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Review and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 39.

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Earlier text: The Work in Mexico City

Current Mention

— Yellow fever has now disappeared from Port of Spain, Trinidad.
— Cholera is reported from thirteen provinces of Russia. So far there have been 2,320 deaths among the 4,512 cases reported.
— A mistake in the dispatcher's order cost the lives of twenty-five persons in a collision near Canaan, N. H., September 15. As many more were injured.
— By the collision of an express-train and a freight on the Mexican Central Railroad, September 19, sixty-three persons were killed, and forty-five were injured.
— There had been reported, up to the nineteenth of this month, thirty-five cases of bubonic plague in San Francisco. Twenty have died, and there are twenty suspects under observation.
— Many of the passengers and crew are missing from the Japanese steamer “Tafoo Maru,” which burned on the Yanktse River September 18. It is estimated that 100 lives were lost.
— During a fire which started in a mine near Kotaro, Japan, September 17, the water reservoir broke, flooding a part of the village. Thirty persons were drowned, and 100 houses burned.
— An explosion within the shield of a twelve-inch gun after target practise by the Japanese battle-ship “Kashima,” killed five officers and twenty-six men, September 9. Four other officers and twelve men were more or less injured.
— The failure of the brake and safety devices on a car lowering workmen into a mine at Negaunee, Mich., precipitated the car to the bottom of the shaft. Of the eighteen men in the car, eleven were killed, and the others were fatally injured.
— Fourteen of the eighteen men named by the investigation committee as responsible for the graft in connection with the furnishing of the Pennsylvania Capitol building have been arrested, and are under $60,000 bonds each to appear for trial.
— It is reported that, on account of the excessive number of convents for nuns in the city of Rome, the pope has not only decided to refuse permits for the establishment of new ones, but is inclined to suppress some of the existing institutions, and order the nuns to return to their families.
— On the nineteenth of this month Redlands, Cal., experienced a sharp earthquake shock. No damage is reported.
— The federal suit for the dissolution of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the holding company of all the subsidiary companies of the so-called oil trust, is bringing to light some of the unjust methods by which its enormous profits have been secured. During the years 1899 to 1906 inclusive, the profits were $490,315,934. In one year one of the subsidiary companies realized a profit of 1,000 per cent on the capital invested.
— Some months since the Nobel Peace Prize of $37,000 was conferred upon President Roosevelt in consideration of his good offices in arranging the conference that terminated the Russo-Japanese War. This sum he gave for the establishment of what is now known as Roosevelt Foundation for Industrial Peace. It is now decided to add $1,000,000 by popular subscription to this for the organization chartered by Congress.
— Abdul-Aziz, the sultan of Morocco, whose brother, Mulai Hafid, has proclaimed himself sultan, recently left Fez with an army of 5,000 men for a march through the disaffected districts to Rabat. He has received numerous accessions till his troops number 15,000. The population of Rabat is divided into two camps, each favoring one of the rival sultans. Peace negotiations at Casablanca between the hostile tribesmen and the French proved futile, and General Drude will again assume the offensive.
— Anti-Jewish riots continued for three days in Odessa, during the week ending September 14. More than 100 persons are reported to have been killed, and many were flogged by the members of the League of Russian People, commonly known as the Black Hundreds. It was only on the threat of the Jewish and Christian business men to leave the city unless the rioting was stopped, that the governor-general brought in sufficient troops to maintain order. Outbreaks were also reported from other cities of the empire.
— Representatives of the five Central American republics met in Washington, D. C., September 11, in a preliminary meeting to carry out the suggestion of the United States and Mexico for a permanent peace understanding. General good-will characterized this meeting, which was adjourned to the seventeenth, when the ministers of these republics represented in Washington signed a protocol, providing for a peace conference to settle all disputes among their respective states. The conference will be held in Washington sometime between the first and fifteenth of November.
— The plan for the organization of a permanent court of arbitration which was proposed by the American delegation, was rejected at The Hague, September 18. The particular point upon which the conference was unable to agree was the selection of judges. The British delegate secured the approval of a plan to pass the general scheme for the organization and procedure of the court, leaving blank the article for the appointing of judges, and to submit this to the governments, recommending that they consider among themselves how best to overcome the difficulty that has baffled the conference.

