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Earlier text: The New Mexico Camp-Meeting

N. Z. T

By N. Z. T.

NOTE.—The readings for this Fourth Sabbath Service touch a comparatively new phase of work, at least new for Seventh-day Adventists, as we have done very little to bring a knowledge of the truth to the foreigners in this country, except what has been done for the Germans and the Scandinavians. Other denominations are becoming fully awakened to the responsibilities which these foreigners bring to them, and to the opportunities not only of bringing those who are here to a knowledge of the gospel, but also of carrying the gospel to the foreign fields through those who return from this country to the fatherland.

The Woman’s Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church has under commission thirty-seven missionaries and teachers, instructing 1,231 pupils in day-schools, with 1,550 enrolled in eighteen Sunday-schools, working among Germans, Scandinavians, Hungarians, Greeks, Italians, Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Bohemians, Slovaks, and Croatians. This Woman’s Board also issues literature bearing upon the needs of the immigrant people. A missionary on Ellis Island at the board of entry at New York, who speaks several languages, extends a welcoming hand to many in the name of Christ.

The Baptists also have prosperous missions in different cities for the Bohemians, Hungarians, Poles, Slovaks, Russians, Letts, and the Lithuanians. In Chicago they have four Bohemian Sunday-schools, with an enrolment of nearly six hundred pupils.

An Italian who was converted from Catholicism in a Baptist mission in Hartford, Conn., returned to his native town in Italy, and there he and one or two others who had been converted in the same mission, began to teach the gospel to their countrymen. Their meetings soon outgrew the small private room in which the services were held, and they rented a larger room, where they soon had a congregation of over four hundred people. The priests held special masses and services to hinder the work, but the meetings continued, with ever-increasing interest.

We believe, with Elder Olsen, that there are great possibilities both for the home field and for the regions beyond in this home foreign missionary work.

N. Z. T

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

—Serious rioting has occurred the last week in Des Moines, Iowa, occasioned by striking carmen.

—In a typhoon which swept over Tokio and Yokohama, July 27, it is believed that more than one hundred persons lost their lives.

—July 28 fifty passengers were injured on an excursion train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the accident being caused by a broken rail.

—The steamer “John Irwin” struck a rock off Beaver Harbor, Halifax, July 28, and sank to the bottom. Twelve passengers went down to death.

—At El Oro, Mexico, more than four thousand miners are on a strike in a demand for higher pay. In repelling a mob of these miners who sought to free some of the prisoners in jail, Mexican troops fired into a crowd, killing fourteen men.

—The deaths from the plague in India have reached the enormous total of 650,000 for the half-year ending June 30. The disease has taken such a hold on that country that its ravages are little heard of, except through the occasional official statistics.

—Admiral Togo, Japan’s great naval hero, has been visiting the United States during the last few days. He has been tendered a reception by President Taft at the White House, and given many assurances of the friendly attitude of the United States toward his government.

—The main building of the insane asylum at Hamilton, Ontario, was nearly destroyed by fire, August 1. There were 800 patients in the building when the fire was discovered, eight of whom perished in the flames. It is due to the splendid coolness and bravery of the nurses and attendants that a frightful loss of life was averted.

—The situation in Haiti is far from reassuring. The capital is occupied by two rival revolutionary parties. It has been necessary to organize a committee of public safety to insure anything like order and system. The various government representatives are bending every energy to avert further bloodshed, and to bring about, if possible, an understanding which will settle conditions.

—The Senate has concurred in the action of the House of Representatives of increasing the membership of the House by forty-two members. It is claimed that the added membership will involve an expense of approximately $400,000 a year. The average Congressional district will contain more than 17,000 greater population than at present, the average district comprising 211,877 under the new plan.

—Jerusalem is being rapidly modernized by German firms. One company has received a contract to conduct the pure water from the Judean mountains into the holy city, and another house is building an electric car-line from the Jaffa Gate to the heart of the city. Later this line will be extended to Bethlehem, six miles south of Jerusalem. A third German firm is to furnish the electric light for Jerusalem. A contract has also been awarded for installing the telephone system.

