p. 22 | Review and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 43. (8/31/1916)

Earlier text: Seventh-day Adventists and Medical Education

Pacific Union College

By C. W. Irwin

The determining factor in estimating the success of any Christian college should be the depth of spiritual power pervading its work. Such a condition manifests itself in contentedness and happiness on the part of the students, and in their willingness to comply cheerfully with a few tried regulations and to assist in every missionary endeavor.

Viewed from this standpoint, the past year has been undoubtedly the best in the history of the Pacific Union College. A most cheerful spirit of coöperation has been manifest on the part of both students and teachers throughout the year. This has been shown in the fervor of missionary zeal which has been present in the student body. Everything pertaining to the advancement of the message has been entered into most heartily by the students, and they have rejoiced in every token of progress as reported from our foreign missions.

The prayer bands have been numerous and well attended. The Friday evening social meeting has been a time of special blessing and encouragement. The students engaged enthusiastically in the Harvest Ingathering campaign, and more than four hundred dollars was raised in this way for the support of our mission work. Those taking the ministerial course have held meetings in various churches within reach of the college, and the results have been very encouraging. The Missionary Volunteer Society held its meeting each Wednesday morning at chapel hour. This meeting was attended by the whole school, and proved to be very helpful to the students in learning missionary methods and in kindling missionary zeal. Thirty-one Standard of Attainment certificates have been given out in the society during the year. It has been the aim of those leading out in the spiritual work of the year to foster a steady growth in spiritual life, rather than to arouse a sudden but transitory flight of religious fervor which might be the result of sentiment rather than of a steady growth in grace and a knowledge of the Saviour.

The location of Pacific Union College is especially adapted to the happy combination of physical, intellectual, and spiritual training. In harmony with the light which has been given us through the Spirit of prophecy, the school is located in the country, far removed from the excitement and bustle of city life. Here the students, surrounded by the beauties of nature, have the opportunity of pursuing their studies under the most favorable conditions for the healthful development of their bodies. The fresh mountain air and the pure spring water, with good food and abundant exercise in useful labor, make for the best development of true Christian men and women.

Incidentally, these advantages are much appreciated by those students who find it necessary to meet part of their expenses by the labor of their own hands. During the past year our students earned $25,000, which was placed to their credit for school expenses. At the rate of $200 a student, 125 students in this way earned their schooling in the industrial departments of the college. Nearly two thirds of the students in the school homes earned part or all of their expenses, and slightly more than one third of them paid their accounts in full in cash. Under these conditions the college can easily follow the light given in the Testimonies regarding the importance of discarding games of various kinds; for useful labor provides the necessary exercise.

In the normal department, which includes the church school grades, 45 pupils were enrolled; 180 students pursued academic work, and 100 were in the college department. Fifty students were graduated from the various courses at the close of the year, seventeen of these receiving degrees from the full collegiate course. The ministerial, normal, and premedical courses were well represented, and a smaller number of students completed the music and shorthand and business courses. Our college has given special attention to strengthening itself for giving the necessary premedical studies for the benefit of those who wish to enter the College of Medical Evangelists at Loma Linda. Six of our graduates expect to enter the medical college this fall.

The new college chapel is now under process of construction. It will probably not be ready for occupancy until the fall of 1917. It will contain a commodious chapel with gallery, with seating capacity for an audience of six hundred people. The building will include commodious offices for administrative purposes, large library and reading-room, two study-rooms for members of the faculty, and ample space for the commercial department. The present temporary chapel can then be divided into recitation-rooms. These rooms will provide ample accommodation for many classes which are now compelled to meet in undesirable places. All the work, from the felling of the trees in the woods to the completion of the building, will be done by student labor.

As the Pacific Union College is situated near the Golden Gate, which is the natural port of departure for all missionaries going to the Orient, it is natural that much attention should be given to the foreign mission work. Ten members of the faculty have traveled extensively or labored in foreign fields. The Oriental fields and South America seem to be the natural goal for those students who contemplate foreign service. During the summer vacation ten students have departed for fields abroad.

In short, it may be said that the real purpose and aim of the teachers in Pacific Union College is to prepare young men and women for places of active service in proclaiming the third angel's message to the world in this generation.

