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Review and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 26.

Life and Health
Earlier text: Western Oregon Conference and Camp-Meeting

The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund

By W. T. Bland

FURTHER partial list of the donations received on the Washington building fund at the General Conference office.
The donation of Sister M. L. Pence, which closes the list in last week’s REVIEW, was $50 instead of 50 cents as there reported.
Previously reported ........$12,410 89 C. M. Christianson ............ 100 00 Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Bisel ... 100 00 Geo. Smith .................... 100 00 John A. Clayton ............... 100 00 J. S. Hughes .................. 50 00 A. C. Woodbury ................ 50 00 Geo. M. Woodruff .............. 30 28 Sarepta Himes ................. 25 00 Olive P. Foster ............... 25 00 A friend ...................... 25 00 Frank Yeoman .................. 20 00 Miss Katie Weibrecht .......... 20 00 Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Nesmith ... 20 00 Lucie Dessain and family ..... 15 00 R. E. Bliss and Bertha Bliss . 15 00 Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Ayres ...... 15 00 Mary E. Woodruff .............. 15 00 L. E. Larson .................. 10 00 Hanna Johnson ................. 10 00 A friend ...................... 10 00 Mr. and Mrs. E. E. June ....... 10 00 G. H. Moses and family ........ 10 00 J. R. Bowles .................. 10 00 Hattie M. Bowles .............. 10 00 J. A. Garner .................. 10 00 Louise Burkhardt .............. 10 00 R. M. Clayton ................. 10 00 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bernsen ... 10 00 J. G. White ................... 10 00 Mrs. G. W. Bowers ............. 10 00 Mrs. Ellen Powelson ........... 10 00 Mrs. M. C. Crawford ........... 10 00 Peter Johnson ................. 10 00 B. F. Raley ................... 8 00 J. H. Behrens ................. 7 50 J. O. and T. F. Johnson ....... 8 00 C. H. Bauer ................... 5 50 Louisa Larson ................. 5 00 J. C. Bradley ................. 5 00 C. G. Miller .................. 5 00 Brother and Sister Eldridge .. 5 00 Edith Van Houten .............. 5 00 Czar and Emma Nicola .......... 5 00 Clyde L. Balkwill ............. 5 00 Wm. Lefevre ................... 5 00 Geo. M. Hicks ................. 5 00 Mrs. Frances Whittaker ........ 5 00 Rosa Kimpton .................. 5 00 M. L. Maddon .................. 5 00 Fred Nickel ................... 5 00 P. R. Crouse .................. 5 00 Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Neal ....... 5 00 Mrs. Maria Beach .............. 5 00 Ruth E. Fagan ................. 5 00 Rose Chaffin .................. 5 00 Don A. Knowlton ............... 5 00 A family ...................... 5 00 Horace Mann ................... 5 00
Total reported .................$14,430 17 A further list will follow.
W. T. BLAND, Assistant Treasurer.

Christian Education

By L. A. Hoops; Frederick Griggs

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.
L. A. HOOPS, Chairman; FREDERICK GRIGGS, Secretary.

