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The Practical Value of Gardening in Primary Work

By A. W. Spaulding

THAT gardening is practicable in primary school work has been demonstrated; that it may be successful from the gardener's point of view has been proved in some instances; and that it furnishes a means of education not less valuable than that of the schoolroom we need not the evidence of our experience to show, since we have for it the divine word. Yet practical objections have caused its neglect generally, and kept it in the background nearly everywhere. It will be found in this, as in other reforms, that its value will be discovered only by those who are pushed through difficulties by a sense of the imperativeness of God's directions.

What aid does the garden offer the church-school teacher in his work?

First, what is his work? Is it to produce minds to be measured with those of the secular schools? Is it to make tongues glib in the formulas of arithmetic and the lists of geography and history? Is it to create a machine that will make the best showing in the county at “last-day exercises”?—No; it is to get boys and girls ready to proclaim the message of Jesus' coming, when and where older ones can not give it; it is to subdue evil traits of character, and to have implanted in their place the graces of Christ; it is to build up bodies upon a rational foundation of healthful living; it is to make persistent, exact workers out of lackadaisical loiterers; it is to teach children to think clearly and rightly, to speak correctly and with grace, to know the essentials of common knowledge—all for the sole purpose of giving the truth to the glory of God.

Then how does gardening help him?

Well, one of my boys, whose name in this article is Barty (from Bartholomew, I suppose), does his third grade work only when some eye is on him. He starts well at getting his lesson in his seat, but his eyes easily wander to colored pictures, or pretty butterflies, or whispered confidences; for his reader is a dull old book, anyway, after he gets an inkling of what it contains. “Interest him,” says the Normal Graduate, “in something that will take his mind and keep his fingers at work.” Good! Let us see: he has discarded sewing cards as being beneath his stage of advancement, and rather fussy anyway; paper sloyd is worn out, and for babies anyway—and I agree with him; basketry? scroll work? good, if there were the facilities, or it were practicable at odd moments, or did not take the attention of others; drawing? never could draw! And, in any case, while persistence is being cultivated, he must somehow be getting a proficiency in reading, spelling, arithmetic, etc. “Coaxing won't do,” says the Disciplinarian-of-Sterner-Stuff; “he must be made to do the hard and distasteful things, and learn to stick at them. Keep him at his books.” I can't do it when I am hearing recitations.

Come out with me into the garden. The onions need weeding, the corn needs hoeing, the potato-bugs must be killed. Barty gets the corn to hoe—not the hardest job. While I am here and there, he gets tired, wants a change, goes over to watch Leo weed the onions. But here is something I can keep him at, working with him if necessary. And as though he gets hot, and sweats, and wants to see if it wouldn't seem shorter to hoe odd hills,—skipping around,—and cuts down a stalk or two in flippant disgust, he does get through to the end of the row, and finally looks with some pride on a task well done.

The garden may teach persistence, and it gives a quick reward for duty done.

Not to dwell so long upon any other one point, notice also that gardening gives opportunity for training the flippant, careless child to do his work carefully and thoroughly, as the irksome penmanship and even the more delightsome drawing can not do. It gives a chance to the intelligent and thoughtful teacher to train in healthful postures in work, in principles of breathing, in necessity for bathing, and in all the laws of hygiene. Language culture is not to be left out of the garden; and while doubtless the most important language lesson to be taught there is, “Let your words be few and well chosen,” the greater freedom from constraint in speech will give the teacher opportunity to note wherein the children most need training.

I have not spoken at all of the connection of nature study with the garden, nor of the spiritual lessons to be gained from the study of its problems and mysteries,—a work, by the way, which is liable to be neglected by some teachers, and overdone, or rather illy done, by others. But I know that every teacher who will take the deep interest in this work which its nature and value demand, will find it a means of developing such characters as the work of God requires, characters which the school-room alone can not develop.

It is evident, of course, that gardening so conducted for a profitable length of time must be in a school which follows God's text-book from the first page to the last—from spring through summer to winter. A. W. SPAULDING.

