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Review and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 9.

THE INFLUENCE OF THE TRUTH
Earlier text: BUILD FIRMLY THE FOUNDATION

“ROLLING BACK THE REPROACH,” IN THE UPPER COLUMBIA CONFERENCE

By G. W. Reaser

Immediately after the council held at Battle Creek, the workers, and, in fact, our entire membership, were made acquainted with the plans adopted for the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and the co-operation of all was solicited in the enterprise. The response to the appeal made in behalf of the school work was almost, if not wholly, unanimous. Our entire corps of workers visited the churches, and organized our constituency into one grand army of workers, with its various “wings” and fields of operation. About two thousand books were hurried as quickly as possible to the principal centers of distribution, and the actual work of selling and delivering books began.
The college—faculty and students—organized and studied for the campaign, and in due time spent one and one-half days in working the territory adjacent to the institution, and sold about one hundred and fifty books. One interesting development of this effort on the part of the personnel of the college, is that several of our consecrated students, having had encouraging success in the work, now have a love for it, and have decided to become permanent canvassers, and are planning to enter that work as soon as the present college year closes. Our workers, and many of our lay members, have sold from a few copies to as high as fifty books each, and the sale has only fairly begun.
We are organizing our canvassing class in the college, and hope to enlist at least twenty young men and women of consecration and talent, to handle “Christ’s Object Lessons” another year, besides our regular corps of workers who handle other books.
Our young people who are looking for missionary openings can not do better than to engage in the sale of the book for the relief of our schools. Its special missionary features are: (1) to liquidate our burdensome debts; (2) to enable the canvassers to be self-sustaining, and to earn scholarships for future use in the college, either for themselves or others; (3) to advertise our college throughout our entire territory, and, with the aid of a college calendar in hand, to induce a large number of worthy young persons to attend the college; and (4) to secure the conversion of these young people, and their co-operation in the work of promulgating the Third Angel’s Message.
Aside from the book sales to reduce our debt, the old-time and much-to-be-desired spirit of liberality seems to be coming back among our people. The following gifts, with others that might be mentioned, bear witness to the return of the grace of giving. Brother R. Alderson and his wife have recently given to this enterprise forty acres of excellent land, which will sell for from eight hundred to one thousand dollars; Brother George Wallace and his wife have given a house and lot, which will sell readily for four hundred dollars; and another brother recently handed the writer twenty dollars for the debt fund. Already our interest-bearing indebtedness is reduced from twenty-six to twenty-one thousand dollars, and we have money in sight or in immediate prospect to diminish it to about ten thousand dollars.
We are fully counting on joining our brethren in all other of our college districts in soon singing, with heart and voice, the “song of jubilee” in freedom from debt.
G. W. REASER.

TAKES A SENSIBLE VIEW OF IT

By W. W. Locke

“Dear Brother: Your letter, with inclosures, received, and contents noted. Replying, I will say that I have not yet taken action in regard to the matter of giving to meet the large and numerous calls for money.”
“The little that I can do in this direction will make but a small difference, and can hardly be known in the final result of meeting the enormous debt that has been allowed to accumulate, and thus embarrass our schools and other institutions. Your letter was not a surprise to me. I had known of, and thought much about, the situation. At first I could but think that there had been bad management somewhere; but I could not scold as I did not know how to begin, and I am glad I do not know, and hope I never shall know. I do believe that Sister White has given a true and correct statement of the situation, and all we have to do is to put our shoulder to the load, and lift for all we are worth.”
“I am an old man, seventy-nine years of age, badly crippled, and without means, or at least with very little. Have been a Seventh-day Adventist about thirty years, am a member of the North Creek church; but am so far away that I do not meet with the church often. I had purposed to do something to aid in this time of need. As you have kindly furnished a self-directed envelope, I return it with two dollars inclosed, which please apply on the fifty-thousand-dollar collection for material to get out the book, ‘Christ’s Object Lessons,’ unless you know where it will do more good. I have not seen a copy of the book; but I intend to send for one soon.”
“Although I am alone here, not knowing of another of like precious faith within twenty-five miles, yet I try to keep in touch with the main work. I have the REVIEW, the Signs, and the Indicator, and nearly all our late works. As the way opens before me, I do home missionary work, mostly by correspondence and circulating reading-matter.”
“I believe God will show His chosen people a way out of the difficulty in which they are involved. I can not think that the Lord has permitted His people to come into this strait without some well-defined purpose; and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. It may be difficult for us to see where the good comes in, but we shall know hereafter. I can wait.”
“Trusting that I shall learn, and be ready to do all that is required of me in my isolated home in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains of the State of New York, I am sincerely waiting for the coming King. W. W. LOCKE.”

