Earlier text: Religion in the Public Schools of WashingtonThe One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund
Amount previously reported........$57,976 72
Pacific Union Conference........... 113 75
Dr. B. A. Capehart................. 50 00
Mrs. M. H. Dunmead................. 50 00
East Michigan Tract Society........ 43 00
Central Union Conference........... 38 10
Southern New England Con-
ference............................ 18 75
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Cheney.......... 13 95
Mt. Vernon (Ohio) church........... 11 00
P. F. Howell....................... 10 00
C. A. Frederick.................... 10 00
E. C. Boylan....................... 10 00
Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Moore............ 10 00
J. A. Reavis........................ 10 00
C. D. Wilson........................ 10 00
Mr. and Mrs. William Janney......... 8 00
Vermont Conference.................. 6 00 S. A. Mason, John Do, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Collins, Joseph Drechsler, David E. Bell, Mrs. A. M. Eaton, R. H. Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Eagle, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harrison, C. H. Lansing, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Stegall, Mrs. J. Arnold, Mrs. J. D. W., David Dodge, G. W. Copeley, Mrs. Mary Norton, N. P. Burdick, R. H. Brock, Mr. and Mrs. Roe Robison. Walla Walla (Wash.) church, $4; Mary C. Arnett, $3.50; C. C. McCatty (Bermuda), $2.92; J. Ernest Bond, $2.75; Lydia A. Bodey, $2.75; Davis Barton, $2.73; John E. Kingsbury, $2.50; H. S. McKyes, $2.50; Friday Harbor (Wash.) church, $2.25; J. E. Powery (West Indies), $1.65; Conway church, $.66; Mrs. Grant Sherman, $.56; a friend, $.45; Elva Cheney, $.05. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rosenberger, George and Ethel Luce, Robert Forsythe, J. T. Nelson. F. A. Luce, Mrs. F. M. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Miller, J. E. Cameron, Mrs. Frank Peck, "Sunshine Band" (Santiago, Cal.), Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Winniford, Grant Sherman, Charles French, Mrs. Linda German. Elder T. H. Watson, Mrs. M. E. Watson, G. J. Campbell, Mrs. Rosa Campbell. Mrs. Bertha Cooper, Mrs. C. E. Garner, Nellie Kroupa, Mrs. A. E. Courville, Fairfield (Ohio) church, B. H. Avery, Mrs. O. L. Dart, Mrs. Alice Howell, Pearl Cheney, Sarah Stokes, Mrs. L. E. Bowen, Mrs. W. A. Hoover, Julius Creal, D. M. Van Valkenburg, Nellie Saxton, Annie Saxton, Mary Saxton, Ralph Saxton, C. H. Dailey, W. M. Doering, H. B., F. S. Porter, E. H. Wallar, Effa Wallar, T. D. Wallar, Mary N. Wallar, E. W. Alsberge, Lotta Alsberge, J. T. Williamson, J. S. Yates, Mamie Pier, Alfred Anderson, Hattie E. Purvis. Martha Hansen, Mrs. Carrie Hungerford, Erwin Kloss, Mrs. Irene MacDonald, Ivy C. Tibbets. Jacob Reimer....................$ 10 00
W. P. and Annie Gould............. 25 00 Total reported..................$58,621 04
A further list will follow. Send all donations to W. T. Bland,
Takoma Park Station, Washington,
D. C. Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference. L. A. HOOPS, Chairman; FREDRICK GRIGGS, Secretary. The people of the United States have been slow to recognize the value of special training for those who were to teach. All assistant teachers in the common schools of Austria-Hungary must obtain from a teachers’ seminary a certificate of their qualification as teachers. In nearly all European countries similar laws prevail; but in the United States, where more money is yearly expended for education than in several of these European monarchies put together, thousands of teachers are permitted to teach without any higher certificate than that of a town or county commissioner. Such officials are often unqualified to decide in regard to a person’s qualifications for teaching. I have heard that the first normal school in the State of Wisconsin was founded by a well-educated lady from New England, who was denied by the town examiner a certificate to teach in the district schools of Wisconsin because she was unable to answer correctly his first question in geography. His question demanded the color of her native State, Massachusetts, as shown on the map which he held in his hand. I personally know of a school commissioner of a town in Michigan, who, after giving a fifteen-minute oral examination to a lady having only a very ordinary education, and trying for a third-grade certificate, gave her one of a first grade because he did not happen to have a third-grade blank with him when he examined the applicant. Such facts seem almost incredible when we consider that “it is the nicest work ever assumed by men and women to deal with youthful minds.” If careful, accurate preparation is needed for any work, it is for that of teaching. If this be true in a general sense, it is doubly so in the special sense in which our teaching