All who attended the last General Conference will never forget some of the peculiar experiences of that gathering. One feature that should ever be kept in mind and deepen in intensity in our hearts is the missionary wave that swept over the meeting; in response, a large number declared themselves ready for any field in the world to which the Lord might call them. I have since wondered if the Lord had not laid a burden for a special field on some of these. This question is ever kept before me as I behold the large Mediterranean field, with its few laborers, and a population much larger than that of the United States.
In the early days of the First Angel's Message, Joseph Wolff proclaimed the soon coming of our Lord in these fields; but it was not until recently that the Third Angel's Message has been preached here. From the first the Lord's special blessing has attended the work; and while the difficulties are very great, the workers have been remarkably sustained. For a number of years the only permanent worker paid by the Foreign Mission Board in Turkey was Brother Baharian. A few native helpers have been developed, and sustained by native tithe. As a result, there are now over two hundred Sabbath-keepers in this field.
Eighteen months ago, Brother Krum was sent to Palestine, almost a hopeless field to other missionaries; but the Lord has wrought mightily through his servant, and a remarkable work is begun among Mohammedans.
At the last General Conference Brother H. A. Henderson, son of Elder J. P. Henderson, was sent to Greece; and though the field seemed closed against the gospel, already interesting fruits appear. In addition to these laborers, a Bible worker has been sent from Switzerland to join Brother Krum, while a Bible worker and a lady nurse came with my family to Egypt, and are now engaged in work at Cairo, the capital. Thus in this great field there are but seven workers besides the meager native help. While rejoicing that a beginning has been made, I long to see more laborers in this field, and have been praying the Lord of the harvest to send them. Have not some who specially placed themselves on the altar in that remarkable meeting at the Conference felt the Lord calling them to this field? There is danger that some upon whom the Lord is moving will not respond, and so miss a grand opportunity. I would admonish all who feel a burden for this field not to delay corresponding with the Foreign Mission Board about it. There is no time to lose; the Lord is soon coming; let us get ready; and when we are truly prepared by entire consecration, the Lord will not delay a moment to place us where we belong in the great work.
H. P. HOLSER.
TEXAS
By J. M. HUGULEY
PLANO.—The church school opened with twenty-seven students. The attendance has increased to thirty-one. Miss Cora Taylor is teacher of the school. We have here the best church building in the State, being two-story high, and forty by twenty-eight feet. It is divided into two halls, one for school, the other for church. It is situated in the black lands of northern Texas, about seventy miles northeast of Keene, twenty miles northeast of Dallas, and two and one-half miles east of Plano. This portion of Texas is noted for its beauty and its healthful climate. A large part of the land is now covered with green wheat fields.
We own here about three hundred acres of this black land, which we are dividing into twenty-five-acre tracts, building houses on them, and inviting our people to rent, that they may make a living while their children attend school. In addition to this, we have about three hundred acres more, which we have rented. This also is occupied by our people, and is near enough for all to attend school. J. M. HUGULEY.
WISCONSIN
By Clara D. Larsen
FISH CREEK is a picturesque little village, in Door County, hemmed in by bluffs on the east and south, while stretching to the north and west lie the waters of Green Bay, reminding one of the village where our Saviour spent a part of his life.
At the foot of one of the hills stands our small church where the Fish Creek missionary school is held. In this very heart of nature has been heard a divine call; and as a result of obedience to that call, our school has been started, and has been in session four months. God has blessed us, is blessing us, and will continue to bless, in the work he has called us to start. Sometimes when I feel perplexed, there comes the promise found in Isa. 45:2.
Twenty-seven pupils are enrolled, and the work is onward. The interest is good, and we feel to thank God for these young minds he has given us to train for his service. We are trying to do what we can in missionary work. The women of the village have come to our aid, and we are getting a quilt under way. We also have a little box into which we put our pennies (instead of spending them for gum and candies) to send some poor child from the city to the country for the summer.
Our schools need the hearty co-operation of the parents. Let not the parents think that their part is done when they have provided a school and a teacher, and then stand by and look on; for now in13the closing days of the world's history, Satan works hard for our youth.
