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Instant Healing in Answer to Prayer

By A. SMITH

A. SMITH

I was afflicted with what was declared by a physician to be a cancer or malignant tumor. It became, at length, so irritable that the touch of my clothing or of my hand caused much pain. The flesh for several inches around was much inflamed.

One day in July three years ago, having suffered much irritation all day from the touch of my clothing, I retired to my bed trying to devise a shield which I could wear to relieve the irritation; but I could formulate no satisfactory plan. Then I prayed, saying, “Lord, if this affliction is Satan’s work, rebuke him now, and allow it to go no further.” I was instantly and permanently healed. See Matt. 8: 2, 3. Severe massage was at once applied, but it caused no more pain nor discomfort than when applied to sound portions of the body.

I have often related the circumstance, and have been requested to write it for publication, which I now do. The same Jesus who instantly healed the leper is still “mighty to save.”

Grandville, Mich.

Excellent Education

By J. F. BAHLER

J. F. BAHLER

The greatest educator is the Spirit of Jehovah. “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26.

If men would heed the direction of the Holy Spirit, they would at all times be taught of an infallible source of divine science and unerring higher education. “As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” Rom. 8:14. How important it is to realize that we are the children of God! This knowledge can be imparted only through the power that is in divine revelation. A person who knows that he is a child of God, knows more than all the scientists and theologians of the world.

How much we ought to study the words of Holy Writ; for they alone contain true education and life and power, through the Spirit. “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63. Many references might be given from the Scriptures to prove that the wisdom of God surpasses all that man styles “higher education.”

O for deeper revelations of God’s truth, to use to his glory and in his precious work!

The Children’s Hour

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day’s occupations, That is known as the Children’s Hour.

I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.

From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.

A whisper, and then a silence, Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise.

A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden raid from the hall,— By three doors left unguarded They enter my castle wall.

They climb up into my turret O’er the arms and back of my chair; If I try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere.

They almost devour me with kisses, Their arms about me entwine, Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen, In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine.

Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old mustache as I am Is not a match for you all?

I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart.

And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And molder in dust away!

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

How and What Should Children Read?

By Eliza H. Morton

ELIZA H. MORTON

When a child is taught the alphabet and its combinations, he is given a key which he may use in unlocking all the treasures of good, and which, if not properly instructed, he may use, as he has opportunity, in opening the cesspools of iniquity. It is therefore of the utmost importance that parents guard this avenue of thought-transmission, and begin early to cultivate in the minds of their children a taste for ennobling and uplifting literature, and to warn them against that reading which leaves a stain on the soul.

The child should early be taught that words are simply the clothes in which we dress our thoughts, and that in reading or speaking they should be distinctly articulated and correctly pronounced. How to read well comes through a knowledge of how to speak well; hence how the children should read is a matter which should receive attention long before they are given a printed book. In youth the organs of speech are pliable, the memory is retentive, and the habits are unformed; hence correct articulation and pronunciation may be acquired then much more easily than in advanced years.

Those who have not had this training in early life feel its lack keenly when thrown into the society of educated persons. The mind may recognize an error in speech as soon as made, but the untrained lips will often shame the speaker, and make him feel ill at ease, even with those who are his inferiors in other respects.

A blackboard should be in every home, and the child's first reading lessons should be from it. He should be taught exercises, illustrated with the voice and the crayon. The children will be glad to go without a few unnecessary ruffles, and harmful pastry, if mother will only spend a little more time each day teaching them how to speak correctly; for correct speech is the foundation of the ability to read well. It is profitable to notice the language the children use when at play, and often to write on the blackboard a list of commonly mispronounced words, and then lead each child to incorporate them into sentences of his own.

The dictionary should be made a member of the family circle, and often be consulted. Nehemiah tells us how the priests and Levites read in his day: “They read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.” Neh. 8:8.

