when we take forms any habit should think not only We must be strong in this work. We up this work, how the maternal spirit in of the influence of that habit upon his are not here to play, to dream, to drift. every woman, whether she be a mother own mind, but also that which will pos- We have hard, work to do, and loads to or not, reaches out to guard and save sibly come to his children. lift. It matters not how deeply en- the children! We go to the lioness in I have not time to speak of the in- trenched the wrong is, how hard the the desert and learn from it a lesson. fluence of alcohol upon other tissues of battle goes. Fight on Let anything assail her young, and she the body. Speaking of the influence upon Dr. P. S. Bourdeau-Sisco: Mrs. Don comes forward to protect her little ones digestion, a man who takes a strong so- P. Blain, our next speaker, has been with her life if need be; she protects lution of alcohol into his mouth cannot especially interested in the children and them with her heart's blood. So we of tell the difference between sweet and bit- the young people. She is now our na- the Woman's Christian Temperance Un- ter, because of the paralyzing effect tional organizer and national lecturer. ion go out battling for the children, bat- upon the nerves of the mouth. Alcohol Mrs. Don P. slain: Forty years ago, tling for the home, giving to it our best in the stomach prevents the digestion of when our organization came into being, effort for God and humanity; and some the food. we tried to reform the world. The vari- fair day, with your help, we shall win; Just one other point: Many people ous songs we sung were of that type, for prohibition shall be won. wonder why it is that alcohol should be —" Rescue the Perishing," mourning for W. A. Ruble: Among the activities in used so freely in prescriptions given by the thousands slain; but very soon we this denomination in the way of health physicians, if it is not of value. I'am learned that it is far better to form and temperance is our system of sani- glad to tell you today that the physicians aright than to reform; and if we win, it tariums scattered over this world, num- of the world are coming to recognize must be by education of the children, bering some fifty-nine. This afternoon that alcohol is of very little or no value, education of the people. So the Wom- one of the superintendents of one of our either in health or disease. an's Christian Temperance Union set- four sanitariums in California is with Because the body is designed to be the tled down tb place in the public-school us, and will speak to us, Dr. George temple of the living God, is, I believe, system of the great United States a law Thomason, of the St. Helena Sanita- the supreme reason why we should en- requiring temperance instruction in cer- rium. deavor to get men to abstain from alco- tain grades of the public schools; and, Dr. Thomason: My work in connec- hol. God wants men and women every- through the effort of our organization, tion with the human family makes me where to present their bodies a living praise God, today this statute is found particularly interested in the subject of sacrifice to him, unpolluted and unde- in every State of the United States,' and alcohol, from a physical standpoint. The filed. placed by the federal government in Bible says, " Wine is a mocker, strong W. A. Ruble: As Seventh-day Ad- every territory. By education we hope drink is raging: and whosoever is de- ventists, we claim to be an army of to win. ceived thereby is not wise." In a phys- temperance workers. We have in our And then the woman's Christian Tem- ical sense, as well as in a spiritual and midst some two thousand nurses who are perance Union went after the Sunday- every other sense, alcohol deceives men. giving their time exclusively to the mat- schools, too; and we have in the Inter- In a physical sense it makes them feel ter of health and temperance; over a national Sunday-school system a lesson warm when they are cold; it makes them hundred physicians are also connected each quarter, perused by thousands and feel fed when they are hungry; it makes with our various institutions throughout thousands of children. Then we sup- them feel rich when they are poor; it the land. Another of these who comes plement it in the home, by teaching our makes them apparently happy when they to us from the Pacific Coast will speak children. For we are good housekeep- have distress, and no reason for happi- to us this afternoon, Dr. W. B. Holden, ers, and we look after our homes, and, ness. The more carefully we are able superintendent of the Portland (Ore- while we sweep them, and dust them, to measure the effects of alcohol upon gon) Sanitarium. we look after the children, too, and we the tissues, the more profound influence Dr. Holden: We often hear it said sweep in a little temperance instruction, we find it exerts over every tissue and that it is the abuse of alcohol and not and dust it in, and wash it in, and iron fiber of the body. There is not a single its use that should be talked against. it in. [Applause.] And we rub it in, tissue that escapes the baneful influence In the few minutes allotted to me I wish and we scrub it in. And the child of a of alcohol, even though it may be taken to prove that any use of alcohol is its white ribboner is right on the temper- in moderate quantities. abuse. I am not here to describe the ance question. We find that alcohol influences, first, man who abuses alcohol to the extent Now another way to win is the legis- that tissue of the body which is the most that he beats his wife. I am not here lative way. Up on the Capitol Hill they highly organized and the most delicate, to talk against the abuse of alcohol when think they passed the Jones-Works bill; namely, the brain. Brain degeneracy is it gets to the point where a man has to but I tell you, confidentially, we passed abroad in the land. The first effect of be picked up out of the mud. Our that bill. Our maps showing the loca- alcohol upon the brain is to paralyze it. friends can tell that a great deal more tion of the saloons in the District were Sometimes, men think that, under the in- graphically than I can. The class of sent to forty-two States of the United fluence of alcohol, they can say more users of alcohol that I wish to talk about States. A member of Congress said to than they otherwise would be able to is the class that use alcohol in such me; " Call off your women, Mrs. Blain. say ; that it sets the tongue loose; that it small amounts that they keep their self- I have had five hundred letters from my opens the avenues of the brain. But this respect. Their neighbors and their constituents this week." He said, " I am is not so. The effect of alcohol is to friends, perhaps, do not know that they 202 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

