p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 20. (5/20/1909)

Earlier text: Discussion in Memphis, Tenn

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For Sale.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor, keeps indefinitely: 5-gal. can, $3.50; 10-gal. can, $6.75; 62 cents a gal. in half-barrel and barrel lots; 30 gal. and 50 gal. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.

For Sale.—Fifteen acres improved land in Yakima Valley. New six-room house. One acre young apple-trees. Grapes and berries. Near church and church-school. Price, $3,000. For terms, apply to G. W. Sargeant, Granger, Wash., R. F. D. 1.

Wanted.—To know the whereabouts of my son, Willie C. Loomis; missing since Nov. 16, 1908. Is twenty years old; six feet tall; light complexion. Initials tattooed on one forearm. Weight 150. Address Nora Loomis, 910 Olivia Place, Ann Arbor, Mich.

For Sale.—Peanut Butter, 10¢ a pound. 50 pounds Cocoanut Oil, $7. Olive Oil, $2.50 a gallon. 6 cans (57 pounds) Vegetable Cooking Oil, freight paid, $6.50. Cereal Coffee, Wheatee, and Whole Wheat Flour, cheap. Vegetarian Meat Company, Washington, D. C.

Wanted at Once.—First-class, all-round baker. Man capable of taking charge of shop as foreman. Permanent place for right person. Must be Sabbath-keeper. For particulars write at once, and state wages required. Address Homestead Bakery, Wilmington, Ohio.

For Sale.—160 acres irrigated land. Fenced; small buildings; six miles from town; healthy climate; good water; under the famous Government Ditch in western Nebraska. $4,000 will buy it, or it may be rented satisfactorily. Address J. M. Fritz, Morden, Manitoba.

Wanted.—Lake Arthur, N. M., has a small Seventh-day Adventist church building and Sabbath-school. Families wanting church and church-school privileges, can do well financially to locate here in Pecos Valley. Small or large tracts. Address J. S. Ritter, Lake Arthur, N. M.

For Sale.—Beautiful home on Carroll Avenue, Takoma Park. Second house east of log cabin. Three large lots. House eleven rooms and bath. Hot water heat, barn, servants' house, and other outbuildings. Will sell for less than cost of house alone. Address W. G. Platt, Takoma Park, D. C.

For Sale.—Sixty-acre farm, Baldwin Co., Ala. Fast filling up with progressive Northern settlers. Delightful climate. Mild winters. Cool gulf breezes in summer. Purest water known. Plenty of wood and lumber. Ten acres in cultivation. House, barn, etc. Three-quarters mile from depot. Value, about $1,800. As I wish to take a course at one of our institutions, I will sacrifice for a quick sale at $1,000. Address P. W. Paulson, Silverhill, Ala.

Wanted.—To correspond with reliable Seventh-day Adventists wishing to locate in west central Kansas, where productive farms are still cheap, and church and school privileges are possible. Land $10 to $35. Good water. Good climate. Address Fred H. Weber, Ogallah, Kan.

For Sale.—Twenty-five nice white envelopes by mail post-paid, only 10 cents, with your name and address neatly printed on the corner. Every one should use them. Order package now, or send for samples. Write plainly. Address King Printing Company, Cordova Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind.

Midget Massage Vibrator.—Patented; foreign patents pending. A hand-massage machine that is operated without electricity. Nickel plated, will last a lifetime. $3 to Adventists. We make all kinds of medical lamps. Send for folders. Radiodescent Lamp Co., 54 South, Kalamazoo, Mich.

White Plymouth Rocks, for weight, beauty, size, and winter laying the best all-round breed of poultry in existence. My thoroughbred stock took four prizes at the Tri-state Fair open to Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Fishel strain: 15 eggs, $2; 50, $5.50; 100, $10. Address Forrest Washburn, 665 Decatur St., Memphis, Tenn.

Wanted.—To correspond with energetic man,—physician, or husband and wife (nurses), who would locate in Denver, Colo. Good opportunity. Population, 200,000. Two thousand dollars capital necessary. Don't answer unless interested and mean business. References upon request. John I. Hughey, 236 Temple Court Bldg., Denver, Colo.

