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Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 29.

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Jul 18, 1907

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Home and Health

EVEN the name of this book appeals to the public; and why not? There is only one other word associated with the word “home” more dear to all than the word “health,” and that is the word “mother.” The words “home” and “mother” carry with them an influence and power unequaled by any other combination of words applicable to man. So nearly related to these are the words “home and health,” that the public seems to yield at once to them; but the contents of “Home and Health” is the real attraction to the people after their attention has been called to it through its fortunate name. Agents everywhere are meeting with surprising success. We have just received a report from two ladies in California, one having had no previous experience, who sold during one day sixty-five dollars’ worth of “Home and Health.” This ought to be evidence to all that this book has selling qualities, and that it is a book that is appreciated by the general public. We hope others will consider the advisability of taking this very helpful book to their neighbors and friends.
“Home and Health” contains 592 pages, and is illuminated with over 250 original drawings made expressly for the book. The prices, post-paid, are as follows: strong cloth, marbled edge, $2.50; full law sheep, marbled edge, $3.50; full leather, marbled edge, $4.50.

A Friend in the Kitchen

THIS is the time of year when it is the most trying for the housewife to plan for nutritious and refreshing meals. “A Friend in the Kitchen” will prove to be a friend indeed during the hot months. It is a common-sense health cook-book, especially adapted to the needs of all classes. It is vegetarian throughout, and contains much matter not found in an ordinary cook-book, such as, Substitutes for Meat, How to Can Fruit, How to Make Unfermented Bread and Wine, and How to Become a Genuine Vegetarian. It gives many valuable rules for dyspeptics, The Pulse in Health, Weights and Measures for the Kitchen, etc. It contains 400 choice recipes, every one of which has been thoroughly tested. The ingredients of each recipe are indicated by measure, and not by weight. The names of the recipes are printed in plain, bold type.
This book is not an advertising medium, but has been prepared in the interests of health, and with a view to being a help in the kitchen. It will be found to be thoroughly practical, hygienic, and common sense in every way. It is just the book every housekeeper should have. It sells for only 25 and 50 cents, and is procured from agents only. Nearly 150,000 copies of this excellent cook-book have been sold, and the demand is just fairly beginning. Many voluntary testimonials have been sent to the publishers for “A Friend in the Kitchen.” People everywhere are greatly pleased with the book, and more than satisfied with their investment.

The Spirit of Prophecy

A NEW and important pamphlet by G. A. Irwin on the subject of the spirit of prophecy, its relation to the law of God, and its place in the plan of salvation.
This little pamphlet of 56 pages is the outgrowth of a series of studies upon the spirit of prophecy in the remnant church, and the relation it sustains to the law of God and his people and work in all ages.
It has been the aim of the writer to treat the subject from a standpoint somewhat different from that in which it has heretofore been treated, and to enter a field not yet fully covered by any other writer, so that this treatise will be a companion and aid to the other writers upon this subject, rather than a rival of them. Its mission is more fully to establish believers upon the law of God and the Testimonies of his Spirit.
Those who have read the manuscript of this pamphlet are highly pleased with it, and give it their hearty recommendation, the two following testimonials being fair samples:—
“Having given a careful reading to the manuscript prepared by Elder G. A. Irwin, entitled ‘The Spirit of Prophecy: Its Relation to the Law of God, and Its Place in the Plan of Salvation,’ I would state that I think it most excellent, and believe its publication and circulation will be productive of much good.”
“J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.”
“Your manuscript on ‘The Spirit of Prophecy’ has been read by me with interest and profit. I know of nothing more timely than the publication of such a booklet. It is meat in due season. I trust it may have a wide circulation, and be the means of much good.”
“DR. D. H. KRESS.”
Price, 5 cents, post-paid.

