THE Arkansas Conference has just launched a campaign for putting the magazines Liberty and Protestant into the reading-rooms and libraries of the colleges of the State, as well as into the hands of leading, influential citizens. A lively interest in the effort is being manifested by our people all over the State.
Elder S. E. Wight recently sent this department a newspaper clipping of nearly a column of editorial from a leading paper of Illinois, warmly advocating the enforcement of Sunday as a day of rest by civil enactment. It is high time to supply all such editors with matter showing the evils of Sunday legislation.
Elder A. R. Bell, of York, Pa., religious liberty secretary of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, has been very successful in securing in a leading daily of York the publication of the famous “Sunday Mail Report.” We could wish that that splendid document might have similar publication in every journal in the country.
Elder A. J. Clark, our secretary of the New York Conference, writes: “The work here at the capital is still keeping us busy. A bill has just been introduced in the assembly to prohibit the Sunday opening of moving-picture shows. This, with the bill seeking to close grocery stores all day Sunday, will soon have a hearing; date not yet set.”
From one view-point it is not difficult to understand why there has been at least a delay in Congress over the Johnston Sunday bill. This view-point is across the long line of prayers ascending to God with reference to the matter. We shall be wise if we continue thus to entreat the great Head of the church that this piece of vicious legislation be utterly defeated.
Christian Liberty
By K. C. Russell; W. A. Colcord
Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL — Secretary
W. A. COLCORD — Corresponding Secretary
An Interesting Letter From Mexico
By John L. Brown
MERIDA, YUCATAN, MEXICO.
March 9, 1910.
My dear Brother Palmer,—
I received your kind letter written to your Brother Green and myself, and also a copy of a letter to Brother Green dated February 13. These were greatly appreciated. Your letters make us who are in the field roll up our sleeves and go at the work harder and with greater determination to reach the highest possible mark.
We are encouraged to see how the message is going, and rejoice that the printed page is being widely scattered. Soon we can say that they have been scattered “as the leaves of autumn.”
Brother Green and I have had an enjoyable time together here in Merida. Recently we have canvassed some small towns about fifty or sixty miles from here. One morning we went to Progreso, and returned in the evening, having canvassed the “city.” Our work for the day amounted to $138.75. (All values in this letter are given in United States gold.)
Last Friday we worked another small town, and made our delivery, amounting to $56.50, during the evening after the Sabbath, and left for Merida Sunday morning at 6:30. Sunday afternoon I went to Isamal, another small town, where I worked hard Monday, and Tuesday until noon. Tuesday afternoon I delivered all my orders, and sold several books extra for cash, the total value sold and delivered during the two days amounting to $75.50. I am surprised to see how eager some of these poor people are for their books.
When I had nearly finished working one of these little towns, I saw an old hut out on the plain quite a distance. It was hot (the sun does warm things up down here!), and the road was dusty, so I stopped and said to myself, “I’ll not bother with going there; he is poor, and probably can not buy on such a short delivery.” I thought again: “Yes, I will walk away out there to give him an opportunity.” Result: I came back with an order for a four-dollar book. To save time, I delivered his book during the noon hour, only 1½ hours after I had taken the order. The man was glad the book had come so soon, and paid me the four dollars promptly.
I had another interesting experience. Another book agent happened to come into the town a day later than I. He began while I was finishing. When my work was nearly done, I called on a druggist who was out of town when I made my first canvass. I found the other canvasser there hard at work. After he had taken an order and gone away, I told the druggist that I wanted only dos minutos (two minutes). He said the other agent had just taken two hours. I lost no time, but made it interesting for him during those two minutes. The other agent tried to get his order for a six-dollar history to be delivered in six months; I took about two minutes, secured his order for a four-dollar book, and delivered it within a half-hour, leaving him cheered up and happy.
Brother Green and I have been in and about Merida not quite two months. We have just finished our last delivery, with the exception of eight or ten copies. Together we have sold and delivered books during this time to the value of $1,616.50.
Now I must retire for the night. May God continue to bless you in your responsible work, and may many stars fill your crown, is my prayer.
Yours most sincerely,
JOHN L. BROWN.
Current Mention
— What is virtually a strike on the part of tug captains in New York harbor occurred on March 31.
— As the result of a hurricane which occurred off the Japanese coast on March 13, 1,100 Japanese fishermen lost their lives.