News Items

— The Italian ministry has resigned.
— Florida’s pineapple growers are about to form a trust.
— Snow fell in the city of Mexico the 17th inst., the first time for nearly fifty years.
— One of the kidnappers of young Edward Cudahy has been captured, and identified by the boy.
— There are over 300,000 Mormons in the United States, one third of whom live outside of Utah.
— The ninety-second anniversary of Lincoln’s birth was observed throughout this country the 12th inst.
— Last week there were over 2,000 deaths in Bombay, India, 922 of which were from the bubonic plague.
— Friday, February 22, was George Washington’s anniversary, and was celebrated throughout the United States.
— Over 3,000 books are under the ban of the pope, being mentioned in the new edition of the “Index Expurgatorius.”
— In his speech at the opening of Parliament, King Edward VII said that the war in South Africa must go on. He also took the “no popery oath.”
— A Montreal correspondent writes that so many in that city are sick with la grippe, and dying, that “Catholics have received orders from their priests not to keep Lent.”
— It is announced that Signor Marconi has succeeded in sending wireless telegraph messages from Saint Catharine’s, Isle of Wight, to Lizard Head, a distance of 200 miles.
— The convents in Madrid, Spain, were attacked the 16th inst. by mobs, and in the tumult a fight took place with the soldiers, four persons being killed, and 120 wounded.
— In the United States Senate, Mr. Spooner has just offered “an amendment to the Army Appropriation bill, vesting power to govern the Philippines in the President, until Congress otherwise provides.”
— The 15th inst. a concerted attempt was made to burn three of Chicago’s largest hotels: the Palmer House, Great Northern Hotel, and Grace Hotel. The fires were put out before much damage was done.
— Mrs. Carrie Nation has been arrested and imprisoned. She is offered release provided she will go home; but she refuses to promise, saying that she will “smash” every “joint” in Topeka before she leaves the place.
— February 15 shaft No. 6 of the Welling Colliery Company’s union mine, at Cumberland, British Columbia, was wrecked by several gas explosions, thus imprisoning sixty men. It is said that “all hope of their rescue has been abandoned,” fire and noxious fumes preventing the relief parties from reaching the men.
— The Cuban Constitutional Convention refuses to “formulate any provision regarding the island’s relations with the United States, until after independence has been secured.” However, the great pressure that is being brought to bear upon the convention, by the United States government, will probably cause it to change its mind.
— Count von Waldersee, commander-in-chief of the allied forces in China, recently “asked the generals under his supervision to have all their available troops ready in two weeks for an expedition lasting eighty days,” the purpose of which is to intimidate the government of China and cause it to yield to the demands of the Powers. The United States and Russia have refused to join in the expedition.
— A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn., to the N. Y. Times states that Dr. John B. Murphy, a Chicago surgeon who was in consultation with Dr. A. J. Stone during the last illness of the late Senator Cushman K. Davis, “has filed in the Probate Court his bill for medical services.” “The Chicago surgeon made two trips to St. Paul. He charges $1,000 for each trip. On each occasion he arrived in St. Paul in the morning, and left for Chicago in the evening, and was with Senator Davis not more than half an hour each trip.”
— The Spanish cabinet resigned Saturday, the 16th inst.
— A fifteen-minute eruption of Mount Vesuvius occurred the 16th inst.
— England has not yet replied to the United States regarding the Nicaragua Canal.
— General De Wet, with a force of 3,000 men, recently crossed the Orange River, into Cape Colony.
— Alexander W. Longfellow, a brother of the poet, died in Portland, Me., February 14, aged eighty-six years.
— In a recent speech in the Reichstag, Herr Bebel, the German socialist leader, attacked Germany’s policy in China.
— Maria de las Mercedes, sister of the king of Spain, was married, February 14, to Prince Charles, of Bourbon, in Madrid, Spain. Although feared, no riots occurred.
— It is not expected that the Dowager-Empress Fredericka, of Germany, will recover from her illness. Among the royal personages at her bedside are her son, Emperor William, and King Edward VII, of England.
— Sunday, the 17th inst., over 3,000 persons attended the union service held in the Seventh-day Adventist Tabernacle, this city, in honor of Ira D. Sankey. Many were turned away, owing to lack of either sitting or standing room. Mr. Sankey sang, and gave an address.
— A Chicago weekly states that “the Milwaukee Sentinel, the old republican paper of Milwaukee, has just been sold to the street-car syndicate — Charles Pfister, Frank Bigelow, and Henry C. Payne. An exorbitant price was paid. The paper had opposed the street-car ring.”
— There is some prospect of a tariff war between the United States and Russia, because of the action of Secretary Gage in imposing “a countervailing duty on Russian sugar” shipped to this country. Mr. de Witte, the Russian finance minister, has issued “a retaliatory decree, raising duties on American steel and iron goods fifty per cent.”
— The king of Greece, George I, returned home from London the 12th inst., “after an affectionate parting from King Edward.” George I was born Dec. 24, 1845, and was elected king of the Hellenes (Greeks) in 1863. He is the son of the present king of Denmark, Christian IX, and brother of the present queen of England and the Dowager Empress of Russia.
— February 20 a Brooklyn (N. Y.) detective was shot by an insane man, but escaped in the following remarkable way: “the bullet from the revolver had passed through his vest, smashing a pencil. It then passed through a wallet, which contained $110 in bills, in an inside pocket, perforating every bill, struck the buckle of the suspender, and was deflected into his vest pocket, where it lodged.”
— It is amusing to note how many blunders creep into the various papers that claim to be “first-class.” For instance, one of our exchanges, just received, says that the Empress Dowager of China has allowed Emperor Kwang Su to resume “the reigns of government,” and, in bold type, advertises a “vest pocket combination dairy, calendar, memorandum, and cash book,” as “the neatest thing out.” We have not looked through the other fourteen pages.
— A dispatch from San Francisco, Cal., dated the 22d inst., states that “the most terrible steamship disaster that the Pacific Coast has ever known occurred a few miles from this city this morning at daybreak, when the Pacific mail steamer ‘City of Rio de Janeiro’ ran on a hidden rock just outside the Golden Gate, as she was attempting to make the entrance to San Francisco.” Of the 201 souls aboard, 122 perished, including Captain William Ward, and Rounsevelle Wildman, United States consul-general at Hongkong, China. After striking Mile Rock, “a jagged sharp spur running out from half-shore to the south of North Head,” it took only ten minutes for the steamer to founder. Jordan, the pilot who boarded the ship twelve hours before she foundered, states that “unaccountable carelessness and a deliberate disregard of warnings are at the bottom of the disaster,” and that he “protested to the captain that his action in running ahead in a dense fog was foolhardy.” However, to the captain’s credit, it must be stated that all who were rescued testified that Captain Ward “made no effort whatever to save himself, . . . straining every nerve to get the women and children off in the boats.” As the purser, John Rooney, who had the passenger list, was drowned, the identity of the drowned will be unknown until the Honolulu agents can be communicated with. The “Rio de Janeiro” was three days overdue, from Hongkong, China, and carried the mails, which were rescued.

