IN response to a request from the West Indian Union, during the time of our institute in Mexico, Brother Harold Robinson was selected to engage in the sale of our large books in Cuba. He left for his new field as soon as the institute closed. When I reached Cuba, December 11, he had already made a very successful beginning in the city of Havana. The first few days of his experience convinced him that the same successful work could be done in Cuba as in Mexico. Not only was he able to take orders from21the same class of people, but was also able to deliver one hundred per cent of his orders in the first delivery.
After giving the work a trial in Havana, Brother Robinson went to Matanzas, a town of about 35,000 inhabitants. At the close of his first day's experience in his new field, he wrote of his work as follows:—
“I arrived here at 10:30 A. M. to-day, and began canvassing in the government palace at 1:30 P. M. At 4 P. M. I had also fourteen orders, amounting to $39.50 gold. Three of these were for the morocco binding.”
Judging from the experience of Brother Robinson, and from personal observation, the writer believes that the outlook for the book work is just as promising in Cuba as in Mexico or South America, where such excellent work has been done. Let us remember Brother Robinson in Cuba, as he is alone in the canvassing work there.
N. Z. T.
Yucatan, Mexico
By N. Z. T.
At the close of the canvassers' institute mentioned by Brother Hall, Brethren J. A. P. Green, G. Sandborn, and H. Brown began work with “Patriarchs and Prophets” in Yucatan. After they had been working nine days, I passed by there on my way from Mexico to Cuba, and had the pleasure of several hours' visit with them. During the nine days, they had taken over $1,800 (Mexican currency) worth of orders, about half of this value being for the two better bindings of the book. As this territory had been canvassed two years previous with the Spanish “Home and Health,” the brethren were feeling specially good over the success they were having. Nearly every person to whom they sold the health book two years ago bought “Patriarchs and Prophets” from them.
At the beginning of 1911, the canvassers in Mexico set their stakes at $25,000 for the year, as against $17,000 in 1910 and $11,000 in 1909. As they had already reached a total of $24,800 at the time of the institute in November, they have now passed the $25,000 mark by several hundred dollars. When we take into consideration the unsettled state of the country during the year, this is a splendid showing.
The periodical workers are meeting with equally encouraging success. When I passed through Vera Cruz, Brethren Martin and Douglas had already taken $450 worth of subscriptions since the close of the institute. We thank God for the successful termination of the year's campaign in Mexico. N. Z. T.
Pacific Press Sales
From a general letter which Brother H. H. Hall recently sent to the workers in the Pacific Press territory, we take the following encouraging item:—
We have just completed the report of sales made through our main office and its branches during the past eleven months, and find it to be as follows:—
Subscription books .............. $186,499.95
Trade books ..................... 21,569.40
Educational books ............... 9,504.50
Tracts and pamphlets ........... 22,473.72
Bibles .......................... 2,195.20
“Ministry of Healing” .......... 6,550.50
“Christ’s Object Lessons” ...... 2,362.50
Total .......................... $251,065.77
From the above you will note that, exclusive of our periodicals, the sales of which will approximate $80,000, the publications distributed through the Pacific Press for the past eleven months amount to a little over a quarter of a million dollars. In the year 1900 the sales of the entire denomination including periodicals were $250,000.
News and Miscellany
Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— According to census figures the men of the United States outnumber the women by 2,691,879.
— Final census figures give 34,686,653 inhabitants for all Italy, an increase for the past decade of 2,211,400.
— On Dec. 20, 1911, a destructive storm swept the gulf coast. Three ocean-going vessels were driven ashore and many small boats wrecked.
— Twelve persons were killed, and a score more or less seriously injured, as a result of a collision on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad near Odessa, Minn., on Dec. 18, 1911.
— Emilio Estrada, president of the republic of Ecuador, died suddenly at Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Dec. 21, 1911, of diseases affecting the kidneys and heart. He was sixty-five years old.
— The regular army of the United States had twenty-eight per cent less courts martial last year than the year before. This improvement is credited by the paper in which the fact is given, to growing temperance in the use of alcoholic and other beverages.
— Rear-Admiral Vreeland laid before President Taft the report of the special board of army and navy experts appointed by the President to determine what caused the wreck of the “Maine” in the Havana harbor in 1898. The finding of the board is that the “injuries to the ‘Maine’ were caused by the explosion of a charge of a low form of explosive, exterior to the ship.”