— The volcano of Mt. Etna is again in active eruption, and streams of lava flowing down its sides are threatening the towns of Borello and Pelpasso.
— While the United States cruiser “Charleston” was at target practise near Olongapo, P. I., on March 27, a three-inch gun burst, killing eight men.
— Conditions in Liberia continue to be of a threatening nature, and liable to result in the intervention of France and England as well as of the United States. Another United States cruiser has been ordered to Liberia.
— The threatened tariff war between the United States and Canada has been happily averted through concessions on the part of both countries. Great credit for this is due Earl Grey and Minister Fielding of Canada, and President Taft and Secretary of State Knox.
— Two Japanese soldiers were arrested in Manila on March 29, accused of being spies of the Japanese government. It is claimed that they were seeking photographs of the American fortifications. The government is still holding the arrested Japanese for further investigation.
— Supreme Court Justice David J. Brewer died suddenly at his home in Washington on March 28. Justice Brewer was quite generally looked upon as one of the most eminent jurists of the country. His death comes at a time when a number of very important issues were before the United States Supreme Court for decision.
— The United Mine Workers of North America having presented a demand to the operators of the coal-mines in which they work for an increase in wages, and the demand having been denied, have gone on a strike. The number who quit work on March 31 is about 300,000. Of these 100,000 are in Pennsylvania, and 72,000 in Illinois. The operators claim that this will not cause a coal famine, as a large quantity of coal has been stored up in anticipation of such a condition.
— A despatch from Rome, Italy, dated March 26, states that Colonel Roosevelt’s audiences with the king and the Pope have been arranged without arousing the susceptibility of either the Italian government or the Pope. The Pope imposed a condition in granting the audience; viz., that Mr. Roosevelt should not lecture or address the Methodists of Rome. It was such a condition as this that Mr. Fairbanks refused to accede to. Mr. Roosevelt will accept the condition and call upon the Pope. Mr. Roosevelt will call upon the king of Italy before visiting the Pope. This the Pope permits because Mr. Roosevelt is a Protestant. If he were a Catholic, he would have to call upon the Pope first, or not be received by him at all.22
— Peru and Chile have broken off diplomatic relations over the Chilean government’s declaration of intentions to retain the two provinces of Tacna and Arica.
— St. Luke’s Hospital, Baltimore, Md., reports a new and successful treatment for cancer, which consists of applying to the affected flesh hot sterilized air and electricity after hypodermic injections of a certain serum.
— The revolution in Nicaragua has not yet been settled. General Estrada, of the revolutionists, has recently received further supplies of ammunition, and declares himself able to hold the Atlantic coast against any number of the government forces.
— A committee representing the conductors, trainmen, and yardmen of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, is now submitting to these employees the question of whether they will continue with the company on the present schedule of wages or agree to strike for a settlement of their wage demands.
— Because the municipal government of Valencia, Spain, had authorized the use of carriages in the streets on Good Friday, there was a riot between Catholic and anticlerical forces. The police found it necessary to charge upon the quarreling crowds, injuring many persons, and making a large number of arrests.
— A report recently made by the League for the Protection of Immigrants in this country states that within the last eighteen months 2,161 girls and women immigrants destined for Chicago from the various ports of entry of this country have disappeared on the way to Chicago, or in the city itself immediately after arrival.
— Gov. Walter R. Stubbs of Kansas, in a speech at Chicago on March 27, refuted in an emphatic manner the charge of the liquor interests, that prohibition would result in the injury of business. He declares that the people of Kansas are better fed, better clothed, have finer homes, larger families, and bigger bank accounts as a result of the operation of the prohibitory law; that the city of Wichita has in three years since the wiping out of its forty-seven saloons, doubled its population, more than doubled its bank account, and has better people, less crime, more schools, and more intelligence.
— The Bureau of Indian Affairs in the United States has revised its regulations governing religious worship and instruction of pupils in the government Indian schools. The superintendents of the schools have been enjoined to hold the balances equally among all denominations, and proselytizing among pupils by pastors, employees, or other pupils, has been strictly forbidden. Pupils who belong to no church are encouraged to affiliate with some denomination. In the General Assembly exercises conducted by the superintendent, the Revised Version of the Bible will be substituted for the King James Version for Scriptural reading, the readings to be confined to the four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. Either form of the Lord’s prayer as given in the Revised Version may be used.
