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Review and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 33.

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Earlier text: The Bolivia Mission

Notes Afield

By William E. Howell

Loma Linda College

UNIQUE among our sisterhood of schools is the Loma Linda College of Medical Evangelists. If there is need of establishing schools of our own for the general education of our youth, equally necessary or more necessary it is to conduct a professional school of medicine, in order to protect our young people from exposure to the perils of pursuing scientific study under skeptical and worldly-wise instructors.
There is a great difference between learning a law or fact of science in an atmosphere of faith, and acquiring it from a teacher who fears not God, and regards not man as the masterpiece and image of his Creator. This is especially true when that law or fact pertains to man himself. In the study of the anatomy, physiology, and physical welfare of man, no man who does not keep continually before him the fact that the laws of his being were established and are directly controlled by his Creator, can have his understanding of God enlarged by such study, or his motives stimulated to render Him unselfish service.
It is not enough to eliminate error from scientific study; there must be also a positive flavor, a specific mold, placed upon the truths of science, if the instruction is to accomplish the desired end of awakening in the student a passion for true ministry to his fellow men. It is for this reason that the Loma Linda College occupies a unique place among the medical schools of the world. Its aim is not only to teach the technical science of medicine divested of error, but to infuse and inculcate the spirit of evangelism in all its students. Hence that unique name,—among our own and among the secular schools,—'College of Medical Evangelists.
But this is not all; we are a temperance people. We have much to say—not so much, perhaps, as we once did—about the care of the physical man, to the end that our powers of mind and of heart may be clear and penetrating in the service of God, and our lives and working strength preserved. The principles of healthful living constitute a part of the message we have to live and to give. The two chief aims in conducting colleges, academies, and church schools among us, are to save our children and youth and to develop their capacity for Christian service. Therefore diligent effort is needed to safeguard their physical health while in this growing stage, and to teach them the true relation of health principles to the giving of the advent message.

A New Sphere of Usefulness

Yet in only rare instances is there connected with the faculties of our colleges and academies a physician or a nurse who gives his entire time, or a considerable part of it, even, to teaching. It is not sufficient to leave the work that such a person can do, to the regular teacher. He may practice correct health principles himself, and commend them to students: but it needs the special training and enthusiasm of the physician or nurse to instruct students in such a way that they will see the bearing of health principles on the message they are preparing to give, and gain a sufficiently scientific knowledge of those principles to be able to teach them intelligently.
Our medical college must take the lead in developing medical-evangelistic workers; but, as it seems to me, it must supply to our school faculties such physicians or nurses as have the gift of teaching, can carry enough in scientific or literary subjects to make their employment profitable, and can take the burden in health lines. Such persons could be responsible for the sanitation of the buildings and premises,—something much needed in our boarding schools,—and so bring up the tone of personal hygiene, temperance, and health practice in all things. This would be an honor to our schools and a strong element in the efficiency of workers. This is a new sphere of usefulness for our medical college that has impressed itself deeply on my mind during the time I have recently spent among our schools.
W. E. H.

