A TEMPERANCE speaker recently asserted (and any one who will take the pains to examine and study his figures will find that he is correct) that fifty days’ drink bill of this nation would pay all the tremendous bill of making the Panama Canal. More than this, he says that seven months’ drink bill would pay off all the national debt; build the Panama Canal; build the canal from Lake Erie to the Ohio River; place in the Ohio River all the locks and dams necessary to give it a level of nine feet the year round from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Cairo, Ill.; build a canal from the Mississippi River to the Rio Grande, draining the swamp lands of Arkansas, stopping the loss of life and property by the lower Mississippi floods, and bringing the waters of the upper lakes to the arid plains of Texas for irrigation; and, after all this, leave about fifty million dollars for operating expenses. And yet people stand aghast at such enterprises as are for untold benefit to the nation, and then calmly go on drinking down in a few months enough to pay for it all, while they poison their bodies into the grave, and sink their souls into hell.— Selected.
The War and Our Institutions
From a letter from Dr. A. B. Olsen, superintendent of the Caterham (England) Sanitarium, we quote the following paragraph of current interest: “This terrible war that has developed so suddenly is likely to cause serious if not grave injury to our institutional work at least for many months. Hard times are upon us with a vengeance, and no one can prophesy what will happen in the near future. It looks as if England is as well able to stand the strain as any European country. Indeed, I think that our sufferings and privations in this country will be little more than a tithe of those in Germany, for example. It is a terrible affair, but doubtless has its lessons for us as a people.”
The Needs of Our Missions and the Response of Our People
In view of the intense interest in the present effort to secure funds to meet the emergency that has arisen in the General Conference treasury, by reason of the war situation and its effect on our work, the accompanying letter from Elder I. H. Evans, president of the North American Division Conference, is published, knowing that the Review readers will be greatly encouraged and interested in its contents:—
“Elder W. T. Knox,
“Takoma Park, D. C.
“DEAR BROTHER KNOX: The response our people have made to your call for an emergency fund, to help meet the situation in Europe and the mission fields receiving support from the European treasury, has been most hearty and sympathetic. I quote from several letters which I have received, that you may see how anxious our brethren are to help the General Conference treasury at this time.
“Elder F. W. Paap, writing from New Orleans, says: ‘At the New Orleans meeting, cash and pledges were given to the amount of over $600. The Mississippi Conference was behind on the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund, so the brethren turned their attention to their own field, and raised over $1,200.’
“The Ohio camp meeting was reported as being well attended, and a large donation was taken. First the brethren made a call for the congregation to give themselves to the Lord, and nearly every person came forward. Later an offering was taken for the foreign mission work, and over $11,000 was received in cash and pledges.
“Brother C. L. Benson writes: ‘As you know, about $11,000 was pledged at the Ohio camp meeting. Twenty-two young persons were baptized at this meeting. The Ohio young people on the ground pledged $580.’
“From the Indiana camp meeting, Prof. Frederick Griggs wrote: ‘The spirit of the meeting is excellent. In the revival service last Sabbath, fully four hundred, I should think, came forward. In the young people’s meetings, scores gave themselves to the Lord. In the meeting on foreign missions this morning, $2,850 was raised in cash and pledges. There was also six or seven hundred dollars in conditional pledges. The Sabbath school offerings last Sabbath amounted to $325, and every provision is being made to increase the Sabbath school offerings for the conference to $1,000 next Sabbath; so I think there will be no difficulty in raising a total of $4,000 for missions. This will put Indiana ahead on the twenty-cent-a-week quota for the year, without doubt.’
“Concerning the West Michigan meeting, Brother L. H. Christian, president of the Lake Union Conference, writes: ‘We have secured quite large donations for foreign missions. In West Michigan the brethren gave about $4,500; in North Michigan they gave about $2,000. I think this means that each of these conferences will succeed in raising its quota on the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund. Elder W. A. Westworth, and some of the leading members of the Battle Creek church, have promised that they will see that Battle Creek pays its full quota this year. Elder C. F. McVagh says that if Battle Creek does its part, he will guarantee that West Michigan will do its full share. I am convinced that every
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conference in this union can reach the goal if each person will do his part.’
“Elder Paap writes from Southern Illinois: ‘I shall not go into detail much in this letter, but you will be interested to know that we raised over $3,000 on mission offerings at the meeting this morning. The people responded well. There were some real sacrifices. Everybody feels good. This is a record for Southern Illinois.’