Washington the Great Lobby Camp of the World

By W. A. Colcord

Address by Justice Brewer

AUGUST 9 Justice Brewer of the Supreme Court of the United States delivered an address before the Virginia Bar Association, in which he arraigned the “colonial policy” of the government as contrary to the spirit and intent of the men who drafted the national Constitution, deplored the “tendency toward centralization” in the nation, and declared that “Washington is the great lobby camp of the world.”

Referring to the tendency on the part of the people to look to Congress for the redress of all grievances and the righting of all wrongs, he said: “Was there ever such a mad scramble on the part of every one believing in the existence of some legal wrong for congressional legislation to redress? Trade-marks, divorces, polygamy, insurance, supervision of corporations, inspection of factories, all are crowded upon Congress, and an appeal made to it for action.” He might have included in his enumeration of the things “crowded upon Congress,” and over which appeal is made to it “for action,” the question of Sunday observance, seven bills for which were introduced into the last session of Congress.

It was in this connection that Mr. Brewer made the statement that “Washington is the great lobby camp of the world.” And here again it should not be forgotten that lobbying for national religious legislation is a very prominent part of the work now going on in this great “lobby camp of the world.” In his “History of the International Reform Bureau,” Mr. W. F. Crafts, the manager and superintendent of the Bureau, says: “The Reform Bureau is the first ‘Christian lobby’ established at our national capital to speak to government in behalf of all denominations,” and tells how the Bureau uses “up-to-date methods in bringing pressure to bear on congressmen in favor of moral measures.” Incidentally it may be remarked that in justification and support of the church-and-state measures which this Bureau is seeking to get through Congress, great use is made of the obiter dictum to the Supreme Court decision, of Feb. 22, 1892, handed down by Justice Brewer, declaring that “this is a Christian nation.” It reasons that if this is a Christian nation, it is quite proper for the nation to make laws enforcing the observance of Christian institutions.

Alluding to the growing belief that changed conditions in national life justify interpreting the Constitution so broadly as to virtually ignore its letter, Mr. Brewer said: “I fully believe that this nation has all the power which any nation possesses; but that only such as they have enumerated in the Constitution have they granted to the government.” This is but another way of saying what the Constitution itself expressly states that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited

by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” And one of the powers which the Constitution in most explicit terms has withheld from Congress is the power to make religious laws. It says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

The observations of Justice Brewer apply with peculiar force to the widespread movement and the ever-increasing efforts of church leaders generally to overturn the fundamental principles upon which national government was founded, unite church and state, and set up a religious despotism here, as church and state were united ages past in the Old World, and religious despotisms were set up there. Would that Justice Brewer and all others might see the application of his statements to this phase of the question, and use their God-given powers in protesting against the movement tending to these unholy and undesirable ends.

W. A. COLCORD.

Unhealthful Conditions in the Schoolroom

THE physical inaction which seems almost inevitable in the schoolroom—together with other unhealthful conditions—makes it a trying place for children, especially for those of feeble constitution. Often the ventilation is insufficient. Ill-formed seats encourage unnatural positions, thus cramping the action of the lungs and the heart. Here little children have to spend from three to five hours a day, breathing air that is laden with impurity and perhaps infected with the germs of disease. No wonder that in the schoolroom the foundation of lifelong illness is so often laid.—“Education.”

Religious Liberty Notes

By K. C. Russell

ELDER ISAAC MORRISON, of Sacramento, Cal., in writing to the Pacific Union Recorder, said, “The Sunday law has been agitated here lately by both editors and preachers.” This should be a signal of warning to the lovers of religious liberty in the State of California. This State possesses an excellent record in being free from the blight of a Sunday law.

The spirit that lies beneath Sunday legislation is revealed by a prominent Methodist minister in Franklin, Manitoba, as will be seen from an utterance of his which follows: “When people who call themselves Christians join with Jews, infidels, and outlaws to break down the sacredness of the Lord’s day, instituted and observed by Christ, the apostles, and all true followers ever since the day of the resurrection, it is high time they were either boycotted or crushed.”

