Earlier text: EditorialIt is only reasonable that denominational publication should voice the sentiments of the church they represent, and should not be turned over to opposers to criticize and tear down the work the organization is seeking to carry on. This is well expressed in the Episcopal address which was read before the last General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Minneapolis:— A grave responsibility rests upon our church press, general officers, and leading ministers. We understand that the church maintains a press for the advocacy of her doctrines and the defense of her polity when assailed, not as a free forum for the vagaries of writers who measure all problems by their own dooryards, or to officially sanction the promoters of disaffection. Every soldier knows that a half-dozen contentious camp guards can make more noise than a brigade of regulars on the march. While we would not restrain dignified and intelligent discussion, we must deprecate reckless and distorted criticism of our church government. If we must have quadrennial hysteria over our church polity, let it be confined where it appears, rather than made a public spectacle inviting the ridicule of our enemies. Java, East Indies
By G. F. JONES
On my arrival at Batavia, west Java, there were nine awaiting baptism. This interest had aroused such anger among some in the vicinity that they urged the authorities to expel our mission from the suburb in which it is located. Sister P. Tunheim, our missionary there, had removed the mission to that quarter of the town, not knowing that it did not belong to the city of Batavia. The government of Java will allow our denomination to work only in the three large cities of Java, which are Batavia, Samarang, and Surabaya. After baptizing these believers in the calm and glassy Java Sea, we organized the first Java Seventh-day Adventist Church, at Batavia, with twenty-seven members. This is another evidence that the third angel's message is making victories and planting the standard of truth in new territory wherever preached. As members of the church there are Amboynese, Sundanese, Battaks, Chinese, Eurasians, Dutch, and Norwegians. Truly is the prophecy being rapidly fulfilled that from every nation, kindred, tongue, and people will be the gathering out of the remnant people of God. It is a blessed privilege to have part in the closing work, even if it goes very hard at times, especially in some places. And while our brethren at home may not understand the situation and difficulties in these Mohammedan countries, the Lord of the vineyard does. We need the prayers of our people as well as their financial support. Sister Tunheim has been instructing these native converts, and several are already doing faithful work in finding other interested ones. In order that there should be system and proper reporting, we had some report forms printed in the Malay language, and all the laborers are to appear at the mission house every morning at a certain hour, then spread out over the city, working systematically. Thus with organization, order, and the Spirit of Christ, we are of good courage, believing that the work will prosper here in Java. The Work in West Africa
By D. C. BABCOCK
It has been some time since a general report has appeared in the REVIEW from this field. The return of Prof. and Mrs. T. M. French to the field, and the addition of Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Myers to our staff, give us the largest number of foreign laborers we have yet had. Brother and Sister French arrived on Sunday morning, March 3, and Brother and Sister W. H. Lewis, with their children, sailed the next morning for the Canaries, to rest and build up their physical strength in those delightful and health-restoring islands. Shortly after their arrival, Brother and Sister French went to Waterloo, to build up the work in the school, which had been waning on account of the severe illness of those in charge. The health of Brother F. S. Bolton was so much impaired by continual fever that he felt forced to give up his effort on this coast, lest he be called to lay down his life. Acting on the advice of a prominent physician, he and his wife sailed for home February 21. Although severe trials have attended our school work the last year, yet some advancement has been made, and several young men are preparing to enter