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Among the Schools

By William E. Howell

It is a great privilege to have any part in the Lord's work. It is especially gratifying to see that work prosper. Such strides are being made in our educational progress that the work of the General Department at Washington is steadily increasing, especially in amount, and we hope also in efficiency. To say the least, it is growing more and more enjoyable as we see it better organized, its field of promotion and research enlarging; as we see our teachers better trained, our advanced schools one by one throwing off the yoke of debt, and the enrolment of students in all grades increasing year by year. Every day brings its own special reward in one form or another, and our courage cannot do otherwise than run high.

But it is not enough to sit at a desk day after day, even though it brings the privilege of feeling the pulse of the world-wide field throbbing at its common center. It is not enough to be confined in an office and receive felicitations and criticisms and inspiration through the mail alone, as stimulating as all these are to do our best in the service we endeavor to render. No, there is a multitude of workers and students whose faces we see only in imagination in our pent-up quarters, until sooner or later they call us afield. For here, after all, is where the real thing is, where the real work is being done that keeps our office spirit alert and doing. We need contact with these realities, for it gives us a keener appreciation of what our field problems are, and a broader view of how we can help solve them.

Such is my high privilege at this writing. I should indeed be ungrateful if I did not share with our readers the benefits of a month's tour among our schools.

Graysville Academy

This is a familiar name to some of our older educators and to a multitude of young men and women who are now to be found in working harness. Founded more than twenty years ago by Elder G. W. Colcord, and developed under the principalship of such men as C. W. Irwin, N. W. Lawrence, J. E. Tenney, M. B. Van Kirk, C. L. Stone, and others, this school was rechristened several years ago as the Southern Training School, and served the entire Southland in this capacity.

The past autumn the school was moved to a new location, but Graysville, so long our educational center in the South, had a sufficient local constituency of our own people to justify the continuance of a ten-grade day school. Hence the old name, Graysville Academy, was revived, and the school was opened in September, with Miss Rochelle Philmon, a former teacher in the training school, as principal and teacher, and Prof. G. H. Baber as business manager and teacher, with others to assist. The total enrolment is eighty-three, with most of the grades from one to ten filled. The teachers are working hard to make

their instruction first class in every respect. Their course of study is in harmony with the General Conference course, and their recitation periods are up to standard. Little manual work is being done, owing to many demands at once upon their means for facilities at the opening of the school, but the teachers express themselves as determined to develop this important phase of education as soon as possible. Little difficulty in discipline has been experienced so far, and the spirit among the students seems good. Several will be ready to pass on to the new school at Ooltewah next year.

Southern Junior College

This is the new name of the Southern Training School, now transferred to a farm near Ooltewah, Tenn., about sixteen miles east of Chattanooga. "Junior college" is a name now frequently given to schools that do two years of college work in addition to the regular academic grades from nine to twelve. It is analogous to the term "junior high school" applied to schools that do only two instead of four grades above the elementary.

This school opened October 18, and has already enrolled fifty-one students—enough to fill every available room yet fitted up. This is an excellent record, considering the fact that the farm was not purchased till about the first of October, and that everything in the way of preparing quarters for teachers and students had to be done in so short a time. The girls are comfortably housed in the commodious farmhouse, which has already received a new coat of paint. This building also provides a dining-room and a kitchen. The boys are distributed in cottages and tent houses. The teachers are living partly in cottages, partly in tents, and partly in the dormitory, sharing with the students in every respect the limitations and inconveniences necessary for the time being.

While I was there a cold wave was on, and Professor Thiel and the six boys assigned him were kept very busy during work hours preparing firewood for the many stoves in use. Professor Marshall, with another crew of boys, is looking after the work of repairing and fitting up, while at the same time caring for the poultry. Professor Field, the Bible teacher, is leader of another group of boys. Professor Atteberry, the business manager, is on the go at all hours between his class periods. Mrs. Marshall has her normal work in full swing. Brother McGee, the printer, was just mailing an edition of the Union paper printed in their new quarters.

The morale of teachers and students is excellent. One teacher said he had never enjoyed his work so much in his life, with the quiet environment, the eagerness of all the students to work, and the privilege of rebuilding the school from the foundation. Every student I spoke with said “Fine!” One group of boys have named their cottage We-Like-It.

