QUITE a number of the old pioneers in the work came from the State of Maine. Among these were Elder James White, Mrs. E. G. White, and Elder J. N. Andrews.
In Portland, Maine, Elder Calvin Augustus Washburn was born Oct. 25, 1834. He died at the Iowa Sanitarium, Des Moines, Iowa, at 5 A. M., Sabbath, Aug. 5, 1905, at the age of seventy years, nine months, and ten days.
His father and mother were originally members of the Methodist Church, but were in the first advent movement, and were among those who believed with all their hearts that the Lord would appear the second time in his glory on the twenty-second of October, 1844. My father well remembered that day, and has often spoken to me of his own child-like, simple faith, and of his great disappointment.
At the age of eighteen, with other members of his father's family, he began to keep the Sabbath when there were but few Seventh-day Adventists in all the world. In 1856 he left his father's home and family in Maine, and moved to Allamakee County, Iowa, where he was for many years a member of the old Waukon church.
My father loved all living creatures. It was his delight to till the soil. He was a natural farmer. This occupation, combined with teaching in the public schools during the winter, he followed until, at the age of forty, he began his work as a minister with Elder J. H. Morrison, who had the sad privilege of preaching the funeral sermon of his former collaborer in the work of proclaiming the third angel's message.
The family home was at Waukon until the year 1875, when it was removed to the State of Maine for one year. Since returning to Iowa in November, 1876, Mt. Pleasant has been the family home, and my father's ministerial labors have been in connection with the work in Iowa since that time. He has been closely connected with the conference work, having been for many years a member of the conference committee, holding this position at the time of his death, and being actively engaged in tent labor when attacked by his fatal illness.
He had been a man of robust and vigorous health. In fact, I do not know that he was ever seriously sick until this last illness, which was apparently the same as that which recently removed another pioneer in the work, Elder D. T. Bourdieu. The immediate cause of his death was gall-stones, but a post-mortem examination revealed the fact that a cancer was developing in the liver, which, had he lived long, would have filled his closing days with suffering.
Everything in the way of medical and surgical help was given to prolong his valued life. He fell asleep quietly, and apparently without realizing but that he should live longer, fully expecting on recovery to find needed rest with his son, Dr. F. A. Washburn, of Boulder, Colo.
My father regarded death as an enemy, but we know that he was always ready to die, and did not need to make special preparation, and we feel truly to say, in the words of the beloved John, “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. . . . Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.” Sudden and great as the shock to his family and to his fellow laborers has been, we feel it is well, and we say truly from the heart, “God’s will is best; God’s will be done.”
Jan. 1, 1861, Elder C. A. Washburn was united in marriage to Mary A. Butler, a sister of George I. Butler. Six children were born, five of whom are still living. The next to the youngest daughter, Grace, sleeps on the island of Grand Cayman, where, at the age of twenty, she died of yellow fever at Christmas in the year 1897, while on a journey with her husband as missionary teachers to the Bay Islands. This first sudden break in our hitherto complete family circle was a great shock to my father, one from which I think he never thoroughly recovered.
ELDER C. A. WASHBURN
The remaining members of the family had the sad privilege of a complete reunion at father's funeral, which was held in the Mt. Pleasant church, Monday afternoon, August 7. Words of true comfort were spoken by Elder J. H. Morrison, from whom I will quote:—
“Little did I think when I was here the last time at this church, that my next visit would be brought about by the sad event, the death of my good brother and lifelong friend and co-laborer, Calvin Washburn. With me he began his labor in the ministry. About thirty-two years ago we were engaged in our first series of meetings in the tent. I was standing by his side when he was passing through that trying ordeal that usually tries the hearts and the courage and the faith of beginners in the work. The circumstances revealed to me at once something of his latent powers, high ideals, broad humanity, and purity of character; and as such he was a source of inspiration to me, and I always felt that I was bettered by his association. His convictions settled, his mind intently fixed on giving the light of truth to others, with cheerful courage he discharged his duties not only as a minister, but as a husband, father, friend. In him I saw a noble soul striving for a higher life, one who is not at the mercy of circumstances that would easily depress or elate, sad to-day because things are troublesome, joyful to-morrow because things are pleasant. If trouble did come, he thought of that world where there is no sorrow. If friends or possessions were lost, he thought of that wealth and life of the faithful. So he was not simply joyful over success or miserable over failure, but seemed always balanced, strong, composed, just, suave yet firm, gentle yet dauntless, warm-hearted yet deliberate, confident yet without egotism, and equipped with large experience, yet a man of the greatest caution, true to his convictions, true to himself and his God, and false to no man.”
