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Review and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 16.

The Call of Wisdom
Earlier text: God Has Made a Difference

A Foreign Mission Field in New England

A WRITER in the Outlook gives us a glimpse of a Portuguese mission field in New England:—
“It is by a curious irony of fate that this historic little town where the Pilgrims first landed, and which was afterward settled by the purest of New England stock, descendants of the Pilgrims, should to-day seem like a South European town. . . . The names on the shops are Coreas, Silvas, Cabrals, Mantas; the very language of the street is foreign.
“So true is this, that it strikes even the children. A little Provincetown boy once landed at Ponta del Garda at St. Michael’s, in the Azores. He looked around at the handsome, dark-eyed children, the sailors loafing at the waterfront, and the signs on the shops, and his comment was, ‘Why, this is just like home!’ And no wonder; for it is from the Azores that the first immigrants came.
“It is one of the ironies that time plays on a country that this landing-place of the Pilgrims should to-day have more Roman Catholics than it has members of any other denomination. And not only so, but part of the service in the Catholic Church is always in an alien tongue; for the priest preaches in Portuguese for the benefit of the new arrivals, and then in English for the children of those who know English better than the tongue of their fathers.”

A Call for Workers

By M. Bessie DeGraw

As you have read of the conditions in the South, have you ever felt stirred by the Spirit to give yourself to this field? Have you ever had a desire to consecrate your service to missionary work, to have your “hands filled with the service of the Lord”?
The spirit of prophecy tells us that thousands should enter the South, and that a quick work should be done here. You have read the parable of the supper, which represents God’s last work in the earth. Many were invited, but one begged to be excused because he had a farm that needed his attention; another had home duties that detained him; and so one and all had some excuse, which to them seemed good. The Lord accepted their excuses. But what did it mean to them? Do we want our excuses accepted? When we ask to be excused, the Lord will find others to do the work. We are told that the third angel’s message will close with many from the common walks of life doing what should have been done earlier by those first called to the supper.
By the providence of God, the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute has been established to train workers for our own Southern States and some adjacent Southern countries. The spirit of prophecy says: “The class of education given at the Madison school is such as will be accounted a treasure of great value by those taking up missionary work in foreign fields. . . . In the work being done at the training-school for home and foreign missionary teachers in Madison, Tenn., and in the small schools established by the teachers who have gone forth from Madison, we have an illustration of one way in which the message should be carried in many, many places.”
The General Conference recognizes the need of such workers as this school can train, and has indorsed its work in the following recommendation:—
“We recommend, That our stronger conferences search out and encourage suitable persons to undertake this self-supporting work; and that the workers thus selected be encouraged to pursue a course of instruction at the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute.”
In the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute a training is given that helps men and women carry out the Lord’s instruction for missionary work in this field. Ministers, canvassers, teachers, and medical missionaries are prepared for active service. A general education is not offered in this school. There are many excellent schools in the North where our youth can obtain a general training. It is a specific work offered here,—a work for men and women, not for boys and girls. It should not require a long course to fit these men and women for the work God calls for here.
During the coming summer term, June 22 to August 31, special advantages are offered those who want to become teachers. The institute is prepared to give, to fifteen or twenty men and women of the right kind, sufficient work to pay their school expenses. We desire to correspond at once with those who are interested. Address E. A. Sutherland or the undersigned at Madison, Tenn.
M. BESSIE DE GRAW.

Proposed Sabbath Observance Law by Congress

By S. B. Horton

Among the first bills introduced into the Sixty-second Congress, now in extra session, was Senate 237, by Senator Johnston, of Alabama, providing for sabbath observance in the District of Columbia. The title of the bill provides “for the proper observance of Sunday as a day of rest in the District of Columbia,” and in this respect is the same as the bill (S. 404) which passed the Senate of the Sixty-first Congress, but failed in the House. But if there is any doubt as to the religious intent of the present measure, it may be readily removed by an appeal to the phraseology of the bill itself. We are therefore giving in full the proposed law now in Congress, putting in black type the religious proviso:—

“S. 237

“62D CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION
“IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
“April 6, 1911
“MR. JOHNSTON of Alabama introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

