Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— Colonel Heussler, a Swiss military statistician, calculates the total losses in killed in the present war at 5,000,000.
— The marriage of President Wilson and Mrs. Norman Galt took place at the bride's home, in Washington, D. C., December 18. Only the immediate relatives of the contracting parties were present.
— Ernest Thompson Seton, writer of widely read animal stories and one of the organizers of the Boy Scouts of America, has announced his permanent withdrawal from the scout organization because of the military spirit which has seemingly taken possession of it.
— The trade between the United States and Japan is larger than we generally realize; the past year it amounted to about $160,000,000. Japan sells more goods to us than any other country, and buys more from us than any other country except British India.
— The hunting toll in eighteen States for the season which ended November 30, is 59 dead and 66 injured, as compared with 111 dead and 162 wounded a year ago. Last year's statistics were gathered from seventeen States in the Union and one province in Canada.
— Sir Robert Laidlaw, president of the World's Sunday School Association, died last month at his home, in London, England. Sir Robert was sixty years of age, and had been president of the World's Sunday School Association for several years. He was knighted in 1910.
— Stamps on bank checks are being considered by administration officials as a means of raising revenue to help finance the increases proposed in the army and navy. The belief is that approximately $10,000,000 could be realized annually from this source, with a tax of two cents on every check.
— The discovery of a new comet by Astronomer Taylor, who is stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, was announced in a cablegram from Copenhagen, and received at the Harvard observatory December 5. The comet was sighted first near Delta Orionis, the left-hand star in the belt of Orion.
— A movement to secure an endowment of $100,000,000 for the American Red Cross, as a part of the plan of national preparedness, was recently started in New York City. Three hundred representatives of the wealth and social rank of the metropolis attended the meeting at which the movement was launched.
— Railways throughout Mexico passed from military to civil control December 6, under a decree of General Carranza, head of the de facto government. Dispatches say that General Carranza believes discontinuance of military control now is imperative in the public interest and in consonance with his program for reconstruction.
— The next Democratic National Convention will meet at St. Louis, at twelve o'clock, on Wednesday, June 14, 1916. Decision to this effect was reached by the Democratic National Committee after considering the claims of the three cities, — Chicago, Dallas, and St. Louis,—each backed by the proffer of $100,000 to defray the expenses of the political gathering.
— The United States government has grown weary of its heavy loss from the robbery of country post offices of from three to twelve months' supply of one- and two-cent stamps. As a remedy, Uncle Sam proposes to guard himself against such losses by forbidding postmasters below the first class to requisition more than a two months' supply of one- and two-cent stamps.
— A constitutional amendment granting religious liberty to the people of Peru was adopted recently in spite of determined opposition from Roman Catholic sources. The president, influenced by threats and clamor of the opponents of the measure, refused to sign it. The congress in joint session assembled, passed the measure over his attempt at frustrating it. The action was accompanied with exciting and dramatic features.
— Hundreds of thousands of the civil population in the Warsaw district of Poland are suffering for want of food. A considerable percentage of this number are still homeless, living in huts, caves, and abandoned trenches. The situation is more serious because of the immense number thrown out of work by the almost complete paralysis of Polish industries. Some workers have emigrated to Germany, where employment is plentiful, but the great majority prefer to remain near their homes, in the hope of better days. Prominent Poles in all walks of life contend that vigorous relief measures are necessary if wholesale deaths from starvation are to be prevented.
Requests for Prayer
“I AM suffering with heart trouble, and desire that the brethren and sisters pray for my healing,” writes a brother in Indiana.
A Nebraska brother asks that we join with him in praying that he may be freed from several afflictions which hinder his taking an active part in the Lord’s work.
Missionary Correspondence
THE Takoma Park Missionary Society will be glad to receive from our canvassers names of persons to whom they have sold literature. These names are desired for missionary correspondence. Address Edward Quinn, Jr., 6 Hickory Ave., Takoma Park, D. C.
Twenty-Seven Million Foreign-Born Germans and Scandinavians
By J. R. Ferren
At the time of the 1910 census, eighteen and one-half per cent of the population of the United States were foreign-born Germans, and more than nine per cent were born in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Thus we have more than twenty-seven million Germans and Scandinavians in this country to whom to carry a knowledge of the truth.
