p. 21 | Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 37. (9/12/1907)

Missionary Volunteer Reading Course

By M. E. Kern

It is a great psychological fact that the mind takes the level of the things upon which it continually feeds. “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” “The mind occupied with commonplace matters only, becomes dwarfed and enfeebled. If never tasked to comprehend grand and far-reaching truths, it after a time loses the power of growth.”—“Education,” page 124. The Lord has committed to us the divine principles of Christian education. These principles are to be applied in the home, as well as in the school.

In many of our homes far more attention should be given to the matter of selecting proper reading for the children. Many of our people are held in the very snare of the enemy by the pernicious reading that floods our land, reading that “unfits the soul to comprehend the great problems of duty and destiny.”

The recent Sabbath-school and Young People’s Convention at Mount Vernon, Ohio, recommended that our young people heed the light given on this question, and institute a crusade against harmful reading. Read the recommendations and discussions in the report on this question.

It is further recommended that in order to assist our young people in the choice of good reading, and to furnish them a means of home culture along right lines, the Young People’s Missionary Volunteer Department should conduct a reading course. This has been arranged, and will appear in the Instructor of October 1, and continue eight months. The books chosen are—

“Early Writings,” by Mrs. E. G. White, 75 cents. This work gives an intensely interesting account of Sister White’s early experiences and views, and a brief survey of the whole controversy between Christ and Satan.

“Into All the World,” by Amos R. Wells, cloth, 50 cents; paper, 35 cents. In this work we have a brief study of the mission fields of the world, and biographical studies of the great heroes of the cross in mission lands. There will be sent with this book, free of cost, a copy of the booklet “Outline of Mission Fields,” which is a sketch of our own missions. The reading of this book and the booklet in connection with a beautiful colored map of the world, showing the prevailing religions (costing 45 cents, or, mounted, 65 cents), will make a very profitable study.

“Pastor Hsi, One of China’s Christians” (cloth, $1; paper, 50 cents) is the life story of one of the most remarkable Chinese Christian workers yet developed. It is a marvelous story of the power of God manifested in mission work. The book paints the picture of Chinese life and Christian missions very vividly.

Let our parents and older people lend a helping hand in bringing this course to the attention of our youth. The relation of reading to character building is that of cause and effect. Those who read light, frothy, and sensational literature will have light, frothy, and sensational characters. The characters of those who read the true, pure, and uplifting, will be strengthened for the right. What our young people need is to have their interest and sympathy enlisted in the salvation of the world. Dr. A. T. Pierson truly says, “Facts are the fingers of God. To know the facts of modern missions is the necessary condition to intelligent interest.”

Suggestive questions on the books will appear in the Instructor, and at the close of each book, the Conference Missionary Voluntary Secretary will send out a list of questions for review. All who satisfactorily complete the work will receive a reading course certificate. The books will be read in the order named above. Send your name for enrolment to the conference secretary of the Young People’s Missionary Volunteer Department, and order the books and map from your tract society or publishing house.

M. E. KERN.

Philippines

By J. L. McElhany

MANILA.—We had been here but a short time when we saw that one of the best openings for missionary labor was in sending literature to the teachers. Scattered throughout all the islands, many of them away from all white people, and with plenty of spare time, we felt that we ought to make a special effort in their behalf. We started in to do what we could, and have carried it on as best we could under the circumstances. We sent notices to the REVIEW and Signs, asking for literature, also wrote to different ones who we thought could help. In this way we have received and used a large amount of papers, etc. Each month the work has grown, until now it makes such demands on our time that it keeps us busy. The only limit to the work is the supply we receive, and the

amount we can do in sending out literature. There is a great field for such effort, and just at the present it is the most practical way of laboring. We would like to put reading-matter into the hands of all who can read English. To do that would require tons of literature. But as fast as the ammunition is sent, we will expend it, not only among the teachers, but all classes. The seed sowing must come first, and the Lord will give the increase.

The first bundle of the five hundred copies of the Signs subscribed for us for six months, arrived this morning. With the other papers we are receiving, it will keep us as busy as we can possibly be to keep them moving into the field. But the Lord will do his part in helping and blessing. The schools are just reopening after the summer vacation, and in a few days I shall receive a full and revised list, with all teachers’ names and addresses. We shall devote the entire club of five hundred to the teachers, and the other papers we shall use among other classes.

