p. 23 | Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 50. (12/16/1909)

Earlier text: Further Report From Mexico

Medical Missionary Work in China

By Mr. P. J. Laird; Mrs. P. J. Laird

We have recently returned from a six-weeks’ trip among the highlands of Liuyang, a city two days’ journey overland from Chang-sha. The Lord blessed us wonderfully. It gave us great encouragement to see people coming from ten to fifteen miles, ascending a high mountain on their way, to receive treatment and to hear the message of life only in Christ.

At Liuyang itself we have three inquirers. Two of these are itinerant herbalists. When at home, their supplies are spread out on a stall on the street. Advice is given gratis, but thanks may be expressed in a gift of money, which in some cases is a good round sum if the patient has means, and his cure has been satisfactory. But on the whole, it is a precarious means of livelihood, and as they themselves told me, at times a trifle questionable. The other inquirer is a silver- and gold-smith in comfortable circumstances. His elder brother is our first convert to the truth in Hunan, and we trust is about to see the visible result of his prayer and testimony. Our prayer is for them all, that they may not miss the blessing which comes through the obedience of faith in closing their shops on the Sabbath. This will be a splendid witness that they are at least trying to “keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

Already we are seeing the power of this message to lead a man to “purify himself, even as he is pure.” Wine, tobacco, and other hurtful things are being given up as the light comes to them. A common dread of giving offense to visitors does now and again cause them to provide things for others which they have ceased to use for their own consumption. An invitation to take a hygienic meal with us occasionally, has been a great help to them. Having to cater to their taste, we learn the local products that are wholesome and palatable. It is not that the Chinese are addicted to unclean food, as so many of our friends at home have imagined, but rather uncooked food, which gives rise to so much sickness. With one fire hole and one frying pan for all purposes, it takes a long time to prepare a meal of several courses; hence the food is often served more or less raw. That the Lord has blessed our efforts to teach healthful living is seen by the empty plates after one of these meals.

The weather being so hot, we did not stay in the city, but remained in the country district. Sometimes those in the city would join us for Sabbath-school, or those of our party would gather with those in the city. One friend decided he would join our Bible school; but as we were leaving, he received the sad news that his father was taken very sick, and he had to go to see him. Others have promised to come to Chang-sha for further study with us after the feast day, September 28.

This being the first time we had left the well-beaten track for a lengthy stay among the villages, and to visit the people in their homes, it was a valuable and educational privilege. But it should be borne in mind that a foreigner is by no means a welcome visitor in every home. Centuries of superstition have beclouded their minds, and Satan knows only too well the channels of thought, and uses them with great effect. This is one of the crosses we have to bear in China. But praise God for the “open doors” everywhere.

One man, after being carried in a chair by two men for about fifteen miles to receive treatment, appeared greatly perplexed when questioned face to face by the doctor. When he was told he must take treatment right away, he called his chair-bearers to take him home quickly, happy in the thought that no harm had befallen him. However, they are not all like this. People come from all quarters seeking relief from their sufferings. The Lord manifests his workings with us by the speedy recovery of stubborn cases. One man came with his sight almost gone, and both eyes greatly inflamed. Several treatments were given daily, and we had prayer and gospel talks with him. As he heard of the land where the blind shall receive their sight, how he drank it all in! In a few days he was able to return to his village. Other patients, coming as the result of his testimony, informed us that he was exposing the fallacy of worshiping deified dead men, instead of the living and true God. He himself had gone quite a round among the villages, worshiping at the various tutelary shrines in the false hope of recovery. May his simple faith grow daily. Another man, who would probably have died had he delayed much longer to receive proper treatment, came to us. Just here we might say we were informed that, at these shrines reputed to possess healing virtues, there are receptacles enclosing prescriptions. They may be mixed together, or those for men and women may be separate, as may also be those for external or internal use. This man told us he had made use of one of these demon prescriptions. It was composed in part of a live fish and a live frog beaten together in a mortar, and applied externally. No Chinese practitioner would treat his case because it was an enormous carbuncle on his neck immediately opposite his mouth. For a few days we worked and prayed with him with no signs of change in the great wound. The doctor requested that he be told of the serious nature of his disease, after which we again joined in prayer.