Our quarterly magazines fill a most important place in this work, adapted as they are for sale in the cities and for general missionary use. English magazine agents sell them, foreign magazine agents sell them, and our church missionary workers generally can help get them into the hands of the people. For the first quarter of 1916, in addition to a variety of general present truth articles, health notes, and home department features, they contain the following leading articles:—
Die Zeichen der Zeit (German Signs of the Times)
The Battle of Armageddon.
The Millennium.
God's World Government.
Perilous Times.
The Healing of the Wound.
Lys Over Landet (Danish-Norwegian)
Religious Tyranny—How Formed.
Menace of War—How It Will Be Destroyed.
World Peace—When Will It Come?
Results of Union of Church and State.
Tidens Tecken (Swedish Signs of the Times)
True and False Worship.
The Millennium.
Sun Worship.
Immortality.
The Word Eternal.
The Extermination of a Race.
In your study of our great foreign field, bear in mind that while many can carry on their business successfully in English, the22large proportion worship and gain their knowledge of Bible subjects in the mother tongue. To do really successful work in our cities and in many smaller places and communities, therefore, one should be provided with current literature in these languages. Will you not study your opportunities, and, if possible, help us reach many with the German, Danish-Norwegian, and Swedish magazines here described? They cost the same as the English; namely, from 5 to 40 copies, 5 cents each; 50 or more, 4 cents each. Order of your tract society.
J. R. FERREN.
Publications Wanted
The persons named below desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent postpaid, for use in missionary work. In sending publications care should be exercised to select only such as are free from soil and disfigurement. We have been credibly informed that some who oppose this movement and the truths which it represents answer these requests for literature, and are sending to our brethren and sisters in various parts of the country tracts and papers representing their opposition. Our workers should be careful not to confound this literature with our denominational publications, and thus unwittingly become agents in sending out matter not printed in the interests of the cause of truth.
P. J. Laird, R. F. D. 8, Rome, Ga. Continuous supply.
Miss Bertha Hamilton, Burke, S. Dak. Papers and tracts.
Mrs. Exie Sampley, Baum, Okla. Continuous supply of papers, magazines, and tracts.
To Parents and Teachers
By Editor
WE are giving in Our Little Friend for 1916 texts bearing on the subjects given in the Standard of Attainment leaflet, issued by the Missionary Volunteer Department. These texts explain the different points of our faith. We are giving these in as simple and easy a form as possible for Our Little Friend readers. We are also giving a simple outline for daily study of the Sabbath school lesson. Kindly read what we have to say to the children concerning these things in Our Little Friend dated Dec. 24, 1915.
In this new plan we urge your cooperation. Can not you well afford to set apart a little time each day, at morning or evening worship, or at some other convenient time, to help the children to treasure up the beautiful words and lessons of Scripture which will be invaluable to them in later years, as well as in their daily Christian experiences now?
Will not our church-school teachers set aside a little time each morning at the opening of the school or at the weekly missionary meeting, to review the Standard of Attainment texts given each week in Our Little Friend?
Will not our Sabbath-school teachers endeavor to encourage the children to study the Sabbath school lesson daily, referring them to the outline given each week in Our Little Friend?
Can we do a better work than that of helping to make the growing, developing children of today the missionary preachers and teachers of tomorrow?
EDITOR “OUR LITTLE FRIEND.”
Central California Conference Association
By N. P. Neilsen; G. A. Wheeler
THE Central California Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its fourth annual meeting in connection with the conference meeting in the Seventh-day Adventist church, corner O and Mariposa Sts., Fresno, Cal., Jan. 11-16, 1916, for electing a board of trustees and transacting such other business as may come before the conference. The first meeting of the association is called for January 13, at 10 A. M. All delegates of the conference are members of the association.
N. P. NEILSEN, President;
G. A. WHEELER, Secretary.
Southern California Conference Association
By B. E. BEDDOE; B. M. EMERSON
THE sixteenth annual session of the Southern California Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the meeting of the Southern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, at 141 Carr St., Los Angeles, Cal.
The first meeting will convene at 2 P. M., Wednesday, Jan. 26, 1916. At this session officers will be elected, and other business pertaining to the annual session will be transacted.
The membership of this corporation embraces the members in good standing in all the churches of the Seventh-day Adventists in that portion of California lying south of the summits of the Tehachapi and Santa Ynez ranges.
