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Review and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 14.

Stirred for Service
Earlier text: Report from J. N. Loughborough

Becoming Acquainted With Our Neighbors

By Jennie Thayer

Some Hints on Missionary Visiting

(First Reading)
Christ came “to seek and to save that which was lost.” This implies an effort on his part to find those who were sick of this life of sin, and lead them to a life of purity and holiness. To this end, he “went about doing good.” He was no recluse. He mingled so freely with his fellow men, and so often accepted their hospitality, that he was called “a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.” Yet all this while, he was about his “Father’s business,” seeking to save humanity; and never for one moment did he lower the standard of his life to that of the world around him. With the tenderest sympathy and love, he ministered to the physical wants of the multitude, while with the greatest tact he broke to them the bread of life.
We not only have the example of Christ before us as a guide to direct us in our association with our fellow men, but we have direct instruction in regard to our intercourse with them. When he sent forth the twelve apostles, he told them to minister to the physical and spiritual wants of the people as freely as they had been ministered unto, but cautioned them to be “wise as serpents, and harmless as doves,” because they were “as sheep in the midst of wolves.”
He has given to every man his work; and as the Father sent him into the world, so also has he sent us into the world, not to live in obscurity, but to be the light of the world, a city set on a hill, which can not be hid. When the King shall say to those on his left hand, “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels,” he will not accuse them of any flagrant crimes, but simply of neglect of duty, giving as the reason of their rejection: “For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not;” and adding: “Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.”

Sins of Omission

It has been said that more individuals will be condemned for sins of omission than for sins of commission, and is there not great danger that this will be the case with us as a people? Are we who claim to have the last message of mercy to a fallen world doing all that we can to bring the light of the truth before others? How many of the rank and file of our people are so engrossed in business and home cares that they have no time to attend to social duties, to show to their neighbors that Christ dwells in them, and, like him, they are interested in the welfare of those around them?
Some years ago, as we entered a railway carriage at a station where one of our largest churches is located, a gentleman on the train said that he formerly resided at that place, and began at once to inquire for the Seventh-day Adventists, and the progress of their work. He seemed interested in the prosperity of their institutions, offered no criticism upon their religious views, but said they were “the most clannish people” that he had ever known. In proof of this assertion, he gave the fact that he “was sick a whole year,” while living among them, and only three members of the church where he was located ever called upon him.

“Pure Religion” Is “to Visit”

The apostle James tells us that “pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” Here is a work in which every one can have a part. Weary mothers and tired home-keepers, whose lives are circumscribed by the four walls in which you live, and who long for a wider field of usefulness, an open door is before you. Call upon your neighbors who are in affliction; alleviate their suffering so far as possible; show them that you sympathize with them; tell them of the love of Christ, that he does not afflict willingly, but for our profit; and point them to the joy of the Christian’s hope.
When you have become acquainted with your neighbors, have won their confidence, have shown them by your life that there is a reality in your religion unknown to them, they will desire to learn why you entertain such peculiar religious views. Do not, even then, attempt to bring unpopular truth before them without careful thought and earnest prayer that you may present it in an acceptable manner. Much may be learned by studying the discourses of Christ and the apostles, and noticing the tact which they exercised in adapting the truth to the minds of their hearers.

How to Present the Truth

We are first to sanctify the Lord God in our hearts, and then be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us; but it is to be given with meekness and fear, not with any spirit of controversy or assumption. While our object should be to draw those around us to Christ and his truth, great care should be taken that we do not drive them from it by giving prominence to points of doctrine that they are not prepared to receive.
Our views upon the questions of temperance, health, dress, and social purity reforms, furnish topics which, if properly introduced, will not arouse prejudice, but will create confidence in our work, and prepare the way for other views to be received with favor. The love of Christ, his sacrifice for us, the privilege he grants fallen humanity of laboring together with him, are inexhaustible themes that can not fail to interest all who are subjects of his mercy. Go to your neighbors with your heart filled with this love, and their hearts will open to receive you.
“There are many who have no desire to become acquainted with their unbelieving neighbors, and those with whom they come in contact; and they do not feel it their duty to overcome this reluctance. . . . They should remember that they must meet these very men and women in the Judgment.”

