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“SUDDEN DESTRUCTION COMETH . . . AS TRAVAIL UPON A WOMAN WITH CHILD.”

By P. T. Magan

During the past four years there has broken upon these United States an ever-rising tide of love and lust for money and for money making. With a steady swell, and never an ebb, it has flooded the land from the rock-bound coast of Maine, across the continent for full three thousand miles, to where the Pacific once marked the western boundary of this nation.

Marvelous have been the transformations wrought during the four eventful years last gone by. The old America of which Tocqueville, the great French philosopher, wrote, where he describes “a jealousy of wealth which compelled rich men, like the Jews of the Middle Ages, to abstain from all the ostentation of luxury,”—this old America has gone, gone, never to return. That old ideal for this great land, that it should be a country without pauperism and without great wealth, is to-day only a broken memory bedewed with the tears of those who have prayed that the purity of the Pilgrims might adorn this age also.

During the past four weeks the din of battle and strife for filthy lucre has grown into a deafening and horrible roar. A craze, a frenzy, a very madness, has laid hold upon men. Gold, gold, gold, has been the sound which has fairly hissed from hundreds and thousands of throats.

During the last few weeks the gambling in stocks on the exchanges in New York and Chicago has beggared description. Railroad shares, which normally sell for forty, fifty, or seventy-five dollars apiece, have jumped up as high as one hundred and fifty, two hundred, and beyond.

It was gambling, nothing but gambling. No one entertained an idea that the earning power of the roads was capable of any substantial increase. There was nothing to warrant the idea that the Western railroads could in the immediate future pay greater dividends than heretofore. Reckless men and women of both large and small fortunes invested their money. Feverishly they have watched the ever-increasing market value of their holdings.

The real cause for these phenomenal rises in certain railroad shares is now known. A bitter fight between two factions of multi-millionaires for the mastery of the railroad situation has been in progress. Each side was determined to gain control, consequently they bid and gambled against each other. Men had sold stock for future delivery; that stock had been “cornered.” A few men bid it up and up, and held it where these others had to pay fabulous prices to obtain it. At last, Thursday, May 9, the climax and a panic, the greatest in the history of the country, occurred. Wise men had predicted that it would come, but the majority had laughed them to scorn. The shares of one railroad worth only one hundred dollars at par, were bid up to one thousand dollars a share, an advance of eight hundred and thirty dollars a share in two hours. Special trains were hired to travel at lightning speed to bring blocks of stock to the market.346

But the great strain had gone to the limit, and a terrific break came like a thunderclap. It was the wildest panic ever known. Paper fortunes were wiped out, some substantial ones were impaired, and the money matters of the greatest financial center were thrown into a confused and tangled wreck.

“It was a millionaires’ panic, but, as usual, the small operators were the real sufferers. But apart from the losers, large and small, there is a deep-seated feeling of anger on the part of the respectable financial community against the men who have engineered the corner regardless of consequences, which are beyond the power of words to express.

“That any set of men, to gratify their own selfish purposes, should run a stock up by means of a corner to exorbitant prices, and thus deliberately wreck a market, . . . is denounced on all sides as nothing less than knavery.”

“When Northern Pacific common shares touched one thousand dollars, an old stockbroker exclaimed: ‘That is nothing less than cold-blooded murder!’

“On all sides among non-speculative business men, the exploiting of the present market in this buccaneering way, was described as piracy and highway robbery.”

So great was the break and the panic, that men verily fought with one another like wild beasts of prey, in their anxiety to “unload” their holdings. As the stock market came tumbling down, the hideous and frenzied cry of “Get out from under” resounded on every side. From $1,000 a share the stock of the Northern Pacific Railroad dropped to $160 a share. Even the stock of the Standard Oil Company, itself the mother of all the trusts, fell from $821 a share to $650 a share, a break of $171. This represents $171,000,000 off what has been the market value of the Standard Oil Company’s outstanding stock.

It was the worst panic that Wall Street ever saw. For a while there was seemingly no bottom this side of zero to stock-market prices. Stocks were offered for sale at almost any price they would bring, and under the immense mass of forced liquidations sales, the market crumbled away in every direction.

