Instruction Pertaining to the Duties and Responsibilities of Officers and Members
Relation of the Missionary Secretary to the Missionary Meeting
THE missionary secretary has an important part to bear in relation to the missionary meeting. Usually a leader is appointed for this meeting, who is known as president, chairman, or leader. With him is associated the missionary secretary, and on them falls the burden of planning for this meeting, unless a committee is appointed to act with them, as is sometimes the case in a large church.
Much of the success of the missionary meeting will depend upon the preparation of the program. In some places, programs are prepared in the conference office, and sent to the churches regularly. There is much in favor of this plan. There is much matter available in the conference office to which the churches do not have access, especially the small country ones, and an opportunity is given to the conference to give a systematic education in the churches on missionary work in its various phases. It is a valuable help to the missionary leader and secretary, giving them the time they would have had to use in preparing the program to devote to training the members in taking part in it.
Whether the programs are prepared in the conference office or by the church, they should be planned so as to allow several to take part in them. Here is where the missionary secretary has a work to do. In every one of our churches there is latent ability that needs to be developed. Taking part in these programs is one way of doing this. In some cases parts of the program will be in the form of readings. Those who are appointed to read them will need instruction, and if they can be drilled beforehand, until they can make themselves heard in any part of the church or room, it is an advantage. Every church-member who is young enough, and who has had sufficient education, ought to learn to read aloud clearly and impressively. This is a valuable acquisition.
Though readings are occasionally necessary and good in missionary meetings, as in the case of extracts from the Testimonies, as a general rule the subject-matter of the lesson should be studied until it can be told instead of being read. This will make it more interesting to the hearers, and more educational to the speakers. But unfortunately most people are mentally indolent, and the missionary secretary will find it will take considerable time and effort to get the members to give the necessary study to the lessons to be able to talk to them intelligently. This should not lead to the abandonment of the effort, for with perseverance and tact, the desired result can be accomplished, and it is well worth all it costs. It is well to enlist the younger members for these parts, as their minds are more retentive, and therefore the study is not so difficult for them. In this way a foundation for public speaking can be laid.
E. M. GRAHAM.
News Notes
By A. J. S. B.
ELDER WILLIAM COVERT, president of the Northern Illinois Conference, states that one lady worker in Chicago sells from 300 to 400 copies of the Signs Monthly a week. He says: ‘I wish we had fifty agents for it in this conference. Several of our people are selling 200 copies of the weekly Signs each week. There seems to be no limit to the amount of good that might be done if our people would arouse to the importance of circulating these papers.’ They used 3,100 copies of the Signs Monthly in one month, besides a large number of Life and Health and Liberty.
Brother R. C. Spohr, missionary secretary of the Indiana Conference, sends us the following interesting news: ‘From June 21, when our company assembled in Cincinnati, until August 10, the day we had the privilege of telling of our work before the large congregation at the Indiana camp-meeting, our magazine scholarship company of twelve workers sold 15,183 copies of our ten-cent magazines, divided, approximately, as follows: 10,000 Life and Health (1,000 June, 6,000 July, 3,000 August); 1,000 Watchman (July); 2,000 Signs Monthly (1,000 July, 1,000 August); 300 Temperance Youth’s Instructor; and the remainder, nearly 2,000 copies, of Liberty. We had a most enthusiastic periodical workers’ meeting yesterday afternoon, when our president, Elder Morris Lukens, assigned to our scholarship company the regular service in the large pavilion.’ Think of the many benefits derived by the public, the conference, and the agents, from this sale of $1,518.30 worth of magazines!
It is but fair to state that our June and July summaries do not, in one sense, do justice to Indiana, which sent its magazine scholarship company into adjoining States. The high standing of a number of these States is due almost entirely to the sales made by the Indiana workers, while Indiana itself, being temporarily deserted by its own force, appears at a disadvantage. However, we do not see how it is possible to tell our people “where” the magazines actually “go” in any other way than as in the past.