C. W. IRWIN, Pres. Pacific Union College.

A DORMITORY OF PACIFIC UNION COLLEGE, ST. HELENA, CAL.

Washington Missionary College

By B. F. Machlan

THE vision that appeared to the founders of Washington Missionary College was that of a great company of young people who, for want of proper education, were fast losing their hold upon God; of great cities unwarned because of a dearth of properly trained workers; and of millions of earth’s ignorant, sin-stricken inhabitants perishing in far-off heathen lands without a knowledge of Christ. Obedience to this vision resulted

in the establishment of the college, and while its status as an institution carrying full college work dates but two years back, it has in this short time had a remarkable growth, far exceeding the fondest hopes of its promoters.

It has been the aim of the board of trustees and faculty to provide such facilities as would give a proper training in the following courses of study: Collegiate, ministerial, medical evangelistic, Bible workers’, normal, commercial, and music; also a course in foreign mission preparation.

The ministerial and collegiate courses lead to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and give the training necessary for an efficient ministry. The medical evangelistic course is designed to meet

the needs of nurses who wish a better preparation for medical missionary work. The Bible workers’ course trains for house-to-house work, and has proved a great blessing to those wishing to enter this important line of activity.

The great demand for competent teachers is to be supplied through the medium of the normal department. Plans are being made to conduct a strong normal school at Washington, and this course will be greatly appreciated by all who have the welfare of the children at heart.

The music course has been very popular. The advantages to a music student at Washington are great. There are many opportunities to hear the leading vocal and instrumental artists of the day, as well as the best symphony orchestras of the country.

Plans are being laid for a strong commercial department, which will be up to date in its equipment, and will fully meet the needs of young people desiring a business education.

The foreign missions department appeals to a large class of workers, and has demonstrated its value to the cause of God by preparing a large number of young men and women who are laboring successfully in foreign fields.

Much attention is given to industrial education. There are strong courses in woodwork and carpentry, in printing, and in domestic science, including sewing, dressmaking, millinery, cooking, laundering, general housework, and domestic economy.

From the standpoint of location, Washington Missionary College enjoys many special advantages. It is at the headquarters of the denominational work. Missionaries often pass through

Washington on their return from the most distant mission fields, and the students have an opportunity to gain from them, at first hand, knowledge of the greatest interest and value.

Moreover, the presence here at headquarters of our leading General Conference and North American Division men gives unique opportunities to the students to get acquainted with them, and with the various lines of work which they represent. These men not only give lectures from time to time to the whole body of students, but are often called upon to give informal talks to student groups in various lines of activity connected with the school, and thus come into helpful contact with our students in many different ways.

The advantages offered by Washington as an educational center are remarkable.

The city itself is a great educating factor, being the governing center of the most extensive democracy in the world. The House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Supreme Court can be visited on various occasions, and many interesting and practical addresses heard. Washington is also a center for national and world-wide conventions, and the addresses given on such occasions are of great interest to students.

The national meeting of the Layman’s Missionary Movement held here last spring was considered by many to be the greatest missionary gathering since the world conference at Edinburgh held six years ago. A number of our advanced students were admitted by special ticket, and arrangements were made by which they were able to get the full benefit of this remarkable gathering.

The Library of Congress, containing more than two million volumes and an excellent reading-room, is accessible to every student in the college. It has the third largest collection of books in the world, the National Library in Paris and the British Museum being the only libraries exceeding it in this respect. Moreover, our teachers have the privilege of drawing books from the Library of Congress, and of making use of them in their classroom work. Learning how to rightly use a library of this kind is in itself a valuable part of a liberal education.

The various government departments afford not only excellent facilities for study, but have connected with them men of wide experience in their specialties, all of whom may be consulted by the advanced students of Washington College. For instance, a student doing advanced scientific work may often make arrangements for conducting his experiments in the government laboratories, and if he works out something worth while, the government will sometimes publish it for him. No government in the world is doing so much in certain lines of scientific investigation as is the United States, and all its varied facilities are at the disposal of such students of Washington College as are qualified to benefit by them.

