Earlier text: A Truce of GodWoman as a Home Maker
By Mrs. C. C. Lewis
God planted a home in Eden, and between that home and the one in eternity lies the home on earth. In this home all national progress and development have their origin. It has often been said, “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” We can see the force of this remark as we remember that society has its roots in the home; the government is built upon it. The home is eternal in its influence for weal or woe. A man without a home is like a ship without a rudder. The individual is alone, but God set the solitary in families, and he recognizes the family on earth and the family in heaven. The home is far-reaching in its results. The children go out into the world bearing truth, honesty, and purity, or they give to posterity weakness, depravity, and woe. Both father and mother are responsible for the kind of home they build. Whether doctor, lawyer, preacher, or laboring man, each goes forth bearing the atmosphere of his home, which will either blight or bless his associates. But it is of the influence of woman in the home that I wish to speak especially. Julia McNair Wright speaks of it thus: “She makes her home a fountain of bitterness, or a wellspring of strength, bracing her husband’s good impulses, or developing his meaner instincts. She makes her home a model of economy, beauty, and propriety, or it is a false light of extravagance, spurring others to waste. Children are born into this home: they shall be in all their lines what this home makes them; the home never dies. Guests and servants come and go, and carry away its influence; but the home, like God its founder, abides without end.” How important, then, that our homes should be “a little heaven on earth to go to heaven in.” Influence Over Her Husband
The good influence of woman in her home lies in her purity, her sincerity, and her faith in God. With these she may move mountains. We remember the mother of St. Augustine. Her husband was an idolater, cruel, and of a violent temper. It is said she was so patient he never heard a cross word in his home, and in answer to her prayers he was converted and became a Christian before his death. We might refer to many other wives in history who through their loyalty and devotion have led their dissipated companions up to sobriety and honor. But we need not go beyond the range of our own experience. Many a brave wife during the Civil War stayed by the stuff and fearlessly kept the wolf from the door, while her husband, with a courage born of such loyalty, stoutly set his face to the foe. The story of Hans Egede and his faithful wife Elizabeth comes to my mind. Hans felt the call of God to carry the gospel to the Eskimos. At first Elizabeth’s faith was too weak to brave the dangers of that bleak, cold country. Like an indulgent husband, he gave up his desire, and for four years, as he mused, the fire still burned in his soul. Elizabeth, too, like Mary of old, kept all his sayings and pondered them in her heart. When again the call came, she was ready to go. Mrs. Ellis, in telling this story, exclaims, “A Christian woman’s faith! A power that, leaning on the arm of the Lord, knows neither discouragement nor failure; a power that takes up mountains and casts them into the sea!” During the trying times in their new field of missionary effort the spirit of the brave pastor often fainted, but ever the true-hearted Elizabeth cheered him on. Even before they set sail, one of the sailors on learning of their plans told them such terrible things about Greenland and the people that the good pastor felt he could not take his wife and children to such a cruel country. But Elizabeth’s faith had grown, slowly but surely; and laying her hand upon her husband’s arm, she said, “Hans, be a man and a true servant of God.” She told the people she could hear the heathen calling them to come and help them. “Husband,” she said, “in the name of God we must go.” Then she walked aboard the boat, and the people saw them sail away with the light of consecration shining in their faces. At the end of a year, their supplies were exhausted, no news from home, no reenforcements, no provisions in sight for approaching winter. Some of the colonists determined to return, and urged the pastor to leave the unpromising field. Again the faith of his devoted wife saved the day. She said to them, “Are ye men, thus to counsel a retreat from the blessed work of God? What is it that hath broken your courage? Hunger? Then take the food which we have kept for our children. Take it and go, and leave us peacefully to our Lord’s will. The sails will come, God will not forsake us.” The people stood silent and ashamed, then resolved to wait awhile. In the evening a ship was sighted, and the colony had news from home, and food, and courage. Influence Upon Her Children