— Crowded with passengers to attend the theater at Pottsville, Pa., on the evening of Dec. 25, 1911, one of the big trolley cars of the Eastern Railways Company plunged over the trestle at Cape Horn, Mount Carbon, several miles south of Pottsville, and fell twenty feet, into a creek, which is a tributary of the Schuylkill River. There were sixty-one passengers on the car, and only three escaped injury. None were killed outright, but several of them are in a critical condition.22
— The jewels and valuables found in the royal palace, including Prince Miguel’s gems, which alone are valued at $2,500,000, are to be sold by the Portuguese government.
— A brilliant illumination of the heavens, followed by a crashing explosion and a shaking of the buildings as if an earthquake had occurred, caused much excitement on the morning of Dec. 17, 1911, at Lucedale, Mass. It was discovered that a meteorite had fallen into an empty lot, drilling a hole three feet in diameter.
— President Taft has put the official ban on “fake” photographs. Tourists who wish to go home with photographs bearing a real Washington, D. C., label, showing them in the act of shaking hands with the President or in earnest conversation with him, will not be able to do so in the future, for Mr. Taft asks to be left out of such pictures.
— Defeated and stripped of former arrogance and pride, Gen. Bernardo Reyes, Mexico’s one-time greatest military leader, and more recently leader of a revolt that threatened to tear the country from border to border, surrendered to the authorities at Linares, Mexico, on Dec. 25, 1911. He frankly admitted that his dream of another successful revolution had come to an end. The government officials now believe that real peace is at hand for Mexico.
— The continued advance of the Italian troops toward the interior of Tripoli and away from the environs of the coast towns without meeting serious resistance seems to prove the correctness of recent reports that the Turkish troops and their Arab allies have withdrawn to the hills. They are practically, it is reported, without ammunition. Their only chance of renewing the supplies has been shattered by Viscount Kitchener’s action in sealing up all the possible points of leakage along the frontier between Egypt and Tripoli.
— The Franco-German agreement regarding Morocco and the French Kongo is bringing difficulties even before it has been ratified by the French parliament. The trouble arose over islands in the French Kongo opposite the point where the German strip reaches the river. The Berlin authorities claim these, although it was understood by the French that they should retain the islands, thus insuring continuity between the parts of the French Kongo. Already there is talk of submitting the question to The Hague arbitration court.
— From Paris comes word that France is arranging another imposing testimonial of her friendship for the United States. Dec. 22, 1911, a public subscription was opened to offer a bronze bust of La France by the illustrious French sculptor, Auguste Rodin, which will be placed at the base of the monument to be dedicated next June to Samuel de Champlain, the French navigator, explorer, and discoverer of the lake that bears his name. Like the gift from the people of France of Bartholdi’s statue of Liberty, the presentation of La France, which is the figure of a woman, marks historically another epoch in the relations of fraternity between France and the United States of America.
— Brockton, Mass., shoe manufacturers declare the situation in the shoe industry is acute, and they will soon advance the price fifty cents a pair. Material costs so much, the manufacturers say, that at the present prices they are not making any profit.
— On the complaint of more than two hundred business firms, the Interstate Commerce Commission is investigating charges against all the express companies to the effect that they are charging excessive rates to both shippers and the general public.
— At the annual meeting of the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation, an institution for pensioning aged college professors, it was announced that Mr. Carnegie had just added to the endowment the sum of $1,000,000. This makes the entire endowment $12,000,000, giving an annual income of $590,000.
— The labor situation throughout Great Britain is again causing anxiety, and “Strike Leader” George R. Askwith, of the government board of trade, admitted Dec. 24, 1911, that a grave crisis may be reached soon unless the employers, with the cooperation of the government, are successful in establishing satisfactory agreements. Mr. Askwith’s demeanor showed that he is none too hopeful.
— The long-standing practise of Mexican citizens living in Texas near the Rio Grande, has been to convey their dead across the river for burial. The Mexican authorities recently halted one of those sad processions, and rudely ordered the coffin to be opened. It was nicely filled with rifles. The frequency of the funerals and the sameness of the mourners had aroused not wholly unfounded suspicion, as the sequel showed.
