What a gladsome day it will be
When from every mission band,
From across the distant ocean,
And from every clime and land,
Comes the day of glad reunion,
Strikes the hour when work is done,
And with loud “Hosannas” ringing,
Workers shout, “The victory’s won!”
From far India’s ancient rivers,
From the land of dark Cathay,
From the land of morning sunrise
At the gateway of the day,
Come the feet of them that published,
On the mountains, in the plain,—
Published peace, good will, and surcease
From all sorrows, tears, and pain.
From the frozen north of Greenland,
From the torrid Afric sun,
From the busy marts of nations,
From the desert’s lonely run,
Come the missionaries homeward;
From afar the reapers come,
Bringing with them sheaves most precious,
Which they gathered one by one.
When returning home to Zion,
They shall be like them that dream;
Hills and valleys be rejoicing,
Trees to clap their hands shall seem;
Everlasting peace shall cover,
Never-ending joy shall claim,
Them that are the ransomed treasure
Of the Master’s glorious reign.
Ye glad winds that love to linger
Round the calms of ocean’s deep,
Speed ye, speed ye, bear the message!
Rouse ye, rouse ye, from your sleep!
Change to gales that stretch the canvas,
Speed the good ship on its way;
Let the lightning flash the message
Of this grand reunion day.
On the eastern sky, now gleaming
With a purple-crimson ray,
Now you see the glowing promise
Of this happy, joyous day
Bursting into fullest glory
To the zenith of its sway;
Soon the faithful will bid welcome
To this all-transcendent day.
CLARENCE SANTEE
By Clarence Santee
From Egypt to Canaan
CLARENCE SANTEE
For more than a year the children of Israel were encamped before Sinai. The most wonderful experience that has ever come to a nation, before or since, was given them at this place. The voices of God the Father and Christ the Son were heard by human ears, proclaiming in unison the ten commandments, the law of the great universe which they uphold and over which they rule. I read: “Christ and the Father standing side by side upon the mount, with solemn majesty, proclaimed the ten commandments.”—“Historical Sketches of Foreign Missions,” by Mrs. E. G. White, page 231.
The law that had been spoken before the angelic hosts of heaven by the voice of God, before the fall of Satan, was now rehearsed to them. The Lord said by David, “Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, harkening unto the voice of his word.” Ps. 103:20.
There was but eleven days’ journey from Sinai to Kadesh-barnea, on the borders of Canaan. Deut. 1:2. Israel started out with buoyant hopes, thinking that a few days would find them resting secure in Canaan. This was possible, but because of distrust and murmuring these few days were lengthened to more than thirty-eight years before their feet stood on the other side of Jordan. During this long period, graves were made day by day, and loved ones were left behind as they marched onward.
How like the experience of the Israel of God who are called the “remnant”! They started out with every encouragement to carry the “third angel’s message” quickly to the world, then to cross the Jordan to the land of promise, there to inherit the country given to Abraham. But doubts filled hearts, and from time to time companies turned back, weakening the hands of those who would have pressed forward. In this way, years have passed by, many have been laid away on this side, and the journey, which might have been made long ere this, is not yet ended. “Great Controversy,” page 458, tells of this: “It was not the will of God that Israel should wander forty years in the wilderness; he desired to lead them directly to the land of Canaan, and establish them there, a holy, happy people. But ‘they could not enter in because of unbelief.’ Because of their backsliding and apostasy, they perished in the desert, and others were raised up to enter the promised land. In like manner, it was not the will of God that the coming of Christ should be so long delayed, and his people should remain so many years in this world of sin and sorrow. But unbelief separated them from God.”
This testimony was given more than a score of years ago, and even then the delay had been long to the Spirit of God. How sorely these years of lukewarmness on the part of his people must have tried and grieved him!
As Israel left the encampment of Sinai with its memories,—some sad and many sweet,—their trials increased. They had spent a year of educational advantages never equaled by others. The law of God and its breadth of meaning, the results of its transgression, the sanctuary, its furniture, offerings, and services, giving hope to the sinner,—all these were given to a people who had been all their lifetime in hopeless bondage. The world has never seen its like, a transformation with which no decade of these days of remarkable progress in which we now dwell can in any way compare. Now, as the oak that has shared the soft breezes and life-giving rains of summer in which to grow rapidly, is subjected to the biting frosts and withering cold of winter to toughen and make strong the soft fibers, so Israel must be strengthened under hardship.
