The following editorial from the Waltham Evening News of Jan. 25, 1911, indicates that the editor sees some of the evils of enforced Sunday observance:—
“The Sabbath Protective League is out with its annual protest against any greater liberality in the laws governing the observance of Sunday. Apparently it is in their eyes a crime for a man or a woman who is confined in a store or factory six days in the week, to seek on the seventh such recreation as seems best as a relief from the monotony of the working-days.”
“Considerable stress is laid on the desirability of every one having one day of leisure in the week. Nobody disputes this, but there is no reason why that day should be Sunday any more than another, provided the time off comes with regularity. The Sabbath Protective League is undoubtedly actuated by the best of motives when it seeks to restrain people from doing as they please, but it shows it is not in sympathy with modern thought.”
“Educators the world over, those who interest themselves in movements for the betterment of the condition of the people, laymen and preachers alike, have arrived at the point where it is deemed folly—in some cases criminal folly—to try to force regulations on the people which are anachronisms. To force people to one's own way of thinking was once popular. Apparently it is still the belief in some quarters, but the great majority of thinking people nowadays resent any attempt to interfere with liberty of thought and action.”
“Those who advocate the letting down of the bars to permit out-of-door sports on the public playgrounds and elsewhere are not the kind of men who would be likely to advocate anything until they had become convinced of the necessity of it. There is a decided sentiment in favor of greater personal liberty, and a disposition to let each person decide for himself whether he shall or shall not do certain things on Sunday. If a person wants to play baseball, there is no reason why he should not be permitted to do so, provided he does not disturb the neighbors.”
Progress in Ecuador
ECUADOR is considered one of the most difficult countries in South America to evangelize, but even there the workers are meeting with excellent success circulating our literature. In a letter written Dec. 12, 1910, Brother John Osborne writes:—
“Brother Wheeler and I have been away from home the most of the time since the first of September. We have visited Quito and several smaller places. We have sold a number of different kinds of books, but have made the health paper our leader. Brother Wheeler had subscribed for one hundred copies of this paper; and when we started out, we had nearly all of them on hand from the first of the year; but we disposed of all except those for the last two months, and most of these will go to the subscribers. We are very much pleased with the interest the people took in this journal. In many places where we would sell perhaps only a single number, the next day the people would follow us up in the street and give us their subscription for the year. We heard no word of complaint against the paper, but on the contrary, took a number of subscriptions after the people had taken plenty of time to investigate. We have ordered five hundred copies a month for next year. We think it is a splendid leader, and it also gives us a good list of names to which to send the Señales.
“While down on the coast, Brother Wheeler baptized a faithful old brother, who has been keeping the Sabbath for several years. He has been reading our papers, and then passing them on to others as he had opportunity. He is a shoemaker, also city judge. He has many friends in the country who own their homes and make a good living. To these he has been giving our papers, and some of them are keeping the Sabbath. This brother took us out to the country, where these people live, and we had some meetings with them. The women came to hear, as well as the men. One family is about ready for baptism. This brother has already begun to pay tithe. We could not stay with these people as long as we would have liked, as we both had the fever. Our literature is responsible for this interest, as it all started by this city judge buying ‘Patriarchs and Prophets.’ We are now receiving many letters from different parts of the republic, as the result of literature sent out.” N. Z. T.
Magazine Summary
By A. J. S. B.
THIS summary shows the largest January sale of our ten-cent magazines on record—122,202 copies. This is 21,308 copies in excess of last month, a gain of 32,740 copies over January, 1910, and 51,108 copies over January, 1909.
THE statistics presented herewith represent only the sale of our ten-cent magazines, and by agents only, in the union and local conferences. Thousands of our missionary and smaller periodicals are handled by our conferences each month, no record of which appears. The ten-cent magazines going to subscribers within these conferences, are listed in a lump sum at the end of this report.
