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Review and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 18.

Live Only One Day at a Time
Earlier text: Service and Sacrifice

Petition and Memorial Work With Congress

VALUABLE results have been and still may be secured through the agency of the petition and memorial work with Congress and legislatures. The right to petition the government is recognized by America as inherent, and is safeguarded in the Constitution. It is part of the Bill of Rights found in the amendments, the first of which provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
Sunday bills found their way into Congress through the petition work conducted by religious people who desired that body to pass laws compelling Sunday observance. The first petition on the subject was presented to the Eleventh Congress, Jan. 4, 1811, through Congressman Findley, in behalf of the synod of Pittsburg, Pa., praying that the post-offices be closed on Sunday. This, together with others, was referred to the Postmaster-General with a request for his recommendation; the result was a refusal of the legislation prayed for.
Repeated attempts have been made since that time to commit Congress to the sanctity of Sunday, but without success. As a basis for adverse reports, the inexpediency of the legislation was appealed to; but eventually counter-petitions and memorials began to flow into the national lawmaking body, protesting that the question of religion and the union of church and state were certainly involved in legislation of this character.
Examination of the records of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses will show that memorials and petitions proved effective agencies in preventing the passage of Sunday laws. In a memorial presented in 1830, the Indiana Legislature said, among other things: “We view all attempts to introduce sectarian influence into the councils of the nation as a violation of both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution of the United States and of this State, and at the same time dangerous to our civil and religious liberties.”
Jan. 21, 1831, the Illinois Legislature sent to Congress the following memorial, which is given in full because parallels in conditions are found in the present agitation for Sunday laws and religious amendments to the Constitution (italics ours):—
“Whereas, A variety of sentiment exists among the good people of the United States on the subject of the expediency or inexpediency of stopping the transportation of the mail on the sabbath day; and inasmuch as Congress has been and is still being urged to pass an act restricting the carrying of the mails to six days in the week only, by petitions and memorials from various quarters of the Union; and inasmuch as it is believed that such an innovation upon our republican institutions would establish a precedent of dangerous tendency to our privileges as freemen, by involving a legislative decision in a religious controversy on a point in which good citizens may honestly differ; and whereas a free expression of sentiment by the present General Assembly on the subject may tend, in a great degree, to avert so alarming an evil as the union of church and state; therefore,—
“Resolved, by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the able report made by Col. Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, in the Senate of the United States, on the 19th of January, 1829, adverse to the stoppage of the transportation of the mails on the sabbath, or first day of the week, meets our decided approbation.
“Resolved, That the governor be requested to transmit copies of the foregoing preamble and resolution to our senators and representatives in Congress, with the request that they use their exertions to prevent the passage of any bill which may, at any time, be introduced for such purpose.”
In the same Congress there were communicated the results of several meetings held in different parts of the country petitioning against the Sunday-law measure proposed through the efforts of memorialists, one of which we refer to as fully as space will allow:—
“At a large and respectable meeting of the citizens of Windham County, convened agreeably to previous notice, at the hall of E. Lincoln, in Wilmington, on the twelfth day of January, 1831, General Abner Perry, of Dover, was called to the chair, and Samuel P. Skinner appointed secretary.
“On motion the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:—
“Resolved, That we disapprove of the measures adopted by a certain party, styling themselves the Christian party in politics, which, under moral and religious pretenses, are officiously and unremittingly intermeddling with the religious opinions of others, and endeavoring to effect, by law, and other means equally exceptionable, a systematic course of measures, which, we believe, are tending to favor the dominancy of particular creeds, militating against the equal rights and liberties of all, infusing a spirit of religious intolerance and persecution into the political institutions of our country, and which, unless opposed, will result in a union of church and state, a change in the character of our government, and destruction of the civil and religious liberties of the people.
“Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of this convention.
“Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed to draft a memorial to Congress against the petitions for a proposed restriction of the post-office regulations in relation to sabbath mails. . . .
“On motion, it was unanimously voted to adjourn the convention to meet again on the 19th instant, at the hall of Anthony Jones, in Newfane, at 11 o'clock A. M., when and where the friends of civil and religious liberty in the county of Windham are respectfully invited to attend.
“Voted, That the proceedings of this convention be signed by the chairman and secretary, and a copy thereof transmitted to the printer of the Brattleborough Messenger, and a request that he publish the same.
“ABNER PERRY, Chairman; “S. P. SKINNER, Secretary.”
In the next number of the REVIEW the very excellent memorial which this convention adopted and communicated to the Twenty-first Congress will be printed.
The petition work, of which the foregoing is but a sample, proved very effective in determining the decisions of earlier Congresses to report adversely on compulsory Sunday observance. The Sunday bills of that time had to do with the post-office department of the general government; and while the expediency of the proposed legislation was the subject of much consideration, it was not the most vital one. The principle of civil and religious liberty was recognized to be involved in the matter, and it was upon this point that the Congresses of earlier times decided.
The Johnston District Sunday bill contains the same elements of danger as noted above, and if enacted into law, “would establish a precedent of dangerous tendency to our privileges as freemen, by involving a legislative decision in a religious controversy on a point in which good citizens may honestly differ.”
The Senate District Committee has promised the Religious Liberty Department and others a hearing on the Johnston measure. In the meantime the petition work should and will receive the attention of our people in a practical way. This and other plans are being perfected for a nation-wide campaign.