In their frenzy and despair, men sought to borrow money in order to tide them over this bad time. Then the greed of the money loaners began to show itself, and instead of asking from four to six per cent as is customary, the rate went up to sixty per cent. The losses of speculators caught in this panic on this one day are estimated at $500,000,000.

In commenting upon this fearful episode in the financial history of the United States, the New York Press very pertinently remarks:— “A vast sum of the country’s working capital has been diverted from its proper uses to stock-gambling for months past. How far this has gone, we shall not know even when the returns come in of country bankers going to Alaska, and country merchants into bankruptcy. Throughout the whole land thousands of men will be crippled financially and psychologically; even where they do not come to ruin, as a result of this great debauch. Thus just so much of our national energy is lost. And he is a shallow observer who has not realized in such losses one of the causes of our periodical terms of long-continued and absolute prostration. Sprees like this one—now, we hope, ending—undermine the system of each American generation, and leave it an easy prey to ills which in its normal state it would with ease repel.”

The next day everything seemed to improve, and the market steadied down again. Everywhere people began congratulating themselves on this “remarkable recovery.” It was so rapid, and in many ways so complete, that it became a subject of favorable comment everywhere. Under the steadying of market values, men who the day before had acted like frenzied demons, became not only calm, but even pleasant and hopeful. The scenes of the previous day were like a hideous nightmare, but they were soon forgotten. Soon the speculators were going upon their way, gambling as recklessly as if nothing had ever happened.

If there were no other sign that the Spirit of God is deserting the earth, this feverish desire to make money, and to make it fast, to make it, no matter what knave and robber methods are employed in doing so, is in itself a sign of the strongest and the plainest kind. When men will literally fight like wild beasts in order to obtain an opportunity to execute a buying or selling order in which vast losses or gains are involved, the thirst for wealth can not be much more pronounced. When a handful of men will deliberately plan to bring about a situation which will enable them in two hours to gather to themselves fortunes which it has taken their competitors years to amass; when some will thus deliberately plot to wrest from others in a mere moment of time the fruits of ten, twenty, or thirty years of toil,—when all this is so, has not mankind reached a point of depravity difficult of description?

When the Master himself was describing the scenes which would take place just prior to His coming, He used these words: “Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.”

Now troubles in the money matters of the world have already begun. These are said to be “the beginnings of sorrows.” In the margin of the text there is this note concerning the word translated “sorrows”: “The word in the original importeth the pains of a woman in travail.” It is the same word as appears in 1 Thess. 5:3: “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”

Many times in the Bible the figure of the travail of a woman with child is used to describe the troubles of the last days. These troubles are described as coming as travail comes upon one with child. God used this figure because it is the only one in all the Word which accurately portrays the manner of the coming of these troubles and of the end of the world.

How, then, come the pains of travail? Is there one steady siege of suffering till the end of death or deliverance is reached? There is a time of intense suffering followed by a time of ease and rest, followed by another period of suffering, followed by another period of rest, and thus till deliverance or death takes place.

So it is and will be with the troubles of these last days. There will be times of great financial distress. Times when the faces of strong men blanch before the ruin which stares them in the face. “For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?”

But these pains of travail will be short. After them will come times of ease, prosperity, and plenty. But these, in turn, will again be followed by times of greater financial depression and distress. Thus it will be until the end.

Is it not therefore meet for the remnant Church to bear in mind that prosperous times are not given them in order that they may continue to wrap up their God-intrusted means in the enterprises of earth; but rather as a warning that hard times are coming, and that God has given prosperity that the remnant people may have an opportunity to cut down their worldly possessions, and lay their offerings upon the altar of the King who is so soon to come?

While the world is madly striving to get, let the loyal remnant sacredly strive to give in order that the blessed cause and work may prosper in the earth,—the cause of Him who says that He loves the cheerful giver.

P. T. MAGAN.

ANARCHY OR ORDER — WHICH?

By John Norton Loughborough

“But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. . . . Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry.” Heb. 10:32, 33, 35–37.

In these scriptures reference is made to the experience of the early Christians, and also to the experience of those waiting for Christ’s second coming. By comparison a similarity in the situations is seen. The disciples met with a disappointment in their expectations; so did those proclaiming the second advent of Christ. It was said of the early Christians that the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that He was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. John 9:22. The believers in Christ’s second Advent were excluded from the churches for even daring to express their hope in Christ’s near coming. Because of reproach and persecution the early Christians were “made a gazingstock.” After the close of the twenty-three hundred days,—Oct. 22, 1844,—one who would still avow himself an Adventist was made the butt of ridicule by both professors and non-professors.

