A CHANGE in the conditions which have controlled the prices and the method of handling “Ministry of Healing” and “Christ’s Object Lessons” as relief books, make it necessary to announce certain changes to which we invite general attention.
The old editions of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” which were printed wholly or in part by appropriations from the material fund, are now exhausted, with the exception of a few copies still in stock at the Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal.
The plans for handling “Ministry of Healing” have sufficiently changed so that we are able to place the relief edition upon a new and more favorable basis; therefore we ask attention to the following announcement:—
“Ministry of Healing,” Subscription Edition
As soon as the necessary changes and improvements can be made, this beautiful book will be issued as a subscription book. In due time announcements will appear concerning date of publication, prices, etc.
“Ministry of Healing,” Relief Edition
Arrangements have been made for issuing a relief edition of this book in the same form and at the same price as in the past. Any sanitarium or conference desiring to sell this book for relief purposes should make arrangements with the union conference of which it may be a part for such territory as it may need in which to carry on its relief work. The territory thus assigned for relief purposes can be retained for that purpose so long as it is worked energetically and successfully. These relief books may be obtained from the Review and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., at thirty-five cents a copy.
The sanitarium or conference ordering books will pay freight and all other expenses connected with the enterprise, and be responsible for the collection and appropriation of its funds.
Any sanitarium desiring to send out nurses as canvassers may handle these relief books in the territory that has been assigned them, and allow their nurses forty per cent of the retail price.
We believe that this arrangement will be satisfactory in every respect to the institutions that may wish to undertake relief enterprises, and at the same time it will place the book in the hands of agents who can sell it in all territory where no relief work is being done.
“Christ’s Object Lessons”
This book will be continued exclusively as a relief book. A few copies are still in stock at the Pacific Press Office, Mountain View, Cal. As long as this stock lasts, books may be secured F. O. B. cars, Mountain View, at twenty-five cents a copy. As soon as that edition is exhausted, all further supplies will be secured from the Review and Herald, Takoma Park, at thirty cents a copy, F. O. B. cars at Takoma Park.
We shall be pleased to answer inquiries and co-operate in any possible way with any of our brethren who wish to handle these relief books.
E. R. PALMER,
Secretary of Relief Bureau.
Field Notes and Gleanings
ELDER F. H. DEVINNEY reports the baptism of four at South Russell, N. Y.
A NEW church of eight members has been organized at Lebanon, Kan., by Elder D. U. Hale.
SIX NEW Sabbath-keepers are reported at Walnut Springs, Tex., as a result of the efforts of Elder H. B. French.
THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE will this year have four tent companies in the field. One of these companies will work for the Germans and another for the Swedes.
The Wisconsin Reporter notes the fact that in one locality a family of six have come into the truth as the result of the faithful labors of one of our canvassers.
A REPORT from Kansas states that in spite of rain and mud, the canvassing report for the two weeks ending June 12, shows an average of over one dollar an hour for each hour put in by the canvassers in that field.
NEAR the close of the Lodi (Cal.) camp-meeting, thirty-one candidates went to the river near the town and were buried with their Lord in baptism. A number of these were young people from the church-school which has been conducted at Lodi the past year.
THE note in this department in the issue of June 25, which mentioned the baptism of fifteen persons as the result of the labors of “Elder W. W. Ruble and L. E. Camp,” should have read, “As the result of special effort put forth in that church by Elder W. W. Ruble.”
ELDER A. R. OGDEN, writing of the work at Palco, Kan., states that our people in that place now own a good house of worship, and that it was his privilege before leaving there, to receive into the church seven new members, four of whom had recently been baptized by Elder C. E. Peckover.
ELDER M. H. GREGORY reports a good interest at Lancaster, Ark., where a number are awaiting baptism at the present time. Much opposition to the truth was manifested at the time in the town of Lucky, where the Campbellites were insisting on a discussion. As a result of the debate, eighteen persons have made a start for the kingdom. Eight of these were baptized, and ten have united with the church at that place, greatly strengthening the company which was already holding up the light of truth in that vicinity.
Current Mention
— Hon. Luke E. Wright assumed the office of Secretary of War on July 1, the position left vacant by the resignation of Hon. William H. Taft.
— The United States treasurer reports that the deficit for the year 1908 will approximate $60,000,000, an amount which has been exceeded only twice since the Civil War.
