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Review and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 17.

It Will Soon Be Ready
Earlier text: Central America

Field Notes

A CHURCH of nineteen members was recently organized at Farmington, Ill.
THREE persons were recently added to the Citronelle, Ala., church by baptism.
A CHURCH of fourteen members was recently organized at Chunchula, Ala.
THREE members were recently added by baptism to the company at St. James, Ill.
THE erection of a new church building is about to be begun at Indianapolis, Ind.
IT is expected that a camp-meeting will be held in Mobile, Ala., some time in July.
BROTHER F. M. CORBALEY reports the baptism of four persons at Burlington, Iowa, April 6.
TEN members have been added to the Houston, Tex., church since the last Texas camp-meeting.
BROTHER F. H. CONWAY reports five recent baptisms at Stillwater, O. T. A Sabbath-school has been organized at this place.
THE company at Celt, Mo., have nearly finished a new church building, in the basement of which is a room for a church-school.
A CHURCH of fourteen members was organized at Peru, Ind., March 20. Two others joined the church the same day, besides which there are nine others in the city who are keeping the Sabbath.
THE Battle Creek church-school will close its spring term the first week in June. The principal, J. G. Lamson, reports: “Two of the rooms at the new building are now filled with pupils, and an additional teacher will be needed if all the work is accomplished that is called for this term.”
WRITING from Baton Rouge, La., Elder C. A. Watkins says: “Since the last report some victories have been gained for the cause in this part of the field. A few have begun the observance of the Sabbath, but the enemy is working hard.” Elder Watkins was expecting to join Elder R. C. Horton shortly in a tent effort in New Orleans.
ELDER A. G. HAUGHLEY says of the work in the West Michigan Conference: “The work is progressing very nicely in the West Michigan Conference. W. D. Parkhurst, W. H. Heckman, and D. T. Bourdeau are engaged in a special effort in Grand Rapids, Mich. Elder R. C. Horton is working in Bangor, and reports four new converts to the faith. Brother Hehner is at work in new territory, and is meeting with good success. Elder Fred Brink and W. E. Videto are now at work in Carlton Center. We have a church built at that place, but the membership has been gradually reduced on account of deaths, apostasy, and removals. We hope to see the work revived in this field.”
“We have had a very successful school year at Cedar Lake, under the supervision of Elder S. M. Butler as principal. We do not have a very large corps of workers in this field when we take into account the institutions that have to be supplied with laborers from this conference. However, the Lord has thus far blessed our efforts.”

Partial List

By W. T. Bland

of donations received on the Washington Building Fund by the General Conference since Aug. 1, 1903.
W. Wood Bute .................. $1,000 00 J. Sutherland, Treas. .......... 446 45 R. T. Dowsett, Treas. .......... 200 00 New York Conference ............ 150 00 W. C. McCuaig, Treas. .......... 187 50 A. G. Daniells (Ind. camp-ground) .......... 188 00 New York Tract Society ......... 154 00 Wisconsin Conference ........... 87 06 Indiana Conference ............. 65 15 T. Goodwin ...................... 50 00 W. H. Budge ..................... 50 00 A. O. Burrill ................... 50 00 Elder J. N. Loughborough ....... 50 00 T. H. Purdon .................... 50 00 Mrs. E. A. B. Smith ............. 50 00 Isaac Sulz ...................... 25 00 Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Little ....... 25 00 Mary H. Hansen .................. 25 00 E. A. Merriam, Treas. ........... 25 00 Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Dana ......... 25 00 N. M. Jorgenson .................. 25 00 Mrs. A. H. Robinson, Treas. ..... 25 00 Mrs. A. C. Bell .................. 25 00 A friend ........................ 20 00 Louisa Burkhardt ............... 20 00 Mrs. Annie Rassmussen .......... 20 00 Phillip Kraus ................... 20 00 J. A. Burkey .................... 20 00 G. W. Mann ...................... 15 00 Mrs. E. M. Jackson .............. 15 00 J. F. and L. J. Gravelle ........ 15 00 Mrs. E. G. White ................. 15 00 R. E. Bliss ..................... 15 00 Western Oregon Miss. Soc. ...... 10 00 Mrs. Ellen A. Powers ............ 10 00 Matilda Olsen ................... 10 00 C. A. Frederick ................. 10 00 C. W. Cummings .................. 10 00 Hannah Mott ..................... 10 00 Mrs. C. P. Whitford .............. 5 00 Mrs. D. Wilcox ................... 5 00 Fanny Hall ....................... 5 00 H. C. Carmichael ................ 2 00 A friend ........................ 2 00 Mrs. Agnes Hunter ............... 2 00 Mrs. J. Robertson ............... 50 E. H. Hall ...................... 14 10 J. S. Washburn (Ind. collection) .......... 17 00 D. M. Smith ...................... 3 00 A. O. Wilson ..................... 40 Peter Ammandson ................ 2 00 Eliza L. Richman ............... 3 50 Mrs. A. Powell .................. 1 00 Mrs. Celia S. Archer ............ 2 00 Geo. Houck ........................ 100 00
Total reported ............ $3,377 66
A further list will be published next week.
W. T. BLAND, Assistant Treasurer.

