WE have much to encourage us in this field, and certainly feel that God is going before us in the work. Our union conference session last November was a very encouraging meeting, and steps were taken which we are sure will be of great advantage to the cause in this field.
Elder J. B. Goodrich, who has long borne heavy burdens in connection with the cause in Maine, felt that on account of feebleness attendant on advancing years, he could no longer serve the conference in an official capacity, and Elder O. Montgomery, the president of the Vermont Conference, was requested to act as president of the Maine Conference. This plan was carried out. Other workers are coming into that field, courage seems to be in the hearts of the people, and we are quite sure that a new era has begun in the old Maine Conference, where so many battles have been fought in past days for the truth.
A commodious church building has been erected in the city of Portland, and the first floor finished. On this floor is a large, light, airy lecture-room, with baptistery; while back of it is a fine16church-school room, in which a school is now being held. These rooms are modern in every respect. Above is the auditorium, still unfinished. This building is a credit to the cause of truth in Portland, and we are glad to know that a vigorous campaign is to be carried on in that city this summer.
Vermont and New Hampshire have now united their interests in one conference, known as Northern New England, having nearly five hundred members and an annual tithe of forty-five hundred dollars. The work is gradually strengthening in this field, and prospects for the future are encouraging.
During the fall and winter, nearly enough has been raised in the field to purchase back twenty-eight acres of land formerly owned by the South Lancaster Academy, but sold to outside parties under a financial stress. The school should own every foot of this land, which it needs for agricultural purposes. The buying back of this tract will cost us $2,550. The academy has enjoyed an excellent patronage the present year, and we have had a good school. About fifty or sixty from this institution will enter the book and periodical work the coming summer. We believe the academy and its work are worthy of the confidence of our people in the Eastern States.
We are also much encouraged over the prospects at the Melrose Sanitarium. God is blessing that institution, and it is now enjoying a better patronage than at any time in its history. An earnest endeavor is being made in the family to get right with God. A better condition of things is coming in, and more of the blessing of God is beginning to be seen. In Boston and surrounding towns, schools of health are being held, and are greatly appreciated by the people. We are determined to do much of this work among the citizens of Boston during the coming year, that they may know something of the principles of health which God has so graciously given this people.
A medical missionary bureau has been organized in connection with the sanitarium, which will lead out in this outside work for others. Elder Geo. B. Starr and wife are spending considerable time now in this work, and find open doors everywhere into the best homes of Boston. Dr. D. H. Kress is also assisting us in every way he can when in this union conference. We believe there is a great future before the Melrose Sanitarium, and we greatly desire to know God's will and way in all matters relating to its future work. We are glad to say that at present the whole union conference is united in its support of this institution. Formerly only Central New England, Southern New England, and Vermont were officially connected with the management of this sanitarium, but all the other conferences have now united in electing their members of the constituency, and their presidents are on the board of managers. We believe this is as it should be.
During the year 1909 the Atlantic Union Conference paid about nine and one-third cents per week per member on the ten-cent-a-week fund. During 1910 we hope to make up the full amount of ten cents a week per capita.
In most of our conferences, steady progress is being made in raising the $24,892.80, our proportion of the $300,000 Fund. The Greater New York Conference has about $2,000 raised in pledges; Northern New England has $600, Western New York about $1,000, and Central New England has all but a small amount of its share made up in pledges; other conferences are making progress, but we are not able to give definite amounts. Our people are in full harmony with the purposes of this fund, and we think it can be easily raised.
The Greater New York Conference is opening two Bible schools in the city, one for the English, and the other for the foreign-speaking people. In these, Bible workers will be trained for that great field. The conference is also planning to conduct a vigorous evangelistic campaign in the city during the coming summer, with the hope of calling the attention of many to the truths for this time. Vigorous work the coming year will also be carried forward in Portland, Maine; Boston, Mass.; and in Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y.
We see evidences of good on every hand, and are encouraged to press the battle forward among the great population here in the East.
W. B. WHITE.
German Switzerland
By O. E. Reinke
THE Lord is blessing in the work in this field. Our force of workers, only eight outside of the good canvassers, are all of one mind and heart, and united in their efforts to reach souls with the truth. I had the privilege of organizing a church in Uster numbering fifteen adults.
In Zurich, where I conducted a course of lectures this winter, we expect soon to have baptism. Although our first missionaries, J. H. Waggoner and B. L. Whitney, crossed the Atlantic and located in Switzerland, and considerable work has been done in this field, yet we still find places where the name Seventh-day Adventist is not even known.