Camp Meeting in Wisconsin

By L. H. CHRISTIAN

This meeting was held June 18-28, at Wausau, a thriving city of sixteen thousand people in the north central part of the State. At the evening services the attendance from the city was good. Our own people were well represented, more than eight hundred being in camp.
Elder W. T. Knox, of Washington, D. C., was present, and all the union laborers were in attendance. Elder W. A. Westworth, of Battle Creek, Mich., remained during the entire meeting, and gave efficient help.
Meetings were held daily in the English, German, and Scandinavian tents. The Lord came very near to his people during these services. There was an earnest desire on the part of many for a closer walk with God. In this respect, the youths' meetings were especially encouraging. A number of persons gave their hearts to the Lord for the first time. A good consecration meeting was enjoyed on the Sabbath. Thirty-three were baptized.
The Lord has blessed the work in Wisconsin the past year. Encouraging progress is seen in each department. During the year, one hundred and eighty-six have been baptized and united with the church. The tithe in 1913 was $4,832 more than in 1912. The tithe for the first four months of 1914 was $1,919 more than for the first four months of 1913. If the people will keep up that record this year, Wisconsin will receive some help that is greatly needed. The sanitarium in Madison gave a good report. The Lord is greatly blessing that institution. Financially it is pulling out in splendid style. Every dollar paid on its pledges is applied on the debt, which has been reduced more than $20,000 the past four years. Wisconsin has been behind in its mission offerings, but there is an improvement in this. At the camp meeting $2,200 was given to foreign missions ($500 of this sum was Sabbath school donations), and the people pledged themselves to loyal support of our missions abroad.
The educational work was given careful attention at the camp meeting. Prof. O. J. Graf spoke for Emmanuel Missionary College. Others represented the schools in the State. The Bethel Academy is the next oldest of our conference schools. It is doing first-class work, and is worthy of the support of all our people. We highly recommend this good academy to our youth everywhere. Young people sent there are trained in the right way. Prof. T. Elliott has been elected principal for the coming year. He has the confidence of all, and the workers agreed to give the school their hearty support.
Brother J. W. Mace and others labored hard, and with good success, for the sake of our literature. A large quantity of our books and pamphlets was sold. One hundred and eighty-six yearly subscriptions were secured for our papers, forty being for the REVIEW. As Brother Johnston, the former field agent, had received a call to East Michigan, Brother Belding was chosen to take this work in Wisconsin.
In the election of officers very little change was made. Brother W. H. Thurston was reelected conference president, and the committee remained about as before. Wisconsin is one of the old banner conferences in our denomination. With faithful management and loyal consecration, the future before it is bright.
L. H. CHRISTIAN.

Now Is the Time to Use the Newspapers

By Walter L. Burgan

THERE has never been a more opportune time to proclaim the message concerning the battle of Armageddon, through the newspapers, than now. While Europe is all aflame over the Austro-Servian controversy, and the indications point to a general war, our workers ought to realize the wonderful opportunity they have of telling the people through the papers just what is about to break upon the whole world.
An article on the battle of Armageddon would make a very timely subject for any newspaper, and would be read with more than ordinary interest because of the turbulent conditions now existing in Europe. The publication of an article on this subject ought to be the means of opening the way for the printing of extracts of sermons, or even of letters or interviews on various subjects dealing with the third angel's message. So eager are some newspapers to fill their columns with war news that they are reprinting what the soothsayers said a year or more ago about the troubles that would occur in different countries of Europe in 1914. The third angel's message is more powerful and inspiring than anything a soothsayer can ever think of saying; and, by the help of the Lord, our workers ought to be able to herald the message far and wide through the medium of the newspaper, by using the strife in Europe and what the battle among the nations means in the light of prophecy as a basis for their articles.
Various phases of the message are being proclaimed through the secular press this summer; but while the whole world is being stirred by what is going on across the water, our workers should double their efforts to sound the warning of Christ's soon return by writing articles, thus bringing to the attention of the millions of readers the fact that such strifes were foretold by the prophets, and are of more than ordinary significance. Brethren and sisters, let us work while it is day, for the night comes when no man can work.
WALTER L. BURGAN.

Educational Department

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J. L. SHAW  General Secretary
F. GRIGGS  N. Am. Div. Secretary
W. E. HOWELL  N. Am. Div. Asst. Secretary

Missionary Volunteer Work in Foreign Fields

By C. L. B.