“Nothing attracts our attention more than the sepulchral home of our honored dead, as we move through her cold, damp aisles, and stand amid her pathetic monuments. O how the history of the past comes and lifts the gates of memory, and opens a passage through the windings and the intricate mazes of life! Then my imagination begins at once to rebuild the crumbled home of my childhood and youth, and to repeople it with known and familiar friends until they stand before me living as of old. But I dare not gaze on the scene, for in a moment all will change, and it will appear as with a cloud settled upon her glory, and her magnificence faded and gone. Why should I hope for a long life amid the wreck and ruin of all that I have loved? I would choose rather to pass on with the long procession to the last resting-place than to remain alone beneath the sorrow and afflictions that beset us on every hand.”
“To the Christian, Jesus comes as the unspeakable gift. His face, beaming with a joyous radiance, lights up all the dark future. His resurrection fixes in our sky a star of hope that never shall be dimmed.”
From a letter of sympathy recently written to my mother, by Elder George I. Butler, I quote a few words:—
“My heart was made very sad half an hour ago by a telegram announcing Calvin’s death. Your family has been spared such severe afflictions until the death of Grace, and now the stalwart, strong father is laid low. He has always seemed near to me. We were intimately acquainted. He was strictly honest and upright to a fault; truthful to the core; always kind and tender to the erring, and never exacting; always ready to go more than half way for peace; sensible; strictly pure and conscientious in his religion; staunch and true for what he thought was right; faithful to his children to bring them up to respect right principles, yet a tender, kind father and husband. He was an honor to the good old manly, conscientious Maine stock from which he came. Like the granite rocks amid which he was reared, he knew no human fear, nor could he be turned aside from his honest convictions. He was a man of excellent judgment. This is my judgment of him after many an experience20with him. He will be missed by many a circle in Iowa.
“How blessed is the Christian’s hope at such a time as this! Poor Hobbs, the noted infidel of a past generation, as he stood upon the ragged edge of the awful precipice separating the transient present from the eternal future age, could but say, as he stood trembling on the brink, ‘It is a leap in the dark.’ Think of the expression and the sadness of it—standing in the blackness of midnight upon the edge of the chasm, and springing off into the unknown, no pilot, no light, no hope! And is that the end of life? Turn to the blessed apostle, and note the difference: ‘I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.’ Precious words! It will not be long until the dear ones will ‘meet ne’er to sever.’”
Father was quiet and retiring, in honor preferring others, willing that they rather than himself should stand in honored positions or do work which might bring praise. Calm, deliberate, not emotional, yet when the depths of his deep, still nature were stirred, when the cause of God was at stake in a crisis, I have seen him moved to such eloquence that all was swept before it. A man not given to extremes, pursuing the even tenor of his way unmoved by censure or praise, stern and firm in his convictions, he believed in the word “duty.” This he followed without fear. When others around him were carried first to one extreme and then to another, he pursued his even, quiet way. Many times when it seemed as if he were not keeping up with the “advanced light,” it was found in the end that his cool, calm judgment was right. He hated all that was crooked. He cared not for surface work. He loved righteousness. Always ready to acknowledge a mistake or a fault, expecting, demanding justice and right from others, yet he was always ready to forgive a wrong. Physically and morally he was without fear.