O. E. REINKE.
Give, and It Shall Be Given
“Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”
California
By Mrs. E. E. Parlin
SAN FRANCISCO.—A few weeks ago reference was made in the REVIEW to certain persons in Greece who had become interested in the truth through correspondence with recent converts in San Francisco, who were formerly members of the Greek Catholic Church. The following is a copy, with names omitted, of an interesting letter dated April 1, 1910, just received from that country:—
“Thank God, am well. I wish the same for you all. All my friends go back on me, and my neighbors talk against me very bad; they call me ‘Hebrew Mason,’ and say I and my house are full of devils. So you see for yourself how hard it is for Seventh-day Adventists to live in Greece. Some threaten to set fire to my house. It is very hard for me to find employment here, and observe the Sabbath of the Lord; so I try my best to live on my small pension. This is only six dollars a month, so you can imagine how I live, but I don’t care.
“I thank the Lord, and feel very proud to say I am a Seventh-day Adventist. By the grace of our Lord I have observed the Sabbath since Oct. 24, 1909; also by the grace of our Lord I received baptism here at Athens on March 8, 1910, by Brother R. S. Greaves. He came down from Smyrna, and stopped with me eight days; then he left for Albania for two or three months, after which he is coming back to see me. When Brother Greaves comes, if God wills, I shall go with him to Smyrna. . . . I thank you all for introducing me to the Sabbath of the Lord; also am not ashamed to say that you brought me out of darkness, so now I am a Seventh-day Adventist. Brother Greaves told me I am the first man to be baptized in Greece. Thank God! I hope I have part in the New Jerusalem with you all. . . . I had about a dozen pictures, but now I have none, because I burned them all about forty days ago. Ex. 20:4-6.”
MRS. E. E. PARLIN.
Institute Work in California
By Stephen Nelson Haskell
Two workers’ institutes have been held in the Northern California Conference thus far this year, and it is planned to hold several others during the season. We hold these institutes in our largest churches, and send special invitations to all neighboring churches to attend, the members of the large church usually entertaining the visiting brethren.
Each institute continues ten days, beginning on Friday at 9 A. M. By beginning on Friday, the people learn something of the character of the work before the first Sabbath; and if those who attend are pleased with it, they advertise it widely, so that by 9 A. M. on Sunday there is usually a good audience ready for study and work.
We make the study of the Bible a prominent feature in all our institute work. It does not make any difference how active an individual may be in the Lord’s work, if he does not study his Bible, his work does not gather many souls.
Our forenoon sessions extend from 9 to 12 A. M. and are usually divided into four periods. The first three periods are devoted to Bible study on practical subjects of a nature to develop Christian character, “establish the faith of the doubting, and give certainty to the glorious future.”—“Early Writings,” pages 53, 54. We plan to study different lines of thought, and to close all periods on time. A variety of topics, presented by different speakers, with singing during the intermissions, breaks the monotony, and all are interested. During the first two or three days the17fourth period is spent in discussing the importance of the various lines of missionary work, and about the third day the company is divided during this period. Those interested in the book canvassing work receive instruction from our field director of the book work; those interested in selling our various periodicals are also given instruction; while the remainder are taught to work with tracts from door to door. The afternoons are left free, and it is interesting to notice how the members get to work.
At our last institute a sister who had never thought she could do missionary work, went out and sold eighteen copies of “Our Paradise Home” in three afternoons. Another sister who thought she could not do much, but who worked a short time in the afternoon for five days, sold over two hundred periodicals. These, with others who for the first time tasted the joy of placing literature in the hands of the people, resolved to continue in the good work.
The evening sessions of our first institute were devoted to practical instruction on health and temperance, while those of our last institute were occupied by the secretaries of our Sabbath-school and Educational departments, who gave valuable and timely instruction on these subjects.
Our missionary secretary is present at all our institutes with a large supply of books, tracts, and the various periodicals. Tables covered with an assortment of this literature are placed in the church. We make special reductions on books for those who wish to buy in quantities, thus giving the lay members an opportunity to follow the instruction given in the “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. IX, page 72.
During the two institutes we have held this spring, $876 worth of books, tracts, and periodicals was bought by those attending, with the determination to scatter them in their immediate neighborhoods. We firmly believe the statement of Holy Writ, “He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.” 2 Cor. 9:6.