“From the Western Washington meeting, Elder O. A. Olsen sends these words: ‘The churches of this conference also did real well in mission offerings. Elder L. Johnson told me that $10,000 had been subscribed in cash and pledges, although I think a large proportion was dependent upon property sales. Besides this, the Sabbath school offerings for the two Sabbaths amounted to $543.73, and an offering of $871.76 in cash and pledges was made for home work. I wonder if I told you in a former letter that nine new churches had been added to the conference, with a total membership of one hundred and sixty-nine.’
“Elder B. G. Wilkinson reports that West Virginia raised $1,000 for missions, which was a large donation for so small a constituency.
“Concerning the Tennessee meeting, Elder S. E. Wight says: ‘We raised $2,400 for missions in the morning meeting. We shall secure at least another hundred dollars, so that this conference, which seems to be the most difficult in which to raise the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund, will be entirely free.’
“Elder O. Montgomery, writing from the Southeastern Union, says: ‘At the camp meeting at Lenoir City, Tenn., yesterday forenoon, after a thirty-minute talk and a season of earnest prayer, we gave the people a chance to see what they would do for foreign missions. The Spirit of the Lord came into the meeting, and notwithstanding the fact that there were only about one hundred persons in the tent, they pledged to the amount of $15,712.50, without any urging. In addition to this, several hundred dollars was pledged to the school and local conference work.
“We feel that the brethren have done well in each conference we have visited. North Carolina pledged an even $2,000. Georgia pledged nearly $1,700; South Carolina’s gift was the smallest, only a little over $600; but when we reached Cumberland, the offering was beyond our greatest expectation. We rejoice over this not so much because of the dollars and cents represented, but because of the spiritual blessing and the consecration of the people which it means.
“In every meeting we held, we had a most excellent spiritual revival, the brethren and sisters consecrating themselves anew to the Lord; but the meeting at Cumberland was the best of all. I feel sure that the Southeastern Union can be counted on for its full proportion of mission21funds for this year. Every worker, man, woman, and child, will stand loyally by the cause of God during this great crisis.’
“In every field, from which we have received reports up to date, the brethren have done nobly in responding to the emergency call. I believe their hearts are in sympathy with the great work that the General Conference is carrying forward in all parts of the world.
“Yours in the Master’s service,
“I. H. EVANS.”
A Drinker’s Warning to Young Men
By Charles Lamb
COULD the youth to whom the flavor of the first wine is as delicious as the opening scenes of life or the entering of some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when he shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will; to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it; to see all the goodness emptied out of him, and yet not be able to forget a time when it was otherwise; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own ruin,—could he see my fevered eye, fevered with the last night’s drinking, and feverishly looking for tonight’s repetition of the folly; could he but feel the body of this death out of which I cry hourly, with feebler outcry, to be delivered, it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to earth, in all the pride of its mantling temptation.— Charles Lamb.
Another Blow for King Alcohol
OUR attention has been called to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association upon the treatment of pneumonia, from the pen of Dr. Robert N. Willson, of Philadelphia, in which the following words occur:— “Alcohol is no longer considered a cardiac tonic, and has well-nigh lost its right to a place in sane pharmacopoeia. . . . Alcohol is a cardiac muscle poison and a vasomotor paralyzant. Both of these forces we wish to preserve, not destroy. Therefore, after many hundreds of years filled with object demonstrations so plain that they stare us in the face, we are reluctantly beginning to cease teaching our patients well-nigh incurable drug habits under the guise of beneficial treatment.”
Desiring to ascertain whether the author’s statements in regard to the use of alcohol met with support or adverse criticism, Dr. R. T. Stratton, of Oakland, Cal., wrote him a note of inquiry. The response was most interesting. The writer says: “Though I have received many very courteous notes, not one has taken exception to the alcohol statement. . . . I have personally come to the point — very gradually — at which I believe alcohol always a harmful influence, at least to the circulatory system.” The growing tendency among medical men to give alcohol an inferior place as a therapeutic agent is well worth our attention. — Selected.
Library for the Loma Linda School
THE College of Medical Evangelists, of Loma Linda, Cal., is in great need of a library for the benefit of its young people in training. Evangelical, Biblical, and historical reference books22are desired. Cash donations for the purchase of such books would be more appreciated, as the library would then be able to secure the books best suited to its needs. Any one wishing to give either books or funds for this purpose should address Elder M. C. Wilcox, Loma Linda, Cal.