Sanitarium Relief Campaign

By L. A. Hansen

Campaign Experiences

To all our people, both ministry and lay members, I wish to say, If you would have your soul refreshed and revived, take hold of the work that lies before you in the grand enterprise of relieving our institutions where the sick and suffering are receiving both physical and spiritual help. Since taking up this effort, I have been made to appreciate better than ever before the great work which the Saviour has done for me. Pride is the hindering cause with many of God's people to-day. When self is crucified with Christ, we shall have no difficulty in obeying the voice of God. By his Spirit the Lord is witnessing to each of his children that he will fulfil his promise when they show their desire to do his will.
This is our experience with the volume “Ministry of Healing.” The book seems to sell itself. It is a pleasure to be with the work: first, because it is unselfish; second, it brings a blessing to our own souls, and also to those who know little about the Great Physician; and third, it rolls off a reproach against the cause of God.
One of our most timid sisters was impressed by the Spirit of God to call on two of her nearest neighbors with “Ministry of Healing.” The result was that she sold two books. When she came to church on the following Sabbath, the light in her face showed plainly that she had had a good experience. We expect to see the same happy look on other faces soon.
On a recent Sabbath when two visitors were present at our service, there was a question in my mind whether I should preach a sermon or read the last chapter of “Ministry of Healing.” I finally decided to do the latter. Speaking afterward to one of the visitors about the reading, I mentioned the doubt that had been in my mind, and he said, “If you could preach a better sermon than that, I should like to hear it.” Had it not been the Sabbath, he would have taken a book at once, and he did take one later.
F. H. Henderson, field missionary secretary of Ohio, says: “The visits I have paid to my neighbors this week have been practical. I have sold and taken orders for twelve books. This was done in my new neighborhood. I had already taken orders for three books among my old neighbors. Some of my subscribers have said that they want another book later.”
Mrs. A. Alderman, secretary of the Youngstown missionary society, writes: “We are having some good experiences in selling ‘Ministry of Healing,’ and we are sure that the Saviour is leading us to put the book in the homes which will profit by the reading. Personally, I am having good success in selling Life and Health.”
John Francis Olmsted says: “On a recent Sabbath we had the pleasure of meeting with the Bellefontaine (Ohio) church in the interest of the ‘Ministry of Healing’ campaign. A number came in from a distance to attend quarterly meeting. In the afternoon the needs and blessings of the campaign were discussed, and a brief outline of the medical missionary work and its part in the message was given. All seemed to be interested, and agreed to help in this important work, which has a threefold blessing for all connected with it,—courage to those who sell, hope to those who buy, and financial aid to the Medical Missionary Department. The membership of this church is nineteen, but all were not present. A good interest prevailed, however, and thirty-three books were taken. Twenty-seven had been taken before, making the number to date sixty, which is a good beginning.”
Elder John P. Gaede reports well for the Washington Court House and Leesburg (Ohio) churches, and of his own and Elder James E. Shultz’s work at the Cincinnati church, where the members are doing their full part. He says: “The appointment by quota is a very good way to get the people to take hold of this work, but the members should feel more than their individual responsibility. When they have sold their own quota, they should not feel their whole duty done, but should have charity for the feeble, the sick, and the absent members. I have found that in some places the church clerk has sent in only the names of the active members. This may account for the small gain in membership in this country. We know that when persons are away, they sometimes forget their obligations to their home churches; but we must not strike out their names at once before laboring with them. If every one does his part, the task will be easily accomplished. Often, however, half the membership are not attempting anything, and this works hardship to the other half, who are trying to lift the whole burden. Will not these scattered ones remember this, and report faithfully to their home churches with tithes, offerings, and other obligations? Again, if each church sends in the names of only its active members, the quota for each member will be much larger. There remains just so much to be done, and we who are able must do it. Let us not shirk our duty to the world, to the church, and to ourselves as workers for the Lord.”
Mrs. L. C. Davidson writes from the Walnut Grove (Ohio) church: “During the past month the work done by our church-members has been principally with ‘Ministry of Healing’ and the Temperance Instructor. Some of our members have for the first time been making an effort in this work, and have been surprised at what has been accomplished.” L. A. HANSEN.