The Church

Its Organization, Order, and Discipline

OUR readers do not want to overlook the fact that the book for the present is “The Church: Its Organization, Order, and Discipline,” by Elder J. N. Loughborough. Of this pamphlet, Elder George I. Butler, president of the Southern Union Conference, says: “The book covers two main features. The first part gives a very full and complete summary of the Scriptural teaching with reference to the church and its work. The second part enters into the real history of our cause previous to organization, recording the facts that led up to the organization, and giving a careful statement of the history of the work of organization and its practical benefits in the progress of our cause. The summary of questions growing out of the subject of organization is worthy of careful study, and will be a great help to many of our younger members who are not familiar with the phases of this important subject. The answers are most excellent.”
The subject-matter composing this pamphlet is no new man-made theory, but is the condensed, formulated instruction given to the denomination during its development, arranged in condensed form for reference and study. It is rendered convenient and practical by a thorough index, which will enable one to turn at once to a question of a subject. It contains 18 pages, printed in clear type; price, 5 cents, post-paid.

The Great Advent Movement

THIS is a timely publication, accurately citing the progress of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination from its beginning to the present time. The author, J. N. Loughborough, having been connected with the denomination from its beginning, is well qualified to prepare a book giving the history of the rise and progress of this denomination. With the exception of “The Church: Its Organization, Order, and Discipline,” this is one of the most important publications for REVIEW readers at this particular time. It will strengthen the faith and confidence of every individual who reads it. Its readers will have a more perfect knowledge of the dealings of God with this special people and of the message they are giving, and they will be encouraged to continue their efforts in advancing this great work. Let all not only read it, but study it. Price, $1.50.

The True Education Readers

THE new series of school readers is receiving hearty approval by our educators. This series of books is winning its way in the appreciation of the people. Orders are being received for them very encouragingly at the present time. The special purpose of these True Education Readers is to teach English reading; yet while teaching the art of reading, the subject-matter is so arranged that the pupil will be familiarized with the most important Bible truths. In the series, the pupils are taken three times over God’s great plan from the beginning. The successive steps in the work of creation are given clearly, and with these certain selected Bible child biographies are included. It deals also with the work of Christ as a child, his sacrifice, the finished plan of salvation, and the new earth. No. 1 contains 204 pages, 75 cents; No. 2, 256 pages, 75 cents; No. 3, 304 pages, 90 cents.

The New Testament Primer

THIS is a new book for children, composed of simplified nature and Bible topics, and sparkling with bright, two-colored illustrations; arranged in four graded departments, beginning with a Scripture alphabet, the first letter of the Scripture text being printed with two colors, and decorated with vines that grow in Palestine.
The second department is a nature display of trees, flowers, animals, birds, and insects, with a slate exercise in writing, drawing, and stick-laying.
The third and fourth departments contain simple stories of Christ and some of the leading disciples. The entire book is admirably adapted to attract and to teach the children—clean, cultured, and convincing. Beautifully bound in board and cloth covers, 25 and 50 cents.

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Editorial

By W. W. P.