B. E. BEDDOE, President;
B. M. EMERSON, Secretary.
British Columbia Conference
By J. G. Walker; J. B. Giddings
Association
THE British Columbia Association of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the regular meeting of the conference to be held in Union Street church, Vancouver, British Columbia, Feb. 1-14, 1916. The first meeting of the association will convene at 3 P. M., Friday, February 11. At this session officers will be elected, and such other business transacted as pertains to the association.
J. G. WALKER, President;
J. B. GIDDINGS, Secretary.
Atlantic Union Conference
By R. D. Quinn; Pearl L. Rees
THE eighth biennial session of the Atlantic Union Conference will be held in the church at South Lancaster, Mass., Jan. 4-10, 1916. At this meeting the regular business of the conference will be considered, reports received, officers elected, etc. The first service will be held at 7:45 P. M., Tuesday, January 4.
Each conference is entitled to one delegate, — aside from the president,—without regard to numbers, and to one additional delegate for every one hundred and fifty members.
R. D. QUINN, President;
PEARL L. REES, Secretary.
Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium Association
By F. M. Wilcox; H. W. Miller
NOTICE is hereby given that the next annual meeting of the members of the constituency of the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium Association of Washington, D. C., will be held at the Washington Sanitarium, Takoma Park, Md., Jan. 26, 1916, at 10 A. M., for the purpose of receiving and passing upon the reports to be submitted by its officers, for the consideration of plans for the future prosecution of the work, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before this meeting. This corporation consists of the members of the following committees: The executive committee of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committees of the State conferences of Seventh-day Adventists in the Columbia Union Conference; the members of the board of directors of the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium Association; and the physicians under the employ of the association.
F. M. WILCOX, President; H. W. MILLER, Secretary.
Washington Missionary College
By William T. Knox; M. E. Olsen
Constituency Meeting
NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Washington Missionary College Corporation will be held in the College chapel, at Takoma Park, Md., at 2:30 P. M., Jan. 26, 1916, to receive the annual reports, to elect trustees for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may come before the meeting.
The members of this corporation consist of the executive officers of the North American Division Conference; the presidents and educational secretaries of the Columbia, Atlantic, Southern, and Southeastern Union Conferences; all members of the board; the president of the College; the medical superintendent of the Washington Sanitarium; those members of the College faculty who are heads of departments; such members of the North American Division and General Conference Committees as may be present; the educational secretaries of the North American Division; and the members of the Columbia Union Conference Committee.
W. T. KNOX, President;
M. E. OLSEN, Secretary.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Eastern Canadian Union Conference
By M. N. Campbell; Edna P. Leach
NOTICE is hereby given that the eighth biennial session of the Eastern Canadian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Toronto, Ontario, in the West Side church, Jan. 11-16, 1916, for the election of officers for the ensuing term, and for the transaction of such other business as may require consideration. The first meeting is called for three o'clock, January 11. Each conference in the union is entitled to one delegate for the organization and to one additional delegate for each one hundred members. The members of the executive committee of the union are delegates ex officio.
M. N. CAMPBELL, President;
EDNA P. LEACH, Acting Secretary.
“Is America in Danger of Invasion?”
THIS is the title of a leading editorial in the February Watchman. When we review the situation the United States is in with relation to the warring nations of Europe, it behooves us to think and study seriously the times in which we are living. This article in the February Watchman, with another one entitled “Will Turkey Be Revived?” should be carefully read and studied by all our people. As the days, weeks, and months go by, they are bringing us to a rapid fulfillment of the last prophecies dealing with this age of the world. Hence we should ever be on the alert, carefully studying the world happenings, keeping pace and watching the prophecies of God unfold and fulfill.
THE DELUGE—A.D. 1914-18
The February Watchman is full of message-filled articles. It has a message for our own people and for our neighbors and friends. Those who are not taking a club of the Watchman regularly should begin to do so with the February number, and see that it is placed in the hands of all honest-hearted people in their community regularly month by month. The Watchman does accomplish definite results. Order a supply from your secretary at once. Prices: 5 to 40 copies, 5 cents each; 50 or more, 4 cents each.
Does It Pay?
By Editor
WE can give only a little of the available evidence to show that it does pay to circulate the Signs Magazine.