But woman exerts her most powerful influence upon her children. This power in the lives of her children is like casting a pebble into the ocean; the circle widens in ever-increasing dimensions even unto many generations. Who can estimate the influence of a praying mother? A young man was once asked while being examined for church membership, under whose preaching he was converted, to which he replied, “I was not converted under any one’s preaching. I was converted under my mother’s practicing.” What the world needs today is not parents who preach, but parents who practice genuine piety; not more churches, but more family altars. I once read a little story somewhat like this: Several women were discussing the question of children’s meetings, when one of the women spoke up and said, “The best children’s meetings I ever attended were the ones mother used to hold with us. She was a hard-working woman, but in the afternoon she would tidy herself, and take the Bible and read to us. Then she would put her arms around us and pray. I never could forget those prayers.” The influence of that mother was still active in the life of her daughter, who was herself a mother and a church worker. The Faithful Shepherd
By A. L. HOLLENBECK
Many a lamb has gone astray
Far down in the gloaming dim;
But the Shepherd calls it back by name,
And his own returns to him. And away on the cold and dreary moor
He gives them the best of care;
And up on the rough and steep hillside
We find him guarding them there. And he looks on the lonely, straying sheep
In the great world-pastures here,
And calls them to come unto him and be saved,
For the world's dark night is near. And the “little flock” hear the warning call,
E’en now they are almost home;
See them gath’ring close to their Shepherd’s side,
Nevermore again to roam. “Ask God to give thee skill
In comfort’s art,
That thou mayest consecrated be
And set apart
Unto a life of sympathy;
For heavy is the weight of ill
In many a heart,
And comforters are needed much
Of Christlike touch.” The Brightness of Cheerfulness
“CHEERFULNESS is a small virtue, it is true, but it sheds such a brightness around us in this life that neither clouds nor rain can dispel its happy influence.” Newspaper Work in the Columbia Union Conference
By W. L. Burgan
THE biennial session of the Columbia Union Conference, which was held in our church in Baltimore, April 28 to May 10, was well advertised through four of the five daily papers there. These papers circulate not only throughout the State of Maryland, but are read in other States along the Atlantic coast. The Morning Sun and the Evening Sun, which have the favor of the Catholic Church (that church has one of its strongholds in Baltimore), were quite liberal in the publication of reports, as were the American and the Star. That the reports of the convention were read was evident from the many comments that were heard. Men in different walks of life told various delegates and workers that they had been reading of the convention. An editor of one of the papers, in conversation with one of our brethren, said that he was greatly surprised at the remarkable growth of the denomination. He had read one of the reports telling of the success in the union conference during the past two years in the giving of tithes and contributions to missionary enterprises. This editor, after expressing his surprise, asked, “Are you growing just as well in souls?” This question was significant, and indicates that the world has its eyes on us as to how much success we are making in saving souls for the kingdom. The city editor of one of the evening papers was so impressed with some of the remarks made by Elder Evans during one of his studies in connection with the ministerial institute, which appeared in one of the morning papers, that he had one of his reporters interview three of the leading clergymen on the subject. and published their opinions, which made a very interesting account. The three clergymen agreed with Elder Evans in what he said concerning the ministry, and their remarks carried heavy, black-faced headlines. This article aroused considerable comment, and served to bring our work prominently before the readers of that paper in a favorable manner. Our ministers present Bible truths in a unique manner, which arouses comment; and no opportunity should be lost to get the truth thus presented before the public through the great agency of the secular press. It should be our constant aim not only to awaken an interest in the minds of editors, but of the clergy and laity of other denominations, and to arouse them to write letters to the papers agreeing with the position we have taken. In this way the message will spread, and the earth will soon be lightened with the glory of God. It was more than encouraging to talk with our workers at the Columbia Union meeting, and learn that they have been using the newspapers to advantage in connection with their efforts to herald the glad tidings of gospel truth. One worker told of getting seventy-one advance notices and reports in the newspapers from sixteen Sunday night services. Some of these reports were nearly a column in length, presenting in no uncertain way the leading truths of the third angel’s message. He found the editors very friendly. One week when this worker was ill, the editor sent for the report. Another editor stated that the reports he received were the best he had obtained since entering the newspaper world. This brother found the newspapers of great service not only in spreading the truth, but in advertising and in increasing the attendance at the meetings. One woman came nine miles on the train to hear a subject announced in the paper in connection with the report of the previous week’s service. Another feature of interest was the class of people attracted through the newspapers. They included two ex-mayors, one member