BRIEF business notices and “wants” will be published in this department, subject to the discretion of the publishers. A charge of one dollar for one insertion of four lines or less, and of twenty-five cents for every line over four, will be made, though in the case of the poor who want employment, the charge may be remitted. Parties unknown to the managers of the publishing house must furnish good references.
WANTED.—A place to work at housekeeping or caring for children, among Sabbath-keepers, by a middle-aged woman. Address Box 123, Gaylord, Mich.
WANTED.—Homes for two girls (white), aged five and fifteen years. Both of mental temperament, and healthy. References given. Address R. V. Osburn, Box 494, Jerseyville, Ill.
WANTED.—Employment among Sabbath-keepers on farm in Michigan, by boy seventeen years of age, during winter, or by the year. Address Box 1506, Lakeview, Montcalm Co., Mich.
WANTED.—To correspond with persons who would work in grocery business in this locality. Good profits. An opportunity to improve spare time. Address, with stamp, J. I. Snow, Owosso, Mich.
FOR SALE.—Cheap for cash, new house, ¾ acre good land. Choice fruit-trees and vines. High and dry. Near S. D. A. church, stores, and Southern Industrial School. Address Z. S. Avey, Graysville, Tenn.
WANTED.—In family of five adults, strong middle-aged man to care for horse, cow, garden, and place in general; a wood-worker used to farming preferred. Also woman, good, plain cook and housekeeper. Send names of past employers, with details of experience, and photographs. Permanent and good home. Address Mrs. O. M. Brown, Box 921, South Framingham, Mass.
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REVIEW TESTIMONY MEETING.—NO. 4.
———, ILL., Nov. 27, 1899. We expect to make a steady pull to increase the subscription list of the paper, and I think we begin to see as never before the importance of our periodicals. I am very much interested in the REVIEW, and wish to do all in my power to give it a wider circulation in Illinois. N. W. KAUBLE.
———, COLO., Aug. 9, 1899. I wish it could be in every family in our Conference. In fact, we are working to that end; and I am glad to say that you will find that we have the REVIEW in almost every family in the State. We wish that it were not only in every family, but in the hands of every isolated Sabbath-keeper. I will do what I can to bring this matter about. J. M. REES.
———, MICH., Aug. 29, 1899. Inclosed find $1.50, for which please send the REVIEW another year. I would as soon think of doing without my necessary food as to try to live without the REVIEW; for it comes each week laden with precious truth, which is food to my soul. I enjoyed reading the REVIEW “Testimony Meeting,” and hope we shall have them often. Each testimony expressed my own feelings better than I could myself. May the Lord bless the REVIEW. MRS. KATE T. ROGER.
———, IOWA, Jan. 2, 1900. With one exception the company here are very poor. I have been telling them that every Seventh-day Adventist needs the REVIEW in order to keep in touch with the message. I have particularly enjoyed “Studies in Galatians” and “The Two Laws.” I wish to express my appreciation of the efforts being made to improve the REVIEW. It certainly was never of more value to its readers. J. O. BEARD.
———, MO., Jan. 1, 1900. I have secured nearly a dozen subscriptions to the REVIEW lately. I think it is getting better. May the Lord bless and guide you all. D. E. SCOLES.
———, N. J., Dec. 24, 1899. I am sorry that I am not in shape to send you a subscription for your valuable paper, the REVIEW; but I intend to do so as soon as I can. M. W. MASS.
———, NEB., Dec. 15, 1899. I have been a regular subscriber to the REVIEW for about twenty-three years, with the exception of one year when it came in my wife's name. I can not think of being without it when I am old—seventy-nine years. It is a light to my pathway. May the Lord bless its editors and all those who read its contents. D. N. HILL.
———, WASH., Dec. 13, 1899. As I was sending my subscription and the name of another, I thought that I would write you a few lines. I think every Adventist should read the REVIEW, and I hope and pray that it may be a weekly visitor to the home of every Seventh-day Adventist. J. M. SIMMONS.
———, TEX., Dec. 12, 1899. It seems as if I could not live spiritually without the REVIEW. My husband always renews for me about this season of the year. He will be at home now in a few days. May all find in our publications what the Spirit shows to me. IDA CARMICHAEL.
———, R. I., Dec. 12, 1899. Yes, I received the REVIEWS you sent me, and thank you for your kindness in sending them. I have read many of them since receiving the truth, and do not care to be without the paper. They are the best papers of the kind I ever read. E. WARREN FRATIS.
———, O. T., Dec. 11, 1899. The REVIEW is highly appreciated. I do not know what I could do without such precious treasures of thought as are brought out in the paper. May the Lord bless and prosper our church paper. JOHN RAFFERTY.