work is to be considered. The illustrations which I have given of carelessness concerning the educational qualifications of teachers were those of years ago. Since that time all our States have taken advanced steps in the requirements made of their teachers. But they furnish an illustration of what in recent times has been more or less true in a few of our schools, where teachers have been employed who were unqualified for their work. Of course, it must be recognized that persons who are not fitted either by nature or by education for school work will sometimes undertake to teach, and will be engaged, by those in charge of schools, for that work. And on the other hand, not every one who appreciates the principles of Christian education and is well educated is fitted to teach. But it is also true that if one who desires to teach never begins, it will not be known whether he can teach. Experienced teachers are, of course, preferred to those who lack experience. But experienced teachers become so only by teaching. Much of their early teaching is, however, little more than experimenting, which is very likely to be costly work, when we consider the good of the pupils. Much harm has been done to the cause of the church-schools by inexperienced and incompetent teachers. Much of this might have been avoided if a thorough training had been required of those who engaged in teaching. It is not simply that we are to have church-schools, but these schools should be manned by competent and well-qualified teachers. There will be more of this class when a standard of attainments is required of all our church-school teachers—and I may reasonably add of all our teachers. But if such a standard is to be erected and maintained, a thorough course of normal training, which shall be in no sense inferior to that given by the best normal schools of the country, though, of course, of an essentially different character, will have to be given by all our union conference training-schools or by certain ones in the different portions of the country, which may especially plan for this line of work. We should not do a grade of work which is inferior to that of the world in any sense whatever. It should, indeed, be superior, though it be radically different. F. G. OBEDIENCE, or submission to authority, is one of the first and most important of all things in education; and unless the child is taught, when young, to curb its desires, and to yield its will to that of another, it will be much more difficult, if not impossible, for it to submit to lawful authority, to reason and conscience, when it is older. He who has never been taught to submit to authority, who has never been trained to obey another, can be but little able to obey himself, to yield the lower to the higher principles of his nature, to exercise self-command and self-control. It is not by self-will or self-assertion, or any form of self-development—development from within,—that any one has ever become great, but only by being a humble and submissive learner at the feet of others and in the great school of the world. Further, it is a leading principle of our nature that our powers are called forth by opposition, our faculties developed by antagonism; and hence, when the motive powers within are deprived of those checks and restraints from without that serve to regulate and to strengthen them, they become weak and languid, or act irregularly, and the individual becomes dull and stupid, or impulsive and passionate. When those who have been overindulged in childhood and early years come out into the world, they find that they can not get circumstances to bend to them as before; and as they have never learned how, when adverse they are to be met and overcome, they are at a loss how to deal with them, and are readily brought to a standstill by opposition, or to have recourse to unsuitable or unworthy means to overcome them. A man can never have the full power of his faculties unless he has them well under control, as there would be no force in steam if it were unrestrained and allowed to blow off spontaneously.— Selected. The Relation of the Home School to Christian Education
By Laura C. Foster
