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The Kobe Sanitarium

By W. C. DUNSCOMBE, M. D.

DURING the last year the Lord has blessed in the work to a greater degree than we had dared to hope. Many times the way has seemed to be hedged up with difficulties, and at times it has seemed as if the work must be closed up here. However, the trials and difficulties have caused us to seek God more earnestly, and we have not been disappointed; for he has helped us.

When my wife and I first came here, there was one patient, as the institution had been without a physician for some time. But the patients soon began to come in, and from that time to this we have more than paid expenses. At present, the institution is crowded, and during the last week we have had to refuse admittance to three patients because of lack of room. From the very first, the Lord has sent us patients as fast as we have been able to take care of them. After we were well settled here, I received notice that I must pass the regular examination in order to practise in Japan. If I continued to practise before I had passed this examination, they informed me that I would be arrested and fined. As the law then read, it would take nearly two years before I would receive my certificate, as I would have to take three examinations several months apart. This would mean the closing up of our medical work here. For a time there seemed to be no other alternative, but finally a high official took hold of the matter for us, and after a great deal of patient effort the ordinance was changed so that foreigners would be allowed to take all the examinations at one time. Then I took the examinations, my papers were examined as soon as I had written them, and I was given my certificate.

It seemed providential that before I received my certificate, very few local patients came. However, after this they began to come in quite fast, so that now many of the townspeople are our patients. We have religious services every day, and many of the patients ask why we keep the Sabbath, etc. Thus we have had the opportunity to present the truth. The majority of our patients are missionaries from Japan, Korea, and China, and it is hard to estimate the good that the seed sown here will do. From time to time we have had a large portion of all the missionaries here in Japan at our sanitarium, and many missionaries, from other parts of the Orient. We hold services with them every day, and I am sure that these prayer-meetings bring us all nearer together, and nearer to God.

In the last year we have bought and paid for new equipment valued at one thousand dollars (gold), added five hundred and some dollars to our bank account out of our earnings, and paid part of our small debt. So we feel that the Lord has blessed us in a temporal way also.

Our sanitarium workers are few, and for a long time we had to work very hard; but now that Miss Dehn has come to help us, the work will be easier for all. The greatest problem that we now have to deal with is the language. It is essential that we learn the language, but it is very difficult most of the time to get much opportunity to study while engaged in the sanitarium work.

We are hoping soon to secure a larger and better equipped institution in the country. This institution will be for both Japanese and foreigners, and we are also planning to have a training-school in connection with it. This will enable us to give our native young people a training in health principles and in simple treatments, and evangelistic work as well. The work surely is great, and as we lay the foundation for a larger and broader work, we need your prayers that we may keep close to God, and be guided by him in all our plans for the future.

W. C. DUNSCOMBE, M. D.

Findings

An urgent call was made at the late General Conference Committee Council from the Swiss field for a French-speaking physician to prepare for medical missionary work in that field. Who will be the man?

Dr. Riley Russell, who will be graduated from the George Washington University this spring, has been invited by the General Conference Committee to go to Korea to labor as a medical missionary.

In sending his regrets from the Nashville Sanitarium, that he could not attend the late General Conference Council in Takoma Park, D. C., Dr. W. A. George says: “Our work here seems to be well on the way to being self-supporting, and I do not want to do anything that is likely to hinder it in any way. Several physicians are sending us patients from Nashville and other places, and I must be here to take care of them, or they will not be satisfied.”

The Secretary of the Medical Department urgently repeats his request that medical missionary workers in the field should render their assistance both to this department of the REVIEW and to the similar department in Life and Health, by reporting such experiences as will be a benefit to the readers of these journals. General interest in this department of the work will be greatly stimulated by information concerning the medical missionary work which is actually being done.