use it. Still, that small amount of al- courage to stand before an audience like one minute, on account of the shortness cohol is abusive to the one that uses it. this and talk temperance; it does not of time. Professor Keppelin, of Germany, has take any courage to stand now before Lauretta Kress: I was reading on the studied the effects of alcohol, from an an audience composed of doctors and little paper we had as we came in, experimental standpoint, probably more talk temperance. The uselessness of al- " Wind the ribbon around the nation," carefully than any other living man. He cohol in small amounts has been abso- and I was thinking of the statement we shows by experiments that alcohol, in as lutely demonstrated over and over again heard, that last year there were enough small solutions as one to five hundred, by the best scientific authority the world cigarettes sold in the world to encircle produces an irritation and inflammation over. [Great applause.] the globe twenty times, end to end. If of the lining of the small arteries. The Dr. Bourdeau-Sisco : We have with us we as temperance workers are going to arteries are all over our bodies. These one of the " crusaders," Mrs. Margaret help in this great cause, I feel this after- arteries are lined with a very delicate, Ellis, whose name is world-wide. We noon that I must strike a deadly blow smooth membrane. The arteries go to all know her, and we all love her. Mrs. at the cigarette, because I believe it is every cell, and every portion of the body. Ellis was for fifteen years State secre- doing great harm to man and boy. I A person who is taking only one tary of the W. C. T. U. in New Jersey. read a statement last December of a drink of whisky is taking enough alco- She came into this work in 1873-74. boat that landed in San Francisco from hol to produce irritation. Let this be She was one of those who went around the Orient free from liquor and tobacco. kept up for months and years, and he praying in the saloons and in the dif- It was the first time in the history of has great irritation and contraction of ferent places on the streets. That is Trans-Pacific shipping that such a thing the small arteries all over the body. what she did when she entered this occurred. And the statement further Instead of their being soft and pliant, work. Mrs. Ellis has been, for eighteen said that it was due to the heavy drink- they become contracted, and the, heart years the national legislature superin- ing and smoking of the women on must pump much harder. As a result, tendent of the W. C. T. U., and in that board; and let me state further that the he has an enlarged heart. The muscles capacity she has been working in Wash- woman who led in this great smoking of the heart get stronger and thicker; ington for the past eighteen years. I am and great drinking was a member of but there comes a time when they can be- sure we shall all be glad to hear from Washington society, but had been absent come no thicker, and then he has heart Mrs, Ellis. from her home for five years. She said failure. The heart must then pump Mrs. Ellis: I wish I had time to tell that her limit was sixty cigarettes a day. against a pressure much greater than you how we got the sale of liquor out If' I understand anything at all about the normal. of the Capitol. For years it had been the use of tobacco, there is in one smo- The kidneys have a very liberal sup- sold openly in restaurants; but Senator king bag of Durham about forty ciga- ply of blood-vessels. There is as much Landis, from Indiana, sandwiched an rettes when rolled. This woman evi- blood sent to the kidneys as to the arm. amendment, prohibiting the sale of liq- dently smoked more than one bag of This constant irritation on the lining uor in the Capitol building, to the Im- Durham a day. of the kidneys causes them to contract migration bill, that was certain of pass- -I have a statement in my possession to one half, possibly, of their normal ing at that time. The bill passed the that one woman from Colorado has per- size, and the, result is chronic Bright's House of Representatives, but it was a formed the feat of smoking three hun- disease. This is true of people who do difficult matter to get it through the dred cigarettes a day. She can smoke not get drunk, but only take their Senate. That body always analyzed a one every five minutes, not counting bracer every morning. bill by sections before they passed upon time for sleeping or eating. ' If ciga- The liver is filled with blood-vessels ; it, and examined its provisions closely. rettes and tobacco are harmful for the it has an extra set of blood-vessels all When they came to the section dealing men, what will they do for the women, through it; so when alcohol goes with the prohibition of liquor in the who are the mothers of our, children, through the blood, the liver receives a Capitol, Senator Penrose, of Pennsyl- who are to be the forwarders of our double dose. A few months ago I had vania, said, " I would like to know what race? Will such a mother be able- to the opportunity to examine the liver of section 26 has to do with immigration." help her posterity? If it weakens the a woman who was not known to be in But Senator Berry, of Arkansas, quickly heart and the arteries, what must it do the habit of drinking alcoholics at all; arose in defense of the bill, and told to the little child? but we found the liver had contracted how he was besieged with letters and Last year, in New York City, one hun- so small that she had lost her life. She petitions from his constituents who clam- dred thousand women smoked thirty-five was not a drunkard, but we found that ored for the prohibition of the liquor billion cigarettes. As Christian women, she had been in the habit of taking traffic in the Capitol. The bill passed, we must do' what we can to help in this alcohol in small quantities during a pe- and liquor has since been prohibited work. I believe it is the duty of every riod of years. from the Capitol. man, woman, and child in this audience Then take the heart: The arteries in I happened to be sitting near the at- to lift up the banner of temperance the heart are contracted by small quan- torney of the liquor dealers of the Dis- against this great evil in our land. tities of alcohol, and are replaced by trict of Columbia, in the gallery, when Mrs. Howe (president of the North- scar tissue. After a while the scar tissue the recent bill forbidding the shipping west Union) : I am not going to make extends so far