The Western Watchman (Catholic) of St. Louis, quotes very liberally, and with all seeming approval, from Judge Grosscup’s Chicago public address demanding the teaching of religion in the public schools; but in the same number, in noticing an instance where that was being done which the judge demanded, but not in accordance with Catholic ideas, the Watchman says:—
“Catholic students at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor have been warned by the Rev. E. D. Kelly, pastor of St. Thomas’s Church of Ann Arbor, not to take the courses of philosophy under Professor Wenley, who has been placed at the head of the Ann Arbor School of Religion in the University. In a sermon recently, Father Kelly said: ‘Catholics attending the university are hereby warned not to take any of the so-called philosophy courses given by Professor Wenley. The teachings of the Church are the teachings of Christ. I do not believe that they can be improved on by the teachings of any college professor.’”
The establishment of the School of Religion in the Michigan University followed a lecture by Bishop Williams on the “imperative necessity” of a department of religion in the university. University professors are the instructors in the school. At the head of it is Professor Wenley, whose “liberal” teachings have attracted attention, and to which the Catholic prelate, Mr. Kelly, objects. F. FREDERICK BLISS.
Christian Liberty
Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience.
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL . . . . Secretary
W. A. COLCORD . . . Corresponding Secretary
Notes
By Editor
IN a late number of the Pacific Union Recorder, Elder J. O. Corliss makes the following announcements for religious liberty institutes in California: Loma Linda, November 12-21; San Diego, 23-28; Los Angeles, December 2-12; Fresno, 14-20; Armona, 21-27. Three more institutes are planned for in the northern part of the State, the places for holding them only awaiting settlement. This is a splendid program. We would be pleased to see similar activity in other States.
A brother in Ohio informs us that he has sold about twelve hundred copies of the last issue of Liberty. A few agents of this kind in each State would very soon raise the circulation of this excellent magazine to over one hundred thousand.
Elder C. A. Scholl, of Allegheny, Pa., relates a very interesting incident, in the Columbia Visitor, in connection with his tent work there the past season—how he found a Roman Catholic factory owner who believed in religious freedom and promised to carefully read Liberty. Not only so, but he generously arranged work on Sunday for one of his employees who had just been converted and had begun to keep the Sabbath, and for whom Elder Scholl had called to make a personal plea.
Current Mention
—Already the War Department of the United States is testing a newly invented gun which is designed to destroy air-ships.
—Charles N. Crittenton of New York, the founder of the seventy-three Florence Crittenton Rescue Homes for Girls, died in New York, on Nov. 16, 1909.
—An incipient rebellion is now in progress in Haiti, and in an encounter between rebels and government troops on November 1, the government troops were defeated, and the insurgents seized the town of Guayabin.
—The State Department of the United States has notified the government of Chile that in case the Alsop claim is not settled within ten days, either by payment or by Chile signifying her willingness to submit the claim to The Hague Court, diplomatic relations will be broken off between the two countries. This claim is of long standing, dating from 1876.
—An explosion occurred on November 13 in the St. Paul Company's Coal-Mine at Cherry, Ill., as a result of which 385 men were entombed. The fire raging in the mine after the explosion made it impossible to render any effective service for the entombed men for several days, and for a time practically all hope was abandoned of getting any of the men out alive. On the sixth day after the explosion five dead bodies had been taken out. The day following twenty men were taken out alive, and hopes are entertained that still others may be found. This ranks as one of the greatest mining disasters of this country.
—As a result of the recent shooting of two American citizens as insurgents by order of President Zelaya of Nicaragua, the new Nicaraguan minister to the United States has been informed that he can not be received by the President under the present circumstances, and two American war-vessels have been despatched to the opposite coasts of Nicaragua to protect American interests. It is reported that about 500 Nicaraguan revolutionists have recently been shot without trial by order of the Nicaraguan president. The American government has expressed to Nicaragua its intention to recognize the validity of the revolutionists' blockade of Nicaraguan ports so long as it is efficiently maintained.
—The general superintendent of the Union Pacific Railroad Company is authority for the statement that one human being is killed every hour and one injured every ten minutes on American railroads.
