Although the high cost of living here is daily becoming more unbearable; although bakers are striking for more pay, and the people are clamoring for a reduction in the price of bread, an article which all families consume five times a day; although the industrial workers are organizing themselves and striking against the encroachments of capital, still the work of the Lord moves forward. During the first six months of the present year we have sold and delivered more than 17,000 pesetas ($3,400) of literature in this field. This amount is a little less than the sales during the same time during the preceding year, possibly because our men concentrated their work almost wholly in the smaller towns, which at first were thought not worth working with the large books. Now some are doing as well as they have done in some of the large cities, or better. One hundred per cent deliveries are not at all infrequent in these places, as well as in some of the large cities which are being reworked in a more systematic way than was done the first time.
After leaving several hundred papers as well as more than a hundred copies of our large books in Oran, Algeria, Africa, and its vicinity, Brother Lopez has come to Spain, where he expects to work until better conditions are established after the war.
We have had many experiences while going from city to city trying to point all whom we could to the Lamb of God, telling them of his soon coming to the world again, and of the signs which show that this event is near. In Seville, the city of auto-da-fé fame in Inquisition times, I met a young man who is a Russian Jew. For several years he had lived in New York City. Having won a scholarship in an art institute of that city, he is making a two-year painting trip through Europe, at the expense of the institute. I found him a self-satisfied, care-free person without faith and without God in the world. When we became acquainted, we began to talk freely about religion, and he read with pleasure copies of our papers lent to him. One Sabbath we had a talk which lasted two hours, and from this talk he seemed to learn that our heavenly Father is not a tyrant as he had thought, but a loving, kind God, who would have all men to be saved. After prayer, he said that some of the words he had heard brought tears to his eyes, and that he felt benefited. We continued studying, and he decided to have a Bible of his own, as I had to take mine with me when leaving for work in another city. He appreciates his Bible very much now, having found an excellent introduction to it in the book, “The Desire of Ages,” which I lent to him. He is now reading “The World’s Crisis,” and will probably soon start on “Daniel and the Revelation” or “The Great Controversy.” We pray for the conversion of this young man, who, we believe, might be a great help to our work among his people.
There is plenty of work here for those who will answer the Master’s urgent call for men to help in the whitened harvest. Will you answer the call, or persuade some one that should to do so?
H. A. B. ROBINSON.
The Oakwood Manual Training School
By C. J. Boyd
The past year has been an exceptionally good one at the Oakwood School, our training school for colored workers, located in Huntsville, Ala. The enrolment in the training department was 108. In addition, 80 children came to us from20the neighborhood; these were students in what we term our mission school. These children are taught by the girls from the normal department of the training school, but their normal instructor spends considerable time with the student teachers in their classrooms. She discovers their weaknesses and endeavors to correct them. This plan gives our teachers an opportunity to gain experience while yet under the tutorship and care of the training school. They are thus better qualified to go out into the distant fields for service after they are graduated, and the benefit that our institution has thus become to the neighborhood, greatly magnifies its work in the eyes of the neighbors.
The teachers’ institute was conducted at the school June 6 to July 19. Thirty-two teachers were present and received great help and inspiration from their work.
At the close of the regular school year in June, eleven were graduated. Three finished the ministerial course, two the Bible workers’, four the nurses’, and two the secretaries’ course. And these students will go forth from the institution to enter places of responsibility in the work.
One of the graduates came to our school three years ago from the island of Haiti. He had received a fair education in the French schools of the island before coming to Oakwood; but when he appeared in my office, he could not speak one word of English. I observed he could speak some Creole, and as there was another young man in our school who understood Creole, I called him in, and through this interpreter was enabled to communicate with Mery Abel, the young man from Haiti. He came with a definite aim, and remained three years with us. When with us, he worked awhile in the tent factory. Elder A. F. Prieger, the superintendent of his field, now calls him back to that island, expecting him to take the lead in the first tent effort for the colored people of Haiti.
Seventy-five per cent of our colored workers are students from the Oakwood School. Many of our graduates are having remarkable success in attracting large congregations to their tent services and in winning souls in different parts of the land.