that the supply of blood of liquor into prohibition States was a speech, but we white ribboners have is cut off ; then the person dies in the had a great day. We have been the prime of life. passed over President Taft's veto, who was there to do what he could to oppose guests of this sanitarium, and of this In the brain there may be rupture of great Conference here in session. As the passage of the bill. When he saw a blood-vessel, which breaks like an old, the bill passed over the President's veto, leader of the Northwest Union, I wish decayed garden hose. Then we have he wrung his hands. I thought in my to say that I am sure that the white apoplexy. ribboners of the District of Columbia heart: " You can wring your hinds. I We have in our blood stream two have profited very much by this day. have seen mothers wring their hands kinds of blood cells, the red and the Dr. Mabel Howe-Otis: I am very over wrecked homes brought about by white. They are the standing army of happy today to tell you that belong to this liquor traffic." As he kept wringing our body. There are about seven thou- the white ribboners, and I wish to pay a his hands, I kept praising God that the sand of these in a drop of blood. These tribute to this great organization. The bill had passed. white blood cells go all over the body, great number of women's clubs can and wherever they meet a germ, they Brethren, do you know there are 46,- really trace their organizations back to pounce upon it, and arrest it. They are 000,000 people in the United States under the W. C. T. U. I am also happy to tell the police of the body. Were it not for prohibition law, and there are nine you that I belong to an organization these white blood cells, a single germ States that have statutory laws prohib- which not only would do away with al- might get into our blood and finally iting the sale of liquor. There is no cohol and tobacco, but with every harm- destroy us. But when a little alcohol liquor permitted to be sold in the army ful food or drink, which, taken into the is introduced, they are much slower. If or navy. The government has appropri- body, would mar its perfection as the the alcohol is increased, they will not ated a fund for the maintenance of club temple of our Creator. not do anything, they are sleeping on rooms and places of harmless amuse- I thank God for the knowledge which guard. Now, that thing is recognized ment for the soldiers and sailors to turn has come to me through the study of this clinically in such diseases as pneumonia, them away from the temptation of the truth with reference to physical condi- for instance. When a drunkard gets saloon. tions. I feel very thankful and very pneumonia, there is no hope for him; W. A. Ruble: Dr. Lauretta Kress, humble, in the light of all this knowl- for the white blood cells are paralyzed. who has been actively engaged in W. C. edge, to subscribe myself not only a I am glad today for the light we are T. U. work in this city, will now speak. member of the W. C. T. U., but a be- having on alcohol. It does not take any We will have to allow Dr. Kress but liever in the truths and in the message GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 203

that we as Seventh-day Adventists have them by means of any national, State, only with the best of training are able held most dear. As I look into your or municipal Sunday law, that does not to grapple with them.' faces, and see that some of you have in anywise affect the character and real Dr. Abbott's paper emphasized the grown gray in this service, not only in purpose of the legislation. It is still value of the education received in our the extinction of the dram shop and the compulsory religious Sunday legislation, own schools. Schools of the world are cigarette, but for the upbuilding of a designed to make Sunday the sabbath by not fitted to train workers in the gospel physical basis for righteousness that will law, and to enforce Sunday observance message. Nowhere can there be ob- enable us to be workers in this cause by law. We ought not to allow our- tained a knowledge of the pure, true that we love, I pray that the Lord will selves to be blinded here." principles of physiological therapeutics spare us all, and give us discernment that Again: " I lay down this general and rational medicine except in our we may hold up the banner of physical proposition, therefore, which I think schools. righteousness wherever our tent may be will appeal to every one who has given Drs. Ruble, Comstock, Miller, Inger- pitched. careful thought to the subject, as cor- soll, and Elders Burden, Starr, and oth- Mrs. J. W. Robinson: There is one rect, that, in so far as Sunday laws ers spoke in favor of the highest stand- more speaker, and it is my privilege to require anything, they require Sunday ard possible for our medical profession, present to you a veteran, a man who was observance; and that, in so far as they and of the importance of attending the a personal, loved friend of Abraham prohibit the doing of anything on Sun- school established in the providence of Lincoln, Major J. B. Merwin. day, such as the pursuit of any ordinary God for qualifying men and women to Major J. B. Merwin: How should we labor, trade, business, calling, amuse- give the last message of mercy to the dare adjourn this marvelously interest- ment, or pastime; they enforce Sunday world. We cannot be clear in this mat- ing audience without some specific trib- observance." ter if we treat it as of little concern. ute to this organization represented here Those taking part in the interesting It is of the highest concern. We make this afternoon. If there is one man in discussion which followed were: W. A. a high profession, and should come this audience who stands in the pride Westworth, L. T. Nicola, C. Simmons, short 'in nothing. The stamp of ap- and integrity of his manhood, preserved, J. G. Lamson, W. A. McCutchen, Al- proval cannot be placed on anything honored, respected — can we ever meas- len Moon, J. E. Jayne, W. F. Martin, cheap in connection with the work of ure what we owe to this organization A. J. S. Bourdeau, H. A. Weaver, J. F. God. of the Womari's Christian Temperance Blunt, and A. W. Anderson. Union, that you and I today are not Eleventh Meeting drunkards? They are praying women. • • At the morning meeting excellent I am so glad to look into the faces of papers were read by Geo. E. Cornforth more than a thousand men who are MEDICAL DEPARTMENT and Miss Corner, on' the subjects, "'A temperance men, total abstainers, Chris- Tenth Meeting Practical Menu for the Dining-Room," tian men. I take off my hat — eighty- and, " A Cook's Bureau." A spirited five years old — this