For years we have looked forward to the time when a “thousand would be converted in a day,” and the work close in triumph; but all do not consider that when a “thousand are converted in a day,” it will be the result of bountiful sowing at the present time. We quote from the last paragraph of Chapter XXXVIII in “Great Controversy” in regard to the closing work, as follows:—
“The seed has been sown, and now it will spring up and bear fruit. The publications distributed by missionary workers have exerted their influence, yet many whose minds were impressed have been prevented from fully comprehending the truth, or from yielding obedience. Now the rays of light penetrate everywhere, the truth is seen in its clearness, and the honest children of God sever the bands which have held them.” God grant that our people everywhere will realize the importance of scattering our publications “like the leaves of autumn,” remembering that “he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.”
S. N. HASKELL, Pres. Cal. Conf.
Oklahoma
By F. A. Lorenz
TYRONE.—Elder D. F. Sturgeon came to this place early in March to visit our church. The opera-house was procured, and meetings were held every evening, with increasing interest. But before a week had passed, Brother Sturgeon was summoned home on account of sickness in his family. Just at this time Elder E. L. Neff, who was working in the educational line in the neighborhood, gladly came to our assistance, and preached the truth with power for about ten days. On two succeeding Sabbaths we were helped by strong representations of neighboring churches, some of our believers in Liberal, Kan., Brother Harder with his whole school, and others of the Hooker, Okla., church attending. It was a time of refreshing for our own people, and some outsiders showed an interest. On the last Sabbath of the meeting, six souls signified their willingness to keep the commandments of God. One of our number composed an appropriate hymn for this special occasion, one stanza of which is given below. It was sung with good effect at the close of the night service:—
“O friends! come out of Babylon;
Yes, flee with girded loins;
For winners in this race to run
Must do what God enjoins.
God wants you now with minds and hands
His statutes to sustain;
But if you slight the Lord's commands,
Your service is in vain.”
F. A. LORENZ.
A Medical School at Loma Linda
By W. A. R.
At the session of the Pacific Union conference, held at Mountain View, Cal., January 25, the Loma Linda College of Medical Evangelists received consideration.
In 1907, counsel had been received by the workers at Loma Linda, from Sister E. G. White, that “with the possession of this place comes the weighty responsibility of making the work of the institution educational in character. Loma Linda is to be not only a sanitarium, but an educational center. A school is to be established here for the training of gospel medical missionary evangelists. Much is involved in this work, and it is very essential that a right beginning be made. In regard to the school, I would say, Make it especially strong in the education of nurses and physicians.”
This matter was discussed at the General Conference Committee Council held in College View, Neb., Oct. 5-15, 1909, where the following action was taken:—
“Resolved, That we recommend the board of management of the Loma Linda College of Evangelists to secure a charter for the school, that it may develop as the opening providences and the instruction of the Spirit of God may indicate.”
In harmony with this action, the College of Medical Evangelists was chartered Dec. 9, 1909, which charter provides for the granting of medical degrees to those who are graduated from the full medical course.
A Letter of Inquiry
During the said session of the Pacific Union conference, January 25-30, the committee on plans studied the question, as briefly outlined in a communication from Sister E. G. White, under date of Oct. 11, 1909, regarding the proper education of physicians. The committee also took into account the responsibility, financial and otherwise, which would rest upon any organization that might attempt to organize and support a denominational medical college. The object to be gained was greatly to be desired, but the expense would be so large, and the difficulties so many, that they did not feel free to recommend the undertaking of such an enterprise, before satisfying themselves, first, that they correctly understand the instruction given in the communications received from Sister White. Therefore the following letter was placed in her hands Wednesday, January 26:—
“MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL.,
“Jan. 25, 1910.
“Mrs. E. G. White,
“Mountain View, Cal.
“DEAR SISTER WHITE: We have read the testimonies, as far as we have seen them, that you have given concerning Loma Linda, and the establishment of a medical school in connection with the work at that place. As far as we know, our people are anxious to carry out the12light that the Lord has given; but there is a difference of opinion between us in regard to what you mean when you use the term, ‘a medical school.’
“Some hold that when you speak of ‘a medical school,’ you mean a school where the Bible is made prominent, where all features of our faith are taught, and where the message is given in its fulness; in addition to which we give an outline of the treatment of simple diseases, the care of the sick, and such things as will qualify the student to go into a foreign field, or even into a city, and do intelligent medical missionary work, using his medical knowledge as a means of introducing the Bible and teaching the truth.