Grading in Our Schools

By J. Grant Lamson

(Concluded)
4. DIRECTLY connected with the subject of grades will come the system of promotion. I apprehend that a large part of the opposition to the expression “grades” comes from the mistakes and wrongs that have been committed by teachers in the promotions that have been made. These wrongs may be grouped, perhaps, under the three following heads:—
First, method of determining who are to be promoted; i. e., term standings or examinations.
Much can be said on both sides of this question, and in a future article I desire the privilege of discussing at length this particular phase; namely, term markings, as result of total markings and final tests.
It will be sufficient now to say that whatever method is used to determine who should be promoted, that method must be carried out with absolute honesty and the strictest fairness. The showing of partiality must be absolutely avoided. When the method of determining this important matter is decided, it should be carried out by all without fear or favor.
Second, methods of carrying out the promotions; i. e., the display and other obnoxious Jesuitical ideas that tend to give the student the notion that the boy in the eighth grade is a great deal better than the boy in the seventh.
It seems to me to be silly and absurd to make the display that has been made in the transference of students from one grade to another, from one room to another, from one teacher to another, with the idea of so honoring and complimenting and praising the ones who are promoted that others will be spurred to renewed energy and zeal in their school work. In my experience as a public school teacher I have noticed that this effort has the opposite effect. The individual who is not promoted has frequently worked harder than the one who is, sometimes has been more conscientious, and the inability to advance with the class to another room comes as a matter of discouragement rather than an inspiration.
The growing habit of people in many districts (I can speak especially of Michigan) to have “baccalaureate addresses” for those who are to leave the eighth grade, the making out of “graduation programs” for those who are just to leave that grade, and the heralding of “commencement exercises” for fourteen- and fifteen-year-old boys and girls,—where the girls can dress in white robes, with white slippers, white gloves, flowers in the hair, and blue ribbons hanging from a so-called essay,—must be severely condemned by those who can see to any degree the direction in which these exercises are trending. It is this display, built on the child’s love of display, this approbation, built on the child’s love of praise, which is working the pernicious, wicked results of crowding students out of one grade into another, crowding them through a grade, crowding them through the examinations, until they are said to have completed a grade when they have never completed it. It is the opinion of the writer of this article that if the false methods of promotion were eliminated from our whole school fabric, there could be very little said by any one against grading.
Third, objection to the word “promote” itself. As to the words “promote” and “promotion:” “pro” means forward; “mote” comes from the word signifying “to move.” To promote, then, means to move forward. Another definition would be “to advance.” The verb signifies to contribute to the growth or prosperity of. We will leave it for the individual who objects to the word “promote” to find a better word under the circumstances, before he takes from us the one we are now using.
In conclusion, permit me to say that our church-school work is suffering much because some have felt that it was necessary to cast aside every particle of experience and count it as nothing before they could enter the church-school work. Those who are accomplishing the most in our church-school work to-day are the teachers of experience. The Christian teacher has been and is able to recognize those things in the public-school work which are unchristian. Let us leave the evil, and never touch it again. But the Christian teacher has been able to discern many things in the public-school work which are of value. Let us use them. Time is too short for experiment where experience will suffice. Let us leave the exploiting of fads and theories to those who have plenty of time for such work. Our schools will profit by such determination on our part.
J. GRANT LAMSON.

