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The book is not IN the REVIEW AND HERALD Of Janu- of these remedies before complications filled with unpractical combinations, but ary 3o, in the report of the organi- set in. the different dishes suggested are tempt- zation of the Russian Union Conference, The chapter on " Emergency Treat- ing and appetizing, and are practical for it is stated that one way our American ments " is most practical. How many every-day use. brethren can encourage our brethren in times you have wished you knew just Bound in flexible cloth, 25 cents, post- Russia is to circulate Russian, Lettonian, what to do for a burn, a cut, or a bruise. paid; in stiff boards, oilcloth, 5o cents, Esthonian, and Polish literature among Here it is, right in this chapter — the post-paid. their neighbors. most simple and effective treatment. 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&whit to Um Prorlatuation of "tip Priest and the Sanctuary," in which the IN the face of the indifference and tuaz IfncP briturrrh sanctuary in type, in prophecy, and in criticism and opposition this advent movement goes steadily forward. There unto iip *Muth" antitype, and the ministry of our great is hardly a country of any importance High Priest in the final work of atone- ISSUED EACH THURSDAY BY THE on the face of the earth where this truth ment, will be considered. There seems has not gained a foothold, and it has Review & Herald Publishing Association to be a special demand for the pres- been planted in many obscure corners of the world. Additional workers are being Terms: in Advance entation of the truth upon these weighty sent forward to strengthen the hands of One Year $1.50 Pour Months 50 subjects just now, and for that reason Eight Months 1.00 Three Months 40 those already in the field or to push into 25 Six Months .75 Two Months this series of articles will precede the some unentered field. In several coun- No extra postage is charged to countries within the Universal Postal Union. others, even though they may call for tries where progress was impeded by op- an examination of a portion of the book pressive laws, freedom of the press and Address all communications and make all Drafts and Money-orders payable - o — of Daniel. The first of these articles of worship has been granted, and the REVIEW AND HERALD will appear about the first of May. work has taken a long step forward as Takoma Park Station Washington, D. C. the result. Any unprejudiced person who It is self-evident that all the present [Entered as second-class matter, August 54, 1903, is willing to look the facts squarely in at the post-office at Washington, D. C., under the act readers of the REVIEW and many others the face must be compelled to admit that of Congress of March 3, i879.] ought to have the benefit of these studies. this is more than a spasmodic flurry on An understanding of the teaching of the part of a few enthusiasts, and that Ditortat the Scriptures concerning the sanctuary the hand of God must be recognized in the evidences of growth and permanency and its services is fundamental to a clear which can not be ignored. But one who Announcement grasp of the third angel's message. A persists in standing in the smoke must FOR several years the editor of the failure to understand this great truth not expect to get a clear view of his REVIEW has been planning to prepare leads to uncertainty concerning this surroundings, and one who holds a cop- per coin close to his eye must not com- an exposition of the book of Daniel, but whole advent movement. It therefore plain if he does not see the veins of seems especially fitting that at this time for various reasons he has not been able rich gold which are visible to others. to carry out his purpose. He now wishes an earnest effort should be made to place If we choose to prevent ourselves from to announce that he proposes to under- the REVIEW within the reach of every seeing the plain evidences of God's work- take this work at an early date, and that Sabbath-keeping family in the United ing in the giving of the closing message of the gospel, we ought not to hold God the results of his study will appear in a States, and that the attention of our responsible for our own perversity. He series of articles in the REVIEW. These people in all parts of the English-speak- who has eyes and ears, let him see and articles will not encroach upon the space ing world should be directed to this an- hear of the doings of the Lord which are assigned to the 'usual editorial matter, nouncement. All who believe that we marvelous in our eyes. but will be printed in another depart- are now living in the time of the cleans- ment of the paper. ing of the sanctuary ought to be Simple and Wonderful The importance of the instruction con- grounded and settled in this doctrine, THE way of salvation is wonderfully tained in the book of Daniel in its re- and may properly be put in remembrance simple and simply wonderful. The lation to this advent movement is a suffi- of these things, even though they know whole gospel is summarized in these words : " For God so loved the world, cient reason for a re-examination and them, and are established in the present that he gave his only begotten Son, that truth. a restatement of the wonderful truths whosoever believeth on him should not therein set forth, and the additional light Let every one note this announcement perish, but have eternal life." A person which has been revealed in recent years and watch for the promised articles. of ordinary intellectual capacity, even a and the present fulfilment of prophecy Let those who appreciate the importance child, can lay hold upon the provision furnish new material for study and pres- of the matter to be presented make an set forth in this statement, but the great- est minds of the greatest men can be entation. The exposition will be on effort to bring this announcement to the put to the utmost stretch in order to attention of any who are not regular conservative lines, giving special promi- comprehend fully what is contained in nence to practical gospel teaching, one readers of the paper and to secure their this revelation of the love of God. We objective point being to make it clear subscription. This is an opportune time need not attempt by searching to find out that this advent movement has a sure for a special effort in behalf of the God. No effort of the human mind can discover him, but it will require all the foundation in the utterances of the REVIEW. We ask for the co-operation intellectual power which we can muster of all the friends of the paper. prophets. to receive the revelation already made. As preliminary to the general study Further reference to this matter will This revelation is simple in that it is of Daniel's prophecy there will be a be made from time to time in the col- stated in the plainest language for con- series of articles under the title " The umns of the REVIEW and in other ways. veyance to finite minds ; it is wonder- MARCH 5, 5908 4 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD ful, in that it deals with the basic for himself the place which belonged to, doms. The ruler of the darkness of this principles of the divine government, and could be filled only by, the Son ; world has taken himself beyond the and lays bare before us the depths of and it was this same unholy ambition borders of reconciliation; and for heaven divine wisdom. It makes known to for self-exaltation, which, transferred to yield to his disloyal demands in any us a God whom no scientific research to this earth, brought sin and death and particular would be to leaven the whole can discover, and discloses the way all the train of evils upon the human universe of God with the leaven of iniq- of fellowship between the infinite and family. The root out of which every uity, and make the throne of God the the finite. It points out to us the sin has grown, and the very essence abode of unrighteousness. Instead of bridge which has been swung across the of every sin, is the dethronement of the healing the breach which Satan's disaf- chasm created by sin, and shows us that Son of God and the putting of the fection caused, such an act would spell the ladder which connects earth and creature in the place of the Creator. the ruin of the universe. That would heaven touches both earth and heaven. Lucifer made no concealment of this not perpetuate harmony in heaven, nor To those oppressed by the burden of sin purpose : " I will exalt my throne above bring peace even to the disaffected ones. , it says, " Behold, the Lamb of God, that the stars of God; . . . I will make my- For this reason the campaign of the taketh away the sin of the world ! " self like the Most High." The " man gospel is a declaration of war against Simple and wonderful! It thus renews of sin," the personified " mystery of in- the originator of sin. The gospel will hope to the hopeless, faith to the faith- iquity," " exalteth himself against all not be triumphant in fact until the orig- less, and love to the loveless. We should that is called God or that is worshiped," inator of sin and the fruit of his wicked take great care lest we lose the simplic- and claims for himself the title, " the conspiracy are sepulchered together ity of the gospel in the very effort to vicegerent of the Son of God." where he planted the seed of his evil expound it. The old truths are both The same principle is wrought out in purpose. Toward that great event, simple and wonderful. the experience of every one who does which means so much to the child of not yield to the claims which Christ has God, we are speeding with swift foot- upon him, and become a Christian. He steps. The First Place is denying to Christ the place which In the controversy thus nearing its THE place which the Son of God occu- belongs to him. To accept Christ is to culmination we need not be surprised to pies in the administration of the divine give to him the place of power in our see every device of deception and fraud government is thus stated : " He is be- lives, to crown him as King, and to yield and compulsion at' work in the effort to fore all things, and in him all things obedience to his rule. The whole ques- destroy souls who might occupy in consist. And he is the head of the body, tion centers in the kingship of Christ, heaven the place left vacant by the the church : who is the beginning, the and that not merely in outward things expulsion of Satan and his followers. first-born from the dead; that in all like an earthly ruler, but his spiritual Is the power of God promised to hi, things he might have the pre-eminence." rule in the heart through the submission faithful children? Satan will simulate This is not by arbitrary appointment. of the whole being unto him. It is the that power, and clothe the children of but the outgrowth of the very nature and " gospel of the kingdom " which is to be his choice with his counterfeit. He will being of the Son, and of his relation- proclaimed in all the world for a wit- even go so far as to "lead astray, if ship to the eternal Father. As the Son ness. Now the King sits as a priest possible, even the elect," and seek to was one with the Father, as he was the on his throne, but soon he will reveal cause them to attribute to God the power only begotten, and as he was thus able himself as the King of those who reign which he himself has brought with him to enter into the counsels of his Father as kings and the Lord of those who up out of the pit. Has God sent down as no created being could possibly do, rule as lords. We must acknowledge fire as a witness to the truth? He will so he was necessarily the one through his kingship now, although he is de- bring down fire himself, and make it whom the Father made every revela- spised and rejected by many, if we de- bear witness to a lie, that souls may be tion of himself. Christ was the begin- sire him to acknowledge us as his deceived and flock to his banner. Has ning of his way, the mediator between subjects in "the crowning day." Listen God a last message for the world, to the Father and all created things and to the words of the King: " Whosoever ripen the wheat of the last harvest ? all created beings. " In the beginning shall be ashamed of me and of my words Satan will prepare one also, and see was the Word, and the Word was with in this adulterous and sinful generation, that it is given. Has God a seal, or God, and the Word was God. The same the Son of man also shall be ashamed of mark, with which to seal for eternity was in the beginning with God. All him, when he cometh in the glory of his those who will stand unflinchingly for things were made through him; and Father with the holy angels." Who can him in the last conflict? Satan will pre- without him was not anything made that refuse to give the first place to Jesus, pare one also, and he will not leave it hath been made." As it was in creation, the Son of man and the Son of God? to individual choice, either, as to whether so it was in revelation. " All things it shall he received. Does God give a have been delivered unto me of my warning for the last days against the Father," said Jesus, " and no one know- Contrasts and Counterfeits reception of the mark, or seal, of that eth the Son, save the Father; neither —No. kingdom of darkness, and attach thereto doth any know the Father, save the Son, THE controversy and the conflict be- the penalty of death for refusal to heed? and he to whomsoever the Son willeth tween the kingdoms of light and dark- Satan will issue a warning of his own to reveal him." ness are as real as any that have ever against allegiance to the kingdom of It was in harmony with the plan of taken place between earthly powers. light. Each kingdom, then, has a death the divine government, and in harmony The lines of attack and defense have penalty attached to its decrees of warn- with the very constitution of things, that been most carefully laid out by the two ing against allegiance to the other power. the eternal Son should be accorded this opposing forces. Their interests clash It is a trying place for the inhabitant of first place by all created intelligences, at every turn. 'It is light against dark- earth; but he must choose. If he who would thus show themselves to be ness, truth against falsehood, righteous- chooses wisely, it will be well with him, submissive to the will of God, loyal to ness against sin, life against death. even though he suffers death ; for the the government of heaven. It was the In this controversy compromise is im- power that utters the threat of death unholy ambition of Lucifer, a " cover- possible, and the controversy must end against the wise choosing is " not able ing cherub." to seek for and to demand in the cessation of one of these king- to kill the soul." MARCH 5, 1908 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 5

We see at the present time the con- mightiest evils now extant in the relig- much-advertized hierarchy, the exercise flict rapidly approaching that culmination. ious world. These and other methods of spiritual tyranny, the reckless ex- Because ,the end is near and certain, the of Satan's opposition and what has penditure of money so constantly insinu- utter destruction of those who follow grown out of them will be considered in ated in some quarters, and the predicted the great deceiver is also certain. The succeeding articles. C. M. S. disintegration which are the favorite very certainty of that destruction in- themes of the very, very few, do not appear to be even thought of in these spires with malignant zeal the great ad- An Outside View versary of souls. He sees the near ap- assemblies. The one desire is to learn proach of the great day of final decisions, WHILE some former members of this more concerning this great message both when the dominion he won by fraud will denomination, and a few who do not as a doctrine and as an experience, and be taken from him, and given to those themselves seem to know where they to unite all our forces in the one work who have been liberated from his rule. stand, are seeking to create the impres- of proclaiming " the everlasting gospel " He sees the terrible proximity of the sion that Seventh-day Adventists are to all the world in this generation. Our day when all who have yielded to his now disunited, and that it is only a ques- recent troubles are almost forgotten, sophistries will go down in everlasting tion of time when this whole movement swallowed up in the absorbing zeal for death in the very presence of the heav- will go to pieces, it is interesting to note the advancement of the truth. enly hosts and the tried and triumphant how the situation is viewed by one who There are doubtless individual excep- saints. He sees the earth that is now has never been connected with this body, tions to this general statement. There strewn with thorns, thistles, sorrow, and and who looks at things from an un- may be a president of a conference who sin because of him, created anew and prejudiced standpoint. We therefore is betraying his trust, and is therefore blossoming again like the Eden Adam quote the following paragraph from an widely advertized anonymously as a knew. He sees the great wound which article in The Sabbath Recorder (Sev- leading member of the denomination, or he, made in the universe of God closed enth-day Baptist), written by a corre- a man of great influence, etc., etc., but and healed forever, while he who caused spondent who had been severely criticized this whole effort to discredit the denomi- the wound is forgotten with the fruit of in that paper for stating, in substance, nation and its leaders is a case of much his terrible work. Heaven and earth that the Seventh-day Adventists were, smoke and little fire. kiss each other in eternal reconciliation, really doing more for Sabbath re- We know full well that an increase in and Satan is no more. form than the Seventh-day Baptists, and membership and institutions and money Knowing the character of Satan, we that it was out of place for a Seventh- and missionaries is not a demonstration do not wonder that the contemplation of day Baptist writer (referring to Dr. of the truthfulness of a doctrine or the the result of the conflict fills him with A. H. Lewis' article from which quota- justification of any certain administra- bitter hatred, and with a determination tions were made in a recent REvIEw) tion, but these things ought to be in to carry with him into eternal oblivion to talk about the dissension and the dis- evidence if the work is of God. Perhaps every son and daughter of Adam whom integration among this people. In reply we feel more keenly even than the very, he can bring under his malignant in- this correspondent said, in part: — very few over the fact that this mes- fluence. So he proceeds with parallels, However, I am only one of a great sage does not advance even more contradictions, contrasts, and counter- many who are standing off and looking rapidly, and perhaps we labor just as on, and we see the Seventh-day Advent- earnestly for the hastening of this work, feits to confuse and to deceive. No ists going forward with zeal with the but we certainly do not derive any in- branch of God's work, no institution he message they claim they have to give to has planted, will escape attack. He has the world, with special emphasis on the spiration in that direction from those had no mission in the earth but to op- Sabbath truth; we see them with more prophets of evil who are constantly look- pose God and bring his plans to naught. members, with more schools, more sani- ing for evidences of the fulfilment of tariums, more missionaries, and more their distorted visions. The history of every iniquitous a,Ct com- money than they ever had before in mitted in the earth runs back to the their history, and in perfect harmony, Let the facts be known exactly as they first thought of sin planted here by the with the exception of a very, very few are, and we have no fear of the result. author of sin. dissenters at Battle.Creek. Let the people insist upon knowing the Let us look at some of these devices This correspondent, of the Recorder exact facts, instead of believing insinu- that have been used and are being used has stated the simple facts in few words. ations and inuendoes, and they will find of Satan to oppose the work of God in There is no disunion among the Seventh- their, confidence in this advent movement the earth. day Adventists. There are a very few steadily increasing. When Adam and Eve were estab- who have departed from the truth, and lished in their Eden home, there was have therefore been disfellowshiped; and love, communion, trust, and confidence there are some others who are uncertain The Korean Outlook between man and his Maker. All that of their own position, but' are really tend- LAST week the Mission Board regret- infinite love could do for their happiness ing in the same direction. On the other fully cabled to Japan, advising the return was done. The warning, by heeding hand, our reliable statistics prove that of Elder J. E. Shultz and wife to this which they would demonstrate their there has been a steady and rapid ad- country, to regain their health. To none loyalty, had been given. The conse- vancement in all features of our work will this step bring deeper regret than to quence of disobedience was made known. during the very time while these diffi- these workers themselves, who have held " In the day that thou eatest thereof culties were being met, and visits to on long in the endeavor to take up the thou shalt surely die." But Satan was nearly all parts of the world-wide field work in Korea to which they were as- ksti hand with a contradiction and a of our operations make it clear to us signed. However, medical advice was contrast — a contradictipn of God's dec- that the disunion and disintegration are very decided that to persist in the plan laration, and a contrast of what they found only in the minds of " a very, of going forward in pioneer mission now were with what they might be if very few dissenters." Our local and work would result in complete disable- they would only disobey God's injunc- union conferences at home and abroad ment. tion. " Ye shall not surely die," he said; are occupied in hearing the reports of Soon after landing in Japan last au- and " ye shall be as gods, knowing good progress, and in the consideration of tumn, an assault upon Brother and Sister and evil." Out of that contradiction aggressive plans for hastening the work Shultz was made by an American youth, and contrast have grown two of the in all fields. The domination of the an acquaintance, evidently of unbalanced 6 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD MARCH 5, 1908

