Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— A disastrous fire in the city of Tokyo, April 9, left homeless 6,000 persons, and caused destruction of life to 300.
— A $400,000 fire occurred at Dayton, Tenn., April 9, wiping out a large portion of the business section and many homes.
— The Illinois Central Railroad claims the record of no deaths by accident to passengers carried over this line during the past year.
— The chairman of the China famine committee claims that three million persons are starving in the northern provinces of that country.
— Four battle-ships of the Atlantic fleet are to make a special cruise to the Baltic next month, making courtesy calls at Russian, Danish, Swedish, and German ports.
— Two hundred men, women, and children were burned to death at Bombay, British India, April 9, in a fire which destroyed a thatched structure in which they were gathered for a festival.
— April 5, the President transmitted to Congress his message. It deals wholly with the reciprocity pact between the United States and Canada, urging early and favorable action upon this measure.
— A huge airship intended for trans-Atlantic travel has been projected at Berlin, and a company capitalized at $2,000,000 has been formed to finance the scheme. The proposed dirigible will be built to carry more than 200 passengers.
— The parsonage property owned by the First Presbyterian church, Caldwell, N. J., has been purchased by the Cleveland Memorial Association. The parsonage was the birthplace of Grover Cleveland, and is to be preserved in his memory.
— Congress convened in extra session April 5. Many new faces are seen in both chambers, particularly the House of Representatives. A large number of bills have been introduced. While it is probable that Congress will give its first attention to the reciprocity measure, time will also be given to the consideration of other bills.
— April 7 one of the most serious mine disasters that ever occurred in Pennsylvania took place at the little village of Throop, a short distance from Scranton, when the lives of sixty men and boys were snuffed out in the Pan-coast colliery. As a result of a blaze which started at the engine-house of the stope, the miners were entrapped before they were aware of their danger.
— A commission of Americans, with the unique contract of reorganizing the finances of the Persian government, left New York for Persia on April 8. The party will go direct to Teheran, and begin their task, which must be completed within five years. The finances of Persia have been in a chaotic state for years. The commission, including wives and children, numbers seventeen.
— According to its recent census, Russia now has a population of 160,095,200, only four per cent of whom are Protestants. Only 13·5 per cent of the people live in cities.
— The steamer “Iroquois,” plying between Sydney, Vancouver Islands, and the islands of the Gulf of Georgia, capsized after leaving Sydney, April 10. Twenty lives were lost.
— Ex-Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland, Ohio, died April 10, after an illness of many months. He was noted as the apostle of the three-cent fare on street-cars, and on this issue was elected mayor of Cleveland.
— As a result of a great explosion following the discharge of a powder blast, 118 men were entombed at Banner mine, Littleton, Ala., April 8. Forty-five men made their escape after the explosion, but the others died through suffocation from fire-damp.
— The extraordinary high tide along the Suffolk coast, England, April 3, washed up hundreds of gold, silver, and bronze coins of early Saxon times in the neighborhood of Aldeburgh. Large quantities of antique bronze rings and ornaments, supposed to be relics of the submerged city of Dunwich, also were cast up by the sea.
— As showing the great increase of the population of South America, it is stated that the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has doubled in population in the last eleven years. This city is the tenth city in the world in size. Every railroad, with one exception, in the Argentine Republic was financed and built by Englishmen. There are more than 40,000 English residents in the republic.
— The trial of the Black Hand, or Camorrists’ Society, at Viterbo, about fifty miles from Rome, is proceeding amid many sensational and dramatic developments. It is necessary to maintain a strong military guard both for the protection of the prisoners and to prevent their rescue by their friends. This secret organization seems to have gained a strong foothold in Italy, and its influence is felt throughout the world wherever Italians are found.
— As a part of the national campaign for health, the United States Department of Agriculture and the American Civic Association are co-operating in a nationwide assault upon the house-fly. The campaign includes the dissemination of instruction on the fly evil, in daily and weekly newspapers in every city and town in the country, the organization of campaigns of instruction, the establishment of a lecture bureau in various sections of the country, and other salutary measures to destroy the pest.
— After studying the death-rate in various occupations, Dr. Casper, a German physician, shows by his researches that the clergy are the longest lived. Of those who attain the threescore years and ten allotted to man, clergymen show 42 per cent. Dr. Casper gives the other occupations in the following order: agriculturists, 40 per cent; the trading and working class, 35 per cent; soldiers, 32 per cent; lawyers, 29 per cent; actors and other professionals, 28 per cent; teachers, 27 per cent; and doctors, 24 per cent.