I Have No Time

Do we hear some busy housewife say, “I have no time for this work”? Then there is need of a temperance reform on our part, which very likely may be brought about by a dress reform, and perhaps by a reform in cookery. Let our adorning not be “that outward adorning.” Let us dress plainly, live simply, and take time to sit at the feet of Jesus, and enjoy the rest that communion with him brings to the weary soul. Then, with a light heart we may go to our neighbors, and give them the benefit of our experience.
JENNIE THAYER.

What the Children Can Do

  • (Second Reading)*
LITTLE Winnie Lewis gave her heart to Jesus when she was only six years old. Three years after, when she was nine years old, she asked to be admitted to the church; but when they objected that she was too young, she walked over to her pastor’s side, and said, “Last Sabbath, sir, you said that the lambs should not be kept out of the fold.”
“Yes,” he replied, “it is not for us to keep them out. I will see your friends, and take you into the church.”
With a bright and happy countenance, she said, “Thank you,” and passed out of the room. She was examined and received into the church the next week.
A few years completed her life on earth, but she found opportunities for doing many loving services for Christ, of which her pastor, Dr. A. J. Gordon, of Boston, has told in the following words:—
“It was one hot day in June that I was called to attend her funeral. A crowd was around the house, and my eye fell on a crippled lad, crying bitterly as he sat on a low doorstep.
“Did you know Winnie Lewis, my lad?” I asked.
“Know her, is it, sir? Never a week passed but she came to our room with a picture or book, mayhap an apple for me; an’ it’s owin’ to her that I’ll follow her blessed footsteps to heaven. She’d read me from her own Bible whenever she came; an’ now she’s gone, there’ll be none at all to help me.”
“I passed on, after promising him a visit very soon, and made my way through the crowd of tear-stained, sorrowful faces. I came to a stop in the narrow passageway of the house. A woman stood beside me, trying to dry her fast-falling tears, while a wee child wept at her side.
“Was Winnie a relative of yours?” I asked.
“No, sir; but the blessed child was often at our house, and when Bob here was sick, she helped to tend him, and her hymn quieted him when nothing else seemed to. It was just the same with all the neighbors. She took tracts to them all, and has prayed with them ever since she was converted. What she’s been to us all no one but the Lord will ever know, and now she lies there.”
“I was led to the room where the child lay, looking almost younger than I had seen her in my study a year before. An old, bent woman was crying aloud by the coffin.
“I never thought she’d go afore I did. She used regular to read and sing to me every evening, an’ it was her talk that made a Christian of me. You could almost go to heaven on one of her prayers.”
“‘Mother, come away,’ said a young man, putting his arm around her to lead her back. ‘You’ll see her again.’
“‘Yes, but I miss her sore now.’
“‘It’s the old lady Mrs. Lewis lived with, sir,’ said a young lad standing next to me, as one and another still pressed up toward the little casket for a last look at the beloved face. ‘She could not hold out against Winnie’s prayers and pleadings to love Jesus, and she’s been trusting him now for quite a while.’
“‘You are right, my lad,’ I replied. ‘Do you trust him, too?’
“‘Winnie taught me, sir,’ the lad made answer, and the sudden tears filled his eyes.
“A silence fell on those assembled, and, marveling at such testimony, I proceeded with the services, feeling as if there was little more I could say of one whose deeds thus spoke of her. Loving hands had laid flowers all around the child who had led them. One tiny lassie had placed a dandelion in the small waxen fingers. The service over, again and again was the coffin lid lifted by some one longing for another look. It seemed as if they could not let her go.
“The next day a good-looking man came to my house, and said: ‘I am Winnie’s uncle, sir. She never rested till she made me promise to come to Jesus, and I’ve come. You see, sir, it was this way: Winnie was always very fond of me, and so was I of her. Though I was not a Christian, yet I knew her religion was true. Half an hour before she died, she had the whole family with her, telling them she was going; and she took my hand between her little ones, and said, ‘Uncle John, you will love Jesus, and meet me in heaven, won’t you?’ What could I do? It broke me all up, and I have come to ask you, sir, what to do so I can keep my promise to Winnie.”
“Within a month Winnie’s uncle was received into the church, a sincere disciple of Christ.”
The story of Winnie’s influence may well be an incentive to many an older Christian. God grant that it may be.