Current Mention

— A general tie-up on the railways of Hungary is reported, due to a strike which began April 19.
— One hundred Italian miners were buried by an avalanche which fell near the village of Pragelato, Italy, April 20.
— A report from Crockett, Tex., states that oil-well drillers near that place bored through the trunk of a large tree which was encountered at a depth of a thousand feet.
— It is reported from China that the Chinese antichristian society which promoted the Boxer uprising is rapidly gaining adherents in many places, and another outbreak against foreigners is feared.
— Turks and Bulgarians continue fighting near the boundary line between those countries, a battle having recently taken place sixty-two miles from Salonica, in which many were killed on each side.
— A common pleas court in Sandusky, Ohio, has given a decision in favor of Christian Science as a legitimate practise for healing the sick, holding a law which would exclude members of that cult from such practise to be unconstitutional.
— New pension legislation which is under consideration by Congress and has the approval of President Roosevelt, is expected to increase the annual expenditure for pensions from $140,000,000 (the estimate for 1904) to $160,000,000 or more.
— Report of a violent anti-Jewish outbreak in Bulgaria, news of which the Bulgarian government sought to suppress, has reached London from private sources. Outrages of a shocking and inhuman character were perpetrated by the mob on their victims, the rioters being finally dispersed by the police.
— The last step in the transfer of the title of the Panama Canal was taken in Paris, April 23, and the delivery of the property to the United States and payment for the same will immediately follow. Everything will then be in readiness to begin the work of completing the canal.
— In a Tibetan fort recently captured by the British the discovery was made of a room in which were scores of human heads, some giving evidence of having been but recently cut off. The necessary conclusion seems to be that the Buddhist prohibition against taking life is not so rigidly observed by devotees of that religion as was supposed.
— The “third great fire” which was looked for by some after the Baltimore and Rochester conflagrations, came April 19, the city of Toronto, Ontario, being the victim. The flames devastated an area of fourteen acres in the heart of the city, causing a property loss of $12,000,000, on which there was an insurance of $7,000,000. One hundred and fourteen buildings were destroyed, 250 firms were put out of business, and about 7,000 people thrown out of employment.
— The buried city of Herculaneum, which was destroyed by the same eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeii, is to be excavated. A dispatch from Rome says: “An archaeological undertaking of a most important character is about to be set on foot, namely, the complete excavation of Herculaneum. It is proposed that this vast work be carried out by the co-operation of Italy with all the civilized countries, and that there be a central managing committee at Rome with national committees elsewhere.”
— Russia has been pressing Turkey for the payment of $4,000,000 war indemnity which Turkey has long been owing but has never paid, and now Russia demands that in lieu of this payment Turkey grant permission for the Russian Black Sea fleet to pass through the Dardanelles. Such permission would no doubt be vigorously opposed by Great Britain. It is reported that Japan does not desire to press the war beyond the point of securing Port Arthur and Vladivostock and making herself secure in Korea, but no doubt Japan designs to consolidate the Oriental nations under her leadership against Russia and the world powers.

Christian Education

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference.
L. A. HOOPS, Chairman; Frederick Griggs, Secretary.

Fill Our Training-Schools

By F. G.