— There is prospect of a strike of the trainmen and conductors of the New York Central Railroad. The men are demanding the same terms and wages as recently were granted on the Baltimore and Ohio.
— There has recently been established what is known as “the Rockefeller Foundation,” through which many of the Rockefeller millions are to be distributed for various philanthropic enterprises. John D. Rockefeller’s son has recently retired from his position in his father’s business to take charge of the disbursing of these funds. The purpose of the Rockefeller Foundation is expressed in these words: “To promote the well-being and to advance the civilization of the people of the United States and its territories and possessions, and of foreign lands, in the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge; in the prevention and relief of suffering, and in the promotion of any and all of the elements of human progress.”
The Sale of Spanish Publications
By E. R. P.
The following extract from a letter from C. H. Jones, manager of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, shows the wonderful increase this year over any preceding year in the sale of Spanish publications:—
“It is splendid to see how the work is developing in the Spanish fields. A few days ago I wrote you that our sales for the first two months of this year amounted to about $17,000. The orders are still coming in, and we estimate that by the close of this month the sales will reach $30,000. For example, we have just received orders for Spanish books as follows:—
Peru: 500 “Home and Health,” 500 “Coming King.”
Santo Domingo: 100 “Home and Health,” 150 “Coming King.”
The rapid growth of the subscription-book work in our Spanish-American fields is emphasized by comparing the shipments during the first three months of this year with the sales during the two preceding years.
In 1908 the sales for the full year amounted to $11,076.15; for 1909, $24,336.05; for the first three months of 1910, approximately $30,000.
Such figures need little comment. They represent faithful work in these mission fields, and the rich blessing of the Lord, without which nothing could be accomplished.
E. R. P.
The Missionary and Publishing Work
Notes, Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature.
Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference.
E. R. PALMER — — — — Secretary
N. Z. TOWN — — — — Assistant Secretary
A. J. S. BOURDEAU — — — Missionary Secretary
Walla Walla College
By W. R. Beatty
WE are buried with work in our institute here. There are 139 from the school who are taking the general instruction in the morning class, and 22 in the evening class, making 161 in all. About 130 are taking the regular book study. We certainly have the whole school coming our way. Four or five professors in the college are joining with the students in the class study. Prof. M. E. Cady, the principal, has co-operated with us in every possible way. In his mind nothing at the school seems too good for the book men, and he is giving us ample liberty.
W. R. BEATTY.
Sanitarium Relief Campaign
By L. A. Hansen
Details of the Campaign
For the benefit of those who may not have seen the outline of the sanitarium relief campaign, and of those who would refresh their minds on the same, we give the action of the General Conference Committee Council at College View, Neb., last October, as printed in the REVIEW of Nov. 18, 1909:—
“1. That a missionary relief campaign for the sale of our health and temperance literature be inaugurated.
“2. That this campaign be organized in each union conference, as its executive committee, in counsel with the General Conference Committee, may decide.
“3. That we encourage the sale of an equivalent of two copies of Ministry of Healing a member, annually, for each union conference.
“4. That we also encourage the sale for this purpose of five or more copies of Life and Health a member each year.
“5. That the proceeds of such sales of Ministry of Healing and Life and Health be devoted to the relief of our sanitariums as each union conference may decide.
“6. That this campaign continue for three years.
“7. That we invite all our medical missionary workers to engage in vigorous personal efforts in the prosecution of this campaign.
“8. That a field secretary be appointed by the General Conference Committee to connect with the general offices of the Medical Department, who shall devote his entire time to the promotion of this work.
“9. That the field secretary’s salary and expenses, and the expense of the general printed matter required in the campaign, be contributed quarterly by union conferences on the basis of membership.”
These recommendations have formed the basis for recommendations that have been adopted by various union conferences at their biennial sessions this year. In the main, they have followed the general plan, suiting it to meet local conditions.
It will be seen that it is planned that each member is to sell at least two copies of Ministry of Healing and five single copies of Life and Health each year for the next three years.