“Others hold that when you use the phrase ‘a medical school,’ you mean, in addition to the foregoing, a fully equipped medical school that teaches the Bible and the truth, as before said, but that gives such a thorough training along medical lines as will qualify the students who take the course, to pass State Board examinations and become registered, qualified physicians for public work.
“We are very anxious to preserve unity and harmony of action. In order to do this, we must have a clear understanding of what is to be done. Are we to understand, from what you have written concerning the establishment of a medical school at Loma Linda, that, according to the light you have received from the Lord, we are to establish a thoroughly equipped medical school, the graduates from which will be able to take State Board examinations and become registered, qualified physicians?
“Most respectfully yours,
“I. H. EVANS,
“E. E. ANDROSS,
“H. W. COTTRELL.”
This letter of inquiry was returned Thursday, January 27, with the following reply:—
A Statement Regarding the Training of Physicians
“The light given me is, We must provide that which is essential to qualify our youth who desire to be physicians, so that they may intelligently fit themselves to be able to stand the examinations required to prove their efficiency as physicians. They should be taught to treat understandingly the cases of those who are diseased, so that the door will be closed for any sensible physician to imagine that we are not giving in our school the instruction necessary for properly qualifying young men and young women to do the work of a physician. Continually the students who are graduated are to advance in knowledge, for practise makes perfect.
“The medical school at Loma Linda is to be of the highest order, because those who are in that school have the privilege of maintaining a living connection with the wisest of all physicians, from whom there is communicated knowledge of a superior order. And for the special preparation of those of our youth who have clear convictions of their duty to obtain a medical education that will enable them to pass the examinations required by law of all those who practise as regularly qualified physicians, we are to supply whatever may be required, so that these youth need not be compelled to go to medical schools conducted by men not of our faith. Thus we shall close a door that the enemy would be pleased to have left open; and our young men and young women, whose spiritual interests the Lord desires us to safeguard, will not feel compelled to connect with unbelievers in order to obtain a thorough training along medical lines.
“ELLEN G. WHITE.”
Recommendations Outlining a Plan of Operation
The instruction contained in this reply was so clear and definite that the committee on plans felt they could no longer hesitate; hence they prepared a recommendation favoring the establishment of a medical school at Loma Linda. The committee brought this recommendation, with the accompanying correspondence, before the conference on Friday afternoon, January 28, for consideration. The recommendation reads as follows:—
“21. We recommend, (1) That, in harmony with the above instruction, we favor the establishment and maintenance of a medical school at Loma Linda, Cal.
“(2) In order that this medical school may meet the mind of the Lord in doing the work appointed for it by the spirit of prophecy, we invite the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the Lake, Northern, Central, Southwestern, and North Pacific union conferences, and the Southern California Conference, to unite with the Pacific Union Conference in establishing and suitably equipping and maintaining this school.
“(3) That a board of control, for directing the management of the school, be appointed as follows:—
“(a) Two members to be appointed by the General Conference.
“(b) One member by the Lake Union Conference, one by the Northern Union Conference, one by the Central Union Conference, one by the Southwestern Union Conference, one by the North Pacific Union Conference, one by the Pacific Union Conference.
“(c) Two members to be appointed by the Southern California Conference.
“(4) That the school shall be maintained by funds obtained as follows:—
“(a) Tuition.
“(b) Donations.
“(c) Deficit, if any, to be met annually by the General Conference, the Lake, Northern, Central, Southwestern, North Pacific, and Pacific union conferences, and the Southern California Conference, all sharing equally.
“(5) That each of the above-mentioned organizations be requested to raise one thousand dollars, in behalf of the equipment and maintenance of the school for the calendar year 1910.
“(6) That a separate set of books be kept, carrying all accounts of the school, so that the same can be audited, and a full knowledge of the cost of operating the school submitted to the constituency annually.
“(7) That a committee consisting of the incoming president of the Pacific Union Conference, the president of the Southern California Conference, W. C. White, J. A. Burden, and I. H. Evans, be asked to present this entire question to the General Conference and the union conferences referred to, and to lead out in the establishment of this medical school.”
Since the time of the foregoing action representatives have been chosen from these various conferences to meet in Loma Linda as a board of management to arrange in detail for the establishment and organization of this medical school.
At the late meeting of the General Conference Committee in Washington, April 6-16, the following was adopted:—
“That the General Conference unite with the Pacific Union Conference in establishing a medical school at Loma Linda, Cal.”
Provision was also made for financial help and other co-operation.
W. A. R.
Field Notes
Six persons have recently been taken into the church at Alpena, Mich.