afternoon, and say, FOR several days the medical depart- discussion followed in which a number " God bless you, brethren and sisters, ment has been holding two meetings joined. It was urged that a simple yet for what you have done. [Applause.] each day. At the morning meeting much liberal diet, free from all unwholesome, What other calamity would you not interest was shown in the reading of objectionable articles, should, be supplied, rather that God Almighty should send two papers, one by Dr. Thomason, " The by our sanitariums, and our homes as on that child of yours than to withdraw Relation of Surgery to Our Sanita- well. Special attention should be given his restraining grace so as to permit that riums," and one by Dr. Holden, "A Sur- to proper combinations and appetizing child to be a drunkard? Abraham Lin- gical Craze." tastes, and loyalty to, health-reform prin- coln said that saloons meant drunkards Dr. Thomason said the field of sanita- ciples should be maintained. Neither just as surely as a mill meant flour. rium surgery should be enlarged. Every violation nor compromise of these, prin- They mean to take your boys and hus- - provision should be made for the highest ciples is fruitful of good results. bands and children and make drunkards degree of proficiency, and we should not Good cooks are of the greatest im- of them, denude them of their manhood. be satisfied with anything less. • There is portance; they are indispensable, in' our Several songs were rendered by the a crying need for capable diagnosticians, sanitariums, and have a large place in choir and male quartet, and, altogether, and care should be exercised that opera- establishing and maintaining the repu- a very ,profitable afternoon was the re- tions are not advised unless necessary. tation and well-being of our institu- sult of the visit of our W. C. T. U. A great deal of surgery is done that is tions. Unanimous action was taken rec- friends to the encampinent. needless, and young men just from col- ommending the establishment of a cen- lege should not be urged to rush into tral bureau for the training and placing surgery. " Study to show thyself ap- of cooks. ;Departmental Oleetingo proved unto God, a workman that need- eth not to be ashamed," is very ap- • .1111.- • plicable. PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT RELIGIOUS LIBERTY DE- Dr. Holden's paper dealt with the con- PARTMENT ditions in the medical world that are re- Eleventh Meeting Ninth Meeting sponsible for the large amount of needless surgery. Surgery should be done THE leading feature of the eleventh " DoEs Sunday Legislation Involve only as a last resort in the interests of meeting of the Publishing Department the Compulsory Observance of the health. was a paper on the subject of " Spiritual Day?" was the subject of a paper by Drs. Comstock and Olsen did not Power in Colporteur Work," by C. G. • W. A. Colcord. The passage by the think it necessary for all our sanitariums Bellah. " Spiritual power," said he, " is last Congress of a post-office appropria- to do surgery. They should give at- the key that unlocks every problem con- tion bill to which was attached a Sun- tention to strictly medical lines of work nected with the distribution of our lit- day-closing amendment, had suggested first. Surgery is not the first work of erature. As there is need of power in this topic. sanitariums. The principles of hydro- all the affairs of men to keep in motion He said: " If the closing of a part of therapy and rational medicine called our the wheels of commerce, there is an the post-offices on Sunday by national sanitariums into existence, and thek infinitely greater demand for mighty law is not demanding Sunday observ- principles should ever occupy the first spiritual power in the business for the ance, would the closing of all the post- place in our medical work. King. When there is great spiritual offices on Sunday by national law con- The papers read at the afternoon power in the colporteur work, it makes stitute such a demand? And if the clo- meeting by Drs. A. B. Olsen and G. K. all other phases easy; it solves every sing of the whole post-office department Abbott, dealt with the question of difficult problem, and unravels every on Sunday by law would not constitute greater efficiency in the medical profes- trying perplexity. With spiritual power, a demand for Sunday observance, would sion, and the importance of a training in we have men who have touched the hem the closing of all the departments of our own schools rather than the schools of the seamless garment, and are clean; government on Sunday by law have in of the world. Dr. Olsen spoke of the men who fear the Lord, hate sin, and it anything of the nature of a demand strict requirements of English law gov- live four-square to God and the world; for Sunday observance? erning the medical schools in that coun- men who never allow sin to stop their Because the majority in any gov- try, and urged that Seventh-day Ad- prayers, but whose frequent prayers have ernment department or in any trade' or ventists should not come behind in this successfully stopped sin, and who have calling might approve of the legisla- thing. The problems connected with the permitted divine grace to fully undo all tion, and welcome the rest secured to question of health are so great that those that disgrace has done. Then, as they 204 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN go forth with a hold upon God, a light nection with the teachers' meeting. If stow affection which is not returned, nor in the eyes, and tears in the heart, a there be a heart consecrated to God's should they allow another to go on thus mighty work is quickly done. Spiritual service, and a willingness to improve of his own accord. A quiet manner of power will work every hard field, warn the gifts God has given, there is no dignified reserve is usually sufficient to every dark land. It knows no panics, reason why one may not become a useful set another right in this matter. Young floods, or droughts. It makes molehills teacher. people should learn to be happy and of mountains of difficulties, and giants Mrs. Mabel Behrens, of Fresno, Cal., cheerful together without being senti- of the weakest of men. It leads men to discussed the topic, first reading some mental and silly. the frozen regions of the North land, very excellent extracts from the wri- It is an unwise custom to be " going to the parched sands of the tropics, or to tings of J. Mace Andress, a well-known with " some one all the time. Many the deadly Gold Coast of Africa." Sunday-school worker. Mrs. Behrens seem to think this the proper thing to These are some of the excellent