We are confident the readers of this department of the Review will be glad to learn what is being accomplished in the Missionary Volunteer work in the regions beyond. We shall give opportunity to a few of the secretaries to relate their experiences. Sister Mabel McKeague, of Honolulu, writes: “We are receiving the Gazette regularly now, and I find it an invaluable aid in preparing programs, etc. I shall ask our tract society secretary to place a standing order for the Reading Course books with the Review and Herald, so we may not be delayed in getting them. It seemed impossible for me to finish the Reading Course books until lately it occurred to me to read them on the street car. In this way I have finished two, and shall have finished the third by the time this reaches you.”
They plan to start the Junior Missionary Volunteer work in Honolulu just as soon as the church-school teacher arrives in October.
Sister Louise Wurts, of Brazil, writes of a twenty-year-old Negro girl, the daughter of a slave, who recently heard and accepted the truth. She was severely persecuted; but she persevered, and has now won her mother and her mother’s two employers and their wives to the truth.
Elder D. Isaak reports from Russia: “We receive great help from our young people, even those who have not had school privileges. They hold general meetings for the public. Among the Esthonians, even young sisters hold meetings in rented halls, with large attendance. We are thankful for their zeal in circulating our literature, and for their faithfulness in paying tithe and offerings.”
Sister Margaret Prieger, of Haiti, has started a French Missionary Volunteer Reading Course, and is having the Morning Watch Calendar translated into the French.
Recently when she was prevented from visiting the churches in the interior, and postal communications were cut off, a little fourteen-year-old colored girl walked one hundred and fifty miles and brought the Missionary Volunteer report for her society, in order that Sister Prieger might not be disappointed.
Sister Ina Fischer, of Cuba, says: “Our mission society numbers over ten members, Brother Allen thought it wise to admit some of the older folks as members, as they are taking the Reading Course. The local society of Las Minas has a membership of twenty. The majority of these are young people, including a few children. Some of our members are holding Bible studies in a village here where the sugar mill is located. They report a good attendance at the meeting.”
Brother A. H. Ferris sends a very interesting report from Norfolk Island: “We have a good church of about fifty members, including a live young people’s society. After Sabbath school and church service, we withdraw from the church to the mission home, and hold our young people’s meeting Sabbath afternoon. The interest taken in the doctrinal study, and the reports of missionary work done are very encouraging. Last week, on the subject of ‘Righteousness by Faith,’ twenty-two passed the examination, receiving one hundred per cent each.
“Old and young take doctrinal studies together. It is quite interesting on the examination day. We have a long veranda at the mission home, and we place tables at intervals where all can receive paper, and write the examination under the strict supervision of the deacon, Brother Sidney Nobb, a grandson of the old Pastor Nobb, of Pitcairn. The children and those who cannot write pass into a schoolroom where I examine them. One little girl who was regarded as mentally unable to acquire knowledge has passed five doctrinal examinations without one mistake. Each month she takes twelve papers to her part of the island and distributes them among people who were very prejudiced a short time ago. Each time she reports twelve papers given away, and twelve visits.”
Elder Melvin Sturdevant writes from Tsungwesi Mission, Rusape, Rhodesia, South Africa: “Since our arrival twenty-six have been baptized, and many are turning to the Lord. Our school has done excellently. About eighty-five are enrolled now. Our Sabbath meetings are attended, and a good interest is manifested. The natives are now turning toward us. We have found that some have been working very hard to keep the natives from us. One chief said to me not long ago, ‘We heard strange things about you and your work,’ and asked if they were so. I answered, ‘Come and see.’ I stayed at his kraal three days and nights, and before I left he and his ‘second man’ asked me to give them a teacher, showing me a place where we could build a school, and where my teacher could have a garden. I have promised them a teacher soon. They also promised to help my teacher build.”
Brother Maximo Trummer writes from Lima, Peru: “Our union meeting granted me permission to print some tracts on the Missionary Volunteer work. We sent out one hundred and fifty review papers on the Reading Course in English, and one hundred in German, dividing them among the different fields. I believe that the Morning Watch and Reading Course have saved one young woman from leaving the truth, and she is now taking the nurses’ course. The donations of the past year have been applied on the Indian school fund especially; but this year the Argentine young people have planned to pay the fares of some students coming here from Peru.
“There are one hundred and seventy-five members in the Lake Titicaca Mission, and many of them are young people, so I have asked Brother Stahl to kindly organize a Missionary Volunteer Society there, and carry it on as well as he can, considering the simple methods which he must follow.”
Elder F. A. Allum, in Chung-king, Szechuan, China, reports: “Heretofore the Morning Watch Calendar has never been translated into Chinese. However, I have looked the calendar over, and have suggested some changes that would be necessary for its use in China. I have sent this calendar to Shanghai with instructions to have it looked over by the brethren there before it is printed in the Chinese language. I am also writing at this time to all the superintendents in China, asking them to have a secretary appointed in each field to represent and organize this important branch of the Lord’s work. You will be glad to know that a society has been started in Shanghai at the China Missions Training School; this is, I believe, the first society in China. Its officers are all Chinese, and they give very acceptable programs.”
C. L. B.

