p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 26. (5/25/1916)

General Articles

In this number we present, in our General Articles department, contributions from Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Washington, California, and Florida. Among these contributors are several old pioneers in this movement. We appreciate these good words which we receive from our brethren in the field.

Prof. and Sister Thurber in Washington

PROF. R. B. THURBER, now of the Lake Union, formerly of Burma, is spending a little time in Washington, with Sister Thurber, who is at the Washington Sanitarium, seeking recovery of health from the tropical difficulty which brought them home from Burma. We are glad to report that Sister Thurber is making hopeful gains.

Iowa Old-Timers’ Reunion

A LETTER from Elder A. R. Ogden, president of the Iowa Conference, states that at the coming camp meeting in that conference an old-timers' reunion will be held. We join Brother Ogden in the belief that such a reunion will be very profitable, and hope that all the old-timers in Iowa will be able to attend the camp meeting, and incidentally the reunion which will be held in connection with it.

Missionary Exchange Between Fiji and New Hebrides

In the way of an exchange of fields, Brother and Sister A. G. Stewart, of Fiji, sailed in April for the New Hebrides Islands, to make it possible for Brother and Sister C. H. Parker, who have been laboring in the New Hebrides, to go to Fiji, Brother Parker having been chosen president of the recently organized Fiji Conference.

Haines Family Returns from Jamaica

We have been glad to greet in Washington Brother and Sister A. F. Haines, and their daughter Madge, who have been spending a few days with us on their way from Jamaica to their former home in Idaho. After seven or eight years in the management of the West Indian printing house, first on the Canal Zone and in recent years in Jamaica, Brother Haines has been advised to return to the States for a time in order to recuperate. Temporary provision will be made for carrying on the work at the Riversdale (Jamaica) press. The West Indian Union brethren hope to have Brother Haines with them again after he has spent a little time in northern climes.

News from South America

News from Lima, Peru, dated May 1, brings word that with the general South American meetings finished, Elder N. Z. Town was planning to sail directly for America by way of Panama, while Elder W. W. Prescott was returning to Buenos Aires for a final meeting with the South American Division Conference Committee, planning to sail for America by the east coast route, reaching New York about June 17. During this visit to South America these general workers have attended conferences in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile; have held meetings in different parts of Argentina, and visited the mission stations in Bolivia and Peru. Our South American brethren have been much encouraged by these visits, and by the new plans for strengthening the work in South America involved in the organization of the South American Division Conference.

Union College Free from Debt

By Editor

WE are made glad at the news that another of our institutions is out of debt. Exercises in commemoration of this freedom from debt were held in College View, Nebr., May 3, just twenty-six years after the laying of the foundation stone. The Central Union Outlook of May 9 gives a full account of this event. Short speeches were made at the chapel exercise, by friends, alumni, and present students. All paid their tribute to the college and the work which it had done, and rejoiced in its freedom from debt.

Following this the visitors, board of trustees, faculty, and students marched around the campus and sang a song composed for the occasion, beginning with the words, “Old Union standeth free.”

In the evening another program was given, at which addresses were made by Elders R. A. Underwood, A. R. Ogden, J. W. Christian, Prof. H. A. Morrison, Rev. Frank Mills, and S. A. Sanderson.

Rev. Frank Mills represented the commercial club and business men of College View, and S. A. Sanderson the business men of Lincoln.

We know that our readers unite with us in the hope that soon all our other institutions may join Union College in a song of jubilee of freedom from debt.

Correction to Article Attribution

A WORD from Elder C. McReynolds states that an article published recently in the REVIEW, entitled “Lessons from the Flood,” should have been credited to Mary C. McReynolds instead of to himself.

Walla Walla Sanitarium’s Growth

The North Pacific Union Gleaner of May 4 reports that the Walla Walla Sanitarium had thirty-two guests, twenty-seven of whom were regular full-pay patients. This is practically all the institution can accommodate. We rejoice for the prosperity that is attending our institutions.

The Lesson of Vacation Days

By Editor

THE next few weeks will witness the close of our denominational schools for another year. Hundreds of young men and women who have been engaged in study for the last nine months will be released to go out to engage in life's practical duties. We are pleased to learn from reports which have come to us that a larger number than ever before will enter some branch of denominational work, the great majority engaging in the sale of our denominational literature. We wish it were possible for every student, particularly those from the higher grades, to dedicate their service in some definite way to the Lord. Some doubtless will need to return to the farm or to the shop or to work in the home on account of conditions which may exist.

We earnestly hope that the vacation days will be profitable ones to every student, and this will be the case if every one seeks to obtain from his summer's experience practical and needed lessons. Let the principles learned in school as theories be practically applied. Practice thrift, industry, and economy. Be cheerful, hopeful, and courageous, even under the most discouraging circumstances.

If it is your privilege to go from door to door in the work of circulating our publications, remember to take your experiences as they come, in the spirit of the Master. Accept rebuff graciously. Pass by unnoticed apparent slights. Remember that you represent a great cause, mighty principles; that you are the ambassadors of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that by your life as well as by the literature you sell you are to represent his character to your fellows.

If you engage in physical labor; if you must toil on the farm or in the shop; if you must wash dishes and sweep floors and cook over hot stoves, remember that even such work gives you a splendid opportunity to exemplify the character of the Master. Possibly you will be helping those in your home who have toiled and labored to support you nine months in school. Act nobly your part, and show, not by empty words but in your kindly attitude, your appreciation of the sacrifice your parents have made.

After all, it is not book knowledge alone which prepares us for life's greater responsibilities. God designs that we should learn lessons from every experience—from our association with books and men and things. Let every student seek to make the vacation days as valuable in the preparation for his life work as if he were engaged in book study. If we will commit our ways to God and permit him to rule our lives, he is abundantly able to make every experience abound for our good.