Washington Sanitarium

By D. H. Kress

Since the opening of our institution at Takoma Park, we have had some critical cases. A government auditor desired to bring his wife. We hesitated before advising him to do so. She was brought to us in an ambulance, and on her arrival was carefully examined. We offered the husband very little hope of her living more than a few days; but by careful attention and suitable treatments combined with constant prayer, she made a marvelous recovery. The following letter, which was received from her husband a few days ago, shows that they fully appreciate their stay with us:—
“I wish again to thank you and all your nurses and attendants who were so kind and attentive to my wife while she was at the Sanitarium, each one seeming to take a personal interest in her case and assisting in accomplishing such a wonderful improvement in her health. There is no doubt in our minds that you really saved her life. I am happy to state that she has continued to improve since she came home. She is taking good care of herself, is continuing the treatments and diet, and we feel encouraged in believing that she will be herself again.
“I also wish to thank you for your fair treatment of myself, keeping the expenses of nursing, etc., at a reasonable figure. We have often said that finer people we never met.
“Again thanking you all, I remain, “Yours, etc.”
Another government official, whose wife was also in a serious condition and made a most excellent recovery, writes as follows:—
“I wish to express to you my grateful appreciation of what you have done for my wife, and especially of the care and attention she received during her visit to the Sanitarium. From what she tells me, I have learned that you did more for her than I paid for, and that she was the recipient of your very special care and attention. I am glad that she had the sense, or intuition, or whatever it may have been, to place herself under your care, and I feel that she received more skilful treatment than she would have had in any hospital. For myself, I did not realize the gravity of the case, but regarded it as an acute bilious attack.
“Will you not kindly express our thanks to the nurses and ladies who assisted in caring for her?
“Very sincerely yours.”
A letter written by one of our gentleman patients to a friend happened to fall into my hands, a portion of which I will give:—
“To tell you the truth, this is the best religion I’ve ever seen. There is no difference between man, maid, or servant, rich or poor. I have watched them, and I find them consistent in every way. There is no hypocrisy, no angry words of any kind, on the whole forty-one acres of their land. It is peace and quietness all the time. I have a good appetite, and sleep fine.”
We are grateful to God for the success that has crowned the efforts of our sanitarium workers thus far, and sincerely hope that the atmosphere that surrounded the great Medical Missionary may ever be found in this institution, and that the same healing virtue may also be constantly among us. We ask the prayers of our people that it may be so.
D. H. KRESS, M. D.