Our younger brethren, who did not pass through that experience, but have later become the “companions of them that were so used,” have but a faint conception of the sore trial of the “come outers,” as those were then called who had separated themselves from the churches for the truth’s sake.

George Storrs said of the churches, while the Second Angel’s Message was being given in 1844, “Which of them will suffer a soul to remain among them in peace, that openly and fearlessly avows his faith in the advent at the door? Are not the terms of remaining among them undisturbed, that you wholly refrain from a public expression of faith in the coming of the Lord this year, whatever your convictions may be on the subject, and however important you may feel it to be to cry, ‘Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come’?”

L. D. Mansfield, who was laboring at that time in Oneida, N. Y., said: “I am more fully persuaded than ever before, that the religious organizations of the present day constitute no small portion of that Babylon which is to be thrown down with violence, and found no more at all. . . . It seems to me, however, that in some of the organizations the resemblance to the little horn is most striking.”

He, to show the animosity of the churches against the doctrine, spoke of a class leader in the place who said that if any man should come into his house and say he believed Christ would come this year, he would turn him out of doors.

The wicked were emboldened in their hatred and rage against the doctrine by the opposition of professed Christians. To show to what length some church-members went in their opposition, Brother Mansfield referred to a circumstance which took place near Oneida. He said an Adventist minister had an appointment to speak one evening, but failed to reach the place by sixteen miles, but a minister of one of the churches came “at the head of a mob, with tar and feathers, for the purpose of applying them to the servant of the Most High God.” This calls to mind a circumstance in the experience of Paul and Silas while they were laboring at Thessalonica, when “the Jews which believed347 not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason,” etc. Acts 17:5.

The violence of the wicked against the Adventists increased more and more as the time drew near for the termination of the prophetic days. In the Midnight Cry of Oct. 31, 1844, is a statement from the editor concerning the course pursued by the mobs in various places. He says of them, “They were enraged that any should believe in the advent of the Lord. . . . We could only liken the conduct of the mob to that which surrounded the door of Lot, on the evening pending the destruction of Sodom. In New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other places, the wicked manifested the same feelings, and on Sunday, the 13th instant, the Advent meetings in many places were broken up by them.”

The opposition that raged in the time of the Second Angel’s Message, especially that of the churches in circumscribing everything to just the tenor of their creeds, led the mass of those who separated from them to look with disfavor on any form of organization. Even some of their teachers favored such conclusions. The following from the pen of George Storrs, one of the earnest laborers, will serve as a sample of that teaching:—

“Take care that you do not seek to organize another church. No church can be organized by man’s invention but what it becomes Babylon the moment it is organized. The Lord organized His own Church by the strong bond of love. Stronger than that cannot be made; and when such bonds will not hold together the professed followers of Christ, they cease to be His followers, and drop off from the body as a matter of course.”

A gathering of Adventists at Boston, Mass., seemed to realize that there was danger in taking too “extreme” a position in the matter, so they issued an address, signed by William Miller, Elon Galusha, N. N. Whiting, Apollos Hale, and J. V. Himes. Among other excellent advice they cautioned against the danger of “yielding to a spirit of revenge against the churches on account of their injustice toward us, and of waging an indiscriminate warfare against all such organizations.” This advice was given a few weeks after Brother Storrs’s strong statement against any form of organization. It seemed designed of the Lord to hold the people from assuming too ultra ground on the subject of church order.

While we can recognize the hand of the Lord in bringing out a people by the Second Angel’s Message, free from the power of creeds; and placed in condition where they might search for and accept His truth, this liberty was not a permission to run into anarchy and confusion. It was just as true now as in the days of the apostles, when it was said to the Galatians, “Brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”

The Lord’s purpose in this separation of His people from their oppressors very soon became apparent. Light on the great theme of “life and death,” or no immortality out of Christ, was published in that stirring pamphlet of George Storrs’s, containing his six sermons on future punishment, the nature of man, the state of the dead, etc. This shed still clearer light on the coming of Christ as the only hope of future life to God’s people. This truth gave joy indeed to the hearts of the saints waiting and expecting the immediate advent of their King.

