Notes, plans, reports, statistics, and other information regarding missionary endeavor and the circulation of gospel literature.
Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference
E. R. PALMER — Secretary
N. Z. TOWN — Assistant Secretary
The Summary
By N. Z. T.
We are glad to be able to present such an encouraging summary of magazine sales for July. This summary shows an increase over last month of 52,000 copies. While we rejoice over this increase, we are sorry to see that we still fell 25,000 copies short of July of last year. We are looking forward to the time when our magazine work will be so thoroughly organized that we shall see it march steadily forward month by month. May the Lord’s prospering hand continue to be with the magazine workers.
N. Z. T.
Medical Missionary Department
By Daniel H. Kress; L. A. Hansen
Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference
D. H. KRESS, M. D. - - - Secretary
L. A. HANSEN - - - Assistant Secretary
Sanitarium News Items
By L. A. H.
The Glendale (Cal.) Sanitarium had a good patronage during the last winter, and is still doing well for the summer months. Among the many good things this institution is doing, is the excellent work of training real missionary nurses. A class of sixteen young women was recently graduated, several of whom will remain for a time with the institution, while others go elsewhere to work. Another class of fifteen is just starting, and one of seven members is in progress.
The training work of this sanitarium has contributed to the work at home and abroad. E. C. Silsbee and his wife, graduates of the institution, are in South Africa, where they have had good experiences in field work and in treatment-rooms. Dr. and Mrs. Kay, in charge of the work in Central China, send words of courage to the sanitarium workers, and express their thanks for being permitted to go from Glendale to their field. Another graduate, Miss Lillian Graf, is in charge of the city visiting nurses' work, doing acceptable service. Another nurse, Miss Evelyn Lothrop, who has been connected with the city work the past season, is planning to enter the Foreign Mission Seminary at Washington, D. C., to prepare herself for work in South America. The workers of the Glendale Sanitarium have subscribed sufficient to pay her fare to Washington.
W. C. Foreman, business manager of the Tri-City Sanitarium, of Moline, Ill., writes: “I am glad to say that the patronage at the sanitarium here is the best we have had in the history of the institution. The house has been full for some weeks past. I think every room is occupied, and several rooms have two patients each. Quite a number of the local physicians bring their patients for hospital care, treatments, and surgical nursing. They are much pleased with the care their patients are receiving, and are passing by the local hospitals, and bringing their patients to the sanitarium.
“We are planning to have the medical and health work well represented at our coming camp-meeting. We have purchased a new tent to be fitted up for the work, and expect to have a physician and two nurses on the ground. In this way we hope to make a strong effort to benefit the people. It may prove of some help to the institution also.”
Several treatment-rooms have recently reported a good degree of success in their work. Kathryn Vaughn, of Sioux City, Iowa, says: “My treatment-rooms make no pretensions of being an institution of any size, but we continue to have all that we can possibly do, my mother and I doing the work. We have the cooperation of the best physicians here, and treat from fifty to ninety patients each week.”
R. A. Lovell, of Knoxville, Tenn., reports continued prosperity of his treatment-rooms in the new and larger quarters. He finds it necessary to secure additional nurses. L. A. H.
Western Colorado Conference
By W. F. Kennedy; W. M. Andress
THE third annual session of the Western Colorado Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Grand Junction, Colo., Sept. 14-24, 1911, for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the conference. The first business meeting of the conference will be held September 15, at 9 A. M.
The constituency of this conference consists of the members of the churches in this territory. Each church is entitled to one delegate31for the organization, and one additional delegate for each fifteen members or major part thereof. Delegates should be elected by the churches as soon as possible, and their names forwarded to the conference office.