Under different experiences Israel soon found cause for complaint. The manna sent from heaven was not acceptable food. The “mixed multitude” started the complaint, and soon many of Israel joined them. They said, “But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.” Num. 11:6. They expressed their contempt for this food by saying, “Our soul loatheth this light bread.” Num. 21:5, last clause. This was the real trouble. It matters not how good the food may be, when the mind is set against it, evil will result. Before this it could be said, “There was not one feeble person among their tribes.” Ps. 105:37. There were no graves at Sinai. Many today, when advised to accept the wholesome diet that God prepared for man (Gen. 1:29), turn away, accepting as their lot diseased bodies, and, as a consequence, clouded minds, loss of faith, doubt, darkness, and death.
As they encamped at Hazeroth, another cause of trouble arose in an unexpected quarter. When Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came to him in the wilderness, he counseled Moses, and God blessed the counsel to the good of Moses and the people. Ex. 18:17-24. This aroused the jealousy of Miriam and Aaron. For a time it was held back, but at Hazeroth the flame burst out, and as is usually the case, the past failures of Moses were made the basis of present accusation. Moses had married Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, a Midianite, instead of marrying an Israelite.
The Lord’s displeasure was manifested toward Aaron and Miriam, and as he departed from them, Miriam was seized with leprosy. Num. 12:1-10. Moses, forgetful of self, sought the Lord for Miriam, and the plague was stayed, but Israel delayed seven days, until Miriam could be brought again into the camp. Verse 15. The sin of one has often delayed the progress of God’s people. How careful, then, should we be as individuals, that God may not account us as an Achan or an Ananias or a Miriam.
Those who enter the heavenly city, will not do so as tribes, nor as families, but as individuals of whom the Lord can say, “The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.” Ps. 37:31.
Household Suggestions
By MRS. D. A. FITCH
MRS. D. A. FITCH
If you have more money than time, buy blankets and other bedding ready-made; if more time than money, another course is highly justifiable. If the home affords some discarded coats, trousers, or other garments in a good state of preservation, a good piece of bedding may be made with no expenditure of money.
I had two unwearable coats, one gray and one black. They were ripped up, and the outsides washed, pressed, and basted on a small-sized sheet, in crazy-quilt fashion, without diminishing any of them in size. Pieces of bright-colored goods were used to fill in any vacancies. All were fastened to the sheet by fancy stitching at the edges. A colored lining was prepared from pieces found in the house. Between this and the crazy-cover were spread some old lace curtains and clean but unusable mosquito-netting to take the place of batting. When a few ties were put in to hold all together and the edges were bound, a warm and not altogether unpresentable piece of bedding was the result.
Bits of toilet-soap may be preserved until a convenient time, just covered with water, and allowed to boil. Turn into a mold, and when cold, remove a good cake of soap.
Several boxes of shoe-paste had accumulated, each containing a small quantity in a dry state. All the paste was put into one box, moistened with turpentine, and warmed. A box of good polish was the result.
Until July 1, when the law requiring the use of only safety-matches goes into effect, all common matches should be kept in mouse- and rat-proof receptacles. Carelessness in this has undoubtedly been the cause of many fires charged to incendiaries.
To use large rather than small jars for canning fruit is less expensive. Any fruit that remains from a large can may easily be heated and put into a smaller jar, a few of which it is good economy to have on hand. To save injury to can rubbers when opening jars, invert the jar in shallow hot water for a few minutes. The cover is quite sure to respond to the usual turn given by the hand.
If convenient to do so, dry some fruit instead of canning it all. This saves the expense of jars, and affords a pleasing variety. Before dried fruit is put in store for winter use, it should be very thoroughly heated in an oven to destroy all organisms that might unfavorably affect the fruit.
