ONE of the most precious Christian graces is charity for those who have sinned grievously, especially in ways considered disgraceful by the world. Professedly Christian people have no difficulty in recognizing as one of their “set” men who deny some of the most important doctrines of Christianity, while they would spurn from them the man who had stolen a dime to satisfy his hunger. Adultery and robbery are overlooked if the wealthy sinner escape the law, while, if poor, he would be utterly despised.
Among Christians there are two classes which frequently show less charity than others. The one is composed, strange to say, of those who have committed heinous sins themselves, which, in a public way, have never come to light, and of which they have never truly repented. They are outspoken against the sinner in order to lead people to believe that they are better than is he. Like the guilty child, they in a sense declare that they are not guilty of such things before they are accused of them. It is a bad reputation, however, that must needs build itself up on another’s downfall.
The other class is made up of those who have never fallen in open sin, who are strong because of early training, whose failures do not lie in the direction of the despised sinner,—who are strong, perhaps, “for lack of test.”
The remedy for the lack of charity in both classes is to get low at the foot of the cross and there see their own sins in the light of Christ’s sinlessness and love.
Charity, or love, is the crowning grace of the Christian character, that which is absolutely needed to fit one for the society of heaven, without which we are profited nothing. God is anxious that we should obtain it, that “the love of Christ” should “constrain” us to persuade sinners to come to Him; but if we do not know that wondrous love, if we will not exercise it toward our fallen brother or sister, God will permit us to fall, that we may be taught charity by seeing how weak we are when standing in our own strength and righteousness.
Scattering the Living Seed
THE American Bible Society, with headquarters at Bible House, Astor Place, New York City, has just published its ninety-third annual report. It has been a year of advancement for both the home and foreign agencies. By colportage work more than 186,600 copies of the Scriptures have been distributed in the United States in at least sixty-five languages. In foreign lands the work of the Society has been very successful. In Cuba, 20,726 copies were circulated; in Porto Rico, 6,400 copies; in Venezuela, 1,144; in Mexico, 23,655 copies; in Central America, 10,651; in South America, except Brazil, Venezuela, and Colombia, 48,874 copies; in Brazil, 49,151 copies; in the Levant, 126,086 copies; in Siam, 48,073 copies; in China, 594,952 copies—the largest annual circulation ever attained; in Japan, 80,022 copies; in Korea, 24,206 copies; in the Philippines, 68,170 copies.
Mrs. Russell Sage has made an offer of five hundred thousand dollars to the Society, provided the Society raise an equal sum, the entire amount to be a fund from which the interest will be used for the advancement of the work of circulating the Scriptures. Vigorous efforts are being put forth to raise this amount by the end of the year. Donations for this work help in the advancement of a very worthy cause, one of the most effective in giving the Gospel of the kingdom to all the world in this generation.
European Letter
By Jean Vuilleumier
(From Our Own Correspondent)*
Constantinople
His Eminence Cardinal Merry Raphael de Val, the Papal Secretary of State.
In Turkey — Peace and War — Germany and England — Germany and Russia — Protestantism.
[NOTE.—The publication of this article has been delayed, but the great facts it presents are of vital interest and more than compensate for this late presentation.—EDITOR.]
At the present writing all is upside-down in Turkey. A new revolution of the Young-Turk party has broken out; an army of 18,000 men is ready to enter Constantinople; the Sultan has been asked to abdicate, while his successor has been elected. The Paris “Matin” calls this in big letters: “THE BEGINNING OF THE END.”
All Europe is watching with bated breath to see what the outcome will be. In political circles, as well as among the masses, the anxiety is intense, for every one feels that in Turkey is to be decided the destiny of the world; that with the fate of that tottering empire is connected the fate of all nations. And when I write this, I am simply repeating from memory the words used by the dean of European political writers in a recent article quoted by this journal. Students of prophecy have more than FEELINGS to depend upon in viewing matters in this light. They have the “sure word of prophecy.” But our province is not to deal with that side of the subject; our task is briefly to record current events. So we come back to European politics at the very moment when this sudden and unexpected revolution broke out.
