Review and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 35.
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Earlier text: Christian BeingColorado Camp Meeting
By R. C. PORTER
THE Colorado camp meeting was held in the Rocky Mountain Lake Park in Denver as appointed, June 8-18. The camp ground was an ideal place for meetings. A Chautauqua tent was secured, with a seating capacity of two thousand. In the rear of it a beautiful lake of clear, pure water afforded an ideal place for baptism. One hundred eighty-three tents, all nestled under the shade of beautiful trees, furnished accommodations for those on the grounds. Eight hundred and two registered their names as campers in regular attendance at the meeting, and there were at least two hundred additional persons present the last Sabbath and Sunday. The evening services were conducted by Elder O. O. Bernstein. He was assisted by the ministers of the Colorado Conference and a choir of eighty-five singers under the direction of W. I. Morey, of Nevada, Iowa. Elder Bernstein had brought with him some specially prepared illustrations, which greatly increased the interest in the subjects presented. The attendance from the city began with about eight hundred and increased to about seventeen hundred. The evening collections amounted to $286.55. Separate meetings were held for the Germans, Scandinavians, Missionary Volunteers, and the primary and kindergarten children. All these different lines of work showed the result of careful study and preparation. Elder G. F. Haffner, with the German ministers of Colorado, labored especially for the Germans. Elder Underwood, assisted by Elder Bernstein and the writer, labored especially in the spiritual interests of the camp, while Elder Ruble and Prof. H. A. Morrison, who attended in the interests of the educational work, together with the young people's workers in the conference, devoted themselves to the young people's meetings, with excellent results. From the very beginning of the meetings, it was apparent that special blessings were awaiting the sincere seekers for an advance in Christian experience. Each day in the early morning ministers' meeting, the workers sought a closer walk with God, and surrendered all for service in the finishing of the work. A special refreshing from the presence of the Lord brought joy, peace, and victory into their lives. This spirit extended throughout the encampment, and in the various meetings from time to time special manifestations of the Spirit were experienced in a very marked manner. Sinners with weeping made complete surrender of their idols. The sick were healed in answer to prayer, and many church members experienced a new conversion. All lines of work were given attention, and after special consideration of the conference indebtedness it was unanimously recommended that $20,000 be raised as an educational fund for the relief of institutional indebtedness in the conference the coming year. During the meeting $3,810 in cash and pledges was received for the relief of the indebtedness of Campion Academy. Besides $1,055.64 Sabbath school offerings on the two Sabbaths of the meeting, $1,893.90 was received in cash and pledges for missions, making the entire amount raised for missions during the meeting $2,949.54. Seventy-six persons were baptized and added to the membership17 of the conference. Two young men were ordained to the gospel ministry. The religious liberty work has been under the direction of Senator J. F. Pearson, who has placed 167 copies of "Daniel and the Revelation" among the State officers, including the governor and the State commissions. The reports of last year's work showed that 253 have been added to the membership of our churches during 1915. The tithe receipts amounted to $32,781.35, while the offerings to missions amounted to $15,632.06. Dr. Green and his associates from the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium joined the union conference officers in counsel with reference to the relief of the indebtedness of the sanitarium. Elder W. A. Gosmer, principal of the Campion Academy, was elected president of the conference in place of Elder A. T. Robinson, and some other changes were made in the conference officers. The conference committee was increased from five to seven. One very noticeable and commendable feature accompanying the change of officers of the conference, was the sweet spirit manifested by the retiring officers, and their harmonious cooperation in all plans laid by the conference for the extension of the work the coming year. Elder Underwood was remarkably sustained by the power of God, and manifested unusual strength and vigor in his arduous labors during this meeting. The brethren and sisters left with their hearts full of courage and with the determination to devote themselves the coming year unreservedly to the strong advance movement for the finishing of the work. It was the general testimony at the farewell meeting that this had been one of the best camp meetings ever held in Colorado. R. C. PORTER. Progress This Year in the Columbia Union
By B. G. Wilkinson
