Earlier text: The Millions and the Message in South IndiaThe Lake Union Conference Session
By Milton E. Kern
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., long the central headquarters of Seventh-day Adventists, and still the location of the largest Seventh-day Adventist church in the world, was the place chosen for the eighth biennial session of the Lake Union Conference. This important gathering was held March 7-14, and was attended by nearly all the ministers, department secretaries, and Bible workers of this field. The conference session was preceded by a four days’ meeting of the leaders of the various departments of the work. The programs of these departmental councils were well prepared; and from the very first meeting it was evident that these workers had come together for no other purpose than to increase their efficiency in the Lord’s work. Prayer and praise were characteristic features of the conference. The morning devotional meetings were attended by all. The president of the union, Elder L. H. Christian, showed by words and actions that he considered the seeking of God the most important business of the meeting. Elder I. H. Evans gave a series of studies on the victorious Christian life, to which there was a hearty response on the part of all. Elder G. B. Thompson gave a series of studies on soul-winning, which was also much appreciated. The sessions of the conference were earnest, businesslike, and harmonious. The excellent reports of the progress of all departments of the work elicited many expressions of gratitude from delegates and visitors. Among other things, the president in his biennial report said,— “From 1860 our work made great strides in these central States. By 1892 our membership in Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Illinois was 9,060. At that time our entire membership in this country was only 30,254. In other words, in 1892 two sevenths of the membership in what is now the North American Division lived in the Lake Union, while today only one sixth are in this conference. It was, of course, unavoidable and fortunate that such a change should occur. “Once more it may be well to remember that the Lake Union has passed through an experience that has come, and can come, to no other Seventh-day Adventist field. The largest institutions ever owned by this denomination, after having been situated in the Lake Union district for many years, were lost or removed. With this removal went many sturdy laborers and more than a thousand other brethren. The membership of the Lake Union Conference decreased very rapidly from 1905 to 1910. Since then we have been growing, until there are as many Adventists in this district today as there ever were. And now we are certainly ready for a strong forward advance. “During the past biennial period we have baptized 2,559, and the membership has increased from 11,264 to 12,169, a net growth of 905. This compares favorably with other unions in America. Some have said that the work was about finished in this territory, and that we should do well to hold our own. Such an idea is utterly wrong and very pernicious. We firmly believe that the future experiences of the Lake Union will be as bright and aggressive as its past is glorious. There is every reason to hope that it will yet double its membership. This will certainly come if we plan and work like wide-awake men, and dedicate ourselves to the Lord for great things. “If we are to advance God’s cause at home, and do our share of the great world-wide work abroad, we must train16 more young men for the ministry. With a college of our own and a large tithe, we enjoy a rare opportunity to do this. During the last two years we have ordained twelve ministers and granted license for the first time to about twenty. But this is less than half of what we should have done. . . . “The tithe is the foundation of all our finances. For the two years, ending Dec. 31, 1915, our tithe was $425,309, an increase during 1915 over 1914 of $22,168. While grateful for this, we believe that many are yet far from paying an honest tithe. Early in the year the different conferences sent out a new tract on tithing, and most of our ministers have agreed to preach on tithes and offerings every time they visit a church this year. During the past two years the Lake Union Conference raised $223,006.19 on the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund. There was an increase during 1915 over 1914 of $23,670.33. The increase of mission funds during this biennial period, over the two previous years, was $94,024.90. The Lake Union paid $6,692.62 more than its quota in 1915. This result is due to the self-denying devotion of our people, encouraged by our conference presidents, laborers, church elders, and other leaders. The per cent tithe to the Division Conference for the biennial period just closed was $68,935.13, and the union tithe was $42,530.90. In all, we have sent to the Division Conference during the past two years the sum of $326,464.51. The total amount of tithe and offerings, exclusive of donations for local conferences and institutions, was $748,012.52. “We have made some progress in the Lake Union in reducing our indebtedness, though we are as yet far from the desired goal of freedom from debt. In the beginning of 1914, after the elimination of all duplications, the total liabilities of the union were $316,912.24. During that year this sum was reduced to $281,075.55. Thus we paid $35,836.69 on our debts. Since that time the college debt has been paid in full. The debt on the academy at Holly, Mich., which was the largest debt on any academy in the union, has been cleared. The Swedish Seminary debt of $15,000 is almost paid. We have every reason to believe that the last note will be redeemed by the close of this school year. The Madison (Wis.) Sanitarium has paid about $13,000 on its debt. The sanitarium at La Fayette, Ind., which formerly lost thousands of dollars a year, has been able to pay expenses the past eighteen months, and more than $6,000 has been paid on its liabilities. Not a few other liabilities have been paid. We are safe in saying that when our accounts for the year are worked out, our debt will be decreased $55,000, showing a decrease in liabilities for the two years of $90,826. We have more than $20,000 in pledges, and some annuities, but in this statement we do not figure either, as annuities