School Work in Nyasaland

By J. C. Rogers

We had arranged for a special council of our native teachers at the main station, to be held January 13-16. It was also planned to celebrate the ordinances at the same time, and we hoped a baptismal service could be held for some candidates who have been receiving instruction two years or longer. Notices were sent to our teachers in the out-schools, and all came except four at the school lately opened by Mrs. Rogers, and six at our Monekera out-station, who failed to receive the notice. It was not thought best to call the teachers from the new school, which was only well begun. We now see that this was wise, as the school has grown from forty-five at the opening to about ninety at the last report.
The teachers in heathen villages find a strong tide of wicked customs and practises to work against, and we like to gather them into the main station two or three times a year for communion with the church. Thus they are greatly strengthened and encouraged. It is our plan to send them out two and two. If the school is large, or if two schools are near together, three or four go, some of them being beginners under a head teacher. The teachers of near-by schools usually meet together on Sabbaths, and they always gather the people for Sabbath-school and preaching. Some of our European workers try to make a visit to each out-school once a month. Unfortunately, we are not always able to accomplish this, on account of other duties or sickness.
At the time of our special January meeting, we had cause to appreciate fully the help of Brother Ellingworth, who has recently come to the station. Mrs. Rogers experienced about the worst attack of fever that she has yet suffered. It began two days before the appointed meeting, and continued until it closed. On the seventeenth we were obliged to send her to Blantyre in a machila for the higher altitude. The fever ended with a severe congestion of the brain, which no person, apparently, could live through for many days. This experience forces upon us the necessity of having a cottage in Blantyre, or at some other favorable place, for a refuge in sickness. Such a place would save more than its cost in a few years' time. At present the only place to which we can go is a hospital or a hotel, where the expense is from ten to twelve shillings a day. As nearly as I can estimate, without going into the accounts, our workers have paid about fifty pounds in this way during the past four years. This amount would build a cottage, and furnish it with plain necessities. It is probable that we could get some income from renting it a part of the year.
At the ordinance service twenty-six members, besides Europeans, took part. They seemed to realize the meaning of this sacred service. Many members are scattered at their homes this time of the year, and twenty or more live at Monekera, sixty miles away. We hope to celebrate the ordinances at that place soon. In council with our teachers we have planned some changes in the school terms, which we believe will add much to the success of our educational efforts. Instead of one long term, running through the fever season, we have arranged for two terms, one of them particularly for the training of teachers, with our long vacation during November, December, and January, which are the very hot, trying months, and also the native planting time.
It will be necessary to bring about these changes gradually, and this we shall do during the present year. In 1912, all working as planned, our school terms will be conducted as follows:—
1. February, March, April, teachers' training-school. The whole of these three months will be given to those preparing for teaching, and the better training of those already teaching.
2. May to October, village out-schools, and Anglo-vernacular school at main station.
3. November to January, general vacation. During this vacation period, some teachers will go to their homes, from one hundred to two hundred or even three hundred miles distant, to preach among their villages. All students who want work for earning tax money, etc., will be given work at regular wages in our cotton fields and at other industries, as these three months are the time of hoeing and planting. This plan will also leave the European workers free to oversee industries, and for those who need a rest or change to have it without breaking into their school duties.
There are also other advantages which those in the field will appreciate. It is not unlikely that these changes may temporarily reduce the number in our schools; but we are very sure that ultimately the attendance will be increased thereby. We trust it will be as the time of gathering and concentrating the various units of a great army preparatory to the final charge,—in this case upon heathen superstition in this part of Central Africa. For this we ask you to pray. J. C. ROGERS.