Thus far this year shows increasing success in each line of work in the Columbia Union. From different parts of the field, and from every department, comes the report that God is blessing in a signal manner. We are carrying on large tent efforts this summer in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and a number of other cities. From the efforts already in progress word comes that the speakers are having larger and more enthusiastic audiences than ever before. Our baptisms for 1915 were one thousand, while the net increase in membership was approximately six hundred; but the prospects for 1916 are bright, far exceeding this record. Our finances are quite as encouraging. Thus far, even allowing for the increased membership, our offerings to foreign missions are about $3,000 more than they were at this time last year. Tithes are increasing, and the union has already secured in cash and pledges about $20,000 for the new college building at Washington. We feel sure that before the year is over, the Columbia Union will have raised for this enterprise $30,000, if not more. Our Twenty-cent-a-week Fund usually totals more than $70,000; thus for 1916 this territory will raise more than $100,000 for missions and institutions. By this we see that the Lord is taking such hold on the hearts of the people that they are giving freely of their means. The secretary of the publishing department of the union a few days ago laid on my desk a report of our sales during the past month. They were just about double what they were for the same month of 1915. Our canvassers everywhere are of good courage. The educational secretary of the union reports that the summer school now in progress in Washington is the largest we have ever held in the East. Yet there is hardly any one in attendance from outside the Columbia Union. News comes from all parts that the youth are making great efforts to secure in our training centers this coming year a preparation for a part in the Lord's work. A splendid report comes from our sanitarium at Washington. The institution has been doing the greatest business that it ever has done. Its patronage is large and influential. Likewise our camp meetings have thus far been more successful than in any previous year. The Spirit of God has been present in marked power. For all these good tokens we thank God and take courage. Five were recently baptized in Chattanooga, Tenn. Seven new converts recently received baptism near Burlington, Colo. Five were adults. Last month Elder F. W. Stray baptized eight candidates in Hartford, Conn. Elder L. E. Johnson writes of the baptism of nine persons in Campbell, Nebr. The church in Greenville, S. C., is rejoicing in the possession of a new church building. A missionary society, with a membership of fourteen, has been organized in Kaw, Okla. From Chicago, Ill., the baptism of six is reported. These united with the Italian church in that place. Between thirty and thirty-five tent efforts are in progress in the Lake Union Conference this summer. Six students of the Oakwood Manual Training School, Huntsville, Ala., were baptized before leaving for their homes. A new church has been organized in Spivey, Kans., with a membership of sixteen. There is also a new church in Osawatomie. Thirty-nine persons, the majority young people, followed their Lord in baptism at the close of the recent Wisconsin camp meeting. Elder C. G. Bellah writes that after a two weeks' tent effort at Poplar Bluff, Mo., twelve have been baptized, and sixteen have united with the church there. Eleven have accepted the Sabbath truth at Pueblo, Colo., through the efforts of Elder H. A. Vandeman. Forty persons have been baptized by Elder G. R. Hawkins at Jaroso. Elder F. J. Rowland writes of the organization of a Sabbath school of sixteen members at Seneca, in the East Michigan Conference. Twelve adults have taken their stand for the truth, nine recently receiving baptism. A sister, Mrs. Hugh Will, writing from Ava, Jackson Co., Ill., tells of the need in that section of the field. The conference cannot spare a worker to labor there, and she wonders if there are not some Adventist families who could move there and do self-supporting missionary work. Pastor L. V. Finster, in writing from the Philippines on April 10, says: “On March 10, as the result of our tent meeting at San Pablo, we baptized 104 persons. This is the largest baptism I ever had from one effort. Here in Manila, on March 31, we baptized sixty-six. This is surely encouraging for the beginning of this year.” Elder H. E. Reeder reports the baptism of seven persons in Missouri during his recent trip among the churches. At the close of a tent effort at Round Top, in charge of Elder F. H. Hoxie, a company of thirty-six was organized, all except two being new converts. Five persons were baptized a few weeks ago in St. Louis. A Special Women’s Class in the Soonan (Korea) School
By Mimi Scharffenberg
Most of our young men here in school are married, and while they are in school their wives are at home farming and working as slaves for the parents of their husbands. Some students have been graduated, and gone out to work. Some who are still in school will be graduated soon. Some worry about their wives and want them to come to school where they can learn at least to become Christians, but their fathers want them at home to work, and the son cannot take his wife away against his father’s wishes, for that would be disobeying his parents. Some would rather obey God and suffer the consequences, and so this year we have thirty women here to study. The majority of these have never before been in Christian surroundings, and the simple gospel stories are very interesting to them. They learn reading and writing and a few other simple subjects, but they come and tell me over and over again that there is no study so interesting as the Bible. As they learn of the Saviour and of the message for this time, they have a burden to tell others about Jesus and his truth.18 Last Sabbath, when taking up the special collection for Manchuria, we found three rings in the collection envelopes. It is very hard for them to give up their rings, as the mothers always like to keep them and give them to their children when they are married. These rings were given by a sister who decided to become a Christian only a short time ago, and now attends this class. Simultala, India