The Lord has blessed in the industrial department of the school the past year. About five thousand dollars’ worth of tents were manufactured at our little tent factory during the tentmaking season this year. Our printing department, in addition to the publishing of our little paper, Gospel Herald and Oakwood Bulletin, is securing a number of jobs from the merchants in Huntsville and elsewhere.
We have splendid crops on our farm at this writing,—thirty-seven acres of good cotton, which we are just beginning to pick; ninety acres of corn in the shock; and good fields of sweet potatoes, sorghum, and peanuts. Our hay crop was heavy. A good crop of watermelons has been marketed. We have at present more than four hundred thoroughbred fowls on the place. A fine herd of spring calves can be seen running in the orchard.
Oakwood is a place of variety. The students in this school come in contact with the farm, with its herds and fowls, with its great oaks, living cedars, and flowering shrubs; then, too, they have the privilege of associating with students called together from every State in the South, and from the islands beyond; and lastly, the privilege of associating with Christian teachers who have had long experience in schools that are promoting the cause of Christian education.
As another school year now begins, our prospects were never brighter for a successful year’s work. In our travels in representing the work during the summer, we have found our constituency interested in the school and its welfare. Never before have the eyes of our colored people been turned toward the institution with such confident expectation. They are sending us their very best young men and women this year. An able writer has said that it is the exceptional men and women of the colored race that are going to do the most in behalf of the race. It is the exceptional boys and girls that we desire to have come to our school, that they may in turn become the men and women who will have a great part in this closing work of calling the attention of the ten million colored people of this land to a soon-coming Saviour.
We are glad for the interest which the North American Division Conference as a whole is taking in this great work. For all that has been accomplished in the past, we are indebted to a sympathizing constituency whose philanthropic hearts have beat in unison with the great movement to serve in behalf of the uplift of those of fewer opportunities, those who since time immemorial have been hewers of wood and drawers of water for their more favored brethren.
C. J. BOYD.
The Colporteur Work in Africa
By W. W. Eastman
Reports coming from South Africa indicate that the same success is accompanying the colporteurs there in the sale of our books as in other parts of the world.
From a recent letter received from Brother G. C. Jenks, field missionary secretary of the South African Union, we quote the following:—
“With but few exceptions, we find the people glad to read our literature, for it gives them far more light than they are able to receive from any other source. . . . You may judge for yourself how readily the people buy our books when I tell you that in the thirty-five hours I was actually with the men in the field our sales amounted to $580. But the thing that makes our hearts glad is to see the way the work is coming up from month to month. Every month during the past year has shown a decided increase over the corresponding month of the previous year, and now comes our July report, with twenty-five colporteurs in the field, their sales amounting to $2,863.90, the largest record made in Africa for over six years.”
A live interest is being taken in this work on the part of the students and faculty of the Claremont Union College, and a colporteurs’ band is being conducted, from which it is expected that a goodly number of the students will go into the field to sell our books at the close of the school.
The greatest difficulty now experienced by our brethren in Africa is to get the books as fast as they are needed to fill orders.
Brother Jenks speaks of the opposition on the part of some against our books, but instead of its proving a hindrance, it has served only to arouse the people’s interest and to increase the sales. Thus it is all over the world. The Lord of light is sending his compelling message into the highways and hedges, and none can stay his hand.
W. W. EASTMAN.
Publishing Department
By N. Z. Town; W. W. Eastman
N. Z. TOWN — — — General Secretary
W. W. EASTMAN — N. Am. Div. Secretary
Educational Department
By Frederick Griggs; W. E. Howell
FREDERICK GRIGGS — General Secretary
W. E. HOWELL — Assistant Secretary
Opening Days of Emmanuel Missionary College
By W. H. Wakeham
The opening week of Emmanuel Missionary College for the year 1916 will long be remembered as marking an epoch in the history of this school. When the dominant tendency of the times is to rely on material power and prosperity, when the very foundations of our social structure are giving way, when the so-called Christian nations are “rattling into barbarism,” it seems especially fitting that an institution which stands for spiritual culture, and whose motto is “First things first,” should devote the first week of its school session very largely to spiritual matters.
