This story is told of two generals when undertaking the capture of a city: As they were disposing the forces for the final attack, the general of the western army said to the eastern general: “Have you arranged for suitable ground on which we may retreat?” “Retreat? Retreat?” replied the veteran of the east; “we do not intend to retreat.”
NATIVE TEACHERS, SOMABULA, AFRICA
So our missionaries in Africa are making no plans for retreat. Their reports of work done and plans for advance are inspiring. Like the educational convention which turned into a missionary movement, so the South African Conference just closed, turned its attention largely to mission work. The additions in membership and new churches were mostly from mission stations. Advance is sounded along our whole front. This is seen in the earnest calls made by every missionary for men and means to extend the work. W. H. Anderson calls for help at the new station in Barotseland; M. C. Sturdevant wants help to take charge of the Matabele Mission so he can go far into the interior; F. B. Armitage wants a teacher at Somabula so he can superintend the native teachers at the out-stations, and secure new mission stations. A well-qualified teacher is needed to train the advanced boys from all our Matabele stations for teachers and evangelists; J. A. Chaney needs more help in Basiutoland, and G. W. Shone calls for help in Kafirland.
The writer will open a new mission at Shiloh, near Blantyre, Nyassaland, while Thomas Branch holds the ground at the Plainfield station. More help will soon be needed in Nyassaland.
Before us lie Pondoland, Zululand, Khama’s Country, Namaqualand, Damaraland, and the Great Kongo basin, including Angola, French Kongo, and Kongo State. This brings us only to the equatorial regions, beyond which lie many unentered lands. Africa is behind in the proclamation of the message. We have fewer believers than in any other continent. Probably less has been done to warn the native races than in any other continent.
Believing the mighty message we do, why should we not occupy these countries at once? God would have it so. Will the home land stand by us with the men and the means?
Some of our native converts feel the burden of the message. I quote from letters written to Elder Hyatt over a year ago. The call is still unanswered:— “S. D. A. MISSION, BULUWAYO, Feb. 2, 1906. “I desire to write a few lines to you again, . . . but I have nothing to say only the same words that I wrote you last time. I was waiting for your answer, but I do not get it. I wish you would answer me, my dear teacher. As I think about my people, my heart just trouble me very much. I do not want to go there just to see them,—no, no, not me! But if I just have a time before Jesus comes to show them that Jesus is coming, yes, he is very near. I ask all elders of the Advent Church, Why do you passed my people and do not take the truth to them? I beg you to read this letter before all.”
EVA ALLUM
By Eva Allum
China
SIN IANG CHEO.—We have now been here about eight months, and I scarcely need to say that we are more and more glad we are here, and thank the Lord for the privilege of being in such a field.
The meeting of the Honan workers was held at our station, and we had some good services. Elder Prescott conducted some fine Bible studies, and we were all helped and encouraged by his visit. It gives us fresh courage to press the battle to the gates, when we see how staunch are the leaders in this movement. We firmly believe that it will not be long before Christ will come; and we need to fill with consecrated energy the time that is left to us. Our prayers ascend daily for those who are bearing such heavy responsibilities in the home lands. Elder Prescott told us that those who are holding the responsible positions there would count it a privilege to be out in the mission fields for a time, and we can readily believe it.
We had an excellent meeting at Shanghai of the workers in China. Elder Gates was also present. It was voted there that a call should be made for ten more families for China, and we all hope this call will be answered. It seems to take so long after one arrives here before he can do anything. Learning this language is no small task.
At present we have five in our family — Dr. Miller and his brother, Mr. Orvie Gibson, my husband, and myself. Four of us are studying the language, and are looking forward to the time when we can speak intelligently of the gospel to the people around us.
EVA ALLUM
East Michigan Annual Conference
By W. H. Edwards
By request of Elder E. K. Slade, president of the East Michigan Conference, the writer attended their annual session, extending from March 29 to April 3. The whole session was characterized by the presence of God, and was one continual love-feast. The work of the committees was conducted in a most amicable manner, and the good feelings of the brethren and sisters were conserved throughout. The election made Elder E. K. Slade president for another year, with E. I. Beebe, C. N. Sanders, F. G. Lane, and L. W. Lawton associates on the executive committee.
I think all could see the practicability and wisdom of divorcing the business of the conference from the camp-meetings, as it brings in a mid-winter meeting, which is beneficial to the workers. Time is not consumed in the camp-meeting, which, in the very nature of the case, belongs to the church laity and the general public.