The habit of mumbling is one easily formed, and should not be tolerated by teacher or parent. It is usually acquired by reading in a very low tone. The Bible injunction is, “Lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid.” Isa. 40:9. Drawling is another habit frequently acquired in childhood, and often the one thus afflicted is not aware of it. He may be like one who said, “I u-sed to dr-awl, but I bro-ke my-self of it.” It is a good plan to require a child who drawls to read frequently in concert with some one who reads rapidly, and this will make the defect noticeable to himself. Attempts to cover incorrect pronunciation by rapid utterance should likewise be discouraged. Many are like the old lady who said that whenever she came to a word that she could not pronounce, she called it “Jerusalem” and let it went.” When reading becomes an exercise of the mind in thinking and feeling, it is something more than the mere action of the organs of speech upon the air; for what is read becomes a part of the very being, and under those conditions the emphasis will be bestowed aright, and the reading will be of interest.

The parent who knows what his children read each day, and by carefully worded questions leads them to reproduce in their own words the thoughts which have thus entered their minds, is laying the foundation of a culture which will prove of inestimable value through life. There is nothing that will more firmly fasten what is read in the mind than the habit of talking it over with some one else. “Freely ye have received, freely give,” is a law which holds true in what we read, as well as in our temporal interests. Making a written synopsis of what is read tends also to fix the thoughts in the mind, so that they can be given to others.

Reading just to pass the time away is injurious: it leads to a hasty, superficial, skimming habit, and causes the mind to lose its power of connected, vigorous thought. Some writers spread one idea through a volume, while others convey a wealth of meaning in a single sentence. It is better for the mind to gain one hundred ideas from one book than to gain one idea from one hundred books. This brings us to the question, What shall the children read?

It is not the purpose of the writer to advertise a list of books or periodicals suitable for children to read, but simply to notice a few general principles which parents may apply in selecting reading-matter for their families.

Books were never so plentiful and so varied as at the present time; and the majority of them are utterly worthless and positively injurious, and have been aptly compared to the frogs which came up and overspread Egypt. Satan has in every way sought to infuse his spirit into the books for the young. Many of them clothe vice in attractive livery, and appeal to the imagination in a way to give wrong ideas of life. They are to the mind of the child what minute doses of poison would be to his body. Some of these books, while not openly obscene, tend in that direction, and with an artfulness from the bottomless pit. It may not be out of place right here to say that notwithstanding the laws against books which are openly vulgar, Satan has his agents for these in nearly every State and town. The work of these agencies is performed in the most cunning and artful manner, and little would be known about it by the public in general were it not for certain societies that make it their business to uncover things of this kind. The workers in these organizations find conditions most appalling. The victims are generally boys in their teens. Parents should warn their children, and keep in such close touch

with them that this terrible defilement will not find its way into their minds.

Your boy should be so fortified and instructed in the ways of righteousness that, when approached by any one who would call his attention to anything suggestive of vulgarity, he will instantly turn away, and refuse to be contaminated. Not long ago, while on a street-car, the writer witnessed an exhibition of purity and manliness in a boy which was refreshing to see. Two young lads were sitting together on the opposite side of the car. One of them looked out of the window and saw a young lady holding up her dress to avoid the mud in crossing the street. He made a low remark, and tried to get his companion to gaze also. The lad thus accosted gave the other boy a look of disgust, and indignantly replied: “I will turn my eyes away. I will not look. You are no gentleman to talk that way about a lady.” That boy showed his home training, and is one of whom his sisters and mother have reason to be proud.

There is a wisdom which destroys all desire for corrupt knowledge, and the reading-matter placed in the hands of the young should be of a nature to strengthen in their minds the principles of purity.

Portland, Maine.

(Concluded next week)

Headache

By Dudley Fulton, M. D.

DUDLEY FULTON, M. D.

Headache is one of the commonest symptoms of disease. Fifteen per cent of schoolchildren, twenty-five per cent of men, and more than fifty per cent of women suffer from it. It is one expression of the functional disturbance of some organ of the body. As such, like all symptoms, it is useful, even though painful, because it is essentially a warning of that which is worse than itself.

