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Review and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 11.

THE SABBATH OF THE LORD
Earlier text: Japanese Health

An Echo From the India Conference

By H. H. Votaw; Mrs. H. H. Votaw

ALL who have accepted this truth will remember the first feeling that animated them, the desire to share these good things with others. It is with a feeling very akin to this that we are now writing.
During our blessed week of prayer we felt that God was richly blessing us; and truly we were refreshed; but since the conference has been in session, we have seen that the best of the feast was reserved until the last.
What to us has seemed the most choice of all the good things has been the reports from the laborers. Words can give no adequate conception of the impression made by these reports, for words seem lifeless things; but we pray that the same Spirit which was so manifestly present in the meetings may use these words to impress upon every heart the burden of the work.
Brother W. A. Barlow reported the work being done among the Santals, one of the peoples of the plains country. In the first part of his talk he thanked the Lord with great fervency for having shown him this message. I never saw a man who seemed to appreciate the distinctive features of our faith more. Brother I. D. Richardson, of Ohio, was the instrument used by God to reach Brother Barlow. As I heard him even bless the day on which the light came to him, I thought, “If Brother Richardson could but hear this, he would ever look with pleasure upon the time spent in India.”
Brother Barlow was for ten years in the employ of the English Church. For the last five years he has been seeking to give the everlasting gospel as enjoined in Rev. 14: 6-12.
When he began his work at Simultala, he had no money and no land. For the first three months he lived in a tent. Sometimes during storms this would be blown down; but God always protected the lives of the family. After a time he built a hut. This was covered with thatched roof, and had a mud floor; but, said he, “It was a holy place to me, because God was there.” He was stricken with Asiatic cholera, but his life was precious, and he was spared.
Seeing that “the people were so many,” he started a school to educate helpers. For months he taught two boys. Now he has twenty. On Sabbath he takes the boys and goes among the villages. The people are fond of singing, so he has taught gospel songs to the students. In every village there is a platform where all disputes are settled, where marriages are celebrated, etc. After the singing, one of the boys reads, and gives a testimony of God's love. Some of the boys have come a distance of sixty miles to find a school. They are so anxious to learn that they walk long distances.
God has so blessed that now there is a goodly tract of land under cultivation. Brother Barlow has one line of fruit-trees five miles long. You see this is a large number.
There is especial need of a girls' school at Simultala. To teach the boys is not sufficient; for if they should become Christians and should marry heathen wives, their work would be much handicapped, or perhaps no woman could be found who would marry them at all. One boy has met this experience. He was engaged, but the engagement has been broken. The divorce ceremony, as the engagement-breaking is termed, is interesting. The parties come to the public platform, and are asked a number of times if they desire to disannul their pledges. If they answer in the affirmative, a leaf of the banyan tree, which is sacred among the Santals, is torn in two, and a piece given each party.
Brother Barlow brought one of the boys down to the meeting, and we were impressed by seeing this boy sit right down at his feet; nor could he be persuaded to sit upon a chair. Whenever Brother Barlow arose, he did so, too. These two sang a song in the Santal language. Never in our lives were we so touched before. This boy stood in native simplicity, and sang, “When he cometh, when he cometh to make up his jewels.” He sang with evident pleasure, and as the chorus was sung, “Like the stars of the morning his bright crown adorning,” etc., many a tear of joy was shed. O brethren and sisters, if you could but see! If the field as it is could but be portrayed; if the darkness could be felt at home as here, more would come. Pray for us.
H. H. VOTAW.
MRS. H. H. VOTAW.

