The educational value of our sanitarium work is worthy of notice, and may well be appreciated as an important factor in the advancement of our denominational work, in both home and foreign fields. Our increasing activity in medical missionary effort demands a growing force of trained workers, and already the demand is for more nurses than can be supplied.
We have in training about one thousand student nurses. These are choice young people, persons who have finished or are finishing their school education, and are prepared to begin bearing responsibilities. This is the source of supply for future demands for help of this kind.
In receiving students it is the aim to take only such as give evidence of spiritual strength. They must be strong physically, and possess good mental ability. The general qualifications required of those who compose this large force of workers make it a company capable of much good. There is certainly need of wise planning and careful work, that this company may be rightly trained, and their capabilities wisely utilized. Our people everywhere should pray to this end.
The monetary value of the training given our nurses is not the item of greatest worth, but it is one of no small consideration. It would be a moderate estimate to say that board, room, laundry, and tuition are worth one hundred fifty dollars a year to each student. This would make the educational work of our sanitariums worth $150,000 a year. The cost of this is met, not by conferences or individuals, but by the labor of the students in the institutions. In most of our sanitariums the student is enabled to earn sufficient to buy needed books and clothing, and some money besides. How gladly would we see the same opportunity afforded in our school work!
_Missionary Training_
In a sanitarium is afforded one of the best fields possible for missionary effort. The student nurse is there to learn how to do missionary work, and is given the opportunity of learning by doing. The varied conditions of need, physical and spiritual, met with, give a wide range of practical experience in working for souls. The student missionary who is awake to the privileges thus afforded, and who improves faithfully the opportunities given, will be well prepared for practical missionary work elsewhere.
_Industrial Training_
No better opportunity for training in the practical things of life could be asked than is offered in sanitarium work, if properly utilized. The regular course of instruction generally includes the subjects of domestic science, cookery, and dressmaking. The work of the institution usually permits each student to have practical training and experience in all kinds of household duties in kitchen, dining-room, chamber, laundry, and parlor. In some of our sanitariums a wider range of experience in useful employment is given, while the student is at the same time carrying on the regular studies of the course.
In some places the close proximity of a sanitarium and a school permits co-operation between the two both in their class work and in furnishing employment to students who are attending either the one or the other.
This feature of our sanitarium work should appeal to all. In strengthening these institutions we are aiding in the support of a very important training-school for the development of needed workers. This is a valuable asset for the operation of our denominational work, and deserves assistance and protection.
L. A. HANSEN.
Use Tact
It requires tact and judgment, as we all know, to decide when it is best to talk, and when to listen. In the presence of men and women of superior talents and accomplishments, or of wide experience of the world, we must be wary and not let our vanity run away with us. To such persons we may not be able to afford intellectual stimulus, and therefore it will be well to avoid giving our opinions at length, unless these are called for. With men and women of small talent and accomplishment we must also be on our guard, lest they find us didactic and wearisome. It is with our intellectual equals, or with persons of a generous disposition who like to draw out the talents of others, that we feel the greatest freedom and attain the happiest results.—Harper's Bazar.
A Suggestion for Medical Workers
By C. AVERY HANSEN, M. D.
While visiting with the nurses and workers at the North Missouri camp-meeting, a nurse who is now engaged in private practice remarked that the money she earned on Sabbath seemed to burn her pocket. She said she had fifty dollars that had been earned by work of necessity on Sabbaths. She did not feel that she should use this money for herself, and she did not know just the best disposition to make of it.
After a few minutes' conversation the sister decided that she would use this money in purchasing copies of “Ministry of Healing,” and that she would then make presents of these to her patients. Thus she would be doing excellent missionary work, and at the same time aid in the relief of our sanitarium work. She said this would be the course she would follow in the future with money earned on Sabbath. Several others of the medical workers here decided to follow her example.
May not this be an excellent plan for others to adopt, who are compelled, because of the infirmities of their fellow men, to do Sabbath work at times, and who do not feel it wise to donate such work where it can be paid for just as well as not?