It was an inspiration to the meeting to have such aged laborers as Elders J. L. Edgar and L. G. Moore present as historians of the cause, and to state before the large audience that they were in the possession of most excellent health, and with a superabundance of ambition and a enthusiasm to keep up the work to the end.
The meetings were held in the spacious chapel of the Adelphian Academy, at Holly, Mich., and the entertainment of the delegates at the academy was with most commendable delicacy and attention. The occasion, in all its appointments, was one to be remembered with satisfaction.
Broad plans were adopted for pushing the work in the East Michigan Conference as never before, and for entering Detroit and other large cities of the State. Already the work is making excellent progress in Saginaw, Bay City, Lansing, and Flint. The reports of the workers from those places give proof that God is prospering their labors, and warrants the conference in beginning immediate work in other large centers, knowing that the smaller places can be entered later when it would be impossible to help the great cities.
The Adelphian Academy is prospering under its present management, and the school has been filled. Their new dormitory in a state of erection must be completed in order to accommodate more students who are anxious to attend. The outlook of East Michigan is one of the most cheering in its history.
W. H. Edwards.
Central America
By E. L. Cardey
BELIZE, BRITISH HONDURAS.—Almost three months have passed since we first landed on the shore of Central America. The past weeks have been very busy ones for us, and we had almost forgotten that our friends were waiting to hear from us through the REVIEW.
We had a very pleasant voyage from New Orleans to La Ceiba, Spanish Honduras, although we were somewhat seasick. At the close of the fourth day, our ship dropped anchor off the coast of La Ceiba. The sight that met our eyes in the morning was beautiful indeed,—mountain ranges rising eight thousand feet above sea-level, and here and there streams of water flowing rapidly down the mountainsides, on their way to the sea. The customs of the people here are very different from what we have been used to; yet human nature is about the same wherever one goes. The one thing that men need the world over is the gospel of Jesus Christ in the third angel's message. This makes a common brotherhood of all men.
After stopping a short time in La Ceiba, I again crossed the waters, to attend the conference at Kingston, Jamaica, where we passed through that terrible earthquake experience, and, thanks be to God, we escaped injury.
I returned to La Ceiba again February 2, and in a few days we had our effects on board a small schooner, and Mrs. Cardey was on her way to Belize. I took another boat, going to visit the Bay Islands.
Sabbath morning, February 9, in company with Elder Goodrich, we sailed for a number of hours along the coast of Ruatan Island, on our way to Half Moon Bay, to visit some of our people. The island presented a beautiful sight to me. All nature seemed to be praising God on that lovely Sabbath morning, and I had a faint idea of what the new earth will be. I am now visiting our people in the islands, and the Lord is working with us as we go from place to place.
We are very glad of the opportunity of laboring in a mission field, helping to carry this truth we so much love to those who know it not.
Remember this part of the great harvest-field in your prayers, that the work may soon be finished.
E. L. CARDEY.
Belize, British Honduras, C. A.
Arizona Conference
By H. W. Cottrell
The fifth annual session of the Arizona Conference closed the evening of April 7, having been held at Phoenix. The denominational constituency in this conference now numbers two hundred and eight. About fifty of this number have been added to the churches during the last year, which is indeed encouraging.
The different little churches were fairly well represented at the session, and the necessary conference business was executed with dispatch. The spirit of the Master was manifestly present, and took charge of all the services, thus making it an agreeable and pleasant place for God's people to be assembled.
The spirit of penitence, Christian liberty, and consecration was manifest in those present; hence the business meetings were as spiritual as prayer, praise, and preaching services.
There were a number of Mexican brethren in attendance, two of whom, not having sufficient money to bring them to the place of meeting by train, walked one hundred and four miles. This, to my mind, was an evident manifestation of consecrated zeal for God. This is first love.
All the people returned to their homes much encouraged and strengthened, and with a determination to do what they can for the unentered districts of the conference.
We have had one Mexican minister in conference employ, and at this conference there were added to this department of our work, another Mexican brother, and two lady Bible workers who speak both the English and Spanish languages. So we are much encouraged in the outlook for the future of this work.
The meetings continued six days, and on Sabbath we celebrated the ordinances of the Lord's house, at which service there were nine youth and children who presented themselves for baptism and church-membership. Besides, there were presented the names of four Mexicans who desired to unite their interests with us as a people.
The conference books were audited by the union conference auditor, and the finances of the conference were found to be in good condition, the tithe receipts for the past year having increased more than fifty per cent.
