p. 630 | Review and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 39. (9/24/1901)

Toward Rome.

THE Western Recorder of Sept. 5, 1901, prints a communication from a correspondent, which opens thus:—

“DEAR Recorder: Will you allow an unlearned country preacher to put on paper a few thoughts suggested in an editorial which appeared in the Western Recorder of Aug. 15, 1901? In that editorial this question is propounded: ‘If the Baptists in the United States progress as rapidly toward Rome in the next ten years as they have in the last, where will they stand?’”

At the rate they are going, it will not take them ten years to get there.

Collection for the Haskell Home.

By S. H. Lane

For the last two or three years, as all the readers of the Review understand, collections have been taken up for the Haskell Home for the support of the orphans. The Sabbath-schools have kindly given all the money donated to the schools the first Sabbaths in October and April; and as our entire church-membership feels a deep and an abiding interest in the orphans at the home, many have given liberally on the dates mentioned.

Sabbath, October 5, is the time for the regular collection, and we trust our friends everywhere will remember the orphans. The writer has been called to the Orphans’ Home several times during the last year to hold meetings with the children, and has become intensely interested in the work being carried on in that institution; and although our institutions are accomplishing a wonderful work, the Haskell Home is behind none of them in its training. Could our people throughout the field see and understand in regard to the work being carried on at the Haskell Home, the donation indeed would be a liberal one; so we trust all will plan to give a large donation to the Sabbath-school, October 5. More about this matter will appear in next week’s Review, and should you not receive next week’s Review in time, be sure to give liberally, for we can assure every reader that the work carried on is a wonderful one. S. H. Lane.

Narrowness as a Tool for Cutting Error

“He [my father],” says Dr. Cadonan, “was narrow; so is a razor; it has to be to cut anything.” This complaint against narrowness is akin to the complaint of the tree against the ax: Said the tree to the ax, “What makes you everlastingly keep hitting in the same place?” “Ah,” replied the ax to the tree, “how else shall I get you down?” So in attacking the errors of these days, we should be narrow enough to cut something, and keep everlastingly hitting in the same place, till we get them down.

Memorial Service for Elder Holser.

ACCORDING to appointment, the Sabbath hour, Sept. 21, 1901, was devoted to a Memorial Service for Elder Henry P. Holser, who died in Cañon City, Colo., Sept. 11, 1901, aged forty-five years. Brother I. H. Evans read a brief sketch of the principal facts of his eventful life, from which we gather the following particulars: Born in 1856, near Pontiac, Mich. Converted at the age of eighteen. Began public labor in the cause in 1882, and spent the first eighteen months associated with Elder A. G. Daniels in Iowa. Commenced work in a foreign field—in Basel, Switzerland—in 1887, and had general charge of the European Mission, which he satisfactorily managed till stricken down by disease. Before returning to this country he spent the winter of 1899 in Egypt for the benefit of his health, and to open the work there. After returning to the scenes of his childhood, his health at times seemed to rally, but only temporarily. As a last resort he went to Colorado, and died at Cañon City, September 11, as stated above. He bore his sufferings without complaint, and maintained a steadfast hope in God. The characteristic of his feelings seemed to be submission to the will of God.

Elder Daniels followed with the discourse, and found important topics for the sad occasion in 2 Peter 3:11, 12. The lesson drawn from this scripture was that upon the Church is laid the weighty responsibility of retarding or hastening the coming of the Lord. See margin of verse 12. Testimony was produced showing that if the Church had lived up to her privilege and duty, the world would have been warned, and the Lord would have come before this time. The crying need of the world to-day, therefore, is a thorough and complete personal consecration to the truth and the message on the part of believers. Then the missionary spirit would be a burning flame in our hearts, and there would be no lack of men to take up the work laid down by him who has fallen. Shall we thus take hold of the work, or become unfaithful and slothful servants, who say, My Lord delayeth His coming? The occasion was made to emphasize the need of laborers in the regions beyond, and all who listened to the remarks could but have had a clearer sense of the situation, and been greatly impressed thereby.

Naval Court of Inquiry Weighs Sampson and Schley

The Spanish-American war is still going on in the United States Navy. In the hopes of putting an end to it there a naval court of inquiry is now sitting to decide upon the merits of the conduct of the two chief naval commanders who figured in the war in American waters, rear-admirals Sampson and Schley, in the naval movements leading up to and including the battle of Santiago. The court is to decide which one of these two is entitled to the chief glory of that victory. This is the point around which the conflict has been raging, and it is to be hoped the decision of this investigative body will bring the fighting to an end.

REVIEW AND HERALD

By Editor

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