The Missionary and Publishing Work

Notes, Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature
Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference
E. R. PALMER . . . . . Secretary N. Z. TOWN . . . . . Assistant Secretary A. J. S. BOURDEAU . . . . Missionary Secretary

Suggestive Program for Fourth Sabbath Home Missionary Service

(To Be Held April 22, 1911)
Opening Song: “Heir of the Kingdom.” “Christ in Song,” No. 679 (old edition, No. 557).
Prayer.
Second Song: “The Night Is Coming.” “Christ in Song,” No. 720 (old edition, No. 475).
First Reading: “Becoming Acquainted With Our Neighbors.”
Ten-Minute Discussion of first reading by members previously notified and prepared, and others.
Children’s Song: “I’ll Be a Sunbeam,” or recitation of Bible verses on missionary work.
Second Reading: “What the Children Can Do.”
Monthly Report of Church Work by librarian, including work of Dorcas society and missionary bands. See note 1.
Passing of Report Blanks.
Fourth Sabbath Collection. Report blanks may be dropped into basket with collection.
Prayer over collection and reports.
Plans for Work: See note 2.
Closing Song: “Not I, but Christ.” “Christ in Song,” No. 230 (old edition, No. 203).

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— New York is to have the largest hotel in the world. It will be erected at Thirty-third Street and Broadway, and will be known as the Greeley Square Hotel. The hotel investment, including site, hotel building, and furnishings, will represent an outlay of $13,500,000. The site, which covers 31,500 square feet, cost $7,600,000. The building will be twenty-five stories high, and will have 1,600 sleeping-rooms and 1,000 baths.
— The Pennsylvania Railroad claims a record of carrying 136,000,000 passengers during 1910, with not a single death caused by accident during that time.
— Recent researches in the interior of German East Africa reveal a lake of soda. According to the Chemical News, the surface looks like pink marble. During the wet season, which in that region is very short, the surface is covered with a few inches of water. After the cessation of the rain, the whole of the surface becomes dry, with the exception of a margin about thirty yards wide. For many years Indians from Narobi have used the soda for washing purposes and snuff. The area is about thirty miles square. It is hoped that this product can be employed in commercial ways.
— An important discovery of phosphate rock has been made by the geological survey in Montana. The land was a part of the railroad land grant to the Northern Pacific. The country was being prospected to see whether it contained minerals that would warrant the withdrawal of the area from the railroad grant. It was found that the land contained phosphate rock, apparently the largest deposit in this country. It was not known previously that the rock occurred at all in Montana.
— The Interstate Commerce Commission has issued its first accident bulletin under the new law. It includes many accidents that were not included in previous bulletins bearing on the subject. The number of persons killed in train accidents during the months of July, August, and September last was 321, with 3,892 injured. Accidents of other kinds, including those sustained by employees while at work, by passengers in getting on and off cars, by travelers at highway crossings, by persons doing business at stations, by trespassers, and others, bring the total casualties up to 22,328, or 2,948 killed and 19,380 injured. The accident statistics of those electric lines on which interstate traffic is carried on show that there were 146 persons killed and 1,070 injured during the months named.