Bethel Industrial Academy

By H. A. Washburn

We are glad to comply with the request for a short report for the year just closing. We should say, however, that while the school year is just closing in the schools generally, we are in the midst of our regular school work, the past year closing March 29, and the new year beginning March 30.
The past year has brought many encouraging experiences to us in this school. There have been a number of occasions when the Spirit of the Lord wrought in a remarkable way upon the hearts of our students, an unusual number being converted at one time. This spiritual refreshing seems to have dated from the beginning of a special interest in missionary work on the part of the teachers. For several weeks there were daily chapel studies on missionary work, the experiences of the pioneer workers in various lands, etc. As we approached the week of prayer, the interest deepened; prominence was given to the missionary idea during the week of prayer, and we saw results beyond those of any such previous occasion. This source of blessing has not been forgotten; and a daily class in mission study, with close touch by correspondence with missionaries in all parts of the world, is fanning the flame of missionary love and zeal.
In order that the present year might begin in the spring, the past year was necessarily three months shorter than usual. During this time a little over two hundred pupils were enrolled. The enrolment to the time of the usual close of school was about two hundred and twenty-five.
YOUNG WOMEN AT WORK IN THE GARDEN
YOUNG WOMEN AT WORK IN THE GARDEN
Our school year will hereafter begin the first of April, and coincide with the agricultural season, with a winter term for those who can not attend at other times. We have been led to this change by our endeavor to carry out the instruction we have received through the spirit of prophecy regarding our school work. We have found it impossible to make “study in agricultural lines the A, B, and C” of the work, when comparatively few of our students attend during the summer. At the time when the Lord opens his great living lesson book of nature, our students would begin to leave school, returning when the book was closing. Careful study led us to feel that the school year should be changed, and our people in Wisconsin gave their approval and support. A goodly attendance is being had, about one hundred and thirty pupils having been enrolled in less than two months.
Unusual blessing has been felt in our school work since we made the changes this spring. Our teachers never had more enthusiasm in their work, and the students have seemed to enjoy their school work more than in the past. New channels of thought have opened up, and new revelations of Christ have come to our school. All the work of the school is divided among the literary teachers, each having a department, but all working together. Fifteen acres of new land has been placed under cultivation this spring, and we have added nine thousand strawberry plants, two thousand raspberry plants, and eight thousand apple grafts to the fruit already growing. Not only are our young men engaged in this work, but practically all the lady students are occupied daily in the cultivation of vegetables, fruit, or flowers. The gospel lessons, as well as the science, associated with the art of tilling the soil and caring for the plants, make the work delightful. We are doubtless greatly aided in this by the fact that we are free from all city influences, shut in with nature, with only trees to be seen in every direction. While we are alone in the woods, we have much more of our Saviour's presence, and much less of evil. A blessed experience is being received by our precious youth. God is speaking to them, and they are hearing his voice. They are growing in experience, and developing character which will soon place them as strong workers in our Master's vineyard.
H. A. WASHBURN, Principal.

Advantages of the Country Schools Over Those in the City

By C. L. Stone

The importance of a thorough training of the youth has been dwelt upon by every educator. But to really accomplish the desired results, there must be practical use made of the facts and truths imparted to these awakening intellects. How can we become mathematical thinkers except the foundation for that thinking be laid in actual practise?
Taking the experiences of the country child, let us see what influences contribute to fix in his mind the truths and facts taught in school. The tables in denominate numbers are impressed upon his mind. How impossible it is to forget the size of a quart, a peck, or a bushel; for he filled many of them with berries while the hot sun beat down upon him. He measures the corn and oats for the stock; and all the dry products of the farm. When he measures the milk which he has milked from old Jersey, he readily discovers the difference between the dry and the liquid quart.
In ways almost innumerable he learns the table of long measure. A fence can not be built or reset, a row of corn can not be plowed or hoed, the truck patch can not be laid off, without new and lasting impressions being made of the units of measure. The eighty-acre farm is half a mile long. He knows that, and readily computes the distance to the nearest station. If there is a barn to be built, it is his duty to assist in preparing sills and rafter plates which run the entire length of the building. With what definiteness he thinks of thirty, forty, fifty, and their multiple in feet, after seeing the round log, under the untiring energy of his ax, become square, and under the auger and chisel fitted for its place in the building.
With what certainty can he speak of the weight of various farm products, especially those which are measured by the bushel. He rejoices in the strength that can place a sack of grain upon his shoulder and carry it to any desired place. How readily will he recall the weight of a bushel of the cobs in a bushel of corn; for has he not often seen the seventy pounds diminish very materially as he shelled and threw aside the cobs?
The table of square measure is not mere theory with him. With an air of business, he says, “We have out twenty-eight acres of wheat and thirty-two acres of corn. We sowed only eight acres of oats, for spring came so late.” The bins which hold the grain when garnered educate him to estimate the capacity and the volume of various-sized vessels.
Thus we notice that every practical line of measurement has been studied and used, so that the work done in the schoolroom supplements that on the farm. There are many relations he is slow to get because of their complexity, but the utility of it all appeals to him through the already awakened need.
The inestimable value of this constant touch with things—with life's realities—is not in any sense confined to mathematical thinking. The turtles, fishes, and snakes of the brook; the chipmunk that seeks safety in the hollow log; the red squirrel with which he races along the fence; the fox squirrel that shows naught but an eye behind the limb to which he has nimbly climbed,—all speak to him through their peculiar characteristics. Nor will we pass by the robin with its nest in the neighboring apple-tree; the bluebird that chose an old hollow stump for its home; the wren which selected the old boot lying overhead in the summer kitchen, that she might close the door to unwelcome visitors; and the kingfisher that tunneled fifteen feet into the bluff ere he felt secure. And as the king-bird flitted by, with what amusement did he hear the city cousin call it a robin; for him the striking characteristics were as distinct as were his mother's features.
Think you that he has no advantage when he enters upon class work in ornithology? We admit that studying the thing is inestimably above studying about the thing.
And what further shall we say? To what other illustrations should we go? If God has given us minds to comprehend and to retain some of the wonderful things of his own creating, and we are daily placed where we receive lasting impressions from them,—impressions that make us of use in this world, as well as give us a more comprehensive view of him,—shall we longer hesitate as to results? True, there is a development in the city child that is perceptibly in the advance. That is in a social way. However, psychologists tell us that this constant nerving up to meet some class of humanity at every turn of life, brings with it unnatural development in the entire system. The precocious youth would be far better prepared to perform life's duties had his surroundings been natural.
As we leave the subject, it is with a prayer that every teacher may view the question candidly and without prejudice; that every parent may be led to choose the natural in place of the artificial in education; and that every Seventh-day Adventist child may be given an opportunity to become a stable, energetic, and thoroughly furnished worker in the cause of God.— C. L. Stone, in Teachers' Conference Bulletin.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By Editor

