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Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 23.

The Father’s Voice
Earlier text: Report of the Welsh Mission, for 1906

The Nashville Sanitarium

By George I. Butler

Its Present Condition and Needs

THIS institution has occupied the most prominent position among the institutions that have been receiving funds from the gifts of our people in the Southern Union Conference. Of the $50,000 appropriated from the $150,000 fund for the Southern field, it was to receive $25,000, or about one half of all coming to this field. Nearly all that sum has been advanced by the General Conference, and has been expended on the building and premises. Doubtless our people who have been bestowing their means would like to have a full, frank statement of its present conditions and prospects. The writer will endeavor to give this faithfully, in as limited a space as consistent with the facts.
As is generally well known in the South, the premises are situated about three miles from the State-house, which is in the heart of the city of Nashville, on the Murfreesborough Pike, one of the most important roads leading out of the city. There is not a more pleasant site in the city or outside of it. The building stands on some of the most elevated land outside of the city. It was the residence of one of the leading professors of Vanderbilt University, built with excellent taste, and surrounded with beautiful shrubbery. He died in January, 1906. As his estate had to be settled, it came into market, and was sold to us at a greatly reduced price.
The cost of the premises, including ten acres of beautiful land, the fine residence, shrubbery, etc., was $12,732. There has been expended on the building, on the addition and improvements, the sum of $20,145. The addition is a wing thirty-four by seventy feet, three stories high above the basement. The institution is now approaching completion. The basement of the addition is high, with plenty of light, and has been made mainly into nice bath-rooms for both sexes. These are all finished, with perhaps the exception of a little paint. The two lower stories of the addition, consisting of rooms for the patients, are finished in neat, plain style, ready for occupancy. The upper story is ready for the inside finishing. The roof of the residence building was raised up to correspond with the height of the addition, furnishing a fine dining-room, kitchen, etc., on the upper story. In the wing will be the operating room, and other rooms for patients. The elevator is already in working order.
The wing has wide verandas, most suitable for airings, and comfortable in pleasant weather. From these verandas, beautiful views are obtained over the city and surrounding country. Already patients are coming in and occupying the furnished rooms. It is expected that the building will accommodate thirty or thirty-five patients. The work done on this institution is of good quality, but not showy or extravagant.
There have been various hindrances which have delayed the work, and as usual the building has cost more than it was expected it would.
There was a fire in March which destroyed the barn and a cheap building being used for laundry and bakery. These buildings being insured, the loss on them was small; but costly finishing lumber recently purchased was being temporarily housed in them. This lumber was not insured, which caused a loss of about twelve hundred dollars. The origin of the fire was a great mystery. It probably arose from a defective chimney.
Nashville is the headquarters of this great Southern field. It is one of the most influential and important of the Southern cities. It is an educational center where many large and wealthy institutions are located, and we can not consider that an expenditure of twenty-five thousand dollars is extravagant for an institution which is to represent so important a branch of our work. Its capacity at the most is thirty-five or forty patients, and is that extravagant? The writer can not see that it is.
There seems to be very hopeful prospects before this institution. The physicians of the city manifest a friendly feeling toward it, and promise to send patients. Many patients already have either written to the physician or told him personally that they intend to come as soon as possible after it is finished. Large numbers of the Nashville people have been in the habit of visiting such institutions in Battle Creek and other places. Our meager facilities here in the city have been very reasonably patronized, and we hope for a profitable patronage in the future. It will certainly be a very pleasant, restful place, out of the smoke and the dust of the city, with very beautiful surroundings.
But, say those of critical mind, “Are you not in debt?”—Yes, we are to some extent. We hope in time to be able to pay these debts by the earning capacity of the institution, and hope then to be no longer burdensome upon the charity of our people. Our people and denomination stand back of this institution in precisely the same way that they do back of all our institutions of the same nature. The brethren of the General Conference have shown a very kindly and helpful interest in the institution, and we hope that we shall never do anything to destroy their interest in us.
We wish to borrow money from some of our people to help us to pay some debts, and assist us in furnishing the institution, so that it can proceed to do its noble work for humanity and the cause of God. It is now just about prepared to enter upon its work of usefulness. There is wealth among our people; and will not some of these good Seventh-day Adventists loan us money without interest, or at a low rate of interest, and thus help in the good and noble work before us? This institution has to enter upon its work and earn its reputation. We ask for it the confidence and assistance that it needs. It is in every way loyal to this cause, and is thoroughly grounded in the faith of this people. Dear friends, stewards of the Lord’s money, “lend us a hand” and help us with loans to carry on this work successfully.
GEO. I. BUTLER, Pres. Southern Union Conference.