There is scarcely a disease of which headache may not constitute a symptom, and it is this very fact which renders its study important and interesting. Thus, headache stands in causal relation to disease of the eye, ear, nose, throat, teeth; and its proper interpretation demands, therefore, a knowledge of all these. It is further intimately related to disorders of the digestive system and to disease of the kidneys; to a morbid state of the blood, such as anemia, autointoxication, high blood tension; and to such maladies as gout and rheumatism. In searching, therefore, for the cause of headache, we must be prepared to look for it in every possible direction.

The headache age is from fifteen to fifty-five, early childhood and declining age being usually exempt. Headache is more frequently found in city populations and among the wealthier classes. It is more common in the spring and fall, and in temperate climates.

Types of Headache

Broadly speaking, there are six types of headache,—congestive, anemic, toxic, neuralgic, nervous, and organic. There is another important form of head-pain, migraine, the classification of which is somewhat doubtful. Headache may be classed in accordance with the kind of pain, which differs with different persons and with different causes. We have (1) pulsating, throbbing headache; (2) dull, heavy headache; (3) constrictive, squeezing, pressing headache; (4) hot, burning, sore sensation. The first form characterizes disturbance of the circulation—congestion and anemia; the second is usually of the dyspeptic or toxic type; the third is found in the nervous individual; the fourth, in the rheumatic or anemic. The underlying condition of congestive headache is explained in the term “congestion,” and is an engorgement of the blood-vessels within the cranial cavity. This increases the pressure upon the structures of the bony chamber. The seat of pain in headache is in the scalp and the coverings of the brain. The brain substance itself is probably not sensitive to pain, as portions of it may be cut or torn away without pain to the individual.

A congestive headache is accompanied by a flushed condition of the face and neck, by congested eyes, throbbing of the temporal arteries, dread of light, and some dizziness. Coughing, lowering of the head, as in stooping over, or anything that increases the flow of blood to the head, increases the pain.

Successful Treatment

A patient recently under observation suffered the foregoing symptoms. Sleep, especially in the recumbent position, had been impossible for weeks, being induced only when the patient was propped up with pillows. Lowering the head increased the pain. Immediate relief followed the institution of correct treatment. Headache powders, which by increased dosage had kept the patient temporarily comfortable, were withdrawn. The head and neck were wrapped in towels wrung from cold water. This contracted the blood-vessels of the head and neck, thus reducing the current of blood to the head. At the same time hot-blanket packs were applied to the legs, this measure dilating the blood-vessels, and increasing the amount of blood in these parts. Thus by revulsion the head was relieved of the excess blood. Sweet sleep invariably followed this proceeding. Correction of the dietetic errors, improved action of the bowels, needed rest, and tonic baths removed the tendency to headaches.

Another patient was relieved by an opposite plan of treatment. His headache was caused by anemia, or lack of blood in the head, the tissues of which were poorly nourished. The face, lips, and mucous membranes of the mouth and eyes were pale and lusterless. The patient was thin and emaciated. When in the standing or sitting posture, he suffered severely from headache. He had learned that he suffered less when sleeping without a pillow. Advantage was taken of gravity by elevating the foot of the bed, thus allowing a free flow of blood to the patient’s head. Warm compresses were applied to the head and neck to encourage the flow of blood to these parts. Tonic measures, such as centripetal massage and electricity, relieved him completely of the symptom.

Sick Headache and Neuralgia

Bilious headache, or sick headache, means a sick stomach. Because of overeating or too frequent eating, or because of eating indigestible food, decomposing masses of food lie in the stomach, poisons are generated, and chemical combinations are formed, which, absorbed into the general circulation, irritate the nerve-endings in the head and elsewhere, producing pains and aches. Fasting a day, washing out the stomach, or living on an exclusive fruit diet for a day or two, will dispose of this headache. The cure follows temperance and good judgment at the dinner table.

