The Catholic Standard and Times, the foremost Catholic weekly published in America, under date of November 15, contained an interesting editorial write-up of nearly one and one-half columns, giving its opinion of the last issue of the Liberty magazine. The Christian Statesman, the National Reform organ, in a recent number, also contained a seven-column editorial review of the current issue of Liberty.
We are very sorry these periodicals have such unfavorable opinions of Liberty and its motives. It is difficult to please this Catholic editor. Liberty has openly opposed some of the purposes of the Catholics, and they have called its writers “blatant ranters” and “vituperious blasphemers.” Now when it volunteers to defend their rights, they call its writers hypocrites, and say we are “sugar-coating the poisonous pill;” that they can “discover the forked tail and the cloven feet coiled and hiding beneath the shadow of the overgarment;” and that Liberty, though it “can coo as gently as a sucking dove,” it is like the “crocodile” which “is ready to gobble the victim up the while he wipes tears from his eyes with his fore paw.”
This might sound amusing if it were intended for mere pleasantry, but it is written in all seriousness by this Catholic editor, in reference to an article in the current issue of Liberty, entitled “Catholics and Protestants Possess Equal Rights.” Because it was declared that we did not favor their purpose to obtain governmental recognition and public-school money for sectarian purposes and differed from them in questions concerning the relation of the church to the state, but held that as citizens in this country they were unqualifiedly entitled to the same rights and privileges in every particular as their Protestant neighbors, the Liberty magazine is called “a dangerous dissembler.”
The editor opens his lengthy article like this: “Liberty is the name borne by a recently founded candidate for the dimes of religious bigots and nativists. It is a production of the same intent as the Menace, but wiser in its methods. Their objective is the same—to batter at the citadel of the Catholic Church and endeavor to cripple it in its sublime mission.”
But the magazine Liberty had its birth in January, 1886, while the Catholic Standard and Times was born in December, 1895. When the editor of the Standard and Times learns that very many of Liberty’s readers are good Catholics, he may wish to modify his statement that the Liberty magazine is patronized only by “religious bigots and nativists.” Here is a statement from one prominent Roman Catholic from New York City who is not ashamed to read our magazine. He says: “I always read with a great deal of pleasure your magazine, particularly the issue for this month. Religion cannot be, or must not be, shoved down anybody’s throat in this country. I am a Catholic (may not be considered a good one), but I am an American first, last, and all the time. Roman Catholics must be taught to keep their hands off of a complete separation of church and state. We want and will accept of no religious party in this country. . . . Worship where you will, and do what you will, remember this is America, and Protestants and Jews are as good as Roman Catholics, and better if they obey the laws of the country. I wish you every success.”
Our experience has taught us that there are many thousands of American Catholics in this country who are just as large-hearted, liberal-minded, and favorable to the American principle of separation of church and state as is our Catholic friend from whose letter we have just quoted, and we are charitable enough to believe that the editor of the Catholic Standard and Times of Philadelphia and the editor of the Western Watchman do not represent the real sentiment of a large portion of the American native-bred Catholic people upon these subjects. No doubt, the editors of those journals will call this “specious charity,” as one did when we said that “Catholics and Protestants possess equal rights.”
The editor styles our article on “Freedom of Speech” “a charming specimen of that kind of rhetoric which is properly styled ‘glozing’—the deceitful compound which looks fair on the surface, but which is nauseous asafetida within. Here is a choice morsel of special pleaders’ casuistry,” and another “way of ‘whipping the devil around the stump.’”
The article on “Religious Liberty in the Philippines” did not please the Catholic editor; for he boldly declares: “The Philippines are in no sense ‘Protestant land.’ They are ‘Catholic land,’ and were brought to civilization by the Catholic Church. The Protestant missionaries there are intruders, and have no lawful business there. Their only hope is to proselytize.”
From this argument it is very evident that Protestants “are intruders, and have no lawful business” in America after “America shall become dominantly Catholic” and “the foremost Catholic nation in the world,” as the Catholic press has repeatedly stated.