—Statistics show that nearly 10,000 persons are murdered each year in the United States, while the sum total of deaths from crimes of violence in Great Britain and Germany together is only 1,000.
—Work is to be begun immediately on the fortifications for the protection of the Panama Canal. It is reported that the work of building the canal may be completed within the next four years, and to have the fortifications completed by that time, work must be begun at once. These fortifications will cost between fifteen and twenty-five million dollars.
—President Alcorta of Argentina has issued a decree proclaiming martial law throughout the entire country for sixty days, because of the spread of anarchistic propaganda, which reached its climax in the assassination on November 14 of the chief of police of Buenos Aires and his secretary. The police assert that the assassination of the chief and his secretary was part of a vast anarchist plot.
—A report from the central bureau of the German public weal society in Berlin shows that as a result of an inquiry into the feeding of schoolchildren in 189 German towns, 36,000 children habitually go breakfastless to school, while of the total number of children in these towns five per cent were sent to bed each night supperless and hungry. No fewer than 95,000 children had to be fed by public assistance committees.
—Dr. Louise G. Robinovitch demonstrated in New York City on November 18 her ability so to manipulate an electrical apparatus of her own invention as to bring to life a rabbit which was pronounced dead. The rabbit had been killed by an electrical shock administered for the purpose of making the demonstration in resuscitation. She claims that the apparatus can be utilized in bringing to life persons who have been killed by electrical shock.
—The new monorail car, whose equilibrium is maintained by the use of the gyroscope, and which was first shown in model form some eighteen months ago in London, received its first public demonstration on November 10, on a full scale, on the war-office grounds in London. The car was forty feet long, ten feet wide, and thirteen feet high, weighing twenty-two tons, and was mounted on a single rail, running freely around curves of all sorts and angles, and carrying forty passengers with complete safety and very little vibration. Two gyroscopes weighing three quarters of a ton supplied the stability. The motive power is entirely contained in a petrol engine, which is used to drive the dynamo. Mr. Brennan, the inventor, declares he found the efficiency of the new principle in a full-sized car far greater proportionately than in the small model. He asserts also that a speed of 150 miles an hour can be attained with greater safety in cars thus operated than at sixty miles an hour with the present apparatus.
Writing for the Press
By W. A. C.
A BROTHER from California, requesting a copy of “How to Write for the Press,” says: “I have done a little along the line of writing for the public press. Last fall and winter I contributed about twenty articles to five of the leading papers in the county, and I hope to do more this winter.”
A sister in California, sending for a copy, writes: “In the REVIEW of October 21 I find the notice of ‘How to Write for the Press.’ That seems an answer to my prayer for an opportunity for service in our precious message.”
We are certain that this matter of writing for the press has great possibilities in it, and that a great field of usefulness may thus be opened up for many, and an opportunity found for putting to use much hitherto dormant talent.
W. A. C.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
By Editor
The Christmas Idea
BETWEEN now and the twenty-fifth of December, millions of people will give much time and thought to this great annual festival. The occasion will be especially marked by feasting and the giving of gifts, both of which too often cause regrets on the part of participants. True, many sensible persons receive a genuine blessing at this time, by making others happy in ministering to their needs.
This is a reduced facsimile of the December “Signs Monthly” cover. It will appear in two colors; admired by all who have seen it.
“How Will You Spend Christmas?” is the title of an excellent one-page article by M. C. Wilcox in the December Signs of the Times Monthly. One page only, but every sentence is fraught with interesting and helpful thought.
“The Origin of Christmas;” “True Greatness—A Lesson for Christmas;” “The Babe of Bethlehem;” “The Nativity of Christ: Its Lessons,” are titles of other contributions bearing on the Christmas idea, and appearing in this issue.
In view of the fact that everybody is thinking of these things, don’t you think, dear friends, that an exceptional opportunity is thus afforded to get the truth before the people by means of this excellent number of the magazine? Do you not feel impressed to respond to this suggestion and have a part in this good work?
