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Current Mention

— The Allegheny (Pa.) National Bank has suffered a loss of $594,000 through the defalcation of its cashier, who is now in jail awaiting trial.

— General Septimus Marius, formerly Haiti’s minister of war and general of police, has issued a manifesto denouncing the present president of Haiti, and calling on all Haitians to rebel.

— The British steamship “Lusitania” had eclipsed all records for crossing the Atlantic when she was reported by the marine observer at Fire Island on May 22. Her record for this trip from Liverpool and Queenstown is four days, nineteen hours, and forty-eight minutes.

— The Wright brothers, who have been conducting experiments with their aeroplane at Manteo, N. C., claim to have solved at last the problem of aerial flight. On three different days they have navigated the air a distance of eighteen, twenty-four, and thirty-two miles. They will construct another aeroplane without delay to replace the one damaged last week at the close of a successful flight.

— American Minister to Venezuela, W. W. Russell, who has recently returned to the United States on a vacation, reports that the bubonic plague has assumed an alarming aspect at La Guaira, where from fifty to seventy-five deaths a day are reported. Vigorous measures are being used in the effort to stamp out the disease, even to burning buildings in the infected districts. The plague has spread to other Venezuelan ports.

— One of the worst spring storms that have visited the Middle West and Northwest in twenty-five years occurred on May 21. In Wyoming and parts of Montana there was a heavy fall of snow; in Texas a severe hailstorm occurred, the hailstones being of sufficient size to kill calves, colts, and sheep, and crops were destroyed in its track. In Iowa and Kansas the storm assumed the nature of a cyclone, destroying many homes and killing seven persons.

— There were two serious airship accidents on May 23, one at Toledo, Ohio, and another at Berkeley (near Oakland), Cal. In the first, the aeronaut, A. Roy Knabenshue and two assistants fell with their disabled airship a distance of about one thousand feet. None of the voyagers were seriously injured. The mammoth balloon of the California airship exploded when about three hundred feet from the ground, and all of the sixteen passengers were injured more or less seriously.

— During a strike of street-car employees in Cleveland, Ohio, last week more than the usual amount of damage was done. For several days in succession explosives were placed on the tracks in different sections of the city. By this means many cars were damaged, and twenty or thirty people were sent to the hospitals because of injuries received. The cars have also been fired upon, and while no one has been killed outright, some deaths, indirectly due to the strike, have been reported.

— Announcement was made at the White House on May 20 that President Roosevelt had signed the bill ordering the restoration of the motto, “In God We Trust” to those coins from which it was omitted some time ago at his direction. This affects only the eagle and double eagle, as these were the only coins from which the motto had been omitted. The law will become effective June 18; but the dies with which to stamp the new coinage have been prepared for some time to be in readiness for the expected legislation.

— The National Association of Manufacturers, which held its annual convention in New York last week, adopted resolutions protesting against political agitation calculated to set capital and labor at odds, and took a decided stand against the raising of class issues by the great political parties of the nation, authorizing a committee to represent this association before the national executive committees of the two political parties, to the end that class declaration planks may be omitted from the platforms of both parties.

— One of the most disastrous railroad wrecks that has ever occurred in Europe took place at Contich, near Antwerp, Belgium, on May 21, in which sixty persons were killed and about one hundred injured. Through the failure of a switch to operate properly, the Antwerp-Brussels express dashed at a speed of fifty miles an hour into a local train standing on the track, completely demolishing the local, only a very few of its occupants escaping alive.

— In spite of the earnest endeavors of the temperance forces of the nation, and especially of the District of Columbia, the House Committee on the District of Columbia will recommend no legislation for prohibition or to change the existing liquor laws of the District at this session of Congress. At the final hearing before the District Committee on the liquor question, the attitude of the representatives of the union labor organizations was given careful attention, and seems to have been an influential factor in determining the final decision of the committee.

— The great new warship “North Dakota,” which is now under construction, before being ready to go into commission will require an outlay of $10,000,000; to fire one broadside from the main battery will cost $17,000; one shot from each twelve-inch gun will cost $1,600; and the cost of keeping the “North Dakota” in commission and in first-class fighting trim will be $1,000,000 per annum (this including the feeding and paying of her crew of 900 officers and men, ordinary repairs, coaling, etc.). Such is the cost of peace maintained by providing a great navy.

