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Review and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 29.

Divine Providence
Earlier text: PARENTAL LOVE AND PARENTAL SELFISHNESS

MANITOBA

By F. H. Westphal

MORDEN.—The local camp-meeting was held at Morden, which accommodated the German portion of our people. From the beginning, there was a good spirit in the meeting. As another meeting was to be held for the English-speaking members of our churches, there were only about fifty of our English brethren in attendance at this meeting. The German department numbered from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five. The German meetings were well attended by the public.
In both the German and the English, every branch of the work was considered. The canvassing work, the Sabbath-school interests, the tithing system, foreign and home missionary work, temperance and health, and the educational work were made prominent. There was a lively interest manifested for each branch, and some promised to engage in the canvassing work. We praise the Lord for omens of good.
We held youth’s meetings each day, and one brother said that as he was nearing the tent one evening, a holy fear came over him. On coming still nearer, he found several mothers outside the tent, praying for their children, while the young people were called forward to yield to the Lord and His service. He could not understand the prayers of the mothers nor the appeals of the ministers, as these were in German, but he could feel the power of the Spirit of God.
The last Sabbath twelve persons were baptized. Nine of these were German, and three were of the English-speaking brethren. Others said they wish to be baptized as soon as Brother Dirksen can visit them. At five o’clock the ordinances of the Lord’s house were celebrated. The whole camp came together in the large tent, and after the ordinances a social meeting was conducted, in which the Lord was praised, both in the English and in the German language. Nearly all took part in the social meeting.
Immediately after the evening meeting on Sunday, the brethren needed to take down the tents. While they were taking down the large tent, a little shower came up, so they threw it into the shed to shield it from getting wet. The director then came over to the German tent, and the brethren went into their tents; just then a policeman came to see about taking down the tent. If it had not been for the shower, he would have caught the brethren folding the tent together, and would have arrested them, and so hindered the camp-meeting that was to follow. We could but praise the Lord for that shower of rain. It was evident that some one had notified the policeman as soon as the brethren began to pull down the tent; but before he reached us, the Lord had arranged to shield His servants.
There is a spirit of unity among the brethren and the laborers, which is encouraging. Brother Boynton, of Nebraska, who is on his way to labor in Alberta, rendered valuable help in the English language. He, with Brother Nelson, the director, and Brethren Buhalts and Gravelle, did most of the preaching in English, while Brethren Dirksen and Wentland and the writer did most of the preaching in German; but we also changed about, and the blessing of the Lord attended this mingling together. F. H. WESTPHAL.

INDIANA

By O. S. Hadley

I HAVE been very busy, and have been blessed in my work. Since the special State Conference meeting of Indiana, I have been shaping my work to leave, in a good spiritual condition, those who have been uncertain upon some points, by reason of the error taught before the special Conference meeting. And as several had been waiting for the removal of error, they felt somewhat free to act, and three fully united with the church in Indianapolis. I have baptized four, one of whom came into the church some time ago, but until the action of our recent State Conference meeting did not feel free to go further, and was not baptized.
I recently visited the company in Logansport. We celebrated the ordinances, the brethren were of good courage in the message, and the Spirit of the Lord was recognized as present.
I intended to go from Logansport direct to Elkhart, my new field of labor; but by a special Providential hindrance I had to return to Indianapolis, where I found two sisters who were anxious to be buried with the Lord in baptism. So I administered the ordinance on the evening of July 3, at half-past ten o’clock, by moonlight. The scene was inspiring, and will long be remembered with pleasure. While waiting for the moon to rise higher, that the light of her full face might shine upon the clear, running stream, we sat upon the grassy bank, and sang sweet hymns of praise to Him who established the ordinance by the baptism of His own Son, by His appointed servant and prophet, John the Baptist, in the River Jordan. One of these sisters had been a member of the Catholic Church, but in the readings my wife had given her, she heard the sweet story of redemption. As she went down into the water and came up again, she was indeed happy as she realized that she had been translated from the power of darkness into this marvelous light.
My wife and I are of good courage in the Lord, and “know that all things work together for good to them that love God.” She is to remain here a little longer, while I go at once to open up the work in Elkhart. My address will be Elkhart, Ind., General Delivery. O. S. HADLEY.

