A CONFERENCE and institute for District 5 was held in Kansas City, Mo., February 15–25. Besides a large delegation from the Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas Conferences, Elders Irwin, Haskell, and Kilgore, and Sister Haskell were present. Elders Irwin and Haskell, and Sister Haskell imparted much precious instruction, which was heartily appreciated by all present. Elder Irwin read to us many Testimonies recently received; and as our errors were pointed out one by one, there was a general desire to be freed from them, and to redeem the time that we have lost by pursuing wrong methods.
Elder Haskell’s discourses on the Third Angel’s Message were listened to with much interest; and as the truth was so beautifully presented to us, we could but exclaim, “This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.” His instruction, supplemented by Sister Haskell’s, showed that every point of truth that we as a people hold, centers in the sanctuary. In the sanctuary service there is an act intended to illustrate each precious truth that enters into the great system that goes to make up the Third Angel’s Message. Thus our hope becomes an anchor, and “entereth into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered.” And this anchor holds.
Sister Haskell’s instruction was especially in the Bible work. Her experience of many years in this work especially fits her for giving such instruction. To say that the principles presented were greatly appreciated by all present, regardless of the particular work in which they are engaged, but mildly expresses it. We are sure that, if her instruction is put into practice, greater success will attend the efforts of the workers in this District.
The business sessions were characterized with perfect freedom on the part of all; and while differences of opinion necessarily existed in regard to certain questions that came up, yet the best of feeling prevailed throughout, and all were satisfied with the results.
Elder R. M. Kilgore, the superintendent of the District, was chosen Chairman, and R. W. Parmele, Secretary. The following committees were appointed, and did faithful work: On Plans, Resolutions, Constitution for the District Conference, and Distribution of Labor, Elders J. M. Rees, W. A. Hennig, C. McReynolds, E. T. Russell, and A. E. Field; on Missions, Missionary Work, and Sabbath-schools, Elder J. W. Westphal, Dr. W. W. Hills, S. C. Osborne, L. W. Felter, and Sister Haskell.
The following business was transacted:—
“CONSTITUTION FOR THE DISTRICT CONFERENCE.”
“Resolved, That we form a District Conference, composed of the Conferences and mission fields of District 5,—Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado, and the mission field of Arizona,—and that this Conference meet biennially, alternating with the sessions of the General Conference. Special sessions may be held at the call of two thirds of the Conferences composing the District.
“ARTICLE 1.—NAME OF THE ORGANIZATION.”
“This Conference shall be known as the Fifth District of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, including Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Colorado, New Mexico, and the mission field of Arizona. The object of this Conference shall be to further the gospel as embraced in the Third Angel’s Message, and to transact such business as may come under its supervision.
“ARTICLE 2.—OFFICERS.”
“The officers of this Conference shall be a President, who shall be the superintendent of this District by appointment of the General Conference, and a Secretary, pro tem.
“ARTICLE 3.—MEETINGS.”
“The sessions of this Conference shall be held biennially, alternating with the sessions of the General Conference. Special sessions may be held at the call of two thirds of the Conferences composing the District.
“ARTICLE 4.—MEMBERSHIP.”
“In the deliberations of this Conference, the several State Conferences in the District shall be entitled to one delegate, and one additional delegate for each two hundred members. The mission fields of the District shall be represented by their respective directors, and each recognized denominational institution in the District shall be entitled to one delegate.
“ARTICLE 5.—AMENDMENTS.”
“This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of all the delegates present at any session of the Conference.
“RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.”
“Whereas, The Lord has told us, through the Testimonies, that the spiritual progress of our people will depend upon their activity in the Lord’s work, and that simple plans must be devised and definite work laid out for them, therefore,—
“Resolved, That we encourage our people to more earnest personal effort in the work: (1) By laying out work for them, to be done in connection with our camp-meetings; (2) By doing more work in the distribution of our literature, especially the Signs of the Times; and (3) That this work be done as systematically as possible, and in a way to call into action personal labor.
“In view of the fact that a recent Testimony says that one hundred persons should be engaged in the canvassing work where there is now one, we accept this reproof, and believe that it calls for humility on our part, and an earnest seeking of God that he will raise up more laborers for this important branch of the cause; and we ask our brethren in this District to pray for the laborers, especially on Monday mornings as they start out to their work.