urged that our ideal should not be lower do, as if all the boys and girls must be thoughts brought out in this paper by than that of the Sunday-school, and gave pared off before the eyes of the com- Brother Bellah, connected with which many practical, suggestions as to how munity, and if any little thing by chance he gave a number of touching experi- to form training-classes for the various disturbs this arrangement, there must ences, showing how, through the spiri- grades of pupils. be a great ado of fluttering about until tual canvasser, the people who need the another adjustment is made. Thus it truth are being warned. often happens that boys and girls pass In closing, Brother Bellah, said: Driaittrintental rttptro through a long course of these slender " Give us more and yet more spiritual attachments, like a humming-bird flit- power Let this be the key-note of MARRYING UNBELIEVERS ting from flower to flower, but seeming every message." to be never satisfied to alight. Such as- (Read before a meeting of the Mission- sociations dissipate the affections until ary Volunteer Department.) the owner is scarcely able to recognize GOD has ordained that human life or bestow true affection. Perhaps it is SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT shall be perpetuated by means of the too much to expect that there should be Eleventh Meeting marriage institution. Upon the first in every case only one such alignment, man and woman he bestowed his bless- and that the final one for the journey ONE of the most interesting papers yet ing, and said to them, " Be fruitful, and of life; but we should certainly ap- presented was that of C. C. Lewis, en- multiply, and replenish the earth." Mar-, proach as nearly as possible to this titled, " Teaching the Lesson to the Se- riage is one of twin institutions which ideal. In the journal entitled Life and nior Class." He said: " Teaching is like conic down to us from the garden of Health, Washington, D. C., Mrs. M. L. fishing, and fishing is a twofold process. Eden. Before sin entered, God gave to Dickson truthfully remarks, " Most of It is, the fisher's part to place the baited man marriage and the Sabbath institu- the divorce cases are the result of hook within reach of the fish, and by tion. Marriage is honorable to all. It matches contracted before a girl is old every enticement endeavor to have the is the foundation of the home. Out of it enough to be governed by her intellect fish seize the bait. Seizing the bait is grow the fond relationships of father rather than her impulses." the part of the fish. The first without and son• mother and daughter, brother Be Sensible the second is mere dabbling in the and sister, husband and wife. What water ; the second without the first, only loving, words are these! Blot them from But when at last the time shall come luck, and is in no respect due to the skill our language, and with them that for — as come it doubtless will— for our of the angler. which they stand, and who would care own heart to be pierced with Cupid's " Teaching is a twofold process. It is to longer bear the burden of living? sharp arrows, then do let us try, to be the part of the teacher to bring the truth Proper Associations sensible If we cannot be as sensible within reach of the learner, and to make as we would like, let us at least be as the condition favorable for its reception. Love is godlike: for " God is love." sensible as we can. It is surprising It is the part of the learner to reach But love and lust are far removed. sometimes to note how foolish other- forth and grasp the truth. Where these Love leads to marriage, but lust severs wise sensible people may become in re- acts are intelligently united, there is the marriage tie. Strange that they gard to these matters of affection. Good teaching." should seem so near and yet be so far taste indicates that they should.be con- Professor Lewis urged more thorough apart. Lust is the abuse (A-use. or ducted with a quiet and becoming dig- preparation of the lesson by the teacher wrong use) of the good gift of God. nity. It is not best to wear one's heart as the remedy for the failure on the part It is a matter of 'the utmost importance upon the sleeve. The less publicity one of some teachers to be able to fill the to all young men and women to know attracts in these matters the better. Not time properly, and the same remedy for how to relate themselves properly to one that it is a matter of which to be the 'teacher who is so full of his subject another. The proper association of ashamed. On the contrary, no man has that he cannot get through in the allot- ladies and gentlemen is a blessing to fully lived until he has sincerely and ted period. The teacher should select both. Men receive from such associa- purely loved a noble woman. But such the main truth of the lesson, and group tion a refining, subduing influence. relations are too delicate and too sacred about that the subordinate truths. One Women receive strength and integrity to be needlessly exposed to public gaze. should be thoroughly full of the lesson, of character. But improper associa- but have their fulness under control. tions produce evil results. In their inter- The Goal of Affection He may then stand before the class course with one another, young people Marriage is the goal of true affection. without excuse or apologies. He does should maintain a proper reserve. They But we Should not rush to the goal with not need to read the questions, but should 'associate together as friends and unseemly haste. Better consider the stands face to face, eye to eye, heart companions, in a frank, manly and step long and deeply. It is one of the to heart with his pupils. womanly way; but at the same time most important issues of life. Above all Topic : " Normal Classes — Training there should be a bound of reserve things else that are kept, keep thy heart Pupils 'to' Be Teachers." Mrs. E. M. through which no one would dare to with all diligence now. The forces we Wilber, of South Lancaster, Mass., had break. Womanly reserve and modesty admit enter for weal or woe. Let us unavoidably returned to her home, and constitute a bulwark of purity and be sure we want them to stay before we her paper was read by Mrs. Plummer. safety. When we forget this proper re- unbar the gates. Once in, it will be diffi- The following are important extracts: serve, we fall into danger. cult to expel them, however treacherous " It is often said that teachers are born Reserve and Modesty they may prove. Even if they are driven not made; but experience shows that It would be wrong' to tell young peo- out, the fortress may be injured beyond any Christian of, ordinary ability