The Lord's-day Case in Ontario

By A. O. Burrill

THE Supreme Court rendered judgment this morning [Feb. 27, 1905] upon the reference which had been submitted to it by the Governor-in-Council to ascertain the extent of the provincial jurisdiction in the matter of what is commonly known as “Sabbath observance legislation.” The first question was framed to ascertain whether a provincial legislature had authority to enact a statute in the terms of the draft bill laid before the court. Was the bill ultra vires in part only? What sections were within their right to enact? The members of the court, Mr. Justice Idington alone dissenting, answered these three questions by a simple negative. In other words, the bill was ultra vires [beyond the power] of the provinces from first to last. The terms of the reference went on to ask whether a province were within its powers in legislating so as to prevent any work from being performed within the province on the first day of the week, except works of mercy and necessity. The fifth question asked whether a province had the right to restrict the operations of companies of its own creation to six days in the week. The sixth question asked whether banks, insurance and loan companies, works declared to be for the general advantage of Canada, but authorized to operate within one province only, and other specified undertakings, are subject to provincial legislation regarding Sabbath observance. The seventh question inquired whether the Ontario Legislature was within its rights in enacting its prohibition against Sunday games, hunting, controlling the operations of barber and bake shops on Sunday, ordering that parks and pleasure-grounds be closed on Sunday, and controlling the Sunday running of electric cars.
The members of the court, Justices Sedgewick and Idington dissenting, declined to answer these latter questions at all. The effect of the court’s ruling, however, agrees with the recent judgment of the privy council, which declared a large portion of the provincial Sabbath observance legislation ultra vires. The extent of the federal jurisdiction was not before the court. To-day’s judgment of the Supreme Court, therefore, has no bearing upon the Dominion rights in this matter.—Toronto Mail and Empire, Feb. 28, 1905.
Now that the Supreme Court of the Dominion of Canada has handed down the decision already quoted, the way is clear for the Lord’s Day Alliance to go to the Dominion Parliament for new Sunday laws. We may be sure that they will at once improve their opportunities. While this case was pending, they could not go to the lawmaking power to enact more Sunday laws.
We, as a liberty-loving people, ought to send in thousands of names on our petitions to Ottawa, opposing this work of the Lord’s Day Alliance. The editor of the Toronto Globe, in an editorial in the issue of February 28, is extolling the work that the field secretary of the American Sabbath Union, S. W. Gamble, has been doing of late in this province.
I am quite sure that we who have the light of the prophecy, and from that can see what is coming, have a responsibility to inform the people of this Dominion what this Lord’s Day Alliance work means. The Londale Academy press is reprinting four tracts that were circulated last year for the campaign against the persecuting power that is coming forth to deprive the people of God of their liberty. These tracts can be secured by addressing S. D. Hartwell, 167 Dundas St., Toronto, Ontario, or B. B. Noftsger, 151 Hunter St. W., Hamilton, Ontario. The price is forty cents a hundred, post-paid.
A. O. BURRILL.

Soul Winning by Canvassing

By M. N. Campbell

THE canvassing work was ordained by our Saviour to be an effective means of winning souls to him, and of reaching many who would not otherwise hear the gospel message.
While it has been instrumental in bringing quite a number to a saving knowledge of the truth, it certainly seems as if the results have been small in comparison with the labor expended.
Just how to make it more effective has been a matter of earnest thought and solicitous consideration on the part of many devoted men. The writer does not assume to offer “new light” upon this question, but will lay before our people the fruits of actual experience on the part of himself and others.
It is a generally recognized fact that a crop must be thoroughly cultivated in order to yield its fulness of grain or fruit. The ground must be gone over again and again to conserve the moisture, keep down the weeds, and stimulate the plant’s growth. Every intelligent farmer recognizes this principle.
What is true in farming is equally true in business. The attention of the people must be frequently drawn to the value of one’s wares by judicious advertising. But especially is the principle recognized by the itinerant merchant. He knows that the more often he travels over his territory, the more his business will increase, as the people recognize his integrity and the good quality of his merchandise.
It is on precisely this plan that the writer is convinced that the prosperity and effectiveness of our canvassing work are to be built up. The old plan has been for an agent to spin rapidly over a given territory, take all the orders possible, deliver the books, pocket the cash, and never return to follow up his seed sowing. As well might the farmer expect a yield of corn when he paid no attention to the crop between sowing and harvesting, as the canvasser who sows the seed but does not follow up his work.
If every canvasser had gone over his territory time and again, each time with a different book, far different results would have been seen. By this method the canvasser would soon become acquainted with the people, would become practically the pastor of his field, and able to minister to their spiritual needs.
On the other hand, the people would have their confidence in him materially strengthened on seeing that he was not afraid to come back and meet his work. They would learn to look for him at regular intervals, and would save their orders for him. By this method a substantial business would be built up that would yield profitable results, both financial and spiritual. The canvasser would see souls brought into the truth every year as the result of his labors, and thus have a practical realization of the fact that he is what God intended he should be—a canvassing evangelist.
M. N. CAMPBELL.