The editor takes Liberty to task for asserting that “the American government was founded upon Bible principles of separation of church and state.” He says that “this government was not established on Bible principles. Thomas Jefferson, who had the main hand in framing it, was not a believer in Christianity; he believed rather the teachings of Tom Paine than those of Christ. Next, it was the Papacy that preserved the Bible. Were it not for the popes, these praters would not have any Bible to boast about.”
We will let Thomas Jefferson answer this argument himself. His writings still speak to us. In a letter written from Monticello, under date of Jan. 9, 1816, to Charles Thomson, by Thomas Jefferson, we have a clear expression of his religious faith as follows:—“I have made a wee little book, which I call the Philosophy of Jesus; it is a paradigm of his doctrines, made by cutting the texts out of the Book, and arranging them on the pages of a blank book, in a certain order of time or subject. A more beautiful and precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of Jesus.”—“Writings of Thomas Jefferson,” Vol. VII.
When Jefferson drew up his “act for establishing religious freedom” and “completely separating church and state,” he emphatically declared that “to propagate religion by coercions,” as was done under the old system of union of church and state, “was a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion,” who said, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.”—Id., Vol. VIII, page 454 et seq.
Here is corroborative evidence: “Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country, when I reflect1157that God is just; and that his justice cannot sleep forever.”—“Notes on Virginia,” by Jefferson.
Our government was founded upon the true and original Protestant and Scriptural idea of a total separation of church and state, and an indiscriminate equality of civil and religious privileges and rights of all its citizens before the law.
C. S. L.
Religious Liberty Department
By C. S. Longacre
C. S. LONGACRE — N. Am. Div. Secretary
NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS
British Columbia Conference
The twelfth annual session of the British Columbia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in the Manson church at Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Dec. 25-29, 1913. The first meeting will be held at 7:30 P. M., December 25. The ratio of representation is one delegate for the church and an additional delegate for every ten members. At this time officers for the ensuing year will be elected, and such other business transacted as may be needful. It is hoped that a full delegation will be present, as there are important matters that demand attention.
JOHN G. WALKER, President;
CHAS. O. SMITH, Secretary.
British Columbia Conference Association
The annual session of the British Columbia Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held in the Manson church at Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, in conjunction with the annual conference announced for Dec. 25-29, 1913. The first meeting of the association will be held Friday, Dec. 26, 1913, at 11 A. M. Officers and a board of trustees for the ensuing year will be elected, and such other business transacted as may properly come before the delegates.
JOHN G. WALKER, President;
CHAS. O. SMITH, Secretary.
The Washington Foreign Mission Seminary Constituency Meeting
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary Corporation will be held in the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary chapel, at Takoma Park, Md., at 9:30 A. M., Dec. 8, 1913, to receive the annual reports, to elect trustees for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may come before the meeting. The members of this corporation consist of the executive committee of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (unincorporated) and the president of each local conference in the United States.
W. T. KNOX, President;
M. E. KERN, Secretary.22
Southeastern Union Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists
A meeting of the Southeastern Union Conference Association of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Graysville, Tenn., at 10 A. M., Dec. 29, 1913. This meeting is called for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the association.
O. MONTGOMERY, President;
W. H. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Atlanta Sanitarium Association of Seventh-Day Adventists
Notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Atlanta Sanitarium Association of Seventh-day Adventists to be held at Graysville, Tenn., Dec. 30, 1913, at 10 A. M. This meeting is called for the election of officers and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the association.
O. MONTGOMERY, President;
W. H. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Nova Scotia Legal Association
The first annual meeting of the executive board of the province of Nova Scotia, in connection with the Seventh-day Adventist Church of the Maritime Provinces, will be held at the residence of Alvin Hubley, Seabright, Nova Scotia, at 1 P. M., Monday, Dec. 8, 1913.
CHARLES COVEY,
Secretary.
Business Notice
“SHILOH, THE MAN OF SORROWS,” published three years ago in the Signs, will soon be published in book form, if sufficient additional advance subscribers can be obtained to warrant it. I wish to thank those who have already sent in orders. The book will be neatly bound in cloth, 350-400 pages. Price, from $1 to $1.50. Agents wanted. Send no money, but address the author immediately. Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle, 1215 Vermont Ave., Lansing, Mich.