At the present time we are both quite well. Some time ago Mrs. McElhany was not at all well. We thank the dear Lord that she is much better in every way, and we trust that her health will continue good. The climate here is enervating. Last night it was so warm and sultry that we were in a continual perspiration. The hot season will soon be over, and then it will at least be more tolerable.

In this field we are made to realize that we are not fighting flesh and blood. In these pagan-papal lands the devil certainly has control. You can have no idea of the darkness that prevails, without coming in contact with it. Eph. 6: 10-20 has been impressed on my mind by the Holy Spirit as the very best instruction for us here. That is the basis of what could be made a wonderfully powerful missionary sermon. Verses 18 and 19 contain our request for your prayers and those of all the brethren.

J. L. McELHANY.

S. A. WELLMAN

By S. A. Wellman

Trinidad

The work in the island has been going on nicely, considering the time we have been able to give to it. There were twenty-seven accessions during the last quarter, and there are others awaiting the ordinance of baptism. In Tobago three have been added by baptism, and in Grenada several more.

Here in the printing-office we are keeping up with the regular work on the Watchman and Gleaner, and we have printed fourteen thousand tracts, and done considerable job work during the same time. The circulation of the Earthquake Special of the Watchman reached twenty-eight thousand five hundred copies.

In the Watchman office we have started night-school work in two subjects, to improve the condition, educationally, of the employees. Many of the subjects taught the children in American schools are not taught here, and they lack sadly in everything but arithmetic, grammar, spelling, writing, and dictation. Geography is taught in a way from a book, without maps, and physiology is not taught. We need a school in this part of the field, but there is not much hope, I fear, of that in the near future. Our work in the classes referred to is mostly review, and we have recitations only twice a week; but we hope to do better as time and strength permit.

S. A. WELLMAN

Field Notes

Brother J. W. Hofstra recently baptized four persons to join with the church at Wright, Mich.

The baptism of eight persons in Cherry County, Nebraska, is reported by Brother J. W. Beams.

Reporting from Rochester, N. Y., Sister D. D. Smith says that within the past month seven of her Bible readers have taken a firm stand for the truth.

Brother C. A. Hansen reports the baptism of eight persons August 8. Three of these join the church at Coldwater, Mich., and the others at Quincy.

A tent-meeting conducted for three weeks by Brethren J. W. Raymond and T. B. Westbrook in Rochester, N. Y., resulted in thirteen taking a decided stand for the truth.

Brethren West and Baum, who have conducted their first tent-meeting at Seelyville, Pa., this summer, are rejoicing that seven have taken a firm stand for the third angel’s message.

Brother S. B. Whitney reports four keeping the Sabbath at Clinton, N. Y., as the result of his meetings there, and two have already begun to obey from the few meetings he has held at Herkimer.

Eleven persons were baptized at Scranton, Pa., August 17, and several others will soon go forward in this ordinance as the result of the summer’s work by Brethren W. H. Smith and E. W. Culver.

Four persons were baptized, and six others signed the covenant to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, at Blue Lake, Cal., as the result of meetings held by Brethren A. J. Osborne and J. W. Bressie.

Ten persons have begun to keep the Sabbath in Baltimore, Md., since the camp-meeting. These, with others who have already united, will make an addition of about twenty-five to the Baltimore churches this summer.

For seven months Brethren D. P. Wood and S. T. Black have been working in Adrian, Mich., with the Family Bible Teacher. The fruit of this seed sowing is that twelve adults have taken their stand to obey God. The Sabbath-school numbers twenty-one.

Gospel meetings had been conducted in Merced, Cal., for nine weeks prior to August 3, by Brethren C. M. Gardner and G. W. Rine. They report that at least fourteen substantial men and women have definitely promised to keep the Sabbath of the Lord, and to walk in the light they have received. Many more are convicted and still interested, for whom faithful efforts will be put forth by Bible workers.

Current Mention

— Report comes of a serious revolt among the natives of the Kongo Free State. They have everywhere refused to do the work that is demanded instead of taxes.

— Rioting strikers at Antwerp have set fire to the docks, causing a damage of more than $2,000,000. One policeman is dead, and several citizens are seriously hurt, from mob violence. The militia has been called out.

— Spreading of the rails near Kanawha Falls, W. Va., September 2, caused a wreck resulting in the death of five persons. Eleven others were severely injured; six were killed and twenty injured at Caledon, Ontario, the third; and on the sixth twelve persons were killed and as many more injured at Norris, Iowa.