do not pay liabilities, and pledges are not cash. . . . “The world today is on the verge of moral bankruptcy. We shudder as we read of the millions killed, crippled, or captured in the carnage of Europe; of famine, of pestilence, and of nations literally bleeding to death. But the loss of money, of provinces and cities, of treasures of art, even the frightful loss of life and the wrecking of homes, is not the most serious feature of the present world storm. The appalling thing, the fatal thing, is the deathblow given to law and justice. Modern civilization has failed,—failed as utterly as did that of Babylon, Greece, or Rome, or that of infidel France. Once again has it been proved that human philosophy, empiric science, and mere social reform are barren of all spiritual force. The one hope of mankind is Christ. . . . “The failure of civilization is the opportunity for Christianity. Seventh-day Adventists have the message needed by the world. The war is God’s means of preparing the honest in heart to accept his truth. We can give this message only as God grants us the power of the Holy Spirit. Our supreme needs today are a deeper spiritual life, more prayer, and holy living.” All departments showed commendable progress. Very encouraging was the statement of the educational secretary:— “According to the best statistics available, we have passed the halfway mark and are well on the other side. We have more than 4,000 children and youth of school age in the union conference. Twenty-five hundred of these are enrolled in our schools. This is encouraging; but where are the others? ‘All the children of all the churches’ is our goal, and we must never cease our planning and praying until the benefits of a Christian education are brought within the reach of every young person in our conference.” The report of Prof. O. J. Graf, president of Emmanuel Missionary College, showed that 145 students had entered the work at home during the last two years, besides nine who have taken up work in foreign lands. Brother Graf stated that the biennial term had been a time of setting and reaching goals at the college. The four goals mentioned were: (1) 5,000 books in the library, which was more than realized; (2) the voting of Berrien County dry, the campaign for which was participated in very actively by the college students; (3) the $3,000 laboratory equipment; and (4) the raising of the college debt. For this last enterprise the students raised more than $5,000. The reports of the conference presidents were a very interesting feature of the conference. Elder A. G. Daniells was in attendance part of the time. He gave illustrated lectures on “The Great World War” and “Has Christianity Failed?” He also reported to the conference concerning the meetings which he had been holding in Portland, Maine, and the remarkable interest there. There were present from outside the union, aside from those already mentioned, S. N. Curtiss, I. A. Ford, and the writer. There were also present for a few days several members of the Pacific Press Board, with R. A. Underwood, Charles Thompson, and others, who came to counsel with the members of the General and North American Division Committees concerning the International branch of the Pacific Press Publishing Association. The decision to move this work to Chicago was much appreciated by the Lake Union Conference; for it is expected that this move will be not only a great blessing to the work for foreigners all over America, but a special blessing to the work in Chicago. All the reports and nearly all the studies and sermons given at the conference have been published in the Lake Union Herald, Vol. VIII, Nos. 10-12. The Columbia Union Conference
By Irving H. Evans
The Columbia Union Conference held its fourth biennial session in Pittsburgh, Pa., March 13-20. Nearly the entire corps of workers were present at the opening of the conference, and remained till its close. The meetings were held in the auditorium of the Carnegie Library, in one of Pittsburgh's beautiful suburbs. The committee on preparations had made every possible arrangement for the convenience and comfort of the delegates. The Lord has greatly blessed the work in the Columbia Union Conference during the last two years. There have been 2,150 persons baptized, and an increase in church membership of 969. The tithe of the conferences aggregated $296,295.87, an increase over the previous biennial period of $44,377.89. The growth in the mission funds has been as encouraging as the increase in the tithe. The union conference raised its full quota of twenty cents a week, which aggregated $143,658.28, or an increase of $34,711.88 over the preceding two years. This is certainly a marked growth, but it is not all. The Mount Vernon Academy has paid its entire indebtedness, being among the first of our educational institutions to wipe out the blighting curse of debt. The conference has finished paying the old debt of the Philadelphia Sanitarium, which was closed some years ago; it has also contributed $10,000 to apply on the debt of the Washington Missionary College. In the union conference there have been erected eleven church buildings, at a cost of $46,000, besides an office for the union conference officers. The book sales have kept pace with other lines of work. During the past term the literature sales amounted to $216,339.65, an increase of $19,704.85 over the previous term. But it is planned to make the coming years better than the past. All departments of the work have grown and kept pace with the spirit of the work already mentioned. Most of those leading in the work for the past two years were reelected for the coming four years. Elder Daniells was with us, and not only helped in the conference meetings, but also gave two lectures in the Pitt Theater, each of which was attended by two thousand of the best citizens of Pittsburgh. The entire meeting was full of encouragement and helpfulness. The reports from the conference presidents and departmental secretaries were full of courage, and added to the interest of the meeting. From first to last, the conference was a feast to the soul. Many made new resolves to lead a consecrated life and persevere in the work of overcoming. We confidently expect great things to be accomplished in the years to come in the Columbia Union Conference. I. H. EVANS. Assignment for April 16 to 22
April 16: I Chronicles 26 to 29.