THIS denomination has so far failed in the past in carrying out the instruction given in the Bible and the Testimonies, that our system of education may be compared to an inverted pyramid. We had, first, the college, reaching only a small number of our young people. Then academies and preparatory schools were started in many of our conferences, and thus more of the young people were reached. When our people began to see the importance of saving the children, then, beginning a step nearer the source in recruiting the ranks of workers, church-schools were started; with the result that in a few years the circle of influence of our educational work was greatly widened. But at the church-school age it is often too late to save the children, unless the work has had a thorough foundation in the home school. The home training should be the foundation of all our educational work. If that were the condition now, we should not see such a small percentage of our Sabbath-school children in the church-school, nor so large a percentage of the church-school children there under protest. The Jewish mothers are so often cited as examples to those who have the care of children to-day that little heed is given to it; but as a matter of fact, our whole educational system, not only theoretically, but practically, depends upon the training the child receives before he is of church-school age. All the children of the denomination have been in home schools of some sort, and to the extent that the work has been done which God intended should be done there,—to that extent, largely, are the church-schools a success; and starting on that basis, we can build an educational pyramid right side up. The child of eight years, if he has neighbors or playmates in the public school, would naturally choose to go with them when he enters school, unless he has been trained otherwise. The teacher's work is a delicate and difficult one at best, as all admit, but if the children come as unwilling victims, only a miracle can bring benefit to any concerned. Educational work can not be a success until there is more whole-hearted co-operation between parents and teachers, in order that no effort of one may be nullified by the other. In every grade of school work there should be the closest connection in the work, and the closest sympathy between the workers, with those of the grade above and the grade below; and while, of late, much attention has been given to church-schools, not enough attention has been given by the majority of our people to the home schools, which prepare the students for the church-schools. If we go to the root of the matter, we must see that failure in the home training, and a lack of active interest in the grades that follow, mean an increase of difficulties and failures throughout the course. Each part of our educational system should be not only not a hindrance, but a positive help. BRIEF business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers. A minimum charge of one dollar will be made for one insertion of forty words or less. Three cents a word will be charged for each additional word, and remittance must accompany each order. Initials and figures count as words. Name and address must be counted. All persons unknown to the managers of this paper must send satisfactory written recommendations whenever submitting notices for insertion in this column. In the case of poor persons who wish employment, the charge may be remitted, but in order to secure this concession a letter from the elder of the local church of which the advertiser is a member, or from one of our well-known ministers, must accompany the advertisement. WANTED.—At once, a competent lady stenographer; must be a good penman, and able to take dictation rapidly. This is a good opportunity for the right person. Address, stating experience, the Iowa Sanitarium, Des Moines, Iowa. FOR SALE.—First-class 80-acre farm, 2 mi. from Petoskey, on State road; 7 acres timber, rest improved. First-class buildings; 2 wells, filtered cistern, brook running through farm. Carriage, ice, and hen houses. Barn 100 ft. long. Orchard; 2 acres small fruit. Splendid market. Address immediately J. L. Howe, Petoskey, Mich.23 WANTED.—Work on farm, by young man, in Michigan or Iowa. Address, stating wages and length of term, Herman Johnson, 210 Fourth St., Sioux City, Iowa. WANTED.—Seventh-day Adventist man for gardening and wood cutting, by month. Would prefer one who is willing to help in house if necessary. State wages. References given and required. Address Thos. Olds, Sturgis, Mich. WANTED.—A married man with no children, who is a florist and gardener and understands fruit culture and general farm work. Must be a Seventh-day Adventist, and well recommended. Address L. A. C., Haskell Home, Battle Creek, Mich. WANTED.—You, dear reader, to sell 5 dozen potatoes, and give the profits to the Washington building fund. 5 dozen will sell for $12 to $15. I will send them, by prepaid express, for $3. You can thus forward the work in Washington. Address Mrs. O. E. Cummings, College View, Neb. FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN.—A 160-acre ranch; productive; 80 acres under ditch; good water; healthful climate; plenty of wood; ranch fenced. Good place for stock. Post-office, school, and Seventh-day Adventist company near. Suitable outbuildings. Will trade for stock, or California or other property. Address S. B. Sheldon, Sheldon, Wyo. FOR SALE.