ON May 25, our department considered the question of advertising sanitariums and how to discriminate between institutions. It was decided to look to the union conference presidents for statements and recommendations concerning medical institutions in their territory desiring a place in our directory; and also to distinguish between private and conference enterprises by means of a star and explanatory foot-note. Tithing the net earnings of sanitariums was informally considered.
May 30 it was voted to ask the General Conference to organize the medical department committee, which they did later by appointing the chairman and secretary.
The following names were selected to serve as a committee on health literature: G. H. Heald, S. P. S. Edwards, F. M. Rossiter, Ida Herr, D. H. Kress, J. C. Ottosen, J. E. Froom, W. C. White; W. C. White resigned, and W. A. Colcord’s name was received in his place.
It was voted to hold a medical missionary convention west of the Mississippi, perhaps at Lincoln, Neb., between October 20 and November 10, of this year, the same to last from Monday evening to the following Sunday; also that the union and State conferences and our various medical institutions be encouraged to send representatives to that convention, that it be participated in by persons directly interested in medical missionary work, including physicians, heads of departments in sanitariums, treatment rooms, cafes, and nurses’ training-schools; that the nurses from near-by institutions be invited to attend at their own expense during at least part of the convention.
Text-books for nurses were considered, and the following received favorable mention:—
“A Physiology for Nurses,” Kimber, of Chicago.
“Hygiene,” Pyle.
“Twentieth Century Hand-book,” Rossiter.
“Hydrotherapy,” Kellogg, Baruch.
“Surgical; Nurses’ Guide for Operating Room,” Dr. Senn.
“Nursing,” Clara Weeks.
“Materia Medica,” Dock. (It was agreed that nurses should be conversant with physical properties, untoward effects, but not necessarily the physiological effects, of drugs.)
“Physics,” Steele.
“Electricity.” (Dr. Hoenes spoke of how much service could be had from a good electrical catalogue, like McIntosh’s.)
In the General Conference Committee meeting much interest was shown in advancing the medical missionary work in the South.
They appointed a strong relief committee to develop the sale of “Ministry of Healing,” a step which we believe is of great importance to the future of our sanitarium interests.
On the last day of the conference a most stirring testimony from Sister White was delivered dealing specifically with issues particularly in the Medical Department, which have been before the people for some time. We understand that this matter will be published later.
The General Conference Committee has offered to conduct health schools during September and October in those suburbs of Washington where our canvassers shall succeed in organizing schools during this summer. The basis upon which schools are organized is the sale of health literature, upon terms stated in printed announcements. The present assortment of reading-matter used by our field agents is represented by:—
“Ladies’ Guide,” Kellogg.
Social purity publications, Wood-Allen Publishing Co.
“Colds: Their Cause, Prevention, and Cure,” Heald.
Life and Health, published at Washington, D. C.
The organization of the schools is to be self-supporting. It is hoped that this will be the inauguration of similar efforts in the vicinity of many of our sanitariums.
J. E. Froom, M. D.,
Secretary Medical Council.
Religious Liberty Notes
By K. C. RUSSELL.
IN Mansfield, Ohio, the Ministerial Association is about to inaugurate a Sunday-closing crusade. They seem to be especially directing their efforts against the running of the merry-go-round on Sunday.
A brother in Georgia was recently convicted and fined for Sunday labor, but the court offered to exempt him from the fine providing he would pay the costs, which he rightly refused to do; but some of the citizens, against his protest, paid the costs, and then he was released.
The nineteenth annual meeting of the20Sabbath Association of Illinois was held at the First Baptist church in Chicago on May 19. “The meeting was attended by ministers of many denominations, many of whom delivered short addresses.” “The association decided to send a letter to President Roosevelt requesting him to stop the delivery of the mails on Sunday, and also to discontinue paying the men employed on the Panama Canal on Sundays.”