One sister in Illinois, while working with the Signs Magazine last spring, found a lady who became greatly interested in the current topics of the number which she bought. Our sister was invited into the house, where several hours were spent in talking about world conditions and the Sabbath. The magazine and a tract, which were left with the lady, fully convinced her of the truth, and she kept the next Sabbath. She then began to work with her husband, who gave up his employment to keep the Sabbath with her. A few months ago, they attended a camp meeting in their State, and were baptized. Both are now devoting their entire time and energy in distributing the printed pages of truth.
It pays in other ways, too. By selling single copies and taking subscriptions for the magazine, it is possible for our brethren and sisters to earn their living. Even a few hours a month given to work of this kind will be productive of results. The February number contains splendid, interest-compelling articles under the following titles:— The Old Moslem Power Must End; The Changed Aim and Message of the Church; Christ's Second Coming; The Conquering Christ; Spiritism; Studies in the Book of Revelation; The Church and the Present Crisis; The World-Wide Message; Invisible Things; The Tragic Struggle for Liberty; Scurvy and Spring Fevers; Current Topics.
Fully up to the usual high standard that the Signs has maintained for so long. A powerful, convincing presentation of several points in the message that you want your neighbors to know. How will you relate yourself to the need this month?
A supply may be had from your tract society. Prices: 5 to 40 copies, 5 cents; 50 copies or more, 4 cents each. Resolve to do something for Christ with every number during 1916.
Obituaries
WARREN.—Horace William Warren was born in Plymouth, Mich., Oct. 27, 1837, and died at his home, in Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 5, 1915. He served his country faithfully during the Civil War, and when the third angel's message came to him, tried to be faithful to his God. J. G. LAMSON.
PEGRUM.—James W. Pegrum was born in Pike County, Illinois, in 1853. His early life was spent in the State of Missouri, but in 1859 the family moved to Fayetteville, Ark., settling on a farm. In the summer of 1900 the deceased united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, remaining a faithful member until his death, which occurred Nov. 26, 1915. He is survived by one brother and two sisters, but they sorrow in hope. G. E. NORWOOD.
GARLOCK.—J. W. Garlock was born in Albany, N. Y., in May, 1845. His death occurred in Battle Creek, Mich., Dec. 11, 1915. During his young manhood the family moved to Iowa, where his aged mother still lives. He served his country during the Civil War, at its close settling in Janesville, Wis. There, in 1868, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah J. Tuckwood. Six children were born to them, five of whom survive. The deceased became a Christian early in life, and was a stanch advocate of temperance. G. E. LANGDON.
LATHAM.—Mrs. Sophronia Latham was born in Allegany County, New York, and died in Coudersport, Pa., Dec. 4, 1915. The funeral, held the following day, was on her seventieth birthday anniversary. She was a most faithful, devout Christian, and died in the bright hope of a part in the first resurrection. Words of comfort were spoken from the text, “She hath done what she could.” The burial was at Friendship, N. Y. B. F. KNEELAND.
HOEKSTRA.—Mrs. Martha Wenselaar Hoekstra was born in the Netherlands, Dec. 29, 1821. The family came to America in 1831, and ten years later she was left a widow. Our sister became an observer of the seventh-day Sabbath late in life. Four sons and one daughter are left to mourn the loss of a devoted mother. She fell asleep Nov. 23, 1915, at the home of her granddaughter, in Battle Creek, Mich. G. E. LANGDON.
CARRIEL.—Mrs. Sarah Kilborn Carriel was born March 15, 1840. She accepted present truth in 1877, and became one of the charter members of the Sunderlinville (Pa.) church, which was later combined with the Jimtown church. She died Nov. 19, 1915, rejoicing in the hope of the third angel's message. The text of the funeral sermon, John 14: 3, was of her own choosing. Her aged husband and three children mourn, but not without hope. B. F. KNEELAND.
HUBBELL.—Benjamin Franklin Hubbell was born in Delaware County, Ohio, Sept. 1, 1856. He fell asleep in Jesus, Oct. 13, 1915. The greater part of his life was spent in the county of his birth. About twenty-four years ago he heard and accepted the third angel's message. In 1883, he was united in marriage with Miss Ella Leonard. She, with their four children, survives. The family moved to Mount Vernon, Ohio, a few years ago, and it was here that his death occurred. N. S. ASHTON.