mind. All familiar with the circum- ing Calm." I feel that there is great bition movement, which is rapidly stances felt that it was only by the dis- need of strenuous effort in this field spreading over the United States, is seri- while the Koreans are stretching forth ous enough to wipe out the entire in- tinct mercies of the Lord that they were their hands unto God. Truly their dire dustry unless energetic measures are not fatally injured. Under the best of need pleads as eloquently as did the taken to stem the tide, which has been surgical care and nursing at our Kobe Macedonians of old. largely created by the Anti-Saloon Sanitarium, they have endeavored to get I am told by those who were working League through a manufactured and ready to go on to Korea, to which field in Japan twenty years ago, that the same false sentiment, organization is neces- interest was shown in Christianity here sary. Brother Shultz had paid but a brief at that time, but now Japan has grown The remainder of the document deals visit, but it has been found necessary to be a mighty factor in the world, and with the details of the organization. It to advise them to return to this country, she says, as did ancient Babylon, " I sit should be a matter of great encourage- to more favorable conditions for ma- a queen, and am no widow ; " therefore her people feel that they have need of ment to temperance workers everywhere king a recovery. naught, save of education. that the success of their efforts has been The Mission Board has extended an The Presbyterian Mission Board has sufficiently great not only to attract the invitation to an experienced worker in voted vast sums for the advancement attention of such organizations, but actu- the West, who it is hoped will respond of the work in Korea. They recognize ally to cause them to tremble for the and go forward soon to join the workers that now is the opportune moment to work for her benighted millions. The future of their business. It will be noted in Korea. Elder W. R. Smith and wife, Koreans have lost nearly everything that this organization does not fear high with Sister Scharffenberg, a Bible earthly, and are more inclined to listen license as a curtailer of the drunkard- worker, as their only associate, have concerning things not transitory. making enterprise. It is the prohibition long been left alone in a field where the Well, I decided that I would not movement, and that alone, that " is conditions demand a larger staff of trouble you with our dire needs when I began this letter, but the burden of the serious enough to wipe out the entire in- helpers. With many coming quiclily into situation rests heavily upon me. When dustry." The liquor interests have tried the Sabbath truth with but an imperfect I see the difficulties with which the to ridicule prohibition out of court. They idea of general Bible teaching, the need workers in Japan labor in bringing peo- have carried on a campaign of misrep- is indeed most urgent. ple to the truth, and the eagerness with .which the Koreans embrace it, it appeals resentation against it until they have We know that prayers will ascend for to me that there are times when the arm caused even clergymen to join them in Korea and for the workers there, and of the Omnipotent is extended to assist opposing it and advocating high license. for Brother and Sister Shultz, who are those who feel their need, just as in the But the business is being smitten in forced like wounded soldiers to return days of Israel's calamities. a vital part, and smitten hard, and for a time at least. In a letter written I praise God that I have a part in giving this message to those who are smitten by prohibition — and admits it. January io, when he was still hopeful eager for it, who are praying for it. And now let the good work go on. When of going forward to Korea, Brother Years ago it was a custom in Korea to the enemy cries out on the battle-field Shultz wrote as follows, and his letter kindle signal fires from the northern against the use of a certain weapon, it constitutes an earnest and stirring ap- border of the land to the southern ex- tremity, as an evidence to the emperor is certain evidence to the attacking party peal for Korea's need : — that his kingdom was at peace with that the weapon is accomplishing re- Mrs. Shultz is very nervous, and will neighboring lands. Those lights have sults. Prohibition prohibits, or it would be for some time to come; but after our now gone out, but the Lord has not left not. hurt the liquor interests. narrow escape, we can feel that had it the land in utter darkness, for the light not been for a loving Heavenly Father, of righteousness has been kindled at the we would not be here to-day. extreme northern city of Weju, and all Doing Penance I am now taking two lessons in through the land down to distant Fusan ON Sunday, February 23, while a Korean daily, and am making some prog- in the south are little lights springing up, Catholic priest of Denver, Colo., by the ress. My teacher is one of the workers telling the people that there are those name of Leo Heinrichs, was officiating whom we brought from Korea. We even in a land of tumult and sedition have had an opportunity to study our who are at peace with the King of the at the altar of his church, he was killed points of truth together, as he speaks universe. May we not pray that God's by an anarchist, Guiseppi Alio. The some English, and it has been a great providences may be discerned in " Cho- funeral of the murdered priest was held help to him, for you will remember that sen's Land "? • w. A. S. the following Wednesday. While pre- little work has been done for them, and they do not know this message as well paring the body for burial, a discovery as some who have been reared in it. As Nutt unit Tortuitrut was made that reads like a leaf from soon as he obtains all the texts on a the history of the Dark Ages. We give given subject, he immediately sends the account of the discovery as pub- them to the other workers in Korea. A Convincing Admission lished in the Washington Times of Feb- One splendid quality about the Koreans THE United States Brewers' Associa- is that as soon as they hear the message, tion issued, on January 27, an official ruary 26: — " they find their brother," who has per- Priests and laymen alike are astounded statement to the members of the organi- haps prayed under the fig-tree for many by a discovery made in preparing the days for the very truth we have to give. zation, which is the strongest and most priest's body for burial. Next to the Word has just reached us that two striking statement we have ever seen skin Father Leo had wrapped about his young men who were educated in the relative to the success of the prohibition waist and upper arms heavy bands of normal school at Pyong Yang, who were movement. This statement is signed by linked steel chains, and to each link was members of the Pyong Yang church, a hook, sharpened to a needle's point, having been sent far into the interior the organization, and should forever lay attached in such fashion that each move- to teach government schools, have been at rest the threadbare fabrication that ment of the priest caused the hooks to sowing seeds of truth. One writes that more liquor is sold in prohibition territory pierce his flesh and to remind him of a well-educated Chinaman, who teaches than in high license territory, and that the life and death of Him whose steps in the same school with him, has begun " prohibition does not prohibit." The he struggled to follow. the observance of the Sabbath, and asks Father Leo never spoke to his fellow that a minister be sent to further in- statement referred to occurs in a docu- clergy of his mode of penance, and no struct him. The other writes that he ment prepared and circulated by the one in the monastery surmised it. His has been teaching a school composed of organization for the purpose of causing body and upper arms were entirely cal- sixty young men whom he has interested the members to see the necessity of or- loused, showing that when the pain be- in the truth, some of whom are now came deadened because of the toughened ganization of some kind to oppose the observing the Sabbath. skin, he had taken the network of claws Thus may be seen the opening provi- prohibition movement. It reads: — and adjusted them so that the pain dences of God in the land of the " Morn- GENTLEMEN : Realizing that the prohi- might 'come again with renewed force.

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We have no desire to speak dispara- gingly of the dead, no sympathy with the Our nn r i anb Nifty' Mfousattb Boffin- unit cruel assassin who chose to dispense death while pretending to desire partici- pation in the ceremony the priest was For Special Work at Home and Abroad performing; but the discovery illustrates how completely the gospel is perverted Received on the $150,000 Fund *Utah 434.58 in the teaching of the organization to which the murdered priest belonged. up to Feb. 25, 1908 Total 13,999.03 Doing penance for sin has always been *Atlantic Union Conference *Southern Union Conference Conference not specified a characteristic of pagan religions. The *Central New England $ 2,772.18 70,82 Greater New York 1,496.31 *South Carolina 266.09 East Indian, enduring the agony of Maine 836.51 Alabama 613.14 standing between burning fires, sleeping *New York 2,326.50 *Tennessee River 1,405.01 on a bed of spikes, holding the arm *Southern New England 1,210.50 *Florida 951.48 above the head until it withered and *Vermont 1,331.74 *North Carolina 1,028.70 *Western New York 2,064.09 *Cumberland 1,347.32 grew rigid, was practising the same kind *Louisiana 572.54 of religion as that which put the belt Total 12,037.83 Mississippi 413.08 of torture around the waist and arms Canadian Union Conference *Georgia 457_•97 of this priest. These all originated in Maritime 317.43 Total 7,126.15 the same idea as that which inspired the Quebec 155.84 use of the instrument of self-torture dis- Ontario 803.58 Southwestern Union Conference Not specified 22.82 covered on Leo Heinrichs. If salvation Newfoundland 16.80 Arkansas 894.63 be by such means, the Hindu has no Total 1,293.65 Oklahoma 3,924.79 need of the gospel, and Jesus Christ Texas 2,285.24 Central Union Conference died to no purpose. He who could in- Colorado 3,629.92 Total 7,127.48 vent the keenest torture, and stand it, Kansas 3,492.85 Western Canadian Union Conference would be entitled to the highest place in 1,965.12 Missouri *Alberta 1,203.80 the kingdom. Jesus did not die to open *Nebraska 5,817.68 Manitoba *Wyoming 8o8.00 336.55 a way whereby men could torture them- Saskatchewan Mission Field.. 59.6o selves into glory. He said, " Come unto Total 15,713.57 me, all ye that labor and are heavy Total 1,599-95 *Columbia Union Conference laden, and I will give you rest. Take Unknown Chesapeake 614.28 Unknown 161.70 my yoke upon you, and learn of me; *Eastern Pennsylvania 2,548.91 Foreign for I am meek and lowly in heart : and *New Jersey 1,246.95 *Algeria 13.33 ye shall find rest unto your souls. For *Ohio 6,300.43 Australia 173.84 my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." *Virginia 1,034.77 Bermuda 36.00 1,905.67 China Matt. 11:28-30. Again: " Look unto West Pennsylvania 165.60 *West Virginia 558.86 South Africa 439.02 me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the Jamaica 13.41 earth." Isa. 45: 22. How different is Total 13,669.87 Yukon Territory 20.00 this from the doctrine of self-flagella- *District of Columbia England 274.84 *West Africa tion to win favor with God. In tortur- *Washington churches 50.00 1,384.54 Mexico ing the body for the sin of the soul, 65.97 Lake Union Conference Costa Rica 6.25 man makes himself judge of the enor- East Michigan 3,151.06 India 187.50 mity of his sin. In other words, he puts *Indiana 5,243.02 South America 76.43 himself in the place of God to mete North Michigan 1,705.22 Switzerland 9.69 out judgment for his own transgression *Northern Illinois 2,912.36 Panama 27.11 Southern Illinois 1,40446 Nicaragua 9.00 of God's law. Putting itself in the place *West Michigan 8,730.70 Central American Mission 26.00 of God - that is what the papacy was to Wisconsin 4,383.55 Trinidad 28.69 do as an organization (2 Thess. 2: 3, 4), Norway 25.0o and wherever it teaches penance to Total 27,530.37 Japan 12.50 purge away sin, it is teaching men to North Pacific Union Conference Hayti 5.00 216.00 *Egypt 51.55 do as individuals what it is doing as an British Columbia Palestine 611.39 2.00 organization. Would that the murdered Montana Tobago, W. I 1.22 *Upper Columbia .43 priest had learned what Martin Luther 3,036 Cuba 8.0o Western Washington 2,679.93 Hungary learned, that " without faith it is im- 1,019.40 3.00 Idaho Tahiti 14.88 possible to please" God, and having Western Oregon 2,899.49 France 6.80 learned that, had stripped off his torture Hawaii 16.05 20.00 Philippine Islands t.00 girdles, and trusted for the salvation of Alaska Samoa 8.00 Barbados 5.00 his soul in the efficacy of the life and Total 10,498.69 blood of Jesus. Nowhere in the Bible Portugal Loo Northern Union Conference Straits Settlements 10.08 are we commanded to torture our bodies Iowa 7,241.36 Pitcairn Island 20.00 to win the eternal reward, but the Bible *Minnesota 5,686.28 New Zealand 1.52 rings from cover to cover with the *South Dakota 2,664.47 Fiji 4.87 blessed invitation, Come. The words of *North Dakota 2,129.93 St. Kitts 7.51 the Lord through Micah are applicable Conference not specified 73.82 Total 1,811.61 here: " He hath showed thee, 0 man, Total 17,795.86 Grand Total $131,750.30 what is good; and what doth Jehovah Pacific Union Conference I. H. EVANS, Treasurer. require of thee, but to do justly, and to Southern California 2,848.63 * A star preceding the name of a confer- love kindness, and to walk humbly with *Arizona 466.79 ence, indicates that that conference has paid thy God? " *California-Nevada 10,249.03 its membership share of the fund. 8 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD MARCH 5, 1908

they reap, nor gather into barns; yet the price for the souls of men, and antrral ArtirIra your Heavenly Father feedeth them. bring to them eternal life. Shall those Are ye not much better than they ? who profess the name of Christ see no " Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things " Which of you by taking thought can attraction in the world's Redeemer, be are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever add one cubit unto his stature? And indifferent to the possession of truth things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, what- soever things are of good report; if there be any why take ye thought for raiment? Con- and righteousness, and turn from the virtue, and if there be any pretise, think on these things." Phil. 4: 8. sider the lilies of the field, how they heavenly treasure to the earthly? grow; they toil not, neither do they " And this is the condemnation, that spin: and yet I say unto you, That even light is come into the world, and men The Last Call for Reapers Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed loved darkness rather than light, because MRS. EDITH B. GOODRICH like one of these. Wherefore, if God their deeds were evil. But every one THE last call for reapers is sounding so clothe the grass of the field, which that doeth evil hateth the light, neither to-day. cometh to the light, lest his deeds should Rise up! Like Elisha, leave plow, and to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into away ! the oven, shall he not much more clothe be reproved. But he that doeth truth Let those who are world-bound still stay you, 0 ye of little faith? Therefore cometh to the light, that his deeds may by their stuff; take no thought, saying, What shall we be made manifest, that they are wrought The Master hath called thee, and that is eat? or, What shall we drink? or, in God." enough. Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (for This gospel message is one of the most after all these things do the Gentiles precious passages in the New Testament. Let nothing now hinder. Shake off seek) for your Heavenly Father know- When it is accepted, it yields in the every coil. eth that ye have need of all these things." lives of the receiver good deeds whose Stand free, and go forth in the harvest The Lord looks with pity on those who value is far above that of diamonds and to toil. allow themselves to be burdened with gold. It has power to bring gladness See ! see ! the great fields are all waving and consolation into the earthly life, and white; household cares and business perplex- Go work while 'tis day, swiftly cometh ities. They are cumbered with much and to bestow eternal life upon the be- the night. serving, and neglect the one thing es- liever. 0 that we might have our under- sential. " Seek ye first the kingdom of standing so enlightened by grace that All chains that have held thee must now God, and his righteousness," the Saviour we could take in its full meaning! The be cast off ; says, " and all these things shall be Father is saying to us, I will bestow Let no one delay thee by frown or by added unto you." That is, Look away upon you a treasure more precious than scoff. from this world to the eternal. Put any earthly possession, a treasure that Nor mother, nor father, nor loved one forth your most earnest endeavors to will make you rich and blessed forever. should stay obtain those things upon which God In this life our possessions are limited, That one who is called. Harvest hands — ho! away! places value, and which Christ gave his but the great treasure that God offers in precious life that you might secure. His his gift to the world, is unlimited. It He calleth ! He calleth ! On far foreign sacrifice has thrown open wide to you comprehends every human desire, and shores the gates of heavenly commerce. Lay goes far beyond our human calculations. The heathen are waiting with wide-open up your treasure beside the throne of In the great day of final decision, when doors. God, by doing with his entrusted capital every man shall be judged according to Why stand ye here idle? Why longer the work that he desires done in the his deeds, every voice of self-justifica- delay ? winning of souls to a knowledge of the tion will be hushed; for it will be seen Rise up, 0 ye reapers, and hasten away. truth. This will secure you eternal that in his gift to the human race the Cottage Grove, Ore. riches. Father gave all he had to give, and that The possession of the. Word of God they are without excuse who have re- places great responsibilities upon us; for fused to accept the gracious offering. Eternal Riches it makes us accountable for the means We have no enemy without that we MRS. E. G. WHITE that he entrusts to us. It is a great need to fear. Our great conflict is with CHRIST'S teachings are of ,a character privilege to have money to invest in the unconsecrated self. When we conquer to impress the mind with the superiority cause of God; and that man is blessed self, we are more than conquerors of eternal things, and to impregnate the who desires to place it where instead of through him who has loved us. My present life with the interests of eternity. ministering to selfish desires, it will help brethren, there is eternal life for us to " Lay not up for yourselves treasures to work out the purposes of God. The win. Let us fight the good fight of faith. upon earth," the Saviour declared, offerings made to help carry out the Not in the future, but now, is our pro- " where moth and rust doth corrupt, and plan of salvation, bring joy to the giver bation. While it lingers, " seek ye first where •thieves break through and steal: and glory to the One for whose sake the kingdom of God, and his righteous- but lay up for yourselves treasures in they are made. ness; and all these things,"— the things heaven, where neither moth nor rust " God so loved the world, that he gave which now so often serve Satan's pur- doth corrupt, and where thieves do his only begotten Son, that whosoever pose as snares to deceive and destroy,— not break through nor steal: for where believeth in him should not perish, but " shall be added unto you." God's your treasure is, there will your heart have everlasting life." God gave Christ chosen ones must be gold, not wood, hay, be also." to the world. The Son of God laid aside and stubble. " Blessed are they which " No man can serve two masters." his royal robe and kingly crown, and do hunger and thirst after righteousness: As Christ visited the places where leaving his high command in heaven, for they shall be filled." worldly gain was occupying men's came to earth as a man. Through the thoughts and energies, and marked the years of childhood and youth and man- worshipers at the shrine of Mammon, hood he was subject to poverty and to "The Meeting Is Yours" he said, " How hardly' shall they that all the temptations that beset the hu- MAX HILL have riches enter into the kingdom of man race. THE place was at church, the hour God! " With the confidence of one who When we think of the great gift of was twelve-thirty, the occasion was a knew, he said, " Ye can not serve God heaven for the redemption of a sinful social meeting. The leader had read and Mammon. Therefore I say unto world, and then consider the offerings a lengthy portion of the Testimonies, you, Take no thought for your life, what that we can make, we shrink from draw- with comments. The noon whistles had ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor ing a comparison. The demands that blown,— on time, as a dozen watches yet for your body, what ye shall put on. might be made upon a whole universe testified,— but the leader, like the brook, Is not the life more than meat, and the could not compare with that one gift. seemed inclined to " go on forever." I body than raiment? Behold the fowls Immeasurable love was expressed when supposed it was just a talk he was giv- of the air: for they sow not, neither do one equal with the Father came to pay ing. Imagine my surprise then, at MARCH 5, 1908 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 9

