The apostle Paul, when communicating with the Gentiles concerning their obligation to administer of their “carnal things” to those who had imparted to them of “their spiritual things,”—the gospel,—said: “For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. For I mean not that other men be eased and ye burdened: but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality.” Rom. 15: 27; 2 Cor. 8: 12-14.
Concerning the question of liberality we read in “Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. I, page 190: “I was pointed back to the days of the apostles, and saw that God laid the plan by the descent of His Holy Spirit, and that by the gift of prophecy He counseled His people in regard to a system of benevolence. All were to share in this work of imparting of their carnal things to those who ministered unto them in spiritual things.”
The Scriptures clearly set forth the importance of recognizing the claims the Lord has upon us, and the danger of yielding to the natural, selfish tendency of the human heart. Paul said of Timotheus, “I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.” Phil. 2: 20, 21.
Knowing the liability to love earthly above heavenly things, Moses gave a warning to Israel just before his death, in these words: Beware “lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied, . . . thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He sware unto thy fathers as it is this day.” Deut. 8: 12-18.
Mind, Moses did not say that the Lord gave the children of Israel power to get wealth that they might consume it upon their pleasures, but, while they should remember that all the power they possessed was from God, and that therefore this power which had been used in collecting this substance was God’s power loaned to them, the substance thus gathered was given them that they might use it to His glory, in the establishment of His covenant—in advancing His truth in the earth.
In the days of Haggai the prophet, we see that Israel had gone in just the way Moses cautioned them not to go; for the word of the Lord to them was: “Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. . . . Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.” Haggai 1: 6, 9.
As an aid to keep continually in the mind the Lord’s claims upon them, the Israelites were told that “the first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord.” Ex. 23: 19. The blessed results of thus keeping the Lord’s cause in mind are emphasized in the Proverbs of Solomon, where it is said: “Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.” Prov. 3: 9, 10.
Our Saviour, in His wonderful discourse upon the mount, emphasized the same idea, when He said: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things [food, drink, clothing,—things the world seek after] shall be added unto you.” Matt. 6: 33.
So in the words of Malachi, in the Lord’s address to His people just before His second coming, He says: “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. . . . Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.” Mal. 3: 8-11.
Speaking of gifts for the support of the Lord’s cause, the apostle Paul said: “He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” 2 Cor. 9: 6-8.
“If all the tithes of our people flowed into the treasury of the Lord as they should, such blessings would be received that gifts and offerings for sacred purposes would be multiplied tenfold, and thus the channel between God and man would be kept open.”—“Testimonies for the Church,” Vol. IV, page 474.
“Whenever God’s people, in any period of the world, have cheerfully and willingly carried out His plan in systematic benevolence and in gifts and offerings, they have realized the standing promise that prosperity should attend all their labors just in proportion as they obeyed His requirements. When they acknowledged the claims of God, and complied with His requirements, honoring Him with their substance, their barns were filled with plenty.”—Id., Vol. III, page 395.
“If those who profess to love the truth are holding on to their riches, and, failing to obey the word of God, do not seek opportunities to do good with that which He has intrusted to them, He will come closer, and will scatter their means. He will come near to them with judgments. He will in various ways scatter their idols. Many losses will be sustained. The souls of the selfish shall be unblest, but ‘the liberal soul shall be made fat.’ Those who honor God, He will honor.”—Id., Vol. II, page 661.
“Those who have thought to increase their gains by withholding from God, or by bringing Him an inferior offering,—the lame, the blind, or the diseased,—have been sure to suffer loss.”—Id., Vol. III, page 546.
“While such unhesitatingly gratify their supposed wants, and withhold from God the offering they ought to make, He will no more accept the little pittance they hand into the treasury than He accepted the offerings of Ananias and his wife Sapphira, who purposed to rob Him in their offerings.”—Id., Vol. II, page 128.
Concerning the Lord’s plan of working, we read: “God, in His wise plans, has made the advancement of His cause dependent upon the personal efforts of His people, and upon their free-will offerings. By accepting the co-operation of man in the great plan of redemption, He has placed a signal honor upon him.”—Id., Vol. IV, page 464.
