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Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 35.

Christ's Commission
Earlier text: Suggestions in Home Discipline

The Wabash Valley Sanitarium

By W. A. Ruble, M. D.

It has just been my privilege to spend a few days at our sanitarium at La Fayette, Ind. Although I had heard much of this young institution and its beautiful location, I had never comprehended half of the beauty of the place.
WABASH VALLEY SANITARIUM, LA FAYETTE, IND.
WABASH VALLEY SANITARIUM, LA FAYETTE, IND.
Located three miles from the thriving city of La Fayette, with its twenty-two thousand people, the second wealthiest city of its size in the United States, and in the midst of the richest farming country, it has a favorable field from which to draw patronage. From its picturesque situation on the banks of the Wabash at the foot of the wooded bluffs that skirt that river, it has one of the most beautiful views of fertile valley and river scenery imaginable. The native forest trees are especially beautiful. I counted on the spacious lawn in front of the sanitarium over twenty varieties of native trees.
The institution consists of a substantially built brick building three stories high above the basement, and three cottages, one of which is crowded with the helpers, another occupied by the physician, and another used as laundry. There are about twenty-four rooms for guests, besides public rooms for patients. The treatment-rooms, laboratory, and helpers' dining-room are in the basement; the parlor, offices, dining-room, and serving-room are on the first floor; and the guest chambers are on the second and third floors.
The medical staff consists of Dr. W. W. Worster (superintendent), and Dr. Lucinda Marsh. Mr. Harry Sanders is the business manager. About twenty nurses and six or eight other helpers find employment here.
The offices and treatment-rooms are well equipped with all necessary apparatus for giving scientific treatments, and a spirit of thrift is manifest everywhere.
The capacity of the institution and the endurance of the helpers have been tested to the utmost the past few months on account of the large patronage. Able to accommodate about twenty-four patients, they have managed to care for thirty-five or forty patients this summer. Several tents have been called into requisition in order to meet the demands.
The grounds are quite spacious, comprising about twenty-five acres, reaching from the hilltops back of the sanitarium down to the river's edge. This furnishes pasture land, some garden ground, and extensive lawns. One special feature is the pure water-supply furnished by the many copious springs in the vicinity. The river furnishes excellent opportunity for bathing and swimming to those who care to indulge in this most invigorating exercise.
Surrounding towns are of easy access to the institution, by means of the electric cars, which pass a few rods from the front door. Excellent opportunities are offered for doing missionary work. A number of villages are near at hand. The State soldiers' home is situated on a hill a mile or two away. This is one of the largest and best-arranged homes for the care of soldiers in the United States. There are about twelve hundred aged soldiers and widows cared for in the home, which is built on the cottage plan.
In addition to the work done at the sanitarium, the institution maintains treatment-rooms in the city of La Fayette. These are beautifully fitted up, and enjoy a good patronage. Two nurses are kept busy in these rooms.
The institution has been abundantly blessed of God during its entire history, but especially the last few months. It has been able to earn several hundred dollars above current expenses this season, for which all are truly thankful.
W. A. RUBLE, M. D.