A little later, in passing an otherwise empty room, what was our joy to hear him engaged in prayer with one of our helpers, himself asking God to forgive his past sinful life and enable him to live better. The very next day a change for the better came, and his neck has almost healed. Being a Buddhist priest, he tried to borrow money from the fraternity, but failed. This proved a good lesson for him, teaching him that works do not beget love, but that God was showing his love toward him in that foreigners and strangers were willing to help him as they were able. Dear friends, our most powerful addresses are not always confined to pulpit orations. O for the gentleness and love of Jesus to help us to be continually at his call

of mercy to fallen men and women! May this man decide to keep all of God’s commandments.

Those sent away were legion, because with such meager equipment we were unable to give proper treatment. Many totally or almost blind came miles in the vain endeavor to receive sight; we could only point them to Jesus, and the place he has gone to prepare for all who believe his gospel.

The mother, in a house held in great repute on account of the dirty idol therein, which had miserably failed to cure her malaria during eight years, was visited by us. After prayer, treatment was administered, and to every one’s surprise she was much better the next day. A second treatment, and she was able to come and thank us in person. This was a good opportunity to tell of the Saviour who came to break Satan’s power over men’s bodies and minds. The family are all very ignorant, but the truth overcomes these hindrances. The eldest son was much interested in what he heard, and gives great promise of becoming a servant of God. He desires to study the Bible and learn to read at the same time; yet with a mother and three growing boys dependent upon his labors, it is a difficult case. God grant we may soon get a site for a school. Dear friends, pray that these dear souls may go on to know the Lord.

MR. AND MRS. P. J. LAIRD.

Medical Missionary Department

By W. A. Ruble

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference

W. A. RUBLE, M. D. - - - Secretary

Current Mention

— The Chinese government has sent a strong note of protest to other world powers against Russia’s claims to right of administration over the Manchurian railway zones.

— As a result of the storm of last week along the coast of Newfoundland, fifteen lives are known to be lost, and the worth of property destroyed is estimated at $500,000.

— Sixty-three lives were lost in the wrecking of two steamers off the coast of England on December 3 as a result of the terrible gale which raged over the British Isles on that date.

— Educators of the Indians from all over the United States, assembled in Washington, D. C., on December 7 to consider methods of teaching the nation’s wards. The assemblage is made up of superintendents of Indian reservations, Indian schools, and non-reservation schools. Being the first gathering of its kind, it is regarded as of the highest importance to the Indians.

— The tin mills at Bridgeport, Ohio, are preparing to continue their operations in spite of the strike. During the past week there has been considerable rioting, and several companies of militia were called out to protect the mills. One thousand cots and a large store of provisions have been taken inside the plant, and strike breakers are to be employed to continue the operations of the mills.

— Scientists believing in the Darwinian theory of the descent of man, unable to find the “missing link,” are now provided with one made to order by Prof. R. S. Lull, of Yale University, from parts of skeletons believed to have belonged to primitive men, discovered in different parts of the world. He has built up what he considers to be a replica of the animal which scientists believe to have been man’s immediate progenitor.

— An examination of the dairies supplying the District of Columbia with milk developed the startling fact that more than two thirds of the cows belonging to these dairies are affected with tuberculosis. The authorities are beginning a systematic slaughter of the diseased animals. If conditions in other parts of the country are similar to the condition here prevailing, the great prevalence of tuberculosis among human beings may be accounted for.

Field Notes

F. J. HARRIS reports two new converts at Forreston, Ill.

BROTHER J. W. WATT recently baptized six persons at Carter Camp, Pa.

At Kansas City, Mo., nine have recently been baptized and joined the First Church.

BROTHER E. F. COLLIER reports the baptism of six persons as the result of his labors in Waldron and Zearing, Ill.

ON Sabbath, November 13, Elder W. H. Heckman baptized two adults who have recently accepted the truth at Lancaster, Pa.

THERE are eight new Sabbath-keepers at Warrenton, Va., and Brother U. D. Pickard also reports a good interest in that place.

ELDER C. L. TAYLOR recently baptized two persons at St. Helena, Cal., one of whom not long ago renounced Catholicism in Jamaica.

Two elderly persons, aged sixty-six and seventy-seven years respectively, went forward in baptism recently in Wheelock, N. D.