A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Russia, under date of July 8, reported that “the printers who struck Sunday, April 23, have won a victory in their demand for the observance of Sundays and holidays by abstention from work, only the Novoe Vremya appearing this morning.” “The observance of Sundays by abstention from work” is a very apt phrase. It is often argued by Sunday enforcement champions that compelling people to refrain from work on Sunday is not compelling them to observe the day, but this is not so.
Rev. J. B. J. Rhodes, of Cranford, N. J., has announced “a startling series of sermons which he intends to deliver in St. Paul’s M. E. church” in that place. “These sermons will be about the desecration of the Sabbath day in Cranford, and of the evils which menace the community. Open stores which get the pennies given children for Sunday-school, the playing of golf on Sunday, and the keeping of the small boys away from Sunday-school to act as caddies, and Sunday amusements will all receive treatment, and be exposed by the preacher.”
The Mansfield (Ohio) News of June 27, seems to consider the running of a merry-go-round on Sunday no worse than the running of street-cars, automobiles, etc. This same paper comments on the Sunday question as follows: “We’ll never all be able to get together on the subject of Sunday observance. The Sunday of some very good people begins Saturday evening, and the daylight hours of Sunday are most rigidly and decorously observed—but the clothes for Monday’s wash go to soak every Sunday night. Is the whizzling automobile carrying Sunday pleasure riders any more sanctified than the plebeian street-car that carries the masses of the people, or any less reprehensible than the merry-go-round in which the poor man’s children may go whirling on Sunday? What are the comparative degrees of the whirling? Is the ‘chug! chug!’ of the auto any less fretful to the ear than the rolling of the carousal?”
K. C. RUSSELL.
The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund
By Editor
THE donation of $49.85 credited to the Indiana Conference in the REVIEW of July 13 should have been credited to the Indianapolis First church.
Mrs. Josephine Gotzian ..... $ 1,000 00
David Carr ................ 225 00
D. A. Bidwell ............. 200 00
Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Swayze .. 200 00
Norwalk (Ohio) church ..... 105 00
Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Strinbaugh 100 00
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Colcord 100 00
Rustica family ............ 99 21
Samuel Hinkle ............. 97 50
Mr. and Mrs. James Creamer 90 00
Nebraska Conference ....... 67 80
West Michigan Conference .. 55 20
Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Reynolds 50 00
Wheelersburg (Ohio) church 49 65
J. P. Clement (England) ... 48 70
Iowa Conference ............ 48 63
Council Bluffs (Iowa) Society 43 30
Portis (Kan.) church ...... 40 30
W. J. Pflugradt ........... 40 00
Tekamah (Neb.) church ..... 40 00
Adelbert C. & Mrs. M. L. Fry 30 40
H. E. Longley ............. 30 00
Milton Junction (Wis.) church 28 20
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Butzer 25 00
G. F. Evans ................ 25 00
Jeddo (N. Y.) church ...... 25 00
J. E. Cross ................ 25 00
Edward Sutter ............. 25 00
A friend ................... 25 00
Sarah E. Rishel ........... 25 00
Isaac Graham .............. 25 00
Sister A. H. Stoiver ...... 25 00
Frank Yeoman .............. 25 00
St. Helena (Cal.) church .. 24 60
Sherwood (Ohio) church .... 20 50
H. K. ...................... 20 00
Thomas Pringle ............ 20 00
