p. 21 | Review and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 31. (8/5/1902)

Earlier text: Medical Missionary Work in the Southern Union Conference

Some Financial Matters in the Southern Union Conference

By George I. Butler

THE readers of the REVIEW AND HERALD have doubtless all read the recent “Appeal for the Southern Work,” directed “To Our Churches in America,” from the pen of Sister E. G. White. In this most earnest appeal the servant of the Lord, who has always been prominent in every step taken to advance this great cause of present truth, has spoken emphatically concerning the importance of our people’s assisting, by their efforts, prayers, and means, the struggling institutions of the cause in the South, especially the Southern Publishing Association recently established in Nashville, Tenn.

In this “Appeal” reference was made to the importance of making Nashville a leading center of our work in this great Southern Union Conference of nine States, with fourteen millions of people, both white and colored. Nashville is a great educational center for white and black alike. Here are many important universities and schools, where large numbers of the brightest young people of both sexes and of both races gather to secure an education to fit them for usefulness in life. Here, as much as anywhere, perhaps, in the South, have the problems centering in the troublesome “color line” been wrought out peaceably and fairly. The great Fiske University, with its noble pile of edifices and large number of colored students, is located here, where white teachers have been for many years seeking to instruct and elevate the young people of both sexes of the colored population of the South. Many other schools, perhaps of lesser note, in this important city labor for the same noble purpose. Large educational institutions with wealth at their command, abound for the white race. Nashville is also the capital of Tennessee, where the men of influence and means congregate to make laws and direct in public affairs. If we as a people ever expect to exert an influence in the great new South, we cannot be indifferent in our attitude to such an important center as Nashville.

God has committed to us the closing work, the last warning, threefold message. Our people as a body believe this with all their hearts. For years this great message has been making its way in the world against the current of human opinion, in its work of warning the world of the coming of Jesus in glory and of the great salvation so soon to be realized. This message is to lighten the earth with its glory. This being true, the great Southern field must behold its rays of light. The great cities of the new South, rapidly increasing in population and intelligence, must be entered. And Nashville, as a great educational center most favorably located, must be conspicuous. No other place is more favorably located. The spirit of prophecy has told us in no uncertain tones that here in this very city our new publishing house for the great Southern field should be located. While Graysville for our white training school and Huntsville for our colored training school have been designated in the order of the Lord to fill positions of usefulness in this great work, yet our publishing work has ever been in this message the most important agency for the dissemination of light to our fellow men. This agency has an important work to perform for the great Southern field; and the Lord has unmistakably pointed out Nashville for its location. More will be said concerning this point in the future.

I expect that those of our people whose hearts are imbued with love and devotion, who long with intense interest to see this most glorious of all causes moving onward to victory, who desire to assist in the development of this long-neglected and most important field, to which the servant of the Lord has been calling the attention of our people for years, pleading with them to do their duty therein, will help to place the Southern Publishing Association on its feet. Our brethren and sisters nobly donated funds to erect a convenient building for the printing office. Some funds were also given toward its equipment, but not nearly enough to enable it to fill the important position it was designed to fill in the great Southern field. For lack of means it has been sadly crippled in many ways. Means are now greatly needed with which to purchase some additional machinery, and also to purchase a stock of paper and other material, so that the work can go forward at once.

In the recent meetings of the executive committee of the Southern Union Conference at Nashville, Tenn., and of the publishing association and other interests also, which for eleven consecutive days wrestled with all the perplexing questions of finance and difficulty that had been gathering and piling up for years, a great victory was gained. Our sessions were pleasant. A kind, tender spirit prevailed. The dear Lord was with us. Every perplexing matter received careful consideration; and when at last we reached the end of the session, and carefully inquired if any other matters needed consideration, none were forthcoming. Our brethren all returned to their homes happy, and hopeful of the future. Boards and committees were elected, which we feel certain will command the confidence of our people as careful and conservative men. It has been the desire of these that everything of mere personal interest should be separated from the cause and work of God, that all important matters relating to the cause should be open for inspection, that everything that could be considered suspicious or of doubtful propriety should be discarded, and all things connected with the Lord’s cause should be so conducted as to command the confidence

of all reasonable people in our work.

