p. 22 | Review and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 42. (8/24/1916)

Earlier text: Report of New South Wales Missionary Volunteer Department

Southern Oregon Conference Association

By T. G. Burch; J. P. Wheeler

NOTICE is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Southern Oregon Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the annual camp meeting and conference, at Roseburg, Oregon, Aug. 17-27, 1916. The first meeting will be held at 9:30 A. M., Tuesday, August 22.

T. G. BURCH, Chairman.

J. P. WHEELER, Secretary.

North Michigan Conference Association

By E. A. Bristol; C. N. Keiser

THE annual session of the North Michigan Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Cadillac, Mich., in connection with the annual conference and camp meeting, Aug. 24 to Sept. 3, 1916. The first meeting will be called at 10:30 A. M., Tuesday, August 29.

Officers and a board of trustees will be elected at this meeting, and any other business transacted that may properly come before the association. All duly accredited delegates to the North Michigan conference form the constituency of the North Michigan Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists.

E. A. Bristol, President. C. N. Keiser, Secretary.

Maine Conference Association

By H. W. CARR; W. O. HOWE

The annual meeting of the Maine Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the Maine conference and camp meeting, at Dover and Foxcroft, Aug. 31 to Sept. 10, 1916, for the purpose of electing trustees, and of transacting such other business as may properly come before the association. The first meeting will be held at 10:30 A. M., Tuesday, September 5. All accredited delegates to the Maine conference are members of the association.

H. W. CARR, President.

W. O. HOWE, Clerk.

Jared V. Willson

By Herbert J. Edmed

J. V. WILLSON died at Kimberley Hospital, Cape Colony, South Africa, at three o'clock on the morning of May 14, 1916, after an illness of ten days.

Brother Willson had been a Sabbath keeper for forty-three years, having accepted the truth in Somerset, N. Y., where he was born in 1852. He was first connected with our work as an evangelist, assisting in tent meetings, and was then secretary of the conference tract society for eight years. He later spent two years as tract society secretary in the Iowa Conference.

In 1879 he was married to Miss Lily Train, who died a few months after her marriage. Four years later he was united in marriage with Miss Sara E. Lane. In 1895 he took a three-year nurses' course at Battle Creek Sanitarium. In 1898 Brother and Sister Willson accepted a call to South Africa, and the next year took charge of the treatment-rooms known as the Kimberley Baths. With the exception of about five years, during which Brother Willson was secretary of the local and Union Conferences, they have devoted their time to the building up of the work of that institution. The place was deeply in debt when Brother Willson assumed control, and during his management he succeeded in liquidating the debt almost entirely, and won the esteem of the inhabitants of Kimberley. For several years past he occupied positions of responsibility on the conference committee. He was a much-loved local elder of the Kimberley church, which he served with untiring devotion.

At the age of sixty-four he began to feel that advancing years demanded a change, and negotiations had already been made for him to be transferred to lighter work, when it seemed necessary for him to undergo a critical operation. Realizing the danger connected with this, Brother Willson adjusted all his business affairs, handed over the treatment-rooms to a successor, and went to the hospital full of faith, his work completed. For ten days after the operation we hoped that he would recover, but a sudden change took place, and in the presence of Sister Willson, the nurses, and the writer, he passed away quietly. His last words were, “I laid hold of God’s promises. He is our refuge, and ‘underneath are the everlasting arms.’ I held on to this right through.”

Funeral services were held at the house and at the grave, in the presence of a large concourse of citizens and friends. The local papers published accounts of Brother Willson’s life, and the many floral offerings, letters and telegrams of sympathy, gave evidence of the high and wide esteem in which our brother was held. He was buried near the grave of Elder F. L. Mead, and there are many evidences that his consecrated and consistent life still speaks to the people who came under his influence. Our deepest sympathy is extended to his bereaved wife. HERBERT J. EDMED.

Work, Prayer, Faith

By Editor

THE plan to send a full set of the Present Truth Series to our relatives and friends does not provide merely for mechanically paying for these papers, and having the publishers mail a copy each week until the whole series of twenty-four numbers is sent, but the essential part of this special effort is the following of the papers with judicious correspondence and never-ceasing prayers. It will take a supreme effort to meet our obligations before God in the salvation of those for whom we shall be held accountable in the day of judgment.

Let all be prompt in sending the names of relatives and friends to the tract societies before September 1, at which time the list closes; and having sent the names, let them follow the mailing of the papers with letters and earnest prayers until March 1, at which time the full series will have been sent out.

This effort is a demonstration of our faith by our works. We trust all will take part in it.

What Does It Mean?

THE sending of the Present Truth Series to our relatives and friends from September 1 to March 1 means giving them in the most effective way a course of lectures upon twenty-four of the most essential phases of the third angel’s message.

It means an effort on the part of believers in attempting to discharge their personal responsibility in behalf of those in darkness.

It means added blessings to those who avail themselves of the opportunity, and the salvation of many of those who are very dear to our people.

It means the beginning of organized missionary efforts on the part of many, concentrated upon specific purposes.

It means the very presence of a golden opportunity to the church, a call to be answered with, “Here am I,” with those whom thou hast given me.

Our Next Number

By Editor

OUR readers will be interested in seeing in our next number the photographs of the large company of missionaries who sailed from San Francisco for the Orient August 1, and another company of seven who sailed from Seattle August 9. This is by far the largest number of missionaries sent out in any one decade of days since the work started. Both of these companies were made up of devoted, earnest men and women, whom we may well feel proud to send forth as our representatives. They form a large company whose hearts God has touched, who are filled with missionary zeal for his service, and who will be used in a mighty manner in carrying the gospel into the regions beyond. Even now they are on the broad ocean en route for their fields. Let us pray God to preserve them and keep them from the dangers of ocean travel in these troublous, warring times.