Camp-Meetings for 1904

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Eastern Pennsylvania ................. Maine New York Southern New England Vermont, Hardwick .......... Aug. 18-23 Virginia, Stanleyton .......... Aug. 5-14 West Virginia ................. Sept. 8-18

CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE

Maritime Quebec

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Alabama, Mobile .......... July 28 to Aug. 8 Cumberland, Winchester, Ky. ..... July 7-18 Florida, Plant City .......... Oct. 13-23 Georgia Louisiana, near Shreveport, July 28 to Aug. 7 Mississippi North Carolina, Statesville ........ July 29- South Carolina ................ Tennessee River .......... August 19-28

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

East Michigan ................. Indiana, Martinsville .......... Aug. 18-29 Northern Illinois, Wheaton ....... North Michigan ................. Sept. 1-12 Ohio, Marysville ................. Aug. 11-22 Southern Illinois ............... Aug. 17-28 West Michigan ................. Wisconsin, Oshkosh ...... Aug. 30 to Sept. 12

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Alberta, Ponoka ................. July 12-17 North Dakota (local), Devils Lake .. July 6-11

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Colorado, Longmont .......... Aug. 18-28 Kansas, Wichita .......... Aug. 25 to Sept. 4 Missouri .......... Aug. 11-21 Nebraska (State), Omaha ........ Sept. 2-12

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Arkansas, Russellville, Pope Co. .... Aug. 11-23 Oklahoma, Guthrie ........ Aug. 25 to Sept. 4 Texas, Keene ........ July 27 to Aug. 7 Texas, Hughes Springs (local) .... Aug. 16-26

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

British Columbia ......... Last of September Southern California, Los Angeles .. Sept. 1-11 Utah, Provo ........ Aug. 10-17

UPPER COLUMBIA CONFERENCE

Southern Idaho ................. Sept. 12-18 Oregon, La Grande ........ Aug. 30 to Sept. 4 Washington, North Yakima ...... July 19-24
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.