the work in the near future. Five who have been trained in the school are now actively engaged in the Lord's work. While some upon whom time and money are spent make a failure, yet our efforts are all bent toward preparing those who attend the school for the Master's service. The arrival of Dr. Myers and wife, and the fitting up of treatment-rooms, have given courage to our workers. We now have a place where we can properly care for our sick, and facilities for giving rational treatments. We have long felt the need of such help, and although our furnishings are quite limited, yet we greatly appreciate the donation of five hundred dollars, with which we purchased our equipment and laid our water-pipes. We also appreciate what has been done in providing a rest home in the Canaries for our worn-out workers. Here they can go aside and rest awhile from the hot tropical sun of the malarial districts, and thus build up physically. Brother B. B. Aldrich is doing all he can to make it pleasant and profitable for our workers. Our new church building at Waterloo was dedicated on Sunday, July 21. The occasion was one of interest to all present. The public had often expressed a desire for the opening of the church; and although showers of rain fell often during the day, the building was filled to its utmost capacity when the hour arrived for the service to begin. The opening prayer and Scripture reading were conducted by a resident minister not of our faith. All entered heartily into the service, and deep impressions for good were made upon the hearts of those present. “That was a good meeting,” could be heard on all sides. Two new mission stations have been opened since the beginning of the present year, one among the Timnies and one among the Mendi. The opening of these stations is our first effort in the hinterland. Matotoka is situated about one hundred fifty miles to the northeast of Freetown, among the Timnies. The forms of worship among the Timnies are a mixture of heathenism, Mohammedanism, and spiritism. Brother R. P. Dauphin, who is in charge of this station, and who has spent several years in mission work, says he never before met what he is meeting at this place. The message, however, is winning its way. Some are yielding to its claims. One man came to Brother Dauphin and gave him his kreti, a medium of divination. I now have it in my possession. I spoke to the people while I was there, and the paramount chief and his head men were present. It was an interesting occasion to me. On the evening of my arrival in the village, I presented the chief with a copy of “Coming King.” When he saw the picture of Jesus on the frontispiece, he said, “Is that the man who died for us?” They were in the midst of a great feast when I arrived, and had sacrificed fourteen oxen and many sheep and goats. The heavy rains had just begun, and the chief informed Brother Dauphin that the kreti had divined to them that there would be no more rain for ten days. That afternoon the chief came over to spend some time with me. Soon the rain began falling, and it seemed as if the heavens were opened and torrents of water were rushing everywhere. The chief looked rather sad, and I remarked: “Chief, our God knows that we need rain so we can sow rice. He is the great God, and he provides for our needs.” He seemed much concerned over the matter. The next day there was another heavy shower, and his faith in the kreti was evidently shaken. That which moves the heathen to give up his worship of wood and stone is to witness the13 power of the true God, which prevails against his god. Here is the work of the true missionary: first, to be personally acquainted with God, and then to point out to the heathen his mighty power revealed. On the Sabbath during the feast, the chief would not permit the people to beat their drums. We know the Lord is going before us. We are confident that his Holy Spirit is directing the work he has placed in our hands, and our confidence increases as the work advances. Behold Your God!
By WORTHIE HARRIS HOLDEN
ON Jordan’s bank the seer discerns
The Lamb of God.
Behold him now, though Israel spurns
Their suffering Lord.
Christ bears away thy sins from thee;
He dies that captives may be free.
Messiah granteth liberty,
And exile turns. Lift up thy voice with strength, and cry,
Behold your God!
The Judge of all the earth is nigh,
The mighty Lord.
