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.
Here is a big list of jubilee singers, people who have paid money to the big fund for the relief of the schools. It is printed with the prayer that those who read may be provoked to good works of the same kind:—
E. J. Read ............ $ 5 00
Howard Osborne ............ 10 00
C. F. Haffner ............ 5 00
S. W. Wilson ............ 5 00
F. Riffer ............ 2 00
Christian Ordner ............ 1 00
J. H. Buel ............ 1 00
J. J. Schiffner ............ 1 00
C. Myer ............ 1 00
C. B. Wilson ............ 1 00
C. W. Miller ............ 1 00
E. C. Graves ............ 1 00
James Butka ............ 1 00
F. C. McIlvain ............ 5 00
C. Uhrig ............ 2 00
T. R. Smith ............ 1 00
Peter Heinze ............ 1 00
Cash contributions ............ 13 00
Edd. Maxtedd ............ 5 00
S. A. Yates ............ 1 00
S. S. Jones ............ 50
Topeka (Kan.) Conference, contributions ............ 13 25
L. Winston ............ 5 00
Mrs. L. Winston ............ 1 00
Mrs. Benard ............ 1 00
Estella Secrest ............ 50
N. S. Kemper ............ 5 00
J. D. and R. M. Rockey ............ 35 00
Belle Emerson ............ 5 00
Tabitha Plant ............ 50
David J. Bidler ............ 5 00
Mrs. A. Buchert ............ 1 00
Elder J. W. Wilson ............ 5 00
P. A. Haskins ............ 5 00
P. S. Shufelt ............ 20 00
Boulder Conference, contributions ............ 9 50
Anna Jenkins ............ 5 00
Mrs. W. H. Proudfit ............ 25 00
Ellen M. Towne ............ 25 00
J. D. Matthews ............ 5 00
W. W. Bulla ............ 1 50
J. G. Williamson ............ 2 00
C. C. Feek ............ 1 00
R. E. Rollins ............ 25
R. J. Rollins ............ 1 00
G. W. Henderson ............ 10 00
J. A. Young ............ 50
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mosley ............ 5 00
M. M. Moore ............ 1 00
J. N. Seaman ............ 1 00
Mrs. E. J. Hale ............ 1 00
Mr. and Mrs. O. Glass ............ 5 00
J. Riffel ............ 5 00
E. S. Taylor ............ 50
Elisha Taylor ............ 1 00
A. S. McCully ............ 1 00
S. R. Wentworth ............ 1 00
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wesley ............ 2 50
C. C. Lewis ............ 1 00
Eugene Buck ............ 2 00
Jerry H. Guinn ............ 1 50
O. A. Wilbur ............ 5 00
L. H. Huguley ............ 2 50
Mrs. R. M. Huguley ............ 2 50
P. H. Routt ............ 1 00
J. B. Saylor ............ 1 00
L. E. Hancock ............ 2 00
Belle Young ............ 05
Keene (Tex.) Conference, contributions ............ 17 50
A. G. Bodwell ............ 5 00
Mrs. E. A. Culberhouse ............ 50
S. L. Culberhouse ............ 5 00
W. J. Culberhouse ............ 5 00
Elder and Mrs. J. F. Bähler ............ 75 00
Elder D. U. Hale ............ 25 00
Mrs. Mary King ............ 10 00
Charles Kunz ............ 10 00
Mrs. L. A. Greer ............ 1 00
Mrs. J. C. Seaman ............ 75
J. Willis ............ 10 00
Mrs. Sallie Green ............ 1 00
H. Woodruff ............ 5 00
Eliza Hestand ............ 50
C. L. Kilgore ............ 5 00
Mrs. C. L. Kilgore ............ 5 00
Mrs. Ella Taylor ............ 1 00
Mrs. Eva Henderson ............ 1 00
Elsie Smith ............ 1 00
J. W. Ransom ............ 5 00
G. A. Sutherland ............ 1 00
Mrs. Alma W. French ............ 5 00
A. L. Williamson ............ 2 50
Mrs. F. Collier ............ 5 00
Mrs. L. A. Humphries ............ 1 00
G. Mathieson ............ 250 00
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McCutcheon ............ 5 00
Mrs. Patterson ............ 1 00
Miss Altha Davis ............ 1 00
H. L. Stenberg ............ 1 00