Austria, who had, with the connivance of Europe, seized her opportunity in asserting her dominion over two of the small Balkan states, found herself disturbed by a third one, Servia, who cried out violently against her injustice. Servia saw her fate in her two neighbors’ fate. She remembered how her big neighbor had been and is sapping her vitality and paralyzing her development. She thought that Europe would surely sustain her protest, and was already preparing to pay a sacrifice for liberty. War was threatening on the Balkans.
Impotence of the Hague Court
“Before this conflict between the weak and the strong,” says the “Bibliothèque Universelle,” “no one speaks of arbitration. People scarcely remember that there is a court at The Hague, the usefulness of which ought to show itself in just such cases.”
“Servia is not worth a war,” remarked the Paris “Europe,” “this war might become general; no government wants it; and it would be criminal to unloose it. . . . One must choose between the extension of the Servian frontiers and the upheaval of Europe.”
“This shows for the hundredth time within a few months that the slightest friction among the powers over their interests in the East will be the match which will set the world ablaze!”
Yet diplomats and rulers seem unconcerned. What affects them most is the success or defeat of the hour on the big chessboard of world politics. For the moment Austria, and behind her Germany, is exulting, while France and England look on with chagrin.
Says the “Revue Politique et Littéraire” of April 10: “The European concert is at the present time abandoning its right to interfere before this Austro-German imperialistic alliance.” And this journal quotes the German press showing the joy “of the whole nation” at this “march of the Deutschtum toward the southeast.”
What of Reduction of Armaments?
What can be expected under the circumstances, about the reduction of armaments? Did King Edward VII and his nephew Emperor William II, who, by the way, have so much to say about “peace,” see their way clear, at their last interview, to reach some happy solution of the problem? It appears not, when we read what on the selfsame day of last month Herr von Bülow and Sir Ed. Grey explained on this matter before their respective parliaments. Their explanations amount clearly to this: a limitation of naval armaments is impossible; the recent diplomatic consultation on the subject was bound to fail; Germany considers it absolutely necessary for her safety to complete her naval program; while Great Britain means to maintain at any cost her supremacy over the oceans.
British Supremacy Threatened
But more was coming: On the 16th of March, the prime minister of England and the first lord of the admiralty recognized before the House of Commons that this supremacy was seriously threatened; that Germany would soon have at sea as many or more battleships of the “Dreadnought” type as England herself; and that her works at Kiel and elsewhere were so well fitted up that they could rival those of Great Britain. Of course such declarations would move the whole nation with fear, and obtain her immediate consent to greater expenses still for naval armaments!
A Russian View
Are these enough “rumors of war” from Europe at this time? Not yet. Listen to this: A Russian correspondent writes to a respectable continental monthly quoting the noted St. Petersburg organ, the “Novoie Vremia,” to the intent that Germany “thinks much more seriously of engaging in war with Russia than with England. . . . The Germans will not be any more courteous than the Japanese, and will not announce their visit. The whole operation will be done mysteriously . It is even probable that a part of the mobilization has been all ready for some time, and that the German fleet and troops will enter Russia even before the news has reached St. Petersburg.”
The same correspondent makes a sad description of the moral, political, and intellectual condition of his country. “In 1905,” he says, “before the Czar granted the constitution, the daily average of prisoners was 85,000; this year, it reaches 170,000, not counting 30,000 people on their way to the jails.”
. . . The demoralization of all classes of society is marching rapidly onward. . . . In Russia, the number of school children is 3.8 per cent of the population; in the Transvaal, 9.6 per cent, in Australia, 19.3 per cent. Even in Chile and Uruguay, the number of students is greater than in Russia.”