— According to the summary of the expenses of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the past quadrennium, submitted to their general conference now in session, there was spent during the last four years in salaries for the bishops $477,169.72. The bishops had to travel a great deal, some of them making two trips around the world in that time, and the expenses incurred in this traveling amounted to $61,572.58. Thus the total expense of the board of bishops for the past four years was $538,742.30. The subcommittee on bishops of common episcopacy decided to recommend to the committee that the number of bishops be decreased, but advised that no change be made in the number of foreign bishops.

— The conferees of the House and Senate on the currency bills now before Congress have found it impossible to agree, and report that there will be no emergency currency legislation at this session of Congress, in spite of the specter of another financial panic. It is reported that the only measure that will be passed at this session will be a bill appointing a currency commission of eighteen members of Congress. The blame for this failure on the part of Congress to provide a preventive against such experiences as that of last autumn is being laid by some upon the speaker of the House; by others upon the author of the bill. The senators are unwilling to accept anything authorizing asset currency, and the representatives are unwilling to accept anything authorizing a currency secured by bonds.

Civil Government and Religion

THE Chattanooga Times of March 8, 1908, contains the following sensible editorial:—

“It seems to have been the purpose of the founders of the Republic that the end and aim of religion was to make godly men and good citizens, which being duly and truly exercised, the control of government affairs could safely and satisfactorily be preserved as a purely civil function; and their wisdom has been more than once proved by the fact that where religion has failed of its influence with the individual, it has not been any more potential when it invaded politics. But wherever and whenever it has busied itself in making the right sort of men, there and then was civil liberty the greatest and government the best. It is better to keep religion away from politics, otherwise the first becomes contaminated, and the latter more or less tainted with hypocrisy and sham.”

No Good Thing Lost

By Alfred H. Welsh

No good thing is lost. Forty-four years after Wycliffe's death, the Council of Constance ordered his bones to be dug up and burned. The vultures of the law took what little they could find, ‘burned it, and cast the ashes into the Swift, a little brook running hard by, and thought they had made away with both his bones and his doctrines. How does it turn out? The historian says: “The brook took them into the Avon, the Avon into the Severn, the Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wycliffe are the emblems of his doctrine, which is now dispersed all the world over.”—Alfred H. Welsh, A. M.

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WANTED.—An experienced hygienic cook. State salary wanted, and give references. Address Nebraska Sanitarium, College View, Neb.

FOR SALE.—Peanut Butter, 10 cents a pound; Olive-oil, $2.50 a gallon; 50 pounds Cocoanut Oil, $7; Vegetable Cooking Oil, 10 pounds, $1.00; 60 pounds, $6. Cash with order. All absolutely pure. Address Vegetarian Meat Company, Washington, D. C.

WANTED.—First-class cook and assistant. Good place and good pay. Write for particulars to Dr. Maxson, 470 Twenty-eighth Street, Oakland, Cal.

FOR SALE.—Beautiful Imported Bible Cardboard Mottoes; all have flowers with silver letters. Cord furnished to hang mottoes with. Special for 60 days: 5 for 50 cents; 12, $1; 25, $1.75; 50, $3; 100, $5. More you buy, the cheaper they are. All sent by mail. Address Hampton Art Company, Hampton, Iowa.

WANTED.—A thoroughly competent graduate lady nurse, one who has had a good surgical experience, and is capable of taking complete charge of the operating room. Preference will be given to one of good education and mature experience. Give references. State age and qualifications. Forty dollars a month, board, and room. Address Dr. F. M. Rossiter, care North Yakima Sanitarium, North Yakima, Wash.

LOOK! READ! INVESTIGATE! — 18-room Seventh-day Adventist sanitarium and city hospital. Only place in a growing Indiana town of 10,000 population. Good business, free rent, free water, $700 a year bonus; legitimate reasons for selling; chance of a lifetime for a physician and surgeon or a man and wife, graduate doctor. Part time if desired. Address, Sanitarium, 3252 Bersford Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio.

FOR SALE.—Until July 15 we will prepay freight on $5 orders for Battle Creek health foods to any railroad point east of the Mississippi River; west of that point will allow one dollar in foods on freight. Complete fresh stock; quick shipments. Catalogues free. Granoil, odorless, tasteless, colorless, very rich, purely vegetable, best for cooking, five one-gallon buckets, $3.65; ten, $7. Bottle powdered Sweetina, equal to eight pounds of sugar, 25 cents, post-paid. Purest sweet known; used wherever sugar is used. Address Sanitarium Supply Co., Nashville, Tenn.