N. L. McClintock ............ 5 00
J. C. Clemens ............ 3 00
N. C. Bergerson ............ 8 50
P. Park Adams ............ 6 00
C. F. Adams ............ 10 00
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gardner ............ 50 00
E. H. Adams ............ 8 00
Elder L. E. Johnson ............ 10 00
Elder O. S. Ferren ............ 25 00
Elder W. O. Johnson ............ 25 00
Elder G. A. Kirkle ............ 10 00
Elder C. S. Anderson ............ 25 00
Mrs. E. M. Peebles ............ 10 00
Elder J. M. Wheeler ............ 25 00
Elder J. W. Boynton ............ 10 00
Elder Fred Anderson ............ 25 00
Anna Mauk ............ 25 00
J. D. Andrews ............ 10 00
Sarah Swartz ............ 10 00
F. F. Hull ............ 10 00
Charles Rahn ............ 30 00
John Dunbar ............ 10 00
Mrs. Wm. Young ............ 10 00
W. F. Surber ............ 5 00
J. W. Norwood ............ 5 00
Laura Humphrey ............ 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Johnson ............ 35 00
B. W. Brown ............ 5 00
N. P. Dixon ............ 10 00
Mary L. Dean ............ 5 00
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Ogden ............ 10 00
H. L. Shafer ............ 5 00
T. Godfrey ............ 10 00
C. A. Beeson ............ 5 00
B. E. Huffman ............ 10 00
N. T. Sutton ............ 5 00
J. G. Hanhardt ............ 25 00
G. W. Berry ............ 10 00
H. F. Ketring ............ 5 00
A friend ............ 100 00
Mrs. J. M. Sampson ............ 5 00
Belle W. Orr ............ 4 00
David Carr ............ 32 50
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clark ............ 10 00
P. C. Sibley ............ 3 75
Delford Cole ............ 10 00
Ida Shephardson ............ 3 50
W. W. Locke ............ 2 00
Cordelia Woodruff ............ 15 00
Mrs. Frank Wolford ............ 10 00
Mrs. E. J. Miller ............ 5 00
Mrs. E. E. Remsberg ............ 10 00
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Bowen ............ 10 00
German brethren of Hutto, Tex. ............ 22 00
E. E. Brink ............ 25 00
Louis Rienhart ............ 2 00
W. C. White ............ 3 00
Elizabeth Fisk ............ 5 00156
Mrs. M. E. Anderson ............ 2 00
Nancy Short ............ 1 00
Mrs. Nellie H. James ............ 1 00
Mrs. Laura Bradley ............ 2 00
Victor Bradley ............ 25
Walter Bradley ............ 25
Cora Bradley ............ 1 00
Wallace Bradley ............ 50
Annie Bradley ............ 83
Ara Bradley ............ 1 00
J. G. Bradley ............ 1 00
Hulda Carbon ............ 10 00
W. M. Cubly ............ 5 00
D. C. Stone ............ 1 00
E. R. McCormick ............ 1 00
A reader of the REVIEW ............ 2 00
George Houck ............ 100 00
A. H. Snyder ............ 50 00
George M. Duncan ............ 25 00
L. E. Coulson ............ 200 00
Eva Rubin ............ 5 00
Anthony Beans ............ 15 00
Mrs. M. E. Crumb ............ 5 00
Mrs. E. D. Blackmer ............ 10 00
Mrs. C. L. Boardman ............ 5 00
Phebe and Clark Hamp ............ 5 00
Ida E. Rickard ............ 50 00
C. W. Clark ............ 10 00
John Bess ............ 2 00
Jas. R. Smith ............ 2 00
Miles Carter Nanston ............ 5 00
P. T. Magan, collections ............ 146 53
Jacob Ghering, the First ............ 2 00
Edson Dow ............ 10 00
C. Taylor ............ 5 00
A friend ............ 1 00
Eugene L. Chappell ............ 50
David Carr ............ 124 70
A friend ............ 2 00
L. T. Ayres ............ 5 00
Mrs. Geo. Bollen ............ 2 00
Mrs. Wealthy Greenleaf ............ 5 00
Eliz Garrison ............ 2 00
Mrs. E. M. Lawrence ............ 5 00
Mrs. Jane M. Hegg ............ 5 00