and ple that .they should not delight in one repair. education may become a successful another's society. God has planted the The Education First teacher by having his ability wisely di- social instinct in their hearts, and it is rected. A training-class should be natural for them to, like, to be together; This is no child's play, this matter of formed in every school. The 'members but it would not be wrong to say' that choosing a companion for' life. Better should study some approved teacher- they should be modest and reserved in leave it until a reasonably good educa- training course. This may be carried on their associations with one another. tion is acquired. This will bring us to in one of three ways : (I) In a class They ‘should not trifle with 'the affec- a proper age for marriage. If a man, on the night of the prayer-meeting, the tions. They should not feign regard one should be twenty-five years of age; class assembling ,earlier for this ,pur- Or another which, they do not possess. if a woman, at least twenty-one. Au- pose. (2) By private study. (3) In con- They should not lead another on to be- thorities agree that not until this age GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN 205 are the physical powers sufficiently ma- far. I think, however, that the supe- Whose cast of mind shall the children ture to properly discharge the grave riority of the bird's instinct over man's inherit, whose example folow, the fa- responsibilities of married life. Nor is is sufficient to confirm our first conclu- ther's or mother's? If either or both, the judgment, sufficiently well equipped. sion. No prospective father bird ever there is ground for alarm. A house di- And this emphasizes the necessity of de- failed to provide a suitable home for his vided against itself cannot stand. These ferring this step until the education is wife and little ones. Some men have. considerations emphasize the importance complete. We shall need all the judg- of delaying marriage until the persons ment and wisdom a good education is Be Not Unequally Yoked become settled in their religious belief, likely to give to select wisely a com- This discussion of the keeping of the and then choosing in harmony with that panion for life, or properly to manage heart in its relation to the life issue belief ; for whoever enters the marriage one after the selection is made. And of marriage cannot properly close with- relation with one of, opposite belief, or we shall need just as much wisdom to out reference to the exhortation of of no belief, not only goes contrary to know when and how to be managed. Scripture, " Be not unequally yoked to- the Word of God, but as a result invites disunion and sorrow into the life. Select Your Business First gether with unbelievers." The principle is broad enough to include other rela- Rarely indeed does a believing wife Prudence also would indicate that it tions, but it is• especially applicable -to or husband win an unbelieving compan- is wise to defer marriage until the life marriage and to matters of religion. ion to Christ. Rarely' are promises made work has been selected and fairly well By " unbelievers evidently are meant before marriage to gain the object of established. It is but reasonable to sup- those who do not believe in and love desire carried out after the object is pose that one's companion should be in Jehovah, the true God, and who do not gained. There is, of course, the possi- sympathy with one's •work and a true trust in Jesus Christ, his Son, for sal- bility, but it is not , strong enough to helper in the successful accomplishment vation; and to' those who do not believe warrant the risk. Let the unbelieving of that work. But if the companion be in the present truth; and the exhorta- party first believe, apart from the con- selected first and the work afterward, it tion, or rather command, is given men sideration of marriage, and demonstrate is a mere chance if they fit well to- or women who' do thus believe. The his faith by his life. Then, and not till gether. To, the man, even after the life wisdom of the requirement is apparent. then, should two dare the risk of uniting work and the companion have been se- The marriage relation should be one of life with life. lected, there comes an additional reason closest sympathy and union; else how But sometimes after marriage one of why the marriage should be deferred can the " twain become one flesh "? But two unbelievers accepts Christ, or one until his business is fairly prosperous. how can those who radically disagree in of the contracting persons, believer or He ought to, have something to offer belief in regard to vital questions be unbeliever, changes his or her belief. his• wife as a token of his love and of of one heart and soul, as man and wife The only course then to be pursued is his worth. It need not be much, but it should be? There are, indeed, some men for both persons to make the best of the ought to be at least enough to prove and women broad minded or indifferent situation, exercising wisdom and pa- his, ability to provide a respectable liv- enough to grant 'to a companion liberty tience, each mutually agreeing to grant ing. It need not be a costly home, but it of conscience' and religious 'belief ; but full liberty of conscience to the other. should be at least the earnest of a cozy are toleration and indifference a proper Important Extracts nest for the birdlings that, are to be. basis for the building which man and And yet I, would not insist too strongly wife have covenanted to erect? — Nay, The following extracts upon marriage upon this principle ; for even the birds verily. It needs the most perfect union from an author and lecturer of interna- teach us to unite in building the nest. and the warmest sympathy to complete tional reputation shotild be carefully it is not best to press' a comparison too this work properly. '(Concluded on page 208) EBEEEEEEEEKNEEErawiresardp aricammErmarmomEri