After the close of the prophetic period,—Oct. 22, 1844,—and until the Adventists got an understanding of the real event to occur at the “end of the days,” they were like sheep without a shepherd. It could be said of them, as in olden time, “There was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” Judges 17:6. Not in every respect just like the ancients. Then the man Micah, who was an Ephraimite, “had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.” Verse 5.

Elder James White said of the situation in the autumn of 1844, and following: “After the time passed, there was great confusion, and the majority were strongly opposed to any organization, holding that it was inconsistent with the perfect liberty of the gospel. Mrs. White was always opposed to every form of fanaticism, and early announced that some form of organization was necessary to prevent and correct confusion. Few at the present time can appreciate the firmness which was then required to maintain her position against the prevailing anarchy.” Note in Supplement to Experience and Views, page 12.

The prophet Isaiah exhorts us to “look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.” Isa. 51:1. We call attention to the ideas held by the people from whom the majority came who first accepted the Third Angel’s Message, to show the difficulties to be overcome in order to save our ranks from confusion, and to establish a people in true gospel order.

The writer being privileged to hear the First Angel’s Message in December, 1843, witnessed to some extent the conflict between the churches and the Adventists, and having united with the latter by baptism in the spring of 1849, has a distinct recollection of the situation among that people from the time of his association with them, up to September, 1852, when he heard the Third Angel’s Message, and united with this people. During the three and one-half years of his connection with the First-day Adventists, he preached the doctrine. As a body we were opposed to any form of church organization . No church records were kept, not even a list of members. If a person was sincere in his faith and was baptized, his name was considered enrolled in the “Lamb’s book of life.” It was claimed that was record enough. During the period of the three and one-half years no mention was made of needing church officers, and no ordination of any kind except that of one preacher, who in 1851 urged that, according to the New Testament plan, those going forth to preach and baptize should be ordained. To some of the leading ministers he mentioned, and even urged, his own ordination. They reluctantly consented to it, but instead of its being a solemn and impressive ceremony before the body of believers, the ministers waited until the congregation had left, when one of the ministers offered a dry, formal prayer. There was no laying on of hands; no charge given.

Neither had that people any system of raising money for the support of their work. If any one felt disposed to give to the ministry, he gave to the minister direct. If special fancy was taken to a particular minister, he received many gifts. Another might be just as efficient, perhaps more consecrated, but if retiring in his manners, and diffident about pleading his own needs, he might be left to largely support himself by manual labor.

As we “call to remembrance the former days” of relaxed ideas of order, it makes it clear now why it required years of patient labor and prayerful study to develop and perfect the system of order that now exists among Seventh-day Adventists.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

ISAIAH 26:20

By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle

MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE

Look! methinks I see the tokens of the coming jubilee, And methinks I hear a roaring like the voices of the sea,— Like the sound of many waters when the mighty winds arise,— For the Lord of hosts is coming with the army of the skies, And He calleth to His people, and His tones are soft and mild,— Soft as when a mother speaketh to her well-beloved child:—

“Come, my people, seek thy chambers, cover thee and shut thy door, Till the indignation passeth, till the fury shall be o’er; Hide thee for one little moment, for the sword is bending low, And the mighty God of battles taketh vengeance on the foe.

“Hide thee, hide thee in thy chambers, hide thee in the clefted Rock, From the field of Armageddon, from the tempest and the shock. Fear thee not, O seed of Jacob, fear thee not, nor be dismayed, I am with thee every moment; thou shalt never be afraid.

Though a thousand fall around thee, and ten thousand at thy side, Like the myriad leaves of autumn o’er the meadows far and wide, Though the very earth be gory, and no more shall hide her slain, And the heavens be black as sackcloth, still my promise shall remain.”

Yes, the hour of triumph hasteth, and the day of jubilee; Look! the martyred saints assemble from the desert and the sea; And ten thousand, thousand voices shout and sing, with one accord: “’Tis our God, we’ve waited for Him! Halleluiah! ’tis the Lord.”

WILMINGTON, N. C., AND NORFOLK, VA.

