ARE we trying to "raise" the boys in the threefold way of Nazareth—body, mind, soul? "He's a fine, healthy-looking boy," the neighbors say. Does that satisfy us?
Carlyle said all the ministers of finance in Europe could not make one shoeblack happy, because he has a soul larger than his stomach.
But the father and mother must satisfy this growing soul. The former must be willing to lay down his newspaper or magazine to answer the questions of the boy on the spot, or to say in a way that will not quench, but keep alive, the flame of curiosity. "You cannot understand that now, my son; but just as soon as you are old enough father will try to tell you." And the boy must feel that his father is honest with him, and is not telling him a polite lie just to get rid of him, hoping that he will forget the troublesome question.
And the mother must apply the law of suggestion, by telling the boy such stories, and reading to him such books, and holding up before him such lofty ideals of manhood, that early he will be fired with ambitions to be something fine and noble.
The "poor" home is not that one with shabby furniture and plain food and patched clothes; but the home—
With No Top-Story Lookout
Some neighbor boys of mine built them a hut in a big tree, to which they climbed by a ladder.
"Aren't you afraid to have them climb so high?" asked a timid neighbor.
"I'm afraid to have them get the idea that they can't climb high," said the mother.
Accustom the boys to looking high. Have a lookout where they can see sky, and hills once in a while, if you have to go miles to get it. Have a spiritual lookout. Take your boys to it. Let them get glimpses of the noble careers you are planning for them. Don't be afraid to let them see steep heights to be climbed, hard tasks waiting for men to do them.
Have you never heard a wife or mother say to the husband or father, "You don't think of yourself; you are always doing things for others"? Have you not known mothers to quench some generous impulse in the child by saying: "If you give so much away, you will have little left for yourself;" "Don't go on that neighborly errand today, you have a cold;" "Why do you invite such seedy, tiresome guests? You are not bound to entertain them;" "Let some one else serve on that committee, you are doing enough"? She shuts out the sky line, and the soul withers.
How to Get the Boys to Church
"Yes, do tell us how."
"Now his parents went . . . every year." "And when he was twelve years old, they went." Don't you suppose they had talked so much about it to the boy18that he was eager to go even before he was old enough?
"Yes, that is easy enough; our children, when little, always beg to go, but tell us how to keep them interested." The "lookout" again. You must have something ahead of them in the church worth while. Is it any longer a secret that to keep the boys interested in the church we must give them something to do?
Eugene C. Foster says: "I am thinking a good deal about the boy who is just getting ready to slip out of the Sunday school. True, he has been slipping for some time. For several years, perhaps, you have had a vague feeling that the ties were loosening and it was only a question of time."
He goes on to ask: Shall he be made an assistant officer, given a few books to distribute, or a column of figures to add, or some trivial thing; or shall he be put into a training class to fit him to become a leader of younger boys? He thinks there is no device for stopping the leak like giving boys something worth while to do in the school; we may add, in the church, too. Christian Endeavor has taught the Sunday school the value of putting tools into the hands of the young husbandmen, and teaching them to use them by using them.
Here is one other practical suggestion: Set the older boys to collecting a cabinet of lesson illustrations or objects, such as olivewood, Palestine flowers, Wilde and other pictures, Underwood and other stereographs, facsimiles of Bible coins, of Scripture scrolls, sandals, lamps, etc., many of which can be made.
When You Must Trust
There is a story of a mother who was so absorbed in the only boy God had given her that, when he went away to college, she went with him and took a room overlooking the dormitory, so that she could always watch her son in his daily movements across the campus.
How un-Marylike that was! Was it not better to trust the boy of twelve to remember the starting time and the road? Is it not better to put the responsibility on the young shoulders? There comes a time in the life of the boy when an ounce of trusting to his common sense and his conscientiousness is worth a ton of argus-eyed watching.
But you have to know your boy first. Do you think you know yours? Not until you can tell by the steadiness of his eye whether he has kept faith with you. The lines must be all up, and in the most delicate working order, between parent and son; no boy on the street or in the school must have any secrets of his that you have not; and then it pays to trust him.
I knew a father who used sometimes purposely to lose his boy in a crowd, just to give him the experience of relying on his own wits. The father never lost sight of his boy, but he never let the boy suspect that he was following and watching him. It's the making of a boy to put him on his own mettle, and even push him out into hard things; teach him how to keep hard bargains, to play the game to the finish.