Of Abraham it was said that whether lying down or rising up, whether at the fireside or walking by the wayside, he was instructing his son Isaac. This accounts for the submission on the part of his son when the father took him to Mt. Moriah. So let us in the homes ever hold up before the children the standard that God has set up for them.
CLARA D. LARSEN.
SWITZERLAND
By John Norton Loughborough
BASEL, BIEL, LAUSANNE, AND CHAUX-DE-FONDS.—From January 15–22, in company with Brethren Conradi and Erzenberger, I held meetings in the places named above. In Basel our meetings were held in the chapel of the sanitarium building—the “Institut Sanitaire.” The services were well attended by the church and by the helpers and patients of the sanitarium. Dr. De Forest said to me that of the “fair patronage” of the sanitarium thus far, there was “one very encouraging feature.” That was that “counting the whole number of their patients from the time of the opening of the institution to the present, and counting those who through this means had accepted present truth, it was an average of every ninth patient.” That surely is cause for great encouragement.
It is in the cemetery in the northern part of Basel that Brethren J. N. Andrews and J. H. Waggoner are buried. I visited their graves for a season of meditation upon the past. It was under the preaching of Brother Andrews, in September, 1852, in Rochester, N. Y., that I received the light upon the Sabbath truth, the sanctuary, and the Third Angel’s Message. I first formed acquaintance with Brother Waggoner in the month of July, 1853, in northern Wisconsin. We have had many precious seasons laboring together in the work, especially in California. These brethren, both so early connected with the work of the Third Angel’s Message, have fallen asleep; but of them it can truly be said, “They died at their post,” and they “rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.” Soon will come the time of their awakening, and the grand reunion of all the faithful.
At Biel we had one very interesting evening meeting in their meeting-hall, about fifty persons being in attendance, consisting of the church and interested friends. All seemed much encouraged to hear of the Lord’s leadings in the rise of the Third Angel’s Message.
At Lausanne, our services being over the Sabbath day, we had more opportunity for instructions. About sixty were in attendance upon these services. About two thirds of these were members of the church. The others were interested ones, some of whom are leaning toward the acceptance of the truth. Our talks were translated into French for the audience by Brother Léon Tièche. Lausanne is close beside the beautiful Lake Geneva. Just across the lake we could see the Alps, with their towering peaks covered with everlasting snow. Viewing these mountains in their “awful grandeur,” forcibly brings to mind those Scriptures that speak of the greatness of the Lord, who, “by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power.”
On First day, the 21st, we were with our people in a general meeting at Chaux-de-Fonds, which is the headquarters of the European (Swiss) Conference. The most of the time from 9:30 A. M. to 9:30 P. M. was occupied with meetings. I gave two discourses, and Brother Conradi one. From three to six o’clock there was an open council respecting the work and how to advance the same. The committee had council meetings far into the night. That was a busy day, but also a free and happy day; and the Spirit of the Lord came in to guide as plans were laid for present and future movements. May he indeed guide in the execution of the plans. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
NEWFOUNDLAND
By H. J. Farman
St. John’s.—The Lord has wonderfully blessed the work here. Three persons have been reclaimed, and, although one has gone to Cape Britton, we hear good reports from him by letter. Four or five have been converted, and many more are deeply convicted.
We hold a workers’ meeting once a week. At present the church is selling one hundred copies of the Signs of the Times each week. Two persons are canvassing for “Steps to Christ,” and have taken over two hundred and fifty orders.
Never was I more conscious of the presence of the Holy Spirit, giving instruction and help in every time of need, than while here. All are of good courage in the Lord.
A few weeks ago Elder H. C. Giles and his wife came to engage in work here.
We wish the prayers of the REVIEW family for several young men deeply convicted, also for the unconverted members of different Sabbath-keeping families, and for us also that Eph. 6:19 may be our experience. H. J. FARMAN.
NEBRASKA
By N. P. Nelson
Believing that the readers of the REVIEW will be interested in a few words concerning the progress of the work in this Conference, I will mention a few of the encouraging things reported by our workers at the Nebraska Conference meeting held during the District Conference at College View.