The special privileges afforded by Washington are not only available to our students, but are also convenient of access. For a five-cent fare a student may ride on the trolley car from Takoma Park to the Library of Congress, the Capitol, the White House, or the Treasury, or to the center of the shopping district. Moreover, the school carries on its work on Sunday, but Friday is an entirely free day, thus giving the students ample opportunity to see the interesting sights of Washington and do necessary shopping, or to work in the Library of Congress or the government departments, as they may see fit. Thus the facilities exist, and the college work is so arranged that its students can make free use of them.

With a record of two hundred and twenty to foreign fields in seven years, and thirty-eight graduates for 1915-16, Washington Missionary College ought to recommend itself to all as the gateway to service at home and abroad.

B. F. MACHLAN, Pres. Washington Missionary College.

WASHINGTON MISSIONARY COLLEGE, WASHINGTON, D. C.

A New Administration Building

By B. G. Wilkinson

The Educational Campaign in the Columbia Union Conference

THE LORD looked forward to the spread of his last message of warning over all the world, and gave us the method by which it is to be brought about. He said, “Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.” Of course he expected us to know that it is impossible to lengthen the cords without strengthening the stakes.

While we carry on our work for the conversion of souls in the great cities of the United States, there is also another work of great importance to which we must give heed. We must drive certain stakes to which we may attach the cords extending out to distant mission fields.

Now one of these stakes, and a very important one, is our educational institutions. The education of our missionaries is as truly a part of our foreign mission endeavors as is their going to the field. Our schools are, so to speak, the gateway to service at home and abroad.

From the Washington Missionary College alone there have already gone out into foreign fields 220 missionaries. This college was planted in the providence of the Lord. After our work was established in Washington, through the movings of the Spirit upon the denomination everywhere, the Lord sent the following Testimony through his servant concerning the college here:—

“From the Washington Training College missionaries are to be sent forth to many distant lands. . . . The Washington Training School must be fully equipped, that those who come may receive a thorough education as evangelists, medical missionaries, and teachers.”

There is prospect for a large attendance at the Washington Missionary College for the year 1916-17. Its capacity is already absolutely inadequate. The classrooms are too small, and there are not enough of them. Already the chapel has become so crowded that the students must be seated close to the platform, interfering with the passage between the chairs and the platform. It is even necessary to seat students out in the hall. Moreover, the normal work of the college suffers for lack of room.

The attendance of the church-school teachers of the Columbia Union Conference at the recent summer school surpassed that at any summer school ever held in the Columbia Union, and

still the supply of qualified teachers is insufficient. Increasing numbers of church schools are being opened, and these demand teachers. Shall we supply these demands? Shall we have a college provided with facilities sufficient to train these needed workers?

In addition, training in domestic science, in sewing, and in the use of tools cannot be given as it should be, owing to inadequate room. The brethren therefore decided at the fall council held at Loma Linda in 1915, to ask the Columbia Union Conference to present the college with a new building, at a cost of about $25,000. The brethren throughout the field were to be solicited for $27,000, $2,000 of this to go for industries at Mount Vernon Academy. When this plan was adopted, a great burden rested upon the hearts of some of the brethren. They feared that, in their efforts to economize, their plans would not be sufficient for the improvements demanded.

So the committee, after discussing the situation, came to the conclusion that the matter needed further consideration. A joint council was therefore called, consisting of representatives from the General Conference, the North American Division, the Washington Missionary College, and the Columbia Union Conference Committee. Looking only at the bare demands of the case, the brethren recognized that in the plan for the $25,000 building, they had not provided sufficient chapel room; and they had planned for an addition of only seventeen classrooms, when twenty-five would be the minimum with which the college could be operated.

They further noted that such important matters as making provisions for a good normal school, and teaching the girls to sew and cook, and the boys to handle tools, had been slighted. Therefore they decided to come before the brethren, stating the situation exactly, and asking from the Columbia Union a building worth $43,000. Since $2,000 was to be raised for industries at Mount Vernon Academy, this would make the new call from the Columbia Union $45,000.