Dangerous Nostrums

Headache Powders

An interesting article appeared in the Literary Digest of Feb. 20, 1909, entitled “Is Sudden Death Hereditary?” This intimates to us the importance of this subject. In New York in 1902, the death-rate from this cause was one and one third per thousand, or six times as great as the typhoid death-rate. This rate is increasing year by year. It has been noted that this death-rate varies very closely as the consumption of headache powders varies. Headache powders depend almost entirely for their effect upon acetanilid, a powerful coal-tar product. Dr. Hare, of Philadelphia, a leading therapeutist in this country, says of this drug: “On the nervous system acetanilid has been found to act as a sedative, the sensory portion of the nerves and spinal cord particularly being quieted. . . . The action of this drug upon the blood is more pronounced than its influence upon any other part of the body, causing this tissue to become brownish-red, decreasing its oxygen-carrying power, and, finally, reducing the hemoglobin to methemoglobin to a very considerable extent.”

White and Wilcox in their book, “Materia Medica,” which describes the different drugs, say:—

“In the blood it causes the red corpuscles to break up, and arrests the movements of the white. Upon the heart, this substance depresses the heart. It has a directly paralyzing action on the cardiac muscle. It is a powerful analgesic. Dose, two to five grains.”

A Chicago physician gives the following experience with Orangine, a noted headache remedy, the active principle of which is acetanilid:—

“I was first called to see the patient, a young lady, physically sound, who had been taking Orangine powders for a number of weeks for insomnia. The rest of the family noticed that she was very blue; and for this reason I was called. When I saw the patient, she complained of a sense of faintness and inability to keep warm. At this time she had taken a box of six Orangine powders within about eight hours. She was warned of the danger of continuing the indiscriminate use of the remedy, but insisted that many of her friends had used it, and claimed that it was harmless. The family promised to see that she did not obtain any more of this remedy. Three days later, however, I was called to the house and found the patient dead. The family said that she had gone to her room the evening before in her usual health. The next morning, the patient not appearing, they investigated and found her dead. The case was reported to the coroner, and the coroner’s verdict was; ‘Death was from the effect of an overdose of Orangine powders, administered by her own hand, whether accidental or otherwise, unknown to the jury.’”

Bromoseltzer is another of this class. The full dose is a heaping teaspoonful. This amount contains ten grains of acetanilid. The maximum dose, as given by the “Materia Medica,” is five grains. The prescribed dose of Bromoseltzer is dangerous, and has been known to produce sudden collapse.

The Headache Habit

Such drugs as acetanilid, when taken for headache, simply benumb the nerves, so that the pain is not felt. It does not cure the condition, but simply deadens the feeling. When the effect of the drug has passed off, the headache very often remains, with additional and uncomfortable feelings superadded. This calls for another dose of the acetanilid-bearing prescription. This time it must be increased somewhat, in order to produce the same effect. The physical condition which has caused the headache still remains, and is not only not relieved or benefited by the drug, but is even aggravated, so that a person habitually has headache unless he is under the influence of the drug. The acetanilid habit is contracted, and a person must go on taking the drug in increasing doses.

A Modern Slave Trade

is a title that might be appropriately applied to the use of the various soothing sirups which flood the market. Almost without exception these preparations depend for their “soothing” properties upon opium or morphin. Innocent children are thus given the habit by unsuspecting mothers, and thus become slaves to the opium or morphin habit. This may not manifest itself until later in life, when some accident or severe pain caused by disease calls for the use of morphin to deaden the pain. The old habit is thus set into a flame. The person recognizes that for which he has felt a longing throughout his life, but has never before found. The habit is immediately taken up, and the person finds himself a slave. The advertising sheet flaunts the significant words in our faces, “Baby Cries for Mother Somebody’s Soothing Sirup.” Of course it does. It has the habit. It has been repeatedly noticed by druggists that mothers will purchase possibly a small bottle a week of soothing sirup for a time; then later possibly two small ones; then a large one, gradually increasing the amount given to the child. The baby demands it and cries for it. The mother, not knowing the reason (which is simply that the child has contracted the morphin habit), yields, and furnishes that which is demanded by the craving appetite of the child.—Extract from a talk by Dr. W. A. Ruble at the Last General Conference.

The Winter Term of Union College

NOTICE is hereby given that the time of registration for the winter term of Union College, which was announced in the annual calendar for December 22, 23, has been postponed to Wednesday, December 29, on account of the holiday recess which closes that day. New students should report in the college chapel at nine o'clock of that day, when registration will be free. A registration fee of one dollar will be charged those who enter later. Recitations for the winter term will begin Thursday, December 30.