Among the Southern Schools

By Stephen N. Haskell

On the evening of March 2 we left Oakland, Cal., for Madison, Tenn., and arrived at the junction about three miles distant on the evening of March 6. The next morning a colored man took us over to the school, where we spent about two weeks.
At the present time the school has about twenty small, one-story buildings, all of which were built by the students themselves. In addition to these there is the sanitarium, which has a good patronage, Gotzian Hall, and a school building. The sanitarium will accommodate from twenty to twenty-five patients. All the buildings are neat and attractive; they are built for actual needs, nothing for show. The students and teachers eat at the same table. Other provision is made for the sanitarium patients.
The Madison school is self-supporting, its object being to train men and women to go into the hill country and establish other self-supporting schools. As the result of this effort, over two hundred teachers are now engaged in teaching in the South. According to their plan, teachers who enter a new field will in a short time gather around them a company composed not only of the children who attend the school, but also of the better class of people in the neighborhood, who wish to be taught more advanced methods in agriculture, as well as in spiritual and educational lines.
As a direct result of the work of five of these schools (Madison, Hillcrest, Goodlettsville, Fountain Head, and Sand Mountain), churches with an aggregate membership of one hundred twenty-four have been organized, and two more are about to be organized. Three of the churches named above were established without a cent of expense to the conference.
As a result of the work of the Madison school, there are now twenty-two self-supporting schools in the South and other needy fields. These schools are located in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, Arkansas, Cuba, and Central America. They have an attendance of from four hundred fifty to five hundred pupils, and this represents coming in contact with at least two thousand persons, many of whom would never hear the message were it not for some such work as this. The training-school gives a practical experience in faith, and in the development of laborers who will go out and work for souls under the most trying circumstances.
The ingenuity of those taking the responsibility of this self-supporting work is often taxed to make ends meet. The funds received from friends in the North, East, and West do not purchase the land and sustain the school, neither does the farming industry, of itself, support it.
On the Madison school farm the workers have fine blooded stock, both horses and cows, which is often sold for fancy prices. At Hillcrest they have rare poultry, the eggs of which are sold in different places, some having been sent even to Washington, D. C. Where these schools are near cities, choice flowers are cultivated, and the bulbs are sold.
None can see the school farm at Madison, and note the improvements made upon it, without recognizing the fact that the Lord has blessed the work in a special manner. The time has now come when the facilities of this school will have to be enlarged. It is fully prepared to train missionary farmers, medical missionaries, and teachers, but it is now planned to give a course of practical field work in canvassing, city missionary work, etc. In view of this need, the workers are planning to do some building during the summer, and this will make it necessary for them to have at least twenty more young men on the place. The school is also in a position to give work to about ten young women of the right stamp.
I gather from the treasurer's report that the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute paid to the students last year the sum of $7,620 for work done in the institution. This money, of course, was used to meet the school expenses of the students.
The yearly expense for the average student in the Madison school is from $100 to $125. The expense of one young man who has been there during the past year amounted to one hundred dollars for eight months. For a young woman for the same length of time it was about sixty dollars. The teachers in the school have drawn from the school only thirteen dollars a month. Out of this they paid back to the school the regular expense for board, rent, and incidentals.
I have before me some extracts of letters written by teachers in different parts of the South. One working in Chestnut Hill writes: “The children who attend our school are very anxious for an education. The carpenter class is so interested that the boys work before school, at recess, and at the noon hour. They hardly wait to eat their dinners. The class at present is making bookcases, sewing-baskets, paper-racks, tables, and other useful articles for their own homes. They have cut and split considerable wood, and the boys helped build our hotbed and cold-frame. The girls are doing excellent work in the sewing class. They are making quilts and rugs, and are learning to make clothes for themselves.”
Those from the North and East and West who have helped these schools will have a rich treasure laid up for them in heaven. No other enterprise among us has turned out so many self-supporting missionaries as this school. We have visited several of these schools, and what we have written has been gathered from statistics and facts that were given us, and which we have seen demonstrated. When we consider that it is only six years since the enterprise started, we can speak in its behalf. It certainly has verified the testimony of the Spirit of God in this self-supporting work. It has demonstrated that God has raised up men and women to contribute to, and help forward the work of, these schools.
It is hoped that there may be at least twenty young men and ten young women who will answer the present call from Madison; also that there will be men and women who will sustain the Hillcrest school, which is doing an excellent work in training colored workers to establish self-supporting schools among that people.
Elder W. R. Burrow, president of the conference in which the Madison school is located, makes the following statement: “In reply to questions regarding the Madison school and the branch schools conducted by Brethren Alden and Mulford, I can say that I have visited these schools, and have watched with interest the work they are doing. The Madison church and the two churches at Goodlettsville and Fountain Head, Tenn., have been built up by them without the cost of a dollar to our conference. We received from them, this last conference year, nearly five hundred dollars in tithe. These churches are in the best of standing in our conferences, and I wish for more help like them.”
Speaking of the children educated in these schools, he says: “It is a pleasure to see boys and girls who have had limited opportunities for an education given the chance these schools offer. They go to school, and are taught without price. It does not seem to me that any one but those who have the last message of God would make such a sacrifice as the teachers in these schools are making. I am glad they are with us.”
We trust that the Lord will continue to prosper this good work, and that many other lights will be kindled throughout the South, to gather out souls for the soon coming of our Saviour.
S. N. HASKELL.

Christian Education

By H. R. Salisbury

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference
H. R. SALISBURY - - - - Secretary