Editorial Letter

Jottings from the Editor's Note-Book
CHRISTIANIA, where the annual conference for Norway was held, is almost directly north of Hamburg, and the journey occupied two nights and one day. The difference in the length of day at the two places is very marked. In fact, it could hardly be said that there was any night at Christiania. The sun did not disappear below the horizon until past nine o'clock, and then the twilight continued until the dawn of day. This was my first experience of this kind, and as the meeting was held at the time when the days were the longest, it was just the time to see the night transformed into day.
The meetings of the conference were held in the hall occupied by the Christiania church, and I found a pleasant and comfortable home at the health home conducted in the building adjoining the publishing house and owned by that institution. The attendance on the part of our people was the largest in the history of the conference; and at some of the services, evenings and on Sunday, many strangers were present, and the large hall was so full that it was necessary to place seats in the aisles. Several ministers of other denominations and other Christian workers attended some of the meetings, and seemed to be deeply interested.
I was pleased to meet at this gathering several whom I had known in America, just among them being Elder O. A. Johnson, the president of the conference, and Brother Jenson, the foreman of the printing-office.
A report of the proceedings of the conference will be furnished for the REVIEW, and so I will not need to write particularly of that part of the meeting, but will refer in a general way to other features. Brethren L. R. Conradi, J. C. Raft (the president of the Danish Conference), M. L. Andreason, from America, and C. C. Jenson, who had just returned from America, and I, did the public speaking, Brother Raft acting as interpreter for those who could not use the Scandinavian language.
In my teaching I tried to present the fundamental principles of this gospel message as a personal experience, showing what it means at this time to believe in Christ for salvation, and why just such a message is needed in this last generation to meet the needs of this time. We have no new gospel to preach, but in this message is the fulness of the gospel of Christ our sacrifice, our substitute, our surety, our High Priest, and our coming King. The final and supreme effort is now being made to pervert this gospel, and to hide from view the true Saviour, the Mediator whose ministry can alone avail for us in this hour of God's judgment. Man's words have been substituted for God's words, and a false philosophy, in which is no salvation from sin, has been put in place of the genuine gospel of Christ, and thus humanity has been cut off from divinity, and left to the buffetings of Satan. By such teaching as this the Christ of the Scriptures has been displaced by a merely human Christ, and the God of the Bible has been set aside for the god of science, and the revelation of God has been eclipsed by the so-called discoveries of men. There is therefore the greatest need of a message in which the true Christ shall be proclaimed, which shall call upon all to worship the true and living God, and which shall set forth in a true light the revelation which God has made of himself. Such a message is the threefold message of Revelation 14, in the light of which the whole Bible is now to be interpreted, and the true understanding of which will save us from the deceptive doctrines which are now flooding the world.
Only the divine mind, which foresaw just the condition of things in this last generation, could have outlined in so few words the setting for this message which must be preached in all the world in order to leave the people without excuse in the day when the Son of man will be revealed. The very wording of this message is in itself a divine testimony to its genuineness, and if it is carefully followed, it will give color to all our study and teaching of the Scriptures.
There was a good response to this presentation of the truth, and many seemed to see more clearly than ever before the real meaning of this message, and why it must be proclaimed to all the world in this generation.
The day after the conference closed, I met with the workers and such others as could attend, and we gave special study to the way in which the words of the three messages in Revelation 14 should guide us in our teaching of the Word of God. I hope that what we learned will be an inspiration to these workers in their future experiences.
We left Christiania in the evening after the close of our work, and arrived in Stockholm the next morning, where we remained two days before proceeding to the meeting in Finland. This gave me the much-needed opportunity to do some writing, which I was glad to improve, and also the privilege of seeing something of the city. Stockholm has some fine buildings, both public and private, among the former being the new parliament building recently completed at an expense of eight million kroner, or between two and three million dollars.
Our boat to Finland was delayed on account of the fog, so that we missed our connection at Abo, and were compelled to spend the night in this the most northerly city which we visited on our trip. The glow of the setting sun was still in the west when we retired, and it was possible to read without artificial light at any time during the night. In this place we were reminded, by the presence of Russian soldiers, that Russia had taken full control of Finland. From what the American consul told us in Hamburg we expected that the same regulations concerning passports applied now in Finland as in Russia proper, and we had prepared accordingly at considerable additional expense, but we found this unnecessary, as no request was made for passports during our stay in the country.
The general appearance of that part of Finland through which we went on the train was not particularly attractive, but we found Helsingfors, where meeting was held, a much prettier city than I had anticipated. There was a general air of thrift and enterprise, which I had hardly expected to find from what I had read of the way in which Finland had been oppressed by Russia. We saw at a distance the fortress where one of the most serious mutinies of the recent revolution had taken place, and visited the hill from which our brethren saw the battle which resulted in the surrender of the mutineers and the capture of some of their Finnish allies. Of our meeting I will write in my next letter. W. W. P.

Manifesting Christ

By C. M. S.