Brother Sam. Koenigmacher and wife have lately gone from the St. Helena Sanitarium to Nyassaland to assist in the work in that field. Mr. Koenigmacher has for a number of years acted as head nurse in the St. Helena Sanitarium. His presence and that of his wife will be much missed in the work at St. Helena, but as Dr. Rand writes, they are always willing to give up even their best help to go to the regions beyond to help in carrying the message. The St. Helena Sanitarium has lately sent Miss Dehn to Kobe, Japan, to answer a call for a nurse in that field. St. Helena is approaching the record made last year by the Boulder Sanitarium, in furnishing workers for foreign fields. All our sanitariums should vie with one another in this matter, because there is so much need of consecrated nurses in these dark parts of the world.

Dr. R. M. Clarke has been transferred from the Knowlton, Quebec, Sanitarium, where he has been laboring for a number of months, to the Moline Sanitarium. It has seemed best to transfer the medical missionary work that has been done at Knowlton, to the city of Quebec as soon as arrangements can be made in that city for treatment rooms. The institution has been prospered under Dr. Clarke’s supervision, but on account of the stringent medical requirements in the Province of Quebec, it is not possible for an American graduate in medicine to become registered in that province. What work we do there must be done by nurses until we can find a man who has both a medical degree and a literary degree from a French or English University. Dr. Clarke spent a few days in Washington on his way to Moline, where he will be located for some time to come.

Medical Missionary Department

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference

W. A. GEORGE, M. D., - - - Chairman

W. A. RUBLE, M. D., - - - Secretary

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FOR SALE.—Eight-room house; good cellar, good lot, well, cistern, fine barn, necessary outbuildings; finest location in town, on bank of river; shade-trees, some fruit. Address W. F. Stemm, Berrien Springs, Mich.

FOR SALE.—House and lot, 1½ blocks from academy building. New, well-finished house; city water; shade trees, lawn, fruit, oranges, figs, apricots, and other trees. Large woodshed. Address A. L. Lingle, R. F. D. Box 19, Fernando, Cal.

FOR SALE.—Peanut Butter, 10 cents a pound; Olive-oil, $2.50 a gallon; 50 pounds Cocoanut Oil, $7; Vegetable Cooking Oil, 10 pounds, $1.10; 60 pounds, $6. Cash with order. All absolutely pure. Address Vegetarian Meat Company, Washington, D. C.

FOR SALE.—In Loveland, Colo., 1¾ miles from the Campion Academy, 32 acres, with plenty of water for irrigation. Price in small lots, $85 an acre. As one lot, at a little less an acre. Must be sold within thirty days. Address W. H. Babcock, R. F. D. 3, Box 17, Loveland, Colo.

FOR SALE.—Beautiful Imported Bible Cardboard Mottoes; all have flowers with silver letters. Cord furnished to hang mottoes with. Special for 60 days; 5 for 50 cents; 12, $1; 25, $1.75; 50, $3; 100, $5. More you buy, the cheaper they are. All sent by mail. Address Hampton Art Company, Hampton, Iowa.

FOR SALE.—Relinquishment of desert claim of 160 acres 6½ miles from Carr, Colo. May be entered by homesteader. Excellent land for dry farming, with good prospects for irrigation. Land well fenced. No other improvements. Water near surface. Price, $400. Address Fred H. Weber, Carr, Colo.

FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor; keeps indefinitely: 5-gal. can, $3.50; 10-gal. can, $7; crate of 8 one-gal. cans, 80 cents a gal.; 64 cents a gal. in ½ bbl. and bbl. lots; 30 gal. and 50 gal. shipped direct from factory at Louisville, Ky. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Box 442, Louisville, Ky.

FOR SALE.—In Mountain View, Cal., near Pacific Press factory and S. D. A. church and church-school, modern two-story house, with eight living-rooms, two bath-rooms, and pantry. Sanitary plumbing throughout. Suited for one large family or two small families. One acre of land, with family orchard; trees just coming into bearing. Price, $3,600. Address L. E. Borle, Mountain View, Cal.

FOR SALE.—Purest, most healthful Vegetable Oil for cooking and salads; no odor, keeps indefinitely: gal. can, $1; 5-gal. can, $4. Also pure virgin Olive-oil: gal., $2.75; half gal., $1.40; quart, 85 cents. Lunch Nutrena, a hygienic fat and blood producer: 1-lb. box, 35 cents; send for samples. Address E. W. Coates, 535 W. 110th St., New York City, N. Y.