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Your Library Is Not Complete Every Progressive Christian unless it includes a copy of each of the following should read the books included in the following list, standard denominational books. They should be found which have become very popular and are selling by thousands. They belong to that class of literature in good bindings in every Seventh-day Adventist home. which is translated from language to language, and in time becomes known in all parts of the world. The Plain Marbled Half Ful Morocco Morocco biographies are fascinating, and each inspires devotion and consecration. Great Controversy $2.00 $3.00 $4.00 $5.00 Mark the ones which you have not read, or wish Patriarchs and Prophets • • . 3.00 4.00 5.00 sent to your friends, and order them from your tract Daniel and the Revelation 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 society. Home and Health 2.50 3.50 4.50 $ .5o Desire of Ages 1.50 3.00 4.50 6.00 Story of John G. Paton Quiet Talks on Prayer .75 Practical Guide to Health 3.00 4.00 5.00 Quiet Talks on Service .75 Bible Readings 1.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 Quiet Talks on Power .75 Easy Steps in the Bible Story 3.00 4.00 5.00 Life and Epistles of Paul Loo Sermons That Won the Masses .5o The morocco bindings of the first three books are Life of Florence Nightingale .6o uniform and make an excellent series. Life of Robert Moffat .6o Life of John Knox .6o Even though you possess a copy of one or more Life of Robert Morrison .6o of these books, you can use a complete set to good Daybreak in Korea .6o advantage. There should not only be a copy of each Life of Samuel Crowthers .6o Life of James Hannington .6o in your own home for reference and study, but you Life of John Williams .6o should have extra copies to lend to others. If every History of the Waldenses .75 Seventh-day Adventist were to keep copies of these The Uplift of China .5o valuable books in circulation among friends and ac- Miracles of Missions .30 Life of David Livingstone .6o quaintances the amount of good done would be in- Life of John Wycliffe .5o estimable. Life of William Carey .6o ORDER THROUGH YOUR TRACT SOCIETY A FEW LEFT A few weeks ago we published a list of shelf-worn books which were found in taking inventory, and which were placed by themselves for special sale. Many of these have been ordered since, but we still have a few left. This is a splendid opportunity to secure these valuable books. Get a supply for missionary work as , well as for your own library. No. Regular Sgeiecia 64 Master's Greatest Monosyllables . $ .5o $ .3o Copies Price 3o Scripture Index to Mrs. E. l Bible Readings, half morocco $4.00 $1.50 White's Writings, cloth .3o .15 Great Controversy, half morocco 4.00 1.75 2 Supremacy of Peter Loo .40 2 Boy Wanted 1.25 .75 4 Christ Our Saviour, cloth, plain .75 .45 7 New Testament Primer, board .25 .15 3 Hymns and Tunes, plain .75 .5o 2 Home and Health, cloth 2.5o I.00 2 Hymns and Tunes, morocco 2.25 1.50 43 Home and Health, library 3.50 I.30 2 Hymns and Tunes, half morocco 1.5o I.00 24 Art of Securing Attention .15 .10 8 Best Stories, board .5o .25 114 By Land and Sea 2.25 I.00 12 Gospel Primer, board .25 .15 to Home and Church-School Manual, 2 Abiding Spirit, paper .40 .20 cloth .75 .25 2 None Such Professor t.00 .40 16 Joyful Greetings, cloth .6o .25 6 True Education Reader No. 1 .6o .40 16 Sunbeams of Health and Temper- 1 True Education Reader No. 4 .. Loo .75 ance, gilt 2.00 .75 I True Education Reader No. 6 r.00 .75 39 Federal Government of Switzerland 1.50 .50 6 Hygienic System .25 2 Glad Tidings, cloth .6o .25 " The Speaker's Manual " 8 Glad Tidings, paper .25 .15 56 Siberia and the Nihilist .25 .r5 Few public speakers are entirely free from errors of 2 Desire of Ages, cloth 3.00 1.5o pronunciation. Oftentimes the very best thoughts of Seer of Patmos, half cloth, marbled 1.50 .75 a speaker lose their force by being conveyed to the 3 Coming King, gilt 2.00 .90 people through words incorrectly pronounced. Some- I Coming King, plain I.50 .75 , times this is the result of carelessness, but the hearers 5 What a Woman of 45 Ought to are apt to think it is because of ignorance of the Know 1.00 .6o correct form. 7 What a Man of 45 Ought to Know Loo .6o " Speaker's Manual" is a handy little companion for 10 Two Republics, library 4.00 Loo study and reference. It contains the correct pro- 66 All Sorts .50 .35 nunciation of over 2,000 words commonly mispro- 70 Battle Hymn of the Kingdom .30 .2o nounced. Just the right size to fit the pocket. Bound 7 My Garden Neighbors Loo .6o in cloth, 25 cents; leather, 5o cents.

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S THE KINDERGARTEN DEPARTMENT of your Sabbath-school supplied with the material necessary to teach the little folks Scripture lessons in a manner to make the lesson interesting to them, so that the study period will be one of joy, which will be looked forward to eagerly from one Sabbath to the next, and at the same time help in making the Scripture lesson practical q If not, you should send at once for the full kindergarten outfit. This outfit consists of the lesson book, "Bible Object Lessons and Songs for Little Ones " on the life of Christ,

and a round table with little red chairs, as shown in the illustration above, and three boxes of material. Read the following description: The book contains illustrative material for mothers and teachers. It has fifty-two lessons, one for each Sabbath in the year. It contains thirty-nine songs and hymns, written especially for these lessons. It has thirty-six full-page pictures, size 6 x 9 inches. It has

fifty-two pen drawings, showing how to use the illustrative material. The book contains 160 large pages, beauti- amma fully printed. q Once bought, this is permanent, being designed for use year after year. Your school should

have one copy of this book for each teacher in the Kindergarten Department. Let the first lessons for every agm

child be on the life and words of Jesus. No child lessons can equal those by and about the Master. It pays g to make religious instruction delightsome instead of irksome. THE ROUND TABLE has a beautiful hard top, folding legs, and inside cabinet with lock for material. Seats seven children and the teacher. Advantages of these are : First, each child can reach center of table to help build the lessons. Second, teacher can reach every child. Third, table is heavy, so material is not easily shaken down. Fourth, can be folded and rolled away, so that any room may be used if none is permanently CV devoted to the kindergarten work. Fifth, table is varnished, easily cleaned, and lasts a lifetime. EIGHT LITTLE RED CHAIRS for the class and the teacher are a delight to the childi•en, and add to the convenience of the round table. The THREE BOXES OF MATERIAL make teaching easy. Boxes 1 and 2 contain hard maple blocks cut into cubes, halves, quarters, squares, and oblongs. Boxes are of cherry, goomagamm dove-tailed corners, sliding top, durable. Box 3 contains 10 miniature sheep, 30 mounted sticks to represent people (10 of them children), green French tissue-paper for Sea of Galilee, cones and domes, and green splints for rffl river outline and tree-building. If the three boxes are ordered with book, purchaser receives free a " Portfolio of Blackboard Sketches on the Life of Christ," to aid in drawing.