———, ORE., Dec. 23, 1899. I am one of the isolated Sabbath-keepers. I have no church privileges; and, to keep in touch with the message, I want the good REVIEW to read. I am in my seventy-eighth year, and live with the children and grandchildren. The REVIEW is like a dear friend, and its visits are always welcome. C. F. STILES.
———, WIS., Dec. 21, 1899. Please find inclosed money order for $1.50, for another year's subscription for the REVIEW. I could not do without it, for it is the best paper. H. J. WAGNER.
———, ILL., Dec. 22, 1899. Inclosed find $1.50, for the REVIEW. It seems to get better and better all the time. I am so thankful to the Lord for it. It is a comfort and a pleasure from beginning to end. MRS. SARAH A. KRASK.
———, S. DAK., Dec. 25, 1899. I can not get along without the REVIEW. It is the most welcome visitor I have, and one of my dearest friends. Success to the REVIEW. M. A. REASE.
———, VT., Dec. 26, 1899. Inclosed find $1.50, for the REVIEW. I can not get along without it. A. D. LADEAU.
———, IOWA, Dec. 29, 1899. Our church paper is getting better and better. Wish it continued prosperity. ALICE M. SLOCUM.
———, R. I., Dec. 27, 1899. I have just received one paper, and can say it is a good paper; it is indeed interesting. R. H. RANDALL.
———, COLO., Dec. 14, 1899. Inclosed find fifty cents, for which please send me the REVIEW for three months. I can not get along without it, for it is the best of all papers. MRS. A. E. WILCOX.
———, IND., Nov. 20, 1899. Find inclosed $1.50 for one year's subscription. I have been without the REVIEW so long—not from choice, but because finances would not permit my taking it. I am lost without it, and have hoped and prayed that I might gain strength to labor so I could have the papers and books as I used to, and can say my prayers are answered now. Praise God for that. I love the REVIEW. It has not only been my comfort, but a great blessing to me; nothing could induce me to do without it, only that I had not the money to pay for it. MRS. ISAAC RINEHART.
———, IDAHO, Nov. 18, 1899. Inclosed find $1.50, for which please renew my subscription to the REVIEW. I get a good deal of good from the paper. There is no Seventh-day Adventist church near here, so I content myself with reading the paper. Remember me in your prayers that I may be kept in the narrow path, putting my trust in God. LYMAN F. MARKHAM.
———, WYO., Aug. 23, 1899. Inclosed please find my subscription for six months. I love the good old paper with all my heart, and can not understand why every Seventh-day Adventist does not take it. I shall endeavor to have every one that is in this place take it before I leave here. C. H. ABBOTT.
———, S. DAK., Nov. 21, 1899. I would rather do with half enough to eat than not to get the dear REVIEW. I can not get along without it. I am sending it to Ontario to my parents. MRS. JAMES IRWIN.
———, MICH., Nov. 19, 1899. I do appreciate the REVIEW. I can hardly wait from one number to another, I am so interested in its contents. Please accept my sincere and heartfelt thanks for the privilege of reading the dear REVIEW. As soon as my health improves so I can get a money order, I will send you renewal, so please do not stop the paper. MRS. M. J. RANDALL.
———, TENN., Nov. 15, 1899. We are moving north to Illinois. We are all grateful for all past favors, and sincerely hope to find the REVIEW coming to us as faithfully there as it has in old Tennessee. God bless the REVIEW. C. E. STURDEVANT.
———, S. DAK., Nov. 20, 1899. Please find draft inclosed for $1.50, to pay my subscription to the REVIEW, always welcomed with delight. May the Heavenly Father bless all that are connected with it. R. S. WARNER.
———, N. DAK., Nov. 15, 1899. Please find inclosed $1.75, of which $1.50 is for renewal of REVIEW, and twenty-five cents to apply on Youth's Instructor. We are isolated from all our friends, and have not seen a Seventh-day Adventist since we came here, in April; so we are very lonely sometimes, but the dear REVIEW is looked for and read with joy. Through the kindness of friends the Signs is a weekly visitor, and we are thankful to have the REVIEW, Signs, Youth's Instructor, Good Health, and the Life Boat. MRS. RICHARD GRAHAM.
———, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1899. I could not personally do without the REVIEW, and can not understand how a Seventh-day Adventist can live without its weekly visits. Would sooner dispense with my dinner if I could not have both. The REVIEW continues to improve, and we certainly need its co-operation in our warfare with the errors of our times. ELLEN E. JONES.
———, PA., Sept. 14, 1899. The good REVIEW comes to us each week, and seems better each year of its existence. The people in all parts of the field seem much interested in it. S. H. LANE.