Prepare Now

By F. G.

Our church school work has been growing steadily. Each year has witnessed a more substantial foundation, upon which it may build more securely. This is evidenced by the following paragraph taken from a letter from one of our State conference educational superintendents:—
“We have eighteen schools in our conference, of which sixteen have definitely arranged for their teachers; and nearly all of them have most of the money in sight with which to pay the teachers’ salaries for the full nine-month term. The salaries run from $30 to $72 a month, with an average probably of about $40.”
We are indeed pleased to receive this good word. It is wise and well thus definitely to plan for the expenses of the entire term of nine months. The financial burden of our church schools is heavy, and proper plans for it do much to insure success for the entire year.
The first of September is near. At that time hundreds of our church schools will open. It is now high time to have all necessary arrangements made for the opening.
In arranging for the school, provision should be made for all the children of all the people to attend. There are those whose financial circumstances are such as to make it quite impossible for them to pay the regular tuition. The school should not be called upon to lose this tuition, but those who are able to assist should improve this opportunity to bear not only their own burdens, but those of others as well.
In this planning, arrangements should be made not only for the salary of the teacher, but for the furnishings of the schoolroom and the general equipment necessary for successful work; such as books of reference, maps, charts, etc. With neat schoolrooms, well ventilated and well lighted, with comfortable seats, proper equipment, and with good teachers, our church schools will do a marvelous work for our children this coming year. Now is the time to make these preparations. F. G.

Missionary Volunteer Department

M. E. KERN - - - General Secretary
C. L. BENSON - - - Assistant Secretary
MATILDA ERICKSON - - - N. Am. Div. Secretary
MEADE MACGUIRE - - - N. Am. Div. Field Secretary

Sunday Law Crusade

By S. B. HORTON

THERE is a very interesting situation developing in the State of Pennsylvania at the present time in connection with the enforcement of the Sunday blue law. Two cities of the Keystone State, Norristown and Altoona, are being treated to a system of espionage which would be in keeping with medievalism or the celebrated “holy” Inquisition of the Dark Ages. Norristown is noted as the largest borough in the United States, having a population of 30,000, and yet unincorporated as a municipal commonwealth.
At the behest of the Welfare League the burgess of Norristown, who is the committing magistrate of that community, was called upon to arraign four business men before the public as criminals, the charge against them being violation of the Sunday law, the celebrated blue law of 1794. Of these men, two were obliged to pay fines and the costs of prosecution, one was discharged, and one was held to await a further hearing. The vice president of the Welfare League, a prominent church worker, appeared as the prosecutor in all the cases, and Mr. William F. Dannehower, a local attorney, represented the defendants.
A great deal of feeling has been engendered because of the fact that the burgess has discriminated in prosecutions for Sunday law violations, having said on one occasion, “I am the burgess, and I will use my own judgment as to who shall be prosecuted and who shall not be.” The Business Men’s Association is interesting itself, and further developments are looked for in the near future.