This will seem to most people as not a very large task,—selling two books and five magazines in one year. While it is not a large undertaking to the individual, it is a proposition of some magnitude when considered as a whole. Some work is required to get a general movement of this kind fully started among this people. The effort must receive its due attention throughout this whole organization, from the General Conference down to the individual member, in order to make a success of it. Union and local conferences must take it up as a part of their legitimate work. Conference officials must give it a place in their program of things to look after. Laborers must lay hold of it as a part of their appointed work. Church elders and officers must plan for it, and all members consider it as a thing demanding attention from each one. While the burden of advancing the campaign falls upon officers, yet none can feel free of responsibility in this matter.
Another point,—each member is to sell at least two books and five magazines a year, which means that while one may have done his part in setting others to work, he has not done all his part until he has also sold the required number of books and magazines.
No one needs to feel any hesitancy in planning to sell more than the specified number. Some are planning to sell many more. Good reports are already coming in of work that is being done.
L. A. HANSEN, Field Secretary.
Publications Wanted
THE following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—
M. W. Mass, Granette, Ark., desires a large supply of papers and tracts for use in reading-racks.
Mrs. A. Russell, R. F. D. 1, Merrimack, Wis., desires copies of the Signs for missionary work.
M. Gertrude Shockey, Box 180, R. F. D. 1, Fort Smith, Ark., wishes, post-paid, copies of Signs, Watchman, Life and Health, Youth's Instructor, and Little Friend for missionary work.23
Clarence E. Moon, 916 Laguna St., San Francisco, Cal., desires copies of our periodicals for free distribution in missionary and prison work.
Charles Bennett, 733 Dodson St., San Pedro, Los Angeles Co., Cal., wishes a continuous supply of all our papers and tracts for distribution among the sailors.
The Shreveport (La.) Young People's Missionary Volunteer Society desires copies of our denominational papers for distribution in the hospitals and sanitariums. Address all papers to Tassie Lee Coston, R. F. D. 2, Box 58, Shreveport, La.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
The Birthday Card
EVERY one who sees the birthday card is delighted with it. It was designed especially for the use of Sabbath-school teachers. The autumn-leaf design in seven colors, with its dainty background, the neat arrangement of the appropriately expressed “best wishes,” the blank lines for the names of the receiver and the giver, and the pure-white bristol board make a very attractive card. Show your pupils that you are personally interested in them by remembering their birthdays. It is a little trouble, a little expense, but the results make it worth while.
Prices, five cents each; six for twenty-five cents; one hundred for $3.50. Address Sabbath-School Department, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.
Business Notices
This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.
No advertisements of “agents wanted,” and no “promotion” or “colonization” enterprises will be printed in this column. Brief business notices will be published subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—
Conditions
Any person unknown to the managers of this paper must send with his advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing, and send it.
We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.
A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.
No discount for several insertions.
WANTED.—A good farm-hand for the season or for the year. Will pay good wages. Must be a Sabbath-keeper and at least seventeen years of age. Address Luther Iiams, Table, Neb.
BIBLE MOTTOS.—Size 12 x 16. 1,000,000 Beauties. Special offer, 100, $5; 200, $9. (Father and Mother, 200, $11. These are world winners.) Send stamp to Hampton Art Co., Hampton, Iowa.
HYGIENIC VEGETABLE COOKING OIL.—The oil used by our people. 5 gal., $3.95; 10 gal., $7.80. Cans crated. ½ bbl. (about 32 gal.), 70 cents a gal. By freight from Louisville, Ky. Address Dr. O. C. Godsmark, Chattanooga, Tenn.
FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor, keeps indefinitely; 5-gal. can, $3.65; 10-gal. can, $7.15; ½ bbl. (30 gals.), 69 cents a gal.; 1 bbl. (50 gals.), 68 cents a gal. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.
FOR SALE.—Tracts containing five acres and upward, suitable for fruit growing, near the new Pacific Union College, St. Helena, Cal. Good climate, altitude 750 feet. For particulars address St. Helena Sanitarium, Sanitarium, Napa Co., Cal.
WANTED.—Man or man and wife on dairy and vegetable farm. Christian preferred. Church privileges. Capable, competent workers only are wanted. References exchanged. State experience and wages desired. Address Melvin O. Bradford, Acushnet, Mass.
FOR SALE.—Peanut Butter, 12c. a pound; 100 pounds, freight paid, $14. Write for special low prices on Vegetarian Meat; Cocoanut, Peanut, Olive, and Cooking Oils, Cereal Coffee, Whole-wheat Flour, etc. All guaranteed pure. Vegetarian Meat Co., Washington, D. C.