Prepare pumpkin or squash the same as for pie, and bake it in a shallow pan, two or three inches deep, without crust. Serve it as a custard. This saves the work of making the crust and relieves the alimentary canal of the work of digesting it. Sweet potatoes may be used instead of pumpkin or squash.
Much of the real value of vegetables is lost by cooking in too much water. Many of them can be steamed to great advantage. When boiled, as little water as is convenient should be used. What is used and might otherwise be discarded can often be utilized in soups and gravies. Most greens will cook in their own juices if started slowly. They are more palatable and beneficial to the system. Peeled potatoes are robbed of much of their valuable mineral elements by boiling, especially if much water is used. Potatoes are much better baked. Beets are much sweeter and richer if baked, and better steamed than boiled.
Much fuel is wasted and food deteriorated by excessively vigorous boiling. Reasonable boiling is much better, thus lessening the fuel bill and helping to retain the flavor of the food. A closely covered kettle is also very helpful to this end.
An old telescope-bag makes a much better receptacle for holding sprinkled clothes than a basket, which must necessarily admit considerable air to dry the most exposed portions.
A large telescope-bag may be lined with several inches of newspapers, thus making an excellent fireless cooker, to be used as any purchased one is used. Do not forget to cover the top as thick as the sides.
Iron bedsteads and some other pieces of furniture can be greatly improved in appearance by a coat or two of common paint.
Megrim, or Migraine
By P. A. DE FOREST
P. A. DE FOREST
MEGRIM is a special neuralgia of the head, affecting principally the forehead, summit of the head, behind the eyes, and radiating down the back of the head toward the neck. The pain is of a dull, aching kind, and gets gradually worse until it would seem as if the brain were on fire. There is often nausea and vomiting. Then again the patient goes to bed feeling well and wakes up in the middle of the night with a severe pain in the head and a cold skin. If the sufferer keeps awake, the pain will probably be gone by morning; but if he dozes, he will be awakened by a most agonizing pain accompanied by a feeling of want of air, just as if one had been poisoned by coal-gas. At times only one side of the head is affected. This is known as hemicrania. Heredity plays a subtle part in the disease, and one which has an important bearing on the result of treatment.
A prominent symptom is constipation, but it is not present in every case. There is no doubt, however, that retention of fecal matter, with subsequent autointoxication, is the most potent cause. There is a slowing up of the mechanical movements of the intestinal muscles, and ingested food that should pass from the stomach to the rectum from twenty-five to thirty hours takes double that time. The colon may also be displaced, dilated, contracted, or muscularly weak, and its vermicular movements correspondingly enfeebled.
There is another class of cases in which constipation is absent, but where there is prominence of the abdomen due to descent of the abdominal organs. This produces reflex neuralgias of the head because the nerves of the mesentery, or membrane, that binds the organs to the spinal column are inordinately stretched.
Those who lead sedentary lives, who live well, whose digestion is imperfectly performed, who consume too much albumin, fats, and sugars, and who use habitually tea, coffee, chocolate, meat, fried foods, old cheese, and other indigestible dishes and highly seasoned foods, are especially prone to this disease. Such a dietary provokes biliousness, fills the body with uric acid and other tissue poisons, which irritate the nervous system, and call forth paroxysms of pain corresponding to waves of blood- and574tissue-poisoning which pass through the system. Excessive dilatation of the stomach coupled with a weak intestinal digestion will eventually lead to the extension of fermentative processes from the stomach along the whole alimentary canal.
The treatment indicated is to change the dietary, and this we believe to be the most necessary of all treatments. We have seen a vegetarian dietary alone reduce the number of attacks of megrim to one or two a year. The use of even vegetarian foods containing much protein or albumin must be avoided. Oatmeal, peas, beans, lentils, milk, and eggs, if taken at all, must be used sparingly, and great care must be taken to masticate thoroughly.
If enteroptosis, or prolapsus of the abdominal organs, is present, one of the first things to do is to restore the organs to their normal position and to keep them there by an abdominal bandage. In the mean time other helps to this end may be employed; such as, abdominal Swedish exercises, massage, dry dietary, with water-drinking when in the recumbent position.