Next week we shall also take pleasure in publishing an article from each one of our college presidents in the North American Division, setting forth the particular advantages of the school of which he has charge. We hope that these articles will prove a great rallying call to our young men and women everywhere to secure an education in one of our Christian schools for service in this world-wide work.

The Harvest Ingathering Campaign

ARE you going to have a part in the Harvest Ingathering campaign next October? By “you” we address every reader, every member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This is a campaign for the entire membership for the reason that it involves interests which belong to the entire membership. The cause of foreign missions—the carrying of the gospel to the entire world—is a work which has been committed to the entire church, and only as every member of the church has a part in this work will every member receive the blessing which results from consecrated service.

A threefold good will be accomplished by this campaign. First, the benefit which will accrue to the foreign mission cause by the offering that will be received. As never before in the history of our work there is a demand for consecrated means to push the work forward. In every field openings for the entrance of the gospel are insistently urging themselves upon our workers. The Macedonian call is sounding from every quarter. Men and women whose hearts God has touched are ready for service. The Foreign Mission Board must have money with which to send these men and women to their fields and to support them in their labors. The Harvest Ingathering campaign is one very efficient way by which means in the past have been provided.

Second, Engaging in this campaign will bring a blessing to your neighbors. It is more than a duty to give to the cause of foreign missions: it is a privilege, and a privilege which those loving foreign mission work will welcome; a privilege which you may extend to those upon whom you call. In addition to that it brings you into personal touch with those whom you visit. You may follow up these visits later with other calls or by sending missionary literature. Thus there may be opened before you a great field for future missionary labor.

And third, but by no means the least advantage which will come from engaging in this campaign, is the good which it will do your soul. Every member of the church needs this personal touch with humanity. Thousands in the church are dying from lack of personal missionary work. Too many are content to labor for God by proxy. They are willing to give of their means, willing to pray for those who labor, but unwilling to go themselves. It is personal service, personal touch with souls, which increases in our own hearts a love for Christ and a love for those for whom Christ died.

Let every member of our denomination in some way and in some measure to as great a degree as consistent, determine, that he will have a part in this fall campaign in behalf of missions. No one can afford not to have a part in this good work.

The Church Compass in Korea

LAST week copies of a new publication came to the office of the Mission Board, from Korea. It is an eight-page paper whose Korean name translated means The Church Compass. It is to be published monthly as the church organ for Korean believers, and is of much the same nature as the REVIEW AND HERALD. May it be used of God to guide many into the desired haven.

The Value of a Medical Education

On page 2, Dr. Newton Evans, president of our medical college, gives a list of the graduates from that school. It is encouraging to know that nearly all have found some place in connection with our denominational work. Next week Dr. Evans will have an article on the value and need of a medical education, giving reasons why Seventh-day Adventists should secure such an education at Loma Linda. We believe that the advantages of the Loma Linda school should be carefully considered by those seeking a medical education

Progress of the Work in Manila

In a letter just received from Brother L. V. Finster, written at Manila, he passes on these good words: “I am glad to tell you that the foundations of our new school are now about finished, and we expect to rush the building as fast as possible. About a week ago we baptized twenty more people here in Manila. This week we received a report from one of our Filipino canvassers amounting to $283. This is our banner report for one week.” Truly this sounds like the “going in the tops of the mulberry trees.”

Twenty-five Decrees of War in Twenty Months

In its issue of June 25, 1916, the World's Crisis summarizes the declarations of war which have marked the great European conflict, as follows:—

1914

July 28. Austria declared war on Serbia.

Aug. 1. Germany declared war on Russia.

Aug. 3. Germany declared war on France.

Aug. 4. Germany declared war on Belgium.

Aug. 4. England declared war on Germany.

Aug. 4. Germany declared war on England.

Aug. 6. Austria declared war on Russia.

Aug. 6. Russia declared war on Austria.

Aug. 7. Montenegro declared war on Austria.

Aug. 9. Austria declared war on Montenegro.

Aug. 10. France declared war on Austria.

Aug. 12. Montenegro declared war on Germany.

Aug. 12. England declared war on Austria.

Aug. 23. Japan declared war on Germany.

Aug. 25. Austria declared war on Japan.

Nov. 5. England declared war on Turkey.

1915

May 23. Italy declared war on Austria.

June 3. San Marino declared war on Austria.

Aug. 21. Italy declared war on Turkey.

Oct. 15. Serbia declared war on Bulgaria.

Oct. 15. Great Britain declared war on Bulgaria.

Oct. 16. France declared war on Bulgaria.

Oct. 19. Italy declared war on Bulgaria.

Oct. 19. Russia declared war on Bulgaria.

1916

March 9. Germany declared war on Portugal.

Death of Elder J. W. Lair

Too late for last week's Review came the sad news of the death of Elder J. W. Lair, at Watertown, S. Dak. Brother Lair underwent an operation for appendicitis, and died two days later. Having served as president of the Colorado and the Eastern New York Conferences, and having labored in the North Pacific Union Conference and in South Dakota the past two years, his death comes as a shock to a large circle of brethren and sisters in the cause he loved. Sincere sympathy will be felt by all for Sister Lair and other near relatives in this time of sorrow.

Encouraging Reports from the Homeland

THE hearts of our missionaries are always cheered when reports of progress of the message here in the homeland are received. Brother W. S. Hyatt, so long laboring in South Africa, says: “We rejoice in the good work that we hear is being done in the homeland, and we do hope we may keep pace here in our field with the message in other lands.”

Upper Left: Evangelist Tyong Mun Kuk; at Right: Ne Keun Uk.