Scotland

By H. J. Williams

EDINBURGH.—Since we arrived in Scotland last fall, my time has very largely been taken up with studies and hospital work, preparatory to running the gauntlet which will enable me to practise as a medical missionary in British fields. However, this has not prevented us from receiving a few of those rich blessings and experiences which come to those who humbly try to follow the Master’s example in bringing the glad tidings of great joy into the hearts and lives of others.
SCENE IN EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
SCENE IN EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
One experience which we had I would like to briefly relate, as perhaps it may be an encouragement to some one. For several reasons, we felt it our duty to remove from our lodgings, and engage quarters at this place. We had been settled only a day or two when our landlady, who is a Christian, came into our room, with tears in her eyes, and said she had felt in her heart, ever since we had been in her house, that the Lord had sent us to her. She told us of her son, who had recently returned from the army a drunkard, and would sell anything he could get his hands on for a drink; in fact, he had gotten about as low as he could go. She asked if there was anything we could do for her boy. We told her we would be glad to do all we could for him.
I had a talk with the boy, who expressed a desire to be rid of these evil habits, but said he had tried many times without success. The mother promised to try to keep him in the house for a week. I gave him treatment each day, and succeeded in getting him over the first few days, which are always the worst in these cases, and got him sober, so he could think with a clear brain. I asked him into my room one evening, and told him how he was breaking his mother’s heart, and that he was ruining his life physically, also his hope of eternal life; that the help we had given him was only temporary, to give him a clear mind, that he might have an opportunity to choose the right way; that the only thing which could save him completely was the power of Christ.
After talking and reading with him for some time, I asked him if he would not accept Jesus as his Saviour, who could deliver him from this thing and from all sin. I told him I could heartily recommend Christ to him as One who would never leave nor forsake him, and who was fully able to keep him from falling. We got on our knees together.
I prayed earnestly that God would give him what he needed just now, and asked him if he would not pray for himself. The only words he could utter were, “God help me, or I perish,” in a very broken voice. He arose from his knees with a new light in his eyes. I told him to tell his mother about it, which he did. It is needless to say there was rejoicing in his house that night, as well as in heaven.
Nearly a month has now passed. The boy has gone steadily onward. Every one remarks at the change which has come into his life. His mother is happy, knowing that her son is at home reading and studying his Bible, instead of lying drunk in some grog-shop.
None but those who have had the experience can know how happy such an experience makes us. We would rather be the means in Christ’s hands of leading just such sin-sick souls to the foot of the cross, and of bringing such happiness into the lives of others, than to be the king of this great nation, and be without Christ and his love.
H. J. WILLIAMS.