— On Dec. 25, 1911, the Persian cabinet notified W. Morgan Shuster, the American treasurer-general of Persia, of his dismissal from that office. This follows the decision of the national council and the ministry to submit to the demands contained in the Russian ultimatum. An indignation meeting was held in Teheran after the announcement of Mr. Shuster’s dismissal was made public, and further demonstrations are expected. Martial law has been proclaimed.
— The recent report of the Commissioner of Pensions brings out the startling fact that within thirteen years of the close of the war with Spain, and eleven after the subsidence of the Philippine insurrection, there are no less than 23,383 invalid soldiers of these wars on the pension rolls, in addition to 3,032 dependent mothers, 522 fathers, 9 brothers and sisters, 1,217 widows, and 327 children. In all, there are 28,490 pensioners as a result of these wars—actually a larger number than there were soldiers in the regular army at the outbreak of the war with Spain, and probably 10,000 more than there were troops before Santiago. Already we have paid out $34,142,976.37 in pensions for services against the Spanish and Filipinos, as against a total of $45,850,024.19 paid for pensions to the warriors of 1812, and $45,279,686.83 expended in the support of veterans of the Mexican war during a period of sixty-five years.
— Mrs. E. H. Harriman has provided funds for a school which shall teach its students to be intelligent public servants. This training-school will seek to fit men for duty in municipal and other public offices, giving them a thorough training in all the departments of administration, such as the analysis of public expenditures, the preparation of budgets, the study of charters, the testing of foods, the safeguarding of the public health through the supervision of schools, factories, stores, and congested dwellings, tax assessment and collection, and a thousand other subjects which relate to the work of the modern city and state. The work of the new school begins in New York, but it will be extended, as funds increase and needs arise, to include other cities.
South America
By H. H. HALL.
In a letter dated September 26, from G. E. Hartman, secretary of the South American Union Conference, he says:—
“Spring is just beginning with us, and everything is nice and green. There seems to have been enough rain this winter so that there is good prospect for a harvest, the grasshoppers not appearing very far south so far. Probably they will not get down here in time to hurt the grain. Brother E. M. Trummer is now out with Brother Lorenz, our new man from Kansas, by way of the Foreign Mission Seminary, whom we are training for the west coast, probably Chile.”
The same day we received this letter a cablegram arrived from Brother Hartman, calling for the following: 1,500 “Home and Health,” cloth, Spanish; 125 “Home and Health,” half leather, Spanish; 75 “Home and Health,” full leather, Spanish; 250 “Coming King,” cloth, Spanish. H. H. HALL.
Central California Conference
By J. H. BEHRENS; S. G. WHITE; C. F. McVAGH; C. H. MOYERS
The first annual session of the Central California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Hanford, Cal., Feb. 1-5, 1912. This session is called for the purpose of electing officers of the conference for the ensuing year, and for the transacting of such other conference business as may properly come before the meeting.
There are some matters of special importance to come before the delegation.
All churches in the conference are entitled to a delegate representation at this session on the following basis: One delegate to represent the organization, and one additional delegate for each twenty church-members. Unorganized companies will be represented by the delegates at large.
J. H. BEHRENS, President;
S. G. WHITE, Secretary.23
Nashville Sanitarium Association
Notice is hereby given that the sixth annual session of the Nashville Sanitarium Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held Jan. 18, 1912, at 9 A. M., at the Seventh-day Adventist church-school building on Twenty-third Avenue North and Seifried Street, Nashville, Tenn., for the purpose of electing officers, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting. A full attendance of the constituency and qualified voters is desired.
C. F. McVAGH, President;
C. H. MOYERS, Secretary.
Central Union Conference Association
By E. T. RUSSELL; F. F. BYINGTON
The next regular biennial session of the Central Union Conference Association (Incorporated) will be held in College View, Nebr., in connection with the biennial session of the Central Union Conference, Jan. 16-31, 1912. The first meeting of the legal association will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 1912, at 5:15 P. M.
E. T. RUSSELL, President;
F. F. BYINGTON, Secretary.
Central Union Conference
By E. T. RUSSELL; METTIE E. CORNELL
THE fifth biennial session of the Central Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists will be held in College View, Nebr., Jan. 16-31, 1912, for the election of officers and boards of management of the various institutions and corporations connected with the Central Union Conference, and the transaction of all business properly coming before said conference.
E. T. RUSSELL, President;
METTIE E. CORNELL, Secretary.