An Appeal and a Report

By Wm. Guthrie

THAT we may more rapidly advance the work of the third angel's message in the maritime provinces of Canada, we are straining every nerve in an endeavor to start a small school for the training of young men and women. We have secured the services of Elder and Mrs. E. E. Gardner, of Iowa, as teachers. We have also secured the co-operation of the General Conference in the raising of two thousand dollars for the erection of a building that will accommodate about thirty students. A part of this has already been raised, but we are in pressing need of six hundred dollars more at once, to meet the expense of material. We must build this year, but as we must not run in debt, we can not build till we have the money.
Brother, sister, have you done anything for this needy field? Could you welcome those saved from this field as those for whom you had given toil and earthly treasure? May I lead them to you, in the new earth, as the reward for the travail of your soul—your crown of rejoicing?
“We are nearing the close of this earth's history; soon we shall stand before the great white throne. Soon your time for work will be forever past.”—‘Testimonies,’ Vol. VII, page 15; also read Vol. VIII, pages 32, 33.
Send your offerings to the treasurer of the General Conference, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C., stating that they are for the Maritime School Fund.
The following is a list of the offerings by churches thus far:—
Iowa
CASH PLEDGES
Albia C. M. $14 88 $50 25
Bladensburg 13 55
Libertyville 6 00
Ruthven 23 65 12 00
Hartley 26 50
Algona 5 00
Beaver 20 05 15 00
Parkersbury 9 94 21 00
Winthrop 12 52
Marshalltown 9 60 7 00
Nevada 5 60 3 00
Pilot Mound 9 75 15 00
Ames 5 26 11 00
Winterset 7 25 8 00
Fontanelle 2 20 5 00
Atlantic 1 96 19 00
Exira 1 65 5 00
Elkhorn 1 00 5 00
Stuart 30 12 14 00
Harlan 12 50
Des Moines 18 35 12 00
Davis City 23 20 8 50
Osceola and Woodburn 19 00 60 00
Afton 1 00 25 00
Missouri
CASH PLEDGES
Enyart 20 37 5 00
Clearmont 14 17 10 00
Utica 4 27 2 00
Hamilton 8 20 12 25
St. Joseph 12 70 24 50
Kansas City 13 17 32 00
Pleasant Hill 2 00
Windsor 6 25 33 00
Nevada 1 50 17 00
Joplin 1 58 15 50
Carthage 4 93 9 00
Goldsberry 46 40 5 00
Palmyra 2 50 21 00
St. Louis 5 65 41 00
Battle Creek, Mich. 3 50
Berrien Springs 5 00
$415 82 $540 50 Total .................. $956 32
WM. GUTHRIE.
Williamsdale E, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia.

How the Light Came

By H. H. Hall

BROTHER GEORGE W. PETTIT, missionary secretary of the Western Oregon Conference, told me a little incident recently which is too good to keep:—
At the close of the service at a little church of thirty-two members, he asked those who had received the light of this message through reading The Signs of the Times to hold up their hands. Four responded. He then asked a similar question concerning our books, and five held up their hands. In response to a like question concerning tracts, three arose, and gave their experience.
It is such experiences as these, dear fellow workers, that encourage me to go forward with renewed zeal in the circulation of the Signs, our good books, and our small tracts. H. H. HALL.