By subtracting the subscription and foreign sales from the total amount, it will be seen that 75,263 of the 122,202 magazines were actually sold by our agents,—a gain of 953 copies over the 74,310 copies sold by agents during December, 1910. Nearly every publishing-house reports an unprecedented increase in the number of subscriptions received for the various magazines. Many of these subscriptions, of course, were taken by our agents.
FOLLOWING is a list of the union conferences showing gains over last month: (1) Pacific Union, 2,368; (2) Lake Union, 2,345; (3) North Pacific Union, 2,308; (4) Southeastern Union, 1,502; (5) Atlantic Union, 1,165; (6) Southwestern Union, 457. The following show losses: (7) Western Canadian Union, 199; (8) Northern Union, 332; (9) Southern Union, 879; (10) Canadian Union, 1,771; (11) Central Union, 2,240; (12) Columbia Union, 3,791.21
SIX of the union conferences also show a gain when compared with the sales record of January, 1910, in the order named: (1) Atlantic Union, 3,272; (2) Southeastern Union, 1,809; (3) Northern Union, 1,466; (4) Western Canadian Union, 1,449; (5) Southwestern Union, 448; (6) Canadian Union, 9. The following show losses: (7) Lake Union, 15; (8) Central Union, 246; (9) Southern Union, 706; (10) North Pacific Union, 1,794; (11) Pacific Union, 2,257; (12) Columbia Union, 2,798. The Atlantic, Southeastern, and Southwestern union conferences show gains in comparison with both last month's and last January's records.
ALL will watch with interest the growth of the 1911 record in our “Comparative Summary” at the end of each month's report. To harmonize with the records of the two years past, the February report should show a distinct gain over the splendid January record, and a steady increase should appear in the figures up to and including July. To make this desirable result possible will require a keen sense of personal responsibility on the part of all for the record that shall be made by each local and union conference during the next few months. During 1910, the Northern California Conference (only one of our sixty-nine local conferences and missions in the twelve union conferences) sold 152,150 ten-cent magazines, or over one twelfth of the 1,703,187 copies sold in America. Among the causes that will contribute to the still greater success of the magazine work are, the opening of city missions and the consequent call for magazine workers and Bible workers; an increasing number of REVIEW readers; the appointment of live librarians in the churches, and of field missionary secretaries in the conferences, to foster, develop, and train agents; and a general revival of the home missionary spirit in the churches.
A. J. S. B.
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
News and Notes
By N. Z. T.
BROTHER MAX TRUMMER writes, from Argentina, that during the first two weeks of the vacation his canvassers took 720 orders for our large books.
OUR workers in South America continue to meet with excellent success in the sale of our large subscription books. In a recent letter from Brother T. H. Davis, written from Chile, he says: “One of the boys broke the record on ‘Patriarchs and Prophets,’ taking 116 orders in Valdivia in twelve days, several of them for good bindings.”
THE following encouraging item is from Brother John L. Brown, written just after returning to his field in Mexico, from the bookmen’s convention in Mountain View, Cal. He says:—“How glad I am to be ‘at home’ again. I reached here safely and have been out telling the people something about ‘Salud y Hogar.’ I have worked eight hours, and during this time the Lord gave me twenty-eight orders for the cloth binding and three for the full leather. The bishop of Sonora listened to my first canvass, and was kind enough to give me his order for a leather binding. Three other priests of high rank follow him on the list. I next obtained the signature of the governor and other official men of the state. God has certainly blessed me in getting a good list started. I prayed that the Lord would prepare my heart to meet the people, and also prepare them to receive the message. I know he has heard me. I want to do more whole-hearted service for my Master, and be more faithful. This will bring success.”
N. Z. T.
Summary of Magazine Sales for January, 1911
Showing the combined sale by agents in each union and local conference of the following ten-cent magazines: Signs Monthly, Watchman, Life and Health, Liberty, Protestant Magazine, Christian Education, Lys over Landet (Danish), Tidens Tecken (Swedish), and Zeichen der Zeit (German). The subscription and foreign sales appear at the end of the report.