Contributions Received

The following contributions were received from February 1-10, 1901:— Herman Rose ........................................ 1 00 Elizabeth Thayer .................................. 100 00 Mrs. Mary A. Hodgson .............................. 5 00 Lebanon (Ind.) church ............................. 1 50 William Ploeger ................................... 5 00 C. Laughlin ........................................ 5 00 Sarah Holmes ....................................... 1 00 J. P. Connell ...................................... 2 00 A friend ............................................ 1 00 R. Julia Wickhire .................................. 4 95 P. T. Magan (collections) .......................... 141 50 Marietta Drake ..................................... 20 00 E. P. Hawkins ...................................... 5 00 A friend ............................................ 30 00 Neta Herman ........................................ 50 Friend R. .......................................... 50 Friend B. .......................................... 50 George Stretter .................................... 10 00 Mrs. C. O. Foreman ................................ 1 00 Vern A. Paul ....................................... 25 Mrs. Sam Morton .................................... 2 50 Mrs. T. S. Thweatt ................................ 1 00 W. S. and Hattie Hayward .......................... 7 00 Charles Steele ..................................... 1 00 Mrs. Mary J. Spencer ............................... 50 Lydia S. Lane ...................................... 5 00 P. T. Magan (collections) .......................... 435 33 Mary Easdale Coffin ................................ 5 00 Cumberland Conference, South ...................... 2 50 M. G. Mason ........................................ 5 00 A. P. Ackerman ..................................... 26