Thus has passed away another pioneer, one of the generation of whom Jesus said, “This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.” He was one of those present at the meeting in 1856 in Battle Creek, when it was stated that there were those present who would die, and others who would live to see the end. He had fully expected to be among those who would live to see the Lord come in power and great glory.
Though startled by his sudden death, yet we believe that he who knows how terrible is the storm just before us has permitted the tired, true soldier who fell at his post to rest for a little time until the first resurrection. Then we shall see him strong again in the vigor of immortal youth. Hasten, blessed day! Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.
J. S. WASHBURN.
What a Paper Did
By H. H. Hall
WHILE at the conference I had a talk with Brother W. C. Sisley, manager of the International Tract Society, London, during which he told me the following story:—
“An agent who was somewhat discouraged, but who was selling the Present Truth, accosted a gentleman who he soon found was interested in the coming of the Lord. After purchasing a paper, he learned from the agent that tracts could be secured on the same subject. The result was he ordered fifty thousand copies of a pithy leaflet on the Sabbath question, and hired the agent from whom he had received the paper to circulate them for him. Afterward he ordered fifty thousand more tracts treating on the subjects of the Sabbath and the Second Coming of Christ. He also hired these distributed by the same agent.
“One of these leaflets was put through the door of a house where lived a man who had become somewhat interested in our principles through reading our literature. The leaflet so fully convinced him of the truth of our message that he in turn ordered fifty thousand copies of another tract, and hired a regular commercial agency to circulate them for him. Both of these gentlemen are now fully in the truth.”
So we see what a bountiful harvest a small sowing will sometimes bring forth.
H. H. HALL.
The Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute
By M. Bessie DeGraw
A few weeks ago I was in one of the most interesting homes it has ever been my lot to visit. In one of Tennessee's cities I was introduced to the father of this family, and he invited me to drive with him and his wife that evening to their home in the country.
At the appointed hour I found the carriage waiting, and we drove out into the hills. Farther and farther we went along the winding road at set of sun, through oak groves, ever climbing higher and higher. Just as it was growing dark, I found myself in a four-room cottage in a valley, hidden from view by the surrounding trees. It was not the place that impressed me, for that was very simple, and many a mother and daughter who read this would shrink from adding visitors to a family of nine in such small quarters. But none of that spirit was here.
Of children there are six,—the oldest a girl of thirteen, the youngest a babe of a few months. The father is in ill health, and maintains his business only through the relief and relaxation afforded in this quiet retreat.
Worship that night made me think of heaven. The eleven of us gathered in the sitting-room. The mother sat at the piano. Various hymns were called for by the children, and such melody one seldom hears. The hymns were familiar, and books were unnecessary. Everybody sang because everybody was happy, from the mother, who had spent the day in the city with baby and three other children, to the three-year-old Esther, who was fondly styled “queen.”
Angels undoubtedly joined in those songs. I could scarcely keep back the tears as I watched and listened. And after the Scripture was read,—it was the Sabbath-school lesson that was studied,—we knelt in prayer, and even that little three-year-old queen, who was kneeling by my side, offered prayer. The quiet, simple faith of that family living in that secluded spot; that father and mother united in bringing up their family to be servants of our God,—what more beautiful sight in earth or heaven?
I found one secret of that family's happiness. Only a few steps from the cottage was a little log schoolhouse, and there, day by day, that mother teaches her children and the children from other homes in the neighborhood. In that little home school I found the Bible, Bible readers, Dr. Kellogg's physiology, and other familiar text-books. The mother is anxious for help; she would like to have some young woman, some consecrated teacher, work with her, so that home duties and gardening may be made a part of the daily training.