of the State legislature, several lawyers, doctors, and dentists. The influence of this series of meetings was felt all over the country; and when the judgment books are opened, they will reveal many souls who have learned the song of victory through the agency of the evangelistic use of the newspapers. A brother in Ohio told of the interest an editor has taken in our work through a business proposition the two entered into. This proposition was also in the interest of our church as well as in the interest of the editor. The editor proposed to contribute three dollars to the church for every yearly subscription our brother secured for the paper, which amounted to $5.10. Our brother has secured a number of subscriptions, and the editor has been prompt each time in giving to the church its share of the subscriptions. The editor also gave this worker a liberal contribution toward the church before the subscription proposition was entered into, and has since become so interested in our work that he has invited our brother to contribute freely to the columns of his paper, and a number of interesting articles dealing with different phases of the message have already appeared. A worker in West Pennsylvania told us of the liberality of an editor in the city where he has been laboring. This editor has published extracts from numerous doctrinal sermons, with the result that a number of persons have been attracted to the meetings who otherwise would not have heard the message. Our brother in that place is much pleased with the interest the editor has taken in our work, and means to continue to furnish articles to the paper, which enters hundreds and hundreds of homes. Brethren and sisters, the work is onward, and the success that we have already had through this medium ought to spur us on to greater efforts to win souls for the blessed Saviour. Western Washington
By DANIEL NETTLETON
SABBATH, May 9, was a good day for our church and Sabbath school at Port Townsend. This beautiful day not only brought gladness by its sunshine, flowers, and balmy breeze, but we could all sing,— “There’s sunshine in my soul today,
More glorious and bright
Than glows in any earthly sky,
For Jesus is my light.” Three members of our Sabbath school and young people’s society yielded themselves fully to God, and on this Sabbath were buried in the waters of a holy baptism, and thus became members of the church of God. Two of these young people are members of the training class at the sanitarium, and expect to receive their diplomas this coming autumn. They are good, strong young women, who thus far have done good work at the sanitarium, and we hope they may have some place as medical missionaries in the home or foreign mission fields. The one young man baptized will finish his high school course this spring. He is working at the sanitarium when not busy with his school work, and plans to attend Walla Walla College this next year and fit himself for a place in the work of God. O, how good it is to see our dear young people leave the sin and folly of the world and unite with the remnant people of God, to be blessed and be made a blessing to the cause and work of God! There is joy among the angels of God in heaven, and joy among the people of God here on earth. Well may we sing,— “O glad, howsoever the deed is done,
My sins are pardoned through Christ the Son;
O love so precious I never had dreamed;
O sweet is the peace of the soul redeemed!” I believe the conversion of these young people, like the conversion of many others,14 is the result of prayer and of proper home influence in Christian living and teaching. These souls were not won by a spasmodic effort, not by some great excitement and pressure brought to bear on them to carry them along into the fold of God, but they took the step deliberately, without any special persuading or urging. The influence of our Sabbath school and young people’s society and the ministry of God’s Word in our Sabbath services and prayer meetings are agencies the Holy Spirit uses in bringing our children and youth into the fold of Christ. These make sixteen I have baptized since I came to Port Townsend as pastor and Bible teacher in the sanitarium. Two others were baptized by another elder, making eighteen in all. Others have joined by letter or on profession of faith. Only a few of these are with us now. They were nearly all helpers or patients in the sanitarium, and went to other places, we trust, to be witnesses of the present truth. We know of several others who heard and received the message here, who are keeping the Sabbath and letting the light shine where they now live. We thank God and press on with new courage. Much land ahead to be possessed,
I’m going on, I’m going on;
And all is mine my feet have pressed,
I’m going on, I’m going on. The man who wins is the man who works,
The man who toils while the next man shirks;
The man who stands in his deep distress
With his head held high in the deadly press:
Yes, he is the man who wins. The man who wins is the man who knows
The value of pain and the worth of woes;
Who a lesson learns from the man who fails
And a moral finds in his mournful wails:
Yes, he is the man who wins. The man who wins is the man who stays
In the unsought paths and the rocky ways,
And, perhaps, who lingers, now and then,
To help some failure to rise again:
Ah, he is the man who wins!