FOR SALE.—15 acres of land with timber on it. One-half mile from Seventh-day Adventist church. Reason for selling: have that much more than I want. Price, $50 an acre. Two miles to railroad station. Address James A. Brown, R. F. D. 3, Cherokee Springs, S. C.
FOR SALE.—A new, brick one-story building, corner of Main Street, containing store and three rooms. Splendidly situated for doctor's office and treatment-rooms, business place, and living-rooms. Walking distance from college. Electric lights. City water. Address A. H. Ronning, Berrien Springs, Mich.
NOTICE.—Have just completed a High Pressure Steam Canner that cans everything so it keeps, without preservatives. Requires about one fourth the time for cooking required by the Hot Water Canners or on a stove. The smallest size can be used on a stove, and will cook a meal in a few minutes. This supplies a long-looked-for article. Every family should have one. Price within reach of all. Plant large garden for canning. Send for circular. Address Jethro Kloss, St. Peter, Minn.
HEALTH FOOD NOTICE.—Until further notice we will allow freight on $10 shipments to all the States lying east of Colorado, except Texas (cooking oil and 45-lb. cans and butter excluded), by adding extra foods of your selection (except the oil and nut butter) to fully cover the freight. In the same way we will allow half the freight on $5 shipments. Send your orders direct to the factory, to your tract society, or to any of our established agencies. In the same way we can allow half the freight to any railroad station in Texas. Put in all the cooking oil and nut butter you want, we do not allow freight on those two articles. Remember that health reform is a part of the message. Make up orders among your neighbors. Address Nashville Sanitarium-Food Factory, Nashville, Tenn.
WANTED.—A conscientious Seventh-day Adventist woman to keep house for a man with one little boy living on a farm. Recommendations given and required. Address Wm. Crawford, R. F. D. 1, Amherst, Neb.
FOR SALE.—50 Nice White Envelopes, with your name and address neatly printed in the upper left-hand corner, only 20 cts.; 25 Visiting Cards (name only), 10 cts.; 50 Calling Cards (name and address), 20 cts.; 100 Business Cards, 35 cts. Post-paid. Good work. Samples free. Address King Printing Co., Cordova Building, Indianapolis, Ind.
WANTED.—Nurses in South Africa. J. F. Baumann, of Bellair Hydropathic Institution, Bellair, near Durban, Natal, would like to correspond with graduate nurses wishing positions; viz., 1 brother (single) and 1 sister (single), the latter for maternity work. State age, where graduated, and when. Must be Seventh-day Adventists and conscientious workers.
My Lodge Experience
By GEO. O. STATES
For a number of years I have felt I ought to write out my experience for the benefit of our own ministers, and the fathers and mothers, that they might intelligently warn the army of young people growing up among us of this terrible evil. After I began writing, I thought I would obtain experiences from some of our own people who had been members and seen the evils of lodges, and abandoned them. I then decided to correspond with ministers of other denominations and get short experiences from them. So for some years I have been gathering up these various experiences from those I believe to be earnest Christians, both in our own and in other denominations.
At first I thought of asking space to put it in the REVIEW, but as I studied the question, and saw more and more of its terrible evils, I decided to write only four or five articles for the REVIEW, and take more time and get out a pamphlet of about sixty-four pages, thus affording our people an opportunity to study this question from different points of view. I have made a long study of the nine volumes of the “Testimonies for the Church,” gathering principles bearing on this question. I have arranged with the Southern Publishing Association to print my booklet. Our brethren have kindly consented to fill all orders from there. It will contain my picture, so my old friends that I have known so many years can get a copy. It will be mailed to any address in the postal union for fifteen cents a single copy, or ten copies for one dollar. I hope every minister in our ranks will read it, and then do all he can to place it in the homes of our people.
I want to make a special appeal to every father and mother in our ranks to make a special effort to place this work in the hands of your young people. Other denominations have learned from sad experience that as surely as the young people unite and become interested in the various lodges, just so surely they lose their usefulness in church work.
Brethren and sisters, I am not an alarmist, but I tell you earnestly in the fear of God that unless there is a waking up all through our ranks, these influences will become such that they will sweep our dear children into the lodges and out of the third angel's message.