By W. A. Barlow
A POST CARD I received a short time ago from a young student in a mission school at Bhagalpur, shows how God is working among the people of India through our literature. I met this young man last year, while on a tour among the students in Bhagalpur and the surrounding district, with our Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Santali, and English papers and tracts. He writes:— “DEAR SIR: After a long time I am writing you a few lines about my condition. I could not write you any letter before this because I was not here and thought that you would not be there at the place where you told me. I hope that you will kindly send me a few books to sell, because here are many boys, Hindu and Mohammedan. So I hope that they will buy. When they will buy them, I will send you the money, and if they don’t take them, I will return you the books. “I am yours faithfully,
“SANDY BROWN.” I understand this young man is an Indian Christian student. FREDERICK GRIGGS General Secretary W. E. HOWELL Assistant Secretary 'Tis Better On Before
By MRS. M. J. HART
God's love has sweetened all my life
With gladness more and more;
And still, though bright the days have been,
'Tis better on before. So blest am I, my cup of joy
Is daily running o'er;
And yet I learn, with each new day,
'Tis better on before. For God's sweet gift of perfect peace
His goodness I adore,
And onward reach to deeper joys;
'Tis better on before. It does not seem that my dear Lord,
Of love could give me more,
But larger measures he bestows;
'Tis better on before. A Student's Aim
By NI KEUNG IL
It has been nearly three years since I entered school in Soonan, Korea. In the forenoon I study in school, and in the afternoon I work with the Sabbath school secretary in sending out letters and instruction to Sabbath schools and missionary societies. As we here in Korea can see how with God's blessing the work is growing, we are very happy and thankful. In the evening I return to the dormitory to get my lessons, but I find that time is too short. Only three months, and then I expect to be graduated and do the work which, even before I entered the school, it was my aim to do. We have given ourselves to the Lord to do whatever he wants us to do. We realize that time is short, and we want to gain the experience necessary to meet the Lord. Assignment for July 16 to 22
To Think about as You Read
July 16: Am I really seeking the Lord? July 17: Am I “shining” for him? July 18: Am I ready for a home with him? July 19: Is he my King? Do I yield loyal allegiance to him? July 20: Shall I be saved “with the meek of the earth”? July 21: Do God’s words do me good? July 22: Or am I among those from whom he will hide his face? The four psalms given in this week’s assignment were “written presumably by Hezekiah (Psalm 44) and Asaph during the reign of Hezekiah and the time of Isaiah’s prophetic ministry. They relate to events connected with the invasion of Sennacherib and the destruction of the Assyrian host.” Micah—the Man and His Prophecy
Micah, the sixth of the minor prophets, “was a native of Moresheth, a small town on the maritime plain, about twenty miles southwest of Jerusalem. He lived in the times of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah (probably also Manasseh), kings of Judah. He was a prophet to Israel and also to Judah. He was a younger contemporary of Isaiah. Micah was a man who saw and felt keenly the social wrongs of his age (chapters 2 and 3), and sympathized deeply with the common people.” He prophesied during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. The Standard Bible Dictionary gives the date as “between 745 and 700 B. C.” Micah was a prophet of judgment. Great social evils abounded in his time, and he was called to deliver a message of wrath and warning. He “graphically depicts Jehovah coming forth out of his place amid awful convulsions of nature. Chapter 1:3, 4. The sins of the house of Israel and the transgressions of Jacob have called him forth. The prophet sees in a vision village after village destroyed. Samaria goes down, and the desolation comes to the very gates of Jerusalem.” Because of the sins of Israel, Zion is to be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem to become heaps. The prophecy falls naturally into three divisions,—chapters 1 and 2, 3 to 5, and 6 and 7,—each beginning with the invocation “Hear,” followed by rebukes and threatenings, passing into reasons for the judgment in the guilt of sin, and closing with a promise of blessing. Chapter 5 names the birthplace of the19 coming Messiah, and clearly shows his preexistence; chapter 7 seems to outline the history of the church till his second coming. Jeremiah mentions this prophet. “It would be hard to overestimate the influence of the Bible not only on the Western but on the Eastern world. It has been a great force religiously, morally, and politically. “Its vivid portrayal of the customs of ancient peoples, its forcible illustrations of the rise and fall of empires, its truthful delineation of human passions as found in king and slave, its naked revelations of the human mind in its highest and in its lowest aspirations, its sane and wholesome morals flowing like refreshing streams through the parched deserts of human greed, its exhibition to the very raw of human degradation, its presentation of pastoral purity in poetry of the loftiest order, and its noble ethical ideals, all contribute to make it the paramount and incomparable volume.”—Selected. Solusi Mission, Rhodesia, South Africa