One Year's Canvassing in South America

By E. Maximo Trummer

KNOWING that our brethren in the home land are watching the progress in the “fields beyond,” I will give a brief outline of the canvassing work since our union conference a year ago. Our bookmen’s convention, which we held in connection with the union conference, was the first of the kind in this country. As Elder N. Z. Town was with us, the delegates from the various fields improved the opportunity to organize the book work more thoroughly, adopting the regulations and plans of the General Conference Publishing Department as far as the conditions of our field would allow.
The importance of translating into Spanish more of our standard works, such as “Great Controversy,” was duly considered, and we shall, no doubt, have these books as soon as we need them. All of us received much benefit from studying the needs of the work together, and we left the conference determined to press the battle to the gates.
Our aim was to work especially with our large books, such as “Patriarchs and Prophets” and “Home and Health,” and the Lord has gone before us wonderfully. Many times the orders for “Patriarchs and Prophets” have averaged one copy an hour, and the three highest records for “Home and Health” have been twenty-four, thirty-one, and forty-two orders in one day. The writer’s orders for books have included sales to fifteen Catholic priests.
In the entire union, the book work has realized a splendid increase, the orders for the year amounting to more than twenty-five thousand dollars, or three times those for the preceding year. And this in spite of the fact that two republics have had extensive revolutionary experiences.
The aim for the present year is still higher. Our workers are better trained, and our experiences will greatly aid us in the future. The brethren realize that this work is here “to stay,” and, consequently, more are taking hold of it. Our fields are manned with men of courage and missionary zeal. A few months ago, Brother Schulz went to Bolivia, and he has had excellent success from the very beginning. Soon we hope to have a man ready for Ecuador, with the express purpose of giving all his time to the canvassing work. These men will enlist other brethren to work with them, thus increasing their force as fast as they can.
Special efforts are being made now with our Spanish Signs of the Times, and plans are on foot to create an active missionary spirit in our churches and Missionary Volunteer societies. The canvassing work is a live question with our young people at school, as five students made their scholarships this summer. Every one made it who went into the field during vacation.
Realizing that the circulation of our literature will be the greatest factor in bringing our solemn message to the people of South America, we believe that our God will continue to open the way before us. We expect great things from God. To him be all the glory for what he has enabled us to do.
E. MAXIMO TRUMMER.

The Missionary and Publishing Work

Notes, Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature
Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference
E. R. PALMER   -   -   -   -   -   Secretary N. Z. TOWN   -   -   -   Assistant Secretary A. J. S. BOURDEAU   -   -   -   Missionary Secretary

