Received on the $150,000 Fund up to November 5, 1908
Atlantic Union Conference
*Central New England ........ $ 2,801.02
*Greater New York .......... 1,715.16
Maine ....................... 882.64
*New York ................... 2,351.50
*Southern New England ....... 1,212.50
*Vermont .................... 1,411.74
*Western New York ........... 2,192.26
Total .................... 12,566.82
Canadian Union Conference
*Maritime ................... 601.49
Quebec ....................... 181.64
Ontario ...................... 824.28
Newfoundland ................. 20.80
Total .................... 1,628.21
Central Union Conference
Colorado ..................... 4,781.98
Kansas ....................... 4,031.79
Missouri ..................... 2,031.60
*Nebraska ................... 6,123.63
*Wyoming .................... 881.92
Total .................... 17,850.92
*Columbia Union Conference
Chesapeake ................... 856.45
*Eastern Pennsylvania ....... 2,586.11
*New Jersey ................. 1,247.98
*Ohio ....................... 6,403.43
*Virginia ................... 1,037.27
*West Pennsylvania .......... 1,995.96
*West Virginia .............. 558.86
Total .................... 14,686.06
District of Columbia
*Washington churches ........ 1,401.54
Lake Union Conference
East Michigan ............... 3,199.38
*Indiana ................... 5,250.52
*North Michigan ............. 2,074.00
*Northern Illinois .......... 3,013.86
*Southern Illinois .......... 1,652.50
*West Michigan .............. 8,782.70
Wisconsin .................... 6,281.23
Total .................... 30,254.19
North Pacific Union Conference
*Montana .................... 1,085.37
*Upper Columbia ............. 3,036.43
*Western Washington ......... 3,371.03
Idaho ........................ 1,049.70
Western Oregon ............... 3,079.61
Hawaii ....................... 21.05
Alaska ....................... 20.00
Total .................... 11,663.19
* Southern Union Conference
*South Carolina ............. 315.84
Alabama ...................... 623.14
*Tennessee River ............ 1,406.84
*Florida .................... 976.48
*North Carolina ............. 966.65
*Cumberland ................. 1,360.99
*Louisiana .................. 572.54
Mississippi .................. 413.33
*Georgia .................... 491.55
Conference not specified ..... 97.41
Total .................... 7,224.77
*Northern Union Conference
*Iowa ....................... 9,761.86
*Minnesota .................. 5,817.19
*South Dakota ............... 2,672.47
*North Dakota ............... 2,186.63
Conference not specified ..... 73.82
Total .................... 20,511.97
Pacific Union Conference
*Southern California ........ 4,955.88
*Arizona .................... 474.39
*California-Nevada .......... 10,271.03
*Utah ....................... 449.08
Total .................... 16,150.38
Southwestern Union Conference
*Arkansas ................... 942.93
Oklahoma ...................... 4,248.68
Texas ......................... 3,025.60
New Mexico .................... 2.00
Conference not specified ..... 22.82
Total .................... 8,242.03
Western Canadian Union Conference
*Alberta .................... 1,211.35
*British Columbia ........... 393.87
Manitoba ...................... 350.76
Saskatchewan Mission Field ... 63.10
Total .................... 2,019.08
Unknown
Unknown ....................... 161.70
Foreign
*Algeria .................... 13.33
Australia ..................... 188.48
Bermuda ....................... 36.00
China ......................... 221.85
South Africa .................. 439.02
Jamaica ....................... 73.86
Yukon Territory ............... 20.00
England ....................... 285.21
*West Africa ................. 50.00
Mexico ........................ 65.97
India ......................... 418.25
South America ................. 82.81
Switzerland ................... 9.69
Central American Mission ..... 26.00
Trinidad ...................... 28.69
Norway ........................ 25.00
Japan ......................... 17.50
Haiti ......................... 5.00
*Egypt ........................ 51.55
Palestine ..................... 2.00
Tobago, W. I. ................. 1.22
Cuba .......................... 9.00
Hungary ....................... 3.00
Tahiti ........................ 17.83
France ........................ 6.80
Philippine Islands ............ 1.00
Samoa ......................... 8.00
Barbados ...................... 5.00
Portugal ...................... 6.00
Straits Settlements ........... 10.08
Pitcairn Island ............... 20.00
New Zealand ................... 3.47
Fiji .......................... 4.87
St. Kitts ..................... 7.51
Ireland ....................... 25.56
Russia ........................ 5.00
Denmark ....................... 14.59
Santo Domingo ................. 2.50
West Caribbean ................ 96.35
Total .................... 2,307.99
Grand total .............. $146,668.85
I. H. EVANS, Treasurer.
Virginia
By Mrs. G. A. STEVENS.