Two-term classes beginning with the winter term are elementary chemistry, advanced chemistry, college algebra, English epistles, Danish epistles, Roman history, commercial law, surveying, and elementary rhetoric. One-term studies beginning at the same time are elementary bookkeeping, civil government, logic, pedagogy, and business correspondence. New classes in other subjects will be formed if necessary.

Besides the foregoing studies there is the regular program of subjects running through the year, about one hundred twenty-five in number, which offers so great a variety of matter, in so many different grades, that students can usually find work adapted to their needs no matter when they enter. While the faculty recommend students, where consistent, to pursue regular courses of study, yet they cordially welcome those who can attend school but a short time, and are glad to assist them in selecting those subjects best adapted to their needs, without regard to courses or grades.

For free copies of the regular college calendar, the industrial manual, and the winter term announcement, address the president, C. C. Lewis, College View, Neb.

Helps for the Children

By Editor

PARENTS who are anxious about the moral and spiritual development of their children will gladly accept helpful suggestions which tend to produce desired results.

Not less important than other helps is that of carefully selected reading-matter. By this means get that boy or girl of yours to thinking about those things which “are pure, . . . are lovely, . . . and of good report.”

Our Little Friend is published to meet this very need. Its Bible stories and lessons, its bird, animal, insect, and other nature stories, have made this child's paper not only an educator, but an interesting and attractive one as well. Every week thousands of children too small to read cuddle up to their mothers and listen intently to the sweet, helpful stories, while older ones sit by the hour and assimilate the truth which it teaches. One of them writes as follows:—

“DEAR LITTLE FRIEND: I have taken you for three or four years, and keep you nicely put away after mama has read each article, and we have studied the Sabbath-school lesson with you as a teacher. I am very much interested in the animal stories especially. My greatest desire is to be a missionary in China.”

Lists of contents are sometimes monotonous. The following one is not. It is for 1910, and of course is but a partial list only, but it gives some idea of what we have to offer:—

Uncle Ben's Cloverfield Series; Birds of the Bible; Noble Men of Ancient Times; Women of Note in Bible Times; Simple Lessons in Present Truth; How to Care for Our Bodies; What a Boy Can Do; Some Things a Girl Can Do; Children of the Reformation; Stories of Missionaries; Some Recent Inventions; Some of Nature's Wonders; Heroes of History, and Some of Their Achievements; Simple Talks on Ethics; Help One Another Band; Mothers' Helpers; Fathers' Minutemen; Animals; Birds; Insects; Fishes; Children of Various Nations; etc.

Just the thing for the kindergarten, primary, and intermediate divisions of the Sabbath-school. In clubs of 5 or more it costs but 50 cents a year (less than one cent a week). Single subscriptions, 50 cents. Order immediately, and get the beautiful double holiday number free. Address your tract society, or Our Little Friend, Mountain View, Cal.

Special Offer

By Editor

THE Eastern question has been so satisfactorily treated in the Watchman by Prof. P. T. Magan, and feeling convinced that the Watchman readers would like to have the entire series of articles on the subject from the beginning, we are making this offer: We will furnish eight hundred sets of the Eastern Question articles appearing in the Watchman including the months of May, July, August, September, October, November, December, and January, for fifty cents a set. We can not include the June number as we have none on hand. The January number will contain the last of the series of the Eastern Question in its “near East” aspect, and beginning with the February number the “far East” phase of the question will be given by the same author.

Send in your orders now, and secure a set of the Watchman containing this important subject. Address Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, Tenn.

Ontario, Notice!

By Eugene Leland; C. D. Trewellegar

The tenth annual session of the Ontario Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in the city of London, Ontario, from Dec. 29, 1909, to Jan. 3, 1910, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may come before the conference.

All members of churches in good and regular standing are delegates to the conference, and it is earnestly desired that one or more representatives from each church in the conference will be present at this meeting, as matters of great importance are to be considered.

The London church has kindly offered the use of their meeting-house for this session of the conference, and the church will be prepared to entertain the delegates to the conference partially; but it will be well for each one who comes to bring bedding and provisions for the time of the meeting. Rooms will be provided free of charge and transportation to and from the station to the rooms which the delegates will occupy while at the meeting.

