p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 11. (3/14/1912)

Circulating Liberty and Protestant Magazine

LONG lists of yearly subscriptions are being received for both Liberty and the Protestant Magazine. Three letters received in one forenoon's mail enclosed 198 yearly subscriptions for the Protestant Magazine. The importance of circulating this magazine just now in America can not be emphasized too strongly. Thousands of honest Protestants in the United States and Canada are fondly looking to the Protestant Magazine to speak out the truth, in love, concerning the encroachments of Romanism in America. Remember, for $1.50 the publishers will send either the Protestant Magazine or Liberty to 10 different names and addresses for one year. Clergymen not of our faith are sending in from 25 to 60 yearly subscriptions at one time. Order through your tract society.

BROTHER J. A. SKINNER, one of our pioneer agents for Liberty, has disposed of 1,700 copies of the Thomas Jefferson and Free Press number. These have been sold in Washington, D. C., and in Richmond and Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Skinner also sold copies of the magazine. Although these faithful laborers are well advanced in years, yet they report good success in selling these magazines, even during the winter months.

Adventist Progress in Germany

In what is known as the land of the Reformation, the German empire, wonderful advancement has been made in giving to the people the third angel's message. In January, 1876, the first baptism took place. Sixteen were then baptized by Elder Erzenberger. In 1898 the first conference was organized. At the beginning of 1912 Elder L. R. Conradi reports seventeen self-supporting conference organizations, with 10,600 Sabbath-keepers. Twenty-five per cent of their tithe, besides offerings, goes to the support of mission work in East Africa. And although poor, an average of from seven to fifteen dollars' tithe is paid per member annually in the different conferences. All this goes to show that God's hand is over this movement in a special manner in the land where Luther and his associates achieved such victories in the earlier struggles of the Reformation.

The supply of the January Life and Health is exhausted. All 15-months-for-$1 subscriptions hereafter will therefore include the October, November, and December, 1911, issues, and begin with the February number. This offer expires April 1. Will those having extra copies of the January number to spare please communicate with our magazine department at once?

Elder W. T. Knox Attends Pacific Union Conference

ELDER W. T. KNOX, treasurer of the General Conference, left Washington on Wednesday of last week to attend the session of the Pacific Union Conference to be held at Los Angeles, Cal., beginning March 21.

Mission Work Among the Aymara Indians

February 7, Brother W. A. Spicer, in company with Brother and Sister Stahl and Brother Westphal, reached La Paz, Bolivia, after visiting among the Aymara Indians near Lake Titicaca. About two hundred twenty-five Indians attended the Sabbath meeting. Opposition to the truth among them is abating. The priest who was the most active in persecuting them for their faith in God and for following his Word, has recently died. The brethren mentioned above were to leave La Paz on February 10 for the general meeting in Chile.

The Munsons Remain in Australia

ELDER R. W. MUNSON, who expected on leaving Java to bring his wife to America, has been advised by physicians that Australia will afford a climate as suitable as the Pacific Coast for her recovery. Brother and Sister Munson have decided, therefore, to remain in Australia, where their older children are attending school. He reports that Sister Munson is making excellent progress in regaining her health, and the physicians hold out hope of a complete recovery. Yet it is very evident to them that to God belongs the glory.

Sabbath-School Memory Verse Cards

ATTENTION is called to the change made in the publishers of the Sabbath-school Memory Verse Cards. These cards are now issued by the Sabbath School Worker, Washington, D. C. They are printed in neat colors on round-cornered cards, and furnished at 7 cents a set of 13 cards. One set supplies each child with a card each Sabbath during the quarter. The cost of the cards is more than made up in the good results they bring to the children and the work of the school. They should be generally used in all our Sabbath-schools.

Myers Family Sails for West Africa

LAST week E. W. Myers and his wife (formerly Josephine Johnson), of Iowa, sailed from New York for West Africa. Brother and Sister Myers, in responding to this call, left the Pacific Coast and reached Washington about a month ago. The short time here was spent in the Seminary and in hospital work in the city. Treatment-rooms are being fitted up in the building erected for school purposes on the mountainside at Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, of which Brother and Sister Myers will have charge. They will be heartily welcomed to this field, as the plea for help in medical missionary work has been urged upon the Mission Board from West Africa for a long time.

An Offering for the Orphans and the Aged Poor

By W. T. Knox

OUR next general offering is appointed for Sabbath, April 6, and is designed to be used in the union conferences in which it may be raised, to assist in properly caring for their orphans and aged poor.

The Negro Department has recently completed a comfortable building, in connection with its school at Oakwood, for the accommodation of orphans of the Negro race. The home is beautifully situated, and comfortably arranged for this purpose, and will accommodate about twenty inmates.

In the past that department has been greatly perplexed on account of the difficulty of providing suitably for this class of unfortunate ones that naturally falls to its care. All who have given thought to this long-apparent need, rejoice that we have at last been able to make some provision for this work.

At the last autumn council, the following action was taken, looking to the support of these persons:—

“Voted, That as a provision of support for the orphanage for colored children at Oakwood, Ala., we invite the Southern, Southeastern, and Southwestern Union Conferences to appropriate fifty per cent of their April offering for orphanage work to the Oakwood Orphanage, and that we invite the other unions or conferences in America to appropriate twenty-five per cent of their funds from the April orphanage collection to this same purpose.”

There is great need for immediate assistance that the home may be thrown open at once to those who should now be admitted. With this new incentive, a liberal offering in all conferences is anticipated.

W. T. KNOX.

“Acts of the Apostles.”

We are receiving some very interesting testimonials from some of our pioneer workers in this cause who have had the privilege of reading that splendid new book from the pen of Mrs. E. G. White, the “Acts of the Apostles.” The following is written by Elder H. Nicola:—

“I have just finished reading that most excellent new book, the ‘Acts of the Apostles,’ by Mrs. E. G. White, and find it a fitting companion for the many other excellent books by this same author. Having given it a careful reading, I am impressed that its merits have not been, and perhaps can not be, unduly emphasized. It seems that every one of its six hundred pages impresses anew some practical lesson. I wish it might find a place in every home in the land. If its merits were known, it surely would soon be found in every Christian home. Others have spoken in praise of this new book.”