Aggressive Work Begins in Indianapolis

By Arthur W. Bartlett

INDIANAPOLIS.—I have been called by the Lord, through the Indiana Conference, to serve as pastor of this church, and to do aggressive work in this vicinity. The church is composed of about two hundred members. We have begun a series of meetings in West Indianapolis, preaching every night, in a large and commodious store room. We have had an encouraging attendance and interest. Brother Vince is rendering valuable assistance in this work. Desiring greatly to present the message to the twenty-five thousand colored persons of this city, we have obtained, through a sister here, an invitation by one of the leading colored preachers to speak in his church, on condition that we will not say anything about the seventh day. I am glad that I can preach the Sabbath just as powerfully by preaching the Lord of the Sabbath, as I could by directly naming the day. Therefore we will preach the Sabbath to our colored brethren by preaching Christ, and by manifesting Christ in our lives. Only those who have the imparted righteousness of Christ, and who wear that wedding robe all the time, are keepers of the Sabbath. I am of good courage. ARTHUR W. BARTLETT.

Breaking Ground for New Church at Connersville

By R. H. Sparks; Emma Sparks

CONNERSVILLE.—Thursday, June 6, we began breaking ground for the erection of our new church, which is thirty by forty-four feet, with vestibule, vestry, and basement. We desire so to establish the work here that Connersville will be a center of influence where State meetings and other large gatherings can be held. The three city newspapers have each printed quite lengthy articles in regard to Seventh-day Adventists and the early history of their work. These articles in the newspapers [mentioned in a late REVIEW] have placed us and our glorious message in a better light before the people throughout the city and Fayette County. We are of good courage. R. H. SPARKS, EMMA SPARKS.

THE CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE AND CAMP-MEETING.

By W. T. Knox

The California State camp-meeting and Conference was held in Oakland, June 4-16, on grounds convenient to the center of the city, and was well attended by representatives from our churches, and by the citizens of Oakland, being one of the largest meetings ever held by us in this State. From the first, the interest was encouraging. Some of the fruits of the meeting were seen in the seventy or eighty candidates who presented themselves for baptism. The work of the ministry was of a character that would tend to carry forward and deepen the work begun at our last General Conference. The meeting was favored with the labors of Sister White, Elders W. C. White, J. N. Loughborough, A. T. Jones, and H. Shultz, in addition to the ministers of the Conference.
In the Conference meetings much interest was manifested by the people in the questions brought before them. Among other important resolutions adopted was one to divide the Conference, creating a new Conference in southern California. This action seemed necessary on account of the great length of the State, and the growing interests in the southern portion, which demand more attention than can be given by those who have in charge the work for the entire Conference. Another important measure favorably considered was the separation of the Conference sessions from the camp-meetings. It was voted hereafter to hold the Conference about the first of the year.
The various reports submitted showed that progress is being made in most departments of the work. From her abundance, California decided to send help to some of the needy fields. Elder G. A. Snyder left during the meeting for Australia. In a few days Elders Watson and Dart will start for Alaska, and Brethren Ernest and Bond will make Arizona their future field of labor. The brethren were not only generous in giving their laborers, but also in devoting a portion of their funds to sustain the work beyond their borders, and in liberally contributing to Australia, the South, to mission-fields in general, and to the Relief of the Schools fund. Three thousand eight hundred dollars in cash and pledges was given.
The following officers were chosen for the coming year: President, A. T. Jones; Secretary, M. H. Brown; Tract and Missionary Secretary, W. B. Sample; Corresponding Secretary, Evelyn Riley; Treasurer, Pacific Press. Executive Committee: A. T. Jones, M. H. Brown, J. O. Corliss, M. C. Wilcox, W. C. White, C. N. Martin, H. G. Thurston, M. E. Cady, I. H. Evans.
The last Sabbath afternoon of the meeting the following brethren were ordained to the gospel ministry: T. H. Watson, Alvin Kellogg, A. M. Dart, A. Brorson, G. Raudeler, and W. S. Sadler.
The Conference was followed by a profitable workers’ meeting, lasting a week. The workers all went to their fields of labor with courage and the expectation of a prosperous year.
W. T. KNOX.
At the recent camp-meeting the interests of the canvassing work were looked after by Brother C. A. Pedicord; of the young people’s meetings by T. S. Whitelock, M. D.; of the intermediate division by Misses Jessie and Marie Barber; of the primary division by Mrs. Runnels and Mrs. Thorn; of the kindergarten by Katherine B. Hale.

