p. 16 | Review and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 35. (9/3/1903)

Earlier text: Dedication of the New Headquarters in Washington

Latin Union Conference and Camp-Meeting

By B. G. Wilkinson

The annual sessions of the Latin Union field and of the French-Swiss Conference were held at the French camp-meeting in the city of Lausanne. The union field was well represented on the camp-ground by brethren who had come from Belgium, France, Italy, and the French churches in Switzerland. The tents were pitched in the shade of a beautiful orchard lying in the higher part of the city, overlooking the clear waters of Lake Geneva, with the snowy summit of Mt. Blanc in view to the south.

A rapid glance over the past year shows that God had blessed this field during that period. About one hundred had accepted the truth throughout the union, seventy-two of whom were already baptised and enrolled in the churches, while thirty were awaiting baptism. The tithe for the year was $4,329.80, and the membership of the field is 577. Field work had been done in Belgium, in Paris, and in three localities of South France, and in Italy. During the year the city of Rome was definitely provided for, by the coming of Elder C. T. Everson to that city. The work in Spain had been opened up by Frank and Walter Bond, in the city of Barcelona.

The first matter which received attention at the camp was the constitution for the union. This was duly drawn up and accepted by the representatives of the different fields of the union. Resolutions were presented and accepted, to the end—

1. That French Belgium, with its 3,000,000 inhabitants, be set aside as a separate mission field, and that a director be chosen for that mission.

2. That a central house of publication be provided for the union, and that Paris be chosen as the place for its location.

3. That we hasten our steps to prepare workers to disseminate our printed matter throughout the fields of the union.

4. That we put forth special efforts to train young people from America, with a view to developing the work in Italy.

5. That we invite our brethren in America to furnish Italy with a doctor and with those nurses believed to possess ability to develop good Italian workers.

In connection with this, the French-Swiss Conference passed resolutions, among others, to the effect—

1. That the headquarters and office of the French-Swiss Conference be located at Geneva.

2. That the committee of the Latin Union be invited to place in the same city a branch office of their house of publication.

3. That the French-Swiss Conference pay a second tithe to the Latin Union.

4. That the conference, in counsel with the Latin Union Committee, make it a special matter of prayer, of study, and of search to establish, in a proper place in its territory, a sanitarium, a health food factory, and a general missionary training school.

The reports of the Committee of Nomination are as follows:—

1. Latin Union Mission Field: President, B. G. Wilkinson; Secretary and Treasurer, Jules Robert; Secretary of Sabbath-school and of Tract and Missionary Departments, Mrs. Jules Robert; Executive Committee, B. G. Wilkinson, L. P. Tieche, C. T. Everson, J. Curdy, J. Robert.

2. French-Swiss Conference: President, L. P. Tieche; Secretary and Treasurer, Amelie Eva; Secretary of Missionary Society, Bertha Pevun; Sabbath-school Secretary, Amelie Eva; State Agent, Henry Provin; Auditor, Jules Guy; Conference Committee, L. P. Tieche, Pierre Schild, A. Guenin, J. Robert, A. Borle.

3. France: Director, B. G. Wilkinson; Secretary and Treasurer, Jules Robert; Sabbath-school and Missionary Society Secretary, Mrs. Jules Robert; Executive Committee, B. G. Wilkinson, T. Nussbaum, G. Roth, J. P. Badaut, M. Roumajon.

4. Italy: Director, C. T. Everson.

5. Belgium: Director, J. Curdy.

In the Union field credentials were granted to six persons, license to one, and missionary licenses to five. In the French-Swiss Conference, credentials were granted to one, licenses to two, and missionary licenses to two.

Those who have attended the camp-meetings of this field in years past say that this camp-meeting was one of the best, if not the best of all. The spirit of God certainly did reign in all the business councils as well as in the preaching and devotional services. The labors of Brethren Irwin, Paulson, and Conradi were highly esteemed. The workers have all departed for their fields with good hopes for God's blessing this coming year. Two tents have been located, one of which will follow up the good impressions of the camp-meeting. The carrying out of plans laid at the camp will demand much courage and wisdom from God. We beseech those to whom these lines may come, to think of us now and then before the altar of grace, as for those who work in the Catholic fields of Europe.

B. G. WILKINSON.

Louisiana Camp-Meeting

By Mrs. E. V. Orrell

THE Louisiana Conference held its annual camp-meeting in a beautiful grove near Hope Villa, about eighteen miles southeast of Baton Rouge. The camp-meeting continued from July 23 until August 3. The interest was indeed encouraging, and meetings were conducted a full week after the close of the camp-meeting proper.

It was intended that an educational convention be held during the week before the camp-meeting, to be conducted by Professors Tenney and Spaulding; but as sickness prevented their presence among us, the matter was confined to instruction given by Elder S. B. Horton, the president of the conference. During the camp-meeting it was voted to open an intermediate school as soon as a suitable location could be secured. It was also decided that a meeting for the election of conference officers be held in December.