Away from the noise and bustle and other distracting and corrupting influences of city life, close to nature “in all its beautiful forms,” majestic trees, green grass, waving fields of corn, orchards and vineyards,—Emmanuel Missionary College students enjoy special advantages for communing with the God of nature.
The first day opened auspiciously with the largest number enrolled in the history of the school. The preliminary work of classifying and organizing was well along, and lessons were assigned, so that the regular work of the school could begin the second day. A large per cent of the old students were present, and aided materially in making the opening days a success.
During the first full week of school, the chapel hour each day was used in setting forth God’s ideals for a Christian school, the difficulties usually met in reaching those ideals, and the only means of attainment—the total renunciation of sin, the taking of Christ into the life, and the full reception of the Holy Spirit.
By Friday night all of the two hundred and thirty students present, with the exception of three or four, were ready to take their stand on the Lord’s side. “That vesper service brought courage and joy to the hearts of teachers and students alike. After the meeting, students were heard to remark, “Was not that splendid?” Old students said, “Why have we not had an opening week like this before?”
At the present writing, the end of the second full week of school, there are enrolled 249 above the eighth grade; 35 are freshmen, 25 are sophomores, 28 are juniors, 16 are seniors, and three are taking special advanced work.
We are more than gratified with the results of our opening week, and all, both teachers and students, are starting in with the determination to make this the banner year of Emmanuel Missionary College. W. H. WAKEHAM.
An Encouraging Experience
By Frederick Griggs
The struggles which many of our people pass through in their endeavors to educate their children in the Christian faith, are not simply interesting, they are very touching. The following report from one of our schools in North Carolina will be read with interest, and can but awaken a sympathetic chord in the heart of the readers. This report is taken from a letter written by the teacher, Miss Myrtle Maxwell:—
“About thirty-four years ago a few families accepted the truth here at Banners Elk, N. C. They built a little church in which they worshiped until about three years ago. At that time they built a nice new church and added a schoolroom. There was an older church organization, but the first Seventh-day Adventist church building in North Carolina was here.
“For years the little church has struggled along. Sixty-five young people have grown up from the families who first comprised the little church. Of the sixty-five, two have entered the work,—Elder Stewart Kime and his sister, Mrs. U. D. Pickard. As for the others, most of them married outside of the church and are in the world. It is a sad story, but it is true. But some one asks the reason. Listen, I will give you one reason. Only two years ago the first school was started.
“When the school opened, the schoolroom was not completed, so the teacher taught about three months, or half the school term, in the church, without a desk or a blackboard. The children, when they wrote, sat on the floor, or kneeled, rather, and rested their paper on benches. At the end of five months the school funds gave out. The school was in an unsettled condition, and had it stopped then it is doubtful whether it would ever have revived. The teacher was getting a salary and her board. She ‘boarded around.’ Her sister was with her, and she paid $5 a month for her sister’s board. Rather than see the school stop, the teacher offered to teach the other month for her own and her sister’s board. At the end of the month things had taken on a different aspect, so that there were prospects for a school another year.
“The educational secretary made a visit to the school and gave some wise advice. Plans were made for the next year’s work. The secretary thought it would be a good plan for the teacher to secure a house, and board some children of believers who lived too far to walk to school. The teacher was undecided about staying, but wanted to do what the Lord would have her do.
“There was only one available house in the neighborhood. The owner had twice refused to rent to people of our faith, because of prejudice. The teacher told the Lord if he wanted her to stay, to make it known by giving her the house. She went to see about the house, but had not made known her mission when the owner asked, ‘Are you going to teach the school next year?’ She replied, ‘I don’t know; I want to keep house, and it all depends upon whether I can get a house.’ The owner replied, ‘Why, you may have our vacant house.’ She not only had the house, but had the owner’s little boy in school, and the next year, two cousins of his besides.
“Last school year the teacher boarded five pupils, besides one of the older resident students who helped with the work. It was a strenuous life for the teacher, with work from five o’clock in the morning till eleven o’clock at night many times. Of course, the children helped all they could, but the oldest of the five was only twelve years old. The children made rapid progress. It was indeed refreshing to hear each child offer a prayer at worship. They did not neglect their secret prayers, and learned to love to say them. Some of these children had never said a prayer before coming to the school. Two of the little girls went home and taught the younger children of the family to pray. One little girl, in writing back to the teacher after school closed, opened her letter thus: ‘I didn’t forget to say my prayers.’