Here are a few of the other good things to be found in the Christmas number: Current Topics, which have a bearing on fulfilling prophecy: “Pentecost,” by Mrs. E. G. White; “Struggle for Religious Liberty in the Western World;” “The Day and Purpose of the Sabbath;” “World Building” (Creation or Evolution); “Divine Healing;” Bible Reading on Temperance, a story.
We furnish helps free. Send a trial order through your tract society, or to the Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Cal. Twenty-five copies will cost you $1; you sell them for $2.50.
“The Signs does bring people into the truth.”
The “Watchman”
THE December number of the Watchman should have an extensive circulation. Important questions of interest to this generation, as shown in the conditions prevailing in the political, religious, and social worlds, will be ably discussed. Now is an excellent time to subscribe for the Watchman for 1910. January 1 the price advances to one dollar a year.
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Business Notices
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WANTED.—One or two Sabbath-keeping men to cut wood and clear land. Work for one year. Address at once, J. J. Knapp, R. F. D. 2, Box 274, Hood River, Ore.
WANTED.—Man with family to rent a 160-acre farm with stock furnished, or to work by the month among Sabbath-keepers, with church and school privileges. Address N. C. Christensen, Burt, Iowa.
HYGIENIC VEGETABLE COOKING OIL.—The oil used by our people. 5 gal., $3.50; 10 gal., $6.75. Cans crated. ½ bbl. (about 32 gal.), 60 cents a gal. By freight from Louisville, Ky. Address Dr. O. C. Godsmark, Chattanooga, Tenn.
FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor, keeps indefinitely; 5-gal. can, $3.50; 10-gal. can, $6.75; 61 cents a gal. in half-barrel and barrel lots; 30 gal. and 50 gal. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.
WANTED.—Girl or middle-aged woman to do housework, permanent position, good wages, and a good home with church privileges to competent person. Can furnish good references, and will ask the same from those answering. Lyman Middaugh, Ames, Neb.
FOR SALE.—House three miles from Hot Springs, Ark. Near church-school, healthful locality, five-room house, cistern, spring water accessible, two and one-half acres, berries and grapes bearing, thirty young fruit trees. Address C. J. Dart, Fayetteville, Ark.
WANTED AT ONCE.—At the Long Beach Sanitarium, first-class graduate lady nurses. Seventh-day Adventists. Write, giving experience, school from which you were graduated, and whether or not you could come at once. Address Dr. Winegar Simpson, Long Beach, Cal.
A BARGAIN.—Two hundred thirty-two acres; ninety-five cultivated; living springs and branch; rolling and bottom land; all under wire, five miles. Country site; one mile to school, store, church, railroad station. Corn, cotton, vegetables, berries and fruit, including figs, grow to perfection. No crop failure. Healthy. $10.50 terms, answer quick. S. H. McCulloch, R. F. D. 4, Jefferson, Tex.23
FOR SALE.—Peanut Butter, 10 cents a pound; 100 pounds, freight paid, $12. Write for special low prices on Vegetarian Meat; Cocoanut, Peanut, Olive, and Cooking Oils; Cereal Coffee; Whole-wheat Flour, etc. All guaranteed pure. Vegetarian Meat Co., Washington, D. C.
FOR SALE.—80 acres, sandy loam and light sand, will grow fruit and grain. 8-room house, cellar, well, and cistern, large basement barn, orchard, several lakes in sight, rural delivery, telephone. Regular Sabbath services and church-school. Price, $4,000. Address C. E. Messer, R. F. D. 1, Box 35, Berlamont, Mich.
FOR SALE.—Improved Fountain Pen, self-filling, without rubber sack nuisance, self-regulating flow, self-cleaning, can not leak. $2.50, $4, and $5. Send cash with order, and receive pen on guaranty of absolute satisfaction or money refunded. College View Supply Co., College View, Neb.
WANTED.—Competent bookkeeper and stenographer. Must be Seventh-day Adventist, man or woman. Also a young man who would like to work as a salesman in a tailors' trimmings store. P. Svenson & Co., 158 Fifth Ave., Chicago, Ill.