At Coodys Bluff, Okla., seven souls followed their Lord in baptism.
A MEXICAN brother, with his family of four, has recently accepted the truth.
BAPTISM will shortly be administered to four new converts at Pleasant Hill, Ohio.
THE work at Yuma, Ariz., is onward, four having recently accepted the truth there.
ELDER C. R. KITE baptized nine persons at the La Junta (Colo.) church recently.
AT Rodeo, N. M., lately, eight persons have gone forward with their Lord in baptism.
BROTHER C. H. BATES writes that he has recently baptized at Muskogee, Okla., five souls.
As the result of meetings held at Columbus, Kan., seven adults are now keeping the Sabbath.
A NEW church of twenty-nine members has been organized by Elder R. E. Harter, at Covington, Pa.
ON Sabbath, April 23, four persons were baptized at Colorado Springs, Colo., by Elder G. W. Anglebarger.
THREE souls were buried with their Lord in baptism on April 15, and united with the church at Haviland, Kan.
AT Algona, Iowa, six have begun to keep the Sabbath, and three others have been baptized and joined the church.
ONE person was baptized at Sheboygan, Wis., recently. A good interest prevails there, and others desire baptism soon.
ON Sunday, April 10, a church of seventeen members was organized at Brigham City, Utah, by Elder S. G. Huntington.
THREE new believers were baptized at the First Philadelphia (Pa.) church on Sunday, April 10, by Brother O. O. Bernstein.
BAPTISMAL services were held at the church at Alameda, Cal., recently, when Elder Andrew Brorsen administered the rite to two sisters.
THE rites of baptism were administered at Davenport, Iowa, on April 7, when three were baptized and taken into church-membership.
THERE was a baptismal service at Irvington, N. J., on a recent Sabbath. Eighteen willing souls were led into the water by Elder W. H. Smith. Fifteen of these united with the Newark church. Two are the fruit of the meetings being held at Elizabeth by Brother J. M. Gaff, and one was from Brother E. E. Pennington’s work at Patterson.
Medical Missionary Department
By W. A. Ruble
Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference
W. A. Ruble, M. D. - - - Secretary
Publications of the Educational Department
By F. G.
THE Department of Education publishes the following:—
EDUCATIONAL SERIES
1. “The Children Have Been Neglected,” by Mrs. E. G. White.
2. “Our Line of Advance,” by Frederick Griggs.
3. “Separation From the World,” by Mrs. E. G. White.
4. “The Church-School,” by C. C. Lewis.
5. “The Source of Recruits,” by Katherine B. Hale.
6. “The Demands of the Moment,” by Clifford A. Russell.
(The above are one-half cent each.)
7. “Course of Study Adopted, and Resolutions Passed by Educational Council,” 1909. Five cents each.
BLANK FORMS
Pupils’ Monthly Report Card.
Teacher’s Final Report.
Annual Report of Secretary of Church-School Board.
Church-School Treasurer’s Annual Report.
Teacher’s Contract.
Form 6-A, Summary of Statistics for Conference Department of Education.
Enrolment Report.
(The above are one cent each.)
Certificate of Scholarship for Intermediate Schools.
Church-School Diploma.
(The above are five cents each.)
Clerk’s Order Blank. One cent, twenty cents for book of fifty.
Daily School Register. Fifteen cents each.
Church-School Manual. Fifty cents each.
On all orders amounting to one dollar or over, a discount of twenty-five per cent will be given. These prices include postage or express.
We call particular attention to the diplomas for the church-schools, and the certificates of scholarship for the intermediate schools, which have just been issued. These diplomas and certificates are issued in accordance with the action of the educational council of last year. They will be appreciated by the teachers of our church-schools, and the faculties of our intermediate schools.
The leaflets above listed should be purchased by the departments of education of our conferences, and used in large numbers at our camp-meetings. Thus they may be made a useful factor in building up the educational interests of19the conference. They are of a size to be used in correspondence, and should be on every secretary’s and superintendent’s desk, for mailing with his letters. They will also be of value in the upbuilding of school interests in local churches. Those interested in the advancement of our school interests will do well to see that our people have the leaflets.
F. G.
Christian Education
By Frederick Griggs
Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference
FREDERICK GRIGGS - - - - Secretary
Recent Experiences in Institute Work
SPEAKING of his institute work in the Southern California Conference, Brother J. R. Ferren, missionary secretary of the Pacific Union Conference, writes: “I left Brother Ernest Lloyd with a class of nine young women studying magazine salesmanship at Fernando Academy. Monday next I will go to Lodi with Brother W. H. Covell, the field periodical agent of the California Conference, to help conduct a class in magazine salesmanship there. There are about ten in that school who wish magazine instruction.