Religious Liberty Notes

By K. C. Russell

FRIDAY, the 24th ult., a Sunday bill was defeated in the Missouri State Legislature. This defeat undoubtedly was due to the earnest efforts put forth by our brethren there in the distribution of religious liberty literature, and in interviewing the legislators.
A president of a conference writes as follows: “I am glad to see so much interest manifested in the religious liberty cause throughout the field. I am sure that this work will meet with a still more hearty response as we proceed. It takes time to get it started again. Let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.”
Another president writes: “While we have been asleep, people have been educated to look with much more favor upon Sunday laws than ever before, and had we slumbered on much longer, but few petitions would have been signed. Now I hope we shall not go to sleep, since the bill has passed by.”
Here is what another president says: “I have been watching the progress of the religious liberty work a long time with very great interest. The work of getting petitions was, I think, quite successful. Nearly all, if not every one, of our brethren who wrote special letters to senators and members of the house received encouraging replies to their communications.”
A minister in a Southern State reports: “I find that it is not so easy to get signatures here as in New England. There I secured several hundred signatures from the leading men in the city of —. Here there is quite a sentiment in favor of strict Sunday observance, and if it was put to a vote, I believe that ninety-five per cent of the people would vote for it. The people must be educated on this question.”
Another brother writes concerning the religious liberty work as follows: “I am so glad it is being revived, as I used to take part in the religious liberty work; and when the Sentinel was dropped, and no active work was being done, I was heart sick; but now you are located in Washington, where you can see how the enemy is seeking to curtail the liberty of God’s people by the enactment of Sunday laws, it will fill you with greater enthusiasm and energy to push forward the work.”
A president of a union conference writes with reference to the agitation now in progress here concerning the question of religious teaching in the public schools: “I have no thought that we shall have any rest from this time on in such movements, nor do I suppose the time will be long delayed when we shall witness the execution of some of the plans that are in the minds of these men. I find that throughout the country a great many of the leading people sympathize with these movements. The only thing I see before us is to continue to labor and pray; and when the time comes for the establishment of the work of the National Reformers, we can have the consciousness of having done what we could.”
A brother who circulated a petition in California writes: “Several liberal-minded Catholics have signed: one of them, who is a prominent Republican politician, volunteered to speak personally to Senator — in regard to the pending bills, and to solicit his aid in the preservation of religious liberty.”
A brother in Oregon writes concerning his experience in circulating a petition: “I had no success in my effort to get men holding any public office to sign it. I went to a lawyer who defended twenty-two business men and saloon men in a noted Sunday-law trial which took place here some time ago, and since then has been elected mayor. He refused. This work has opened the way for individual missionary work, to present the message for to-day as never before in my experience. But many of our people are asleep, unconscious of a God-given opportunity.”
Here is another encouraging word from a Western conference president: “I do not believe that there is anything that has been tried that will create more interest in present truth than to distribute this literature, and secure petitions against religious legislation.”
K. C. RUSSELL.

The Movement for Religious Instruction

By William Warren Prescott

The Report Ready to Be Submitted

THE following article, taken from the Washington Post of March 9, will give the present status of the effort to secure the introduction of religious instruction into the public schools of the District of Columbia:—
“The committee of fifteen appointed by the recent conference of ministers and others, held for the purpose of considering a set of resolutions prepared by Rev. Dr. Randolph H. McKim, proposing the establishment of a system of religious moral training in the public schools, held its final meeting yesterday afternoon at the Shoreham. An agreement was reached by the majority of the committee, which has been transmitted to Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, chairman of the conference, who will call the conference together at an early date to receive and pass upon the report of the committee of fifteen.”
“The greatest secrecy has been preserved by the committee as to the terms of the agreement which has finally been reached by the majority of its members. However, it is said there is little doubt that the committee will report to the general conference in favor of some such innovation as the proposed introduction into the schools of a system of religious moral training.”
“One of the most prominent members of the committee and a member also of the subcommittee which drew up the report that was passed upon yesterday by the full committee, stated after the adjournment that there were not more than two dissenting votes to the adoption of the report of the subcommittee by the committee of fifteen. He declined to state who the dissenting members were, but it is understood they were Rabbi Louis Stern and William W. Prescott, the respective representatives of the Jews and the Seventh-day Adventists on the committee.”
“While neither of these two gentlemen will say whether or not it is their intention to unite in a minority report to the next conference, to be called by Chairman Herbert, one of them stated yesterday that he will express his views on the subject to the conference. This same member also intimated that he, and perhaps others, were being overridden by the majority rule that enabled other denominations, combined together, and believing to a great extent in the same things, to make their views upon the subject prevail.”
It is expected that the conference will be called to meet this week, and in our next issue we hope to give the full text of the recommendations submitted, and a report of the meeting. W. W. P.