Megrim, in reality, is only the symptom of a chronic poisoning process, and so one of the most necessary remedies is to cure the constipation. Once this feat is accomplished, in the majority of cases the vegetarian dietary and a good abdominal girdle will effect a cure.
To get rid of constipation, one must suppress the causes, which are quite numerous: too concentrated food; neglect to answer nature's call; dyspepsia; spasm, dilatation, or atony of the colon; displacement, inflammation of the pelvic organs; hemorrhoids, fissures, or fistula of the rectum; sedentary habits; too warm clothing on the abdomen and around the hips; sluggish liver; abuse of purgatives; too little fruit and vegetables and not enough water-drinking; the use of tea and coffee; and nervous debility. The most of these causes indicate the remedy.
As a rule, it is best to secure free movement of the bowels without too much local, internal treatment, relying mainly on hygiene, abdominal massage, electricity, and wet girdle, and only fall back on cold clysters, graduated enemata, cold rubbing sitz, fomentations to the liver and bowels, and cold abdominal and anal douches as a last resort.
Once this difficulty is surmounted, general-eliminative treatment may be given: electric-light baths, sweat-baths, and free water-drinking to dissolve impurities in the system, with general massage, constitute a good tonic-eliminative régime.
To cut short an attack, a hot colon clyster, a dose of castor-oil, or fomentations to the liver may have to be taken. Drug medication will sometimes cut short the attack, but it is at the expense of the general health, and it is usually best to suffer and try to cure the disease by removing the causes.
We do not profess that this treatment will entirely cure every case of megrim, but natural remedies will lessen the number and the severity of the attacks in, we might say, every case, and in many cases will make them disappear altogether. We have seen cases of inveterate megrim yield only after six months of treatment. So one must not be discouraged in the use of natural remedies.
Gland, Switzerland.
Let Me Go Back!
THE following lines adapted to Africa by one of our missionaries on furlough express the feelings of our workers when required to leave the field for a time to recuperate their health:—
“Let me go back! I am homesick
For the land of my love and toil.
Though I thrill at the sight of my native hills,
The touch of my native soil,
Thank God for the dear home country,
Unconquered and free and grand!
But the African dark, dark shores for me
Are the shores of the promised land.
“My brain is dazed and wearied
With the home land’s stress and strife,
With the race for money and place and power,
And the whirl of the nation’s life.
Let me go back! Such pleasures
And pains are not for me:
But O, for a share in the harvest home
Of the field beyond the sea!
“For there are my chosen people,
And there is my place to fill,
To spend the last of my life and strength
In doing my Master’s will.
Let me go back! ’Tis nothing
To suffer and do and dare,
For the Lord has faithfully kept his word,
He is with me always there!”
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Camp-Meetings for 1913
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
New York, Rome ........................ June 17-29
Massachusetts, Lowell ................. June 26 to July 6
CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
Quebec, Ayer's Cliff .................. June 12-22
COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE
Eastern Pennsylvania, Allentown (Emmanuel Grove) ............ June 19-29
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE
Wisconsin, Grand Rapids ............... June 19-29
NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE
Southern Idaho, Boise ................. July 10-20
Western Oregon, Portland .............. June 19-29
NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Minnesota, St. Paul ................... June 17-23
North Dakota, Bismarck ................ June 23-30
South Dakota, Sioux Falls ............. June 23-30
SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE
Georgia ............................... July 31 to Aug. 10
South Carolina ........................ Aug. 14-24
North Carolina ......................... Aug. 21-31
South Texas ........................... June 26 to July 6
North Texas ........................... July 10-20
Arkansas .............................. July 17-27
West Texas ............................ July 31 to Aug. 10
New Mexico ............................ Aug. 7-17
Oklahoma .............................. Aug. 21-31
Pennsylvania Sanitarium and Benevolent Association
By A. R. Sandborn; S. D. Hartwell
THE annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Sanitarium and Benevolent Association will be held in connection with the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference and camp-meeting at Emmanuel Grove, near Allentown, Pa., June 19-29, 1913, the first meeting to be held on Monday, June 23, at 2 P. M., for the election of trustees, and the transaction of any other business that should properly come before the meeting.