Average number sold each month during 1910 ................ 141932
Average number sold each month during 1909 ................ 120617
Average monthly gain during 1910 over 1909 ................ 21298
Notes on the Watchman
Notes
A MAN in Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: “January 12 a man asked me to buy a book [magazine] of him. I told him my wife had just died, and that I did not have any money. The man sympathized with me more than any of my friends, and spoke about God, telling me to look at things in the right light. Please tell him for me that I will remember all he said, and would like to hear from him. I met him on Bedford Avenue as I was coming out of an undertaker’s shop. I went and got ten cents, and bought one of your books which he was selling. I am indeed glad that I got it to read. Hoping to hear from that good man some day, I am,” etc.
WE are indebted to Brother D. K. Royer, circulation manager of the Watchman, for the following interesting items:—
“Yesterday I called at an office where I had sold a November Watchman. A young man was at the desk. I asked him how he liked the previous number sold him. He said it was fine, and took a copy, asking me who published it. ‘My boss picked it up,’ said he, ‘and remarked, “This is the only magazine I ever saw that was worth reading.”’”
“I have a copy of the Watchman, which if I have read through once, I have read through thrice. I find it very helpful, and have gained from it many lessons and illustrations which help me in addressing my congregation—Christian, heathen, and Mohammedan.”
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
By A. H. Piper
Change of Address
The office of the Australasian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has been moved from “Eisnath,” Burwood St., Burwood, N. S. W., and is at present situated at Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia. All matters pertaining to the Australasian Union Conference or to workers connected with it, should be sent to the latter address.
A. H. PIPER, Secretary.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
News and Miscellany
Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— Eight hundred clergymen in Massachusetts have sent to Congress a remonstrance against further increase of the navy.
— Seven members of one family, the father, mother, and five children, were killed by gas in their home in Philadelphia, February 11.
— A Munich statistician estimates that the Germans last year were swindled out of $12,500,000 worth of beer through a system of short measure employed by the brewers.
— Earnest appeals are being sent to various centers of the United States by the Red Cross Society for immediate aid in the way of contributions of money and provisions for the famine sufferers in China.
— It is positively asserted by those directing the work that the Panama Canal will be completed by 1913, in ample time for the proposed celebration two years later, and that the cost will not exceed $360,000,000.
— By the adoption of the Crumpacker reapportionment bill on the part of the House of Representatives, that body will doubtless be increased from 391 to 433 members. While the Senate has not yet concurred in the measure, there is but little question that the bill will become a law.
— For the benefit of thousands in London who will be unable to see the coronation of King George, and the royal procession to Westminster Abbey, the managers of all the leading music halls have made arrangements to show moving pictures of the pageants on the same evening.
— A great storm raged at Madrid, February 1, 2. Reports of wrecks and loss of life have been received from many places. At Saguntum five steamers dragged their anchors. One of them broke up, and twenty-two of the crew were drowned. At Barcelona twenty-five fishermen perished. Other fatalities are reported from various places.
— Radium has at last been found, and actually seen in its metallic form. This is the crowning glory of one of the most remarkable researches conducted in modern times, and has been accomplished largely through the untiring zeal of Mme. Curie, who, with her husband, spent years in seeking to discover and isolate from other metals this latest precious discovery. Great things are predicted in the use of this metal.
— The famine in China appears to be rapidly spreading. Recent advices from Peking state that thousands are dying daily of starvation and famine fever in the three afflicted provinces. There is little likelihood that conditions will improve for the next three months. The imperial government is making strenuous efforts to aid the sufferers. Relief committees have been organized. Large donations have been sent from this country and other countries to relieve the distressed.
— At Brockton, Mass., February 10, a bull calf seven weeks old was sold for $10,000, the highest amount, it is believed, ever paid for a calf of this age.
— It is estimated that on New-year’s eve there was spent, in New York City, $1,500,000 for food and wine, $170,000 for theaters, $50,000 for candy, $75,000 for flowers, and $10,000 for cigars.
— The German Machinery Hall at the Brussels Exposition collapsed February 11, burying a number of persons in the ruins. Three bodies were recovered. Twenty persons are missing, who are supposed to have been killed.