IOWA

Misses Mary Buhalts and Tillie and Katie Earle will join the tent company at Waterloo.
Elder C. A. Hansen, having expressed his willingness to enter some needy field outside of Iowa, has been appointed by the General Conference to go to Newfoundland. He will be supported by the Iowa Conference, and, with his wife and little daughter, will probably leave for his new field this month.

MEETINGS IN THE EASTERN UNION CONFERENCE.

By H. W. Cottrell

The general meeting for the Maritime Mission field was held, according to appointment, June 6-13, in St. John, N. B. The attendance of our people was not as large as we had hoped it would be, but the services were well attended by the people of the city. Elder Watt’s labor was highly appreciated. All the workers from the mission field were in attendance, and assisted in the public services, giving evidence that the Lord had given them a message to bear to the people. The interest in the word preached increased till the close of the meeting. There were five persons baptized and added to the church. There is perfect harmony among the workers, which is an omen of true Christianity. This mission field should soon be organized into a Conference. Elder Langdon has the work in local charge under the Lord, and is giving it his best attention. The New England Conference has sent a laborer, Elder W. R. Andrews, to this field, and will pay all expenses, which will greatly encourage the brethren in those provinces.

QUEBEC CONFERENCE.

This Conference held its camp-meeting and business session at Coaticook, June 13-23. The weather was not the most favorable for a large meeting, the evenings being uncomfortably cool. However, the Spirit of the Lord was present to witness to the word spoken. The meeting was a spiritual success. Elder G. E. Langdon was present to assist in the services, and was given much freedom in presenting the message of truth. Elder S. A. Farnsworth, whom the late General Conference assigned president of that field, is getting a good understanding of the needs of the work in its different branches.
Quite a large number of “Christ’s Object Lessons” was sold in a business meeting. The Conference voted to take its proportion of the book,—six to the member,—and to bear its proportion of the Material Fund expense, about one half of which was raised at the same meeting. Steps were taken to revive the canvassing work, and several persons volunteered to enter the regular canvassing work at least a portion of the time during the summer. The questions of sanitarium and church-school work were considered, and the outlook is favorable for both. The prospect is encouraging for this Conference, and all are of good courage.
H. W. COTTRELL.

WISCONSIN CONFERENCE AND CAMP-MEETING.