ANNIVERSARY MEETING AT THE CHICAGO MEDICAL MISSION

SABBATH, Dec. 29, 1900, was an occasion long to be remembered by the company of workers and others gathered in the chapel of the Chicago Medical Missionary Training School, at 1926 Wabash Ave., Chicago. The occasion was in memory of the closing of the sixth year of the work in Chicago. The work of that year had really closed a few months before, and the published report was just from the press, but a public meeting in honor of the event had not yet been held. This was postponed until the last Sabbath of the year, and of the century.
Dr. Paulson made the opening remarks, after reading John 6: 5-14. He said, in part: “Christ and His disciples, while in this desert place, found themselves short of provisions. And we have often had just such experiences in our work. Then we have had prayer-meetings, and some of you in this room know that in twenty-four hours our prayers were answered. When Christ was asking about feeding the multitude, Philip said, It can’t be done. It seemed to him an impossibility; and so, as we have labored these years to bring forth men and women from their entanglement in the moral swamp of this great city, there have always been Philips on hand to say, It can not be done. But, thank God, there have also been Andrews present. Andrew, you remember, was the man who discovered the lad with the loaves and fishes. But even he asked, ‘What are they among so many?’ But, brethren, it was with these few loaves, after they were blessed and broken, that Christ fed the multitude. When this work began in Chicago, there were multitudes to be helped. There were plenty of Philips, but few Andrews. But there was one Andrew and his brother who came to the rescue, and I regard it a great privilege to have that man with us to-day,—Dr. Wessels,—who, with his brother, gave forty thousand dollars to put this work on a safe foundation. And to-day we are reaping the results of this. This large building here we might never have had but for this help. I believe there will be a multitude of men and women saved as the result of these few loaves and fishes.”
W. S. Sadler: “This occasion to-day is one for which I feel very thankful. This is not only a public acknowledgment, as it were, of the closing of six-years’ work, but it is also the closing of a century. It is the closing of the year. We are on the verge of the new year, of the new century, and, I trust, the beginning of newer, larger, and grander experiences for this work. It is now about five years since Providence turned my feet in this direction, and I have had the privilege of seeing our institutions and departments of work come into existence one by one. One after another, each department was organized, and started on its mission of usefulness. And to-day, as I look back and try to take a panoramic view of the marked providences and blessings that have attended this work, they are so numerous that I am lost to know which to speak of. God’s blessings in behalf of this work have been manifold.
“I never appreciated the widespread influence of this work more than I did when Brother Mackey and I were in New York City two years ago, working for a season. At every turn, in almost every mission we went, we heard men and women testify to being converted or helped in some department of our work here. You are all more or less familiar with the little beginning that was made on Custom House Place in 1893, when Dr. Kellogg first put forth efforts to establish this work in Chicago. I can well remember the first time I went into that little basement, and what a solemn impression I received when I saw the work going on there—wounds being dressed, men washing their bodies and their clothes. Well, this work went on till the Working Men’s Home was established, first on Custom House Place, and then at its present quarters on State Street. A little over three years ago the training school and its associated departments were begun in this large building at the corner of twentieth Street and Wabash Avenue. This greatly increased the scope of our work. Then came the Children’s Christian Home and the Life Boat Mission. These were followed by the Good Health Hotel, and, last of all, the Life Boat Rest, which was established last February on South Clark Street, in one of the most needy sections of the city.”
“From this small beginning of less than seven years ago, we now see six institutions and fifteen departments of organized work, which are now branches of the Chicago Medical Mission and allied charities. This work has become a power for good in the earth. I presume that if all the men and women who have been helped by it could be gathered here to-day, they would indeed be an impressive spectacle. If all the drunkards’ homes that have been reunited could be represented on this occasion; and if all the drunkards whom this work has been the means of reclaiming were present to-day to glorify God for what has been done for them, the sum of their testimony would indeed be glorious. They are not here; but we have the assurance that many a home has been made happy; we have the knowledge that many a man who was lost to society, lost to his family, and lost to God, is to-day a sober, and useful member of the Church and of society. We know that many a woman who had fallen, as it were to the very lowest round of the social ladder, has been rescued by a helping hand that was extended to her, and to-day she rejoices in her deliverance from the very gates of hell. On every hand throughout this broad land, there are many evidences that the efforts put forth through these six years have not been in vain.”
