p. 23 | Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 47. (11/21/1907)

Earlier text: What the Movement under the Third Angel's Message Stands For

Medical Missionary Council

For several years the advisability of holding a meeting in the Pacific Union Conference, where the physicians, nurses, managers, and boards of directors of our medical institutions could meet in council to study the special needs of the work to which they had consecrated their lives, had received more or less consideration. The growth of the medical institutions in this territory, both in size and in numbers, has emphasized the necessity of such a meeting. As the importance of the medical work as a leading factor in carrying the gospel of salvation to the millions still in darkness was grasped, the needs of a general council became more apparent.

In the spring of the present year the Southern California Conference began to open the way for such a desirable gathering by offering to furnish entertainment for all delegates who would attend such a convention. At first it was thought that the meeting would be held during the summer months, but when it was found that this would not meet the conveniences of all who were interested in such a convention, the date October 27-31 was decided upon. Accordingly, plans began to be made, and physicians, managers, and directors were asked to write papers for the consideration of the delegates who would come. To these plans there was a hearty response, but as the date of the meeting began to draw near, the work at some of our medical institutions began to assume such proportions that it seemed it would be impossible for any to come from the largest institutions on the Coast.

It was decided to hold this meeting at the Loma Linda Sanitarium, and a more ideal location could not have been found for the convenience of the council and the entertainment of the delegates. This institution is situated in the country, on beautiful grounds with commodious buildings for the reception of visitors, and with an assembly hall apart from the main sanitarium buildings, in which could be held the meetings of the convention without annoyance to any one, and, besides, at this place there is a class of sixty or more young people who are striving earnestly for an education that will enable them to do efficient medical missionary work. It was only at such a quiet, convenient place as this that such a company of delegates could put in at least nine hours a day in the devotional and business meetings of the council.

The subjects that were discussed were not so much those that pertain to medical science and the rational methods in the treatment of the diseases of mankind, as those questions that have to do with the giving of the whole gospel to the world in this generation, and how the facilities of these large medical institutions may be used in training medical missionaries who can go forth with minds trained in methods of using God's great principles of healing that have been entrusted to this denomination, and with hearts filled and overflowing with the love that Jesus Christ manifested to this sinful world. As these important themes were considered, the lines that have been supposed to exist between the man who was trained as a physician and the worker who has spent his life as a minister of the gospel, became obliterated. All were as deeply interested in the medical as in the evangelical, and vice versa. In fact, it was one band of workers studying God's great commission to go into all the earth with his life-giving message.

The following is a list of the brethren and sisters in attendance at this council:—

Physicians: A. M. Gardner, J. R. Leadsworth, S. A. Lockwood, E. L. Paulding, Ida S. Herr, Julia A. White, B. E. Fulmer, Cora M. Richard-Abbott, R. S. Cummings, W. L. Gardner, Geo. K. Abbott, Lillis Wood-Starr, F. F. Abbott, Sophia Johnson-Judson, M. M. Kay, Howard F. Rand, W. A. Ruble, J. Franc Haight, J. E. Froom, F. S. Whitelock, M. E. Eastman.

Osteopaths: Helena I. Gilbert, R. W. Miller, Louise V. Wurtz.

Nurses: Winifred W. Frederick, Emma W. Irvin, Grace H. Jennings, Mabel Parks, Anna L. Hansen, I. R. Hall, Mrs. I. R. Hall, Lesli Ackerman, Ellen Cornish, Pearl Shetler, Nora Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Anna Erskine, Nina L. Lawry, Mrs. E. F. Drummond, Helen L. Henton, Leonora Lacey, E. C. Silsbee, Edna Kilbourn, Mrs. Matilda J. Soderberg, Effie Cornish, Dollie Olman, Agnes Thompson, Clyde Lowry, Adelaide M. Case, Rosa B. Smith.

Ministers: H. W. Cottrell, W. M. Healey, W. C. White, J. H. Behrens, A. G. Daniels, Mrs. E. G. White, G. A. Irwin, F. I. Richardson, H. G. Lucas, J. A. Burden, E. S. Ballenger.

Students: Ethelwyn Hibbard, C. E. LaPointe, O. H. Polzin, Olive Abbott, Edith Yost, Chas. W. Harrison, John W. Blackwell, Mrs. H. W. Pollock, E. C. Davey, Albert C. Fawkes.

