p. 140 | Review and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 6. (2/6/1913)

Earlier text: The Biennial Conference of the India Union Mission

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

—A severe earthquake shook the city of Constantinople on January 25. No loss of life has been reported.

—During the last week seven men have been killed by avalanches on the Burlington-Great Northern Railroad while fighting snow in the far northwest.

—The practical operation of the parcel-post system for the first fifteen days shows a saving to shippers, in forty-five of the leading cities of the United States, of $547,508.12.

—The salary at Yale for Prof. William H. Taft as Kent professor of law will be $5,000, which is the maximum salary now paid to the upper grade of full professors.

—At Lockport, N. Y., one man was killed and twenty persons were seriously injured in a collision between a trolley passenger-train and a freight on the International Railway, January 25.

—In the presence of a distinguished group of senators, representatives, and government officials, the body of John Paul Jones, “father of the American Navy,” was placed in a crypt of the Naval Academy Chapel at Annapolis, Md., on January 26. The crypt is circular, and ninety-six feet in diameter. It has just been completed at the cost of $75,000.

—The decision of the English Parliament to drop the franchise bill providing voting privileges for the women of that country, is likely to lead to serious consequences. Reports from London on January 27 state that England is on the brink of another campaign by the suffragettes in comparison with which former outbreaks of the militant women will appear insignificant. That evening 2,000 policemen were engaged in dispersing huge crowds gathered near the Parliament buildings, shopkeepers were boarding up show-windows, and excited women were making incendiary speeches in several halls.

—On January 22 the Grand Council of the Ottoman Empire decided in favor of accepting the proposals of the European powers for a peace settlement between Turkey and the Balkan allies. The Porte’s reply to the joint note of the powers was to be handed to the ambassadors on the twenty-third, but that day a crisis came with dramatic suddenness. Nazim Pasha, former war minister and commander of the Turkish army, was killed during a demonstration in Constantinople. The cabinet resigned, and officers from the Young Turk party came into power. Vast crowds clamored for a continuation of the war. The new rulers declare that they will save national honor or perish in the attempt; also that they are determined to keep Adrianople at all costs. Diplomats believe that Russia will actively intervene in case of a renewal of hostilities, and that complete dismemberment of Turkey will result. Peace negotiations that do not bring peace are more costly to the Balkan allies than war. Greece alone must spend $1,000,000 a day for the maintenance of her army.

—The Union, published at Lima, Peru, in an alarming editorial, declares that war seems inevitable between Peru and Bolivia. This conclusion is drawn from Bolivia’s recent warlike preparations. Her ambition is said to be a port on the Pacific.

—From McKinney, Tex., comes the report that on January 23 eight persons were killed and fifteen hurt when walls of a building occupied by a farming implement firm, fell and crashed into a department-store, causing that building to collapse. Fire broke out in the ruins.

—The first producing oil-well in England has just been discovered in the county of Nottingham. Boring operations have been going on there four years, but until now nothing of value has been found. The new well opens a field of excellent oil, 2,440 feet below the surface.

—The French Parliament recently elected Raymond Nicholas Landry Poincare president of the French Republic. The newly elected president has been premier and minister of foreign affairs for a year past. When quite young, he entered public life as a member of the Chamber of Deputies.

—The largest and most powerful battle-ship afloat, the Brazilian superdreadnought “Rio de Janeiro,” was launched from the slips at Elswick, England, January 22. She displaces 27,500 tons, and is to be armed with fourteen twelve-inch and twenty six-inch guns. Her speed is twenty-two knots an hour.

—One man was killed and a dozen persons were injured in a spectacular rear-end collision between two south-bound Third Avenue elevated trains in New York City on the afternoon of January 25. Both trains took fire, and for a time it was feared they would topple into the street. The injured were taken out with much difficulty.

—The newspaper called King Bao, undoubtedly the oldest periodical in the world, was recently suppressed by Yuan Shi Kai, president of the Chinese Republic. We are told that for 1,500 years this paper has published the important news of China and of foreign countries. The first edition was printed in 400 A. D. on ten sheets of yellow silk neatly tied together, and sent to all the high officials of the Chinese Empire.