Proclaim to all the cities round
That soon his trumpet-call shall sound,
And recompense through him be found
Who rules on high. BUILDING is the order of the day at the Tsungwesi Mission, Rhodesia, South Africa, and bricks are being made for the purpose. For a month the weather was so cold as to hinder the work. A few more good cows have been added to the herd, making a total of twenty-five. Pastor M. C. Sturdevant has just returned from a trip through the country, having been invited to look at some stock offered for sale. He took occasion to tell the people the object of his being in their country, and they said: “Teacher, you tell us wonderful things, and we see them with our eyes. Why don’t our teachers tell us these things?” Pastor Sturdevant says it would take a volume to tell all the interesting experiences he had with the people. So many are talking of coming to the mission school that it is feared there will not be room enough to receive them. “Our mission is already almost outgrowing us,” says the mission superintendent, and he longs for the health and strength of a few years ago. “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” In the city of Torreon we have had a company of believers for several years. One good Mexican brother and his wife have given us a good large room in their house, which is dedicated to religious services. Brother Juan Robles was with them about a year, leaving there in May of this year for Monterey. Since that time Brother and Sister Gomez have taken charge of the work, and have gathered in quite a number of new believers. I spent two weeks with them, holding meetings every night and on the Sabbath, and had the privilege of baptizing seventeen. Two of these were the brother and sister mentioned as leaders. They had been baptized in the Baptist Church years ago. After receiving the truth and studying it several years, they desired to be baptized into the message. Five of those baptized were children of believers, from thirteen to sixteen years of age. The other ten were from the outside, quite a number coming directly from the Catholic Church. We had a good time with them, celebrating the ordinances the last Sabbath of my stay. In a former article I spoke of my reception by the believers in the state of Oaxaca. In this I will describe the farewell given me by the brethren in Torreon. The Mexican salutation among close friends and members of the family is as follows: First, they embrace each other, giving the good, hearty embrace which makes one think of Bible times when they “fell on each others' necks.” Then they step back and shake hands. Among the women they not only embrace, but kiss each other twice, once on either cheek. The embrace of the men and women is no more than to reach around and pat lightly on the back, then the hand-shake. At our last meeting, the young people took part, singing some songs and making a few speeches. I spoke a few words of farewell, and then the congregation sang in Spanish “God be with you till we meet again.” While singing this hymn, every one of the congregation, men, women, and children, came forward one at a time, and gave me the fraternal embrace. These people are affectionate and whole-hearted, much like children, but of course are not always as stable as they should be. They need help and instruction for a good while, and we can not or should not leave a company of new believers too soon. It is our desire and intention to place some good laborer in Torreon. There are also some believers in Gomez Palacio, but the revolution has caused a number of them to leave the place. We have at last heard from one of the brethren in Santa Barbara, but he says nothing as to the whereabouts of the others, or of the conditions of affairs there. The revolutionary army from the north came within a few miles of Torreon, and for three weeks no train entered or left the city. The people were beginning to suffer somewhat for the necessities of life, Torreon being a mining town, with but little agriculture carried on in its vicinity. At present the place seems to be as safe as any other part of Mexico. However, the day before I left, there was a report that the train to Monterey was fired upon by revolutionists. I went to the station in the morning to buy my ticket, but the agent would not sell one to me then, as he did not know whether or not there would be a train. But in the evening I was told that the train was going, so I bought my ticket, and reached Monterey without any difficulty whatever. In Torreon and its vicinity there is splendid opportunity for labor, with prospects of gaining a goodly number of believers. We have just received word from the Mission Board that a consecrated brother and his wife from California have accepted a call to Mexico. We believe that Torreon will be a good place for them to live. We can associate with them for some months a Mexican brother who speaks English, so that they can enter upon their work without difficulty. We trust that our brethren in the United States and in other parts of the world will remember the laborers and work in Torreon and its vicinity. Training-Schools for Missionaries
TRAINING-SCHOOLS for missionaries, in which they may learn the language of the country in which they intend to work, and may also learn something of plans and methods of work, are multiplying in missionary countries. It is announced that a school for missionary study will be opened in Lucknow, India, next autumn. In Cairo, Egypt, Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer will be in charge of a training-school for missionaries to Moslems. The English government will open a school of Oriental studies in London, modeled after the German Oriental Seminary in Berlin, and after the Colonial Institute in Hamburg. Both of these institutions in Germany have aided missionary work to a large extent by teaching the missionaries the language before they go out to their fields. A language school is also to be opened in Nanking, China. Missionaries representing more than a score of societies and boards had requested the University of Nanking to open such a school. Hereafter missionary recruits for central China, irrespective of nationality or denomination, can spend their first year in China at Nanking in an effort to master as much of the Chinese language in one year as the average student used to master in two years under the method of private instruction.—Christian Observer, Sept. 11, 1912. Marked and Numbered
By ELIZA H. MORTON
My steps are marked and numbered,
The God of heaven knows.
