p. 22 | Review and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 1. (1/2/1913)

Earlier text: The Nashville (Tenn.) Young People's Convention

The Christchurch (New Zealand) Sanitarium

By G. A. Brandstater

THE work of this institution has now been carried on for about thirteen years, with many and varied experiences financially and otherwise. There have been times in its history when to all human appearance it would seem impossible for the work to continue any longer, but at each crucial stage the way was opened so that the work did not have to stop. And so it has continued till the present time, witnessing for the principles that gave it birth in relieving the suffering to which flesh is heir and in testifying for the truth for this time.

There are many in this dominion who have cause to thank the Lord for having had the opportunity of coming to the sanitarium, not only for the physical benefits received, but also for the spiritual. This institution has been instrumental, as others have been, in reaching some who otherwise probably would never have heard the truth. I will cite an instance or two:—

A young commercial traveler, whom I had met on previous occasions, arrived in this city suffering with an acute and dangerous trouble, and came to be nursed and treated. The Lord wonderfully blessed the means used for his recovery. During this time I had an opportunity to read to him the truths contained in our books. He listened very attentively, remarking that those were the very things he was wanting to know and understand. As the days passed by and he began to improve, he said to me: "Now I know why I have been sick. The Lord has brought me here to make a Seventh-day Adventist of me." After he left us, he gave the institution a useful present for furnishing purposes, and has since united with our people. He was too busy at other times to give attention to God's claims on him, so no doubt the Lord used those means for bringing him to see his duty to his Creator. I hope to see him become an active worker for the Lord one of these days.

We had a young woman as a patient who had fully made up her mind that she had no cause for considering the Sabbath and other truths held by us as a people; but after spending a few weeks here, she was led to consider the question. She is now an active worker in the cause of present truth.

There are also others who are watching us. While visiting in a distant town, I called on a woman who had been a patient, and who in the course of our conversation wanted to know how we managed to get such a number of workers together in one place who work so harmoniously. "I never saw the like," she said, "not an unpleasant word did I hear all the time I was there." To my mind, such experiences emphasize the fact that we are indeed spectacles to angels and to men. I then had an opportunity to explain to her more fully the

motive actuating our workers, which I think gave her food for further thought.

I am glad to state that financially we have been able to keep on the right side of the ledger for several years, when summed up as a whole.

G. A. BRANDSTATER.

Comparative Book Summary

American Ten-Cent Magazine Circulation

Comparative Summary of American Ten-Cent Magazines

	TOTALS	TOTALS	TOTALS	TOTALS		TOTALS	TOTALS	TOTALS	TOTALS
	1909	1910	1911	1912		1909	1910	1911	1912
Jan.	71094	89462	122202	121666	Aug.	174136	152520	215773	183119
Feb.	91812	116198	99234	144257	Sept.	102033	120020	135179	173077
March	134206	132165	244003	207529	Oct.	108571	116157	164537	587830
April	120582	183981	192757	189498	Nov.	106860	102795	110326	108755
May	115145	174886	141204	162220	Dec.	90737	99137	98541	.....
June	163545	193727	145025	163120
July	168689	222146	197582	191937	Totals.	1447510	1703187	1866363

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By Editor

Notice!

MRS. TINA ADAMS, of Edenville, Mich., is very anxious to find some trace of her eighteen-year-old daughter, who disappeared from home Feb. 13, 1912. It is thought that she has been stolen away for evil purposes. Beulah Adams was five feet four inches tall, and weighed about one hundred thirty pounds when last seen. Her mother will be grateful for any information concerning her whereabouts.

Obituaries

CANTY.—The most aged member of our New Orleans, La., church, Sister Mary Canty, died Nov. 24, 1912. She was an earnest Christian, and fell asleep rejoicing in the third angel's message. One daughter, two sons, and a large number of relatives are left to mourn. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Rev. 14:13. T. B. BUCKNER.

MOSS.—Sarah F. Moss was born in Randolph County, Mo., April 18, 1849, and died Nov. 23, 1912, at Combs, Ark. I believe that she sleeps in Jesus. We were married June 3, 1878, and in 1885 accepted present truth while attending a series of tent-meetings. The funeral service was conducted by Pastor Hurst (Baptist), words of comfort being spoken from 1 Corinthians 15. W. W. MOSS.