Elder O. S. Ferren, who has for nearly five years labored in Wyoming, was present, and told of the progress of the work in that State, which has recently been added to this Conference. He reports that there are now in Wyoming four organized churches, and about one hundred Sabbath-keepers. The tithe paid by these brethren is sufficient to support one laborer. It was decided to send one minister and his wife to assist Elder Ferren, also three experienced canvassers to act as colporteurs, selling our books in that comparatively new field.
Three new church buildings have recently been erected in Nebraska, one of which has been dedicated, and the other two are ready for dedication. Several persons have accepted the truth at Stockville, under the labors of Elder W. H. White and his wife.
At Morrillville, where Elder G. H. Smith and L. V. Finster have been laboring, forty have begun keeping the Sabbath, and there is now a Sabbath-school of more than sixty members.
Elder Victor Thompson reports fifteen added to the church at Nebraska City, as the result of the Bible work done by Sister L. McIntosh, and meetings held by himself.
A Sabbath-school of sixteen members has been organized where Brother W. J. Wilson has labored this winter; and a church building has been erected at Cortland, under the supervision of Elder W. B. Hill.
Elder L. Warren reports twelve new Sabbath-keepers in Omaha, and many others deeply interested. A few Sunday evening meetings have been held in Washington Hall, with an attendance of from five to seven hundred.
Elder J. W. Boynton and R. W. Brown have been holding meetings at Austin, and thirteen have accepted the truth there.
Elder J. H. Wheeler has been laboring near Custer, S. D., and a company of eight or ten are keeping the Sabbath, and a good interest is still manifested.
Elder G. M. Brown and G. A. Kirkle have been laboring at Endicott, where there is a good interest, and we expect to see a large company raised up.
Encouraging reports were made concerning the missions in Omaha and Lincoln. At Omaha five have been soundly converted in the last three months, and many have signified their desire for a better life. The Lincoln Mission reports four conversions as a part of the visible results of its recent work.
Between last September and January 1, one hundred and twenty-three persons signed the covenant, and sixty were baptized.
Our tithe has increased six thousand dollars the last two years. The Lord has blessed Nebraska with a good harvest. Donations to missions and other enterprises are also increasing. The brethren and sisters have quite generally taken hold of the Missionary Reading Circle plan, and have been greatly benefited thereby.
The canvassers’ school, held in connection with Union College winter term, was a true success, and about twenty-eight consecrated workers will enter the field this summer to sell our books.
Several very instructive Sabbath-school conventions were held this last winter under the supervision of the State Sabbath-school Association, and we have found them a great source of encouragement to the school.
We expect there will be ten tent companies in the field the coming season, besides the workers in our large cities.
All are of good courage as they see the omens of the coming day, and the workers go forth to the battle confident of victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. N. P. NELSON.
NEW YORK.
By A. O. Burrill
It is now nine months since I began labor in this Conference. The last five have been spent with the president, visiting the churches in different parts of the State. In those churches which are the first in point of time, we visited homes on whose walls hang pictures of Brother and Sister White taken before a white hair was seen in their heads, when they were in the morning of life. At another place we visited the grave of Elder R. F. Cottrell, who sleeps under four evergreens. As we looked upon this resting place, we remembered such words as, “Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust.” “Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves. . . . And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, . . . and brought you up out of your graves.” The graves will open, and these servants will come forth.
We were welcomed everywhere by this people. We held from twelve to fourteen meetings each week. At every place we had a new and fresh message for the people, as the Spirit dictated. Among the themes dwelt upon were the near coming of Jesus; the nature, and work of the Holy Ghost, as manifested in conviction and change of heart; fruits of the Spirit and its gifts. We have dwelt upon the importance of cultivating Christian benevolence both in the home and foreign fields. In some places we have gone out with our brethren and shown them how to solicit subscriptions for the Signs of the Times and to form clubs.
The book sales have amounted to nearly three hundred dollars. The tithe during the last quarter showed an increase of more than one thousand dollars over the corresponding period in the year before. The offerings for the foreign work have shown a healthy growth. All the debts on the tent fund have been paid. At Richburg two or three persons gave sufficient to buy a thirty-by-fifty-foot tent. At Syracuse, recently, in a few minutes, more than half enough to buy another new tent was pledged.