— The following is an official statement of the loss of life and damage caused by the recent floods in Japan: killed, 348; injured, 70; missing, 173; buildings destroyed, 1,337; partially destroyed, 1,376; washed away, 3,142; flooded, 173,339; embankments broken, 1,570; bridges washed away, 976. Rice and other crops suffered heavily in the flooded districts, but it is believed that the rice crop of the whole country will be slightly above the average.

— More than a thousand Hindus were mobbed and driven from Bellingham, Wash., September 5. Six were so roughly handled that they were taken to hospitals, and 400 were sheltered in the jail and city hall, while the rest betook themselves to the British Columbian frontier. Race prejudice against them is the cause. Most of these Hindus were employed in the mills. All these are English subjects, and the matter is being placed before the British authorities.

— The Federal grand jury of Jamestown, N. Y., has returned indictments against the Standard Oil Company, the New York Central Railroad, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, charging these companies with violating the interstate commerce law either by accepting or by granting rebates on shipments of oil from Olean, N. Y., to points in Vermont. The maximum penalty if convicted on all the counts would be $876,000. Last month the same grand jury returned similar indictments against the same corporations with counts sufficient to make it possible, in case of conviction, for the judge to impose fines amounting to more than $18,000,000.

— The Moors again attacked the French, September 2, but were repulsed with a loss of fifty men from their force of about 5,000, while the French loss was seven killed and about fifteen wounded. France and Spain have decided to occupy the littoral ports of Morocco with their own forces, and establish police organizations. This decision results from the official announcement from the Moroccan government that it can not insure the safety of the European instructors of the international police force, which under the terms of the Algeciras convention, was to be composed of Moors. All the powers except Germany signatory to this convention have acceded to this plan, and it is expected Germany will agree to it.

Findings

ELDER E. E. ANDROSS writes from England: “I am glad to report that our work at the Rostrevor Hills Hydro in Ireland is prospering. The brethren report that the little institution there is crowded with an excellent class of patients, and the outlook for the future is very encouraging.” In speaking of the needs of that large field, he says: “I believe that we ought to have one or two physicians in this field to take up work in a short time. This certainly is a most excellent opening for the enlargement of this branch of our work in Great Britain, and I think that we ought to take advantage of it. But we want those who are wholly consecrated to the Lord, and who believe the third angel’s message with all their hearts.”

We quote the following from Flashes from the Field, a paper published by Elder H. J. Edmed, of Durban, South Africa: “Brother and Sister Baumann have decided to establish their treatment rooms at Bellair, a few miles out from Durban. A commodious house has been lent them for the purpose, free of rent, by their father.”

Dr. P. A. De Forest, writing from Gland, Switzerland, says: “We have at present thirty-five patients, and from fifteen to twenty other guests who have come to recuperate, making fifty or sixty in all, or about twice as many as we had last year at this time. A number are interested in the truth. Really, we have our hands full as never before, and God helps us over the hard places.”

W. H. Nelson writes from Melrose, Minn., R. F. D. 2: “For seven years I was connected with health restaurant work in New York City. I left that work to engage in farming for a time, but have decided to return to the city to the restaurant work once more. I am anxious to find a place recommended by my brethren where such work can be conducted to the glory of God. Should any of our brethren know any such place, I would be pleased to correspond with them.”

In a recent letter from Brother L. A. Hansen, of Graysville, Tenn., he writes: “I have just returned from a visit to some of our camp-meetings in the interest of the health work, and I can report very favorably concerning the outlook. There is a realization of the fact that we have retrograded on this point, and there is a willingness manifested to come up on the matter. We can give a most encouraging report of the Graysville work. We now have only one vacant room, with the prospect of several patients coming within a few days. We had thirteen arrivals the past week. Class work progresses in excellent shape, and on the whole we feel grateful for the progress that is being made.”

Friedensau Sanitarium

THE progress of the work in Germany, especially in the last five or six years, has been phenomenal, over two thousand members having been added since Jan. 1, 1906.

The medical missionary work has also had a rapid growth since the opening of the school at Friedensau and the dedication of the sanitarium, July 29, 1901. The health paper, Gute Gesundheit, started three years previously, had opened the way among our people as well as others.