“A Bill

“For the proper observance of Sunday as a day of rest in the District of Columbia.
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be unlawful for any person or corporation in the District of Columbia on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, to labor at any trade or calling, or to employ or cause to be employed his apprentice or servant in any labor or business, except in household work or other work of necessity or charity, and except also newspaper publishers and their employees, and except also public-service corporations and their employees, in the necessary supplying of service to the people of the District:
“Provided, That persons who are members of a religious society who observe as a sabbath any other day in the week than Sunday shall not be liable to the penalties prescribed in this Act if they observe as a sabbath one day in each seven, as herein provided.
“Sec. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person in said District on said day to engage in any circus, show, or theatrical performance: Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not be construed so as to prohibit sacred concerts, nor the regular business of hotels and restaurants on said day; nor to the delivery of articles of food, including meats, at any time before ten o’clock in the morning of said day from June first to October first; nor to the sale of milk, fruit, confectionery, ice, soda and mineral waters, newspapers, periodicals, cigars, drugs, medicines, and surgical appliances; nor to the business of livery stables, or other public or the use of private conveyances; nor to the handling and operation of the United States mail.
“Sec. 3. That any person or corporation who shall violate the provisions of this Act shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than ten dollars, or by imprisonment in the jail of the District of Columbia for not more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
“Sec. 4. That all prosecutions for violations of this Act shall be in the police courts of the District of Columbia and in the name of the District.”
It will be remembered that the proviso of the bill which died with the last Congress (S. 404), read as follows:—
“Provided, That persons who observe as a day of rest any other day in the week than Sunday shall not be held to have violated the provision of this section if they observe as a day of rest one day in each seven, as herein provided.”
It is perfectly plain upon its face that Sabbath observance is “herein provided” in the bill introduced by the senator from Alabama, and it should require no argument to substantiate this claim. On the other hand, it will require much argument of specious character to convince the fair-minded student that religion is not the basis for this legislation.
Appearing in the legislative arena before the appointments of committees, this bill indicates that the friends of compulsory Sunday observance by our national lawmaking body are determined to commit Congress to religious legislation. It has been referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, where first official consideration will be given the matter. In the meantime the American people should give consideration to the question involved in this legislation. Do the people of the United States wish Congress to regulate their religious observance of days? or should Congress be advised to stand by the work of our forefathers in regard to absolute separation of church and state?
For one hundred years the predecessors of the Sixty-second Congress held to the view that the passing of Sunday laws by Congress is violative of the spirit of freedom and liberty, and in direct contravention to the First Amendment to the Constitution, which stands as an insuperable barrier to such legislation. Is there not some way by which the letter and the spirit of the statement, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” can be thoroughly impressed upon the minds of our misguided religio-political fellow citizens, so that those in charge of civil affairs may be left free to discharge their obligation to the body politic? Or will Congress yield to the importunate demands of the church party for a compulsory Sunday-observance law, and thus say, Constitution or no Constitution, we will place Cæsar’s sword in the hands of the church? It is to be hoped that there still remain in American breasts some of the principles which actuated our forebears to build a
nation in behalf of freedom and civil righteousness.
It was this principle which caused the Alabama Legislature, in 1830, to pass a joint resolution, which was communicated to the United States Senate, Jan. 22, 1831, as follows:—
“Whereas, Much excitement exists, and deep interest is felt in many parts of the United States, in consequence of the powerful exertions which have been made, and are still making [italics ours] to prevent the transportation of the mail on Sunday; and whereas, also, the rights and opinions of every religious sect, whether they observe the Christian sabbath or not, are equally entitled to the respect and protection of the government; and whereas, also, it is thought proper and expedient that the legislature of this State should express their opinion on this important and interesting subject, as it is confidently anticipated this measure will again be brought by its friends before the present Congress of the United States; therefore,—
“Be it resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That the transportation of the mail on Sunday is of vital importance to the welfare and prosperity of the Union; and that its suspension on that day would be a violation of the spirit of the Constitution, and be repugnant to the principles of a free government.
“Be it further resolved, That the sentiment expressed in the report of the committee at the last session of Congress, in opposition to the suspension of the mail on Sunday, is entitled to the highest consideration of the friends of the Constitution, and every lover of civil and political freedom.
“And be it further resolved, That our senators in Congress be instructed, and our representatives requested, to use their exertions in opposition to any measure that may tend to retard the transportation of the mail.”
This joint resolution was signed by James Penn, speaker of the House of Representatives; Samuel B. Moore, president of the Senate; and Gabriel Moore. It was approved Dec. 31, 1830.
While this Alabama document has reference to the transportation of the mails on Sunday, still the same principle is involved in Senate Bill 237, and it should go the way all previous Sunday bills have gone for a hundred years.
S. B. HORTON.