FOR SALE.—Two and three-fourths acres of land in the suburbs of Roswell, New Mexico. Three-room house,—rooms large with two large porches. A small young orchard with all fruits suitable to the climate. Pie-plant and asparagus. Hay barn, horse and carriage stable, and chicken house. Good well, windmill, and water works for irrigating orchard. Reasons for selling, owner is too old and feeble to care for it, and desires to put the money where it will be doing good in the Master’s vineyard. Place is cheap at $2,000, but will sell for $1,600, as owner wishes to get the money in the cause while she lives. Address the Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, Tenn.

BUY A HOME.—Where?—In the valley of the Rio Grande, in the most southern part of Texas. Buy where the soil, when watered by the largest and best private canal in the United States, laden with silt, makes the land produce three crops of garden truck, two crops of corn, and alfalfa is cut seven or eight times. Sugar-cane is grown with greater profit than in Louisiana. Grapes, figs, oranges, and lemons ripen earlier than in California. Avoid lands without water, also those with artesian wells, and give no attention to many agents along the way. Lands are selling fast, and prices advancing rapidly. Take advantage of cheap rates, and come and see for yourselves. Those who are interested in this new country should address Andrew Hansen, Mercedes, Texas.

Greater New York Conference

By C. H. EDWARDS

It has been decided to hold the annual camp-meeting of the Greater New York Conference at White Plains, N. Y., June 4-14. None of the regular conference business will be transacted at this meeting, so that the entire time will be devoted to a consideration of the message and the different lines of work in the conference. The location is all that we can desire, being in the very center of the city of White Plains, which has about twenty thousand inhabitants. The date is somewhat earlier than we had anticipated, but it is the best selection that we could make under all the circumstances, and we believe that it will be satisfactory to our brethren and sisters. We trust that this meeting may be one of the most blessed of any that has been held in connection with our conference, and we hope our brethren and sisters will make every effort to attend this gathering. Let us all come praying that God will meet with us, and give us his special blessing. Prices of tents and other camp furniture will be given at a later date.

C. H. EDWARDS, President.

Camp-Meetings in California

By Stephen Nelson Haskell

BEFORE this notice reaches the readers of the REVIEW, our camp-meeting at Lodi will be in the past. The State camp-meeting will be held in the vicinity of Melrose, a suburb of Oakland, June 4-14. A camp-meeting will also be held in Humboldt County, July 4-14. The exact location of the Humboldt meeting has not been fully decided.

These meetings are of great importance to our people, and should be attended by them from far and near. There never was a year when more important interests centered at our camp-meetings than this.

God's blessing has greatly attended the efforts to scatter our publications. We have never seen such a time as this. The rank and file of our people are taking hold of this work and distributing our literature like the “leaves of autumn.” God is pouring out his Spirit upon those who rise to go forward in the closing work. He is uniting his divine aid with human instrumentalities to save those whose hearts have been prepared for the reception of the truth.

This warning work should be carried on in every city in our land. The time has come for us to expect great things at the hand of God. He is not dead, but living, and is on the giving hand. He unites his divine strength with our feeble efforts, and in this way magnifies his name. We trust the fire kindled by the Spirit of God will take hold of all, and lead them to help in advancing the cause of present truth.

We urge all our people to attend the camp-meeting in the vicinity of Oakland, and also the one to be held in Humboldt County at a later date.

Every preaching tent that we have is out with a company of workers before our first camp-meeting begins, and already we hear of souls taking their stand to keep the commandments of God. We earnestly pray that this year will witness something accomplished that we have not seen in the past. Let us go forward in the fear of the Lord.

S. N. HASKELL, President.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

Camp-Meetings for 1908

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE Greater New York, White Plains, ............ June 4-14

COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE East Pennsylvania, Scranton ..... June 11-21 West Pennsylvania, Oil City ..... June 18-28

NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE Southern Idaho, Caldwell ........ May 13-20 Western Washington, Seattle .... May 21-30 Western Oregon, St. Johns, May 28 to June 7 Upper Columbia, Spokane ........ June 4-14 Montana, Great Falls ............ June 18-28

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE North Dakota, Velva ............ June 22-29

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE California, Oakland (Melrose) .... June 4-14

The presidents of the various conferences are requested to forward any information which will enable us to publish a complete and correct list of the camp-meetings appointed for the present season. If any changes are made in either time or place of meeting already appointed, notice should be forwarded at once.

