By inadvertence the departure of Elder H. H. and Mrs. Votaw for Burma was listed last week as from New York, whereas San Francisco was the sailing port.
Foreign Mission Seminary Ministerial Course
By Editor
We are glad to learn that a good class is taking the special ministerial course arranged by the Foreign Mission Seminary. The attendance at the Seminary is the highest in its history. This is doubtless the case with most of our training colleges.
Union Conference Activity in Europe
WHILE union conference and local conference meetings are being held in this country, the same activity in council in behalf of the growing work is seen in Europe. In February the German, British, Latin, and Scandinavian union conferences hold their sessions, and the Russian Union Conference, at Mitau, comes March 16-21, with local Russian conference meetings in Moscow, Kief, and Warsaw. This world is really a scene of busy activity in behalf of the closing work.
Pacific Press Financial Statement
The financial statement of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, as presented by the manager at the meeting of the association on January 24, presents some very interesting items. For instance, the interest-bearing debt of the institution has been reduced, within the past year, over $14,000, and other accounts $6,674, making a total debt reduction of more than $21,000. The interest-bearing debt has been reduced more than $75,000 during the last nine years. The institution has donated to missionary enterprises during the year $1,333.09. The Signs of the Times, weekly, has increased in circulation during the year from less than 15,000 copies to 25,000 copies. The total volume of business for the year amounted to $370,789.43, a gain of more than $21,000 over the previous year. From the year 1902 to 1909 inclusive there has been a steady and very strong gain in the sales of the institution. In 1902 the sales were $76,322; in 1903, $95,429; in 1904, $97,197; in 1905, $103,055; in 1906, $148,464; in 1907, $198,127; in 1908, $256,247; in 1909, $271,524. These figures do not include the value of the periodicals published by the institution during those years. Such a growth certainly speaks well for the institution, especially in view of the fact that during the later years it has been wholly given up to the publication and circulation of literature dealing with the various phases of the third angel's message. May God's blessing be with the Pacific Press during the present year.
Encouraging Results from Mission Review Solicitation
Our workers, who have been out with the Missions REVIEW report many interesting experiences. Some who went out fearfully have received much encouragement in their efforts. Mrs. Margaret Lloyd, of Scranton, Pa., writes that she did not expect to do anything in soliciting funds this year, but on receiving the ten special copies sent her, she determined to distribute these, with twenty-four other copies obtained from the church. This she did by mailing them to some of the wealthy men in Scranton, accompanying them by a brief letter. A number of these responded in a very pleasing manner, and from the thirty-four copies which she distributed she received $53.50. A very similar testimony is borne by other workers throughout the field, showing that when we put forth an effort in behalf of the cause of missions or for the work of the Lord, the Spirit goes before us, and leads people to respond above our expectations.
South African Signs of the Times
THERE comes to our table from Cape Town, South Africa, a new journal devoted to the advocacy of this message; viz., the South African Signs of the Times. It is in magazine form, forty-eight pages, quarterly, and is published by the Sentinel Publishing Company, with I. J. Hankins editor. This number is filled full with the truth for these last days, and seems well calculated to ably represent this message in the South African field.
New Spanish Health Journal
WE have received the first copy of the new Spanish health journal, Salud y Vida (Health and Life), published at Buenos Aires, Argentina. Drs. R. H. Habenicht and G. B. Replogle, of the Argentine sanitarium, and Mrs. Lydia Oppegard, of the Buenos Aires publishing house, are the editors. And this first number is a bright-looking magazine, of thirty-two pages and cover. It is another cheering sign of the growing work among the Spanish peoples.