The few who were present entered heartily into the general effort that is being put forth in behalf of a large circulation of the Signs of the Times.
We placed before the people the necessity18of a cheerful and liberal free-will offering for the helpless aged and orphans among us, and, as far as I could learn, all the brethren and sisters are in full harmony with the regular denominational work.
The question of the raising of the $150,000 fund was introduced; and with but a gentle and kindly effort the remainder of what would have been their pro rata share, had such an assessment been made, was readily secured in cash, or in pledges to be paid in three or four weeks, with an excess of twenty dollars. We are glad to announce that, so far as we are aware, Arizona is the banner conference of all the conferences in the United States, in this work, being “the head, and not the tail.”
All the laborers in the conference were in attendance, also J. J. Ireland and the writer from the Pacific Union Conference.
Arrangements were made for the conference to re-establish its tract society, and thus more closely direct the circulation of our books and periodicals.
We are sorry that Elder F. I. Richardson, the president, is gradually losing his hearing. On account of this he gave notice to the conference that he would not regard himself eligible to re-election, as he desires a change of climate, hoping that he may recover his hearing. However, he was finally re-elected to serve for a few weeks until the union conference can secure a proper man to fill the office of the chief servant of the people.
All are of good courage, and are anxious to return fully to the first love of the truth.
H. W. COTTRELL.
An Opportune Time for Spartanburg, S. C.
By R. T. Nash
SPARTANBURG is a thriving town of fifteen thousand inhabitants, situated in the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in South Carolina. It is an important railroad center. It was the first place in South Carolina to hear the third angel's message. The church there has a membership of forty. A portion of these are isolated Sabbath-keepers scattered throughout the State. Although poor in this world's goods, this church has been faithful in giving in response to every call for means to advance the cause of truth.
Their place of meeting has been changed many times from one hall to another; and because of this, our work has been looked upon by many as transitory and of little value. This has retarded the work. The time has fully come when this condition must be changed. A church is needed, one that will rightly represent so great a message. We must not delay longer.
The Southern Union Conference has recommended that we be permitted to make a call for one thousand dollars from our people to help the Spartanburg church to put up or purchase a suitable building for church purposes in that city. All that is now necessary is to state the situation, and I am sure many will want a share in the monument procured for the truth in this center of influence, and in this needy mission field where the work is just opening.
We can now purchase the second Presbyterian church property very cheaply, if our friends will lend a helping hand. We can buy it for eight hundred dollars cash. We can get the cash from a brother at four and one half per cent interest, providing we can return one hundred dollars a month until all is paid. The members of our building committee have confidence in our brethren, and in the Lord to impress hearts to help us. We are procuring this property, believing the Lord will not forsake us in this important step.
This church is a frame building about thirty by forty-eight feet, with an entry in front and belfry above. The first cost of the property was perhaps not less than two thousand dollars, and we think three hundred dollars in repairs will make it as valuable as it ever has been. Securing this church already built will save to the cause much time and considerable means.
The Spartanburg church has donated in pledges and cash over three hundred dollars, and we have confidence that they will raise two hundred dollars more. They are taking hold nobly for so poor a church, and after lifting quite hard on the $150,000 fund. May the Lord add his blessing as they labor to this end.
As the Lord has providentially opened the way for us to buy this church so cheaply, we need to call for only six hundred dollars, instead of one thousand dollars. This, with the five hundred we expect to raise in the Spartanburg church, will give us three hundred dollars for repairs. We can raise enough among the business men to buy the bell, organ, etc.
Our recent trial for Sunday labor took place at the Spartanburg court-house. Since that time many are reading and inquiring for truth, and we all feel that we must have a suitable place from which to herald the last warning message in this city. The people here were never so ready to listen as now.
Those desiring to help this worthy cause should send the money to Miss Elizabeth McHugh, Spartanburg, S. C., or to Mrs. R. T. Nash, Campobello, S. C., and it will be thankfully received, and placed where it will do good at once.
R. T. NASH.
Maritime Conference Good Cheer
By Wm. Guthrie.
WHILE this field is far to the north of many of its sisters, projecting far out into the cold waters of the North Atlantic, skirted on our farthest shores by the icy waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, we are still in the land of life and activity. While we are few in numbers, we have a great work to do, and are constantly trying to find out how best to plan for the speedy completion of the Saviour’s commission, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Many are the difficulties with which we must contend in winter in order to hasten the Master’s coming. Yet of this we do not complain so long as we can know that our work is blessed of the Lord.