A. J. S. B.
Current Mention
— The cabinet crisis in Cuba, which for some time had been impending, reached a climax July 29, when the entire cabinet resigned.
— Fifty tons of snuff are used annually in Massachusetts, mostly by the mill girls for dipping. Efforts have been made to check the habit, with little or no improvement.
— Figures for the past year, compiled by the comptroller of the currency, show an increase of $757,668,263 in the banking business of the country over the record of the previous year.
— The International Aerial Navigation Company, with $1,000,000 capital, has been organized in Texas, to establish a freight and passenger air-ship service to all parts of the United States, Mexico, and other countries.
— Carrier-pigeons are now used as photographers. A camera is fastened to a bird's breast, and so arranged that the shutter opens and closes automatically at stated intervals. Eight views on a trip is the largest number yet secured; but the inventor plans to arrange the apparatus so that at least thirty views may be obtained. This idea may prove serviceable in obtaining pictures of beleaguered forts.
— The Department of Commerce and Labor has just issued a bulletin concerning a cloth specially made for those exposed to the sun. Consul-General William H. Michael, of Calcutta, has sent samples of the cloth which is manufactured in India for the use of farmers and others, and writes concerning it. The cloth is called thatcho and shikari. It is made on scientific principles to conform to nature's plan of warding off the sun's rays, as exemplified in the color of the skin and the pigments under the skin.
— Recent information from Louisiana is to the effect that charbon, or anthrax, a deadly and loathsome disease which afflicts cattle, and which has killed thousands of valuable animals in that State, has attacked human beings now, and many men are under treatment. In Leesburg, the county seat of Cameron Parish, eight humans have been stricken. Up to date no deaths have resulted. In mankind the disease is known as malignant pustule. It may be communicated not only by contact with diseased animals or their products, such as hides, etc., but by the bite of a fly that has previously bitten a diseased beast.
— Austria taxes all incomes over $112, the rates ranging from 8 to 20 per cent, according to the size of the income; Prussia, all incomes over 900 marks, rates 1 to 4 per cent; Italy, incomes over $77.20, rates from 4 to 12 per cent; Holland, incomes over $260, rates 2 to 3 1-5 per cent; Switzerland, incomes over $100, rates 1 to 8 per cent; England, incomes over $750, rates 2 per cent and upward. It is claimed by its advocates that the income tax is the only available means of meeting the deficit in the budget for 1910 and 1911. For ten years in Civil War times, we had a tax of 3½ to 10 per cent on incomes over $600; some of the exemptions, however, ranging up to $2,000.
— According to government estimates the forest area in the Philippine Islands is 32,000,000 acres, and the standing timber is worth $6,500,000,000.
— Cancer research will be greatly facilitated by the decision of the trustees of the fund of $1,250,000, left by Henry Barnato to found a hospital in memory of his brother, Barney Barnato, and his cousin, Woolf Joel, to devote that sum to the building and endowing of an institution for cancer patients in London.
— The Egyptian Gazette, published in Alexandria, Egypt, tells of the discovery and deciphering by Professor Brugsch of the hieroglyphic record of the seven years of famine, mentioned in Genesis. The date is 1700 B. C., the exact year mentioned in the Bible. Thus every new discovery routs the so-called Higher Critics, and confirms faith in the old Book.
— In communicating with one another by telegraph and telephone the people of the United States used, in 1908, more than 15,000,000 miles of single wire. Of this total, 12,999,369 miles were used by the telephone companies, while the remainder, 2,072,851 miles, were utilized by the telegraph companies. This length of single wire would encircle the earth at the equator more than six hundred times.
— In the United States there are 126 women who can do plumbing; 786 women can fill teeth and perform other dental operations; 1,041 women can, and do, plan houses; 3,373 make a practise of preaching on Sunday from a pulpit; and 1,010 defend prisoners at the bar. Five hundred forty-five are carpenters, and can drive a nail without pounding their thumbs. There are 167 women masons, 1,365 women work in mines, and 84 are engineers. And, more remarkable still, 193 women are blacksmiths, and 323 women are undertakers.