Elder Wm. Guthrie, president of the Canadian Union Conference, will be present at this meeting, and has assured us that help will be provided by the General Conference.

We desire that this shall be the best meeting that has ever been held in the province of Ontario. Leave all your old grudges and everything of that character at home, and come prepared to enjoy a feast of good things.

EUGENE LELAND, President; C. D. TREWELLEGAR, Sec.-Treas.

Chesapeake Conference Association

By Daniel S. Haley

THE Chesapeake Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its annual meeting at 3 P. M., Dec. 26, 1909, at the old Baptist church on King Street, in Wilmington, Del., for the purpose of electing a board of trustees for the year 1910, and for transacting such other business as may legally come before that body.

DANIEL S. HALEY, Secretary.

Notices and Appointments

Special Ministerial Course

BEGINNING Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1910, and continuing twenty weeks, to May 25, there will be given at the Foreign Mission Seminary, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., a special course for ministers, and for those wishing the training which will prepare them for the ministry.

There are many who feel that God would have them directly connected with his work, but who lack the special training that will bring them in line with the work. There are ministers who would do better work if they could have a few weeks to devote wholly to special study in distinctly ministerial lines. A broad, comprehensive course is offered, comprising a sufficient number of subjects so that all who come will find work fitted to their needs.

The following subjects are offered:—

Bible: (1) Daniel and Revelation; (2) doctrines; (3) Old Testament prophets.

History: (1) Greece and Rome; (2) modern Europe (with special reference to the Papacy and the Reformation).

English: (1) Special English; (2) advanced rhetoric and journalism.

Public Speaking: A thorough course in vocal expression.

Vocal and Instrumental Music.

Special chapel talks on organization, religious liberty, young people's, educational, and Sabbath-school work.

The length of time given to this course will permit a thorough work in each subject. For full information, address at once, H. R. Salisbury, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

Business Notices

THIS department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.

Brief business notices will be published subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—

Conditions

Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing, and send it.

We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.

A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.

No discount for several insertions.

WANTED.—Man to work on farm; steady work year round; good wages paid for good, steady man. Address Wm. Rowse, Hanley, Saskatchewan.

MAN with family wants to rent a 160-acre farm with stock furnished, or to work by the month among Sabbath-keepers, with church and school privileges. Address N. C. Christensen, Burt, Iowa.

WANTED.—Nurses. The North Yakima Sanitarium would like to correspond with graduate nurses wishing a position. State age, where graduated and when. Address F. M. Rossiter, M. D., North Yakima, Wash.

HYGIENIC VEGETABLE COOKING OIL.—The oil used by our people. 5 gal., $3.50; 10 gal., $6.75. Cans crated. ½ bbl. (about 32 gal.), 60 cents a gal. By freight from Louisville, Ky. Address Dr. O. C. Godsmark, Chattanooga, Tenn.

FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor, keeps indefinitely; 5-gal. can, $3.50; 10-gal. can, $6.75; 61 cents a gal. in half-barrel and barrel lots; 30 gal. and 50 gal. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.

FOR LEASE.—Treatment-rooms doing first-class business, for short term of years, with privilege of buying. Located in city of over one hundred thousand inhabitants. For further information, address E. C. Johnson, 926 Commerce St., Tacoma, Wash.

FOR SALE.—Peanut Butter, 10c a pound; 100 pounds, freight paid, $12. Write for special low prices on Vegetarian Meat; Cocoanut, Peanut, Olive, and Cooking Oils; Cereal Coffee; Whole-wheat Flour, etc. All guaranteed pure. Vegetarian Meat Co., Washington, D. C.

WANTED.—A position in a private family or in some institution where I can have my eight-months' old baby with me. Can cook, nurse, or teach school. Twenty-six years old, and strong and healthy. Can give first-class references. Address Mrs. Morris L. Sabin, Stevens Point, Wis.

AFTER disposing of the patent covering the Midget Massage Vibrator, which has had such large sales, we will send you one regular $5 Massage Machine for $1.25; three or more for $1 each. We have only a limited number left. Address Radiodescent Lamp Co., 54 South, Kalamazoo, Mich.

WANTED.—Competent man, under thirty, single, for farm and orchard work. Must know how to care for chickens. North Yakima Sanitarium, North Yakima, Wash.

