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Earlier text: Gospel Workers' Department

Medical Missionary Department

By L. A. Hansen

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference

GEORGE THOMASON, M. D. - - - - Secretary L. A. HANSEN - - - - Assistant Secretary

Reports From City Treatment-Rooms

SEVERAL treatment-rooms have sent in reports of last year's work. These reports show some interesting figures. The volume of business done is indicated by the average number of daily treatments, which was twenty-eight, the largest number given in any one day being forty-eight. In number of persons reached and treatments given, this compares favorably with quite a few sanitariums.

It will be seen, too, that a great deal of good is accomplished in giving to many a favorable impression of our work in general, and in creating openings for the presentation of the truth. Those conducting these enterprises carry the entire burden of financial support and management. No call is made for material assistance, but these treatment-room workers wish to be recognized as having a part in the spread of the truth, and they solicit the moral support and the prayers of our people.

Properly conducted, a treatment-room may be a strong factor for good. Not only can it build up a useful work of its own with an increasing constituency, but it can do very effective service in cooperating with our sanitariums by sending patients who need sanitarium care, and by continuing necessary treatments on the return of the patients. Sanitariums can reciprocate, and thus these health institutions work together to the mutual upbuilding of their work.

Dr. J. E. Froom, of Boise, Idaho, reports 2,606 treatments for 1911, which does not include office treatments nor his own professional work. He says:—

"Our work has brought us close to many in all walks of life, and we are often cheered to see the way open for presenting matters of more consequence than the mere alleviation of pain. Many times we have been surprised to find individuals well acquainted with the truth, and in their extremity many of them show a preference for Seventh-day Adventists.

"In loaning 'Ministry of Healing' to the wife of one of our leading public officials, we learned that her sister is a Seventh-day Adventist. That was the beginning of many interviews in which we tried to sow seed in faith.

"At another time, on being called to the leading hotel, I found a sufferer who had been reared in an Adventist family, and had taken pains to learn about the believers in Boise since locating here. She is not obedient to the faith, but still feels strongly drawn to it.

"A few words often result in a patient's carrying home one of our precious books and reading it with genuine interest, and a number of our patients are now receiving regular instruction from our conference Bible worker."

In Calcutta, India, treatment-rooms have been operated since 1908, when the sanitarium was moved to Mussoorie. A report is given of 2,243 treatments for 1911. Brother J. H. Reagan, the manager, writes:—

"We started the treatment-rooms under somewhat discouraging circumstances, having a debt of three thousand dollars. It was an innovation in this country to run treatment-rooms without a doctor. Personally, I could undertake it only as I could put my trust in God's help to do what seemed impossible. My motto is, 'Work and pray.' I am thankful to say God manifested his power in a remarkable way. The first season we were overwhelmed with patronage, and managed to reduce our indebtedness very materially. We have now liquidated all our indebtedness, besides installing additional equipment. We have every reason to be grateful to God for the way he has helped us out of our difficulties.

"We have always kept in mind the primary object of this work—to bring the gospel before the people as opportunity offers. Our patrons are well up the rungs of the official, commercial, and business ladder. I can honestly say, hardly one gets away without some phase of the gospel being brought to his notice.

"Our best patronage is from the High Court and commercial houses, with a sprinkling from the military. From the High Court we have several judges and many barristers. From commercial houses, we have heads of firms. We have several from the banks, and have had quite a few ministers. Recently I treated a clergyman on Friday, and after his treatment he remarked, 'Well, I suppose you are closed to-morrow, as you are still under the law, and not under grace.' I replied, 'My dear sir, it is only by grace that you can keep the law.' Last month I had the privilege of treating a prominent bishop of the Church of England. He asked me how we differed from others. This gave me an opportunity, which I used to the best of my ability, telling him our belief in regard to the Sabbath and other Bible truths. He listened without comment."

The treatment-rooms at Bellingham, Wash., operated by C. D. Threlkeld, show a steady growth in business, a comparative report giving 1,209 treatments for 1906 and 3,184 for 1911. A good influence is extending to a considerable distance.

An excellent work has been built up in Decatur, Ill., by Brother and Sister R. B. Craig, embracing treatment-rooms, health food store, and nurses' exchange. They report 4,150 treatments for 1911, with an average of thirteen treatments a day, thirty-two having been given in one day. A few items of experience are mentioned by Brother Craig, as follows:—

"We have a nice class of patients. Nearly all the ministers of our city come frequently for treatment, and buy our foods. A leading minister recently called by phone on Friday to know if he could get a treatment before sundown. He sent his wife to one of our sanitariums not long ago, and she was pleased with the foods, treatment, etc.