To Young Ministers
At the recent council of the General Conference Committee, the following recommendation was adopted:—
“That young men who are now licensed ministers but have not completed the academic course be urged to pursue studies in our training-schools or in the Fireside Correspondence School, with a view to reaching this educational standard before ordination.”
Desiring to cooperate in rendering effective this wise recommendation, the Fireside Correspondence School will be glad to correspond with young ministers who cannot at present attend our training-schools, in order to assist them in selecting those subjects that are best adapted to meet their individual needs, and that will at the same time advance them toward the completion of the academic course. Copies of the academic course and of the Correspondence School Announcement will be mailed them on request.
In this connection, I am pleased to announce that my experience in writing the first ten lessons of the public speaking course has convinced me that the subject can be satisfactorily presented in twenty lessons, instead of forty as announced in our last calendar, thus reducing the tuition from $14 to $7. The books upon which these lessons are based, Phillips's “Effective Speaking” and “Drills in Expression,” are the best I have ever used or seen. There is more to effective preaching than “swinging the arms and hollering,” that can be acquired without assistance. But to understand and apply the fundamental principles that underlie effective speaking is a more important matter, requiring earnest study. In this study I am sure I can help you, by means of the text-books, the lessons of instruction and direction, and the personal correspondence that will grow out of these. A number of persons are now pursuing these lessons, and many others ought to begin them at once. Address C. C. Lewis, Principal Fireside Correspondence School, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
News and Miscellany
Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— When the Pacific and Atlantic terminals of the Panama Canal are finally completed, the waterway will have cost a total of $375,000,000.
— Fifteen persons were killed and more than twenty injured on November 13, when an excursion train, traveling at a high rate of speed, was wrecked near Clayton, Ala.
— The cigarette vice threatens to become almost as serious as the opium curse in China. One factory at Hankow has an output of 200,000,000 cigarettes a month, and new factories are being built in different parts of the republic.
— Two of the most disastrous storms in the history of the Great Lakes visited that region November 9 and 11. They exacted a toll of more than 300 lives, sent to the bottom of the lakes or totally wrecked nineteen mammoth freight-steamers, and caused property loss in boats alone of $10,000,000.
— A severe, wintry storm, which swept into the Middle West November 9, had the greater part of nine States in its grip for several days. A number of lives were lost, and property damage amounted to millions of dollars. Trains were snow-bound for twenty-four hours or more, and telephone and telegraphic communication within the storm area was cut off.
— More than 22,000 German physicians from small town and country districts have decided to follow the example of their professional brethren in Great Britain and declare a “doctors’ strike” against sickness and accident insurance associations established under the imperial insurance laws. These associations, they claim, militate against them in that a patient who is a member of an organization has no choice as to what physician shall attend him in case of illness.
— John Burke, United States Treasurer, began the distribution recently of about $8,000,000 in “Santa Claus money” among the banks of the country. The distribution is in response to the demands of the public for new gold and silver coins to be used as Christmas gifts.
— Waters in the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio Rivers passed the flood-mark November 15, and the third flood of the present year is predicted for the Ohio Valley. Unprecedented warm weather has caused the melting of thousands of tons of snow, which fell during the blizzard of November 9.
— The long controversy between Eastern railroads and their conductors and trainmen, over the demands of the latter for increased pay, ended November 10. The employers granted an increase in wages averaging seven per cent and totaling $6,000,000 annually—about one half of what the employed demanded—from October 1, last, effective for one year. About 100,000 men will benefit by the increase in wages.
— The first week of this month three serious railroad wrecks occurred in Europe. At Pensa, Russia, an express-train was derailed and fourteen persons killed, while fifteen were fatally injured. Two trains collided at Chenee, Belgium, causing three deaths and fatal injuries to five. A mail-train and an express-train on the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Railway collided at Melun. About fifty persons were killed and seventy-five injured.
— The first combined international military maneuvers ever held have just been completed at Tientsin, China. The troops representing the various nations were distributed as follows: United States, 1,200; French, 1,500; British, 1,700; Japanese, 1,200; Germans, 300; and Russians, 900. The main body of the troops composed the army of defense, while detachments from each nation formed a skeleton invading force. General Sato, of the Japanese army, acted as director and chief umpire.