— From 1669 to 1898 Crete was governed as a Turkish vilayet, except from 1830 to 1840, when it was under the rule of the viceroy of Egypt. In 1898, after years of insurrection in Crete, the powers intervened and made the island an autonomous state, but subject to Turkey, and paying tribute to that government. For the last fifteen years the powers have granted to the king of Greece the right of appointing a high commissioner, and also of appointing the Greek military officials there. In 1908, after Austria's annexation of Bosnia, Crete announced her intention of throwing over Turkish authority altogether. Turkey opposed this, and hence the present trouble.
— In connection with the excavation of the great Roman camp at Caersus, Montgomeryshire, Wales, Professor Bosanquet, who is in charge of the exploring party, has succeeded in opening up the western portion of the camp, unearthing a complete hot-air system situate beneath the floors of the rooms. The floors were supported on a number of stone pillars two feet square and two feet high. Flues were laid beneath to carry the hot air from the furnace, and these have been found in an excellent state of preservation. Outside the huge rampart of clay the workmen have come across trenches which surrounded the camp. The granary has been opened up for its whole length, and measures ninety-three and one-half feet. This building was strongly built, and was roofed with slabs of stone.
— Lord Kitchener states that in India, with the diminution of drinking, the number of courts-martial is reduced one half. There were thirty-two courts-martial at Singapore in 1907, but not one among the abstainers.
— A Congressional Commission sailed from New York last week to make a two-months' thorough study of transit conditions on the rivers and canals of Europe. The commission is headed by Senator Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, who, for many years previous to his recent election to the Senate, was the chairman of the Rivers and Harbors Committee of the House.
— The United States census returns show that drunkenness figured as a direct and contributing cause in nineteen per cent of all divorces from 1887 to 1906 in the United States. According to the census figures, liquor was the sole cause of divorce in 13,516 cases; and the cause, in combination with some other, in 17,765 cases. In addition to this, there were 130,287 in which drunkenness was an indirect or contributory cause.
— The fate of the prosperous Punjabi city of Dera Ghazi Khan, which for months past has been gradually slipping into the River Indus, is now regarded as definitely sealed. Nothing can be done to prevent the encroachment of the water. The process of erosion is going on rapidly. From fifty to one hundred feet of the river front are being swept away every day; and one by one, mosques, mansions, and hotels are disappearing in the swift stream.
— According to facts presented by Senator Beveridge in the tariff debate, the tobacco habit has reached worse proportions in the United States than in any other country in the north temperate zone. According to the senator, the per capita consumption is six pounds a year against a per capita consumption of 2.9 pounds in Austria, 2.4 in Hungary, 2.2 in France, 2 pounds in England, and 1.1 pounds in Italy. This means an average annual consumption of nearly seventeen pounds for every male person in the republic over sixteen years of age, but as many such persons do not use tobacco in any form, the average annual consumption for those who do use it must be twenty pounds or over.
— A reminder of the Spanish-American War is found in the payment of $50,000 by Cuba to Spain, this sum being the first instalment of the $300,000 to be paid for the Spanish ordnance left in Cuba by Spain after the evacuation of the island. By the Spanish-American treaty of peace, Spain relinquished her title to Cuba and ceded Porto Rico and other islands to the United States. The treaty provided that all buildings and other immovable property should go with the sovereignty, but that heavy ordnance left in the fortifications in Porto Rico and the Philippines might be purchased by the United States if an agreement as to terms should be reached. Governor Magoon and the provisional government decided to make an agreement to pay Spain $300,000 for the ordnance—$50,000 on July 1, 1909; $100,000 on July 1, 1910; and $150,000 on July 1, 1911. With the restoration of the Cuban republic the agreement was, of course, recognized; and President Gomez has now paid, and the Spanish government has acknowledged receipt of, the first payment.