Where are the recognized religious teachers of the world? Are they not able to turn this mighty and terrible current which threatens the nations? In his Encyclical “against the Modernists” or Catholic higher critics, Pope Pius X says some good things about faith, religion versus science, and the inspiration of the Bible. But this is drowned as it were in a mass of words, and sadly counteracted by advocating the authority of the “fathers” and the ecumenical councils; by maintaining the necessity for the church to be united with the state; by rejecting the idea of returning to “ancient humility and poverty;” by upholding the traditions of the Catholic Church, and the veneration of relics, and by counseling, as principal remedy against the encroachments of enemies of the church—the study of scholastic philosophy such as taught by Saint Thomas of Aquin! How sad this turning away from the pure word of God to the fetid waters of medieval rantings!
Protestantism
Has, perchance, the Protestant Rome—Geneva—some comfort, some good and timely advice to offer to this sick and tired humanity? As some of my readers will remember, a popular vote taken about two years ago, pronounced the separation from the state of the old national church founded by Calvin in 1536. This vote was to go into effect Jan. 1, 1909. The year 1908 was busily employed by the Geneva church in preparing for her new conditions. The work was prepared by a committee of nineteen members, and then11taken up and decided by a constituent assembly of sixty to seventy members. Two leading questions were bound to come before this body to be incorporated in the new constitution of the church of Geneva: its belief and its membership. The discussion of these two questions laid bare the lamentable situation of the once flourishing and faithful church of Calvin.
On the first point, the Bible was declared to be the basis of religious teaching, but the Bible as freely interpreted in the light of human conscience and modern science. This means that in 1909 and onward, as before, pastors will be perfectly free to teach what they believe, from the rankest rationalism, deism, and agnosticism, to the old orthodox belief. In fact, a watchword given by the leading pastors of all the parties among which the Geneva church is theologically divided, was the significant phrase of “NO SCHISM!” With this watchword, no one in the constituent assembly dared to dissent. The Geneva national church, tho severed from the state, must remain externally entire and undivided, no matter how inimical and contradictory the religions sheltered under its roof!
Another declaration made in the opening of the new constitution is that “Jesus Christ is the Saviour of men.” This was allowed to pass only with the understanding that, on the part of the liberal and rationalist party, this could only mean a political, a historical, a worldly salvation, and never a personal, a future, an everlasting salvation!
The City of Geneva
On the point of membership, a strong current was against taking in as members foreigners to the Geneva Republic, be they from other cantons of Switzerland or from other countries. This the committee of nineteen called a religious scandal. But the idea was carried. The majority wanted a national, a Geneva establishment, with Geneva traditions and Geneva people. The idea of conversion of character was entirely left out and spurned. The old doctrine of Cyprian that one is not BORN a Christian but has to BECOME one was changed into: one born in Geneva and of Geneva stock IS a Christian!
And in the face of all this, Geneva is preparing to celebrate with great pomp, between July 2 and 10, the four hundredth anniversary of Calvin’s birth! It is easy for any one who has read a few pages of Calvin’s great work, “The Institution of the Christian Religion,” or one of his 2,000 sermons, to tell what the great reformer would say to those who are claiming to honor him while destroying almost every principle and every truth that he worked so hard to uphold. He would extend his bony hands, his face would light up with a solemn and horrified expression, and he would exclaim, as he did more than once when fighting for a pure Gospel: “You may cut these hands, and you may take this life, rather than to get my consent to connect my name with such a damnable apostasy!”
JEAN VUILLEUMIER.
Paris, France, April 22, 1909.
The Jews and the Sabbath
ABOUT the last thing which holds the Jews to the word of God is the Sabbath. Many of them have turned from that in practise, if not in theory. One rabbi is recently quoted as saying that it is more honored in the breach than in the observance, and that a change to Sunday worship would be merely formal.