CALIFORNIA DRIED FRUITS.—Shipped direct from ranch in Napa Valley to families, schools, restaurants, and sanitariums. Larger variety, better facilities, prompt shipment. Write for circular “R” giving full information. St. Helena Home Fruit Co., Sanitarium, Napa Co., Cal.
BEAUTIES! BIBLE MOTTOES, SIZE, 12 X 16.—1,000,000 Father and Mother Mottoes for Sale, besides the many other Beauties in Stock. Father and Mother Mottoes lead. Xmas will soon be here. 100, assorted, $5; 200, $9. Father and Mother Mottoes alone, 200, $12. Write quickly. Address Hampton Art Co., Hampton, Iowa.
SPECIAL NOTICE.—For a limited time the new food factory owned and operated by the Southern Union Conference has a special freight-paid offer to our people in all the States. Write at once for circular giving full information, together with price-list and order blank. Address Nashville Sanitarium Food Factory, Nashville, Tenn.
WANTED.—Family of earnest Adventists to buy 40 acres of irrigated land 2½ miles from town. Or will subdivide to suit purchasers. New church, small Sabbath-school. Fine opportunity to do good and so make a living. Rio Grande valley, 12 miles from Mexico, 30 miles from coast. Crops grow all the year. Opening for blacksmith in town. Enclose stamp. P. C. Shockey, Harlingen, Tex.
Organ Needed for North Carolina School
By G. W. Wells
Notice!
ANY one of our brethren having an organ which he will donate to a worthy school in North Carolina, where it will be greatly appreciated, will be doing a great favor by writing the undersigned at Hildebran, N. C.
G. W. WELLS, President.
Change of Address
THE headquarters of the South Carolina Conference has been removed from Campobello, S. C., to Spartanburg, S. C., R. F. D. 5. All mail intended for the secretary and treasurer, Miss Eliza Warner, should be sent to the new address.
“Bible Training School”
By Editor
BEGINNING with the December number, the Bible Training School will commence a series of articles on the minor prophets of the Bible, which will be of especial interest to every one interested in Bible study. The small prophetic books are seldom referred to, yet they are full of instruction applicable to our own time.
The series begins with the book of Amos, and will continue throughout the year.
Subscription price of the Bible Training School is 25 cents a year. Address Bible Training School, South Lancaster, Mass., or order through your tract society.
Publications Wanted
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Mrs. Katy Taylor, 6503 Cedar St., Cleveland, Ohio, copies of any of our papers, to be used in depot racks.
W. Davis Burt, New Milford, Pa., desires for distribution copies of the REVIEW, Signs, and tracts on the Sabbath question.
O. Thorson, Box 505, Golden, Colo., wishes a continual supply of papers — Signs, Instructor, Liberty, Protestant Magazine, and Life and Health.
Mary E. West, 122½ South Church St., Spartanburg, S. C., desires clean copies of the REVIEW, Signs of the Times, Watchman, or any of our other periodicals.
Mrs. C. E. Hammond (assist. church clerk), 110 Linden Ave., Buffalo, N. Y., desires the addresses of Mable McDonald, Lotta McDonald, Mrs. McDowell, and Mrs. Florence Erb.
Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium Training School for Nurses
A NEW class will be started in the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium Training School for missionary nurses, Jan. 1, 1910. Young men and women nineteen years of age and upward, whose lives are consecrated to the work, who have a good education, and who are physically well and strong, are desired to make up this class. It is the purpose of those in charge of this class to maintain the very highest standard of theoretical and practical instruction; and students are wanted who have high ideals, and whose only object is to work for the salvation of souls and the advancement of the third angel's message.
Write at once for the new announcement and application blank to the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium, Boulder, Colo.
Obituaries
WILBUR.—Died in Texarkana, Ark., Oct. 8, 1909, Orren A. Wilbur, aged 57 years, 6 months, and 7 days. He leaves to mourn his loss two daughters and three sons. He was a believer in the truths of the third angel's message. MRS. CLARA J. LEWIS.