“Whereas, The Lord has said, ‘The work of the canvasser is to bring before the world as fast as possible the light God has given;’ and ‘persons should be encouraged to take hold of the work to bring before the world the books so essential at this time,’ therefore,—
“Resolved, That we encourage our canvassers to handle such books as ‘The Desire of Ages,’ ‘Great Controversy,’ ‘Patriarchs and Prophets,’ and ‘Daniel and the Revelation.’
“Resolved, That we recognize in the Colorado Sanitarium an agency for the spread of the truth in this District, and that we will use our endeavors to advertise the institution as a sanitarium for the treatment of all chronic diseases, except consumption, and that we will do all we can to increase the patronage of the sanitarium by urging non-consumptive patients to enter the institution for care and treatment.
“Whereas, the large cities offer an extensive field for missionary labor, therefore we—
“Recommend, That missions be conducted in harmony with the Testimony given on pages 128 and 129 of the Bulletin of 1899, and that in order to carry out this recommendation, consecrated men and women be encouraged to enter the Bible and colporteur work, and that they be properly instructed therein.
“Resolved, That we request the Review and Herald Publishing Company to publish ‘Daniel and the Revelation’ in the Polish and Bohemian languages.
“Inasmuch as our churches, tent workers, missions, and others working in different branches of the work, see the great need of suitable hymn-and-tune books to use in their gatherings, and as there is no book that seems to take the place of all other books so well as does our large hymnal, and,—
“Whereas, The prices of the present bindings are above the reach of the majority, therefore,—
“Resolved, That we request the General Conference to print an edition, using common paper, binding in pasteboard covers, that can be sold for 50 or 75 cents a copy, that all may be supplied.
“Whereas, There has been in recent years a falling off in our efforts to educate the people in religious liberty principles, and,—
“Whereas, The American Sentinel has been established in the order of the Lord to disseminate a knowledge of these principles, therefore we—
“Recommend, That renewed efforts be put forth in the circulation of the American Sentinel, that the world may be educated in the right principles of religious liberty.
“Whereas, We recognize the importance of every Seventh-day Adventist family’s having the writings of Sister White, and,—
“Whereas, Many of our people are unable to purchase these books at regular retail prices, therefore we—
“Recommend, That for the period of one year, agents’ prices for cash be granted our people on all her writings, except subscription books.
“Whereas, We recognize the Sabbath-school work as one of the branches of the work, and God has said, ‘The Sabbath-school work is crippling along behind the message,’ and it can be demonstrated that at least thirty per cent of adult Seventh-day Adventists are not members of the Sabbath-school, we would, therefore,—
“Recommend: (1) That an earnest effort be made to bring the people to a sense of their individual responsibility in this work; (2) That plans be devised whereby the ministers may take an active part in the Sabbath-school work; (3) That such time may be allotted to the State Sabbath-school officers as may be necessary for the proper discharge of their duties.
“RECOMMENDATIONS MADE.”
“The Committee on Distribution of Labor made the following recommendations: That J. Riffel, of the Missouri Conference, connect with the German work in the Texas Conference; that W. L. McNeely, of Texas, connect with the Missouri Conference; that J. W. Norwood, of Arkansas, and D. E. Huffman, of Kansas, exchange fields of labor; that Dr. Sommerville, of Arkansas, connect with the Oklahoma Conference.
“We recommend that, at camp-meetings, at least one service be held each day for the young people and the children, and also that there will be a daily kindergarten.”
Probable dates for our camp-meetings were suggested, but not submitted to the consideration of the Conference.
It was the aim of the Conference equally to establish all branches of the work, and they all received due consideration. The meeting closed Sunday night, February 25, when Elder Haskell pointed out to a large congregation the trials awaiting those who will be among the one hundred and forty-four thousand; the special fitting that their experience will give them; and their final glorious exaltation.
We left this gathering feeling that it had been good for us to be there, and with a firm determination to make a straight journey to the city of God.
R. M. KILGORE, Pres.
R. W. PARMELE, Sec.
GEORGIA
By Arthur W. Bartlett
SAVANNAH.—Four adults, each having families, have accepted present truth at this place. Three of these are prominent women who were members of a class organized for the study of the prophecies. They say that I was sent of the Lord to this class, with his last message of love and warning, and they are earnestly laboring for other members of the class, that they, too, may walk in this glorious light.