Each day's defeat or victory
The book in heaven shows. My steps are marked and numbered;
An angel writes them down.
If I but run with patience,
I'll win a starry crown. My steps are marked and numbered;
I'll strive that they shall be
The steps that Jesus walked in,
For they're the steps for me. BROTHER I. B. BURTON, in speaking of the work of a native out-school teacher at Faba, Africa, says: “He has made a success of his work at Fish River, and I can not tell you how pleased I am with the school work there. To think that fifteen months ago those children were all in the red-blanket condition, knowing nothing about A, B, or C, and are now able to read and write, and have a fair knowledge of the Bible! The progress is wonderful. They knew nothing about singing then, and now they sing well. God has blessed that work, and to him be all the praise.” Brother Burton says there is just such another opening five miles from this school, which promises good returns in souls as well; but at present there is no teacher. Workers are greatly needed in Africa. The Word of God
By Pearl Waggoner
(May be sung to the tune “My Name in Mother’s Prayer,” “Christ in Song,” page 36.) ’Twas just a word,—’twas God’s own
word
Which made the sea and land;
He spake, and lo, the deeps were stirred,
Obeying his command.
The hills and mountains were upreared;
He spake, and there was light;
And all the heavenly host appeared,
Created by his might. O wondrous, mighty word!
O great, life-giving word!
For naught we see e’er came to be
Save by God’s living, mighty word. The years rolled by, that selfsame word
Which gave the worlds their form,
Through Christ on earth again was
heard.
It quieted the storm;
Through it the dumb lips were unsealed;
The evil spirits fled;
The sick and suffering ones it healed,
And raised to life the dead. O wonder-working word,
The sweetest ever heard!
For storms would cease, and calm and
peace
Would follow just that spoken word. That word of old is still the same,
It standeth firm and sure;
Though some reject and foes defame,
Forever ’twill endure.
The worlds by it are held in store
Till God’s great judgment-day,
When all who now its truth ignore
Shall with them pass away. But God’s unchanging word,
His everlasting word,
Shall triumph still, and work his
will,—
His all-effective, changeless word. If we accept this word divine
And cherish it within,
Upon our path a light will shine;
’Twill cleanse and keep from sin;
’Twill be our overcoming power,
A shield amid earth’s strife;
’Twill feed our souls each day, each
hour,
And give eternal life. Almighty, everlasting word.
Our hearts by thee are stirred;
We long to be upheld by thee,
By thee made pure, O holy word! And soon will sound this word of God,
’Till hills and mountains shake;
’Twill reach the sleepers ’neath earth’s
sod,
And cause them to awake.
Then we with them,—O blessed
hour!—
Caught up to him shall be,
Upheld by this same word of power
Through all eternity. A great joy-giving word!
Blest resurrection word!
Our hope and stay thou art alway,—
Almighty, everlasting word. Be of Good Cheer
By Arthur W. Spaulding
Come, Let Us Live With Our Children—No. 3
To associate with children successfully it is necessary to be cheerful. No more certainly do plants grow sickly and die in darkness, than does the child’s nature become morose and enfeebled in an atmosphere of gloom. A leader must be a man or a woman of cheer. Pleasant words and happy songs must greet the morning, serene strength must bear the burdens of the noon, and thankful, genial communion must mark the close of the day. In this atmosphere the child’s nature thrives. The normal child is happy; and like seeks like. It is altogether to the parent’s advantage that he give cheer for cheer, because the child will seek congenial company somewhere. The reason why many a boy selects the company of the stableman in town or the sportsman in the country, is because he finds in him a geniality that partly satisfies his starved nature. A stern and crabbed father who is thinking only of the saving of pennies and the hard work that gets them is denying himself the greatest wealth life can give him, in the joyous companionship of his children. The worried, fretful mother, dragging her pains out through her whining voice, is losing her chief remedy for the ills of life, in the loving caresses and ready help of her children. But it is in the thought of training the child’s character that we must feel most heavily the responsibility of being cheerful. In the affairs of life only the cheerful man succeeds. Only the cheerful man can be a good loser, can be serene