Others in Attendance: Geo. McCready Price, Mrs. John S. Calkins, Mrs. J. Gotzian, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Coombs, Mrs. B. E. Fulmer, M. A. Carlock, W. H. Gilmore, Mrs. Mary Nichol, Mrs. M. Caro, J. A. Starr, Mrs. M. E. Sternberg, Mrs. Luther Warren, Mrs. A. J. Proctor, O. F. Olsen, D. A. Robinson, C. C. Crisler, Mrs. H. C. Stevens, Nellie J. Rice, O. J. Fisher, C. W. Bremmer, J. J. Ireland, Ella E. Olsen, Mrs. C. A. Rice, Mrs. Dora Fisher, Augusta S. DeAngeles, W. E. Ross, H. E. Colby, H. C. Stevens, E. Campbell, W. A. R.

A United States History in the Light of Prophecy

By M. E. Cady

This is the title of a new book, written by Prof. F. S. Bunch, who for several years has been principal of the Gravel Ford Academy, Gravel Ford, Ore.

This book is being printed on the instalment plan by the Walla Walla College Press.

The first instalment is out, and contains the following chapters: Chapter I, Introduction; Chapter II, Discovery; Chapter III, Settlement.

There will be one instalment published each month during the school year, making altogether a book of about three hundred pages.

This work will be a great aid to teachers, assisting them to teach United States history from the divine view-point as indicated in the prophetic word.

The subscription price for the eight leaflets (instalments), post-paid, is $1. Send your subscription to the Walla Walla College Press, College Place, Wash.

Words of Appreciation

We have received the following words of appreciation from those who have the first leaflet of the series:—

“I have received your circular letter with sample pages of the new United States history written by Professor Bunch. So far as time has permitted, I have examined this pamphlet, and am pleased to say that so far as my judgment goes, the book will fill a long-felt want in this particular line of study.

“J. E. TENNEY,

“Principal of Graysville Academy.”

“I rather like the plan of issuing it one year in pamphlet form—one issue each month. It will bring the subject-matter into practical use, and will have a tendency to

eliminate any unfortunate features that might possibly have crept in. We are greatly in need of a good text-book on this subject, and I am well pleased with the general plan of the book so far as the three chapters indicate.

W. D. CURTIS,

“Educational Secretary of the Lake Union Conference.”

“I received a copy of the first pages of the United States history written by Professor Bunch. It is hardly necessary for me to tell you that I was delighted with it. I do not know when I have seen anything in the shape of a book that I have felt to welcome more heartily. I am sure it will supply a great need, and I sincerely hope that nothing will come in to hinder the speedy completion of the work. Please place my name on the subscription list.

“SARAH E. PECK,

“Director of Union College Normal Dept.”

The preceding unsolicited testimonials indicate that there is a strong demand on the part of our teachers and educators for a new text-book in United States history. We believe that this feeling is shared by nearly all our teachers, and that here is offered an opportunity for a study of the correct principles that underly the rise and progress of the nation that has attracted the attention of the world, and which is also a subject of prophecy. These principles can be interwoven with the facts and details as brought out in a regular text-book on the United States history, and thus both teachers and pupils have the benefit derived from the proper study of this subject during the present year.

Those who desire to subscribe for the history should send in their subscriptions at once, addressing the Walla Walla College Press, College Place, Wash. M. E. CADY.

Chesapeake Conference, Notice!

By Morris Lukens; Thomas M. Bradford

The annual meeting of the Chesapeake Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in the church used by Seventh-day Adventists on North King St., Wilmington, Del., at 7 P. M., Monday, Dec. 2, 1907. This meeting is called for the purpose of electing officers, and transacting such other business as may legally come before the association.

MORRIS LUKENS, President, THOMAS M. BRADFORD, Secretary.

British Columbia Conference Annual Meeting

By E. L. STEWART

Notice!

The annual meeting of the British Columbia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the School Farm, Port Hammond, December 27-31, for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may be necessary. The first meeting will be held at 3 P. M., Friday, December 27.

The C. P. R. local train stops at the farm at 9 A. M., going west. Leaving Vancouver at 6:25 the train reaches the farm, or Pitt Meadows, as the station is called, at 7:25 P. M. This train will be met at the station, and is the only one from that direction stopping here.

This will be an important meeting, and all our churches should send a full delegation—one delegate for each church, regardless of numbers, and one additional delegate for every ten members.

E. L. STEWART, President.

Dr. Dunscombe Passes Japanese Medical Examination

Our people will be glad to know that Dr. W. C. Dunscombe, who a few months ago went to Japan to take charge of the Kobe Sanitarium, has just succeeded in passing the government examination required for the practise of medicine in Japan. A law making this necessary went into effect the first of this year. Dr. Dunscombe was the first American to meet this new requirement. Two examinations were necessary, one covering the preliminary work, and another covering the professional studies. A more complete account of this will be given later.