The brethren of North Missouri are assisting in a substantial way in the relief campaign. The matter of quota seems to be overlooked. They are taking from six to thirty-six copies and are paying cash for them. A number of the brethren are taking from one to three books for each month in a year, and paying the cash.
C. AVERY HANSEN, M. D.
From Our Workers
By M. E.
An important feature of the young people's part in the Temperance Instructor campaign, was to place that number of the Instructor, and if possible yearly subscriptions, in the public libraries, and in Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. reading-rooms. Some excellent reports have come in from this work. In Southern Illinois last quarter, each society adopted the plan of using the first dollar raised for sending the Instructor to the library in its community. The Missionary Volunteers in Kansas are sending yearly subscriptions to sixty public libraries.
The following extract from a letter written by Miss Edith M. Graham, Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Australasian Union Conference, will encourage every faithful worker for the youth. She says:—
“While we are working to get our young people to devote some of their energies to working for the island missions, we do not wish this to take the place of spiritual work, and efforts have been made in all our camp-meetings for the upbuilding of our young people and children on spiritual lines. We have been very much encouraged by the results. Many among the young people and children have given their hearts to the Lord, and we can see that the work is growing steadily and in a very encouraging manner. As we think of what is being accomplished, we can not but wish this work had been started many years ago. Had this been done, we would have in the field to-day a volume of workers that we do not have.”
An issue of the South African Missionary contains an interesting report of the Jeppestown young people's society. Annie E. Grant, leader of the society, says:—
“We have two departments—a senior and a primary. Different members of the senior department take charge of the primary section each week. The meetings are held every Sabbath afternoon at three o'clock, and periodically the society visits the Johannesburg hospital, where hundreds of our papers are distributed among the sick. The reports I receive from the members each week are encouraging. I feel very thankful for the spiritual advancement which is manifest in the lives of many of our youth in Johannesburg, and pray that the good work begun among our young people here will continue until every one is fully consecrated to God and his service, and not only here but all over the wide harvest-field.”
Brother F. W. Temple, who has charge of the Missionary Volunteer work in Alaska, recently sent us an interesting letter. We pass on a few items for your encouragement:—
“I am indeed glad to be able to assist in this good work for the young people, for I know that it is meeting Heaven's approval. I shall do the best I can for this department, and I trust the day is not far distant when we can have the Missionary Volunteer work organized in this northern field. Unlike the conditions in the States, the majority of the people are campers, and do not stay long in one place. At the present writing we have only eighteen Sabbath-keepers that we know of in the territory, and these are scattered from the northern to the southern part of this great peninsula. Letters from some of our brethren have to travel for weeks by dog-team before we get them. Nevertheless we are of the best of courage, and the prospects for future success are bright.”
The following encouraging letter from Brother H. Kuniya, of Japan, where we have two earnest Missionary Volunteer societies, shows his deep interest in both the young people's work and the temperance cause:—
“I am anxious to push the young people's work with all my might. There are many thousands of bright young people in Japan, but because they do not know the true gospel of Christ, they are ruining soul and body by smoking and drinking. It is important that we help them to stop their bad habits. Though they hate Christianity, because they know nothing but the Buddhist and Shinto religions, they are willing to hear how to overcome their bad habits. I was converted to this new religion through this temperance work. How happy I was then! As soon as I stopped smoking and drinking, I began to persuade others to stop their wrong habits. Finally I began to preach the gospel of Christ; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
“We must have hundreds of Christian soldiers to preach this message among our fellow men. I hope that this work for the youth will cause many young men and women to become God's messengers. As you know, our youth like to fight. If they are educated to fight with the Word of God against evil, they will quicken all the island in a few years. Usually the youth have great ambition, and they like to act. I am very much interested in helping the youth, and this is why I proposed to organize the young people's work in Japan.”
“Most of our young people are engaging in canvassing work. I have translated two tracts, ‘Some Effects of Tobacco Using,’ and ‘Is Alcohol a Food?’ into the Japanese language.”