That Tent-Meeting

By W. H. Granger

As the season for our tent-meetings is drawing near, it will be in order to make some suggestions about doing house-to-house work in connection with such efforts. All who have had experience in tent-meeting work know the importance of keeping every home well supplied with literature while the meetings are in progress. To do this successfully requires no small effort, but it always brings gratifying results. To get in touch with every family in the vicinity, and to keep in touch with them every day during the meetings, is a very important matter, and one that should never be neglected. It is well for us to bear in mind the fact that we may never have the privilege of passing that way again; hence the importance of making a supreme effort to warn every soul while the opportunity is given. To assist in doing this, I suggest the following plan as being very practical, and one that is almost sure to bring the desired results:—
On going into a new place, first ascertain as nearly as possible the number of families living within a reasonable radius of the place of meeting. Then supply yourself with as many sets of The Family Bible Teacher as you have families in the vicinity. The day you begin your meeting, begin also the work of visiting the people. Make it a point to see that every family is supplied each day of the meeting with a lesson dealing with the subject spoken on the previous evening. Say, for instance, the subject of Christ's Second Coming is spoken on; the next morning take lesson No. 5 to each home, telling them that it deals with the subject spoken on the previous evening, and urge a careful reading of the lesson. At the same time announce the subject for the following evening, and invite each family to attend the meetings. This method will not only insure the largest possible attendance, but has the advantage of making your work doubly effective. The following recent testimony from brethren who adopted this plan will be of interest:—
“The first few evenings a very fair audience came out to hear. After the first three meetings the congregation began to fall away, and about the sixth meeting there were only about nine or ten adults besides those of our own faith. We saw that something must be done, or the meeting would have to close. We counseled together, and decided to send for enough sets of The Family Bible Teacher to place in each home in the town each day.
“Having some of the numbers on hand, we took up the work at once. As we carried the readings to their homes, we had an opportunity to visit with the people a few minutes, and invite them out to the meetings. As far as possible, we gave them a printed reading on the same subject that was preached on the night before. This placed them on friendly terms with us, and nearly all promised to read the leaflets and come out to the meetings.
“This has been repeated every day for nearly a week; and from the very day we began this work, the congregation began to increase, and now the tent is full every evening. At our last meeting we had a tent full, although many had to come in the rain.
“One good feature about his method is that it seems to bring out the very best people of the town, and another is that it reaches the class that it is impossible to get out to any other meetings.”
But says one, “Where would the money come from with which to pay for the literature?” I believe the Lord wants the work done in the most effective way possible, and that he will supply the means when we are willing to walk out in faith, taking advantage of the opportunities given us. Adopt the method of taking up a collection every evening, and there will be means enough with which to pay for the literature. I am confident that the Lord will move upon the hearts of the people to give liberally when we first give liberally to them. Brethren, try this plan, and I am sure you will be greatly pleased with the results. Our last tent effort will be held before a great while, and now as never before we should lay our plans to make our work the most effective possible.
W. H. GRANGER.

West Coast, Africa

By Tutu Kwamina

FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE.—Ethiopia is stretching forth her hands to God. Ham’s sons and daughters are gathering in crowds to hear the unadulterated truths recorded in God’s Word, and after hearing, they are accepting the same.
Our Heavenly Father has sent me just in time to assist Brother Babcock in the work in this part of his vineyard. I am glad to say that our tent-meetings are largely attended by soldiers and citizens. On the twenty-eighth of February we baptized seven converts. Three are soldiers, and one is a soldier’s wife. These are all Jamaicans. The remaining three are citizens of Freetown.
Our day-school is being held in the tent. We have on register one hundred pupils. My time is employed in teaching, preaching, and holding Bible readings in the homes of the people. On Sunday afternoons I hold religious service in the military hospital, with the sick soldiers. Knowing that the coming of the Master is at hand, I am trying to do all I can to prepare my fellow men to meet him with joy and gladness.
TUTU KWAMINA.