A. R. SANDBORN, President;
S. D. HARTWELL, Secretary.
Southern Idaho Conference Association
By A. M. Dart; A. C. Bird
The regular annual session of the Southern Idaho Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the camp-ground at Boise, Idaho, for the purpose of electing the board of five trustees and transacting any other business pertaining to the association. The first meeting will be held at 10:30 A. M., July 11, 1913. A. M. DART, President;
A. C. BIRD, Secretary.
New York Conference Association
By W. H. HOLDEN; F. N. JOHNSON
Notice is hereby given that the New York Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists (incorporated) is called to convene in Rome, N. Y., on the Seventh-day Adventist camp-ground, at 9 A. M., June 23, 1913, for the purpose of electing officers and transacting other necessary business.
W. H. HOLDEN, President;
F. N. JOHNSON, Secretary.
New York Conference
By W. H. Holden; F. N. Johnson
NOTICE is hereby given that the next annual session of the New York Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting in Rome, N. Y., June 17-20, 1913, for the purpose of electing officers and transacting necessary business. The first meeting will be held at 7:30 P. M., June 17, and the first two days will be devoted to transacting conference business exclusively. Every delegate should be present at the first meeting.
W. H. HOLDEN, President;
F. N. JOHNSON, Secretary.
Alberta Conference Association
By C. A. Burman; U. Wissmer
NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of the Alberta Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at 10 A. M., Tuesday, July 8, 1913, on the camp-meeting grounds at Calgary, Alberta, for the transaction of such business as should properly come before the association. It is desired that all churches be represented at this first meeting.
C. A. BURMAN, President;U. WISSMER, Secretary.
Saskatchewan Conference
By A. C. GILBERT; E. R. ALLEN
The second annual session of the Saskatchewan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Bulyea, June 30 to July 6, 1913, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the conference. The first meeting will be held at ten o’clock Tuesday morning, July 1. Each church is entitled to be represented by its elder, and one additional delegate for each five members.
A. C. GILBERT, President;E. R. ALLEN, Secretary.
Training-School for Nurses
THE fall class at the Madison (Wis.) Sanitarium Training-school for Nurses begins September 4. Consecrated young men and women who are planning to take a nurse's training as a preparation for real medical missionary work are requested to write at once for application blank and further information. A strong course in Bible has been planned. Address Superintendent of Training-school, Sanitarium, Madison, Wis.
Training-School for Nurses
To meet the demands of our young people, the Wabash Valley Sanitarium Training-school for Missionary Nurses will start a class in nursing, beginning June 15, 1913.
Those interested, if they have not already done so, will please send for calendar and application blank immediately. Address Wabash Valley Sanitarium, La Fayette, Ind.
Business Notices
FOR SALE.— In order to locate in Mexico as a missionary, I wish to sell five acres near Miami, Fla. Attractive proposition. Address M. Davis Smith, 1420, Ave. 20, Tacubaya, D. F., Mexico.
WANTED AT ONCE.— Two good carpenters. Reference required and given. Must be Sabbath-keepers. One year's steady work, effect of recent flood. F. M. Russell, Jr., contractor and retail lumber dealer, Zanesville, Ohio.
FOR SALE.— Square upright electric-light bath-cabinet, panel finish, forty dollars f. o. b. Also a Kellogg Vibrating Chair, never has been used, cost over one hundred dollars, forty dollars. F. M. Rossiter, M. D., Corbett Bldg., Portland, Oregon.
FOR SALE.— Bakery. Building and equipment as follows: 1 Mixer (J. H. D. 3 bbl.), value, $300; 1 Dough-trough (J. H. D. 16-in. rolls), value $80; 1 Cracker Machine, value $250; 1 Egg Creamer, value $35; 1 Nut Butter Mill, value $75; 1 Food Chopper, value $35; 8 Shaft Hangers; 50 ft. Shafting; 50 ft. Belting; Dough-trough, 12 ft.; Elevator, Pans, etc.; Revolving Oven Racks. Address Business Manager, Keene Industrial Academy, Keene, Tex.