By W. S. Shreve; S. D. Hartwell

The thirty-first annual session of the Wisconsin Conference convened at Grand Rapids, June 12–23, 1901, with the president, Elder W. S. Shreve, in the chair. The attendance of Sabbath-keepers was larger than that of any other camp-meeting in the State for years. Elders Daniells and Prescott, Dr. Paulson, and others were present, and labored to make the meeting profitable to all. Sabbath, June 15, after listening to a stirring discourse on the “Hour of God’s Judgment Is Come,” by Elder Prescott, nearly the whole encampment made a movement indicative of a desire to take advance steps in the service of God. This spirit continued throughout the meetings, and on Sabbath, June 22, about forty were baptized in the Wisconsin River.
The annual reports did not show as great an amount of aggressive work done the past year as has been reported on some former occasions, yet the blessing of the Lord on the work was evidenced in the mention of considerable permanent advancement. Ten tents were in the field the last tent season, and from all of them, with one exception, fruit was manifest, adding to the numbers of the Conference. At Oneida, where Brother Matthew Hill, the Indian brother, has labored the past year, a company of twenty-five or thirty are ready for organization, and would have been organized and presented to the Conference had an ordained minister in the Oneida tongue been accessible. Brother Hill was ordained at this meeting, and will doubtless perfect the organization of the company of his people. Elder Reed will assist in labor in that field this season, as occasion may require. But one church was organized this year, although there are other companies which might have been organized had not sickness, and labor in other directions, made it impossible to reach them. These will receive attention at once.
In order to effect the thorough reorganization suggested by the last General Conference, it was necessary to hold ten business sessions of the Conference, and one each of the tract society and the Sabbath-school Association. These two organizations were discontinued as such, and their work became departments of the Conference. The executive board of the Conference was enlarged from five to seven members, composed of the following persons: Wm. Covert, President, F. F. Petersen, A. G. Westphal, H. W. Reed, N. P. Nielsen, S. D. Hartwell, and J. H. Bramhall. Other officers are as follows: Secretary and Treasurer of the Conference, R. T. Dowsett; Secretary and Treasurer of the Sabbath-school Department, Lottie Farrell; Secretary and Treasurer of the Tract Department, S. D. Hartwell. M. N. Campbell was selected as State Canvassing Agent. A school board of seven members was elected, and provision made for the annual election of three members, each to serve two years, with a business manager to be elected annually.
It was voted to pay to the General Conference a “second tithe” to assist in the mission work of that body. It was also voted to pay the expenses of a laborer to go into some field outside of the United States, and to pay the wages of the same for a year. Sister Anna Nelson, of Pine River, was selected to go to the Society Islands with Elder Cady; and at a subsequent meeting, Sister Ida Thompson was asked for, to go to Brazil, and the brethren and sisters present voted that the Conference bear the expense and pay her salary while there.
Sixteen persons were granted ministerial credentials, ten were granted ministerial license, and forty-four were given missionary credentials. A number of the latter are church school teachers and medical missionaries. The canvassing work received attention from all the laborers from abroad, and several meetings were held in which instruction in this branch was given by Brethren Reavis, Moody, and Campbell. About twenty-five canvassers were enlisted in the work, and will devote their time to it in the future. A recommendation was passed asking the Lake Union Conference to hold a canvassers’ institute at Milwaukee, at such time as the executive board of the Union Conference should think advisable, and it was voted to encourage all who can attend to do so.
The meetings were fairly well attended by people from the city, and an interest was manifested on the part of several to learn more concerning the way of salvation. One laborer was left to look after the interest there.
A good spirit prevailed, and hopes are entertained for the advancement of the work.
W. S. Shreve, Pres., S. D. Hartwell, Sec.

LABORERS FOR THE SOUTHERN FIELD.

By J. E. Tenney

An educational meeting of nearly all the workers in the Southern field was held at Graysville, Tenn., during the past three weeks. Professors Sutherland and Magan were present for a few days at the beginning, and Elder Daniells during the last two days.
The time was devoted almost exclusively to a study of the various phases of the educational work, and the blessing of God attended the consideration of this important branch, in a wonderful degree. There was such a unanimity of purpose, study, and conclusions as could be brought about only through the direct agency of the Great Teacher.
The educational work in the South will advance as never before. Many calls are being made for mission and church school teachers, and by a recent action of the Southern Union Conference Committee, such teachers receive the same recognition as any other Conference laborers, except as to salary. This will do much to give stability to these schools.
An educational sub-committee for the Southern field has in charge the systematizing of the work, and it is expected within the present year to bring about a uniformity in all our schools, which will do much to advance them both in efficiency and in permanency.
The urgent calls for laborers in all parts of the South have made apparent the necessity of more effective means of giving a speedy and thorough training on the ground where the work is to be done. The Southern Training School has so arranged its studies and so planned its work as to accomplish more than ever before in the training of workers. A complete course of study for teachers, canvassers, Bible workers, ministers, stenographers, and bookkeepers has been provided, and it is expected that before the opening of the fall term, we shall be able to announce a complete nurses' course. The school is already provided with treatment rooms, and its medical missionary department is in charge of one who is eminently fitted to impart all necessary instruction.
No training secured in any other part of the country will prepare workers for this field. The South has conditions peculiar to itself, and none are prepared to meet them without the special preparation which is obtainable only on the ground where these conditions are to be found. There should be scores of young men and women all over the country who are willing to come to this much-neglected field to gain the preparation necessary to do valiant service for God.
The announcement of the Southern Training School has just come from the press, and will be sent, on application, to any address. It is beautifully illustrated, and filled with practical information. Address Southern Training School, Graysville, Tenn. J. E. TENNEY.