As to the way in which this work may be done, we read: “They are not to bring a yearly gift merely, but should also freely present a weekly and monthly offering before the Lord. This work is left to the people, for it is to be to them a weekly, monthly, living test.”—Id., Vol. I, page 279.
We see from 1 Cor. 16: 2 that the apostle Paul recommended a system for gathering weekly offerings for sustaining the cause: “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”
After the plan of tithing all our income had been thoroughly presented to our people, there was considered a system of first-day offerings for the support of our missionaries in the “regions beyond” the bounds of our local Conferences. This plan was presented to the General Conference by Elder Geo. I.12Butler, in November, 1887. It was shown what would be the result in raising money for this purpose if even a small sum each week was paid by each individual. Some adopted and carried out this plan from the first. Different schemes have been presented from time to time to stimulate this mode of raising missionary funds. Boxes with appropriate mottoes and various devices have been constructed to serve as reminders for contributions for this purpose. It is true that some money has been obtained in this way, but the amount given has not exceeded two cents a week for each member of the denomination.
About three years ago the plan was recommended of contributing ten cents a week for each member. This has brought a good increase in contributions from the churches where the plan has been adopted. Any one can figure readily that ten cents a week for sixty thousand Seventh-day Adventists means a grand result for the support of missions. The sum of three hundred and twelve thousand dollars a year is not small by any means, and this is what it would be if all the members would enter into it.
There are comparatively few of our members who could not give ten cents a week. But there are hundreds who should never be satisfied with doing less than five or ten times that amount each week for the support of foreign missions. I am personally acquainted with those who, on the old plan proposed by Elder Butler, have given one dollar each week for “first-day offerings,” paying it at the end of each quarter as regularly as they have paid their rent, store bill, or any other debt. It has seemed to me, as the Lord has said, we “should make weekly offerings;” that each church should say, “That is right, and as a church we will pay what will amount to ten cents a week for each member.” Then let sums be pledged by individuals, till sufficient, at least, is made up for what would be the quota for the whole church. And if the sum is more, it will help swell the bill in behalf of the poorer ones in other churches. Why not make one grand effort in this direction, so that it can for once be said, “The treasury of the mission fund is not crippled for money;” and when once said, keep the ball rolling. May the good Lord so infuse all our hearts that this may be the case, and that soon. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
Found in Peace and Blameless
“WHEREFORE, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.” “Abstain from all appearance of evil. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray, God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.”
News Notes from Around the World
— M. Waldeck-Rousseau, premier of France, is seriously ill.
— The bubonic plague is spreading in Cape Town, South Africa.
— There are over 160,000 church edifices in the United States.
— Cecil Rhodes, of South Africa, is reported to be seriously ill.
— Botha, the Boer general, declares that General De Wet is insane.
— France is arranging to resume diplomatic relations with Venezuela.
— A $6,000,000 glass lamp trust has just been formed in Pittsburg, Pa.
— Louisville, Ky., has an anti-cigarette league composed of over 500 boys.
— The largest vessel ever built (680 feet long) has been launched at Belfast.
— J. Pierpont Morgan has obtained control of New York City’s largest retail dry-goods stores.
— About one week ago a white man was taken from the jail at Osceola, Ark., and lynched.
— The recent election in Denmark resulted in “an overwhelming defeat of the government party.”
— Wayne County, N. Y., is said to have oil wells which equal the best to be found in Pennsylvania.
— The Supreme Court has decided that Countess Castellane is to receive her full income of $800,000 per annum.
— The Russian and Italian consulates in Geneva, Switzerland, were mobbed the 6th inst., by anarchist sympathizers.
— There are in Scotland 30,000 idle miners at the present time. They are striking for an eight-hour working day.
— M. Veniselos, foreign minister of Crete, has been dismissed, because he said the island should be independent.
— One hundred and fifty-five municipal physicians of Leipsic, Germany, have struck for higher pay and better treatment.
— Sir George Murray Smith, an English publisher, and founder of the Cornhill Magazine, died in London the 10th inst.