The Situation in Altoona

Following a meeting of the Altoona ministerium a crusade against so-called Sunday law violators has begun. The ministerium is employing sleuth methods to make Altoona a newspaperless center. The news agents are preparing to defeat the ministerial sleuths. Officials of all the Philadelphia and New York newspapers, as well as the Pittsburgh papers, previously informed the local news agents that they would assist in fighting the preachers if their business is interfered with; and once the fight is taken up, these men declare they will remain in the thick of it until the ministers are made ridiculous throughout the entire country.
Several court decisions have been handed down setting forth that Sunday newspapers are not luxuries; but the local sleuths have been informed by an attorney that the blue laws, if enforced, will prohibit the sale of the papers.
The rector of St. John’s Catholic Church is evidently not in sympathy with the Altoona ministerium’s effort to have a blue law Sunday. He took occasion recently to denounce the activities of the minister who spent a portion of Sunday scouring the city to find hapless violators of the archaic blue laws.
He took issue with the ministers on two points: First, that the first day of the week, Sunday, was never divinely ordained as the Sabbath, and, as a matter of fact, was first designated as the rest day by the Catholic Church; second, that the Scriptures designate Sunday as a day of rest, and that rest does not imply the same rest as is found in a graveyard, but rather a healthful and stimulating rest that does not interfere with the rights and liberty of others.
He pointed out that “under the old Hebraic law the seventh day of the week was set aside as Sabbath, but that early in its history, the Catholic Church, on account of many leading events in the life of Christ that occurred on the first day of the week, made the first day Sunday [sabbath], and that this has since been followed by the Christian world.”
The rector maintained that it was not the prerogative of any clique of men to dictate to individuals the day they should observe as the Sabbath, and that any individual would have the same right to designate a day in the middle of the week as his sabbath as the ministerial sleuths have to say that the city shall close up tight on the first day of the week.
This Catholic priest’s comments are certainly to the point; and we commend them to our erstwhile National Reformers who have for years been endeavoring to establish a blue law system of government in America, and whose home address has been and continues to be the great State of Pennsylvania.
We shall furnish further interesting items from the Pennsylvania campaign in due course of time.
S. B. HORTON.

How It Works

By W. W. E.

It is usually the case that those who come into the truth through reading our literature are very earnest in their endeavors to extend its circulation. This has been especially brought to my mind by a letter recently written to the general office by one of our superannuated ministers with whom I became personally acquainted when he first accepted present truth a good many years ago. He was pastor of a church when a copy of "Daniel and the Revelation" came under his notice. The book had been sold by a colporteur to one of his neighbors who did not appreciate it. He read it, and he and his companion accepted the truth, and later came in touch with our people. In common with all who from the heart accept the gospel message, his first desire was to pass on the light to others. Accordingly he entered the colporteur work, selling a large number of our books in several counties where he had been known.
He continued in the colporteur work until asked by the conference to enter the ministry. Associated in labor with others of our ministers, he had the joy of seeing a number of churches raised up; and that part of the State where there were no believers when he accepted the truth, was later organized into a mission field and then a conference.
During all this time this brother has been an earnest believer in the effectiveness of the printed page; and not only has he sold large quantities of literature in connection with his ministry, but through his influence others have given their lives to this work.
This aged brother is now confined most of the time to his bed; but the agency that brought him to a knowledge of the truth lies near his heart, and although he can sit up only a few hours each day, he spends a part of that time in writing letters soliciting subscriptions for our good books and papers. In this way, and by canvassing those who call at his home, he is able to continue the good work of extending the circulation of the printed page that bears the light to those who sit in darkness.
This affords a striking illustration of the statement "that one soul brought in the truth in this way [speaking of our colporteur work] will enlighten many others." And this explains why it is that our publishing work prospers and grows. Let us be more earnest in this work which brings such great returns.
W. W. E.

