p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 36. (9/7/1911)

Earlier text: Not Content With Moral Suasion

Missionaries Sail for East Africa

AUGUST 19, Brother R. Stein and wife, of Germany, and Brother E. Lorntz, of Norway, sailed from Hamburg for East Africa, the two former to join the Victoria Nyanza Mission, the latter to teach in the Abyssinian Mission school at Asmara, on the Abyssinian border.

P. Hennig Called to German Seminary

In response to the call of the European council, Brother P. Hennig, of Germany, has come to this country to engage in teaching at the German Seminary in Clinton, Mo. Brother Hennig had intended to devote his service to the cause of missions in Africa, but was equally willing to follow the call of duty to school work in this country.

Offering for Work Among Colored People

THE next general offering is that of the first Sabbath in October, when the offering for the work among the colored people will be made. The encouraging reports from this department should inspire every believer to liberal giving this year.

Temperance Campaign in Maine

In a recent letter to Dr. D. H. Kress, Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts says of the temperance campaign in Maine:—

“On Monday I spoke at Richmond, Maine, on the issue of the hour,—to save prohibition in Maine,—and some of your folks very appropriately and helpfully distributed from door to door your people’s excellent Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor. I hope thousands of these will be distributed all over Maine before the vote on September 11. The sooner the better.”

Read in this connection the appeal of Elder S. N. Haskell on page 15.

The Kresses Leave Washington

DRS. D. H. AND LAURETTA KRESS, who for several years have been connected with the medical work in Washington and the East, left Washington this week for the Pacific Coast. Sister Kress will connect with the Loma Linda College of Medical Evangelists as one of the instructors. Brother Kress also will engage in teaching in connection with the school and in general medical work on the Pacific Coast. The long and valuable experience of these physicians has made their work in the East of particular value not only to the Washington Sanitarium, but to the work in a general way, and their separation from the work here is sincerely regretted by scores of friends. Their connection with our institutions in California will prove, we believe, of special help and lifting value to the work on the Pacific Coast. Their daughter, Dr. Ora H. Kress, recently graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Philadelphia, will accompany them to Loma Linda to connect with the medical faculty of the sanitarium.

Review and Herald Workers Called

By Editor

THE Review and Herald Publishing Association is glad to contribute to the upbuilding of the work not only by the publications which it sends forth into the field, but also by giving of its workers to answer calls that come to us. Recently A. J. Bristol was released to take the secretaryship of the District Conference and Tract Society. A little later G. W. Chase was called to the work of steward of the Washington Sanitarium. Last week W. B. Walters was called to the secretaryship of the New Jersey Tract Society. These brethren were occupying responsible positions in the Review and Herald, and will be missed in the office work.

The Harvest Ingathering

By W. T. Knox

A LETTER just received from the Pacific Press states that their large rotary press has been taken off all regular work, and is now devoted entirely to producing the special number of the Signs of the Times for the Harvest Ingathering campaign. This means an early and ample supply of that special number sufficient to meet all orders for the paper. Every precaution has been taken by the brethren of the General Conference Committee and the Pacific Press to guard against disappointment or delay in the coming campaign, and before many days 500,000 copies of the paper will have been printed and packed ready for the orders expected from the churches and conferences.

What has been done in your conference and church for this campaign? Have definite arrangements been made for the work? Has your order for papers and supplies been sent in?

Last year the General Conference treasury was confronted by a real and serious financial crisis, a crisis that for that year hindered and crippled the foreign mission work of the denomination. The Harvest Ingathering campaign greatly relieved the pressure, bringing to the treasury over $30,000 above all the expenses of the production of the paper, etc. While the financial condition of the treasury is not so serious this year as in 1910, yet we are confronted with a very considerable deficit, and workers under appointment to foreign mission fields are being held back for lack of funds. For relief of this situation, we are placing our hopes upon the campaign so near at hand. Let all plan to make this a record-breaking campaign. If they have not already done so, churches should organize at once for the work. No time should be lost in determining what supplies will be needed, and placing with the tract and missionary societies the necessary orders. Let us plan for a large work, and act accordingly.

W. T. KNOX, Treasurer.