The Clinton German Seminary
By E. T. Russell
THE Clinton German Seminary, a legal association formed under the laws of the State of Missouri, will hold its first constituency meeting in connection with the Central Union Conference, to be held at College View, Nebr., beginning January 16, 1912, for the purpose of electing officers and doing other necessary business in the interest of the corporation. The first meeting will be held in the College View Seventh-day Adventist church, 5:15 P. M., Jan. 18, 1912.
E. T. RUSSELL, President.
Business Notices
This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.
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.
We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.
A charge of two dollars 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.
SPECIAL until January first: 100 Bible Mottoes delivered, $3.65; 300, $10. 50 cards free with $10 order. Highest Grade Cooking Oil: 5 gallons, $4; 30 gallons, $23. Address Hampton Art Company, Nevada, Iowa. COOKING OIL direct from refinery; pure, healthful, delicious. Barrel (50 gallons), at 58 cents; 30 gallons, at 59 cents; 5-gallon can, $3.25; 10 gallons, $6.25; 8 1-gallon cans, $5.90. Cash with order. Lookout Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
CALIFORNIA DRIED FRUIT.—Full line, extra quality, prunes, peaches, pears, apricots, black figs, and raisins, unadulterated, non-processed. Better fruit than you have been getting at better prices. Write for special spring offer. Address St. Helena Home Fruit Co., Sanitarium, Cal.
HELP WANTED.—The sanitarium at Chamberlain, S. Dak., plans to have all domestic work done by help hired for that purpose. Women from twenty-five to forty-five years of age, who are Seventh-day Adventists, able to work, and with no children accompanying them, will be paid from $12 to $20 a month in addition to board, room, and plain laundry. Also position in men's bath-room for married man. Send references with application. Address Dr. Anna B. Farnsworth, Chamberlain, S. Dak.
AN APOLOGY.—We have had such an unusually heavy run on orders since we improved Nutfoda that although we increased our force and worked nights, we were unable to keep up with shipments, and so a large number were more or less delayed. We are making every effort to clean up all the orders by Jan. 1, 1912, and think we can safely promise prompt shipments right along after that. After completing our new warehouse, making our total floor space about 10,000 square feet, we will have room to carry several car-loads of raw material, which will be a great help. We thank our friends for the hearty support accorded the factory during 1911. Nashville Sanitarium Food Factory, Nashville, Tenn.
Southern Union Conference Association
By C. F. McVagh; W. A. Wilcox
NOTICE is hereby given that the third biennial session of the constituency of the Southern Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in the church-school building, Twenty-third Avenue North and Seifried Street, Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Jan. 23, 1912, at 9 A. M., for the purpose of electing a board of directors for the ensuing biennial term, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
C. F. McVAGH, President;
W. A. WILCOX, Secretary.
Atlantic Union Conference Association
By W. B. White; H. B. Tucker
THE biennial session of the Atlantic Union Conference Association constituency will convene in Tollner Hall, in the city of Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1912, at 10:30 A. M. All constituency members should be present.
At this time seven members must be elected to take the place of seven whose terms expire, a board of seven trustees selected for the coming biennial term, and all other necessary business transacted.
W. B. WHITE, Chairman;
H. B. TUCKER, Secretary.
Northern Union Conference
By R. A. UNDERWOOD; T. D. GIBSON
The Northern Union Conference will hold its fifth biennial session in connection with the ministerial institute to be held at College View, Nebr., January 16 to February 4. The first meeting of the conference will open January 16 at 10 A. M., for the election of officers and such other business as may properly come before the conference. All names of delegates who are selected by the local conferences should be reported to the union conference secretary, Thomas D. Gibson, 2718 Third Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn.
R. A. UNDERWOOD, President;
T. D. GIBSON, Secretary.
Northern Union Conference Association
By R. A. Underwood; S. E. Jackson
THE Northern Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, incorporated, will hold its opening local meeting for the election of officers, and the transaction of such other business as may be necessary, at College View, Nebr., January 16 at 2:30 P. M. The delegates of the Northern Union Conference which meet at College View at this time are the constituency of the corporation.