EADS.—Died in Colorado Springs, Colo. of heart failure, Sister Anna Eads, aged fifty-four years. She was born in Van Wert County, Ohio, in 1855. She came with her parents to the State of Wisconsin in 1858, spending her childhood days there, moving to Nebraska in 1870, and from thence to Colorado in 1880. She was married to Chas. E. Eads in 1892. To them were born two sons, who, with their father, survive her. Sister Eads' death was very sad. She retired Sunday night, September 12, about as well as usual (though she has not been in good health for several years), and was found by her husband dead in her bed the next morning. She embraced the third angel's message when only a girl, and was a true and faithful member of the church until her death. A loving companion, mother, sister, and faithful member of the church of Christ has been laid away to await the return of our blessed Saviour, whom she loved and served. Funeral services were conducted by the writer. G. W. ANGLERBARGER.
ZEGELER.—Eli Zegeler was born in Warren County, Missouri, Jan. 29, 1895, and died Aug. 23, 1909, in Wichita, Kan. Eli had for many months previous to his last sickness shown a great love for the Bible. He was faithful in attending the Sabbath meetings. He had expressed the desire to be baptized at the camp-meeting, which his sickness hindered him from attending. He gave evidence that he had found pardon through believing in Jesus. JAMES A. MORROW.
LOOMIS.—Henry Malvin Loomis was born Jan. 7, 1852, in Wisconsin; and died Oct. 18, 1909, aged 57 years, 9 months, and 11 days. Brother Loomis was injured in his legs by an accident at an early period in life, after which he had to walk with crutches. He had but little of earthly goods, yet few in his church put more into the Lord's treasury than did he. He and his aged father cut cordwood to sell at the market, putting all received into the cause of God, save a bare living. On Sabbath, after an earnest season of prayer, in which his voice was heard pleading with God, it was found he could not rise. Dr. Myers and others went to his assistance, but he never walked or spoke again. The doctor pronounced it apoplexy. Our brother will be missed in the church, where he seldom was absent. He leaves few relatives, but many friends, and not a known enemy. He died at his home in Vancouver, Wash. The Seventh-day Adventist church was filled with sympathizing friends and neighbors, and the writer spoke words of comfort from Job 5:26. R. D. BENHAM.
HALL.—Died in Mannsville, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1909, Mrs. Fannie Hall. Sister Hall was born in the town of Lorraine, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1837. She spent her entire life in, and in the vicinity of, Mannsville, where she has been highly respected. In 1854 she was married to George H. Hall, who died in 1898. A daughter, Mrs. W. P. Bartlett, of Collinwood, Ohio, was their only child, and she survives her parents. Five other children were at different times the objects of her mother-love and care; one, Miss Grace Hall, who has always remained with her. At the age of fifteen Sister Hall was converted and joined the Methodist Church, and a few years later accepted the light of present truth. She was alone in the observance of the Sabbath for several years, but later her husband joined her, and remained faithful till his death. She was ever loyal to the truths of the third angel's message, and will be greatly missed by the church at Mannsville, of which she was a faithful member and attendant for forty years. Her earnest prayers and testimonies will long be remembered by those who heard them. The writer spoke to a large concourse of friends, who gathered in appreciation of her useful and devoted life. F. C. WEBSTER.
SHARP.—Rebecca Jane Sharp was born in Houghton, Ontario, Canada, Feb. 11, 1844, and died at Bay City, Mich., Oct. 21, 1909, aged 65 years, 8 months, and 10 days. In October, 1861, she was united in marriage with George E. Sharp, who, with one daughter, one brother, and one sister, are left to mourn her loss. In early life she attended the Baptist Church, her father being a deacon in that church for many years, but she did not make any profession of religion until after her marriage, and removal to Lepeer, Mich., where, in 1867, under the labors of Elder Lawrence, she was converted, baptized, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church. Later she took her membership to the Arbela (Mich.) church. For the last twenty years, since leaving the vicinity of the Arbela church, she has been too far removed from any church to attend services with any regularity, but has always tried to live a consistent Christian life, and studied to be able to give an answer for the hope which she held so dear. The funeral services were held at the Bay City Seventh-day Adventist church, Sabbath, October 23, Elder A. R. Sanborn speaking words of comfort from the text she chose, Rev. 14:13. Surely the works of Sister Sharp do follow her. We laid her to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery, trusting to meet her at the first resurrection. R. R. N.