The Training of Medical Missionary Workers

By S. P. S. Edwards

I HAVE been much interested in the proper training of physicians for our work. As I have been thinking of the work, I felt that I must write a few lines on this question, to be used if thought of sufficient interest.
It seems to me that it is not so much a question of what school one is graduated from, though that has a vital influence on the nature of the work done by a physician; neither does the matter of previous nurses’ training nor internships in our sanitariums determine the efficiency of a physician. The physicians who occupy positions in our institutions, and who go out as representatives of our denominational work, should not be mere professional men, but in the strictest sense, medical missionaries. The health reform work, including dress reform, diet reform, proper methods of treatment for the sick, and all other phases on which the Lord has given us special light, is a part of the third angel’s message, just as much as are the prophecies, the Sabbath question, or the tithing system. This is a thing that we must have so thoroughly impressed upon us that when we get at our work as physicians, and come up against a problem as to what we shall do in a given case, it will not be a question so much as to what some authority has said, but the first and most important question will be, “What would Jesus do?” What has the Lord said in regard to this matter? Is it right or wrong from the light given us as a people?
Why should we indorse the work of physicians, or employ them in our institutions, simply because they are professed Seventh-day Adventists, if they know but little, or perhaps nothing, of what the Lord has taught us as to right living and right principles in the cure of the sick, or if, knowing these things, they fail to realize that these principles are a vital part of the gospel for these days, and that God will hold each one responsible for the way he relates himself to them?
There are doctors who, before their study of medicine, had taken a thorough nurses’ course and received a thorough knowledge of physiologic methods and of health reform in general, but were found more expert in the use of the hypodermic and in the subject of materia medica, than in hydrotherapy, massage, or proper dietetics. Such physicians give a low religious standard to the work with which they may be connected, neglect the missionary side of the physician’s work, and overlook the proper training of nurses. The work of some physicians is defective, not because of deficient sanitarium training, but because they are not thoroughly converted to the whole message. And he who fails to live up to God’s truth in one particular will fail in others. Not only will such a physician find it easier to give drugs to his patients, but also easier to forget to pray with and for them, and, after a while, it will be easier to give up the whole truth and go where he can make bigger wages, and not have to bother with diet and treatments and religious work.
What we need is a thorough study of the foundation principles of the truth, the instruction that God has given us as to what and how to do for our patients, and also what not to do. Then we shall not find so frequent occasion to use morphin, strychnin, arsenic, whisky, port wine, sleeping-powders, ad nauseam.
We need also to know that this instruction is not given to us for our amusement, or to be accepted or rejected as we see best; but that when God speaks, he holds us accountable if we neglect to study the truth, and then with prayer and hard work, put it into practise.
We may say that it is not an easy thing to throw aside drugs, improper food, dress, etc., and use only what the Lord has told us to use. True, but how often have we seen apparent impossibilities accomplished, to God’s glory, when we have by faith done what we knew, and prayed for wisdom to do more! Many a time, more wisdom has been acquired by a few minutes on bended knees before God, than from hours of study of the materia medica or the world’s greatest authors.
Let those whom God calls to enter the medical missionary work as physicians get all the training possible, in medical schools, in our institutions, and in whatever avenues may open; but any and all of this will avail little if there is not a realization of what is God’s truth, and of the physician’s relation to it.
It has been said that the medical missionary evangelist can do ten times as much good as the evangelist without the medical training. The devil knows this better than we, and is doing all he can to prevent all who enter the medical work from becoming useful workers, by blinding their eyes to the relation which the principles of health reform, and the instruction given in regard to it, sustain to the rest of the message; by keeping them in ignorance of what these principles are; and by making wrong principles and his methods so much easier and more convenient that some in their love of ease, will do the easiest thing, and neglect the good, hard mental effort which would enable them to know God’s way, and the good, hard physical effort which would enable them to do God’s way.
Is there a company of workers that needs the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, with wisdom, with a spirit of service, with a spirit of hard study and complete surrender of the old ideas and ways to God’s ways and methods, more than does this body of medical workers? Will not a complete and whole-hearted belief of what God has said in the instruction given by the spirit of prophecy, and a doing of that, simplify the question of the training of workers? Without that belief, with any amount of training, they will soon settle back into the old ruts; but with it, even without the special training, any worker who will take the instruction given us and study it carefully and prayerfully, will find ways and means of doing the right thing at the right time; and I believe that such study will result in new light and new methods, which will astonish the world, and we shall not have to depend so much on worldly authors. The best ideas in regard to rational therapeutics did not originate with the great medical men of the world, but with such humble, praying men as Pastor Kneipp, and Priessnetz, and John Wesley. Why should Seventh-day Adventist medical missionaries be backward in seeking God for light and wisdom?
Let us praise God for what he has given us, and let us seek forgiveness for our slowness to believe, and let us seek for the Holy Spirit to lead us to all the truth he has for us, is my earnest prayer.
S. P. S. EDWARDS, M. D.