In the institutions, nurses were trained and sent out to different parts of Germany, Russia, Austria, and other countries. Sixty-five fully trained nurses are now at work, and by canvassing, visiting physicians and influential men and women, besides nursing and giving treatments, are introducing our health teachings, and are advertising our institutions.

Friedensau lies far out in the country, surrounded by forests, and has a healthful atmosphere and fine artesian water. Patients become very much attached to the place. Many of them come repeatedly, year after year, to enjoy the quiet country life, the fresh air, simple vegetarian diet, and the treatments. They also find something in our religion which they do not find elsewhere. They find a people here who do not use stimulants, and who deny themselves of fine and fashionable clothing, and highly seasoned foods, and all those things that men usually most desire.

One of our patients described Friedensau as follows:— “Friedensau is the name of a small planet which is connected but loosely with our earth. It is inhabited by a different and better class of people. They do not strive for wealth or might, nor do they live for gain or renown, nor to satisfy the lustful appetite. For one great object they strive, collectively and individually, and that is to live out the one great underlying principle of all religion, ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ This small state is supported and held by a great and endless faith in a supreme Being, which every subject carries into every detail of his daily work.

“Happy is he who can find the time to get away from the busy world to abide here for a season. The rest and quiet in nature about one, the complete absence of care and fear, the cheerfulness of the people, the interest they manifest in their work, their abiding faith for the near and distant future, must lead every one who has a spark of life energy within him, to health of body and soul.”

DR. A. J. HOENES.

Medical Missionary Department

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference

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

Medical Missionary Work in Mexico

By George M. Brown

THE practical benefits of medical missionary work in a Catholic field like Mexico are well illustrated by the following incident:—

One of the most prominent physicians of Guadalajara, Mexico, was stricken with paralysis some time ago, and as a result was brought to a condition of perfect helplessness. One of our brethren who had received some training as a nurse at the Guadalajara Sanitarium was called to give massage to this invalid. He found him unable to move hand or foot, or even to wipe away the tears that trickled down his face.

In harmony with the principles of rational therapeutics he began to give hot and cold to the spine, in connection with massage, and a great improvement has resulted. The patient is now able to move himself, and with a little help can sit up in bed. The improvement in this case is a marvel to all who have heard of it; and because of the professional and social position, of the patient, who is a professor in the state medical college, there are many openings for entrance to good families.

We are just finishing up the new treatment rooms in Guadalajara, and hope that through the work which may be done in them, many sick and suffering ones will be given relief, and some dear souls will be led to the Fountain of eternal life.

Pray for the work and workers in the Latin-American fields, where religious prejudice and ignorance close the minds of the people against the reception of present truth. GEO. M. BROWN.

Sunday in Canada

By W. A. C.

UNDER the above title, the Boston Herald speaks editorially as follows concerning the origin, character, and workings of the new Canadian Sunday law:—

“Not much actual experience of the effect of the new Lord’s day act in Canada has been necessary to reveal the almost intolerable oppression of that measure. The act was the outcome of strenuous agitation by the Lord’s Day Alliance, many of whose members are, presumably, of Scottish descent. That accounts for everything. No country in the civilized world is inflicted with a more lugubrious day of rest than Scotland. The ruling principle there is that if the people will not go to church, they shall not be able to go anywhere else.”

“Will the Dominion tolerate for long a condition of things which reproduces the gloomy Sabbath environments of Covenanting times? It is hardly probable. Indeed, the reaction has already set in, in the shape of a Rational Sunday League, which stands for the right to buy and sell refreshments and non-intoxicating drinks, popular lectures and music in halls and parks, the opening of museums and art galleries, and a limited measure of Sunday trade. The league, although only recently founded, already has a numerous, representative, and constantly growing membership. That is not surprising, nor is it rash to anticipate an early triumph for its moderate program.”

“If the Lord’s day purists are wise, they will agree quickly with their adversary while they are in the way with him. It is impossible that in such an essentially democratic commonwealth as Canada is increasingly becoming there can be any lengthy triumph for such an antiquated conception of the day of rest as the new Lord’s day act represents. Ministers of religion have a grave responsibility in this matter. Do they not realize, for one thing, that their action in repressing innocent recreation on Sundays is open to a selfish construction? The unthinking have only one interpretation for such conduct, which they naturally attribute to a fear lest the churches should be deserted. Ministers who wish people to devote some part of the day of rest to religious exercises should make those exercises so living and attractive that no one will wish to ignore them. It is too late in history to attempt to force people into observances they have no inherent desire to celebrate.”