The May "Signs"
By Editor
THE Signs Monthly for May is an excellent number. The beautiful and appropriate front cover, printed in several colors, is a regular Memorial day special. The leading article, “Portents of Trouble, and What They Mean,” by the editor, is a very important one. The signs of the times are reviewed, and emphasis is added to each sign by large illustrations on each page, with Scripture references. Numerous striking quotations from authorities to whose words carry weight are also brought into the article.
It would be well worth our time to give this number of the Signs an unusually wide circulation if this article was the only one in the magazine; but following this are a number of other important articles:—
“Socialism and Democracy,” by Mr. Weston, will be interesting to all.
Elder M. C. Wilcox then reviews the history of the world from six hundred years before Christ to the close of time. The article is illustrated with prophetic symbols, and will be a real selling point for the magazine.
A portion of the reformation work done by John Calvin is briefly reviewed by the pen of Mrs. E. C. White.
“The Bible, a Living Word,” by T. E. Bowen, strikes a helpful note.
“How Did Christ Perform His Miracles?” by Professor Rine, in which the methods of healing as used in the Emmanuel Movement are considered, and contrasted with the work of Christ—an article for these very times.
“The Divine Call,” a study in missions.
“The Oath of Abraham,” by Wm. Covert, an interesting study in Old Testament history.
Last but not least comes the second article by Dr. D. H. Kress on “Transmission of Disease Through Milk.”
Then follow about a dozen of the most striking current topics, briefly reviewed and given an important setting by the editor.
In all, this May number is a most important issue of this good magazine. Let us rally to its support, and give it a wide circulation among our neighbors and townspeople. Try 10 or 20 copies.
Prices: 5 to 40 copies, 5 cents each; 50 or more copies, 4 cents each. Order of your State tract society.
Western Washington Camp-Meeting
By S. W. Nelles
This camp-meeting and conference will be held in Seattle, June 1-11. All should make an earnest endeavor to arrange matters so as to attend this important general meeting. Excellent help will be provided from the General Conference, and Elder C. W. Flaiz and other union conference laborers will attend. As the instruction given will be especially important in preparing God's people to meet the great crisis that is just upon us, none can afford to remain away.
A convention has been appointed for our church elders, deacons, and treasurers, beginning May 28, in which special instruction will be given in matters pertaining to church work. Elders, deacons, or treasurers of our churches attending this convention, May 28-31, will have their fares to the camp-meeting refunded. We hope all who are holding these positions in the church will avail themselves of this opportunity to attend this important workers' meeting. We also hope that each church will send some good workers to assist in preparing the camp-ground. This is very important, and our churches should come to the assistance of the committee in preparing so large a camp.
How to Reach the Camp-Ground
All passengers from the north or south on railroads will secure tickets to the union depot, Seattle. Those coming from the north, on the Great Northern, can check their baggage to Ballard station, and in this way save money on transportation; but in order to secure the one and one-third fare privilege, tickets must be bought to the union depot. Those from the south should be sure to take either Northern Pacific or Great Northern trains to union depot, and in order to save expense on transportation of baggage, buy ticket from union depot to Ballard station, costing seventeen cents a ticket, and recheck baggage to Ballard station.
WARNING: All tickets must be purchased to union depot in order to secure the reduction in fare.
Any who wish to take the street-car from the union depot to the camp-ground should inquire for the Sixth Avenue N. W. car, also marked West Woodland, getting off at Fifty-fifth Street W., or take Fremont-Ballard car to Market Street, where the camp-ground is plainly visible.
All coming on Puget Sound boats should take same street-cars as above, on First Avenue. Those leaving the railroad at Ballard station should take either Ballard Beach or Ballard Sloop lines bound for Seattle. Transfer to the Fremont-Ballard car at Fourteenth Avenue, N. W., leaving car at Market Street, the nearest point to the camp-ground.
To save expense on baggage bring all your checks to book-tent on the ground, as soon as you arrive. This is important.
Be sure to secure certificate from your home railroad station, stating that you are attending the Seventh-day Adventist conference and camp-meeting to be held in Seattle, June 1-11. Don't fail to ask agent for your certificate, as this must be signed by the conference secretary in order to secure reduction on return trip. Those failing to do this will be compelled to pay full fare both ways. No reductions are allowed on steamboat lines.