Mrs. Dr. Paulson: “The growth of this work in a few short years has indeed been remarkable. In 1893, the World’s Fair year, I first came to Chicago, and the work had just begun. I was here again in 1895 and 1896, and I can say that I have very much enjoyed my experience in Chicago. And I was only too glad when the Lord permitted me to come again, a year ago last spring. In a work like this, something occurs every day which it would take volumes to relate. Recently we have been connected with the branch sanitarium, and the Lord is wonderfully blessing us there. The institution is full of patients, one of whom has gone to-day to the South Side church to be baptized. She is joining the church against great opposition, but she is determined to live up to her light.”
E. B. Vandorn: “It is now a little more than three years since I connected with the work in Chicago, and almost two years since I began work at the Life Boat Mission. One young man who was converted in the mission last fall is now canvassing, and is doing well. Many of you know something about the case of Brother ——, who came into the mission on the twelfth of last May. Almost all his life he had been a drunkard. His home was wrecked. He gave his heart to God, and in a short time was permitted to see his family reunited, from which he had been long separated. From that time he has been standing firm, a bright and shining light in the neighborhood where he lives. Recently a testimony was given at the mission to the effect that one year ago a man came to the mission and heard a few words of the gospel. He was separated from his wife and six children. The rent was not paid, the family was destitute, and almost without clothes. He went home, resolved to live a different life. And by the grace of God he has been able to do this. Now he is preaching the gospel every night, and earns his living during the day. I am glad this morning that not only these, but numerous others, might be mentioned, who are firmly standing on the solid Rock.”
A word from a stranger: A young man arose in the audience and said: “I am a stranger to most of you, but I know that I am not a stranger to the Lord. I know He has washed my soul in His precious blood. He saves and keeps me day by day. I want to give my testimony right from my heart. I have been a drunkard for over twenty-five years, a notorious one. I did not save a dollar when serving Satan. But since I have taken the Lord Jesus as my personal Saviour, He has kept me every day. He has been my guide and helper. I want you to pray for me that I may be the means of saving souls. I can say for myself that the Life Boat Mission is doing a good work. It has not only saved me from a drunkard’s grave, but it has saved others.”
Brother Williamson, manager of the Working Men’s Home: “I am very sorry that I have not the ability to portray before you the wonderful things that have taken place in my experience with the Working Men’s Home. I well remember the first, the very first, step that was taken to establish the work on Custom House Place, at No. 40. At that time I was doing business at No. 42, and in those days I was a man of the world. I was looking for every opportunity for gain. If dragging a man down would be to my gain, I was ready to do it. I watched very closely the rise and progress of this medical mission. One thing that impressed me, and which I never forgot, was that when I would be going to my place of business, I would see a row of a hundred or a hundred and fifty men on a cold winter morning waiting for an opportunity to get a bath or a treatment at the medical mission. I tried every possible way to down those influences. I thought this work was against my business. But the Lord would not have it that way. In a little over a year from the time the mission was started, it was seeking larger quarters, and the Lord so brought it about that the Custom House Hotel, a cheap lodging house that I was then conducting, was wanted for the medical mission, and in spite of every effort I could make, the mission obtained it. I went away for about six months, and then came back.
“One day I thought I would visit the old place, and see how things looked. I received a cordial welcome, but of course I did not care to talk much with the people at the mission. I was not interested in religion or medical missions. But I was overcome. The Lord had His hand upon me, and shortly afterward I was converted at this very Working Men’s Home. Since that time the Lord has wonderfully blessed me, and I have been directly connected with the Chicago Medical Mission and the Working Men’s Home. The experiences of the last four years are more than I could begin to tell you, but the grandest of all is that the Lord has put a new song into my mouth; and He has touched my heart, and I am ever ready to lend all my influence to help my fellow men up. There are many interesting experiences that I might relate to you, but I will not take the time now.”
W. S. Sadler: “A few weeks ago I and six others went to Joliet, and there sought to establish a little center of influence and light. Sister Hoagland happens to be here this morning, directly from there, and I would like to have a report from her concerning the work there.”
(To be concluded.)