It is now time for our young people to begin to plan for their next year's school work. Our training-schools, this coming year, should be better filled than ever before with young people whose age and education would admit them to these schools. These young people should be imbued with a more earnest purpose than that which has possessed the young people in our training-schools in previous years. This is not saying that in the past our young people have not had a purpose in their school work, but it is saying that, in view of the fact of the near coming of the Lord, every year should see a larger and a stronger company of young men and women preparing for active service in our Master's cause. It is to the young people of to-day that we must look for the burden-bearers of to-morrow. It is important that our training-schools should recognize the great responsibility which rests upon them to provide thorough courses of instruction for young people, and to surround them with an atmosphere and with influences which are the most help to character-building.
Then, the responsibility rests upon every parent, every Sabbath-school worker, every church-member, and particularly upon our school workers in both church and conference schools, and our State superintendents to search out and to encourage these young people by every laudable means in an honest endeavor to obtain an education. God lays a responsibility upon young people to get this education. Let us, then, who are interested in the rapid advance of this message sense the value of a thorough education for our young people, and make everything bend to this end.
F. G.

Business Notices

BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A charge of one dollar for one insertion of six lines, or less, and of twenty cents for every line over six, will be made, though in the case of the poor who wish employment, the charge may be remitted. Persons unknown to the managers of the publishing house must furnish good references.
WANTED.— A good hygienic cook. Steady employment to right person. Address, at once, Iowa Sanitarium, Des Moines, Iowa.
FOR SALE.— 151½ acres in mountains near Sanitarium (money to be made keeping boarders); fruit, vines, hay, spring-house, outbuildings, furniture, horse, cow, chickens, 2,000 cds. wood. Price, $2,000. Address Box 76, St. Helena, Cal.
WANTED.— A carpenter who is a handy workman in various lines desires to locate in some town in Kentucky, Tennessee, or Alabama where he can find work and be in proximity to a church-school. Address R. J. Hyatt, Shelbyville, Ind.
FOR SALE OR RENT.— Farm of 80 A., about ten miles from Newberry, county-seat of Luce County, Mich. Oldest farming district in Upper Peninsula. Owner wishes to enter canvassing work. Correspondence solicited. Address E. C. Collard, McMillan, Mich.
FOR SALE.— Nursery stock of all kinds; first class; at most reasonable prices. More than a dozen of the best varieties of strawberry plants; also early bearing varieties of fruit trees a specialty. For further information, address Emmanuel Missionary College, Nursery Dept., Berrien Springs, Mich.
FOR SALE.— Fifty A. on the mountain, 5 miles from Graysville; healthful location, no fevers; good pure spring water, 800 apple-trees, also peach and pear; 30 A. fenced; 10,000 ft. of pine, also maple and plenty of hard wood. Church-school near. Price, $450—$300 down, rest on time. Address J. C. Rice, Brayton, Tenn.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By E. L. Stewart

Western Washington Camp-Meeting

THIS will be our second annual meeting. It will be held on a most beautiful spot in South Tacoma, May 19-29. Elder Watson will write more particularly in regard to the matter. We hope that this may be a most profitable occasion. Surely there is great need for such a meeting. Efficient help will be on the ground. Elder W. B. White, who is now president of the Pacific Union Conference, will be present; also Elder E. W. Farnsworth, of Australia, and Elders W. A. Spicer and M. C. Wilcox, and others. Everything from a human standpoint will be done to make the meeting all that we could wish. But all this of itself can do but little. There must be an individual seeking after God, a hungering and thirsting for his blessing, then the meeting will be a feast indeed. A workers’ institute will be held also, May 12-19. Elder W. C. White will attend part of this meeting. As workers we hope to be in a condition to help those who come to the camp-meeting. Let us begin at once to prepare for the feast.
E. L. STEWART, Pres. Western Wash. Conf.
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Obituaries

