BROTHER KNEELAND writes that there is a call for a lady teacher in San Fernando, Trinidad. A prominent East Indian merchant who is interested in the truth and the Sabbath, and is planning to dispose of his store so that he can go onto his cocoa estate and keep the Sabbath, has asked him to secure a teacher for a girls’ school. Many East Indians have means, and desire better advantages for their daughters than can be obtained in the public schools. The standard of morality is so low that many will not put their girls into these schools. They ask for a lady teacher who can instruct in music, sewing, cooking, and ordinary domestic work, as well as in Latin, French, and other branches. They can easily raise thirty dollars a month for her support.
Will Every Reader of the Review Try This?
By David Paulson
We wish to suggest a very simple plan whereby all our brethren may come in contact with their neighbors from a missionary standpoint.
Send us the names and addresses of ten or more of your neighbors, and a two-cent stamp for each, and we will send them a copy of the December Life Boat, and also a personal letter calling their attention to the journal, and telling them that our representative will call upon them in a few days to solicit their subscription.
At the same time that we send out these papers, we will write a letter to those who send us the lists, so they may call a day or two later.
Where there are companies of our people, consider it in the church, and then divide the territory so that different persons will not send in the same names.
We trust that every reader of the REVIEW will spend a few hours in this missionary movement. Address 28 Thirty-third Place, Chicago, Ill.
DAVID PAULSON.
The Offerings Increasing
The librarian of a church in one of the Western States writes: “Our offerings for the two quarters previous to the time we began to use the envelopes were $3.22 and $2.22. For the last quarter, with the envelopes, it was $7.07. You can judge whether or not the envelopes have been a benefit to us. Some of our members who have never taken any interest in the ten-cent-a-week plan have made up their minds to fall into line. I believe that this idea is a good one, and I shall continue to ask God’s special blessing upon it, because it is bound to hasten the end of this world, with all its sorrow and woe.”
Another librarian says: “I am glad to add my testimony concerning the usefulness of the envelopes in gathering offerings for mission work. We have used them one quarter, and our offerings are nearly double those of the previous quarter. I believe that this is only the beginning of better things. It is a pleasure to watch the eager, expectant faces of the children as the envelopes are being passed and the offerings collected. We would not like to go back to the old way, for these little reminders are needed by all; and I am sure that not only the offerings, but also the interest in missions, is increased by their use.”
Brother Spies
BROTHER SPIES writes from Rio Cunha, where he spent a week, that some are now keeping the Sabbath who will soon be ready for baptism. He says: “There is so much to do in Brazil, and so few workers! May the Lord raise up more laborers to go forth into this harvest.”
Current Mention
— Thirty-six persons committed suicide in Chicago during the month of November.
— The American baseball league has decided not to allow Sunday games the coming season.
— Fourteen men lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the interior of the Lincoln hotel, Chicago, in the early morning of December 4.
— Thomas B. Reed, the well-known ex-politician, is dangerously ill at his home in Washington, D. C., with but slight prospect of recovery.
— Great Britain and Germany have begun coercive measures against Venezuela to secure payment of long-standing claims against that country.
— According to the London Mail, it is now possible to manufacture artificial rubies which in appearance are fully equal to the natural stones. A demonstration of the process was made recently at the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
— According to the report just made by Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural bureau, it has been demonstrated that tea can be successfully grown in the United States.
— The strike arbitration commission appointed by President Roosevelt is still conducting its investigation of the conditions of the coal-mining industry, and its report is not expected before 1903.
— Two of the largest guns on the battle ship “Texas” exploded during practice recently off the Virginia coast, and only heroic work by the gunners saved the ship and the lives of those on board. The “Texas” had recently been overhauled, and had put to sea on a trial trip.
— Turkey has ordered from the Krupp gun works sixteen batteries of quick-firing field guns, this being the first step in the rearmament of the Turkish artillery. Two hundred and twenty thousand Mauser rifles have also been purchased. The impression prevails at Constantinople that a serious situation in Macedonia and the Balkans will have to be faced in the spring.
— A Catholic journal in Berlin claims to have definite information that the present Reichstag will pass a resolution asking the German government to repeal the anti-Jesuit law, and that the Bundesrath will consent to the repeal. The “center,” or Catholic, party in the Reichstag has tried for years to secure the repeal of this law, which banished the Jesuits from the country.