Mrs. Rose Pringle ......... 20 00
Mrs. M. A. Staley ......... 20 00
T. Ernest Knowles ......... 20 00
Elizabeth E. Fitzgerald .. 20 00
Columbus (Ohio) church .... 20 00
Melrose (Mass.) church .... 19 55
R. C. Bostetter ........... 18 10
Great Falls (Mont.) church 17 65
Santa Barbara (Cal.) church 17 00
Good Thunder (Minn.) church 16 00
Youngstown (Ohio) church . 15 50
Mary L. Bates ............. 15 00
Friends of the cause ...... 15 00
Cincinnati (Ohio) church .. 15 00
A friend ................... 15 00
Mr. & Mrs. Langford Nelson 15 00
F. W. Spies (South America) 15 00
West Virginia Conference .. 14 45
Mrs. A. O'Connor (India) .. 14 40
Corsica (Ohio) church ..... 14 25
Milwaukee (Wis.) church ... 14 2321
N. W. Allee ............... 14 10
Erik Annersen (Denmark) ... 13 26
Keene (Tex.) church ....... 13 25
Iowa Tract Society ........ 13 05
Napa (Cal.) church ........ 12 70
A. T. Fuller .............. 12 50
Mississippi Conference .... 12 50
Mr. and Mrs. F. Richards .. 12 18
R. G. Clark and family .... 12 00
New Hope .................. 11 60
Huron (S. D.) church ...... 11 30
Clyde (Ohio) church ....... 10 15
Fred J. Luce .............. 10 00
Mrs. J. W. Spencer ........ 10 00
E. M. Pierce .............. 10 00
Lincoln (Neb.) church ..... 10 00
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Metcalf 10 00
Matilda Olsen ............. 10 00
Mrs. L. J. Van Doren ...... 10 00
John P. Gaede ............. 10 00
Mrs. R. I. Rogers .......... 10 00
Elder and Mrs. J. G. Smith 10 00
Arthur R. Evans ........... 10 00
P. Z. Kinne, trustee ....... 10 00
Samuel Booth .............. 10 00
F. and M. A. Morrow ....... 10 00
A friend ................... 10 00
Reuben Ford ............... 10 00
E. H. Titus ................ 10 00
Captain James Garitty ..... 10 00
A friend ................... 10 00
Mrs. Amelia George ........ 10 00
Mrs. Sophia L. Hopkins .... 10 00
Mrs. Acie Martin .......... 10 00
T. M. Andrews ............. 10 00
Self-sacrifice ............ 10 00
Mt. Pleasant (Mich.) church 10 00
G. H. A. Beenan and family 10 00
Louise C. Nelson .......... 10 00
Oliver Good ............... 10 00
D. A. Knowlton ............ 10 00
G. Freeman ............... 10 00
F. H. and S. A. Clymer .... 10 00
W. L. Hagle ................ 10 00
O. T. Nelson .............. 10 00
Corning (N. Y.) church .... 9 15
Primrose (Tex.) church .... 9 00
J. W. Stull ................ 9 00
Dallas (Tex.) church ...... 8 31
Troy (Ohio) church ........ 8 00
Lakota (N. D.) Sabbath-school 8 00
Sister Blackmar ........... 8 00
Urbana (Ill.) Sabbath-school 8 00
Moro (Ore.) Sabbath-school 7 90
Sac City (Iowa) Society ... 7 85
Mrs. R. A. Kinnick ........ 7 70
Mrs. A. Summerville ....... 7 55
Albana (Ontario) church ... 7 06
B. Julius .................. 7 00
M. R. M. ................... 7 00
Elder William Woodford .... 7 00
Wray (Colo.) church ....... 7 00
Jacksonville (Fla.) church 7 00
D. C. Van Erman ........... 7 00
W. Leininger .............. 6 75
New York City Church No. 1 6 74
Rose City (Mich.) church .. 6 71
Eva B. Daggett ............ 6 50
Miss A. Orr (India) ....... 6 40
Winona (Minn.) church ..... 6 31
Nellie E. Knapp ........... 6 00
Salem (Ore.) church ....... 6 00
Harvey (Ill.) church ...... 6 00
Honey Creek (Ind.) church 5 70
Flint (Mich.) church ...... 5 50
F. N. Edwards ............. 5 45
FIVE DOLLARS EACH
J. Nethery, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Ketring, Dora Loewen, Dr. and Mrs. D. W. Reed, J. H. Parsons, A. A. Lauder, R. Roberts, Mrs. C. F. Stewart, Mrs. Calvin Howes, East Canaan (Conn.) church, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Jackson, Mrs. E. A. Boggs, George A. MacKenzie, Brother Groitman, P. M. Scazighini.