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WANTED.—To secure the services of a practical gardener. Address L. M. Bowen, Takoma Park, D. C.23
WANTED.—Young or middle-aged man to work on farm. Steady work to right man. Church privileges. Write, stating wages wanted, also experience. Address Wayne B. Head, R. F. D. 3, Warren, Pa.
FOR SALE.—Four lots, with house 16 x 28 feet, two stories. Five blocks from Adventist church and church-school. Price, $1,200. A good climate for those having lung trouble or asthma. Address P. W. Atkinson, Hagerman, N. M.
FOR SALE CHEAP.—Seventy-acre farm; 55 improved, the balance in timber and pasture land. Good buildings; good location; 1 mile from town; near church and church-school. For particulars address J. C. Jorgensen, Mesick, Mich.
FOR SALE.—Ten acres land; partly cleared; all seeded to meadow and pasture. Small fruit. Good eight-room house; twenty rods from Forest Home Industrial Academy. For particulars inquire of O. C. Hollenbeck, Mt. Vernon, Wash.
FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure and healthful; no odor, keeps indefinitely: 5-gal. can, $3.50; 10-gal. can, $6.75; 62 cents a gal. in half-barrel and barrel lots; 30 gal. and 50 gal. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.
CALIFORNIA DRIED FRUITS.—Shipped direct from ranch of Mrs. E. G. White to families, schools, restaurants, and sanitariums. Larger variety, better facilities, prompt shipment. Write for circular “R” giving full information. St. Helena Home Fruit Co., Sanitarium, Napa Co., Cal.
WANTED.—Ten young men and women of good education and physical strength, to take a course in scientific cooking and baking. Course of one year opens September 30. Opportunity offered to earn expenses. Write for particulars to College of Evangelists, Loma Linda, Cal.
MANITOBA FARM FOR SALE.—Eighty acres under cultivation, fifty acres in fine young timber, flowing water; one-half mile east of Gladstone; rich soil. New ten-room brick house. Good granary and barn. Good missionary field. Price, $4,500. Reasonable terms. Address E. L. Stewart, College Place, Wash.
ARE you getting our special offer sheets and price-lists from time to time? If not, you should write us at once. They will surely interest you, if you like extra good foods at prices that all can pay. We are shipping cereal and nut foods to thirty different States, and here is the way they write: “... having used all of the health foods for some years, will say believe yours equal to the best, and your prices enable us poor folk to use them.” Here is another: “We have received the two dozen Nuffoda and Nutcysa. It is just fine. You will hear from me later.” Another, “I think you are producing some fine foods.” Another, “I trust you will succeed in this grand missionary work which you have undertaken.” We have a special proposition coming from the press in a few days. Write for one if your name is not already on our mailing list. This factory is owned by the Southern Union Conference. Nashville Sanitarium Food Factory, Nashville, Tenn.
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
Camp-Meetings for 1909
ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE
Southern New England, Bridgeport, Conn. ............... Sept. 2-12
Vermont, Richmond ............ Aug. 19-29
New York, Fonda ............... Sept. 2-12
Western New York, Buffalo, Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
CANADIAN UNION CONFERENCE
Ontario, Simcoe ............... Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
Quebec, South Stukely .......... Sept. 2-12
Maritime, Hopewell Cape ........ Sept. 9-19
COLUMBIA UNION CONFERENCE
Ohio, Lima ..................... Aug. 19-29
CENTRAL UNION CONFERENCE
Kansas, Council Grove .......... Aug. 19-29
Nebraska, Hastings ............. Sept. 2-12
West. Colorado, Grand Junction .. Sept. 16-28
East. Colorado, Boulder ......... Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
LAKE UNION CONFERENCE
East Michigan, Jackson .......... Aug. 19-29
North Michigan, Petoskey, Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
Wisconsin, Milwaukee ............ Sept. 23 to Oct. 4
NORTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Iowa, Nevada .................... Aug. 19-29
SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE
Mississippi, Greenwood .......... Aug. 20-29
Kentucky ......................... Aug. 19-29
SOUTHEASTERN UNION CONFERENCE
Cumberland, Athens, Tenn., Aug. 24 to Sept. 5
Florida, Orlando ................ Oct. 21-31
NORTH PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE
Western Oregon, Portland ........ Aug. 19-29
Montana, Missoula ............... Aug. 26 to Sept. 5
SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE
New Mexico, Alamogordo .......... Aug. 19-29
Oklahoma, Enid ................. Aug. 26 to Sept. 6
Arkansas, Little Rock (local) ... Sept. 2-12
Arkansas, Little Rock (colored), Sept. 2-12
The Second Annual Convention of Self-Supporting Missionaries
By Bessie M. DeGraw
Have you been reading of the opportunities offered by the South to those who desire to spread the message of salvation? Has the spirit of the Master been leading you to look for your place in the work?