twelve-thirty to hear him say, " Now, " Whatsoever things were written afore- the noblest purpose before us that can brethren, the meeting is yours; who will time were written for our learning." appeal to any one, we have the privilege be the first?" Then study it all and study deeply, and of developing the strongest, noblest, and A few desultory testimonies were focus the light of God's complete reve- best young people that this generation given, one or two stanzas of a hymn lation upon the mighty questions of the has seen. May it be so f were sung in a half-hearted way; the present; for new controversies are Let us, then, appreciate, more than we meeting dragged. How sorry I was for springing up, and old ones are arising. have, the Book of God as an educational the tired little folk,— the few who had We need to develop in our schools book. As well exclude the glorious sun- not escaped to the fresh air without the stalwart defenders of the Bible against light from our schoolrooms, and try to church! How I pitied the few young the infidelity within and without the pro- light them with tallow candles, as to people who were striving to be content fessed church. Our students must be exclude from education the Bible. Let with the service ! How sorry I was for thoroughly established in the unadulter- us receive in its fulness that light from the dear brother who led the meeting! ated truth from the living fountain of heaven which alone interprets, completes, And then —I just could not help it — truth, that they may be able to meet the and systematizes all our earthly knowl- I thought of a prayer-meeting I had at- subtle philosophies of so-called Protes- edge into one organic whole, alone re- tended that very week in another place. tant Christian lands, as well as of Mo- vealing of all books the true nature of A dear old brother led the prayer- hammedan and heathen lands. We are God and man, and their relation to each meeting. There was a good, stirring developing our young people for the other. song, a Scripture reading, a little talk,— broadest and most far-reaching service College View, Neb. not a sermon,— and the meeting was in this world, and they should have a ours. The first up proved to be three broad and deep knowledge of the Great or four, so of course no one of them Book. We should have young men The Science of True Government took more than his share of the time. studying this Book in the languages in J. 0. CORLISS Nearly all took part, and were prompt which it was written, to take part in the IN its original form, and in its true in song and prayer and praise. The translation of the Bible into other sense, government is the divine system secret was twofold; the leader was alive tongues, and there should be among us of organization. Just as the feet move, spiritually, and every one there knew more men who are authorities on the and the hands perform, 'by the hidden that the meeting would close as soon as original languages, for every position of impulse of the brain, and without the there was the least sign of dragging; our faith will be questioned, and every use of physical force, so divine govern- "for Brother Glenn never holds late," means will be taken to discredit the ment controls men through an unseen they said. Every one was refreshed and truth. connection which influences their high- helped. And let us not cheapen the Bible and est obedience to heavenly requirements. Mountain View, Cal. cause our students to lose respect for it If, perchance, disease enters a human by cheap Bible teaching. Let the Bible organism, and paralyzes a hand or a classes be the strongest in the school. foot, so that it does not respond to brain The Bible in Education—No. 5 Teach the student that he must " sink suggestion, a disturbed organization ob- Bible Study in School the shaft deep into the mine of truth, tains, yet all other parts of the system M. E. KERN that he may obtain the celestial gold,— perform their functions as before, with- IN closing this series of articles, I that wisdom which will make him wise out the co-operation of the diseased wish to say a few words about the study unto salvation."—"Christian Education," member. of the Bible, as such, in our schools. page rot. When the disease of sin paralyzed To know •a few texts, and be able to As some one has said, the mental vice parts of heaven's organized body, so that put them together, to teach a line of of these newspaper days is superficiality. these no longer felt the touch 6f divine thought which some one else has de- But let us not in this study which is to impulse, their condition did not prevent veloped, is not the highest result of Bible be the basis of all study,— in this study others from responding fully to the study. We can not teach the doctrines of God's thoughts,— encourage this evil. promptings of superhuman instinct. But of the Bible by rote. I heard a rather Let us not hastily clutch after many the result was two distinct forms of ludicrous illustration of this idea of things, which perhaps are pleasanter, but government, one regulated through the teaching subjects without the student's let us teach our students to plod, to be secret springs of heavenly influence, the getting a real, first-hand research knowl- accurate and thorough, persistent and other controlled by outward restraint edge of them. A zealous teacher had logical. from earthly sources. The two systems taught some intermediate students the The child who in school really con- thus formed have no common origin. prophecies of Daniel. He had taught quers one thing, will as a man conquer The first is of God, and therefore heav- them how to prove that the date 457 B. c. many things. Those portions of the enly; the second is of man, and con- was the proper date for the beginning Bible that have been our chiefest study, sequently earthly. The first provides a of the twenty-three hundred days, teach- we have been admonished to search still. plan by which individual members of ing them to repeat what is said in com- The effect of this thorough study of the the lower system may be adopted into mentaries,— that the date is established Bible upon the mind of the student will the family of the higher, without any by the Canon of Ptolemy, which is sub- be wonderful, for we have been told that interposition whatever of any earthly stantiated by more than twenty eclipses. " as a means of intellectual training, the government. Imagine his chagrin when on his last Bible is more effective than any other In fact, earthly governments, having day of school, while having a kind of book, or than all other books combined." obtained their brief and problematical exhibition of the school's work, he — Id., page 126. As to the effect on authority because man seceded from asked a boy to give the proof that the character, we are told that " if God's God's government in Eden, can by right date 457 B. c. is the correct date, and Word were studied as it should be, men have nothing whatever to do with mat- the boy replied, " Ptolemy shot off his would have a breadth of mind, a nobil- ters relating to heaven's rule over men. cannon, and caused more than twenty ity of character, and a stability of pur- To undertake anything of the kind would eclipses." It is more often true than pose that is rarely seen in these times." be to move in the dark, not being ac- we realize, that we do not know what — Id., page 58. Wonderful results fol- quainted with the inner workings of the we are talking about, those who have low a right study of the Word of God. higher guidance. Besides, an earthly had a training in the schools not 0, we want these results! — breadth of government is not in position to say excluded. mind, nobility of character, stability of to an erring one, Come, confess your We have a special message which is purpose; and such breadth of mind, no- crime, and I will elevate you to a place present truth, but it includes and is built bility of character, and stability of pur- in the family of heaven. upon every experience of God's people pose, as is rarely seen. Nay, more. It can not restore a • through preceding ages, and upon every With the grand principles of healthful transgressor to dignity among his fellow revelation which has been given. living and Christian education, and with men, for the reason that the laws of a 10 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD MARCH 5, 1908

nation, in order to maintain the integ- fess your sins, and I will be faithful and get the major part of the business, while rity of that nation, must be held inexor- just to forgive your sins, and to cleanse they themselves are obliged, for the sake able. Therefore no law can permit you from all unrighteousness. Civil of their religious convictions, to rest one pardon to be proclaimed for the trans- government can not act thus, lest it des- day in every seven. gression of its requirements, without troy its own authority. It must deal This, then, is the secret : because some annulling itself. It may provide in cer- justly against crime, without any mix- think they ought to recognize a weekly tain cases for compensation, where in- ture of mercy, because its organization rest in honor of their chosen religion, jury has been inflicted, but to provide was not formed to deal in mercy, but in they feel determined to make others do absolute pardon for the transgression of stern jutsice. Knowing nothing of the the same, that they themselves may not its own precepts, is not in the nature heavenly element, it is therefore dis- be handicapped in the race for this of law. The reason for this is that qualified to deal with matters pertaining world's goods, while professing to give national law is higher than a single in- to heavenly rule. up all for Christ. Is it possible that men dividual, and is therefore necessary to To be explicit, civil government, be- can so deceive themselves as to believe the nation's existence. But penalties ing only the expressed will of human that the kingdom of God is within them, are necessary to the existence of law, minds, can not possibly measure and while acting from such selfish motives? therefore no penalty of the law can be define the personal requirements of di- The exhortation of the apostle is to the permitted to lapse without endangering vine rule, which is the expression of point in this connection " Examine the safety and happiness of the nation. heaven's King. The reason for this is yourselves, whether ye be in the faith ; There are only two conditions under that God is a Spirit. His kingdom is prove your own selves. Know ye not which pardon may be safely granted to within men, and so deals with the inner, your own selves, how that Jesus Christ a transgressor. These are, first, the res- or spiritual, man through the operation is in you, except ye be reprobates?" toration of the transgressor and of those of his Spirit. But the natural, or un- Mountain View, Cal. affected by his influence; or, second, spiritual, man can not receive the teach- with the restoration of the transgressor, ings of the Spirit of God, because they a compensation which will counterwork, are folly to him. More than this; he The Ax Laid at the Root of the and eventually remove, the derangement can not even understand them, because Trees—No. I of the system. But this last can not be " they are spiritually discerned," or com- R. C. PORTER accomplished by the distracted subject, prehended. 1 Cor. 2: 14. THERE come times in the affairs of because it is not within his province, This being true, how can legislators life when it is necessary to get at the so must proceed from a source outside of in a civil government enact laws touch- root of matters. That means to get at and above the disturbed element. A ing religious duties? Being men of the the bottom facts in the case. In the good act of the present can not possi- world, what can they know of spiritual days of John the Baptist there was a bly compensate for a bad one of the past. things in behalf of others? In other new order of things to be established. The performance of present duty can words, being servants of the civil gov- Pharisaical priests and scribes were no not purchase pardon for the past, nor ernment, why should they make laws longer to devour widows' houses and indulgence for the future, because one's by which to judge the servants of God's pass it off by the pretense of long knowledge of good made its performance spiritual government? Or to sum up, prayers. One was about to come who an ever-present duty of the past. why should civil legislators undertake would not judge after the sight of his So then, earthly government being to regulate the laws of heaven? Do eyes, but righteous judgment was to be but the administration of human power, they think that the King of heaven has rendered. and the deranged human subject having become impotent, and incapable of ad- John the Baptist knew that a change no power to recover and restore him- ministering his own government, and was to take place. The mask of pre- self, it follows that earthly government therefore needs a civil guardian? tense was no longer to shield hypocrisy. can not provide, without compensation If not, then why make laws to punish One was coming as a teacher whose own of some sort, the power to restore the for the non-observance of a weekly rest life was in harmony with his teaching. transgressor of its laws to a place among day, since God does not visit offenders Although they should surely say to him, its loyal subjects. It therefore knows with instant wrath? There can be no " Physician, heal thyself," this would not no method of government but that of civil obligation requiring one day's rest shield them in their efforts to prevent force. No mercy is revealed in the law in seven, or even one day's rest in a the plain, straitforward presentation of of its administration. If a culpable year. Independence day stands for more gospel truth. " The common people member of any community is restored in an American patriot's breast than any heard him gladly: " and those that to his former place, it must be by inter- other holiday in the year. Yet, revered heard him declared, " Never man spake cession of others, and not because the as it is as the memorial of national free- like this man." law provides for such a pardon. dom, no law obliging men absolutely to John knew that he was the forerunner Moral law is just as inexorable as cease labor on that day, would be of the Messiah. He knew what his civil law, but through unselfish love of thought just. Then why should a law own message meant in awakening to new the moral Governor (an attribute un- be enacted requiring men to rest one day hope the real children of the kingdom. known in civil government), the Son in seven? It can not be because of any In the power and demonstration of the of the Most High was permitted to take national significance in the day, nor is spirit of Elijah he preached repentance on himself the nature of those who had it to commemorate any human achieve- for the remission of sins. He urged transgressed heaven's law, and while ment. Why then ask for it? all to flee from the wrath to come. among them to suffer, the just for the The whole question rests on a religio- Gladly he instructed and baptized the unjust, that thus he might bring them selfish demand. This is it. Certain sincerely penitent. " But when he saw to obey the divine law. To become a men leave business and rest on one day many of the Pharisees and the Saddu- partaker of heaven's benefits thus ren- of the week to show their regard for cees come to his baptism, he said unto- dered, one must voluntarily accept this religious requirements, and desire to them, 0 generation of vipers, who hath gift of love. He must believe in the have every other person do the same. warned you to flee from the wrath to power of Christ to pardon and restore If others do not look at the matter just come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet him to favor. He must receive the di- as they do, a law is demanded to compel for repentance: and think not to say vine impulse, the secret inner working them to yield their stubbornness. But within yourselves, We have Abraham to I of the Spirit, too, in order to the com- is this zeal in behalf of God's honor? our father:.for I say unto you, that God pletion of the divine purpose. — No; for those who contend most is able of these stones to raise up chil- Such is the operation of divine gov- strongly for such laws, deny that they dren unto Abraham. And now• also the ernment,— no outward force driving are for religious ends. Why plead for ax is laid unto the root of the trees: one to obey the mandates of the law, them then? When pressed to answer, therefore every tree which bringeth not but a still, gentle voice within, saying, they say that it is not fair to let some forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast " This is the way, walk ye in it." Con- work seven days in the week, and so into the fire." 6 MARCH 5, 1908 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 11

There was no indecision about this mount in haste to take matters in hand enterprises. The first thing on their list message. It was not talked to others and justly deal with such traitorous is Singapore. This will be very welcome about the Pharisees and Sadducees. It leadership as Aaron was practising in to the workers here, as it has been a was spoken directly to them at the very his absence. " And it came to pass, heavy expense to get this school enter- time they offered themselves as subjects as soon as he was come nigh unto the prise on its feet. Everything is expen- of baptism. It was not the kind of camp, that he saw the calf, and the dan- sive here, and few of the students can preaching they were accustomed to hear. cing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and pay cash for their board and tuition. But John knew them, and he knew that he cast the tables out of his hands, and Now I am sure that if the youth and the baptism would do them no good un- brake them beneath the mount. And he children of this poverty-stricken State less they brought forth fruits meet for took the calf which they had made, and (Queensland), and in one city too, can repentance. And he knew that they burned it in fire, and ground it to pow- in a year collect sixty pounds (three would be the same hindrance to the work der, and strawed it upon the water, and hundred dollars) for the opening of a in the church where they were now of- made the children of Israel drink of it." new mission, the more highly favored fering themselves for baptism that they He then called upon every man who was people of the United States could raise had been as leaders in the Jewish work, on the Lord's side to manifest it by com- several funds the size of the one that is unless they thoroughly repented, and ing to him. He gave the command of being raised for the important enterprise started upon the right foundation. God that every man of the Levites in that great country. John would do no half-way work in should gird on his sword and go through Singapore, Straits Settlements. his ministry. To do this was to cause the camp and slay every man his brother souls to be lost. The ax must be laid and his neighbor. That was most dras- at the very root of the trees — not to tic treatment. Yet God directed it, and At, fur Bible /news trim off some limbs, but to hew down he never reproved Moses for showing the tree if it did not bring forth good righteous indignation at the weak leader- Historical quotations and extracts from various fruit. The very tap-root must be sev- ship of Aaron. Instead he was com- writers which may assist the thoughtful ered, that growth of sin should no mended, and it was testified of him that student of the Scriptures. longer be tolerated. Neither was it he was " faithful in all his house." because John was inconsiderate or un- Now these things are " written for Newly Discovered Jewish Docu- kind that he bore this straight message. our learning," lest we follow the policy The time had come for a reformation. outlined by some, which would lead to a ments in Egypt That reformation must be placed upon similar apostasy in the cause of God And How They Say "Hands off" to a right basis. It must not be modeled to-day. Let no one be frightened by Destructive Criticism of the Bible to admit unconverted men who would the cry of arbitrary leadership, and turn EGYPT is continually furnishing fresh become decoys to ruin other souls and to the weak policy of Aaron to follow surprises to the archeologist and histo- corrupt the church. the lead of a few people into apostasy. rian, as well as to the student of the The Master paid the highest tribute It is time that men should stand as Old Testament. The latest discovery to John for his faithfulness to his sacred Moses and John the Baptist, and lay the has been that of a series of Jewish docu- trust. He declared that John was the ax at the root of the trees. ments written by the contemporaries of messenger whom he had sent to prepare Hamilton, Mo. Ezra and Nehemiah, and throwing un- the way before him, and that a greater expected light on the later historical prophet had not been born of woman books of the Hebrew Scriptures. than John the Baptist. Christ takes up What Youth and Children Can The town of Assuan, the Seveneh of precisely the same gospel of repentance Eze. 29 : 10, is built at the southern carried by John, and he added, " Every Do for Missions frontier of Egypt, and immediately op- plant, which my Heavenly Father hath E. H. GATES posite to it lies the little island of Ele- not planted, shall be rooted up." SOME months ago when the Austra- phantine. An important city once stood There is another illustration given of lasian Union Conference began to lay at the southern end of Elephantine, from a man whom God had appointed as plans for opening a mission in New which came the Pharaohs of the fifth and priest and leader among his people. If Guinea, the secretary of the Queens- sixth dynasties, and which lasted down was the case of Aaron. Moses had been land Tract Society asked that the young to the age of the Arab conquest of a true leader. He had not been led by people of the Brisbane churches might Egypt. Its site is now marked by mounds the people into all the follies that they have the privilege of sending a native which for many years past have yielded would have led him into had he held missionary to that place, and of sup- a rich harvest to the sebakhin — that that it was the people who were to lead porting him for a year. is to say, the searchers for the nitrog- the ministers and men of God's appoint- A letter just received from the secre- enous dust which is used as manure in ment as leaders, in place of the minis- tary tells of a deep interest in this mis- Egypt. Hundreds of potsherds have ters instructing and leading the people. sion enterprise on the part of the youth been found in them, covered with Greek No doubt Aaron had heard that Moses and children of these churches. Our writing, and containing receipts for the was arbitrary in his dealings with the people in the Queensland Conference are payment of taxes in the Ptolemaic and people. It now becomes his opportunity nearly all poor, on account of the hard Roman periods. One or two ostraca, to lead them for a few days. Moses is times that have been experienced in that as these inscribed potsherds are called, in the mount with God. He is delayed State for many years, due to the have also been found with Aramaic in- longer than the people expected. They droughts that have prevailed there. The scriptions upon them instead of Greek. ask Aaron to make a golden calf for them amount that the young people started The alphabet of the inscriptions was to worship. Aaron may have reasoned out to raise was thirty pounds to send that used by the Jews in the centuries that he would not be guilty of being into the field and support for a year a immediately preceding the Christian era, arbitrary in his leadership. It was the native worker from our school in Fiji. while the language of them resembled wish of the people, and why not let the This letter from the secretary states that the so-called Biblical Chaldee. But they people have what they wanted? Why when she made up the figures at the end were very difficult to decipher, owing to should the leaders all the time seek to of ten months, she found that fifty their broken and obliterated condition control things in the church ? At least pounds had been collected. Now they and the very small number that were he surrendered to the wish of the people. have set out to make this up to sixty known. He instructed them to bring their orna- pounds by the end of this year (1907), Seven years ago I rescued from the ments, and he made of them a god. The and have already a part of this amount. hands of the sebakhin, who were about Lord summed it up by saying, " And the As soon as the amount is raised,— to destroy them, two of these ostraca, Lord plagued the people, because they which I am sure will be soon,— the larger and more legible than usual, with made the calf, which Aaron made." young people propOse to donate a quar- a papyrus that had been discovered along The Lord sent Moses down from the ter's collection to the different island with them. The papyrus proved to be a 12 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD MARCH' 5, 1908