Help for the Long Neglected

By E. W. Carey

It is now almost four years since the painful needs of South Carolina began to appeal to the writer. At that time there was not a Seventh-day Adventist minister or Bible worker in the State. I looked through the canvassers' reports to learn if there were any of these faithful messengers carrying the saving truths of the last message to the precious souls of this State. There were none.
Could it be true, a whole State, one of the original thirteen, with a population of 1,340,316, going unwarned, while the vials of God's wrath hang heavy over their heads? Would the strong conferences to the north and west allow this condition to go on, and meet such facts in the judgment? Would not the blood of souls be found upon the garments of some in responsible positions?
The Lord answered prayer, and opened the way for a few laborers to enter the State. On closer acquaintance, we found a small church organization at Spartanburg, another at Brushy Creek, and a few isolated Sabbath-keepers scattered here and there throughout the State. These faithful souls were working in a humble way to make known the solemn message of the third angel to those about them. Elder E. W. Webster and others had labored here about fourteen years ago, and these had with joy received the truth.
The Spartanburg church was in sore need of a place of worship. But real estate and building material were high priced. We believed that God would be honored by having a church building, a memorial for his name and truth, but we found no way to provide one.
This little company had been lifting its full share of the financial burdens of the denomination. If a publishing house in a distant land was sinking under the burden of debt, the Spartanburg church helped to lift it out. Was a sanitarium to be built in a part of the United States where the truth had already gained a strong hold, the Spartanburg church responded nobly to the appeal made to them. When an academy, an industrial school, or a college was to be built, the Spartanburg church was not forgotten. Appeal after appeal was sent to them, and out of the liberality of their hearts they sent their dollars, obtained through sacrifice, to hasten the message they loved.
The foreign work, too, has had their hearts, and much of the contents of their pocketbooks. Their tithe has been a constant tributary flowing into the general treasury. Thousands of dollars have in these ways gone out from this little company to build up and strengthen the work, not in this State, but the work in general.
And now shall Spartanburg in her deep necessity be forgotten? Let the body now strengthen this weak member, and the body itself will be strengthened. South Carolina is the most neglected of all this long-neglected Southland. To help Spartanburg now will do much to help the work onward throughout the State.
In the REVIEW of May 2 will be found an article by Elder R. T. Nash, under the heading, “An Opportune Time for Spartanburg, S. C.” Read it, we pray you, if you have not already done so; and if the Lord moves upon your heart to give toward this worthy and needy cause, send your remittance, as Brother Nash directs, to Elizabeth McHugh, Spartanburg, S. C., or to Mrs. R. T. Nash, Campobello, S. C.
E. W. CAREY.
Luray, S. C.

Current Mention

— A number of Russian students have been arrested in Berlin, Germany, charged with plotting against the life of Emperor William.
— A lockout in the building trades is directly affecting 60,000 men in Berlin, Germany, and 40,000 more are indirectly affected by the movement.
— Northern Texas suffered from a tornado, May 25, which resulted in sixteen deaths, many injuries, and the loss of property valued at $100,000.
— The grand jury at San Francisco recently indicted six millionaires on charges of bribery, and returned additional indictments against Mayor Schmitz and Abraham Ruef.
— Mrs. McKinley, widow of the martyred president, died at her home in Canton, Ohio, May 26. President Roosevelt, Vice-President Fairbanks, and some members of the cabinet attended the funeral on the twenty-ninth.
— The revolutionary outbreak in the Kwangtung Province, China, is said to be anti-dynastic, and those participating therein say there is no danger to missionaries. However, some of the missionaries have come in from their stations to Swatow. The cause of revolt is said to be the excessive taxation made necessary to pay the excessive indemnity asked by the “Christian” nations for the losses sustained during the Boxer uprising of 1900.

Receipt and Disbursement Statement of the General Conference for Quarter Ending March 31, 1907

By I. H. EVANS

RECEIPTS DISBURSEMENTS
Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1907 $21,627.85
Conference and tract societies 674.12 $1,228.30
Work among the colored people 1,332.06 1,853.34
Deposits 9,143.32 7,470.28
District of Columbia Evangelical Committee 2,743.44 1,497.41
Expense 526.30
From conferences for support of laborers 4,323.99
General Conference Association 10,515.58
General Conference Corporation 1,268.45
Orphanage Fund 152.18
One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund 31,033.27 37,924.17
Loans 21,002.25 9,175.00
Publishing houses 639.40 383.10
Religious Liberty Bureau 619.07 35.85
Specific and special accounts 9,091.45 20,047.85
Caribbean Watchman 65.79 3.00
First-day offerings 4,859.82
Annual offerings 21,757.71
Missions 16,136.40
Midsummer offering 368.65
Sabbath-school donations 11,831.30
Tithe 3,715.93
To laborers 10,629.66
Mission fields 42,210.79
Cash on hand, March 31, 1907 16,348.92
$161,118.00 $161,118.00
I. H. EVANS, Treasurer.