FOR SALE.—A customer of several years, reordering 12 gallons Kornoil, referring to our last notice in the Review, says: “I do not see why you do not extol it more highly. ‘The next thing to good dairy butter,’ indeed! I consider it as good in every respect as good creamery butter, and in several respects far better.” Another customer, reordering, says: “I like Kornoil for cooking better than olive-oil.” In one-gallon buckets, five gallons, $4; ten gallons, a hundred-pound shipment, $7.50. Phenoline, our perfect disinfectant for all uses, $1.50 gallon; half-gallon, 80 cents. Dilute one part Phenoline to 100 parts water. Enough by mail to make two gallons, 25 cents. Address Sanitarium Supply Co., Nashville, Tenn.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

Camp-Meetings for 1908

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Greater New York, White Plains, June 4-14

CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE

Missouri, Sedalia, ...............Aug. 6-16 Kansas, Ottawa .................Aug. 13-23

COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE

East Pennsylvania, Scranton ....June 11-21 West Pennsylvania, Oil City .....June 18-28 Chesapeake, Wilmington, Del., June 25 .................................to July 5

LAKE UNION CONFERENCE

Southern Illinois ........July 30 to Aug. 9 West Michigan ............Aug. 13-23

NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

Western Washington, Seattle .....May 21-30 Upper Columbia, Spokane ..........June 4-14 Montana, Great Falls .............June 18-28

NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Minnesota, Minneapolis ..........June 4-14 South Dakota, Woonsocket .... ....June 11-21 North Dakota, Velva ..............June 22-29 Iowa .............................Aug. 27 to Sept. 6

PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE

California, Oakland (Melrose) ....June 4-14 Southern California, Los Angeles, Aug. 6-16

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Louisiana, Lake Charles ..........Aug. 6-16 Tennessee River .................Sept. 23 to Oct. 4

SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE

North Carolina, Lexington .......Aug. 13-23 Cumberland, Cleveland, Tenn .....Aug. 26-

The presidents of the various conferences are requested to forward any information which will enable us to publish a complete and correct list of the camp-meetings appointed for the present season. If any changes are made in either time or place of meetings already appointed, notice should be forwarded at once.

Year-Book Revisions

SINCE the publication of the “Year-Book for 1908,” the following changes have been made, and are given here for the benefit of those who desire to revise their directories so they will be up to date:—

Address of the Southern New England Conference, and workers connected therewith, 51 Whitmore St., Hartford, Conn.

P. M. Howe, 668 Euclid Ave., Toronto, Ontario.

J. G. Hanna, 930 Esplanade Ave., Annex, Montreal, Quebec.

Changes in Nebraska Conference: Missionary and Young People’s Society Secretary, M. E. Ellis; Assistant, Winnie P. Hunt; Educational and Sabbath-school Departments Secretary, Miss Alma J. Graf.

President of the Columbia Union Conference, E. E. Andross, with headquarters at 63 Goethe St., Cumberland, Md.

J. F. Piper and A. V. Cotton, 28 Wesley St., Baltimore, Md.

W. H. Smith, 192 Myrtle Ave., Irvington, N. J.

D. E. Lindsey, Meherrin, Va.

Secretary and Treasurer of West Virginia Conference, Miss Pearl Rees; Field Secretary, C. J. Foote.

Address of Lake Union Conference changed to Suite 215, Dean Building, South Bend, Ind.

Field Missionary Agent of East Michigan Conference, J. H. McEachern.

Secretary and Treasurer of Wisconsin Conference, W. J. Pflugardt, 273 East Water St., Milwaukee, Wis.; Field Missionary Agent, F. B. Numbers; Missionary Secretary, A. J. Olsen; Secretary Sabbath-school and Church-school Departments, Mrs. Mary C. McReynolds, Box 57, Grand Rapids, Wis. President of Conference, C. McReynolds, removed to Grand Rapids, Wis.

W. D. Parkhurst, 603 East Twelfth St., Des Moines, Iowa.

Changes in Montana Conference: Secretary, Mrs. R. D. Quinn; Field Missionary Agent, A. V. Oliver; Educational Secretary, K. R. Haughey; Religious Liberty Secretary, J. C. Foster.

W. F. Martin connected with Western Oregon Conference.

President of Western Washington Conference, W. W. Sharp.