— Approximately 2,500 trainmen and engineers on the Atlantic division of the Southern Pacific Railroad, known as the Sunset lines, went on a strike at seven o’clock on the night of November 13. The walkout comes after more than six months of futile negotiations. Southern planters are beseeching President Wilson to take hold of the matter, as it will mean a great loss of sugar if cane is not shipped to the mills almost immediately. It is intimated by labor leaders that unless the strike is settled soon, it will spread to the Western roads.
— King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is visiting his brother in Vienna, and will probably not return to his country. For some years he was very highly thought of by his subjects. However, during the Balkan war the people turned against him, and later he was blamed for the disastrous war with Greece and Servia. Of late he has received many notices threatening his life, and it is believed he will abdicate the throne in favor of Crown Prince Boris, who is more popular with the Bulgarians. The direct cause of his downfall is said to be due to his having offended Russia by seeking Austrian assistance against Servia.
— Under the new defense law the German war chest is to be increased to $90,000,000 in coin. This fund has been formerly limited to $30,000,000 in silver. Additional gold is to be stored in the vaults of the Imperial Bank, while the amount of silver added to the fund will be stored in the Julius Tower at Spandau.
— A Russo-Chinese agreement, by which China recognizes the autonomy of Outer Mongolia, was signed at Peking, the first week in November. Russia continues to acknowledge Chinese suzerainty, and undertakes to refrain from colonization or military occupation of the country, aside from consular guards.
— The Mexican situation is still critical, diplomatic relations being almost at the breaking-point. Special Envoy Lind has again left Mexico City for Vera Cruz. Intense pressure is being brought to bear upon provisional-President Huerta to induce him to resign, but he continues in office and has assembled congress. President Wilson’s Cabinet and Congress stand firmly behind President Wilson in his efforts to force the retirement of Huerta as a necessary step to holding a fair election and bringing about the pacification of Mexico.
An Interesting Catholic Criticism
By C. S. L.
IN the Catholic Citizen of November 8 is found a very interesting Catholic criticism on the Catholic Missionary Congress, recently held in Boston. It is as follows:—
“We have on our desk everything that was said at the Boston congress, but we find nothing worth while to deduce from it for our future use. The set of resolutions reads, as though it had been drawn by members of the Mutual Admiration Society. . . . Ego-theism is not dead.”
This is interesting reading when read in connection with 2 Thess. 2:3, 4.
C. S. L.
Obituaries
HARRISON.—Frances Marian Harrison was born at Ripley, Ohio, April 24, 1834, and died at Washburn, Mo., Oct. 13, 1913. She accepted present truth in St. Louis in 1885. Prior to that time she was actively engaged in self-supporting missionary work, and founded The Ewing Women’s Home at Peoria, Ill., an institution which is still doing a good work. From the time Sister Harrison united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church until her death she was a zealous missionary, and could count probably one hundred and sixty persons brought to a knowledge of the truth through her personal effort. Many of these are active laborers in the Master’s vineyard. The deceased was twice married, and five children survive. Brother Wilbur, of Washburn, Mo., conducted the funeral services, which were simple and plain, as her life had been. CHARLES E. E. SANBORN.
BENNETT.—John Henry Bennett was born in Groton, Mass., July 7, 1835, and died at Chamberlain, S. Dak., Oct. 3, 1913, aged 78 years, 3 months, and 26 days. When but a lad he came West with his parents, and settled in Boone County, Illinois, in 1839, where he lived sixty-five years. Oct. 21, 1862, he was united in marriage with Sarah Maria Vickery, and to this union six children were born, two of whom survive—a son and a daughter. The deceased was a man of sterling worth, honest and industrious. When quite young he gave his heart to God, and in 1869 heard the truth as preached by Seventh-day Adventists. He fully accepted the same, and united with the church at Belvidere, Ill., where his membership remained until he was called by death. Brother Bennett was a remarkable man in courage and industry, kind to the poor and needy, and ever ready to help the orphan and widow. But now his work is done, and he is at rest. He was ready to go, with full faith in the second coming of Christ and his power to save. Funeral services were held at Chamberlain, S. Dak., and his son, Frank, took him back to his old home and church, where, after another service, he was laid to rest in the family burial-place in Belvidere, Ill. E. J. VAN HORN.