The Medical Missionary Council

The prospect for a large attendance at this meeting grows more encouraging each day. Fifteen superintendents of sanitariums have been heard from who are planning to be present; and many other physicians, medical secretaries of local conferences, and nurses, have written their intention to attend.
We have just received word that the brethren who have been attending the European meeting will reach home in time to attend this council.
All who are interested in the medical work of our denomination recognize the importance of this meeting, and are encouraging the physicians and nurses to be present. Nearly every one who has been assigned a subject for the occasion has promised to furnish the article. The subjects are generally acknowledged to be such as are of the utmost importance to our work as medical missionaries, and a live interest is manifested in them.
Probably the best way for our medical secretaries and nurses from a distance, who do not attend the meeting of the American Medical Association at Atlantic City, to get to this meeting would be to secure a ticket to the Jamestown Exposition, and come from there to Washington on Thursday or Friday, June 6 or 7. Stop-over privileges at Washington are granted on many roads on tickets to Jamestown.
THE COMMITTEE.

Kansas Sanitarium

By F. E. BRAUCHT

The Kansas Sanitarium, which is located at Wichita, Kan., was opened for the reception of patients in June, 1905. Since that time the patronage has steadily increased, until at the present time it is sufficient to keep the building filled to its capacity most of the time.
The sanitarium building is a modern brick structure. The main building is four stories high, forty-four by eighty feet, and contains offices, parlor, dining-rooms, gymnasium, and guest-rooms, many of which are supplied with hot and cold water. A three-story annex contains the ladies’ and the gentlemen’s bath and treatment rooms, the surgical ward, and operating room.
The institution is lighted with electricity and heated with steam. The equipment of the institution will compare favorably with the best of our institutions. The building contains forty-five rooms, and will accommodate, by crowding, about seventy-five patients, but could not accommodate that many at present, as the entire fourth floor is occupied by the staff of helpers. We have had as many as fifty-two patients crowded into the building, besides accommodating the helpers.
The work was begun in Wichita about six years ago by Brother and Sister L. C. Christofferson. They were graduate nurses from the Nebraska Sanitarium, and began their work by opening treatment rooms and a vegetarian café. The work grew steadily, and the sanitarium methods grew in favor with the public to such an extent that those in charge of the work in the State deemed it advisable to erect a sanitarium, which is located just outside of the city limits, on a beautiful tract of twenty acres of land, about two miles west of the business district, thus securing the quiet of a country life.
The outlook is very encouraging, and shows every evidence of a steady and healthful growth, and a successful future for this institution. Already those who have planted the institution have had the pleasure of seeing several who have entered its domain for the relief of physical ailments, embrace the present truth, which we believe is to be to them an eternal blessing.
KANSAS SANITARIUM
KANSAS SANITARIUM
It is the purpose of this institution to maintain a high missionary standard, and encourage the young people of this denomination, who may wish to profit by an experience they may gain while connected with it, to devote themselves to practical missionary work. None but Seventh-day Adventists are admitted to its training classes for nurses. At present there are three classes, numbering, in all, eighteen. The following is a list of the officers, nurses, and helpers of the institution:—
Medical staff and managers: Dr. F. E. Braucht and wife, Dr. H. G. Schaumloffel and wife, Misses Bertha McClellan and Estella Secrist, Albert Bland, H. L. Shafer, and Dr. L. F. Fritzgartener. Students in training: Marie Laubach, Edith Davis, Anna Wiebe, Nellie Thompson, Anna Anderson, Minnie Abbott, Blanche Secrist, Etta Nicholas, Alvena Kunde, Mary Gibbs, Florence Maxted, Lizzie Mohr, G. V. Fowler, A. A. Mohr, Linda Chesebro, Ruth Mahurin, Elsie Hiatt, and Gulah Brown.
F. E. BRAUCHT.

The Dedication

By W. A. Ruble

PLANS for the dedication of the new Sanitarium at Washington are well under way. A program has been prepared. The building is nearly completed, and the grounds are beautifully arranged. Let us have your prayers that the Lord's blessing may rest on this occasion, and remain with the institution.
W. A. RUBLE.