S. W. NELLES, President.
Bound Volumes of the “Protestant Magazine”
ALL numbers of Volumes I and II of the Protestant Magazine are bound in one neat cloth binding, making a large book of 450 pages, containing information of the greatest importance to our ministers, workers, and people at large; providing them with reliable, assembled, up-to-date data in convenient form, which will be very helpful and effective in their work.
Partial Contents
Note some of the subjects treated in this volume. The Roman Catholic Program (for America); The Same Papacy; The Meaning of Antichrist; The Papacy in Prophecy (four articles); The Readjustment of History (two articles discrediting Protestantism); The Papacy in Politics (three articles); The Rediscovery of a Vital Doctrine (Justification by Faith, the Mainspring of the Reformation); Romanizing the United States; Errors of Modern Theology; Babel and Babylon (world-power in religion); Origin of the Papacy.
Destroying the Foundations (the character of the teaching in some leading American colleges and universities); Evolution—Its Relation to Sin and Salvation; A False Master; The Daniel Foreview of Romanism; The Church of Rome and the Religious World-Empire.
The True and Counterfeit Gospel; The Headship of the Church; The Spiritual Decline of the Churches; The Attempted Healing of Babylon; The Higher Criticism Untenable,—Whence It Proceeds and Whither It Leads; A Roman Catholic Warns Protestants; Rome’s Substitute for Christ; The Doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church (containing the eleven articles following the Nicene creed); The Master Stroke of Rome’s Policy.
Casting the Papal Net for Government Officials; Protestant Principles Repudiated; The Dictates of Hildebrand (containing arrogant claims of the Papacy to unlimited power over church and state, translated from the Latin); A Higher Critic Under Fire; The Churches of the Reformation Versus the Church of Rome; Roman Catholic Justification; Episcopal Oath of Allegiance to the Pope; Tradition Supplanting Scripture in the Roman Catholic Church.
The Consistent Intolerance of the Roman Catholic Church (The Fairbanks-Roosevelt-Vatican affair); The “Unanimous Consent” Principle Applied to a Famous Text (an important comment on Matt. 16:18); The King’s Oath; Molding Public Sentiment (in favor of Rome); On the Prophecies Respecting the Church of Rome (two articles with important historical data); Protestantism Versus Catholicism; A Physician’s View of Christ’s Miracles.
Surrendering to the Papacy; Spain and the Vatican; The Change in the King’s Oath (Roman Catholic interpretation of this action); True and Counterfeit Christianity; Pope Pius X and the Reformation; Mary, the Hope of Sinners; The Pope’s Encyclical in Protestant Germany; The Deity of Christ; The Primitive Church and Primacy of Rome (two articles);23Some Principles Established by the Vatican Council.
The Old Paths; The Predicted Catholic Revival; A Basic Difference Between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism; The Conversion of America to the True Faith (The Catholic Mission Movement in America); A Roman Catholic Prison (the case of Mabel Wellington, who was confined in a Catholic institution for a period of years, and who was awarded $4,000 damages by the civil courts of Michigan); Fallacies of the Higher Criticism; Did Christ Found the Papacy? The Canon Law (the pontifical power in civil and spiritual jurisdiction, the original Latin, with the translation).
Many other subjects besides these cited are treated in this volume. There is also much strong editorial comment, and twenty-five or more pages of news notes, extracts, etc., giving significant paragraphs relating to Romanism and decadent Protestantism.
This volume also contains thirteen full-page illustrations, finely printed, which are of real historical value. The book is sewed with thread (not stapled with wire), and can be furnished in manila paper cover for $1, and in full cloth for $1.50.
Address the Protestant Magazine, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
N. B.—The Protestant Magazine is published quarterly at 25 cents a year. Single copy, 10 cents. The last issue is worth many times its price, because of the important matter it contains.
Special Notice
By O. A. Olsen
It has been arranged to hold a meeting in the interest of the work among the Hollanders in this country, at Grand Rapids, Mich., May 20-22, 1911. The object of this meeting is to consider plans and methods for the spread of the message among the thousands from the Netherlands who live in this country. We shall be pleased to see a large and representative gathering of our Holland brethren and sisters, and of such as are interested in the spread of the message among this nationality.