CARTY.—Died at the home of Mrs. C. Mulford, Oxford, Mich., Oct. 21, 1909, Mrs. Lucy Carty. She was born in the State of Ohio in 1830. Sister Carty had reached the ripe age of seventy-eight years, and enjoyed a bright experience, with strong faith and a clear hope in the rapid completion of the work of God and the giving of rewards to the faithful. She was a member of the Edenville Seventh-day Adventist church, where she resided until the death of her husband. Many of her dear friends and relatives assembled at the funeral held at the home of Mrs. Mulford. E. K. SLADE.
REED.—Harold Lincoln Reed, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert L. Reed, was born at Seymour, Wis., Nov. 21, 1893, and died at the home of his birth Oct. 16, 1909. Harold was a bright scholar and good boy, and for the last few weeks before his death he seemed more careful and thoughtful than usual. He read his Bible more, and manifested appreciation for every service rendered him. It almost seemed as if he was getting ready for the change which was so near, and yet so unexpected by them all. He leaves to mourn their loss a father, mother, three brothers, and four sisters. The funeral service was conducted by the writer, who based his remarks upon 2 Tim. 4:7, 8, the text chosen by the parents of the deceased. P. C. HANSON.
BRISBANE.—Sister Sarah Emily Dickinson Brisbane was born at Newcastle, Pa., Nov. 11, 1830, and died at the home of her daughter at the close of the Sabbath, Oct. 23, 1909. She had attended the morning service at the church, and expressed herself as appreciating the message given, little thinking it was the last she would hear. The immediate cause of her death is not known, though she had been weaker than usual for nearly three weeks. Hers has been a life of Christian service, and her many friends testify to her life of love and devotion. She was married early in life to Dr. Benjamin Brisbane, whose faithful service made him an eminent doctor in the army during the Civil War. After the war he became a Baptist minister, and together they devoted their lives to the Master's service. Her husband has been dead nearly thirty years. Some fifteen years ago the light of present truth came to her, and she most gladly accepted it, and has rejoiced since in the thought that in a little while Jesus will come, and then the glad reunion at the resurrection morning. Six years ago she came to Chicago to live with her daughter, Mrs. Johnson, and united with the Ravenswood church, where she has been a faithful member since. She leaves three daughters and two sons to mourn their loss; but they sorrow not as those who have no hope. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. J. M. BURDICK.
DEVINNEY.—Mrs. Weltha Mather DeVinney, mother of Elder F. H. DeVinney, president of the New York Conference, died at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Frank Halliday, East Galway, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1909. Sister DeVinney was born in Dresserville, N. Y., in 1830, and was therefore in her eightieth year. She was sick but five days, being taken with what seemed to be nothing but hoarseness, but which developed into pneumonia. She realized that it was her last sickness, and was often found in prayer. She first heard the truth from a Sister VanMarten, in Groton, N. Y., and later listened to a series of lectures by Elder S. B. Whitney, but did not fully identify herself with the denomination until she moved from this place to Syracuse, where she united with the church. She was the mother of four children, but one son alone, Elder F. H. DeVinney, survives her. She also leaves three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. These mourn not as those who have no hope. The funeral was conducted by the writer in the little church at East Galway, where a number of the friends and members of the church, as well as those not of our faith, assembled to show the respect in which she was held in the community. After the funeral the remains were taken to her old home in the western part of the State, where she was laid to rest to await the voice of the Life-giver to call her home. A. J. CLARK.