By I. E. Kimball

For the present my work in Wilmington, where I have labored nine weeks, is closed. There was not a little interest to hear the kingdom of God preached, even to the last; and I have left my wife in that city to continue the work, giving Bible readings and instructing more fully those who have begun to keep the Sabbath. She will remain there for several weeks. Her address is 913 North Seventh St., Wilmington, N. C.

Many were convinced of the truthfulness of our position on the Sabbath question, and began to obey. Then opposition rose high, and some became confused, and gave over their effort to obey. One of the preachers who had confessed the truth, preached against it, and I had the privilege of answering him publicly; and this effort to throw off the Sabbath resulted in its confirmation among his people. Some are now resolute and obedient.348 Others are fully convinced, and intend to obey when they can, but think it impossible just now, as they are bound by contracts, etc.

Sabbath-keeping, although a trial and at present a cross to the colored man of the South, will prove, in the near future, in the confusion of the time of trouble, his very salvation: for its tendency is to make him more independent, to eliminate him from the thralldom of human servitude. When man's efforts come to naught, when work is at a standstill, the great corporations close down, and tens of thousands are thrown out of employment, to face famine and starvation, then those who have been obedient to the Sabbath will find that, by sending the truth to them, the Lord snatched them graciously from the vortex of suffering and ruin.

I am now at 252 Charlotte St., Norfolk, Va. Within a radius of five miles there are one hundred and twenty-five thousand persons, and so far as I can learn the Third Angel's Message has never been presented here. I have begun meetings in the churches, with excellent interest. This is a busy, tumultuous city. I shall try to do faithful work, in the fear of God, and hope that the brethren will pray for the work here. I. E. KIMBALL.

Deacon Reports from White Horse, Yukon Territory

By Geo. Rice

WHITE HORSE, YUKON TERRITORY.—I am a member of the Winnipeg church, and have been deacon for about two years. I came to White Horse, Yukon Territory, about two weeks ago. I am a carpenter, and am working at my trade. There is a Presbyterian, an English, and a Catholic church here; I am the only Seventh-day Adventist in this town. The population may be two thousand, but the numbers passing through as soon as navigation opens, about June 1, will be great, as this place is the terminus of the White Pass and Yukon Railroad, and the head of navigation on Yukon waters to Dawson City. This is the main road to the Klondike. There is a good railroad station here, and I can put a reading rack in the station, so I would like to have reading-matter forwarded to my address. There is a good opportunity here to circulate our publications. Reading-matter is highly prized. GEO. RICE.

CHESAPEAKE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS.

By O. O. Farnsworth; Chas. D. Zirkle

The second annual session of the Chesapeake Conference was held in the First Seventh-day Adventist church in Baltimore, Md., May 6–12, 1901. There was quite a full representation of delegates from the ten churches in the Conference. Professor Frederick Griggs and Brother S. N. Curtiss assisted in the meetings.

The report of labor for the Conference year of ten months, performed by three ministers, two licentiates, and four Bible workers, is as follows: Days of labor, 2,360; sermons preached, 713; Bible readings held, 850; other meetings, 290; visits, 4,410; pages literature distributed, 95,608; periodicals distributed, 25,324; subscriptions taken for periodicals, 1,162; number of persons baptized, 40. Five church schools were conducted during the year, with an enrollment of 125 pupils. Some work was also done with “Christ’s Object Lessons,” about thirteen hundred dollars’ worth being sold in the Conference.

Financially the Conference has prospered since its organization a little more than two years ago. Beginning with no property, the Conference has now tent equipments, etc., valued at $750. During the Conference year of ten months there have been received tithe to the amount of $4,823.18; First-day offering, $737.23; for tent fund, $151.30; annual offering, $1,468.80; offering for Haskell Home, $48.18; for International Tract Society, $8.17; donations (received by our laborers), $230.71; total, $7,467.57. After settlement in full with all the laborers, there was in the treasury a little over $200.

Resolutions were passed encouraging our people to take more interest in the young people among us, and recommending that, in harmony with plans formulated by the General Conference, young people’s societies be organized; that we continue to encourage all to adopt the ten-cent-a-week plan of supporting foreign missions; that tried and accredited laborers be paid in full at the end of each month; that the Chesapeake Sabbath-school Association be made a department of the Conference; that the matter of how to raise a Conference fund for the support of the church-school work, and the advisability of raising such a fund, be left to the Conference Executive Committee; that we recognize the wisdom of God in establishing for us, in order to warn the world, our excellent books, tracts, and periodicals, and that we do our utmost to use each in its proper sphere.