THE PRICES.— The book is issued in two styles of binding, The blocks, table, and chairs being practically indestructible, xi board cover, $1.50; blue cloth, $2.00. The little red chairs, 60 cents very little expense is necessary in the running of the Kindergarten each, freight or express extra. The table (weight 40 pounds), $5.50, Department after the first fitting up. The children take great de- freight or express extra. Three boxes of material, $2.00, mail 40 light in helping to build these lessons, and the impressions thus made cents extra. If the book and material are ordered with the table, remain with them as long as they live. This kindergarten outfit will they are put into the drawer, thus saving postage.. be a great blessing to your Sabbath-school. cffl ORDER FROM YOUR CONFERENCE TRACT SOCIETY EMERIERIZEIERARIRMENENMENEMEENEERIERIENEEENNEER, 208 GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

THE EVENING SERVICE " He [ Satan] is busily engaged in in- Let knowledge concerning the great May 28, 7:3o P. M. fluencing those who are wholly unsuited questions of life and the relations of to each other to unite their interests. the sexes be given by parents to their A STEREOPTICON lecture was given by He exults in this work, for by it he can children as soon as their questions in- Elder J. L. Shaw, of India. On the produce more misery and hopeless woe dicate that their minds are inquiring stand with him were several missionaries to the human family than by exercising about these matters, and let the confi- in native costume, showing the dress of his skill in any other direction." dence thus established between parent men and women of India and Burma. " If men and women are in the habit and child be continued all the way Brief explanations were made, giving of praying twice a day before they con- along, through conversation and read- the audience a vivid conception of the template marriage, they should pray four ing until the youth have passed the cri- mode and manner of dress in those lands. times a day when such a step is antici- sis of their lives and are happily mar- Pictures were then thrown on the pated. Marriage is something that will ried in the Lord to those who will be• a screen illustrating the interesting fea- influence and affect your life, both in real help to them in the cause of God. tures of those wonderful lands. Elder this world and the world to come." Let this education be continued by Shaw very feelingly set before his hear- Doubtless those who assigned this teachers, partially through confidential ers the sad, dark condition of India and topic designed to have something definite conversations, rarely by means of pub- Burma. This was forcibly illustrated presented in regard to the extent to lic addresses, by those competent to per- by a view that showed heathen India in which the evil of marrying unbelievers form the task chastely and wisely, but black, with a small square in light to rep- prevails among our young people, and chiefly by directing students to good resent the evangelized portion of that also to have some suggestions made as books, with which our school libraries great field. This in itself was a power- to how the evil may be restrained. In- should be universally supplied, frankly ful appeal for the prayers and conse- deed, the department made an effort to and openly, and not with an air of con- crated service of Christian people. secure reliable information upon the cealment or mystery. subject by sending blanks to the secre- Let the departments of Educational taries of the Missionary Volunteer • de- and Missionary Volunteers cooperate partments of all the conferences, re- A NOTE TO OUR READERS with these agencies by publishing leaf- questing them to obtain information lets upon these subjects, and by search- • THE Review and Herald Office reports bearing upon the question from six rep- ing out and recommending to the homes a large list of subscribers to the BULLE- resentative churches in their respective and to the schools suitable books for TIN. At times it is difficult to mail all conferences. This effort was only par- promoting the education of our youth the papers on the day of issue. Unfortu- tially successful. The secretaries found in these vital subjects. nately, it is impossible to mail papers out it difficult to obtain information, and the Finally, let all rise above the preju- of the Takoma Park post-office on Sun- time was too short for the work. Only dice that keeps the, natural educators of day, hence two or three days will some- eight conferences responded, with sta- our youth from giving them the instruc- times intervene between the receipt of one tistics from twenty-seven churches. In tion about themselves which they need paper and the next. The greatest pos- these churches there were in 1900, 216 and must have, and which, if they can- sible care has been exercised in the prep- young people; in 1907, 593• At present not obtain in correct form and from aration of the lists, and the mailing de- there are 632, a gain of 416. During the pure sources, they are bound to get in partment is well organized; and it is same period 226 have departed from the false and distorted form through evil hoped that but few errors will occur. faith; 5o of them, or over 22 per cent, associations. Those who do not receive their paper because of marrying unbelievers. Per- By these means, we may not be able every day regularly, will understand that haps these facts, gathered from a few to save all our, young people from un- delays are unavoidable, and will occur sources, may serve as a just indication wise and disastrous marriages • but I do occasionally, even when the Review Of- of the general condition. If so, it is know from experience that we shall be fice has done its part promptly, We certain that hundreds of our young peo- able to direct the feet of many into that trust, however, that all will receive the ple are lost to the cause, if not lost for pathway which leads to the highest and numbers in due time. eternity, from this reason alone, al- purest bliss this world affords -- a con- though I would have been prepared to genial and happy married life. learn that the proportion is much greater. • -qr. • MARRYING UNBELIEVERS What, then, can be done to save this large number who make shipwreck of A CORRECTION (Concluded from page 205) their faith upon the rock of unwise mar- IN number II of the BULLETIN, last considered by all who contemplate ta- riage? The answer may be summed up page, eighteen lines from bottom of last king the important step which will affect in one word — education. column, for " Elder Westphal " read not only this life but the next: — Let this education begin in the home. " Brother Trummer."

THE WASHINGTON SANITARIUM.