The Harvest Ingathering “Review”
By E. R. PALMER.
The office work in preparing the large edition of the Harvest Ingathering REVIEW is proceeding rapidly. About 25,000 copies are being turned out daily.
The call from the Mission Board for emergency funds, the missionary spirit which God is giving to his people, and the excellent appearance and subject matter of this number of the REVIEW, are all working together for a large and successful campaign.
The Atlantic Union Conference has increased its order for papers fifty per cent above last year. It seems evident from the present outlook that from one third to one half more papers will be used this year than last. We have therefore already placed orders for paper for 800,000 copies, and shall continue, if necessary, to run the pressroom three shifts, or twenty-four hours a day, in order that our people may be promptly served with the necessary supplies for this important campaign, toward which the Mission Board is looking with much hope and confidence for relief for stranded mission fields.
Orders should be placed with us as soon as possible, in order that we may know how many papers must be supplied.
E. R. PALMER.
News and Miscellany
Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— A very interesting list of names representing overlapping lives has been given in the Strand Magazine to show that only forty generations were required to connect us with the Pharaoh who oppressed the children of Israel in Egypt. The list suggests that the march of history has been more rapid than it usually seems to the student of history, and runs as follows:—
Moses Plotinus
Joshua Hermanric
Eli Attila
Samuel Llewarch Hen
David Theodore of Tarsus
Solomon The Venerable Bede
Jehoiada Alcuin
Shalmaneser Piastus
Jeroboam Alfred the Great
Romulus Abdurrahman III
Epimenides Firdausi
Sakya-Muni Don Roderigo
Sophocles Dias de Bivar
Hippocrates Nicolas Breakspear
Philemon Canon of Lucerne
Archimedes Sir Ralph Vernon
Marcus Cato John Trussinghan
Gaius Marius Henry Jenkins
Hillel Edward Hail
Apollonius Robert Taylor
Galen
— After eight years' work, surveyors have completed marking the boundary line between the United States and Canada, where the two countries join along the Alaskan border. This work consisted, first, in tracing the line of the one hundred and forty-first meridian. As Russia, when it owned the country, had marked no line, it was necessary, first of all, by means of telegraphic signals from Seattle and Vancouver, to check the local time. Thus, by comparison, the parallel was fixed to a certainty. The great problem, however, was to run the line directly north toward the geographical pole, avoiding being deceived by the magnetic pole. Every three miles or so monuments were erected. The larger ones, placed at the principal points, were of aluminum bronze, five feet high, set in heavy bases of concrete. Altogether, it is reported to have been one of the most difficult works of surveying ever undertaken, as the line had to be exactly right, whether a lofty mountain, like St. Elias,—16,500 feet, which it took the Duke of the Abruzzi, with his expedition, six months to climb,—or a ghastly ravine was encountered. Following the work of the surveyors, topographers took up their task of making a map of the entire region.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Camp Meetings
CENTRAL UNION
West Colorado, Montrose..........Sept. 15-22
COLUMBIA UNION
Chesapeake........................Oct. 4-11
PACIFIC UNION
Arizona............................Oct. 8-18
SOUTHEASTERN UNION
Florida, Orlando...................Oct. 8-18
Florida, Orlando (colored).........Oct. 8-18
Massachusetts Conference
By H. C. HARTWELL; H. B. TUCKER
THE forty-fourth annual session of the Massachusetts Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at South Lancaster, Mass., Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, 1914, to elect officers for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting. Each church is entitled to one delegate for its organization and to one additional delegate for each ten members. The election of delegates should be promptly attended to, and their credentials forwarded to the conference secretary.
Because of the present conditions arising from the war situation recently developed, this ought to be more than an ordinary meeting,—a second camp meeting as it were,—in order that we may have an opportunity to meet a large number of our people for the purpose of carefully studying the needs of our work and the demands of duty at such a time as this. Leading men from the North American Division and the Atlantic Union Conferences are expected to be present, and it is earnestly hoped that, in addition to the regular delegates, a large number from all our churches will plan to attend.
H. C. HARTWELL, President;
H. B. TUCKER, Secretary.
The Massachusetts Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists
By HERBERT C. HARTWELL; HORACE B. TUCKER
NOTICE is hereby given that the second annual session of the Massachusetts Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at South Lancaster, Mass., in connection with the annual conference, Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, 1914, for electing officers for the ensuing year, and for transacting such other business as may properly come before the association. All duly accredited delegates to the conference constitute the membership of the corporation. The first meeting of the association will be called to order at 3 P. M., Thursday, October 1.
