Earlier text: The Work in MalaysiaWanted Immediately
By Wm. Covert
THE thing that is wanted immediately is the money on “Christ’s Object Lessons.” It is wanted at Berrien Springs to be used in paying for labor and material in the erection of college buildings. It is surprising to learn how small the aggregate sum is which has been paid into the treasury here on “Christ’s Object Lessons.” Many books have been ordered out, but as yet not one third of the money represented by the books has reached the hands of the treasurer here. Now, while the summer is on, the buildings should be erected, and the money must be used for this purpose. I feel quite sure that a large number of our people have sold books who have not as yet forwarded the money. It may be that the librarians are waiting until after the quarterly meetings are held in order to forward the money; but we should not wait in this important matter. Forward the money immediately after reading this article. Please do not hold it another day. Not only this, but where it is at all possible, sell the books, and send the money along. Just now a large force of laborers is at work putting up the buildings, and no time is to be lost if we get ready for the school this fall. Brethren and sisters, please make an extra effort in this work. I know that most of you, if you were doing business for yourselves, would do so, and why not in the Lord’s work be just as prompt as if we were doing business for ourselves? We are very anxious to receive from the Lord, but the Lord says it is more blessed to give than to receive. Therefore, the greater blessing will be in taking hold of this work and doing it faithfully, and at the earliest possible date. Wm. Covert, Vice-President Lake Union Conference. The Missionary Acre Fund
By S. H. Lane
The plan of donating the proceeds of missionary gardens and acres, among us as a people, to aid and build up some branch of the cause, was first set in operation by the Sanitarium. The plan was productive of aiding the medical work in a material way for some time. Some of the States, being in debt, employed the plan in their own boundaries to aid in the liquidation of their debts. Some sent means to the Mission Board, and thus the foreign work was benefited. At the General Conference held at South Lancaster, Mass., in 1899, it was decided to restore the privilege of the use of the proceeds of the Missionary Acre Fund to the Sanitarium, as it originated the plan. At the last General Conference, when it was decided to move the Battle Creek College into some country locality, making it an industrial school, and to purchase the Battle Creek College property for the medical missionary college of the denomination, for the training of physicians and nurses for our sanitariums, and to supply needy fields in all parts of the world, the Sanitarium not being able to pay for the Battle Creek College property, it was decided to ask our people to purchase the property for the medical college by the acre fund, which the Sanitarium of its own free will offered for this purpose. Since Nov. 1, 1901, all the money received from the Missionary Acre Fund has been faithfully applied for the purchasing of the property. The Sanitarium organized the medical college, and during the past five years it has educated and graduated scores of young doctors and nurses, quite a number of whom are now standing at the head of our treatment rooms and branch sanitariums, or doing valiant service in foreign fields. The denomination has never raised a dollar to support the medical college, but now, through missionary gardening and the raising of acres of produce, and the donation of money, each one has the blessed privilege of aiding. The Sanitarium has met from its profits the expenses of the medical college, and expects to do so in the future, so that substantial young men and women from all parts of the country can become graduated physicians and nurses at a trifling expense, provided they desire to become real missionaries, devoting their lives to the upbuilding of the good work everywhere. If all the young men and women to be educated were to be drawn from one State, then it would be proper that our people in that State should donate enough to purchase the property for the medical college, but as those educated come from all parts of the world, it is proper that our people everywhere take hold with earnest hearts and willing hands, and donate means to purchase the property. We are thankful that so many are raising gardens and acres, and donating poultry, etc., as well as money. When sending in money, address H. M. Mitchell, Battle Creek, Mich., or send through your tract society. We give a partial list of those who have sent in means since Nov. 1, 1901. The list will appear in the REVIEW until all the names have been published. We expect to keep this matter before our people until the property is paid for and turned over to the medical college, free from debt. We trust that you will plan to aid another year. The cause has never needed means more than now, and great will be the blessing and reward of those who aid now. Who will help in this grand work? Reasons for Rejoicing
By J. C. Rogers