Current Mention

— Peace has been restored between the government and the insurgents in Santo Domingo.
— Paterson, N. J., sustained a loss of $500,000 by a fire which destroyed a lumber plant and several silk mills, June 22.
— Recent telegraphic advices received at Mexico City show that there is danger of war between the republics of Salvador and Guatemala, and that the troops of the two countries are marching to the border region. There are also reports of a coming revolution in Honduras.
— Secretary-of-State Hay sent a demand on the sultan of Morocco, June 22, that the captive American held by the bandit Raisouli must be delivered alive, or that Raisouli must be delivered dead. The release of the captives followed immediately.
— The Tibetans continue to oppose the most strenuous resistance of which they are capable to the British advance toward Lhassa, but it is the intention of Great Britain to force the expedition steadily forward to this point. The Tibetans have placed about 20,000 men in the field against the British.
— The three-year-old boy of J. W. Wilson, of Richmond, Va., was “given a little toddy while sick,” says a Richmond dispatch of June 22. “He liked the taste, and in the absence of his parents from the room, got the bottle from the mantelpiece and drank a gill of pure liquor. It was found impossible to revive him.”
— It is announced that United States currency is to be legal tender in the new Panama republic. In the canal zone, which will be under the control of the United States, Panama currency is to be legal tender. A gold dollar of the same value as that of the United States is to be the standard of value in the Panama currency system, and the issue of fractional silver currency is also provided for.
— A table of distances on the Russian Transsiberian Railway gives the following figures: St. Petersburg to Irkutsk, 3,778 miles; St. Petersburg to Vladivostock, 5,707 miles; St. Petersburg to Port Arthur, 5,823 miles; St. Petersburg to Peking, 6,146 miles; Irkutsk to Vladivostock, 1,929 miles; Irkutsk to Port Arthur, 2,045 miles; St. Petersburg to Moscow, 604 miles; Moscow to Samara, 682 miles; Moscow to Cheliabinsk, 2,065 miles; Moscow to Omsk, 1,874.
— A Russian force of 8,000 men was surprised in a ravine near Kai-chou by a Japanese force, June 21, and lost 1,200 men. Fighting of a minor character between the outposts of the armies of Generals Kuroki and Kuropatkin is almost continuous. The Japanese armies led by Generals Kuroki and Oku are endeavoring to effect a junction. A third Japanese army is to operate against Port Arthur. Reports of a naval battle at Port Arthur, June 23, state that several Russian ships were sunk or disabled. The Russian ships were attempting to escape from Port Arthur southward.
— A report made by Dr. H. W. Wiley, of the Agricultural Department on the basis of experiments made by the “poison squad” which have under his directions been eating food adulterated with commonly used preservatives, states that such preservatives are undoubtedly harmful to the human system. Among the most common of such preservatives are borax and boracic acid. The principal effect noted on the men of the “poison squad” was that they lost weight.

Appointment of Delegates

By C. McREYNOLDS

KANSAS churches will please take notice that their delegates to the State conference should be appointed at the coming quarterly meeting. The conference will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Wichita, and it is desired that all delegates be appointed, and their names be sent to the conference secretary, Florence P. Rice, 821 W. Fifth St., Topeka, Kan.
Each church is entitled to one delegate regardless of its size, and one additional delegate for each fifteen members; that is, a church of fifteen members should send two delegates; one with thirty members should send three. We hope to see representatives also from every unorganized company in the State.
C. McREYNOLDS, Conference President.

True Education and the Eden School

“UNDER changed conditions, true education is still conformed to the Creator’s plan, the plan of the Eden school.”

World's Fair Home

It will be of interest to those who contemplate a visit to the World's Fair at St. Louis, to know that the Central Union Conference has provided, in connection with its Home for Missionary Workers, for the entertainment of our people.
It will be necessary for those who wish these accommodations to correspond before coming with A. D. Gilbert, corner Blanche and Belleview Avenues, Ellendale Sta., St. Louis, Mo. For those who make arrangements beforehand, the following moderate rates will be charged:— Lodging, one night only, each person, half a bed ...................... $ .75 Lodgings per night, more than one night ........................... .50 Breakfast, when ordered ........... .25 Dinner, when ordered .............. .35 All charges payable in advance.
These charges are made with the understanding that each occupant will care for his own room. Those who can do so are requested to bring towels. The Home being a training-school for missionary workers, all will be privileged to gain some valuable experience in this line of work. Write to the address given above for information as to how to reach the Home.
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE COM.