under disappointment, undismayed at obstacles, persistent to the end. Only the cheerful will be among that company who have the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. And it is chiefly our cheerfulness that will make our children cheerful. Our children must be trained to be cheerful about wearing poor clothes and eating plain food, missing a cherished outing, or doing a disagreeable task. And to teach them so, we must ourselves be cheerful in our poverty, our privations, and our hard work. Remember, parents, that God suits trouble to the age and experience: the breaking of a toy or the missing of a ride is as poignant a grief to the child as is the losing of a job to the adult. I recollect myself that there was a deeper grief at that age in being rejected from a blueberrying expedition because “You are too little,” than at a later age in being refused a privilege because “You are too radical.” If any one does not believe that, I venture to assert that it is because, like most grown-up people, he has forgotten what it is to be a child. But it is this very memory of the feelings of childhood that is essential in enabling us really to live with our children. Cheerfulness is a result as well as a cause. Good health and confidence in God are its causes. What we studied last week in regard to the conservation of energy must be kept in mind, and must be put into practise, if we would have cheerfulness. Then we must trust God concerning the things that naturally worry us. I know it is hard to maintain good spirits when our children are taking some course that distresses us. When it comes to dealing with the adolescent boy or girl, it is then that the average conscientious parent is most tempted to worry. But there never is a time when he needs more the absence of worry, the presence of cheer. Never does he need more the quality of whole-souled, joyous leadership. The worried, anxious father or mother is quickly discovered by the boy to be his subject, not his master. And right here must be emphasized the necessity of knowledge. The father and the mother must, in their knowledge of how to deal with conditions, keep ahead of the growing child. Before the birth of their first child, the father and mother must be students of how to deal with the first requirements of the child’s nature; in his babyhood they must be students of the nature and needs of his boyhood; in his boyhood they must study the way to deal with his budding manhood; and in his adolescence they must learn how to keep up with his development, and guide him safely, cheerfully, joyously, into the maturity of the man. Knowledge gives the sense of mastery; the consciousness of mastery insures serenity. You can not neglect this, you can not leave this to chance, and hope to be successful. With the helps that are given to-day in books, in magazines, in mothers’ meetings, and above all in the knowledge and grace God is offering us, there is no excuse for being ignorant parents. It is true enough that many authors’ theories are fantastic, that many of the counsels of mothers’ magazines are absurd and impracticable, and perhaps that advice to parents is forthcoming from more who are not successful as parents than from those who are successful; but these things can not excuse15 us from study. In the Testimonies of the Spirit of God there is more dependable help for parents than any Seventh-day Adventist parents have yet received. In ‘Ministry of Healing’ alone there is enough material for a year’s studies in parents’ meetings. The trouble, indeed, is not so much that we do not read as that we fail to begin to practise. We stand aloof from our children; in timorous, anxious dismay; we need, prayerfully and courageously, to live with our children, and learn thereby, with the aid of God’s instruction, how to solve the problems. “Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.” “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends.” We should seek to cooperate with God in bringing about an answer to our prayers. For us to pray for deliverance from disease, while we are knowingly and wilfully going on from day to day transgressing the laws of our being which God has established, is presumption. It is a duty that each one owes to himself as well as to his Creator to seek to acquaint himself with the laws of his being, and learn how he may bring his life into harmony with God’s requirements. Oftentimes this will bring the desired blessing. Heaven is seeking through many natural agencies, such as rest, sleep, food, water, and air, to keep in harmonious operation the machinery