President of Southeastern Union Conference: W. A. Westworth; Field Missionary Agent, V. O. Cole, R. F. D. 4, Riceville, Tenn.

Albert Carey, Baker’s Mountain, R. F. D. 5, Hickory, N. C.

Secretary and Treasurer of South Carolina Conference, also of Sabbath-school and Young People’s Society, Mrs. R. T. Nash.

Address of Southern Union Conference, 85 and 87 Fifth Ave., Nashville, Tenn.

Secretary and Treasurer of New Mexico Mission field, J. J. Graf, Plateau, Roosevelt Co., N. Mex.

President British Union Conference, W. J. Fitzgerald.

Secretary and Treasurer North England Conference, W. A. Slater.

Secretary and Treasurer Central American Conference (organized March 15), Mrs. Ethel T. Nowlen, with address of Conference office, Villa Blanca, W. Hipidromo, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Office of Good Tidings of the Messiah removed from 105 Stanford St., Boston, to Concord, Mass.

The office of the Southern Missionary Society transferred to Madison, Tenn.

The address of the Scotland Mission is 62 Dundrennan Road, Langside, Glasgow, Scotland.

Address of the West Australian Conference changed to 826 Hay St., Perth, West Australia.

George Teasdale, Bridgeport, Ala.

M. C. Whitmarsh, 317 West Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y.

N. C. Bergersen, Margrethevej 5, Copenhagen, V., Denmark.

Carl Hansen, Akersgaden 74, Christiania, Norway.

E. C. Widgery, 293 Oronoque St., Georgetown, British Guiana, South America.

Publications Wanted

[SPECIAL NOTICE.— We learn that objectionable literature is being sent in response to these requests, and urge all to examine with special care any periodicals or pamphlets received outside of our well-known denominational publications. Be sure that the literature which you distribute teaches the truth.— ED.]

The following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—

Mrs. Linda German, Clearwater, Fla., clean copies of periodicals for missionary work.

F. G. Hunziker, Homestead, Valley Co., Mont., desires a continuous supply of reading-matter.

MRS. C. E. HILLIS, Marshall, Mich., periodicals and tracts for use in racks and for general distribution.

A. H. Mackey, North Hamilton St., Port Jervis, N. Y., Signs, Watchman, Life and Health, Liberty, etc., for free distribution.

Mrs. J. W. Munck, Baltimore, Md., desires to thank those who have sent her papers for missionary work, and to say that she can use a continuous supply.

Obituaries

PEARCE.—Fell asleep in Jesus, at Malvern, Iowa, April 23, 1908, of cancer, John M. Pearce, in the sixty-first year of his age. He died with a bright hope of a part in the first resurrection. The funeral service was conducted by Elder J. W. Wilkins (Baptist). M. I. PEARCE.

NIEMANN.—Died March 30, 1908, of softening of the brain, Brother Martin Niemann. He began keeping the Sabbath about three years ago, and joined the church at Escondido, Cal. He loved the truth, and hoped to live to see Jesus come. A wife and five children are left to mourn. A. M. LAMBERT.

STEELE.—Died at Scotts Bay, Nova Scotia, April 5, 1908, Gladie Steele, youngest daughter of Brother and Sister Norman Steele, after a lingering sickness of nearly three years. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from the promise, “Thy children shall come again to their own border.” WM. GUTHRIE.

ELSMORE.—Died April 1, 1908, in Minneapolis, Minn., R. A. Elsmore, aged 37 years, 5 months, and 11 days. He is survived by his wife and five children. He fell asleep with the blessed hope of being among those who shall come forth in the first resurrection. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. A. W. KUEHL.

POTTERTON.—Died at St. Helena, Cal., April 17, 1908, of spinal meningitis, Florence Verdell Potterton, in her ninth year. Verdell was a regular attendant at Sabbath-school, and took delight in reading and studying the Bible. In her last illness she suffered severely, but bore her sufferings with remarkable fortitude and patience. Elder W. C. White and the writer conducted the funeral service in the St. Helena church. D. E. ROBINSON.

GUERRIER.—Died at Middle Simonds, N. B., Feb. 10, 1908, John H. Guerrier, aged 86 years, 5 months, and 5 days. He accepted the third angel’s message under the labors of Elders J. B. Goodrich and S. J. Hersum. Although the last three years of his life were filled with suffering, he bore it all patiently, and died in the blessed hope. The funeral service was conducted by Elder Hiram Raymond (First-day Adventist), assisted by Elder Angus Dalbeck (Primitive Baptist). KATE A. GUERRIER.