Obituaries
By W. W. Miller; Dudley Marvin Canright
GLASCOCK.—Emily G. Glascock, eldest daughter of Naaman and Mary Noftsger, was born near Port Union, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1851, and died suddenly at Fernando, Cal., April 15, 1913. In 1877 she embraced the truths taught by this people, and became a charter member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church at New Antioch, Ohio. She was always loyal to the message, and for several years engaged in Bible work. In 1890 she was united in marriage with Eli Glascock, whom death claimed eight years later. Besides two stepchildren, six brothers and two sisters mourn their loss. The funeral service, which was largely attended, was conducted by the writer, assisted by Pastor Snider of the Christian Church.
W. W. MILLER.
CANRIGHT.—Died, recently, at Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. Lucy Hadden Canright, wife of Elder D. M. Canright, of pneumonia and heart failure, aged 57 years. She had been failing some for nearly a year, but neither she nor the family supposed it was anything serious. At last she was persuaded to see the family physician. All were shocked when told that she was in the last stages of heart-disease, could live but a few months at the longest, and might die any day. This was kept from her, and everything possible done to make her life as pleasant as possible. She expected to be well again soon, but caught a slight cold, pneumonia set in, and six days later she died. She suffered very little, and quietly fell asleep, all her family being present. She leaves one son and two daughters, all of age, unmarried, and at home when not away teaching, also two brothers and two sisters. The remains were taken to Otsego, Mich., her old home, and buried in the family cemetery. The funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. R. M. Scott.
When she was a small child, her mother, with many others, embraced the Adventist faith under the preaching of Elder M. E. Cornell, at Otsego, Mich., where there has been a strong church ever since. Here Lucy grew up a Sabbath-keeper. Being an excellent organist, a good singer, and an apt teacher, she was always a great help in the Sabbath-school. Later in life she was several times elected superintendent of a school. Mrs. Canright attended the college at Battle Creek, Mich., where Professor Bell was teacher. In 1881 we were married by Elder James White, only a few weeks before his death. Together we visited many of the churches in Michigan, attended a series of camp-meetings in Canada, Maine, New England, New York, etc. One summer we, with a large company, conducted tent-meetings in Worcester, Mass., and raised up a church there. This was the last time either of us ever saw Sister White. My wife was with me most of the time during my work in the church and college at Battle Creek, and thus was widely known among Sabbath-keepers. She greatly enjoyed entertaining the ministers and brethren in her own home, and loved them dearly. Among these were Brother and Sister White and both their sons, Edson and W. C., also Elders Butler, Smith, Corliss, and Fargo, and many others. During all her life she often spoke of all these with very kindly words and tender feelings. She took little interest in doctrinal discussion, a big heart and tender sympathy for all dominating her life. She cried when circumstances separated her from these old ties, but she went with her companion, and greatly beloved by the church for her efficient and unselfish work. In my absence she conducted services in the pulpit, prayer-meeting, or Sabbath-school. If any in the neighborhood were sick, or poor, or in sorrow, she was the first to know it, the first to be there and see that something was done. She shortened her own life by caring for others when she needed to be cared for herself. She lived a long life in a few years; but often thought she did not amount to much because not eloquent in speech nor gifted in argument. But when brethren and sisters and neighbors gathered around her casket and their tears fell on her dead face, while they said, "She was a mother to us all," that told a different story. It reminded me of our Lord’s parable where he selected those to sit on his right hand who were surprised to be told that they had ever done anything. There is no mention that Jesus selected any one because he was smart and good in debate. I felt ashamed of myself, for one, that I had not been more like my good wife. By God’s grace there shall be hereafter less sharpness and more kindness toward all.
D. M. CANRIGHT.
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Closing Conference Days
By Editor
As we go to press, the thirty-eighth session of the General Conference is nearing its close. Already some of the delegates are returning to their homes. Soon the camp will be deserted, the tents taken down, and but little in a material way remain to remind us of this occasion. The influence of this Conference, however, we believe will be world-wide and everlasting. The editor can truthfully say that, so far as his own personal experience is concerned, it is absolutely the best general meeting that he ever attended. With him, as with hundreds of others who were present, it was an occasion for prayer, for heart searching, for seeking a closer nearness to God and a greater fulness of the divine Spirit.