Though I rejoice that God has raised up a few light-bearers in this dark place, I rejoice yet more in the blessed experience of self-denying missionary work for the lost, which has opened my eyes to the fact that only as we are engaged directly or indirectly in self-denying labor for the lost and perishing, and not for those who have had the light, can we experience the full measure of the love, faith, and power of Christ. Christ in the fullness of his blessing is to be found only where his lost sheep are in the darkest and most deserted fields. If any are without the consolation of Christ, the comfort of his love, or the fellowship of his Spirit, let them at once engage in self-denying missionary work for the lost nearest their own door, and afterward for those less favored in this “worse than heathen field.” I wish that the whole body of Seventh-day Adventists might resolve themselves into one great home and foreign mission board, with every member an active missionary. Then, and only then, may we expect the baptism of the power of the Holy Ghost.
I have taken fourteen subscriptions for the Signs of the Times,—four for one year, and the remainder for six months,—and sold about ten dollars' worth of books and tracts.
ARTHUR W. BARTLETT.
News Notes
— High water in various parts of Illinois is doing great damage.
— During the last 150 years the land level of Finland has risen nearly five feet.
— Planters, merchants, and manufacturers of Puerto Rico have petitioned the United States government for free trade.
— Floods are causing serious losses in Peru, South America, and the government is petitioned to annul tax payments in consequence.
— The North German Lloyd Steamship Company will adopt wireless telegraphy, to communicate with the land, on each side of the Atlantic.
— Captain Abercrombie and forty-three government engineers have sailed for Alaska, to build bridges and prepare for the government telegraph line.
— Lieutenant Anderson, of the British army, reports ninety-eight Boers killed with the fumes of lyddite, the bodies found in the trench having no wounds.
— General Sir George Stewart White, defender of Ladysmith, is in Cape Town, but is “too ill to permit of a public reception being given in his honor.”
— March 14 the city council of Dublin, Ireland, after a stormy debate, decided, by a vote of thirty to twenty-two, officially to welcome Queen Victoria upon her forthcoming visit.
— The text of the German official circular instructing local officers to refuse information to American consuls regarding the impurity of German meats, has just been published by the Berlin paper Vorwaerts.
— The Balkan country is again in a state of unrest. The Albanians, who are Mussulmans, have attacked the “Christians,” and the Turkish troops sent to preserve order have been unable to check the rioting.
— The czar of Russia gave orders, on the 12th inst., “for the immediate mobilization of the army and navy reserves, and for the Black Sea squadron to hold itself in readiness for service. It is surmised that India or Asia Minor is the objective point.”
— Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, aged eighty-four, and Mary Foote Beecher Perkins, aged ninety-four, brother and sister respectively of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, died March 14. Mrs. Perkins was a grandmother of Charlotte Perkins Stetson, the socialist and poet.
— Paper is made principally from spruce wood pulp, and it is said that “it takes the entire product obtained from twenty-two acres of the best virgin spruce land to make enough pulp to supply two issues of one of the large New York daily papers.” This pulp comes largely from Canada, and “it will be readily seen that the supply must very speedily become exhausted, in spite of the immense resources of that vast reserve.” The next thing in order now is for some one to discover a new substance out of which to manufacture paper. An inferior grade of paper is at present being manufactured, on a small scale, from sugar cane.
— Cecil Rhodes sailed from Cape Town, for England, the 8th inst.
— German industries are in a critical condition on account of the coal famine.
— Dr. John P. Wood, of Coffeyville, Kan., claims to be the oldest practicing physician in the world. He is ninety-nine years old, and still makes daily visits to his patients.
— The famine expenditures of the Indian government, for 1899–1900, were over $10,000,000. It is estimated that the famine expenditure for 1900–1901 will be nearly $17,000,000.
— A dispatch from Calcutta, dated March 21, says that “the bubonic plague is fast increasing. In Bengal 4,725 deaths occurred last week. These included 744 in Calcutta and 2,044 in Patna.”
— The Constantinople correspondent of the London Times announces that “the sultan has yielded in all essential particulars to the Russian demands respecting railway concessions in Asia Minor.”
— Copies of William T. Stead’s pamphlet, “Shall I Slay My Brother Boer?” have reached the British soldiers in South Africa. Mr. Stead is the proprietor of the Review of Reviews, an English magazine.
— March 19 Lord Kitchener occupied Prieska, Cape Colony, unopposed, some arms and prisoners being captured. Lord Roberts also reports that the Boers are beginning to surrender on the Basuto border.
— According to the London Academy, the income from the sale of John Ruskin’s books has averaged $20,000 a year. Over 247,000 copies of his works have been sold since they were republished in cheap form.