of our bodies, and enable them to regain from day to day the loss and waste. For one to place himself in the channel of these blessings, for one to take needed rest, breathe both day and night the pure air of heaven, drink copiously of pure water, eat food that makes for strength and not for drunkenness and surfeiting, is to cooperate with his Creator in obtaining that which he desires. On the contrary, for one to continue ruthlessly and knowingly to violate the laws of health affords a kind Providence little encouragement to work in his behalf. His life and probation would only be continued for a course of further transgression. Let us seek to use every means in our power, and study the laws of life and health, so that we may place ourselves in that relationship of loving obedience where God can consistently work in our behalf. The following requests have come to us during the last week:— 106. A burdened sister writes from western Nebraska, asking prayer for the conversion of her husband’s mother, who is very ill, and has not yet accepted Christ as her personal Saviour. 107. A mother in the same State (Nebraska) asks the prayers of God’s people for the conversion of her children. She is especially burdened for a son who drinks. 108. A Michigan sister requests prayer for the conversion of two brothers; for a brother-in-law who has given up the truth; and for her youngest sister, who is seeking to live out the truth in the face of many opposing influences. 109. From Ohio a sister sends a request for prayer that she may overcome the evil agencies that have been employed of late to undermine her faith, and also that Satan’s power over her mother and sisters may be broken. 110. An earnest request comes from the burdened parents of a fourteen-year-old boy in Colorado. Their only son has been stricken with tumor of the brain, and no earthly help can bring relief. Let us remember this stricken family when we bow before the throne of grace, and plead with God for the restoration of the boy if it be his will. 111. A sister sends this word from California: “Will you please pray for my niece who is suffering from paralysis, and also that if it be the dear Lord’s will, I may receive my hearing again?” 112. A Florida sister, who is just now passing through a time of great trial and temptation, asks our prayers that she may stand firm for the truth and right. 113. “I feel my health giving way with symptoms of an incurable disease. Please pray that God may send his healing power and strengthen me for his work if this be in accordance with his will,” is the request of a sister in Alabama. Healthful Beverages
By MRS. S. N. HASKELL
THERE are three varieties of beverages mentioned in the Bible; namely, water, milk, and fruit-juice. The happiness and health of the human family are quickly affected if they are deprived of water. Ex. 20:5; 15:23, 24. Throughout eternity the redeemed will drink of the water of the river of life. Rev. 22:2, 17. While water is necessary to sustain life, yet it could hardly be called a food; but, milk is a food. Prov. 27:27. Milk was given to guests as a refreshing drink. Judges 4:19. Milk and wine are mentioned among the class of foods that satisfy. Isa. 55:1, 2. The clear fruit-juice was ever considered a delicious beverage. It was drunk when first pressed from the fruit before fermentation began. Gen. 40:11; Deut. 32:14. The Bible recognizes the medicinal value there is in fruit-juice, or unfermented wine. 1 Tim. 5:23. God forbade the use of the fermented wine. Prov. 23:29-32. Dietetic Value of Beverages
Few persons know the medicinal value of water. If they did, much more pure water would be drunk. Sir Lauder Brunton says, “It is doubtful whether gall-stones would ever occur if each individual drank from two to four pints of water daily.” Stones of the kidneys and many other diseases may largely be prevented by freely drinking pure water. Drinking a pint of clear water every morning will often relieve the most stubborn cases of constipation. If one pint of water in the morning does not give relief, double the amount by also drinking one pint in the evening. “Milk is a nitrogenous or flesh-building food. It contains all the elements of a perfect food. It is the only food that a body less than a year old needs.” Many of the fruit-juices are destructive to germ life. An exclusive fruit diet for one or two days is an excellent way to cleanse and disinfect the alimentary canal. Fruit-juices help the kidneys to throw off the poisons from the system; they are cooling to the blood. The juice of the lemon and grapefruit is especially