HART.—Walter Hart was born in Norage, England, Feb. 27, 1833, and died at Pontiac, Ill., Nov. 25, 1912. In the year 1860 he was united in marriage to Sarah Springer. Early in life he was converted to God, and in April, 1907, he and his wife became charter members of the Pontiac Seventh-day Adventist Church. He leaves his wife, two sons, and two daughters to mourn the loss of a faithful husband and father. The funeral services were conducted by the writer, assisted by the pastor of the Pontiac Methodist Church. Words of comfort were spoken from 2 Sam. 14:14. J. M. BURDICK.

ANDERSON.—Our beloved sister, Mamie McGee Anderson, departed this life Nov. 12, 1912. She united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in New Orleans, La., about one year ago, and from that time until her death lived a faithful Christian life, doing much to win others to the truth. Her companion, two children, and her mother and sister, are left to mourn. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Rev. 14:13. T. B. BUCKNER.

STEELE.—James Newton Steele was born near Pinkhill, Jackson Co., Mo., Aug. 18, 1854, and died at Welsh, La., Nov. 26, 1912. He was married to Anna M. Gray on Aug. 21, 1879, who, with two daughters, is left to mourn. Two brothers and four sisters also survive. The deceased united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Tarsney, Mo., in 1885, and remained a faithful member until his death. The funeral service was conducted by the writer, assisted by Pastor Webb (Methodist). W. P. MCLEMAN.

MOTHERSHEAD.—Walter P. Mothershead fell asleep in Jesus at the home of his sister at Hollis, Okla., Oct. 22, 1912, at the age of 31 years, 6 months, and 6 days. He was born at Arlington, Tex., April 16, 1881. He was converted when fourteen years of age, but became discouraged and wandered away from God. During the past summer, while sick and discouraged, he read the book "Desire of Ages," and as the result, accepted the third angel's message. He deeply regretted that he had not spent his life in the service of his Creator and Redeemer, and with his last breath urged his loved ones to accept Christ. MRS. ANDREW J. TAUGHER.

SMITH.—Richard Shilling Smith was born in Russlaville, Ind., March 27, 1865, and died Nov. 9, 1912, at the age of 47 years, 7 months, and 12 days. He was sick only a few days. Being an old schoolmate of the deceased while attending Battle Creek College, I was glad to be able to speak words of comfort from John 11:23: "Thy brother shall rise again." While Richard, as far as was known by his parents, never made a public confession of his faith in Christ, he was always kind and pleasant, of good moral character, and beloved by those who knew him. The funeral services were conducted from the home of his parents, where many friends gathered to view the remains and offer words of comfort to the sorrowing parents. We laid him to rest in the cemetery just outside the little town of Hofman. C. H. BATES.

Publications Wanted

By Editor

THE following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications sent post-paid:—

J. G. Flood, Bocaratone, Fla., desires papers and tracts containing present truth, for free distribution.

A large and generous supply of Seventh-day Adventist literature, for free distribution, is earnestly desired by J. H. Downs, Y. M. C. A., Cornhill, London, E. C., England.

Late, clean copies of the Signs of the Times, Watchman, Liberty, Youth's Instructor, and tracts pertaining to present truth, for free distribution, are requested by J. B. Goffar, Iola, N. Mex.

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“Ministry of Healing” Sales

By Walter Harper

Connected With Sales of Spanish Literature in Arizona

I FINISHED my work in Humboldt County, on the northern coast of California, the last of October. After a safe and prosperous ocean voyage to San Francisco, I made a brief visit to St. Helena Sanitarium, Pacific Union College, Oakland, and Mountain View, then took a steamer from the Golden Gate to Los Angeles (San Pedro). Next came a brief stop for rest and needed treatments at that “earthly paradise,” the Loma Linda (Cal.) Sanitarium, then I hurried off to Arizona to spend the fall and winter chiefly among the Spanish-speaking people, selling our good books.