Send all orders to the Southern Publishing Association, 2123 Twenty-fourth Ave., North, Nashville, Tenn. GEO. O. STATES.
Obituaries
BATES.— Charles Austin, only child of Brother and Sister C. A. Bates and great-grandson of Sister Mary Henton, died Aug. 17, 1909, at the age of two years and nine days. Funeral service was conducted by Elder A. J. Breed. J. J. CLARK.
CARTER.— Ethel Grace, the little daughter of L. N. and Lena Rust Carter, was born in Keene, Tex., Sept. 15, 1908, and died Dec. 27, 1909. She was 1 year, 3 months, and 12 days of age. This was their only daughter. The funeral was held in the church at Keene. The parents have the blessed assurance that if faithful, they will soon meet again their little child in the resurrection. The funeral services were conducted by the writer, assisted by Elder C. Santee. W. W. EASTMAN.
HENTON.— Died at her home in Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 24, 1910, in the seventy-seventh year of her age, Sister Mary Henton. She was born in Almira, Ohio, in 1833. She was married to W. T. Henton in 1851, and together they have been connected with this people since 1860. A husband, two sons, and five daughters are left to mourn their loss. Sister Henton will be remembered by many friends in College View, Neb., Portland, Ore., and other places. Words of comfort were spoken by Elder L. Johnson, assisted by Elder J. E. Graham and the writer. J. J. CLARK.
BURRILL.— Benj. C. Burrill died of old age at Milledgeville, Ky., March 19, 1910, aged ninety years and nearly three months. He was born at Shawmut, Maine, and resided there on the old farm for many years. He received the Sabbath truth under the labors of Elder J. B. Goodrich in 1874. When he was eighty-two years of age, he came to Buffalo, N. Y., and made his home with his son, Elder A. O. Burrill. He came South with the family, and died at his son's home. One son is in Maine, one in Kentucky, and the daughter lives in Illinois. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from John 14: 1, 2. H. U. JACOBS.
KING.— Mrs. Mary Wilkes King fell asleep at Keene, Tex., March 15, 1910. Sister King was born in Grayson County, Texas, Sept. 12, 1853. She was married to C. F. King, March 2, 1871, and, with her husband, accepted the truth in 1885, under the labors of Elders Huguley and Drummond. Brother King died in 1892. Sister King was one of the most faithful members of the Keene church for many years. Her hope was bright, and she was resigned to the Lord's will either to live or to rest until the Lord shall come. She leaves two children, a son and a daughter. The funeral service was held near the close of the day, March 16. A large company gathered about the grave as words of comfort and admonition were read from the Scriptures. CLARENCE SANTEE.
Canvassing the Sugar Districts of Cuba
A LETTER from Elder E. W. Snyder, of Cuba, says: “Brother W. F. Mayer, formerly of Corpus Christi, Tex., arrived in Havana, March 7, with the object of canvassing the sugar districts of Cuba. In order to be prepared he has brought his wagon with him.”
Publishing Association Handles Rush Orders
Last week was an unusually busy one for the Review and Herald Publishing Association. It was necessary to work overtime in order to supply papers and books on rush orders. Friday there was a large number of orders unfilled, so the workers from the manager’s office, including the manager himself, joined the managers and helpers of the periodical and book departments in wrapping and mailing papers until most of the orders were filled, and all of the papers exhausted. Most of the rush orders were for the Temperance Instructor and the April number of Life and Health. Over seven thousand of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor were ordered in one mail.
Gospel Herald Becomes Department Organ
By Editor
THE Gospel Herald, with the March number, becomes the organ of the North American Negro Department. It has been enlarged, and with its illustrations of school and sanitarium enterprises and reports of work, this first number in the new form is a most interesting paper. Our colored brethren are doing splendid work among these millions of their race in the South, and the department expects to see the efforts greatly enlarged. The subscription price of the Herald is twenty-five cents a year. Send in the orders to 61 Lindsley Ave., Nashville, Tenn.
City Mission Training School in New York
By Editor
WE are glad to hear of plans well formulated for a stronger summer campaign this year than ever before in New York City and other cities of the country. There is to be, we believe, more use made of the Bible worker than for some years past. The teaching and nursing work has called for young women so urgently that the staff of old-time Bible workers has been depleted. The revival of work for the cities calls for the services of the Bible worker. We learn that the Greater New York Conference, assisted by the General Conference, is establishing a city mission training-school. Elder E. A. Merrill and wife have been released by the Missouri Conference, and are in New York to connect with the effort.