O. A. OLSEN,
Sec. North American Foreign Dept.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Camp-Meetings for 1911
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
Southern New England . . . . . . . . . . June 1-10
New York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June 8-18
Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 24-27
South England . . . . . . . . . . . . Aug. 31 to Sept. 5
Business Notices
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WANTED.—Adventist man and wife to work on ranch near Gillette, Wyo., at farm- and housework. Good wages paid year round. Chance to obtain government land in vicinity. Recommendations required and given. Address R. A. Wright, Wright, Wyo.
HOME CANNING OUTFITS.—Most delicious fruits and vegetables canned with our Royal Canners. Easy to learn; complete instructions. Splendid paying health food business. Complete equipments, $8.50 up. Write for illustrated circulars to Home Supply Manufacturing Company, Department A, Chattanooga, Tenn.
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WANTED.—Capable teamsters to work for the season. Wages, $30 a month and board. Also girl to do general housework. Address G. I. Cummings, Lloyd, N. D., via Lemmon, S. D.
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FOR SALE.—“Temperance Torchlights,” by Matilda Erickson. A book of studies, stories, songs, poems, and useful information on temperance topics; for the use of individuals, churches, schools, temperance and young people’s societies. Every one interested in the cause of temperance will find many helpful suggestions in this book. It should be placed in the hands of every temperance worker. Cloth, 256 pages, fifty cents. Order of the tract societies.
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Obituaries
SHULTZ.—Died March 19, 1911, at Mannsville, N. Y., Mrs. Lucy Shultz, aged ninety years and eight months. She had been a faithful Adventist about sixty years, and died strong in faith. She left one son and other relatives to mourn. Funeral services were conducted at Mannsville by the writer, and the body was placed in a tomb at Adams.
B. M. GARTON.
FREEMAN.—Margaret Freeman, wife of Marshall H. Freeman, was born April 17, 1870, at Altoona, Pa., and died in Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 11, 1911. She leaves a husband and a daughter to mourn. She accepted the third angel’s message about fifteen years ago. At the time of her death she was a member of the church in Savannah, Ga. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer at the funeral service.
WM. K. ACHENBACH.
REYNOLDS.—Horace Dryden Reynolds died in the eighty-third year of his life in the city of Fresno, Cal. Brother Reynolds was born in New York State, and came to California as one of the pioneers, enduring many hardships and trials. When the third angel’s message found him, he accepted it, and was a firm believer to the day of his death. One daughter survives to mourn the loss of her father. Funeral services were conducted by the undersigned.
J. H. BEHRENS.
WOODS.—In the early days of the preaching of the third angel’s message in New York City, Mrs. Cornelius Woods took her stand for the truth, was baptized, and joined Church No. 1, Manhattan. She died March 15, 1911, at the age of 68 years, 5 months, and 3 days. Her residence was at Patchogue, N. Y. The funeral services were held in her home, March 17, by Brother Rice, who spoke from 1 Thess. 4:13-18. The body was taken to Greenwood Cemetery the next day, where our dear sister lies awaiting the call of the Saviour.
L. KLEBAHN.
MOSHURE.—Mrs. Anna Moshure died at the age of forty-five years, lacking twelve days. About eight years ago Sister Moshure, with her family, accepted present truth under the preaching of Elder Johnson at Leeds, S. D., and has been a faithful member of the church ever since. She was held in high esteem not only by the members of the church but also by her friends and neighbors. Her husband and five children are left to mourn the loss of a companion and mother. Services were conducted from the Adventist church in Fresno. We believe our sister rests in hope of having a part in the first resurrection.
J. H. BEHRENS.
BABCOCK.—Died at Darby, Mont., Feb. 28, 1911, after an illness of more than one and one-half years, Leonard L., son of Merritt L. and Carrie C. Babcock, aged 12 years, 9 months, and 21 days. He suffered much, being blind for the last six months of his life, but bore it all with marked patience. He often expressed his unwavering faith in the soon-coming Saviour. While our home is lonely, and we sadly miss our loved one, we believe it is well with him. The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Rickman (Baptist) at the Baptist chapel in Darby, and were attended by many sympathizing friends.
MR. AND MRS. M. L. BABCOCK.