W. F. KENNEDY, President;
W. M. ANDRESS, Secretary.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Camp-Meetings for 1911
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
Northern New England, Aug. 24 to Sept. 3
Maine, Norridgewock ................Sept. 1-10
CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
Quebec, South Stukely ....Aug. 25 to Sept. 3
Maritime, Williamsdale Academy, Sept. 11-18
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE
Colorado, Denver .................Aug. 17-27
Nebraska, College View ....Aug. 28 to Sept. 3
Nebraska (local), Norfolk ....Sept. 11-18
North Missouri, Hamilton ....Aug. 24 to Sept. 3
West Kansas, Wichita ....Aug. 31 to Sept. 10
St. Louis Mission Field ....Sept. 6-13
West Colorado, Grand Junction ....Sept. 14-24
COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE
Ohio, Wooster ................Aug. 17-27
Virginia, Richmond ......Aug. 24 to Sept. 3
New Jersey, Trenton ........Sept. 7-17
Chesapeake, Dover, Del. ........Sept. 14-24
West Virginia, Parkersburg, Sept. 28 to Oct. 8
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE
West Michigan, Muskegon ....Aug. 17-27
Northern Illinois, Phillips Park, Aurora ................Aug. 22 to Sept. 3
North Michigan, Traverse City ................Aug. 24 to Sept. 3
Southern Illinois, Shelbyville ................Aug. 31 to Sept. 10
East Michigan, Oxford ..........Sept. 7-17
NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Iowa, Nevada ...........Aug. 23 to Sept. 3
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Kentucky, Pleasureville ........Aug. 17-27
Mississippi, Jackson ....Aug. 31 to Sept. 10
Mississippi (colored), Meridian ................Aug. 24 to Sept. 3
Tennessee River, Waverly, Tenn. ................Sept. 7-17
SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE
Cumberland, Lenoir City, Tenn. ................Aug. 24 to Sept. 3
Florida, Sanford ........Sept. 28 to Oct. 9
SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE
New Mexico, Corona ........Aug. 17-27
Oklahoma, Enid ....Aug. 24 to Sept. 3
Arkansas, Fort Smith ....Sept. 7-17
South Texas, San Antonio, Oct. 26 to Nov. 5
European Division
BRITISH UNION CONFERENCE
Ireland ........................Aug. 17-29
Wales ..........................Aug. 24-27
South England ............Aug. 31 to Sept. 5
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Sunday-Law Agitations
By S. B. H.
From correspondence and press reports this department is being advised almost daily of some agitation on the subject of Sunday-law enforcement from official as well as unofficial standpoints. The legislature of Connecticut is still in session, and has before it the matter of Sunday-law amendments. It seems that the people who desire Sunday recreation are pleading for amendments to the present Connecticut Sunday law affording more liberal advantages.
The Hartford Courant of Wednesday, August 2, contains a very full account of a Sunday-law debate in the senate. According to this account, many speakers took part pro and con, from which we give one or two interesting statements:—
Senator Hooker pointed out the inconsistencies of Sunday-law enforcement. He said that the people in the upper wards of Hartford could do about anything they wished to in their country clubs and golf links and in their automobiles, but the man who lived in a tenement, with only a few cents to spend for car fare, could shut himself up in his tenement.
“Since Hartford was shut up tight, twenty clubs had sprung up, where, under the club rule, there were card games and drinking. Those clubs were veritable dens of vice and wickedness. He said he did not think it any more wicked for a crowd of men to sit in the open air and watch a ball game on Sunday than it was for the more favored ones to dance about the State in automobiles.”
Senator Spellacy, advocating his substitute, said that every town in the State could have just the kind of Sunday it wanted. The object of the bill was not to cover baseball only, but was broader than that. Local option seemed to him the only logical solution of the problem. The senator made the following very pointed and significant statement: “You are making Socialists and anarchists; not that those words have any connection, but you are making anarchists when you make one class stand idle and watch the other class go by in their automobiles.” He said, further, that it was demoralizing to the citizenship to tell the working people of Hartford they could not go to Elizabeth Park on Sunday and buy a glass of soda sold by the city of Hartford at actual cost. He maintained that rest did not mean idleness, but a change, a transition from one occupation to another.
The injustice of Sunday laws was pointed out by Senator Judson, who remarked: “While the senator from the twenty-fourth occupied his upholstered pew in church and sat or dozed during the sermon, druggists within a stone’s throw were selling ice-cream or cigars, while stores near by, which also sold those innocent things, were raided by the police.”
The Spellacy amendment was passed by a vote of eighteen to sixteen! The bill now goes to the house for its action.