Medical Missionary Department

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference

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

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

Business Notices

By Editor

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

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 advertisements 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.—A Seventh-day Adventist with wife and twelve-year-old girl wishes to locate near a church-school, to work on a farm or to work a farm on shares. Address Jay R. Butler, R. F. D., New Lenox, Ill.

For SALE.—A snap—211 acres; fine home; buildings cost $2,000; nearly 3,000 young peach-trees bearing, apples, plums, berries, pears; 7 springs; timber enough to pay for place; 1 buggy, 1 spring hack, 1 steel harrow—all for $3,000. Address Jno. G. Lea, Cleveland, Tenn.

For SALE.—A small interest in a large sheep ranch. Pays from 20% to 40% per annum. Sheep multiply rapidly, almost double their numbers each year. Watson Ziegler says, “I do not believe there is any stock business so sure of large returns for the money invested as is the handling of sheep. . . . I do not care to say to what extent profit has accrued to us in the handling of sheep, as it looks like boasting, but it has made for us more than we had hoped when we began the enterprise.” Only Sabbath-keepers need apply. Address L. A. Spring, Carson City, Colo.

For SALE.—Absolutely pure peanut butter, made by a scientific process from selected sterilized peanuts, and guaranteed pure under the National Pure Food Law, only 12 cents a pound. Purest cocoanut oil, 15 cents in 50-pound lots. Address Vegetarian Meat Company, Bond Building, Washington, D. C.

For SALE.—Purest, most healthful vegetable oil for cooking and salads; no odor, keeps indefinitely: gal. can, $1.15, 5-gal. can, $4.50. Also pure virgin olive-oil: gal. $2.75; half gal., $1.40; quart, 85 cents. Lunch Nutrena, a hygienic fat and blood producer: 1-lb. box, 35 cents; send for samples. Address E. W. Coates, 535 W. 110th St., New York City, N. Y.

Addresses Wanted

For some months the Graysville church has been seeking the address of Solon Webb, formerly of Salisbury, N. C., and of Mrs. Lou Hansen-Austelle, formerly of Fort Ogden, Fla. Will any one having the desired information, please address Mrs. C. L. Kilgore, clerk, Graysville, Tenn.

Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Session

By W. J. Fitzgerald

Notice!

THE fourth annual session of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church, Fifty-first and Locust Streets, Philadelphia, November 21-27. The first meeting will convene at 3:30 P. M., Thursday, November 21. At this session the conference will elect officers and transact such other business as may be deemed important to the carrying forward of the work in eastern Pennsylvania and the general field.

Each church is entitled to one delegate for its organization, without respect to numbers, and to one additional delegate for each ten members. It is earnestly desired that each church be well represented. Let the churches therefore attend at once to the election of delegates.

W. J. FITZGERALD, President.

Pennsylvania Sanitarium Annual Meeting

By W. J. Fitzgerald

Notice!

THE constituency of the Pennsylvania Sanitarium and Benevolent Association is hereby notified that the third annual meeting of said corporation will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church, Fifty-first and Locust Streets, Philadelphia, Tuesday, November 26, at 10 A. M. The membership of the constituency is composed of the executive committee of the Atlantic Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee and ordained ministers of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the physicians in the employ of the corporation, and the twelve persons elected for the purpose at the last session of the Eastern Pennsylvania Seventh-day Adventist Conference.

Officers will be elected, and such other business as may properly come before this meeting will be transacted.

W. J. FITZGERALD, President.

Publications Wanted

[SPECIAL NOTICE.—We learn that objectionable literature is being sent in response to these requests, and urge all to examine with special care any periodicals or pamphlets received outside of our well-known denominational publications. Be sure that the literature which you distribute teaches the truth.—Ed.]

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

Mrs. Jas. F. Woods, 322 South Detroit St., Warsaw, Ind., Watchman, Signs.

Mrs. F. W. Halladay, Box 414, Huntsville, Ala., periodicals for reading-rack.

Mrs. A. E. Malony, 2219 South Elm St., Muncie, Ind., Signs, Liberty, Watchman, Life and Health, and tracts.

Jesse E. Warner, Dowling, Mich., Watchman, Signs, Liberty, Life Boat, and Earthquake numbers of the Signs and Caribbean Watchman.