A Letter

By H. F. PHELPS

As I read in the REVIEW of the death of Dr. George, our dear missionary to Turkey, it made me anxious to tell what the Lord has done and is doing for me. I have been holding the dread disease, tuberculosis, at bay by the use of hydrotherapeutic remedies. At this writing there is every prospect of complete victory over this enemy of our race.
For a number of years I have been a sufferer from chronic bronchitis. I found that the poultice effects of prolonged heat by the use of the hot-water bottle helped me to breathe easier. This was three years ago last fall, and all winter I depended on the dry heat, as I could not use the compress with the bottle without chill. I put it on my chest when I retired, and kept it there, sleeping sweetly till I awoke, sometimes as late as two o'clock in the morning.
But the disease advanced till the lower part of my left lung was affected, and the disease was then pronounced tuberculosis. About one year ago this month, there were hemorrhages from this lung, four times, caused, as the doctor said, by ulcers. But I persisted in the treatment, because of the relief, also with the hope of ultimate success. At that time the Northwestern Union Conference was in session in this city. I was in a very feeble condition, and could attend the forenoon meetings only. One forenoon, in an upper room where some of our dear laborers had been invited, we prayed for the Lord's continued blessing upon the treatment, and claimed the promise: “They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
During the past summer I have used the compress with the hot-water bottle. Most of the time during the three years, I have taken a treatment of an hour or more in the middle of the day, and during the last eight months, in the morning as well. By careful estimate I conclude that I have taken as many as seventeen hundred treatments — dry heat during all the cold weather months, except the midday treatment, and moist heat by aid of the compress during the warm months. To this has been added the full hot bath occasionally, and the cool dry towel rub every morning, with a wet towel rub as frequently as twice a week.
At this date, March 3, 1907, every symptom of the disease is gone except in the one original spot on the bronchi. And, thanks to Him who healeth all our diseases, this is giving way to the treatment. I can eat better, breathe easier, and am gaining in flesh. For the encouragement of those younger in years, I will say that I am in my sixty-eighth year. And I feel to say that if my experience shall be of any help to others, my sufferings with this trouble and labors in overcoming it will not have been in vain.
H. F. PHELPS.
Minneapolis, Minn.

Medical Missionary Department

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference
W. A. GEORGE, M. D., ........................ Chairman
W. A. RUBLE, M. D., ........................ Secretary

The Missionary Movement

By F. G.

THERE was started at the educational convention at College View, Neb., last summer, a movement which should have permanency. Its purpose was to connect our schools with the great missionary work which we as a people are carrying on. The schools are to be gateways through which our young people pass into the great harvest-field. This movement has reference to both the schools and the young people. The schools are to be so conducted that a strong missionary spirit shall always prevail.
In each subject that is taught, and indeed in each class recitation, the spirit that should be the outgrowth of our motto, viz., “The Advent Message to All the World in This Generation.”
With reference to our young people, this movement is to be so strong that it shall continually urge them from their homes into our schools, and so on into the field.
Now, there is great danger that this movement shall lose its force. That it has had a force during the past year is witnessed by our full schools and the strong missionary spirit prevailing in them. The key-note which was sounded at our educational convention has certainly been carried into a mighty, stirring, marching hymn. Now we must not permit this swelling chorus ever to diminish in volume. On the other hand, the number of singers this coming year must be many more, and if possible, they must sing in more perfect unison. But this can be accomplished only by our constantly keeping before our minds the meaning of this forward movement. It means that every one of our young men and women shall be drafted into service. I use the word “drafted” advisedly. They are not to be forced into an unwilling service, but the pleasure of the work and the joys of the victory are to be so held before all our young men and women that they shall enter upon the preparation for the work and into the work itself with the keenest pleasure.
It is the duty of all our church officers—and in this I include the Sabbath-school and young people workers—so to hold before all our children and young people the importance of the missionary work that they will have no other ambition in life but to enlist in the service of the Lord. It is only by the constant, steady effort that this forward movement can be given permanency.
F. G.

To Parents

By F. G.