Field Notes

AT Bartlesville, Okla., three persons were baptized March 19.
NINE have been added to the church by baptism at Ava, Ark.
AT Kalispell, Mont., four adults have begun the observance of the Sabbath.
ELDER A. SCHWEDRAT reports two additions to the New York German church.
ELDER A. E. SANDERSON reports four more keeping God's commandments at Boston, Mass.
ON a recent Sabbath three persons were baptized at Danville, Va.; at Stanleyton four were baptized.
AT Penville, S. D., there are four families of new Sabbath-keepers; at Sutley and at Tolstoy there are two families.
SEVEN persons, mostly young people, were baptized at Portland, Ore. The meeting held at Cottage Grove resulted in the conversion of nine persons.
OVER in Africa, upon a recent Sabbath day, a very impressive service was conducted among the natives. During the morning service, six were baptized by the native pastor, and in the afternoon the ordinances were celebrated. Just before the elders were to receive into the church these new members, their own minister, who had baptized them in the morning, “passed among them with a knife, and cut off their copper wire bracelets, rings, and earrings, at the same time explaining to them, upon the authority of Isa. 3:16-26, that these adornments should not be found upon the daughters of Zion.” The service closed with a beautiful song of praise to God for the day filled with such manifest blessing, the people separating for their homes happy in the Lord.

Christian Liberty

By K. C. Russell; C. M. Snow

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL                             Secretary C. M. SNOW                         Corresponding Secretary

A Great Movement

By C. M. S.

REV. EDWARD THOMSON, D. D., of Fort Worth, Tex., secretary of the Sunday League of America, recently delivered some very stirring addresses in the city of Knoxville, Tenn., in favor of closing down all places of business on Sunday, and making it a day of rest. We give a few extracts from his sermons:—
“That the movement is attracting the attention of the public, and is certain of ultimate success, is inevitable. Missouri was the first State to take notice. Joseph Folk is an active member of our society. The governor of Nebraska is an active member of our society. The governor of West Virginia is an active member of our society. Sunday is now observed in Minnesota. For the first time in twenty-five years the Sunday law is enforced.”
“In six months every barber shop in the United States will be closed on Sunday.”
“We are going to get every city in the country stirred up on this subject. In Chicago there will be thirteen hundred sermons delivered in one day upon the matter of observance of the sabbath.”
“That on Sunday everything should be put aside, all business dropped, and that thoughts of an elevating nature should be pursued upon that day, are the fundamental principles of our government.”
Certainly a great movement is on foot in this and other countries to bring about the observance of Sunday as a day of rest. God’s people should work while the little respite is granted us to set before the people the principles of the third angel’s message, and show to men everywhere that civil and religious liberty are among the fundamental principles of our government.
C. M. S.

The Latch Is on Our Side

By Moody

A MAN once stopped a preacher in a street of London, and said: “I once heard you preach in Paris, and you said something which I have never forgotten, and which has, through God, been the means of my conversion.” “What was that?” said the preacher. “It was that the latch is on our side of the door. I had always thought of God as a hard God, and that we must do something to propitiate him. It was a new thought to me that Christ is waiting for me to open to him.”—Moody.

Principles Unchanged

The following significant utterances, made in a recent address to the United States Senate by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, are worthy of note:—
“Of the men who framed the Constitution of the United States, it is the fashion now to speak as worthy, able, patriotic persons, whom we are proud to have embalmed in our history, but toward whom no enlightened man would now think of turning seriously for either guidance or instruction, so thoroughly has everything been altered. It is commonly said that they dealt wisely and well with the problems of their day, but that, of course, they knew nothing of the problems which confront us, and that it would be worse than folly to be in any degree governed by the opinions of men who lived under such wholly different conditions.”
“It seems to me that this view is partial, and not wholly correct nor complete. There are, of course, many problems with which we are compelled to deal of which the framers of the Constitution had, and in the nature of the things could have had, no knowledge,—the questions of railroads, the problem of great combinations of capital,—but they dealt with certain other problems which are as old as the race, and they mastered certain conditions which exist to-day just as much as they existed then. On questions of this character, I think, their opinions are not to be lightly put aside; for, after all, however much we may gently patronize them as good old patriots long since laid in their honored graves, they were none the less men who would have been eminent in any period of history, and might even, if alive now, attain distinction.”