FOUR DOLLARS EACH
M. P. W., Walnut Grove (Ohio) church, S. E. Wight, Arbela (Mich.) church, M. B. Van Kirk, E. Holcomb, Northfield (Ind.) church, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wood, D. H. Kneeland, H. Toyne.
THREE DOLLARS EACH
A. C. and Anna Wait, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Davis, David Pickering and family, Mrs. P. G. Johnson, Mrs. A. A. Fowler, H. A. Niergarth, Lucetta Guild, Mrs. Rose Bentley, Mrs. Anna Jensen, L. E. Atkin, Mrs. England, Mrs. George S. E. Bond, Mrs. Flora Thompson, Mrs. Joseph Hansen, M. E. Graves, Jessie A. Etta MacKenzie, Brother Groitman, P. M. Scazighini.
$2.50 EACH
Roy Briggs, J. A. Washburn, Mrs. C. E. Pierce, Mrs. Chas. and Valle Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Sydney King, Mrs. Luccock, Mrs. D. A. Rice, Emily Christianson, Mrs. Sarah J. Phelps.
TWO DOLLARS EACH
Mrs. G. Peterson, Mrs. L. J. Burrell, Mrs. A. M. Spalding, W. W. Jones, Amos Ritchie, Mrs. M. F. Diehl, U. S. Clymer, Mrs. L. Furnival, Mr. and Mrs. H. Wilson, Martha J. Fetters, Jennings (O. T.) church, Philip Lawson, Mrs. W. W. Watterson, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Waller, Sarah M. Williams, Mrs. Campbell and daughter, Mary H. Brown, Mrs. S. E. Clayville, Mrs. C. W. Whitney, C. E. and Bertha E. Watt, Mrs. R. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Bland, Albert Mathe, Crumm family, Slocumville (R. I.) church, Andrew H. Pevone, George A. Sumner, Mrs. Hilda Wright, J. R. Gossett, Elija and Mary E. Taylor, Sarah Hill, L. V. Howard, J. D. Neal, Laura Haskins, Alice Winters, W. J. Mullen, Mr. and Mrs. E. Harris, T. E. Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Corwin, Mrs. Atkinson, Dr. and Mrs. Haskell, Mrs. R. J. Logan, E. K., Mrs. George Holmes, a friend, May Kesinger, Susan Myers, a friend, Mrs. C. Van Vranken, Albert Geer, Earl Jacobs, a friend, James Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Denslow, Mrs. Ruth Umberhind, William H. Walker, Mrs. Samuel Pratt, Mrs. Laura Carter, Tilda Peterson, Judson Barrett, Mrs. Tom Murphy, Susan A. Carter, Madison (Wis.) church, Edgar Hennigar, Mrs. Nellie Ward, Mrs. Cordelia Holliday, Clara Willett, Mrs. M. Martin, H. T. Nash, W. Steinman, Wilson W. Ferguson, A. A. Van Eman, Arthur Cooper, John T. Cooper, A. R. Bishop, D. Houghtaling, Mrs. Mary Gruver, Alma Spear.
$1.50 EACH
N. B. Cash and family, Sarah Pierce, Mrs. Roedel, H. Cassell, Brother and Sister Nelson, a sister, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Hunter, Miss Artie Taylor, Anna Thenes, Lizzie Mayer.
$1.25 EACH
K. Oertley, Sister Moser, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Mosley, Mrs. Mallory.
$1.22 EACH
Mrs. Welch (England), Elizabeth Heide (England), Mrs. E. Rose (England), William Brown (Scotland.)
Lillian Dorch, $1.90; Davis Barton, $1.85; Robert Shortridge, $1.62; Coshocton (Ohio) church, $1.60; Miss K. Gregory (India), $1.60; Findlay (Ohio) church, $1.52; Lincklaen Center (N. Y.) church, $1.42; N. L. Williamson, $1.35; C. Knudson, $1.30; D. McNiel, $1.20; Cleburne (Tex.), $1.11; Sister Hightower, $1.10; Manor (Wash.) Sabbath-school, $1.02; friends, $.80; Dallas (Tex.) company, $.72; Charlie Ells, $.70; John McIntyre, $.65; friends, $.65; Will J. Waxham, $.65; Mary Husted, $.60; Judam Harralson, $.45; Mae LaFave, $.40.