— Selected. Prayer Week at Union College
By Mrs. W. P. Rowell
THE spring week of prayer has passed in Union College. For some time the school had been looking forward to this week of prayer. Prayer groups at the prayer period preceding each chapel exercise had been praying for the special blessing of God. And we were not disappointed. I express, I believe, the feelings of both teachers and students of the college when I say that this prayer week was the most precious in many ways that Union College ever experienced. Short chapel talks emphasized and made clear the relation sustained by the Christian to Christ and by Christ to the Christian. The evening worship hour was given to the same themes. Friday morning witnessed a general consecration of the school to service. Nearly the entire chapel stood in response to this call, and a number of definite victories were gained. The meeting was continued in an evening praise service. Sabbath morning nearly one hundred gathered in the chapel at six o'clock for a service of prayer and praise. The presence of the Lord was evidenced in the hush that pervaded the assembly as earnest, heartfelt consecrations were made, completely surrendering heart and life to the Master. In this connection we desire to record our gratitude for the blessings of the year. God has given us a large company of earnest, devoted young men and women who are preparing for active service. We shall send out a graduating class of nearly fifty, twenty-one of whom are graduates of the college course. Nearly all these graduates have already found their places in the cause of God.
MRS. W. P. ROWELL. A Proposed Sunday Law for Oregon
By W. F. MARTIN
At the last three sessions of the Oregon Legislature there has been an organized effort on the part of certain church people to secure the enactment of a Sunday law. Each time, bills have been drawn and presented in either the senate or the house, and delegations of ministers and others who favored the passage of the bills have appeared and lobbied or spoken before the committees having them in charge. All this effort, however, has met with but little favor from the legislature, and each time the Sunday bill has been overwhelmingly defeated. The advocates of Sunday legislation now signify their intention to secure their pet measure through the medium of the initiative, thus getting by that means what the legislature refused to grant them. Accordingly at a recent meeting of the Washington County Christian Endeavor, a Sunday bill was drafted and filed with the secretary of state. Friends of the measure are busy circulating petitions so as to place it on the ballot to be voted on at the fall election. The bill is very similar to the one presented at the last session of the legislature, which met such a signal defeat at the hands of that body, receiving only one vote in its favor. It is certainly time that lovers of liberty were bestirring themselves to maintain not only their own rights, but those of their fellow men. Following is a copy of the proposed law:— “INITIATIVE LAW PROHIBITING CONDUCT OF BUSINESS AND GAINFUL AMUSEMENTS ON SUNDAY
“Amending Section 2125 Lord’s Oregon Laws
“Proposed by Washington County Christian Endeavor Union, Forest Grove, Oregon; Claude M. Hutchens, President, Forest Grove, Oregon; Annabe F. Taylor, Secretary, Forest Grove, Oregon.” “A Bill for Initiative Law “Prohibiting conduct of business and gainful amusements on Sunday, and amending Section 2125 Lord’s Oregon Laws. “Be it enacted by the people of the State of Oregon,— “SECTION 1. That Section 2125 of Lord’s Oregon Laws be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:— “SECTION 2125. If any person shall keep open any store, shop, grocery, bowling alley, billiard or pool room, or tipping house for the purpose of labor or traffic, or any theater or place of amusement; or shall conduct any amusement, game, or sport for the purpose of profit or gain, on the first day of the week, commonly called ‘Sunday’ or the ‘Lord’s Day,’ such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five (5) dollars nor more than one hundred (100) dollars; provided, however, that the above provision shall not apply to the keepers of drug stores, doctor shops, undertakers, livery stable keepers, butchers, and bakers; and all circumstances of necessity and mercy may be pleaded in defense, which shall be treated as questions of fact for the jury to determine when the offense is tried by a jury. “SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.” The Next Thirteenth Sabbath Offering, June 27, 1914
By Mrs. L. Flora Plummer
AGAIN the General Conference Committee has taken action, making request of the Sabbath schools. It was voted by the committee in council as follows:— “That we request the Sabbath schools to devote the offering for the thirteenth Sabbath, June 27, 1914, to the work of the Japan Mission, aiming at the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, which is required to provide the appropriations for that great field for an entire year.”