HERBERT C. HARTWELL, President;
HORACE B. TUCKER, Secretary.
The Florida Sanitarium and Benevolent Association
By W. H. Heckman; H. A. Shreve
THE seventh annual session of the Florida Sanitarium and Benevolent Association will convene on the Seventh-day Adventist camp ground, at Orlando, Fla., Monday, Oct. 12, 1914, at 11 A. M., to elect officers for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the association. The voters of this association are the regularly accredited delegates of the Florida Conference.
W. H. HECKMAN, President;
H. A. SHREVE, Secretary.
The Florida Conference Association
By W. H. HECKMAN; W. M. LEE
THE eighth annual session of the Florida Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene on the camp ground at Orlando, Fla., at 11 A. M., Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1914, to elect officers for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the association.
W. H. HECKMAN, President;
W. M. LEE, Secretary.
The Florida Conference
By W. H. Heckman; W. M. Lee
THE twenty-first annual meeting of the Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held Oct. 8-18, 1914, in connection with the camp meeting at Orlando, Fla. The election of the conference officers and various other matters of interest to every loyal Seventh-day Adventist will come before the meeting. Each church is entitled to one delegate without regard to numbers, and to one additional delegate for every ten members. The first session will be held October 9, at 11 A. M.
W. H. Heckman, President;
W. M. Lee, Secretary.
Literature on the War Situation
By Editor
THERE has been prepared by our various publishing houses some excellent literature particularly appropriate for circulation at the present time. In addition to the regular issues of the Watchman and the Signs of the Times Magazine, in which liberal space is devoted to the present situation of the European conflict, both the Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, Tenn., and the Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, Cal., have published tracts dealing with these living issues now before the world. “Is It Armageddon?” by L. A. Smith, is a tract of sixteen pages, which is sent out for one cent a single copy, or one dollar for one hundred. The Pacific Press issues a similar tract under the title “Have We Come to Armageddon?” written by M. C. Wilcox. Both of these tracts are worthy of a very wide circulation. They consider the present European conflict from a somewhat different standpoint than that from which it is presented in the REVIEW AND HERALD Extra, and would be read with interest even by those who have already read the Extra. We earnestly hope that our brethren and sisters throughout the field will make liberal use of the regular numbers of these monthly magazines devoted to a discussion of the situation, and also of the tracts which have been published.
Character Makes Foes
The man that makes a character makes foes.—Young.
The Navies of the Air
Their Part in the European War
It is evident that in the great struggle now going on among the nations of Europe, the navies of the air are destined to play an important part. It therefore seems most appropriate that in the October issue of the Watchman considerable space should be given to this important subject.
The cover design for this number is a striking representation of this new method of warfare. It is printed in colors, and is perhaps the best cover the Watchman has ever had. Never before have men been fighting in the air and under the sea, as well as on the sea and on the land.
Among other articles of stirring interest to be found in this issue, the following may be mentioned:—
“The Madness of the War.”
THE WATCHMAN
“The Imprisoned Empires and Their Struggle for the Sea.”
“A New Pope.”
“Spiritualism; What Is It? and Why Is It?”
“The Other Side of Death.”
“The Blessedness of the Blessed Hope.”
“Political Conditions in Mexico.”
“Has the Bible Foretold Present-Day Conditions?”
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Business Notice
FOR SALE.— Homes in California. For the reason that many of our people in the Pacific Union Conference desire to donate all or a portion of the proceeds of the sale of property to the cause, we are carefully listing such property. If any of our people who desire to locate in the territory of the Pacific Union Conference will write us, specifying as nearly as possible their wants, we shall gladly give them all the information in our possession concerning homes listed with us for sale. We are not in the real estate business, nor do we wish to encourage any one to move from one locality to another; but as many of our people come to the Pacific Coast of their own volition, we shall give reliable information to all who write to us. It is hoped that this information bureau may be of benefit to our people as well as to the cause. Address Pacific Union Conference, Box 146, Glendale, Cal.
Obituaries
Stowe.—Died at Palma Sola, Fla., July 15, 1914, T. J. Stowe, aged 51 years and 8 months. He is survived by his companion and seven children. The deceased was a faithful Christian. He loved God's Word and did all he could to give others a knowledge of it. We believe that he rests in Jesus and will live again in the resurrection morning.
