KEMMERDINE, RANGOON.—As the year is drawing near its close, I thought all might be interested to know how we have been getting along in this little corner of the great harvest-field. Although the force of laborers, already small, has been weakened by the absence of Elder and Mrs. H. H. Votaw, yet we can see marked advancement during the past year. While the arm of flesh may be weakened, the arm of God is equal to any emergency.
BAPTISMAL SCENE IN BURMA
Yesterday we gathered again at the lake side, and I had the blessed privilege of baptizing five souls. This was a very happy occasion. Not only were there a good number of our own members present, but quite a number of strangers were there, also. We are glad to have strangers come to witness this solemn and impressive service, as it leaves an impression on their minds that they do not soon forget. We know that this is true from past experience. Some who have come only as on-lookers have been our next candidates.
During the past year, eleven have been baptized and added to the church in Rangoon. Four are keeping the Sabbath who have not yet received the rite.
The tithe for Burma has shown a marked increase. During the year it has more than doubled. For all of 1908 we received 1,769 rupees; for the ten months just past we have received over 3,000 rupees. This does not include the American missionaries' tithe. The Sabbath-school offerings for 1908 were 424 rupees; for 1909 they amount to more than 600 rupees. Other offerings amount to 1,950 rupees.
Aside from this evidence of God's love, we have seen his hand leading out in other ways. The truth has been brought favorably to the notice of the highest officials in this country. A few months ago Elder Geo. F. Enoch, of India, with Brother R. A. Beckner and Brother Stevens, met the lieutenant-governor, by appointment, to lay before him our school system, and ask his aid in securing land for educational purposes. He was favorably impressed, and promised us his support. Since then he has written, asking that we make written application for land. This we have done.
Not long ago Brother Stevens and I looked at, and decided upon, a tract of fifty acres, lying just north of Meiktila, one of the most healthful locations. If this land is granted to us, it will be free from any promise on our part to conform to any government rules or standards of education.
We are so glad to learn that some are on their way to the field. We are looking forward with a great deal of pleasure to meeting them. We plan to hold a general meeting in Rangoon for all the believers in Burma, about the time of their arrival.
This leaves us all full of courage, and determined to press on to the finishing of the message. R. R. Cook.
The Danish-Norwegian Seminary Located
By R. A. Underwood
The large committee, selected at the College View Council to decide upon the location of the Danish-Norwegian seminary, was in session December 20-24. The committee first met at Dodge Center, Minn., and were kindly received by the citizens. We looked over property, and entertained propositions that were offered in the way of locating the school at that place.
On Tuesday, the twenty-first, we met the Commercial Club of Lake City. We were received with all the courtesy possible to be shown, and were taken to the property that was offered us. The committee came to Minneapolis that evening, and the next morning went to Hutchinson. Here we were also royally entertained. I would say that at each of these three places the Commercial clubs and friends entertained the large committee free of any expense to us.
The committee gave careful consideration to all the propositions offered, and unanimously decided to locate at Hutchinson if proper negotiations could be made with D. P. Jones & Co., who held a vacant college building, and were the agents of other property we wished to secure. Satisfactory arrangements were made with Mr. Jones, and the committee entered into a contract to take the college property at twelve thousand dollars, and the one hundred fifty acres of land adjoining it for ten thousand two hundred fifty dollars, making a total of twenty-two thousand two hundred fifty dollars.
The college building is one hundred twenty-three by sixty-seven feet, four stories high. Its walls are built of solid brick. The floors and furnishing inside are of hardwood, and in good condition. There are sixty-two rooms for students, a dining-room, and suitable class-rooms in the building. In all, I believe, there are sixty-eight rooms in the college, besides a chapel, capable of seating five hundred persons with comfort.