As representatives of God's closing work for this world, our actions should leave no reasonable doubt in the minds of our neighbors as to the person we represent in our daily acts. Every experience we pass through gives us an opportunity of exemplifying our Master. Our daily walk should so set him before the world that hearts would be drawn even out of sin to him. Every affliction that comes is an opportunity to preach Christ to an audience that will hear and that might hear of him in no other way—and there is no hall rent to pay. But if, when affliction comes, we allow it to cause us to complain, we are misrepresenting him whose name we have taken upon ourselves, and the cause of the adversary wins recruits through us. This preaching by living is a kind of preaching we can none of us escape. We can not miss our appointments, but we can misrepresent the One who makes them for us. A correspondent says: “The devil is reflected in many of our acts, not all of them, but the actions are often so mixed that a careless observer can not tell whether God or Babel is represented.” We must eliminate such confusion from the teaching of our lives, or we shall one day hear the terrible sentence, “I never knew you: depart from me.”
Let us say, with Paul, “Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” “Not only so, but we glory in tribulations also.” “Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation.” Do we wish to be among those from whose eyes “God shall wipe away every tear,” who “shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more,” who are to be shepherded and guided by the Lamb himself, who have “washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb,” and stand “before the throne of God,” serving him “day and night in his temple,” over whom he “shall spread his tabernacle”? Of that company it is said, “These are they which came out of the great tribulation.” Rev. 7:13-17.
Shall tribulation separate us from the love of Christ? It will, unless, in that tribulation, we permit Christ to shine out through our manner of bearing it. Do we expect to reach heaven without trials? It is a false hope, which will ruin us if clung to. Paul says, “Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.” Acts 14:22. He said that while still bearing the bruises of his stoning at Lystra. Christ said, “In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Every tribulation borne as Christ would bear it preaches Christ to the world, and makes you more like Christ than you ever have been before. C. M. S.

The General Conference Committee Council at Gland, Switzerland

By William Ambrose Spicer

Seventh, and Last Report

THOUGH Gland is a quiet country village, the council attracted some attention from the public press, which seemed impressed with the world-representative character of the meeting. The Berne Volksfreund, for instance, devoted three columns of first-page matter to a description of the camp and the work represented.
The following estimates were voted: —
Appropriations for Missions, 1907 European (including Levant) . . . $18,000 Canadian Union Conference . . . . . 6,852 Australasian Union Conference . . 8,500 China — General work . . . $15,000 Publishing work . . . 2,000 ,000 India Mission field . . . . . . . . . . . 16,000 Japan and Korea — General . . . . . . $7,239 Korean school . . . . . 100 Japanese school . . . . . 500 ,839 Mexican Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,631 South African Union Conference . 15,000 Southern Union Conference . . . . 10,386 West Indian Union Conference . . 14,572 South American Union Conference . 10,857 Southwestern Union Conference for its mission work . . . . . . . 1,200 West African Mission . . . . . . . . . 1,700 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $131,537
This, it was stated, is the largest annual appropriation for missions ever voted in this denomination. It represents the work at present being done in the fields, save in one or two missions, where new work is provided for in the estimates, in case it is found possible to undertake it. The council realized that special help must roll in for missions if the amount here appropriated is to be actually sent to the fields this year. This list, long and carefully considered at the council, is a thing for the believers in this message to bring earnestly and definitely before the Lord in prayer during the remainder of this year. The fields require the means to maintain the growing work. The mission treasury, it was explained, could supply it only as enlarged giving relieves the lack of mission funds.

More Reports, German Union

E. Frauchiger, of the East German Conference, said that in Saxony we are not permitted legally to baptize or celebrate the Lord’s supper. Youth under twenty, unless parents are members, are forbidden to attend our meetings. The elder of one church was fined fifty marks for allowing a child of fourteen present at a public meeting. Another was fined four hundred marks for the four times a young man was found to have attended. Yet “love finds a way,” and the truth wins victories. Baptisms must be at night. In Prussia there is liberty. Our literature has been sold in the imperial family. A governess at the Berlin court began to keep the Sabbath. The minister of ceremonies objected to such a thing in the castle, and the empress interested herself in securing another position for our sister.
West Germany has had 1,155 members taken from it by redivision of territory during the past four years; but J. Pieper, the president, reported that they are growing at the rate of over two hundred a year. There is liberty, under observation. At one place last winter a policeman sat by in meetings. Called to explain our faith and work in a court, Brother Pieper found the court had on file many documents and papers relating to our work.
G. Schubert, of the Rhenish Conference, said they had two hundred members at the organization in 1903. Now there are seven hundred. Most of the people in this part are Catholics, and we have churches composed of former Catholics.
J. G. Oblander reported 400 members at the organization of the Prussian Conference in 1904. Now there are 755.
J. H. Schilling, of the new Silesian Conference, organized five months before, reported 394 members at that time. Sixty-four have been baptized since January 1.
J. F. Huenergardt, of the Hungarian Mission, reported 350 members in Hungary. He appealed to our people in America to place the Hungarian paper and literature among people of that nationality in the United States.
L. Mathe, of the North German Conference, reported progress, and L. R. Conradi stated that it was estimated that during the last year 500 Catholics had been baptized in the European field.
For Holland and Flemish Belgium, R. G. Klingbeil reported 160 members. About fifteen are awaiting baptism in Brussels. Ten canvassers are putting out much literature.
D. P. Gaede reported the North Russian Conference territory as large as Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Minnesota. It has three ministers. Its membership is 600, mostly German, Lettonian, and Lithuanian.
O. Wildgrube, president of the Middle Russian Conference, followed with a plea for prayer and co-operation in behalf of Russia, which touched our hearts. In the events of these troublous times in that empire, God has caused the wrath of man to praise him. We have a church of sixty-four in Kiev, the Russian holy city. There is an interest among the Jews. Last year five Jews were received into the church. For the sixty-six millions in this conference, there are one minister and three Bible workers.
D. Isaak spoke for the fourteen millions of the South Russian Mission. These people speak ten different languages. Our 442 members here are Russians and Germans, about half and half. Two Jews have accepted the truth in this conference also.