The preaching was excellent and intensely spiritual in its character. It had in it the old-time ring which belongs to the true advent message. The words of the speakers found entrance to many hearts, and as in the various meetings for adults and youth and children appeals were made for a deeper consecration to God, hundreds responded. Some gave themselves to God for the first time; how many others experienced a new consecration; many consecrated themselves in behalf of their unconverted friends and relatives. The tremulous tones, the tearful eyes, attested to the sincerity of the consecration thus made. The books of heaven bear record to many earnest purposes, which we believe will be incorporated into life action in the days to come.
The reports from foreign fields were most inspiring. Verily our hearts burned within us as we listened to the missionary experiences of the noble, heroic men and women who, as representatives of the church of God, have been away out on the firing line surrounded by the depressing influences of heathenism and Catholicism, and meeting at every turn the open assaults and subtle snares of the enemy.
We talked with one shrewd, practical business man, a Seventh-day Adventist, who had come to the meeting. He had come, on his own confession, with some cynical feelings in his heart. He had felt little faith in the missionary operations of this people, believing that the work in other lands was largely superficial in its character, and that the men and women who had been sent out were mere boys and girls. This good brother experienced a genuine conversion of heart regarding this matter. When he heard the earnest testimonies borne, when he listened to the experiences of these heralds of the cross and came to realize how God had gone, before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, how by providential interpositions their lives had been spared and mountain-like obstacles had been removed from before them, and how God had wrought in behalf of his own blessed gospel, this good brother rejoiced in the stability of our work in other lands as well as in this, and realized that God indeed is in this world-wide work.
This General Conference has been attended by large expense in time and labor. Scores have come thousands of miles to attend it. Was it worth while? Was all this exertion and expense warranted?— Yea, verily. With new courage in their hearts, with new songs in their mouths, the believers return to their lonely fields, realizing that they are a part of a great concerted plan that is being carried forward; that there is a concert of prayer and sympathy and love going out continually from the thousands of believers scattered throughout the great harvest-field.
Policies and methods have been discussed; better plans of cooperation have been secured; interests have been cemented; the representatives of a world-wide church stand united heart and soul in a common faith, in common plans, in Christian love.
May God grant that the next quadrennial term, above any preceding four years in the history of this movement, may be rich to every soul in Christian experience in gospel service and in soul-saving effort.
Abbreviated Conference Proceedings Report
By Editor
WE regret that we cannot find space in the REVIEW for full reports of the Conference proceedings. The reports have been abbreviated, and many good things necessarily omitted. Next week we hope to complete the record.
Loma Linda Hospital Receives Generous Support
THURSDAY evening, June 5, there were presented to the delegates and visitors at the General Conference the needs of the medical hospital at Loma Linda, Cal. In response to the call for donations to the enterprise, over twenty thousand dollars was raised in cash and pledges. This will prove a great help to the work at that center.
The Man Who Follows Alone
“The man who follows alone,” is the nickname given Brother F. B. Armitage by the natives of Africa. When Brother Armitage first went to the field, he was asked why there were not more with him. He replied that when God speaks it is for us to follow him, and that he proposed to follow the Lord even though he had to go alone. This furnished occasion to the natives to give him the title above, “the man who follows alone.”
Faithful Workers in Old Age
AMONG the earnest participants in the meetings and the closest observers of the Conference proceedings and of the transaction of all business matters, are Brother and Sister Chas. G. Satterlee, who for long years have been connected with this movement. They bear with youthful spirits the growing infirmities of old age. Their hearts are still young with hope in the success of this movement to which they have devoted their lives.
African Believers and Pork Raising
ONE of our missionaries related how many of the natives in his mission field, after accepting Christ, would no longer raise hogs. They do not consider that the ceremonial law of the Mosaic dispensation applies to them, but they believe that if it was not good for the people of God to deal in hog-raising and to eat pork anciently, it is not becoming for them to do so today; that so far as physiological and health principles are concerned, they apply equally in all ages of the world. The example of these African believers is a good one for Christians in other lands to follow. We wonder if there are any Seventh-day Adventists who read the REVIEW who need suggestions of this character.