— In Normandy, June 15, will begin the one-thousandth anniversary of the day when the duchy of Normandy was constituted by Charles the Simple. It is claimed that the festival will surpass anything ever seen in Europe. Rouen will be the center of the festivities.
— Investigations of the conditions existing in the Infants’ Hospital of Odessa reveal that during the last six months 1,002 of the 1,060 infants received into the institution have died. The government is taking energetic measures to place the responsibility and to remedy conditions.
— America’s first great missionary exposition will be held in Boston, Mass., April 24 to May 20, 1911. There will be exhibits from every mission field of the world, which will show in a very vivid manner the transformations which have been brought about by the coming of the gospel to darkened lands.
— A bill introduced into the Senate, providing for an increase of the postage rate on magazines, is meeting with much opposition on the part of leading magazine publishers throughout the country. It is claimed that the increased postage which many publishers would have to pay, under the provisions named in the bill, would exceed the profits now made on their business.
— The bubonic plague is making rapid progress in China, and the efforts to arrest its spread have thus far proved powerless. The prevalence of the plague, together with the wide-spread famine, is seriously alarming the government, which is now seeking advice and inviting medical aid from foreigners. Much alarm is felt lest the plague invade European countries.
— A measure has been drafted which will be introduced as a bill at the next session of the English Parliament, with the object of abolishing the gallows as the form of capital punishment in Great Britain. It is proposed to substitute some strictly private form of despatch of condemned men in their cells, such as the administration of an anesthetic or of some drug that will cause death as swiftly and painlessly as possible.
— Those who sell intoxicating liquors in Tennessee were declared ineligible to citizenship in the United States in a ruling announced February 12 by Federal Judge John F. McCall, who ruled that no man could support the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Tennessee, and uphold the laws of both, as required to do under oath, and at the same time engage in the unlawful vocation of selling liquor in a State where its sale is prohibited.
Business Notices
This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.
No advertisements of “agents wanted,” or “partners wanted,” and no “promotion” nor “colonization” enterprises, will be printed in this column. Brief business notices will be published, subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—
Conditions
Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. The fact that one is a subscriber does not necessarily make him “known” to the managers, nor constitute sufficient recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing, and send it.23
We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.
A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.
No discount for several insertions.
For Sale.—No. 1 L. C. Smith Visible Typewriter; used one month. Price: $75 cash; $8½ on payments. E. R. Averill, Fountain, Colo.
Notice.—If you want a home in College View, or have property you wish to exchange for College View property, write to A. Swedberg, College View, Neb.
Wanted.—Man to help work, one who desires home with church privileges. Call on or write to R. A. Blell, 334 East Thirty-eighth St., near Grand Boulevard, Chicago, Ill.
Wanted.—Man for general farm work; good with horses; able to work without a boss. Steady work; best of wages; Adventist preferred. For particulars address Wm. Middaugh, Ames, Neb.
For Sale.—Cooking Oil, best grade. Price for 30 days or until further notice, $4.50; freight prepaid east of Denver, Colo., to Ohio and north of Ohio River. Address R. H. Brock, Box 629, Kissimmee, Fla.
Wanted.—Good, strong man to work on market garden farm near Sheridan, Wyo. First-class recommendation must be given. Must be Sabbath-keeper, and willing to work long hours in rush season. Address J. T. Burkhart, Sheridan, Wyo.
For Sale.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor; keeps indefinitely; 5-gallon can, $4.30; 10-gallon can, $8.45; ½ bbl. (50 gallons), 79 cents a gallon; 1 bbl. (50 gallons), 78 cents a gallon. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.
Wanted.—Man to work on farm for a year; married or single, but married man preferred. House, garden, etc., furnished for married couple. Adventist church near. Must give reference. For further particulars address J. B. Rasmussen, R. F. D. 3, Kenmare, N. D.