The officers chosen are: President, O. O. Farnsworth; Secretary and Treasurer, Chas. D. Zirkle. Executive Committee: O. O. Farnsworth, A. Kalstrom, T. M. Bradford, J. H. Neale, William Hurlock. Missionary Committee: O. O. Farnsworth, Chas. D. Zirkle, R. M. Rosin. Secretary of the Sabbath-school Department, Miss Helen V. Price. Custodian Conference Property, Chas. D. Zirkle.

Credentials were granted to O. O. Farnsworth and John F. Jones; ministerial license was given to H. W. Herrell, C. T. Shaffer, Chas. D. Zirkle, Fred H. S. Seeney; missionary license to M. A. Baker and L. M. Slocum.

A spirit of unity and freedom prevailed throughout the Conference session, and the delegates said this was the best Conference they ever attended. All returned to their respective churches with renewed courage and strength for the work before us.

It was planned that four tents be in the field this summer: At Havre de Grace, Md.; Cambridge, Md.; Annapolis, Md.; and Cheswold, Del.

At the late session of the General Conference several of our workers were called to foreign fields: Elder Ballenger and wife to England; Brother Fischer and wife to Porto Rico, West Indies. The same Conference recommended that V. H. Lucas, of Atlanta, Ga., and F. W. Mace, of New England, labor in the Chesapeake Conference.

The office of the Chesapeake Conference for the coming year will be at 903 Woodley St., Baltimore, Md.

O. O. FARNSWORTH, Pres.

CHAS. D. ZIRKLE, Sec.

Encouraging facts, with others, in foregoing report:—

1. Conference prospered financially since beginning.
2. Financial help rendered to worthy organizations and objects.
3. Laborers settled with in full, and funds still in the treasury.
4. Laborers to be settled with promptly, and at short intervals.
5. Resolutions which will bear good fruits, if carried out heartily and liberally in looking after and encouraging the young, and keeping the streams of liberality open by weekly offerings. Vows are made effective by being faithfully paid. The Lord will follow all such with His blessing.—Ed.

“AND THE PEOPLE GAVE WILLINGLY.”

By P. T. Magan

We print another long list of “Jubilee Singers” this week. During the last few weeks there have been over two thousand gifts of money for the relief of the schools, to say nothing of hundreds of pledges. About half of the Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund has been raised. Praise the Lord for this. It is these testimonies, expressed in dollars rather than in words, which prove the sincerity of the love of those to whom God is saying, “Cut loose, cut loose, cut loose.” P. T. MAGAN.