"It is wonderful how we get patients to discard tea, coffee, tobacco, and injurious foods. I must tell you of two or three very sick persons whom we treated last summer. One was the wife of the president of a large university.

She told her husband not to call a doctor, although she was critically ill. She said medicine so disturbed her stomach that she would be sick a long time from it. She had Mrs. Craig go to her house every day for three weeks, paying her $2.50 a visit. She got well, and is sending us other patients.

"Two men were given up by one of the best doctors. One was dying, as all who saw him said. I was permitted to treat them, and by persevering effort both recovered. We work carefully with the physicians, and they are our good friends, many of them sending us patients. The Lord helps us in many ways, and we do not forget daily to seek his help and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We find many who are quite willing to correct their wrong dietetic habits.

"During the week of prayer we held one of the evening meetings in the ladies' waiting-room. A wealthy patient insisted on having a treatment that evening. She could hear everything that was said in the meeting, and really enjoyed it. Much can be done to teach the third angel's message in these places. We keep a supply of tracts and papers to give away when needed."

Brother Craig is modest in reporting all that is done by his work. We understand that it is a great strength to the local church and Sabbath-school, as well as a material benefit to the conference. The Sabbath-school offerings for the last quarter of the year amounted to seventy-five dollars. Other offerings and donations receive help from this source.

R. L. Mautz, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, sends the largest report for the year, 9,412 treatments having been given. The week-day average was twenty-eight, and the largest number for a single day was forty-eight. He says: "Our work is among the leading people, and our endeavor is to help the patients morally and physically, and we see evidences of beneficial results to our patients and to the church because of the influence of the treatment-rooms."

Suffering Is No Proof of Sin

“Don’t forget that suffering is no proof of sin, but sin is always prophetic of suffering.”

Love One Another Fervently

THE most faulty people find the most faults in others. The most faultless are always the most charitable. "Perfect love," not perfect profession, looks for the Jesus traits in others, admires them, and passes by the rest. The most faultless are the most devoted and the busiest in the Spirit, and hence, the most exposed to the public view. Brethren, remember the exhortation: "Love one another with a pure heart fervently."—The Pentecost.

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— During the recent celebration of the Passover, the oldest feast of the Jewish calendar, the Jews of Chicago consumed 2,000,000 pounds of matzoth (unleavened bread) and 150,000 bottles of wine.

— A great project for a French trans-african railway, extending from Tangier to Juba, on the banks of the Indian Ocean, has been revealed by Senator Gauthier. The cost is estimated at $600,000,000. The motive power is to be electricity, generated by waterfalls in the neighborhood of Lake Tchad.

— An indication of the approaching completion of excavation work on the Panama Canal is found in the comparatively small amount of dynamite to be used during the next fiscal year. The canal engineers estimate that 3,986,500 pounds of the explosive will be sufficient, and bids for supplying this amount have been asked for. During the present year 8,533,000 pounds were bought.

— Municipal authorities in many larger cities might take note of a hygienic reform just instituted in Montgomery, Ala., where street-cars are to be cleaned every night, and thoroughly disinfected twice a week.

— The old frigate "Pensacola," first under command of Admiral Farragut, later a flag-ship at foreign stations, and in recent years a training-ship, was recently destroyed by fire in a remote section of San Francisco Bay.

— Thomas A. Edison recently announced that he expects to spend $3,000,000 and devote eight years to the work of perfecting a repertory of educational films that will meet the requirements he has set to make the moving picture useful in the schoolroom.

— It is stated by Major F. F. Russell, of the American army medical corps, that as the result of antityphoid vaccination that disease has practically been wiped out from the army. He declared that 1,580 deaths resulted from typhoid during the Spanish-American war, but during the army maneuvers in Texas last year only one case developed.

— Much anxiety is felt regarding the outcome of affairs in Cuba. A condition of insurgency exists among the Negroes of Matanzas, Santa Clara, and Oriente provinces, especially in the last named, and the government is straining every nerve to stamp out the rebellion by the use of all the military forces at its disposal, even at the cost of reducing the garrison at Havana to a few companies.

— Instead of laboriously digging out coal and bringing it to the earth's surface for use as fuel, Sir William Ramsay has proposed the ingenious scheme of burning the coal where it is, and bringing the gas thus generated through pipes to the surface, there to be used in running gas-engines. Experiments are to be made in trying out the plan on a small scale.