M. E.
Reading Courses
By M. E.
MORE young people have finished the Reading Courses this spring than either of the previous years. One Missionary Volunteer secretary sent the names of forty-six young people who had completed one of the courses for this year. This, however, is the best report received. Although the Reading Courses are doing much for our youth, they should be doing more; but to do this the young people's work must have more earnest co-operation from the home and the local church. Plans are but machinery, to be run by the power of personal effort and prayer. No one expects a binder to reap the fields without supplying the horse-power needed to do the work. Would it not be well to use the same sound sense for the machinery to be utilized in doing the young people's work?
Several other denominations make reading courses an important feature of their young people's work; and when we even casually consider the effect of reading,21for good or ill, and remember that our young people will and should read something, we are convinced that this is no mistake. In the international convention of the Baptist Young People's Union, recently held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., nothing received more attention than did their Christian Culture reading courses.
The Missionary Volunteer Reading Courses of the coming year will begin in the Instructor of October 4. Of the two courses, one will be especially adapted for juniors, the other for older young people. Aside from the books needed and the Youth's Instructor, the courses are absolutely free. What are you doing to get the young people in your home or your church to read the good books in one of these courses? One aged sister took the Junior Course with her grandchildren; some homes have had family reading circles, others have read portions of the weekly assignment in the Reading Course book at morning or evening family worship. One church has tried the plan of giving occasional programs on the subjects of the Reading Course book, in which all joined.
Your conference Missionary Volunteer secretary of this department will mail to any address a free leaflet explaining the Reading Courses for the coming year.
M. E.
A Deciding Time for Parents
By M. E. K.
SHALL William or Emily go away to school this autumn? In many Seventh-day Adventist homes that is the question being discussed just now. It is talked over in the family circle, and when father and mother are alone. And in some homes where the question is not being discussed, it ought to be.
That awkward, overgrown boy of yours is a diamond in the rough; he may be a David whom neither you nor a Samuel would choose as a leader in God's work, but whom God has chosen. Whether he becomes a bearer of the last message may depend on your decision now, dear parents. We urge young people to go to school; we endeavor to show them the advantages of a Christian education, and the importance of preparing for the Lord's work; and they respond. But in hundreds of cases the decision of this important question rests with the parents.
Decision determines destiny. The far-reaching results of these decisions we scarcely comprehend. Prof. C. B. Hughes tells us, in the campaign number of Christian Education, of the distress of a father who refused to send his daughter who was anxious to go to school one year, but who could not be persuaded by any means to go the next year. Such is often the case.
Shall William or Emily go away to one of the Lord's schools this autumn? They stand at the parting of the ways. They will soon throw their youthful energies into something. Shall it be the Lord's work? By their example, teaching, and decisions, parents are preparing their children either for the Lord's work or for the world.
Read the book “Education,” Volume VI of the Testimonies, and the last number of Christian Education. Note the statement that “all the youth should be permitted to have the blessing and privileges of an education at our schools.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. VI, page 197. Remember that you should make all else subordinate to the work God has given you to do for your children. Pray much in secret. The future of your boy or girl depends much on the encouragement and help you give, and the decision you render now.
M. E. K.
The Wise Shall Shine
“And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.”
Our Swedish and German Seminaries
By H. R. S.
Two weeks ago, while on my way to the Texas camp-meeting, I improved the opportunity to visit two of our foreign schools, one near Chicago, and the other in Clinton, Mo.
The Swedish Seminary
This school is only seventeen miles west from the center of the city of Chicago, on a suburban line of the Illinois Central Railroad, ten minutes' walk from the station; or, by going about a mile and a half, a very frequent train service may be found. While I was there, an electric line was surveying across one corner of the property; and this, when completed, will enable one to take a car from the seminary grounds.