ABRAHAM was chosen for the position in God's great plan of salvation which he occupied; and he became a great nation because he commanded his children and his household after him, to walk in the ways and statutes of the Lord.
He is an object-lesson to all parents. He did his work faithfully and well. Isaac was so taught to obey, that when Abraham was preparing to offer him as a sacrifice, he helped to bind the cords that fastened him on the altar. O that we all as parents were as true and faithful to the trust committed to us as was Abraham! A different state of affairs would then certainly prevail among our young people. In place of seeing them engaged in worldly avocations, we should see them entering heartily upon the service of the Lord as they leave their parental roofs. God requires no less of us than he required of Abraham; but as he is no respecter of persons, our reward will be as great as was Abraham's, if we are as faithful to our trust and the performance of our parental duty as was he.
The Lord has given plain instruction as to the training of our children for his service. He has ordained schools, that they may be taught his laws, as they are revealed in his Word, in nature, and in his dealings with mankind.
Children are an heritage of the Lord. They are given us for our good. If we properly do our part in training them for his service, we ourselves shall be greatly rewarded in divine life. We must ever hold before our minds the purpose of our existence. It is not that we may simply live our little day of life here and pass away forever; but it is that we may so live here that we may live forever in a better world.
But to do this we must enter into the spirit of the author of life, Christ Jesus. His spirit was one of sacrifice for others. As parents we are called upon to give our children to the service of God. This giving the children to the service of God involves our preparing them for that service. Again we say our schools are established for this very purpose.
Now is the time to begin to plan for the school work of our sons and daughters for this coming year. It will take effort and denial. To many it will seem impossible to put forth this effort and make this denial. But it can and should be done. It will yield an abundant reward. This reward will not be hereafter only, but the joy of here seeing our children in the service of the Lord is in itself an abundant one.
So let us all as parents do our full duty in commanding our children and our household after us that they may keep the way of the Lord. F. G.

The Educational Missionary Movement

By W. E. HANCOCK

The Mission Fields and Our Schools

History proves that in the promulgation of any reform measure of a religious nature, the missionary has been closely followed by, or his work has gone hand in hand with, schools. These schools have always given character and permanence to the work of missionaries. When we consider the conditions which call for many reforms in the world, the reason is evident why schools should be established contemporaneous with, or soon after, the missionary work is begun.
During the time Israel and Judah were apostatizing from God, he caused to be established the schools of the prophets, proposing by this means to train men for service in the work of reforming Israel, and through them to carry a knowledge of his law and the messages of his prophets to the world. Previously to the time of Christ, the professed church had again apostatized. He came and chose humble men to whom he could teach the principles of his law and train them for a service of reform.
From these instances we see that a training is necessary for the pioneer work of carrying on new movements. The Church of Rome from her earliest existence has recognized the value of giving a training to her missionaries before sending them out into new fields. Not only has she been thorough in preparing the pioneer missionary for promulgating her doctrines, but she has also been diligent in reaping the fullest results of his efforts by establishing training-schools of various kinds which would train the converts to the new faith as missionaries in their own country. When that church in the early part of the Christian era was sending missionaries to the barbarian tribes in the north, closely following the missionary's effort was the establishment of these schools. Thus by first sending trained missionaries into unentered fields, and through them training native converts as workers for the extension of her work by establishing schools in that country, she has succeeded in planting the banner of superstition in all parts of the civilized world.
But because Rome recognized the principle and used it for her purpose, we need not discard it in carrying forward the great work committed to us. It is a course which the history of Seventh-day Adventist missionary operations proves to be the right and successful way of bearing to the world the message of Christ's coming.
This message started in poverty and obscurity in the northeastern part of the United States. For years our efforts were confined to the States. But to-day it is no more the States, North and South America, nor Europe, to which our efforts are confined; for it has become a world-wide enterprise. Missionaries are in every country.
But no sooner have these new fields been fairly entered, than it has been necessary to establish a real training-school to equip native workers for the extension of the message to their countrymen. In Australia this has proved true, in Germany it has worked successfully, in England it has given permanency to the work. In fact, in all the countries where the work has become thoroughly organized, the schools have been a very important factor in bringing about this condition.
In countries where the establishment of strong schools, in which a thorough missionary training can be given, has been neglected, the work has moved slowly. In proportion to the energy with which the training of native workers in their own schools has been provided, so has the work been extended. The lesson is a pertinent one. We need to connect with all our missionary efforts such school work as will give permanency and definiteness to our work. We must in every field train native workers for the work of those fields.
W. E. HANCOCK.
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