South India

By J. S. James

God's prospering hand has been with us the last two months, and the work is going forward in these parts. He has given us sunshine with the showers, and a golden sunset to follow the day of clouds. Marvelous is this school of life by which God is preparing us now for the life equal in span to his.
The work on our bungalow is fast drawing to a close. I mean “fast” in the Eastern acceptance of that term. The roof is on, and the inside is plastered throughout. The plasterers begin on the outside to-morrow, while the carpenters begin hanging the doors and windows. If I mistake not, this is the first building of any consequence erected by mission funds for our work in the empire. I hope to have a cut made for publication, so that all may have a partial view of the results of our efforts. The work has been very tedious and trying from the first, but God has graciously come to our aid in every time of perplexity. We drew our first plans for the work the twenty-ninth of February last. By the time you read these lines, if there is no unusual delay, the building will be done. This has taken us through four and one-half months of the hottest weather. Some two weeks after the work was begun, I found it necessary to take the personal supervision of the enterprise in order to save ourselves a considerable loss. This compelled me to be constantly going and coming in the sun at all hours of the day, giving orders to bricklayers, carpenters, stonemasons, etc., and seeing that no work was slighted. Being thus thrown into a strange work, with a strange language and strange methods of dealing, together with material such as I have never seen used in building, it can be seen at a glance that I have had no small task to deal with.
Our dispensary work continues to grow, and its influence has gone for miles around. The average number of cases treated each month is two thousand. This does not include the outside calls, of which we have many. Two hours a day—8:30 to 10:30 A. M.—are spent in this work. Our working force consists of Miss Shryock, Mrs. James, and a young native woman. When the work is heavy, I lend a hand. All of the outside work has fallen to me thus far. We are establishing a circle of friends among both Christians and Hindus in many of the adjacent villages, and many have urged me to come and preach the gospel to them.
These people seem starved for the Word of God. Many are only waiting until we are located in our new home to attend our meetings. J. S. JAMES.
Tinnevelli District.

Medical Missionary Department

By W. A. Ruble

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference
W. A. RUBLE, M. D.  Secretary

Notes of Progress

By M. E. K.

THERE are now five Missionary Volunteer societies in Georgia, with a membership of sixty-two.
An interesting bit of news from the Missionary Volunteers in Fiji says that they are conducting branch Sabbath-schools.
At the close of the temperance rally held during the southern Idaho camp-meeting one hundred signed the temperance pledge.
The Missionary Volunteer Society at Mountain View, Cal., is donating fifteen dollars a month toward the support of a missionary in India.
From Minnesota the cheering word comes, “We believe that there are brighter prospects before us in the young people’s work this year.”
One of our workers in California placed the Temperance Instructor in the hands of Mr. Chafin, Prohibition candidate for United States president.
The young people in New South Wales are supporting a Bible worker in Java. Not long ago the Victoria Missionary Volunteers presented the Java Mission with an organ and a typewriter.
The Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Southeastern Union Conference started the Foreign Mission Seminary scholarship fund in each of her conferences by giving a share to the credit of each conference.
From the Tahiti Mission comes these words: “Our young people have decided to work among the French people here this coming quarter. We have ordered four copies of the French Signs of the Times for that purpose.”
A temperance rally was held in connection with the camp-meeting in British Columbia, and though only about seventy people were encamped on the grounds, yet, at the close of the meeting, five hundred copies of the Temperance Instructor were sold in a few minutes.
The Missionary Volunteers of Kansas have almost completed a fund of three hundred seventy-five dollars, for sanitarium equipments to be used in the work among the Tamils in South India. The Kansas young people next plan to raise two hundred fifty dollars for missionary work in China.
A number of subscriptions have been received from Oklahoma for the Jugendfreund, the German young people’s paper which has just been started in South America. Let other German young people follow this example, ordering through the German Conference. The price is forty cents a year.
The president of the Indiana Conference reports a very profitable convention at the Beechwood Manual Training Academy. It was attended by about one hundred young people. He says, “I think that I have never met a brighter, more consecrated, class of young people in all my experience.”
From Miss Edith Graham, of the Australasian Union Conference, comes the following interesting temperance item: “There is considerable agitation on the subject of temperance out here. The ‘No License Campaign’ in New Zealand, recently, was a very successful one; in fact, if the thing had gone on the bare majority vote, New Zealand would have declared for prohibition from north to south, but as it requires a three-fifths majority to carry it, they were short in a number of places. Still, the gain was very encouraging, and I believe that something like one hundred fifty hotels will be closed next July as the result of the campaign. Here in New South Wales there is considerable agitation over the subject. There was a referendum taken a year or two ago, of which our people here availed themselves. I understand that it is likely there will be another referendum taken in the near future, and I hope that it will show considerable gain over the last one, which called for quite a reduction of the number of licenses given in many districts.”
M. E. K.

