— President Roosevelt, on October 25, set apart Thursday, November 28, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
— Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria continues to improve, and it is now thought he will entirely recover.
— During a gale October 17 a Danish freight steamer foundered on the rocks off Castle Point, Scotland, and twenty of her crew were drowned.
— The Atlantic steamer “Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse” broke her rudder as she neared mid-ocean last Friday, but proceeded on her voyage, steering by her screw propellers.
— The king and queen of Spain have left Madrid for a visit to England, where it is reported that they will travel incognito, and that the king will consult specialists in reference to his health. He has symptoms of tuberculosis, from which his father died.
— Nine contestants entered a balloon race at St. Louis October 21, and each made a remarkable flight. The distances covered ranged from 375 to 880 miles, while the time of flight was from about twenty-five hours to one minute less than forty-four hours. Two of the balloons landed in New Jersey.
— A run on the Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York forced that concern to close its doors one day last week, and came near resulting in a financial panic. But prompt action on the part of the Secretary of the Treasury and prominent financiers, including J. Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, in placing about $60,000,000 at the disposal of the prominent banks of New York, resulted in restoring confidence and relieving the stringency.
— An earthquake shock, which occurred the early part of last week, destroyed several villages in the south of Italy. It develops, as investigation proceeds, that the loss of life is much more than was at first supposed. The work of rescue is hindered by the inaccessibility of the district, but it is estimated that 600 persons were killed and 1,000 injured. Continuous rains have fallen since the disaster, which occurred in the night, and adds greatly to the distress of the survivors, many of whom were but scantily clad when they fled from their falling houses.
— According to statistics of government experts less than fifty per cent of the average tree as it stands in the woods comes into the market as merchantable products; the remainder goes to waste. Although lumbermen and users of lumber gave little heed to this waste until prices seriously handicapped building operations, the government forest service early began investigations, seeking to turn to account what was thrown away. It is now reported from the laboratories that various abundant woods of which no use has been made are valuable for paper-pulp, and this will save the spruce and poplar for lumber. It has likewise been demonstrated that by a process of steam distillation a turpentine may be obtained from refuse southern pine that is equal to gum spirits which is now obtained by sacrificing the trunks of living trees.
— The government seized at Norfolk, Va., October 20, 175 cases containing 8,750,000 cigarettes, valued at $7,272.50, which were in transit to Great Britain. The seizure was made under that section of the Sherman anti-trust law which declares forfeited to the United States any property owned under contract entered into in restraint of trade, and being in course of transportation from one State to another or to a foreign country. This is the first time that proceedings have been taken to enforce this section of the Sherman law.
— Italy is afflicted with a series of strikes, which seems likely to cause a serious interruption of business and communication. The trouble began with a strike of the gas workers in Milan. In endeavoring to settle this trouble the soldiers fired into a mob, which caused the strike to extend to other occupations as well as other cities, where sympathetic strikes were ordered, and the railroad men stopped work. They endeavored to persuade the Central Committee of the Socialists at Rome to declare a general strike of all the working men in Italy, but the committee refused, believing that under the circumstances public opinion would not support them. In spite of this the railroad employees continue their strikes, and are trying to tie up all lines.
— The recent opening of stations for transatlantic commercial wireless telegraphic messages lends interest to the following statistics in reference to that method of communication: There are now over 1,550 stations engaged in regular transmission of wireless messages. A classification of these stations may be made approximately as follows: Commercial land stations, 195; merchant vessels, 170; lighthouses and other government stations, 150; naval installations, 670; military portable stations, 55; experimental stations, 310. The United States Signal Corps has maintained for four years wireless communication across Norton Sound in Alaska. During this time there has never been a day when the service was interrupted, and the speed is as high as that ordinarily obtained in telegraphy by wire.
— Occasional reports from Morocco indicate that the power of Mulai-Hafid, the pretender, is steadily increasing, one of the principal causes being the subserviency of the sultan, Abdel-Aziz, to the French. The first conflict between the forces of the rival sultans occurred October 17, when Mulai-Hafid’s troops were victorious, capturing the commander-in-chief of all his brother’s forces in the field. About the same time nearly 300,000 cartridges were taken from the customs house at Mazagan. The finances of the sultan are known to be in a desperate condition, but he has obtained temporary relief by securing a loan of $200,000 upon the imperial jewels. On the nineteenth a French reconnoitering party proceeding from Casablanca was ambushed by the Moors, and a captain and private were killed and six men wounded. The Moors lost sixty men. This has resulted in opening hostilities again on the part of the French, and it is reported that on the twenty-first forces commanded by General Drude suffered serious repulse by about 7,000 Moors who threatened Casablanca to that extent that the authorities requested aid from the Spanish war-ship in the harbor to repel the attack.