This editor sees matters more clearly than do many. W. A. C.

Religious Liberty Notes

The president of one of our local conferences writes us as follows: “Our conference wants to do its part in spreading the third angel’s message. We try to have a part in every good work that comes along. We are lovers of liberty, and believe the good magazine Liberty will do much good if placed in the proper channel for usefulness. For this reason, as a conference we stand ready to pay for one hundred and fifty subscriptions to be mailed to leading citizens residing in our conference territory.”

On June 7 the Supreme Court of Minnesota rendered a decision which empowers the attorney-general of the State to close every saloon in every municipality on Sunday, if a complaint is filed. Commenting on this, Rev. Johnson, pastor of the Fifth Presbyterian church of Minneapolis, says: “The destruction of the saloon is coming fast.” Mr. Crafts, the noted and indefatigable Sunday law worker, knew better than this when he wrote the first edition of his “Sabbath for Man” (page 96), in which he said: “The only States which enforce Sunday closing are those which prohibit liquor selling on all days,—Maine, Kansas, Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire,”—and added that “the only way that has ever been found permanently effectual” in closing the saloons is “by closing them altogether.” Sunday closing, therefore, does not necessarily mean the destruction of the saloon.

Señor E. F. Forga, who for some years has been an active worker in health and temperance and religious liberty work in Peru, writes us from Sanitarium, Cal., as follows: “I have just finished reading the Christian Endeavor number of your magazine [Liberty], and find it excellent. I will keep it with the idea of translating some of its articles into Spanish later on.” He enclosed two dollars, and asks us to send him as many copies of this number as we can for this amount, stating that he desires to send them to the brethren in charge of the different Spanish fields, English missionaries of Protestant churches in Spanish countries, and to other English friends. Having been engaged in religious liberty work in a priest-ridden land, Brother Forga knows how to appreciate literature of this kind. We fear that many of our people in this country will never fully appreciate it until their liberties begin to be taken from them; but that time, from present indications, is perhaps not very far away.

A cashier of a bank in Texas, chancing recently to receive and read a copy of the leaflet, “Religion in the Public Schools,” which we prepared and circulated in Washington, D. C., in our campaign two years ago against the movement for the introduction of religious instruction into the public schools of the District of Columbia, writes us as follows: “Permit me to say that I think the arguments in the pamphlet, ‘Religion in the Public Schools,’ are the best I have seen on this subject. They are, I think, incontrovertible.”

Elder A. J. Breed, writing further concerning the distribution of Liberty in Seattle, Wash., says: “Brother Beecraft has placed twenty-two hundred copies of Liberty among lawyers and other business men since the Christian Endeavor Convention. The rules of the New York block are such that no one is allowed to distribute anything in the building; but, not knowing this, Brother Beecraft went and distributed there as if he were doing legitimate business, and placed three hundred copies in the offices of the building. The next day another brother went there to canvass for ‘Heralds of the Morning,’ and was stopped at once. From this building, Brother Beecraft went to another building where the rules were similar, but the superintendent gave him permission to place Liberty wherever he desired. Brother Beecraft first gave the superintendent a number, and when he saw what it was, he freely gave his consent. This was Brother Beecraft’s experience wherever he went with Liberty, and he feels as if it ought to be used more for such work.”

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By Editor

Camp-Meetings for 1907

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

New York, Herkimer ............ Sept. 5-16 West Virginia, Pennsboro ............ Sept. 12-22

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Quebec, Knowlton ............ Sept. 5-15

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Alabama, Birmingham ............ Oct. 3-13 Florida, Tampa ............ Oct. 10-20 Mississippi, Aberdeen .... Sept. 27 to Oct. 3

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

Indiana, Worthington ............ Sept. 5-15 Northern Illinois, Aurora ............ Sept. 5-15

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Kansas, Kincaid ............ Oct. 4-13 Nebraska, Hastings (Prospect Park) ............ Sept. 5-15

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

and Utah, Salt Lake City ............ Oct. 3-10

NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Western Oregon, Rosenburg ............ Sept. 13-22 Montana, Somers ............ Sept. 17-22 Montana, Kalispell ............ Sept. 10-15

The presidents of the various conferences are requested to forward any information which will enable us to publish a complete and correct list of the camp-meetings appointed for the present season. If any changes are made, of either time or place of meetings already appointed, notice should be forwarded at once.

