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The Good Old Review

By A. E. Place

A FEW days ago as I was opening my morning’s mail, I found in one of my letters a little folder with the words, “The Good Old Review,” in large, neat letters on the first page. The name, REVIEW, with the very appropriate adjectives connected with it, gave me a thrill of pleasure like that which is experienced when one whom we truly love is mentioned in a kind way. For some time I sat looking at that name and title, asking myself the question why this title affected me thus? I thought of its humble birth and trying experiences; then of its long years of life and growth; its noble character, developed and tested through repeated crises, etc. As scene after scene,

now a part of our denominational history passed before me, I exclaimed, “Good Old Review,” how appropriate is thy title! Who can properly estimate thy value to this denomination, and to each individual? What would it mean to me and to my people if “The Good Old Review” should die? Doubtless some who are to-day neglecting this dear old friend and faithful servant, would come forward with their floral offerings of kind words for the departed. But be it remembered that flowers are of no value to the friend who is dead. They have only the fragrance of death, if human kindness has not been administered from time to time to the departed, amid life’s struggles.

I believe it is safe to say that many are neglecting “The Good Old Review,” some possibly to their eternal loss. I have many times thought of that wonderful but true statement made at the last General Conference, by our beloved Brother George I. Butler, in substance as follows: “I never knew a man to backslide from this truth who was a faithful reader of the REVIEW AND HERALD every week.” The more I have considered this statement, the more I have been convinced that not only such a thing has not been known, but could scarcely be possible. We often make the statement, in speaking on the Sabbath question, that if men had always kept the Sabbath, it would have been impossible for idolatry to exist; for each week the attention of the people would have been called to the One who made all things. Those who know “The Good Old Review” best, know that it contains the message as it is for this time, and as it is going to all parts of the world. It comes to its readers each week filled with the facts that every Seventh-day Adventist needs, and, especially with that which is needed by all the discouraged, tried, and fainting ones. Why will any one go on in trial, become discouraged, and backslide from this great saving message, when $1.50 would bring to him the very best help in the denomination, each week in the year?

Another appropriate name for the REVIEW, given by Elder S. H. Lane, is, “Our Able Minister.” “The Good Old Review” is not only “Our Able Minister,” but I consider it by far the most able minister we have in the denomination; because it embraces in its pages the best sermons and studies of all our best ministers. It comes to us laden with the fragrance and spice of all lands, even from the isles which have long waited for God’s law. It comes touched with the personality of the writers from all these lands, and those in our churches who bemoan their lack or need of a minister or missionary would do well to dry their tears and secure the faithful visits of “The Most Able Minister” of this denomination every week for a whole year. As surely as they give him a warm welcome and let him be their daily counselor, he will do much toward bringing faith, joy, and courage into their heart and home.

Possibly he is in the home now, but sadly neglected. Days and sometimes weeks go by, and he is not allowed even to preach on the Sabbath, or give any of his comforting counsel. If we are thus slighting “Our Able Minister,” we are also slighting all our ministers, and all our missionaries who have left their homes and native land to carry this great message to the darkened minds—those who have given thought and prayerful study in their endeavors to help “Our Able Minister” in doing his most noble work. But most sad of all is the fact that we are slighting, not alone the messengers, but the God-given messages which the Lord is seeking to send to us through these messengers, to cure all discouragement, to heal all back-sliding, and to make of each one of us, in the church, in the home, and everywhere, true missionaries, ministers, servants, and “Able Ministers” of the great and blessed message which is surely soon to triumph, and of its Author, who is soon to crown every faithful brow.

Do not slight “The Dear Old Review.” Breathe deeply of its great soul-saving, world-wide messages. Become enthused with the work which its representatives are carrying rapidly and grandly to all nations.

A. E. PLACE.

The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund

The name, Mrs. M. Sellers, in the Review of October 20 should have been Mrs. M. Sollars.