R. A. UNDERWOOD, President;
S. E. JACKSON, Secretary.
Annual Meeting, Southern Publishing Association
By C. F. McVagh; L. A. Smith
NOTICE is hereby given that the fourth annual meeting of the constituency of the Southern Publishing Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on Thursday, Jan. 18, 1912, at 10 A. M., at the Seventh-day Adventist church, on Twenty-third Avenue North and Seifried Street, Nashville, Tenn., for the purpose of electing a board of directors for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
C. F. McVagh, President;
L. A. Smith, Secretary.
Southern Union Conference
By C. F. McVagh; W. A. Wilcox
NOTICE is hereby given that the fifth biennial session of the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene in the church-school building on Twenty-third Avenue North and Seifried Street, Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, Jan. 18, 1912, at 9 A. M., and continue until Jan. 28, 1912, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing biennial term, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
Each conference will be entitled to one delegate at large, and one additional delegate for each fifty of its organized church-membership. Please forward the names of the delegates to the secretary, at 511 Cole Bldg., Nashville, as early as possible.
C. F. McVagh, President;
W. A. Wilcox, Secretary.
Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium
By CHAS. E. RICE
THE constituency of the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium Association will hold its first biennial session at College View, Nebr., in connection with the fifth biennial session of the Central Union Conference Association, Jan. 16-31, 1912. The first meeting of the session of said Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium Association will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1912, at five o'clock in the afternoon. The election of a board of trustees for the ensuing term and all other business pertaining to the association which should properly come before such meeting will be attended to.
CHAS. E. RICE,
Secretary Board of Trustees.
Publications Wanted
The following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent post-paid:—
Leslie Littel, Bentonville, Ark., desires copies of our papers for free distribution.
M. W. DeL’horbe, of Elmira, N. Y., desires copies of our papers and magazines for free distribution.
Late clean copies of our magazines are desired for free distribution by Albert Carey, 902 Kessenden St., Nortons, Oregon.
Any of our papers which can be used in depot paper-racks will be thankfully received by Kate Taylor, 6503 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.
Z. S. Arey, Tecumseh, Okla., desires a continuous supply of Signs, Instructor, Our Little Friend, and Life and Health for use in missionary work.
Mrs. M. V. Boyd, 1718 W. Houston St., San Antonio, Tex., desires copies of all our denominational papers, except the REVIEW, for free distribution.
Mattie Hamilton Welch, of Stanleyton, Va., has been supplied with literature for her mountain school work, and desires that no more be sent at present.
Three Excellent Books
THREE new and most excellent books are now being printed by our several publishing houses; namely, “Acts of the Apostles,” by Mrs. E. G. White; “Easy Steps in the Bible Story,” by Mrs. I. H. Evans; and “American State Papers.” The first is one of the best books which has ever come from the pen of this earnest Christian worker. The second makes a splendid addition to our all too needy literature for children and youth. The third is an encyclopedia of useful information regarding the questions of religious liberty. These books should be found in every home, and should be given a wide circulation. They may be obtained through the various State tract societies.
DR. DAVID PAULSON, Hinsdale, Ill., desires to secure about forty copies of the book “Healthful Living,” for the use of the missionary class in Chicago and in the nurses’ class at the Hinsdale Sanitarium. Those who will donate or sell a copy they may possess can be assured that it will be put to the very best of use. Write to the above address regarding what you have.
Elder Russell’s Recovery
By Editor
WE are pleased to learn from the Central Union Outlook that Elder E. T. Russell, president of the Central Union Conference, is making a splendid recovery from a serious surgical operation which he underwent some time ago. He hopes soon to be back in his office.
Dr. Evans Joins Washington Sanitarium
DR. MARGARET EVANS, at one time head lady physician of the St. Helena Sanitarium and later engaged in private practise in California, arrived in Washington last week to connect with the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium. Dr. Evans's special work will be in connection with the city branch at Iowa Circle.
Weaver Assists Religious Liberty Department
BROTHER H. A. WEAVER, secretary of the Religious Liberty Department of the East Michigan Conference, is in Washington for a few weeks, having been sent here by his conference to associate with the Religious Liberty Department at headquarters, for the purpose of gaining additional experience in dealing with legislative matters in connection with his work. He is also assisting the department in its work before Congress.
Pemba Mission Farm Progress
IN a letter written to Elder R. C. Porter, by W. H. Anderson, on reaching the Pemba, Rhodesia, mission farm, his home station, after visiting several other stations on his way back from the Cape, he gives an excellent report of conditions at each one visited. When he reached his own, he states that he ordered three tons of seed to be there by the middle of December in time for the planting season. This gives a little idea as to what this one South African mission farm — now self-supporting — is doing in the way of agricultural industries in behalf of the natives in that section. This work supports the evangelical and school work being carried forward.