—Illegal trafficking the country over in stolen postage-stamps, aggregating several millions of dollars annually, has just been disclosed by post-office inspectors. So-called stamp brokers and confidential employees of large business concerns throughout the United States are involved. The inspectors learned that stamps of all classes and denominations stolen by burglars from post-offices and embezzled by employees from great business houses and manufacturing establishments are purchased and resold by the brokers at prices far below their face value. The postal laws make it a crime punishable by imprisonment to sell any stamp issued by the government for less than its face value. Investigations disclosed the fact that, in addition to selling the stamps for less than a price they could have been purchased for from the government, the brokers in many cases knew that the stamps were stolen when they bought them.

—As a result of the recent cold wave, fruit shippers in California have canceled orders for 30,500 cars in which to ship their fruit. The loss to the growers will be $19,169,880, to the shippers $4,792,000, and to the railroads $9,705,000.

—At last China has been able to negotiate with the bankers of six nations for a loan of $125,000,000. The new republic has had a hard time securing funds. The details of the loan, according to recent data from Peking, were finally agreed upon by representatives of bankers at a meeting in London.

—It is claimed that cheese is saving Adrianople from falling. The principal industry in that city is cheese-making, and the product is exported once a year. This year the war prevented the exportation, and by the stored-up supply, according to press reports, the population has been saved from starvation, and the city has been able to resist the siege.

—In Russia intemperance often begins at a very early age. The British consul in Moscow reports that, as the result of a municipal inquiry into the causes of drunkenness, it was ascertained that of the adults addicted to alcoholic excess, ninety per cent contracted the habit in their school-days. “Out of 18,134 schoolboys in the Moscow province from the ages of eight to thirteen years, 12,152, or sixty-six per cent, have taken to drink, and out of 10,404 girls of the same ages, 4,733, or forty-five per cent, also take intoxicating liquor too freely.”

—The formidable problem of finding accommodation for 120,000 persons who are to be evicted from their dwellings, owing to the sale of antiquated fortifications of Paris to the city authorities by the French government, is now before the municipal council for solution. The space occupied by the twenty-one-mile wall encircling Paris, and the “firing zone” 500 yards in width facing it, is to be converted into public parks. This space is now covered by many thousand ramshackle houses, occupied by the poorest class of work people and ragpickers, and in many instances turned into resorts for criminals and tramps. The amount of money expended on these old fortifications, erected in 1840, exceeded $200,000,000.

—Illinois is to have a new State penitentiary, and it will contain the best features known in modern architecture for buildings of this kind, such as sunshine in every cell, circular cell houses connecting with a general dining-hall, constant supervision of all prisoners from one central point, outside cells for each prisoner, with such separate heating and ventilating arrangements as will be best for the health of the prisoners, and all the buildings will be connected within the walls by corridors. The circular arrangement of cells is the European plan, and is considered much more healthful than the American inside-cell policy. The circular plan also makes escape much more difficult. Mr. Zimmerman, the State architect, and his son Ralph have spent years in studying the best prison plans of Europe and America, and the new Illinois penitentiary will have some entirely new features in it, as well as a combination of best European and American ideas. The cost will be about $3,500,000.

—The third Hague Court of Arbitration is to meet in 1915. There is an international committee of preparation to which the United States sends three delegates. Much surprise and grief and wrath have been excited by the President’s choice for this committee to the Court of Peace. He sends General Crowder, Admiral Wainwright, and J. R. Clarke.

—Dr. Lewis Swift, one of the leading astronomers of the world, died recently in Marathon, Ky., aged ninety-two years. He came into prominence in 1862 when he discovered the comet which bears his name. He has discovered eighteen comets and a large number of nebulae. For three years in succession the Imperial Academy in Vienna awarded him its medal as having contributed most to astronomy.

—It will help to appreciate the anticipated magnitude of the parcel-post business to learn that the Post-office Department at Washington has sent out to 60,000 postmasters and 45,000 rural-mail carriers, supplies of the various kinds which will be required. There were provided 70,000 scales, 110,000 rubber stamps, 10,000,000 insurance tags, over 153,000,000 parcel-post stamps, over 12,000,000 “postage due” stamps. There was also sent out tons of printed matter relating to the system.