Neuralgic headaches are usually localized to one spot or to the course of a nerve. Those having a tendency to rheumatic and gouty disturbances are most liable to this form of head-pain. It yields stubbornly to treatment when the blood becomes saturated with uric acid from a diet excessively rich in nitrogen, or because the eliminating organs of the body are sluggish and overworked, and unable to dispose of the sewage of the system. Most often applications of heat, electricity, and light rubbing give temporary relief. Cure depends upon the restoration of the normal equilibrium of the income and output of the nitrogenous elements of food,—lessening the income by limiting the diet to well-cooked cereals, vegetables, and abundance of fruit; and increasing the output by flushing the tissues and kidneys by drinking two or three quarts of pure water daily, by physical exercise to the point of free perspiration, by morning cold baths, and by eliminative hydropathic procedures to increase the activity of the skin.

Drugs powerful enough to deaden the pain are detrimental. They in no sense cure, as they do not remove the cause, nor do they place the body in a condition where it can more easily cope with disease processes; hence they should be left in the chemist’s shop, the only fit place for them.

Nervous Headache

Nervous headaches select the back of the head and neck. More often the abnormal sensation is of weight, pressure, constriction about the head, heaviness, fulness, or numbness, rather than pain or ache. Usually it is most evident mornings, less so or absent during the latter part of the day. With it generally goes fatigue, either mental or physical, or both, upon ordinary exertion. Loss of sleep, or sleep which fails to refresh, and diminished weight, are common concomitants.

Such a group of symptoms indicates pathological fatigue. The head sensations disappear upon the adoption of those measures which check the nerve leaks, and remove the causes producing them. Rest-cure, either complete or partial, may be necessary. A diet of maximum nourishment, requiring minimum

effort to digest it, is indicated. Tonic, passive exercise, in massage and manual and mechanical Swedish movements, is beneficial.

Organic Headache

It may be said that the foregoing functional headaches do not, as a rule, prevent sleep. Organic headaches do. The constancy of organic headache and the inability to relieve it permanently by known rational measures, coupled with violent vomiting unaccompanied by nausea, and failure of vision, suggest grave mischief within the cranial cavity in the form of tumors, abscess of the brain, etc. Such cases require surgical interference. Fortunately, organic headaches are most rare.

Migraine

Head-pain which appears early in life; which appears at regular or irregular periods, varying from a few days to weeks or even months apart; and which is preceded an hour or a day by warning of the attack, most often by blurred sight, or circles of different colored lights, suggests migraine. The pain, which is usually limited to one side of the head, is so excruciating as totally to incapacitate the individual. Dread of light is common. Nausea and vomiting end the attack in from one to four days. Two or three days before and after the attack of migraine, the patient feels unusually well. Many individuals have an inherited predisposition to migraine, but may remain quite free from it until some reflex cause, like indigestion, eye-strain, the retention of body poisons, or general ill health, brings on an attack. The prospects of cure depend upon the removal of the reflex cause or causes. Careful body training, dieting, and those measures which increase the capacity of the body to resist disease, cure more cases than other procedures.

Turkey

By E. Frauchiger

E. FRAUCHIGER

A YEAR ago at our union conference held at Friedensau, it was decided that I should take the direction of the Levant field, on the departure of Elder Claude McMoody. After a journey of three weeks I arrived safely at Constantinople with my wife and seven children, in company with Brother F. Scior and his wife. We found a kindly welcome at the home of Brother Z. G. Baharian. Brother C. Voigt, who was appointed for the publishing branch, had already arrived.

From Oct. 26 until Nov. 1, 1909, we had a general meeting at Bardizag. Brethren Guy Dail, R. S. Greaves, Z. G. Baharian, and the writer presented the truth for this time. I was glad of this opportunity to become better acquainted with the brethren and sisters, and with the needs of the field. During our meeting we had an earthquake, which is no unusual occurrence in this country.

