p. 31 | Review and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 32. (8/6/1908)

Kentucky Camp-Meeting

By A. O. Burrill

This meeting will be held at Moreland, Ky., six miles south of Junction City, September 24 to October 4. We have secured a beautiful beech grove with the best of shade by the side of the Queen and Crescent Railway, only a few steps from the depot. There will be tents upon the ground for rent. All Seventh-day Adventist church-members in good standing in their churches will be delegates to this first conference. The conference and legal organizations will be perfected, and officers chosen for the coming year. We expect that Elders G. A. Irwin, C. F. McVagh, E. G. Hayes, S. B. Horton, Brother A. F. Harrison, and our conference ministers, with Dr. W. A. George, will be present to help make the meeting a success. The tents will be $2 without floors, and with them what the lumber costs. There will be a dining-tent, from which seven meals can be secured for one dollar. If possible, reduced rates on the railroad will be secured. The harvest will be in when this meeting comes. Let all make preparations to attend with the young people, children, and neighbors. Those wanting tents will please write me for them soon, at Moreland, Ky.

A. O. BURRILL, President.

Oklahoma Conference Meeting

By Andrew Nelson

THE annual meeting of the Oklahoma Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in connection with the camp-meeting at Enid, Okla., August 20-31. The first session of the conference will be Friday, Aug. 21, 1908, at 9 A. M.

It is hoped that all the churches will have chosen their delegates, and that they will be present at the first meeting of the conference. We have the promise that Elder A. G. Daniells will be with us at this meeting. Elder Daniells has never before attended a meeting in Oklahoma, and I am sure that all will be pleased to have him with us this year.

ANDREW NELSON, President.

Denominational Publications for Foreign Missions and Educational Centers

By H. E. Rogers

During recent years, centers of our work have been established in various countries, necessitating the opening and equipping of new offices, many of which are even now without adequate facilities for the proper conduct of their work. That which would be of great assistance to these offices and educational centers would be a library containing our own denominational publications,—books, pamphlets, tracts, and periodicals. Doubtless there are many of our people in this country who have about their homes old publications as well as partially complete sets, and miscellaneous numbers of denominational papers of various kinds, which would be of untold value to our workers in foreign fields, who now have practically no facilities in this line. Some who have these papers may not have felt like parting with them in order to supply calls for papers for missionary distribution, but would without doubt be glad to supply papers for the purpose indicated above. Here is an opportunity to use these papers, as well as any other kind of denominational publications, in a very helpful way.

The General Conference desires to secure a sufficient quantity of periodicals and publications to supply twenty or twenty-five offices and educational centers with as complete a set of denominational publications as possible. Publications and periodicals of any kind published by this denomination anywhere, at any time, and in any language, will be gladly accepted and will be profitably used.

These papers should be sent to the undersigned, who will see that sets are made up and sent to various educational centers and printing-offices where they will do the most good possible. It is hardly probable that a supply greater than the demand will be received; so anything may be sent forward at once. Freight shipments should be made to H. E. Rogers, Takoma Park, D. C., via Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Please prepay charges. I would be glad to correspond with any who have rare Seventh-day Adventist books or other publications which they would be willing to supply for the use indicated above.

H. E. ROGERS.

Takoma Park, D. C.

Special Educational Number

By Editor

WE call the attention of our readers to a notice given on the second page of this issue of the special Educational number of the Youth’s Instructor of August 18. Parents and young people will be especially interested in this valuable number.

Missionaries Appointed to Japan

Two missionaries for Japan, Walter Foster and wife (née Miss Ellen Cornish), of Southern California, were planning to sail from Seattle, July 27, but the boat scheduled for that date was taken off the line, and they have doubtless found passage on a later boat. These additions to the fields week by week mean swifter progress of the truth in the unwarned lands, and constitute additional calls for us to remember the mission work in prayer and giving.