— In a Negro school at Utica, Miss., the commencement program, following the example set at Hampton and Tuskegee, formed a practical demonstration of the industrial pursuits taught. Hats were made before the audience; a girl's waist was cut, sewed, and finished; iron was forged and welded; clothes were washed; and a farmer's dinner was cooked, served, and eaten on the platform.

— Why is the range of wireless telegraphy so much greater at night than by day? Mr. Marconi, in a recent address, said that this fact, first noticed by him in 1902, is due to the ionization of the gaseous molecules of the air affected by ultraviolet light. Ionization is a term used in describing electrolytic decomposition. In ordinary language, the sun's rays seem to deaden electrical potency just as they appear to kill the flames of a fire.

— It is rumored that the street railway interests of the country are becoming quite seriously concerned at the prospect for restoration of the three-cent piece to the national currency. The bill recently passed by the House authorizing the coinage of a three-cent and a half-cent piece was warmly-indorsed by the mayors of Ohio cities which have three-cent street-car fares. The bill is now pending before the Senate Finance Committee.

— An expedition from Yale University, led by Professor Hiram Bingham, is to make further explorations this year in Peru, in the regions where a Yale party last year found human remains supposed to be not less than twenty thousand years old, embedded in glacial deposits.

— Massachusetts has a new law which makes it necessary for persons who have been divorced and apply again for license to marry, to produce a certified copy of the decree which granted them divorce. This certificate is presented to the town clerk, who issues the new license to marry, and is furnished to the minister for his information. The object of the new regulation is to make it clear whether remarriage on the part of the divorced is legal.

— Among other centenaries celebrated this year is that of the manufacture in France of beet-sugar, which has become one of the most important and lucrative of French industries. There are sections in the French provinces where the beet is the king of products, and where for miles around the sugar factories the ordinarily good French roads are often pulpy with the beets that have dropped from farmers' wagons on the way to the great yards, where they are piled in readiness to go through the factory processes.

— The tide of immigrants pouring through the gates at Ellis Island bids fair to swamp the government officials, and overtax the capacity of quarters provided for their care. It is said that more than 100,000 came in during the month of April last. To provide sleeping accommodations for 25,000 people each night is a task for a whole war department. To examine all these people, many of whom are children, and pronounce upon the condition of their health and mental powers, as the laws require in order to protect the country against physical and mental peril, seems to be impossible.

— The Erie Railroad recently dedicated at Harriman, N. Y., a monument commemorating the first telegraph train order ever sent over a railroad. This order was transmitted in 1851, when Charles Minot was general superintendent of the road. This is the order sent: "To agent and operator at Goshen: Hold the train for further orders. Conductor and engineer day express: Run to Goshen regardless of opposing trains." This message marked the transition from the days when trains crawled over single track, haphazard from switch to switch, to the present day of speed, limited only by the capacity of the locomotives.

— The Rothschild oil interests, a dominating financial factor in almost every European nation, have secured a lease on Southern Pacific land, facing the outer harbor, and purpose to make Los Angeles the seat of war against the Standard Oil. On April 24 application was filed with the Harbor Commission for permission to erect on this land oil-tanks and a distributing base that will represent an immediate investment of $5,000,000. Forty big tank steamers, which are used by the Rothschild interests for transporting Oriental oil along the commercial highways of the Pacific Ocean, will bring petroleum from the oilfields of the Far East.

— It is claimed that a little zinc patch on the roof of the church of the Holy Sepulcher, was the occasion of the Crimean war. There was a leak in the dome of the building, but neither the Latin nor Greek churches would allow the other to make the needed repairs; hence the deadly war.

— Marine insurance companies have sustained this year probably the severest losses in the history of such companies — that of the “Titanic” which may amount to $10,000,000, and that of the “Oceana,” which went down with $5,000,000 in specie aboard. The Spanish galleons of old, with their fabled treasures, represented no such sums as these.

— The Territory of Alaska has yielded to its owner, the United States, $206,600,000 in mineral wealth; and $222,710,036 in fish and furs; and it has paid directly into the United States treasury $14,792,461 in cash. Adding the tribute of fisheries, furs, minerals, and cash, the people of the United States have within forty-two years taken $444,102,500 out of Alaska. The territory was bought from Russia in 1867 for $7,200,000.