Reach Up as Far as You Can

By John H. Vincent

REACH up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the rest of the way.—John H. Vincent.

Two Good Reports on “Ministry of Healing” Work

At the close of the meeting held in College Place last October, I was asked how many books I was going to sell. My reply was, “One hundred copies.” I am very glad to report that my hundred copies are sold, though I expect to sell more in the near future.

My experience in the sale of “Ministry of Healing” has been very interesting. I have come in close contact with people of all ranks and occupations. I have visited the millionaire in his palace, ministers of different denominations, and the professional people as well as the common laboring man and the poorer class.

My earnest desire is that our literature may be placed in the hands of all the people everywhere. The truth must be proclaimed, not only from the pulpit, but also from the printed page in every home. If that is done, we shall soon see the day approach when we shall meet in the blessed day of resurrection. Brethren and sisters, let us do all we can to place the “Ministry of Healing” in every home in our vicinity.—Emmanuel Lovold, in North Pacific Union Gleaner.

Since my last report some time ago, I have visited a number of churches in the interest of “Ministry of Healing” and sanitarium work, and am glad to say that some are taking hold of this work. However, there is not nearly so much being done as there should be. We have about twenty-five hundred members in the State, and if each one would sell even two books it would result in five thousand dollars for the cause of God, and would work no hardship to any one; on the contrary, it would prove a great blessing to all.

Read Isa. 52: 1, 7, 8. There is something for each of us to do, and a threefold blessing for those who fulfil this scripture,—a blessing to the one who sells the book, to him who receives it, and to the cause for the benefit of which it is sold. A short time ago I received a letter from a brother who had put in three days in the field with the book “Ministry of Healing,” and enjoyed the work so much he wished he could put his entire time into it. Another, a sister, who before starting out believed she would have no success, sold thirty-five books in a short time. God is always willing to help if we will but take him at his word.—A. Belding, in Lake Union Herald.

Medical Missionary Department

By L. A. Hansen

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference

L. A. HANSEN - - - - Assistant Secretary

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By B. F. Kneeland; H. K. Hackman

West Pennsylvania Conference, Notice!

There will be an adjourned annual meeting of the constituency of the West Pennsylvania Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists held in the Seventh-day Adventist church, Sixth and Union Avenues, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, March 6, 1913, at 9:30 A. M., for the election of the members of the constituency of the association, and the transaction of any other business that may come before the association. This meeting will be held in connection with the eleventh annual session of the West Pennsylvania Conference, which will convene in Altoona, Pa., March 4-9, 1913.

B. F. Kneeland, President; H. K. Hackman, Secretary.

West Pennsylvania, Special Notice!

By B. F. Kneeland; H. K. Hackman

THE next annual session of the West Pennsylvania Conference has been postponed by the action of the executive committee till March 4-9, 1913, which is four weeks later than was announced two weeks ago. This action has been taken at the request of the Columbia Union Conference officers, on account of other important meetings conflicting with ours, which have been appointed by the General Conference. We trust that all delegates and others who were planning to attend this conference and convention of church workers will note the new date. The change in time will be the only change from the arrangements as previously announced.

This will be a very important meeting, and we wish again to urge all our church officers and others who are interested in the work in West Pennsylvania to attend this meeting. Every church should see that it is well represented. Some of our best-known workers are expected to be with us, and the instruction given will be both timely and helpful.

All delegates' credentials should be sent to the conference office immediately. All who expect to attend should send their names at

once to Elder W. F. Schwartz, 521 Union St., Hollidaysburg, Pa.

Please remember the new date, March 4-9, 1913. The meeting will be held in the First Seventh-day Adventist church, Sixth and Union Avenues, Altoona, Pa.

B. F. KNEELAND, President; H. K. HACKMAN, Secretary.

Publications Wanted

THE following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications sent post-paid:—

Mrs. M. L. Brock, Lake City, Fla., desires copies of the Monthly Missionary Reading and tracts for free distribution.

J. R. Wood, Mountain Home, Ark., wishes to thank those who have sent literature for missionary purposes to his address, and will appreciate a continued supply.