“There were eighteen in school the first year, and twenty-six was the average attendance the second year.
“As the people in this section raise no crop for which they receive cash, it is difficult for them to secure much money. Nearly every family has its own little home, and raises practically all it needs for food. The teacher allowed the parents to pay the children’s board in provisions, since she would have had to buy them anyway.
“There were five rooms in the house, but one was not in condition to be used, so they had only four. One room served as kitchen and dining-room, another room was used as a sitting-room, and there was one bedroom downstairs. The two boys slept downstairs, and the four girls and the teacher slept in the one room upstairs. They passed through the winter with only twelve small panes in the windows, the broken windows being nailed up.21
“Eight miles away is another church, but the families live so far apart it would be impossible to have a church school there. Two children from this church attended our school last year. These were the two boys who boarded with the teacher. There are many other children in that church who ought to be in school. Five miles in another direction are some Adventist families who cannot have church school privileges unless they send their children to our school. There are six children of school age there, and three of them were part of the teacher’s family last year. The little girls went home occasionally to see their parents, generally walking the entire distance home and back.
“What we need is a place where we can have a garden and an orchard; it would be a great help. Last year the teacher charged three dollars and a half a month for board for each child. It is needless to say she did not come out even on that account. The teacher received twenty-five dollars a month, house rent (which amounted to one dollar and twenty-five cents a month), and fuel. Remember, it is only a six months’ school. She hired one of the schoolgirls to help with the work, and boarded her and paid her two dollars a month. If there had been any means of having a garden patch or two and an orchard, she could have made expenses. And if a cow had been donated, it would have been still better. But you say, ‘Why not charge more for board?’—Because the people cannot pay it. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a house where they would have enough room, too? The house they occupied last year was a quarter of a mile from the school.
“There is some property for sale which would meet every present requirement. It lies opposite the church. On the place are two houses, two barns, three orchards, and two or more springs. There are seventy-six acres of land, about sixty of which are cleared. Part of the land is quite steep. It is a grazing farm. It can be bought for three thousand dollars. The location of the place is just what we need. However, we do not need the whole place at present. The brethren think two thirds of it could be obtained, perhaps. If we could in some way raise $1,000 and get one third of the place, it seems as if we might succeed. The church here is going to meet next Sunday to see what can be done. I don’t know how much they can do, as there are no wealthy members. Our need is the most eloquent appeal we can make. If it is God’s will for us to have the place, I pray we may. If it is not his will, I pray we may not get it.
“We want to try to have eight months of school next year. We certainly shall appreciate anything that can be done for us.”
The spirit manifested in the establishment and conduct of this school, if brought into every one of our churches where there are at least six children, would establish many more church schools than we now have. This is the time of year when we must give careful consideration to the establishment of our church schools. Definite plans should be laid so that there shall not be a financial loss. It is well at this time for our people everywhere to unite in earnest prayer for God to specially bless in our school work of all grades.
FREDERICK GRIGGS.
News and Miscellany
Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace reports that America has so far contributed nearly $29,000,000 for the succoring of war-stricken Europe through the sixty relief societies that are now operating.
— The Illinois Central Railroad is to build a new terminal structure at Chicago, at a cost which may reach $20,000,000. It is hoped to make the building a notable part of the civic landscape, as was done with the station at Washington, D. C.
— It is said to be the intention of Japan, as soon as the war in Europe is over, to reopen the question of the status of her citizens in this country. The Japanese did not regard the matter as settled when the negotiations conducted about two years ago came to a deadlock.
— While steaming along the coast from Marshfield, Oregon, to Seattle, Wash., the large steamer “Congress,” owned by the Pacific Coast Company, was destroyed by fire a few days ago. In response to wireless calls for help, boats in the vicinity went to the assistance of the “Congress,” and succeeded in saving all the passengers and crew, numbering about 420 persons. The loss of the ship is estimated at $1,250,000.