LEWIS.—Died at her home near Ford City, Mo., April 10, 1908, of quick consumption and pneumonia, Celia Elizabeth, daughter of William and Mary E. Lewis, aged 21 years, 10 months, and 12 days. She accepted the truth about a year ago, but not having church privileges, she never became a member of any church. Her father, mother, eight sisters, and two brothers are left to mourn. No Adventist minister being near, words of comfort were spoken by Elder William Turnage (Baptist), from Ps. 116:15. MRS. EVA HOWREY.

BURNETT.—Died at Savoy, Mass., April 8, 1908, Brother George W. Burnett, aged 77 years, 5 months, and 15 days. Brother Burnett accepted the third angel’s message in 1851, and was always zealous in proclaiming its glad tidings to others, holding meetings in outlying districts, and giving Bible readings to those interested. As a result of his labors, a number accepted the truth. In 1852 Brother Burnett was united in marriage with Mary Ann Hitchcock, who, with their two sons, remains to mourn the loss of her life companion. During the last ten years Brother Burnett has been crippled by rheumatism, and has been a great sufferer; but his uncomplaining life has been an eloquent witness to the power of the gospel. Words of comfort were spoken at the funeral by the writer, from Rev. 14:12, 13, after which the remains were taken to the State of Florida for interment. F. W. STRAY.

METCALF.—George Thomas Metcalf was born in Hull, England, May 6, 1838, and died April 29, 1908, at Forbes, Mo., of Bright’s disease and liver trouble. He united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1875. His patient, self-sacrificing life during his closing years bore a bright testimony to his faith in Jesus. The funeral service was conducted by Elder Cunningham (Methodist). JENNIE METCALF.

PORTER.—Died in Washington, Pa., April 13, 1908, Mr. John N. Porter, aged 72 years, 1 month, and 28 days. During the last few years of his life he was not a member of any church, but was a believer in the truths held by Seventh-day Adventists, and expressed a bright hope of a part in the first resurrection. A large number of relatives and friends attended the funeral service, which was conducted by the writer. B. F. PURDHAM.

MEACHAM.—Died March 25, 1908, of a stroke of apoplexy, Sister America Page Meacham, in the seventy-fifth year of her age. A few years ago she accepted the truths of the third angel’s message. She loved the truth, and died with a bright hope of a part in the first resurrection. A son and three daughters are left to mourn the loss of a loving, affectionate mother. Funeral service was conducted by Elder Cross (Methodist), from 2 Cor. 5:1. MRS. H. H. WILCOX.

WHITNEY.—Died in Augusta, Maine, March 29, 1908, Josiah F. Whitney, aged 83 years and 6 days. When he first professed religion, he united with the Freewill Baptist Church. More than thirty years ago, under the labors of Elder J. O. Corliss, he accepted present truth, in which faith he fell asleep. The funeral service, held at the home of a son in Augusta, was conducted by the writer, assisted by Elder H. E. Dunmach (Methodist); text, Heb. 9:27. S. J. HERSUM.

GARDINER.—Died in Cornville, Maine, April 28, 1908, Hannah M. Gardiner, aged 71 years, 3 months, and 18 days. Sister Gardiner embraced the truths of the third angel’s message when the Cornville church was raised up forty years ago, and was faithful to the end of her pilgrimage. Her death was the result of a shock, and was very sudden. She leaves an invalid husband, one sister, and other relatives to mourn. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from Rev. 14:12, 13. P. B. OSBORNE.

GRAHAM.—After only a few days’ illness Sister Beulah Graham died at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. B. H. Bodwell, at Dallas, Tex., Jan. 14, 1908, in the eighteenth year of her age. For several years she had taken an active interest in the work of the Sabbath-school and church, and was secretary of the Sabbath-school at the time of her death. After a short service held at the Keene church, where words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Rev. 14:13, the remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Keene. C. SORENSON.

