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Review and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 45.

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Earlier text: From East to West: Visit to Emmanuel Missionary College

Special Appointment

By C. McReynolds

ANCIENTLY, when distress was upon God's people, when they were encompassed by enemies, when some great work was to be accomplished, they were called to a season of earnest prayer, together seeking the Lord for a demonstration of his power for the accomplishment of the desired end.
There never was a time when we felt greater anxiety to see a work accomplished than we now feel to see the work with “Christ’s Object Lessons” finished. The Lord is testing his people through this movement. Our instruction is, “Let every member in every family in every church” take hold of this work. Since he is testing each one, it is a matter of the most vital importance that we see to it that we individually stand the test. If we have not faith to take hold of this work, then surely we need to seek the Lord to give us faith; if we have not courage, he will give us courage if we go to him for it; and he has promised to give wisdom liberally to all who ask in faith.
In studying this matter and seeking the Lord concerning it, we have thought best to call the whole denomination throughout the Kansas Conference, to a special season of prayer, Sabbath, November 15. I have written to all the church elders in the State, and trust that this will reach all our people; and while in some places the members will have secured orders for their quota of the books before this time, yet the necessity of pushing the work forward to make up the deficiency for those who are absent from the churches, will justify this earnest effort on the part of every one. Then let the week following be the time when every Sabbath keeper in the State who has not sold his quota of the books, shall arise and accomplish this thing. Do not wait until the last days of the week, but begin Monday morning, or even Sunday, and do not stop until the work is done. Now is the time to take orders for holiday books; and there will never be a more favorable time than just now to accomplish this work.
C. McREYNOLDS.

Addresses of Elders Watt and Russell

Addresses

THE address of Elder J. W. Watt is North Wolcott, Vt.
The address of Elder K. C. Russell is 71 Wyoming Ave., Melrose, Mass.

Publications Wanted

The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, postpaid:—
Mrs. J. F. Woods, Warsaw, Ind.
L. E. Culbreth, Jesup, Ga., periodicals and tracts.
Mrs. Fannie L. Haralson, Tifton, Ga., periodicals and tracts.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By C. W. Flaiz

Notice!

THE forty-second annual session of the Minnesota Conference will convene at Anoka, November 19-20. The usual business will come before this meeting.
C. W. FLAIZ, Pres.

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.
WANTED.—A place on a farm, for a boy fifteen years old. Address 11 Buckeye St., Battle Creek, Mich.
WANTED.—To hire good Seventh-day Adventist man for farm work. Good wages, steady employment to right man. Best references given and required. Address L. S. Drew, Lodi, Wis.
FOR SALE.—Two thousand acres of unimproved land,—some of it heavily timbered; some partly improved, with buildings. All within 3 miles of S. D. A. church and church school. Partly cash, rest on long time. Address John Gebauer, Moon, Wis.
WANTED.—The name and address of every adult person in your church or company who is not a subscriber to the REVIEW. Also your name and address if you are willing to distribute sample copies of the REVIEW among those who should be readers of our church paper. Address the editor.
SPECIAL SALE.—At less than half price, “Whisky: Parables, Poems, Facts, and Figures.” One of the best tracts against liquor and intemperance that is published. Has a splendid song, “Old Dad Made New.” Indorsed highly by the W. C. T. U. Five cents each. Special price till January 1, $2 per 100, postpaid. Address D. E. Scoles, Washburn, Mo.

