p. 22 | Review and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 16. (4/17/1913)

Earlier text: The Spirit of the Missionary Volunteer Movement

Date of Sale

By C. H. Jones

Corresponding low rates will be in effect from Nevada and Utah points on the same dates as from California.

Date of Sale

These convention rates will be in effect only on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 6 and 7.

Limit of Tickets

Going, transit limit, fifteen days from date of sale, and journey must commence on date of sale. Final return limit in all cases three months from date of sale.

Stop-Over Privileges

Stop-overs will be allowed west of Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans, on going trip, within going transit limit; and on return trip within final limit, except that no stop-overs will be allowed in California on going trip.

Southern Pacific via New Orleans

The Southern Pacific Railroad Company has agreed to give us a special tourist sleeping-car (latest model), San Francisco to Washington, D. C., via Los Angeles, El Paso, New Orleans, and Atlanta (Ga.), without change, provided we have fifteen or more passengers. This is called the “Sunset Route.”

This special car will be attached to Train No. 10, Sunset Express, leaving San Francisco Tuesday, May 6, at 4 P. M.; leaving Los Angeles Wednesday, May 7, at 2 P. M.; arriving in Washington, D. C., Monday, May 12, at 10:40 A. M. Stops of from two to four hours or more will be made at the principal places en route. Dining-car San Francisco to Washington.

If desired, the railroad company agrees to take this car up through Asheville, Chattanooga, etc., without extra charge. This would take one day longer, but would give a view of some of the most interesting portions of the South.

Those going by this route should check baggage to Washington, D. C., then buy ticket and recheck baggage from Washington to Takoma Park, at a cost of twenty cents. There will be frequent train service from Washington to Takoma Park.

Santa Fe Route

The Santa Fe Railway Company agrees to give us a tourist sleeping-car (latest model) from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Washington, D. C., via Albuquerque, Kansas City, Chicago, and Baltimore and Ohio Railway, without change, provided we have eighteen or more passengers. The special car will be attached to Train No. 2, leaving San Francisco at 8 P. M., Tuesday, May 6; also to Train No. 2, leaving Los Angeles at 9 A. M., Wednesday, May 7. These two cars would meet at Barstow and go from there through to Chicago on the same train, arriving in Chicago Saturday, May 10, at 10 A. M. Then the cars would be switched over to the Baltimore and Ohio Railway and attached to a train leaving Chicago for Washington on that line at 5:45 P. M., arriving at Takoma Park at about 4 P. M. Sunday, May 11. Meals served at regular eating-houses from San Francisco to Chicago. Dining-car Chicago to Washington.

Sleeping-Car Accommodation

Double lower berth in tourist sleeper, San Francisco to Washington, $9; double upper berth, $7.20.

Reception of Delegates

Delegates in attendance will be met at the Takoma Park station of the Baltimore and Ohio or the street-car terminal by representatives of the General Conference, who will assist them in reaching the grounds or their rooms, and attend to the transfer of baggage.

For further information in reference to transfer of baggage, lodging, board, etc., see article in REVIEW AND HERALD in this number.

Those desiring to go in one of the special cars mentioned above, either by the Sunset Route or the Santa Fe, should write at once to C. H. Jones, transportation agent, Mountain View, Cal., stating which route they prefer; also whether they want an upper or a lower berth, and enclosing check for same. Berths can be reserved only for those who pay in advance.

Railroad tickets can be purchased at any regular coupon station. C. H. JONES, Transportation Agent.

Travel Arrangements for the Encampment

be issued May 12-14, returning to starting-point not later than midnight June 12.

In purchasing tickets from points in any of the above territory, purchasers must not fail to secure certificates from ticket agents. Otherwise, no reduction can be obtained on return ticket. Full fare going will be charged, and half fare returning to those holding certificates.

All trains run into the Union Station, Washington. The Baltimore and Ohio only passes through Takoma Park, and has arranged to stop all trains at Takoma Park May 13-16. All coming over the Baltimore and Ohio, should check baggage to Takoma Park. Those entering Washington over other roads than the Baltimore and Ohio, should buy ticket and recheck baggage from Washington to Takoma Park at a cost of twenty cents. There will be a frequent train service between Washington and Takoma Park.

