p. 23 | Review and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 13. (3/31/1903)

Earlier text: The New British Sanitarium

Obituaries

TRAVIS.— Norman L. Travis died at Otsego, Mich., Feb. 25, 1903. Brother Travis was born in New York more than eighty years ago, and had been a resident of Otsego for nearly half a century. The funeral services were conducted at his late home, where a large circle of relatives and friends had assembled. The words found in John 14:6 were chosen as the theme of the discourse. A. G. HAUGHEY.

JONES.— Died in Baxter Springs, Kan., March 16, 1903, Sister Luella Jones, wife of Cloud Jones, aged 18 years, 9 months, and 10 days. The deceased had for some time been a faithful member of the Seventh-day Adventist church, and was much loved by all who knew her. We feel assured that all who are faithful will soon meet her in that land where sorrow and death will never come. Funeral services were conducted by Elder Jones (Christian) and the writer. J. W. NORWOOD.

MERRILL.— Died at Grass Valley, Cal., Feb. 22, 1903, of pleural pneumonia, Mrs. Sarah Merrill, aged 73 years lacking 3 days. The deceased was born in Princeton, Nova Scotia, and came to California in 1861. She leaves four children—two sons and two daughters—to mourn their loss. She united with the Congregational Church in early life. About twenty-one years ago, when present truth was preached here by Elder Briggs, she was led to accept it, and the hope of her soon-coming Lord was ever after the source of her rejoicing. T. R. ANGOVE.

WILBUR.— Ellen Wilbur, née Smith, was born in Ogdensburg, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1845, and died March 2, 1903, at her home in Allegan, Mich. With her parents she moved to Michigan when a child. In 1867 she was married to John I. Wilbur, and to them were born nine children,—four sons and five daughters. Two sons died in early infancy. In 1893 the husband and father died. Sister Wilbur was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church of Allegan, and lived a quiet Christian life, exerting an influence for good that was felt by all around her. An aged mother and seven children survive her. A. G. HAUGHEY.

DAVIS.— Died in Battle Creek, Mich., March 1, 1903, of heart failure, Obadiah Davis, aged 83 years, 8 months, and 11 days. He was of New England descent, but in the gold excitement he was one of those who went by the way of the Isthmus to the gold diggings of California in 1849. He returned to his home in 1851, and soon after he became interested in the great advent movement, and united with the Seventh-day Adventists. He remained true to the keeping of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus till the day of his death. In the spring of 1876 death entered his home and took away his first wife and faithful mother of his children. He leaves a widow, one son, and two daughters to mourn their loss. Many sympathizing friends and neighbors attended his funeral, and he was buried in Battle Creek Oak Hill Cemetery. I. D. VAN HORN.

CLEMENTS.— Died at Nashville, Tenn., March 10, 1903, Walter W. Clements, aged 37 years, 3 months, 28 days. Brother Clements was earnestly pursuing the study of medicine with the purpose of being better fitted for the Master's work. Septic poisoning following a surgical operation performed by his professors for the cure of a troublesome hernia, caused his death. Brother Clements was held in high esteem by his teachers and fellow students. Those who have known him most intimately since he came to Tennessee about one year ago, and especially those who were near him during his last days, know that it was a Christian life that ebbed so peacefully away, and that his life is hid with Christ in God. During his illness and subsequently his classmates from the University of Tennessee gave every token of respect and sympathy. The stricken wife leans upon the Saviour's love and the promise of his soon coming. Accompanied by her sister, Mrs. A. J. Read, Sister Clements took her husband's remains to their final resting place at Palestine, Tex. O. M. HAYWARD.

CHUBB.— Died in Battle Creek, Mich., March 10, 1903, Mrs. Sarah J. Chubb, aged 84 years, 2 months, and 16 days. She was born in Lucerne, N. Y., Dec. 24, 1818. At the age of sixteen she started in the Christian life, and joined the Methodist Church. In 1879, by the help of her Bible and other books and papers, she became a believer in the second coming of Christ and the Sabbath of the Lord, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. She remained a faithful member till the day of her death. She is at rest, waiting for the coming of her Lord, when she will come forth in the first resurrection to a life eternal. She was buried near Onondaga, Mich. I. D. VAN HORN.

Annual Stockholders’ Meeting

By I. H. Evans; A. G. Daniells; W. W. Prescott; S. H. Lane; G. W. Amadon; C. D. Rhodes

THE forty-third annual stockholders’ meeting of the S. D. A. Publishing Association (twelfth under the new charter) will be held in the Tabernacle at Battle Creek, Mich., Tuesday, April 21, 1903, at 10 A. M., local time, for the election of directors, and for the transaction of any other business that may properly come before the meeting.

