There has come to this office a copy of a very interesting book, entitled “From Judaism to Christianity,” written by Elder F. C. Gilbert, a Hebrew Christian. This work contains not only the record of how its author was led to his Saviour, but also his experiences as a Christian colporteur, and as an evangelistic worker among both Jews and Gentiles, together with suggestions born of experience concerning how to bring the Hebrew into touch with real Christianity and what to do for those who, as converts to Christianity, become outcasts among their own people. The book contains 384 pages, bound in cloth. Address the author at South Lancaster, Mass.
Drought in South Africa
IN a letter received from Elder R. C. Porter last week, he states that South Africa is suffering very seriously on account of drought. They have been compelled to close some of the out-schools along the Zambesi River in Rhodesia, also in Nyassaland, because of conditions due to lack of rain.
Elder W. C. Hankins Returns
ELDER W. C. HANKINS, of China, whose wife because of ill health was compelled to leave the field last year, will sail for America from Hongkong April 23. Brother and Sister Hankins expect to remain in this country until after the next General Conference.
Union Conference Leaders Return
AFTER a somewhat prolonged absence, attending union conferences, Elders A. G. Daniells, W. T. Knox, and G. B. Thompson have returned to Washington. On the way from Los Angeles, Cal., Elder Daniells spent last Sabbath with the churches in Chicago.
Going to Camp-Meeting
A LITTLE eleven-year-old girl in the State of New York is very anxious to attend camp-meeting the coming summer, but her parents are poor and unable to furnish the necessary money for her expenses. As she is too young to do manual labor sufficient to earn the money for her expenses, she was greatly perplexed until the conference president's wife suggested the sale of the Temperance Instructor, and offered to go out with her the first day, and in four hours they sold sixty papers.
The next day the little girl's mother went with her in her own town, and in a very short time they sold all the papers they had on hand. Now they have ordered more papers, and the mother and little girl are both going to sell the Temperance Instructor, and the financial outlook is so favorable that the whole family is planning on going to camp-meeting.
In our efforts to help others, we ourselves are often blessed, not only in basket and store, but with Heaven's greatest gift, the presence of the Comforter. The Temperance Instructor possesses great power in changing individuals' manner of life, in bringing peace and plenty into the homes of sorrow and poverty, and in molding public sentiment favorable to temperate living. Those who circulate it are, in fact, public benefactors, and are themselves greatly blessed.
The “Review” the Inspiration
By A. J. Scott
FORTY-TWO years ago, when I accepted the message, I began to read the REVIEW, and I have read it constantly ever since. It has been a source of strength and encouragement to me all along. It kept alive the desire to do something for the advancement of the Lord’s work. It begot a desire to present the truth to others. I could not preach, and our literature forty-two years ago was not abundant; but I took such as we had, a little health almanac, and began a successful work which I have kept up ever since—canvassing. I have sold thousands and thousands of our books, both large and small, in different parts of the United States. Several churches have been raised up in localities where I sold our books, and all these are to-day sound in the faith, and are giving strong support in means and workers to the local and general work. I regard this as largely the result of the literature I placed in the hands of those who were the first members of these churches, and the REVIEW has ever been an important factor in urging me on in my work.
Although I am now eighty-one years of age, and my work is supposed to be nearly finished, last year I sold over five hundred of our large books, and enjoyed the bountiful blessings God gave in this work. What the REVIEW did for me it will do for others who will welcome it and cherish the message it ever brings.