How many such homes there should be in this South land! How many devoted teachers we need to step into such homes to supplement the mother's work; and then think of the still greater number of homes where no effort is made to teach the children. How many neglected children in these States to whom we should lend a hand! I thought of these things, and came home filled with a new courage concerning our own school, which is now only in its infancy. My brief visit opened my eyes anew to the needs about me, and gave me a fresh glimpse of God's reason for leading us to Nashville to establish a school. I felt more eager than ever to see young men and women fitted to stand alone where great strength of character is needed. I want to see them true to the third angel's message, loyal to the truth that God taught Israel and is teaching us to-day, that every man should have a plot of ground, and from that should be able to support himself. I long to see them so loyal to the principles of healthful diet that they can carry that part of the message to people in the cities who are slaves to appetite, and people in the mountain districts who have seen but faintly if at all, the light of this truth. Health of body, health of mind and soul, is the thing for which they cry, and it is the mission of the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute to prepare for this work.
We have been on the farm less than one year. These months have been filled with lessons for us. The great question of labor confronts us. The dignity of manual labor is faintly recognized. Most schools have emphasized mental culture to the neglect of the physical, and the results are seen all about us. The whole social problem centers in this. Shall we have a school which meets the situation fairly and without any compromise?
It is a time when God is pointing men to the South. He says, “Behold the needs!” Are there young men who want to become workers here? The Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute can give employment to a number who may want to work now and lay up a credit on school expenses. The work will be on the farm and in the building department. Several cottages should be built before the opening of the fall term, and we would be glad to hear from young men who wish to enter the Southern field. The problems I have mentioned are the problems such will have to meet.
We would be glad to correspond with any who feel drawn in this direction, and to them particulars will be given. Such ones may address E. A. Sutherland, Madison, Tenn.
M. BESSIE DEGRAW.
The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund
By I. H. Evans
Churches in France ........ $ 93 40
Pacific Press Publishing Co. (Kansas City Branch) .... 65 33
Central Union Conference .. 62 25
N. O. Swadla .............. 50 00
Herman Langenberg ......... 50 00
John M. Estes ............. 30 00
John F. Franks ............ 25 00
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Goodrich (Honduras) ............ 25 00
Mrs. Mary F. Strong ....... 25 00
William Clegg (South Africa) ...................... 24 35
Henry Kuhne ............... 20 00
Mrs. Ella Cornell ......... 15 44
M. I. Lewis (Australia) ... 14 61
Columbus (Ohio) church ... 14 50
A. G. Westphal ............ 10 00
S. Martinson .............. 10 00
M. Street church .......... 10 00
Mrs. C. E. Glover ......... 10 00
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Waters . 10 00
Mrs. M. L. Rockwood ....... 10 00
Mrs. Ellen Peterson ....... 10 00
Brother and Sister Morris (Australia) .............. 9 74
Norwalk (Ohio) church ..... 6 20
Kingston (Jamaica) church . 5 23
March Town (Jamaica) church ......................... 5 11
FIVE DOLLARS EACH
Washington G. Brallier, G. H. Matthews, Mrs. H. L. Merrion, S. M. Winkley, Salamanca (N. Y.) church, William Patterson, Mrs. P. A. Parker, Theodore Doty, R. Eason, Samuel Booth, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Wellman (Trinidad), a friend, Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Warren, Mrs. H. A. Vanderburg, W. C. Rahn, J. A. Crary, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carr, Mrs. H. S. Fasig, N. Carey, C. D. Mentzel, P. B. Chambers, Amelia Webster, Elsie A. Brown, L. E. Vise, J. B. and T. N. Gallion, a friend.
FOUR DOLLARS EACH
Mrs. A. M. Hand, F. F. Hall, Mrs. J. M. Peck, E. A. Blodgett, Ferndale (Cal.) church, Annie Evans.
An isolated Sabbath-keeper, $3.25; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Soper, $3; Mrs. Crown, $.51; Mrs. Una Van Horn, $.50; J. Giblett (Australia), $.48; Brother and Sister Green, $.24; Herbert Huguley, $.20; Mrs. Charles W. Randall, $.20; Clarabell Fellows, $.19; Mrs. Graves, $.15; Orlo Curtis, $.13.