Life Is What We Are Alive To

“LIFE is what we are alive to. It is not length, but strength. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, God, and eternal hopes, is to be all but dead.”

Young People's Work

By M. E. Kern; Matilda Erickson

Conducted by the Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department of the General Conference
M. E. KERN     -     -     -     -     Secretary
MATILDA ERICKSON                 Corresponding Secretary

Food for the Mind

By Milton E. Kern

PARENTS who are very careful to supply their children with plenty of wholesome physical food, sometimes neglect the mental and spiritual, which is most important. To shield our young people from evil influences, and to furnish them with materials for intellectual and spiritual growth, they should be supplied with good books adapted to their age and experience.
“Unless greater care is manifested in choosing their [the children's] associates and the literature which feeds the mind, they will be exposed to a society whose morals are as corrupt as were the morals of the inhabitants of Sodom.”—Mrs. E. G. White, in Signs of the Times, April 21, 1890.
To help our children and young people in the choice of good literature and to encourage systematic and thorough reading, the Missionary Volunteer reading courses have been started. Like all opportunities, this one must be seized at the opportune time, which is now.
The courses this year, beginning in October, are as follows:—

Missionary Volunteer Reading Course No. 3

“Quiet Talks on Service,” by S. D. Gordon. Cloth, seventy-five cents.
“The Moslem World,” by Samuel Zwemer. Cloth, fifty cents; paper, thirty-five cents.
“Great Second Advent Movement,” by J. N. Loughborough. Cloth, $1.25; paper, fifty cents.

Junior Reading Course No. 2

“Letters From the Holy Land,” by Walter Harper. Cloth, fifty cents; paper, twenty-five cents.
Three Historical Books of the Bible.
“My Garden Neighbors,” by L. A. Reed. Cloth, $1.
Note the advertisement of these books in the Instructor of September 7.
No young person who has any leisure time (and all of us squander many precious moments) can afford to miss taking one of these courses. And let the parents and young people unite in this educational effort. All will be benefited, and parents and children will be brought nearer together through this means.
Your Missionary Volunteer secretary can furnish you the enrolment blanks and leaflets giving full information in regard to these courses. There will be no cost except for the books and the Youth's Instructor. Outlines to assist in the reading will begin in the Instructor of October 5. Enrol your names with your Missionary Volunteer secretary at once, and order at least the first book, that you may begin promptly.
M. E. K.