DISTRICT 5

By R. M. Kilgore

TUCSON, ARIZ.—I remained here over two Sabbaths, some days speaking four times to the English, the Spanish, and the Chinese. The work here has been in progress nearly two years, under Brethren Black and Williams, with their wives; also Brother Serna, a Spaniard, who accepted present truth, and brought with him the larger part of two congregations, with whom he had formerly labored in the Spanish tongue—one at Tucson, the other at Solomonsville. A church was organized here a year ago, composed mostly of Mexicans, with a few Americans. Additions have kept good their numbers, a few having moved away.
The Mexican brethren, with Brethren Black and Serna, have bought lumber, iron for the roof, and made the “dobies,” with which they have built a comfortable house of worship, 20 x 36 ft. Provision is made by which it shall be paid for in full. At the dedication, which took place during my visit there, the house was well filled with those of other tongues, and songs were sung in the English, Spanish, and Chinese languages, and appropriate scriptures were read in English and Spanish.
In the center of the city, the Chinese, at their own expense, of about one hundred dollars, have rented and fitted up rooms, where they meet daily, from 8 to 9:30 P. M., to study reading and writing in the English language, and to hear the gospel of salvation. They have invited Brother and Sister Black to teach them. To this mission school the Japanese, Spanish, and other people are made welcome. I enjoyed the privilege of talking to them the simple story of the saving power in Christ.
Our workers should not be slow to enter openings of this character, where those taught bear all the expense incurred, especially so when their regular work may be carried on also.
It was decided to divide the workers here, and enter other destitute fields. Brother Serna will go to New Mexico, where he will labor, under the direction of the Colorado Conference, among the people of his own tongue. Brother Williams and his wife will select another location, and labor as the way may open. Brother Black and his wife will remain at Tucson, laboring with the church, and for the extension of the message by Bible readings and work in the mission school.
While there we sold and delivered $22.50 worth of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” R. M. KILGORE.