Hence, we ask for the confidence of our people everywhere in the integrity and conscientious fidelity as managing boards and committees that are intrusted with the interests of the cause of present truth in this long-neglected field. Firmly believing that better days are before us, that “best of all, God is with us” in the work here; and that light is coming in to illuminate the perplexities and difficulties of our peculiar situation, and that the dear Saviour has his eyes of love and mercy upon us, and will surely help us in this very difficult field, we thank God, and move on with courage and hope, fully trusting in the Lord, and expecting the co-operation of all true friends of the cause which we love.

Already our brethren on the executive committee in this field, who are most conversant with the improvements recently inaugurated, have voted to place the funds of the union conference in the publishing association on deposit, to give evidence of their confidence in the financial integrity of that institution, and to help sustain its credit as a business institution. This is right. It has been the course pursued invariably in the history of this denomination, so far as the writer has known, since the first publishing association was formed among us. The publishing work must ever stand most prominent among us while we are a missionary people, with a message of warning to give to the world. That is our mission as a people, the leading reason why we have an existence as such. Hence the publishing work must ever be safeguarded and sustained. The fact that our people as a rule have made our offices of publication places for the deposit of their funds, drawing from them as they needed, and that our conferences have done the same, has added greatly to their stability as financial institutions.

The Southern Publishing Association, 1025 Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn., has been voted by the Executive Committee of the Southern Union Conference as the place of deposit of all Southern Union Conference funds. Let every friend of the cause who contributes funds to this field bear this in mind. Great confusion in the past and various misunderstandings have resulted because of a lack of one central point of deposit.

It has not been possible in all cases to tell where funds sent in have belonged. Calls were made by Sister White and others, and the friends of the work have sent in cash as a response. Many sent to the Southern Missionary Society, some to the publishing house, and some to Graysville, and perhaps other destinations, but did not clearly state to what object these gifts should be applied. Hence, some confusion has resulted. In view of the fact that these calls were largely made of late by Sister White in behalf of the office of publication, and for the furtherance of the work in Nashville, it would seem probable, to say the least, that if no specific object was named by the donors, but their funds were sent for the “cause in the South,” as many of them were, they expected that those funds would be applied according to the tenor of the calls made, and not for some other purpose for which no recent call was made.

To avoid all confusion in the future, it is considered best that our central, properly authorized place of deposit should be designated for funds coming to this Southern field in response to the calls being made. This place is the Southern Publishing Association in Nashville. Every donor should clearly state what disposition he desires shall be made of the funds given. In behalf of the present board of management, I will most emphatically state that all such funds will be sacredly and religiously applied as the donor requests, and if any failure to understand his wishes exists, an effort will be made to ascertain his wish. We ask our people to help us in our hard field. We want your sympathy, prayers, and means, to help us. I hope that many will respond to the recent call of Sister White. God will bless the cheerful giver. GEO. I. BUTLER, President of Southern Union Conference and of the Southern Publishing Association.

“Christ’s Object Lessons” in the Southern Union Conference

By P. T. Magan

A GREAT movement in behalf of the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons” has recently been inaugurated in the Southern Union Conference. Elder George I. Butler and the laborers working with him in that field are now stirring things mightily in behalf of the relief of the Graysville Academy and the Huntsville Industrial School. Recently a thousand copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons” were shipped to the Southern Publishing Association, but before they could reach the field, the sales had amounted to about three thousand copies. The California Conference has made a donation to the Southern Union Conference of three thousand copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” in order to help that needy field. Brother W. C. Wales has been put in charge of the organization of the work, and is now visiting the different conferences and camp meetings, and getting things systematized so that the work can go forward as soon as it is possible.

The South did not join the jubilee procession as early as some other conferences, but we are thankful now that that whole field is hard at work, not only relieving her schools from debt, but through the sale of the book giving new life and experience to hundreds of the church members, and bringing joy and hope to many people who by this means are having an opportunity to hear this blessed truth. P. T. Magan.