—Health food store and vegetarian restaurant combined, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Splendid chance for right persons with about $3,000 to invest. Ample opportunity for missionary work. Present management and half owner must leave, owing to failing health. For particulars, address Sanitarium Food Company, Sanitarium, Cal. WANTED.—At once, two young men to take the medical missionary training course for nurses. We have a graded course covering a period of two years, at the completion of which a diploma is granted. A liberal allowance for clothing, shoes, and books is granted during the first year, besides board and room. The second year we pay a salary. This is a good opportunity for the right persons. Do not reply unless it is your intention to be a missionary. Write at once, addressing the Iowa Sanitarium, Des Moines, Iowa. — The wholesale district of Indianapolis, Ind., was damaged to the extent of $1,500,000 by fire, February 19. — Railway wrecks have been reported the past week at Fairlawn, N. J.; Wiota, Iowa; Columbia, Ala.; and Tyrone, Pa., at all of which, except the latter, there was some loss of life. — One of the greatest disasters in the history of coal mining in this country took place at Virginia City, Ala., February 20, due to an explosion in the mine, the cause of which has not yet been definitely ascertained. About one hundred and twenty men were in the mine when the disaster occurred, and not one of the entire number survived. — President William R. Harper, of Chicago University, is a victim of cancer, and is not expected to survive to the end of the present year. Dr. Harper recently underwent an operation, which was successful in removing a part of the cancer, which is an internal one, but no hope is held out that a cure of the disease will be effected. — The great “beef trust,” the existence of which is denied by the beef packers, is feeling the heavy hand of the United States government. A press telegram from Chicago gives this statement of the situation: “United States officials began one of the most exhaustive inquiries ever started under the Sherman anti-trust act to-day [February 21] by issuing subpœnas for 185 witnesses, calling for a federal grand jury to sit March 20, and making full arrangements for producing complete evidence regarding the operations of the packers in Chicago and other packing centers in minute detail. One hundred and thirty witnesses are to be from the Chicago packing-houses and offices, and fifty-five are heads of departments and agents in fifteen other large cities of the country. . . . Both the President and Attorney-General Moody believe that the proof of the packers’ guilt is absolutely conclusive, and amply sufficient to insure convictions in the most important cases, if not in all. The penalty for each violation of the Sherman law is two years in the penitentiary, or $5,000 fine, or both.” — Very strong governmental forces are being arrayed against the Standard Oil trust, and that organization is said to have become seriously alarmed for the preservation of its inordinate powers. President Roosevelt has instituted an investigation of the trust through the commissioner of corporations, and promises to exercise all his power in bringing to light the facts pertinent to the inquiry; while the States of Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Texas, and Colorado, and the Territory of Oklahoma are either providing for an investigation of the Standard Oil monopoly or for the establishment of State oil refineries. A projected renewal by Congress of a “blanket lease” of 680,000 acres of oil and gas lands belonging to the Osage Indian tribe in Indian Territory, to Mr. H. V. Foster, has been a subject of controversy between parties who favored the lease and others who opposed it on the ground that the lease was really in the interests of the Standard Oil trust, among the protests received in Congress being one from the Kansas Legislature. Independent oil producers in West Virginia have pledged aid to President Roosevelt in conducting the investigation which he has set on foot. The Standard Oil Company announces that it will resist the proposed investigation of its affairs to the utmost. — A state of affairs bordering on anarchy still continues in many parts of Russia, the most serious recent disturbances being at Baku, Riga, and Batoum. Labor agitations, political revolution, and racial antipathies figure as causes of the disorders, which have now assumed the gravest character. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch, the actual revolution, accompanied by the setting up of a new provisional government, was accomplished in some districts on the eastern border of the Black Sea. The situation in northern Russia and Poland is reported to be hardly less serious. At Baku hundreds of Armenians were slaughtered in the streets by Tartars who were turned loose upon them, while the authorities refused to interfere. Many people were killed also at Batoum, Riga, and Poti. The strike at Warsaw still continues, and the strikers are resorting to violence. Alarming reports are in circulation regarding the intentions of the revolutionary party. Railway traffic has been stopped in many places. It is stated that the whole educational system of Russia is involved in the revolutionary movement. — The movement for church federation in this country is assuming very definite shape. A New York City telegram says: “Definite plans are taking shape for the great Inter-Church Conference on Federation to be held here next fall, and to which official delegates have already been named by religious bodies, with an aggregate membership of nearly twenty million. The Federation Conference will have its sessions in Carnegie Hall, where the Ecumenical Mission Conference met five years ago, extending over five days, from November 15 to 20. The conference is looked forward to in all bodies as the most important religious gathering this country has ever seen, since it will represent a co-operation of religious bodies which would have been impossible a few years ago. Details of the plan are in charge of a general committee on arrangements, of which the Rev. Dr. William H. Roberts, secretary of the Alliance of Reformed Churches holding the Presbyterian system, is chairman, and the Rev. Dr. E. B. Sanford, secretary of the National Federation of Churches, is secretary. At a meeting of this committee, just held, it was reported that official delegates are already assured from nearly all the larger bodies of the United States, and from most of the smaller ones. The purpose of the federation conference, as stated in the letter sent to the religious bodies asking the appointment of delegates, is as follows: ‘We believe that the great Christian bodies in our country should stand together, and lead in the discussion of, and give an impulse to, all great movements that make for righteousness. We believe that questions like that of the saloon, marriage, and divorce, Sabbath desecration, the social evil, child labor, relation of labor to capital, the bettering of the condition of the laboring classes, the moral and religious training of the young, the problem created by foreign immigration and international arbitration—indeed, all great questions in which the voice of the churches should be heard—concern Christians of every name, and demand their united and concerted action if the church is to lead effectively in the conquest of the world for Christ.’” NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
By I. H. Evans
THE committee of arrangements for the General Conference to be held at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., May 11-30, 1905, desires to secure at once the following information from those who plan to attend this meeting:— 1. Give your full name and address. If you are a delegate, state the fact. 2. Do you wish the committee to provide you with a tent? or must you have a room? 3. If you wish to tent or to room with any particular person, please state your choice. 4. Do you prefer to board yourself? or will you expect the committee to arrange for your board? Accommodations will be provided for all those who reply to these inquiries prior to March 15, but it is necessary for the committee to receive the information by that time in order to be able to make the necessary arrangements. Tents will have to be secured from distant conferences, and it is therefore necessary to learn as early as possible the number who will require accommodations. Address all communications concerning this matter to J. S. Washburn, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. COLLINS.—Died near Tell City, Ind., Jan. 25, 1905, of valvular disease of the heart, Sister Harriet E. Collins, mother of Brother J. E. Collins, aged 64 years, 1 month, and 3 days. Sister Collins accepted God's message for to-day ten years ago, and had a bright hope as an anchor that kept her near to her Lord at all times since. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. WELCH.—Died at Red Bluff, Cal., Nov. 6, 1904, of pneumonia, my sister, Mrs. R. C. Welch, aged 52 years, 1 month, and 12 days. She had kept the Sabbath for several years, and was a member of the Berkeley (Cal.) church. Her trust in the Saviour was firm until the last. The funeral service was conducted by Brother A. J. Morton, his remarks being based principally upon 1 Thess. 4:18. Interment took place at Millville, Cal. ESTES.—Died at his home near Reform, Mo., Jan. 2, 1905, Thomas Estes, in his sixty-fifth year. While the writer was canvassing in the neighborhood five years ago, Brother Estes became much interested in present truth. Although an invalid, unable to walk, he “received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” He died with a bright hope of meeting his soon-coming Saviour. A pious mother eighty years of age is left to mourn her loss. BLODGETT.