History of the Medical Missionary Work
Concluded
Health Reform Institute
THE year 1866 witnessed the establishment of our first sanitarium, called, at the time, the Health Reform Institute. The first published notice of this enterprise appeared in the REVIEW AND HERALD, June 19, 1866, and reads as follows:—
“We send out this week circulars concerning the Health Reform Institute to churches and individuals who we think have an interest in, and will be prepared to act in reference to, the health-reform question. . . . The matter as presented in the circulars has been brought before the church at Battle Creek, and by Brother Andrews before the monthly meeting at Olcott, N. Y., and the result is a subscription of $2,625, as acknowledged in the business department of this paper.”
The REVIEW of Aug. 7, 1866, gives the following outline of the object, character, location, and facilities of this institution:—
“This Institute, as indicated by its name, has been established with a two-fold object: first, as a place where disease will be treated on hygienic principles; and second, as a place where instruction will be imparted, both theoretically and practically, to patients and boarders on the important subject of so caring for the body and mind as to preserve health, or to secure the largest immunity from sickness and premature death. The health-reform movement, as we view it, contemplates the preservation of health no less than the recovery from disease. In the treatment of the sick at this institution, no drugs whatever will be administered, but only such means employed as nature can best use in her recuperative work, such as water, air, light, heat, food, sleep, rest, recreation, etc. Our tables will be furnished with a strictly healthful diet, consisting of vegetables, grains, and fruits, which are found in great abundance and variety in this State. It will be the aim of the faculty that all who spend any length of time at this Institute shall go to their homes instructed as to the right mode of living and the best methods of home treatment.”
“Our Present Facilities”
“Our institution will be open for the reception of patients and hygienic boarders on the fifth day of September, 1866. We shall be able to accommodate from the commencement from forty to fifty patients, and shall increase the number and size of our buildings as occasion may require.
“Our Location”
“We have in this respect all that could be desired.
“1. We are in a State which has chosen as its most appropriate motto, ‘If you seek a beautiful peninsula, behold it here.’
“2. We are situated about midway between the East and West, and patients from either section can reach us with equal facility.
“3. Our city is easily accessible from all parts of the country, being an important station on the Michigan Central Railway, the great thoroughfare between the celebrated cities of Detroit and Chicago, and one of the main arteries of travel between the East and the West. The cars running upon this road are the stillest, best ventilated, and nicest to be found in the country; the superintendent, conductors, and employees are gentlemanly and accommodating; and a traveling public give this road the reputation of being the best managed of any in the United States.
“4. Our buildings are located on a site of nearly six acres in the highest and driest part of the city.”
The Institute was dedicated to its glorious work Sept. 5, 1866. Elder James White, who took a prominent part in its establishment, has left us the following bit of information regarding their experiences in launching this important enterprise:—
“The Western Health Reform Institute was opened for the reception of patients and boarders, at the time appointed, September 5. The occasion was one of encouragement and good cheer. All felt that the Institute was and would be a complete success. The prospect for patients is all that could be asked. The greatest fear that the managers now have, is that they will not be able to accommodate all who may wish to come. Let those who contemplate coming by all means first correspond in relation to the matter. All the conveniences contemplated are not yet completed, but the work will be carried forward, and the capacities of the Institute enlarged as fast as possible.
“We have only to look back to our conference in May last, less than four short months ago, for the time when this matter first began to take practical shape among our people. Now we behold an elegant site secured, buildings ready for operation, a competent corps of assistants on the ground, two numbers of a health journal already issued, with a subscription list that has doubled within the past few weeks, a sum bordering on eleven thousand dollars already subscribed for stock in the enterprise, and the Institute opened and operations actually commenced. In no enterprise ever undertaken by this people, has the hand of the Lord been more evidently manifested than in this thing. We here enter our record of gratitude for the great fact accomplished, the great step taken in the right direction.