helpful in combating malarial fevers. Lemons and grapefruit are far better for the liver than the poisonous drugs so often taken, and they leave no poisonous effects to weaken the system. A free use of water, milk, and fruit-juice, the beverages of the Bible, will give health and happiness; while the use of alcoholic drinks, tea, coffee, and other stimulating beverages, will give weak nerves, sickness, and sorrow. Mix bran with molasses, using only enough molasses to moisten; toast to a dark brown in oven, stirring frequently to keep from burning and from lumping. Use one tablespoonful of bran to a cup of water. Boil twenty minutes. Roast entire wheat kernels and dried peas to a rich brown, and grind to a coarse meal. Use one level tablespoonful to one cup of water. Boil for fifteen minutes, then set on back part of stove to steep for ten or twenty minutes. The wheat alone can be used. Serve hot with cream. Look over the peanuts, rejecting the poor ones, roast in oven until a dark brown, about the color of Java coffee when roasted. Remove skins, as they will make it bitter, and grind coarse. Use one teaspoonful to a cup of water. Roast the kernels of the Brazil-nut to a nice brown; when cold, grind to a coarse meal. Use one heaping tablespoonful to one pint of water. Simmer gently for an hour. Roast the walnut kernels in the same way as for Brazil-nut coffee, and use the same quantity for making the coffee. One cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of lemon-juice, one and one-half cupfuls of strawberry-juice, one-fourth cupful of currant-juice, one quart of cold water; to this add one apple diced very small, one orange, and one banana sliced. Let stand in a cool place one hour. Serve ice-cold. Crush a pint of blackberries, raspberries, grapes, currants, or cherries, adding the juice of two sour oranges, and a sliced lemon; pour over all a quart of cold water. Stir the mixture frequently, and let stand for an hour or two. Strain, and add sirup made by dissolving white sugar in boiling water, sufficient to sweeten. Cool on ice, and serve.16 Juice and grated rind of ten lemons, three-fourths cupful of sugar; one-half cupful pineapple-juice, one and one-half cupfuls of raspberry-juice, one-fourth cupful of cherry-juice; one quart of water. Allow to stand one hour, then strain through cheese-cloth. Serve ice-cold. Three-fourths cupful of water and one-half cupful of sugar; boil, and add one-half cupful of lemon-juice; cool. Slice thin one large banana into this. Let stand in refrigerator an hour or more. Serve with thin slices of lemon. Beat the whole of an egg, add to this lemonade made as usual, stirring thoroughly after egg has been put in. To lemonade add one fourth as much strawberry-juice or currant-juice as the quantity of lemonade. A very pleasant cooling summer drink is made from the juice of four lemons and six oranges, with sugar to taste. Add to this some pounded ice and the juice of a small can of pineapple; to this add two quarts of cold water. Put the white of one egg through a strainer. Add to this three fourths of a glass of clear orange-juice. This is nutritious as well as tasty. Two quarts of milk, one-half tablet of kumiss, one-half teaspoonful (scant) of salt. Let the milk come to the boiling-point, but not boil. Cool to lukewarm, then put in kumiss tablet. Put in a warm place overnight (or twelve hours). When thick, take beater and whip until smooth. Can be bottled and kept in a cool place. A very nutritious beverage can be made by pressing the juice from grapes, apples, blackberries, or any juicy fruit, and adding one fourth water. This juice can be heated and canned before the water is added and kept for any length of time. The Saviour's Smile
By L. D. SANTEE
I HAVE read the Word, I have studied
long
Of the land of light and joy and song;
I remember the promise God has given
To the righteous ones of a home in
heaven;
And the shining mountains of paradise,
I can see their glory with faith's bright
eyes;
But the sweetest joy that to me is given,
Is the Saviour's smile I shall see in
heaven. I read of the city whose streets are gold,
Whose dwellers never grow sad nor old,
Where life is sweet, with never a blight
Through the endless day, for there is
no night;
Sweet flowers of beauty shall fade no
more,
They are part of the joys of the farther
shore;
But the sweetest joy that to me is given,
Is the Saviour's smile I shall see in
heaven. I can see with gladness the jasper walls,
Where the sunshine of heaven forever
falls;
I shall walk with loved ones on streets
of gold,
With a gladness the angels have never
told.