Mrs. Lettie Fisher ............ 5 00
L. B. and Pearl Hoyt ............ 1 50
G. H. Matthews ............ 10 00
A brother and his wife ............ 100 00
Adelbert C. Fry ............ 50 00
H. C. Moller ............ 5 44
Hannah H. Kuhly ............ 1 00
F. R. Richards ............ 1 50
W. B. Roberts ............ 5 00
Jessie O. Barber ............ 10 00
Mrs. Dr. Mc Khaun ............ 1 50
Leon O. Jenkins ............ 1 00
Mrs. E. May ............ 20 00
Fritz Guy ............ 10 00
G. W. Washburn ............ 25
Mrs. Dr. Tate ............ 1 00
Electa Moore ............ 75
Mrs. C. Simmons ............ 2 00
Rosa Lietzman ............ 500 00
Milo D. Wardle ............ 25 00
C. H. Hinchey ............ 10 00
Mrs. Fannie Wolf ............ 5 00
Brother Mc Brown ............ 2 00
Mrs. C. L. Haskins ............ 10 00
Mrs. E. M. Jackson ............ 1 50
News and Notes
— Wilhelmina, queen of Holland, will receive a $100,000 crown from her subjects.
— The Baldwin-Zeigler polar expedition will probably leave New York about the middle of June.
— The Filipinos bought $25,000 worth of American flags for the celebration of Washington’s birthday.
— The Methodist church at Manila, Philippine Islands, reports the baptism of 258 converts in one week.
— Governor Stanley, of Kansas, has signed a bill “making saloons a common nuisance, and allowing county officers to confiscate the illegal stock.”
— John Knox, white, of Scranton, Miss., was lynched the 26th ult., for having shot his ten-year-old stepson. The sheriff was overpowered by a crowd of 100 men who did the lynching.
— Jules Verne has again declined an appointment to the French Academy of “immortals.”
— The “joint smashing” crusades of Kansas are fast disappearing. Mrs. Nation is still in jail.
— Manitoba has killed her prohibition law, finding it “unconstitutional in almost every point.”
— The earnings of the American Steel and Wire Company are said to be $1,000,000 net per month.
— United States Minister Conger will leave Peking, China, soon, for a six-months’ vacation in this country.
— The British are gradually wearing out the Boers in South Africa. Dispatches state that General Botha has been captured.
— It is now a settled fact that the United States will “retain its grip on Cuba,” notwithstanding her fair promises to allow that island complete freedom.
— Reports indicate that “charges have been brought against the Italian and Uruguayan consuls at Manila, accusing them of aiding the insurgents.”
— The crusade now being made by the police of Boston against Sunday labor, is causing “much hardship to the orthodox Jews and other seventh-day Sabbatarians of that city.”
— Owing to the fact that Germany has to import $32,000,000 worth of corn each year, mostly from this country, an effort is to be made by her to raise corn in the German colonies of South Africa.
— The subject of government ownership of railroads is being agitated in Canada just at present. Some Canadians fear that Canada’s railroads may be absorbed by the United States railroad combinations.
— Dispatches state that “to protect himself from aspirants to army chaplaincies, at $1,800 a year, President McKinley states he has a list of eligibles, prepared by dignitaries of the prominent denominations” of the country.
— The gigantic steel trust in this country, of which J. Pierpont Morgan is the head, will have a total capital stock of “over a thousand million dollars—some say double that sum.” It is composed of several large companies.
— Another offshoot from the Salvation Army is seeking recognition, under the name of “Christian Comrades.” The headquarters of the new society are in New York City. Its members desire to be in closer touch with the Churches.