Canvassers’ Summary for March, 1911

AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1911 VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909
Atlantic Union Conference
Maine 4 116 46 $ 138.80 .... $ 45.15
Northern New England 3 161 57 107.75 $ 164.90 91.95
Massachusetts 4 648 150 547.90 499.35 1200.50
Southern New England 4 360 61 270.95 49.00 104.45
New York 3 349 95 430.40 93.00 1035.75
Western New York 5 498 76 293.95 390.80 206.75
Greater New York 8 611 95 339.70 16.50 675.35
Totals 31 2743 580 2128.85 1213.55 3359.90
Columbia Union Conference
Ohio 14 1184 693 1216.00 1409.35 1083.65
West Virginia 10 971 341 1069.85 278.90 355.15
Virginia 10 580 338 778.65 344.85 269.40
Chesapeake 3 136 29 92.00 503.30 1763.35
Eastern Pennsylvania 6 384 130 277.15 361.90 785.05
West Pennsylvania 13 765 211 800.45 700.00 119.20
New Jersey 8 671 235 714.85 451.55 1107.40
District of Columbia 4 214 148 256.70 .... ....
Totals 68 4905 2125 5205.65 4049.85 5483.20
Lake Union Conference
East Michigan 8 720 243 660.10 323.85 178.10
West Michigan 1 17 10 38.40 .... ....
North Michigan 8 584 156 248.30 132.70 392.95
Wisconsin 5 574 131 392.60 207.50 201.50
Northern Illinois 8 953 276 665.75 253.05 1203.95
Southern Illinois 11 1304 428 1299.75 871.95 499.45
Indiana 2 140 75 152.90 45.50 33.60
Totals 43 4292 1319 3457.80 1834.55 2509.35
Canadian Union Conference
Ontario .. .... .... .... 421.70 377.50
Quebec .. .... .... .... 42.50 57.60
Maritime .. .... .... .... .... ....
Newfoundland .. .... .... .... .... ....
Totals .. .... .... .... 464.20 435.10
Southern Union Conference
Louisiana 21 1603 899 1504.46 624.80 786.00
Alabama 15 1000 487 864.00 953.60 756.10
Kentucky 6 443 153 215.05 596.35 474.50
Mississippi 19 2054 1955 2612.45 1213.06 757.10
Tennessee River 15 1519 740 1334.45 592.10 700.00
Totals 76 6619 4234 6530.41 3979.91 3473.70
Southeastern Union Conference
Cumberland 15 1599 563 1222.40 316.00 525.85
Georgia 13 1116 833 1553.25 1218.40 1032.00
North Carolina 13 912 445 824.25 790.10 324.35
South Carolina 4 738 356 477.10 540.75 354.35
Florida 10 477 329 711.10 1551.80 157.80
Totals 55 4842 2526 4788.10 4417.05 2394.35
Southwestern Union Conference
Arkansas 13 1155 354 987.00 488.00 654.00
Oklahoma 15 1762 802 3765.27 1357.00 1939.60
West Texas 2 87 46 150.00 151.45 301.75
South Texas 13 764 333 1095.25 1150.40 ....
North Texas 27 2364 1519 4486.15 2833.80 4407.40
New Mexico .. .... .... .... 79.90 9.00
Totals 70 6132 3054 10483.67 6060.55 7362.75
Central Union Conference
North Missouri 8 348 101 373.70 .... 528.50