Obituaries

POLLARD.— Died at Wenas, Wash., of membranous croup, Lawrence, son of J. N. and May Pollard, March 13, 1904, aged 4 years, 8 months, and 4 days. The tender memory of this child's love for Bible stories, and his questions about the soon coming of Jesus, strengthen the faith and brighten the hope of the parents. J. G. SMITH.
OGDEN.— Died at the home of her daughter, in Arcadia, Mich., May 15, 1904, Sister Lorinda M. Ogden, in her seventieth year. Sister Ogden is the last but one of the charter members of the Seventh-day Adventist church of Ithaca, Mich. The bright hope centered in the morning of the resurrection sustained her in all her trials, and grew brighter until the end. She is survived by four children, three daughters and one son. The funeral services were conducted by Elder Wm. Ostrander at the Seventh-day Adventist church of Ithaca, Mich. H. A. FENNER.
MILLS.— Died near Prairieton, Ind., Sept. 21, 1903, of typhoid and pneumonia, Omer Leroy Mills, aged 14 years, 1 month, and 2 days. Leroy bore his sickness with great patience, and in a conversation with his grandmother the day before his death he expressed his desire for a home in heaven. We mourn not as those who have no hope. Words of comfort were spoken by Brother Steel. ROWENA J. MILLS.
BROWN.— Died at his home in North Kingston, R. I., April 6, 1904, my beloved husband, John G. Brown, in his eighty-first year. His trust was in Jesus, and he loved and longed for his appearing. His health had been failing for two years. On the evening of April 6, after spending a while in prayer, as had been his custom for many years, he retired, and soon fell asleep to awake no more until the last loud trump. MRS. S. P. BROWN.
BUNT.— Died at La Grange, Ohio, June 12, 1904, of tuberculosis, Brother G. W. Bunt, aged 39 years, 5 months, and 25 days. Brother Bunt became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1897, having previously belonged to the M. E. Church. He was a humble man, and possessed an affectionate, generous nature. For two years he served his church as deacon. His cheerful testimony will be missed by all who were associated with him in church capacity. A wife, a father, a mother, and a brother are left to mourn their loss. Funeral services were conducted by the writer; text, Job 19:21. CHAS. A. MERRIAM.
COGSWELL.— Died at his old home near Tuscola, Mich., May 3, 1904, our father, Joseph C. Cogswell, in his eighty-fifth year. He was born in New Hampshire, Feb. 29, 1820, and came here in 1856. At the age of eleven he was converted and baptized, and later accepted present truth during the preaching of Elders Van Horn and Canright at this place. From that time he continued to be of those who “keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” His peaceful death came as a welcome relief to him. He leaves one daughter and two sons to mourn their loss. Comforting words were spoken by Elder William Ostrander, from Job 14:14. F. W. COGSWELL.
HORNER.— Died at Spencer, Iowa, June 8, 1904, Mrs. Mary D. Horner, aged 80 years and 12 days. The deceased was born at Amboy, Oswego County, N. Y., where she lived the greater part of her life. In 1852 she was married to John Horner, and in 1884 they came to Iowa. Mrs. Horner lived for a time with her daughter, Mrs. A. Hilliard, spending four years in Mitchell, S. D., and six at Battle Creek, Mich., and Toledo, Ohio, returning to Iowa in 1901. Although a cripple most of her life, she belonged to the sturdy class of pioneers that have builded the nation. Funeral services were conducted by the writer, assisted by the Methodist pastor and Brother A. D. Westcott. E. G. OLSEN.
MALLORNEY.— Died at Sanitarium, Cal., June 9, 1904, Pearl D. Mallorney, née Breed, aged 21 years, 7 months, and 8 days. She went to Battle Creek, Mich., when sixteen years of age, and connected with the work of the Sanitarium Food Company. Two years later she was united in marriage to Verner J. Mallorney. Together they came to the Pacific Coast, locating first at Los Angeles, but later coming to Sanitarium. Her health gradually failed during the last year, but her condition was not considered serious by herself and husband until about one month before her death, when she was placed under the immediate care of the sanitarium physicians. The cause of death was tubercular peritonitis. She seemed perfectly resigned to the will of God, and died with an unusually bright hope. Her last words were those of prayer. Interment took place at St. Helena, Cal. C. L. TAYLOR.

The Union College Year Book

By Editor

THE Union College Year Book will soon be ready. It will contain the usual information concerning facilities, plan of work, courses of study, expenses, etc., which will be of interest to those who think of attending school the coming year. Our German, Swedish, and Danish-Norwegian people will be especially interested in the description and courses of study of the Bible school, conducted in each of these languages, for the training of gospel workers, because these are the only schools of the kind in the United States. All who are watching the working out of the educational problems of the denomination will want to study the announcement of new plans (a) for industrial classes, (b) for promoting self-government among students, (c) for adapting the courses of study to the training of laborers for the missionary department of the third angel's message, (d) for the conduct of the college homes, etc.
Union College is the only school in the denomination that still offers courses leading to degrees. Many will want to see what these courses are. Let all who wish copies of the new Year Book address at once the President of Union College, College View, Neb.