Only a few years ago it seems—though possibly it may be fifteen or sixteen years—the Sabbath schools raised ten thousand dollars as a fund for the real opening of our work in India. When the schools did this for missions within one year, we hailed the achievement with joy. Now, think of it! The committee has asked the schools to raise fifteen thousand dollars in one day’s offering, to support the growing work in Japan for one entire year. Surely the Lord is enlarging the capacity of the Sabbath school organization to keep pace with the ever-enlarging demands in the closing work. BE the tithe large or small, it is sacred, and should be brought to the Lord's treasure house to advance his work in the earth. That it is holy will be impressed still more by reading the following from one of our missionaries:— “One day a member of the church walked nearly two miles to the mission to bring a threepence tithe, saying: ‘Here, Elder, is a little of the Lord’s own. I have been keeping it until I had a little more to bring with it. But yesterday I had nothing to eat, and this morning I was hungry and feared I should be tempted to use the Lord’s money; so I brought it to you. I want you to take it and put it in the treasury so I shall not be tempted any more.’ “I took it and put it in the till. That, and much more just like it, even the children doing the same thing, was very sacred to us. It caused us to have a deeper sense of the sacredness of God’s work. We always take such money. We do not dare to intimate to those who bring it that it would be right for them even under such trying circumstances to use it themselves, for that would rob them of a proper sense of the sacredness of the tithe, of the importance of God’s work, and of the blessing such sacrifice brings. But, in a way that will not give them the idea that we are remunerating them for their faithfulness in tithing, we always see that they do not go away from our home hungry, even if we give them far more than the value of their tithe, and even if we ourselves have a little less. It is a joy to share the self-denial of such faithful ones.” The Enduring Power of Character
FAME is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings; those who cheer today will curse tomorrow; only one thing endures—character!—Horace Mann. The Washington Missionary College
By J. L. S.
Since the plans of the reorganization of the Washington Missionary College have been announced, letters have been received from many who are interested in the institution. We take this opportunity of speaking further concerning the College and its plans. A corps of experienced teachers has been appointed for the coming year. Courses of instruction providing for regular academic and college work have been arranged, and a calendar has been published. The territory for academic students comprises the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Chesapeake Conferences. For college students, the territory assigned embraces the Atlantic, Columbia, Southeastern, and Southern Union Conferences, and the Eastern Canadian Union (except Ontario). The College will endeavor to stimulate advanced education from denominational viewpoints. The number of students taking college courses in our various educational institutions is surprisingly small. Last year the enrollment of such students in eight training schools numbered 243. Only thirty-two finished a college course. There is a tendency on the part of young people to take up work without sufficient education, and in doing so they are handicapped for efficient service in after life. In “Counsels to Teachers,” page 513, we read:— “Perseverance in the acquisition of knowledge, controlled by the fear and love of God, will give the youth increased power for good in this life; and those who make the most of their opportunities to reach high attainments, will take these attainments with them into the future life. They have sought and obtained that which is imperishable. The ability to appreciate the glories that ‘eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,’ will be proportionate to the attainments reached.”