There are, however, two items of encouragement in the situation. Elder R. D. Quinn, representing the Atlantic Union, expressed his willingness that the quota of that field be raised from $12,500 to $17,000, in order to meet the demands for a dormitory. A second good feature was the report of Elder G. F. Enoch, who said that from his work of solicitation throughout the Columbia Union nearly $25,000 had been raised already in cash and pledges; and he has not yet covered the field.

At the first place where this change of plan was presented and explained, a brother who had taken one share, immediately expressed his willingness to take two shares. When the situation was presented to the New Jersey Conference Committee, the brethren voted to raise their part of the money needed, which in the first plan was approximately $3,600, and in the new is about $6,000. Virginia has also expressed her willingness to double the amount expected from that conference, and word has come from other conferences, signifying their readiness to assist.

Now while we have presented this from the viewpoint of the foreign mission field, we must also remember that this same institution is giving us excellent workers for our conferences and our cities. Shall we not nobly respond to the present demands, and rejoice in seeing the progress, under the blessing of God, of the work in which our contributions have had a share? The Spirit of prophecy has said:—

“A beginning has been made in proclaiming the third angel’s message in the city of Washington, and in other cities of the South and the East; but in order to meet the mind of the Lord, we shall have to plan for the carrying forward of a far-reaching and systematic work. . . . In Portland, Maine; in Boston, and in the towns round about; in New York, and the populous cities close by; in Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington, the Lord desires us to proclaim the third angel’s message with power.”

B. G. WILKINSON, Pres. Columbia Union Conf.

The Bible Year

Assignment for September 3-9

September 3: Psalms 137, 130, 80, 77. September 4: Psalms 37, 67, 49, 53. September 5: Psalms 50, 10, 13 to 15. September 6: Psalms 25 to 27, 36, 89. September 7: Psalms 92, 93, 123, 102. September 8: Ezra 1 to 4. September 9: Ezra 5 to 7.

This Week's Psalms

Of the psalms given in this week's assignment, Dr. Anderson says: “Written presumably by Asaph, Ethan, and others, during the time of the Babylonian captivity, most likely the latter portion thereof, during the reign of Belshazzar, who knew not Daniel, and under whom the persecution and distress of the Jews were the greatest. These psalms relate chiefly to the sorrows and afflictions of the Hebrew captives, mingled with exhortations, encouragements, and assurance of divine help and final deliverance from their persecutors.”

Ezra: the Man and the Book

The name Ezra means help. The famous scribe and priest bearing this name lived in Babylon in the time of Artaxerxes Longimanus, and by this monarch was commissioned to lead a large company of captive Jews to Jerusalem. Not only was he given a liberal provision of silver and gold and other offerings for the house of the Lord, but a royal decree commanded that he should receive all needed assistance from the keepers of the king’s treasures beyond the river. Ezra was a reformer. He desired not only to rebuild the temple and reestablish its services, but to see the laws and customs of the ancient faith observed in the daily life of the chosen people.

The book of Ezra contains a record of events that occurred about the time of the close of the exile of the Jews in Babylon. “It comprises accounts of the favors bestowed upon the Jews by Persian kings; of the rebuilding of the temple; of the mission of Ezra to Jerusalem, and his regulations and reforms. Such records forming the subject of the book of Ezra, we must not be surprised that its parts are not so intimately connected with each other as we might have expected if the author had set forth his intention to furnish a complete history of his times.”

Of the authorship and history of the book of Ezra and Nehemiah, Amos R. Wells says: “From the fact that the first part of the book of Ezra is written in the first person, it is thought that Ezra himself wrote it. Others think that both this book and Nehemiah were written by others, but contain extracts from the first-hand accounts of the two leaders. In ancient times the two books were united, and in the Vulgate they are called First and Second Esdras. They are written in Hebrew, with the exception of certain letters and other quoted documents in Ezra, which are kept in the original Aramaic, or Chaldee. Ezra covers seventy-nine years; and Nehemiah, after an interval of about twelve years, continues the story.”