Report of Health Institute

By J. R. Armer

The Health Institute at Maritzburg, Natal, South Africa, was opened Nov. 1, 1904. It is located in the heart of the city. Maritzburg is the seat of government for Natal, and has a population of about thirty thousand people, sixteen thousand of whom are whites.
It may surprise many, perhaps, when I mention that we started in business in this place with a capital of only forty pounds. On the morning of Nov. 1, 1904, we had nothing toward furnishing the house, as we had not made up our minds until the last moment to open upon our own responsibility. Our capital allowed us to expend money only upon bare necessities, but from the beginning we made a rule that we would not add to the house furniture in any way unless we had the money in hand to pay for it.
At the end of the first month, after paying all expenses, including a salary which we allowed ourselves, we had sufficient surplus to purchase a piano, together with other articles of furniture, but abstained from further purchases until we had money in hand again. In this way we furnished from month to month until we had everything needed.
Our treatment rooms are perhaps the most novel of any in South Africa, and to the ordinary observer it almost seemed impossible to transform them from what they once were into what they are today; but by a little persevering application the necessary changes were thought out and executed. We are enabled to give all the treatments which are used in our larger sanitariums.
Our next attempt will be to install an electric-light bath and needle sprays. The wood and iron building, which is at present only partially utilized, we expect shortly to fit up, and there make health foods for Africa.
The number of treatments for the years 1905 and 1906 were respectively 1,062 and 1,740. These do not include fomentations, etc.
Among those who have patronized us I might mention the following: one prime minister, one general, three members of the Legislative Assembly, two magistrates, two magistrates' wives, one judge of the native high court, and two Wesleyan ministers.
Last year for two months our house was so full that I had to be content with a massage cot for a bed, but the Lord gave me good health to do my work.
We have had no opposition from the medical men here, five of them having sent us patients, all of whom made good recoveries under the treatment. In one instance we had to call in two doctors to perform a surgical operation; they expressed themselves as highly pleased with the way in which we prepare a room, and especially with the attention we give to sterilization.
To enumerate fully the many interesting cases treated would take up too much time, but we have letters in our possession which prove that the Lord has indeed been working for us, and to him we give all praise, ourselves being merely instruments in his hands.
Two persons have accepted present truth here, and the opportunities of presenting truth in the bath-rooms are most enjoyable. Many in the city acknowledge that we are right, but have not the courage to follow their convictions. We are sorry for such, but we can only pray continually that they may be led to decide before it is forever too late. I know of no better experience than that of talking to others about the message.
In summing up at different times, my wife and I have concluded that a great measure of our success has been due to the fact that we have, when in doubt, always gone to the Testimonies, and there have learned what to do. We can not help acknowledging the good care and providence of our Heavenly Father which has been over us in our work.
J. R. Armer.
Maritzburg, Natal.

Medical Missionary Department

Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference
W. A. GEORGE, M. D.,     - - -     Chairman W. A. RUBLE, M. D.,     - - -     Secretary

Nurses’ Exchanges

The following, quoted from a letter from Mrs. Leone Mouning, 327 Oak Ave., Waterloo, Iowa, contains many valuable points concerning nurses’ exchanges: “My husband and I were speaking of the number of our nurses with good sanitarium missionary training who go out into the world to work for other physicians, and having no opportunity to use the methods they have been taught came from above, finally forget them and grow cold spiritually. It is not their fault, entirely, either. A plan came to my mind which was something like this: Let the State or union conference employ one or more physicians who are good lecturers, and give them competent help. Send them into towns of a promising size to hold a school of health, and do not be afraid of the expense of thorough advertising. When the work warrants, start small, well-equipped bath-rooms; and when the work is well started, leave two good nurses (preferably man and wife) in charge, and go to the next city to conduct a school of health. The physician should return to the bath-rooms already established at stated intervals to advise and to see new patients. At first this work would undoubtedly be an expense to the conference, but it seems to me that, when well established, it should pay the doctor and nurses good living wages, and be a source of income to the conference. Then a good Bible worker might be stationed at each place, and by being introduced by the nurse who already has openings into the best homes in the city, work could be done for a class of people that our missionaries seldom reach. In such a way the medical work might be truly the right arm of the third angel’s message. Another point: Our sanitariums do not advertise extensively. We are told to learn some things in business matters from the successful worldly concerns. Few of our institutions are well known in their own cities, much less outside. I believe these principles, if kept constantly before the public, will bring larger returns. I am deeply interested in the success of our medical work, and hence these lengthy opinions.”