Amount previously reported........$46,264 86 New Jersey Conference...... 77 54 Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Payne.. 50 00 C. G. and H. U. Johnston.... 30 00 Tampa (Fla.) church......... 27 70 John A. Lauck .............. 25 00 Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Newby.. 25 00 E. D. Hopkins .............. 25 00 S. H. Noel and family ...... 25 00 Alma K. McCormick ......... 25 00 Mary E. Poole (New Brunswick) ........ 20 00 Brooklyn (N. Y.) German church ........ 16 00 E. D. Scoles ............... 15 00 Story City (Iowa) church .. 15 00 Minnie C. Keymer (India) .. 14 72 W. L. Brisbin .............. 14 00 Story City (Iowa) church .. 11 50 Dr. G. F. Hilton ........... 10 00 Mrs. F. C. Keck ............ 10 00 Mrs. L. E. Cox ............. 10 00 S. W. Klinger .............. 10 00 Mrs. Addie Watson .......... 10 00 Isabelle Reith (British Columbia) ........ 10 00 Dr. R. S. Ingersoll (India).. 9 60 Dr. Olive Ingersoll (India).. 9 60 Independence (Iowa) camp-meeting ........ 9 60 Libertyville (Iowa) church 8 71 Northern Illinois Tract Society ........ 8 58 Afton (I. T.) church ....... 7 00 Bengali (India) congregation 6 08 Blencoe (Iowa) church ...... 6 00 Milwaukee (Wis.) Young People's Society ........ 6 00 Parkersburg (Iowa) church 5 60 Mrs. M. J. Lawrence & Emily 5 50

FIVE DOLLARS EACH

Cash and Lott, L. B. Allen, J. T. Allen, C. T. Dwier, Mrs. Adelia Allen, T. C. Dwier, Mrs. Thomas A. Kay, Martin Henrickson, Mobile (Ala.) church, Joseph Wayne, Mrs. H. E. Townsend, Jacob Jenson, Jennie R. Bates, J. H. Hanson, Greater New York Conference, Lucy Dessain, Lena Nichols, L. A. Carrick, L. Roske, Bert Putnam, Mrs. E. Y. Smith, Robert O. Beaird, a friend, Annie E. Beaird, M. W. Leader, Mrs. W. M. Clement, a friend, Jason Davis, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hirlinger, D. D. Punches and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Piler, Mrs. Mary Saare, Mrs. W. J. Reed, John H. Saare, James and Nellie Cargill, Mr. and Mrs. George Stile.

FOUR DOLLARS EACH

Ella Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan, Mrs. V. Tasker, Mina D. and Nellie E. Fowler, A. D. West, May C. West.

Moose Lake church, $4.20; Mrs. A. O'Connor (India), $3.20; Hannah Cameron, $3.50; Atalissa (Iowa) church, $2.75; Gus Pflugradt, $2.50; T. J. Frost, $2.25.

THREE DOLLARS EACH

L. F. Scott, Matilda Noggle, C. W. Barnes, Harry E. Woodburn, Mrs. C. B. Porter.

TWO DOLLARS EACH

Mrs. B. F. Plunkett, Jessie M. Weiss, J. E. Hool, Mrs. C. Williams, L. S. Lauritsen, Mrs. John Joiner, Mrs. A. Phillips, Mrs. E. R. Van Boskirk, Wilton (Iowa) Sabbath-school, Mt. Pleasant (Iowa) church, R. J. Richardson, Lisbon Meyers, Mrs. E. A. Mullen, Mrs. A. L. Whittemore, D. S. Plum, P. E. Pepper, R. G. Ogbourne, Mrs. F. A. Holiday, Mrs. William Dingman, Mrs. E. J. Popplewell, Christine H. Christensen, Swan Johnson, Mrs. L. J. Griswold.

George S. Gwyther, $1.60; Joseph Meighan (Belize, British Honduras), $1.50; Osceola (Iowa) church, $1.06; Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Olds, $1.15.