Summary of Magazine Sales for March, 1911

Showing the combined sale by agents in each union and local conference of the following ten-cent magazines: Signs Monthly, Watchman, Life and Health, Liberty, Protestant Magazine, Temperance Instructor, Christian Education, Lys over Landet (Danish), Tidens Tecken (Swedish), and Zeichen der Zeit (German). The subscription and foreign sales appear at the end of the report.
TOTALS MARCH 1910 TOTALS MARCH 1911 VALUE MARCH 1911
### Atlantic Union Conference
Maine 1364 1491 $149.10
Massachusetts 4063 2758 275.80
N. New England 846 1285 128.50
S. New England 2229 2484 248.40
Gr. New York 2068 5416 541.60
New York 1617 2529 252.90
W. New York 1657 2524 252.40
Totals 14744 18487 1848.70

Canadian Union Conference

TOTALS MARCH 1910 TOTALS MARCH 1911 VALUE MARCH 1911
Maritime 288 ... .....
Ontario 906 3725 372.50
Quebec 29 100 10.00
Newfoundland 16 55 5.50
Totals 1239 3880 388.00

Western Canadian Union Conference

TOTALS MARCH 1910 TOTALS MARCH 1911 VALUE MARCH 1911
Alberta 799 565 56.50
British Columbia 416 2330 233.00
Manitoba 222 1270 127.00
Saskatchewan 209 435 43.50
Totals 1646 4600 460.00

Central Union Conference

TOTALS MARCH 1910 TOTALS MARCH 1911 VALUE MARCH 1911
Colorado 2434 2457 245.70
West Colorado 894 575 57.50
East Kansas 3823 382.30
West Kansas 3069 1760 176.00
N. Missouri 1655 2105 210.50
St. Louis Mission ... 250 25.00
S. Missouri 1362 1700 170.00
Nebraska 3839 2075 207.50
Wyoming 189 645 64.50
Totals 13442 15390 1539.00

Columbia Union Conference

TOTALS MARCH 1910 TOTALS MARCH 1911 VALUE MARCH 1911
Chesapeake 2098 2833 283.30
District of Col. 1712 2388 238.80
New Jersey 2327 4561 456.10
E. Pennsylvania 1351 4850 485.00
W. Pennsylvania 1324 6550 655.00
Ohio 3460 5328 532.80
Virginia 907 1760 176.00
West Virginia 597 1125 112.50
Totals 13776 29395 2939.50

Lake Union Conference

TOTALS MARCH 1910 TOTALS MARCH 1911 VALUE MARCH 1911
Indiana 3631 5075 507.50
East Michigan 1995 6709 670.90
North Michigan 973 1781 178.10
West Michigan 4696 4595 459.50
Northern Illinois 4471 5841 584.10
Southern Illinois 1379 1717 171.70
Wisconsin 3064 3813 381.30
Totals 20209 29531 2953.10

Pacific Union Conference

TOTALS MARCH 1910 TOTALS MARCH 1911 VALUE MARCH 1911
Arizona 1041 2532 253.20
California 5224 522.40
Cen. California 11462 4232 423.20
N. Cal.-Nevada 1845 184.50
S. California 7574 18616 1861.60
Utah 278 312 31.20
Totals 20355 32761 3276.10

North Pacific Union Conference

TOTALS MARCH 1910 TOTALS MARCH 1911 VALUE MARCH 1911
Montana 576 1242 124.20
Southern Idaho 1871 2165 216.50
Upper Columbia 3031 303.10
E. Oregon Mis. 4399 ... .....
S. Oregon 1300 130.00
W. Oregon 3509 5424 542.40
W. Washington 3848 4596 459.60
Totals 14203 17758 1775.80

Southern Union Conference

TOTALS MARCH 1910 TOTALS MARCH 1911 VALUE MARCH 1911
Alabama 480 1855 $ 185.50
Kentucky 467 2970 297.00
Louisiana 1011 555 55.50
Mississippi 688 590 59.00
Tennessee River 1466 2282 228.20
Totals 4112 8252 825.20

Northern Union Conference

TOTALS MARCH 1910 TOTALS MARCH 1911 VALUE MARCH 1911
Iowa 4188 6649 664.90
Minnesota 3707 5531 553.10
North Dakota 1066 2755 275.50
South Dakota 1321 4123 412.30
Totals 10282 19058 1905.80