— The Cuban Constitutional Convention rejected the Platt amendment the 6th inst., by a vote of twenty-four to two.
— A firm in Hoboken, N. J., has cornered the peanut market, advancing the price seventy-five cents on the bushel.
— The rebels in Colombia have won in several engagements with the government troops, and are about to move on Panama.
— The International Kindergarten Union, embracing seventy organizations, is holding its eighth annual convention in Chicago.
— The United States and Canada have arranged to have postal money orders pass at the domestic rate, between the two countries.
— The St. Louis Elevator and Storage Company’s elevator (foot of Biddle Street) was destroyed by fire the 8th inst. Loss, $650,000.
— Members of the Anti-Saloon League, accompanied by the police, recently compelled the closing of all the saloons in Schenectady, N. Y.
— According to the Paris Figaro, an attempt is being made, by shop clerks and other employees in that city, to have Sunday observance enforced.
— It is thought that service on the new trolley line between the Michigan cities, Benton Harbor, Paw Paw, and South Haven, will begin the first of July.
— Because the United States is opposed to the dismantling of Chinese forts and the furnishing of troops to garrison points selected for permanent occupation, a number of the Powers in China desire to have her eliminated from the international concert in settling affairs with China. The United States “is determined not to be side-tracked by any such scheme,” and will refuse to withdraw from active participation.253
— The defection of French Roman Catholic priests to Protestantism is on the increase.
— Owing to their dilapidated condition, a portion of the walls of Avignon, France, will be destroyed.
— After twenty-six years of service, Col. A. K. McClure, the veteran editor of the Philadelphia Times, has resigned.
— In the Church of England there are said to be 100,000 converts from Judaism, and 300 ministers who formerly were Jews.
— The Havana (Cuba) newspaper La Discussion has been suppressed by Governor-General Wood, “for publishing a cartoon hostile to the United States.”
— Emperor William has issued an order that “school children should learn by heart 291 Biblical verses, and 193 verses of hymns, in addition to the catechism.”
— China has agreed to permit the island of Ku-Lang-Su, in the harbor of Amoy, to become “a foreign settlement, a valuable concession long desired by the Powers.”
— An Italian paper, the Fischietto, of Turin, thus summarizes the situation in South Africa: “(1) The Boers repulse the English; (2) the English repulse the Boers.”
— The Great Salt Lake of Utah is said to be receding on account of the drain upon it, due to irrigation. It is proposed to connect it with the Snake River, by means of a canal.
— The London Religious Tract Society sends out each year over 50,000,000 copies of its publications, which are issued in over 200 languages, and go to all parts of the world.
— A Roman chariot was recently found near Philippopolis, Bulgaria. It seems that “all the metal parts of the chariot and the harness were found, as well as arms, and human remains.”
— Samuel P. Thrasher, of New Haven, Conn., has invented a clock that tells the exact time, to the minute, by means of Arabic figures, on the same principle as the bicycle cyclometer.
— The czar has made Adj.-Gen. P. S. Vannovsky minister of public instruction, and in a rescript addressed to him “announces his intention to renovate and reorganize Russian schools.”
— A Jewish exchange says that “the punishment known as the double buckle, to which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was subjected while a prisoner, has been by decree abolished in French convict prisons.”
— The leading Protestant paper of Germany bitterly complains that “the so-called Christian science has been imported from America,” and that it is making rapid progress among the higher classes.
— The German emperor recently caused to be suppressed a Polish hymn-book “containing revolutionary matter, and advocating Polish freedom.” The book had been widely circulated in western Prussia.
— The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that “a physician is not bound to answer a call for his services, even though he is the physician of the family and a fee for his services is tendered him in advance.”
— It is reported that the British have secured “a concession in the provinces of Shan-si and Honan, containing China’s most valuable mineral land. It includes a coal belt exceeding 3,000 miles, besides great fields of iron and petroleum.”
— A new type of five-inch naval gun for United States cruisers was recently tested at the Indian Head proving ground. It developed sufficient power to pierce “seven inches of Krupp armor at the muzzle, and five inches of Krupp armor at 2,000 yards.”