ONE DOLLAR EACH

George A. Hill, Mrs. G. F. Hilton, Mrs. R. F. Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. S. Barnett, Mrs. E. Covert, Marion Ellis, Mrs. E. S. Johnson, Bennett Witt, a friend, Mrs. M. Clemenson, Mr. Clemenson, Mrs. John Dies, Mrs. D. O. Snyder, Mrs. L. C. Bunting, George Crawford, Mrs. Clara Hildreth Crawford, Coon Rapids (Iowa) church, Mrs. Mullett, Mrs. Minnie Phillips, Elizabeth Rea, Mrs. Meeker, James Montgomery, Albany (Iowa) Sabbath-school, Council Bluffs (Iowa) church, Charles A. Schultz, Coon Rapids (Iowa) church, Mrs. D. A. Fitch, P. J. Baker, E. P. Field, Mrs. Ramsdale, Daniel Meyer, Mrs. Daniel Meyer, E. L. Pepper, Mrs. Claire B. Wallace, Mrs. Carrie Johnson, Margaret Meighan (Belize, British Honduras), Catherine Meighan (Belize, British Honduras), R. J. Christianson, Beatrice Turner, Mrs. Mary Witter, Miss E. Grace, Mrs. G. A. Ziegler, George A. Ziegler, David Harvey, a friend (Fair Oaks, Cal.), Nancy A. Johnson, Mrs. James Partridge, H. Hedrick, Mrs. R. A. Standefer, W. R. Page, Eddie West, Hattie West, C. B. Harrington, Mr. and Mrs. William Stureman, D. S. Haley, Mrs. A. R. King, Mrs. Viola Fish.

Mrs. Wilson, $.80; Mrs. Meeker, $.75; Audubon (Iowa) church, $.75; C. R. Page, $.35; a friend, $.30; a friend, $.20; a friend, $.20; a friend, $.15; Arthur Leader, $.05; a friend, $.05.

FIFTY CENTS EACH

Mrs. J. Q. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Creasy, R. L. May, Arthur Coyne, Florence Coyne, Alf. C. Anderson, Mrs. Claude Buss, Mrs. Mary Malick, Mrs. Sarah Bitterman, Mrs. John Snyder, O. Thomas, L. W. Shuman, Jennie

Youngs, Emma Meyer, Eddie Meyer, Mrs. Mary Peterson, Mabel Inger, Caroline Meighan (Belize, British Honduras), Theophilus Meighan (Belize, British Honduras), Joanna and Ida Meighan (Belize, British Honduras), Mrs. Rose (Belize, British Honduras), Austin Thompson (Belize, British Honduras), Albert Brown, (Belize, British Honduras), Charles Baptist, J. A. Fretter, M. Wolfe, R. R. Hooker, Mrs. E. B. Page, Mrs. Frances E. Whittaker.

TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH

E. G. Efferson, M. C. Heath, Wm. Younger, Hattie Adams, Jane Moore, J. S. Louise Kenney, Mrs. Henry Leader, a friend, a friend, a friend, J. F. Harris, a friend, D. A. Johnson, W. H. Cox, a friend, a friend, Joseph Zehr, V. Swansen, a friend, P. H. Burt, J. H. Eamodson, W. W. Thompson, Carrie Meyer, Emil Meyer, Celia C. Tichenor, Edward Usher, T. Adinette, Mrs. Hannah Fretter, Mrs. Alma Zalabak, Mrs. Elnora Van Alstine, Loera Poindexter, John Finley, R. E. Winstett, Loula Page, Flora Page.

TEN CENTS EACH

Esther Leader, Roy Leader, Hazel Malick, Martha Miller, Margaret Miller, Kenneth Groom, Morris Groom, John Bower, George Bower, Earl Dugan, a friend, a friend, a friend, a friend, a friend, a friend, a friend, L. Weignan, S. B. Chapan, a friend, a friend, R. Waddell, a friend, a friend, Mary Meyer, Agnes Meyer, Walter Scott (Belize, British Honduras), William Hamilton, Mrs. M. M. Ames, William Page.

P. Scazighini and family.... 10 00 Nels Hanson and family .... 10 00 Frank Rothrock ............ 10 00 Mrs. M. T. Cole ........... 10 00 Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Eagle .. 10 00 Mr. and Mrs. Thorley Cady 20 00 Elmira E. Chapman ........ 25 00 Elder & Mrs. H. W. Cottrell 50 00

Total reported ........$47,344 25

A further list will follow.