We believe the Washington Missionary College offers exceptional opportunities to our young people desiring to finish a college course. The libraries, museums, and other facilities of the nation’s capital make it second to no city in America from an educational point of view. It is also the headquarters of our own work, which adds to the possibilities of the College. The ministerial course covers four years, having as a prerequisite twelve grades academic instruction, and is, therefore, the same length as the college course. It seems no more than reasonable that young men preparing for the ministry should be offered as much training as workers for other lines, if not more. The student for the ministry will be expected to do the required amount of practical field work during his course, including Bible readings, cottage meetings, and the conduct of church services. A change in the personnel of the faculty has been made necessary since issuing the calendar. Prof. C. L. Benson, who was engaged as history teacher, is to give his entire time to work in the Young People’s Department of the General and North American Division Conferences. Prof. C. M. Sorenson, who has been teaching Bible and history at the Seminary, has been asked to act as history teacher. His knowledge of Bible and his experience in teaching it will enable him to teach history from the viewpoint of the message and the prophecies of God’s Word. Releasing Professor Sorenson for history has made it necessary to secure an instructor for Bible, and Elder S. M. Butler has been asked to act in that capacity. Brother Butler was Bible teacher at Union College, and left his work at that institution to become president of Mount Vernon College, where he served for a number of years. The last year he has been principal of Oak Wood Academy, Nevada, Iowa. His ability as a Bible teacher is recognized by all who know him. It will be the continued purpose of the institution, while doing regular academic and college work, to train evangelistic laborers. At the last constituency meeting, the following resolution to this end was passed:— “Believing that the hour has come when the messages of Revelation 14 are to be proclaimed with a loud voice, and God’s work in the earth is to be finished; seeing the whitened harvest fields, both in the homeland and in heathen countries; knowing that our conference committees are wholly unable to answer the imperative demands for efficient evangelists to preach the messages to the millions in our larger cities; and appreciating to some extent that our hope, under God, of finishing this work in this generation, and filling the opening providences of God at this time, lies largely in a well-trained, consecrated, godly ministry,—
“We therefore recommend, That it be the policy of this College, while conducting lines of college work, especially to emphasize the training of evangelistic workers for service in all parts of the world,—
“1. By the selection of a faculty each member of which shall be chosen because of his special fitness to contribute in his department to the carrying out of this policy.
“2. By arranging a curriculum especially adapted to these ends.”
The effort of the Foreign Mission Seminary in training young people for mission fields has been a great stimulus both at home and abroad. This line of work will be continued as a department of the College, with the same determined effort to prepare workers for foreign fields. As the secretary of a leading missionary society recently said: “We are reaching a third stage in mission work. The first was an endeavor for territory, trying to get into the world; the second for resources of men and money. Now we have come to the third stage, that of efficiency.” The same is true to some extent of our own work. The recruits for the mission fields are called to reach a higher standard of attainment. The purpose of the Seminary Department of the College will be to that end. Students in this department, as heretofore, will be drawn from various parts of the United States and Canada. A good class of students under provisional appointment of the Mission Board is expected for the year 1914. Those having foreign work in view, willing to answer the call to a foreign field, are requested to write to the College. The line of advance into mission fields must continue in growing strength. The great needs of the regions beyond, together with the message we bear, make it necessary that we hasten on the message in the dark corners of the earth. In speaking of the future work of the institution, the spirit of prophecy said, years ago, that “from the Washington Training College missionaries are to be sent forth to many distant lands.” It will be the purpose of the foreign mission department of the College to assist earnest, consecrated young men and women in preparing themselves as missionaries to carry the gospel of present truth to other lands. It has been my valued privilege so far to visit two of our colleges, one of our foreign seminaries, and five of our academies. It is truly inspiring to look into the faces of the talented youth gathered in our schools. I am reminded vividly and repeatedly of the word of Testimony that came to us some years ago to the effect that there is more than an average of ability among our people. It requires moral stamina and personal