Book Work in the “Black Belt”

By C. J. BOYD

THE readers of the REVIEW will be interested to know that twenty-four of the students of the Oakwood Manual Training School are in the colporteur work this summer, earning scholarships for next year. Nearly every one is meeting with splendid success. The following extracts are given from student reports:—
Herbert Greene, Hamilton, Ga.: “The Lord is daily blessing my feeble efforts. He has allowed me to have a part in this message. I know that all power comes from him. My first week’s record shows $164 worth of orders, and my second week $213, besides helps amounting to $4.25. Once I went on a plantation. The owner was at one of the houses and told me he did not allow his Negroes to buy from any agent, and that he didn’t allow agents on his place. I prayed to the Lord to help me, and he did. I gave the man a canvass, and he said that it was a good book, but that his help didn’t do anything but gamble, drink, and fight. But he gave me permission to canvass them. I took $14 worth of orders. You see God moves in a mysterious way.”
Letitia Samuels, Roberta, Ga.: “I am enjoying my work at the present time and expect to do nothing less all summer. In my travels I met two young men who are planning for school next fall. They were thinking of going to Tuskegee, but they inquired about Oakwood. They thought they should like to hear from the school there. I send their names and addresses.”
Frank McRae, Carrollton, Ala.: “A man got after me with pick in hand ready to slay me. He harshly ordered me off his place, and threatened to kill me. I went off and said not a word. That day I did nothing except to sell one little help for 35 cents; but my week’s work shows $135 worth of orders. I do not feel at all discouraged. This truth must go. I want to go with it.”
Mac Ellis, Durant, Miss.: “I am doing well in my work. I have taken over $100 worth of orders this week.”
T. G. Culpepper, Eutaw, Ala.: “I am glad to hear that the Oakwood boys are making good in the field. Friday I walked eighteen miles to my headquarters to get books that I had ordered. I canvassed a man Thursday. He refused, but when passing that way Friday, I called for a drink of water, and took his order. The Lord gave me $127 worth of orders last week.”
J. S. Spraggs, Carrollton, Ala.: “The good tidings from the field make me feel more courageous in this great and progressive work. I shall put forth my best efforts this summer to make a success of it. A new confidence is taking hold of me.”
W. E. Adams, Thomaston, Ga.: “Satan is trying to stop the work, but God is pushing it forward. I am having some good experiences. The first week I worked two days and took $123 worth of orders. Last week I took $220 worth of orders.”
L. E. Cunningham, Thomaston, Ga.: “I had some difficulty in getting started. I am now getting on all right. Last week I took $125 worth of orders for ‘Bible Readings.’ I am encouraged to buckle on the harness anew next week to do more if the Lord wills. I think of the many prayers that go up for the colporteurs.”
Anna Gossom, Lexington, Ky.: “I canvassed Thursday and Friday and took $34 worth of orders. I am of good courage, for I know I am in the Lord’s work.”
James Martin, Hamilton, Ga.: “I reached Hamilton May 31 and started to work. Last month I worked 176 hours and received 151 orders for ‘Bible Readings,’ valued at $538, and helps, $5.60; total value, $543.60. My first Friday a policeman attempted to arrest me for soliciting orders without a license. After a few minutes of silent prayer, I walked away to get my contract and write a letter to get help if I should be arrested. While on my way to the post office I met the policeman again. He had taken my prospectus to keep until I returned, so he gave it to me, and ordered me out of the town on the next train. I went to my room praying for God’s protection. To keep from being arrested I went to this policeman and made a friend of him, and he has acted all right since. Prejudice is very high, and we have to be careful. These experiences in the colporteur work cannot be bought with money. Pray for us that we may leave ‘Bible Readings’ and other good books in many homes.” C. J. BOYD.

Publishing Department

N. Z. TOWN       -       -       -       General Secretary
W. W. EASTMAN       -       -       -       N. Am. Div. Secretary

Religious Liberty Department

By C. S. Longacre

C. S. LONGACRE N. Am. Div. Secretary

Real Temperance Work

By L. A. H.