"Christ's Object Lessons" in California

By Charles T. Everson

ALTHOUGH little has been reported of the campaign for the relief of the schools in California, yet we are pushing the sale of "Christ's Object Lessons," and expect to do so until the work is completed. We have the largest number of books of any conference, and consequently expect to have a large share in singing the song of jubilee when the work is completed.

This effort is meeting with a ready and hearty response throughout the conference, and the people are taking hold of the work of selling "Christ's Object Lessons," not because they are overfond of canvassing, but because they see that the Lord is in the work. He not only has definitely promised to be in the work, but he has demonstrated in the experience of those who have taken it up that "he will give them favor and success." He has done for us in "Christ's Object Lessons" more than the most sanguine dared to hope for in facilitating the work.

We have secured written indorsements for "Christ's Object Lessons" from the ministers of almost every denomination. Three doctors of divinity of the Methodist Church have given excellent indorsements. The following from Dr. Dille, pastor of the First M. E. Church of Oakland, we quote because it is brief and comprehensive: "This may certify that I have carefully examined the work entitled 'Christ's Object Lessons,' and can recommend it as thoroughly Scriptural, wholesome, and evangelical." The secretary of the M. E. conference of California also highly indorsed it. Three of the leading Presbyterian ministers have indorsed it. Ministers of the Baptist, Christian, Congregational, Episcopal, Lutheran, and Unitarian churches have also given written indorsements highly commending the book. The leading

Catholic priest of San Jose, not being able to give a written indorsement for the book, that being contrary to the rules of the church, purchased a copy. This act was itself a recommendation.

The ministers of a number of these denominations purchased books. Among those who did so, and who gave it a written indorsement is B. Fay Mills, the once-noted evangelist, and at present pastor of a large Unitarian Church. Besides selling books to the ministers and securing their indorsements, the Lord has given me success in selling books to a rear-admiral of the United States Navy, the judge of a district, together with almost every officer of the county and the mayors of two towns, one of whom is a Roman Catholic saloon keeper. In one town, in response to our petition, the city council passed a special ordinance remitting the license tax, that we might have the privilege of selling 'Christ's Object Lessons' without the necessity of paying a license fee. No one can read of the wonderful success that is attending the sale of this book, without seeing that God is indeed in this work, giving 'favor and success.'

CHARLES T. EVERSON.

Donors to the Relief of the Schools

The Total Cash received on the Relief of the Schools Fund up to July 28, 1902, is $45,180.14.

NAME	AMOUNT
G. W. Stilson	$ 1 00
Alice Gardner	1 00
Fannie Hillier	50
Adna Raley	1 00
Minnie A. Raley	1 00
Emma Roberts	1 00
Mrs. H. Dufur	5 00
Mary Rounds	5 00
Wm. Mammel	1 00
Lura Frances	20 00
E. E. Brink	4 45
Wisconsin	8 75
R. Crawford	1 00
Lewis Leroy	2 00
Fritz Guy	3 30
Nora B. Fleming	2 00
Mrs. Maria Beach	5 00
Mrs. H. Couey	1 00
E. J. Van Horn	100 00
Palen Walmsley	5 00
B. Rosseau	50
Jessie Barber	10 00
G. W. Berry	2 50
W. R. Salisbury	1 00
Mrs. Elizabeth Maurer	2 00
Mrs. Nordyke	1 00
Mrs. Grills	1 00
A. M. Dart	1 00
Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Chidester	5 00
W. H. Holmes	2 00
A friend	45

The Relief of Walla Walla College

UNTIL recently the relief of Walla Walla College had proceeded very slowly. The Pacific Union Conference, however, held during the winter at Portland, Ore., turned the tide, and marked a new era in this blessed work. At the time of the Upper Columbia camp meeting it was decided that all the laborers should engage in the work with “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and that everything else should be laid aside until this work was done. The people have determined, like Nehemiah, to finish the work in a set time, and they are at it everywhere with a will.

Current Mention

— A strike of 2,300 Chicago boiler makers, affecting thirty-five shops, took place August 1.