If so, you will have more than a passing interest in such a meeting as this convention of self-supporting missionaries. The meeting is held for two purposes: one, to bring together those engaged in this kind of work in the South, that by studying together they may plan for broadening and strengthening the work; and the other is to afford opportunity to those whom God is calling into this work to see just what he would have them do.
The convention last year was a source of strength to the work. A number of brethren from the North, the East, and the West attended. Since that time several school centers have been started. Brother Pflugradt and his company of teachers from Wisconsin have started a training-school at Doswell, Va. They are well located to prepare workers for a needy field.
A godly minister brought his family all the way from the Pacific Coast because he heard the South's call for schools. His sons are preparing to help him teach, and in a few months he expects to have a rural school started on a farm in Tennessee.
Prof. A. W. Spaulding, whose heart has turned back to the South ever since his work here seven years ago, is now opening up a work in North Carolina.
Two young men, students of the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute, have recently located a school in northern Alabama. Recently a rap at my door brought me face to face with another brother from the Pacific Coast. He, too, has heard the call, “Come South,” and is seeking a suitable location for starting a school.
When Sister White addressed the students of the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute, she said, “There is a wide field before us in the establishment of family mission schools.” Evidently God is speaking these words to all the North, and some, hearing, heed.
This second annual convention of self-supporting missionaries is for such people as these. You are cordially invited to attend.
The meeting opens Friday, August 27, and continues until August 30. It is held on the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute farm at Madison, Tenn. For special information, address E. A. Sutherland, Madison, Tenn. BESSIE M. DEGRAW.
The New York Conference
By F. H. DEVINNEY
THE next session of the New York Conference will be held in connection with the annual camp-meeting at Fonda, Montgomery Co., N. Y., Sept. 2-12, 1909, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year, and transacting any other business which may properly come before the conference. All churches should attend immediately to the election of delegates to the conference, and send credentials to F. N. Johnson, 317 West Bloomfield St., Rome, N. Y.
Also notice is hereby given that the first meeting of the fifth annual session of the New York Conference Association will be held Monday, Sept. 6, 1909, at 9 A. M., on the Fonda, N. Y., camp-ground.
F. H. DEVINNEY, President.
Nurses Training for Young Colored People
FOUR young colored men and women are wanted to enter the class in nurse training, to begin September 1, at the Rock City Sanitarium, Nashville, Tenn. This institution, like other denominational sanitariums, is prepared to give a regular three-year course in nurse training. The addition of a charity bath-room, to our regular one, gives additional opportunities for practical experience as well as for helpful service. Applicants must be thoroughly consecrated, and be willing to engage in various lines of missionary work, especially the distribution of our health journals. For further information, apply to Rock City Sanitarium, 316 Foster St., Nashville, Tenn.
California General Camp-Meeting
By Claude Conard
THE general camp-meeting for the California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in Oakland, Cal., Sept. 9-19, 1909.