The school carries twelve grades this year, with a class in every subject but two. Since the opening was late, the recitation periods are one hour in length, so as to bring the recitation work up to the standard amount of time and have the school close about the same time as our others.

The greatest present need of the school is the payment of pledges made by its friends, and contributions from its well-wishers who may not have pledged. Here is a work well worthy of every dollar that can be spared immediately. The school belongs to the people, and the teachers must not be left to carry its burdens alone.

Oakwood Manual Training School

This school for our colored believers in the South is located near Huntsville, Ala., on an old-time plantation. Few of our schools are better situated for their purpose. The climate is mild and equable, the soil is being brought up to excellent productive strength, and the environment is unusually favorable.

Here are gathered this year one hundred and ten boys and girls, with a prospect of increasing to one hundred and fifty before the year is over. A fine new dormitory, completed the past year, houses the girls, while the boys now occupy the building vacated by the girls. The class work begins at 7:30 and continues to 10 A. M., when teachers and students resort to manual labor till 5 P. M. Classes are then resumed till 9 P. M., with chapel in the evening. The school carries twelve grades, with pastoral, normal, and nurses' training courses. Five teachers will be graduated this year from the two-year normal course. Practically all the graduates from last year's pastoral and nurses' courses are now in the work.

Crops are unusually good this year. About thirty-five acres of cotton have yielded a bale to the acre, while the general average in the South is one bale to three acres. With a bale weighing about five hundred pounds and with the price of cotton now up to twenty cents, this yield brings excellent returns. Sorghum is practically a double yield, with the price increased, while the corn averages twenty-five bushels to the acre, and sweet potatoes two hundred bushels to the acre with the present market price at one dollar. With Brother John M. Swofford as farm superintendent, students do all the labor on these crops, as well as most of the mechanical work on the place, under the direction of Brother F. W. Halladay.

The orphanage has eighteen children at present, and has sent to the school dormitory several who had become old enough for the transfer. Miss Reeder has charge of the sanitarium training work; she and Miss Bartholomew, the normal director, are staying by the work from year to year. Elder W. L. Bird has succeeded Elder T. H. Jeys as Bible teacher, the latter now being in Plainview Academy. Prof. George Jeys is preceptor and teacher. Sister Cartright is the efficient matron, and Miss Williams, of Washington Missionary College, is preceptress.

Professor Boyd and his staff are of excellent courage, and enjoying the best year in the history of the school. The colored work is sure to gain strength as the product of this school is added to its laboring force. A ministerial institute for Negro laborers in the North American Division will be held here in midwinter. About fifty are expected to attend.

W. E. HOWELL.

Educational Department

By Frederick Griggs; W. E. Howell

· FREDERICK GRIGGS - - General Secretary W. E. HOWELL - - Assistant Secretary

Notes by the Way

By N. Z. Town

As one starts on a trip to any part of the world, he cannot fail to be impressed by the remarkable traveling facilities which have been brought into existence in these last days.

Leaving Washington the evening of September 14, a ride of a little over twenty hours brought us to Chicago. At 8:10 the next evening we took a train in Chicago on the Santa Fé route, and at noon the eighteenth we arrived in San Bernardino, Cal., the actual run from Washington, a distance of 2,990 miles, having been made in eighty-four hours, or three and one-half days. There are trains that do even better than this.

These means of rapid transit for the missionaries and silent messengers of the gospel have been developed at just the right time. It is interesting to read of how such possibilities were regarded just before the rise of this message. Back in the year 1828, a request was made of the school board in Lancaster, Ohio, for the use of the schoolhouse for the discussion of the question as to whether or not railroads were practical. The request was not granted, and in their refusal the school board said:—

“You are welcome to use the schoolhouse to debate all proper questions in, but such things as railroads and telegraphs are impossibilities and rank infidelity. There is nothing in the Word of God about them. If God had designed that his intelligent creatures should travel at the frightful speed of fifteen miles an hour, by steam, he would have clearly foretold it through his holy prophets. It is a device of Satan to lead immortal souls down to hell.”

Four years later, in 1832, the following notice appeared in a Philadelphia paper, said to be the first railway “ad.” ever published in this country:—

“NOTICE: The Locomotive Engine (built by M. W. Baldwin of this city) will depart DAILY when the weather is fair, with a train of passenger cars. In bad weather horse cars will run on the same schedule.”