For Sale.—One million Bible Mottoes. Our new Father and Mother Mottoes take the lead. First issue, of about 40,000, is almost sold. We have about 100 designs in stock. To any address, all assorted, 200, $11. We prepay all express. Bible Post-Cards, as well as Bible Cards, in stock. Don't write us unless you mean business. Address Hampton Art Co., Hampton, Iowa.

Wanted.—Some one who likes our place as well as we do; who needs this climate, and the Central California Intermediate School (now having three teachers; soon to become an academy). Healthful; prosperous, satisfactory community. Busy season in school vacation. Land level enough to irrigate at a cost of only 25 cents an acre a year—water coming from the perpetual snows. Corn, grain, alfalfa, and vegetables do well. Peaches, apricots, and raisins pay up to $150 an acre net. Cream and poultry pay. I have 80 acres in pasture, at only $50 an acre; and 52 acres, about 20 acres of which are in fruit, balance pasture. Five-room house, barn, nine poultry houses, fine wells, at only $80 an acre—much cheaper than adjoining land—about half cash. Three miles from church-school and market. Better improved land in adjoining section $250 to $400 an acre (for those who do not need a school). This is my last notice. If the Lord does not send me a buyer, so that I can return to mission field, I will gladly stay here, and send money and our children. Write to J. Clark, Armona, Cal.

Legal Meeting of the British Columbia Association

By W. M. Adams

NOTICE is hereby given that the trustees of the British Columbia Association of Seventh-day Adventists were not elected at the special meeting called April 13, 1909. The meeting adjourned to June 28, 1909, 11 A. M., in order to secure legal counsel with regard to the meaning of certain points in the articles of incorporation and the by-laws. Let all our churches elect delegates to send to this meeting at the following ratio: One delegate for the church, and one additional delegate for every ten members. The trustees will be elected at the said coming meeting. Place—Port Hammond, British Columbia, at the office of said association.

W. M. Adams, President of Association.

The Sabbath Services

SABBATH, May 15, was a day long to be remembered by those in attendance at the General Conference. At the eleven o’clock service Mrs. E. G. White spoke to the encampment upon the theme of the Saviour’s discourse found in the fifteenth of John, dwelling chiefly upon the first ten verses, and of these ten verses chiefly upon verse eight: “Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.”

The burden of this aged servant of God seemed to be to lay upon those assembled representatives of the third angel’s message the importance of rightly representing Christ to the world in our speech, in our character, in all our dealings with our fellow men, in order that we shall not be found fruitless in the great day of harvest. To do this there is necessary a complete consecration to God, a constant abiding in Christ, while the ear listens attentively to the voice of the Father in his Word. That, in turn, necessitates a cutting loose from the customs, practises, and ideals of the world, without any regard to what the world may think about it. It means that we must by living faith daily lay hold upon our Redeemer if we would bear the fruit of the Christian.

Sister White, in this discourse, dwelt much upon the thought that our humanity must lay hold of his divinity. Otherwise we shall miss our chance of attaining that life which measures with the life of God. She spoke also of the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand, and said: “Jesus could work miracles because humanity and divinity were combined in him. That is what we need in our sanitariums, the faith that lays hold upon Christ, that will take up the cross of self-denial and self-sacrifice, that they may be united with Christ indeed as one with him. To every one of us he gives that privilege, if we will cut away our own wrong habits and practises.”

In view of this instruction from the servant of God, the choice of the afternoon topic was a very appropriate one indeed. Elder E. W. Farnsworth was the speaker. The theme of his discourse was the reception of the Holy Spirit. An earnest prayer by Elder R. S. Owen opened the meeting. This was followed by an impressive song, “Ashamed of Jesus,” rendered by a male quartet.