— A parcels-post agreement has been effected between the United States and France, to become effective August 15 next, under the terms of which a package under four pounds and six ounces will be carried at the rate of twelve cents a pound. Later the maximum weight of packages which can be mailed at this rate will be increased to eleven pounds.
— Plans have been filed in New York City, by the architects of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, for a new skyscraper building, which is to be sixty-two stories high, overtopping all the present lofty buildings in New York City. This new building will be 900 feet from the curb to the top of the tower, and will carry a flag-pole 150 feet higher. The structure is to cost $10,000,000.
— A vigorous campaign has begun in the French parliament against the use of absinthe. It is proposed to make the sale of absinthe a penal offense. Belgium and Switzerland have both recently adopted measures for suppressing the absinthe trade within their borders.
— In Alexandria, Va., the local authorities are putting the ban upon all kinds of Sunday activities. Fruit men, tobacco men, candy venders, and newspaper dealers are forbidden to carry on their usual occupations on that day. Drug-stores will be permitted to sell nothing but drugs on Sunday. The edict also includes butcher shops and grocery stores, but permits the sale of milk and ice during the day.
— The Japanese government has withdrawn all its objections to the building of a railroad by the Chinese in Manchuria, and has promised to give this road a connection with some road over which the Japanese hold control at some point south of Manchuria. This has been brought about by prolonged negotiations between Tokyo and Peking, and may be due in some measure to the influence of the United States.
— Secretary Straus, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, has opened a national employment bureau, the purpose of which is to bring those desiring employment into communication with those seeking employees. It is hoped by this means to send on to the farming districts a large portion of the foreign immigration which has hitherto been compelled to settle down in the congested centers of population.
— During the week the revolution in northern Mexico has assumed disquieting proportions, and the Mexican government has sent train-loads of troops to the vicinities of greatest revolutionary activity. Americans on the Mexican side of the line are moving their families to American soil, and American troops have been dispatched to the border to prevent revolutionary fugitives from taking refuge on this side the line. There have been a number of clashes between soldiers and the revolutionists, in nearly all of which there have been losses on both sides. The revolutionists claim to have captured three towns.
— Some time ago the shah of Persia felt compelled to leave his palace, and the capital of the nation because of the attitude of the Persian Parliament. On June 23, however, the shah returned to the capital with a large body of soldiers, and bombarded the parliament building. A battle ensued on that day, lasting five hours, which is said to have resulted in the loss of several hundred lives. The shah is now in control of the capital, and a state of siege has been proclaimed. It is stated that it was not the shah's purpose in bombarding parliament to abolish the new constitution, but to bring about the arrest of a number of politicians personally hostile to himself. Foreigners are said to be in no immediate danger, although their situation is admitted to be somewhat precarious. In cities and villages near the capital great danger exists on account of the activities of Kurdish tribesmen and Turkish troops. It is feared that the activities of the Turks on the Persian frontier may lead to serious international difficulties.
Loma Linda (Cal.) College of Evangelists
By GEO. K. ABBOTT, M. D.
THE exercises of the second annual commencement of the College of Evangelists were held June 9. A class of seven was graduated from the three years’ course for evangelistic nurses. Between two and three hundred persons filled the assembly hall to witness the exercises. Elder G. W. Reaser, president of the Southern California Conference, gave the principal address, dwelling especially upon the combined work of the missionary nurse, and the co-operation of the human with the divine in ministry to both the physical and the spiritual. The address left strongly impressed upon the minds of the hearers the fact that our educational work, in whatever line, should be a training for missionary and evangelistic labor in giving the last gospel message to the world.
JUNE 10 Miss Ellen Cornish, a member of the graduating class, was united in marriage with Mr. Walter Foster, a graduate of the Fernando Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Foster have accepted a call from the Mission Board for Japan. They will visit relatives in Dakota, and sail for their new field of labor from Seattle about July 21. The college faculty and students, and the sanitarium family, presented them with a very practical wedding gift in the form of supplies with which to carry on their medical work in Japan.
The college faculty has been much strengthened for the coming year by the addition of Elder R. S. Owen as Bible teacher. Elder Luther Warren will continue in charge of the field work. This personal and house-to-house work in giving Bible readings, health and temperance talks, and the holding of cooking schools, has been under the immediate supervision of some of the senior students, as a part of the work of the Young People’s Society. Each afternoon a company of from two to six or more students go out into the towns and cities near by to carry on this work, and canvass for “Ministry of Healing” or “Christ’s Object Lessons.” With the counsel and advice of the faculty, and the earnest endeavors of the students, this work has grown substantially. The spiritual life and missionary spirit of the students were never better than now. This atmosphere of consecration and helpfulness has so pervaded the entire sanitarium life that all who come feel that it is indeed good to be here.