There were delegates present from every church in the conference. We were glad to welcome one new church into the conference—the Shreveport church. We were also glad to have with us Elder Geo. I. Butler, president of the Southern Union Conference; Elder N. W. Allee, president of the Tennessee River Conference; also Brother A. F. Harrison and Miss Nina Case, all of whom rendered efficient service by way of counsel and instruction.

Although it rained almost every day, yet it did not prevent a good attendance at the meetings. The Spirit of the Lord was present in large measure, and all felt the sweet influence of love binding one another together in unity and harmony, so that each one had sufficient foretaste of heavenly things to be able to conclude that it is possible to have “heaven on earth” as truly as to have the opposite state.

Claybank, a picturesque spot on the Amite River, about six miles from the camp, was the scene of an impressive baptismal service. Eight candidates were buried with their Saviour in the watery grave; and one week later two more candidates took the same step. The ordinance was administered by Elder Horton. It was very encouraging to note the admission of sixteen new members to the Hope Villa church, as a result of this general meeting.

The friendliness of the neighbors was of an exceptional character, all being loathe to part with us. Truly we could conclude that the angel of the Lord had gone before us, and prepared the hearts and minds of this people for the reception of the great threefold message for this age. In this part of the great field, “the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.”

MRS. E. V. ORRELL.

Porto Rico

By B. E. Connerly

Our work since our last report has moved rather slowly, but we have not felt in any sense discouraged, for every now and then the Lord gives us a “token of good,” as though in sympathy for our small faith and shortsightedness, he would not leave us without witness that our work is to be rewarded. Last week a gentleman who is a teacher in one of the public schools came to us, and said that he had been reading the Bible, which he had obtained through securing subscriptions for El Centinela de la Verdad. He said: “I can see that my religion is partly good and partly bad. What ought I to do about it?” We answered him from the Bible: “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” He said, “I believe that; and as soon as I can understand it well enough, I wish to go all over the island with the open Bible in my hand, and show it to the people.” We rejoiced to see this true mark of the Spirit’s working manifested in the desire to sacrifice home, position, and family, to carry the message to others.

B. E. CONNERLY.

Business Notices

BRIEF business notices will be published in this department, subject to the discretion of the publishers. A charge of one dollar for one insertion of six lines, or less, and of twenty cents for every line over six, will be made, though in the case of the poor who wish employment, the charge may be remitted. Persons unknown to the managers of the publishing house must furnish good references.

FOR SALE.—Complete outfit of broom machinery and tools. As I desire to engage in other work, will offer them at reduced price. Address Jesse Johnston, 31 Decker Block, Anderson, Ind.

WANTED.—Tailoress, two experienced pantaloon makers (one finisher and one machine operator). Steady work and good pay. Can keep Sabbath. Address G. F. Rusch, 224½ Washington St., Room 10, Portland, Ore. Sept. 3, 2t.

WANTED.—Adventist girl or woman to do general housework in Adventist family of five. Good wages; permanent position; seven miles from Battle Creek S. D. A. church. Correspondence desired. Address Mrs. Laura Kittle, R. D., No. 2, Battle Creek, Mich.

WANTED.—A home for two girls, 11 and 12 years old, for at least two years; can pay their own way by helping in housework. Their mother will clothe them. No one not having the advantage of a church school need apply. Address, at once, Mrs. M. J. White, Talbot, Ind.

WANTED.—A Seventh-day Adventist of considerable experience in propagating all kinds of fruit trees, especially ornamentals, and shrubbery. Give experience, reference, and salary desired. Address Weaver & Nichols, Proprietors Union Nurseries, Union, Ore.

FOR SALE.—Pure olive oil, $2.60 a gal., from the mill; pure mountain extracted honey, 7½ cts.;—small sample vial of each and circular free;—comb honey; olives in fall. Freight to all points between Rocky Mountains and N. E. States from $1.60 to $2.27 per 100 lbs. To points in Europe about $3. Address W. S. Ritchie, Corona, Riverside Co., Cal.

Remember the Missionary Acre Fund

By P. T. Magan

SINCE the Missionary Acre Sabbath last spring little has been published relative to the Missionary Acre Fund. We know that many faithful souls have planted an offering unto the Lord. These are all recorded in the blessed books of our Father above.

How good God is! He puts it into the human heart to make an offering to him. The very thought, the inspiration, the desire to sow, to plant, or to give the fruit of our labor to the cause of God, is in itself a gift from heaven. The physical strength which we employ to do the work is also loaned of God, for in him we live and move and have our being. And when in response to our labors and to the action of sun and soil the earth gives forth her fulness, and we return to God his own in the form of a free-will offering, he blesses us for the gift as if it had been all ours, and fills our hearts with the sweet satisfaction and joy which come from doing right.