April 17: Psalms 88, 90, 9, 11.
April 18: Psalms 59, 56, 34, 142.
April 19: Psalms 17, 52, 109, 35.
April 20: Psalms 140, 120, 64, 31.
April 21: Psalms 54, 19, 57, 58.
April 22: Psalms 63, 131, 141. Review First Chronicles. Note that the book is divided into two parts,—the first ten chapters being introductory, and the remaining nineteen relating to the history of David. The present Hebrew title of this book is Tehillim, which means “praises,” or “songs of praise.” The familiar English word “psalm” means “songs set to music,” and the titles to many of the psalms contain references to musical terms and instruments. The book was really the hymn book of the Jews, and its various parts were arranged at different times, so it is supposed, for use in the temple service. The book contains one hundred and fifty psalms, whose composition extended over a thousand years, from Moses to the close of the captivity. “One psalm is attributed to Moses, seventy-three to David, two to Solomon, twelve to Asaph (one of David’s musicians), eleven to the sons of Korah, and one each to Heman and Ethan. Thirteen titles tell on what occasion the psalm was written. A number of most precious psalms are prophetic of Christ.” In the Revised Version, in harmony with Hebrew usage, the book of Psalms is divided into five parts, or books: Book I includes the first forty-one psalms; Book II includes psalms 42 to 72; Book III ends with Psalm 89; Book IV ends with psalm 106; and Book V includes the remaining psalms. The collection is often called “The Psalms of David” because he was the greatest of the sweet singers of Israel, and also because the first division, or book, of the Psalms was written by him. “There is no other book of praise,” says one writer, “so pregnant with expressions of the heart’s emotion under all the vicissitudes of life, or so adapted to all climes and ages, as to be the universal medium of praise for all nations of the world. No country but Palestine, varying as it does from the arid desert to the mountains capped with snow, could have furnished such a combination of subjects for poetical imagery: its vines and fruits; its valleys, thick with corn and shining with lilies; its mountains, torrents, rivers, lakes; its wild and domestic animals, and its beasts of prey,—all are pictured in the Psalms with a noble simplicity to which we find no parallel elsewhere.” The book of Psalms is the second of the five poetical books of the Bible. “Hebrew poetry is not constituted by rhyme, nor by appreciable rhythm; but it is for the most part elegant and elevated in style, often indeed sublime, the manner of expression, the choice of words, and the structure of the sentences being peculiar and characteristic. . . . These inspired compositions may be characterized as the very heart of the Old Testament, an outpouring of lamentation, prayer, praise, and thanksgiving, often uttered in prophetic language. They are, in fact, a mirror of the faith, love, and hope of the true Israelite, an ‘epitome of the Bible adapted to the purpose of devotion, wherein man may speak to God in the very words which God himself has inspired.’” Jesus used it. Again and again, in argument, in illustration, before the priests and before the common people, he referred to the writings of Moses, David, Isaiah, and other seers of old. After his forty days’ fast, alone in the wilderness, with no human eye to see and no human hand to help, the Son of God met and overcame his mortal foe and enemy. This he did, not by any manifestation of his divine power, but by using the written Word of Jehovah as his weapon of defense. Every time the enemy set a temptation before him, Jesus triumphed over it by quoting from the Word of God. “It is written,” was his answer to every assault of Satan. The Singapore Training School
By K. M. Adams
THE object of our school is twofold: to educate workers for the gospel message, and to give the children of our church an education in harmony with our faith. It is the first-mentioned that has especial interest for the workers of the entire field. We believe that this message can be far more speedily carried if the native young men and women who have the fear of God in their hearts, are taught the Bible, and methods of presenting its truths to others. It is for this purpose that our training school has been established. Having so many languages to deal with makes the work of such a school exceedingly difficult. We have, however, made a small beginning, and hope that the Lord will bless our efforts, that they may accomplish their purpose. At present the training work is confined to two languages, the principal ones used in the field. They are Malay and Chinese. We are glad to say that the work in both these departments is strong and progressive. We had some difficulty in procuring teachers for these departments, but when we asked God to find them, they were forthcoming. Brother Rantoeng has charge of the Malay department. He had been in the Bible work in our denomination some time before connecting with the school, and has a good knowledge of the Scriptures. He has also an excellent command of the Malay language. He seems suited in every way for the work. Several of the students of the Malay department are Battaks. We feel that the Lord has sent them here to prepare for the giving of the message in their needy land. We hope to get a European to take charge of the