— Secretary of War Root has authorized General Davis, at San Juan, Puerto Rico, “to give employment upon public works to surplus labor in Puerto Rico.” The authorization was telegraphed from Havana, Cuba.
— Cardinal Rampolla, the pope’s secretary of state, has written to the Duke of Norfolk that “the Vatican does not hold itself responsible for the attitude of the Italian Catholic press, which is hostile to Great Britain.”
— It is dispatched that in China “the ascendancy of the anti-foreign party is becoming more pronounced daily. The empress appears unable sufficiently to reward the officials who exhibit marked hostility to everything not Chinese.”
— Congress is still at sea in its efforts “to straighten out the tangle over Puerto Rico. It is admitted that the Republicans [in the Senate] do not expect to reach a conclusion till the return of the three senators who are now in Cuba, and that will be some time next week.”
— According to some authorities, “the highest mountain on the globe is not, as is generally supposed, Mt. Everest, but Mt. Hercules, on the Island of Papua, New Guinea, discovered by Captain Lawson, in 1881. According to Lawson, this mountain is 32,763 feet in height, or 3,781 feet higher than Mt. Everest.”
— The Wellesley (Mass.) College debt is about $96,000. By efforts of the alumnae during the last two years, more than $60,000 has been raised or pledged toward the incumbrance. John D. Rockefeller recently promised to give the college $100,000 as soon as its debt should be raised. An increase in the price of kerosene is now soon to be expected, to enable Mr. Rockefeller to clear just a little more than the amount of his gift.
— The springtide of immigration is now at its height. During the week ending March 10 more than 10,000 immigrants landed at the Barge Office in New York City. Three steamships—the “Bremen,” the “Rhein,” and the “Werra”—brought in on Thursday, March 8, 3,017 home-seekers. On the three preceding days 7,820 immigrants were admitted. More than half of these are Italians, and a large part are Croats and Polanders.
— March 19 John Arende Bingham, famous in the nation’s history,—former minister to Japan, former distinguished Ohio Congressman, one of the prosecutors of the assassins of President Lincoln, one of the leaders of the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson, and author of the XIVth amendment to the Constitution of the United States,—breathed his last at Cadiz, Ohio. He was eighty-five years old, having been born in Mercer, Pa., Jan. 21, 1815.
— It is said, upon good authority, that “Tolstoi, in his old age, is modifying his social views. In his last message to the world, ‘Self-sacrifice,’ he despairingly admits the error of his doctrines, and the futility of the denial that he has practiced. He says that the task of reforming mankind through the medium of self-abnegation is too vast, too stupendous. He also speaks of the ingratitude of the poor, of their whimsical demands, of their utter lack of appreciation, and the absolute impossibility of noticeably lessening want and wretchedness.” He should have tried Christianity instead of socialism.
— A Chicago weekly, the Public, says that “the American war in the Philippines ended just before Congress met last December—so General Otis reported. At the time, we ventured to doubt, and intimated that, notwithstanding Otis’s report, the American people would continue to hear of military casualties. The intimation has been sadly verified, as the following comparative statement of casualties shows: killed to March 8, 1900, 447; killed to Nov. 30, 1899, 348. Killed since close of the war, 99. Wounded to March 8, 1900, 2,029; wounded to Nov. 30, 1899, 1,814. Wounded since close of the war, 215. From this comparison it appears that of the total number of Americans killed in the whole Philippine war, more than twenty per cent have been killed since the war ended!”14
— The United States government has ordered 1,000 tons of rice and codfish sent to Puerto Rico, to relieve the famine there.
— The recent discovery of vast deposits of good coal in Alaska, where the price has been $125 a ton, is regarded as better than the discovery of gold deposits.
— Le Theatre Francais, the historical playhouse of Paris, was burned March 9. A rehearsal was in progress when the fire broke out, and one actress, being unable to escape, perished in the flames.
— The stepdaughter of Mayor Ashbridge, Philadelphia, Pa., was recently married at Grace Temple. About 2,000 invitations were sent out, and presents were given aggregating $35,000. Among the gifts were four grand and three upright pianos, and nineteen solid silver table services.
— The Ohio Secretary of State has “refused to issue articles of incorporation to the American Clay Manufacturing Company, better known as the sewer-pipe trust, on the ground that the charter of the company conflicts with the provisions of the Ohio anti-trust law.”