force of character to accept an unpopular truth and maintain fidelity to its teachings. It is our task to develop this ability, especially in our young people, and train it for the Master’s use. That there is such ability, and that it is being developed and trained, seem much more real after one has looked upon eight different school chapels within a month, filled with promising, consecrated youth, than when merely sitting in an office and depending upon figures and one’s own imagination. While such a view gratifies, I cannot say that it satisfies, for I think of the equal number of our precious boys and girls who are not yet in these “cities of refuge,”—our own schools,—and who have not yet enlisted in these gospel recruiting stations. The summer months are now before us, when we must work more earnestly than ever before to gather them all in. This is a ten-grade school situated at Holly, in the East Michigan Conference, enrolling about one hundred this year and holding about sixty to the end of the school session. The principal is Prof. Thos. W. Steen, a graduate of Emmanuel Missionary College, who, with his faculty, is working earnestly to build up the strength of the school, both in the classroom and in the industries. One change in the faculty is made necessary by the calling of Prof. M. L. Kelley to the commercial department of Mount Vernon Academy; but16 Miss Mary Lamson, who has been preceptress and teacher there for several years, and Elder W. E. Videto, one of our experienced Bible teachers, will remain. Michigan was not only the home of our first college, at Battle Creek, but17 claims also our oldest intermediate school, at Cedar Lake, in the West Michigan Conference. Its principal for the last three years, Prof. R. U. Garrett, has resigned with the intention of entering the ministry, and Prof. J. G. Lamson, an early promoter of this school, has been chosen to succeed him. The new principal has expressed his determination to make it one of the best ten-grade schools in the denomination, and to keep its work within the general lines marked out by the General and Division Conferences. Prof. H. O. Swartout, a graduate of Emmanuel Missionary College, has been called from Cedar Lake to the science department of Mount Vernon Academy. Emmanuel Missionary College
After the Lake Union Conference, I accompanied President Graf to this thriving educational center. As one result of careful economy in its management, of good team work on its faculty, and of a uniform plan of cooperation with the five academies of the union, this college has been able to hold its liabilities at bay for the last three years, to make some profit on operation for improvements, to increase its laboratory and library facilities, and to maintain a strong spiritual and missionary mold on its teaching. While there was not much increase in attendance over last year, a large proportion of the students remained through the year. Both this and few changes in the faculty have been elements of strength in the school work. It was my pleasure to hear talk of taking definite steps to reduce the indebtedness at least fifty per cent, and to raise the enrollment of the school from 230 to at least 300. This is catching the spirit of the recent union conference, where the gospel workers felt deeply moved to work for an addition of 1,000 souls to the church membership of the Lake Union.
W. E. H. Notice to Readers of “Christian Education”
By W. E. H.
It has been decided to omit the June number of our educational magazine and print an August number instead. Since we had expected to hold an educational convention this summer, it was thought best to omit the usual campaign number which we have issued in June the past four years and throw our strength on the observance of Educational Sabbath, August 8. The August number will therefore be virtually our campaign number. It will contain the readings for Educational Sabbath, which is to be devoted to the interests of our colleges and academies. Besides the readings, there will be advertisements of our leading advanced schools, with a special write-up of each school that advertises. There will be also much other matter suitable to the occasion, including foreign mission and home education features. The special aim of this number of the magazine and of this our second Educational Sabbath will be threefold: to acquaint all our people with the name, number, and location of our advanced schools; to arouse an interest in advanced education, with the reasons why this is timely and important; and to make a strong united effort to fill every room and every seat in every college and academy in the land. To this end let all our parents, churches, and workers plan and work and pray. It is our plan to have the August number of the educational magazine ready for the mail by July 20. I expect to prepare copy for the printer during the first week of June at Walla Walla College, College Place, Wash. I should be most happy to receive from our college and academy men and from our field workers statistical facts, school information, suggestions, or contributions that will help make this issue of the magazine and the observance of this Educational Sabbath tell to the greatest possible extent for the advancement of our schools in educating workers to share in the world’s great harvest home.
W. E. H.