Obituaries.

“I am the resurrection and the life.”—Jesus.
CONRAD.—Died Jan. 15, 1901, of consumption, Mr. Abe Conrad, aged 58 years. In 1899 he accepted present truth, and with his wife united with the church at Cedar Grove, Tex. He died expressing his willingness to go. Words of comfort were spoken by Brother C. W. Nichols. J. W. BATEMAN.
DEXTER.—Died at the home of her parents, near Lyons, Mich., Jan. 8, 1901, Emma Vincent Dexter, in her thirty-eighth year. Her death was caused by a complication of weaknesses of long standing. She was patient, and died in faith. Remarks at the funeral were made by the writer, from 2 Sam. 14:14. W. R. MATTHEWS.
NAGLE.—Died at Milton, Ore., Jan. 3, 1901, Alvin, the seven-and-one-half-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Nagle, who lately moved here from Forman, N. D. He first had an attack of quinsy, followed by a relapse, and the disease developed into a case of malignant diphtheria, and he died very suddenly. He was an unusually good and bright child; and just before death overtook him, he told his mama that he wanted Jesus to forgive all his sins. S. A. MILLER.

MICHIGAN

By B. HAGLE.

Since the meeting held in Grand Rapids in November, I have been working with the book “Christ’s Object Lessons,” and I never engaged in any work that has brought more of the blessing of God. The Testimony says that we should take hold of that work now, and that the angels will go with us. A power goes with the one who carries those books. Brethren and sisters, if you want better success in your work, take hold as the Lord has said, and victory will be yours.
As I have read to the people some of the precious truths the book contains, they have said, We want one of those books. Many a heart has been touched while I have talked about the blessing in selling this book. One woman became interested in reading it, and sent word for me to come and give her a Bible reading on the Sabbath question. I did so, and she was convinced of the truth. A young man bought a copy of the book, read it half through, and then returned it. Two days later he came to my house, and with tears said, “I want that book again.” He is now rejoicing in the truth.
I called at a place where I had been holding readings, expecting to sell one of these books, and found that a friend in Battle Creek had sent this woman one. She is using it in the Sunday-school, and others have become interested. One man asked her where he could get one of them, and she referred him to me. This book is doing a grand work in removing prejudice.
If all will take hold of this work, they will become more spiritual, more Christlike. The Lord has enabled me to circulate two hundred copies. My courage in the message was never better than at this time.
B. HAGLE.

Oklahoma

By C. Mc Reynolds

The past year has been one of encouraging progress in Oklahoma. We have much to be thankful for in many ways. Unusually good crops were raised and harvested, and good prices have been received for nearly all kinds of produce. Many persons have come into the Territory and settled, making a good demand for everything the country produces. We find this a good field for the work of the Third Angel's Message. People are not settled in their Church relations, as in the older parts of the country. They listen more readily to the truths presented.
About one year ago we organized a church at Kingfisher, where our camp-meeting was held in the fall; since that time we have organized seven new churches, and have two or three companies that will be ready to organize soon. There have been seven new church buildings undertaken, and the last two will be finished this month. These are good buildings, costing from six hundred to fourteen hundred dollars each, except the Conference building in Oklahoma City, which cost four thousand dollars.
The Lord has greatly blessed the work of selling books. The canvassers have been successful, almost every one making a success of his work. More books have been sold than ever before in the same length of time. We have thus been able to carry on the work, and have a good profit in the tract society, which will be used in distributing literature where it is most needed, and in assisting some to engage in canvassing who can not do so without help.
We have been much encouraged by the work done by some of our young men in the ministry. Three had so far proved their calling, that at the recent session of the Conference they were set apart to the work of the gospel ministry by ordination.
There are five church schools in progress in the Conference. Three of these are among the German churches. Another will be started soon in Ardmore, I. T., and there are calls for several more. Some brethren who have several hundred acres of land in the Indian Territory are offering good terms to those of our people who have to rent to settle on this land and start schools. We have not felt free to advise this to any great extent, as it leads to colonization, which is not best for the Lord's people. But this country does afford a great opportunity for those who wish to go where they can live well and do good work in a new field. Many are coming here, and there are the very best opportunities to start Sabbath-schools where two or three families can meet together; and these schools soon result in an interest that demands meetings and brings out a church. If those thus situated will make the interests of the message first, and worldly matters secondary, a great work will be accomplished in this Territory, which will be the means of saving many precious souls.
We specially request those who are coming to this Territory to notify us at the office box 202, Oklahoma City, as soon as they are settled. Also we ask any who may know of brethren who have come here, or of interested persons in this Territory, to notify us, so that we can find them at once, and enlist their co-operation in the work. We thank the Lord for all He has wrought in our midst.
C. Mc Reynolds.