— August Belmont, head of the syndicate that is backing John D. McDonald, contractor for the New York Rapid Transit tunnel, has placed an insurance policy for $2,000,000 on Mr. McDonald’s life,—“to secure Mr. McDonald’s backers in case he should die within five years.” The annual premium on this immense policy is $90,000. McDonald is the most heavily insured man in the United States. It is said that “holders of tremendous life policies are few, the list of the heaviest known so far being as follows: John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, $1,500,000; George Vanderbilt, New York, $1,500,000; J. Reed Whipple, Boston, $800,000; Chauncey M. Depew, New York, $500,000; four members of the Havemeyer family, New York, $500,000; Dr. W. Seward Webb, New York, $250,000; George B. Forman, Buffalo, $500,000; George Eastman, Rochester, $500,000; John B. Stetson, Philadelphia, $700,000; Henry W. Hartman, Pittsburg, $500,000; James L. Gates, Milwaukee, $500,000; Henry C. Lytton, Chicago, $500,000.” It is truly astonishing how ready men are to accept and enjoy the life God has given them, and still how fearful they are that he will not be able to take care of that life as he sees fit.
HEALING
By Mrs. E. H. Bramhall
I HAVE been a constant reader of the REVIEW for twenty-eight years, and to its faithful teaching I owe my faith in the Third Angel's Message. During these years I have had many precious experiences in the things of God, but the most wonderful of all is the one of which I will now write.
The 20th of October one of my sons, who was a nurse at the sanitarium in Battle Creek, and who had had charge of a serious case of typhoid fever, became infected with the disease, and came home. One week later I was stricken down with the same disease. I took a prolonged Turkish bath, which reduced the fever, but my lungs, liver, kidneys, and spleen were still badly congested. The inflammation from the spleen also extended to the pleural sac of the left lung.
From the first of my illness I had attacks of palpitation of the heart, which continued during the eight weeks I was ill. These attacks grew worse, and I seemed to be nearing death. One morning my heart felt very bad, and I said: “Dear Lord, you made my heart, and you are able to regulate it for me,” and immediately it began to grow steady. Those significant words in James 5:14, 15, began to be spoken into my mind, and to be repeated over and over, until I understood that the Holy Spirit was making me sense that my kind Heavenly Father wished to make those words true in my behalf. I spoke to my family about it, and they spoke to Elders Covert and Campbell. Feeling the need of seeking God, they appointed Sabbath morning at half-past nine o'clock as the time for a special season of prayer for me.
To look forward from Wednesday evening to Sabbath morning, in my extreme weakness, was about the hardest trial my faith was ever called upon to endure. I could only pray, “Lord, I am your child, you know how weak I am; so hold me close in your arms until the time comes when I shall be prayed for, and shall have those gracious words in James fulfilled in being raised up from this sickness.” I lived on in this way, feeling my Saviour's arms about me. Friday noon, while suffering exceedingly from weakness, I asked to be laid on a cot in the parlor, where I could receive fresh air; but no one had the courage to move me. Finally my husband knelt, and asked that the needed strength be given me; then the cot was brought to the bed, and I was taken out beside the open window.
I had become too weak to use solid food, and was nourished by gruels. My daughters watched by my bed that night, and kept me warm with hot-water bags. Next morning about an hour before the time set for prayer, a bath was undertaken for me, with much prayer. For several days no bath had been given, on account of my extreme weakness. The Lord gave strength.
At the appointed time the brethren came. Elder Covert anointed my head, after which Elder Campbell offered prayer, followed by Elder Covert, and then by my husband. There seemed to be no change, so this was repeated, with the same result. I knew God wished to raise me up, so I asked Elder Covert if he had faith to take me by the hand, and in the name of the Lord Jesus ask me to sit up. He did so: I rose to a sitting position, and instantly my heart was made strong, a new circulation was given me, I began to tingle in every nerve, and in a few minutes my whole body was warm; for a new life had been imparted.
The doctor told my husband some time before that my “nerve battery” had become exhausted. He came into my room about five minutes after the Lord had done his wonderful work for me, and said that the change in my condition from the day before was marvelous.
I am improving every day, and am praising God for his wonderful goodness and mercy, and for the new desire he has given me, through this greater knowledge of his tenderness and faithfulness, to live a life of true consecration to his holy will.
“Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name.” Ps. 103:1.
MRS. E. H. BRAMHALL.
Milwaukee, Wis.