The college building has cost in the neighborhood of forty thousand dollars. It will be necessary for us to raise about thirty thousand dollars to pay for it, and to make necessary improvements upon the farm, and to fully equip the school. When we have done this, the college property will be worth, on a conservative basis, not less than fifty thousand dollars. We have deposited two thousand dollars as earnest money, and have agreed to pay eight thousand dollars more within thirty days, or as soon as the examination of the titles to the properties are made and accepted by our attorney. The citizens of Hutchinson have already invested over twenty thousand dollars in the building. Jones & Co. have put in twenty thousand dollars. The college was built, and conducted for a time, by the Lutheran church, as a Danish-Norwegian college, but it failed, going into the receiver’s hands, and finally D. P. Jones & Co. came in possession of the property under a mortgage. This is why we are able to secure the property at the price above named.
The small locating committee—Elders L. H. Christian, S. E. Jackson, and myself—have been very busy in our efforts since the College View Council in bringing about as early a decision in locating this school as we have. The large committee of eighteen or twenty brethren, including Elder O. A. Olsen, secretary of the Foreign Department of the General Conference, and representatives from Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, was unanimous in the feeling that God had indeed guided in the selection of this property at so reasonable a price to establish a Danish-Norwegian seminary in this country, which will be a blessing in all lands. In a short time17our brethren will receive photographs of the building, and much more will be said concerning the future center of our Danish-Norwegian work in the northwest, and, in fact, in the United States.
We ask our English-speaking brethren, as well as our Danish-Norwegian brethren, to rally at once to the support of this new institution which God’s providence has brought into existence. We must have eight thousand dollars within thirty days, and we should have sufficient funds to have the entire school paid for next fall, when it is to open for college work. The large committee chose a faculty which undoubtedly will be a great strength to the seminary, and our brethren should begin at once to look toward this school as the center of education for our Danish-Norwegian people. The farm of one hundred fifty acres is unimproved land. It is covered with small timber and brush, and must be cleared. The timber will do much toward meeting the cost of clearing the land. We must have a team of good horses, also a wagon, a sled, harnesses, and tools at once, so that our farmer may begin the work of clearing this farm as soon as possible. Possibly some of our brethren may have a team of horses worth from four to five hundred dollars that they would be glad to give to this new institution. Or some one may be able to give one horse, or some other gift. I will mention some of the seminary’s needs a little later.
Let every one pray that God’s richest blessing may attend every step, as we believe it has thus far in the location of this school. We could cite many instances in connection with the manner in which this school property was called to our attention, which to my mind indicate that God had this place in view for our Danish-Norwegian school. More will be said about the school and its prospects in the near future.
A legal corporation has been effected, under the name of “The Northern Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, Incorporated,” which will receive the title of the property. It is requested that all funds for payment on the college property be forwarded to T. D. Gibson, treasurer of the Northern Union Conference, 2718 Third Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn. Those who desire to have their money go into the first payment of this property in establishing this school should lose no time in forwarding the same, and they will receive acknowledgment for any money sent, and will be paid a thousandfold in seeing young men and women developed for service which will be a glory to them throughout eternity.
R. A. UNDERWOOD.
Southern California Conference
By E. E. Andross
The blessing of God has attended the labors of his servants in this conference during the past few months. In every place where meetings have been held, some have been found who gladly responded to the call to prepare to meet the coming King.
One very neat chapel, with seating capacity for about one hundred twenty-five people, has been built and dedicated free of debt. One at Loma Linda, with a seating capacity of about four hundred fifty, is now in process of erection.
Three new churches are being prepared for organization, and several of our churches have been materially strengthened by new members being added to them as the result of work recently done.
The members took hold of the circulation of the Missions number of the Review with earnestness, but it is yet too early to tell what the result will be from a financial standpoint.
All the reports that have come to hand from the week of prayer have been the most encouraging that I have ever known. The churches have experienced a great spiritual uplift, and the offering for missions has been much larger than heretofore.
The solemn conviction of the fact that the end of all things earthly is actually approaching, that it is very near, and that as a people and as individuals, we are yet unprepared for it, has taken fast hold of large numbers, and this has had a very wholesome effect. I was never more grateful that I am connected with a people who so quickly respond to reproof, to correction, to instruction in righteousness that they may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Our sanitariums are all enjoying a better patronage this season of the year than ever before, and the spirit controlling the staff of workers in each is most excellent.
