AN active sentiment in favor of Sunday enforcement is noticeable in various places just outside the District of Columbia. This is shown by the following item in a recent issue of the Washington Post:—
As a result of the crusade against violators of the Sunday law at Cabin John Bridge, it is likely that other persons throughout the country who have been in the habit of prosecuting their businesses on the sabbath, will be arrested. At the instance of the people interested in the various amusements at Cabin John Bridge, a number of detectives yesterday visited Rockville, Kensington, Takoma, and other towns of the county, and procured evidence against a number of persons at each place for selling on Sunday and violating the law in other ways. It is stated that warrants will be sworn out against each and every one of these people, and their prosecution insisted upon.
Plans for the Missionary Campaign
By Editor
As we glance over the union and State papers, we are gratified to see the space given to plans for the missionary campaign. Now let us come directly to the point in every State, and church, and home. The first definite work in the campaign is to gain two objects,—first, the placing of the REVIEW AND HERALD in every Sabbath-keeping home; and second, the circulation of one pound of the Signs of the Times Leaflets by every Seventh-day Adventist. Lay brethren can all help accomplish this, and thus lighten the work of the leaders. Let every Sabbath-keeper who reads this notice make inquiry for others who do not take the REVIEW, and endeavor to secure their subscriptions; then let every reader of the REVIEW send for one pound of these little leaflets, and thus, at an expense of only fifty cents, place sixteen bright, message-filled leaflets in each of twenty homes. If this work is faithfully accomplished, it will amply repay the efforts put forth in this entire campaign. But when this is done, there will be still more of the good work to do. Watch the REVIEW and local papers for plans of work.
The Work in the South
By J. S. WASHBURN.
THE donations received for the work in the South are not large as yet. The fund is only fairly started. All will remember that it was several months before many and large donations were received on the One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund, but we are glad to see the Southern fund started, and trust it will go on to an overflow as in the case of the Memorial Church Fund and the One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund.
It is certainly of first importance that the work should be well established in Nashville. This is a city of one hundred and twenty-five thousand people, and is one of the most important educational centers of the South. The Vanderbilt University, founded here by the first Cornelius Vanderbilt, has about one hundred instructors. It is a school of science, art, medicine, law, divinity, etc.
The Fisk University, located here, also is one of the most important schools for the colored people in the world. There are generally five hundred or more colored students every year, taught by white teachers. One of the college buildings, which is one of the finest structures in the city, was built by the earnings of the famous Fisk jubilee singers, who have sung before the royal families of Europe, and, in fact, over all the world.
The great University of Nashville now embraces several colleges. Among these is the Peabody college for teachers, founded by the famous millionaire philanthropist, George Peabody. The attendance of those actually preparing to teach exceeds six hundred or usually about eight hundred students.
In this great Southern educational center it is certainly the will of the Lord that the greatest educational work in the world, that of the third angel's message, should be established in a way that will appeal to men and women of intelligence and education. Only a beginning has been made. Our evangelical and medical work must be given the means to reach the people of this great center for the South. Who will continue to help?