November 1 we had a general council meeting, having present with us Brethren L. R. Conradi and H. F. Schuberth, as well as Brother V. Pampaian, who had been transferred from the Russian field to ours. We laid plans for the extension of the work, which were embodied in about thirty resolutions. Then we began our work in this strange land, among this babel of tongues.

“Be strong and of a good courage.” This command, which was spoken to Joshua when he entered the land of promise, sounds in my heart as I write for the first time from this place. It comes as a help to me; for one is sometimes tempted to lose courage in such a foreign country, with its teeming life, its rushing business, its thousand needs, when one is sent with the commission to preach the gospel of the kingdom and the end of all things at a time when men think of the future as very promising. Yet notwithstanding the many difficulties, I have received in this short time so much kindness that I would be ungrateful if I began my work without joy.

Under the freedom granted by the new constitution in this country, Brother Melchiori, who came here at his own expense, began systematic canvassing. It was a novelty to the people of Constantinople to have religious literature offered them from door to door. From week to week Brother Melchiori was more successful in selling, until he reached forty-five piasters a day. This was an encouragement to the native brethren. The priests, as well as the people, bought our literature, in the French, German, Italian, Spanish, English, Armenian, Greek, and Turkish languages. The Turks, Armenians, and Greeks in Constantinople buy literature in French rather than in their own tongue.

Our activity was not long unnoticed. Secular and religious newspapers began a controversy against us. Ours was the first Christian society venturing to publish a Turkish tract in Turkish letters on the theme, “Who Is Jesus?” This tract created a sensation, and was commented upon in Turkish and Armenian newspapers. While circulating the tract,

in spite of the constitutional freedom, our colporteurs were imprisoned three or four times, and their literature was confiscated. At one place Brother Melchiori was beaten till the blood came, and his coat and literature were stained with blood.

Our colporteurs were expressly forbidden to circulate this literature among the Turks. Since by this decree of the government a great part of our work for Islam was hindered, we thought it necessary to make application to the Sublime Porte. After many visits and exact investigations, we received permission to sell the tract, but only on condition that we would not enter a Turkish house with it. As every Turk lives in a single house, and this house is for him a kingdom and temple, no one is allowed to enter. This makes missionary work among these people very difficult. Nevertheless, even under these difficult conditions, and although only a few of the people can read, we sold nearly a full edition of the tract.

Brother Voigt reports that since our arrival we have sold nearly $760 worth of literature. Our first book, “The Way to Christ,” in the Armenian language, is just printed. The Greek translation will soon follow.

Our evangelistic work began soon after the new year. We thought to deliver lectures in German or French, or through an interpreter, but circumstances forbade. In vain we tried to find a hall. As a further hindrance, Brother Scior fell dangerously ill at my lodging with typhoid fever; but with the Lord’s help, and the services of a competent nurse, his health was soon restored, and he was able to go in May with his wife to Thessalonica. Here he will preach the truth, which once shone forth so luminously at that place by the preaching of Paul.

Under these unfavorable conditions, we were obliged to employ all our sagacity, hunting in the streets, in German and French post-offices, in and outside of churches, wherever we could hear a German or a French sound, and invite people, wherever we found them, to come to our Bible lectures at my house. Soon we had a number of commercial men together, many of whom were Jews, who sought other things rather than Jesus of Nazareth.

A list of interested persons was obtained from our canvassers on their second round. Soon we had as many as we could visit, and often we were together till past midnight, which is a rare thing in the East, where people go to bed early. My wife accompanied me in all my visits. This is necessary in this country. The first visit she generally made alone, and after that she introduced me.

Brother Baharian gave lectures this winter at Stamboul and in Tavela, speaking in the Turkish language. These lectures were attended mostly by Armenians and Greeks.