TWO DOLLARS EACH
D. W. C. McNett, G. Eastman, Sam Welch.
ONE DOLLAR EACH
John and Mary A. Emery, Mary Sperberg, J. B. Daniels, Edith Davis, Guy Hallen, Mrs. Jennetta O. Smith, Mary J. Rider, a friend, W. M. Martin, Mrs. William Martin, Mrs. Sue Williams, a friend, Mrs. William A. Chesebro, Mrs. E. E. Peterson, Brother and Sister Bowhey (Australia), Brother Maybee (Australia), Brother and Sister Powell (Australia), a sister, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Boyce.
FORTY-EIGHT CENTS EACH
A friend (Jamaica), W. Parchment (Jamaica), a friend (Dominica).
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH
Mrs. Hutchins, Mrs. Thornerson, Mrs. Maclynet, Mrs. Boling, Mrs. J. B. Mills, Thompson Iddiles, Ruth Delhorbe, W. N. Evans, Malinda Evans, a friend, Mrs. Fred Hanson, C. Beatrice Murphy, E. C. Waller, Mrs. Swank, M. and R. Weick, Richard Satterlee, Mrs. Langhoff, Harold Stevens, Myrtle Childs, Willie Childs, Louise Lind, Wilhelm Lind, Emmett Lind, Orlando Lind, Perry Bail, James Bail, Ruth Mahurin, Lester Mason, Jackson Sturman, Thomas Oden, Lizzie Milner, Beulah Morris, J. A. Coffer, J. Bartt, Erna Witting, Bertha Walker, Russell Turner, Herbert Turner, May Turner, Gladys L. Ward, Nellie A. Pike, a friend, Mrs. C. Holm, J. E. Lovell, F. M. Oliver, Otelia Starr, Gertie Miller, W. Nash, Don Goodman, William Kloss, Annie Anderson, Fred Oleson, Albert Lambert, Miss F. Mendel, Miss W. Stanley, Rebecca Swanson, J. Raymond, a friend, Mrs. E. Taylor, Elizabeth Larson, Mable Patterson, Alba Patterson, Martha Patterson, Byron Patterson, Sister Brown, Miss Gold, J. T. Swatz, George Lucring, J. D. Page, Jean Edens, W. C. Blasingame, Lula M. Brown, Elberta Brown, Oliver Eaton, a sister, Nelia Dudley, Emily Wilson, C. M. Conkle, P. O. Carpenter, Orma Davis, Mrs. George Agar, Rosezella Budd, J. O. Wells, J. C. Morton, H. S. Neitheraut, F. J. Houston, L. Soper, G. Schutz, W. E. Brady, Mrs. William Kelly, B. M. Bevens, Julia B. Robinson, Katie Shafer, Jimmie and Willie Lawson, Lawrence Chilson, Lettie Chilson, Mrs. E. J. Bailey, a friend, Mrs. Rose (England), Mrs. Ewarth (England), Mrs. Stead (England), Mr. Higginbotham, Mrs. Higginbotham, James Davis, A. Greyton.
TWENTY-FOUR CENTS EACH
Jessie Clifford (England), Alice Clifford (England), Francis Clifford (England), Brother Metzner (England), Sister Lamont (Jamaica), Mrs. Thomas (Jamaica), Mrs. L. Edwards (Jamaica).
FIFTEEN CENTS EACH
Mrs. Rankin, J. Williams, Gilbert L. Pike, L. T. Conrad.
TEN CENTS EACH
Thena Beherns, Delbert H. Pike, Mrs. Emma Kangas, Sarah D. Loveman, Mr. Rankin, Abraham Bostick, Mrs. Annie Willson, Mr. Nugant, Gertrude Chilson, a friend, P. P. Caradel, Phemie Knight, Mrs. J. E. Notestine, J. Lynch, Mrs. M. E. Jack, Blossom Morris, Myrl Morris, George Stevens, Blanche Merrifield, Jennie M. Holloway, Mrs. Stark, Albert Brendel, Fred Brendel, R. L. Smyer, T. A. Shook, Cook, Mrs. Frances Esterbee, Kate Hostler, R. A. Anderson, Charlie Higginbotham, Silas Higginbotham, Willie Higginbotham, Mary Higginbotham, Sherman Higginbotham.