document written in the Aramaic (or In the ruins of two adjoining houses sent no letter " in reply. Jehohanan is " Chaldee ") dialect and alphabet, by two collections of papyrus rolls were called Johanan in Neh. 12: 22, and a few Jews who were settled at Assuan and again found, all belonging to the Jewish years later was heavily fined by Bagoas Elephantine, where they carried on the colony, and written in Aramaic. Among for the murder of his brother in the business of banking and money lending them are narratives and poems or temple at Jerusalem. As he returned no under the Persian kings. The persons psalms which have not yet been thor- answer to the communication from mentioned on the ostraca were the same oughly examined. But three of them Egypt, the Elephantine Jews determined as those whose names occurred in the have turned out to be of such surpassing to apply directly to Bagoas, telling him papyrus. historical interest that their editor, Pro- that if he would give permission for the Persia's Friendliness to Judaism Strikingly fessor Sachan, determined to publish restoration of their sanctuary, " we will Proved them at once. offer meal-offerings and frankincense Three years later the sebakhin made a Two of the papyri are copies of the and burnt-offerings upon the altar of still more important discovery. A same document, a memorial sent by the Yahu the God in thy name. And we wooden box was found, containing a Jews of Elephantine to Bagoas, the gov- will pray for thee at all times, we and number of large papyrus rolls all tied ernor of Judea, complaining that their our wives and our children, and all the round with string which was fastened temple there had been plundered and Jews who are here, if thou doest thus, with clay seals. The rolls were bought destroyed, while the third contains the until this temple is rebuilt. And thou by Lady William Cecil and Mr. Mond, order for its restoration. The memorial shalt have a portion before Yahu, the who gave them to the Cairo Museum, is dated November, 408 B. C., only God of heaven, from every one who and Mr. Mond generously bore all the twenty-four years after Nehemiah's sec- offers to him burnt-offering and sacri- expenses of their publication, which was ond visit to Jerusalem (Neh. 13: 6), and fices, of the value of one thousand silver undertaken by Mr. Cowley and myself. is written in the name of " Zedoniah and talents." The memorialists conclude by The documents were all dated, the earli- his companions, the priests in Elephan- saying that they have already written est in the reign of Xerxes I (471 B. c.), tine." It begins by praying that " our on the matter to Delaiah and Shelemiah, the latest in that of Darius II (411 B. c.), Lord, the God of heaven," may grant " the sons of Sanaballat, the governor of and they all belonged to the Jewish peace to Bagoas, and " mercy in the sight Samaria," whose date, which has been colony at Assuan. This colony was of King Darius," and goes on to say that disputed, is thus finally fixed. large and wealthy, and owned a great the priests of the Egyptian god Khnub, There is no space here for discussing deal of house property in Elphantine. or Khnum, had taken advantage of the the many questions which this remark- The papyri throw considerable light on temporary absence of the Persian gov- able document raises. At all events, it the laws under which they lived, more ernor of Assuan to bribe his deputy, proves that the prohibition to erect a especially upon those relating to mar- Vidrang, who accordingly had given per- temple and carry on the regular temple riage and inheritance, and they also ex- mission for the Jewish temple in Ele- service elsewhere than in the central plain the origin of Biblical " Chaldee," phantine to be destroyed. Thereupon sanctuary at Jerusalem was not con- which was the official Aramaic language Vidrang's son, who was in command of sidered to be binding outside of Palestine of the western provinces of the Persian the garrison, " led out the Egyptians itself. But we can easily understand empire, as spoken and written by Jews. with other forces," " they entered this that the high priest and his compan- But the most curious fact disclosed by temple and razed it to the ground, break- ions at Jerusalem would not be anx- the papyri is that there was a temple ing in pieces the pillars of stone." They ious to see the Elephantine temple re- of Yahu —the Jehovah of the Author- also destroyed its " seven great gates of stored. That it was rebuilt, however, we ized Version — by the side of the public hewn stone," as well as " the bronze learn from the third papyrus, which con- street in Elephantine, where the stated hinges of the doors," and " they burnt tains the answer of Bagoas, and reads ritual and sacrifices of the Mosaic law with fire" the roof of cedar-wood and as follows: " Thou shalt say in Egypt were performed. The temple was not a the stucco of the walls. " And the bowls before Arsames [the governor] concern- synagogue, but a temple like that of of gold and silver, and whatever else was ing the altar-house of the God of heaven, Jerusalem, or the temple afterward built in the temple, they took and appropriated which was built before our time, before by Onias at Tel el-Yehudiya in northern to themselves." Then comes the impor- Cambyses, in Elephantine, which Vid- Egypt, for which therefore, as we now tant statement that the temple had been rang . . . destroyed in the fourteenth know, there had already been a prec- built " in the days of the kings of Egypt," year of King Darius, that it is to 'be edent. before the Persian conquest, so that its rebuilt in its place as it was before, and The discovery of the " Assuan pa- builders must have been either the Jews that meal-offerings and frankincense pyri " at once excited the attention of who came into Egypt with Jeremiah, or shall be offered upon this altar, as was the learned world, and in 1904 I super- their sons. " When Cambyses came up done formerly." intended some excavations for the Egyp- into Egypt," the memorial goes on to The answer of the Persian government tian Service of Antiquities on the spot say, " he found this temple built; and, shows how true to historical fact are where they were said to have been though the temples of the gods of Egypt the statements of the books of Ezra and found. But unfortunately I was obliged were overthrown, no one injured any- Nehemiah in regard to the relations be- to close the work after a few days, as thing in this temple." In these words tween the Persian kings and their Jew- the season was getting late, the Nile was we have a complete verification of the ish subjects. The Jews and their re- low, and I had to return to El-Kab in favorable attitude toward Jewish wor- ligion, it is clear, were looked upon with order to finish the excavations I had been ship and religion ascribed by the Old special favor at the Persian court. As carrying on there for some years with Testament writers to the Persian kings. orders were issued for the restoration of Mr. Somers Clarke. A year or two Ezra and Nehemiah Confirmed the temple at Jerusalem, so a similar later, however, the German and French After the destruction of their temple, order was issued for the restoration of governments obtained concessions by the Jews at Assuan and Elephantine, that at Elephantine as soon as the story which the mounds of Elephantine were with their wives and children, " put on of its destruction became known to the divided between them, and in the spring sackcloth, and fasted, and prayed to higher authorities. So, too, when the of 1907 a German expedition under Dr. Yahu, the God of heaven," who heard temples of Egypt had been plundered Rubensohn was exploring the north- their prayer, and punished the evil-doers, and overthrown by Cambyses, that of western portion of them, while the Vidrang losing all his possessions, and the Jews at Elephantine alone remained eminent French scholar, Professor Cler- " all the men who wished evil against untouched. Henceforward skeptical mont-Ganneau, was at work at the this temple " being slain. Meanwhile. criticism will have to keep its hands off southeastern end. The place where the the Jews had written " to Jehohanan, the the official documents contained in these papyri had been found fell within the high priest, and his companions, the two historical books of the Old Testa- German lines, and here, accordingly, priests in Jerusalem, and to Ostanes, his ment. —Prof. A. H. Sayce, D. D., further discoveries of even greater in- brother, whose [Jewish] name is Anani, L. L. D., D. C. L., in The.Sunday School terest awaited the explorers. and to the nobles of the Jews; but they Times, for Feb. 15, 1908. MARCH 5, 1908 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 13

medicine, there was a force much more potent for good already at work, credit might have been given where it was due. As we have previously stated, nature cures. And what is more, aside from cases of divine healing, nature only cures. In Ps. To3 : 3 we learn that the Lord is the one " who healeth all thy dis- eases." The laws of nature are the My All and in All of the drug, a benumbed, narcotized ef- laws of God; and when he restores to DAN D. LYONS fect on the fine nervous structures, health from disease, it is either through I COME to my Saviour, bowed low with which, as the drug is repeated, becomes these laws, or as in cases of divine my sin, more and more permanent. This action healing, by his immediate creative power, My heart aching sore with its woe; not infrequently leads to other diseased and hence miraculous. In either case I know if I touch but the hem of his conditions, from which the patients often the Lord heals. Nor does any man robe, suffer more than from the original dis- possess this power, no matter how many The joy of his peace I shall know. ease. Some of these drug-produced have become well after taking his medi- diseases are never cured; the patient is cine. 0, he is my Saviour, my all and in all! When the body is overcome by disease, He proffers me pardon to-day. peevish, irritable, and always sick. nature immediately begins a process of I plunge in the flood of Emmanuel's This is the action of a large class of blood, drugs. There are others that are en- fortification against, and destruction and And it washes my sins away. tirely devoid of even this much good. expulsion of, disease poisons, which, if Those that so poison and benumb the there is no hindrance, soon brings back I came to the cross, and I left there my patient that he no longer recognizes the conditions of health. But suppose that load, distress and the diseased condition, but the patient takes medicine that lessens My Saviour spoke peace to me there; is able to rest, cause him to be deceived pain and enables him to sleep. He has My heart leaped for joy in the bliss of into thinking that his condition is bet- constitution enough so that nature can that hour; handle both the disease and the medi- No peace with that peace can compare. ter, when, in reality, it is worse. The history of this class of patients cine. He is sick longer or is more seri- ously sick, but in no sense ought it I know there is healing and pardon for is much the same. More of the drug, to all, or similar drugs, are demanded, the pa- be said that the medicine cured him. Since Jesus spoke peace to my soul; tient fails, goes from one doctor to an- There are many whose false logic And I'll sing of his goodness forever other until outraged nature calls a halt, prevents their seeing this, and to these and aye, and the patient dies — not from the dis- this quotation is given: " Those who His love and his glory extol. ease, this was a small part of the trouble, will gratify their appetite and then suf- and would long since have ceased of fer because of their intemperance, and itself, had nothing at all been done; but take drugs to obtain relief, may be as- Drugs the patient dies in the way that thou- sured that God will not interpose to L. J. OTIS, M. D. sands of others have been and are dying, save health and life which is so reck- WE include under this head substances — of drug poisoning. Then the report lessly periled. . . . God does not see fit that, owing to certain action (usually is published, that everything that med- to answer prayers in behalf of such, for poisonous) on the human system, are ical science could suggest was done, but he knows that, if they should be restored used as medicine. As these have to to no avail. Had medical science only to health, they would again sacrifice it enter the system in order to have such thought to leave nature to itself, yes, upon the altar of unhealthy appetite." effect, what is said here will refer only even to do nothing, the patient in most In these cases so often is the follow- to the internal use of drugs. cases would have lived. But don't mis- ing true : " They will live fashionably With people generally, drugs, no mat- understand me. I am no advocate of a and suffer with disease as the result, be ter how vile, disgusting, and nauseating, do-nothing policy — there is so much doctored with fashionable poisons, and are considered an indispensable neces- that will help the patient, apart from die a fashionable death." sity in treating the sick, so that each drugs. But do nothing always, rather Grand Rapids, Mich. disease has certain drugs for its cure. than do that which will injure your pa- Just how the cure is brought about they tient. " God's servants should not ad- do not attempt to explain, but, after minister medicines which they know will President Lincoln as a Temper- taking the medicine, somehow, in some leave behind injurious effects upon the ance Man mysterious way, the patient gets well, system, even if they do relieve present LEONARD SWETT tells us that Lincoln which is attributed to the drug taken, suffering." It is a fact that more have told him not more than a year before of course. died from drug poisoning than from all he was elected president that he had This idea used to be held generally other causes combined. All poisons never tasted liquor in his life. " What ! " by doctors. But now, we see a change taken into the human system have their said Swett, " do you mean to say that coming. Physicians scoffed at the idea baneful influence. They affect the stom- you never tasted it? " " Yes," replied that nature cured the patient. Drugs ach, liver, kidneys, and lungs, besides Lincoln, " I never tasted it." When we were , given to restore the patient in deranging the system generally. take into consideration the habits of the spite of nature. But they recognize If the individuals themselves were the times, this, is a most remarkable testi- now that nature cures, and cured then. only sufferers, it would be bad enough, mony to Lincoln's principles, the stabil- So now, drugs are given supposedly to but these same persons are bringing into ity of his character, and the iron quality assist nature, but, as a matter of fact, the world children who are sick and of his will power. they come about as far from it as they feeble, or otherwise suffer from the par- Mr. C. C. Coffin, a most distinguished used to, in most cases. ents' transgression. Yet in the face of journalist of the day, who accompanied The drug is recognized as an invader. this, there will be found plenty who will the notification committee from the Chi- Increased action is brought to bear to say that they were sick and took such cago convention to Springfield, at the protect the system from the offending and such a medicine and it cured them. time of Lincoln's first nomination for drug and to destroy or expel it. By A part of this positive statement that the presidency of the United States, re- this increased action other poisons may they were sick and took medicine and got lated in his newspaper an incident that be expelled or destroyed, nature assisted, well, is doubtless true. But it is not true occurred on that occasion. He says and the patient improved in one way. that a drug ever cured any one, and had that after the exchange of formalities But there is left, owing to the poison they known that at the time they took the Lincoln said: — 14 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD MARCH 5, 1908