MERRITT.—Leonard B. Merritt, eldest son of Elder B. F. Merritt (deceased), and Mrs. J. E. Merritt, died suddenly of ruptured blood-vessel in the brain, while taking an outing with his brother, Sept. 19, 1907, aged 36 years, 2 months, and 11 days. Always industrious, his early years were spent preparing himself for labor in the Master’s vineyard, that he might take up the work his father’s hand had dropped. But at the age of twenty, during his junior year at Battle Creek College, he was compelled to give up his studies and his plans, owing to failing health. From that time to the day of his death his life was one of suffering and disappointment. Safe at last from the attacks of a cruel disease, he now sleeps until his Master’s voice calls him to a land where there is no more sickness, neither sorrow nor crying. He leaves a wife, a little daughter, an aged mother, one brother, and two sisters, one of them being Dr. Ruth Merritt Miller, now in India. ELSIE B. MERRITT.

BRANDO.—Died at the Takoma Park (D. C.) Sanitarium, March 23, 1908, of heart trouble, Sister J. W. Brando, aged 29 years, 8 months, and 23 days. She was raised by Christian parents, and united with the Presbyterian Church at the age of fourteen. The advent message came to her in 1900, and she united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, of which she continued a faithful member until her death. Sister Brando suffered much for some time before her death, but she bore her suffering with Christian fortitude. Funeral service was conducted by the writer, at the home of her parents at New Brighton, Pa. N. S. ASHTON.

KNOWLTON.—Died near Cambridge, Idaho, April 10, 1908, Brother D. A. Knowlton, aged 71 years, 2 months, and 28 days. He was converted and joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Minnesota in 1876. Those who knew Brother Knowlton appreciated his earnest Christian life, and sound fatherly counsel. He bore his sufferings with patience, between his paroxysms of pain often repeating, “’Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus.” He leaves a wife, two daughters, three grandchildren, and many friends to mourn, but not without hope. The funeral was conducted by the writer, words of comfort to the sorrowing friends being based upon Rev. 14:12, 13. J. M. WILLOUGHBY.

PATTERSON.—William John Patterson was born in Ireland, May 2, 1832, and died in Monterey, Mich., Jan. 27, 1908, aged 75 years, 8 months, and 25 days. He came to America when twenty-two years of age, and resided in the State of New York until 1857, when he came to South Monterey, Mich., where he lived until his death. At an early age he learned to love his Saviour, and united with the Presbyterian Church. After coming to South Monterey he accepted the third angel’s message, and for more than fifty years was a member of the church in that place. In 1857 he was united in marriage to Eliza Wilson. This union was blessed with one son and four daughters, all of whom, with the mother, are left to mourn their loss. Funeral service was conducted by the writer in the South Monterey church. J. W. HOFSTRA.

SCOTT.—Died near Thermal, Cal., Feb. 27, 1908, my brother, Henry Scott, aged 50 years, 4 months, and 9 days. He was born in Omro, Wis.; came to the Coast in 1880, and was employed on the Signs of the Times something over a year; entered the Healdsburg College in its second year, and there embraced the message of the soon-coming Saviour. When the Pacific Press Publishing Association opened its branch office in Australia, he connected with the work in that field. On his return to California, he continued with the Pacific Press till about six years ago, when, owing to the failing health of his wife, he was obliged to leave the office. Two brothers, two sisters, the wife, and two daughters are left to mourn the loss of a kind and loving brother, and an affectionate husband and father, but they sorrow not as those without hope. L. A. SCOTT.

BOYNTON.—Died at West Philadelphia, Pa., April 22, 1908, of organic heart-disease, Brother Alfred Boynton, aged 70 years and 24 days. While the late Elders Frisbie and Edgar were conducting tent-meetings fifty years ago, at Wright, Mich., Brother Boynton accepted the third angel’s message. When a young man, he suffered from heart-disease, and while very ill, he walked forty miles in three days to have Elder Bates pray for him. After Elder Bates had evidence that the Lord would heal, he prayed, and the young man was instantly restored to health. Brother Boynton was the father of eight children,—four sons and four daughters. Four children have fallen asleep in the message. The others with the afflicted widow remain to mourn their loss. Our brother was laid to rest in the cemetery at Cape May Court House, N. J. The funeral service was conducted by the writer, words of comfort being spoken to the friends from 2 Tim. 4:7, 8. O. O. BERNSTEIN.

Missionaries to Cuba

BRETHREN J. Emil Anderson of Kansas and C. B. Loughhead of Pennsylvania have recently gone to Cuba as self-supporting missionaries.

Colcord to Attend Northwest Camp-Meetings

ELDER W. A. COLCORD, the secretary of the Religious Liberty Bureau, will attend several of the camp-meetings in the Northwest, and left Washington last week for that purpose.