The Scandinavian Union ·

An intensely interesting evening was devoted to the reports from Scandinavia. Elder P. A. Hansen described the general territory, with one fourth the population of the United States, counting the new field of Abyssinia which Scandinavia is planning to enter.
J. C. Raft, president of the Danish Conference, reported seven hundred and fifty members, of whom fifty-two were baptized last year.
O. A. Johnson reported one hundred and two added in Norway last year. A new publication in the Lapp language has been issued. We have a few Sabbath-keepers among the Laplanders.
E. Lind reported for Sweden. There is hardly a family in the country that has not been visited by a canvasser. Even sisters have carried books twenty or twenty-five miles to points away from the railway—one sister tugging fifteen copies of “Great Controversy” twenty-five miles to make her delivery. This canvassing sister was once two days without food. She entered a wood to ask the Lord to supply some way of getting food in the wilderness. As she came out to the road, a man met her and gave her a loaf of bread.
Finland, reported for by Fred Anderson, had many Sabbath-keepers in earlier times. There was a famine in the land. Many decided it was because the Sabbath was not kept, and began to keep the seventh day. The king of Sweden, who then ruled Finland, sent a letter condemning the practise. The letter is in the Swedish archives. Last year twenty-one were baptized, among these the leading doctor of the city of Helsingfors.
Brother Arnesen, for the sanitarium work, J. F. Hansen, for the health food work, and A. C. Christensen, for the publishing house, made cheering reports. Brethren Nelson, Svenssen, and Muderspach, from the evangelistic field, told of interesting experiences.
O. A. Johnson, in closing Scandinavia’s reports, said that 460 years ago Catholics from Norway came to a church council at Basel, Switzerland, and secured the condemnation of Sabbath-keepers in Norway. These old-time witnesses were rooted out. Now, however, Sabbath-keepers from Norway come to Switzerland to tell of the progress of the Sabbath truth through the lands of the north.

The Last Sabbath

After two weeks of constant work in council, the last Sabbath came as a welcome and blessed gift, with refreshing and rest for heart and body. The weather was again ideal. Friday evening Elder Prescott spoke. Next morning, after the Sabbath-school, carried on in five or six languages, Elder Daniells spoke on the work of the Holy Spirit, the latter rain, and the finishing of the mystery of God. At the close of the sermon, the entire congregation rose in testimony to full surrender for service, and the speaker led all in a prayer of consecration. The Lord was manifestly present by his Spirit.
It was a blessed Sabbath day in the camp, from which these workers were soon to be scattered out, to take up the stern conflict, many in isolation from associates. But there was courage in every heart, and confidence in God’s leadership of the advent people from the days of 1844 to the present time. This is the faith and confidence that have been used of God in the building up of the work everywhere during all these years. By the same means the work is being finished, and the European laborers who are day by day building for God, in new fields and old, are strong in the faith of the third angel’s message.
Sabbath afternoon four young men were ordained to the ministry. They represented three of the countries of Catholic Europe. They were Frank Bond, of Spain, J. P. Badant, of southern France, son of one of our earliest French laborers, Ulysses Augsburger, of Paris, and C. E. Rentfro, of Portugal. The ordination prayers and charge were in English and French. At the close of the ordination the Spanish representatives sang the Spanish hymn, “Wonderful words of life,” and the German brethren sang, “Ah, my Lord Jesus, if I had not thee.” All hearts rejoiced that four men should be ordained to the work in Catholic fields at this meeting. It is a sign of the times in our work for Latin Europe. The Lord is visiting the Catholic lands to take out of them a people prepared for his coming.
The ring of the “blessed hope” was heard in the social service following the ordination. It was in unity of faith and the love of the truth that the last testimonies were borne, and farewell greetings spoken. The council had been a season of fellowship and blessing. That evening many of the workers began to leave for various fields, all hearts feeling that, by the blessing of the Lord, the council will result in hastening the triumph of the third angel’s message and the glad day of gathering round the great white throne. This is a glorious work.
W. A. SPICER, Secretary.