— A few days ago a bill was before the Massachusetts Legislature, to “permit such form of recreation on the Lord’s day as does not trespass upon private rights or disturb the peace of public worship.” The bill was defeated by a vote of fifty-five to ninety-eight.
— Dispatches state that “after mature deliberation, 10,000 Catholic members of the Federal party, citizens of the district of Binondo, in Manila, which is the headquarters of the party, have resolved to separate from the Vatican, believing that the doctrines of Rome are detrimental to the progress of the country.”
— Of nearly 7,000 children who have been carefully taught kindness to animals, in one of Scotland’s public schools, it was found that “not one has ever been charged with a criminal offense in any court.” On the other hand, among about 2,000 convicts in American prisons, but twelve were found who had any pet animal during childhood.
— “The sizes of anthracite coal and the screens through which they are made, are as follows,” says Steam Engineering: “Coal which runs through a screen having a mesh of 3-16 of an inch is called barley; 3-8, rice; 9-16, buckwheat; 7-8, pea; 1 1-2, chestnut; 2, stove; 2 3-4, egg; 4 1-2, grate; 7, steam. Coal beyond this size is known as lump coal.”
— Prof. Frederick Wright, geologist of Oberlin College, and just returned from a trip around the world, “has photographs which he claims will prove beyond doubt that the Biblical account of the escape of the children of Israel through the Red Sea was not only accomplished, but is possible, under certain conditions, to-day.” Some will go to great lengths to try to prove that there never were any miracles.
— While passing through Galicia, Austrian Poland, some Jesuit priests “sold to the peasants lots of saints’ pictures, printed like postage stamps, and told them to eat them because they were blessed remedies for hunger, colic, and the like. The Polish peasants devoured the Jesuits’ stamps by the handfuls, and the fathers pocketed dimes by the handfuls.” Such gullibility on the part of ignorant peasants is more than equaled by the blind faith which intelligent Americans place in the curative (?) properties of patent medicines; for the Jesuit stamps are less expensive, and infinitely less injurious.
— King Edward and Queen Alexandra, of England, now reside in Buckingham palace, occupying a suite known as the Belgian. All court functions, however, will be held in the throne-room of St. James’ palace. In June, 1902, will occur the coronation ceremonies.
— The British government proposes to furnish King Edward with $330,000 a year more than Queen Victoria ever received; and “this increase will go into court splendors, which smart society in England yearns for so ardently, and which it had to go without during the years of the late queen’s widowhood.” It is expected that Edward VII will have the most brilliant court in Europe.
— It is much safer for persons with weak hearts to walk up or down stairs than to make use of the modern swift elevator. Commenting upon what it terms “elevator disease,” a London paper says: “Lift [elevator] attendants have died sudden deaths; people with weak hearts have noticed ominous sensations when in the elevator. We are told the sudden transition from the heavier air at the foot, to the lighter air at the top, is extremely trying to the constitution. Most people have experienced singular sensations of internal collapse when the lift floor sinks beneath their feet, but none suspected that the results might be so serious.” The matter is certainly worthy of careful consideration.
The president of the Oklahoma Conference says:—
One of our brethren, Elder D. F. Sturgeon, has sold “Christ’s Object Lessons” remarkably fast for the time spent. He has not spent one fourth of his time in that work. He had to settle his family on his new place in the West; but he is far on his second hundred, and last Sunday his wife told me what that he had sold the book to every one to whom he had presented it. That is truly wonderful. I wrote him at once to do nothing but sell the book. Some others of our workers are doing fairly well.
May the Lord be with you and all others engaged in this work.
WHAT A BROTHER IN MARYLAND ACCOMPLISHED
WRITING under date of January 31, Elder C. D. Zirkle says: “We had a man go out the other day in one of our Bay churches, and in a short time he took twenty-five orders for this book. It had been thought that nothing could be done in that particular field, as the people are oystermen, and not very intelligent. Personally, I find that the book sells well—as well as any book I have handled.”