Delegates and attendants will be met at the Takoma Park station of the Baltimore and Ohio and at street-car terminal by representatives of the General Conference, who will assist them in reaching the grounds or their rooms, and attend to the transfer of baggage.

Conveyances will be provided for transfer of both passengers and baggage to the encampment. Transportation to the grounds from Takoma Park will be provided at the following prices:— Passengers .................10 cents Trunks ......................10 cents Hand-baggage ............... 5 cents

Passengers desiring their baggage transferred to the quarters assigned them, should surrender their checks for baggage to the Reception Committee, paying for the transfer of the same, and receiving in return a claim

Ontario Conference

By M. C. Kirkendall; W. J. Blake

NOTICE is hereby given that there will be a meeting of the Ontario Conference of Seventh-day Adventists held at Oshawa, Ontario, in connection with the annual camp-meeting, from the nineteenth to the twenty-ninth of June, 1913. Officers will be elected for the ensuing year, and such other business transacted as may properly come before the conference at its annual session. The first meeting will convene Friday, June 20, 1913, at 10 A. M. All members in good and regular standing belonging to any Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ontario who may be in attendance at these meetings are delegates, and are therefore entitled to all the privileges belonging to such upon these occasions.

M. C. KIRKENDALL, President; W. J. BLAKE, Secretary.

Business Notices

WANTED.—Home for orphan girl nineteen years old. School privileges among Seventh-day Adventists desired. For particulars address Mrs. W. T. Bland, 121 Mississippi Ave., N. Chattanooga, Tenn.

WANTED.—Employment on farm by father and son. Boy about 16 years of age, father aged 38 years. Plumber by trade. Good references from brethren. Sabbath-keeper. Apply to B. Borrowdale, 2 Morley Villas, Marsh Mills, near Plymouth, Devonshire, England.

WANTED.—To correspond with an Adventist broom-maker, for the purpose of securing help to conduct the department of broom-making in an industrial school for our Mexican people in Arizona. Please address G. W. Reaser, President Arizona Conference, 615 Tenth St., Phoenix, Ariz.

Publications Wanted

THE following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent postpaid, for missionary purposes:—

Emma Kincaid, 529 N. Sangamon St., Lincoln, Ill. A continuous supply of REVIEW AND HERALD, Signs of the Times (weekly or monthly), Life and Health, also tracts.

Young People’s Missionary Volunteer Society of Troy, N. Y., Life and Health, monthly Signs of the Times, Liberty, Watchman, and tracts. Address to Miss Pearl Grosjean, care Wendell, Lyeaway, Troy, N. Y.

Obituaries

STARBUCK.— Elisha Starbuck was born Sept. 29, 1818, in Clinton County, Ohio, and died at Dallas, Oregon, Feb. 15, 1913, aged 94 years, 4 months, and 16 days. In 1842 he was married to Miss Polly Ann Haughey, to which union were born two sons and two daughters. The deceased was united in marriage to Miss Susan Pearson, of Indiana, in 1851. To them were born six children, five of whom survive. The family crossed the plains with teams in 1863, settling in Oregon. Many years ago Brother Starbuck united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The funeral services were conducted by the writer.

H. W. Cottrell.

HART.— Died at Glendale, Cal., Aug. 18, 1912, John E. Hart, aged 59 years. Brother Hart was born in Missouri, June 4, 1853. His parents died soon after his birth, and his early life was spent with his guardian at Byron, Ill. In 1881 he went to Bridgewater, S. Dak., where he accepted the third angel’s message. Soon after this he and his wife moved to California, and during the last eight years of his life resided at Long Beach. On the morning of the day he died, Brother Hart gave a faithful testimony in the early morning meeting on the camp-ground, and in the afternoon fell asleep in the blessed hope. His earnest Christian life was an inspiration to all who knew him. Elder R. S. Owen conducted the funeral service. *