Michigan Central

“The Niagara Falls Route.”
Corrected June 26, 1902.
EAST
Station 8 1 Night Express 12 Detroit Accom. 5 2 Mail & Express 10 N.Y. & Chi. Spl. 14 Eastern Express 4 N.Y. & Chi. Spl. 36 3 Pacific Express
Chicago pm 10.30 6.45 am 10.30 pm 3.00 pm 5.20 pm 11.30
Michigan City am 11.00 8.43 am 12.05 1.30 6.50 am 1.25
Niles am 1.05 10.15 1.00 6.35 7.45 2.20
Kalamazoo am 2.45 am 17.30 pm 12.05 2.05 6.45 6.52 4.10
Battle Creek 3.30 8.10 1.00 2.42 7.17 9.25 5.00
Marshall 4.10 1.30 3.09
Albion 4.32 1.50 3.39
Jackson 5.20 pm 2.35 2.40 4.05 8.40 10.40 6.40
Ann Arbor 6.20 8.20 3.47 5.58 9.30 11.25 7.15
Detroit 7.35 4.15 6.50 6.50 10.30 12.20 7.45
Falls View am 6.12 6.30 pm 6.50
Susp. Bridge 6.33 6.57 8.11
Niagara Falls 6.38 7.08 8.34
Buffalo am 1.20 8.10 7.50 8.50
Rochester 3.13 10.00 9.55 8.40
Syracuse 5.15 pm 12.00 12.00 11.50 10.15
Albany 9.05 4.34 pm 3.05 2.50
New York 11.30 6.15 8.30 7.00
Springfield 12.13 pm 12.13 5.39 8.30 6.05
Boston 3.00 11.30 11.30 11.30 8.45
WEST
Station 7 1 Night Express 17 N.Y. Ros. & Chi. Spl. 5 2 Mail & Express 3 Fast Mail 23 Western Express 18 Kalam. Accom. 37 3 Pacific Express
Boston pm 2.00 am 11.40 pm 4.15 pm 8.00
New York 4.00 6.45 6.00
Syracuse 11.20 6.45 2.00 am 10.00
Rochester am 1.10 6.00 11.15
Buffalo 3.10 pm 7.25 6.00 pm 1.16
Niagara Falls am 8.20 8.00 7.30 pm 12.40 8.00
Susp. Bridge 7.15 6.18
Falls View 7.36 6.14
Detroit pm 9.20 3.25 am 6.50 am 12.40 pm 12.40 am 6.40
Ann Arbor 9.58 3.40 8.10 1.30 1.25 5.58 11.20
Jackson 11.20 9.50 11.05 2.25 2.38 7.50 12.25
Battle Creek 12.40 10.40 12.25 3.30 3.50 8.00 1.35
Kalamazoo 1.30 11.25 1.20 4.10 4.28 8.50 9.00
Niles 2.30 pm 12.45 3.25 5.33 6.00 9.50 8.45
Michigan City 4.47 3.45 4.50 6.52 7.00 10.05
Chicago 6.55 9.15 6.40 8.05 6.55 7.50
Trains on Battle Creek Division depart at 7.45 a. m. and 4.00 p. m., and arrive at 12.40 p. m. and 6.10 p. m. daily except Sunday.
O. W. RUGGLES, General Pass. & Ticket Agent, Chicago. R. N. WHEELER, Ticket Agent, Battle Creek.

GRAND TRUNK R’Y SYSTEM.