—In Kansas, where the government has set aside 60,000 acres as a tree reserve, the work of the tree planter is beginning to yield definite returns. The forestry station at Dodge City gives away trees at the rate of 500,000 a year; and since the establishment of the station, there has been a remarkable change in climate conditions. There are fewer blizzards, on the one hand, and there is much less suffering, on the other, from the hot winds that formerly did tremendous havoc to the crops. The saving in cattle and in crops alone, without regard to the other phases of the work, has more than justified the experiment.

—The fine gold-weighing scales made for the New Orleans mint are marvels of mechanical invention and accurate workmanship. The larger of the two has a capacity of 10,000 ounces troy, or about 680 pounds avoirdupois, and, when loaded to its full weight, will indicate a variation of one-thousandth part of an ounce, or the millionth part of its weighing capacity. Another pair of scales is the one intended for weighing gold only. It has bearings composed of the finest agates, which have been ground with wonderful precision. So delicate is this machine that it will give the precise weight of a human hair, and is susceptible to the slightest atmospheric changes. Millions of dollars’ worth of precious metals will be weighed annually upon these scales.

—Recently the largest sum ever offered for a single book was paid for a Bible. It was the Gutenberg Bible, the first book ever printed from movable type, and its date goes back to about 1450. The amount paid for it was $50,000, and it will find its way into the collection of Henry E. Huntington, of Los Angeles. The largest amount paid for a rare book before this was $24,750, and in this case, also, the book was part of the inspired Word, known as the Menz Psalter. There are thirty-four copies of this edition of the Gutenberg Bible still in existence, out of 180 that were struck off. What gives this Bible its value?—Not the contents; not the material of which it is made; not the associations connected with its history; but its age and its rarity. Every home in the United States, where the Word of God is a lamp unto the feet and a light unto the path, has a Bible of far greater value than the one which will be treated by Mr. Huntington as a $50,000 relic. After all, the value of the Bible lies in its use, and the supreme use for which it was designed is that it may lead men to Him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. A dollar Bible which is daily in the hands of a seeker after divine truth is worth more than the Gutenberg Bible costing $50,000, at which people will look through a glass case. We must not underestimate that Bible as a historic relic, nor must we lose sight of its still higher value which not all the gold in the world can equal.

—Snow squalls in Upper Michigan in the summer are not very unusual. They are not, however, to be expected in Ohio; yet several were reported from these States during July. Commenting on this, one of the papers says that snow has been seen to fall in New York City at the height of the roofs of the tallest buildings in every month of the year, and adds: “It is probable that at a considerable distance above the earth snow is a common phenomenon at all seasons, and all that is needed is some exceptional disturbance of the air currents to bring it down to within striking distance.” Any one who has been in the habit of climbing mountains more than half a mile high knows that to be a fact. Snowflakes have been seen in New Jersey this summer at a height of only 462 feet above the level of the sea.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

Camp-Meetings for 1911

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Northern New England .... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Maine, Norridgewock ........ Sept. 1-10

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Quebec, South Stukely .... Aug. 25 to Sept. 3 Maritime, Williamsdale Academy, Sept. 11-18

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

East Kansas, Fort Scott ........ Aug. 10-20 Colorado, Denver ........ Aug. 17-27 Nebraska, College View .... Aug. 28 to Sept. 3 Nebraska (local), Norfolk ...... Sept. 11-18 North Missouri, Hamilton .... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 West Kansas, Wichita .... Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 St. Louis Mission Field ........ Sept. 6-13 West Colorado ................ Sept. 14-24

COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE

West Pennsylvania, Ford City .... Aug. 10-20 Ohio, Wooster ................ Aug. 17-27 Virginia, Richmond ..... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 New Jersey, Trenton ........ Sept. 7-17 Chesapeake, Dover, Del. ........ Sept. 14-24 West Virginia, Parkersburg, Sept. 28 to Oct. 8