I. H. EVANS, A. G. DANIELLS, W. W. PRESCOTT, S. H. LANE, G. W. AMADON, C. D. RHODES, Directors.

International Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association

By George Thomason

THE regular annual meeting of the International Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association for the year 1903, will be held at the Seventh-day Adventist Tabernacle, in Battle Creek, Mich., Wednesday, April 22, 1903, at 3 P. M., standard time, for the election of trustees, and the transaction of any other business which may properly come before the meeting.

By order of the board of trustees,

GEORGE THOMASON, Secretary.

Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent Association

By George Thomason

The regular annual meeting of the Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent Association for the year 1903, will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist Tabernacle, in Battle Creek, Mich., Wednesday, April 8, 1903, at 3 P. M., standard time, for the election of trustees, and the transaction of any other business which may properly come before the meeting.

By order of the board of trustees, George Thomason, Secretary.

Absent Members, Notice!

By Church Committee

A recent decision of the Lincoln (Neb.) church is to the effect that the names of members failing to report for several successive quarters should be dropped from our list. The following-named persons are requested to write to the church clerk, Mary H. Beatty, 1505 E Street, Lincoln, Neb.; J. Clements, Loretta Reisman, Isalina Ransom, H. G. Deland, Ella Jones, A. H. Cobb, James Skinner, Mrs. James Skinner, Walter Skinner, Mary Smith, Della House, and Mary Fagan.

CHURCH COMMITTEE.

Excellent Dining-Car Service

The dining-car service on the Grand Trunk Railway System is of such an excellent standard that from time to time the officials of the company receive unsolicited testimonials of praise and eulogy in connection with this department. They are recently in receipt of a letter from a prominent gentleman in Pennsylvania, who, while traveling over the line, had the opportunity of dining in some of these cars, and his letter to one of the high officials of the company reads as follows: “We traveled over your line from Detroit to Montreal, and were very much pleased with the service. The dinner we had in the Cafe Car on the train leaving Detroit at 2:45 last Saturday, the 14th, was one of the best-cooked and best-served meals I have had in a dining car for many a day, and I congratulate you on the excellent service your department is giving.”

Michigan Central
“The Niagara Falls Route.” — Michigan Central “The Niagara Falls Route.”

SPLENDID TRAIN SERVICE

In both directions, in connection with Boston & Albany and New York Central, between CHICAGO and DETROIT, and NIAGARA FALLS, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, BOSTON and Eastern points, with finest equipment of Through Sleeping, Dining and Buffet-Library Cars.

All day trains stop five minutes at Falls View, directly overlooking Niagara Falls. Send 4 cents postage for NIAGARA FALLS ILLUSTRATED.

O. W. RUGGLES, Gen'l Pass'r and Ticket Agent, CHICAGO

Business Notices

WANTED.—S. D. A. partner who has experience in steam laundry work. Best small city in Colorado. Prices good; one Chinese hand laundry. Address O. B. Bliven, Delta, Colo.

WANTED.—At once, good, active young man to assist in bath and treatment rooms. Good wages and steady employment to right person. In replying, state age, height, weight, etc. Address U. E. Whiteis, 112 E. Broad St., Columbus, Ohio.

FOR SALE.—Farm of 320 acres, improved, 3½ miles from town, in wheat-raising district of South Dakota; good wheat land; suitable also for stock raising, also for potatoes, corn, and all kinds of small grain. Daily mail route ½ mile from farm. Healthful locality. Good buildings, 2 cisterns and abundant water supply. Price, if sold before seeding, $35 an acre; easy terms. For particulars, address C. D. Terwillegar, Groton, S. D.

The Observance of Lent

THE observance of Lent, which for years has been attaining prominence in the popular churches, is more marked this year, it is said, than ever before. The New York Sun speaks of “the extraordinary devotion displayed at this Lenten season,” and says: “The exhibition is the more impressive because it is made by men of distinguished intellectual ability and discipline. . . . On Passion Sunday, or the fifth Sunday in Lent, two weeks before Easter, fifteen hundred men of social, political, and intellectual prominence in New York will enter a Lenten retreat at the Roman Catholic church of St. Francis Xavier, and continue their devotions daily until Palm Sunday, or the Sunday before Easter. Among them will be three justices of the Supreme Court, and the rest are all men of superior standing in this community. They will manifest their religious faith by attending mass at eight o’clock in the morning of every day of that week,” etc. “Lent has brought a change over the whole face of social life in New York.”

A yearly penitential season accords with human nature and with the Catholic religion, which is the religion of human nature; but Christianity is the religion not of human nature, but of the divine nature.

More Life

You will all want to obtain a supply of tract No. 5 of the new series,—“The Perpetuity of the Law of God,”—by C. H. Spurgeon. The great English preacher treats this momentous subject in a masterly manner, and his argument carries conviction with it, his language having all that clearness and force for which he was noted. He makes the absolute certainty of the law’s perpetuity stand out like a mountain looming out of the sea, so that no unprejudiced mind, even though unlearned, can fail to see it. This tract ought to win multitudes to the truth which is so vital a part of the third angel’s message. See advertisement on page 2.