Wanted.—To correspond with Adventist who has burden for missionary work in South. Must be mechanic, able to build houses, and do contracting. Must also know how to operate saw- and planing-mill machinery. Good opportunities for gospel work. Address C. A. Graves, Daylight, Tenn.
Help Wanted.—An experienced forelady for steam laundry; nurses; stenographer; chambermaids; dining-room help; ironers; call-boys. Permanent employment; good wages. Also wish to correspond with those who desire a training as sanitarium clerks, stewards, cooks, or matrons. Address L. M. Bowen, Sanitarium, Napa Co., Cal.
Dr. Godsmark’s Hygienic Vegetable Shortening, No. 2. Rich, pure, odorless, healthful. Prices: 5 gallons, $4.20; 10 gallons, $8.20; ½ bbl. (about 32 gallons), 72 cents a gallon. Our better grade: 5 gallons, $4.50; 10 gallons, $8.50; ½ bbl., 76 cents. By freight from Louisville or Chattanooga. Order to-day. Home Supply and Manufacturing Co., News Building, Chattanooga, Tenn.
For Sale.—Bible Mottos—foreign beauties, all of imported designs. Almost 500,000 sold in 1910. We print our own designs. We are the only company to get out a Father and Mother motto, and they lead the world. Special offer: 200 Spanish, $5. Assorted, English and German, 100, $5; 200, $9; 500, $20; 1,000, $35. Twenty-five free with each 100 ordered; express prepaid. Address Hampton Art Co., Lock Box 257, Hampton, Iowa.
Two beautiful colored pictures 14 x 22 inches, reproduced from the paintings, “The Holy City,” and, “A Child Shall Lead Them,” 25 cents each; 50, $4; 100, $6. Write for miniature in black and white. Address the Eutype Press, College View, Neb.
New York Vegetarian Restaurant
By R. D. Quinn
In harmony with the light that has been given us to the effect that health food restaurants and treatment-rooms should be opened in connection with our work in our city efforts, the Laurel Hygienic Restaurant, located at 11 West Eighteenth St., has recently been purchased by Brother Frank Huff and wife, and is now under the management of our own people.
This restaurant was operated successfully several years ago, when under the management of our people; but it passed into other hands, and the high standard of serving thoroughly hygienic food was to a great extent compromised. We believe it has in a providential way come back to us again.
We bespeak for this work the prayers and co-operation of all our people in holding up in this great city the principles of health reform that have been entrusted to us.
R. D. QUINN.
St. Helena Training School
The next class in the St. Helena Sanitarium and Hospital Training School for Medical Missionary Nurses will be organized Tuesday, April 4, 1911. Owing to the large number and great variety of cases that flock to this institution for relief, and the wide experience thus offered the students in both surgical and general hospital nursing, the course is especially strong, from a practical missionary standpoint. In addition to the opportunities for missionary work at the sanitarium, the San Francisco Dispensary, which the institution has taken over, affords training in city mission work. The institution has also undertaken to open up mission work in China the present year, thus giving a special opportunity to those who desire a definite foreign mission field for which to prepare and upon which to enter when their course is completed. Twenty-five consecrated young men and women, whose desire is to enter the work for the sake of fallen humanity and not for profit, are wanted to join this class.
Send for the Training Schools Calendar, addressing Dr. H. F. Rand, Superintendent, or Mrs. S. J. Whitney, Secretary, Sanitarium, Napa Co., Cal.
Obituaries
COOKSEY.—Eliza J. Estee Cooksey was born Sept. 14, 1907, at Saluda, N. C., later coming with her parents to Silt, Colo., where she fell asleep in Jesus, Dec. 30, 1910, aged 3 years, 3 months, and 16 days. Estee was of an unusually sweet disposition, and will be greatly missed in the home. Her parents sorrow, but find consolation in the hope of a soon-coming Saviour whose voice will burst the fetters of the tomb.
W. M. ANDREES.
BARNES.—Died in Colorado Springs, Colo., Jan. 20, 1911, Brother William H. Barnes, aged 27 years, 11 months, and 25 days. Brother Barnes was ill but a few days, and his death was a great shock to his relatives and friends. Early in life he united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and remained a member until his death. He leaves a wife, two little children, and other relatives. The writer spoke words of comfort at the funeral service.