— A bomb explosion in Oporto, Portugal, recently was the means of revealing the existence of an extensive bomb-making industry. The explosion was caused through the accidental substitution of a loaded bomb for an uncharged one with which a man was experimenting. The premises were demolished by the explosion, and thirteen persons were killed. The police discovered nearly 500 uncharged bombs in the ruins, and also a considerable sum of money in gold and notes.

— Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Straus, who perished in the “Titanic” disaster, are widely and deeply mourned. They were noted for their activity in humanitarian and philanthropic work. Among their later manifestations of this spirit have been provision, made during a visit a short time before starting home, for the poor Jews of Jerusalem. Mrs. Straus had been so disturbed by what she saw during a visit to the Ghetto that her report made to her husband led him to provide the sum of $10,000 annually for three years to support a soup kitchen. Since then between five and six hundred persons have been fed daily by this agency. The news of the death of their benefactors caused 30,000 Hebrews at Jerusalem to enter upon a season of fasting and mourning.

— In its policy of readiness to crush the Negro rebellion in Cuba, growing hourly more serious, the United States government on May 26 ordered two divisions of the battle-ship fleet in command of Rear-Admiral Osterhaus, commander-in-chief, to steam to Key West after taking 1,300 marines aboard for emergency service on the island. The rushing of this display of naval strength to the proximity of Cuban waters is admitted by all to be the last step which this government will take before actually intervening with armed force in Cuba. The army stands now ready to set 15,000 troops in motion toward Cuba at the tap of the gong, but the State Department is careful to explain that no actual intervention is ordered, and that the navy is merely carrying out the government’s orders to be in readiness to protect American life and property if necessary.

Camp-Meetings for 1912

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Southern New England, Westerly, R. I. . . . . . . . . . . . June 6-16 Massachusetts, Taunton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 13-23 Western New York, Dunkirk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 20-30 Northern New England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 21 to Sept. 1 New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 29 to Sept. 8 Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sept. 5-15

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Ontario, Whitby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 13-23 Quebec, Ayre's Cliff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 27 to July 7

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Wyoming, Scotts Bluff, Nebr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 13-23 Nebraska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1

COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE

Eastern Pennsylvania, Allentown, Pa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 19-30 New Jersey, Plainfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 27 to July 7 Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 15-25 West Pennsylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 22 to Sept. 1 Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 29 to Sept. 8 West Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 18-28

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

North Michigan, Bark River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 17-23 Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 20-30 Southern Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 29 to Aug. 5 Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 5-11 East Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 12-19 Northern Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 19-25 North Michigan, Traverse City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 26 to Sept. 1 West Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sept. 2-8

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

North Dakota, Carrington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 17-24 South Dakota, Redfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 23-30

NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Western Washington, South Tacoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 6-16 Upper Columbia, North Yakima, Wash. . . . . . . . . . . . . June 17-23 Montana, Missoula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 24-30

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

California, Santa Rosa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 20-30 Southern California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 5-18

SOUTHEASTERN UNION

North Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 15-25

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Arkansas, Hiwasse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 11-16 Arkansas, Little Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 11-21 New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 15-25 Oklahoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 21 to Sept. 1 North Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 25 to Aug. 4 South Texas, San Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 27 to July 7 West Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 1-11

WESTERN CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

British Columbia, Kamloops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 6-16 Alberta, Strathcona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 20-30 Manitoba, Winnipeg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 27 to July 7 Saskatchewan, Bulyea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 11-21

Ontario Conference

NOTICE is hereby given that the thirteenth session of the Ontario Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene at Whitby, Ontario, in connection with the camp-meeting to be held from June 13 to 23. Officers will be elected for the ensuing year, and such other business transacted as generally comes before the delegates on such occasions. All members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ontario who are in good and regular standing are delegates. The first meeting will be held Friday, June 14, at 10 A. M.

M. C. KIRKENDALL, President; C. D. TERWILLEGAR, Secretary.

Quebec Conference

The thirty-second annual session of the Quebec Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Ayre’s Cliff, province of Quebec, June 27 to July 7. Officers for the ensuing term will be elected, and such other business will be transacted as may properly come before the meeting.

W. J. TANNER, President; DARWIN DINGMAN, Secretary.

Montana Conference

By L. A. Gibson

THE fifteenth annual session of the Montana Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene on the camp-ground in Missoula, Mont., at 11 A. M., June 24, 1912, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and of transacting such other business as may properly come before the delegates.

Each church is entitled to one delegate for its organization and to one additional delegate for every ten members. Ordained ministers are delegates at large. Members of the conference committee are delegates ex-officio.