For the last eight weeks we have been making a tour of the churches, in company with Elder W. H. Thurston, and the Lord has been with us all the way. We have seen souls yield to the Master, forsaking a life of sin to accept new life in Christ. In places where the enemy would shut us out, opposition only tended to open the hearts of the people to hear the truth. All over the field we find souls thirsting for the “water of life.” Who will go forth and, by precept and example, fill their longing souls with the bread of heaven? The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. Who among those that can not labor in person will sustain with their means those whom God has chosen to do this work, that they may go forth quickly to the work lest a soul perish whom we might save?
With longing hearts we wait for the time when the young people who are now in training in Williamsdale Academy will be ready to go forth prepared to herald the message in their own land. With the blessing of the Lord they will do a noble work for the Master.
Brethren, you who have helped to establish this school, you will never know what good you have done until you reap your reward in the end of the harvest. We never could have started such an enterprise without your help, and we could not develop our young people without the school. We are now well on with the work of the buildings, but there are many other things to be done before our financial success will be assured. We must stock the farm with cattle so as to supply milk and butter; we must have horses for farm work; we need equipments for the school, including a small library; then the farm must be fenced this spring to keep our cattle from troubling our neighbors. All this takes money, and as we have but little, we greatly appreciate the help that we receive from others. A part of the $150,000 fund comes to this school. May the Lord open our hearts and purses so that this fund may soon be completed.
We are to have three tents in the field this year. However, this means but one tent for a whole province. We are expecting a church for each company for the summer’s effort. Pray for us that this may be so.
Winter is still here, but we have hopes that it will leave by the middle of May. Then we shall enjoy the spring days, and after that our two months of summer; then fall will follow, and winter will again close down upon us with her icy fingers, and hold us fast for another six months.
May the Lord bless us all that we may work while it is called to-day, lest the night come upon us when none can work.
WM. GUTHRIE.
Italy
By C. T. EVERSON
WE see the hand of God working for us in a special way. Just last Sabbath a woman with whom we have been studying for some time, attended our meeting. She is persuaded of the truth, and is planning with her husband to shut up their store on the Sabbath, and keep God's holy day. She told my wife that she finds much more blessing in the Sabbath than she ever found in Sunday-keeping. There are several who are just on the deciding point, and it is plain to see that God is working. A young lady who has plans for founding a kind of sanitarium on one of the hills near here, is attending our meetings, and finds them a source of much encouragement. She said that in our meetings the Bible is studied, and the truth is brought out clearly, while in the Waldensian Church, of which she is a member, she feels, and so do others, that there is something lacking. She was present at the service19the other evening when I presented the Sabbath question, and said that she was pleased with what she heard. If she can be brought into the truth fully, she may prove a help to us, as she has principles on hydrotherapy and the temperance question such as we hold, and is energetic, and has some means to start the work that she has in mind.
Our school here is progressing very nicely, and has surprised even some of our friends in the progress made. We have made over fifty enrolments, and all except three or four are paying students. The school has already proved a means of getting acquainted with the people, and some of the students have attended our meetings. C. T. EVERSON.
Who Will Give the Gospel to the Jews?
By F. C. Gilbert
In the last article we called attention to the fact that the prejudice of the Jew was being broken, and it certainly seems that the good hand of God is in the work. The time has come when they should have the opportunity to receive the light, and who is there to-day that can give it to them but the true people of God?
There is scarcely a city or town in the United States but that contains Jews. In the Atlantic Union Conference there are nearly one million five hundred thousand Jews, and thousands in other cities and counties. There are nearly two millions of them in the country, and they are coming in at a rapid rate each year. These people must hear the gospel. How shall we give it to them? We can not open missions everywhere, and we can not hold tent-meetings for them, as we can not do work among them as we can among the Gentiles. There is a way, however, by which they can be reached, and that is by literature. The Jews are great readers, and they are willing to read. More than thirty years ago the message from the Lord came to us that the way to reach the Jew is by the printed page. See “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. III, page 206.
We have already published two tracts, and God has blessed them. One young man that we know of has been baptized as a result of this work, and the writer has received many letters from Jews calling for literature and Testaments and Bibles.
Now we have prepared some more literature, which we hope, with the blessing of God, will be used to his glory and the advancement of his cause.
We have started a series of Bible readings on the message, especially adapted to the Jews. There will be about twenty or twenty-five in the series, and we hope to get them out soon. The first one is ready for circulation, and is entitled, “God’s promises to Abraham.” The accompanying cut represents the outside page of the reading, and will be on the entire series. The second one will be ready soon, and a third will follow shortly after.