— It is announced that “in one province of the Philippines, 5,000 Romanists have come, in a body, into the Methodist Church. They bring their meeting-house with them, and claim a right to do so on the ground that it was built from their offerings.”
— A Terre Haute (Ind.) mob of 2,000 persons lynched George Ward, a negro, the 26th ult., for his outraging and murdering Ida Finkelstein, a schoolteacher, the day before. After hanging him the crowd burned his body. He had cut the schoolteacher’s throat.
— The Charleston (S. C.) Exposition will open December, 1901, and will close June, 1902. Its object is “to advertise to the world the progress of South Carolina and the neighboring Southern cities, and the advantage Charleston enjoys as a natural seaport for the trade between the West Indies and the United States.”
— Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., though a $15,000,000 institution, is spending more than its income, the deficit thus far this year amounting to $40,000. The veterinary and Slavonic departments have both been dropped. The 23d ult. the university received, at the Harvard Club dinner in New York, $1,000,000 in gifts.
— Mr. Jordan, pilot of the “Rio de Janeiro,” the vessel that foundered near San Francisco, the 22d ult., states that Captain Ward was wholly to blame, as it is a rule of the port of San Francisco that “all captains have power supreme to that of the pilot, and that Captain Ward had ordered him to proceed,” in spite of the fog.
— President McKinley has recommended to the Senate that Rear-Admiral Sampson be advanced five numbers, and that Rear-Admiral Schley be advanced three numbers, the latter to take rank next after Rear-Admiral Sampson. Both advancements are “in reward for services in the Santiago fight and other engagements in the Cuban blockade.”
— The Pension Bureau in Washington is to be used for the inaugural ball. To clear the building for this purpose, and to give the employees a vacation, with pay, during the eight or more days of suspension of the pension business, will cost the government fully $35,000. Besides this, the use of the building will delay 1,800 pensions for twelve days.
— As stated in the 1901 Catholic directory, the number of Catholics in the United States is 10,774,980.
— In Paris, France, 4,000 tailors have stopped work, in sympathy with the strike of the Paris dress-makers.
— In the presidential election of 1900, there were 277,000 less votes cast than there were in the election of 1896.
— President McKinley has ordered a reduction of the export duties on Cuban tobacco, of 50 per cent after April 1.
— By order of Russia the Finnish reserve troops have been disarmed. Step by step, Russia is absorbing that little country.
— A bill has been introduced into the Illinois Legislature “to establish the whipping post for men who beat their wives or desert their families.” The bill is meeting with favor.
— As a result of General Waldersee’s threatened expedition, the Chinese officials have yielded somewhat to the ministers of the Powers, decapitating and degrading some high Chinese officials.
— It seems that the permanent Court of Arbitration provided for by the convention signed at The Hague, July 29, 1899, “is now ready to consider any international dispute that may be presented. Fifteen nations, including all the maritime Powers, have appointed their members, and only a few countries, comparatively insignificant as international factors, are unrepresented. These are Bulgaria, Montenegro, Persia, Siam, and Switzerland.”
— Strenuous efforts are being made to secure the closing of the gates of the Buffalo Exposition on Sunday, and also to secure the Sunday-closing of the gates of the Charleston (S. C.) Exposition; and of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to be held at St. Louis, Mo., in 1903. Some of the large metropolitan dailies are encouraging the Sunday-closing of these fairs, on the ground that the opening of the gates of the World’s Fair in Chicago, in 1893, “resulted in financial loss.” A clever way, indeed, to excuse poor management!
— Walter Wellman, the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times-Herald, is authority for the statement that “an ugly scandal lies half concealed in the war tax reduction bill” now before Congress, and that “the great tobacco trust has been made a present of about $9,000,000 through the favoritism of its friends in the Senate Committee on Finance.” It is discovered that “the Senate bill makes a total reduction of about $18,000,000 on cigars and tobacco of all sorts. Where the House bill reduced these taxes $3,000,000, all on cigars, the Senate goes them $15,000,000 better. The power of the tobacco trust in the Senate Committee, is shown in the fact that of the $15,000,000 of taxes taken off by the Senate, $11,000,000 is on goods in which the two tobacco companies, the American and the Continental (which are really the same concern, and virtually under the same management) have almost a monopoly. The Senate gives the tobacco and cigar people $18,000,000, and it gives the brewers $14,000,000. Here is a total of $32,000,000 to two industries. The other reductions carried by the Senate bill are estimated at $18,000,000.”