Important Announcement

By Editor

The Report of the General Conference Will Be Printed in the REVIEW—No General Conference Bulletin Will Be Published

For a number of years the reports of the General Conference sessions have been issued in a special publication, the General Conference Bulletin. This year it has been decided that all these reports shall appear in the REVIEW, and that no Bulletin be published.
In order to have room for the insertion of this extra matter, the number of pages of the REVIEW will be increased to thirty-two during the conference and for a few weeks following.
In view of the extra cost of producing a thirty-two page paper, no two months’ subscriptions covering the time of the conference will be accepted, and the price for three months will be fifty cents. On six months’, eight months’, and yearly subscriptions there will be no increase in price, but for less than six months, there will be only the one rate of fifty cents for three months. This change of price does not in any way affect old subscribers whose names are now on our list, and their short-time renewals will be accepted at the old rate.
Will not our tract society secretaries, our ministers, our church elders and librarians begin at once a vigorous effort to secure subscriptions from all Sabbath-keepers who are not now subscribers? Certainly every Seventh-day Adventist will want the reports of the next General Conference, and so they must have the REVIEW.
An earnest endeavor should be made now to show our people what a loss they will sustain in not having the reports of the coming conference. This next session will without question be the most important ever held. Missionaries will be here from all parts of the world, and their reports of the progress of the message in the regions beyond will do much to encourage and stimulate all our people.
No Seventh-day Adventist can afford to deprive himself of the REVIEW now, anyway. Think of the important matter which it has contained since it has been printed in Washington; of the reports of the establishment and development of the work here at the nation’s capital; the important articles from the pen of Sister White; the plans for the missionary campaign, the readings and programs for the conventions, together with the reports of the work accomplished by the week-of-prayer readings for 1904, and the many stirring articles in connection therewith; and besides all this, the intimate touch into which every reader is brought with the plans of the General Conference Committee and with the progress of the work in all the world.
It is no idle boast to say that in no other publication, nor in any combination of publications, can all the important matter be found which the REVIEW contains.
All of the eight or ten thousand persons who have heretofore ordered the Bulletin, and who are not now subscribers to the REVIEW, should send in their subscription for the coming year, without delay.
Orders can be sent through any State tract society or publishing house. Any orders sent direct to this office should be accompanied by the cash.