— By a recent decision of the appellate court at Rochester, N. Y., Catholic orphan asylums in that State are to be supported by public taxation. The case was brought into court by a member of the American Protective Association, who sought to prevent payment from the city funds of Rochester of four nuns employed as teachers in the St. Mary’s Boys’ Orphan Asylum.
— Secretary-of-War Root, in his report on military affairs, recommends the re-establishment of the army canteen, which Congress had been moved to abolish at the instance of the W. C. T. U. and other temperance reformers. Secretary Root says that from numerous reports, he has arrived at the conclusion that the effect of the abolition of the canteen system is to drive the soldiers to vile resorts outside of camp, where they obtain intoxicants and are brought in contact with all kinds of vicious characters.
— The president’s annual message to Congress, which was read before the two branches of that body on December 2, considers the following questions: The regulation of the trusts; tariff revision; reciprocity treaties; the labor question; arbitration; the isthmian canal; Pacific cable legislation; Porto Rico and the Philippines; the army and navy; postal affairs; national aid to irrigation; scientific aid to farmers; lands for home builders; and better laws for Alaska. The chief interest in the message centers about the president’s proposition to regulate the trusts, which he believes Congress has the power and authority to do. It is stated that the leading trust representatives scoff at the idea of being brought under the control of Congress, and will have a powerful lobby at Washington to prevent such legislation as the president’s message suggests.
Patient Continuance
“LET US not be weary in well doing.”
“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that.”
Early in the morning, all day, and late at night,—these are the Christian’s working hours. No “eight-hour day” for him. His working hours are filled with active labor, and he sleeps only that he may be refreshed for service for his Lord.
The man who is acquainted with God, finds in the changing seasons no reason for delay. Summer and winter, spring and autumn, are all the same to him. God is ever the same. He changes not. And his riches, all of which he holds at our disposal, are a constant quantity, and are not increased nor decreased by the changing times and harvests.
Our Father can help us as easily in the springtime as in the autumn. He can bless, after Christmas as well as before Christmas. Men who enter the canvassing work in September or October because it is “before Christmas,” are likely to leave the work during January and February because it is after Christmas. Those who enter the field this year because the crops are good, are likely to leave the field next year if the crops are poor. Such “fair22weather” and “prosperous times” professors are not the soldiers who will carry the banner of Christ through this last great conflict.
The man who consecrates his life for service every day in the year, and for every year until the Lord comes, will enjoy all the blessings that God gives through bountiful harvests, prosperous times, and “before Christmas” deliveries. But far beyond these blessings, and infinitely more precious than all of them, are the peace, the joy, and the riches that come to us in times of adversity, when we are led by a Father’s unseen hand into that “secret place of power” where we really and truly become acquainted with God. This way of working is the secret of financial success, and of all other true success in this wide world.
We appeal to you who have put your hand to the plow, not to turn back; and we again invite into the service all whose hearts can still be appealed to by the times in which we live, and by the needy cry which is daily ascending to God from millions who are lost in darkness and sin. The day of the Lord hastens as rapidly in January as in December; then why stop work? The needs of men are as great when times are hard as in times of prosperity; then why be subject to the seasons? “He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.” Eccl. II:4.
Prayer and Missions
By W. A. Spicer
The blessings of the week of prayer, December 20–27, are not to be sought for ourselves alone. Again let the prayer circle that now girdles the world send up to heaven the psalmist’s prayer: “God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.”
None will watch for the fruitage of this week of prayer with greater interest than our workers in the mission fields. It is not merely that the great annual thank offering to God for the missionary cause is to be made by all the people. That means much to all who face wide-open doors without the ability to enter. But nothing can bring greater inspiration into the fields abroad than the news of a spiritual outpouring and a reviving and awakening among the great body of believers in the home churches.
The genuine revival of the advent faith in a quickly coming Saviour, among sixty thousand Seventh-day Adventists in the home land, would electrify the believers in all the world, and give power to the testimony borne that would speedily warn the nations. The final message, “Behold the Bridegroom cometh!” would quickly be borne to the whole world as the “midnight cry” swept through the ranks of believers in the 1844 movement. Let us seek God for the cleansing from sin and the power for witnessing.
To this very revival the voice of God is calling: “Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem. . . . Shake thyself from the dust; arise. . . . How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth glad tidings, that publisheth peace; . . . that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! . . . The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.” This is to be in our day. Let us begin now to pray that the coming season of special prayer may mark a mighty onward movement in the lands abroad.
W. A. SPICER,
Secretary Mission Board.