— The new Cuban Constitution was signed, in Havana, the 21st ult. There were two copies, one being handed to General Wood, the other being deposited in the archives. It seems that “Senor Cisneros (formerly president of the revolutionary government) refused to affix his signature, saying that the United States had no right to pass upon the constitution, and should receive no copy of it. When Senor Tamayo remarked: ‘We are all Cubans and friends,’ he replied: ‘Yes; and when the time comes to fight the Americans, we will fight them together. The Americans [shaking his fist at the American correspondents] are like the monkey. When he closes his paw on a thing, he never wants to let go.’ Cisneros afterward consented to sign the copy that is to remain in the archives.” The Cuban Constitutional Convention failed to “provide for relations with the United States in accordance with the suggestions of the President.” Upon receiving one of the copies of the Cuban Constitution, General Wood asked the “Committee of Five” from the Cuban Constitutional Convention to “accompany his messenger bearing the copy of the constitution to Washington.” However, “there is a difference of opinion in the convention as to the propriety of such action,” and “it is reported that the invitation will be declined.” As it now stands, “a majority of the delegates believe that steadfast opposition to all the President’s [McKinley’s] suggestions will cause them ultimately to be withdrawn;” and “it is reported in Washington that they have been encouraged in this attitude by the agents of European Powers.”
RHODESIA, SOUTH AFRICA
By F. L. Mead
Our first baptism in Matabeleland occurred Dec. 1, 1900. “Our Jim” had asked to be baptized, but not wishing to be hasty in the matter, it was delayed until December 1. When asked his reasons for desiring to take such a step, his answer was that he had learned from reading his Bible, in Acts, Romans, and Corinthians, that such a step is right and proper for all who wish to follow the Lord, and as he wanted to obey God in all things, he wished to be baptized.
Our school work is progressing well, and we see brighter prospects ahead. For some time we were perplexed, not knowing where to get books for our students who had learned to read the small primer. We were finally compelled to make the Zulu Bible our text-book. We are now glad for this experience; for we have learned that the Bible alone meets our needs, as no other book, or number of books, can.
We have had to order Zulu Bibles from Cape Town at three different times, and shall have to order again soon. In April, 1900, when the Rhodesian mails were coming via Beira and Salisbury, we ordered a small lot of Bibles from the Cape. We received them in Bulawayo, Jan. 1, 1901.
An exploring party recently spent five weeks looking for desirable openings for out-stations, east and northeast of Bulawayo. Several openings were found, but the most desirable have been secured by other societies.
Two points in the parties’ report are of interest to us. One is that, for healthfulness of location, the mission station here compares favorably with any location now available to us in South Rhodesia. The second item is concerning the situation of the natives in Matabeleland. In one section there may be quite a considerable settlement of natives, but one may have to go a long distance before reaching another settlement. In several instances the settlements are fifty, one hundred, and sometimes more than one hundred, miles apart.
A work recently published in Bulawayo is authority for the following: The territory of Rhodesia is seven hundred and fifty thousand square miles, or more than France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, combined; and it has a native population of three hundred and fifty thousand. It can readily be seen that the country is not very thickly settled.
One item of interest to us in our work is the fact that our hymns are being sung much by the natives. Passing through the veldt (prairie), one often hears one or more natives singing a tune learned, or partly learned, at our meetings. We sing mostly Tebele hymns, so the people can learn them in their own language. We give below one stanza of “The Great Physician:” —
“I kon’ inyaña eñkulu,
Li yazi i ñu Yesu;
U buñazela umuntu,
U lomusa, uYesu.”
CHORUS:
“Nant’ ibizo elihle,
Ibizo elimnandi.
Eli dlula lenyosi,
Yesu, Yesu Wami!”