Southern Missouri 9 769 429 1320.85 239.25 476.30
Colorado 5 319 127 596.50 443.65 ....
Western Colorado .. .... .... .... .... 201.25
Nebraska .. .... .... .... 221.50 422.65
Wyoming .. .... .... .... 45.00 ....
East Kansas 4 90 13 43.50 649.95 348.40
West Kansas 5 290 91 219.85 .... ....
St. Louis Mission .. .... .... .... .... ....
Totals 31 1816 761 2554.40 1599.35 1977.10
Northern Union Conference
Iowa 2 233 95 319.25 .... 335.00
Minnesota 3 161 60 201.50 .... 75.50
North Dakota .. .... .... .... .... ....
South Dakota .. .... .... .... .... ....
Totals 5 394 155 520.75 .... 410.50
AGTS. HRS. ORDERS VALUE 1911 VALUE 1910 VALUE 1909
Pacific Union Conference
California-Nevada .. .... .... .... .... $ 500.00
Arizona 2 158 152 $ 487.35 $ 510.45 108.60
Southern California 3 369 157 674.85 .... 622.15
Utah .. .... .... .... .... ....
Central California 4 81 32 40.25 .... ....
California Coast 8 646 280 817.10 .... ....
Totals 17 1254 621 2019.55 510.45 1230.75
1North Pacific Union Conference
Western Washington 9 831 215 900.02 749.25 797.95
Upper Columbia 1 49 16 74.00 155.00 115.55
Western Oregon 4 172 94 304.75 164.00 398.00
Southern Idaho 1 99 24 195.05 .... 22.85
Montana 2 63 54 300.15 169.75 105.20
Southern Oregon 1 70 54 483.05 .... ....
Totals 18 1284 457 2257.02 1238.00 1439.55
Western Canadian Union Conference
Alberta .. .... .... .... .... ....
Manitoba .. .... .... .... .... ....
British Columbia 1 105 26 108.30 146.50 ....
Saskatchewan .. .... .... .... .... ....
Totals 1 105 26 108.30 146.50 ....
Foreign Union Conferences and Missions
British 64 4729 2052 4753.40 4767.73 4943.19
Australasian 71 3833 1344 6003.73 6139.30 4031.74
South Africa 16 1103 586 1768.06 5052.86 515.60
India Mission 3 483 264 357.10 .... ....
West German 124 11908 .... 3788.00 2282.40 6675.30
East German 110 10816 .... 2937.13 2215.34 3788.09
Scandinavian 71 8164 5915 4982.29 5479.23 3788.09
Russian 30 .... .... 1477.47 .... 970.21
Latin 9 1420 3973 420.78 656.30 188.90
West Indian .. .... .... .... .... ....
Brazil .. .... .... .... .... ....
South America 41 2082 1225 3944.22 219.52 1163.69
Mexican Mission 11 985 655 1820.58 1787.09 380.54
Philippines 1 140 96 206.40 140.00 ....
Levant Union 11 1155 .... 70.00 .... ....
Siberian 5 .... .... 118.65 .... ....
Korean .. .... .... 6.45 1.68 ....
Porto Rico .. .... .... 307.40 .... ....
Totals, North American union conferences $40,053.90 $25,535.31 $30,046.50
Totals, foreign union conferences and mission fields 32,961.66 30,176.24 22,657.35
Grand totals $73,015.56 $55,711.55 $52,703.85