Silent Messengers
By Editor
Our Books, Tracts, and Periodicals
E R PALMER ·· ·· ·· Editor
Who Will Go?
“Lord, here am I,” for God had said,
“Whom shall I send, and who for us
will go
With warnings to a sinful world?”
The prophet heard, and with his lips
Touched by the holy fire, and cleansed
from sin,
Answered in meekness to the call:
“Send me.”
Could but these lips of mine—these
lips of clay—
Be touched with hallowed fire and
cleansed from sin,
Then gladly they would bear thy
warning call
Of loving tenderness to man.
Cleanse, Lord, my lips from dross of
selfishness;
Breathe the commission of thy love to
me,
With pardoning voice, “Jehovah bids
thee go,”—
And I will whisper of thy love to all.
— Selected.
Come and Go
“THERE is only one word in the gospel to the sinner, and that is, ‘Come;’ and there is only word to the church, and that is, ‘Go.’”
Reports Given at an Old-Fashioned Tract and Missionary Meeting
I GAVE away several papers. I also had with me “Christ’s Object Lessons.” I left a copy for a lady to look at, and when I called a little later, she gave me an order. I saw another woman, who took “Steps to Christ.” This woman did not believe in religion, but after I showed her the book, she wished to have it. This is an excellent book for people who do not believe in Christ. Another evening I went out, and in a few minutes sold two health journals. It is no trouble to sell books and papers. The people are anxious for The Signs of the Times. The Lord blessed me in this work. He always blesses me; he helps and keeps me. I pray that all our brethren and sisters will decide to do something in this good work, no matter how little it may be.
I was down town shopping in one of the stores last week. I had been selling The Signs to one of the clerks there. He asked me, “Why don’t you bring The Signs of the Times to me now?” I told him that I had not been selling any lately, and asked why he did not subscribe. He said he would, and promised me a year’s subscription. Brethren and sisters, the people are anxious for The Signs, and if we were just as anxious to sell them as they are to buy, this town would be full of them. Pray that I may do my work as the Lord wants me to do it, and that the message may go forward.
I have not done very much, but the Lord has blessed me. One day I sold a copy of “Christ’s Object Lessons” with hardly any effort. Another day I took a subscription for Good Health. This is a grand and glorious work, and I want to be in just that place where the Lord would have me, and do the work he has for me to do. On Friday there is much to do at home, so I thought I would let my little girl go for me. I asked the Lord to let her be willing to go if he wanted her to do so. I then asked her what she thought; she said, “We want to get the message before the people.” She said she wanted to sell the paper. She went out and sold two copies of the Pacific Health Journal and four of The Signs. I think our little children could do much work if we as parents were not afraid to have them try. The Testimonies say that the children are going to do a great work in giving the message. I ask your prayers that I may labor just where the Lord would have me.
I tried to get subscriptions for The Signs and for the health journal; but the Lord impressed me that I should work with “Christ’s Object Lessons.” Wednesday afternoon, when ready to start, I was impressed to go to one of my neighbors across the road. Just as I arrived there, a storm came on. I had a good talk, and canvassed the lady for “Christ’s Object Lessons.” I found that she was anxious to hear, although at first she did not seem to care to look at the book. After I had shown it to her, she said it was a fine book, and gave me an order. By that time the storm had cleared away. I went down town, and sold a book to the doctor who had been attending my little girl. I told him that I had brought a book along, and that I would leave it with him to examine. He took the book, looked at it, and said that he would take it. He said he thought it was a good thing to study the life of Christ. He also wishes another of our books for a Christmas present for his wife. I have tried to be in that place where the Lord can work through me and help me to lead others to him. Pray for me.
My face is Zionward, and ever shall be. I have had a good experience in my work with “Christ’s Object Lessons.” I thought that I was too busy to sell this book, and that I would wait for a slack time. Then I decided to try an experiment. I left a book with some goods I delivered at a house. I told the people that I did not have time to canvass for the book, but that I would leave it for them to look through. I thought I would make a test in this way to see whether a busy person could sell the book. The next time I called at the house, the lady said, “That is an excellent book; I want to keep it.” If the Lord has given us this work to do, he will bless the effort.
I went out to see what I could do with “Christ’s Object Lessons.” I found my neighbor busy, so I told her that I would leave the book for her to examine. After telling her the object of the book, I said that I would call later. I went back a few days afterward, and she said, “I want that book,” and gave me the money. If we will place the books in the houses, the Lord will sell them. I did nothing toward selling this book, but simply left it with her. This was a Catholic family, too. I want to be in that place where the Lord can work with me.