FIVE CENTS EACH
A. H. McNeill, E. McKenzie, R. L. Huffman, H. I. Tisdale, Katie Lankard, Clara Wheeler, Alma L. Gerhart, Leon Douglas, Mina Douglas, Mable Chilson, Daisy Gray, Charles Weisledder, Jr., Howen Weisledder, Clarence Fry, M. M. Hawkins, Bessie Sattee, Charley Town, a friend, Mrs. Manley, Myrtle Bunch, L. D. McClure, Willie McClure, Gracie Wood, Florence Hackworth, Ralph Hackworth, Helen Hackworth, Phoebe Hackworth, Pearl St. Clair, Allie Thresher, Ailey Weatherford, May Weatherford, Charlie Weatherford, S. C. Weatherford, Harry Abbott, Florence Johnson, Sallie Ewing, Bessie Teagle, H. W. Davis, Sarah Parsons, Jennie Girtain, Harry D. Sickler, H. B. Sickler, Mrs. Reeve, Mrs. Elwell, Florence Gillwray, Glenn Keller, Edna Keller, Ida Parker, Claudia Parker, L. E. Clarke, Ida McClain, Laura Wilkins, Lucelia Smith, Alson A. Shufelt, Jerome Watterson, Amelia Schierman, George Porter, John L. Ackerson, G. Whitney Ackerson, Mary A. Ackerson, Ray Leeper, Lois McCulloch, Jessie McCulloch, John Boling, Lelah Barnhart, Fern Barnhart, Clarence Gram, a friend, Magdelina Schoor, Johnnie Schoor, Loyd Chilson, Mark Chilson, Josie Lankard, William Rice.
A further list will follow.
I. H. EVANS, Treas.
Field Notes
Elder C. B. Rule reports that he closed his meetings at Ionia, Va., August 13, “with nine souls keeping the Sabbath.” He is now at Emporia, Va.
In a report of meetings begun at Non, I. T., June 22, Brother William Braley says: “The interest has grown, and thirteen have begun to obey, and others who are interested we hope will take their stand for the truth.”
Elder O. O. Farnsworth says in a report from Rock Hall, Md.: “I am expecting to have baptism here before leaving, as some have already decided to go forward. The enemy has fought hard at every step, but the Lord has also been working mightily, and we are confident of victory.”
Among reports from Maine we note the following in the Atlantic Union Gleaner: “Elder Goodrich has been holding some very profitable meetings with the Woodstock church. He was called from there to Pittsfield, August 17, to visit his brother, who is very ill at that place. We hope he will return to Woodstock, as he wrote that one had joined the church, and others will soon.”
Favorable results have attended the tent-meetings held in New Haven, Conn., the past summer, by Elder W. A. Westworth. The letter says: “Many have heard and have become deeply interested in the word spoken; some are in the valley of decision; seven have stated their determination to follow their Master, and are now keeping the Sabbath, a sign of his sanctifying power in their lives. While we have desired far greater results, we thank the Lord for this evidence of his favor, and believe that there will be others who will come out into the fulness of the message.”
Elder G. F. Haffner reports from Oklahoma: “The work of the Lord is still onward in the Oklahoma Conference. At present there are several meetings in progress, and people are interested, and are taking their stand for the truth. Brethren Sorenson and Dake report a good interest at Broken Arrow, I. T., where some have already taken their stand, and others are interested. The same report we hear from Brethren Braley and Jobe at Non, I. T. Brother Bonde had a good interest near Lexington, and reported that three families took their stand for the truth, and quite a few were still interested. Brethren Maxwell and Hampton are still having good meetings at Elk City. So the good work goes on.”