Roll of Jubilee Singers.

NAME. — AMOUNT.
Name Amount
M. Shanks $10.00
Mattie Peach 1.00
Mrs. S. Rice 1.00
Mrs. M. A. Spofford 1.00
Wm. Showers 1.00
Lucy Showers 1.00
Elder H. E. Floyd, & J. E. Gardner & wife 4.00
J. W. Eldridge 1.00
W. S. Bonton 1.00
Mrs. T. C. Harlan 1.00
Mrs. Rachel Elwell 1.00
G. W. Amadon 1.00
F. E. Bean 1.00
Mrs. E. Carpenter 1.00
Lydia S. Lane 1.00
S. L. Canaday 1.00
O. P. Nelson 5.00
C. E. Williams 1.00
J. Q. Adams 1.00
Joseph Rabens 10.00
Mr. & Mrs. E. Cleveland 2.00
Jiles A. Tillett 2.00
Simon Mosser 1.00
Mrs. N. I. Bolinger 1.00
Mrs. J. A. Howell 1.00
Mrs. H. L. Horn 2.00
B. F. & M. S. Roberts 1.00
H. W. Anderson 10.00
Lenna Iselin 1.00
Mrs. Albert Berry 1.00
Mrs. Mary Coyar .30
Mrs. Emma Buzzell .25
Mary Dyke 5.00
Mrs. S. A. Mason 10.00
Mrs. S. A. Furbish 5.00
C. D. Miller & wife 2.55
M. N. Ellis 1.00
Mrs. R. P. Hill 10.00
Mrs. M. E. Huston .50
Mrs. P. W. Street 1.00
Mrs. M. J. Neeley 1.00
Olive J. King 1.00
C. L. Reers 1.00
Jennie Hitting 1.00
Jennie Spangenberg 1.00
Mrs. G. W. Ely 1.00
Mary L. Brown 1.00
Rachel Spencer 1.00
Deroy Eaton 5.00
Helen F. Seal 1.00
P. A. Hittle 1.00
Mrs. Bebby Tucker 1.00
J. W. Parlin ($20 for Scandinavian fund) 25.00
Daniel Glunt 1.00
Nancy Shopshire 1.00
C. F. Stiles 1.00
N. P. Rasmussen 1.00
T. T. Stevenson 1.00
B. A. Whitcomb 1.00
Alice Sherwood 1.00
A friend (O. G. B.) 1.00
Mrs. S. H. Ilgenfritz 1.00
Sadie & G. Cook & others 1.50
Ethel Richards .25
Wilbur Cook .25
Mrs. John O. Farli 1.50
Mrs. H. B. Hayward 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Adams & family 5.00
A friend 30.00
A friend 1.00
S. H. Norton 5.00
Miss Margaret Beck 1.00
M. J. Griffith 1.00
Mr. & Mrs. R. B.
Name Amount
L. A. Ganiard 1.00
Mrs. Ada C. Brigbee 1.00
May Wakeham 1.00
Mrs. Laura Harkins 1.00
A friend 1.00
A friend 1.00
Jennettie Page 5.00
Rose Sheets 1.00
Mrs. H. W. Lee 1.00
Robt. Beaird 5.00
Mrs. Mary Eaton .50
Miss Ella McEntyre 10.00
Mrs. Mary Ober 1.00
Mrs. Fannie Thomas 1.00
Mrs. Mary McEntyre 1.00
Miss Elsie Weldon 1.00
Mrs. Mary Thomason 1.00
S. A. Snyder 1.00
Mrs. Ida M. Tower 4.00
Robt. Beaird 3.00
John E. Freeman 1.00
Mrs. S. M. Maddock 1.00
Mary Puckett 1.00
Z. M. Fingman 10.00
A. D. West & family 5.00
A friend 1.00
Mrs. L. A. Huffaker 1.00
Mrs. C. H. Van Gorden 1.00
Alice I. Carman .50
Mrs. Linda Egan 1.00
E. D. Ferris 1.00