The Lord is greatly blessing our school work. At both Loma Linda and Fernando the students are largely preparing for some place in the cause. The church-school work is in a very encouraging condition. We are anxious to see the work finished, and to this end consecrate our all to God for service to the end.
E. E. ANDROSS.
Among Our Training-Schools
By F. M. Wilcox
God has a great work to do for mankind during the closing days of earth's history, and his providence is preparing earnest, consecrated men and women to take part in this work. Clothed with his power, they will go forth to the nations of the earth, and a speedy work will be accomplished. I was forcibly impressed with this cheering outlook while visiting several of our training-schools during the last month.
EMMANUEL MISSIONARY COLLEGE.—It was my privilege to spend the first part of the week of prayer at the Emmanuel Missionary College at Berrien Springs, Mich. Here Prof. O. J. Graf and his faithful coworkers have in training one hundred thirty earnest young men and women, the great majority of whom are in preparation for no other purpose than to go out as workers in the great harvest-field. An excellent spirit seemed to exist in the school, and this was due largely to the hearty spirit of co-operation with which the faculty are endeavoring to carry forward the work. Each had a kindly word to speak for his associates. In this school I was impressed with the proportionately large number of mature young men in training. Surely from this center of education should go forth many workers into the conferences of the Lake Union Conference, as well as some into the great regions beyond.
UNION COLLEGE.—Four days were spent at Union College, College View, Neb., during the week of prayer. The school had been divided into a number of prayer bands, each in charge of a competent leader. These bands met throughout the week for a midday service. With the general public service held at the chapel period, and the evening devotional services, each member of this large student body was brought under religious influence and personal labor. While no great stir was apparent, it was evident that deep personal work was going forward in the hearts of the students, and many expressed themselves as finding a deeper experience in God than they had ever known before.
Prof. C. C. Lewis and his associates are working earnestly and faithfully to meet the great responsibility thrown upon them by this large number of students. This important training-school has done much in the past in supplying workers for this cause, and we believe that this but presages a much greater work, which, in the providence of God, it will accomplish in the future.
The Nebraska Sanitarium, located at this point, is doing a splendid work in training several classes of earnest young people for medical missionary work. The International Publishing Association was pressed with work, in the preparation and circulation of literature for those among us of other tongues.
Great dangers confront the hundreds of Seventh-day Adventists centralized at this point, the largest church at the present time in the denomination. Only as they appreciate their responsibilities and improve to the utmost, and with right purpose, the opportunities and blessings given them, will they be able to meet the purpose of God.
BOULDER-COLORADO SANITARIUM.—Passing on at the close of the week of prayer, I next visited the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium. At this place I passed many years of earnest labor, and greatly enjoyed the privilege of spending a few days at the institution after an absence of one year. The occasion was the annual commencement exercises of the nurses' training-school. The class consisted of thirteen earnest young men and women, who were awarded diplomas. They were Hans Jacob Anderson, Leah Myra Beltz, Emma Christine Frederickson, Pink Frances Glasgow, Lottie Edna Galpin, Grace Edna Mitchell, Louise Katheryn Peterson, Nellie May Swift, Ardella May Stout, Ethel Stout, Alberta Roland Stagner, Orson Roy Van Horn, Nellie Anna Wagner.
Without an exception, the members of this nurses' class have dedicated their active service wherever God's providence indicates. One already, Sister Glasgow-Kelsey, is on her way to India. Brother Orson R. Van Horn has accepted the position of head nurse in the Paradise Valley Sanitarium. Others will connect with the organized work in various parts of the field, as the providence of the Lord may indicate.
This sanitarium has done much in past years in the training of workers. It already has representatives in India, Burma, Argentina, and Japan. The earnest letters received from these pioneers, as well as the demands of the great mission field, have kept burning brightly the missionary flame in the hearts of succeeding classes. Coming years will furnish many more earnest workers to go out to help carry this closing message.