Australasian Union Conference Council
THE Australasian Union Conference Record for October 4 brings a report of a union conference council held in September. The recommendations of the council were numerous, dealing with all departments of their work. The report on distribution of labor contains forty-one items. One recommendation adopted is a message to our people in America: “Recognizing the great calls for laborers which were made upon the General Conference, we hereby express our gratitude to our brethren in America for their consideration of our needs in inviting Brother Machlan and family, Brother and Sister Burke, Brother Cole and family, and Brother Spear and family, to make Australia their field of labor; and we desire to express to these brethren and sisters our hearty appreciation of the practical interest they have shown in the work of the Lord in this field by responding to the call of the General Conference; and on behalf of the Australasian brethren we extend to them a cordial welcome to these shores.”
Very likely the record for the highest single gift in the Harvest Ingathering for missions will go to East Michigan. In response to an appeal accompanying a special Review sent out in that conference, a check for a thousand dollars was forwarded to our General Conference treasury.
Washington Sanitarium Growth and Missionaries to China
AFTER having spent six months or more in the temporary business management of the Washington Sanitarium at Takoma Park, Brother L. M. Bowen left this month to return to California, to resume his work as business manager of the St. Helena Sanitarium. Brother T. C. Nethery takes up the work in the Washington institution. As he was leaving, Brother Bowen remarked to us that the Washington Sanitarium business had increased sixty per cent. this year, and had more than doubled in two years, which he felt was a very encouraging showing.
ON the sixteenth, from San Francisco, Brother C. Sparks and wife, of Nebraska, sailed for China, their future field of labor.
No Second Sabbath Reading Next Month
On account of the first Sabbath of the week of prayer being the second Sabbath in December, the Mission Board will send out no second Sabbath reading for next month.
Island Laborers Recommended for New Guinea
By Editor
WE are glad to see the names of Fijian and other island natives in the list of trained laborers recommended to newer mission fields by the recent Australasian Union Conference council. The council recommends Jakope and Ruci, of Fiji, to New Guinea; and of Tuaine Solomona, native place not named, is also recommended to the New Guinea mission. The time has come when laborers from the islands long worked may now be light-bearers to the regions beyond.
Protestant Magazine for Fourth Quarter 1909
By Editor
Protestant Magazine for the fourth quarter of 1909 is being mailed this week. This number is fully up to the high standard of literary excellence set by its predecessors. The Protestant Magazine is ably edited, and the matter it contains, both contributed and selected, is worthy of the careful and serious consideration of all thoughtful men. Its earnest study will serve to educate the believers in this movement regarding vital issues which must soon be met. We shall give next week a more detailed description of the subject-matter of the last number.
The Truth Is Stirring Russia
By a post-card from Odessa, Russia, just as he was sailing for Constantinople, Elder L. R. Conradi wrote: “Our meeting closes here to-night. The truth is stirring this country; article after article appears about us in the papers, long ones at that, favorable and unfavorable. Tracts are published against us in the Russian. But our meetings were crowded, and the Lord is at work.”
The Morning Watch Calendar
By Editor
A NEAT, artistic little booklet of ten pages, selling for five cents, is “The Morning Watch Calendar” for 1910. While designed particularly for the young, it will be found equally valuable to all classes in the outlines and suggestions it presents for daily Bible study, meditation, and prayer. We hope every reader will secure a copy, and heartily unite in the daily prayer communion. Address your tract society, or Young People’s Missionary Volunteer Department, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
Death of Washington Morse
In a recent letter from Brother G. W. Morse, we learn of the death of his father, Washington Morse, which occurred at De Land, Fla., November 9. Our aged brother was among the early believers in this movement, and attested his faith by a long life of godly devotion. Further particulars will be furnished later.
Week of Prayer Readings
THE readings for the week of prayer, contained in last week's REVIEW, are being sent to church elders and leaders, and to the isolated. Let every company of believers make prayerful preparation for the services during the week of prayer, December 11-18, that none may fail to receive the blessing that comes from unitedly seeking God for a great spiritual uplift.
Prayers for Laborers in Poor Health
We are pleased to hear that Elder C. J. McMoody, formerly of Turkey, is improving in health in the Oklahoma climate, where he is living an outdoor life. Elder J. H. Krum, compelled to return from Palestine some years ago, is also in Oklahoma seeking to regain health. Shall we not remember often in prayer these and other efficient laborers who are unable to engage fully in the work?