Comparative Summary

1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911
Jan. .... $21,000.00 $26,325.50 $25,929.06 $40,677.06 $42,532.23 $44,495.65
Feb. .... 15,000.00 26,369.61 30,466.40 48,748.21 50,990.34 53,923.57
March .... 18,000.00 36,263.65 35,757.15 52,703.85 55,711.55 73,015.56
April .... 24,000.00 35,276.76 43,858.29 55,109.54 64,042.39 ....
May .... 37,000.00 51,097.51 67,455.44 82,971.94 86,333.58 ....
June .... 46,000.00 65,317.23 82,878.67 124,412.34 112,606.05 ....
July .... 52,218.04 75,691.57 120,973.89 95,445.21 103,919.12 ....
August .... 36,555.39 46,590.68 66,946.38 71,652.97 90,821.73 ....
Sept. .... 22,038.63 32,503.48 51,148.56 55,625.41 66,523.65 ....
Oct. .... 26,382.61 40,646.45 62,719.91 52,670.03 62,334.58 ....
Nov. .... 43,733.16 30,016.77 53,787.31 49,964.99 58,211.68 ....
Dec. .... 29,756.47 25,361.54 39,873.18 45,759.73 54,663.93 ....
Totals, $371,684.30 $491,450.75 $681,794.24 $775,741.28 $848,690.83 ....

Progress in Spanish Fields

By N. Z. T.

We have just received the following encouraging item from Brother H. A. Robinson, of Mexico City:—
“This week Brother J. W. Phillips and I worked in the city. On Tuesday he took one hundred dollars’ worth of orders in a railroad office, and the next day seventy-five dollars’ worth. We thank the Lord for his many blessings, and are encouraged to do more for him.”
Argentina still stands at the head in the value of orders taken during a single week, but Mexico is following very closely behind. A young man in Argentina took 122 orders in twenty-eight hours; value, $322. Brother Brown writes from Mexico: “My report for last week was twenty-nine hours and 113 orders; value, $264, North American currency.” In seven weeks’ time, Brother Brown took orders and delivered books to the value of $1,566 Mexican. Others in Mexico are also doing well. Brother J. E. Frazee, whose knowledge of the language is still limited, took $215 worth of orders in eighteen hours. In Mexico City, where the people told Brother Green, “You will never sell books in this large city,” two young men working twenty hours each took respectively $228 and $249 worth of orders.
Our hearts are made glad as we see how the Lord is blessing in the circulation of our literature among the Spanish-speaking people.         N. Z. T.

The Summary

By N. Z. T.

“He did it with all his heart, and prospered.” This is the motto which the bookmen in several of the conferences have adopted for 1911.
The summary for March shows some of the results of the actual working out of this motto. Each of the ten union conferences in the United States shows a substantial gain over March of last year, amounting to a total gain in these unions of more than sixty per cent over the corresponding month of last year. Adding to this the good record from the foreign fields, the grand totals show an advance of about 33 1-3 per cent over March, 1910.
It is a cause for thanksgiving to God to see his work thus prosper. May the blessing of the Lord, which maketh rich, continue upon all the workers. N. Z. T.
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