During the last year the sanitarium has been very successful in many ways.18The receipts from the guests exceeded the receipts of 1908. Important repairs and improvements have been made, particularly in the treatment-rooms of the institution. A large number of operations have been performed by Dr. J. D. Shively, and these have materially aided in the receipts of the sanitarium, and in enlarging the number of its guests. Dr. Shively and wife, Dr. Kate Lindsay, Dr. J. O. Stowe, and Brethren MacGuire, Rice, and Weller, together with a company of devoted young men and women, are laboring earnestly to upbuild and carry forward the work at this sanitarium.
Returning, I tarried one night at Hinsdale, Ill., visiting the sanitarium carried on by Drs. David and Mamie Paulson. While not under denominational control, the workers are seeking close affiliation with conference and denominational interests. A good spirit characterized the place and workers.
One day was spent at the college at Mount Vernon, Ohio, but in consequence of the school vacation, I did not have the privilege of meeting the students in this institution. Brother S. M. Butler, the president of the school, reports an attendance of over one hundred thirty, and a spirit of good cheer and evidences of progress were apparent.
The little sanitarium operated at this place by Dr. V. L. Fisher and Brother Kennedy, under the auspices of the college and the Columbia Union Conference, gave material evidence of its prosperity in the large addition being made to its building, thus doubling the capacity for patients.
As we view the work being done by these training-schools, and think of the work being carried forward by our good training-schools throughout the world, to prepare men and women for service in this movement, we thank God, and take courage. We, who are older, may fall by the way, or in weariness step aside to rest, but God has an earnest company of young men and women in our ranks who will finish the work by his grace, and in its final triumph young and old will rejoice together.
F. M. WILCOX.
College of Medical Evangelists and the Thanksgiving Ingathering
By J. A. Burden
Last year the Loma Linda students gathered $413.84 with the twelve hundred copies of the Missions REVIEW distributed. This year we hardly expected to do so well, as a number of the students were young and inexperienced. The students laid aside their studies and engaged heartily in distributing the REVIEW and soliciting funds. They, with a few others, received, altogether, $405.23 for foreign missions, with the fifteen hundred papers circulated. They all had excellent experiences.
One young lady who engaged in the work for the first time, called at a house where a man was painting. As she presented the paper, he turned her away very coolly; so she passed on and started to enter the next house. He called to her, saying that it was of no use to go in there, as that was his home, and there was no one but his wife inside, and she would not be interested in the paper. The young lady turned to go away, but something impelled her to go back. As she rapped at the door and entered, a little babe in its mother's arms went into a spasm. The mother was frightened, and knew not what to do, as the child seemed to be dying. The nurse noticed a boiler of water on the stove, and she asked the lady to bring her a wash-tub, and soon she had the baby in a hot bath, which brought it to life again. Meantime, the lady had called her husband, and as they watched the nurse apparently bring the baby back to life, they were overjoyed and filled with gratitude, and were ready to listen to her story of the need of foreign missions. They now gladly took the paper and gave her a donation.
A brother who was working in a business district, called at a department store. The manager told him he had no interest in missions or in religion, and did not believe in the Bible. He said he had often asked ministers questions concerning these things which they could not answer. Our worker inquired what the questions were, promising to answer them if he could. Then followed a long discussion of all the topics of present truth, which lasted over an hour. All the clerks and the customers stood by listening while the proprietor of the store and the student canvassed the entire third angel's message. It made a deep impression, and resulted in quite a large contribution to missions.
Last fall a young girl who lived near Los Angeles, applied for admittance to our nurses' course. She was not an Adventist, nor was she a professed Christian, but she said she had a longing for better things, and felt that she would find them at Loma Linda. We hesitated to take her, but finally granted her the privilege on probation. When the time came for the missionary campaign, and the call was made for volunteers, she offered herself for the work. A number advised us not to let her go, fearing she was not qualified and would be discouraged; but each time a call was made for volunteers, she responded. Finally we made up our minds to let her try it. As she had little knowledge of the truth and of our work, of course she was ill prepared to present the matter intelligently to the public.