Have you ever felt worn and weary while working that you might have something to give to the Missionary Acre Fund? Human weariness is like a wave-born in our frail frames, its motion never ceases until it has touched and moved the great heart of God above. Do you ever complain that the calls for help are too many and come too fast? Your Saviour never complains that your calls for help to him come too fast or too often. But we say these calls for financial help from our different institutions need never have been if wrong moves and mistakes had not been made. Very true, and our calls to our Saviour for help need never have been had we never made any wrong moves or mistakes.

The cause is God's, and it is ours; and as long as God has courage to go on with us, let us have courage to go on with him.

We are praying to God that everywhere the Missionary Acre Fund may be remembered, and that those who have planted for God may be faithful to their vow when the crop is reaped, and the returns of their labor are in their hands; even as we also pray that God will be faithful to his promise to us in the great harvest day of all the earth.

P. T. MAGAN.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

ANY young ladies wishing to take the nurses' training class, at one of our foreign institutions, will please correspond with J. W. Erkenbeck, Guadalajara, Mexico. Class will begin about October 10. Good references necessary. Address J. W. Erkenbeck, Guadalajara, Mexico.

New California Conference Headquarters

By J. D. Rice

THE offices of the California Conference, the California Tract Society, and the Secretary of the Sabbath-school Department, have been transferred from 301 San Pablo Ave., across the street to 306 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal. Our P. O. Box number is still 534.

J. D. RICE, Secretary California Conference.

To Absent Members of Hildebran (N. C.) Church

By D. T. Shireman; Addie T. Oguires

THE Hildebran church desires to hear from the following non-resident members: E. B. Dudley, P. A. Cline, A. T. Cline, Emily Wilson, H. H. Robinson, Margaret White, Guy Paul, Daisy Robinson, John Merritt, Jessie Justice, Harley Vincents.

Will all of those whose names appear above, whom this letter may reach, kindly write to me, giving their present address. The church is anxious to hear from each, and to learn concerning each one's Christian experience. Please do not fail to write in time for letters to reach us before the October quarterly meeting, 1903.

D. T. SHIREMAN, Pastor.

ADDIE T. OGUIRES, Clerk.

P. T. MAGAN

By P. T. Magan

Important Notice Relative to Contributions to the Relief of the Schools Fund and “Christ’s Object Lessons” Business

At a recent meeting of the members of the General Conference Committee, a new Committee on the Relief of the Schools was chosen. In the future our brethren and sisters having donations to send to the Relief of the School Fund, or desiring to pay pledges which have been made in the past, will kindly send the same to the Treasurer of the General Conference, at 222 N. Capitol St., Washington, D. C., as all pledges and special records relative to this business have been transferred from my office to the new General Conference office at Washington.

All contributions to the Missionary Acre Fund should still be sent to the undersigned, at Berrien Springs, Mich.

P. T. MAGAN

Michigan Central

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All day trains stop five minutes at Falls View, directly overlooking Niagara Falls. Send 4 cents postage for NIAGARA FALLS ILLUSTRATED.

O. W. RUGGLES, Gen'l Pass'r and Ticket Agent, CHICAGO

Addresses

BRO. B. F. GOWDY'S address is Belleville, Ark.

ELDER WM. SIMPSON'S address is Redlands, Cal.

Camp-Meetings for 1903

By Editor

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Maine ..........................Sept. 3-13

New York, Lacona.............Sept. 10-20

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Quebec, Ayers Flat...........Sept. 3-13

Newfoundland ................September

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Nebraska, Grand Island........Sept. 3-13

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

British Columbia, New Westminster.........................Sept. 17-27

Western Montana, Hamilton....Sept. 11-21

Western Washington, Whatcom.........................Sept. 3-13

The presidents of the various conferences are requested to send us information regarding any meetings not mentioned in the preceding table, so that we may be able to give a complete list. Please inform us at once of any corrections or additions that should be made to this report.

Words of Good Cheer

By Editor

In a large number of the letters which come to this Office we find words of good cheer and hearty wishes for the prosperity of the work in our new location. We are unable to acknowledge all these kind expressions of interest and good will by personal letters, and so we wish again to express through the REVIEW our appreciation of them, and to say that they have been a source of great encouragement to us. We believe that the Lord will hear and answer the many prayers which are being offered to him at this time in behalf of his work, and that he will reveal himself graciously as the Shepherd of his people. For this let us all continue to pray.

A New Corporation

By Editor

AT a meeting of the stockholders of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, held in Battle Creek, Mich., Tuesday, April 28, and reported in the REVIEW of May 5, the following resolution was adopted:—

That the Trustees of this Association, advising with the General Conference Committee of Seventh-day Adventists, be instructed to provide for the establishing of a printing plant in some State in the East, and to create or designate a corporation that shall hold and operate said printing plant, in harmony with the recommendations of the late General Conference concerning the control and ownership of all denominational institutions.