A special session of the California Conference is also called to convene during this camp-meeting, the first meeting of which will be held at 9 A. M., Monday, September 13. It is desired that a good representation shall be present from all the churches.
CLAUDE CONARD, Secretary.
Maine Benevolent Association
By E. C. Taylor
THE eleventh annual meeting of the Benevolent Association of Seventh-day Adventists of Maine will be held at the office of the Maine Tract Society, North Deering, Maine, Aug. 31, 1909, at 2 P. M., for the purpose of electing officers, and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting. E. C. TAYLOR, Clerk.
Canadian Union Conference Committee Meeting
By WM. Guthrie
THERE will be a meeting of the committee of the Canadian Union Conference in connection with the Ontario Conference at Simcoe, Ontario, August 26 to September 5. The first session of the committee will be held Monday, August 30, at 4 P. M., for the auditing of reports and the transaction of such other business as may come before the committee. WM. GUTHRIE, President.
Addresses
THE address of Elder W. B. White, until further notice, will be South Lancaster, Mass.
The address of Elder G. B. Starr and wife is now “Alpine,” 556 West 186th St., New York City, N. Y.
Until further notice, the address of Nels P. Nelson will be Box 6, Clifford, N. D., he having removed from Fremont, Neb.
For the present all mail for D. H. Kress, M. D., should be addressed to Cordova Courts, 610 W. 178th St., New York City, N. Y.
Publications Wanted
THE following-named persons desire for missionary use late, clean copies of our denominational papers. These should be neatly and carefully wrapped, and sent post-paid:—
J. M. Alexander, Buhl, Idaho, denominational papers for missionary work.
L. W. Browne, 300 West Allen St., Springfield, Ill., denominational periodicals.
Mrs. James S. Woods, 322 South Detroit St., Warsaw, Ind., Signs and Watchman.
Reginald L. Etheredge, Bromley, Ala., continuous supply of denominational literature.
A. V. Dyberg, 220 Main St., North Vallejo, Cal., denominational papers for reading-rack.
Mrs. C. F. Clark, Granby, Mo., Signs, REVIEW, Life and Health, Liberty, and tracts.
W. R. Lamb, Napa, Cal., a continuous supply of our papers and tracts for distribution.
Mrs. L. P. Whetsel, R. F. D. 2, Jacksonville, Fla., papers and tracts for use in jail work.
Mrs. Lizzie Symons, R. F. D. 1, Sterling, Mich., REVIEW, Liberty, Signs, Watchman, and Life and Health.
Mrs. M. C. Mantz, 2808 Burt St., Omaha, Neb., Signs, Liberty, Instructor, and other denominational papers.
H. L. Peeke, Fountain Head, Tenn., REVIEW, Signs, Instructor, Life and Health, Liberty, Little Friend, and tracts.
Miss Nora B. Gibbons, Northumberland, Pa., denominational literature in the Italian language, for free distribution.
Mrs. Josephine Barrett, Grants Pass, Ore., REVIEW, Signs, Watchman, Life and Health, Liberty, and Instructor, for reading-rack.
Frank Weeks, Box 114, Albuquerque, N. M., desires a large supply of Signs, Watchman, Liberty, Life and Health, and tracts.
Mrs. Julia W. Jensen, 3 Lenora St., Worcester, Mass., a continuous supply of our periodicals in English and Swedish, for hospital work.
Mrs. F. H. Guilliams, 630 Eleventh St., Bowling Green, Ky., wishes a continuous supply of the Youth's Instructor for her mission Sunday-school.
Obituaries
LUNN.—Died in Colorado Springs, Colo., June 29, 1909, little June Arcene Lunn, infant daughter and only child of Brother and Sister Lunn, of this city. She died very suddenly, having been attacked just three days before with typhoid pneumonia. She was just one year and one week old at the time of her death. She is greatly missed in the home. The death of this little one will be an incentive to the parents to put forth every effort to meet their little one in the earth made new. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. G. W. ANGLEBARGER.