work, and we shall soon be able to send young men to aid in it. Others in the department are from Java and Sumatra. The studies pursued are: Bible doctrines, language, composition, Bible history, geography, and arithmetic, and the giving of Bible readings. The great aim of the school is to make the work practical. In the Bible-reading class, the teacher gives the reading first, then each student must stand before the class and give the reading just as if he were before some inquirers. This helps him to gain experience. Then he is required to go out into the city and hold a Bible reading each week. In this way missionary work is done while he is acquiring experience. Brother Rantoeng has charge of the Malay preaching service on Sabbaths. As fast as possible we shall work students into these exercises, in order that they may get experience in this line also. The Chinese department is carried on in the same way. The students study the same subjects, and carry on similar work in the city. All the students are selling literature. They go out almost every day for a few hours and dispose of tracts and papers. Their teachers have helped them, but we are glad that our field agent is here to instruct them. We hope that a canvassing18 class for the students will be held soon. The teacher of the Chinese department is Brother Low. He was a student in the Chinese school in Shanghai. He does his work satisfactorily, and understands the Chinese language well. We could not expect to have a better man for the place. Three young men to whom he gives Bible readings in his spare time, he expects will accept the truth. We are glad to see the teachers engaged in practical work at the same time that they are doing school work. In the English department are taught all the branches that are to be found in the intermediate schools in America, that is, the first ten grades—English history, algebra, geometry, literature, Bible doctrines, Old and New Testament history, etc. The customs and studies are slightly different to conform to English methods. There are four teachers in this department. Brother Duckworth has the primary room. He has taken the government normal examination, and is now taking that work. He has been granted exemption from attending classes on the Sabbath. Sister Coombes has grades three and four. She is an excellent teacher. She has passed the government normal course and has had a long experience. Brother Fox has grades five and six. He is a normal graduate of the Cooranbong school. He does good, faithful work. I have grades seven, eight, and nine. There is not a large number in these classes, but the students are working faithfully to prepare themselves for the Master's service. We have a live Junior Missionary Society in the school. Its meetings are held every Wednesday at chapel. Many papers and tracts are distributed, and Bible readings are given by the students. A collection averaging twenty-five cents is taken. This is good, considering that wages are much lower than in America. A literature band sends out papers twice a month. Once a month a devotional service is held, in which practically all the students take part. Once a week the chapel period is devoted to singing. The pupils do very well. One period each week is devoted to committing scriptures to memory. This year the parts learned are: the books of the Bible, the twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and ninety-first psalms, the decalogue, the three angels' messages, the beatitudes, the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, and the Lord's Prayer. This drill familiarizes the students with the Scriptures. We have about three hundred and fifty books in the school library, and the number is increasing. There is a complete set of the Testimonies, and many other religious books. The students enjoy Sister White's writings, and their questions show that they have not merely skimmed the surface. We also subscribe for the more important of our periodicals. They are read by the students, and this helps them to be well-informed about the progress of the message. I might say in this connection that the school board, after careful consideration, decided to give the Chinese and Malay students an opportunity to learn English. When one has learned English, he has access to all our books and papers, which do much to educate one in the truth. What kind of workers should we make if we could not read the Testimonies nor have access to our denominational papers? It is easier to teach them English and let them read than it is to translate the books into their own language, and then print them. Only one hour a day is spent in this study. The work is carried on in a special class, and as the students are mature, they learn quite fast. Already in three months they have covered a year and a half of work. Our school home has been one of our chief problems, but the present plan has so far proved satisfactory. Most of the students in the home are supported by the mission. Before we accept them as students, we make careful inquiry as to their character. If satisfactory, they must sign an agreement to enter the work after their study is finished. The plan we follow is this: We give each student three dollars a month to buy his food, and he prepares it himself. In this way he can save a little money for clothes and other things, and at the same time he is getting an