Here is also the first stanza of “The Sweet By and By:” —
“Li kon’ izwe elihle mpela,
Se si bona ’gukanya gwalo,
Lay’ uYesu u kona belo,
U si lunis’el’ indawo gulo.”
CHORUS:
“Guhlele kona le,
Guhlele kona le,
Guhlele kona le,
So butan’ ezweni elihle.”
Brother and Sister Anderson will go down country in January for a much-needed vacation. Sister Anderson has been out of the country once since the opening of the mission, five and one-half years ago. Brother Anderson has been here through the various experiences which the mission has had, up to the present time. Brother and Sister Anderson have proved themselves loyal to the work here, and a hearty welcome awaits them on their return.
Personally, I find it difficult to learn the Tebele language. From observation and experience, I am persuaded that not one in fifty past the age of thirty-five, will be successful in learning this language. As I become acquainted with missionaries of other denominations who have spent many years in this country, endured many privations, passed through many trying experiences, I find it difficult to express on paper my feelings of respect, and almost reverence, for their devotion and consecration to the cause of the Master. F. L. MEAD.
ANNIVERSARY MEETING AT THE CHICAGO MEDICAL MISSION
(Concluded)
Ernestine Hoagland: “I never before saw such marked instances of the Lord’s working as in Joliet. A few weeks ago Brother Sadler spoke in a number of the churches there, and of course that did a great deal toward getting our work started. People began to know about us. Then Sister Sadler spoke in the prison, and became acquainted with some of the W. C. T. U. workers and other prominent ladies. Brother and Sister Sadler were with us two weeks, and since then four of us have been working in Joliet. Three of us have been continually engaged in the work, and the Lord has wonderfully blessed. One nurse has been giving health and gospel talks to the neighbors of her patient, and they frequently go in to ask her questions. The doctor is very much pleased with her work. He told a man a few days ago that he wanted him to get one of our nurses for his sick boy, because our treatments had saved his patient’s life. One of the leading physicians under whom one of our nurses is working told the patient’s relatives that he would rather have the good care of the nurse than all the medicines he could give. And there are numerous instances in which the use of tea and coffee and other unwholesome foods has been given up.”
“When we first went to Joliet, we did considerable work with the Life Boat, Good Health, and Signs of the Times. I have been visiting these families, and I find many who are interested. Last Sunday I spoke in one of the churches, and told about the work of the mission here. The minister afterward came to me and said, ‘We are glad you have come to speak to us. We want you to help us more, and we are going to have revival meetings next week. We want you to tell the people more about your work. We ministers are all the time telling the people what the love of God can do, but you have told us to-day what the love of God has done.’”
“Yesterday I had a telephone message from the superintendent of prison work for the W. C. T. U. of this State. She asked me to go to the prison to-morrow to speak. I have had opportunity to lead several young people’s meetings, and have talked at a number of prayer-meetings, besides numerous cottage meetings. Ministers seem glad to have us tell their people about our work in Chicago. We have been able to introduce our health foods into many families. There are so many experiences that it would take a long time to tell them. I thank God for the wonderful way in which He has blessed us.”
Jessie Counselman: “I have just returned from answering a call for a nurse which came from a suburban town. It was a case of typhoid fever, and I found the doctor somewhat skeptical about our treatments. But the patient began to improve, and the doctor’s confidence in hydrotherapy began to grow. Soon the patient became so much better that it was not necessary for me to stay longer, and I planned to return to Chicago. The doctor insisted upon my taking care of another patient, suffering with typhoid pneumonia. He wanted me to go and give him some treatments, and said he would pay the fees himself if I would go. The boy began to improve immediately, and in less than two days the doctor had hopes of his recovery, which he had not had before. He seemed very appreciative of our treatments. He insisted upon my going home with him to rest a day before returning. Here I had an opportunity to give our principles to the family, and to talk with his wife upon the subject of hygienic dress, etc. I feel very grateful for the Lord’s blessing that rested upon this work.”