NEW G. T. R. COACHES.
Five More New and Modernly Built Cars Added to the Rolling Stock.
The Grand Trunk has added another lot of five handsomely built first-class coaches to its already up-to-date equipment. During the last year about fifty of these modern cars have been built and placed in service, taking the place of some of the older coaches. These new cars have been greatly admired by all who see them. Everything that science, experience, and skilled labor can do has been brought into requisition to make these new creations perfect in every detail. In completeness of detail, artistic workmanship, appointments, and finish, they surpass anything of their kind yet built in America; and, in fact, it would be hard to equal them in the world.
The new cars form part of what is known as the eight hundred series, and are of the wide vestibule order, sixty-eight feet long, with four-wheeled trucks, making the riding of the cars easy, and with the least possible jolting effect. The cars are equipped with Westinghouse quick-action triple brakes, and air signals. A special feature of the cars is the peculiar construction of the platform, which is built of steel, and an adjustable covering is arranged over the steps, making the whole platform a vestibule. By this means, dust is excluded, and perfect safety to passengers on the platform is assured. The vestibule is also lighted with a powerful light, which, though unusual, is a most convenient appointment.
The average weight of these coaches is 72,100 pounds each, and they have each a seating capacity for seventy-two passengers. There are twenty windows on each side of the cars, finished on the outside and inside in Gothic architecture in oak and mahogany combination. The interiors are finished in quartered oak, and are extremely handsome. The seats are Grand Trunk standard reversible pattern, upholstered in crimson plush. The other trimmings are of exquisite designs in bronze. The saloons are fitted with the latest devices to make them as near perfection as possible. The aisles of the cars are carpeted with Brussels. The closets are self-flushing, and separate lavatories are provided for the ladies. The cars are heated with steam, and the ventilating arrangements are ample and satisfactory. The tout ensemble of these handsome coaches is one of elegance, and everything about them wears an air of ease and comfort.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM.
Time Card in Effect November 19, 1899.
C. & G. T. DIVISION.
WEST-BOUND FROM BATTLE CREEK.
No. 9, Mail and Express, to Chicago............... 12.15 P. M.
No. 1, Chicago Express, to Chicago................. 9.00 A. M.
No. 3, Lehigh Valley Express, to Chicago........... 3.40 P. M.
No. 5, Pacific Express, to Chicago, with sleeper.... 1.10 A. M.
No. 75, Mixed, to South Bend........................ 8.20 A. M.
Nos. 9 and 75, daily, except Sunday. Nos. 1, 3, and 5, daily.
EAST-BOUND FROM BATTLE CREEK.
No. 8, Mail & Exp., to Pt. Huron, East, and Detroit 3.45 P. M.
No. 4, Lehigh Express, to Pt. Huron and East ........ 8.27 P. M.
No. 6, Atlantic Exp., to Pt. Huron, East, & Detroit. 2.25 A. M.
No. 2, Lehigh Express, to Saginaw, Bay City, Pt.
Huron, and East.................................. 6.50 A. M.
No. 74, Mixed, to Durand (Starts at Nichols).......... 7.15 A. M.
Nos. 8 and 74, daily, except Sunday. Nos. 4, 6, and 2, daily.
A. S. PARKER,
Ticket Agent,
Battle Creek.
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MICHIGAN CENTRAL
By O. W. RUGGLES; R. N. R. WHEELER
“The Niagara Falls Route.”
Corrected Nov. 19, 1899.
EAST
3
12
6
10
14
20
36
1Night Express.
Detroit Accom.
Mail & Express.
1N. Y. & Bos. Spl.
1Eastern Express.
1Jackson Ac'm't.
1Atl'ntic Express.
Chicago
pm 9.37
am 6.45
am 10.30
pm 3.00
pm 1.30
Michigan City
11.25
8.43
12.08
4.40
am 1.20
Niles
am 12.40
10.15
1.00
5.37
2.30
Kalamazoo
2.10
am 7.30
pm 12.10
2.08
6.52
pm 6.03
4.10
Battle Creek
3.00
8.10
1.00
2.42
7.28
6.43
5.05
Marshall
3.30
8.38
1.30
3.09
7.51
7.10
5.30
Albion
3.50
8.57
1.50
3.30
8.11
7.30
5.52
Jackson
4.40
10.05
2.35
4.05
8.50
8.15
6.40
Ann Arbor
5.55
11.10
3.47
4.58
9.43
7.48
Detroit
7.15
pm 12.25
5.30
6.00
10.45
9.15
Falls View
am 5.02
pm 4.13
Susp. Bridge
5.17
4.33
Niagara Falls
5.30
4.40
Buffalo
am 12.20
6.14
5.30
Rochester
8.13
9.50
8.40
Syracuse
8.15
11.50
10.45
Albany
9.05
am 4.15
am 2.50
New York
pm 1.30
8.15
7.00
Springfield
2.16
6.19
7.40
Boston
3.00
9.05
10.34
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7
15
3
5
23
18
37
1Night Express.