MOON.— Died at Moon, Wis., April 8, 1904, of measles and croupous pneumonia, Estella M. Moon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Moon, aged 5 years and 4 days. The day before Estella was taken sick, she requested her mother to tell her all about Jesus, and to sing “Jesus loves the little ones.” This precious little one is laid to rest until the coming of the Life-giver. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from Jer. 31:15, 16. T. B. SNOW.
RESZ.— Died at Maysburg (near Craton), Mo., Feb. 12, 1904, of consumption, Mary F. Resz, aged 16 years, 9 months, and 13 days. Sister Resz gave her heart to God, and united with the church at the age of twelve years. She moved to Oklahoma with her parents, and was married to David Resz, Dec. 28, 1903, and later returned to Maysburg. Her hope in God was firm unto the end. Services were conducted by the writer. J. H. COFFMAN.
HUNTER.— Died in Oakland, Cal., April 2, 1904, of heart-disease, Sister Sophia Lorena Hunter, aged 43 years and 29 days. In early life she was a Congregationalist. About twenty years ago she accepted the Sabbath, but because of opposition ceased keeping it for a time; but during the last few years she faithfully sought to do the Lord’s will. She suffered greatly for years, but few ever heard her complain. She lived to serve, not to be served. She loved truth, and exemplified it in speech and act. She left a husband and five sons. Her anxiety in her last hours was for her children. She was resigned to the Master’s will, however, and repeated with the writer the twenty-third psalm. May her loved ones meet her in the resurrection morn. M. C. W.
LANCHAS.— Died at the home of her son, near Manchester, Tenn., Feb. 11, 1904, with softening of the brain, Mrs. Emma Lanchas, aged 63 years and 11 days. She accepted the Seventh-day Adventist faith about twenty-five years ago. Words of comfort were spoken by a friend, Mr. Adam Gype, reading scriptures from Rev. 14:12-18 and Job 14:1-14, and we laid her to rest in the New Hope Cemetery to await the resurrection morning. MRS. D. B. LANCHAS.
ARMSTRONG.— Died at her home in Longmont, Colo., Sept. 28, 1903, of paralysis, Mrs. Jemima Armstrong, aged 80 years, 4 months, and 6 days. Mother accepted present truth in 1843, and was a constant and faithful Christian throughout her life. The hope of meeting the Saviour was always dear to her. In 1840 she was united in marriage with Mr. Peter Maddux, and from this union were born nine children. In 1878 she married Mr. Samuel Armstrong. Her husband and five children survive her. Her many sorrowing friends and relatives hope to meet her soon at the Master’s glorious appearing. J. O. MADDUX.
STRODE.— Died at the home of his daughter, at Perry, O. T., March 10, 1904, of heart-disease, W. W. Strode, aged 81 years and 20 days. Early in life he identified himself with the First-day Adventists, but later, through the labors of Brethren Larson and Gardner, he became connected with the Seventh-day Adventists, remaining a faithful member until his death. Nine children were born to him, five of whom, together with nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, survive him. The funeral services were conducted by Brother Klostermyer, his text being 1 Cor. 15:22. The remains were taken to Bedford, Iowa, and laid to rest beside those of his life companion, in the Titus Cemetery, at which place a few words were spoken by Brother Fred Wilbur.
BOOTH.— Fell asleep in Jesus, at Healdsburg, Cal., Feb. 23, 1904, Bertie George Booth, aged 20 years. He was converted, and joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the fall of 1892. During the two years just past, he was a successful canvasser in the Western Oregon Conference, and October 28 came to Healdsburg to prepare for more efficient service in the cause. Five days before his death, he contracted lockjaw, which subjected him to excruciating pain. He bore all with patience, and spent the time in praising God. Nearly his last words were, “Tell mother, ‘I am resting, sweetly resting, in the shadow of the cross.’” He leaves a young companion and babe, a mother, five brothers, and four sisters. Funeral services were conducted by Elder E. L. Sharpe. E. M. BOOTH.

Notice!