“But in this, as in other branches of this work, we may expect that the enemy will try with all his power to bring reverses, create hindrances, and block the wheels to its onward progress. But the Lord, whose the work is, is mightier than all his foes. If we all so live that he can work with us, he will carry it through. We must consecrate ourselves to him as never before. In a few years at most, our work will be finished.”
In thus making the medical missionary work a fundamental part of their gospel message and ministry, the pioneers of this cause understood full well that they were doing what no other denomination had attempted. This was expressed at that time by Elder J. N. Andrews as follows:—
“I desire to call the attention of our friends still further to this important enterprise. Its merits have been well set forth by others, and with what has been said I heartily concur. As a people, we have undertaken to do what no other religious denomination, to my knowledge, has ever attempted.”
The First Health Manual
Feeling the need of a practical manual on health, temperance, and home treatment of common ailments, the General Conference, in its session of 1867, adopted a resolution requesting the Health Reform Institute to issue a work of this character. The preparation of the volume was assigned to Elder Loughborough, who wrote a little book of two hundred pages described as “A Handbook of Health, or a brief treatise on physiology and hygiene, comprising practical instruction on the structure and functions of the human system, and rules for the preservation of the health.” This book came from the printing-house the latter part of 1867. This was the first attempt of our pioneers to treat the medical work they were inaugurating from a scientific standpoint.
I have referred at some length to the beginning of our work in medical lines to refresh your minds with the history of its rise, and also the spirit of those who were leading out in these lines at that time. The progress made was necessarily slow. In 1877 an addition was made to the Battle Creek institution at a cost of over $100,000, and later, in 1884, another large addition was erected.
It was not until the year 1879 that another institution was started for the promulgation of these principles. In that year the Rural Health Retreat, located at St. Helena, Cal., began its work. Twenty years from the opening of the medical work in Battle Creek, there were only two institutions in operation, the one in Battle Creek having, according to the statement for Sept. 30, 1886, a total investment of $237,757.90, and the one in St. Helena a net value of $14,726.13.
While it is true that the work in institutional lines progressed slowly, yet these principles were being clearly set forth by our physicians, ministers, and other workers. For this purpose a health and temperance association was formed, the work of which at this stage was a means of greatly assisting in the dissemination of these principles. The membership of our churches very largely composed the members of the associations in operation in nearly every State. In this manner was laid the broad basis for the work which has so rapidly developed in later years.
From the beginning of our work in Battle Creek to the present a little over forty years have elapsed. Attention has already been called briefly to the work of the first twenty years; the work of the last twenty years may be summarized by giving the standing at the close of each five years, as follows:—
In 1891 we had sanitariums in operation in Battle Creek, Mich.; St. Helena, Cal.; and Mount Vernon, Ohio.
In 1897 we had six sanitariums in the United States, and six in all other countries.
In 1901 there were seventeen sanitariums22in the United States, and thirteen in other countries, besides twenty-one treatment rooms.
In 1906 there were in the United States and Canada forty-seven sanitariums, and in other countries nineteen, besides about fifty treatment rooms. The total assets of all these institutions would aggregate about two million dollars.
Thus it will be seen that many institutions are now in successful operation in different parts of the world for the promulgation of the principles of health and temperance, and the successful treatment of disease by means of the facilities which have been provided by the efforts of our people. What is needed now is that the Holy Spirit of God may energize all these workers, that these facilities may be wisely employed in treating those who come to these institutions for the physical help they need, and that they may also be given spiritual help that will bring many of them to a full knowledge and acceptance of the truth. In this way our sanitarium work can be made a mighty factor in the advancement of the message for this time.
Medical Missionary Department
Conducted by the Medical Department of the General Conference
W. A. GEORGE, M. D., - - - Chairman
W. A. RUBLE, M. D., - - - Secretary
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WANTED.—A first-class broom maker. Steady employment for a Seventh-day Adventist. Address S. P. Reed, 910 South Walker St., Oklahoma City, Okla.
WANTED.—Position as cook in small sanitarium, or as second cook in one of our large sanitariums, or work in store, on farm or truck-garden. Address N. P. Burdick, 1017 Elm St., Terre Haute, Ind.