— The commander of the American gunboat “Ranger,” now at Panama, has notified the Colombian insurgent leaders who have gunboats there, that they will not be permitted to bombard the town or anchorage of Panama.

— The United States has inserted in the treaty with Panama for the completion of the interoceanic canal a clause providing for the lease of islands in the Bay of Panama, which are to be used for the defense of the water way.

— Sentiment favoring the annexation of Cuba to the United States has already inaugurated a movement to that end in Cuba, and a bitter feeling is stirred up by it among a large class of Cubans who had been counting on at least a period of Cuban independence.

— The lower house of the Cuban Congress has adopted a resolution repudiating the settlement made between the United States and the Catholic Church with reference to church property in the island. Should the upper house concur in the measure, the whole question of the disposition of the church property will be reopened.

— President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, and officials of and sympathizers with the organization, have been enjoined in the Federal court at Charleston, W. Va., from entering upon mine property, holding meetings, or asking miners to quit work in the New River coal fields. The sweeping character of the injunction is a subject of general comment.

— Cholera in its most virulent form is raging in Egypt, many deaths being reported daily in Cairo. In some cases people are taken with the disease while out on the streets, and die on the spot in a few moments’ time. There are two other centers of this plague at the present time,—Manila, in the Philippine Islands, and the Chinese province of Manchuria.

— A Singapore dispatch reports the collision of two steamships off Malacca, Straits Settlement, July 30. Forty lives were lost.

— Civil war is raging in Hayti, two battles being reported in a recent dispatch, one defeat being suffered by each side.

— Great heat prevailed July 30 at Omaha and vicinity and in sections of Illinois, some factories at Morris, Ill., being obliged to shut down.

— Heavy floods, inundating thousands of acres of land, destroying crops valued at millions of dollars, and threatening much greater damage, are reported from Texas, in the districts of the Brazos and Colorado Rivers.

— Spain, like France, is wrestling with the problem of religious associations, and premier Sagasta has declared that the government cannot yield to Rome in the matter, but will follow the example of the United States.

— The St. Vincent volcano is again active, and a severe earthquake and tidal wave are reported as accompanying phenomena in one part of the island. A great increase in the depth of the sea bed near St. Vincent is reported by the Panama cable repair ship.

— Serious outbreaks of violence are beginning to attend the strike in the anthracite coal regions. At Shenandoah a battle occurred July 30 between strikers and the police, a score of persons being shot, one being killed and four others fatally hurt. Rioters were in full control of the town for twenty-four hours.

— A serious riot in New York City, growing out of race antipathy between Hebrews and Anglo-Saxons, took place on the lower east side of the Metropolis, where many Jews reside, July 30, the occasion being the funeral of Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph. Employees of the Hoe printing press factory threw water and missiles upon the funeral procession and the crowd, who retaliated by stoning the factory. Several persons were injured in the struggle.

— Earthquake shocks have been reported the past week from New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, and California, those on the Pacific coast being especially severe. The town of Los Alamos, in Southern California, was wrecked by the shocks, which made gaping fissures in the earth, and threw up hills and mounds over a district fifteen miles long by four miles wide. The inhabitants fled for their lives.

— For the first time in its history, the governmental injunction has been invoked against the consummation of a gamble in stocks. A “corner” in July oats, which was being operated by board of trade members in Chicago, was temporarily enjoined July 30 by a firm which the corner threatened with heavy loss, the firm alleging that as the result of the corner they are obliged to deliver oats at a fictitious value, about double the actual worth of the grain. The complainants purpose to “find out whether it is to be for all time possible for groups of millionaires to turn upside down the grain business of the country, and inflict heavy losses on the trade.”

— Parts of Europe as well as America are experiencing destructive storms. England and Belgium have thus far been the principal sufferers.

— Reports from London state that there is a growing belief among the people that King Edward will never be crowned, and no active interest is being taken in preparations for that event.

— Three attempts to wreck the New Orleans limited train on the Illinois Central Railway have been made within the past two months, the last one being discovered July 29.