" Mrs. Lincoln will be pleased to see you, gentlemen. You will find her in :rte:.it the other room. You must be thirsty IA fill after your long ride. You will find a '111rd I pitcher of water in the library." The newspaper men crossed the hall and entered the library. There were miscellaneous books on the shelves, two globes, celestial and terrestrial, in the The North German Conference brethren who assisted in raising the corners of the room, and a plain table, GUY DAIL means for this enterprise, received a with writing materials upon it, a pitcher ONE year ago this field was cut off hearty vote of thanks from the delegates of cold water and glasses, but no wines from the West German Conference. It at this meeting. or liquors. There was humor in the has a population of 5,162,600. Its ter- North Germany, as well as the other invitation to take a glass of water, ritory is composed of Hannover, save German Conferences, pays two tithes to which was explained to Mr. Coffin 'by a the extreme southern end of the prov- the union, for carrying the gospel into citizen of Springfield, who said that, ince; Schleswig-Holstein, except Altona the union mission fields. After deduct- when it was known that the committee Wandsbek ; the grand duchies of Olden- ing this from its income, the conference was coming, several of the citizens burg and Mecklenburg-Schwerin ; and lacked about seven hundred fifty dollars called upon Mr. Lincoln and informed the free cities of Bremen and Luebeck. of paying its expenses for 1907, and had him that some entertainment must be January 15-19 the nearly fifty dele- to draw that much on its capital. Plans provided. gates representing the four hundred were laid to guard against such a short- " Yes, that is so. What ought to be ninety members of the North German age in the future. About seventy-five done? Just let me know and I will Conference assembled for their second dollars was raised in cash and pledges attend to it," he said. annual meeting at Kiel, one of the oldest toward the North German tent fund. " 0, we will supply the needed cities of Holstein. This town has one The Sabbath-school donations amounted liquors ! " said his friends. hundred seventy thousand inhabitants. to fifteen dollars, The collections taken " Gentlemen," said Mr. Lincoln, " It stands at the head of the Kaiser Wil- during the session of the conference thank you for your kind intention, but helm Canal, which was finished in 5895, more than paid the hall rent. must respectfully decline your kind offer. at a cost of thirty-nine million dollars; Elder L. Mathe was again chosen I have no liquors in my house, and have it is the center of a brisk trade between president. He will be assisted by one never been in the habit of entertaining Denmark and the Continent; and it has ordained minister, six licentiates, and my friends in that way. I can not permit a university, a naval academy, and the three Bible workers. They rejoiced that my friends to do for me what I will not chief war harbor of the empire. three new companies could 'be received myself do. I shall provide cold water On Sabbath about eighty or eighty- into the conference at this meeting,— — nothing else."— Youth's Temperance five of our people were in attendance at one at Schwerin, another at Norden, Evangel. the service of special consecration, after and a third at Sonderburg. At the good an earnest sermon by Elder Conradi. closing meeting the laborers were of A' fair and continually increasing out- excellent courage, and expressed their Dangers Attached to Eating Raw side interest was manifested in the public determination to put forth more conse- Foods and Fruit Skins lectures. Brethren J. Erzberger, H. F. crated and untiring efforts to win souls PROFESSOR METCHNIKOFF, in his Har- Schuberth, and Dr. Petersohn gave valu- for• the Master than ever before. We ben lectures delivered at King's College, able assistance and counsel to those who feel sure our readers will wish them London, on the " Hygiene of the Alimen- came to hear the word. The workers' God's rich blessings, and many souls for tary Canal " (reported in the Lancet, meetings were of especial value. their hire the present year, 'both among June 2, 1906), warns us of the perils • of The reports rendered by the local the Germans and among the Danes, for eating certain vegetables and fruits un- field laborers plainly showed that God many Danes live in Holstein. To this less previously boiled. is at work in this part of his vineyard. end let the work and workers of the The professor said: " Among fruits, One hundred eight new members have North German Conference be remem- it was principally strawberries which in- been received; the net gain was thirty. bered in prayer. troduced parasites, ova, and infectious The tithe for' 1907 was $5,450, the offer- Hamburg, Germany. germs into the intestinal canal. It was ings amounted to $838, and the book therefore necessary to boil them. Even sales to $8,500. cherries, although growing on trees and Some claim that the people here are General Meeting in Siang Cheng far from the soil, should be carefully more conservative than in other parts A. C. SELMON scalded or boiled, because the birds of Germany. Prejudice against our mes- FROM December 8 to 14 the Sabbath- which took a bite out of them frequently sage is certainly increasing. One of the keepers and enquirers from Shang Tsai, contaminated them with contagious mat- small grand duchies (which is entirely Brother Westrup's station, united with ter. Protestant) has refused to renew our those of Siang Cheng in a general meet- " As it could not be doubted that salad, canvassers' permits for 1908, as the au- ing held at this place. The believers at radishes, and other raw vegetables trans- thorities maintain that our literature is both stations are more or less scattered mitted entozoa and pathogenic microbes, of such a nature as to be likely to give in villages from ten to twenty miles their surveillance from a hygienic point offense to the religious feelings of the away. They had not had the opportunity of view became indispensable. Wash- people. of meeting others of like faith, so the ing these vegetables, even with boiled However, there is one thing in which meeting was a blessing to them in many water, was not sufficient, and it was this part of the German field takes the ways. In addition to the instruction necessary at least to scald them with lead: it was in the province of Schles- from the Word, the interchange of ex- boiling water, or better still, to boil wig-Holstein that the first permission to periences proved to be a great help. them." hold tent-meetings was granted to us Brother and Sister Westrup, Brother Appendicitis, he declared, was fre- in the German empire. The police were and Sister Allum, and Brother Esta quently caused 'by bites, from intestinal so well pleased with the general tone Miller were present, and helped in the worms lodging in the cwcum, carrying of these services that our brethren se- meetings. The time of all our workers, microbes into the tissues of the appendix. cured a written statement from the since coming to the field, has been so The eggs of the worms adhere to the mayor, expressing satisfaction at the taken up with the language study that it raw vegetables, and when introduced into manner in which the' tent effort had been was a great encouragement to see a the alimentary canal, afterward develop. conducted. This took place in the early company of fifty Sabbath-keepers come Hydatis may be caused in the same nineties. Last summer another tent was together. Many 'of those who attended manner,— Selected. purchased, and the Danish-American came a distance of forty to sixty mile's. MARCH 5, 1908 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 15

Evangelist Chen, from Sin Yang station, commonly heard when they meet is, our situation one should consider what walked seventy miles. The weather had " Have a smoke." It may be seen from the work would be in the home lands been stormy for some time, but the Lord this what a hold the vice has upon the with no tracts, papers, or books to help gave us good weather and good roads people, its use being almost as common proclaim the message. It could hardly for the gathering. Our brethren in the among women as among men. be expected that the work would pro- home lands, who can go by railroad to Among the women some had unbound gress rapidly. For the message to reach and from camp-meeting, can hardly ap- their feet, and others took their stand China's four hundred twenty-six millions preciate what it means to go by wheel- during the meeting. For a woman here there must be large printing facilities, barrow or by ox-cart a distance of forty in the interior to unbind her feet, is the and a large increase in the force of miles. It requires about fifteen hours greatest departure from Chinese custom workers in the field. The Lord is show- with good roads to cover the distance that she could make, and brings upon ing how the work may be done if we by cart. her persecution and all kinds of slan- will only consecrate ourselves and our Of those present some had been keep- derous reports. One young woman, who all to his service. ing the Sabbath for two years or over, accepted the gospel a little over a year Siang Cheng, China. and yet others were just coming out of ago, has read all the New Testament heathenism, so the subjects taken up and as far as Ezekiel in the Old. She were intended to meet the needs of all. unbound her feet in spite of the oppo- Tamil Sabbath-Keepers of South The testimony meetings gave evidence sition of her own family and relatives. India that the Holy Spirit was at work. After It is the general testimony that the mem- J. S. JAMES considering the subject of the use of bers of the native church are very lax FOR a number of years our people have in keeping Sunday. known of a company of native Tamil It is not uncommon Sabbath-keepers living in the Tinnevelli to see them attend District of South India. Mention has meeting in the fore- been made of them in the REVIEW and noon, and take other papers from time to time, but not some market prod- until recently have any definite steps uct along with them been taken to learn the history and to town, and in the nature of this sect. By their urgent re- afternoon some even quest, in company with Elders Shaw and feel free to go about Enoch, I made a visit to this district,

BRETHREN ATTENDING GENERAL MEETING, SIANG CHENG tobacco and wine, many testified that their regular work. when this truth came to them, they were Some of those who led to give up the use of tobacco and attended had form- wine at once. Although the other socie- erly been Sunday- ties discourage the use of these, yet keepers and had not among their converts there are many met with persecu- who drink wine and smoke tobacco, and tion, but when they some even use opium. The message of received the Sabbath SISTERS ATTENDING GENERAL MEETING, SIANG CHENG Christ's soon coming and the judgment truth and began keeping it accord- and remained with these people over ten led them to see that the sanctification ing to the commandment, it caused di- days, during which time I learned much mentioned in the Bible takes in the vision in families. of their history and organization. The whole man; spirit, soul, and body must On the Friday preceding the last Sab- reception we were given and the experi- be preserved blameless unto the coming bath of the meeting seven were baptized, ences we had during this visit will be of our Lord Jesus Christ. To see a four men and three women. These, to- described elsewhere. man saved who has been a slave to gether with those previously baptized, In the year 1845, a native Tamil opium for ten or fifteen years, seems enable us to organize a church of eleven Christian by the name of A. N. Chat- very much akin to a resurrection from members at Siang Cheng. The last Sab- tampillai was selected by the Church of the dead. Some who had formerly used bath of the meeting the ordinances of England and educated for the priest- tobacco still had a pipe or two about the the Lord's house were celebrated. The hood in that faith. He completed this house. One man, who had not smoked Chinese sisters, all having unbound feet, part of his education in 1850, and was for over three years, brought his big also took part in the ordinance of humil- about to be ordained as priest when brass water-pipe into the meeting, and ity. This was the first opportunity any trouble sprang up between himself and destroyed it publicly. This led others of us have had of meeting with a com- the presiding missionary relative to his to declare that since they did not use a pany of Chinese Christians to celebrate marriage. It was the missionary's de-- pipe, they would not keep one around so the ordinances. It was a touching serv- sire that Mr. Chattampillai marry a girl that others could use it. ice; the testimonies as well as the tears of the mission whom they had educated, One unacquainted with Chinese life of those who took part testified of the and who had considerable money. But can have no idea of the place the pipe Spirit's presence. the girl not being of his own caste, he has here in social intercourse. The prov- We all realize that the time has come refused to be influenced by the mission- erb says, " Tobacco and tea prevent for a great onward move in the work ary's desire, and turned his attentions a breach." In other words, if a guest in China. Interest is awakened wher- to a poor girl of his own caste, with comes and you do not offer him the pipe, ever the truth is made known. Up to the but little education, and married her. he would consider it as an open insult. present time we have had practically no This step on his part greatly displeased It is considered so indispensable that we literature to use, and enquirers who can the missionary, and only served to in- have heard of gospel-hall guest-rooms, not come to our stations have no way to crease their differences. where guests are offered the pipe. learn of the truth fully. Literature is Because of the hostility and unkind Among the people the salutation most greatly needed at once. To appreciate treatment coming from his former as- 16 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD MARCH 5, 1908 sociates, Mr. Chattampillai was com- jewels. They were assaulted in their church in 1883. At that time they num- pelled to leave his home in Tinnevelli. meeting-houses, and every effort was bered about four thousand, but since Desiring to obtain justice at the hands made to exterminate them and drive them then their numbers have been greatly re- of his superiors, he placed his grievances from the community. It seems almost duced by persecution and apostasy, until I before the secretary, archdeacon, and incredible that a great deal of this work at present they number between ten and bishop of the church both in person and was sanctioned and even planned by fifteen hundred. There are about four in writing, but was not given any satis- those who professed to be preaching the hundred of them in Ceylon, where faction. gospel of Jesus Christ, but they are they endeavor to carry on their church Having become fully convinced that unvarnished facts supported by the tes- services on the Sabbath. the Church of England was teaching er- timony of scores of living witnesses. These people have a fairly good sys- ror in many of her doctrines, and finding Things went on in this manner with tem of organization. They have a sys- nothing in the creeds of other churches more or less activity until 1883, when tem of government which reminds one to claim his reverence and support, he a division arose among them concerning very much of the Jewish economy, with retired to Madras in 1852, and spent some landed titles held in trust by their a few modifications from the New Tes- his time until 1856 in a comparative leader and founder. Differing some- tament. They have twelve elderly men study of different religions and sects. what in doctrine and church ritual, and chosen by the people to take the over- At the end of 1856 he returned to his desiring to rid themselves of a Phari- sight of affairs. Six of these are re- home, and founded the present sect in saical system of religion to which they garded as elders, and hold seats of honor 1857. He began preaching his views to had unwillingly submitted themselves, in all their counsels and deliberations. the people of his own and other villages they rejected their leader, and started a However, it was quite noticeable to us until he had a following of over six thou- new organization on new lines. The that there were a few young men who sand native Christians, most of them founder and his family, together with were active in carrying out new and coming out from the Church of England. three or four other families, are all that up-to-date ideas. The work of the other It seemed for a time that this movement are left of the original body. They still six men corresponds to that of the dea- would sweep everything before it, but cons. They also it was not to occupy an undisputed field have deaconesses very long. to look after the Shortly after the formation of this interests of the new sect, the other missionary societies women. They began a war of extermination against have a secretary it, the larger part of the opposition and treasurer of coming naturally from the Church of ability to look England. The missionary in charge of after the funds the work in the Tinnevelli District, of the church and afterward becoming bishop, issued a make proper dis- threatening proclamation against this bursement of the new sect, copies of which were posted on same. Their the walls and doors of public buildings funds, which ac- in many of the surrounding villages. I crue from tithes, read with my own eyes the original of free-will offer- this proclamation, signed by the mission- ings, thank-offer- ary then in charge. It was issued Oct. ings, first-fruits, 5, 1857, and gave the members of his etc., are collected congregation a sort of indulgence while into one general they waged war with the members of A. N. CHATTAMPILLAI AND HIS SONS fund, and all ex- this new sect and their leader, Mr. maintain their church services in their penses are met from this. Each offi- Chattampillai. This document savors church, which stands only a few rods cer has his particular work in the strongly of the spirit of popery and the from the church of the larger body. church, which is performed in the Dark Ages. It justified the people in Mr. Chattampillai is now in his eighty- most punctilious fashion. One has taking any means they saw fit to stamp fourth year, and is growing very feeble. charge of the cash funds, another out this new organization and bring the In the accompanying picture he is looks after the offerings and first-fruits, leader to repentance. Persecution began seen sitting in the chair, while standing another has the care of the lamps, an- to come in real earnest to these people. in the rear are his three sons. Mr. other the blowing of trumpets, and so In the years between 1857 and 187o. Chattampillai is a man of great learning, on. The first-fruits are offered every more than one hundred court cases, in- and in his more active days was pos- Sabbath in the church as a part of their stituted largely upon false charges, were sessed of a strong personality and ability praise and worship. They esteem it a brought against the leading members of as a leader and organizer. It is said that blessed privilege to give to God on the this sect. In those days the court and at one time he was able to read and Sabbath, and giving, to them, is an act municipal officers were largely influ- converse in sixteen different languages. of worship just as important as prayer. enced by the European missionaries, con- While visiting him, I was shown After the Sabbath is past, these offer- sequently many of these charges were through his library, which contains over ings, which consist largely of grains, decided against the members of the eight thousand volumes. Among these vegetables, eggs, fowls, etc., are sold new sect, and resulted in the loss of were books in Hebrew, Greek, Sanskrit, to the highest bidder, and the money property and in serious damage in many Syriac, Latin, together with the Dra- is put into the common fund. other ways. Scores of them were vidian languages spoken in South India. These people are imbued with a mis- haled before the courts and com- His collection of books dealing with sionary zeal. They feel that they are mitted to jail without bail at a time theological questions is very valuable, morally responsible for propagating and when their crops, if neglected, would many of them being rare prints. keeping alive the truths they possess, perish in the field. Many who were In 1885 the company that left their especially the Sabbath. The principle traders had their business boycotted and founder built a church of their own, in a upon which their schools are operated ruined. Some of the leaders were hand- village of about five thousand, closely is almost identical with that of our cuffed and led in the public streets in adjoining another village, which has church-schools. They will not allow the presence of their friends and rela- served as a headquarters for their or- their children to attend schools taught tives, while the heathen mocked them ganization ever since. This church is by people who keep Sunday, and they with every indignity. Many of their described in another article. The people never allow their daughters to marry houses were broken into by mobs, and with whom we have to deal at present an unbeliever. Hundreds of these peo- their women insulted and robbed of their are those who broke off from the parent ple have grown to manhood and woman- MARCH 5, 1908 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 17