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

West Michigan, Muskegon ...... Aug. 17-27 Northern Illinois, Phillips Park, Aurora ........................ Aug. 22 to Sept. 3 North Michigan, Traverse City ........ ......................... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Southern Illinois, Shelbyville ........ ......................... Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 East Michigan, Oxford ........ Sept. 7-17

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Iowa, Nevada ............ Aug. 23 to Sept. 3

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Southern California, Long Beach, Aug. 7-21

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Kentucky, Pleasureville ........ Aug. 17-27 Mississippi, Jackson .... Aug. 31 to Sept. 10

Mississippi (colored), Meridian ........ ......................... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Tennessee River, Waverly, Tenn. ........ ................................. Sept. 7-17

SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Georgia, Forsyth ........ Aug. 10-20 Cumberland, Lenoir City, Tenn. ........ ......................... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Florida, Sanford ........ Sept. 28 to Oct. 9

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

West Texas, Ovalo ............ Aug. 10-20 New Mexico, Corona ............ Aug. 17-27 Oklahoma, Enid ........ Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Arkansas (colored), Pine Bluff .... Aug. 10-20 Arkansas, Fort Smith ........ Sept. 7-17 South Texas, San Antonio, Oct. 26 to Nov. 5

European Division

BRITISH UNION CONFERENCE

Ireland ........................ Aug. 17-29 Wales .......................... Aug. 24-27 South England .................. Aug. 31 to Sept. 5

The September "Signs"

By Editor

THIS number is now ready for delivery, and its contents will appeal to and interest its readers. The cover design is supported by a strong article, by the editor, showing the intensity of the present times and conditions. Elder J. O. Corliss writes in his forceful way on "The Genesis of the Human Race." This is the first of a series of articles on this absorbing subject, and you ought to follow them.

Elder T. E. Bowen continues his studies on the subject "Are Seventh-day Adventists False Teachers and Impostors?" These articles are proving interesting, and are presenting points of present truth in a way that holds the readers. They are the very ones that you should be placing in the homes of your townspeople. This one is especially important. The studies in definite creation events will be continued in the same interesting style, showing the testimony of science as to what occurred on the first six days of creation week.

These four articles alone are well worth the price of the magazine, but there are a number of others: "The Making of the Sabbath," by M. C. Wilcox; "Denmark and Sweden and the Reformation," by Mrs. E. G. White; "How We Are Saved," by George B. Starr; "The Redeemer Manifested," by William Covert; "What Is the Danger in the Use of Milk?" by H. F. Rand, M. D., showing results of some recent investigations and experiments; and a good line of current topics and good illustrations.

In fact, the September number of the Signs is brimful of just what is wanted and needed. Take hold in earnest. Send for a number of copies at once, and place them in the hands of those in whom you are interested. 10 copies for 50 cents, 20 copies for $1, 50 copies for $2. Order through your tract society.

A Training-Course for City Workers

ALL through our ranks are mature, substantial women who possess more than an ordinary knowledge of the Bible, and who have a real love for souls. The majority of these sisters are not prepared to begin a three-year nurses' course, or to undertake an extended course in one of our Bible training-schools.

Speedily to fit this class of workers for self-supporting work in our large cities there has been established in Chicago a six months' course for the training of practical medical missionaries, or "Bible-working nurses," as they are called. One class has already completed this course, and nearly all of its members are having blessed experiences in the work.

The Illinois Conference supplies the Bible instruction, while the medical staff of the Hinsdale Sanitarium has charge of the medical instruction and training. Condensed but very comprehensive and practical instruction is given in the Bible truths for this time, also in anatomy, physiology, hygiene, hydrotherapy, practical nursing, diseases and their treatment, medical dietetics, obstetrics, and gynecology.

No charge is made for tuition. The expense for room and board is at actual cost, which the students succeed very readily in earning by selling magazines, caring for the sick, etc., during the time that is not occupied in class work.

The next class will be organized in October. Those who feel impressed to enter that class should write immediately for full information regarding this unique course of training. Address Dr. David Paulson, Hinsdale, Ill., or Elder M. H. Serns, 528 Thirty-third Place, Chicago.

