Earlier text: A Plea for MexicoStudents for the Summer School at Berrien Springs
By Wm. Covert
ARRANGEMENTS are being perfected for holding a summer school at Berrien Springs, Mich., to begin June 12. The time is near at hand, and those who expect to attend should hasten to get ready. This school, though held in the Lake Union Conference, is designed to benefit all who may come from any place. Free tuition and rent are extended to all workers alike. This term is designed to be especially helpful to teachers. As a larger number of schools is to be provided for this year than in the past, a larger number of persons should be preparing to teach. The supply of teachers has not in the past been equal to the demand, and the prospect now is that the demand will be greater this year than it has ever been before. A school will surely be waiting for every capable teacher who will agree to work.21 The summer term held at Berrien Springs last year was very successful in its work, and highly appreciated by those who attended. The facilities provided now make it possible to give an excellent school this year, and it is hoped that every teacher and every student will so connect with the Lord as to do and get the greatest possible good during the entire time. Our church-school teachers are improving in their calling, and will continue to do so as long as they avail themselves of the opportunities provided for this purpose. Our school work is in that stage of development which makes it essential for the teachers to have the benefit of these summer training schools. Our people are beginning to appreciate the situation more fully, and for this reason are more willing to assist the teachers than they have been in the past. The plan is to give free tuition to all teachers who attend this school. It is hoped that arrangements can be made with all the conferences in this district to pay traveling expenses to and from the school. A beautiful park belonging to the Emmanuel Missionary College property is being provided with tents, free of charge, so that no rents will be required of students. Good board will be furnished upon the European plan, thus making the cost as low as possible. Arrangements will be made for part of the board to be paid by work in the kitchen and dining department, and in the gardens upon the school grounds. The college at Berrien Springs and the conferences in this district are making an especial effort to provide a good school, and to make it of small cost to our teachers. These things are being done because the importance of the work demands that no sacrifice should be spared that is necessary to bring our schools up to the greatest possible proficiency. Teachers must be well qualified in order to teach good schools. We must have the best of schools if we would develop in them the best workers for the Lord’s cause. Those who have taught in the past, and those who desire to teach next year, are especially solicited to attend. Conferences, churches, and individuals are called upon to co-operate in making this summer school all that it should be. The salary paid to our church-school teachers is so small that they cannot give their time in attending school, and pay expenses out of what they have received for their work. Since our people require excellent qualifications in teachers, and yet feel unable to enlarge their salaries to any considerable extent, should not the conferences help the teachers financially in attending these schools? Our salaried laborers are often allowed to attend important meetings at conference expense because of the schooling such occasions give them, and the wisdom of this has been approved. This being a proper thing to do for our evangelistic workers that they may be better able to labor in the Master’s cause, will it not also be right for the conferences to help worthy teachers in getting a preparation for their work? We cannot possibly do a better thing for the cause of the Lord than to establish schools of righteousness for our children. But this work cannot be done unless it receives the earnest support of our people. It needs Christian kindness and wise counsel. All should be done heartily for such a worthy cause. WM. COVERT. Selling “Christ’s Object Lessons” between Times
By Swan Peterson
LEAD, S. D., May 1, 1902. DEAR BROTHER: After reading your kind letter, I decided to fall in line with God’s Israel. So this morning I took the book, “Christ’s Object Lessons,” with me to my work, and as I had no material on the job (I am a plasterer), I canvassed from 11 A. M. until about 3 P. M. I took thirteen orders. Have ordered our quota of books—twenty-four copies. We have six church members in the family. I am glad you wrote to me. Stirring Report from Minnesota
By C. M. Everest
MINNEAPOLIS, MAY 4, 1902. Prof. P. T. Magan,