By W. W. Prescott; S. N. Curtiss; H. W. Cottrell; W. B. Walters; W. T. Bland; E. R. Palmer; J. H. Neall; W. M. Lewis

THE first annual meeting of the members of the corporation known as the Review and Herald Publishing Association, of Washington, D. C., will be held at Berrien Springs, Berrien Co., Mich., on Tuesday, May 17, 1904, at 10 A. M. standard time, for the purpose of receiving the reports of the trustees, electing a board of trustees for the coming year, and transacting any other business that may properly come before the meeting.
The following persons are members of this corporation: the executive committees of the General Conference, the Atlantic Union Conference, the Canadian Union Conference, the Lake Union Conference, and the Northern Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists. A quorum consists of twenty-five members. A full attendance is greatly desired.
W. W. PRESCOTT, S. N. CURTISS, H. W. COTTRELL, W. B. WALTERS, W. T. BLAND, E. R. PALMER, J. H. NEALL, W. M. LEWIS, Trustees.

Notice!

By A. G. Daniells

THE second biennial session of the Lake Union Conference will be held at Berrien Springs, Mich., May 17-26, 1904. The following is the provision for representation: “Each local conference shall be entitled to one delegate to any session of the Lake Union Conference without reference to numbers or its ex-officio member, and one additional delegate for each one hundred members of such local conference.” This is a regular session of the conference, for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before it. Delegates should be elected at once, and their credentials sent without delay to the secretary, W. H. Edwards, 267 West Main St., Battle Creek, Mich. The first meeting of the session will convene in the Assembly Building, at 7:30 P. M., May 17.
A. G. DANIELLS, President Lake Union Conference.

Chesapeake Conference

By O. O. Farnsworth

THE fifth annual session of the Chesapeake Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Fords Store, Md., May 10-16. Brother F. E. Painter is expected to be present, and to give instruction in the canvassing work from May 8-13. On account of other appointments he is obliged to begin a little before the conference convenes. Let all in the conference who think of taking up the canvassing work note the time, and try to be present so as to get all the help possible. Help from abroad is expected to be with us through the meeting.
O. O. FARNSWORTH, Conference President.

Notice!

THE Canadian Union Publishing House has been moved from Montreal, Quebec, to Toronto, Ontario, and the address of S. D. Hartwell, and of the Canadian Union Publishing Association is 167 Dundas St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The address of W. H. Thurston is Knowlton, Quebec, Canada.

Minnesota Conference and Camp-Meeting

By Fred Johnson

THE forty-fourth annual session of the Minnesota Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will convene, for the transaction of its regular business, May 27, at 9 A. M., to May 31, at Stillwater, Minn. This meeting will be held in connection with the annual camp-meeting, which will close June 5.
FRED. JOHNSON, President.

Address

By S. B. Horton

THE office and headquarters of the Louisiana Conference and its departments and laborers are at 2234 Magazine St., New Orleans, La. This includes my permanent address.
S. B. HORTON, President.