Religion Gets Him in Jail

UNDER the above heading the following dispatch from Berlin, Germany, dated September 14, appeared in the Washington (D. C.) Herald of Sept. 15, 1907, bringing down to date the case of Brother Muegge, dealt with so fully in the article by Elder Conradi on page 12:—
“A private soldier named Muegge, belonging to the Thirty-first Regiment of Infantry, has been sentenced here to seven months' imprisonment by a court-martial for refusing to obey the commands of his superiors. Muegge belongs to the sect of Adventists, who sternly forbid the performance of any sort of work between sunset on Friday and sunset on Saturday. Their Sabbatarianism, in fact, is stricter than that of the strictest order of Jews.”
“It is by no means the first time that Muegge has received a similar punishment. He entered the army last autumn, and since then he has been practically all the time in jail, for no sooner has one term of imprisonment expired than his refusal to obey fresh commands on Saturday brings with it fresh punishment.”
“Muegge declares that he will die rather than commit the sin of desecrating the holy day. The military authorities are equally determined not to yield.”
The statement in the above quotation, that Adventists “sternly forbid the performance of any work” on the Sabbath, is, of course, incorrect. The Lord himself has given the command concerning the Sabbath, and each individual must decide for himself whether he will obey; and his obedience is not to a “sect,” but to the Lord of the Sabbath.

Bible Reading Series of the Signs of the Times

By Editor

The publishers of the Signs of the Times have decided to issue another series of twenty-five special numbers of the Signs, beginning October 30, a very prominent feature of which will be a series of illustrated Bible readings covering all the great features of present truth. These readings will occupy the center opening of each issue, and will appear under the heading of—

Home Bible Studies for Winter Evenings

These readings will be in the form of studies on present truth, with notes and quotations from history bearing upon the subject. They will be illustrated by diagrams, drawings, and unique little illustrations that will explain the lesson and make it simple and impressive.
The regular departments of the paper will be maintained the same as usual.

The Outlook Department

In this department special attention will be given to current events that have a bearing upon the fulfilment of prophecy. The publishers will continue to send representatives to all important gatherings, both political and religious, in order that the readers may be kept informed of the natural trend of events.

Home Department

Arrangements have been made with Mrs. L. D. A. Stuttle for a series of twenty-one articles on—

“The Building of the Home”

These articles will be intensely interesting, and very helpful to all, both old and young.
Other articles equally interesting and instructive are promised. The Home department alone will be worth the price of the paper for a year.
This series of twenty-five special numbers of the Signs of the Times is to be inaugurated October 30 by the great—

“World's Missions Special”

This will be a double number (thirty-two pages), well illustrated and beautifully printed. This number will present in a striking manner the great work of missions, its accomplishments, its open doors, its needy fields, and its glorious culmination in the “Harvest Home.”
The writers for this issue will be men whose hearts are burdened for the salvation of souls, men with hearts fresh and warm from mission fields, and men in those mission fields bearing the burden, seeing the misery, hearing the cry for help, and witnessing the power of the gospel.
For many months the editors have been gathering from all parts of the world illustrations and material for this special issue; and it is safe to say that this will be the best Missions number that was ever published by the denomination.

Everybody Interested in Missions

Not only Christians of all denominations, but infidels and atheists, are anxious to know what progress is being made in the matter of carrying out the commission of the Great Teacher recorded in Mark 16:15: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” This special Missions number of the Signs of the Times will undertake to tell the story in a brief, pointed, and interesting way.
The subscription price for the Mission Special is ten cents a copy. The entire series of 25 special numbers (six months), including the Missions double number, to one address, 25 cents. For further information, club rates, etc., address Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Cal.

Christian Liberty

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL, - - - - - Chairman W. A. COLCORD, - - - - - Secretary

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

Camp-Meetings for 1907
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE Alabama, Birmingham ............ Oct. 3-13 Florida, Tampa ................. Oct. 10-20 Mississippi, Aberdeen .......... Sept. 27 to Oct. 3
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE Wisconsin ...................... Sept. 25 to Oct. 1 Wisconsin, Beloit ............. Oct. 3-8
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE Kansas, Kincaid ................ Oct. 4-13
PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE Utah, Salt Lake City ........... Oct. 3-10

Central New England Conference

By H. F. Ketring

THE next session of the Central New England Conference will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church at South Lancaster, Mass., October 10-13, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and transacting any other business that may properly come before the conference. All churches should attend immediately to the election of delegates to the conference, and send their credentials to H. B. Tucker, South Lancaster, Mass. H. F. KETRING, President.