(NOTE: Dear brethren and sisters, may the Lord bring back to us the old-time missionary meetings, the spirit of personal devotion which we enjoyed in former days, and that personal burden for the lost which will lead us to rise up as a body, and give this message at once to the world.)
An Impetus Needed
The time is ripe for a definite forward movement by a people who have professed for many years that the Lord would come in this generation. If our position is correct, the world must be quickly warned. Some tremendous inspiration must arouse and electrify our people to go to work as never before.
Full Consecration
When there were five thousand men to feed, and only five loaves and two little fishes with which to feed them, these were unreservedly given into the hands of the Master to use as he chose to use them. He was given the sole right to divide and distribute as he thought best. These amounted to very little toward satisfying the hungry craving of the great multitude; but that little was consecrated fully, unquestioningly, and unreservedly to his service, and Jesus received them thankfully. So we read that he took the few loaves and fishes, and “when he had given thanks, he distributed” till “they were filled.”
So, dear brethren and sisters, though we are small and insignificant when compared to the great need, if the little we are is unreservedly consecrated to his service to be used in any way he shall see fit, will he not “give thanks,” and will not the little thus placed in his hands, and thus thankfully received by him, suffice for the needs of the great, perishing world multitude?
Christ’s Interests Ours
O, then, let us first of all yield ourselves wholly and unreservedly into his hands, there to lie passively for him to use as he sees fit! Let us cease from our own works, cease from having any interests separate from those of our Lord. “Christ’s interests and those of his followers should be one.”
And what are his interests? He had but one object—soul-saving. He came “to seek and to save that which was lost.” He “went about doing good.” So we, if we love him, shall be found doing the work he wishes to have done, the work he would do if he were now here on earth;
A Seed That Grew
By H. H. HALL
THE following is a letter which we have just received from a gentleman in Texas:—
“I received the tracts, and am well pleased with them, especially the one on the Lord’s day. I have a book written by Elder Waggoner, entitled ‘From Eden to Eden.’ It is the best work I ever read on that subject. I have decided to keep the Sabbath from now on.”
This gentleman goes on to ask various questions concerning the truth, and seems to be intensely interested.
Dear reader, are you sowing such seed as this? H. H. HALL.
A Ministers’ School
Jan. 7 to March 17, 1903
During the winter term Emmanuel Missionary College will conduct a school for ministers, Bible workers, canvassers, and colporteurs.
“The great crisis is just before us. . . . Many more workers ought to be in the field. There should be one hundred where now there is only one. Many who have not been ordained or licensed may work in their own neighborhoods and in the regions about them.”
“In every school that God has established, there will be, as never before, a demand for Bible instruction. Our students are to be educated to become Bible workers.”
“It should be the aim of our school to provide the best instruction and training for Bible workers. . . . The churches have a part to act. They should see that those who ought to receive its benefit attend the school. They should assist worthy persons who have not the means to obtain an education.”
SHORT COURSE FOR MEN AND WOMEN
“If our churches were awake, they would multiply their resources; they would send men and women to our schools, not to go through a long course of study, but to learn quickly and go out into the field.”
“Let workers enter the field without going through many preliminaries. Teach them to begin labor just where they see it is needed. Thus our working force may be greatly increased.”
These quotations call for a short course, a practical course,—a course not for youth, but for men and women. It is such a school that Emmanuel Missionary College will conduct during the winter months. Young men and women who wish to begin active service as ministers, canvassers, or Bible workers will receive special training. Berrien Springs and neighboring towns are asking for the gospel. The classes will have practical field work under the direction of their instructors. Arrangements have been made for the ministers’ class to spend some time with a teacher in Chicago.
The winter school bears the same relation to ministerial work that the summer school sustains to the church-school movement. The life and inspiration of the educational reform is the result of a vigorous effort to improve the teachers. The same expenditure of energy in behalf of the work to be studied in the winter school will be felt throughout the denomination.
Do you feel the need of it? Do you know of young men and women who would make valuable workers if they had some training? Only mature students are accepted in Emmanuel Missionary College. Consequently every student should arrange for admittance before starting for Berrien Springs. The quarters are limited, and only those who make previous arrangements can find accommodations. Full particulars will be freely given by addressing E. A. Sutherland, Berrien Springs, Mich.