Widgerys Return to British Guiana

ELDER E. C. WIDGERY and wife sailed from New York last week, Thursday, for Georgetown, British Guiana, under the appointment of the Mission Board. Before leaving Washington, Brother Widgery was ordained to the gospel ministry. He and his wife have labored in the West Indies before, and are glad that they can now return to the people, bearing the more complete gospel of the third angel’s message.

Raleigh French Takes Charge of Canvassing

Brother Raleigh French, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, passed through Washington last week on his way to New Jersey to take charge of the canvassing work in that conference.

N. Z. Town Granted Furlough

Elder N. Z. Town, who has labored for many years in South America, has been granted a furlough by the Mission Board, and is booked to sail from Buenos Aires on the steamship “Valesquez,” for New York, July 10.

June Issue of Life and Health

The June number of Life and Health presents a very attractive appearance, and is filled with a variety of matter both timely and instructive. A full description of this issue will be found on the second page.

Workers Entering Guatemala

Brother A. L. Philbrick and wife left Southern California last week to join the little force of workers just entering Guatemala, Central America. Elder E. L. Cardey's wife has so far regained her health as to be able to return to that field with them.

Temporary Headquarters for General Chinese Mission

TEMPORARY headquarters for the General Chinese Mission, also for the publishing work in China, have been secured at 626 and 627 East Yu Hang Road, Shanghai. All mail from the United States should be sent in care of the United States Post-office, Box 993, adding, for full address, the street and number before given.

Elder Daniells's Travel Plans

With a stay of only one day in Washington, Elder A. G. Daniells went last week from New England to Chicago and College View, Neb. He was announced to deliver the commencement address before the graduating class of Union College on Sunday, May 24, and planned to visit the Wabash Valley (Ind.) Sanitarium on his way back, and to speak at the dedication of that institution. He will be in Washington again about the first of June.

D. W. Reavis Appointed Missionary Secretary

The Review and Herald Publishing Association loses a faithful and valued worker by the selection of Brother D. W. Reavis to act as General Missionary Secretary for the General Conference. Mention of this appointment is made on the nineteenth page. Brother Reavis has had a long and successful experience in the Department of Circulation of the Review and Herald, and the Board of Trustees consented to release him for no other reason than that he might fill a more important position. He will spend considerable time in the field during the camp-meeting season.

Exposition of the Book of Daniel

IN the third article of the series on the Book of Daniel, which will be found on the tenth page, the Editor begins an exposition of the text of the book. He hopes that the two introductory articles already published have given a setting to the facts recorded which will greatly aid in a right understanding of the lessons contained in the historical portion of the book.

Sunday Bill Still Undecided

By Editor

At the time this issue of the REVIEW went to press, no further action had been taken by the House of Representatives on the Sunday bill which has been passed by the Senate. It is probable that Congress will remain in session nearly all of the present week, so that the fate of the bill at this session was still undetermined when we closed our forms. We shall deal with this matter in the next REVIEW.

New Tracts in African Languages

FROM the South African Publishing House, Cape Town, South Africa, comes a new publication, a twenty-page tract in the Sesuto tongue, containing twelve Bible readings on the coming of the Lord. They are also just finishing an edition of a tract in the Manganja language for use in Nyassaland. Thus two languages are added to the list in which our denominational publications are being circulated throughout the world, making the total now fifty-four. This same publishing house also sends copies of additional publications in the Kaffir tongue.

Rise and Fall of Religious Liberty

By Editor

WE begin this week in the Editorial Department a series of articles upon the Rise and Fall of Religious Liberty in America. It is designed in these articles to give a brief account of the origin of the doctrine of religious liberty, or soul-freedom, the obstacles against which it contended in the Old World, its transference to the New, its struggles and triumphs here; and finally the repudiation of its principles (in fact, if not in name) by the people and their chosen representatives in the national government.

Sabbath-School Lesson Quarterly

By Editor

The Sabbath-School Lesson Quarterly for the third quarter of this year is now ready for distribution. The subject of this quarter's study is the book of Nehemiah. The firm faith, trust, and courage displayed by this servant of God in the face of the most forbidding obstacles, and the unmistakable blessing of God upon his work because of that faithfulness, will be a source of courage to our people throughout the world as they study these lessons. The price of the pamphlet is five cents, and it can be ordered of any of our publishing houses or tract societies.