p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 29. (7/20/1905)

Earlier text: The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund

Australasian Signs Circulation Exceeds Ten Thousand

By Editor

The publishers of the Australasian Signs of the Times announce that they are now printing over ten thousand copies of that paper each week. When we remember the very large area, the sparsely settled districts, and the limited number of Sabbath-keepers of the Australasian field, we regard this as marked evidence of most faithful effort in circulating our periodicals. We hope many will be brought to a saving knowledge of the truth through the agency of this paper.

Washington, D. C.

By J. S. WASHBURN

ONE very interesting feature of the tent-meetings now in progress in Southeast Washington is the large attendance of a most excellent class of children. We are holding a children's service every night at 6:30, and many children have attended every meeting punctually, and tell us they intend to continue to do so. The regular evening service is not held on Saturdays, but the children insisted on having their meetings on Saturday evenings also. Truly, it seems as if we were seeing something of the fulfilment of the prophecy of Malachi that the hearts of the children shall be turned to their fathers and the hearts of the fathers to their children; for surely many homes will be reached by the truth through the children, even if the parents do not attend the meetings. Many adults are deeply interested, and are calling for Bible readings in their homes.

An unusually good report of these meetings appeared in a recent issue of the Washington Post. In bold headlines the words appeared, "Christ to Come Soon—Rev. J. S. Washburn Predicts Early Millennium—Proved it from the Bible—Large Crowd in Seventh-day Adventist Tent Hears the Views of that Sect on Imminent End of the World—Review of History and Prophecy—Raising of the Dead—Decadence of United States." The first paragraph of the report reads as follows:—

"The coming of the millennium within the life of the present generation was foretold last night by Rev. J. S. Washburn before a crowd that filled the big tent erected by the Seventh-day Adventists at Twelfth and B Streets Southeast. The sermon was illustrated on a multi-colored chart, and came at the end of a number of talks during the week on 'The Crisis of the Ages, and the Past, Present, and Future of Great Nations in the Light of the Divine Word.' The decadence of the United States, the last great nation of the world before the raising of the dead at the coming of Christ, was foretold."

The Washington fund now stands at $107,018.87. We are hoping that there will be an increase in the donations for the purpose of building the Review and Herald Office. This building is greatly needed.

J. S. WASHBURN.

Miss Carrie Segerartt Sails for Argentina

MISS CARRIE SEGERARTT, who has acted as matron at Union College, Neb., sailed from New York the 15th, for Argentina, South America.

Elder J. W. Westphal Returns South America

ELDER J. W. WESTPHAL sailed on his return journey to South America July 15. While waiting for his boat in Europe, he will attend the German Union meeting at Friedensau.

Elder Babcock Begins Gold Coast Journey

SAILING from New York the fifteenth, Elder D. C. Babcock and his wife began their journey to the Gold Coast, West Africa. They will doubtless touch at Sierra Leone on their way down the African coast.

Midsummer Mission Offering at San Jose

THE day of the midsummer offering to missions came to San Jose, Cal., in the midst of a local camp-meeting. The offering for the day was five hundred dollars. The treasury is receiving miscellaneous gifts for this offering, from a few dollars up to fifty dollars, and we hope it will prove to be a large offering when all the returns are in.

The Westrups Sail for China

ELDER AND MRS. J. J. WESTRUP, with their little son, sail for China, July 20, from Seattle. They will join the Honan staff of workers. Money for their transportation to the field was supplied by a Scandinavian brother in the West.

Self-Denial Boxes Support Southern Missionary Work

By Editor

WE call attention to the article by C. P. Bollman, speaking of the avenues by which the Southern Missionary Society hopes to increase its income for carrying on school work among the colored people. The self-denial boxes are to catch the many littles that otherwise might be spent on unnecessary things. Amid all the calls, remember the mute appeal of these little boxes as they come to you.

Testimonies Concerning the Review

By Editor

THE Department of Circulation of the REVIEW and Herald Publishing Association has issued a leaflet of sixteen pages containing the testimonies of many of our ministers concerning the REVIEW. Some of these brethren have read the paper for more than forty years, and their words of appreciation are very hearty. If those who do not have the paper can be influenced to subscribe by what others say about it, we may expect them to join the REVIEW family without delay. We hope none of its valued friends may ever have reason to think less of the REVIEW than they do at present.

The International Reform Bureau’s Literature

As a further illustration of the method employed by the International Reform Bureau, the organization of which W. F. Crafts is the head, to secure the circulation of its literature, we note that a book entitled “Patriotic Studies” has been printed and distributed at government expense, the pages of which, according to the Hartford Courant, “preserve for posterity generous samples of the views of Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, Ph. D., and others, on ‘Sabbath observance,’ the liquor traffic, gambling, sectarian schools for little Indians,” etc. This leads the Washington Post to remark that “the President deemed it expedient, in the exercise of his discretion, to refer to such abuses as this incident represents in his first message to Congress.” It appears to us to be something of an anomaly for a Reform Bureau to be so directly connected with an abuse which has already been rebuked in a presidential message. The reformers seem to need to be reformed.