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FOR SALE.—Absolutely pure peanut butter, made by a scientific process from selected sterilized peanuts, and guaranteed pure under the National Pure Food Law, only 12 cents a pound. Purest cocoanut oil, 15 cents in 50-pound lots. Address Vegetarian Meat Company, Bond Building, Washington, D. C.
WANTED AT ONCE.—Two graduate lady nurses; also two young ladies and one young man who desire experience and practical work in hydrotherapy, massage, operating room, and nursing. Wages while learning, and access to books for study. References required. Address Fayette Sanitarium, Connersville, Ind.
FOR SALE.—Occoquan Fruit Farm, 24 acres, 1,500 pear-trees, maximum yield 2,000 bushels; apples, some peaches, plums, nuts. Customers in twelve States. Beautifully and healthfully situated twenty-four miles from Washington, on bank of Occoquan River; Washington Southern Railway. Boating, bathing, ice. New ten-room house, cellar, well, stable, etc. $2,800. Only reason for selling, urgent call from aged parents. Address Occoquan Fruit Farm, Occoquan, Va.
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By W. W. Prescott
Notice!
Notice is hereby given that the fourth annual meeting of the members of the constituency of the Review and Herald Publishing Association of Washington, D. C., will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church, West Philadelphia, Pa., on Monday, Nov. 18, 1907, at 3 P. M., for the election of officers for the coming year, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
The following persons are members of this corporation: those composing the executive committees of the General Conference, the Atlantic Union Conference, the Canadian Union Conference, the Lake Union Conference, and the Northern Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists; those who compose the executive committees of the several local conferences of Seventh-day Adventists within the territory of the afore-mentioned union conferences; those who compose the board of trustees of the Review and Herald Publishing Association; and such persons as have received certificates of membership in said association. As large an attendance of the membership as possible is desired.
By order of the Board of Trustees,
W. W. PRESCOTT, President.
Some Startling Information
By Editor
How much money do you think is spent in the United States in a year for intoxicating liquors? How much for tobacco? How much for confectionery, soft drinks, patent medicines, jewelry, etc.? Over three and one-half billion dollars.
How much do you think is given for foreign missions? Seven and one-half millions.
Think of it! Three and one-half billion for intoxicating liquor and other useless and harmful things, and only seven and one-half millions for missions!
This is all illustrated by striking diagrams in the Missions number of the Signs of the Times just off the press.
On one page of this number the heathen countries are shown by colossal images representing the various nations. Over a billion persons still in the darkness of heathenism! This is nearly two thirds of the inhabitants of the globe. Think of it!
These facts and figures are all clearly illustrated and explained in this number of the paper, together with the most touching appeals ever put in print.
On two pages there are portraits and a brief biographical sketch of thirty-two pioneer missionaries.
This is something that can not be found in any other journal. Libraries, books, magazines, and periodicals have been ransacked to obtain these portraits and this valuable information.
Here are Carey, Judson, Livingstone, and all the other noted missionaries. Some who have seen these two pages say that they alone are worth ten times the cost of the paper; and they are.
The first article in the paper is by Dr. A. T. Pierson, editor of the Missionary Review of the World, without doubt the best-informed man on missions and missionary work now living. His article is entitled, “The Open Doors before God’s People.” It is intensely interesting.
Then follow other articles, giving a brief history of missions and missionary effort during the last century.
Dr. Pierson states that a century ago not one heathen country was open to missionaries, but that now the whole world is open, and the inhabitants are calling for help.
The paper contains over one hundred beautiful illustrations, and is the first of a series of twenty-five special numbers.
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Findings
WE were favored recently by a call from Dr. D. D. Comstock, who, the past year, has been connected with the Tri-City Sanitarium, Moline, Ill. Dr. Comstock and his wife were on their way to Chicago, where he will be connected with dispensary work during the coming year, and she will pursue medical studies.
We are sorry to have to announce the death of Mrs. H. G. Gaunce, which occurred Aug. 10, 1907, at Holy Cross Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Brother Gaunce has for a number of years been connected with the Melrose Sanitarium, but was away for a vacation at the time of his wife's death. Certainly the sympathies of our medical workers go out to Brother Gaunce in his sore affliction.
Dr. Roy M. Clarke, who was graduated from the George Washington University this last summer, has been connected with the Knowlton Sanitarium, Knowlton, Quebec, for the past few months. During a short visit to Washington a few weeks ago he was married to Miss Ethal Gilbert. They returned at once to Dr. Clarke's field of labor in Canada, where they are expecting to make their home. We wish them much success in their work.