A. L. Gregory.
Tobin.—Lorancy Scott was born in Presque Isle, Maine. She came West while quite young, and was married to George Tobin, July 4, 1882. She was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Orting, Wash. Mrs. Tobin was taken ill suddenly while visiting a friend in Spokane, and died shortly after reaching her home at Orting, at the age of 57 years. She is survived by her husband, one sister, and one brother.
A. M. Dart.
Harkness.—Pearl, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Harkness, of Dauphin, Manitoba, was born Dec. 11, 1889, and died July 22, 1914, aged 24 years, 7 months, and 11 days. She is survived by her parents and two brothers, but they sorrow not as do those who have no hope. The deceased fully accepted Jesus a few days before her death. We laid her to rest in the care of the Life-giver.
E. M. Chapman.
Hastings.—Wilson Franklin Hastings was born in Medina County, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1844, and died at his home in Battle Creek, Mich., June 18, 1914. Brother Hastings came with his parents to Michigan in 1853. He was a great lover of nature, and spent some years collecting rare specimens for museums. The deceased accepted present truth at the age of twenty-five years, and was faithful in the Christian way until his death. Aug. 10, 1875, he was married to Hannah L. Smith, who survives. Two of their three children are also living.
J. G. Lamson.
Mack.—Leroy Mack was born in Ohio, March 22, 1843, and died July 28, 1914. In 1865 he was united in marriage with Miss Eshiel McKay. Eight of their nine children are living, who, with their mother, mourn the loss of their loved one. In 1877 Brother Mack and his companion accepted the truth for this time under the labor of Elder S. S. Smith, and for many years were members of the Clintonville church. The deceased enlisted in the United States Army in 1861, and served his country faithfully for three years and eight months. He fell asleep in the bright hope of meeting the Life-giver in the resurrection morning. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer.
P. C. Hanson.
Cornelius.—Daisy Simpson Cornelius was born in Lafayette, Kans., Sept. 15, 1879, and died in Severance, Kans., Aug. 1, 1914. Miss Simpson was married to Dudley Dawson, of Sparks, Kans., on Sept. 6, 1898. One son was born to them. After her husband's death, she was married to J. C. Cornelius. About ten years ago our sister accepted present truth. She remained a faithful and devoted member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church until death claimed her. We feel sure that she sleeps in Jesus and will come forth in the first resurrection. She was a faithful companion, a kind, loving mother and a good neighbor. Her husband and son and daughter, together with her parents, six brothers, and three sisters, are left to mourn.
W. F. Kennedy.
Godfrey.—Walter Roscoe Godfrey was born in Concordia, Kans., June 14, 1900, and was drowned in the Wishkah River, in Aberdeen, Wash., June 30, 1914. Walter was a good boy, loved by all his friends and schoolmates. He leaves a father, mother, and five brothers and sisters to mourn his death. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Hosea 13:14.
J. W. Boynton.
Davis.—Mrs. Clementina E. Davis was born in the State of Illinois, Feb. 15, 1833, and died at the home of her daughter in San Quentin, Cal. She was the mother of eleven children, ten of whom survive. The family moved to California in 1855. Sister Davis accepted the faith held by Seventh-day Adventists, thirty-seven years ago, under the labors of Elder J. N. Loughborough in Vacaville, Cal., where she was laid to rest awaiting the call of the Life-giver.
C. E. Ford.
Bentley.—Julia A. Bentley was born at Houlton, Maine, in 1838. During her girlhood the family moved to Woodstock, New Brunswick, where she was married. Later her home was in Newburyport, Mass., where in 1877 she heard and accepted present truth through the efforts of Elder D. M. Canright. In the spring of 1910 Sister Bentley came to live with her niece at Ree Heights, S. Dak., where she died on Aug. 11, 1914, at the age of 76 years. She sleeps in Jesus, awaiting the resurrection morning.
M. E. Anderson.
Chamberlain.—Miss Mary Lane was born Nov. 20, 1826, in the State of Vermont. She was converted in early youth and united with the Methodist Church. At the age of twenty-nine she was united in marriage with Geo. W. Chamberlain. They lived for years in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kansas, and spent the last twenty years in Oregon. Together with her husband, she united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church more than fifty years ago, of which she remained a faithful and consistent member until death. There were born to this union one son and seven daughters. Four daughters, together with many grandchildren, one of whom is Elder G. F. Enoch, of India, survive her; but they mourn not as those without hope of meeting her in that glad reunion day when the Master of assemblies shall serve the guests. She passed peacefully away Aug. 10, 1914, at the home of her daughter at Troutdale, Oregon, being 91 years, 8 months, and 20 days old. The funeral services were conducted from the Christian Church, words of comfort being based upon the language of our Lord. “She hath done what she could.”