Name	Amount	Name	Amount
H. Hansen	$2.00	Martha J. Hanorth	1.00
Mary Eager	1.00	Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Alsop	1.00
Herman Rust	1.00	A. F. Frost	1.00
Martha Fullerton	1.00	L. D. House	1.00
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rand	2.00	Mrs. A. E. Ricketts	2.00
Mrs. C. C. Dodge and sister	1.00	Dr. and Mrs. C. D. Christman	5.00
Henry S. Priest	5.00	Henry McCullin	6.00
Mrs. A. Cheetham	1.00	Mr. and Mrs. Rimaine Sunders	1.25
A friend	1.00	Sarah Knott	1.00
H. C. Kirkwood	1.00	Mrs. O. A. Clyde	1.00
A. H. Deet and wife	10.00	Mary Teters	1.25
Abner Thompson and wife	75.00	Mrs. Olive Ganiard	1.00
Priscilla White	2.00	Mrs. Jennie Morton	10.00
Mrs. J. C.	25.00	Lourena Gotfredson	1.00
C. M. Christiansen	25.00	L. Booth, Scandinavian fund	2.50
A friend	15.00	L. Booth	2.50
A friend	5.00	Mrs. Phena Greenup	5.00
Mrs. J. D. Washburn	1.00	G. E. Davie	10.00
L. N. Wadsworth	1.00	H. Gibbons	5.00
Jennie C. Godfreyson, Scandinavian fund	10.00	A. A. Lauder	2.00
Jennie C. Godfreyson	10.00	Nimrod Johnson	1.00
A. M. Ridesel	3.34	James E. Green and wife	5.00
A friend	1.00	Mrs. S. C. Mansfield	.20
J. B. Gillis	1.00	Mrs. Margaret Cole	1.00
William Hurlock	700.00	J. Omwake	2.00
J. E. Wallace	1.00	Mrs. Martha A. Smith and sister	2.00
M. H. Dunnead	5.00	Anna Glen	1.00
Mrs. E. Allen	1.00	Mrs. M. A. Hall	1.00
Mary Whisler	1.00	S. B. Hensley	2.00
Mrs. Mary J. Maliermee	2.00	Nathan Osborn	2.00
Mr. and Mrs. H. Schabmoeber	5.00	John M. Mountain	1.00
Mrs. O. A. Bemis	3.00	Mary E. Middlekauff	1.00
Louise Stone	1.00	Mrs. A. L. Price	1.00
Mrs. H. N. Luce	8.00	Lillie H. Hurd	1.00
Mrs. Abby M. Lindsley	1.00	Albert M. Hurd	1.00
Mrs. Perry Robinson	5.00	Charles Heinze	1.00
W. C. Degrano	2.00	A friend	1.00
M. F. Cram and wife	8.00	Mrs. F. H. Wendell	1.00
F. P. Ide	5.00	W. E. Haskell	1.00
Geo. N. Lamb	1.00	S. J. Wiles	1.00
Jane Barrows	.50	Eber Weed	1.00
Mrs. E. C. Artz	1.00	Geo. A. Hill	1.00
Emma Artz	.75	Phebe Saywell	1.00
Mrs. Jos. Teal	.25	P. A. Reed	1.00
A. S. Morley	1.00	John Gee	10.00
Andrew Bloomquist	1.00	Mrs. Emma E. Musick	2.00
Mrs. E. W. Sterling	2.00	Wm. R. Taylor	1.00
Mrs. M. Buttz	2.00	Mrs. M. L. C. Davis	1.00
Mrs. F. C. Matthews	1.00	Mrs. Etta M. Stone	3.00
Mary Smith	1.00	Mrs. N. E. Kingsdorf	1.00
Mrs. L. L. Rhoads	5.00	James K. White	15.00
Mrs. Attila Leatherdale	1.00	Mrs. W. S. Norton	1.00
Mrs. Rosa Brown	5.00	Mary Kendell	2.00
W. E. Knowles	5.00	Fritz Guy	7.00
R. Fredrickson	3.00	Mrs. J. M. Wilkinson	5.00
Margaret Smith	5.00	Lydia R. Blinco	1.00
Mrs. Care Humboldt	1.00	Henry Stewart	5.00
Clara Desonge	.50	A friend	4.00
Mrs. H. S. Brown	1.00	A friend	1.00
Mrs. E. J. Eaton	1.00	Calvin Green	1.10
Mrs. R. E. Borlew	5.00	C. Hale	2.00
A. G. Nelson	5.00	Mrs. M. L. Taylor	.60
John Emery	5.00	Soren C. Christensen, Scandinavian fund	60.00
W. J. Hill	5.00	Mrs. J. F. Woods	2.00
J. H. Hill	5.00	Mrs. C. G. Cole	1.00
Mrs. T. A. Cooper	1.00	Mrs. Lucinda Arrowsmith	10.00
Mary A. Goodwin	10.00	Magg. E. McOmber	5.00
R. Holcomb and wife	2.00	L. Seward	1.00
Sheridan (Wy.) church	12.50	A. L. Clement	1.00
Mrs. Ira Hilliard	1.25	Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Connerly	2.00
Mrs. R. J. Wallace	5.00	Miss Tillie Houck	1.50
Silas Strite	5.00	George Houck	2.00
Helen W. George	2.00	Mrs. Johnston	1.50
M. O. Douglas and others	4.00	A. W. Bunnell	1.00
Mrs. Moses Wilson	5.00	Mrs. Kate Hood	1.00
Lizzie Rocke	1.00	Mrs. M. J. Hiatt	1.00
Mrs. Sarah Chenell	2.00	Mrs. Jacob Sommer	2.00
A. D. Ladeau	5.00	Mrs. Ida Hall	1.00
		Harry H. Gerhart	5.00
Sam Welch		W. H. Zeidler	1.00
Mrs. M. L. Stevens	1.00	Mrs. M. E. McDonald	10.00
Mrs. H. McChesney, Scandinavian fund	10.00	Alice Overton	1.00
Mrs. A. M. Barnes	5.00	H. A. St. John	10.00
Mrs. F. Krowpa	5.00	P. D. Potter	10.00
G. T. Bower	2.00	G. H. Faris	2.00
L. E. Lamont	5.00	Mrs. Susan A. Carter	1.00
Emil Anderson	1.00	Mrs. Susan A. Carter, Scandinavian fund	1.00
Henry Rorholm	1.00	H. C. Y.	2.00
Mrs. L. E. Payne	1.00	Mrs. F. Meserie	.50
Frank Bonus	.50	Jamima Lawton	1.00
A friend	.50	N. W. Kerns	1.00
C. Stoddard	1.00	Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Washington	10.00
Frank Bowman	1.50	Mrs. H. E. Francisco	3.00
O. M. Kelley	1.00	Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Morris	5.00
F. B. Reid	3.00	J. C. Rivers, Scandinavian fund	2.50
Mrs. M. D. Sperra	2.00	J. C. Rivers	2.50
Mrs. E. B. Ralston	5.00	Geo. Kegley	1.00
Mrs. Matilda F. Hurlock	2.00	Ellen Kegley	1.00
Mrs. Elma Dobb	.50
Mrs. Leola Austin	10.00
Mrs. M. S. McGuire	2.00