German Paper and Book Sales Increase
WRITING from Hamburg, Germany, under date of Dec. 6, 1911, Elder L. R. Conradi says: “You will be pleased to learn that our extra number of the Herold, German paper, reached 400,000 this year. During the last four months there has been a steady increase in our book sales over last year, so that last month we sent out 10,000 more parcels of books than at the same time last year.”
Missionary Homes Built in China
LITTLE homes are being erected in China in which our missionaries can live—built by the money donated to the $300,000 Fund. B. L. Anderson, in Southern China, is now completing his home. Brother Hankins is arranging for building a house for Brother and Sister Hills, at or in the vicinity of Swatow. Such items in the letters of our missionaries are indeed full of inspiration, in which all the brethren and sisters here at home who have toiled to provide the money, can heartily share.
Endorsement of the Review and Herald
In the Pacific Union Recorder Elder A. O. Tait, one of the editors of the Signs of the Times, has this good word to say for our general church paper: “This denomination has a church paper, whose mission is to keep every believer in close touch with the third angel’s message. I have taken the REVIEW AND HERALD for thirty-three years, and would not think of being without it. I think, without exception, every Adventist family should have the REVIEW every week. It costs but $1.75 a year.”
Rebellion Disrupts Mission Work in China
NOVEMBER 14. W. C. Hankins wrote from Swatow, China: “Nearly all this part of China is in the hands of the rebels, except Canton; it is only a matter of time until it, too, falls. The officials are badly scared, hardly making any resistance at all in most places. Swatow went over to the rebels last Friday, but we can scarcely tell the difference. Everything is very quiet. There has been no fighting, as there was no resistance. The highest official quietly resigned, and the others went over to the rebels. Amoy is still in the hands of the Imperialists. Mission work is practically at a standstill. We do not anticipate having to leave this field, but it is almost impossible to do much with the country in such uproar. Brother Hung (a native worker) says that the people have no heart to hear the gospel just now.”
Boulder Sanitarium Graduating Exercises
The Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera of Dec. 6, 1911, gives an extended notice of the graduating exercises of the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium, which were held in the Seventh-day Adventist church of that place. Charles E. Rice, manager of the institution, delivered the graduating address. Elder C. R. Kite and Dr. Kate Lindsay also gave addresses. Dr. H. A. Green, medical superintendent of the institution, presented diplomas to a class of ten, three young men and seven young women.
Adverse Report on Heflin Sunday Bill
By S. B. HORTON.
REPRESENTATIVE HEFLIN, of Alabama, introduced a bill into the House on December 6, entitled “A Bill Prohibiting Labor on Buildings, and So Forth, in the District of Columbia on the Sabbath-Day” (H. R. 14690), penalizing infractions thereof at a minimum fine of twenty-five dollars and a maximum fine of five hundred dollars. The bill was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, who in turn referred it to the District commissioners. On December 23 the commissioners reported adversely on the bill, stating in effect that the proposed legislation would be detrimental to the best interests of the city, and that there is comparatively little Sunday labor in the District.
It would be well for both statesmen and churchmen if they could realize that religious legislation, which Sunday laws are now admitted to be by many of their advocates, is detrimental to both state and church in more than one way.
S. B. HORTON.
Shall We Use 550,000?
By T. E. BOWEN
WHILE the orders were coming in thick and fast at the Pacific Press office for the Harvest Ingathering Signs, and the large supply of 500,000 copies was disappearing, it was thought in order to be able to supply quickly the papers needed at the last, more should be printed. So 50,000 more papers were presented.
The last word received from the brethren on the Coast is that 530,000 of these good papers have been sent out. This leaves about 20,000 still unused. Last year nearly 510,000 were circulated. While we have already exceeded our last year's record, still it seems unfortunate that any of these excellent Mission Signs should not be used in an effort to secure funds for missions. Who will help place them in the hands of the people?
By writing your State tract society secretary, you can get more papers until the supply is exhausted; but it will be necessary for you to do so at once, if you desire to secure a few more of this splendid Missions number, as the supply will doubtless soon be exhausted.