— J. Carvallo, of the Marey Institute, Paris, France, has recently succeeded in making cinematograph X-ray pictures showing the process of digestion in both warm- and cold-blooded animals. The value of these results is obvious, as these moving pictures gave an actual view of the interior workings of the body, and for the first time physicians have been able to see an absolutely reliable reproduction of the organs of the human body in action. Many attempts have been made to produce this result, but they have failed heretofore because of the difficulty experienced in obtaining the Roentgen pictures with exposures lasting but a small fraction of a second; also because no suitable cinematograph apparatus was available for producing the pictures. The animals under test were fed with an alimentary paste, or with their usual food mixed with a basis of bismuth nitrate. The results of these pictures have been checked by special investigations, showing that the pictures are true photographs of the actual movements of the organs. Mr. Carvallo has produced X-ray pictures which are said to show the digestive process in the most differently constituted animals.
— March 15, for the third time, Manuel Estrada Cabrera was inaugurated president of Guatemala. Under his past administration of twelve years that country has made wonderful progress in material development.
— In one of the worst railroad disasters ever known in the South Atlantic States, eight persons were killed and twelve injured on the Atlantic Coast Line, March 25, by a train crashing through a trestle over the Allapaha River, eighteen miles from Tifton, Ga.
— It seems that the full acceptance of Russia’s proposals by China was not wholly unconditional, as was indicated by the despatches of last week. China declares her present acceptance of Russia’s demands, and proposes to refer the ultimate settlement of the dispute to the great powers of Europe.
— Premier Stolypin, of Russia, who recently tendered his resignation, has by request of the czar agreed to remain in office. This averts a cabinet crisis in that country. Premier Stolypin insisted on the removal of several reactionary opponents of his policy in the Russian Duma, and these were suspended from all sittings in the council until January, 1912.
— A despatch from London states that treasure to the value of $1,250,000 is reported from Jersey in the pulling down of an old manor house built in the thirteenth century. The discovery includes ancient urns filled with spade guineas, coined during the reign of King George III, and bearing the British arms on a spade-shaped shield. One urn bears the monogram of the emperor Vespasian, the Roman emperor of the first century.
— On March 24, the members of President Díaz’s cabinet placed their resignations in his hands. These resignations were accepted later, and a new cabinet was formed. Mr. Limantour, of the old cabinet, will remain minister of finance. Mr. De La Barra, who has represented his government as ambassador to Washington, has been appointed minister of foreign relations. It is hoped that the formation of this new cabinet will go far toward pacifying the revolutionists, and bettering conditions in the republic.
— A terrible catastrophe occurred March 25 in the burning of the Triangle Waist Factory, 23 Washington Place, New York City. The fire started in some unknown manner, and rapidly spread through the building. One hundred forty-one persons met death as the result of suffocation or by jumping from the building to the street below. Twelve others were mortally hurt. Seven hundred persons were employed in the factory, five hundred of whom were women. The mortality was largely among those employed on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors. The building possessed no outside fire-escapes, and improvised means of fire rescue were altogether insufficient to meet the demand. It is claimed there are nearly four thousand buildings in the metropolis which are inadequately safeguarded against fire. This terrible catastrophe will, it is hoped, lead to a careful investigation of other buildings, and a bettering of existing conditions therein.
— Off Beechy Head, British Columbia, March 25, the steamer “Sechelt” turned turtle, sinking and carrying to a watery grave twenty-two passengers and a crew of four men.
— Suicide, it is claimed, is alarmingly prevalent in St. Petersburg. According to the Russian Public Health Department, 10,000 persons have taken their lives in the Russian capital during the last five years.