The Pennsylvania Prisoners' Employment Law

By GEO. W. SPIES.

THE Pennsylvania State Sunday law provides for a term of imprisonment in case of non-payment of the fine imposed for its violation, while the “prisoners’ employment law,” which became a law since the last session of the Pennsylvania Legislature, provides that every able-bodied male prisoner in Pennsylvania jails may be compelled to work on the public highway, during the term of his imprisonment, for eight hours each day except Sundays and legal holidays.
The county jail commissioners are interesting themselves in the enforcement of this latter law, which makes it possible to repeat in Pennsylvania the chain-gang experiences of our brethren in some of the Southern States; and the near future will doubtless witness an effort to compel our brethren who may be arrested in Pennsylvania for violating the Sunday law, to labor on the Sabbath, as provided for by this law.
GEO. W. SPIES.

Religious Liberty Notes

ONE of our religious liberty secretaries says: “I consider the religious liberty work the storm-center of our message.”
The church at Wilmington, Del., has agreed to stand responsible for sending Liberty to all members of the Delaware Legislature.
One brother in Colorado, a minister, writes us that he will stand good for the sending of Liberty to the members of the Colorado Legislature.
The president of the Maine Conference writes as follows: “We have put our religious liberty literature into more than eleven thousand families in this State during the past year. We use what is called ‘Truth Envelopes,’ and in these place the Religious Liberty leaflets and the Signs leaflets. In these eleven thousand families, about half a million pages of this reading-matter has been placed during the year.”

Australia

UNDER date of August 4, Elder W. A. Hennig writes as follows:—
“Dr. W. F. Crafts has been here, and has been very busy getting his new machine, the International Reform Bureau, set up. He has it about ready now. All the firemen and engineers are appointed, and the machine will start off on the Sabbath reform track. He has enlisted the support of a good many men of influence, and I think he feels that his trip here has not been in vain.
“The Bible in School League was much disappointed and angered because the Victorian government did not give them what they wanted. The question is now before the parliament of the Queensland government. I think that the church people will not get what so many of them want this year. A good many of the members are opposed to the measure. The parliament is to decide whether or not there will be a referendum on the question. The speaker of the House said that he did not want the matter to come up at all. If it did, he would oppose it, because a religious question was not a proper question for a referendum; that no majority had any right to decide any religious question for a minority, no matter how small that minority may be. Some of the other leading members hold the same views. His speech was a good one.
“There are a great many agitators here for the union of the churches, but in this direction there has not been as much headway made in this country as in the States. Some of the reformers are getting rabid.”

Business Notices

By Editor

THIS department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper. Please read carefully the conditions under which business notices will be published.
Brief business notices will be published in this department subject to the discretion of the publishers.
Display advertising, and advertisements which call for agents, will not be accepted, nor do the publishers solicit advertising of any kind for this paper.
All persons unknown to the managers of this paper must send with their advertisement satisfactory written recommendation. Such recommendation should come from one of our ministers, or from the elder of a Seventh-day Adventist church. It is not enough to refer to some individual by name. Secure his recommendation in writing and send it.
A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures, in excess of forty, will cost three cents.
No discount for several insertions.
We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.
WANTED.—By the Arizona Sanitarium, two lady nurses, one woman for general housework, and one for kitchen and dining-room work. For particulars, address Arizona Sanitarium, Phoenix, Ariz.
For SALE.—Send us $3.50, and we will ship to you, for trial, a 5-gal. can of our Ideal Brand (regular $4.50 prepaid) oil, rancid proof, vegetable product; can not be surpassed for salads and cooking purposes. Address Robt. Kendall Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.
For SALE.—Farm of 152 acres. Good land, water, and climate. Over $1,000 worth of improvements. Price, $2,200; or would trade for a small home near town in Western States, near coast. For particulars, address S. Y., Box 26, Ponoka, Alberta, Canada.
For SALE.—I will sell to Seventh-day Adventists only the Radiodescent Therapeutic Lamp (sunlight and heat) for one half the regular price. This will enable every doctor, nurse, treatment room, and afflicted person to get one. We sell all kinds of vibrators. Address Radiodescent Lamp Co., Kalamazoo, Mich.