There are times when the youngsters amaze us, not by their shallowness or thoughtlessness, but by their depth and far-seeing vision. Have you never had your heart suddenly melted by some revelation of unselfish, lover-like thoughtfulness for you?
Have you never been startled by some flash of manliness, of serious purpose, for which you did not think the boy old enough? But, if Mary has been telling him of the shepherds, and the angels, and the sayings of Simeon and Anna, and of the Magi, we may be sure the Spirit has been faithfully telling him more.
I correspond with a young college fellow who was the despair of his parents the last year in high school. It took the pushing of the entire family, and the faculty, and some friends besides, to get him through. But sometimes he writes more like a man of forty, of his impatience to get his preparation for a business life and get out into work so that he can take some of the burden off father's shoulders.
O, yes, it's worth while to "raise" boys, just to hear them say by and by, "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?"
The threefold growth of the boy—don't lose sight of that. Study food values, mother, and see that his body is nourished by a balanced diet. Have the best school, the best college, or the best periodicals and books in the home; but don't forget to give him high ideals and ambitions, so that when he leaves the nest the eaglet will fly to the mountain top. Sometimes he dives instead of flying, because we have forgotten his wings.
—John F. Cowan, in Christian Endeavor World.
West German Union
By J. G. Oblaender
I THINK it will interest the readers of the REVIEW to hear something about the progress of the work in this union. When we consider all the blessings the Lord has granted the work and the feeble efforts in our union during the last year, we find ourselves under great obligation to thank him for all his mercies and goodness.
In spite of all the difficulties and the hindrances that we have to contend with, especially in those fields where the population is mostly Catholic, we received during the last year 1,068 new members by vote and baptism, or a net gain of 619. We had at the close of 1913, 5,516 members. Our tithe for the year amounted to $83,815, or $15.73 per capita. The prospects for the future are bright, and we trust fully in the help of the Lord, who is our strength and guide.
J. G. OBLAENDER.
Field Notes
A SABBATH school with a membership of nine has been organized at Bandon, Oregon.
A SABBATH school has been organized at Bowling Green, Fla. The membership is thirty-four.
NINETEEN new Sabbath keepers were baptized and added to the church at Boston, Mass., a few weeks ago.
THE Australian Record states that between the close of the Queensland camp meeting, held in October, and the beginning of the new year, workers in that conference baptized twenty-six new believers.
Increase of Navy Chaplains Temporarily Defeated
By C. E. HOLMES
THE question of navy chaplains has recently interested both Catholic and Protestant bodies to an extraordinary degree. According to the statement of an official of the Federal Council of the Churches, the influence of religious forces has been bearing upon our government for over ten years to secure an increase of navy chaplains.
At last a provision embodying this increase, and several other features, was incorporated in the annual naval appropriation bill. This measure was reported from the House Committee on Naval Affairs, Feb. 28, 1914.
When the three paragraphs relating to chaplains were read before the House of Representatives, May 1, Mr. Madden, of Illinois, made a point of order against them. Under the rules of the House, a member may object to any new legislation when it is attached to appropriation bills, and thus defeat it. So this provision was eliminated from the naval bill.
On May 2, however, the matter again came up, as Mr. Madden withdrew his objection of the day before, and for some time a very spirited discussion was engaged in. The principal speaker was Mr. Tribble, of Georgia, who made a point of order against these paragraphs, and remained firm in his position until they were ruled out by the chairman. In the course of his remarks Mr. Tribble
was interrupted over fifty times. Referring to welfare secretaries, he said:—
"The Secretary of the Navy asked the naval committee for twenty-four welfare secretaries. . . . Why was not this request granted? The secretaries were not granted the Secretary of the Navy."
In answering this question, Mr. Tribble quoted Cardinal Gibbons's letter to Father O'Hern in which the cardinal stated that "the proposed scheme of substituting 'welfare secretaries' for chaplains does not meet the approval of the American Catholic archbishop, since no laymen can do the work of an ordained clergyman."
Mr. Tribble then read the following from a report of a hearing on navy chaplains, at which the letter just mentioned was first read:—
"Mr. Britten: The service that is given or rendered aboard ship, is it practically the same irrespective of the religious denomination of the chaplain?"