To the Elder or Missionary Leader

By A. J. S. B.

(Not to be read publicly)

Note 1

“MONTHLY REPORT OF CHURCH WORK.”—As recommended by the spring council of the General Conference Committee, 1910, the church missionary secretary (librarian) is to “send the full church report monthly to the Conference tract society secretary, the report to be sent on or before the first day of each month.” See page 9 of Home Missionary Leaflet, No. 3. The librarian should include in his report all work done up to the fourth Sabbath of each month, counting the work done between the fourth Sabbath and the end of the month in the following month’s report. This will give ample time to get the reports in on time.

Note 2

“PLANS FOR WORK.”—A selection may be made from the following lines of work harmonizing with the spirit of this program: (1) Any of the first six items on the individual report blank; (2) work of the Dorcas society (see note 1, page 22, REVIEW of March 9); (3) spring temperance campaign, sale of new Temperance Instructor, securing of signatures to temperance pledge; (4) plans for a church club of the new Message for To-day series of the Signs weekly, beginning May 9, 1911; or renewal of club of the Gospel Sentinel; (5) continuation of “Ministry of Healing” campaign and sale of Life and Health, in behalf of our sanitariums; (6) completion of unfinished missionary plans already started.
A. J. S. B.

Sanitarium Relief Campaign

By L. A. HANSEN

A Union Conference Effort

As stated in our last report, other conferences in the Columbia Union have had an active part in the special campaign recently carried forward. The spirit shown and the experiences enjoyed are worthy of attention. Only a few of the many interesting items can be given.
The Chesapeake Conference has responded in a gratifying way to the call for co-operation. The president, Elder R. T. Baer, showed his sincere interest by earnestly planning for the success of the campaign, and actively working in its behalf.
“I am asking the ministers and workers to make the ‘Ministry of Healing’ work their first duty, and not to begin any new efforts in halls or churches until this work is finished. I am placing the responsibility upon district superintendents to see that the workers under them or in their territory are doing the work appointed. Thus far all seem willing to co-operate, and I believe, by the help of the Lord, we shall see this work move along, and in the course of a few weeks see definite results. We have a people who are willing to work.”
A number of churches in this conference were visited by the president, in company with Elder I. G. Bigelow and Brother J. E. Jones. Brother Bigelow sends in a report of enthusiastic reception and hearty acceptance of the proposition. Many books were placed, and in most cases the people were assisted in getting started in the work of selling. The outlook is promising.
Elder G. P. Gaede, of the German church in Baltimore, writes:—
“Elders Baer and Bigelow met with our German church in Baltimore in the interests of the ‘Ministry of Healing’ campaign. The meeting lasted over two hours, with an excellent interest. All who were present promised to take their share of the books, and help finish the work.
“I get many invitations to hold Bible readings on Sabbath reform, health reform, baptism, etc. Among my readers are two Sunday-school superintendents. I have no trouble in selling ‘Ministry of Healing’ to persons who learned to know me through our meetings; and I am confident that some day a number of these who have heard the message, but did not accept it for fear of losing their work, will yet take their stand for the truth. We find that many more are interested now than formerly.”
The Missionary Volunteer society at Wilmington, Del., is working with ‘Ministry of Healing.’ According to the last report, the secretary had sold eight copies. A young man, not yet a member of our church, sold two, one to his Sunday-school teacher. Still another member, who has not yet been baptized, sold six and expects to sell more. Another young man sold nine copies in three hours. What a grand work for these young people this is!
The conference office says: “We are getting excellent reports from the ‘Ministry of Healing’ campaign. One church of seventeen members sold thirty books in a very short time. We have just received word from another church that one of the sisters there who ‘knew she could not sell one,’ sold seven in three and one-half hours, and took seven more to sell. A brother in the same church sold nine books in three hours, and then went to the church and got twelve more to sell. One family in this church took twenty-one of the books, and in a short time had all sold but three.”

In West Pennsylvania

The work has been well under way in this conference for some time. More recently, Elder B. G. Wilkinson and other workers have visited a number of churches, and have met with a willingness on the part of the people to continue their good work. More books were taken, and a determination was expressed to hasten on the completion of the work.
Brother G. Medairy, the field missionary secretary, has met with good experiences. He says:—
“At Washington, Pa., I found the members in a very hopeful mood, a number anxious to work with ‘Ministry of Healing.’ Meetings were held in the evening for the purpose of studying and laying plans for a complete work. The result of our efforts was that by Thursday evening, we had sold all the books on hand, and the church was rejoicing in the blessing of many precious experiences. I shall continue to work among the churches with ‘Ministry of Healing.’
“Brethren of the ministry, I appeal to you that each time you stand before the churches and companies under your care, you give a few minutes’ talk on ‘Ministry of Healing’ until every book in this conference has been sold. You will not only receive a blessing from this effort, but will help the members to get an experience that can be obtained in no other way.”

In Eastern Pennsylvania

This conference has been steadily pulling in this movement for some time, and energetic work is still being done. Conference officers and workers continue to lead out by good example, and the most of the membership co-operate. While not much has been reported from this conference, it is not because they have not been working. Perhaps they are too busy to report.
Word comes from various churches in the Ohio Conference of good work being done. Some account was recently given of the part that that conference is having in this movement. Further details must be left for another time. But is it not cheering to note with what earnestness the whole people in a union conference may respond to a general call, and then to see how fully the Lord gives his blessing to their efforts? Surely, we have cause for courage in every good work. L. A. HANSEN.