The New General Conference

By Arthur G. Daniells

Legal Corporation

ON another page of this week’s REVIEW will be found the Articles of Incorporation and the By-laws of our new corporation of the General Conference. This corporation has been formed in harmony with the following action taken by the General Conference Committee, at the Washington meeting, Oct. 22, 1903:—
Voted, That the General Conference Committee create a corporation under the laws of the District of Columbia, to transact the business heretofore attended to by the Foreign Mission Board and the General Conference Association; and that so far as possible to arrange, the new corporation shall give its notes to replace the notes of the General Conference Association, and that when the Michigan corporation lapses, its affairs be wound up.
The legal Foreign Mission Board and the General Conference Association were also asked to transfer their assets and liabilities to the new corporation as soon as practicable.
This new corporation is to take the place of the old General Conference Association. The following are some of the reasons for making this change:—
The old association is a Michigan corporation. All its legal meetings must be held in the State of Michigan. As the headquarters of the General Conference has been removed to Washington, it will be an inconvenience and an expense to operate through the old association.
The board of trustees of the old association numbers twenty-one. This makes it necessary to have the business of the association transacted by a very small minority of the trustees, or to incur great expense in getting the trustees together.
The corporate life of the association will terminate in a few years. Should time continue until then, it would be necessary to form a new corporation.
Only brief reference can be made in this note to the principal features of the articles and by-laws of this new corporation.
Its name: “General Conference Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists.”
Duration: Its existence is to be perpetual. No limit is placed upon its life. It may be terminated at any time the members choose, or it may continue perpetually.
Number of trustees: Seven. As the quorum of the trustees for transacting business is fixed at four, the business must always be done by a majority of the trustees, and one at least of these must be an officer of the Board.
Membership: The members of the General Conference Committee and all other accredited delegates to the General Conference. This places the affairs of the corporation as entirely in the hands of the whole denomination as it is possible.
Place for holding the legal meetings: Anywhere in the United States. The act under which the corporation is formed makes this excellent provision. This is one of the greatest advantages of the corporation. Wherever the General Conference may be held, all the business transacted by the members of the corporation will be legal without having to meet in Washington to confirm or repeat it.
The trustees of the new corporation are H. W. Cottrell, W. W. Prescott, W. T. Bland, S. N. Curtiss, J. N. Nelson, A. P. Needham, and A. G. Daniells. The officers of the Board are as follows: President, A. G. Daniells; Secretary, W. A. Spicer; Treasurer, J. N. Nelson. The present trustees are to hold office until the next session of the General Conference. Then the delegates will elect the Board for the next biennial period.
Hereafter all wills, legacies, gifts, annuity agreements, loans, etc., intended for the General Conference will be made in the name of the “General Conference Corporation,” instead of the “General Conference Association.” The affairs of the old association will be transferred to the new corporation as fast as conditions will permit. Those holding notes against the association will be asked to transfer them to the corporation.
A. G. DANIELLS.

Fire Losses at Toronto Printers

WE learn by a letter from Brother S. D. Hartwell that the Canadian Publishing Association suffered some loss in the recent large fire in Toronto. Three hundred copies of “Patriarchs and Prophets” and the signatures (unbound sheets) for five hundred copies of “Bible Readings,” which were stored with the printers, were burned in the destruction of the printing plant where the work was done.

The Southern Watchman Signs Number

By Editor

ATTENTION is called to the announcement on the second page of the special number of The Southern Watchman. This issue is called the “Signs number,” and will be printed in two colors. It will contain illustrated articles upon the leading features of the message, especially emphasizing the signs which indicate the nearness of our Lord’s return. Our brethren are putting forth every reasonable effort to prepare a paper which will carry the message to the people, and which will at the same time sell readily. Read the full particulars on the second page, and send in liberal orders.

Petition Against Religious Legislation

By W. A. Colcord

THE following petition has been prepared, and is being sent out for circulation throughout the different States embraced in the Central Union Conference, protesting against the passage by the Senate of the United States of any bill for the enforcement of Sunday observance in the District of Columbia:—
Petition Against Religious Legislation
To the Honorable the Senate of the United States:
We the undersigned adult residents of —— respectfully but earnestly protest against the passage by your Honorable Body of any bill looking toward the enforcement of the observance of the first day of the week by law, in the District of Columbia, believing that such legislation is not only subversive of one of the fundamental principles of our government,—that of religious freedom,—but that it would be taken as a precedent for further legislation of the same character, and, in the end, lead to religious intolerance and persecution.
We hope that all our people who have an opportunity to do so will not only sign this petition, but help to circulate it as well, and this without delay, as we have no time to lose. The present session of Congress will soon close, and the bill is liable to come up any day and be passed. Get everybody to sign who will.
W. A. COLCORD.