The Omaha Bee (Omaha, Neb.) of Aug. 28, 1905, contains the following clear-cut statement as to what day the acting mayor of Omaha, Neb., believes is the Sabbath: “Acting Mayor Johnson insists that the law prohibiting the sale of liquor on the Sabbath day can not be construed to apply to sale on Sunday, because Saturday is the real Sabbath-day, in name as well as in fact. On this point Acting Mayor Johnson will be sustained by some of the most profound doctors of theology.”

Elder Geo. M. Brown, of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, writes regarding the opposition that has been directed against a brother in Mexico: “For two years the postmaster at a little town called Actlan, in the State of Puebla, has been a subscriber for El Mensajero, and has secured a goodly number of subscriptions. Of late he has been especially active, and as a result the Catholics have conspired against him, and have secured his removal from his position. Some of the best citizens of the town who are liberals appealed to the government in his behalf, but the Catholic archbishop in Mexico City used his influence against Mr. Ayuso, and he was discharged.” This is an illustration of the spirit of the papacy in a country where it is not regarded as necessary for her to exercise diplomacy.

The American Citizen states that the following are the exact words of President Roosevelt’s message to the pope, as given in cable dispatches to all the daily papers, and which remain without contradiction: “Tell the pope I send him my profound regards. I have tried to treat Protestants and Catholics alike, as my last appointments show. I will try to perpetuate this policy. This republic will stand for many a century. I expect there will be Catholic presidents, as well as Protestant. I trust that they all will treat each other as I have tried to do.” K. C. RUSSELL.

Current Mention

— Since January 1 fines to the amount of $283,075 have been collected from railroads for granting, or conspiring to grant, rebates on freight shipments.

— In a recent battle between the Dutch and Malays on an island east of Java, 400 of the Malays were slain, and the city they were defending was captured.

— By an explosion of a car-load of dynamite at Jellico, Tenn., on September 21, twenty-two persons lost their lives, and about 200 were more or less seriously injured. The property damage is estimated at about $500,000.

— The typhoon in Hongkong, reported last week, destroyed property amounting to about $20,000,000. The reports still state that the number of the dead will reach 10,000. Among those who lost their lives was Bishop Hoare, who has for many years been identified with gospel work in China.

— The Common Council of Fond du Lac, Wis., has passed a resolution that pictures of habitual drunkards shall be posted. Those who serve such customers thus lay themselves liable to prosecution in serving such customers, and it is expected to act as a deterrent to all who are inclined to squander their wages at the bar.

— The Secretary of Agriculture has issued an order that henceforth all canned meats must bear labels that will indicate the true contents of the can. From the reasons given for the issuing of this order it is learned that the people have been eating very unsavory and unpalatable morsels of various animals under the label of potted chicken, highly seasoned.

— Advices from St. Petersburg, Russia, under date of September 20, state that M. Stolypin, the new Russian premier, is soon to publish a ukase granting absolute religious liberty to all religious sects in the Russian empire. These sects, unless they indulge in criminal or immoral practises, will receive upon application, the sanction of the government. This will confer upon the clergy of these different religious bodies the same freedom as now enjoyed by the orthodox Russian priests. The various religious bodies will have the right to erect churches and schools, and to receive proselytes from any other religious body in Russia.

— Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, whose seat in Congress has so long been contested, announces that as soon as Congress opens, he will introduce a bill repealing the anti-canteen law. This course of the Utah senator is believed to be due to the fact that the W. C. T. U. of the country has so strenuously opposed his right to a seat in Congress. The temperance forces of the country are already mapping out a plan of campaign to meet this move of the Utah senator.

— In view of the action recently taken by the British government, to the effect that it would no longer insist upon the continuance of the opium trade with China, the Chinese government has issued an edict ordering the abolition of the use of opium, both foreign and native, within a decade. The edict strongly condemns the vice, and commands the council of state to devise regulations for the enforcement of the prohibition against opium smoking and the cultivation of the poppy in China.