hood without an English education, a :;?:....:!...:iii:;-;:,:.,::',..i'6" ''.:•::?... i.; :F 3 ,',.:.:.::...... i :/ 11.0iii Ei.:',.;:s21:04...;:A thing greatly prized by the native of 4 , '''''''. India, simply because they would not be taught by unbelieving Europeans. „, L Through lack of a good standard of I ,:ORK ,,••7 „..,....,....„.:•:„....:...".:,...... „:„..::::.., „,,,,„„ .. ...„,„,,,,,.,,:.„„ ...... ,,„,...... ,. ft , . education of their own, many of their bright young men and women have been enticed away to attend other schools, only to be lost to their church in a few The Southwestern Union Con- is very prosperous. The school is full to overflowing with an excellent class of years. ference students. The missionary spirit seems Now that these people are acquainted Tins conference convened at Keene, to be kept well to the front by the fac- with us and our methods of work, they Tex., February 7, and continued until ulty. A number of those who are about plead with us to send them help. They the seventeenth. There was a full rep- to finish their course gave in their are willing to have us teach them in resentation of delegates from each of the names for the Mission Board to draw all their churches. They have offered three conferences composing the union from to supply the need in the foreign to turn over their entire school system conference, and one delegate from New fields. to us to operate after our own standards, Mexico. The sessions of the confer- As I looked over the village of Keene ence were held in the Keene church, and teach all our doctrines to their chil- and saw the many comfortable homes which was sufficiently large to accom- dren. In short, they want us to make and the large church and the school modate comfortably not only the dele- buildings with their accompanying in- first-class church-schools of them. They gates and visiting brethren, but the en- dustries, and saw the large company of are anxious to see their young men edu- tire number of students of the Keene students as they marched to and from cated to carry the Sabbath truth all over Academy. the church each day, and then thought South India. They have come forward It was arranged that the school should back only a few short years to the time with a generous offer of land on which attend the forenoon session, and thus get when this same ground was without an to build a dwelling-house, if we will the benefit of the Bible studies that were inhabitant and covered with trees, I come and help them. They have prom- given each day, beginning at half-past could form some idea of how rapidly our message is going. Already from this ised to assist us school there are missionaries in many of in many different the foreign fields. Brother and Sister ways in building Jones, who now stand at the head of the n e w buildings mission in Singapore, were for a time and getting our students at the Keene Academy. Brother work started. C. B. Hughes, the first principal of the If ever there school, and one who has had much to do with bringing it to its present state of was a people who efficiency, is laboring to build up a school stretched out for the West Indies. .There are many their hands for others whom I might mention if space help, here is one. would permit. The dry weather of the Here are hun- past summer, which caused a partial dreds of bright failure of the cotton crop, and the finan- young people cial scare of the closing days of 1907, have affected the collections of the who are eager to school quite materially. Nevertheless know the truth. the business manager's report revealed Here is talent the gratifying fact that the school would and ability, if come out even in its finances. properly d e v el- It having been demonstrated by sev- oped and trained, GROUP OF TAMIL CHURCH-SCHOOL CHILDREN eral years' trial that a sanitarium could that will carry not be successfully operated at Keene, the third angel's message to all ten and closing fifteen minutes before the Texas Conference has sold the sani- South India. We have prayed for this twelve. The morning hours prior to the tarium building to the school, and it will be moved to the school grounds, and be favorable opening for many months. time of the Bible lesson were taken up in social meetings and conference busi- used as a dormitory for the boys. Four Now that it has come, are we ready to hundred dollars of the purchase price render them the help they so much need ? ness. One of the afternoon sessions was devoted to conference work, and an- was donated by the conference to the Thank God, we are able ! We believe other to Bible study. Public preaching Keene church to apply on its indebted- that while God has been preparing the services were held each evening during ness. This amount, added to some hearts of these people for his truth, he the entire conference. The reports from pledges they already had and to a cash has also been preparing the hearts of his the different conferences revealed quite collection that was taken during the con- people on the other side of the earth a gain in membership, and also a very ference, wiped out the debt on the to come to their assistance when it was healthy increase in tithes and all reg- church, and left a few dollars for some necessary repairs. The debt being pro- needed. Dear brethren and sisters, that ular funds and special funds for the promulgation of the work both at home vided for, the church was formally dedi- time has fully come, and now we look cated by appropriate services on Sunday to you, humbly praying that this provi- and abroad. New Mexico was added to the conference as a mission field, in har- afternoon, the closing day of the con- dential opening for the truth among mony with the action taken at the Gland ference. these Tamil Sabbath-keepers will appeal council. Arrangements were made for Having been present at the union con- to every heart and inspire all with a local board of management, and plans ference two years ago, and having at- greater zeal and sacrifice in spreading were made for the necessary funds to tended camp-meetings in each of the con- this message to all the world. I ask you prosecute the work in this new field. A ferences the year following, I was better to carefully read the articles that will large portion of the western part of the able to appreciate the progress that had been made in the conference, in finance, follow by Elders Shaw and Enoch, deal- State of Texas was also set off as a mission field, and was put under the increase of membership, and spiritual ing with other interesting features of growth. our visit among these people. We ask supervision of the conference committee. The work among the colored people While much business was done, and to be remembered in your prayers that of the district that had heretofore been many questions considered that would we may be led of God as we endeavor carried on under the direction of the have a bearing upon the future of the to lead these people out into the full union conference committee was at this work, and upon which the delegates had light of his truth for this time. We meeting given over to the several different views in the beginning, it was need his special blessing. States. The work of the Keene Academy a noteworthy and often-mentioned char- Cleveland Town, Bangalore. (the school of this union conference) acteristic of the conference, that there 18 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD MARCH 5, 19o8 was not a dissenting vote from the be- head that he was a Hindu, and of lower tions and plans of work were adopted, ginning to the end. Elder Thompson caste. At his side was a graduate of looking not only to the advancement of and the writer were present during the the University of India, who had been the message within the borders of the entire time of the conference. Elder raised a Brahman. I represented the union, but in the " regions beyond" as Daniells arrived about the middle of the Americans. It did me much good to see well. The plan to raise in each confer- conference, and remained until the Sun- all these classes. I thought of the grand ence a sum equal to ten cents a week day morning that it closed. His presence Sabbath-school when there will be rep- per member for missions, the Sabbath- and labors were very much appreciated resentatives from every tribe and people. school, midsummer, and annual offerings by the delegates and brethren. Elder I am doing what I can with the lan- to be included in the above sum, met Porter was unanimously re-elected presi- guage; and, while the progress is slow, with a hearty response. If this sum is dent of the union conference, with Elder I can see improvements, and feel that raised, it will more than double, in the Santee vice-president. Brother C. N. the Lord is helping me. I have begun union, the offerings of the past biennial Woodward was re-elected secretary and to read the Bible through in Burmese. period, and will be a great help in finan- treasurer. These officers have the entire The climate here is delightful. Some- cing the work in the destitute and needy confidence of the brethren throughout the times at midday it is hot, but the nights fields abroad. This plan was taken hold field. This, added to the courage that and mornings are delightful. of in a most enthusiastic manner. Con- was manifested by the delegates and We are expecting Brother Shaw soon. ference presidents and others expressed workers at the conference, betokens pros- Our people are looking forward to the themselves as in full sympathy with the perity and a large increase in the work time; for we are so far away, it is sel- plan, believing that it would be accom- during the coming biennial period. dom any worker comes here. plished, and all returned to their fields GEO. A. IRWIN. I feel that the Lord is preparing us with a determination to carry it through. for a great work. I am thankful for The plan is both simple and practical. the good reports of progress, and I look The average of a dime a week for each Burma for greater advancement in 1908 than member to carry a message world wide MOULMEIN.— The work seems to be ever before. I hear there are financial in its scope, is a very small sum. When moving on here quite nicely. I am not troubles at home. I have heard busi- we stop to consider that this includes having all the work I might do, but all ness men, men of the world, say that all we give to missions,— annual, mid- I should do while studying the language. for the last two years it has been com- summer, and Sabbath-school offerings, Here we get the poorer class first, but ing, and they have been preparing for as well as the regular weekly offerings, have received cash for work amounting it. All these things are only telling us — surely none can be so faithless as to to three hundred sixty-three rupees. that we are just a little nearer the end. believe that it will not be accomplished. This was all taken during the last few When one is off alone, there is in every If conference officers will organize the months. I did work amounting to two sign a joy and sweetness which he never work in each church, appointing some hundred rupees more, but it is credited. knew before. one to look after the matter each week. Last week I treated a baby that was OLLIE OBERHOLTZER, M. D. this sum will be easily raised. sick with pneumonia. I tried to keep The union and local conferences are the chest protected, but with its cloth- committed to the plan of sending all ing it was impossible. One morning I Central Union Conference their surplus tithes to mission fields. sent to the bazaar for some flannel. THE third biennial session of the Cen- This is as it should be. Why should a Then I sat down on a mat, and made a tral Union Conference was held in Boul- union or a local conference keep a sur- shirt for the baby. The same day I was der, Colo., January 23 to February 2. plus in the bank when it has a steady, called to show a woman how to make This session of the conference was pre- assured income? Our workers in dis- comforters, as we have just had the ceded by an educational convention last- tant, difficult mission fields are work- coldest weather in the history of Burma ing two days. Several of those especi- ing without any surplus funds, paid — sixty-four degrees. ally interested in educational matters from a treasury which is continually One aged woman was much afflicted. were present, also some of the delegates, drained, and we believe the time has She has been steadily improving since and a number of plans for the advance- come when the conferences in the home I began treating her, and I am told that ment of this department of the work field should turn all their funds over and she offers special prayers for me to her were carefully considered. not hoard a surplus, god. A good delegation was present from It was also voted to send the Missions One woman, when she found I could the various conferences in the union, number of the Signs to the ministers of wash and iron, said, " 0, won't you and quite a number attended who were the various denominations in the union, please come and teach me? Often the not delegates. Some changes have been each conference becoming responsible dhobi does not come, and how thankful made in the territorial lines of the con- for the number supplied to the clergy in I would be if I could wash, starch, and ference since the last session. Iowa had its territory. One hundred dollars was iron the children some clothes!" become a part of the Northern Union appropriated from the union treasury to I mention these things that those who Conference, and New Mexico a part of assist in this work. are planning to go as missionaries may the Southwestern Union. The work Resolutions were passed touching the be impressed with the importance of had grown in Wyoming so that the terri- educational work in Union College, and obtaining a knowledge of the practical tory hitherto known as the Wyoming the establishment and operation of in- things of life. I believe the secret of Mission Field had been organized into termediate and industrial schools in the successful medical missionary work is a conference. This conference was ad- union. If these are carried out, it will in being ready and willing to do any- mitted into the union at this session. greatly strengthen the educational work. thing. We should not get an idea that The proceedings of the conference The adoption of the second tithe because we have passed the examina- were marked with the utmost harmony. was commended to the prayerful study tion of a medical college, or a sanita- I do not remember of ever attending a of our people as a means of sup- rium examination for trained nurses, we meeting where there was greater unity porting our church-schools. Consider- are exempt from the most humble work. in acting upon the plans presented. ation was also given to the canvassing, It would have done your heart good This is especially encouraging when we publishing, young people's, religious to step into our little Sabbath-school last remember that great efforts have of late liberty, medical, and Sabbath-school Sabbath morning. We hold it in my been made to disorganize and divide us work. A committee was appointed to rooms. Although it is only six months as a people. The Spirit of God mani- investigate the needs of the destitute old, it has grown to twenty-four classes. fested itself from the beginning. In an- aged poor and the orphan children in The Burmese adult class is taught by swer to prayer some were healed of the union, and to make recommendation David Pho Hla, and the Burmese chil- bodily infirmities of long standing. The regarding the establishment of such home dren by Mah May. I teach the English same sweet spirit continued with us until or homes as may be needed to make adults, but will take the children, and the close of the meeting. provision to meet their needs. Dr. Cooper will take the former. Last The reports from the conferences and During the conference, daily Bible Sabbath in the Burmese class was a the various departments of the work studies were given on important topics, Chinaman, with his long queue. In my showed an encouraging degree of prog- such as religious liberty, church organi- class were Dr. Cooper and family, who ress. There was a marked degree of zation, the improvement of the educa- had moved in what is known as the increase in the tithes and offerings to tional work, the young people's work, higher circle in India. There was a man missions over the previous biennial etc., and the evening preaching services present, who, though in European dress, period. were well attended by the church and plainly showed by the mark on his fore- A number of very important resolu- others in the city.

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Free entertainment was furnished to Financial Statements the delegates by the Boulder Sanitarium Receipts and Disbursements of the General Conference for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1907 and the Colorado Conference, and every- thing possible was done to make those Cash on hand Jan. I, 1907 $ 21,627.85 attending the meeting welcome and com- Conference and Tract Societies 2,116.62 $ 21 2581 .:131 8 600681 54 . 9701 6543 fortable. Work for the Colored People 9,944.49 The Boulder Sanitarium is an excel- Depositors 29,401.46 lent institution, and is doing splendid District of Columbia Evangelical Committee 11,114.63 '1,204.29 work, not only in caring for the sick, Expense but in training missionaries for the field. From Confs. and Individuals for Support of Laborers 21898;38 02 7 .5 46 An excellent spirit pervades the entire General Conference Association ' 28,918.87 institution. It certainly ought to have General Conference Corporation 842.00 4 07233 the hearty support of all our people. Orphanage Fund 1224122785i2090558395244741.....54.227487326665 1,987.25 Elder E. T. Russell was re-elected Loans president of the union; Elder A. T. Rob- Publishing Houses 26,008.36 inson, vice-president; Elder B. E. Huff- Religious Liberty Bureau man, secretary ; and Brother C. T. Cavi- Specific Accounts ness, auditor. Elder Meade MacGuire, $150,000 Fund 12230 75327 ,,,: 82 0053 999487 023966. .. 551 339 05 ;8 of Colorado, was chosen secretary of the Annual Offering 29,751.50 young people's work. First-day Offering 17,342.97 Elder R. C. Porter, Prof. M. E. Kern, Missions 96,881.21 and the writer were present to share with Midsummer Offering 2,832.26 the laborers in the union the burdens Sabbath-school Donations 48,281.68 and blessings of the meeting. We feel Tithe 13.582.85 sure that the excellent spirit which char- To Laborers 48,410.59 acterized this meeting is an omen of To Mission Fields 179,556.98 great advancement and of the abundant By Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1907 3,696.47 blessing of the Lord during the future biennial period. To this end let us all $547,583.90 $547,583.90 work and pray. ' G. B. THOMPSON. I. H. EVANS, Treasurer.

Financial Statement of the General Conference"for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1907 China RESOURCES CHOA Cnow Fu.— Present truth has Bills Receivable $ 4,536,98 gained another foothold in China. In Mission Fields for 1908 I1,880.00 this city of several hundred thousand Accounts Receivable 18,486.83 inhabitants, a company of over twenty General Conference Library 1,172.00 meet in a private house from Sabbath to Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1907 3,696.47 Sabbath to worship their Creator and soon-returning Lord. Their pastor, $39,772.28 Brother Ang, is a man of long experi- LIABILITIES ence and winning influence. He was Accounts Payable $ 6,256.25 educated in the Baptist schools, and for Depositors' Accounts 7,268.65 years served as an ordained pastor; but General Conference Corporation 1,282.64 recently he and his flock have been more $150,000 Fund 8,895.76 or less independent of the denomination. Trust Funds 3,819.82 When the Sabbath truth was presented District of Columbia Evangelical Committee 3,484.88 to Mr. Ang last winter, he with his fam- ily took his stand, and gradually since $31,008.00 then they and those to whom he minis- Resources $39,772.28 ters have advanced step by step into the Liabilities 31,008.00 fuller light of the gospel. In November Brethern Keh and Hok- Excess of Resources over Liabilities $ 8,764.28 sin, and the writer spent three weeks in I. H. EVANS, Treasurer. Choa Chow Fu and the surrounding dis- trict, visiting from house to house and preaching the word. During one third church, yet may I not unite with you in CHANG-SHA.— A great change has of this time Elder J. N. Anderson, of the observance of this ordinance? " The come over our teacher, after the several Canton, was with us, This being the sea- Sabbath truth found a lodgment in his months' contact with present truth in son of rice harvesting, it was very diffi- heart, and tobacco was cast out into its various phases. He is bringing cult to assemble the believers on the the street. others to meetings. It is somewhat week-days, so we went to them in the Eighteen miles from Choa Chow Fu unique to see the inquirers bringing out evenings; and after their day's work was an earnest young man is keeping the their note-books and pencils at our Bi- done, met in a bamboo house decorated Sabbath, and at the same time working ble classes. Two are being trained for with plows, harrows, and rice, and there, zealously to give the message to others. colporteurs. They study with me for around a table, studied the " words of This man first heard the truth in Swa- two hours each day, and canvass the re- eternal life." The believers were much tow. Thus the truth of the Sabbath is mainder of the day. One came in from encouraged, and showed their interest going inland to mission stations. the station, where it is reported there by asking many questions about the While these people have received new are fourteen who meet on the Sabbath gospel. light, they have yet much to learn. But more or less regularly. This place is Sabbath, November 23, after a sermon who will teach them? It is not meet nine days distant by post from here. by Elder J. N. Anderson, the whole con- that south Kwang Tung or Fukien prov- The other student has tendered his gregation repaired to the riverside, where inces should share its few workers with resignation to the Methodist Mission, four souls, including Brother Ang's two Choa Chow Fu, people of a different lan- that he may keep the Sabbath. He was oldest daughters, were baptized. This guage. And yet they continually ask, for eight years in their school at Kill- scene was witnessed by hundreds of peo- " When will a Seventh-day Adventist kiang, a treaty port on the Yangtze. ple, many of whom jeered; but the gos- missionary come to teach us?" Their Word is daily expected from a very pel must be preached to these also. The request is not only reasonable, but it is capable evangelist who we expect will following Sabbath these souls were re- urgent, and this call is first of all other accept the message ; also from a woman ceived into Christian fellowship, after calls in China, and must be answered at who has attained to the honor of being which twenty-eight persons partook of once lest an opportunity be lost. The a school-teacher, such women being un- the Lord's supper. Visitors were much door to six million Hok-lo speaking peo- common in Hunan. interested. One man from a distant ple is now open. Who will go and Our Bible classes, although they may city stepped forward and said, " Al- bring to these people the whole gospel not reach a high average, certainly are though I am a member of another of salvation? B. L. ANDERSON. stirring the hearts of men who attend. 20 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD MARCH 5, 1908