I had had some anxiety about establishing a school so near the great city of Chicago; but when I reached the place, I found it surrounded on every side as far as my eye could reach with prosperous farms, owned mostly by Scandinavians and Germans. I saw at once a great advantage in this location: first, because it is in a quiet, farming community; and second, because, while it is in the country, and has the benefits of country life, the seminary is so near the city of Chicago, with its tens of thousands of Scandinavians, that it can carry on systematic missionary work in connection with its regular school program. If this work is made a leading feature, and carried on under competent management, it will prove a great blessing not only to the school, but also to the Swedish work in and about Chicago.
The farm contains seventy-eight acres of good land, all under cultivation or in pasture. The land and buildings cost our brethren but $20,000, which I found to be very reasonable when compared with the price of the land lying about it.
The property contains a well-built brick house, which can be used for a permanent dormitory for the young ladies, also three good barns, and a comfortable cottage for the farmer. The committee in charge are planning to remodel one of the barns for a temporary school building. I trust our Swedish brethren will subscribe liberally to this enterprise, in order that a new school building and a boys' dormitory may be built during this coming school year in time for occupation next year. In this way very little money will need to be used in remodeling that which can only be temporary; but rather, after making the most inexpensive alterations possible, we shall have the money for permanent buildings.
Brother G. E. Nord has been chosen to act as principal of the new school. As Brother Nord has had a successful experience in city work, this appointment means, I am sure, that an aggressive missionary policy will be carried out in planning the future of the Swedish seminary.
The German Seminary
From Chicago I went to Clinton, Mo. Here, on the edge of a town with a population of five thousand, are the school building and the farm. The building was formerly a young ladies' seminary. It is well built, conveniently arranged, and contains one hundred ten rooms. Connected with this institution are one hundred twelve acres of good land, which will be used for agricultural purposes in the manual training department.
The land with the building was purchased for $60,000; but the citizens of Clinton are raising $39,500 of this amount, leaving our brethren but $20,500 to pay. As the land is valued at $15,000, the price paid for this large, commodious building was but $5,500. Of course the building must have repairs, having stood unoccupied for three years; but an additional $5,000 will put the school in condition to carry on its work with comfort and convenience. It is steam heated, and will be lighted with electricity,—a safe convenience, which I wish all our schools could enjoy. Artesian water is laid on, and there are sewer connections.
There are many Germans on farms about Clinton, and some living in the town. Numerous applications for music and German have been received from those living near the seminary; and the managers of the enterprise are planning to give a very thorough course in music, with the hope that other subjects may be taken by the students who come for this special work.
Prof. G. A. Grauer, who has been chosen to take charge of this new seminary, is hard at work this summer among the Germans in the interest of the school. Both he and his associates are encouraged by the number of applications received from those desiring to attend.
We heartily welcome these two foreign schools, together with the Danish-Norwegian seminary, and pray that God may bless them in their plans as they respond to the call of the hour in training consecrated workers to meet the demand for laborers among the great foreign populations which they represent.
H. R. S.
Christian Education
By H. R. SALISBURY
Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference
H. R. SALISBURY - - - - Secretary
Current Mention
—One thousand delegates from all over the world are in attendance at the International Congress of Esperantists at Washington, D. C.
—Provision for King George and his household was made recently by the House of Commons, which appropriated to the king’s use the sum of $2,350,000 a year. This is the same amount that was allowed the late King Edward.
—F. Mergenthaler, son of the famous linotype inventor, with his young wife, her parents, and their chauffeur, were instantly killed on the night of August 9, when an express-train on the Pennsylvania dashed into an automobile at Mill Lane crossing, near Cape May, N. J.
—By September 1, in compliance with a law passed by Congress in June, every ocean-going passenger steamer doing business at an American port, and plying between ports more than two hundred miles distant from each other, must be equipped with wireless apparatus.
—A woman, the daughter of the chief director of the royal library of Berlin, has won the “kaiser’s prize,” said to be the most coveted of all the honors of the University of Berlin. She was one of the first women to matriculate at the university, which first opened its doors to women in 1908.