"Father O'Hern: Well, no, sir, not entirely. At the morning service a Catholic priest would celebrate mass. That is our official form of divine worship."
Continuing, he said: "Now listen to what he [Father O'Hern] says. Here is a man who speaks for the chaplains: 'I presume that the character of this service is more or less determined by the chaplain.'"
"It is not determined by the naval committee or the Navy Department or anybody else, but the chaplain. He is an officer of rank, and his command is law; and I say that this authority given to these chaplains is going too far. Mr. Chairman, the Constitution of the United States provides that every man can worship God in this country as he pleases. This is a privilege the Constitution gives him, and I say there should not be any encroachment upon that privilege."—Congressional Record, May 2, 1914.
We are glad to note that one Congressman can see the hand of Rome at work. Mr. Tribble also referred to and commented upon Father O'Hern's claim that the Catholic Church is entitled to "more than forty-one per cent of the religious leaders" in the navy.
Mr. Tribble is a member of the House Naval Committee, and when the question of chaplains was before that body, he said:—
"I do not see why the United States government should undertake to provide the religion of the people. I have been raised in Sunday schools and churches, and have been taught to go to church all my life, and I expect to keep it up, but I am not here to provide this body for the navy. I am here to help provide fighting forces, but I think the churches of the country ought to take care of the religious part of it."
In his objection to an increase of navy chaplains, Mr. Tribble has not yet gone to the root of this difficulty. Congress has no right to appropriate money from public funds to support religious teachers. It is a violation of the principle of complete separation of church and state.
At another hearing (January 20), when interrogated by a member of the committee, Mr. Witherspoon, as to whether the Protestants and Catholics on board ships were so liberal minded that Protestant and Catholic chaplains could indiscriminately minister to all efficiently, Reverend O'Hern very suavely answered:—
19'Yes, sir; I think the chaplain could minister to all.
'Mr. Witherspoon: You do?
'Father O'Hern: Yes, sir.'
On the very face of it, such a declaration seems strange. Protestants and Catholics in their religious teachings have little in common. Their beliefs are widely divergent. How much dependence can be placed upon such Catholic representations is shown in another incident relating to the same question.
At Annapolis, Md., is located the United States Naval Academy. The religious services at this school are conducted by one of the same chaplains that officiate on board ship. The attitude Catholics to the work of the chaplain at this academy proves that Father O'Hern's claim that a Protestant chaplain can minister to Catholics was simply a blind.
The following quotation from the 'Annual Reports of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America,' page 53, explains the whole situation at the Naval Academy:—
'The secretary of the Federal Council, Rev. Charles S. Macfarland, transmitted to us a letter from the pastor of the Baptist Church of Annapolis, Md., requesting an investigation and action. The letter was a complaint that students of the United States Naval Academy being Roman Catholics were permitted to attend church services at other than the chapel of the Naval Academy, which privilege was denied to all others. The committee conferred with the Secretary of the Navy Department.
'It appears that the superintendent of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., has in force an order requiring all students to attend sabbath [Sunday] worship in the chapel unless they can state in writing that they cannot conscientiously do so. The Roman Catholic students make that statement.'
Will Protestants never learn that Roman Catholicism never compromises except for policy, and to get a better hold? The only safety for Protestantism is in repudiating every plan that is not Biblical, whether it be in civil or in religious affairs.
The Loma Linda Hospital and Dispensary
By W. A. RUBLE, M. D., President
ONE of the latest acquisitions to the facilities of the Loma Linda College of Medical Evangelists is the new hospital. This is a solid concrete building capable of accommodating seventy patients. There are eighteen private and semi-private rooms, four ten-bed wards, and five screened wards for fever patients. The front section consists of surgical rooms, a clinic room, and two necessary offices.
The hospital was opened for patients Nov. 1, 1913, and there have been about twenty patients in the institution continuously since that date. There has20been little effort made to fill the hospital with patients unless they could pay sufficient for their maintenance to meet the actual expense. There are many poor people, of our own members as well as others, who are applying to enter, but no provision has been made to meet their expense.
Endowed Beds
Some provision should be made whereby these worthy poor could be admitted both for their own physical welfare and spiritual improvement and for experience for the medical students who are here in preparation for medical missionary work.