[NOTE.—The donations have come in so rapidly that we have not been able to publish all the names of the donors to date, but we shall acknowledge all in due time. The amount of the list furnished to us is now $107,410.09.—Ed.]
A further list will follow.
Send all donations to I. H. Evans, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.
Field Notes
FOUR persons were recently added to the membership of the church at Alexandria, Minn.
TWENTY-ONE church-school teachers are in attendance at the summer school at College View, Neb.
TENT-MEETINGS are in progress in Kansas, at New Albany, Mound Ridge, Lawrence, and Valley Falls.
ELDER G. W. REASER reports the baptism of four converts at Pomona, Cal., July 1, and the organization of a church of thirty-two members at Ontario, Cal., held the same day. Two thirds or more of this company are recent converts to the truth. They have a newly erected chapel for public worship.
FOUR persons were baptized by Elder J. F. Ballenger at Long Beach, Cal., at the time of the last church quarterly meeting.
SIX persons received baptism at East Liverpool, Ohio, June 24, and the same day seven were added to the membership of the East Liverpool church.
TWELVE persons were baptized at Trinway, Ohio, on the last Sabbath in June, and immediately afterward a church organization was effected, with a membership of fourteen.
THE Southern California Conference has purchased the Loma Linda Sanitarium, after due consideration of the matter at a council of ministers and representatives of the churches of the conference, at Los Angeles, at which Elder G. A. Irwin and Sister E. G. White were present, and strongly favored the purchase. It is stated that the institution will soon be opened for the reception of patients.
FROM the Nebraska Reporter we learn that Elder C. A. Beeson is conducting tent-meetings at McCook; that a growing interest is reported from the tent company at Falls City, where Brethren A. D. Gilbert and Merton Farnsworth are holding meetings; that Brethren O. E. Jones and G. Mathieson are conducting tent-meetings at Indianola; and that good results are attending the tent work for the Scandinavians in Omaha, five having been baptized there by Elder Lewis Johnson, July 1.
IN a report of recent work in southeastern Kansas, Elder D. H. Oberholtzer says: “At Humboldt the church was much revived, and several were added to their number, through the labors of Elder Lair. At Altoona five were added to the church, and the church was much encouraged. At Mineral a Sabbath-school of twenty-four has just been organized. This is a new field; all this has been done through the labors of Elder Lair. At Fort Scott Brother Surber reports that a few have taken hold of the Sabbath, and a number of others are interested through the labors of Brother and Sister Surber. At Galena Sister Mary Edwards reports several new ones keeping the Sabbath as the results of her labor there.”
THE following statement regarding the distribution of labor in the South Dakota Conference is made in the South Dakota Worker: “R. E. Harter and Olive La Fave will bind off the work in Woonsocket. F. L. Perry, C. M. Clark, and R. J. Warner will hold tent-meetings at Artesian. E. G. Hayes, N. M. Jorgensen, and Bertha Jorgensen will hold tent-meetings in Hudson. C. A. Burman, N. B. Baldwin, and W. A. Baker will hold tent-meetings at Bristol. J. W. Christian and P. E. Berthelsen will finish the work at Viborg. N. J. Ronlund will hold meetings near Salem. Milla Johnson will continue the house-to-house work begun by Elder Hayes in Sioux Falls. These workers will be assisted by church-school teachers and canvassers as circumstances may determine.”
A REPORT from the president of the Northern Illinois Conference, Elder Wm. Covert, says: “We have been planning to run six tents in the Northern Illinois Conference this summer. Some of these are already in operation. One tent-meeting is to be conducted at Kewanee, another at Aledo, and four tent-meetings are to be held in the city of Chicago. One of these will be in the English language; another in the Swedish, another in the Danish, and another in the German language. Almost all our available help will be connected with these meetings.”