COLE.—Died at his home in Oxford, Mich., March 15, 1911, Brother Ransom V. Cole, aged 55 years, 8 months, and 3 days. A widow, two stepchildren, two grandchildren, six sisters, and one brother, with many other relatives and friends, are left to mourn. Brother Cole was first converted twenty-five years ago. Last fall he heard and accepted the third angel’s message. In every walk of life, he has proved himself an honorable man and a Christian, and he was loved by all who knew him. He loved the truth, and was faithful to the last. The funeral was held on Sabbath, March 18, words of comfort and encouragement being spoken from 1 Cor. 15: 21-23.
C. L. WHITE.
JUDSON.—Died at Aroostook Junction, New Brunswick, March 19, 1911, Brother Jonathan Brown, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He was born at Aroostook, Sept. 4, 1844, and had resided in that vicinity all his life. He accepted the third angel’s message twelve years ago, and since that time had been a faithful, consistent, and zealous believer in its truths. There being no company of believers near his home, his membership was with the church at Fredericton. He leaves a widow and two daughters. The funeral was held in his late home, March 2, and was attended by a large number of friends and relatives. The Methodist and Baptist ministers of the community assisted in the service.
J. A. STRICKLAND.
ROSSER.—Godfrey Rosser was born June 12, 1829, and died Dec. 29, 1910, aged 91 years, 6 months, and 17 days. He first heard and accepted the views of Seventh-day Adventists in the early seventies, at tent-meetings held in Flint, Mich. For many years he was a faithful member of that church, acting in the capacity of elder and deacon. He was a life member of the American Tract Society, and acted as colporteur for a number of years in his early life for that society. A widow, five children, and six grandchildren are left to mourn. The funeral services were held in the college chapel at Berrien Springs, Mich., January 1. Interment was made in Rose Hill Cemetery, near Berrien Springs.
B. E. HUFFMAN.
Holding the Flood-Gates
IN these days of great moral declension, affecting in so large a degree the political, social, and even family life of the nation, it is gratifying to see here and there men in responsible positions who are seeking to hold the flood-gates of evil, and dam back the rising tide which threatens to inundate the world. God still has his agencies at work. There are still men and women occupying high positions in the world who recognize the claims of God and the demands of an enlightened conscience, paramount to personal convenience or selfish, sordid ends.
The apostle Paul exhorted the believers to pray for kings and those in authority. Similarly, we are to remember those who occupy important positions of trust in the state, asking God to give them wisdom to discern between right and wrong, and strength to follow the convictions of honest judgment.
Many occupying positions of worldly responsibility to-day will sometime see and recognize the truth of God for this time. God in his providence sees that just now they can better serve his purpose where they are. But in his own time he will speak to their hearts. They will recognize in some of the issues brought before them the path of truth, and with the same decision of character with which they have stood against evil in the past, they will espouse the principles of right. It is for us engaged in this last great movement to labor alike for men of high and low degree, patiently sowing the gospel seed, and trusting God in his own time to bring the harvest.
Foreign Publishing House at College View
Our foreign publishing-house at College View, Neb., is to be congratulated on the beautifully printed magazines it is bringing out in German, Danish, and Swedish.
Fijian Missionary to Samoa
By Editor
We are glad to see that now and then our Fiji churches are supplying missionaries for other island groups. The Australasian Record reports that a Fijian brother, Avete, is to go to Samoa to labor.
European Division Annual Report
The annual report of the European Division, just sent us by the secretary, Brother Guy Dail, shows 3,484 baptisms during the year 1910. The number received into the churches by vote, baptism having been previously administered, was 575. This makes an average of over a thousand members taken in for each quarter of the year.
Plumstead Sanitarium Patients
The South African Missionary says: “The Plumstead Sanitarium has had some very heavy operations the past week. One case was that of the American consul. He is doing well, and bids fair to make a good recovery. He and his wife chose our sanitarium, after looking over a number of hospitals, because of its spiritual influence. General Botha is a patient there at present.”
Adventist Missionaries Amid the Plague
The Scranton (Pa.) Times recently published, with illustrations, an article on the experiences of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries amid the plague in China, quoting the greater part of an account given some time ago in the REVIEW. This suggests that many of our readers might at times supply their local press with some interesting paragraph or short story of news reported by our missionaries in far lands.
Oakwood Manual Training School Dedication
Last week the managers of the Oakwood Manual Training School (Huntsville, Ala.) invited their friends to the dedication of four buildings newly completed,—a small sanitarium, a study hall, and two other school buildings. This is made possible by the gifts from many for the work among the colored people of the South. This school is sending trained workers into the evangelistic, educational, and medical missionary field.