The Watchman

By Editor

The Present Truth Evangelizer

OUR Labor Special contains another special message to the masses. The August Watchman illustrated and described two terrible existing conditions. Our September issue illustrates and describes the prophesied result of these two conditions. Sinful men will not always flaunt their extravagant excesses in the face of the Infinite, and justice and love will ultimately prevail.

Our leading editorial, “The Social Unrest,” deals with conditions that are of fearful significance. “Coming events cast their shadows before.” The social unrest is but a sign of a great event that will engage the attention of the whole world. Prof. F. T. Magan continues his Eastern Question Series in an article entitled “The Balance of Power.” A report of the proceedings of the International Convention of the Society of Christian Endeavor will be given by one in attendance. A very interesting article will be “The Purpose of the Prophecies,” by Clarence Santee. Why were the prophecies written? Were they always understood by those who spoke them? These questions, and others of interest to the doubtful one, will be fully answered. “The Nature of Man” will be another splendid editorial. Is man mortal or immortal? Could the Father of all love condemn his creatures to eternal punishment? “Is the Voice of the People the Voice of God?” by C. P. Bollman, will be an excellent article on liberty, as it bears upon the great capital and labor question of to-day.

The July number was soon exhausted, and the August is going rapidly. Can you not help “work the cities,” and country too, by circulating 15 or 25 copies? Rates to agents: 5 to 40 copies, 5 cents each; 50 or more, one address, 4 cents each. Order early through your conference tract society.

Northern Illinois Medical Missionary and Sanitarium Association

By William Covert; W. C. Foreman

NOTICE is hereby given that the first meeting of the sixth annual session of the Northern Illinois Medical Missionary and Sanitarium Association will be called at 9 A. M., Thursday, Aug. 24, 1911, in connection with the annual conference and camp-meeting to be held in the city park in Aurora, Ill. At this meeting, three trustees will be elected to fill the places of those whose terms of office expire, and such other business will be transacted as may properly come before this meeting. The legal voters of this association are the regularly elected delegates from the different churches of the Northern Illinois Conference.

Wm. Covert, President; W. C. Foreman, Secretary.

The Madison (Wis.) Sanitarium Training-School for Nurses

THE Madison (Wis.) Sanitarium Training-School for Nurses begins a class September 6. An especially strong effort is being made to make this a training for city missionary work and for medical evangelistic work as outlined in the Testimonies. The course covers the three years' work required by the nurses' State registration board.

We shall be glad to correspond with young people twenty years old and over who desire a training for medical missionary work. All wishing to enter this class should make arrangements to begin September 6, if possible. Address Superintendent of Nurses, Madison Sanitarium, Madison, Wis.

Virginia Conference Agency

By A. C. Neff; R. D. Hottel

THE seventh annual session of the Virginia Conference Agency of Seventh-day Adventists (incorporated) will meet in Richmond, Va., in connection with the annual camp-meeting, Aug. 24 to Sept. 3, 1911. The first meeting of the session will be held Monday, August 28, at 4 P. M. The delegates of the Virginia Conference in session compose the constituency of the agency.

A. C. NEFF, President; R. D. HOTTEL, Secretary.

Illinois Conference Association

By Wm. Covert; H. E. Moon

The twenty-first annual session of the Illinois Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the annual conference and camp-meeting at Aurora, Ill., Aug. 22 to Sept. 3, 1911. The first meeting will be held at 9 A. M., Thursday, Aug. 24, 1911. The association officers will be elected, and such other business transacted as may properly come before the constituency.

Wm. Covert, President; H. E. Moon, Secretary.

Maine Benevolent Association

By E. C. Taylor

THE thirteenth annual meeting of the Benevolent Association of Seventh-day Adventists of Maine will be held at Norridgewock, at the house of E. C. Taylor, Aug. 20, 1911, at 5 P. M., for the purpose of electing officers, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

E. C. TAYLOR, Clerk.

College of Medical Evangelists of Loma Linda, Cal.