WISCONSIN
By J. WOLFGARTEN
MILWAUKEE.—I have begun another series of meetings, in a small chapel which I rented for four dollars a month. The attendance has been fair. Some are deeply interested. I also started a Sunday-school in the same chapel. The first Sunday thirty-two children were present. I will teach the children for their own good and to reach the parents. We are studying “Christ Our Saviour.”
Most of the church-members are doing missionary work, selling the Christlicher Hausfreund from house to house. Some children from seven to nine years of age have had good success in selling the paper. They received about $2.60 in a few hours. The children should work. It pleases God well when little children engage in his service.
Yesterday afternoon we had our prayer-meeting for the college. We experienced a most blessed hour. On account of the very cold weather only nine were out. After reading 2 Kings 22:5–7; 10:15, the Spirit of God came into our hearts, and the nine, mostly poor persons, pledged fifty dollars. If our people get hold of the Spirit, they give. The Germans in this city are willing to give.
May the Lord glorify his name and advance his kingdom among the Germans in this country.
J. WOLFGARTEN.
ILLINOIS
By Dora R. Hillis
CHICAGO HEIGHTS.—We moved to this place, December 1, and I felt anxious to find some of our people. At last I found one sister who was keeping the Sabbath; and we soon started a Sabbath-school over my husband's store. Only three persons besides us two came the first afternoon the school was held; now, four weeks later, the membership is seventeen, with the promise of more next Sabbath. We take a club of the Little Friend, and study the lessons in that. We rely wholly on God for help, and ask the prayers of his people that we may keep self out of sight, and work only to win souls. DORA R. HILLIS.
“I am the resurrection and the life.”—Jesus
Obituaries.
“I am the resurrection and the life.”—Jesus
BLOOMFIELD.—Died at Concordia, Kan., Feb. 28, 1900, Albert Bloomfield, aged 79 years. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, assisted by A. E. Johnson. T. GODFREY.
FOLGER.—Departed this life at Allen, Mich., Feb. 15, 1899, Sister Lydia L. Folger, in the seventy-fifth year of her age. Funeral services were conducted by the writer, December 17. She sleeps in Jesus. R. C. HORTON.
WHITE.—Born Aug. 6, 1882, and died at Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1900, of intestinal tuberculosis, Morris R. White, eldest child of Harry B. and Martha C. White. Funeral service was largely attended at the family residence. Choice floral offerings by his recent companions touched all hearts tenderly. M. S. BABCOCK.
LIEB.—Died at Casey, Ill., Feb. 17, 1900, of tuberculosis, Sister Alice G. Lieb, daughter of A. J. and Ella Porter, aged 21 years, 4 months. Funeral services were conducted by the writer, assisted by Elder Long (United Brethren). With sorrowful hearts we laid her away, yet strengthened and cheered by the blessed hope. S. H. LANE.
WALKER.—Died at Elba, Mich., Feb. 22, 1900, of congestion of the lungs, Brother Allen Walker, aged 79 years. He accepted the Third Angel’s Message in 1862, of which his life has ever been a faithful exponent. Words of comfort on the funeral occasion were spoken by M. L. Bove (Free Methodist), assisted by the writer. LUCIUS SANBORN.
BROWN.—Died at Karmatar, Bengal, India, Dec. 21, 1899, of malignant smallpox, Elder F. W. Brown, aged 39 years. He was the son of Rev. Winsor Brown, of Borodino, N. Y., and came to India first in 1884 as a missionary. Returning to America after a term of service, he accepted present truth at Ottawa Lake, Mich., in 1898. Early in 1899 he came with his family to India. He rejoiced in the hope of the soon coming of Christ; and though his death was sudden, he realized the power of the Lord’s salvation in his last hours. He leaves his wife and two little ones, who, in their sadness, are made glad by the blessed hope. W. A. SPICER.
ROBINSON.—Died at Karmatar, Bengal, India, Dec. 29, 1899, of malignant smallpox, Elder D. A. Robinson, aged 52 years, lacking five days. He accepted the truth in Maine, in 1867, under the labors of Elders Goodrich, Howard, and Canright; went to Battle Creek in 1872, attending the school till 1874, when he began preaching in New England. Ordained in 1876, he labored in that Conference till 1887, when he went to South Africa. From 1888 to 1895 he labored in Great Britain, then coming to India. Brother Robinson was well aware of the serious nature of his illness, and made all possible arrangements about his affairs. While trusting his case with the Lord for life and service, he was at peace with God, and ready to rest if his work were done. Sister Robinson is thus left alone for the “little while,” with their two adopted girls. W. A. SPICER.
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