How different now, with nearly 640,000 miles of railways in the world, a large percentage being in non-Christian lands, just where such facilities are most needed for the finishing of this work!

At San Bernardino we were met by an automobile from Loma Linda, and were soon comfortably settled in a pleasant room at the sanitarium. Here we met a fine class of young men and women, some taking the medical course, others the medical evangelistic course, and still others the nurses’ training course. There is quite a Spanish atmosphere in Southern California, and a deep interest was manifested in a stereopticon talk I gave one evening on our work in South America. The sanitarium was planning two series of health talks to be given in San Bernardino for the Spanish-speaking people in that town, the Parents and Teachers’ Association lending its cooperation

in the way of schoolhouses, lighted and heated. Dr. Newton Evans gave us the names of two young men whom he recommends for medical work in Latin America.

We were pleased to meet here Mrs. G. A. Irwin, who is now acting as matron of the sanitarium. She told us that the patronage at Loma Linda this past summer had been the best they have ever had at that season of year. Brother L. M. Bowen, the business manager, reported that the sanitarium is getting headed in the right way financially. Brother Bowen and Sister Irwin, with their associates, are doing their best to make every dollar reach as far as possible.

After being hospitably entertained at the sanitarium for three days, I left Mrs. Town there to rest and recuperate, and continued my trip. Sabbath, September 23, I spent in Mountain View, where I had the privilege of speaking to the church on the progress of our work in South America, especially among the Inca Indians.

The Pacific Press brethren were rushed with work. During 1911 they shipped out 154 tons of literature. The shipping steadily increased year by year, until in 1915 the total was 200 tons. During the first eight months of this year 215 tons were shipped, and the value of the literature sent out during this latter period is $68,000 more than for the same period in 1915. Brother C. H. Jones reported that their presses had never been so busy as this year.

At Mountain View Elder W. C. White met me to talk over the work that has been done in abridging some of Sister E. G. White’s larger books for publication in the Orient, where it would be difficult to sell the full volumes. Elders R. C. Porter and R. F. Cottrell, of China, and J. S. James, L. J. Burgess, and G. F. Enoch, of India, have united with Brother White and his associates in this work. Very careful, faithful work has been done,—work which we believe will be a blessing to the mission fields when these books are published.

Leaving San Francisco Sunday evening, September 24, I arrived at Vancouver, British Columbia, the morning of the twenty-seventh, and at noon the good ship “Makura,” on which I was booked, steamed out into Puget Sound, headed for New Zealand and Australia.

N. Z. TOWN.

Suva, Fiji.

Publishing Department

By N. Z. Town; W. W. Eastman

N. Z. TOWN General Secretary W. W. EASTMAN N. Am. Div. Secretary

The Fear of the Lord

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”

News from Our Eastern Branch

By I. A. FORD

We quote the following from a personal letter received from Brother J. D. Snider, the manager of our New York Branch office, which will be of interest to the readers of the REVIEW:—

“In ten days’ time, Miss Ruth Wilcox has sent us orders for more than fifteen hundred copies of ‘Armageddon.’ Miss Wilcox has sold these books in northern New England, where, until this year, our colporteurs have rather feared to go; and what is even more remarkable, she sold many of them at the rate of forty an hour. This only goes to show how willing the public are to buy these little books when once they are brought to their notice. Wherever our people have gone out with the World’s Crisis Library Prospectus and the Home Circle Library Prospectus, the reports have been very encouraging. These little books sell as well as ever.”

In another paragraph Brother Snider states that Miss Wilcox earned a scholarship in two weeks selling “Armageddon.” Such reports as this are very interesting, and should encourage many to engage in the sale of these rapid-selling books.

I. A. FORD.

The Morning Watch

By I. H. Evans

The readers of the Review and Herald are not strangers to the Morning Watch, and need but little argument to convince them of its vital worth.

In 1908 the officers of the Young People's Missionary Volunteer Department issued a neat booklet containing selections of Scripture to be memorized daily. This study of Scripture was planned to be accompanied by a season of meditation and prayer. The merits of this suggestive daily program were soon realized, and the practice of spending a few moments each day memorizing the verses and meditating on things of God soon spread beyond the young people. Preachers and laymen formed the Morning Watch habit, and were seen at camp meetings, institutes, and general meetings, studying the texts, and engaging in silent prayer.