Publishing Work Begins in Mexico

LAST month Brother L. E. Borle, who has had charge of one of the departments of the Pacific Press Office at Mountain View, Cal., left for Mexico City to take charge of our Mexican printing-office. His wife and two children accompanied him. The Pacific Press has donated a cylinder press for the Mexican work, and with other added facilities, secured by General Conference appropriation, a vigorous publishing work will be carried forward in that land, where the circulation of our literature is already bringing encouraging results.

General Conference Workers Attend Camp-Meetings

THE resident members of the General Conference Committee are nearly all leaving Washington again to attend camp-meetings in various parts of the country. Elder G. B. Thompson is now at the Texas meeting, and will later go to the Central Union Conference. Elder W. A. Spicer and Prof. Frederick Griggs will attend meetings in the Lake Union Conference. Elder K. C. Russell will attend meetings in the Atlantic Union Conference. Elders E. R. Palmer and M. E. Kern have been appointed to attend meetings in two or more of the union conferences. These brethren will be in the field for the next four to six weeks.

Testimony Advancing Publishing Work

By Editor

THE article from the pen of Mrs. E. G. White which appears in this number of the REVIEW was written the early part of 1907. The secretary of the Publishing Department sent a copy of this interesting Testimony to each of the general agents, and the important instruction which it contains has been a powerful factor in persuading our colporteurs to sell those large books which are the pillars of our denominational literature. It was this testimony, also, which was the chief factor in leading to the organization of the home missionary and periodical work, which is now being rapidly perfected. In the Publishing Department on the twenty-first page will be found a compilation of figures showing the number of agents in several of our union conferences who are selling our large, message-filled books, as compared with 1907. This is the result of following the counsel contained in this article.

Loughborough Visits Australia

IN response to an invitation from Elder O. A. Olsen, the president of the Australasian Union Conference, Elder J. N. Loughborough has gone to Australia to bear his testimony in behalf of this advent message. This visit to Australia will be likely to extend over a period of several months, and possibly a full year.

Death of Mrs. Allen Moon

A BRIEF note from Elder Allen Moon, the president of the Lake Union Conference, dated July 29, brought the sad news of the death of his wife, which occurred on Tuesday of last week. Brother Moon will have the sympathy of a wide circle of acquaintances in this bereavement. An obituary will be printed later.

Book Work Enters Mexico

On July 13 four book men left Southern California for Mexico. Their names are J. A. P. Green, who takes charge of the canvassing work in Mexico, Earl Hackett, John Brown, and A. A. Reinke. Brother John Bowers, of Southern California, also, entered Mexico a few months ago, and has been having good experiences in the book work. Brother H. H. Hall, of the Pacific Press book department, on invitation of the General Conference Committee, has gone to Mexico City to conduct an institute and to advise regarding the publishing work.

Signs of the Times in Magazine Form

By Editor

We have mentioned in these columns from time to time the proposed change in our good missionary paper, the Signs of the Times. That change has at last been brought about, the first number in August appearing in magazine form. The proposed number of pages for the monthly issue was found to be too small to accommodate the matter prepared for this issue, and it was increased to sixty-four pages instead of forty-eight. A general view of the scope and contents of this issue compel the conviction that the magazine will be a telling instrument for the advancement of the third angel’s message.

_Important Suggestions_

By K. C. RUSSELL

WE urge that the conferences which have not yet held their camp-meetings, order (by wire if necessary) a supply of the last issue of Liberty just off the press, which deals especially with the subject of the United States in prophecy; also sets of the Religious Liberty Leaflets, and of the Religious Liberty souvenir post-cards, to sell at these meetings. One fourth the number of the conference membership would not be too many to order. We recommend that all, especially those who are to visit legislators, read the editorials in this number, and Elder W. A. Colcord's argument at a hearing before the District Commissioners. Now, just now, is the time to read, sell, and circulate Liberty.

K. C. RUSSELL,

_Chairman Religious Liberty Bureau._