The Puyallup Valley Tribune, of Washington, remarks that “perhaps the only denomination which now adheres strictly to the observance of the Biblical Sabbath is that of the Adventists who make it the fundamental article of their faith.” That is hardly the truth because Seventh-day Baptists adhere to the observance of the Biblical Sabbath; neither do Seventh-day Adventists make it the fundamental article of their faith. The fundamental thing with Seventh-day Adventists is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That faith involves all the rest.
The Tribune is also mistaken when it endeavors to trace the Sabbath origin back to the Oriental mythology, or the worship of the moon under the name of Diana. Astronomical difficulties, it tells us, soon led to the fixation of the Sabbath on every seventh day without much regard to the moon’s phases. Nevertheless it holds that the origin of the holy day originated from the moon’s phases. An utterly inconsistent position, for there is nothing specially definite to mark the moon’s phases, and it may be safely concluded that the primitive nature worshipers in idolatrous or otherwise, can be traced back to the perversion of the original Sabbath law given in the word of God.
Let the Jews turn from this, and the last link which binds them to the Old Testament as a revelation from God is gone, and the new drift to infidelity or worse than infidelity, perverted and apostate Christianity, is certain.
Proposed Tax on Deadly Weapons
Hon. T. U. Sisson has proposed an amendment to the Payne Tariff Bill placing a tax of two dollars on every deadly weapon manufactured, or sold or stored in any warehouse, factory, storehouse, or any other place for sale, within the United States, by whatever name such deadly weapon may be called. The proposed amendment names all the instruments covered under the name of deadly weapon, such as pistols, dirk knives, Bowie knives, brass knuckles, etc. It is also planned to put a tax of one-tenth of one per cent on each cartridge of 22 caliber or less, and one fifth of one per cent on those above 22 caliber. An exemption is made on all arms and cartridges sold to the United States and to the different states for their militia. This is a good proposition as it will be a tax on an evil and not on a good. As Mr. Sisson says, it will put some burden of the maintenance of government upon the lawless man, and not all upon the law-abiding man. He asks, “Why should not the man engaged in the infamous business of manufacturing deadly weapons, and inducing our boys to purchase them, pay some of the expense of the government?” “Let us tax pistols, not plows. Let us tax dirk knives, not disk harrows. Let us tax pistol cartridges, not corn-planters.” “If the law-abiding men and women throughout the country would take this matter up and agitate it, Congress would move. If all the good men in America, who believe in placing a tax upon deadly weapons, would write to their congressmen and senators, the mails would be loaded down.” We hope enough interest will be shown by the people in this matter to produce some good results. Mr. Sisson proposes to keep pushing the matter until it receives the attention of Congress; and meanwhile every good citizen can aid him by bringing what influence he can to bear at Washington.
A Criticism of the Human Body
William H. Taylor, M.D., professor of chemistry and medical jurisprudence at the medical college of Virginia, startled the community by delivering before his class a lecture recently on “The Body,” in which he declared that it is not the exalted mechanism it is vaunted to be. Critical examination of man, he said, shows carelessness and bad workmanship from head to foot. For example, any maker of optical instruments who sent out such a piece of work as the eye would certainly have it thrown back on his hands. And so after all that scientists, authors, artists, poets, and medical men have said about the marvels and mysteries, wonders and beauties, of the human body, marred by sin as it is, and degenerated by six thousand years of the reign of disease and death, we are to find in this last age, in which everything under heaven and throughout the universe is criticized, that the body is a pretty poor job after all. The Scriptures
Railing at Dignities
say something somewhere about “uttering great swelling words of vanity,” of those who are “daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities,” “railing in matters whereof they are ignorant.” The mosquito may criticize the elephant, but until he becomes more conversant with the subject, his remarks will not be very enlightening, and logic advises that he reserve his judgment.
A Parliamentary Blue Book Issued March
A Parliamentary Blue Book issued March 31 shows that convictions for drunkenness in Canada have, in the last ten years, increased by 164 per cent. In the year ended September, 1907, there was an increase of twelve and a half per cent in convictions for general offenses under the Criminal Code. In the Yukon there were fifty-six convictions for every 10,000 of the population, and in Prince Edward Island, which is the prohibition province, only one conviction.