Send all donations to W. T. Bland, 222 N. Capitol St., Washington, D. C.

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 first-class hygienic cook. Address, giving references, Iowa Sanitarium, Des Moines, Iowa.

For Sale.—Eleven acres of fine land, good buildings, and plenty of fruit. Inquire of F. E. Thomas, Charlotte, Mich., R. F. D. 1.

Wanted.—At once, man to cut cedar and logs. Must be S. D. A. Married or single. Steady work and good pay to right person. Address J. B. Fletcher, Roscommon, Mich.

Wanted.—A Seventh-day Adventist with small capital to invest as partner with me in my business as plastering contractor. Address T. A. Nickel, 819 Hickey St., Santa Ana, Cal.

Physician Wanted.—Finest-equipped treatment rooms in Southern California, with growing city practise. Splendid opening for enterprising man. Climate unexcelled. Reason for selling, appointment elsewhere. For particulars address Dr. J. R. Leadsworth, Riverside, Cal.

For Sale.—Due to failure of the Hammond Food Co., of Bay City, Mich., I am in a position to quote unsalted, pure peanut butter, made from No. 1 Spanish shelled peanuts, at 10 cts. per lb. in 50-pound lots or more. Cash with order. Address J. B. Schindler, Bay City, Mich.

The Colorado Sanitarium of Boulder, Colo., desires to secure the services of a Seventh-day Adventist man or woman who is competent to take charge of and operate a steam laundry. Applicant must present references, and accept position upon three months’ trial. State age, experience, and all necessary information. Address Francis M. Wilcox as above.

There is an opening for three substantial men to obtain employment in connection with the Workingmen’s Home in Chicago. Reasonable salary will be paid. It would not be wise for any one to bring a family to Chicago. These places must be filled immediately. Those applying should give full information concerning their previous work. Address David Paulson, Hinsdale, Ill.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By A. J. S. Bourdeau

California and Nevada, Attention!

IN harmony with the action of the California-Nevada Conference delegates assembled, at Bushrod Park, Oakland, Cal., June 1-12, the business of the California Tract Society, 306 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal., was transferred to the Pacific Press Publishing Co., July 15, 1904. At that time the Pacific Press also bought the furnishings and stock of the California Tract Society Bible House, this store becoming the Oakland Branch of the publishing house.

That all may know what the transfer means, we wish to repeat our request that hereafter all our church missionary societies, canvassers, church-school teachers, church-members, and isolated Sabbath-keepers in the territory of the California-Nevada Conference (including all of California north of the Tehachapi and Santa Ynez Mountains, and the State of Nevada) should send all orders for books, papers, pamphlets, and tracts to the Pacific Press Publishing Co., Mountain View, Cal., and not to the California Tract Society.

All missionary reports, however, from church librarians, secretaries of Young People's Societies, etc., should be sent to A. J. S. Bourdeau, Missionary Secretary, care Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal.

Parties owing the California Tract Society will please send their remittances directly to the old address, California Tract Society, 306 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal.

A. J. S. BOURDEAU, Missionary Sec. California-Nevada Conf.

Church Organized at Danville

A CHURCH of twenty-two members was organized at Danville, Ill., October 15, as a result of tent-meetings held there the past summer and fall.

Baptisms at Keene, Texas

A RECENT report from Keene, Texas, says: “Four candidates were baptized yesterday afternoon by Elder C. P. Haskell. All will probably unite with the Keene church.”

Addresses

THE address of Elder H. J. Farman, formerly of Roanoke, Va., is now 905 Orchard St., Lynchburg, Va.

The address of Mrs. Mary Brown, formerly of Rockford, Ill., is wanted by Mrs. Hattie King, Canton, S. D.

All mail for the missionary secretary of the California-Nevada Conference should be addressed to A. J. S. Bourdeau, care Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal.

Publications Wanted

N. B.— Attention has been repeatedly called to the necessity of having papers properly wrapped. Do not roll or wrap too small. Cover papers well, so that they will be clean when received. Some have paid double the postage necessary, while others have forwarded literature by express when it would have been cheaper to send it by mail, at four ounces for one cent.