Notices and Appointments

Camp-Meetings for 1911

ATLANTIC UNION CONFERENCE

Southern New England ............ June 1-10 New York ................ June 8-18 Massachusetts ............ June 15-25 Maine .................. June 22 to July 2 Western New York ........ June 22 to July 2 Northern New England ........ Aug. 24 to Sept. 3

SOUTHERN UNION CONFERENCE

Louisiana ...................... July 20-30 Alabama ........................ Aug. 3-13 Kentucky ....................... Aug. 17-27 Mississippi .................... Aug. 31 to Sept. 10 Tennessee River ................ Sept. 7-17

SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE

Texas .......................... Aug. 3-13 West Texas ..................... Aug. 10-20 New Mexico ..................... Aug. 17-27 Oklahoma ....................... Aug. 24 to Sept. 3 Arkansas ....................... Sept. 7-17 South Texas .................... Nov. 2-12

Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium Association

By W. D. Salisbury; H. N. Sisco

NOTICE is hereby given that the next annual meeting of the members of the constituency of the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium Association of Washington, D. C., will be held in connection with the ministerial institute for the Atlantic and Columbia union conferences, in the First Philadelphia church, corner Fifty-first and Locust streets, Philadelphia, Pa., April 17, 1911, at 10 A. M., for the election of seven trustees for the coming year, to take the place of those whose term of office expires at that time, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
The members of this corporation consist of the executive committee of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Atlantic Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Chesapeake Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the Virginia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the executive committee of the West Virginia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the board of management of the evangelical work of the Seventh-day Adventists of the District of Columbia and Takoma Park, Md., and the board of trustees of the Washington (D. C.) Association.
By order of the trustees.
W. D. SALISBURY, President;
H. N. SISCO, Secretary.

Business Notices

By Editor

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No advertisements of “agents wanted,” or “partners wanted,” and no “promotion” nor “colonization” enterprises, will be printed in this column. Brief business notices will be published, subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—

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A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.
No discount for several insertions.
FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure, healthful, odorless; keeps indefinitely; 5-gallon can, $4.30; 10-gallon can, $8.45; ½ bbl. (50 gallons), 75 cents a gallon; ½ bbl. (30 gallons), 76 cents a gallon. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.
HOME CANNING FACTORIES.—Most delicious fruits and vegetables canned with our Royal Canners. Easy to learn; complete instructions. Splendid paying health food business. Complete equipments, $8.50 up. Write for illustrated circulars to Home Supply Manufacturing Company, Department A, Chattanooga, Tenn.
I WISH to correspond with some brother who would like to come to Cuba, about staying on my farm a few months or until next winter. State whether married or single. Address, at once, T. A. Zoller, San Claudio, Cabanas, Cuba.
WANTED.—Employment on a farm or ranch with Seventh-day Adventist; have always worked on a farm. Or would like to learn a good trade. Desire to hear from interested persons. Address Altie Birdseye, R. F. D. 1, Curtis, Okla.
WANTED.—A Sabbath-keeper desires a position as tracer or junior draftsman in an architect’s office, or as clerk or estimator. Has had complete course in architecture. Address Axel Webster, 579 Union St., Milwaukee, Wis.
WANTED.—Adventist man and wife to work on ranch near Gillette, Wyo., at farm- and housework. Good wages paid year round. Chance to obtain government land in vicinity. Recommendations required and given. Address R. A. Wright, Wright, Wyo.
HYGIENIC VEGETABLE COOKING OIL.—Best grade. 5-gallon can, $4.50; two cans, $8.50; ½ bbl. (about 32 gallons), 76 cents a gallon. By freight from Louisville or Chattanooga. 16-gallon keg, $12.50, from Chattanooga only. Address O. C. Godsmark, Chattanooga, Tenn.
WANTED.—Lady graduate nurse who thoroughly understands massage and treatment-room work. Good salary to right person. In applying give references, and state age, height, weight, and experience. Address T. O. McCutchan, Suite 1001, Keenan Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.—Fisher’s premium birds, thoroughbred, highest class. Eggs, $2, $3, and $5 for fifteen; 50 eggs, $5.50; 100, $10. Shipped safely anywhere. Unfertile eggs replaced free. Beautiful illustrated price-list free. Address Forrest Washburn, 665 Decatur St., Memphis, Tenn.
NEW, inspiring Scripture Post-Cards, beautifully embossed, illustrated Hymns, Greetings, and Birthdays, assorted, post-paid, 10 for 10 cents; 100, 90 cents. Elegant Floral Bible Mottoes (12 x 16), samples, 6 cents; 12, 65 cents; 50, $2.25; 100, $3.75; all prepaid. Particulars free. Waterbury Specialty Co., Brandon, Wis.
FOR SALE.—“Temperance Torchlights,” by Matilda Erickson. A book of studies, stories, songs, poems, and useful information on temperance topics; for the use of individuals, churches, schools, temperance and young people’s societies. Every one interested in the cause of temperance will find many helpful suggestions in this book. It should be placed in the hands of every temperance worker. Cloth, 256 pages, fifty cents. Order of the tract societies.
FOR SALE.—New seven-room house in Takoma Park, Md. Convenient to Review and Herald and General Conference offices and church-school. Three-fourths mile from Foreign Mission Seminary. Quiet location on two lots, near fine spring of pure water. Bath, hot water winter and summer. Economical steam heat. Sleeping porches, large closets. Desire to sell at once. Address Foreign Mission Seminary, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.
FOR SALE.—“The Speaker’s Manual of Pronunciation,” by Fannie Dickerson Chase. Primarily a text-book on pronunciation and enunciation for class use or private study, but equally valuable to all who speak the English language, whether minister, teacher, or student. The book contains the correct pronunciation of over two thousand words commonly mispronounced. The familiar diacritical marking is used throughout. The book contains 127 pages, pocket size (3⅝ x 5¾ inches). Bound in two serviceable styles. Cloth, twenty-five cents; leather, fifty cents. Order of the tract societies.