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

Camp Meetings

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Northern New England, White River Junction, Vt. .......... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

Maine, Dover and Foxcroft................ Aug. 31 to Sept. 10

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Kansas, Emporia ....... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

Wyoming, Bridgeport, Nebr. Sept. 21 to Oct. 1

COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE

West Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh.......... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

West Virginia, Weston.. Aug. 31 to Sept. 10

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

Indiana, Indianapolis..... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

North Michigan, Cadillac.. Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Western Washington, South Tacoma................ Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Arizona........................ Oct. 12 to 22

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Mississippi, Hattiesburg (colored), ................ Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Florida, St. Petersburg.... Sept. 28 to Oct. 8

Florida, St. Petersburg (colored)........ Sept. 28 to Oct. 8

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Oklahoma, Enid...... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

Arkansas, Springdale........ Sept. 7 to 17

North Michigan Conference Association

By E. A. Bristol; C. N. Keiser

The annual session of the North Michigan Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Cadillac, Mich., in connection with the annual conference and camp meeting, Aug. 24 to Sept. 3, 1916. The first meeting will be called at 10:30 A. M., Tuesday, August 29.

Officers and a board of trustees will be elected at this meeting, and any other business transacted that may properly come before the association. All duly accredited delegates to the North Michigan conference form the constituency of the North Michigan Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists.

E. A. Bristol, President. C. N. Keiser, Secretary.

Missionary Volunteer Department

M. E. KERN - - - Secretary MARTHA ERICKSON - - - Assistant Secretary MRS. I. H. EVANS - - - Office Secretary MELDIE MACGUIRE } - - - Field Secretaries C. L. BENSON } J. F. SIMON }

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

—On August 9 a cloud-burst swept the Cabin Creek and Coal River valleys, near Charleston, W. Va., spreading devastation throughout the district. Seven towns are in ruins, and the loss of life is placed at 150. Property valued at $1,000,000 was destroyed, and 5,000 persons are homeless.

—On the spot in the old Maryland statehouse, at Annapolis, where George Washington resigned his commission in the Continental Army, a wedding ceremony was recently conducted entirely in Esperanto—the first of its kind ever performed.

—Newfoundland, oldest of the British colonies,—by many erroneously thought to be a province in the Dominion of Canada,—is about to put into operation a most stringent prohibitory law. At the end of this year the law will be in full force, forbidding the importation, manufacture, and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage.

—It is announced that a cure for eruptive typhus, the disease which made such terrible ravages in Serbia, has been discovered by two Paris doctors. The physicians have described their discovery to the Academy of Medicine. It is a serum found after exhaustive experiments. Its use reduced the death rate from twenty-five to three per cent.

—Swift & Co., of Chicago, have announced the adoption of a pension system for their 30,000 employees. The company will supply all the funds, and the workers will not be required to contribute, as is the case in many instances. The pensions will run from $140 to $5,000 a year, and will go mainly to those who have worked twenty-five years or have been rendered unfit for work through accident.

—Harry McNish, a member of the Shackleton expedition into the Antarctic, is the first of that party to return to London. His story of Sir Ernest’s trip across the open sea from Elephant Island to South Georgia in search of help, adds another epic to history. McNish believes the worst danger to the members of the expedition left on Elephant Island, whom Sir Ernest is now trying to rescue, is that they must believe their chief and his crew did not survive the rescue trip. McNish and three others decked over the largest boat Sir Ernest had on Elephant Island with sledge runners, box lids, and canvas. For two weeks there were constant storms, the sun not being visible for observations half a dozen times. One man was employed constantly with an ax cutting off the ice which formed on the boat, but even then the boat became so weighted that large quantities of provisions, and even the oars, had to be jettisoned to keep afloat. They even lost the sea anchor, but Sir Ernest kept up confidence, and finally they sighted the west coast of South Georgia during a snowstorm. The wind was blowing a hurricane, so they had to lay off the coast for a day before they could land, and then they reached shore only by sleepless industry and a chance turn of the wind. McNish has little hope of the rescue of the men left on Elephant Island.