Notice to Kansas Churches

By C. McREYNOLDS

We have called through our conference paper for those whose church deeds are made to the General Conference Association, but have never been sent to that association, to send their deeds to us, to 821 West Fifth St., Topeka, at once, so we could see to having the titles transferred to the Kansas Conference Association. Some have responded, and some have not been heard from. We desire to have these all sent in, so that the business may all be done at once. It is necessary to attend to this immediately, since the General Conference Corporation of Washington, D. C., has been formed, and the General Conference Association of Battle Creek, Mich., will cease to exist as soon as its business can be closed out. Will our church officers look after this matter at once? Those who deeded their property to the General Conference Association, and sent the deeds to the office in Battle Creek, do not need to look after the matter further, provided their deeds are recorded in their county records. But some have deeded their property to the General Conference Association, and have not sent the deed to the association. Now if they do not attend to this before said association becomes null, it will be much trouble to give a title if the property should ever be sold. We have forty church buildings in the State, and the Kansas Conference Association holds the titles to only twenty-one of these. Some are still held by trustees, but we are sure that some have been made over to the General Conference Association, and have not been sent in; hence they have not been transferred to the Kansas Conference Association. Please attend to this matter now.
C. McREYNOLDS, Pres. Kan. Conference.

Business Notices

BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A charge of one dollar for one insertion of six lines, or less, and of twenty cents for every line over six, will be made, though in the case of the poor who wish employment, the charge may be remitted. Persons unknown to the managers of the publishing house must furnish good references.
WANTED.—A competent cook prepared to plan bills of fare and to do the cooking for a hygienic restaurant. Address Hygienic Dining Rooms, 1209 G St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
WANTED.—Twenty-five able-bodied men to peel bark and cut logs; will pay good wages; steady work for one year. Address Wm. Holiday and George Cowell, Spencer, Mich.
FOR SALE OR RENT.—Good business composed of $2,000 stock general merchandise reduced to $1,000, room for $5,000 stock, good two-story store building, potato cellar, store-room for agricultural implements, etc., flowing wells in butter room, large A No. 1 garden, bearing orchard, 200 acres pasture land, good water, with barns, located on P. M. Railroad, one block from freight office, three blocks from Cedar Lake Industrial Academy. Cash for stock, rest on reasonable terms. Reason for selling, closing out to attend medical school. Apply to I. M. Collins, Cedar Lake, Mich., or A. E. Pearce, Bay City, Mich.
Save the Boys is receiving commendations from North, South, East, and West, with many a “God bless you in your noble efforts to help the boys.” The publisher proposes to issue a special number, not many months hence, devoted to the question of beer drinking. It will contain testimonials of eminent physicians as to the dangerous character of that common beverage. This effort should receive a hearty support by all who love the Lord Jesus Christ, in the circulation of tens of thousands. Price, 5 cents, single copy; ten or more to one address, 3 cents each; in lots of fifty or more, 2½ cents each. Order now. Address, Save the Boys, 118 W. Minnehaha Boulevard, Minneapolis, Minn.
(State papers, kindly copy.)

The Camp-Meeting Season

By Editor

The camp-meeting season is again here, and several of these important yearly convocations have already been held, while others are now in progress. We earnestly hope that these gatherings may be seasons of great spiritual blessing to the believers in this message, and that thousands of others may learn of this truth through this agency during the coming summer. The swiftly passing years emphasize the nearness of the end and the shortness of the time remaining in which to give the final warning. A holy enthusiasm ought to burn in every soul, and consecrated wisdom ought to inspire every plan for reaching the great multitude of unsaved souls who are in ignorance concerning the great crisis just before us. Let the aim of each meeting be to declare the message with clearness,—the message of preparation for those things which are soon to come.

Testimonial for “The Desire of Ages”

THOSE who are canvassing for “The Desire of Ages” will be glad to secure the following recommendation of the book from one who is so well known as Dr. Lyman Abbott. It was secured by Brother J. L. McGee:—
UNIVERSITY CLUB, SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 1904.
I have examined with much care “The Desire of Ages.” It is the story of the life of Christ, woven out of a comparative study of the four Gospels. Their historical truthfulness is taken for granted. Critical and theological discussions are avoided; the simple truths of the spiritual life which they illustrate are expounded and enforced. The writing is notably free from sensationalism, sentimentalism, and exuberant rhetoric. The spirit is admirable.
The book is a fine specimen, mechanically, of book-making. The illustrations are good, and the series will not only be serviceable to those who read them, by giving a connected life of Jesus Christ, and interpreting it as the life of the Saviour of the world, but will attract to its perusal those who would be repelled by a scholastic and dogmatic treatment.
LYMAN ABBOTT.