We have the names of forty-six young men and women who wish to fit themselves for work in the message. These names and addresses have been forwarded to South Lancaster, Mass., and we confidently expect to see a reasonable number of these youth in the summer school, fitting themselves to become teachers in church schools.
At one place five persons began keeping the Sabbath. At other places there was a good interest with the outside to hear more of the message. On more than one occasion the Holy Spirit healed the sick. A new power is coming into many of the people in this Conference.
It has been arranged that I labor in Syracuse during the spring and summer. A. O. BURRILL.
NEWS AND NOTES
—A rich strike of gold has been made near Jerome, Ariz.
—Aguinaldo is reported to be hiding in Singapore, India.
—The Philippines have been divided into four military departments.
—The British vice-consul in Venezuela was murdered by conspirators, April 4.
—The Topeka Capital will realize about $20,000 from the Sheldon-week edition.
—Much concern is felt in Spain over the failing health of young King Alfonso.
—General Cronje, Colonel Schiel, and 1,000 Boer prisoners sailed for St. Helena, April 4.
—Russia has secured railway grants from Kalgan to Peking, and from Luhan to Honan Fu.
—Pacific Coast workmen complain of the influx of Japanese laborers, 3,420 having arrived since Jan. 1, 1899.
—Great Britain has received news of “a serious uprising in Ashanti, and extra troops have been sent to Coomassie.
—The United States secretary of war has authorized the enlistment of competent Filipino musicians in regimental bands.
—From Pacific Coast ports more than 14,000 persons have engaged passage for the Cape Nome gold fields, on the first boats.
—Three hundred hands are thrown out of employment by a $100,000 fire in a fruit-jar factory at New Brunswick, N. J.
—The Oceanic Steamship Company, of San Francisco, Cal., secured the contract for carrying mail to Australia for ten years.
—Because of lawlessness in the Coeur d’Alene district, 1,500 citizens of Idaho have asked the secretary of war to send troops there.
—The Korean minister has left the United States temporarily to represent his government at Paris, Vienna, and St. Petersburg.
—General de Villebois-Mareuil, the noted French officer who was commanding a troop of Boer soldiers, was killed in battle, April 7.
—Both England and the United States are very much dissatisfied over the Delagoa Bay award, and may refuse to accept the sums named.
—A cargo of coal for Rotterdam has left Philadelphia. This is but the first of many expected shipments to be made to the Netherlands.
—In two recent battles with the Boers, the British casualties were 900, 450 being captured, killed, or wounded by the Boers in each engagement.
—General Otis has been relieved of his command in the Philippines, and will return to the United States shortly. He is to be succeeded by General MacArthur.
—Heavy fighting is reported to be in progress in the vicinity of Mafeking. Colonel Plumer’s relief column, it is said, was compelled to retire with loss, March 31.
—Intimate friends of Mrs. Dewey assert that she has abandoned Roman Catholicism for the Episcopalian faith. The Deweys are silent on the matter. The natural query now is, What is back of this new shift?
—The huge granite dam in front of a lake thirty miles long, at Austin, Tex., gave away April 9, owing to the flood caused by a cloudburst. Forty persons were drowned, and damage to property will amount to $3,000,000.
—The Porto Rico bill passed the United States House of Representatives the afternoon of April 11. The vote was: yeas, 161; nays, 153. Great cheering followed this announcement, on the Republican side. “The galleries, crowded to suffocation, remained silent.” President McKinley signed the bill the 12th. Accordingly it is now the law of the land—of Porto Rico.14
—In Cleveland 300 plumbers have struck for higher wages.
—Over 5,000 Utah Mormons have gone to Chihuahua, Mexico.
—President McKinley has recognized Taylor as governor of Kentucky.
—The Boers have cut off the water supply from the British at Bloemfontein.
—The Arabs lost 600 men in a battle with the French, at Inrahr, Algeria, March 31.
—The Arbuckle Brothers have reduced the price of sugar five points, in all grades.
—The first shipload of American coal, 6,000 tons from Virginia, has reached Japan.