“Sunday War” in Atlantic City
A letter from Elder G. W. Spies, of Pleasantville, N. J., brings the information that a Sunday war is on at that place, and refers to the friendly attitude of the local press to the principles of religious liberty. In writing to the editors of the papers there, Brother Spies said, among other things:—
“There needs to be a better and more general understanding of the great principles underlying human rights and liberties. Principles which, if universally understood and adhered to, would insure peace on earth and good will among men, ought not to be ignored or forgotten.
Religious liberty is safe only while a knowledge of its principles is familiar to the people. It is to this fact that the laws of toleration and religious freedom in many of the modern governments of Europe, America, and elsewhere are due. Through the great struggles of the past for freedom, the people of these lands became familiar with the principles, and public sentiment demanded their recognition and expression in the laws of the land.”
A Delaware Experience
The Morning News of August 2 gives an account of the prosecution of Upton Sinclair, the author of “The Jungle,” and others, for playing baseball and lawn tennis on the previous Sunday. The law had been invoked by a Mr. Brown in retaliation for preventing his speaking at a Single Tax community gathering at Arden, Del.
“Navy Must Observe Sunday”
The following is clipped from the Washington Post of August 8, under the above heading:—
“Laxity in the naval service in complying with Sunday-observance regulations has brought forth a special order from the Secretary of the Navy, directing that they be strictly followed. The regulations provide that labor shall consist only of necessary duty. A vessel is not allowed to coal, except in urgent cases. The special order says, ‘The department notices a tendency in the service to fail to comply strictly with the provisions of these regulations.’”
S. B. H.
God’s Faithfulness to His Promises
THERE are four things ascribed to God in the Scriptures which may assure us he will be just in performing all his promises: (1) He remembers them all; (2) he is unchangeable; (3) he is furnished with power to perform them; (4) he is faithful, and will not deny nor falsify them. To keep commandments is our work; to keep promises is God's work. Though we may fail much in our work, God will not fail at all in his work. To believe this is our highest and truest work of faith.—Caryl.
Virginia Conference Agency
By A. C. Neff; R. D. Hottel
THE seventh annual session of the Virginia Conference Agency of Seventh-day Adventists (incorporated) will meet in Richmond, Va., in connection with the annual camp-meeting, Aug. 24 to Sept. 3, 1911. The first meeting of the session will be held Monday, August 28, at 4 P. M. The delegates of the Virginia Conference in session compose the constituency of the agency.
A. C. NEFF, President;
R. D. HOTTEL, Secretary.
Maine Benevolent Association
By E. C. Taylor
THE thirteenth annual meeting of the Benevolent Association of Seventh-day Adventists of Maine will be held at Norridgewock, Maine, at the house of E. C. Taylor, Aug. 20, 1911, at 5 P. M., for the purpose of electing officers, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
E. C. TAYLOR, Clerk.
Christian Liberty
Reports, notes, and comments pertaining to the current history of the rights of conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL . . . . Secretary
S. B. HORTON . . . Assistant Secretary
The Madison (Wis.) Training-School for Nurses
The Madison (Wis.) Sanitarium Training-School for Nurses begins a class September 6. An especially strong effort is being made to make this a training for city missionary work and for medical evangelistic work as outlined in the Testimonies. The course covers the three years' work required by the nurses' State registration board.
We shall be glad to correspond with young people twenty years old and over who desire a training for medical missionary work. All wishing to enter this class should make arrangements to begin September 6, if possible. Address Superintendent of Nurses, Madison Sanitarium, Madison, Wis.
Business Notices
This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper. No advertisements of “agents wanted,” or “partners wanted,” and no “promotion” nor “colonization” enterprises, will be printed in this column. Brief business notices will be published, subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—
Conditions
Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. The fact that one is a subscriber does not necessarily make him “known” to the managers, nor constitute sufficient recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing, and send it.
We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order. A charge of two dollars will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost five cents. No discount for several insertions.
WANTED.—A position by a missionary nurse (Scandinavian) in a country home, housekeeping or nursing. Musical. Dorothy Olsen, 702 Twenty-third Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn.
COOKING OIL direct from refinery. Purely vegetable; healthful, odorless. Save middleman’s profit. Five-gallon can, $3.65; bbl., 60 cents a gallon; ½ bbl., 62 cents a gallon. Lookout Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
FOR SALE.—Up-to-date, well-equipped treatment-rooms, doing good business, with a wealthy class of people as patrons. Location as good as can be secured in the city. For particulars address F. C. Metcalf, 1754 Broadway, Denver, Colo.