Elder Farnsworth’s text was John 14: 15, 16: “If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.” He dwelt upon the importance of the office work of the Holy Spirit in the life experience of every believer. Especially is this necessary for the man or woman who would go out to teach the truth of God. Our efforts when witnessed to by the Holy Spirit are truly effectual in the work of God. It was not his purpose to philosophize upon the identity of the Holy Spirit, he said, but it is of the utmost importance to experience in the soul all that the Holy Spirit has for the child of God. That representative of God on the earth is to take the place of our departed Lord. He is our official now to take charge of the work of God on earth, to be the overseer of all our missionary enterprises, to lead in all the work of the third angel’s message until the close of time. He is the representative of heaven, the true vicarius filii dei, the one who is to lead God’s people through all the dangers and trials and pitfalls and afflictions to the end of time.

The closing portion of the address was devoted to the theme of God’s power and willingness to bring healing to the physical frame as well as to the soul of men. “He is able,” said the speaker, “to take every miserable thing away from us in order that he may use us for the carrying forward of his great work.”

That the call to renewed consecration of the forenoon, and the call to the reception of the Spirit’s power of the afternoon service were timely and appreciated messages, was illustrated in the stirring testimony meeting which next followed. Hearts were melted to tenderness, and all felt that God had indeed begun to visit his people with special blessings.

These services of the first Sabbath of the Conference show that God is waiting to be gracious, and it is hoped and expected that the good work so auspiciously begun may continue with increasing power throughout the entire session.

Saturday evening a stereopticon display of views of our publishing houses and of the progress of the publishing work since the beginning of this movement was presented. This was greatly enjoyed by all, and served to illustrate much of the power and leadings of Providence attending the message since its small and obscure beginnings. The great increase in our publications, both of periodicals and large and small books, is an example of the advance of the cause in all departments.

Book Salesmen Circulating Periodicals

OPPORTUNITIES often present themselves to our book salesmen whereby they may also assist in circulating our periodicals. Note the following extract from a letter just received from one of our agents in Louisiana: “I am a canvasser. While taking an order for books from a lady in this city, she spoke of wishing to make a small present to some of her friends. The enclosed twenty yearly subscriptions for Liberty and one yearly subscription for Life and Health are the result.” Our commission to agents on yearly subscriptions for these magazines being forty per cent, this brother’s profit on this six-dollar order for periodicals amounted to $2.40.

The Rendering of Easter in Acts

A CORRESPONDENT requests an explanation of the use of the word Easter in Acts 12:4. That the rendering here given is a wrong translation, there is general agreement among Bible scholars. In every other instance the original Greek word is translated passover, and it should have been thus rendered in this scripture. Recognizing this inconsistency, the translators of the Revised Version, in both the English and American revisions, have rendered the word passover instead of Easter. The older translations, including the King James Version, show the bias of religious thought,—influenced by the established custom in the church of celebrating Easter, a union of the early Pasch with the heathen festival of Ostàra, or Easter.

General Conference Sabbath-School

Sabbath Morning, May 15

A REVIEW of past lessons in the Life of Christ series was conducted by Prof. C. C. Lewis. An impressive feature of the review was the concert reading by the school of a chain of leading texts setting forth the principal events in the life of the Saviour from his infancy to his baptism.

Elder F. M. Wilcox taught the lesson for the day, based upon Matt. 3:13 to 4:11, giving the account of the baptism of Jesus and the temptations in the wilderness. One of the most helpful thoughts developed was that as Jesus was strengthened in the hour of his greatest temptation by his memory of the Father’s loving words, “Thou are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” so we may be enabled to overcome every temptation of the enemy by remembering the relationship we are privileged to claim—that of being sons of God.

In the kindergarten division Mrs. Alice Bourdeau conducted the review, after which the little ones surrounded the kindergarten tables for the study of the lesson.

An interesting feature of the exercises for the intermediate division was a missionary talk by Miss Ida Thompson, who told of the Chinese Sabbath-school in Canton, China, and described some of the peculiar customs of that country.

The attendance in the senior division was 1,306; the number in the children’s divisions, 167; making a total of 1,473. The total donation to missions was $125.67.