By W. C. Walston
WE are all well here on our station. The school at the home station is full, and our outschools are also well attended. Each week new students are asking for admittance, and we are very much perplexed to know whether we ought to take more at present. We are having a very severe drought all through Southern Rhodesia. Crops are cut short, and grazing for stock is very scarce. The farmers are much discouraged, and in many sections the natives fear starvation. Just what will have to be done I cannot tell, but I am sure the government will be obliged in some way to give assistance to the natives. We have been more fortunate than many. Our crops have not felt the drought so very much, and all the white and native people are wondering at what seems to them to be a special providence from God. Until two days ago it looked as if a large portion of our crops would be a failure, but after a month's dry weather heavy showers came, and our farm has received “showers of blessings,” while all about us very little rain has fallen. We have been earnestly praying that the Lord would send the showers, although it is late in the season. It means a good many pounds to our mission. We are now praising him for his goodness to us. Some of our neighbors, I hear, say they are glad they live near the mission, for when we pray for rain and God answers our prayers, they receive some benefit also. We are sorry for the people, as the most of them have already lost their crops; the hot sun and the wind have burned them up. We had good crops last season, storing away about four thousand bushels of corn, while the crops all about us were not very good on account of a very wet season. The recent rains will help our present crops very much, and I believe we shall have a good harvest. I am sure we have reason to praise God for so many special blessings. Our week of prayer was excellent. At the close, I called for those who would like to make a start to serve the Lord. Twenty-five of our students arose. Nearly all were young men who had come in during the year. I now have a baptismal class of about thirty who will soon be ready for baptism. Our church is full of interested listeners every Sabbath. A good interest exists in our school, and more students are coming than we can well care for. For several years I have tried to secure a special permit for our teachers to sell Bibles and religious literature in the native tongue, and not be obliged to pay a fifty-dollar license for each district. The superintendent of native affairs in this part of Rhodesia, who has control of our five districts, is a man whom I have known for several years here in Bulawayo, and also knew at Gwelo, while I was on the Somabula Mission. He has always been much interested in our work, and has often rendered me assistance. I went to him about a year ago, and told him how much I should like our native teachers to sell the native literature. He at once became interested in the matter, and asked me to write out what I desired and send it to him. He promised to forward the letter to the Administrator at Salisbury, and also himself to write him a letter, asking for a special permit. I did as he requested. As a result, in a few weeks I received the permit, and we sent out our old head teacher loaded with literature. Since he began to canvass, he has sold nearly a thousand Bibles, books, and pamphlets, bringing in the sum of $325. Through the native commissioner already mentioned, I also secured a special permit for our Somabula Mission to sell the literature in the Gwelo district. We feel sure God has helped us in this also. Jim, our old teacher, is delighted with this line of work, and wishes to remain in it for some time. While out on his trips, on Sabbath and Sunday evenings and at all times when possible, he preaches the truth, hanging up his chart and explaining the prophecies. He has stirred up the native Christians in Bulawayo quite a little, and some of them wish to keep the Sabbath. We feel sure Jim will be able to do a good work, and that we shall soon see many natives interested in the truth. Zulu Mission, Natal, South Africa
By J. C. ROGERS
THIS mission has three teacher-evangelists who spend most of their time out in the kraals. They have neither schoolhouses nor churches, being really traveling evangelists. A few natives are keeping the Sabbath as a result of James's work one hundred miles north of Spion Kop. Two other evangelists live on the mission farm, going among native villages near by. Some have been baptized as the result of their work. Natives here are not so eager to hear the gospel as are the raw heathen in the heart of Africa. The Zulu Mission has a very small school, but among the pupils are some promising boys and girls. We hope the school will grow. Elder Armitage has a private teacher for his two daughters (one adopted), separate from the Zulu school. Rachel, a native girl from our Kafirland Mission, assists in the Zulu school. Her age may be about twenty years. (We do not know accurately the ages of the natives.) She teaches quite well for a native.