On April 9 we baptized three brethren who had kept the Sabbath for a long time. As the first-fruits among the Europeans, I had the privilege of baptizing two persons on July 13. The readers in Europe may be interested to know that one of these is a native of Brandenburg, and the other of Austria. Four were convinced of the truth, but only two could be baptized.

I feel sorry to interrupt my work for three months by a journey to visit our brethren and sisters in Asia Minor before our general meeting in the autumn. If God will, I shall then visit the home of Abraham. As the journey will be mostly on horseback, and as few Europeans travel in these parts, and the newspapers inform us that many are killed by the fanatical Kurds, I beg you to remember in your prayers Brother Baharian, who is going to the eastern part of the field, as well as Brother Pampaian and myself, on our tour.

Galata, Constantinople.

Property Rights

SMALL boys are very apt to fail to recognize the value of others’ property. My small son, in company with a playmate, in a game used the window-panes in a neighbor’s hen-house for a target.

Here was a valuable opportunity for a lasting lesson. I called my boy to me, and we talked the matter over, he having full chance to explain his side of the case. Then the mischief he had wrought and the reputation it might give him were gravely discussed.

He voluntarily offered to refund the amount of his part of the damage out of his small savings until full restitution was made. This was finally agreed upon, and here came the hard part for the boy. His pocket-money allowance was twenty-five cents a week, which was frequently reduced by fines for ill-temper or other sundry breaches of etiquette or duty. It took him seven weeks to get out of debt.

When the last cent was paid, he gave a sigh of relief, and said, “There, I’ll never destroy anything again as long as I live!”—E. G. W., in Harper’s Bazar.

Annual Meetings in Scandinavia

By ERIK ARENSEN

ERIK ARENSEN

The annual meetings in our union conference are now in the past. It can truly be said of these gatherings in the different countries throughout the Scandinavian Union Conference that they were so many feasts to God’s commandment-keeping people in the far North.

The Scandinavian Union held its regular biennial meeting at Akersgaden 74, Christiania, in connection with the annual meeting of the Norway Conference, May 16-22. The union meeting was attended by a full delegation from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and the North Swedish Mission. From abroad were present Elders L. R. Conradi, W. A. Spicer, and Dr. A. B. Olsen, of England. The valuable services rendered by these brethren in the meetings throughout the union were highly appreciated by all. Dr. J. C. Ottosen, of Skodsborg, Denmark, made short visits at the meetings in Norway and Sweden.

A new conference was incorporated into the union,—that of Finland, organized in October, 1909. According to the president’s report, the union now, with this latest addition, consists of four conferences, with eighty-six churches, and 3,028 members, 577 new members having been received by baptism and by vote during the last two years. Through the General Conference treasury the union has contributed about $9,100 to foreign missions. We now have eighteen ordained ministers, five licentiates, eighteen Bible workers, and about a hundred canvassers. An earnest effort is being made to increase the corps of laborers in the union; hence the educational work received considerable attention in all the meetings.

The usual resolution of thanks was put in a somewhat new and practical form in each conference, resolving that we make our gratitude manifest by taking up a collection on the $10,000 Fund to be raised in Europe, in addition to the $300,000 Fund now being raised in the United States. The Scandinavian Union agreed to add out of its treasury an amount equal to the grand total thus raised by its local conferences. This recommendation received a most hearty response throughout the field, about $1,440 being given, including a thousand kroner each from the Norway and Danish conference treasuries.

One important measure taken at the union meeting was the unifying of the publishing work in Norway and Denmark, making the Christiania Publishing House a union institution, and the headquarters of our Danish-Norwegian book work. The depositary in Copenhagen will henceforth be a branch of the Christiania office.