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.—858 acres fenced in, 10 miles from Brownsville, Tex. Will sell half for $20 an acre, or all for less. 60 acres at Mercedes; improved. 4 good mules, farming tools, all at a bargain. Write me at Mercedes, Tex. W. D. DORTCH.

Obituaries

CONNER.—Minnie Conner, wife of John M. Conner, of Wilmington, Ohio, was born Sept. 15, 1879, in Germany, and died in Lexington, of pellagra, aged 30 years, 2 months, and 10 days. Sister Conner had not been well for several years. She was in bed only a week. She was a member of the church at Wilmington, and died in the message she loved and had accepted about ten years ago. Besides her much-sorrowing husband, she leaves a daughter three years old. Her father, brother, and two sisters were not present at the funeral. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Ps. 116:15. JOHN P. GAEDE.

STENSGAARD.—Mrs. J. Stensgaard died at Keene, Tex., Oct. 19, 1909. She was born near Frederikshavn, Denmark, and was forty-five years of age at the time of her death. She accepted the truth when a child of twelve years. Her husband, who was a physician, died five years ago, and left her with four children, two boys and two girls. Sister Stensgaard came to Keene, Tex., from Missouri, less than a year ago, expecting to give her children the benefit and advantages of this place. Two of her children were taken with typhoid fever, and for weeks they were prostrated, while she was unwilling for others to assist in their care. As they recovered, her health failed; and when taken with the fever, she had no strength to combat disease, and she quickly sank, until death came. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from the illustration given in Matt. 10:29-31, of God's unchanging love. CLARENCE SANTEE.

WYCOFF.—Died at Madison, Tenn., Nov. 4, 1909, of pneumonia, Mrs. Lydia Ann Wycoff, aged seventy-three years. The deceased was born in Mayville, N. Y., removing to Iowa following her marriage in 1856. She was one of the pioneer residents of Sheldon, Iowa, where she was taken for interment. About thirty years ago she accepted the closing message, was baptized by Elder E. W. Farnsworth, and became a charter member of the Sheldon Seventh-day Adventist church. While visiting her daughter, Mrs. Eva Piper, the matron of the Madison (Tenn.) Sanitarium, she was taken with the disease that caused her death. The funeral was largely attended, fully one hundred fifty being turned away for lack of seating capacity. Sister Wycoff rests in hope of a part in the first resurrection. A husband, seven children, and eight grandchildren mourn the loss of a loved one. Words of consolation were spoken by the writer from Num. 23:10. M. N. CAMPBELL.

WART.—Died at Prairie City, Ore., Brother Jacob Wart. The deceased was born at Scranton, Pa., March 28, 1845, and died Nov. 15, 1909, of pneumonia. Aug. 8, 1860, he was united with Miss Elizabeth Murray in marriage. Sister Wart, with five sons and three daughters, lives to cherish his memory. His body was laid to rest at Baker City, where many friends gathered to participate in the funeral service. In early life he united with the Congregational Church, and later became a Seventh-day Adventist. He expired looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. A. C. BIRD.

HALE.—Departed this life Oct. 25, 1909, at Garfield, Wash., Sister Jennie Hale, wife of Brother E. E. Hale, aged thirty years. She made a public profession of her Master at the early age of thirteen. Three years ago, she, with her husband, accepted the Sabbath truth, and united with the Farmington church. She was a devoted Christian wife and mother. She leaves two little ones, aged four and two years. It was hard to part with her family, but God sustained her. Her bereaved ones mourn, but not without bright hopes of meeting her again in the first resurrection. Her parents, two sisters, and one brother survive her. Funeral services were held in the Disciple church. G. E. LANGDON.

ATTERBERY.—Francis M. Attebery was born in Grayson County, Kentucky, on the twenty-seventh of June, 1836. With his parents, he moved to Wayne County, Illinois. There he finished his education, and taught school for many years. Tiring of school life, he settled on a farm, living there until about seven years ago, when he came to Michigan, to the city of Marshall, and moved onto a little farm just outside the city limits. He was taken sick about six months ago, and gradually growing worse, died Oct. 26, 1909, aged 73 years, 3 months, and 29 days. He was married on the twenty-second of Sept., 1870, to Miss Elizabeth J. Mills, of Marion County, Illinois, and to them were born six sons and three daughters. Two sons and one daughter remain to mourn their loss. He also leaves one brother and three sisters. About twenty-seven years ago he became a Seventh-day Adventist, and has since been a faithful member, looking for the soon-coming Saviour. His loved ones long for that reunion at the resurrection, when sin shall be no more, and death can not again separate them. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. J. M. WILBUR.