L. A. GIBSON, President.

Montana Conference Association

The Montana Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its annual meeting on the camp-ground in Missoula, at 9 A. M., Friday, June 28, 1912, for the purpose of electing a board of five trustees, and transacting any other business that may properly come before the association. Each accredited delegate to the conference is a member of the association.

J. C. FOSTER, President; V. T. ARMSTRONG, Secretary.

Canadian Union Conference

THE fifth biennial session of the Canadian Union Conference will convene on the campground at Whitby, Ontario, at 9 A. M., June 14, 1912, for the purpose of electing officers, and of transacting any other business that may come before the conference. Each conference in this union is entitled to one delegate for the conference, and to one additional delegate for each one hundred members or fraction thereof. The conference will be held in connection with the Ontario Conference, and a full delegation is desired.

WM. GUTHRIE, President; B. B. NOFTSGER, Secretary.

Alberta Conference Association

NOTICE is hereby given that a meeting of the Alberta Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at 10 A. M., Monday, June 24, 1912, on the camp-meeting ground in Strathcona, Alberta, for the transaction of such business as should properly come before the association.

C. A. BURMAN, President; U. WISSNER, Secretary.

Eastern Pennsylvania Conference

The eighth annual meeting of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held June 19-30, 1912, in connection with the camp-meeting at Emmanuel Grove camp-grounds, near Allentown, Pa.

The location is ideal. A more pleasant camp-ground, with more perfect facilities, could not be found anywhere,—extensive grounds, beautiful shade-trees, and well-built cottages, free from all the discomforts incident to rain and dampness. All these should be incentives to our people to come, and to persuade their friends and neighbors to attend this annual gathering of God's people. In addition to these temporal comforts, a spiritual feast will be provided for all.

The election of conference officers and various other matters of interest to every loyal Seventh-day Adventist will come before the meeting.

The first session will be called June 20, at 9:30 A. M.

W. H. HECKMAN, President; S. D. HARTWELL, Secretary.

The "Signs Magazine" for July

By Editor

THE cover design is a striking feature representing the heights of liberty. The flying machine gives the whole design a touch of modernity, besides showing the expanding power of man at the present time. The eagle, too, represents, in its wonderful sweep, the power of liberty and of life. And in the immediate foreground the great flag waving from its staff on the mountaintops expresses the noble freedom that it represents.

A Partial List of Contents

"Religious Freedom," by J. O. Corliss, clearly outlines the real meaning of religious liberty and the errors of religious legislation.

"Religious Liberty and Religious Legislation," by H. W. Reed, is an article that clearly shows the blessings of the one and the evils of the other.

"The Significance of the Fourth of July," by A. O. Tait. As this is the month when all citizens of the United States will give more or less thought to the celebration of the Fourth, it is timely to have an article that shows the real significance of this memorial day. What the Declaration of Independence meant then, and now, is clearly outlined in a brief survey of historical events.

"England and Liberty," by M. C. Wilcox. Nearly every American citizen knows that the great birthright of civil and religious liberty has come down to us through the years as a result of victories gained over tyranny in the great country of England.

"An American Reformer—William Miller," by Mrs. E. G. White, following her series of articles on the great Reformers of the Reformation.

A special article from our Canadian correspondent. This is of considerable interest in Canada at the present time, and also of great interest in the United States.

Editorials on "Individualism Rampant," in which the great tendency of the times toward anarchy is pointed out; "Canada's Great Future," showing her place in the great march of events; "What Prevents War," showing why no great, world-wide struggle is going on at the present time. What is the restraining power?

The usual departments will be fully covered. There will be a Bible reading; and among the Current Topics we may mention "Religious Liberty in China," "War Preparations," "Mayor Gaynor on the Failure of Justice," "A World of Industrial Unrest," "Socialistic Tendencies," "Canada's Gain."

There is to be a Dominion day special issued for our Canadian patrons, containing several articles on Canada not printed in the regular edition for the United States. It also has a special cover, and will be of advantage to those selling the magazine within the borders of Canada.

Altogether, this is one of the most carefully thought-out and planned magazines we have issued for some time. It will prove a most helpful one to the reader. Its attractive cover will make it a valuable one for the agent. Advance orders for almost 20,000 of them were already in on the twentieth of May. A most wonderful circulation is assured. Your orders should be in early. The magazine will be ready early in June.

Prices: 10 copies, 50 cents; 20 copies, $1; 50 copies, $2; over 50 copies, only 4 cents each. Order through your tract society.