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Legal Meeting of the Ontario Conference Association
THE annual meeting of the Ontario Seventh-day Adventist Conference Association will be held on the camp-ground at Lorne-dale Academy, Lorne Park, Ontario, Friday, September 8, at 9 A. M., to transact such legal business as may come before it, and to render a report of the standing of the association. All questions relating to the titles of property and other possessions of the association which are not fully understood should be presented at that time, and will receive proper attention.
A. O. BURRILL, President,
E. LELAND, Secretary.
Camp-Meetings for 1905
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
New York (local), Hadley.........Aug. 10-20
Southern New England, Willimantic, Conn...........Aug. 31 to Sept. 11
Vermont, Windsor
Maine, Lewiston...........Aug. 24 to Sept. 4
Western Pennsylvania, Erie...........Aug. 2-7
West Virginia, Clarksburg...........Aug. 17-27
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Georgia, Smyrna.................Aug. 3-13
Tennessee River, probably Nashville.................Aug. 17-27
South Carolina, Glendale...July 27 to Aug. 6
Mississippi, Amory...........Aug. 3-13
Alabama, Mobile...........Aug. 11-20
Florida, Plant City...........Oct. 5-15
Cumberland, Spring City, Tenn.................Aug. 31 to Sept. 10
CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
Quebec.................Aug. 31 to Sept. 10
Ontario, Lorne Park.................Sept. 7-17
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE
Southern Illinois, Mattoon...........Aug. 3-13
Ohio, Mansfield.................Aug. 10-21
North Michigan, East Jordan.................Aug. 31 to Sept. 10
West Michigan, Allegan...........Aug. 17-28
Wisconsin, Janesville...........Aug. 30 to Sept. 10
Indiana, Connersville...........Sept. 7-18
East Michigan, Holly.................Sept. 12-19
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE
Missouri, Sedalia...........Aug. 6-13
Nebraska, Omaha...........Aug. 10-20
Colorado, Denver...........Aug. 17-27
Kansas (conference), Hutchinson.................Aug. 24 to Sept. 4
Kansas, Valley Falls.................July 20-26
Kansas, Broughton...........July 27 to Aug. 2
Kansas, Downs.................Aug. 3-9
SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE
Texas, Hillsboro.................Aug. 3-13
Arkansas, Bentonville...........Aug. 17-27
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Aug. 24 to Sept. 3
PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE
California, Hanford District...........Oct. 19-29
California, Santa Rosa District...........Aug. 17-27
Southern California, Los Angeles.................Aug. 11-21
Utah, Ogden.................Aug. 15-22
Western Washington, Seattle.................Aug. 24 to Sept. 3
Southern Idaho.................Sept. 12-17
British Columbia.................Sept. 7-17
GENERAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE
British Union (joint meeting)........Aug. 4-13
Scotland and Ireland...........Aug. 14-30
The presidents of the various conferences are requested to send us information regarding any meetings not mentioned in the preceding table, so that we may be able to give a complete list. Please inform us at once of any corrections or additions that should be made to this report.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Current Mention
—President Roosevelt has decided to convene Congress in extra session November 11, to consider and legislate upon the Isthmian Canal and anti-rebate and other railroad questions, and perhaps upon the tariff question.
—The reign of terror for the ruling officials goes on in the Russian empire, the latest victim of the assassin’s bomb being the vice-governor of Finland, M. Deutrich, who was severely injured by the missile of his assailant, at Helsingfors, July 19, but is expected to recover. The would-be assassin escaped.
—The United States gunboat “Bennington” was the scene of the worst accident known in the history of the United States navy, at San Diego, July 21, caused by an explosion of the ship’s boilers. Over fifty of the crew were instantly killed, and about one hundred injured. The ultimate list of the killed is expected to reach eighty. The cause of the explosion is not yet known.
—The Maine Supreme Court has rendered a decision confirming the verdict of the lower court against “Elijah” Sanford, leader of the “Holy Ghost and us” body, who was convicted of cruelty to his son John. The charge on which Sanford was convicted was that of subjecting his son to compulsory and long-continued fasting and to whippings for the purpose of “driving out the devil.”