The first year, the Department issued but six thousand of these Calendars. But the circulation has increased year by year, until now it is more than forty thousand. This means that over forty thousand Christians have formed the Morning Watch habit, with the attendant endeavor to memorize three hundred and sixty-five precious passages of Scripture during the year. But the growth of the circulation means more than that; it means forty thousand souls are crying to God daily for power, and for cleansing of their lives from sin. It means that forty thousand Seventh-day Adventists are engaged in daily secret prayer.

The selections of Scripture for the 1917 Morning Watch Calendar are confined to the Psalms. What book of all the Bible enters more heartily into man's daily experiences of joy and sorrow, of hope and fear, and of battles and victories, than those songs of David and other writers of psalms? In our experience sometimes we climb to Pisgah's summit, whence we may view the Beulah land beyond the turbulent Jordan, and breathe the atmosphere of the heavenly Canaan. At other times we seem to sound the depths of the valley of humiliation, and flounder in the slough of despond. But the psalms respond to all our experiences, and give comfort in the soul-struggles with the enemy through which we pass.

The Calendar contains a sunset table, and blanks for a daily record of missionary work done.

Soon the old year will be past. Its days have been freighted with unseemly sights, with convulsions of nature, and with perplexities innumerable both for nations and for individuals. Shall not the new year find the new Calendar in the hands of fifty thousand of our people, bringing the comforts and benefits of the Morning Watch habit? Parents should see that their children each have a Calendar, for it is difficult to make one suffice for all the members of the family.

It is desired that all our people who read the English language have their Calendars at the opening of the year, for great blessing will attend the study, meditation, and prayer suggested in them. The Morning Watch Calendar is also issued in several foreign languages.

The Morning Watch habit is a Christian habit that every believer should form at once, and follow during 1917.

I. H. EVANS.

The Bible Year

Assignment for December 24 to 31

December 24: Revelation 21, 22. December 25: John 1 to 3. December 26: John 4 to 6. December 27: John 7 to 9. December 28: John 10 to 12. December 29: John 13 to 15. December 30: John 16 to 18. December 31: John 19 to 21.

The Gospel According to John

"John, the evangelist and apostle, the younger brother of James, was the son of Zebedee, a fisherman, living at Bethsaida, on the Lake of Galilee. He appears to have been religiously brought up, and primarily a disciple of John the Baptist. He was directed by him to Jesus, whose close follower he became, being admitted to the most endearing intimacy with our Lord, and, with his brother James and Peter, selected to be a witness of the most solemn events in the Redeemer's life. He was especially characterized as the disciple whom Jesus loved. After remaining some time at Jerusalem, he resided at Ephesus, founding several churches in the neighborhood. Afterward he was banished to Patmos, where he wrote the book of Revelation. . . ."

"He was a man of ardent temperament, at times impetuous; but under the sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit, he became preëminently distinguished for the heavenly qualities of love, meekness, and humility. He was devotedly attached to the divine Master, standing by him at the cross, receiving his Lord's last message, and bearing witness to the terrible events of that awful period. He wrote the gospel bearing his name at Ephesus, A. D. 98, in the Greek language, nearly thirty years after the destruction of Jerusalem. . . ."

"The style of John's Gospel is simple, vivid, earnest, reverential, often full of pathos. Writing at a later date than the other evangelists, and after the destruction of Jerusalem and the overthrow of the Jewish polity, he writes under the supposition that his hearers are well acquainted with the earlier Gospels. He therefore omits all the parables recorded by the other evangelists, as also the Sermon on the Mount and the prophetic discourses. He gives an account of six miracles, five of which are peculiar to this Gospel. A large portion of John's Gospel is therefore entirely new, and the truths contained therein have been the solace, encouragement, and instruction of the church in all ages."

Missionary Volunteer Department

M. E. KERN Secretary MATILDA ERICKSON Assistant Secretary MRS. I. H. EVANS Office Secretary MILDRED MACGUIRE C. L. BENSON Field Secretaries J. F. SIMON

OBITUARIES

BARNES.—C. W. Barnes, was born Jan. 17, 1859, in Robertson County, Tex. He was married to Sarah Ann Mason Dec. 7, 1879. In 1892 he bought a copy of “Bible Readings,” and as a result accepted present truth. He died at his home, near Naples, Tex., Oct. 31, 1916, leaving his wife and seven children to mourn their loss.