Elder J. F. Bahler writes, from Texas:—
By J. F. Bahler
P. T. Magan.
Dear Brother: Your letter of the 17th is received. I understand that one thousand dollars has been paid on the Keene Academy indebtedness. Nearly every minister and worker has “Christ’s Object Lessons” on the brain. Our people are certainly presenting a united front in the sale of this book. We read with great interest those articles pertaining to it in the Review.
We shall be glad to hear from you at any time.
I hope that we shall have one of the best, if not the best, General Conferences ever held by our people.
May the Lord bless you in the work He has given you to do.
“CHRIST'S OBJECT LESSONS” WINS SOULS TO CHRIST
I AM not strong, and can not expose my health much in bad weather, but my wife and I took sixteen books to sell. I said that if we would consecrate ourselves to God, we could sell them. I worked hard all one afternoon, but did not succeed in selling a book. I could not understand it; but I said to myself, I will sell one before I go home; in a short time I sold four, and went home rejoicing. My wife’s sister is very bitter against us, and so is her husband, but my wife managed to sell her a book; and she has sold two others for us. People of the world say that it is a grand book, and that no household should be without it.
The Relief of the Schools
A kind gift of one hundred dollars has been made this week to the Battle Creek College, by Brother and Sister Charles Smith, of Ruscomb, Ontario. We feel very thankful for this gift. Union College, College View, Neb., has also received several gifts of a similar character, from those to whom the college owed money on notes.
A GIFT WHICH MEANT MUCH TO THE GIVER
The following story comes from Iowa. The letter is written by one of our ministering brethren, and the story impressed us so deeply that we thought the readers of the REVIEW would like to have it:—
Dear Brother: Your kind letters to hand. We appreciate news of the progress of the work. I have sold over fifty copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” besides the number taken in hundred-pound lots in the various churches where I have been.
Please find inclosed a draft for five dollars. This money is out of a ten-dollar gold piece, which was a special treasure — a keepsake. It had been in the family for years, handed down from father to son; but the giver, after debating the question in his mind for some time, said, “The Bible says where your treasure is, there your heart will be also; so take the treasure, and put it in the bank of heaven.” Five dollars is for books, and five for the material fund. God is blessing His willing, earnest, faithful children.
My wife has sold her six books, and more.
A Gift for the Schools
DEAR BROTHER: Inclosed please find ten dollars for the relief of the schools. This has a history. In June, at the South Dakota camp-meeting, I made a contribution of ten dollars (just one tenth of my income), to relieve the schools. I had been sorely tried because our leaders had incurred the debt, as I think debts are wrong. We are instructed to “owe no man anything.” I helped nearly all our institutions to get started, and had used much self-denial to do so, and I felt discouraged; but when I saw that those who rebuilt Jerusalem were not to blame for its ruin, I felt it a privilege to help roll away this reproach. Well, then my trouble over the debt was past. I had done what I could, and was happy; but in November I received a box containing ten copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” I also received a letter, saying, “We send you the ten copies you paid for.” I was amazed—I had bought no books—not a word about books. I am seventy-seven years old, and too feeble to walk one block, let alone carrying a book. What to do I did not know; but I said, If I could sell those, I would send the money back again, so I spoke to all whom I saw, and friends sold the books, till I had $9.25, so I concluded to add the seventy-five cents, as I like round numbers, and send it to you, and see if it will stay. “In some way or other, the Lord will provide.” He will help us if we do our part; and if He wishes the books sold, we can sell them. I have one copy left, and shall send that by mail, as a present.
NOTES FROM THE ANGLO-CHINESE ACADEMY OF HONOLULU
By W. E. Howell
Missionaries of experience in China say that ancestor worship is one of the greatest obstacles, if not the greatest, to surmount in bringing converts to realize how fully the disciple of Christ must forsake “all that he hath” in order to follow the meek and lowly Saviour.