—The postmaster at Trovort, Utah, has been removed from office, as a polygamist.
—Denmark offers to sell her West Indian islands to the United States for over $4,000,000.
—Six hundred miles of cable have just been laid between Canso, Nova Scotia, and the Azores.
—Of the 1,500 cars of coke daily turned out by the Frick Company, the Carnegie Company takes 600 cars.
—Monday night, April 2, over 200 bonfires throughout the German Empire celebrated the birthday of Bismarck.
—The famous Ferris wheel, exhibited at the Chicago World’s Fair, in 1893, will be torn down and sold for scrap iron.
—More than half the striking machinists at Chicago have returned to work, and the strike has cost them over $1,000,000.
—American manufacturers of lawn mowers will push the sale of their implements in England, owing to an advance in price of the English makes.
—The National Educational Association has offered $1,200 in prizes for the best essays on seating, lighting, heating, and ventilating of public school buildings.
—Special legislation is to be asked by the residents of North Holland, Mich., to have the name of their town changed to Cronje, as a compliment to the Boer general.
—W. S. Witham, of Atlanta, Ga., is the president of twenty-seven banks in Georgia and Alabama, besides being active in the management of a number of cotton mills.
—Turkey has prohibited the importation of American pork as being injurious to public health. United States Secretary of the Interior Hay has entered a vigorous protest.
—Admiral Dewey denies the newspaper reports concerning his European trip, and says: “I have no idea where the stories connecting me with a European trip this summer, originated.”
—Dean C. Worcester, member of the new Philippine Commission, has tendered his resignation as assistant professor of zoology in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He will not teach again.
—The Inter-Oceanic Canal Company, capitalized at $100,000,000, was incorporated in New Jersey, April 4, to construct, own, and operate a maritime canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
—Göttingen University, Germany, has established a seminary for “the science of insurance,” with two sections—one mathematical, the other legal and administrative. There are over sixty insurance students.
—A director of the Carnegie Company chartered a special train over the Santa Fe route, from Los Angeles, Cal., to Pittsburg, that he might reach a board meeting on time. Cost, $4,000. The time record was lowered.
—Because of 600 recent conversions in Moundsville, W. Va., the mayor says that the municipal government will be run “as Jesus would.” But Jesus never did run any municipal government, and absolutely refused to be elected to any civil office.
—Rev. Dr. N. D. Hillis, of Plymouth church, New York, has withdrawn from the Chicago Presbytery and from the Presbyterian Church, as a result of the criticism, by his old professors of McCormick Seminary, of his denunciation of the Calvinistic doctrine of foreordination, in his sermon of March 24. He will unite with the Congregational Church.
—Ernest Seton Thompson, author of the book of true and excellent stories, entitled “Wild Animals I Have Known,” recently lectured in the Auditorium, at Chicago and, among other things, pleaded for the great number of noble animals ruthlessly slaughtered in this country every year. He said: “The animals have a right to life, and the pursuit of happiness according to their nature. That right is only limited by the higher right of man.” Speaking of hunting, he further asserted that “up to the point when the hunter has the hunted game at his mercy, it is noble. Then it is murder. What I advocate is the new sport, calling for the exercise of all the fine qualities of the old sport, minus murder. The weapon is the camera, not the rifle. It takes more of nerve, grit, courage, all that sort of thing, to photograph game than to end its life. I know old miners in the West, men unlettered and rude, who have hung up their weapons in their cabins, and now hunt with the camera.”
NORTH CAROLINA.
By W. L. Killen
PELHAM, KINSTON.— From our District Conference at Graysville, Tenn., I went to Pelham, N. C., and spent a week among those to whom I had sold books. The weather being cold, and it being a country place, the people could not attend meetings at night. Hence no public effort was made. I visited from house to house, holding Bible readings, praying with the people, and distributing papers and tracts among them. There is a good opening here for a tent-meeting this spring.
It was thought best that my wife and I join Elder Sanford at LaGrange. From the first, the meetings were well attended. The Lord gave freedom, and Elder Sanford spoke the message with as much ease and power as I had ever heard it presented. To the Lord be all the praise. Six persons have taken their stand for the truth.