For the first short week’s work in Arizona, the Lord gave me over $210 worth of orders for books, helps, etc. On Thanksgiving day, I did not get to work till nearly noon, as I was up till about midnight the night before; yet by a little after 5 P. M. I was blessed with over eighty-two dollars in orders for books, helps, etc. In one cabin I took orders for nearly forty dollars’ worth in a brief space. Besides all this, in the first week’s work there was twenty-seven dollars’ worth of orders for the Heaven-sent beacon-light of truth, “Ministry of Healing.”

My work now is mostly among the Mexicans and the Spanish-speaking people. It is a marvel how these downtrodden, despised people buy our literature. It is surely their day of visitation, their call, and the waters of their Bethesda pool are being troubled. God’s Spirit is brooding over the Spanish-speaking people the world over. They respond, too. They almost come after me to buy the books, instead of my having to go to them. When you win their confidence and love by kind, true Christian courtesy, you can do almost anything with these kind-hearted people. When one orders a book of you, he is your friend, and he becomes a walking advertisement of your work, speaks of it to his friends, and does effectual work to get them also to give their orders.

God is in this work. Now is the favored time to carry our truth-laden books to this class to the ends of the earth. I also handle “Daniel and the Revelation” as my leading work among the white people. I have good success with this timely work. It is a delight to me to set forth the Eastern question as foretold in Daniel 11 and 12. I stand by the old landmarks of this truth, for they are immovable. I found a settlement of colored people, and it seemed as if almost every one took “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation” or “Ministry of Healing,” or both.

WALTER HARPER.

Service

SERVICE is the complement of prayer, as works are the complement of faith. We show our love for God by our attitude toward our fellow men.

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By Editor

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Jamaica Hurricane and Loma Linda Reports

By Editor

A LETTER from Elder D. E. Wellman, of Jamaica, West Indies, reports that the recent hurricane that swept that island destroyed three of our church buildings on the southwestern coast. With drought and storm, Jamaica has had a trying year; but the thousand or more believers in that field are of good courage in the Lord.

A LETTER from Elder G. A. Irwin informs us that twenty-one were baptized the closing Sabbath of the week of prayer at Loma Linda, in place of seventy-one, as reported two weeks ago. The error was in the transmission of the report by wire. The total donations for missions by the Loma Linda church amounted to $413.50, and the sum secured in the Harvest Ingathering campaign $350, making a total for the week of $763.50. This surely makes an excellent record for this center of our work in Southern California.

The Predicted and Expected End

By Editor

FROM the prophecies of Daniel 11 and Revelation 9 and 16, we are fully warranted in believing that the Ottoman Empire, growing weaker and weaker through disintegration, will finally remove its capital from Constantinople to Jerusalem, and then, left without friend or helper, "he shall come to his end." Not alone the remote possibility, but the likely probability, that Turkey must soon do this, is the unwilling acknowledgment of the Turkish press, as well as the expectancy of practically all Europe. The attitude of the Russian people, and for that matter the large majority of Europe, is well expressed by the Zaprosy Zhizni, a leading paper of St. Petersburg, as quoted in the Literary Digest for Dec. 21, 1912:—

"There has been revealed the complete impotence of the Turkish Empire. Turkey has really proved to be the 'sick man' that Montesquieu nicknamed in his 'Persian Letters.' True, Turkey has managed to keep up for almost two centuries after the death sentence pronounced by the great French jurist; sick people sometimes live long, but how is it to live with them! Therefore one can't help being glad that the Balkans will be liberated from the rule of the 'sick man on the Bosporus,' and one can't help sympathizing with the demand that he should go, forever, from Europe. 'The Balkans for the Balkan people' has now become the watchword of all Europe; even the Germans, who are hostile toward the Slavs, have adopted it, because it has another, a wider meaning, signifying also 'Europe for Europeans.'"