— The outcome of the Cuban situation is still a matter of conjecture. The American commissioners are still conferring with the representatives of the two parties, and it is reported that President Roosevelt has set a date when articles of peace must be agreed upon, or American intervention will immediately follow. The members of the Cuban cabinet resigned, and the Cuban president and vice-president were to present their resignation to the Cuban Congress on September 28. It is thought that this move was made for the purpose of embarrassing the commissioners or forcing intervention. Additional American war-vessels have been dispatched to Cuba, and arrangements have been made for moving the United States regular army to Cuba at once if the peace plans of the American commissioners fail. A strong force of marines is now in Cuban waters, and would be landed at Havana immediately upon the proclamation of intervention by President Roosevelt.

— One of the most terrible race riots in the history of the country occurred in Atlanta, Ga., September 23-25. An unusually large number of assaults by negroes upon white women during the past month in that city had stirred the whites to madness. On the twenty-third four assaults were reported within an hour. Immediately several mobs were organized in different parts of the city, and negroes were attacked and beaten wherever found. Ten negroes were killed on the first day of the trouble, and by the close of the third day eighteen colored and one white person had been slain. Many more deaths would have occurred but for the prompt action of the governor in calling out a strong body of troops. Terrified negroes fled from the city in all directions. One man was chased into a hotel and shot down, others were pulled off street-cars and beaten to death. These mobs were made up of boys and young men, and there is little reason to suppose that any of their victims were guilty of any of the crimes that stirred up the rioting. A strong semblance of martial law was enforced before order was restored. Reports state that it is probable that a hundred negroes were severely beaten by the mobs.

Business Notices

BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A minimum charge of one dollar will be made for one insertion of forty words or less. Three cents a word will be charged for each additional word, and remittance must accompany each order. Initials and figures count as words. Name and address must be counted.

All persons unknown to the managers of this paper must send satisfactory written recommendations whenever submitting notices for insertion in this column.

In the case of poor persons who wish employment the charge may be remitted, but in order to secure this concession a letter from the elder of the local church of which the advertiser is a member, or from one of our well-known ministers, must accompany the advertisement.

WANTED.—A home for a nice fourteen-months-old baby boy. For particulars, address the Emmanuel Children’s Home, Mountain Grove, Mo.

WANTED.—Position in store, or light work of some kind. Will try to please employer. Address Guy Corder, Coshocton, Ohio, for further particulars.

WANTED.—Energetic man for cycle and general repair work. Must be Seventh-day Adventist and well recommended. State wages required. Address H. R. Kitto, Box 324, Calgary, Alta.

WANTED.—To correspond with a competent person to act as salesman for sanitarium health foods. Must be conscientious Seventh-day Adventist, and come well recommended. No other need apply. Address the Iowa Sanitarium, Des Moines, Iowa.

FOR SALE.—A nice home, Chestnut Ave., Takoma Park; 8 rooms, bath, cellar, furnace; large lot, 17,170 feet. $5,000. Terms: $1,000 cash, rest monthly. Address J. M. Woodward, Secretary, 800 Nineteenth St., Washington, D. C.

WANTED.—To buy a farm either in northeast Kansas or southeast Nebraska or southwest Iowa or northwest Missouri, near Seventh-day Adventist church and school. Address, giving description and price, W. R. Kirk, St. Francis, Kan.

FOR SALE.—Pure extracted mountain honey, 5 to 7 cents a pound; ripe olives in gallon and quart cans, at 65 and 70 cents; English walnuts, olive-oil, corn oil; also an excellent nearly water-white vegetable cooking oil; peanuts. Small sample vials sent. Address W. S. Ritchie, Corona, Cal.

EVERY reader should try our rancid-proof peanut butter, at 10 cents a pound. Purest coconut oil, 15 cents in 5-pound, 14 cents in 25-pound, and 13 cents in 50-pound lots. Samples, 10 cents. Agents wanted everywhere. Address Vegetarian Meat Company, Bond Building, Washington, D. C.

FOR SALE.—In Townsend, Mont., four-room house; closet, cellar, well in house, young orchard, garden, gooseberries, currants, stable, hen house, shade trees; also well in back lot, and ditch; 2 Jersey cows, one 15-months-old heifer and one 3-months-old heifer. All for $600 cash. Address E. V. Day, Townsend, Mont.