Elder Sanford is binding off the work there, while my wife and I are opening up the work at Kinston. This is a thriving town. In the last four years it has doubled itself in population. Manufacturing and tobacco raising are the principal industries. At first the courthouse seemed to be the only place where our meetings could be held. This we could get only five nights in the week. Every one told me that I need not try to get the opera house; for the owner was an infidel, and was very cross. I went to him, however, and told him what I wanted. “Two dollars a night,” he said. I told him we could not pay that, and explained to him more fully our work, etc. “Well,” he said, “take up collections, pay the expenses of the meeting, and give me the remainder.” We agreed.
Our next work was to get settled. For three long days I walked through the town, trying to get rooms. We were confident that the Lord wished us here; for we had such a good place for meeting. We placed the matter before him, and in less than an hour one of the best families of the town gave us a room. Last night we had a large attendance, and the Holy Spirit took charge of the meeting. To the Lord be all the praise. Elder Sanford will join us in labor soon.
We are greatly in need of a large number of tracts and late, clean copies of the Signs of the Times. We are not able to buy them. Any one wishing to do missionary work may send literature to Kingston, Lenoir Co., N. C., postpaid, at once.
W. L. KILLEN.
SOUTH LANCASTER ACADEMY.
By Frederick Griggs
The South Lancaster Academy Board of Trustees has just concluded its spring board meeting. The manifest presence of the Lord was felt throughout all the meetings, a sweet spirit being noticeable, no matter how difficult or perplexing was the business under consideration. One of the brethren, who has for some time been a member of the board, remarked that he did not remember of ever being in any business meeting where more of the guiding Spirit of God was manifested than in these sessions. A much easier feeling is being experienced financially by the school. There were a few changes made in the faculty and helpers; but for the most part they will remain the same for the coming year.
While the members of the board were in the place, several sermons were preached, in which the Spirit of God was manifest in a marked way. Elders Russell and Thompson remained after the meetings, which closed the evening after the Sabbath, March 17, and conducted meetings with the students for two days. A deep revival of the Spirit of God was begun. We were very sorry to have these brethren leave; but the work in their respective Conferences demanded their immediate attention.
The faculty planned upon resuming the usual school work the morning after the brethren left, and yet they were earnestly seeking the Lord that he would direct in all matters pertaining to the school. This he did in a marvelous way. While in the chapel, just before the students were to be dismissed to their class rooms, one of the students arose and asked the privilege of saying a few things with reference to his own Christian experience. While he was speaking, others arose; and for nearly three hours the work of confession and repentance and praising the Lord went forward. It was a case where the faculty literally stood still, and saw the salvation of the Lord. In the afternoon the same work was continued. The students were seeking the Lord in prayer and counsel. The next day was a repetition of the preceding one. All this was without a word or any effort from any member of the faculty to urge the students in this direction. We have never seen more manifest workings of the Spirit of God.
Throughout the year the students in the school have been earnest in their studies; but there have been several who either had not any Christian experience or who lacked solidity in their Christian character. This work has deepened the experience of the students.
Instruction was given the students in the matter of their confessions; that according to the Testimonies, there are confessions that should be made to God only, and others that should be made to individual persons, and still others that should be made to the whole congregation. As a result of this instruction, the confessions that were made in public were of a helpful nature.
There are quite a number of our students who are desirous of baptism, and it will be administered soon. Never has the faculty witnessed more abundant evidence of the outpouring of the Spirit of God than during the last few days. Our hearts are full of gratitude for what the Lord is doing. The work is going on in a quiet way, without the least excitement or urging on the part of anyone. It is the Spirit of God that is doing it all, and to his name be all the glory.
FREDERICK GRIGGS.
Poy Sippi Mission School
By Pauline Chamberlin
Poy Sippi.—Our mission school opened Oct. 30, 1899, with ten children in attendance. Later there were twenty-three. There is one coming to school whose parents are not Adventists. The Lord has blessed in this work.
I long to live every moment more like Christ, that my example may lead my dear pupils to love him, so that, as a school, we may meet in heaven.
PAULINE CHAMBERLIN.