ROBERT W. LEACH.

SPEAR.—Horace Mann Spear was born Aug. 21, 1866, in Bauer, Mich., and died in St. Helena, Cal., Nov. 18, 1916. He was married in Battle Creek, Mich., to Miss Myrtle A. Hoyt, where he was for many years connected with the Review and Herald Publishing Association. He afterward was employed at the International Publishing Association, at College View, Nebr., having charge of the bindery. He was a faithful, untiring worker, much devoted to the spread of the message he loved so well, and he died with a bright hope in the resurrection. He leaves his companion, four children, two brothers, and two sisters to mourn their loss.

L. M. SPEAR.

Mrs. Ella May Davis-Thurber

ELLA MAY DAVIS was born July 14, 1882, in Adrian, Mich., and died in Takoma Park, Md., Oct. 28, 1916, aged 34 years, 3 months, and 14 days. She was brought up in the faith, and was converted and baptized at the age of eighteen, while attending school at Mount Vernon Academy, Ohio. In 1902 she was united in marriage to Robert B. Thurber. To them were born four children, three boys and one girl, all of whom are still living.

In the year 1909 Brother and Sister Thurber were called to the mission field, and spent six years laboring in Burma. While there the faithful wife and mother was stricken with a serious tropical disease. As soon as the nature of the malady was determined, the family returned to America, and everything that medical skill and loving care could suggest was done for her recovery. She hovered between life and death for months, suffering greatly, yet always patient and cheerful. Many earnest prayers ascended in her behalf, and she became perfectly resigned to the will of God. To the last her faith and courage in God remained unshaken, and she peacefully fell asleep in Jesus. “He giveth his beloved sleep.” The husband and children, her parents, three sisters, and two brothers mourn their loss. Funeral services were conducted by the writer at the home of her parents, in Adrian, Mich., to which place she was taken after her decease.

W. H. WAKEHAM.

Change of Address

O. R. STAINES, formerly with the Hillcrest School, Nashville, Tenn., is now at Madison, Tenn., and should be addressed at that place.

Requests for Prayer

AN invalid sister in western New York asks our most earnest prayers for restoration to health.

A brother in Montana asks prayer for the healing and conversion of his brother; that his father may be able to overcome the tobacco habit and fully accept the gospel; and that other members of the family may have a deeper Christian experience.

Addresses Wanted

THE church at Clinton, Iowa, is anxious to learn the present address of Mr. H. T. Hohn. Send information to the clerk, Mrs. C. E. Nyberg, 104 Iowa Ave., Clinton, Iowa.

Our Periodical Department is in receipt of money for a year’s subscription to the REVIEW from Mrs. H. J. Pattison, but does not have her address. We should be pleased to hear from her immediately.

Nurses’ Training Course

THERE is opportunity for a limited number of earnest Christian young people to enter the regular three years’ Nurses’ Training Course at the Madison, Wis., Sanitarium, Jan. 1, 1917. Any desiring to enter should send for application blank at once.

P. L. LARSON.

Publications Wanted

THE persons named below desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent postpaid, for use in missionary work. In sending publications care should be exercised to select only such as are free from soil and disfigurement. We have been credibly informed that some who oppose this movement and the truths which it represents answer these requests for literature, and are sending to our brethren and sisters in various parts of the country tracts and papers representing their opposition. Our workers should be careful not to confound this literature with our denominational publications, and thus unwittingly become agents in sending out matter not printed in the interests of the cause of truth.

J. H. Clark, Offutt, Ky.

Henry Ramey, Davisville, Ky.

W. S. Fullbright, 2711 R. R. St., Cleveland, Tenn.

Mrs. James F. Woods, Lock Box 83, Wakarusa, Ind.

Mrs. Ida Burden, R. F. D. 2, Scio, Oregon, Continuous supply.

W. E. Carter, Hampton, Va. Continuous supply of all our publications.

Mrs. H. M. Burleigh, 4002 Seward St., North Omaha, Nebr. Periodicals and tracts.

Mrs. Geo. Bercha, R. F. D. 2, Herrick, S. Dak. Tracts and all papers except REVIEW.