By G. A. Irwin; W. A. Ruble

NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the members of the College of Medical Evangelists will be held at Loma Linda, Cal., on the third Tuesday in August, at 10 A. M. It is hoped all members will be present. G. A. IRWIN, President; W. A. RUBLE, Secretary.

Business Notices

This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.

No advertisements of "agents wanted," or "partners wanted," and no "promotion" nor "colonization" enterprises, will be printed in this column. Brief business notices will be published, subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—

Conditions

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We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.

A charge of two dollars will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost five cents.

No discount for several insertions.

WANTED.—A position by a missionary nurse (Scandinavian) in a country home, housekeeping or nursing. Musical. Dorothy Olsen, 702 Twenty-third Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn.

WANTED.—Consecrated teacher for church-school of about fifteen pupils. One who has the missionary spirit at heart. Address Everett L. Marley, Box 3, Meridian, Miss.

WANTED.—To get in touch with any conference contemplating putting electric lights in its schools and sanitariums. With our low-voltage system we can save fully one half on equipment. Nash & Past, Jamestown, N. D.

COOKING OIL direct from refinery. Purely vegetable; healthful, odorless. Save middle-man's profit. Five-gallon can, $3.65; bbl., 60 cents a gallon; ½ bbl., 62 cents a gallon. Lookout Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.

NOTICE.—The Otter Lake Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, Otter Lake, Mich., wishes again to announce that it is making a specialty of the treatment of rheumatism, stomach trouble, and nervousness. We have two of Michigan's leading surgeons connected with our institution, and have had most excellent success in our work. We also care for a limited number of chronic invalids.

1,000,000 Bible Mottoes. Size, 12 x 16. They are sweet ones. Every home should have one. English, German, Spanish; 250, $10. More you buy, less they are. Father and Mother lead. Express prepaid. Address Hampton Art Co., Nevada, Iowa.

FOR SALE.—5½ acres, 1¾ miles from Berrien Springs (Adventist) College. House, five rooms; good well; small barn. Fenced for chicken raising. About thirty apple-trees, sixteen pear-trees, other fruit. Bargain at $1,500. C. J. Buhalts, Harvey, N. D.

FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure, healthful, odorless; keeps indefinitely; 5-gallon can, $4.30; 10-gallon can, $8.45; bbl. (50 gallons), 75 cents a gallon; ½ bbl. (30 gallons), 76 cents a gallon. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.

FOR SALE.—20,000 capacity sawmill and planer; about four million feet of yellow fir timber; Tacoma logging engine nearly new. Mill running now one mile from Royal Academy. Prices reasonable. If interested, address Owens Lumber Co., Cottage Grove, Ore.

What They Say of "Liberty"

By A. J. S. Bourdeau

The World-Wide Symposium number of Liberty, just out, is meeting with a most hearty reception, as will appear from the following extracts from letters received last week:—

ARIZONA, H. G. Thurston, President: “The late numbers of Liberty contain the gospel. The times demand a gigantic circulation of the July-September number.”

NEW JERSEY, B. F. Kneeland, President: “I consider the current number of Liberty the best, in some respects, that I have seen. The comprehensive view of the conditions prevailing in the various nations is valuable.”

EAST MICHIGAN, E. K. Slade, President: “Each number of this splendid magazine seems to be better than the preceding one. This one is filled with important articles that should arouse and inspire our own people, and that should be passed on for warning and enlightenment to our neighbors and friends.”

OKLAHOMA, David Voth, President: “This is certainly one of the best numbers, if not the best, that I have ever seen. It seems to me any person ought to be able to sell this instructive and interesting magazine without any trouble. Our tract society has just sent in over 100 names of State officers, judges, etc., to whom we wish this magazine sent for one year.”

EAST KANSAS, L. W. Terry, President: “I consider the last number of Liberty the best that has been placed in the hands of the people, and trust that it will receive a wide circulation, for it deserves it.”