“The Mystery Unfolded; or, the Seven Seals Opened”

By L. R. Conradi

By L. R. Conradi. This book is an exhaustive study of the seven seals of Revelation, unfolding what has been and still is a mystery to the majority of the world. The book is divided into 21 chapters, as follows:—

The Reliable Source of Light.
The Mystery of the Divine Will Unfolded.
The Mystery of Lawlessness.
The Mystery of Redemption.
The Eye of Faith Perceives the Substance of the Mystery.
The Mystery of the Gospel in Shadow and Type.
The Mystery of Christ’s Sufferings Foretold by the Prophets.
The Mystery: Babylon.
The Mystery of the, Kingdom of Christ in Figure.
The Mystery of the Kingdom of Christ Foretold by the Prophets.
Sealed unto the Time of the End.
The Lightning-Like Wheel within a Wheel, Full of Eyes.
The Mystery of God Manifest in Flesh.
God’s Mysterious Dealings with Israel Unfolded.
The Mystery of the Incorporation of the Gentiles Unveiled.
“The Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven” Unfolded.
“Behold, I Show You a Mystery.”
“The Mystery of the Seven Lamps and of the Seven Stars Unveiled.”
The Seven Seals Broken by the Lamb of God.
The Mystery of the Woman and the Red Dragon Unveiled.
The Mystery of God Finished.

The book contains 350 pages, with 25 full-page illustrations. Beautifully bound in cloth; price, $1.25.

Maine Conference Association

By H. W. Carr; W. O. Howe

THE annual meeting of the Maine Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the Maine conference and camp meeting, at Dover and Foxcroft, Aug. 31 to Sept. 10, 1916, for the purpose of electing trustees, and of transacting such other business as may properly come before the association. The first meeting will be held at 10:30 A. M., Tuesday, September 5. All accredited delegates to the Maine conference are members of the association.

H. W. CARR, President.

W. O. HOWE, Clerk.

Requests for Prayer

An Indiana sister who has nearly lost her sight requests prayer that her eyes may be healed if it be God's will.

An aged sister in Iowa who has suffered a slight paralytic stroke, and recently fell, breaking her hip, asks for prayer.

A sister in Colorado desires us to pray for the conversion of her husband and son, and that the health of her six-year-old daughter and herself may be restored.

A burdened wife asks our prayers for her husband, who is laboring under a dark cloud of doubt and discouragement. He is anxious to have again in his heart the peace of God, which he once enjoyed.

Address Wanted

MR. E. PUGH, Austell, Ga., desires to obtain the address of George T. Main.

Publications Wanted

By Editor

THE persons named below desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent postpaid, for use in missionary work. In sending publications care should be exercised to select only such as are free from soil and disfigurement. We have been credibly informed that some who oppose this movement and the truths which it represents answer these requests for literature, and are sending to our brethren and sisters in various parts of the country tracts and papers representing their opposition. Our workers should be careful not to confound this literature with our denominational publications, and thus unwittingly become agents in sending out matter not printed in the interests of the cause of truth.

J. A. Pateete, Star Route, Leach, Tenn. Continuous supply.

J. H. Downes, Y. M. C. A., Cornhill, London, E. C., England.

Mrs. F. E. Batchelder, 1242 Tenth St., Santa Monica, Cal. A continuous supply of Signs, Instructor, Little Friend, and Life and Health.

Edward Quinn, 7 Denwood Ave., Takoma Park, D. C. A continuous supply of Signs and Watchman; also names of interested persons, for use in missionary correspondence band work.

The Home Circle Library

THIS library consists of the following books:—

Steps to Christ..............$ .75 Gospel Primer................. .50 New Testament Primer......... .50 Gospel Primer No. 2.......... .50 Bible Child Life.............. .75 Best Stories.................. .75 Christ Our Saviour........... .75 Friends and Foes............. 1.00 My Garden Neighbors.......... 1.00 Friend in the Kitchen........ .50 Making Home Happy............ .75

A loose-leaf prospectus has been made containing sample pages and the first cover of each of these books, with a brief description of each. This will afford a very convenient way of showing these various books. The price of the prospectus postpaid is only 50 cents.

World's Crisis Library

A loose-leaf prospectus is also being prepared to contain samples of the following books in this most interesting series:—

The World's Crisis...........$ .50 Armageddon ................. .50 The Shadow of the Bottle.... .50 Our Paradise Home........... .50 His Glorious Appearing...... .50 The Vatican and the War..... .50 The Other Side of Death.... .50

This will also be furnished at 50 cents postpaid.