H. W. Cottrell.
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LIBERTY
A Magazine of Religious Freedom
“Lincoln,” “Armageddon,” and “Church and State” Number
Stephen A. Douglas, the bitter political enemy of Abraham Lincoln, once made this frank admission: “Lincoln is the honestest man I ever knew.”
John Hay, Lincoln’s private secretary, and later Secretary of State, said: “As, in spite of some rudeness, republicanism is the sole hope of a sick world, so Lincoln, with all his foibles, is the greatest character since Christ.”
Read in this number what Lincoln said about civil and religious liberty. Also “Is It Armageddon?” “Dangers Threatening American Liberties,” “Story of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’” “Practical Working of State Religion,” “Prohibition, and Personal Liberty,” etc.
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A Day of Special Prayer
SABBATH, October 3, has been appointed a day of special prayer in behalf of our work and brethren in Europe, and that the Lord may stay the bloody conflict in which the nations of men are now engaged. Read the call made by Elder I. H. Evans on page 8.
The Missions “Review”
By T. E. Bowen
THE orders are coming in for the new Harvest Ingathering REVIEW.
The Southern California Conference has placed for its first order, all the papers going in one consignment,— a big truck load of them,— 34,300 copies. A further order supplements this, bringing its orders up to about 35,000. The secretary writes that fifty thousand and possibly more will be used by that conference this autumn. This is a splendid order, surely.
It is time that all initial orders were being sent in by conference committees. It is perhaps just a little early for these orders to be on hand here in Washington but not for activity in making them up out in the field.
The opportunity of our lives is here. The terrible European struggle continues. The providence of the Lord places us without the war zone, not for idleness, but the rather that we may help make up that which our brethren in Europe are unable to give.
Every heart should be made willing in this hour of opportunity, every hand active, fully consecrated, meet for the Master's use. Do not neglect to order your Ingathering supplies of your conference office just now, and you surely will want more this year than ever before.
We hope no church will overlook the Harvest Ingathering program prepared for Sabbath, September 26. This will be found in the Church Officers' Gazette, and should be used in every church, large or small, that day. T. E. BOWEN.
Minutes of European Division Committee Meeting
MINUTES of a meeting of the European Division Committee held in Hamburg, August 20, have reached the Mission Board office. Naturally, only the committeemen from the various German fields were present. The following action was taken: “In view of the terrible suffering among our own people, caused by the war, the chairman is requested to prepare a memorial addressed to the North American brethren through the General Conference and the North American Division, for help to be distributed among the various unions touched by the ravages of the sword.”
West Indian War Literature
Our brethren of the West Indian Union have printed a special number of their magazine, dealing with current issues, and a special leaflet on the war situation, written by Elder C. H. Keslake. The leaflets are “going by the thousands,” we learn. Everywhere our brethren and sisters feel the importance of sowing the literature.
The Connerlys Return from Panama
WE learn of the arrival in New Orleans of Elder B. E. and Mrs. Connerly, of the West Caribbean Conference. They have been engaged in the work in Bocas del Toro, on the Isthmus of Panama, and have been voted a few months' furlough after years of service in the tropics.
Holsts Sail for Jamaica
UNDER appointment to engage in the colporteur work, Brother A. E. and Mrs. Holst, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, sailed last week from New York for Kingston, Jamaica. Still other colporteurs are called for by the West Indian Union.
Buildings Turned Over to Red Cross
We note that the Friedensau school building and the newly erected addition to the Hamburg offices, evidently not yet fully occupied, have been turned over by our brethren to the Red Cross Society for hospital use.
Florida Sanitarium Superintendent Returns North
Dr. R. S. Ingersoll, medical superintendent of the Florida Sanitarium, came North a few days ago to move his family from Richmond, Va., to Orlando. He also spent a little time in Washington.
Frank F. Mills Returns to America
ACTING on medical counsel, Brother Frank F. Mills, of the Korean Mission, has been compelled to return to America, and for the present is located on the Pacific Coast. Brother Mills has done faithful service as printer and accountant at the Seoul headquarters, and his fellow workers deeply regret the necessity of his return. We pray that under favorable conditions our brother's health may be fully restored. The Korean Mission is already calling for another printer.