LIBERAL OFFER.—Highly refined Cooking Oil, guaranteed pure and wholesome. 1 gallon, 90 cents; 5-gallon can, $3.60; 10 gallons, $7; ½ bbl. (32 gallons), 60 cents a gallon; 1 bbl. (54 gallons), 58 cents a gallon. Purity Cooking Oil Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.
WANTED.—Woman, thirty to sixty years of age, to do general housework, cooking, and plain sewing. Also single man to work on farm. Permanent work for the right ones. Hygienic living. Address J. S. Comins, R. F. D. 6, Box 64, Battle Creek, Mich.
FOR SALE.—40 acres, some cleared, one mile to Forest Home (Wash.) Academy; 1½ miles to Mt. Vernon. New 7-room house, good water. Will make valuable place. Am too old for the work. Price, $4,000. $1,600 to carry. A. M. Middleton, Mt. Vernon, Wash.
The future address of J. E. White and the Nashville Book Company is Marshall, Mich. We are especially perfecting our stereopticon department. Send for supplement of hundreds of new slides. Complete catalogue sent free. 100 new song slides in preparation. Watch for announcement in Review.
NOTICE.—The Otter Lake Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, Otter Lake, Mich., wishes again to announce that it is making a specialty of the treatment of rheumatism, stomach trouble, and nervousness. We have two of Michigan’s leading surgeons connected with our institution, and have had most excellent success in our work. We also care for a limited number of chronic invalids.
Maine Conference
By J. F. Piper; Martha W. Howe
THE forty-fourth annual session of the Maine Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Norridgewock, Maine, Sept. 1-10, 1911. The first meeting will be held at 10 A. M., Friday, Sept. 1, 1911. During this session, officers will be elected for the ensuing year, and such other business will be transacted as may properly come before the conference. Each church is entitled to one delegate for the organization, and one additional delegate for each ten members.
J. F. PIPER, President;
MARTHA W. HOWE, Secretary.
College of Medical Evangelists of Loma Linda, Cal.
By G. A. Irwin; W. A. Ruble
NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the members of the College of Medical Evangelists will be held at Loma Linda, Cal., on the third Tuesday in August, at 10 A. M. It is hoped all members will be present.
G. A. IRWIN, President;
W. A. RUBLE, Secretary.
Arkansas Conference Association
By J. W. Norwood; C. J. Dart
THE regular annual meeting of the constituency of the Arkansas Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Fort Smith, Ark., in connection with the annual conference to be held Sept. 7-17, 1911. The first meeting will be called at 9:30 A. M., Sept. 11, 1911, for the election of trustees, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before this association.
J. W. Norwood, President;
C. J. Dart, Secretary.
St. Helena Sanitarium Nurses' Course
To meet the demands of our young people, the St. Helena Sanitarium and Hospital Training-School for Missionary Nurses has just decided to start a full class in nursing, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 3, 1911.
Those interested, if they have not already done so, will please send for calendar and application blank immediately, that there may be no delay.
More favorable terms and a stronger course than ever before are now offered. Address Mrs. S. J. Whitney, Secretary, Sanitarium, Napa Co., Cal.
Chesapeake Conference Association
By Roscoe T. Baer; Emma S. Newcomer
THE Chesapeake Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists (a body corporate under the laws of Delaware) will be held in connection with the annual camp-meeting and conference, on the camp-ground at Dover, Del., Sept. 14-24, 1911. The first meeting will be held at 9:30 A. M., Monday, September 18. This meeting will be for the election of trustees for the association, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the association.
ROSCOE T. BAER, President;
EMMA S. NEWCOMER, Secretary.
Chesapeake Conference
By ROSCOE T. BAER; EMMA S. NEWCOMER
THE twelfth annual session of the Chesapeake Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Dover, Del., Sept. 14-24, 1911. The purpose of this meeting is for the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the conference. The first meeting will be called at 9:30 A. M., September 15. Each church in the conference is entitled to one delegate for its organization, and to one additional delegate for each ten members. A full delegation is requested from all our churches.