WESTERN NEW YORK, H. W. Carr, President: “Have given this number quite a careful reading. I wish that it might be read by every American citizen. I can not see how such matter will fail to appeal to the minds of the thoughtful. We shall do all we can to put it into the hands of those who will read and appreciate it.”

IOWA, A. R. Smouse, Missionary Secretary: “There is a very prominent attorney here whose attitude has been entirely changed as the result of sending him Liberty. Before he read it, he was very much in favor of Sunday laws; but a few weeks ago, when the passage of the Johnston Sunday bill was imminent, he sent a telegram to Senator —, who is a personal friend of his, asking him to use his vote and influence against it, as he believed the subject was not one for legislation.”

SOUTH DAKOTA, Nellie B. Underwood, Missionary Secretary: “This number impresses me as being one of the best ever put out. I feel that we ought to give it a wide circulation. I will do what I can.”

MONTANA, A. E. Everett, Secretary and Treasurer: “I believe this number is the most important of any yet issued. It should be a mighty factor in educating our public men. We shall continue to work for Liberty here in Montana.”

EAST MICHIGAN, H. A. Weaver, Religious Liberty Secretary: “In three hours’ time I absorbed the entire contents. It is the best yet. My appreciation for the matter contained in Liberty can not be expressed on paper or with words.”

NORTHERN UNION, T. D. Gibson, Secretary and Treasurer: “Have just made an examination of the current number of Liberty, and am much pleased with what it presents. This number will enlighten every one who reads it, and enable him clearly to understand the signs of the times.”

WEST PENNSYLVANIA, G. Medairy, Missionary Secretary: “This issue should have a wide circulation.”

NORTH MICHIGAN, Jno. H. Niehaus, Missionary Secretary: “My eyes, mind, and heart have truly feasted upon the contents of the last number of Liberty, which reached me while waiting several hours at a railroad station, giving me ample time for a thorough examination.”

INDIANA, A. L. Miller, Religious Liberty Secretary: “The third quarter’s issue of Liberty is an excellent number,—one that should receive a wide circulation.”

TENNESSEE, Mrs. M. Crothers, Missionary Secretary, Southern Union Conference: “The warning of our message is being definitely given through Liberty, in a way calculated to interest public men, because it links the truth to public and national affairs. The latest number is certainly good because of the variety of its contents.”

ONTARIO, Sadie Baker, Missionary Secretary: “I like this number very much, as it sets forth the principles of religious liberty very plainly and definitely.”

MISSOURI, Mary E. Hartwell, Secretary of St. Louis Tract Society: “This number brings us into close touch with our brethren over the sea, telling us of the struggles they are having. Would like to see it in the hands of every thinking man and woman in our country.”

Let us all unite in giving this excellent number a very wide circulation. If you have not seen a copy, send ten cents for the same to your conference tract society to-day; or, send $1.50 to pay for sending Liberty one year to ten leading men of your State, school-teachers, attorneys, physicians, clergymen, etc.

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Chesapeake Conference Association

By ROSCOE T. BAER; EMMA S. NEWCOMER

THE Chesapeake Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists (a body corporate under the laws of Delaware) will be held in connection with the annual camp-meeting and conference, on the camp-ground at Dover, Del., Sept. 14-24, 1911. The first meeting will be held at 9:30 A. M., Monday, September 18. This meeting will be for the election of trustees for the association, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the association.

ROSCOE T. BAER, President; EMMA S. NEWCOMER, Secretary.

Chesapeake Conference

By ROSCOE T. BAER; EMMA S. NEWCOMER

THE twelfth annual session of the Chesapeake Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Dover, Del., Sept. 14–24, 1911. The purpose of this meeting is for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the conference. The first meeting will be called at 9:30 A. M., September 15. Each church in the conference is entitled to one delegate for its organization, and to one additional delegate for each ten members. A full delegation is requested from all our churches.

ROSCOE T. BAER, President; EMMA S. NEWCOMER, Secretary.