—Died at Marcellus, Mich., Jan. 3, 1905, Mrs. Artimetia Blodgett, aged 87 years, 7 months, and 22 days. She united with the Methodist Church at an early age, and accepted the truths of the third angel's message about thirty years ago, remaining a conscientious Christian till the day of her death. Six children,—three sons and three daughters,—also thirty-three grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren, remain to mourn their loss. The funeral service was conducted by Rev. Helmbolt (Methodist). RUSH.—Died at College Place, Wash., Hester M. Pair, wife of J. S. Rush, aged 38 years, 1 month, and 4 days. At the age of twelve she was converted and united with the church, ever after living a faithful, consistent Christian life. By her kind and pleasant ways she won the confidence of all her neighbors and friends. During the months of her long sickness, and while suffering intensely at times, no murmur escaped her lips. A devoted husband and an only daughter expect to meet her where parting will be no more. WHITING.—Malinda Whiting, nee Woodworth, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1834, and died near Capitola, Cal., Dec. 9, 1904, of heart-disease and pneumonia. Fifteen years ago she united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at Grand Meadow, Minn. Twelve years ago she came with her family to California, and united with the Soquel church. She leaves two sons and two daughters to mourn their loss. Her funeral service was conducted by the writer at Soquel, on Sabbath, December 10. McKIBBON.—Died at her home near Adel, Iowa, Dec. 28, 1904, Mrs. Ruhamy McKibbon, aged 58 years, 11 months, and 23 days. Sister McKibbon was converted at the age of eighteen years, under the work of the Methodist Church. Later she united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to which she remained faithful until death. A husband and two adopted sons, two brothers, and one sister, and a large circle of friends mourn her death. The funeral was held in the Christian church, the choir very kindly furnishing the music, and the pastor assisting in the services. WEST.—Died at Hollidaysburg, Pa., Feb. 3, 1905, of apoplexy, Sister Rachel West, aged 79 years, 8 months, and 3 days. Sister West was a lover of this cause and people. She was the mother of thirteen children, and had seventy-two grandchildren and sixty-seven great-grandchildren. Five sons and five daughters are still living. One son could not be present at the funeral; the other four sons carried their mother to her last resting-place, and it was a touching scene to all present. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from Rev. 14:13. KING.—Ormond A. King died Feb. 3, 1905, aged 18 years, 9 months, and 18 days. For some time he was a student in the Boggs-town (Ind.) Manual Training Academy. In the spring of 1904 he went to California. When informed of his mother's illness, he hastened across the continent, to her bedside. There he rendered loving, faithful service until prostrated by typhoid fever. He bore his sickness without a murmur. A father, mother, two brothers, and a sister are left to mourn their loss. Words of comfort were spoken at the funeral from Rev. 14:13. CHINNOCK.—William Chinnock was born in Ditcheat, Somersetshire, England, Aug. 2, 1824, and died of old age in Oakland, Cal., Jan. 23, 1905. In early life he was converted, and united with the Methodist Church, and while he remained in England, he was active in missionary work, distributing tracts in his appointed locality. In his twentieth year he left England and came to America, settling in Ohio. In 1850 he was united in marriage to Alice S. Green, and to them were born ten children, of whom seven are now living, and were present at the funeral. In 1864 Brother Chinnock's attention was called to the Sabbath of the Lord, and the truths of the third angel's message. As he had taken the Bible for his rule of faith and practise, he was ever ready to accept advanced light. So he heartily received the message, and held his membership with this people till the close of his life. Our people in Ohio will remember his connection with the cause there in the sixties, when he served as elder of the North Bloomfield church. In 1896 he removed from Ohio to California. Here he renewed his early experience in missionary work, which he faithfully followed until failing health compelled him to leave the work to others. His demise was due to no particular sickness. It was purely a result of old age. On the twenty-second he was about the house, but complained of trouble in his stomach. During the night following he seemed restless, and in some pain. He was cared for during the night by his companion and others, but in an early hour of the morning of the twenty-third he quietly ceased to breathe. It was the privilege of the writer to speak words of comfort to the mourning relatives and friends at his funeral, in his own home, on the afternoon of January 25, and we laid him away to rest a little while in the beautiful Mountain View Cemetery of Oakland, where so many of our people have been placed to await the coming of the Life-giver. N. B.