ROSCOE T. BAER, President;
EMMA S. NEWCOMER, Secretary.
Western Colorado Conference Association
By W. F. Kennedy; J. L. Humbert
THE Seventh-day Adventist Association of Western Colorado (a corporation of Colorado) will hold its annual meeting in connection with the annual conference and camp-meeting in Grand Junction, Colo., at 9 A. M., Monday, Sept. 18, 1911. This meeting is called for the election of officers, and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the association.
W. F. KENNEDY, President;
J. L. HUMBERT, Secretary.
West Virginia Conference
By F. N. Robbins
THE twenty-fourth annual session of the old West Virginia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Parkersburg, W. Va., Sept. 28 to Oct. 8, 1911. The first meeting will be held at 9 A. M., Thursday, September 28. Officers will be elected at this meeting to serve during the coming year, and other important matters will be considered.
It is earnestly hoped that a full representation of all the churches will be present at the opening service, and remain throughout the entire meeting. Each church in the conference is entitled to one delegate, without respect to numbers, and one additional delegate for every seven members. Delegates should be elected in ample time, and their names forwarded to C. V. Hamer, secretary of the conference, 411 Main St., Fairmont, W. Va. F. N. ROBBINS, President.
Publications Wanted
The following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications sent postpaid:—
W. L. Bird, Palmetto, Fla.
Dr. E. O. Dickerson, Jackson, Tenn.
Mrs. L. S. Robertson, 809 Greenwood Ave., Fort Smith, Ark., Liberty, Life and Health.
F. M. Cock, R. F. D. 1, Harrison, Ark., Watchman, Gospel Sentinel, Youth's Instructor.
Our Statistical Report for 1910
By Arthur G. Daniells
The statistical report for 1910, which appears in this issue, should be of interest and value to every believer in this cause. This report indicates very clearly the progress that has been made in our work during the year, and also gives a brief résumé of former years, so that the reader is able to obtain a fair understanding of every department of our work so far as it can be reported statistically.
The report gives information regarding the main features of work carried on by our conferences and their departments in all parts of the world, indicating the territory and population of each conference, its membership, laborers, and funds, all properly classified and grouped. Thus one is readily able to secure almost any information that may be desired in connection with our conferences or any of their departments. Our institutional work, which is becoming more and more an important factor in our message, is also given attention, so that the reader may obtain an intelligent idea of the work of our denominational institutions, where they are located, what their assets are, how many are connected with them, and something of the results of their work during the year, and a comparison with former years.
In connection with the report will be found various summaries, by which the entire report may be studied in its general features. The information is thus presented in such a way that the reader may obtain a comprehensive idea, and can determine the trend of our work, and the relation which each department or group sustains to the whole. Summaries Nos. 3-7 are especially valuable in setting forth the work of our various departments, and show unmistakably the providence of God in the development of this cause.
There are those who would make it appear that this cause is disintegrating. Does the evidence presented in Summary No. 9 look very much like disintegration? The reader should study this summary carefully. Our cause as it stood forty-five years ago is illustrated, followed by its standing for each decade since. The five years preceding 1910 indicate almost as much growth as shown for the previous ten years, wonderful as that growth was. To-day there are twenty-five times as many persons identified with this cause as there were forty-five years ago, and each one of that increased number is giving for the support and extension of this message over seven times what each member gave in 1865.
The growth of our publishing work is given in Summary No. 3. From this it will be seen that each year we are now printing and selling over $1,250,000 worth of our publications, in sixty-seven languages; and representatives in various parts of the world are heralding the truth in still other languages.
The growth of our cause in foreign lands is very encouraging. Our first missionary was sent out in 1874. To-day we have representatives and an organized work in nearly every civilized and heathen country in the world. Thus within the space of thirty-six years this message has extended from one country to nearly every country on the face of the earth. While we are not at all satisfied with the progress we have made, yet we have reason to thank God and take courage as we see the evidences of God’s presence in this work.
I wish to suggest that our brethren, especially our workers, preserve this report and give it careful study. It can be used to good advantage in many ways in our churches and among our friends who may wish to know how our cause is progressing. May what has been accomplished lead us to a fuller consecration to this good work.