GOD reserves the control of our emotions and the right to our affections. He even commands us to rejoice, and failure to serve him with joyfulness and gladness of heart is given as a reason for spiritual and temporal leanness among his people. The service of joy is recommended to us in both the Old and the New Testament. The kingdom of God is righteousness and joy and peace, and our Father gives us abundant reasons for rejoicing. “Because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.” Deut. 16:15. This is God’s promised blessing in which every worker in his vineyard, literal and spiritual, can rejoice through all the days of his labor. But the tiller of the soil—and every man and woman should till some of it—is given special reasons for rejoicing, as he sees the fruits of his labor springing up under his care. Yesterday I was invited by a friend to walk through his orchard. He showed me with pride several young trees whose growth he had watched eagerly for two years. After noticing the flourishing growth of many, he led the way to one well laden with ripening fruit. Pointing to it with joy in his eyes and voice and heart, “This,” said he, “is the first fruit I have ever seen from a tree of my own planting.” Other trees in his orchard drooped with their wealth of fruit, but they were planted by other hands, and had not half the interest as the one of his own care. So with the man who tills the soil. His heart is made glad to see how the blessing of God upon his own diligent efforts is bringing its harvest of grain and fruit. And the Lord appointed a time and a way whereby his people might acknowledge and honor him. This service was called the Feast of Harvest, or Feast of Weeks. It was celebrated each year when the first grain was ready to harvest, and nothing was to be eaten until an offering of it was first brought to the Lord. What a blessed thing it would be to God’s people if this feast of God were observed to-day! “Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of harvest, the first fruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field.” “And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee: and thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God.” See Ex. 23:15-19; Deut. 16:10-17. No products of the earth might be touched for selfish use until the Lord had his offering. “Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute forever.” Lev. 23:14. Can you give any good reason why this statute should not be carried out to-day? The Missionary Acre Plan is carrying it out in the spirit. Are you in the plan? List of Missionary Acre Pledges
E. York, 1 day's work, $2.50. Hagle Jones, 1 day's work, 85 cts. Percey and Chester York, 50 cts. Earl York, 1 row of beans. Anna Ramsteed, milk sold in 1 month. Edith Jones, milk sold in 1 week. Mrs. Minnie Manchester, 1 brood of chickens. Mrs. Olive M. Kelley, $1. Chas. Carlson, 1 acre of oats. Frank Marrow, 1 acre of oats. Nancy Price, proceeds of 1 sack of potatoes. Thomas Buck, 1 acre of wheat. Wm. & L. J. Cochran, 1 acre flax, and hen and chickens. F. F. Hall, 1 acre of barley. S. A. Holden, eggs laid on 4th Sabbath for 4 months. E. A. Peterson, 1 hen with 1 doz. chickens. Lue Plant, produce from 1-3 acre of land. Mr. and Mrs. J. Pringle, $3. C. S. Davis & family, proceeds of ⅛ acre of beans. Mrs. N. Buckridge and children, proceeds of 2 rows of potatoes, 2 rows of tomatoes, 4 rows of corn. J. A. Dunbar, last four “Christ's Object Lessons” of church quota. H. C. Bagley, five per cent of all money received from present debtors. Mrs. A. A. Evans, proceeds of canary singer. C. C. Johnson, 1 row of raspberries. — There is friction between the United States and Turkey, arising from the failure of Turkey to execute agreements made long ago respecting the interests of certain American citizens. — A new discovery of gold made at the Tonopah mines in Nevada, says a dispatch from Carson City, makes the Tonopah mining camp the richest in the world. The gold-bearing ledges are over two miles in length. — The cholera outbreak in the Orient has extended to Japan. According to a dispatch from that country, the disease came to Japan early in the summer, by way of Manila and China. A total of 230 cases, with 133 deaths, was reported up to July 15. — Chicago is now the fourth in size of the shipping ports of the world, the latest figures showing a yearly tonnage of 14,186,100, as compared with 16,529,095 for London, and 16,445,320 for New York. With a deep waterway to the Atlantic, it is probable that Chicago would in a short time become the foremost shipping port in the world. — A prediction is current among Jews in this country and elsewhere, that the millennium is to arrive in about three years, to be preceded by a great war between the world powers. The prediction is professedly based on the Torah, a Jewish sacred book, and also on the alleged utterance of an infant prodigy in Warsaw, Russia. — The running down of an unusually bold gang of negro burglars at Pensacola, Fla., developed the fact that the negroes had provided themselves with “hoodoo bags,” which they believed would render them invisible to the police, and prevent their capture. They purchased the bags from a negro, paying as high as $125 apiece for them, the negro who sold them reaping a small fortune. — The diamonds in Queen Alexandra’s crown are to be sold, as it is said that the king and queen can scarcely afford to keep in their possession a bauble worth several hundred thousand pounds. The crown contains 3,688 stones, which will be replaced with paste diamonds when the crown is placed among the regalia of royalty in the Tower of London. Each stone will be sold under a guaranty that it came from the queen’s crown. Doubtless there will be a rush for the jewels on the part of wives of American millionaires. — The popularity of the automobile, says a New York City dispatch, appears to have reached its limit, and to have entered on a decline. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., on his return from Europe recently announced that he had sold all his automobiles, and had given up the sport; and it is announced that many others in New York City and Newport have reached a like decision. It will be no misfortune if the use of the automobile for reckless sport should come to an end; but undoubtedly the automobile as a vehicle supplanting the horse and carriage for general purposes has come to stay. — Four girls were drowned near Pawling, N. Y., while bathing in Pearce Lake, August 27. — Six persons were killed and several others fatally injured in a collision of trolley cars near Norfolk, Va., August 25. — A meat trust is forming in Argentina which contemplates uniting with the Chicago Packing Trust to control the meat supply of the world. — News comes from Barcelona, Spain, of a terrible cyclone on the island of Majorca, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, resulting in great destruction of property and the loss of many lives. — New reports of great mineral wealth are coming from Alaska, the Nazine silver district being mentioned as particularly rich, while mountains of tin are affirmed to exist near Mount Wrangel. — The city water of Chicago is badly polluted by sewage, and no means having been found for securing pure water in the public schools, the pupils will be required to bring their drinking water with them in bottles. — At Crane Creek, W. Va., August 28, striking miners fired on nonunion men who were at work in a coal mine, and a fight followed, in which two guards and two miners were killed. A regiment of the State national guard has been ordered to the scene. — A suit has been begun in New York City against St. Patrick’s Cathedral, which the instigator of the suit alleges to be partly situated on land belonging to the government. The interesting point in the case is that Pope Leo XIII is named as defendant in the suit. — The superintendent of the Park Avenue Baptist church Sunday school of Plainfield, N. J., says a Plainfield dispatch, presents each youth who attends with a check good for an ice-cream soda at one of the local drug stores, his purpose being “to sustain an active interest in the school.” — The largest known tree in the world was only recently discovered in California, near Converse Basin, far up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Six feet from the ground the trunk is one hundred and fifty-four feet eight inches in circumference, corresponding to a diameter of over fifty-one feet. The tree stands on government land. — A decision was recently made by the board of appraisers at the port of New York, which admits “holy water” into this country free of duty. The water is brought from Lourdes, France, and was heretofore classed as “natural mineral water,” and assessed at the rate of twenty-four cents a gallon. The water is now admitted free because it is not used as a beverage, and contains no mineral or medicinal properties. — The cholera scourge is now general all along the Pacific coast of Asia from Japan and Manchuria to the southern Philippine Islands and the East Indies. The plague has assumed the most formidable proportions known within recent times. In the Philippines alone, according to official cholera statistics, there have been 25,664 cases and 18,040 deaths; and these figures, says a Manila dispatch, fall far below the actual number that have occurred. — The amount paid for pensions by the government during the year ending June 30 last, was $137,400,741. — A recent visit of the Russian Black Sea fleet to Turkish waters has created much uneasiness in Constantinople. — The percentage of illiteracy in the United States, as shown by the latest census figures, is 12.8 per cent in the country and 5.8 per cent in the cities. — The anthracite coal mine owners in Pennsylvania have declared that they will not submit the points of contention with the miners to arbitration, and that they will tolerate no interference from any source. — A Chicago young lady recently bought at a drug store in that city a “harmless” complexion powder, and after using the same required the services of two physicians to counteract its effects. She is now suing the proprietor of the store for $5,000 damages. — The Navajo Indians in southern Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona, are reported to be at the point of starvation, and it is thought there will be a serious uprising against the government unless they are speedily relieved. Nine years of drought have prevailed in that region. — There is a growing demand in Europe for immediate action on the part of the powers, particularly the United States, to curb the tendency to frequent revolution in the Central American republics. This demand is stimulated at this time by the civil war in Venezuela. — Several automobile accidents occurred in New York City and vicinity, August 26, the most serious being at Elberon, N. J., where a machine ran off a bridge over some railway tracks, plunging down thirty-five feet, killing two of the five occupants and seriously injuring the