Address

The address of C. E. Rentfro is Rua de S. Bento 59-61 D, Lisbon, Portugal.

Christian Liberty

By K. C. Russell; W. A. Colcord

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience

Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau

K. C. RUSSELL, - - - - - Chairman

W. A. COLCORD, - - - - - Secretary

The Sunday Law

While on the subject of the law and its majesty, I have in mind the old blue-law which is still on the statute-books of Maryland, covering all cases of work on Sunday. A close perusal of this law would make a good citizen feel as if he was having his liberty crimped and his mere existence put under a ban. Under this law you can't feed your chickens or your cattle on Sunday. You can't get milk from a dealer, for the dealer is not supposed to milk his cows. You can't ride on a car, for the motor-man would be working if he run the vehicle. The ice man must stay at home, the baker must not make bread; in fact, it is a question whether or not you could bake it yourself and not be liable; but the most ridiculous part of the whole statute is that if you are found guilty of any of these offenses, you must pay the penalty in two hundred pounds of tobacco, which would be about six or seven hundred dollars. Some twentieth century Maryland legislator ought to tear this leaf out of the book.—The Mt. Rainier (Md.) Weekly Review, Aug. 24, 1907.

Obituaries

NEWELL.—Died at Crow Wing, Minn., Aug. 30, 1907, of cholera infantum, Clinton Deforest Newell, aged 3 years, 1 month, and 8 days. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from 1 Cor. 15:22 and Rom. 5:12. GEO. L. BUDD.

ARMSTRONG.—Died at the home of her parents, at Waynesville, N. C., Aug. 10, 1907, of neurasthenia, Sister Lillie Armstrong, wife of Elder W. H. Armstrong and oldest daughter of Brother and Sister R. T. Underwood, aged 36 years, 10 months, and 10 days. Sister Armstrong fell asleep with the consolation of this blessed hope. She leaves a devoted husband, father, mother, six brothers, and seven sisters. The funeral sermon, preached at the Baptist church, was based upon 1 Thess. 4:13-18. R. T. NASH.

GRIMES.—Died at his home near Sand Hill, Ky., Aug. 21, 1907, of Bright’s disease, Wm. Grimes, aged 76 years. Brother Grimes was an honest and highly respected citizen. He made no profession of Christianity until well advanced in years. Only four years ago he was buried with his Lord in baptism, and rose to walk in newness of life. His wife and ten children mourn their loss, but not without hope. The funeral sermon was preached by the writer in a Baptist chapel near the cemetery. WALTER JONES.

STOTT.—Died at Trenton, N. J., Aug. 21, 1907, Sister Florence Gertrude Stott, in her thirty-first year. She embraced the truths of the third angel’s message in 1901, and was a faithful, consistent Christian until the time of her death. She was respected and loved by all. Her death came suddenly, after an illness of three hours; nevertheless, she rejoiced in the hope of a glorious resurrection. She leaves a husband and two small children. Funeral service was conducted by the writer. Interment took place in the graveyard of the M. E. church at Groverville, N. J. CARL B. HAYNES.

LEET.—Died at Campbellsville, Ky., July 20, 1907, of old age, Isaac Leet, aged 79 years and 7 months. Brother Leet accepted present truth under the labors of Brother and Sister Riley about two years ago, and from that time till his death rejoiced in the third angel’s message, and did what he could to give it to his neighbors. He leaves an aged companion, two sons, one daughter, and many friends, who mourn, but not as those who have no hope. In the absence of one of our ministers, a short service was conducted at the home. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. CHARLES PILE.

SHAFER.—Died at the home of Charles Wagoner, near Rochester, Ind., June 23, 1907, of old age and heart failure, Henry Shafer, aged 88 years and 12 days. In the earlier part of his life, he was a member of the Evangelical Church. In 1874, at the organization of the Seventh-day Adventist church of Rochester, Ind., he was one of its charter members, and remained true to the faith until death. He leaves a large number of relatives and friends to mourn their loss, but we sorrow not as do those who have no hope. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 5:10, 11. DR. WM. HILL.