FOR SALE.—Purest, most healthful, best vegetable oil for cooking or salads; no odor; keeps indefinitely. Gal. can, $1; 5-gal., $4. Also olive-oil of the purest grade; gal., $2.75; half-gal., $1.40; quart can, 85 cents. Send for samples. Also write for prices on California ripe olives and honey. Address E. W. Coates, 535 W. 110th St., New York City, N. Y.

The Great Clock of Destiny Is Striking Now!

FROM the cradle to the grave, whether we recognize it or not, life is one unbroken course of education. It goes on not alone in schools and colleges, but in every combination of place, company, and circumstances, in which an individual may voluntarily station himself, or into which he may be casually thrust. The trite saying that “from every hamlet in England there is a road to London” is no truer than that from every earnest, craving soul there is a way to intellectual attainment. But we must begin where we are and work our way up step by step.

“The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.”

The face of opportunity bears this inscription, Now! And to every individual comes this time supreme,—one freighted hour in the affairs of men, which, if properly improved, leads on to victory. These golden days are laden with opportunities. Living in this enlightened age and country in which opportunities surround us on every side, how can we sit with folded hands asking God to do the work for which he has already given us the necessary ability and strength?

The great clock of destiny is striking, Now! as the Central Union Conference Young People's Society offers the General Culture Reading Course for the purpose of helping young people in the choice of good reading and to aid them to read to a definite end.

The “Life of Bates” (35 cents), “Life Sketches of Elder James White and Mrs. Ellen G. White” ($1.25), “The Great Second Advent Movement” ($1.25), will comprise the course, thus acquainting all with the trying conditions under which this people arose, as well as furnishing the too-little-known information about the giving of the first, second, and third angels' messages.

This course will be carried on in the Educational Messenger beginning October 1, and will continue eight months. The books will be studied in the order named. Examinations will be sent out at the close of the reading of each book. All who complete the work in a satisfactory manner will receive a certificate from the office of this society.

The Educational Messenger (price 50 cents) and the books needed, can be ordered direct from this office. Send in your name for enrolment, as well as your order for books, at once. Address Central Union Conf. Y. P. S. S. D. A., College View, Neb.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By J. E. Jayne

New Jersey Conference

THE next annual session of the New Jersey Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in Trenton, N. J., Oct. 17-21, 1906. The first business session will be held Thursday morning at 9:45.

J. E. JAYNE, President.

Notice to Brethren in Georgia

By G. W. Wells

J. A. STARR, who accepted the position of secretary and treasurer of the Georgia Conference at our recent camp-meeting, has resigned. Having taken up work that calls him out of the State a considerable part of the time, he thought it impossible to do justice to this work.

We are sorry to lose Brother Starr; but one who needs no introduction to the brethren of Georgia has been chosen to fill the position—Mrs. Clara C. Phillips, 243 South Boulevard, Atlanta, Ga.

All those having funds to send to this conference at any time, will do well to take notice of this important change.

G. W. WELLS, President.

ST. HELENA SANITARIUM

Notice!

THE St. Helena Sanitarium offers to our consecrated, able-bodied young men and women the privileges of its training-school in the preparation of medical missionaries for the proclamation of the third angel's message.

The advantages of the sanitarium compare favorably with any on the Pacific Coast. Among them are the following: Our climatic conditions and surroundings the entire year, thus affording an excellent opportunity for the practical demonstration of the theories of medical missionary work set forth by the faculty, which is ably headed by Dr. H. F. Rand.

We should like to correspond with at least fifty consecrated young men and women to begin with the class in October. The applicant should have a settled purpose in life to serve God. He should be of sound health, and not less than nineteen years old. He should have finished at least eight grades of studies in the common schools, and have the recommendation of the elders of the church, ministers of the conference, or other recognized brethren of good standing.

To all who have not a settled purpose as to the work they intend to follow in connection with the cause of God, we extend a cordial invitation to the above call. Be free to ask for our calendar and other information you may desire.

ST. HELENA SANITARIUM

Addresses

The permanent address of Elder W. D. Curtis is Berrien Springs, Mich.

The address of Dr. A. J. Harris, formerly of Jackson, Mich., is now 311 Jackson Bldg., Nashville, Tenn.