Copies of the Watchman, weekly and monthly Signs of the Times, Liberty, the Protestant Magazine, Youth’s Instructor, and tracts suitable for distribution in missionary work, also literature in the Italian and Greek languages, will be appreciated by Mrs. Hugh McDonald, 1006 Seventh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.

The churches in Greater New York are organizing for a missionary campaign. The members plan to carry literature to the homes of the people, as well as to supply reading-racks in hotels, depots, waiting-rooms, etc. It will require a large amount of literature to meet the demand. They can use copies of the REVIEW, Instructor, Signs, Education, Life and Health, Protestant, Liberty, and tracts containing present truth. All papers should be addressed to J. M. Calvert, Room 904, 32 Union Square E., New York City, N. Y.

E. N. Vaughan, Hickory, N. C., wishes to thank those who have been sending him papers for free distribution, and desires a continual supply of Signs of the Times, Watchman, Liberty, Life and Health, and the Protestant Magazine.

Obituaries

WHEELER.— Lee Wheeler was born at Fish Creek, Wis., in 1892, and died at Laona, Wis., Nov. 27, 1912. His parents, four brothers, and four sisters are left to mourn, but they sorrow not as those who have no hope. The funeral was conducted in his home church at Clearwater Lake, Wis., by the writer, assisted by Elder F. Stebbels. L. E. WELLMAN.

AUSTIN.— Lydia T. Austin was born Dec. 30, 1839, and died in St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 9, 1912. She united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church about twelve years ago, and was a consistent Christian until she fell asleep in the hope of life beyond the grave. One daughter and three sons are left to mourn their loss. The writer preached the funeral sermon. A. W. KUEHL.

JEWELL.— Charles Claton Jewell was born in Hamburg, N. Y., June 4, 1844, and died Nov. 28, 1912. During the civil war he served for three years in the Third Ohio Cavalry. About 1877 he came to Michigan, and on Oct. 29, 1883, was married to Mrs. Helen Frank, of Tyrone. Brother Jewell believed the third angel's message for a number of years, but did not fully yield himself to God and openly confess his Saviour until about two months before his death. His companion, one sister, and one brother are left to mourn. We laid him to rest in the firm belief that he will come forth in that glad day when death shall have no more victory. The writer conducted the funeral service, assisted by the pastor of the Baptist Church. HOMER H. PERKINS.

SWANSON.— Died Dec. 6, 1912, at Hillesden, Saskatchewan, Canada, after an illness of only six days, Gustaf Edward Swanson, aged 19 years, 2 months, and 21 days. He was born in Warren, Minn., and about nine years ago moved with his parents to the province of Saskatchewan. A little over four years ago he gave his heart to the Lord and was baptized. He was a consistent Christian, and had an ardent desire to engage in the work of the Lord. He had begun a preparation for this work, having spent last year at the Alberta Industrial Academy. During the past summer he did successful colporteur work, but died during the very week in which he had planned to return to the school. His death came as a sad blow to his parents, three brothers, and two sisters, but they sorrow in hope. A. C. GILBERT.

OWEN.— Gardner Kellogg Owen, who for the past eleven and one-half years was a missionary in India, died at Lucknow, in the United Provinces of India, Oct. 18, 1912. Father Owen was born in Monroe County, Michigan, Sept. 19, 1838, and spent his early years mostly in Michigan. In early manhood the reasonableness of the Holy Scriptures and the message of present truth appealed to him. He embraced the truth in 1865, thereafter making it the chief concern of his life. Thirty-five years ago he undertook pioneer evangelistic work in Tennessee and Kentucky, under the appointment of the General Conference, and believers were added to the faith. Later he began work in the city of New Orleans, where a church was raised up. He and his wife, Sister Julia Owen, devoted several years to evangelistic work in California and Nevada, where their labors were blessed of God and many souls embraced the message. In 1901, in company with his daughter, Mrs. J. L. Shaw, and the writer, Elder Owen came to India. The need of India appealed to him, and he worked untiringly for the interests of the cause which was near his heart until, old age coming on, life's forces seemed to have been spent, and he was called to his place of rest. Father Owen possessed a remarkable memory and a clear and logical mind. Sermons prepared in verse and other selections could be reproduced on a moment's notice. In Biblical argument he was clear and convincing, and it was through this means that thoughtful people were led to investigate and embrace the faith. His manner of life was an example to all who knew him. Since his death many—Mohammedans, Hindus, and Christians—have spoken of his evenness of temper, calmness of mind, and integrity of purpose. A heathen cook, on learning of his death, said, “He knew no sin and thought no evil.” There were placed on his casket the following words: “An Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile,” waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” We believe his life of piety has left behind him a fragrant remembrance that witnesses still for the kingdom of Christ. In our home he left a vacant chair, which points us forward to the day when Jesus the Life-giver will bid his sleeping servants to arise and enter upon their eternal reward. J. L. SHAW.