Our Foreign Mission School

By Arthur G. Daniells

LAST week’s REVIEW contained a brief statement regarding the decision of the council held at Grand, that the time has come in the development of our work to establish a foreign mission school in which shall be given, as far as possible, the special instruction needed by volunteers for missions. Further explanations should be given concerning this important measure.
This school will occupy a field somewhat different from that of our regular schools. Our academies and colleges are giving the general education that forms the basis for intelligent, difficult service in all vocations. But our young people who are called to Africa, China, India, Japan, Korea, the East Indies, the Levant, and the Mohammedan countries we have not yet entered, require a line of instruction not given in these schools. The volunteer for a foreign mission field should, before going to that field, pursue a line of study especially adapted to the field.
Men who have had the longest and ripest experience in foreign service have very clear, pronounced convictions regarding the preparation required by those who go to foreign mission fields. They urge that volunteers for missions should obtain a fairly good knowledge of the general history of the country to which they are going. They should, if possible, make a fairly good beginning in the languages they will have to use. They should get a clear understanding of the main features of the religions they will have to displace in the minds and hearts of the people. They should learn about the peculiar local diseases most prevalent and dangerous, so that they may know from the first how to avoid them, and also the best remedies for treating them. They should learn something of the customs, habits, and temperament of the people to whom they are going. They should also know something of the manner in which they will have to live, the special kind of work they will be required to do; and if there will be farming, they should know something about the character of the soil, and the kinds of crops to be raised.
While it is true that volunteers for missions will not be able to obtain a full knowledge of all these important points before going to their fields, yet it is also true that a certain amount of information can be gathered in a reasonably short time that will be of great service as soon as they reach their fields of labor. It is just this kind of instruction that we shall endeavor to give in our foreign mission school.
Another consideration of great value is the acquaintance that will be formed in this school between the volunteers for missions and the members of the General Conference Committee, whose duty it is to secure recruits for mission fields.
In their efforts to secure the workers called for, the General Conference Committee have been compelled in many instances to select persons whom they have never seen, to go to the most distant and difficult fields on the globe. In such cases it is practically impossible to feel strong assurance in the wisdom of the selection made. Their qualifications as regards spiritual experience, education, health, temperament, and aptness for the fields for which they are chosen are not known.
And it is continually becoming more difficult and perplexing to provide the workers needed. One reason for this is that we have drawn from the ranks of our regular workers until there are but few left of the right age and qualifications who can be spared. In the early part of our missionary enterprises there was a demand for men of age and experience in English-speaking fields; but the situation is now changed. Only occasionally are we now required to send men to any English-speaking country. Great Britain, Australasia, South Africa, and Canada are fairly well supplied, and are developing their own workers. The calls that now come are from lands where new languages must be learned, and privations endured. All are agreed that our young people are best suited to fill these calls. Men well advanced in years can not successfully master the difficult languages to be learned, nor stand the exposures and privations incident to many of these countries. Besides, these men are needed in the home lands to aid in furnishing supplies for foreign fields.
With a large number of young people in this school taking special instruction to prepare them for foreign service, the Committee will have many advantages not now possessed in selecting workers best adapted to the fields. And on the other hand, the workers will have an acquaintance with the Committee and the conditions under which they will go abroad that will be of great value to them.
We believe that our people the world over will see the wisdom of maintaining a foreign mission school at our headquarters, and that our brethren in America will unite in giving this school strong support. We believe our school men connected with our academies and colleges will co-operate with us in carrying out the plans for this institution. Many who have learned of these plans have told us that they look upon this move as being one of the most important the General Conference Committee has ever made. In behalf of the great work contemplated, we crave the prayers of God’s people.
A. G. DANIELLS.