Come to the Camp-Meeting
By Wm. Covert
As has been announced, the annual conference and camp-meeting for Wisconsin is to be held at Janesville, August 30 to September 10. We have been promised the help of either Elder E. W. Farnsworth or Elder I. H. Evans; also Elders Gilbert and Kauble. Of course the most of our Wisconsin laborers will be present, and will assist in the meetings.
We have no fears as to the ability of these laborers to instruct the people, and we feel confident that the blessing of the Lord will be there in large measure. What we are concerned about now is the attendance of our people from the State of Wisconsin. There has not been so large an attendance for several years as we believe there should have been, and I fear that unless our churches are aroused to the importance of these occasions, many will remain away who ought to be at the meeting.
Through the spirit of prophecy the Lord has spoken in regard to these meetings, admonishing our people to attend. In ancient times he called upon his people to attend their annual gatherings, and assured them that if they did so, he would keep the heathen round about them from desiring their land while they were absent. This special request, and the promise connected with it, shows very plainly that it is for the good of the people to attend such gatherings. In fact, if it had not been so, the Lord would not have provided for them. No one can lightly regard these pleadings and remain away from the meeting, without great loss to himself. Of course many argue that it will require a considerable amount of funds to meet the expense of such a meeting, and that it will be better to spend the money some other way than to attend the meeting. All such reasoning is virtually excusing one's self from doing what the Lord said should be done.23
The one who habitually remains away from the camp-meetings will in spite of himself become weaned from the cause, and more and more drawn toward the world. It is unsafe to follow such a course, and I earnestly plead for our people to break away from the spell that binds them at home, and come to the camp-meeting, even if it requires a very decided effort. Brethren and sisters, please do not defraud yourselves by remaining away from the camp-meeting this time.
Wm. Covert.
Current Mention
— An outbreak of cholera is reported at Manila, P. I.
— Costa Rica is in a ferment over the outcome of the recent presidential election, which was attended with serious riots and bloodshed.
— A severe earthquake shock was experienced in southern Illinois and some districts of Tennessee late in the evening of August 21.
— Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, editor-in-chief of St. Nicholas and writer of children’s stories, died at Onteora Park, in the Catskills, August 21.
— Venezuela has recently made large purchases of war supplies, in connection with which it is reported that President Castro has intimated a willingness to take up arms against the United States.
— From reports received from New Orleans it appears that the yellow fever epidemic is now under control in that city, but the disease is raging in the surrounding parishes. Isolated cases of the fever have been reported in several Northern States.
— The arrest of a French Algerian merchant in Morocco recently led to a demand by France for his release and the payment of damages, and this demand not having been complied with a French military force was at last reports preparing for an incursion into that country.
— According to St. Petersburg reports, the situation in the Baltic provinces of Russia is not improving. Several political murders have been reported. Official advices show that the disturbances are fostered and directed by a thoroughly organized social revolutionary committee, with headquarters at Riga, the emissaries of which defy the best efforts of the police.
— Reports from Portsmouth state that the hope of peace between Russia and Japan rests on the chance of Japan’s being willing to recede from her demand for an indemnity, the czar having given an absolute and final refusal to an indemnity payment. Japan’s proposition was to sell to Russia half of the island of Sakhalin at a price which would cover the cost of the war, and to surrender her claims to the interned Russian ships of war, and her demand for the limitation of Russian naval power in the Pacific, on condition that Russia accepted the proposition concerning Sakhalin. This the czar has refused to accept, and the outlook for peace is therefore greatly darkened, though the conference is to be prolonged into the coming week. A significant fact of the situation, however, is that Russia is unable to raise money to continue the war either by a foreign loan or by popular subscription, her last war loan having been secured only by “holding up” Russian banks and compelling them to deliver 120,000,000 rubles, receiving five per cent bonds in return, which they may dispose of to the public if they can. Bonds for a further 80,000,000 rubles were deposited in savings-banks, the government by this signifying that it regards this fund as at its disposal.