Canvassing in the West Indies

By R. V. A. Batson

If there is anything that my soul delights in, it is the canvassing work. After accepting the third angel’s message, I read, in one of our papers, a call for young men to volunteer to carry the truth to others, and I said, “Lord, here am I, send me;” and from that time I have had the opportunity of being a coworker with God. It is a number of years since I accepted the third angel’s message, and not once since that time have I ever regretted casting my lot on the Lord’s side and among the remnant people of God.
In the Lord’s strength I entered the canvassing work, first in my native land, and then by the hand of providence the way was opened for me to go to another field. In faith I started out for St. Kitts, in company with three others. We all had a wonderful experience, which could not have been obtained in any other way, and which fitted me for another field, Antigua, where our labors were again successful. From Antigua I returned to my native land, leaving behind in the two places eighty-seven copies of “Patriarchs and Prophets” and over three hundred small books.
I next went to Grenada with one of the white canvassers from the United States. Having heard that Grenada was a Catholic community, I had no faith with our going, but I found that I had made a great mistake. The Lord opened the way, and success was the result. I delivered one hundred and forty copies of “Coming King” and over two hundred small books. On my second trip I sold forty-eight copies of “Coming King,” forty of “Patriarchs and Prophets,” over one hundred and five Bibles and Testaments, and two hundred small books. During my third visit, I sold almost two hundred small books, one hundred and five Bibles and Testaments, fourteen copies of “Bible Readings,” one “Home Hand Book,” seventeen “Coming King,” one “Prophecies of Jesus,” sixty-four “Christ Our Saviour,” and three “Great Controversy.” Just at the time of my delivery I was taken sick, and had to return home for a short time. Before I could get out again, the smallpox broke out, and so I am again working at home.
There is a desire to read, which I believe will give an impetus to the canvassing work. I am full of courage in the Lord, and am doing all I can by the help of God to give the message, hoping thus to hasten the coming of the Lord. Souls are stirred as never before.
Canvassers ought to take courage. Success is ahead. Then let us consecrate ourselves afresh to the Lord and be courageous, doing faithful service for the Master in behalf of those for whom he died. Let us lift; for lifting makes the burden lighter. Then let us, by God’s help, sow the seed beside all waters, so that a mighty work will be done in a short time, and so hasten the coming of the King, who is even now at the door.
R. V. A. BATSON.

Book Work at Union College

By G. Phillips

By request of Elder E. T. Russell, president of the Central Union Conference, and James Cochran, manager of the Pacific Press Publishing Co., Kansas City, Mo., I went to College View, Neb., February 17, and remained till February 28, in the interest of the canvassing work in the Central Union Conference.
I was glad for the privilege of meeting with the college students, and for the interest manifested by them in this work. Surely God is moving upon the hearts of these dear young people to follow the instruction found in “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VII, page 331, which is as follows: “Let those who have been in school go out into the field, and put to practical use the knowledge they have gained. If canvassers will do this, using the ability which God has given them, seeking counsel from him, and combining the work of selling books with personal labor for the people, their talents will increase with exercise, and they will learn many practical lessons which they could not possibly learn in school. The education obtained in this practical way may properly be termed higher education.”
The president kindly gave us the chapel hour each morning while here, and the Lord blessed us in laying before the young people the importance of this work, and our relation to it, and the call of God for those who had given up the work to return to it. To this call there were twenty-seven who responded. We had two meetings each day, preparing them for practical work in the field, which all seemed to enjoy; and we verily believe they will be able to go out and do efficient work for the Master. In the chapel each morning as we looked over the congregation composed of intelligent young men and women, our hearts were stirred within us as we thought what a mighty work this company would do if each one were consecrated to God, and would go forth in the strength of his might with our publications. Our minds were called to a statement made by the spirit of prophecy: “God calls for you, young men; he calls for whole armies of young men who are large hearted and large minded, and who have a deep love for Christ and the truth.”
What we need at this time is not so much money, as consecrated, God-fearing, truth-loving men and women, who are as true to duty as the needle to the pole,—men and women who will work without having their way smoothed and every obstacle removed,—men and women who are well educated,—men and women who will condemn wrong in friend or foe, in themselves as well as others,—men and women who will neither flag nor flinch, brag nor run,—men and women who will stand at their post though the heavens totter or the earth reel,—men and women who are not too proud to be poor, nor too lazy to work,—men and women who will look the world and the devil squarely in the eye, and stand bravely for the right,—men and women who will gladly respond to the gracious call of the Master and work without murmuring or complaining,—men and women who will be as “calm as a summer evening and as firm as the everlasting hills.”
And we surely see many young men and women in this college who are now, and others who can be, in this class of workers; and the president and faculty of this institution are faithfully and earnestly working to this end, and God is greatly blessing their efforts. We are told in “Testimonies,” Vol. VI, page 330, that we should educate young men and women to sell the books which the Lord by his Holy Spirit caused his servants to write. And these faithful teachers in this college are certainly doing this work.
G. PHILLIPS.