There are many persons among us who are abundantly able to endow a bed, which would make it possible to keep one poor person in the hospital all the time. It would cost four hundred dollars annually to endow one of these beds. We should have twenty-five beds thus endowed. Where are the liberal ones among us who desire to do some missionary work by in this way providing for the support and medical care of poor people, under the influence of the truth? Could there be better philanthropic work than this?
Dispensary
Another most important acquisition to the college the past year is the dispensary in Los Angeles. A large storeroom on a busy street in one of the best parts of the city as far as dispensary work is concerned, has been rented and fitted up and equipped for dispensary practice for the medical students. There are from twenty-five to fifty persons in attendance at the dispensary daily. Some of these are poor, but many who come are of the better class. Some of the public-school teachers bring their students to the place for examinations and treatments; especially children from the schools who need eye, ear, nose, and throat examinations, are coming in increasing numbers.
Hospital Privileges in Los Angeles
Increasing opportunities are coming to the college from the large county hospital in Los Angeles. Two medical schools in the city provide themselves with almost all the hospital experience for their students in this hospital, where there are nearly a thousand patients, and still there is much clinical material unused. Already our students are having two days a week from two to four hours a day in surgical clinics, and two days a week, two hours a day, in medical clinics, under our own instructors. The Glendale Sanitarium is also furnishing some good opportunities to our students for experience. Excellent opportunity is thus enjoyed by our students in clinical lines.
Our Patient Practice
A feature in the Los Angeles end of the college that should not be overlooked is the opportunity for treatment in the homes of the people. Here the students can give the people treatments by our own methods. Unlimited practice in obstetrical and other lines is thus offered.
In many ways the college facilities have been improved during the year, until at the present time excellent opportunities are furnished by the school for the preparation of our students for medical work.
Evangelistic Experience
Among the most valuable opportunities offered to the students are the openings for house-to-house medical missionary work. This has been entered into earnestly by the students thus far, and good work has been done.
The next school term opens about September 17. Those desiring to enter next fall should open correspondence with the college at once. Some who have one or two subjects in preparatory work to finish before entering may have opportunity to do so at some of our colleges, or here at Loma Linda during next summer. If there are students desiring such summer courses, they should make application for the same immediately.
W. A. RUBLE, M. D., President.
Notes Afield
By W. E. H.
AFTER nine months of close confinement in office work, it is truly refreshing and inspiring to spend some time in the open field. Here is where the real problems of education are being worked out. Here is where our plans and theories are being tested. Here is where the real struggle is on to combat the subtle forces of evil, and to work deliverance for our boys and girls in the spiritual crisis of their experience.
Our school men and women have truly a difficult task in hand to meet the competition of the free schools and counteract the lure of the world to our young people. But they are performing that task nobly, and with increasing success. God, who has called them to this responsibility, is continually causing them to triumph over menacing besetments on the right hand and on the left. Broader views of the work, clearer apprehension of its scope and balance, and deeper conviction that the principles of Christian education will stand every test that is brought to bear upon them, are constantly adding strength to our school centers and our modes of administration.
Our schools are experiencing a beneficial reaction from the union conference sessions held last winter. The earnest spirit of soul winning, the determination to increase our church membership, that has taken hold upon our field workers, is having the effect in our schools of deepening consecration, of pressing more vigorously preparation for field service, and of seeking new recruits for the student body. Increase in the attendance at our schools means the salvation of more of our young people. It means better schools. It means more and better-qualified laborers. This means increase in church membership and the hastening of the end. It is something we can afford to work for with all our hearts and with all our means.
While our educational workers are much disappointed at the postponement of our convention, yet the deferring of this meeting leaves the summer free for strong, aggressive effort in building up local school interests. There is a spirit among our educators to apply themselves diligently to this task, that their schools may in no sense fall behind our evangelistic work with its new impetus to advancement.
Lake Union Conference
There was much educational activity at this conference, and with good results. Elder I. H. Evans presented in a strong way the importance of raising the educational standard of our licentiate ministry to at least twelve grades. If we can judge from the number of earnest inquiries later, on means of doing this, there was a good response by our workers. Men with families, men who have not done school work for years, men who have had success in soul winning, but who are not satisfied with their educational attainments, are courageously pressing into line for greater efficiency.