Now will you not, dearly beloved in the Lord, do all you can to scatter the printed pages of truth among the Jews? We know it will accomplish much good, for the seed sown will bring forth fruit.
Here is a letter I received a short time ago, and I am sure the readers will be interested in it:—
“Rev. F. C. Gilbert,
South Lancaster, Mass.
“MY DEAR BROTHER: I have had the pleasure of reading your book, ‘Practical Lessons.’ Though I do not understand very well the English, having been in this country only a few months, yet I am convinced that you are a true messenger from our Father to his ancient people Israel. I am a rabbi, and speak Hebrew as fluently as any American they speaks English, also other European languages, and my coming to this country was to study the English, and settle here in the land of the free. But God had his way with me. He made me also free indeed.
“I have found him of whom Moses and the prophets spoke, namely, the Messiah. . . . My heart is so full of joy that I thought I would divide my joy with you, as I understand you are a disciple of the Blessed One. If you can, send me some more advice how to make progress on my new way of life. I am full of zeal for my Master, but I want to be more established in the truth so that when visitations come on me from my congregation and friends, I shall be20able to stand fast. Thanking you in advance, I remain,
“Faithfully yours.”
We shall be pleased to send reading-matter to any who will distribute it, and we trust we shall hear from hundreds and thousands of the dear brethren and sisters who wish to give this literature to the Jews. Our address is 107 Staniford St., Boston, Mass. The fund for the literature is raised by free-will offerings. All offerings for this work may be sent to the Mission Board, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., or to H. B. Tucker, secretary Central New England Conference, South Lancaster, Mass. Pray for the work and the workers.
F. C. GILBERT.
Mexico City
By G. W. Caviness
Since our general meeting held in Mexico City, we have continued the work, holding two meetings a week in the evenings, besides the regular Sabbath services. The interest has increased slowly, until we now have an attendance of from forty to fifty on the Sabbath. One man and his wife have recently accepted present truth. This man is a minister, and has a congregation in a small village here in the Federal District. He told his people plainly about his change of belief on the Sabbath question, and gave them the Bible evidence. He hopes to gain some of his flock. Although not very well educated, he seems to be a devoted and spiritual man.
A few canvassers and a Bible worker have been laboring in the city and its vicinity, sowing seed that we hope will spring up in time and bear fruit for the Master.
We now have twelve or fifteen children of Sabbath-keepers, from eight to fourteen years of age, who ought to be in a school of our own. The question of a school is a practical one with us just now. Also we should soon have a church building and place for a school here at the center of the republic. I have been reading the pamphlet regarding “Strengthening of Our Institutions and Training Centers,” and firmly believe that the time is ripe for Mexico City to have a church building as a monument to the truth. In the city proper, land is too expensive, but in some of the suburbs, readily reached by the electric cars, we ought to have a church building to let it be known that the message is firmly planted in this country. We are paying twenty dollars a month for a place to hold our meetings. In the course of a few years this would do considerable toward paying for a church.
Brethren, remember the work in this difficult field. Here are nearly fourteen million people in far greater need than those in more enlightened lands; but we have only three organized churches and a few scattered brethren, and not a single building erected for the public service of God. In Guadalajara, I understand that soon our people will have a small chapel of their own. May Mexico City not have to wait very long for one.
G. W. CAVINESS.
A Laborer at Rest
ELDER D. E. SCOLES died in Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 12, 1907. About ten days before his death he was suddenly stricken with paralysis; from this he never recovered.
His first public work was in the State of Oregon. He attended the Milton Academy, and during the vacation labored with Elder Decker in tent-meetings. In 1887 he became a regular worker in the Upper Columbia Conference. Later he spent a year in the California Conference. In October, 1890, he went to Battle Creek to attend a ministerial school. While there, he was married, and at the close of the school returned with Sister Scoles to Upper Columbia, where he labored for six years. In 1897 he was transferred to the Minnesota Conference. He labored there for about a year and a half, but on account of the severe climate and the failing health of Sister Scoles they came to Missouri, where he has been engaged in faithful service for the past eight years.
He fell at his post of duty. At the time he was stricken, he was in the midst of a course of lectures at Taneyville, Mo., where the interest to hear was good, and on the increase.
Sister Scoles and her son, Elliott, are the only members of the family left; they feel their loss most keenly, and especially Sister Scoles, as she has not been well for a number of months.