No shade of sorrow nor taint of wrong
Will mar the joys of the land of song;
But the sweetest joy that to me is given,
Is the Saviour's smile I shall see in
heaven. By faith I see, when the sky is dark,
His guiding presence around my bark;
When the floods are deep, and the bil-
lows foam,
I think with joy, I am nearing home.
My Lord in the heavens will soon appear,
And there in the haven the skies are
clear;
But the sweetest joy that to me is given,
Is the Saviour's smile I shall see in
heaven. Nyasaland, South Africa
By C. ROBINSON
I HAVE just returned from visiting the out-schools, and I found most of them doing good work. I was much encouraged to find so many in the Bible classes for baptism. There are ninety-eight candidates in all the schools, and on the mission here there are about fifty. This is the encouraging part of our work. We have Simon’s brother in from the out-school where he was teaching; and when Simon gets a better knowledge of the work, we shall let him go out to the villages. I shall take him with me the first time if possible. If we can develop both Simon and Moses into good evangelists, it will be a great help in the work here. I baptized three converts at Malava; while at Monekera, I found that there were about twenty-five baptized during Brother J. C. Rogers’s last visit whose names were not on our church book. These bring our membership up to over one hundred sixty. I have just received a letter from the Portuguese government at Tete about our entering their territory; as it is written in Portuguese, I can not read it, but shall send it to Brother S. M. Konigmacher. We are busy stumping the fields, and find the stumping-jack a fine help. It is very simple, and the boys can work it without assistance. Miss Edie is in her new rooms, and likes them well. She will soon begin her work for the women and girls of the villages. Mrs. G. A. Ellingworth is good help in the school work. We are at work on the school building, and expect to have it finished next week. It will be quite a nice building when done. The kraals will be completed this week, and the cattle will be quite comfortable in them. I am having Job build his house close by, so that he can be near them at night. Our stock is all doing well at present. C. ROBINSON. Maine Conference and Camp-Meeting
By J. F. PIPER
THE Maine conference and camp-meeting were held at Norridgewock, Maine, August 29 to September 8. The church building was used for the meetings, which made it quite comfortable for the early morning and the evening meetings. There was a fair attendance of the believers from different parts of the conference. Thirty-nine tents were used, and between fifty and sixty rooms were secured from the citizens. The people of the town manifested considerable interest, taxing the capacity of the church to its utmost nearly every night. There was an excellent spirit in the meetings. One sister who is now eighty-seven years old, and who has attended every camp-meeting in Maine save one, said, without any reservation, that the last was the best she had ever enjoyed. Many hearts were made tender as the Spirit of God came into the meetings. Twelve were baptized the last day of the meeting. The reports of the laborers showed that success has attended the work during the past year, one hundred four new Sabbath-keepers having been won to the truth. Another encouraging feature of the conference is the improved condition of the finances. For the twelve months ending July 31 there was an increase of tithe over the corresponding twelve months ending July 31, 1911, of $1,951.97; and the tithe for the first seven months of 1912 almost equaled the total tithe of 1911.17 The offerings to missions have doubled during the last year, and about $1,000 has been raised in the same time to free the conference from indebtedness. More than $6,000 worth of books and magazines have been sold during the first seven months of the present year. The sales of the book-stand during the camp-meeting amounted to $715. For the work among the colored people $214 was given in cash and pledges, and for missions about $200. The following-named ministers were present a part or all of the time: A. G. Daniells and C. M. Snow, of Washington, D. C.; A. J. Haysmer, from the South; and W. B. White and J. E. Jayne, from the Atlantic Union. During the last half of the meeting, Elder and Mrs. S. N. Haskell were present. But few changes were made in the working of the conference. Elder and Mrs. Haskell have now given up their work in Portland, but the conference is continuing the training-school in that city, the committee voting that Elder E. E. Osborne should be in charge. The brethren and sisters of the conference returned to their homes with renewed determination to witness to the truth as they had never done before, and the workers of the conference enter upon their fall and winter campaigns with new courage to press the battle against the enemy. We are glad to report that the work is onward along all lines in Maine.