KYNETT.—William Henry Kynett was born in Steuben County, Ohio, April 29, 1842. He served three years in the Civil War in the Forty-fourth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. He was converted from skepticism in 1867, and joined the Allegan (Mich.) church. He was graduated as a physician in the Chicago College of Physicians in 1885; was married Feb. 2, 1865, to Miss Eunice H. Trembly. He labored two years as a medical missionary at Vicksburg, Miss.; moved to Florida in October, 1904, and joined the Bartow church. He was taken sick in June, 1909, and passed away Nov. 13, 1909. The funeral was held the day following at our church in Bartow, with the house full of sympathizing friends and neighbors. The writer spoke briefly on the topic, “If a man die, shall he live again?” dwelling principally upon the comfort of the Christian’s hope of eternal life through Christ our Lord, who said, “I am the resurrection, and the life.” Brother Kynett was a great sufferer from difficulty in breathing. He died in the blessed hope, and was perfectly willing to go. He is sincerely mourned by the church and by many friends. He was a man of kind and sympathetic heart, a firm believer in the present truth, a man of integrity and of many virtues. May God’s blessing rest upon the mourning circle. GEO. T. BUTLER.

Mississippi Canvassers’ Institute

By Editor

Notice!

OUR annual canvassers' institute for Mississippi will be held at Watervalley, Miss., and will begin Dec. 28, 1909, lasting at least two weeks. Watervalley is on the main line of the Illinois Central Railroad.

The institute will be held at Mr. Virgil Smith's home, which is one block north of the depot and six blocks east.

We extend a warm invitation to consecrated men and women to come and help us in this needy field. Come to the institute. Address H. G. Miller, State agent, 611 South Congress St., Jackson, Miss.

Publications Wanted

By Editor

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

W. H. Sebastian, Decatur, Ala., copies of our periodicals for free distribution.

Lizzie Symons, R. F. D. 1, Sterling, Mich., Signs, Watchman, Liberty, and Life and Health. Has all the copies of the Review she can use at present.

Addresses

THE address of Elder P. B. Osborne (formerly Skowhegan, Maine) is now Fairfield, Maine.

Any one knowing the address of Mrs. Elsie Frederickson-Shannon will confer a favor by informing Mrs. Grace Craw-Hoover, 206 W. John St., Champaign, Ill.

J. F. McIntyre, Box 116, Trumbull, Neb., desires the address of Eddie Taylor, the church of which he is a member, and also the address of the church clerk. He was last heard of in Oklahoma, from which place he went to Lyons, Colo., and then to Denver.

Miss Daisy Bacon to Teach in Peru

THIS week Miss Daisy Bacon, of London, England, is stopping with friends in New York City, in readiness to sail on the twenty-fifth for Panama and Peru. Miss Bacon has had a good experience in church-school work in England, and now proceeds to Arequipa, Peru, to take the post of governess, or teacher, in a private family. While engaged thus, we know that she will be a witness for the truth in that far field, where our work is developing so encouragingly.

Missions Number Raises Funds; Workers Sail for China

ELDER R. A. UNDERWOOD, president of the Northern Union Conference, recently stated that our English church in Minneapolis, Minn., had ordered about twenty-eight hundred copies of the MISSIONS number of the REVIEW. Although not all of these had been circulated, the total collections amounted to $434.96. The church-members were glad to know that they could already turn over nearly four hundred dollars in excess of the cost of the papers. He writes, “We expect they will bring in enough more to make five hundred dollars raised by this church alone. Probably not more than fifty or sixty took an active part in this movement.” We shall be glad to receive reports from some of our other large churches.

A SMALL party set sail for China on the seventh, from San Francisco. Elder J. N. Anderson, who came to the General Conference, returns, leaving his family on furlough in this country for some further time. With him, as new recruits, sailed Brother George Harlow and wife, of Western Washington, and Brother Otis J. Fisher, wife, and child, of Southern California. We thank God as every new recruit enters these vast fields.

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