— Nearly 1,500 acres of onions in the vicinity of McGuffey, Ohio, have been burning for a number of days. As the fire gained headway, troops from the Ohio National Guard were ordered out to aid in subduing it, but their efforts availed little. It is predicted by onion growers that the fire will continue to burn most of the winter, as the soil to a depth of three feet consists mainly of onion-top peat. The crop of this year has been totally destroyed.
— Tasmania, formerly known as Van Diemen’s Land, with an area of 26,000 square miles and a population of 300,000, is considered an extremely fine body of land. It was once a penal colony, but it is now a great sanitarium, having an unusually healthful climate. It has an extensive sheep-raising industry, for which it is well adapted. Practically every kind of precious stone known and every mineral is found in its mines. The harbor at Hobart, the capital, is said to be the finest natural harbor in the world, having a depth of seventy feet of water.
— New York City faces a milk famine. The farmers have struck. The big distributors of milk in the city have in the past had contracts with the dairymen, but these expired September 30. The Dairymen’s League, with a membership of about 15,000 farmers, and controlling 300,000 out of 350,000 cows in New York State, has decided to raise the price of milk during the next six months, rendered necessary, they contend, by the increased cost of production. City dealers refuse to recognize the league or to have any dealings with it, and much suffering is reported from the more crowded sections of the city on account of the shortage in supply.
— Following the recent resignation of Premier Okuma of Japan, the emperor has requested Lieut. Gen. Count Seiki Terauchi, former minister of war and also former resident general in Korea, to organize a cabinet in succession to the ministry of Marquis Okuma. This in the minds of many marks the end of a long and intense struggle between the bureaucratic forces and the advocates of a representative government for Japan, bringing defeat to the conservative faction.
— Great simplicity marked the opening of the Chinese Parliament under Li Yuan-hung, the new president, who succeeded Yuan Shi-kai. Li, members of his cabinet, foreign advisers, and important officials attended without bodyguard. It is significant that the president and other prominent Chinese wore conventional European morning suits and top hats, which have been recognized as the proper garb for state functions. The president’s address, after taking the oath of office, promising strictly to observe the constitution of the republic, drew attention to the importance of reconstructive work which must be introduced at once. He expressed the hope that the legislators in performing their sacred duties, would manifest “perfect impartiality and nonpartisanship,” so as to make “China a country ruled by laws.”
— The members of the Naval Consulting Board, twenty-four in number, and representing the foremost scientific societies of the country, became a legalized branch of the general government and a part of the navy last week when the oath of office under the provisions of a recently enacted law was taken. Thomas A. Edison is chairman of the board. These scientists, chosen by the membership of the various societies, become officers of the government. They receive no salaries, and Congress has limited the appropriation for actual expenses to $25,000, regarded as barely sufficient to maintain a secretariat. The organization of these scientists into an official body is designed to provide a direct link between the navy and the engineering resources of the nation in a manner that will place the industrial forces directly behind the navy in time of war.
— The annual meeting of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. was held at Atlantic City last week. Large plans were made for next year’s work. They contemplate an expenditure aggregating $4,500,000. The plans are of world-wide scope. The Y. M. C. A. has founded schools and missions along the Texas border, where American troops are stationed, and $500,000 is laid out for the work there. Already there are nearly forty schools, with 155 secretaries as instructors in Spanish, electricity, science, and many other branches of study, for the benefit of the soldiers. The work along the border costs approximately $1,000 a day. In Europe, where there are 10,000 workers, the budget calls for nearly $2,000,000, or four times the amount spent in the war zone last year. From the eastern border of Switzerland to central Russia there are about 250 Y. M. C. A. graded schools and colleges. Their enrolment is nearly 3,250,000 men. More than $1,000,000 will be spent in the industrial department in this country. It is reported that the erection of more than one hundred new buildings is contemplated.22
— Unless the tide of immigration should again set in before long, the Southland bids fair to be brought face to face with serious economic conditions. The shortage in the Northern labor market, due to the sharp falling off in the number of immigrants, is resulting in strong appeals being made to colored men of the South by large employers of labor in the North. Thousands of Negroes are being brought North, and the South is beginning to feel it. The shift that is taking place is drawing attention with no little force to the large place that the Negro fills in the life of the South.