Fannie Emmel, matron of the Life Boat Rest: “I am very grateful this morning for the privilege of having a share in this work. They tell me that my work is in one of the hardest fields, but I do not seem to appreciate that, only as people call my attention to it, because, in the first place, when the Lord called me to the rescue work, I made up my mind that He knew what He was about, and I accepted the privilege of working for Him in this capacity. I was neither looking for hardships nor for an easy place, but simply to know what He wanted me to do.”
“I came to Chicago with the intention of selling the Life Boat among the business men. I was engaged in this work for some time before duty called me to the Life Boat Rest, at the time of its establishment on South Clark Street. I had always been a coward, but the Lord gave me assurance, clear and plain, that He would take care of me. The Lord gave me that precious promise in Ps. 121:8: ‘The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.’ And I said, ‘Amen, Lord.’ Very often some one in this section of the city asks us if we are not afraid as we go about our work. The pockets of those by my side have been picked, and I have passed along the street by those lying senseless, having been knocked down. And it is a great wonder to some why our workers are never molested. The other day a druggist near by, who has been very kind to us, said, ‘Why, Miss Emmel, aren’t you afraid to go along these streets as you do?’ Then I had the privilege of reciting to him the precious gospel story, and telling him how the Lord had taken away fear from my heart and given me courage. He said, ‘You could not hire me to go along South Clark Street without my gun in my pocket, and my hand on it.’”
“Our work is supported by the gifts of the people, and the Life Boats, which are sold in the saloons and brothels along the line of our work. We go from door to door, not intending to miss a single one. As far as I know, the last year the gospel message in the printed page has been carried into every saloon and brothel in the slums on the south side of this wicked city. We also go into the business houses. It does us good to see the business men, and have an opportunity to bring our work before them. For the last six months the commission merchants on South Water Street have supplied us with fruit, vegetables, etc. The Life Boat gives us an opportunity of meeting the unfortunate girls in a way that we should never be able to without it. We tell them how we have helped some other girl, how the Lord has blessed her, how we have secured work for some, and how they have been placed in a home, with good, kind friends. Thus we fasten a chain of influences about these poor souls which often proves the means of helping them. When we speak to these girls, and tell them of our interest in them, they often answer, ‘Yes, but you are the only ones who will help us.’ Then we invite them to the Life Boat Rest, and there we take them around, and show them how every article and piece of furniture has been supplied in answer to prayer. And they have to acknowledge, whether they wish to or not, that the Lord does bless us. I have learned that we are in our work for two purposes—to save those who want to be saved, and to faithfully witness for God.”
“I am thinking just now of a cozy home on Thirty-first Street, with a good husband, where there is a precious girl who has been helped by the Life Boat Rest. She gave her heart to Jesus. Now she is happy. And she is not the only one.”
Dr. Francis Wessels: “I am indeed thankful for the privilege of being here this morning and of seeing the practical results of self-sacrifice. As one looks at the bright faces here, and sees the love of God shining forth, he can not help thanking God that this work was ever started. And we know that the influence of the few disciples who followed Christ resulted in the carrying of the gospel to us who were once heathen. What a privilege to engage in such a work, and by our efforts to stimulate others to work! I am sure that many who do not belong to this denomination have been stimulated to engage in similar work through the example that has been given in Chicago. I have been living in London for some time, and, as you all know, it is a very wicked city. There is great need for just this kind of work; and I hope God will raise up some of you to go there and begin the work. I hope it will be my privilege to be here more than once. I hope to be able to see just how this work is done, and how each of you is getting along in it. Let me say, in closing, that God never neglects to answer one prayer, and never fails to give fruit to every effort that is put forth in His name.”
Louise Paulson: “I am sorry that the matron of the Children’s Christian Home is out of the city. But I can say that the Lord is working on the hearts158of the children. He is blessing the work. We can see the influence of our work on the children’s mothers, who come to visit their children from time to time. Several of them have learned the love of God through the work of the Children’s Home.”
Mrs. Garthofner, matron of the training school: “I thank the Lord every day of my life that He has placed me here. I thank Him for the part He has given me in this great work. I enjoy it thoroughly, every bit of it. I do praise Him for the remarkable way in which He helps us, and I thank Him for intrusting me with a place in His work.”