The college announcement for 1908-09 will soon be ready for distribution. Those who desire a training in medical missionary and evangelistic lines should learn of the educational plan of the Loma Linda College.
Calendars and information may be had by addressing the undersigned at Loma Linda, via Redlands, Cal.
GEO. K. ABBOTT, M. D.
Medical Missionary Department
Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference
W. A. GEORGE, M. D., - - - Chairman
W. A. RUBLE, M. D., - - - Secretary
Findings
The Cape Sanitarium (Cape Town, South Africa) has been enjoying a good patronage.
Dr. A. W. Hewitt will be connected with the Washington Branch Sanitarium for the summer.
Dr. C. S. Bossert will assist Dr. D. H. Kress in the Washington Sanitarium the coming year.
The financial depression is growing worse in Kimberley, South Africa. It is affecting the patronage of the Bath, quite materially.
S. M. Konigmacher and wife left Cape Town, May 28, for Malamulo Mission, Nyassaland, to engage in mission work. They are well and of good courage.
Dr. J. W. Hopkins, a graduate of the George Washington University this spring, has accepted a call to the St. Helena (Cal.) Sanitarium, and has left Washington to enter upon his new duties.
Mrs. Edith E. Bruce sailed on the steamship “Cedric,” June 18, to join the staff of workers in India. Mrs. Bruce has for a number of years been an efficient medical missionary worker in various places. She secured a large part of her medical training at Battle Creek, afterward laboring in treatment rooms in Jackson, Mich., and later with Dr. Patience Bourdeau in Grand Rapids. For some time she was medical secretary of the Ohio Conference. From this work she was called to act as head nurse at the Washington Branch Sanitarium, where she has given most efficient service for the past year. Three weeks ago she offered herself to go as a foreign missionary, and was accepted immediately by the board, and sailed within two weeks. She will join other nurses in England, and together they will proceed to their new field of labor. We wish them God’s choicest blessing in their work.
Business Notices
THIS department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.
Brief business notices will be published subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following —
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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.
WANTED.—Work among Seventh-day Adventists during harvest and threshing, in Minnesota or Dakota. State length of job and wages expected to pay. Address M. D., Box 124, Birnamwood, Wis.
FOR SALE.—For a short time only, Pea-nut Butter, 10 cents a pound; Olive-Oil, $2.50 a gallon; 50 pounds Cocoanut-Oil, $7. Cash with order. All guaranteed absolutely pure. Address Vegetarian Meat Company, Washington, D. C.
WANTED.—Two or three ladies to join a company of workers who are traveling from city to city selling Life and Health. All expenses paid. This is worth investigating. For information address, E. L. Graham, R. F. D. 19, Box 343, Greenwood, Ind.
FOR SALE.—18 acres, all but one acre in full-bearing orchard, peaches, prunes, almonds, and English walnuts, on country road, and electric line, near St. Helena, in the beautiful Napa Valley. Price, $3,600. Address H. Hansen, R. F. D. 2, St. Helena, Cal.
WANTED.—To correspond with good blacksmith, a Sabbath-keeper, understanding general blacksmithing, wagon and carriage repairing, horse-shoeing, etc. Do not come, but write to W. H. Gilmore, Care Sanitarium, Loma Linda, Cal., via Redlands, for particulars.
FOR SALE.—3 cottages, each containing 5 rooms, near Fernando Academy. The larger one contains bath, toilet, closet, pantry, cellar, and storehouse; lot 60 x 145 feet. The second is located on lot 100 x 120 feet; price, $1,300. The third is located on lot 54 x 60 feet; price, $800. Address Mrs. Sophia Larson, Fernando, Cal.
USE RIPE OLIVES for flesh-building and blood-making, for consumptive tendencies, for gall stones, for constipation, for diseased stomach. See “Ministry of Healing,” page 298. For prices, freight rates, and directions for keeping, address W. S. Ritchie, Corona, Cal.