—On the morning of August 9, as he was starting on a European trip, and while talking with friends on board the “Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse,” Mayor Gaynor, of New York City, was shot and dangerously wounded by a discharged city employee. At the time of going to press, the mayor is reported to be out of danger.
—Fourteen persons were killed outright, and twenty or more injured, some of them fatally, by the collision of a passenger- and a construction-train at Ignacio, Cal., on August 9. The locomotives were crumbled up, as the trains met, and the tanks holding the oil burst. The wreckage was soon in flames. A misunderstanding of orders is said to have been responsible for the disaster.
—Forest fires in Montana, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California have resulted in extensive damage; and President Taft has authorized the use of the government troops to help subdue the flames. The danger confronting the forest reserves is said to be the most serious in the history of the forest service. Twenty bridges, a dozen lumber mills, and several towns have been destroyed.
—Improvements in the Siberian Railroad system have resulted in better train service, and have reduced the time from Moscow to Vladivostok by 24 hours. “It is now possible to leave London on Monday, and reach Yokohama, Japan, on the second Monday following. By taking the fast Canadian-Pacific steamship, which leaves Yokohama on Tuesdays, the tourist, if he so wished, could reach Vancouver in 26 days after leaving London; and in 37 days after setting out on his world-encircling trip he would be again in London. This, be it noted, is less than one half the time taken by Jules Verne’s traveler in his trip around the world.”
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Camp-Meetings for 1910
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
Northern New England, Burlington ........ Aug. 25 to Sept. 4
New York, Syracuse ............ Sept. 1-10
Western New York, Rochester .... Sept. 9-18
CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
Maritime, Fredericton ........ Aug. 18-28
Quebec, Fitch Bay ........ Aug. 25 to Sept. 5
Ontario ........................ Sept. 8-18
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE
Kansas, Ottawa ............ Aug. 18-28
Colorado, Denver .......... Aug. 18-28
Nebraska, York ............ Aug. 25 to Sept. 4
Western Colorado, Grand Junction ........ Sept. 15-25
COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE
Ohio, Marion .............. Aug. 11-21
West Virginia, McMechen ........ Aug. 18-28
Chesapeake, Chestertown, Md. ........ Sept. 22 to Oct. 2
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE
West Michigan, Battle Creek .... Aug. 18-29
North Michigan, Traverse City ........
........................ Aug. 25 to Sept. 4
Indiana, Indianapolis ...... Aug. 25 to Sept. 4
Northern Illinois, Princeton .... Sept. 8-18
Wisconsin, Grand Rapids ...... Sept. 1-11
Southern Illinois, Shelbyville .... Sept. 8-18
NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Iowa, Storm Lake .............. Sept. 5-11
PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE
California, Berkeley (general) .... Aug. 18-28
California, Visalia (local), Sept. 29 to Oct. 9
Utah, Salt Lake City (conference only)
............................ Oct. 4-9
Arizona, Phoenix (conference only), Nov.
SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE
North Carolina, Kernersville ..... Aug. 18-28
Cumberland, Chattanooga, Aug. 25 to Sept. 4
Florida, Leesburg ........ Oct. 13-24
Florida (colored), Sanford, Oct. 28 to Nov. 7
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Tennessee River, Huntingdon .... Aug. 18-28
Kentucky, Louisville ...... Aug. 25 to Sept. 3
Mississippi, Enterprise ...... Sept. 1-10
SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE
New Mexico, Roswell ........... Aug. 18-28
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Aug. 25 to Sept. 4
Arkansas, Fort Smith .......... Sept. 1-11
WESTERN CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
British Columbia (Eastern), Vernon .....
........................ Aug. 24-31
European Division
BRITISH UNION CONFERENCE
Wales .................... Sept. 29 to Oct. 2
North England .................... Oct. 6-9
Arkansas Conference Association
By J. W. NORWOOD
THE annual session of the Arkansas Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Fort Smith, Sept. 1-11, 1910. The first meeting will be held Wednesday, Sept. 7, 1910, at 9 A. M. J. W. NORWOOD, President.