EAST 8 4 6 2 10 76
Chicago AM 11.05 PM 3.02 PM 8.15 †AM 9.00
Valparaiso PM 12.42 4.31 10.10 11.25
South Bend 1.58 6.00 11.40 PM 11.05 AM 7.50
Battle Creek 4.00 6.00 AM 2.03 †AM 7.00 3.40 PM 5.38
Lansing 5.20 9.21 3.31 8.30 5.29
Durand 6.00 10.06 4.25 9.30 5.50
Saginaw †8.10 †11.50 8.10
Bay City †8.45 †11.40 8.45
Detroit 8.00 7.15 11.50 7.20
Flint 9.40 16.30 4.55 10.21 7.28
Port Huron 9.40 AM 12.30 7.00 PM PM 12.20 9.30
London
Hamilton
Suspension Bridge AM 8.40 7.05 PM 1.55 PM 8.35 AM 9.40
Buffalo 8.20 3.05 9.50
Philadelphia PM 3.47 PM 7.24 AM 7.28 AM 8.56 PM 3.47
New York 4.55 8.23 9.33 4.33
Toronto AM 7.40 PM 7.00 PM 7.40
Montreal PM 6.00 7.00 †7.00
Boston AM 8.10 PM 7.05 PM 7.00
Portland 6.40 †5.45 5.45
WEST 3 5 7 9 11 75
Portland †AM 8.15 PM 8.30 PM 8.30
Boston †11.30 7.30 9.30
Montreal PM 9.30 AM 9.00 9.00
Toronto AM 7.34 PM 4.00 PM 11.20
New York PM 5.45 8.00 AM 9.30
Philadelphia 6.30 8.45
Buffalo AM 5.55 1.00 PM 10.05
Suspension Bridge 7.00 9.00 11.15
Hamilton
London
Port Huron PM 12.00 9.00 AM 4.05 †AM 4.50 †PM 3.50
Flint PM 1.25 11.07 5.31 6.54 5.54
Bay City †AM 11.40 9.00
Saginaw †PM 12.15 9.00
Detroit †AM 1.30 10.00 7.00 4.00
Durand PM 1.52 12.05 5.00 9.30 4.30
Lansing 2.33 12.54 6.41 10.42 7.50
Battle Creek 3.55 2.18 8.18 PM 12.20 9.30 †AM 8.18
South Bend 5.40 4.12 10.00 2.35 9.30 PM 5.35
Valparaiso 7.00 5.29 11.42 4.00
Chicago 8.45 7.20 PM 12.50 6.18
Nos. 2-4-6-8—Daily  Nos. 3-5-7—Daily Nos. 10-76—Daily ex’c Sunday  Nos. 9-11-75—Daily ex’c Sunday
G. W. VAUX, † Daily except Sunday. W. C. CUNLIFFE, A. G. P. & T. A., Chicago. Agent, Battle Creek.

Grand Trunk Railway System Excursions

CHICAGO AND RETURN.—One fare plus two dollars for the round trip on account of the International Live Stock Exposition. Tickets good going December 1, 2, and 3, valid to return until Dec. 7, 1902. They must be deposited with Joint Agent at Chicago, with fee of twenty-five cents.
THANKSGIVING DAY RATES.—One and one-third fare for the round trip between stations west of Detroit and Port Huron. Tickets good going November 26 and 27, valid to return Nov. 28, 1902. For further information call on your local agent, or write to Geo. W. Vaux, A. G. P. & T. A., Chicago, Ill.

Weekly Offering Envelopes Help a Small Church

One of our smaller churches has found the weekly offering envelopes helpful in keeping the needs of the field before the individual members. The librarian writes: “I do not think there were many paying a weekly offering before the envelopes reached us, as we are so apt to neglect these important things. But when they came, I handed them around, and gathered them up, and found quite an interest taken in them. Only about eight or nine of our members are near enough to attend our meetings regularly, but our offerings for the quarter just closed are a large increase over any previous quarter. I am glad that the Saviour’s coming is near at hand, and I am glad that we can hasten it by giving of our means to send those who are willing to go to perishing souls to tell them of a Saviour’s love.” Could we ask for a greater privilege? By simply returning to the Lord of the harvest a little of the bounties with which he has blessed us, we may be accounted among those who are speeding his last message of mercy to the world, to prepare it for his coming. Who would not have a part in this glorious work? Try it. It means light and life in your own soul and in your church.

Booth Family Resettles at Plainfield Mission, Cholo

FROM a private letter of August 24, written at “Plainfield Mission Station, Cholo, British Central Africa,” we learn that Brother Joseph Booth and family had reached the end of their long journey, and were again settled in their former field of work. Of the other members of the party Brother Booth says: “Our very good friends, the Branch family, were separated from us August 9 at Chinde, the mouth of the Zambesi River, by the action of the British officials, so that we had to come forward alone. It appears there is a disposition to close the door of entrance to the American negro in the British official circles so far as South and East Africa are concerned. However, I learn to-day that after seven or eight days’ detention at Chinde, the Branch family have been allowed to follow, and we expect their arrival in a few days.” We are thankful that the protecting care of our Heavenly Father has been over these fellow workers in all their experiences, and shall hope to have reports from time to time of the progress of their work in spreading the message in the dark continent.