M. A. ALTMAN.
JONES.—Mrs. Lucy D. Jones was born in 1844 at Bridgewater, Herkimer Co., N. Y., and died at Exeter, Cal., Jan. 13, 1911, aged 66 years, 6 months, and 26 days. She had been a Seventh-day Adventist for more than fifty years. Elder James White baptized her. She was brought by her son and daughter and friends to Reedley, Cal., where we laid her to rest, with a bright hope of seeing her again when the Life-giver calls his faithful ones from the grave.
C. L. TAGGART.
DAVIS.—James S. Davis was born Feb. 22, 1821, in Illinois. He came to California in 1849, settling in Esmerelda, in 1856, where he raised a family of eight sons and one daughter. The mother and four sons accepted present truth a number of years ago. Two years ago the mother died. Last year Brother Davis became favorable to present truth, and wished to become a Christian. The writer had the privilege of baptizing him in August, when he united with the church at Oakdale. His death occurred Nov. 10, 1910. He was laid away in the family cemetery to await the call of the Life-giver.
M. C. ISRAEL.
FARRAND.—Mrs. Mary A. Greenfield was born in New York State, May 15, 1841; was united in marriage to Calvin L. Farrand, Feb. 24, 1866; and died at the home of her daughter, at Bantry, N. D., Jan. 29, 1911, in the seventieth year of her age. Sister Farrand enjoyed a consistent Christian experience from her youth. In 1891 she accepted the faith of the soon-coming Saviour, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at Milwaukee, Wis., of which she remained a faithful member until her death. Five daughters and two sons are left to mourn. The faith of those who knew our sister responded to the words of the text, “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.”
PHIL. C. HAYWARD.
HAAK.—Died Feb. 2, 1911, at Immanuel Hospital, Mankato, Minn., Sister Frieda E. Haak, aged 21 years, 5 months, and 22 days. A member of the Seventh-day Adventist church at Mankato, she had many friends, to whom she had endeared herself by her upright Christian character. Her parents, one sister, and two brothers are left to mourn. She had spent nearly two years in the Chamberlain (S. D.) Sanitarium, taking the nurses’ course, and fitting herself to become a missionary. Dr. C. P. Farnsworth attended the funeral, and made some appropriate remarks at the close of the discourse, which was based on Rev. 14:13. We laid her to rest, February 5, to await the call of the Life-giver.
ANDREW MEAD.
(Christlicher Hausfreund, please copy)
CUSHMAN.—Ivie Alice Hicks was born near Humboldt, Kan., May 14, 1873; was married to Clement Cushman, Oct. 9, 1893; and died at Santa Cruz, Cal., Jan. 10, 1911, aged 37 years, 7 months, and 27 days. Her husband, an infant daughter, her mother, and two brothers are left to mourn. She was well known throughout California, having engaged in church-school and Bible work for some time. Words of comfort were spoken by the church elder of the Santa Cruz church.
C. M. HICKS.
GEULDSLY.—Mrs. John Geuldsly died Dec. 24, 1910, at her home in Huntington, W. Va. She was born in Virginia, but for many years after her marriage made her home in Huntington. Early in life, she made a profession of religion, and several years ago united with the Seventh-day Adventists. For many years she was the only Sabbath-keeper in this large city. She was a kind neighbor, a faithful wife, and a devoted mother. Her husband and three children are left to mourn. The funeral sermon was preached by a minister of her husband’s faith. Text, Phil. 1:21.
H. ANDRE.
STEBBINS.—Died at the home of her daughter, in Richburg, N. Y., Jan. 30, 1911, Mrs. Eleanor Stebbins, in the seventy-seventh year of her age. Sister Stebbins was formerly a First-day Adventist. About fifty years ago, she and her husband accepted the Sabbath, and became identified with the third angel’s message. Her living descendants are four children and seventeen grandchildren. She lived a useful life, and passed away with a bright hope of a part in the first resurrection. Funeral services were conducted by the writer, the text being Rev. 14:13. She was laid beside her husband at Andrews Settlement, Pa.