Berrien Springs, Mich. DEAR BROTHER: Your letter of April 24 is at hand. We are glad to hear that so much has been done for the relief of the schools. We are working hard in Minnesota to pay up our part of the indebtedness this month. The laborers have been ordering their quota of books quite rapidly the last two weeks. Here in Minneapolis the quota for the English church was 472 books, but the members pledged themselves to sell 570, 125 of which have already been disposed of. All are of good courage in the work. Friday we sent the union conference treasurer $2,310 for the relief of schools. As far as we have heard, the brethren are pushing the work rapidly, and the Lord is blessing. We are glad to note in your letter not only that the schools have been relieved, but that the blessing has attended those who have sold the books, and not only those who have sold, but those who have bought. We praise the Lord for it all. Yours in the blessed hope, Some Suggestions
By A. Carter
SANITARIUM, CAL., MAY 4, 1902. Editors of Review and Herald. DEAR BRETHREN: Every copy of the REVIEW contains much which I would not like to miss reading, and often have wished that every Sabbath keeper in the world was getting this good paper. If ever there was a time when all should have it, now is that time. Elder A. G. Daniells has written something about the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons” which claims the attention of all. In the issue of April 22 he says: “One of the greatest movements of a definite, practical, far-reaching, and beneficial character ever inaugurated by Seventh-day Adventists is now taking place among us.” Every one should realize this, but as our brother truly says, “No one can have any true idea of what is being done in this direction unless he is closely watching the movement.” How important, then, that every Adventist should read the reports which appear in the REVIEW every week! Every one who fails to read this paper misses spiritual blessing; for God is speaking to us through that channel, as he does by the Testimonies. Moreover, the missionary spirit is kept alive by a knowledge of the advancement of the work of God and of its pressing needs. Therefore, to help broaden the wave of enthusiasm in the good work of getting free from debt, let every reader of the REVIEW place a copy of the issue of April 22 in the hands of those Adventists who are not regular subscribers, and let their subscriptions be obtained without delay. Those who are engaged in selling “Christ’s Object Lessons” have an excellent opportunity to do this by drawing special attention to the article headed “A Great Movement.” When one is too poor to subscribe, his fellow members would show a Christian spirit by making up the amount of a year’s subscription for their more unfortunate neighbor. Yours sincerely, A. CARTER. P. T. MAGAN
By P. T. Magan
PARTIES desiring copies of circulars relative to “Christ’s Object Lessons” should order them from their State tract society office, and in no case from the Review and Herald Publishing Co. — President Roosevelt has issued a proclamation opening to settlement, on July 17 next, the Fort Hall Indian reservation in Idaho. — The German steamship “Sakkarah,” having on board $1,500,000 in gold which was being sent by the Chilian government to Hamburg, is reported lost off the Chilian coast. The fate of the crew is unknown. — By two opinions rendered by Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States Supreme Court, May 5, the right of transit across the United States or any portion thereof is denied to Chinese traveling from one foreign country to another. — Reports coming from Port au Prince, Hayti, indicate that a condition of affairs little short of anarchy prevails in the Haytian republic. There is almost continuous rioting at Port au Prince, business is suspended, and a revolutionary force is marching on the capital from Cape Haytien. — A Brazilian aeronaut named Severo, the inventor of an air ship similar to that by which his countryman, Santos Dumont, has acquired fame, met a sudden and violent death while navigating his machine near Paris, France, May 12. The balloon exploded when about 1,500 feet above the ground, and the unfortunate inventor was dashed to the pavement of the city beneath him. — The question of the choice to be made between Nicaragua and the Isthmus of Panama in selecting a route for the interoceanic canal, has been greatly affected by the recent seismic disturbances and volcanic outbreaks in that quarter of the earth, and it now seems probable that the Panama route will be the one eventually chosen. There are several volcanoes along the proposed Nicaraguan route, which have been more or less active within recent years, and the risk to the canal from such a source would be very great. — An explosion of naphtha in a freight car at Sheridan, near Pittsburg, Pa., May 13, scattered the blazing fluid over a crowd of people, burning over twenty to death on the spot, and injuring several hundred more, fifty of whom, it is reported, cannot survive. The disaster was caused by the collision of freight cars in the depot yard with the naphtha train, causing the naphtha to leak out, an explosion following when the fluid came in contact with a neighboring