Publications Wanted

THE following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent post-paid:—
W. J. Rudisaile, Winsted, Ark.
Mrs. C. O. Hickok, Box 711, Miami, Fla.
Warren Maust, Fruithurst, Ala., continuous supply of the Youth's Instructor.
Mrs. Ida Fischer-Carnahan, Cabanas, San Claudio, Cuba, papers and tracts in Spanish language.
Mrs. James Swingle, Box 4, Ariel, Pa., Signs of the Times, Watchman, Life and Health, Liberty, Protestant Magazine.
Miss Lura Phillips, 1005 Quincy Ave., Scranton, Pa., Signs of the Times, Youth's Instructor, Watchman, Life Boat, tracts.

Washington Foreign Mission Seminary

By Arthur Grosvenor Daniells

NOTICE is hereby given that the next annual meeting of the constituency of the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary will be held in connection with the institute for the Columbia and Atlantic union conferences, in the First Philadelphia church, corner Fifty-first and Locust streets, Philadelphia, Pa., the first meeting to convene April 17, 1911, at 9 A. M., for the election of a board of nine trustees, and the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting.
The constituency of this corporation consists of the members of the General Conference Committee and the president of each local conference in the United States.
By order of the trustees.
A. G. DANIELLS, President.

Review and Herald Publishing Association

By F. M. WILCOX

NOTICE is hereby given that the eighth annual meeting of the members of the constituency of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, of Washington, D. C., will be held in connection with the ministerial institute for the Atlantic and Columbia union conferences, in the First Philadelphia church, corner Fifty-first and Locust streets, Philadelphia, Pa., April 17, 1911, at 11 A. M., for the election of four trustees for the coming year, to take the places of those whose term of office expires at that time, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
The following persons are members of this corporation: Those comprising the executive committees of the General Conference, the Atlantic Union Conference, the Canadian Union Conference, the Lake Union Conference, and the Columbia Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists; those who compose the executive committees of the several local conferences of the Seventh-day Adventists within the territory of the aforementioned 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.
By order of the trustees. F. M. WILCOX, President.

Washington Sanitarium Management Change

On account of the serious sickness of his wife, making imperative a change of climate, Brother W. D. Salisbury, who has very acceptably served the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium as manager during the past year, has been compelled to relinquish his work and go to Southern California. Brother Salisbury has done splendid work in connection with the institution, and it is cause for sincere regret that he is compelled to leave. It is to be hoped that the climate of the Pacific Coast will afford the help which Sister Salisbury requires. Elder R. T. Dowsett, secretary and treasurer of the Southeastern Union Conference, has been secured as manager of the Sanitarium in the place of Brother Salisbury. Brother Dowsett brings to his work a wide experience, and will be enabled to carry the work forward with but little break.
The last mail from the Orient stated that Elder I. H. Evans was on his way from China to visit the work in the Philippines, which are a part of the Asiatic Division.
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