Camp-Meetings for 1905
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
New York (conference), Phelps ........Sept. 7-17
Greater New York (conference), New York City ........Oct. 4-8
New Jersey (conference), Burlington ........Sept. 12-17
Southern New England, Willimantic, Conn. ........Aug. 31 to Sept. 11
Maine, Lewiston ........Aug. 24 to Sept. 4
Western Pennsylvania, Bradford ........Aug. 30 to Sept. 3
Western Pennsylvania, Greensburg, Sept. 13-17
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Florida, Plant City ............Oct. 5-15
Cumberland, Spring City, Tenn. ........Aug. 31 to Sept. 10
CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
Quebec, South Stukley ........Aug. 31 to Sept. 10
Ontario, Lorne Park ............Sept. 7-17
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE
North Michigan, East Jordan ....................Aug. 31 to Sept. 10
Wisconsin, Janesville ....Aug. 30 to Sept. 10
Indiana, Connersville ............Sept. 7-18
East Michigan, Holly ............Sept. 12-19
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE
Iowa, Sumner ............Aug. 29 to Sept. 3
Iowa (southeastern) ........Sept. 12-17
Iowa, Sac City ............Sept. 5-10
Kansas (local), Independence
Kansas (conference), Hutchinson ........Aug. 24 to Sept. 4
NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Minnesota, Detroit City ........Sept. 12-17
SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Aug. 24 to Sept. 3
PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE
California, Hanford District .....Oct. 19-29
Western Washington, Seattle ........Aug. 24 to Sept. 3
Montana, Whitehall ............Sept. 15-25
Southern Idaho ................Sept. 12-17
British Columbia, Victoria ............Sept. 7-17
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.
New Jersey, Notice!
By J. E. Jayne
THE fourth annual session of the New Jersey Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in Burlington, N. J., Sept. 12-17, 1905, in connection with the tent effort in that place. The first business meeting of the conference will be held at 3:45 P. M., Tuesday, Sept. 12.
J. E. JAYNE,
President.
The New York Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists
By T. E. BOWEN
NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to the call of the president, that the first meeting of the New York Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held on the camp-ground at Phelps, September 7-17 (the definite time being publicly announced at that camp-meeting), for the purpose of ratifying the articles of incorporation, with by-laws; the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as shall properly come before the meeting. All duly elected delegates to the forty-fourth annual session of the New York Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will constitute the members of this association, and shall be legally authorized to participate in its deliberations.
T. E. BOWEN,
Secretary.
Notice!
By M. H. BROWN.
ALL persons who have assigned to the Pacific Educational Association all their shares of stock in Healdsburg College are members of the said association, and entitled to a certificate of membership. These certificates of membership are now being sent to the members, and if any one entitled to a certificate does not receive it by Oct. 1, 1905, he is requested to send his name and address to Healdsburg College, Healdsburg, Cal., and a certificate will be sent.
In behalf of College Board,
M. H. BROWN.
Camp-Meeting for Southern Idaho
By A. J. BREED
THIS meeting will be held at Ontario, Ore., September 12-17. There should be a good attendance, for at this season of the year much of the farm work will be out of the way. The meeting will be local, and will take in all the territory of eastern Oregon and southern and eastern Idaho.
If we can have the united efforts of our brethren and sisters in the churches in this district, there will be a large number to attend. Living as we do when such important questions are being considered, none should be absent. Bring all the children and young people, as well as your neighbors and friends, and let us make it a time of preparation for the great work before us.
There will be no business to look after, and the whole time can be devoted to studying the vital points of interest before us, and the most important of these will be how to advance the interests of this great work among the people, and our fitness for that work.
We hope to meet church elders, librarians, and Sabbath-school secretaries, and all others bearing responsibilities in the work. If you desire tents, or information concerning railroad fare, write to T. L. Copeland, College Place, Wash. Be sure to be at the opening meeting, and come prepared to stay until the meeting closes. A. J. BREED.
