p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 36. (8/27/1914)

Earlier text: Medical Talks at Tent Meetings

The Work and the Workers

By Editor

When this paper reaches you, there will be time enough for you to sell enough magazines to earn a half scholarship.

The entire August edition of the Protestant was sold out by Wednesday, August 19. Please order the September number.

For $1.00 we will place four Liberty subscriptions on our list for one year. As a partial reward for securing the four subscriptions we will also send the magazine to your address for one year.

Brother Steen Jensen, of Iowa, sends 48 more yearly subscriptions for Liberty. His list seems to be made up largely of clergymen, attorneys, and business men. The small sum of $2.00 will place 10 names on the subscription list for one year.

Brother S. H. Carnahan, connected with our Cuban Mission, sends six half-year subscriptions for the Protestant. Among those who will thus receive this magazine we note the president of Cuba, a prominent editor of Jerusalem, and other persons.

A patriotic business man of Philadelphia, Pa., has just sent in a money order for $9.00, accompanied by 15 yearly subscriptions for the Protestant Magazine. There are many such workers among the busy people. Have you sent in your list? Send $3.00 for ten six-month subscriptions, or $1.50 for five.

The September number of Life and Health contains some good articles on temperance and narcotics. We call it the “Vacation,” “What to Do First,” “Healthful Cookery,” and “Questions and Answers” number. The two articles, “Instead of a Vacation for Those Who Cannot Get One,” and “Vacations for Mothers,” appeal strongly to tied-down business men and mothers. Send $1.00 for 20 or $2.00 for 50 copies.

Brother H. A. Hebard, field missionary agent of the Nebraska Conference, writes: “I have taken 35 subscriptions for the Protestant, and sold nearly 200 copies besides. Have done this while about my other work. I carry some with me all the time, and when on the train have sold a number and taken several subscriptions from men from Illinois, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas, and Nebraska. I just received a letter from two sisters who sell the Protestant with the Signs, and they said it was encouraging to have the prominent men ask for the Protestant and then say, ‘I was just wishing some one would come around with it.’ I have had some good experiences with this magazine. I received a subscription from a railroad conductor, and after showing him from the Bible how the Roman power is coming back, he said, ‘I do not want to be here when that time comes.’”

A Michigan Orangeman sends the names and addresses of the secretaries of the Orange Lodges in his State, and requests that sample copies of the Protestant be sent to them. He says, “If you desire the names of other secretaries outside of Michigan, I will see that you get them.” Send $1.00 to your tract society to pay for mailing one September Protestant to 20 of these Orangemen. These may prove to be seed cast upon good ground.

Brother L. R. Ackerman, field missionary agent of the Utah Conference, writes: “To say that I have been very much interested in the splendid work done by the Protestant during the past months, is putting it mildly. I have been thinking seriously of making a strong effort to place a copy of this magazine in the hands of every clergyman in Salt Lake City, and am ordering 50 copies through our tract society for this purpose. The Protestant will reach a class of people with the truth for this time that can be reached in no other way.”

Pope Pius X and South African Missions

POPE PIUS X died at the Vatican, in Rome, on the morning of August 20. It is believed that his death was hastened by his anxiety over the outcome of the present European war. Preparations are in progress for the funeral, which it is estimated will cost about twenty thousand dollars. The sacred college will be convened as soon as possible for the election of a successor to the late pontiff. Governments of European countries now at war have been asked to give safe voyages to cardinals who go to Rome to take part in the choosing of the next pope.

ELDER W. B. WHITE, of the South African Union, has been making a tour of their further mission fields, Dr. W. C. Dunscombe joining him in this trip. Elder White reports most interesting and profitable visits in Southern and Northwest Rhodesia, and at the last word was just reaching Nyasaland, early in July.

The World’s Great War

PERHAPS no war has ever occurred in the course of human history that has demonstrated so unmistakably the spirit which is taking possession of the nations of men as the conflict now being waged in Europe. It came so suddenly and unexpectedly that the larger part of the civilized world was involved before the situation was sensed. Speaking of this, the editor of the Washington Evening Star says:—

“So swiftly has this situation developed that the world can hardly appreciate its possibilities, cannot grasp its magnitude. Probably not even the people of Europe today are conscious of the tremendous forces that have been loosed for destruction. It involves no tax upon the mind to conceive a state of war between two countries, but a war involving directly four of the greatest and most powerful nations in the earth, with smaller ones as allies, is in its potentialities virtually incomprehensible, as an unmeasurable catastrophe.”

This situation did not develop without a cause. Speaking of the agencies which have brought the great nations of Europe into the field of open warfare, the editor of the Washington (D. C.) Times states:—

“Europe has been building for this calamity for decades. It has urged, with every addition of an army corps or a battleship to national armaments, that these were the safeguards of peace rather than the instruments of war. Of course, they were never anything of the kind. The very existence of such military establishments, the spectacle of vast forces constantly under arms, the tramp of armies, the martial atmosphere, have all been daily and hourly incitements to the warlike spirit that now flames over all Europe.