The following is from Dr. F. L. Fisher, 108 West High St., Mount Vernon, Ohio: “I write you in behalf of our sanitarium at this place, which is owned and controlled by the Ohio Conference, and directed in connection with the Mount Vernon College. In looking through the list of sanitariums, I did not see the College Springs Sanitarium among them, so I desire it to be enrolled with the others, if we can be considered worthy of that place. Our institution was not formally opened, and is not very widely known, so you were perfectly excusable for not having known of its being in operation. We are now enlarging and improving to meet the demands. We also have first- and second-year classes, which get, with the aid of the college, a very thorough training, of
Obituaries
COLE.—Died at Eureka, Cal., of heart failure, Brother John S. Cole, aged 85 years and 3 months. He had been to prayer-meeting, and was returning to his home on the street-car, when he suddenly sank down and died. He had been a faithful member of the church, and now rests, waiting for the coming of the Life-giver. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. A. J. OSBORNE.
WINSLOW.—Died near Ridgefield, Wash., Aug. 3, 1907, of valvular disease of the heart following an attack of inflammatory rheumatism, Alton Clay Winslow, son of Herbert H. and Mary L. Winslow, aged 13 years and 21 days. In the patience and gentleness which months of suffering developed in the character of the boy, there came also a desire to follow his Lord in baptism, a wish which only his physical condition prevented the fulfilment of. He died in the hope of the soon-coming Saviour. A few remarks from John 14:1-3 were made by the writer. A. J. STONER.
HAGENSTEIN.—Died at the home of his loved ones, sixteen miles northwest of Stanley, N. D., Aug. 9, 1907, F. A. Hagenstein, after terrible suffering caused by the kick of a horse on August 3. Our brother in Christ was converted to the truth as it is in Jesus a few weeks prior to the accident. Those who mourn his loss are comforted in the hope of a soon-coming Saviour. Brother Hagenstein was denied a burial according to his last wishes; but though no words of comfort such as he requested were spoken over his remains, we know that what was done could never disturb our brother’s last sleep. JENNIE M. LEIN.
WILLIAMS.—Died near Glencoe, Okla., Sept. 29, 1907, after a lingering illness of several weeks, Esther Williams, daughter of Brother and Sister J. P. and Viola Williams, aged 2 years and 17 days. Little Esther was a sweet and unusually bright child. She is sadly missed, especially by the parents and one brother two years her senior. Her parents find comfort in the thought of a glad reunion when the Life-giver comes. The funeral service was conducted by Edwin M. Lacy. EMMA L. LACY.
PATTERSON.—Died at her home near Gaston, Ore., May 21, 1907, of diabetes and resultant complications, Florence Patterson, wife of E. J. Patterson, aged 48 years, 11 months, and 17 days. For years she had been a great sufferer, but bore the trial with marked patience. She had known and loved this message nearly all her life, was a consistent Christian and devoted wife and mother. She leaves a husband and three daughters to mourn, but their aching hearts are sustained by the Christian’s hope. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. J. M. COLE.
GOODWIN.—Died at Mechanicsburg, Ind., May 30, 1907, Lucy J. Goodwin, wife of John W. Goodwin, aged 41 years, 6 months, and 13 days. She accepted present truth in 1887, and lived conscientiously ever afterward. Though suffering much in her last years, she did not murmur. She loved the promises of God, and meditated much upon them. Her husband, son, daughter, parents, and sister are the ones most sorely bereft at this time, but the church and neighborhood have lost one of real worth. Words of comfort were spoken at her late home. W. A. YOUNG.
BRAMAN.—Died at Long Lake, Minn., Sept. 27, 1907, of chronic gastritis, Clara Pearl Braman, aged 30 years, 8 months, and 13 days. She was patient through all her suffering, and died strong in the faith of the third angel’s message. She leaves an aged mother, a husband, a six-year old son, two sisters, and three brothers. While we deeply feel our loss, we are comforted with the assurance that she will come forth in the first resurrection. The funeral was conducted by Elder Alway, the foundation of his sermon being Rev. 14:13. We laid our dear one to rest in Union Cemetery at Long Lake, Minn. E. B. BRAMAN.