All these men can read and write well. Canvassers' Summary for January, 1908 Better still, they give their testimony Atlantic Union Conference AGENTS HOURS ORDERS VALUE before others. Pray for these people, that they may fully accept this message Western New York 19 663 287 $ 470.45 so full of joy and peace. This work and New York 5 132 50 155.95 the translating takes up our time so Vermont 7 206 124 183.5o fully that we do not put in many hours at school teaching English. We trust Totals 31 1,001 461 809.90 this gap will yet be filled, if it is the Columbia Union Conference Lord's will that Seventh-day Adventists Chesapeake io 301 149 306.05 are to enter this branch of labor in Ohio 428 216 348.70 China. West Virginia 7 285 66 171.35 To supply our wants, wooden blocks Virginia 6 290 71 281.25 are being carved, from which tracts are Eastern Pennsylvania 7 579 261 370.85 being printed. This method has the West Pennsylvania 3 31 31 91.25 merit of being cheap, and takes up none New Jersey 2 140 51, 133.0o of our time; for the original is given to the carver, and he returns a block and Totals 46 2,054 845 1,702.45 as many tracts as we request. Lake Union Conference We thank God the work is not Indiana 7 434 99 268.35 ours, but his. If we but let him work Northern Illinois 3 83 20 53.50 through us, there will be showers of North Michigan 3 122 45 110.00 blessing untold. Praise God for the progress of his wonderful message. Totals 13 639 164 431.85 P. J. LAIRD. Southern Union Conference Alabama 6 3 18 18.00 Cumberland 5 3,5 182 185.70 A Promising Field Florida II 3.00 FREQUENTLY I receive letters asking Georgia 8 469 437 470.05 questions with reference to the canvass- Louisiana 7 298 117 246.45 ing work in North Carolina. I am very North Carolina 4 56 45 62.40 glad to answer all such inquiries ; and South Carolina 12 587 488 435.50 that still others may be stirred to desire Tennessee 12 511 246 509.20 a part with us, I write this general in- formation. I regard our field here in Totals 55 2,250 1,533 1,930.30 North Carolina as in every way an excel- Central Union Conference lent one. People will buy our books if Colorado 15 557 156 357.05 we will carry them into their presence Kansas • • • • 308.50 and properly represent them. To be Nebraska II 469 159 444.57 sure, not every one buys, but that is so Wyoming 2 124 56 197.50 everywhere. In glancing over the record of our Totals 28 1,150 371 1,307.62 State agent, I observe that the average Southwestern Union Conference hourly sales amount to fifty-eight cents. Arkansas 2 116 2I 72.25 There is plenty of unworked territory. Oklahoma 10 I Ib 389.82 The field is white to the harvest. To ,542 Texas 440 115.20 those who think of coming here from 5 43 the north, I will say that the winters Totals 17 1,098 are mild, and the summers are no 174 577.27 warmer than in Iowa or Illinois. The Northern Union Conference water is soft and excellent. The people South Dakota 5 I 18 ,o6 257.10 are kind, polite, and hospitable. There Iowa 8 351 44 136.65 are precious jewels scattered all about in these cities and villages and country Totals 13 469 150 393.75 places. North Pacific Union Conference Brother H. B. Tilden, of Winston, is Upper Columbia 3 131 71 186.00 our State canvassing agent. He will do Montana 50.00 all in his power to properly locate those who come to our conference to canvass, Totals 4 131 71 236.00 and will extend every possible aid. Pacific Union Conference " Come . . . and help us." California 581.5o T. H. JEvs. Australasian Union Conference 4,604 2,030 8,528.0o British Union Conference 58 3,144 1,366 1,448.75 British Columbia Canadian Union Conference 4 345 278 245.75 THE meeting of the British Columbia South African Union Conference 3 234 152 Conference was held at Port Hammond, 420.75 according to appointment, January 17-21. German Union Conference. • • • . 7,315.17 The first meeting was called at 9 General Summary A. Al., January 17. About thirty dele- Atlantic Union 31 1,001 461 809.90 gates were present, representing thirteen Columbia Union 46 2,054 845 1,702.45 churches. It was quite a surprise to see Lake Union 13 639 164 431.85 so many in attendance in this young Southern Union 55 2,250 1,533 1,930.30 conference. Central Union 28 1,150 371 1,307.62 It seems only a short time since the Southwestern Union 17 1,098 174 577.27 work was organized in this field, but the Northern Union 13 469 150 393.75 work has steadily gone forward until North Pacific Union .4 131 71 236.0o British Columbia, with other provinces Pacific Union 581.5o of Northwest Canada, has been organ- Australasian Union 4,604 2,030 8,528.00 ized into a union conference, taking the British Union 58 3,144 1,366 1,448.75 name of West Canadian Union Con- Canadian Union 4 345 278 2451.5 ference. South African Union 3 234 152 420.75 Elder E. L. Stewart, who has been German Union 7,315.17 the acting president of British Columbia, was elected president of the union con- Grand Totals 272 17„119 7,595 $25,929.06 MARCH 5, 1908 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 21 ference, and Elder W. M. Adams, of Manitoba, was elected to take the place Tumid ittrution Tigistiatt Eihrrtg of Elder Stewart in British Columbia. The work of the conference the past — Gold, silver, and copper ores have Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining year showed some gain, there being two to the Current History of the been found in the Culebra cut of the Rights of Conscience new churches added to their numbers, Panama Canal. increasing the membership by about — Governor Wilson of Kentucky on twenty-five. Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau February 26 sent a message to the K. C. Russatt, - - - Chairman The meeting was held in the new legislature in which he urges prompt W. A. COLCORD. - Secretary building used for the school this winter. legislation against the " night riders " They were not able to erect their school and asks a special allowance of $25,000 building, on account of the lateness of Religious Liberty Work In to suppress the condition of anarchy pre- the season, so the school is held in a Oklahoma vailing in nearly a third of the State. building which will be used for other SINCE coming here early in January purposes after their school building is — The whole Armenian quarter of we have placed at different times such erected. There are about thirty stu- Van, Asiatic Turkey, is reported to have tracts as " Religious Liberty," " Sunday dents in attendance, and a most excel- been destroyed by an explosion of dyna- Law," " The Civil Sabbath," " Prohi- lent interest is manifested. mite, which, with other explosives and bition and Sunday Legislation," The They have a farm of two hundred ten revolutionary weapons, was hidden in an Liquor Traffic and Prohibition," in the acres connected with the school, which Armenian church. Many persons were hands of every member of the legislature. in time will be a great source of income. killed by the explosion, which occurred About five thousand petitions have beep There is a sawmill located on the farm. during a fight with soldiers sent to seize received against the Sunday bill. belonging to the conference, which will the contraband. We have had the privilege of convers- give work to students, as well as fur- — The combined estimates for the ing with a number of these men upon nish lumber for their 'buildings, and British army and navy for the current this subject. This bill has the honor fencing for the farm. The mill will year show an increase of $3,000,000, of having as many petitions presented be run as an industry. without any apparent prospect of sub- against it as any yet introduced, if not There is valuable timber on the farm, stantial diminution in the future. The more. Upon one occasion the chairman which will be more than they will ever first lord of the admiralty explains that of the committee to which the bill was need for their own use, and as soon as the future program of Great Britain referred stated in open session that it they are able to manufacture and ship will depend upon whether other powers had been so " completely snowed under " lumber, they will have a nice, growing increase their naval forces. that it could not be found. In connec- business. The Canadian Pacific Rail- — Hiram Percy Maxim has invented tion with the presentation of about thirty- road has established a station on the a " silent firearm," which, in the opinion five hundred petitions at one time, the farm, about one-half mile from the of military experts, may lead to the en- following letter addressed to the speaker school, which is a great accommodation, tire re-equipment of the armies of the was read to the House: — and will save much travel to and from world. Because of the danger of such a " DEAR SIR: I am herewith handing Port Hammond. weapon in the hands of the criminal you over thirty-five hundred petitions The work in the conference, so far. classes, police officials are insisting that against Senate Bill 58 or any other law has not been self-sustaining, but plans the manufacture and disposal of the new relating to the Sabbath question. There were laid to push the work into new device should be safeguarded by law. is nothing in the Bible making Sunday fields, increasing the numbers of church- the Sabbath, and no amount of legisla- members and so building up their fi- — Lieutenant-general Stoessel, who tion will make it such, or change any nances. With the tide of immigration has been on trial since December to be- man's opinion as to the same. Such a coming in, British Columbia will soon fore a military tribunal for the surrender law would enter the realm of conscience, become one of the leading conferences of of Port Arthur, was, on February 20, and would 'be contrary to the American the Northwest. condemned to death, but the court mar- principle of religious liberty as guaran- Quite careful study was given some of tial petitioned the czar to commute the teed by the Constitution. the items reported, but after explana- sentence to ten years' imprisonment in " We heartily favor prohibition be- tions were made, general satisfaction was a fortress, in consideration of extenua- cause the liquor traffic robs our homes, manifested by the delegates. At the ting circumstances and his previous good fills our poorhouses, insane asylums, and close of the conference the brethren re- record. penitentiaries. It creates a class of citi- turned to their homes quite well satis- — Both houses of the Ohio Legislature zens dangerous to life, property, and the fied with the progress made, and deter- have passed a county local option bill, peace and welfare of the State. Honest mined to advance the interests of the which prOvides that a vote upon the labor or harmless recreation upon Sun- work in all departments of the message question of banishing the saloons shall day, however, does nothing to endanger the coming year. If they all walk be taken upon the petition of thirty-five life, property, or the rights of con- humbly with God, and union and har- per cent of the qualified voters of any science." mony prevail, there is no reason why county. A majority of the votes cast The large roll of petitions attracted no we may not expect great things. May shall determine the policy of the county. little notice, and good attention was the Lord bless the work in British It is believed that the governor will given to the reading of the letter. As Columbia. A. J. BREED. sign the bill. far as I could see, there was no evidence of anything but approval. — The commander of the United I am now on the train for an appoint- States naval magazine at Iona Island, Field Notes and Gleanings ment, having felt that it was useless to about seven miles from West Point, has wait longer for the bill to be brought up. BROTHER WILLIAM VOTH reports the received a letter signed " Black Hand," The chairman of the committee which organization of a church of sixteen which threatens to blow up all the members at North Hooker, Okia. now has the bill in charge seems to think magazines of the island if the married that it will not be brought up. We have men who were temporarily discharged asked him to notify us if it is. We feel SEVEN persons have begun keeping January I, are not taken back again. the Sabbath near Stratford, Okla., where sure that good has been done in this There are 3,000,000 pounds of explo- effort, and that truth has been made Brother W. F. Talburt has been holding sives stored in the numerous magazines. meetings in a schoolhouse. known to many. — As a result of finding dynamite It is a sad fact that many, many hon- THE tent-meeting at Graham, Cal., sticks in coal furnished the navy, two est people do not see the principle in- conducted by Brethren S. T. Hare and instances of which have happened within volved in Sunday legislation. May God C. F. Marvin, closed January 13, just the last year, Secretary of the Navy help his people to improve every passing before a gale which would have wrecked Metcalf has written a letter to the coal opportunity to make known the truth. the tent had it been standing. " As a companies supplying the navy with coal, Our work is not simply to defeat certain result of the meetings, eight souls have in which he says that in the future the bills, but to make known the message. accepted the truth. Plans are on foot finding of any dynamite in coal will be We are not to count our work done to secure a lot, erect a chapel, and or- regarded by the department as sufficient when we have secured what signatures ganize a church in that vicinity. The grounds for annulling the contract for we can to oppose a bill, 'but we must prospective membership is about forty furnishing coal to the vessels of the follow the interest awakened by these persons." navy. petitions by placing literature in the 22 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD MARCH 5, 1908 hands of the people which will help them Notice! one of the following books for which he may to understand the final results of this WANTED,— Donations of carpenter tools wish to canvass: " Great Controversy," with which to conduct a carpentry class and " Daniel and the Revelation," " Bible Read- work. I am confident that we have a ings," and " Heralds of the Morning." These work which can not be put off without carry on building operations at the Oak- wood Manual Training-school, Huntsville, books will be thoroughly taught. great loss. The great prohibition move- Ala. Those desiring to help in this way All desiring to attend the institute must ment which is sweeping the country is will please correspond with W. H. Williams, make arrangements previously with the under- a good thing, but unless we do our duty business manager of the above-named school. signed, whose post-office address is 15o East in showing the true principles involved, Lemon St., Lancaster, Pa. our enemies will attach Sunday laws to G. W. HOLMAN. every temperance movement, and the Notice! victory gained for temperance will carry I HAVE been invited by the Southern Union Notice! Sunday with it. It seems to me that Conference to take charge of the canvassing we ought to make our position clear, that work in Kentucky. I expect to go to that NOTICE is hereby given that the fifth annual meeting of the members of the con- everybody should aid prohibition, and State as soon as I can close up my work in stituency of the Review and Herald Publish- oppose Sunday legis- South Carolina. that all should ing Association of Washington, D. C., will be Any one interested in canvassing in Ken- lation. May God help each one in every held in the South Side Seventh-day Adventist place to do his duty. I. A. CRANE. tucky will please write me at once. My address for the present is Campobello, S. C. church, Chicago, Ill., on Monday, March 23, C. F. DART. 1908, at 9 A. H., for the election of officers for the coining year, and for the transaction of National Reformers Seeking such other business as may properly come Office Notice! before the meeting. THE Southern Publishing Association of The following persons are members of this GOVERNOR FOLK, of Missouri, who has Seventh-day Adventists is now ready to corporation: those composing the executive gained notoriety through his enforcement furnish certificates of membership to all committees of the General Conference, the of the State Sunday law, and Judge former stockholders in the Southern Pub- Atlantic Union Conference, the Canadian Wallace, of Kansas City, Mo., who, up lishing Association who have assigned their Union Conference, the Lake Union Confer- the present time — Feb. 17, 1908 stock in that association, and who will write ence, and the Columbia Union Conference of to the Seventh-day Adventists ; those who com- — in his campaign against Sunday labor, to us before July 1, 1908, stating that they desire certificates of membership in the new pose the executive committees of the several has caused two thousand indictments for association.' Address the Southern Publish- local conferences of Seventh-day Adventists alleged violations of the Sunday law ing Association, Nashville, Tenn. within the territory of the afore-mentioned since Sept. 21, 3907, are both Presby- union conferences ; those who compose the terians, and are both, it seems, seeking board of trustees of the Review and Herald Publishing Association; and such persons as higher positions in official life. Gov- Notice! ernor Folk, we are informed, aspires to have received certificates of membership in become a United States Senator, and THE fourth biennial session of the Lake said association. As large an attendance of Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists the membership as possible is desired. Judge Wallace, only the other day, an- will be held at the South Side, Forty-sixth By order of the Board of Trustees, nounced his candidacy for nomination Street, Seventh-day Adventist church, in the W. W. PRESCOTT, President. for governor of Missouri. city of Chicago, March 17-29 inclusive, to Thus men permeated with National elect officers, a board of trustees for the Reform views are seeking positions in Lake Union Conference Association, a con- Business Notices stituency for Emmanuel Missionary College, State and nation whereby they can carry THIS department is conducted especially and to transact any other business coming out and force upon the people their for the accommodation of the Seventh-day within its sphere. church-and-state ideas, and, above all, Adventist readers of this paper. For Executive Committee Lake Union Con- compel the people to keep Sunday. Brief business notices will be published ference, ALLEN MOON, President. W. A. C. subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following — Eastern Pennsylvania Institute Conditions Display advertising, and advertisements THE canvassers' institute which will be which call for agents, will not be accepted, NOTICE3 AND held in Scranton, Pa., March 15-27, will be nor do the publishers solicit advertising of educational in its nature. Brother I. D. any kind for this paper. APPOINTMENTS . Richardson, general agent for the Columbia Any person unknown to the managers of Union Conference, will be present through- out the two weeks. this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. Such Annual Conference A full program for each day has been ar- recommendation should come from one of our ranged, covering an interesting and profitable THE first meeting of the sixth annual ses- ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh- course in the Bible and Testimonies, also in sion of the East Michigan Conference will day Adventist church. It is not enough to the theory, art, and practise of canvassing. convene at the Seventh-day Adventist church, refer to some individual by name. Secure his Flint, Mich., April 6, 5908, at 6 P. H. Every one who has been called to this part recommendation in writing and send it. E. K. SLADE, President; of God's great work, will find this course very profitable. We open no accounts for advertising, and E. I. BEEBE, Secretary. cash must accompany each order. God has a place for every true child of his A charge of one dollar will be made for in finishing the great work of bringing this each insertion of forty words or less. Each last message to the people of this generation. additional word, initial, or group of figures, St. Helena Sanitarium Training-School The question that every one should ask him- In excess of forty, will cost three cents. THE next training-class for missionary self is, " Lord, what will thou have me to No discount for several insertions. nurses begins April 6, 1908. We desire to do?" WANTED.— Man to work on farm ; must correspond with consecrated young people If Moses had refused to be used of God be good milker. Steady work for good man. who desire a training as missionary workers, to deliver his people, the people would have Address Albert Christenson, Bloomfield, Conn. Exceptional opportunities for experience of- been delivered by some other appointed serv- WANTED.— work on farm for eight fered to persons of promise. Address Dr. ant, but Moses would have been rejected. Man to months, beginning about March 20. Wages, H. F. Rand, or Mrs. S. J. Whitney, Sanita- If the Lord has called us to a certain $26 a month, with board and washing. Ad- rium, Napa Co., Cal. work, and we refuse to heed his call, we dress E. L. Nesmith, Florence, S. D. shall likewise be rejected, and shall be held accountable for the souls that we might have WANTED.— Two men to work on farm; Conference Association Notice helped. must be Sabbath-keepers, and experienced in Board, room, and tuition will be free to all the work. Good wages. Address Win. THE first meeting of the regular annual who will enter the work at once as regular Rowse, Hanley, Saskatchewan, Canada. session of the East Michigan Conference As- canvassers. Let all our regular agents at- WANTED.— To correspond with some mis- sociation of the Seventh-day Adventists for tend. Others desiring to attend will be sionary broom-maker who would like to con- the year 1908, will be held in the Seventh-day boarded at a nominal sum. nect with the Cumberland Industrial School Adventist church at Flint, Genesee Co., Mich., An additional five-per-cent commission on and start our broom-making factory. Address Tuesday, April 7, 1908, at 10 A. M. All reg- all sales will be allowed the canvassers who C. G. Howell, Daylight, Tenn. ularly elected delegates to the East Michigan attend the' institute, until they have received Conference (unincoporated) are members of the amount of their railroad fare from home WANTED.— Good man and wife with no the East Michigan Conference Association, to place of institute, thence to field of labor. children, Sabbath-keepers, who can do all and, as such, are entitled to vote on all Each one attending should bring a good kinds of farm work and housework ; com- questions, coming before the meeting. supply of bedding, and two towels, also the mence first. of April, continue until work is E. K. SLADE, President; following books : Bible, " Hymns and Tunes," all done. State wages. Address E. H. How- E. I. BEEBE, Secretary. " Gospel Workers," " Early Writings," and land, R. F. D. 5, Lapeer, Mich. MARCH 5, 1908 ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 23