M. W. Moss, Gravette, Ark., writes that he has all the papers he can use at present.

Mrs. M. C. Nelson, 1324 Hickory St., Texarkana, Ark. Signs, Instructor, and any of our magazines and tracts.

Rosa Dilsaver, R. F. D. 2, Box 239, Seattle, Wash. Signs (weekly and monthly), Watchman, Liberty, Instructor, and Little Friend.

Mrs. Anna Hall, 314 West Rosine St., St. Joseph, Mo. Continuous supply of papers, magazines, and tracts. Would appreciate literature in German, Swedish, Greek, and Hebrew.

B. H. Palmer, Blackduck, Minn. Sabbath School Quarterlies for the second quarter of 1916; also Little Friend and Instructor for the same period, as well as any or all of our magazines.

Mrs. J. H. Reames, 319 Glen Addie St., Anniston, Ala. REVIEW, Signs (weekly and monthly), Watchman, Liberty, Life and Health, Instructor, and any other publications. Continuous supply.

Improved

YOU will hardly recognize the Signs Magazine when you see the January number. From now on, its size and shape will be the same as the Harvest Ingathering Special. This is the size that so many magazines have adopted, and that has become so popular with the reading public.

Instead of increasing the subscription rates or prices to agents because of the great increase in cost of paper, the number of pages has been reduced. Here are some improvements that you will see: larger, brighter, better-illustrated pages; one size smaller, easily read type; improved, interest-attracting headings; more carefully prepared articles, short of every nonessential. New life is being infused into the Signs Magazine. You will say so when you read the January number.

History does not offer a parallel to the present accumulation of gold in our country. Bible students immediately associate this condition with the prophecies referring to it. That very thing is done in a big, strong, convincing way in the January Signs Magazine, in an article that will make a deep impression on your neighbors if—if you place a copy in their hands.

Another feature is a cleverly written article on the modern speed mania, which you will wish to read a second time. It appears under the heading, “Flipping Life’s Pages.” Others are: “Blowing at the Shrine of Atheism;” “Clinging to Wilted Stems;” “Among ‘Savage Christians’;” “Signing Her Emancipation Papers;” “Belting the Globe with the Message;” “The Hope of All Ages;” “All Six, and the Seventh;” “In the Creator’s Workshop;” “A Substitute for Death.” Every article is a masterpiece. These articles, together with the beautiful cover, depicting coffers bursting from a flood of gold, place this January number in a class by itself. You will surely want some to sell or to give away. Prices as usual: 5 to 40 copies, 5 cents each; 50 or more, 4 cents each. Tell your secretary how many you can use.

Atlanta Dairy Farm for Sale

THERE has been donated to the Southern Junior College, the new central training school for the Southern and Southeastern Union Conferences, a good dairy farm in the outskirts of Atlanta, Ga. This farm is to be sold, and the proceeds used in building up the new school. The farm is described as follows:—

There are 22½ acres: 12 acres good bottom land, about 5 acres upland in small grain, and the rest in beautiful pine grove. Good three-room house, barn, well, splendid stream of running water. Twenty minutes’ walk to car line; twenty minutes’ walk to church school and Curtis Sanitarium. A most beautiful location; just the thing for family desiring to have church and church school privileges, and yet live in the country. Suitable for dairy or general farming. Price, $4,850. Every dollar goes to the school. The money is needed now. Write the Southeastern Union Conference, 169 Bryan St., Atlanta, Ga., for particulars.

W. H. BRANSON.

Review and Herald Publishing Association

NOTICE is hereby given that the fifteenth annual meeting of the members of the constituency of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D. C., will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church at Takoma Park, Md., at 7 P. M., Jan. 30, 1917, for the election of five trustees, to take the place of five whose term of office expires at that time, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.

The members of this corporation are,—the members of the following committees: the executive committee of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the North American Division Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Atlantic Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Eastern Canadian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Lake Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of each local conference of Seventh-day Adventists within the territory of the above-named Union Conferences of Seventh-day Adventists; and the general agents of the above-named Union Conferences of Seventh-day Adventists, the field agents and the tract society secretaries within the territory of the above-named Union Conferences of Seventh-day Adventists, the editors of periodicals published by the Review and Herald Publishing Association, the managers of the publishing house departments and branch offices, and such persons as have received certificates of membership in the association.