WESTMORELAND COUNTY.—Much of God's blessing has attended the effort put forth for him in this place. The ten persons who have taken their stand for God at Chiltons, are sound on the whole truth. Their tables, where meat predominated, are now spread with healthful food. From the first, they have shown a readiness and willingness to obey God. There are several other persons who expect to obey this message.
A few weeks ago Elder H. W. Herrell met with us, and we celebrated the ordinances; the following day he baptized nine candidates.
We are also glad to report that a memorial, a church building, is being erected at Chiltons. At the time of writing we have bought everything necessary for the frame of the building, including flooring and roofing, and expect soon to have this part of the building finished. Brother C. Hennege has done faithful work on the building, the members of our little company helping. Other friends also assisted. One of our brethren donated the lot on which to build. We expect to complete this building with the means to be sent in later. We take this opportunity to thank our friends of the Review and Herald Office and of Washington, D. C., for their kind financial co-operation.
About five weeks ago we started another effort at Deep Point, a place about five miles distant. This is a needy field. There are no churches here, and the people know little about God. As we taught our little company to withdraw from lodges, we had an opportunity at Deep Point to demonstrate the duty of the church in giving assistance to the needy. We found a family in need (as the result of sickness), and have twice carried them provisions from our little company and neighboring farmers. The man and wife have both given their hearts to God, and we expect to see them step out into the light of present truth.
As a result of these meetings, eleven men and women have given their hearts to God. They attend every meeting and give good testimonies. They are studying God's message for this time, and we expect to see several obey it.
Mrs. G. A. STEVENS.
The International Congress on Tuberculosis
By W. A. R.
THE department of pathology was one of the most interesting and striking of all the exhibits of this most instructive congress. It occupied almost half of the third floor of the new National Museum, and contained specimens from the largest medical schools and museums in the world. Most beautiful specimens, mounted in glass jars, were furnished by the McGill University. These included the natural tissues, color preserved, of individuals who had suffered with tuberculous pericarditis, tuberculosis of the larynx, tuberculosis of the lungs and pleura, tuberculosis of the digestive system, and, in fact, tuberculosis of every organ of the body.
One section was devoted to gross specimens, kept in cold storage, in glass. These were exhibited by the United States department for inspection of meats. One specimen showed the entire lung of a cow, crowded with tubercular nodules so close together that a penny could not be laid on the tissue anywhere without touching one or more diseased areas. Another specimen was the ribs of a cow, removed as a whole, showing the pleural cavity entirely covered with large, flat, tubercular masses. Another was the half of a hog, showing the same tubercular involvement of the pleural and peritoneal cavities.
Some very interesting and instructive exhibits from the experiment station were offered. One group of seven specimens showed the dangers of infection from tuberculosis from several common causes. No. 1 showed the organs of a guinea-pig, with tuberculosis caused by the subcutaneous inoculation of feces from a tuberculous cow. No. 3 consisted of the organs of a guinea-pig, showing tuberculous tissues caused by the inoculation of normal milk from a healthy cow, soiled with small masses of feces from a tuberculous cow. No. 5 consisted of the organs of a guinea-pig, showing tuberculous lesions caused by inoculation of butter made from normal milk from a healthy cow, soiled as in No. 3. These specimens illustrate the great importance of the strictest cleanliness in the care of milk and butter.