BAUMGARTNER.—Bethel, infant daughter of Brother and Sister Martin Baumgartner, died Sabbath, July 10, 1909, and was buried in the Los Gatos burying-ground, July 11—only a frail flower, to continue in bloom six months and thirteen days, then fade away. But she will bloom again, never more to fade. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. H. F. COURTER.
MOODY.—Died in Cornville, Maine, July 26, 1909, Sister Sarah Elizabeth Moody, aged eighty-one years. Sister Moody embraced present truth about forty years ago, and united with the Cornville church, of which she was a member at the time of her death. The church has lost a faithful member, and the neighbors a faithful friend, with whom she had lived for sixty years. She leaves one son and two daughters, two brothers and a sister, and other relatives to mourn their loss. The funeral service was conducted by the writer; text, John 11: 23-26. P. B. OSBORNE.
REYNOLDS.—Sarah Ann Reynolds was born in Canada, Dec. 29, 1845, and died Sabbath morning, July 24, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Middleton, near Coleman, Mich. Sister Reynolds accepted the truth about one year ago, but was not baptized until the Monday previous to her death. She was stricken with paralysis, and lingered but three days. Her faith was strong in God, and we lay her to rest expecting to meet her in the first resurrection. Her two daughters and one adopted son mourn their loss, but not without hope of meeting her again. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer. A. R. SANDBORN.
KLOTZBACH.—J. C. Klotzbach, aged seventy-two years, died at the hospital in Woodland, Cal., of Bright’s disease. His death occurred on July 13, 1909, and he was brought to Los Gatos, July 14, and placed beside his wife, who fell asleep fourteen years before. Brother Klotzbach joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in early life. But through instruction given by Elders Walker and Taylor, he commenced to keep the Sabbath, but he did not receive all of the light God has for his people. How much of this was due to his extreme deafness we know not. Funeral service was conducted by the writer. H. F. COURTER.
STRAWN.—Died at Amarillo, Tex., July 21, 1909, Lela Dorothy Strawn, infant daughter of Brother and Sister C. A. Strawn, aged eight months and twenty-seven days. The deceased was born at Mt. Etna, Adams County, Iowa, Oct. 24, 1908. She and her surviving twin sister were the only children of their parents. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer to a goodly number of friends and sympathizers who had gathered for the occasion at the M. E. church of Nevinville, Iowa, Sunday, July 25. The little one was laid to rest in the Rose Hill Cemetery, near Nevinville, there to await the call of the Life-giver. “Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep!” M. M. HARE.
CORNETT.—Died at Nashville, Tenn., June 23, 1909, Sister J. J. Cornett (née Rye), of chronic dyspepsia. She was born in Monroe County, Mississippi, and was converted in youth, and joined the M. E. Church. She was united in marriage to M. C. Cornett, Dec. 26, 1897. She accepted the views of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination from reading, and was impressed to attend Sabbath meeting by hearing the bell one bright Sabbath morning. There she heard the state of the dead preached by James Ballenger. She rejoiced in that truth, but went to her own pastor for light on the Sabbath question, but as usual, received none. She then turned to her Bible, and studied the word, and found all the precious truth, and was baptized by the writer, Feb. 16, 1907, and united with the Hatley church, of which she remained a faithful member until her death. She rests in New Hope Cemetery, awaiting the Life-giver’s call. Her last hours were spent in praying for her unconverted husband and three little children. Funeral services were conducted by the M. E. minister. I. N. KRANSHAAR.
INGHAM.—Myrtle Maud Ingham, wife of Lyman Ingham, died at Northstar, Mich., July 26, 1909, after a lingering illness of over a year. She was a patient sufferer, and never complained, but trusted her God. She was the daughter of Brother and Sister Milo White, of Ithaca, Mich. She was born March 7, 1871, on their old homestead near that place. She leaves a husband, one son, father, mother, five brothers, one sister, and a host of friends to suffer their loss, but they can truly have consolation in looking forward to the resurrection. Sermon by the writer; text, Heb. 9: 27, 28. A. R. SANDBORN.