Obituaries
STATES.—Fred William States was born in Delta, Colo., and died in Weiser Hospital, aged 21 years. He was a member of the Cambridge church, and fell asleep in full hope of a home in the earth made new. His parents, three sisters, and four brothers mourn, but not without hope. H. L. STATES.
SWOPE.—Mrs. Jennie V. Swope was born near Foxville, Md., April 17, 1886. Six years ago she was married to Wilford Swope, and together they embraced present truth. She died Sept. 3, 1916, and was buried in Washington County, Maryland. We trust that she will have a part in the first resurrection. J. O. MILLER.
ALLEN.—Mrs. Blanche Allen was born Sept. 6, 1878, and died at the home of her parents, in Napa, Cal., Sept. 15, 1916. She accepted present truth about twenty years ago, being baptized at Silverton, Oregon. She was left a widow three years ago. Six children, her father, mother, five brothers, and six sisters mourn. H. E. LYSINGER.
LEWIS.—William Addison Lewis was born in Farnham, Richmond Co., Va., in 1843, and died at the home of his daughter, in Arlington, Va., Sept. 10, 1916. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for thirty-six years, and was a firm believer in the second coming of Christ. He bore his last illness with Christian grace and patience. R. E. HARTER.
GLANTZ.—Edward Arthur, infant son of Brother and Sister Wm. Glantz, died at his home, near Culbertson, Nebr., Sept. 21, 1916, aged 20 days. The father, mother, one brother, and two sisters mourn the loss of the little one, but they know that if faithful they will meet him again when Jesus comes to gather his children home. Services were conducted by the writer. E. L. COOK.
WOOD.—Silas Edson Wood was born in Milton, Rock Co., Wis., in 1840. In 1861 he joined the Eighty-third Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served his country for three years. About thirty years ago he accepted present truth. He fell asleep at his home, in Hartford, Ky., Sept. 14, 1916, trusting in the saving power of God. His wife and all other relatives mourn. B. W. BROWN.
BAIRD.—Mrs. Effie Baird was born near Hartford City, Blackford Co., Ind., March 14, 1864, and fell asleep in Jesus Sept. 7, 1916. Her husband, two daughters, two stepdaughters, three sisters, and one brother mourn. Our sister accepted the third angel's message in 1905, and became a member of the New Hope Church, of Eaton, Ind., remaining faithful until called by death. U. S. ANDERSON.
BEAMES.—Sarah Peasley was born near Rising Sun, Ind., Sept. 8, 1834. She was united in marriage with James B. Beames, of Burlington, Iowa, Oct. 1, 1855, and to them were born seven children. In 1860 Sister Beames accepted present truth, and for forty-seven years was a faithful member of the Seventh-day Adventist church. Her death occurred in Scandia, Kans., Sept. 20, 1916. Her husband and three children mourn. B. L. HOUSE.
HOUGH.—Ellen Harlow was born Dec. 13, 1847, in Watertown, N. Y., and soon after her parents moved to Virginia. She was an only child, and began to teach school at the age of fifteen. Later she was married to William Y. Hough, and became a devoted wife and mother. The family moved to California in 1895, and one year later she heard and accepted present truth. Sister Hough was an earnest Christian, and the third angel's message became very precious to her. She died in Glendale, Cal., Sept. 17, 1916. Four children mourn, but they are comforted by the blessed hope of a soon-coming Saviour. J. O. CORLISS.
BROOKE.—Kiser Brooke, son of Colonel and Sister J. P. Brooke, of Alpharetta, Ga., died at a private sanitarium in Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 30, 1916. He was born Feb. 3, 1897. At the Georgia camp meeting held in 1911 he was baptized and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at Barnesville. He fell asleep in the glorious hope of a part in the first resurrection. His death is mourned by the devoted parents, three sisters, and three brothers. J. RUSSELL MITCHELL.
WALTON.—William Walton was born March 1, 1861, and died in Albion, Erie Co., Pa., April 26, 1916. He was a charter member of the Conneautville Seventh-day Adventist church, and in 1901 was elected elder. Following this he served as elder of the Edinboro, Meadville, and Albion churches. He was ever faithful to the cause he loved. His wife, one daughter, and three sons, also his mother and four brothers, mourn, but their sorrow is lessened by the hope which they hold for a future reunion. W. F. SCHWARTZ.