Encouraging Reports from Loma Linda and Argentina

A RECENT letter from Elder J. A. Burden, the manager of the Loma Linda Sanitarium, brings the encouraging word that their net gain in operating for last year amounted to nearly six thousand dollars. Elder Burden writes: “The Lord has more than met our sanguine expectations. We had felt that if we could get through the year without running behind, it would be a great success. Work on the laboratory building is progressing; the basement and first and second floors are up. If there is no misfortune nor any delay on account of finances, the building will be ready for the opening of school the first of October. Everything on the farm looks encouraging.”

THE readers of the REVIEW will remember the case of the young man in Argentina who was whipped and then sentenced to a year's imprisonment for refusing to do military service on the Sabbath. As a result of his faithfulness, a knowledge of the truth came to many of the high officials in the Argentine government; and now word comes that a law has been passed by that government, freeing Adventist soldiers from military duty on the Sabbath, except in times of war.

Prof. M. E. Kern’s Camp-Meeting Schedule

PROF. M. E. KERN is in the West, and will attend camp-meetings in Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa.

Elder A. G. Daniells Attends Indiana Camp-Meeting

ELDER A. G. DANIELLS spent several days last week attending the Indiana camp-meeting, returning to Washington Monday.

Dr. Mann Accepts Call to India

The General Conference Committee has received from Dr. V. L. Mann, of the New England Sanitarium, acceptance of appointment to India. We feel great satisfaction in this response to India's call of need. In behalf of the sanitarium managers at Melrose, Dr. W. E. Bliss, medical superintendent, sent the message:—

At a general meeting of the Melrose faculty, it was voted, “That it is with mingled feelings of pleasure and regret that we acquiesce in the call of Dr. Mann to India,—pleasure that we have Dr. Mann to give to India, and regret to lose him from our faculty and work.”

Nurses Wanted for West African Mission

By W. A. Spicer

Wanted

The Mission Board wishes to secure a man and his wife, both nurses, for the West African Mission. Elder D. C. Babcock, who was present at the recent council in Europe, was authorized to secure in England the necessary equipment for treatment-rooms. The building is already secured, on a mountainside, in the suburbs of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Aside from the good work that can be done for the people, and the help that this work will be as an educational and training factor, the establishment of treatment-rooms and the work of qualified nurses will be of great value in helping our workers on the mission stations to maintain their health and strength for service. We shall be glad to hear of possible candidates, and invite immediate correspondence from our institutions or from individuals. Somewhere the workers must be awaiting this call.

W. A. SPICER, Secretary.

McElhany Chosen Conference President

In the place of Elder W. A. Hennig, who recently resigned the presidency of the District of Columbia Conference, Elder J. L. McElhany, the chaplain of the Washington Sanitarium, has been chosen president. Brother McElhany was a member of the conference committee, and is already well acquainted with conditions in the field.

Death of Elder Claude D. McMoody

We have received the sad news of the death, at Long Beach, Cal., of Elder Claude D. McMoody, formerly of Turkey. Two years ago our brother was compelled to return from the mission field to seek the most favorable conditions for recovery. His faithful labors in Turkey and in Wisconsin have borne fruit, and his works will follow him. He has been all along fully resigned to God’s will, and we know he sleeps in hope. Our sympathy is with his sorrowing parents and brother.

Dr. Hayton Ordained to Ministry

At an evening service in the Foreign Mission Seminary chapel last week, Dr. C. H. Hayton, who was recently graduated from the medical department of the George Washington University, in this city, was ordained to the gospel ministry. Immediately afterward, Dr. Hayton left for Great Britain, where he pursues his studies further, to secure qualification for medical practise in British fields, connecting eventually with the work in the South African field.

Elder Maas Returns from South America

We were pleased to greet in Washington last week Elder J. V. Maas and family, who have returned from South America after eleven years of service. Elder Maas was in charge of the work in the republic of Uruguay when conditions of health demanded a change. He hopes that a year of work on the farm, in the Canadian northwest, will enable him again to enter the needy evangelistic work.

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