FOR SALE.—To settlers of our people on easy terms, good land in the northwestern part of Wisconsin, eighteen miles southeast of Superior, near railroad station and our academy. Also my bees and apiary, with fixtures, for sale. Address A. C. Woodbury, Hawthorne, Wis.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Camp-Meetings for 1908
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
New York, Norwich .......... Sept. 10-20
CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
Ontario, Toronto ............ Aug. 20-30
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE
Missouri, Sedalia ............ Aug. 6-16
Kansas, Ottawa ............... Aug. 13-23
Colorado, Pueblo ............. Aug. 20-30
COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE
New Jersey, Woodbury ......... Aug. 20-30
Ohio, Mansfield ............... Aug. 13-23
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE
Indiana (local), La Grange ...... July 14-20
Southern Illinois, Vandalia ........ July 30 to Aug. 9
Indiana (State), La Fayette ....... Aug. 6-16
West Michigan ..................... Aug. 13-23
Northern Illinois ................. Aug. 20-30
East Michigan, Lapeer ............. Aug. 20-30
Indiana (local), North Vernon ...... Aug. 25-31
North Michigan (conference), Petoskey ........ Aug. 27 to Sept. 6
Wisconsin, Madison ................. Aug. 31 to Sept. 13
NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
North Dakota (local), Dickinson, July 6-12
Iowa, Nevada ................ Aug. 27 to Sept. 6
PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE
Southern California, Los Angeles, Aug. 6-16
California (northern), Eureka ........ July 23 to Aug. 2
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Louisiana, Lake Charles ........ Aug. 6-16
Tennessee River, Memphis ........
Alabama, Cullman ............... Sept. 3-13
Alabama, near Mobile ............ Oct. 8-18
SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE
South Carolina, Greenville, July 24 to Aug. 3
Georgia, Atlanta ................. Aug. 6-16
North Carolina, Lexington ....... Aug. 13-23
Cumberland, Cleveland, Tenn., Aug. 26 ........ to Sept. 6
Florida, Palatka ................. Oct. 1-12
SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE
Texas (local), Nacogdoches ...... July 7-13
Oklahoma (local), Muskogee ...... July 15-20
Arkansas (State), Fort Smith .... Sept. 3-13
Texas (State), Keene ............ July 30 to Aug. 9
Oklahoma (State), Enid .......... Aug. 20-31
Arkansas (State), Fort Smith .... Sept. 3-31
WESTERN CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
Alberta, Lacombe ................ July 9-19
The presidents of the various conferences are requested to forward any information which will enable us to publish a complete and correct list of the camp-meetings appointed for the present season. If any changes are made in either time or place of meetings already appointed, notice should be forwarded at once.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Notice !
By Wm. Guthrie
ALL money that has heretofore been sent to Sister Alberta McLeod, for the Maritime Conference, should in the future be sent to Elder E. E. Gardner, Williamsdale East, Nova Scotia. All postal money-orders should be made payable at Oxford, as Williamsdale is not a money-order office. Much trouble will be avoided if you will follow these directions carefully. Sister McLeod is leaving the field, and is going to California.
Wm. Guthrie.
A Most Important and Unique Departure in the Publishing World
The publishing house of Thomas Nelson & Sons, established in Edinburgh in 1804, and in New York in 1854, has recently placed on the market an encyclopædia that for its great excellence and its many distinguishing features has been termed “the last word” on encyclopædias.
Nelson’s Encyclopædia is an absolutely new work of reference edited by the famous encyclopædic experts—Frank Moore Colby, M. A., New York, and George Sandeman, M. A., of Edinburgh. These men have been assisted by a corps of the most eminent scholars and specialists that have ever engaged in a single educational undertaking. Having an active organization on both sides of the Atlantic, the publishers have united the work of editors in both countries, and the results justify the claim that Nelson’s is the only truly international encyclopædia.
The trouble with all previous encyclopædias has been this: The moment a volume was regularly bound, it became a dead issue as far as the world’s life of to-day and to-morrow is concerned. Nelson’s Loose-Leaf Binding Device has solved the problem. It makes it possible to keep each volume up to the very hour of the world’s happenings—day by day, month by month, without increasing the size of the volume, without addition of volumes, without “new editions,” and all the other cumbersome and costly old-fashioned attempts at keeping an encyclopædia abreast of the times.
The beauty of this application of the loose-leaf system to an encyclopædia is that the23loose-leaf arrangement has been so perfected that every part of it is within the binding, so that the book, viewed from the outside, looks like any other well-bound book. Another pleasing feature is that the book opens readily at any page, and when open lies easily and naturally, without making it necessary to bring pressure to bear on the two parts of the volume to keep it open.