EVERY year at this season the Creator sets before us in nature an object lesson of the necessity and beauty of a revival. A revival means new life, and who of us does not welcome life? We naturally shrink from death, and we ought to shrink from it, and especially from the spiritual death which makes necessary a religious revival. Spiritual life is as real as is physical life, and is of even greater importance. “More life” should be the never-ceasing cry of the soul. “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”

The General Conference

By W. W. P.

The Opening Meeting

The thirty-fifth session of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists convened according to appointment in the church at Oakland, Cal. The first meeting was held on Friday, March 27, at 2:30 P. M. The devotional exercises consisted of singing, reading of the Scripture by Elder J. N. Loughborough, and prayer by Elder G. A. Irwin.

Remarks of welcome were made by Elders W. T. Knox and C. H. Jones.

The roll call showed that there were seventy-six delegates present, representing nine union conferences, two delegates from the European General Conference, and twelve delegates-at-large, making a total of ninety delegates.

The following recommendations concerning the conduct of the conference, adopted in the council of the General Conference Committee during the week, were presented and adopted:—

1. That Brethren A. G. Daniells, G. A. Irwin, H. W. Cottrell, W. T. Knox, and G. I. Butler act as chairmen during the session of the conference.

2. That the general program should provide for a devotional service at 8:00 A. M., conference sessions at 9:30 A. M. and 3:00 P. M., and an evening service.

3. That the first two days, from Friday evening to Sunday evening, should be devoted to a consideration of the definite message for our day, the waiting fields, and the question of finishing the work in this generation.

4. That twenty-five men be nominated from the floor of the conference to act with the presidents of the union conferences as a committee to appoint the standing committees of the conference.

5. That Brethren W. T. Knox, G. A. Irwin, L. R. Conradi, and H. W. Cottrell should be a committee on the daily program of the conference.

The Committee on Daily Program arranged with the following persons to occupy the time until Monday: Friday evening, W. W. Prescott; Sabbath forenoon, Mrs. E. G. White; Sabbath afternoon, G. A. Irwin; Saturday evening, A. G. Daniells; Sunday forenoon, L. R. Conradi; Sunday afternoon, A. T. Jones; Sunday evening, W. W. Prescott.

A spirit of earnestness and courage pervaded the conference, and the faith of many is reaching up for a signal blessing at this meeting. W. W. P.

Cardinal Gibbons to Offer Opening Prayer

A TELEGRAM from Baltimore states that “Cardinal Gibbons has accepted an invitation to attend the inaugural ceremonies of the St. Louis Exposition, and will offer the opening prayer on that occasion, as he did at the World’s Fair at Chicago.”

Chicago Party Arrives in California

THE party which left Chicago for California on Sunday evening, March 15, had a prosperous journey, and arrived at their destination with but little variation from schedule time. Religious services were held in the car each morning, and talks were given by Elder L. R. Conradi and Dr. David Paulson. The members of the General Conference Committee who were in the party had opportunity for consultation en route. All were thankful for that divine protection which preserved them from accident, and brought them to the end of their long journey under such favorable circumstances.

The Message Enters Spain

This paper tells of the entrance into a new country—Spain—of workers bearing the standard of present truth. Not many portions of Europe, nor, indeed, of the world, now remain unentered. We are not to judge of the progress of this cause, or the nearness of the end, by what we see here in the United States. The message is making rapid progress throughout the great world field, in comparison with that made in former years, and with ever greater rapidity will it go from this time forward. It will be proclaimed in all the world for a witness unto all nations, “and then shall the end come.”

Bible Reading in Public Schools

RECENTLY an order was given by those in charge of public instruction in New York City, directing that a selection from the Bible be read daily in the public schools. Following this, the city school superintendents voted that the Douay (Catholic) Bible should be supplied for the use of such teachers as preferred them. All Catholic teachers in the public schools will of course use the Douay Bible. Upon this The Independent observes that it is just as fair to use the Catholic Bible, which tells the people to “do penance,” as to use the Protestant, or King James, Bible; and, further, “readings can be from ‘Judith,’ ‘Susanna,’ and ‘Bel and the Dragon’ [these apocryphal books being held by Catholics as of equal authority with the canonical books].” Also, says The Independent, “If there should be a school with Chinese children here in New York and with a Chinese teacher, it would be his duty to read from Confucius; or in a school amid a colony of Syrians the teacher might read from the Koran.” From which The Independent very properly concludes: “It is far better that the State should teach no religion. Leave that to the church; and if the church can not teach the young, then the church has lost its best function and power.”