PROCTOR.—Died at Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct. 3, 1907, Mrs. Sarah A. Proctor, née Hewitt, aged 78 years, 7 months, and 11 days. The immediate cause of her death was bronchitis, though her health had been failing for several years past. Sister Proctor was converted in 1847, and united with the Second Adventists. She embraced the Seventh-day Adventist faith in 1878 under the labors of Elders Colcord and Bliss, while living in Rutland, Ill. Sister Proctor was a loving mother and exemplary Christian. Three sons and two daughters mourn her death, but not as those who have no hope. The funeral service was conducted by the writer at the home of Sister Proctor’s oldest son, in Gibson, Ill., a large audience listening to a discourse from Job 19:23-27. She was laid beside her husband, who died six years ago. C. H. BLISS.
KELLEY.—Died at Seattle, Wash., Aug. 14, 1907, Mrs. Alice Kelley, née Downey, aged 46 years, 2 months, and 22 days. Sister Kelley was converted early in life, and united with the Christian Church, with which she remained until the truths of the third angel’s message were brought to her attention, when she identified herself with the Seventh-day Adventist church of Butte, Mont. At the time of her death she was a faithful and consistent member of the Green Lake (Wash.) church, and was held in high esteem by all who knew her. Her last illness was of about two months’ duration, and her suffering was severe, yet she bore it all with the patience and fortitude that made her Christian life all the way along an example to others. A husband, mother, four sisters, and three brothers are left to mourn their loss. At her request, the writer spoke at her funeral, on the coming of Christ and the resurrection. F. M. BURG.
LEETE.—Died at Liberal, Kan., Aug. 6, 1907, of typhoid fever, Earl Edward, infant, and Aug. 7, 1907, Robert Emil, aged 2 years and 2 months, sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Leete. On account of the nature of the disease, services were held at cemetery only. Words of comfort were spoken by Brother James Klostermeyer in each instance. MRS. F. A. BUSH.
THURSTON.—Died at Fernando, Cal., Aug. 22, 1907, Betsey A. Thurston, née Walters, in her sixty-fourth year. In his mercy, the Lord had many times interposed his miraculous power, and prolonged her life. During the thirty years of her husband’s ministry she endured privation and met difficulty without a word of complaint. Her heart was changed in early life, when she united with the Methodist Church. Nearly forty years ago she accepted the Seventh-day Adventist doctrine, and was faithful until the day of her death. She was a true mother, and to-day her children rise up and call her blessed. The bereaved are the husband, a daughter, Mrs. Emily P. Harmon, and a son, Elder H. G. Thurston. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. J. W. ADAMS.
GLASS.—Fell asleep in Jesus in Corvallis, Ore., Sept. 15, 1907, our beloved sister, Lillian Glass, aged 47 years, 1 month, and 9 days. Death was the result of paralysis and congestion of the brain. She was a graduate of the Oregon Agricultural College, and had been a teacher for many years, but after the death of her parents, she remained at home to keep house for her brothers. She had been a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church about seven years, and was a faithful worker in the cause of present truth, and was loved by all who knew her. Two brothers and many friends mourn their loss. The funeral was held at the family residence, comforting words being spoken by Rev. J. R. N. Bell (Presbyterian). Interment took place in Crystal Lake Cemetery. MRS. D. A. KNAPP.
WALKER.—Died near Mountain View, Cal., Sept. 16, 1907, Eli S. Walker, aged 81 years and 9 months. In early manhood he united, first with the Brethren Church, and then with the Methodists. In 1858 he embraced the Seventh-day Adventist faith, to which he ever conscientiously adhered. In 1860 he was called from Iowa to Battle Creek to bear responsibilities in connection with the Review and Herald Publishing Association, in which position he remained for nine years. For many years he was afflicted with deafness, which very greatly impaired his social privileges, he being naturally of a sociable and happy disposition. He came to California about three years ago to make his home with his son-in-law and daughter, Brother and Sister E. C. Loughborough, but his health failed quite rapidly, until he was confined at home. His end was very peaceful. His wife and three children still survive. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. J. O. CORLISS.