“In Southern California the missionary secretary, Brother Lloyd, and I visited about fifteen churches in all. We presented the work of tract distribution, missionary correspondence, personal work with periodicals, and magazine selling. We endeavored to strengthen their missionary organization, helped them to supply themselves with more material, supplied them with lists of names for correspondence, and left the members with new courage.”
“One church visited was away over in the San Pasqual Valley, nine miles from the railroad. We found a fine company there, but cut off from any territory in which to do much tract and paper work. At that place the missionary correspondence idea appealed to them, and seventy copies of the Signs of the Times were subscribed for. This will call for tracts later on. They also took a number of the Temperance Instructor, and quite a number of small books.
“At Escondido, where there are three Germans to one American, a good club of the German Signs of the Times was taken. Some of the English-speaking members are working with the Family Bible Teacher. A number also took the course of instruction in magazine salesmanship.” Those efforts have certainly proved a great uplift to our home workers in that conference.
The Convention
By F. G.
We wish to call attention again to our educational convention, to be held at Emmanuel Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mich., June 10-20. We wish it had been possible to place the new dates of this a little earlier, as it would then have avoided a conflict with quite a number of camp-meetings. But this could not be done, owing to the fact that several of our schools do not close in time to admit of an earlier date. So we shall urge our educators to arrange for others to look after the educational interests at those camp-meetings which this convention obliges them to omit.
We are very desirous that the educational secretaries of the union conferences, the principals of our intermediate schools, and the presidents and heads of all departments of our training-schools, be in attendance at this meeting. As has been previously announced, it is to be devoted principally to the work of our training-schools. The departments have been arranged into groups, to be called sections. The work of these sections will have a direct bearing upon that of the convention as a whole, as they will make such recommendations to the convention for adoption as appear to them to be wise and for the interests of the several departments.
Our school work is a basic one, in the advancement of this message. From our schools must come laborers for all departments of the cause. It is incumbent upon us to develop our schools in all lines to the very highest degree of efficiency. While it will mean much in the way of expense, time, and effort, to conduct this convention, we believe that it will be of inestimable value to the improvement of our educational work; for what improves the advanced school affects very directly all other grades of schools. So we trust that our school boards, and our educators as a whole, will bend every effort to make this convention a rousing success.
We will speak next week of the matter of room, board, etc.
F. G.
Improving Odds and Ends of Time
“It is really wonderful how much can be gained by improving odds and ends of time in keen, analytical observing, thinking, reading, studying. Think of the untold wealth locked up in the spare moments and long winter evenings of every life. It is possible to pick up an education in the odds and ends of time which most people carelessly throw away. If those who have been deprived of a college education would only make up their minds to get a substitute for it, they would be amazed to see what even the evenings of a few weeks devoted to college studies would accomplish. When a noted literary man was asked how he managed to accomplish so much with so little friction or apparent effort, he replied, ‘By organizing my time—to every hour its appointed task or duty, with no overlapping or infringements.’”
Magazine Sales in Japan
By A. J. S. B.
MANY of our readers have seen the new Japanese magazine, Owari no Fukuin. Our brethren in Japan are finding out that it is possible to sell a large number of ten-cent magazines in that country. Under date of April 6, 1910, Brother H. Kuniya writes from the city of Hiroshima: “I am now working in Hiroshima with the students. When we came here, some told us that we would never succeed in selling Christian papers in this city, which is the central place of the Buddhists. But trusting in the Lord, who gave us victory before, we started to sell. It is our duty to warn the one hundred fifty thousand inhabitants of this place in the best way. Unless we sell papers and tracts, they will not read; so we determined to sell, and after explaining our work, many bought our literature. In two weeks (though it rained several days), we sold 1,622 copies of our magazine, Owari no Fukuin, and 686 books and tracts. Besides this, we got a number of subscriptions for Owari no Fukuin. Our force is made up of eight persons, including myself. We have now canvassed all over the city once. Beginning with next week, we will try to canvass it again. We must visit from house to house again and again until they realize what our object is, and why we call on them so often. There are many interested families, who invite us to give Bible readings at their homes.” Surely the sale of our periodicals is one of the most effective means of carrying the message to the millions in all of the large cities of the world.