Nurses at Madison Sanitarium
THE fall class for missionary nurses opens September 15. The summer rush affords an opportunity for a limited number to come now, and earn some money before the class starts in the fall. Write for Training School Announcement. Address the Madison Sanitarium, Madison, Wis.
Kentucky Conference Association
By A. O. BURRELL; E. G. HAYES
THE second annual meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Conference Association of Kentucky will meet Tuesday, Aug. 30, 1910, at 11 A. M., at the camp-ground at the corner of Magnolia and Brook streets, Louisville, Ky. This meeting will be for the election of officers, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the association.
A. O. BURRELL, President;E. G. HAYES, Secretary.
Indiana Association of Seventh-day Adventists
By Morris Lukens
THE Indiana Association of Seventh-day Adventists, a corporation, will hold its annual meeting at Indianapolis, Ind., in connection with the camp-meeting, Aug. 25 to Sept. 4, 1910. The first meeting will be held at 9 A. M., Tuesday, August 30. A board of trustees will be elected, and such other business transacted as may properly come before this meeting. MORRIS LUKENS, President.
North Michigan Conference Association
By J. J. Irwin; J. H. Niehaus
NOTICE is hereby given that the annual session of the North Michigan Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Traverse City, Mich., in connection with the annual camp-meeting, Aug. 25 to Sept. 4, 1910. The first meeting will be called August 26, at 10 A. M., for the purpose of electing officers, and transacting any other business that may come before the association.
J. J. Irwin, President;
J. H. Niehaus, Secretary.
Indiana Conference
By Morris Lukens
The thirty-seventh annual session of the Indiana Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 25 to Sept. 4, 1910. The first meeting of the conference will be called Friday, August 26, at 9 A. M. Officers will be elected to serve during the coming year, and other important matters will be considered. All churches in the State should have a full delegation present at this conference.
MORRIS LUKENS, President.
Wisconsin Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association
By C. McREYNOLDS; P. L. LARSON
THE annual meeting of the Wisconsin Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association will be held in Wood's Grove, Grand Rapids, Wis., between Sept. 5 and 11, 1910. The first meeting of the session will convene at 10:30 A. M., on Monday, Sept. 5, 1910. A full business and financial report will be rendered by the secretary and treasurer of the work of the past year and its present standing. Officers of the association will be elected for the ensuing year, and all legal business that may be properly brought before the meeting will receive attention.
C. McREYNOLDS, President;
P. L. LARSON, Secretary.
New York Conference Association
By J. W. Lair
The first meeting of the fifth annual session of the New York Conference Association will be held Monday, Sept. 5, 1910, at 9 A. M., on the Syracuse, N. Y., camp-ground.
J. W. LAIR, President.
Indiana Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association
By Morris Lukens
NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Indiana Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association will be held Monday, Aug. 29, 1910, at 9 A. M., at the camp-ground at Indianapolis, Ind. At this meeting four members of the board, to serve for a term of two years, will be elected, and such other business transacted as may properly come before this body.
MORRIS LUKENS, President.
New York Conference
By J. W. LAIR
THE next session of the New York Conference will be held in connection with the annual camp-meeting at Syracuse, Onondaga Co., N. Y., Sept. 1-10, 1910, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and transacting any other business which may properly come before the conference. All churches should attend immediately to the election of delegates to the conference, and send credentials to F. N. Johnson, 517 West Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y.
J. W. LAIR, President.
Southern Illinois Conference Association
By E. A. BRISTOL; R. B. CRAIG
The Southern Illinois Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists (a corporation of Illinois) will hold its annual meeting at Shelbyville, Ill., in connection with the camp-meeting, Sept. 8-18, 1910. The first meeting will be held at 10 A. M., Friday, Sept. 9, 1910. A board of trustees will be elected, and such other business transacted as may properly come before this meeting. All accredited delegates to the Southern Illinois Conference are delegates to this association.