education in living cheaply and in laying out money to the best advantage. Another good result is that there are no complaints about the food or cooking. In addition, all students work a little for the school every day. In this way it does not seem that the mission is actually giving money to the students. We provide them with room, cooking utensils, fuel, and kerosene for light. There are twenty-six in the home now, and the plan works admirably. In the evening worship we have a little difficulty in languages, but one time the reading is in Malay and the prayer in Chinese, and the next night vice versa, so all can understand some part of the worship. At the Wednesday night prayer meeting every one of the students takes part. It is good to see them stand and praise God, even though one may not be able to understand what they say. The school started with thirty-six this year. The enrolment is now seventy-eight, and we expect others before the end of the year. Five students have been baptized, and fourteen will be ready for baptism soon. Nineteen of the students have signed the contract to enter the work, and are supported by the mission. The rest of the students pay tuition. The charge is $1.70 a month. There are nine different nationalities in the school. School fees are paid twelve months in the year. We expect to have received $450 by the end of the year. We praise God greatly for his blessing, and we ask him for his continued guidance. Pray for this mission school. Missionary Volunteer Department
M. E. KERN — Secretary
MATILDA ERICKSON — Assistant Secretary
MRS. I. H. EVANS — Office Secretary
MAUDE MACGUIRE
C. L. BENSON
J. F. SIMON — Field Secretaries After These Days
By N. D. Anderson
The lovely days that were, are gone.
Their sunset gold and golden dawn
That necklaced earth from her are riven,
And now adorn more blessed heaven. The cheerful days of roses red
That bloomed in children's cheeks, have fled;
Their petals, withered by his breath,
Perfume the cruel hands of Death. The peaceful days of kindliness,
Shall they no more the earth caress,
When War's red soul is calm again,
And love returns to hearts of men? The times are in thy hand, O Lord,
The times of peace, the times of sword;
And thou wilt give us day when night
Has made us thankful for the light. “The empire of Cæsar is gone; the legions of Rome are moldering in the dust; the avalanches that Napoleon hurled upon Europe have melted away; the pride of the Pharaohs is fallen; the pyramids they raised to be their tombs are sinking every day in the desert sands; Tyre is a rock for bleaching fishermen’s nets; Sidon has scarcely left a wreck behind; but the Word of God still survives. All things that threatened to extinguish it have only aided it; and it proves every day how transient is the noblest monument that man can build, how enduring is the least word that God has spoken. Tradition has dug for it a grave; intolerance has lighted for it many a fagot; many a Judas has betrayed it with a kiss; many a Peter has denied it with an oath; many a Demas has forsaken it; but the Word of God still endures.” — Dr. Cummings. FREDERICK GRIGGS . . . . General Secretary
W. E. HOWELL . . . . Assistant Secretary Medical Missionary Training College
By Mrs. S. N. Haskell
DURING the past year, from the Atlantic to the Pacific there has been a noble response made to the call to free our educational institutions from the burden of debt that has crippled them for years. All have rejoiced as one after another of our training schools has announced that it is free from the shackles of debt. Every Seventh-day Adventist takes delight in the fact that we have strong colleges, academies, and normal schools where our youth may be trained by Christian teachers, under spiritual influences, to fill the many calls for ministers, Bible workers, and Christian teachers. As Samuel said to Jesse, when his ten strong, stalwart sons passed in review before him, “Are here all thy children?” so the Lord, were he to speak audibly to his people as they are rejoicing over their educational institutions, would say, “Are here all thy training schools?” As a denomination, we could only answer, as did Jesse, “There remaineth yet the youngest.” Loma Linda medical training school is the youngest, but not by any means the least in importance. Like David, it has a great work to accomplish for the upbuilding of God’s work in the earth. There is no class of workers in the third angel’s message that have greater opportunities before them than the medical missionary workers. “There is no missionary field more important than that occupied by the faithful, God-fearing physician. There is no field where a man may accomplish greater good, or win more jewels to shine in the crown of his rejoicing.”—Testimonies for the Church, Vol. V, p. 448. Strange that workers with such an important work before them should have been left to receive all their training in worldly schools!19 From time to time young men “have been singled out as men who might be a real useful as physicians, and they have been encouraged to take a medical course. But some who commenced their studies in the medical colleges as Christians, did not keep the divine law prominent; they sacrificed principle, and lost their hold on God. They felt that single-handed they could not keep the fourth commandment, and meet the jeers and ridicule of the ambitious, the world-loving, the superficial, the skeptic, and the infidel. This kind of persecution they were not prepared to meet. . . . Temptations of every kind opened before them, and they had no strength to resist.”