Obituaries

WHITE.—Died near Mount Williams, Va., July 23, 1906, Michael White, aged sixty-eight years. For many years Brother White was a regular attendant at all the services of the Seventh-day Adventists held at Mount Williams. At the Stanleyton camp-meeting, in 1904, he was baptized, and joined the Mount Williams church. A few days before his death he left home, supposed by some to be on his way to the camp-meeting at Petersburg, but was taken sick on the way and died, and was buried before the brethren of the church had knowledge of his death, a Lutheran minister preaching the funeral. He was eccentric in some ways, but understood the truth quite thoroughly, and seemed to be a faithful brother. R. D. HOTTEL.

CLEVELAND.—Instantly killed July 20, 1906, by falling underneath a moving freight train on which he was riding, George W. Cleveland, of Wellsboro, Pa., in his fifty-ninth year. He leaves a wife and son to mourn their loss. Brother Cleveland was an earnest lover of the third angel's message. His chief object was to labor for others, presenting the truths that he loved so dearly, and distributing our papers treating on the various phases of the third angel's message. It was through Brother Cleveland's earnest and self-sacrificing efforts that the seeds of present truth were first sown in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. This work was followed by the labors of Elder J. L. Baker, and later by Elder F. Peabody and the writer. In later years he has continued personal missionary work, which has resulted in bringing other souls to the acceptance of this precious truth who will be stars in the crown of his rejoicing. Brother Charles Baum, of Williamsport, Pa., officiated at the funeral service. K. C. RUSSELL.

Rogers Family Bound for Nyassaland Mission

BROTHER JOEL C. ROGERS and his wife intended to start from Seattle, Wash., October 1, on their journey to the Nyassaland Mission in British Central Africa. A few weeks will be spent visiting our schools in California, Nebraska, and the South. They plan to be at College View by October 13. As educational superintendent for the Western Washington Conference, Brother Rogers has spent his last weeks there in busy work for the church; and intermediate schools. That small conference now has about two hundred and fifty intelligent young people in these schools, besides about twenty-five in training at Walla Walla College. The larger proportion of these young people are in school with the definite purpose of preparing for work in this message.

Encouraging Reports from the Field

By Editor

If all the questions asked by our correspondents, if all the manuscripts submitted by our contributors, and if all the requests from our readers for articles on special subjects, do not receive immediate attention, we hope our good friends will bear with us. Our time and our space are both limited, but we will do the best we can to meet the demands upon us. Beyond this we can not promise.

WORD has just been received to the effect that this is the most auspicious opening of Union College for a number of years. The enrolment at the end of the first week was two hundred and eighty, of a very fine class of students, who give promise of responding to the excellent missionary spirit which is being fostered by that institution. The attendance and outlook before Union College give assurance of a very successful year's work.

FROM every point come cheering words of courage and growth. Writing from Valparaiso, Chile, August 8 (before the earthquake), Brother Steele, secretary of the West Coast Mission, says: “The work is onward. Souls are continuing to accept the truth. The brethren also are more faithful in paying tithe. In the seven months ending July 31 we lacked only two hundred dollars of receiving as much tithe as for the entire twelve months of 1905.”

A GRAND report comes from the office of the Sabbath-school Department. The schools have been working this year to reach a total of one thousand dollars a Sabbath for mission offerings. The secretary, Sister L. Flora Plummer, reports that the record for the first six months of the year is $26,957.09. This—for the half year—is $957 over the mark at which they aimed. This news, we know, will send a thrill of joy through the hearts of all, and lead to even more earnest efforts during the remaining portion of the year. It means advance moves in the mission fields.

Canvassers’ Work and British Press Bureau

By Editor

The summary of the canvassers' work for July, which appears in this issue, is the best yet published. The Southwestern Union Conference, which includes only three local conferences, leads the list of conferences in this country in the value of orders reported, Oklahoma alone reporting about the same as one of our largest union conferences. This revival of the book work is most encouraging, and we certainly hope that it is permanent. Examine the summary on the seventeenth page.