Mrs. M. H. Robinson 1.00
M. S. Whitney 1.00
Mrs. E. O. Burgess 1.00
Mrs. M. A. Barber .50
Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Lowry 5.00
James Dunkin 15.00
Andrew Johnson 1.00
Solomon Anderson 4.00
C. Ward 1.00
Charlotte Hollenbeck 1.00
Mrs. O. J. Gillette 1.00
J. & C. Peterson 2.50
S. R. Olmstead 1.00
F. H. Shaffer 2.00
E. J. Westphal, for his mother 10.00
M. T. Young 1.00
Simon J. Pines, mother & father 3.00
A. Clay 1.00
John Jacks 4.25
Frank Rollins 2.00
Mrs. John Mitchell 10.00
W. A. Smith 1.00
Mr. C. R. (a friend) 1.00
Mrs. Oscar Rogers 1.00
A friend 2.00
J. C. Melvain 5.00
Mrs. A. M. Corbit 1.00
Alice C. Lawson 1.00
J. C. Sanders 1.00
Mrs. F. M. Brown 1.00
Mrs. N. J. Stepps 5.00
Mrs. K. F. Dazey 2.00
Mrs. Celia Parsons 1.00
Miss Ludie Bayliss 1.00
Miss Birdie Cruzen 1.00
Mrs. R. J. Logan .50
Mrs. Ada Hunt .50
Mrs. Blanche Heard .50
Mrs. Charley Wilson .25
Mrs. Celia Prince .25
Miss Celia Hill .25
Mrs. M. V. Metcalf .25
A. T. Hilton 5.00
C. W. Clarke 10.00
Mrs. M. E. Darling 5.00
A. W. Maynard 100.00
Jas. H. Howard 1.00
Mrs. W. H. Prehall 1.00
Mrs. Frank Cosman 1.00
Mrs. J. E. Churchill 1.00
Name Amount
Mrs. Flora Lovely 5.00
Mrs. Flora Lovely, Scandinavian fund 5.00
Mrs. M. Greenman 1.00
Annie M. Newcomer 2.00
Jas. and M. E. Boggs 2.00
Isabella Bunch 1.00
Mrs. S. A. Condon 1.00
Henrietta Le Blanc 5.00
John Dicksen 3.00
Mrs. V. L. Shaver 1.00
R. D. Burnham 5.00
Mrs. M. A. Danks 1.00
Mrs. F. M. Hobart 1.00
Libbie McGee .10
Mrs. Dr. Banta 5.00
Mrs. Rosa Partridge 1.00
Mrs. Mary J. Clarke 1.00
Mrs. Luke Waite 1.00
Mrs. Eliza Keeney 1.00
M. A. Montgomery 1.00
J. C. Loomis 1.00
Mrs. Alice Graham 6.00
Walter Owen & others 2.50
A friend, Scandinavian fund .50
Mrs. H. N. Loyd 1.00
Fannie Bowley 1.00
Name Amount
Esther Hoodenpyl 2.50
Esther Hoodenpyl, Scandinavian fund 2.50
Mike J. Alkire 3.00
H. A. Scantlin 1.00
Sarah Burnap 5.00
Mrs. J. W. Roberts, Scandinavian fund 1.00
Mrs. J. W. Roberts 1.00
C. P. Hayes 1.00
Chas. T. Kirk 3.00
I. N. Williams 1.00
A friend 5.25
Mrs. Lovina Howe 1.00
Mary M. Lloyd 1.00
Mary M. Lloyd, Scandinavian fund 1.00
Mrs. Elizabeth Mathieson 1.00
Alzina N. Gilbert 1.00
John Dunbar 5.00
P. J. Smith 1.00
G. V. Wood 1.00
J. A. Ware 1.00
Mrs. J. C. Graves 1.00
Ruth Selleck 2.00
Miss Elizabeth Thompson 5.00
Mahala Hodge 1.00
F. E. Cowin 1.00