1N.Y. Bos. & Chi. Spl.
2Mail & Express.
1News Express.
1Weste'n Express.
2Kalam. Accom.
1Pacific Express.
Boston
am 10.30
pm 3.00
pm 6.00
New York
pm 1.00
6.00
am 12.10
Syracuse
8.10
am 2.00
pm 12.25
Rochester
10.00
4.05
pm 2.25
Buffalo
am 12.05
5.20
pm 3.50
Niagara Falls
6.02
4.32
Falls View
6.34
5.05
Detroit
pm 8.20
am 7.20
am 8.25
pm 12.40
pm 4.35
11.25
Ann Arbor
9.43
8.18
9.40
1.38
6.45
am 12.30
Jackson
11.15
9.20
11.05
am 3.30
2.40
7.30
1.35
Battle Creek
12.40
10.30
pm 12.25
4.35
3.50
9.06
3.00
Kalamazoo
1.40
11.05
1.20
5.15
4.28
10.00
3.35
Niles
3.15
pm 12.22
2.55
5.05
5.05
Michigan City
4.26
1.20
4.10
7.05
6.01
Chicago
6.30
3.00
6.05
8.55
7.50
Trains on Battle Creek Division depart at 8.05 a. m. and 4.10 p. m., and arrive at 12.40 p. m. and 6.10 p. m. daily except Sunday.
O. W. RUGGLES,
General Pass. & Ticket Agent, Chicago,
R. N. R. WHEELER,
Ticket Agent, Battle Creek
Earthquake off the Japan Coast
REPORTS of a fearful earthquake off the Japan coast, during November, tell of disastrous loss of life and property.
War for Humanity
PRESIDENT BARROWS, of Oberlin College, says: “Our country has the honor of having waged a war for humanity.” So had the Roman Republic.
1899 Conversions, Baptisms, and Churches
A BROTHER sends to us the interesting information that during the year 1899 there were reported in the REVIEW AND HERALD 2,870 conversions; 1,950 baptisms; twenty churches organized, with 355 members; and 375 deaths.
Selling the Life Boat
ONE sister sent to the Life Boat, Chicago, a cash order for eleven hundred copies of the Life Boat to sell in her community. Thank the Lord for that. All that is needed in order to have any of our papers sold, is for people to go to selling them.
Russia’s Transcaspian Railway Extension
RUSSIA has arranged for an important extension of her transcaspian railway system by securing concessions from Persia. This, it is said, “will afford Russia another outlet to the sea, and give her a powerful leverage in the affairs of southern Asia.”
Rome’s Political Aspirations
CARDINAL NEWMAN says, in one of his recently published letters: “A large society such as the church is necessarily a political power.” This is but another item indicating Rome’s aspirations to become the political force of the world, to domineer over civil government. The church which Christ founded was not “a political power;” for he says, “My kingdom is not of this world.”
A Better Way of Administering Discipline
In referring to heresy trials and the evils accompanying them, the Interior (Presbyterian) says: “Our ecclesiastical law was taken over bodily from the Roman Church: . . . We preserve in our forms of discipline precisely the attitude of the inquisitors who brought men to the stake, which assumes that those who differ with us in some theological matter are criminals. ‘Are you guilty or not guilty?’ If the accused is found to hold the views charged, the verdict is ‘guilty.’ This ‘link ties us fast to a post which is too horrible to contemplate.’ This is all too true, as is clearly demonstrated in the career of John Calvin, who brought over bodily from Rome this system of ecclesiastical law. Then the Interior very properly declares, “Some better way of administering discipline must be found.” Why not take the “better way” shown in the words of Christ? This way is as much better than that as Christ is better than Rome.
Cardinal Vaughan’s New-Year’s Greeting
CARDINAL VAUGHAN, of England, sent to the Catholic Mirror “A New-year’s Greeting to the American People,” in which he says that “one can not fail to see that it may be in the providence of God to use the American Republic and the British Empire in furtherance of his designs of mercy and salvation for the human race;” and that “the Catholics of both countries have a distinguished and exalted mission. They are the leaven in the lump. I hope we shall ever remember this, and mold our thoughts and lives accordingly.”