Edinburgh World's Missionary Conference
ONE of the greatest world's missionary conferences ever held, is being planned to convene in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 14-23, this present year. All mission boards expending in regular work among heathen peoples annually ten thousand dollars are entitled to representation in the conference. All missionaries on furlough will be given special privileges at this great gathering. Arrangements are being made to hold parallel meetings, every day during the conference, in a large hall near by where topics of special interest to missionaries will be discussed by experts along various phases of mission work. A delegate or two may be in attendance from our Mission Board, also some of our workers on furlough may avail themselves of this opportunity for studying mission problems.
Mormonism Articles Issued as a Tract
THE articles on Mormonism, by Elder D. A. Parsons, which appeared in the REVIEW a year ago, have been issued in tract form by the Pacific Press.
General Conference Committee Council
By Editor
WE go to press before the opening of the General Conference Committee Council, but members from outside of Washington are beginning to arrive. We have met Elder O. A. Olsen, in from the West, and Elder Charles Thompson, from the Southeastern Union Conference.
Missionary Secretaries Appointed
After three months’ absence from the General Conference Office, Brother A. J. S. Bourdeau, missionary secretary of the Publishing Department, returned to Washington last week. He reports union and local conference missionary secretaries appointed in all of the four union conferences he has visited,—the Central, Pacific, North Pacific, and Western Canadian. The campaign with the periodicals and tracts is but beginning.
Subscribe to Life and Health
By Editor
There is no journal published by this denomination which will prove of more practical value in the home than Life and Health. To every family who will read this journal and carefully follow its instruction, it will save its cost many times over in the course of every year. It stands for a sane, sensible system of health culture. Many of our people do not appreciate its value for the reason they have never read it. We earnestly urge every reader of the REVIEW to become a subscriber to Life and Health. When this is done, no urging will be required in order for it to be placed before our friends and neighbors.
The Message Spreading in Turkestan
By Editor
Of more than ordinary interest is the report of the general meeting in Turkestan, which Elder J. T. Boettcher gives us on page 8 of this number. This land of the Tartars is still a country little known, but here the message is spreading. This enlarging work calls most loudly for large gifts for the missionary cause. Let us talk and pray about the great work in all our churches. We are Seventh-day Adventists, with a message for every nation and kindred and tongue and people.
India Printing Office Progress
Our printers will know how to rejoice with the brethren of the India printing-office over the news conveyed by the following clipping from the little Eastern Tidings:—
“After some years of proof taking on a paper-cutter, which is anything but the right thing to do, the Watchman Press expects soon to have a press for regular proof work. The Washington hand-press is supposed to have arrived at Calcutta, and should reach Lucknow in a short time.
“The monthly Oriental Watchman is now issued in magazine form, and is edited by Elder S. A. Wellman.”
Receipts for Missions
By W. T. Knox
THE readers of the REVIEW will be interested to know that there has been received by the General Conference treasury from the Harvest Ingathering campaign $34,101.85. The annual offering has thus far amounted to $26,655.70. These funds have very materially helped in our foreign mission work, and have greatly assisted in keeping the fields properly supplied.
While there will doubtless be some additions to both of these funds, yet the greater part has without doubt been received, and for some time now the Mission Board will be entirely dependent upon the regular contributions of the people to maintain the many workers and interests abroad.
W. T. KNOX.
Circulate the Temperance Number
By Editor
The new Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor will strike telling blows for the cause of temperance wherever it may be circulated. It is strikingly and forcefully illustrated, and its articles meet the arguments of the liquor forces at every point, and prove them vulnerable wherever attacked. It is impossible for any sane person to read that number through and not be strongly moved to assist in the work of combating the evil forces of the saloon business wherever they are at work. Our people everywhere ought to take up the work of circulating this issue of the Instructor. It is more than simply an interesting and instructive number. It is the sharpest and strongest weapon against a terribly evil business that we have ever produced. It is an arsenal filled with ammunition that every Christian ought to have—not for his own edification and inspiration merely, but for use against the most deadly foe our country has ever faced. Every Seventh-day Adventist should read that number, and then see to it that many other people have a chance to read it.