NEWS AND NOTES

— Mr. Kruger announces that he has abandoned his intended trip to America.
— Storms have entirely destroyed the banana and corn crops of southern Hayti.
— More than one third of the population of the United States live in towns and cities.
— In Japan there are 3,638 miles of railway, 832 of which are owned by the government.
— During 1900 twelve nations spent over $10,000,000 each for American farm products.
— Chinese troops have just been sent to Chichou “to occupy the country surrounding Peking.”
— The Havana customs receipts for June, 1901, were $235,000 less than for the same month, 1900.
— Amid great pomp the funeral of ex-Governor Hazen S. Pingree occurred at Detroit, Mich., the 6th inst.
— The Khedive of Egypt visited, the 6th inst., the Sultan of Turkey, at the Yildiz palace, Constantinople.
— From the time of its opening until the 8th inst. the attendance at the Buffalo Exposition was 1,779,868.
— It is reported that the railroads are unable to furnish enough cars for the transportation of the Kansas wheat crop.
— Owing to the withdrawal of the obnoxious government bill for refunding the public debt, order has been restored in Argentina.
— The British are erecting blockhouses along the railroad from Pretoria to Pietersburg, “to protect the line from Boer raiders.”
— Because of the illness of Lord Lansdowne, the British Foreign Office is not ready to consider the new Nicaragua Canal treaty.
— The British House of Lords has begun its debate on the proposal to change the king’s oath of accession in order not to offend Catholics.
— The twentieth international convention of the Christian Endeavor Society began in Cincinnati, Ohio, the 6th inst., with “the largest attendance on record.”
— The United States Secretary of War has issued an order “authorizing Governor General Wood, of Cuba, to go to Washington, for consultation on Cuban affairs.”
— The attorney-general of Ontario has ruled that “Sunday steamboat excursions in Canada are illegal,” and “the practice will at once stop throughout the Dominion.”
— Japan will send a number of war-ships to the unveiling, the 14th inst., at Kurihama, of the monument commemorating the landing there of Commodore Perry, July 14, 1853.
— There are 27,000 Chinese in Hawaii.
— The United States will provide a prison ship for its navy.
— The output of gold in the Black Hills is greater than ever before.
— Newcastle, Pa., has refused Mr. Carnegie’s offer of $40,000 for a free library.
— On account of illness, General Wood may be obliged to give up his position in Cuba.
— Russia and France are said to be negotiating for “another loan of 125,000,000 rubles.”
— During the five years ending March, 1901, nearly 600,000 persons died of the plague in India.
— The number of Cuban schools has increased from 312 in 1899 to 3,567 at the present time.
— The Supreme Court of Tennessee has decided that a woman cannot practice law in that State.
— An embassy from the Llama of Thibet is traveling to St. Petersburg, to have an audience with the Czar.
— President McKinley has approved of Governor Taft’s Philippine Cabinet, the majority of which are Americans.
— Andrew Carnegie will erect in Pittsburg (near the Carnegie Institute) a monument to his friend James G. Blaine.
— The Paris Temps states that France will brook no interference on the part of other nations, with her plans in Morocco.
— A trust has been organized for the purpose of controlling the lead fields of southern Missouri. Capitalization, $20,000,000.
— Newspapers state that press dispatches from the South African war are “distorted and padded by censors, for political reasons.”
— Prof. John Fiske, of Cambridge, Mass., lecturer and historian, died at East Gloucester, Mass., the 15th inst., as a result of the heat.
— King Edward’s coronation will occur in Westminster Abbey next June. Such is his recent proclamation through the Official Gazette.
— Speaker Henderson, of the United States House of Representatives, was recently received by King Edward VII, at the Marlborough House, London.
— Secretary Long, of the Navy Department, has written to the Carnegie company, urging “its co-operation in hurrying work on armor for war-ships.”
— New York, says the Union Signal, is the fourth State to give tax-paying women the right to vote upon questions of taxation. Iowa, Louisiana, and Montana are the other States.
— In an address before the teachers’ convention at Detroit, G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark University, declared that the higher education unfits women for wifehood and motherhood. He does not favor co-educational schools.
— R. G. Dun and Company report that there were 5,804 commercial failures in the United States during the first half of 1901, with liabilities amounting to $71,644,244; the first half of last year there were 5,362 failures, with liabilities amounting to $100,570,134.
— It has been decided, by Mr. Tracewell, Comptroller of the United States Treasury, that “the Secretary of the Treasury is not authorized to refund the duties which the Supreme Court held were illegally collected in Porto Rico,” and that “an act of Congress must authorize their return.”