Masonic Temple Sunday Evening Meetings

THE series of Sunday evening meetings which has been maintained continuously in the Masonic Temple in this city, beginning on Sunday evening, Dec. 13, 1903, was brought to a close last Sunday evening. At these services Brethren A. G. Daniells, W. A. Spicer, J. S. Washburn, and W. W. Prescott have presented an outline study of the leading features of this gospel message, giving special prominence to those prophecies which set forth the experiences of the last generation and the nearness of the coming of our Lord. When the weather has been reasonably favorable, the audiences have numbered from three hundred and fifty to seven hundred, including a large proportion of earnest, thinking men. Ten to fifteen thousand copies of a four-page outline of each discourse have been distributed in the city every week: Many have made a careful study of these outlines who have not attended the meetings. Some of the leading people of the city, including ambassadors from foreign countries, have been furnished with these outlines. Thus the truth has been called to the attention of a large number to whom this message was entirely new. Some definite fruit of the efforts put forth has already appeared; and our Bible workers are fully occupied in conducting personal and family studies with those who are seriously searching the Scriptures to see whether these things are so. We are confident that there will be a good number of additions to the company of believers in this city as the result of this first winter's work. Sunday evening services will now be conducted in the M Street church, beginning next Sunday evening. Brother L. C. Sheafe still continues his Sunday evening meetings in the True Reformers Hall, twelfth and U Streets, with a good interest.

The Lake Union Conference

THE brethren in charge of the school at Berrien Springs, Mich., desire that those attending the session of the Lake Union Conference to be held there May 17-27, should conform to the arrangements noted below, in order that they may be able to provide accommodations for all who may come. The delegates will be provided with free room rent, as also visitors as far as possible. All who come should bring bedding, etc. Meals will be served on the European plan, the expense of which is from $1 to $1.75 a week. In case the wife of any delegate or visitor wishes to attend with him, notice should be given of this fact. Information regarding the attendance of delegates and others should be sent without delay to Prof. P. T. Magan, Berrien Springs, Mich.

Washington, D. C.

By J. S. Washburn

THE readers of the REVIEW will remember that on Friday, April 15, the Senate Committee for the District of Columbia voted on the District Sunday law. We were much encouraged to know that that vote was a tie. We felt that this was a great victory, for it had been thought that the sentiment of the committee was overwhelmingly in favor of the measure. We have been securing signatures to a petition against this measure during the week, and have been very successful. It was reported in the papers that the grocers were unanimous in their approval of this bill, but we have found this to be a great mistake. Many grocers have signed the petition against this bill, and several have written letters to the senators, requesting them not to pass this measure. A lawyer of influence, who is deeply interested in the meetings, and has not missed one Sunday night service, has written a strong protest against the measure.
The three principal papers of Washington have all opposed the bill, two of them very decidedly. Over five hundred personal signatures of residents of the District of Columbia have been sent to the chairman of the Senate Committee, protesting against the measure. Among the signers to this petition have been many men of note and influence in Washington,—attorneys, lawyers, and others of the same class. Among these may be mentioned the names of Gen. William Birney and ex-Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada.
It was officially announced that the measure would be considered by the committee on Friday, April 22. At that time the bill was postponed until the committee could have time for more careful consideration of the measure. We feel very hopeful that this means that the measure is dead for the present session. Congress will adjourn probably as early as April 28, and every day will bring less time for “careful consideration” of this bill or any other; and yet there is always a danger that such measures will be rushed through at the last moment. We earnestly request all our people to send in letters and telegrams of protest, and to secure as many names as signers to the petition against the passage of this law as possible. A formal petition will be found in this number of the REVIEW. We publish on page 20 the first list of donations for the $100,000 fund for the sanitarium, training-school, and General Conference offices in Washington, D. C.
We are glad to be able to begin this list with a donation of $1,000, and to close it with a donation of $100 from another brother. We earnestly plead with all the friends of the work in this time of crisis and opportunity to send in large donations at once. A complete list of all donations will be published in the REVIEW. J. S. WASHBURN.

A View in the Rockies

OUR first-page picture is a view “in the heart of the Rockies,” near the head of Boulder Canon in Colorado.

Special Matter on Page Twenty-Three

SOME special matter, for which there was not room on the last page, will be found on the twenty-third page.

The Washington Post on Takoma Park

THE Washington Post of April 17 contained an article on Takoma Park, in which particular mention was made of the plans concerning our various institutions which are to be located there. The article was friendly in tone, and gave a substantially correct statement of the facts in the case.
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