ALMOST any phase of activity in behalf of temperance is commendable. The evils of the liquor curse are so monstrous that striking it anywhere is a blow in the right direction. No one interested in the welfare of his fellow men and in the good of society in general can consistently withhold support from any movement that will help to overthrow the saloon.
It is to be appreciated that so many men and women are uniting for organized battle against this terrible foe. Invaluable service to humanity is being rendered in various ways. Scientific men are devoting themselves to research in seeking accurate data on the effects of alcohol, and as a result most valuable information is available. Statisticians have given us facts and figures on the cost of liquor drinking and its effects, which are nothing short of astounding in their immensity. Most interesting volumes are written presenting convincing argument in behalf of temperance. Several magazines devoted to temperance are published, and a few newspapers are printed wholly in the cause of prohibition.
Of late, considerable activity is seen in behalf of legislation in favor of prohibition. Several prominent persons have taken up the fight to outlaw the liquor evil. A few nations are on record as opposed to the drink evil; and, as is also known, the United States has now before it the question of putting into the Constitution an amendment calling for nation-wide prohibition. For all these means and measures in favor of temperance and prohibition, we may well be thankful. Where we can consistently lend help to further them, it is a privilege to do so. And we should also utilize every advantage offered by the various means now available in behalf of temperance, to carry forward as earnestly and energetically as possible the work of health and temperance as we understand it.
With the knowledge of health and temperance principles that this people has had for half a century or more, and with the development of these truths in practical living, and with a realization of the benefits thereby obtained, we should be more than anxious to give as wide an extension as possible to these truths and their benefits.
Our view of this question embraces all in the way of real temperance reform that is included in the work of others. We go a great deal farther than others in the presentation of temperance, including abstinence from all that is harmful in eating and drinking. More than this, we teach and practice the principles of health and temperance as a matter of religion, in harmony with the purpose of God, rather than as a matter of mere welfare or as a subject of legislation. We hold this phase of Christian living as of particular importance at this time in view of the condition of things in the world just before Christ's second coming.
In our judgment, it is not consistent that we take our pattern from others. Rather should we feel that our position is the standard. While we can join with others to help make every right effort in behalf of temperance successful as far as it goes, we should try to see that it goes as far as possible toward its true aim as given in the Word of God. We can make good and wise use of material furnished by others, but must also be diligent in supplying material that is as good, or better.
Our facilities for supplying good material are unsurpassed. Our organization for quick and effective use of this material is unequaled anywhere. With our many publishing houses and our Publishing Department, our well-developed colporteur system and tract societies, our Home Missionary Department and church missionary societies, and with our large number of people already trained in methods of active missionary work, we are in a position to give furtherance to any good work that might come before us.
So much for the technical side of the question, if we may so speak of it. The other phase of our temperance work, the spiritual, is also important. Recognizing as we do that true temperance is a part of godliness and has its place in the preparation of a people for God's kingdom, we cannot ignore it in its bearing on soul saving. We must see intemperance as sin, and the intemperate man as a sinner. No drunkard can enter heaven, therefore every person who dies a drunkard is a lost soul, a trophy for Satan.
In freeing men and women from intemperance, we must point them to Jesus; for they cannot get free without his help. Our temperance efforts, then, should be such as will lead souls to the Lord. We should, of course, use good judgment, as well as taste and propriety, in presenting the spiritual side of the question. A drunken man cannot grasp much religion. A popular temperance meeting may not be the place to tell about the three angels' messages. But there are many other ways in which we very properly can and most assuredly ought to give the temperance question its true setting. That setting is the Bible one.
We can, therefore, see in the temperance movements of the day an opportunity not only of doing good as far as the current interest goes, but of doing more good in making the work the means of presenting advanced truth on health and temperance and of bringing souls to God and his whole truth. We should not only aid in every consistent way we can to carry forward the measures that are ameliorative of the terrible woe and distress caused by the liquor traffic, but we should be faithful in giving the special truths that are so timely and that just now can be so readily given.
L. A. H.
THE mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.—Henry Ward Beecher.