Another group of six specimens contained the following: (1) normal organs of a guinea-pig, inoculated with normal butter; (2) tuberculous organs of a guinea-pig, inoculated with ordinary salted butter in which tubercle bacilli had remained alive and virulent thirty days; (3) tuberculous intestines, omentum, and mesenteric glands of a guinea-pig inoculated with ordinary salted butter in which tubercle bacilli had remained alive and virulent one hundred days; (4), (5), (6), the same as (3), except that the bacilli had remained alive and virulent 113, 133, and 160 days respectively. Here is illustrated the danger of butter in conveying tuberculosis.20
In a group of twelve specimens, one showed tuberculosis of the prescapular, mediastinal, and gastrohepatic glands of a hog, the animal having contracted the disease by eating the droppings from a tuberculous cow.
One group of nine specimens showed the action of light on tubercle bacilli in tuberculosis pus. Guinea-pigs were used, and their organs showed the following conditions: (1) healthy after inoculation with tuberculous pus exposed in a thin layer on glass to direct sunlight for thirty minutes; (2) tuberculous organs, after inoculation with tuberculous pus exposed on glass in thick clumps to direct sunlight for two hours; (3) healthy organs, as in No. 2 exposed for five hours; (4) tuberculous organs after inoculation with tuberculous pus exposed on glass in thin layers to electric light for four hours; (5) same as (4), exposed thirty-two hours, organs healthy; (6) same as (5), exposure sixty-four hours; (7) tuberculous organs after inoculation with tuberculous pus exposed in thin layers on glass to ordinary room light for fifteen days; (8) same as (7), only kept in dark room twenty days; (9) same as (8), only kept in dark room thirty-two days. This needs no comment to impress the necessity of the action of sunlight and air in fighting this disease.
In view of the advancement that is being made in combating tuberculosis, should not we as a people who have received great light on health subjects, manifest more enthusiasm over this question? There is not an institution among us where a tuberculous patient is received. Should not we arouse and take an active part in this good work?
W. A. R.
Union College, South Africa
By J. F. Olmsted
We are thankful to report courage and progress here in South Africa, even in the midst of financial distress and disappointment. It is difficult to have success under present conditions, but the Lord has looked down upon us in mercy, and given us many evidences that he is still with his people, and that his truth will prosper.
During the week of prayer held throughout South Africa at the end of March, nearly all our students renewed their allegiance to our Heavenly Father, and, by their lives and deportment since, have shown that the sweet, subduing influence of God's Holy Spirit has been working in their hearts, prompting them to greater zeal and consecration.
At the end of the Sabbath service, Sept. 26, 1908, the writer baptized seven of our young people in the baptistery of the Claremont church, and we trust that they may ever rest with assurance and confidence upon the mighty arm of our Heavenly Father. It was a solemn hour, yet we believed God's promise, that they should be raised to walk in newness of life, and we pray that these who have now entered the fold of Christ may triumph over every trial and temptation that the enemy may bring against them. We are preparing another class for baptism at the end of the year. Ten or twelve will then go forward in this ordinance, and identify themselves with the church. We feel of good courage in the Lord, and thank him for his wonderful love. Our constant desire is to walk in the light of his counsel, and do his will to the best of our ability, prompted by his Holy Spirit. J. F. OLMSTED.
China
By P. J. Laird
CHANG-SHA.—Brother Lu Chuanleo returned last week, after an itinerary of nearly two months in and around the district of Heng-chow, to the south of us. The district has a very bad name, owing in no small measure to the nearly one hundred so-called “gospel” chapels that have opened in a very short space of time, many after but one visit of a Chinese preacher, subscriptions being raised for the purpose by the heathen. But notwithstanding the obstacles, 3,804 tracts and portions of Scriptures were disposed of, and talks were given by the way. It has been a good experience for this brother.
Brother Chang Kangheo left this morning with two others, taking a load of literature to distribute among the thousands of pilgrims who will be going to Nanyo, a few days south of Chang-sha, this month. Good attendance is the rule at the street chapel meetings in the evening, but our cry to God is for souls who will go on to know him whom to know is life eternal. It is not enough to hear the gospel once or twice. There must be “line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.”
Dispensary cases have increased to one hundred thirty-seven this month, with two outside calls and three eye-tests. Many of these have been quite serious; but God has wonderfully blessed the simple treatments given. O that we had better quarters and better conveniences for this needy work! Perhaps we are being tested in these matters, to see if faithfulness is ours. P. J. LAIRD.