—Id., p. 447. If our young men who are fitting themselves to be ministers and teachers had been thrown under such influences while obtaining their education, many of them would have been lost to the work. Why require the youth fitting as medical evangelists to pass through the fire of worldly temptations while we safeguard those fitting for service in other lines? God designs that our medical workers while in training should be safeguarded from the pitfalls of the enemy as far as possible. “Some have advised that students should, after taking some work at Loma Linda, complete their medical education in worldly colleges. But this is not in harmony with God’s plan. Facilities should be provided at Loma Linda that the necessary instruction in medical lines may be given by instructors who fear the Lord, and who are in harmony with his plans for the treatment of the sick. Those fitting themselves for medical missionary work should fear to place themselves under the direction of worldly doctors, to imbibe their sentiments and peculiar prejudices, and to learn to express their ideas and views.”—Medical Evangelist Library, No. 1, pp. 7, 8. Young David could not meet the enemy clad in the armor of Saul; only in his own armor could he contend with the enemies of the Lord. Neither can the Loma Linda medical school accomplish its purpose with the equipment which is fully adequate for our other training schools. The law requires that the medical students spend the last two years of their course in connection with a hospital of two hundred beds, in a large city, where the students will gain an experience in treating all kinds of diseases. In regard to this, Sister White said, “The light given me is, We must provide that which is essential to qualify our youth who desire to be physicians, so that they may intelligently fit themselves to be able to stand the examinations essential to prove their efficiency as physicians.”—Id., No. 6, pp. 30, 31. Sixty-one thousand dollars is needed to build and equip this hospital in Los Angeles. In view of the fact that Sister White for several years before her death carried a heavy burden for the Loma Linda College, it has been suggested by many that the hospital be called the Ellen G. White Memorial Hospital. At the combined council of the General Conference and the North American Division Conference, convened at Loma Linda last autumn, when the rivers of difficulty were full and overflowing their banks, and it seemed almost impossible for our leading men to lift this additional financial burden, the representative women from different conferences who were attending the council presented a request that the women of the denomination might be given the privilege of gathering the funds necessary for building and equipping this hospital. The request was granted, and the work has been going forward very encouragingly. Many have responded by liberal pledges, and wherever the enterprise has been presented, it has met with a hearty response. While the women take the initiative in soliciting the money, all—men, women, and children—are urged to assist in this needy cause. The building of the hospital will go forward only as fast as the money is paid into the treasury. No debts are to be incurred in erecting this building. W. T. Knox, the treasurer of the General Conference and of the North American Division Conference, is the treasurer of the Hospital Fund. We hope those who have pledged, will send in the money as soon as possible to W. T. Knox, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. We trust that all who read these lines will feel it a privilege to take part in this work. Do not wait for some one to solicit a donation from you, but send your offering direct to W. T. Knox. When sending money, please give the name of your church and conference, so that proper credit can be given. The privilege of contributing toward this hospital is not limited to members of Seventh-day Adventist churches. Donations will be thankfully received from all friends of the institution. MRS. S. N. HASKELL,
Chairman of the Women’s Committee. Medical Missionary Department
W. A. RUBLE, M. D. - - General Secretary L. A. HANSEN - - Assistant Secretary E. W. MILLER, M. D. - - N. Am. Div. Secretary The sun is sinking in the west,
And night is drawing on,
The night of trouble for the world,
That comes before the dawn. “Are all the lambs within the fold?”
“Where are my ‘other sheep’?”
What answer can you give your Lord?
Go work, and pray, and weep. No time to idle! While the day
Yet lingers, you may win
A soul that otherwise would die
In loathsomeness and sin. The night is coming—almost here!
O hasten, while you may,
To rescue men from death and hell,
Unto eternal day! Singing Lightens Household Tasks
“GIVE us, oh, give us, the man who sings at his work!” said Carlyle. But if the man needs to sing, how much more the woman, with her never-ending round of household tasks! Singing makes the day brighter, the burden lighter, and brings a little foretaste of the days of heaven into our days on earth. Do Not Put Off What Must Be Done
“THE more you put off what ought to be done, the less strength you will have for doing it when at last you must face it.”