“The very fact of these stupendous preparations has served to prepare the minds of the people for the thing that, viewing these establishments, they could not but consider inevitable. Considering it inevitable, feeling constantly heavier and heavier the burdens that preparedness imposed, they chafed for the test and the issue. The hour for these had come.”

This conflict, as has been stated before, is not the battle of Armageddon referred to in the Bible, but it is one of a series of conflicts fast hastening the world on to that event. It is a signboard showing the road which the nations of men are traveling. Armageddon is the conflict at the end of the journey. And the end of the journey is rapidly nearing. Soon Christ will take the scepter and reign. Soon the night of earth’s darkness and discord, sin and sorrow, will come to an end, and the glorious morning of heaven’s day be ushered in. How this thought thrills our hearts, and nerves us for all life’s battles. Hasten blest morn!

C. M. Snow Recovering

Three weeks ago Brother C. M. Snow, of our editorial staff, was obliged to undergo an operation for appendicitis. He is progressing very favorably toward recovery, and our readers will soon be favored from week to week with his usual articles.

Chinese Signs Reaches 81,500 Copies

It is really a remarkable report that comes to us from Shanghai in the word that the August edition of the Chinese Signs totals 81,500 copies. “It is the largest edition ever published by us,” writes Elder Shultz, of the Shanghai office. “It is not a special issue, but represents a regular growth and a quickening interest in the message of the third angel in China.” We thank the Lord for the gospel seed sowing being done by the believers in China.

Orders for The Coming Conflict

By Editor

LARGE orders for the REVIEW Extra, “The Coming Conflict,” are pouring in from all parts of the United States and Canada. Wednesday, the nineteenth, 95,000 copies were ordered, making about 350,000 copies in all up to that date. The orders are being filled in the order of their arrival as fast as possible. Let all be assured that their papers will be sent in their turn at the earliest possible date. The coming of the papers will be our thankful acknowledgment of the orders. We cannot possibly acknowledge them in any other way.

Missionary Party to India

EASTWARD sailings having been broken up by the war in Europe, it is planned to get off a missionary party for India by way of the Pacific. Bookings have been made by an American line steamer sailing from Seattle, September 26. The party includes missionaries for the Asiatic Division as well as the India Union Mission.

Ludingtons Sailing for Cuba and Burma

We learn that Brother Don C. and Mrs. Ludington, of New Jersey, formerly of West Michigan, have sailed from New York for Cuba, in order to visit Mrs. Ludington's parents, who are members of the Cuban Mission staff. They will go on direct from Cuba to the West, planning to sail for Burma by way of the Pacific next month.

Tracts on the War Situation

WE have received notice of the publication of two tracts relating to the present situation in Europe. “Is It Armageddon?” by L. A. Smith, is a tract of sixteen pages. It is well illustrated and contains a clear, plain, and forcible presentation of the Armageddon described in the Scriptures, and the relation of the present conflict to that last great war. This can be obtained from the Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, Tenn., for one cent a copy. In lots of one hundred or more the transportation will be paid.

The Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, Cal., announces the publication of the Bible Students’ Library No. 211, entitled “Have We Come to Armageddon?” This tract is written by M. C. Wilcox. It contains sixteen pages. Its subtitles indicate its scope—“The Meaning of Armageddon,” “Conditions That Breed Strife,” “Democracy Versus Autocracy,” “Preparation for War,” “Noble Efforts for Peace,” and “Meaning of This War.” Usual prices and discounts.

Elder Town Returns from Europe

LAST week Elder N. Z. Town, secretary of the General Conference Publishing Department, reached Washington, on his return from Europe, where he attended various European union and local conference sessions. He reports excellent meetings. The general program of meetings for later August and September were cut short by the outbreak of the war. The ship on which Elder Town had secured passage in advance, leaving Liverpool August 6, was crowded full with Americans getting away from Europe, many without funds, owing to war conditions and the closing of banks.

Missionary Work in Bermuda

LAST week Brother Robert H. Treible of Pennsylvania, was booked to sail for the Bermuda Islands. Doubtless the boat sailed on schedule time. We have not heard to the contrary. Brother Treible goes to the Bermudas in response to the call for a teacher of the Bermuda church school and a helper in the church work there. Elder and Mrs. H. F. Taylor, of New York, who have been nearly a year in the Bermuda Islands, are expecting to return to this country next month, to engage in conference work.

E. M. Trummer Visits Washington

WE were glad to greet in Washington Brother E. M. Trummer, of Argentina, South America, formerly of Union College and the German book field in the Middle West. Brother Trummer has for years been union field agent of the South American Union Conference. He has recently been holding institutes in the northern fields of South America, and on his way to this country, for a brief furlough and special study, spent a little time in Panama and Cuba, joining the workers in councils in the interests of the Spanish book work.