This loose-leaf device would not induce the public to buy the Encyclopædia were they not first convinced that it is the very best encyclopædia in the English language. The editorial policy which has given Nelson’s such an enviable start will be maintained by continuous revision. These editors will be constantly at work rewriting any article in the original work which, because of new events, ceases to be contemporaneous. The new matter to be included will not only be the newest to be had, but it will be as accurate as the best trained minds and the most careful editing can make it.
Here is the Publishers’ Guarantee as given with each set sold:—
We, Thomas Nelson & Sons (established in Edinburgh in 1804, and in New York in 1854), certify:—
In consideration of the purchase price paid in accordance with the terms of the agreement of purchase of one set of ‘Nelson’s Encyclopædia, Perpetual Loose-Leaf Edition,’ with Revision Pages, that we will keep this work up to date by issuing yearly up to and including the year 1912, not less than 500 renewal pages, and deliver same without further cost to each subscriber.
THOMAS NELSON & SONS.
After 1912 the renewal pages will be supplied to subscribers at a nominal yearly charge.
With each set of Nelson’s Loose-Leaf Encyclopædia is a ‘Certificate Page.’ This certificate guarantees that the encyclopædia will be kept new by the insertion annually of not less than 500 rewritten pages. These 500 or more pages are sent to the subscribers about the first of March of each year, when they take the place of temporary pages which are issued from time to time, as the news of the day demands.
Besides this service of “revision pages,” however, which is guaranteed each subscriber to the Encyclopædia until the year 1912, the certificate entitles each subscriber to special information on any subject desired, the latter to be furnished by the permanent editorial board engaged for the work by Thomas Nelson & Sons.
In other words, the subscriber to Nelson’s Encyclopædia who is desirous of more information on some particular subject than he can find in the work itself has only to make his needs known to the Editorial Board, whereupon the latter is pledged to bestir itself, dig out the required data, and forward same to the inquisitive subscriber. This Editorial Board is a practical clearing house for general information.
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Within a few days the publishers had issued ready for distribution a temporary page giving an account of the assassination of King Carlos and the crown prince of Portugal, and the ascension to the throne of Manuel II. Also a temporary page giving an account of the tornado disaster in the Gulf States that occurred on April 25. They also had pages printed and in the mail to the subscribers within two days, giving an account of the Republican Convention, the text of the platform and sketch of the nominees. Subscribers to Nelson’s Loose-Leaf Encyclopædia had in a condensed and digested form, almost as recent, but absolutely more reliable information on these subjects than could be gleaned from the newspapers or magazines.
The method of preparing the permanent revision pages is the same as that employed by encyclopædia publishers for the past fifty years: paragraphs of past importance are condensed, and the space thus gained is given to new topics or to old ones which have grown in interest during the year. Of course, new subjects or additional information will be needed where no space has been provided in this way. In such cases the number of the pages in the volume will be increased by inserting, where needed, pages which will be numbered with the same folio but differentiated by a letter. For instance, if the present government of Russia should be overthrown, and a republic founded, the new pages would be numbered 477 A, 477 B, etc.
The launching of Nelson’s Perpetual Loose-Leaf Encyclopædia is a fitting celebration of the century’s existence of the publishing house of Thomas Nelson & Sons. For three generations the publication of Bibles and educational works has made the name of Nelson known the world over wherever the English tongue is spoken. The stability of the house is surety for the success of its new venture. [Adv.]
Southern Illinois Conference
By S. E. WIGHT
The first meeting of the sixth annual session of the Southern Illinois Conference will be held on the camp-ground at Vandalia, 9 A. M., Friday, July 31, 1908. Each church admitted to the conference in the territory of the Southern Illinois Conference, is entitled to one delegate for its organization, and one for each ten members.
S. E. WIGHT, President.
Southern Illinois Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists
By S. E. WIGHT
NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of the Southern Illinois Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the camp-ground at Vandalia, Ill., at 10 A. M., Friday, July 31, 1908, for the election of officers and the transaction of such business as may be necessary for the furtherance of the work of said association. All accredited delegates to the conference are delegates to this association. S. E. WIGHT, President.
Change of Address
By Editor
ON account of the large additions to the force of agents in the Northwest this year, we have found it necessary to seek larger quarters for the accommodation of the stock required to meet the increasing demands for our publications. A satisfactory location has been found at No. 61 North Park St., to which place we are now moving. All mail for the Portland Branch, Pacific Press Publishing Co., should hereafter be sent to 61 North Park St. (instead of 285 Salmon St.), Portland, Ore.