Obituaries

FLORY.—Died at Ligonier, Ind., Oct. 29, 1907, Clementine Flory, aged 75 years, 5 months, and 12 days. Sister Flory had been a member of the Wolf Lake church for twelve years, and was brought to Wolf Lake for burial. The funeral sermon was preached by the writer in the Adventist church; text, John 11:25. JOHN W. COVERT.

REDINGTON.—Died in South Russell, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1907, of nervous prostration and tuberculosis, Sylvester Redington, aged 53 years. He died rejoicing in present truth. He leaves a wife and two sisters to mourn. There being no Adventist minister in the place, the Methodist minister made a few well-chosen remarks and offered prayer. ELLEN S. COBB.

WOODING.—Died at Spencer, Va., Oct. 31, 1907, Elder Major Wooding, aged 64 years. He became an Adventist in 1895, and ever afterward served faithfully in the Virginia Conference. Through his influence three churches were organized, and houses of worship erected at Spencer, Danville, and News Ferry. His wife is left to mourn. Elder F. G. Warnick conducted the funeral service at the church, using as a text Jer. 49:11. M. A. MCBRIDE.

GEORGE.—Died at her home at Duke Center, Pa., Oct. 28, 1907, Priscilla Ann George, née Stephens. She was born in New York, Feb. 15, 1847. About four years ago she was baptized and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at Duke Center. She endured her long and painful illness patiently, and the mourning loved ones are comforted with the knowledge that her peace was made with God. Her husband and four of her six children survive her. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Ps. 73:26. C. F. MCVAGH.

BRADT.—Died near Veve, Mo., Oct. 27, 1907, of typhomalarial fever, Mary Ann Bradt, aged 71 years, 7 months, and 19 days. She had been a believer in the advent message for eighteen years, a faithful and consistent Christian. She was the mother of ten children, seven of whom, two sons and five daughters, survive. The writer conducted the funeral service, speaking words of comfort from John 1:12. Sister Bradt was laid to rest in the cemetery at Tecumseh, Neb., beside her husband, with him to await the coming of the Life-giver. JAS. H. SMITH.

SOULE.—Died at the home of his parents, near West Lake, Mich., Sept. 28, 1907, Albert Louis Soule, aged 25 years, 8 months, and 1 day. Only a few weeks before his death he was stung by bumblebees, causing muscular rheumatism, from which he suffered severely. He was a kind and loving husband, son, and brother, and will be greatly missed by all. Those who knew him best loved him most. He leaves to mourn their loss his loving wife and five stepchildren, his aged parents, two brothers, and three sisters. The funeral service was conducted by Brother Horton, of Battle Creek, Mich. MARTIN SOULE.

FENNER.—Died in Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 19, 1907, William Fenner, in his eighty-fifth year. Brother Fenner embraced the truths of the third angel’s message in California forty-two years ago. The last twenty-two years of his life he passed in Auburn, N. Y. When the church of Seventh-day Adventists was organized there, he became a member of it, and he ever lived a humble, devoted Christian life. He was very active in the circulation of literature advocating the truths so dear to him, and by him regarded so vital to others. He always carried the printed pages of truth with him wherever he went, availing himself of the opportunity for their distribution as the way opened. He has cast the bread of life on the waters, and eternity alone will reveal the full fruitage. He leaves a wife to mourn her loss. Funeral service was conducted by the writer. J. W. RAYMOND.

Program for the Week of Prayer, 1907

SABBATH, December 14—“A Call to Consecration,” by Mrs. E. G. White. Children’s Lesson No. 1.

Sunday, December 15—“Messages from the Mission Fields.” Children’s Lesson No. 2.

Monday, December 16—“Duties and Dangers of the Present Hour,” by S. N. Haskell. Children’s Lesson No. 3.

Tuesday, December 17—“Opportunities for Service and the Pressure of the Hour,” by M. C. Wilcox. Children’s Lesson No. 4.

Wednesday, December 18—“Who Shall Be Able to Stand?” by R. A. Underwood. Children’s Lesson No. 5.

Thursday, December 19—“Nearing the Journey’s End,” from “Early Writings.” Children’s Lesson No. 6.

Friday, December 20—“The Year in the Mission Fields,” by W. A. Spicer. Children’s Lesson No. 7.

Sabbath, December 21—“What the Movement under the Third Angel’s Message Stands For,” by A. G. Daniells. Children’s Lesson No. 8.