—Attention has been repeatedly called to the necessity of having papers properly wrapped. Do not roll or wrap too small. Cover papers well, so that they will be clean when received. Some have paid double the postage necessary, while others have forwarded literature by express when it would have been cheaper to send it by mail, at four ounces for one cent. [SPECIAL NOTE.—All who receive periodicals in answer to these calls are advised to examine them carefully before distributing them.—Ed.] The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:— Mrs. Lyons, New Paltz, N. Y., tracts. John Reid, Tacoma, Wash., Signs, Instructor, and tracts. Eva E. Satterlee, Deansboro, N. Y., Signs, Life Boat, and tracts. J. A. Bartow, 2814 3d Ave., Seattle, Wash., periodicals for ship mission work. Frank Peabody, Jennings, La., REVIEW, Signs, Watchman, health journals, and tracts. David A. Fisher, 606 S. Cochran Ave., Brunswick, Ga., Signs, Watchman, Life Boat, Little Friend, and tracts. Mrs. W. H. H. Ingle, Ladysmith, Wis., REVIEW, Signs, Instructor, Life and Health, Little Friend, and tracts. R. W. Logan, Orlando, Fla., REVIEW, Signs, Watchman, Life and Health, Life Boat. Miss B. Shryock, 309 2d Ave. N., Seattle, Wash., literature for boat and prison work. J. L. Lewis, R. F. D. No. 27, De Witt, Mich., REVIEW, Signs, Instructor, Little Friend, health literature, and tracts. W. C. Wales, 210 Caswell St., Knoxville, Tenn., REVIEW, Signs, Life Boat, Life and Health, all numbers of the Watchman later than Nov. 1, 1904, also “Appeal to Clergy.” Miss Belle Young, R. F. D. No 3, Paducah, Ky., Signs, Watchman, Life and Health, Instructor, Life Boat, Little Friend, also tracts on the following subjects: Sabbath and Sunday, religious liberty, and tobacco. THE address of Elder H. S. Guilford is West Branch, Mich. Medical Work in Spanish Honduras
Dr. F. E. Braucht and family are leaving for Spanish Honduras, to engage in self-supporting medical work. Dr. Braucht goes to the field under recommendation of the Mission Board, but at his own charges. Brother H. A. Owen, and his sister, Miss Lura Owen, a dentist, are already doing self-supporting work in the same field. Union College Fourteenth-Year Announcement
THE announcement for the fourteenth year of Union College, Kenilworth, Cape Colony, South Africa, has been received. The trustees make the following statement concerning the aim of the institution: “This school was established, not merely to teach the sciences, but for the purpose of giving instruction in the great principles of God’s Word, and in the practical duties of every-day life. To this end opportunities are here given whereby students can be fitted for a useful life, and at the same time receive the proper education of the mind and heart.” The work of the institution is classified under four heads: Literary, Music, Industrial, and Home. Full information is given concerning the work offered in each department and the plan of conducting the same. Four members of the faculty are from America: C. H. Hayton, the principal; Mrs. Ruth Haskell Hayton, the matron; Miss Pearl West, the preceptress; and Mrs. Cora M. (Blodgett) Fortner, in charge of the Intermediate Department. A feature of the announcement is the prominence given to some appropriate quotations from the Scripture. General Conference Offices Move
The officers of the General Conference, including the departments whose headquarters are here, have now been removed to Takoma Park. The full address is Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. AN address on “The Eastern Question,” by Brother J. S. Wightman, of the New York Conference, was fully reported in the Morning Times of Hornellsville, N. Y., occupying nearly three full columns. BROTHER GEORGE SKINNER and his wife have left Washington for Montreal, which will be their field of labor. The Iowa Conference, which has been maintaining them in evangelistic work in this city, sends them to Canada, and continues their support. Anonymous Communications
By Editor
WE can make no use of anonymous communications. The editor must know the name and address of each contributor, even if they are not printed with the article. Furthermore, an anonymous letter is not the Scriptural method of administering reproof. Religious Liberty Day in Washington
SPECIAL significance was added to the observance of last Sabbath in Washington as Religious Liberty Day by the effort now being made to secure religious instruction in the public schools of this city. Full particulars of this movement are given in other parts of this issue. Elder Krum in South Carolina