Wanted: Missionary Reviews
By M. E. Kern
UNION COLLEGE is very anxious to get the following back numbers of the Missionary Review of the World to complete its file, for use in the mission study classes:— 1890: January, March, April, May, June, July, September, October, November, December. 1891: January, August. 1892: May. 1896: May, June, July, December. 1897: January, February, March, August, December. 1898: January, February, March, July, September. 1899: August, December. 1900: January, February, June, July, August, November. 1901: March, July, August, September, October, November, December. 1902: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September. Will any one having all or a part of those mentioned please correspond with the undersigned concerning them. Address M. E. Kern, College View, Neb.
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THE first annual meeting of the Louisiana Conference will be held Jan. 22–31, 1903, in Welsh, La. Reduced railroad rates on the certificate plan have been applied for, and will doubtless be granted. Each church will send delegates. Elders George J. Butler and John A. Brunson will be present. Let all bring bedding with them. The Welsh church are arranging to entertain the visiting delegations. For further information, address E. S. Abbott, Welsh, La., or the undersigned, at 305 St. Charles St., New Orleans, La.
S. B. HORTON,
Conference President.
A Splendid Opportunity
Read, and see if this does not mean you. The Correspondence School for Nurses, connected with the Sanitarium Medical Missionary Training School, will begin a new class the first of January, 1903. Lessons are sent weekly to students who are unable to leave home duties in order to take a regular course at one of our sanitariums. This is the fifth year this work has been carried on, and hundreds are availing themselves of it. Our pupils during the year of 1902 nearly doubled in number those of any previous year. Studies in eleven subjects are given, among which Christian Help work and the care and treatment of the sick are prominent. Our lessons have recently been revised and enlarged, and are in every way improved.
The tuition fee is three dollars, which barely covers the cost of sending out the lessons, correcting the replies, and returning the reports to the pupil. The text-books required for this work are furnished at actual cost price. We shall organize a new class in January, which will continue one year (some finish in six months), and shall be glad to hear from all who are interested. A descriptive circular giving full particulars, also testimonials from those who have taken the course, will be sent free on application. Address Correspondence Department Sanitarium Training School, Battle Creek, Mich.
Business Notices
Brief business notices will be published in this department, subject to the discretion of the publishers. A charge of one insertion of six lines or less, and of twenty cents for every line over six, will be made, though in the case of the poor who wish employment, the charge may be remitted. Persons unknown to the managers of the publishing house must furnish good references.
Men Wanted for Woods Work
WANTED.—Four or five men to work in woods. Wages, $26 per month. Address C. E. Van Horn, Onaway, Mich.
Six Boys Wanted for Printers’ Trade
WANTED AT ONCE.— Six boys over sixteen years of age are wanted to learn the printers' trade. Address Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich.
Wanted: Farm or Ranch
WANTED.— To exchange a home in College View, Neb., and a new Rumely steam thrasher as part payment on a farm or ranch. Write for particulars, and give description and price of property, to A. Z. Nicola, College View, Neb.
Blacksmith and Broom Makers Wanted
WANTED.—Two competent men (with families preferred): one to take charge of blacksmith shop on its merits, and teach students two or three hours daily. Good outside patronage; also first-class broom maker on same terms. Good chance for men having children to educate. None but first-class S. D. A. workmen need apply. Write immediately to Alvin Covert, Prin., Keene Academy, Keene, Tex.
Publications Wanted
The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, prepaid:—
Ed C. Rogers, 405 Vickers St., Durham, N. C., Signs, Life Boat.
George W. Wells, Cleveland, Tenn., REVIEW, Signs, Life Boat, Good Health, tracts.
The W. R. Matthews, Traverse City, Mich., REVIEW, Signs, Life Boat Instructor, Little Friend.
Canadian Holiday Excursion Via Grand Trunk Railway System
ONE fare for the round trip. Tickets on sale Dec. 18, 19, 20, and 21, 1902, good returning to leave destination to and including Jan. 10, 1903. For further information call on your local agent, or write to Geo. W. Vaux, The A. G. P. & T. A., Chicago, Ill.
Thanksgiving Number of The Signs of the Times
The Thanksgiving number of The Signs of the Times is filled with interesting and valuable matter appropriate to the occasion which calls public attention in this nation to the subject of giving thanks. The true spirit of thanksgiving, and the questions when and for what we should give thanks, and to whom our thanks are due, are considered from a Biblical standpoint, together with other appropriate topics. The paper is filled with truths which will not get out of date. It is printed in green ink, and is nicely illustrated. On the last page appears a prospectus of The Signs for the year 1903.