Notice!

THERE will be a canvassers' institute at Louisville, Ky., near the corner of Seventh and Chestnut Streets, May 19-31, 1908. All who expect to attend should notify at once, C. F. Dart, R. F. D. 4, Henderson, Ky.

Notice!

The Summer School for the teachers of the Lake Union Conference will convene at Emmanuel Missionary College, June 10, and continue six weeks. It is planned to make this school in every way helpful to those who are now engaged in teaching or who are planning to teach. All communications should be addressed to Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich.

New England Sanitarium Training-School

THE New England Sanitarium affords exceptional advantages to young people who desire to prepare themselves for medical missionary work. The next class will begin June 1, 1908. There is still opportunity for three or four young men, and a number of young women, to take the training with the next class.

The location of this sanitarium in the Massachusetts State park, just outside the city of Boston, makes it an ideal place to get a practical experience in this line of work.

Any one desiring to enter the school for training is requested to write to Miss Zaidle Goodrich, care New England Sanitarium, Melrose, Mass. MANAGERS.

Notice!

THE next training class for missionary nurses in the Washington Branch Sanitarium will begin Sept. 1, 1908. We desire to correspond with earnest, devoted young people who wish to secure a training for medical missionary work. There is opportunity for a few who have had one year of training to enter the second-year class. Address W. A. Ruble, M. D., Iowa Circle, Washington, D. C.

South Dakota Conference

By J. W. Christian

THE twenty-ninth annual conference of the South Dakota Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held June 11-21, 1908, in connection with the camp-meeting to be held at Woonsocket, S. Dak., for the purpose of electing conference officers for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the conference. The first meeting will be held Thursday, June 11, at 11 A. M.

Let all our churches be sure to send a list of their delegates at once to the conference secretary, Elder N. P. Neilsen, Volga, S. Dak.

J. W. CHRISTIAN, President.

Notice !

By S. E. JACKSON

THE Minnesota Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its forty-seventh annual session, June 4-14, 1908, in connection with the camp-meeting. The location is a beautiful, level spot in a thickly settled section of South Minneapolis,—Thirty-fourth Street and Fourth Avenue, S.,—a city of some three hundred thousand inhabitants and the metropolis of Minnesota. The election of conference and association officers for the ensuing year, and various other matters of intense interest to every loyal Seventh-day Adventist will come before the meeting. The first session will be called at 9:30 A. M., Friday, June 5.

S. E. JACKSON, President.

Obituaries

TIMPERLEY.— William Timperley was born in Sheffield, England, Oct. 12, 1841, and died at his home in Stewardson, Ill., April 3, 1908. He accepted present truth about six years ago. Funeral service was conducted by Elder Chancy Wood. W. S. PROCTOR.

WHITNEY.— Died at Rochester, N. Y., after a few hours' illness, April 3, 1908, Sister Julia E. S. Whitney, aged sixty-nine years. For two years she faithfully walked in the light of Sabbath truth before being identified with our faith; after receiving further light she became a faithful member of the church till death. Words of hope and admonition were spoken by the writer, from James 4:14. E. C. TOWNSEND.

GRIFFITH.— Died at the Oakwood Manual Training-School, March 11, 1908, of pneumonia, Charles Griffith, aged twenty-one years. Brother Griffith was a native of British Guiana, and came to the school about a year ago, to prepare himself to become a worker in the cause of God. He loved the message, was an apt Bible student, and was making good advancement in his studies. We believe that he sleeps in Jesus. The funeral was held in the school chapel. W. J. BLAKE.

REED.— Died at Feeley, Minn., April 14, 1908, of scarlet fever, Clifford Charles Reed, aged 5 years, 5 months, and 8 days. He was taught to love the Saviour and expressed his faith in him. We believe he will come forth to life in the great resurrection morning. FRED JOHNSON.