— News has been received of a cyclone which raged over the Gulf of California, July 24, damaging the coast cities and wrecking many ships. The loss of life is believed to be heavy.

— The announcement comes from London that a company has been formed with a nominal capital of $875,000, which will soon be operating wireless telephones and wireless telegraphs at nominal charges.

— A Baptist pastor at Plainfield, N. J., has started a crusade against a neighboring pleasure resort because of violations of the Sunday law which occur there. Alluding to the subject in a recent sermon, he said that since this resort opened up, there had been an unusual lack of attendance at the Sunday services.

The Canadian government is to send into the region of the Albany River, a tributary of Hudson Bay from the west, a large survey party, equipped for geological, topographic, timber, agricultural, and other economic work. There is no information as to the character of the vast wilderness other than that furnished by occasional guides and Indians. It is supposed that an enormous timber belt stretches across the region, and that the district is also rich in mineral wealth.

One Way in Which Ministers Can Help in the Sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons”

By P. T. Magan

Not long ago I wrote to a number of our leading ministers in the Lake Union Conference, telling them that the funds were coming in quite slowly from the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and that if something was not done in the near future to hasten the sale of the book, we should have to suspend our building operations at Emmanuel College for lack of means.

Elder E. A. Curtis, of Illinois, was busy with other work when he got the letter. This work was of such a nature that he could not leave it to take up active work in the field for “Christ’s Object Lessons,” but he immediately began to devise ways of doing something. He called together the responsible members of three Illinois churches, and told them the situation. These men promised to go to work again, and to send in all the money they could from the sale of the book. He also wrote a letter to a number of librarians in his district, and got them all to pushing this work in their respective territories. As a result, considerable money has come into the tract society, and has been forwarded to Emmanuel College. Cannot other ministers who are situated as Elder Curtis is do likewise? Every little helps. It will take a long pull and a strong pull and a pull all together; but it can be done, and in God’s name it will be done.

P. T. MAGAN.

Recommendations for “Christ’s Object Lessons”

THE following recommendations are from ministers of the largest churches of their respective denominations in the city of Indianapolis:—

“I take pleasure in recommending to the favorable attention of the reading public, Mrs. E. G. White’s ‘Christ’s Object Lessons.’ In its admirable typographical setting and with its tasteful and apt illustrations, it lends itself admirably to unfolding the teachings of the divine Word. It cannot but be a great boon to devout students of Holy Writ. Lewis Brown, Ph. D., ‘Rector St. Paul’s (Episcopal) Church.’

“I have read ‘Christ’s Object Lessons,’ by Mrs. E. G. White, and find it not only entertaining, but also quite educational. The thoughts are logical, some of them not only new, but also quite attractive. J. C. Peters, D. D., ‘Pastor Zion’s Evangelical (German Lutheran) Church.’

A Sister Sells Christ's Object Lessons

A SISTER in one of our Eastern cities declared that she never could sell a copy of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” One of our brethren told her that the book would sell itself. She allowed him to leave one on her center table. In a few days a lady came to see her, and while waiting, became so interested in the book that she asked the sister the privilege of buying it of her.

List of Missionary Acre Pledges

NAME	NATURE OF PLEDGE
Mrs. F. Englebert	4 rows of onions; 2 chickens.
Mr. & Mrs. Nathan K. Hill	1 acre broom corn; eggs laid on Sabbath for 3 months, and brood of chickens.
Bertha King	proceeds of small garden; some chickens.
Mrs. W. H. Oakes & children	proceeds of small orchard.
George Ormiston	$2.
Mrs. J. A. Schlotthaner	$1.
R. A. Ormiston	$3.
J. A. Schlotthaner	$2.
Wm. C. & Mary L. Young	$10.
Mr. & Mrs. A. D. Schlotthaner	2 rows of potatoes 20 rods long.
E. A. Welton	$2.
Ida Getstaff	proceeds of 1 row of potatoes.
Mrs. Minnie Erickson	$2.
Mrs. Martha Wallace	$10.
W. R. Jones	$3.
Nellie Clark	proceeds of 1 week's work.
Charley A. Doyle	proceeds ½ dozen chickens.
Jasper Gillaspy	$1.
Jacob Seeber	½ acre of potatoes.
G. W. & M. P. Ames	proceeds of 2 acres of wheat.
Oscar Hill	$5.
Bessie & Ina Lansing	$5.