Note and Comment

ONE of the iniquitous practises lately brought to light in large cities is the work of making evidence, especially in divorce cases. In this particular branch of making evidence young women are tempted to act as “stool pigeons” for the detective agencies because of the good pay there is in it. Concerning this matter a special dispatch from New York to the Washington Post says:—
The attention of the district attorney’s office has been called to the manner in which certain detective agencies in this city secure evidence for divorce cases, showing the ease with which such evidence is not only secured, but actually made, the victim being none the wiser until it is all over, and the divorce is secured. The information may lead to arrests and indictments by the grand jury, as a case in point which is regarded as typical has been presented to the prosecutor.
Such developments as this are not used by those who are advocating the idea that we are entering upon the golden age of this world’s history.

The Christian and the Theater

A most excellent answer was recently given by the Sunday School Times to a query from one of its subscribers:—
The fundamental objection to attending plays lies not in the character of any play witnessed, but in the fact that it is a play at all. The objection rests upon acting as a life-work. It is an unworthy and demoralizing effort to devote one's life to seeming to be another person than one's self. Even though the character simulated is a good character, acting is poorer business, always, than being. Therefore any play that necessitates the profession of acting, as all professional plays do, is open to this fundamental objection. And to attend such a play is so far to indorse and encourage a profession which is unworthy, and the tendency of which is harmful in its effect upon its own members. From this standpoint, just where any line can fairly be drawn between plays does not appeal.
To this answer of the Sunday School Times we say Amen. We can not as Christians discriminate in this matter as between plays. Our example must tell for more than the nicety of our discrimination between plays given in a theater. Those who take us for an example may not have the fine powers of discernment which we pride ourselves in possessing, and at first might not be able to discriminate, and at the last might not care to. We are not to draw the line between plays; but between attending plays and not attending them.

Religion in Public Schools

In an address before the National Educational Society Bishop Conaty, in urging religious training in the schools, said:—
Fifty years ago general education was thought to be the panacea of all the ills of the social body, but the results are not of a character to warrant confidence. Positive religion alone can make man moral, and keep him in the way of morality.
But in trying to avoid one evil, there is great danger of paving the way for a more serious one. For while religion is the only safe basis of morality, experience has demonstrated that the state can not be safely trusted to teach “positive religion.”

The Church and State in Italy

The following will be interesting reading to those who have been following the course of affairs in France and Italy with reference to the papacy:—
The controversy between church and state in France has evoked a remarkable echo in Italy. At the end of last week two impressive meetings were held in Rome, at which members of the Chambers of Deputies and other speakers of weight in the Italian state urged upon cheering audiences the justice of the course taken by France. At both these meetings, one of which took place on February 16 and the other on February 17, resolutions were adopted urging the necessity of freeing the country from the “retrogressive influence of clericalism.” At the meeting of February 16 a permanent organization was formed whose aim shall be to promote a vigorous political campaign against clericalism. At the Vatican there is a disposition to regard these demonstrations as the work of freemasonry.

Evolution and the Genesis Record

By Editor

WE are frequently accused of being behind the times because we do not accept the Darwinian hypothesis of evolution; but quite frequently we are finding that noted scientists, those who have had even more opportunity of investigation than did he, are drifting away from the hypotheses which he laid down, and which some religious teachers would have us believe have overthrown the Genesis record of creation. An exchange has the following interesting item, which we consider worthy of reproduction:—
Professor Otto, a German scientist who has been a follower of Darwin in his advocacy of evolution, has written a book in which he makes the candid admission that “the gulf between living and non-living matter widens with every new investigation.”
The old Book stands, and will stand when these human theories have been forever forgotten.
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