O. SOULE

By O. SOULE

CADILLAC.— I was at Cadillac from November 16 to December 30. Adjusting finances and repairing our church building took some time. Services were held Wednesday and Sunday evenings, and day services on Sabbath, besides some cottage meetings through the week. As a result, five have given themselves to the Lord.
On the evening of December 30, a special service was held, at which a programme was rendered, consisting of songs and recitations on giving, and at its close a collection of thirteen dollars was taken to help educate the colored children of the South.

O. SOULE

ADDRESS

MRS. J. B. WALTERS, of 139 E. Seventh St., Erie, Pa., desires the address of a cousin, Mrs. Carra Howard, an Adventist worker in Kansas.

PLEASE READ!

HAVE you heard of the Correspondence department of the Training-school? Whether you have or not, we wish to assure you that it is worthy of your thoughtful consideration. For more than two years this course has been carried on, and scores of persons have availed themselves of it for the purpose of gaining much useful knowledge. It embraces studies on eleven different subjects. Lessons are sent to students weekly. We shall organize a new class in April, and shall be glad to hear from all those interested. Send for descriptive circular giving full particulars. Address Correspondence Department, Sanitarium Medical Missionary Training School, Battle Creek, Mich.

South Lancaster Academy Corporation Annual Session

By W. L. Payne; G. B. Thompson; R. A. Underwood; A. E. Place; O. O. Farnsworth; H. B. Basney; J. W. Watt; S. A. Farnsworth

THE stockholders of the South Lancaster Academy Corporation will hold their Eighteenth Annual Session in the Seventh-day Adventist church at South Lancaster, Mass., March 11, 1901. The first meeting will be held at 10 A. M.
According to the action of the stockholders, taken at their last annual session, Nov. 22, 1900, the annual meetings of the Academy Corporation will hereafter be held in the spring, so as to accommodate the members of the board in coming from their various fields of labor.
The objects of the session are to elect trustees for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the corporation.
W. L. PAYNE, G. B. THOMPSON, R. A. UNDERWOOD, A. E. PLACE, O. O. FARNSWORTH, H. C. BASNEY, J. W. WATT, S. A. FARNSWORTH, D. B. PARMELEE, Trustees.

CANVASSERS’ SCHOOL IN OKLAHOMA

By C. Mc REYNOLDS

A CANVASSERS’ institute will begin in Oklahoma City, O. T., March 6, and continue till the 24th. Brother J. B. Blosser, assisted by the State agent, R. H. Thompson, will take charge of this school. An efficient Bible teacher will be furnished, and all necessary assistance rendered to insure success. Room and fuel will be furnished free to all who attend with a view of engaging in the work during the spring and summer. Others who can go into the work, but who may not be able to meet the small financial expense for provisions during the school, will please correspond with me or with R. H. Thompson at once, and some arrangements may be made to assist them.
This notice is published in the REVIEW as some may not get the State paper, also some who are about to move to this Territory may thus learn of this institute.
As far as possible, let all strangers secure recommendations from their church, or from some one of their ministers or responsible brethren.
C. Mc REYNOLDS.
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