B. E. FISK.
WILLIAMS.—Montous Myrtle, eldest daughter of Chester B. and Elizabeth Williams, fell asleep at Bowling Green, Ohio, Jan. 22, 1911, aged 19 years, 8 months, and 12 days. Montous was converted and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church nine years ago. Since that time her faith in the gospel of the kingdom has never wavered. The funeral service was held in the First Christian church of Bowling Green, January 25, and was largely attended. Marked attention was given by the audience as the writer endeavored to present from the inspired Word the Christian’s triumph over death and the grave. Dr. Howard M. Jump assisted in the service.
H. H. BURKHOLDER.
FRYE.—Rosa Denver Frye, wife of Franklin Frye, was born Aug. 17, 1877, and died at her home near Mount Jackson, Va., Feb. 3, 1911, aged 33 years, 5 months, and 16 days. Her father, mother, and one sister, besides her husband, three children, and five stepchildren, are left to mourn. She was interested in the message, which was preached occasionally in that neighborhood, and expressed a desire for baptism some time before her death; but her sickness was of such a nature that during the last few weeks of her life she lost her mind; and when one of our ministers visited her a week before her death, it was impossible to administer the ordinance. Her funeral took place from the Adventist church near by, the services being conducted by the writer, assisted by Elders B. W. and A. C. Neff. Text, Rev. 21:4.
R. D. HOTTELL.
PUNCHES.—Mary A. Punches was born in Piqua, Ohio, Oct. 10, 1826, and fell asleep Sabbath, Jan. 14, 1911, at the age of 84 years, 3 months, and 4 days. Since the death of her husband, sixteen years ago, she has been a welcome member of the home of her son Daniel. She was converted early in life, and united with the M. E. Church; twenty-one years ago she accepted additional light under the preaching of the third angel’s message, and became a devoted member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. She leaves three sons, four daughters, a brother, a sister, with other relatives and many friends, to mourn. A large congregation was present at the funeral service, held at Hamler, Ohio, January 17. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from 1 Thess. 4:13.
H. H. BURKHOLDER.
Missionaries Sailing for China and Singapore
This week, the twenty-first, Elder E. H. Wilbur and family were booked to sail from San Francisco for South China, returning after a furlough with health renewed. By the same boat sailed Brother O. J. Gibson, of Mount Vernon College, and Sister O. J. Gibson (née Moffett), of the Washington Sanitarium Training School. Brother Gibson has spent several years in the field, having gone out on his own charges, but returned for further study. The China Mission now asks to have his services again.
By the boat leaving San Francisco, February 21, this week, Elder R. P. Montgomery and wife, of the Foreign Mission Seminary, were to sail for Singapore, Malay Peninsula. They go to engage in evangelistic work.
Reports on Fourth Sabbath Missionary Service
Elder D. C. Babcock writes from the African West Coast:— “There are excellent openings in the hinterland, but we must ‘wait.’ Yesterday a leading chief and all his retinue called on me, and gave us an invitation to come to his country. He controls a large territory, and has several chiefs under him. It is about two hundred miles to his country. His son is in our school. The chief speaks good English, and was invited to Freetown by the governor to meet the duke of Connaught last week.”
“As a conference,” writes Elder Roscoe T. Baer, president of the Chesapeake Conference, “we have taken hold of this work of the fourth Sabbath missionary service in earnest.” “The fourth Sabbath readings are being enjoyed by both young and old,” writes Brother F. H. Henderson, missionary secretary of the Ohio Conference. “New life and zeal are coming in among us.” Similar reports are being received from our missionary leaders, north, south, east, and west. “The Lord measures with exactness every possibility for service. . . . We shall be judged according to what we ought to have done.” Let our missionary mottoes be “Saved to Serve,” and “Something for Each One to Do.”