The Ministerial Reading Course conducted by the General Conference Department of Education was explained as one means within the reach of all for self-improvement. No one is willing to acknowledge that he cannot read three books a year in addition to his regular study, yet this amount thoroughly done and kept up from year to year will substantially increase the reader's fund of knowledge, and stimulate improvement in methods of labor.
The missionary agent of the union, J. B. Blesser, reports one hundred and forty-one young people who are going out this summer to earn scholarships. About forty of these are from Emmanuel Missionary College, and all have taken institute training for this work. The academy students also are going out in larger numbers than heretofore.
The plan of endowing scholarships of fifty dollars each was presented and favorably received. Both the Review and Herald and the local conferences purpose to carry it out. This plan is especially intended for persons already in the work who need more education, and for those who are so situated that they cannot go out and earn scholarships, but yet give promise of making successful laborers after receiving further preparation. Persons of private means are encouraged to endow these scholarships, either annually or permanently. The North American Department of Education has already received one voluntary scholarship of this kind, with the promise of another soon, to be placed where most needed.
The plan adopted at the time of the General Conference last summer for limiting the academies to ten grades in a union where there is located a union conference training school, was adopted by the Lake Union Conference. This plan was already in operation there in most of its features, and while there was a desire on the part of some to extend the scope of the academies, as provided for in an exemption clause, it was decided that the time for this advance move had not yet come. The chief reasons for this decision are that it would result in serious injury to the support of the college, and would require considerable investment in academy facilities to do satisfactory work in the eleventh and twelfth grades. The academy men accepted this decision in a most commendable spirit of Christian fortitude and loyalty, and went back to their schools with the expressed determination to throw their strength into making the best ten-grade schools the union has ever had. As one principal expressed it, the special function of these schools is to do strong work in the common branches. When this is accomplished in all our schools, and the Bible is given its rightful place as the foundation and guide of all, we shall have a solidity in our entire system that we have long needed but not fully attained.
Time at this conference was also taken for valuable round table work in the interests of the church schools and industrial education. The educational superintendents and secretary are of excellent courage, and have made substantial improvement in both methods and results.
W. E. H.
Experiences in Great Britain
"He Shall Direct Thy Paths"
I AM glad to be able to write a few words of praise to the Lord for the good summer's experience that he gave me last year. From the very start, I could see that he was working for me and directing my path.
The territory had been worked some years before with the same book, "Bible Readings," but the Lord in his providence hid this from me, and I thank him for it; for had I known to what extent it had been worked, I should have been much discouraged. My field of labor was a long peninsula, and had I started at the north instead of the south, I should have found "Bible Readings" in nearly every house.
I had been in Campbeltown, Argyllshire, only a week when the Lord directed me to a member of the Free Church who used to distribute tracts, and who was well known in the place. He was a consecrated, God-fearing man, and immediately took a great interest in my work. He suggested that on one or two evenings he should take me to call on some of his acquaintances who he knew would be interested and could afford to buy books. I went with him on several occasions, and was thus enabled to get into the homes of the wealthy class and obtain a favorable hearing, and in the majority of cases orders were obtained. So greatly did the Lord bless me that in twelve days I had earned my scholarship, netting me in delivery over £55.
I had barely obtained my orders before the Millennial Dawnists arrived in the town, and canvassed it; so that when I began to deliver, many were suspicious; but every truth-filled book was delivered, and opportunity was presented to warn the people of the other book they had just purchased.
I rejoice that the Lord was able to use me to place the truth in so many homes, and may the seed sown bring forth an abundant harvest.
SPENCER MAXWELL.
Canvassing and Soul Winning
I had been told not to canvass in a certain district, as the people there were not at all religious. But with faith in God and his work, I decided to go right ahead and leave results with him. My faith was rewarded with thirty-two orders for "Bible Readings" the first day, and enough orders for a scholarship in a week.
Not far from this district a schoolteacher who came from Iceland is keeping the Sabbath as a result of studying the "Bible Readings" that I sold her. For twelve years she had prayed for the truth of God; now her prayer is answered, and she is to attend our college. Her sister is also about to walk with God's people.
As a result of house-to-house canvassing in London, another young woman is keeping the Sabbath. I have been calling on her at regular intervals in the course of my canvassing during each school year.
These souls are tokens of the promise, "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days."
LIONEL W. BARRAS.