— It is claimed by the Baptist Standard that the majority of the population of Ireland is not now Catholic, but Protestant. We are inclined to doubt this statement, but it would not be surprising if the emigration from that country were rapidly diminishing the preponderance of Catholics over Protestants; for doubtless it is in the Catholic districts that emigration seems most desirable to the inhabitants.
— A dispatch from Washington, dated the 10th inst., states that the Sultan of Turkey has “at last paid his indebtedness to Uncle Sam, amounting to $95,000.” Said sum was paid to J. G. A. Leishman, United States minister at Constantinople. Thus are settled the claims of the United States for “destruction of the property of American missionaries at Harput and Marash, together with a number of individual claims, including that filed by the family of Frank Lentz, of Pittsburg, Pa., the bicyclist who was murdered by Turkish soldiers, when on a tour through Armenia.” Until this claim was settled, the United States chargé d’affaires called on the Sultan regularly each week, as a gentle reminder.
— Kidnapping in Illinois is now punishable by death.
— A curfew law is to be enacted in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
— The manufacturers of strawboard are planning to consolidate.
— Dispatches state that Socialists threaten a revolution in Belgium.
— Nebraska alone will this year produce more than 260,000,000 bushels of corn.
— About 700 Porto Ricans have sailed for Honolulu, to work on the plantations of Hawaii.
— The population of St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, is approximately 1,500,000 persons.
— The steamer “Dolphin” has arrived at Seattle, Wash., with $800,000 in gold from the Klondike.
— The Standard Oil Company is backing a consolidation to control the salt product of the world.
— A Chicago lawyer estimates that Dowie will clear $15,000,000 through his land deals at Zion City.
— Japan, though a rich and prosperous nation, is at present suffering from “a great scarcity of ready money.”
— One ton of frogs’ legs is consumed every day in New York City, the season lasting from April 1 to October 1.
— There has appeared among horses “a new disease similar to the grip,” fully 10,000 horses being afflicted therewith.
— The China Merchants’ Company has presented a claim of 400,000 taels against the United States, for looting at Tientsin.
— Since the introduction of total abstinence in the French army, the soldiers are said to be forty per cent more effective.
— An 800-mile railroad will be constructed through the Alaskan gold fields, the first surveys having already been made.
— The Hessian fly is ravaging the Michigan wheat crop. Rye and oats are doing well, and early potatoes are in fine condition.
— About 40,000 glass workers of the country are at present enjoying their regular summer vacation of one month. Thus nearly every glass factory in the United States is closed.
— President David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, California, suggests that Hawaii be annexed to California, as a congressional district, “to settle the political difficulties of the islands.”
— Protestantism is still making good progress in France. The trouble with many Frenchmen is that they confound Christianity with Romanism, and think that Protestantism is “synonymous with rationalism and the negation of Christianity.”
— French papers report such a poor wheat crop in that country that “the importation of American wheat will be enormous, orders having already been placed in the United States for double the amount imported in 1900, the value of which was $2,600,000.”
— According to the Christian Herald (Detroit), “the Central Federated Union, New York, is to co-operate with the Actors’ Church Alliance in having Sunday work done away with in the theaters.” Among the leaders in this movement are Bishop Potter, Father Ducey, and Rabbi Silverman.
— This country formerly shipped large quantities of cotton and manufactured goods to Madagascar; but the seizure of the island by France lost that market to the United States. The only nation permitting this country to trade with her dependencies on equal terms with herself, is Great Britain.
— The imperial policy of the United States is one that exactly suits the brewing companies, for reasons which the representative of one of them states thus: “It has opened up a new and excellent field for us, and we have not been slow to take advantage of it. The natives of the Philippines, Cuba, and Porto Rico, as well as the Chinese, have taken very kindly to American beer, which is an entirely new beverage to them. Our company is shipping hundreds of thousands of casks of bottled beer to Manila right along. Last week we filled an order for 10,000 casks, and we have had single orders as high as 30,000 casks. I do not believe that a great deal of this is consumed by the soldiers or other Americans in the islands, for I am informed that it is nearly all used by the natives. Our shipments to Cuba and Porto Rico are also very large, and are constantly increasing, but they are not as good markets as the Philippines. We are not kicking at all about expansion.”
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