Obituaries

COWLES.—Died at the sanitarium at Madison, Wis., Aug. 18, 1907, of old age and heart failure, Brother R. G. Cowles, aged 80 years, 9 months, and 29 days. Brother Cowles embraced the truths of the third angel's message in 1861 under the labors of Elders T. M. Steward and I. Sanborn, uniting with the Baraboo (Wis.) church at the time of its organization, May 23, 1875. He was a consistent Christian, and when he realized that death was near, said that heaven had never before seemed so near and so real. A wife, two sons, and a daughter are left to mourn. The funeral service was held at Baraboo, words of comfort being spoken by Elder C. W. Olds from Rev. 14:6-14. E. M. ALDRICH.
SANFRATELLO.—Died in Cleburne County, Alabama, July 9, 1907, Joseph Sanfratello, aged 39 years. Brother Sanfratello was born in Sicily, and came to the United States in 1890. More than eight years ago he was converted to the Seventh-day Adventist faith, and continued an earnest, devoted Christian till death. He was respected by all who knew him. He leaves a wife and seven children to mourn their loss. The funeral was conducted by the writer. DAY CONKLIN.
LORREN.—Died in Cleburne County, Alabama, Sept. 5, 1907, Clari Vashti Lorren, infant daughter of T. J. and Carrie Lorren. Little Clari Vashti was born Feb. 8, 1907. She was a bright, sweet child, and will be greatly missed; but we sorrow not as those who have no hope, for we believe she will come forth in the first resurrection. She leaves a father, mother, one brother, and two sisters to mourn their loss. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. DAY CONKLIN.
CARLETON.—Died Sept. 10, 1907, Brother J. F. Carleton, aged 76 years, 11 months, and 23 days. He was in Massachusetts on a visit with his sons, and being feeble, fell and received injuries from which he died in about two weeks. He embraced present truth many years ago under the labors of Elders J. N. Andrews and M. E. Cornell when the Norridgewock (Maine) church was raised up, and has been a faithful member of the church these many years, and will be greatly missed by the members. He was brought to Norridgewock for burial, the funeral being at the home in which he lived for many years, and he was laid to rest in the village cemetery to await the coming of the Life-giver to reward his saints. He leaves a wife and three sons to mourn their loss. On the funeral occasion, remarks were made by the writer from Job 14:14. P. B. OSBORNE.
CORNISH.—Fell asleep in Jesus at the asylum for the insane, at Lincoln, Neb., Sister Ella Cornish, aged 43 years. The blessed experience of this sister during the last few years of her life deserves more than a passing notice. She had suffered ill health from various causes, and her mind being affected, she was taken to the asylum, June 30, 1900. Here she regained her mental faculties, but being frail and helpless, remained an inmate until her death. I visited her several times during the last few weeks, and as I witnessed her triumphant faith and sweet resignation, I thought that it ought to be known what God can do for his children under the most trying circumstances. Her face seemed to light up with glory from the unseen world as she talked in broken sentences and disconnected words. She said that the Lord knew just where to put her, and that she had been perfectly contented. It was like going into the furnace, but the form of the Fourth had been there, and the flame had consumed only the cords which had bound her, and had set her soul free in God. By reading the REVIEW she had kept pace with the message, and had written much, both of prose and of poetry, for our denominational papers, and for other religious journals, so that her influence was felt outside of the institution as well as in it. She spoke with affection for her attendants, and with love and pity for the patients, of whom some had been her special subjects of prayer. She will come up in the glad morning of the resurrection, forever free from Satan's cruel power. Words of comfort were spoken by Elder C. R. Kite from Rom. 8:28. E. M. PEEBLES.
A CORRECTION.—In the REVIEW of August 15, in Brother Hanson's obituary notice, these words occur: “With whom she had walked life's journey for nearly seventy-five years;” it should have read, “for nearly forty-five years.”