switch lamp. A crowd collected at the spot, and without warning another explosion took place, with the result stated. — The Shanghai correspondent of the London Times writes concerning the situation in China, that from all sides reports are coming of increased taxation, which “is being levied, according to the usual Chinese system along the line of least resistance, without regard for political or economic considerations, without method, justice, or discrimination. The inevitable result is to stimulate anti-foreign feeling, since the taxation is declared to be for the purpose of the payment of the foreign indemnity, and the amount required for this purpose is steadily increasing with the continued fall in silver.” — The anticipated strike of anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania was inaugurated May 12, and about 150,000 miners are idle. — The price of beef cattle has reached the highest point in twenty years. The government, through its attorney-general, is proceeding with the prosecution of the beef trust. — A report from the Baltic provinces of Russia states that drought and frosts have greatly damaged the crops, and the absence of grass has obliged the peasants to feed their cattle on old straw taken from the roofs of their cottages. Enormous crowds of starving peasants are coming by train loads into Moscow, in search of some means of subsistence. — The statement is made by the Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs that the Triple Alliance, which expires in May, 1903, will be renewed by the powers composing it — Austria, Italy, and Germany. — To certain labor organizations in Minneapolis who protested recently against a proposed visit of the Chinese ambassador, Wu Ting-fang, to that city, the latter directed these words in reply: “In these days of international intercourse, laboring men, irrespective of nationality, should fraternize with one another, and not try to cut one another’s throats. Above all, they should not forget that there is such a thing as the golden rule.” This leads the New York Independent to inquire, “Now which is the pagan, and which the Christian?” — To Bishop O’Gorman, who is now in Rome as a member of the American “mission” to the Vatican headed by Governor Taft, the pope recently, in a private interview, expressed himself as being much pleased to see the bishop acting in that capacity, and also confided to the latter his gratification at the establishment of the mission by the American government. He is anxious, he said, to give it the reception it deserves. Incidentally it transpires also, from what was said between these two, that Archbishop Ireland is mainly responsible for bringing the United States into this compromising and humiliating attitude toward the papal see. — Reports are coming from Europe of a newly devised cannon which is believed to have almost unlimited possibilities as a weapon of war. It is known as the electro-magnetic gun, and is the invention of Prof. K. Birkeland, a Norwegian physicist, who has recently been giving demonstrations of its efficiency before military officials in Berlin. “Theoretically,” says a report coming from that city, “Professor Birkeland’s gun can throw a projectile weighing two tons a distance of ninety miles, or even farther, by sufficiently prolonging the tube. The principle upon which the gun acts,” it is further stated, “has not been made public, but it is known that the projectile is expelled from an ordinary cast-iron tube thickly wrapped with copper wire. This tube can, of course, be made more cheaply than the cannon now in use. No explosive gases result from the discharge of the new gun. Professor Birkeland’s invention has created intense interest among technical observers, some of whom are of the opinion that the new gun signifies a greater revolution in fighting material than that brought about by the discovery of gunpowder.”22 — It is estimated that 30,000 lives were lost by the volcanic outburst on Martinique which overwhelmed the city of St. Pierre, May 8. On the neighboring island of St. Vincent the volcano of La Soufrière burst into sudden activity about the same time, and about 1,800 lives are reported lost there. Congress voted $400,000 for relief work on these islands, and appropriations for the same purpose have been made by many European governments. Professor Heilprin, of Philadelphia, who is reputed to be an authority on geology and volcanology, is quoted as saying that there is danger that the reef islands of the West Indies, of which Martinique and St. Vincent are examples, will collapse and sink into the sea as the result of these eruptions, since vast cavities must be left in the earth by the throwing out of such immense quantities of matter through the craters, and a settling of the overlying earth into these caverns must be the natural result. The famous boiling lake which has long been a natural curiosity on the island of Dominica, which lies close to Martinique, has disappeared, and in its place only a column of steam and vapor remains.