Those who provide themselves with one or both of these prospectuses, and will devote such time to the work as is possible, will be granted subscription-book rates on each of the books contained in these two prospectuses. Write to your tract society secretary regarding it.

Remember Our Missionaries

As we look into the faces of the young men and women who are going to the Orient, as portrayed in our World-Wide Field department, we are impressed with the fact that it is no ordinary spirit of sacrifice which prompts the fathers and mothers in Israel to lay their sons and daughters on the altar of missionary service. Some of these young men and women doubtless are going from homes which need the cheer of their presence, and the material aid which they might render. Some are leaving parents and friends whom they will never see again in this world. They are going to a people who speak strange tongues, exposing themselves to trying climates and dangers by land and sea. Surely we should pray God to remember our brethren and sisters who have gone out from us into the great regions beyond. We know from letters which they write that their hearts often turn to the homeland. We who know these missionaries should remember them with occasional letters. This will remind them that they still have an interest in our thoughts and prayers.

Our Priceless Paper

By E. Hilliard

MUCH has been said relative to the value of our church paper, the REVIEW AND HERALD. It is highly appreciated by those who are making thorough work in preparing to meet their soon-coming Lord. It is priceless to those who are spiritually minded and are anxiously laboring for the salvation of their relatives and friends. Never since its first issue have the people of God needed it more than just now. In these days of peril we need to read its Spirit-filled columns, that we may keep pace with the message it bears, and be prepared for that joyful meeting when its readers shall be gathered home.

We deeply regret that so many Seventh-day Adventist families are content to do without it. The articles from the pen of the aged pioneers in the third angel’s message are soul inspiring. We have reached a time that we have been looking forward to for years,—the loud cry of the message. The writer remembers hearing Elder Harrison Grant, one of our pioneer ministers, say, more than thirty years ago, “The time is coming when the Seventh-day Adventists’ places of worship will be the crowded houses.” Today, while he sleeps in Jesus, his words are being fulfilled. The Portland and Pittsburgh meetings as reported in the REVIEW stir every fiber of our being. The terrible scenes of carnage and bloodshed on the European continent are stirring the entire world. The very last prophecies are fulfilling, and the people are awakening as never before in the history of our work. In St. Paul, Minn., the people are writing to the editors of the daily papers, saying that they are perplexed, and asking, “What are we coming to? Is the entire world going mad?”

Now, just now, is the opportune moment to labor for those who are being awakened by the perils of these last days. Why not send the REVIEW for six months or a year to your brother, sister, or friend, who, perhaps, is imperceptibly backsliding for lack of spiritual food?

In the near future conditions will quickly change, and it will be too late to labor for our acquaintances. In the past, all great spiritual awakenings have been followed by persecution. It was so after the day of Pentecost. We are now entering upon a greater pentecost, and we know that a relentless persecution will surely follow. Let us faithfully endeavor to place the REVIEW in every home we possibly can.

E. HILLIARD.

Missionary Party Reaches Honolulu

As we go to press, the following word comes from Elder R. C. Porter, dated from Honolulu, August 7: “Our missionary party, consisting of forty-two adults and seven children, are enjoying a very pleasant voyage. We reached Honolulu this morning. The first day out from San Francisco we experienced a very rough sea. This was a severe test to our seamanship, and most of our party succumbed to seasickness. Almost all rallied the next day, and we have since had a smooth sea and a delightful voyage. Brother Loveland came aboard suffering with malaria. Sister Steinel was suffering with acute inflammatory rheumatism. Brother Loveland has recovered, and Sister Steinel is much improved. The Honolulu church has prepared a splendid program and dinner at the park for our party. The outlook is that we shall have a very pleasant time.”

Sanitarium Prosperity

Reports from the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium state that the institution is enjoying an overflow in patronage at the present time, with quite a list of patients awaiting vacancies to secure accommodations. This same report might be given of the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium. During the last year it has enjoyed the greatest prosperity of its entire history. We hope that this has been the experience of every sanitarium connected with this movement.

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