Washington Sanitarium Medical Missionary Training-School

By D. H. Kress

As the name indicates, this school has been established in connection with our Sanitarium at Washington, for the purpose of training men and women to do medical missionary work. We do not ask those who connect with it to devote their lives to nursing after they leave the Sanitarium. We merely ask them to be missionaries, and to allow the Lord to indicate what the future work of each shall be. We do not wish those who enter the medical missionary training-school to feel that they are under obligation to devote their time exclusively, or even largely, to nursing. We desire them to obtain the training we are able to give at the Sanitarium, that they may be able to be of the greatest blessing to humanity. If called to the ministry, they will be more efficient ministers. If called to fill the position of church-school teachers, they will be able to do much more good with this training than they could possibly do without it. As Bible workers going from house to house, they can be of the greatest help by combining practical instruction with Bible instruction. If called into a foreign field, they will be better able to do as occasion may serve, and meet the various necessities of the people. While we have a three-year course of instruction, no one is bound for this period. We do not wish any one to remain in training any longer than he ought to remain. We do not ask any one to pledge himself to remain three years. Neither do we desire any to be unwilling to go to any field of labor to which he may be called to go at any time during the course, should such a call come while in training. We expect all the members to do their very best, to improve every opportunity to increase their present and future usefulness, and to do cheerfully the work that lies nearest to them; then, when called elsewhere, simply to continue to do as they did aforetime. That is what it means to be a missionary. A missionary can not specialize and say I will do only this or that. A true missionary will be willing to do anything that needs most to be done, and to go where the greatest need exists. The medical training will enable such workers to be of greater value, no matter where they may be, than they could be without such training. The work demands workers who will say in their daily deportment and life, “I will go where you want me to go, dear Lord,” or, “I will stay where you want me to stay.” No one can be a true and successful foreign missionary who has not previously been a true and successful home missionary, for foreign missionary work is merely home missionary work in a foreign field.
Those who take this training at the Sanitarium have the satisfaction of knowing that they are receiving their education on missionary ground, for a sanitarium is itself one of the best missionary fields, affording opportunities to its workers of revealing the Christ life daily as they minister to the needs of those who come as patients or guests.
We shall expect God’s blessing with the work and workers at the Washington Sanitarium. D. H. KRESS.

Publications Wanted

[SPECIAL NOTICE.—We learn that objectionable literature is being sent in response to these requests, and urge all to examine with special care any periodicals or pamphlets received outside of our well-known denominational publications. Be sure that the literature which you distribute teaches the truth.—ED.]
The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—
W. H. Stanley, Box 108, Hayward, Cal., REVIEW, Signs, Instructor.
James Harvey, 763 Jackson St., Oakland, Cal., Signs, Watchman, Bible Training School.
Peter G. Argo, Wheelock, N. D., Signs, Watchman, Instructor, Life and Health, Liberty, and tracts.
Clifford M. Loveland, 5 Magnolia Court, New London, Conn., Signs, Life and Health, Life Boat, Liberty, and tracts.
R. W. Clark, Palmetto, Fla., wishes to thank those who have sent him papers, and says he wishes a continual supply for a reading-rack.
Hazel Foster, New Castle, Colo., wishes to thank those who have sent her papers, and says she would like a continual supply of Signs, Watchman, Liberty, Instructor, Little Friend, and tracts.
Guy Corder, 823 Kenilworth Ave., Coshocton, Ohio, Signs, REVIEW, Bible Training School, Life Boat, Instructor, and tracts. A good supply is desired before the October fair; afterward a continual supply.