German Department of Walla Walla College

By C. C. Lewis

THE board of trustees of Walla Walla College decided to start a German department, with Elder H. J. Schnepper as teacher. In this department the following studies will be taken up in German the coming year:—

Reading, writing, and spelling, according to the needs of the pupils; beginning German for English students, to give them a vocabulary and to enable them to read and speak German as well as may be done in one year; German grammar for German students who have not made the grammar a study, and for English students in their second year's work; rhetoric for advanced students who have finished the course in German grammar; Bible study, covering the same ground as that pursued by the English class in present truth; general history, covering an outline of the world's history, with a good German textbook for study.

As most of our German students will be unable to enter school the first month, it has been decided to delay the opening of the German department until Wednesday, October 1. On that date it is expected that every student who desires to enter this department will be present for classification, and it is hoped that no one will put off coming until a later date.

And now we appeal to our German brethren to work for this new department of the school, in which they are so much interested. Let them extend the announcement as widely as possible, and influence worthy young people to enter the school. We desire to make this a permanent department of the college, if this year's work proves that there is a sufficient demand for it.

C. C. LEWIS, Pres.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By Editor

Camp Meetings for 1902

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Washington, Olympia, — Sept. 4-14 California, Fresno, — October Utah, — Aug. 15-24 Montana, Helena, — Aug. 29 to Sept. 7 British Columbia, — Sept. 11-21

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Iowa, Ames, — Aug. 28 to Sept. 7 Kansas, Norton, — Aug. 7-17 Kansas, Junction City (State meeting), — Sept. 26 to Oct. 6 Missouri, Boonville, — Aug. 13-25

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Oklahoma, Dover, — Aug. 21 to Sept. 1

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

Wisconsin, Grand Rapids, — Aug. 14-25 Illinois, Mattoon, — Aug. 28 to Sept. 7 Ohio, Coshocton, — Aug. 7-18 Michigan, Alma, — Aug. 20 to Sept. 7

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Tennessee, Erin, — Sept. 4- Georgia, Alpharetta, — Aug. 15-25

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Vermont, Barre, — Aug. 20-31 Maine, Waterville, — Aug. 21 to Sept. 1 Virginia, Lynchburg, — Aug. 8-18 West Virginia, Parkersburg, — Sept. 11-21

The presidents of the various conferences are requested to send us information regarding any meetings not mentioned in the preceding table, so that we may be able to give a complete list. Please inform us at once of any corrections or additions that should be made to this report.

The Wisconsin Camp Meeting

By Wm. Covert

THE annual conference and camp meeting for Wisconsin will be held this year in Grand Rapids, August 14-25. During that time the conference officers will be elected for the year to come. The delegates to this meeting will be composed of such members as may be in attendance from any of our churches in the State. We shall be glad to see as large a representation as can possibly attend.

An effort will be made to dispose of the business in the early part of the meeting, so that as much attention as possible may be given to the spiritual needs of the people. Though we have enjoyed many rich blessings at our camp meetings in the past, yet we hope that this meeting will be better than any one held in preceding years.

A commendable effort is being made for the comfort of those who will be in attendance. We expect a number of laborers from abroad, who will be able to preach the word with power. We also believe that our own laborers in the State will do acceptable work.

The Northwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, the Wisconsin Central, and the Green Bay and Western railroads reach Grand Rapids. Let all who do not hold permits ask the ticket agent where tickets are purchased for a certificate, as one-third rate returning is secured for all who attend, provided they have secured the certificate from the agent, and have paid as much as fifty cents for the ticket. Wm. Covert.

Michigan, Take Notice!

By J. D. Gowell

THE annual session of the Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp meeting at Alma, Mich., August 25-31. The first meeting of the session, no providence preventing, will be called at 10:30 A. M., August 26. We trust that all the delegates will be present at the first meeting.