—General distress from drought and famine continue in a number of districts in Spain. At Seville and Salamanca serious disorders have occurred; at the former place, bakeries and shops were looted, and the town hall of the latter place was broken into and sacked. The republican party is endeavoring to make political capital out of the situation, and is calling mass-meetings in Madrid and other cities.
—As a result of the disclosures in connection with the government cotton crop reports, all the official crop reports have fallen under suspicion, and it is affirmed that not only government estimates on the cotton crop, but on the wheat and tobacco crops, have been likewise sold to brokers before being made public, giving the latter an opportunity to make money in the stock market through the information. The President has ordered that a searching investigation be made into the facts connected with this scandal.
—The progress of the movement for popular government in Russia was marked, July 18, by the assembling of the zemstvo congress in Moscow, with an attendance of seventy delegates out of 300 chosen for the session. Apparently from motives of public policy, no interference with the meeting was made by the police. The principal subject which will engage the attention of the congress will be that of constitutional government, the draft of a constitution having already been made. The proposed constitution provides for a congress to consist of an upper and a lower chamber, the upper one to be elected by the local government electorate, which appoints the zemstvos and dumas, and the lower one to be elected by universal suffrage. A St. Petersburg newspaper correspondent says it is stated that the government is so distrustful of the army officers that it can not wholly reject the notion that the Moscow congress might have sufficient military support to proclaim itself a constituent assembly.
—The unconditional surrender of most of the 5,000 striking teamsters in Chicago, July 20, is believed to mark the termination of the contest which has disturbed business conditions and interrupted the peace in that city for the past three months. The strike has cost the loss of thirty lives, and hundreds of citizens have suffered more or less severe injuries. No estimate of the money loss is given, but it is known to be very great. This strike is spoken of as one of the most bitterly fought and expensive that Chicago has ever experienced. It originated in a demand upon Montgomery Ward and Co. by the Garment Workers’ Association to refrain from sending out any work to non-union men,—a purely arbitrary demand to do what there was neither contract nor inherent obligation for doing.
—The prospects for immediate peace in the far East are not brightened by reports from St. Petersburg, where the opinion seems to prevail that the coming negotiations at Portsmouth will prove abortive. It is rumored that one of the Japanese demands will be for an indemnity of $2,500,000,000. M. Witte, head of the Russian peace envoy, says that Russia will not submit to humiliating terms of peace. China, meanwhile, has warned the powers that she will not recognize any peace agreement regarding Manchuria without first being consulted in the matter. The czar has left St. Petersburg on his yacht, and rumor says that he is afraid to remain at the capital on account of plots against his life; also that he has gone to meet the German emperor in Swedish waters, to ask advice of him regarding the proper course to pursue in the present emergency. There are rumors, likewise, of plots to dethrone the czar, and of an intention on his part to abdicate. The Japanese forces are now in virtual possession of Saghalin Island, and are investing Vladivostock. A large proportion of the sunken Russian ships at Port Arthur have been raised, and will be repaired and added to the Japanese navy, as it is found that their vital parts have not been greatly damaged.
Vermont Conference
By F. M. DANA.
DEAR BRETHREN: I am reporting some items of our work, hoping it may be helpful to you in your plans; and I also wish to solicit your hearty co-operation, as in the past, in the plans for the advancement of the work in our home field.
After receiving a letter from Elder Cottrell, our Vermont Conference Committee met to consider what would be best for our work for the summer in view of the peculiar position we are in at the present. And according23to suggestion from Elder Cottrell, the committee chose a chairman (in the absence of a conference president) to act till camp-meeting, at which time you will have an opportunity to elect a conference president.
At this meeting of the committee the writer was chosen as chairman, and Elder T. H. Purdon as secretary pro tem. The general details of our camp-meeting were considered, and as far as possible mapped out, to be developed in connection with the providences of God.