The Goulds and the Grinding Poor
The divorce suit of the Howard Goulds has revealed a little of the inner life of some of the rich. According to the testimony taken in the case the whole Gould estate is valued at $80,000,000, from the income of which Howard Gould gets over $700,000 a year. Mrs. Gould's gown bill amounts to $40,000 a year. The awful contrast between the grinding poor in some of our cities and this affluence is enough to make wise people think. And yet this income is not a very large one compared with some others that might be mentioned.
God Loves a Cheerful Giver
SMALL giving is the curse and shame of our day.
God is not a beggar asking alms for the crumbs that fall from our table; He is a preferred creditor.
The apostles evangelized the Roman empire without a choir and pipe-organ, or even a church building.
Every dollar spent in a vain show is a dollar of a trust fund misappropriated.
The world will never be won to Christ by gifts from our pin money.
The missionary enterprise is belittled and put on a wrong basis when Christian people are asked to save a nickel or a dime from their cigars or chewing gum, or some other luxury.13
A farmer was asked how much milk a certain cow gave. He said: “She gives nothing voluntarily, but if a strong man can get her into a corner where she can neither hook nor kick, she will give eleven quarts.”
Giving that is joyful is almost certain to succeed.
“The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home.”
When the church honors Christ with her substance she will compel the respect of the world by her character.—Christian Intelligencer.
The Solomon Islands
By S. W. Carr
WHILE on our way to our new field of labor in British New Guinea, we had to pass through these islands. What we gathered in this trip may be of interest to our fellow readers of the SIGNS.
Situated to the northeast of Australia, about six days’ steam from Brisbane, is this group of islands which was discovered by the Spanish navigator Mendenña in the sixteenth century. For three hundred years after this they remained practically unknown to the white man.
There are seven main islands; viz., Bouganville, Choiseul, Ysabel, New Georgia, Malaita, Guadalcanar, and San Christoval, besides numerous smaller ones, the whole being more or less interlaced with coral reefs and patches.
The formation is volcanic and the climate tropical; the mountains reaching to a height of 10,000 feet are covered with dense forest so thick as to make progress on land slow except in the open ways.
The native population is variously estimated at between 80,000 and 120,000, many of whom are yet in a state of heathenism and also cannibalism, several white men having been killed during the last year. Murders are however becoming less frequent as the influence of the government and the missionaries extends. The white population is about 230, consisting of government officials, missionaries, traders, and planters. Most of the group is under British protection, but Bouganville, the largest island, is under German rule.
Large tracts of forest land are now being cleared and planted with coconuts, rubber, sisal hemp, and bananas, one large firm preparing to plant 100,000 acres of coconuts for soap manufacture.
The natives are from small to medium height, dark, with curly hair, and many of them have in time past been employed in the plantations of Australia and Fiji. All the Solomon Islanders have, however, been deported lately from Australia. All the natives smoke and chew the betel nut, the latter being eaten with an aromatic leaf and lime, thus making the teeth very black and the mouth like blood. Its effect is the same as the Kava of the South Seas, making the user silly and helpless. The use of neither tobacco or the betel nut is forbidden by any of the missions, but is used largely as money both by the missionaries and traders. Skin diseases are prevalent, the most common form being a ringworm which commencing in a small way gradually covers the whole body. The natives, too, generally slit the ears and nose, the slits in the former being up to four inches long, and are used to carry a pipe of tobacco or earrings.
There are four missions in the Solomon Islands; viz., the Melanesian (Church of England), Roman Catholic, Methodist, and Miss Young’s. The Melanesian Mission has been working since 1849, while the Roman Catholics entered the field but twelve years ago, and have now a following of about 1,500 and are prosecuting their work with vigor. The Methodists are now established on several of the islands, having commenced operations in the group about seven years ago. Teachers from the older missions in the South Seas are being used by this mission with success. Sometimes the missionaries meet with severe opposition in starting their work, at other times they have to contend with what is worse, the indifference of the natives.