[SPECIAL NOTE.—All who receive periodicals in answer to these calls are advised to examine them carefully before distributing them.—Ed.]

The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, postpaid:—

Will J. Waxham, Middleburg, Fla., REVIEW, Signs, Southern Watchman, Training School.

Mrs. Katy Taylor, 40 Scheley Court, Cleveland, Ohio, periodicals and tracts, for reading rack.

Mrs. Lizzie Anderson, 15139 Loomis Ave., Harvey, Ill., periodicals and tracts for reading racks.

Nina McBride, Eight Mile, Mo., Signs, Life Boat, Life and Health, Southern Watchman, and tracts.

E. A. Goss, 1723 W. Maple St., Enid, O. T., REVIEW, Signs, Watchman, Instructor, Little Friend, Life Boat, and health publications.

E. W. Webster, 2117 Gervais St. Columbia, S. C. Capital and Labor and other special numbers of Signs and Watchman. A good supply of tracts on all points of our faith could be used to good advantage, and would be greatly appreciated.

M. L. ANDREASEN

Obituaries

PARKER.— Died, Nov. 7, 1904, Luellen Parker, daughter of Dexter and Ida Parker, aged 6 years and 1 month. She was an unusually bright child, and will be sadly missed. Almost her last words were, “God knows best.” She was laid away in Forest Home Cemetery till Jesus comes.

M. L. ANDREASEN

NELSON.— Died at Sauk Center, Minn., Sept. 22, 1904, Verna Bretteres Nelson, the only child of Frank A. and Alma S. Nelson. Verna was a bright, happy child, and was loved by all who knew her. Her death was caused by a severe nervous shock, caused by a burn. Words of comfort were spoken by Elder O. O. Bernstein. We sorrow not as those without hope.

MR. AND MRS. R. NELSON.

WAY.— Died at Spadra, Cal., Oct. 18, 1904, of inflammation of the bowels, A. M. Way aged 48 years and 6 months. The deceased accepted the Adventist faith eighteen years ago, he was an earnest and devoted Christian, and loved by all who knew him. He was connected with the conference work nearly three years. His counsel will be missed not only by his immediate relatives, but by all the conference. He leaves a wife and five children, an aged father, two sisters, and two brothers to mourn their loss. All were present at the funeral except the two brothers, who reside in the East. We mourn, but not as those who have no hope.

MRS. I. A. FISHER.

Week of Prayer Readings

By Editor

IN order to provide the required space for the readings for the week of prayer it has been necessary for us to depart materially from the regular plan of making up the paper, and to omit some of the usual departments. We are confident, however, that our readers will agree with us that the great importance of the appointed season of prayer and the value of the readings themselves fully justify this departure from the customary variety of reading-matter provided in each issue. We again suggest that this number of the REVIEW should be preserved for special study during the week of prayer.

Sample Copies of the Review

By Editor

SAMPLE copies of this issue of the REVIEW will be sent to quite a list of those who may not now be regular readers of the paper. We have selected this particular number for this purpose, although it does not contain the usual variety of general matter and articles from the mission fields, in order to place the readings for the week of prayer in the hands of as many of our people as possible. To every person who receives a sample copy of this issue we extend an urgent invitation to subscribe for the paper, and thus receive its weekly visits. We believe that those who are interested in this advent movement, and who desire to keep in sympathetic touch with its spirit and progress, will find the REVIEW of real value to them. It seeks to preserve the advent message as the Lord gave it to this people. It is the channel of communication through which the General Conference presents its plans and makes its appeals to the whole denomination. From week to week in its usual departments it gives a view of the progress of this message in all parts of the world. Each of our publications has its own field, but there is no one of them which can take the place of the REVIEW. We hope to add to our list the names of many of those who receive sample copies of this week's paper.

Elder Luther Warren in Washington

ELDER LUTHER WARREN has come to Washington to unite with the other laborers in general evangelistic work. A vigorous effort will be maintained during the winter.