ABBOTT.—Died at Fairbanks, Tex., Sept. 15, 1907, Mrs. Rannie Jane Abbott, aged 70 years, 3 months, and 6 days. She was born in Indiana, and was a member of the Baptist Church for twenty years. Becoming dissatisfied with the preaching of her church, she began to read the Bible for herself. This with the literature received from some Adventist friends led her to accept the third angel’s message. Her firm adherence to the principles of truth was the means of convincing her husband, and in July, 1894, they with their daughter were baptized by Elder J. K. Willis, uniting with the Sedalia (Mo.), church. In 1900 they moved to Texas, becoming members of the Houston church. She was ever firm in her convictions and loyal to the truth she loved so much. Owing to the telegraphers’ strike, no Adventist minister could be secured at Keene, so a Presbyterian minister read John 14 and offered prayer at the funeral. We laid her to rest until Jesus comes; then we expect to meet her again. MRS. J. H. GRIFFIN.
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The following persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, post-paid:—
E. W. Wolfe, Wapello, Iowa, Signs, Watchman, and tracts for gospel work.
Mrs. Katy Taylor, 1868 East Eighty-first St., Cleveland, Ohio, papers for reading-racks.
Guy Corder, 823 Kenilworth Ave., Coshocton, Ohio, Signs, Watchman, Bible Training School, Life and Health, Liberty, and tracts.
Newton B. Jenkins, R. F. D. 2, Blythewood, S. C., Signs, Watchman, Instructor, Little Friend, and tracts on the Sabbath and the second advent.
Editorial Notices and Bible Readers’ Aids
By Editor
WE call attention to an article in the Editorial department of this issue, entitled “‘The Testator’ Error.” It deals with principles that are fundamental to the very gospel itself—principles frequently misunderstood and misinterpreted. A correct understanding of these principles will fortify one against the errors of antinomianism, and will cause the perpetuity of the Sabbath to stand out so clearly that it can not be disputed. The article entitled “Testament or Covenant?” appearing in the same department, should be studied in connection with this article.
WE open in this issue of the REVIEW a new department, which appears this week on page 11, under the heading “Aids for Bible Readers.” The matter appearing in this department will be of a nature that we trust will make it worthy of preservation by all who are interested in Bible study, especially those who are proclaiming the third angel’s message.
The Sabbath-School Donations
By George B. Thompson
THE continued increase in our Sabbath-school donations is quite encouraging. When the contributions of our Sabbath-schools throughout the world for missions had grown to more than a thousand dollars a week, it was suggested to the field that our Sabbath-schools in the United States and Canada alone undertake the task of raising one thousand dollars a week for missions. This met a hearty response everywhere, and we are encouraged to believe, from the report of the quarter ending June 30, 1907, that the goal set before us will be reached by the end of the year.
The report for the second quarter of the year has just been compiled, and is as follows: Total amount of donations to missions from all schools, $17,792.93, a gain of $2,921.47 over that of the previous quarter. Of this amount, $12,707.14 was given from the schools in the United States and Canada. This lacks only $292.86 of being one thousand dollars a week. The first quarter of 1907 our schools in the United States and Canada gave $10,088.63 to missions. The quarter ending June 30, 1907, is therefore an increase of $2,618.51 over the previous one.
Vermont, Alberta, and Saskatchewan gave their entire donations to missions the past quarter, and, considering their membership, their donations are very liberal. With a little greater effort on the part of all, we shall reach the mark thus set—one thousand dollars a week from the Sabbath-schools of the United States and Canada alone. Shall it not be done?
G. B. THOMPSON.
Elder Daniells Attends Loma Linda Convention
ELDER A. G. DANIELLS left for California last week, to attend the convention for medical workers at Loma Linda, southern California.
First Sabbath Tract in Hindustani
We have received from Brother L. J. Burgess a copy of the first Sabbath tract in the Hindustani language. It is illustrated.
Tunesassa Intermediate School
ANY who are desirous of attending the Tunesassa Intermediate School, Tunesassa, N. Y., should write to C. L. Bowen for calendar of the school.
Wilkinson Resumes Bible Instruction
Prof. B. G. Wilkinson, instructor in Bible at the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary, has returned from his camp-meeting labors to resume his work in that institution.
Religious Liberty Work in Canada
Our Canadian brethren have taken up energetically the work of educating the people of Canada upon the question of religious liberty. The magazine Liberty and religious liberty leaflets are to be given a wide circulation in that field.