J. D. GOWELL, President.

Tents for the Kansas Camp Meeting

By C. McReynolds

IT is very important that all who attend the camp meeting at Junction City, Kan., should send in their orders for tents at once. If you want a good location, you should send in your orders. The tent will be pitched, and your name placed on it; and when you reach the camp ground, it will be ready for you to go into at once. State whether you want floor or not. Send your orders to N. B. Emerson, 821 W. Fifth St., Topeka, Kan. Please attend to this matter at the earliest possible moment.

C. McREYNOLDS.

Notice to Kansas Teachers

By C. McReynolds; B. E. Huffman

Not many of the Kansas teachers have had the advantage of the Summer Assembly at Berrien Springs, Mich., and in order that a few crumbs from this feast may be enjoyed by all, we desire that all who wish to teach church schools this year be present at a short institute which will be held at Junction City, Kan., August 28 to September 24. An examination will be given at the close, and certificates issued.

It is not our intention to make this so much a review of text-book knowledge, as to bring out methods of teaching the various subjects, making the Bible the basis. Every one who is successful in church-school work must understand these principles, and none should think of teaching without this knowledge. Prof. Floyd Bralliar will be present, and assist in the instruction, and Prof. E. A. Sutherland will be with us a part of the time. The conference will furnish tents free to the students during the institute, and reduced rates over the railroads may be obtained if application is made at once to Elder C. McReynolds, 821 W. Fifth St., Topeka, Kan. The time is rapidly drawing on, and those who wish to attend should write at once to the address given above, stating the place from which they wish to start, and the date. Let none forget this when making application for rates.

We solicit the earnest prayers of our brethren and sisters for the success of this work.

C. McREYNOLDS, Conference President,

B. E. HUFFMAN, Educational Secretary.

A Vacation Full of Health, Rest, and Enjoyment

To plan a summer vacation that shall bring the maximum of rest, health, and comfort, with the minimum of expense and discomfort, is not always easy. Fortunately, the opportunities for rest and recreation within the reach of all are becoming more numerous each year through the energetic efforts of some of the leading railway lines to make known the attractiveness of places somewhat remote from the “busy haunts of men.”

There is no region in the world which offers so many attractions to the vacationist who loves the untouched beauty of nature as can be found in that extensive tract in Canada known as the Muskoka Lakes District. This region, including within its boundaries more than eight hundred lakes and rivers, is situated in the northern part of Ontario, east of Georgian Bay and north of Lake Ontario. The point of embarkation for the trip on the Muskoka Lakes is one hundred and twelve miles from Toronto, and is reached by the Grand Trunk Railway.

The lakes in this vast region which stand out in more prominence than the others are the Muskoka Lakes, composed of three bodies of beautiful, clear water, their names being Lake Muskoka, Lake Rosseau, and Lake Joseph, all three being connected, and giving a continuous steamboat route of more than fifty miles. Being at an altitude of one thousand feet above the sea level, this region is peculiarly suited by the purity of the air to bring health and strength to those whose physical and mental natures have become exhausted through too close application to indoor work.

Rates at the hotels are unprecedentedly low, and the accommodations excellent.

For full information address G. T. Bell, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Grand Trunk Railway System, Montreal, Canada.

Calendar Supplement of Walla Walla College

By C. C. Lewis

A SUPPLEMENT to the annual calendar of Walla Walla College has just been issued, containing announcements in regard to a special course for Christian workers, the German department, the medical missionary department, the industrial department, and the normal department. Improvements have been made in all these departments, and every one who contemplates going away from home to school should read this supplement. Copies of both the calendar and the supplement may be obtained by addressing Walla Walla College, College Place, Wash.

C. C. Lewis, Pres.

Michigan, Attention!

By J. D. Gowell

We are manufacturing a goodly number of flies for our tents, and all persons desiring tents with flies to use at our State conference and camp meeting held at Alma, Mich., from August 25 to September 7, will please order in time so that we may have them ready for their use. Please order from R. E. Taylor, 271 Champion St., Battle Creek, Mich. J. D. GOWELL, President.