WIGHT.—Mrs. Caroline A. Wight, née Munson, was born Sept. 2, 1848, in St. Lawrence County, New York. Sept. 25, 1867, she became the wife of Mr. John Wight, and the following year they moved to Michigan. In 1872 Mrs. Wight accepted present truth through the efforts of Elder A. O. Burrill, and became a member of the Wright church. Her death occurred in Coopersville, Mich., Dec. 9, 1915. Her son, Elder S. E. Wight, of Nashville, Tenn., is the only surviving member of the family. J. G. LAMSON.
MCDONALD.—Sarah Agnes McDonald, née Lively, was born in Sparta, Ill., Nov. 11, 1865, and died Dec. 12, 1915, at her home, in Port Orchard, Wash. On Dec. 9, 1895, she was united in marriage to Mr. D. A. McDonald. For the past fifteen years she has been a patient sufferer. About two years ago she and her husband attended a series of cottage studies conducted by the writer. Point by point they accepted this message, and in May, 1915, joined the newly organized church of Annapolis, in the Western Washington Conference. Because of her physical infirmities it was impossible to baptize this sister. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Isa. 38: 18, 19. A. E. SERNS.
BECK.—George Thomas Beck was born in Ohio, Aug. 21, 1835, and died in Port Orchard, Wash., at the home of Wm. R. Jones, Dec. 7, 1915. During the Civil War, Brother Beck was mustered out as a cavalryman, enlisting in Illinois. In 1878, after attending a series of meetings conducted by Elder I. D. Van Horn in Milton, Oregon, he joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church. As a member of this church he remained a faithful and true witness for Jesus until his death. Services were conducted by the Schofield-Hayden Post of the Washington Veterans' Home. Concluding remarks were made by the writer. Brother Beck leaves to mourn an only child, Mrs. G. W. Gibson, living in Canada. A. E. SERNS.
LIBERTY
By Editor
First Quarter, 1916
Presenting the following topics, it forcibly applies every fundamental principle of civil and religious liberty:—
CONTENTS
Is Liberty in Danger ?
An Era of Sunday Closing
Civic Righteousness
Abraham Lincoln on Liberty
Two Concrete Examples
Unjust Accusation
If?
Prohibitory Amendment Proposed
Religious Liberty in Peru
What Constitutes Disturbance?
Puts Man in the Place of God
Dangerous Legislation Proposed
Are Sunday Laws Religious ?
Is Sunday a Civil Institution ?
Open Letter to the 64th Congress
Where Demon Rum Is Intrenched
Sunday Law Enforcement in Tennessee
Sunday Newspapers to Be Blacklisted
George Washington on Religious Liberty
Delay Means Destruction and Death
Eight Commandments of the Mohammedans
Shall Religion Be Taught in the Public Schools ?
Where to Draw the Line on Police Regulations
Origin and History of English Sunday Laws
The Platform of the Religious Liberty Association
Sunday Observance Not Dependent Upon Civil Law
Merchandising on Sunday Not a Crime Against the State
National Reformers Want Death Sentence Pronounced on Promoters of Liberty
American Jurists Prove Sunday Laws to Be Religious and Unconstitutional
The North Carolina Judiciary Reviews a Popular Error and Denounces It
The Oklahoma Sunday Law Prosecution — Defendants Appeal Their Case
The Best Sunday Observance Found Where There Is No Sunday Law
Is the message well covered by these topics? Is the public in need of enlightenment on these subjects? Would our nation be safer and our cause more hopeful if the people were properly informed upon the questions presented in this issue? Can we be free from neglect if we fail to exert our best efforts in giving this number of Liberty the greatest possible circulation?
It will be an easy-selling number.It will pay for itself, and pay its solicitor a good wage.If not circulated, upon whom will rest the responsibility ?
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Week of Prayer at Mount Vernon Academy
By B. G. Wilkinson
THOUGH we have witnessed many precious weeks of prayer at Mount Vernon, we never saw before anything like the one this year. The Spirit of God seemed to be present with special power to bring men and women to God. The Lord honored the prayers which Elder N. S. Ashton and the faculty had offered for a special blessing on the school during the week of prayer. The last Friday chapel exercise began at nine and lasted nearly three hours.