Ancestor worship truly does so thoroughly permeate the whole life of the Chinese, from childhood up, and is so far-reaching in its effects upon the practical things of experience, that it is almost impossible to sense how greatly it influences every act, every decision, every step taken, until one is thrown in actual contact with it, and sees in what practical and unexpected ways it operates.
An illustration of this may be seen in the case of a young man who has been under our instruction for about two years. He has always exhibited strong preferences for things Chinese, and although favorably inclined toward Christianity, when put to the test, has identified himself a veritable Chinese in his whole make-up. A few days ago while conversing with him on his attitude toward Christianity, he said, in substance: “I like very much be a Christian, but if I be Christian, my older brother give me no more money come to school. I want come to school two or three years more, but if have no money, how can come? I believe Bible, and want come school few years more and learn be teacher, so I can go back China and teach Chinese people do right. I think I come school now, and by and by finish school, be Christian, go back China, teach. Now if I want to spend only one cent or half a cent, must ask my older brother. If I be Christian, he give me nothing.”
So much from a financial point of view. There seems to be no difference in the degree of servitude, whether yielded to parent or to older brother. That the relation of son to parent or to older brother is, in many cases at least, a slavish servitude, and not respect or even honor, is illustrated in the case of this same young man. Not long ago, being detained down town till past the dinner hour, he came about two hours later for permission to go out and buy something to eat. On our urgent invitation, he consented for Mrs. Howell to set him out a lunch; but in spite of all the instruction he has had on wholesome foods, he could not be induced to partake of fruit, either raw or cooked—not because he did not like it, nor because he was not convinced of its dietetic value, but because his older brother told him not to. He is nearly of age. Here is his picture.
It makes one’s heart ache to see young men of promise bound down to such mental slavery, and one’s soul yearns to see them set free in the liberty wherewith Christ can make free. Only three days ago, a young man of twenty-five left the school, so much against his own wishes that he could scarcely speak for emotion, because his older brother told him to leave and go to work, although they are well situated financially. I have seen many instances of this kind, but can not recall one where the boy dared to try, dissuade his superior, even though only a brother, from his expressed purpose to send him here or there or have him do this or that. The grace with which the younger brother surrenders his own will is the only commendable feature about it; but there is one encouraging element in it, and that is, if the boy can once be led to see that this place of superiority should be occupied by God, because God made and loves him, he might be expected to yield Him implicit obedience, not from servile fear, but from filial love. Then it is that he can see that his former servility was but a perversion of the true “filial piety” enjoined in the Fifth Commandment.
The same conversation already mentioned, let in a ray of hope for that young man. In common with most Chinese, his love of money is pretty strong; and when in our Bible class, a week or two before our conversation, we read the passage of Scripture, “The love of money is the root of all evil,” he immediately took exception to it, saying, “If have no money, how going come school? If get sick and have no money, how going to do?” In our conversation he said, “I am sorry before in our Bible class I made mistake and talked against what the Bible says, because now I know Bible is true, because Ah—showed me some verses in the Bible, and I understand now.” Ah—has accepted Christianity, and this little incident in the conversation is doubly encouraging, because it reveals the fact that Ah—is working for his schoolmates. I will speak more fully of Ah—further on.
W. E. Howell.
DO YOU WISH THE ADVANTAGES OF A CHURCH SCHOOL?
By L. O. Corwin
If so, remember that we are able to give those accommodations.
Our school is situated in the northeastern part of Texas, in Cass County, in the pine regions. The land is good, will produce anything that can be raised in the South. It is not a deep sand, but is mixed with sufficient earth for general purposes. One brother, a resident for twenty years, says: “I have not failed to average half a bale of cotton to the acre.”
There is an abundance of good water, and fruit of all kinds. The price of land is from five to ten dollars an acre, according to improvements. The brethren can accommodate three or four renters with houses and land if they will apply in time. Land near the school may be rented on easy terms from those not of our faith.
The brethren will take in student boarders. We have a large school building, good school, Sabbath-school, and a wide-awake missionary society; are two miles from the post-office, and eight miles from the railroad.
For terms and further particulars, address O. T. Hancock, Marietta, Cass Co., Tex.
L. O. CORWIN.
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