As the press of Great Britain gives more and more attention to the agitation by the churches of the Sunday observance question, our brethren there have appointed an informal press bureau to take advantage of every opportunity to set the facts of the controversy before the public. Fifty-five members, living in various parts of the kingdom, are specially watching one hundred and twenty leading newspapers, and many good paragraphs, articles, and letters have been published, reaching thousands of readers.

Missionary Review of the World

THE September number of the Missionary Review of the World contains articles on “The Influences That Are Molding Japanese Thought,” by Rev. T. M. McNair, and one entitled “Should We Send More Missionaries to Japan?” by Rev. E. H. Jones. “The Day of Opportunity in China,” by Rev. H. G. C. Hallock, calls attention to the many changes, reforms, and openings in recent years. In “Egypt—Dead and Alive,” D. L. Pierson gives notes of a recent visit to the land of the Pharaohs, and backs up facts with the camera. Other articles deal with The Druses of Syria, Medical Missions, Khartum, etc.

General Conference Council

We go to press too early to report the proceedings of the General Conference Committee Council, which opened at Takoma Park, September 27. The meetings are being held in one of the schoolrooms of the Training College, and the brethren in attendance are cared for in the college dormitories.

After the early worship period, with the students, the program of the council fills the entire day, with several intermissions, while Elder E. W. Farnsworth has been giving a series of Bible studies in the evening. On the Sabbath members of the council spoke at the four churches in Washington. Elder H. S. Shaw spoke at Takoma Park, L. H. Christian at Eighth Street, J. S. Washburn at M Street, and W. J. Stone at V Street.

The following representatives of the union conferences had arrived last week:—

Atlantic Union: E. W. Farnsworth, W. J. Fitzgerald, R. D. Hottel, H. W. Carr, C. McVagh, H. F. Ketring, S. J. Hersum, F. H. DeVinne, J. E. Jayne, W. A. Westworth, E. J. Dryer, M. Lukens, T. E. Bowen, W. H. Zeidler, T. D. Gibson.

Southern Union: G. I. Butler, R. M. Kilgore, T. H. Jeys, S. B. Horton, W. R. Burrow, J. S. Washburn, W. A. Wilcox, J. A. Ford, A. F. Harrison.

Lake Union: Allen Moon, Wm. Covert, A. G. Haughey, W. J. Stone, E. Johnson.

Northern Union: R. A. Underwood, H. S. Shaw, E. G. Hayes, J. G. Walker, C. M. Everest.

Southwestern Union: C. N. Woodward.

Pacific Union: H. W. Cottrell.

Canadian Union: W. H. Thurston, Wm. Guthrie.

In addition, local brethren in General Conference, school, and publishing work are in attendance. Other brethren from the general field will have joined the council before this paper comes from the press. In this autumn council questions of needs in home and foreign fields will be dealt with. As the chairman, A. G. Daniells, stated in opening the session, this work is growing and expanding at so rapid a pace that our plans have continually to be readjusted to the ever-widening circle of interests. The third angel's message is going to the world.

Collection for the Colored People

REMEMBER the collection next Sabbath in behalf of the work among the colored people.

The First Angel’s Message

Two new tracts, printed in strange characters, come to us from India. One is in Hindi, the other in the running script of the Urdu language, which resembles the Arabic. The tracts are entitled, “The First Angel’s Message—The Hour of God’s Judgment Is Come.” They have been prepared by Brother and Sister L. J. Burgess.

International Publishing Association

By A. T. Robinson

THE third annual meeting of the constituency of the International Publishing Association will convene in the Scandinavian chapel, Union College Building, College View, Neb., on Thursday, October 18, at 3 P. M.

This meeting will convene for the purpose of electing a board of counselors and a board of directors, and for the discussion of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

A. T. ROBINSON, Secretary of Board of Directors.

SALZBURG, THE CAPITAL OF A CROWNLAND OF THE SAME NAME IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. THE PICTURESQUE MEDIEVAL FORTRESS, CROWNING THE ABRUPT EMINENCE ABOVE THE CITY, IS CALLED HOHEN-SALZBURG. SEE ARTICLE ON PAGE 13.