At the first house where she called, as she knocked at the door, she noticed on the wall the text, 'God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son.' When she attempted to present the paper to the people, they rudely turned her down, but the text wrote itself on her memory, and as she walked to the next house, an appreciation of the great sacrifice God had made to save men, loomed up before her, and the conviction of his love settled down upon her heart. This gave her a canvass to present to the people at the next house, which had a wonderful effect. As she repeated the simple words, 'If God so loved us that he gave his Son, the best gift that heaven had, we ought to be willing to sacrifice a little that the heathen might learn of his love,' her own heart was touched, and it is needless to say she reached the hearts of the people with her simple story as she passed from house to house, gathering funds at each place for the needy fields, doing even better than all the workers who went out with her to show her how to do the work. That evening when the workers met to relate the experiences of the day, for the first time this girl attempted to speak for the Lord. As she arose, she said in simple words, 'I think I did more to-day than any of you, for I had one convert. When I went out, I did not know the Lord, but I know him now.' The simple story of her work and the new experience she had gained, had a wonderful influence on the meeting.
The students felt that the three days given to missionary work had been well spent, and really felt sorry when the time came for the work to close, but they returned to their studies with renewed vigor.
During the ingathering and the two weeks that followed, the third-year nurses' class, a few medical students, and two of the physicians were out in evangelistic medical work in the cities and villages of the Valley. As they ministered to the physical needs of the people, and taught them how to regain health, doors were thrown wide open to them. The longer they worked, the more they found to do. Especially was this true in the city of Pasadena. When the time came for these workers to return home, the interest was so great that the church appealed to us to send another company of workers, as they could not bear to see the good work stop. Our need is more consecrated workers to meet the constant calls. If we had two more evangelistic physicians, and about a dozen well-trained nurses, it would keep them all busy to respond to the openings for ministering to the people and their needs.
As the students called on the people, they invited them to visit the sanitarium, and each Sunday since, the dining-room has been crowded with visitors. Last Sunday the mayor of Los Angeles, with a number of others, took dinner with us at Loma Linda. He was delighted with the place, and especially with the spirit he found. He19remarked that it was such a rest to come to this Christian home, away from the graft of city public life.
At present we have about fifty patients. At five o'clock each afternoon in the parlor we have a Bible reading for the patients, and are taking them through the doctrinal features of our faith, as well as other important subjects. Just now Elder R. S. Owen is conducting a verse-by-verse study of the book of Revelation, and the patients are intensely interested. Three have recently begun the observance of the Sabbath, and others say the truth looks very clear. We are having the most ideal sanitarium work at Loma Linda of anything I have ever seen in all my sanitarium experience. We attribute it quite largely to the combined influence of the school and the sanitarium, which keeps up a healthy spiritual atmosphere in the hearts of the workers. A number of the patients attend the Bible class in the school.
On December 9 the College of Medical Evangelists was chartered, and the work of the school is proceeding nicely. Students who are graduated will now have the opportunity of being recognized by the State, and the privilege of practising the sanitarium healing art the same as physicians of other schools. Since the Loma Linda school opened, ten workers have gone to foreign fields,—four to South America, four to China, one to India, one to Japan—and another starts for India the first of the year.
The calendar for the medical school is now ready to send out. Those desiring information concerning this school, should address the dean, Dr. G. K. Abbott, Loma Linda, Cal.
J. A. BURDEN.
Porto Rico
By Millie E. Steele
We desire to send New-year's greetings to our friends, to say that we are of good courage, and that the work is onward. Mr. Steele has recently held a short series of meetings in Arecibo with some degree of success. We thank God for even slight manifestations of interest, and feel greatly encouraged. We have hopes of seeing a church raised up there in the near future. Pray for the success of the work here in Porto Rico, and in the meantime do what you can that the prayer may be speedily answered. “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” We need helpers greatly. Although, comparatively speaking, the field is small, yet it is large for one man. Who will say, “Here am I, Lord, send me”?
I was much interested in two articles that appeared in the REVIEW recently: one, “Are We Losing Our Simplicity?” the other in regard to home-made furniture. I am confident that many of us could dispense with various things we now consider necessities if we really loved the Lord as much as we ought, or had lost sight of self.
MILLIE E. STEELE.