Medical Missionary Department

W. A. RUBLE, M. D. - - - General Secretary
L. A. HANSEN - - - Assistant Secretary
H. W. MILLER, M. D. - - - N. Am. Div. Secretary

Facing Circumstances Without Fear

“CIRCUMSTANCES get the better of us the moment we fear to look them in the eye.”

Southern Illinois Conference Association

By A. J. CLARK; R. B. CRAIG

NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Southern Illinois Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the conference and camp meeting at Altamont, Ill., Aug. 27 to Sept. 6, 1914. The first meeting of the association will be called at 9:30 A. M., Monday, Aug. 31, 1914, to elect officers for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may come before the association. The regular accredited delegates of the conference are delegates of the conference association.
A. J. CLARK, President; R. B. CRAIG, Secretary.

Kansas Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association

By H. S. OSTERLOH; L. C. CHRISTOFFERSON

The annual meeting of the Kansas Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association will be held on the camp ground at Wichita, Kans., at 4 P. M., Monday, Sept. 7, 1914, for the election of such officers as are necessary, and also for the transaction of such other business as may necessarily come before the meeting. We trust all our brethren throughout the State will remember that they are members of this association, and that they have a voice in its business transactions.
H. S. OSTERLOH, President; L. C. CHRISTOFFERSON, Secretary.

Camp Meetings

ATLANTIC UNION

Northern New England, Claremont, N. H. ................. Aug. 20-30 Southern New England, New Haven, Conn. ................. Aug. 27 to Sept. 6

CENTRAL UNION

Colorado, Rocky Mt. Lake Park, Denver ................. Aug. 13-23 North Missouri } Clinton, Aug. 27 to Sept. 6 South Missouri } East Kansas } Wichita .......... Sept. 3-13 West Kansas } West Colorado, Montrose ........ Sept. 15-22

COLUMBIA UNION

Ohio, Mount Vernon ............ Aug. 13-23 West Virginia, Parkersburg ...... Aug. 20-30 Chesapeake ...................... Oct. 4-11

LAKE UNION

Indiana, Logansport ............ Aug. 6-16 West Michigan, Charlotte ....... Aug. 13-23 North Michigan, Mount Pleasant .. Aug. 20-30 Southern Illinois, Altamont, Aug. 27 to Sept. 6 Northern Illinois, Downers Grove, Sept. 3-13

PACIFIC UNION

Southern California, Alhambra .... Aug. 3-16 Western Washington, Auburn ...... Aug. 20-30 Utah, Kaysville .................. Sept. 7-13 Arizona .......................... Oct. 8-18

SOUTHEASTERN UNION

North Carolina, Greensboro ...... Aug. 13-23 Georgia, Macon .................. Aug. 20-30 Georgia, Macon (colored) ........ Aug. 20-30 Cumberland, Lenoir City, Tenn. .. Aug. 27 to Sept. 6 Florida .......................... Oct. 8-18

SOUTHERN UNION

Alabama, Montgomery ............ Aug. 6-16 Kentucky, Nicholasville ........ Aug. 20-30 Tennessee River, Jackson, Tenn. . Aug. 28 to Sept. 7

SOUTHWESTERN UNION

West Texas, Abilene ............ Aug. 6-16 Arkansas, Hot Springs .......... Aug. 13-23 North Texas, Jefferson (local) .. Aug. 20-30 Oklahoma, Guthrie ............... Aug. 20-30 New Mexico, Roswell ............ Aug. 27 to Sept. 6

Oklahoma Conference Association

By John Isaac; W. L. Adams

THE Oklahoma Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be called in executive session in connection with the camp meeting to be held in Guthrie, Okla., Aug. 20-30, 1914. The first meeting of the association will be called at 10 A. M., August 26, for the election of officers, and the transaction of all other business that may properly come before the constituency at that time.
JOHN ISAAC, President; W. L. ADAMS, Secretary.
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