Acting under this resolution, the Trustees, with the counsel of the General Conference Committee, appointed a committee to form such a corporation, with the understanding that it should be located in the same place as the new headquarters of the General Conference. This committee has attended to its duties, and the new corporation has been formed. The corporate name is “Review and Herald Publishing Association.” The constituency of this corporation, which elects the eight trustees for the management of its affairs, is composed of the executive committees of the union conferences in the territory in which it operates; viz., the Atlantic, the Canadian, the Lake, and the Northern Union Conferences. The principal office of the corporation is in the District of Columbia, but the trustees can be elected at any meeting of the constituency legally called in any part of the United States. The first Board of Trustees, elected by the incorporators, is composed of the following persons: W. W. Prescott, S. N. Curtiss, H. W. Cottrell, W. M. Lewis, J. H. Neall, E. R. Palmer, W. B. Walters, W. T. Bland. The following officers have been chosen: W. W. Prescott, President; S. N. Curtiss, Vice-President and Business Manager; W. B. Walters, Secretary.

This Association now publishes the REVIEW AND HERALD, the Youth’s Instructor, and The Sentinel of Christian Liberty, and conducts a general book business, handling the denominational books, tracts, and pamphlets. As soon as it can be legally done, the whole printing and publishing business heretofore carried on in Battle Creek, Mich., will be transferred to this corporation, including all the assets of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, in harmony with the resolution to that effect adopted by the stockholders of this latter corporation.

To prevent confusion we will explain that although the Michigan corporation is familiarly known as the Review and Herald, yet the corporate name is the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association. It was thought advisable to preserve the familiar name in the new corporation, and it has therefore been called the Review and Herald Publishing Association.

The address of this new corporation is 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.

Rome’s Control of the Press

THE wide publicity which is given nowadays to Catholic events, great and small, in the public press, is explained by the view, for which there seems to be strong proof, that the Catholic Church has full control of the Associated Press, the newspaper organization through which most of the news dispatches are received. Commenting on the immense amount of newspaper space given to accounts of the sickness and death of Pope Leo and the election of his successor, the Northwestern Christian Advocate mentions that “a few weeks ago two Methodist bishops, Foster and Hurst, died,” yet although “both were greater scholars than Leo XIII,” and Bishop Foster was “one of the most eminent preachers and eloquent orators America has produced,” “of the death of one not a line was sent out by the Associated Press, and scarcely a dozen lines concerning the other.” While “the Baptist and Methodist churches in the United States together outnumber the Roman Catholics,” “these churches do not receive one-tenth the notice given to Roman Catholic events.”

Another thing which Rome is doing in this same line of work is to secure the elimination from public libraries and school text books of all histories which are “unfair” to the papacy; that is, books that chronicle events which show the papacy in an unfavorable light. The idea in both cases is to give the church of Rome a strong hold on the minds of the rising generation.

Against these and other schemes which Rome is pushing, the Protestant world seems powerless, chiefly because Protestants have tried to fight Rome with Romish weapons. Fighting the devil with fire, or fighting any enemy of truth with that enemy’s weapons, is to give the enemy all the advantage. Fight Rome with the Word of God. That is the one weapon which Rome can not use, and before which she can not stand. Now, as ever, that Word is the mightest thing in all the world.

Publication Address

THE REVIEW AND HERALD and the Youth's Instructor are now published at 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.

Instructions for Sending Orders

By Editor

In responding to the publishers' announcements on the second page of the Review, please follow carefully the instructions given as to the place to which to send your orders.

A Gift for the Work

By Editor

A FRIEND in Michigan, who signs no name, sends twenty dollars “to help along with the work.” We wish to thank the donor, and to say that such help is appreciated very much just now.

Obituary Notices Omitted

By Editor

ON account of our limited space we are omitting for the present all obituary notices. Those which are received in the meantime will appear as soon as we are able to resume the usual number of pages.

Dr. Keichline Arrives in Cairo

We have received the following brief report from Dr. Keichline, who recently went to Egypt: “I arrived in Cairo, May 26, 1903.” We hope to have a more extended report from Dr. Keichline in the near future.

Secure New Subscribers for the Review

By Editor

PERHAPS you read the note on this page two weeks ago asking you to secure at least one new subscriber for the REVIEW, and thought you would certainly do so, but you may have forgotten it. This will remind you of the matter, and thus make it possible for you to carry out your good resolution. Will you not help us to place the REVIEW in every Sabbath-keeping family in this country? Send a new subscriber with your reply.

THE OFFICES OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE AND MISSION BOARD, AND OF THE REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, 222 NORTH CAPITOL ST., WASHINGTON, D. C.