Southeastern Union Conference

TOTALS MARCH 1910 TOTALS MARCH 1911 VALUE MARCH 1911
Cumberland 517 3765 376.50
Florida 415 1480 148.00
Georgia 1498 2975 297.50
North Carolina 1019 1382 138.20
South Carolina 365 615 61.50
Totals 3814 10217 1021.70

Southwestern Union Conference

TOTALS MARCH 1910 TOTALS MARCH 1911 VALUE MARCH 1911
Arkansas 491 1116 111.60
New Mexico 273 625 62.50
Oklahoma 2624 1567 156.70
Texas 7000 700.00
S. Texas Mis. 1448 146 14.60
West Texas 406 735 73.50
Totals 5242 11189 1118.90
Foreign & Misc. 9101 13905 1390.50
Mailing lists ... 29580 2958.00
Grand totals 132165 244003 $24400.30

Comparative Summary for Twenty-Seven Months

TOTALS 1909 TOTALS 1910 TOTALS 1911
January 71094 89462 122202
February 91812 116098 99234
March 134206 132165 244003
April 120582 183981 .....
May 115145 174886 .....
June 163545 193727 .....
July 168689 222146 .....
August 174136 152520 .....
September 102033 120020 .....
October 108571 116157 .....
November 106860 102795 .....
December 90737 99130 .....
Totals 1447410 1703187 465439
Average number sold each month during 1911 ................ 155128
Average number sold each month during 1910 ................ 141932
Average number sold each month during 1909 ................ 120617
Average monthly gain during 1910 over 1909 ................ 21298

Notes

By A. J. S. B.

IT will be noted that during the first three months of 1911 nearly 500,000 of our magazines were sold.
DURING March our agents sold 200,518 magazines, as compared with 68,830 during February,—a gain of 131,688.
THE following testimonial in behalf of Life and Health was recently received from the president of the American Humane Association: “I trust you will not think me impolite in saying that the great majority of health journals have all struck me as being the product of cranks and ill-balanced faddists. Your magazine is a remarkable exception to this, as it is so mentally sane and sensible.”
WE are glad to hear that the office of the Christian Record, our paper for the blind, is sending out nearly two thousand copies of that magazine monthly, besides tracts and pamphlets. And numbers who can not see the scenes of the world about them are seeing in their souls the light of this advent message and are rejoicing in it.
AN attorney who has read Liberty for some time writes: “I am with you heart and soul in the good work. I happen to be in a place and position just now to know how much Liberty is needed. I can not give you particulars just now, but will, no doubt, be in a position to do so later. With my very best wishes for the success of your good work, I am, yours truly.”
THE International Publishing Association has just published the most beautiful number of our German ten-cent magazine, Zeichen der Zeit (Signs of the Times) yet issued. Its cover design is in two colors, showing a fine picture of Baron von Steuben, the famous German-American champion of liberty. It is in every respect equal to the best of our English ten-cent magazines, and ought to have a wide circulation.
“I BEGAN work with the Signs about twenty-eight years ago,” writes an agent. “I do not write to tell of any great number sold in one day, but I keep right on with the work that God has given me to do, whether I make much or not. I am very thankful that God has given us such good material to work with.” It is such a spirit of consecration as this that makes our denominational publishing work a success.
“THERE is a gentleman in France,” writes a missionary worker, “who watches the obituary column in the morning papers, and sends to the bereaved ones little tracts adapted to their situation.” It might also be well for our workers to watch the correspondence columns in the various papers and magazines, letters from “shut-ins” and others, for addresses of those to whom our tracts and periodicals and magazines would be welcome visitors.
“OUR missionary society is having some blessed experiences,” writes a member of one of our New York City churches. “The fourth week in each month is set apart for exercises, and is certainly very instructive to the members. The arrangement of this program gives the young and old a part in the meeting. Reading about the work and the results accomplished by systematic tract circulation, has inspired our members to take hold and push the work. Each week the members will circulate some tracts and get reports on the same. The young people’s society is now held in conjunction with the missionary society once a month. The meetings are very instructive and interesting.” The missionary spirit seems to be rising in all parts of the field.
DR. A. C. SELMON, editor of Shi Djao Yueh Bao, our Chinese Signs of the Times magazine, reports excellent progress in its circulation. During 1909 the total sales were 47,800 copies, an average of 3,900 copies a month. During 1910 138,400 copies were sold, the average monthly sales during the last eight months of the year amounting to 12,840 copies, or treble the monthly sales of 1909. “The year 1911,” says he, “starts out with a promise of greatly exceeding the record of 1910. The second issue of our paper this present year was a New-year’s special. We have just completed this issue, for which we had orders for over 60,000.” God is truly opening the way for the circulation of the printed page of truth among the many millions in China, India, Japan, Korea, and other neglected lands perishing for the gospel.
As recently noted in these columns, our brethren in Australasia are calling their health magazine Life and Health, instead of the Australasian Health Magazine. In a recent letter, Brother A. G. Miller, missionary secretary of the Australasian Union Conference, says: “I am sure you will be interested to learn that Life and Health is meeting with an excellent reception throughout the Commonwealth and New Zealand. Several of the leading newspapers have given the magazine excellent reviews, and our workers on the journal are having good success. We printed 12,500 copies of the first issue, and although this number was salable till the end of March, our supply at the publishing-house was exhausted by the ninth of February. We are planning to print 18,500 copies of the second number, which is now on the press.” This magazine is issued every other month, and sells for twelve cents.
THE following interesting letter from a director of a national bank in Georgia speaks for itself: “I hasten to enclose my check for four dollars, to be applied as follows: One dollar to renew my subscription to the Watchman for another year; three dollars for a copy of ‘Great Controversy.’ The magazines and the books which I have at different times secured from you are absolutely beyond monetary value to me. I do not hesitate to state that they have done more for my spiritual uplift and enlightenment than any other agency—primarily, because in the privacy of my home, undisturbed, and with ample opportunity to reason and study, I see things which heretofore have been darkness to me. Your great work has my unqualified indorsement and praise, and I earnestly pray for God’s continued blessing upon your efforts.” We little realize the extent to which our ten-cent magazines are molding public opinion among those of influence as well as among the common people. Every magazine agent, therefore, should feel impressed with the dignity of, and great possibilities in, his work; for, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, “He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.”
A. J. S. B.