Medical Missionary Department
By W. A. Ruble
Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference
W. A. RUBLE, M. D. - - - Secretary
Alberta Industrial Academy
By J. I. Beardsley
I AM glad to be able to report that we are moving into our new building. The girls moved in a week ago to-day, and we hope to move the kitchen and dining-room next Sunday. We are well pleased with the arrangement of the building, and only regret that we have been so long getting into it. Some of our girls have been living in a tent.
We have an enrolment of sixty-nine, and several are yet to come. Our teachers are taxed to the limit to supply all the classes that are demanded. We have about fifteen in our German department, and others are expected. Of course, we have had some turbulent times, but have tried to be careful and trusting, and the Lord has been good to us. We are giving some eleventh-grade work, but no twelfth. We seem to have a reputation outside of our own denomination in at least one distant neighborhood. Five have already been enrolled from that place, and now another has applied for admittance. These students give us no trouble whatever, but seem to be falling right into line, and the teachers say they can not tell the difference between some of these and some of our own students. We all appreciate the new paper, and it is read by all our teachers, I think. We have five teachers doing active work, besides our matron and cook. Some of our classes are so large, and so many new demands are being made, that it almost seems that we must have another teacher. However, I hope we can so adjust matters that this will not be necessary this year, as we are having to plan closely to come out even in the spring.
For the present, our boys are rooming in the new barn building, and our schoolrooms are there also. This building will serve these purposes this year, but the kitchen and dining-room will be moved into the new building, as previously mentioned. The students are enjoying good health, and we expect a good time during this week of prayer.
J. I. BEARDSLEY.
Constantinople, Turkey
By E. R. P.
While pressing on with the good work in our respective fields, it is certainly most uplifting and cheering to us all as workers and burden-bearers to hear of some ‘one else in a distant part of the world engaged in the same kind of work, carrying similar burdens, fighting similar battles, and winning victories over trials and difficulties by the same means that enable each of us to conquer. The following extract from a letter recently received from Brother Voigt, of Constantinople, Turkey, was read by us with more than usual interest:—
“As you know, we have opened here, in harmony with a resolution passed at the last General Conference, a branch of the Hamburg Publishing House. I have been here since the middle of October20to look after the work. We have a stock of tracts, and I send you by this post, as printed matter, three copies of each as samples. As you see, we print in Greek, Armenian, Turkish-Armenian, Turkish-Greek, and Turkish. It is also planned to print in Armenian-Turkish.
“Thus we are adding two or three languages to those already reported in the last missionary number of the REVIEW. It was resolved at the last session of the Turkish committee to print also some new tracts in Greek and in Turkish, also to print ‘Steps to Christ’ in Armenian, and then ‘His Glorious Appearing’ in Greek. The whole work will be done here in the Levant, for we have found good printers.
“Regarding Arabic publications, I am in correspondence with the brethren in Palestine about their stock, and their plans for the future. I will inform you about the publishing work for the Arabs as soon as I have an answer. We began at once with the regular canvassing work as nearly as we understood it—a new thing for this country—as new as the Bible lectures and Bible work, as we do it. Now we have two canvassers working for the Armenians and Turks. Both also take literature in the Greek with them. A third, a real Greek, is ready to begin the canvassing work. Our canvassers are doing well, and are able to make their living by their work, even in this piaster country (one piaster equals four cents).”
Doesn’t it seem good to read in a report like this of literature being prepared for Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Arabs in such places as Constantinople and Palestine? It is a surprise, also, and fills our hearts with joy, to learn that canvassers can make their living even in those countries. With such successes in the self-supporting colporteur work in Mexico, Porto Rico, the Philippines, South America, the West Indies, and in the Orient, our hearts bound forward with bright hope in the possibilities before us in the circulation of our literature. Above all other needs, the cause of God demands consecrated young men as pioneers in these fields. E. R. P.