Mrs. Moorman: “I have a letter here from an inmate of Joliet prison. He is what is called a ‘lifer’; that is, one who is in prison for life. This letter was written to Mrs. Sadler. Since going to prison, he has given his heart to God. He thinks a great deal of the Life Boat, and each month circulates his copy among twenty of his fellow prisoners. He writes as follows:—”
“STATE PENITENTIARY, JOLIET,
“Dec. 25, 1900.
“Dear Mrs. Sadler: Yours of the 17th is before me, and you do not know how sorry I am to learn of the misfortune that befell you while on your mission of mercy to us unfortunate men. But I do hope that the fracture is mending; for this I have prayed regularly ever since I learned of the accident. I spoke to several of the boys this morning in the prison chapel, informing them of the sad misfortune; and if you could have heard some of the expressions, I am sure you would have been pleased, and I can assure you that there are many boys behind prison bars praying for your speedy recovery. But I believe, dear sister, it was as great a disappointment to you as it has been to us; and the boys, while somewhat disappointed, appreciate the motive that prompted you and Brother Sadler to make the journey.”
“Just say to Brother Sadler that our hearts are ever true, our feet are planted in the narrow way; and do not forget to tell him,—it will please him to know,—we are going home to meet him on the other side. You say you trust the Lord will keep me to the end. You may rest assured that I will never let go my hold on the Man who died on Calvary to ransom me from sin and death. And as I often say to the boys, if the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ is worth anything, it is worth striving for right here, right now, in this very prison. As I sit here and think of you and of my surroundings, it seems as if my very heart would burst with emotion, as I think of days gone by. Mine has been a misspent and wasted life. God forgive me for it; for the lessons I have learned have cost me dear. Good-by. God bless you and Brother Sadler.”
“Your brother in Christ,
“I. Kelly.”
DISTRICT 5
By R. M. Kilgore
PHOENIX AND FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ.—Our labors at Phoenix were wholly in the interests of the church, and we were glad to join Elder Webster in lifting the burden, which necessarily weighed heavily upon him. A misconception of gospel order and Bible principles caused the enemy to enter the hearts of some, and separation of heart and soul had been the result. But sins were confessed, tears flowed freely, and love came in. Praise rose from many hearts. How important that immediate efforts be made to correct every evil before the enemy steals a march on the unwary! We must bring back the straying ones. Let those who are spiritual restore such before the wicked one can accomplish their destruction. Our object must be to save, and not to destroy those within the fold. The steps to be followed are clearly marked in Matthew 18.
I was pleased to see that their church building is practically finished, and in addition a room for the church school, with but a small debt incurred. If united they stand, better days are before the Phoenix church.
I labored at Flagstaff nearly a week, while a snowstorm swept over us, which, with the deep snow, greatly interrupted our work. All the members could not attend the meetings, which were held from house to house a portion of the time. Those who could attend were hungry, and I enjoyed feeding the flock with the bread of life. Sister W. L. Iles is working here alone. The Lord is blessing her efforts. She has in hand some interesting cases, and is leading in the church and Sabbath-school. I found here an excellent spirit, and the harmony and love which exist cheered and encouraged me much.
On my way East I stopped over, one train, at Winslow, to visit Conductor Heady and his wife. She called in some of her neighbors, with whom a good Bible reading was enjoyed.
R. M. KILGORE.
ARIZONA
By C. D. M. Williams
Tucson.—The Lord is still working with us, and we praise His holy name day by day. Yesterday I had the pleasure of burying in baptism five more of our Bible readers, which makes ten of our readers who have been added to the church here during the last six months. Several others are deeply interested. I am trying to close up my work here in order to go to some place which has not heard the good news of the Lord's soon coming; but day by day I meet those who are anxious to hear the message, and it is indeed hard to say to them, No; I must not stay to tell you, but hasten on to others who, like you, may be longing for the sweet message of salvation. We have a church of thirty-three members, whom we hope the Lord has won to himself, and sanctified by His blood and His precious words of truth. If each one will become a worker, surely Tucson may be lighted by the Third Angel's Message. C. D. M. WILLIAMS.
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