Elder Daniel Isaac Sails for Hamburg

ELDER DANIEL ISAAC and family, of South Dakota, passed through Washington last week, and sailed for Hamburg November 17. He will unite with the German Union Conference.

Nurse Training Announcement Deferred

THE announcement concerning the training of nurses which the trustees of the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium Association intended to make in this issue is unavoidably deferred another week.

Whisky Tracts Offered at Seventy-Five Cents

IN order to close out his present stock of the tract, “Whisky: Parables, Poems, Facts, and Figures,” Elder D. E. Scoles offers to furnish them as long as they last, at seventy-five cents a hundred, postpaid. This tract contains forty-eight pages, and the retail price is five cents a copy. Order of D. E. Scoles, Washburn, Mo.

Watson’s Grave in Nyassaland

ONLY a lone grave in a corner of the dark continent, but it testifies to the missionary spirit of a friend and brother who counted not his life dear unto himself. The picture on our first page of the last resting-place of Brother J. H. Watson makes its silent appeal for others to take up the work which he laid down. There is an open door as well as a closed grave in Nyassaland.

Donations for the Brazilian Printing Outfit

BROTHER J. LIPKE asks that those who have pledged to the Brazilian printing outfit should send in their donations as soon as possible, to their State treasurer, or to the Mission Board, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C. The sooner the money is provided, the sooner the outfit can be purchased, and the sooner Brother Lipke can return to his field of work.

Placing the Review in Every Family

By Editor

WE are greatly encouraged by the systematic efforts now being made in the different conferences to place the REVIEW in every Sabbath-keeping family. In some conferences this matter is being presented in every church. The brethren of the West Michigan Conference are publishing in their conference paper a list of the churches and companies in which the REVIEW is now found in every family, and they propose to continue the campaign until all have been visited. We are now adding several hundred names to our list each week.

Missionary Campaign Progress

By Editor

Our churches throughout the field are being stirred to action in the great missionary campaign. We have already noted the splendid work being done in behalf of the REVIEW and Life and Health. We learn that over one hundred thousand sets of the third angel’s message series of The Signs of the Times have been ordered, and a large number of the special series of The Southern Watchman are doubtless being circulated, although we have no definite report. This is just a beginning of what can be accomplished when all take hold of the work. It is not too late for others to join in the campaign.

To Church Elders

By W. A. Spicer

ENVELOPES for the week-of-prayer offering are being sent to each church elder or leader. If the packet fails to reach any company within a few days, the conference office should be notified at once.

A package of a little mission leaflet will be sent each church for distribution. We shall also send church elders and conference laborers a letter giving the latest news of progress from mission fields, for use during the week-of-prayer season. We never before had such reports from the fields as come to us to-day. In their abundance, let us not overlook the meaning that Providence would have us discern in all this.

W. A. SPICER, Secretary.

Washington, D. C.

By J. S. Washburn

Up to the present date $47,344.25 has been received on the One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund. See list on page 22.

If all our brethren and sisters in the United States would follow the example of a brother in California, the whole amount needed here in Washington would be raised in a very short time. This brother writes:—

ANGELS CAMP, CAL., Oct. 9, 1904.

DEAR BROTHER: Find enclosed fifteen dollars, the amount I promised to pay—five dollars a month—for July, August, and September. I hope many of our people will catch the spirit of giving regularly until the one hundred thousand dollars is raised; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Why would it not be a good plan to invite those who feel that they ought to help until the fund is raised, to send in their names, and state what they will give every month? One thousand persons giving five dollars for one year would amount to sixty thousand dollars a year. I know that when I give systematically, I give more than when I give just as I take a notion, and the Lord has helped me to give what I promised. May God bless you in the work at Washington.

Your brother,

Are there not at least twenty-five thousand of our people who will give five dollars a month, or $1.25 a week, until the whole amount is raised? Thus in two weeks the whole amount yet needed would be supplied. This can be done. Will all those who will give any definite amount regularly each week or month write to me at once? And there may be those who have been intending to give from five hundred to one thousand dollars. Will not such send in immediately? J. S. WASHBURN.

Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

THE GRAVE OF ELDER JOSEPH H. WATSON, NYASSALAND