others. “Speed madness” on the part of the driver was the cause of the catastrophe. — Two steamships, one just completing a transatlantic voyage, with 1,100 passengers on board, were in collision in New York harbor August 27, and a serious disaster was averted only by the presence of mind of the captain of the passenger-laden ship, who forced the passengers to one side of the ship, by which means he kept the water from entering a large hole made by the collision in the other side of the vessel. — A law has recently been passed in Iowa which makes it possible for any person’s child in that State to be seized and turned over to the care of a charitable organization on a charge of immorality or incompetency being preferred against the parents, and then, should the parents be acquitted of the charge, their child can still be kept from them pending a series of appeals to the higher courts. — On a big ranch in central California a harvester is used which is said to be the largest in the world. It is combined with a 60-horsepower traction engine, and has a mowing machine attachment which cuts a swath thirty-six feet wide. The machine can cut and thrash 100 acres of grain a day. This giant automobile is sixty-six feet long and about half as wide, and weighs over 100 tons. Eight men are required to operate it.22 — Another famine is feared in the Bombay district of India, owing to lack of rain. — A census of church attendance in Chicago shows that 204,567 adults attend church on Sunday, of which number 123,723 are women. — An electric railway, the Aurora, Elgin & Chicago, is now in operation in this country, regular service on the road having been begun on August 25. — A Minneapolis post-office clerk who is now in the custody of the police is believed to have intercepted during the past three years 10,000 letters containing money. — General Miles, the chief officer in the army, is going to the Philippines, and army circles are reported to be much exercised over the question of the probable outcome of his visit. — Reports of tidal waves which have overwhelmed villages and caused great loss of life, have lately been received from the city of Atleta and vicinity, on the Pacific coast of Mexico. — A rumor that the Lehigh Valley coal mine near Hazelton, Pa., would be set in operation with nonunion men, precipitated a serious riot at the mine, August 25, in which several persons received serious injuries. — News from London states that the present British government no longer commands the confidence of the British public, and it is expected that a new ministry will come into office in deference to the popular demand for a change. — The largest steamship in the world is now the “Cedric” of the White Star Line, launched at Belfast, August 21. This new leviathan is 700 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 49 feet deep. Her carrying capacity is 18,400 tons, and she has accommodations for 3,000 passengers. — A case is now before the United States Supreme Court which calls for a decision on the question of the right of Congress to prohibit interstate commerce in lottery tickets, the interesting point in the case being that the decision will, it is believed, be equally applicable to interstate commerce in the articles handled by the trusts. — Papers from Manila report that the Manila health board officers are aroused over the sale of prayers by certain of the friars as a cure or preventive of the cholera now raging in the Philippines. The friars are reaping a harvest through the alleged cure, which is interfering with the efforts of the health officials to stamp out the plague, as possession of the prayers influences the natives against the practical efforts of the officials. The fraud is printed on paper with a loud border having the design of a cross, on the base of which is inscribed “Jesus y Maria.” Above the cross is the caption of the cure, “Saludable remedio contra la peste.” The “cure” is sold for two and one-half cents Mexican, and thousands of copies have been bought by the natives. Dr. Sherman, of the board of health, is quoted as stating that the influence of the priests on the superstitious Catholics is a decided impediment to the health officials in carrying on their work against the plague. — Four hundred distinct earthquake shocks have been noted in the island of Mindanao, in the Philippines, since August 21. — The Chinese government has ordered the punishment of Chinese who recently murdered two missionaries near Chen-chau. — Recent reports from Martinique state that Mont Pelée is again active, a violent eruption having been noted on August 21. — A new fad in London, says a report from the English metropolis, is the carrying of “lucky boxes” made in the style worn by the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt. Each box is made of ebony, and is about the size of an ordinary draughtsman. There is a trick opening inside, which contains an Egyptian eye. The wearers of these lucky boxes are supposed to be free from all disasters, and to prosper in affairs of love and business. — It is reported from Rome that strong pressure is being exerted at the Vatican to secure the elevation of Archbishop Ireland to the rank of cardinal, in recognition of his service in negotiating the Taft mission to Rome. The plan is to give Ireland jurisdiction over the western part of the United States, Cardinal Gibbons retaining the rule over the eastern part. The pope, however, says the report, is reluctant to give this country more than one cardinal. — At Lynn, Mass., machinery for an electric train is being built which its constructors say will run 100 miles an hour, and will revolutionize the railway transportation of the world. The train is to run in Illinois, on a railway about 150 miles in length, and now nearly completed. The first trials will be made with a train of three cars. Each train will be equipped with twelve motors of 120 horsepower each. It is claimed the train will be held fast to the rails like a piece of iron to a magnet when the power is on. Opening of Walla Walla College