The cause of present truth has sustained a great loss in the death of Elder Scoles. He was the author of some of our best tracts. The body was taken to Washburn, Mo., for interment. The funeral services were conducted by F. F.
EVANGELIST,
A Voice from the Ruins of Kingston
By J. A. Strickland
MORE than three months have passed since the great earthquake struck our city and island. Owing to the sympathy of the whole wide world, the people have been fed and clothed, and actual suffering has been largely averted. But the situation is still deplorable. Five thousand people are living in tents and huts in two great refuge camps, while the number who are camping in the yards of their former homes will reach up into the thousands.
Our brethren and sisters here are struggling bravely and hopefully. There is a great religious awakening among the masses, but we are handicapped badly for want of a place in which to hold services. We are doing our best; men, women, and children are giving of their scanty means, and all are working in perfect harmony to get a building. Even the small children have taken hold with a spirit and zeal that is surprising. We have purchased ground, and have begun the foundation of the building. We have exhausted our means in making this start. Will not our brethren and sisters in America lend a helping hand? We would not ask you, brethren, but for the fact that the homes, places of employment, and nearly all resources of our people here were lost in the catastrophe of January 14. We are the center for the West Indian work, and the banner must not trail in the dust here. Two thousand dollars is not a large sum, considering the situation. In Heaven’s name we ask you to do all you can for us. J. A. STRICKLAND.
Current Mention
— A treaty of peace between Nicaragua and Salvador was signed April 23, at Amapala, but the terms have not been made public.
— Upon the charge of conspiracy in restraint of trade, ninety-one business men of Toledo, Ohio, were indicted, April 20, by the grand jury.
— On April 21 a track walker on the Pennsylvania Railroad just out of Cleveland, Ohio, discovered a maliciously broken rail just in time to prevent a disaster to the Pennsylvania flyer.
— A disastrous typhoon swept over the Caroline Islands March 29, and 230 of the 800 natives of the Ulnithi group were drowned. The cocoanut trees were destroyed, and famine threatens the surviving natives.
— Antonio Infante, of Santiago, Cuba, died at that place on April 23, at the age of 150, retaining all his faculties unimpaired to the end. He was nineteen years old at the beginning of the American Revolution.
— The three hundredth anniversary of the first permanent English settlement on this continent is being celebrated by an exposition at Jamestown, Va. President Roosevelt was present at the opening ceremonies, April 26.
— Two earthquake shocks, the most severe since 1901, were felt at Manila, April 19. On the same day a fire destroyed 1,000 houses at Iloilo, leaving 7,000 persons homeless. The next day a fire in Manila destroyed 400 houses, leaving 2,000 persons homeless, including 100 Americans.
— Earthquake shocks were felt in Charleston, S. C., and its vicinity, on April 19. The volcano Puyehue, between Chile and Argentina, continues active; the ashes being thrown out have fallen 150 miles distant. Two distinct earthquake shocks were felt at Santiago, Chile, on the 20th ult.
— Lynch law has been inaugurated by the nationalists of Lodz, Russia, to put an end to the socialistic outrages there. The victims of nationalist and socialist fights totaled twenty-three killed and fifty-seven wounded in one week. The majority of the casualties were among the socialists.
— Sidney Olivier, secretary of the colony, has been appointed British governor of Jamaica, to succeed Alexander Swettenham, whose resignation was brought about by his conduct of affairs immediately after the great earthquake, especially his refusal of American assistance on that occasion.
— The prosecution in Chicago of the Standard Oil Company for unlawfully accepting railroad rebates has resulted in a verdict of guilty on 1,463 counts. The minimum penalty which the court may impose is $1,463,000, while the maximum may reach $29,260,000. A motion was made for a new trial. In several other States similar indictments are pending. Some of the railroads are also being prosecuted for granting rebates, the Great Northern and the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha roads having been found guilty.
Field Notes
The last of March nine persons were baptized at Darbyville, Iowa, where Brother and Sister L. P. Syp are conducting meetings.
The church at Keokuk, Iowa, has been greatly blessed during the first quarter of this year, as nine persons have joined that church on profession of faith.
Brother G. P. Gaede, at work among the Germans of Cleveland, Ohio, reports three souls as having lately taken their stand with us on all points of faith.
Brethren Kennedy and Hills have held meetings at Hotchkiss, Colo., and have organized a church of about twenty members. The hearts of the people are stirred to investigate these truths.
In announcing the close of a series of meetings at Fort Collins, Colo., Brother Watson Ziegler reports that two have taken a decided stand for the truth, and four others have begun to keep the Sabbath.