The Missionary and Publishing Work

Notes, Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature
Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference
E. R. PALMER - - - - - Secretary N. Z. TOWN - - - Assistant Secretary A. J. S. BOURDEAU - - Missionary Secretary

The Magazine Summary

By A. J. S. B.

The March sale of 244,003 magazines is the largest on record, being 21,857 copies more than the highest previous record of 222,146 copies, sold during July, 1910.
We are pleased to report a total increase of 7,331 copies in the combined sale of Life and Health, the Signs Monthly, and the Watchman, as compared with the previous month.
The great increase in the present report is largely due to the sale of 146,801 copies of the new and beautiful Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor. A splendid month's sale indeed!
By consulting the comparative summary at the close of this report, it will be seen that during the past twenty-seven months 3,616,036 of our ten-cent magazines have been sold, an average of 133,927¼ copies a month.
The Pacific Union Conference ordered 26,670 copies of the Temperance Instructor last month, 16,226 copies being called for by the Southern California Conference. The Lake Union Conference ordered 20,418 copies, the Columbia Union Conference, 18,841, and the Northern Union Conference 14,096 copies during the same month.
The following list of union conferences shows the agents' sales, also the average sale for each member: (1) Southeastern Union, 10,217 copies, or 4 9-10 copies a member; (2) Southern Union, 8,252, or 4 7-10 a member; (3) Columbia Union, 29,395, or 4 1-3 a member; (4) Pacific Union, 32,761, or 4 a member; (5) Canadian Union, 3,880, or 3 9-10 a member; (6) Western Canadian Union, 4,600, or 3 3-4 a member; (7) Atlantic Union, 18,487, or 3 1-3 a member; (8) Northern Union, 19,058, or 3 a member; (9) North Pacific Union, 17,758, or 2 4-5 a member; (10) Lake Union, 29,531, or 2 3-10 a member; (11) Southwestern Union, 11,189, or 2 1-4 a member; (12) Central Union, 15,390, or 1 1-2 a member. In round numbers, our 67,336 members in the United States and Canada circulated 3 2-5 copies each during March. A. J. S. B.