Loyal Church School
By Charles Gilchrist
THE church school at Loyal has closed, after a term of five months. During this time twenty-two children have attended at different times, the average attendance being ten. The Lord has greatly blessed in the school work, and the students are striving with renewed zeal to serve him better.
The way in which they have studied is worthy of commendation. None of the students are sorry that they attended a school where the word of God is the basis of instruction. CHARLES GILCHRIST.
MINNESOTA
By H. W. Johnson
HUTCHINSON.—The church school at this place began January 2, with an enrollment of thirteen students, which soon increased to seventeen. The pupils range in age from seven to twenty. This made it necessary to have two departments; so my wife teaches the primary department, leaving me free to devote my attention more fully to the intermediate part of the work.
We recognize the leading hand of God in this work; and while we have not seen any special manifestation of the power of God at any special time, yet it is evident that the Spirit of Jesus is having a molding influence upon the attendants of the school; for their minds are being drawn into channels that lead heavenward.
Considering the fact that many inconveniences and difficulties confront us in this work, such as a lack of systematic books, adapted to the church school work, insufficient furniture and room, etc., our hearts are made doubly glad to see the interest many manifest in the school. And as we see that many precious souls may be gathered into the fold of Christ by diligent, God-fearing effort, it inspires us with increased courage to press the battle with more earnestness than ever before.
Dear brethren and sisters, will you not arise and go forward in this work of saving our children and youth? Has not the time fully come when we should remove our children from the public schools, where they are receiving the mark—name or character—of the beast? But to remove them from the public schools means that schools must be established where they will receive the impress of Jesus. May all sense the importance of this work.
H. W. JOHNSON.
C. L. BURLINGAME
By C. L. Burlingame
ASHEVILLE.—The work here is moving slowly but steadily, and we look for greater things in the near future. Many books and periodicals have been scattered during the last six years. Bible-readings have also been given, and personal work done. There have been three terms of the church school, in which some not of our faith have had pupils. For three years medical missionary work has been carried on in a small way. And now Elder J. O. Johnston expects soon to hold a series of meetings. May some of the seed sown germinate.
We have endeavored to heed the Lord's instructions, and have the REVIEW read in every family. Ten copies were supplied through the tract and missionary society two years ago, and last year those taking the paper loaned it to others.
Pray for the work in this difficult field.
C. L. BURLINGAME
Names of Adventists Not Taking the Review
WANTED, at once, the name and address of every Seventh-day Adventist in your church who does not take the REVIEW. Address the editors.
Nursing Class Enrollment Opportunity
THERE is an opportunity for twenty-five first-class young men to enter the spring class in nursing at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Application should be made at once. Address the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Missionary Nurses' Training School Department.
Pennsylvania, — June 7-18
New England, — June 14-25
Quebec, — June 21 to July 2
Chesapeake, — June 21 to July 2
DISTRICT THREE.
Wisconsin, — June 5-17
Ontario, — June 15-25
DISTRICT FOUR.
Iowa, Ames, — May 31 to June 10
Minnesota, Anoka, — June 7-17
South Dakota, Sioux Falls, — June 14-24
North Dakota, — June
Manitoba, Morden, — June 28 to July 8
DISTRICT SIX.
North Pacific, Portland, Ore., — May 17-27
Upper Columbia, — May 24 to June 2
California, San Jose, — June 5-17
Montana, five local meetings, of which the first is at Great Falls, — June 29 to July 8
Announcement of later meetings will be published in due time. Particulars as to the time and place of holding State and local camp-meetings should be sent to the undersigned as soon as definitely planned. L. A. HOOPES, Sec. Gen. Conf.
CAMP-MEETING AT BILOXI, MISS.
By R. S. Owen
A UNION camp-meeting for the southern parts of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi will be held at Biloxi, Miss., April 20-29. Laborers in each of these three States are equally interested in the arrangements for this meeting. We desire to see all the brethren and sisters in this field at the meeting. It will be an important occasion, and we hope no one will fail of doing his best to come. Tents will be on the ground for those who desire them. Bring your bedding, and provisions as far as convenient. R. S. OWEN.