DODD.— Died at his home near Charlotte, Mich., April 16, 1908, Brother Jay W. Dodd, aged 54 years, 7 months, and 20 days, leaving a wife, three sons, and two daughters to mourn the loss of a kind husband and a loving father. Funeral service was conducted by the writer, from Rom. 6:23. S. D. HARTWELL.

DEXTER.— Died April 9, 1908, at Pewamo, Mich., Brother William Dexter, aged eighty-three years. He is survived by his wife and three children. His death was the first to enter the family circle after a wedded life of fifty-two years. Brother Dexter embraced present truth under the labors of Elder John Sisley in 1876. E. K. SLADE.

RICHARDSON.— Died at the home of his son, in Bedford, Nova Scotia, April 16, 1908, Joseph Richardson, aged 79 years, 1 month, and 8 days. Three sons and two daughters survive to mourn. Funeral service was held at the house, where a number of friends and relatives listened to words of comfort from Job 7:17. Wm. GUTHRIE.

LUNDIN.— Died March 27, 1908, at Clifton, Colo., of scarlet fever, Gale Lundin, aged 14 years, 2 months, and 1 day. The blessed hope of a joyful and speedy reunion alone gives comfort to the bereaved friends. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from 2 Sam. 12:22, 23. The remains were laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery near Palisade, to wait the call of the Life-giver. W. F. KENNEDY.

HAM.— Died in Leduc, Alberta, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Abigail Ransom-Ham, aged 74 years, 1 month, and 6 days. With her husband Sister Ham received present truth thirty-six years ago, and was ever faithful in the observance of Christian duties. She had been a sufferer from chronic bronchitis for many years, but bore it with patient fortitude. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from John 14:1-3. J. W. BOYNTON.

ALGER.— Died April 15, 1908, of cancer, Martin N. Alger, of Fitch Bay, Quebec, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. Brother Alger accepted the Sabbath truth over twenty years ago. Only four daughters out of a family of thirteen survive the deceased. They will miss his quiet and helpful life, but look forward to the great home-coming, where the grave will give up her captives. Funeral service was conducted by the writer in the Fitch Bay Seventh-day Adventist church. GEO. H. SKINNER.

CLENSAY.— Died at her home in Los Angeles, Cal., April 16, 1908, Sister Annie R. Clensay, aged 75 years, 5 months, and 9 days. She was a devoted member of the Seventh-day Adventist church, and died rejoicing in the message. Those who were personally acquainted with Grandma Clensay knew her to be a consistent Christian and we expect to meet her in the first resurrection. Funeral service was conducted by the writer, assisted by Elder J. W. Adams. C. E. FORD.

MARTIN.— Died at his home at Denison's Mills, Quebec, Murdock Martin, aged 73 years and 9 months. Brother Martin was born in Scotland, coming to Canada at the age of twelve. Five years ago he accepted the faith held by Seventh-day Adventists. Having been in very poor health for some time, his death was hastened by the death of a son who was killed in a wreck. It was his joy to read his old Gaelic Bible upon the points of present truth. His wife and nine children survive him. The interment took place in the Danville Cemetery, following the service which was conducted in his home by the writer, from Psalms 39:7. GEO. H. SKINNER.

GILLIS.— Died at the home of her daughter near Willow Lake, S. Dak., March 1, 1908, of old age, Sister Mary Ann Gillis. She was a faithful member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to which she had belonged the last twenty years. Her husband and six children are left to mourn their loss. The funeral was held at the Adventist church, and words of comfort were spoken by the writer. R. E. HARTER.

JOHNSON.— Died at her home in Salem, N. J., March 29, 1908, Nancy B. Johnson, aged forty-nine years. She accepted the truth of the third angel's message about twelve years ago. She was a quiet, devoted Christian, beloved by those who knew her. Words of comfort were spoken at the funeral by Rev. D. C. Cobb, (Methodist), from Isa. 51:11. She leaves a husband and three sons to mourn, yet they sorrow not as those who have no hope. JOHN C. DICKSON.