BENNETT.—Mrs. Sarah Maria Bennett, wife of John Henry Bennett, who preceded her in death only five days, was born in Pennsylvania, Feb. 28, 1837, and died in Chamberlain, S. Dak., at the home of her only daughter, Mrs. Dr. C. P. Farnsworth, Oct. 8, 1913, aged 76 years, 7 months, and 10 days. For twelve years Brother and Sister Bennett had made their home with Drs. C. P. and Anna B. Farnsworth, and the giving up of both parents within five days came as a very hard blow to their most faithful children. However, they do not mourn as those who have no hope, for both father and mother were ready to go. They had fully accepted the third angel’s message, and the Bible was their daily companion. Her life was one of toil and hardship, having been left motherless when but a child. Her father placed her in a strange family to be cared for, and she lost all knowledge of family relationship. At the age of twenty-six she was married to John Henry Bennett, in Belvidere, Ill. Two years later she embraced the doctrines held by Seventh-day Adventists. They were precious to her soul and the joy of her life. She was familiar with large portions of the Scriptures. The remains were taken to Belvidere, Ill., where with her husband she embraced present truth, and there they will rest together in the family burying-ground until the Life-giver comes to claim his own. O, the comfort of the gospel of Christ, with the glorious light of the third angel’s message! How precious to the souls of those who obey and are ready for the last call! E. J. VAN HORN.
SNIDEMAN.—George Fredrick Snideman, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Snideman, was born at Cedaredge, Colo., Dec. 17, 1912, and died Aug. 19, 1913, aged 8 months and 2 days. The parents have the consolation of the Christian’s hope. W. M. ANDREES.
COOK.—Martha Jane Bowen was born June 6, 1837, on the farm where we laid her to rest, near Eldred, Pa. She spent nearly seventy years in her old home, having left the farm only six years ago to reside with her children. The deceased was united in marriage with John J. Cook, Jr., in 1853. He was separated from her by death in 1891. Of their five children two survive, a son and a daughter. Many years ago Sister Cook accepted the faith held by Seventh-day Adventists, and watched with interest the progress of the third angel’s message until she fell asleep in the hope of a soon-coming Saviour, Oct. 23, 1913, aged 76 years, 4 months, and 17 days. I. N. WILLIAMS.
MCNALLY.—Samuel McNally, born at Bangor, Maine, in 1831, died at Riverside, N. Y., Oct. 22, 1913. He served his country during the last eighteen months of the civil war, with the One Hundred and Eighty-first Regiment of New York Volunteers. On Jan. 3, 1865, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary J. Pickering. Six children were born to this union, of whom five, with the wife and mother, are left to mourn. However, they sorrow not as others, for our brother gave his heart to his Maker almost sixty years ago, and through reading was led to accept present truth some ten years ago. Prayer service at the home was conducted by Pastor L. A. Guiles, of the Methodist Church. D. E. WOOD.
GRAVES.—Arthur D. Graves was born in Willink, N. Y., Feb. 28, 1869, and died at the same place Oct. 23, 1913. In January, 1891, he was married to Jennie Biermann, who, with their two children, survives him. His death is mourned also by five brothers and three sisters. Sister Graves is a member of the Wellsville (N. Y.) Seventh-day Adventist Church. Brother Graves believed the truth, and often attended church with his wife, but never took an open stand with us. About two weeks before his death he decided that as soon as he recovered he would take up the service of the Lord, and when he knew that he must die he stated that all was well between him and his God. The funeral service was conducted by the writer. M. W. DE L’HORBE.
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Thanksgiving Service Protest and China Volunteers
The last three years there has been held in St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Washington, D. C., a Thanksgiving service. This has been attended by the President of the United States, a number of his Cabinet, and members of the diplomatic corps. An effort has been made to have this service appear as an official celebration of Thanksgiving day. To this there has arisen serious objection in the minds of some of the Protestant churches of the city of Washington. During the last week there has been adopted by the Episcopal, Lutheran, Baptist, and Disciple Churches resolutions protesting against any action on the part of the President or his Cabinet to give what might seem an official sanction to the services this year. The full text of these resolutions of protest will be furnished later.