Why the Reading Course Makes Friends

“INDEED I took the course this year. I liked the other one so much that I could not afford to miss this one.”
“The course has been of inestimable value to me. From it I have learned to depend upon God for guidance and help even in the little things of life. I have learned to pray more when difficulties and trials are hardest.”
“It almost makes me desire to become a foreign missionary.”
“The course has given me a broader, better view of the message.”
“Even though I am so busy with my school work and daily duties, I do not feel that I can afford to miss the Reading Course. Although I did not finish the other course, I was greatly benefited by the part that I finished.”
The Reading Course is perhaps the most interesting of all the lines of work in our field. The young people seem to thoroughly enjoy it. One boy became so interested in the study of “Great Controversy” that he did the required work a second time.—Lillie George, South Missouri.
I have received letters from many of our young people telling of the blessing which the reading of “Great Controversy” has brought to them, and of the determination that it has given them to be something more, and do a definite work for the Lord.—S. Lela Hoover, Western Washington.
Nothing seems to have interested our young people more than the Reading Course. One young girl became so much interested in Bible study in connection with the course that she committed the book of John to memory.—Helen McKinnon, Alabama.
One young lady in our conference stated recently that when she started the Reading Course, she was only an Adventist because her parents were. After the study of “Great Controversy,” she said that she had felt the saving power of God and was an Adventist because of her own experience. She has since been the means of stirring up a real missionary spirit in her church, and has recently organized a Missionary Volunteer Society of ten members. We have some young men in the canvassing field to-day, who, I believe, received their inspiration from studying “Great Controversy” in the Reading Course.—Lesley Shoup, Southern New England.
One young lady attended South Lancaster Academy as a direct result of the interest which the Reading Course gave her in the work of the Lord.—Mrs. Lee S. Wheeler, Central New England.
Those who have once taken the Reading Course always want to take it again.—Mrs. R. W. McMahan, Indiana.
In one of our churches a family took up the Reading Course. There were four children in that family, and to-day they are all in school as one of the direct results of the Reading Course. This course sets an ideal before our young people, and gives them something to work to.—W. E. Straw, Michigan.
The Reading Course has been a great blessing to me as a canvasser. It has helped me to keep in mind the different doctrinal points as well as many scriptures, and has also given me new courage to press on in the Lord’s work.—George J. Scharff, British Columbia.
The Reading Course has been a great help to me in remembering texts of Scripture and keeping points of truth in mind.—Viola White, British Columbia.
The Reading Course has helped me to gain a clearer view of the whole question of the great controversy between good and evil. From the reading of “Great Controversy” I have gained a knowledge of some of the skilful ways of Satan in leading people astray, and the means by which we may successfully withstand him.—Lydia Stickle, British Columbia.
I believe that the reading of “Great Controversy” has been a great spiritual uplift to our young people.—O. A. Hall, Nebraska.
One young girl in our conference decided to take up the Reading Course last fall. She entered high school, but soon found that her school work was taking the time she should devote to studying the Reading Course. Her mother went to the principal of the school, and told him that her daughter must drop some of her work. He urged that it would take her much longer to finish school if she did not follow the outlined course, but the mother told him her daughter had something more important to study at home. If parents could only realize the help that the course gives, it would be a great blessing to our work.—Mrs. Bessie J. Rice, New York.

Examinations for Standard of Attainment

By M. E. K.

The Standard of Attainment examinations in Bible doctrine and denominational history are given by the church elders during the first week of March and September. Let all who are ready to take one or both of these examinations apply to their church elder at once, that he may secure from the conference Missionary Volunteer secretary lists of the questions. M. E. K.

Trouble and Sorrow

“TROUBLE and Sorrow are not near of kin. Trouble distrusteth God, and ever wears Upon her brow the seal of many cares. But Sorrow oft hath deepest peace within. She sits with Patience in perpetual calm, Waiting till Heaven shall send the healing balm.”

Carry Your Present Load

“CARRY your present load firmly, correctly, cheerfully, and some one will surely note at the proper time that you are equal to a larger one.”