Union College
By C. C. Lewis
THE enrolment at Union College is now four hundred twenty-seven. I think this is about fifty less than the enrolment last year at the same time. At the close of the first week of school this year the enrolment was more than last year, but we have been making a strenuous effort to get students to enroll at the beginning of each term, making the registration free at that time, and charging a fee of one dollar for registration later. There are two other apparent causes for the smaller enrolment. Two new intermediate schools have been started in the territory from which Union College draws students, and some of the academies already established are filled with students this year. Then we have been trying to carry out the recommendation of the General Conference not to receive students below the eleventh grade from the territory of other academies without the consent of the president of the conference.
So far as the character of the students and the quality of their work is concerned, I think we have never had a better term. It has been quiet and orderly.
We believe that, with the departure of the foreign department, Union College will enter upon a new era of development. We are planning to drop off all preparatory work except the church-school work to the eighth grade connected with the normal department, and the academic work, which must be retained to accommodate College View and Nebraska students. So far as other States are concerned, we shall continue to keep back students under the eleventh grade, unless there is some special reason for their coming to Union College. It is our purpose to put forth strenuous efforts next year to fill up the ranks of all our enrolment (depleted by the withdrawal of the foreign students) with students drawn from the academies and high schools of the different States. I might add that there has been the utmost harmony during the term, so that the new plans have gone into operation with good success.
A large portion of our students took part in the Harvest Ingathering. A day was set apart for this purpose. They gathered over one hundred twenty-five dollars. This is about twenty-five dollars more than last year.
C. C. LEWIS.
Christian Education
By Frederick Griggs
Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference
FREDERICK GRIGGS Secretary
The Missionary and Publishing Work
Notes, Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature.
Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference.
E. R. PALMER Secretary
N. Z. TOWN Assistant Secretary
A. J. S. BOURDEAU Missionary Secretary
South America
By E. R. P.
The readers of the Review have learned of the trip of Brother N. Z. Town, assistant secretary of the Publishing Department, by way of England and Spain. Under date of November 3, Brother Town writes from Diamante, Argentina:—
“When I reached here, I found Brother Max Trummer hard at work in the special course. He has a class of about twelve. We hope to start about ten canvassers here in the River Plate fields this summer, and some workers for periodicals. Brother Trummer is making good progress in learning the language, and will soon be able to make himself readily understood. I expect to go with him to the field for a few days when our institute closes. Then I will attend the Alta Parana general meeting, after which I will visit the canvassers here in Argentina again, and afterward those in Uruguay. I may attend the Rio Grande meeting in Brazil in February. The South American Union conference begins February 25, and closes March 12. I expect to attend this meeting, and we are planning for a book-men’s convention in connection with it.
“The meeting in Chile will probably begin March 26. I hope to arrange for an institute in Chile between the close of the union conference meeting here and the Chile meeting. Leaving Chile about the first of April, it will take about three weeks to visit Bolivia and get up to Lima, Peru. After stopping there one week, it will require another three weeks to reach Panama, where I should arrive about the twentieth of May. I may remain there several days, provided Brother Imus should plan to hold an institute. According to this program, I shall reach home early in June, about nine months from the time I left. It will take that time, even if I make good connections, escape quarantine, etc.”
E. R. P.
Petition Encouragement
HERE is something that should be helpful to workers with the petitions: Sister Alice Black, of the Columbia Union Conference, writes the Visitor as follows:—
“An elderly brother and I secured fifty-eight subscriptions to the petitions, and only four to whom they were presented refused to sign. Only a small effort was put forth for these, and I am sure we could have almost doubled the number, had we had the time. I could work only after school hours.
“I enclose a reply from our congressman, Hon. T. T. Ansberry, to whom I sent the petitions, accompanied with a note with reference to the same:—
“In reply to your esteemed favor of the 4th inst., enclosing petitions, would say that I will be only too glad to introduce same in Congress, and assure you that when the above matter comes up in the House, it will receive my best and most careful attention. “Assuring you of my very kindest interest, and saying to you that you are at liberty to write to me at any time regarding this or any other matter if I can be of service to you or your friends, with kindest regards, I remain,—.”
This good letter from the congressman is indicative of the spirit in which this work in which we are engaged will often be received by these men.
In looking over each issue of the Congressional Record we feel happy in reporting a very encouraging number of petitions that have already reached Congress from our workers in the field.