Central California Conference

By J. H. Behrens; G. A. Wheeler

THE second annual session of the Central California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held Feb. 20-25, 1913, in the Fresno church, corner of O and Mariposa Streets, Fresno, Cal., for the purpose of electing officers and transacting such other business as may come before the meeting. A full attendance of the delegates is earnestly requested. J. H. BEHRENS, President; G. A. WHEELER, Secretary.

Central California Conference Association

By J. H. Behrens; G. A. Wheeler

The Central California Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its first annual meeting in connection with the conference to be held at Fresno, Cal., Feb. 20-25, 1913. The first meeting of the association will be held Monday, February 24, at 10 A. M. All delegates to the conference are members of the association.

J. H. BEHRENS, President; G. A. WHEELER, Secretary.

The Washington Foreign Mission Seminary

By W. T. Knox; M. E. Kern

NOTICE is hereby given that the next annual meeting of the constituency of the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary will be held at the Foreign Mission Seminary, Takoma Park, Md., Feb. 13, 1913, at 2:30 P. M., for the election of nine trustees for the coming year, and for the transaction of any other business which may properly come before the meeting.

The constituency of the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary is composed of the executive committee of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and the president of each local conference of Seventh-day Adventists in the United States.

By order of the board of trustees, W. T. KNOX, President; M. E. KERN, Secretary.

Address Wanted

The Seventh-day Adventist church at Winterset, Iowa, desires the address of Mrs. Minnie Brown. Any one who can give this information is requested to communicate with Mrs. C. J. Robinson, church clerk, East Peru, Iowa.

Classified Employment Notices

WANTED.— Situation by widow, with son fourteen years of age, near church-school. Address Mrs. Ella Colburn, Box 158, Deslacs, N. Dak.

BAKER wants employment. Is competent to run bakery, and has had several years’ experience making health foods, both cereal and nut foods. Is now running small bakery. Will give reasons for desiring change. Address J. T. Eaton, New Market, Va.

WANTED.— Tailors and Tailoresses. Steady employment. Wages, fifty to one hundred dollars a month. Church and church-school privileges. Mild climate. Fruit belt. Those desiring to do missionary work preferred. References given and required. C. E. Wood, Merchant Tailor, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada.

The Temperance “Instructor” for 1913

BEGAN its annual campaign against the liquor traffic — the great national home crusher — on the twenty-seventh day of January with the first mailing of over 20,000 copies, one week before the date of issue — only part supply for the skirmish-lines. Orders are just beginning to come in for the base supplies.

A band of Instructor Temperance Volunteers made a short, initial effort with the new issue in Washington, D. C., and promptly pronounced it an easy seller. One member sold 23 copies in a short time. Another member, at another time, working alone, sold 16 papers in about an hour.

There is an unusual demand for sample copies coming from various temperance organizations. A minister in Pennsylvania wired for sample copies of the new number. A number of State secretaries of the W. C. T. U. are asking for samples, also for methods of circulation. We quote the following from one of these:—

“I should like to know full particulars about getting large quantities of your Temperance Instructor. The campaign is going on here now, and our time is short. So it is very essential that we get the Temperance Instructor as soon as possible. How soon can we get it?”

One of our tract society secretaries upon receiving a sample copy immediately sent back the message, “It is a beauty.”

Everything bids fair for a good, prosperous year with the Temperance Instructor. Now is the time to send in orders and to begin work while the number is fresh and the spring temperance campaigns are on.