Sanitarium Relief Campaign

By L. A. Hansen

In the Indiana Conference

THE Indiana Conference has been at work in the relief campaign for some time, but has more recently taken it up in a more definite way. The president, Elder Morris Lukens, has given it careful consideration in connection with other conference interests. He arranged to present the matter to the various churches, and then to follow up the interest thus awakened by a worker who could spend time helping the people to sell the books.
Appointments for a three weeks’ tour were given me, and provision was made for workers to accompany me. Elder Lukens joined in visiting several churches, and in urging the importance of the work. N. H. Poole, who will have charge of the campaign, was with me in the north part of the State, rendering excellent help. Rupert Spohr, missionary secretary, accompanied me to other parts of the State, helping in the public effort and also advancing other departmental interests.
Opportunity was given at the closing meeting of the spring council of laborers to present this work. The earnest interest shown by those present was indicative of a strong support from the working force of the conference.
A visit was then made to the Wabash Valley Sanitarium at La Fayette, and two meetings were held with the workers. The interest of this family in things aside from their routine work was shown by the way in which managers and helpers planned for a full attendance both afternoon and evening, and the response given to what was said.
We have a company of twenty or more believers at the Soldiers’ Home, a short distance from the sanitarium. Brother Poole is in charge of this campaign, and together we visited the different members. A readiness to help was shown, arrangements being made to secure a number of books, which are to be sold to other members of the home.
The following churches were visited, in the order given: Logansport, Kokomo, Noblesville, East and North Indianapolis, Boggstown, Terre Haute, Farmersburg, Salem, Elnora, Middletown, Anderson, Muncie, New Hope, Barbers Mills, Ligonier, Elkhart, and South Bend. A good attendance was present at some of the churches, the members showing a deep interest in the work. At the Salem church, public announcement had been given for a preaching service. An early meeting was held in the interest of the campaign, and before it closed, the outside audience began to come in, soon filling the house.
At Hartford City it was not necessary to make an appointment, as this company had already sold more than its full share of books. An interesting feature here is the effective way in which medical missionary work has been combined with evangelical work, in a public effort carried on by Brethren J. H. N. Tindall and C. E. Garnsey, late of Loma Linda College. Unusually good results have been seen. An extended report may be looked for from this work.
At Goshen Brother Poole made personal visits to the members, and obtained orders for several books, with good promise of continued co-operation. He will visit other churches, and follow up the work already done.
The proceeds of this work in Indiana go to aid the Wabash Valley Sanitarium. The workers in Indiana are united in making this campaign a success, and we are looking for the co-operation of every Seventh-day Adventist in the conference. I believe that if our brethren would show the book to the business men with whom they deal, to the family physician, and to their friends and relatives, they would have no trouble in selling a large number of these truth-laden volumes.
I am sure that every one who will take hold of this work will be blessed. Those who get the book also receive a blessing; and last, but not least, the sanitarium will be better able to do work for the sick and suffering. As it is now, more than eighteen hundred dollars a year, or thirty-five dollars a week, is paid out in interest. If this debt could be liquidated, much more could be done for those who are unable to pay; but with this large amount of interest each week, much that we believe the Lord would be pleased to have us do can not be accomplished.
May the One who has told us to heal the sick help all to do their part in this work. L. A. HANSEN.

An Active Missionary Veteran

By A. J. S. B.

WE are in receipt of an interesting missionary report from a Civil War veteran, now in his eighty-third year. Having served the government for three years and six months during the war, he is now devoting the remainder of his life to house-to-house missionary work with our papers and tracts.
During the year 1910, he sold and distributed 2,825 copies of our magazines and other periodicals. The periodicals handled were Life and Health, the Temperance Instructor, Good Tidings of the Messiah, and the Harvest Ingathering number of the REVIEW. His average monthly sale of Life and Health amounted to 197 copies. He distributed one hundred copies of the Harvest Ingathering number of the REVIEW, thereby securing five dollars for missions. From his earnings, he was able to donate to foreign missions one hundred dollars and pay a tithe of forty-eight dollars. Tracts also were purchased to the amount of twelve dollars.
He works an average of three and one-half hours a day, and often sells as high as fifteen magazines an hour. His average daily sale amounts to twenty-three copies. His largest sale during the year was four hundred copies during August, and his smallest, one hundred copies a month during April and May.
If this aged brother can accomplish so much for the truth by working less than one-half time each day, what might not thousands of able-bodied men and women be able to do during their spare time? The average man or woman can engage in no occupation affording more genuine enjoyment, spiritual growth, and financial profit than the sale of our ten-cent magazines. The work requires only a comparatively short time for preparation, and even those without experience often become successful agents.
A. J. S. B.
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