Canvassers’ Summary for July, 1909

Atlantic Union Conference
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
Central New England 16 918 170 $1097.95 $1367.05
Southern New England 7 516 97 354.50 323.15
Maine 10 517 134 626.25 851.50
New York 13 670 130 563.50 1745.35
Western New York 24 1600 428 1743.50 1874.85
Greater New York 6 160 96 217.75 1121.60
Vermont 14 1275 204 765.70 387.15
Totals 90 5656 1259 5369.15 7670.65
Columbia Union Conference
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
Ohio 21 2188 865 1874.40 1097.45
Eastern Pennsylvania 18 1494 669 1485.10 1049.73
Chesapeake 18 1520 458 1099.80 2094.95
New Jersey 17 1281 483 1085.40 2866.20
West Virginia 11 910 251 863.10 399.08
West Pennsylvania 8 635 275 683.90 568.55
Virginia 8 503 130 371.85 1473.79
Totals 101 8531 3131 7463.55 9549.75
Lake Union Conference
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
Wisconsin 15 1118 282 898.35 1555.10
Southern Illinois 13 919 218 1196.75 563.80
Northern Illinois 7 493 101 330.40 914.15
West Michigan 7 370 28 555.85 380.75
Indiana 18 1265 377 1183.75 614.15
North Michigan 23 1976 429 968.35 233.20
East Michigan 13 694 411 720.00 1667.05
Totals 96 6835 1846 5853.45 5928.20
Canadian Union Conference
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
Maritime 10 811 415 823.00 1477.80
Newfoundland 1 90 124 200.00 ....
Quebec 1 59 45 165.30 30.75
Ontario 6 499 225 620.85 1440.85
Totals 18 1459 809 1809.15 2949.40
Southern Union Conference
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
Alabama 15 1160 806 1615.80 1559.10
Kentucky 13 1681 704 1361.05 1448.50
Louisiana 15 981 358 627.55 434.15
Mississippi 10 810 290 704.05 642.90
Tennessee River 5 817 472 636.15 758.45
Totals 58 5449 2630 4944.60 4843.10
Southeastern Union Conference
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
Cumberland 17 1169 488 774.70 723.85
Georgia 11 498 81 569.95 749.55
North Carolina 15 921 415 854.65 438.25
South Carolina 6 391 180 231.60 708.30
Florida 2 10 17 17.75 622.25
Totals 51 2989 1181 2448.65 3242.20
Southwestern Union Conference
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
Oklahoma 29 2313 786 2511.75 3057.70
Arkansas 23 1928 672 1688.30 2280.00
Texas 48 2772 1280 4031.75 5112.25
West Texas 6 509 201 646.25 574.75
New Mexico 3 226 386 361.75 370.20
Totals 109 7748 3325 9239.80 11394.90
Central Union Conference
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
North Missouri 13 854 270 1154.75 ....
South Missouri 26 1592 600 1970.30 1563.85
Kansas 13 999 308 2229.35 3016.25
West Colorado 12 418 131 519.35 ....
East Colorado 6 306 76 256.40 724.40
Nebraska 20 2055 799 2518.50 1838.75
Wyoming 7 790 348 1250.10 939.90
Totals 97 7014 2532 9898.75 8083.15
Northern Union Conference
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
Minnesota 18 2200 564 1864.35 4194.37
Iowa 21 2156 410 1326.95 1284.55
North Dakota 14 1981 796 2743.85 2267.55
South Dakota 20 2665 653 2310.60 3451.77
Totals 73 9002 2423 8245.75 11198.24
Western Canadian Union Conference
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
Alberta 8 396 214 $673.35 $329.05
British Columbia . .... .... .... ....
Manitoba 5 601 277 919.75 1200.00
Saskatchewan 4 325 158 521.45 1078.10
Totals 17 1322 649 2114.55 3839.90
Pacific Union Conference
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
California-Nevada 28 1785 1275 3211.80 1937.10
Southern California 10 638 307 784.50 740.45
Arizona .. .... .... .... ....
Utah .. .... .... .... 199.50
Totals 38 1423 1582 3996.30 2877.05
North Pacific Union Conference
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
Western Washington 20 911 470 1578.75 3759.65
Western Oregon 9 933 384 927.10 4543.15
Upper Columbia 17 958 368 1321.40 1760.85
Southern Idaho 10 714 320 883.05 386.95
Montana 10 644 267 986.15 761.60
Alaska 2 247 76 314.65 ....
Totals 68 4407 1885 6011.10 11212.20
AGENTS HOURS ORDERS 1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
Latin Union Conference 11 1802 6507 183.45 1157.70
British Union Conference 100 7345 2458 6550.40 6529.96
Australasian Union Conference 66 4699 1493 5927.15 4811.05
German Union Conference 278 .... .... 6769.95 7078.56
Russian Union Conference 31 .... .... 943.09 ....
Mexican Mission 7 704 522 695.20 108.04
Scandinavian Union Conference 115 14542 8611 6745.17 10246.79
Japan (4 months) 12 5209 .... 235.00 ....
West Indian Union .. .... .... .... 8197.33
China Mission .. .... .... .... 73.12
1909 VALUE 1908 VALUE
Totals North American union conferences $67,394.80 $82,788.74
Totals foreign union conferences and missions 28,050.41 38,185.15
Grand totals $95,445.21 $120,973.89