Another “Home” for Children

By Mrs. A. C. Ames

Believing it will be of general interest to our brethren and sisters in the Lord, I will tell them about a work we have recently begun. For a number of years I had a great burden for the friendless orphans of other denominations, a greater burden for them than for the orphans among our own people. Why?—Because the Haskell Home was open to our own little orphans. We all know that a great work is soon to be done by the children,—a work which we older ones shall not be able to do. Can we have too many of these young workers?—No, indeed! Again; it is much easier to train a child in the way the Lord wants it to live, than it is to convert a man or a woman whose heart is hardened, and whose whole life has been spent in the service of Satan. I had prayed for years that the Lord would open the way for me to do more for the world’s little outcasts. I felt that, as the work was for the world’s little ones, the money to sustain it should also come from the world. But how? That was always the question.
A little over a year ago I was feeling unusually burdened over it, when, almost unconsciously, I said aloud, “Lord, what can I do?” and it seemed as if the Lord answered audibly, “Make an appeal for help through the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.” That was an entirely new idea, so, with fear and trembling, I wrote the appeal, knowing but very little about the paper, as I had never seen a dozen copies of it. After I had finished writing the article, I said, “Now, Lord, if this is the work you want me to do, make it plain to me by giving it favor with the editor; if not, then let me hear never so much as a word from it.” In a few days a letter came from the editor, saying that if I would give him satisfactory evidence that I was a responsible person, he would gladly help me in any way he could. I gave him several references, and since that he has been untiring in his efforts for the work so dear to my heart.
The result has been that last July a forty-acre farm was donated to us at Mountain Grove, Mo., by an aged gentleman and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Depue, the only conditions being that we pay five per cent of the valuation of the land during the remainder of their natural lives. Their ages are seventy-one and seventy respectively.
This farm is well located, about a mile and a half from the pretty little town of Mountain Grove, adjoining the State Fruit Experiment Station, and is valued at one hundred dollars an acre. This we consider an ideal place for our children’s home, as it is entirely away from the large cities and towns, is in a most healthful location, being on the crest of the Ozark Mountains, which, in reality, are only large hills. The climate is fine, the water first class, and the land is especially adapted to the production of fruit and vegetables. This will furnish employment for our older boys and girls, and will also be a great help toward maintaining the living expenses of the Home.
We will also have our own school, in which will be taught all the common branches, as well as the Bible truths that we hold so dear. In short, it will be the aim of the Emmanuel Children’s Home to give the world’s most needy ones, the little, helpless, friendless children, a chance to be what God meant them to be, and to prepare them for the work that will fall on the children when our work is done.
Over two thousand dollars has been sent in small donations, from all parts of the United States and from foreign lands, for building purposes, as a result of letters and reports published in the Globe-Democrat. We are building now, and shall soon be able to care for a much larger number of children; in our present cramped quarters we can care for but few. We have seven small children, and a crippled young lady, who is an orphan, and unable to walk a step; and by the time these lines are in print, there will probably be several other children, as arrangements have been made for them.
We intend to begin the publication of a monthly eight-page paper about the last of March or first of April, the title of which will be the Emmanuel Children’s Home Advocate.
This is a good field for missionary work, as the truth is almost unknown here. We have met but two persons of our faith since coming here the last of September, and while we often feel homesick for an hour with them, and long for a word of encouragement, yet we know God wants us to be as “a light in dark places;” so we try to be content and do faithfully the work the Lord has given us to do. Pray for us, brethren. MRS. A. C. AMES.