On the last Sabbath at eleven o’clock, when church members and students came together, the powerful movings of God’s Spirit were witnessed. Three among the young people decided for the first time to become Seventh-day Adventists. Not one who had been drifting into frivolity, theatergoing, indifference, and scorn, was left; all went to the altar in broken-hearted contrition and surrender. Some remarkable victories were witnessed.
Following this revival service a special testimony meeting was held, in which all the young people arose to testify that henceforth their only aim in life was to win souls for Christ.
B. G. WILKINSON.
Japan Mission News and REVIEW Extras
By Editor
WHILE the cable report from Japan last week gave no particulars of the cause of the death of Brother Clarence C. Hall, it is evident from a letter dated December 7 that his illness must have been very brief. Writing to the Mission Board from Tokio, December 7, Elder F. H. De Vinney, superintendent of the Japan Mission, speaks in encouraging terms of the work being done by all the new recruits for 1915. Of Brother Clarence Hall’s work he says: “Brother Hall has taken hold as if he knew his business and had been acquainted with the conditions here for years. He is getting our printing on a basis so that we are intelligent as to what we are doing in the printing house, and he has made many improvements in methods. His work as treasurer is entirely satisfactory. We are glad that he is here, and he seems to be contented and happy, as does also Sister Hall, and that goes a long way toward success in the mission fields.” This is a good tribute to a fellow worker whose labors have been abruptly terminated.
WE gave our readers last year sixty-four numbers of the REVIEW, including the Extras, instead of the customary fifty-two numbers. It is probable that an equal number of Extras will be issued during the present volume of the paper. These Extras have had a large sale, averaging about one hundred thousand for each issue. They contain much valuable matter in cheap form for general missionary purposes. We are glad that our brethren are using them liberally, and trust that the coming year may give them a greatly increased circulation.
Elder Porter Visits Washington
We have been pleased to meet in Washington Elder R. C. Porter, president of the Asiatic Division Conference, who is spending a little time with the General Conference Committee in the interests of the work in that great division. Elder Porter has been visiting some of the school centers, getting in touch with recruits for the mission fields.
Evangelistic Campaign in Hawaii
THE General Conference has been able to arrange with the Pacific Union Conference for the services of Elder J. W. McCord, of that union, for a six months’ evangelistic campaign in the Hawaiian Islands. This arrangement will bring great joy to the hearts of the believers in the Hawaiian Mission, where Elder F. H. Conway is leading in the work.
Publishing Associations’ Successful Year
By Editor
The constituency meeting of the Review and Herald Publishing Association will be held at South Lancaster, Mass., in connection with the meeting of the Atlantic Union Conference. The first meeting of the association will be held Saturday evening, January 8. We are glad to learn that not only the Review and Herald Publishing Association, but also the Southern Publishing Association and the Pacific Press Publishing Association have closed a very successful year’s business. The Lord has surely blessed in the sale and circulation of our denominational literature.
Mission Work in Persia
WE know that our readers are interested in hearing frequently from missionaries laboring in regions particularly disturbed by the war. In a letter dated November 7, Brother F. F. Oster, of Persia, reports himself and Sister Oster well, and the work progressing, with tokens of encouragement even amid troublous times. He has been saddened, however, by the death of a believer, a converted Jew, who apparently was slain by marauding bandits in the unsettled conditions obtaining along the Persian border. Sister Oster has started a little school for Armenian children.
Arrival at Honolulu
OUR brethren and sisters will be pleased to read the following word from Elder C. M. Snow, taken from a personal letter to Brother E. R. Palmer, of this office, under date of December 12: “Just a word to let you know of our arrival at this station [Honolulu] on our journey. The first third of this part of the trip was very rough. We poked the nose of our ship under many tons of water, and a good deal of it got inside the boat, so that our baggage was floating around on the floor of our cabin. But the last three and one-half days have been very pleasant. Little Ivanilla fared worst, and I came off comparatively easy. We are all three on our sea legs now, and doing our full share in the bread line. We are expecting a pleasant day tomorrow at Honolulu.”
Harvest Ingathering Campaign
By T. E. Bowen
WE are glad to add one more conference, New Jersey, to the honor roll. December 30 the complete list of conferences reaching their portion of the goal stood: —
Maritime, October 21.
Alabama, October 31.
Newfoundland, October 31.
Maine, November 1.
Ontario, November 16.
Montana, November 30.
Iowa, December 13.
Minnesota, December 20.
New Jersey, December 24.