Comparative Summary

1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
January $14,000.00 $21,000.00 $26,325.50 $25,929.06 $40,677.05
February 10,000.00 15,000.00 26,369.61 30,496.40 48,748.21
March 12,000.00 18,000.00 36,253.65 36,390.09 52,703.65
April 10,000.00 24,000.00 35,276.76 43,858.29 55,109.54
May 24,000.00 37,000.00 51,097.51 67,455.44 82,971.94
June 31,000.00 46,000.00 65,317.23 82,878.67 124,412.34
July 35,000.00 52,218.04 75,691.57 120,973.89 95,445.21

The Summary

By E. R. P.

For the first time this year our summary is below the one for the corresponding month last year. For the encouragement of our agents, we should explain, however, that this falling off is only apparent. Last year the June report was for four weeks, and the July report for five. This year the June report is for five weeks, and the July report for four. Therefore, if we change about the reports for these two months, we shall find them, taken together, well above the reports for last year, the total for the two months this year being over $16,000 above the total for the corresponding months last year. This statement will explain why several of the union conferences apparently have fallen below their last year's record. However, we notice that three of the unions in the United States and four of the unions abroad report heavier sales during the four weeks of July this year than during the five weeks of July last year.
The reports from the German and Russian union conferences, which are separate in this summary, were together last year. The report from Scandinavia last year was for two months, whereas the report in this summary is for one month.
Notice that there are fewer blank spaces in the report this year than last. This steady advance toward perfection leads us to hope for full summaries in the near future. E. R. P.

News Notes

By E. R. P.

H. H. HALL, manager of the circulation department of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, is attending the camp-meetings in the Central Union Conference. He reports good meetings and a promising outlook for that field.
A letter from Brother Max Trummer, who sailed a few days ago on the steamship “Verdi” from New York for Buenos Aires, South America, brings us the good news from Bahia that he has arrived safely thus far on his journey. He reports a pleasant voyage, though he would rather be working in South America than sailing the high seas.
Brother G. H. Clark, who recently left New York for Cape Town, South Africa, where he is to serve the cause in that field as general missionary agent of the South African Union Conference, reports from London that he had made arrangements to sail from there August 7. We shall watch with interest his reports from that great land of missions.
Elder N. Z. Town has arrived safely home from his visit to Old Mexico, where he has held a canvassers’ convention. He reports an interesting experience. Our pioneer canvassers in that field have been working with untiring zeal and devotion in the effort to establish the circulation of literature upon a self-supporting basis. We hope to be able to publish a detailed report of this convention in the next number of the REVIEW.
With very few exceptions, the letters received during the past month from general and field agents refer to their plans for a strong, organized effort in the canvassing field during the winter months. It appears from these letters that the great snow man, who has frightened so many canvassers during the past few years, is likely to be warmed up (and we hope he will be entirely dissolved) by the fires of love and devotion which our faithful canvassers are planning to kindle about him this winter.
E. R. P.

The Home Missionary and Publishing Work

Conducted by the Publishing Department of the General Conference
E. R. PALMER        -     -     -     -        Secretary
N. Z. TOWN         -     -     -              Assistant Secretary
A. J. S. BOURDEAU   -     -     -              Missionary Secretary
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