FOR SALE.— Ripe Olives ; best we have ever FOR SALE.— Purest, most healthful Vege- her home, Elder Sommers, the pastor, offici- had: 8o, 70, and 55 cents a gallon in 5-gal. table Oil for cooking and salads; no odor, ating. The text was Rev. 14: 13. We laid cans. All goods guaranteed. For further keeps indefinitely : gal. can, $1 ; 5-gal. can, her to rest in the Burlington Cemetery, to information, see " ad." in REVIEW of Feb. $4. Also pure virgin Olive-oil : gal., $2.75 ; await the coming of the Life-giver, when 6, 1908. Address W. S. Ritchie, Corona, Cal. half gal., $1.4o ; quart, 85 cents. Lunch Nu- there will be no more death or parting. trena, a hygienic fat and blood producer: MRS. RUBY CAN RIGHT. WANTED.— One or more traveling salesmen I-lb. box, 35 cents; send for samples. Ad- for Pacific Coast territory, experienced in LARGE.— Died at the home of her children, dress E. W. Coates, 535 W. moth St., New handling health foods or kindred lines. Must Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hammond, near Adobe- York City, N. Y. be Seventh-day Adventists. References re- town, Mont., Sarah Large, aged 81 years, quired. Address H. H. Haynes, 105 Sixth 5 months, •and 13 days. Sister Large and her St., Portland, Ore. Addresses husband came to Montana in 1877. Prior to that time they had accepted the third angel's STRAWBERRY PLANTS.— If you are raising THE address of Elder C. A. Hansen is message, in which they remained faithful berries for a near market or raising plants now 220 Michigan St., Petoskey, Mich., in- until the end. Side by side they await the to sell, you should try the Highland. Be a stead of Traverse City. resurrection morning. Four daughters, one leader in your section, and get the High- The clerk of the Seventh-day Adventist brother, and several grandchildren mourn land. Address Geo, Jorgensen & Son, Box church at Halifax, Nova Scotia, desires to their loss. The Episcopal minister kindly to, Poy Sippi, Wis. hear from the following persons before the officiated at the grave. FOR SALE,— Two hundred single-comb R. I. first of April: Mrs. McDonald (formerly I. T. WOODWARD. Red Pullets, $10 per half dozen; also eggs Emma Allison) and Walter Hulbert. Ad- SAVAGE.— Died at his home near Stanton, for hatching: price, fifteen eggs for $1.25 or dress Emily E. McDiarmid, Halifax, Nova Mich., Aranza H. Savage, in his sixty-first $6 per hundred. Address J. A. Miller, Super- Scotia. year. Brother Savage embraced the third intendent South Lancaster Academy Poultry The Peoria (Ill.) church would like to angel's message in the summer of 1904 ; and Farm, South Lancaster, Mass. secure the addresses of the following-named although a great sufferer from rheumatism, persons : Mrs. Emily Botorf, Mrs. Emma WANTED.— A married man to work on being unable to get around for several years, Wheeler, Mrs. Buchanan, and Fred H. farm; to begin sometime in March or first he was a patient, kind father, husband, and Wheeler. It is specially desired that these of April. State wages and give reference. neighbor, and enjoyed the confidence of all persons be heard from within the next three Prefer man of experience, able to go ahead who knew him. We believe he sleeps in months. Address Mrs. Geo. Pringle, Clerk, Jesus. He leaves a wife, several sons and with all kinds of farm work. House and x o6 West Park Place, Peoria, Ill. garden furnished, Address R. W. Osborn, daughters, and many friends to mourn their Tekonsha, Mich. loss. Remarks were made by the writer from 2 Tim, 4: 7, 8. W. R. MATTHEWS. FOR SALE.— Cheap land, easy terms, in Publications Wanted CRANDALL.— Died at his home near Farina, Gulf coast country of southern Texas, on [SPECIAL NOTICE.— We learn that objec- Rio Grande River ; oranges, bananas, etc., tionable literature is being sent in response Ill., Jan. 3, 1908, Albert Charles Crandall, growing; wonderful opportunity, several crops to these requests, and urge all to examine in his eighty-third year. In his youth he was converted, and was baptized. He never a year. Good missionary field. Send two with special care any periodicals or pam- united with a church, but in belief he was stamps for literature. Address A. W. Lane, phlets received outside of our well-known de- a Seventh-day Adventist. His hope, in view Brownsville, Tex. nominational publications. Be sure that the literature which you distribute teaches the of approaching death, is expressed in Phil. WANTED.— Partner to invest $2,000 to 3 : 9. This is a great comfort to his wife and truth.— En.] $3,000, interest in mill and box factory. five children. The funeral service was held The following persons desire late, clean Center great fruit district (Oregon). Rail at the Seventh-day Baptist church, •the pastor copies of our publications, post-paid : — and water transportation. Must be Seventh- of the church speaking from the words, " I day Adventist man with reference. Address S. E. Savage, Dayton, Wash., Liberty, am the resurrection and the life." W. A. Dimick, 509 West Eighteenth St., Watchman, and tracts. WILLARD D. BURDICK, Vancouver, Wash. W. E. Carter, Belhaven, N. C., Signs, Pastor Farina S. D. B. church. Watchman, Instructor, tracts and pamphlets. FOR SALE.— Pleasant home in the cele- GARRETT.— Died at her home in Benton brated Santa Clara Valley : 3 acres ; 4-room B. L. Anderson, Kulangsu, Amoy, China, Harbor, Mich., Jan. to, 1908, Julia Garrett, house and new barn, water piped to both; Signs, Watchman, Life and Health, for ship nee Jardee. Sister Garrett was born in choice family orchard, rich soil; near pros- work. Foreign postage 'must be prepaid. Oswego, N. Y., in 1835. In early life she and perous railroad town, having Seventh-day Ad- Mrs. Robert Henry, Riverton, Va., Signs. her husband were members of the Catholic ventist church. Price, $1,200. Address M. H. Watchman, Life and Health, and Liberty, Church; later they united with the Baptists, Brown, Morganhill, Cal. for use in racks in depot. and about twenty years ago became members FOR SALE.— Peanut Butter, 10 cents a Florence E. Howard, 155 Orange Ave., of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, of which pound; Olive-oil, $2.50 a gallon; 5o pounds Irvington, N. J., Signs, Little Friend, Watch- they were faithful members until death. Cocoanut Oil, $7.50 ; Vegetable Cooking Oil, man, etc.; also foreign tracts and periodicals. She was the mother of sixteen children, eight of whom survive her. The funeral was held to pounds, $1.10 ; 6o pounds, $6. Cash with Mrs. Isaac Reinhardt, Floral, Kan., Signs, at the Seventh-day Adventist church at Ben- order. All absolutely pure. If west of the Instructor, Little Friend, and religious liberty ton Harbor. The writer spoke words of Rockies, write us. Address Vegetarian Meat literature, to distribute and place in depot. Company, Washington, D. C. comfort. W. E. VIDETO. FOR SALE.— We have just received a large PHELPS.— Died at her home at Willis, number of beautiful imported Bible Cards Mich., Jan. 13, 1908, of heart failure, direct from the land of art for the homes. Ohituarirs Blanch S. Phelps, aged 26 years, to months, We will mail twelve different cards to any and 21 days. When sixteen years of age she accepted present truth, and was faithful address on receipt of 81. All have a bou- ?<"WAGGO NER.— Died in Burlington, Mic " till death. She was highly esteemed by all, quet of flowers, as well as large silver letters. Feb. 8, 1908, Mariette Waggoner, widow of and although the only one of the family pro- Address H. A. Co., Lock Box 257, Hampton, the late Elder J. H. Waggoner, aged 84 years, fessing Christianity, yet by her consistent Iowa. month, and 28 days. She was born in life she showed what Christ in the heart will SOUTHERN California honey lacks some of Alexandria, Jefferson Co., N. Y., Dec. to, do. Her Bible was her only source of com- its usual fine flavor this year, but what we 1823, and was married to J. H. Waggoner in fort, as her health would not permit her to April, 1844. She embraced the Sabbath truth have •to offer gives good satisfaction. The mingle with her young associates. A large in 1851, in Wisconsin. They moved to Mich- palbduct produced from No. 1 Spanish pea- number of relatives and friends gathered at nuts, namely, Royal Peanut Butter, is at its igan in 1855, and three years later settled in the funeral in the church, where words of best. Write for quotations. Address Cleve- Burlington, where she has lived for fifty comfort were spoken by the writer from Isa. land Health Food Co., 112 Central Ave., years. Mother was in Switzerland with fa- 57: 1, 2. C. N. SANDERS. Cleveland, Ohio. ther at the time of his death, which was a great shock to her, and from which she never HUTCHINS.— Died at her home in Fen- FOR SALE.— Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure fully recovered. She was very active and ville, Mich., Sept. 13, 1907, Laura C. Hutch- and healthful ; no odor ; keeps indefinitely : ambitious, and was able to be around the ins, née Hudson. Sister Hutchins was born 5-gal. can, $3.5o ; Io-gal. can, $7; crate house until within three days of her death, in Hudson, Ohio, in 1828. In 1845 she came 86 cents a gal.; 6o cents of 8 one-gal. cans, when, on the morning of the fifth, in walking to Fenville, Mich., where she taught the first bbl. and bbl. lots ; 3o gal. and 5o a gal. in ,A across the floor she suddenly lost the use school ever held in the place. She was gal. shipped direct from factory at Louisville, of her limbs, •and falling to the floor, broke quite noted locally for her poems on pioneer Ky. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., the bone in her left leg just below the hip. days. She was a direct descendant of Henry Box 442, Louisville, Ky. She failed rapidly, and on the seventh at noon Hudson, the navigator; also of John Rogers, FOR SALE.— Buff and White Orpington lost consciousness. She remained in that the well-known martyr of Bloody Queen eggs, $2 for 15. A few Buff cockerels and condition until the evening after the Sabbath, Mary's time. Fifty-seven years ago (185o) Barred Plymouth Rock hens left, at $r each. when death released her. She leaves one Sister Hutchins accepted the truths of the We have shipped successfully to all parts of brother, five children, fifteen grandchildren, third angel's message, and was faithful unto the United States. Order early, or you will and sixteen great-grandchildren, to mourn death. She was the mother of eight children, not be able to get eggs. Satisfaction guar- their loss, and yet we do not mourn as those five of whom are living. The writer spoke anteed. Address Union College Poultry who have no hope. The funeral was held on words of comfort to a large company of Yards, College View, Neb. the eleventh, at the Methodist church near relatives and friends. W. E. VIDETO. ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD MARCH 5, 1908

Mission Board. Kindly read the enclo- tional work. The cause has thus lost sures forwarded with the reading, as a valued laborer, and one well loved they are important. by those who knew him. Our sympa- thies are extended to the bereaved wife WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 5, 1908 ELDER W. A. SPICER left Washington and sorrowing relatives. . N, W. PRESCOTT 1.1.1,11 • on February 26 to attend the general C. M. SNOW c. ASSOCIATE ED/TOEs meeting of the Central American Mis- ELDER F. M. DANA, of Vermont, has W. A. SPICER t sion, which is to be held in Honduras, been appointed to the position of sec- March 5-15. This will be a camp-meet- retary of the Young People's Depart- CONTENTS ing, and the first, we believe, that has ment of the Atlantic Union Conference, Editorial also field secretary of missionary work. Announcement — Simple and Wonder- ever been held in that field. Brother ful -- The First Place — Contrasts Spicer will be away from the Office He will be located at South Lancaster,. and Counterfeits, No. r — An Outside about a month on this trip. Mass. View — The Korean Outlook — A Con- vincing Admission — Doing Penance 3-7 THERE is progress in the book work General Articles A HEARING has been promised the The Last Call for Reapers (poetry), in other fields as well as the home field. advocates and opponents of those Sun- Mrs. Edith B. Goodrich 8 The report from Mexico for 1907 shows Eternal Riches, Mrs. E. G. White 8 day bills now before Congress, to take a marked increase over the report for " The Meeting Is Yours," Max Hill 8 place on Friday, March 13. This hear- The Bible in Education, No. 5, M. E. the previous year, the sales for the first ing will be held before the Commission- Kern 9 eleven months amounting to $1,724.41. The Science of True Government, J. 0. ers of the District of Columbia previous The workers in that field are planning Corliss 9 to their recommendations to Congress on The Ax Laid at the Root of the Trees, to increase their printing facilities also. No. i, R. C. Porter I 0 the matter. There will be a speech of What Youth and Children Can Do for twenty minutes by one representative of E. H. Gates II Missions, each view, to be followed by five-minute SOME changes have been made in the Aids for Bible Readers editorial management of the Watchman, Newly Discovered Jewish Documents in speeches pro and con by others inter- 11-12 and the published card now reads as Egypt ested in the proposed legislation. Sena- follows: L. A. Smith, editor; E. J. Home and Health tor Gallinger, chairman of the Senate Burnham, associate editor; G. I. Butler, My All and in All (poetry), Dan D. Lyons 13 District Committee before which these P. T. Magan, corresponding editors. Drugs, L. J. Otis, M. D 13 bills may possibly come, has stated that Brother Smith, our former esteemed as- Poosident Lincoln as a Temperance this hearing will be a long and hard one. sociate on the REVIEW, has been doing Man 13 excellent work on the Watchman as as- Dangers Attached to Eating Raw Foods sociate editor, and his promotion is well and Fruit Skins 14 deserved. UNLESS some unexpected delay oc- The World-Wide Field Guy curred in the sailing of the steamship The North German Conference, FOR the benefit of any of our readers 14 " Minnesota," the following party sailed Dail who might be desirous of securing the General Meeting in Siang Cheng, A. C. from Seattle, Wash., for China, Mon- Selmon 14 printed proceedings of the Medical Mis- Tamil Sabbath-keepers of South India, day, March 2: Dr. H. W. Miller and sionary Convention held at Loma Linda J. S. James 15 wife, Elder R. F. Cottrell and wife, last October, we would say that these The Field Work Bert. A. Roberts and wife, Mrs. B. have been issued in pamphlet form, and The Southwestern Union Conference — Moultrup and son, and Miss Pauline can be obtained by sending fifteen cents to the Pacific Union Conference, Moun- Burma — Central Union Conference — Schilberg. This party will doubtless be China — Financial Statements of the tain View, Cal. The pamphlet contains General Conference — A Promising distributed in the provinces of Honan III pages of well-printed matter, and Field — British Columbia — Canvass- and Hunan. The Pacific Press releases gives a comprehensive summary of the ers' Summary for x9o8 17-2o Brother Roberts and wife from their addresses and papers given at that con- vention, together with the discussions Christian' Liberty Department office staff, to assist in the Chinese Religious Liberty Work in Oklahoma and the resolutions adopted. — National Reformers Seeking Office.21-22 printing-office. Other stations in China Miscellaneous 22-23 are in fully as great need of help as those in the provinces named, and other NONE should overlook the very in- teresting report given on page 15 by THE first Sabbath following the date workers, it is hoped, may go forward at an early date. Miss Dehn, a nurse from Brother James concerning his recent of this paper will be Missionary Vol- visit among the Tamil Sabbath-keepers unteer day. It is to be hoped that all the St. Helena Sanitarium, sailed with of South India. Next week further il- our churches are planning for appropri- this party, to join the workers in the lustrations showing their church build- ate services on that day. A suggestive sanitarium at Kobe, Japan. ing, its interior and fixtures, together with the description of a Sabbath da's program will be found on page 20 of services, will be given in an article by last week's issue of the REVIEW. A TELEGRAM from Mrs. Jessie K. Os- Brother Enoch. Those who are not re- ceiving the REVIEW at the present time borne, dated Escondido, Cal., February are losing much. Surely the evidences THE Mission Board is mailing the 26, brings the sad intelligence of the multiply all about us that God's special second Sabbath missionary reading for death of her husband, Brother Howard blessing is attending the work in all March to all the isolated Sabbath-keep- E. Osborne, at that place on February lands. ers whose names are upon their lists. 24. He had been ill but one week, suffer- This reading is a description of the visit ing from an attack of typhoid fever. Readings for Missionary Volun- of 0111* workers in India among the Tamil Brother Osborne, though a comparatively teer Day Sabbath-keepers of that country. In young man, was well known among our THE readings for Missionary Volun- case some who have not church priv- people, having been connected with our teer day are in the• Instructor dated ileges fail to receive this reading, please religious liberty work in an official ca- March 3, 1908. It may be necessary correspond with your State conference pacity both at New York and at Chicago, in some places to postpone the service one week, though the or tract society secretary, that your holding for two years the office of sec- Instructor of that date was mailed February 21. It will names may be placed upon his list of retary of the General Conference, and not be distributed, however, in the Sab- isolated members, and thus furnished the laboring in the ministerial and educa- bath-schools until March 7.