You will remember that our work last year left us at Hardwick. There is some interest there yet, though not sufficient to warrant holding the camp-meeting there this year, as we view our work and the need of aggressive work in other and unworked fields of our conference. Hence the committee favored the plan to give Hardwick further work at the first opportunity consistent with our ability to supply a house-to-house worker, or, if need be, hold public meetings to handle the interest.
This will leave us opportunity to enter a new field in harmony with the instruction of the Testimonies, and in harmony with the message which is committed to us to give to all the world. Accordingly, we have selected Windsor, a place of about twenty-two hundred population, with neighboring districts favorably located to hear the message at this place. Windsor is on the C. V. R. R., fourteen miles below White River Junction, with good railway connection from almost any part of the State. And considering the location of our brethren in the State, we thought it would be quite central for them, the distance equalized, as well as being a place that we have had before us for several years to be worked.
The date of the meeting is not fully fixed, though it is likely to be August 24 to September 3, or a week earlier, August 17-27. Elder Cottrell reports that he is trying to secure good help from the General Conference as well as from our union conference district.
Now, in view of the preceding, shall we have the united co-operation of our conference constituency, their aims to aid in prosecuting our work, their prayers for the prosperity of the message? and shall we not be favored with a large attendance, a good delegation to study and aid in the development of our message to all the world?
Liberal donations are needed in your home work. The Tent and Camp-meeting Fund should meet many of the items that have been supplied in the past from the tithe. Is it wise to allow it this way?
Let each church send delegates and workers. We will report time of the meeting and other items as we are able to do so.
F. M. DANA.
West Virginia Camp-Meeting
By B. F. Purdham
THIS meeting will be held at Clarksburg, August 17-27. We have again secured the same beautiful grounds on which the camp-meeting was held last year, and we hope that all our people will unite in making this the best meeting ever held in the State; for as we near the last and closing scenes of this world, every year and every day becomes more important, and hence every meeting becomes more solemn and important, and ought to increase in interest. More will be said about this meeting from time to time. Let all be planning to come.
B. F. PURDHAM, Vice-President.
Southern Idaho Camp-Meeting
By A. J. BREED
THE time appointed for the camp-meeting in southern Idaho is September 12-17. The place for the meeting has not been selected, but it will be somewhere on the line of the Oregon Short Line Railway, where it will accommodate the greatest number of our people. We mention the matter early, as dates have already been printed for such meeting in the REVIEW AND HERALD, also in the Pacific Union Recorder, and we wish to correct this mistake. We have no knowledge as to how these dates for this meeting have been placed in the papers, but this will correct the mistake, and as soon as information is obtained and definite arrangements made, notice will be given both in the REVIEW AND HERALD and in the Pacific Union Recorder.
There should be quite a large attendance at this meeting, as it will come at a season when most of the work is well out of the way, so as not to be a hindrance to any. Any information respecting tents or fares can be had by writing Brother T. L. Copeland, College Place, Wash.
A. J. BREED.
Georgia Conference
By R. M. KILGORE
THE fourth annual session of the Georgia Conference will be held in connection with the State camp-meeting at Smyrna, Ga., Aug. 3-13, 1905. All persons in good and regular standing with the Seventh-day Adventist churches of the Georgia Conference are delegates. We hope they will all be early on the ground to participate in the election of officers, and such other business as may come before the conference.
R. M. KILGORE, Pres. Ga. Conf.
Change of Southern California Camp-Meeting
By G. W. Reaser
SPECIAL circumstances have seemed to compel us to change the date and place of our camp-meeting. The city of Los Angeles is now definitely decided as the location of the meeting. The date is August 11-21.
G. W. REASER, Conf. Pres.
Notice!
By U. BENDER
THE annual meeting of the Arkansas Conference will be held in connection with the State camp-meeting at Bentonville, Ark., Aug. 17–27, 1905.
U. BENDER, Conf. Pres.
Change of Address
THE address of Elder H. J. Farman is now Victoria Avenue, Lynchburg, Va.