By order of the board of trustees,

F. M. WILCOX, President.

I. A. FORD, Secretary.

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Peace Proposals and Bible Circulation

As we go to press, peace proposals have been made by the Teutonic allies to the entente powers. It is not definitely known at this writing what is embraced in these proposals. They were made through the ambassadors of the United States, Spain, and Switzerland, who were asked to bring them before the nations at war with the Teutonic allies. Notes have also been transmitted to the Vatican, and the active interest of the Pope solicited in the peace offer. As to how these proposals will be received by the enemies of the central empires, it is too early to state. It is considered, however, that since one set of belligerents have signified willingness to discuss peace terms, the way is open for neutral nations, without embarrassment, to tender their offices toward the realization of peace in a way heretofore impossible because of the apparent unwillingness of both sides of the controversy to consider peace terms. The outcome of these peace proposals will be watched with interest by the entire world.

THE report of the American Bible Society gives the following interesting statement: “The fact that the Bible is being circulated and read in considerably over five hundred languages and dialects is both inspiring and encouraging. It is estimated that seven out of every ten of the human population have had the gospel story provided for them in their own tongue.”

Harvest Ingathering Campaign

By F. W. Paap

WE are watching with the deepest interest the progress of the Harvest Ingathering campaign. In a few days the complete returns for November will be in. It is now the middle of December; only about two more weeks remain to labor, and then the 1916 records close, for the present at least. What will these records show?

“Every man’s work passes in review before God, and is registered for faithfulness or unfaithfulness. Opposite each name in the books of heaven is entered, with terrible exactness, every wrong word, every selfish act, every unfulfilled duty, and every secret sin, with every artful dissembling. Heaven-sent warnings or reproofs neglected, wasted moments, unimproved opportunities, the influence exerted for good or for evil, with its far-reaching results,—all are chronicled by the recording angel.”—“The Great Controversy,” p. 482.

If we could at all times view our work, our activities, in the light of such a judgment, it would have a very sobering, solemnizing effect. We should do more earnest, faithful work for God.

We wish that every believer in this great second advent movement would scan his activities in the 1916 Harvest Ingathering campaign in the light of the judgment. Are you ready for the books to close with things as they are? Have you visited your neighbors and given them an opportunity to read this special paper, and at the same time contribute toward the spread of God’s work? Have you a complement of papers still on hand and unworked territory? We appeal to you again to leave no stone unturned to make this united effort all that it should be.

We are certain that many have done their best. They have spent days in the field, and God has richly blessed them. The many good reports that have come to us through the mails, as well as those appearing in the various Union Conference papers, have greatly cheered our hearts. We wish that every one who has not yet done his duty would press in during the few remaining days. If you are timid, seek the Lord all the more earnestly. He will send his angel before you. We call upon all to give a last, strong, earnest lift on this great and grand united effort. F. W. PAAP.

En Route to the Orient

By Arthur G. Daniells

THIS is Friday afternoon, so we have been on the ocean a week and a day. The voyage has not been a pleasant one for the passengers generally. We have had sunshine only a part of one day. The rest of the time it has been very cloudy, with a cold wind coming down from the Aleutian Islands, and the sea has been quite rough. Most of our company have been seasick more or less. Yet on the whole, we have fared very well.

We shall be due in Yokohama in three days. As our Japanese brethren know we are coming, they will be sure to meet us, and to keep us busy while our boat remains in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki, in each of which we shall be from six to twelve hours. From Nagasaki we are to sail direct to Manila.

We are hoping that we shall be able to organize a conference in the Philippines. We now have nine hundred church members there, and perhaps two hundred others are keeping the Sabbath. As far as numbers are concerned, there is no reason why we could not organize a conference in that field. They now have a good publishing house, and the field work is being operated successfully. They have a training school, with probably seventy-five or one hundred students. The St. Helena Sanitarium has authorized us to take immediate steps to establish well-equipped treatment-rooms and a dispensary in the city of Manila. That institution promises to send a physician and a head nurse. The total expense is to be met from the earnings of the sanitarium, which already has $5,000 on hand with which to equip the plant, and place the doctor and nurses in the field.

We shall have an important conference in Asia. At that time we must face the problems of half the world. It will be a wonderful meeting. In many respects it will be far more thrilling and inspiring even than a General Conference session. As we cross the day line, this vast field begins to loom up in all its great proportions, needs, and possibilities.

A. G. DANIELLS.

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