CHEERED BY THE CONFERENCE BULLETIN.

By A. P. Buss

My wife and I have just finished reading No. 20 of the General Conference Bulletin. It reminds us of the old-fashioned love-feast, such as we who were Methodists fifty years ago used to have. The account of your last night of the Conference made us feel, while reading it, just as we did in those days when the Methodists were humble. What great, good times those were!

Now we want to add our testimony to all the others: “It doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.” We shall be satisfied when we awake in His likeness.

A. P. Buss.

NEW YORK.

By N. Z. Town

SOUTH RUSSELL.—At the close of the General Conference, Elder F. M. Wilcox, Mrs. Town, and I came to this place to visit our parents and other relatives and friends. The next evening after we arrived, we began holding meetings in the Seventh-day Adventist church. These continued with good interest over Sabbath and Sunday, when Brother Wilcox returned to his post of duty in Colorado.

For several years my parents have been quite interested in the truth, and before leaving Argentina I felt impressed that if I could come home and spend a little time with them in studying the truth, I should have the joy of seeing them accept it fully. After Brother Wilcox left, we held public meetings only on Sabbaths and Sundays. During the week we had Bible studies at father's and at my brother's. The whole family took a deep interest in these studies, and last Sabbath, which was my last Sabbath here, we had the blessed privilege of receiving into the church father and mother, my brother's wife and her daughter, and a neighbor's daughter. The two latter were received by baptism. The others had already been baptized.

How I have longed and prayed to see this glad day! For nearly sixteen years I was the only one of a large family, who kept the Sabbath. Last year a sister began to keep the Sabbath, and now my parents and these others have started. “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.” This experience gives me new courage to return to the work in Argentina.

We have not forgotten the work in other lands while we have been here. The church here manifest a commendable interest in the work in the regions beyond. A relation of some of our experiences in Argentina by one who had grown up among them, seemed to bring the brethren and sisters into more direct touch with the work in that and other distant lands. They are fully determined to put into practice the ten-cents-a-week plan. May the Lord abundantly bless this church in its labors of love, and may He put it into the hearts of all the brethren and sisters in the Empire State and in every other State to adopt the plan that has been inaugurated to help carry on the work in the regions beyond.

May 21. N. Z. TOWN.

Fifty Thousand Dollars Needed for Christ's Object Lessons

By Editor

We earnestly request all our kind friends to remember that FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS is needed to pay for the material in “Christ’s Object Lessons.” We ask for large contributions from the rich and small gifts from the poor. Money for this purpose should be sent to the treasurer of the General Conference Association, care of Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.; and be sure to state that it is for THE RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS.

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