LONG.— Died at Los Angeles, Cal., April 11, 1908, David Long, aged 77 years, 1 month, and 14 days. Brother Long was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church at Rock Lake, N. Dak., where he was converted about three years ago. He was enthusiastic in the giving of the message to the people; and when death called him, he was distributing tracts and notices for the Sunday-night meetings in Los Angeles. He leaves a wife, five sons, and three daughters to mourn. Funeral service was conducted by the writer. C. E. FORD.

GOTTS.— Died at Celoron, N. Y., March 22, 1908, Sister Colista Gotts, aged forty-five years. Her mother, Sister Mary Thew, was a member of the oldest Seventh-day Adventist church in this State, located at Bucksbridge. Nineteen years ago, the deceased was married to Brother W. F. Gotts, who is left to mourn the loss of a true and faithful wife. The funeral service was held in the little church at Jeddo; then we laid our sister to rest by the side of her father, mother, and sister until the Life-giver shall call. H. W. CARR.

COLLARD.— Died at his home in Lakeview, Mich., April 24, 1908, Elijah A. Collard, aged 84 years, 9 months, and 1 day. He was born in Welland County, Ontario, near Niagara Falls, in 1823, and came to Greenville in 1860, where he lived about four years. He then moved to Lakeview, taking up a farm of government land, chopping the first trees himself. With his wife, he embraced the truth in 1875, and has loved it ever since. He was a kind father and a good neighbor. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. J. M. WILBUR.

WELLS.— Died suddenly at Bedford, Ohio, March 31, 1908, of apoplexy, Mrs. Mary F. Wells, aged 66 years, 10 months, and 16 days. At an early age Sister Wells gave her heart to God, and united with the Disciple Church. In 1880, under the labors of Elders R. A. Underwood and E. H. Gates, she accepted the third angel's message, and with her husband became a charter member of the Seventh-day Adventist church of Bedford, Ohio, but later transferred her membership to the Cleveland church. She leaves six children to mourn their loss. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from Ps. 90:12. R. G. PATTERSON.

CONNELL.— Died April 10, 1908, at Corpus Christi, Tex., of an affection of the nerves, Mrs. Rhoda Connell, wife of Judge J. P. Connell. She was born near Jackson, La., May 4, 1847. When twenty years of age she united with the Methodist Church. In 1893 she, with her husband, accepted present truth. From that time both have been earnest, true Seventh-day Adventists. Sister Connell suffered much during the last three weeks of her illness, but was firm in her faith in this message, and in her acceptance with God. The body was taken to Hillsboro, Tex., and the funeral was held in the First Methodist church of that place, the pastor kindly assisting. Her favorite scripture—1 Thess. 4:13-17—was chosen as a basis for the funeral service. CLARENCE SANTEE.

Addresses

By C. P. BOLLMAN

THE address of A. R. Bell is R. F. D. 2, Linglestown, Pa.

The address of H. F. Graf is 1704 Brainard Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.

The address of W. D. Burden is 846 Sendegaya-cho, Tokyo, Japan.

The address of Elder C. McReynolds and Mrs. Mary C. McReynolds is Box 57, Grand Rapids, Wis.

Correspondents of the Southern Missionary Society will please take notice that the post-office address of the society has been changed from North Station, Nashville, to Madison, Tenn. C. P. BOLLMAN, Secretary.

Daniel and North Carolina Work

By Editor

ON page ten of this issue of the REVIEW will be found the first of a series of articles by the Editor, on the book of Daniel. After further consideration, it has seemed best to present an exposition of this book first, rather than to precede it with the series of articles on “The Priest and the Sanctuary,” mentioned in the announcement several weeks ago. The subject of the sanctuary will be considered in its natural place in the prophecy. Much interest has been manifested in the promised series of articles, and we hope they will fully meet the anticipations of all our readers.

WE were glad to meet Elder D. T. Shireman of North Carolina, who spent last Sabbath and Sunday at Takoma Park. Brother Shireman began to keep the Sabbath over fifty years ago, and for many years has been an earnest worker in behalf of this message. He is now engaged in pioneer school work in North Carolina, and will visit several places in the North in the interest of his latest enterprise at Toluca.