By C. C. Lewis
STUDENTS who are planning to attend Walla Walla College the coming year will please take notice that the date of opening is Wednesday, September 3, about two weeks earlier than on former years. While students will be received at any time, it is greatly to their advantage to enter at the beginning of the school year. All who possibly can should plan to reach Walla Walla, Tuesday, September 2. On that day the college team will meet all trains. The prospect is good for a large attendance of earnest young people who desire to prepare themselves to engage in some department of the Lord’s work. Let others now decide to join them. Special attention will be given to older persons who wish a short preparation for gospel work. The California Camp Meeting and Conference
By M. H. Brown
OUR State camp meeting and conference will be held at Fresno, Cal., beginning September 30. They will be preceded by a workers’ meeting, beginning September 25. The laborers and conference delegates are requested to gather five days before the formal opening of the camp meeting and conference, to seek God and study his Word, and thus be better prepared to transact the business of the conference harmoniously and promptly. The devotional meetings and Bible study will accomplish much in this direction if the laborers and the delegates are present, and enter heartily into the work. By following this plan it is hoped that the business of the conference can be finished the first week, so that the last week may be devoted to the spiritual uplifting of the people, and a preparation for active service in the Master’s cause. For these reasons the conference committee earnestly request all conference delegates to be present during the workers’ meeting, Sept. 25–30, 1902. The conference will convene at 10 A. M., Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1902. Each church is entitled to one delegate without regard to membership, and an additional delegate for every twenty members. The churches should elect their delegates at once, and send a list of them to the secretary of the conference, M. H. Brown, 301 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal. There should be no delay in this matter, as the time is very short. Further particulars in regard to the meeting will be given later. M. H. Brown. Nebraska, Attention!
By N. P. Nelson
THE annual meeting of the Nebraska Conference and Conference Association will be held on the camp ground at Lincoln Park, Lincoln, Neb. The first meeting will be held September 4, at 9 A. M., for the purpose of electing the officers and trustees for the ensuing year, and of transacting such other business as may come before the meeting. NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
By Clarence Santee
Southern California Conference
The second annual session of the Southern California Conference will be held in connection with the camp meeting on Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, September 12–21. The usual business of the conference will be attended to at that time. We hope to see a full attendance from the first. Sister White expects to be with us during the whole meeting. Other acceptable laborers are promised, besides the local workers. We have arranged for one hour each day to be given to a connected series of lessons on points of our faith. The two systems of railroads will grant the usual one and one-third rate to the camp meeting and return. CLARENCE SANTEE, President. Notice to Those Planning to Visit the Sanitarium
THE undersigned wish to state to the public that it is absolutely necessary that those who are planning to come to the Sanitarium or the Medical Missionary College should write in advance of coming, and make necessary arrangements. It is not sufficient simply to write, giving notice of coming, but arrangements should actually be made with those in charge of the work. It has for several years been customary for those who had friends at the Sanitarium to write and notify their friends of their coming. Such a notice is not adequate, and the management of the institution desire to say that, after this date, they cannot receive any with the exception of those with whom they have previously corresponded. SANITARIUM. “A Twofold Apostasy”
By H. F. Phelps
To those interested in the circulation of the tract, “A Twofold Apostasy,” allow the author to say that sixteen cents will not pay the postage on one hundred, as stated. This is on account of a little wider margin in trimming. There are about eight thousand copies of the tract still left. I would be glad to close them out soon. All who send sixteen or twenty cents will receive tracts accordingly, all that the money will carry. Address H. F. Phelps, 118 W. Minnehaha Boulevard, Minneapolis, Minn.