Now Is the Time to Help

By Arthur Grosvenor Daniells

In my travels among our brethren I find a growing interest in the work in the Southern field. The progress the different departments of the cause is making is filling the hearts of our people with courage. They are cheered to see the marked increase in the number of believers, in the amount of tithe received, in the sales of our literature, in the growth of the educational and medical work, and in the substantial progress being made in behalf of the colored people. All rejoice to see this good fruit being borne as a result of the earnest work and large expenditure of the past.
In view of all these encouraging omens, and also of the present great needs and alarming conditions that exist, we are all exceedingly anxious that the collection to be taken October 5 for the work in behalf of the colored people shall be a large one. Many stirring appeals have been written for this collection. The object of this note is to earnestly request all our people to read these appeals with care, and take them to heart. Let ministers and church elders present the matter clearly to all our people. Brethren, we must have a large offering this year. Our faithful men in the South who are bearing the burden and perplexities of this work on their hearts need financial help. Remember them, and give as you would want others to give were you carrying the burden in the Southern field. And when we have given as the Lord requires, let us continue to pray the Lord to greatly bless and prosper the cause to which the offerings are made.
A. G. DANIELLS.

Elder George F. Enoch Sails for India

ELDER GEORGE F. ENOCH and family sail this week from New York for England, on their way to India. They will no doubt engage in work on the Bombay side of the country.

Changes in Life and Health

By Editor

WE call special attention to the second page notice of the October number of Life and Health. In addition to the changes in the number of pages this journal will hereafter contain, our readers will be interested in the necessary change of the prices.

The Sabbath Truth in Germany

By Editor

WE hope that none, because of its length, will omit reading Brother Conradi’s article in the World-Wide Field department. We consider the article of sufficient importance to amply justify giving it the space which it occupies. The acceptance of the Sabbath truth means much to the young men of Germany, where military service is compulsory, and where loyalty to the fourth command of the decalogue means military imprisonment; but the truth is finding those who do not flinch when the test comes. As will be seen by an article in the Christian Liberty department of this issue, the newspapers of the world consider the course of Brother Muegge sufficiently striking to warrant reference to it in other countries.

Signs of the Times Special Series

On page 22 of this issue will be found a detailed announcement of the new special series of the Signs of the Times, which is to begin with the double number—the Missions Special—of October 30.

Karere o te Pono

By Editor

WE welcome to the list of our denominational periodicals Karere o te Pono, a monthly publication in the Maori language, issued at Kihipone, New Zealand—another evidence of the fact that this message is reaching out to all the peoples of the earth to bear witness among “every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.”

Loss of the Colombia Mail

By Editor

IN a letter dated August 14, Elder F. L. Perry, of Peru, states that the steamship “Colombia,” carrying American mail, which left the port of Panama about August 4, was wrecked off the northern coast of Peru, and all mail aboard was lost. Thus letters sent out about that time to Peru, or other points on the West Coast, may not reach their destination. In this connection we wish to correct a statement made in the REVIEW of August 15. It read that Brother Frank E. Hinckley, of Boston, would be the only representative in all Peru. It should have read “in all that part of Peru,” meaning Arequipa, the place where he was to locate.

Missionary Work from Hamburg

The workers in the Hamburg Publishing House are a missionary band. They desire that any of our people in America who can do so shall send them the addresses of friends or of persons in Europe, so that literature may be sent them. Workers at Hamburg correspond not only in the German, but in Russian, Hungarian, Bohemian, Lettonian, Dutch, and other languages, and will gladly send the literature and follow it with correspondence, if names and addresses are furnished them. The publishing house will be liberal in giving grants of papers and other literature. Those who can do so should send names and addresses, clearly written, to W. Ising, Grindelberg 15a, Hamburg, Germany. The letter rate to Germany is 5 cents for each half ounce or fraction thereof.
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