Early Publications Wanted

By H. E. Rogers

THE General Conference desires to secure copies of publications issued in the interests of the advent movement prior to 1844,—publications in any form, or periodicals of any kind,—also publications issued by the leaders of this movement prior to 1855. Any one having such copies which he would be willing

to donate or sell to the General Conference for permanent preservation and reference, would confer a great favor by writing to the undersigned. The following volumes of periodicals are specially desired to complete files: Review and Herald, Vols. 1, 21, 47, 50, 51, 52, 62; Youth's Instructor, Vols. 4, 5, 15, 16, 17, 36; Signs of the Times, Vols. 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 26; Sabbath School Worker, Vols. 1, 6, 10; Good Health, Vols. 17, 20, 21, 22, 23. Address H. E. Rogers, Statistical Sec. Gen. Conf., Takoma Park, D. C.

The Manitoba Conference

THE ninth annual session of the Manitoba Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene in connection with its camp-meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 27 to July 7, 1912, for the election of officers and for such other business as may properly come before the conference. The first meeting will be held Monday, July 1, at 9 A. M. It is desired that all churches be represented at this first meeting.

O. E. SANDNES, President; B. L. GRUNDSET, Secretary.

South Dakota Conference

The thirty-third annual session of the South Dakota Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene on the camp-ground at Redfield, S. Dak., June 23, 1912, at 9:30 A. M., for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the conference. Each church is entitled to one delegate for the organization, and to one additional delegate for each fifteen of its members.

C. M. BABCOCK, President; G. W. STILSON, Secretary.

South Dakota Conference Association

By C. M. Babcock, President; G. W. Stilson, Secretary

THE annual meeting of the South Dakota Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will convene on the camp-ground at Redfield, S. Dak., Tuesday, June 25, 1912, at 11 A. M., for the purpose of electing its board of trustees and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting. It will be necessary at this meeting to amend the articles of incorporation regarding the location of its principal office, and notice is hereby given of the fact.

C. M. BABCOCK, President; G. W. STILSON, Secretary.

California Conference Association

THE sixteenth annual meeting of the California Conference Association of the Seventh-day Adventists, a corporation, will be held in connection with the forty-first annual session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, at Santa Rosa, Cal., June 20-30, 1912, for the purpose of electing a board of seven directors, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting. The first meeting will be held at 9 A. M., June 24, 1912.

G. A. IRWIN, President; J. J. IRELAND, Secretary.

California Conference

THE forty-first annual session of the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Santa Rosa, Cal., in connection with the camp-meeting, June 20-30, 1912, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of other business which may properly come before the assembly. The first meeting will be at 10 A. M., Thursday, June 20. Each church is entitled to one delegate without regard to numbers, and one additional delegate for every twenty members.

E. W. FARNSWORTH, President; CLAUDE CONARD, Secretary.

Western New York Conference

Association

THE annual meeting of the constituents of the Western New York Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists, incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, will convene on the camp-ground at Dunkirk, N. Y., at 9 A. M., Friday, June 28, 1912, for the election of a board of trustees for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the session.

H. W. CARR, President; F. H. HICKS, Secretary.

Western New York Conference

THE sixth annual session of the Western New York Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Dunkirk, N. Y., June 20-30, 1912, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may come before the conference at that time. The first business meeting of the session will be held at 9 A. M., June 22. Each church is entitled to one delegate for the organization, without regard to membership, and one additional delegate for every fifteen members.

H. W. CARR, President; MRS. H. W. CARR, Secretary.

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Annual Meeting of the Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent Association

THE regular annual meeting of the Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent Association for the year 1912 will be held in the chapel of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, on North Washington Ave., Battle Creek, Mich., Thursday, June 27, 1912, at 3 P. M., standard time, for the election of trustees and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

By order of the board of trustees. GEORGE E. JUDD, Secretary.

Pennsylvania Sanitarium and Benevolent Association

By W. H. Heckman

NOTICE is hereby given to the constituency of the Pennsylvania Sanitarium and Benevolent Association that the seventh annual meeting of the said corporation will be held at 9:30 A. M., Tuesday, June 25, 1912, at Emmanuel Grove camp-grounds, near Allentown, Pa., in connection with the annual camp-meeting of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

The membership of the constituency is composed of the executive committee of the Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the New Jersey Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the physicians employed by the corporation, the ordained ministers of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the ordained ministers of the New Jersey Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and twelve persons elected for the purpose at the last session of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Officers will be elected, and such other business will be transacted as may properly come before the meeting.

W. H. HECKMAN, President.

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