p. 22 | Review and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 37. (9/15/1910)

Earlier text: Publishing Work in the South

Our Educational Magazine for September-October

By W. E. HOWELL.

As announced on the second page of last week’s REVIEW, the special theme of the next number of Christian Education will be “Start Right.” This idea is made broad enough to include students, teachers, managers, and parents; and includes a brief presentation of how the first American boarding-school, founded on the same general principles as our colleges and academies, was started more than seventy years ago.

Another strong feature of this number is “The Convention.” Under this divisional head are found: (1) “Let Us Keep Our Resolutions,” containing for the first time in print, a classified selection from the actions taken at the June educational convention, of such as ought to be kept specially in mind in beginning the work of the new school year; (2) “The Elementary Course of Study.” In this number of the journal it is proposed by the editors to have a “protracted convention,” with this magazine as the organ of discussion. The foregoing article introduces the first new topic for consideration.

One other new feature appears in this number,—“Books and Magazines.” Its purpose is to give brief reviews of new and valuable books of educational interest, and short notices of important articles of the same character in current magazines.

The contents of the “Primary School” and the “Home School” departments, are of their usual excellence.

Our Alps edition of ten thousand copies was all sold eight days before the date it bore expired. We believe the forthcoming number will not fall behind that one in excellence for the purpose intended. We are now ready to fill orders, and urge upon all who are interested in education to do all they can to aid in raising our subscription list to the point where the usefulness of the journal may be greatly increased by its issuance ten times a year instead of six, as was requested by the delegates at our recent convention.

W. E. HOWELL.

Address

THE permanent address of Elder J. F. Harris is 20 Fuller Place, Freeport, Ill.

Harvest Ingathering Special Number

By Editor

OUR presses are working away on the Harvest Ingathering special number. The number is a fine one, the best yet issued, as we believe all will feel when it is out.

Foreign Mission Seminary Opens

As we go to press, students are arriving at the Foreign Mission Seminary, which opens Thursday, the fifteenth. The Mission Board is expecting to find a good band of recruits for the mission fields in attendance from the first.

French Family Called to India

It is arranged, as we go to press, for Elder W. R. French and wife to sail from New York, September 14, for England and India. They had recently removed from Texas to Oklahoma, expecting to labor there, but responded to the call for helpers in India, this call being especially urgent by reason of the death at his post of Elder J. C. Little, of Bengal.

Adelaide Khouri Returns to Syria

LAST week Miss Adelaide Khouri spent a few days in Washington, before going on to New York to sail for Beirut, Syria. Sister Khouri finished the nurses' course in our Gland (Switzerland) Sanitarium three years ago. She has been several years with relatives in America, and now returns to her home country to engage in the work, in connection with our Syrian Mission. Our brethren in the Levant have been anxious for Sister Khouri to return to work for the Arabic-speaking peoples, among whose many millions we have so few workers.

Harvest Ingathering Campaign

By W. T. KNOX

THE time is drawing near when the Harvest Ingathering campaign should begin. The Review Office is rapidly printing the Ingathering number, wrapping them in parcels of fifty, ready to ship promptly when the orders are received.

This year the officers in each local conference are to conduct the details of the campaign. Leaflets and order blanks have already been supplied to each conference, for use by the conference officers in conducting the work. All orders for the special REVIEW, the instruction leaflets, and solicitors’ cards, should be sent to the local conference office. Any reader of the REVIEW not in touch with a conference office, may send orders direct to the undersigned, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

We trust that the Lord’s richest blessing will rest upon both officers and people in this campaign. The past campaigns have been a most gratifying success, and a great help to the foreign mission work. As we approach the end, the needs of the cause of God increase, and the need of faithful, earnest work was never so great as now.

If possible, all orders for supplies should be sent in before October 1. Careful preparation has been made so that orders may be promptly filled.

W. T. KNOX.

Wanted

By W. A. Spicer

The Mission Board asks help in securing quickly workers to fill several calls, and will be glad to hear from candidates, or from conference workers who can recommend candidates. Many a call must wait, but these requests demand immediate action:—

An evangelist for the Philippines.

An evangelist for West Africa, preferably aged between thirty and forty.

A physician for West Africa.

A man with experience in evangelistic and literature work, wife a teacher, to lead church and school work in an island field; ready to go at ten days’ notice.

A music teacher for a Southern school.

There is no space here to emphasize the need; but the committee feel that there must be no delay in these appointments. In each call to foreign fields both husband and wife should be in good health. We hope for responses to this notice.

W. A. SPICER, Secretary.

Roman Catholic Eucharistic Congress

OPENING on the sixth, the great Roman Catholic Eucharistic Congress has been in session in Montreal, Canada. It is supposed to be the largest and most important Catholic gathering ever called in America. Brother C. M. Snow, of the editorial staff, and secretary of the Religious Liberty Department, is in Montreal to study various features of the congress, and to report upon it.

Encouraging Reports from Western Meetings

ELDERS A. G. DANIELLS and K. C. Russell came in last week from Western meetings, bringing encouraging reports. They left again the same week, Elder Daniells to attend the Western New York meeting, and Elder Russell going to Greater New York. Elder W. A. Hennig, of Washington, returned this week from Southern meetings.

J. N. Anderson at Foreign Mission Seminary

WE were glad last week to greet Elder J. N. Anderson, lately from China, who has come on to Washington to teach in the Foreign Mission Seminary during the coming school year. Aside from his Bible work he will naturally give special attention to instruction on Chinese missions and methods. Elder Anderson's return from China was made necessary by the continued serious illness of his wife, who has been in this country for over a year, hoping to be able to return to the Orient. Sister Anderson has accompanied her husband to Washington.

The Day of Fasting and Prayer

By A. G. DANIELLS

NEXT Sabbath, September 17, has been set apart as a day of fasting and prayer by our churches in the United States and Canada, because we are in need of special help from the Lord to carry forward the great work that he calls upon us to finish in this generation. His help is sufficient, and it is for us; but it must be earnestly desired and sought. It would not be rightly appreciated and used if given to us without our deep solicitude. The object of this day of fasting and prayer is to encourage our people to give this important question of the evangelization of the cities and the unworked fields the serious consideration it should receive. It is hoped that this will lead to earnest, prevailing prayer for help.

We are in great need of many more efficient laborers of all classes to engage in the work. The harvest is surely great and the laborers are few. The remedy given by the Saviour for such a situation is this: “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.” There are hundreds of men and women in our ranks who could render the cause the most valuable service if the importance of this work pressed as heavily and seriously upon their hearts as it should.

We are also in great need of money to support more workers and to multiply facilities. The gold and the silver, the Lord says, are his. And he declares that the world is his, and the fulness thereof. It is he that gives men power to get wealth. He can gather this wealth for his cause, and it is not only our privilege but our duty to pray to him with all the heart for a great increase of funds to aid in the hastening and finishing of his work.

But our greatest need is the power of God to make all our efforts effectual. There is no power in man to accomplish this work himself. To attempt to do this work with the energies of the flesh is vain. Jesus recognized this when he counseled his disciples not to begin their work for him until they were endued with his divine power. They received this enduement when they were baptized with the Holy Spirit on the day of pentecost. Then they were ready for service, and great were the results that attended their labors.

This enduement is our greatest need. It is the greatest gift God can bestow upon his people. Nothing is more freely and cheerfully offered to us. All we have to do is to comply with the conditions upon which it is to be given.

May this coming day of fasting and prayer bring this great blessing, and mark the beginning of a new era in our cause. A. G. DANIELLS.