E. A. BRISTOL, President;
R. B. CRAIG, Secretary.
Wisconsin Conference Association
By C. McREYNOLDS; JOHN C. McREYNOLDS
THE Wisconsin Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its annual session on the camp-ground in Wood's Grove, Grand Rapids, Wis., between Sept. 2 and 11, 1910. The first meeting will be held at twelve o'clock noon, Friday, Sept. 2, 1910. A business and financial report of the association will be rendered by the secretary and treasurer, the regular officers will be elected for the ensuing year, and such other business will be transacted as may be properly brought before the association.
C. McREYNOLDS, President;
JOHN C. McREYNOLDS, Secretary.
Self-Supporting School Workers' Convention
By E. A. Sutherland
THE third annual convention of self-supporting Southern workers will be held at Madison, Tenn., on the farm of the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute, Aug. 27-30, 1910. These annual conventions are held for the purpose of bringing into one body those actively engaged in self-supporting school work, and those interested in this work and desiring to enter it. During the past four years the Madison school has gradually developed a system of highland farm schools. There are about twenty of these schools, and they send representatives to the convention. Brethren and sisters in the North who desire to meet workers keenly alive to the Southern problem can not do better than attend this convention. This will be a meeting full of enthusiasm. Some interesting reading-matter will be sent upon application to the undersigned, at Madison, Tenn.
E. A. SUTHERLAND.
A Card
By H. E. ROBINSON
SEVERAL months ago I made a personal request in the REVIEW for any of our people who had been specially prospered in getting employment, or in retaining their positions, when deciding to keep the Sabbath, to send me a brief statement of the facts for a small book or pamphlet which I hoped soon to publish. To those who kindly responded, and to others interested in the matter, I wish now to say that severe illness has thus far prevented my finishing the manuscript; but as my health is now improving, I hope to resume my writing, and have the work completed in a few months. I think all the experiences recorded in the letters received can be used, perhaps in condensed form, only that I wish to change the date when they were written to one near the time when the book will be issued. My present address is 4 Oxford Terrace, Boston, Mass. H. E. ROBINSON.
“One Better”
By Editor
PERHAPS it will be of interest to REVIEW readers to learn that this motto was adopted by the Signs Office years ago. Ever since its adoption, it has been the aim and constant endeavor of all workers, both in the editorial rooms and the manufacturing departments, to make each succeeding edition of a book or number of a periodical “one better” than the preceding one.
Judging from the following contents, and the accompanying print of cover of the Signs of the Times Monthly for September, we are led to conclude that this issue will be in keeping with that motto:—
Scores of our people are circulating this magazine in different ways; but other scores are needed. Will you join this army of workers? Read this announcement through, then ask yourself the question, Do people need to know about the things the Signs teaches? If so, what part shall I act in getting these truths to them? Here is a partial list of contents:—
“Many Shall Run to and fro, and Knowledge Shall Be Increased.” Well illustrated.
“The Increase in Knowledge of the Bible.” Facts and figures of intense interest and full of encouragement are given in this article.
“The Improvements in War Facilities, and the Increase in the War Spirit.” Readers of this article will be sure to ponder over the points so convincingly made.
“The Culmination of the Ages.” First part in fascinating story form; holds the attention to the end; full of truth for these very days.
“The Passing of Protestantism.” Outlines in stirring words the present indifference of Christian leaders toward the encroachments of ancient errors.
“Canst Thou Guide Arcturus?” Think of it! our sun is so large that this earth might be placed in its center, and the moon could be taken in too, and still remain the same distance from the earth as at present. This thought is followed by the statement that Arcturus is one thousand times larger than our sun.
“Shall Meat Be Abandoned?” Seven reasons why this supposedly necessary article of diet should be abandoned are given in this timely article. These seven reasons are by far the best we have ever seen.
Limited space will not permit mention of the other meritorious articles and the usual Current Topics, but we do want to urge REVIEW readers to order liberally of this number, which we verily believe is “one better.”
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