Elder J. O. Corliss Departs for England

Elder J. O. Corliss and his wife arrived from California last week, and are spending a short time in Battle Creek before leaving for England, where Brother Corliss has been invited to labor.

Studies in the Gospel Message Temporarily Omitted

THE usual “Studies in the Gospel Message” will be omitted this week and next, while the text of the eighth chapter of Daniel constitutes the basis of the lessons. It is expected that these studies will then be resumed.

Missionary Zeal Rising Among Adventist Believers

By Editor

THE tide of missionary zeal is still rising, and the articles this week by Sister White and Brother Daniells will further contribute to this onward movement. Do not fail to read them both. We hail with much satisfaction all these indications that this people is responding to the call to give the advent message to the world in this generation.

General Conference Council Convenes at Battle Creek

A COUNCIL to which the members of the General Conference Committee in the United States were invited, convened in Battle Creek on Monday, November 10. Important matters which are vital to the interests of the whole work will come before the council, and we expect that actions will be taken which will open the way for the more rapid advancement of the message in all fields.

Masquerade Parties for Church Benefit Condemned

It seems that in Indiana they are holding masquerade parties “for the benefit of the church,” at which a fine is imposed upon any who attend without wearing masks. If all masks were really removed in the churches which countenance these heathenish methods of raising money for so-called religious purposes, we are confident that the features of “the man of sin” would be readily recognized. The true followers of Christ have a commission that they should “be for salvation” to the world, and not to join hand in hand with the follies of the world. How many masquerade parties would it require to bring a revival into the experience of a church?

Demand for Scandinavian Special Issues Grows

By Editor

THE orders are still pouring in for our special issues of the Scandinavian papers, especially from the State of Iowa, where over thirteen thousand copies have already been taken. We have received many favorable testimonials from our workers regarding the matter in these issues. One minister says of the Swedish that it contains more food for the soul than many a dollar book published by us. Another one says of the Danish issue that the people readily buy and read, but the ministers are beginning to complain. We sincerely hope that the efforts to get these issues before the Scandinavians will increase. We have a few thousand copies left, and we can print more if the demand requires it.

Progress Under Difficulties

WRITING from Barbados, Brother W. A. Sweeney tells of the distressing situation of affairs in that island, owing to the crisis in the sugar industry and the prevalence of smallpox. Yet the work there is moving forward, and there are frequent conversions to the truth. He says:—
“Affairs are in a most terrible state just now, in this poor, stricken, quivering, throbbing isle of the sea. Ruin stares the whole West Indies in the face, owing to the sugar crisis. Every estate is being worked at a heavy loss, and complete ruin, panic, and starvation have only been averted by imperial grants and loans. Many formerly well-to-do and even wealthy people have been ruined, and the suffering of the masses is entirely beyond description.
“All this is now intensified by an epidemic of smallpox that is raging. The community seems to be hopelessly in the clutches of the dread disease. There are more than one thousand cases, and a number of new ones develop daily. Deaths are frequent, and the bodies are thrown into the sea. The people are very ignorant of the disease. They hide their friends who take it, thus spreading it, and mob the doctors and the sanitary officers who try to take the patients from them to the pest house.
“All our canvassers are at present in Barbados, and of course are shut up here with nothing to do, and we do not know when they will be able to get away, as no other colony will allow any one from Barbados to land. Our meager means is all that stands between some of our own people and starvation. It is only a drop in the bucket, compared with the misery; but as far as it goes, it is dedicated to the cause of the Master, in the person of his suffering ones. Our people throughout the States, many of them lacking nothing, on their fruitful farms, or earning good wages, would pour out of their means to help the cause in these needy fields if they could see and hear what we do.
“None of our people have taken the disease so far, and we are hoping and praying to be spared to the honor and glory of his name and cause. I am glad to say that despite all these forbidding circumstances, our work is making some advancement. The church members are almost all earnest and active in missionary work. No phase of our work has as yet been interrupted. The church is filled, and even surrounded with interested listeners on Sunday nights, and almost every week some decide to obey God. Many are studying, and there will be quite a large class to be baptized at the next quarterly meeting.”

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Review and Herald · Nov 11, 1902