Guatemala and Southern Conference Meetings

A new country is definitely opened — the Republic of Guatemala. Elder E. L. Cardey writes that a house has been rented for the Central American Conference headquarters, and asks that all mail for that conference, and those connected with the conference office (formerly in Belize), be sent to Villa Blanca, W. Hipidromo, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Last week Elder G. A. Irwin left Washington to attend a meeting of the Southern and Southeastern union conference committees at Graysville, Tenn. He will remain in the South for some time.

Nurses Needed in India

A CABLE message was received last week from India, asking that two nurses be sent on at once. They are very likely needed for the new hill sanitarium in Mussoorie. Miss Bertha Fuller, of the Boulder Sanitarium, will sail in June, a second nurse joining her in England, from the Caterham Sanitarium.

Elder Spicer Attends Camp-Meetings

This week Elder W. A. Spicer left Washington to attend camp-meetings in the North Pacific and Northwest Canadian union conferences, planning to spend a few days at Union College on the way.

Elder Whitmarsh Joins New York Conference

IN response to the recommendation of the General Conference Committee Council, Elder M. C. Whitmarsh, of West Michigan, has accepted the call to unite with the work in the New York Conference.

Elder E. R. Palmer at South Lancaster

ELDER E. R. PALMER, the secretary of the Publishing Department of the General Conference, went to South Lancaster, Mass., last week to attend an institute at the academy. Elder Morris Lukens, who has charge of the subscription-book department of the Review and Herald, was expected to join Brother Palmer at this institute early this week.

Westworth Elected Union President

Last week at a meeting of the Southeastern Union Conference Committee in Graysville, Tenn., Elder W. A. Westworth, of the Southern New England Conference, was elected president of the new union. Brother Westworth was at the Graysville meeting, and stopped off a few hours in Washington on his way back to Connecticut to arrange for his release from the local conference.

The Nation’s Timber Supply

CIRCULAR No. 129, recently issued by the Forest Service, contains a valuable fund of information regarding the timber supply of this country, the quantity of lumber used each year, and the probable length of time the present supply will last at the present wasteful rate of use. The circular may be obtained free by addressing the Chief Forester, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

Supplying Laborers for Mission Fields

In addition to the recommendations regarding transfer and supply of laborers, as given in the last report of the General Conference Committee Council, recommendations have been made for the supply of help for Japan, Korea, Mexico, China, South Africa, West Africa, Argentina, and Central America; these actions awaiting correspondence before announcement. The plans call for heavy additional expenditure, which can be met only by increased liberality and prayer and effort on the part of believers in this message.

Progress in the European Field

We have received a very complete statistical report of our work in the European field, compiled by Brother Guy Dail. This report shows a decided advance in all lines of work, as well as in the tithes and offerings. The summaries for the years 1905, 1906, and 1907 show that the membership for these years was 12,022, 13,768, 15,334; the tithes were $101,306.67, $132,141.86, and $142,738.61; the total offerings were $19,526.32, $23,697.67, and $27,887.14; the book sales were $184,014.57, $221,348.73, and $241,489.88. It does not seem so very long since these figures would have correctly represented the work of the whole denomination. Such facts relating to the progress of this message are both significant and encouraging.

Opposition to Sunday Legislation

The advocates of Sunday legislation are using their influence to secure the passage of the bill favorably recommended to the Senate by the Committee on the District of Columbia. W. F. Crafts, the secretary of the International Reform Bureau, desires to have a change made, so that the exemption provided in it shall not be so broad. In his opinion, even persons who observe some other day than Sunday should not be wholly exempted from the provisions of the proposed legislation, and should not be permitted to do any public work. The Hebrews of Washington, Baltimore, and New York are now planning to make a united and vigorous protest against Senator Johnston's bill, and considerable opposition may yet develop when this matter comes before the Senate for action. Those who wish to write to any senator, protesting against this Sunday legislation, should refer to the substitute for Senate Bill No. 3940, as this is the bill now before the Senate.