During the recent session of the General Conference Committee Council the Advisory Board of the Battle Creek church held two meetings to which the members of the council were invited, and at which the question of the relationship of the Battle Creek church to the West Michigan Conference was considered. At the second meeting it was almost unanimously voted that it was the sense of the Advisory Board that the Battle Creek church should remain a member of the West Michigan Conference, and a committee was appointed to confer with that conference with reference to the disposition of the tithe. The Michigan Conference, before its recent division into three conferences, recommended that the whole of this tithe be paid into the treasury of the General Conference.
A Great Campaign
By A. G. Daniells
“AWAKE, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion.” “Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead.” “It is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.”
A tremendous crisis is just upon the world. The last days of the great controversy are here. The forces of evil are being marshaled for the final conflict, and the souls of men are at stake. And the world knows not of this crisis. It is asleep. It sleeps the sleep of a false security. It says, “All things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” It is hoping for better times. But the worst part of the situation is that those who have had the warning, those who have been set as watchmen to blow the trumpet when they see the evil coming, have been in so large a degree overcome by the spirit of the world that they have failed to give the trumpet a certain sound. “The people to whom God has intrusted eternal interests, the depositaries of truth pregnant with eternal results, the keepers of light that is to illuminate the whole world, have lost their bearings.” This was written in 1896. May we not hope that they have found their bearings, and are now ready for action?
A most grave responsibility certainly rests upon the people who have accepted the name of Seventh-day Adventists. Light has been imparted to them upon the prophecies. The meaning of those things which perplex the wisest minds has been made clear to them through the prophetic word. They know that probation is about to close, that the end of all things is at hand, and that the time is right upon us when “the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.” How can our own garments be clear from the blood of souls, unless we make a supreme effort to give the warning message to the world? How can we face the judgment with a clear conscience, unless we go personally to neighbors, friends, and the world at large, and tell them the meaning of the present situation, and urge them to prepare to meet the Lord? We must face our responsibility in the fear of God. The earnest efforts now being put forth in behalf of the people in other lands must be supplemented by the same earnest efforts in behalf of the people in the home land.
These considerations have rested with much weight upon the minds of the members of the General Conference Committee, and they are most desirous of seeing this whole people enter upon a great campaign for giving this message to the world. Those who believe this truth should now rise up as one man to proclaim it in the highways and the byways. A quick work can now be done, if all will unite heartily.
One most effective method for giving this message is to circulate small tracts, “like the leaves of autumn.” This is a work in which the whole membership of the church can engage. Young and old, rich and poor, can share in such a campaign as this. And small tracts setting forth in distinct lines the leading features of this message will arrest the attention of many a careless and skeptical wanderer, and often prepare the way for the full acceptance of the truth for this time. Deeply impressed with the great importance of such a campaign, the General Conference Committee has arranged for the preparation of four new tracts of from eight to sixteen pages each, with the following titles: “What Do These Things Mean?” “The Signs of the Times,” “The Second Advent of Our Lord,” “The Gospel Remedy for Present-Day Isms: Spiritualism, Hypnotism, Christian Scientism, Higher Criticism.” These tracts are to be in the hands of the tract societies by Jan. 1, 1903. Full particulars as to prices, plans for circulation, etc., will be given in further articles in the REVIEW and in the State papers, and through correspondence.
We now ask our people everywhere to unite in the greatest campaign ever known in the history of this message for the circulation of these messengers of warning. They should be scattered by the millions. We can do it. The times are ripe for it. We owe it to ourselves and to the world that we should rise up and do it. Think about it. Pray about it. Get a burden on your soul to do something to help arouse the world from its false security, and to proclaim the blessed hope of a soon-coming Saviour. You will hear from us about this matter again. May we not hear from those whose hearts are stirred by this appeal?
In behalf of the General Conference Committee, A. G. DANIELLS, Chairman.
Week of Prayer Revival
DAILY pray that the week of prayer, December 20-27, may bring a revival in your heart, and in the hearts of others.
An Article by Sister White
By Editor
WE urge that earnest consideration be given to the article by Sister White in this week's issue. It ought to stir the heart of every reader.
Brother F. D. Starr in Michigan
BROTHER F. D. STARR, now laboring in the State of Washington, was called to Michigan recently by the serious illness of his sister, and spent one day in Battle Creek last week.