PENNIMAN.—Died in Woodburn, Ill., July 12, 1907, William Penniman, aged 79 years, 5 months, and 6 days. Brother Penniman was converted at the age of fifteen years, and united with the Christian Church. In 1864 he heard Elder J. H. Waggoner present the points of faith taught by Seventh-day Adventists, and united with that church. Brother Penniman was elected elder of the Woodburn church in the year 1869, and held that office until his death. In 1884 he received ministerial license from the Illinois Conference, but it was a saying of his that he would rather preach to an audience of one, so he spent most of his time canvassing for our literature. He was widely known throughout our ranks by the many articles he wrote for our different papers. Two sons and two daughters survive to mourn the loss of a loving father, but they mourn not as those without hope. His funeral service was held in the Congregational church. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. We laid him to rest by the side of his faithful companion. M. G. HUFFMAN.

Business Notices

By Editor

THIS department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper. Please read carefully the conditions under which business notices will be published.

Brief business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers.

Display advertising, and advertisements which call for agents, will not be accepted, nor do the publishers solicit advertising of any kind for this paper.

All persons unknown to the managers of this paper must send with their 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.

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.

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

WANTED.—Competent cook for small sanitarium. State experience, and wages wanted. Address Newark Sanitarium, Newark, Ohio.

FOR SALE.—58 acres good land for $500. 3-room house, out-buildings, well, creek, 50 apple- and 200 peach-trees, 200 grape-vines, strawberries, 30 acres in cultivation. Improvements worth $600. Address J. T. Lorren, Route 1, Borden Springs, Ala.

FOR SALE.—160 acres, eight miles from town; 30 acres broke. $800 worth of buildings. Good well-water. Live stream runs through one corner. $12 an acre. 160-acre homestead open for filing joining. Address Otto Bohlman, Halbrite, Saskatchewan, Canada.

FOR SALE.—I will sell to Seventh-day Adventists only the Radiodescent Therapeutic Lamp (sunlight and heat) for one half the regular price. This will enable every doctor, nurse, treatment room, and afflicted person to get one. We sell all kinds of vibrators. Address Radiodescent Lamp Co., Kalamazoo, Mich.

International Publishing Association

By A. T. Robinson

THE next annual meeting of the constituency of the International Publishing Association will be held at College View, Neb., September 16-18. This meeting will be held for the purpose of electing a board of trustees and counselors, and for the transaction of all other business that may properly come before the meeting.

A. T. ROBINSON, Secretary.

Saskatchewan Mission Field

By H. S. Shaw

On account of other responsibilities in the Pacific Press Branch Office here, Sister Birdie Conway has been released from the office of secretary and treasurer of the Saskatchewan Mission Field and Tract Society. All communications and funds intended for this office should now be sent to Mrs. H. S. Shaw, Box 1264, Regina, Saskatchewan.

H. S. SHAW.

Utah Conference Session

By S. G. Huntington

The fourth annual session of the Utah Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 3-10. All churches should elect delegates at once, and forward the names of the same to Miss M. E. Fletcher, Secretary, 553 East Third South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. The first executive meeting of the session is called for 10 A. M., October 4, the second day. S. G. HUNTINGTON, President.

Canvassers’ Institute in Washington, D. C., September 21 to October 7.

By G. H. Clark

ARRANGEMENTS are being made for giving our people, especially those in Washington and the Chesapeake Conference, an opportunity better to prepare for the good work of selling our books. The servant of the Lord says: “Those who have gained an experience in this work have a special duty to perform in teaching others. Educate, educate, educate young men and women to sell the books which the Lord by his Holy Spirit has stirred his servants to write.”

Let all whose hearts are stirred by the Spirit of the Lord make the most of this golden opportunity. Further announcements will be given later. G. H. CLARK.

Opening of Union College

UNION COLLEGE opens Wednesday, September 18. Students should be present the day before if possible. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday representatives of the college will meet all trains at Lincoln. Plan to arrive by day if possible. If you can not come at the beginning of the term, come as early as you can. We have so many classes and subjects that we can always find work adapted to the student's needs. There is every indication of a larger attendance than last year, and our capacity will be taxed to the utmost. Hence students should apply at once for rooms, that we may know what preparations to make that they may secure accommodations. Especial attention of those desiring to room outside the college homes is called to the conditions in the calendar, page 46, under which requests may be granted. They should write at once for application blanks. Address C. C. Lewis, College View, Neb.

Continue reading: Publications Wanted