HASKINS.— Carrie S. Haskins was born in Shutesbury, Mass., Oct. 14, 1840, and died at the home of her niece, in Agawam, Mass., Jan. 25, 1913. In early life she was an active worker in the Baptist Church. She became interested in the second coming of Christ through the First-day Adventists, and later accepted the third angel’s message, and has since been an earnest advocate of its truth. She laid off the armor with a bright hope of a part in the first resurrection. Early in the seventies she went to Battle Creek, Mich., and took up work in the old Health Reform Institute before the first sanitarium was built. Returning to Massachusetts in 1879, she spent her life in humble ministry to the sick and suffering. Sister Haskins was always liberal in her offerings to the work, and her life’s ambition was to lay up treasures for her crown of rejoicing when the Life-giver claims his jewels. *

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An Abiding Hope

THE hope of the message does not die out with years. It is encouraging to know the continued active interest which the pioneers in this movement still manifest in its proclamation. Elder George I. Butler, for years the president of the General Conference, although advanced in years, is improving every opportunity of bringing to his fellow men the light of truth for this present time. He writes of the spirit of hearty accord which he feels with the plans that are in operation. Elder J. N. Loughborough continues to labor, as strength and opportunity permit, making our people acquainted with the early experiences connected with this movement. A recent letter from Elder S. N. Haskell tells of the excellent meetings he has been holding of late, and his great burden of heart, a burden he has felt for many years, is the placing of literature in the hands of the people. He says:—

“If I have one burden more than another, it is to get our brethren and sisters to realize the times in which we live, and to work for their neighbors, both in distributing literature and in personal labor. There is no question in my mind that the work is rapidly closing, and many who embrace the truth will do so more from reading and from what they have heard in the past than from any argument and preaching from the desk. In fact, the time is near when our liberties will be so curtailed that we shall be no longer free. To get our brethren to distribute literature is one of the greatest means of preparing the way that I know of at the present time.”

Many a pioneer in this movement we are sure, had he the opportunity, would voice these sentiments and sound the same note of courage and hope. May God bless the pioneers in this work—the men and women who gave their all to it when the work was small, and who have stood by it through all the heat of battle. May God grant that they be privileged to see at his coming him for whom they have so faithfully labored.

WE do not cease our efforts for others till we begin to lose the inspiration of the gospel out of our own lives. A recent letter from Elder D. T. Shireman, of Hickory, N. C., expresses this thought. He says: “As I look back over four-score years, I see many who have run well for a few years, finally grown weary, and fainted by the way, but I have never seen an active worker in this message, doing all he could to place the message before his fellow men, living it in his daily life, and using his means for its promulgation, grow weary and faint. This kind of experience makes one stronger and stronger all the time. There are many avenues of labor open to us. All have spare moments when letters can be written or tracts mailed to some interested friend. In the last fifty years I have mailed many thousands of such letters and tracts, and while I have not heard from the majority of them, from the answers I have received, I have felt well repaid for my work. Every line of prophecy speaks in thunder tones that the time of the end is near. Let us not sleep as do others. May the Lord comfort our hearts and establish us in every good word and work.”

General Conference Travel and Accommodations

ATTENTION, is directed to the announcement from C. H. Jones regarding railroad transportation from the West to the General Conference, printed on page 21. Read also on the same page the announcement from W. T. Knox, with reference to preparations for the meeting. If you have planned to attend this meeting, and have not already placed your order for accommodations, do not delay longer.

Book Work Advances Despite Philippine Floods

The Philippines have been suffering also from floods. Brother Floyd Ashbaugh, who recently went out from California to engage in the book work, writes to the Australian office: “In spite of typhoons and floods the book work is going forward. The people order and pay just as if nothing had happened, notwithstanding the fact that nearly eighty per cent of the rice crop of this province has been destroyed by the floods. Some of the people could not wait for their books, but came to the house where I was staying to get them. The governor’s wife sent a messenger to get the book that her husband had ordered.”

Make Your Plans Large

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South African Delegates and Visitors

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Awakening in Russian Manchuria

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A Little Boy’s Christmas Offering

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Visit to Washington

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South African Union Delegates

THE South African Union has appointed the following persons delegates to the General Conference: R. C. Porter, M. C. Sturdevant, F. B. Armitage, H. S. Beckner, and Miss Mary Robertson.

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