Our Annual Offerings

By W. T. Bland

WE are sure our people will be encouraged to know that already more than thirty thousand dollars has been received as a result of the annual offering made in December for conducting the work in our needy mission fields. This is about five thousand dollars more than had been received at the same time last year.
Many will remember that a year ago the call was made for fifty thousand dollars as the annual offering for our mission work. These funds kept coming in during much of the year, and more than forty-two thousand dollars was realized. We believe that the fund this year will reach fifty thousand dollars; we hope it will reach much more.
As many have made pledges to this fund, and others desired that the time might be extended, we will say that the fund is still open, and every one is invited to take part in this great work of sending the gospel to every nation. Where possible, send money to State tract societies.
W. T. BLAND, Assistant Treasurer:

The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund

IN THE REVIEW OF FEBRUARY 9 A. J. Turvaville was credited with a donation of one dollar for the Washington building fund. This was an error in confusing two names with donations to different funds. It should have been, Mrs. E. A. Culberhouse, $.75. This reduces the amount previously reported twenty-five cents.
Amount previously reported ............ $59,551 13 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy B. Stewart ............ 100 00 A. Korle ............ 50 00 Mrs. O. G. Burnett ............ 27 00 James and Letta Rice ............ 25 00 Henry Toyne ............ 20 00 Mrs. Anna M. Monk ............ 10 00 James A. Dye ............ 10 00 Mrs. Josephine and Miss M. E. House ............ 10 00 Wesley Squier ............ 10 00 R. I. Francis ............ 10 00 Mrs. Lucinda Sayre ............ 10 00 Edward and Reba Detlefs ............ 10 00 F. C. Ernst (South Africa) ............ 9 68 Byron (Cal.) Sabbath-school ............ 6 25

FIVE DOLLARS EACH

G. B. Jenkins, Mrs. M. A. Clark, Roy W. Day, W. Yates, Mrs. Kenney, F. H. Hicks, Mrs. N. L. Bolinger, Anna Fryer, a friend, Mrs. W. E. Groomer, H. G. Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Brace, Mrs. A. M. Davis, A. C. Clawges, W. W. Stebbins, Mrs. E. Loch, Emily David, M. Howell, W. H. Rothwell, Marion J. Gabby, Mrs. C. A. Smith, E. W. Hampton.

THREE DOLLARS EACH

S. A. Crichlow (Trinidad), John Leland, Ontario Tract Society.

TWO DOLLARS EACH

Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Brown, Mrs. Charles Woodley, Katie Weibrecht, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wheeler, Mrs. Mary Roberts, Fritz Horner (Germany), E. Haynes, D. Voth, E. W. Stone, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Davis, L. S. Lauritsen, Theodore Doty, Mrs. M. L. Latta, Enos Rishel, Mrs. Walter Baker, O. L. Nash.
Arapaho (O. T.) Home Dept. Sabbath-school, $2.50; Mrs. A. D. Aycock, $2.50; Mrs. Matilda Wareham, $1.25; Lena Keeler, $1.25; S. J. Nathie, $1.10.

$1.50 EACH

J. A. Roser, J. W. H. Geiss, Dora E. Reed.

ONE DOLLAR EACH

Mrs. Clara McDonald, C. R. Oliver, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Price, Mrs. A. M. Wheeler, Janett Lowell, Emmie Mead, Hannah Tough, Mrs. Ellen Hopkins, R. F. Hopkins, Mrs. Rachel Endicott, J. D. Andrews, a friend, Cliff Kaser, Frank Clark, Mrs. Sarah Ketchum, Lida B. Moore, Mrs. E. M. Parks, C. E. Upchurch, Mrs. C. H. Mullins, Mrs. V. O. Wallace, W. A. Young, C. R. Beeler, O. C. Jones, Brother Chase, Mrs. N. E. Moore, Nella Heath, Mrs. J. A. Clayton, William C. Corus.

FIFTY CENTS EACH

Floyd Jones, Glen Swingle, Forest Griffith, Mrs. J. S. Goodman, Mira Wheaton, Almond Moch, a brother, W. W. Sitton, Eunice Adkins.

TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH

Bessie Doty, J. W. Burden, a brother, Charles R. Jones, M. L. James.

TEN CENTS EACH

Edgar Nelton, a friend, W. P. Jones, J. J. Chastin, J. F. Whitworth.
J. H. and Irene Roberts ............ $ 10 00 Burrough (Cal.) church ............ 20 00 J. A. ............ 25 00
Total reported ............ $60,114 41 A further list will follow.
Send all donations to W. T. Bland, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.
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