Recognizing this unfriendly sentiment, "the Sublime Porte," says the Literary Digest of December 28, "seems to be trembling at the prospect of a hostile peace commission gathered in London. Will anything be left us in Europe, Asia, or Africa? is asked by the Turkish press." The Ikdam, the leading newspaper of Constantinople, considers that all Europe is arrayed against Turkey, and that it is a conspiracy to rob her of her European possessions. We quote:—

"The whole movement shows that these conditions were known to the powers before they were presented to us. That nothing was said concerning the offer to the Ottoman government of such conditions as these certainly merits most careful consideration. It seems to me, also, as I find it expressed in some Budapest papers that I have read to-day that after this nothing is left us in Europe. The time is not remote when the word will be spoken by each of those great powers concerning our territory in Asia and Africa also. The effort to make us accept the above-mentioned conditions relating to European Turkey is not a good sign."

This paper feels that not only Turkey's European possessions are endangered by this threatening attitude of all Europe, but its Asiatic possessions as well. It says:—

"If Constantinople and its environs alone are left to us, we can no longer defend them. What remains will in a few years slip out of our hands. . . . After this Bulgaria and Servia will possess navies. Greece will strengthen and increase her navy, and the Ottoman state will not only be unable to defend Constantinople and its environs, but it will be impossible to defend the coast of Anatolia on the Mediterranean and Black Seas. We must hereafter have a navy equal to that of France in order to be able to defend our coast lines against two rivals. Is this possible?"

No; it will not be possible for Turkey to long withstand the strong tide which has set in against her. Her days are numbered. This feeling expressed by the Turkish editor seems to possess many of the minds of his countrymen. Despatches tell us that during the last few weeks thousands of the Turkish population have crossed the Bosporus and are finding permanent homes in Asia. This exodus is but the prelude of the more general exodus from Europe which will come in the near future.

Let us prepare our hearts for the things that are soon coming upon the earth, and let us in this day of opportunity bring to the attention of our fellows the relation which these thrilling events sustain to the prophecy of the Word. As mentioned last week, two good tracts have been prepared for this purpose, "Turkey and His End," by Elder E. E. Andross, and "The Eastern Question in the Light of Prophecy," by L. A. Smith. These may be obtained from the tract societies.

Ruth Workes Sails for India

LAST week Miss Ruth Workes, of Alberta, Canada, sailed from New York for India.

Articles on the Eastern Question

By Editor

THE series of articles by Elder A. G. Daniells on the Eastern question, beginning in this number, will be followed with interest.

W. B. White in Washington

Elder W. B. White, president of the Atlantic Union Conference, was in Washington over last Sabbath and Sunday, in counsel regarding the work.

Correction on Daniel and Revelation Sales

By Editor

IN the Publishing department last week Germany was credited with having sold one hundred forty-four thousand copies of "Daniel and Revelation" during 1912. This should have read fourteen thousand copies.

The Meekers Sail for China

ON December 21, Elder and Mrs. B. A. Meeker, of Walla Walla College, sailed from San Francisco for China, under appointment of the General Conference. The China Union Mission Committee has recommended that they work in the South China Mission, Canton to be their headquarters.

A Crisis in International Affairs

IN the Forum for December, 1912, Roland G. Usher, reviewing the political situation in Europe, says of the present outlook:—

"A great crisis in international affairs is approaching. England and her allies, among whom is the United States, are facing a situation quite as grave as when the first ships of the Spanish Armada entered the channel, or when Napoleon's fleet had swept the Mediterranean, eluded Nelson, and landed the French army in Egypt. No less a man than Lord Roberts has publicly declared that England has never been in a position of greater peril, and the leader of the opposition solemnly affirmed the truth of this opinion in debate in the House of Commons. It is, in fact, almost farcical to speak and write of the probability of war. In reality the struggle for supremacy is already well under way. . . . Indeed, it is difficult to make the average man believe that anything of consequence is occurring when every aspect of affairs that meets his eye is so utterly devoid of dramatic intensity, and so absolutely lacking in every attribute of war as the poets have sung it. Nevertheless, in this gigantic game, the very pawns are kingdoms, and the control of the world itself the stake; so vast are the forces at the disposal of the combatants that names and armies might almost be called incidental factors which it may or may not be necessary to employ, and which might not indeed be decisive for victory or defeat."