Prices

The usual prices will prevail; namely, 5 to 40 copies, one order, one address, 5 cents a copy; 50 or more copies, 4 cents a copy. Send all orders to the conference tract societies.

A Complete Atlas of the World

One of the leading atlas publishers has just brought out a new up-to-date Atlas, which will be of great value to our people, both young and old, who are studying mission fields. It will also be a good help for children who are studying geography.

The Atlas contains maps of the United States, its forty-eight States, its Territories, its insular possessions, together with the Canadian provinces and other divisions of the Dominion, besides every other country of the world.

The maps are printed in five and six colors. The railroads are shown in red, mountains in brown, water in blue, and political divisions are accurately defined. This enables one to readily locate places of interest. The latest geographical changes, not only in America but in India and China, are shown on these maps. The population is given of important cities throughout the world.

The Atlas is 7 x 10 inches, and has 193 pages of maps, each map covering two pages. Bound in cloth, $1.50; leather, $2.00.

Religious Liberty Literature and Appeals

By Editor

The double frontispiece in the February Protestant is reproduced from three Vasari frescos in the Vatican representing scenes in St. Bartholomew’s massacre. These and other Catholic testimonials regarding persecution should be preserved for future reference.

After selling 2,000 copies of the “Catholic Federation” number of Liberty, one of our faithful agents, an aged brother, ordered 4,000 more—all we had on hand. Are there not other religious liberty veterans who are ready to enter the field with this splendid weapon of freedom?

What about the fourth Pan-American Mass, attended by President Taft, in Washington, D. C.? For a report of this event, which, when published in the Christian Herald, brought forth a reply from “Father” Russell, of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Washington, D. C., see the “Statue of Liberty” number of Liberty.

If you think that Rome has changed her mind about persecuting “heretics,” read the February or “Rome and the Heretics” and “Papal Persecutions” number of the Protestant Magazine, just off the press. Rome can not dispute the authorities quoted. For $1.00 we will mail 20 copies to any addresses you may furnish.

The only sure way to defeat the National Reformers and Lord’s Day Alliance people in their efforts to secure Sunday legislation, is to sow the country everywhere deep with Liberty, our Religious Liberty Leaflets (10 cents a set), and other religious liberty literature. See that your editors, councilmen, and State legislators are supplied with Liberty for one year. Special rate on 10 copies, one year, to 10 addresses, only $2.00.

This is perhaps the first time that a United States senator has consented to act as one of our Protestant Magazine agents. Under date of January 3, a prominent senator, whose name is well known in America, wrote thus to the Protestant Magazine: “I am in receipt of a letter from a constituent in [State] who desires a copy of your December number of the Protestant Magazine. I shall be very much obliged if you will send to my office said copy, together with bill for same.” Would it not be a good idea for you to write to your State and United States senators and representatives and respectfully call their attention to the current numbers of Liberty and the Protestant Magazine? Surely as constituents of these representative men every Seventh-day Adventist voter is entitled to a respectful hearing on the part of these representatives of the people. Mark some special article expressing your convictions and call their attention to the same.

A New Bible Atlas

THIS is a handy reference and companion book in the study of the historical portions of the Bible. The Bible Atlas contains 38 physical maps of Palestine, based upon the results of an actual survey, with an identification of the Biblical sites as far as known; also 82 progressive historical maps, embracing a special map for each specific period of the country’s history from the earliest date to the present. All maps are in colors.

Size of Atlas about 4½ x 7 inches. Leather binding. Price, $1.00.

Religious · Liberty Leaflets

By Editor

For the convenience of our people who desire to have information at hand with reference to various phases of religious liberty work, the Review and Herald Publishing Association has bound in permanent form the leaflets that have been issued in the Religious Liberty Library.

These are bound in two styles: cloth, 25 cents; flexible leather, 50 cents. Orders for them may be sent through your conference tract society.

The Reading Courses

It is not too late to join the Reading Courses and obtain the benefit of systematic reading of these excellent books. The following is the list of books found in the—

Missionary Volunteer Courses

Daybreak in Korea....$.60 Pilgrim's Progress..... .50 Miracles of Missions.... .30 Passion for Men....... .20 The American Government.... .75 The Uplift of China ........ .50 Winning the Oregon Country.. .50 Uganda's White Man of Work... .35

The Sabbath-School Teachers' Course

The Teacher's Pedagogy Individual Soul-Winning Successful Teacher All three for 50 cents.