The Mission Board has word from Elder F. A. Allum, of China, now on furlough in Australia, saying that he has secured four volunteers for China, Brethren H. Stacey and A. Mountain and their wives. In view of the heavy pressure upon the General Conference mission treasury at this time, the Australasian Union proposes to take up a special collection in their Sabbath-schools in order to provide for the transportation of these new workers to China. Thus Australasia joins again in supplying help to the great mission fields beyond.
The Missions Campaign
By T. E. Bowen
THE first conference to send the message over the wires that their portion of the $100,000 Ingathering aim had been received is the Maritime Conference, in the Canadian Union. This telegram reached us Friday noon, November 14, just too late for last week's Review. This conference has a membership of two hundred and thirty-nine, their portion being $368.06. Lulu Van Buskirk, their secretary, writes: “Although this aim is reached, we are not satisfied, but are planning to continue the campaign, doubling the amount if possible.” This is a fine note of courage from Maritime. What conference shall be next?
E. L. Richmond, superintendent of the Review and Herald, writes: “This morning I received from a business man in Washington a letter which may be of interest: ‘I have looked over and read the copy of the REVIEW AND HERALD which you so kindly sent me. Cannot see how any one could help but be interested after reading the same. I have always been more or less interested in your work in the mission fields, and have from time to time added my little mite for the good work. Am enclosing a check for twenty-five dollars for mission work. My only regret is that I am not able to make it larger.’”
R. J. Brown, conference secretary of Virginia, writes: “The conference president handed a paper to a foreman of a tailor shop and left an envelope with him, calling later. The man could hardly wait to get the safe open and present him with the envelope containing two five-dollar bills. He also asked many questions concerning our faith, and stated that he believed the seventh day was the right day to observe.” There are many such all about us. God wants us to search them out. T. E. BOWEN.
Dr. G. E. Klingerman
DR. G. E. KLINGERMAN, of the St. Helena (Cal.) Sanitarium, has been spending some time during the last few weeks in postgraduate work in connection with Eastern hospitals. With Mrs. Klingerman he visited Washington last week on his return to the Pacific Coast.
Missionaries Long to Return to India
A LETTER from Elder J. S. James, superintendent of the South India Mission, now on furlough, says: “We are enjoying our furlough here in California very much, and it will not be long before we shall be ready to start back to our field of labor. Our spirits are restless for that time to come. In fact, we have not felt exactly at home since we landed on these shores, although the brethren have treated us royally everywhere we have been.” It is this spirit on the part of our missionaries which leads them to brave the dangers of pioneer mission work for the love of souls for whom Christ died.
Our Pioneer Missionary Paper
By Editor
OUR pioneer missionary paper, the Signs of the Times weekly, has just begun another special six months' series of Bible studies and articles dealing with the principal doctrines connected with this movement. Considerable change has been made in the mechanical make-up of the paper. It presents a fresh and inviting appearance.
The former editor of the paper, Elder M. C. Wilcox, who has done faithful service for the journal for the last twenty-five years, has been granted a vacation of six months or a year. The present editorial management is in the hands of A. O. Tait, well and favorably known as to our people generally. L. A. Reed, the editor of the monthly Signs, is the associate editor. In addition, the editorial card shows a list of nine corresponding editors composed of leading workers in this movement.
This excellent journal is deserving the hearty support of our people throughout the field. It is well adapted for use in personal work and missionary correspondence. Our churches should subscribe for clubs of the paper, and thousands of copies should be circulated. The Signs of the Times is well deserving of the confidence of all our people. Let us heartily rally to its support.
A Million Dollars to Missions
By Editor
WE note some items of special interest in the December Sabbath School Worker. Mrs. L. F. Plummer, the secretary of the Sabbath School Department, announces that already the goal set for the Sabbath-school contributions at the time of the General Conference has been overpassed. The motto was, “A Million Dollars to Missions in Four Years.” But the first six months of 1913 have brought $126,000 for missions from the little Sabbath-school envelopes. This means that the first year’s contribution will be considerably more than the quarter of a million dollars set as the amount to be reached annually. Therefore the department has adopted a new motto, “A Million Dollars to Missions as Soon as Possible.” This splendid work of the Sabbath-schools is hastening the message in all the earth.