Elder J. C. Raft was unanimously re-elected president of the union for the ensuing two years. It was recommended that Elder Fred Anderson, who has for a number of years made a successful leader of the work in Finland, take charge of the North Swedish Mission, and that Elder L. Muderspach, of Denmark, make Finland his field of labor. Elder N. P. Nelson, who has for seventeen years been doing a good work in Norway, cheerfully responded to an urgent call to remove to Skodsborg, Denmark, to do pastoral work at the sanitarium, and to unite with the teaching force of the Union Mission School there. All the deliberations of the union passed off most harmoniously, the same spirit of unity and brotherly love characterizing the meetings throughout in each conference.

The attendance at the annual meeting of the Norway Conference was larger than ever, and powerful waves of blessing from our bountiful Father above at times rolled over the congregation. Especially was this apparent Sabbath forenoon, May 21, when Elder Spicer delivered a spiritual discourse that made a deep impression upon the large audience, which filled every available space in the meeting-hall and its approaches. It was indeed an occasion long to be remembered by those present.

The public meetings in general were well attended from outside. Dr. Olsen’s visit was highly appreciated. Besides giving public talks on health topics at the meetings he attended in Norway, Sweden, and Finland, he gratuitously made examinations and gave medical counsel to a large number of persons, who were glad to improve the opportunity. Unfortunately, his duties at the Caterham Sanitarium made it necessary for him to return to England just at the opening of the conference meetings in Denmark.

The advancement of the work in Norway is evident. Especially is this seen in the financial affairs of the conference. The heroic efforts of our faithful brethren there during the last decade to save the cause from financial ruin are beginning to show blessed results. Last year that conference received $8,000 in tithes, an increase of $1,300. Our canvassers sold literature during the year amounting to nearly $9,200, while in 1908 the book sales were $7,000. The conference has paid into the union treasury over $2,600 in tithes and offerings in 1909. It has also paid off nearly $6,000 indebtedness on our real estate in Christiania. Elder N. C. Bergersen was again elected president of the Norway Conference.

Of the annual meetings that followed in the other conferences in the union we need only write briefly. To tell of each meeting in detail would be needless reiteration. The excellent meeting in Norway was largely typical of those that followed in the other countries. The same encouraging features were only repeated. The annual meeting of the Swedish Conference was held in the old historic city of Linköping. The attendance on the part of our own people was considerably larger than customary, and the outside interest was quite good. One of the leading dailies of the place contained a column-and-a-half article on the work and belief of Seventh-day Adventists, written by Brother Emil Ahren, at the request of the editor. The tithe of this conference for the past year amounted to about $5,000, and the book sales to $25,500 (in 1908 a little over $22,000). The former president of the conference, Elder S. F. Svensson, was re-elected.

Next in order came the first annual meeting of the newly organized Finland Conference. This was held at the city of Bjorneborg, June 1-5, seventy of our brethren and sisters attending, besides Elders W. A. Spicer, J. C. Raft, and L. Muderspach, and Dr. A. B. Olsen, from abroad. It was with sadness that our brethren and sisters in Finland saw Elder Fred Anderson, their faithful and tried leader for nine years, leave for another field of labor. But they felt the urgency of the call for him to go to the North Swedish Mission, and they cheerfully responded. Elder L. Muderspach, of Denmark, was appointed to take the presidency thus made vacant. The Denmark Conference has shown great liberality toward this younger member of the union by giving one of its best workers, and promising to pay all his traveling expenses and wages until the close of this year, besides giving him $270 to take along with him as a gift to the Finland Conference.

The annual meeting of the Denmark Conference was held in Copenhagen, with a large attendance. The tithe during the year was close to $9,200. The book sales showed a total of $24,000 in 1909, while in 1908 they aggregated $19,000. Elder C. C. Jensen, who has had charge of the work in Denmark for the last two years, was re-elected president. While the meetings were going on in Copenhagen, Elders Conradi and Spicer held a number of meetings with patients and helpers at the Skodsborg Sanitarium.

We firmly believe that these good annual meetings throughout the union will show blessed results in the work in Scandinavia. The faith and courage of our workers and people generally have been strengthened.

Skodsborg, Denmark.

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