Publications Wanted
By Editor
[SPECIAL NOTICE.—We learn that objectionable literature is being sent in response to these requests, and urge all to examine with special care any periodicals or pamphlets received outside of our well-known denominational publications. Be sure that the literature which you distribute teaches the truth.—Ed.]
The following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—
Mrs. James S. Woods, 322 S. Detroit St., Warsaw, Ind., Signs and Watchman.
Lulu Richards, 909 Osage St., Manhattan, Kan., Signs, Watchman, Liberty, Life and Health.
Mrs. Katy Taylor, 6503 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, denominational papers for use in racks in railroad stations.
Lizzie Anderson, Neosho, Mo., requests that no more periodicals or tracts be forwarded to her on account of removal to another place.
William Nohr, R. F. D. 1, Box 72, Pine River, Wis., Signs, Watchman, REVIEW, Life and Health, Liberty; also tracts in English, Danish, and German.
Mr. Hiram Butler, Tremont House Barber Shop, Cor. Second St. and Indiana Avenue, Washington, D. C., desires late, clean copies of our publications for use in missionary work.
Obituaries
Davis.—Died June 13, 1908, of membranous croup, Clara Henrietta Davis, youngest daughter of Cyrus L. and Retta Wilkins Davis, in her second year. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from 1 Thess. 4:16 and 17. J. J. Clark.
Taylor.—Fell asleep in Jesus, June 17, 1908, near Lakeview, Mich., Sister W. Taylor. She lived the truth under many difficulties, but was faithful. She leaves three daughters and one son, who look forward with a bright hope to the time when they shall meet their mother again. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. Text, Eccl. 12:13, 14. W. R. Matthews.
Brown.—Died at Traverse City, Mich., June 22, 1908, Mrs. Mary M. Brown, aged 79 years, 9 months, and 24 days. Sister Brown accepted the truths of the third angel's message fourteen years ago, and was “faithful unto death.” We laid her away in hope of meeting her again in the glad resurrection day. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. M. C. Guild.
Bracelin.—Died near Cadillac, Mich., May 27, 1908, Brother Hugh Bracelin, aged 79 years, 11 months, and 24 days. Brother Bracelin was born and raised a Roman Catholic, but early in life was converted and united with the Methodist Church. He became a minister of the gospel, and his labors were fruitful in the conversion of souls. For many years past he has believed and practised the truths held by Seventh-day Adventists. Funeral discourse by the writer, from Rev. 14:13. M. C. Guild.
Sykes.—Died near Portis, Kan., June 14, 1908, of heart failure, Sister Caroline Sykes. Sister Sykes was converted about eight years ago, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. She was always cheerful and happy; she went out, singing, into the yard, when, without a moment's warning, she fell over and breathed her last in a few seconds. The husband and five children are left to mourn. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. I. G. Knight.
Raine.—Fell asleep at her home in Springfield, Mo., June 4, 1908, Sister Nellie Stuart Raine. She was born in Rockport, Ky., Dec. 3, 1858. She heard and accepted the third angel's message at St. Clair, Nev., April, 1881. Her life from that time has been in keeping with her faith in the message. It was always a source of joy to her to know that Jesus is soon coming. She leaves a husband and four children to mourn. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. D. U. Hale.
Pinney.—Rose E. Pinney, née Bean, was born April 3, 1859, and died near Rock, Kan., June 8, 1908, of cancer of the stomach. Sister Pinney accepted the truth at Herrington, Kan., about fifteen years ago. While none of her children have yet obeyed the truth, they believe their mother was right in her religious views. With much grief her husband and children laid their loved one to rest till the morning of the resurrection. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. R. H. Brock.
Collett.—Died at Saranac Lake, N. Y., April 15, 1908, of tuberculosis, Bertha May Collett, daughter of J. S. and Nellie P. Day, in the twenty-third year of her age. About ten years ago, under the labors of Elders Place and Cobb at Newfane, N. Y., she was converted, and gave evidence of a change of heart. In her closing experience she seemed resigned to the will of God. Her parents and two younger sisters survive her. Interment was made in the village cemetery. S. B. Whitney.