Prayer in the Minister’s Work

PRAYER makes effective the work of the minister. He may be a “silver-tongued orator,” may possess a “striking personality,” may be able to “move audiences,” but if he would effectually move souls out of the world and into true fellowship with Christ to abide there, he must have what can come to him only through secret and earnest prayer. In setting forth before the British Congregational Union some of the weaknesses of the ministry of to-day, Dr. R. F. Horton said the ministers were “neglecting secret prayer, they needed to hide themselves with God a great deal more. Reading made a learned ministry, and poetry and learning and rhetoric made an interesting and popular ministry; but the only ministry that converted and sanctified the world was that maintained by the life of secret prayer.” The men who have drawn their hearers nearest to their Lord have been the men who have learned to find satisfying communion with the Head of the church in secret prayer.

Educational Messenger Begins Weekly Publication

By Editor

THE Educational Messenger, organ of the Educational Department of the Central Union Conference, comes forth from its “baptism of fire” in new dress and new form, and from now on is to be issued weekly instead of monthly. It is now a four-page paper, and its subscription rate is fifty cents a year, forty-eight numbers. Address: The Educational Messenger, College View, Neb.

Atlantic Union Publishers' Convention

THE publishers' convention for the Atlantic Union Conference was held at Philadelphia, according to appointment, November 10-14. The fourteen conferences of this territory were well represented by conference presidents, tract society secretaries, field agents, and other workers. This was doubtless the largest local convention of this kind we have ever held. The fundamental principles and plans of the publishing work were carefully studied, chief attention being given to the problem of enlisting every individual in this denomination in active service. A more complete report will appear later.

Medical Missionary Work in Idaho

Dr. J. E. Froom, with the approval of the North Pacific Union Conference, has accepted the invitation of the new Idaho Conference to begin medical missionary work in that unoccupied field. Dr. Froom and wife have now been in Idaho three months, and find the outlook very favorable for work in that line. The center of their operations will be in the capital city.

Work in Algeria

The Latin Union Conference is sending Brother Paul Steiner, of France, to Algeria, where recently the first Sabbath-keepers were baptized. Brother S. Jesperson and wife have been laboring in Algeria for several years.

Training School for Converted Hebrews

Our Jewish Mission in Boston is seeking to establish an industrial and Christian training-school for converted Hebrews. It is the design that this shall be located in the country, but not too far removed from the center of mission operations. The superintendent, Elder F. C. Gilbert, has found such a place, a farm of eighty acres, with commodious buildings, within twenty miles of Boston, and hopes, with the financial assistance of those interested in the work for the Jews, to be able to secure the place before the first of January. Any who can assist this worthy enterprise should write the superintendent of the mission at 105 Staniford St., Boston, Mass.

Protecting Photographs in Transit

We frequently receive photographs from our friends in foreign lands which are damaged in transit, sometimes to such an extent that they are rendered unusable. If sent rolled, they should be enclosed in a mailing-tube or rolled around a piece of light wood. In rolling them it is better to have the picture side out, as they are not so likely to crack when unrolled. If sent flat, the photos should be protected by stiff cardboard or strawboard. They should never be sent with only the manuscript of the article as a protection.

From the Missionary's View-point

From far-away China there comes a gift to the $150,000 fund of $124. The giver is one of our mission workers in that great and needy field. This missionary brother writes that this amount is all that he and his wife have saved during their lives, up to the present time. Surely, this is a “widow's mite,” for they have cast in all their living. What an example for us all, especially for those who have not yet contributed their apportionment.

Another brother writes that he sees many fields in the list of contributors to the $150,000 fund, but his own home land is not mentioned. He enclosed $10 to apply on the $150,000 fund, to be credited to Pitcairn Island.

Here is a letter from one of our workers in India, with its three hundred millions of human beings waiting for the gospel of Christ. The worker says:—

I watch with interest the growth of the $150,000 fund, and as I have not had a share in it as yet, will you please see Brother Evans and have him take $15 out of India funds, and charge to me and credit the $150,000 fund? I will also report it here, so that it can be taken in account at the time of the audit.

Thus faithful ones scattered everywhere are continually giving to help raise the desired amount. Is it not possible for all to join in a general rally to raise this amount before the beginning of the new year?

Canvassing Work in Burma

The India Eastern Tidings prints a letter from a brother who has just entered the canvassing work in Burma. He writes: “I wish I could relate some of the conversations which I have had in English, Hindustani, and Burmese. It would convince even a skeptic that the fields are ripe, and laborers are urgently needed.”

Brethren Daniells and Irwin Return

LAST week Brethren Daniells and Irwin returned to Washington from meetings on the Pacific Coast, and went on to Philadelphia, where the Atlantic Union Conference is in session.

Educational Number of Life and Health

By Editor

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