Miss Young’s mission is carried on in the island of Malaita only. Her labors were devoted to this work while the natives of Malaita were engaged in the plantations of Queensland, and when they were deported, she decided to still continue work for them in their island homes. There are nine white missionaries belonging to this mission on Malaita, which is the most savage of the group.
These people are sadly in need of the third angel’s message not only to help them to give up their evil native practises, but also to show them the evils of many of the things which they have learned, all too quickly, from the white man. We trust that it will not be long before a representative of present truth will be in these beautiful islands so that some of these dark-skinned people will be able to meet with us on the sea of glass and sing the song of Moses and the Lamb. S. W. CARR.
Praise the Lord
By Llewellyn A. Morrison
By Llewellyn A. Morrison
We come with gladness and the voice of praise
To Christ our Master and our King;
We laud His favor and extol His ways,
Rejoicing in the joys they bring.
The Holy Spirit is our unseen Guide,
The promised One who dwells within—
Our Holy Comforter, whate’er betide,
The Cleanser of our guilt and sin.
CHORUS
Praise the Word! Praise the Lord!
Let it ring over sea and shore.
Praise the Word! Praise the Lord!
Sing praises to Him evermore.
Our lips are voicing in a jubilee
The glory of His grace in song—
They sing the sweetness of a soul set free
From evil, impotence and wrong;
They tell the treasure, which in love awaits
The ransomed ones by faith made pure;
They whisper softly of the pearly gates
For them who in His name endure.
We come with reverence before His face;
The greatness of His work abides;
Our hearts are open and in them we trace
The tenderness, wherein He hides;
There is no bondage in His service, dear—
No shadow-land without a sun;
The Lord abideth with His people here;
We follow till the day is done.
New York City.
A Soldier’s Conversion
A CHINESE soldier, missing a target, shot an idol. Seeing that no harm came to the man, his captain pondered the matter, saw the folly of worshiping what was only wood; he obtained a Gospel from a missionary, and soon after became a Christian.—Christian Worker.
A Parish Priest’s Warning to His Flock
It was in the South District of Chile and in the village of Perquenco, where the parish priest was holding an open-air service at the occasion of a public feast. Gospel services had recently been held at that place, which apparently gave the priest an occasion for alarm. He therefore considered it his duty to warn his flock of the danger coming from contact with the dreaded heretics, and this is the way he did it. Said he: “My beloved flock, there have been some signs lately of a disease that breaks out every once in a while, called Protestantism. The men who follow this old but dying heresy are very cunning in their ways. They will come to you with arguments of their own and with a Bible of their own, wishing to deceive even the elect among you. I warn you, dear children, of this danger and tell you what you ought to do. When you see a Protestant coming to your home, do by no means begin to argue with him; he is sure to do you harm. Do not even ask him as to the purpose of his coming. When he is near your door just take a hold of the ‘tranca,’ the heavy beam with which you close your door at night-time, and hit the comer on the head with it, for that is the only effectual way of arguing with a Protestant.”—World-Wide Missions.
The Hall-Mark
COLPORTEUR DIAZ sold 3,708 copies of Scriptures in Santiago last year. “Señor, your Bibles lack the official seal of the Holy See and of the Archbishop, and must be false,” objected a man to whom he showed his books. “But,” replied the colporteur, “a nugget of gold, because it has not the hall-mark is none the less a nugget of gold, and you would not reject it; and altho my Bibles have not the mark you desire, they are none the less genuine copies of the Bible.” “Ah! that is so; well, I will purchase one.”
36,500 Copies
By Editor
of the July Number of the Signs Monthly ordered out before July 1
There seems to be no question but what the circulation of this number will reach the 50,000 mark. The following orders are among those received between June 27 and July 1:
1,500 Kansas City, Mo.