Ministerial Reading Course

Pastoral and Personal Evangelism, $1. Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers, $1. Desire of Ages, cloth, $1.50; leather, $2.

Protests Against Sunday Legislation

Do not fail to read the splendid protests of the California brethren to the legislature of their State against the threatened invasion of the rights of conscience in that part of the United States. It would seem that such a broadside ought to be convincing even to the stanchest advocates of religious legislation. Preserve these protests; they will be helpful. It is a fact that is not without its significance that in the District of Columbia and the State of California, wherein are located our two principal publishing houses, there are no Sunday laws upon the statute-books. This is in the providence of God. But there is significance also in the fact that upon these two points the enemy of a free conscience and of God's great memorial is now making his fiercest attacks. We must not, therefore, grow careless or indifferent in the work of advocating the principles of soul freedom and protesting against the opposite wherever it may manifest itself. Let the protest against Sunday legislation continue to roll in to Congress, that this Congress may go out without having enacted a Sunday law. Church elders who have not attended to this matter should do so at once. In the meantime let our people seek God earnestly that he will still hold in check the influence of those who would turn the nation backward toward religious oppression, and that he will still hinder the carrying out of their program.

Encouraging Reports from India and Russia

By Editor

The interesting and very encouraging report of the India Union Mission conference, written by Elder J. L. Shaw, which appears in this issue, will be read with pleasure by all our brethren. One accomplishment alone, recorded in that report, more than compensates for all that has been done by us for India. In fourteen village schools and four boarding-schools eight hundred fifty-eight native pupils are under our religious training. This is only one of the interesting items contained in the report.

Elder J. T. Boettcher, president of the Russian Union Conference, writes while going by train from Tiflis to Baku, Russia:— “In Tiflis we had called in the church elders from the different parts of this field. The Lord protected us from any disturbance. All felt refreshed through God’s truth. Although the meeting was small, we had five different languages spoken. The truth finds its way to the hearts of even those who live among the large mountains.”

Special Course for Christian Workers

As announced some time ago, the Foreign Mission Seminary will conduct a Special Course of Training for Ministers and Bible Workers, commencing February 19 and closing May 13. Special work is offered in Bible, history, homiletics, denominational history, practical English, New Testament Greek, and other subjects.

The tuition charges will be $5.50 a month of four weeks. The Seminary dormitories are now full, but an effort will be made to find rooms in private homes for those who come. All those who desire and who room near enough that can board at the Seminary. Meals are served on the European plan, and cost from $7 to $11 a month.

This is a splendid opportunity for Christian workers and others to come aside and study for a time, and attend the General Conference, which immediately follows.

For further information address M. E. Kern, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

Religious Liberty Reading for February 22

CHURCH elders will please notice that no fourth Sabbath missionary program is published in the REVIEW this week for February 22. Instead, the Religious Liberty Department is sending out a reading for that Sabbath, in connection with the annual offering to be taken that day in behalf of our religious liberty work.

South African Union Conference Session

The South African Union Conference session began January 3. A report from Elder R. C. Porter states that they were anticipating a good meeting.

Prof. Salisbury Reports on Work in India

Prof. H. R. Salisbury, en route to Burma, reports a very interesting, profitable, and busy two months in India proper, during which time he had joined with the workers in their general meeting, and later visited several mission stations, where he reports good work being done. He expects to reach San Francisco about March 1, making short stops in Singapore and Shanghai.

A Village Keeps the Seventh-Day Sabbath

Two men recently walked forty miles to one of our missions in India to inquire of the workers why they observed the seventh day. Careful Bible study followed, the missionaries not overlooking the texts mentioning the first day of the week. The men returned home, and about two weeks later paid the mission another visit, this time bringing others with them. The workers were greatly surprised to hear that the whole village from which they had come was now keeping the seventh-day Sabbath and working on Sunday.

Continue reading: B. F. KNEELAND,