ELDER J. H. KRUM, who returned from Jerusalem about a year ago on account of illness, has located in the pine belt of South Carolina, where he will canvass, and seek to regain health. He is rejoicing at finding a place with not a representative of this message within a hundred miles of it, where he may spread the light of present truth. The Educational Messenger
SOME time ago the Union College Messenger, published at College View, Neb., was excluded from the mails, on the ground that it was published primarily in the interests of Union College. In its stead, the Educational Messenger has now appeared, and will be devoted to the interests of education in general, including the work of home schools, Sabbath-schools, church-schools, intermediate schools, and training-schools, and the young people's work. The Inauguration of the King of Kings
By Editor
MANY people are thinking about, and planning for, the inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt as president of the United States. It is probable that few of these same persons are getting ready to see for the greater inauguration soon to take place. The appropriate subject of Elder Luther Warren’s address at the Lafayette Opera House in this city, next Sunday evening, will be “The Inauguration of the King of Kings.” We hope the minds of many inauguration visitors may thus be turned to the coming of the Lord. Petitions Against Sunday Legislation
LATELY our petitions against religious legislation have been rolling in upon Congress at a rapid rate. According to the Congressional Record of February 22, George Washington's birthday, forty-nine separate entries of these were made in Congress on that day, from over seventy different places, by various congressmen, eight in the Senate and forty-one in the House of Representatives. Out of a total of eighty petitions relating to various matters presented in the House on that day, forty-one, or over one half of all, were our petitions against Sunday legislation. None were presented for Sunday laws. The Sabbath Question in Mexico
ANOTHER instance of the use of the public press in disseminating the truth has just come to our attention. In the Mexican Herald of Feb. 3, 1905, a daily paper published in Mexico City, there was printed an article written by Brother Frank C. Kelley, which occupies over a column and a half of space, and treats the Sabbath question quite fully, including a brief review of the usual arguments for Sunday observance and the admissions of various writers that there is no Bible authority for Sunday-keeping. The Herald claims to be read “by everybody who reads English in Mexico,” and the truth is thus presented to a large number. Brother Kelley and his wife are engaged in self-supporting missionary work in Mexico, and we hope that they may be permitted to see much fruit of their labors. Washington, D. C.
By J. S. Washburn
THE meeting held on Sunday night, February 19, at the Lafayette Opera House was in some respects the most encouraging ever held by our people in the city of Washington. I was connected with the work in Washington for one year—from June 24, 1890, to July 6, 1891,—and have been continuously in Washington since May 8, 1902, and from my own knowledge, and from what I am able to learn of the meetings held by other workers in Washington, this meeting was the largest ever held by our people. As stated in a previous number of the REVIEW, the situation could scarcely be better. An intelligent class of people was in attendance, and seemed much interested. Elder Warren spoke on the subject of Spiritualism. As will be seen in the editorial columns, a great issue has just been raised here in Washington over the question of teaching religion in the public schools. This is a question in which the people are deeply interested. A Methodist minister of Washington spoke on Wednesday evening, February 22, at Takoma Park, very strongly against Sunday legislation, against the teaching of religion in the public schools, and stood boldly for religious liberty. His address was most refreshing. The issues are being more closely joined, and the Lord has honest souls in the legislature and in the church who will come out of the darkness into the light, and stand for the truth in the last conflict. The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund has now reached the amount of $58,621.04, as will be seen by the list on page 20. In order that the remainder, $41,378.96, shall be raised before May 11, the date of the opening of the General Conference, it will be necessary that $3,666.46 shall be given each week. This can easily be done, but there must be a large and immediate increase to make this possible; for if the donations come in at the rate of last week, the whole amount will not be provided until May 16, 1906. But we know there are many who are waiting to make large donations, and will help us close up this work very soon.