1,000 Newark, N. J.
500 Elizabeth, N. J.
650 Portland, Ore.
500 Virginia, Minn.
1,000 Elizabeth, N. J.
500 San Jose, Cal.
300 Lodi, Cal.
525 Detroit, Mich.
100 San Antonio, Texas
200 Toronto, Ont.
500 Omaha and Des Moines
Its outline of contents suggests how every phase of the message for to-day is being taught in the SIGNS MONTHLY.
Healthful Living: Dr. Rand on “Care of the Teeth; Its Relation to Health.”
Temperance: “Temperance Wave in the South,” by S. B. Horton.
Bible: “It Is Finished,” by Mrs. E. G. White; “Cause and Nature of Suspended Life,” by J. O. Corliss; “Ignis Fatuus” (On Change of Sabbath), by Dr. W. D. Tickner.
Liberty: “The American Birthright of Religious Liberty,” Mrs. Lulu Wightman Before Missouri State Legislature; “Is Our Liberty a Dream?” by M. C. Wilcox.
Let us speedily raise the circulation of every number to 50,000 copies. It isn’t too late for us to fill your order for this beautiful July issue. 100 copies cost you $4.00; you sell them for $10.00. Order of your tract society.
Signs of the Times
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA
Wanted for Missionary Work
THE following desire continuous supplies of our denominational papers for practical missionary work. Of course all papers should be well-wrapped and the postage fully prepaid.
Mrs. H. T. Moor, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
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James Harvey, 1068 Third St., Oakland, Cal.
Mrs. S. A. Williams, 15912 Park Ave., Harvey, Ill.
Mrs. Mollie L. Vaughn, Kimswick, Mo.
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Mrs. D. A. Fitch, 227 Jackson St., Glendale, Cal.
Our Work and Workers
SISTER MINNIE SYP has been conducting Bible studies at Spencer, Iowa. June 5 a number of her readers and others, nine in all, were baptized.
BROTHER J. ERNEST BOND, whose labors are principally with Spanish-speaking people of Arizona, baptized four in the Gila River near Sanchez, June 7.
AT Cedar Springs, Mich., a church of fourteen members has been organized. Brother John W. Covert writes that there is a good interest in the neighborhood of this church.
SEVEN precious souls were baptized at Tiawah, Okla., June 13. A church of twenty-eight members has been organized through the labors of Brethren R. B. Coberly and C. M. McDonald.
BROTHER H. CLAY GRIFFIN has met with good success at Glencove, Texas. About twenty-five are now rejoicing in the truth there. Brethren G. A. Legrone and Willie Field have assisted.
SISTER E. SWIFT and others in Oakland, Cal., are conducting a school for Japanese boys. Good work is being done, and some seed is springing up and bearing fruit. The address is 555 Hobart St., Oakland, Cal.
BIBLE work conducted by Sisters Kiep and Tyte at Saginaw, Mich., the past spring has borne fruit. June 13, Brother B. F. Stureman baptized six of these sisters’ readers, and several more are almost ready to go forward.
As the result of work recently done at Niagara Falls, six people have given their hearts to the Lord, and are waiting baptism. Brother Eugene Leland makes the report.
ELEVEN, in all have fully taken their stand for the truth at different points in the White Salmon Valley, Idaho, through the labors of Brother and Sister J. A. Standage, the past few months. Six of these were recently baptized.
BROTHER and Sister T. B. Westbrook report from Hornell, N. Y., that through their labors a nice company have taken their stand for the truth. Seventeen were baptized June 19, and six more will soon be ready for baptism.
NESTLED among the high wooded hills of northwestern Iowa, near Village Creek, stands the pretty, white meeting-house of a Swedish church. It was dedicated June 12, Brother M. N. Campbell conducting the services, in connection with which two were baptized.