J. C. ROGERS. Educational Reform in Argentina
The minister of public instruction of the Argentine Republic has presented to the Buenos Aires congress a plan for an almost complete reform of the educational system of the country, the new scheme being modeled on the system of the United States. He proposes to reduce the six primary grades to four, then to have a three years’ intermediary course, which will provide development either in general studies, with the object of entrance into the national university, or in a comprehensive course of vocational training. Missionary Volunteer Department
M. E. KERN — Secretary
MATILDA ERICKSON — Assistant Secretary
MRS. I. H. EVANS — Office Secretary
MEADE MACGUIRE
C. L. BENSON
J. F. SIMON — Field Secretaries The Los Angeles Hospital Fund
By Mrs. S. N. Haskell
The question is often asked, “What is being done by the women of this denomination toward raising the funds to build the hospital necessary to more fully equip our medical college at Loma Linda?” The North American Division Committee appointed a chairman and a secretary for the general oversight of the work, and requested that the different union conferences appoint an auxiliary secretary for each union, and, where necessary, a secretary in each local conference. It has taken considerable time to appoint these auxiliary secretaries, and in a few unions they have not yet been appointed. We are glad to announce, however, that the work is moving. Half a block of land in a very favorable location in the city of Los Angeles has been purchased, free of debt, for the hospital. In a number of unions the work of securing funds is being well organized. The union secretaries and local conference secretaries are enthusiastically taking hold of the work. In each church they have selected an energetic woman to act as leader, and these leaders are interesting the women in the work. In most of the churches some definite goal has been set,—in many places two dollars a member; in other places the members are paying one dollar each, while some churches have decided on a certain sum to be raised. While visiting in the Pacific Union Conference, I was pleased to see the earnestness with which the leaders in the different churches are taking hold of the enterprise, and the many different ways by which the women are securing the money necessary to advance the work. The secretary of another union conference informs me that the work is organized so that through their leaders they hope to come in touch with every woman in that union conference. The following quotation from a letter just received from an enthusiastic union conference secretary states how the work is going in her territory:— “All our local conferences are busy now, and well organized, except Elder —’s. I hope he will soon appoint a secretary. A small church in — sent me $20. I look for money now in each mail. I hope by ‘Loma Linda Day’ the people will be thoroughly educated on the subject, and sufficient means will come in to complete the work.” The presidents of many of our conferences are deeply interested in this work. The following extracts taken from letters received voice the sentiments of others:— “Sister — has been chosen to lead out in the work in this union, and we have agreed to forward her appeals to all the women of our conference. I am sure there will be a hearty response, and — will make up its quota, notwithstanding the hard times. There is no question in our minds about the need. The medical college is required, and we will do what we can to forward the enterprise.” From another conference president’s letter we quote:— “I am happy to tell you that we are taking steps to raise our quota of the amount required. We are in harmony with the enterprise, and believe that it will work out to the good of all concerned. It may take a little time before the money comes in, but we are quite sure that we shall be able to handle our share without any large amount of persuasion.” Some years ago the servant of the Lord outlined a work to be done for the young people of our denomination, and a grand work has been accomplished for them. This is as it should be, but in a large number of our churches many of our sisters who are too old to be included among young people are doing little to advance the work. God needs every one. All the latent power in our churches should be brought into the field. The women in many of the popular churches are doing a noble work in gathering funds to carry forward the various enterprises of their churches. Surely we who have the light of the third angel’s message shining on our pathway should do all in our power to secure the funds necessary to equip our medical college, that our medical missionaries may be taught by teachers who believe the present truth, instead of going to worldly schools to receive their education. MRS. S. N. HASKELL,
Chairman of the Woman’s Committee. Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press — The one hundredth anniversary of the introduction of gas for lighting purposes was recently celebrated in Baltimore, Md. It is said that Baltimore was the first American city to use gas for illumination and to incorporate a gas company. — In order to protect the name of the organization from exploitation, a bill for incorporating the Boy Scouts of America was recently signed by President Wilson. Among the concerns that have already appropriated the name is a tobacco house which recently offered “Boy Scout” cigarettes for sale. — The launching of a campaign to close all Chicago saloons in 1917 was announced on June 16 by the Dry Chicago Federation, which is composed of about fifty organizations interested in the abolition of the liquor traffic. A petition for an election next spring under the local option law is to be circulated. — America’s superdreadnaught, the “Pennsylvania,” the