Germany’s New Code of Law
The first day of January, 1900, the German Empire abandoned the Code of Roman Law, under which the German people had been held for four hundred years, and adopted a code of her own making, drawn from native German experience, and fitted to the German people. The New York Tribune remarks of this that “it may well be that history will ultimately know William II by no means least as the lawgiving emperor — the sovereign under whose reign the German Empire was at last ‘lapped in universal law’ of German origin.” Much has been said by many persons to discredit the ability and steadiness of the German emperor; but he surprises them all by simply going straight forward, and by his acts quietly disproving it all.
True and False Divine Healing
FOR some time there has been emphasized in the REVIEW AND HERALD the necessity of understanding the distinction between true divine healing and false divine healing. This necessity is illustrated in an advertisement of a professed “wonderful divine healer,” that has been sent to us. He declares: “It does not make a bit of difference whether you believe in divine powers or not: Mr. — cures unbelievers, skeptics, scoffers, infidels, atheists, and revilers.” And being “healed,” they can of course go on in their unbelief, skepticism, scoffing, infidelity, atheism, and reviling. It is perfectly plain that all the divinity that there can be about such healing as that, can be only satanic. And we have received an inquiry, “Can we trust him?” Would you trust a preacher who would preach forgiveness of sins to unbelievers, skeptics, scoffers, infidels, atheists, and revilers, without calling on them for any amendment of life?
Higher Criticism and Protestantism’s Drift
The “great” example and advocate of the “higher criticism,” Prof. Charles A. Briggs, D. D., has said that “if the Roman Catholic will recognize the authority of the Bible, as he ought to; and Protestants will recognize the authority of the church, as they should, the two will find themselves so near together that they can shake hands.” The truth is that the Catholic does now recognize the authority of the Bible precisely upon the principle represented by Dr. Briggs, only with the pope instead of Dr. Briggs as the grand representative of the principle. And Dr. Briggs is doing perhaps more than any other person to draw Protestants into accepting the authority of the church. And whoever follows his lead will very shortly find himself shaking hands with the Catholic Church. And on the popular tide of science, falsely so called, of which the higher criticism is but the logical outcome, professed Protestantism is fast approaching the point where she shall clasp the hand of the Roman power.
The Open Door in China
THE “demands” of the United States with respect to the “open door” in China have now been formally acceded to by all the great powers. And it is announced that this “constitutes the United States the leader of the peace of the world;” and that this, with connected facts, “demonstrates beyond all question that if English-speaking nations and their governments are to-day the leaders in the world’s affairs, there need be no doubt in any mind as to which nation occupies first place, and which the second.”
B. Fay Mills’s Repudiation of Christian Doctrines
A few years ago B. Fay Mills was a leading “evangelist” in the United States. He conducted immense revival movements in Oakland, Cal., in Minneapolis, and in other cities. A few weeks ago, in that same city of Oakland, Cal., in a published interview in an Oakland paper, he said that when he was conducting that great “revival” in Oakland several years ago, he did not believe in the atonement, nor in the inspiration of the Scriptures, nor in salvation by Christ. He declares that before he was twenty-five years old, he had repudiated “the expiatory atonement,” and that before he was thirty, he had “ceased to believe in salvation only by Christ.”
Opposition to Mormonism
THERE is some concern expressed by the leading religious papers of the East at the growth of Mormonism, especially in the East. They think that there should be begun speedily a systematic campaign in opposition to it. Well, since the national administration, by treaty, which is a part of the supreme law of the land, and by the payment of ten thousand dollars a year, has recognized and sanctioned polygamy within the jurisdiction of the United States, it would seem as if some sort of a campaign is needed, either of opposition or of education. And in view of all the circumstances, it would seem that with the national administration would be the most appropriate place to begin. Because, with the administration sustaining it by the supreme law, and supporting it by the payment of ten thousand dollars a year, any campaign against it that is not directed to the national administration will surely be exceedingly uphill work.
Catholic Claims for Church Damages
By Editor
MORE than once last year in these columns we called attention to the great probability that the Catholic Church would push herself upon the United States in immense claims for “damages to church property” in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines. And now she has already begun it. And this to the extent of more than a million dollars in Cuba alone. And this is only the beginning, too. And when that is only the beginning, and only in Cuba, what will it be when she has finished for Cuba and the Philippines? In Cuba hardly any damage at all was done, while in the Philippines churches have been greatly damaged, if not actually destroyed. And since the Methodist Episcopal Church South got four hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars from the government for the occupancy of only one building belonging to that church, and not a church building, what will the Catholic Church be likely to get for the many buildings in payment for which she will enter claims, which are actually church buildings? The colonial career of the United States is a harvest of gold, as well as a golden harvest, for Rome.