DOUGLAS.—Edwin A. Douglas died at his home, in Red Cloud, Nebr., Aug. 30, 1916, aged 80 years and 8 months. In 1862 Brother Douglas enlisted at Barrook, Iowa, in Company D of the Thirty-eighth Iowa Volunteers, and served for three years in the army. He saw much hard service, including the siege of Vicksburg. In 1886 he moved to Red Cloud, Nebr. In 1887 he accepted the third angel's message, to which he remained faithful until his death. He leaves his wife and many friends to mourn. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. E. L. COOK.
PARSHALL.—William Parshall was born in Rose, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1835. In 1857 he was married to Melissa J. Loop, of Michigan, and to them were born eight children. In the spring of 1875 he accepted present truth. His companion died in 1895, and he was later married to Mrs. Flora Wagner, of Ithaca, N. Y. His one great desire was to live to see the soon-coming Saviour in the clouds of heaven; but the Lord saw fit to lay him away, and he died at the home of his daughter, in Battle Creek, Mich., in the eighty-second year of his age. Three sons and four daughters survive. W. J. BLAKE.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Requests for Prayer
A CANADIAN sister desires prayer for healing from rheumatism.
A sister in South Dakota asks prayer that faith and happiness may be restored to the hearts of her sister's family.
A sister in Oregon writes: “I earnestly ask your prayers that the serious trouble which threatens our family may be averted.”
From Wisconsin a brother writes, requesting that we unite with him in prayer that he may be freed from heart and nerve trouble.
Addresses Wanted
MRS. NORMAN, 6340 Sixty-fifth Ave., N. E., Seattle, Wash., desires to find her sister, Miss Kate Dishamp, a nurse from the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
Publications Wanted
By Editor
THE persons named below desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent postpaid, for use in missionary work. In sending publications care should be exercised to select only such as are free from soil and disfigurement. We have been credibly informed that some who oppose this movement and the truths which it represents answer these requests for literature, and are sending to our brethren and sisters in various parts of the country tracts and papers representing their opposition. Our workers should be careful not to confound this literature with our denominational publications, and thus unwittingly become agents in sending out matter not printed in the interests of the cause of truth.
Mrs. A. J. M. Young, Oconomowoc, Wis.
Mrs. Lydia B. Sweney, 1210 John St., Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Mrs. W. J. Walter, 370 South Main St., Fond du Lac, Wis.
J. H. Downes, Y. M. C. A., Cornhill, London, E. C., England.
Mrs. A. L. Gallian, Arapaho, Okla. Continuous supply of papers and tracts.
R. S. Greaves, S. D. A. Mission, Waterloo, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Signs of the Times (weekly and monthly) and Watchman.
B. H. Palmer, Blackduck, Minn. Little Friend, Instructor, Sabbath School Quarterlies on the life of Christ, and Signs of the Times.
Mrs. J. Weeks, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, Signs of the Times (weekly and monthly). Watchman. Life and Health, and Instructor.
“Far in the Lead”
By Editor
“I HAVE had the privilege of being connected with one of the largest libraries in this part of the country during the past three years, and I fully appreciate the fact that our Youth’s Instructor is far in the lead,” writes a Sabbath school worker who was comparing the Instructor with other journals for young people.
The Youth’s Instructor is the second oldest paper published by Seventh-day Adventists. It has been a great factor in helping our young people to form correct ideals in life, to have a desire to serve God and to be of service to humanity.
Another interested in young people says, “From time to time I have met young men and women who have given me their personal testimony that the Instructor has steadied them through temptations.”
There are, however, some of our young folks who are deprived of the weekly visits of the Instructor. These are missing much of that which would be a great help to them in life. It would be well if parents and others in every church would look about and see if there are any who do not have this best of young people’s journals. The price of the Instructor is but $1.25 a year, single subscription; and it is cheaper yet if several come in one wrapper. Your conference tract society will be only too glad to receive your orders, or give further information as to quantity rates.