largest battleship afloat, became a part of the United States Navy on June 12, when she was placed in commission at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The ceremonies of the occasion were impressive and patriotic, and were witnessed by a number of invited guests and naval officers. — Miss Helen Keller, deaf and blind, is now taking singing lessons from a professor of the New England conservatory of music. It was only after months of patient effort that Miss Keller learned to talk, and even now her enunciation is not wholly clear. She is extremely sensitive to music, which makes her body “sing like a wind harp,” she says. — And now the grave of Mohammed is brought into the news through the European war, and Mecca itself has become a point of battle. Arabia is in arms, in revolt against Turkish rule, and, according to late dispatches, the holy city of Mecca has been captured by the natives, who are striving to throw off the yoke of the Turk. Medina, which is about 250 miles from Mecca, and in which is the tomb of Mohammed, is closely besieged. The Arabs have been agitating this revolt for years, it being the outcome of what is known as the Pan Arab movement, which aims at the abolition of Turkish misrule, oppression, and maltaxation; at the ejection of the Turk from the whole of the Arabian peninsula, and at the formation of a great confederation of Arab tribes.20 — By the recent annexation of the two new suburbs, Los Angeles, Cal., now covers the largest area of any city in the United States. New York stands in second place, with 314 square miles, 23 square miles less than Los Angeles; while Chicago is third, with 198 square miles. — On June 15 the representatives of railroads in the United States notified the heads of the railway employees’ brotherhoods and their 800 delegates, assembled in New York City, that the railroads had refused their demands for an eight-hour day and time and a half for overtime, and asked that the issue be submitted to federal arbitration, preferably by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The labor leaders refused to submit the issues to arbitration, and said they would proceed to secure authority for declaring a national strike of 350,000 trackmen and yardmen. — The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been making a study of the cost of education, and finds a notable tendency to increase. In the ten years of its history the foundation has kept records of the charges made for tuition by representative universities and colleges. It has been found that the charge has increased by about one fourth. The report says the tendency to increase was active ten years ago, but was checked by the general financial disturbance of 1907. Since that time it has developed steadily, so that the last four years represent more than half of the advance during the decade. The past year, following the recent examples at Columbia and Yale, the fee at Princeton has been increased from $160 to $175, and next year the Harvard fee of $150, which has remained unchanged since 1869, will be increased to $200. The representative or median fee has increased, during the decade, from about $80 to approximately $100 a year, and the tendency to advance fees is progressing. — One of the most interesting phases of the political conventions recently held is connected with the handling of the reports sent out to the various newspapers of the country. Never before has so much “copy” been sent out from Presidential conventions. As many as 600,000 words left Chicago in a single day. While this is in itself 200,000 words fewer than were wired the day Colonel Roosevelt reached Chicago in 1912, the week’s total far exceeded that of four years ago. It requires executive ability of a high order to handle all this telegraphing. Convention operators were brought to Chicago and St. Louis from all parts of the country. Many of these were selected because of their special familiarity with the needs and methods of particular cities. Wires are run directly from the convention hall to the large newspaper offices, sometimes as many as half a dozen different operators being at work sending dispatches to a single paper. The number of correspondents this year was unusually large, newspapers in small cities and towns from nearly every State sending special representatives to Chicago and St. Louis. This is indicative, of course, of the widespread interest that the political campaign has developed this year, and also of the standard of efficiency that has been reached in the handling of great gatherings by the telegraph companies. It took 200 operators to handle the Chicago conventions, and 150 to take care of that at St. Louis. Medical Missionary Department
W. A. RUBLE, M. D. - - General Secretary L. A. HANSEN - - Assistant Secretary H. W. MILLER, M. D. - - N. Am. Div. Secretary The Mission of Suffering
By WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN
There came unto my door, with pensive face,
A sober mien, and meek and quiet grace,
Dame Suffering. I shrank from her embrace,
She oped the door, unbidden entered in.
Her presence lent a chill to lure of sin,
And through my heart, deep wrung by care and woe,
There breathed the fragrance, naught else could bestow,
Of sympathy. Long had I yearned to do
Some mighty deed to win fair laurels true,
But He who metes to each his work of love
Assigned to me this portion from above,
That thus my stubborn will and selfish heart
Might bear the impress his love doth impart.
So may we be deep shorn of our desire,
Refined and purified by suffering's fire,
Until the glory of the Saviour's face
May be reflected in our lowly place. Divinity may walk in mortal dress
Till, perfected through ills of life, it bless
And meet God's will in his great world of need
Through kindred brother-touch for hearts that bleed.