Wheeler.—Died at his home at Cottage Grove, Ore., of pneumonia, Walter Nahum Wheeler, aged 51 years, 3 months, and 13 days. He embraced the third angel's message in Minnesota when a young man, and has ever remained faithful to its teaching. We believe he sleeps in Jesus. A wife, two sons, two daughters, and other relatives and friends gathered in the Adventist church here, and listened to words of cheer from Elder J. M. Cole. We laid our brother to rest in the Grange Cemetery. L. G. Paap.
Godfrey.—Sally Ann Hartshorn was born in Danville, N. Y., June 18, 1832, and died at her home near Rothbury, Mich., June 13, 1908, aged 75 years, 11 months, and 26 days. She was married to Leander Godfrey in 1851. To them were born eight children, four of whom are now living. For more than thirty years she had been a firm believer in the doctrines held by Seventh-day Adventists, and was a faithful follower of her Lord until her death. The funeral was held at the Rothbury church. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from Ps. 17:15. E. A. Merriam.
Angove.—Thomas R. Angove was born in Devonshire, England, Aug. 5, 1835, and died at Grass Valley, Cal., June 17, 1908, aged 72 years, 10 months, and 12 days. His death was caused by heart failure. In 1854 he went to the Australian gold-fields, meeting with success, later visiting the United States, and finally, in the spring of 1868 coming to Grass Valley, which has been his home since that time. For many years he was a member of the Methodist Church; but about twenty-five years ago, under the preaching of Brother Briggs, both he and his wife accepted present truth, since which time they have been numbered among its most faithful supporters. The devoted wife, and a son and daughter, survive our brother. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. Winning (M. E.), and was largely attended. *
Missionaries and Literature in New Fields
LAST week Elder J. A. Strickland and family, who for several years have labored in Jamaica, reached Washington. Brother Strickland comes in answer to an invitation of the General Conference Committee, to connect with the work in the District of Columbia. The Lord has greatly blessed his labors in Kingston, where a large church has been built up.
ELDER W. ISING, on reaching his new field in Syria, finds many opportunities for using English literature. He requests Signs, Liberty, Watchman, and small tracts, to use in their missionary work. The rate of postage is one cent for every two ounces or fraction thereof, to be prepaid. Address Elder W. Ising, German-Post, Beirut, Syria. Brother and Sister Ising enjoy their new field very much, and are working hard to get the language, and while doing so can use to good advantage truth-filled literature.
Emil Fawer Called to Canada
EMIL FAWER, a French laborer from Hayti, passed through Washington last week on his way to Toronto, Canada, where he goes in answer to a call made at the spring council to connect with the Canadian Union Conference.
Conference of Educational Leaders
IN accordance with the announcement already made, the presidents of our colleges and the principals of our academies are in conference at Cleveland, Ohio, this week. Elder A. G. Daniells left Washington last Thursday to attend this meeting.
Nelson’s Loose-Leaf Encyclopædia
By Editor
We have placed a set of “Nelson's Loose-Leaf Encyclopædia” in our editorial library, and freely add a word of commendation of the unique style of binding of this work in connection with the full statement, made on the twenty-second page. It is certainly a new experience in consulting reference works, to go to an encyclopædia within a week after the holding of a national political convention, in order to learn full particulars concerning that event. The Nelson is surely an up-to-date encyclopædia in the fullest sense. We invite the attention of our readers to the full description of this work.
Babylon and the New Jerusalem
In his interpretation of the dream of the great image. Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar, “Thou art the head of gold.” In comparing this statement and Isaiah’s expression, “the golden city,” with the facts as recorded in authentic history, one can hardly escape the impression that the distinct purpose in thus making Babylon a city of gold was to furnish a capital city for the god of this world, in imitation of, and in anticipation of, the New Jerusalem; of which the prophetic description is, “The city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.” We suggest this thought in connection with the instalment of the exposition of the book of Daniel, which appears in this week’s issue of the REVIEW.
The July Life and Health
The July number of Life and Health is not a special number, but it contains an abundance of specially good matter, much of which is particularly appropriate at this season of the year. Such articles as “How to Live Twice as Long and Twice as Well,” by Dr. D. H. Kress; “Goats’ Milk: Its Characteristics and Use,” by Dr. G. H. Heald; and “God’s Way Is Health,” by Mrs. A. C. Bainbridge, will be read with profit by all. The department on Healthful Cookery is well filled with matter helpful to the housewife who would cook for health. The Mothers’ Department deals with the care, control, and education of children, while the proper feeding of infants in warm weather is ably discussed by Mrs. Lauretta Kress, M. D.