Our Paradise Home

IN a book of one hundred and twenty-eight pages, containing seventeen short chapters, Elder S. H. Lane treats upon that hope-inspiring subject, “Our Paradise Home.” The chapter headings will indicate the general line of thought. They are as follows: “Sin Permitted;” “The Fall of Satan;” “The Purchased Kingdom;” “The Three Worlds;” “Redemption of the World Promised;” “The Two Kingdoms;” “The Two Jerusalems;” “The Three Heavens;” “Events Introducing the Restitution;” “The Earnest of the Holy Spirit;” “A Glimpse of the Future Kingdom;” “The Rest That Remaineth;” “The Events of the Millennium;” “The Judgment;” “The Two Resurrections;” “Description of the Kingdom of Glory;” “The New Jerusalem.” Thus the reader is carried from paradise lost to paradise restored, and the gospel of the restoration of all things is made the basis of hope. The theme is a glorious one, and the precious truth in this new setting ought to comfort believers, and awaken an interest in the minds of the careless. Many thousands of this book have already been sold, and the demand is constant. It can be obtained through the usual channels.

Washington, D. C

By J. S. Washburn

THE work of laying the foundations for the school buildings is progressing rapidly, and we are in great need of from $10,000 to $20,000 during the next two weeks. We thank God there is indeed a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees. We are receiving many letters of thrilling interest. I will quote a few extracts from a letter written May 6 by one of our sisters who is canvassing in Oklahoma:—
I shall do all I can in securing pledges for the fund for Washington. However, I feel my weakness, but God's arm is strong, and never tires. . . . There are many who will not have another opportunity like the present one to invest their money in God's work. My means are limited, but I can pray. This fund will be raised, and those who help in this call will realize a blessing. I know this is God's plan; and I know Satan's banner waves high in Washington. The hosts of darkness are noting every move that is made to raise the standard of truth. There is need of much power from on high, to continue with the work there. . . . We have no time to lose. I am impressed with the fact that we are on the eve of such troubles as this world has never seen. The work demands haste. Every nerve and muscle should be on the stretch. The young need to be solemnized, and fitted for the sacred work. The training-school will be a success. Many will be fitted quickly for service. I will do what I can, and send the pledges in. May the everlasting Father guide and uphold all who are at the head of the work in Washington.
Let all unite heartily in this good work.
J. S. WASHBURN.

The Midsummer Offering

REMEMBER the midsummer offering, Sabbath, July 2.

Interesting Matter About Life and Health

INTERESTING matter relating to the health magazine, Life and Health, will be found on the second page.

Encouraging Reports from Distant Fields

IN an article on page six Brother A. G. Daniells presents some encouraging information concerning the results in the distant fields. It furnishes a good basis for intelligent giving to our mission work, and might profitably be read in the churches on Sabbath, July 2.

Goodrich and Reavis Visit Washington

ELDER H. C. GOODRICH, whose former home was in Michigan, but who has been laboring in Central America for the past four years, and Brother D. W. Reavis, who has been connected with the Department of Circulation of the Review and Herald at Battle Creek, Mich., for several years, spent a few days in Washington last week.

Dr. G. H. Heald

DR. G. H. HEALD and family arrived in Washington from California on Monday of last week. Dr. Heald is called to this city by the transfer to the Review and Herald Publishing Association of the Pacific Health Journal, of which he has been the editor. He will continue his editorial work with the magazine under its new name, Life and Health.

Academy Catalogues Received

WE have received the annual catalogues of South Lancaster Academy (Prof. Frederick Griggs, principal), and of Mount Vernon Academy (Prof. J. W. Loughhead, principal). Both of these catalogues are very neat in appearance, and give full information concerning the institutions which they represent. Those who may desire a copy of either catalogue can procure it by applying to the principal.

Words of Faith, Hope, and Love

“WORDS OF Faith, Hope, and Love,” is the title of a pamphlet of twenty-six pages and cover, filled with brief articles and poems written and selected by W. E. and M. J. Haskell. The authors send it forth “with the prayer that it may help to bring into some hearts and homes that abiding faith, hope, and love.” We regret that carelessness on the part of the printer has greatly marred the appearance of the pamphlet. The price is ten cents, and it can be obtained of W. E. Haskell, Dayton, Tenn.
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