GRISWOLD.—Died at Middletown, Conn., June 26, 1909, Brother Gilbert Griswold. He was sixty-eight years old. He suffered for some time from a complication of diseases. He leaves a wife, five sons, two daughters, two sisters, and many sympathizing friends to mourn their loss. He was a faithful husband and father, and we miss in our church his helpful presence and prompt, wholehearted testimony of God’s saving and keeping power. The funeral service was held at his home, conducted by the writer, words of comfort being spoken from Luke 19: 10 to a large company of relatives and friends. C. H. REIMERS.
WHITNEY.—Died in Augusta, Maine, June 29, 1909, of apoplexy, Mrs. Mary Whitney, widow of the late J. F. Whitney, aged 76 years, 3 months, and 15 days. Mother was able to do her work to the day of her death, and dropped dead in the kitchen after she had been out working in her flower garden. For several years she was a member of the Freewill Baptist Church, but embraced the truth about thirty-three years ago, under the labors of Elder J. O. Corliss. Seven children, two brothers, and two sisters, and many friends are left to mourn their loss. Some time before she died, she selected the twenty-third psalm as the scripture which she wished read at her funeral. The funeral was held at her home in Augusta. We laid her to rest beside our dear father and brother in Solon, Maine, with the hope of soon meeting her again. Words of comfort were spoken by Elder S. J. Hersum. MRS. A. C. STEVENS.
CARTER.—Miss Annie Carter died near Sheldon, Wyo., June 29, 1909. Sister Carter was born in Preston, England, July 3, 1867. Her parents were Episcopalians, and she was brought up in that faith. At the age of seventeen she came to this country. For three years she has been suffering from tuberculosis. She came West on the advice of her physician, but grew worse continually. She received the light of the third angel’s message by reading “Great Controversy.” It came to her thirsty soul like a flood in the desert, and for fourteen years she has been rejoicing in the blessed hope. Sister Carter was a faithful and very sociable woman, and was loved of all who knew her. She was laid to rest in the Greenwood Cemetery, awaiting the Life-giver when he shall call her at the first resurrection. Words of comfort were spoken by Brother Lawrence. JOHN P. FREDERICKSON.
HICKOK.—Drowned in Muskoka Lake, Ontario, July 12, 1909, Harold Rosser, three-year-old son of Clarence Orville and Hattie Rosser Hickok. He had been with us only a short time before, playing happily with his brothers, but wandered unnoticed to the water’s edge in front of the house, where he evidently fell in face downward from the rowboat in shallow water. All efforts to revive him proved fruitless, and we had to yield up our darling boy. He was a very obedient, sweet-tempered child, sunny and happy all day long, and we shall miss him much. But we are comforted with the assurance of receiving him again fresh in immortal bloom. Words of comfort from Jer. 31: 15-17, by F. W. Morse, were spoken to a houseful of sympathizing friends, and we laid him to rest beside his Grandfather Hickok, under the pines by the lake shore. CLARENCE HICKOK, HATTIE HICKOK.
Christian Citizenship Institute Attendance
C. M. Snow, of Liberty and the REVIEW editorial staff, is in attendance at the Christian Citizenship Institute, at Winona Lake, Ind.
Prescott Visits New England
Prof. W. W. Prescott, wife, and son, left Washington last week to be absent about one month. They will visit various places in New England. While filling several appointments for lectures, Brother Prescott will make a study of evangelistic work in some of the coast cities.
Home Missionary and Publishing Work Data
The Home Missionary and Publishing Work department presents some interesting data which should be studied by all.
Correspondence School Applications
The principal of the Correspondence School, Prof. W. E. Howell, is receiving a goodly number of applications from prospective students. In this school is afforded all opportunity for old and young to improve their abilities, and fit themselves for greater usefulness.