Missouri Conference

By J. M. Rees

THE twenty-seventh annual session of the Missouri Conference will be held in connection with the annual camp meeting at Boonville, Mo., August 13–25. Boonville is in the center of the State, on the Missouri River. One and one-third railroad fare on the certificate plan. Tickets will be on sale at all stations in Missouri, August 11–15.

J. M. REES, President.

Michigan Conference Association Annual Meeting at Alma

By J. D. Gowell

Notice

THE Michigan Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its annual meeting in connection with the conference at Alma, Mich., August 25-31. The first meeting of the association will be called at 5 P. M., Aug. 26, 1902.

J. D. GOWELL, President.

Publications Wanted

Wm. T. Dawson, 58 Mulberry St., Memphis, Tenn., Signs, Good Health, Life Boat, tracts.

L. A. Dow, Park St., Rockland, Me., REVIEW, Signs, Sentinel, Good Health, Instructor, Life Boat, Little Friend, tracts on Sabbath.

Wanted: Addresses of the Lamb Family

Addresses

THE addresses of Fred E. Lamb, Sister A. J. Lamb, and Grace Lamb are wanted by Minnie Hahn, church clerk, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They were last heard from in New York.

Obituaries: Torrey, Enoch, Lucas, and Worth

Obituaries

“I am the resurrection and the life.”—Jesus.

TORREY.— James Glenn, son of Brother and Sister John Torrey, was killed by a runaway team, near Pomeroy, Wash., July 9, 1902, aged 9 years, 20 days. His body was so badly mangled that he died in a few hours after the accident occurred. We believe we shall meet him in the first resurrection. MOSES HUNT.

ENOCH.— Died at Portland, Ore., May 31, 1902, Lilford Augustus Enoch, aged 17 years. Lilford had just finished the ministerial course at Walla Walla College, when he was taken with brain fever, as the result of overstudy and an attack of la grippe. He was brought to the Portland Sanitarium, but died soon after. He was an earnest Christian, and had consecrated his life to the Master’s work. His mourning relatives and friends are comforted to know that they may, if faithful, soon meet him again. MRS. H. ROGERS.

LUCAS.— Sister Maria G. Lucas attended Union College in 1892, was converted, and became an earnest Christian. In 1896 her health failed, also her mental faculties. She remained in this condition until death relieved her, at the age of 29. She had been a mental patient at the State Hospital, Yankton, S. D., for some time. She was removed to Elk Point, the home of her parents. The funeral was held July 24, 1902. By request the writer spoke from Rev. 14:13. J. H. ROGERS.

WORTH.— Died from drowning in the Calumet River, at Harvey, Ill., July 13, 1902, Ira R. Worth. He was born at Palmer, Ill., July 23, 1881. His father’s family accepted the truths of the third angel’s message in 1887, and he was well acquainted with its principles. Although the nature of his demise made it impossible for any one to converse with him during his last moments, yet we cherish the fond hope of meeting him in the first resurrection. He was highly esteemed by all his acquaintances and fellow workmen. He leaves a wife, a mother, three brothers, and four sisters to mourn his departure. Funeral exercises were conducted by Elder N. W. Kauble, speaking from 1 Peter 1:24, 25, after which the body was interred in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago. E. G. BENNETT.

Moon River

IN addition to the several publications issued by the Grand Trunk Railway System, for the information of tourists and travelers, regarding the many charming districts in the “Highlands of Ontario,” still another comes to hand, just off the press, entitled “Down the Moon River.” The Moon River is connected with the Muskoka Lakes, in fact, the outlet of this delightful water way, and empties into the Georgian Bay, after passing for several miles through some of the most beautiful scenery in that region. This little booklet is a description of the trip by canoe down the river, and is full of sound facts which will interest the tourist and angler. The illustrations give one an idea of the geological features and character of the country. A copy may be had for the asking by applying to Geo. W. Vaux, A. G. P. & T. A., G. T. Ry. Sys., 135 Adams St., Chicago.

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