A Bright Testimony
It is now over four years since I entered the book work. Just prior to my taking up this work a copy of "Great Controversy" was sold by a canvasser to my brother's wife. This I read eagerly, and in three weeks was keeping the Sabbath. Six weeks later I sold my first book, and have sold many since. From the very beginning, the Lord has prospered me.
One woman in whose house I lodged, accepted the truth through Bible studies given her in the evening after my day's canvassing was finished. Since then her husband has been keeping the Sabbath in the British navy with but little opposition.
The Lord enabled me to gain four scholarships during the summer and autumn of 1912.
One woman in Scotland gave me permission to canvass every person on her estate, placed five dollars in my hand, and wished me Godspeed in my work. I was sorry, however, that she would not take a book for herself.
On another occasion I called on a woman of wealth and position who owned a large estate. She was confined to her room at the time through illness. However, I asked the servant to take my prospectus to her mistress's room, which she did, and returned with an order for a copy, and the lady's permission to canvass every one on the estate. As a result, I secured about twenty orders for my book, half in the morocco, and most of the others in the sheepskin binding. I praise God for the privilege of being a gospel canvasser.
A. E. HULBERT.
A Canvasser's Blessings and Opportunities
As a canvasser in the British field, it is a great pleasure to me to testify that the hand of the Lord is in our work here. The last two summer vacations I have enjoyed a good experience in Scotland. On the first occasion, although I was quite new to the work, the Lord blessed me with over £60 worth of orders during the three months; whereas on the latter occasion my orders for a shorter period exceeded £100. Thus the message has been carried into remote parts of Scotland, books being gladly received at many isolated homesteads where the people love the Lord and are far distant from, as well as dissatisfied with, their churches.
I could not wish to canvass among a better class of people than I met21during the last vacation. The district worked was the western Highlands of Argyllshire, and the book was "Bible Readings." The people there are descended mostly from the old Covenanters who were driven to this extremity of Scotland by their persecutors over two hundred years ago. They are, especially in the country districts, a strong, noble, and refined class of people, and still remain very antagonistic to popery. One is somewhat surprised to find the owner or holder of a farm of several hundred acres, roughly clad, down on his knees weeding turnips, with his men and women servants around him assisting in the same work.
Often a friendly smile awaits you, and upon making known your business, a sympathetic interest is shown in your book. After being satisfied that the book is worthy of his possession, he very rarely hesitates in giving his order.
My first week's orders reached the sum of £18 on territory that had been worked with the same book about eight years before, and with good success.
Day by day I felt God's guidance, and that he was opening the hearts of the people. I was solemnly impressed that perhaps it would be the only chance for these dear people, isolated as they are in the Highlands, to receive God's last message, for the books were placed among them so plentifully.
One of my best experiences happened in a small village in northern Kintyre. I had canvassed the district thoroughly, and was waiting for the arrival of my books from the tract society. I had planned for them to reach me early in the week, that I might leave the district on Friday for another center. The books, however, did not arrive until Thursday, and I felt disappointed that my plans could not be carried out; but I soon learned that the Lord had another plan for me. The delay caused me to remain in the village until the next week.
On Sunday morning one of the villagers with whom I had become acquainted, asked me if I would take the evening meeting to be held in the school, — they were without a church, — as the minister had been called away suddenly, and they were without a shepherd.
Now I saw the reason that my books had been delayed, and I felt quite clear as to my duty. I willingly complied with the request, and as, fortunately, I had attended meetings in the Scottish churches previously, I was familiar with their form of service.
After seeking guidance from the Lord, I decided to speak on the signs of the times. During the meeting the Lord came very near. My brother canvasser and I both felt assured that the Lord had planned for that meeting, and had carried it through with his own power.
Next day I learned that the people were much interested in what they had heard, and expressed their regret that I was to leave the district and would probably have no further opportunity to tell them more of the present truth. However, books on the message were scattered throughout the neighborhood, and I am hoping for a bountiful harvest.
What unexpected joys the canvasser will have when the mists have rolled away, and he sees as the results of his labors many souls brought into the kingdom.
F. C. BAILEY.
Iowa Conference Association
THE regular meeting of the Iowa Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the annual conference and camp meeting of that denomination, at the State fair grounds, Des Moines, Iowa. This association is the legal corporation of the Iowa Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Officers will be elected, and such other business transacted as may properly22come before the association. The first meeting is called at 10 A. M., Tuesday, June 2, 1914.